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Government Will En- Caurage Farming. ° RANA TS TE ROARS NORTH Bhart Gill Bo Mitte to Asive Grains, Qroanss and Vegetables Uunde Qmrarnment Superwalan W ASHER GOR, Magch t —urm- Ning fe to be attempted on an organ ined, entenvive scale under govern- ment supervision in Alaska. Pftort f to be made to raise grains, grass- es and Vegetation in dintwicts con- UguoUs to the gold flelds, and agnt- tant experts prdnounce the cheme practioable, Nwer since the diseavery of gold in Alka and the great imdux of people, the government haw been in- SUluting Investigations as lo the ad- ricwieurht pomstbétitien of the coun. try, with a view to making it loss ependeat upon o suppites and ving cheaper. results are a murprig® to peopte not thoroughly fa- muliar with Aiatkam conditions. Tae oe mrerontert experiment eatioe, whieh will put Alas on the san footing bq this regmm? as the other states amie teunitories which enjoy this assistance from the mationst meverentnt. ‘Phe sofentiet who m Wikre to Ye mnointed Merector of Cape OXPSRINHOM statfen bt We cotati ed in Peottaiier €. C. Georgrsen, whe ‘Spitot Valet your, im betnet of tee de i fs ni Fie = | teie | : : fi i a3 i 14 i i tk 423 ‘th. f i i i i & i § 3 a 778 Fes i 3 : : ! * i ’ i | if by g i H uN Hi i i i 4} i é i Hil i if ti ae H f ? ie ; i i $3? i i , i i i a nw i 1 z if ri u if] id be utilised for the mainten~ West- Cook's Thiet the timber EE 7 r. Bean Is Utah's Cham- plon Midtite-Ofetgtt. ‘An ordained -ekder and preacher, whe is also @ professional pugilint, ts a rare bird in any region. The only specimen known to exist is the Rev. ; ‘Willard W. Bean, who would like to match with # local middle-weight, ’ . 4 f ' none barred, on any evening, except Sunday. On Sunday night Mr. Kean hes to the Mormon congrega- in Sam Franctaco. In each of his diverse professions Bean excelis. He talks eloquently and puts more persons to sleep by hin punching than by his preaching. Mis discourses are celebrated in the church for their vigor and tnapira~ tion. Bean js a young man with a Mission. He ts the apostle of mus- cullar Mormonism and desiges ta.de- monstrate that piety prize- , fighting can. «co hand in hand and neither be ashamed of the other. He does not believe, with the good Book, that when his enemy smites him on the ieft cheek a Christian should turn the other. Rev. Mr. Pean is of the epinion thas a right and left owing on the enemy's jaw is a wise and pious act, and an exercise of much reltgious merit, This Mormen pugilist is 27 years O14, & feet 9 inches tall, and in the ring weighs 164 pounds. In the pub pit he looks heavier. His victories have been numerous, He kno a out Lawrence Farrell, otherw William Kehoe( in nine rounds. Ke- hoe had@ contracted to jay Bean low | Pwtthin ton@ounds fought a 2-round @raw with Jim | : whom Sharkey defeated, | was Mt pounds heavier | thagnean | | 1 | TH Het wae attended by a num | ber ¥f dignitaries of the Mormon | jehur@, Nean a ao well Mked, @nd | j his Ti n for virtue wa ® hat a committee of Mai clerg¥inen was der ed to reason! }with Am on the inherent and ines dental pviis of pugiliem and to beg him tdipetire from the ring. Bean, who isin persunaaty nan, not only met thr arguments with better, but £a® the committee tlekets ¢ the fgtt, ‘They witnessed — the bloody funda from seats near hin | corner. 5 Rean Wherited his strength trom his fathe§ who is Judge Bean, of the superior qourt of Utah, The Judge | Was a poverful man and an ortho- dox Mortpn, who had three wives | simultane Recentty Mean | VOL) TALE ee | Lovers and. What. Came of It. ee | GEORGE WHITPORD WAS IN LUCK Fashionable, but 2 Man ent into the ball Imberton watt. while aod then room to find ing for hin bis name wan number 1t wae @ long week for Whitford that next one, and there was a huge appointment for him at the a “ When Mra, Lobdell arrived at the Orpheus club, her husbaud wae with her. But Lucius Lobdell wan not one of e reli fellows that thetr pretty wives all to themaelver at dancing parties. upon the cards of ladies as a tter duty and the rushed in among the young folks, fe rin, eapect pon her card for that of He put hin name oT ral mea ally av dancing partners So it war ng before Whit ford had an opportunity to lead Be Patrice Lobdell into the refreshment jor All, ond Se Was room and from there to a Httle nook kyoius Leddott. one of torn sty begot thirty ebildren, aof whom grew to adult | age, The Rev, William W. Bean, the fehter> has no faith in poly- ramy, “nah Kis religious seal is equal to Nigather's. is unmar- ried, withelt vice: nt abstaine from aleoha liquors, tea, coffee and all sti@ulante. Terides hte wioven. “he is a good rt, shot putter, runner kit whet hammer thro’ company. he did funny On@ night at Salt Lake siness in a farce, he fouaht @ limited in @ boxing bout the neat event building. Bean iGan ordained elder of the Mormon Burch and ts t+ censed to preach. Dfe ta a celebrat 6@ and efficient « At present the training Fred Jar great from Visalia to Bgkt poo In San intend to give ex tw fe the larwer « SHORT Hean is a youtntut ho Is matehed j | | i ik ul lf ig i i : iH i i i } i i i i #9582 i : 2 2 3 i “if is ghididté ° tmunbia River Valley propositi tire purpowes of Bring tee O. R. N. to termes, sed fadling tm tit, 0 build a paraitel ine | Nortinwe Pacific a extra cost of hauling the grain over the Cascades. In fact, It might re- sult in considerable portions of the wheat geing over the new line cross. land, and coming thence up the | Northern Pacific Portiand - Tacoma |line to shipment here. ‘The through passengers for Pott- and would be cut off at Walluta, and a train run down to Portland in- stead of hauling passengers through | by way of Tacoma. ‘The country proposed to be trav- ersed by the new line ia rich in agri- cultural products, fruit and live stock, and is the territory through which the Burlington is said to have a preliminary survey \through the Cispus pass and thence over to Ti on practically route surveyed by the Tacoma & Columbia river ratiway, From the Horse Heaven country In Klickitat county the route of the new roag will follow the line sur- veyed for the Portland, Vancouver, and Yakima road, skirting the east side of the mountains and crossing the Columbia to Portiand at Van- couver. DID HE SUCCEST IT? Man Who Claims We Con. ceived Hobsan’s Exploit. NEW YORK, March 2—J. Ester Eékerson, of No. 72 Weat Forty- fifth street, believes that he first suggested the idea of sinking a ver- sel at the mouth of Santiago harbor to prevent the escape of Admiral Cervera’ fleet, Lieut, Hobson has repeatedly denied that he first pro posed the idea of seuttling the Mer- rimae at the entrance to the harbor. He has documents showing he wrote the president concerning the expes dient of sinking @ vessel in Santi- ago harbor, ing the river at Vancouver to Port-| coming up| Luctus Lobdell had married one of the eweetest gitie in the world, but he seemed to lone sight of that fact as socn an he found himectf bound to her for life A geod many things were neces nary two years after ther marriage to keep Me. Lobdetl from finding tite burdensome, AmOR@ these wore four Clubs, seven One horses, which he handled himself at the “entice. men's matiness,” and the Vilege of ‘ng and) coming when he pleased If Beatrice Lobiell grieved be- cause of His neglect, ahe did so in the strloteat secrecy, and succeeded i, retelntog her be@uty through it a It wan whisyered, however, that she didn't care, but t in a great deal of whinpering in pociety that is unwarranted. dell mah thave had ad wonted them. Endeed whe did have them, Dub they bad to admire from a distance until @perge Whit- ‘ford arrived upon the peene Th ted folrted a famhion- able femily club, not Att Mr Lob. dell crped for 1, Dut he wanted hie wife t9 have some where ahe could epjoy he wae not with Mh eee, 10 wae a kin ebtyetemis feho®. in spit the fact thet it Bored him tobe in the ee beaut! 1 young woman he ence bowed a on ae f you must it, na Were ment - 0 eae Leobden bh ante tor tite a Her hus — wey Me ae one Ot drivers | towreao one haww GE fine potrtn wm, was | wane keaemen to walle maltes | Aterenm® etre in order to peign . and he wn a on Gif | mien. Seance aman ver rere off printa, Ld at the and af) a Ming nitty to one eg p=! cot! bod t ine party a | the ‘organs efub, she t George “Whitfogd. Me her and tate! gbout things In which she her out you } you! to the have | of ity in) a “| 7m roany Gt | have ars mame of it'* | ford wae bdeginiine to be known in the world of letters as # nowt and . He was by Boy ps not much of 8 feterite wgA omen. But most wo- | him as tema. a bim earw: | | would have Been hap- I apts “WE {hat eon | more waste. anyway?” he ask- “Suppose we col- a story?” the answered, “that T the outline of & story taterest the world.” something Inher tone wistful that _colpr to her ks. be to ke are ply. but ht saying | “Come, we must not eit here any longer” * | He fot her back to the Bail- room, # they ed thet evening her ry gently. wi is heave nt ata violent pi She ay bis look and said “Good. 4 of niet.” watted for thetr next meeting: boyleh Impatience and when t ning arrived it suddenly to him that she | might not In that case he didn't know he would do. Pur when the Wi pearance she 1 he saw that when he went rd to greet her He managed her avay from crowd. Then he! aske | | “When are ¥ ing to give me | that story you ort’ } ar if ahe were onewered almoat to | She looked at (frightened and a whisper: “INe “Why? “T must not. It be wrong.” | “No story that have to tell | me,” he said, “cou! wrong.” Bhe looked at a calor upon | the wall and anked:) | | “Have you ever ni how that artist failed in hin fang@hortentng?” | ‘Hang that artist!? Whitford ex- | claimed. "You know Yow ré@ not tn- | terested in his picture Say that you will tell me the gory. Do it for my sake. With it now T could | make the world liste | She looked up at him and efter | they had gazed into other's | eyes for a moment she Med: “Well, some 4 3 | “Oh, here you are,’* imed n man to whem Mra, Lo! ad gaged for the next dane, on, they've begun. George Whitford sat alone for a A on. | ‘ome : 4 feord attached to he (ingly nid, “that there tw an fate, and that Iam I believe, such a thing (ene of ite vietima” Yep.” she replied, “I know there ch @ thing am fate, and tt haw ny vietime. “Why did he come this evening?” Whitford axked after they had been silently looking at each other for a while 1 don't know.” she answered, “he pre 2 it himnett” 1 was afraid,” he sald, “that you anked hiln to come,” “No; I never ask him to go any- where with me.” Do you know that I have been thinking out a story during the past few days,” Whi rd said, “whieh, I fancy, munt be very like the one ye have promised to tell me rome t “Mave you?’ she replied, lor away from him and toying wit rd. “Yes: shall I give you the outline et ir let ue walt until some other tel it row,” he “No, urged She looked up at him in a pleading way And said let me “Pleare, not now, I must not hear + you will some time,” “Perhapet” “Whent “Oh, we must wait @ long, lone tim "No, L shall not wait,” he declared “Tt in the story of a man and a wo- man, or a man who was always ar riving too lat of a woman whe war sweet and good and beatiful ower she Interrupted cheeks were ablaze, her ve and abe looked eagerly for a chance to «et heen “No, no: yow must not tell me any more! I~ “Beatrice,” said her hushand be- hind he frm for you.” Bee took bie king they walled away, he looked up at Rim There war an amery frow m hin face, such « jook ar she had seen there since she had been his wife, Her heart beat joyously. She fe't an if phe were bring carried along with him. She krew that he was Jealous As for George Whitford—oh, well he was only a man anyway! Cle JE DIONT PAY “Well.” eetd the hoatens, refiest- fvely, an the caller finished telling about tw Washington birthday par- ty she had given her children, ‘speaking of the cherry tree incl. dent. I wish that I had had the cour- age the other niwht that George dis- played when he faced his father— | * the consequences -on that mem- oecanion ‘Why, you don't mean to say you told ana “ "The caller paused, emBarraserd ‘A lie!” the hoatess aald. untiineh- “Yen, I did, and, oh, the peck o trouble It got me into’ There wan such & genuine note of distress im her voice that the caller respond ed with sudden sympathy “Oh, my dear, they always do get one Into trouble. I know it only too wi ‘ “Then you have told one af some time in your life?’ Receiving an aft- firmative nod, for the caller had just begun to sip her tea, she con- tineed jovfully. “Then T can con- fide my tale of woe to you. Tf you had looked, horrified I should not have told you a word. in the firet place Iam going to responsibility where It be- put longs “It alwaya does belong somewhere else.” the caller interrupted, with comforting emphasis. “Well, In this cane It belongs with the mald and with the fact that 1 didn't have on one of those new sits that are long, you know, alt around.”~ “Of all the combinations! ex- claimed the caller. “Do go on, I'm! dying to hear “For a year or #0," resumed the hostess, “1 have suffered with cold feet, ieularly at night. Not a romantic ailment, T know, but deci- edly uncomfortable. I tried the ol4- fashioned warming pan and the new fashioned hot water bag and cro- cheted bed slipners, but to no pur T bought and wore all brands woo! interlined shoes, all to no pur- pose. Finally | made up my mind that the trouble was with my ner vous ryatem, #o Teansulted that aw. fully expensive nervous spe you know, Dr. Soakem. What you suppose he told me to do? Remedy for Cold Feet. “Goodness! T don't know ‘They nay he gives very queer advice, Did he tell you to wear Indian moceas Simply and merely to barefeoted.” " shrieked the caller. weather?” ‘Only in the house,” the hostess reassured her, “and oniby for an hour or #0 before going to bed. He told me to walk around a good deal, always on the rugs, and to walk with a sliding atep, #0 as to get up as much friction as possible, As T had to pay £100 for thin marvelous advice, I tell you I followed it pret- ty faithfully.” “Did it do you any good?” the cal- ler inquired eagerly. “Indeed it did, I was perfectly amazed at the benefit I got from it. It is wonderful.” “Where does the fib come In? Did Ko "In He had forgotten that | tell the doctor that it hadn't ped went Don't refer to this as a fib, even! | to be poltte, Tt wae barefaced ie No, the dootor had nothing to do | with my fall from grace, Thin ix the, [way it wan | "About Peripatetic treatment an ev ening all to myself, fo TL told the | maid to way that 1 was pot at home jand came into this room, Intending to walk and read f ” thin ie no, | tke the ¢ etter than thoge In my roomy they are softy and more aiiky. I often take my conntitutional in here after 1 come home from a party or dinner Well, Mary asked If she might go the drug store on a #hort ng went off without telling that I was “not at home’ errand ean cook, but she'cannet walt on the door With elther style or discretion 1 dropped upon the @ivan, threw | & cushion on to the floor, snatehed a small aii rog hanging over th couch, back of a chair near the planted my fest on the cushign, and flung the rug over them. I looked up from tucking the rug around the | hion to nee Mr. Blaple coming | through the door "How do you do? 1 beard mynelt say. ‘I'm delighted to see you! Youll! pardon my not rising, Won't yout Yoo see, I'm a bit of an invalid, for Ive sprained my ankle ity can't stand without a great deal of | pain | I'm dure | was as much surprised at thie announce: when | bewan I had what | would say. Of course he was most roliettous, and he would not! wtay all, and, of course, I insisted that he #hould = stay, Then he! wanted to know how such an tremely unfortunate neeldent had happened; was it coming home from the opera where he had seon me last night? for "Yen, Tgiibly reptied, thank the time limit he uncon me, for I might very likely have #aid that it happened two or three days ago. ‘It was as came up the stepa, where, as the ventibule ght had been put out, it was so dark that I didn't see a coat ing of ine on ane of the steps “And so the He grew. It made me think of @ snowball roiling until | became gigantic. 1 was so nerve that | unthinkingty stooped ov began fumeing with the rug, where vpon he asked most courtecusty it he couldn't arrange my rug and cushion for me. I dectined his ser. | vices with auch unnecessary empha sin that I'm afraid he offended At any rate he didn't long, ard when the hervotis strain I had been under culminated in @ good cry That being over I began to see th: humor of the affair, and when my husband came in I was chuckling merrily, After | had warned him that Mr. Black should ask about me in the course of a week he w report a very satiafactory recovery I thought the episode had ended Punishment of Prevarication. “Hut In my exettement 1 had en- tirely furgation a dance that Was to come off the very next night. J Nad been looking forward to this particu lar one for weeks. Im fact 1 had nearly turned my helt @ im think ing of ) wew gown and pettifig it dy in time, ‘The next morning talk about going ? sprained ankles were hardly destrable at dances, that, » Aunt Trafalgar says, ‘they arem oF out of place’ We knew ponitively that Mr Mank would be at this dance. We talked it over and agreed nally thet if | did go T must nor) ance at all, ‘To one who lover cing as T do, this was @ cruel de- etaion, but T stack to it. The goby of my new gown was fomewHat dimmed by tmving to, ait, obt all. the 4 . fae i a ol ppeht mgd apxips [moments ver U ¢ “nut you’ mike ROUT ait tot ‘ot sympathy,” the other paid iiquicthie- ly . ful t " a | dance | Aeen, and tT “Of course, J did. 1 didn't have a half bad timé, though my consclente did hurt me dreadfully. It was sprained instead of my ankle. The . neat day after th® dance I found on my engagement list @ luncheon for that day and a pieture exhibition for the evening, 1 didn’t dare to go to elther for tear of meeting rome of |the people who had sympathized | with me at the dance, Hut the worst disappointments came a week aft | Mra. X., who hae @ lovely, box at “opera thin winter, came tn one aft | noon and was ined to find me entirely recov Why, Td no idea that you could walk yet!’ she lexciaimed. ‘I heard that you had |had a very gevere accident, almont | broken your leg. I so much wanted | you and your husband to use our | box at the opera. night before last, | when we were called out of town, and to invite your own party to fill it. Iwas Just going to send word to you when I heard of your accent, so I gave the box to Mrs. Hrekn.” _ a thing like that!” line erly. “After thin | Job's comforter left L made a reso- lution never to tell another no matter what the provocation “Yet, | wond saidthe caile ahe rose to g f what we say, ‘I will not tell a Me'-pbecaure of the | disagreeable resuite—we take high an ethical stand as George | when he said ‘I cannot tell @ lier” | TARDY MEMORIAL . | |Te the Members of the Iil- Fated Virginius Crew. NEW YORK, March 2.—If Sena. |tor Money has hie way, tary of war will be authoriged to render such tardy recognition as tes in his power to the crew of the American boat Virgintus, who were massacred at Santiaga in 1872. The bill whieh Mr. Money has tn troduc in the United States sen ate provides for the exhuming an turn of t bodies of Capt. Fry and his m who Were so brutally am ears ago. If n, butchered in Cuba it shall be found impossible to iden. tify the graves of there men » ly and unjustifiably slain, th an] appropriately marked w echoes survive of that terrible crime of ‘7%, but the whole worl! a quarter of a century ago was talk ing of the horrible butchery of these Innocent men, and it was thought at the time of the commission of the bloody deed that only a war between the United States and Spain and the extermination of the Spanish army ould wipe out the erime. But thi was no war, “Diplomacy” was used and the murdered men were forgot ten. Some naturalists believe that hares never drink, but Bet enoveh liquid for their needs in t® dew on) the grass they eat, | BOYS... Bright, | Energetic e Ss Between the ages of 12 and 20 to CARRY OUR NEWSPAPER ROUTES. APPLY At? 1107 Third Avenue Corner Spring: posite New Telephone Building The Seattle Star Every Evening Except Sunday Phone Pike iSO ure, who even asked me whether our house war ‘owned, free or mort- gaged.’ And as I returned from ber | 1 saw @ respectable looking woman | who nad just entered the room. She Cleims Me Mas Me Copper: el comparatively pleasant. So Mine Combinations. i stepped itp to her and asked meek- jty WASHTYGTON, March 2—Wm.| “Can you fill the position of enole A. Clark hewly elected senator |!n a family of tour?” ’ from Montana, denies the report | | “si ah oked at og as if ehe'd like t hs wm. |t0 Wither me with one blightt epee a oa idl re glance and said haughtily: ‘I pod “7 am n na: have metthcei ia tfying t fill that of coachman in @ bis, Way, cabuectes with may ans | ee of two. I think you would ver smbing.: said Senator-elect | 40 6s yee Seve eran Sesceenune- Caddy tt cst chow ‘| ations.’ “Youth's Companion. po such thing. 1 not . that the Standard Oll people ac- UNCLE SAM SECURED quired an interest last week In the| Highland Be rich property near Salt Utah), and they may have som mbination in view if no, I do not believe that It has been actually per mine (a ve Lake Ci Central Pacifie Raitread Pays Out $4,762,543. effected yet. Lam mining copper in-| — - dividually, and Rave no desire to| NW YORK, March 2—The set~ tlement of the obligations of the work on any otBer basis. I have just come from a trip of inspection |Central Pacific rattroad company to through the West and Southwest, | (he government has been completed, having visited my sugar manufac. | When United States Treasurer Rob- tory at Lom Angeles, Cal, my coal|¢rts was given the notes of the mine near Gallup, N. M., and copper | Company for $58,812,715. The notes properties in Arizona in which I am | are twenty In number, payable se- interested. I shall remain in Wash. ™i-annually, and are each for $2,- ington only for a day or two. | 940,635, bearing interest at 3 per “Will there be an extra session? I/cent. Internal revenue stamps to hardly think so, as the army bili|/the value of $11,762.54 were affixed seems likely to go through now, and | to the notes. in the only matter that would| Treasurer Roberts said that he be likely to force an extra seasion, | understood four of the notes would The political outlook? Tt is too co be taken up in @ very short time. fused to be worthy of discussion, No| The government holds as security man can tell now what the leading|for the payment of the obligation issue will be in 1900, I don't know it own six per cent. bonds, which whether it will be silver or not. The Were issued in behalf of the con- questions growing out of the war 1 Pacific, and may be more burning than ever. At replaced in a short prerent I do not see how we can by a new series of bonds to follow any other course than thy ar 4 per cent. Interest, which wilt one we are following. We must es-|also be a len on the road. tablish our authority in the Phil- ippines and then let them determine what course is best for the futu It looks as if we had an annoying struction of the Cent these | then will be ‘ANNOYED BY ARTIST military problem on our hands out! :s . there, for the natives are evidently fighters and seem to be well arm | Fresco Painter Is Bothering What do I think of Dewey's re Mrs. Howard Beuld. for reinforcements? In the ab of definite knowledge I do not NPW YORK, March 2.—Mrs, How- to discuss that question. He is not/ard Gould, who was Miss Kathes 7 taking for the Oregon to be sent to| tong to the methods which an im- him. I hardly think, however, that | Pecunious fresco painter has adopt- any foreign nation will venture to/ed t Ni his alleged works of art. : with our control of affairs | has instructed her lawyers to out there at this age of the game.” | take steps to save her from further Although Senat ark Is reputed |annorance and, if possible, to pro- to b f the wealthiest men in j tect other ents of Fifth avenue the U ates, he is still in the |from similar experiences. prime of life. His tawny beard and| Joseph Balle who occupies a hair are but slightly tinged with|hall bedroom in a boarding house gray and his whole bearing is indic- at No. 221 West Twenty-fitth street, R ative of and vir-sjand who admits having ea or,. Ste ight, blue ey from Mrs, Cornelius Vander- eyed, of rath figure, and | bilt, Mrs, John Jacob Astor and oth- has a sharp directness of Jer members of society, is the man that stamps him as from the breezy | who has offended Mrs. Gould west, A multi-millionaire, he keeps Balleys some time in January sent constantly in close touch with each|her by mail a wooden palette, on of his diversified business enterpris- | which a picture of d'Artagnan had es, finding time to fttend to many|been done tn ofl—that is, a paper | details which most men would leave] chromo of Dumas’ hero had been ; to subordinates, pasted upon the wood and smeare@ caniaclabaliclenias over with oil colors sp that it migh Mutually Ungteasant.— {jis !y 0 dim light for anol patees Many are the trials encountered | Mf ; by the unfortunate man who, In time | aq (me eeticn eee teen ae of domestic turmoil, is forced to vise |)" y bg it an intelligence office. “My dear,” said Mr. Roberts, his youthful face flushed with heat and | y ’ | High-grade Phot oh Lite symptoms © firritation in his | Headctareta te kines ee to do the “LT really should prefer poe cooking myself 1 tan goto)" Law Roche that intelligence again | “Have T secured a cook?” he went |Urete-Bate Grauns Fleur Studio on. “No, I have not, Mr. Roberts,| Cor, Second Ave, and Union 8t., Soatthe I escaped from one dre@iful creat- Artisthe Photinia at Re qnomats Prva e Bi caneitonn