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Show THE INDEPENDENT. M. V. Crockett. - - Edlter. D. C. Johnson. Butlnett Manager. Bat red a the FoM Oa at iprinTin. 0as tat 1-inmlM' lan'-s tae wltu soon-iMS Issued Bvsry Thursday Morning. TIBMI Of BCBSCKtPTIOK. Om Tr l. UnnUl . . Xt Months IK fOB ADTKRTItiSO BATES. NEWS SUMMARY. A number of Boer prisoners hava escaped from Ceylon. Admiral Dewey is slowly recovering from his recent illness. General Alger has suffered a rslapse and is a very kick man. The Chilean chambers have voted the estimates for the present year. Adelina Patti denies any intention of 'concert tour of the United States. A new strike of Hebrew bakers has commenced in Now York and 500 men are out. Dan Stuart says Carson City, Nev., will have another pugilistic contest next spring. Lawrence Conn ell died at his home near St. Joseph, Mo., last week at the age of 115 years. In Elkhart, Ind., four children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed de-stroyed the home of Benjamin Miller. - The French Coumcil of State has rejected re-jected Count Esterhazy'e appeal against the decree cashiering' him from the army. Yale graduates propose that the bones of Elih u Yale, which are interred in Wales, be removed to this country for interment on the Yale campus. ' British military men are very much disappointed by the feebleness of the measure adopted by the war office for easing the situation in South Africa. Active recruiting for the army is in progress in all the principal cities of the country. The authorized strength Of the regular army at present is 65,000 men. R. II. Gamllit, a traveling salesman from Cincinnati, 6u!cided in Paducha, Ky., by taking morphine, lie left a cote reading: "Good bye, darling, you did not come." A bill has been introduced in the Nebraska Ne-braska house providing that in a lynching lynch-ing the relatives of the person lynched can obtain damages from the county where it occurs. Complete organization was affected last week in Spokane for the proposed Northwestern Pacific International exposition ex-position to be held in Spokane in the summer of 1U02. Military critics cannot understand why the 20,000 seasoned troops now in India are not sent to South Africa to take the place of the war-worn and exhausted ex-hausted battalions. An international polo tournament is soon to be held in the vicinity of San Francisco. Four of the best players of England, composing the famous Ilnrl-ingbam Ilnrl-ingbam team, are there now. A bill providing for the establishment establish-ment of lighthouses on the Alaskan coast has received the favorable consideration con-sideration of the senate committee on commerce. The bill appropriates $400,-000. $400,-000. United States postal inspectors have arrested at Allentown, Pa., G, Barnett, alias Evans, whose address is not known, charged with using the mails In a scheme to defraud and of counterfeiting. counter-feiting. General elections in Jamaica have concluded. Of fourteen members of the legislature returning thirteen are pledged to resist Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's attempt to restore absolute Crown government. Secretary Long has written a letter to the chairmen of the committees on naval affairs, advocating a change ot the limit of cost for the battleships and the two armored cruisers recommended in his last annual report. In the French chamber of deputies M. de Jeante, Socialist and a working-man, working-man, moved the prohibition of the celebration cel-ebration of masses on the occasion of the opening of Parliament. It was shelved by a vote of 317 to 151. The senate committee has tentatively decided to'reduce to the extent of one-half one-half the tax on proprietary medicines, perfumes, etc. This does not include chewing srum, the tax on which probably prob-ably will be retained at the full rate. There is a scarcity of fruit cars in southern California, and orange shippers ship-pers are experiencing some anxiety. There are over 18,000 carloads of fruit to be shipped, and the shippers declare that 200 cars a day should be started. Madrid police continue to keep a strict watch over the Carlists. Arrivals from the frontier say Carlist agents are overrunning the contiguous French territory, recruiting among the refugees refu-gees and Spanish deserters with small access. William H. Crocker, of San Francisco, Francis-co, has offered to defray the expense of a solar eclipse expedition to be sent by the University of California from the Lick observatory to Sumatra, to observe the total eclipse of the sun on May 17 th. President Zelaya has imprisoned in communicado Scnor Jose M. Castillo, owner and director of El Cammercio of Managua, the largest circulated daily newspaper in that country, and has suppressed the further issue of the journal. Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is organizing a hunting club that will have headquarters at his ranch in the Big Horn mountains. The first outing will be in the autumn of 1901, and among the guests will be Colonel RoosevelT. The erowaing of Miss Claire Kelly as queen of the El Paso Midwinter carnival carni-val was one of the most imposing incidents inci-dents of the Southwestern border. Governor Miguel Ahnmads of Chihuahua. Chihua-hua. Mexico, placed the crows on the bead of the American girl. One hundred and fifty students arrested ar-rested at Kieffe, Russia, for engaging In political agitation have been ordered exported to Port Arthur, where they will do military service. The same fate awaits soores of students arrested at the capital on a similar charge. WEEK IN CONGRESS. TueitJay. House The fight of representatives in con-, press from the arid regions of the west to secure se-cure an appropriation for irrigation purposes i-eached its climax Tuesday when the House voted down the proposition by a vote of 37 to S3. But although the appropriation was not secured. one important contention was sustained, sus-tained, that an appropriation for this purpose is uermane to a river and harbor appropriation bill. Heretofore these amendments have been ruled out of order. Sesate Bacon's amendment to the army bill striking out the discretionary authority of the president to measure the size of the army laid on the table 39 to 30. Objection was made to fixing February 11 as a day for taking a final vote on the Nicaratruan canal bill. Wednesday. Housb The river and harbor appropriation ;bill was passed by the house. The bill, which had been under consideration over a week, passed practically as it came from th committee. commit-tee. It carries slightly less than fCO.Ol 0,000. ol whih f-;3,u.00 is in direct appropriations. The senate concurrent resolution to pay the expenses ex-penses of the inauguration of the president and vice president, was amended so as to conform to the instructions of the house to provide for a joint committee of the house and senate under whose auspices the inauguration ceremony should take place, and was then taken up and passed by the house. Senate - At the opening of the session Mr Gallinger reported the pension appropriation bill and it went to the calendar. The feature ;of the day's debate was the denunciation of the practice of hazing at the West Point Military academy. A final vote will be taken Friday on the pending army reorganization bill. Thursday House The entire day was spent in consld. ering a bill to codify the postal laws. No material changes are made in any of the mooted questions regarding the postal service. Sexate Senator Quay of Pennsylvania was given a demonstration when he appeared in the senate. The galleries joined in the demonstration demon-stration and he was showered with congratulations congratula-tions on every side. A bill to provide for sub-ports of entry and delivery in the Hawaiian islands was reported ty Mr. Hanna from the committee on corn-amerce, corn-amerce, and passed. Consideration of the army bill was resumed, In which the practices of hazing at West Point were severely condemned. Friday. Hotjse The house spent the entire day on the bill to refer to the court of claims the claim of the "William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding company of Philadelphia, amounting to 11.367,-244, 11.367,-244, for alleged damages due to the delay of the government in furnishing armor plates and material for the battleships Massachusetts and Indiana and the cruiriers New York and Columbia. Colum-bia. The house adjourned before a vote was reached. Senate The army reorganization bill was passed. The measure having originated in the senate, the final "juestion was not upon its passage, but upon agreeing to the senate amendments. amend-ments. They were agreed to by a vote of 43 to 83. While party lines was drawn upon the measure, four Democrats voted for it, Senators Lindsay of Kentucky, McLaurin of South Carolina, Caro-lina, Morgan of Alabama, and Sullivan of Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, who was detained at his home by illness, was paired against the bill with Senator Spooner of Wisconsin. Wis-consin. The bill has occupied practically the entire attention of the senate since the 3rd of January. Saturday. House The naval appropriation bill, carrying carry-ing an appropriation of $"7,016,635, was reported. re-ported. The appropriation recommended is nearly twelve millions larger than last year; and the largest ever reported. The army reorganization bill was received from the Senate. Consideration of the postal codification bill, completing half the measure, ended the session for the day. Senate A resolution otiered by Mr. Kyle was adopted, calling upon the secretary of war for copies of the report of General MacArthur, and the reports ef other officers upon educational educa-tional work in the Philippines. A concurrent resolution offered by Mr. Lindsay Lind-say of Kentucky, providing for iho celebration on the 4th of February of the one hundreth anniversary of the assumption of the chief justice of the United States by John Marshall, was adopted. Monday. HorsE A bill to give citizens of foreign countries the right to sue in the court of claims for indemnity for alleged injuries, which had been recommended by the state department, was disastrously beaten. The senate amendments amend-ments to the army reorganization bill were disagreed dis-agreed to. and the house agreed to a conference. Mr. Hull of Iowa, Mr. Brownlow of Tennessee and Mr. Hay of Virginia were appointed conferees. con-ferees. A bill to increase the salary of the commissioner of education of Porto Rico from (B3.0U0 to 00 per annum was passed and at 5:05 the house adjourned. Senate The senate passed the day considering consid-ering the legislative and judicial appropriation bill. Ptloklng at It. Most failures He in not going o long enough. The hour that testa g' man is that In which the first fervo of his undertaking has died out, and yet the goal of his efforts seem a littla farther off than when he began. That is like the point in the revolution of a .driving wheel, where the forward push of the piston rod has ceased, and iti backward pull has not begun. A vast mass of human enterprise, in great (things and small, breaks down at thai Txint, and many a good work is deferred de-ferred until it finds a man who has thq dmpetus of faith in sufficient measurq Jto oarry him rouna that curve. It U Jthe mark of a really able man to finish what he began, in small things and la (great alike. Sunday School Times. The Social Democrats of Madison, Wis., have written to Senator Pettigrew las a body, urging him to introduce a Substitute for the pending ship subsidy bill which will provide for the same amount of money to be expended in building new vessels to be owned by the government, and to be known as lhe commercial navy. Severe Weather in Cuba. Santiago, Cuba, Saturday suffered from the severest cold known there for years. Much distress has been caused among the natives who are entirely without protection from the rigors of the climate. A temperature of 60 degrees de-grees is unprecedented. A telephonic message from the Guayamas mine, forty miles west, reports re-ports snow on the summit of Mount Torquino, at an altitude of 8,000 feet. Telegraphic reports from the north coast Bay that a severe norther is raging rag-ing and that shipping is delayed. W. C. T. V. and Polygamy Amendment. Miss Lillian M. Stevens, national president of the W. C. T. U., and Mrs. Susanna M. D. Fry, the national re cordiug secretary, have sent a petition to the judiciary committee of the house of representatives, asking that an amendment to the national Constitution Constitu-tion be proposed by that committee denning marriage to be monogamies and making polygamy in any form a crime against the United States, punishable pun-ishable by severe penalties. Serlons Negotiations Now Begin. The signing of the protocol by the Chinese envoys is regarded at the state department as only the beginning o serious negotiations. President Signs Apportionment Bill. The president Thursday signed the bill making an apportionment of representatives repre-sentatives in congress from the several Estates under the twelfth census. Fully one-sixth of New York's population popu-lation have the grip. UTAH LEGISLATURE. Tnesday, January 15. Horse The second session of the House was business like, notwithstanding the visit of the Wyoming solons, and the legislative play that followed . The first bill of the session was introduced by Representative Anderson of Weber, allowing a deputy to the state superintewlent of public Instruction at a salary of Woo a year. Representative Repre-sentative Van Home of Salt Lake introduced a bill increasing the pay of judges of the supreme su-preme court from $3,00) to $G,ux) per year. An appropriation of $ii,000 or as much thereof as was needed to defray the expenses of the legislative legis-lative session was made. ' The Senate and House convened in joint assembly as-sembly and listened to the reading of the governor's gov-ernor's message, 2,000 .copies of which was ordered printed. Senate Three bills were introduced and one passed under suspension of the rules. Senate bill No. 1 appropriating $.0U0 to pay expenses of the session was passed. Senate bill No. 2, by Allison of Weber, provides for reapportioning the state and increases the number of legislatois by eight. Senate bill No. 3. by Allison of Weber, provides for relieving .honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the payment of poll tax. and providing for their burial and the erection of a monument over their graves in case of death in indigent circumstances. circum-stances. Wednesday, January 1 G. IIOusf Representative Harmon of F.mery was sworn in. The following bills were introduced: intro-duced: House Bill No. 3, by (ilasmann A bill for an act repealing sections 4?0f and 49 of the Revised Re-vised Statutes, and providing for the registration registra-tion of plural marriages and the punishment of polygamtsts and bigamists. H. B. No. 4. by Glasmann Providing for the payment of trustees of state institutions at the rate of $4 per day and necessary expenses. H. B. No. 5, by Smith Giving the right to municipal corporations to condemn water rights. The bill passed its second reading and was referred to the judiciary committee. H. B. No. 6, by Smith A bill for an act giving giv-ing railroad corporations power to acquire stock and interests in any line, except a competing com-peting line, in the state or outside. H. B. No. 7, by Stevens A bill for an act fixing fix-ing salaries of state officials as follows: Governor, Gover-nor, $4, 6o0 per year; secretary of state. 3,000; treasurer, JJ.'OO; auditor. $2,.tOO; attorney-general. $3.0vA; superintendent of public instruction, instruc-tion, $2,0o0. After passing the second reading the bill was referred to the committee on fees and salaries. H. B. No. S, by Van Home Embodying the provisions of Senate Bill No. 3 Senate The elections committee, which will have to do with the Ellison-Barnes contest, was appointed as follows: Senators Murdock, Alder, Al-der, Tanner, Johnson and Hennion. Senate Bill No. 4, by Smoot, identical with House Bill No. 6, was introduced. Thursday. January 17. Hnvsi -The tii st bill to pass the House was the Railroad bill, known as Hnuso Bill No. 6. It passed unanimously. The following bills were introduced: H. B. No. 9. by Glasmann To make it unlaw; ful to sell liquor on Sunday. H. B. No. lO.by Glasmann Providing for the assessment of all forms of property on the same basis as railroad and telephone property, 30 per cent, of cash value. H. B. No. II, by Glasmann Making city attorneys at-torneys appointive instead of elective in cities of second class. H. B. No. 12, by Glasmann Granting permission per-mission to counties, municipalities, etc., to invest in-vest sinking funds in city, county or school district dis-trict bonds. H. B. No. 13, by Glasnnnn Making the securing se-curing of a transfer for a voter who moves from one voting district to another after registration has closed more easy than under the present law. H. B. No. 14, by Glasmann Providing for a house to house canvass for registration of voters. II. B. No. 15, by Glasmann Providing for a new registration of voters each presidential election, and for the registration by affidavit in cases where voter cannot appear. H. B. No. 16, by Glasmann Providing for the formation of a society to be known as the In-termountain In-termountain State Exhibition, to promote stock growing, agriculture and other industries. Senate Chairman Evans made his committee commit-tee assignments, to whji-h all bills previously introduced were referred. Bills introduced: Senate Bill No. 5, by Barnes, amends the existing ex-isting law so as to deprive it of all provisional construction. The word ''knowingly" qualifying qualify-ing offenses in the present law is omitted, and in the case of the prohibition of the sale of liquor to minors without the written consent of parents or guardians. The clause relating to such consent is omitted. It makes the Uganda Ugan-da to against liquor dealers absolute. Friday, January 18. HorsE The committee on salaries and fees recommended the following changes in the salary bill: Governor, if-l.OtXt instead of $1,500 as recommended; auditor, $2,003 instead of $2,500: treasurer, $1,500 instead of $2,500; attorney-general, $2,500 instead of $3,0X3. Eight new bills were introduced as follows: House Bill No. 17, by Stewart Provides that proof of labor on mining claims may be filed any time during the year instead of within thirty days. H. B. No. 18, by McMillan An act making it unlawful for boards of health to compel vaccination vaccin-ation or make it precedent to attending school. H. B. No. 19, by Glasmann Providing for the election of six members of the board in cities of the second class in December. 1901, and three members biennially thereafter: that said cities, taall be divided into three districts, and a woman shall be elected from each district. H. B. No. 20, by Glasmann Providing for the double assessment of property, when discovered, dis-covered, upon which an effort has been made to evade taxation, half of the amount of the tax to go to the informer. H. B. No. 21, by Glasmann Providing forthe organization of, and bonding of irrigation districts. dis-tricts. H. B. No. 22, by Glasmann Providing that licensed abstracters shall pay 10 per cent of the, fees received into the county treasury. H. B. No. 23, by Axton Enlarging the powers o'the prison board regarding the purchase ot bwks for the prison library. H. B, No. 24, by Holmgren Providing for delivery de-livery to the warden of the penitentiary withir five days of sentence, of all prisoners sentenced sen-tenced to death. H. B. No. 25, by Holmgren Providing for the execution of all death sentences by the warden of the penitentiary . A communication was received form the Senate Sen-ate announcing the passage of the railroad bill. Senate Four bills were Introduced as follows: fol-lows: S. B. No. 6 by Barnes To amend quarantine law in soarlet fever and smallpox cases, maintaining main-taining quarantine for a longer period than present law. S. B. No. 7, by Allison An act providing for a 5 per cent tax on inheritances over $10,000. S. B. No. 8, by Allison Providing that county boards may remit taxes of Indigent poor. S. B. New- 9, by Allison Relating to tha building of cut-offs in railroads (having particular par-ticular reference to the proposed shortening of the Central Pacific's line into Ogden.) HIS LIFE PROLONGED. Injection of Sodium Chloride Resuscitates a Cincinnati Man. Marcus Sauer of Cincinnati, the man afflicted with dropsy who was revived, after apparent dissolution, by the injection in-jection of a solution of sodium chloride on January 11, is still alive. Since his resuscitacion Sauer has steadily gained in vigor, and the acute symptoms of his dropsical affliction are disappearing. disappear-ing. There is every prospect that his life will be prolonged for some time. Don't Know Who Lynched Alexander. "George Alexander came to his death by having been burned by a party oi parties unknown," was the substance of a verdict rendered Thursday by the coroner's jury that sat on the case of the negro lynched at Leavenworth, Kansas, Tuesday afternoon. There is a possibility that other negroes in jail or resting under suspicion sus-picion of having insulted women will be attacked before quiet finally prevails there. O. A. R. GOES TO CLEVELAND. Next Encampment Will be Held In the Ohio' City. Delegations from Denver, Cleveland and Pittsburg were heard Monday at the meeting of the national council of administratian of the G. A. R., held at St. Louis, to decide on the place to hold the next annual encampment. It was decided to hold the encampment at Cleveland on September 9th. At a! former meeting Denver was selected' for the encampment, but owing to the inability to secure low railroad rates,' the decision was rescinded. , The vote stood: Cleveland 5, Denver1 2 and Pittsburg 1. Denver could not meet all the requirements, and Cleveland Cleve-land was selected because sasisfactory guarantees of that city's ability to care for the encampment were furnished to the committee. Britain Collects Income Tax From American Ameri-can Investors. American holders of British government govern-ment bonds have made known the fact that the 5 per cent, income tax had been exacted from them by the English government. This unexpected exaction has materially lessened the return on' their investment, and disturbs all actual calculations undertaken at the time the $23,000,000 allotments of ex-! chequer notes was made in the United States. Representatives of local interests which have subscribed heavily for the' bonds have already applied to the British Brit-ish government for redress, $-3ing that their securities are not, (FhaSt the circumstances, subject to income taxation, tax-ation, and the American holders should be relieved from the burdens imposed. Battleship Bids Are Accepted. The navy department has cut from the specifications for the new battleships battle-ships items aggregating in value about 80,000. It also has considerably reduced re-duced the fund reserved for superintendents, superin-tendents, inspection and coppering. Therefore Secretary Long is able to pffer to the lowest bidders, the Newport New-port News and Bath corporations, the sum of $3,500,000 forthe construction of one sheathed battleship. Judge Payson, representing the two companies, com-panies, has accepted the offer, abd nothing more is to be done but prepare and sign the contracts. British Slay Amend Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. The expectation in Washington is that the British government will return re-turn the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty with amendments of its own, and it is not expected that these British a nendtnents will be acceptable to the United States senate. President is Well Again. President McKinley has almost completely com-pletely recovered from his recent illness. ill-ness. His work for the presentvvil be confined to such matters as require immediate attention, and lie will receive re-ceive only such callers as have urgent business with him. Deficiency Appropriations. Secretary Gage has transmitted to the house deficiency estimates of appropriations ap-propriations for the various depart-mentt depart-mentt to complete the service up to June 30, 1001, amounting to SI 1,286,052 and $2,641,985 for the postal service, payable from the postal revenues. Chili Believes in Kxp inslon. Information has been received in an official quarter iu Washington that Chili recently submitted the astound, ing proposition to four South American governments that Boliviabe partitioned among them. Nevada Legislature Meets. The twentieth session of the Nevada legislature convened at noon Monday. C. I). Van Dueser was elected speaker of the assembly. No committee appointments ap-pointments were made. To Succeed Senator Davis. Moses E. Clapp, of St. Paul, has been nominated for the short term United States Senatorship from Minnesota to succeed Senator Cushman K. Davis. Puijct Sound Improvements. Commandant Burwell, of the Puget Sound naval station, has received authority au-thority to ask for bids and let the con tracts for new improvements at the station, which will cost fully 5100,000. Mrs. Lease Wants Divorce. Mary E. Lease has filed suit for divorce di-vorce from Charles L. Lease in the district dis-trict court of Sedgwick county, Kansas. Accompanying the petition is a waiver signed by Mr. Lease signifying his in tention of not contesting British Troops Said to Have Plagne. Bubonic plague is said to be raging among the British troops in Cape Colony, Colo-ny, and many deaths that are attributed attribu-ted to enteric fever and dysentery are due to the plague. Senator Morgan has introduced a resolution declaratory of the non-effect of the Clay ton-Bulwer treaty upon the right of the United States to construct the Nicaragua canal. The transport Grant which, .re C6Cttry-arrived C6Cttry-arrived at San Francisco, brought the remains of 402 officers, soldiers and civilian employees who died in the Philippines, China and Hawaii. Samuel Lewis, the notorious moneylender money-lender and usurer, who has been called "the greatast and' meanest of modern Shylocks," is dead in London. , It haa been generally thought that as he has an invitation to be present at the launching of the battleship Ohio, at San Francisco, May 18th, the chief executive would have the honor of naming the battleship, bvit the Toledo Tole-do Times is officially informed that .Governor Nash is the man who has been given that honor. The San Francisco Call says that back of a steamship company reorganized reorgan-ized in that city with a capital of 812,-500,000. 812,-500,000. is-a .plan to colonize Mexico with Oriental laborers. The forty-eighth annual meeting of the Congregational Church Building society was held in New York Thursday. Thurs-day. The society has been the means ,of putting into use 3920 buildings for church purposes, 734 of which are parsonages. par-sonages. The society began in 1853. Charles Page Bryan, the American minister to Brazil, has suffered a severe rebuff at the bands of his colleagues in !tbe diplomatic corps. He is also re-; '.ported to be seriously at outs with the', the Argentine minister. STOCKGROWERS WANTS ARE MADE KNOWN. Resolutions Adopted and Leislat.on rje manded by the National Stockmen's Convention at Salt Lake. The fourth annual convention of the National Stockgrowers Association which closed a four days' session in Fait Lake last Friday, was the most) successful ever held. Delegates numbering num-bering 1300 were present from almost every state in the Union, with twice as many interested visitors. Many measures of importance to Stockmen were considered and action taken to carry into effect the conclu. sions reached. The anticipated conflict on the land leasing question was avoided avoid-ed by tabling the question after major, ity and minority reports had been presented. pre-sented. The Grout bill, enforcing a tax of It cents a pound on oleomargerine was heavily sat upon, and aside from theii selection of a meeting place for next year this was the. only measure over which a spirited contest arose. A resolution was adopted asking con-, gress to pass a law making it mandatory manda-tory upon manufacturers of cloth to tag each piece of goods, showing whether it was made from wool, cotton, cot-ton, shoddy or a mixture. Of particular interest to western members was a resolution introduced by D. L. Sticknev, of Wyoming, calling for the establishment of more weather stations in the Rocky Mountain region. re-gion. By a unanimous vote it was decided to ask that the census bureau be made permanent, and that an annual classified classi-fied animal census be taken. A com. mittee of three was appointed to present pre-sent the matter before congress, and to urge its adoption. The opening of forest reserves to grazing was demanded. Congress was also asked to pass a pure food bill. The retention of the tariff on wool and hides was demanded, and certain amendments asked for which would prevent importers of wool from evading the tariff. The extension of the powers of the Inter-State Commerce commission was Urged upon congress and the Cullom amendment favored. The building of the Nicaraguan canal was urged, and an appropriation of 200,000,000 by congress, or enough to complete the undertaking, was endorsed. en-dorsed. The enlargement of Galveston harbor, har-bor, and the building of jetties to protect pro-tect he city from the sea was urged. The association renewed its pledge to fight for the adoption of a stock in transit law, extending the time limit from twenty-eight to forty hours in winter and to thirty-three hours in summer. A resolution declaring for a rate per 100 pound, instead of per car, was adopted. Congress was petitioned for the appointment ap-pointment of a commission to inquire into the poisonous vegetation of the western states. The president was memorialized to appoint, as second assistant secretary of agriculture, a man familiar with the needs of stock-growers. The conducting of tests for tuberculosis tubercu-losis by government experts was asked for in order to prevent unnecessary losses. The establishment of a chair of sanitary science in agricultural colleges col-leges was also asked for. A resolution reported by the executive execu-tive committee condemned Secretary James Wilson of Agriculture, on the ground that he had allowed himself to be "used by the Dairymen's union to lend his official influence toward securing secur-ing the passage through the senate of the abominable Grout bill, and we take this method of advising him that his position as a Cabinet officer does not call for such an unwarranted assault upon the live-stock industry of the United States, as represented by this organization, and we hereby protest against a repetition thereof." Chicago was chosen as the next meeting meet-ing place. President Springer, who has been at the head of the organization since its formation, was re-elected for a fifth term. Other officers are as follows: John M. Holt, Montana, first vice-pres-ideut; Frank J. Hagenbarth, Idaho, Becond vice-president; C. F. Martin, Colorado, secretary; Fred P. Johnson, Colorado, assistant secretary; George L. Goulding, Colorado, treasurer. Gold Fonnd Near Victoria. Gold has been found in paying quanti" ties on the beach between Otter Poinl and Sooke harbor, thirty miles from Victoria, B. C. There are several mile.i of beach, and it has been staked out foi its entire length. MdcIi Sickness in Philippines. Reports from the Philippines indicate a great deal of sickness prevailing among both naval and army officers on duty in the archipelago. King Oscar Recovered. King Cscar of Sweden has recovered his health and will resume the reins of government January 21st. . The customs committee of the French chamber of deputies has adopted the proposal to raise the import duty on corn to 5 francs. The Chinese peace commissioners have received orders from the imperial, court to sign the joiut note of the powers. Chicago detectives, raided a counter feiter's den at No. 348 West Lake street at midnight Wednesday, capturing J. P. McGarry, the supposed leader of the band, and securing three bags of spurious spur-ious coin, with a complete outfit for manufacturing it. W. W. Rockh ill, special commissioner from the United States to China, has been recalled. His withdrawal is due to the desire of the administration to have him in Washicgtou, where he will be able to adviss the president and Secretary Sec-retary Hay on the eastern problem. If the present plans of Bishop Potter are carried to a successful culmination, there will have been established in a few days a vigilance committee numbering num-bering 5,000 persons, pledged and sworn to learn of and correct existing evils in New York City. The opinion :a expressed in London that if the United States government presses for the abrogation of the Clay-ton-Bulwer treaty in "the usual diplomatic diplo-matic manner," it will not find thi British rnment very difficult to deal wit. EMPIRE WILL DISINTEGRATE. Chancellor of Nebraska So Predict la a Sermon. Dr. E. B. Andrews, Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, preached at Lincoln Sunday night at the First Bap tist church on the life of Queen Victoria. Vic-toria. "She hath done what she could," was the chosen text of Dr. Andrews. An-drews. The Chancellor predicted that after her death the empire would gradually disintegrate. Australia would first seek independence and then South Africa and perhaps Canada would follow. fol-low. This, he thought, would come to pass because there was little likelihood of such another ruler as the Queen. BRYAN'S COMMONER STARTS. First Number Issued From Western Newspaper News-paper Union OrHce at Lincoln. The first number of non. Wm. J. Bryan's paper, The Commoner, was issued is-sued from the office of the Lincoln, Neb., branch of the Western Newspaper Newspa-per Union, on Wednesday, January 23, 1901. After carefully considering the various printing establishments of the city, Mr. Bryan decided to give the contract con-tract to the Western Newspaper Union, being influenced to a certain extent by the fact that this establishment is not only perfectly well equipped to handle the work, but also because of its reputation repu-tation for honest and square dealing, ahd the further fact that it treats its employes with consideration. Britain Discusses Amended Treaty. The amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty was discussed by the British cabinet at a Cabinet conference Saturday. The secretary of state for foreign affairs, af-fairs, the Marquis ot Lansdowne, has taken no action so far. He probably will embody the result of the deliber ations in a dispatch, or in an interview with the United States Embassador, Mr. Joseph II. Choate. Tae exact decision de-cision arrived at is guarded with secrecy. se-crecy. An impression exists that the Cabinet confined itself to authorizing Lord Lansdowne to have another conference con-ference with Mr. Choate. Valuable Almanac Free. We have received a copy of the new almanac for 1901 published by the Royal Roy-al Baking Powder Co. It is an artistic and useful book and will be of intere'st to housekeepers. A noteworthy feature fea-ture of the almanac is a prediction of the weather for every day of the year, by Prof. DeVoe, who correctly prophn-Bied prophn-Bied the great Galveston cyclone and other important meteorological events. We are authorized to say that any woman wo-man reader of this paper can secure a copy without cost by sending a request to the company, at 109 William St., New York. No Ultimatum Sent to Venezuela. It is said that this government has not authorized Minister Loomis to present pre-sent a formal note to the Venezuelan government, and certainly nothing in the nature of an ultimatum. The secretary sec-retary said that Minister Loomis' instructions, in-structions, so far, have been telegraphic telegraph-ic and have directed him to protest to' the Venezuelan authorities against any despoilment of American rights and property. Further than this the state department has not sent forward any definite instructions as to the next 6tep to be taken if the minister's negotiations negoti-ations do not meet satisfactory compliance. compli-ance. Jennie Bosschleter's Murderers Convicted. Walter G. McAllister, Andrew J. Campbell and William Death, three of the four persons indicted for the murder mur-der of Jennie Bosschieter, a mill-girl of Patterson, N. J., who was murdered on the night of Gcfober 18th last, have been adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree. According to the New Jersey law, the maximum penaliy for the prisoners is thirty years. The jury took fifteen ballots, and after summoning summon-ing Judge Dixon and the prisoners, filed into the courtroom. The prisoners prison-ers appeared very nervous. 80,000 Pension Claims Burned Up. More than 80,000 pension claims in the office of MiloB. Stevens & Co. were destroyed in a fire in Washington Friday Fri-day night. Many of the papers were to be used as evidence in attempting to secure favorable action by the Pension officeon claims, and cannot be replaced. Cubans Ask Abolltten of Tariff Dnty. A mass meeting of planters, merchants mer-chants and representatives of the various vari-ous political parties held in Havana Saturday, adopted resolutions asking the United States to lower its duty on Cuban products and t advocating the suppression of the export tax on tobacco. to-bacco. One member of each of the bodies participating in the meeting was appointed ap-pointed as a delegate to go to Washington Washing-ton to present arguments in favor of the reductions. Shot Ills Wife's Lawyer. Ellsworth E. Weir, a prominent attorney at-torney of La Porte, Ind., was shot and probably fatally injured by Joseph W. Brill of Cleveland. Brill, who had become be-come estranged from his wife, had been advised that Mrs. Brill had consulted con-sulted the lawyer with reference to bringing an action for divorse. He came to La Porte and secured an interview inter-view with Attorney Weir, during which Brill became angered and shot the lawyer, the bullet passing through the body above the heart. All Qniet In Caracas. Aside from a brief dispatch from the commander of the gunboat Scorpion, now at La Guayara, Venezuela, there is no news of importance of the asphalt concessions in that country. This dispatch dis-patch came to Secretary Long, and reported re-ported that the latest news from Caracas Car-acas indicated that all was quiet there. The Scorpion will proceed to Curacoa for coal, after which it is expected the vessel will return to La' Guayara, where she will await the department's orders. , Kducatlon of Negroes In Tennessee. The Tennessee legislatnre is considering consider-ing the educational phase of the negro problem, and a bill has passed the sen-ale sen-ale prohibiting the co-education of races. Boers May Deliver Crashing Blow. It is surmised in military circles that General Dewet and General Botha may unite their forces and attempt to deliver de-liver a crushing blow at some point on the line of communication between tween Johannesburg and Ladysmith, LORD ROSEBERRY SEES MENACE TO BRITISH TRADE. Combined Capital and Acuteness of Amerl cans Threaten British Trade Supremacy. The Earl of Rose berry, responding to a toast to his health at the annual ban quet of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce, Thursday night, spoke of the "Great Commercial Welfare Being Waged Against England." "The chief rivals to be feared," said his lordship, "are America and Germany. Ger-many. The Americans with their vast and almost incalculable resources, their acuteness and enterprise, and their huge population, which will probably be 100,000,000 in twenty years together with the plan they have adopted adop-ted for putting accumulated wealth into great co-operative syndicates or trusts for the purpose of carrying on this great commercial warfare, are perhaps per-haps the most formidable. "On the other hand, the Germans with their calculating and conquering spirit and the energy with which they seize and use the best and most economical eco-nomical methods are but less redoubt-uble redoubt-uble than the Americans. "The Americans, scarcely satisfied with gigantic individual fortunes, use these by combination to make of capital capi-tal a power which, wielded by one or two minds, is almost irresistible, and if this power is concentrated . against Great Britain in trade warfare, it will be a danger we cannot afford to diare gard." Trust Mast Pay for Short Weight. By a ruling of the appellate court at Chicago Wednesday in a decision handed hand-ed down by Judge Horton, the Linseed Oil trust became liable for damages which maj' aggregate a large amount. The case is that of neatU & Milligan, a manufacturing company, against the National Linseed Oil company, which was reorganized two years ago and became be-came the American Linseed Oil company. com-pany. The court found that the cus-torn cus-torn of the company in selling seven and a half pounds of oil as constituting a gallon was illegal and amounted to short weight. In so holding, the court reversed the finding of the court below, and ordered the entry of a judgment against the company for $12,012, with costs. The case was a test one, brought by Heath & Milligan, after the discovery discov-ery by A. M. Heath that a gallon of linseed oil in reality weighed seven and three-fourths pounds instead of seven and a half pounds, as sold by the trust. Cleveland Criticises McKinley, In a speech Thursday night before the Holland society of New York, Grover Cleveland severely criticised the imperialistic policy of the McKinley McKin-ley administration and the war being waged by the English in South Africa. The occasion was the sixteenth annual an-nual dinner of the society at the Waldorf-Astoria. Rev. Dr. Henry Van-ilyke, Van-ilyke, president of the society, presided. pre-sided. On his right sat ex-President Cleveland. Covers were laid for 300, and all places were taken. The speakers were Grover Cleveland, Dr. Andrew'U. Smith and ex-Postmaster Charles W. Dayton. Japs to be Deported. Probably the most important seizure ever made on Puget Sound in connection connec-tion with the violation of the alien contract con-tract labor laws, was effected at Wald-ron Wald-ron island Thursday by Major S. C. Walker, United States immigrant inspector in-spector of the Puget Sound district, with the co-operation of the United Btates revenue cutter Grant, under the sommand of Captain D. F. Tolzer. Upon evidence given by the employees in the camp on Waldron island, twenty-two Japanese contract laborers were apprehended appre-hended and will be deported. KETCHENER'S SEVERE POLICY. British Commander Charged With Harsh Treatment of Women. A Pretoria dispatch says Boer families fami-lies and their stock are being systematically system-atically brought into convenient centers cen-ters from all over the country. They are kept in camps and fed. Those who surrender voluntarily are supplied with full rations, and those whose husbands are still in the field (ire provided for on a reduced scale, which is raised when the husbands surrender sur-render to a full allowance. French Railway Will Enter Pekin. French rail way engineers have made i breach in the western w.U of the Chinese city, Pekin, through which they will bring in the Pao Ting Fu ail way. To Stamp Out the Boers. The British government has decided ;o send large reinforcements to Lord Kitchener, and the war office, in carrying car-rying out this decision, has determined o enlist 5000 Yeomanry volunteers. Free Delivery to be Extended. The committee on postoffices and post roads has completed the postoffiee tppropriation bill. The total amount tarried by the bill is $122,700,000. The tppropriation for rural free delivery is nereased from $1,750,000 to $3,500,000. Naval Bill Carries S 7 7,000,000. The house naval affairs commit tea las completed the consideration of th javal appropriation bill and reported t to the house. The total amount car-ied car-ied is $77,000,000. American Built Vessels Are Best. "Men-of-war purchased by the United states from English shipbuilders, oi ouilt on English designs for the American Amer-ican navy, do not possess the stability f American-designed and constructed ships," says Rear-Admiral Melville. Increased Wheat Shipments from Tacoma, The foreign wheat shipments from Tacoma for the first two weeks in Jan-t nary aggregate 1,222,846 bushels, valued val-ued at $673,661. This exceeds the shipment ship-ment during any one month ia 1900. Under Sea Telephone to Cuba. The first undersea telephone built according ac-cording to the invention of Dr. Michael Pupin is to be put down between Florida Flori-da and Cuba for the United States government gov-ernment by the buyer of the patent, the Bell Telephone company. Grlg-g a Trust Director. John W. tSriggs, attorney general of the United States, was elected a director direc-tor of the Trust company of America at New York Thursday to fill a vacancy on the board. 'DUBOIS ELECTED SENATOR, Idaho Legislature Names Blackfoot Man to Succeed Senator Shoap. Hon. Fred T. Dubois of Blackfoot was Tuesday elected United States senator. His election was not in doubt, but oft repeated assertions that a break would occur in tha fusion ranks when the ballot occurred heihteneJ interest inter-est in the result. The threatened break did not occur and Mr. Dabois received the entire fusion strength except ex-cept two Democrat members from Bear Lake county, who voted for Judge Rich. The vote iu detail is as follows:- Senate For Dubois. Democrats: By-bee, By-bee, Donnelly, Fox, Kincaid, McBeth, Moore, Purtill, Stevens and Whitwell. Populists: Ballantyne. Clark and Moody. Silver Republican: lioulahan. Total. 13. For Shoun Allen, Gooding, Ileg-stead, Ileg-stead, Jones, Smith, Turner, Worth-man. Worth-man. Total 7, all Republicans. For Rich Pugniire, Democrat. House For Dubois, Democrats: P.ren nan, Deming, Killbon, Mandell, Moore, Mounce, Oxley, Arthur Pence. Powell, Smith, Triesch, Walters, Yeariau and iSpeaker McKinlaj. Populists: Adams, Dwyer, Henry, Hunter, Kelly and Miller. Mil-ler. Silver Republicans: Bangs, Wm. A. Davis, Fred II. Davis, Lricson, Hage, Metcalf, Scott and hitc. Total, 23. For Shoup Amen, Alley, Auderson, Camp, Driscoll, Durant, French, Hunt, Iliatt, Hurt, Ingling, Jensen, Munson, Peter Pence, Pvjjo Richard.Jjiow, . , , . . w -, - ' . rvr 20, all Republicans. For Rich Howell, Democrat. Idaho Timber. Considerable interest is being manifested mani-fested by Wisconsin and Michigan capitalists in the immense bodies of timber in northwestern Idaho, one syndicate having recently purchased a tract of 50,000 acres. Exhaustive researches re-searches and survej's were made all last summer, and there is no doubt that the projected line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. from Lewis-ton Lewis-ton to the northern interior of Idaho, length 100 miles, will be constructed this spring. Capitalists say the supply of timber in that region is practicably Inexhaustible, an 1 an immense industry indus-try will be the result of the const ruction ruc-tion of the line and by the erection of mills now contemplated. County Officers Fight. A hand-to-hand fight for possession of the county treasureship took place at the court house at Spokane, Wash., Monday morning between the forces of A. L. Smith, Republican, and George Mudgett, Democrat. Smith's forces took possession early, locking all the doors. Mudgett jumped in through the window and let in his deputies. He tried to enter the treasurer's treas-urer's private office. A scuffle ensued, during which the vault was locked, Smith's men holding the keys. Mudgett Mud-gett was the only Democratic county officer elected last November, claiming twelve plurality over Smith. TEDDY A GOOD SHOT. Governor Koosevelt Kills Ills First Mountain Moun-tain Lion. Governor Roosevelt shot his first mountain lion Saturday afternoon, after af-ter following the animal for more than two miles. The lion, which hud been treed, sprang from his perch toward the party and narrowly escaped striking strik-ing Dr. Webb, one of Governor Roosevelt's Roose-velt's hosts. The governor fired at the animal, hitting him fairly while in the air, and saving Dr. Webb from probable prob-able serious injury. More Trouble For Ilathbone. Mrs. Kate Miner, sister-in-law ol Major E. C. Rathbone, late director oi posts in Cuba, has filed a motion iu the probate court of Butler county, O., tc remove him as administrator of the late Congressman Lewis I). Campbell, her father and Major Uathboue's father-in-law. The estate originally amounted to $400,000. New York Tax Dodj-ers. The valuation of Ogden Goelets personal per-sonal property, according to the report of appraisers named by the New York Surrogate, made public, shows that it was worth nearl3' $7,000,000, instead of a trifle over $400,000, the estimate furnished fur-nished by the family. Courts for Hawaii. Senator Warren of Wyoming has introduced in-troduced a bill amending the act establishing estab-lishing a government for Hawaii, by providing for a district court in Hawaii. Ha-waii. Big- Oil Discovery. J. M. Guffy has made the most important im-portant oil discovery of the past ten years. Last week he drilled in a mighty gusher in southeastern Texas, near Sabine Pass, which is flowing 15,000 barrels a day and is being wasted on the prairie. Saxony Makes h Loan. Announcement was made in Wall street Saturday of the authorization ,by the Kingdom of Saxony of a new three per cent loan for eighty million marks, equivalent to about $20,000,000. Clubbed to Death bv Kobbers. Thomas Clifford Moshire, aged 25, of Gorham,' Me., was clubbed to death and his mother brutally assaulted by two men, one of whom was a negro, who broke into the house Saturday night. The negro has been arrested. Mexico's Financial Condition. Greatly exaggerated reports of the financial condition of Mexico have been published abroad. Money continues con-tinues tight, owing largely to the exportation ex-portation of silver dollars, but failures have been few. Oleo Does Not Pay Revenue. Secretary Gage was before the senate sen-ate committee on agriculture Monday to answer inquiries concerning the oleomargerine bill. He said the bill as a revenue producer was useless and was not needed. O. A. R. Want Court of Pension Appeals. The general committee of the G. A. B. appeared before the House Invalid Pension committee Monday and argued in favor of a Court of Pension Appeals to consider rejected pension claims. There are about 100,000 cases adversely passed upon yearly. Cuban Town Destroyed. Denes, a small town on the railroad, between Gibraltar and Calhoun, Cuba, was destroyed by fire Monday morn ing. Fifty houses and warehouses werq burned, - |