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Show DICK RODNEY; The bubonic plague has broken out n the city of San Paulo, Brazil. The gold yield for 1899 in New South NN ales was 509,413 ounces, an increase of 108,925 ounces over IS08. The hospital ship Missouri left Manila on December 31st for San Francisco with 280 sick soldiers on board. AVork has so far advanced on the United States battleship Wisconsin that she will make iter trial trip within the next two weeks. The total output of the cigar industry at the close of the tiseal t ear, June An Eton Boy... GRANT. , a is now 1 California to the iaris exposition was rnade last week. The display of native woods consists of over 500 specimens. Suit has been filed in the District court of Dallas Tex., for the ownership of the land upon which Oak ClifT, a suburb of Dallas with 50uo inhabitants is located. Thirteen villages in Russia last week Rave experienced earthquakes shocks. "six of these places have been completely destroyed and 800 dead bodies have already been recovered, w Secretary Root has taken measures to break the corner, in hemp. As a result of discussing the matter w ith the president, he has cabled instruction to Nlaj. General Otis to open ports in Luzon. The Speaker of the House and his associates on the rules committee expect early adjournments until a pprupriath n bills anil measures before ether com turn by the mittees are ready for ru-k.- brass-mounte- n Tie last subscript iol r.f t! ; 'll to are the g of the f Woman's !;UM la New arid the York city lias been plans will be drawn up and work commenced. The Senate has passed Senator Pettigrews bill granting settlers on the public lands the right to make homestead entries a second time in certain eases where the first entry was pot completed. The commission appointed by Resident McKinley under an actof congress to determine the most feasible and practicable route fora canal across the Isthmus of Panama sailed Saturday for thtf scene of its labors. The Spanish Consul at Manila cables Spanish foreign office that Aguinaldo has promulgated a decree ordering the liberation of all Spanish prisoners without distinction. The Consul distrusts Aguinaldos motives. Including all arms of the service there are now in the Philippine islands 455,000 soldiers in addition toabout 1200 marines at Cavite and about 5000 sailors on the warships. The total of the fighting forces is thus fully 70,000 men. President Schurmann will not return to the Philippines with the other members of the Philippine commission, when that body goes back to Manila -- bn account of his duties at Cornell. Admiral Dewey's return is also more than doubtful. All fear of coal famine throughout the city of Chicago because of a strike of the teamsters has been dispelled. A committee representing the CoalTeam-Owntr- e association signed a contract to pay the union scale them binding mueht-ikod-o- d until January 1, 1901. The fumesof burning oil asphyxiated Lester Queen a clothing clerk, in his room at a private boarding, house in New York. The family of William Niford wrere also overcome ly the fames and several members are lying in a critical condition. The mutilated remains of Mrs. Jennie Jones were found in a ditch near Rosser, Choctaw county, Ala. Ifhe arms and legs had been hewn from the trunk with an ax and the head had been severed with a knife, a bruise in the head indicating that death had been inflicted by an ax. All nortions of the body had been partially burned. Surgeon-Genera- l Sternberg has been designated to represent the war de partment at the international congress of hygiene which meets in Paris this summer. As a result of the conferences held at the White House between the President, Secretary Long and the Captains of the Santiago fleet, no action will be taken contemplating the advancing of either Rear-Admir- al Sam pson or Rear-Admir- d -t 1 . suh-eribe- ed st -- li.s.-- Eng--lis- The Adventures of out), estimated at 5,3n0,000, the largest figure ever reported. The last shipment of goods from 30, Spaniards are, and has shown a light and fired a gun as a hint for us to look sharp. Companero, said one of the SpanThe value of Montana eattle marketed to the other, who was looking; iards during the pat year is estimated at h are you sure that it is the out, 80.6 lO.GO'i. brig and not ours? The grain ami hay crops throughout Yes; but by St Paul! there is a Or, Nevada during the past year hae light burning now on the Castle de' been most encouraging. Santa Cruz; so our craft had better get her sweeps out and put to sea, even The present year promises to see a without ns. Can the Senor Goberna-do- r large increase in the acreage under JAAAES DY have smelt a rat? in Mnutana. cultivation Tins announcement, though we knew There are eight distinct copper belts not what it referred to, had an evident on which development work is being that yawned close by the ventana, or effect on our captors, who were probaX. (Continued.) CHAPTER done in the state of Wyoming. Bah! said the Spaniard, grinning nostril of the Piton are yet vividly bly part of a slaver's crew; for they all scrambled up to the opening in the From six to eight new eases of small- and showing a row of sharp, white impressed upon my memory. At ki.-- tlie darkness was so great rocks to look cut. pox are being reported daily in Ilutte, teeth, under a dirty and sable musNow. now is the time to slip our but the disease is of a mild form. tache; though 1 said so, I knew bet- that a lantern was lighted, and its on the fell cables and run. Follow me! said as A a ter. has seldom wavoiing gleams, gold they shipboy (ieorge Miller, of Coo's Day, Ore., Tom in a hoarse but deand the like be crystals, glassy Lambourne, watch spar, added, quartz, this, displaying committed suicide at the Druuswiek blocks of termined black obsidian and we shall ruddy my gold repeater. Now, whisper, as he sprang forhotel in Rawlins by taking morphine and if this seaman after lava, which formed the walls and arch ward, snatched up two of the muskets you; keep No reason was assigned. of the cavern, on the dark ferocious and across the plank, tripping he lias first sworn that he will not beMontana farmers w ho had hearing us us does to here visages, the gaudy sashes, the naked as lightly as he would have done along return not tray orchards the past season have made a with $.700 within two hours after sun- arms and feet, the scrubby black a boom or yard, though it crossed a good profit, the fruit crop being unknives and gulf so terrible. set, par el (here he made a dreadful beards, and vow in Spanish), we will toss you like muskets of the taciturn Spaniards, Less steadily, but not less rapidly, usually large and prices excellent. a dead dog into the ventana of the who sat in a sullen group smoking paA train on the Nevada City & Grass you may be assured yet with a frozen mountain. Look down, and see what per cigaritos all added to the gloomy heart I followed him, and his hard, Valley railroad ran into a landslide a journey is before you, he added, but picturesque honor of the place tarry hand was ready to grasp mine tunjust after it was emerging from a with a diabolical smile, as he dragged and of the incident. and dragged me forward into safety, nel near Colfax, Cal., and the engineer me to the edge of the chasm bora cs? I heard one while with a violent kick he tossed the Antonio, beetling quo was slightly injured. and forced me to Icok into it. say, inquiring the time. plank away, and surging, down it went The past year has been the most Our eyes had now become so accusLas neuve y media, eompanero into the black gulf we had crossed. prosperous the people of Wyoming tomed to the light of the gallery or mio (half-panine), replied the posIt vanished in a moment, and no have enjoyed for ten years, every line grotto that the rays of sunshine fall- sessor of my gold watch, which he sound ever ascended, for it seemed to of industry in the state having vastly ing through the fissure above us were consulted with considerable compla- have fallen into a pit that was as dark sufficient to disclose a portion of the cency. as it was bottomless. improved. vast profundity on the verge of which knit-tir- g Maldita! the others, growled Take this musket, and see that of the we stood. John Pain, one of the victims was you can use it, sir, said Tom, as an their for dusk brows, the Pacific Colo., wreck at Brighton, Union From the earth's womb, far, far rapidly blooming darkness, and they And emotion of bravado seized him. has succumbed to his injuries, and it is down below, there came upward a had no desire for killing us, if we so, you, Spanish greenhorns! ho said W. G. Thompson, another of the choking steam, with a hollow, buzzing could be made profitable. I have often shoucd, you thought to sell me for sound, which deepened at times to a thought since that had Tom actually a injured men. cannot survive. nigger to the Yankees, did you? died at Charles Sanders Ilartville, rumble. procured and returned with the requirNYhoop! hurrah! This steam or mist rose and fell on ed ransom of $300, would have wink Loin piwming A volley of Spanish oaths followed they Wyoming, lat i.a t leads the the currents of air; sometimes it sank pocketed ii and then killed us both ;h-a under id rrn mrash onthur-t- , which drew their this so low that nothing hut a black and me must as they seemed to attention at orue noon us. Foma e ciriainy, o'l'eia Is to dreary void met the eye, which achd have other views for poor Tom in Hie ru. bed to the dark brink, and paused. dereil, A M'ure! in attempting to pierce it. Anon the Pout hirn Ptates. m ith r Tom nor I I for be made. suppose, would in from steam rise spiral curls We have had a long spell of this, rrn was a a lb see could distimtly, i.tib-was neve that gloomy bed below, where doubt- said he, in a low voice. I am going cavfilled the vvhhh double exp'osieu exless the fires of the now almost to escape, if I can. Wyoming than of those echoes lik ern with rolling in embers seethe their volcano tinct Nearly every coal Escape! but how? and a momentary glare of the waves of the ocean. in need of more men. while the I dont know exactly how yet; but thunder, while two musket balls on light, smoky were The words have mercy we must first have our lashings cast whi.-tle-d could use a great deal of addius, and I felt one, like past not I could utter but them; my lips, off. tional help. as a it grazed my left ear. hot cinder, nor would they have availed me. IgWould to heaven they were, Tom. Then came an Albaeete knife, which John Doran, a Union Pacific brake-m- an norant of what the ruffian said, and and my My hands are so swollen of Laramie, Wyo., was seriously believing he was about to thrust me wrists so cut and benumbed that my was hurled by no erring hand, for it wmunded Tom's right knee. injured one night last week by being in, poor Tom Lambourne, in the full- arms are h I powerless, Give them a shot, Mr. Rodney! of a while howl of a his heart, uttered blown from car crossing Samp- ness whispered in a low voice, like a groan. said he, furiously; Ill reserve my fire senmoment also was and the car at of that the roof The son bill. dismay; Sit with me here, in the shadow of altinel, whom the gang had left at the this angle of rock; and now, as the for the sentry and here he is, blown off by the fierce gale. came entrance to their lurking-placready! It is estimated tiiat the wool cip of hurriedly on, with alarm expressed in darkness is fairly set in, I shall soon And just as the eighth fellow, who free. make you Was on the watch, alarmed by the firWyoming for 1S99 will aggregate his glittering eyes, and a finger placed, By a rapid and skillful application came rushing in with his piece pounds. Only one other state in as a warning, on his hairy lip. of his strong teeth to the cord, which ing, more the Union (Montana) will produce at full cock, Tom fired at him. Para! Paz! Silenzio! (hold peace bound my wrists, he untwisted the wool than Wyoming. The number of Saints and angels! yelled the silence), he exclaimed, and added knot and freed my hands; and then in as he bounded into the air Spaniard sheep assessed in the state last year was that four officers from the garrison of the suddenly-give- n luxury of being rafell flat on his face, where he 3,000,000, an increase of 1,000,000 over Santa Cruz had dismounted in the able to stretch my arms, I almost for- and then had the earth with his feet vine, unbitted their horses and beating lay 1808. the necessity for concealing the hands. seated themselves under a tree to got and fact that I was now unbound. It is estimated that 23,400,000 pounds 6moke. Fire! fire! Master Rodney, and I soon found an opportunity for unMontana in of wool was sheared during This Information was received by run for it, before they can rethen tying Toms fetters. Then we kept load, cried Tom, who saw that I was 1800, the average price received being the band with oaths and mutterings our hands clasped before us, w'aited 16.35 cents per pound. Some authoriof impatience; and by us with mingled irresolute; give em a stern chaser! ties believe the value of the clip will emotions of hope and agony hope and hoped we scarcely knew for what My blood was now fairly up. Wheelwhile in the further end of this inexceed 81,000.000. The shipments of that they might be the means of our I leveled full at the group, ing sat our detainers sullenly one round, muttons and the product of lambs will escape or rescue; and agony to know ner cave, was in the act of taking whom of dim lantern light, that such means were so near, and yet smoking, and, by the from their tobacco amount to 81,500,000. aim at me, while I saw the steel ramcould avail us nothing; for on the making up cigaritos rod of the othej. who had a musket, W. II. Brumley, who on April 24, 1899, pouches and those little resound either made being by slightest shot and killed John South at Dolores, are now procurable nearly glitter in the lantern light as he of us, there were the Albaeete knives books which loaded. arMontezuma county, Colo., has been of our captors on one hand, and the everywhere. I fired! I know not whether the hall rested in Butte, and will be taken back ventana that awful ventana From the conversation of our captors on the hit, but one of the ruffians sprang I could gather that our brig, the Euto Colorado for trial. South and Brum-leother, to insure forever the silence and forward and fell headlong into who had been partners in the cat- oblivion of the grave. genie, was visible at anchor in the wildly ventana! the so a or mile tle business, quarreled over business Not the least of my sufferings was roadstead of Santa Cruz, That will do! cried Tom; away affairs and a duel ensued in which from the cord which secured my wrists. distant. as fast as we can stretch out now Three of these Spaniards had placed South was killed by his former partner, Already the skin was swollen, cut and bear away for the harbor and tho rock the wall of who escaped and has succeeded in elud- bleeding in consequence of the tight- their muskets against to doze off to brig! ness with which these wretches had and seemed disposed Grasping our newly- - acquired weaping the officers until the present time. me. sleep. bound and his which we never thought of resays identity Brumley admits Close by us lay the plank which ons, we rushed out, and, defce has traveled between 5,000 and 6,000 crossed that dread ventana, like the in- linquishing, CHAPTER XI. the ravine, favored by the scending miles in order to elude arrest. fernal bridge of Poulsherro, which the Sequel to Our Adventure. took the path instinctively starlight, sea crosses the For two hours they seemed an eter- Mahommedans believe The Mason Valley Creamery company to the harbor. led which directly of doom shall of Yerington, Nevada, has 500 cows, nity to me it would appear, the four of fire that on the day beat wildly, a a that heart With Good from Evil. Tom and I and ship to the market 2,500 pounds of Spanish officers lingered over their separate of in a whirl and every head thoughts, of and cigars in the wooded looked at it and exchanged glances butter weekly, while the Smith Valley by the whole affair quickened pulse to time but from time, intelligence their movements the ferocious treatment to which Creamery company, of Lyon county, ravine, from time to time beingoneduly the attempt to rush across might prove by of by reported 400 cows and utilizes the milk from had been subjected for so many we A or both. slip the outlaws, who stole to the cavern doubly fatal to one by the perils which had menhours, us ships a ton of butter each week. into hurl would foot of the eternity; mouth and peeped out. aced us, by the narrow escapes we had Tom Sullivan, of Lovelock, Nev. , aged At last they mounted, and rode off, and if the passage were achieved we from made bullets, by the wild and fire to the of those would be exposed 65, left on Saturday for the mountains when a fresh cause for wrath and dewhich closed the disastrous tragedy of met on and the that from was found and fled we by for a load of wood, lay was produced by the announcea and exciting day of adventures long the following Tuesday with a broken ment that a wagon, drawn by mules, armed man at the mouth of the Tom beside ran I Lambourne; on, leg, he having lain out in the cold all and attended by several laborers and grotto. to a breath without spare or a word on, were and its our broken on had down the road perils Thus position that time without food or water. While negroes, to utter. about a mile distant. somewhat complicated. loading the wood his team started and (To be continued.) of our The irritation Spaniards Suddenly the distant report of a the wheel passed over his leg, crushing some from the whom a of of of ordnance, coming spoke having ship piece it so that the bones protruded. As he to Cnreanonable Goose. was now so great that I feared seaward, made us look up and listjoin was team the and not could in the street car affirmed gone, walk, man The they might end the whole affair by en. a true story, but the Clevewas he wrapped a gunny sack around the disposing of us in a summary manner. it that el canon hace ruido El que (the alinjured member, built a fire from the This wagon being heavily laden crack of a gun), exclaimed a Spaniard, land Leader does not vouch for It, sticks within reach, and awaited the caused a delay for several hours. The scrambling up to the lower end of though giving it in the narrators own arrival of assistance. suns rays ceased, to shine through the the fissure in the arch of the grotto, words: I was up at the market house night before last, buying stuff for over Earl Newton, a Spokane fissure above us; the grotto drew dark and looking out. and I saw an Irishman up of shadincrease imperceptible We all know that well enough; hut Sunday, Falls, Wash., boy, was squeezed to by the a live goose under his arm. with d what does it mean? asked the other. there soon the goose looked up at the death in an elevator accident at Los ows; the dingy faces of our detainers grew darker still; and The English brig at the anchorage Pretty Angeles. He was on top of the freight their Irishman kind of pitiful, and sayg: was only surpassed by Impatience fired it. I see a light glittering on lost in has elevator when the boy charge Quawk, quawk, quawk, in that coax-l- n ours, for we, too, had a ship to re- her deck; and now away it goes up to control of it and young Newtqft was way a goose has sometimes. The join. the foremast head. didnt say anything at first, Irishman of squeezed to death at the top floor. hours minute these every .'Every Master Rodney," the is Eugenie, It a bit the goose looked up after but of every The statement that 200 citizens; tjf second minqte passed Tom. whispered Quawk, quawk, quawk, and says, a of to Boer like in agony pang my Butte had enlisted for the slowly, war, the Irishman cocked his Then Can the captain be about to sail toof natagain. that feature and is declared .every heart; fight against the English, one us? said on over with, without side, looked the goose and I, head to be a rank fake. It is understood a ural vault, through which the dying night Phats the matthe eye, and says: in dismay. faces with the and growing stole daylight few dollars have been raised by Boe wid to ony way? us Phwy do yes ter yez, No; but he is impatient for voices of the men whose victims we sympathizers, but no effort is being were, and more than all, the ceaseless come off. He knows well what & Tar- want to walk whin Oim willin to ca- made to enlist men. and eternal buzz In the dark chasm ns! Ji$pery set of imps theB Jack NORTHWEST NOTES. NEWS SUMMARY. -i s rail-rea- well-nig- e, rice-pap- er y, wine-flas- ks i olive-skinne- ! al Schley. Judge Ludwig of the superior court of Milwaukee, has ordered that the mayor and the aldermen who voted for the passage of the street railway franchise ordinance show cause before him ' why they should not he punished for contempt of court. TJ1r |