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Show ill j i - - r ITTA1I NEWS. Goshen, Utah county, is taking- steps to incorporate. It is said that an effort is being made to connect the I'tah A- Arizona railroad with the I tah A Pacific. lhere is .(inte an excitement ainong j prospectors and mining men over the strike recently made in . i ort canyon, near Alpine Out of ten ca mi ida tes just cxamitu-il before the state l.ar ,,f pharmacy fur license to prac! i c phai inaey. only three passed muster. Alone highwayman held up John Isaacson and .Inn .Niclson. at Silver I City. securiDif for his trouble. Isaac- j ton being the loser. j 'During a target piactiec at Circle- ville, Willis .Ioluf.il accidental ly shot ! Jesse Ajpleij-ate w ith a .' .'-i-j ! ; lire jfiio, I inflicting a ! f u I i . u i i . ii W ill. am .1. Pi ! : . I. a i t in t Ii It is sai.i be in I'tah .an will ' eoini lig eongressii.i;,i i-attipaiirii and ! 1 1 a I Ii will make . t-,c: of the state. The prospects tor irrigation water have been irreatly improved by the storms of the pa-t week, there having been a very heavv fall of snow in the mountains One million acres of grazing lain! in the Stra rt Ijerry valley on the I'iutah reservation is to he leased soon for a period of five years, the lease to be let to the highest bidder. The coal company at Snunysiite has finished thirty comfortable cottages, a bunk-house, boarding-house and storehouse, store-house, and that place is putting on a pleasing look of prosperity. Thecoai at Surinvside having been subjected to critical analysis and found to be very superior coking coal, coke oven will be bui t at the mines and a great deal of coke made there. William L. Jones, of Winter Quarters, Quar-ters, was taken to a Salt bake hospital last week for an operation for blood poisoning, resulting from a cut on the hand made by tin in o:-ning a can. Xew settlers are coming in daily ami purchasing land near '.reen River thai is to be reclaimed by the aid of the big canal which is being constructed by tin Green River Land A Irrigation Co. laUFb Well ' r w'SVV-,.t iWT . our men are under arrest at Provo. charireii with having blown up the safe at the Rio Grande Western railway depot at Spanisli Pork, and the officers believe they have a clear case against them. A Salt Lake man last week forwarded to Lady O'Neill's soldiers and sailors' fund Slf.'J which he hail collected. This fund will be distributed among Irish families made sufferers by the South African war. That Green River is to enjoy a sub stantial building boom this season i evident from the fact that the new brick plant to be established there has already received orders enough to keep going ail summer. The new management of the Salt Palace has decided to present first class vaudeville and light ojera during the coining season, and to that end a new theatre will be built on the grounds The palace will open for the season in May or June. The telephone company is putting' in telephones among the farmers at a low cof-t and connecting them with the toll lines running into Salt Lake. This plan will be ;ut in operation in every community com-munity in I'tah contiguous to an exchange ex-change station. Henry Oldham, of Paradise, while hauling logs in Last canyou. last week, was caught in a snowsl ide and instantly killed, his neck, back, arms and legs being broken. His team was also killed, while teams in front and behind him escaped uninjured. James Kirkman. a Spr'mville farmer, was seriously injured in a runaway at Mammoth. The t iigue of the w agon en me d. wn. the wairon w as upset and i. an -.v. is throw n violently to the ground, .-u tie-ring the fracture of a shoulder bla, and two ribs. Governor Wvlis has departed for Washington, where he will attend tlu-nieeting tlu-nieeting of the committee to arrange for the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government gov-ernment at that city, lie will probabiy be absent about three weeks. The state "am ' or's report for the year ending December :tl. lsy'.i. shows that the receipts from all sources for the year amouuted to si . k, i. ;.'.". 7 1 . while the expenditures reached I he sum of Sl.l.V.i,:i:..'i.'.'l. There was a balance on hand of ?4'.. ','u:. :i I. on December 31. lS'.i'.t. R. Rasinnssen. the I'tah sheepman who was fined in Oneida county for violating the Idaho sheep quarantine proclamation, has taken the case to the Fnited States supreme court on a writ of error. It is claimed that the Idaho statute is unconstitutional, in that it interferes with interstate commerce. "The late snowstorm will prove a Godsend to the sheep interests of the Skull valley district." says a prominent citizen of Tooele. There are about 150,000 wool-producers wintering out on the great destis-fse , of skull vp ,Uf &cy, where snow was badly .Xeded. Buyers may look for advanced prices in corn, wheat and flour within the next few dais. Hams, bacon and lard have also advanced iu price, and a rise in other meats is cxim-c ted very soon. Turkeys ami chickens are somewnai higher than for the past fortnight. Low Sing, who has been on trial for killing Ip a f-liow Chinaman, has b-en convicted of murder in the first degree. The tragedy occurred at Kel-ton Kel-ton last Decern btr and was the outcome of a quarrel over a game of cards, Ixw Sing stabbing bis opponent with a bntcherknife. The ohl folks of Gunnison were entertained enter-tained by the younger citizens one day last week. n unique feature of the program being the presentation of an axe to an S"-year-obl man who had never allowed his wife to cut wood daring thaeir mrried life. The senate committee on military affairs has decided to report adversely the bill introduced by Senator Turner giving travel pay and commutation ol subsistence to officers and soldiers oi the volunteer army who served in the Philippines beyond the termination ol the Spanish war and afterward were transported to the I'nited States. At Bowdle. S. D., last week, a fire in the business district caused a loss of from tll-V) to 5F2",ooo. partially in- PRESIDENT'S VIEWS I -,s. ,s,, . m , - . ! ! . Regarding Tow era of Congreas to Legislate for Island Possessions.- The New York World publishes n summary of a statement made by Prest. McKinley to tlenry Loomis kelson, as to the American policy toward the newly acquired islands. The article is vouched for as an authoritative interpretation inter-pretation of the president's views. According to Mr. Nelson. i4It is Mr. Mckinley's belief, that the Constitution Joes not apply to any of our new islands, that those people are not tit for self-government self-government beyond that proposed foi Hawaii: that our new possessions mibl not be premitted to injure any of our protected interests and that free trade with Porto Rico is right because our protected interests will not be injurcu thereby. The president believes Con gress has plenary power over Hawaii. Porto Rico and the Philippines. He holds that Congress may pass one tariff law for Porto Pico, another for Hawaii, another for the Philippines and that all may be different from that of the I'uitcd States. It dues not appear likely to his mir.d that any (iiestion can ever arise as to the civil riiri.ts if the people of tin places. Mr. McKiiuevs attitude, then. .o- j ward the natives is benevolent. Tie j desires to elevate them, to educate them, and he hopes that, in the emi. j they will become worthy of being in-: in-: trusted with local self-government. He ! does not think any of these natives worthy now. except the few in Hawaii upon whom it is intended to bestow the suffrage a few more than possessed pos-sessed the suffrage under the Dole gov-frumci't. gov-frumci't. Mr. McKinley holds that the Constitution Con-stitution only applies to a territory when it is set by a treaty or by legislation. legis-lation. I pou this point there are authorities in his favor, but he goes beyond the authorities and holds that ongress is not bound by the limitations limita-tions of the Constitution when it enters upon the task of legislating--i. e.. it may refuse to the natives and to the American citizens who may go to our colonies, the right of jury trial, t he righ t of free speech, the right to bear arms, the right of peaceable as semblage and of petition, T" from n n wa rrit n t x hie arrest, fciioo from search-all those rightj Teedom the Constitution guariLjwTT wlucn se nea.Tv,. TTi an emergen Ci. niedv will oftepjED. Hrilloli I ' iiiler Kitchener Believed o Ifuve t ut OfT lira risen pr. A member of the Pritish cabinet has given out the statement that General Cronje is hopelessly surrounded. But further than assurances that very good news has been received, the war oflice will give on 1 110th ing. The elemen ta ry facts arc that the Boers are trekking eastward toward Bloemfuntein with slow-moving baggage trains, and that they arc pursued by Lord Kitchener, with General Kelly-Kenny's division. j General MacDonald, with the lli-ii-; landers, made a forced march to Koo- doosrand ford and on Suuday pushed t wen ty miles cast ward. General French left Kimberley Saturday, going east alOug the Modder river. Lord Kitchener is trying to outman h and outllank the Boers, thus checking their retreat, if possible, and driving them back into the hands of MacDonald MacDon-ald and French. The war of! ice message seems to indicate in-dicate that Lord Kitchener has cither got ahead of the Boers or is about to realize his plan, and the war otlice waits to announce a decisive result. POPULISTS HAVE TROUBLE. Miillle-or-l lie- 1,ohc1 anl fusion r!teiiit-nt ( an Not Hariiitirtiye. A split and a walk-out followed a turbulent meeting of the Populist National Na-tional committee at Lincoln. Neb.. Monday night, the anti-fusion leaders, after having a number of their followers follow-ers turned down by the credentials committee, organizing a bolt and forming form-ing a new committee. The members! favorable tivfusion. after adopting the report of the credentials committee, adjourned, and in all likelihood it wiil empower the chairman or a committee of three to call the national convention for the same city and the same time the Democratic convention is held. The anti-fusiuiiists will hold a national convention in Cincinnati in May. oeor il' lli-iii" luteal igittlou ISeuii. The ill vest igat ion of charges as to the conduct of the I'nited States military mili-tary forces under Brigadier-General Merriam during the Idaho mining troubles last summer began Monday before tiie House committee on Idaho State Auditor Sinclair. General Merriam. Mer-riam. ex-Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor. Y.. J. Flani-gan Flani-gan of the Idaho legislature and a magistrate at Mullan. Idaho, and a considerable delegation of miners from t he Coeu r d'Alene district were present. The day was occupied iu discussing plans of procedure and no testimony was taken. Kuller l apturen St rmijj b"ll General Buller attacked the Boers at Chievt ley Monday and captured strong positions occupied by both Hanks of the Boer army, and bv a heavy artil r.f. J . - - . -,.: ' for" mm b-woo 1 uressinu l-Hv tire, tie-ecd the main ljuy r troops hack. 1 lie l.ritisn loss very light. I'olish League in AmerUm. .eaders in Polish national circles of Clrcago says there is a secret National Polish league, which extends through out Kurope and America, whose object is to free Poland by force of arms or anr other method. Lord Kohert X (.'nut Ion. Lord Roberts's generalship was con ducted with such secrecy, that even the senior officers who took the Sixth division through the preliminaries of the operation did not know what they would have to do. Shipwrerks on Spanish 1,'oaiit. Gales are causing a number of ship ping disasters on the north coast of Spain. Three small vessels have been wrecked near Santander and twenty-four twenty-four seamen drowned.. F.ight other vessels are missing. Mafekine Reported Kellaved. At Kimberley a report is current that Mafeking has been relieved, but that the lioers are trying to conceal the information. in-formation. Qneen Congratulates Roberta. The queen has sent a direct message to Lord Roberts, congratulating him ind his troops. Mrs. Annie E. Lodge mother of Senator Senat-or Lodge, died at her home in Boston Monday. She was 79 years of age. GENERAL CRONJE FORCED OUT OF NATAL. BY ROBERTS. .Attempt to Surround anil Capture the Itoers Failed ISritUh tlarrass Retreat Re-treat and Capture Supplies Changes in the South African war situation have tieen rapid during the past few days. Kimberley has been relieved, and General Cronje is in full retreat toward Bloemfontein. witli the British in pursuit. Lord Roberts began hiscampaign by striking' at Commandant Cronje. covering cov-ering the biege of Kimberley. In a little over three weeks be quietly massed .10,000 men, four infantry divisions divis-ions and a cavalry division at a point on the Modeler river where he could interrupt in-terrupt communication between the Doer forces operating around Kimberley Kimber-ley and Ladysmith. and at the same time getting in the rear of Cronje, making- it necessary to either accept battle on conditions i. vo able to the Pritish. or retreat. On Thursday General French's cavalry cav-alry seized the passages of the Riet river southeast of .Jacobsdal. and were at once followed up by two infantry divisions. The cavalry moved north and sc. zed ti.e crossings of the Moddcr river, and the infantry followed at their heels. When one division of in-fa in-fa ntr w as on the Modder and the other close behind it between the two rivers, the cavalry moved forward toward Kimberley. dispersed the besiecers j from the southeastern front and opened I connection with the town. ! '1 he same day the troops from the j old camp at Modder river station j opened communication with .laeobs- da!, which has already b,een taken, j 'i litis Lord Roberts has a semi-circle j around the Poer position of the Magers-fontein. Magers-fontein. from Kimberley on the north i to Modder river st a I ion on the south. It was hoped to surround Cronjie and capture his command, but he succeeded in eluding the blow. Considerable quantities of supplies and stores were captured by the Pritish. JierV-iTWSa-J'll-''v"-1'''nne.v "as last re" . . , "'tMini; the porieu as pursuing anu triigug,". Boer rear guard, (leneral Kitchener is supporting the pursuit IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. .MonthlT statement fer .January Kroiu the Ituredu uT statistic. The exports and imports duri ug Jau nary. I'K'O. were: Merchandise imports, S7.".8"'i,(.i7.", of which $:i"i.'.i4S.",'st was free of duty. The ga ! n over January, is'.i'.i. was about M 7,.".ou.0iio. Kxports. SI 17,f'i'.'0,i:!0, a train over January, is'.i'.i, of about S'. I Kit 1. 000. Gold imports, SI, !, 272. a decrease of ?4. 0110. 000: exports. S5,G(1 ,2.M), an increase of Ss'.'.ii.ooo. Silver imports. S2. l.'lu.sic, a decrease of 5l.(ioo.io': exports, S4,.VJ'..l,.i'., a decrease de-crease of .7s 1,000. During the last seven mouths there was an increase in the importation of merchandise, as compared with the corresponding period in ISO'.i, of SIP.', -4.V.i..V.'l. rn increase in the exportation of merchandise of S50.34,973. a decrease de-crease of Sl2.o:.';i,7il in the importation importa-tion of gold, an increase in the exportation expor-tation of gohl of 1 b7!i.'b 100. a decrease in the importation of silver of 24,44t, and a decrease of 6;!.iiS.!)t; in the exportation ex-portation of silver. CENSUS OF LIVE STOCK. karlc-i F. lartin of Denver Will Super-iiiteml Super-iiiteml the Work. Governor Merriam, director of the census, has appointed Charles F. Martin Mar-tin of Denver, secretary of the National Na-tional Live Stoclc association, as special agent in charge of ti.e taking of a classified census of live stock for the eleventh census. The headquarters headquar-ters for this division of the work, which embraces all the range country, will be established in Denver, and active ac-tive work w ill be commenced at once. This will be the first time in the history his-tory of the country that a classified census of live stock will have been taken. The association began the agitation agi-tation of the matter a year ago, and through the assistance of Hon. L. G. Powers. Senator Wolcott. Governor Merriam and others, congress made the necessary appropriation to carry out the work. Fire at Ienver. A. four-story building in Denver, occupied oc-cupied by the M iller-Osborn Spice company com-pany and the Kansas-Moliue Plough company, was putted by fire Saturday. The total damage is estimated at SI. "(),-000, "(),-000, of which ?.")0.ooo is on the stock of the Miller-Osborn company. S75.0OO on the stock of the Kansas-Moline company, com-pany, and S2.-i.oon on the building, owned by Charles Boettcher. Choynski Iefeat .11 h her. doe Choyuski got the decision over Peter Mahcr in a six round contest before be-fore the Dearborn Athletic club, Chi-aff0 Chi-aff0 Friday night, having an easy rTme with tne Irishman, wno r,.rinT all over the ring when the bell r- r rang at the end of the sixth round. lioer ;un Keniiereil l ele. According to a dispatch from Chieve ley, dated February 14. it has been ascertained that the British artillery during the week's fighting has rendered ren-dered three large Boer guns ineffective. Paul Jones Grave I'uknown. The proposition to exhume the bones of Commodore John Paul Jones and bring them to this country for burial must probably be abandoned on account ac-count of no possibility of absolute identification. Turning Point In South African War. The general belief that the turning point of the African campaign has been reached scarcely admits of any other topic in London, iuite naturally the news from the front is jubilantly told and retold. Kansas Famine Contribution. The farmers of Dickinson county, Kansas, who have been contributing to the relief of famine sufferers in India, have shipped the third car of corn to Bombay, Oter S300 has been gathered in cash. Michael Uavitt dim to Sooth ATrica. Michael Davitt. who resigned his seat in the house of commons as a pro-tost pro-tost against Great Britain's policy toward to-ward the Transvaal, starts for South Africa this week. If Boers Invade Zulu Territort British Will Encourage Zulus to Iefend Themselves. In the house of commons, during the course of a reply to a question relative to the probable Boer invasion of Zulu-land, Zulu-land, the secretary of state for the colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, 6aid that the government had decided that if the native territory was invaded by the Boers, the natives "will be encourasred and assisted in every way in defending themselves." Mr. Chamberlain's reply confirmed the reports of the in-asion of Zululand and showed the consequences could not fail to be serious throughout South Africa, as the alarm and unrest of the Zulus was bound to spread to the Natal natives. The colonial secretary also said the Natal ministry had notified the home government that it could not any longer be responsible for the peaceful attitude of the Zulus, as the invasion of their country was contrary to a tacit coin-pact coin-pact that the natives should not be dragged into the war. TRIED TO BRIBE SUPREME COURT Sensational Testimony In the Clark Inves tigation at Washington. Highly sensational testimony has been developed hi the investigation by the senate committee on privileges and elections of the election of W. A. Clark to the senate from Montana. Justice Hunt, a Republican member of the Montana supreme court, testified that his family physician. Dr. Tra'qej. ad made what he (the justice,' regarded as attempts to have him consider a 100,-000 100,-000 bribe to favor Lawyer Wellcome, one of Clark's attorneys, in the disbarment disbar-ment proceedings against Wellcome. lne witness did not directly at least connect Clark with this bribery proposition, propo-sition, so the hitter's counsel. ex-Senator Faulkner, moved to strike the whole testimony from the record. but did not succeed. Kx-I'resiilent Harrison Kobbeil. Jx-Presidcnt Harrison and his wife were .systematically rob! .1 and other wise swindled during their last visit to Paris last summer, when the general was engaged in the Venezuelan claims affair. The ex-president was asked about the i".!T- air . "'n firmed V " story, although he said he did not know that it was abroad and did not authorize it. He now thinks that a young Frenchman, who acted as his valet, was the swindler, or if not that he knew all about the larcenies. Aside from sums of money that the ex-presi-dent missed, the boldest and most accomplished ac-complished operation consisted in a series of forgeries perpetrated on Mrs. ruing ner 1111 me to drafts sent to her ; on them. obtaining the money MAINE ANNIVERSARY. Fitting; Kxcrcines IleKl t tlie Scene if the Wreck in Havana Harbor. The second anniversary of the de strnction of the I'nited States battle ship Maine, in Havana harbor, wag" suitably observed February . 15. Several Sev-eral hundred Americans went out ito the wreck of the Maine, over which the United States flag was flying at half mast. Every available piece pf wreckage above the water was banked with laurels. From the searchlight rdatform short Dravers were offered bv Dr. Mcf ree of the Fpiscopal church, and Father Jones of the Catholic church. At the Church of Mercede, the municipality mu-nicipality arranged for imposing memorial me-morial services which were attended by Governor-General Wood and other civil and military otiieers. CIhhIi of Authority iu Kentucky. The clash between the Democratic and Republican branches of the state, government of Kentucky has been emphasized em-phasized by the prison officials releasing releas-ing John Seals, a Louisville convict, on a pardon issued by Governor Beck-' ham. Deputy arden Punch was acting warden and when the pardon papers wer? presented to him he ordered or-dered Seals released, andthelatter left the city at once. Douglas Hays, a Knott county convict, recentlj pardoned par-doned by Governor Taylor, is still in confinement, the prison otliciais refusing refus-ing to recognize Taylor as governor. Soldiers Tortured to Ieath. Three Massachusetts soldiers of the Twenty-sixth regiment. U. S. V., have becn'tortured to death by insurgents. The men were Dennis Hayes, William Dugac and Michael Tracey, privates of company F, under Captain William M. Tuthevjy. They remained behind their company and were surrounded by insurgents in-surgents and subsequently put to death. KIMBERLEY RELIEVED. General French anil ('omnium! Knter the Besieged Town. The war office at London annonnces that General French reached Kimberley Kimber-ley Thursday evening. February 15. To Prevent Prize Fights in New York. The bill repealing the so-called Ilor- in New York state ,' ' !t. r: ,-tn' ' ... cs.ning. o"'' A ;n P kia." U""1L-Uvning ' ! ; cas ro .u navs. lne bill ha Poo' j gone 10 i.hj senate. Island Short of 1'rovislonn. nL population of 000. is sadly in nd of provisions. A launch visited Hoiolulu and notified the authorities of a ened famine. ireat- Asphyxiated by Gas. Mrs Jeanjtte Schwartz and h twe children, Ltil t, aged nine ye.es and Henrietta, four months old, weitfound dead in bed in Chicago, the iu!t of asphyxiation. Gas jets were ide nt- aliy turned on . Rat Plague in Honolulu, In Honolulu a bounty of tititv-five cents for live rats and fif teeoetnts for dead ones has bee a offered. JJie board of health will also set a dayjjipart for the wholesale slaughter oflnts . t A Shortage of Coal at ujnT. In consequence of the la of coal the government of Saxony I55 ordered the restriction of the traia rryice to the limits of absolute necessity. - GOO.'OOO Paupers Of the 1,000.000 inhabited ;n Porto Rico 600.000 r-e absolnj paupers through no fault of their 4-. Pern Visited by aa Kans.,,. Lima, Peru, has been ritjttfa by a revere earthquake sbocft, caused yreat alarm to be felt i4t!;j, s.ction. Boer Lines Broken Near Kimberley and Magersfoiitein. The British army, for the first time since the war began, is inside the Boer frontier. Lord Roberts, with at least 40.000 infantry, 7,000 cavalry and 150 guns, has turned the Magersfontein lines, before which the British forces have been encamped for ten weeks, and with half of his force he is already operating in the Free State territory. A battle baa not yet been fought, but large tactical advantages have been gained. The relief of Kimberley is within measurable reach, and the way to llloemfontein is appreciably nearer. Lord Roberts reports that Oeneral French left Diekel's Drift Wednesday with three brigades of cavalry, horse artillery and mounted infantry, includ ing several coiouia! contingents, in order or-der to seize a crossing of the Modder river about twenty-five miles away. Ho reports by dispatches that he had forced a passage at Ci;;. drift, and has j occupied the hills north of the river, j capturing three oi the enemy's laagers with their supplies, while General Gor don of the Fifteenth Hussars, with his brigade, who had made a feint at Ron- deval drift, four miles west, had siezed it. and another drift between Clip drift. together with two more laacers. Owing to the rapidity of his move ments. General French met with but slight opposition, his losses being small. Lieutenant Johnson of t.h Fn- niskillen Dra croons is the nn!v orlleai- reVoi!tei?eercrelv wounded. ANTI-TRUSTCONFERENCE Government Oninrsliin of Kailrtd mi. I lirect 1.-Kilation t rgreil. After a heated debate the resolutions committee of the anti-trust conference, which convened in Chicago February 14. reported in favor of government ownership of railroads, and for their seizure on payment of actual value and without payment for. "watered stock or other ficticious values." The committee com-mittee also unanimously favored direct popular legislation as a means of obtaining ob-taining the result. The platform agreed upon is preceded pre-ceded by a long address to the voters of the country This address urges " ' " people to organize at once to deprive de-prive t hetIu is iST.H tlKu'r jjpwei. It recites re-cites the methods pursued by the trus".t.s and the effects of their operat ions upon ! the people at large, and cites as par- ticularly aggressive the Standard Oil ; trust, the beef trust, the elevator trust, the anthracite coal trust, the sugar trust and the paper trust. CATTLEMEN TO MEET. Agitation of I'roposit Ion to Lease Public l.Hii'ls Is I'luitneil. A meeting of the cattlomen of California, Cali-fornia, Washington. Oregon. Montana, Utah, Nevada and Arizona will be held in San Francisco on March ."th for the purpose of taking steps to secure the passage of the Foster bill, now pending before Congress. This bill provides for the delimitation delimita-tion and leasing of the grazing lands on the public domain to stockmen for terms of ten years, with the right of their use. IMizzarri In England. The effects of the blizzard which 1 started Thursday are felt throughout jGreat Iritain Trains are snowed up in all directions and street car lines blocked up, and telegraph and telephone tele-phone wires arc down, delaying communication com-munication in all parts. There have been a great number of accidents, due to falling chimneys and slates and from similar causes. Mail vans and people traveling by foot in country districts are reported missing, and several sev-eral persons have been found frozen to death in exposed places. Idaho-Montana ISouiidary Fixed. The director of the geological survey' has reported to the secretary of the interior that the survey of the boundary bound-ary line between Idaho and Montana has been completed. The survey extends ex-tends from the international boundary line to the crest of the Bitter Root mountains and was made under the provision of the act of June IT, 1S97. Kentucky Governorship Contest in Court. Suit has been filed in the Circuit com t by Governor Taylor of Kentucky to restrain J. C. W. Beckham from acting act-ing as governor. The suit will be allotted allot-ted to one of the circuit judges by drawing. draw-ing. When it is held an application for a restraining order will be made. The suit is brought by Governor Taylor Tay-lor :n lividually and as governor of the state of Kentucky. Naval Appropriation Bill. This year's naval appropriation bill will carry more money than has been voted by Congress in any regular annual an-nual appropriation bill since the Civil war. 8ale of Oanish West Indies. The correspondent of Paris Temps at Copeiilytrrrr-rav&--ht e Mil oetiiug the nlanish West Indies to the Fnited States for U', 000.000 ki oners will be submitted to the chambers before the , , . 1 uiio 01 iiie preseuL seesion. Mrs. Mil nr. 1 111; is Chosen. The president has announced that he had selected Mrs. Daniel Manning to renresent this country at the Paris exposition, ex-position, under a resolution introduced by Senator Depew and recently passed by congress. To Suppress Bucket Shops. Resolutions calling for a federal law to suppress bucket shops and pledging , themselves to aid each other in various reforms, were adopted at a meeting of board of trade delegates in Chicago representing thirteen cities. Innocent Man Convicted. Governor Rossevelt has notified Miss Minnie Jacobs that he would pardon her father, Samuel Jacobs, now serv- j ing a term in Sing Sing prison. lje i s convicted of a crime committed by an i her man. Floods In Georgia. Reports from points iu Georgia say the Chattahoochie river, after a steady rise of four days, is at a standstill. The main streets of West Point are several inches deep in water, while in the low lying portions of the town many houses have been abandoned. Trains are from three to four hours late. Many bridges have bee n carried away. President McKinley has been notified of his election as an honorary member of the Columbia lodge of Master Masons Ma-sons of London, England. February 1 4 . Houser An important bill was passed svhich makes universally applicable die law that now permits the transit n bonds of goods through the Fuited states. Goods in bond can be shipped ihrough any portion of the territory of the Fnited States to foreign parts. It s principally designed to give the transportation companies of the United states a portion of the transcontinental transconti-nental trade to the Orient. Senate The Senate adopted a resolution reso-lution of sympathy for the Boers in their war with Great Britain. The resolution was introduced by Senator Allen. Wheti it was adopted a quorum was not present and few seemed to realize what was going on. When the rssolntion was declared adopted Senators Sena-tors looked from one to another, and several, among them Mr. Allen, langh-?d langh-?d unrestrainedly. A motion to rc-ionsider rc-ionsider w as introduced. I- i lii'ii ;ry 13. House A joint resolution increasing the limit of cost of the new govern-ment govern-ment printing oflice to SP.'.". 0t) on account ac-count of increased cost of building material ma-terial was adopted. A bill to extend the peril d of suspension of certain laws rehtting to the war department for another year from March 1 was adopted. The House then adjourned out of respect' to the memory of the 1 Lite Representative Chiekering of New j Vork. Senate Senator Nelson was author Ued to report his substitute for the h 'j providing for a departmen of commer' with a cabinet otiicer. sAn amcndmit was mack' to take the patent oflice f?m the interior department and inclvyV in the new department. The linicial measure was then considered. I clU'UHl'y I U. House The i t", i.i ma l ion .;f arid lands is receiving more attcnU-ui from the I'nited iatc.s govern n.rnt than tver before. The House hiisii ppoi nted ii strong sla riding" eoiuiui ttif 011 irrigation, irriga-tion, with a chairman anda majority :.)! its members interested in or representing repre-senting irrigable section.. Senate - I'hs .Senate substitute for '.he House currency hi!.' was passed by ;.he Senaic by the deci.ve majority of '' U ".. The vote in' details was as diows: Yens A I.Mch. Allison. Bev-c.-hlge, Purr.ivvs. (',-,-S'ery. artcr, Clark 1 ffyT' .';iTIoni. I a i. tic'boe, Dcpew. Klkins, Fairbanks. ForakerV Foster. 1 rye. Gear, Hale, lianna. Hansbrough llawiey. Hoar. Kcan, Lindsay. Lodge. Mcllridc. McComas. McCuinber. McMillan, Mc-Millan, Mason. Nelson, Penrose. Perkins, Per-kins, plan !iiin.!. Piatt 1 N". Y.l, Priichard. Oua rh-s. Loss. Scott, Sewell, Slioup. Simon. ' nooner, Thurston. Wet-niorc, Wet-niorc, Wolcott. 10. Nays Kate. Berry, Butler, Chandler, Ch.iton, Cur ; (Mont.), chty, Cockrcll, Culberson, D-miel. Harris, lieitl'eld, Jones (Ark. 1. .lones (New), Kcnney, McF.iiery. McLanrin. Martin. Money, .m ort; a n. I J I us. livan. Taliaferro ley. Vest. ".".. a w .. Stewart. Sub relkr. Tillman. Tun 1 ne 01 11. as passe consists of ten sections. It provides that of s-Iti gold nine-tenths the doliai fine slial1 be the stand ,e.1 unit, value, and that all forms of i'iiiied Slates money shall be maintainc 1 at a parity with it. and that treasury notes find greenbacks shall be redeemable in irol !. The secretary of the treasury is to set apart a fund of S i r,i 1. 1 son. 1 n 10 in 'old for the redemption of these nolcs,"and to maintain these feuds at a figure not below SKio.d'io. ():.(). he is empowered to bell bonds of the I'nited ."states bearing interest at not exceeding three per cent. IVijrtlary 17. House The House passed the legislative, legis-lative, executive and judicial appropriation appro-priation bill, after having it under consideration con-sideration four days. The civil service appropriation, which was striken out of the appropriation appro-priation bill in the committee of the w hole, was restored in the House by a vote of 77 to 1 .':!. Thirty-five private pension bills previously favorably acted upon by the committee of the whole were passed. February 1!). House The. Porto Rican tariff bill is before the House and is attracting much attention, because it will determine deter-mine the status of all our island possession. pos-session. The bill provides for free trade with Porto Rico. Democrats are united against the measure and have considerable Republican aid. The resolution to investigate the charges preferred by ex consul to Pretoria, Macrum, was recommended for passage. pas-sage. Senate The Hawaiian bill is before the Senate, and its provisions were discussed during the entire session, an effort being made to determine whether, if the provisions of the constitution consti-tution were once extended to the islands, they could be withdrawn. Train Robber Captured. Due of the robbers who held up a traiu at FairbaiiK7"V?sjt was found in a "dying condition at Sycamore .springs, nine miles from Tombstone The robber's name is John Dunlap, alias '-Three Fingered Jack." He was brought from Colorado a few months ago 011 a requisition to answer to a charge of highway robbery, but the district attorney dismissed the case. The wounded robber received the full charge of a shotgun tired by the Wells Fargo messenger. I.nylish Fleet in KoHiiiness. A telegram from Portsmouth ; ays the admiralty inquiries at the naval ports have resulted in the assurance that forty - seven additional battleships, cruisers and torpedo-boa-i destroyers (could forthwith hoist the pennant-The pennant-The admiralty has ordered the ships In the fleet reserve at Portsmouth to be fully crewed and ready for sea. This is regarded in some quarters as prelim- inary to putting the whole reserve in readiness for commission. Telegrams from Kimberley. The Commercial Cable company has sent out the following notice from its Xew York office: "We are advised that telegrams can now be accepted for Kimberley, South Africa, at sender's risk and not exceeding twelve words.' What General French Holds. General French now holds both the Modder and Reit rivers between the Boers at Magersfontein at their base at Bloemfontein. Throughout the march the Free State farms were respected, but their owners invariably fled. NEWS S fll MARY. - Argentine and Artugese ports hare been declared e of the bubonic plague. The date of t p nffht between James J. Jeffries andframes J- Corbett has been fixed as jfay 14. The form ratifications of the Samoan trerty have len exchanged between Loidon and 1erlin. The presieat of Mexico has issued a decree f.r the eyablishment of a I system of bonded warehouses at ports ! of entry. A statement of die condition of the treasury s'iov s: Available cash balance. bal-ance. Si.Ki.i'.7:t.0: gold reserve, S:.'?".-213,771. S:.'?".-213,771. Nineteen deaths hare occurred in Noumea. NV Caledona. from the plague anil there are many cases in quarantine Most of hose who started from Dawson Daw-son for N'mo arc making a detour to the recall y discovered diggings on the Yo'ug- The. Salvation army celebrated the tweu'eth anniversary of its establishment11 establish-ment11 tne Lnited States in Carnegie hal Chicago, last week. 0i the steamer Coptic there were pounds of opium, and its value, Vith duty paid, is about S -100.000. The Aity on the opium is SI P. '.-(. Six hundred Finlanders sailed from """P001 aiuruty ior vauaua, .nam T J .1 i e .i l. ing about h.000 who nave emigrated during the past six months. Rear Admiral Sampson has been offered and has declined the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tech-nology. The offer wa-s a surprise. Trinity M. L church one of the oldest old-est Methodist church buildings in Chicago, has been destrored by fire. It is expected the loss will exceed loo,. (100. William and John Newton, bachelor brothers, were burned to death last week in a fire at Portland, Ind. William Wil-liam was one of the wealthiest men in the state. The project of the new constitution which is before the San Domingan congress con-gress abolishes capita' punishment and provides for the sepaiation of church ! and state. 1 j Ma jor-Ceneral Shatter has received I official word that the Territory of ! Alaska is no longer a pai t of California, i and therefore would no longer be under i his command. j A cold wave is doing considerable j damage in the Texas coast country to ! truck farming and fruit. Stiawberrie have su tiered the greatest as the plants were blooming. Fire that started in a grocery store at Harrison ville. Mo., last week destroyed de-stroyed one of the city's principal business blocks, causing a loss estimated esti-mated at i'iO.oiio. An American syndicate, " ith a capital capi-tal of SK), nun. 0ii!, is to immediately begin be-gin the construction of a great steel plant in Monterey. Mexico. It will employ 4,000 men. The government lighthouse board is making every cll'ort to establish a number of light and fog signal stations along the Alaskan coast before the end of the coming season. Xew- Orleans reports the steamer Montfzuma, with 1,550 mules and a large cargo of foodsliiii's for the British Brit-ish army operating in South Africa, cleared for Capetown. General Ron. commanding a force of revolutionists in Venezuela, attacked 1,200 government troops, under Generals Gener-als Martin and Guevara, at Gurrieo. The government troops were defeated. At Albany, N. Y., last week," three men were drowned and half a million dollars damage done to property along the IIudsci river by the worst freshet which that city has seen since 1857. It is announced from Belgium that a society organized to fight American monopoly will send delegations to the United States, Russia and Roumania to ascertain the conditions of direct imports. Arrangements are making at the war department for the establishment of additional garrisons and troops in the new military department of Alaska. Companies B. 1 and K have been ordered order-ed to St. Michael. The possibility of having the Zulus as allies has shocked the British. But in whole, the logic of their right of self-defense and the duty of Great Britain to help them, even though they are savages, arc taken as justification. Resolutions were adopted at the Central Cen-tral Federated union. X. Y.. last week, requesting the officers of the national labor organizations to ask President McKinley to grant all rights of American Ameri-can citizenship to the Porto Picans. Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago who during the last ten years has given to colleges and charitable institutions ' -gif'" amounting to 500. 'Ki t. is about to deed away the remainder of his for tune, SI, SOU, 000 in all, in similar bequests. be-quests. Prince Mura, ,15 years old, an acrobat, acro-bat, committed suicide last week in his room at the Trafalgar hotel in Xew York by inhaling gas through a tube. The man's wife died at St. Joseph hospital for incurables of consumption early in the week. Some of a band of Cree Indians, who camped near Butte, went to the city to get a quantity of alcohol. By mistake they were given wood ; 'cohol. Three of the band, two bucks and a squaw, drank it and all three died in great agony. San Francisco leather men, through a committee appointed at a recent meet ing, have forwarded a resolution to the California delegation in congress, asking ask-ing for a repeal of the duty of 15 per cent on hides, and for the restoration of hides to the free list. Senator Elkins of West Virginia fell on the icy sidewalk near the Capitol during the snowstorm Saturday, sustaining sus-taining bruises about the body and a general shake-up. The senator was about his home yesterday. His condition condi-tion is not serious. One sounding made by the United States steamer Xero near Guam island marked 5,lt0 fathoms and another 5,209 fathoms, only sixty-six feet short of six statute miles. That is deeper than the highest mountain peak ou the land surface of the globe, NORTHWEST NOTES, Joseph Suocetti, a well-to-do Italian rancher of Elko, Xer. , committed suside by blowing his head and arms off with giard powder. A. II. Lewellen of Suinpter, Ore, was taken from a west-bound passener train at Elko, Xev., on suspicion that he was suffering from smallpox, and lodge in he pest-house. The city council of Grand Junction, Colo., has passed a sewer ordinance and the entire city will be placed under the seweratre system, work to be com" meneed at once. The board of police commissioners of San Francisco elected William P. Sullivan, jr., chief of police to succeed I. W. Lees, resigned. Mr. Sullivan is the private secretar3T of Mayor Pliclan. James Millsap. a brakeman, while attempting to cross the track in front of a moving engine, near Elko, Xev., had both of his legs broken and his skull crushed, but he may possibly recover. re-cover. The Pacific Wire & Xail Works, oi San Francisco, which has been suspended sus-pended for six years, will resume operations oper-ations soon. The plant is the only one on the coast that is not controlled by the trust. William J. Stoddard, postmaster al De La Mar, Idaho has been found short in his accounts to the amournt of SfM'.ioo. He is under surveillance and his lions-men lions-men have been notified to make up the shortage. The Republican state central com mittee of Washington has decided ti: postpone t he state convention at Ellens-burg Ellens-burg for the elect ion of national delegates dele-gates from April I to April 5, at the request of the Republicans of Tacoma where the municipal election is held on April .!. Virginia God in, aped 7 years.daughter of Harmisdas hid in of Butte, was killed by the accidental discharge of her father's revolver in her own hands. He had laid the gun down and left the room. W hen he returned she had it in her hands playing with it. He tried to grab it away, when it was discharged. discharg-ed. Juan Amigo, a Mexican, was shot and killed by one of his own nationality nation-ality at Rock Springs. Wyo., on the 11th. Amigohad figured discreditably in both stale and police courts during the past two years and was considered a bad man. II is slayer claims lie shot in self-defense, but eye-witnesses do not corroborate this statement. Colorado cattlemen and sheepmen, both iu the mountains and on the plains, will be heavy losers by the storm of the past, w eek. Stock is everywhere every-where in good condition, but is unable to stand without loss the severity of the storm. To the farmers, however, the storm is a blessing, as it is the first snow of auy consequence this winter, and the scarcity of water has amounted to a famine in many places. W oming wool-growers are holding their wool clips for 2.1 cents per pound. Some few sheepmen have contracted their spring clips for IU and ?0 cents, but the majority believe wool will advance ad-vance to 23 cents and even t-'a cents per pouud, and will not make any contracts for a cent less. A majority of the wool growers w ho have been asked about the matter say that the fleeces this year will be heavier by one or two pouuds than they have been heretofore, owing to the fact that owners have been breed- i ing a better grade of wool-producers. Edward T. Colby, a well know newspaper news-paper solicitor of Butte, was stabbed and fatally wounded by Harry W. Peters on the 15th. Colby was engaged to be married to a sister of Peters' wife and Peters objected to t he match, and, it is claimed, abused his sister-in-law about it. Colby met Peters and asked him what he meant by his actions to ward thegirl. There was an exchange of epithets and Peters drew a knife and stubbed Colby twice, once in the thigh and once in the abdomen. Peters gave himself up. Mrs. Xettie R. Craven has sprung another sensation in her testimony in a suit against the estate of the late Senator Sena-tor Fair for S5.0U0 a month widow's allowance since the death of the senator. sena-tor. Mrs. Craven testified thatsheand Senator Fair were married by contract in June, lS'.c.', and thatone month later, at the request of her daughter, Margaret, Marga-ret, Senator Fair and M is. Craven were married by Justice of the Peace Simp- ton of Sancilito. Simptou says the story is false, and that Mrs. Craven had attempted to bribe him. Andrew- Carnegie having offered to donote 50,000 for a public library at Grand Junction, Colo., under certain conditions, the city council of that city has guaranteed .il,;'00 annually for the mainteance of the library, upon request of a delegation of ladies. United States Circuit .1 udge De Haven has ordered the discharge of Sewall Crocker from the United States army on the ground ihat be was under legal aye. Young ( rocker enlisted at St. Paul, Minn., in December last undvr the name of Raymond Spaulding. At White Bird, eighteen miles from Graugeviile. Wash.. Henry Ray shot and killed Charles Burlinghoff last week. The tragedy was the outcome of a saloon row. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Ray had shot in self-defense. E. I). Wright, an extensive sheep owner of southern Colorado, is loading at Trinidad and will ship to Bostou thirty carloads of wool, the clip of his sheep for the past three years. He expects ex-pects to receive gP-'.l.uOO to S130,0O0 for the shipment. In San Francisco last week" when the case of Tom Carberry of Denver, accused of attempting to murder Fania Hall, an actress, was called in court it was discovered that Miss Hail had left town in order to avoid testifying against Carberry. W. L. Taulby, electrician for the Blaine Electric Light company, at Seattle, Wash., was burned to death h afire i.n that city. Friday morning, which destroyed the Monarch Mill company com-pany building. Mr. Taulby slept In a room adjoining the electrical room of the mill. The fire started in the engine room. Xightwalchman Allen made an attempt to rescue Taulby, but was up-successful, up-successful, sustaining severe burns in his attempt. Taulby's remains were found the same morning. He has a daughter and brother in Los Angeles. sured "r-?t .1 - air througn up fire-olarea A Y TV' fTY YEARS OF CURES |