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Show e NEWS SUMMARY. SOUTHWEST NOTES. IX THE ODD CORNER. .MARKET REPORT The Colorado regiment sailed from Bombay reports tlie rains still hoi 81LVKU. and the crops withering'. Manila on the transport Warren. New YorU . Sen Francisco Arrivals at San Francisco from Cape 27Jd By a premature blast in the Leon- London I.KA L. Isonae declare that district rich in gold. ard shaft at Butte, Matt llohta was inNew York Kxehiwitfe f4.55l4 57 4 4 35 stantly killed and Bet Wilson badly New York brokets According to all accounts the experirOPPKIL ment of using native troops la Porto injured. fM W New York KxcUaiine f Rico has been successful. Elwood Mead has resigned his posi- New York liroKeis...... 50 t tion as state engineer of Wyoming to Severe storms raged off the Australian coast during June and the early devote his entire time to his new posi. 110. Name of Stuck tion of irrigating expert. .days of the present month. No more cases of rellow fever are President A. L. Mohler of the Ore- Alice Anebui gon Railway & Navigation' company Ajax the reported among troops or governhas been asked to take the presidency Alliance ment employees at Santiago. Allium of the Big Four at a salary of 35,000 li Upon one scaffold and simultaneousChloride loiiit a year. four Centennial Eureka ly. negroes were hanged in the Indian Agent Clapp of the Pine ConsulBaltimore, Md., city jail yard. Dalny Ihere were 253 cases and 121 deaths Ridge agency denies the reported bat- Da.y from the plague at Poona, India, on tle between cowboys and Indians on DultouA l.urk. Dexter the 20th ult. The cases include four the Cheyenne river, which was re- Eattle Ace-- . Pour out. sent cently Europeans. Galena has Charles W. of Otlicials of organized labor in ChiGalena Kiun been to recommended the G G Ex president state that the cago brickuiakers strike Central for supervisor of the census for the Grand is likely to precipitate a Her&eliel walkgeneral Horn 1.2.1 Sliver of district both Senators out in the city. Wyoming, by Innot Warren and Clark. Malvern The secretary of agriculture 1ms deMammoth cided to chauge regulations recently Tliq old fountain geyser in the Yel- Mercur Lower Mammoth issued for the free admission of cattle lowstone National park has broken out Northern Light Omaha in The of the crater. another portion into Cuba next year. Ontario are enormous, Petro At Bramwell, W. Va., Howard R. eruptions, which Sacramento throw out rocks and pieces of wood. Sunshine Sanson, an emissary seeking miners 5U Silver King for Missouri and Indian Territory coal According to the Reno Journal, or- Star Consolidated ..I .lti'., .65 Showers Washders Consolidated have been from received I'liq fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal Swansea 4 20 .1 3.15 Helds. 1.70 ington for all the silver at the Carson South Swansea 1.7714 .31 ..I mint. There are eight or ten carloads Sunbeam Utah.-- . F. L. Stocking, assistant postmaster 1.23 .. .70 Blue Bird .10 .15 .. at Tacoma. Wash., has been appointed of dollars and bullion in storage Sac. Con .00 ..; there. Bright Elgin op, assistant director-genera- l of posts at B. B. Tunnel .. .05 .0: Near Pine Grove, Wyoming, Gus Buckeye .0.0 ,o:i Manila. lie will be next in rank to & Be La .Mar .. .tiD, .00,, Smith was engaged in hauling wood Boston Director-GenerYaille. Boss Tweed do Blue Bird his Extension when the broke, wagon tongue A mortgage for $17,000,000 Big Camas given by Bill Nye the writing paper trust required inter- team ran away, the wagon was upset Crown !io Point and Smith landed underneath the load, Comstock nal revenue stamps to the amount of " .01 .15 Century him instantly. 8,500, which were placed upon it and killing .01 Camp Floyd Another big shipment of cattle from Columbia cancelled. Crusader Con White Pine county, Nevada, was sent Central Mammoth .00'., .004 Jeffords, the San Francisco heavy.11 week. The herd was composed Dalton out last Diamond Consolidated 10 .'.0 weight pugilist, who is now in PortA Boll Blue of all kirds of range cattle, having Eagle 1.71 1.75 Emerald land, Ore., has practically concluded ,ioq .14 a per cent of cows and calves. Priseo .09 negotations for a fight with Peter Jack-so- quite were Golden 054 to the eastern mar" Golden Eagle toy shipped They "" Slur .13 .08 who is now in Victoria, B. C. Gold Hill ket. .ooq Homestalte . .12 .10 The anthracite companies announce Montana authorities are looking for Hercules .08 On3, !. International .12 .06 that all orders for coal at prices prior Frank Boyle, a former Salt Laker, who Joe Bowers 19' to July 1, not filled on July 31, will is accused of Joe Bowers Extension .08 .084 Montana men Kremlin swindling .09 .Orit, " be filled at an advance of 25 cents per La Heine .15 2.00 by representing himself as an agent of Little .12 .07 ton which will then go into effect. Pittsburg the Western Loan & Savings company Midnight Bowers .03 .034 May .80 .till Bay Twelve Spanish gunboats recently of Salt Lake and selling stock, pock- Manhattan "!! .ooy .004 Martha Washington .074 .11 put on blockade duty have done re- eting the proceeds. Monarch .02 .00' " off service in The steam Messrs. of McKinley good cutting markably shearing plant North Swansea V .17 supplies for iusurgents between the Shurtliff Iloutz at Hilliard, Wyo., Orient .'.ii ! . . islands of 10b different the Philippine was destroyed by fire Sunday. The Rabbit s Foot 15 .if loss is 2,000 with no insurance, and Rover group. ... Silver Cloud .03 .0.14 It is the intention of the war depart- includes thirty shearing machines, Success Sea Swan .'...!!!!!!!! .04 fire boiler and The buildings. ment to send all cavalry horses to the engine Tetro " iioq .09,q is believed to have been accidental. Triumph ' and of Unalaska Philippines by way Valeo .80 .70 West Mountain iiucer.. Senator Warren in response to an West .54 3414 Nagasaki so that they may be taken Mercur .10 off the ships at both these places and inquiry made by him to the war de- Yankee Con .11 .102, Fissure !!!!!'.!.!! "! rereceived the partment, following given rest. Little Chief !6i !..!. !!!! .04 !"....!.".!!!! from the adjutant-general- : Wyo Bingham, G. P James M. Garlinton, alias Darling-too- , ply will leave Manila as soon Salt Lake City. was hanged at Fort Worth. Tex. ming troops as Grant can be. coaled. Delay has Wheat 18 Cvvt..$ 100 of a band was the leader Garlington 15 been caused by heavy rains and de- Corn Cracked corn 20 who on the night of July 21, 1898, robstructive Rye 00 typhoons. bed a Santa Fe railroad train near Barley 20 on ranch fences in Oats The barbed-wir- e 45 Sawinaw. Alfalfa 45 Mercedeseounty, Cala., is beiDg utilized Mixed hay 60 By the assassination of President with success for telephoning between Timothy 65. bale Straw, per 25 Heaureux of San Domingo, Cuba may towns. R. C. Dickinson of Stockton, Live n Gobblers 10 Turkey p Live 12 lose one of its central figures, as it is Turkey Hens in batteries and boxes and tried Chickens, put hens 8 well known that General Maximo Goroosters 6 the novel system. It was about four Old each Broilers, 15 ... 30 mez aspires to the presidency of the miles over the line and he claims that oid duck ;;; 10 Geese 10 black republic. the sound was carried better than by Tame Eggs, Utah, per case... 55 Butter, creamery the regular system. Albert Ballinger, who is in the reRanch butter ... 124 15 There are now a hundred men emceiving hospital, San Francisco, awaitSail Francisco Gral n. ing examination as to his sanity, is unployed on the site of the new town wheat .1 05 der confinement because of his wild near Truekee, Nev., where the pulp Cash 06q December 12", the San Blanche of Dates, will be These built. are prin- May wooing plant 164 Francisco actress. cipally engaged at present in building Portland. dwellings for the employees of the Walla Walla At Westchester, Pa., a revolting mur564 Excavations been also have company. is Valley der has come to light. It alleged 574 Uluestem made 58 to dam the prepatory building Mrs. Fannie Stevenson, colored, crushed her infants head with an ax to divert the water from the river. s LIVE STOCK. of brick'for the buildThirty and then threw the body to some hogs have been ordered. ing which devoured it. Chicago. 5 80 The supreme court of Colorado has Good to fancy steers 5 90 Common grimes Charles Walfangle, of Brazi1, Ind., . 4 35 5 20 affirmed the of the Stockersand estab3 25 law feeders . 4 80 validity became suddenly violently insane and Buns ;;; . 2 25 5 25 ft the new of lishing Cows county Teller, and 2 heifers . 25 5 25 with a hatchet chopped his two daught!. . 3 75 which embraces the Cripple Creek dis- Calves 6 85 Tex as s lee rs ers and wife to death while they were . 3 50 61 5 30 The was trict. Prime formed from if J 6 75 5 90 county sheep sleeping. lie then took a knife and 4 f0 Yearlings 5 60 of El Paso and Fremont coun- Lambs portions 4 own his throat. cut 1,50 ties by the last legislature and citizens Kansas City. General Roy Stone, director of road of the latter county resisted the action Native steers ft 25 m 67U of of Texas the steers Agricul3 25 on the ground that it was contrary to department Inquiry 50 Texas Cows 2 50 3 66 ture at Washington, who is in New the constitution of the state. Native cows and heifers!.!...... 75 3 25 Stockers and 3 1,0 4i5 00 York, says that more activity is being Fred Harvey, 19 years old, was gored Bulls and stagsfeeders 2 so 4 25 ;!!!.' 4 00 to 5 80 displayed in road improvement than to death by a bull on a farm about Laiohs Muttons s 60 50 has been shown for years. eleven miles from Spokane. The boy's Omaha. The Privy council of England has body was found in a clump of hushes Native beef steers ft 75 65 70 decided in the case of Briden vs. the by his father. The lad had crawled Texas steers. 4 15 ago Cows and heifers 3 50 4 25 Union Colliery company that the provto a tree, pulled himself to a Canners 2 25 3 40 Stoekersand 3 80 feeders 4 70 ince of British Columbia has not the position and died in that atti4 00 8 25 tude. No one saw the bull's savage Calves Bulls and slags !.!. 2 80 power to prohibit Chinese working attack 4 20 and young Harvey was not Sheep Yearlings !... !!!!!!!! 4 25 4 60 underground in coal mines. Western 3 muttons 70 missed until supper time. 4 15 Stockers..... !.!.. 8 30 4i3 90 A good deal of surprise has been !!!!. !.'!!! !...'!!! 4 50 The supreme court of Colorado 6 35 caused in official circles in Washington has unanimously decided that the Denver. by the unexpected opposition developeight-hou- r law is unconstitutional. Beef steers fa 75 5 25 3 00 to of ratification in 4 20 France the the The eight-hou- r ing law, which was enact- Feeders, freight paid to river.. 3 30 4 60 Stockers, 3 50 reciprocity treaty just negotiated by ed at the late session of the 4 75 paid to river.. legislature, Bulla and freight 2 25 4 00 stags Mr. Kasson and M. Cambon. Good fat !!. 4 00 muttons to 4 50 mines, smelters and for applies only 4 75 5 75 Notice has been given in the state the reduction of the ores. The refusal Lmbs REBB1PTS. department at Harrisburg, Pa., that an of the American Smelting and Refining Chicago Cattle 17,500 14,000 application for a charter for the Amer- company to pay the same wages for Sheep K an sas Cl ttie.'. . ! 7.000 ican Iron and Steel Manufacturing eight hours as had been paid for ten Sheep 8.00 and twelve hours caused Omaha.. ..!. !!!..!! its smelters .... Cattle ... 2.300 oompany will be made on August IS. to be closed on June 15, when the new Sheep 3.900 Denver Cattie!!!! !!!.!!!!!! !!!!!.'..!!" Tbi capital will be 30,000,000. 1.000 law became operative. ' Sheep Bulliuu-Htv- - Daly-We- st Geser-Mai-io- i, Rj-me- n Cliej-enn- e . . 111 's' . 4 al .01-- ; .07-- 4 n, ! ! '. .10-- , Riohmond-Anacon- ! da . . . .' ! ! . . ' 1 1 1 1 . 4 2(1 1 1 car-load- . 0(1 4 . half-reclinin- g , Lbs . . ty-- Ca . ! He melted cheese mixed with fat cf a heifer in a china dish, cut it into lumps with a bone knife, to avoid the taint cf metal, and concealed in the lumps strychnine and cyanide, in odor-procapsules. In doing tnis he wore gloves steeped in cows blood, and even avoided breathing 011 the bait. One of these lumps, placed in a methods. AND CURIOUS AND EVENTS. QUEER oo1- A-li- et nade th. acquaintance of the vanda.. a.d tried lo kill him by scientific THINGS Monkrji Firkin Cotton on the Flanta-Hon- s MiKilppt Criminals Among AVolves Tho sue of tho sun In tho L plh of tho Ocean, of of tempting position, disappeared. Mr. Thompson followed the track to ..he The Cotton Planters Journal gives next lump, and the and noticed an account of the training of monkeys that those al ,0 were gone. At e to pick cotton, in the p. nutations of fourth he found that the wolf had laid Mississippi, an account which it would ail four together and scattered dirt over them. The wolves now took to be hard to believe if it were not accompanied with names, dates, places and stampeding and killing sheep. Half circumstances which put deception out a dozen goats are usually kept with of all probability. The introducer of each flock, as leaders, and tney are not this novel kind of labor is Mr. Y. V. asily stampeded at night; so when Manguui, and the principal scene of its wolves are about, the sheep crowd employment has been Mr. Manguius about these leaders and remain plantation at Smedes, Sharkey county. while the shepherds drive the wolves The attempt was suggested first by away. The object of tht wolves is to Prof. S. M. Tracey. He had sten the stampede the sheep, and then pick performances of some trained mon- them up, day by day, afterward. One keys. and assured Mr. Manguui that he night they ran over the backs of the thought they could be trained to pick huddled flock and killed all the goats cotton. Mr. Mangum was so much im- in a few minutes. The sheep were then pressed by tlie suggestion that in the available for prey. Traps to the numsummer of 1S97 lie hunted out the ber of a hundred and thirty were set owner of the monkeys which Professor in different parts of the big ranch. Tracey had seen at work, bought the The trail of the pack was followed, and whole lot, ten in number, and induced it became apparent that the leader, their trainer to come with them to the warned by the scent, stopped all the plantation. There, in September, 1S97, rest, and advanced alone to the trap. He scratched until he laid bare a dozen s their training as began, and was conducted to a successful buried chains und pickets. Then he series of traps, issue. Each monkey was provided entered an with a bag which would hold about realized his danger, and slowly hacked twenty-fivpounds of seed cotton. out, putting down each paw backward This bag was hung over the monkey's until he was off the dangerous ground. shoulder. Baskets to hold the eotion Afterward he sprung as many traps as were placed at the end of each row, possible by scratching clods and stones and one man beside the trainer was at them with his hind feet. needed to take the cotton out of the sacks and put it into the baskets. The The 8t,e of the Sun. female monkeys proved the best pickThe earth on which we stand is, no ers, not only picking cleaner cotton doubt, a mighty globe, measuring as it than the males, but picking more in a does 8,000 miles in diameter; yet, what day. In less than a month after they are its dimensions compared with tnose were set at work they could pick on of the sun? If the earth be reprean average 150 pounds daily. They sented by a grain of mustard seed, then picked In weather in which negroes on the same scale the sun should be would not pick, and picked cleaner represented by a cocoanut. Perhaps, cotton than the negioes. The first exhowever, a more impressive conception periment was so successful that In of the dimensions of the great orb of June, 1898, Mr. Mangum sent to Africa day may be obtained in this way. for three hundred more monkeys of the Think of the moon, the queen of the same breed. They arrived at Smedes night, which circles monthly around about the first of September, and their our heavens, pursuing a3 she does a education under the superintendence of majestic track, at a distance of 240,000 the old trainer began at onep. It was miles from the earth. Yet the sun is much more difficult to teach these than so vast that if it were a hollow ball, it had been to teach the others, as they the moon could revolve in the orbit were wild, and had not gone through which it now follows, and still be enthe general civilizing process that the tirely enclosed within the suns Inothers had undergone. However, Mr. terior. For every acre on the surface Mangum and his trainer persisted, and of our globe there are more than before the season was over they had 10,000 acres on the surface of the great them well taught; although Mr. Manluminary. of this IlEvery portion gum fears that they never could have limitable desert of flame is pouring succeeded but for the ten original forth torrents of heat. It has, indeed, monkeys, whose example was invaluabeen estimated that if the heat, whica ble. A staff coriesponden of the Cotis incessantly flowing through any sinton Planters Journal visited Smedes gle foot of tlie sun's exterior, square in November last to see the monkeys could be collected and applied beneath I must admit at work. He writes: the boilers of an Atlantic liner, it that it was a glorious sight to see, and would suffice to produce steam enough one that did my heart great good. The to sustain in continuous movement, rows were filled with monkeys, each those engines of 30,090 with her little cotton sack around ner which enables a superb ship to break neck, picking quietly, without any rush the record between Ireland an I or confusion. When they got their sacks full they would run to the end of the row, where a man was stationed In Ihe Ocean' Dejiflix, to empty them into the cotton basket, The at the bottom of temperature when they would hurry back to their the ocean is nearly down to freezing work. The monkeys seemed actua.. to enjoy picking. The cost of picking point, and sometimes actually below it. cotton with the aid of monkeys is only There is a total absence of light, as far as sunlight is concerned, and there a d as much as with negro about an enormous pressure, reckoned at laLor, and the cotton brings a higher about a ton to the square inch in every g price, being cleaner. As machines have been a failure in the thousand fathoms, which is ICO times than that of the atmosphere we South, there is great interest in the greater live in. At 2,500 fathoms the pressure Smedes experiment. is thirty times more powerful than the team pressure of a locomotive when CrlruinaU Among! Wolves, drawing a train. As late as 1880 a Mr. E. Seton Thompson, naturalist leading zoologist explained the existto the government of Manitoba, nas, ence of deep-seanimals at such under the title, Wild Animals I Have depths by assuming that their bodies Known, given a series of observations were composed of solids and liquids of on the cunning of beasts. That qual- great density, and contained no air. ity is in general the device of the weak, This, however, is not the case with but the helplessness which it indicates deep-se- a fish, which are provided with may be of different grades. There is swimming bladders. If the cunning of wolves, which use their one of these fish, in full chase after Its wits to rob man of his flocks and cat- prey, happens to ascend beyond a tle, that of the domesticated creatures, certain level, its bladder becomes diswhich sometimes delight in criminal tended with the decreased pressure, cts, and the cunning belonging to and carries it, in spite of its efforts, among those animals still higher in its course. In fact, on which others prey. Mr. Thompson members of this unfortunate clas3 are claims for certain animals, says the liable to become victims to the unusual Scientific American, a share of the accident of falling upward, and no deference paid to depraved greatness. doubt meet with a violent death soon For example, there was the wolf which, after leaving their accustomed level, in the fourteenth century, terrorized and long before their bodies reach the all Paris for ten years; a lame grizzly-bea- surface in a distorted and unnatural which, in two years, ruined all state. Even ground sharks, brought and drove half the up from a depth of no more than 500 the farmers out of business in the Sacra- fathoms, expire before they gain the mento valley, and a certain won in surface. Nineteenth Century. New Mexico, which was reported to The Joke on Splint. have killed a cow every day for live Awfully good Joke on years. This wol? grew to be so well young known that an increasing price was Splints, isn't it? Didnt hear it. set upon his scalp, until the sum He sized up a man for appendicitis, reached a thousand dollars. Ordinary and favored him with a hasty operameans of hunting or trapping failed tion. Whats th Joke? Man dead? Mans dead all right, but that aint completely. The wolf and his mat brought up their cubs among some the Joke. They found out at the aurocky precipices, within a thousand topsy that he was born without any Howe that? Cliveland yards of the farm, and killd cattle appendix. daily. At this period. Mr. Thompson Plain Dealer. Muukeys Ticking C'ottocu iK-xt- , ere cotton-picker- e horse-pow- one-thir- cotton-pickin- a ed hog-raise- rs er |