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Show reached Kellya ear and he quietly slipped away. A few minutea after Rally left the anterooms of the grand was Jurys headquarters hia absence were discovered and deputy sheriffs sent in every direction to find him and bring him m. Kelly probably never will forget his, experiences of the next 12 hours. He was held a prisoner by the men he was about to betray, and hustled off to a quarry in a remote portion of the city. One of the men who was subsequently sent to the penitentiary for bribery was left to guard him. He spent the night in a shed that atood on the brink of the quarry (Kind. Early the next morning Kelly was put on a train at one of the suburban stations and was hurried off by the most direct route to Canada. He did not atop there, and upon reaching the Atlantic coast took the first steamer for Europe. Not a word was heard as to his whereabauts during the next two months. On November 29, one day after the statute of limitations had become operative against the participants in the city lighting bribery deal, Kelly landed in New York and was met by a son of Edward Butler, who conveyed to him the news that three days before his son, his favorite child, had been burled and that his wife was then lying at the point of death. BILL JOHNSON AND THE SUGAR PUMP. The other day I was over to the sugar factory to give our Will a day off and otherwlsa celebrate Christmas day, but oh, that was the longest Danish day I ever put In, In my life, but as good luck would have It, quitting time came before I really died. When reporting there In the eurly morning, Will Gardner, the real boss, looked me over, and concluded that I couldnt run Wills job, but sent me to run what they call It In the Patent office of Washington, Joe Pats juice pump, and I learned more that day than I bad to home for the last Well, sir, that Is just about the funniest piece of machinery I ever saw in my life. It has got a seven-foo- t handle, and a capacity of a pint and a half to the minute, and otherwise all wrapped up In old balling wire, I should like to see the Inside of that invention some day. Before I started to operate It Gardner told me to be very careful, and be sure to screw her down tight every time I quit pumping. Later on I could see the necessity of that all Another right; I hate explosions. Is supI It noticed, although thing posed to be gaged, whenever I worked the handle right fast, more juice would come out of It, but in working it right fast you have got to pour water in it to keep it from heating. . Will, the real boss, told me, that with the capacity that I had for operating intricate machinery, If I would come over to his house a few evenings he would give me a course or two in sugar making, he no doubt could see something in me that I had never noticed. Well, sir, that set me thinking, and I studied the matter all day, once so hard that I forgot about my job and let the juice run over the tank and flooded the whole upper Btory before I could turn the crank down. Somebody told me that Harry Davis came near telephoning for the fife department, but by hard work with brooms, they saved the factory, the boys, however, took it all in good humor, merely considering where it came from, I must not for-gto thank the boys from the head, the real boss, down to the humble man In the shed for the courteous treatment given me, and after all of the trouble I had given them all day. I believe they considered that I had also given them a circus on Christmas day, the way I performed. Will Gardner has aroused my old ambition to be something in life, and I may yet give up my old occupation and go in to sugar making, as I would always rather boss a whole lot of men than to be bossed by one. Yours for good roads and a sugar refinery In Spanish Fork in the near fort-nigh- t. . ' it future. - A. W. JOHNSON. . -o ManZan Pile Remedy put up in convenient, collapsible tubes with nozzle attachment so that the remedy may be applied at the very seat of the trouble, thus relieving almost instantly bleeding, ltchng or protruding piles. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Sold by World Drug Co. - THE JACOB O - BJANARSON FUND. Jacob Bjanarson, the little Iceland boy, who was taken to St. Marks hlspltal the first of September, underwent his fifth operation a week ago last Monday. About three Inches of bone was removed from his leg below the knee. Before the operation his leg was plared under the X ray. He was two hours on the operating table. They hope to save the leg. but it will be some time before he will be able to leave the hospital. Total subscribed to fund . ...$3G.95 34.20 Total received Total paid out 32.20 Balance on hand 2.00 Mr. Bjanarson owes the hospltal$21.00 Mr. Bjanarson and the committee wish to thank the friends for the help given. The subserlptlon paper will be found at the Bank of Spanish Pork. Anyone wishing to pny this subscription or add to It ran do so. THBO LEE. Chairman of Committee. o John B. Jox Is offering for sale his place on Main street, consisting of a lot nnd 4 roomed brick house. o ESTRAY NOTICE. . I have in my sisssslon the follow- ing described animals impended as for trespass: s, One red yeurllng heifer, with swallow fork In left ear. No brands vis-abl- One red heifer with swallow fork in left ear and crop and under slope In right ear. No brands vlsalbe. If damage and rosts on said animals be not paid with ten days front date of this notice, they will be sold to the highest cash bidder at Spanish Fork City Bound at 2 o'clock p. m.. on the 5th day of January. 19o7. Dated at Spanish Fork. Utah County, State of Utah, this ICth day of lHcember, 1906. REES D. JAMES. Bottndkeeper of laid City. C. A. Kelly d.F. Albright duuus Lehmann. the Strain. Whatever Kelly hastened home. testimony he might be able to give waa then of no value to the stata. He had no Booner reached St. Louis than he was arrested, an indictment having been voted against him by the very grand Jury that he ran away from. A few weeks later Kelly became Insane and was confined for months in St. Vincent's asylum. Careful treatment in a measure restored his mind. Folk took pity on him and permitted him to turn state's evidence in a minor case. The indictments against him were nolle prosequi'ed. With this burden lifted from his mind his mental faculties underwent a gradual rehabilitation, and he la now trying to build up again the business that went to ruin during the time that he was involved in trouble. Of the seven men sent to the penitentiary only three are in strlpeB, the sentences of the others having expired. Gov. Folk has announced that two of these men, both of whom he prosecuted when he was circuit attorney, will be pardoned. The two men who will be the recipients of executive clemency are Julius Lehmann and Emile Hartmann. Lehmann is serving a seven years sentence and Hartmann six years for bribery in connection with the city lighting bill. Mind Broke Under d.K. Murrell Charles Kkotz St. Louis. The violent death of Robert M. Snyder, a Kansas City millionaire, haa written finis after the worlda most remarkable crusade against bribery. The death of Snyder ia the climax of a aeries of misfor- tunes and tragedies that has pursued o relentlessly the men who were caught in the boodle trap sprung by Joseph W. Folk four years ago, that the question has been asked whether fate haa not joined hands with the law to heap punishment upon their heads. men were indicted by SL Louis grand Juries for participation In three great briberies, in which more than 1300,000 was paid for the votes of assemblymen. Misfortune of some kind death, insanity, want or loss of fortune has visited the families of 16 of them. Three of them are dead. Snyder, whose case was probably the most celebrated of all, waa under Indictment in SL Louis when he was thrown out of his automobile within a few blocks of hia magnificent home, on Independence boulevard, Kansas City, on the night of October 27, and killed. When the circuit attorney of SL Louis a few days later entered a nolle prosequi In the case the docket of the criminal courts was cleared of all the boodle cases which Folk Instituted during the two years that he had bribery under Investigation. But seven men weie aent to the penitentiary for bribery. One other is under' sentence, but hla case la pending In the supreme courL But not one of the men even those who escaped the penitentiary by turning state's evidence would pass through the experiences of the last four years for all the bribe money that the wealthiest corporation of the country could put up to buy votes. The lawmaker who la tempted to sell his vote may learn something to hia advantage by studying carefully the unpleasant experiences of the men who gave and received bribes in St. Louts. Twenty-tw- o Began Boodla Crusade. If the SL Louis boodlera sowed the wind they reaped the tornado. Next to Snyder, Charles II. Turner, who died broken hearted In New York last summer, a virtual outcast from SL Louis, where he made a fortune amounting to millions of dollars, was the most lavish bribe giver exposed during the fight against corruption. He waa the first man caught. When the late Red Galvin, a veteran newspaper reporter, walked Into the office of Folk early In January, 1902, and told him that Charles H. Turner and Philip Stork, his legislative agent, had (laced f 147.500 In escrow In two trust companies' vaults to bribe the municipal assembly to pass a franchise bill for the Suburban Street Railway company, the boodle crusade began. Two days later Turner was virtually on his knees before the circuit attorney begging for mercy. The only alternative to the penitentiary was to go on the witness stand and tell the whole corrupt and ahameful story. He chose the alternative. At the time of tils exposure he was president of a big trust company as well as of the street railway company. He was promptly retired, and pretty soon the stockholders of the trust company decided that they needed another man at the head of the Institution. Turner found that he could not remain In business In St. Louis, In spite of his big fortune. He went to New York and was almost forgotten In his old home save for hla perfidy In bribing the city's lawmakers when he died, of a broken heart. Snyder's last days were full of Within the month of hla trouble. death the bleaching bones of hla son, Cary M. Snyder, were found In a loneOre. The ly spot near Hillsboro, young man, a fugitive rrnm justli Mr two years, had probably been mur P.M-Snyde- b. dered by one of a band of robbers of which he waa a member. On the very night that the elder Snyder died the widow of his son confessed that her dead husband waa a member of an organized band of robbers, who had been cracking safes throughout the western country. Cary Snyder kept hia father in constant trouble for nearly three years before he was killed. R. M. Snyder went to .SL Louis in the spring of 1898 and consummated a daring and colossal bribery, in a street railway franchise bill, says the New York Herald. i Snyder Convicted. After one of the most notable legal battles In the west. In which Folk fought against an array of the finest legal talent that money could hire, Snyder was convicted and sentenced to five years In the penitentiary. The case went to the supreme court and Bewas reversed on a technicality. fore it could be tried again Folk went out of office, having been elected governor. The Snyder case was one of the few that he passed down to Arthur N. Sager, his successor. Last May Sager nolle prossed the case and Issued a new Information against Snyder. The case was called for trial in Septetmber, but owing to the absence of material witnesses for the state, It waa again nolle prossed and a new Information sworn out. This case was standing against Snyder when death entered the final nolle prosequi. The cases against and Ritter, growing indirectly out of a bribery committed some years ago, are the only entries on the court dockets to remind SL Louis of her famous municipal scandals. Ed. Butler, the boss politician, who was three times Indicted and twice tried for bribery, haa had his troubles, too. Butter waa first indicted for attempting to bribe members of the board of health to award him a contract for bundling the city garbage. He was tried In Columbia, Mo., convict ed and sentenced to three years In the penitentiary, hut escaped when the supreme court decided that as the members of the hoard of health were not officials they could not be bribed. He was next indicted for handling a boodle fund of 117,500 to have passed a hill providing for the lighting of the streets with gas instead of electricity He was acquitted of this charge at Ful ton. Mo., and in that respect consld eretl himself lucky. Soon after his first Indictment his John Barle, died. Before he wag tried on the second Indictment his favorite son. John U. Butler, who had been faithful to the old mun's Interests, fell sick and died. This blow broke Butler's heurt and hurt him worse than all of Folks prosecutions. Permanent Exile. a millionaire Ellis WalnwrlghL brewer, who was a director in the Suburban Railway company when it attempted to buy up the council and house of delegates, has been exiled in Paris for more than four years. An Indictment for bribery is pending against him in SL Louis and he dare not return. Charles Gutke, a former member of the house of delegates, was Indicted for bribery In September, 1902. So many of the boodlera had run away to escape punishment that the courts would not accept ball at less than $20,-00Ed. Butler signed bonds until he would not be accented on more. As In Charles Kratz was the first member to-b- e indicted for of the city council with was charged He bribery. In the Suburban deal, and, before like Murrell, he fled to Mexico trial. to came his case After two years persistent work UnitFolk succeeded in Influencing the a make to ed States government crime the Mexico covering with treaty of of bribery. The attorney general the United States construed this and under treaty to be retroactive, extradited. its provisions Kratz waa Louis, Scarcely had he returned to St.was atin the spring of 1903. when he for and with appendicitis tacked d months hovered between life might however, His sickness, death. forhave been considered a turn of enabled it because his In favor, tune him to get his case carried on the dockets until after Folk was elected at governor, and when he was tried Butler, Mo., he was acquitted. Before he was tried one of his children died. Never Saw Hla First Born. Charles E. Denny was considered one of the brightest members of the old house of delegates. He was a railroad employe and had an excellent and reputation until Folk caught him his on Indictments three slapped bnektwo for bribery and one for marperjury. Denny had Just been ried. and a few months after the wedding bells rang he was bundled up by the sheriff and hustled off to the penitentiary. While he waa a prisoner a babe was born In his household, but he never saw the face of his first born, as death carried it away before its father's term ended. Louis Decker, a liveryman, 1 the only member of the old house of delegates combine who was convicted after Folk quit the circuit attorneys His conviction hastened the office. death of his aged mother, which occurred a few weeks after the Jury found him guilty. Edmund Bersch. once a prosperous insurance broker, was the first of the house of delegates combine to begin a term of service in the penitentiary. His mind gave way under the strain, and he spent the greater part of his 18 months Imprisonment In the hospital. When he left the penitentiary he was broken In health a mental and physical wreck. One Man Escaped Fate. Just one man John Schnettler who elected to stand trial on the charges preferred against him, has escaped without some misfortune oth- er than the penitentiary sentence im- DELINQUENT NOTICE. SpaniBh Fork West Field Irrigation company. Place of business finam.K Fork, Utah. There are delinquent upon the fob lowing described stock on account of cash assessment levied on the 20th day of October, 1906, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective stockholders, as And In accordance with law, bo many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary, will be sold on the 5th day of January, 1907, at 2 o'clock p. m at the City Hall, Spanish Fork, to pay the delinquent assessment thereon, together with the cost of advertising and expense of the sale. CHARLES MONK, Sec. and Treas. Spanish Fork. Dec. 21, 1906. o of Tennessee Arranges prise for Absent Members. Gaines Washington. Representative Sur- John Gaines, who Is in favor of, enacting a new statute providing that members shall forfeit $13.70 for every day absent, announces that as a result of a search through the old documents at the capitol he has found that, a statute, passed in 1856, which prohibits absent members from collecting their salaries unless they are kept from their official duties by Illness, has never been repealed. Wesley If a man la prosperous he has to use for his friends; If he Isnt they have no use for him. posed upon him. He has served out Probate and Guardianship Notices, his sentence. These are what may be called the Consult County Clerk or the respective littragedies of the St. Louis boodle cru- ers (or further information. sade. The facta are strange almost MOT1CB TO CRIDITORS In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial startling. The boodler'a punishment of In the penitentiary was the least of District the State of Utah, in and for Utah their suffering. They saw their chil- county. Kstate of Lucy D. Miller, deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers dren scorned by other children In the to the undersigned at his place of residence, at schools and on the streets. They saw Spanish Fork, Utah countv. State of Utah, on their faithful wives, heartbroken, fall or before February 27th, IK07. Marinur Larses. Executor. at the feet of the law their husbands A. B. Morgan, Attorney for Kxocutor. First bad outraged, and plead for mercy that publication Oct. 26. HAM. could not be given. These men were haughty, brazen; when in the zenith of their power as corruptionists, (hey Sons Peterson sacrificed every interest of the people for the money of franchise grabbers. has a full stock of But they have had their puntshmenL The man who la about to sell hia vote for money may determine for himself imported and home made. Our bomi whether fate joined bands with law made Caskets are the finest made. Our prices are the lowesL & S. Coffins and Caskets lit-ho- son-inla- Kellys Evidence Needed. There was one man only among the former members of the house of delegates who knew where the $47,500 came from that was paid for the votes of the combine members In the city lighting deal. Leland Roller 11$ C O M P A N r Mamkactiukks of. High Grade Flour, Graham, Germade, Corn Meal, Rolled Barley, and All Kinds of Feed. Grist Work Specialty, Every Sack of Flour Guaranteed. o. U. BUADFOIU). Milieu. ELLISON JOHN I'arries a First-C'la- s Stock of Jewelry at lowest prices.. ..Repairing a Specialty Call In 1 door north Worlu Urng Co. Miss Martha Johnson That was former Speak er Charles F. Kelly. It had been developed that Kelly received the money rom Edward Butler, nnd Butler was promptly Indicted. But In this transaction Butler was simply acting as a friend. Kellys evidence wus necessary to establish the Identity of the man who stood in Butler's shadow. Folk knew who he was so did the public, but Kelly had the only evidence that would Indict the man who was ten times a millionaire. Folk had Kelly before the grand Jury on the aftermsm of September 8. 1902, and was gradually forcing u confession out of him. Emissaries of the boodlera were at once dispatched to the four courts where the Inquisition was In progress to get Into communication with Kelly. While Folk was In room these tnen the Grand Jur I Opposite Pack1 Pavilion SPANISH FORK. UT. GEORGE A. KINO - a consequence Gutke was confined In to scourge the recreant HOUSE public cervanta SHORT ..ORDER Jail for six months. During that time in Hi. Lout. He at least find In AND HOT TOMALE STAND may son Eugene was strick- their unhappy hla experiences some lesson en down with galloping consumption that may put a check MoiiU ot All I lours upon him when and died. Gutke was later permitted he reaches for the forlddden a told Day or Niht to tqrn state's evidence and escaped lesson that will impel him to hew OPPOUlT KVKRYTIIINU piwuecutlor. line of duty. straight i eTK co-oI'lHbT clanm p. |