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Show LIVING ISSUES. Woodford's THREE TONS OF COLD. the Mnmrr land From Als.kn. Iort Townsend, Wash., Sept. 29. WILLARD FOSTKH, Publlrtjpr. The United States revenue cutter Room SALT LAKK CITY. Hooper Bile.. Captain Munger, has arrived from Unulaska, and brought the latest news rrom St. Michaels and surrounding UTAH NEWS. country. The steamer Ilertha arrived Unalaska September 13 and reported C. W. Hemiuway, the noted news- tt two inches of snow at SL Michaels. paper man of former years in Payson, Mayor Wood's party had tlicir boat has gone to layson to di e. completed for sailing up the The Wasatch county delegates to the nearly Yukon aud expected to leave SL MiIrrigation congress to be held at Lin- chaels September 14. They will go nc coln, Neb., have abandoned their in- farther than Muuook creek. There tention of attending. are lots of supplies at Munook for the Counsel for Mrs. Thomas., charged winter. with murdering her husband in Salt There will be a big crowd of returnLake, have succeeded in reducing her ing miners on the steamer, Portland, buil and ahe has been released on and it is estimated that she will bring certified check for $1,000. three tons of gold aboard. The lirant Merlin Flint, a son of Mr brought Captain Peters and crew, in and Mrs. Joseph of Kaysville, all nine men, off the schooner which left August 16 for St. died on the 26th insL from the effects of injuries received in falling from a Michaels with lumber for building Wats on the Yukon river. The tree. went ashore on I'ninak island The general merchandise store of Adams & Sons company, at Layton, September 7, completely wrecking her was burglarized on the 25th, and a self and cargo. All on board escaped quantity of clothing, hats, cutlery, to land by means of life lines that sailetc., was taken. The loss will probably ors carried ashore by jumping overboard and swimming. amount to $400. Senator William M. Stewart of NeKaniwi Women as Jurors Ineligible. vada made a two days' stop in Salt Fort Scott, Kan., Sept. 29. Miss M. Lake City en route to Carson. The E. l'oss, Mrs. M. W. Douglass, Mrs. A. senator says: The prospect for the Kaufman and Miss Cora Wheeler, whe success of the cause of the white metal were drawn on the district court jury were never so bright as now. are the women ever called for and first A new meeting house in East Jor- such service in Kansas, responded tc dan ward is being erected near .the summons the today, and all but Miss Twenty-sevent- h district school house. Wheeler expressed a willingness tG The building wLl be two stories, of serve. The question of their eligibility modern construction and the estimated was raised ly Judge Riddle, who cited cost is aliout 610,000. a Washington supreme court opinion Work has Itcen resumed in the devel to show that they were not competent, opment of the Annie mine, between and found that under Simons Judge Mercur and Sunshine, and it is learned court deand the constitution suprems that the coinpuny is now erecting a steam hoist on the ground for the pur- cisions, a qualified elector must be a male. He was willing that the women pose of facilitating operations. should serve in civil cases and paid Secretary Wilson of the agricultural them a nice compliment for their will department at Washington, D. C.. has secured an order from the postoflice ingness to do so. department permitting the agents of Skipped With Faiih. (WARREN FOSTER'S PAPER.) Inieessor to the Ixtib-Mouxtai- Port- Vtis Amount Cmalng on Advocati m Hue-nein- Hue-nem- the agricultural department to attaeh the government frank to packages of sugar beets to be sent from growers to the experiment stations throughout the country for analysis. Last spring the agricultural department forward d seed to twenty-sevesugar-bee- t states, is now the intention to test the beets it grown from these seeds in the various localities for saccharine strength, and it is desired that this work shall be conducted at the experiment stations. Under the arrangements made with the postoflice department, the officials at the experiment station will be allowed to send postal franks to all the whom they supplied seeds, farmers by the use of which they can send through the mails free of cost packages of licets not exceeding four pounds in weight. Returns have licen received from some of tiie experimental growths and Secretary Wilson says that, contrary to his exiectations, the best reports have been received from the south, ruther than from the north. Beets grown in the vicinity of Richmond, Va., give returns from 13 to 18 per cent of saccharine matter, and from the Pecos valley in New Mexico from to 23 per cent. It is Mr. Wilson's intention to distribute twelve tons of sugar-bee- t seed next spring. Heretofore all the seeds distributed by the department have been procured in Europe. The growers in Utah have three tons this year, and it is protni-e- d expected that other localities will furnish part of the supply necessary. Secretary Love of the Salt Lake n e Butte, Mont., Sept. 29 D. N. Dickinson, in charge of the Yeno healing institute in Butte, complains to the police of being robbed of $4000 by Rena liryans, a woman who passed here as his wife since the concern started several weeks ago. The woman had been employed by him six years. He kept the money in a trunk instead of a bank. Sunday afternoon Dickinson and assistant went to a suburban resort, and on return the woman could not be found. On examination of the trunk it was disclosed that 84000 wig The police were noti tt missing. Dickinson says the woman was not his wife but only an employee. Idaho Hoy Stalihod at a Hall. Market Lake, Ida., Sept. 29. At a ball in Milford Tuesday night. John Robb, Jr., stabbed Joseph Walker in the back below the waist. Dr. Middle-to- n of St. Anthony was called and worked all night to save Walker, who bled profusely, and was unconscious for hours. He was slightly better this morning. Robb is 16 years of age and Walker 13. Robb is under arrest. The affair caused great excitement in that community. Mining Men to Meet. Spokane, Wash.. Sept. 29. At a meeting last night of the Northwest Mining association final arrangements were made for the third annual convention to lie held in Spokane October 7, 8 and 9. The association has members in Oregon. Idaho. Montana, Rrit-is- h Columbia and Washington, anu at County Kish and liaiuc association has least 500 mining men are expected to sent to the boards of county commis- attend the convention. Committees sioners of the various counties in tiie appointed at the last annual convenstate a letter, inviting them to send tion will report on revision of tiie nadelegates to Salt Lake City during con- tional mining law an 1 government deference to assist in the organization of partment of mining a State Protective association. The letter is signed by John Sharp, state l I'onldl.i Captured. fish and game warden. John y. Pocatello, Ida., Sept. 29. Webb Cannon, president of the Salt Lake Campliell. one of the four men who County Kith and (iame Protective as- broke jail here three weeks ago. was sociations. and sets out the importance captured in the lower end of town. of taking immediate steps to rigidly He hits been hiding in the mountains enforce the fish and game laws. The ever since liis escape. He is charged meeting for the purpose named will!1 witli burglary. lie would say nothing held during the ensuing Mormon con- about his companions. ference. McKinley at W IIIIhium College. The White River Utcx in the vicinWiiliamstown. Mass., Sept. 29, The ity of White Rocks, are muking prep aratioiis on a large scale, and which stndents of Williams college warmly are Wing carried on as secretly as pos- welcomed President McKinley yestersible, for a prolonged hunt. Notwith- day. The president was accompanied McKenna, W. B. standing the prohibitory orders from by Attorney-GenerMisses the KcKinley, and Washington and the fact that the state Plunkett, authorities of both Utah and Colorado others. are unusually vigilant in their efforts Two Firemen Cremated. to check infractions of the game laws, N. Y., SepL 29 Isaac Monroe Utica, particularly as regards the Indians John and Hanlon, firemen, lost their hunting, the Widest among them in the lives burning of the store and openly assert that their hereditary of warehouse the commission house of lie to disputed, and that rights are not N. E. White the company yesterday. them and whenever they will, The financial loss was $30,000. wherever thJ Jase. KM-iin- al exfl.t Irl-uini-- r Sept. HELD BY SWISS BANDITS. Letter-Washingto- 28. The Ad ministration has had under consideration for some time the propriety of making public the text of the letter presented to the Duke of Tetuan, the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, by Minister Woodford, in which was outlined this government's view in reference to the Cuban situation. It was proposed to do this because of the incorrect and sensational reports that had been circulated concerning Minister Woodford's representations to the Spanish authorities, but it has, however, been deemed advisable by the president to withhold the letter from the public for the present. It is sup- posed that Mr. McKinley may have iieen animated in this decision by the wishes of the Spanish government. MIXING NOTES. Heavy Ran am Demanded of American! fur Tbelr Kelraea. Toledo, 0., Sept. 28 Harry Toller-toaged 20 years, son of Attorney B. W. Tollerton, and Prof. Daniel J. Holmes of Meadville, la., college, have been traveling in southern Europe since June, but now no one knows where they are and circumstances indicate that both are held by Swiss banditti, who are demanding a ran som for their release. They were last heard from on the Rth of September at Martigny, Switzerland. A few days previous to that time they had received sufficient funds through Geneva to provide them with money for the rest of their trip to Berlin, where both were to enter the university on the 23d of this month. Mr. Tollerton received e cablegram from Prof. Holmes, dated Lucerne, requesting an immediate remittance of $1000 by cable to Cologne. He cabled to the United States Consul at Lncerne n, Imported Contract Labor. Teoria, 111., Sept, 28. Walker V. Powell, grand chief of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, and H. Pelham grand secretary and treasurer, were for information as to the whereabouts today held in $600 bonds to the Fed- of the young men, and asked if any eral grand jury on a charge of violathad befallen them, and also trouble law labor contract they ing the alien to Holmes for particulars. The waiving examination. They had prom- cabled from the Consnl was indefinite ised a place in the headquarters office reply to a representative of numerous Cana- and unsatisfactory, and that purportdian lodges and discharged a man to ing to be from Prof. Holmes was even make a vacancy for him. The dis- more so. A second demand for $1000 was made charged clerk then secured their arrest on the 23d of this month, asking that on the imported contract labor charge. was the there The officials deny that money be cabled to Lucerne. Last any Canadian the that Saturday a third demand was made contract, and say for an immediate cable of $500 to Luto entitled in were fairness lodges cerne and the remaining $500 by mail representation. A message was received from AssistTrain Robbers Arretted. ant Secretary Day at Washington to men 27. Two Ore., Portland, Sept. the effect that the Minister at Berne Charles Jackson of nemos the and the Consul at Horgen had been giving and George Williams, have been- ar- cabled to make a searching investigarested in this city charged with hold- tion. ing up the Oregon Railroad St NavigaUNWARRANTED VIOLENCE. tion company's train, near Clarine, seven miles from this city. Engineer Unlawful Violence at Latimer Makes tha Evans and Fireman Wilkes who were Coroner! Inquest Cunreessary. on the engine, positively identified the Hazleton, Ta., Sept. 28. The cortwo men as the parties who led them oner's jury which investigated the down the track after the hold-udeath of the strikers at Latimer, in While the two men arrested appear to Deputy Coroner Coffman's office last be veterans in their business, their evening after an hour's deliberation, plana last night were carried out in a rendered the following verdict: very bungling manner. The sum total That from the circumstances of the of their haul was $16 in cash and a case and the evidence offered the said watch they took from the engineer and Clemens l'latock with others came to fireman. his death by gunshot wounds on SepFavors tbe Street Car Mrn. tember 10, 1897, at the hands of Sheriff Chicago, Sept. 27. Mayor Harrison James Martin and deputies and in said, in speaking of the threatened this we, the jury, do all agree, and we, strike of the employees of the City Phil J. Boyle, Thomas T. Thomas. If it is true that Barton Frees and Peter McKiernan, of Railway company: men were discharged because they this jury, do further say that the said the in organizing a union for Clement llatock with others was active were their protection, I believe that public marching peaceably and unarmed on sentiment should support the street the public highway, that they were car men in the event of a strike being intercepted by said sheriff Martin and declared. There is a great deal of talk his deputies and were mercilessly shot of the railroads combining in their to death, and we do further find that own interests, and I can see no reason the killing was unnecessary and could why the men should not have the have been avoided without serious insame right to organize. jury to either persons or property, and we find, finally that the killing was Short in HU Account!. wanton and unjustifiable, but in this, 27. War The Washington, Sept. George Maue and F. J. MacNeul of this an ordered has investiga- jury do not concur, and we, the jury, department tion of the accounts of Lient. Matthew do further say, that there was such H. Saville, Tenth infante', who is re- strong suspicion of unlawful violence ported to be short in his accounts as at the hands of person or persons unpost comptroller at Fort bill to the known to this jury as to make this inextent of 61400. quest unnecessary. The action prows out of the reported Mother and Her Six Children Slaughtered. finding of a forged bank slip among Carrolton. Iowa, Sept. 28. The his vouchers. The Lieutenant claims of a mother and her six slaughter to is the due that apparent shortage the dishonesty of a civilian clerk who children occurred at the home of John a fanner living eight miles Is to lie tried in the civil courts on a northwest of here, last night. Roccker, charge of defalcation the fiendish husband, completed his Not In Xml of Gold. bloody work by sending a bullet into Washington, Sept. 28. Assistant his own head, inflicting a fatal wound. Secretary Vanderlip today received a The family were prosperous Germans, telegram from a leading banker in and as far as is known had lived hapNew York asking upon what terms pily. No motive for the tragedy has the government would receive been disclosed. 000.000 or more gold in San Francisco liocckcr'a victims are his wife and and upon receipt of last telegraphic these children: Caroline, aged 14: notice of its deposit, issue currency Christine, aged 9; Henry, aged 8; Lizagainst it in New York. The Assis- zie, aged 6; John, aged 3: and an intant Secretary lias replied in effect that fant. All are dca 1 but Henry, and the the government is not in need of gold, latter cannot recover from his wounds. and therefore will not lie able to make An Aged Mormon Dies. any concessions as to transportation Lamoni, la., SepL 24. Mrs. Elizaand insurance in the present instance. beth Strang, aged about 78 years, was Williams for Governor. buried here today. Mrs. Strang was Worcester. Mass., SepL 28. The pre the second polygamous wife of James liininaries of the Democratic state con- Strang of Beaver Island, Mich., notoi vention to be held here tomorrow were iety. where he set up a faction of the gotten well under way tonighL There Mormon faith after the death of the apparently will lie no fight at all on Smiths at Xauvoo. He had four wives the main question that of the Ch- but when Strang was killed his church icago platform and the candidates for scattered. Two of his wives are now nomination as governor and lieutenant dead. governor will have no opposition. The Hanged for Rape. heads of the state tickets will be West, Fla., SepL 24. Silvanna Key George Fred Williams for governor Johnson was hanged here at 11 o'clock and Christopher T. Callahan for lieufor rape. The hangman bungled today tenant governor. the execution and the noose slipped The Americans residing in Antwerp under the chin. Johnson struggled and who are liable under the new law violently for ten minutes and was to be enrolled for military service, still alive at the end of 25 minutes. have had a meeting, organized and de- He confessed his crime, professed contermined to oppose this action on the version and died forgiving and blesspart of the Belgian govern menL ing his enemies. Washington state has a gold find which it hopes will rival Klondyke. M. R. Hunt, the manager of the Alaska, at Silver City, has some beautiful samples of ore from the mine on exhibition at his office. These specimens are well sprinkled with leaf copper in its native state and indicate the existence of large bodies of this character of mineral at a greater depth. The annuul report of the Anaconda Copper Mining company, of Montana, of which the largest stockholders are J. It. Guggin and Marcus Daly, has been made public. For the year ending June 30, the receipts were $22,940, 283, against $10,845,597 last year. The prpflts amounted to $5,136,018. Dividends amounting to ' $3,000,000 were dcclured. Van Leuven and Westergreen, who are working the north end of the Morning Glory at Silver City.Nev ,on a lease, have taken out some fine shipping ore from a point naar the surface. The ore carries gold, silver and cupper to the value of about $60 to the ton and the leasers will make their tons initial shipment of twenty-fiv- e next week. The Alaska mine at Silver City Ida., has shut down and will remain idle for the next two months when work will be resumed and the main shaft, put 200 feet deeper. The work which lias Iieen done on the Alaska has been systematic anu thorough and it is the intention of the company when work is resumed to thoroughly prospect the ground at the depth which will then be attained. - p. i I ! , j : The Dexter cyanide plant is being from across the valley, and a force of men are now engaged in grading and arranging for the erection of the plant below Tuscnrora, Nev. The loeutien is a considerable distance from the works (about a quarter of a mile), but was the liest that could lie selected, as parties owning the available ground nearer the mine held it at a figure so absurdly high that any thought of acquiring it by the company was totally out of the question. The excitement over the new guld find about 20 miles southwest of Randolph, Utah, near Monte Crlsto, still continues. The disrroveryjsliaft in the Alice mine is down about ten lect. and the outlook continues favorable. There is now on the road to Ogden 1,006 pounds of ore taken from the Alice which will be shipped to Salt Lake md tested, and if it proves to be as rich as expected, work upon the other claims will begin at once. There some claims located a few miles north of the Monte Cristo camp which arc said to lie richer than any of the others. The ground is fast being located for miles around, and Rich county promises to have some of the richest mines in tiie State. moved have-bee- are informed that the Andale shaft is now down to the level and that a day or two ago the bottom broke into a true fissure vein of white gold quartz that is two and a half feet in width. The ledge cuts the country in a northerly and southerly direction At 200 feet drifting on the ledge will begin, and it is believed lint in this ground another dividend payer will lie Be' to I. tali s cornucopia of We 190-fo- ot j bonan-Roccke- r, j j krorralrt is also looking am the indications are that both these mammoth prospects will soon a as i10a'T producers. The mining situation aliout Frisco continues to improve and confidence-ionce more manifested. When Silver was struck there were a great many promising prospects scattered about, chiefly in the dolomite; some ore was taken out of these locations, and when the vein became bnr-re-n or narrowed in. as all veins in time do, the owners became disheartened and abandoned them. A period of inactivity followed and the word went out that Frisco was of no promise, outside of the Horn Silver, and it was. impossible to secure capital or persuade mining men to look over the ground. The Galena at Fish Springs, in the Deep Creek country, has just registered a strike which is one of the most important ever made in that country, and which promises to afford it a letas' the-Hor- ter showing the present year than has ever Iieen made. The ore. of which a shipment is on the road, shows an assay value of over COO ounces silver per ton and as much as 40 per cent lead, while the body is described as a good one. A shipment is now at the sampler, and another is in transiL With Ibis rcpcateu many times, dividends will no doubt be resumed by the company which has already distributed so much among its |