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Show NEWS SUMMARY, NORTHWEST NOTES. The business portion of Rifle, Colo., Carpenter to the number of 2,000 ad 500 plumber are on strike at a town on the Denver A Rio Grande Buffalo, N. Y. railroad, 35 miles west from Glenwood Half of the town of Bobruitk, In the Springs, has been destroyed by fire. , province of Minsk, Russia, ha been John Flariety, a aawmill laborer at Ballard, Wash., was caught in th destroyed by fire. The bulnsa portion of lira. Neb., machinery of the Stimeou mill and inha been destroyed by fire, probably of stantly killed. His right leg was torn from it socket. Incendiary origin. Thomas B. Douglass, of Columbia A tornado which passed over Lincoln county, Oklahoma, did much damage Falls, was atruck and killed by a Northern Pacific passenger train near Eddy, to crop and atock. e Forty-ninbodies of victim of the a small station west of Missoula. Hie remains were quite badly mangled. of City Pittsburg disaster, near Cairo, 111., have been recovered. Hilary Ilicky, aged 13, was shot in The fourth monthly installment of the head and instantly killed at DenJtba Chinese Indemnity, amounting to ver by a companion, A. P. Leonard, aged 14. The two boys were practic1,023,193, has been paid. with a rifle There Is no truth in the story that ing st target shooting when tbs accident accurred. the DowagerQueen Margheritaof Italy Joseph Walsh, a tramp, baa been has decided to enter a convent. taken to tbs state hospital at Rock President-ele- ct Palma is warm in Springa, Wyo., to undergo an am puts praise of the United States for the turn of both feet. Ue waa crushed healthy condition of the island of Cuba. under a train at Medieins Bow while It la reported that Sao Domingo, the attempting to steal a rids on tha ' capital of the Dominican government, brakebeems. . has surrendered to the insurgent forces. About 300 miners employed in 'tbe In the island of Marinduque, In- Durango, Cola, coal district ere on a spector Brown has captured six cannon strike because the operators bad failed in good condition and 200 iron cannon adopt the scale submitted by the halls. anion, which cells for 93 s day for unAn official estimate of the total cost derground work and 93.50 a day for of the South African war to March SI, outside work. 1903, places the amount atneerly Mrs John L. 'Kingsbury, wife of the foreman of the Superior lauudry, DenThe French fishing fleet was recently ver, poisoned her two children, aged 1 caught in a gale in the North sea. year and 8 years, respectively, and herThree schooners foundered and many self, at her borne. All are dead. Delives were lost. spondency Is given as tbe cause of tbe womans rash deed. e, Sipia-guinBalschaneff, the assassin of M, The drought in northern Colorado the Russian minister of interior, is now reported to be very sick, due to has broken - all spring records for voluntary starvation. length and severity, and nnlea relief come within a week the losses to shall D. John Rockefeller, it is understood, Carolina farmers will be severe. Other portion is behind the Virginia-Nort- h Chemical companys designs on the of the state, especially tbe San Lula valley, are suffering from lack of Carman potash fields. water. al Count Bobrikoff, recently governor-generWool sales at Casper, Wyo., during of Finland, has been appointed Russian minister of war in succession the past week amounted to 1,500,000 pounds. 'The prices ranged from Ui to General Knropatkin. to 13 cents per pound, with tbs averThe American chamber of commerce age s fraction over 13 cents. Six milin Manila has passed resolution in- lion pounds of wool have been sold io dorsing the action of the United States Natrona and Carbon counties this rmy in the Philippines. spring. The Colombian government army in Later accounts from Sand Creek, the department of Cauca has been reor.the scene of the recent rich gold Mont., batof six divisions ganized into six discovery, tell of a general stamped talions each, totaling 16, 800 men. to tha new fields The ground for a At Osborne, Kan., Lee Forester was radio of ten miles has been staked off, hot and killed by Homer Beck, Both miners leaving their work to make men are farmers, and the shooting was In the vicinity of the fich locations caused by a quarrel about a fence. strike. Tbs emigration of Germans for the Montana's health officers are invesquarter ending March 31st was three malady called times as great as that which occurred tigating the mysterious - spotted fsver, which is causing a panic during the corresponding quarter-- in th Bitter Root Va'lley. Every case Of 1901. of tha disease ha been fatal, sod up Th revolutionary General, Riera, at to the time it has baffled all the head of 3,000 men 1 at the outskirts the present who have tried to inphysicians of Coro, capital of the State of Falcon, it. vestigate mois and Venezuela, expected st any William Haywood, who a month ago ment to take it. killed Ed Stokes during a row at Great Lizzie McGarvey, a Brooklyn school Falls, Mont., over a woman, with whom teacher, was burned to death, and her both were infatuated, baa been acaunt, Mrs. Lizzie Lambert, 7Q years quitted by a jury for the erima. Hayold, was probably fatally bnrnad la wood hit Stokee over the bead with aa . Williamsburg, N. Y. iron pipe, tba eft, it was alleged, being A report to the state department done in e. H oil way at St. from Consul-Gene- ral The largest rainbow trout caught in j Petersburg, shows that last year the the Big Laramie river within the memgovernment expended 913,370,207 ia ory of man, and the largest caught In relief for famine aofferers. Wyoming for threa years, wee capCrazed by the death of her three-year-o-ld tured by John Bailie near the Fillmore child from acarlet fever, Mrs. ranch, Albany county, last week. The . Adeliaa 8age of Detroit poured a can monster was 37 Inches in length, 17)4 of kerosene oil over herself ignited It inches in girth, and weighed 10)4 and was burned to death. pounds. Ia Brandenburg, Ky., Ernest Dewly, Frivate Slater Bolts, troop E, First negro who shot and seriously woudsd cavalry, has been ncqnitted at Landar, Harry Dowell, a young white man, was Wyo., of a charge of selling whisky to taken from jail and hanged by a mob Indians on the Shosboos reservation. sad his body riddled with ballets. Tbe d men became very drank' on - Flames will soon destroy all that tbs' liquor end s rough house can be burned of the historic receiving resulted. The Indian police were ahlp Vermont, which for more than called in to qnell the disturbance and half a century has been moored at tha two of tha braves were seriously InCob dock in tha Brooklyn navy yard jured. For several days so intense acting as Uncle Sams nursery for tyro waa the feeling that the troop at Fort Washakie were kept under marching ' sailors. orders. Mrs. Ida Randolph, The dead body of a bride of fonr months, was found in Now that i tbe flock master of the the Raw rivet near Topeka, Kan. Tbs cestrsl part of Wyoming are getting body shows no evidence of death by their scattered sheep together for the drowning, and the opinion of the first time since the storm of two weeks .officers is that there has been a murder ago, the fact that losses wera very severe is apparent. Just after tbe , committed. storm it waa estimated that 15,000 with Mrs. Mary Roberts, charged sheep had perished in the state, but basof marder ia the her complicity later reports place the number killed eband nearMaxey, Tex., a yssr ago, in Natrona county alone at over 20,000. a found and been' has given guilty sentence of seven years in the peni- The loss sustained by flockmaetera of ia now conceded tbe state ia tentiary. The deceased was nearly 80 to amount to general between 75,000 and 100,-00- 0 years old, bead. Friend of Miss Josephine Holman, Grasshoppers are already creating formerly of Indianapolis, who was once engaged to marry Signor Marconi, havoc in the northern Rio Grande valof wireless telegraphy I fame, have re- ley, New Mexica Around Santa Crus ceived the announcement of her com- the insects are aa thick aa leaves on the ing marriage to Eugene Boros of Bnda fruit trees and they are eating off clean early vegetables, etc. Pesth, Hungary, Mail advices from Jiboul, French Ia Alien town. Pa., Frank Smith died East Africa, declare a rumor ia current of injnriea received In a boxing bout that-- a battle has been fought between Turkish troop and the Iman tribe of with Hans Uartranft. Smith was Arabs at Koffutidor, on the frontier of felled with a chin blow and never reArabia, in which the Turk were de- gained consciousness. His skull was fractured. nrlraoft Is under arrest, - feated, losing 400 men. Rioting continues to spread in South William Pratt, alias Charles Denials, Russia. The military thus far have has confessed that ha killed Mrs. Ids unable loeendiarlam, to beta prevent terrorism and plundering. The landed Collins in her borne near Daurel, Del., on 12th, with a batebet and an proprietors throughout th govern-me- ironApril bar. He was already in jail on of PolttTa are treking refuge in - - another charge. the eity of Poltavs, ' self-defens- at Banker UngarsjSon-In-La- w. r BY JAMES OSfAfaHXESSY. li by tthlStory JPub. Co.) (Copyright. wise his eyes flashed with a qu,ck Upon the promotion of William of triumph. Tarn ley Faldie to the position of rewill not lose ceiving teller of the Thirteenth. Na- I he cried. "He tional Bank he began to show signs of 13 money la his pockets when he tbs widening of his horizon. Ho spell- fsibd out of 'hero thla morning. He ed out his middle name In full and get away. I put a shadow on the art of appearing at ease km he moment he stepped out of the In n dress suit He narrowed hla soI Judged that thief rightly." Lfc that night, Ungar and Johnson cial orbit until he felt justified In r foing over the books when a as exclusive, himself classifying and then he diecreetiy fell it lov with ksofi-eato the door of the bank: ths daughter of Abel Linger, the presi- AS, silgnal to the watchman, the door wis pened, and the thick-jaweath-la- ic dent of ths bank. bokmg shadow entered. He had Fortunately for him Mis Linger was not beautiful of face, and there k'bftkage over one eye. was neither symmetry nor grace in her fWlat's this?" cried Ungar. Tib bad me done np." figure. .These gaps in her structural fWle what?" charms mad his love course easy. In visiting her fathers bank her hr man, Faldls. He hired a halt keen eye fell on Faldls. He was rather dote Inter-Stat- e Detective agency pleasing, in appearance, with light mm b slug me. bine eyes, n blonde mustache and a fA he got away?" He could fOfcoursebut our office and all of pink and whltecomplexlon. ting all of the popular and sentimen- our ten are notified and every depot tal songs. He sang the sentimental ones for her and before the end of the season he was calling her Ethyl when no one else was in hearing. When he asked her to marry him, she gave him her hand and their secret troth was plighted. All that remained to be dons was to obtain ths consent of Abel Ungar., Her midis training was a ' hindrance and not help to him. He could not disassociate Ethyls father from the "president' of the Thirteenth National Bank, and he could not summon sufficient courage to ask President Lingar for the hand of his daughter In marriage. When he arose la the morning his resolution was fixed, but at night he returned fretfully to his conch with tha dreaded task tltlahead of him. Whenever he would put himself In ths presence of Ethyls fsther it was only to discover the greet president of th Thirteenth National Bank and he would retire la deferential confusion. On evening when closing bis accounts ha found they were wrong. There, la his own handwriting waa a A 'athletic looking man fains entry of I A Ovsr and over followed Faldls. j th books he wx cut th x studied Oh, ha cant get away for examination only co,drmed th awful Is waichtd. i , good evidence that be was abort 120,004. When Ungar was alone in his carAt tbs sight of Provident Linger driving home, he gave way to stalking majestically through th riage bis argaUh and groaned aloud. He room to of th bt bank pricounting vate office, Faldls shook with terror. was realizing the enormity of th theft It suddenly occurred to bis over- that tad at first etunnrt him. When ha ret hed borne the butler who swung wrought mind tbnt perhaps ths bank bad an unexplained overplus of $20,-00- 0. open the door tor him was In a flurry He took off his bat With tbs Impulse of this vagary of excitement. and fores and overcoat and throw he rushed off to th office. 1 beg your pardon, Mr. Lingar. he them, rather than handed them to the Altered, "but er has is there an' servant He strayed Into .the parlor and drawing room and had reached everplus of 20,0QQ th wide door to the library when he "What?" stopped, tottered and clutched the por"Has anyone made an error? "An error? An error of 20,000?" tieres for support. "Faljig!" he shrieked. Plundered Lingar. Thf butler, who had hovered near, The cold, accusing manner of Lingar rushed t ,ide. founded ths depths of Faldis abjec-Jo- n. "Robber! la my house! Quick, Ths reaction was Instantaneous. The pale blue eyes of the teller ceased Percy, sound the alarm!" "No, no, papa, wait. Listen to me, to waver in their glances and became as fixed and steely as those of the and Ethyl ran to him and put her arms around his 'while th quick president No longer cringing, he hands ft the neck, butler were obeying the straightened up defiantly. "Did you say there was an error of maateri orders. "My daughter my child ar you 920,000?" said Lingar in slightly softInterceding for this thief V . ened tones. "Yes, but we will confess all, Now I did not but there Is an Item of that amount in my books which I am can you not forgive us?' "W will confess! Wei what do unable to explain." "Yon are ill, Faldls. Take a rest of you meta? What part can you hiv a day or so. Johnson will take your la What part have I in it?" shs said place." Faldls went back to hla cage. A few lowly. 'Do you thlnk.papa, that I am minutes later Johnson, ths assistant Insenaibs to my own hearts desire? cashier, entered it Faldls had on his I had tin eager part of on, who loves. hat and was buttoning his overcoat He bs robbed- my poor, dear papa, I Johnson did not notice that Faldls know robbed him of his darling daughter," And, running to Faldls, overcoat was bulging nt ths breast "Go through my accounts carefully, shs threw her arms around his neck . Mr. Johason, and find ths mistake, I and kined Lim repeatedly. Tbe clanging of a brass gong sound am 111." Fhldls walked slowly out of th ed In the street, followed by a rush bank. A thick' Jawed, athletic looking of feet p tbs steps. Th butler throw man stepped quietly out of ths office open tin door and four policemen in from behind Ungar, and followed Uke uniform rushed in. Whats the matter, Mr, Lingar?" asked ths sergeant of the police. Arrest that man. Ethyl iwooned in Faldls .arms. Wouldnt you better have an ex planatlos first?" asked Faldls coolly, Explanation? What can you aay In explaaation?" Let u excuse these officers first" Lingar looked at Faidis for some time, then turning to the police he asked tl)Mn to step out in the hall for If nt m d, ff i thkk-jawe- -- itr gwhlle. You are a man of sense, so listen. I did not Uke the $20,000, although it looked bad for me. I didnt propose being made an Innocent victim, and I provided against My first provision it "An error of $20,000?" thundered Un- kMV a shadow on the footsteps of Faldls A few hours later Johnson entered th presidents office with a sheet of paper In his hand. T find that this item of $20,000 Is merely a clerical error, Mr. Ungar," ha said. . "Then there is nothing Irregular in Faldls accounts?" said Ungar, brightening up. - "Nothing that la nothing, In this connection. I have not brought ths figures up to date yet" . "Then do It 1 11 wait" Johnson returned to the presidents office late that afternoon with tremb-blin- g hand and quivering lip. What is it, Mr. Johnson?" cried Ungar, springing from his chair. Faldis is short $250,000 on - to-da- Up" Lingar gasped, but with ui rstnrn- - against it you have discovered st the bank, I believe. Tbe second was to get rid of your detective that I could put the money away safely for future emergencies. The third careful thing I did to save me from tbe penitentiary was to . marry your daughter." Lingar stared at him dazed and vacantly, but waited for him to continue. "Now I hardly think that you want to put the bank to th eipens of a quarter of a million dollars Just to make a convict of your But tbe money Where la It?" Oh, that Is put sway whers no on but me can get it, all except $1,000 that I paid to have your detective taken off my trail. I can turn over to , ou $2(9.000, or I can keep It." Lingar was silent, his brows contracted. Of course, you hare, not talked much about this for th sake of th bank. I have not mentioned it even So you see ws can still to my avoid publicity." . Without a word to Faldls, Lingar walked slowly out to the hall. Th Went away. H returned to police. the library. Eihyl had recovered. "Oh, papa, you will forgive us, wont you? sh sobbed. son-ln-ln- "What else can t uo. my child 1? As aid, taking her la bit arms And Faldls stepped up to take' the outstretched hand of his relenting father-in-la- Pslqas M.lbml PRINCE HENRYS AUTOGRAPHS FEW lUay Efforts JSsdo t C Tbaaa, bat Wars SiMMiftli .. . , Prince Henry, while hers, waa naturally asked often for his autograph, but it is estimated that not more than 100 persons succeeded ta getting it. Most of tbe requests cams by mail. The prince, who had met the autograph fiends on the other side, decided to give his autograph only to certain Individuals, These , wera tha president of a society or club of which he was the guest, and on or two of those nearest him at table. To this rule he persistently adhered. At all the dinners at which tha prince was guest,Jnthl dty. and elsewhere, requests for his autograph were sent to him in large numbers, most of them in notes addressed to him through the presiding officer. Not few of these requests wera - mad personally. Ths prince always took pains to Inform whoever presided at the dinner of tbe Yule he had made, and left it to him to explain it to tha applicants. Ia accordance with ths ruls bs mad tyr himself, he always wrote his autograph on ths menu card of the presiding officer, and of those nearest him at tab!, sometimes standing U- - so that perhaps flva or six persons had th favor shown to them at th head table. Had he complied with all ths requests made. It was said by a person who was with him and knew about his mall, he would not have had time to do anything else throughout his visit but write hla signature. Nsw ' York Sun. LEGS SHINE, lie Kls4 of Afsst for r rsuisb. One of the points of interest In thf financial district is ths bronze statue of Washington in ths front of tha Unltsd States on Wall street, says the New York Press. It ta Invariably pointed out to visitors, and almost Invariably ths question Is asked: "Why do they polish only the knees and not the whole statue?" Mentor and guide has to shake his head, and admits that he does not know. , . It appears that some years ago a peddler with some new kind of polish came to the and extolled the virtues of hla compound to one of th guards. Why," be said, "I could even polish up that rusty old statue out there In a Jiffy." "Go ahead." said the guard. The agent went to work with a will 1 and In a few minutes had urrer ia taking off the Leauuful dull from tbe legs of tbe statue as far as tne knees. Just then Mr. Muhleman, the deputy assistant treasurer, came up the steps, and in less time than it takes to tell It the agent found himself sitting st ths toot of ths steps, while Mr. Muhleman lectured to tne surprised guard lu forcible language on tha vandalism of indiscriminate polishing. But not even the variability of ths Nsw York climate has been sufficient as yet to restore to tn polished parts their old dull beauty. Misapplies ZmI sub-treasu- ry sub-treasu- ry cxy-dlzi- ng HAS A CURIOUS TRANSFORMATION. Esssssss Aastbs Aalssat la CsrtnUs go ntls, Naturalists have long been familiar with a newt-il- k creature, breathing , by gills and lungs both, .and Inhabiting th lakes of Mexico and other American waters. This is th axolotl. It was also discovered that in certain localities this creature, which by th way breeds freely In Mexico, sheds Its skin, casts off Us gills and its tail fin, develop another color of body and leaves th water to becom a land newt. Under this latter guls it Is known as ths amblystoma. Naturally, the explanation of this rests on ths curious transformation fact that the axolotl is really th young or tadpole stage of the ambiystoma form, but ths peculiarity hero Is that In its first stags It should breed and multiply and continue to reproduce axolotls, as if It were a perfectly mature animal. The occurrence of such esses points out to us one way In which species can be evolved, for, had we not been acquainted with ths relationship of these forms, nohesitated to desbody would bav cribe them as two essentially distinct animals. Lately it has been shown, says ths London Chronicle, that, while in Colorado and Dakota tha transformation is complete, in Mexico - the axolotl stage is apparently permanent. Hers, probably, the Influence of environment on a living being is typically Illustrated. The Assist! " f , "Tbe Dxl ef Ml Kepbew." The potency of football in giving prominence not only to ths player, but to all bis relaL.es was amusingly illustrated in the case of the well-kno'William Lloyd Garrison. At an evening reception Mr. Garrison was Introduced to a noted athlete. "I am pleased to know you, Mr. Garrison," said th athelete. "I pro-gu- m you art a relative of ths famous Harvard quarterback, 'Billy Garrl- son. as exclaimed Mr. "Great heavens "AH Garrison- - In mock Indignation. my Ilf I have been known as th son of my father; must I in my old ags be known as the uncle Of my nephew?" wn ' mt HIS "ENGINE" rrepablm M th RlfZ Captain Thomas Blxby, under whom Samuel I Clemens Mark Twain-ser- ved as pilot and engineer on ths old Mississippi river boat Swallow, haa given in a New Orleans paper ths following description of the engine of the 8 wallow: "Th craft waa a little, shaky affair, which plied between St. Louis and Cairo. It had a stern wheel, a place for freight" and passengers, a pilot house and a place on what may be called the pilot deck for tha an- 1 , gina "That engine went aboard when It . was needed, and only then. It burned no wood or coal, but ate a powerful sight of grass. It was a large gray mull named Jerry, which worked a treadmill that propelled the boat. Samuel Clemens was chief engineer and pilot, "He had a system of signals which was effective and ingenious. By pulling a cord he could raise a head of cabbage Just out of roach of the mule. The engine would start and begin to walk after It. and the boat floated majestically down or up the river, aa th case might be. Without desiring to be personal, I wlQ say that Jerry was on of the most intelligent animals I ever met His vole was more on the order of a fog horn than a whittle, being too much' of a." barytone for the latter. When Samuel wanted to whistle' for a landing he just hit Jerry with a stick."' Youth's Companion. - HADNT RECKONED VTbbU-B- b It Is - WASHINGTONS AND HlMiwippI r. WHY TWAIN MARK ON SPELLING Joker Whr'wrat Cp M Old, lM UlM, related that Dr. James Wise of Covington, Ky. Is the victim of one of his own Jokes, and that he is In on account of it. From all tha evidence that can be produced it appears that some time ago the doctor went up against an old game. t One of hi friend met, him and, Doctor, producing a pencil, said: sea this pencil? I can mak it writs any color I want to." "Lets see you make it write indigo blue." The owner of the pencil promptly sat down and wrote Then th doctor tumbled and said, "That pretty good. Ill JuBt go down ths street and try that on Theodor Hallam." Down th street he went, looking for Mr. Hallam. He finally found him and, producing th pencil, said: Theodore, heres a pencil that I can write any color 1 want to with." Then the doctor gathered hlmseif for a good laugh. Lets see yon write ecru," said Mr. ITallam. 9 tot- -. 1 tv a 7 La of paper and started to work, and for ten consecutive seconds said nothing. Then he said smear word3, and added: "I hav forgotten how to ep!l that word," JAPAN RUSHING IaUn4 TO tapir at ths BANKRUPTCY. East Has Bsa HssUsstly litnniuti Frederick Taylor, a son of the late Moses Taylor of this city, known Internationally for hla work aa an explorer waa a passenger on the steamship Nord America, which arrived recently. - Mr. Taylor made a study of the Boer erison camps in Ceylon and Bermuda, txplored the Jungles of Borneo, visited th Malay Peninsula, and manyyiolnts ef interest In China and Japan. Mr. Taylor-- ' had no very eialted opinion of th commercial Integrity of the Japanese, especially when compared with that of th Chinese. "It baa been tbe experience a&ld he, "of all good sound banks in tbs far east and most particularly of th Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, that in all their dealing merchants for many with Chines years they never lost a dollar, whll with th Japanese they lost thousands. During tbe time I was In Japan eight banks failed. The Japanese government is in financial difficulty, largely th result of undertaking tha building of its own ships, the establishment of steel foundries, and the expenses of war with China. Unless there are early reductions of expenditures, Japan will soon be bankrupt. But In th matter of enterprise tha Japanese are the Yankees of the east." New York Times. Haw Hs "I Wrk4 lb , dont see why they call you th star boarder," complained the fellow Vrho always got th wing. "Thats easy," replied the other, In bis copyrighted superior style. "I Just and the landlady doesn't know what 1 am and lets me stay on blind faith." twlnkle-twlnki- e, WuM to Bs rnttnA . said Meandering Mike, "Lady, "would yon give a atarvin man somethin to eat "Perhaps. But you ar not starving." "I know it, lady. But an ounce of prevention ia worth a pound of cure, aint it?" "Cysltats Bo HbbT Wars. Th church in Buecken, a German village of about 1,000 Inhabitants, has a notice board which bears the following legend In large letters: "Cyclist and hens are forbidden to wander around the churchyard. -- The world la alwayi suspicious of fat philosopher. -- |