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Show j'.l'iU (BWS.joi' THE DAT. I A New Jersey law prohibits theale i oftagarettes.' f ' -; , ' , , ; Yellow fever is decreaain? at Guay- mas, Mexico. : Prohibition in practiced in Georgia, I and 18 followed by a greatly increased ksaJ8of.opmm.-.; s . " -'r')'. '. United States troops will probably j remain a Rock Spring3 several . months j to protect the Chinese miners; ' - - : rrTjWo hundroiand seventy-five thon-. thon-. sandpotrridl of dvnamite are to lx ex-; jT;dfifcll Gte-bh'October 1st. ( '"?o "comes up Btniling with tbd ORgeifyictirng; Vecord in the Union.1 , Ohio and Iowa jress each other for second ; .'Vfl .A ... . .; I -.J ; ; rsTiietftt i -'great demaad for cocoa Ute,imtllel)rohiyition tofrns -of Kansas; and Jhejnilk. In the cocoanut is thought oooaat.for.na.''ot-the intoxication 1hat.pre.yaUs in those towns. : ,,. j .. 1 - I5EtsirLl.agettt at; theCheyerm4 and -i wahoe JtnjUanrserjraivjn, : has , ifgtfe4ssionef only 21,000 head of cattle remain on the , reservation and that they will be removed by the end of this month. The Denver Chamber of Commerce . and Board of Trade building at Lawrence and' Fourteenth streets was formally dedicated yesterday afternoon with appropriate ap-propriate ceremonies. The building is a handsome four-story gray stone and granite structure, 50 bv 120, and cost $38,000. . , " A turtuer advance of hah' a cent per pound on sugar will probably be made today, to-day, making the price one and a half cent over New ork prices. Claus Spreckels of San Francisco said yesterday a still further advance will be made later ; that owing to the shortage in beet sugar the prices might go to fifteen cents for the best grades. Republican papers attack Postmaster-General Vilas because he has taken the Goddess of Liberty off the postal-cards and put on the" effigy of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson and the Goddess were old friends, and there is not a man in the American Valhalla to whom she would yield her postal-card more cheerfully. It Is estimated that that there are 100,000,000 acres of land on tho Pacific coast of the United States that are specially adapted to wheat culture. Of this California has 25,000,000, or one-fourth one-fourth of the whole ; Oregon has 18.000,- 000 acres ; Washington Territory has 16,000,000 acres; Colorado and Idaho, 10,000,000 each. Montana, Utah, and Wyoming, 7,000,000 each, and the great bulk of all'this wheat land lies untouched. Ex-Goverhor St. John made a great splurge in Washington the other day. Ten minutes after his arrival he was "chinning" the President, who treated him with much consideration. The rumor prevails that St. John will be appointed ap-pointed Governor of Idaho to fill a vacancy. He spent an hour at the Post-office Post-office Department and succeeded in causing caus-ing the removal of twenty Kansas postmasters. post-masters. St. John claims to have the ear of the Administration and is happy. Commissioner Sparks, , of the Land Office, has prepared a statement of the disposals of public lands and the receipts therefrom during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885. The total number of entries en-tries was 226,382 and the total number of acres 20.113,663. The total value was $7,686,114. The number of original homestead entries was 50,877, including 7,415,885 acres. The number of final homeBtead entries was 22,066, including 3,032,679, acres. In Utah 17,123 acres were taken up under railroad selections. The grand total of lands taken up amounted to 20,113,663 acres, including 881,850 acres of Indian lands. A Lewiston, Idaho, dispatch says five Chinamen, implicated in the murder of Daniel Frazer and the robbery in Pierce City, were taken from jail by citizens last night and hung to convenient trees. Mr. Frazer, who was one of the pioneers of Southern Idaho, was well known and respected. re-spected. His room at the rear of the store was entered on the night of the 11th instant. He was murdered and his body horribly mutilated. ' An attempt was then made to blow open the safe, which was unsuccessful. Tracks on the outside of the building showed that Chinamen had done the deed. In the next five days fifteen Chinamen were arrested, and finally five confessed to the deed. These were taken out and summarily disposed of. . Claus Spreckels pf San Francisco received re-ceived a dispatch yesterday from William Center, who went to Australia and New Zealand as agent for the Hawaiian line of steamers, to see what arrangements could be made with those colonies for the continuance con-tinuance of the mail service from San Francisco after October 1st. Spreckels says arrangements have been made whereby the Union Steamship Company 1 will run-steamers from Auckland to Syd-! Syd-! ney, and that an English company, repre-j repre-j sented by Mr. Pierce, will maintain; the ( service between San Francisco and Auck-I Auck-I land. The company which Mr. Pierce represents owns the steamers Zealander ' and. Australia, at present plying between I here and Australia, and which have been leased by the Pacific Mail. The United Ireland newspaper has caused a sensation in Dublin by the publication pub-lication of the following article : "Twenty-seven "Twenty-seven Invincibles murdered government officials, attacked judges and jurors and held this great city in a state of chattering chatter-ing terror. They were finally crushad because they failed to remember that refusal re-fusal to open one's lips before the Castle star chamber merely involves a week's imprisonment. Similar organizations will arise throughout Ireland if Chamberlain's argument of Irish weakness is pushed to extremities." The paper then discusses I the probable results of a French army j landing in Limerick and a simultaneous Irish conflagration throughout England and an attack on the palacs and banks I of London. The article has created an unprccedented.sensation, it being alleged that proceedings of the Kind outlined have for a considerable time been advocated advo-cated by influential leaders of the active section of the Nationalists. The article is pronounced by Loyalists a direct and open incentive to rebellion aue treason to the "crown. |