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Show THE INDEPENDENT. William F. Gibson, - - Editor. L. 0. Johnson, Business Manager. Katertt! at the Post Once at 8pri rrt lie. Utah for transmission through Um maaJssj second-cias soaitar. Issued Every Thursday Morning-. TERMS OF SLBSCKIPTIOX. One Year $2 00 Six Months 100 Three Months M ASK FOR ADVERT HI NO RATES. UTAH STATE NEWS. POPULISTS ENDORSE SON. STEVEN- MOB ATTACKS A TRAIT. The National Association of Sheepmen Sheep-men will meet in Salt Lake City Janu' 19, 1001. The smelter at tbe Bromide mine on Douglas mountain will be blown in the first of September. Vernal baa received its fire-fig-btiog machinery, consisting of a high-prea" sure pump with hose attachment. A larg-e gang- of men has been put to work at the state fair ground preparing prepar-ing additional stalls for livestock exhibits. ex-hibits. While picking peaches at Lehi, Mrs. Richard Thomas fell from the tree, receiving- a broken leg and a dislocated ankle. The fact that the Vernal poatoffiee has been placed on the presidential list is proof of the increasing business in that section. Itrush fires have done noma damage in the mountains to the east of Davis county, but it is the general belief that all danger has paused. Vernal's new court house is nearing completion, when a celebration will bs had to which the governor and state officers will be iuvited. IIour.es for rent are so scarce in Provo that a plan is on foot to get all the business houses to fix up their flats above the storerooms tor tenants. The sheepherders. Jesse Turpin and his son Karl, who were arrested at Hrighton on the charge of setting fire to government timber, have been acquitted. ac-quitted. The board of control of the National Live Stock Association has designated Salt Lake City as the place for holding the next anuual convention, January 15. in. IT aud 18, 1K1. A counterfeiting plant has be found near Sandy in a blacksmith shop, the operators having rented the shop, saying say-ing they were working on an invention requiring great secrecy, no one being admitted. Several bauds of sheep are reported to have crossed the line from Wyoming into this state recently, and steps will be taken by the authorities to enforce the transient herd law, as regards the tresspassers. The Manti Light fc Power company is the name of a new incorporation to which the city of Manti has granted a franchise for the use of City creek, above the town, and in a short time active work will be commenced. Three Salt Lake boys. Lewis Edgar, Conrad Holland and Lawrence Lew-ellyn. Lew-ellyn. aged 13, 12 and 10 respectively, were stopped in San Francisco, where they had gone with the Second in" fan try, bound for China, as stowaways. organized, now numbering twenty pieces, and the members who formerly discoursed sweet music in the Philippines Philip-pines will have headquarters in Salt Lake until the close of the campaign. George Crowther. '.s years of age. me nis u.' i, roning in the Jordan Jor-dan river at Salt Lake City while bath- Hia older brother and Resignation or- xowne Accepted and Stevenson Stev-enson Named In His Stead. At a meeting of the Peoples party' national committee Monday, the declination de-clination of Charles A. Towne as the ice-presidential nominee for the party was accepted and the name of Adlai E. Stevenson was pot in bis place. This result was obtained after a long debate beginning at 3 p. m. and ending about 6:30 p. m. In the beginning there were three courses advocated by different members of the committee. i namely: To nominate a Populist, to ! leave the place blank or. lastly, to en dorse Mr. Stevenson. Senator Marion Butler, chairman of the committee, in a warm speech of some length, advocated leaving the place blank, contending that Bryan and Stevenson would receive more Populist votes than if a candidate for ice-president was named. But one test vote was taken. A motion was made to endorse Mr. Stevenson. Stev-enson. For this motion Mr. Washburn of Massachusetts moved as a substitute that a Populist be placed upon the ticket. The substitute was lost on a call of the roll by a vote of 24 ayes to 71 nays. The original motion was then adopted by a viva voice vote. There were l i4 members of the committee com-mittee present or represented by proxy. WOMAN RESISTS ARREST. ttallan Section Hands au Idaho Kill Ose Men and Woosd Another. A mob of Italian section hands attacked at-tacked a Northern Pacific train at Hauser Junction, Idaho, Sunday, presumably pre-sumably killed one man, fatally injured another and wounded a third. L. B. Johnson, the man believed to be fatally wounded, is at the Sacred Heart hospital at Spokane, with the side of his head torn away with shot, and a bullet lodged in his right shoulder. shoul-der. But for the timely interference of train hands he would have been killed on the spot. His partner, whose name is unknown, is supposed to have been killed. Section Foreman Martin Coleman has an ugly gash in his wrist. None of the Italians were injured as far as known. Sheriff Bradbury of Kootenai county reached the scene of the fight at a late hour at night, and has a score of the Italians under arrest. The fight was started by an altercation alterca-tion between the section foreman and a drunken Italian. The laborer stabbed the foreman in the arm. Two young men interfered and were chased to the cab of a side-tracked engine, and be cause the engineer would not give them up the train was attacked. . One of the two men sought was killed and the other probably fatally wounded. TO FORTIFY GUAM. CHAFFEE RECOMMENDS WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS. They Will Remain, However, t'ntil Conditions Condi-tions Are More Settled. Major General Chaffee has recommended recom-mended that the United States troops now in China be withdrawn so soon as all the Americans in Pekin have reached places of safety. The president and all the members of the administration are anxious to get .the troops out of China at the earliest possible date, but it can be said on authority that there will be no immediate im-mediate withdrawal of American forces unless there is an immediate change of conditions. There is a disposition in administration administra-tion circles to believe that General KILLED AND EATEN BY BEARS. ing. His older brother and another companion did everything in their power to save him. but the treacherous undercurrent proved the victor. It is reported in Provo that the Rio Grand Western Railway company has gotten out plans and peeihVations for a new brick depot building for Provo, to be built at an early date. The frame building now in use will bo converted into n warehouse. A Lehi boy placed a loaded cartridge In the keyhole of a railway switch and proceeded to discharged it. with th result that the shell passed through his lower jaw, and the bullet went through his band, both pieces making vary paiuful wounds. Sarah K. Butters, of Clarkston. has filed suit against Cache county to recover re-cover damages in the sum of j.0OO, al leged to have been sustained by reason of injuriessuffered through the collapse of the bridge over Bear river at Benson ! last spring. Nathan Haworth, who wasseulenced to be shot on September 14. has been granted a lease of life, tbe trial judge having granted his attorneys until October Oc-tober 14 to complete the transcript and perfect an appeal for a new trial, which they hope to secure. L. A. Bailey A Sons, of Manti, have lost nine head of horses within six weeks from a peculiir disease. The first sign is a weakness of the limbs which causes stumbling, then the animal ani-mal falls and has no more use of its limbs, living from one to two days. The five-year-old son of City Recorder Ross of Lehi was fatally burned on the 23rd. while the mother received serious injuries in endeavoring to extinfaoish the flames. The little fellow secured some paper and matches, his clothing igniting from the lire he started. In one family at Spanish Fork four girls and the mother are down with smallpox, leaving three little boys who have not yet been attacked. The father and two larger sons are off working. Every possible effort is being made to prevent a spread of the disease. Little Alice Booth, the ten-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Booth of Mereur, was shot through the heart and instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of a even-year-old playmate, who procured the pistol unknown to his parents. Joseph Bates Noble, who died at Wardboro, Idaho, August 17, at the age of 90 years, 7 months aud 5 days, had the distinction of beiug the father of the first child born into polygamy, and performed the first plural marriage ceremony in tbia dispensation. Last week officers of the Pleasant Valley Coal company took to Scofield a sack of gold containing in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 8100,000, with which to pay off the heirs of the miners killed ia the Scofield disaster, on the basis proposed , Two Men Killed and Three Wounded In Attempting At-tempting to Make Arrest. Two men killed, three wounded two of them perhaps fatally one woman wo-man fatally wounded, and her residence resi-dence burned at Gilman, 111., are the results of an all-night battle between a mob ami Dr. Clara V. Wright, who was accused of the murder of Desaie Salter, the 16-year-old daughter of a citizen of Gilmam. Dead John Myers, laborer, employed em-ployed by Mrs. Wright. Michael Ryan, deputy constable. Fatally Injured Lawrence Ryan, brother of the dead man, wounded in abdomen. George Willoughby, citizsn, shot through left lung. Dr. Clara W. Wright, shot through right shoulder, bullet taking downward down-ward course. Peter Laues, member of citizens attacking at-tacking party, shot through stomach. Mrs. Wright was about 50 years old. It is stated that she was formerly an actress. For sorne time she has been conducting a lying-in hospital on the outskirts of Gilman. The girl died Suuday, aud a coroners inquest ordered the arrest of the woman. Idaho Nearly Doubles Population In Ten Tears. Census figures show that the population popula-tion of Idaho is 150,000. nearly double what it was teu years ago, when the census showed f?4,000. For its size, Ada county, with about 12.000, has the largest population. The bauner counties, irrespective of size, however, are Nez Perce and Latah, each of which has a little over 13,000. The most remarkable growth is shown in Fremont county, which has a population of lU.OOO. Boise is the largest city in the state, the population of the capital being 8,000. vn.nn..u tvmiew seCOircj la point of population, with 4,000; Moscow third, with 3,300, and Lewiston fourth, with 3,100. Idaho Falls has about 1,500 and Weiser about 1,350. The oldest inhabitants are two Indians, In-dians, man and wife, ou Nez Perce reservation. They are over 100 years old and were married seventy-six years ago. G. A. R. AT CHICAGO. To be Made at Great Naval Base For Kan torn Waters. The navy department has taken the initial steps in the preparation for the complete and comprehensive system of fortifications and harbor improvements by which it is intended to make the island of Guam a thoroughly protected base for our naval vessels in the western west-ern Pacific. The navy department has been at pains to ascertain just what harbor facilities other nations have in this part of the world, and the maps already al-ready prepared show that southward from Guam we are flanked for 2,500 miles by a chain of islands containing thirteen fine harbors, all of them potential po-tential bases of hostile powers. Some of them are already equipped and fortified. for-tified. These harbors are included in the Marshall and Caroline groups, which stretch from the southeru border bor-der of the Philippines eastward past the longitude of Guam, while on the north the Ladrooes possess several harbors, some of them as close as forty miles to our possessions in Guam. In view of all these facts, it has been determined de-termined to make Guam a great naval base. George Jewkes, 12 Years of Age, Meets St Horrible Death. News has reached Price of tne most horrible fate of a lad in the vicinity of Joe's valley, in Emery county. A family fam-ily by the name of Jewkes were out in the hills camping, a popular recreation for people of Orangeville and Castle Dale. About dusk one of the boys, George Jewkes, about 12 years of age, was sent to the spring near by the camp for a bucket of water. He re mained away considerable longer than he should have, and another brother was sent to 6ee what was wrong. Near the spring the body of the boy was found, with half of the trunk and flesh of the limbs torn away. That portion of the body that was left, as the story is told, was lying near a clump of bushes, where it had been dragged by a bear. There were unmistakable un-mistakable signs of its having been a bear and no other animal. " There are a p-reat many sheep being grazed in the neighborhood, and flock-owners flock-owners have of late been heavy losers by the depredations of these beasts. NORTHWEST NOTES. Mrs. Ethel Frisbee and her mother. Mrs. M. Vf. Deray, living in Mont Clair, a suburb of Denver, Cola, were burned to death last week from efforts to kindle a fire with coal oil. Major James Cummings died at Vir ginia City, Nevada, last week of internal inter-nal hemorrhage. lie had been a resident resi-dent of the city for the third of a century and was held in high esteem. A fine crop of native apples is re-. ported from Fremont county, Wyo. and is being harvested. Garden truck is generally reported as being in good condition, but potatoes are somewhat small. LEHI BOY BURNED TO DEATH. Set Fire to His Clothing by Striking Match. BRIG. GEN. ADNA R. CHAFFEE. Chaffee's recommendation was bastil on military considerations alone, andfliat he did not take political position! into consideration, but there is reaseu to think that his dispatch was sent lifter consultation with minor generals.' SON SLAYS HIS FATHER. J. N. JAPANESE MANIFESTO. Marquis Ito Tells Alma of New Party of Which he Is Head. Marquis Ito, formerly prime minister, minis-ter, has issued a manifesto setting forth the aims of his party, which is called the Constitutional Political association, as-sociation, and from the ranks of which the next cabinet will probably be drawn. The manifesto emphasizes the fact that the appointment and dismissal dismis-sal of the ministers are constitutional prerogatives of the sovereign, and that when the ministers are in office it is not permissible for their party to interfere inter-fere in the discharge of their duties. The press urges the sending of troops to Kcrea. The cabinet hesitates, but vicinity of Gensan. Itarnham Commits Patricide In' Ne- braHka. James X. Tiurnham, publisher of the Wymoreau, at Wymore, Neb., shot and killed bis father. Captain Collins A. Burnham, at their home Sunday. A coroners jury immediately exonerated the son. The killing was in self-defense. Captain Burnham was a captain in the civil war and was uncontrolable when intoxicated. Many times he had threatened to kill all the members of his family. This morning the father came home and made an assault upon his son. The father used a butcher-knife, butcher-knife, and after getting his son into a corner was in the act of plunging the knife into his body. When there was no other alternative, the son drew a revolver and fired a shot, which went through Captain Burnham's heart, killing kill-ing him instantly. Floyd, the 5-year-old son of City Recorder Re-corder James E. Ross of Lehi, Utah, was fatally burned Thursday morning. His father had just gone down town to hifi business, when the nnfnrt.nrint.a 6f T Plctureby some unknown means, secured and,' with his 6f Tpicture youngest sistadrnt out to one of the outbuildings. In setting fire to the paper it caught onto his clothing. He ran to the house as fast as possible, but as there was a brisk wind at the time his little body was soon wrapped in flames, and before his mother could extinguish them all the flesh of the upper part of his body was bnrned to a crisp. The mother, also, in extinguishing extin-guishing the flames, had her hands so badly burned that it will be a long time before they can be of any service to her. CHINESE GOVERNMENT GUILTY; Largest Attended Encampment lu History i of the Organization. j The thirty-fourth annual encamp- i ment of the Grand Army of the Kepub- ! lie, w hich was formally opened Monday j night by the monster meeting in the ! Coliseum, Chicago, promises to be the I greatest and most successful encamp- ' ment the army has ever held. Train ' after train loaded with veterans and ' their friends rolled into the various . stations in the city, and it was esti- j mated by railroad officials that fully ! 45.000 old soldiers had arrived, and that ! 300,000 other excursionists had come j with them. i i Ihe veterans have come from all i parts of the Republic and every Dorth- j em state lias seut a strong contingent. ! The New York delegation is one of the j largest that state has ever sent to an j annual eucampmeut. Indiana Oh eat Crop a Failure. The total yield of wheat in Indiana for the present year is the smallest for ruany years, aud not exceeding S,000,-000 S,000,-000 bushels, agaiust 25,O'M),OO0 to 40,-IHXI.O00 40,-IHXI.O00 for several vears in succession prior to ls'.'S). Work on St. Louis Fair. There recently has been marked renewal re-newal of activity at the headquarters of the Louisiana Purchase Centennial World's Fair of HH)3. All butone-Hfth of the 85,000.000 of stock subscription has been raised and the balance is as-suted. as-suted. Communications received from outside points give further evidence of the great interest taken in the centen nial, not only in practically every state in the union, but in a large number of foreign countries. Correspondence from Paris indicates the certainty of securing several of the best exhibits in the exhibition there. Big Gun Tested. The new 18-inch Gathinana torpedo gun, the largest ever built in this country, coun-try, has been tested at the Bethlehem steel works to determine the velocity and strength of the gun, and proved successful. Solid shots weighing a ton were fired. After two preliminary shots, the third was fired with a charge of 500 iHaihe-lronn,is powder, and showed - itoT" i - -vj-i - ' v v u uu ri 1111 I Hill velocity, while the fourth shot with the same charge recorded a pressure of 19,350 pounds and a velocity of 1,'JOl feet. The gun is intended "for coast defense. de-fense. The inventor claims that it will throw a shell fifteen miles. Guncotton is used in the charges. The gun is forty-four feet long and weighs fifty-nine tons. Conger Says Itlatue for Disturbance Lies at the Feet of the Throne. In a talk with the relieving force at Pekin, Minister Conger said: They tried to annihilate us the day before you got in. Trince Ching, president presi-dent of the Tsung-li-Yamen, sent word that his officers had received orders to cease firing ou us, under pain of death. At 7 o'clock in the evening of the same day the Chinese opened fire, and this continued all day. If the relieving column had not arrived ar-rived when it did we should probably have succumbed. The Americans lost seven marines killed and fifteen wounded and one child died. Tbe whole movement is purely a governmental one. The Boxers are only a pretense, haviug no guns. The confidential ad visor of the empress was the leader of the imperial troops here. In eleven days over 2,000 shells fell among us. CONGRESS MAY BE CONVENED. Extra Session May be Called to Aid In Set- tliug Chinese Difficulty. Inside information from official and impossible for President McKinley to avoid calling an extra session of congress con-gress within the next thirty days. The situation in China, as well as that in Hawaii, Cuba aud Porto Rico, is such that it is deemed impossible for the president not to call upon the legislative legisla-tive wing of the governmentfor assistance. Russia Orders 6,000,000 Pounds of Iteef From Chicago. A Chicago packing company has received re-ceived an order from the Russian government gov-ernment for 6,000,000 pounds of "beef on the hoof," to feed the soldiers of the war in China. This is the largest order of the kind in the. history of the Chicago meat market. Options are said to haye been taken upon every available ship carrying trade on the Pacific. It will take 9,000 fatted cattle to fill this order. The cattle will be sent from San Francisco via Hawaii and Japan. Hailstorm in Kansas, Hailstones as large as walcuts fell a Lamed, Hans., for half an hour Sun day night, beating fruit and leaves off the trees and killing many birds and small animals. The ground was cov ered with a sheet of ice. Rioting In Southern China. According to a dispatch from Hongkong, Hong-kong, turbulent mobs are devastating portions of the provinces of Fu Kicn and Iviang Fu. Marines from tho French cruiser Comet have cleared the streets of Swa-tow Swa-tow and freed the besieged priests. A dispatch to a news agency from Shanghai says eight survivors of the fourteen English missionaries who started together from Shan Si have reached Hankow after suffering frightful fright-ful barbarities. Gunboat Cavtln Ordered to Aoioy. The gunboat Castiue, Commander Powmau, has been ordered to Amoy,' China, from Shanghai. The Amoj is sent at the instance of business men who desire better protection than has been afforded, as rioting has been gong go-ng ou for several days and a worse tale of affairs is predicted. A large oody of Japanese troops have been landed at Amoy, which led to a protest from some of the powers. It is stated that the sending of the Cas- nue nas no connection with the test. pro- by the company, .5oo for each man. Imtane Man's Crime, James H. Hill of California, govern m Ant c - - . . i , cuprnuiruncui ui teiegrapn in Guatemala, shot and killed Camilio Enrique, an operator at Morales, a station on the Guatemala railroad. Hill, while temporarily insane, attacked at-tacked George Reeves of Tyler, Texas. a conductor of a train. As the latter stopped at Morale to tend a message concerning the affair. Hill ordered Enrique En-rique not to send the message, and killed him for disobeying. He was captured some distance from Morales and held for trial. Identity of Soldiers. Difficulty experienced in establishing the identity of buried soldiers, owing to the failure of commanding officers to state precisely tbe location of the graves of men during, has prompted the war department to issue an order directing di-recting that every grave must be carefully care-fully marked by a headboard, with the name, rank and organization of the deceased. Company commanders are to be held responsible for this identifi. cation to the extent of mpn trhn .-it i the field, and hospital surgeons are to anwer ior men dying in the hospitals. Warship to Collect Claim from Morocco. United States warship has arrived at Tangier, Morocco, to support the claim arising out of the murder last June of a naturalized American, Mar cos Essagin. Essagin, while horse back riding, jolted against the mule of a Morocco priest. A dispute followed during which Essagin in self-defense. fired his revolver, wounding a native. T, 1 . 1 .. . j.ue American was men attached, re ceiving dozens of knife wounds, and his body, according to some accounts, was burned before life was extinct. Taquls Sue For Peace. The iaqui Indians in the state of Sonora, who have been at war with the Mexican government for over a year, are now suing for peace and endeavoring endeavor-ing to be reinstated on their former reservation and retain their property. Two prominent Yaquis from Hermosil-lo Hermosil-lo gave out this information. They are en route to southern Mexico, where they go to learn, if possible, what has become of the Y'aquis who have been captured and sent to the interior. Famine Feared at Tien Tsln. General Dorward, in his report of the engagement outside of Tien Tsin, says: 'The lines of communication near Tien Tski are now free from danger. The enemy had been treating the villagers badly. Several decapitated bodies were found near their camp. The villagers are now flocking to Tien Tsin at tbe rate of about a thousand a day. As there is not more than a month's food ripply, there is evefy prospect of a famine shortly." Cordua to be Shot. A dispatch from Pretoria says General Gen-eral Lord Roberts has confirmed the sentence of death imposed upon Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Cordua, formerly of the Staats artillery, who was convicted of being a ringleader in the plot to abduct General Roberts and kill British officers. Dr. Lejds and the Boer envoys have sent from St. Petersburg to Lord Salisbury Salis-bury a strong protest against the latest proclamation of Lord Roberta, maintaining main-taining that they violate every sense of right and all the principles of international interna-tional law. Trees Save Lives of Passeggers. k An electric car on the River view line at Beaver Falls, Pa,, jumpedv the track on a high grade Fridayf, overturned over-turned ahd'pil!iiged lllto 'IWr Pttis.- where it hung suspended 150 feet above the Ft. Wayne railroad tracks. The car contained about fifty pass engers, many of whom were iniured tr- . . J ' vincem wurry, aged 21. of Beaver Falls, may succumb to his injuries. Jennie Lee, also of Beaver Falls, was seriously iojured. The others will recover. Terrific Storm at Nome. A terrific storm at Nome wrought disaster along the water front aDd as a result the beach is lined with wreckage wreck-age and stranded vessels of all descriptions. descrip-tions. According to a water front man, out of sixty-eight steam launches only five remained afloat, and of seventy- two barges but seven are riding tbe sea, the others having either sunk or drifted ashore.. Twenty four bodies were washed ashore and taken to the morgue for identificaiion. Von Ket tier's Body Found. A special from Che Foo announces the finding of the body of Baron von Kettler, the murdered German minister, minis-ter, in a Chinese graveyard in Pekin. A solemn burial service with christian services were held. Missions at Amoy Looted. It is announced in a dispatch from Amoy that many more American and British missions in the neighborhood of Amoy have recently been looted and bnrned by mobs, and a Japanese temple tem-ple bnrned. Neely Afraid of Helng Kidnapped. The attorney for Charles F. W. Neely, formerly Cuban agent for the postoffice department, has sworn that he believed be-lieved the United States government had Tjade arrangements for the placing of the petitioner on board an army transport for immediate transportation to Cuba as soon as the necessary order for extradition had been signed and the accused man secured and placed aboard ship. This nlan. counsel as serted, was to prevent the petitioner from applying for a writ of habeas corpus. Bryan Notified by the Pops. Mr. Bryan Thursday received the second official notification of his nomination nomi-nation for the presidency. This notification noti-fication came from the Populist party, and Hon. Thomas M. Patterson of Colorado acted as the mouthpiece for the party in making it. He was at the same time informed of the indorsement indorse-ment of his candidacy by the United-States United-States Monetary league by Hon. A. W. Rucker. The ceremonies occurred in the grounds of the State capitol at Topeka and were witnessed by a large number of people. A west-bound fast mail ran into a piledriver outfit standing on the main line at Red Desert, Wyo., and the head end of the locomotive was damaged and the piledriver demolished. No one was injured. Blanche Roberts of Cul De Sac. Ida., while amusing herself lighting small quantities of gunpowder and watching it putff, was severely burned by the explosion ex-plosion of a two-pound sack of powder which she held in her hand. A young man named Leonardo was killed by lightning near Sundance, Wyo., one day last week. He was driving a four-horse team at the time the lightning struck him dead, and three of tbe horses were killed by the bolt. The mumified body of Boyd Dicus, who was murdered a year ago by Manuel Man-uel Aguilar, has been found near Montrose, Mont-rose, Colo., by some sheepherders. The body was well preserved by the dry air and under the right shoulder was a bullet wound. His murderer is 6till at large. James Brown of Omaha, has beep arrested at Rawlins, W'yo., charged with forgery. He stopped at the Rawlins Raw-lins house and paid for his lodging with a check drawn upon the First National bank of Rawlins, signed by Kilpatrick Bros. & Collins. The check was a forgery. The forest fires of Wyoming are still raging fiercely between Battle Lake and Grand Encampment and towns and mining camps and sheep camps in that vicinity are threatened with destruction. de-struction. It is estimated that the loss, exclusive of the millions of feet of fine timber, will be over 8200,000. A train load of horses consisting of thirty-eight cars arrived in Laramie, Wyo., last week en route east. When just east of Howell station one of the cars was discovered to be on fire. The doors were thrown open and all the animals but six jumped out, many breaking their legs. Those remaining in the car were burned to death. Almont Smith, a freighter of Ther-mopolis, Ther-mopolis, Wyo., whose daughter was killed recently, accidentally, by her uncle, dreamed of the accident and was sure of her death long before any communication com-munication reached him. He was on the road miles from home when he had his dream and related the strange occurrence oc-currence to his companions. A few days later he received a letter stating that his daughter was dead which oc curred on the very night of his dream. The National Farmers congress, held at Colorado Springs, Colo., last week was largeiy attended there oeing aoout 2,000 delegates in attendance. In addition ad-dition to the subject of "Pure Food," which was considered at length there was a spirited discussion of various interests in-terests of the Nicaraguan canal and free rural deliveries. It was urged that the rural free delivery system be spread as widely as possible. The visitors vis-itors were welcomed at their meeting by Mayor J. R. Robinson, on the part of the city. Laborers are in great demand in Wyoming at the present time. Rail road contractors and ranchmen are clamoring for laborers. The Union Pacific Coal company are short of men and the Sweetwater Coal company are advertising for 200 men. A man named Kearns had his leg broken and had a narrow escape from death at the Odder ranch in Laramie, vyo., last weeif. lie was riding on a load of hay when the wagon was upset up-set and his leg catching in one of the wheels. William McMillen of Nevada City, Nev.. has been appointed inspector of surveyors general and local land offices. His appointment to the office, of which there are only three in the United States, fills a vacancy that has existed for two years. W. A. Swink a brakeman on the A. B. &. M., was killed at Guernsey, Wyo. . last week. 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C. iiiTROSE B10YGLEHHEFREE onapprorai toyonraidress VflTHQUT A CZJT IN ADVANCE SENES US YOU ft state whether too wtf.h lady', or man', wheel: (rive color, height of frame and pear wanted and WE Wl L.1. fillip a...-. ic . jl. v. v.. ir. Vii .(jiutiii, KuowmK ywi to uncrata and examine ex-amine It fuily before you accept It If it Is not all and more than w cinlin for It, and a better wheel than yon cau frit fur any where near th. price from any one el e. refuxe It and we will pay ail express charm. m Mm tsi vn a' mm? iul Aceut's Hmnl iri. r 9 I r is the irreatost bunralnln a bicycle ever ofered. We tnmraiiteelt ourselves. She at our Special u u. tfreaitwi ounram in a bicycle ever oKered. We guarantee It equal to any (10 wheel on the market, and you need not accept It nor par a cenl ? represent. We are EXCLl'niVE IUCYCLE MA-M rAf.rl.RRK8 and take this method of quickly tntroduclnc our 1UOO ilOHtl.S. Th! otter of a fc-myle wheel at this low price 2 Iaumm &SVlnjrjTS Jl " K T : . . . . i& cH t) t3 Rna orders. Our arents make money fant. rivi IB&n!ff!flTIf!r! Frame, i!, Moras inch; ladles. M!nch. Best g j.SV T 3 T . " oueipy seamics. lulling with forgod conneo- the ea-siest running knownj Kccord A" tires, the fcenf and one of th iSSfaferS tlonsi nusn j"!,lts. lmproTed expander device U fasten seat post and 'i SF(:li.T 2?" uiinuie niijaianucnJWB; mc oeienrai-ea juavla nubsand han most eijwnHive tires on the marktt. The i renulite 04 Hrln(rr llyrlenle i .jNuiuie; ptruma, vwia ivim oocesnories nie Dews obtainable. Enameled la i 3 black, maroon or coach preen. hlily Onixhed and ornamented; Sjiecia 1 . I , ft 1 ..r . .!.. 1 . K , ....... ,K . : 1. . r . . ' V J ' w S.l' Af'' nU bond with each bicycle. J'mr FfrSC Jany one Benum? me si(U,dkii in fun with order ws witl Bit., eend free a irenuine lint-ii..?r lonun mil ... r rAn. ,meter; or a hisrh grade floor puuip. Your money all back if you are no, perfectly satisfied. fKFf'D lifter I C We do not manufacture tho cheap depar. fcPEt7.hr 13 IiS.Wl.Oi ment store kind of wheels, such as many new mend them. liUFOREOBDEItrSG a bicycle' of any one elnfSSJeT who 'h i iS r".reV . ".aid .let "ii?!0" how much we can save you on the same machine. nJSTlf PPnx.se. We have several hundred SECOND IIA:1 wilEELsl Sen In tS TwhuTh. H1.1 KZ1'$Vwlf?i,t eat! ai? some shopworn samp.es and K9 models very cheap. Send for B.rr.l. LtatT 2.1.,K J'EL'AUIUT is unquestioned. We i refer to any bank or business house In Chicago, or any pressor ranroad company VT L"?,' TJoa ,ut7 1 reference direct from the larprest banks lc Chicago if you Vlsh It SEND YGHR fiP-FR ?odnT: Thislawpnceand Itheje special terms of shipment without deposit will WbllU IVUI1 ULvtll bs withdrawn very soon. tlTOJve name of this paper L. ME&D GYOLE GaEEFNY. 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OHENCK Buslrrsss Manager. S3 W. 3rd Sooth St. 00000000000000000000000000 SALT LAKE CITY TJTAH. G.E. ANDERSON PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE , . PHOTO G-RAPHER. Dealer in . THAMES, PICTURE FITTIKG3 and GLASS in all sizes. Pictures copied and enlarped by borae artists, Pictures . of family proups, residence, stock" or au sub jects ta:en oo the spot. Keep youf Money at Home. SPRINGVILLE. . . - UTAII. Tonsoriai r Artist. All Work Done in tbe Highest Stjla of tbe Art. IHOP- Ooe Door North of Dr. Peterson - Drug Store. Azvnt tot Ftoto StesiB Laundry, |