Show I NEWS OF THE BAY I The Puritan will contest the Ge nestas claim for tho American cup The l Genestn however is the favorite choice It is reported lat Lulu Hurst the I I Georgia girl has lost her magnetic power j but she still holdsriie 17000 which die I made by it I Many officers who have been on detached I de-tached service or a long time say they I will resign from the army before they will rejoin their regiments It is reported that the Spanish men I ofwar have arrived at Yap the chief island is-land in the Caroline group and planted the Spanish flag no German vessels lacing lac-ing in sight The Knights of Labor at Tyler Texas I I Tex-as yesterday demanded from the Textt I St Louis Railroad Company three months wages now due The company has abo conceded to their demands anti the men will resume work as soon as they can arrange matters so as to act with uniformity uni-formity The Knights have been remarkably remark-ably quiet and orderly since the beginning I begin-ning of the strike Henry Irving who is traveling in Germany familiarize himself with the scenes of Goethes history of Faust has sent to his chief scene painter Hawes Crayon to meet him at Nuremburg to sketch some of the characteristic localities locali-ties of that quaint old city Mr Irvirr is a good sketcher himself and has just completed two clever drawings from which he intends to have scenes painted for the forthcoming revival of Faust at the Lyceum Captain A G Evans arrived in St Louis on Wednesday from Montana where he has been for some time on his ranch Just previous to coming he rode 500 miles over the cattle country on a buckboard lie says the cattle are in excellent condition and the movement to the market is very free The grasshoppers grasshop-pers have been very destructive appearing appear-ing in millions and eating the grass to the ground It is very doubtful whether the grass will come up for winter pasturage pas-turage When VicePresidcnt Hendricks visited the stockyards of Chicago and afterwards the Exchange he was introduced intro-duced by Congressman Lawler as the twice elected VicePresident of these United States Mr Ilendricks speech was a happy one and in it he eulogized niiir ncrrk nun fl > o afn > lintv1c S h n vvoa not confined She took in the expansive boundless West and San Francisco would vet be tributary to her VicePresident fIendricksV speech was heartily received re-ceived The Postoffice Deparment officials think the clause in the law establishing a special delivery system which limits its introduction to places having a population popula-tion of less than four thousand inhabitants inhabit-ants according to the last census will cause a considerable number of complaints com-plaints as since the last census many towns have increased over the limits and some have fallen below four thou I sand According to the law the system will be introduced into the latter and not I into the former The War Department was informed yesterday that no preparations have been made for expediting the departure of the I cattlemen from It an Territory as all concerned are fully convinced that the I cattlemen will move out of the Territory in good faith and with all the expedition possible Reports have been received at I jirmv headquarters that one of the prin cipal lessees has already removed his entire herd beyond the boundaries of Indian Territory and that all the others appear to be moving as rapidly as possible pos-sible An interesting point in connection with the naturalization laws has just been settled by the Secretary of the Interior indisposing in-disposing of the case of Ross vs rook Ross made a preemption filing while an I alien supposing that the declaration of the intention of his father who had not I been naturalized was sufficient to qualify I him as a preemptor upon attaining his I majority Before he discovered his error and filed again for the tract Poole made i a homestead entry upon it The Secretary Secre-tary held that the removal of the disqualification I disqual-ification came too late to invalidate the intervening rights of Poole Incident of the carelessness displayed r dis-played in Montreal in regard to smallpox small-pox the following is reported In one place on one of the leading streets of the I city several of the children instead of being I be-ing isolated were allowed to walk up and I down with the pustules thick upon them In another case an English lady had one I of her children stricken down with the disease She immediately had It isolated i iso-lated and remained alone in the house I with it The washing day came around but the washerwoman was told not to I enter the house as there was smallpox i i Oh I dont mind it was her reply 1 my two children had it last week The II mother was naturally very indignant It I is with such people the officials have to deal and it is not surprising that the epidemic epi-demic is spreading |