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Show 0KTHWEST NOTES. NEWS SUMMARY. The coal (amine Id Kansas tic ally broken. Yellow jack Is causing Is prac. sli deaths a day at Guayaquil Ecuador In Honolulu it Is currently reported E I Dole has resigned his office that Attorney General James J Corbett has sent $2,500 to Al Smith in New York as a forfeit for a match with JefTries The Wyoming legislature will make a trip through the northern part of the state later iu iht session The authorities of Butte have commenced a determined crusade against e slot machines nii In a fight between two factions of Italians at Tnuniad Colo , one man was killed and several injured The Montana state senate has voted to indefinitely postpone the bill for the submission to the lectors oi a constitutional amendment giving the suffrage to women. A hill to permit tho praitiee of osteopathy is being prepared tn the Wyoming legislature, and will meet with strong opposition from the legu lar medliai fiaternity a Spoan barton Arthur ter, was shot by a man v l.o was handling a revolver which lie thought was unloaded. Lab'-oariving a few moments after the aei irient County Attorney Woodward of Carbon county, Montana, has been disbarred from practice in Montana, it being proved .that he forged the name of a firm to a letter of recommendation. The fire insurance adjusters who have been at work estimating the damage done to Washoe smelters at Anaconda, Mont., have given out statement that the loss will reach the amount of $35,000. The girls employed in the telephone exchange in Butte, who went on a strike a short time ago for an increase of $15 per month in wages have gone back to work, their demands being acceded to. Boston's crop cf beans Is running low and the city is threatened with a famine of the commo litv. Mahud I'asha, brother in law of the Bultan of Turkey and leader in tho "Turkish reform party, died at Brussels Sunday Editor Gonzales, who was shot by Lieutenant Governor Tillman, is improving, and hopes are entertained of his recovery The claim of May Yohe (Mrs Putnam Bradlee Strong) against her former husband, Lord Hope, for $45,000, has been settled for $5,000. At Purdy, Mo., J. M. Huff, proprietor of a hotel, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. Domestic troubles caused the tragedy. A combination of all the boat build, ing interests on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with a capitalisation of $5,000,000, Is being organized. Abram S. Hewitt, former mayor of New York, and for many years representative in congress, is dead, in his list year, after ten days illness. Laura Foster, mother of former Governor Charles W. Foster of Ohio, is dead, aged 100 years. Her husband founded Fostorla, and from him it took its name. Tom Horn has completed a years Governor Thompson B. Ferguson of Imprisonment in the county jail al Oklahoma has set down his official Cheyenne. He was arrested ou the foot on the use of bloomers by girls evening of January 13, 1902, tho day who attend the Territorial educational following his confession to Deputy Institutions. United States Marshal Joe Lafores. A Dill has been introduced in the A Great Falls, Mont., special says Missouri legislature establishing a the State Liquor Mens association has whipping post. Another bill nas for decided to fight the Sunday closing Its purpose the abolition of the death law, which will soon be introduced in penalty for murder. the legislature. A tax of $10 each has The official figures show 4714 per-sn- s been levied against all men in the lost their lives, and that 33, liquor business in the state, and the houses were destroyed as a result of fund will be used to fight the passage the recent earthquakes at Andijan, of the bill. Russian Turkestan. Governor Lieutenant Haggott M. Ooubet, the Inventor of the caused a sensation In the Colorado torpedo boat bearing his name, senate by declaring that be would rewho, as announced January 12th, was fuse to recognize the senate rules inrecently confined in an asylum for tha sofar as they . provlda lot. tho. assumpr dead.V:-::-:"" Insane In Paris, ! the secretary of tbs senate of tlonby The agricultural bill has been pre- the duties of tbs presiding officer. pared by tha Jiouae commlttee oa as. jne tlaTTnedthst such 4, uncow--. riculture. It carries approximately stltutlonal. $6,000,000, or about $80,000 more than Representative Daniel Robinson cf the current appropriation. Natrona county, Wyoming, is preparThe crown princess of Saxony and introduction In the bouse a bill M. Giron, with whom she eloped, have ing for school and arrived at Mentone, France, and In- creating a state normal at location for its Casper. providing tend to stay two months. They have amount of the first appropriation The Mme. M. name and Andre of taken the has not been decided upon, but an apGerard. propriation of $5,000 a year for mainleTwo battalions of the foreign tenance will be asked. gion, stationed in Algeria, have been of ordered to be in readiness to proceed remains The Congressman to the Moroccan frontier. The troops Thomas H. Tongue were laid to rest are being equipped for active service on the 18th, at Hillsboro, Oregon the In the field. funeral ceremonies being attended by The American consul In Algeria, 3,000 people, among whom were a delegation of congressmen from WashingcircuDonnell Kidder, saya u,t lated (n London that hla wife was ton, the entire Oregon state legislaassaulted and robbed by footpads waa ture, the governor, the state officials numerous fraternal bodies. exaggerated, and the incident waa and without Importance. The discovery has been made that An explosion of a gas main In the the body of the infant son of George business center of Joliet, Ills., wrecked Keithley of Lusk, Wy., has been stolen Zelgert's barber shop and Injured two from the cemetery by ghouls. The barbers. Scores of people had narrow child was peculiarly constituted phybusiness block sically, and at the time of its death escapes. A three-storIn a is partial state of col- Omaha physicians attempted to buy nearby Its body. It is believed that they sent lapse. to rob the grave. Four kegs of powder exploded in a a Slav boarding house In Wlndber, Pa. Representative Cooper's bounty bill, Six Slavs who are believed' to be mor- appropriating $40,000 for the payment tally Injured were seated together In of bounty on predatory wild animals a room, and It Is said that one of them killed during the next two years, was was endeavoring to dry a quantity of up in the Wyoming legislature last powder. week, and caused much discussion. According to a Honolulu dispatch, Seeing that' the opposition to the the" Hawaiian 'Exhibit association Is measure was -- very strong,' th - backpreparing to ask thef legislature for an ers of the bill cut the amount of the appropriation of $50,000 for an exhibit appropriation to $25,000, but its oppoat the St Louis exposition. About nents will fight for an appropriation of not more than $20,000. $20,000 will be spent on a building, according to present plans. George Johnson, one of the best While attempting to arrest a negro known ranchers in the JShlelds river was fatally country, desperado. Will Davis, at Pacolet (Montana) Mills, S. C., Officer Jacob Smith was stabbed by C. F. Jones, a young man, shot to death. Davis escaped, hut the during a quarrel in a saloon. Jones ran blade of a hunting knife h entire community Is looking for a him and a lynching Is feared If he Is through Johnsons lung. caught. The man Kirley who la being held A plan of S. T. Harensid, a Hun. at Billings, Mont., will make a clean garlan student at Tiffin, O., to organ. breast of the affair of the Brldger bank In the United Ize his countrymen robbery. He will not be taken to Red Christian Into associations, Lodge until after confession Is obStates under the direction of the Reformed tained, as officers fear that the other church, was adopted by the board of prisoners will do him harm. home missions. Walter Cox, the man who was reThe employment of small girls at arrested in Butte on s charge cently night In the silk mills of Scranton, of forgpry committed at Billings, Pa., has been stopped. The owners Mont., and who is wanted In Wyoming of the big mills have ported notices on other charges. . and who was brought back to Billings by the sheriff, at the various plants ordering-t- he bis way out of the county Jail email girls who have. ..Keen working dng bis escape. made and at night to report for day duty. A wreck occurred on the Southern The lawyers for the anthrscite Pacific near Icarus, Nevada, caused coal operators" and "Tof fhF''ffitn?-workerby a broken rail, which rierailed and who are now in Philadelphia overturned the caboose. Conductor suffered a. broken In attendance on the strike commis- Austin of Ogden shovel engineer a steam and thigh, sion,, have drafted a bill limiting the named Jones, who was riding in the ages for children to work In of about caboose, was badly Injured coal mines and in mills and factories. s in sub-mari- rni y body-snatch- er Philosophical Observations By BYPON WILLIAMS. jii St a few days ago said of food for pi have been sent up to the f$" BSjhh) Finland peasants were either ine suffeiers in the northern pari( d rinving ur threatened with starva-UtSweden with the money appropriate! The killing of everything by a Many carloads man-beas- g t a for the purpose by the Swedish fsb Otabination of unseasonable rains lament and that raised by popqUf t frosts deprived tattle aa well as of their food, rendering it neCei-ar- j subscription In Sweden and 'the Unit! States. The committee formed 4 tt to ship enormous quantities of Chicago cabled $2,000 to the centrl br to have the peasants live stock committee at Stockholm. It is hops! Tbi people not yet reached by th to collect $250,000 in the Unfit! relief depots are reported to be mak-hStates. Reports as to actual cornU1 bread of the bark of trees. Th tions conflict, but it is believed tk shows the district in Sweden famine affects several hundred Mth of the Baltic in which the fam-It- t is most severe and the need of men, women and children is Sweden and Finland. A cable fro My most urgent. d tho-san- DEATH OF SPANISH STATESMAN he writ somethin!" But to combat this we add: When a small boy, along with a dozen "camping out" friends, w atm gophers served under the name of squirrels by the cook, who waa a practical Joker. The name in that case had everything to do with it," aa It often has. In tact It may be good judgment to insist there is considerable in a name after aH. Young authors who sell their writings entirely on their merits could naver be induced to believe there is nothing in a name. The famous authors can palm off gophers for squirrels a part of the time, but the beginner must have squirrel every time. Buyers of manuscript are unanimous In saying that merit wins. mentioned for high honors Independent of name, but a close observer will notice that the well-knoname la the maglo sesame that opens tha purse of th publisher and point his decision to the usual avenues. , , Ehsp of Winchester Likely to Matter of extra merit is always acceptable, no matter by whom. It U th Head of English Church, light Rev. Randall Thomas David-c- i, average writings, the volums of the whole, that demand a name to marks who is mentioned as the most them. If the rose is beyond compare It is as sweet by any other name, but being Fobable candidate for the archbishopric of Canterbury, the primacy of no better nor worse than hundreds of Its like. It sells best under the name it England, Is at present bishop of of a favorite bloomer. So It is with writing. To be a writer and enjoy Ufa om should be cheerfully constituted to keep on scribbling for the Joy of It, with Winchester, a post he has occupied uooesa aa a secondary consideration. bee 1895. He was born in Edln What Is trne'of writers is true of other lines. Tbs asm law holds gooA, bogh in 1848 and was curate of Dart-fe- d There Is something in a name. It yon dont believe IL sign JLPierpont M in 1874. In 1881 he was mad same to a check Instead of your own and note the difference In dsvett honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria to! In 1891 bishop of Rochester. Dr. opments. Former Premier Sagasta Passes Aw If at the Age of 75. Senor Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, foe mer premier of Spain, died at Madrid Jan. 6, aged 75 years. Praxedes Mateo Sagasta was bor at Torrecllla de Cameras, In tha pro" ince of Logrono, on July 24, 1827. began life as a civil engineer, but A the age of 27 drifted Into politic-Spain'- s history during the last bstf century has beeu a stormy one, with brief intervals of sunshine, and Senor Sagasta had a hand in most of Ik exciting events that occurred. He took a prominent part In the insurrection of 1856, and when that Affair miscarried he had to fly tke cott try. He took refuge In France, but when a general amnesty was be returned to his native country and threw himself Into Journalism. He became editor of La Iberia, the principal organ of the progressist party, and soon began to considerable power- - ' i Constitutional methods of refons, however, are terribly slow in Spain, and Senor Sagasta began to weary ef them. Thus' be eagerly took part In. tbs Insurrection of June, 1866. a dismal failure, however, and the tors prime minister was again palled to fly to France. He did not return to SpaiB uotil after the - faR ' of Queen Isabella IL manop crrmxntrrgi ' la the , republican regime of 187 aa the second daugh.bejyasiq office, foreIgnm4 kow D&Kdavu'e secretary and as premier. The coup ter of the lat Archbishop Tait of which restored the Bourbons tdftis Canterbury. throne sent Sagasta Into a brieff tlrement Upon tbs death of tbs kiig A GREAT ARMY BALLOONIST. In 1885 and the retirement of tbs t tire conservative government, Sagai a' English Aeronaut Has Frightful Exfound himself at Jhe head of affai s, perience at Dizzy HalghL and successfully combated tbs els CoL Tern pier, who has dons such exors of the republicans, who shrielty cellent work with the army balloons la for universal suffrage, till the bill; 8outh Africa, was the subject many of the little king, when Sagasta, ccV years ago of perhaps the most remarkfident In the strength of the liber ah, able escape ever recorded in the andissolved the cortes and won by nals of ballooning. He Is probably small majority. tbs only man who has been carried It was In this period that he senseless to a height of more than vested his party with that democratic 20,000 feet.. To this day he bears on character which Is now mors marked his face the mark of a marvelous exthan ever. In 1891 Sagasta was aakti perience he can never forgeL A sudto form a party, but was obliged I den gust of wind had blown his com1 resign within n month or so. from the car, sent up the balpanion Tbs assassination of Senor CanovM loon with the colonel alone and dashed compelled the queen regent to apped the car against the ornamental Ironto him as the only available states work at the of a gasometer. The man. In spite of his age he cam tt collision had top a disastrous and traglo not a formed the rescue, government, effect The ropes were cut In two, exercised considerable wisdom in desk causing the balloon to hang on its ing with the many difficult problerf, side, and the whol of the unsecured which confronted 8 pain at that tins, out A piece of instruments to chief of which was tbs Insurrection b Ironwork cut drop Into the colonels deep Cuba, where Weyler was butcherinf face, tearing his cheek. The balloon, the natives and otherwise ereatlnf rapidly in midair, rose to a revolving the troubles which eventually cause! the severed ropes twined great height n Spanish-Americawar. th Sagastt round th colonel, suspending him la had always favored home rule for the most frightful position the mind can conceive. Then the aeronaut fainted, and when be came to his senses tks earth was. 20,000 feet below him. He was a prisoner In an uncontrolled balloon, with th car dangling beneath him, and he was, to add to th horror of the postlon, suffering stfrtt A-- s- intense With, pain-an- blood. The novelist who brought bis character alive and well out of such a situation would be accused of absurd extravagance, yet Col. Templer Is and has don alive and well yeoman service In the war. Who else among living Ynen ean say that hs has been carried four miles high entangled in a rope? London Telegraph. to-da- Useful Device for the Gardener. six-inc- s, Mes end women work assiduously to become famous, but In their discourWhats in a name?- -, aged hours they occasionally think of th quotations: and A rose by any other name would smell am sweet. Those who have become famous tell the atrt er there is nothing of satisfaction in IL "What is fame? they ask, and then again, after some slight, Such is fame!" It i conies this Indignant burst: told f an English lady and her daughter that they passed a portrait of Wash-ingt- ea hanging in an art gallery. The daughter, looking intently at th picture, asked, And who was Washington, mother?" "Washington Washington Oh, be was the author of Tbs Sketch Book," my child ! A guide showing visitors about the home of Shakespeare, in answer to a roguish inquiry from a wag, thought Shakespeare was remembered "because -- Th "planter is a device for th assistance of the gardener. It looks like a pair of large curling tongs, which when closed form a hollow tabs and taper to a point The plant to be Inserted inti the ground is placed in the tube portion, which is then forced into the earth and opened by shutting the handles. -- The plant is left lm th earth when the Implement is withdrawn. The operations of planting and transplanting is rendered easy, A Staircase That Has Advantages. and the contrivance Is carried as conA staircase that can be folded up veniently as a pair of scissors. is the general title of a novelty for - Hard Luck of .Senator Dubois. carriages and steamboats. It is comBenator' Dubois was feeling a bit posed of folding steps with handrails, of any JeslredJength, which make as- out of sorts and on the advice of bis cent and descent easy. - Tbs device physician went to Atlantic City for How did you make can be easily arranged to serve as a some sea air. plank to walk from one place to an out? the senator was asked on his other on the same elevation. It is return. Not very well, Dubois the "kind of thing that would be of You see, I went for the sea great use in the event of firw) and II air and every minute of the tour days has the advantage of folding Into a I stayed there was nothing bnt S land small compass, breeze." Praxedes Mateo Sagasta. Cabs, anj although a law was passed, tt was never enforced, owing to the insurrection in the island. Apart from his political life Sagasta d Was a gentle, man, of even temper, sunny disposition, and with all a Spaniards love of power. kind-hearte- os-ga- ss - XXX lady who reads the dally papers and Is not versed in modem parlance, especially slang, Wants to know what a "water wagon" is! Hof attention waa called to the matter by recurrent remarks about a ride on said wagon along about January 1, 1903. What in the world any man wanted to ride on a sprinkling cart for she couldnt underShe wonders, stand, especially In zero weather. therefore, if there isn't some other kind of a water wagon t She seeks enlightenment at a poor fount of knowledge. The best maa to see about garden truck is a gardener; about painting, an artist about Uver complaint, a doctor. Observing the same law, the best man to Interview regarding a water wagon is a man who has taken a ride on iL Not having had this experience and having been born in. Kentucky, where no water wage is allowed, we refer the seeker of knowledge to a man who is versed In stomis what drinker ach varnish. We understand, however, that a say they are on when they havs quit drinking. Carrie Nation could not ap propriately ride on such a wagon because she has never been a tippler as wt understand iL Edgar Allan Poe could have mounted the vehicle with ap propriatenees and benefit If Rip Van Winkle had clambered onto th front seat Just before drinking with tbs little geezers In the mountain, he would ever have had such a dlstr acting experience and Joe Jefferson might have beea a country editor or a horse Jockey. Many a man ho has pickled himself la whisky sad delirium tremens Is the day of yore, might havs been saved by a water wagon, then undiscovered. To get onto the wagon all one has ts do Is to stop drinking at midnight December 31 and hang on all through th year. The water wagon is like perpetual motion. It never stops. The man who rides on the wagon and steps to take a drink always gets lefL This Is ons of th rules and regulations. A water wagon in a good thing. It should he as popular all tha year round as it Is January L Usually it starts out heavily loaded like a Chicago street car the day before Christmas, hut when It arrtvas at the Rubicon of the new year there is left only the driver and a few "dead soldiers." This Is easy on the horses, but it is confounded bard on th , passengers. Long live the water wagon! A good old f water-wago- n XXX A few minutes ago ws wrote about the water wagon and Its popularity, and inadvertently used the expression "dead soldiers." An office stenographer who is paid for passing judgment on all our literary efforts wants to know whatln creation a dead soldier" Is. ' The Ignorance of these' women is alarming. W no sooner explain to one the meaning of the expression, "a water wagon, than up hobs an' , other and interrogates regarding a "dead soldier." A dead soldier, in this sense, is not a patriotic Individual who has died tor his country and lies peacefully asleep In the folds of "old glory." It Is a beer bottle drained of the amber fluid and cast aside, a whisky receptacle frm which the Dantes Inferno has been drained, a gin canteen relieved of Its snakes, or any liquor container which has done all the damage it can and has "fallen by th wayside." Dead soldiers are often found In the city bnt occur with great frequency and startling postures in th prohibition districts. Occasionally, soma rural wag will leave on on the ministers front porch as a reminder that the mlDenlura is still lost to sight in th mirage ahead. Small boys out gathering pond Ullles unexpectedly locate dead soldiers bobbing about in the lily pads, and ns them for fishllne floats. A fish which bits a book suspended from a dead soldier has no mors chance of dying natural death than the man who killed the soldier. It is a cinch for th bottle la both instances. Dead soldiers are sometimes used by mother for storing away soft soap. When Johnnie makes a collection lor the junk man, h empties out the soap and completes the even dozen bottles with the soldier. The beer maa souses .eat most of the so&p end fills er up sgsin for the mur-dtrofellow who' would rather kill a soldier than be a gentleminT us XXX Many joke Ore told on the oonntry editor. The rural scribe, being a goo aatured individual at a class.lsproneto help the tun along by occasional! telling a "good one" on blmselt Perhaps this it th reason why be is so often the brunt of a joke. Her is one, told by a "plate house, a firm that sendi out stereotyped columns of reading matter for ns In country papers. The buyer does not buy the plat he merely purchases the use of iL and th metal Is to be returned for remelt-Inand recasting. The story is told to illustrate how often the country editor wiH, In a pinch, print over and over the same plate matter. In facL it Is claimed that many a country reader grows as familiar with certain articles thus prssented, as with the editorial card of the paper. The plat makers sail the use of plates on a narrow margin and must continually follow up their metal and urge its return. It is supposed, of course, to be used hut once. Th firm above mentioned had sold a page of metal to a certain country editor two years before and was still unable to get a return of the metal. At last, much exasperated, the manager telegraphed the editor and demanded by wire that which did not materialize when asked for by malL During th day, la response to his message, cam a reply collect: "Ton go to thunder, them plates aint half wore out yet!" Now, whenever a customer protests at the price of plates, the manager gets out this telegram and presents it for the edification of the objecting g purchaser. XXX A Kansas Judge has decided that hypnotist may bury his wife alive tt he chooses. Why should th hypnotist be denied this privilege when other me are hot thus restricted? There are some women, not the wives of hypnotists, a ho sre enduring what 1 Dont Bury known aa a "living death." Others are as completely Your burled froth pleasure and comfort as the hypnotists Wlfs Alive. and more so, for they have wife when underground to alee, soft cushions on which to recline. They never rest In mind and only nature pyrHitHy in body. They are slaves to a driver who uses the lash. By woman Is cheerful and happy.. It is every husband's duly to preserve in his wife these qualities as fresh and rose1? as possible. His pleasures should be The hypnotists ners and bers his otherwise they are apt to bo questlorablo wife ta lucky oompsrsd to tbs wives of some neglectful lords and masters - - ' J ' -- |