Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-12

cessible to the public, as visitors to Washington often make requests to the admirable to be allowed to see them. and this constant applicatson puts him to inconvenience. The col. lection is valued at sl0O,0
 The Crescent Coal company of Gal, lnp. N. M., has sold all it's properties to the Colorado Fuel and Iron com pany. By this deal the Colorado Fuel and Iron company comes into control of all the mines in the Gallup district, except those operated by Sen ator Clark of Montana, the Caledonia and the Rocky Cliff Coal companies.
 It is probable al the entertainment arranged for Admiral Dewey at Chi cago next month will be given up. Mayor Harrison and many other prom inent Chicagoaas are strongly opposed to carrying the plans for any demon stration in honoc of the admiral any farther. in view of his announcement that he Is d candidate for president.
 Debate on the army appropriation bill has developed that Secretary Of War Root haS faisified the figures on expenditure for the last eighteen monthS. To round numbers about S250. eco o00 has been appropriated to maintain McNinley's poncy of i'm periali,m. Root reported the figures at about SIS, S,0U0,0OO
 A conference Of republican leaders in the senate and house has resulted in an -eers.anding to bring about cary adjournment. The date is to be as near the first of June as may be touad eNpedient. In order to accom- pli,h this purpose iegis!atiln likely to involve protracted debate is to be sidetraczed. Tie appropriation bill will be brought forward, and as soon as reported will be pushed.
 According to tbe final summing up O: the testimony In the Montana sen ',torial bribery ease. Senator Clark's seat cost him just s320,000. That's a large figure. ron the committee's point of view, hut 1t probably doesn't look large 10 Senator Clark. It's about ten days dividends on his copper min ing inve veStEents.
 General Botha, the new Boer com mander-in-chief, has an Irish wife. Miss Emmet, a descendant of the Irish patriot of that name, and the Botha country seat, near the boundary line between the Transvaal and Swaziland, bears traces of refinement. as well as of comfort and luxury, not usually found in Boer homes
 The queen has ordered court gar den party to be held at the vice regal lodge in Dublin this week. For Her Majesty on this occasion the mistress of the robes has ordered an unique gown of Meronac velvet, with designs in shamrocks. and sunshade of Irish silk. The latter is to be ornamcnted with green silk shamrocks, with five of the r-leafed variety at the top.
 A Washington mill has taken an order from the United States govern ment for 500,000 feet of cedar for use at Manila. The first government build. ings were built of fir, but the white ants which infest that country ate 1t with apparent relish, and with so dis astrous effects to the buildings that cedar will be substituted, it being claimed that the ants will not attack cedar.
 A cablegram from Shanghai, of April 5, says: Ominous preparations of the Russian and Japanese war de- partments continue. The Russians are making strenuous efforts to fill Port Arthur with grain even at panic prices, and are importing quantities of wheat from north China. Japan has called out her naval reserves for service during the approaching man. ouevers, when the entire Japanese fleet will be engaged
 Four years ago the reader seldom found the subject of American eX- ports treated in the columns of the Swiss press, but he now finds a quan- tity of very interesting reading on the subject. One can now buy American watches in Berne, although Chaux-de- Ponds, the great Swiss watch center, is not far from that city. One can buy American ham and bacon in Basel and elsewhere, and the Swiss cavalry horse will be found sleeping on American straw.
 Peter Pearson, telegraph operator, of Ponca City, Okla, who runs a monthly paper called the Harmony, claims he has invented system of wireless telegraphy. He says he has communicated with persons distance of 300 miles, and says, further, that when operators understand the sys tom they can communicate 1000 miles as easily as ten. Pearson refuses to explain his methods, but says that ir the May number of his paper he vii