Show MOUNTAIN AND COAST SMALLPOX IN BUTTE Forty Patients Now in Detention Hospital There Helena Mont Nov 27Tue advent of winter has Increased the number of smallpox cases In Butte Five new I cases were sent to the hospitals Sunday Sun-day Then uio already forty patients In the detention hospital WILL INVESTIGATE A DEATH Eody of Man Disinterred Stomach to bs Analyzed Denver Colo Nov 27A special from Pagosii Springs says that the ro mains of Goorgi j Barber an Iowa man whodied theme suddenly on November No-vember lC th have boon disinterred and that tin1 I brain stomach and other le imiln will be subjected to chemical niiilysin to ascertain whether they con lain poison It I Is said Barber luid taI ta-I ken out S7SOO Insurance nix weeks bo fore his death Mr Barber was accompanied on his arrival nt Pugosa springs by Mrs Myrtle Myr-tle Wright and a man named NeiT After Barbers death Mrs Wright who aid she vas bin nance made application applica-tion to the local lodge of Odd Fellows I for the insurance which he carried In that order The matter wan reported to the Barber City Ja lodge of which Harbor vts a member and an attorney attor-ney was then sent from Barber City C to Investigate It was learned that I Barber had been ill at a hospital Jn i Durango for seVcrnl weeks Mrs Wright and Neff said he had been suf ferine from dropsy but It Is claimed that he appeared to be In good condi Ion when ha look out his Insurance last September Chemist Jon A Sewell will examine the stomach of the deceased de-ceased CANAL AT THE DALLES I Proposal to Open Columbia to FreeS Free-S Navigation Portland Or Nov 27F II Llbbey and John Adams oC Lewiston Ida met with the Chamber of Commerce of Portland this afternoon to consider the matter of opening the Columbia river to free navigation Th particular project pro-ject to engage attention was a canal at The Dalles of the river It wasI resolved to ask Congress to change the I I plan of Improvement from a boat railway rail-way for which an appropriation of 250000 has already been made to a canal and locks to cost about 4000000 Inasmuch as the Idaho men have started start-ed the movement at this time it was agreed that the Idaho delegation should present the subject before Congress Con-gress and that the members of the Oregon Ore-gon and Washington would be urged to support the measure The United States engineers asked Mr Llbbey for data as to the resources of the country for use in their report to the War department de-partment on the canal project and In summing up his conclusions he said S Five years ago the Lewlston coun try produced only 200000 bushels of wheat this year the product was 3700 000 bushels Five thousand cars arc now required to market the grain In the inland empire 10000000 bushels oC wheat barley oats and flax are produced pro-duced requiring COOOO freight cars to transport it to market The Lewlston country sent forward this year JOO carloads car-loads of fruit and the inland empire shipped 3COO carloads Seventeen hundred hun-dred carloads of wool and 1000 carloads of live stock also were sent to market from that Interior basin The product of the inland empire this year required no less than SOOOO freight cars to transport trans-port them to market It was the sense of the meeting that Congress should authorize the canal at The Dalles to be built on the continuous con-tinuous contract plan DALYS SUCCESSOR William Scallon Becomes President Anaconda Copper Company Butte Mont Nov 27 Word was received re-ceived In Butte tonight announcing the election of William Scallon as president of the Anaconda Copper Mining company com-pany to succeed the late Marcus Daly The announcement was received by tim employees of the mines and by the business public with many manifestations manifesta-tions of marked approval Mr Seal lon has been a practicing lawyer but his professional work has made him familiar with the operating of the Anaconda An-aconda properties His election nt the meeting of directors held in New York city Is looked upon as In the nature of a compliment to the long administration administra-tion of Mr Daly whose confidential lawyer Mr Scallon was and as an assurance as-surance of the continuation of the general gen-eral policy pursued by Mr Daly In the management of the vast Anaconda properties There was a pleasant demonstration dem-onstration in Butte tonight over the announcement of Mr Scubas election elec-tion VOTE OF IDAHO State Board of Canvassers Complete Their Canvass Boise Ida Nov 27Tue State Board of Canvassers canvassed the vote of the recent election today It shows there were 57911 votes casL The highest high-est Bryan Elector has has 221C plurality plural-ity the others 1752 and 17GL Glenn fusion for Congress has 1227 and Hmt fusion for Governor 21CO There were 857 Piohlbltlon votes 213 Barker and Donnelly votes and 232 cast for Bryan Electors on what was termed the anti fusion Populist ticket NOME IS ISOLATED Barrier of Ice Shuts Out Gold Camp from World Seattle Wash Nov 27The United States revenue cutter McCulloch1 ° arrived ar-rived this evening from Alaska with news that Nome Is now completely Isolated Iso-lated from the outer world by a barrier of Ice For seven long months this condition of affairs will continue The camp Is well supplied with provisions and fuel It Is possible that before the first steamers arrive at Nome In the spring there may be a alight shortage short-age of coal but it is not anticipated that it will be serious November Sth the Ice had crept out from Nome into the sea for a distance of 200 feet Several mornings previous lighters had been frozen In The warning warn-ing was heeded by the steamcni Centennial Cen-tennial Santa Ana Sadie and Portland Late reports from the Kougarock district dis-trict state that Quartz creek is showing show-Ing up 52 to the pan Purchased Rambler Mine Cheyenne Wyo Nov 27The Ventura Ven-tura corporation of London has purchased pur-chased this Rambler mine one of the boat copper properties In this section for the sum of S25000fi Man Found Drowned San Francisco Nov 27A man be Jlcvcd i to be D C Wilson waa found drowned this morning In two feet of water in the basement of a building In course of erection on Boale street Wilson evidently crawled under Die barricade probably to sleep and fell Into the water On the dead man was found u certificate from the Boilermakers Boiler-makers union No 72 of Portland Or Gift to Colorado College Colorado Springs Colo Nov 27In an address to the students of Colorado college Dr D F Pcaraons the Chicago philanthropist announced that on January Jan-uary 3 1 DPi he would make the col loge a gift of 550000 toward the cost of completing the new scientific build lag now in o uis of constructIon FIGHT ON LOTTERIES Peopleof Jlcno Nov Pledge Themselves Them-selves to Oppose Deal Reno Net Nov 7Tlie people of Reno met en masse today to devise ways and means of organizing the fight against the lottery amendment which comes up before the Legislature next January Judge Curler moved that pledges be j passed through the audience for slg j I natures to the AntiLottery league The pledge which was pasicd read ns follows We the undersigned hereby Join the AntiLottery league and pledge ourselves our-selves to use all honorable means at our command to aid in killing the scheme at the coming session of tho Legislature or falling in that to redouble re-double our orfortB against it when it Is submitted to a vote of the people for ratification A motion was then made empowering the chairman to appoint a committee of I twentylive to organize the fight and 1 with power to appoint from their number num-ber or otherwise subcommittees to carry forward the work of the Anti Lottery league In such a manner as seems to them most expedient I Judge Cui ler in the course of a speech said that the corporation the citizens of Reno have to light is nothing more nor less than the Louisiana Lottery company and if they once get a foothold foot-hold In the Stale they will control the i I elections In every precinct They will I I yet aside from their vast profits to buy I votes and corrupt the politics of this Stale and will control every office They will control the Legislatures and the Stale officers and will see to it that I ho State does not grow any In population popula-tion to make their burdens heavloi The motion was then adopted and after a committee was appointed the meeting adjourned MAGINNIS CONFIDENT Hontamin Believes Ho Will ba Seated in Senate Helena Mont Nov 27Major Martin Mar-tin Maglnnls who was appointed United States Senator last spring by Gov Smith to fill a vacancy caused by 1 the resignation of W A Clark has gone to Washington to present his claims before the Senate lie feels con lldcnt that he Will be seated over Clark who after resigning was reappointed re-appointed by Acting Gov Sprlggs In tile absence of Gov Smith Zionists Under Arrest Victoria B C Nov 27 Eugene V Brooks Zionist elder and W W Malt by one of Ills followers were arrested this afternoon and charged with causing caus-ing the death of the six yearold son of Mr Maltby The child was 111 with diphtheria and no physicians effort was made to save his life |