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Show I i THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. ANDREW FIERCE FIGHT WITH M0R0S. JESIIH, Publtaha. SOLDIERS CAPTURE FORT AFTER SPANISH FORK, HAND STRUGGLE. UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS. One Officer end Seven Eullsted Men ere Hilled, While the Enemy's Lom Wes Very llenvy Moroe Ktab Sol- diers Attempting to The Utah theep clip la estimated at close to 15,000,000 pounds. Help Them. Over thirty-fiv- e families in Spanish Fork are quarantined for measles. Hay, potatoes and oats are being shipped by the carload lot from Rich field this spring, .The trial of Peter Mortensen, the alleged murderer of James' Ilay, has begun in Salt Lake. The weather man reports for the month of April ten cloudy days, ten clear and ten partly cloudy, Frisby K. Bevens of Custer county, Neb., has been appointed bs wheelwright at the Uintah and Ouray reser vation in Utah, Fire, supposed to have been started from mill dust, destroyed tbe Spring-vill- e mill last week, causing a loss of about $12,000. The war department has received a cablegram from General Chaffee indicating that the campaign against Sultan Bayan, one of the principal Moro chiefs, had beeu completely successful. The result was accomplished by a gallant assault ou the principal Moro fort and Its capture after a number of leading Moros had been killed. The cablegram was as follows: "The following is the full substance of g Webb A Austin have finished at their corrals west of the Saratoga farm, near Lehi, having sheared about 80,000 sheep, Tbe sheepmen who have ranged their ed flocks near Fillmore have nearly shearing aod many loads of wool are leaving for the market. The Provo Woolen Mills company is now running night and day, and is making 22,000 yards of cloth a month, 7,000 over the quantity made at this sheep-shearin- fin-lish- time last year. The d son of F. M, Dor-rit- y, of Richfield, drank a small quantity of carbolic acid one day last week. Ilia mouth and chin were badly burned, but he will recover. A local stock company has been organized andjWill fence in nearly all the low hills north of Lehi, for a spring four-year-ol- pasture. They have purchased the land from the state. Burglars entered the store of Abra. ham Smith at Smithfield one night last week, securing a quantity of goods, consisting of jewelry, gentlemens furnishings and cutlery. The carpenters of Salt Lake, who threatened to strike on May 1 if their demands for 45 cents per hour were not acceded to, have galued their point and there will be no strike. Denver parties are figuring on establishing a plant at Lehi for the manufacture of fire brick, tiling, etc., in order to utilize the vast clay beds about two miles north of the town. The daily capacity of the Garden City Evaporating and Canning company, of Provo, this summer will be in the cannery, ,1,000 cans, aod in the ' bushels. evaporating plant, sixty-fiv- e Andrew Jensen, of Chester, and A I t vln Bertelson, of Spring City, boys aged 10 or 17, have been arrested charged with burglarizing the saloon and drug store at Mount Pleasant last week. Daniel S. Marshall, of Karoas, has received his commission as superintendent of forest reserves for this state, to succeed Major George F. Bucher, who was appointed four years ago from Illinois. Mrs. Oleson.aged 80, and Mrs. Henry llanson, aged 60, mother and daughter, died at Spanish Fork last week and were buried on the same day, They emigrated to Utah from Denmark in the early days. Word has been received form the interior department that the Fish Lake reserve, in southern Utah, will not be open for sheep this season, and tbe Payson reserve will also be closed against sheep under the general order. The Socialist headquarters of the state are now located at Lehi, and the local organization seems to be most flourishing. It is their Intention to rent offices and also a hall in which to hold meetings. Last fall Lehi elected a Socialist marshal. At an election held at Kaysvtlle last week a proposition to bond the Eighth school district for 112,000, for the purpose of finishing a schoolhouse, which was commenced last year, and to erect another modern central one, was voted down. Sheriff Storrs of Provo has received a photograph of George T. Howard, the man arrested at Ridgewood, N. J., some time ago, and who was supposed to be Wright, the Pelican Point murderer. The photograph does not In the least resemble Wright. About May 10th the sugar company will set their osmose plant at Lehi In operation for the conversion of last season's syrup into brown sugar. A number of men will be employed and the plant will be So operation about seventy days. James Rosa, an Italian miner 80 years old, was found dead beside the wagon road near tbe Eureka cemetery Tbnrsday morning of last week. Ills neck was bmken, aod It Is supposed be was thrown from hie horse while riding homeward. The state O. A. R. encampment was held In Ogden last week, nearly 00 members being In attendance. W. M. Itoetaph of Ogden wat elected department commender, and it waadecidad to hold the nest encampment In Salt Lake City. left-ov- er Brigadier-Gener- al George W. Davis message from Bayan: " Eighty-fou- r survivors of the forces of Sultan Bayan surrendered unconditionally this morning at 7 o'clock. Sultan Bayan, Raja Muda Bayan, Sul- tan Pandapatan aod all the leading Dattoe are dead, also many of their followers. The assault on the principal fort( which surrendered last night, was one of the most gallant performances of American arms. Colonel Frank D. Baldwin and his regiment deserve all d praise for the struggle in four lines of ditches under the walls of the fort. These trenches are lined with 1 have Moro dead from the rifle fire. never seen or heard of&ny performance excelling this gallant fight. " It is my painful duty to report that the overthrow of Moro power was not accomplished without severe loss. One officer and seven enlisted men were killed, four officers and thirty enliated men wounded. 'I will telegraph the band-to-han- list later. " 'After the eighty-fosurvivors were marched out this morning aa prisoners, and it was understood they were all, eight others, who bad concealed themselves in rubbish Inside the fort, made a break for liberty, but did not succeed. ' 'Some of the Moro wounded tried to stab the soldiers tryingtohelp them. It is impossible to state the number of Moros killed, many lying in the tall grass. Tbe surrender saves us from a long siege and starving them out. It was impossible to have carried tbe works without scaling ladders, which were ready, " I intend to retain the prisoners nntil two or three small adjacent forts are occupied, then I will consent to release as hostages eight or, ten of tbe principals, sdJ then release the others. Awful Slaughter by Chinese at Chlng ur Shang Fal. News has been brought by the steamer Olympia from the Orient of further successes by the K wang Mi rebels, whose g armies were besieging on West river at last re. the Nanaing ports. Fugitives who were flying to Canton from the scene of bloodshed ever-growin- and pillage reported that the slaughter at Chlng Shang Fui when that city fell was awful. More than 1,000 persona were killed and their bodies left unburled In tbe atreets, while the rebels burned and looted tbe stores and houses. Terrible slaughter is also reported from other captured towns. Several thousand of tbe imperial army are aaid to have deserted. Fifty Foopla Fvrlvh In Fire at Mount Gnntl Fifty persons have perished In a fire at Mount Gant!, a town on the right bank of the Damiettta branch of tha Nile. The flames were started by the intensely hot weather prevailing. Thousands of native residences and 00 stores were destroyed. Chinese Carry Banners Baying All Mlulunarlra." Abollah The French legation at Pekin takes a serious view of the riots in Chi LI The name of the missing province. priest ia Finch. The name of the priest who was murdered was Lorouller. He waa a Jesuit. The banners of the riotera are inscribed with the words, "Abolish the Missionaries. Yuan Sbl Kai, the governor of the province, haa sent troop into tbe disturbed district with strict orders to aternly auppreaa the outbreak. Many Llvse Lost In Fire. Tha fire at Mil Gamer, a town tin tbe right bank of the Damlotta branch ef the Nile, in which a number of lives were lost and thousands of natlva wera destroyed, burned from Thursday afternoon until Saturday night. The inhabitants of the town were unable to escape from their flimsy wood and straw houses and burned therein or lost their lives while trying to resou their belongings Sixty-onreal-den- e bodies have already been recovered. Pioneer Newspaper Mae of Montana Called Hear. Hugh McQusid, pioneer of Montana, one of the founders of Helena an newspaper maa and one of the mining promoters of the northwest, died suddenly of apoplexy. Ilia biggest deal was the sale of the Drumlummoa mine to an English syndicate, In which be waa associated with Henry Bratnoker. six years ago Mr. MeQuald removed to Spokane, but returned to Helena a year ago. lade-pende- old-tii- ue best-kno- wn OF MONEY BRITISH TERMS REASONABLE POWER. BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS NEAR ALMIRA, WASH. hCW CHEAP EAKING p0 made. The Health Department has seized a quantity 0 ? York Btlllonl of Hollin, One Desperado Is Dead While His Partner cheap .baking powder, whle Is Is nt Large Rot When J. Pierpont Morgan added Wearing In that city. Attention Handcuff. of Pair trans-Atlan- tic combination steamship to it by the low price at The Ontlook for Fence In South Africa to tbe list of great concerns he has pro" One of the most desperate battles being sold in the department Is Promising, as It Is Thought tbe moted and financed, the total capital ever fought in the northwest between Sumples were taken and tbe Barghsrs Will Vote for Peace, of the companies And trusts he coatrola officers of the law and desperadoes ocof the Health Department was swelled to 85,210,093,386, lie haa be held, curred Sunday ut Almira, Wash. As a the stuff to be an mum 'i Boer meetings continue to which analysis showed to large interests in concerns he does not Ichiefly in the Transvaal to receive the result Billy Gibbons, one of the desb., pretend to control, and, therefore, the leaders explanation of the British peradoes, lies dead, and his partner is ed chiefly of alum and J' v reck. t real total of his vast holdings is un iterms. It is understood that the heated at large, though handcuffed. The powder was declared fo.1 known. have occurred and discussions that have About two weeks ago Gibbons gerous to health, and sever Mr. Morgan and six other Amer ican usually shown the majority to be id Wild rounded up a band of horses to sand pounds were carted to it,1 citizens have now become more power- favor of peace. ship to Wyoming. Deputy Nichell, of dock and destroyed, it is ful than any congress or parliament It is said that about two hundred Okanogan county, followed the thievea experiment with these Kt in tbe world. Fourteen steamship delegates will attend tbe conference to cheap articles of food, ft' for two weeks through Okanogan counlines and forty-fou- r railroads are be held at Vereeniging, Transvaal colthem at Almira. Nichell sure to be made from alum.ro, locating ty, theirs. On land a mileage of 108,500 ony, May 15th, and that all sections of and Constable Phillips of Almira cap- other injurious matter. in and on sea a tonnage of 1,200,000 are the burghers will be thoroughly repre- tured Wild in a livery stable. Wild powders, the high dlass, cream in their control. Three hundred of sented there. It is expected that a tar brands are the most eeot1 drew bis gun, but the deputy sheriff because go farther In uset the largest steamships in the world vote by ballot will be taken at this covered him constable the and grabbed healthfulthey and 30,000 of the beyond question. passenconference. tbe weapon. Tbe prisoner was handDewet ger and freight trains take orders from General It is reported that cuffed and turned over to a group of Richest Man In Tark;, them. Tbia railway mileage is greater has frankly declared the British terms about twenty men in the hotel office. Hassan Pasha has the reputi than tbe combined mileage of Great to be reasonable, and that it is advisGibbons was seen entering a saloon being the richest man and tli Britain, Russia, Germany, Spaiu, Hol- able to accept them, while Delarey is and the officers found their man in a corrupt man in the Turkish 300 land and Belgium. And more than aaid to be ready to abide by tbe deNichell drew hie gnn and ment He is supposed to bt; vessels, which will sail under its cision of the majority. The outlook side room. $40,000,000 or $50,000,000, al of ordered tbe desperado to surrender. he has orders, cannot be duplicated from the for peace, therefore, is promising. acquired while in the t Gibbons jumped behind a bystander of merchant marine of every ocean. the government He hat pi and shoved him toward tbe officers, at fluence with the sultan. The COPPER WAR IS OVER. While Mr. Morgan is not personally the eame time drawing his revolver considers him one of his mo worth perhaps not more than a hunAgreement Is Reached by Which the and dred million of dollars, corporations starting for the side door. He and efficient officers and trim Amalgamated Controls the Situation. his left arm to shoot and Nichell Implicitly. raised more over which he has control possess j The copper war is over. Agreements wealth than there la gold on tbe earth. have been signed or are about to be shot the fugitive in the side nnder bis Do Your Foot Ache and Bn The total capitalization of all the comupraised arm. Gibbons bullet went Shake Into your shoes, Alien signed which will put the entire situawild and he started for his saddle Ease, a panies he controls is 85,210,983,386 powder for the feet It s hands of the Amalgation into horse, two blocks away, firing as he tight or New Shoes feel Eatj.i and all the gold combined and un- mated Copper company. Corns, Bunions, Swollen, coined, in all the nations, including It is stated in Wall street that agree- ran. Feet At all tbe populous east, is estimated at While he was mounting he was again Shoe Stores, 25c. SampleDrugf., ments had been signed between the sentf There are in the whole Amalgamated horse Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeEr company and Senator hit in the hip and arm and his known world about 1,320,000,000 human W. A. Clark, controlling the United was shot through the hips. The animal, Talon of Picture Fluotoiu beings. J. P. Morgan controls enough Verde mine; Fhelps, Dodge & Company, notwithstanding, carried its rider a As the fluctuations h showing to give each 84. controlling the Copper Queen and other quarter of a mile to where a horse was of pictures a canvas by Gen: i The Arizona companies; William Green, standing tied with a halter. which the owner paid $17, d . ( Unde 8am Still Reducing His Liabilities. controlling the Green Consolidated wounded horse was discarded for the time ago, only brought $4,000 $ The monthly statement of the pnblic mines in Mexico; the Lewishons, con- fresh one. lion lately, while a work by r debt shows that at tbe close of tbe Meanwhile Nichell bad secured his costing originally $500, hat if mines, and trolling large independent business April 30, 1002, the debt, less tbe Heinzea. n mount from the stable and be soon vanced in value that the press' cash in the treasury, amounted to er has already refused $16,000 The Amalgamated ia to buy tbe came within gunshot of his fleeing 8903,115,070, which is a decrease as United Copper company stocks in the man. A running fight was kept up Cheap Excnnlon Ratos via tbs It compared with April 1, 1002, of $4,616,-35open market, tbe understanding being eleven miles, when Gibbons threw Topeka A Santa Fa Rsllni The debt ia recapitulated as fol that thelleinzes will tbe The dismounted. his majorand down On June 10th, 11th, and Km permit gun lows: of their holdings to be acquired desperado had but two cartridges left, following first-claity pasaenp:' Interest-bearin- g 1931,070,750 debt below a certain figure. having used a belt full of ammunition. will be effective via abon Debt on which Interest bss ceased la He was brought to Almira, and died at from Ogden and Salt Lake City, Chaos Would Result If Troops Were Withsince maturity 1,302,080 fo 305,483,127 Debt bearing no Interest drawn from Philippine. co midnight in the presence of his father 10 f al and mother. Missouri and arRiver return who has Remey, 1.327,855,950 Total Th in New York from the Philipf St Louis and return Wild meanwhile, guarded and haad-cuffeThis amount, however, does not in- rived I was kept in the hotel office in Chicago and return ly clude $830,202,089 in certificates and pines, says; "Concerning general conth Final in Gen. return limit ditions Chaffee the told Scptember8ti island, men. the of about twenty presence are which treasury notes outstanding, other For reduced me before to I were rates left that face prothings apSuddenly, late at night, a offset by an equal amount of cash on and information regarding er. peared on the outside of the window, band held for their redemption. ' The gressing slowly slowly but surely on other dates than above, wh , was and a matter that dashed Wild pacification and and smiled only fol ia as through classified cash in the treasury C. F. WARREN, Genl A get! of time. Talk of the withdrawal of the door. It is supposed be escaped lows: t United States from the Philips on horseback, and no trace of him has & S. F. Ry. the Gold reserve fund 150,000,000 411 Dooly Block, Salt Lake pines is based on an inaccurate and been found. 830,2M,089 Trust funds j V of 143,343.109 conditions General funds incomplete knowledge Tha Pape'a Sweet Tooth1 120,300,714 In National bank depositaries out there. This country could not Paaon Outlook In Booth Africa Regarded Holiness the-SaIlls bee i as Favorable. withdraw. Chaos would be tbe refor sweets and is never without C Total 1,213,042,003 sult. In pursuance of an understanding box of bonbons usually somef Against which there are demand Aaylum In Mexico For Indicted Councilman. reached by 'the Boer delegates at the of chocolate drops in bis f liabilities outstanding amounting to D The state department has been noti- conference recently held at Pretoria, Until his severe Illness in the 8900,202,019, which leaves a cash balfied that tbe Mexican government the delegates are busy visiting the of 1899 the Pope had hardly ber. diwii ance on hand of 8334,739,083. after hia accession to the pa?' la finally refused the application of tbe burgers in the field. General Iiotba, 35 he is said to have deck' and n United States government for the surthe Transvaal commander-ichief; V Four Hundred People Perish Id a Tornado. since I have been Pope I ban CH Acting President Schalkburger of the time to consult A tornado lias devastated the city of render of Charles Kratz, and a' voii nan of St. Louis, charged with bribTransvaal: General Delarey, General always been well.doctors, Dacca and adjoining towna. Four commsnder-ln-chle- f arLucas of man been has The held nnder Meyer, ery. hundred and Bixteen persons were Bie HaUe Catarrh Care killed. Crops were ruined throughout rest at Guadalajara, the Mexican gov- the Orange Free State forces; Secretary bav Is taken Infernally. Price, 75a, the district. Dacca, a city in Bengal, ernment having consented to his de- of State Reitz of the Transvaal; Mr. la a of the conFree tention for Orange Steyn, eight days, pending has a famous place in the history of of the request. An effort State, and General Dewet have each Male Tnstoa In Boasts British India. It is situated 150 miles sideration C3 was made to secure the prosecution of taken a seperate district for the purMaidens who have passed northeast of Calcutta. In the seven- Kratx in Mexico, but without avail, ti now claim of the with year may commandos pose conferring teenth century it was the capital of and nnder the decision just announced, as rapidly aa possible. After these represent the most perfect t' Bengal. In 1890 it bad a population of be will be discharged and go unpunished. conferences a general meeting has vanced type of maidenhood, c 200,000, and was noted for its product down upon girls who marry office muslins, which were known as Revolutionists Control Rrpubllo of (Suoto been arranged for atVereining, Trans" as very much more akin to vaal, May 25th, when a final decision for It is a well known fact s Domingo. "woven wind. Growing imports of Is expected. A headed PresiVice revolution Manchester cottons ruined its indusby age of marriage advances with dent llorscio has is believed 1891 tlon. Everywhere the moni broken Boers and who out. the have It however, Vasquel, tries, popuamoog by woman is to the fore. j Tbe revolutionists, in strong force, are surrendered and other lation had dwindled to 82,000. I DUI on Santo Domingo, the capithe peace outlook is that marching persons, w Ploos Curs Is tbs best medicine Coagreunmn Cummings Dead. tal. Tbe government ! taking serioua favorable, if the delegates place tbe (or all affections of tbs throat and Id Coogressman Amos J. Cummings of steps to defend the city. O. Enoai.Br, Vunbbren, Ind., Feb t! situatloo fairly before tbe burghers. - r c New York died at Baltimore of pneuAll the republic of Santo Domingo, Tie Premonition Proved monia, Incident to an operation, aged Killed Ills Betrayer. except the port of Puerto Plata, and A aensatlonal case of colncl 61 years. Congressman Cummingscame the capital, Santo Domingo, on the has just been learned that a mur- :ently occurred at Newport. Ur v It to Baltimore on April 11 to undergo south coast, la in the hands of the der was recently committed in the Anstee, tbe proprietor of the treatment for kidney trouble. Four penitentiary at Rusk, Texas, which is Arms Hotel, had a present!! days later an operation waa performed of tbe ord.nary. Recently the San he would dl on tbs annlversar out Earth-qosks. and Mr. Cummings seemed to be on a Une Thousand Lives Lost In An Antonio officers convicted a number of death of his wifs, who fell i fair way to recovery. A week later, lured her skull a year ago. H The firm of Castle Brothers of San Mexicans of robberies extending over tried to laugh him out of Ithowever, pleurisy developed, end on several years, in which it was estimathaa received Francltco a waa 25 at $ ' found cablegram was In dead bed it announced Mr. that April ed that $10,000 worth of goods had been few In from which their Gautemaia, ageot mornings ago exactly ! Cummings was suffering from pneuand sold. The leader of the er hia wife's fatal accident stolen in Central America stated more that monia in one lung. Last Tuesday it gang was Ramon Mendez, and he was was announced that the malady bad than 1,000 lives were loat in the earthNoted Cities. given of eighteen years. The police used More 18th. than 30,000 April extended to both lungs, since which quake Is Juan Aguilar for a witness and he waa Chicago probably the time Mr, Cummings has been hovering were rendered homeless. Of these the ' known five off with MenAs let soon as city In the United years. majority lived In the town of Quezal-tenang- o. between life and death. An appeal for aid ia made. dez had an opportunity after arriving Noted for ita push and tn Rutte Tenmalere Strike. at the penitentiary he killed Aguilar, well as being the Windy City War In Montana. Rang Milwaukee also haa a The teamsters employed at the variA range war baa broken out In the ous lumber yards in Butte, amounting England Will Pay If liners Will Admit reputation on account of the ? of Maddox, Mont. This secwell as the quantity of its v$ They urn Defeated. to fifty men, aod twenty-fiv- e more vicinity tion was settled up largely by API J W. Cock duotlon of beer. llourke ran, who has Jus t employed by the coal dealers of the and for years there have been returned from a noH while to beweut Paul, out possibly Rome, Egypt trip city, Thursday morning feuda in the neighborhood, but aod London, said that, in hia opinion, ally well known as the t cause their employers refused their petty nothing serious has happened until a if the lioera will make an oral conces- cities, is nevertheless noted demands for an eight-hou-r day at tbe few nlghtaago, when unknown parties sion of defeat, the English will pay ways, and Is one of the pop 83. About twenty men present rate of i who are employed aa finishers In the attempted to assassinate the llofcldt them almost any aura to restore their Cities of the Northwest in their house. Tim would-b- e brothers f cities All three are famous homes end repair the ravlumberyards also quit work for the murderers shot through a window destroyed the same reason, demanding 85 for an and escaped without detection. Tim age! of war. In other words, he said, names combined form rallwAt: Is America's eight-hou- r and trouble anxloua over to pay a crowded conEngland ready greatest originated day, instead of tea hours, ditions of tha ranges and scarcity of large amount of money to bring about and noted the world over for aa at present. water. lor management, elegant N peace in South Africa. Iloers Will liwld on I'mn Terms May IB, Officers Fire I pan n Woman and Child general ' Manager of Helena Smeller Will Net Rec- splendid service and According to a cablegram from Lonof all Deputy Sheriffs In pursuit of strikthe latest safety arP ognise talon. don the general meeting of the Boer ing silk dyers in tbe of it P th comfort and village of Lodi, safety Manager Whitley of the East Helena, ' leaders, at which a Anal decision on N. J., surrounded the house of Fredtrain Ite eloctrlo lighted tbe subject of the peace negotlatiooa erick Behle end called ou him and his Mont., smelters, refuses to negotiate the world over. i with the men ea representatives of the la expected, will take place at Vereen-iginfrlenda to surrender. As Mrs. liable, betwe! le the It line ehort union, and declares that before the Transvaal, May 15th, aa an- carrying her child in her arms, ran will recognize tbe demands and Chicago, and like eupcrlo'1 company nounced. from the house the deputies opened of tri tbe amollermen it will ship Ita ore of merchandise is, once It la officially asserted that aubse-que- fire end a bullet struck the woman in Used. elsewhere. He declared that he made to the of the Boer the arm. The shooting has Infuriated Try it the next time you g! a proposition for the recognition of the leader at Vereenlglng they will protha strikers, who marched through the L. L. but that It was refused by the ceed to I'retorla and deliver to Lord usually quiet atreela of Urn village union, Kitchener their decision In regard to threatening to make trouble. Several men. Bonds were lo be given by the Commercial Agent, Chics;0' ke A Rl Iaul llatlwsT, the peace terms they are prepared to claahea ensued in 'which a number of union and the agreement was to have 4 accept. City, Utah. persons were beaten. been of two years duration. J. AMERICAN HAND TO , MONARCH P. Morgan, the King of Finance, Con-tro- ll GENERAL DEWET SAYS IT IS DESIRABLE TO ACCEPT THEM. best-equipp- - 0. I , ss Rear-Admir- d, C pe -- ! well-inform- oa, 8. ! 19 g, nt |