Show SPVSKS FROM THE WIRES I Gen John C Bales yesterday assumed command tha Department of the Missouri Mis-souri v I Gen Morrlman left Omaha for penvcr I yesterday afternoon Micro ho retains I command of the Department of the Colorado I Colo-rado rnlo DrlgGof Ludlow who returned re 10 cently from tho Philippines suffering from j lung trouble wl rbmtiln at Convent N J near New York clly for treatment I In New York yesterday a decree of absolute I ab-solute dtvorco was granted to Mrs Uclen Potts Hal from Blnkely Hall Mrs Hall n Hnl Is one ot tho claimants to u portion of a I fortune of tho into George F Oilman ot Black Rock Conn Glml1 Alexander C Botklh of Montana chair man oC tho United States code commis sion has arrived at Atlantic City to spend several weeks Mr BOI kin Is accompa flied by his stenographer and devotes a port on o ooch day of hid vacation to of llelal l I labors J Discoveries have Just been made Bays a Santa Barbara Cal special 1 which uro I behoved to otUahllsh blc ettnhl conclusively that wholesale smuggling of Chinese from muglns Chlneto frm British Columbia In to tho United States I 4 throlSll Santa Barbara has been carried Superintendent of Schools Atkinson of the Philippines Is preparing a magnificent I rotoption for tho G American school touchers who tllchcr aro expected to arrive In I Manila in a tow days from Sail Fran cisco cto I Gen Joseph Wheeler Is being lionized by Newport society Recently ho was the guest of honor at a dinner party given by Mrs William Aslor Tnc dinner took ulace In 1H poeohwood and was nni n prcten UOU8 tyt1x affair the guests nUmbering twcn In Lawton 0 T yesterday tho Ind calloiiH Were that tho Inl thll receipts from tho auction tale of town lots now In progress under direction of tho p1osre Ilrccton the Federal Govern I mont would excdcd tIO in Lawton I ihls Is moro than twice the estimate of tha estmale ervatlon most ontlmlslic boomers of tho res 0 |