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WASHINGTON ITEMS. Measles are having their inning in fat John. The Spokane league team will be known as the Inlanders this season. Seeding operations have been al most completed In the Krupp territory. Three new lumber mills for Spo kane, employing 1200 men, is reported. The proposal to incorporate Wilson Creek carried by a vote of forty to three. Every field and hillside over the state is now alive with wild flowers, and the variety is startling. The contract for the work on the su perstructure of the new Catholic church at Spokane has been let. Pullman has a population of 1807, as against 1308 in ljiOO, an incréase of -499, or about 35 per cent in two years. Two new powerful locomotives have been received at the Northern Pacific yards at Spokane for use on the Idaho division. The Potlatch Lumber company's drive of 8,000,000 feet of logs has reached Palouse and is boomed above the dam. The most startling feature of opera tions on the Spokane market is hay, which is bringing all the way from $20 to $25 a ton. Copnty Commissioner Dean' states there will be no assessment on mort gages in Spokane county during the present year. Farmington, Oakesdale, Elberton, Albion and Garfield show substantial increases in population and wealth by recent assessment. — North Yakima is confronted with the lack of school facilities. There arc now about 400 more pupils enrolled than there is room for. The Pacific National League will open the baseball season in Spokane on May 5. Games will be played every day but Monday for six weeks President S. B. L. Penrose of Whit man college will deliver the '03 com mencement address Wednesday even ing, June 17, at the Cheney Normal. County Fruit Inspector Orlando Beck of North Yakima has commenced a crusade against the nursery com panies shipping affected fruit trees Alfred J. Symes, serving a sentence <ot 18 years for the killing of Louis Coulee in Adams county in 1896, has been released from the penitentiary on parole Colonel E. S. Godfrey has named Lieutenant Coleman of Fort Walla Walla to be a personal aide to Roose velt during the president's stay in Walla Walla. •The directors of the Interstate Fair association have gone actively at work to raise a subscription of $10,000. which is $2000 more than was used two years ago. Maj. Kraff, a German farm hand, committed suicide by hanging himself to the knob of the front door of Davenport doctor's office recently. The man was suffering from a chronic dis ease. The territory over which the one fare rate to Spokane for the Roosevelt reception rules has been extended on the Northern Pacific to include people Irom Pasco, Wash., to the west to Thompson Falls, Mont., to the east. T. A. Winter and Samuel Douglas bave made application to the North port city council for a 30 year fran ■ehise to put in an electric system for light, power and fuel. The power is to be generated at Kettle Falls, on the -Columbia river It is thought the Bellingham Bay road is far more anxious to make rapid progress than was expected. 4he construction of the road is com menced from Spokane, as it already has been commenced frçm the west end, there can be no other conclusion than that it will push its line rapidly .across the state. The body of R. A. Robertson, a mar ble cutter, was found floating in an eddy at the nfbuth of the South Pa louse river in North Colfax recently The man had evidently been drowned two or three weeks ago. No marks -of violence were found on the body His wife lives in La Grange, Ind. His father resides in Tacoma. W. F. Hickman of Colfax last week aold five fat steers for $375.80, or $71 per head. The animals had been con tracted last winter at $4.75 per 100 pounds, the highest price of the sea son. A carload of hogs was also shipped from Colfax to Seattle. The buyers paid the farmers $7.15 per 100 pounds, the highest price in 10 years Recently Rev. Spaulding of Seattle paid Contractor Gporge McKenzie $300 that had been loaned the preacher by McKenzies bookkeeper, Angus Bu -ctaanan, who is out on bonds at Ever ett on the charge of embezzlement, It is said Buchanan's gifts to religious societies will run into thousands of dollars. Exxperts are still working on the books, and the total of the alleged defalcation is nof known. Murder at Buffalo Hump. Grangeville, Idaho, April 30.—Word was brought out from Buffalo Hump of the killing of John Bishop by 43eorge Ash. Ash was proprietor of jt hotel in the Hump and Bishop was waiting on ta ble. They quarreled over the affee tions of the woman who cooked for the bouse and ever business matters. JOHN BORROUQH8 AT SPOKAN •I« * Distinguished Naturalist Wi President RoOsevelt. Spokane, April 29.—John Burroughs, the distinguished naturalist, who ac companied President Roosevelt on the latter'a • recent tour through Yellow stone park, haB arrived in Spokane in the private car of F. W. Gilbert, as sistant general superintendent of the Northern Pacific, and is a.guest at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert. Mr. Burroughs will remain in Spokane for a week or 10 days and will be taken by Miss Frances Gilbert and other local naturalists to the Clearwater country, to St. Joe, to Spirit and Fish lakes, and possibly to the Chelan country. The snows of many winters are on Mr. Burroughs' hair and bushy beard, but as he gave a delightful description of his trip through Yellowstone with the president, he talked as one who had enjoyed the experience with all the zest of a youth. He says: "The president did no hunting in the park. He scarcely had a gun in his hands. It is contrary to law to hunt in the park, and the presi dent faithfully respected the law. The only living thing he killed was a com mon mouse. He saw one running along the ground one day and threw his hat over it and captured it T want that mouse for Dr. Mer riam,' he said, and he killed it He took it to the hotel and skinned it with his pocket knife. It is more difficult to skin a mouse than an elk. He stuffed it and sent it on to Dr. Mer riam at Washington. On our trip through the park we saw 7000 elk, many hundred deer, about 50 antelope, wnd wild geese and ducks in profusion.'' After leaving Spokane Mr. Bur roughs is going to visit a friend who haB a cattle ranch near Landusky in northern Montana. "I want a taste of real life on a cattle ranch,'' he said, after I had a week's pastime in thiB section.'' to GALA WEEK IN 8T. LOUIS. Good Roads Convention and Dedica tion of Exposition. St. Louis, April 27.—St. Louis is be ginning to assume gala attire for the festivities that will open with the na tional international, good roads con vention and close with the dedication of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Both events will be attended by the president of the United States and a number of men of national and inter national reputation. Among those who will address the good roads conven tion are President Roosevelt, General Miles, General Fitzhugh Lee, Hon. An drew Pattulo, member of the Canadian parliament; William J. Bryan, and Winston Churchill. It is estimated that dedication day will find 150,000 persons within the world's fatr grounds. Preparations for handllhg the crowds have been completed. The real beginning of dedication week was inaugurated Sunday after noon, when the United States monitor Arkansas, which has been plowing against the Mississippi for many days from the gulf, arrived in St. Louts harbor. Thousands of people gathered along the river to welcome the ar rival of the warship. Tomorrow Com mander Vreeland, will call on Mayor Wells, who later Will return the call on board the Arkansas and formally tender the welcome of the city. Roosevelt Praises the Park. "The Yellowstone pfcrk," President Roosevelt says, "is something abso lutely unique in this world, a^ far as I know. Nowhere else in any civilized country is there to be found such a tract of veritable wonderland, made accessible to all visitors, where at the same time, not only the scenery ot the wilderness, but the wild creatures of the park are scrupulously preserved as they were, the only change being that these wild creatures have been so carefully protected as to show liter ally astounding tameness. The crea tion and preservation of such a natu ral playground in the midst of our peo ple as a whole is* a credit to the na tion, and, above all, a credit to Mon tana, Wyoming and Idaho. It has been preserved with wise forethought. Britt the Winner. San Francisco, April 30.—Referee Eddie Graney declared Jimmy Britt the winner of one of the fastest and best fights ever seen in San Francisco. Willie Fitzgeçpld of Brooklyn was the man who put up the good contest against the California wonder. Bmi was more clever and the fastest of the* two and landed two blows to Fitz gerald's one. With the exception ot the last round, when Fitzgerald put the San Francisco boy on his haunches with a left swing to the jaw, Brltift superiority was evident- „ 1 Kelly Not Guilty. Butte, Mont., April 28. — Jaffieq^JW. Kelly, the newspaper man accused of the murder of Dr. Henery A. Cayley, was found not guilty by tbs jury. The jury was out an hour. At Palo Alto, Cal., nineteen new cases of typhoid fever has developed, making a total of 182. There are 36 eases at Stanford university. PKlSIDENT 18 IN NEBRASKA. Ccpt. Buller Invited to Accompany Him—Cowboy 8how in 8outh Dakota. Alliance, Neb., April 26.—President Roosevelt completed a hard day Sat urday, with 15 minutes' stop at Alii ance. Captain Seth .Buller, superin tendent of the Black Hills forest re serve, who joined the president at Gardiner, left the train here. Presi dent Roosevelt, who has great admira tion for Capt. Buller, invited him M accompany him on bis trip to the coast, but Captain Buller was forced to decline the invitation. During the day the'president trav eled in three states and made a num ber of speeches, both from the rear platform of his car and from stands erected for the purpose. Cowboy Show at Edgemont. » The demonstration of the day that undoubtedly pleased the president was the cowboy show at Edgemont, S. D. The demonstration was ar ranged by the Society of Black Hills pioneers, and consisted of exhibitions of cowboy riumg. Largest Family Known. In combatting President Roosevelt's race suicide theory a Salt Lake paper publishes the names of the family of Lorin Farr, a Mormon pioneer in Og den. Mr. Farr was married six times, ne is the father of 20 Bons, and 19 daughters. Of these 18 sons and 12 daughters are living. He has 231 grandchildren and 56 great grandchil dren. His living descendants number 326. Mr. Farr's two brother*» Enoch and Allan, have between them 38 chil dren and 227 grandchildren aa4, great grandchildren, aU living. This makes u-e total number of descendants' . the three brothers 553 souls. Farr's Immediate descendants lieved to comprise the largest in the world. President's 8unday., Grand Island, .Neb., April President Roosevelt's day In Grand Island was quiet His train arrived early in the morning. It was run into the yards and the president simFhis party remained aboard. Thfe. presi dent attended St Stephen's Episcopal church in the forenoon. The sermon was preached by the rector. Rev. Louisa Arthur. In the afternoon the president went for a horseöfeck ride, accompanied by Sepntor Dietrich. They rode out to Taylor's sheep ranch and then around to the soldier's home, where the presidènt greeted the vet erans. The ride was about 15 miles. BUTTE V8. WESTERN UNION. Trouble Between the Two Still Un settled Butte, Mont., April 27.—The execu tive board of the Silver Bow Labor and Trades assembly was in session Sun day, anight over the question of the trouble between the striking messen ger boys and the Western Union Tele graph company. The meeting was held behind closed doors and judging from the sounds emanating through the transoms a warm session was in progress. The various business inter ests of the city have brought strong pressure to bear on the labor assem bly and it'was sdid that a settlement of the trouble was quite probable, though the radical faction made a de termined fight for the recognition ot the union ^by the Western Union. The labor assembly board adjourned at a late hour without arriving at any settlement The board came to the conclusion that as the . telegraph company had ceased doing business in the city there was noAMgson why an attempt should be madera settle the aifficulty. Deaf Mutes Strike. At a signal from their business agentoi50 deaf mute electrical work era in the Automatic Electrical com pany at Chicago, 111., inaugurated the first deaf mute strike on record. Three hours later, the plant, employ ing almost 1000 persons, was closed do|h. A strike was declared in four de partments of the plant simultaneous ly, but the action of the mutes, who are the most skilful workers of the company, decided first to suspend op erations for a time. The .mutes are members of the Tel ephone and Switchboard Workers' union. They were paid the union scale, but joined with the brass work JMts, metal workers, polishers, buffers j^ind platers jn a strike for a shorter day. Covered With Molten Metal. Lancaster, Pa., April 29.—By an ex plosion of molten metal five men were horribly burned, two of them probably fatally, at Vesta furnace, Marietta. The men were engaged at the cupola preparatory to a cast when the acci dent occurred and were literally show erqd with molten metal. The serious ly injured are: David Appleby, burned from head to foot; will probably die. Thomas T. Kisselring, burned on back and face, will lose eyesight; re covery doubtful. The accident was caused by a wet projectile being shot Into the cupola. MONTANA EVENTS. Mrs. Frank Doolittle, living near Lolo, has a genuine case of spotted fever, traceable to a woodtick bite. Judge- Webster of Missoula has're fused to grant a new trial to Louis H. Mott, convicted of wife murder and sentenced to be hanged May 4. The supreme court has decided it had no jurisdiction in an Injunction to restrain tfie school book commis sioners entering into a contract requir ing that only text books bearing the union label be purchased. The Butte Chinamen who work in the Chinese laundries are on strike to the number of 300 for higher wages. They have been getting from $1 to $3 day for washing and delivering clothes. Now they demand $4 a day. Coloney Bolton of the Third cavalry has assunmed command at Fort Assin nabolne, owing to the stroke of -paraly sis sustained by General Albert Wbod son. Before resuming his tour of the west, President Roosevelt participated in the laying of the new cornerstone at the northern entrance to Yellowstone park. The ceremony was performed according to the Masonic ritual and was in charge ôf the grand officers of the state of Montana. Major Smead, Indian agent at the Flathead reservation, who conducted an investigation of the death of Mrs. Angelina Matts, found dead on the reservation, has ascertained beyond a doubt that she met her death from a stray shot fired by an Indian boy who was shooting at a magpie. While drunk last Sunday John Cul ver of Great Falls struck his mother during 1 ' à discussion. Filled with re morse for his act, he later placed the " , of?™ 1 * ° a ' n "°" th . blew the top of his head off. The deed jVas done in front of his home on Seventh avenue, while his wife and mother stood helpless to prevent it. 8pokane Market Reports. Vegetables—Cabbage, 2% 93c lb; new potatoes, 10c lb; old potatoes, 50c per cwt; sweet potatoes, 5c lb; to matoes, 30c lb; green peppers, 25c lb; radishes, 5c bunch; dried onions, l%@2ç lb; green oniofis, 2 bunches 5c; cucumbers. 26040c; beets, 2c lb', turnips, in bulk, lft@2c lb; carrots l%@2c lb; carrots, l%02clb; asparagus, 20c lb, 2 for 35c; parsnips, 2©3c lb; cauliflower, *l£025c .head; celery, 5@10c buneb; rhubarb, 15c lb, 2 for 25c; green peas, 15c lb; spin ach, 5c lb; fresh mint, 10c bunch; horseradish root, 20c lb; string beans, 30c lb. Poultry—Chlckefls: dressed, 14© 18c; squabs, 15c each; ducks, 18020c lb; geese, 17020c lb; turkeys, 230 25c lb. Eggs—LocalT 20c per dozen. Fruits—Lemons, 10025c per doz; apples, 5c lb r $102 per box; bananas, 15030c doz; cranberries, 20c qt; co coanuts, 10015c each; limes, 20c dqjj Malaga grapes, 35c lb. Dairy Products—Creamery butter, 30040c per lb; country butter, 180 30c per lb; oleomargarine 35040c per roll; 20c lb; cheese, 2f 025c lb. Fish—Salmon, 15c per lb; halibut, 12%c. Grain and Feed—Timothy hay, 90© 95 per cwt $17%18 per ton; grain hay, 00c per cwt, $17 per ton; alfalfa, 90c per cwt, $18 per ton; chicken feed. $1.35 per cwt, $25 per ton; oats; $1.30 per cwt, $24 per ton; bran, 90c per cwt; bran and shorts, 91.05 per cwt; shorts, $1 per cwt; rolled barley, $1.25 per cwt; corn, $2 per cwt Seeds—Timothy, 7%c lb, $6.50 per cwt; alfalfa, 17c lb, $15 cwt; .red clover, 18c lb, $16 cwt; white «lover, 30c lb, $26 cwt; red top, 14c lb, $12 cwt; rye grass, 12c lb, $9 cwt; blue grass, 14020c lb, $12015 cwt; or chard grass, 17c lb, $15 cwt; millet feed. 5c lb, $4 cwt; millet seed, 7c !b, $5 cwt. Coal Oil—Bulk oil, 30c per gal; pearl, $2.5003 per case, $1.76 per can. Flour—Wholesale, $3.7504.25 per bbl; retail, fancy patents, $1.20; stAni ard brands, $1.15; common grade, $1.10; lowest, $1. Sugar—Cane, $6.35 per 100 lb sack, 14 lbs for $1. Prices Paid to Producers. Poultry and Eggs—Chickens, roos ters, 12013c; hens, 12013c per lb live weight, turkeys, live weight 15016c per lb, dressed, 18 020c; eggs, fresh $5 per case. Vegetables—Potatoes, 35040c per cwt; onions, 50075c per cwt Live Stock—Steers, $4 0 4.50; cows, $3.25 04; mutton, ewes, $3.7504.25 per cwt; wethers, $404.50 per cwt; ewes, dressed, $8.6009; hogs, live, $6.5007; dressed, 10c. Eastern Dressed Meats—Steers, 8%c; cows, 7%©7%c; veal, 10012c; hogs, 10c; ohickens, 16c; turkeys, 23c lb. Strangled Girl to Death. La Porte, Ind., April 27.—The evi dence adduced by Coroner Carson points almost conclusively to the fact that Martha Lawrence, aged 19 years, who was found recfthtly, was mur dered and that ber murderer strangled her to death. Truman Beam has been arrested on suspicion. The art of glyptics, engraving on I precious stones, Is being revived In | France. LAMEST BELL IN THE WOftiB. X - The tzar, or klnfe of bells, as the Russians call it, is in the Kremlin, at Moscow, and. In spite of one or two other claimants for the title, it is nn doubtedly the largest bell in the world. It was cast in the year 1733 bywrder of the Empress Anne. There is no rec ord of its ever having been hung. It was found embedded in the earth when it had fallen and was excavated and Bet in position by order of the Emperor Nicholas in 1830. It is nineteen test three and one-half inches high and weighs 432,000 pounds. It is said there were more than 2,000 tons ef bronze melted for Its casting. The king stands In the middle of a square on a base of gran'te and looks like a great bronze tent A fragment broken off from it lies near the tower of Ivan Veliki. It is used as a chapel, tbe fissure being so great that a man may walk through without lowering his head. It is a beautiful piece of work, and its tone is said.to have been par ticularly sweet Tbe sides sweep eat in a broad and mighty curve and nr* encircled with a top and lower boater of artistic merit. THE OLD LOG SCHOOLHOUSE IS NOW A RELIC OF THE PAST. The old log seboolhouse remains ha the memory of many a city résident But the days of log schoolhouses are numbered—at least in Indiana, says an exchange. A solitary seboolhouse among the hills of Clark county and another one near Ferdinand, Dubois county, are the only ones remaining, and the latter has been weatherboaid ed and plastered until it no longer re sembles tbe olden-time temple of lean ing. The day of the master, of switches, and strenuous Instruction in the three R's is no more. Now our progeny is ruled by petticoats, persuasion and In structed In tbe mysteries of so-called "fads." The log schoolhouse, at tte start, was but a primitive apology, and m OLD FISH CREEK SCHOOLHOUSE. Its existence was readily discouraged as soon as anything better could be devised. Teachers' salares were pretty lew, tcö, in those days. There wasn't any teachers' federation, and It probably wouldn't have had much effect if it bad pxisted. There are records In Indiana of teachers whose magnificent incomes amounted to $10 a term "and an over coat." Later tbe prices rose to the magnificent sums of $3 a month far "rnarms" and $10 a mentb for "raa> ters." And the teacher usually toek it out In eating und bedding "boarding 'round." There were few "marnas" then—woman's brains being deemed In sufficient for the task of teaching. He Knew What to Do. In the old canal days, a fine setter was taken by bis master on a pucket boat which was so crowded that tbe dog was put in the captain's cabin to be out of the way. His owner reached his destination after night fullr and had taken so much wine by y that time that be was carried off tbe boat, and no one remembered bis set ter. Next morning tbe captain took the dog on deck, but was much afraid he would jump off to the tow path and try to return that way, and I to handsome an animal would have oeen in danger of being stolen. Car lo, however, Jay perfectly quiet, but with an air of listening that atEract notice. Towards noon he beard e-sound of tbe horn of a packet com ing from tbe opposite way, and, at the boats passed each other he made w & leap, and was next heard from as having got off at the place where his master bad stopped, and as having gone at once to tbe bouse where tbe men was a guest. Human intelligence could not have surpassed that shown by this animal. Although a great many people board, we do not remember to have met an/ oae wbo liked it