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Show - 1 ) I Li I? - II !? :.'S UTAH NEWS. Cattlemen say there are very few fat cattle in the country, they having been largely hold off. The citizens of Huntington are en" endeavoring to secure the passage of a curfew ordinance. The farmers in the vicinity of Manti have already commenced plowing and putting in spring wheat. A company of twenty-five Mormon converts from Switzerland arrived in Salt Lake the fore part of the week. Some 2oo .miners are in steady employment em-ployment in Frisco, and that liWle camp is putting on an air of permanent prosperity. The Welsh population of Carbon county and eastern I'tah generally will celebrate St. David's day at Castle Gate on March l. The Democratic state convention for the purpose of selecting a congressional nominee will he held in the Salt Lake Theatre. March l. Thoraai li. Merrill, one of the most prominent mining men and silver ad- voeates in the west, died at his home in Salt Lake Monday morning of pneumonia. pneu-monia. The dust is -.till flying in the streets of Manti with no prospects of snow. and the people are wondering if they ire to escape winter weather alto- gether. Apostle Marriner W. Merrill has ten- dered his resignation as a member of the board of trustees of the Agricultural Agricul-tural college to Governor Wells, and it will be accepted. A Colorado stockman who has been scouring southern I " tail for some weeks p; ... purchasing cattle, has shipped l.r.oo head of yearlings to t 'olorado. for which he paid a good price. A number of Salt Lake lads were discovered lasl week playing with giant powder, they having fifteen sticks of the explosive in their ossession. but fortunately no one was hurt. Two dozen mountain quail were turned loose near Mt. Pleasant a year ago. and since then the Hock has increased in-creased to over 1 ". In a few years that section ought to he a sportsman's paradise. Lulu Watson a child of Manti. last week swallowed two pins which through the aid of the X-rays were lo" cated in the throat head downward. A critical operation was performed and the pins were successfully extracted. During the past five vears ?t;7.ono has been expended in Senpete county in the erection of school buildings for the accommodation of the rapidly rising generation. A new building recently completed is now occupied by over 400 pupils. Salt Lake officers have secured no trace of the three robbers who boldly entered a gambling house in that city and took all the money in sight, despite the fact the rootn was crowded. It is believed the same men held up the Og-den Og-den gambling house. A miner by the name of McCartney waa seriousiy if not fatally injured in the Daly-West mine at Park City, when he was squeezed in the cage as it was being lowered, it being feared at the time his back was broken, though hope is now entertained for his recovery. An effort is being made to reorganize reorgan-ize and make a permanent institution of the battery band which served in the Philippines. All but two of the memiH.'rs were in Salt Lake to attend the funeral of their late comrades, the abseutees having left the state. Government blankets have been carried car-ried away from the post hospital at Fort Douglas with such frequency o late that the officers are led to lielieve that thieves are working systematically about the place, forty-three blankets having been stolen in the past month. A Salt Lake man has had the uniqpe experience of being taken for a burglar and arrested at his doorstep and at his own wife's instigation. He had mixed his drinks and in endeavoring to make his entrance his wife mistook him for p. "plain drunk" and had him arrested. The emigration agent for the Hear River Land company has induced a number of settlers from Nebraska to locate near Dewey, in 15ox Elder eoun- ty. and a dozen families, with their t Imperialistic league, which organi.a-household organi.a-household goods, will arrive in time to 1 tion has its headquarters in Chicago, get started for the spring farm work, j are looking after congressional dis-Thomas dis-Thomas Fergusson, a Salt Lake min- ! tricts. ing man. was assaulted and seriously injured by an unknown man at Rich field Monday uight while returning to the hotel from a meeting he had attended, at-tended, 1eing found unconscious some time after he was strickeu down. An electric railway Wtween Salt La!;e and Ogden is being talked of, the road to be in operatiou by August I. a half hour service to be established be- ; tween Salt Lake anil Farmington and i executive, legislative and judicial ap-an ap-an hourly service to Ogden. double 1 propriation bill. It appropriates S'.M.-tracks S'.M.-tracks to W used. ; 374.871. As II. Tuttle. of Orangeville. was at j the ditch for water, Dan Adams, who ! thought-the noise caused by Mr. Tuttle j tliat as R resuU of Mr l!rvan s rewn breaking the ice was made by a dog. 1 visit to Washinptorl it h"as virtuallv got his gun and tired at Mr. Tuttle. en decilled to hold ' the DemocratU putting into his head, back and legs : national convention early in June be-eleven be-eleven shot. Tuttle will recover. fore the meeting of the Kepublican The taxpayers of Panguitch have de- j convention in Philadelphia. clared in favor of the erection of a ! 15.(XK) school house, the building to ! J"ry Candidate for senator, be pushed to completion as rapidly as ! Jerry Simpson is a candidate for possible, the money for this purpose to j l;nited States senator to succeed Sen-be Sen-be raised by a special tax of 1 per cent ; ator lJaker- provided, of course, the upon the assessed valuation. ! next Kansas legislature is anti-Repub- A coroner's jury decided that the i ,can" Oregon Short Line employes were not j To sen Convut-Made Twine uirect to (onto (on-to blame for the death of an unknown sumers. tramp who was killed near Syracuse ! The t"d of directors of Kansas Junction last week, he having fallen j state penitentiary have decided tp under the wheels while endeavoring to j steal a ride. ! .... , , . i A mountain lion attacked a Carbon ! ranchman who was riding homeward one night last week, and chased him j several miles. The lion sprang upon , the ranchman's horse from a clump of j trees, bat was shaken off by tne plung- ing of the terrified animal. The celebrated Russian nihilist, Peter Lavrosi, is dead. He came of a Doble family, and was at one time colonel col-onel in the Russian artillery. It is altogether probable that the president will select one member of the Philippine commission from the oath, and presumably a Democrat. At Fostoria, C.six men were injured by n explosion in the Columbia fire j cracker works. A large part of the ; factory waa wrecked. Dell Everhardt, the mixer of the explosive, will die. What Woman Suffragists Want. The National American Woman Suffrage Suf-frage association in session at Washington. Wash-ington. D. C, adopted resolutions reaffirming re-affirming the principle that governments govern-ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed and call- ! ing for the application of the principle j to women, asking congress to submit to the state legislatures a constitu-i constitu-i tional amendment prohibitiug disfranchisement disfran-chisement of United States citizens on i account of sex: asking that udod ' whatever terms suffrage may be i trranted to the men of Alaska, Porto i j Rico, Haw? ii or the I'iiilippines, it be ; granted tc women on the same terms; that women be included in the census now being taken in Cuba and enabled to take part in the future government ; ef the island. Flag Knitted liver .More Inlands. The United States gunboat Princeton has returned to Manila from a trip to the Tatanes and Caiagan islands, vvhish were omitted from the Paris treaty of peace, being north of '.'0 de- ' grees of latitude, having raised Ameri- can flags and appointed natiye gover nors. The natives willingly substi- ! tuted the American for the insurgent ; officials, and took the oath of alieg- ' iance. j The natives of Samar and Levte are ; returning to their towns and normal' , conditions arc being resumed. . A report that Japan intended to sie.c the islands hastened action by the government. gov-ernment. KIMBERLEY IN SORE STRAITS. Enteric Fever More DlNastrouM Than War- Kimberley is in sore straits. Details of the December death-rate show that in a population of 14.000 whites and 19,000 blacks, the mortality was sixty whites and 138 blacks per thousand. The infantile deathrate was 071 per thousand among the whites and it P.' per thousand among the blacks. En-: En-: teric fever was prevalent. This frightful fright-ful state of things in December cannot have improved much if at all since, and the fighting power of the garrison must have been greatly diminished. ' DEPARTMENT OF MINES. i Movement to Create a New Cabinet Position. Po-sition. A new cabinet officer, to be known . as the secretary f mines and mining, ; is provided in a bill favorably acted on ! by the House committee ou mines and j mining. The bill creates an executive ! department which shall have entire charge of affairs relating to mines, ! including the geological survey. The proposed secretarj' of mines is to have the same rank and salary as other cab- inet officers, and an assistant secretary : is given the same standing as the first j assistant secretary of the interior. Mining Elperiment Stations. A bill has been introduced in the j House to establish mining experiment stations in each of the mining states j similar to agricultural experiment sta-! sta-! tions, and provides for the appoiut- ment of a government geologist at ! S3. 500 and an assayist at 8:.',ooo in the I several mining states. These officers ; are to furnish assays, issue public bul-j bul-j letins and conduct explorations of J mining regions. ; l . Never Promised Agninaldo Independence. I Regarding reiterated charges that Admiral Dewey had promised Agui- naldo independence. Admiral Dewey ' says : ! have never by word, act or intimation, either personally or through a representative, conveyed to Aguinaldo or any of his associates the assurance that the Knifed States gov- ! eminent would recognize Filipino in- I dependence." POSTOFFICE DISCONTINUED. Beeause 1'atrons Threatened the Eifc or tliti Postmaster. The "postotlice at Wihnouth, Tex., was discontinued February 14. This action was taken by the department as a result of representations by the postmaster there that he wished to resign because of open threats that he-would he-would be assassinated. Auti-IniperiallHts in Politics. The officials of the American Anti- Surveying Hudson Hay Country. j The Canadian government is equip-; equip-; ping a large survey party for an exami . nation of the immediate territory -'. ing between the Great Slave lake ami Hudson bay. Appropriation Hill. The appropriation committee of tin House has completed and reported the Karly Convention for 1'enioerats. Senator Jones of Arkansas n,lmit hereafter sell the entire output of binding twine of the Kansas peniten- tiary direct to the farmers. J Central Pilar Reported Head. Reports from native sources, which are not confirmed, say General rio del Pilar, the insurgent commander, died ef fever recently. Flood of Private Pension Hills. Nothing like the flood of private pension pen-sion bills, which is being poured in on this congress, has ever lieen known be fore in American history. Famine In India. - Distress arising from the famine in India is steadily increasing. Those now in receipt of relief number 3, 7s4.-000. 7s4.-000. Ex-Governor Roger Wolcott of Mas aachnsetta has wired the president Im inability to accept a position on thi ne w Philippine commission. FILIPINOS BURN TOWNS. ICew Tactics Adopted bv luoreent toHaf-rha toHaf-rha Americans. Of late the insurgents in Albay province, pro-vince, Luzon, have adopted harrassing tactics against the towns which the Americans have garrisoned. They camp in the hills and maintain a constant con-stant fire upon the American outposts. When the troops sally against them thev scatter, returning when the Americans Am-ericans retire. They shoot hurning arrows, and have thus burned a large pnrt of the town of Albay. Indeed, the larger towns in that province are practically deserted desert-ed except by the garrisons. Scarcely any of the inhabitants return to their homes. They are camping in the interior, in-terior, and it is supposed armed insurgents insur-gents prevent them going ba ck. It i( reported that there is much suffering1 among them owing to lack of food. Buller's KxftiKC Kor Retiring. A dispatch from South Africa gives a new explanation of General Buller's retirement. According to this dispatch, dis-patch, a balloonist discovered the fact that the Boers had developed extraordinary extraordi-nary and unexpected artillery strength an Doom Kloof, to the 'British right, where they hud managed to draw up a dozen heavy guns, some fitted with disappearing mountings and all cun- ningly masked. These, but for the balloonist, would never have been discovered dis-covered in time to save the British from falling into the deadly trap, as they commanded the road the British would have had to take in order to reach Ladvsmith. KENTUCKY CONTEST. i (;'"""or Taylor lias s.-nttl.e Militia noiue and Will Appeal to the Courts. The gubernatorial muddle in Kentucky Ken-tucky will be settled in the courts. Governor Taylor has declined to sign, the agreement drawn up by the Democrats, Demo-crats, which promised to repeal the obnoxious election law, claiming that it was not sweeping enough in its terms. The session of the legislature called for Loudon has been adjourned and the militia sent home. All organized organ-ized resistance has been abandoned, and an early decision by the courts is relied upon to end the controversy. I'eniiK.vlvauiii Election Frauds. Samuel It. Markeley, James S. Ilo. gan and Frank Taylor, alias Pierce, were sentenced to to imprisonment for two years in the eastern penitentiary and to pay a fine of 500 each for frauds perpetrated at the November election in Philadelphia, when Lieutenant-Colonel Harnett of the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers was elected state treasurer on the Republican ticket. They were election officers in the eleventh division of the Fifth ward and were convicted of stuffing the ballot box and making fraudulent returns of the votes cast. UNCLE SAM SHOULD CONTROL. (iovernor Ktiosevelt Opposes Ihe Tending Cannl Treaty. Governor Roosevelt of New York ha& issued this statement: "I most earnestly earn-estly hope that the pending treaty concerning the Isthmian canal will not be ratified unless amended so as to provide that the canal when built shall be wholly under the control of the I'nited States, alike in peace and war. This seems to me vital, no less from the standpoint of our sea power than from the standpoint of the Monroe doctrine." Kussian Colonists Not Wanted. Acting Immigration Commissioner Schell at San Francisco has forwarded to National Immigration Commissioner Powderly at Washington a protest against the intended colonization of a , " , , , , r.Ji;f-nin nriih I large tract of land in California witn l.'iOO Russian emigrants now in the Northwest Territory. Military (iovernment In Philippines Ni-ar-liiK an Knil. Major-General Elwell S. Otis nil! .e detached from duty as Governor-General Governor-General of the Philippines and commander com-mander of the Department of the Pacific Pa-cific immediately after tne arrival ol the new Philippino commission at Manila. Ma-nila. tiravestone of Washington's Ancestors. Successful efforts have been made to secure from England the gravestone of Lawrence ami Elizabeth Washington, ancestors of George Washington, which it is desired to have deposited in the Washington monument or the Smithsonian Smith-sonian institute. Swindler Miller Caught. William F. Miller, the absconding head of the Franklyn syndicate of Brooklyn, a concern which promised to pay investors 10 per cent a week, is in jail in New York. He was arrested in Canada. Reciprocity Treaty With Italy. Special Plenipotentiary lvasson, for the United States and Barou Fava, the Italian Embassador for his Government, Govern-ment, signed a reciprocity arrangement under the third section of the Diugley act. Private Hanks Fail. The private banks of A. .1. Swenson at Nicolet and Lafayette, Minn., have suspended business. No statement has been made, but it is said that depositors deposi-tors will be paid in full. To Kstablish National Hanks In Smalt Cities. Senator Nelson has introduced aa amendment to the currency bill permitting permit-ting the organization of national banks in towns of four thousand inhabitants and over, with a capitalization of $25-000. $25-000. A Moral Axiom. Judge, Percy It isn't what wo earn that makes us rich, old fel. Algy That deuced certain, deb. boy. It's wn&t our ancestors save, bah Jove! MuMe of Thankfulness. He who dares not leel that no blessings bless-ings could come from heaven unless forgiveness cleared the way for them, has yet to learn the deepest music of thankfulness. Alexander McLaren, D. D. HI Dream. Mr. Murray Hill I dreamt of you last night. Miss Bunker Hill (coldly Ah, how good of you. Mr. Murray Hill Yes; then I woke up and shut lown the windows and put an extra klanket on the bed. Patent P.ecord. NEW TREATY WITH EWGLAND. Ratification Opposed on the Ground That It Abandons Monroe Uocfllne. Representative Hepburn, chairman oi th house interstate anil foreign commerce committee, which has charge of the Nicaragua canal appropriation, opposes the canal treaty with Great Britain now pending in the senate. "I think," he said, that the negotiation negotia-tion of this treaty is very unfortunate and that it ought not to be ratified by the senate. I don't know that the pendency of the treaty will interfere with action by congress on the Nicaragua Nicara-gua canal bill, but the ratification of the treaty would certainly impair the value of the canal when constructed. "This treaty reaffirms the principles of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, conceding conced-ing all the claims and contentions of Great Britain, though Great Britain has, by her own action, given us the right at any time to abrogate the Clay-ton-Bulwer treaty. Jt surrenders everything to Great Britain, abandoning abandon-ing our contention of years that we' might abrogate the treaty at will. "Moreover, it recognizes the right of any foreign power to interfere and dictate with reference to our negotiations negotia-tions with the independent governments govern-ments of this continent. It abandons the Monroe doctrine." Free Coiuage Hill Introduced. Senator Jones of Arkansas has introduced intro-duced a free silver coinage substitute for the pending currency bill. The substitute provides that "from and after the passage -of this act the mints of the I'nited States shall be open to the coinage of silver, and there shall be coined dollars of the weight of 41: U' grains troy of standard silver, 0. 10 fine, as provided by the act of January 18. lsr.'T, and upon the same terms and subject to the limitations and provisions of law regulating the coinage and legal tender quality of gold." The substitute also provides that whenever the silver coins shall be received re-ceived into the treasury, certificates may be issued for them in the manner now prescribed by law. TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. fourteen People Injured and Much Property Prop-erty Destroyed. The town of Collinsville, 111., twelve miles from St. Louis, on the Vandalia railroad, narrowly escaped destruction by a tornado Februarj' J. Fourteen persons were injured in the immediate vicinity of the village, some of them fatally, and there was much damage to property. The miners who live on the outskirts of the town lost the most by the wind. A group of the residences resi-dences standing on a hill were reduced to splinters. A PLAGUE IN BUENOS AY RES. liraie Diggers Strike For Higher Wagres While Bodies Decompose In the Sun. The terrible heat continues in Buenos Bue-nos Ay res. There were -07 sunstrokes on Friday, February Oth, and 1SS the iiay following. The fatal cases show a dimunition, but numerous bodies are .lecom posing at the eemetry, owing to the strike of the grave-diggers for' higher wages. J 'J... Frank C. Ramsay, I'nited States marshal mar-shal 'for the district of Idaho, has served subpoenas upon a number of parties in northern Idaho for their appearance ap-pearance in Washington the 26 th of this month before the committee on military affairs of the national house of representatives to give testimony in the investigation of Coeur d'Alene affairs af-fairs that will be made. Only Snivor of Congress of 1841 I3 ing. Colonel Richard W. Thompson, ex-secretary ex-secretary of the navy, soldier, states- man and author, and the only surviv ing member of t he congress of 1841, is critically ill at his home in Terra Haute, Ind. His family is greatly ularmed and unless the invalid rallies, the worst is feared. Colonel Thomp-,on Thomp-,on is 91 years of age. Montana Judges Summoned to Washington. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court Hunt and Piggott of Montana have been subpoenaed to be in Washington, Washing-ton, February 16th and testify in the Clark case. It is expected that they will furnish testimony of a sensational character growing out of the Wellcome disbarment. Both asked to be excused but the senate committee declined to let them off, HAS AGUINALDO LEFT LUZON? War Department Believe He Has and May Turn up In Paris. The War department believes that Aguinaldo has escaped from the island of Luzon. The department would not be surprised to hear from him next as iu London or in Paris in company with Agoncillo. Kngineer Halks Train Roliliers. An attempt to hold up southbound passenger train No. 45 on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway was made just after the train left t he coal chute a mile north of Perry. Oklahoma. Some one pulled the bellcord and the train was slowing down when the engineer noticed several masked men standing near the track. The engineer opened the throttle and the train dashed by the would-be robbers, who made a fu tile attempt to board it. Officers ara in pursuit of the robbers. To Elect Senators by Popular Vote. A number of the members of the California legislative assembly have organized a state league for the election elec-tion of United States senators by the direct vote of the people. Assemblyman Assembly-man Caminetti was elected president and Belshaw secretary. The president and secretary were instructed to cor-respend cor-respend with persons living in all parts of the state to the end that public sen timent might be aroused in favor ' ol securing the election of Federal senators sena-tors by direct vote. Bryan's Throat Trouble Reappears. The strain incident to the numerous speechs which Mr. Bryan has delivered recently in the east has told heavily on him and his throat is in bad condition. con-dition. He will take a long rest in Texas before he returns to his borne in Nebraska. Kpidemlc of Influenza In Ciermany. Influenza has attained an enormous spread throughout Germany. In Berlin Ber-lin there is hardly one family without lufferers. - ----- LAWTON AT REST. Remains of Ideal Soldier Interred In National Na-tional Cemetery. Maj.-Gen. Henry W. Lawton waa buried in the national cemetery at Arlington Ar-lington February 9. It was a national tribute to a national hero, and the sorrow sor-row of a whole people was expressed when America added the chaples of cypress to the brow that so long had worn the laurel. The burial service beneath the leafless trees at Arlington was preceded by services in the Church of the Covenant on Connecticut avenue, at which every department of the army and navy within the reach of Washington was represented. Lawton, to the great bulk of Americans, Ameri-cans, had been the incarnation of the American soldier. He had made his mark in the Civil war from the Mississippi Missis-sippi to the sea. and in the interval of potential peace it was be who had beaten at his own game Geronimo, the greatest master of desert craft and mountain fighting that the West had ever known, and who, in the new problems prob-lems of tropic war, had proved th most daring and resourceful of all the generals in the field. It was in tribute to these qualities that the Lawton fund had in a few weeks been swelled past all the expectations of its originators, for America knew Lawton, being a soldier sol-dier first, and only had left to those who loved him no heritage save his 6vvord and a spotless name. BULLER FAILS AGAIN. Third Attempt to Relieve I.adysmlth Fails. London accepts as true the Boer statement that General Buller has failed again. These statements were passed by British censor at Aden February Feb-ruary Oth and are read iu the light of Mr. Balfour's announcement in the Commons that Gen. Buller is not pressing press-ing his advance. The despatches from the Boer Head Laager follow: Boer Head Laager, Ladysmith. Friday. Feb. 9. The British who were in possession of the kopje at Mo-len's Mo-len's drift abandoned it after a bombardment bom-bardment by Boer cannon and retired across the Tugela river to their former for-mer position. A desultory cannonade is proceeding at the Tugela, but other wise exerythiug is cjuiet. An armored train made a sortie from Chieveley toward Colensoe and landed 2000 British troops on the right of the Boer position. The Boers immediately crossed the river and made an attack with rifles and artillery, forcing the withdrawal of both the train and the troops to Chievely. SUSPECTED OF KILLING GOEBEL Mountaineer Arrested at Frankfort. Relieved Re-lieved to Have Shot Goebel. Two men suspected of complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel were arrested in a boarding-house at Frankfort, Frank-fort, Ky., Friday. Their names are Silas Jones of Whittley county and Gottchalk of Nelson county. The authorities expect to obtain important im-portant evidence regarding the assassination assas-sination of Governor Goebel from Jones, who has already made a partial confession. He declares that lie personally per-sonally knows nothing of the crime, but says that Harlan Whittaker, who was arrested immediately after the shooting while running from the executive ex-ecutive building, from which the shots were fired, knows a great deal about the crime. It is believed that Jones gave more information than that regarding re-garding Whittaker and that what he told the police may lead to further arrests ar-rests in the neighborhood of Richmond, Rich-mond, Madison county. Hryan Will Not Drop Mlver. W. J. Bryan, in an address at Plain-field, Plain-field, N. J., said that bimetallism was stronger today in the west than ever before. The armies of England had been checked by a handful of Boers, and that was euoug-h to shake the money market. What would happen, he asked, if England had been fighting a big nation. At this point there was much applause, and Mr. Bryan said: ''Don't applaud that, it's anarchy.-' He said he had been asked to drop the money question. In reply, he considered consid-ered it the greatest question that had ever been presented to the American people. He would not drop it, but would 6tand by all the principles of the Democratic party. Haltien Mob Stop Harvesting of Sngar Cane. A mob of about 1200 is preventing the harvesting of sugar cane near Martinique, Mar-tinique, Island of Haiti. The movement move-ment is extending and troops have been sent in all directions. An infantry in-fantry post of twenty-five men was attacked at-tacked and fired on its assailants, killing kill-ing nine men and wouding fourteen. In the commune of Le Francois two incendiary fires have occurred on plantations. plan-tations. Believe Quay Will He Seated. Convinced that a sufficient number of votes have been pledged to seat Matthew S. Juay as Senator from Pennsylvania, says a Washington special spe-cial to the New York Herald, his opponents op-ponents are nowiseeking to keep him out by preventing consideration of his case. When the currency bill is out of the wayan effort will be made to sidetrack side-track the Quay case by pressing the Porto Rican bill. Mr. Quay's friends will oppose any further delay. Queer Conditions in Alaska. There are no county, township or municipal organizations in Alaska, no school districts, no police, no fire departments, de-partments, no power to make roads or streets or to enforce order or sanitary conditions, except by common consent. For Benefit of American Miners. The Government-of British Columbia has brought in a measure which is promised general support of the Legislature, Legis-lature, repealing the act of last session by which aliens are excluded from provincial pro-vincial placer mines. Hill Cook Dead. "Bill" Cook, who was sentenced in 1895 to forty-five years" imprisonment in the Albany, N. Y., penitentiary, died there Friday from consumption. He was once one of the most -noted desperadoes of the Indian Territory. British Torpedo Boat Stranded. The British torpedo-boat destroyer "Tweed" went ashore on the West river while chasing Chinese pirates, and when the steamer was fast, the: pirates came back and opened fire onj her. One blue jacket was killed. THEATER OF WAR. All South Africa Appears to be on the Move. .The . British columns arc putting themselves in motion iu all parts of the South African war field. A combined attack upon the B.jcrs appears to be in progress. General Buller has gained a footing on the plateau north of the Tugela. after two days' hard fighting. On the far western border Lord Me-thuen Me-thuen has begnu a turning movement against the Boer right, while General Macdonaid threatens the Boer flank thus relieving the pressure on Lord Methuen's front. Lord Roberts, who, according to an informant in close touch with the war office, is in the middle of tiie theatre of war, has begun to march on Bloem-fontein. Bloem-fontein. The Boers have taken the initiative against General Gataere, attacking two of his positions at Sterkstroom. It really looks as though the general forward movement so long talked of were in progress. General Buller's third attempt at relieving re-lieving Ladysmith absorbs attention. Telegrams of from 100 to 200 words, from adozeu correspondents, have been passed by te censor, who has apparently appar-ently re-dated messages written on Monday or Tuesday to Wednesday, February 7, al ( p. m. From these it is clear that General Buller up to Tuesday Tues-day evening had taken one hill, had repulsed re-pulsed a Boer counter attack and was holding the position against an enfilading enfilad-ing fire from Spionkop and Doorm Kloof. His losses, as mentioned by one correspondent, are I'oO. The only telegram from Boer sources assert that one of General Buller's attempt at-tempt to sei.e the fords failed, but they admit that he has lodged forces cu one kopje. Light ou General liul-lers's liul-lers's operations ceases here, the war office not contributing any information. informa-tion. URGED TO STAND FIRM. Republican Legislators Pledge Their Lives to Taylor. The greatest excitement among the legislators and in the hotels and on the streets at London, Ky., was caused by the report that Governor Taylor had signed the agreement with the Democrats. Demo-crats. Later a telegram was received from Frankfort saying Governor Taylor Tay-lor still maintains his a ttitude, and had not signed the agreement. This buvst the bubble of anxiety, and messages were sent by the senators and representatives, repre-sentatives, urging Governor Ta3-lor to remain firm, and Under no circumstance circum-stance to attach his signature to the conference agreement. Representative Kelday sent the following fol-lowing message to the governor: 'Make no compromise of our rights tinder the constitution and the law. We represent the people of this commonwealth com-monwealth for a free election and a fair count. Any attempt on the part of any man or any set of men to set aside the result of the last election by force, fraud or vicious legislation, without with-out the consent of the people, is treason. We therefore pledge you our support and lives if you will but stand by the election returns as counted by the electoral elec-toral commission. All members agree to this." The session of each house of the legislature leg-islature was brief, and the rain kept away most of the spectators. All the members interviewed express themselves as opposed to the compromise. compro-mise. Republicans from all over the state are urging Taylor to stand firm, and are flocking to Frankfort, for con-sul'fttion. con-sul'fttion. Blizzard Kact of the Hookies. A blizzard raged over Colorado and adjoining states Wednesday. It was especially severe in New Mexico, where the mercury is near zero, aud about six inches of snow has fallen. The storm is the worst ever experienced at Springer, Sprin-ger, wheie there was a drop of 25 degrees de-grees in as many minutes. Lamar and Trinidad, Colo., report zero weather, and the sudden change from almost summer weather, which has prevailed for the last two months, causes considerable suffering to stock. It is not expected that results will be serious however. Railways are being interfered with to some extent.. The mercury registers 10 abo"e in Denver The coldest weather is reported from Sheridan Lake, Colo., where the mer cury was 14 degrees below at 10 p. m., and still falling. Stockmen in that vicinity are very anxious about their cattle. The storm was general all over Nebraska, Ne-braska, and street car traffic was stopped in Omaha. Little snow fell, however, and no serious damage is expected. ex-pected. Kausas and the Dakotas were also storm-swept. The coiv'ifons are generally gen-erally the same, light , o . fall, high wind and low temperature. Eti naive Guns Damaged. Through somebody's carelessness two of the big twelve-inch rifle, cannons which were to form an important part of the defenses of Puget sound, and to be located at Fort Flagler, Wash., have been injured to an extent that may impair ineir usefulness. I.ara I. lb!lt.c., No Asset.' Henry A. Helcomb, a New Bedford. Mass., yarn manufacturer, filed a petition pe-tition in bankruptcy in the United States circuit court. The liabilities are plat ed at 1,357,538 and there are no assets Dr Leyds Incensed at Emperor William. D- Leyds leaves Berlin very much dissatisfied because of the refusal of Emperor William to receive him, his chagrin not being sensibly mitigated by an invitation to dinner" from Heri-von Heri-von Wedel minister of the royal household. house-hold. - 4 i . Bryan and Wl'l'ams Drscass Philippines. Ex-Consul to Manila George F. Williams Wil-liams and William J. Bryan met at a banquet in New York The former spoke in favor of holding the islands, the latter against. Kicaragruan Canal Hill to Pass Soon. Senator Morgan, chairman of the senate committee on the Niearaguan canal, says he expects the canal bill to pass the senate this month. It is not expected to be long delayed in the house. KepuHlcans to Stand by Taylor. At a mass meeting of 600 Republicans Republi-cans held in Music hall, Louisville, Ky. resolutions were passed and tele--graphed to Governor Taylor, pledging thesiipport and assistance of the Republicans Re-publicans vf Louisville. NEWS SUMMARY. Three thousand British militia have been ordered to prepare for embarka-ton. embarka-ton. A powder explosion at Hangchow killed 100 people and wrecked an entire village. Nearly looo cars of stock were shipped from southeastern Idaho dnr-January. dnr-January. The total number of cases of plague in Hongkong in lS'J'.i were 1 -island the deaths 14VS. 'BinV The death of the mother of xfTe" Japanese Jap-anese Emperor, Nii No Tsubone, is announced. The obsolete guns attire various British Brit-ish coast defenses are being replaced with moderen naval guns. The foreign wheat shipments from Portland for the week ending February Febru-ary 10th wore 174.407 bushels, There were 19 cases of sunstroke on Sunday in Buenos Ayres, and 134 cases resulted fatally up to 6 o'clock in the evening. Thirty-one factory girls were burned to death and many injured by the destruction de-struction of a factory by fire at Na-goeja, Na-goeja, Japan. The nomination of Li Hung Chang to be viceroy of Liang Kwang has been received with general disfavor in that province. The American transport Morgan City, which went ashore last summer in the inland sea of Japan, will probably prob-ably be raised. There is but Jittle diminution of the p'ague iu northern Japan and numerous numer-ous deaths among the workers of the medical brigade, A large number of Britons residing in Berlin under the age of 30 have received re-ceived orders calling them home for military service. France and England are at the door of a serious disagreement If the disagreement disa-greement comes it will probably be over the Egyptian question. The Berlin Boersen Zeitung asserts that the Reichstag will be asked to increase in-crease Emperor William's revenues, which have been found inadequate. The report from Tacoma that the Union I'acific has secured trackage privileges over the Northern Pacific line from Portland to Tacoma is denied. Iu Washington recently Senator Bacon of Georgia slipped and fell on the ice fracturing a rib on his left side. His surgeon thinks he will be out in a few days. Great indignation is felt by German artists at the announcement that the management of the crystal palace exhibition ex-hibition in London will refuse all German Ger-man paintings Coi. Ray at Fort Gibbon, Alaska, reports re-ports the safe arrival there of Lieut. Herron ;n 1 partj-, who were supposed to have been lost while exploring the Copper River country. Fresh trouble umong the Indians of Upper Liard, B. C has broken out. F-evcn members of a Scotch-Indian family named Mc Lavish are said to have been murdered. Inability to secure barrels has caused the Boston refinery of the Americam Sugar Refining company to be shut down in common with those in New York and Philadelphia. Henery C. Pay ne.nationalKepublican committeeman of Wisconsin, says that there is a great deal of talk now in the East -.f nominating tiov. Roosevelt of New York for Vice-President. The campaign in favor of taking advantage ad-vantage of the presentcomplicationsin South Africa to secure Russian ports on the Indian ocean and Mediterranean is being pushed with vigor in Russia. At Vancouver, B. C, Tuesday night, a hurricame raged, causing property damage all over the city. The wind, which became almost a cyclone, attained attain-ed a velocity of fifty-five miles an hour. The Paris Radical papers attack M. f ainbon the French embassador at Washington for giving acccordiug to a telegram to the Gaulois, a banquet in honor of Count and Countess de Castel-lane. Castel-lane. Though graitfied at the excellent conduct of the residents of Cuba since American occupation began, the authorities are still unable to name the date when American sovereignty shall end. A large delegation from Alaska is urging Congress to enact some legislation legisla-tion under which a government may be organized in that territory as soon as the rush to the gold fields begins in the spring. George Beauregard Barrow, the man who planned the abduction of baby Ma rino Clark, has become insane in Sing Sing prison, where he has been confined since June 17th last under a sentence of fourteen months. Herr Schrocder-PoggeTow. one of the wealthiest members of the German Co-Ionian Co-Ionian party, gave an elaborate banquet recently in honor of Dr. Leyds, representative rep-resentative of the Transvaal at his mansion on the Rauchstrasse. Gen. Ludlow, military governor of Havana, is making arrangements for appointment of a board of health for Havana with the view of probable abolishment of military department and the handing over of matters relating re-lating to health and sanitation to the municipal authorities. The French government, it is stated is undoubtly friendly to Great Britainj but it is unable to make a display of its real sentiments just now, because a demonstration of friendliness to Great Britain would be an act of suicide. It is learned that under the terms of.The Hague treaty, which has just been ratified by the Senate, an effort will be made before long to exert such offices as may properly be extended to the. belligerents by the United States to bring about a termination of the war in South Africa. Have body snatchers been operating in Boise cemeteries? That is a question ques-tion that an official inve ligation alone will answer, and it is understood such an investigation is to be made. Statements State-ments have been made during the past few days that lead to the belief that bodies have been exhumed, in most, if not all, instances In the interest of science. sci-ence. Robbery has;been suggested aa the motive in some cases, but it is not thought such has been the case unless the bodies of some Chinese have been taken up. NORTHWEST NOTES. Miss Emily Howard Crease, sister of Sir Henry Crease of Pentrelew, was was accidentally killed at Lytton, B. C, by a railway train. A gold strike is reported from Elk City Idaho from which the discoverer, Ira K. Lemor, pounded out S12.000 in two days in a hand mortar. George E. Haff, proprietor of a small grocery store on First avenue, Seattle, shot himself through the heart in a fit of despondency Death was instantaneous. instanta-neous. The California legislature has intro-huced intro-huced a resolution protesting against the ratification of the proposed treaty with Great Britain relative to the Nicaragua canal. Sparks from a graders camp started a forest fire last week in the mountain between Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek which did considerable damage to timber in that vicinity. George Frederick Trabing, one of the pioneer residents of Laramie, Wj-o., died last week at the age of '. years. He was at one time very wealthy and a paper maker by trade. During the big fire in Dawson recently, re-cently, Robert B. Switzer, clerk of the court, was assaulted and robbed of 81,545 court funds. No clue has been found to the perpetrator. A quarter interest in a group of twenty-four claims on Nome and Snake rivers, tributaries to the Cape Nome district, have been sold in Seattle to 1h iladelphia capitalists for $80,000. Ira Mamereaux. a. miner, reports a fabulous strike on his quartz claim in Idaho. In a few minutes he mortared mor-tared out 8150. He has now one ton of ore on the dump that is said-to be worth 5100,000. In Rossland, B. C. , what the physicians physi-cians prouounce to be a genuine case . of smallpox has developed in the family of P. Nyslum. The family came from Colville. The patient is a boy six years old. The remains of the man found in the river bottom three miles below Riverside, River-side, Cal., in December, 1 807, has 'een identified. C. B. Barnes of Ehnonte has identified a photograph of the dead man as that of Ira liodsonof Mankato, Kansas. Barnes had known Hodson since boyhood. An unknown man was found dead in a cabin at Kent, near Seattle last week. A bullet hole through the stomach told how he died. The cabin is known to have been the rendezvous for a band of crooks. Two of the gang were seen drinking with the victim at a Kent saloon about twelve hours before the discovery of the body. Berish Brown, probably the oldest newspaper man in the West, died at Anaconda last week at the advanced age of 84 years. Death was due to old age, superinduced dy an attack of la grippe. Mr. Brown was born in New-York New-York State in 1814. He was an intimate friend of Horace Greely, and the tvvo were roommates and fellow workmen for a long period of time. At a meeting of the Board of Alderman Alder-man to consider a bill for a franchise fran-chise for the Denver, Boulder it Northern railway, Alderman Currigan who favored the bill, choked Alderman Golder, president of the board, and pistols are said to have been drawn. Trouble was temporarily averted by interference of other members. No action was taken on the franchise. Frank Conkling. an attendant at the Denver smallpox hospital, while under the influence of liquor attacked the other attendants with a poker. Five of the patients of the hospital became frightened and fled atlired only in their bed garments. The ground is covered with snow aud it is feared the exposure will prove fatal to the patients. Among the uu..iber is the wife of Conkling. B. F. Royce. a well known farmer residing about twelve miles from Walla Walla. Wash., was shot and killed by his grandson, Frank Royce, last week while the later was under the influence of liquor. Young Royce had quarreled with a man by the name of Rufus Wood, and in the tight bit his nose nearly off. Woods followed him to his grandfather's house where the quarrel was renewed. Royce shot at Woods V with a rifle missing him and taking effect on the elder Royce. The Boise chamber of commerce and the city council have sent assurances to T. W. Ba tes, promoter of the Idaho Midland railroad, who is now in Boston, Bos-ton, that Boise would give the road free right of way through the city and to the Boise river canon. The right of way throrgh the city was promised by the council and the other by the cham her of commerce. The legislature of California will. not comply with Governor Gage's request to enact laws granting him power to ' remove from office those whose terms are not fixed by the constitution, and to enable him to suspend at will the sale of state lands. A requisition has been issued on the Governorof Utah by Governor Steunen-burg Steunen-burg of Idaho for George and Ben jmain Davis, who are wanted in Oneida county for burglarizing the granary of E. :N, Wells. Both men are under arrest at Brigham City. Sacramento police have found that R. M. Gordon, one of the three men " who robbed and beat John A. Mills in thatcity on Sunday night, is an escaped convict from the Illinois State prison, where he was serving a life sentence. About four hundred men have bee laid off from the War jsagle and Center Star mines at Rossland, li. C, leaving a working force. of 200. It is estimated esti-mated that it will take from three to four months to install the new machinery. ma-chinery. Great in teres- s taken at Lew is ton in the movements of the P. & I. N. company, whose surveying party is now working down the Salmon river to Lewiston. These surveyors ran a line up Rocky canon to a point four mile from Salmon river, and it is conjectured con-jectured that this line will be used as a feeder to tap the Camas prairie. Tbe point to which the line was run in about midway between Denrer and CottoDwood. Blackleg is causing ravages among stock around Sheriday, Wyo. V i - if |
