Show GENERAL NE NEWS WS about one person in every 1200 was war blind aid aad one in every persons persona was deaf in the united states in 1900 according to a special census report on t ta e blind and deaf bulletin just juet issued by the census bureau the total number of blind in the united states in 1000 1900 was of whom were totally blind and partially blind of the total blind were males and females fern ales about one tenth of the total number of blind were born bom cent of this the cases of al in about 6 5 per blindness reported the parents of the blind were cousins Pea friess on the whole the report says is more common in the northern i pail of the united states than in the southern and there are more deaf malt i than females total number of deac dea in tho the united states Is given as of which were totally deaf and partially deaf of the totally deaf 91 per cont were so from childhood under 20 years of age and 36 per cent from birth of the persons returned as deaf were ablo to speak well imperfectly and the remainder not at all owen B williams a squaw man won woh first paize in the crow reservation land lottery at billings montana last week A lone highwayman held up five yosemite stages in succession last saturday the highwayman directed all passengers to throw out their money and jewelry and when the order met with compliance directed the driver to to move ahead abea d the second stage arrived and the process W was as repeated until all five had been halt halted ed and robbed when the bandit disappeared in the brush the president and secy deeb are working out a plan to reduce the chev number of army posts and make the remaining ones larger the ones decided on to enlarge are at fort riley kan fort leavenworth kan fortham fort sam houston san antonio tex fort robinson neb fort D A ruesell Ru anell wyoming fort sill oklahoma and port Ogle georgia it la is desired to have one in pennsylvania and one on the pacific coast but these will have to be taken care of later the offer made by the new york zoological society to the government to place a herd of buffalo on the wichita forest reserve accepted and a herd heni of f from rom 15 to 20 buff buffaloes aloes will be shipped as soon as an area of good grazing ground can be fenced in it has been conceded by competent authorities that the american bison cannot be preserved from final extinction by breeding in close confinement in parks or zoological gardens in an interview in the aalt lake herald senator sutherland grouped grouped the congressional appropriations for utah thus As to utah it is hardly necessary to say that more appropriations have been made and more improvements are underway under government auspices the history of the than ever er before beffie in state for the public building in ogden for there was appropriated a building at i t uncle sam has allowed and the logan building Is 13 to cost the government besides these appropriations the strawberry valley irrigation ini gation project at a coltof has been provided for as aa has the uintah irrigation proposition of and there is a promise of from the war department part ment for the fort douglas reservation |