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Show ROBERTS THE NEPHI RECORD. jlon-- e HENRY ADAMS, Publisher. CASE UR. GEN. STANTON NEAR DEATH. the Is t'onsiilvrimj Report of righting Paymaster Daugerouily This has been in the house an oratorical day over the case of Brigham II. Roberts, the Mormon representative from Utah. The galleries were packed to suffocation. chiefly uith women, and the spectators, after listening attentively to the arguments of Air. Tayler of Ohio, and Mr. Littlefield of Maine, for the adoption of the majority and minority reports, respectively, of the special comm mi t tee that investigated the remained ease, long after nightfall to hear the impassioned words of the accused. as lie faced the house like an animal at bav. knowing that every hand was raised against him. Mr. Roberts was very adroit in the handling of his ease and at times exceed in el v dramatic. Taking advanof issue raised the by the division tage in the committee as to the method of ousting him, he appropriated to himself the argument of the minority that he w as constitutionally entitled to be sworn in, and the argument of the majority that once sworn in he could not he expelled. lie defended the action of the Mormons in fighting the authority of the United States for years, because, he said, they believed that sentiment would change and dramatically stated that in these days he would rather have his lesh hewn from liis bones than to have renounced his religious tenets, lie concluded with an eloquent peroration in which he said he had never been conscious of a shameful act and if lie wss sent forth he would go with head up and undaunted brow. Strange to say, mod of the applause he won svas from the women. But while they appeared to be his only partisans other women manifested their bitter hostility by hissing him at every Washington, Jan. 26. field NEPHI. UTAH UTAH NEWS. Carl Milieu, of Big Cottonwood, las week captured alive a monster wild cat, which he disposed of to a Salt Lake furrier. The outlook for next years wheat crop is very bright, and both farmers and millmen anticipate a prosperous season. Some symptoms of blackleg' are said to have appeared around Jeuseu among the poor cattle and some fears are felt on this score. Tooele valley is becoming a great dry farming district, and tbe acreage this season will be double that of any previous year. Two more new business houses are to be erected on Main street, Park City. That city is enjoying a substantial building boom just now. Helen (iould has presented the ShelSalt Lake, with a check for $.'.,000, with the assurance that there is more to follow." Tie Lehi Sugar factory ran 125 days during the season just closed, and converted 52, 025 tons of beets into sugar, an average of 410 tons per day. Plana have been submitted for the new court house to be"erocted at Vernal. The building will cost $14,000 and will be modern in every respect. Fred Holes, of, Spanish Fork, died last week of smallpox, he having been ill two weeks and the disease having been treated at first as chickenpox. While U tails citizens are just now enjoying ideal spring weather, the weather observer declares the coldest spell of the season will occur during don .Jackson College, of opportunity. The speech made today by Mr. LitFebruary. A. R. tlefield, who succeeds the late Mr. The next encampment of theQ. be in held veterans will Ogden during Dingley, in defense of the minority the latter part of February or the first proposition to seat and then expel Mr. of March, the date having not yet been Roberts, was a masterful effort and decided upon. stamped him as one of the coming men The sura of 8)5,619.92 state school of the house. The manner in which money has been distributed to the sev- he tore some of the arguments of the eral districts in Sanpete county, being majority into shreds jumped him into the front rank of debaters in the house. $2.90 per capita, Sanpete county having The speech made a deep impression. In fact, it is predicted tonight by many members that the majority resolution for exclusion cannot now carry. Mr. Lacey of Iowa has a proposition which he will submit to expel Mr. s vote without The thirteenth annual exhibit of the Roberts by a Utah Poultry association was held in seating him, which will have supportSalt Lake City last week, the show be- ers and this may lead to a compromise ing regarded as the best one by long proposition. odds ever held in the state. GENERAL STANTON DEAD. V. K. Thompson, of Nephi, left last ulliiint Oi(J Soldier Hasses Away at week for the Cape Nome, Alaska, minOmaha. reach to he which expects ing district, Omaha, Jan. 26. Brigadier-Generabout the middle of May, taking in T. II. Stanton, former paymaster-general- , Skaguay and Dawson enroute. United States army, died here of An entertainment and banquet was a complication of liver and 6tomach given in honor of the old folks of Mt. troubles, aged 65. General Stanton Pleasant on the 16th inst., fully 5iK) was a nativeof Indiana, ran away from persons, many of whom were between school to serve under John Brown and 70 and 80 years of age, being present. General Lane during the Kansas Inquiries have recently been received troubles, and served with distinction from points in Montana by Salt Lake during the civil war and a number of firms, asking as to the advisability of Indian campaigns. lie was paymaster investing in lands in Utah with the idea of the department of the Ilatte, with of raising lucern seed. Considerable at Omaha, in 1879, and headquarters money made in Montana will be put again in I860 and 1891, when he paid into Utah lund early this spring, and the troops in the Wound-eparticipating the lucem seed industry, already a big Knee fight. In 1895 he was made item in the revenue of the state, w ill paymaster-generawith headquarters be greatly increased. at Washington, where he remained Salt Lake has been selected as one of until he retired last December. lie the places to be touched by the horse- leaves a widow and three daughters. less carriage of the American AutomoBULLER CHECKED. bile Advertising Co. in the overland trip of one of its vehicles, from New Hoer I'oHitiun Is Too .Strom; to be Taken by Bayonet Charge. York to San Francisco, starting about London, Jan. 26. The following disthe first of April. Mrs. Sarah Hannah Shires Howard, patch from General Duller, dated who came to Utah in the early 60s is Spearmans, Jan. 25, has just been dead at Salt Lake. She was the wife posted ly the war office: W arren holds the position he of Thomas Howard, who operated the first paper mill in Utah, and who made gained two days ago, In front of him, the first paper ever manufactured west at about 1,400 yards, is the enemys position, west of Spionkop. It is on of the Mississippi river. than Warren's higher ground position, W. G. Hutchinson and Alex Anderso it is impossible to see into it propson, while working a mining claim erly. adjacent to Manti, attempted to thaw It can be approached only over hare out some dynamite, when it accidentopen slopes, and the ridges held by ally exploded, and that they were not Warren are so steep that guns cannot instantly killed they regard as simply be placed on them. But we are shella miracle. ing the enemys position with howitz-er-s Recorder Fred Stevens of and field artillery, placed on lower Park City is dead after an illness of ground behind infantry. several months. Mr. Stevens was an The enemy is replying with Creosot old Comstocker, and came to Utah some and other artillery. In this duel the twenty years ago, being for a number advantage rests with us, as we appear of years employed at the Ontario mine to be searching his trenches and his in Park City. artillery fire is not causing us much E. W. Penney and son George, who loss. left Kanosh on November 14 for a two An attempt will be made to seize weeks prospecting trip into the Wah Spionkop, the saliant of which forms Wah range of mountains, have not been the enemys position facing Trichards heard from since and it is feared they Drift and which divides it from the have either perished in the mountains nosition facing Potgieters Drift. r been foully, dealt with. a school population of 5,277. The telephone company haa placed heavy orders with eastern manufacturers for construction and operating material, in preparation for extended work when spring opens. two-tliird- . al d l, Ex-Cit- y 111 His Home In Nebraska. Omaha, Jan. 24. T. II. Stanton, U. erly paymaster-genera- at Brigadier-Gener- al retired, formof the army and generally known as the fighting paymaster, is lying dangerously ill at his home in this city. II is trouble is a general breaking down of his system and is complicated by grip. He earned his title of fighting paymaster' by always insisting on being transferred to the line when there was any trouble with the Indians. S. A., l ELECTION OF SENATORS. ort on House Hill Review Arguments iu Fiivor of ( banget. Washington, Jau. 24. The report filed on the house bill for the election of United States senators by the people reviews the arguments made in favor of this change and refers to the unfortunate conditions which have occurred in Kentucky, Delaware and other states under the present system. The bill as reported leaves it discretionary with legislatures to continue the present system or adopt the system of a choice by the people. BEEF FOR BOERS. fAgentjof Kruger Purchasing 750,000 Pounds in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 24. A trainload of beef 750,000 pounds for the use of the Boers, is being purchasee here by an agent of the Transvaal Government. On account of recent seizures by British warships of ships bearing supplies destined for the Transvaal, packers have refused to sell the beef for delivery beyond Chicago, and negotiations for transportation are pending. This is the second trainload of beef sold here for the Boers, the first consignment sold about a month ago being now, it is said, on the acean. KILLED HIS DAUGHTER. Texaa Farmer Attack HI Family with a Knife. Houston, Tix., Jan, 24, A. J. Honeycutt, aged CO, a farmer living near Cen-tiattacked his wife today with a knife. Their children ran to the assistance of the mother, when Honeycutt stabbed Resa, aged 16, killing her instantly. The wife and two sons, aged 13 ane 10 vere so badly wounded that they "may die. Honeycutt is in jail and precautions have been taken to proven a lynching. r, DEFENSE APPROPRIATION. HARSH TOWARD ROBERTS. MEANING OF UNITED STATES. Report l'e Harsh Terms Concerning I tali' Congreman. Washington, Jan. 23. The full report of the majority of the committee elaborates the summaries and in some strong language against Mr. parts Roberts. As to his plural marriages it says: Irior to 1882, B. H. Roberts had married one Louisa Smith. She has borne him six children and is 6till living. About 1885, when Utah was fairly ringing with the blows of the Edmunds act of 1882: while numerous prosecutions were going on, and after the supreme court had passed upon the validity of the act: when the American people supposed polygamy : when no had received its man of the many whose cases went to the United States supreme court pretended the provisions against polygamous marriages were invalid; with all these facts insistently before him, Brigham II. Roberts took another wife, his first polygamous wife, Celia Dibble by name, who in the following twelve years bore him six children. This second wife he married in defiance of the Edmunds law. He spat upon the law; he declared by his act that he recognized no binding rule upon him of a law of congress; he declared by it that he recognized a higher law. The eongress.of the United States was to him an object of contempt. The supreme court of the United States might declare the law for others, but He laughed at its futile not for him. decrees and spurned its admonitions. The executive which had declared in solemn message its gratification that polygamy seemed gone forever he defied and despised. Of what consequence to him were the laws of eongress and declarations of the highest court and proclamations of presidents, in his sensual interpretation of a sensual doctrine?. "But he had not yet sufficiently proclaimed his utter contempt for the supreme court, for congress and its most A few years solemn enactments. wife. a be third took later That B. II. Roberts's persistent, notorious and defiant violation of one of the most solemn acts ever passed by congress, by the very body which he now seeks to enter, on the theory that he is above the law, and his defiant violations of the laws of his own state necessarily render him ineligible, disqualified, unfit and unworthy to be a member of the house of representatives. And this proposition is asserted not so much for reasons personal to the membership of the house as because it goes to the very integrity of the house and the republic as such. Settlemeut Has Special Hearing ou Tariff and Immigration. Washington. Jan. 21. An important private conference of Democratic members of the Hons? of Representatives was held lest night at the Ways and Means committee rooms, for the purpose of considering the question recently raised as to the application of the term United States,- as used in the constitution, to our insular possessions. The meeting was attended by eighteen of the most influential members on the Democratic side. The decision of the question is considered to be as determining whether these possessions are to have the American tariff or a tariff of their own. and also in affecting the right of free immigration from these islands, with its resulting influences on labor in this country. TO HEAR ALL EVIDENCE. Majority : death-blow- tYhat the State Department Kxpended of This Fund. Washington, Jan. 24. The president sent to the senate in response to a resolution of inquiry from Secretary nay FIGHT OVER ESTATE. as to the portion of the $50,000,000 defense appropriation expended by the Judge Beatty Confirm A. J. Davis's Title to a Hank, state department. The total amount Jan. Mont., Butte, Beatty, was 8193, SCO, the principal items being: sitting in the United States court here Paris Peace commission $115.1(6 26,4.4 Philippine commission today deciced the last of the famous Transportation of destitute refugees eases growing out of the from Cuba and Porto Kico 1U.;: J1 Pay of special agents estate of the late over the 8.621 tight Cablegrams Andrew J. Davis, and banker, Negro Shoot Three Men. of Davis, sued a sister Harriet Wood, Macon, Ga., Jan. 24. Two negroes to set aside deathbed the bequest of were shot to death and two white men to his the decedent nephew and namedesperately wounded, as the result of sake Andrew J. Davis, by which the an attempt to arrest a negro murderer latter acquired practically the whole here today. J. II. Butler, colored, is of the First National bank of Butte. the man who did the most of the shootis in favor of the defendant decision The ing, and who was himself shot to and confirms his little to the finally death. bank. II is victims were Armstead 23-Ju- dge bank-stoc- k mil-lionai- rs Bryant, NICARAGUAN CANAL BILL, colored, shot through the heart; B. Slieltman, white, shot through the London Chronicle Declare Congress stomach and will probably die, and will ASS It John Reed, white, shot in the neck and London, Jan. 23. The Daily Chroniis in a precarious coudition. cle says editorially today: According Filipino Softer Another Defeat. Manila, Jan. 24. Two companies of the Forty-sixt- h infantry, under Major Johnson, and three companies of the Thirty-eightinfantry, commanded by Major Muir, defeated 800 insurgents at Taal, province of Batangas, Saturday, taking the town. The United States gunboat Marietta also shelled the place. The insurgents had four Cannon, two of which were captured. Two Americans were wounded, and ten insurgent dead were found upon the field, the number of injured being unknown. h Trias Rangers Board a Court. Austin, Tex,. Jan. 23. An additional company of rangers have been ordered to Bastrop to remain there during the trial of the men charged with the murder of Arthur Burford, the son of Sheriff Burford of Colorado county, who was killed a few days ago by members of the Reece faction. The trial is set for next Wednesday and subpoenas have been issued for 1,240 witnesses. The rangers will disarm every man as he enters the town. The governor has ordered that every possible measure be taken to prevent further bloodshed. - Kentucky Contest to Have Commute Plenty of Time. Frankfort, Ivy. r Jan. 21. The House this afternoon, after a long debate, passed Mr. Ore's (anti-Goeb- Democrat) le resolutions instructing the contest committee in the case of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor to take all the time necessary in order to arrive at a full, fair and .iust conclusion, and to hear all of the evidence on both sides. This resolution was brought forth to meet t.e complaint of Goebel's attorneys that the interference of outside events had cutoff much of their testimony. In the debate on the floor Cantrill and other Goebel leaders opposed the resolution, but a large number of Democrats broke away from party lines and the resolution finally passed, by a vote of 73 to 14. The preeeedings today before the contest committees were INNOCENT MAN HANGED. Confession Reveals That Judicial Murder W Committed. Redwood Falls, Minn., Jan. 21. A report has just reached here from relatives of the deceased that old man Slover recently died in California, and that he made a confession to the effect that he killed Moses Lufkins in Gales township, this county, some twelve years ago, instead of William Rose, who was afterward hung for the crime. There was only circumstantial evidence against Rose, whose attentions to Grace Lufkins had been forbidden by her father. On the first trial the jury disagreed, but the second trial resulted in conviction. In a speech from the gallows. Rose affirmed his innocence and charged Slover with the crime. WOODS COURSE APPROVED. President Indorse Aetion to Purify Public Service in Culm. Washington, Jan. 21. At the cabinet meeting a communication from Havana covering the action of General Wood in removing Mr. Mora from his office as public prosecutor was read. The president and the members of the cabinet fully indorse General Wood's move to purify the ptiblie service at Havana, and he will have all needful support. Otherwise the cabinet meeting was devoted to routine matters. FRUIT-GROWE- UNION. RS One Has Been Organized In Kansas City Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 21. The fruit-groweand farm product shippers have formed a permanent organization to be known as the Growers rs and Shippers' National Protective union. The capital stock is placed at 850,000, in shares of 81 each. Headare to be in Kansas City, with to advices we have recived from quarters in branches other cities. Any grower Washington, a canvass of the Senate or shipper may become a member by and House of Representatives has paying for one or more shares. that it Congress beyond dispute placed will not only pass the Nicaragua canal Message From The Dead. bill, but will pass it in a form directly Fottsville, Pa., Jan. 21. The body at variance with the Clay f William Galloway, fire boss at the treaty. Kaska William mine of the Dodson This is a statement of decidedly se- Coal company, who was entombed by rious importance and we hesitate to of coal on December 18th has fall the believe that the United States Governbeen recovered. These words were ment will commit itself to a course discovered written on asheet of iron which this country would haye to on a brattice door addressed to his wife: as unfriendly. I think I am gone. Good-by- e Janie. Be good hoys, Guy and Willie. I dont CAPTAIN MILLS IS FREE. think you will see your father any Jury Agrees on a Verdict of Not Guilty In more. I think this is Wednesday. Just Six Minutes. Hank Robbed and Men Escape. , Salt Lake City, Jan. 23. The jury 21. ComJan. The Rochester, Ind., was Mills whom F. before J. Captain tried for the murder of J. C. O'Mel mercial hank at Silver Lake, was last veney was absent from the courtroom midnight robbed by burglars of 83,500. were just thirty minutes, six of which were Five charges of 6pent in the jury room. The verdict used to open the safe. The robbers seems to meet with general approval, shot their way through a posse of although some maintain that a light citizens who attempted their capture, sentence should have been imposed. and went to North Manchester on a Captain Mills received the yerdiet in a hand car. William Price, a clerk, was calm msoner. He will spend a few severely wounded. One of the robIm shot, but escaped weeks quietly in Balt Lake, after which bers cried: he will probably accept a position in with the other burglars. ton-Bulw- er nitro-glycerin- Honolulu. e |