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Comprehensive Condensation
of Christendom,
A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF THE WEEK
Ruort Paragraph! Conreylni; a World uf
Information Happenings of lh
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to People Without Tim.
YVednosdiiy, November SO.
The transport Mannuensc, with Lieu
tenant Colonel Webb Huyes and three
companions of the Thirty-first Infantry
on board, has arrived here, says ti Ma
nila dispatch of November "8. She
narrowly escaped disaster. The ofllcers
and soldiers were for twelve days ball
Ing with buckets. I he btenmer wus
tiuscaworthy, undermanned und hliort
of provisions. Her engines broke down,
and she rolled three days in a typhoon.
Prof. W. S. Johnson anil C. L. Forttcr
of Milwaukee made a successful test in
Chicago of the wireless telegraph. They
succeeded in telegraphing without
wires, through n suite of seven rooms
with all doors closed and through
seven walls. The professor claims that
his invention is materially different
from that of Marconi, and that instru
ments can be constructed to be carried
on horseback and bo ready for opera
tion within a few moments after they
have reached their destination.
A dispatch has been received at Lon
don from General Puller giving a list
of casualties among the troops en
gnged in what was hitherto known as
the battle of Gras Pan, but which is
now ofllcially designated as the battle
ofEnslin. It proves, as anticipated,
that the British success was heavily
bought. The losses announced today,
added to the naval brigade casualties
previously reported, make a grand to
tal of 103 as the cost of General Meth
ucn's second buttle.
The insurgents have evacuated Man
galaren, province of Paugasauau, says
a Manilu dispatch of November 28th,
leaving seven American and ninety-four
Spanish prisoners, who escaped in the
confusion of the Filipino Vetrcat. The
Americans arc P. J. Green and George
Powers of the battleship Oregon;
Thomas Edwards and Charles Bird of
the Sixteenth infantry; Henry W.
James of the Twelfth infantry; John
Desmond of the signal corps and F.
II. Huber of Lowe's scouts. They re
ported that two Americans were unable
to escape and are with the insurgents.
They are David Scott of the Twenty-
fourth infantry und William Shcrby of
the hospltul corps. Four deserters arc
with the Filipinos, Howard, Martin
and Ford of theCuliforniuns and Watts,
whose former regiment is unknown.
Howard is the only one serving with
the insurgents. He is a cuptain of ar
tillery. Thursday, November 30.
The war office at London has re
relved the following dispatch from
General Duller, dated at Cape Town,
conveying report from General Mc
thucn: "Modder River, Tuesday, November
28, Rcconnoltcrcd at 5 u. m, enemy's
position on 'River Modder, und found
them strongly entrenched nnd con
cealed. No means of outflanking, the
river being full. Action commenced
with artillery, mounted infantry and
cavalry al B:30, guard on right, Ninth
brigade on left, attacked position in
widely-extended formation at 0:30 and,
supported by the artillery, found itself
in front of the whole lloer force, 8,000
strong, with two largo guns, four
Krupps, etc.
"After desperate, hard fighting,
which lasted ten hours, our men, with5
out water or food, and In. the burning
bun, made the enemy quit itH position.
"The naval brigade rendered great
assistance from the railway.
"Genqral Pole-Care v was buccessful
in getting a small party across the
river, gallantlj assisted by noo sappers.
"I speak in terms of high praise of
tho conduct of all who were engaged
in one of the hardest and most trying
lights in the annuls of tho British
army, if I can mention one arm par
ticularly, it is two batteries of artil
lery." While a Flint & Pere Marquette
steamer was on her way from Lulling
ton Milwaukee Max Pfenning of Janes
vlllc, Wis., aged sixty years, Jumped
overboard and was drowned. No cnuso
Is known for the act.
Friday, December I.
Clyde Muttox has been taken to Now
kirk, Okla., to stund trial for the mur
der at Ponca City of Lincoln Swinney,
a sheep herder.
Otto Grunls has banded his rich mine
At Dead wood to Denver people for one
million dollars. Tho mine, produced
-1150,000 in three carloads of ore.
The Elgin National Watch company
surprised its 2,400 employes by giving
notice of restoration of the wage scale
of 1802. Tho advance was unsolicited.
Nicholas-Putz, a laborer, shot Mary
Wielgornsku, who resisted his atten
tions, at Toledo, Thanksgiving even
ing and then shot himself. Tho" girl
will recover, but Pntis will die.
The total gold production of the
Cripple Creek district In November was
S?,fil.v00, an increase of more than 2ft
per cent over tho largest previous
monthly record.
A Wabash' passeugcr train struck a
'Ihlrty-flrst street electric car at Chi
cago, injuring eleven persons and de
inolishlng tho cur. None of those In
jured will die, Tho passenger train
was running at a high rate of bpeed
und was two blocks away when tho
conductor gave tho signal to the mo
torman to cross. The feet that no one
wab killed ! cousldcrcd miraculous,
All the cotton miitiufuelurcrs repre
sented in the Full River association
have decided that they would grant an
advance of 10 per cent in wages be
ginning Monday, December 11. In all
about 23,000 hands will benefit by the
raise.
Thomas Urinegar fell Into a hole at
the Burlington depot at Salem two
months ago nnd bued the company for
82, .100 damages. Recently he compro
mised the case for SI" cash. He evi
dently thought that S17 in hand was
worth more than $2,00iu court u quar
ter of a century.
Milton Harde, manager of the up
holstering department at the Mls-ourl,
Kansas & Texas shop at Seduliu, Mo.,
In a local paper suggests that he will
be one of the 100,000 persons to con
tribute 2ft cents each to a 82ft,000 fund
to be presented to the widow of Capt.
Charles V. Grldley, who commanded
Admiral Dewey's flagship ut the battle
of Manila. Mr. Rarde suggests shut
Mrs. Helen Goidd be. made treasurer of
the fund.
Saturday, Drreiiilier s.
The university of Pennsylvania an
nounces a subscription of S2ft0,000 by a
Philadelphia!), whose name Is with
held, for the erection of n laboratory
of physics.
One of the main buildings of the Laf
Un-ltand powder works, four miles
north of Columbus, Kan., was blown
up. William Cushman was killed. The
property loss Is 82.i,00d.
A windstorm blew a work train on
the Great Falls & Canada railroad
from the truck near Great Falls, Mont.
Six cars caught fire and an unknown
man was burned to death and three
other men were injured.
By n lire in a tenement building at
New York, William Helmboldt, sixty
years old, a civil war veteran, nnd his
wife Matilda, aged sixty live, were
burned to death. Many other occu
pants of the house had narrow escapes.
A smallpox epidemic Is reported at
Dixon, 111., where 100 persons have be
come ill. Local physicians diagnosed
tho cases as chickenpox, but Dr. C. S.
Nelson, the state board of health expert
who went to Investigate the matter,
wires that the Illness is typical small
pox nnd that it Is spreading at an
alarming rate.
A Fort Scott, "an., dispatch says:
John P. Ree,se, member of the national
executive board of the United Mine
Workers' association, sentenced to
three months' Imprisonment for con
tempt of federal court, has refused the
order of United Stutcs Judge Williams
for special jail privileges at Topeka,
saying: "An innocent man has no
preferences of prisons in which to bo
unjustly confined."'
Monday, December 4.
In honor of his completion of fifty
year continuous service In the Chicago
lire department, the Chicago Under
writers' assoelaton gave a silver loving
cup to Fire Murshul Denis J. Sweenie,
who is now tho head of the fire de
partment. The steamer Coptic hui arrived at
San Francisco from the Orient, via
Honolulu. No mall or passengers will
be landed until after quarantine In
spection. Purser Goodrich reports
that the transport Fort Stevens, which
left Seattle on November 11 with
troops for Manila, put in at Honolulu
November 21, after having been driven
far out of its course by a storm. The
captain reports "all well on board.''
A rear-end collision between a south
bound Los Angeles passenger train und
a locnl freight occurred near lsleta,
twelve miles south i.f Albuquerque,
N. M., wit fatal results.
Tho names of the Injured bo far as
known nrc:
C. Hutchinson of Wlnslow, A. T.,
badly crushed; will die.
Head Brakemun 1'lnney of freight
train, caught between curs, chest and
legs badly pinched.
Conductor Davern, face badly cut and
bruised otherwise.
A lady passenger whose name can
not know be ascertained, received in
juries that required immediate medi
cal attendance.
It is believed that many passengers
wero cut und bruised and received
other Injuries. Full details are not at
hand.
A wrecking outfit with surgeons lias
gone to the scene of the wreck.
Tuesday, December B,
A rear end collision occurred between
two passenger trains on tho Denver fc
Rio Grande railroad, in which six per
sons were killed outright and several
others were severely Injured. Tho ac
cident happened at English Switch,
ubcut six miles eust of Sulldu.
A syndicate of eastern mills has con
summated a deal nt St. Louis for 1,
2ft0,000 pounds of territory wool. The
terms of the bold wcru prlvute, but it
is stated the deul amounted to more
than 8.ft,000. '--'his Is the largest hale
of wool ever made In the west.
Monday, at State Line, Miss., Ed
mund, the five-year-old son of Dr. W. II.
Boykin, shot nnd lnstuntly killed his
brother Roderick, aged eleven, nnd se
verely wounded his brother Tom, aged
thirteen. The boys had quurrellcd
over tho possession of a toy when Ed
mund went to tho house, secured a
shotgun and used it with the above re
sults. ,
The.ro should be no. objection to a
lady lifting her skirts a little over two
feet on a rainy day.
Henry 1). McCord und William M,
McCordj composing the firm of Henry
D, McCord fc Son, grain dealers of New
York, have assigned for tho benefit of
creditors. Tho firm is rated at be
tween 3203,000 aud 8550,000.
A wreck on the Nohurt branch of the
Great Northorn neur Great Falls;-Mont,
resulted In the'death of three men and
the destruction cf an engine nnd ten
cars. Tho cuglnu struck a bteer and
left the track
NEWSOEII STATE
Ordinary and Extraordinary
Happenings,
HIE PAST SEVEN DAYS IX DETAIL
(Irtnf Hnmnmry of Htnta Doliijn Slute,
County mill Municipal mm of liu-
Importance to Our Head-
en l.lttla Iteuii.
Wednesday. Nmcmbcr 'J II.
The new llurllngton doxit at Friend
has been completed. The building Is
.'ftxt3 feet with a fourteen foot celling.
The building has n stone foundation
and Is built of compressed brick. The
Iturliiigton Is building another depot
Just like It at Kearney.
The official canvass completed yes
terduy by Secretary of State Purler
gives Silas Holeomb a majority of
1.1.107 over Judge M. II. Reese, the re
publican candidate for judge of the su
preme court. Edson Rich, one of the
fusion candidates for regent of the mil
verslty, came out with a majority of
only 1,701 over McGllton, one of the
republican candidates. J. L. Teeters,
fuslonlst, received a majority of ,7M
over Ely, republican.
Major .1. N. Killiun of the First Ne
braska, who served In the Philippines,
and who Is well known in the state,
both for his military work and as a
lawyer, has decided to leave Columbus
where he Is now engaged In the prac
tice of law. He will locate In Virginia
where he will engage hi the practice
of his profession. Ho Is closing up his
Interests in Columbus i.s rapidly as
possible, having recently sold The
Hlene, the German paper which he
owned.
Tliurtiluy, November MO.
W. II. R. Stout, who will be remem
bered In Nebraska as "Ross Stout," has
just filed a plea of bankruptcy In the
district, at Washington, D. C alleging
debts amounting to 8811.000. and assets
of 8100. Most of the debts are stated
to bo due to Nebraska parties.
The first snow of the season
Crolghtou Thanksgiving day.
fell at
It be
gau to rain early in the morning, soon
turning to snow, and continuing quite
hard until ufternoon, when It
up nnd became quite warm,
thermometer rising to 38
eieareu
the the
degrees
above zeo.
Major J. N. Kllllan will not leave
Columbus as has been reported. He
has no Intention of taking such a step.
To a correspondent the major said he
had too many aud too important Inter
ests In Columbus to leave It permanent
ly. He has Interests in Vlrirlnla and
other eastern states for other parties
which will require his attention ut
intervuls. Major IvlUlun Is well known
In eustern Nebraska for his service In
the Philippines.
L. W. Hastings, for twenty years
editor of the Aurora Republican, died
ut his home in Aurora after a long
Illness, of an affection of the stomach.
The. funeral wus Held Inurslay morn
ing ut the Congregational church un
der the auspices of tho Odd Fellows.
It wus one of the largest funerals over
held in that city, attesting to the pop
ularity of the desceased and the sym
pathy of the people with his family.
Mr. Hastings was one of the pioneer
newspaper men of Nebraska und a
stuunoh supporter of all that was up
right. He has sufToreifgreutly In his
fatal ailment, which, months before
his death was known to be incurable.
1'rltluy, December I .
George Cole, a seventcen-ycar-ohl
hoy, living near Albion, met, with a
distressing accident. He had climbed
up the elevator of a corn Midler for
the purpose of oiling u part of the
machinery, when he slipped und fell
into tho sheller. Roth legs were broken
and cut und ho is in u very critical
condition.
A Plulnvlcw, Neb., November .".0 spe
clul says: A man named .lames Rogers,
on the Pacific Short Line passenger
train going east, committed suicide
just before the train reached Plulnvlcw
today. He was in charge of Sheriff E.
M. Sweeney and a deputy, under sen
tence for horsestealing and was en
route to the Sioux Fulls, S I)., peni
tentiary, having been convicted at
Hell Fourchc. He cut his throat with
a penknife nnd expired In u few mo
ments. At a recent meeting of the Wisner
town board a printing bill which hud
been allowed ut tho legal rate of SI
per square first Insertion, was, on tho
advice of Editor Kenower, of tho Wis
ner Cljronlcle, icconsldercd und cut
down to 2ft cents. In his defense- of
the action of the board In lust week's
ibsue. ot'tjio Chronicle, Editor Kenower,
state regent und reformer, admits that
he charged the village of Wisner from
January 1, 1887, to January 1, 1600, SI
per square first Insertion, for publish
ing ordinances, etc., but finding that
he hadj.ignorantly been charging 7ft
cento per square too much, had only
charged 25 cents straight since that
time.
A pension of 530 a month bus been
grunted to thu widow of Cartain
Nichols, who died in Manila bay us a
rcbult of overheating himself during
action against the insurgents.
Excited by liquor and enraged by
the flight of his wife to the home of
her parents, Charles Lamb, :i black
smith employed by the Illinois steel
company, Chicago, shot und killed his
father-lndaw, Churlcb Nurbcrt.
Mclvln L. Fuller, who ran the Alus
ku Commercial und Mining Company,
was held to tho federal grand jupry at
Chicago on the charge of using tho
mulls to defraud. Ho is charged with
duping relatives of dead persons.
The funeral of c-Soiiutr Thomas
V. Tipton of Nebraska took place In
Washington Thanksgiving afteino.ui
from his late residence. Interment
was made In Rock Creek cemetery.
Siilurilny, December U,
A movement for the raising of funds
for a memorial orphan asylum for Cu
ban children which shall bear the name
of Mrs. Thurston, the first wife of Sen
ator John M, Thurston and who died
bluntly after a trip she made Cuba,
was started In the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian chinch, New York, under
the auspices of tho Thurston Memorial
association.
The light In the township of Monroe
over the question of Incorporation is
waging bitterly. On December 20 It
will be carried Into the courts. Al
beit t Reeder being the attorneys to
handle the easu for the petitioners,
and Whltmeyer ,t Goiulrlng for the
faction opposed to incorporation. The
two lne.il papers of Monroe, tho Re
publican and the Looking Glass, are
arrayed for and against Incorporation,
respectively, anil It Is In a measure- duo
to this, us well us personal animosity
to Editor Gerard on account of his
prohibition pulley, that tho olltce of
the Looking Glass w;u broken into
aud wrecked lust week.
Harry Trumbull killed a highway
man In South Omaha. Trumbull was
on his way home. Passing Twenty
fourth and J street, South Oiunlui, near
u vacant lot, two men sprang out and
grabbed him. One threw his arm
around Trumbull's neck, seeking to
throttle him, while the other masked
inun started to rlllo the victims pockets.
Having his hand on his revolver In his
overcoat pocket, he shot one of thu
robbers dead, while the other escaped.
Trumbull went to the police station
where he Is detained. He Is collector
for the Packer's National haul:. The
dead man Is unknown and Is about
twenty-two years old.
Motulny, December -1.
The Gordon hospltul, located ut Chad
ron, Is building a home of Its own. Dr.
Luugson has bought one of tho finest
homes of the city und Is erecting the
hospital In connection with It.
A school enumerator In Custer coun
ty found one family with twenty-one
children, eighteen of whom were of
school uge. Custer Is a very huge
county and little thing. should not bo
looked for.
Jim Cody a llentrtce taxidermist Is
mounting u wildcat which was killed
a few days ago on the old Chautauqua
grounds ut Crete by A. Vivvru, the
owner of tho land. The cat Is us large
uhji mountain lion. While at work on
the grounds the other day, Vnvni had
his attention called to a spot where
his dogs were barking furiously at tho
foot of u tree. Tho cat wus In the
limbs with its head extended through
a fori;. Ho secured a gun and shot It
in the head.
Congressman Rurkett of the First
Nebraska district has got down to ac
tive work at Washington, his first
move being to arrange for a full set of
public documents for the city library
of Lincoln. In this he has hud splen
did success nnd the library will liuve
the best collection of this sort in the
west. Mr. Jlurkctt ulso visited the
pension departments and arranged to
go over the claims emanating from his
district In order to be able to hurry up
all tho worthy ones. IIu Is already
looked upon as one of thu most active
of the new members.
Turnluy, December ft.
A telephone message received just at
the moment of go'hig to press, states,
that Senator llayward died utit o'clock,
this, Tuesday morning. Tho members
of his family were at his bedside when
the end came.
The Spanish consul ut Manila an
nounces that Klft Spanish prisoners
have been released by the Filipino?.
Robbers broke Into the harness store
of Thco Flgge In Chadron and carried
away some flue rifles, six shooters und
other valuables.
Tho month of November held up Its
remarkable record to the last, aud now
has the distinction of going down on
tho records as the warmest November
since the university weather station
was established. The mean tempera
ture was 4(5.0 degrees, which is 0 de
grees above tho normal. In 1882 tho
mean was 43, In 1800 It was 41 and In
1803 It was 40. The prcclpltutlon was
.ftS inches, which Is .1ft Inches below
the normal. Eleven months of the
year 1800 show an average dally excess
of temperature of 1 undun accumulated
deficiency of 4.03 inches in the pre
clultution.
In the district court of Luncaster
county, tho case wherein the officers of
the Home for tho Fricndlcs seek to
compel Secretary of- Stute Porter to
approve their clolm for reimbursement
of their trust fund was argued. Tho
Foclety claims. that while it was resist
ing the operation of tho law placing
the home in thu hands of the stute it
expended several thousand dollars be
longing to u trust fund which had been
given It for the support of indigent
chllden und old people. It presented n
claim of tho statu olllcers for reim
bursement and 'tho secretary of stut5
declined to approve it. Tho society
officers appealed to tho district court
for a writ of mandamus to compel him
to do this.
At a mass meeting held in Kountze
Memorial church ut Omaha Sunday
resolution! were udoptcd In favor of
unseating Congressman-elect Roberts
of Utah.
Clarence II. Douglas, u newspaper
correspondent, charged with killing
Editor James Williams at Ardmoro in
June, 1807, has been found not guilty
tiudilibsharged at Purccll, I. T. His
pica was Bolf-defenso.
Archbishop Chappello leaves New
Orleans for San Francisco, where he
will embark for 'Manila to take up his
new duties in thu Phllinnlncs.
(ttlOAVTHOlUUIIROAl)
UNITED STATES LEADS ALL
OTHEn COUNTRIES.
Cltllltntlon Follow the I.,iromnllTO nmt
Vint Wildernesses Are, TrnnWormeil
Into lrilcni, Village mid Cities
by Id Influence.
At tho recent International Com
mercial CongrcsB, held In Philadelphia,
George H. Daniels, general passenger
ngent of tho New York Central and
Hudson River railroad nnd president
of tho American Association of Gen
eral Passenger Agents, delivered n
notable address on our railroads aud
their relation to commercial, Indus
trial nnd acrlcultur.il Interests. Among
other tiling ho said:
"Ono of our great vrltcr8 hart paid
of this closing period of tho nineteenth
century, that It Is an ago of transpor
tation. Transportation underlies ma
terial prosperity In every department
of commerce. Without transportation
conimorcc would bo Impossible Thoso
HlntOB nnd nations tiro rich, powerful
and enlightened whoso transportation
facilities nro best and most extended.
Tho dying nations nro thoso with little
or no transportation facilities.
"In this connection It will bo Inter
esting to noto In passing that tho sec
ond American loconintivo was built nt
tho West Point foundry, nenr Cold
Sprlug, on tho Hudson river, nnd was
cnllcd tho "Heat Friend," nnd from
that day to thin tho loromotlvo lias
been ono of tho best friends of this
republic. Rut It Is not alone our loco
motives that hnvo nttractcd tho at
tention of foreigners who hnvo visited
our Bhorcs, our railway equipment gen
erally has commanded admiration and
Is now receiving tho highest compli
ment, namely, Imitation by many of
our Bister nntlonn.
"Prlnco Michel Hllkoff, Imperial
minister of railways of llunsla, has
since his visit to tho United States a
fow years ngo, constructed n train on
much the sumo lines nu tho "Limited
Trains" of tho New York Central nnd
tho Pennsylvania.
"At times there hnvo been periods
of legislation In tho United States ad
verse to the great transportation In
terests of tho country, almost Invari
ably tho result of a misunderstanding
of tho real situation, nnd tho hasty
legislation of such times Iiob usually
been repealed upon the sober second
thought of tho people, for In tho Ian
gunge of our great Lincoln: 'You can
fool all the pcoplo some of tho tlmo,
somo of tho pcoplo all tho tlmo, but
you can't fool all tbo people nil tho
time.'
"Ono hundred years ngo tho gov
ernor of tho great state of New York
advised his friends not to Invest tholr
money or wnsto their tlmo In nldlng
tho building of railroads, expressing
tho opinion, that while It was possible
thut Improved methods of construction
and perfected machinery might, In tho
remote future, cnnblo tho pcoplo to
movo a car upon a railroad at tho rate
of flvo or six miles por hour, he did not
believe that they could ever bo iniulo
of material ndvantago, and that any
attempt to transport passengers nnd
freight by railroad, from ono part of
the country to another, must result In
endless confusion ami Ions. Tho gov
ernor died In tho belief that the cunal
was tho only means of convcyunco fur
a great commerce.
"Notwithstanding 1Mb picdlctlon, tho
railroads have grown to such vast pro
portions, that today tho world's cntlro
stock of monoy, gold, silver and papor,
would not purchaso one-third of Its
rullronds. The building of tho Erie
canal, extending from Buffalo to Al
bany, u distance of 363 miles, was
commenced July 4, 1817. It was com
pleted In 1825 nt n cost of 7,G02,000.
In 1890 tho stato of Now York appro
priated 19,000,000 for enlarging and
Improving this cunal, and n few figures
from the stato report on canals may bo
of Interest In this connection: Ro
llahlo statistics of Kb traffic are not
obtaluablo for tho earlier years of Its
opcrntlon, but In nccordanco with tho
last annual report of tho superintend
ent of public works of tho stato of New
York, wo find thnt the tonnago of all
tho property carried on nil tho canals
In both directions, In 1837, was 1,171,
296 tons, valued at 155,809,288. Tho
tonnago and the vulue increased until
1872, when It amounted to 6,073,370
tons, valued nt 1220,013,321. From
1872, the tonnage and tho vnluo of the
property carried decreased, until In
1897 there was only 3,617,804 tons car
ried, with a valuo of 196,063,338. This,
In face of tho fact that the receipts of
grain nnd flour nt Buffalo had In
creased from 1,184,685 bushels In 1837
to 242,140,306 bushels In 189J.
"In .1875 the states east of tbc Mis
souri river wero sending food and
clothing to tho starving people of Kan
sas. Thanks to the facilities afforded
by the railroads tho com crop of Kan
sas this year Is three hundred and
forty million bushels,, It seems but a
very few years since I mnde my first
trip to Colorado, and stopped on ray
(1way at the home of Buffalo BUI, at
North Platte, Neb., on the Union Pa
cific. At Ogatalla, Jifty-ono. miles
west of North Platte, tbo Sioux In
diana wero. roumlng over the prairies
nnd making .moro or lets trouble for
the early settlers who ventured so far
out of the beaten paths of civilization.
Tho Nebraska corn crop this year cov
ers eight million acres, and tbe yield
Is two. hundred and ninety million
bushels. Previous to tho construc
tion of the' Northern Pacific, the Great
N.orthorp! Trthwc WrnVCPauI, Bur
lington, and bther lailwa'ys thattrav
erse, that wonderfut region known "aB
the, 'wheat belt,' t)ere'' was. nothing tpo
bo sect! but prairie grass and an occa
sional band of untamed savages.
Minnesota this year will ship ninety
million busheln of whct, South Da
kota forty-fivo million bushels, North
Dakota sixtyflvo million bushels and
Montana four million bushels.
"In 1819 there enmo nrroas tho con
tinent reports of the discovery of gold
In California, hut tho only means of
reaching Its Golden Gate was by nea
around Capo Horn, or tho long und
perilous Journey, with ox tenuis, ncross
tho plains, Including what was then
styled In our geographies tho Amerl
enn denort, nnd through tho hnz.irdous
mountnln pauses of the western part
of tho continent.
"Tho completion of tho Pacific mil
roads changed nil this, nnd opened now
fields for all kinds of enterprises, In
an unexplored territory stretching over
moro than two thousand miles to tho
west, northwest nnd BouthwcMt of Iho
Mississippi river, tho products of which
region wero prnctlcnlly valueless until
tho means of transporting thorn wero
provided by tho railroads.
"Tho wheat crop of California this
year Is 37,009,000 bushels. The largest
crop ever produced In California was
In 1&S0, when owing to exceptionally
favorable weather conditions that statu
produced 63,000,000 bushels, Thp sold
output or California for tbe year 1893
Is estimated nt 116,000,000. Tho vino
ynrds nnd urnngo groves of California
would bo of prnctlcnlly little yulup
were It not for tho fact that Iho rail
roads, by their trains of refrigerator
aud ventilated fruit cars, make It porf
nlblo to transport tho products of her
fertile valleys to all sections of tho
country. It seems but yesterday that
tho railroads wero completed into
Portland, Oregon, Taconm and Seattle,
Washington, and It 1b marvelous (hat
for tho year ended Juno 30, 1899, .thcro
was exported from tho Columbia River
valley 16,000,000 bushnlb 'of w'heni nnd
from tbo Pugot Baund region, 10,000,
000 bushels. Oregon and Washington
form the northwest corner .of the ter
ritory of tbq United Statea. south of
tho lino of British Columbia, nnd nro
directly on the route to our cxtrcmo
northwest possession, Alpskn, Tho
wheat crop of tho states of Oregon nnd
Washington for tbe year 1899 lu 48,
600,000 bushels. Thcro was exported
during the year snJcd Juno 30, 1899,
from tho Columbia river direct to for
eign ports, 1,100,000 barrels of Hour,
and from Puget Bound points 800,000
barrels. Colorado, which, with Its ln
cxhaiiBtlhlo mines of gold, silver, load,
Iron and coal, farms almost nn em
pire In itself, will produce this year of
1899 of gold, 124,000,000; of silver, $14,
200,000; of lead, .14,400,000, In addition
to n magnificent crop of wheat, fruit,
and vegetables, Thanks to her rail
road facilities Montana Is today tbo
richest mineral region of Its size in
the world, The latest published sta
tistics those of 1897 give tho mineral
output of Montana as $54,000,000.
Without railroads, Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota. North and South Dakota,
Montana, Colorado, California, Oregon
nnd Washington would still bo tbo
homo of savages.
"Our passenger Eervlro Is the finest
on earth. In tho United States last
year tho first-class rates averaged 2.98
cents per mile, nlthough on somo largo
railways tbo averngo was several mills
Ices than two cents per mile; in Eng
land tho first-class faro Is four cents
per mile; third-class fare for vastly In
ferior service Is two cents per nillo,
but only on ccrtnln parliamentary
trains.
"in Prussia, tho fare Is three rents
per mllo; In Austria, 3.05 cents per
mile, and In France, 3.30 ccntu pur
mile.
"Our passenger cars excel tbOEo of
foreign countries In nil that goes to
mako up tho comfort and convenience
of u journoy. Our sleeping and parlor
car system In vastly superior (o theirs;
our hnggago system Is infinitely bet
ter than theirs nnd nrranged upon a
much moro liberal basis, Arncrlcan
railroads carry 150 pounds of baggage
frco, while the German rallronda carry
only 55 pounds frco. Tho lighting of
our trains Is superb, while tbe light
ing of trains on most foreign lines is
wretched."
Wfmt film Mutt Know.
In n little book of social chatter,
comment and advlco, which can hardly
bo called a book of etiquette, says Iho
Now York Commercial Advertiser, but
contains mnny sly reproaches and ad
monitions to thoso who consider tbcni
solves "tho elect," Iho author says oS
tho modern girl: "Whal abbu ac
complishments? Well, thank goodness,
the piano Is going out of fashion for
girls In tbo best circles. They" ufo
flight Just enough of j to" letfBem
find' out, whether or not, , they hyp a
trislo for jt; if not, It Is given "up, to
tho great easement of humnnltyv in
tbo 8arho way drawing am) painting
are no longer considered Indlspcasablo
to tho equipment of a girl llvliip bor
illf. t Her chief accomplishments are
'waking nnd tennis playing; To speak
,Frcncb Is not exactly; regarded 'as. an
accomplishment nowadays any inoro
ttban. glovps afe considered luxury,
Fluent French has become a necessity
Jn soclaj life of any status." ,
., An Actlva Yoongftcr. .jj
aT(bo moment that, a yqung-crpijoiHIa
threats, Us. shell it is io al) intents and
llurp'oseVas 'active as at any tlsaa kir
Ing. Jtrilfe. 'It will make stralgfcMfor
Iho Water, even if Jj be 'ouUof Qbfrfnt
andtfgWod distance, off, arid, JtVllpur
suo'lts pray with eagorneus.nnd ugljlty
during tho first hour of Its free exist '
once. '
Evidently Ur.
"Weary Wlllio He enyBhciwaawco
nn actor and got fifty a',,wecktoflyer
bellovo it? Frosted Feeter-NaWtjf 'if
he'd ever been nn actor fae'OjMVflfnajd
ho got two hundred and flftjriiicf--Puck.
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