Show THIS FROM WASHINGTON The Treasury department bureau of navigation states that In the fiscal year of 1900 tine total tonnage officially nunn bored added to tine United States merchant mer-chant marine amounted to U7031 gross tons Tine ConsulGeneral of Colombia emphatically em-phatically denies the accuracy of tine btorlis which are reported to the American Ameri-can prees to the effect that the Insunec tlonlsts are making great headway in Colombia A heavy Increase in the force of Government Govern-ment Inspectors at the Union stockyards Chicago has been made necessary by a iush of orders In anticipation of the enforcement en-forcement beginning Ocob r 5th of tine new Gorman unneaL < regulations Secretary Wilnon has appointed Dr William G Slubbri of Now Orleans La as special agon I to Hawaii for the purpose pur-pose of studying the climate mrl soil conditions con-ditions with a view of establishing a number of Government experiment sla tionn on these Islands |