Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

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Fifty-eight thousand dollars worth of
Hawaiian stamps We're burned by the
postal department at Washington.
Thomas r. Jones, a reported crank
of Wilkesbarre, Pa. has applied for
divorce on the ground that his wife has
cold feet.
The oldest active official in the Ger
man empire is a man named Mueller.
at Wittlich. At the age of 1O2 he is still
prison warden.
Thomas C. Harris, negro, is post
master at Live Oak. Fla. The white
citizens are indignant. and propose
lynching as a means of his removal.
The editor of Burkes Peerage. Lon
don. says that he receives more In
quiries about questions of precedence
from the United States than he does
from England
The authorities of the Norwegian
Childrcn's Home, in Chicago. have re-
fused to accept a gift of 800 because
the money was raised by a concert
where there was dancing and where
liquor was sold.
Judge Ray, one of the Ne WORK dele
cation in congress, is said to be able
to smoke more cigars in day than any
other congressman. He never neglectS
an opportunity to smoke.
There are S92 election districts in New
York county. Manhattan and Bronx
Boroughs, and in only thirty-six of them
at last years presidential election was
the total in excess of the established
legal limit of 600
Eearl Roberts will have to pay, in one
way and another, something like $4,000
greater part of this, of course. will be
the cost of the coronet. but the charge
is swelled by fees of all sorts.
No less than 10000 homes are held
free of debt by Southern negroes. They
have been established at average
value of $1AO,000,0O0. The holdings of
personally by the race are probably
worth more than the realty.
Lubbock is about to exercise it's right
as free city to issue a coinage of it's
own. The city arms will take the place
of the kaiser's haed on one face of the
German coins. The last Lubbock coins
We're struck 100 years ago, in 1901.
Edward Conrad. a railroad gateman.
of Alleghaney, Pa. suffered an injury
some years ago. which made it neces-
sary to amputate one of his legs Since
then he has had five accidents, in each
of which his artificial leg was cut off.
Berrien county, Mich, on the record
of 1900 claims to be the greatest peach
growing section in the world. The num-
Der of acres cultivated last year was
4,753, and the total yield of peaches was
992 bushels being more than half
the entire Michigan crop.
Cultvating ordinary honey bees in a
modern apartment house has been ac-
complished in Chicago. One enterprise
ing Individual has found that the bee
keeps just as busy storing away nectar
in home on the third floor as in Il
hollow tree in the woods
Three congressman now in Washing
ton have found it necessary. on account
of the similarity of their names, to hold
a sort of clearing house for their mail
every morning. They are Messrs. Rob-
inson. of Indiana: Robertson, of Louisi-
ana; and Robertson. of Nevada.
An automobile travelling van, an inn
provement on the parlor car has been
ordered for King Leopold of Belgium.
1t will cost 100000 and vii lcontain a
parlor, bed room and a servants
room. 1t will have thirty horse power
engine that can send it along at the
ate of forty-five miles an hour.