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Show news summary Spanish is to be taught in the Chios-gpublic schools. The town of Orieaba, Mexico, is new infected with yellow fever. Negotiations are progressing by which New York capitalists will every salmon cannery in British Miss Sarah E, Stalter of Salt Lake City has been appointed kindergartner ac-qu- iie Columbia. Baron von Tell, a Russian, has a sealing vessel and will undertake an expedition into the north pur-has- ' ed polar regions next spring. The European demand for American apples is unprecedentedly large this year, exceeding that of last year by a million and a quarter barrels. The first steps toward the prohibition of unnecessary noises in Chicago have beeu taken by the officials of the health and police department. The British Foreign office denies the statement cabled New York that concessions on the Alaskan boundary been decided on. have question The Young People's Temperance Federation of Chicago is considering plans to establish coffee houses in all parts of the city as substitutes for saloons. Administration officials do not expect to experience any trouble in se. curing the consent of Lord Salisbury to abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwe- r treaty. Secretary Root has authorized the quartermaster's department to charter the Olympia, the Sictoria and the City of Rio to transport troops to the Philippines. Prince David Wawanakoa of Honolulu, who is in Washington visiting .his aunt, Liliuokalani, in an Interview, says that annexation is a decided success. Rio de Janiero has notice from Ber. lin that the Duke of Saxe has sold to the Herman government lands in Santa Catherine, estimated at over 1,000 square leagues. The resignation of the Argentine ministers is regarded as a condemnation of the policy of Gen. Rocas regarding lirelil and the delivery of the missions treaty. During a recent typhoon in China the dyke of the Tsaongo river, near gave away, inundation Shaoshing, was widespread, hundreds of houses being swept away. Jimlnez, the leader of the successful revolution, has been received in trb Public feelirf umph at Santiago. seems to be unanimous in bis favor as .a candidate for president. Eighty men were out all Sunday night fighting fire south of Englewood, S. D. on the Burlington railroad. At sunset the wind abated somewhat which saved Englewood from destruction. So far as known this is the hottest summer ever experienced in London. Meterological records have been kept for only twenty-seveyears, and show a maximum of 90 in the shade. J. G. Johnson of Kansas is to be the active manager of the work of the Democratic national committee in all of its branches until after the adjournment of the next national convention: The navy department is seriously feeling the effect of the heavy advance in the steel market. firms are asking for extensions of time in which to complete contracts under n Ship-buildin- g way. According to a dispatch from Kobe, Japan, the United States transport City, which was wrecked Morgan while transporting troops to the Philippines, is a total wreck. No lives were lost. The schooner Lisgar of Toronto has been lost about sixty miles from Good-ricOntario. She was in tow of the stearmer Clinton, loaded with coal from Buffalo. It is feared the crew are all lost. Count Esterhazy repeats his statement, in an interview published in London, that he did everything by order of Colonel Sandherr and his superior officers. He says he will reveal all in a short time. Preparations are under way for the establishment in Chicago of a hotel on the plan of the Mills hotels of New York city, where patrons can secure a s room, including bath, for 20 a night. cents 30 or By the explosion of a calcium light tank filled with carbonic acid gas in the Light company's Chicago Calcium machine room Frank nopkins was fatally burned and Howard McClene than was severely injured. John Y. McKane, formerly the political boss of Coney Island and whose trial and conviction in 1894 for ballot-bostuffing gave him national notoriIsety, is dying at his home in Coney land from acute dyspepsia, h, first-clas- x 1 niece, and the swaying of the carriage Learly threw her on my lap. Just then the elder lady began one of those nervous and hurried searches for her purse which women when travI know this trey is true, fir John- el. ng are so pi one to make. ston told it to me himself, ar.d he has It is gone! she exclaimed, and I not imagination enough to invent an am sure that follow in the corner untruth. pithed my pocket when I was looking He told me that if you sho lid at- c ;t of his window. He could not have done that, retempt to entir into ioi;t ersation with r in a Chicago train plied the niece, for 1 was looh.ug at a he probably would pre nt you with him at the time, and he never once the card in question as a delmate hint t'ok his hinds or his eyes a.vay from Li- - new that he wanted to hr- - left In ponv. pa; t r. I am ?iug down to Y tr. ickshire Do you suppoe My dt;,r child! tomorrow, I said1 oontirni d John- ycu a:e quick enough to watch the u to spend a few dr.ya with Feo-blston t,. im of a pivu-snmptekp m ket . and I'll take this card v it it ire. If Tiu. t roan has ray pir.et, I am perfectly some one insists on talking to me witm suit of u; and 1 shall j,ive him in I'm reading my parti' 11 try w ha; c bulge the moment we ret to Rugby. It was clear that I rnu-- t boit from handing him the card will do. I took the train at Euston, traveling the carriage the ins; ml the train reached Itugby platfom, and b. fore a second class. fellow-passengwas a The train My policeman could be called. woman of about 30. The boat was already slowing and 1 hastily gathof the day and the excitement of eatih-in- g ered up my rug and urn'ml'a nr.d prethe train had given her a florid pared to move toward the do i. No, you dont, my man, said Mrs. color, and I could see that the desire of condemning the weather and expesmg Scoble, rising and taking possession of the wickedness of a cabman was strong the door by the simple process of within her. thrusting half of her ample person Presently the woman caught my eye through the window. I saw at once that the game wa3 and said, I beg your pardon, but will cabup. time? My you tell me the exact That man has picked my pocket, man But here I handed the woman the said Mrs. Scoble, as soon as the policeSearch him Chicago card I had received the day man opened the door. and youll find my purse in his possesbefore. "She read It and then said, Oh, in- sion. It Is marked A. D. S., and has notes, two sovereigns, deed! So sorry. Pray excuse me, and four then lapsed in silence, while I resumed and some change in it, borides my JOHNSTONS ADVENTURE. NORTHWEST NOTES. in the Warm Springs school, Oregon, at $000 per annum. The log drive of the Rook Springs Lumber company, down Green river, includes 250,o(i) railroad tie for the Oregon Short Line, 2iKl.0i)) ties for the Union Pacific Railroad company, and 200,000 props for the Rook Springs coal mines. A plan is on foot to construct a substantial dam in the bed of the Truekee river at or near the foot of Virginia street, Reno, to impound the water so as to make a lake for bathing, fishing and boating in tbe summer; skating and ice yachting in the w inter. William Duncan was killed and Charles Olds seriously injured by tbe explosion of a threshing machine boiler at Yerington, Nevada, last week. Duncan was formerly employed as engineer of the steam sawing machine at the V. & T. railroad woodyard in Carson. Dr. A. M. Webster, a young dentist, supposedly because of love unrequited, shot himself through the heart at Twin Bridges last week, dying instantly. Webster was about 28 years of age, and had been in Twin Bridges three months, coming to that place from Salt Lake City. An effort is being made by residents of Sierra county to induce Captain J. B. Overton to extend the line of his railroad from Truekee, Cala., to Over-to- n to Sierraville, only four miles distant, thus giving the traffic of that fertile valley railway connection with the Central Pacific. A bad freight wreck occurred at Pine Bluffs station last week, on the main line of the Union Pacific, fifty miles d east of Cheyenne, caused by an on line main train the gravel being run into a California freight special. Two wrecking trains worked for hours to clear the track. Dorothy K. Holliday, au Salt Lake child, treated by Christian Scientists, died last week and was buried without a permit. Investigation revealed that the child had been sick three weeks without medical at- fei'.ciw-pas-ery- m exclaimed. 'Where on earth have you been?' The niece had returned, and was s'anding looking in bewil lerment, first ft me. and then at her uncle. Suddenly she took in the full meaning of the situation, and after saying to me, Is this Mr. Johr.rton? burst into uncontrollable laughter. There never was anything so e as that o.gh, ami s.r.ce the word began, and the tu:'-- . of tie girl's nrsmiev ous eyes would h.ve n,i 'e John Ca'.v .n smile evtn in the act of burning a heretic. could not help it, lut in another moment I found myself joining in the girl's laughter, while Scoble stood and gazed at us with an almo.-- t Lightened expression. The niece was the frvu to speak. Titile. she said, there has been a mistake that would have been perfectly awful if Mr. Johnston had not been a real humorist and seen the funny sde of it- - Auntie has driven home, for she could not wait any longer, and we will all three walk home together, and you shah know all about It. I hesitated for a second and then said to myself that I would meet fifty to the aunts sooner than say good-bniece before I had convinced her that I was not always stupid, and that I could sometimes be other than a nuisance. I not only walked home with ticket. her and faced the dismayed and reWhat do you say to this? the po- pentant aunt, hut I staid my full week liceman asked me, evidently impressed at Greoneroft. When I came away I with the certainty of my guilt. was engaged to be married, and had Simply that it isnt true, I replied. already began to call Mrs. Scoble 'I know nothing of the ladys purse, aunt, partly to show her that I bore and I can easily convince you that I no malice and partly by way of emam a respectable person. phasizing the triumph that the man My goodness! exclaimed my acwhom she had called stupid had won. cuser. Why. the fellow Isnt deaf and Pall Mall. dumb after all! Constable, he pre- WOMANS WAYS. e, fine-looki- er ir-- us 1 si.-tlh-le 1 y five-pou- my newspaper and congratulated myself on the efficacy of the American plan of dealing with railway bores. It is true that my conscience did give me an occasional twinge, for the distinction between telling a lie an'd e lie handing a person a printed on a card was not very perceptible. I asked myself whether in giving the woman a card with the words, I am deaf and dumb, I had not ready-mad- Are Iaat Fliulliur Out Ordinary Broker. Deliver me from Chicago Journal; any more wheat deals with women, said the commission man, wearily. Do you see Just read this letter. what she says? Calls me a robber and says she will prosecute me. She wont do that, of course, because If she did her folks would find out about her little speculation, and I know her well enough to understand the she wouldnt let it out if she could help it, and she couldnt prosecute me anyway. Then One would look at the rest of it. think from that letter I was running the biggest skin game on earth. But I suppose I ought not to be surprised. I never taw a woman yet who didnt want odds of a million to one in her favor If she took it into her head to put up a little money on something. Ill tell you w'hat brought out all of that abuse. This woman decided some time ago to trade a little in wheat. She wrote, sending me $20, with Instructions to buy her 1,000 bushels. I did so, but the price of wheat went down almost as soon as I had telephoned the order over to the firm at the board. I made up my mind that she shouldnt lose if I could help it, even if I had to help her out myself. So I began margining for her on my own account. I put up $20 without being worried much, for I thought the price would go up soon, but it didnt, and I had to spend another $20 to save my own margin. There was $40 gone Just to protect her little old $20. Before the market began to come up again I had to put in $80. Then one day the price came up very gradually. As soon as It got to the point where I could save myself I sold out, as any wise man would have done in my fix. As it happened, too, the price went back just after I had sold out, proving Well, I the wisdom of my course. informed my client of what I had done, supposing she would be delighted at the interest I had taken and at my attempt to save her investment for her. You can judge for yourself from that letter how well pleased she is. Says I am a robber, after I took all that pains to put up that money to save her old $20. No, I guess I wont do any more trading with women. They expect too much. A Speculator by an Speech The sentence of death imposed upon Thomas MacVeach, the Wyoming volunteer, who assaulted his captain in Manila, has been commuted to life imprisonment by the president. Before leaving the Presidio, a year ago, he assaulted comrade William Ferris with Because a companion was a knife. not released from the guardhouse he lay in wait for his captain, D. C. Wright of company G. First Wyoming, with a knife. The captain drew a revolver and marched him off to prison He was taken to Alcatraz again. island last week to begin his sentence. con-tario- al tention, and Mrs. C. E. Johnson, the scientist, is to be prosecuted. n, firmed his suspicions, and he roughly ordered me to go about my business or he would have me arrested. Just then Scoble spied me. Why, here you are, after all! he -- east-boun- William J. Bryan, who delivered a at Carson last week, was given the largest reception ever tendered a public man in that section. The mines of Virginia City were closed down and all the western part of Nevada en fete. From Lake Tahoe Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were brought to Carson in the historical coach occupied by Horace Greeley on bis trip to that city and in which U. S. Grant was also driven. Michael Klapak, a Slavonian coal miner who was crushed by a Union Pacific freight train in the yards at Rock Springs recently, died at tbe Wyoming general hospital. One arm was mashed to a pulp and the head and body badly cut and torn. Klapak had over $200 on his person at the time of the accident. The coroner's jury returned a verdict exonerating the company from any blame in the matter. Joseph W. ONeil, secretary of the Cheyenne fire department, has been arrested charged with incendiarism. He confessed to having started two fires during the past month. He had no motive, he said, but 6imply could not withstand the impulse to set the buildings on fire. During the past two years there have been fifty incendiary fires here. He used a bicycle to get out of the vicinity of the fires after starting them. He has been an active fireman for two years and it is believed during that time have started most of the incendiary fires. The Nevada Power company has been organized at Reno, Nevada, and proposes to transmit powTer from the canyon east of Reno to the comstock for pumping and other operations, as well as distribute power to Reno and vicinity. The canyon is eleven miles nearer to the Comstock than is Floris-tothe point from which a similar plant has been proposed. The company is capitalized for $500,009, and is backed by eastern capitalists. Articles of incorporation have been filed and officers elected. I must not stay In the cloakroom, i tried bribery, but the action only con- "IS THIS MR. JOHNSTON? been guilty of lying as certainly as I should have been if I had told her the same thing in so many words. At Willesden Junction another passenger got In. This time It was a young lady who was evidently expected by the elder lady. By and by my attention was aroused in spite of myself by hearing the elder lady mention my name. You see, she said, I had to come down today because John has asked that tiresome Johnston to spend a week with us, and of course It wouldnt do for me to be away. But, auntie, said the other, how do you know that he is tiresome If you have never seen him?' I know It, for one thing, becausp Johns friends always are tiresome. It does seem as if he deliberately selected the most stupid men he could find and asked them down to Greencroft. just to make life a burden to me. And then, my dear, for another thing, I tried to read this detectable Johnstons books. Anything more stupid and silly you cant possibly imagine. So I wa3 actually traveling In the seme carriage with Scobles wife and niece, and the former was dreading my arrival at her house and looking upon me as a tiresome nuisance. The two ladles talked on, but happily seemed to forget the existence of Once Mrs. Ihe unfortunate Johnston. fcoble cams to the window where I was sitting, to point out something to her tended to be deaf and dumb. That shows what a scoundrel he Is! I rose up to follow the policeman, and my foot struck against something that was lying on the floor of the carriage. I stooped and picked It up. It was the missing puiee. Is that your purse, madam? I asked, a3 I held it up. You must have dropped it when you were looking out of my window. I wouldnt advise him to play that game any more, said the policeman, Let me tell you sir, that If severely. you travel under false pretenses you neednt be surprised if you find yourself in trouble. Youll have to give me your name and address, in case anything more comes of this. I gave him my address as soon as I could get away from the carriage, and at the same time I gave him a surreptitious five shillings and asked him not to give my name to Mrs. Scoble. I saw Scoble on the platform as the train drew up at Greencroft, but he did not see me, for I had concealed myself behind the curtains of the carriage. I watched him until his back was turned and then sprang out and bolted into the cloak room, which was close at hand. I had hoped to remain there until Scoble had left the station, but I The porter In atwas disappointed. tendance, finding that I had no particular business with him, immediately suspected me of designs upon the property under h!s charge, and told ms that Some Intercutting: Curiosities 3ome interesting discoveries have been made in Lough Derg, Ireland. As a number of men were engaged dragging a portion of the lake adjoining Terryglass for the remains of a man had been drowned, the search party happened on a lot of peculiarly interesting curiosities, amongst them being the head of an old Irish elk in a fine state of preservation, with enormous antlers, the tips of which were eleven feet apart. The teeth are three inches long. The other discoveries Included dug-oboat or canoe, a supposed to be of great antiquity. The artisles are attracting much attention at the Carrigahorig barracks. ut well-preserv- ed Right In HU Line. Jimmy aint got He takes things ofS enough spunk. Dat his blx. Second Crook people. Hes a pickpocket. First Crook |