Show BRIEFS new now york feb 15 the top price tor for membership inthe in the stock exchange has been paid by charles I 1 gates a son pon ot of john W gates who is the daml nent factor in the american steel wire co the price paid for hi his seat waa was which exceeds the latest previous mark by 50 with the addition of the regular 1000 initiation tee fee the seat secured by the conof son ot the deteel magnate will cost the membership secured was vas that held by L W bickley formerly of the firm of bickley and hopkins tacoma wash feb 15 the work of laying mines and torpedoes about the entrance to the port orchard dry dock is soon ito to begin A shipment of five cars of mushroom anchors has been received by the quartermasters department consigned to the united states engineer by the ordnance department of the army they are to be used to hold down ithe the gun cotton mines and torpedoes san F francisco ran cisco feb 15 notwithstanding the denial by E T earl of the statement that the armour line has absorbed the C F E representatives of both parties interested in the deal admit that it has been made the armour agents here bere state however that the consideration Is instead of as published san francisco feb 15 john lett a well known citizen has been frozen to death in the san Bern bernardio lardino mo mountains where tor for two wee weeks a blizzard haa has been raging lett was in the eim moy of the arrowhead reservoir company he started from camp at tunnel no 2 for the toll house six miles away to get the mall mail he traveled on snow shoes but before he had traversed half i the distance be became numbed with the intense cold and lost his bearings there Is twenty faiet of snow on the mountain summits Bum mits ban san francisco feb 15 Baron de saint Lau Ij aurent reut consul general of france at vancouver who haa has been in this city about two months ts Is very sick at the french hospital recently the baron was taken ill edth grip and on tuesday night he was removed from his hotel to the hos hospital lAtal while no cerious results are expected his phy report that he be Is a very sick man the baron came to this city to fill temporarily the of consul general pending the arrival of the new consul |