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Show THE INDEPENDENT. M.V.Crockett. - - Editer. U. C. Johnson. Business Manager. Ko'ererl t the Pmi ( t 8prlorvm- Utaa for irau.nilsslcn tLrjub Ue mails as secooa-claM Burner, Issued Every Thursday Morning. TERMS OF 61BSCKIFTIOX. I! CO One ear , ()n Si Months J Three Months ASK FOK ADVKKT1SINO KVTE9. UTAH STATE NEWS. Seventeen new cases of smallpox were reported to the Salt Lake board of health Friday last. The rural free delivery system has been ordered extended out of Sandy, with two additional carriers. Chief of Police Hilton of Salt Lak has entered upon a vigorous campaign against the saloon men who persist ir selling' liquor to minors. The commissioner of Indian affairs will recommend to congress an appropriation appro-priation of S5.000 for the support of the Indians of southern L'tah. The school authorities of the B. Y. academy at Provo refuse to allow the students to play football, regarding it as a species of barbarism. Secretary Cage has recommended to congress an increase of $200,000 in the appropriation for the public building to be erected in Salt Lake. Joseph (). Nystrom has been appointed ap-pointed recorder of Salt Lake City tt 611 the vacancy caused by the resigna. lion of Ray Naylor, who is on amission to Germany. An association for the promotion of fistic contests is being organized, in Salt Lake City. It is the intention of the promoters to give an exhibition once every month. The fourth imnual convention of the National Livestock association will be held in the Assembly hall, Salt Lake City, all arrangements having been made for the use of the building. The price of sugar in the Salt Lake market was increased last week to the extent of 10 cents per hundredweight. This brings the price of beet sugar up to within cents of the cane sugar. On January 12 the old I'uiversity buildings and grounds in Salt Lake City will he sold ;it jml.lie auction. The property has be appraised at fl. .", 000, and bids for a smaller sum will not b ' entertained. Ldw ard M idd't sta te. a fireman, is dead from the effects of a scalding received re-ceived on his engine on the Rio Grande Western railway, on the 2nd inst, while runuing between Solitude and Little Grand stations. George Anderson, while working for the Imperial Mining company at Frisco, fell down an incline shaft sixty feet, landing on an ore bucket at the bottom, sustaining two broken ribs and a number num-ber of bad bruises. The state board of health was last week notified by the district health officer at Lehi that there were then thirty-six cases of quarantined smallpox small-pox in town, and that in the last six weeks there had been 145 cases. The state land board last week decided de-cided to resume the system of investing the board's surplus funds on farm loans at G per cent interest. The loaning of money on farm lands was suspended for a time by the board on account of the surplus fuud being exhausted by the loan to the Uuiversitj. James Robertson, a friendless man, died in Salt Lake November 15, and was burried in the potters field. It developed de-veloped last week that he was a discharged dis-charged soldier, having enlisted with the Fourteenth infantry from Utah, served honorably ami with distinction in the Philippines, and at the instance of Utah batterymen his remains were exhumed and buried in the plat set aside for Utah volunteers in the Salt Lake cemetery, with military honors. Judge Norrell of Salt Lake is very ill in Memphis, Tenn.. where he had gone in search of health, and an effort will be made to secure the services of Judge Booth of Provo to clear up the criminal calendar iu Judge Norrell' court. A. Milton Musser received painful but not serious injuries in a runaway accident in Salt Lake last week, the carriage in which he was seated colliding collid-ing with a telegraph pole, tipping the vehicle over and throwing him to the ground. It is probable about 510,000 will b expended on the Salt Lake tabernacle organ, doubling its size and pover by the addition of alout 1,000 new pi pet and bringing it up to a much higher degree of perfection by various other improvements. A suit has been tiled in Salt Lakt ' which will deteruiiue whether AnnU F. Hilton was the wife of the late Dr ' John R. Park. The complaint allegei : that Mrs. Hilton, as the wife of Johe : R. Park, was guilty of adultery with WirHamHiHoirrer-pTeserrt hnsbau.r E.U. Itognon. the well known Sail Lake attorney who went into Alaska last spring in search of a fortune, hat been appointed L'nited States commissioner commis-sioner and recorder for the Port Oar ence district, including Nome. Ther is a good salary attached to the office. C. F. Holland of San Francisco hat purchased the oil mines south of Green River, aud is preparing to put in a large plant with which to develop his property. He is satisfied there is 8 large vein of oil that with development will prove very pradtable. With the close of the century the narrow gauge railroad will disappear from Utah. Active work will soon be commenced xipon broadening the gauge of the old Utah Nevada (the Garfield Beach line), the remaining narrow gauge road. Mrs. Janet McNeil died at the borne of her daughter in Logan, on the 7th inst, of old age and general debility. Mrs. McNiel was about 80 years of age and was a pioneer of Cache .county, having resided there since I860. She had been ill for several years. The postoffices at Lehi and Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant have been advanced from fourth to third class, at salaries of $1,000. The seventh annual meeting of the State Teachers' association will be held in Salt Lake City on December 2G, 27, 23 and 29. RURAL FREE DELIVERY INCREASED POSTAL RECEIPTS. Report of Postmaster General Praises Effect of New System. Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith has submitted bis annual report to the president. In it the financial operations of the department for the last fiscal year are shown, briefly in the following statement of revenues and expenditures: Ordinary poetal revenue, $100,899,4331 receipts from money order business), 31,455,14.. Total receipts from all sources, $102,-354,579. $102,-354,579. Total expenditures for the year, $107,, 740,267. Excess of expenditures over receipts S5,335,688. The deficit for the year 1899-1900 is shown to be 51, '-'25. OSS less than the previous year. The estimated postal revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, is $116,033,042, and the estimated expenditure, expendi-ture, 8121,276,349, leaving a probable deficiency of 84,634,308. Rural free delivery, the report says has proved to be "the most salient, significant sig-nificant and far-reaching feature, oi postal development. Besides swelling the postal receipts, the values of farms are enhauced, through the necessity for good roads, and the opportunity afforded the farmer to keep abreast of the times by being put into closer communication com-munication with the outside world. The isolation and monotony which has been the bane of country life is sensibly mitigated through the etiect of rural free delivery in placing the farm within with-in daily range of the intellectual and commercial activity of the world. Echo of Otettt Assaasiuatlon. Governor Thomas of Colorado has refused to honor a requisition from Indiana In-diana for the return of Clifton Oxman of Princeton, Indiana, accused of defrauding de-frauding in a real estate deal J. Mayer Greene of Chicago. The Indiana sheriff had Attoiney General Campbell of Colorado inspect the papers and they were declared legal. le-gal. Afterward, it is stated, Governor Thomas had a consultation with Mr Campbell and then announced that the papers were not made out in technical form, and this, token in connection with the attitude of Governor Mount of Indiana iu refusing to honor Governor Gover-nor Beckham's requisition for the return re-turn to Kentucky of V. S. Taylor, who is now living in Ind.aua, who was wanted iu Kentucky, he said, would cause him to refuse the requisition. Governor Thomas, at the same time, said that several other governors had, he believed, decided to take similar steps regarding Governor Mount. Governor Mount, when told of Governor Gov-ernor Thomas' action, said he was surprised sur-prised at it. Claims to be Marcus Daly's Brother. Rev. P. Daly, who has been a member mem-ber of the soldiers' .home of Hot Springs, S. D., for the past four years, was reading the biography of the late Marcus Daly Monday and to his great surprise discovered that they were brothers. Rev. Mr. Daly knew he had a brother Marcus, but they were separated when very young, their family being poor. He says he had often read of the multimillionaire multi-millionaire Daly, but never for a moment mo-ment thought it was his little brother who left home ragged and penniless. He is a devout Christian, belonging to the Free Methodist church, which he has served as pastor in eastern places. He had never corresponded with his brother or heard a word from him, and tJupposed him dead long ago. Hay ls a Diplomat. A Berlin dispatctf says it is now dawning upon the German press and public that Mr. Hay, the American Secretary of State, has secured an out-and-out diplomatic victory in obliging the powers, Germany included, to yield to his argument in favor of more moderate terms in the preliminary joint note to the Chinese peace plenipotentiaries. pleni-potentiaries. This clearly-defined defeat is especially espe-cially bitter in Germany because Emperor Em-peror William had set his heart on imposing im-posing the most humiliating conditions condi-tions upon the Chinese and thus emphasizing Germany's power in their eyes. Tiny Fleet for Philippines. Five little cockle shells from the navy are to travel more than 13,000 miles to the Philippines, The flagship of this mosquito fleet will be the gun. boat Annapolis, and her consorts will be the gunboat Vicksburg, the converted con-verted yacht Frolic and the tugboats Worapatuck and Piscataqua. They are to be sent in response to the request of Rear Admiral Remey for small vessels to do patrol duty in the Philippines. Vessels so small as these have never undertaken so long a trip. Oregon Man Fatally Shot. L. C. Fortner, an engineer for the City & Suburban Railway company, at Portland, Oregou, while on his way e111- Tabor, -was shot and perhaps fatally wounded Monday night by a footpad. Fortner, when commanded to hold up his hn, threw hisdinner pail into the highwayman's face. The latter tben fired a shot, the bullet bul-let entering Fortner's left breast. Th robber escaped without securing any booty. Oriental Laborers Leaving Hawaii. Statistics of immigration for the past few months show that there is a considerable con-siderable inovemeut of Orientals away from the Hawaiian islands. Daring the past three months the departures of Japanese for Japan have exceeded the arrivals by over 700, and over 400 more Chinese have gone home than have come there. The question of getting get-ting negro labor from the southern American states is being warmly discussed. dis-cussed. Wholesale Murderer Beheaded. Philip Nordland, who ou May 17th last, as the steamer Prinz Carl, on which he was a passe uger, was passing Quicksund, Sweden, murdered seven men and wounded five others, a woman and a boy, subsequently escaping in a boat to Koping, and who was convicted and sentenced to death in June last, was beheaded. Monday. The condemned con-demned man chanted a psalm as he laid bis bead upon the block. WEEK IN CONGRESS. Wednesday. Horse A bill proposing a reduction in war taxes approximating f40.000.000, -was Introduced. The principal items from which the tax Is removed re-moved is beer, bank checks, cigars, promissory notes, brokers contracts and insurances, which amounts to three-fourths of the proposed reduction. re-duction. The following bills and resolution! were introduced: Providing for a government ship to bring Boers to the United States to take advantage of the homestead laws, by Fitzgerald of Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. To prohibit the sale of firearms, opium and intoxicants to aboriginal tribes and native racer in the Pacific islands, by Littleneld oi Maine. A resolution for a constitutional amendmen' to repeal the Fifteenth amendment of the constitution, con-stitution, by Kitchen of North Carolina. Sekatb The Hay-Pauncefote treaty was under consideration in the Senate, occupying the entire day. The following bills were introduced: intro-duced: A bill to admit Oklahoma as a state with two representatives, by Fairbanks of Indiana. In-diana. Creating a supreme court for the Philippines, by Stewart of Nevada. Providing for the admission free of duty o' articles controlled by the trusts and for the funding of tax collected on raw cotton in the event that the supreme court holds to be unconstitutional un-constitutional the law under which the tax was collected, by Clay of Georgia. Thursday. House The army reorganization bill was passed by 166 to 133. It contains a provisioo prohibiting the sale of or dealing in liquor, wine or any intoxicating liquors by any person in any army post, exchange or canteen or army transport, or upon any prem ses used for military mili-tary purposes by the United States. Senate The Senate was in executive session ses-sion most of the day. Mr. Carter, Montana, gave notice that Tuesday next he would call up the pending resolution re'ating to the contested Montana seat in the Senate, claimed by both W. A. Clark and Martin Maginnis. The following fol-lowing bills were introduced: By Senator Hale To revive the grade of vica admiral in the navy. By Senator Pritchard The bills prepared by the 'commission appointed by the president providing revisions of the patent and trademark trade-mark laws. By Senator Warren Permitting the free admission ad-mission of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors to any hospital of the United States for medical or surgical treatment. By Senator Thurston Creating an additional judicial court to be designated as the Tenth and to include the states of Kansas, Nebraska, ; Colorado. Wyoming. Utah and Montana, and creating a court of appeals for the circuit Friday. House -The House passed the C.ro-itt Oleomargerine Oleo-margerine bill by u vote of 196 to 19.'. The bill imposes a tax on oleomargerine which is col- ored to resemble butte of 10 cents a pound. ; which ls prohibitive SESATE-Prat-tically the entire day in the Senate was consumed by an executive session. Monday. House -The tlrst of th gr.-at supply bills, the legislative. cx.,'ju! ivu a-i I ju.'lu'ial appropriation appro-priation bill, passed the House Monday. The bill carries $26, 496.3)8. and has l.lt pages, but there were less than tci minutes debate upon It. It required ub .tut threv.' hours for the clerk to read th-; bill . N'o oth ;r business was ! transacted. Senate The Sjnite spjat almost Ave hoars Monday in executive session considering the Hay-Paunoefote treaty. Th ?re were live or six set speeches m vie. som i of tUeni by senators sena-tors who had not spoken hitherto upon the treaty. The possibility of S ;jretiry H ly's resigning re-signing in case the foreUn relations committee amendment to the treaty should prevail having hav-ing been ailuded to, S ;natr KYyo sai 1 ho was in position to mike official denial of that report. The secretary had no such intention. 'I he oleomargerine bill was received from the House. Robbers Make Good Hani at Portland. Six masked men held up the office of the Western Lumber company Thursday Thurs-day evening at Portland, Ore., securing 86,000, and escaped in the darkness. The robbery occurred at 6 o'clock, when dozens of men were in the vicinity of the mill, which is located at Front and Seventeenth streets. Four of the highwaymen guarded the two entrances to the csffice while the other two entered with drawn revolvers revolv-ers and ordered the four clerks in the office to hold up their hands. The money was in envelopes ready to be paid out to the mill hands, this being the regular weekly payday. One robber quickly threw the money into a sack while the other kept the mill-men mill-men covered with two revolvers. They backed out of the office, locked the doors and the six men made their escape es-cape before the alarm could be given. Hoy Gets Four Months In Jail for Killing a CJIrl. Owen Squire , an 18 year old New York boy, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree for the killing of Lizzie Hiergesell, has been sentenced by Judge Moore in the Queen's county court, Long Island City, to only four months in the county jail. Many women from Richmond Hill pleaded for leniency, believing the boy's story that the shooting was merely accidental. acci-dental. V early SOO Ships Built In l'nited States In Five Mouths. The vessels built in the United States and officially numbered from June 30, 1900. to Nov. 30, 1900, were 495, of 149,-1)63 149,-1)63 gross tons. The principal items of the total are seven steel steamships on the great lakes (34,938 gross tons), and four smaller steel steamships (8,496 tons, which could pass through the new Welland canal), and one steel schooner barge (2,790 tons). Skirmish In Philippines. A dispatch has been received at Manila Ma-nila from General Funs ton giving an account of a two hours' fight in the woods of Santo Horn in go between an American force and 300 rebels commanded com-manded by Sandico. The American force attacked the rebels, who retreated, retreat-ed, leaving on the field sixteen men killed, including the rebel leader Agui-lar Agui-lar and an American negro. It was at first thought the latter was named Fagin, a ceserter from the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth infantry, but this turned out to be a mistake. Attempt at Wholesale Murder at Seattle. William Seaton, aged 22 years, j formerly of Decatur, 111., Thursday j attempted to exterminate an entire j family, his relatives, at South Park, ! nine miles from Seattle. With an ax : he smashed in the head of four people. I leaving them for dead, then shot one man in the back and attempted to j murder a deputy sheriff. Before ; finally captured, Seaton was shot j twice, but not fatally, by Deputy J Sheriff Kelley. Three of tte victims may recover. Work of Colorado Game Wardens. Mormon hunters were captured by the game wardens in northwestern Colorado, and thirteen of them were heavily fined by Justice Shanklin at Shanklin's ranch and t'iree brought to Meeker to be tried. The officers turned back many teams driven by Utah Mormons, who were coming to carry away deer hides. Game Commissioner Johnson swore in half a dozen wardens to watch for future expeditions of hide hunters. He intends to break np this business, which has been carried on for years. British Offer to Transvaal. The London correspondent of tht Leipsiger Tageblatt has received from a highly-placed personage in England the following communication; "If the Boers should now surrender, England will permit them to create a new Boer republic in the northern half of the Transvaal. It is in order to keep the possibility of this open that England has not yet officially announced to the powers the annexation of the Transvaal. Trans-vaal. "One cf the first conditions, however, is that the announcement of surrender must come from Kruger. There is every prospect that he will soon be inclined in-clined to this course. His visit to France has taught him that any number num-ber of empty assurances of sympathy will not result in the slightest practical practi-cal help. Germany will make a further fur-ther cont-ibution to the education of Mr. Kruger, and it will be to her alone that the Boers will owe thanks if England Eng-land makes them concessions." TSis statement acquires some importance im-portance by the fact that the semi-official Post reproduces it and adds that it does not sound improbable, and that England has every incentive to erect a strong bulwark against the warlike tribes of Central Africa in order to assure as-sure .the possession of the territory they have just conquered. IS CHINA WINNING? A London Paper Thinks So, Owing: tofn Attitude of United Spates and IWia The London Spectator in a sLJhg article dealing with the Chinese (risis expresses the opinion that the most recent re-cent occurrences at Pekin foreshadow a Chinese victory over the allies. "The quarrel has been brought to the test of force," it says, "and force on the civilized side has proved insufficient. insuffi-cient. This result is mainly due to the attitude of Russia and United States. If China escapes with the payment of a small indemnity and many promises on paper, as seems not unlikely, since Germany and Great Britain may not be willing to incur the expenditure and risk involved in persisting in their demands, de-mands, it will be a victory for China, for nothing has occurred that will convince con-vince the Chinese that their mighty Empress has been defeated or that Europe Eu-rope can avenge any future massacres. TOWN K APPOINTED SENATOR. Succeeds Late Senator Davis of Minnesota. Former Congressman Charles A. Towne, silver republican of Duluth, has been appointed senator to succeed the late Senator Davis of Minnesota. Two Republicans were offered and declined de-clined the honor. Mr. Towne said that his time of service ser-vice would, of course, be short, but he might have to vote on some important measures. He considered the ship subsidy sub-sidy bill a bad one and is against it. His position on the standing army is that the people have voted to put down the war in the Philippines and he will vote to give an army enough to do that, but not for an increase for any other purpose. He does not expect to participate partici-pate in debate at all during his short term. Needs of Alaska. Gov. Brady of Alaska has arrfe in Washington. Discussing 4oe K?)j0: Alaska, he sail!: .-'lek ' of "Alaska needs laws which wtS;n-able wtS;n-able residents to acquire title to ttieir homes and lands. In order to do this survey work must be extended. "I advocate the best bestowal of citizenship citi-zenship upon the natives. They are good people. The Eskimos of Alaska have been unfairly treated. "Dutch Harbor should be fortified. It is the strategical point of southern Alaska. I cannot urge too strongly the need of an Alaska cable to some point on Puget Sound." ENGLISH STEAMER FOUNDERS. Goes Down Off Isle of tJersey and Twenty. Nine Lives are Lost. The English steamer Ross Gull, which was lost off the coast of Jersey Wednesday, was engaged in the service between England and the channel islands and St. Brieuc. She foundered inagaleatll o'clock. According to the report only eleven persons out oi the forty people on board of her wt.e saved. President Recommends Indemnity to Heln of a Lynched Mexican. In relation to the lynching in La Salle county, Tex., on Oct 5, 1895v of Florentine Suaste, a Mexican citizen, the president, in a special message fenl to thesenate Friday recommends that the Mexican government be paid $2,000 for the heirs of the victim. The recommendation rec-ommendation is made from motives ol humanity, and "without reference to the question of liability of the government govern-ment of the United States." Travel Never So Heavy. t According to Western railway officials, offi-cials, the flow of travel from Chicagt and the east toward the California winter resorts is now breaking ali records. So heavy has the traffic-1-come that nearly all the roads, transcontinental trans-continental as well as those withfter minals at Missouri river points, havt been compelled not only to put on extra coaches to their regular westbound west-bound trains, but in some instances tc run additional trains to accommodate the heavy traffic. CHILD MURDERtR CAPTURED. Man Who Fiendishly Tortured Child tc Death in Prison. William Gibson, the man who is charged with fiendishly torturing to death with a red-hot iron his helpless two-year-old stepdaughter at Cattles-burg, Cattles-burg, Ky., two weeks ago, is safely in jail. In an interview he denied everything every-thing as to his guilt. At different times during the interview be would laugh idiotically. It is apparent his mind is unbalanced. German Press Discuss Kruger. The German press continues a lively discussion concerning Mr. Kruger and disappointment deepens at Emperor William's refusal to receive him. Nevertheless Never-theless many journals admit the necessity neces-sity for the kaiser's act. According to the Frankfurter Zei-tung, Zei-tung, Emperor William not only informed in-formed Mr. Kruger that he was unable to receive him, but expressed the wish that the Boer statesman would Berlin at present. avoid AMERICAN HORSES BEST. England Boys Mo-e for Use In South Africa. A number of Canadian horse experts, mostly vetenarians, are in St. Louis and other western points to pass on herds of horses selected by British military mil-itary agents for use in the Transvaal. One of the experts, Dr. Darcus Hamilton, Hamil-ton, who will examine a large number of horses at St. Louis that have been selected for the imperial police, who will patrol the Boer country, said that it was remarkable the satisfaction American bred horses had given the British military authorities, and that he did not know what his government would have done if it had not been for the dependence that could be put upon the American horse market, especially in the west. "Good horses are scarce in Europe and Asia," he said, "and even then the few that can be procured in those countries cannot be relied upon to do the work required as well as the American Amer-ican bred animal." SUICIDE FOLLOWS TRAGEDY. Old Man, Accused of Killing Boy, Takes His Own Life. Wednesday night two men, supposed to be tramps, asked permission to sleep in the boiler-room of C. V. Segar's sawmill, at Blackwell, Mo. One was about 50 years of age and the other about 20. Early Thursday morning the young man was found dead upon tbe railroad track with bis skull crushed in and part of his clothing missing. It was evident that he had been murdered in the sawmill and dragged to the railroad track and laid across the rails. A posse of citizen! started in search of his companion, who was caught ahout live .miles out and brought back to the scene of the murder. When accused of the murdei the old man drew a knife and stabyed himself in the heart, death resulting instantly. UNCLE SAM S INCOME. His Receipts Now Largely Exceed His Ex penst-s. The monthly comparative statement cf the government receipts and expen. ditures during November, 1900, shows the total receipts to have been $48,344,-514 $48,344,-514 and the expenditures $11,278,060, leaving a surplus for the month of 7,-005,854. 7,-005,854. The receipts are itemized as follows: Customs, $18,550,290. decrease over November No-vember of last year, $054,121; inter-national inter-national revenue, .427,559,159, increase, 83,805,905; miscellaneous, $2,238,058, decrease, $1,812,842. Among the expenditures are the following: fol-lowing: Paid war department, $9,557,-529, $9,557,-529, decrease $1,882,303; paid navy department de-partment $5,008,803, increase $1,805,-724. $1,805,-724. Wreck on Northern Pacific Near Butte. A serious wreck occurred on the North ern Pacific at Rocker, three miles west of Butte, at 11:30 p. m.. Wednesday, in which two unknown men lost their lives. Eastbound passenger pas-senger train No. 2, with eight heavily loaded cars, jumped the rails at Rocker switch, the locomotive, two baggage cars and one express car being demolished de-molished and left crosswise on the track. One passenger coach also left jlc railsbut was not overturned. En gineer Aath Kellam was badly injured. Fireman Ole Johnson was cut about the head and had his back wrenched. Singularly not a passenger was injured, in-jured, beyond a severe shaking up. The two men killed were beating their way on the blind baggage. The cause of the accident is unknown, Engineei Kellam claiming that the switch wa properly set. Twenty-five Mexicans Killed Iu Mine Explo sion. An explosion of dynamite Wednesday Wednes-day at the mines of San Andres de la Sierra, Mexico, killed or wounded many miners. At the latest advices twenty-six dead bodies had been recovered. re-covered. Fifteen injured persons, some oi whom will die, were taken from the wreckage, and the ruins are thought to contain other victims. It is not known as yet how the explosion ex-plosion occurred, but nine cases of dynamite dy-namite blew up at the powder bouse with an appalling roar, shaking the country for miles around. American Federation of Labor. The twentieth annual convention of the American Federation of Labot convened at Louisville, Ky., Tliursda3", with 217 delegates present. Among them are representatives of the British trades union congress and the Canadian Ca-nadian trades and labor congress, three women delegates and two colored. col-ored. President Gompers, in his annual address, ad-dress, urged including colored men in the organization. Horseman Robbed in Chicago. Fred T. Gilmore of Baxter, la., was knocked senseless late Thursday night in Chicago near Michigan avenue and Harmon court and robbed of $11,229 in negotiable paper, $23 in money and a watch. The robbers, William Cum-mings Cum-mings and George Hayes, after a desperate des-perate battle with detectives, were captured and all the booty save tha watch and money was recoveree. The j detectives had been shadowing the men and were at hand when the robbery rob-bery occurred. Liicaoi Funeral. Funeral services were held at the Presidio Wednesday over the remains of Col. E. S. Liscum, who was killed at Tien Tsin. The simple funeral service was read by Chaplain Joseph Potter, after which the casket was borne to the waiting caisson by six non-commissioned officers and taken to the ferry for shipment to W'ashington. Two troops of cavalry escorted the remains, which were followed by a number of carriages containing army officers and their families. Vancouver Mas Drops Dead From Fright. Confronted b the wife whom he had deserted for another woman, William Boulton, scion of a fine English family, dropped dead at Vancouver Friday. The wife came from England and Boulton suddenly expired after a Btormy interview with ber. The autopsy surgeon declared, after a close examination of the body and its organs, that death had resulted from fright. NEWS SUMMARY. Recent storms have caused great lamage to the French provinces. Seven hundred government troops aave been killed at Panama by the "evolutionists. The British Columbia law making iny one employing Japanese responsible respon-sible for their taxes, has been sustained. sus-tained. Three Chinese mandarins, who were Instigators of the massacre of converts t Tsi Ming, and twent3'-three Boxers have been executed. A notification appears to the effect that all able-bodied British subjects re liable to be conscripted for service n the Pand Rifles. The secretary of the treasury has directed di-rected that the interest due on January 1 on 4 per cent 1907 bonds and 2 pei ?ent 1930 bonds be paid without rebate. On account of the scarcity of raw flax in Germany prices have advanced 10 or 12 per cent, and a number of the mills have closed their doors. The re-election of President Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley has been accepted by the Nicaraguan people as favorable to the progress of that country. This year's coffee crop in Panama is expected to aggregate about 200,000 quintals, being the heaviest crop recorded re-corded in that country's history. In Utica, N. Y., two persons were killed by coming in contact with electric elec-tric wires that had been broken from poles by the storm Tuesday night. According to the London Daily Express, Ex-press, no more infantry drafts will be sent to South Africa. The only troops to go to the front hereafter will "be mounted men. Martin Stickel, one of the assassins of Cornelius Knapp and his wife, near Castle Rock, Wash., who was arrested and brought to Tacoma Friday, has made a confession. To prevent general demorialization in the price of shingles, full three-fourths three-fourths of the shingle mills in Washington Wash-ington state have closed down for a period of sixty days. Mrs. Washington McLean, mother oi John R. McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and of Mrs. Dewey, wife of Admiral Dewey, died Sit Washington Sunday. A fire at the arsenal at Cherbourg, France, Friday, destroyed a number of historic relics, including Napoleon's launch. The damage done is estimated estim-ated at 2,000,000 francs. Dawson is overrun with idle men who are willing to work for their board. Some skilled laborers are still paid $1 an hour, but prevailing wages are S3 per day and board. The demands of the German minister to Morocco for the payment of three claims of injured Germans and the punishment of the offenders have been yielded to by the sultan. The battleship "Iowa," flagship of the Pacific station, in compa- with the "Philadelphia," has been crdered to leave San Francisco for the usual winter cruise southward. The resignation of the Bulgarian Cabinet, presided over by M. Icans-shoff Icans-shoff and Radoslevoff, is regarded in political circles in Vienna as a very serious and a very important event. The secretary of war has sent to the house of representatives a plan for the permanent improvement of the Arkansas- river, the total estimated cost for opening navigation being $25,203,400. Representative Burleigh of Maine has introduced a bill authorizing the appointment of Representative Bou-telle Bou-telle of Maine, now a confirmed invalid, to the rank of captain on the retired list of the navy. United States Consul Hughes at Co-burg Co-burg has rerorted to the state department depart-ment the news of the recent discovery of a large deposit of coal, estimated to contain at least 1,000,000,000 tons, at Barmocz, Hungary. When Lord Roberts arrived at Durban Dur-ban he was accorded a tumultuous reception. Members of the Irish association as-sociation dragged his carriage to the town hall. The streets were profusely decorated and crowded to suffocation. Numerous addresses were presented to the Field Marshal. A report is current at Patterson, N. J., that former Assemblyman Robert A. Carrol of that place lost his life by drowning recently in the Knondike region, re-gion, where he went to seek his fortune for-tune during the gold fever a few years ago. A rich strike is reported on the Yellow Yel-low river, 300 miles from Holy Cross Mission on the Yukon. Two Swedes are said to have brought out $34,000. There are only twelve men in the district and all are said to have dona well. The transport Rosencrans left Nagasaki Naga-saki Friday morning for Manila, with the Fifteenth infantry. This regiment is the last of the American troops to leave China, with the exception excep-tion of those forming the legation guard Walter Kennedy, contractor and expert ex-pert engineer, who has just returned to Youngstown, O., from completing some contracts in China, said that he saw twenty-two Chinamen beheaded for no reason other than they were in his employ. In the near future the chief factor in the Chinese trade of the Pacific coast will be coal. There is more coaMn the three northern provinces of Chi Li, Shan Tung and Shen King than in any other region in the world. This coal is anthracite. The American Tobacco company took steps in Knoxville, Tenn., Saturday, to test the anti-cigarette law of Tennessee. Tennes-see. Roy Scott, a dealer in tobacco, sold a package of cigarettes and was arrested. The case will be taken to the supreme court. Lord Roberts's farewell order to his army is the strongest possible summary sum-mary of the sufferings and heroism of the British army in a campaign unexampled unex-ampled for severity, over 14,300 officers and men having died from wounds, fever and exposure. Uriah C. Burnap, 66 years of age, a wholesale dry goods merchant and prominent in Brooklyn affairs, committed com-mitted suicide by shooting Sunday. He had grieved much over the recent death of his friend, the late William L. Strong, and had worried over a sick daughter ISTHMIAN CANAL ROUTE. NICARAGUAN ROUTE RECOMMENDED. RECOM-MENDED. Canal Commission Reports Completion of Canal Will Require Expenditure of S30O.000.O0O. The report of the isthmian canal commission which was submitted by the president to congress Tuesday gives as the unanimous conclusion of that body that "the most practicable and feasible route for an isthmian canal under the control, management and ownership of the United States is that known as the Nicaraguan route." The commission estimates the cost of this route at $200,540,000. This estimate esti-mate is much in excess of any heretofore hereto-fore made and is due to increased dimensions di-mensions and other features not heretofore here-tofore considered. The commission also estimates the cost of a canal by the Panama route at 142,342,579, according ac-cording to one route, or $156,37S,258, according to another route. As between the Nicaragua and Panama Pan-ama routes the commission sums up a number of advantages favorable to the former. It states also lhat under the concessions given by the government of Columbia to the Panama Canal company com-pany that government is not free to grant the necessary rights to the United States, except upon conditions made by the company. After going over the several routes, the commission considered the dimensions dimen-sions of the canal to be built. Having in mind the increasing size of oceangoing ocean-going vessels, it was determined to fix upon a depth of thirty-five feet at mean low water, and a bottom width of 150 feet, with some increase of dimensions at certain points. These dimensions are larger than those proposed for any previous canal scheme. While they may seem excessive today, the commission com-mission says that the canal is not likely to be opened within ten years, during which time the increase in maritime dimensions is likely to continue. A width of 150 feet will allow all but the very largeat ships to pass each other in the canal, while the locks are of a i dimension to permit even the largest i ships afloat to be maneuvered. The j size of locks is 710 feet in length, 84 feet iu width, in the clear, with a depth of 35 feet. TREASURY REPORT. Receipts and Disbursements of Government for Fiscal Year F.udliig June 30. The annual reportof the secretary of the treasury was made public Tuesday. The revenues of the government from all sources (by warrants) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, were: RECEIPTS. Internal revenue I Customs Profits on coinage, bullion deposits, de-posits, etc District of Columbia Fees consular, letters patent and land Pales of public lands Tax ou National banks Navy pension. Navy hospital, clothing and deposit funds Sales of Indian lands Payment of interest by Paciflo railways Miscellaneous bales of government property Customs fees, Hues, penalties, etc. Immigrant fund Deposits for surveying publio lands Sales of rdnance material Soldiers" home, permanent fund.. Tax on sealskins and rent of seal islands License lees, territory of Alaska. Trust funds, department of state. Depredations on public lands Spanish indemnity Sales of lands and buildings Part payment of Central Facinc railroad indebtedness Dividend received from account of Kansas Pacific railway Postal service 295.3 .-7.9S6. 76 233, 181, 871.i 6 9.992.374. 09 4, 0O8, 722. 77 3.-291,7l.f$ 1.UUS.554.U0 l.eSI,5T8.52 1, 384,633. 4y l,V.3.4ti6.43 1H7.375.68 779,6-.'2.78 67n,70d.95 537,4 4.81 273,247.19 257.265.56 47,926.02 225,676.47 157,234.94 152.794.56 76,307. 53 57,1 X). 00 3,842,737.68 3.338.016.49 821,897.70 102.3M,579.29 Total receipts $669,595,431.18 EXPENDITURES SAME PERIOZl. Civic establishmen t.includlnp for- eiun intercourse, public buildings, build-ings, co lectiug the revenues. District of Columbia and other miscellaneous expenditures i 98,542,411.37 Military establishment, including rivers and harbors, forts, arsenals, arsen-als, sea coast defenses and expenses ex-penses of the war with Spain and in the Philippines 134,774.767.78 Naval establishment, including construction of new vessels, ma- 1 chinery, armament, equipment, improvement at navy yards and expenses of the war with Spain and in the Philippines 55.95377. 72 Indian service 10,l75.lo6.7i) Pensions 1 10.877,31. 02 Interest on the public debt 40.160,333 27 Deficiency in postal rovmues 7,23i"778.79 Postal service 102,354,579.29 Total expenditures J 590,08.371 .00 Showing a surplus of I 79.527,060. 18 As compared with the fiscal year 1899, the receipts for 1900 increased $58,613,-426.83, $58,613,-426.83, and there was a decrease in expenditures ex-penditures of l. 17,358,388. 14. Porto Rica n Assembly Convenes. The Porto Rican house of delegates met Tuesday in joint session with the executive council. The two bodies bod-ies adopted a resolutiod to cable greetings to President McKinley. Governor Gov-ernor Allen's message points out that the finances of the island are in a satisfactory sat-isfactory condition, showing a balance i of 81,583,609. Receipts from May to j October, inclusive, were 8l, 41,696 He suggests improvements in the revenue laws and recommends the establishment establish-ment of more schools. Decrease In Klondike's Output of Gold. Major Wood, commanding the Canadian Can-adian mounted police in the Yukon territory, who collects the royalties on gold, reports the collection this year on the Klondike output as amounting to nearly $900,000, about $100,000 more than was received last year. Ten per cent of the gold mined is supposed to be paid to the government, which would indicate the Klondike output for the season to have been only 89,000,000, but the general estimate has placed it at nearly $20,000,000. Smallpox In New York Spreads. Forty cases in the pesthouse on North Brothers' island, New York, one new case in the infected district on the west side, and two deaths to date was the condition of the smallpox outbreak Tuesday. None of the officials took any comfort from the fact that but one new case developed as against eight on Monday, for the disease has overleaped over-leaped the bounds to which they had tried to confine it in the neighborhood of "All Nations Block'' in West Sixty-ninth Sixty-ninth street, where it started. Footpads Make a Mistake. Two bold footpads attempted to hold np John Hal pin, inspector of detectives' and the second officer in command of the police department at Kansas City, Tuesday night. Halpin refused to obey the command to throw up his hands and one of the robbers snapped a revolver re-volver in the detective's face. The revolver re-volver missed fire and the men became alarmed and ran, with Halpin in pursuit. pur-suit. He fired four shots after them, wounding one of them. The wounded man escaped, the other was captured. NORTHWEST NOTES. Big preparations are being made for" the entertainment of the International mining congress at Boise next July. Judge Carl S. Wright, of Tuacon, Ariz., died last week from appendicitis. appendi-citis. He was a former attorney general gen-eral of Colorado. The secretary of the interior has seal to the house an agreement with tha Klamath Indians, relinquishing their reservation in Oregon. Walter Logus, who is accused of robbing rob-bing the safe in John Letup's saloon at Boise on October 1, 1899, securing$300, has been captured at Rawlins, Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The brick building occupied as a hall by the Odd Fellows and by Benjamin Wise with a stock of general merchandise merchan-dise at Silverton, Or., was destroyed by fire Saturday. Loss, 56,000. The census bureau gives the population popula-tion of three of the leading places in Nevada as follows: Reno, 4,500; Carson Car-son City, 2,2S5; Virginia City, 2,695; making Reno Nevada's metropolis. Charles Kuster, 6ue of the owners of the Rambler mine at Douglas creek, Wyoming, reports a rich strike in copper cop-per ore at that mine. He showed specimens that will run close to 40 per cent copper. A freight wreck occurred Friday night at Poplin, Nevada, near Kelton, on the Southern Pacific. Two freight trains came together and both engines were demolished. A tramp stealing a ride was killed, but the crews escaped. State game and fish warden of Idaho, C. II. Arbuckle, is urgiug a plan to secure betweeu Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada, a concert of action in reference to the preservation of game and the enactment of legislation legisla-tion in all of these states looking that way. All the damage claims against Ta coma Electric railway amounting to 6100,000, have been settled, arising from the street railway accident on the Fourth of Ju ly, when a loaded car plunged off the Delin street bridge forty feet into a gulch, killing forty-five forty-five people. Henry Romin, who shot and killed James Bracken at Tie Siding, Wyo., a few days ago, has been bound over to' the district court on a charge of murder mur-der in the first degaee. The officers believe that Romiu, who is a Greek, is wanted at Sioux City, la., on a charge of murder. A sensational discovery has been made at Olinghouse, Nev. At one of the mines rock that was thought to be worthless and was thrown on the dump, was assat'ed and found to contain con-tain $1,080 in metallic values to the ton. A great quantity of the rock had been thrown on the waste dump. Contractor M. P. Keefe has been advised ad-vised to commence work on the new government buildings at Fort Russell, Wyoming. The buildings to be constructed con-structed are four double officers' quarters quar-ters and a guard house, which will be of brick and stone and will replace old tumble-down frame structures. The work will be completed inside of a year. Morris Condroy who claims to have been aboard the battleship Maine at the time of the explosion in Havana harbor, had his right foot badly crushed between two freight cars at Dubois, Idaho, Sunday. He says that when the Maine was blown up he was Beriously injured by the explosion? that he left the navy two years ago, and has been in hard luck ever since. At Silverton, Or., last week, two robbers rob-bers blew open the safe of the- Silver-ton Silver-ton bank without securing any booty. The explosion was so terriffc that it aroused the whole neighborhood and the men made their escape. The shock blew the outer door off its hinges and ruined the bank furniture, smashed two large plate glass windows and blew fragments of the safe across the street. The bank is a complete wreck, the damage reaching about $3,000. Fifteen miners employed in the Belt mine at Anaconda, Montana, had a narrow escape from death last week by suffocating. A fire has been burning burn-ing in the mine for several weeks and six men who were working on the lower levels failed to come to the surface sur-face w hen their shift was ended and another lot went down to investigate and found the men unconscious. The rescuers were also overcome by the gas and all were rescued with great difficulty. diffi-culty. The Alton smelting plant of the Helvetia Copper company, thirty-five miles south of Tucson, Ariz., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, 8100,000, partially par-tially insured. Two hundred and fifty men will be thrown out of employment. employ-ment. Miss Adah Turner of Casper, Wyo., candidate on the Republican ticket for superintendent of schools, has instituted insti-tuted a contest against Miss May Hamilton. Ham-ilton. She alleges in her petition that illegal votes were cast in certain precincts. pre-cincts. Harry F. Poland, general manager of the Utah Consolidated Mining company, com-pany, which owns the great Highland Boy mine of Bingham, Utah, was in Butte, Mont., last week and was in conference with some of the managers of the Anaconda cotjripany. Mrs. Theodore Kermeier of Helena, Mont., who is only 16 years old, shot herself through the body Sunday with a revolver. The bullet entered her breast two inches above the. heart. She will probably die. Poor health j and poverty prompted the act. The government of Vancouver, B. C, has canceled naturalization papers issued is-sued to some 3,000 Japanese, on the ground that these papers were fraudulently fraudu-lently obtained, the applicants not having resided in Canada during the statutory period of three years. The governor at Phoenix, Ariz., has issued an order prohibiting the bull fight scheduled for the opening day of the Phoenix cowboy and Indian carnival. carni-val. Great preparations had been made for the fight, bulls, matadors, toreadores, etc, having been brought from Mexico. Frank A. Lamb of Blackfoot, who went to Nome early last spring, has recently returned. He and associates on July 30th located a placer claim from which they cleared np, after paying pay-ing all expenses, $12,000 in eight days. |
