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DATE OF THE CORONATION. Egteil's Great Event To Bi Held Between lAugyst 8 tod 12. Generally Understood That the Cere mony Will Be Shorn of Some of Its Magnificence. London. It is officially announced that the coronation of King Edward will take place between August S and August 12. The proposed procession has been abandoned. It Is officially an nounced that there will be no royal progress, as originally planned, the day after the coronation, and there will be no procession apart from that In which ihelr majesties will proceed from Buck. Ingham palace to Westminster abbey and return. It is now considered prac tically certain, in view of the an nouncement that King Edward will be browned Saturday, August 9, since the holding of the coronation ceremony on Monday, August 11, would involve an other bank holiday, with the attend ant dislocation of business, while Sat urdays are almost universally observed as half holidays. The fixing of such an early date for the coronation is re garded as an additional guarantee of the confidence the king's physicians have in a continuance of his rapid re cuperation. The text of the official announce pent concerning the announcement of the coronation of King Edward was issued from the earl marshal's office and reads: "The king's medical advisers state that his majesty's progress has been more speedy and less complicated than Was at first anticipated. His majesty's izcellent constitution has played a con spicuous part in bringing this about. If the present rate of progress is main tained, and if no complication arises, the king's medical advisers are of the opinion that his majesty would be able to undergo the fatigue of the corona tion ceremony on a day between the 8th and 12th of August. The exact date will shorty be announced. The procession hrough London, which was to have taken place the day following the coronation, is canceled." WORK ON PANAMA CANAL TREATY. Washington, D. C With the excep tion of signing the treaty by which Co lombia will confer all the necessary rights incident to the building of the Panama canal by the United States, Senor Concha, the Colombian minister; Mr. Herran, first secretary of legation, and William Nelson Cromwell, repre senting the Panama Canal and Kail road companies, are busily engaged in going over certain points in the treaty, which must be modified before the in strument can be signed. Neither the state department nor the Colombian officials here care to dis close the nature of the modifications which it ha3 now become necessary to make in the treaty, but it is under stood that all of them, either directly or indirectly, involve the question of sovereignty. The close study of the passing of the Isthmian canal act and the treaty pre sented the Colombian government de velops apparently important differences and obscurities in the letter of the documents, which m?y not, however, exist in their spirit. For instance, sec tion 2 of the canal act authorizes the president to acquire from Colombia "perpetual control of a strip of land . . ., which control shall include - . . Jurisdiction over said strip and the ports at the ends thereof, to make such police and sanitary rules and reg ulations as shall be necessary to pre serve order and preserve the pubiic health thereon, and to establish such Judicial tribunals as may be necessary to enforce such rules and regulations." FRIARS MAY NOT BE WlfHDRAWX. Washington, D. C The negotiations now In progress at the Vatican respect ing the friars and their lands will not fail. Of that the administration offi cials here feel certain. It was realized at thd beginning, when Governor Taft's Instructions were framed, that they represented the extreme of our claims, and that they did not preclude the idea of reasonable compromise by mutual concessions. The negotiations are pro gressing in this spirit. The United States government will ndt secure ev erything it desired, because, even if the pope were disposed to concede these things, the negotiations have developed the fact that although his power is theoretically unlimited, in actuality the Internal politics of the Vatican Impose conditions even upon the chief prelate of the church which he must observe. Therefore the immediate and complete Withdrawal of the Spanish friars from Ike Philippines is not now expected, bat It is believed that the result de sired can be accomplished by an ar rangement for the substitution of fri ars of another nationality. and the prin cipal issue now is as to the time in Which this change may be brought about. WMow Wants the Money Doaver, Colo., July IS. Mrs. Queen Wm Cole today filed suit to recover one ttCt the property, principally Denver ml estate, valued at $400,000, which m NMMly presented to the Peak! fTrtK. Methodist organisation, by C 1 fctona, Henry Cole, despite her "tX, the coraaialat alleges that ; J Cj two- years poet Henry Cols A mm mnw mm wm mmw wmiumw wr gee aa Jo? the awrpooes of REIMS THE DEAD AT JOHNSTOWN Johnstown. Pa. It can be stated of the COO men supposed to have entered the mouth of the Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel ompany, that nine ty are known to be dead and twenty- two rescued. Four hundred, so the mine officials claim, escaped when the explosion occurred.leavlng ninety-eight to be accounted for. Some of these, ac cording to those in charge of the rescue work, are dead, but the majority, they claim, have escaped. From physicians, head of rescue parties and others who are familiar with the different headings in the mine, it is learned that at least 52 additional bodies were brought io the temporary morgue at daylight. making the total dead 142, This, so President Stackhouse says, will be the extent of the disaster, but until all checks of the miners are taken an accurate list will be impossible. Some of the bodies, it is admitted, will be entombed in the closed headings or buried under slate. Some may never be found. Johnstown, Pa. This has been a day of heroic rescues at the fated Rolling Mill mine of the Cambria Steel com pany. Thrilling experiences attended the efforts of the forty brave and dar ing fellows who went down into the bowels of the earth, stirred by a very faint hope that still they might be in time to restore to life some of those who are entombed. Death lurked everywhere around them, but undaunted they pressed for ward, swayed with the noblest of hu man purposes. The reward of their ef forts was the saving of the lives of fourteen of their fellow men and bring ing them again into the sunlight and back to living families. Dead and maimed bodies were located, but no ef fort was made to bring them out of the vast theater of death until every hu man energy was put forward to seeing that no living soul might escape their aid. That done, the dead were put In train cars, brought up and exposed to morbid gaze, while being transferred to wagons in which to be takeD to the morgue. Eighty-seven dead bodies were recov ered from the mine between daylight and nightfall. Still a party of officials and miners battled on, three miles in side the mine. Occasionally the word would come to the surface by some mysterious means that another heap of remains had been exposed to the vision cf the searchers. There remain danger ous headings in the Klondike section of the mine yet to be explored. No one knows how many more dead will be found there. The mine officials refrain from guesswork on the subject. CORN SHOWS INCREASE IN ACERA6E. Washington, D. C, July IS. An in crease of 3,000,000 acres of corn, or 3.9 per cent over last year's acreage, Is shown by preliminary reports to the department of agriculture. Iowa, Ne braeka and Michigan show an increase cf 1 per cent. The reports show the average condition to be 87.5, July 1, as compared with 61.3 last year, and a ten year average of 8S.2. Winter wheat improved during June 9-10 of 1 per cent in the avercge, stand ing at 77, July 1, as against 8S.3 for the same date last year. It Is 2.4 points below the ten years' average. Its con dition improved 7 points In Nebraska. Spring wheat stood at 92.4, July 1, as compared with 95.8 last year, and 85.8 for ten years. Some states lost, but Nebraska gained 9 points during June. It is estimated that 52,440,000 bushels, or 7 per cent of last year's crop of wheat, is still in the hands of the farmers. CONDITION OF OATS. July 1 the average condition of oats was 92.1, compared with 83.7 last year, and a ten-year average of 87.3. Barley showed an average of 93.7, compared with 91.3 last year, and a ten-year average of S7.1. Winter rye stood at 91.2, compared with 93.6 last year, and a ten-year av erage of 89.2. Spring rye averaged s9.3, as against 93.3 last year, and a ten-year average of 87.9. Nebraska re ports 12 points above its ten-year aver age. Potato acreage is 100,000 greater than that of 1901. The average condition July 1 was 92.9, compared with 87.4 July 1 last year, and a ten-year aver age of 92.3. Sweet potatoes show aver ages much below the ten-year record In most states. JUSTICE 6ETS A QUICK MOVE. Cheyenne, Wyo. It required less than twelve hours to capture, convict and incarcerate in the state penitentiary Arthur Funk, a Denver man, who crim inally assaulted the 10 and 4-year-old daughters of Dan Snyder of South Cheyenne. Funk enticed the little ones to his room, where he accomplished bis purpose and where their father found them. The police were notified and soon had Funk in charge. He was arraigned at 3:30 p. m., pleaded guilty, was sen tenced at 4 o'clock to twenty-eight years In the penitentiary, and at I o'clock was on the train snroute to prison. The children of the Souther Pres byterian Sunday schools have raised money for a new missionary steamer on the Congo. waroVig County JaM, St. Joseph, Mo. Sheriff Spencer sum moned a large force of guards end armed them heavily In expectation that a second attempt would be nods to blow no the county Jell and liberate May desperate criminals awaiting transfer to the peaifatlary. Baoogb dynamite was stolen from a rook quar ry to blow n halt the town, a coaaM oraMo part Of Wales waa discovered to have hem aawcswa lata the Jail. Ow RECLAIMING ARID LANDS. Chief HydrograpJier Hewsll Outlines Seme of Preliminary Work. Hundred Year Will Not See Amount of Land Reclaimed Which Op ponents Proclaimed. Washington, D. C (Special.) Now that the fight for the reclamation of the arid west has been won in congress and the long cherished hope of western statesment that the general govern ment should take an active interest in the work of reclamation been realized. the field of work is transferred from the rostrum to the domain of the en gineer. The administration of the law Is practically and primarily in the hands of Frederick Haynes Newell, hy drographlc engineer and chief of the division of hydrography of the United States geological survey. Mr. Newell has made the subject of Irrigation a life study and .he will now be given an opportunity to put the result of that study into practical operatfon. Mr. Newell was asked to explain what would be done first, what second, what would be the ultimate result of the undertaking of federal government to reclaim such vast arid regions of the west. "The first work to be done," was his reply, "is to send civil engineering par ties into the field to Investigate and report on three distinct phases of work to be accomplished. For instance, take the government territory which it Is desired to irrigate. Before any actual construction is begun It is necessary to ascertain the cost of construction of the dam and canals, to Eurvoy and plan the details of each, and besides the law requires reports to be made as to the amount of land to be irrigated and the probable benefit In dollars and cents to each acre. "When you realize that the work Is to be done, not at any given locality, but that the most valuable locations are to be selected, the vastncfs of the work becomes more apparent." Mr. Newell stated that from the passage of the irrigation bill to the present time the work done embraces the rending out of surveying parties to make ob servations and report on details. The civil service commission Is being drawn on for civil engineers and the field force Is being increased as greatly as possible. Turtles of this character are now working in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah. Nevada, Idaho, Arizona and Colorado. When reports have been received data will be forwarded to Washington as rapidly as collected and here It will be classi fied, the merit of each proposition com pared with those of other locations and the conclusions of experts presented to the secretary of the interior. The work which will be begun fust will doubtless be on the site which presents the best prospects of good results and shows the most natural advantages. Mr. Newell estimates that for the next hundred years there cannot be rrigated more than 60,000,000 acres of arid lund, notwithstanding the claim n congress that something like 200,- 000,000 acres could be reclaimed. In th? far future he says It may be possible to conserve the waters of the moun tains to such an extent as this, but the realization of this vast dream is far ahead at the present time. It will doubtless be two or three years be fore actual work of construction will be begun in any locality. HISS MORRISON 6ETS TWENTY YEARS. Eldorado, Kan. Jessie Morrison, con victed June 28 of murder in the second ree for killing Mrs. Olic Caitlc, the latter s home here in June, 1900, by cutting her throat with a razor, was today sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. Motion for a new trial was overruled. Miss Morrison, who has gone through three trials, took the sentence with lit tle show of demonstration. The case will be appealed to the state supreme court. At her second trial Miss Morri son was given but Ave years. A motion for a new trial, a motion in arrest of Judgment and a plea that sentence be postponed were overruled. Sentence was then pronounced upon Miss Morrison, who sat down without saying a word or shedding a tear. She was cool and self-possessed. ' No emotion was displayed on the part of her father and brother, and after the judge had given the attorneys fifty days In which to file a bill of ex ceptions Miss Morrison arose and fol lowed the sheriff to her cell, accompa nied by her father and brother. She passed from the room unmindful of the staring crowd. In the hall the aged father and brother eat down beside Miss Morrison on a bench and dis cussed the sentence. Miss Morrison said: "The Judge has been against me from the first and was bound to convict me. I expected no mercy from him and Jld not get any mercy, 1 don't consider I had a fair trial and believe the su preme court will again reverse the No Delay at fhe Vatican. Rome. The answer of the committee Of cardinals to Oovernor Tsft's recent note on the subject of the friars' lsnds In the Philippine Islands, will be pre vented to the pope by Cardinal Rem Doila, the papal secretary of state. The pontiff expressed his pleasure at the ce lerity with which the business had been dispatched and said, Jestingly, "We art teaching the Americans the renowned art of hustling.'' The answer am be translated Into French aa will WORK 01 THE NEW IRRIGATION PUN. Washington, D. C Secretary Hitch cock, Director Wolcott of the geolog ical survey and Chfc-f Newell of the division of hydrography had a confer ence upon irrigation. After reviewing the Irrigation bill and its provisions the secretary issued a letter to Di rector Wolcott, setting aside $165,000 for preliminary work in surveys, etc., as provided for In the bill. Director Wolcott stated that this amount of money was all that cruld possibly be used during the present summer in making preliminary surveys and locat ing sites for reservoirs. He stated that the subject was so vast and the field so little comprehended that the depart ment would move very slowly in the matter, but that whatever was done would be done for the best Interests of the arid and semi-arid west, which is to be vitally benefited by reason of the parsage of the irrigation bill. Colonel John S. Mosby of ex-confederate fame, and who is special agent of the land department detailed for work In Colorado, Wyoming and the extreme western portion of Nebraska, Is in the city on leave. Colonel Mosby had an interview with Secretary Hitch cock and In the course of the conversa tion stated that fences on the public domain In the wcRtern part of Nebras ka were being taken down without any great trouble. Commissioner Her mann of the general land office, speak- j Ing cf the work of removing fences erected by the cattle barons and large corporations on public lands In Ne braska, stated that from Colonel Mos by's district he had heard little or no complaint, but that from other sections of Nebraska, particularly around Alli ance and other places adjacent there to, he had heard many complaints as to the high-handed manner in which the cattle barons were usurping lands not their own. LIEUTENANT HICKMAN TO COME NEXT. Manila. General Chaffe has ordered Lieutenant Edward A. Hickman of the First cavalry to Manila for trial by court-martial on the charge of alleged cruelty to natives of Tayabas province. The charges arise from the Gardener inquiry. It is claimed that Hickman ducked two natives In a stream In or- ilcr to obtain information. He Is fur ther charged with having ducked a third native, who died from maltreat ment. The miliary officials say that proof of the latter charge is doubtful. The court presided over by General William H. Bisbee, which Is trying Captain James A. Ryan of the Fif teenth cavalry on the charge of unnec essary severity to natives, will try Lieutenant Hickman. The defense In the Ryan court-mar tial closed today. The arguments will be heard Saturday. The defense of fered much testimony and many docu ments to show that a state of insur rection existed at Jiminez, Mindanao and that Captain Ryan was justified In using force to obtain information, pro tect his command and pursue the en emy. Second Lieutenant Charles Burnett of the Fifteenth cavalry and Surgeon Major Peter It. Ecan testified that they took the same treatment as ad ministered to the natives and that they did not puffer therefrom. DEMAND FOR MONEY IN THE WEST. Chicago, III. Widespread Interest is beginning to attach to the unusual de mand for money in the central west and west. Within a fortnight Interest rates have advanced 1 per cent. Chicago began shipping money to the northwest und west ebout July 1, at the rate of tiOO.OOO daily. It is esti mated that about $4,000,000 in currency has been sent out of Chicago to St. Paul, Minneapolis and St. Louis. These shipments have started a de mand by Chleugo banks on New Tork. The movement from that direction has continued as It was begun. The demand from the west was fully two months ahead of the season when, ordinarily, crop moving requirements occasion money shipments. No special explanation has been offered. North western and western Institutions mere ly report that the small banks through cut the country are arklng for funds and have to be accommodated. GIANT GEYSER HAS BROKEN CUT. San Francisco.Cal. Near Santa Cruz, on the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, a giant gpyscr has bro ken out as the result of heavy earth quakes occurring in that section since April 18 last. The column of water, rising to a height of about fifty feet, roars and hisses from among the rocks and Is an object of great interest to the people and passing versels, being plainly vis ible from the sea. It was seen and admired by the passerines and crew of the steamer Newport, which has reached this port. The news Is brought by the steamer that affairs In Guatemala are becom. Ing normal again after the scare oc casioned by the tremendous earth quake. The havoc wrought by the dis turbances will not Interfere with har vesting of the coming crops, as at first anticipated. Upholds the Pure Food Law. Lincoln, Neb, (Special.) The su preme court delivered an opinion sus taining the pure food law. The case Is entitled Merrill against the stste snd was appealed from Clay county, where the decision was In favor of the law. The law was attacked on the ground that It was unconstitutional, it being also alleged that It waa Irregularly passed and that there were errors i Its title. The act la the one creating aad providing for tbs tort fool depart ENTOMBED IN A MINE. Eiplosloi ii Workings if Cisbrla Steel Conpiij Ii JokistofB District. Hundreds Meet Awful Death and It Is Impossible to Get Deflnato Estim ate on Total Loss of Life. Johnstown, Pa. (Special.) Two hun dred miners entombed by an explosion in a mine whose main shaft opens within the limits of this city was news to check with terror the pedestrians on the streets here. At first the rumor said that all in the "Roiling Mill" mine of the Cam bria Steel company were dead or in danger. Cut later reports showed that the lower figure was correct and that 4C0 were safe. The mine is one of the largest in the country and 600 men were at work there. When the news of the disaster reached here it spread like wildfire, and In less than a quarter of an hour the Point, an open space at, the Junc tion of Conemaugh and Stony creek, was crowded with weeping women and children. During the afternoon it became known that many men had escaped and that drift No. 6. known as the Klondike, was practically the only one affected, but here 200 men were at work, and still the women watched and waited for the end. From 1:30 In the afternoon until 6 p. m. the work of the searching parties was in vain, but then the first faint ray of hope came when the bodies of a man and a boy were brought out Into daylight, un conscious, but alive. Then at 11 iO four more men. unconscious, were brought to the surface, but a doctor who came with the men reported passing twenty five dead bodies on the way. President Powell Stackhouse, In a statement, said the dead would num ber 125 men. It was nearly an hour after the ex plosion before any general knowledge of what had happened get abroad Men who came from the mints, escap ing with their lives, told the terrible news and soon it spread like wildfire all over the city. In scores of homes there was the most pathetic scenes. Mothers, wives. daughters, sons and relatives were frantic with grief and hundreds rushed to the scene. At 'the opening, across the river from the point, the Cambria Iron company's police, with several as sistants. Flood guard, permitting no one to enter the mine, from which nox ious gases were coming. It was nearly 4 o'clock when all hope of sending rescuing parties from the Westmont opening was abandoned. DRIVEN BACK BY DAMP. Two men who had escaped from the mine, Richard Dennett and John Mey ers, went back two miles to see What assistance could be rendered, but the frightful damp drove them back and they' Jell prostrate when they finally, after a desperate struggle, reached the outside. Two doctors gave them as sistance and after working with them half an hour re&tored them. Their story of the situation in the mine made It clear that the rescue work could not proceed from the West mont opening, and then hasty prtpaia tions were made to begin that sad mission at the Mill cm k entrance. Soon after the news of the explosion reached the Cambria officials. Mining Engineer Moore and one of his assist ants, A. G. Prosser, made an attempt to enter the mine. They were followed by Mine Superintendent Robinson, but the deadly gases stopped their progress and they were compelled to return to the surface. Mine Foreman I:odg.-rs, his assist ant, William Blanch, and Fire Rosses John Whitney, John Retallick and John Thomas, were overcome by the gaseb and It Is feared they perlnhed In a he roic effort to rescue the miners. A son of llarry Rodgers then tried to reach his father, but he was quickly over come by the deadly gases and was car ried out unconscious. William Slibi h spent several hours at the Mill creek opening. He said he believed as many as 450 men were in the mine. In his opinion, from all he could glean, not more 'than liO men had come out. STATEMENT OF OFFICIAL. The mining officials of the Cambria company stated the explosion was one of fire dump. The few survivors who J have escaped from the depths of the mine describe the condition to be" frightful In their nature. Outside of the Klondike the miners are safe and uninjured. Within the fatal limits of the mine the effects of the explosion beggar description. Solid walls thirty feet through were torn down as If they were barriers of paper. The roof was torn down and not a door remains standing. The most heroic efforts to ward rescue seem hopeless. The sto ries of the men who escaped are mi raculous. London is considered a crowded city, yet but 9.4 per cent of its Inhabitants occupy one-room U-nementi,whereas In Hombay it Is 20 per cent, Grain and Milling Trust. Topeka, Kan. At a conference held In this city between Walter Vrooman and representatives of various milling and grain concerns of the state, plan were discussed for the formation of a "farmers' grain and milling trust." The Idea Is to do away with the middlemen and handle the wheat product of the statt directly. The Vrooman line of co-operative stores, the Hoffman mills, the Solomon county co-operative grain oompany. seven or tight tltvaton -y aloa faclao PRESIDENT MITCHELL STILL COXFICEIT Wilkeebarre, Pa. Speclal.) In an address before the 400 delegates of dis trict No. 1, In convention at Nantlcoke, President Mitchell of the Mine Work ers union ald he had never participat ed In a strike in which he was so con fident of success. This statemennt by the miners' chief was greeted with great applause. The national - presi dent severely criticised the citizens" al liance organization which have been formed in Scrar.ton and ."Wilkeebarre for the purpose of prosecuting persons who boycott or otherwise intimidate men still working In the mines or their relatives. In the course of his speecn, Mr. Mitchell said: "The coal operators have organized a press Dureau anu are cunBiuuuy sending out through It what purport to be interviews with and-statements from them, while as a matter of fact there Is not a president in the entire region who will stand responsible for any of the statements. 'The operators have also organized another adjunct, under the. name of the Citizens' alliance. I am sure I do not know how many citizens are mem bers of this mysterious organization, as so far only one has had the man hood or the effrontery to acknowledge his membership. ' I, of course, hesitate to criticise men for doing anything they have a legal right to do, but when an organization of the citizens of any community Is formed, the alleged purpose of which is the maintenance of law and order, and when it devel ops that the entire energies of the or ganization are being directed against the coal strikers, it arouses a suspicion to say the least In my mind, that the name of the asso"latlon Is a mis nomer and the alleged purpose a cloak under which so-called citizens have Joined forces with coat operators In a damnable attempt to crush the miners' union. "In all my experience in the labor movement I have never participated In a strike In which I felt so confident of success. If our membership will stand, as I know they will, we shall. In the not far distant future, achieve a victory and settle for all time the right of the coal miners to receive for honest labor and unremitting toll at least a sufficient wage to enable them to live, maintain and educate their families and enjoy a few of the pleas ures of our civilization." TURNS DOWN A CALL FOR HELP. Ilarrlcburg, Pa. In reply to a re quest from Sheriff Gombert, of Carbon county, afklng that troops be sent to Lanrford and Summit Hill to preserve order, Governor Stone sent the sheriff the following telegram: "Your telegram, stating that strikers are gathering in large mobs at Lans ford and Summit Hill, in Carbon coun ty, and citizens are attacked and beat en .and In danger of their lives, and thnt you find that you ore unable to preserve order and protect the citizens and therefore must call en me for troops, received. "The law under which the national guard is Called out does not Justify action under the circumstances. Those conditions are entirely within your own province and with th aid at your hand you ought to overcome the difficulty without the use cf stale troops. "If there Is a condition of riot, mobs or Insurrection which the civil author ities are unable to suppress, the gov ernor will not hesitate to secure troops, but under no clrcurnetancts will troops go unless the civil authority Is ex hausted after reaconnble effort on the part of the fheiiff and the protection of life and property demands it.1- .. "WILLIAM A. STONE." CITY OF BEATRICE SWEPT BY FIRE. Beatrice, Neb. Last week's fire was the most disastrous In the history of the city. The' Klein's Mercantile com pany's building and the Green block are total losses. The loss will exceed $175,000. The fire originated In the stairway of the Green block and was of Incendiary origin. A couple of men were observed by a telephone girl running away from the building about the time the fire was discovered. The stairway had been '' saturated with conl oil. This Is the third attempt made this year to burn out the block In which the buildings were situated. The city pumjilng station Is under water from the Hood ond the firemen, assisted by a brigade of 1.000 citizens, fought the flames, with buckets. The heat from the burning buildings was so Intense that woodwork on buildings 100 yards away blistered and smoked and windows In adjoining buildings broke from the heat. The cornice on the Ma sonic temple, the Drake block and Paddock hotel melted from the heat and fell to the ground. The pulnt oa these buildings scaled off. Casualties of Boor War. I Pretoria, Transvaal. According " to an estimate of the Red Cross Identity depot, which fulfilled the functions of a casualty bureau for the Boer forces. the total losses of the latter during the war were 3.700 men killed or died of wounds and 32,000 made prisoners of war, of whom 700 died. The Doer forces In tbe field numbered about 75,000. Wireless Plan for Alaska. Ban Francisco, Cel. R. Pfund, an electrical engineer, has srrlved here on his way to Alaska for the purpose of establishing a wireless telegraph system between Fort Gibbons, on the Yukon river, and the fort at Dates rsplds, on the Tanana river, a dis tance of m miles. The line, which will be constructed under the direction of Chief Signal Officer Ortely, will be completed by October 1. Mr. Pfund' may take measures to estaMMf ft ftf Uoa au the Ooidea Oata,