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Show news summary! To put girdle round the 35,000 Ii0 estimated to be in the southea!jt part of the Orange Free State L0,a" Koberts has evidently taken lar chances. e Extensive prairie fires have done much damage in Kittson county, Minn sweeping north and crossing the inter' national line. One life is reported lost and forty homes destroyed. A passenger train struck and n. stantly killed two unknown men walking-on the track near Bloomsburv N Y., late last night. Each were well dressed and about 21! years of age. River beds in llokkidie island, Japan containing gold dust, is put at 3,500 miles and the total production area at 1,750,000 acres. Nuggets weighiuo-over weighiuo-over half a pound have been found. The Turko-Amerien dispute excites much coment in the Austrian press. The Vienna Neue Freie Presse remarks that since the Spanish war the Americana seem to have lost all respect for Europe. The Puget Sound Tirnbermen's association asso-ciation has resolved upon a six weeks' shutdown of all logging camps in the state within its jurisdiction. Theshut down will commence Junel. The Isthmian canal commissioners have concluded that with all possible expedition they cannot complete their report upon their examinations of the various Isthmian routes for a canal before next December. Ex-United States Minster A. W. Terrell, Ter-rell, now residing iu Austin, Tex., says: "I entirely agree with (Jen. Lew Wallace in his estimate of the Sultan of Turkey." Mr. Terrell declares the SuL tan to be an honest man. Railroad traffic in Texas is again badly interrupted by washouts, lira-zos lira-zos river is rising and the crops in the lowlands arc in a deplorable condition. Heavy windstorms and hailstorms have done much damage. Forest fires are burning between Nestoria and Saxon, Wis., along the line of the South Shore railroad, the most numerous being between Signaw and Lake Gogebic, where trains are rarely out of Bight of the flames. American sculpture will have a prominent promi-nent display in the most conspicuous site in Paris, through a concession granted to John B. Caldwell, the American Ameri-can director of fine arts at the Paris exposition by the French authorities. The state department officials are unwilling to accept as accurate the statement attributed to some of tho German newspapers to the effect that the North German Lloyd Steamship company had been enjoined not to take freshly-slaughtered meats or dairy products to German ports. The gain in deposits of the forty-four forty-four savings banks in California outside out-side of San Francisco in four months amounted to about 51,500,000. The gain in the deposits of the city and the country savings bauks, fifty-three in number, during that time was 84,742,-000. 84,742,-000. Mrs. Nora Marvin and David Baddcrs have been arrested and lodged in jail at Spokane on complaint of Mrs. Jlar-vin's Jlar-vin's husband of Fostoria, .0. They confess that they are an eloping couple. Mrs. Marvin was caring for the little girl of Badders, who was a widower, and the couple formed an attachment. Mrs. Marvin says she would not be in her present position if her husband had treated her kindly. The death of A. S. Hallidle, builder and inventor of the first cable car system in the United States and which was laid down in San Francisco, is an' uouneed. Heart disease the cause. He was 73 years old San Francisco revenue officers have seized 1,000 pounds of tobacco sent there by the Sparger Bros, company of Mt. Airy, N. C. The packages have, it is claimed, not the full amount of , stamps on them and contain a quarter of an ounce more tobacco than the stamps call for. The Lake Tahoe Water company lias submitted a proposition to the superintendent super-intendent whereby it will supply Sun Francisco with 30,000,000 gallons of water daily. The water would he brought from Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada range, and delivered in San Francisco at a point where the main pipe could be connected with the distru biting mains. The system would cost the municipality 517,000,000. The Blue group of mines, located near Granite, Or., were sold a few days ago to P. J. Donohue, representing the De La Mar interests, for 70.000. The owners of the property were Pcudleton parties. The terms of the sale are S7,000 in thirty days, S27. 000 iu sixty days and S;i5, 000 in ninety days. Tha property embraces several claiins.souie of which are largely developed. Tho house commit lee on Ind'"" affairs directed 11 favorable report ou the bill allowing Indians iu tho Indian Territory to emigrate to Mexico, the. emigration to bo under the direction of the secretary of the interior and iu bands of ,'100. The house committee on forcitf" affairs directed a favorable report on the bill amending the present law 60 as to require consuls ami vice consuls to give, security for estates of Aunn" icaii citizens dying abroad Intrusted to t hei r admiuist rat ion. |