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Show SEVHl R. RE CO Hi) J. Henriod, Publisher. NEPHI UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS More school children are enrolled In the Murray schools than ever before in the history of the town. Six Utah men have been appointed delegates to attend the National Good Roads convention to be held at Cleve land, O., September 21 to 23 The residence of James Owens of Ogden was set on tire by a bolt of lightning, but the building was saved by the prompt arrival of the firemen Ogden is said to be infested with a gang of pickpockets ana crooks who prey successfully on passenger, and tourists arriving and assembling at the Union depot. The city council of Ephraim has de cided to construct sidewalk crossin at all places where the streets intersect with the sidewalks running north and south on Main street. Thomas Sandy, a jockey, lies in critical condition in an Ogden hospital as a result of injuries sustained during a; nice at the fair grounds, his horse stumbling and falling upon him Nick Vacos, the murderer of John (Juntos, a fellow Greek at Ogden, will escape the hangman noose, he having been permitted to plead guilty to murder in the second degree. A large cheese factory has just been completed at Junction. Equipped with the most modern apparatus and machinery that money could buy, it is expected to turn out a first class article. A small boy in some manner set fire to a barn owned by Karl Kawa lis, at Logan, and the building and contents were totally destroyed. The barn was a new one, having been completed only this week. The Bennion Hour mill, situated on the banks of the Jordan river, near Murray, was completely destroyed by fire on September 8. The origin of the fire is unknown, but is believed to have been the result of lightning. Salt Lake Citys schools opened for the school year of Tuesday morning, September 7, with an attendance ot 14,0(i8. This is an in crease of 936 over the attendance for the opening day of the school of 1909-191- 0 .. 1908-1909- The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAI- Members of the irrigation committee of the United States senate reached Cheyenne Saturday night, having completed the inspection of fifteen large government irrigation projects in northwestern states within the last thirty days. Director Newell, who is accompanying the committee, reports all projects in good shape. John Masourides. the Greek who killed Officer in South Lowery Omaha last February, thus starting the South Omaha riots, has been sentenced to be hanged January in. After the killing, a mV) formed and drove all the Greeks out of South Omaha. Lan Shang and Lang Tong, two San Francisco Chinamen, who have been under arrest since the murder of Bow Kum, a Chinese girl, who was killed on August 15, have been ind'eted on charges of murder in the first degiee. The local optionists lost in the election in Ada county, Idaho, the city of a heavy majority for Boise the wets. Twc men were killed, three injured ana two enguies and a box car were colwrecked as a result of a head-olision erf a passenger train and switch engine at Missoula, Mont. One man was killed, five seriously hurt and thirty-ninpassengers more or less injured when rwo Salt Lake Route trains collided near Boulten, 8') miles west of Salt Lake, on Sepcn-dir- g n e tember 9. John Clayborn, the negro porter arrested at Missoula, Mont., on suspicion of killing Pearl Anderson, a of the restricted district, has ne-gre- confessed his guilt of the murder to the sheriffs officers. Jealousy is given as the cause. The advocates of local option lost their fight in Ada county, Idaho, the vote in the city of Boise being heavy enough to make possible a victory for the wets. Detective Wardlaw, the Ogden man DOMESTIC. yho shot and killed Dominick Virgil The Roosevelt, Commander Pearys while the latter was resisting arrest, has been exonerated by the coroners steamer, was badly damaged by ice jury. Virgil shot the officer through in the north, and may not get to North the arm before the fatal shot was Sydney before September 25. Th:s is the news brought by Captain Neilson fired. Aaron D. Thatcher, one of the best of the fishing steamr Taff. which has known men in Utah, and a brother of arrived at St. John, N. F., from Battle Moses Thatcher, who died a short Harbor, Labrador. John Entrant, a pupil, was killed time ago, passed away at his home in Ixtgan, September 8, following a pro- by his teacher, at the edge of McDonald count, Arkansas, Butram has tracted illness from stomach and caused the teSchers of Bear Hollow trouble. kid-ne- d Mrs. Edwin Harman of Salt Lake City died on September 8, as a result of injuries sustained when her clothing became ignited from a bonfire. Mrs. Harmans burns extended from her ankles to her knees, and her hands and arms were also severely blistered. The month just ended shows the heaviest death rate for August in the There history of Salt Lake City. were 114 deaths this August, as against only 75 last August, and the average death rate for each 1,000 population based on actual residents was 1.09. Clarence Ernst, the Ogden negro charged with the murder of Charles Staples, colored, will he allowed to go at liberty until his case comes up for trial, $20,000 bail being exacted. The shooting occurred last May when the men became involved in a dispute over a card game. Lightning struck ihe house of A. L. The bolt Blaylock in Harrisvilie. went through the wall of the house and struck within half a foot of the baby, who was asleep on the bed. A horse belonging to Mr. Blaylock' was struck and died instantly. George Kaltz, a French cook who was picked up on the streets of Salt Lake in a supposedly intoxicated condition and placed in jail, was really suffering from an epileptic fit, and A proper died the next moining. ease of his diagnosis might have resulted in saving his life. Now is the time that incorporations are due to pay their annual license fee to the secretary of state, and many notices are being sent out. All of the notices will be out by October 15, and taxes become delinquent after November 15. Many of the substantial companies have already paid their tax for the year. Verne Van Wagner, aged 33 years, employed as an electrician in the United States smelter at Midvale, was electrocuted while at work in the Van arsenic bins at the smelter. some was electrical repairing Wagner machinery when he unwitttingly took hold of a heavily charged wire. school considerable trouble and had sucoeded in thrashing two of them when he drew a knife on Kelley, the new teacher, Kelley shot him. The Indictments charging F. Augustus Heinze, the copper financier, wMth conspiracy to obstruct the administration of justice by concealing the books of the United Copper company, have been dismissed by Judge Haugh in the United States circuit court in New York City. Edward H. Harriman, the railroad dollar king, died at his home at Arden, N. Y., on Thursday, September 9, from cancer. Mr. Harriman was born at Hempstead, L. I., February 25, 1848, the son of a rector, and started life without a dollar, working hard for the little education he received. He made his debut as a two-millio- n railroad man In 1883. Edward II. Harriman. the railroad king, was buried at Arden, N. Y., on Sunday. While the services were private, only members of the family anl close friends of the Harriman family being present, a number of Wall street notables were present at the interment. Plenty of evidence designed to back up his statemnt that Dr. Cook did not reach the north pole is in the hands of Commander Peary, according to assertions made at North Sydney, N. S., by Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary of the Peary Arctic club. Two were killed and nine injured by the Burlington & Quincy passenger train with a freight near Burnham, Neb. George Brosche, an electroplater, and R. A. Cook, a plasterer, lost their lives in a fire which gutted two brick buildings in Sacramento, Cal. WASHINGTON. Commander Peary's first official notification to the navy department direct of his return and of his discovery of the north pole came to the dpart-men- t Saturday morning, September 11, in a dispatch sent by him from Battle Harbor. The coast and geodetic survey will undertake to arbitrate the Peary-- t ook north pole controversy, providing Dr. Cook requests that it should do so. The seventeen Japanese poachers in Alaskan recently taken prisoners waters will be tried at Valdez on October 4, according to a dispatch to the revenue cutter service office re- ceived iu Washington. "Good progress is being made on the Panama canal and four sections of it have been finished, said Colonel Goethals, chief engineer in charge of the construction of the canal, upon his arrival in Washington from the isthmus. Lieutenant Genera! Henry C. Corbin, U. S. A., retired, died in a hospital in New York City, September 8, after an operation for a renal disorder. General C'orbin woulu have been 67 years old in a few days. During his western trip President Taft will take the people into his confidence regarding the recent tariff fight in congress, according to a statement made at Beverly, Mass. He will franklj tell of the troubles that beset him in dealing with the tariff situation. FOREIGN. The story of devastation and death caused by floods in Mexico grows as further reports come in. Ten thousand lives were probably lost, and thousands are homeless. Orville Wright made two successful flights over the Tempelhof parade grounds at Berlin, Saturday afternoon. In the first he was aloft alone for 42 minutes and executed a series of intricate maneuvers. The reported settlement of the Orinoco corporation claim against the Venezeulan government leaves undecided only one of the five large claims against that country that have grown out of the alleged violation of contracts and concessions with American citizens. After more than a year of unsuccessful experiment in attempting to maintain order and sanitation through the provincial authorites and municipal police, Acting Governor General W. C. Forbes has directed the Philippine constabulary to return to duty in the province of Bulacan, Island of Luzon. Reinforcements to the number of 11,000 men have arrived at Mellila, Morocco. General Marina, commander of the Spanish forces in Morocco, continues to advance his line with the object of outflanking the Moorish positions on Mount Guruga. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, discoverer of the north pole, sailed from Copenhagen on September 10 for New York City, expecting to arrive home Sep- Running at a high speed, seven tember 21. miles east of El Paso, Texas, an autoOrville Wright, flying over the mobile came into collision with a Templehof grounds at Berlin, wagon. Five occupants of the auto- traveled at parade estimated the speed of mobile were injured, three of them miles an hour and remained in forty fatally. air 62 'z minutes. Wall Streets response to E. II. the The first drawing of the national Harriman's death was a buoyantly was held in Havana, Cuba, lottery in which securltes strong market, A crowd dense 10. September made strong gains. all day. Hunthe thronged building Twc beliefs concerning the death were emof negro runners of Edward H. Harriman have been ac- dreds numbers to to the prize ployed cepted as facts. First, that his great the variouscarry lotand the newspapers railroad organization will not be disoffices in all parts of the city. turbed; second, that he was a victim tery The official statistics of Berlin for of cancer. the second quarter of 1909 show that The Tennessee, Admrial Sebrees 1,051 dogs have been slaughtered for flagship, has broken all reeords from food, under government inspection, Ban Francisco to Honolulu, making the trip In four days and seventeen and 9,875 horses. E. Lefebvre, the French aviator, hours. President Barber of the Diamond was killed from a fall from his aeroMatch company, intimates in aa in- plane, with which he was practicing, terview that now is a good time to ver the aviation field in France. M. sustained mortal injuries inaugurate a merger of all the rail- Lefebvre .vhen the machine crashed to the roads under government control. around. Railroads of the United States paid to Viscount Lascelles, for loss approximately $5(1,700,000 CanEarl of general governor Grey, and damage" and injuries to persons during the year ending June ada, who shot a mountain goat and30, 1908, according to a report mad. deer out of season during the govBrit-an- d public by the bureau of railway news ernor generals visit to northern statistics. This is an increase of ish Columbia, has been fined $275 by the British Columbia game wardens. 6.441.000 c.vr the ptecedng year. aide-de-cam- p PRESIDENT SITS TOUR MJK cisco. Mr. Taft Leaves Summer Home at Beverly for Boston. ON A 13,000 MILE JOURNEY Details of the Chief Executives Great Swing Through the West and South Lasting Nearly Two Months. Beverly, Mass., Sept. 15. of his anniversary birth, President William 11. Taft started from his summer home here on what will be one of the most notable tours ever undertaken by a president of the United States. For almost two months his private car willhe a roving White House, and he will journey 13,000 miles and traverse most of the west and south before he lands in Washington on November 10. He went direct to Boston by motor car and will attend a banquet there, starting immediately after for Chicago. Besides the president, the party includes Capt. Archibald Butt, military aide; Wendell W. Mlschler, assistant of secretary; Dr. J. J. Richardson Washington. D. C.; James Sloan, Jr and L. C. Wheeler of the secret service, and Maj. Arthur Brooks, the presidents confidential - messenger. Six newspaper mpr will accompany the president throughout the entire trip. the Shortly before noon president will arrive in Chicago and be the guest of the Commercial cub at luncheon. Next, the Hamilton club takes him in charge and will escort him, with a bodyguard of 1,400 members, to the West side ball park, to witness a game between Chicago and New York. After that will come a dinner at the Congress hotel, and then a meeting in Orchestra hall, where Mr. Taft will make a speech. To wind up the day, the president will put in his appearance at a reception and ball given by the Chicago bankers in the Auditorium. , In Wisconsin and Minnesota. Leaving Chicago at 3 a. m. Friday morning, the presidential party will stop at Milwaukee, Madison and Portage, and will spend the night at Winona, Minn., and will reach Minneapolis early on the moining of Saturday, September 18. He will spend all Saturday, and Sunday in Minneapolis and St. Paul, leaving Sunday night at eight o'clock in order to reach Des Moines on the morning of September To-da- the the second day and at Portland, Ore., October 2 at 7 a. m. Two days will be spent in Portland, the party leaving there at 6 p. m. Sunday, October 3, for a trip down the famous Shasta route, through the Siskiyou mountains and in view of Mount Shasta, to San Franing of y, fifty-secon- to-da- y The president will stop the evening October 4 at Sacramento, reaching Oakland. Cal., early on the morning of October 5. He will spend four or five hours in and around Oakland and Berkeley before taking the ferry at 12; 30 oclock for San Francisco. After spending the afternoon and evening of the fifth in San Francisco the president will leave early the morning of the sixth for the Yosemite valley. He will spend the seventh, eighth and ninth in the valley, and, coming out the morning of Sunday. October 10. will proceed to Los Angeles, stopping for three hours at Fresno Sunday of afternoon. The president will spend Monday and Tuesday, October 11 and 12, in Los Ansreles visiting his sister. Will Meet President Diaz. He will arrive at the Grand Canyon the morning of October 14 and will leave again that night for Albuquerque, N. M., where he will spend the evening of the fifteenth, reaching El Paso early the following morning for the meeting with President Diaz of Mexico. President Diaz will arrive from MexCity at Ciudad Juarez about the same time and he will then cross the frontier and meet President Taft at El Paso. An hour later the president of the United States will return the visit to President Diaz at Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican side. The authorities of the latter city have appropriated $20,000 for decorations and ico a bull fight. The president will reach San AntoSunday night, October 17, and will spend the forenoon of the following day in an inspection of Fort Sam Houston, with the upbuilding of which he had much to do while secretary of war. Arriving at Corpus Christi the evening of October 18, the president will go at once to his brothers ranch, w here he will spend Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Charles P. Taft has had golf links built on the ranch. Trip Down Mississippi River. Visiting Houston the forenoon of Saturday, October 23, the president will proceed to IJallas that afternoon to spend Saturday evening and all Sunday. From Dallas the president will proceed direct to St. Louis to Login his four days trip down that historic wanio terway. He will reacli St. Louis at 7:27 a. m. the morning of Monday, October 25. and will leave at 4 p. m. on the steam20. er assigned to him by the Deep WaterFive hours will be spent in the Iowa ways association, which is to hold its capital, where Mr. Taft will review -- convention in New Orleans on the 5,000 troops of the regular army and arrivffl there. make a speech, and then the president presidents the Following presidents boat will moves on to Omaha, where he will be a flotilla of river craft. spectacular spend the late afternoon and evening. One of the trailing boats will be asDenver will be reached the afterto make the trip down the noon of September 21, and the presi- signed to attend river and dent will go almost direct from his Another boat will be the convention. assigned to the train to the state capitol for a recepof more than delegation congressional tion to be tendered by state officials, 100 Yet another boat will members. by the chamber of commerce and civ- carry members of the Illinois Manuic organizations. At 9 p. m. the presifacturers association. dent will make an address in the DenDuring his stay in St. Louis the ver Auditorium, where Mr. Bryan last will breakfast at the Compresident year was nominated for the presi- mercial club, will make an address at dency. 11 a. m. in the Coliseum, will lunch The president and his party will at the Jefferson hotel as the guest of breakfast with Thomas F. Walsh, at the Business Mens and before league, Wolhurst, near Denver, the morning boarding the steamer at 4 p. m. will of Wednesday, September 22, and then make a brief visit to East St. Louis, return to the city for the chamber of 111. commerce banquet at noon. First Stop of Voyage at Cairo. Leaving Denver at 5 p. m., SeptemThe first long stop of the river trip ber 22, the president and his party will be at Cairo at 8:30 a. m. Tueswill stop for an hours visit at Coloday, October 23. The second stop will rado Springs, and then go on to be at Ilickman, Ky at 2:30 p. in., Pueblo, where in the evening they the president making brief addresses will be guests at the state fair. at both places. In Wonder Region of Colorado. off Memphis, Tenn., at 8 The morning of September 23 will a. Arriving m. Wednesday, October 27, the nnd the president at Glenwood president will make an address at 9 Springs for a brief visit and that aft- oclock and that afternoon at 5 oclock ernoon he will visit Montrose, where will speak at Helena, Ark. he will formally open the great GunOn Thursday, October 28, at 2:30 nison river tunnel built by the governp. m., Mr. Taft will make a speech at ment for Uncom-pahgrof the irrigation the e valley. Returning to Grand Junction to resume the journey westward, the president will arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday afternoon, September 24, to remain there until Sunday afternoon, the twenty-sixth- , when the party leaves over the Oregon Short Line for Pocatello, Ida., and Butte, Mont., the latter city being reached Monday, September 27, at 6:40 a. m. John Hays Hammond joins the party at Salt Lake City. After spending half a day in Butte, there will be a brief excursion into Helena. Spokane, Wash., will be reached early Thursday morning, the , and the entire day will be spent in that city. The forenoon of the twenty-nintwill be spent at North Yakima and the party will arrive at Seattle at 8:15 that evening. Two Days at Seattle Exposition. President Taft will spend two days doSeptember 20 and October 1 ing the exposition, leaving Seattle late in the even twenty-eighth- h Alaska-Yukon-Pacif- Vicksburg. New Orleans will be reached about four oclock Friday afternoon. The river journey also will include short stops at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Natchez, Miss. The president will remain in New Orleans from Friday afternoon, the to Monday morning, NoHe will address the Waterways convention on October 30 at 2:30 p. m. From New Orleans the president will go to Jackson and Columbus, Miss., Birmingham, Macon, Ala.; Savannah, Charleston, Augusta, Wilmington, and Richmond, reaching Washington November 10. twenty-ninth- , vember 1. The president will leave Washing- ton again, probably on the eleventh, for Middletown, Conn., to attend the installation of the new president of Wesleyan university. He also has engagements at Norfolk and Hampton, Va., November 19 and 20, so his travels will not be done until the morning of November 21, when he will reach Washington for the winter and put the finishing touches on his annual message. |