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Show QOOD PLAN ISSUES. LIVINGFOSTERS (WARREN lueiNor to tha Imtu-Mocsta- ix IP PRACTICABLE. OIBeiltj of the Gownuurnt Fnt!lu l'uatal Havings to l'rofltnblsl'so. Washington, Nov. 34. Postmaster General Gary is receiving many lettert regarding the postal savings bank proposition strongly urged by him in hia annual report In an interview with the Associated Press today Mr. Gary said: I am very much interested, and not a little gratified at the public s as reflected by the newspapers f my recommendations in respect to postal savings depositories. As far as 1 have been able to discover, only two objections have been leriously urged against a postal savings system. The first, which never Tails to turn up, is the old contention that the goverment ought not to go PAPER.) aptouu WILLARD FOSTER, FubUiti ar. SALT LAKE CITT. Boom 78 Hooper Blk.. UTAH NEWS. Twenty new casea of acarlet fever were reported in Salt Lake City last week and all indications point to an epidemic. Christmas cattle are beginning to show in the receipts at the Union stock yards, Balt Lake, and they are said to be very fine. criti-sism- There is over $225,000 expended by the government in carrying mails in Utah, about $00,00 of this amount going to stage companies. A large band of Utah sheep are quarantined west of (ireen River. The sheep in question are reported to be infested with scab and are being held for investigation. The marriage of Miss Mary Alice d Woodruff (daughter of President into buisnessof collecting and taking jure of the savings of the people. I think this is an objection which may properly be left to congress to answer. The other objection is based upon the generally admitted difficulty of finding the safe and proper methods of putting the money accumulated to profitable use. It is agreed on all sides that it Wil-for- practical, a postal savings system would be most desirable. This means s great deal towards the success of the It is being demonstrated. too, A Kansas lady who has recently lo- project the people want it, and it that laily, cated in Salt Lake City, proposes to has been experience that what the my create a revolution in local politics by want much ia usually pretpeople very turni ng all the men out of office and ty and also very likely to right, nearly putting women in their place. He realized sooner or later." son of Silas M. Smith The A GOSPEL WOLF. at Meadow, while playing, accidentally fell from the doorstep, a distance ts Arrested for Murder on the Eve of Hie of about eighteen inches, on to a small HirrUfS One of the wheels Topeka, Kan., Nov. 24. The police express wagon. being broken, one of the spokes en- sere have arrested the Rev. A. E. Mor. tered the brain near the temple. The rison, a Methodist minister of Pan- child, after making one scream, ex- Handle, Texas, and are holding him on suspicion of murder, until the sheriff pired instantly. ian arrive from Panhandle and take Sunday afternoon a man, whose Him home for trial. name ia Williams, made an unsuccessFor several months Morrison has ful attempt on his life in Salt Lake, been engaged to Miss Whittelesy of by taking a dose of morphine. Wil- this whose family ia prominent city, liams was in search of work and failand here, they were to be married during Co secure it and the proffered aid the ing holidays of relatives being denied, he res orted From information the police received to morphine as a panacea. it is supposed that Morrison is the Jesse F. McMillen and Charles M. tame person as a minister of the same Phelps, charged with the murder of name whose wife died suddenly at John Eagan in Salt Lake City July 19, Panhandle, Texas, on October 8, under will be called for trial in the criminal siren instances which pointed to poison. division of the Third district court on Morrison admitted to Chief 8teele December 13. Egan was killed by that he was from Panhandle, but said drugs given to him by the two men in He did not know how a charge of mur-le-r could be made against him, unless order to enable them to rob him. The seit was men the outgrowth of criticism that was the successful, robbery was died from the $3 but heaped upon him on account of each, Egan curing effects of the poison which he had ais wifes death. At the Whittelsey home the family taken. to allowing reporters to see abjected The state board of pardons at its sesMiss Whittelsey. sion held in Salt Lake last Saturday One of the brothers explained that transacted the following business: was thefr school teacher in Morrison The application of J. O. Cannon, senIllinois twenty years ago. tenced to ninety days in jail for asTwo Interpretations. C. denied. was saulting a Chinaman W. Kempton, sentenced to the Reform London, Nov. 24. Count Goluchow-iky'- s school tor burglary and remanded to appeal to Europe is interpreted the Third district court for incorrigi- into a battle cry of a commercial war vs. Engbility, was pardoned. CL C. Clawson's )( Eureland in was included own not was his at clearly postponed hearing in Count of month. The one erse for mind, rope, Goluchowsky's quest Frank DeCamp, convicted of attempt- nor can he have had the Dingley tariff ed murder during the railroad strike shiefly in mind, for it hardly affects of 1893, was postponed another month. Austria. More probably this is the belatest phase of Hon. D. P. Mackey, supreme comtween Austria and Russia. mander of the Supreme Tent, K. O. T. It ia asserted in Vienna that Count M., was tendered a reception at the Goluchowsky referred to the competiLyceum on the 18th. at which a de- tion with imported beef and corn, lightful literary and musical program which, after the completion of the Siwas rendered by some of the best of berian railway, Russia means to supply Salt Lakes artists, interlarded by ad- Europe, supplanting American, Argendresses from General Deputy Supreme tina and Indian competition. Commander J. W. Wright, Governor CATTLE STEALER ARRESTED. Ileber M. Wells. George, S. Siegel, In Mnlad City. Ida., great record keeper of New York; D. Issse Dunn Vutnl to Answer. P. Markcy cud others. Mr. Markey deDenver, Nov. 24. Deputy Sheriff votes much of his time visiting subortoday arrested Isaac Dunn, wbc dinate tents and his visit ia Salt Lake claims to lie the manager of the made it a day for Zion's syndicate. Maccabees. He was found in the office of the This year's total assessed valuation company, reading from the Bible of a in the state shows a loss of over friend. He was locked up to await compared with the aggregate requisition papers which will lx of last year. While the aggregate o' brought by Sheriff A. 11. Hooper, wlic net proceeds of mines is less, the chief is on the way from Mulad City, Ida., 7au.se of the decrease is attributable to where Dunn is wanted. Dunn says he mortgages. This year few, if any, will fight requisition. mortgages have been assessed, The charge against him is that oi head of cuttle. lit whereas, in lS'tG upwards of $4, 000,000 stealing worth of mortgages were either found admits that lie lias the cattle, but lit to be untaxable or the taxes thereon claims that lie has a right to them. were found to be. uncollcctable. While Ten Million Claim Arbitrated. the shrinkage seems to be large, there Pretoria, Nov. 24. It is understood will le a minimum of taxes on mort- here that the award of the ISerne trigages owned by residents of the state bunal in the Delagoa Ray case is it reported uncollectable on this years favor of the McMurilo claim for a sun roll. Of course, the net revenue to the under 2,000,000, and that Tortuga! state will le less than last year's, be- has completed arrangements for a set cause of a half mill less in the levy. tlemenL The Helugoa Ray company The largest decrease Is in Salt Lake arbitration, to give it its full title, h county, where conditions pertaining an outcome of the negotiations betweet to mortgage taxes are pronounced. Great Britain and Portugal as to thi Reduced realty values also contributed action of the latter in cast Africa to the loss in revenue. Nevertheless, The company claimed cmnpcnsatioi Sait Lake county pays about 40 pei for the seizure of its line by Tortuga on June 39, 1889. cnt of the state's taxes. Woodruff) and Mr. William was solemnized at the Salt Lake temple on the 10th inst. Me-Ewe- n Pan-Euro- Pan-Americ- a. De-lu- e Anglo-A- red-lett- er merican le fifty-nin- e TO STIFFEN SILVER PRICES. Big Smelting nnd RcHnlng Companies Pro- form n Combination. New York, Nov. 23 Representatives of several big silver mining and refining works of the United States and Mexico will meet in New York during this week, to form, if possible, a combination selling agency, to control the price of silver futures. The price of silver for future delivery is always less than the price of cash silver, and the smelters want to equalize prices. It is said that the smelters hope, by their combination, to stiffen the price of sliver, and eventually reduce the output, although they deny the report that they intend to try to form a silver trust. Among the works to be represented at the coming conference are the International Metal company of New York, the Omaha & Grant Smelting company of Omaha, the Great National Mexican Smelting company of Monterey, Mexico, the Philadelphia Smelting & Refining company of Pueblo, Cola, and the Guggenheim Smelting company of Perth Amboy, N. J. A conference was held in this city yesterday between representatives of tbe large silver smelting and refining works of the United States. The conference will continue throughout the week. Those present yesterday, aaid: We are meeting simply for the purpose of creating harmony and union among the smelters. It is true that we are looking toward consolidation, but not consolidation in the sense of a silver trust. What we want to do ia to establish the smelting and refining companies into joint agencies, so that the prepared metal may have readier sale. Our idea is to have a committee, in which each company will be represented, which shall indicate where each amount of stock shall be placed. Each company being of equal standing with the others, and having equal authority, there will be no anch severe competition as there has been in our former experience. pose to BRYANS MEXIAN TRIP. Kill Companions. Governor Crittenden nnd Mrs. Bryan. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 23 Crittenden of Missouri, who was consul general to Mexico under the last Cleveland administration, announces that he will leave this city next week for San Antonio, Tex., where he will be joined by Hon. William J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan, and that the' three will depart from San Antonio on a four weeks tour of Mexica Aided by the knowledge of the people and the country, Mr. Bryan will make a careful study of Mexico's financial l's system. Mr. Crittenden states that for some time Mr. Bryan haa been anxious to make the trip, accompanied by some one fully posted as to the public affairs of Mexica They expect to spend tbe greater part of their time in tbe City of Mexico, where Mr. Bryan will be presented to the heads of the various departments by Mr. Crittenden, so that he will have an excellent chance to study the financial situation of the country and ace the result of free silver. ASPEN COOLING OFF. Fire In the Smuggler I) re reeving and AU Danger Over. Aspen, Colo., Nov 23. The fire in the Smuggler ia fast anbdning and the gaa decreasing ip proportion. Manager Ilallett thinks that in a day or two he can commence clearing tbe general workings of the mine. He looks upon the danger as being over but will continue to force water into the stepe for a week at least. The abaft ia being freely used by the miners, who experience no inconvenience in trev. eling up and down. It was thought the Johson could resume operations this morning, but the miners were- forced to quit after an hour's trial. All other Smuggler mountain properties are as clear as before the fire. The Smuggler fire drift will be completed, notwithstanding the belief that the fire is out. Big Raid at Laramie. Laramie, Wya, Nov. 23. A wholesale raid of the gambling joints in Laramie wua made and arrests are being continued. Over thirty arrests have been made. The police justice was routed out licfore daylight to let ten men plead guilty, and seventeen others soon followed, pleading guilty to the same charge. In the crowd were professional tinhorns," railroad men, clerks, and even business men. Three saloons and a cigar store were raided and warrant! issued against the proprietors. The present administration is determined to surpress gambling and this ia the first wholesale raid ever - made. RAILROAD By January BUILDING. ISth Irople May Rida Over MINING NOTES. Chllluiot Pass. Wash., Nov. 23. hava Two Sacramento citizens T. B. Tacoma, and. Lake S. J. suit against Wallace, president of the Fidelity hank brought Sacramento of Tacoma, has returned from Tails. members of the interest in. s a for He is largely interested in the t Mercur. mine at com- the Sacramento Mining-compan- y two-third- Chil-koo- Railroad and Transportation A Denver expert is at Ashland, Ore,, pany, which is building an aerial tramway from Tails over Chilkoot pass making an examination with a view to to Lake Lindeman, and says that tha erecting a cyanide mill equal to 500 railroad will be completed by the mid- tons per day It will be located at the dle of December, and that the whota Ashland quartz mill and will comline, including the aerial tramway mence work on 2000 tons of tailings. will be completed by the middle of Reports from the Seven Devils, Ida., January. It will have a capacity of are to the effect that the mines are carrying the outfits of 400 men daily. developing wonderfully. The smelter Mr. Wallace says this will insure getwill soon be ready to blow in. There ting provisions to Dawson City not la- is renewed talk about the railroad and ter than March 1, and reduces the there ia an impression that it will soon possibility of a famine in Dawson. materialize. The company has completed its teleWord has been received from Gold phone line from Taiia to Sheep Camp. Creek, Nev., tbat the Gold Creek & Gladstone's Declining Health. London, Nov. 22. An alarming rumor regarding Mr. Gladstone's health has been widely circulated in the city. A dispatch from Hawarden has been received contradicting the rumor, and saying that, although he has been suffering from insomnia for a week past, Mr. Gladstone has been able to take a considerable amount of out-doair. Today he and Mrs. Gladstone drove from the rectory, where they had been guests for a few days, to the castle. In a letter from a person who visited the Gladstones Friday, the writer says: His mind is as keen as ever, but he has bees considerably feebler and now leads a very sedentary life. He seems to have vis'. lily shrunk in size and suffers from shortness of breath. His heart was examined recently and was found to be weak in action, so tbat altogether the marvelous old mans wonderful physical powers are rapidly deor clining." Water Supply Falls la a Kansas Town. Fort Scott, Kan., Nov. 22. Save for one or two artesian wells, this city la without water. The continued efforts of twenty men, who for two days and n nights have been dynamiting the river bed for water to supply the city, have failed and last night the water companys pump-hous- e began drawing wind and the entire city supply was shut off. This condition ia unprecedented, and unless the men who are atill at work with dynamite and powder can bring water down from four miles above in a short time many mills find factories will he forced to shut down. The rainfalls for the past month or so have been too light to afford relief. Owners of the artesian wells are selling their water, and at n of the pumping works the raised the price. The poor class are Mar-mato- Nevada Mining company, in a recent placer working at Gold creek, uncovered a vein, the assay of which shows $933 in gold aud 103 ounces in silver. This is one of the richest discoveries made in this section of Nevada. Considerable interest is being taken at Soda Springs over the recent un- earthing of choice mineral. A gold ledge of twenty miles in length is said to have been discovered aud is being taken up rapidly. Assays made frtrn the rock are said to run as high as $40,000 to the ton. A force of men is employed in the development of the Grunter group of mines near Shoup, Ida., in which the Waterman brothers of Salt Lake City are interested. It is reported that this is the making of a splendid gold producer, and it ia more than likely that within a year it will be equipped with a mill Henry Bratnober, the mining expert who recently made a trip to Dawson City in the interest of the London Exploration company purchased a number of claims for his employers, the tffgregate price paid being $3,300,000. Mr. Bratnobers operations is thought to be additional evidence of the value of Klondikes gold fields. A. C. Yost, one of the survivors of the expedition from Colorado to the gold fields of Bolivia and Fern, haa returned to Denver. He says thi stories of terrible ravages of fever it those countries have been greatlj exagerated, lie says the gold fleldi consist of rich placers which give riel returns for machine mining, but poo: men have no chance there. It ia said that the mining district surrounding Baker City, Ore., is a great country for gold, and that in nearly every camp there are several mills in operation, the number of suffering. stamps dropping, with contemplated IDAHO TOWN FLOODED. additions, amounting to over 300. This But On Home In thu Town of Kingston Is is an excellent showing, and it is beInhabited. lieved that in the near future this will 31. Nov. From the rank as one of the leading gold re-Wallace, Ida., north fork an immense volume of gions of the west. water is now sweeping through the The Gipsy Queen Gold Mining com-- ) couuntry. Only one house was inhab- pany, composed of Chicago busirl ited Sunday morning at Kingston. men, and headed by Percy For weeks the people of the town of that city, have closed a conhave been trying to get tlie logs out tract with the Missouri Dredge comof the way, but many were left to go pany at Kansas City for an elevated down the river. bridge, an immense affair which is to Water stood four feet deep in the be attached to the bow of a steamboat street Saturday morning and the narrow- now in Chicago and which it building -gauge railroad in the flat beyond is intended to ship west within thirty was washed off the grade and section days, to he sent into the Klondike. men staked it down to prevent its Tbe richest gold mine in the world, going into tbe river. according to the New York Tribune, ANARCHIST SPEAKS IN CHURCH is located under the thriving town of Australia. The And thu Congregation Calls on thu Pastor Ballarat, Victoria, town has about 25,000 inhabitants, to Ruslgn. all of whom are employed in the Detroit, Nov. 21. Emma Goldman, nearly mine. There are more than 100 miles an anarchist leader, lectured last night of tunnels under the city, some of in the People's tabernacle (Congregathem being at a depth of 3,000 feet. tional) and proclaimed her infidelity, The entrance to tbe mine, which is conher disbelief in laws and her oppositrolled a and is known by corporation tion to the custom of matrimony, etc. as the Band, Barton and Albion CounMiss Goldman was invited to address cils. is outside the city. the congregation by the pastor, Rev. The department of mining and geolII. S. McCowan, despite considerable of the Wyoming State university ogy opposition. A majority of tbe deacons has just given out ten remarkable and many of the members declare the of surface gold ores from tbe assays proceedings to have been outrageous Grand Encampment mining district in and wholly without excuse. They southern These assays Wyoming. McCowan to resign, ;all on Pastor widely different parts otherwise they say they will quit the were of ore of the district, no two samples being -hurch. from any one prospector or miner. HENRY GEORGES WILL. The phenomenal average of $401.82 relie Leaves His Entire Estate to IIU sulted from them. The best ore ran $1,516.35 per ton, the lowest grade beWhlow. New York. Nov. Nov. 23. The will ing $13.60. These assays were made in the university and conducted by of the late Henry George filed for proProfessor Wilbur C. Knight of the bate, leaves hia estate, consisting of of chair mining and geology. They his home in Fort Hamilton, worth were of ores sent to tbe university to about $8000, and the copyright of his be tested ranchmen and prospectors by Mr. Georges books, to his widow, book on political economy, in the in the newly discovered gold district, and were in every case taken from writing of which he spent the last six and a decomposed oxidized iron quartz and on exhis which he of life, years ore showing to atmospheric action, and fame be wlil his rest, pubpected thus indicating that the samples were lished la a few months. all from the anrface. ill-fate- d shut-dow- 1 fc-o- |