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Show c . " ROOSEVELT OPPOSES SMOOTS CANDIDACY. STANDING WXXUM, Proprietor. Term of Sabacrlptloa: Cn Year, In advance.... plx Lonths uuee u.js u Mouths Si ntared at the Poatofflce at Brigham City aa second-clas- s mall matter. HYKCM STANDING. Editor. , Instructions to Correspondents. Items of news are solicited from all parts the country. of Write upon ene side of the . Write proper names plainly.paper only In order to protect the publisher from Im- from Irresponsible persons, the full Csltions the sulhor should be signed to all com aaunicattons The identity of correspondents will be withheld whenever desired. -- PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. .There are three lawyers la the lower bouse of the legislature. A new map of Utah bas just been published by the land department. In American Fork and vicinity over 150 people have had . smallpox since last AprlL A case of smallpox developed In thp Utah county infirmary last week, and that institution has been quarantined. It Is an assured fact that an electric plant will be installed at the mines of the Sterling Coal & Coke company at Morrison, In the near future. The new school building at Charleston was formally opened on the 6th, with Impressive ceremonies. One hundred and fifty pupils were enrolled. At the joint caucus of the Democratic senators and representatives, Joseph L. Rawlins was unanimously nominated as the partys candidate for senator. ' A rabbit hunt for a wager of $50 between picked crowds of fifteen men each from Ephraim and Manti, resulted In a victory for Ephraim by a score of 185 to 153. The state board of equalization has Hied its annual report with Governor Wells. The total assessment for the year 1902 is $118,047,216. This is an Increase over 1901 of $5,445,561, The son of H. P. Hansen of Ephraim, struck a horse on the leg with a stick, the horse retaliated, kicking the little fellow In the face. Inflicting serious injuries. He may lose tils eyesight Six young men of Salt Lake are confined to their homes with smallpox, having contracted the disease at a dance, when they danced with a young lady who had the disease and did not know what ailed her. Myron Tapner, who came to Utah In the Mormon battalion In 1847, Is , dead at his home in Salt Lake. Mr. Tanner was mayor of Provo for a number of terms, and had held various positions of trust. James Larson, a member of the faculty of the L. D. S. university, died at the detention hospital near Salt Lake City last week, from smallpox. Mr. Larson caught the disease from his wife, and died after eight days. ' Two boys, while skating on the pond in Liberty Park, Sat Lake, Sunday last, broke through the Ice, and for half an hour stood with their noses just out of the water until rescued by tLe motorman of a passing street car. Joseph Felts, the boy of St. George who recently stole two horses and made his escape from the county Jail, being captured after an exciting chase, has been sentenced to three years in the reform school. A meeting was held In Springville last week to consider the proposition of calling a special election to vote on the question of bonding the city to put In an electric light plant In Hobble Creek canyon. The sentiment of the jneetlng was almost unanimously In favor of the proposal. .The Salt Lake Medical society wants a law passed that will give the bodies of the unclaimed dfd to the physicians for dissection. Thjy claim that other states have such a law, and that It Is a good one; that th bodies of such people can be used for the benefit of science and will be of use in the curing of those living. A summary of the feather report for 1902 shows that there hare been only three years In the history of the Utah weather bureau that were drier. The driest year on record was 1863, when the total precipitation for the year was a little over six Inches. The total precipitation for last year was 11.41 inches. i While a number of children were playing In the public school grounds at Mt Pleasant, the son of Christian Hansen was knocked down by a horse which stepped upon him, inflicting injuries which may prove fatal f Each of the four wards of American Fork are busy now getting rock on the ground for their new meeting houses. They each have 100,000 brick bought and will commence to lay the founds tlons and brick as soon as spring opens up. . At a meeting of the leading citizens of Draper, held In the Draper ward house, Saturday, It was decided to organize a club for the purpose of bettering any and all conditions In the town that may call for possible im. provement The long looked for rabbhlt hunt beMt. Pleasant and Moroni came off Saturday. The team from Mt Pleasant vanquished their opponents. They were easy victors, with 140 bunnies over and above those killed by Moroni hunters. ' Lowell Steele, a colored janitor of Salt Lake, died Saturday night under circumstances that lead his friends to believe thqt he was poisoned. He was found alcne in a room In a dying condition, and' passed away without retaining consciousness. tween CHIEF EXECUTIVE TAKE8 A HAND IN UTAH POLITICS. Tblnks It Would be Uowlae to Send aa Apostle of the Church to the United States Semite. The general topic of discussion throughout Utah Is the position taken by President Roosevelt regarding the selection of a senator from Utah to succeed Senator Rawlins. The presidents attitude in this matter was made public Thursday through Senator Kearns, who, when asked for an expression upon the selection of a successor to Senator Rawlins, said: I have refrained from any expression upon this subject up to this time, hut It appears to me I should give to the members of the Utah legislature and others in the state directly interested such Information as has come to me here, and which may not he known to them. I feel it In my line of duty as their representative In the United States senate. About the middle of last month I was called into consultation here by some distinguished Republicans, among them Senator Hanna of Ohio, chairman of the Republican national committee. Later the subject of the discussion of that conference was broached to me by President Roosevelt, and when I went to Salt Lake City to spend the holidays with my family, I bore a message from President Roosevelt and Chairman Hanna to Mr. Reed Smoot. I would not at that time or at any other time disclose the contents of that message, which I laid before Mr. Smoot, had it not been that I was requested to do so in this public manner by President Roosevelt this afemoon, in order that the Utah legislature and the citizens of the state generally may be fully advised of the opinion of these gentlemen. The message was to the effect that there was no objection to Mr. Smoot, personally, or his religious faith, but that the election of an apostle would arouse opposition, and inject an unfortunate question Into national politics, and create unfavorable comment. It was stated that the members of the Mormon church, being In the majority In the legislature, would naturally desire, and were fully entitled, to select one of their choice, and tt was urged that some one other than an apostle he chosen. This afternoon President Roosevelt requested me to state, in the manner I am now stating it, that he very much hoped no apostle would be elected. He based his expression and Interest on the firm belief that the selection of any apostle would arouse a bitter feeling and do irretrievable Injury to the best Interests of Utah. President Roosevelt said: I am deeply interested in the future of Utah, in its material upbuilding, as well as the future and best Interests of the Republican party. The election to the United States senate of an apostle would work great ham to the stpte. It would be very unwise. It would certainly lead to contentions and strife and bitterness here, if not In Utah, and would unquestionably be a misfortune to those who are Interested in all that goes to make the state of Utah prosperous and great. I have every confidence In the wisdom of the majority members of the Utah legislature, and I feel sure if they understand the gravity of the situation as It appears to me, and as I have heard it expressed by members of the senate, they will refrain from any action which will not result in good for the future of Utah and her people. I desire you to place me on record as kindly, but firmly, advising against the election of any apostle to a United States senatorship. '"V " UTAH LEGISLATORS MEET. i Both Houses Are Now Ready to Make New Laws. Both houses of the Utah legislature are now ready for business, organization having been perfected Monday. Secretary of State Hammond convened the lower house, while Noble Warrum, chief clerk of the last senate, acted on behalf of the state secretary in calling the uppe1- - house to order. Chief Justice Baskin administered the oath of office to the new senators and their officers, while Justice Bartch performed that service for the house. Edward M. Allison, Jr., and Thomas Hull, respectively; the Republican caucus nominees for president of the senate and speaker of the house, were elected and Installed. J. R. Murdock and D. H. Morris, named by the Democrats for the two offices, were given the complimentary vote of their partys ad- herents. Each branch bf the legislature formally advised the other that it was in existence and ready for business, and then both joined through a commmit-te- e to Inform the governor that the legislature was ready to hear from him. Each house adopted a resolution declaring last session's rules In effect pending new rules, and each officer appointed a committee to draft the new rules. SITUATION IN MOROCCO. WEATHER RESPONSIBLE. being attacked by strikers, Fatal HE KILLS THREE. Tragedy in White Pine County, Nevada, Sequel to Attempt of Miners to Run Manager Out of Town. A special to the Salt Lake Tribune from Eureka, Nevada, dated January 7, follows: One of the most sensational episodes In the history of famous White Pine county, this state, occurred this morning in the offices of the New York & Nevada Copper Mining company at Keystone, near Ely. Twelve striking miners of the company boldly entered the office of Manager J. A Traylor, with the avowed purpose of running him out of town. They overpowered him and threw him down on the floor of the office, but he, being a wiry and quick man, broke loose and secured his pistol, with which he at once opened fire, with the result that three men were killed and . three wounded. (The greatest excitement prevails, and the managers coolness Is the talk of the neighborhood. By some, those who sympathize with the miners, the klHing Is deplored, but the other side uphold the manager and commend bis course, which they say was that of Accident in Wyoming, Due to Blinding Snowstorm. Two freight trains on the Union Pacific met head-oof a mile west of Harpers station shortly after 4 oclock Sunday morning, causing the death of Fireman Scalill of Cheyenne, the fatal injury of Brakeman H. S. Weick of Laramie, and the serious Injury of Engineer J. D. Rinder of Cheyenne. Two locomotives and several cars were badly damaged, and traffic delayed for eight hours. Owing to a blinding snowstorm, the engineer of the westbound train did not see the signal for orders at Harpers, and when the operator discovered that the train was passing he lit a fuse on the track, which attracted the attention of the conductor, who Immediately opened the air valve and set the brakes. This action alone prevented a much more disastrous wreck, for the Westbound train had been brought almost to a standstill when the collision occurred. n TBIED TO SLAY KING. BY one-quart- e Assassin Overpowered Guard and Lodged in Prison Authorities Believe He is Insane. Would-b- As King Alfonso, by Send an Expedition Against the Pretender. News received in Tanglers from Fez under date of January 8 is that the sultans expedition against the rebels was on toe point of starting from Fez that evening. It probably consists of from 15,000 to 20,000 men, including the reinforcements from the south, and it Is feared that the imperial troops have not recovered their morale since their last defeat, and that it would be a mistake for them to attack the reb-elWill s. The pretender has been heard of from three or four places within a radius of forty miles of the capital. He is generally accompanied ' by a small escort, and is supposed to be trying to entice the sultan to attack him. The British consul Is still at Fez, anu the other foreign consuls are thought to be there stilL It Is not considered advisable for Europeans to venture to Fez under the present conditions. HATPIN HER WEAPON. Boastful Soldiers Meets His Waterloo at the Hands of a Woman. While a cake-wal- k was going on at East Chester, N. Y., Thomas Evans, a big artilleryman from Fort Slocum, appeared on the floor flourishing a knife, declaring that he could whip any man in the house. Half a dozen dancers made for the soldier; other artillery- men went to his rescue. The row that followed lasted about ten minutes, and several women became mixed up in 4t. - Evans received a thrust In the stomach with a long hatpin; William Smith, another artilleryman, had his ear nearly cut off, and an unidentified man had his hand cut by a razor. : . s . n, Christina and the court were return- ing from church Saturday afternoon, a man, who afterwards gave his name as Feito, fired a pistol at one of the carriages in the royal procession. The bullet went wild, and no one was Int jured. When Feito was searched at the police station, in his pockets were found unmailed letters marked registered, and addressed to President Roosevelt, King Edward, the emperor of Germany and the president of the high court of justice at Mexico, and also receipts for a number of registered DEAD HAND AT THROTTLE. letters and a visiting card of the ' mayor oi Madrid. Feito Is 34 years oi age, and was Passenger Train in Tennessee Run by a Corpse. , bom in Postadas. He insisted that he Passengers on an incoming Knox- was not an anarchist, and said that ville & Ohio railroad train rode sev- his wife, a French woman, had coneral miles Sunday afternoon with the fined him in a lunatic asylum. The hand of a corpse at the throttle of the prisoner, in making this statement, engine. The train left Buckeye on did not appear excited, but there are A strike has been on for some weeks time, and then through Careyville, the Indications that he Is insane. following the reduction ins pay from nxt station. When Engineer, A C. VOLCANO IN SOUTHERN UTAH. $3.50 to 3 per day, announced by Man- Young ran through the latter town, ager Traylor. The miners have been Fireman Mattlock knew something It Is Located About Twenty Miles wrought up over the matter, and have was wrong and stepped to the engMoab. of North seemingly blamed the manager for the ineers side of the engine. . He found A partly active volcano crater has reduction. This developed Into open Young dead, and immediately stepped been discovered by prospectors at a ata is In the There train. wound the threats, and eventually Into the tempt this morning to drive him from left side of the engineers head, and point about twenty miles north of the place, which met with such fatal the supposition is that a piece of stone Moab. ' results to the miners. On a mesa the prospectors dishigh fell a from cut the through higb What the final results will be can smoke rising some steam or covered only be conjectured, but all sorts of ru- mountains and killed him Instantly. mors are afloat, and more trouble is The train run perhaps eight miles distance from where they were, and on Investigating found that It rose expected. after Young was killed. from a hole in the solid sandstone forDISASTROUS WRECK. WORK OF COAL BARONS. mation. The orifice is oblong, about Seven Persons Killed in a Collision on three feet in width and six feet long. Coal Shortage Responsible for Heavy A strong current of warm air carrya Pennsylvania Road. Death Rate in Chicago. As a result of a collision between a ing some vapor arises, hut seems to Two thousand persons in Chicago have little or no gaseous smell. The passenger train and the rear end of a railare on the Pennsylvania suffering from ailments directly sides of the hole are very black and freight train due to cold and exposure resulting sooty. A rock thrown in apparently road at Cochrane station, Pennsylvania, seven men are dead, one Is dy- from the coal famine, according to the falls a long distance. The prospectors working in that section will make furweekly bulletin of the health departing and five others are Injured. ther Investigation. The officials of the road attributed ment, issued Saturday. Phis section has been prospected Serious results are already seen in the disaster to the failure of Patrick over for a number of years, and cattle death in of increase the brakeman a the rear rate, heavy Quinn, the freight, to see that his train had fully and, the health department brands the and sheepmen have ridden over It for year without discleared. Up to a late hour Quinn has men responsible for the situation as the past twenty-fivcrater. The prospectors the covering homicide. constructive of not been located. guilty Three of the victims were apparThe death rate last week for chil- who visited It say they would not have ently killed outright, two of the other dren under 5 years old was 19.2 per found It but for Seeing the steam four were literally roasted to death, as it is in a place that would and the two who died on the way to cent greater than in the same week of arise, the hospital were so badly burned that last year, and among persons over 60 be unlikely to be passed. It appears ' recognition is impossible. years of age It was 36.7 per cent to he an old volcano vent that has for Is and been dormant years, lying greater. Silver Coinage of Hawaii. activof to show beginning signs just Charred Body Found After the Fire. The session of the house Wednesday ity. of Mrs. Florine Henry, the wife lasted a little more than two hours. The senate bill for the redemption of Philip S. Henry, a wealthy coffee mer- Chaffee Could Have Taken $80,000,000 From Chinese. the silver coinage of the Hawaiian chant, was burned to death In a fire If President McKinley had not forislands and its recoinage into United that almost entirely destroyed the resStates coin was passed after an hours idence of the family in New York City. bidden it, General Adna R. Chaffee addebate. It provides for the redempAlberta Erickson, a domestic, jump- mitted, in an address at the Hamilton tion of silver coins by being received fourth-storwindow and club In Brooklyn, where he was the either in Hawaii or the United States ed from the iu the payment of dues. Standard received injuries from which she died guest of honor at a tanner in comsilver coins of the United States may soon afterward. Mr. Henry, who was memoration of the birthday of Alexbe exchanged for coin of Hawaii at slightly burned, was rescued by a po- ander Hamilton, he would have seized their face value. liceman, who entered the house before treasure worth $SQ,000,000 when he In Cuba. Station Our Coaling the arrival of the firemen. It was supwas in command of the American The indications are that the United posed that his wife had already made, troops. In China. been He knew exactly the location of this States will satisfy itself by claiming her escape. Alter the' fire had charred Mrs. . Henrys treasure in the Forbidden City, and one coaling station in Cuba, at Guan- extinguished, room on had tanamo, although the navy department body wad found in her bed planned to take possession of It, ; , Is desirous of acquiring two others, one the second floor. , ie said, when the president vetoed the at Cienfuegos and another at Bahie proposition. It was his intention to Honda, which seems to have been sehold out any amount that might be Safety Coupling Act as best the lected Instead of Nipa port :ettled upon as a proper Indemnity, The secretary of the Interstate comon the northern coast next to Havana. and return the remainder to the ChiThe Cuban government has been made merce commission, in a communication aware of the wishes of the United to the house, calls attention to a re- nese government r '4 States, and the subject will soon come cent decision of the United States , . up for adjustment Provision Supply in Caracas Will Last circuit count of appeals for the Eighth But Ten Days Longer. Woman Makes Living by Extorting district affecting the safety coupling Money From Applicants for act, which, he says, if upheld by the . A dispatch from Caracas to the Her Hand. de-supreme court, wt111 have the effect of Baris Matin says the approaching ' Mrs. Laura Stackhouse, alias Laura nullifying the' purpose' of the statute parture of United States Minister Miller, alias Marion Monselle, of Mar- In a vital respect, the securing of such Bowen does not arouse fears for their ietta, O., was arrested Wednesday' for uniformity iff applied automatic coup- safety among the foreign residents, using the mails for fraudulent pur- ling devices as t6 permit all the cars their sole anxiety being on account of the scanty supply of provisions and poses In advertising that shs was seek- In a train to be coupled and uncoupled flour, which is sufficient tolast the between men to go and husband without extorting money requiring ing a Caracas population only ten days from applicants. She has confessed. the cars. I - ' . 1 longer. The government according to Government officials Bay her business the dispatch, has only $20,000 In hand. the has been extensive throughout at Goal . , Cost The revolution movement is said to be United States, and thousands of dolIn View of the scarcity of coal and making no progress.. , lars have been gathered In this way. to alleviate the suffering among the The Goebel Case. Over a Score Drowned. poor, Swift & Co. announce that they Henry ,E. Youtsey, serving a life have score been lives of About a will go Into the coal business, not only sentence 4n the Kentucky penitentiary lost In Austria as the result of floods In Chicago, but also In other cities on a conviction for complicity In the caused by the breaking up of the Ice where firm J.he firm has a plant. sThe Goebel murder, ' is before the grand In the rivers. At Szolnok floating ice has a contract for the whole output of In the Franklin county court. capsized a boat and eight , persons a mine, and has been selling coal at jury made tie statement Youtsey recently were drowned. A washout wrecked a cost to Its more employes. , Having that he would testify in the Goebel train at Paussa, with the result' that coal than require, the surplus is case If they Inseven two persons were killed and and tell what he knew, at the disposal of the about called, jured. Nine boys, while skating at to be placed the alleged conspiracy. .This is more a than Jarkasl, were drowned through the ice poor. No one can obtain the first .time has been he--, breaking. The rise In the Danube has bushel at a time. The price win be: fore the grand Youtsey Jury or testified in the' heed rapid. At Ybdes the river rose One bushel 20 cents; half a bushel 10 cases, and it is believed he Will be five feet in one day. The rivers in used as a state witness in the trials.' : south Bohemia have overflowed. , . . cents; peck, 5 cents. ' "'J ' "" Coal Train Held Up. Is Increasing. , . Carrie Nation Will Provide, a Home , Trad ' Because there was a coal famine for Drunkards Wives. A statement compiled by the bureau ' In the city, and the dealers were war Mrs. Carrie Nation, the temperance of Insular affairs of the departto secure any coal, a large num- -' shows official ment a that from returns, reformer, has closed negotiations for of her citizens of Areola, Ills., held of month 1902, the at residence Kansas September, Kan,, during City, large tua imports of merchandise into the up ii coal train of thirty xars on the to be used as a home for drunkards' wives.' The price paid wn A7 5n(l, arn Philippines amounted, to $2,785,009, an Illinois Central railroad ha it was se of more than a half million passing through the town Saturday it Is understood that Mrs. Fetion v ill , ever the corresponding month afternoon, and uncoupled - the engine ,.s spend several thcissnd Fr liars in im- cf iroi, and considerably .above the and refused to allow tue caps jo pro-- , proving the property which will t be monthly value for nine ceefi further, despite the efforts of the . the local police. turned' over .to her, 't.in three months of the current year. The ex- trainmen, aided by ' months. The money to establish the pert trsre cf $3,538,535 is the largest The citizens ate willing to pay the .home was raised by Mrs. Nation on of any Fagle month since American .value of the coal, but are determined v to havei It . , .f her recent trip east. ,v , occupation. ' ' " v Va " ' lJ kN.i TT PoweVs Are OivlJed. To Care fop Aged Clergymen., '? 'Cpfsessrftart Tfqngue of.Oregon Dead. Great Britains protest against the The proposition to raise a fund of Representative Thomas H. Tongue $5000,000, the income to be used for permission granted in September, last of district of. the First congressional to four unarmed Russian torpedo-bca- t Methodist clergymen, will died suddenly at his residence-I- indigent Ciegon to Dardabe acted pass through the destroyers at the next probably upon 1 oclock Sunday Washington at nelles into the Black sear under the meeting of the bishops of tfie Methocommercial flag of Russia, will, It Is afterroon of heart failure, following dist Episcopal church. Coming believed, be followed by similar action an attack of dyspepsia. At his bedafter the completion oi the $20,000,000 on the part of Austria-Hungarand. side when hq end came were his Methodist thank offering, the suggesFrance will Italy, while Germany.-anand an Miss Bertha, adopted ' remain tion of additional millions has attractrrmanys position is' daughter MlsS Rane. Mrs. Tongue ! In cons i S' r pol- daughter, ed wide . attention- - - The. ,$5,000,000 u .1 is In Hillsboro, Mr. Tongues Oregon fund was lCy conceived by the Rev. ari-- i Fra. home, and to that ptace the remains " Mills, secretary oi the thank .1 Rus ...ly, agaiui.. t.jII be taken for Interment offering committee sia. , e y , -- - nil-abl- e- V'1 n y l , 1 . - Considerable daniag done by torrential rains in cestrju gium. Minister Bowen is rive-- in the United States he,-- ! zuela within a few days. The house passed the bin creation of a general stall army by a vote of 153 to 5j. It Is believed the postoafci- -J dianola, MiES.,.will be reopesj' the negro postmistress give tlon. The strike at the Guggenim, ter at Monterey, Mexico, has ben ' ed through the efforts of , Reyes. Two Indianapolis factories, lng 500 men, were compelled to down last week on account g k , of fuel. . 1 Professor. Robert Koch typhus can be combatted guttmv through isolation, as cholem fc batted. j It now looks as though then be no legislation In favor of dot' for any' of the territories at thli slon of congress. j John Hollins, colored, charged attempting to assault a white gij taken from the train at Brew, by a mob and shot to death. H. C. Hansbrough of North Bdj (ep, has been unanimously chosen bji ther Republican caucus to succeed hw I as United States senator. ' ' Corbett has declared his wiBisot to accept the offer of a San Franck athletic club to fight Jeffries for i championship of the world. j Three of the biggest coal comput In the United States have fonnejj alliance, which for all practical g poses will be a combination.1 It Is announced Informally thatt president shortly will approve Dr. k ons, a colored preacher of Bakins as United States minister to libei 1 Queen Dowager NEWS SUMMIT X FIRED UPON ANARCHIST. KING OF SPAIN self-defens-e. Sultan Washington Legislature In Session. The Washington legislature convene at noon Monday. The house of representatives wjis called, to order by Secretary of State Nichols. Dr. W. Hare of Yakama county was elected as speaker without opposition from the Republican side of the house, the Democratic minority voting for J. J. Cameron of Lincoln county. The senate LEGISLATIVE OFFICERS. was called to order by the chief clerk ' Men Selected for Official Positions In of the last senate. Dr. J. J. Smith of King county was made president, in Utah Legislature. accordance with the Republican caucus The following are the caucus nomi- and in agreement of last night, the nees for officials of the coming leg- Democrats voting for W. W. Tolman of Spokane. islative session: In the Senate President, E. M. AlliPLAGUE IN MEXICO. son, of Weber; secretary, A. W. Jensen of Sanpete; minute clerk, Carl A. Disease Spreading and Many Deaths Badger, of Salt Lake; docket clerk, Are Reported. B. Bachman, of . Utah; engrossing The plague at Mazatlan, Mexico, clerk, F. J. Henderson, of Weber; mailing clerk. Miss Priscilla Smith of does not yield as rapidly as was hoped Salt Lake: committee clerks, Colonel to new sanitary precautions and mediE. W. Tatlock, of Salt Lake; Walter L. Wilding, of Salt Lake; George H. cal treatment Six persons died Monday. The number of patients in the Crosby, of Sevier; sergeant-at-arms- , Charles E. Layne, of Weber; chaplain. lazaretto Is steadily Increasing. SaniBishop Sproul of Washington; messen- tary stations have been established on gers, Thomas B. Jones, of Utah, and G. the high roads outside the city with M. Beebe, of Piute; doorkeeper, W. L. physicians in charge. The plague has White, Sr., of Box Elder; stenographer, broken out at Aheme, causing many Miss Carrie Keate, of Salt Lake; deaths. , , t watchman, Hans Christensen of Salt V Sensational Murder In Georgia. Lake. In the House Speaker, Thomas R. A. Rigsby, a professor In a busiHull, of Salt Lake; chief clerk, H. S. ness college at Macon, Ga., was shot Cummings, of Utah; minute clerk, Sel-do- n and Instantly killed by Mrs. Effle Car-soI. Clawson, of Salt Lake; engrossteacher of telegraphy in another ing clerk, Norman G. Allen, of Cache; docket clerk, A. L. Toone, of Weber; college. The tragedy occurred in a committee clerks, Cora Snyder, of law office, it is said, Mr. Rigsby where, of Salt Lake; Summit; Phyllis I.ynch, Estella Smith, of Salt Lake; sergeant-at-arm- and. Mrs. Carson had met to adjust difM. A Ross, of Ulritah; watchficulties. After meeting Mrs. Carson, man, Seth Johnson, of Kane; messen- Rigsby asked for a private interview gers, .Alex Kelley,-o- f Millard; Carl with her in an Holst, of Box Elder; chaplain, Joseph two had been adjoining Inroom. The the room together R. Porter, of Morgan; doorkeepers, H. a few moments when five pistol H. Voss, of Salt Lake; C. A Peacock, only shots were heard. Mrs. Carson admits of Piute. the killing. , The Colorado Senatorial Scrap. . Coal Shortage irv Kansas. Frank C. Goudy, one of the leading - The fuel situation is most alarming Republican candidates for the United in Kans. Two of the largest Topeka, States senate to succeed Henry M. coal companies in the city report that Teller of Colorado, has issued a statethey have not a pound of coal on hand ment to the voters, in which he de- with which to supply their orders, and clares that some of the members of the do not know when they will be able legislature who were, pledged to him to get houses and other any, have been won away from' him by institutions Packing will have to close unless misrepresentation. Mr. Goudy says the the situation is relieved.. The local gas present situation In Colorado is 'one company may have to close, as It can of the strongest arguments ever to the people that United States not socurp coal enough to make gas senators should be elected by popular with. The street railway company has a very small supply of coal on hand.. vote. Annual Passes. Want , Legislators Lived Almost a Century, . A number of members of the Montana .. Robert J. Aiken, . millionaire and legislature, who have received passes philanthropist, who would have celefrom the Northern Pacific Railway brated the 100th anniversary of his. company, threaten to send them back birth on August 14 next, died of pneuThe action la not taken because the members object to riding on compli- monia at his residence in New York but because City Monday. Mr. Aiken was born at mentary transportation, the passes are limited to sixty days, Quaker Hill, Dutchess county, and laid the length of the session. The Great the foundations of his fortune in rail: Northern has sent the members passes, but they are good for a year. This Is road Investments in the early days of the first time either road has issued railroad construction m New York. lie transportation to members of the leg was prominently identified with the lslature for a shorter time than one building of the Harlem which year. was completed In 1848. railway pre-Bente- d MANAGER WAS GAME. J An entire family of four people wiped out by asphyxiation In Chlcic The tip of a gas jet was found tyi on the floor, and the gas was tmi - 1 on- - touch! The initiative taken by the baslia Joot men to aid the Bank of Venesoda I rst. Caracas produced a good effect ia it ?,aB country, and the financial sftntiea I less strained. David Thompson, a Black prospector, struck a ledge of graf richness, and fell dead within tea r1utes, the joy of the discovery bet too much for him. The latest advices from Fea say , his r ' pretender has at Fort Hiilan, about twelve mill from Fez, and that he is preparing assume the offensive. Tne political crisis which hu prevailing In Japan has resulted ln deadlock. On December 17 the ton house was suspended as a result of i attack made by the opposition. A Kansu officer in Pekin has ceived news of a Mohammedan mix' at Chang Chia Chuan. ' This place j very- - strongly situated between borders of Shensi and Kainsua. ' An important convention hatbecj signed by Chile and Argentina gorr ing the question of disparity of ttf navies, which is regarded as delilh terminating the dispute on the ' r j -' 11 I I i An insurrection has broken nt( Choo Chou Shantung,! as a reeaS.i condition el people of that section. Several Be ers have been arrested " for praetkk ' f j their art at Nanking. From the time of chQlcras lint I pearance in Malolos, Bulacan k lnce, to September 1, 1902, the id number of recorded cases was of which 37,473 resulted fatally, I ,J " ) mortality being 71 per cent The Arapahoe Indians, in the vk ity of Dander, Wyo., are In a etnrt condition. Not a day' passes If a hand Is, in the town, begging. Tb raised ' no crops last season, but lowed them all to burn up, althfflk they had plenty of water, aa it they were too lazy to turn the low ff . , the land. V ' r betweei the r , The negotiations e ers regarding the method of Chinese Indemnity are proceed theC-nes.Washingtons acceptance of proposal to pay in silver 4oei meet 'with the cordial approval 4 . Europe. The locomotive firemen eaptoi by the Chicago & Alton railroad decided by a referendum votrU I on a strike to enforce the the 11 n poverty-stricke- pwl-th- e - - to the '.offices of the It December 1st for. an fncrease of 1 In.. wages.' per- cent . ... r. One man was hilled, half Injured and the womens wing C house of correction partially wre by the'exploslon. ot several st$c3 dynamite In No. 3s shaft of th . filtration plant at Holmsburg, urh of Philadelphia. $ It1 Is said at the French foreiT flee that there are ho grousd Is the report that France will join Venezuelan blockade of the - alltoa the contrary, the French official. well satisfied with the present 4 , of the claims of France, t President Roosevelt has aceej J Invitation ' to ..attend .the banquet J given by the - Canton Repu T? league. In Canton, O., on bamf The 27. evening, January to be In honor of the birtViay 6 la President McKinley. v Chief Joseph, thO famous wur J the Nez Perces, has gone to ton. to plead with officials oi dian department for permission tturn to his old heme in the nan , ,s valley, from which he was after the uprising of .hifl ; a Hon was crushed by Generals 4 Miles many years ago. 1 , s |