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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. NEWS SUM 31 All Y. Enet Zimmor, sou of Mayor E. I. Zimmer, and his mother, were seriously injured iu a runaway at Ceciralia, houses. There will he no strike among tin Wash. Broderick, one of the men shot in a miners of Kansas this fall, despits saloon fight at Kenu, Nev., last week, general expectations. has died at the county hospital in since Santos-Duuiothe aeronaut, will that city. attempt the construction of an aeriel The work of extinguishing the forest vessel to carry eight persons. which have been raging on the fires The beneficial rains of the psst week lands in Wyoming is progresspublic at Simla, India, have changed despair ing satisfactorily. into hope for millions of India cultivaA cloudburst near Canon City, Colo., tors. down volumes of water which let The extraordinary weather this year flooded large of that city, doing streets the in Japan makes the prospects of a good considerable damage. rice crop the main food of the people Peter Nelson was shot and mortally rery gloomy. wounded at l'asco. Wash., by two unIn order to save the birthplace ol known their object Wing rob Wry. men, vanJohn lirown from destruction by secured only S15. They a to dals it has been offered, rent free, at Florence, Colo. , caused rains Heavy respectable caretaker. flood which invaded a number of a A magnificent crop of barley, which much inconvenience dwellings, causing lias already beeu harvested, together not a and little damage. Koreaus with full rice fields, will put The N tlicrn Pacific and tlie (Ireat in an enviable position. will build a uniou depot and Northern At a meeting of the council of the make other terminal improvements at South Wales Miners' Federation it was Seattle to 82,!()0,(SH). strikamounting decided to forward ."1,000 to the L'uited States. Thirty-eigh- t hales of bops, the first ing miners of the The greater part of the town of Kara of the new crop, were sold at Eugene, Ilassar, in Asia Minor, has been de- Ore., last week at 3.1 cents per pound, stroyed by fire. Kara Ilassar lias a the highest price in twenty years. The supreme court has denied the population of about 12,000 people. new trial in the case of Alex. P. Vande the first and abundant rains, Timely for three years, haveaaved the southen who is under sentence of death for the end of the territory of Lower Califor- murder of Charles F. Franklin at Eatonville, Wash., in KepleiuWr of nia from becoming a barren waste. The Rio Janeiro correspondent of last year. In Whatcom, Wash., Judge Xeterer the Ietit Journal reports the massacre vila motion for a new trial for overruled in a settlers of Italian Indiana by John St. II. Dix, the hank wrecker, Catheriua. of In Santa the slate lage him to ten years in tha and sentenced The body of Eugene Caremha, aged tlie limit under tlie laws a spectator, was found at Huy City, penitentiary, of that state. Mich., under the falleu walls of Wood's Frank Cooley, a printer opera house, which was destroyed by in Montana, was instantly killed by lire. e falling from a freight car at Kckhert, In Oklahoma City, Okla., Willie Mont. Cooley is supposed to hare been and Otis Montgomery, each 12 his way on the train when the years old, were kuocked from the top beating aceident occurred. of a freight car in the yards and run (ireat Falls, Mont., has now a new over and killed. national in park. Tlie land includes the caused been lias A great sensation on Snake rreek north of (ireat section Lisbon by the srrest of several high ia the site where the battle and officials charged with defrauding the Falla, Bear Paws was fought famous with the state to the extent of S400, 000, and with over twenty-fiv- e years ago. accepting bribes. E. Conroy, two bell and F. Swan colRiver At Bloemfontein, Orange in a Bozeman, Mont., ony, a shunting engine crashed into a boys employed week last eloped with two train conveying refugees to Johannes- hotel, of but after an that town, burg, The front cars were wrecked young girls were chase (he couples young and a number of women and children exciting and to homes. returned their captured were killed. Information lias been received that come into lias Comparative quietness man arrested at New Castle, Wyo.t the the iron trade. The coke supply has on suspicion of being Philip T). Watkins, improved slightly in some spots, but lias been definitely learned to lie the with other consumers the liability to Watkins waa wanted wanted. person sudden stoppage is ss great as at any for Seattle in passing spurious checks. time last week. a well known ranch Ambrose Valiill, Americans who have been traveling wlio lived near er Virginia City, Mont., in Europe and are now in Loudon exwhile haying, lie a met horrible fate obperience considerable difficulty in down was thrown among the traces taining a passage home. It is said all while climb into the to attempting steamers are fully booked until tlie and kicked to waa and rack stamped first week in October. was mangled out o Ilia death. body A man said to resemble William waa arrested at Indiana recognition. Fire of Incendiary origin In Tex., destroyed twenty AS THE WORLD R.EV0LVES Livings-ton- , busiut-s- i nt, . well-know- liar-grov- Bartholin Harbor, a small town two miles south east of Whiting, Ind. The suspect, it is sale, wore a badge issued by a lodge of which Bartholin was a member. Vienna Neue Frie l'resae declares that the terrible treatment of Siberian political exiles at tlie Alexandrowski settlement has led to a strike of the convicts, who are refusing all nourish incut until they arc more humanely treated. Keglevitch Mattasicli, the friend of Princess Ijouisc of Coburg, who was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for the alleged forgery of a bill for the Archduchess EiiU, (MH) in the nanu-o- f Stephanie, has Wen pardoned by Emperor Francis Joseph. In a dispatch from Paris the correspondent of London Times explains at great length that in some quarters of Paris President Koosevel t's speech Waring on the Monroe doctrine is regarded as a warning to Spain not to enter a Latin alliance. laahelo lhs Los Reyes, head of the Filipino Workingmen a union, who waa arrested Angust 18th charged with threatening to assassinate certain striking workmen if they returned to work, lisa Wen sentenced at Manila to four months' imprisonment. President Iloosevell'a recent speech on Monroeism hss caused widespread attention in Vienna. The Neue Frele Presse thinks it waa directed chiefly against (Srcat Britain and that it sounds like an answer to the conference of tlie Colonial Premiers. Word has Wen received from Everett Morgau and liis wife, formerly of Plainfield, Ind., now missionaries at Cotoici, Mex., that natives ol that place have warned them that unless they leave the city by Septembci 17th they will be put to death. reai-den- ts n WHERE CRIME IS UNKNOWN. island of Tristran D'Acunha Boasts Unique Distinction. The recent death In liis ninety-fiftyear, of Thomas Watson, the "gove-nor- " of the small island of Tristram d'Aeunha. In the South Atlantic ocean, direct attention to a little community which i practically severed frora communication with tlie rest of tae world. Tristran d'Aeunha was dlsroi-ereliy the Portuguese in liiOti, and formal possession was taken of this small speck in the ocean in 1871 by a company of British artillery, tha hotter to keep a watch on Napoleon, at that time u prisoner in St. Helena. On the death of Napoleon the soldiers wen withdrawn. wit:i the exception of Corporal Glass and two eompan-ions- , John F. Gaynor and Capt. Benjamin who, with some whaling men, D. Greene, who are fugitives from were the founders of the present setGa., where they were to have tlement. The colony flourished and been tried on charges of conspiracy numbered in 1S20 twenty-sevesouls, with former Capt. Oberlln M. Carter ami iu 1887 then- was a population of to defraud the United States govern. Property is held iu ment, were liberated from custody at eummon and there Is no strong drink, Quebec, Canada. and no crime, while tlie Inhabitants Gaynor and Greene were arrested . The oilare healthy and at the Chateau Frontenac in May last iest inhabitant acts as governor. A by detectives from Montreal uud ship of war pays the island tin animal taken to that city, but were brought visit and brings the only mail that to Quebec on a writ of habeas corever roaches the inhabitants. Tat? setpus. tlement is in a fertile art of the isFor a while they were conflcsd in land, and ia tailed New Edinburgh. Jail, but were recently allowed So live The imputation has been for some at a hotel in the custody of their counalmost stai ionary, and is affect-esel. troubles and litigation has stood by years Watby migrations to the Cape. Mrs. Gaynor waa with her husband him, always ready tu uid hint when opson, the deceased governor, went to at Quebec, and through all his portunity offered. Tristran d'Aeunha from the Cape five years ago. ami never afterleft wards the island. IN DISPLAY RAILROAD CARS. LIGHT GRAND MAKE ELKS h d n - ninety-seven- long-lived- d sixty-- CORBIN TO VISI1 THE EMPEROR Points Out Danger in Use of Oil and Gas. Will Be Accompanied by His Wife Another accident iu the west in During Trip to Germany. which a railroad wreck caught fire Adjutant General Corbin, accompawith the result that several persons nied by Mrs. Corbin and Col. Johu- were cremated whose lives otherwise might have lieeu saved rails attention anew to a condition which, as the New ninted were York World has repeatedly awarded third prize in the contest for out. has the remedy immediately at the oddest uniform. To the Tark City hand. Tlio lighting of railroad trains with gaa or oil is a relic of the past and piiould not he tolerated longer. Effl clent and economical electrical appli aneea- - for lighting the. tars are being used on the finest and fastest railway traina. The explosive gas tank and the deadly oil lamp have been relegated to the scrap hew- on many of the railroads; and in the interest of the safety of the traveling public electric lighting should become universal. If the railroad com' paniea fail to look after tneir own best interests and extend the protection, state and national legislation in tne end will compel them to do so. Meeting at Salt Lake City a Most Successful On Wearing the prison stripes and keeping the lock step of the ronvlcts, the delegates from Joliet, 111., to the meeting of the grand lodge of Elks marched in the monster street; parade They Contemporary - te WOULD HAVE ALL MEN MARRY Chancellor Andrews Gives Advice to Chicago University Students. Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews of George A. Cronk. the University of Nebraska, In a let Elks of Park City, Utah, waa given ture to summer students at the Unithe first prize for the beat display. versity of Chicago, told his hearers, Each member waa arrayed aa a miner, most of whom wrere unmarried school and each bad witn him a burro laden teachers, that the marriage relation (ireat forest fires in Fremont county, with all the supplies necessary to a was the only one in which the inor miner. The Cotton dividual became fully developed. He Wyo., are still raging. Special Laud prospector of Greenville, Miss., with said that in an Ideal society there was Pickers M. a who took force I). Cainplin. Agent black faces and garbed In outlandish small place for the individual, and of fifteen men out to tight the Ore, has rags of a southern plantation negro, that history had proved that nine returned. lie declares the flames are cake walking and dancing, and fol tenths of the crime committed in the of gigantic proportions and his men lowing a float laden with cotton bales, world had been done by ihe hands of could do little toward checking their waa awarded second prize. the unmarried. He pointed to Washprogress. The grand lodge chose Baltimore as ington. Lincoln and McKinley as exthe place of meeting for the annual amples of men who had accomplished Eight bell hoys employed by a Butte of the grand lodge in 1903. a great deal, and these three men reunion hotel hare gone on :i strike because A. Cronk, Omaha, was elected steaks nt George Exalted they were refused Ruler. Grand their meals. Tlie boys are guarding tlie hotel and other lads will not be Parisians Excited Over Nothing. permitted to take the vacant places Paris papers of saffron hue are in until an agreement is reached with tlie dulgfng in serious comment over a manage men t. chameleon horse said to be in the This home is Tlie world's record for steer roping Jardin des Plantes. reported to have changed his color was broken by four of the large numin a single night. Inquiry at the Jar-diber of parlicipHiiis in tlie contest in des Flantes finally brought forth connection with the Frontier day celean offlcial explanation. The authoribration at Cheyenne. The winner waa ties explained that this zoologleal W. E. Fitch, of Eaton, Colo., who per-- 1 marvel is simply a wild horse, which, formed tlie feat in 5 seconds. The like many other animals, loses its hair made by at certain periods. The horse in quesformer record was 1:2. Duncan Clark, of Iron Mountain, Wyo. tion is now changing Its coat, which Fitch is governmeut cattle inspector at Is at present slightly lighter in hue So much for the than formerly. Eaton. chameleon horse, and now Parisians Chief of Police Reddy, of Spokane( expect a sea serpent In the Seine. was a passcpger on a street car that was held up by an audacious highway Courtship in China. man. The car, on tlie Astor street In China persona of rank do not see their future husbands or wives until line, had stopped for a railroad crossthe marriage ceremony occurs. Minrea masked when with a robber, ing, ister Wu has related in hia inimitable Chancellor Andrews, volver in each hand, stepped aboard men. The lecturer and compelled tlie conductor to give up manner how with a little planning and were married of a few friends he manassistance the out fact that most the pointed liis cash. Then, brandishing ilia long are bachelors. aged to obtain at a distance of thirty gun, lie commanded the passengers to feet a glimpse of the young who lady contribute. Chief Reddy waa unarmed had been chosen to be his wife. Mrs. Plan Great Engineering Feat. and said lie was powerless. Wu. who Is a sster of Ho Yow, Chi The Strait of Canso, between Cape Joseph Delschnelder lias confessed neue Consul General at San Francisco, Breton and the mainland of Nova Scoto Chief McLaughlin of Portland, that was unacquainted with English when tia. is to be bridged. The task Is an he saw Andrew White strike the blow she arrived in this country, but she Immense one, involving great engihas been a diligent student and now neering difficulties, and the outlay of which killed Peter Bcauchene, a black peaks our language almost fluently. about five million dollars. The bridge Goose Hollow last week, and smith, in is a typical She Chinese will he a cantilever, with a span of said tlie participants iu the fight were and is finely educated. beauty 1,800 foot, the longest ia the world. intoxicated. n Mrs. Corbin, ston, his aid, and Gen. Young, will leave for Europe In a few aays to be the giipsts of Emperor William in witnessing the German army maneuvers. Mrs. Corbin Is one of the most popular hostesses in the national capital. and her absence will be noticed in the round of festivities. LAST OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Sole Survivor of Famous Charge Living at Sharon, Mass. Sharon, Mass., enjoys the distinction of having as a resident Blair Irwin, who. as far as is known, is the sole survivor of the gallant Cun who made the famous charge at llalaklava during the Crimean war, an exploit which was immortalized by Ti niiyson in his isiem "The Charge of the Light Brigade. Mr. Irwin was a soldier in the British army fur more than l- years, at a t.tne when it was seeing some of its most arduous service ami achieving some of its most glorious results. He participated In the four great battles of the Crimean war. Alma, Sebasto pol, llalaklava and Inkcrman, and his - ! 2-- 3, hlgk-caat- e 7 mm f( . W'L j LJpJg 7 Blair Irwin, regiment nidi'll in the putting down ef the Indian mutiny, being presort at the relief of Lucknow, |