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Show THE GUNNISON GAZETTE BY NEPHI ; GLEDHILL & SON. GUNNISON II IDE DUD LEGAL MDHJU UTAH In a Battle Between Abdel Aziz Soldier and Mulal Halid' Trooper, STATE NEWS UTAH USURPER IS the Latter Were Defeated. Rate Riot in Capital of Illinois Re suits in Four Deaths and Injury The U bi city council has raised tho city tax rate from 7 to 10 mills for city and street purposes. Four hundred lUack Hawk war vet- of Many Participants. I 1 I Sat-bond- I in-wat- er I Don!-givin- g to c" I - keep-sportsma- n Oc-Jof't- I tt f- - i - I x riot-ridde- first-clas- - I Srod n - Overturned Lamp Start Fire That Almost Completely Destroy Taft, Montana. Tangier. A wireless dispatch re reived from Abdel Aziz, the sultan n( record, announces tho victory ol his troops over the troops under Mu lal Hafld. the usurping sultan, In an Store and a Saloon Left engagement recently fought during One Grocery Standing When the Conflagration the inarch toward Morocco City, stat ding Wa Gotten Under ;ng that the defeat of the enemy wa Operation complete. The losses of the adher nts of Mulal Hafld are estimated at Start at Once. An Ira 500 killed and 500 wounded. mens amount of booty was cap lured. Abdel Aziz, at the head of s Jflssoula, Mont. The entire town tribe the lehama column, defeated of Taft, with the exception of tho Mulal Hafld, who were importing a jiostoffice, one grocery store and and tho of tribesmen Thurskilling fifty saloon, was destroyed by fire taking 200 prisoners. day morning. The warehouses of the construe-tio- n BANDITS TRICKED BY CLERKS. companies which are located on Train Robber Overlooked Mail Sacl the opposite side of the railroad tracks escaped. The loss Is estimatand Are Poorly Paid for Trouble. ed at between fCO.ouO and $75,000, A Spokane. One of the most daring with little insurance. message hold-upever attempted on a trans fiom Mayor Dennison of Tart Is to continental train befell Northern Pa the effect that the fire loss will exclflc No. 3 almost within the city limceed $80,000. A total of fifteen busiits of Spokane after midnight Satur- ness buildings and saloons were deTwo masked highwaymen day night. stroyed and nothing of the contents stopped tho train at OUs and boarded was saved. Rebuilding operations the engine. After a brief encounter have learned is It started. already with tho engineer and fireman the ot result' not was the fire that the mall car, next to the engine, was deconof the a forest blaze. The origin tached and one of the highwaymen, flagration is somewhat of a mystery taking charge of the engine, the par- and the officials of the town are now ty came on west to Trent, where tho to discover who was retrainmen were dismissed by tho rob- attempting It is thought that an bers. The bandits then proceeded sponsible. the Anheuser in lamp to within a mile of Yardley, where overturned puilding next to the postoffice caused they proceeded to rob the mail car. disastrous fire. the The baggage car and the express car were untouched and none of the CHINA ENTERS PROTESTS. passengers was molested. Tricked by the quick wit of mail to Japanese Executions on clerks, little plunder is believed to Object Chinese Soil. have been captured by the two men. comwere Warned that the robbers Pekin. The killing in this city ing, the clerks took advantage of the early this month or a Japanese army time after the train had been cut in officer, supposed to be a spy and two and threw the local registered by Japanese soldiers attachpackages into a newspaper sack, traitor, to ed the Pekin legation, will result where they were not noticed. In the presentation by China of a formal protest against the doing of poSOLDIERS JOIN SAVAGES. lice duty by legation guards outside Mutinous Chinese Murder Command- - of the legation precincts. The ofer and Take to the Mountains. ficer in question was Captain He was in the artillery Hong Kong. The soldiers stationed at Konghau, near Wuchow, who oranch of the Hiroshima division and mutinied and killed their commander re was formerly an instructor in the because a comrade had been arrest- Chinese mijitary college at Pao Ting ed for gambling, have joined the Fu. He was charged with selling Yaus, a rebellious tribe of abcv.gines, Japanese military secrets to a forfierce and warlike, living in the eign power and disapepared from Jasouthwest portion of the province of pan in June. On August 1 he was Their home is in a re- discovered disguised as a Chinaman, Kwangtung. near the war office in Pekin. gion of inaccessible mountains and hiding was communicated This knowledge they have never been subjected to to the legation guards and a detachgovernmental control. ment was sent to capture him. He Admiral Li has arrived here in his resisted the arrest, whereupon flagship, accompanied by gunboats, guards shot and "wounded the spy torpedo boats and launches. Troops and he died two days later in the have also been summoned and the hospital of the legation guard. country is in a turmoil. The mutineers are 1,009 in number, and after STREETS OF ROME UNSAFE. murdering their commander pillaged the village, securing $100,000 in Hostility to Pope and Priesthood money, and withdrew to the Talking Among Lower Classes. erans attended the encampment at Spanish Fork last week. The Salt Lake team of Eagles won Despite the Preience of Militia, the the first prize, 11,000 cash, In the Homes of Negroes Are Durned to week contest last Seattle at parade the Ground and Colored Men The Willard cannery has now about Subjected to Torture. rmpictcd its run on beans and has commenced 'to can large quantities of apricots. Springfield, III. Two white men Petitions nro being circulated at were killed and one negro was lynchWillard favoring a local option plank more than half a hundred persons In tlie platforms of all the political ed, were Injured and two score of houses. parties this fall. by negroes wero A .iocc or R azed pottery, evidently .mostly occupied as the rcsuIt 0( nl5lll a relic ot prt historic ases, n as found aa a 1 c p. Frday : t to mob a lynch a negro by ISO feet from the surface ot the earth Rh0 ,aJ aisautk, a uWt0 woman. by well diggers In Ogden last week. After a night of riot, arson and Lehl will hold a special election slaughter, the state troops, called out September 14 to vote on $26,500 water by Hie governor, succeeded early The result of the election will urday in restoring a semblance of whether Lehi is to have a dcr One thousand militiamen, system or not. eluding three companies from this city Salt Lake City will make a strong aad companies from Bloomington, Deeffort to obtain the new $1,000,000 catur, Perkin and Pontiac, were set plant which it is understood tho Har- - patrolling the streets, riman Interests will erect for the man- Despite the presence of the troops ufacture of motor cars. another victim was added to tho list A young man of Mantua Box Elder on Saturday night, when William Don county, was last week fined $100 for lsan an aS?d negro, was killed. He sue- - Gan 'vas a cobbler and respected as a whisky to minors. and inoffensive citizen. Ilia coodcd In getting girls, aged 12 Eh0J, was wlthln llv0 block3 0f th, I and 16 years, Intoxicated. house. In the absence of a pa In connection with the movement trol, the mob set fire to the shop and which has been started for good roads the venerable negro was compelled by throughout the state. Salt Lake county the smoke to run into the street. His has started work and expects to show appearance was greeted by a showet stones and bricks, and as he stag good results within a short time. under the fusillade he was seia The amount due the state of Utah gered a rope was hJg throat cut and ed from the net receipts of forest re- - then run through Uie WOund and the senes for the fiscal year ending June yjctim bound to a tree. There he was SO, 1908, is $32,151, as compared with f0Und later, unconscious and dying. The rioting wras precipitated by an $9,003 in 1906, and $13,557 in 1907. The Salt Lake Y. M. C. A. has re- - assault committed by a negro upon ceived the honor roll of the ten asso- - Mrs. Mabel Hallam, wife of a street While the woman conductor. ciatlons that lead in the 190S interna home on a populous in alone her tional educational work contest for slept, resjdence street, awaiting the return boys, and its name appears at the cf ber husband, the man broke into head. the house, dragged her into the rear a box car without in yard and assaulted her. Before noon Imprisoned food or water for three long days, Jo- - George Richardson, a young negro, sheriff s force, seph Hartman was released when the was arrested by the Th cm e.'n car reached Ogden, only to be imme- ch.r,g.(i p? tresof on the arrested charge dintely ady qul'uiy glttered about the Passjail, but Richardson was spirited Governor Cutler will appoint any away to Bloomington for safe who wishes to attend the ing. Balked of their prey, the members gathering of the League of American mob wreaked vengeance upon Sportsmen at Lawton, Oklahoma, restaurant a keeper who had assisted tober 12 and 13, a .delegate from the in spiriting away the suspected negro, xV by completely wrecking his restaur-Th- e thttM-UJaNational of v outing ant and burning bis automobile. Lewis guard in Wyoming ;t ov $9,625.33, ex-- Johnson, a white boy, aged 17, was elusive of transporting' and' subsist-- killed during the rioting at the res- ' ence. Of the total a. mt, .the state taurant. After burning many houses in the paid $4,298.99 and the 325.34. negro quarter the mob, which became 'ormore despe.ate as the night awarded . for more and .Contrac s have-bee- n fled ltg thirst for flnalIy the completion of Springville s new when charley Hunter, a negro, high school building. The building, iwas iynciied r.t the corner of Twelfth when all the floors are: completed, &nd Madison streets, right in the hear over of the district called Bad Lands. which will be next year, will cost : 'V $20,000. Troops arrived at the scene tooof late the mountains. C. J. Christensen,, penniless and to prevent the lynching. Some mob declare that the snfferinV'Wv m incurable disease members of the had shot tw0 whIte Owes Thirteen Millions. ,ynched Pa. The Pennsylvania Scranton, to the poor himself, rather than Richardson, the negro Coal & Coke company, one of the biggorge house, where he had be.en for several, charged with the assault which led to mining concerns in the bitumimonths. the fearful rioting, denies his guilt gest ra nous fields of western Pennsylvania, F. Bussmyer. an aged man of Salt and declares he can prove an alibi. or went into the hands of a receiver on With the arrival here on Sunday t Lake, who shot Thomas Wallace at Seventh infantry regi-bal- Saturday. Judge Edwards of this city Lake on July 31 vill have to the Second and and twQ squadrons of appointed Thomas H. Watkins as reface a charge,-o-f assault with intent an from Chicago, ceiver, on the application of the Scranrst cavIry to murder, Wallace is recovering th national guard of Illinois, ton Trust company, trustee for bondfrom his injuries. Se with exception of the Sixth in-- holders, which alleges that the comJohn A.; Nelson, a resident of Og- - fantry and the Eighth infantry, coldis- - pany, through its lessee, .the Pennsylden, has invented a butter holder la ored, is on duty in the vania, Beach Creek & Western Coal be used by merchants in the delivery tricts. In all 4,200 guardsmen are in company, was unable to meet its renof the product which will insure it the city. W. A. Lathrop, presl-den- t tal obligations. v, Sunday passed wi of the company, gives the intrinreaching the hands of customers in s at more than condition during the hot streets, they sic value of the property the a total indebtedweather. against were mostly curiosity seekers, and $26,000,000, ness of about $13,000,000. were easily handled by the soldiers. I j- Control-Rebuil- s Ka-wakit- a. are Wis. There Milwaukee, Rome where it is not safe places in for a priest to go, especially at night, and if the Holy Father were to go outside the Vatican into the streets there is no, doubt that his life would be in danger, said the Most Rev. Sebastian G. Messmer, archbishop ot Milwaukee, speaking of his recent visit to Rome. There is the utmost hostility to the pope and the priesthood among the lower classes, concluded the archbishop. It is not political, hut is due to the contemptible, miserable sheets published there. These attack the pope and all pertaining to the Catholic church. They are obscene and degrading and endeavoring to drag everything to theh own level. ( |