Show SENATOR speech on the cuban question in the senate thursday was anything but a convincing appeal to american statesmanship he dealt more faith the history ot spain of a hundred years or more ago than the present straggles of hawaii has arrived in san francisc 5 and is said to be en route to washington to have a talk with cleveland abo president has been a of the dea posed queen and the gay old girl seems to think there is still hope or ler to recover her crown while grover sits in the presidential chair GENERAL MACEO Is reported dead but the spaniards by their owa acts refute the rumor the fortifications about havana are being strengthened and the approach of macefe army is apparently daily expected if maceo bad ben killed after passing the trocha his followers would be in a state of panic and instead ol 01 marching on havana would be seeking a way back to goicz AT LAST marie barberi who tier betrayer in new city his been declared not guilty khe was an ignorant italian girl when the shooting occurred but the peculiar circum surrounding the crime and the treatment she received at the hands of a new york magistrate aroused the press of that city in her defense and her case took on national importance MEMBERS or the siberian geological survey who are now in san francisco en route to st petersburg after a study of the country through which the great siberian railroad in course of construction is to be built give a flattering account ot the mineral resources of that wilderness wilder nesa of country known to the civilized world as a land of desert and snow and the abode of penal ailon aste iste the railroad is destined to do much for that undeveloped empire A ix american agriculturist writing from bear river city utah gives figures to prove that beets raised along the bear river canal are high in saccharine matter to prove the adaptability the soil for beet culture he sent samples to lehi to which he received this reply the beets that you bent polarized atry fairly the ones that weighed 15 oz average weight polarized sugar with 22 to 24 purity the ones that weighed oz polarized a with purity experiments AT the government agricultural stations which are made or the purpose of determining the best crops to grow on alkali soil or withstand droutha are always of great interest to the farmers of this interior region lately the experiment station at badere field california has been hepting two australian coraee plant sone a salt brush known as An triplex and the other mo diola both plants have given good re bulte but especially is this true of mo diola the stations bulletin bays the seeds of the plant placed in black alkali soil yielded abbat three tons of dry feed per acre the writer in the bulletin sums up the merits of the plant in this man ner this plant is green all the year stands froat better than alfalfa will grow without care will stand drouth ie not killed by water will grow on alkali ground is a good pasture for stock yielding a flow ol 01 the best milk and so possess the ground that troublesome weeds cannot find a alae to grow he then says that these tipa he has not observed in any other ono plant and they are ample to command ler it at least a trial in many places where the conditions are favorable THE denver news of the contained the following editorial which will be of interest to our reader receiver mink of the union pacific is credited with abe following remark in my judgment Is that the owners of the short line property as reorganized will operate it as an independent property though probably in hostility to the interests of the union pacific it will not materially teri ally affect the existing tariff relations it will undoubtedly injuriously affect the union pacific if the ogden and denver gate Is opened to all roads this would be inevitable is a terse important to colorado roads while the oregon short line was apart of the union pacific system it was so controlled as to prevent other lines from reaching into the northwest coast As an independent road it will not discriminate in favor of the union pacific but will receive business from all roads this means that hereafter traffic over the rio grande western will be received on the same terms as traffic from the union pacific As a result the denver and alto grande and the colorado mid land which connect with the juo grande western at grand junction and the bur linston the idock island the missouri Miss onri pacific and the santa be which connect with the illo grande and midland will have a show at alila business in brief all of the trana trade will now have a chance at a traffic which lias hitherto been exclusively controlled by the union pact how much this means to these roid and hw to the oregon short line need not be pointed out at length four roads east of denver will be borkine for and competing for the carrying trade of the northwest coast this business will concentrate upon two roads at denver and upon one at grand junction and arriving at ogden the ilio grande western may become more of a feeder to the short line than the union pacific has been certaine Certai nr the line through colorado will be the most wide spread as to connections and influences which control brahic this is one of the areat changes which the recent receiverships are working in the map of the trans country the reorganization gulf system wilt be another and still another will be the sale and reorganization of the atlantic and pacific Iaci fic which will be accomplished early in the year with abi latter change whatever it may be denver has but little concern but ibe other two alfr matters of practical importance as wing more favorable to the fulfand northwest pacific coasts it also enders possible a friendly connection im new orleans and gal veston direct to portland |