COMING commissioners richards and senator reed smoot to bo guests the statement in a salt lake paper to the effect that united states senator reed smoot state senator ed loose and united states land commissioner W A richards were to attend the opening of the hermitage canyon upon inquiry has been found to have been based upon the tact that these gentlemen were invited to attend the opening not that they had accepted the invitation it has been known for some time that the gentlemen were to be the guests during the present week of dr condon and in event of their having come to ogden today they bould have been entertained in the canyon commissioner richards Is an old friend of the doctor it Is expected that on wednesday senators smoot and loose and mr richards will visit ogden and that at that time they will visit the hermitage and inspect billy Wll sons new resort ENGINE WORKS WIPED OUT san francisco aug 13 the hercules gas engine works at bay street were wiped out by fire to aay and the loss entailed Is between and a fourth part of which Is covered by insurance the fire broke out in the pattern room the theory of one of the employed emp loyes of the engine works Is that the fire was caused through spontaneous combustion or through a defective electric light wire five new engines worth about apiece and which had just been successfully tested the day before were completely destroyed many other machines even more costly were reduced to scrap iron paris aug 13 W K Vanderbil fa bengali today won tho salon stakes at deauville De uville EDUCATED PAGAN DEAD huntington ind aug 13 private advises advices from missionary stultz formerly of this city now at freetown west africa an the death there of dan 1 iel the educated at alcan who was tor many years a missionary but whose hanaa recant of the faith several years ago accompanied by a re of heathenish cs created a iso