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Show Iter Uews he $ox STANDING A WHOM, rroprleters. Year, la advano Month itt ( stored at th Postoffic aecond-olaa- a tion to Inhabitants of Devastated Area. at Brigham City aa mail mattar. HTKUM STANDING, Inatracllea to Fierce Forest Fires In Oregon end Washington Brings Death and Desola- U Ultr. Carrpa4aU. iMm of newa ar aoUciMd from all part of th ouatry. Writ upoa on ide f th paper only. Writ proper aame plainly. Ia rdr to proteat to publUher from Imposition from lrropoalbl pnon.to th full nam of the author ahould b all Th Identity of oorrmpondenta lnd will b withheld whenrr delrd. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS Salt Lake City now has only two mail pox patients under quarantine. About the acarceet thing on the Salt Lake market, eo far as variety is concerned, is fish. The Lehi academy opened last week with the largest attendance for an opening day since its commencement. The attendance at the public schools of Salt Lake on the opening day was 11,300, ah increase of 320 over last year. The trial of Merrill M. Ealghn, who murdered Willard S. Haynes last November, at Salt Lake, is now in progress. The Rio Grande station at Murray has been abandoned and the new one at Pallas, half a mile south, has been occupied. Burglaries are becoming of almost dally occurrence in Salt Lake City, and the police seem unable to cope with the s. The bank clearings in Salt Lake for the week ending September 13 were $3,187,305, as against $3,385,939 for the aame period last year. Marion A. Brashear, who accidently shot and killed Alex J. Kielland on a Saltair train last week, will be tried on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. President Joseph F. Smith and party of church leaders will make tour of the southern portion of the state during the latter part of the week. Mrs. A. J. Turnwall, of Sunshine, objected to her husband gambling and finding him in a gambling house took three shots at him, without fatal results, however. Louis Rivers, an employee !n the rock quarry in Little Cottouwood canyon, fell thirty feet from a ladder and received painful injuries which may coat him bis life. The criminal calendar of the Seventh district court has been postponed until Monday, the 29th inat., becanae of the prevalence of smallpox in Ephraim and aicknesa at MantL Escalante desert, usually depended upon for winter range for Iron county, ia entirely devoid of any vegetation, and where formerly ranged from 75,000 to 125,000 sheep, none will be able to Driven from their hoine&in the darkness of the night by a raging forest fire which swept everything before it from Ariel, Cowlitz county, Washington, to the foot of Mount St. Helens, a distance of twenty-fiv- e miles, eleven four are were dead, missing and people over 200 people havebeen left homeless, and many have not even clothes enough to cover them. Four men who were working on a claim belonging to James Hawthorne have not been found and it is thought that they are dead. Some fifty or sixty people were camped at the lake at the foot of Mount St. Helens and they have not been heard of since the fire. It is not known whether they escaped or not. The first news of the devastation was brought to Portland by Milo M. who experienced many difficulties in making the trip out to send aid to the sufferers. From his description the suffering there is great aDd the devastation is the most appalling of any that has been reported. For a stretch of twenty-fiv- e miles, he says, there are but two houses standing. The fine timber these people expected to realize upon has all been destroyed. Abont '300 people are left homeless in Multnomah and Clackamao counties as a result of the forest fires which have raged for the past week. Fires have burned over a large scope of country but the greatest damage in this state appears to have been done in these two counties. In the fire that destroyed the town of Palmer, near Bridal Veil, two boys named Hamilton were caught while trying to escape from the flames and burned to death. News reaches Kalamah, Wash., that the forest fires on Lewis river have wrought sad havoc, D. L. Wallaee, wife and two children beiDg burned to death. They were camping in the woods when caught by the fire. Their wagon was found burned np and the charred bodies were lying near. A 12 year-ol- d boy of Mr, Hanleys is dead also. Mrs. John Polly and baby, and a brother, name not known, and Mr. Newhouse and Mrs. Graves are dead. Fifteen others were found without clothing, except gunnysacks. Dim-mic- to Have to Dinf Property 1 Greet. The forest fires now raging in tbe mountains of western Oregon and western Washington are probably the most widespread ever known. Within miles of Porta radius of seventy-fiv- e land, Ore., five people are missing and it is thought they have perished in the flames. The flames have driven many, people from their homes and it is known.-tha- t many houses, barns and mch-.livesto- ck have beetf deal royed. At Lents, Oregon, several houses were burned and tbe line of tbe Oregon Water Power & Railway company to that village has been disabled. At Bridal Veil, thirty miles east of Portland, two saw mills burned and in Clackamas county, near Bpringwater, at least fifteen houses and barns have been destroyed. In Clark county. Wash., ten miles from Vancouver, eight farm houses were burned and three lives are reported lost. In Portland the houses are covered with asbee and the lights bad to be turned on early in tbe afternoon on account of tbe thick smoke which floods the city. The wife of John Myers, a farmer, was burned to death in their home in Clark county, Washington. Number of Live Reported Been Lost, While tbe Vl-- Six Louth. Ykro FOREST FIRES RAGING IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON ELEVEN LIVES KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN LOST AND A NUMBER MISSING. Tmi of Sabocrlptloa: 0o k, multi-millionai- low-lyin- 1 bdtn-mittl- - " en . REPUBLICANS NAME TICKET.! Platform Adopted Endoniaf the Admla-pstratloo and Reaffirms the Platform WIFE OF SENATOR STEWART KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE. of 1900. At the Republican state convention, held in Ogden on the 11th., Joseph Howell, of Cache county, was nominated for congress, while Judge W. M. McCarty, of Sevier county, received the nomination for supreme judge. A 'platform, was adopted endorsing the policies of the administration, re affirming the national platform of 1900, endorsing the project of opening the Uintah reservation, upholding the Nations pledge to Cuba, and opposing tbe formation of combinations of capital designed to control prices. The state committee organized by electing James H. Anderson of Salt Lake as chairman, Thomas Hull of Salt Lake as first Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells of Salt Lake as second and W. F. Adams of Salt Lake as treasurer. The selection of a secretary will be left to the chairman and two candidates. Senator Beveridge of Indiana, and other prominent speakers, addressed the convention at the evening session. The prominent officers of the convention were: Chairman Hon. John E. Booth of Utah. an Mrs. Rachel Miller of Salt Lake and Hon. Alma Eldredge of Summit Secretary A. J. Brunean. Assistant Secretaries Mrs. Alice Collins of Wasatch, Oscar Olsen of Morgan, Ernelia Graehl of Box Elder and Mr. Eyrich of Salt Lake. Sergeant-at-ArH. P. Jensen of Sanpete. Assistant Sergeant-at-ArC. E. Layne of Weber. Chaplain John Henry Smith. 1HE BEFORE JOSEPH HOWELL FOR CONGRESS AND W. m. McCarty for supreme judge. " Machine Ban Into Telegraph Polo and Occupant Were Thrown to the Ground. Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife of the United States senator from Nevada, waB killed in an automobile accident in San Francisco Friday. Mrs. Stewart was enjoying a ride with Henry Foote, son of W. W. Foote, the attorney, and H. B. Taylor. They were going along Santa Clara avenue, in Alameda county, Taylor guiding the machine and ending it along at a high epeed. A vehicle approached and Taylor swerved the automobile aside in order to avoid S collision. At that moment be either lost control of the steering apparatus or made a miscalculation. Tbe automobile ran into a telegraph pole and tbe occupants were thrown out. Mrs. Stewart struck on her bead and was carried in an unconscious condition to a sanitarium in the vicinity where she soon died. Foote and Taylor escaped with minor bruises. Taylor is a cousin of Fred' erick Benedict, who was recently crushed to death under his automobile in New York. Mrs. Stewart resided at Washington, D. C. She was visiting her sister, Mrs. Louis Aldrich, who lives in San Francisco. Mrs. Stewart, before her marriage, was a Miss Foote, a daughter of Henry Foote, governor and United States senator from Mississippi before the Civil war'and who, during tbe fifties, spent some years in California. Senator and Mrs. Stewart have several daughters, one of whom lives in New York City. Senator Stewart is at present at The Hague, in connection with tbe Pius fund arbitration, in which has taken a a deep interest. , Ledochowski Native Town Haa Memento of Great Churchman. Cardinal Ledochowski, Prefect of the Propaganda, who died the other day, had often expressed the Irish that his body should be interred In Rome, but that his heart should be sent to his native town of Forki, in Poland. After embalming the remains, Dr. Pelagallo extracted the cardinals heart, which was found to be abnormally largo. It will be forwarded to Gorki in a crystal urn. No fewer than 143 card'narls have now been buried by Leo XII. Cardinal Ledochowski was one of tbe three only surviving cardinals created by Pius IX. The remaining two, Garocchi and Oreglia, were too unwell to attend the funeral. BACK FROM AFRICAN DIOCESE. Hartzell Returns from Sixth Tour in Dark Continent Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell, who has returned from his sixth tour as Metb odist Episcopal bishop of Africa, was elected to that position in 1896, at which time he was already one of the most widely known of American mis- Bishop During tbe noon recess of the state convention the Utah State League of Republican clubs held its annual meeting and elected the following officers: President, John Henry Smith of Salt Lake; vice president, Mrs. E. West, Ogden; secretary, Walter J. Meeks, Salt Lake; auditor, James Clove, Provo; members of the executive William Glasmann of committee, Ogden and Hoyt Sherman of Salt Lake. Tbe following were elected delegates to the next national convention Vf the clubs, which will be held in Chicago on Oct. 11: Hoyt Sherman, Perry S. Heath, Walter J. Meeks, Mrs. W. H. Jones, Salt Lake county; William Glasmann, Weber county; Mr. Evans, Utah county; Mrs. E. West, Weber connty; N. P. Neilson and M. M. Steele, Garfield connty. TRAIN ROBBER SURRENDERS. Bart Alvord, Famous Arizona Outlaw, Tire of Being Booted. Bert Alvord, tbe famous train robber and outlaw, has surrendered to lf the St. Louis tj sym Jesse Johnson, a negro.AvasTiangqd here today. His neck Whsroken. On the scaffold Johnson made a speech in which he confessed the crime, and said tbatlieliad joined tie church and that he had Christ in his soul and was the happiest man on earth and bed no fear of the future, as he had made his peace with God. Post-Dispatc- Bobber Tie Victim to a Tr After Bee tiring AU HI Colo. A teamster named Charles Murray, who drives a freight wagon of the Fursa Major Supply company at Iowa Hill, Cal., was held np by two masked robbers on the road between Colfax and Iowa HilL The robbers eeenred $1,900 in coin, which was en route to pay off tbe men 'at the Big Dipper mine. The men were both tall and wore dusters and masks. Murray was tied to a tree, where he was found when the stage drove np. , Insanity Caused by Tapeworm, ter performing an autopsy on the .. body of Rudolph Haller, a laborer of New York City, a coroners physician has decided that insanity, from which Haller suffered and died, was cansed by a tapeworm sixty feet long. The autopsy showed that tbe tapeworm had distended the organs and caused such pressure on the tendons and ligaments connected with the spinal column and cord that the brain was affected. Haller suffered frequently from convulsions and finally became Insane. . Brooklyn Bitten Killed by Bit of Fly, by a fly two weeks ago, M n- -l George Lindhurst of Brooklyn is dead. Th'e physicians pronounce it an extra-ordinary case. Lindhurst was bitten on tbe thumb of bis right hand. Three days later a swelling began and spread rapidly, The doctors declared the fly which bite bad.caused they could not check, and tbe victim died in great agony. Lindhurst was 56 years old and In fairly good health before he was bitten. blood-poisonin- g, Created Sensation In Court. Margery Kingdon, a stylishly dressed woman, charged in a police conrt at Cardiff, Wales, with disorderly conduct, created a great sensation in conrt by claiming thati she bad purposely cansed herself to he locked up in order to draw attention to her claim against the late Duke of ClareBce, brother of the Prince of Wales, and asserting that she had lost her husband and children in order to save the Dukes name and that now she had come all tbe way from India to get her rights. Reward fur Tracy Partner. bill is to be introduced in the Oregon legislature at tbe coming session A for the relief of Mrs.- - Waggoner of Chehalis, who, in company with her son, fonnd the body ot the outlaw Merrill, in the woods. The reward of $1,500, which was offered for the body of the outlaw, dead or alive, will be claimed in this manner in consideration of the fact that the secretary of state refused to pay more than $300 to Mrs. Waggoner, the amount which Superintendent Lee of the etate penitentiary offered the woman. slonaries. The bishop in his earlier years was closely associated with Chicago. He is a native Illinoisan, was educated in the Wesleyan University of that state and subsequently at the Garrett Biblical Institute. In 1868 he united with the Central Illinois conference and for a score of years thereafter acted as secretary of the Freedmans Aid Society. He is 60 years SETTLER IN tj ss. Wa iusJ x Pullman bound westi pished the story-las- t ' love Jnne. of Omahas are citizens, wlth the int A. ter, Mrs. daughter Miss Katie Burns, housekeeper for James Bell, a Brooklyn millionaire, who died recently and left her his fortune, came to the United States as an immigrant in 1882, her possessions being a trunk containing a little Last clothing and a few dollars. week she sailed for her old home with a fortune of $1,000,000 and a collection of jewels worth several hundred thousand dollars. Katie Burns became housekeeper for James Bell soon after her arrival in this country and by her devotion and care for the aged millionaire earned his gratitude. Bell disinherit-- , ed his sous, since dead, for leading wild lives and marrying without his consent After they had left his house the aged millionaire came to look upon his housekeeper as his only friend, and after giving away a great deal of his fortune he made her his heir. She accompanied him to Europe, where she sat at his side at dinners he gave to distinguished men he had met in his extensive travels of years before. POPULAR ACTRESS. yunl The pent in Oman well-bre- d Several of ti ba had soul nd in ac dec. father, that she w mar getting The other Pullman coi .concerned, Sns. Heh over six fe jgure. a blonde hal combines . a. with the tn One thing mating per 24 youth of The death of her aged masters blood heirs removed any contestants of the will, and when she sailed tor Glasgow she was in full possession of the estate. It is said she wia marry In Scotland a man who has been twenty years waiting for her. I Ada Gray Buried By Charity of the Actors Fund. In the Actors Fund plot at Evergreen cemetery. New York, by the charity of professionals, Ada Gray, the actress, who made and spent much in her lifetime, is buried. She died at the Home for Incurables at CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS OF there io sou more persu man in all J eonality. magnetic friends of they believ Svengall, feldt acted Speeding the young J OLD. Oldest Death Sentence Extant Found in Egypt. The oldest death sentence extant U found In the Amherst papyri contain-inthe trials of state criminals in Egypt, about 1,300 B. C. The crimi-na- l in this case was found guilty of magic, which his judges state was worthy of death, which he carried out, and he killed himself apparently by stabbing, as in the Japanese i, which Is also of very ancient origin. Amongst less civilized peoples, drowning would seem to have been the earliest method of legal punishment, ror, about 450 B. C., the Britons killed their criminals by throwing them into a quagmire. Of other capital punishments, the oldest recorded comes from Chaldea, where it was enacted, some six thousand years ago, that when anyone maimed a slave, the hand that thus offended should pay him each day a measure of corn. ty Miss Sh g hari-kar- COLORADO. the First White Woman to Cross the Plains. Mrs. Catherine Murat of Palmer Lake, Colo., who lays claim to the unique distinction of being the first white woman to cross the plains In 1858 and settle in(Colorado, celebrated her 80th birthday recently. Mrs. Murat possesses a wonderful memory and recalls her many Intel estlng experiences in the pioneer dayt influence, --man tic , old. EARLY continu poretnn9 Of its possibt self U10 from DEATH OF For State- - gubsequa tu CARDINALS HEART WAS LARGE. Sheriff Lewis of Cochise county, Arizona, and "Billy Stiles, his old pal who turned states evidence and joined Hounded by Latest Account of tho Mont Felcc Horror. the Arizona rangers Professor Angelo Heilprin, president rangera in the United States and ruckles in Mexico, broken in spirit, bia of the Philadelphia Geographical soright arm shattered by bnllets, so that who is in Martinique in the inciety, terest of the National Geographical he can no longer use a gun, Alvord decided to up the desperate chances society, has made the following report of the lifegive he had been leading and on the recent eruptions of Mont Pelee: to the leniency of the law. He "The scene of destruction in the last trust eruption of Mont Pelee far surpasses in notified Stiles of his willingness to surextent that of the eruption of May 8, render, met Lewis and Stilea across when St. Pierre was destroyed, and in- the line, surrendered and was brought cludes tbe broad area lying between to Tucson for Bafe keeping. Macouba and Carbet, and involves Haute Tours de Bourden, Basse Pointe, Oil Field Ablaze. Teu Morne Balai and Ajoupa Bouillon, The oil field at Beaumont, Texas, is where alone upwards of 300 persons were killed, as well as Morne Rouge, on fire, and, judging from tbe great with a death list of probably not less volume of smoke which is flowing in than 1,100 persons. Morne Capot and the heights somewhat this side of from Spindle Top, there is grave fear Foods Stf Denis, the blast, however, that great loss will be sustained, if the leaving the last named place untouched. field ia not entirely destroyed. Tbe Great cinders fell also over the region fire started in some waste oil along the of Grand Riviere, and1 Prechenr ia covered deep with ashes. In Carbet the Texas & Sabine tracks and burned ashes lie one foot deep and nearly the about sixty feet of trestle. This was same amount covers the ruins of dt. under control and it was bePierre. All of Morne Rouge, with the gotten lieved that all danger bad passed, bat of about four houses and the in the meanwhile the fire bad been exeept.on beanLiful church, has been swept to eommnnicated to the field and a numthe ground and the greater part of the ber of huge tanks, containing town has been burned np. At Ajoupa thousands ofsettling barrels of petroleum have of tbe town Bouillion, where one-baexploded and others are rehas been prostrated, there is no trace already as being in a direct line of tha ported of fire of any kind. fire. Negro Who Died on th GsUow Wa Sure Me Wa Baved, A special from New London, Mo., to court powe man 1 PUBLIC EYE ms Republican Club Elect Officer Pj hyptM Vice-Chairm- Millionaire Stratton Dead. William S. Stratton, the of Colorado Springs, Colo., owner of the famous Independence mine in the Cripple Creek district, is dead after an illDessof several months. Id April, 1891, having seen some specimens of gold ore from Cripple Creek district that impressed him favorably, he went to that eamp to prospect. On the 3rd of July, after weeks of fruitless prospecting, a man who agreed to grub stake him having disappointed him, Stratton decided to go to Cripple Creek and stake out a claim on hie own acrange. count. He rode the thirty-fiv- e miles William C. Barker, of Satt Lake City, from Colorado Springs to the camp on la the lucky candidate in the naval cahorseback, and on tbe morning of tbe detship examination held last week. 4th of July, 1891, staked out the IndeA. F. Sherman, a member of the Salt pendence and Washington claims, in honor of the day and the father of bis lake High school senior class, is the country. The Independence gave origialternate. nal assavs of $380 to the ton, and In 1892 be leased and bonded the WashThe attendance at the Latter-da- y $80,000. The independence Saints nniveraity In Salt Lake City is ington for yielded Stratton millions, and in 1898 450, aa compared with 283 for the first was sold by him for $10,000,000, he reweeks enrollment last year. The in- taining, however, a very considerable crease ie mainly confined to the high interest even after retaining the sum of money. He was the owner of the school and normal departments. Colorado Springs railway system, on J. F. Sharp, of Salt Lake, last week which he has spent $1,500,000 in tbe past two yearB. His wealth is estiwon the title of champion trap shooter mated everywhere at from $15,000,000 of the state, when he took the Brownto $50,000,000. ing state championship silver loving . Terrlfle Storm Sweeps Over Germany. bine cup, with a score of ninety-eig- ht out-oDestructive storms raged in many a possible 100. rocks broken The fourth one of the large pumps parts of Germany Suuday. In Saxony has been received and placed in. po- the temperature sank to zero, and a hnrricane-lik- e wind unroofed many sition at the big Jordan pumping plant houses and a large number of injured LehL Next season the four pumps at combined will furnish over 400 cubic people. Theldamage is estimated at . feet of water per second, which will fill millions of marks. Avery heavy northwest storm visited the Jordan river with more water than the cities on the North sea. Considerit has ever contained. able damage was done to bathing esThe state legislature at its coming tablishments on the Elba, and a numsession, will be asked to make an apg ber of houses were partially propriation of $35,000 or $40,000 for the wrecked. purpose of building a new ball of met- Awful Crime Committed ly Tramp - and kindred assaying allurgy, Stelnbaoer, Nebraska. branches, including a concentrating Mrs. Kate Fournell, living with her mill for practical demonstrations, at the University of Utah. parents near Steinhaner,' while alone The birth report to the board of Saturday night, was criminally assaulted by tramps, who then murdered health of Salt Lake for the week endher , and dragged her body 'into the shows the of birth ing September 13, male children and ninetwenty-on- e yard, where they set fire to her clothteen females. The deaths for the same ing. When found the clothing was entirely burned from the body. The period numbered fifteen males and twelve females. Of this number eight men evidently had roken open the were over 70 years of age. house, which they looted after The Salt Lake'county Jail now conthe crime. Bloodhounds have tains three men who have taken been pnt on the trail of the tnetf. human life Thomas McGee, Merrily I Mobbed, Being Saved Kaighn and M. A. Romney.- Two Bon Beulah From Danger by Police. , others, Marion Brasher, and Barney Extraordinary scenes occurred Sunfour coo- Ecstein, are out on bail, and at day at Clapton, England, where nearly vie ted murderers Lynch, King, Mort-ens' and Haworth a reminder a death $,000 persons attempted to mob a for: watch at the penitentiary. mer Episcopal clergyman named PigGilbert Van Scboonhoven, who gott, who ia now tbe leader of a sect called tbe Agapemonites. labors under the delusion that be has Piggott last week announced himself as the been a coachman for President McKinMessiah. Exposures of tbe man, which ley and that In his absence the horses filled many columns in the newspapers, of the late president will not receive heightened public interest in the matthe proper attention, has been comter to such a point that Piggott was mitted to the insane asylum. Van only taken from the mob by tbe efforts Schoonboven was a back driver in Salt of mounted police. Lake City. . Cure for L$pro$y Tried Coleman, aged 15, of Salt Lake, Bay The medical boat'd reports very was the victim of an accident last week favorable, progress in the ten Cases of came near ending hie life, , He leprosy now in the hospital at Havana, fell upon S broken chairt striking hie ' which are under tbe special treatment thigh against a broken rouDd, th 5 oreno, who have of Drs. and Deque a to flesh the of round piercing depth a month by recently been allot,- -' five inches. - - . bouse of repres ntatives to eon the Harry Strong was 6hot and seriously tlnue their investigation for a cure of wounded by Miles Romney in a saloon tbe disease, which was begun under in Salt Lake City, Sunday last. The tbe military government. The medimen bad been partners and quarreled cine employed by tbe Caban doctors is beis over business affairs. Romney aa extract from red mangrove and ia hind the bars, and should Strong die used as a salve and a ionic. will be tried for murder. . ROMANCE IN LIFE OF SCOTTISH GIRL: A MILLIONAIRES CAPRicr PERISH IN FOREST FIRES. Mrs. Catherine Murat ' THE TOMB OF CECIL RHODES. Model of Fordham, where she had been an ested In Mausoleum Empire-Builder'- s to Is Completed. A model in lath and plaster of the imposing mausoleum which is to be erected in the Matoppos to contain the remains of the late Cecil Rhodes has been constructed by Mr. John Tweed, and Is now on view at CheIt Is of appropriately lsea, England. simple design, but of massive proportions, and when constructed, as it Is to be, of block granite. It is estimated to cost some $100,000. There will be massive doors of copper on each of the four sides of the monument, while at the top will be placed the panels which Mr. Rhodes wished to erect In in- mate, supported by the Actors Fund for several months. Ada Gray began her stage career at an early age, being but sixteen years when she made her first appearance in Rochester in support of McCullough. She played with Booth and a number of the famous actors of the period immediately after the civil war, and was the first woman to star In East Lynne in this country. She was twice married, her last husband being Charles F. Tingay, an English actor, who was her leading man the last few years of her career. 1 discos alone, ar him to a tor that 'Consider! While who wot impress! tlcing th ance of he was cult for man anc The t this mo herself was sea No le Mr. Wi Queer Matches Used by Senators. When matches were first invented it was the custom to put them up in circular wooden boxes, which con-- 1 sisted of small hollow pieces of pins, with a cover, and plastered with sandpaper on the bottom. It is the rule of the senate stationer never to change anything. The United States senate is the only place In the world where these boxes can be obtained and whenever a senator carries a box with him In his hip pocket its bulging contour suggests a bottle. Tbe oddity of the senatorial matchbox Is legendary, but when the fire of a debate is on there is no need of additional sulphur. with the savage tribes and life In the early West, in such pleasing manner and with such pronounced vividness as to make her one of the most Interesting and popular women of the place. Mrs. Murat has deeded her pretty home in Palmer Lake and all her personal property to the Pioneer Society of Denver, to be kept In trust for her during her lifetime, and which will revert to the society upon her death. Philadelphia Business Woman. Miss Sophie Beauveau Borie, a popuLawsuit Over a Cent Frederick Herrick, a millionaire lar society girl of Philadelphia, makes lumber manufacturer of Birmingham, a comfortable income by selling coal Ala., has appealed from a one cent on a commission, in quantities rangMiss fine Imposed in the police court on ing from one ton to a carload. a charge of refusing to pay a licensed Borie also conducts a general decorat-restaurant bill. He went into a res- ing business, and many of the fine taurant and ordered a lunch with cold homes in her city have been comslaw. The slaw was brought to pletely decorated and furnished under - him with dressing and he refused to her supervision. pay fifteen cents for 1L He was aa rested and locked up- -, The polled Menelek Has Large Army. Though ad African, King Menelek judge fined him one cent, and Hen rick says he will appeal to the of Abyssinia is a man of progressive ideas and has transformed his me- supreme court dlaeval country almost into a mod' The Desert Blossoms. em state. His military system still The Speakman fruit farm, near Neo- belongs to a past age In many re-sho, Is one of the most interesting spects, but be can put into tbe field It a formidably equipped army of 300,--1 places of the kind In Missouri. consists of 300 acres in fruit and or- 000 men. chards. The ground is covered with The Paradise of Rotes. rock and it was necessary to loosen The paradise of roses is not In It with dynamite before trees could be planted. And yet on this sterile Turkey, Bulgaria, or Persia, it seems, soil rich, luscious fruit is raised ev- but at Sceaux, near Paris, where, In ery year. Mr. Speakman has 100 acres his garden of LHay, M. Gravereaux of strawberries, which produced a big has collected 6,000 different species from all parts of the world. The clamcrop. bering roses are particularly fine, and Status of John W. Gates. are trained over espaliers as well as A Wall street broker was asked arcades. whether he would call John W. Gates Revolver a Modern Weapon. a speculator or a financier. Walt a If he Joseph Shirk, formerly of Lancasyear or so, was the reply. makes a big pile he will be a finan- ter, Pa., the man who made the first cier; If he goes broke he will be a revolver, died the other day. The present generation hardly imagines a speculator. time when there was no revolver, but In truth It Is a modern weapon Eloquent Obituary. An editor of a Southern' Missouri and in its real efficiency only a few paper speaks thus feelingly in a re- years old not to exceed forty. cent obituary notice: Just about daylight the Pale Horse came for him, with the saddle and bridle of righteousness, and he straddled It and rode Home. i 1 Bhopzs Mzmobials. n memory of the party under Major WU-- ; son, who died heroically defending themselves against the Matabeles. The sketch also shows a model of a statue which is to be erected at Bula' wayo. r . To with as a read csta , 8enator Beveridges 8crapbook. Nearly every member of congress keeps a scrapbook, and for the time covered Senator Beverldger is th largest of the lot. The Indiana mas already has two volumes of 250 page each, with t ree newspaper column? to thepage. . i ip I V , . Will Stay In the West President E. R. Nichols of the Kansas State Agricultural college has been tendered the presidency of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, but has declined the offer, considering his opportunities greater in the west 1 the had . No R sh to Join Club. A choral ub has been organize at Kansas ity, Kan., tbe membe is restricted to ship of whu 18 wi have never had a pre posal of ma age. As yet the roll of members i3 ot large. Ing The plea flatt le&s othi A tral ceri Mi! in no loll Th all usi am ml tai Mi girl-und- er in Alaskan River. . There are seven species of salmon in the Taku river, Alaska. Each has its date of arrival from the sea at the r. spawning grounds. an av trl hi Salmor . ei Fi P, hi |