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Show THE GUNNISON GAZETTE DY "OFFICfRS OF MU NEPHI GLEDHILL & SON. GUNNISON UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS man vln winked at Under Orders to Leave Provinces, the Judjje dm hit; th trial tf Ills rac, But Withdrew to Barracks and whs sv at to jail far contempt of court. Defied Their Officers. annual convention The tw' of the (nuxri Rational association of Utah was In id in Salt IaKo City lat week. Loyal Soldiers Fire Upon Mutineers. Mrs. M, Suitzgahlc. aped 84. was Three Being Killed and Fifteen knocked dmvu by a runaway horse on Wounded Before the Rebellious Main street. Salt Lake City, receiving Ones Were Conquered. Injuries which may result In death. I'eter Meilish. an Austrian aged IK, employed at the Highland Hoy mint Constantinople. A threatened out&t llingliain as a miner, was killed by falling down a shaft. He received break on the part of a company ofn Turkish troops attached to the garri-Ma fractured skull. at Yildez Kiosk was promptly A stone placed on the track by a small hoy caused the wreck of a street put down Sunday morning with a sincar In Salt Lake City, the motorman gle volley from a loyal battalion. of the mutineers were killed being painfully Injured and a number Threefifteen wounded. of the passengers severely shaken up. and The mutinous spirit manifested itSo great has been the Increase In was assemattendance at the Wasatch school In self when the company a few moand threatened for Salt Lake City In the last year that bled, to in result serious trouble. But the board of education has found it aments was issued and a batorder hurry necessary to erect an addition to this talion from a regiment recently building. in from Salonikl was marched brought , Mike Osier, a Russian Jew', about to the scene aud one volley sufficed 19 years old, committed suicide In to cow the mutineers. Salt Igiko, taking a full ounce of carwere under The rebellious bolic add. letters which he left orders to leave fortroops the provinces, but would Indicate that the young man they refused to depart, withdrew to a was Insane when he ended his life. field near the barracks and defied Plucky telephone girls at Ephraim their officers. probably prevented a robbery when a The battalion from Salonikl, which man tried to break Into the telephone was drafted into the capital especialbuilding at night. One of the girls ly because the men are staunch of the constitution, was orfired two shots from a pistol at the to dered attack the rebels. They intruder, who hastily beat a retreat. one above with the result fired volley, an to be Is believed What attempt set forth, after which the mutineers (o transport a young girl about 14 surrendered and were made prisoners. jears of age to China, there to become Later they were drawn up on the pubthe wife of some wealthy Oriental, lic square, tied together, and exhibrgainst her will, is being investigated ited to the assembled troops as rebels by Southern Pacific detectives at Og-ce- who had broken their military oath. This prompt suppression is expected to have a salutary effect on the Frank Pete, a Greek, 27 years old, of the Yildiz Kiosk garrison, fell from the top of a freight car at which is antagonissuspected of Garfield and beneath another ear with tic to the constitution. being the result that his left leg was so MAY BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL. badly crushed that it had to be half wav between the hip and knee. Alleged Assassins of Count Kama-rowsto Tie Given Justice. John Hums, employed In the Daly West mine at Park City, attempted to Venice. At last, after 18 months leave the cage when it stopped mo- delay, there are signs that the Rusmentarily, and was caught and crush- sian Countess Tarnowski, the lawyer ed to death. Hums had been working Prilukoff and the young aristocrat, but four days In the mine when the Paul Naumoff, son of the accident occurred. of Kief, are to be brought to trial for Mrs. W. E. Staker, wife of Dr. W. E. the assassination of Count Kamarow-sld- , Staker of Ogden, was badly injured in the summer of 1907. , in a collision with a heavy wagon, The murder, with all its accompaniwhile riding in a buggy at night. The ments of d love, deceit and narrowness of the path and the dark- conspiracy, is 'one of the most sensaness prevented the vehicles passing tional in the annals of European crimeach other safely. inality. Over COO wool growers wall gather Preparations for the trial have been in Salt Lake City on November 9 to proceeding for more than a year, but discuss matters which vitally affect have been delayed by the necessity of their interests and hear the report of gathering documentary evidence in the National Wool Growers commit- Austria and Russia about the antecetee, which has selected Chicago as the dents of the prisoners. Two big crates full of documents have now arrived. wool center for the entire west. lawyers, exclusive of the The Denver & Rio Grande Railway Twenty-sicounsel, are working company has mortgaged its road, roll- prosecuting and day preparing for th-- trial, night ing stock, grounds and other property which is expected to last two months. to the Bankers Trust company of New York City for $150,000,000. The mortCounting Uncle Sam's Cash. gage was filed with the county reNew York. Following the resignacorder of Salt Lake county last week. tion of Hamilton Fish as assistant Thomas Evans, the football player treasurer here, a corps of bookkeepwhose neck was dislocated during the ers, under the direction of United game between the Agricultural col- States Treasurer Treat, on Saturday lege team of Logan and the Colorado checking over the books of the School of Mines, died without having began While this task is a big one, office. regained consciousness. Evans was it does not compare with the work 24 years old and lived in Brigham required to count the cash in the City. vaults, which work will be taken up Private Mike Beecham of the First i,s soon as the checking of the books cavalry, who ran amuck at Camp has been completed. There is in th-Strotstenburg, P. I., last May and vaults aproximately ' $173,000,000 in killed four of his comrades, has been gold coin, $17,000,000 in currency and sentenced to life imprisonment by the $80,000,000 in silver coin, and all of trial court before which he appeared. this must be counted and verified, Beecham was at one time a resident j iece by piece. of Utah. A II FLEET BI CHINESE Rear Admiral Emory Makes Formal Call Upon Prince Yu Lang and Liang Tun Yen. Sait sui-porte- rs n. am-jutate- d ki cold-bloode- x e Roar Admiral Emory, commanding the second squadron of the United States Atlantic fleet, came ashore Friday afternoon and made a formal call upon Prince Yu Lang and Liang Tun Yen, vice president of the foreign board, who are representing the imperial government in the welcome to the Americans. Later 1.C00 men of the fleet and 124 officers landed. No special program had been arranged for their entertainment and the men sjwuit the time wandering about the temple and the reception grounds. The places most frequented bv the Americans were the bazaars and ihe branches of the Young Men's Christian association. The postoffice and offices of the money changers were swamped with work, and the student interpreters were In constant demand. The Illumination of the fleet In the evening was the cause of great wonder and admiration among the Chinese. In the evening 124 officers of the fleet were entertained at dinner by the Imperial Chinese commissioners and the reception committee. The menu was native. The dining room was beautifully decorated. Amoy. MRS. WILLIAM For ASTOR DEAD. Thirty Years Was Regarded as Social Leader of New York. New York. Mrs. William Astor, who for thirty years had been regarded as the social leader of New York, died Friday night of heart disease at her home on Fifth avenue. For nearly four weeks Mrs. Astor, who was 82 years old, had been In a critical condition, owing to the return of a heart affection that had given her trouble for years. Despite her advanced to hold her social continued she years, a to domination up year ago, when, failing health compelled her to retire Into comparative seclusion. It was in the summer of 1907 that Mrs. Astors friends learned of her 111 health. The society functions given and presided over by Mrs. Astor were among the most brilliant on record. It is said that the ballroom in the mansion on Fifth avenue would accommodate 1,000 people. It was Mrs. Astor who established the famous 400. her visiting list being confined to that number of names. Morse Under Fire. New York. For more than six hours on Friday Charles W. Morse sat in the witness chair in the criminal branch of the United States circuit court endeavoring to defend the financial operations in connection with the National Bank of North America, which resulted in the indictment of Mr. Morse and Alfred H. Curtis on charges of conspiracy and violation All of the national banking laws. went smoothly during, the morning session, but late in the day, when United States District Attorney Stim-so- n took up the cross examination for the government, sharp questions were put to the financier. Attorneys for Former Political Boss of San Francisco Implicated in a Confession of Bribery. lalm is Made That They Attempted to Bribe Man to Get on tie Jury Secured for Ruefs Trial and Vote for His Acquittal. Being - San Francisco. Forming another sensational chapter In the municipal bribery graft eases growing out or the alleged wholesale bribery of tho Schmitz' board of supervisors by tho former Abraham Ruef, resultand the boss, and Indictments ant grand jury prosecution, E. A. S. Blake, a contractor, ui Thursday confessed in open court that he had, at the institgation of A. S. Newburgh and Frank J. Murphy, two of Ruefs attorneys, attempted to bribe John A. Kelly with an offer of $1,000 to get on the Jury now being secured to try Ruef on the charge of bribery and vote for his acquittal. Blake also made the statement that after his arrest and conviction Mur-ih- y came to him and agreed to put $10,000 In the hands of a third party, (o be paid to Blake Immediately after l e was sentenced, and that his wife was to receive $100 a month during the time that he was serving his sentence in the penitentiary, if Blake would keep quiet and not Implicate Murphy and Newburgh. The $10,000 In promissory notes signed by Ruef find Indorsed by his father and sister, and made payable to Murphy, the prisoner declared, were now In the hands of a third party which had been named by him to receive them bnd hold them subject to his order. Blake had been convicted of attempting to bribe oJhn A. Kelly, a venireman drawn on the panel of the JRuef jury, and was about to be sentenced by Judge Frank II. Dunne, pvhen he said he had a statement to make. The disclosures made by Burke came as a surprise to his counsel, but was not entirely unexpected to the crowded court room, as it had been irumored for some time that he would 'come through and be a witness for the prosecution against Newburgh land Murphy, both of whom are under indictment on the same charge of which Bl'ake was oonvicted. po-litl- al GIRLS CRAZED WITH FEAR. Fire in Eleven Story Building Causes a Panic. Cincinnati A fire panic caused several girl employes of offices in the pleven-storNeave building, corner of Fourth and Race streets, to leap from the windows at noon on Thursday. At least ten of them were hurt, several seriously, while one fireman was badly injured. The fire started on the sixth floor, the flames soon bursting from the window. Five times the hose . BROKE RAILROAD-MONOPOLYburst and this added to the panic of the girls, who had appeared at the Death of Former Canadian Premier windows as high as the eighth floor, Who Made a Record. where many of them could be seen Thomas Hon. Manitoba. Winnipeg, preparing to leap to the ground when Greenway, former premier of Mani- the firemen arrived. toba and member of the railroad comThe corner is one of the busiest in mission of Canada, died unexpectedly !the retail section, and the street was in Ottawa on Friday. He was at the quickly clogged with crowds so that head of the provincial government ifor a time there was difficulty in fightwhich broke the Canadian Pacific ing, the fire. Miss Louise Boutet, a dressmaker railway monopoly in western Canada and brought the- Northern Pacific rail- ion the tenth floor, leaped from a winway into, Manitoba, twenty years ago, dow on that floor to an the first rival railway to the Canadian roof on the fifth, floor level adjoining and was Pacific railway to enter this country badly hurt. y - f |