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My- - '"‘M w t 7 l' i DESIGNED TO FIGHT than to occupy one of the alleged "conning towers” The smoke pipe passes up through AVHAT A REAL BATTLESUP IS the center of the tower and receives LIKE protection from it The smokepipe is utilized as a mast and carries the usual fighting top and signal yard The top An Officer of a Monitor Is Responsible of the smoke pipe is 100 feet above the tor a New Design That May Be of water line and as the fighting top is Great Value to the Navy — Not a fifteen feet below the smoke outlet the Thing of Beauty men at the top guns ought not to suffer any discomfort from smoke The barbettes and conning tower rest on the main deck which is two inches thick experience on the larger monitors It The side armor is continuous and has a represents in a general way his con- mean thickness of twenty Inches twenty-four Inches amidEhips tapering to ception of the ideal battleship All ships are compromises and this de- sixteen inches at the ends The depth f of Bide armor is six and feet sign departB materially from the n and approved monitor type in The thickness of armor on turrets barhaving a superstructure forward This bettes and conning tower is twenty feature enables the ship to maintain inches The length of the vessel on water line is 300 feet beam seventy feet draught forward and aft twenty and lf feet displacement about tons twin screw indicated horse power 5000 speed about thirteen and lf knots per hour coal capacity 500 tons main battery four twelve-inc- h h and six guns secondary g six battery mm Hotchguns and two thirty-seve- n kiss revolving cannon The sketch represents the ship cleared for action the boats at other times DESIGNED TO FIGHT her speed in a head sea which is whol- - being stored on the superstructure The ly Impracticable with the ordinary presence of a superstructure amidships monitor although a sea abeam has but adds much to the comfort of a monilittle effect on the speed of this pe- tor’s crew and does not increase her culiar craft For about' of size as a target as bridges and other Its length the design presents a free- gear would incumber the space between board of only thirty inches which may the turrets and give the enemy as good be considered the monitor standard a mark as does a superstructure This The freeboard at the bow is ten feet point is illustrated by a comparison of The twelve-inc- h guns are well located the Minantonomah and the Amphitrite for sea work being eighteen feet above the former having no superstructure the water line The turrets are housed The model of this design is necessarily in barbettes The height of each bar- - very full otherwise the enormous ar- The accompanying sketch hy a naval officer who has was had made some commerce destroyers or as one-ha- Fire at Clancy Mont recently destroyed 83000 worth of property About 500 people are stalled at Havre Th Horror ot an American Winter-S- ad Mont by blockade and have eaten the Effect of the Strike on Brutly— town bare An Observing Son ot MUeaiu — Railing Gallatin and Madison counties will the Wind build a 87000 bridge across the Jefferson river at Willow ereek Bing The Montana state land board has He was a man well known in town and decided to make no selection of lands people called him Bing He could tell another person how to do that will not appraise 83 per acre most anything And strange as It may seem to you for The prospects are that Wyoming none of his advice Would he exact of friend or foe even the will make no Gtate exhibit at Omaha smallest price but several of the counties will be repAnd tho’ he never owned a house ha resented speedy could another show Just where the rafters and ridgepole ought properly to go And tho' In naught he ever tried was h ' four-inc- rapid-firin- ds a great success always thought that his advice was far from valueless The Sand Coulee Coal company of Montana has sent to the Omaha exposition a single block of coal that weighs five tons Jacob Teters of Libby Mont who He could tell another person just when to made a trip over the Horse Shoerange buy and sell last week saw 200 deer In one day jAnd If they followed his advice he knew within a radius of three miles do would well they And though to aid somebody else h ofThe capitol building commission has ten used to yearn Whene’er he acted for himself things took awarded the contract for making the a losing turn state house plans to the firm of Ball & He could tell a big contractor Just how to Kent of Helena Mont for $8250 dig a ditch A passenger from North Carolina to And could map out for a merchant tho sure way to get rich became Insane on a Northern Spokane He knew Just when a man should sleep Paciflo and was turned over to train and when a girl should wed And yet he scarce had brains enough to the sheriff of Dorason county Mont earn his dally bread Petitions have been filed in the disHe could tell a railroad magnate how court at Helena for the disbartrict best to build his road And tbe way to run a paper an editor has ment of Attorneys M L Wines and E A Booth1 who are showed charged with perAnd as to give a doctor points on day jury he tried He suddenly fell sick himself any very Helena capitalists made up' Si pool shortly died and purchased $100000 worth of United — Thomas E Porter In Boston fi States 4 per cent bonds at 121 on advices from New York that th?ra Empty would be no war The trial of the big damage oase of E Rollins Morse vs the Montana Ore Purchasing company at Butte which resulted in a disagreement cost each side about $30000 Mike Rolla an Italian who killed Senorio Cortez at llorr Montana has been captured recently and is held for murder He claims that the Cortez brothers attempted to kill him Recent visitors from White Sulphur Spring Montana report the deepest snow in some localities in the memory of the oldest inhabitant Telegraph poles and wires are completely buried Thomas J Riley charged with the murder of Banker Largey at Butte Mont has applied for a charge of do be lookin’ moighty bad" venue and his application is backed by Muldoon— “Phy Brady hov indegis-tion- ” 169 affidavits by many of the most prominent men in the city who do not Casey — "And now pwhat dthe dlvil believe Riley could get a fair trial at gave him lndegistion ?” Butte Muldoon — “Dthe strolk It was— faith The Rawlins Wjo road to the it’s nothin’ he’s had t’ degist dtUb lasht two weeks”— Grand Encampment will cost $2355 when completed They expect to in have their stage line Raising the Wind operation by Tramp — “I don’t want anything to May 3 the date of the arrival in Raweat I’m too far gone for that but if lins of the first of fourteen Grand you have a bicycle pump that you could excursions to be ran during lend me to pump a little air in my stomtbe spring and summer ach to keep me going or better still if Mrs W E Towle who owns a ranch yu have a punctured tire that you could let me apply my iips to so as to draw on the little Laramie river about 20 the norlshmentf gradually I’d feel miles from Laramie Wyo trapped The intwo coyotes a few days ago obliged” Lady of the House— "I can fix you trepid ranch woman clubbed one of better than that j Just let me turn the the animals to death and shot the othdog loose then you hold your mouth er one after he had dragged the trap open while he chases you around the house and you can take In a full sup- a considerable distance over the country ply of wind” J H McLean a practical thee The Horrors of sn American Winter Caller — “What! (Don’t like to see It shearer of Buffalo Wyo has perfected snow? Why the very sight of snow an invention for aiding in the work ef makes one feel poetical” shearing sheep by hand Sheep shearknow1 — "I too well and ers almost unanimously pronounce the it only Editor of steam sheep shearing machine a failthe trouble is that about the people feel it t ielr duty to put their ure and it is believed that McLean’s emotions in writiig” Invention will in a measure take It had been snowing only seven min- their place utes but the door softly opened and a women and seven boys were Two d individual enmelancholy tered and approached the editor carry- arrested at Laramie Wyo on coming a roll of manuscript on his shoul- plaint of Special Agent Penrose of der Denver Union Pacific railroad detecBut the editor had fainted tive charged with stealing eoal from cars in the Laramie yard All pleaded A Blighted Ne Tear’s Hope gnilty to the charge The two women ‘I’m very much a ’raid Miss Passelgh were dismissed with a reprimand and is in love” said oni young woman were fined small amounts and the boys “I’m sure she dBsn’t say anything sentenoes varying from ten to lead one to thl k so” replied the given jail 30 days to other “No But I foundper just now with Elko county still holds the banner a pencil and paper figuring for dear for low taxation in Nevada the rate life to see whether fur goes into 1898 of $165 recently voted being the lowwithout leaving a Washoe est levy so far reported lngton Star county which ranks first in wealth has made a rate of $220 Humboldt Observi nt Including the Winnemucca school tax — 1 there’s soi Casey “Bedad! imposes $327 Storey which collected mighty Queer things in the system (5 last year has reduced its levy to natur’ as they call i He one-ha- er NOTES ORIOINAL AND SELECTED transports for the handling of troops The available steamships that could be utilized by the government would constitute a big fleet and experts believe that it would prove of great service in the event of wrar with any country The four big steamers of the American line the St Louis the St Paul the New York and the Paris are the largest ships of the number and besides these there are the steamships of the New 00 NORTHWEST 80ME GOOD JOKES one-hal- well-know- two-thir- OUR BUDGET OF FUN Could Be Fitted for Action Attention has been attracted to ths merchant steamships that are classed as auxiliary cruisers to the navy and which could be fitted out in a short time so as to serve most effectively as V JUDGE ADVOCATE MARIX the Report of the Maine (He Carried Inquiry to Washington) York Cuba Steamship company and the Mallory Morgan Red D and All of these vessels Panama lines could be fitted out and prepared for And fluty in a very short time They would be supplied with guns of the Driggs-Schroedand Hotchkiss pattern which are designed to throw a large number of small' projectiles with great er rapidity Naval officers do not be- - two-thir- ds long-haire- THE COLUMBIA THE FASTEST VESSEL IN THE UNITED STATES NAV bette above the deck is twelve and feet A leading feature is the conning tower which is a tower in fact as well as in name It has a height of twenty-seve- n feet above and feet in the water line is twenty-fiv- e diameter and twenty inches thick There is nothing equal to it now afloat The conning towers on most ships are mere death traps and many commanding officers say they would rather take their chanceB on an open bridge one-ha- lf one-ha- lf mor weights could not be borne The absence of eight-inc- h guns means a sacrifice of offensive power but there is a corresponding gain in armor protection and in general simplicity The ship can be commanded by one man and handled by a small crew The designer believes that this ship although costing not over two- - thirds as much as the Indiana and being much cheaper to maintain would be more than a match for the pride of the Hoosier state T 1 lleve that all the available merchant Brady — "Thot’s no rame” called be Casey — “Yis an’ on of them is tl upon to do steamships would the as commerce dryer the weath r is the less destroyers They duty believe that half a dozen of the fastest rains” — ones would be more than enough to A Hard (fees wipe Spain's small commerce from the O’Rourke—” Mrs n’t poor seas iq a comparatively short time be surprolsed to get a etther fro acThe navy yard at Brooklyn could Mr O’Rourke— “Th t he wil commodate ten large steamships a( one d’ ye know Oi put on i little poi time if it were necessary to fit them out tellln’ him to guess ho It wa at short notice before he opened the fnvelope’’ Up-to-Da- ' ) J $455 for 1898 of Examiner Henderson of condition the the reports Wyoming Resources state banks as follows loans and discounts $18815473 due from other banks $10973138 cash and total miscellaneous items $5732111 35520732 Surplus fund $29000 in- State dividual deposits $16146884 certifi-sate- s of deposit $7867776 undivided profits $1406262 total $35520722 |