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WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Increase of War Veterans Drawing Pensions— WITHIN TIME FIXED. lililí III II I II If II I I If I Report of Comptroller of Currency. In speaking on the work of the pen- Scventccn Persons Burned In 1 sion bureau in the 11 months of the current fiscal year, Commissioner Tenement House. Evans said the other day the number 1 of names added to the pension roll STARTED BY EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS during that period was 43,399. All the Philippine Volunteer» Will Be Home Some Time This Month. The temptation to go to the highest portion of the roost is too strongly in* bred in the fowls to resist and they will invariably manage to get to the top. Then, in their haste to get down they fall, head over heels, having no means of protection. 1 have seen fowls at tempt to fly from a perch fully ten feet from the grouud. invariably with tbs same results. The feuce can always lie built high enough to keep them in the yard and, aside from all injury the clipping does, their beauty is so marred that one should refrain from such unnecessary mutilation. A fence four feet high will keep the Leghorns at home. The cost of wire is so moderate that every one may easily provide a good fence for the yards without resorting to any cut ting of wings. \ San Francisco, June 21.—It is ex pected that all the volunteers, num About $127,000. bering 7,500 men, will arrive from Manila before June 26. The transport Aztec arrived yester BLOW WILL BE ONLY A TEMPORARY ONE day after a run of 32 days from Ma nila and 24 days from Nagasaki. She Uncle Sam is indebted to the state Many Were Stunned and Then Suffocated— brought company H, of the Forty- Fire Department had a Hard Fight with the Water Before Fee tins. ! of Illinois to the amount of $98,797 for second regiment. United States volun We have often seen the advice in Several Firemen Badly Injured by Flames, Owing to the Hose Being I equipping volunteers who served dur teers, about 140 discharged soldiers some of the agricultural columns to Falling of Burning Debris. Filled With Ice. ing the Spanish war. The total and civilian employes and five cabin feed the horse before watering him, amount of the claim was $530,745, of passengers. There are 62 men in but we never iiad good success in con Port Townsend, June 19. — The which $431,948 has been paid. New York, June 24.— Seventeen Company H, of the Forty-second. The vincing one when he came in from a steamer Nome City, the first of the amounts due the states of the middle persons are believed to have been The Thomas, with part of the drive or a day's work that he should Nome fleet, arrived last evening, West are: Indiana, $123,020, out of a killed and a number injured today Thirty-eighth and Forty-ninth regi wait for a drink until after he had direct from Cape Nome, having sailed total of $274,639; Iowa, $56,055, out as the result of a fire following an ments, and all of the Forty-seventh, eaten. We never tried very hard be for Puget sound June 8. j of a total of $147.64-1; Kansas, $1,106, explosion among a quantity of fire is expected tomorrow. The Ohio, cause we thought he knew better than 1 he Hr» Loose. Nome was subjected to a most out of a total of $37,787; Michigan, works in the store of Abraham M. with the Forty-second infantry, the writers of such paragraphs whether The new pest, the destructive pea disastrous fire May 25. The blaze $122,852, out of a total of $474,335; Rittenberg, at Paterson, N. J. The should get in Sunday. The Buford, he was more thirsty than hungry or started in a building at the corner of Minnesota, $148,207, out of a total of store was on the ground floor of a I according to her captain’s calcula not, and we know tliat while a glass of aphis, has in the last two years inflict Stedman avenue and First street, and $189,399; Nebraska, $2,828, out of a tenement buliding,. The cause of tions, should get here with the Forty- water tasted good before a meal we did ed enormous losses In various regions where peas are soon leaped across to the old Court total of $35,836; Wisconsin, $11,511, the explosion is not known, and the first infantry on the 24th inst. The not care for it after we were through grown for canner building. Later other large buildings out of a total of $127,040. proparty loss will not exceed $35.000. Logan, with part of the Thirty eating unless the food was too salt. ies, as Maryland. caught. The fire department exper The building in which the fire oc eighth, Forty-third and Forty-fourth, Now we have a report of an English Delaware, New Jer All the reports called for by the curred was a frame tenement four and the Grant, with the Forty-eighth experiment In which one horse was ienced great difficulty in fighting the I sey, New York and flames, owing to the hose being filled comptroller of currency dealing with stories high, with stores on the and part of the Forty-ninth infantry, given four quarts of oats, and then al with ice. The crowds aided mater the condition of national banks at ground floor. The middle store was are all scheduled to arrive on the 25th lowed to drink. Soon after he was ths raa t-ousz. Connecticut. Mich ially in preventing the spread of the the close of business April 24 are in, occupied bv Rittenberg. Ten fami inst., while the Kirkpatrick, with killed, and scarcely one quart of the igan and Wisconsin also have suffered fire to other buildings, the flames and the showing is held by treasury lies occupied flats in the building. So part of the Thirty-eighth, Forty- oats was found floating In the water from It. Some of the scientists claim being extinguished as the buildings officials to be a remarkable one, far in great was the force of the explosion third and Forty-fourth, will probably In the stomach, while three quarts had that It Is naturally more an enemy of on fire were consumed. Judge T. P. excess of anything of the kind in that a boy playing in the street half arrive on the next day. been washed Into the Intestines, entire clover than of peas. An encouraging There is a total of 4064 a block away was lifted from his feet ! The Pennsylvania, which arrived ly undigested. Another horse was wa feature noted In Ctnada Is that wher Ryan and his wife barely escaped with history. their lives, losing all they possessed banks; at the close of business April and hurled against an iron fence, one from Manila a few days ago, was re tered before giving him the oats, and ever the aphis occurred It was attacked in the way of furniture and clothing. 26, 1900, there were 3,631. Total of his legs being broken, A trolley leased by the government today. It killed after the same lapse of time. All by parasitic enemies, the most vigorous The total losses are placed at 126,500. resources are $5,630,794,367 ; in 1900, car was directly in front of the build is understood that she will make a I lie oats were found In the stomach, of these belug the small orange larvae Business has been resumed atid the $4,811,956,048. Total individual de ing when the explosion occurred. trip to Nome. tud the work of digestion was already of a species of dlplosls—minute mag effects of the fire are not expected to posits $2.893.665,449; in 1900 they The burst of flame out into the Btreet setting In. This may In part account gots—which suck the juice out of ths result in more than a temporary blow were $2,449,212,656. Loans and dis scorched the sides of the car and TORPEDOES MUST GO. for the fact w'e have long known, and body of the aphis. The "brush and cul counts are $2,911,526,276; in 1900, singed the hair of the passengers. to the prosperity of the town. sometimes alluded to, that the grain for tivator” method of lighting the pea Surplus funds and A number of those who were on the They Will Not Hereafter Be Carried by United a working or fattening animal seems louse Is accepted as the most generally (The Nome City managed to find an $2,566,034,990. open channel in the ice a considerable undivided profits amount to $416,- upper floors of the building when to do much more good when the larger effective. For this It Is necessary that States Cruisers. distance west of the usual course 017,134; in 1900 they were $383,757,- the explosion took place were either part of It Is given at the night feeding. the peas be planted In rows, and when ________ stunned and then burned to death, or taken by vessels sailing for that place, 200. Washington, June 21.—The navy When we fed grain to our milch cows the insects are noticed the vines are and succeeded in getting within a few Orders have been issued by the war found escape cut oft' and were suffo department has concluded that tor In summer we gave it only at night, brushed backward and forward with a miles of Nome. She discharged her department for the laying up of the cated. After the first explosion there pedoes do not properly belong on and we thought It better, because they good pine switch in front of a cultiva cargo on the ice, and alscr landed her army transports now engaged between was a succession of smaller ones, and cruisers, and should not be carried by digested it better while at rest; but it tor drawn by a single horse. In this passengers. Just as everything was New York and West Indian ports. then came a second big explosion, those vessels. This decision was mny have been bo for no other reason manner the plant lice are covered up safely taken to the mainland the ice The secretary of war reached a decis which was muffled and deadened, and reached with regard to a number of than that we watered before feeding as soon as they fall to the ground, and broke, and the steamer had a hard ion some time ago to place these ves probably occurred in the cellar. cruisers which were recently designed, a large proportion of them arc destroy Every window seemed to be emit as well as others which are under at night and after feeding in the morn ed. Peas sown late or on poor ground time in working her way back to the sels out of commission and abolish ing. When the hay or cut corn fodder open sea. Before the ice broke, how the transport line between this coun ting flames within a minute after the course of construction, and changes was wet a little and the ground grain sustain most damage. The pea aphis Is ever, 10 passengers, six women and try, Cuba and Porto Rico. It was first explosion. A woman with her in the original plans will be made mixed with It, ns In winter, probably shown In the sketch many times en four men, succeeded in boarding her. the original intention of the depart clothing on fire leaped out of one ol accordingly. It is held that the ex larged. The steam schooner Jeanie was the ment to dispose of these vessels at the windows and fell to the yard be perience of several cruisers during the it made less difference.—American Cul tivator. Molasse» from Melons. first vessel to reach Nome this year, auction, but General Bird finally low. Her dead body was dragged out Spanish war clearly demonstrated the D. Hanz, a farmer of Georgia, has l umpy Jaw. as well as last season. She had land prevailed upon the secretary of war of reach of the flames, but the flesh inadvisability of carrying these in ed her freight and passengers before not to sell them, but to keep them was roasted and dropped from the struments of warfare on such large The malady commonly known as discovered a new source of molasses lumpy jaw Is caused by a fungous in the Georglh melon patch. According bones. Some of the occupants of the ships. the Nome City arrived. Although for use in case of emergency. rooms dropped from the windows and she started on her return voyage three In some instances the torpedoes germ, writes a stockman. It makes to his experlineuts and calculations. days ahead of the Nome City, she is The United States, through the were bruised. Others hung from the were launched through tubes just Its growth on weeds and grass of low 270 melons will make thirty gallons of still on her way down. The captain state department, has politely de windows until the firemen came, and above the waterline, bow and stern ; land, taking the form of mildew, which syrup worth $15. The melons for mar of the Nome City says it was a streak clined a request made by Russia and 20 persons were taken down in this in others the tubes were submerged. grows up In spores tilled with number ket would be worth $5 or $6. This is of good luck that his vessel and the France that this government join way through the fire and smoke by On the new cruisers referred to these less seeds. These are taken into the Important, if true, and It may be true. Jeanie got in when they did, and ex with the other powers in guaranteeing the firemen, while others dropped tultes will be omitted, except on those animal's mouth with grass and food The value of melon molasses must de presses his opinion that no other ves a loan of $337,000,000 for China so into life nets. of the Maine class. The determina and there commence their deadly work. pend on Its quality. It may be practi While the rescues were going on the tion to do away with torpedoes on the Animals are most readily infected cally worthless. If the sweet of the sel will reach Nome before the latter that epmire may proceed to pay the part of this month, as the ice had indemntiies settled upon by the seve firemen were fighting the flames. cruisers will, of course, leave more with these germs when cutting their melon can be granulated to produce broken in many places and was rapid ral powers without loss of time. The Captain Allen led with a hose line in room aboard ship, which can be put teeth, the fungi getting into the in sugar, melon sugar may be worth at ly closing in on the open channel. amount due the United States govern an effort to keep the fire from the to some other use. It will also leave flamed tissue and thence Into the blood. tention, but the sweet of melon Juice upper floors, where it was said many free a certain number of officers and They start an abscess, not necessarily Is so diluted that It Is not likely to com He had a harder time getting out ment is approximately $25,000,000. were penned in. The men had hardly men assigned to torpedo duty, who in the jaw, but generally there. Pus pete with the sugar beet. The sources than he had to go in. His vessel bears evidence of this fact, as her An enormous map of the world has taken their positions and began on can be used to better advantage in forms .and discharges, drops on Jhe of sugar are many. In the North the sides are scraped and slivered from been placed in what is known as the the sidewalk to throw water into the some other way. grass or food eaten by others of the sugar maple Is an unfailing source, al contact with ice. i war room of the White House. It upper floors when, without any warn Perhaps one of the most material herd and, being full of germs, spreads though greately neglected. If the waste Passengers report that Nome during was prepared by the coast and geo ing, the whole upper part of the advantages gained, however, is this the disease from one to another. After lands on every farm were planted with the winter was well provided with detic survey, and contains all geo I building above them sagged outward extra space. Time and again con the pasture has been affected with sugar maples, or even seeded, and kept provisions. There was little sick graphical information of a general and fell. The captain and two of his tractors who have undertaken to build these germs it should be plowed and free from cattle. In due time the owner ness, and the weather was good, with character. It also shows the loca men were buried under the blazing cruisers have complained of the lack cropped for two or three years. These would have good timber trees and a the exception of one or two severe tion of all the ocean cables in the i debris. One of the men is badly of space for the engnies which must germs can be killed In the animal's never-falling source of revenue in The building in which the be erected in the ships. It is believed t>ody by a careful treatment of storms. maple sugar. The price of that article world, all coaling stations, and all hurt. The Nome City remained here just docks where ships may be repaired. explosion occurred was destroyed. that if the space vacated by the tor drams of Iodide of potash for a 1,000 Is high enough to warrant farmers In long enough to pass United States Every foot of te/ritory, including pedoes can be turned, over to the pound animal, once a day for four setting maple groves.—Twentieth Cen IRRIGATION DISCUSSED. quarantine inspection and then pro even the smallest island, is marked engine rooms, tl is source of annoy days, then twice a day for four days tury Farmer. ceeded up Puget sound. so as to indicate the sovereignty to Engineers, Senators and Representatives li ance will be obviated. That, at least, and then once a day for four days. The Wee'ler. is the opinion of several large con Ile«t one week, and then repeat treat which it is subject. Cheyenne. A writer In the Practical Farmer tractors who are now building cruisers ment. Keep the animal In the barn DEATH OF PINGREE. says that one of the best farmers In Cheyenne, Wyo., June 22.—State for the navy. With a view to controlling the im all the time, and give iodide of potash Minnesota recently declared at his boms engineers and representatives and sen In the drinking watet. The above rem Institute that the weeder had been Ex-Governor of Michigan Passed Away In migration which has been coming to OKLAHOMA LAND OPENING. this country in violation of law Com ators from Western states met in edy will exterminate the disease, but worth $1,000 to bltn during the last ten London. Cheyenne yesterday to discuss irriga missioner General Powderly is in If the jawbone has become honey London, June 19.— Ex-Governor favor of designating exclusive ports of tion, government aid and the best Ont Hundred Thousand Prospective Settler» combed and the teeth loose In the jaw years. It bad enabled him to take bet ter care of his crops, at less expense methods of reclaiming arid lands. Hazen 8. Pingree, of Michigan, died entry along the Canadian and Mexi It will not take away the lump. All for labor. He told how he and the Are Walting to Get In. State Engineer Fred Bond, ol here last night at 11:35. His son was can borders for the admission ol cattle having the disease should be hired man would run the cultivators In Wyoming, presided over the engi Washington, June 21.—Ex-Gover the only one present at the time. aliens from over the border. neers’ meeting, and Hon. H. E. nor Richards, assistant commissioner kept apart from the rest of the herd, corn and potatoes after a rain had The attending doctors left Mr. Pin and the milk from such cows should packed the ground, and after three Vandals in search of relics have dug Burkett, of Lincoln, Neb., was elected of the general land office, today con not be used. gree’s bedside at about 11:15, prom or four hours one of the boys would chairman of the congressional meet ising to return shortly. H. 8. Pin several holes in the mosaic floor di ferred with Secretary Hitchcock, follow after with a weeder and hla Hnndy Huaklna Horse. gree, Jr., who had been watching at rectly in front of the entrance to the ing, George E. Tobey, of Lincoln, Assistant Secretary Ryan and Assist Both meetings ant Attorney General Vandcvanter, In talking about a busking horse, pony, and at night It made the father al his father’s side for four days, and supreme court in thecapitol building. acted as secretary. were more or less informal, but son»« regarding conditions at Kiowa, Co why not make one right? Take the most ashamed—the boy had done so who had not removed his clothes dur-[ President McKinley’s coachman energetic discussions were held, prin manche and Apache and the Wichita wheels off the corn plow and have an much more good than be had. All who ing the time, noticed a sudden change in his father’s condition. He had and footman have new liveries of a cipally on irrigation and the position reservations, in Oklahoma. Mr. axle of gas pipe the length desired; have used weeders have only good to hardly reached the patient’s bedside dark green hue. They wear silk hats of the federal government towards Richards has just returned from that then take two pieces 10 feet long, 1x3, say of them. They will do the best when his father died peacefully with of the latest pattern, without cockades. the same. Resolutions were present country, where he superintended th« for sides, made like a wheelbarrow. work on mellow, clean land. Rubbish out warning and without speaking The new livery is an improvement ed and a plan outlined for action at marking of a county seat and town Then put uprights 4 feet high In a on the surface and stones would Inter It is ship lines. over the old one, which was tan col the next session of congress. Mr. Richards reports slant over the wheels. You can husk fere with their use. Do not be In n one word. understood that Western congressmen that there is no evidence of minerals on one end and pile the fodder on the hurry to get Into the field when It Is Young Pingree has wired to hie ored. ________ and senators will work together on in that counrty. The water supply, wet with dew or rain. Wnlt until the mother and uncle in the United Attorney General Knox has bought ground Is dry, and then you can cul States not to come to London. The the residence of Mrs. George W. , this important question as they never he says, is good. He says everything have before, with the result that the will lie ready for the opening August tivate and hoe fifteen or twenty acres body of the late Mr. Pingree will be Childs on K street. The considera arid West may come in for its share per day. All weeds can be kept In 6. Governor Jennings, of Oklahoma, embalmed and taken to his home. tion is not given, although it is un of government appropriations. check by beginning early and going The diagnosis made by London derstood that Mrs. Childs had pre- who also is here, estimated today that At a joint meeting of engineers and 100,000 people will seek the lands, over the ground every four or five days. specialists of the cancerous affection viously asked $150,000 for the of the intestine, from which Mr. Pin erty. The house is one of the ProP' congressmen last night, an exhaust- although there can be only 13,500 A Terfect I’edintree. gree suffered, left no hope for the pa private residences in the city. finest jve pm Was drafted coveringall points entries. If we were to buy an animal for involved in the irrigation question in tient’s recovery. Toward the end ol | 'other end. I use It for carting fodder breeding purposes we should insist its relation to congress. Owing, his illness Mr. Pingree suffered great Tresties With Southern Republics. from one shock to the other. I have u | m )1 i a perfect pedigree or should re ARE AT WORK AGAIN. however, to the small number of con pain, and weakened rapidly. He was I Washington, June 20.—The time hauled five shocks at once on it. It fuse to pay any fancy price. But what gressmen present, no action was unable to retain nourishment. His allowed by the protocols for the ex Is very handy In winter when feeding constitutes a perfect pedigree? It is mind, however, remained fairly clear., Morrin Bros., of Suttle, Hire Non-Union Ma taken on the engineers’ bill, but a change of ratifications of the reci when the ground Is frozen to wheel not a long line of descent from some fa committee was appointed to call a chinists and Carpenter». meeting in Washington just prior to procity treaty with Nicaragua expiree fodder or straw on.—G. D. Work, In mous animal, nor yet one in which ws Boiler Makers' Strike Ended. on the 20th by limitation. Indica Ohio Farmer. Se.attle, June 18.—Under the pro the meeting of congress. can trace several crosses of ills blood, tions are that this treaty will not be Tacoma, June 20.—The boilermak tection of armed guards, the Moran but we think it is one in which we can Cost of Mast »nt Butter. extended by a supplementary article. ers' strike ended today, and all have Bros.’ Company, metal workers and Windstorm in Kansas, And no ancestor of a grade lower than The same feed which Is required for gone back to work. They were con shipbuilders, yesterday resumd work Independence, Kan., June 24.—A The reciprocity treaty with Ecuador producing one pound of butter will what we are seeking to establish or ceded a nine hour day and recogni in the boiler and machine depart-! strong wind storm that came up this is now before the congress of that perpetuate. Each and every one should tuake two pound« of gain on the steer. be as good or better than Its predeces tion of the union. It is thought the ments of their plant in this city with morning from the south and veered country. The Minnesota Experiment Htatlon sor, and the stock should show indica machinists will be at work before the nonunion mechanics. Twenty non- j later to the southeast, created consid- Order for Smokeless Powder. found that 1(M) pounds of grain mixture tions of improving In each generation. close of the week. union boilermakers and machinists ^rble haVw at Yden^ndence. Trees la . . .... were put to n-nrlz work nr at th.. the Am old ano scale, Washington, June 21.—The ordin with su equal amount of hay and roots With such a pedigree the Increass were uprooted, outbuildings over Postofficea to Be Conaolidated. $3.50 per day for 10 hours work. In turned and small houses and barns ance bureau of the war department is fed to four steers produced 24.19 would never go back If the proper car« Washington, June 20.—The fourth addition the company has 60 non moved from their foundations, The to contract soon for 373,(MM) pounds ol pounds of gain, and an equal amount was given, but would produce better class postoffices of Fremont, Green union carpenters at work. As yet fronts of several business houses and smokeless powder for the seacoast of same food fed to four cows pro results all of the time.—New England Especial attention will lx duced 12.04 pounds of butter. The type Farmer. Lake, Latona and Ross, wtihin the there has been nodemonstration from windows of dwellings were smashed guns. given to the selection of this powder, is not of so much slgnlflcancs with .he city limits of Seattle, will be consoli- the strikers, but the company has in. The roof of the mill building The / pole Crop. df -ed with the Seattle office July 15. secured the services of 20 guards who was partly blown off, a large ice house owing to trouble that has occurred re steer as with the dairy cow, for the That the apple crop Is actually worth University Station will be made a car are ready to patrol the works with unroofed and the Santa Fe depot was cently at 8an Francisco with smoke reason that a steer not of good type rifles at a moments notice. may tie a large feeder and a good di more In cash annually than the wheat less powder of the navky. rier station. damaged. gester and convert all the food taken crop Is a fact. The entire apple crop Deserting Volunteer» Brought Back. over his own maintenance Into gain, for 1900 was 215,000,000 barrels. Thea< Exprtss Clarks Arrested. Aid for Boer Prisoners. Railroad Extension Stopped. while a cow not of the dairy type has at $2 per barrel, would mean $430,- San Francisco, June 20. — Among New York, June 20.—Robert Pen New York, June 24.—An appeal Cheyenne, Wyo., June 21.—Several the alternative of converting food 000,(MM). The wheat crop does not aver the 12 military prisoner« who arrived tcost, C. M. Brown and Thomas Mac- from Manila on the transport Penn-! has been issued for money to buy corps of surveyors in the employ ol either Into milk or gain, and she may age In value much over $3i»0,000,000. Carthy, three clersk employed in a | sylvania are two members of the supplies for the women and children the Burlington railroad who have choose the latter when the owin'.' The meaning of this Is that we have got the world’s market for our fruit ” • — i—*---------- -f I sentence of Transvaal, who have been been working on the line of the pro wants on'y the former. branch of Adams Express Company 1 i Fortieth volunteers under and are exporting nearly 4.(NX).000 bar were arrested today, charged with the five years at hard labor for desertion, gathered in camps as part of the effort posed extension of the Guernsey rels per year. These bring In the Euro Don't Clip the Win««. theft of $7.000 worth of jewelry. The According to soldiers who came back to end the Boer war. Among the theft was discovered by the manager on the Pennsylvania, eight men de- signers of the appeal are some of the branch of the road to Salt Lake have The clipping of wings is, to say the Ilan markets nearer $4 a barrel than of the branch office, who observed Berted from the Fortieth regiment prominent clergymen of this city. been called in, and all work has been east, a cruel practice and often results *2. And still the export trade Is In- that two seals on packages had been while it was stationed in the northern The appeal says that there are 22,000 stopped. It is the impression that n the loss or Injury of our most valu | cressing every year. American fruit tampered with. Investigation dis- p*n of Mindanao during the period men and women in the camps and the company has decided not to con able fowls is the sensible conclusion of has a known worth from Bt. Petersburg s poultry writer in Home and Farm. ' to LlverpooL struct the extension. closed that 12 packages were imssing froa August to Novembei last vear that 318 children died in Mav. Total Losses Are Reported to be