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Show THE MORGAN John Stable MORGAN Jr., Editor I POST TO & Proprietor - UTAH LAY ASIDE T06A HALE OF MAINE WILL REFUSE TO CONTEST FOR SENATOR THE UTAH BUDGET The 1910 convention of the United Commercial Travelers will piobably be held in Logan in June. The property value of Weber county, as shown In a report submitted by the county assessor, shows an increase of $1,303,634 over the values for 1909. William H. Janney of Bingham has been granted a patent for a pulp extractor, while (Ephraim A. Mldgley ol Salt Lake has secured a patent on a damper and air regulator. While attempting to climb aboard a loaded flat car at Ogden, while the train was In motion, George Ewald, a switchman, fell beneath the wheels of the moving car and lost his right leg. Of the 175,000 bead of sheep booked to shear at Modena, 50,000 head have been sheared thus far. Ninety shearers are employed in the Modena pens, and excellent progress is being made. Another successful market day was held In Midvale on Saturday, under the auspices of the Commercial club. Farmers from all parts of the county were In town with their farm products. Will Knhwlden, aged 28, who Is engaged In the delivery business in Salt lake City, was badly Injured, when an automobile, going at frightful speed, crashed into his wagon. The machine was driven by a boy. The fruit crop of Nephl, Mona and Levan was severely injured by the heavy frost of April 14. The indlca tlons for a good crop of fruit were exs cellent, but it is feared that the were totally destroyed. The beet growers of Richfield met Saturday afternoon to select a committee to meet the sugar company officials regarding the site for the proposed sugar factory, there being considerable enthusiasm manifested. The police believe that Nat Wilson was driven to suicide because of disappointment in a recent real estate deal in Ogden. Wilson, who was a janitor, 38 years old, blew his brains out with a double-barreleshotgun. H. El Smith, 40 years , a fireman for the Utah Copper company, was accidentally killed at Bingham by falling from the footboard of an engine on the H level. He was crushed to death, after being dragged several yards. Fully 50 per cent of the fruit blossoms escaped the frost in Weber county, according to the estimates of prominent fruit growers, anl unless further damage' is caused by unexpected cold weather the outlook la good for a reasonable large crop. The asparagus harvest is now on in Davis county and the Woods Cross canning factory is at work. The acrea age of asparagus has increased great amount this year, as it is estimated there is over 100 acres of asparagus within a comparatively short radius of the cannery. With several ugly gashes on the head, which evidently caused instant death, the body of an unidentified man was found floating in the river in Ogden canyon, near the Hermitage hotel, about 6 miles from Ogden, late Sunday afternoon. It is believed the man was murdered. The Oregon Short Line has commenced driving piles for the new of the trestle and double-trackinwestern end of the Lucln cut-ofAbout 4,200 feet on the extreme west end of the lake will be double-trackeit being estimated that the work will require four or five months. With the assistance of the business men of Ogden and the members of the Weber c.ab, the government census which began in Ogden on the 15th and will continue for about two weeks, is expected to show as accurate an account of the number of inhabitants of Ogden as it is possible to make. Ruling that the Elks club is not a charitable institution, and must, therefore, pay taxes in Salt Lake county, Judge M. L. Ritchie of the Third district court has made a decision, which will affect practically every club, in Sat Lake and in the state at large owning its own property. Zhon-ne- , the Navajo Indian against whom the United States grand jury returned an indictment last Friday charging him with the murder of Charles Fritz, a trading post keeper at Hefferon last November, pleaded guilty io murder In the first degree when arraigned in the United States court on Monday. The annual report of the state insurance commissioner will, it is said, show that the department has received and turned over to the state treasurer between $55,000 and $60,000 In revenue, collected In filing fees and premium taxes from about 180 life, fire and miscellaneous Insurance companies doing business in the state. The attempted escape of the members of Ogdens chain gang was nipped in the bud when one of the guards shot the leader of the plot, wounding him in both legs, the other members of the gang immediately abandoning all Intention of flight. Families are being found by the census enumerators in some of the outlying counties, which, if former President Roosevelt looks over the list, will convince him that there is no race suicide In Utah. One woman in Lake Breeze gave the enumerator the names of sixteen living children. SEAT IN Will PROBE Government Has Not Called Off the Cotton Inquiry, But Will Make Sweeping Investigation, SENATE. After Being Chosen Five Times Without Opposition, Veteran Statesman Does Not Wish to Enter Into Scramble for Office. Augusta, Me. Positive announcement of the early retirement of Eugene Hale from the United States senate was made here on Tuesday. The news came In a confidential telegram from Washington. A letter from Senator Hale to Byron Boyd, chairman of the Republican state committee, in which he declines to engage in a conflict for the was received by Chairman Boyd Tuesday. In the letter Senator Hale did not once refer to the condition of his health, but Instead called attention to the fact that he had been given what no other man in Maine had received, five unanimous nominations for continuous terms In the senate, and it did not seem fitting for him to make a personal contest for the succession. Senator Hale talked with a degree of freedom during Tuesday afternoon concerning his announced determination to retire from the senate. He told his friends that having been accorded the unparalleled honor of five full sena-torshi- New York. The sudden adjournment on Thursday of the federal inquiry into the alleged cotton pool sent a thrill of hope to certain quarters of the financial district that perhaps the government had decided to call off the investigation. Clark McKercher, assistant attorney general, soon dispelled that hope by announcing that other witnesses were to be called at further jury sittings. Plans for a deeper probing into the alleged cotton pools will, it is said, be made within a few days at Washington. James Patten of Chicago banged his fist on an oak table of a downtown brokerage office Thursday afternoon and said he was not in this game to squeeze any one, and further, that there would be no corner in cotton. Says Mr. Patten: Now, look here, I will tell you the Inside story of my operations In this market. I have bought cotton on the theory of supply and demand. 1 believe the mills here and In Europe will close down in August and September because they will have no cotton to work on. They will then cry, give us cotton; we must have It Now there it is In a nutshell. If I am wrong why not show me where. I am long on cotton on this theory. If the government steps in and stops speculation, why then I shall stop, but it will be an evil day if such a step Is ever taken. RECEIVED LIKE plos-som- d o'-d- EUGENE HALE. United States Senator from Main. k terms In the senate without contest of any character, he did not relish the prospect of entering Into a scramble at hts present time of life. While this was the principal reason given by the senator, he made It plain his course had not been dictated by any fear of the result. The senator contends so tar as the contest has gone the indications are entirely favorable to his It is the conflict Itself that appals him. -Eugene Hale has served continuously In the senate since 1881. In 1899, when he came up for for his fourth term in the senate, some opposition developed from his attitude In opposing the war with Spain, but this soon disappeared. Several months ago former Associate Justice Frederick A. Powers of the Maine supreme court announced his candidacy for the senate,- and for the first time since 1876, when Lot M. Morrill of Augusta was elected, a contest was started for one of the Maine senatorships. SUFFRAGISTS SCRAPPING. Frenchmen Enthusiastically Welcome Former President of United States. Paris. No reigning sovereign ever received a more enthusiastic welcome to Paris than did Theodore Roosevelt He reached here at on Thursday. half-pas- t 7 oclock Thursday morning and was greeted by the representatives of the president and cabinet. Embassador Bacon, M. Jusserand, at Washington, French embassador and a great concourse of people. After luncheon at the American embassy, Colonel Roosevelt called upon President Fallieres and Foreign Minister Pichon, who Immediately paid return visits to the embassy. Part of the afternoon was devoted to private engagements, and in the evening Mr. Roosevelt was given an ovation at the Comedle Francalse, where he made his first real public appearance In Paris, occupying the presidential box placed at his disposal by M. Fallieres. The Temps fairly reflects the tone of the entire French press, declaring Roosevelts tour of Europe is unparalleled in history. No democratic chief of state,' the ever before enjoyed paper says, such popularity. We are accustomed to formal visits of kings and presidents, but Roosevelt Is no longer president. It is the man, therefore, not the office, which is being honored. It Is his vigor, his personality, his character, his ideas and temperament which appeal to European opinion. Cummins Talks Alt Day Long. agreements Washington. Traffic consumed the entire time given by the senate on Thursday to the railroad bill, and they were under consideration when the senate adjourned. Senator Cummins held the floor through- He spoke against the action permitting such agreements and against the Crawford substitute for it. Washington. Two of the old line Declaring his intention of denounc.eaders In the National Suffrage asing any legislation that nullified the sociation on Tuesday refused to anti-trus- t law as this provision did, the administration. Because of he said the ultimate purpose of the jpposition to certain policies of Rev. legislation was to allow the railroads Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of to fix their own rates without first :he organization, Mrs. Rachel Foster submitting them to the interstate and Mrs. commerce commission. Avery, first Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer, resigned their positions. Maud Adams Averts Panic. The resignations were offered at a Kansas City. By her coolness in an meeting of the executive committee. Maud Adams, the actress, emergency, Both Mrs. Avery and Mrs. Upton conhave been a sented to serve one month longer, but prevented what might in a local theatre, Thursday panic leclared their successors must be apnight, following the blowing out of a pointed by that time. in the footlights. Miss Adams Miss Shaw is strongly in favor of fuse in the the seeond had entered stage saving prominent society women and women of wealth identified actively act when there was a flash and a puff with the suffrage work, while the two of smoke arose from the footlights insurgents, it is said, are opposed to and a panic seemed Imminent. Miss this polioy. Adams ordered the curtain run down and then, coming forward, assured Regulating Length of Skirts. the audience there was no danger. Boulder, Colo. An ordinance to prohibit the wearing of long dresses on Mine Manager Murdered. the streets of Boulder was introduced Central City, Colo. The body of In the city council Tuesday night. It William H. Chittenden of Denver, provides that "it shall be unlawful for president and general manager of a any person whose wearing apparel or mining company, was found burned to skirt shall be of stiGh length as to a in the ruins of a frame cabin trail upon the ground 'and become a In crisp Russell gulch, half a mile from the dust sweeper or otherwise obnoxious to the public health and refined taste Hampton mine. Whether Chittenden to appear upon any sidewalk in this was a victim of foul play cannot be city.k The document is entitled an told as the body was consumed. Chitordinance to promote public health. tenden was to have testified on Thursand has the approval of the womens day in the trial of a miner charged club. with stealing a drill. Refuses to Pay Poll Tax. Bold Robbery in Mining Camp. Grafton, 111. Because J. J. Keon, a Park City, Utah. Two armed but Socialist leader, refused to pay a poll unmasked highwaymen boldly entered tax of $1.50, he began Tuesday to the Oak saloon on Main street at 12:45 serve six months in jail. The city hall oclock Friday morning and lined the has been converted Into a jail by twenty occupants of the saloon up in screening the window's with chicken the back room, tapped the faro bank wire and Keon declares he will serve and roulette game, from which they his full time rather than pay the tax procured $500 in gold and silver, and The Dr work it out at 75 cents a day. His then made good their escape. meals will be brought from the lead holdups did not molest the cash reg Ister, in which was something like $75, Ing hotel and a special deputy has neither did they search any of the oc- been sworn in to look after him, makof the saloon. They also left cupants ing the cost of his keep to the eity about $75 in silver in the roulette $3.25 a day. game. Two of the Old Line Leaders Have Handed in Their Resignations. fol-,o- v t, ON ITS TRAVELS Sood Stories Told by Senator Depew of the Doings of Potentates of Hawaii. AUTHOR AND HUMORIST PASSES AWAY AFTER LINGERING ILLNESS. NOTED Man Beloved by All the People, Who Had Delighted Millions With His Quaint Humor, is Worn Out by Grief and Agony. Conn. Samuel Lang- Redding, horne Clemens (Mark Twain) died painlessly at 6:30 oclock Thursday night of angina pectoris. He lapsed Into coma at 3 oclock Thursday afternoon and never recovered consciousness. It was the end of a man outworn by grief and aedte agony of body. At the deathbed were Mrs. Gabrilo-witsc- h (Clara Clemens), her husband, Dr. Robert Halsey, Dr. Quintard, Albert Bigelow Paine, who will write Mark Twains biography, and the two trained nurses. Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in Florida, Mo., November 30, 1835. My parents, he writes in his own burlesque autobiography, were neither very poor, Senator Depew of New York, famous as an after-dinne- r speaker, told two good stories in the senate while he was speaking on a bill to regulate the government of Hawaii. He said, in reviewing the history of the islands, that the king and queen of the islands once came to America and then went to Europe. An incident of this trip, said the senator, was one of the rare contributions to the sedate movement of history, which promotes good fellowship by adding to the gaity oft nations. Chicago received the king with impressive ceremonies on his arrival. After a weary day of parades and reviews the then mayor of the metropolis of the west found a king on his hands. Kings were not in his line, nor was he familiar with their attributes, the customs of court or the methods of addressing them. To relieve himself of embarrassment he drove his majesty to the leading hotel, and, leaving him in the lobby, said: Good afternoon, king; we have had a hard day, and I think you had better go up to your room and wash up. When their majesties arrived in London they were entertained by royalty and were guests at Windsor, There was a continued the senator. current story at the time, he said, that at the dinner the Hawaiian queen said to Queen Victoria: Your To majesty, I am a blood relative. the astonished inquiry, How so? the Hawaiian queen answered. My grandfather ate Capt. Cook. NONE TO DO HIM REVERENCE A KING. out g ROYALTY STILL OEEPER Sad Time, Indeed, for the One Time Political Boss, When He Is Down and Out. MARK TWAIN. nor conspicuously honest. The earof the Twains 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. Twain's acAccordingly, Mark quaintance with ' literature began in putting words into type, not Ideas into words. Educated only in public to a schools, he was apprenticed 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 profoundly in his later life. His knowledge of river life, acquired when he was a pilot, took form in Tom Sawyer," Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi, regarded abroad as his first title to fame. It even sugMark gested his pseudonym, for 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 his 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 rnira, N. Y. Four children were born, of whom two, a son and a daughter, died early. One other daughter, Jean, who had been an invalid for life, was tound dead in her bath tub last fall in her home at Red ding. Conn. Her tragic death greatly saddened her father, who declined In A third health from ihat moment. daughter, Clara, is Mrs. Ossip wife of the pianist, whom she married last year. Mark Twains first book was The His best known in Jumping Frog. this country possibly was "Innocents ills surest title to fame Abroad. generally is believed to be Tom Sawyer and its companion volume, The In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. all his books had a sale of more than 500,000 copies and were translated into six languages. liest ancestor Gaibrl-lowitsc- Escaped Convicts Recaptured. Leavenworth, Kan. Two of the six convicts who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Ft. Leavenworth on Thursday by seizing a switch engine and threatening the prison guards with dusty revolvers, made of wood, are being sought tonight by a posse of forty armed guards and scores of citizens. Pour of the convicts were recaptured after a few hours of liberty. Farmers for miles around are joining in the hunt for the two' con victs still at large in the hope of getting a reward. i No better exposition of the coldblooded nature of the political machine, with the quick desertion of its adherents when theres nothing to it, could there be than the lonely death of the man who ruled New York state and for a while made governors, senators, and even tried his hand at president-making- , says the New York Pot. A man who called to see him in his little Eleventh street flat about a year ago asked if it was in this place he received his friends. "I have no friends," said the old man bitterly. But your old associates, the men for whom you did things; surely they come to see you? No, they dont. But how about your classmates In Yale are any of them alive? I dont know, was the indifferent reply. Dont you ever go down to the Yale club? I never was a member of the Yale club." Another reference to neglectful friends seemed to wake in him a new vigor. T11 expose them, Ill expose them, I'm he exclaimed. writing my memoirs, and Ill expose them. First English Words. The Important Problem confronting anyone in need of a laxative is not a question of a single ao-tl- on only, but of ficial effects, which will follow proper efforts to live In a healthful way, with the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, whenever It is required, as it cleanses the system gently yet promptly, without Irritation and will therefore always have the preference of all who wish the best of family laxatives. The combination has the approval of physicians because It Is known to be truly beneficial, and because it has given satisfaction to the millions of families who have used It for many years past To get its beneficial effects, always buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. d The Response Mechanical. It is the custom In convents for th nuns to respond to a knock at the door with the words: n the name of God, the phrase being equivalent in conventional parlance to our worldly enter or come In. In a convent in one of the western cities not long since, the mother superior had a experience as a result of this custom. Some one in the outer world called the convent telephone number by mistake. The mother superior, roused from her meditations, picked up the receiver and responded mechanically: In the ' name of God. Madam! called an irate masculine voice at the other end of the wire, there is no occasion for you to swear at me, even if I have made a mistake In the number. Profane language is prohibited over the telephone! Queer Attribute of Salmon. Only about 20 per cent, of salmce spawn before they return up the river from the sea, and those that do return after spawning are coarse, and, when cut up, white in the flesh; In fact, are known as bull trout, for bull trout are not a different kind of fish, but are plainly salmon which have spawned. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to teat that there la at least one dreaccd disease that science has been able to cure Io all Its stages, and that la Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positira cure uow known to the medical fraternity. Catarrts disease, requires a constitu-Uon- al being a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally acting directly upon the blood and mucoua surfaces of the system, thereby destroying thw foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature In doing Its work. The proprietors havw o much faith In Its curative powers that they Oder One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fails ta cure. Send for list of testimonials Address F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take Hail's Family Pills for ooostlp&tloo. Dear. Why do people use the expression Dear sir so frequently? asked the man who was writing a letter. I dont know, answered the man who was figuring on his expenses, unless sir is short for sirloin. Retribution may come from any voice. Surely, help and pity are rarer things more needful for the righteous to' bestow. George Eiiot. It Is a libel . on foreigners to say rat rearuia stomach, liver and bowels. that the first English word they liny granules, easr Io take as oaadr. learn Is damn, said the trained No, Cordelia, rain checks nurse. It isnt damn at all, it Is check the rain. There Is something upsey daisy. about that classic nursery phrase that tickles their ears. They seem to pick Bugar-ooat- it up the day they leave Ellis island. I know hundreds of foreigners the poor, kind, with big families and am familiar with their linguistic attainments. They are fond fathers and mothers, most of them, and they jabber baby talk as volubly as American parents. Most of it is their native jargon, but upsey daisy is the gem of their vocabulary. Go into any foreign quarter you please, and watch the grown-up- s toss the babies (o the ceiling. Nine times out of ten they will preface that stunt with upsey daisy. bene- permanently ei never AFTER hard-workin- g The Shortest Biography. This is the life of little me. I am the wife of Beerbohm Tree. Thus Lady Beerbohm Tree when asked to write her life surely the shortest autobiography on record. Lady Tree is shortly to appear on the variety tage, and patrons of the music halls will then have an opportunity of seeing one of Englands cleverest and most distinguished actresses; for, besides her histrionic gifts, Lady Tree from an early age developed a taste for classics and mathematics. Her favorite subject was Greek, at which she was most learned, and many years ago she tok part in a Greek play before an audience which included so distinguished a classical authority as the late Mr. Gladstone. SUFFER!!! FORYEARS cured oy Lydia c. Fink-ha- ms Vegetable Compound Park Rapids, Minn. I was sick for years while passing through the Change of Life and was hardly able to be around. After taking six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com- pound I gained 20 pounds, am now able to do my own-wor- well." and feel Mrs. Ed. Dou Park Eap- - arsis: ljrookville, Ohio. I was and extremely nervous. A irregular neighbor recommended Lydia E. 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