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Show VENEZUELANS NORTHWEST NOTES. Sheriff A. II. Huntington, of Baker 1UUTISII ANI GhBMASS ATTACK CA. II 1X0 rOKTRKHH. ounty, Oregon, Is, It Is alleged, short In his accounts to the amount of $17,-00VeuMaelii Attempt to Kily But Tbelv Old tiiin lire Soon 1ut Out of AcThe whole town of Cascade, Mont, tion No Uamngo WUI lono to tli Town. lhas been exposed to smallpox, and now all public meetings have been from Puoato Cabello, A dispatch prohibited. The Rldpath hotel at Spokane was dated December 13, says: The British destroyed by Are, some of the guests cruiser Charybdls and the German scaping In their night clothes. All cruiser Vineta have bombarded the fortress here. They quickly silenced escaped safely. Vineta arA natural gas well has been dlscov It. The Charybdls and the The this here rived captain morning. ered In coal measures two miles west Tosteamer of merchant the English of Livingstone, Mont. The well is apmob was seized the which by paz, parently of great proportions. last Wednesday, visited the English A special from Dawson says Labelle commodore on board the Charybdls, and Fournier, the murderers of and returned an hour later with a deand three others, will be tachment of fifty marines, who took banged together on January 21. ebargo of the Topaz. The populace The Iron Mountain district, the was greatly excited t this Incident, Mount 1elee of Wyoming, Is again and raised the cry "To Arms! but smouldering and threatens to Weak no Incident occurred. The English out In violent eruption In the near commodore then sent a demand to the future. authorities for Immediate satisfaction The body of William T. Smith, who for having pulled down the British was caught in a snowsllde at Breckin flag from the Topaz, and advised the ridge, Colo., has been found. Nearly government that if satisfaction was very bone in the body had been not forthcoming In two hours the broken. fortress and the custom house would The American bouse at Lewiston, be bombarded. The authorities, on the Mont, was destroyed by fire, entailing receipt of this demand, sent a mesa loss of 20,000, a quarter of which sage to President Castro, asking for falls on guests who lost clothing and Instructions. At 5 o'clock the Charyb Jewelry. dla and the Vineta opened fir on the Samuel K. McDowell, who died from fortress and custom house. The fort the eifects of a blew received in a sa- replied, but was soon silenced. No loon in Oklahoma City, was formerly damage was done to the town. The a well known Republican politician of United States consul went on board Montana. the two cruisers and was Informed by City Marshal Fatrlck Fleming of their commanders that they had come Red Lodge, Mont., was shot dead at to this port .in search of the Venethe door of his home. One report says zuelan warships. It was, a case of suicide because of doThe entrance to the inside harbor mestic troubles. and Puerto Cabello is through a nai A. W. Morrison, a Union Faciile row channel not more than a few hunbrakeman, better known as "Santa dred feet wide. To the left of this Fe," fell between the cars at Casper, channel, as one enters the harbor, on a low sand spit. Is the forWyo., and had his leg cut oft between the knee and ankle. tress which was bombarded by the Two mall carriers lost their lives British and German cruisers. It is an and their mail bags by falling through structure, which was rebuilt In the eighteenth century. Its the ice on Taku arm. They left on November 28. The names of sides sre comparatively low, and would ofTer but poor resistance to the carders are not given. modern shells. while Nlyo Goble, cleaning a flume which molten runs CASTRO AN INDIAN. at metal through the Washoe sinctler In Anaconda, was From Hlilnl to burned to death, the metal being He Rim IrnldMiljr lh rrmldenry. turned on him by mistake. Fassarge, the noted traveler, who The construction of the new refin- has Just returned to Berlin from Vening plant at the Hammond packing ezuela, says: President Castro la a bouse in Cheyenne has been comIndian, and an energetic pleted, together with the bone plant, man, without political wisdom. He the two costing about 910,000. rose suddenly from magistrate of a A wreck occurred on the Great remote village at the foot of the AnNorthern two miles south of Great des to the presidency, and his rapid Falls, Mont. Oue engine and twenty-fiv- e rise made him overconfident The cars were completely wrecked and present situation Is due to two facts: Conductor Germany Engineer Gorham ,and suddenly suspended the Stroupe injured. pressure of the early part of the year The strike at the Spreckels sugar which diminished the respect In refinery at San Francisco has been which she was held by Fresldent Casamicably Bcttled, all of the men who tro; secondly, the attitude of the officials of the great Venezuelan railwalked out returning to work. The road toward President Castro. Geremployee whose discharge caused the many's first prlnrlple must be not to trike will be reinstated. meddle In the Internal affairs of Ven' The etate board of sheep commit ezuela. but the railroad officials forget this. Dr. Passarge describes the state loners announced at its annual meet- as drifting to certain decay, and as ing that the wool clip of Montana fof frtllowlng a steadily downward course last season amounted to about 33,000,. ill nee General Blanco's presidency. The color question play an Important 000 pounds, as compared with 30, 000, role In political tendencies. The mixed 000 for the season of 1901. negroes and Indians, etc. are getting Custer county, Montana, through Its the upper hand In society and politics. legal representatives, has paid Into BEAR CHASED WOMEN. the federal court $12,000, the amount of a Judgment which haa been obtained Brala Tmirim Small Tow a la tha Slate of Washington. against the county by the Western A large black bear, wild, yet almost Ranchers company, limited. Southern Carbon county, Wyoming, a pet, was killed at Puyallup, Wash., has Just been swept by a windstorm after chasing several women down In years. Considerable one of the business streets. "lie nnequaled for food and looking was done to timber and build- apparently damage to follow the women, much to ings, but no loss of life Is repotted to started their discomfort They ran, with have accompanied the storm. bruin after them, and finally entored From the rate at which elk are be a store to escape. Tho bear on, Ing slaughtered In Wyoming, It will and was soon afterward foundkept emptya be only matter of a few yeara when ing a garbage barrel. Several mon this animal will be extluct. A pair appeared with guns, but by this time Of elk'a teeth bring from $5 to $50, tho bear had satisfied his appetite and for the timber. The hunters thus making It a paying occupation started followed and killed him. Ills skin befor the hunter. come the property of State Senator Mrs. Ann Frances Woods, a pioneer Stewart. This bear has been a faof Montana, Is dead at Helena. She miliar animal about Puyallup for twenty years or more, according to and her fist husband, William L, Buk old residents. During the aummer he lard, went from Virginia to Missouri lived on berries, and tnanv stories are In early days, and crossed the plains told by women and children of his them while picking berby way of Salt Lake City la 1114 to frightening ries. Virginia City, Mont. W. Schroeder of Kallspell, Mont, Cbrtatlaa Relenttat All Rlghl la Omrsla. The supreme court of Georgia has miraculously enesped death last week, lie was riding on the railroad track banded down a decision which Is reIn tho mountain, and when In n snow-she- d garded by Christian Scientists ss a was caught by a freight train vindication of their doctrines. A citHis horse was killed, Scnroeder'a leg izen of Dublin, Ga., a Christian Scientist. refused to give medicine to his broken and scalp wounded. sick cklld. The child died, and ths A prominent railroad official at father was arrester and fined $300. Cheyenne states that there It no truth The case was appealed to the state In the report from Laramt that Cheywhich reversed the enne was to be eliminated as a di- supreme court, Judgment of the lower court, holdvision point and Laramls mads ths ing that failure to give medicine to district terrains!, with most of ths children when 111 Is not a violation of the laws of tho state. hop work to be done there. TrUli of Hhmm. small town In Whit Georgetown, Fin county, Nevada, has been sold to TV first heavy snowstorm of the s smelter company for $35,000 by tho wlntr prevailed all over Kansas Sunfifteen Mormon families who owned day. The fall In some places amountthe properly. The town will be wiped ed IT four Inches on the level. No out to make room fur n smelter and accompanied the storm, and for a water storage reservoir. greni good to the wheat crop In cenThe accredited representative of the tral Kansas will result. Trains on til yoads were late Sunday, the snow In Culled States government In some places preventing traffic. Thera Francisco la prewiring a retort to been no relief of the fuel famine has MaBuregon General Wyman of the In Kiowa county, and should the rin hospital service st Washington, D. C., to the effect that here haa never weather grow much colder great distress will ensue. hsse bnbonte plsee In California 0. , 1 I t L I I, t 1 sit-Bat- 'i' i i 3 At-llh- 1 i i ; I ' full-bloo- i , i t : 1 1 1 i 1 . I ! ! t I ' , t ' I I.'. I ' i I ! . I , i . n i i NEWS SUMMARY. BOMBARDED. The seven-yea- r drought In Arizona has been broken. Cholera Is spreading among the lake Moros, Philippine. It Is believed the epidemic will prove serious. The bank at Hillsboro, Sierra county, Now Mexico, was held up In broad daylight and robbed of $30,000. Total Imports of merchandise and goods at the port of New York for last week were valued at $11,461,020. The Indian appropriation bill, reported to the house, carries $7,715,930, about $30,000 more than the estimates, Ingram, a lumbering place with . a population of 125, on the Soo railroad In Wisconsin, has been destroyed by fire. Senator Clark of Wyoming has Introduced a bill providing for the punishment of crimes committed against Indians. from Nanaimo, B. C., an explosion occurred at the says Northfleld powder works and one man was killed. The sultan of Morocco has arrived outside of Fez. He Is sending the bulk of his army against the pretender, who is still at Tazza. While trying to save the life of her dog, Mrs. Margaret Bolsh was Instantly Killed by the Chicago express at A dispatch J. N. Paterson, Judge Bell of the superior court, Seattle, has announced that he will sum mon a grand Jury to Investigate police and county corruption. In a fit of jealous rage Mrs. Kittle Bondurant of Carrington, N. D., shot five times at Thomas Baker, Inflicting a wound that will prove fatal. In London the Venezuelan crisis is regarded as not serious, and the opinion is expressed that President Castro's request for arbitration has come too late. By the Ignition of a package of sulphur In a mens lodging house at Bridgeport, Conn., the occupants of the place narrowly escaped death by suffocation. Every one In Caracas believes the situation to be desperate and threatens war, unless Minister Bowen succeeds In having the matters In dispute submitted to arbitration. Two new craters of Santa Marla volcano, which burst from the side of the mountain on the morning of October 24 last and devastated a large section of Guatemala, are still smoking. A new in revolution Venezuela seems probable, as General Nicolas Rondo, the first lieutenant of General Matos, has procliamed himself chief of a new venture, and has rallied 2,000 men. In Bellfontalne, O., Aaron Van Wert, 60, was found a wealthy bachelor, aged dead with a bullet hole in his breast. Ills house was on fire. sum of money hidden A considerable In the house Is missing. , The German cruiser Vineta captured, near Guanta, the Venezuelan gunboat Restaurador, formerly Georg J. Gould's yacht Atlanta. A crew from the Vineta was put aboard, and the captured vessel was sent to Trinidad. The fortresses at I a Guayra have been evacuated, and all the soldlera have left the town. The militia has been called out to maintain order. All the drinking saloons and booths have been closed by order of the president Four negroes with drawn revolvers entered the grocery store of Johs Koonsoman In the western part or South Bend, Ind., and attempted to rob the store. Koonsoman and his rlerk attempted to drive the negroes from the store, and Koonsoman was shot to death. The result of Tuesday's election In nineteen ctitles of Massachusetts shows that the Socialists polled a to tal of 10.3C9 votes. These figures added to he vote east In last week's election, brings the total In thirty-twout of thlrtv-threcities In the stute up to 21,800. Ella Beardslee of Kingston. Mich has been found dead about four miles south of here, tied In her buggy. The ropes prevented her body ,rom falling out of the sent. She Is supposed to have been assaulted and murdered, then tied In the buggy and her horse started for home. The coal shortage in Nebraska dot's not Improve, and Lincoln dealers declare the local altuatlon more precarious than It has ever been sine the resumption of work In the anthracite regions. This is especially the case with wholesalers, who seek to keep the state supplied. Government cattle agents have found that foot and mouth disease prevails among the cattle of the section of Vermont almut Chester to an extent not previously suspected. Hundreds of rattle are Infected, and orders to kill the diseased animals are already being carried out. Ths two societies composed of Philippine veterans, the National Society of the Army of the Philippines and the Philippine Island Veterans, have been merged, and the National Society of the Army of the Philippines is ths one that survives. A rumor has reached Aden of the assassination of the Mad Mullah In Tho report was brought Somaliland. to the const by a native runner from Carrereo, via Berbers. The Mullah Is said to have been Killed by a spear thrust In the stomach. la tie (iiiii H RioM Beils Were strong' wanted thought I had in mind, -I would be animal to die, and hoped the of a the instrument to relieve me burden. "What, and you so young? Come, arm tdl me, and the lady put her who around the neck of the Invalid, burst into tears. "I was betrayed, madam, by one whom I loved, and who, I thought He deserted me In my loved me. I had Just come from and necessity, I tho opportunity ft hospital when itself. sought presented "Wretched monster! Have you not thought of obtaining redress?" It would be useless to try, madam He stands too high In the social scale I would not be believed. I- m "Save my child! My God, save child!" A lady dressed In traveling attire middle gathered herself up from the of the road where she had been flung, and sobbing and wringing her hands, which ctaggered painfully after a cab street the through was dashing crowded with Christmas shoppers and jingling equipages, behind a poweffort erful, maddened horse. Ths was beyond her strength, apparently, for the lady suddenly collapsed, but nearwilling hands carried her Into a office. by Burgeons In the cab was a little girl about She did not four years of age. scream, but dung desperately to the dashboard, against which she had been thrown, her large blue eyes Sudgleaming wildly around for help. the from out man a sprang denly crowd of palsied spectators and attempted to seize the dragging reins, but the horse swerved to one side without abating his speed, and drove the wheel against a lamp post the impact of which cast the child out Into a heap of mud and slush which the street sweepers had accumulated aongslde the pavement, where she lay motionless. The horse, frightened still more by the fall of the child, who bad struck against his nose In her flight, bounded forward again, and the heavy wheel was upon the point of rolling over the little girl's head, when, with a shriek, a young girl sprang before the maddened animal, caught the bit, and with a strength sometimes given by despair to the weakest, bore the The momentary delay hnrse back. was sufficient to save the child, but the young girs strength suddenly failed her, and bruised by the front hoofs of the frantic beast, which, by a violent plunge shook here off, she fell with a broken arm and lay unconscious beside the child she had saved. Both the rescued and the rescuer were quickly carried to the office of the same surgeon where the other occupant of the carriage, after having been revived, was still weeping and wringing her hands. Restoratives quickly applied soon brought the little girl back to consciousness, and a careful examination disclosed the fact that not only were no bones brekeu, but that its tender body was scarcely bruised. Not a scratch marred the perfection of Its delicate pink skin, and the mother hung over It In hysterical rapture. Its rescuer, however, was In worse plight, for It was only by prolonged, skilful' work that she was finally restored to sensibility. She had been removed to a private room, where the doctor bad been exercising his skill to bring her back to consciousness, and was Just completing the bandaging of her broken arm, when the lady rushed in crying: "Let me see the savior of my precious child. I want to tell her bow much she has done for me, and pour out my thanks to her. In vain the doctor sought to soothe her for the sake of the patient, who was In a weak and highly nervous condition, but she would not be calm. "I must talk to her she Insisted. Lav ns, doctor, for a few minutes. What I have to say will do her good. f.VT 7 '- - .Mv ' ji o o . f 8ht clung dssperately board. to ths dash- you do not know what abe baa dons for me. The savior of my child Is W sister, 1 tell you." The doctor bowed and retired. "Now, my dear young lady, thanks are too weak to express whit feel. What can I do for you? What Is there In this world that a deeply grateful mother can do to express her gratitude? Would you like to route and live with me. and take charge of the sweet child you aed from 1 death?" The girl tried to hide her f,-from the lady'a eloquent gaze, aaay "Madam, you do not know what fcMPW you ask . she said. "If you would spurn me from you" "No, that I ioii!i j ,0 Uic lady. "You have rendered j,, high a servbe. Your deed (,MI No nmtl.-heroic. what ,nH have dore. the fault is roid..n,-by your ait. To lay down mu-Ilf,- - rr arother I the supreme sacrifice, a, lvough you were mt sacrificed u, Intent was there, my dear y0l,B lady." "Madam, when 1 dashed the maddened hone, the thought of saycblld'a life was not the ing your r s whilo ago, but I want you t me to him now. I want m i u his feet and sue for pardoa the doctor shook his head. iffli "Do not tell me he is dead Lev U cannot be. Let me die, she grasped at her bosom, her finery In her desperated her throat. With a doctor restrained '4 her down another soothing mlxn.jH Madam, said he, when. become calmer, "your husha delirious. It required strons ! ures to prevent his killing hi! He is still violent and may cover his senses before morning 7 'Sn '-- jruy - .( 1 :-- ( Ilf'V (Ssgj. I'- - J UN , "f V .... , .4 f m f L U t-j- J. .;.vVj W is Charlotte! j. , t j. c The doctor shook his head. Yes, child, 1 will believe you. Tell me his name and perhaps I may be your savior. Oh, madam, if you could be!" exclaimed the girl with sparkling eyes. "I do rot hate Richard Talbot, and "Richard Talbot? echoed the woman, rising to her feet and grasping her head as If dazed. Then standing over the siek girl with uplifted band, as if about to strike, she almost shrieked: "Woman, you lie!" "Ah. you know him? said the girl, calmly. "Perhaps you. too, have been subjected to his deadly influence?" tls No, no, gasped the woman, impossible, I tell you! Richard Talbot Is the very soul of honor. Pardon my words, but your charge against him struck me like a heavy blow. Richard Talbot could not have been your betrayer." Read these letters, madam, and tell roe, If you can, who the man is," said the girl, bitterly, drawing a small, soiled packed from her bosom. I told you I would not be believed." The lady seized them and devoured their contents; then taking a letter from her pocket, carefully compared the writing. My God, it Is true," she muttered. In a few hours more I would have been la his toils. Trusting to his honor, I, too, would have been betrayed." Suddenly striking her forehead, she burst out: My farswel) letter to my husband! I must get It before he finds It! Stooping, she kissed the girl on the lips, My slater, yon have saved more than my daughters lire this day. Be at peace, you shall be my care to your dying day. I leave you for a time, but I ball soon return and take you to a home where you will never know aught but loving kindness." After a moments private conversation with the doctor, the woman called a cab and drove furiously away with her little girl, who had already forgotten the accident. Several hours afterward, a cab orove hurriedly up to the doctor's door, and from It the same woman rushed hysterically Into the office. "The doctor! 1 want the doctor! Will ho never come? He Is keeping me away from my husband. Tne assistant vainly endeavored to pacify her. Sb strode hack and forth frantically wringing her hands and sobbing. The doctor at last returned, but before entering his private room, he reused upon the threshold, coldly surveying the occupant Taming In her ceaseless round, she saw him. and rushing up to him fell on her knees before him. "My husband, doctor; my husband! Takt m to him, hi honor U it itak. Take me to him, 1 say! After compelling the frenzied to drink a othlng the doctor placed her In a compound, chair and took a seat before her. ,aid noth-Ir- g until be perceived that his medicine was taking effect. "Madam, your husband's honor was In poor hands a few hours srd Talbot not a proper .or the honor of any man or woman. IJsien, madam. Shortly after leaving home this morning with your your daughter, forever, as you thought a condition. Ili was itwohi-ren- t follapsed In his talk and held hU letter." the docVlleld I filer W hit h the woman and 'ore Into fragments. 11 N,i I" not my j,., ,.r . tid not write it, it J 1 1 . USu n,r U d v..Tn -- "' "W I I repair the wrong by deatroylng ,ha m lain U. was too late. You would hot let me see him. doctor, Vt: fjD Lte Lp J so. "Come here to my heart, Charloc and he clasped her c& to his breast. "But where am I! my wife, hear the Christmas bells. never to hear them again. happened, Charlotte? I thout WhstL "Edward, my husband, you liw been 111, and you have been draslij Hut not now, dear. It Is real that am by your side, and the Chriict liclls are real. Listen, they are x' lart f joi Irg you how much I love you." With their arms around each oil jqflj they listened to the bells which ipcu jjQj to them in a language that could si La be misunderstood. Edward Dallh; recovered finally, but his wai a dte perate chance and left him feeble fc many months. He never knew tlvely whether the letter he found V, h's wife's table, announ ig that sit did not love him, snd that the n about to depart to a foreign land find happiness with Richard Talk was dream or e reality. His constant tendeuesa and unwattrl devotion finally blotted it from mind. On every Christmas norcU: they never fall to sit In silence r. clasped bands, listening to the t t jf ill I U I '4 Listen c-v-, They sre telling I much I lovs you." whose music dissipated the ml' fore their hi art and brought t ouls together, never to be WP1 by any misunderstanding. I wo-ma- fb.; ct. lotte! mingled with pittnu deffia for baby. Take me to him, doctor t ! cure him I am the only oneld0 ,1 not understand? I am his CharlJ -he wants me and I must go to She arose and went out, the following. He placed her in the and together they drove to the k " pital. It was a pitiful sight. The holding a lady with a strong, resm lng hand to prevent her thror herself upon the form of a mao 'ay grasping at his throat and cm,' "Charlotte! Charlotte! Come ba to me,. Charlotte; you have killed,, My heart Is broken, and I loved so You did not mean what t, wrote, did you, Charlotte? How everything Is. You said I never lor,) you, but you were so queenly bear fill that I was afraid to let you It Is bursting with lot my heart for you, Charlotte. Come, my wife and he opened wide his eye, fo, which the woman, tearing herJ away from all restraint cast her and, 'winding her arms around 0 neck, laid her cheek close to h Under the hypnotic Influence of p presence, the ravings ceased finally slumber came. The wife) fused to be taken away from M husbands arms, and so they were It alone. In the crisp, early morn, the be. of an adjoining church rang out the merry Christmas peals and aio, the patient, who sat up and loot ground. "Where am 1? he asked, rubhi: xls' dazed eyes. "The bells, Christmas bells! I have had t hid Oils dream. Ah. Charlotte!" He It his hand caressingly upon that hot Lead and whispered: Charlotte, hi you come back to me? Am I dret Ing?" "No, husband,, not now, Edr husband; I am not worthy to call jt J fixcsn. jjt, constant cry EARLY CHRISTMAS "I St. " H I t( MUSIC- - li 4 Both In Germany snd In Ert! Kg olden times the custom among young choristers of f j Wj through the streets In hand ls ,M od Christmas morning tain Christmas hymns and carols Ji L, before the houses of ths ;v familiar picture Is that or I Luther when a boy singing streets at Christmas dawo. 8T,rt o, the most familiar German Cbd hmyns were harmonized Pr,i seventeenth century by Jacob R: rlou to melodies composed middle of the sixteenth rettW m l.uther. One of the greatest f of German tnusle, Johans ' Bsrh. when pupil st the c1 grammar school of St. Mho' I.utieberg, walked the stre bi Christmas t l morning I "waits, as they were railed land, with his fellow rhorUt'' of leitlng money and a share lies provided. t. 1 U i |
