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Show ' ,r 'I S' T . . s ; r 4 X J ss' 1 VOL. XIV. ( HEWS OF A WEEK IK G0H0EIISED F RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1910. In a speech before the Grant club at Des Moines, Iowa, James R. Gar field of Ohio, former secretary of the Interior under President Roosevelt, declared that the fight on the tariff only had begun, question FIRE MIKES MANY HOMELESS criticised RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from Alt Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. The body of William H. Chittenden of Denver, president and general manager of a mining company, was found burned to a crisp in the ruins of a frame cabin near the Hampton mine, says a Central City, Colo., dispatch. Whether Chittenden was a victim of foul play cannot be told, as the body was consumed. Two armed but unmasked highwaymen boldly entered a saloon in Park City, Utah, and lined up the twenty occupants of the saloon in the back Toom, tapped the faro bank and roulette game, from which they procured 4500 In gold and silver, and made good their escape, J. C. Driscoll, former supervisor of the Nevada insane asylum, who was removed from office by a majority vote of the asylum board recently, lias filed a long complaint against Dr. S. G. Gibson, superintendent of the asylum, charging him with misappropriation of funds, graft, neglect and Inhuman treatment of the patients. Dr. Joseph Milleron, a veteran of the Civil war, was killed Instantly by the accidental discharge of a shotgun he had been holding between his knees while driving with his daughter, near Salt Lake City. The daughter was Injured when the buggy was overturned, thus causing the weapon to be , , f discharged. V $ Throueh-t- h mistake , of a tiurae who administered a large dose of oxalic acid in place of a dose of epsom salts, Mrs. Myron E. Tubbs of Junction City, Kan., died a violent death in a Denver hospital. James Edwards and John Wilson have been placed on trial at Glen-woo- d Springs, Colo., charged with the robbery of the Citizens National bank at Glenwood Springs, September 29 last. Both men will attempt to prove an alibi, Edwards declaring he was in Salt Lake at the time of the robbery. Thirty minutes after he had robbed ' the passengers on a street car in Salt Lake City, Jack Davis was captured at his home with the plunder in his possession. It is believed he was intoxicated when he committed tne rob- - bery. , Y An ordinance Is before the Boulder, Colo., city council which would prohibit the wearing of long skirts on the streets of that town. The document is entitled "An ordinance to promote the public health, and has the approval of the .womens clubs. DOMESTIC. Six convicts escaped from the fed- -' ral penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, by seizing a switch engine and threatening the prison guards with dusty revolvers, made of wood, five have been captured. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) died at his home in Redding, Conn., April 21, at the age of 75. Death was The end due to angina pectoris. came peacefully for the worlds greatest humorist, who will be mourned by the people of all nations. The Minnesota supreme court has beld that the Creamery Package company, incorporated in Illinois and doing business in Owatonna, Minn., is a combination in restraint of trade, and ordered that its license to do business in Minnesota be forfeited. Sudden darkness, descending over Chicago on Friday, created consterna- tion among the more ignorant, who attributed the phenomenon to Hal- leys comet. The weather department explained the darkness was caused by a combination of rain, wind and smoke. Eighteen miners lost their lives as the result of an explosion in a coal mine at Amsterdam, Ohio. Seven men, bruised and burned, were rescued from the mine, their escape from death being regarded as miraculous. The mine had been inspected but two days previous, and the cause of the explosion -- is Unknown. As a memorial to the late J. Sterling Morton, the flist secretary of agilcul-ture- , a bill has been introduced by Senator Burkett to provide for the establishment of the Morton Institution of Agriculture and Forestry at Nebiaska City. Neb., the former home f Mr. Morton. After being arrested on the charge f having kicked his wife to death. Ernest Wirth, 35 yeais old and a bartender, tried to end his own life in the Los Angeles jail by beating his head agairst the bars. conservation. By her coolness in an emergency, Maud Adams, the actress, prevented what might have been a panic in a Kansas City theater, following the blowing out of a fuse in the footlights. She appeared before the footlights and assured the frightened patrons there was no danger. Warren S. Stone, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, announces that 500 Big Four engineers have been given a substantial increase in pay. New Albert Watter, the York youth, has been convicted of murdering Ruth Wheeler, aged 15, a pretty stenographer, and burning her body. He will be electrocuted. WASHINGTON. Plans for a deeper probing into the alleged cotton pools will, it is said, be made within a few days at Washing, ton. Senator Aldrich had half an hour's conference with President Taft on Friday regarding the executive session in the senate, and it is reported pledged himself anew to devote the remaining days of his term to a fur therance of administration measures. In his maiden speech in the senate, Senator Purcell of North Dakota sharply criticized tne president and the attorney general. He practically charged a purpose of so transforming the supreme court as to insure such construction of the proposed law as to supplant and nullify antagonistic state laws and state constitutions. A decision to allow Representatives Lever and Legare of South Carolina to retain their eats In the house was announced by elections committee on Wednesday. Both seats had been contested. Nearly 6700,000 was raised for the work of the African Methodist Episcopal church in the fiscal year just ended, according to a report made to the iiramiai boaid-- ' in Session in Washington. National banks of the United States held 21.90 per cent of legal reserve to deposits at the close of business on Tuesday, March 29, as shown by reports made to the comptroller of the currency on that date. Because of opposition to certain policies of Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Suffrage association, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, first and Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer, have resigned their position. Positive announcement of the early retirement of Eugene Hale from the United States senate is made. Senator Hale declares Maine has honored him with five full terms in the senate without contest of any character, and he does not relish the prospect of entering into a scramble for the office. Senator Hale has served continuously in the senate since 1881. Senator Aldrich has authorized the announcement that he would not be a to the senate, candidate for and that he would positively retire at the expiration of his present term on March 3, 1911. Ill health alone dictated his decision. With banners afloat, finery and occupying a procession of taxicabs nearly a mile long the suffragists in convention at Washigton moved on Capitol hill on Monday and preseted to congress 400,000 individual demands forvotes for women. FOREIGN. The 'government of Ecuador has called into the service the Hist reserves. About 1,000 reservists paiaded the streets of Guayquil, shouting for war with Ecuador and demanding Peru. Senator Abarznza, who once held the portfolio of minister of foreign affairs, died at Madrid, Spain, on Sunday. The situation m Hunan province, China, is reported as critical. Women and children are fleeing for their lives from Changsha. A number of villages near that city have been burned by native mobs. The country is placarded with threats to kill all foreigners. The Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha has gone on the rocks oft St. Marys, Scilly Islands, and has been abandoned by the passengers and crew. A Budapest dispaten announces that a boat containing seventeen women, who were on their way to the Nawas tional fair at Satoralja-Ujhety- , capsized crossing the liver Bodrog. Fourteen of the party were drowned Bert Hunter, a farmer from Alberta Canada, shot a man named Schofield and his wdfe in London, and then committed suicide. It Is supposed Hunter was insane. Hungary received Theodore Roosevelt with open arms after he moused the frontier Sunday, popular enthusiasm, according to the newspaper reporters, exceed. ng anjthirg since the dats of Louis Kossuth. employees ail over the United States. It is believed that before President Tafts term ends all postmasters of the second and third class will be put upon a civil service basis. In consequence of an order, or rather an arrangement, similar to that made with reference to fourth-clas- s postmasters when Theodore Roosevelt was president It Is known that the Senate 1$ Fully Expected to postmaster general definitely is in favor of a change and also that it meets with the Sanction the Naval Pro- approval of the president There are reasons wny the arrangement cannot gram. be put into effect just at the present time, for the change means much and PARTY LINES MAY BE SPLIT requires a good deal of thought; but it la, certain that one day the postmasters of all classes below the first class will hold their offices under what Plan to Put Postoffice Employees on will practically amount to the civil Civil Service Baeie Meant a service rule Great Change Peraiatent Moreover, the postmaster general Rumor About Roosehas in mind a plan by which ultimatevelt and 1912. ly, perhaps not during this administration but later when political opinWashington. When the house of ion has been educated to the innorepresentatives did the expected thing vation, to make it within the power of and sanctioned the appropriation to any subordinate official in the ? build two big battleships during the branches of the postofflee department next fiscal year it put itself on rec- all over the country to profit by civil ord as being In favor of maintaining service rules to the extent that bf the present position of the United attention to business and a showing States as a naval power and on record of ability they may advance In the difin a measure as believing that this ferent grades until finally they can jountry should surpass certain other become postmasters by promotion, countries in naval strength. rather than by, as is the case now, It ia fully expected that the senate direct appointment will sanction the If the second and third class post proposition, notwithstanding that Senator offices are put on a civil service basis Hale, one of the most influential mem- along with the fourth-clas- s office it bers of the upper house, probably will means that men now In the service oppose the Increase. Senator Hale no and who do their work to the satislonger is chairman of the senate com- faction of the department and people mittee on naval affairs, for recently can keep their places until death rehe was promoted to the chairmanship moves them or old age unfits them for of the committee on appropriations. their work. The civil service advocates for many years have urged that When the battleship-buildinpara; graph in the naval bill passed the something of this kind be donn and It seems that the presprobable house the party lines were split, many during Democrats voting for the appropria- ent administration it may f bp done tion and some Republicans voting and it is said that Mr. Taft does not against it. It Is probable that the fear that there will be much objection same thing will happen in the senate either from Democratic or" Republican I J and that several of the seacoast state members of congress. More Back Frojn EibsRiywoey Democrats will vote for the Taft shhprwnd Uid'ja? " TbeTnfetTugof Theodore Roosevelt terlor state Democrats will vote and Gifford Flnchot, and the report, against it seemingly authentic, but which later met with a partly conclusive denial, Not Liked. Comparison In the lower house one of the mem- to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt had bers in speaking of the proposed bat- broken his friendship with Mr. Tuft, tleship increase made a comparison have started stories again to the effect between the strength of the United that there is to be a real Back Front States navy and that of Japan, a sort Elba ending to Mr. Roosevelts four of comparison which some of the years of retirement from public office. members deprecated because recently This is a matter which best can be there has been a revival of the talk treated plainly from the standpoint of that this country might possibly be- many of the Washington friends of the former president, who think that they come embroiled with Japan.- . Representative Padgett, Democrat, know his views on a "second elective of Tennessee, had this to say about term for himself, or for a third term, Japan and the United States in the as most people generally speak of it There are many close friends of the matter of naval strength: "I want to call attention to another former president who would like to see fact. Speaking of big guns, the United him In office again, but those friends States has 180 of these big guns of say that they do not believe he would the caliber of 12 and 13 Inches. Japan consent to run, although it may be has 118 big guns of 11 and 12 Inches. that if the party's demand was unaniNow as to the tonnage of the vessels. mous, he might be induced to become I want to call your attention to the once again the candidate of his party tonnage of the fighting ships that is for the presidency. of the battleships and armored cruisThere are men in Washington who ers and I shall first call your atten- talked with Mr. Roosevelt about the ' tion to the ships that are completed, second elective term proposition priand afterward to the ships which are or to the time that Mr. Taft was an avowed candidate for the nomination. completed and provided for. Of the number of battleships and It will be remembered that Mr. Roosearmored cruisers that la the fighting velt issued two statements saying speimplements of the navy the United cifically that be would not be a candl- - , States has 44 such "vessels, with a ton- date for the nomination in 1908. He nage of 592,691. Japan has 25 such did not say in these statements that vessels with a tonnage of 209.255. be never would be a candidate again, Taking the completed and provided and it should be said that as far as for vessels, the United States has 48 can be learned he never told any of such teasels, with an aggregate ton- hla friends directly that he would not nage of 688,341. Japan has 30 such consent to run again for the presivessels, with an aggregate tonnage of dency at some future time, but he did 408,406 tons. say some things that made them believe it was not hia Intention ever Sees Advantage Over Japan. So that In every phase of the ques- again to become a candidate for the tion that looks to the fighting effici- presidency Mr. Roosevelts Position. ency in the guns and in the size of the ships because we have two of Those who talked with Mr. Roose26,000 tons, and the largest that Japan velt about the possibility of his again is building Is 21,000 tons so that in seeking the presidency say explicitly any aspect of the case in which you that he gave no positive expression of may consider it you can divide the personal feeling on the subject of the American fleet by two, and either half propriety of a third term, or a second of it la larger and more efficient in elective term if you will, for any fighting capacity that the Japanese man, but that be did say certain navy. things which led them to believe that The opponents of Mr. Padgetts he thought that the American people views say that the United States must would not like the idea of putting any have a much larger navy than Japan man in the White House for the third if It Intends adequately to protect the time. From what can be gathered Philippines and Hawaii. The Philip- from those who talked to Mr. Roosepines, it is said by the advocates of velt about this matter it seems he felt two ships, lie near the doorway of hat the people at heart were opposed Japan, and If we should put a fleet of to third terms. sufficient strength to meet Japan In Democrats See Victory. the far eastern waters we mould of It beems to be the settled belief in necessity leave our own coast lines certain political circles in the capital, the Atlantic and Pacific practically that unless iho present congress puts we if Into and trouble into effect most of the legislation got unguarded, with Japan there is no telling what which Mr. Taft has recommended, the might happen, for Japan has some Eu- Republicans in the middle west and ropean alliances which might give this the far west, becoming tired of delay, country cause for concern In case hos- will start an actual movement for the tilities break out in the east. The ad- nomination of Theodore Roosevelt in ministration is bringing its Influence 1912. The Democrats say that they to bear to receive the sanction of the would like better than to have senate for the two additional dread-naugh- this done, nothing for they seem to feel that a third term prejudice, although, as Civil Service In Postoffices. they express it, attempts might be It has become known that President made to weaken it with "second elecTaft and Postmaster General Hitch- tive term excuses, will prevail with e cock have in view a change in the people, and that even a man as department procedure which popular as Theodore Roosevelt, would will be of the utmost interest to post- go down to defeat GEORGE CLINTON. masters and in fact to all postoffice 10 ILL 1ILD the stand patters and urged a fight for NOTED AUTHOR HUMORIST PASSES AWAY AFTER ILLNESS. AND G Flames Destroy Thirty Business Blocks and Many Residences, Causing $4,000,000 Loss. P .9 Man Beloved by All the People Who Had Delighted Millions WithiHi Quaint Humor, is Worn Out by Jr Grief and Agony. Lang- Conn. Samuel Redding, home Clemens (Mark Twain); died painlessly at 6:30 oclock Thursday night of angina pectoris. He lapsed Into coma at 3 oclock Thatsday afternoon and never recovered t con sciouness. It was the end of a man outworn by grief and acute agony of body. At the deathbed were Mrs. Gabrilo-witsc- h (Clara Clemens), her husband, Dr. Robert Halsey, Dr. Quintar Albert Bigelow Paine, who will writs Mark Twains biography, and th two trained nurses. Mark Twain , was born Samuel Langhonm Clemens, In Florida, Mo., November 30, 1835. "My parents, he writes In his own burlesque autobiography, were neither very poor. . Lake Charles, La. Five thousand persons are homeless, several are missing, scores Injured and property has damage to the extent of resulted here from & fire which started in an old opera house, near the center of town, wiping out thirty busi ness blocks and then burned a path through the residential section of the town late Saturday. Dynamite was used to stop the path of flames. The flames were checked In this manner, but not until they had practically wiped out the town. Of the many persons missing, it was impossible to tell whether any have been killed. Temporary sheltering camps have been established on the outskirts of the burning city, and the thousands of homeless and injured are being cared for as comfortably as possible. With the sudden drop in temperature, it Is certain that the sufferings of the stricken people will be intense. Lake Charles, while an old community, is practically a new city of 20,000 inhabitants. It is the biggest town in southwest Louisiana and a big rice and lumber district. It is also the center of the Jennings oil fields. FROSTS CAUSE SERIOUS LOSS. Central and Middle States Suffer Fropi Cold Weather, Chicago. Despite the almost unprecedented storm that swept over a dozen states Saturday and Sunday and government prediction of more cold and snow, the shifting of the wind to the northwest promises to mitigate extensive crop damage in the middle west. , A canvass of the situation shows greatest damage has resulted In Iowa, ' Llicols, Indiana- an;V Ohio. In Kansas. Missouri and Kentucky snow is fxpected to protect small fruits and lessen loss on apples. Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas reports show considerable damage has been done by the coldest late April weather on record in those states. Information from Wisconsin and Michigan indicate the fruit crop will not be much more than half usual size. t, MARK TWAIN. nor conspicuously honest The earliest ancestor of the Twalns have any record of was a friend of the family by the name of Higgins. The county chronicles have it that the elder Clemens failed in business and died, leaving his son the ample world to make his fortune in. Mark Twains acAccordingly, quaintance with literature began in putting words into type, not ideas into words. Educated only in public schools, he was apprenticed to a printer at 13, and worked at his trade in St. Louis, Cincinati, Philadelphia and New York, until, at 16, he could gratify a boyish ambition to become a cub to a Mississippi river pilot. Both these happenings reacted pro foundly in his later life. His knowl edge of river life, acquired when he was a pilot, took form in Tom SawHuckleberry Finn and Life yer, on the Mississippi, regarded abroad as his first title to fame. It even suggested his pseudonym, for Mark Twain Is a leadsman's cry to the pilot in shallow stages. And his familiarity with printing turned him naturally first Into newspaper work, then Into creative writing, and finally into the publishing business, wherein, like Sir Walter Scott, he suffered a bankruptcy disastrous to everything but his honor, and, like Sir Walter again, paid off by his pen debts not of bis own making Mark Twain has been, as described in his own words, "a silver miner in Nevada; a gold miner in California; next a reporter in San Francisco; next a special correspondent in the Sandwich Islands; next a roving correspondent in Europe and the east; next an Instructional torchbearer on the lecture platform; and, finally, I became a scribbler of books and an immovable fixture among the other rocks of New England He was married in 1872 to Olivia L Langden of E mira, N. Y. Four children were born, of whom two, a son and a daughter, died early. One other daughter, Jean, who had been an In valid for life, was found dead in her bath tub last fall in her home at Red ding, Conn. Her tragic death greatly sadder.ed her father, who declined in A third health from that moment. daughter, Clia, is Mrs. Ossip wile of ie pianist, whom she American Girl Murdered in Japan. Naples. The finding of the body of a beautiful young woman on the beach near here pas given rise to the suspicion of murder. Apparently the woman died about three days previous. The body was scantily clothed, and this has led the authorities to believe that probably she was the victim of crime. The body was iden tifled by the proprietor of ,the Hotel Castello as that of Miss Astella Reid, supposed to have been an American who was a guest at the hotel. She was described as being very eccentric. Mark Twain Laid at Rest. Elmira, N. Y. Under a tent on the grassy slope of the Langdou plot in Woodlawn cemetery, with rain beat ing fiercely against the canvas cover, a little group of mourners silently watched on Sunday as the body of Samuel L. Clemens was lowered into an evergreen lined grave beside the bodies of his wife and children. The Rev. Samuel E. Eastman, pastor of Park church and a close friend of the late humorist, conducted a brief and simp'e service and Mark Twains final pilgrimage was at an end. Doctor Occupy Pulpits. Pueblo, Colo. Tuberculosis Sunday was observed here April 24, when members of the Pueblo Medical society occupied the puplts and gave a lecture on the cure and prevention of tuberculosis. The services were held in twenty-fivchurches. e Immigrants in Year. Washington. According to present Indications immigration to the United States for the fiscal year 1910 promises to reach one million people. If the record for the first nine months of the year Is maintained. The arrivals for March were 136,743, and for the nine months of the fiscal year 667.949. It has been several years since the Immigration flgu.es reached the million mark, the last year being 1907, when 1,285.349 alier.s were ad mitted to the United States. A Million Mother and Children Burned to Death. Ponca, Neb Mrs. Jerry Miner and five children were burned to death Sunday morning when their cottage, three miles north of here, caught fire Mr. Miner saved his baby married last yeai. by throwing it out of the window. The was "The book Mark Twain's first effort to resHis best known In father made a desperate Jumping Frog cue of the family. members other the this country possibly was Innocents His surest title to fame He was terribly burned, and is not Abroad. generally Is believed to be Tom Saw expected to 'ive. The origin of tb yer and its companion volume, The fire is unknown. Miner, who operates In a ferry on the Missouri river, saw Adventures of Huckleberry Finn all his books bad a sale of more than his home ab aze and hastened to the Within five minutes the 500,000 copies and were translated rescue. on e was l,i ruins. Into six languages. Galbri-iowitsc- d I NO. 51. , g ! nfi'rS ts post-offic- r i JO V. A |