Show amr mum jain renders a decision important 0 o colorado KANSAS cm dee 21 by sustaining a demurrer judge brewer 0 the united states court yesterday decided a point involving the main issues in the famous cipal land grant case which involves acres of land in colorado new mexico and texas the title of the cabe pending is the interstate inter state land company against the maxwell land gannt company land grant company against vicenta and others the decision is favorable to the maxwell company in eliat it holds tha the grant to the interstate inter state land company cannot bold for the reasons that the concessions made by mexico were never completed beat had no title to any land except what was set off to him hy the mexican gurein ment as an judge brdaar holds the mexican government limited the quantity of land to be held by one person to eleven leagues cuare that in beals grant there was a stion that M families should occupy it the interstate land company claims to have a right to alie grant by accession II 11 th lp appears to aboid llie females NEW dec 21 Recent ad vices indicate that the which is now prevalent in europe is of As abic origin and that it reached russia over the caravan routes as did a epidemic in 1830 it is known in kubia as a chinese malady and in germany as liue eian catarrh catir rh while france attributes it to a malignity in st the epidemic ep was coincident with heavy clouds semi daiko ees and bad weather victims of the malady are seized suddenly on the first day the symptoms are mental depression feverish cold and gastric disturbance followed on the next four days by the latter characteristic disappears on the fourth and fifth days and is succeeded by vomiting after this the patient recovers rapidly men and animals are attacked by the disease but few women two been affected by it I 1 tali of the russian government has been disabled by influenza HE ath BIS HIFE and hub cik him a tarn im for his I 1 STANDARD speciale F chronicle service 1 TOPEKA kan dec 21 thomas chodor will fester andy were to this city last night by a constable charged with attempting to lynch harry knott colored at his home at pauline wednesday night knott made complain jurgo jam ie cons court here nine of the party of twenty five that gathered about his ahouee making all shorts of threats they threw a ropo tied in a doofe into his house and ordered his wife to throw it about hia neck she refu ed and aliey took him out and made him run to lines of men who applied numerous blows with clubs etc after great torture he was allowed to return to his wife having been ordered to leave the place within forty eight hours the cause of the assault ie alio inhuman manner in which he has treated his wita and children tha would be bers were un maeker and made no ellort to disguise dis guiso their identity the V V and oron short line BOSTON dec 21 the circulars giving the rights to the union and oregon bhart line stockholders will probably not bo issued for bome days the oregon bhart line will tta stockholders 0 the new consolidation 5 per cent bonds and eliares of 0 these the union takes bonds and bharka ot stock which it in turn ailers to union stockholders but upon a dil lerent basis the union pacific aa bilya from the oregon shore line 28 shares at 95 and interest aad puts its guaranty upon bliem as on other fond and adds shares of the oregon snort line block irona its treasury and offers the whole to its stock of bonda and of stock in blocks of 1000 bonds and shares of stock the bonds to anh holder of emoi pacific shares I 1 he oregon short line to each 50 sharps of ils block a 1 bond and shares of eatock payments will probably be 25 par cent per month beginning in january jait an advanced payment may bo roade and interest at 5 per cent look OH FOR mimi 1 murder Commit ltd in a coraor in a tw loll 1011 tom STANDARD speciale F chronicle service I 1 NEW dec 22 john hart and a colored mn named nelson on a street corner in the village of N Y on thursday night when john rusk walked along and talked to hart good eve ang said hart look out for him said rusk look out for who asked hart why replied kusk uart thereupon drew his revolver a 32 calibre weapon and it at husks breast it full at him saying theres mcginty for you the ball struck rusk in the right side above the hip passing through the abd anal civita and lodging underneath der neath the ekin in the left of the abdomen knak fell to the ground wood gushing out of his side in a perfect stream became alarmed at what he had dose and ran away he has not ben reen nelson ran to help kosk and with the help of others carried him home doctors were sent for but they could do nothing beyond basini his suiter ing lanek refused to make any statement w whatever hat ever he lingered all day friday in great pain and died about nine friday rusk is unmarried I 1 ie was of good reputation and well liked in the neighborhood nelson the colored man who was the eole witness to the sho ting 13 very much frightened aad is keeping out of the way HE W and the chances ire that UD ivill M talk again special S F chronicle service I 1 BOSTON mas dec 21 C W of who has distinguished himself by many feats of water walking started at pin yesterday t walk in his patent shoes from the battery wharf to the B eton light he expected to cover the eight m les of rough water in eight hours but the probability at midnight was that he has lot lo t his life when last seen he had proceeded about half the distance heiing upon the dangerous passage of pull gut incoming bats bring no tidings of him and the fear is that he never will ba teen again it is that one of 8 shoes his beba picked up but this is not is but twenty years of age and has won a very considerable celebrity by hereabouts his apparatus consisted of large light shoes of great length and breadth and ei longas they remained on his feet he was safe 1 Chi namin cals tuentje lashes for AK acLin a chaij WINNIPEG dec 21 ah sing a chinaman BBS given twenty la hes on he bare back at calgary yesterday for attempting to outrage a little girl he celled loudly from the first stroke of the cat trouble in KAMAS CITY doc 20 A special to alie journal says hie united states deputy marshal received today to day from the chief deputy of oklahoma city the following telegram telegraph colonel snyder to have troops adist deputies and patrol this town tonight to night answer immediately A dispatch wag sent at once to colonel snyder commander of the united troops in oklahoma no explanation of the trouble is received djin LONDON dec 21 A private dispatch received here from rio de janeiro states that marshall deodora Deo Jora da fonsa ca chief of the government of brazil is dying thesues tion as to who will succeed him ia engaging cerious attention it is believed that a change in the ministry which would follow marshal da fonsecas deith would lead to serious complications gas Ei NEW YORK dec 21 another ex of gas in an electric subway occurred this evening on sixth avenue and twenty ninth street while the avenue was crowded with ladies out A great maps of earth paying stones etc was thrown in the air and scores of people were covered with dirt fragments many were knocked down but fortunately few injured malm smith in LONDON dec 21 slavin the pugilist who is to jem smith in a prize fight in the prize ring in belgium tomorrow to morrow was arrested at margate while on his way to the battle ground he waa taken before a justice and bound over in the sum of to keep the peace A large number of sporting men have started for the rendezvous and LISBON dec 21 minister of foreign gomes summoned the members of the cabinet to consider the note of lord salisbury ott ing to the urgency of the matter gals reply winch will be of an amicable katurd will be telegraphed to london tonight to night cioe thousand los DON dec 21 the etora of boot and shoe factories in bristol have lucked out their operatives by this step nine thousand persons are thrown out ot employment the lp pru D 0 dec 21 the president has approved the joint resolution tor removing damages caused by floods in sacramento Sai and feather rivers the founder of he sew lorl son dad NEW dec 21 B H day who founded the new york sun and printed ita fiest copy in 1833 died today aged 80 ears ii SAN dec 21 advises advices from simoa by steamer Alii meda con the report from london that malietha Malie toa haa been formally recognized aa king by lie representatives of the states great bluin and germany Tamae sese follow era expressed their hani and on the ath of alg was hoisted and abro united manof man of war fired a saints the german war beesel lying in the harbor a led to do BO 1 Oat oatly lt sim dee 21 in the Ro branze there was a debate on the budget which a deficiency 0 declared the actual condition cond tion ot things and iho prospect for the future precluded the osar clity of btty reduction in the military expenditures almi alil t ITA BO special S F chronicle service PARIS dee 22 henri rochefort a suffering ring from paralysis in the licad he articulates boly with great dalh culty bajt he retains his intelligence perfectly aad his mind is aa active as ever budnej dec 21 the independent christian chuich burned tonight aad six firemen were seriously injured by the collapse of the roof 1 dad LO DOV dec 21 right revered joseph barber lightfoot bishop oi durham is dea the american evolution squadron lias alrh ed at lisbon A family named willelm consisting of a wife and child were as by gas from a coal stove last night at akren ohio at berne the three men nicolet Dar helay and alenzi who were arrested on the clerge 0 an anarchist manifesto hive h ive been acquitted the bodies of fire ot llie missing thirteen people belonging to the steamer cleddy sunk off ahe isle of wight yesterday have been flashed ashore the jury in the navassa case at baltimore in the murder of thomas N foster have retained ret arned a verdict of guilty oi murder in the first degree against jones and chisar fisher saven others w ere found guilty of manslaughter davier francois picanes Pi canez french burglar and murderer who fled to this country four i ears ago was ar in ahe pardee mines in pennsylvania nearly a mile under ground by a detective and is now held for extradition at asheville Aeh eville north carolina yesterday morning shortly after daybreak the ol 01 the city gas works exploded causing its total de of the four men inside it engaged in making re paira two were instantly killed and two wounded the motion for a new trial of the action fur damages da maes brought by william chrien eg dinst lord salisbury Salig bury for elander has been dismissed obrien harmed that salisbury in a speech him cf to murder aid robbery the ground on which a new trial was asked lor was that the jury who returned a berdit for lord salisbury were misdirected constable of west moreland county at scranton pa yesterday yeste rjay morning with a warrant for the arrest of beneral master workman powderly he requested aldermam Ald ermai fuller to endorse the warrant EO as the am bt could be made at once upon examining the warrant the alderman found it contained no specific allegation making a general charge of consa racy omitting to all ga a specific crime the warrant will be h ld defective and refused endorsement dor from pueblo to salt like city joawn miller in N Y independent I 1 am constantly surprised at the number and endless length ot the railroads here only within the past year or so however have the mountains been BO entirely seamed and cut and croake by lines of cars and the plains as well I 1 came to pueblo from kansas city a long continuous cornfield of more than five hundred miles on the missouri pacific a road so new that but few people coming this way are aware of the new world that it opens up as yet and just now the new road to santa fe direct from pueblo is pointed out as we pass on with faces lifted to the rocky mountains and the awful gorges of colorado I 1 am setting out for salt lake city direct by the denver kio grande road because I 1 am told that such engineering and enterprise as ha been exhibited in its building is not matched outside of mexico we are leaving Lend ville and other famous mining centers to the left all accessible by rail now we are going to pierce right through the granite walls of the rucky mountains another thing that one is the weary distance how far is it by thia short cut to salt lake I 1 ask as we wedge our way on up a fertile valley between its gray white walls ob only about six hundred miles bays some one at my side to t o here we 0 o good reader on a ride of the biggert half of a thousand milea through the canyons of granite aud over the gold and siver and copper and the iron ribs of the I 1 mountains we are winding up the narrow and fertile valley of the arkansas river the one great stream that waters the indian territory it is all thickly settled and the most of it is plowed and planted and such orchards a wo see on every side as we wedge OH and up and into the f banul gorges through this narrow cut and richest of little valleys the apple trees are literally red with their loads of fruit aud so rounded and shapely are the trees too they look all along here as if they had only today to day escaped out of picture books but after all with all their abundance and their beauty they are not quite so cheap here as they are uway back yonder in alie heart of kansas where the cry from forty little throats was five for five fi fo fir but many that was because the white boys have little black girls tor competitors in the apple trade but be that aa it may the cry here is three T nickel three f nickel three T nickle an a pear throw ed binl and such succulent and rich fruit too fruit like this could not poa bibly be bad with all its sweet freshness in new york fur love or money and even the semblance Bem blance of it with all the soul and sense of perfume and blossom gone out of it would coat easily five times what this costs here hurrah for abo rocky mountains and now we bepin to climb we come to oil wells an oil city but you have enough of these near at home suffice to say these wells are numerous and profitable the cita reaches right and left aej all the ugly lines of cars and tanks and the like that make ahe ous the oil towns of the states are gathered up and down and round about this oil town of florence here on these savage foothill ls of the pretty soon we break up our train and put engines on each section of our long and sinuous joint anake the engineer of the head division beckons me and under an arrangement made days ago I 1 climb into hid red hot little cab and away we drive right into the narrow granite defile for salt lake city five hundred miles to the west no room for orchards or apples or shouting little mountain borne bodocs with blue eyes and torn hair here the red granite rises two three four five hundred feet on every hand almost instantly this granite is not only of a royally fine color but it is also of a very fine quality the capitol of the state is being built of this red and gray and black granite here to say nothing of other massive edifices already built we have met freight trains with long lines of this grani ite on their way to denver and other places so you see there is little need granite 0 r any other granite here flow it would be ceala to newcastle the rocky mountains make the granite quarry of the continent and now we observe that there is but a single track a narrow guage track and the very scantiest scan test room for that one little narrow string of steel hardly a hatful of earth along here now granite on either side below abaye nothing but granite boulders Bowl ders big as a church on top of boulders bowl ders that are bigger than barns steep and stupendous walla of granite so high on either hand they seemingly tear the clouds in twain and knock their foreheads against the the little silver 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