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Show I i FAMINE IN PHILIPPINE ht goat Iter T AH DING Tam REVOLUTIONIST IS SUBDUED. ISLANDS. Civil Commission Take Steps to Prevent Suffering Among Poorer People. WIXOM. Froprlatere. It of Sebserlptloai that President ia believed Roose-vel- ts order permitting foreign vessels JS to engage in coastwise trade through the Philippine islands will relieve imBate red at th Postoflle at Brigham City as mediately the freight a mall matter. situation, and will improve and lessen the cost of rice, in which article a famHYKUM BTANDINQ, Mltm ine is threatened. The civil comInztrnctleas to CerrafeadMia mission intends to act at once on the Item of new are solicited from ail porta of presidents order, hoping thereby to th oountry. Write upon one aide of th paper oaly. avert suffering among the poorer peoWrite proper name plainly. In order to proteet the publisher from ple of the islands. from irreaponaibl parson. th full Agriculture in the islands, already name of the author ahould be signed The identity of oorrapondeata on account of war and cholimpaired deal red. will b withheld whenever era, has been further injured by locusts. These have appeared in many PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. places and are working serious injury to the crops. The advent of locusts, UTAH STATE NEWS. together with the fall of the price of silver, renders business and industrial Six new cases of smallpox were reprospects in the Philippines gloomy. The cholera is gaining a strong footof health board to the Lake Salt ported hold on the island of Mindanao. It is last week, expected to spread there as it has elseW. C. Cooper, convicted of a where in the islands. It continues to of law of the prohibitory liquor of the in had be Iloilo, Island province Springville, was fined 899 and costs. elsewhere. is but of it light Panay, On account of the favorable weathei cases reported up to date exceed The the cannery at Kaysville is still run 100,000. ningand will be able to fill all contracts. SHOOTING AFFRAY IN WYOMING Ob Tear, li sdrsnos 111 Loothi tlfW Month ,..IL5 M inter-insul- ar THIRTY-FIV- DEPOSED GOVERNOR OF MONTE CHRISTI TROOPS. DEFEATED BY GOVERNMENT General Navarro Had Things Coming His Way for a Short Time, Bat Cam a Cropper at Last. BELIEVED TO HAVE PEOPLE E MET DEATH IN Twenty Million Days In the Present Tear Lost Through Labor War. A CHICAGO FIRE. the Seventh Floor Unable to Make Their Escape and Met a Horrible Death Number of Dead Not Tet Known. Men Working on seooud-olaa- toalloom-munteatlo- viola-latio- There is & company of 200 Greeks camped at Prospect, engaged in raising the grade of the Rio Grande railroad between Provo and Salt Lake. Henry Jones, aged 12, of Provo, had a horse on which he was riding fall on him, one day last week,, the young fellow sustaining serious bruises. John G. Martin who shot D. Lindsey at Salt Lake last week, inflicting a wound in the leg, has been sentenced to six months in the county jail. A banquet was given at Riverton one night last week to celebrate the completion and successful operation of the pumps at the intake of the Jordan river, covers being laid for forty. Tom Sandohl, a deaf mute, aged 6 years, had his feet badly crushed by a street car on the Salt Lake-Murr- ay line last week. He could not hear the sar, and failed to note its approach. old C. W. Johnson, whose shild was recently drowned in an open flume in Salt Lake City, has been awarded damages in the sum of $905, by the unanimous verdict of the jury. A locomobile line from Salt Lake to Deep Creek is to he established. The locomobile will carry passengers only and will make weekly trips to Deep and Creek by way of Grantsville Tooele. P. J. Daly, secretary of the Democratic state committee, while running to catch a street car, caught his chin over a clothesline and suffered a dislocation of his shoulder. Se is temporarily laid up. From all indications the Utah Sugar company will have a most successful run this year. It is turning out on an average of 2,500 bags of sugar each day, the largest number for any day being 2,910 bags. Thomas G. Stubbs and James H. Kaisner, two picture canvassers who were recently arrested by Salt Lake police as grafters, have each brought suit against the city for $10,000 for false imprisonment. ' The Bryan special struck a buggy a4 West Jordan containing Mrs. Matt Smith of Holliday and her baby, hut although the horse was killed and the buggy smashed to kindling wood, th occupants escaped uninjured. John Wilson, a lineman employed in Salt Lake City, last week fell from a pole to the ground below, a distance of thirty-fiv- e feet, and sustained no injury whatever, immediately climbing the pole and resuming bis work. Salt Lake City officers are looking for a clairvoyant who last week decamped with $450 belonging to a lady who had giveD him the money to place with a lucky stone, to make it lucky, so it would dou ble her savings in a short time. A press dispatch from Marion, Indiana, says Mrs. James A. Stover of Salt Lake City has caused a sensation there by kidnaping three children which had been given into the custody of her husband, lrom whom she bad been di' vorced. The supposed graves found on the northwestern slope of Antelope island, that furnished the foundation for all kinds of theories of foul murder among the officeis, proved not to he graves at all, but piles of sand thrown up by some person. The farmers in Spanish Fork have received orders to discontinue the digging of beets till November 1st. It is due to over stock and the danger of beating in the 6heds. Some of the farmers have been delivering at the rate 'of ten tons a day. A. J. Otereard, a solicitor from Provo, was held up and robbed of $15 in the shadow of the Rio Grande Western depot in Salt Lake,' one night last week, by two masked men, who, after relieving him of his wealth, told him to run along and tell a policeman. At the old folks reunion in Manti .. Very rauch gratlh, week, Mrs. Eliza Stewart Reid, was oldest lady present, terest shoWn by ?ec Dd Richard Hall, aged 85, the oldest .. dent in the past Aian. Mrs. Margaret Reid was the ,, , inly lady present over the age of 60 tO hear troni the tv ho had raised a family of fourteen le "hi V 1 t 1,1 ran The output of precious metals for free sa mp'the complete year of 1901, as deter-c- h and iliv mined by the statisticians of th . , , United States Geological survey, & Son S f makes a fine showing for Utah. In twenty-fou- r states and territories producing gold and silver, counting Alaska, Utah atands fourth. R, Oakley, a brakeman, narrowly escaped death a short distance west of Eureka. He was setting brakes when the brake rod broke. The brake wheel struck him on the forehead and threw him, unconscious, to the ground between the cars, he being rescued just in time, ft Commander Mason of the Cincinnati, Five men are known to have lost cables the following to the navy de- their lives in a fire which partially department from Cape Hftytien, regard- stroyed the plant of the Chicago ing the revolution in San Domingo, branch of the Glucose Sugar Refining under date of Oct. 22: company, situated at Taylor street and Returned from Monte Chriati. Gen- the Chicago river. The list of the dead eral Navarro, deposed governor of the will certainly be much greater than five and may reach as high as thirty. district, revolted against the government on the night of Oct. 11. He took The estimates run all the way from possession of the town and imprisoned that number down to ten. Only one the government officials, except the of the five men whose bodies have been The recovered has been identified. new governor, who escaped. whole distrieat first followed Navarro. The fire broke out with an explosion in the drying house, which is seven, W,ithin the last three days the insurrection has been confined to the stories in height and stands close to immediate vicinity of Monte Christi. the main building of the plant, which Government troops are pressing the is fourteen stories high. A third place closely. Serious street fighting structure is four stories high. The in the last two days. Foreigners first two smaller buildings were destroyed sought refuge on the wharf. Last and the larger building was of them, mostly . K'rrSZ night seventy-fiv- e women and children, took refuge on The fire spread' after' the explosion this ship. Government troops captured with such rapidity that it va imposthe fort at 2 o'clock this morning. The sible for t in the upper storiesl , insurgents scattered. All is now quiet. of the dryinghousq to , make Local revolution quelled." men of the and is number It One Man Hnstalna Eight Gunshot Wonade The department also bad an advice believed to Dave been at york on the In Battle With Neighbors. from United States Minister Powell, seventh floor that causes the uncerWarrants have been issued for E. C. who has Some gone to San Domingo from tainty in the 'list of dead. Van Ortwick and David Cochrane, died of the employees who made their Port Prince. The au ministers charging them with assault with in- patch, received at noon Thursday, stated escape say there were twenty or thirty, and others say there were not more tent to kill, the complaining witnesses that Monte Christi had been taken by than ten at work when the fire broke being E. C. Decker and members of his the government forces after hard out. Whatever the number, all are family. that the chief revolutionist dead. Four "men leaped from the upThe parties are residents of Owen, in fighting; not named) had been captured, and per floors and all met death. the northeastern part of Albany that of the most prominent COAL STRIKE IS OFF. county, Wyoming. Several days ago citizensmaDy of the place had been arrested the Deckers, Van Ortwick and Cochrane for treason. By Unanimous Vote Miners Accept thefought a battle, the first reports stat Arbitration Flan. DESTRUCTIVE VOLCANO. ing that Van Ortwick and Cochrane With a shout that fairly shook th were the aggressors, but when Van Ortwick reached Laramie to be treated Stream of Lava Flows a Distance of Ten convention building, the representatives of the 147,000 mine workers, who Miles From the Grater. for eight gunshot wounds, he said the been on strike since last May. have arrived New at Deckers had attacked him, every memPassengers lyho ber of the family taking several shots Orleans on the steamer from Puertos officially declared off at noon Tuesday ' Barrios report the volcano of Izalco in the greatest contest ever made between at him before he made his escape. capital and labor, and placed all the Sheriff Cook went to the scene, re Salvador in a state of violent eruption. two The and wife, eruption began on September 7, questions involved in the struggle in turning with Decker sons snd one daughter, who told a when five large openings hr craters the hands of the arbitration commisof the very different story from that of Van formed on the north side of the yiano, sion appointed by the president Ortwick. The Deckers say Van Ort- from which large quantities of lava United States. When the news was wick and Cochrane attacked them first and burning stones were ejected. flashed to the towns and villages down and fired several shots at members of in the valleys and on the mountains in the family bef ore they returned the People living the town of Izalco and of the coal regions the inhabitants the toward which neighboring country, fire. heaved a sigh of relief. Many daya the lava poured, fled at its approach have gone by since such welcome news EARTHQUAKE AT SEA. and believe that their houses were was received. Everywhere there was The stream of rejoicing, and in many places the'endi Whaler Alice Knowles Has Terrible Ex- completely destroyed. of the strike was the signal for imIsland. Off Knrlle was which perience lava, very deep, flowed for promptu town celebrations. The anThe schooner Bonanza and the a distance of ten miles from the crater. thracite coal region, from its largest Lake Coatepeque, which lies at the city Scranton down to the lowliest whaler Alice Knowles have brought by the conflict, the first news of the season from the foot of the volcano, was flooded with coal patch, has suffered every one now looks for better northern whaling fleet. The Bonanza boiling sulphur from the principal snd limesl Fears are entertained of comes from Point Barrow and the Alice crater. TO MURDER FRENCH PRESIDENT. Knowles from Fox island. The Alice further disaster. . The volcano was still in eruption Knowles experienced a terrific earthDangerous Anarchist Arrested In Time to Prevent Execution of His Plan. quake on August 13th, when about 200 when the passengers left Guatemala. miles off the Kurile island. The shock The Paris Figaro says a man was was so violent that the ships chroEVACUATION OF SHANGHAI. detected early Tuesday morning atThree of the nometers were stopped. Knowles men were badly burned on France, Great Britain and Germany Hava tempting to climb a wall of the Klysee June 5th as the result of the explosion at Last Reached an Agreement. Palace. It is believed that be intended, of the boiler of the donkey engine. From authoritative sources it is to hide in the palace garden in the under were but badly scalded, They Captain Montgomerys surgery came learned that France, Great Britain and hope of obtaining an opportunity to . out all right. Germany have concluded an agreement assassinate President Loubet. The man was arrested and was found providing for the military evacuation Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dead. of Shanghai by their forces. The neto he armed with a poignard and a Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the well have also about.an loaded revolver. He has been recogknown woman suffragist, died Sunday gotiations extension brought nized a a dangerous anarchist, who of the important open door has at her home in New York City. Old already been con victed three times as policy urged by Secretary Hay. The and upon two of these occasions for age was given as the cause of death. agreement affects not only Shanghai, manufacturing explosive machines. She was conscious almost to the last. but the The police are trying to keep the Tee Kiaog valley, entire Yang About a week ago Mrs. Stanton began which the matter quiet and refnse to divulge the deto are powers seeking This became more mans name. to fail rapidly. for commercial purposes. The velop and then it was noticeable date of the evacuation is still open, but Bryans Visit to Utah knownto the family that her death a William Jennings Bryan spent Tuesleading official of the foreign office was only a question of days or hours. the belief that it will unday in Utah, speaking in behalf of the The children of Mrs. Stanton, who expressed be accomplished by Jan. 1 doubtedly Democratic party at Salt Lake, Ogden, were she when were with her died, About 1,200 troops will participate in American Fork, Provo, Spanish Fork, Mrs. M. F. Lawrence and Mrs. Stanton the evacuation, each power having Springville, Bingham Junction and Blatcb, of New York; Henry and Robert L.,of New York, lawyers; Theodore, furnished about an equal number of Bingham. It is estimated that over of Paris, aDd G. Smith, a real estate troops since the Chinese crisis became 15,000 people listened to the former broker at Warden Cliffe, Long Island, acute. candidate for presidential honors. badly-damaged- . he-me- n their-escape- The annual volume on the mineral resources of the United States for 1901, prepared by Dr. David L, Day of the geological survey, has been sent to the inpress and will he issued soon. An teresting feature of the report is a compilation of statistics showing the number of working days lost in strikes These figures In the coal industry. include the present year and are hrought up to date. The total number of days lost for the present year is placed at 20,000,000 days, compared with 733,802 days in 1901; 4,878,103 in and 2,124,154 in 1899. The report places the total mineral product of the year at $1,086,529,521, a gain of a little more than 2 per cent over the production of 1900. The gain 1900 was made in the products and amounted to $555,065,882, against a loss of $32,156,909 in the metallic products. ic URJBE-URIB- Boated After a Fourteen Hours ment at La Cienaga. Engage-- ( Governor Salazar has received news from Baranquilla of another battle fought at La Cisuaga, on the Magdalena river,"Thhich was attacked by the and Casforces of Generals Uribe-Urib- e to who tillo, mauaged get together their previously defeated forces with whieh they attacked the town. The battle lasted fourteen hours snd tbs revolutionists, according to official reports were completed defdated snd suffered great losses. The governments thinks this battle means the pacification of the department of is now said to for Uribe-Uribe without any importont followjng and must either become a guerrilla leaeer or escape to the island of Cur. Mag-delen- a, be acoa. - , - last-wee- Miner Has Hand Cot off In a Peculiar Manner. Butte Editor to Face Charge. Dr. H. A. Cayley of Butte, who, it is alleged, was shot by Editor J. W. on night Kelly of the of Oct. 11, is dead. Kelly has been confined in jail for some time and Will Have Jacob Knight, a miner working in the St. Lawrence mice at Butte, while at work in the mine bad hia left hand cleanly severed at the wrist by a small fall of ground, and just how itoccurred is a mystery. It is believed that the must now face a charge of murder. man, while engaged in picking down His hearing is set for next week. He some ground, fell in some manner, and still maintains a studied reticence. while his hand was resting on the Madame La Boute, the woman in the ground the piece of rock fell and strik case, has not yet been found, hut it is ing the wrist severed the hand as suspected she is somewhere on the Iuter-Mounta- in completely as if done with a knife. One Oregon Conoty In Which Farmers are Happy. Few people know that the wheat crop of Morrow, the great sheep county lying on the west border of Umatillai was a million and a quarter bushels d what Umatilla, this year, or banner the county of the state, produced. Over $500,000 will come to the coffers of Morrow ranchers this fall from the wheat crop alone, when all is sold. One million bushels will be ex ported. I The average price for the 51 cents per bushel season ODe-thir- has-bee- Member of Illinois Football Team Killed In a Game. Edward Schmidt, right tackle in Staunton, Ills., football team, was in jured in a game with a St. Louia team and died within ten minutes. After Schmidt died the Staunton team, led by their captain, marched to the end of the field, pulled up the goal posts and burned them. On changing their clothes they added their sweatersand and football suits to the fire and an nounced that there would be no more football games in Staunton. NonUatoiiins re lintca. Half a dozen employed at the Oxford colliery of the People's Coat company at Scranton, Pa., were given a sound drubbing and chased half a mile through a gangway by a crowd of union employees of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western companys Bellevue colliery, which adjoins. The mines open one into the other in a number of places, and at one place the miners of both make nee of the same gangway to the main road. The union men waylajjl the at a pross cut, ts ts Czar Pardons Students. The Moscow correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle cables that the Czar has pardoned all students who were guilty of participation in revolutionary street disturbances there. Sale of the Danish IV est Indies. Never has any political question excited such geoeraland absorbing inter, est in Denmark as has the sale of the Danish West Indies. The situation seems again to have changed in favor coast. of the anti-sal- e party. Coal Bunkers of the Battleship Oregon Collection of Bags. Large oo Fire. A collection of 50,000 insects has just The San FraDcisco Bulletin of Thursbeen purchased by the department of fire a has been burning zoology of the day says that University of Chicago. in the coal bunkers of the battleship This number of bugs" was colgreat Oregon for three days and that the lected from .all parts of the world by officers of the vessel will not say that the late John Akhurst, a noted entomthe fire has been extinguished, ologist of Brooklyn. board of survey has been summoned to To Incorporate Labor Union. examine the vessel aDd it will be some A bill will he introduced in the pext time before she will he able to depart for Manila. Repairs will have to be Massachusetts legislature looking to made and a new supply of coal pnt on the incorporation of labor unions. The movement is the outgrowth of the coal hoard before the battleship can sail. etrike. Famous Do tectlve Dead. Switchmen Get What They Ask. John Curtin, head of the Curtin deThe threatened strike of switchmen tective agency of San FraDcisco, by railroads in the twin dead of hemorrhage of the brain, aged employed cities was called off Tuesday night by 65 years. Curtin at one lime enjoyed mass meetings of members of the an international reputation as a de Switchmen's Union of North America. It was decided to adopt the offer of tective. It was he who, in 1872, art of railroads to grant 50 rested in Havana, Cuba, the noted the advance demanded by the the Bid well brothers, the forgers, and men. wage took them to Loo don for trial. He Hanlon Defeats McFadden. formerly slood high in the Pinkerton Eddie Hanlon knocked out Kid" service and had many exciting advenin the sixth round before McFadden tures, in one of which he was shot the Reliance Athletic club in Oakland, thron gh one of his lungs. Cal., Tuesday night. per-cen- Labor Unions Enjoined. Judge Ford of the common pleas court has issued an injunction that practically applied to every union man iu. Cleveland, O. The waiters union some time ago began a boycott n restaurant. The against a obtained aD injunction proprietor against them. The Bridge Workers union then took up the fight and the proprietor applied for an injunction against all members of the Trades Union and Labor Council, with the result that Judge Ford granted a temporary injunction, non-unio- Fondness of Somali Many cQolies drown. Lose Their Live In Moje Harbor by ' fixing of Boat. Cap-- 1 Information corner from the Orient reporting that on th6 evening of September 15th, while the big steamer Shawmut was lying at anchor in the swift current of Mojie harbor a large sampan, filled with coolies, men, women and children, was swept across her chain cables and instantly capsized. Some of the unfortunate men grabbed hold of the chain and were hauled upon deck, but the women and children were carried under the ship aDd the coal scow, which was lying alongside, and not seen again. Owing to the lamentable indifference to find out how many lives were lost, the nearest calculations arrived at make it fifteen women, two men and several children. IMMENSE APPLE CROP. Fruit Growers In Fremont County, Colo.. Are Blessed. The apple crop of Fremont county, Colorado, this year will be the largest for the past twenty years, while the production of other fruits will be unusually heavy. The apple crop is estimated to be worth $250,000, eed the other fruits $100,000. These figures are compiled by the FremontCountv Fruit Growers Association, and are considered absolutely reliable. In reaching the value of the apple crop, the amount of fruit and the returns thereon are compared with the amount still in the hands of the producers and the prices which will be received later on. Two Killed and Three Injured by Fall Immense Steel Girder. 0. B. Fetterhoff and Frank Hirtwere killed, Jerry Leiake was fatally injured and two others seriously injured Wednesday on the bridge and construction department of the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Steel ton, Pa. The men were painters and were working on a row of steel girders weighing about ten tons apiece. The girder on which they were working fell with them, and the others piled on top of it. Hooper Young Rerases to Plead and Court Orders Plea of Not Gallty Entered. William Hooper Young, who is accused of the murder of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, was arraigded before Judge Cowing to plead to the indictment of murder in the first degree. On the advice of his counsel, William S. F. Hart, the prisoner did not plead, and Jldge Cowing ordered that a plea of not guilty he entered. The cohrt denied a motion by Mr. Hart that he be allowed to inspect the minutes of the grand jury. Abate of Laborers. Acting upon a request from the authorities at Washington, an investigation is being made into the alleged abuses of Porta Rican laborers at Paauilo plantation on Hawaii. Complain ts of ill treatcuen t at various places about the islands have been frequent. Woman Has Strong Hold on Lire. ' Mrs. Annie Kingsley, a in whose heart was sewed up with six stitches at Bellevue hospital. New York, is progressing satisfactorily and is expected to recover. President Lonbet Safe. The police commissary attached to the Elyaee palace, Paris, says the re. port published in the Figaro' of the alleged attempt of a dangerous anarchist to seek an to assassinate President opportunity Loubet is much stab-woun- Inter-Mountai- John Maepac and DEFEATED. E Owing to the crowded condition of the public schools of Cheyenne, fire drills have been ordered C. T. Wright of Buena Vista, Colo., Is seriously ill from the bite of some kind of reptile that came in a hunch of bananas. Doc Proctor, a stockman living north of Las Animas, 'Ca4 drank carbolic acid by mistake and died several hours later, John Mumm, charged with the shooting Of James Petere, has been hound over to the district court at Rawlins in the sum of $1,000. Dr. H. A. Cayley, who, it is alleged, was shot by Editer J. W, Kelly of the on the night of Butte October 11th, died Friday last Fossil experts have collected a carload of bones of prehistoric animals in the Medicine Bow district for the Carnegie museum at Pittsburg. d exaggerated. Fabulous Treasure, of Patagonia. Peter Mrs. Sechoh-ic- h, elopers, were arrested at Cheyenne. The woman declares she loves her paramour better than she does her husband. The formal acceptance of the Grays harbor jetty by Major Mills, in charge of the government engineering work, marks the completion of a contract involving $1,000,000. Employes of the Southern Pacific railway company will soon submit a demand for higher wages, which it is said will include every person in the employ of the road. Paul Rizech, a carman employed at the Butte Reduction works, fell forty feet in an elevator shaft and still lives, though he is minus his right arm and hie skull is fractured. The jury in the case of George Smith, colored, on trial for shooting and killing his white wife in Portland, Ore.', returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. The penalty is death. Mrs. Sarah A. Kanouse, the first white woman to live in Fort Benton, Montana, is dead of heart troubles, at an advanced aeev She located in Fort Benton in the early 70s, coming from Peoria, 111. The school census of Missoula, Mont., lor the current year, as taken by the clerk of the school district, shows 2,275 children of school age. The increase over the school population of last year is nearly 500. Mrs. J. McGee of Cherry Creek, Nevada, claimant to an estate valued at s million, is laid up in Salt Lake recovering from injuries received in jumping from a stage at Wells, Nevada, during a runaway. Owing to an epidemic of smallpox among the Cree Indians on the reservation near Havre, Mont., the authorities advised by the state board of health, have decreed compulsary vacination and quarantined against the Indians. The latest freak case of animals in Helena is that of an old hen who hag assumed the responsibility of raising a pair of tiny black kittens, starving and crying because of the unmotherly conduct of their parent in deserting them, In the forthcoming report of Sate Veterinarian M. E. Knowles, of Montana, he will present his claim that the office of veterinarian pays for itself maDy times over in the course of one year through the number of free doses of blackleg vaccine that are given out to stockmen. With courage that would have done credit to any man, Robert Bowie, 14 years of age, rescued Mahal Stetson, 7 years of old, from a vicious Newfoundland dog on Main street, Meaderville, Montana, last week. Had it not been for the courage of the lad the little girl would undoubtedly have suffered serious injuries. For several years Col, W. F. Cody hat ' annually participated in a hunt for big game in the Big Horn mountains o Wyoming, and has invariably chaperoned a distinguished party of hunters to the mountain fastnesses of that see lion, hut the colonel will be compelled to forego the trip this season on account of ill health. Private William Campbell, company E, Eighteenth infantry, had a remark able escape from death in the hallway of the Cheyenne buiding He was intoxicated, and in trying tc reach the balcony, pitched headlong over the railing of the' stair and fell twenty feet to the floor below. He landed squarely upon hiB head, but escaped with no more serious injury than a gash in his scalp, which required eight stitches to close. E. A. Meredith, engineer in charge of surveyors of the Moffat railroad on the west side of the range, is pushing the work of surveying' from Fraser river westward to Yampa, in Routt county, Colorado, as rapidly as it can opera-hou- be done. se ' Loveless, of Goodnight, Tex.) passed through Rilling, Mont.. last Thursday with a car containing seven buffalo and a number of blooded rams R. Molt All tho Government Bond Are Held by American People. for Calico. The report of.Judson W. Lyons, An official connected with the Red ee& ports, in an interview published in register of the treasury, for the fiscal the London Star, says: "The Mullah year ending June 30 last, was made snd other turbulent chiefs have been public Wednesday. The most interliberaliy supplied with rifles by Amer- esting feature of the report is an analyicans and Germans, in spite of the sis of the holding of loans, showing the British gunboats. The rifles supplied number of foreign holders of United States bonds compared with domestic by the Americans were done np as cotton goods. This explains the frequent holders. , This analysis shows that reference in consular reports to the ont of a total of $783,924,330 of bonds, fondness of Somalia for American calicoes and shirting. His not calico only $16,032, 85Q is held by the Somali prizes, hut rifles inside the calico. temperate found who studies snakes ana51 these is Gen. Milton Moore eral reads everything he can Ci? ing upon the habits and habitat the snake society, and for that on he was particularly Interest meeting Alexander strom, Fifth Missouri, who rJr returned from South America Mahlstrom told me . Moore yesterday, that the saij snau Central America are torpid and al to a degree, though some of then violent enough when disturbed. " often bite the woodfellers th, I never knew, them to bite overland trailer. I crossed plains thirty years ago, and times since, in the freighting ness. It was my experiences the sound of the approach o( tie or buffalo sent the snakes s; their business. We lay on iae where snakes were thick in sence but scarce in our presence snake, must have some sense, and must reflect that whereas he put a lone man to flight, he had Z ghost of a show w ith a herd of a. or buffalo tramping him. So hem when he hears the caravans comic? never knew them to bite a man I was going over the trail, l recoi9 at one time running across a rattler was riding a mule. He woke heard the hoof beats and started A rattler cannot run straight mSi better than a Swede turnip can straight. He wobbles. This fell was terrified, for he took off. A q, walk was as fast as he could go, mounted, pulled out my cap and revolver and began firing at him, first shot clipped him and made furious. He hissed and shook hi with a vengeance. But he heard mule and headed for tall grass. I it wras my fifth shot that broke back. The snake is a coward- .sas City Journal. C Gftji WANTED THE B P1 till Sh i P , mi wl p M do la an do K fr wl oh tt co m tt in 01 tl c w d b o A MARKET, Rd Prospective Bankrupt Sought tnforn tion Before His Failure, According to Mr. John Claflin, j ident of the H. B. Claflin company, k father, the founder of the house, strong effort to maintain pen relations with his customers. Hid ways encouraged buyers to corn j him for a friendly talk, and as (n j possible he advised them concern the matters in hand. One day a customer called, he entered the private office Mr. ( lin looked up from his desk called: Hello, how are you day? Im feeling fine, Mr. Claflin; law was better." And how is the business? Oh, thats different, Mr. Claflin. think I must have a failure. What! A failure? How is Havent you made money?, I used to, Mr, Claflin, but not t business is bad, very bad, Mr. Cla and I think I must fail." Well, now. Im sorry. But till be a bad failure? How much tills pay? Ah, that is what I want to seep about. How much are they now, Mr. Claflin? i Along the Way to Meetln. wondered If the world so wide i heard my heart With Sally walkin at my side alontlj way to meetln? It seemed to time my every iteH keepin time accordin, An' say in: Theres no rest for cept tother side of Jordan!" ra tried an tried to say the todj with patientest endeavor-T- he word that might, or mightnt, i her heart my own forever; But somehow, when it reached mj I it aeemed too much to utter, f up With my poor heart everlastm flutter. 'Twuz shore my tribulation day dost ij my side to view her Jo pull the wild flowers by the a it then not give em to her! But, sudden come this word from twuz like a benediction: Im thinkin, John, this meetto s youre under deep conviction! then I up an told her all my so sore afflicted, I loved her more than all the w! thats how I stood convicted; An then, as close she come to me. Bweeter looks and fonder, I read my shinin titles clear to -- Atlanta ConstUuHal Demonstration Too Effective. Two maiden sisters of mature had been to a temperance lecture. ' demonstrate the disastrous effect alcohol upon life, the lecturer poured a portion of whisky into a 8 which contained water and I of lively animalculae of different sightly shapes and sizes. The of the mixture was that the of ugly looking fishes were oon IJ reft of life and were seen " (Wb J helplessly in the water. On the way home, when neeriif saloon one sister remarked other; 1 Mary, will you go in and get , .? whisky? Some whisky! astonishinglf marked the other. ' - t y Yes, dear; for I really cfl -again drink water with all th9, rible , things floating about t w rather drink them dead tha 8. - , j Mr. Oversight - 1 1 Coolidge, a full-blood- richness. lmmn Sure Awav Depews that the government has purchased ' Is Mr. Depew in?- said 1 for the National park from the famous surance agent, handing his t4 ' Goodnight ranch, J the office attendant. Til see, sir,, replied the The culmination of a pretty romance ) occurred at Fort Washakie last week going into the senators saneb Mr. Depew glanced at the cart when Reverend Sherman Four men have left Chicago for the Arapahoe Indian, was married to Miss Grace D. Wetherbee, purpose of making an trip to New York girl and a member of the the coast of Patagonia, where they exsmart set of that city. to a locate mine of pect fabnlons gold all-wa- ter Tramp of Hoofs of Cattle Them Scurrying ed shook his head in the negath-though the upper part of his ho hidden from public view by his-the senator's legs were plainly as he sat with his side towtfd desk. . Mr. Depew Is out,, said p Mathew Henry Money! a pioneer newspaper man of the Pacific coast, U died in Oakland, Cal., lass week, aged tendant. insurance said the Well, 70 years. He and his wife formerly haW conducted the Beacon at Kalama, Or., glancing through 4 tha M I wish you would tell door, and the North Pacific Coast and News, he comes in that I think my both published in Tacoma. would positively refuse to acceP1 While a freight train , was passing as a first class risk unless & the crossing just east of Poplar, Mont, Agree to always take his legs Thomas Mail, aged fifteen years, tried when he goes out. to jump on and have a little ride. His Gossips are not to blame foot slipped and he fell under the tra', and had both legs cut off and part of the world doesnt know how half lives, his right hand, Jle may recover, , " w |