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Show mailt; by Cyrn- Lilitnt!, the noted Kansas R- publican, i" tht-y v.ould vote as he suggrf-leil. He tfi!Lieii that Lelaud of fpi id iiiin $3,1 m) to vole fur W. II. Ro-!ngtm, Ro-!ngtm, lfi"rr.t. for United States nator, an i Uurgard. told hiiu that Le-liud Le-liud h;:d ( ITi-iul It i;t ylO.OOO to vote foi the lcpubl.t'iui eti:t!idai for state printer, aiul Butgard ah'S told him bout a prupisition nm'iii to him (Bor-gard) (Bor-gard) by Lalaml, to vota for slate priuter McEieuey f itr tliL-r testified t.'iat on trie Tuesday before the Lelaud interview Frank Strickland of Kansas city, ap-proaehedliim ap-proaehedliim and told him that if he would vote f ir P. B. Wagginer for senator sen-ator he could control the federal patronage patro-nage of Wyandotte eouuty. He showed how futile it tKs to stay in the Duns-more Duns-more house and lie said the supreme judges had already held a meeting among themselves and decided upon what the decision would be and that Diiuemore would lose the fight. Strickland Strick-land went to Kansas city saying he woohl be lack but he changed his mind and left tho ccuuiry to keep out of jai'. I was-appioached the afternoon afiei Martin's election, but I did not let it go very far. I; was ISurgard himself v.l.o told me that Ldr.nd offered him f 10,000 to vote for Ady, and A. A, Han is' name was mixel up in lLo proposition. Al a djournment was talon till Tuesday, when it U expected Jim Legate and other witnesses will be present, NiiWS NOTES. A Connecticut girl, aged twelve who has teen a wife for nearly a year, has given birth to triplets. Montana has cist her statue of Ada Tlehan. It weighs 1iOO lbs, and cost $70,000, A lecamotive toiler burst at Butte Montana, a few days ago. The explosion explo-sion killed the brakeman and conductcr and mortally wounded the engineer and fireman, and caused considerable destruction des-truction of property. The Columbian Celebration Company which is building "The MaeKaye Spec-Utorium" Spec-Utorium" at CUcazo, received, a fow daye ago, five carloads of tropical flors from Jamaica, W. I. which will be nsed in equipping a single scene of the many to b presented-ji tho spectatorio. An idea of the realism with which' evtry soene will be encompassed can be drawn from this fact. This flors, a sight in itself to the inhabitant of the eclor clime; will all bi U:ed in the San Salvador Salva-dor ecene iu which is teb'e presented the lauding of Columbns. Every cthei e.cene that will be displayed in this building will be on a like scale of cor-rfct cor-rfct environment Washington, D. C, March 18, Colonel .Merritt c lied today on Secretary Hoke Smith with reference to the Interior Department appointments for Utah, Secretary Srrith assured C.dotiel Mt-irit that it would be the policy of the department depart-ment to recommend actual residents of the -Territory for positions iiBdor it gift.' Colonel Merritt assured me this evening that he k,;- a candidate for no possible clSco in U:k!i ar.d that he wat litill maii-tdining that attitude of neutrality neu-trality which has so tojetitcd him since his arrival here. J. B Wnldeu has filed his application for Collector of Internal Rjvenaeat Silt Lakj city. rribau;. Honey brook, - Pa., ilarch ,13. The Honeybrook mine took fire several months ago, burning awav t lie supp it and doling the opening. It was tup-posed tup-posed to have burned itself out. but it is now burning fiercer than ever. The surfaeo near the drippings is so heated taat water flowing ovsr it is immediately immedi-ately diied up. Grave tppiehcnsi-irs are felt ff r the surrounding mine?, us th,e fires are liavle to eat int the workings. work-ings. Millions of dollars of coid property pro-perty Is imperiled, Tho viliiago tf Honeybrook, immediately over tho mine is menaced by tho collapse of H19 earth. Fissures are already run through town from which puanti'ies of smok-t and gasses are escaping. Tho people are in a state of terror, Topeka, March lS.-Duriug the Sea-ate Sea-ate investigation this morning into the alleged boodle fehargos made by tV Topka Capital in connection with the Kansas City j;olica comailsiioners, Representative Re-presentative McElenov, Populist ef Kansas city, swore that lie and Mr, Bur grd. Tvpuiist representative from the same city, were eubj-HSt to corrupt offe s |