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Show NEWS SUMMARY. The Spanish minister of war,General Weyler, read a bill la the senate Toes day malting military training In Spain NORTHWEST NOTES. Oil has been found at Parachute, feet. Cola, at a depth of President Elmer E. Smiley of the obligatory. tate university is suffering in CheyFire at Denmead, Hampshire, has enne from severe attack of grip. destroyed Buchanan's airship, which L. G. Abbott, who brought the first was built to riral the airahip of M. printing press to the Northwest, died 8antosDumont. at Olypmia, Wash., last week, aged 73. The revolutionary steamer Liberta-do-r e Thomaa Ilolden, an miner, is reported to have been ennlc by a fell 450 feet in the A. V. shaft at Lead-villVenezuelan gunboat while under re Friday, lie was inatantly killed. paire at Porto, Colombia. The widow of the late Colonel RobThe steamer Knight Companion, ert G. la suing the Davie esfrom Portland, Ore., for Yoltohoma, is tate of Ingersollfor a 95,000 attorneys Butte, ashore in the China sea near Idznmli fee. Japan. All the crew and passengers Fifteen Sumpter, Oregon, miners were are saved. arrested last week, charged with ru fThe icc blockade on the upper Coling two men out of camp, by threatenlumbia river has been broken and their lives steamboat traffic, which has been in- - ing anniversarv of the The thirty-thir- d terrupted for ten days past, will be First Methodist of the organization resumed. church of Laramie will be celebrated Dr. II. W. Foster, mayor of Bozeman, about March 15th. Mont., died at St. Mary's hospital, In Mrs. Lizzie Marsh was seriously inMinneapolis, Minn., last week of heart in Denver last week by an ex trouble. He had been at the hospital jured of steam in the SL Elmo hotel. plosion about six weeks She will lose both eyes. The United States embassy, Paris, The body of Long Bert, a has bee u officially notified that France who was Inst in a blizzard has accepted the invitation to particiweeka ago. has been found several which pate in the St. Louis exposition, Rock Spring, Wyoming. near is to be held in 1903. Rollo D. Pierson, postmaster oi San Juan, P. R., police have 111., who is accused of em Louisville, closed all the gambling houses in that was arrested in Upton, bezzlement, city. With a few exceptions they Cal., last week. couuty, Siskiyou were American establishments, Autoinobilet may be used from the had been running openly. to Yellowstone park this Line Short The missionaries, frightened out by season, being quicker and more comthe late trouble in China, are return than ordinary stage coaches. fortable merlug to their posts, and foreign imJanies K. Tregle of Colorado Springs chants claim the outlook for trade wallowed sixty grains of morphine in provement is very favorable. a Cripple Creek saloon Thursday. Representative Griffith of Indiana, saved his has introduced a bill providing for Prompt medical attention life. coupon currency, in order that the 050 old-tim- e, sheep-herde- IS WEEK Scientific Notes. CONGRESS. t'rbrasry i. In Southern California an Ingenious Inventor has constructed a huge combination of lenses and reflectors w hereby the heat of the sun la made to run machinery, pump water and do other hard labor. In various parts of the world inventors have built machines to utilize the wavs motions of the ocean. The next thing, you will be saying, t(C, Szxatb. The senate psaeed the urgent someone will have harnessed cyclones bUl substantially as It came from the and made them do mans work. That house. very thing haa already been done. At ease tension the of the During the early part court least, so an Inventor claims. Accordof Judge Arthur H. Noyes of the illhlrlrt of Alaska, and A lexander McKenzie and others ing to thiB man. Prof. B. B. Brltta, his were discussed. Mr. McCumber of North Da- machine is far superior to any other The kota, delivered an elaborate speech In defense means of using natural forces. or Judge Noyes snd Mr. McKenzie. Incidentof his conconstruction of secret the ally he criticised the circuit court of appeals trivance is carefully guarded, but, as of San Francisco for permitting Itself to he Insoon as the patents are thoroughly esfluenced by prejudice snd bias. tablished, he promises to give a public exhibition with the first stiff breeze February 8. on the the legday that comes along. One of the moat reHorsz The house spent islative, executive and Judicial npiiroprluiliuu markable claims of the inventor is bill. Very rapid progress was made, seventy-fohis apparatus is applicable to that of tlie 130 pages of the bill lielng disposed locomotives, and that it will displace Nodeliuteof Importof before adjournment. air in proance developed during the consideration of the eletricity and compressed locobill and no amendments of Importance were pelling street cars. All sorts of are passible, says motion or navigation adopted. Skhati The following bills were passed: Prof. Britts, and he promises to make Authorizing the construction of a bridge steam power a thing of the past. the WushiiiKtun Columbia river across An agreement was reached In the house whereby the oleomerysrlne bill will be conbrought to a vote after two more days of debate to devoted general one be to sideration, rule. sod one to debate under the Introof Nevada, Newlands Representative duced s resolution asking Cubs to come into the union, first as a territory, snd then sea r, Ilorsa. verse does not differ much from tbal of 1,000,000,000 suns. Youth's Companion. belonging Danish National church, shall remain in possession of the churches which are now used by them, together with the parsonages appertaining thereunto. There is a possibility that the crown United prince of , Japan may visit the Stntes lrnfore long. He hat long exAmerica pressed a wish to travel in the taken now and has and Europe commof necessary preliminary steps unicating his desires to his majesty, the part of the state. Tlie station was einperor. taken. es- tablished as the resnlt of the efforts of Congressman Mondell. Safe burglars were busy at Meyera Falls. Wash., Thursday night. They broke into the postoffice, took all the money and stamps in sight and cut open many of the letters, seeking more funds. The K. F. A N. depot was also visited, the safe blown open by dynamite, and several express packages Tlie cost of building operations in New York City in 1101 was nearly double that of the previous year. The total estimated cost in tlie city, including new structures of all classes and alterations to old buildings, was For 1900 the total .was 150,072.9.17. ur the by Railway company, aiipmprlatlng K.SOO.OOO for the erection of spoatofllee In the city of New York: appropriating gnO.iXW for the erection of a public building at Tacoma, Wash.: providing for two additional associate justices for the territory of Okluhoma. A Oregon Intelllgrnra of Ant. The conclusion of a series of papers on the American auts printed In the American Naturalist by Prof. V. M. Wheeler is as follows: It is quite un necessary to assume the existence of February 7. the legislative, Hoitbz. The house passed anything beyond instinct and simple executive and judicial hill, the second of ilia Intelligence in the ants which form regular supply bills. As passed It curries compound and mixed nests; there are in excess of the no evidences of ratiocination in ants. .171.869. which Is 9508,721 current law. Only two amendments of im- This conclusion, however, even if it be portance were adopted. One provides fora extended so aa to exclude all animals commission to redlstrlct the legislative disexcept man from a participation In this tricts of Oklahoma and the other authorize the president, lu his discretion, to cover Into faculty, does not imply the admission the civil service the temporary clerical force of a qualitative difference between the employed on account of the wnr with Spain. human and the animal psyche. Svxatb. The imnsion .appropriation bill was passed. Man Who Won tha Gray ara to Gat Ten- sions. A favorable report haa been authorized by the senate committee on pen- sions on the joint resolntion construing tlie pension law of 1890. The resolution ia Intended to give a pensionable statute to those who served in the confederate army and subsequently joined tlie Union army, and who are now denied the benefits of the act of 1890 on the ground that they gave aid to the The committee expressed rebellion. the opinion that it was the intention of the framers of the net of 1890 to include Buch persons within its provisions. Amerlrana With Kura llrrrchm and Small Kworda Trrarntnl to King Kit ward. King Edward's first levee since his accession to the tlirone was held at St. James palace at noon Tuesday, and waa an exceptionally brilliant function. Allison Armour of Chicago and Charles Gibson of Boston, wearing knee breeches and silk stocking and carrying small swords at their sides, were among those presented to the king. All those who were known to his majesty kissed his hand, though they did not kneel, as was customary when kissiug the late Queen Victoria's neath the trough which carries the envelope. All that la necessary to put the cutter In operation la to strike the envelope a smart blow to slide the contents to one side, insert the oppposlte end In the trough and press the wire bale attached to the two gear wheels. Aa these wheels are geared to the small wheels at either end of the revolving cutter the Utter is rotated ly the depression of the bale, causing the spiral blade to clip the edge from the envelope projecting through the slot In the trough. A spring raises the bale as soon as the finger ia lifted, and the cutter Is then ready for the next envelope. Cheap Reproductions of Maps. of ludia In a The Surveyor-Generlate report gives an account of a new process for the reproduction of field maps, etc., by obtaining an Image In transfer Ink upon a zinc plate directly from a black and white original drawing. The process la cheaper than or lithography and occupies less time. Thin zinc platea are coated with a sensitizing solution made up of fish glue (1 oz.) gelatine (60 grains) bichromate of ammonium (45 grains) water (12 oz.). The subject for reproduction is placed face upward' with the zinc plate above in close contact, and the subsequent operations comprise exposure to sunlight for a minute or so, the development of a negative Image, inking of the plate and development of a positive image. al photo-zinco- graphy A England. Handy rinw-Mrrnp- A combination snow plow and road scraper may be largely constructed from material to be found on nearly every farm, the services of the blacksmith being needed only to place the strips of sheet Iron over the points of the runners. Fig. 1 In the cut shows the skeleton of the combination tool; Fig. 2, how the point la Ironed after the two pieces are joined; Fig. 8, the formation of the cross braces, and Fig. 4, the tool complete. Little explanation is needed of the Illustration, but eare should be used that the material selected Is tough, yet light, that the tool will not be cumbersome to handle. If desired, the runners or shoes may be adjusting the drier at different height from the lamp and with the aid of this and the variation of the flame the apparatus can be fixed to maintain a small amount of heat throughout the night. The inventor ia Henry C. Mansfield of Chico, Cal. Lnmlnnn Mnihruomi. Mr. MacAlpine has printed a search on luminous mushrooms, re- of difwhich he enumerates twenty-on- e ferent species. Eleven of these belong to the genua JTeurotu3 anil five of them are found only in Australia. The luminosity ia not due to the presence of phosphorescent bacteria, but is due to a process of combustion, which depends on the presence of oxygen and on high temperature. It Is not affected by humidity. It is probably useful in attracting insects that disseminate the spores. Trouble is threatened in the Red desert, between Wyoming and Utah flockmasters. Tlie greater part of the desert was recently leased by the Carbon county Wool-(- I rowers' association for the purpose of keeping foreign have insheep out. Utah sheep-ine- u and to leased the refuse vaded Si8,1C2,174. ground ad an issued leave. lias Tha census bureau A TtiouimiKl Million un. vance bulletin on the manufacture of T, C. Call and Harry and Thomas States. It the United in tlie At a Glasgow meeting of the Britin oleomargarine Coagnff engaged shooting affray lAird Kelvin interested establishAssociation of ish number mnv the Hint result at Big Timber, Mont., shows that with his calculations audience r a to twenty-foutwelve large from increased All for Thomas ments Cosgriff. seriously amount of gravtotal the of probable n cattlebetween 190 and 1900, with a are prominent and visible uniin mutter the itational total capital invested of .'1,023, 04, an men. Cosgriff was shut through the showed He that if, 20.000,000 verse. increase of 273 per cent. body. 1 .000, null, Oun masses, each yenn ago. been liad Admiral llowlos. chief of the liava The wife of Thomas Flynn, who exdistributed our to aim, equal bureau of naval construction, in a pired on the streets of Helena, last through a sphere nbout 1S.000.000.000.-000,00- 0 house committee, before a the mile in radius, they would now caused sensation has statement .week, by asking in favor of that tlie body be exhumed and examvelocities about equal to himself acquired have strongly expressed hand. lie possessed by tlie to known building warships in government navy ined to determine whether death was ordered the construction of those visible to us. Therefore It la Chile has au bo given stars caused by poison. She refused to disyards and urged Hint be only ono battleship, not two, as remore ves-- close whom she suspected. or probable that the total amount of grav- one construct to thority Teasel in he built The will ported. itational matter in the visible uuisals in the government yards well-know- Opnta The ordinary envelope opener must ba Inserted under the edge of the flap with great care, lest tha contents of the envelops be damaged in ripping tha flap, and if a man ia in a hurry he generally tears the letter open with hla hand instead of bothering with the cutter. Perhaps the ingenious devloe here pictured will recommend Itself to the busy man as a handy complement to hla desk outfit. The inventor la Harry II. Bowerman of Loreley, Md., and he claims that hla arrangement will clip the end of an envelope instantly without danger to the contents. As will be seen by a glance at the cut, a rotary cutting blade ia pivoted under- - The senate agreed to house amendHoot and Klioo Drli-r- . ments on the urgent deficiency hill. Adjourned When the fanner or laboring man to Monthly. I. O. Fish, a miner, was killed by a email sums, in multiples of 5 cents, comes in from a day's work in the wet February lO. snowslide at Boulder peak, near Dilhe wants a safe and convenient place may be conveniently sent by mail. Ilnrsz General debate on tlie olcomarga ria Kpotta, a boy dislon, Harry Saturday. been to has Parliament dry out the boots which he must Queensland's him had a narrow bill was finally closed. The friends of the bill put ou again in the morning. Somesolved and the premier, Robert Philip, who accompanied make an to amendment have decided to offer times he uses the stove shelf or the the ten cents tax apply to oleomargarine imihas issued an election manifesto, voic- escape. of oven, but the housewife is apt to comshade of of in tation yellow." butter, any Homer II. Derr, instructor mining ing Queensland's dissatisfaction with of Rev. Dr. f'ouden, the blind the plain or the boots may accidentally the result of the Australasian federa- and geology at the university of Wyo- house, in his Invocation, prayedchaplain for the restortion. ming has accepted an appointment in ation to health of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. of physics in the uniThe debate on the oleomargarine bill woe InThe Norwegian steamer Dudley was the department to allow the presentation of the conof terrupted Pennsylvania. wrecked on the Mexican coast near versity ference report on the urgent dltlelency bill. choice Six thousand tons of milling The most important matters still In dispute Vera Cruz, to which point she was bound from Port Arthur with a cargo wheat from Tacoma will be sent direct between the two houses were those rein tin? to clalma and the state claims of 3.10,000 feet of pine lumber. All to Stockholm, Sweden. This will be I.- a Abra and Well in raising the troops Incurred for expenses from the of wheat first the shipment were saved. the civil war involving a total of during II.- 456,225. The report was The president has exercised clemency Northwest direct to Sweden. Sexate Throughout nearly the entire sesLand office reports from southern in the case of Lieutenant James P. sion of the senate the tariff bill was under disHowell, Sixth artillery, convicted in Carbon county show that the valley of cussion. Mr. Turner of Washington concluded the Philippines of drunkeness on duty the Upper North Platte is rapidly fill- hi speech begun last Friday on the legal and and sentenced to be dismissed. The ing up with settlers who. are taking constitutional phaseof the Fhlllpptne question. Re held in tlio main that as tin' Filipinos had advantage of the homestead law. sentence is set aside. established an Independent government in the in a Islands prior to the falling of Mnnllla, the New York chamber of commerce has Twenty dollars in silver exposed shoe United Statea. under the principles of interrecomshow window of the Curys-Col- e adopted a memorial to congress last duties week, for national law, had no right in the islands. shop at lloulder, Colo., mending a reduction of the tariff Hale presented a partial conference report was stolen by onMr. be to an advertising purpose, the urgent deficiency appropriation bilL upon Cuban sugar and tobacco, a thief. Entrance was gained through followed by reciprocal tariff arrangea rear window. island. SFebmary 11. ments with the Hotrsz-The has voting on amendment to the and air hot steam A current of The state department la advised that bill in the bouse Indicated oleomargarine a discovered escaping through eonilderable change of sentiment since lust owing to a change in plans, the King been of Siam will not visit the United Statea crevice iu the top of a high cliff near congress, when the hill had 10fi majority, snd scorch. In the picture le to be aeen an apparatus designed especially for to the measure has gained this year. The cause assigned is the Fort Benton. Montana. The outlet is that the opposition VVbfie the passage of the bill Is not . underwork which may be put up In any immense this an of strength to be crown prince supposed unexpected return of the endangered. It Is not likely that the majority convenient place and can be left in ground geyser. of Siam in the autumn. tomorrow, when the final vote Is taken, will all night, If desired, thus operation The Western Packing company, with exceed thirty. The Iowa house of representstivee warm hoots to put on In the providing Senate The senate passed 4 joint resoluhas memorialized congress to pass the a capitalization of 500,000, haa been tion drier consists of an The morning. submitting s constitutional amendment Denver. The company at for states organized pay two tubes projectto with bill indemnify inverted pan, Lacey changing the'time of presidential Inaugurations meets made on account of the purchase expects to kill 300 cattle, 800 hogs and snd the termination and commencement of ing vertically from the upper side, find of swamp lands st 1.25 an acre. This 300 sheep per day. The plant will be congresses from the 4th of March to the last provided with projecting fingers to Thursday of April. hold the boot high enough to prevent running by September. includes 1,000,000 acres. A stirring debate on the general Philippine off the current of air circuof A new weather station haa been es- question was precipitated in the senate, the shutting In the tieaty providing for aale lated from the flame below. It will be Danish West Indies, is a provision that tablished at Moorcroft, Wyoming, foi principal participants being Mr. Platt of Con- - noticed that arrangement la made for to the tlie benefit of stockmen in the eastern nectlcut and Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts. the congregations Rapid Knvalopa to ironed to add to the durability of thfi tool. Explorer In Gaud Health. The British Antarctic exploration ship. Discovery, arrived at Littleton, All on New' Zealand, November 29. board were well and in good spirits. The pack Ice was encountered In latitude G3.5 and longitude 14.1 eaat, but pressure of time preveuted a thorough investigation of the Ice. Interesting collections had been made, however, during the voyage. Senator Frye lias n love for novel a His enmp on the Ilnngeley Lakes, in Maine, is stocked with all kinds of fiction, from tlie thrilling tale of Mysterious Mick, the Irish Deteo-five- ," s work of to the world-famou- j Balzac. |