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Show Utah County Democrat PHENOMS HOWELL FAIL TO STAND PACE PROVO - NORTHWEST FEW OF REC.RUITS TRIED OUT BY MAJOR LEAGUES LAST SPRING MADE GOOD. NOTES CREDIT FOR DEVELOPMENT Noted Spitball Pitcher of St. Louis Browns Sings Muggsy's Praises. Harry Howell, the noted "spitball pitcher of the' St. Louis Browns, gives John Miss Evelyn Tanner was thrown from a horse near Cokeville, Wo., and almost Instantly killed. The citizens of Butte will send a carload of provisions to the fire sufferers at Fernie, B. C., or, if the sufferers wish, money. Mrs. R. F. Soule, wife of a prominent Anaconda business man, was burned to death in her home by the explosion of an alcohol stove. The town of Clayton, Wash., has been practically wiped out as the result of forest fires. Clayton had a population of about GOO people. A forest fire of alarming proportions did considerable damage in the Coeur dAlene national forest, in Idaho, just across the Montana state line. The postmasters of Montana met at Helena on August 3 in the first anPostnual meeting of the Montana masters association. The organization was organized one year ago. The state board of equalization of Montana has received returns from McGraw and Wilber Robinson credit for his development into one of GOOD YOUNGSTERS SCARCE the best pitchers in the country. said recently: Johnny McGraw is the smartest man in the game. He knows more Time Has Shown That the Veteran new and old stuff in baseball than any Player Is tha Most Valuable Asset man I ever knew. I learned a lot from of a Ball Team Heady Pitchers him when I Was with the Baltimore Are More in Demand Than club just after I first broke into the How-el- l To-Da- y Ever Before. game. Where, oh, where have the phenomenons flown to? During March and early April the two big leagues were crowded full of wonderful young hall players. The reliable old players were booked for tho brush. We must have fast men, was the cry of the fan. Time has shown the veteran to be the most valuable asset a ball club can control. doesn't Speed mount to much unless the player has all of the other essentials that go to make up the winning combination. Looking over the two major leagues one Is actually surprised at the failure of the young recruits to make good. About the only ones showing good ft counties as to property valuations, form are those who have been In the big leagues before and went back to which show the following: Real esthe minors for more experience. ; $81,789,-8871124,117,938; tate, personal, Tom OBrien, the clever Cleveland railroads, $43,81G,000. returned to Cleveland a few scout, Fourteen railways of Colorado have days ago after touring the country asked the federal court for an injuncand said that he saw less than six tion restraining the members of the men whom he considered worth a trial. Colorado crafjroad conimlssfcfi from And this is true of all scouts Gathenforcing the law as to rates and raila small army of half baked ering them. way regulation against is a losing game, and will youngsters Mrs. Steve Adams, wife of the man be cut out hereafter by most of the who was tried for the murder of Arclubs; and this will prove a blessing thur Collins at Grand Junction, and for the smaller leagues, as It will help who was acquitted of the charge, is in to keep salaries down to a point that acDenver, and has left her husband, clubs can live on the gate money. cording to a dispatch- from Denver. There hasnt been a time in ten It is reported by railroad officials years when heady pitching told as it is that work on the new freight ter- tPlling The- batsmen have minal at Imlay, Nevada, has been re- found a way to meet the spit ball In sumed and that before the work is fact, they step In and cut off most of finished, which will be some time this the breaks a ball can be made to take year, $150,000 will have been spent in by a pitcher, with the exception of the the improvement. out curve, and In this way they have The fire that has been burning in put the box men on the defensive. The the St. Lawrence mine at Butte for writer saw the first man strike out In nearly a quarter of a century, claimed a game at Boston recently beits first victim last week. Peter Cal- tween Philadelphia and Boston with laghan, aged 25, who went into the McQuillen and Tom McCarthy pitchmine in a new gas helmet, was over- ing, and that closed the strlke-ou- t business for the day. As the score come and asphyxiated. hard Ontario, Oregon, is in the throes of was close both men worked an oil boom. Every oil expert that right through, the game, but the ball has inspected this field has made a was met and sent to the field, showstrlke-out- s was favorablo report on the formation, ing that the day for on the decline. so much natural and that where gas The splendid showing that Bill Donis found the indications are first-clas- s Jack Powell, Cy Young and othovan, for an oil field in the vicinity. er clever box men are making this drinkhad been John Kossuf, who season simply goes to Bhow that head ing, ran amuck at Kaljspell, Mont., work and command In the box are goSchu-maand shot three men. Alderman ing to count, as it did in the days received a flesh wound, while Ed- of Radbourne, Clarkson and other ward Dupont was wounded in the heady pitchers. The death knell of a lumberman, the player who broke into the game temple. Henry Miller, was struck, but the course of the bulas a thrower of the spit ball has soundlet was changed by papers in his and ball clubs must look about for ed, pocket. with command of a variety of E. F. Bushnell of Washington, chief pitchers curves and the head work to carry clerk in the postal service, Malcolm them through. There were several Gillls, postmaster at Butte; Dr. Roff, men of this stamp three years ago, but postmaster at Missoula, and Judge they lost faith In their ability to keep Cheadle of the district bench at up with the moist ball pitcher, and Mont., were all slightly intaking up the new fad later wore soon near automobile in an accident jured out of the running with lame arms. I Helena. be surprised in the near fuwouldn't which Malheur county, Oregon, of to see ture the spit bail legislated Vale is the county seat, is one of the and the box men forced to against very large counties of the state, bepitch a clean, dry ball. In time this 180 and wido miles miles ing sixty would bring about a more Interesting long, with a population numbering the pitchers would be rated about 8,500 people. The taxable prop- game, and to their real ability. according over $4, erty aggregates something For the last two years tho two major 000,000. James Iverson, aged 30, of Sparks, leagues have worked out nor less than 500 pitchers, less than of Nevada, a prominent member of the first-clas- s were whom men, or, say, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi100. Now, of that number how many neers, was accidentally shot in Blue will be remembered by the fans ten canyon, near Truckee, Cal., by his hence? years huntwhile companion, Harry Criss, ing for deer. Criss mistook Iverson Browns Have Experience. lor a deer. If experience counts for anything in George F. Demurs was shot and inbaseball, and it is generally conceded stantly killed by Jackson Reid, aged that it does, the St. Louis Browns have 11, on Government island in the Lewis of every other team in the advantage & Clark fair grounds. Demurs, with his father and brother, were fishing the American league. When the averon the island, and were ordered off by age of number of years experience several children, among whom was the players have had in big league company Is figured out it is found to joung Reid. Ol-- i years, which Is going some. Convicted on a charge of violating be The number of years In the liig s anti-pasthe law, S. C. Watts was fined $800 and Gertie Williams $100 leagues of (he Browns follow: Bobby m the federal court at Helena, Mont. Wallace, 15 years; Jimmy Williams, 11; Jack O'Connor, 20; Ilobe Ferris, 7; Watts, who is a Great Northern brake-nan- , Tom Jones, 5; George Stone, 4; Dansecured a pass for his wife and gave it to the Williams woman. Both ny Hoffman, 7; Roy liartzell, 3; Charlie Jones, 6f A1 Sweitzer, 1; Jack Powwore indicted. ell, 11; Bill Dineen, 11; Barney Telly, M. Stolt i, a freight conductor hand5; Rube Waddell, 11; Harry Howell. ling his last train as such, was killed 11; Graham, 1; Bailey, 2; Spencer, 3; near Grand Junction, Colo., by being tun over by a train. Orders relieving Stephens, 2; Blue, 1; Joe Yeager, 12; Criss, 1. Average years service in big Stoltz of his position as freight conductor and promoting him to a pas- leagues, O1 years. senger run were awaiting him at Giants Are Superstitious. Grand Junction. The Giants are superstitious. That One hundred sheep wore struck and killed by lightning while taking shel- is, their talk sounds like it. One weeks ago the Hag pole on the ter from a storm at Bridgeport, Cal., at the head of the Carson river. Whim polo grounds broke and the yellow the storm came up the sheep rushed pennant that the Giants won In the under a tamarack tree while he her- championship series three years ago came tumbling to the grou id. This der and his dogs sought the protection of another. did not stop the game, and a moment The Bank of Austin, Nevada, one of later Arthur Devlin cracked out a the oldest banks of that rlace, failed home run. The Giants have been winInst week. According to tho cashier, ning ever since and they believe that J. A. Miller, Jr., however, it is a tem- the omen is a good one and that anporary ssupension, as he says the other worlds pennant Is due to fly in outstanding where the old one was. bank has $281,040 loans and $20,000 cash and owes about the same amount. A Change Helps. Sometimes a change from one city Japanese section men captured a robber In the act of rifling their to another does a ball player a world trunks in their bunk car at Bozeman, of good. Take Jimmy Williams. The Mont., and an examination of the latter did not like to leave New York, mans effects disclosed $05 In battered but he Is given credit now for keepmoney, the exact amount secured by ing the Browns up at the top of the a crackman at Park City, Mont., sevrace in the American league. are the servants, elgns the officials time and at a fixed a for employed -- hat the soverdo to stated wlary to dc it In 1 eigns want done, and want it done, sovereigns in harmony platforms are entl-- ly aea. with this Democratic RePuban A few years ago the in the house of represent !"e, wer coerced by antbt into the support of an of the endorsement the which had MGRAW ti- ' UTAH GIVES Democratic Nominee for Presidency president, but the BPna even to consider the Delivers Eloquent Address in Accepting Nomination. to Discuss Vital Questions of the CvnPalnn at Greater Length Later John W. Kern, Promises al "My first appearance in fast com pany was under the watchful eye oi Mike Griffin, who handled the Brook lyn team in 1898. I had pitched gooa ball In the Connecticut league, anc asked Mike to give me a trial witt Brooklyn. He sent me In against the Philadelphia sluggers Ed Delehanty Larry Lajoie, Elmer Flick and Harry Wolverton one day toward the close of the season, and I beat them, 7 to 5 Charlie Ebbet gave me $40 and a promise to use me in a game against Candidate, Delivers Brief Address. Neb. 'William Jennings Lincoln, Bryan of Nebraska was on Wednesday officially advised that he has been chosen, by the Democrats of the Inited States as their candidate for president. Amid cheers and waving of flags, from the Mr. Bryan was escorted day-tw- eral days previous. o the government shall remain a mere corporbusines asset of ations, or he an instrument in the hands of the people for the advancement of the common weal. Recognizing that I am indebted for the nomination to the rank and file of our party, and that my election must come, if it comes at all, from the unpurchased and unpurchasable of the American people, I repromise, if entrusted with the to office, this of high sponsibilities consecrate whatever I have to the one purpose of making this, in fact, a government in which the people rule a government which shall do justice to all, and offer to every one the highest possible stimulus to great and persistent effort by assuring to each the enjoyment of his just share of the proceeds of his toil, no matter In what part of the vineyard he labors, or to what occupation, profession or calling he devotes himself. Previous to the speech of notification by Chrman Clayton, the nominee, John W. Kern of Indiana, was Introduced and spoke g suf-tiage- the sluggers on our next visit to Phil-lyCandy Lachance won the second . s al game for me with a home-rudrive, sending three men in ahead of him. The next year Brooklyn and BaltiWILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAJM. more consolidated, and the pick of the combination was sent to Brooklyn. Ijncoln hotel through the streets of Johnny McGraw was placed in com- Lincoln to the capitol grounds, where mand of the Baltimore stuff that Ed the notification and the address of Hanlon had turned down. McGraw acceptance took place. In the carwould have won the pennant with riage with Mr. Bryan was John W. Hanlons own cast-off- s that year if Kern of Indiana, the candidate for Mrs. McGraw had not died. Her illwho addressed the ness took him out of the Baltimore crowd assembled. the great team when we were only eight games Democratic As the candidates behind the Boorklyn stars, and coming from the capitol building on emerged fast. Catch em? Well, I should say to the platform, in company with Govwe would. McGraws absence, howernor Sheldon, Mayor F. W. Brown ever, broke our winning combination. on arWhen he got back into the game again and others of the committee went a cheer up mighty Brooklyn had the flag cinched. That rangements, from which the continued multitude, year McGraw kept me on the bench for several minutes. As soon as Mr. until the middle of June. was seated, National Chairman Bryan He told me to watch Joe McGin-nity- , Norman Mack opened the exercises Kitson and the rest of the veterans and learn what I could. When by calling upon Rev. Father John F. he turned me loose with Wilber to Nugent, of Des Moines, la., to decatch me I won 13 straight. Robbie liver prayer. Upon its conclusion, Mr. made my work easy for me in that Clayton, as chairman of the committee on notification, turned to Mr. string. Hans Wagner broke my win- Bryan and his notification made home-runing streak with a drive In the thirteenth Inning of what came speech. Mr. Claytons words brought forth very near proving my fourteenth con frequent applause, the climax coming secutlve victory. Was Hanlon sorry v.hen, looking Mr. Bryan squarely in he turned me down that spring? Well, the face, he said: You have always he never said anything about it, but refused to compromise with those I was glad he sent me to Baltimore, who prostitute the functions of govfor I learned alot from McGraw that ernment for the lust of greed. It was season. He taught me how to race in your lofty statesmanship, your unwavering fidelity, your Jeffersonian front of a runner headed for first base standard of Democracy that induced forcing him to pull up a step. McGraw the representatives of millions of also has his pitchers run over to third American free men unanimously to so that a man coming from second will choose you as their candidate for the have to run around the bag. highest office in the world. In response to the words of Mr. Clayton, Mr, Bryan said in part: NOTES OF THE DIAMOND Mr. Clayton and Gentlemen of the Nomination Committee I can not acThe Reds have signed Ralph Sav cept the nomination which you ofIdge, the finger nail curve pitcher oi ficially tender without first acknowlthe Memphis Southern league team. edging my deep indebfednes to the Tom Jones is playing a swift game Democratic party for the extraordi-rarhonor which It has conferred at first for St. Louis. McAleer has found the veteran one of the most re- upon me. Having twice before been p candidate for the .presidency, in liable men this year. which ended in defeat, a campaigns Manager Murray evidently made a third nomination, the result of the rich pickup when he obtained Foxen lree and voluntary act of the voters the southpaw. Charley Dooin says he cf the party, can only be explained by will be the wonder of the league next a substantial and undisputed growth season. in the principles and policies for which with I, a multitude of others, With the season only half over, the Browns claim to he on velvet already have contended. As these principles the receipts to date being enough tc and policies have given me whatever political strength I possess,, the accover all expenses, salaries Included tion of the convention not 6nly refor the year. news my faith in them, but strengthIt is said that Lave Cross is under ens my attachment to them. I shall, in the near future, prepare agreement with the Athletics to keep a sharp lookout for promising young a morf! formal reply to your notifiplayers, espt daily pitchers. In the At cation, and in that, letter of acceptance, will deal with the platform in lantic league. detail. It is sufficient, at this time Baseball has some curious twists to assure you that I am in hearty acThe Chicago Cubs were weakened for cord with both tho letter and the a while by the absence of Shekard spirit of the platform. I endorse it hut soon after he got back in the in whole and in p art, and shall, if elected, regard its declarations game they lost first place. as binding upon me. And I may add a The old saying in baseball in reference to pennants is still going the platform is binding as to what it as well as to what it contains rounds of the National league. "They emits to the Democratic idea' According always fall down on the third pen the pcopo think for themselves and nant is the way the fans hand it out. select officials to carry out their Mike Donlin is treading the straight wishes. The voters are the sover- and narrow path and is playing great ball. He Is surely a tower of strength Noted Tunnel Builder Killed. to the Giants. Mike is about 50 Denver. Charles E. lligbee. aged pounds lighter than he was two years 52, of this city, one of the worlds ago. most noted tunnel builders, was alRube Marquard called on McGraw most Instantly killed in Cincinnati. If I am worth $11,000 evening at Shoshone, a Wednesday camp of the to New York, I ought to be worth a Cereal Oihlrado Power cfmpany, good big salary, said he. If I'm not, twelve miles east of Colorado I dont care to work. I tried hard to Springs, Colo. The fatal accident was break into fast company in Cleveland, caused by the breaking of a derrick. but they couldn't see me at any price, A guy wire struck Mr. Higbee upon the head, crushing the skull. Accordand now that I'm good enough I expect to get a salary large enough to ing to reliable Information, Mr. Higbee had constructed forty-ninof the make It worth while. world's greatest tunnels. n ac follows: Why, my friend, the chairman of the national committee has been kind enough to announce me as the Democratic candidate for the office of I have as yet no official notification of that fact, and, t, e Store and a Saloon Left When the Conflagration Standing Was Gotten Under Control Rebuilding Operations Start at Once. One Grocery Mont. The entire town the exception or th with Taft, postoffice, one grocery store and a saloon, was destroyed by fire Thursday morning. The warehouses of the construction companies which are located on the opposite side of the railroad tracks escaped. The loss is estimated at between $60,000 and $75,000. A message with little insurance. ftotn Mayor Dennison of Tatt is to the effect that the fire loss will exceed $80,000. A total of fifteen business buildings and saloons weie destroyed and nothing of the contents, was saved. Rebuilding operations It Is learned have already started. that the fire was not the result of a forest blaze. The origin of the conflagration is somewhat of a mystery and the officials of the town are now attempting to discover who was reIt is thought that an sponsible. overturned lamp in the Antiettser building next to the postoffice caused the disastrous fire. Missoula, off CHINA ENTERS PROTESTS. to Japanese Executions on Chinese Soil. Pekia The killing in this city early this month of a Japanese army officer, supposed to be a spy and traitor, by Japanese soldiers attached to the Pekin legation, will result in the presentation by China of a formal protest against the doing of police duty by legation guards outside The ofof the legation precincts. ficer in question was Captain He was in the artillery branch of the Kiroshima division and 1 e was formerly an instructor in the Chinese military college at Pao Ting Fu. He was charged with selling Japanese military secrets to a foi cign power and disapepared from Japan in June. On August 1 he was discovered disguised as a Chinaman, hiding near the war office in Pekin. This knowledge was communicated to the legation guards and a detachment was sent to capture him. He the resisted arrest, whereupon guards shot and wounded the spy and he died two days later in the hospital of the legation guard. Objects STREETS OF ROME UNSAFE. n y Almost Completely Destroys g favor-seekin- - Lew-istow- So long as the Republican party to remains in power, It Is powertess can not attack It itself. regenerate in high places without s prominent of many disgracing uses 'therefore, and it, members, s surgeon the of opiates instead 1 repeat, Shall the people rule? be the to our platform is declared by a.s tho overshadowing question, and I shall take occampaign progresses, this question as it casion to discuss manifests itself in other issues; for whether we conider the tariff quesrailroad tion, the trust question, the the question, the banking question, Imof the question labor question, our of perialism. the development of the nuwaterways, or any other merous problems which press lor sowrong-doin- Overturned Lamp Starts Fire That Taft, Montana. - - n ipfeIu2 JOHN W. KERN. therefore, I cannot make a political speech on this occasion. I came here today to greet these western people and to join with them without regard to political affiliation in paying tribute with the citizens of Lincoln to one whom you all love, to the foremost citzen of America, W. J. Bryan. ! have been deeply Impressed with what I have seen In Lincoln; It was worth the trip from Indiana across the Mississippi, and the Missouri to witness that splendid neighborly spirit which has prompted this magnificent demonstration in honor of the man whom, without regard to political affiliation, we all loe, and that leads me to say that, after all, the great masses of the American people are not so far apart. Partisan spirit no longer runs so high that we cannot now and thou get out of the miasma of the political partisanship, take a step up higher and breathe the fresh, pure air of American patriotism and he a witness by our neighborly conduct. We recognize, in spite of political differences, not only the fatherhood oi God, hut the brotherhood of man It reminds me, although we may dif-te- r and differ widely on questions of political economy, of finance, as to the best method of carrying on the complex affairs of the greatest gov eminent beneath the sun, while w e nay differ on all these things, and differ earnestly, yet when it comes to devotion to a common country and lo love of the grand old starry banner which is its emblem, we are as indivisible as the sei. For your kindly greetings to myself, I thank you. n Passenger Train Hits Street C Detroit, Mich. Six men were jured severely, but not fatally, Y nesday afternoon, when a fast Inc ing Grand Trunk passenger t from Port Huron struck and wrec a Harper avenue plug line A blinding rainstorm was pfreet and this Is thought to haveprevail been Suponsible for the conductor of car not seeing the train. The car directly across the railroad trc when it was hit, and was smashei pieces, the passengers being hu in very dhailicn. to Pope, and Priesthood Hostility Among Lower Classes. are There Wls. Milwaukee, places in Rome where it is not sate for a priest to go, especially at night, and if the Holy Father were to go outside the Vatican into the streets there is no doubt that his life would be in danger, said the Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmer, archbishop of Milwaukee, speaking of his reient visit to Rome. There is the utmost to and the priestthe pope hostility hood among the lower classes. concluded the archbishop, it is not political, but is due to the contemptible, miserable sheets published there. These attack the pope and all pertaining to the Catholic church. They aie obscene and degrading and endeavoring to drag everything to then-owlevel. n Neither Roosvelt or Bryan Started Fight, Says LaFollette. Lincoln, Neb. Betore an aucPonce cf 6,000 at the Epworth assembly Thursday night, Senator Robert M. La Follette expressed great admiration and friendship for W. J. Bryan, but insisted that he himself was a The fight against the Republican. railroads to secure lower rates and wi discrimination, he said, had been started back 'in the 70s by Wiscon- Minnesota. sin, Illinois, Iowa and These policies were not the product or of the minds of either, Bryan Roosevelt, he said. Aged Religious Maniac Slays His on and Daughter. Driven insane by reLos Angeles ligious mania, H. J. Duffy. 60 veuis old, attacked and Killed his son and daughter wtth an axe, and then cut his own throat with a razor, inflictocing fatal injuries. The tragedy m curred early Thursday morning the extreme northwestern part of tin city. Duffy lived at the home of his on ion, Fred Duffy. He has be.n the verge of violent Insanity, it is ensaid, for weeks from religious thusiasm. Taylor May Return for Trial. on Louisville, Ky It Is announced lormer of a close triend authority of r Governor W. S. Taylor that Mr. 'lav-lowill return to Kentucky from Inof dianapolis for trial on a charge in the murder of Govcomplicity ernor Goebel. During his canvassif Governor A. F. Wilson stated that he was elected Mr. Taylor would certainly return to Kentucky for trial, and that he would be given a fair trial. Information from Frankfort is that, Governor Wilson has decided rot to bring this matter up pending the campaign. |