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Show NO BACK SALARIES Wyoming, Washington And Mont. Senators get Left. BY EXPRESS PROVISION Of Leg-ialative Appropriation The Patriots Pa-triots Will not Hutle bo Now for The Jobs Frosts do Great Damage in Flor ida Other Interesting Bits of Telegraphic Tele-graphic News. Wasijington, Dec. 30. The three new senators who will be elected to fill the vacancies in the states of Wyoming, Washington and Montana, will prob-ab'y prob-ab'y not be paid the back salaries which have heretofore been paid to senators elected or appointed, to fill vacancies. . They were cut out by an express pi o-vision o-vision in the legislative appropriation bill of the last session, which, it is believed, be-lieved, will put an end to this practice prac-tice for the future. Under the system which has prevailed heretofore each man chosen would have received the pay for the entire term of six, notwithstanding not-withstanding two years of the time has already tlapBed. The new provision provi-sion will, therefore, woik as a saving to the jjouernment of $30,000 in this instance, and of larger sums in the future. The new law provides that the salaries of senators ehall begin on the date of their election or appointment, appoint-ment, FEOSTS IN FLORIDA. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 3). Reports Re-ports by wire from fifty-one correspondents correspon-dents in the orange districts of the state indicate at least 1,810,000 boxes of unpicked oranges are soiid, and more tiJan 300,000 boxes of orarjges in warehouses or lying in bulk preparatory prepara-tory to picking are frozen. Tomatoes, cabbage, beans' peas and all vegetables vegeta-bles in the northern half of the state are ruined, except the pineapple plantations, planta-tions, which are not much injured. Day before yesterday half of this season's great orange crop of 5,000,000 boxea was still on the trees. The tail of the northern blizzard switched around through the Florida peninsula and within the space of. a few hours Flo ida had sustained a loss that, estimated esti-mated in cash, would reach into the millions. The destruction will be felt tor many years .directly or indirectly, by ail the people of the state. Previous Previ-ous to this time the coldest weather known was in 1885, but there is no record to show just how cold it was then. ReDorts from the interior of the state show that the cold weather has been general and has extended from one side of the peninsula to the other. The loweBt temperature at Tampa was 18 and the same was reporced at Titus-ville. Titus-ville. At Cedar Key it was said to b as low as 16 The cold wtather played havoc with the plumbing and water-pupply water-pupply in Jacksonville. Man people .found their water pipes frozen. The occurrence was so unusual that it was some time before the residents could realize that the water had actually frozen fro-zen in the pipes. There was ice in shallow shal-low places, howeyer, and there were icicles everywhere. The weather has moderated and the cold spell has now broken. At 8 o'clock tonight the temperature tem-perature was 40. MURDERED BY YAQUIS, TccsoN.Ariz., Dec. 30. Frank Debs, formerly a resident of Tucson , was murdered mur-dered by Yaqui Indians in the state of Sonora, Mexico. Debs established an Indian village at the San" Francisco Midwinter fair last summer, but left San Francisco before the exposition closed, failing to pay the Indians he had brought irom Arizona and Mexico and leaving them to return as best they might. Two of the Indians were with Debs at the time he was killed and the opinion prevails that they killed him out of spite for his having failed to pay them what was due. PAKKHTJRST PREACHES. New Yokk, Dec. 30. The Rev. Chas. Parkhurst preached a sermon this morning in which he made indirect and incidental reference to the work ojt the past year. The people had learned, he said, that a politician was a man of expediency' and that he might arrange things in such a manner as only a mighty uprising of the people could un-do.In un-do.In looking over the field of the future he said the people should look for an Improvement in the newspapers. The papers, he said, that daily serve up a mass of matter, without discrimination, to their.readers, were rapidly becoming a public nuisance. |