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Show THE INDEPENDENT. M.V.Crockett. - - Edlter. D. C. Johnson. Business Manager. ra-ered at the foat OtFea t SprlnrrlMa. Utah. tor trau.iulaalua lUjiifk tM HWiU aaooao-aiaae auaucr. Issued Every Thursday Morning:. tkrms oir sLuscnirnox. " e Year ft 06 - : Month 1 .00 t V...Dths M AS--K. FOR AliVKItTlStNO RtTKS. UTAH STATE NEWS. Fnblic samplers last year bandlefl 4SG.000 torn of ore. The last day of December was tlie coldest day of 1009. Utah produced wheat to the value of CI, SIS, 553 last year. Four million doIIar3 worth of bay was grown in Ctali in 1900. Surveys were approved for 879,512 ac.es of public land last year. The halt production of the stats last year approximates 4u,'W3 tons. Salt Lake City used an average of 713 tons of coal every day last year. Tbe state insane asylum is becoming crowded und more room is needed. The egu and poultry products of Utah last year are estimated at $750,-000. $750,-000. Two hundred cars of plaster of paris was the product of the Nephl works in 1900. Salt Lake jobbers did a business of $22,920,000 in l'JJO, the largest in her liUtory. More than 820,000,000 was on deposit In Salt Lake tanks the beginning' of the year. John Johnson. Jr., of Clinton, Davis county, died of smallpox last week. II leaves a ivifc and family. The state entered the new century with a bonded indebtedness of S'JOO.OOO, with Sr.3G.434. 10 cash on hand. The Continental Oil company has let a contract for the construction of a $20,000 warehouse a: .Salt Lake. The receipts of the Salt Lake City postoffice during- the year were 8100,-2u0.40, 8100,-2u0.40, compared with 5170,554.89 for 1S9). Utah Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias collected C32.062.4n for the benefit of Scolieli mine sufferers last year. The cash receipts at the land office in Salt Lake for the year past were $3fi,-298.30, $3fi,-298.30, an increase of about 30 per cent over Id'J'J. It is estimated that $4,000,000 was added to the bank accounts of Utah sheep owners last year from sales of mutton and wool. The stockmen's convention promises to be the largest gatherings of nonresidents non-residents Utah has ever been called upon to entertain. December 31 was the coldest day of 1900 at Salt Lake, being- 2 degrees Above zero. The next coldest was February 12, 10 degrees above. It Is estimate 1 that 7,8 J4 employes in Salt Lake received SJ, 421, 030 in wages last year for the production of articles valued at $10,813,090. S:slt Lr.Ue county fruit growers and rurserymen netted about $170,000 in lit i, according to the report of the county fruit tree inspector. '1 ue farmers of Paradise, Cache county coun-ty v. ill build a new creamery in that t a-v .-n. T'le p!;in of organization will be ou the co-operative basis. The Provo woolen mills at Provo produced pro-duced manufactured articles of a value of 82..0.00 last year, with a payroll of S3 4,000, and paid 1,000 for wool. The dissolution i the Salt Lake county millers" association the first of the year resulted in a material decline in the price of Hour and other mill products. pro-ducts. The report of the sheriff of Salt Lake county shows that during the year processes were served in 970 civil and S65 criminal cases. The fees amounted to 7.S51.04. Davis countv has refused to pay a board bill for S72 presented by Warden Dow of the state penitentiary for the keeping of Nick llnyworth sicca his conviction. The assessed live stock valuation of the state for 1900 was $S,(5O.O00. The assessment covers 70,000 horses and mules. 192.210 cattle. 1,5CG,101 sheep and 15.S45 swine. Only alout r.00,000 of the 7,300,000 acres of public land owned by the state have been 6V.ti or applied for during the five years of statehood. The purchasers pur-chasers of public lands number 3,810. A call has been issued for a meeting of all the sheepmen of Utah, to be hrld on the 19lh. to discuss means of getting rid of the coyotes which are increasing over tbe state and doing a great deal of damage. Payson was in darknessr.il last week as the lighting plant was frozen and could not furnish elect rc light. The coldest nivtht was Sunday 10 degrees Gtlowi'Monday. G below; Tuesday, C degrees above zero. Utah's coal production last year arro uited to 1.134.903 tons: the i mount exported was 550,o;m tous and !k4,903 tons were used at home. Added tothis, 3GS.76" tons were imported from Colorado Colo-rado and Wyoming. Utah last year produced 8.600 tons of beet sugar, one-tenth of all the beet sugar produced in the United States. At 5 cents per pound the product is worth $S50,000. Farmers received $3.0,-050 $3.0,-050 for beets and labor was paid 8'jS,-000. 8'jS,-000. Utah is third in the list of silver producing pro-ducing states, with nine and a half million ounces. Colorado comes first with over twenty million ounces, and Montana with nearly seventeen million ounces. Utah r sixth in gold production. produc-tion. Windon Craney, a Logan youth of tender years, while hunting sparrows In Salt Lake last week with an air gun. shot Dorrris Grifiiths, ayoung boy who unfortunately was in range, in the cose, the ball lodging near tbe corner of the eye. .1 naes Burke, who murdered a man n--Tv-d Harrison recently, while, they :i working on a telephone line near J;n:;haro City, ba become insane, lie wn convicted and sent to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for lifo a month since, aai has qaeerlj ever fcioos. WEEK IN CONGRESS. Thursday. FIorsB The radical members amoni? the Xtc-J Xtc-J lbik-ans, who favor cutiinjr down the repr?- -ntation from the Southern States in which -anchlse is abridged, suffered defeat because r. t:nber of their colleagues refused to net wit'i lem. The Issue was precipitated quite unpx-J'ictelly. unpx-J'ictelly. The leaders had decreed that tb-j I .-apportionment bill should be taken up. bu i I efore il could be called Mr. Olmstead, of Penc- lvania, offered as a matter of privilege q I ?solutioa reciting the aU.-gcd abridgment ol the suffrage in Louisiana, Mislviypl. Sout j Carolina and Xor:h Carolina, and directing It! ;fmmUu;e on cenu-i to investigate and rtpoit I le facts to the House in ord -r that a constitu-I constitu-I onal bat-l-i cf representation roull be esiab-I esiab-I shed for those states. The resolution wa-i I'2feat2d, 83 to SI . Thi re are other resolution l if a like nature beln prepared. Senate Without a murmur of dissent an-1 without a word of comment the Senate displaced dis-placed the ship subsidy bill from it - prlvilre-l sition as unfinished business" and subs.i-Uted subs.i-Uted for it the army reorganization bill. Friday. House Representative Shattuc of Ohio in. troduccd Friday in amendment form his reso. lution proposing a eongreNsional inquiry into alleged abridgement of the right of suffrage. The resolution recites that the riht of repr. , fcent3tion is denied in many of the states t male citizens over il yeiirs olJ, in direct violation viola-tion of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution, con-stitution, and is an invasion of the rights an) dignity of the Tiouse of representatives. Th i resolution declares that Massachusetts, Maine I Conneetk-ut, Delaware, California, Louisian; , Missisijptf. N'orth Carolina. South Carolina, Wyoming. Oregon and other states deny the right to vote to certain male citizens of full age, and that -such denial in certain of thi said states extends to more than one-half cf those who, prior to the last upportl jument of representation, were entitled to vcte In such states." Senate The Lodge resolution declaring for the enactment of laws prohibiting the sale o opium and intoxicating ii iuors to the aboriginal aborigi-nal und uncivilized pcojik's of all countries was passed by the Senate. Senator Hoar introduced in-troduced a n solution providing that -no further fur-ther military force shall be,.used in the Philippines Philip-pines except such as may be necessary to keep order in places there now actually under the peaceful control of the United Stales, und to ;irote?t persons and propert to whom, la the judgment of the pr aulent. protection may b due from the Un.ted States, until the preside: t shall have first proclaimed rmnety for all political offences commuted Hgaint the Unfted States in the Philippines, and if in his p ,vr, shall have agreed upon an armistice with persons per-sons now in hostility to the dated States, and shall have invited such a number, not less than ten. as he may think desirable, of the leaden or representatives or poisons now hostile to the United States and slate th dr wishes and the condi li n. character and wishes of the people peo-ple of the Philippine islands to the executive and congress, and shall have off -red to secure to the safe, condui-t t corne. abide and return, and shall have provided at the publij charge for thj expo-uses of their transportation both wavs and their stay in this coantry for a rea-souablo rea-souablo and sufficient lime for suca p irposes." Consideration of the army bill preceded tho Introduction of the resolution, and affairs in In the Philippines we e generally tilicussed. .Saturday. HorsK The entire session was takrn up In. considering tho reapportionment bill. Tbe proceedings were enlivened by a wordy encounter en-counter between Little tt ldof Maine and Chairman Chair-man Hop ins of the census committee. The Hopkins measure provides for :K7 members, and disci I annates against Maine, Colorado, Florida anil North Dakota, whic'r have majority ma-jority fractions, by not allowiu them the extra representative allowed s,U other state with majority fractions of toe apportionment unit. What is known as the Huiie'igh Li!!, on which opposition to the Hopkins meusvre is united, provides for a house o 3n3 members and does not J. ssen the representation of . ny state. Senate The reply of the prrsiuent to the resolution calling for iuforn atioa coccerninsi Cuban affairs having been received, in which the president stated that in his judgment the making public of the documents at present would retard the apprehension and prosecution of persons guilty of offenses committed in Cuba and w s therefore against pubii.j interest. Senator Sen-ator Bacon introduced the following resolution: "Resolved, by the senate, that any and every public document, paper or record cn any department de-partment of the government relating to any subject whatever over which co.igr. ss has any grant of power, jurisdiction or eont-ol in tho constitution, is subject to thecn'.l u- inspection of the senate for Us use in the exerr !e of its constitutional powers and jurN.Uction. Tho army bill was onsidered in r.; n .ves.-i.m. opponents op-ponents to it resorting to riiia'.i ry tactics, s i that Hale progress was made. An amendment from the military committee, providing tint the president of the United States shall havj authority to tlx the component parts cf th-j army ration, was udopted. Monday. Horss Consideration or the apportionment measure was continued. An agreement wa reached to vote on the measure Tuesday. R p. rosentative Kahn of California introduced a bill continuing in force for twenty years aftei May 5. irLnXI. all laws prohibiting and regulating the cominj of Chinese persons and persons cl Chinese descent into the United-States. Senate Consideration of the army reorganization reor-ganization bill was resumed in the senate. Senator Vest introduced an amendment providing pro-viding that the officers in charge of the West Point Military academy shall make and enforce such rules and reulalions as will prevent the practice of hazing; and any cadet found guilty of participating in such practice shall be expelled ex-pelled from the academy and shall not be reappointed reap-pointed to the corps of cadets therein. CENTER OF POPULATION. It Now Rcsta In Southern Indiana, Near Columbus. The center of population is in the following position: Latitude 39 degrees de-grees 9 hours and 36 minutes; longitude longi-tude S.I degrees 43 hours 5! minutes. In ten years he center of population has moved westward Hi hours 1 minute, min-ute, about fourteen miles, and southward south-ward 2 hours 20 minutes, ornbout three miles. It now rests in southern Indi-una Indi-una at a point about seven miles southeast south-east of the city of Columbus. HEAVY SNOW IN CALIFORNIA. HaUdlngs Collapsa t Yrrka Under the Wclcht. The snowstorm in California last week passed all previous records, seventy-two inches having fallen at Y re lea. ltuildings ure faliiug in under the tremendous weight. North and south bound trains, engines and snow plows ure snowed in at different places on the line of the railroad. Two hundred and twenty-five excursionists from Yreka and as man v more from southern Oregon and other points are at San Francisco, unable to return on account cf the blockade. Censure of Avrritt Canard Comment. The condemnation of Philetus Averitt of Fremont county. Idaho, a member of the code commission, by the other members in their final report, who charged him with flagrant violation of his duty, caused no little comment. A question arose as to whether or not Mr. Averitt has drawn his salary. It wa ascertained by inquiry at the office of tLe state auditor that he had drawn SI. 333.33, and that the auditor had declined de-clined to draw a warrant for the bal ance, amounting to $06T.G4. If you wish to be miserable yoa must think about yourself about what you want, what you like, what respect people peo-ple ought to ray to you, and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and mise.-v for yourself cut of everything whicS God sends you; you will teas wretched as ycu cheese. Life Is siort and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts ot these wco are traveling th sarse ark journey wiijj us. : e 6 wilt Vj love. tDke hast to bo V.rr.i IDAHO LEGISLATURE. Slith Annual Selon Convene and Perfects Organization. The sixth session of the Idaho legislature, legis-lature, wite forty-three fttsionists and twenty-seven Republican members, was convened at high noon Monday, with every member present. The senate organized quickly. Following Fol-lowing are the more important officials chosen: President pro tem, J. W. lial-lantine, lial-lantine, of Blaine, (1'op ): sergeant-at-iirms, D. II. Guilanri.of Shoshone (Pop.); commiteee clerk, V. K. Wvatt, of Nez Perce (J'op.j; enrolling clerk, Meta Wright, of HIaine (Pop ); assistanten-rolling assistanten-rolling clerk, Ernest Worswick, of HIaine (Pop.); janitor, 1'ob Marsh, of Ada; journal clerk, Frank E. Smith, of Washington (S.-K.); secretary, W. V. riel f rich, of Ada (Deiu.); assistant secretary, sec-retary, W. A. llroadliead, of Blaine (Dem.): engrossing clerk. Miss K. Scully, Scul-ly, of Ada (I)etn.); assistant engrossing clerk, George II. Fisher, of Bannock (Dem.) It took the house a little longer to get through with the formal proceedings proceed-ings of organization. Glenn P. Mc-Kinlay Mc-Kinlay (Dem.), of Shoshone, was chosen chos-en speaker. He is only 2'J years old. The principal attaches are: Chief clerk. Mrs. Mary A. Wright, of Kootenai Koote-nai (Pop.); engrossing clerk, ngella O'Farrell. of Ada (Pop.); assistant enrolling en-rolling clerk, Maud Marsh, of Ada (Pop ): doorkeeper. Thomas Panahan, of Washington (Pop.); eurolling clerk, A. L. Needham, of Xampa (S.-R.); assistant as-sistant chief clerk, Avery C. Moore, of Idaho ;Dem.); assistant engrossing clerk, Frank L. Clark, of Ada (Dem ); sergeant-at-arms, Fred Wilson, of Kootenai (Dem ); journal clerk, Helen Datigherty. of Blaine (Djtn.'i; co-nmit-tee clerk, Lillie 15. Nichols, of Elinore (Dem.) State of tTn-Mnstc.il L iy'i:e to Annex th I'hii-IIhikIIi-of 1 lalio. A Spokane dispatch says plans are being formed to f-ecure the annexation of the northern part of Idaho to the state of Washington. Stale Representative Represen-tative H. D. Lorritt is planning to bring this project before the legislature legisla-ture at its coming session. The purpose is to add to Washington Washing-ton the entire region known as the 'Pan-hand le" lyinjr north of the forty-sixth forty-sixth parallel, which is the southern boundary of Washington. This would include Kootenai. Shoshone, Latah and Nez Perce and a part of Idaho county, taking in all of the famous Cot-ur d'Alene silver-lead mining district, as well as most of the rich Clearwater gold fields. The plan is received with enthusiasm at Washington and northern north-ern Idaho has in Hie past voted in favo--of sucii annexation by an overwhelming over-whelming majority. It is argued that southern Idaho would now consent because of the lack of railway connection between the two parts of the slate and especially because be-cause of the gre:-.t expense resulting from the mining riots in the Coeur d'Alene district and two years of martial mar-tial law. CHILDREN CREMATED. Twenty-oue ferUli by Fire In an Orphan Asylum. Tuesday morning at one o'clock fire broke out in some mysterious manner in the hospital section of the Rochester, Roches-ter, N. Y., orphan asylum on Hubbell park, and twenty-one persons are known to have perished, twenly-five were injured, some doubtless fatally. It was the most serious conflagration in Rochester since the lantern works fire in l$6S, when there were thirty-one victims. The Ure was first seen by two men passing the asylum. They hastily sent in an ai.u ia and then turned their attention at-tention toward arousing the nurses and the children. A terrific explosion was then heard and in a moment the entire hospital section was in flames. EARL LI VERY ILL. lie Having StiflVred h Xlelapne. Negotiation Negotia-tion Mny l;e I'ciRt pont-d. Li II ting Chang has suffered a relapse, re-lapse, and because cf the serious effects of this and his great age it is feared that he will be unable to act as plenipotentiary pleni-potentiary in arranging a settlement of the troubles in China, and that the difficulty and delay i-i securing a successor suc-cessor may cause ihe postponement for a time of negotiations. Filipino I. o idrrs Deported. General MacArthur has ordered the deportation of Generals Ricarte, Del Pilar, Ilizon. Llan.'ra and Santos to the island of Guam. Nine regimental and four subordinate officers, with eight civilians, including Trias, Tecson and Mabini, notorious assistants of the insurrectionists, in-surrectionists, have also been ordered to be deported. It is General Mac Arthur's Ar-thur's intention to hold most of the active leaders of the rebels, who have been captured, in Guam, until the resumption re-sumption of a condition of peace has been declared. Qal t In Venezuela. A?er having-communicated with the state depart ment relative to the condition con-dition of affairs in Venezuela of the. Asphalt controversy, the state department depart-ment has sent orders to Commanded Ilawley of the Hartford authorizing him to leave La Guayara and resume bis training cruise. The departure of the Hartford will leave only one vessel, ves-sel, the Scorpion, in Venezuelan waters, an indication of the belief of the slate department that conditions there no longer threaten American interest. Missouri lixnkrr Thretttenrd. Thomas Cunningham, president of the Bank of doplin, Saturday received a letter through the mail demanding tht he place 81.000 in gold in a sacl: and deposit it at a certain designated Spot Kfuth of Joplin. If he should refuse re-fuse to comply the writer threatened to shoot Cunningham on sight. President Presi-dent Cunningham consulted the police department. It was finally decided to fill a hag with ro-ks and leave it at th.s place indicated, which was done. Officers Offi-cers concealed near the place waited all night, but no one put in an appeur- Ch Bit's Kt-fjuest Denied. Count von Wuldersee says that China's request, through her representatives represen-tatives at foreign eotirls, that the expeditions ex-peditions cease, cannot be complied with at present. No expeditious ho asserts, are sent out without adequate cause. Where there are scenes o! bloodshed or disorder the troops aru etit to it. this being the only mean-; of preventing outrages. He 'declare-i t hat the expeditions are not. intended for punitive purpos-s, btit merely for police purposes, with a vicwr of giving the necessary protection to lLfd and property. MONEY OF THE WORLD. Increase Over 103 Ier Cnt. in Lens Than Generation. An increase of more than 103 per cent in the money of the world in less than a generation will be an exhibit of the annual report of the director, of the mint. Nearly the whole of this increase in-crease is in metallic naonej' and much the larger portion is in gold. The total stock reported in 1S73 was about 54.G K),00 1,000, of which more than half was in paper money not fully covered by metallic reserves. The situation sit-uation at the beginuingof 190f) showed a total monetary stock of about $11,-000,000,000, $11,-000,000,000, of which only a little more than one-fourth was in uncovered paper pa-per money. Director Roberts finds that while the money supply of the world has increased in-creased about 57,000,000,000, the increase in-crease in gold money sinc-j 1373 has been about 53.000,000,000; in silver about 82,750,000,000, and in uncovered paper money only about S'j.j 3,030,000. A large proportion of the increase in gold has taken place within the short space of seven years, while the quantity of Bilver money, which was at its maximum max-imum of about S4, 25O,(iO0,OO0 at the beginning be-ginning of 189(3, has since been some-whafreduced some-whafreduced by the sale Of silver by Germany and its retirement in othet countries. The conditions of 18'.? showed a total monetary supply of about $10,300.00 .000, wlhha since been increased by a--, --.-J About $940.o6o.OOO of this increai. bfeen in gold money. haS PENSIONS FOrl RMLROAD MEN. Plan Uelng Froivot el Southern Pacific is Kxplitiiietl. A prominent employee of the Southern South-ern racifiii. who is actively promoting the proposed benefit and pension department de-partment of that company, says: "The agreement to the plan is being rapidly signed by employees over the system, with the exception of those in the train service belonging to the brotherhoods. Notwithstanding the proposed regulations provide that membership in the various features shall be voluntary and that any subse- j quent changes must be submitted to a vote of the members, the brotherhood men think that compulsion may ultimately ulti-mately be resorted to. Hence their opposition. In view of this, it has about been decided to call a meet' g of the committee of employees having hav-ing the matter in charge on various parts of the system, to meet at an early date for the purpose of considering tlie advisability of modifyiug the proposed regulations so as to include in the membership only sucli employees as are engaged in non-hazardous occupations, occupa-tions, thereby, in the interest of harmony, har-mony, relciving the brotherhood men of their tuspicu ns." Omziiig C'.ise is to la Appealed. The government proposes to appeal to the United Stales supreme court from the decision of the United States circuit court in the case effecting the right of congress to delegate its authority au-thority to the secretary of the interior to make rules and regulations as to grazing upon forest reservations, and to graut permits and to fix penalties. penal-ties. The comtnissionbi of - tljgwcfai land office, while holding the author-it' author-it' given to the secretary of the. interior in-terior to be ample without further legislation, believes il would be well to settle the disputed question, as recommended rec-ommended to congress by the secretary. secre-tary. This recommendation is that there should be a special act passed which shall definitely determine the question and define the rights of the public upon the United States forest reservations and as to the conditions under which the secretary may itsue permits for grazing purposes when the tax may justify. To Restore Capital Punishment in Colorado Among the bills introduced in the Colorado legislature is one by Senator Stewart of Pueblo for the restoration of capital punishment. This is a result of the recent lynchings in the state. Three men have been summarily executed ex-ecuted within a year. Another bill, introduced by Senator Park of Denver, requests congress to call a convention to frame a constitutional amendment making the election of senators by popular vote. Coinage for ttie Year. The yearly coinage statement of the director of the mint shows that the total to-tal ciTinage of the mints of the United states was 1 37,590,401, as follows: Gold. S99.272.94I. Si'lver, S30.295.32L Minor coins, 32.031,138. Of the silver coinel 901,913 was in standard dollars. The December coinage amounted to ?7.7:3,."SO. of which $1,579,097 was gold tut $-',28S, 555 silver and -$3.)l,33j minor joins. MUST BE VACCINATED. otith Dakota' Snpr-iJ lol Ito.trd of Kdurat on. The supreme court -ot South Dakota Thursday decided that a board of education edu-cation had power to exclude from the -chools a pupil who had not been vaccinated. vac-cinated. The case was that o. George Hover, a grandson of the noted Chris-ian Chris-ian Scientist. Mrs. Eddy. The su-iri-me court holds that the board has .'ull power to act. Wooten .Mtil Fail. The Dingley YVooleu Mills company, in extensive Philadelphia manufacturing manufactur-ing concern, lias gone into the handsof 1 receiver. The afTa'trs of the company vere involved with those of George Jampbcll. who failed recently, and it .vas found necessary to ask for the ppointment q a receiver and James Pollock was named. He is also receiver re-ceiver for Mr. Campbell. Owing to 'h- failure of the mills a bid which .'ad been made for a contract for government gov-ernment blankets amounting to about 350,000 will be withdrawn. , Suffrage CJ 'i-st!oa In Court. The latest development in the woman suffrage fight, begun a quarter of a century a?o when Susan li. Anthonv .vd her sister, Mary S. Anthony, wen-arrested wen-arrested and fined, is ihe stand taken by Mary S. Anthony in the matter of taxation of her property. She sends notice to County Treasurer Hamiltor that she will not in the futuie pa-, taxes except under protest, .until she i-allowed i-allowed the right of suffrage. The action ac-tion will likely result iu a test east, being brought in the court. RETIREMENTS IN ARMY. rirBt Tear of the New Century W1U Sfark Number. The first year of the new century will be marked by many retirements in the army and navy for statutory reasons, maiuly 00 account of age. The retirements in the army include three heads of staff departments, viz: Judge Advocate-General Lieber, General Gen-eral Wilsou chief of engineers, ani Guncral Uuffington, chief of ordnance, each of whom holds the rank of Rrig-adier-General. One biuadier-general of the line. General II. C. Merriam. commanding the Department of the Colorado, and six Colonels of the line will retire during dur-ing the year. In the navy two rear-admirals of the line, Kautz and Sch'ey, ami one chief of bureau, Rear-Admirals Ilieh-born. Ilieh-born. will be transferred from active service to the retired list during the present year. Thomas M. P;ttei-:i Catln on All Populists to Join tlie Democrat. Thomas M. Patterson, who was permanent per-manent chairman of the Populist national na-tional convention in 1000, and who is one of the leading candidates for United States senator, commen tin upon the action of Colorado Populist senators who have proclaimed their allegiance to the Democratic party, declares that they did the "common-sense and prac tical thing," and adds: "Silver men must stand with Mr. Rryan and the western Democracy in this fight. Silver men can best aid their Democratic friends from within the Democratic citadel They an, in caucus, in primaries, in conventions and at elections, do their part to strengthen the arm of Uryan and overthrow over-throw the goldbug contingent of the Democratic party in its announced assault as-sault upon the Democratic principles which secured from Colorado 30,000 majority for the Uryan electors." IDAHO LEGISLATION. State Auditor Succesta Tax on Isarimce Premiums and Output of Mine. State Auditor Sinclair in his biennial report suggests a state tax of 3 per cent, on the premiums of insurance companies in lieu of a fixed license, which the legislature will probably adopt. The report also recommends a tax on the net output of all mines. This is one of the very important matters the legislature will have to take up, the supreme court having decided that mines could be taxed, but not laying down any rule on which to base the taxation. It is strongly urged that the legislature legisla-ture take steps to compel delinquent counties to pay the amounts they owe the state, tho sum reaching more than 5350,000. Idaho Cude Coiumia-ion Ilcports. The Idaho code commission has filed its report. It takes occasion to score one of its members, Phil Averitt, of Fremont county. The commission created a small deficiency. Of this it says: "We regret to say that this extra ex-tra expenditure is due entirely to the failure of one of the members of the commission, Mr Averitt, to perform his duty. "We have received no assistance from him and besides the extra expense ex-pense incurred bv his neglect of duty the remaining members of the commission com-mission have been compelled .to labor at least four months longer than they otherwise would, and the final printing print-ing and distribution of the work has been correspondingly delayed." CUBAN POSTAL SCANDAL. President Declines to Submit Lawshe Report Re-port to Senate. The president has sent to the senate 1 reply to the Uacon resolution asking ihe secretary of war to transmit to the senate the Lawshe report on tbe Cuban postal scandal. The president states ;hat for reasons given by the secretary 5f war, he deems it incompatible with ;he interests of the public to comply with the senate's request. The letter states that criminals are now being prosecuted, and for that reason it is deemed inadvisable to make public the facts contained in this report. DEATH PENALTY FOR PING. KIDNAP- Dlll Introduced In Nebraska Senate Ke- iirdin Kidnapping. Senator Ransome of Omaha has intro-Juced intro-Juced a bill iu the Nebraska senate to make kidnapping, uuder certain conditions, condi-tions, punishable by death. Other bills bearing on kidnapping, and not much different in phraseology, were also introduced. in-troduced. The present Nebriska, law on this crime is regarded as lame, and good authorities question whether, for abduction aloue, a conviction would be possible. Wash.nton to llve a l..ar.iyctte Stataa. Washington is to get the American replica of the Lafayette monument lected itr Paris with the contributions of American school children. This was decided on at a meeting of the Lafayette Lafay-ette memorial commission. From the reports of the officers of the commission commis-sion it was found that after meeting the expenses of the Paris monument, there was a large surplus in th fund and the construction of a monument in Washington was suggested as a most appropriate use of this .vurplus. American Window i:ss Workers Aid Belgian Bel-gian Strikers. The American window giass workers have voted an assessment of one-half cf one p-r cent of the weekly earnings of the injm')3i-J to aid the striking window glass worker in Helgium. The assessment will, yield 5900 a week, which will be cabled to the strikers. The tn-iriuf.icturers are also said to be contributing to the eappo.-t of the strikers. Since the strike was begun the imports have fallea from 50.000 to CO. 000 boses a moath to less than IS, 00 J. Von Ketti-ler- Slayer Iteheade:!. Lui Ilni, the man who killed I!aron Von Ktteler, the German minister to China, in June last, was beheaded in the presence of a large number of spectators spec-tators on the scene of his crime, at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. - There are now reported under arms on the Boer side over 10,000 hardy, determined, de-termined, invincible men, of whom 3,000 are now invading Cape Colony, against the 210,020 troops landed from Great UriU'n and bcr dependencies. NEWS SUMMARY. Reports that there is financial depression depres-sion in certain sections of Mexico are denied. The River and Harbor committee of the House has completed the final drafl cf the river and harbor bill. District Attorney ISaird of Hawaii has recei ved orders to proceed against the alleged trust in Honolulu. Ten Germans were killed and nine wounded at Leie IIu, China, Januarv 1st through the firing of a salute witl: a defective cartridge. Advices from northern Mexico state that crops all over that republic are heavy this year owing to a prolonged season of damp weather. Notices of a reduction in wages that will affect about 4 ):)() men were posted Tuesday at all of the blast furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenango, O., valleys. val-leys. An organization has been effected in Boston that has for its object the education ed-ucation of the American people concerning con-cerning the situation in the Philippines. Philip-pines. The London money market is unusual' un-usual' active owing to large transfers of cash. Nearly '17,000,000 has been "distributed in the shape of interest and dividends. At a meeting of representatives from every coal camp in northern Colorado in Louisville, Colo., it was decided to demand an increase of 10 cents per ton for loaders. With the end of the century Mayor Van Wyck of New York took steps toward to-ward putting an end to gambling and practically every gaming resort in that city has been closed. The prompt acceptance by the Chinese Chi-nese government of the preliminary demands of the powers has taken away the breath of the foreign Ministers, w ho are not prepared to go on. Fire destroyed the llellaire Stamping company's plant at Harvey. 111., early Monday, causing a loss of $400,000 and throwing 700 men, boys and girls out of employment. Insurance of 5375,000 was carried. A new effort is likely to be made to induce Congress to grant recognition of some kind to Naval Constructor Richmond I. Hobson for 'his conduct in sinking the "Merrimac" in the harbor har-bor of Santiago. The stranger supposed to be Pat Crowe, overhauled in a chase near the Pine Ridge agency, at Chadron, Neb., proved to be an innocent collector of curios, named Dennis, from Boston, and was not detained. The Centeral Steel company Wednesday Wednes-day asked for a receiver for the Indiana Steel company, alleging that W. G. Wasson, who holds stock, is about to buy S"0,000 of stock of other mc-.nbera of the company and vote it. The President of Liberia, W. D. Coleman Cole-man resigned December 11th, owning to the disapproval of the Legislature of his interior polic3'. G. W, Gibson the Sccretrry of State, was elected dresident by the legislature. The American Sugar Refining company com-pany has reduced the prices of all grades of refined sugar 10 points, and the National Sugar Refining company has made a cut of 5 points, making the prices of both companies the same. The War department has referred' to the Attorney-General the application of Gov. Pingree of Michigan for the extradition of Charles .1. Thompson, now in Cuba, who is wanted in Detroit to answer to the charge of forgery. John Goodnow, United States Consul-General Consul-General to China, with residence at Shanghai, has arrived in San Francisco. After a brief visit to Washington he will spend his sixty days' leave of absence at his old home in Minnesota. As a result of a fire caused by the explosion ex-plosion of an air-tight stove, Wednesday Wednes-day the Providence Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church (colored), St. Joseph, Mo., was partially burned, and the pastor. Rev. J. L. Leonard, was fatally burned. Official statistics compiled by the New York produce exchange show a marked falling off during the past season in the amount of wheat transported trans-ported to New York by the Erie canal, as comparsd with last season's traffic. Judge Louis Gottschalk died of heart disease early Tuesday morniug at Los Antrels. By queer coincidence it was his biri hday and he wns 02 years old. He was once acting Governor of Missouri. Mis-souri. The advent of the new year and the new century was celebrated in Peking on an elaborate scale. The discharge of numerous guns at midnight created a scare and many troops were sent out to discover whether the city had been attacked or whether it was a Boxer rising. The dispatch of the gunboat "Scorpion" "Scor-pion" to Venezuela is due to the troubles trou-bles growing out of t he asphalt concessions conces-sions and the purpose is to afford all due protection to American life and property ' should either become endangered. en-dangered. The Governments of Chile and Ar gen tine have signed a protocol," says the Buenos Ayres correspondent of the London Times, "agreeing to take no ttirrressive action concerning the disputed territory of Ultima and Per-anza Per-anza iu Patagonia." The British colony of Jamaica will be fiiven in exchange for a fair share of the United States colony of the Philippines. This is an international trade which will be probably the result of acquisition by the United otates of the Danish Antilles. Almost the entire business portion of Williamson, W. Va. was wiped out by fire Sunday. The flames raged for five hours and all the buildings on one of the principal thoroughfares for a distance of two squares were consumed. con-sumed. Loss, 875,000. Lord Roberts, in a communicaticn to the British public expressing his thanks for the reception tendered him, eulogizes eulo-gizes the soldiers in South Africa, and appeals for contributions to tbe Soldiers' Sol-diers' and Sailors' association. Grover Cleveland, David B. Hill, Daniel Dan-iel S. Lamont, William F. Sbeehan, William C. Whitney, Jacob A. Canter and other Democrats are, it is announced, an-nounced, to become members of the Samuel J. Tildea club, New York. 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