Show THE SENATE CONTESTS information from washington is that considerable interest centers again around he contests which were pending when tho senate adjourned in extra cession in april last in the cases of the appointed senators from montana wyoming and washington at least two of these gentlemen arolin arce coinage while ono oi them it ia safe to eay would give aid and comfort to alie gold bugs alie cases will have to be disposed of belore any legislative business can bo transacted when the senate extra session adjourned the status of the cases was as follows the credentials of LeeM antIo of montana republican and arco coinage ad vacate were referred to the committee on privileges and elections which made a majority report in favor of seating alie appointee but the senate adjourned without action in his case and hia beat remains vacant the legislature of montana is controlled by democrats and republicans raould the republican appointee of the governor be not seated tho legislature would probably choose a democrat or a populist governor of montana was in washinton he declared very emphatically eliat he would not call the legislature together if jantje was refused a beat in wyoming the senate biad a democratic majority but failed to elect a senator to succeed warren republican the governor a fusionist appointed A 0 beckwith a free coinage fusionist his credentials were also before the senate committee when the same adjourned in washington tho legislature and governor both a republican but the legislature failed on account of local fights to elect a successor to john B alien republican governor appointed him to succeed himself hia case also was pending when the senate ad waa thought would rote for alie repeal of the sharman law f admitted to his seat the three contested cases will bring on abi ater and protracted preliminary tight latore the senate can settle down to the business for which the extra session was convened tho right of a senator to his beat is a question of the privilege and senators on ono side or the other of tho eiver question are sure to demand a decision on these cases before any voto Is taken on the law in addition to these potent possibilities of delay there are he enacted upon resolutions of investigation in tho caso of Senator W N north dakota upon wind a wt partisan debate ie inevitable IT BEEMS eliat there is one process by which the flour told of snake river can bo saved and eliat ie by the use of the fashioned old rocker the caldwell idaho tribune bays anybody who wille top to think of it for a minute will be surprised that so few men are engaged in independent placer mining on the inako river gold bars right now the few men alio are at work are cleaning up from to a day and bringing the gold into caldwell the amount of ground ie practically unlimited in this country no man need be without reasonably remunerative employment all the capital required is a long handled shovel and a rocker costing in all eight or ten dollars thia is undoubtedly true bobae statesman lut there Is a queer streak in fiuman nature which restrains a great majority of bliem from indulging in any deagro independence unless it bo in connection with bome bonanza dream the average man will travel hundreds of miles to get into some diggings of fabled richness but would camp on a dry goods box and wait for one to put him to work at a day rather than avail himself of such an opportunity as tho tribune speaks of it is not difficult or expensive to get to the snake river which will furnish a field for profitable employment to the thousands of idle men now in this western country advice to the presbyterians alio have missionaries in siam whose lives are alleged to be in danger would bo to recall them the government of the united states which is powerless to protect christian missionaries from alie assaults of semi savages in some parts of our own country should not be expected to undertake a far more difficult job in a foreign land THE PEOPLE of western kansas are clamoring for a special session of alie legislature because crops have failed legislation that mortal man can enact will hakea garden a desert cannot bo irrigated or cause rain to fall in abundance where it has elldora alien before western kansas is worth aea fir agricultural repeated crop failures have demonstrated the et wiy for the inhabitants of that re jiffo f glon to better condition ie to immigrate hither with their worldly poa this western country has diversity of resources to and there is yet room in utah for a population of ten hundred more honest sober americana to settle grow up with the country |