Show I ilfBflS IN THE TO A Record of Occurrences in Nouhboring i States and Temlori CALIFORNIA FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE Nw Alnico infested fill Cattle This To hypnotize 1Ia elrlat 01100 lull beau stnrdered It In I stated that the overproduction 01 oil In 1 the Lao Angeles COl oil field nt the present time Is I nearly COO barrel I a day William Gray u mlilnn man 01 Kingston Mont was found dead tar the stuck yards In that city Sunday Sun-day afternoon The body was dia < covered by three boys bray dlsap pealed from file homo on the let Int life head has been maslied In thus In Icutlnz murder John llcyera 01 the Chicago lire de attment has contracted with n shipbuilder ship-builder of Portland for the construe Uon of a Steamer for the Yukon river There are fifty who willR to tho mOIl lko with Mcyeru and oil belong l to the lire department ot Chicago The steamer li I to be completed Mu > 15th and will Ion l sent to the Yukon In iiioikdowu shape < The Times ol LBI anile Wyo say i rVsldnt J T Klnesbury ot thi Hate University of Utah waa a visitor In our city ilonday lip wus shown through the university hele and ex presses l himself 118 much pleased nltl verythlnir Irisldent Klngsbury Intends tends visiting the most prominent unl verslHe In the country during 1M nt six month Asa consequence 01 the IInlnvornble criticism that ha i followed the sinking 01 the mummer Clara Nevada and the trouble that attended the deluture 01 the steamer North Pacille tot the north carrying gold seekers Col luster collector col-lector 01 customs at Tort Townsend Wash has determined to cemlorl roes sls bound for Alaska to curry only the member 11 passenger I allowed by the Tederal permit As n Solution 01 the dlmcultle nt the Colorado state Indlllrlal school for gifts here there have bell of hate numerous violent outbreaks among the Inmates It Is proposed to hypnotize the Incorrlslbles l and while they are In that lute suggestions will he made which fin fly Intluene them toward better lives The phjslclana who will nwke the experiment ex-periment Ill Is said have used the hypnotic hyp-notic power extensively In their practice prac-tice Central and southern New Mexico are Infested with cattle and sheep thieves and tiouble Is I anticipated on ranges east and south of Albuquerque fot the stockmen are organizing and Intend to rid themselves ot these depri dltors M T Morlarlly a sheep rulse In the Chlllll vicinity where there ore over 201000 sheep says that the big llncks are being gl rally diminished and that the ottlcera appear powerless lu slop the lawlessness Commencing Ieb 22 the SIlisou Pacific Hallway company will plan In Operation between St Louis and Kan ape City and Iortllld a weekly service 01 Pullmnll tourist sleeping cats run In connection with the Deliver Oh RIO Grande HIo Grande Western and the Oregon Hallway do Navigation Co The cars b Ill leave St Louts Tuesday nod lansllo City Wednesday arriving ut Salt Lake Friday and Portland Monday Mon-day They will leave Portland Monday Mon-day arriving at Kansas City Friday and St Louis Saturday A lire broke out In Angels Camp MI I Thursday night at about 10 oelock and cm near rtduclne the prosperous mining town to ashes before It wn finally brought under control One lite was lost and for a few minute It Ioked n It orlll more uld be sac rlOced or n Irge hnllhhT would be seriously Injured aa the result of a rush to get out ot a hall In which all entertainment Wan helllg held It wns a stream from n hydraulic monitor that finally I extinguished l I the flames and t trZIn S probably saved the town frm destruction tlonA A JI Wilbur a farmer from Marj vllle Cal committed suicide Thursday morning at 630 Butter street Rn rranclico by cutting his throat with a penknife Wilbur had bn Suffering for OlnO > time from II brain dlene and had recently hn under the care of a doctor His body was found hy Miss Drawn who had been attending him as a nurse About 9 clock she took his breakfast to his room and he ws then In IIn apparently cheerllll mood When she returned to the room n few minutes Inter to gt the tiny 01 dishes Wilbur was dead The dead moon leaves n wife In Marvsvllle It Is said that lie was possessed 01 considerable consider-able means On Sunday the executive commute 01 the Idaho silver Jlepublcan state committee met at Pocatello and adopt Hi the following resolution Resolved That after a full consideration 01 Chairman Patries call for a Conference Confer-ence ot Silver Republicans at Ilolse City on February lath nnd for a meeting ot the Silver Republican tato committee at the saute place on March let the executive committee In of the opinion that the best Interests of the party demands that said conference and committee meeting bo held at the time and place named In Paid call Resolved further that all Silver te publicans who will and con bo lirirp to attend aid conference and alit by their advice and counsel LEAKS IN THE POSTAL SERVICE How Some Suburban Postmasters Increase Their Incomes I Washington Correspondence ot the i New Yolk Bun 1 There Is I one point said an old Inspector In-spector of the postofllco deportment that the Sun has nol yet biounht out In connection no lilt the consolidation oft of-t is slnollr postofllccB around New York with the New York office Nevertheless I thele It Is one that concern every 10tol1lce large nr Small 11 Is I that by oon50lIdntlng the smaller lsst0alce with the larger one the expect ex-pect to do away to a great extent at least with the Systematic robbery w hlch It is I now nnnbl to prevent 1 mean be I this the trame 111 lamps by 1 filch the gross receipts 01 the rmallet office are swollen to undue propel thin and the postmasters HlIul cones pelldlngly Increased while the larger olllce do the work This practice Is I carried on around nil Irge cities but especially III and about New York and It results In great Injustice to the postmaster and the lOtotllo ot Nw York AS Is well known In file pmntler lonrthcl oUt ces the postmasters Ire I old In proper lion to the stamps canceled In the larger lourthclas otters and the press dent ial mcra the salary In I dependent on the receipts I Take n mall face In tho neighborhood 01 New York Th postmaster depends on his cancellations for his revenue In the em town live the secretary ot It large Insurance car potation who happens to 110 II personal friend of the postmaster The latter goes to the secretary nnd explains thai his salary is I dependent on the cancellation cancella-tion 01 stamps and says that It would bo very easy for the secretary to bring down at flight on his WilY home tram hIs office all or a large part of the let ters at the company Vrhlih nff M ft I l In the night mall Rhwtc ad i deposit gtlt them In the slice ill 71011 tort r I In nc it Hi stntloiit substui ii i I Ml I i bgder > Allies MI un j le do in e oi i li le not mall them In th month I offlce and thereby help u friend 0 The government loses I nothing end t friend Jlns ro as nn iU r tiinm ship lhr etrelar > tell moments md the postmaster til the suburb town la enabled to report a I larei1 imount or cxnrelltIr ar and Id paid a nre110gI When the pay depends on the gross recclpls stead of flnftthcr bringing course the letters Is pursued out from 111 ton tho obliging friend Is quested to purchase his stanil s at the olllce and mall his Iclttts In New York In this wny the receipts are mw open and the alnry 01 ho post mnster expanded In propart inn In ooh r rasea the suburban post mentor Is I a contmUII and ham nn nice In the city Here he makes fiends with those In tharge oC large Corporations and requests them to purchase pur-chase sing him the stamps they requite re-quite offering to deliver them on the prlnlcs This Is I frequently done the p 00I master bringing into towns every dayy eerol thound IBmp and sell lug them to the large arm and corpor lion Of course the more he sells the larger his salary and lu li I usually very Industrious The evil doc not stop here SomeUmc the sccretnrj doom note nfl not-e BO obliging or the corpulatlon h 1 not frlendlj In the postmaster It thin become s n matter 01 Lu + InrnSwhich men a split In the commissions The postmaster otters to divide his aid ry or rather pays n conunlolo on each left or mailed at his office by the repre ntatlve e nf the cone rn heio a 11m Is I sending out a thousand l letters n day thin soon becomes n mllltor 01 Hinpldcruble profit to bath the postmaster post-master and the obliging friend or else 1 the postmaster offers a small le ductlon on the stamps As he li I paid for selling them ho can afford to luicrl Ice n part of the profit and l bj selling KTOOO or 20000 stamps In a lump he can put th price down Considerably I7Icl 11 t IC the linn saves only n few dollars It Is a reduction It could nut obtain sit the general pntomer and nnny uC the large hone In Nw York buy nit their stamp < 11I this wnl There fire II hundred hun-dred I lnneeln In New Yolk such US holesale firms commission hourr + insurance railroad nllll steamship com pnnlee that tier more than n thousand rlnmp a day and the saving iif a few dollars 011 each IMOO means something In the course 01 the year This business In I Atoll known and there Is I good ron to bedew that sr far Irson III 1 Vow Yoek are shrewd ellulh to unlon fair living hy beat Ile departmnt far thl Is I n rebelre LlLffithran ho wnrkol hcth vviv I fit ou 1 uplr Co Instance that you lire ihn secretory 01 a large Insurance com pdny using a thousand stamps a day The postmaster at jour town is I paid by the amount 01 his cancellations You are on friendly terntsw ith him no you are with the patmosllr ut another town near by who Is paid according to his gross receipts You agree 1 with the first to bring out your mall every evenIng even-Ing and are mot by him at the truln With the other you arrange to take 6 ODD stamps a week which ho dllvers at your house In the suburbs or al our nice In town From both you gt n ommllnn from the one for the taml + and from the other for the hailing Now put the two together and you will IInd that OU are getting ot least oMIourth ul your a tmps for nolhlnlt The stamp b111 1 oC your Oren Is I Sooo a year and l you IIIe receiving 1400 a year for jour trouble Quito an agreeable addition to the ordinary salary and l jnu also have the pleasure of knowing that you are helping two friend An there nIP many men In New York who are Just as wlso as you the department believes that this sort of thing has been going on for years Of course nothing can bo done with the individual and with the postmaster the department la restricted to n dls mlssnl Whllo this Is I apparently a larmlres piece 01 business enterprise 11 work great detriment to the department to the local officers and to the postmns In rri are The defrauding J hon government engaged to this extent that they are cOIn pelllng It to 1 twice tor tho erv Ic performed and they areolutillning hrif stamps at oJlseount thus form fig a favored class Anyone know that the government hM always prided Itself on the fact that no matter how many stamps a person buys lie pays the som0 lire ns the IIrcher l 01 one stamp The evil has spread all through the country There I + scarcely all other III the land where some one Is I not con ducting a burinees or this kind and making n profit out ot It We dltco creel the extent of It when we took In the smaller towns about Chlcaego Uns ton and BnlUmorP In every rare the receipts 01 the oince Increased and It was fur to a offlInrre extent In the fact that the office wn getting the business which belonged to It There Is I no doubt that the receipts 01 the New York oflUe nru greatly affected by this sjcteni and that after the con olldnlloll the celpts will tk nn upward tendency The come post master will become salaried clerk nod they will 110 longer have i tie In centlveto nell tamps In New York nM th1 will co tho practice lloth tho New York potomco and the department de-partment nlll be IoenOtted by It |