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Show STRUCK IRRIGATORS CONVENE IRR1GA NATIONAL ELEVENTH IN SESSION. CONGRESS TION ) Greatest Session History of Or Hundred Over Thirteen ganizatlon, In Attendance. Being Delegatee in The eleventh meeting of the Na. tional Irrigation Congress opened In Ogden on the morning of the 15tb tinder most auspicious circumstances. The attendance la more than double that of the largest previous meeting, over 1,300 delegates from twenty seven states and territories having presented their credentials. The rep resentatlon Includes men from the At lantic to the Pacific and from the British line to the Rio Grande, in addition to the number of distinguished foreigners who are present Two sessions of the congress were field, and two purely social functions took place on Tuesday. The first session, held in the forenoon, was occupied chiefly by addresses of welcome by the mayor and the governor, and a response by the president of the congress, Senator W. A. Clark of Montana. The afternoon session was occupied by an address by United States Senator Burton of Kansas,, the naming of committeemen and the reading of communications from prominent men In different purts ol the country who wore unable to be In attendance. In the afternoon the visiting newspaper men were entertained at the Hermitage, In Ogden canyon, and in the evening a brilliant reception and ball, tendered by Senator Clark, assisted by citizens of Ogden, to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, representatives of President Roosevelt and cabinet, delegates to the congress and newspaper representatives, took place at the new Klesel building. Fight for Next Congress. The fight for the next convention promises to bo between Boise, Idaho, and El Paso, Texas, although Reno, Nevada, hns displayed groat activity so far. The Idaho delegation, ovor 100 strong, agreed to unite on Boise. Prominent Idahoans at the convention are Senator Dubois, Governor BY FIERCE FIGHT TN MINE CYCLONE Cositt of Florida Swept by a Terrific Tornado. Beginning Friday morning on the east coast and Saturday on the west, and lasting twenty-fou- r hours, south Florida has been swept by the strongest hurricane ever known In that part of the, state. The wires went down at the beginning and railroad service was delayed. On account of that few details have been received. At Miami the wind attained a velocity of sixty miles an hour. The car shed of the East Coast railway was lifted dear .from its foundations. Several small boats were sunk In the bay. Passengers on the East Coast train say that they saw many wrecks along the shore from Miami to Hobes sound. A Standard Oil companys steamer with two barges Is on the beach near Boynton. The crew of fifteen men was saved. The bodies of two unknown white men drifted on the beach near Boynton. At Strake many acres of pineapple heads were blown down. At Jupiter the wind blew seventy-fiv- e miles an hour with the rain falling In torrents. Other places on the west coast and In the Interior have not been beard from, and It Is feared that wken reports come in the damage will be great Orange and grape fruit crops have been greatly damaged.. HURRICANE IN BAHAMA8. Much Damage to Property, But No Llvee Lost. A severe hurricane began at Nassau, Bahamas, on Wednesday night and has Just ended. The lowest point reached by the barometer was 29 9 and the velocity of the wind, which came from the northeast, was ninety miles. Great damage has been done to vegetation and farm products, while the fruit crops have been ruined. Many houses were damaged, but no loss of life has been reported. The shipping around this island was badly damaged. No news from the other Islands has yet been received. y d William E. Sraythe. commonly known at the father of tho Irrigation congress, and who, whllo editor of the Irrigation Age, at Salt Lako City twelve years ago, was responsible for the calling of tho first session of tho Irrigation congress In that city. Is here as a delegate from southern California, and Is & candldalo for president of the congress. The official badge of the convention is a gun metal device representing a boo hivo and a wheat Hold over which a stream of water Is pouring from the mouth of a ditty, the Goddess of Irrigation. Ex United States Senator Joseph.'!. Carey of Wyoming, author of the famous Corey land bill, Is a delegate to the congress. When hl name was announced as a committeeman from Wyoming during tho afternoon k-- v Hon, It was given a hearty round ol newly-discovere- applause. t Ammunition. According to a special from Butte, Mont, at a depth of nearly two thousand feet underground a force of about thirty of F. .Augustus Heinzes miners from the Rarus mine had an escorting encounter with a force of Amalgamated miners from the Pennsylvania mine, an adjoining property, In a portion of ground the ownership of which 1b now being determined by the courts. the Superintendent Treerlz of Rants led bis men, and breaking down the bulkhead, invaded the workings of the Pennsylvania. The Intruders were met by Superintendent J. C. Adams of the Boston & Montana company. Rocks and loose dirt were fly-lwhen the Helnze men secured a sack of lime, and directing a stream of compressed air from a hose through the mass hurled the fine lime and gas Into the ranks of the Amalgamated men, causing them to retreat to prevent being suffocated. Several of the men became unconscious and had to be dragged away by tbeir comrades. Their conditions Is critical. K BODY OF INDIAN CHIEF STOLEN. 6ensatlonal Story From the Blackfoot e e, The El Paso delegates set forth that their city is the biggest city In the biggest county In the biggest Congressional district In the biggest state in the biggest nation on earth. The attractions offered to the congress by Boise are the prettiest city In tho west, a central point of Irrigation activity, and the largest private Irrigation enterprise In the world, the Twin Falls cnn!. which Is designed to reclaim 271,000 acres of land. Pennsylvania and Vermont are represented by the smallest delegations in the congress, each having one delegate. Heinzes Men Have an Exciting Encounter With Amalgamated Forces, Using Slacked Lime as g Intor-momi-tai- n CONGRESSIONAL NOTES. MINERS BATTLE TWO BUTTE THOUSAND FEET UNDERGROUND. Maesacrt Ordered by Sultan. Courier dispatches received In Sofia say the Alby the Autonomic under direct orders banians, acting from the sultan, have boon engaged In a general massacre of Bulgarians In the districts of Okhrlda and Leron. Alarming rumors are current of further wholesale massacres of Bulgarians In the vilayet of Monastlr. One report ssys that 6.000 porsons have been slaughtered In the district of Loren alone, which Is purely Bulgar- Town Held Up by Robbers. of eight masked men btew open the snfo lu tho Minnehaha County bank at Valley Springs, 8. D., Sunday morning and accurod between (S.000 and $10,000 tn cash. Residents of the town wero amused shortly daybreak by several explosions. When citizens appeared on the street to ascertain the cause they dlscow erel that tho town was picketed by seven or eight armed men. who drove tho residents front the streets on the tain of instant death. be-for- e A B0ARD .NEWS SUMMARY, PRtClP'CE. B'LLSQT How an Unworthy New Yorker . ed Embarrassment Magistrate Scott went down , shore one clay this week ana return he bad a story, as folw ! are In portions of Minnesota crops of fall early the by being destroyed 1 snow. S next Portland was selected as the There was a American gambiPr, of the Newloik stopping at one place of meeting of rate ond hotels with his wife Mining Congress. i It Is believed war will be declared jlrl. Business had been dm him and he was way behind N before and Bulgaria between Turkey board bill. The landlady was Ink, ti' the end of September. nervous for business was dun over the swept has storm A severe her, too, and the house was not western part of Germany, causing lull. One day Just before the ds k hour one of those much damage to property. In a white high hat and went cars fourteen and long An engine 1. T., who poses as a doctor, but whose through a bridge near Hugo, Is game poker, came Into the four trainmen being killed. sary and went up to the room!' suigambler. Mrs. Clara Castello of Chicago In ten minutes he cided by saturating her drees with tamed,, kerosene and touching a match to it again with a face as long as an V hotel bill. He sought out the land' 1 The prune growers In the vicinity In and a solemn voice told her it , of Vancouver, Wash., fear a serious his to painful Inform her that.il duty recent loss of fruit will result from the little girl In No. 47 was going to hi rains. a bad case of smallpox. j "The landlady was business to Four men were Instantly killed by the giving away of a scaffold sixty backbone. She took out a ten . feet above the ground at Duluth, bill, pressed It In the doctors and said : Doctor, you can get Minn. tt people out of my house You O In Fire at Nashville, Tenn., resulted it would ruin me It it were the death of one man, the Injury o! said the doctor, Blo eight others, and property loss to the theyd have to go anyh,,, amount of $125,000. Ill get them out, but you mustk. Earthquake shocks were felt at that room Just as soon as they and allow no one to enter it Portland, Ore., and Chehales and JACKSON GOES TO GALLOWS. "The scheme worked to a char on 11th, the although Tacoma. Wash., and the gambler and his side part was done. no of Trouble damage Montana Court Saves Mob the doctor, occupied the same vi Governor Dale of Hawaii declares la the smoker that Lynching Murderer, evening when ts Mont., tint he will not resign his office, but train pulled out for New York.-- Pk, A special from Hamilton, says the Jury on tho Jackson murder will retire at the end of his term, delphia Daily Telegraph. case brought In a verdict of murder which expires next May. SENT THE WRONG SAINT. In the first degree, being out one hour Russia has requested permission of and fifteen minutes. China to postpone her evacuation of Austrian Empress Blundered in H( The case Is that In which Walter one of the frontier provinces of ManChoice of Gift. churia for several months after OctoJackson Is charged with assaulting King Edward and Queen Aleiai Fonnie Buck at Stevensville, ber 8. durlng their recent visit to Irek the child dying from knife 13, August Mrs. Taylor, the woman made fa- were shown at Maynooth college wounds Inflicted. The defense was mous by her passaga over the Niagara silver statuette of St. George and tt weak and took up but little over an rapids In a barrel, will make another dragon and rich church vestmen, hour. Jackson sat unmoved during the t"!p over the whirlpool about Octo- presented to the college by the k empress of Austria. There Is a tv entire trial and showed no compre- ber 1. iou3 story regarding the presents, hension of the verdict. He ignored his Two ranch hands, wblle stealing a In question. Caught In heavy ra: father and mother, who sat beside ride, were set upon by hold ups near one day while hunting in Kildare, tt him. Drummond, Mont., and ono of the mn empress sought refuge at Maynont. and for her kindly recept, Judge Webster will pass sentence killed, while the other is probably there,grateful the president having wrap;-hSaturday afternoon at 5 oclock. The wounded. fatally in his own ziraarra while h penalty for the crime Is hanging. John Mamet, a saloonkeeper, was drenched garments were drying, A mob has been organized quietly to think how to requite the L shot by Marshal Surtees, and during the trial with the intention of fatally Her gn G. W. Van Sickle and pitality she had received. Saloonkeepers In case from the Jail taking Jackson tude took the form of a silver sty McComb were wounded William at the verdict did not meet with their ette, which duly reached the oo!i: Murray City, Oklahoma. expectations, and lynching him. When authorities. Great, however,, i. It became known that hanging would Carey Snyder, son of R. M. SDyder, their consternation when it turned result from tho verdict the armed a leading banker of Kansas City, to be a statue of the patron saint . men withdrew to let the law take Us wanted for a What was St. George robbing pawnEngland. wealthy course. broker of $7,000 In diamonds, bas been Maynooth, or Maynooth to SL Georj The poor saint was promptly THE PENSION ROLL. captured near Billings, Mont a whence he was Twenty-fou- r persons were Injured traded cupboard, Five Pensioners on the Roll Account the other day for the bpt as tho result of the collapse of a tion ot of the Revolutionary War. Englands king. The empn grand stand whllo watching a sham apprised of the mistake she had mad The annual report of Commissioner battle at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. considered how to make amends, t of Pensions Ware places the total Three of tho Injured will probably die. the vestments, embroidered with go number ot pensioners now on the rolls The secretary of the treasury bas en shamrocks, were afterward sc at 990,543, of which 725,356 are solfrom Vienna as a peace offering. diers and 207,189 widows and depend- appointed Robert Fullerton of Dos ents. Sir. Ware announces that It Is Moines, Iowa, disbursing officer to disBookworm Verses. not probable that the pension roll will burse tho $5,009,000 appropriated by I had a batch of novels on my table j congress In aid of tbo SL Louis expotrrday ; again cross the million line, the high Most of th-bound In yellow just t. sition. water mark having been reached sort to throw away. As the result of a runaway at a I showed to my bookworm sal a year ago. Five of the pensioners said. have some lunch. Pray In funeral nine four Denver, persons, are on the roll on account of the war I don't care If I do, said he: "I ! Just like a munch. of tho revolution, 1,116 on account of of them children, were Injured. The the war of 1812, 4,734 on account of bortes became frightened by the flapWhat Is there on tne bill of far1" kel as ho sat down. tho Indian wars and 13,874 on account ping of the black trimmings on the r "The books most widely read hearse. of the Mexican war. said I, In all the town. So sit ye down, good bookwont The home of Fred Rohrer, a newsTho average annual value of each sway and merry be; pension Is now $133. The total an- paper man of Berne, Ind., waa de- And If 1 dont return by six pray wai nual value of the Spanish war pension stroyed by dynamite and the entire up for me." roll has reached $1, 703,310. family slightly injured. Rohrer's r And then I left my bookworm to MISSING LINK FOUND. leads the opposition to licensing d the food With which the writing caterers W saloons. Tribe In British New Guinea Ltvee In the multitude. n Charles Jones, a colored boy 12 I stayed away till seven, and Treee and Loie Uce of Legs. to him has old, years confessed to but A Melbourne dispatch to tho Lonmurdering I found that he had gone to bed. Miss Caroline Link, who, on August the twilight dim don Dally Chronicle says: Tho ad28. was found In a dying condition In 1 ministrator of British New Guinea caught a glimpse of writing ther rr a candy store In Baltimore, where she my blotting pud the of an extraorreports discovery The writing of my hookworm, S4 was employed. dinary tribe of marshland dwellers In him It wasn't bad. Grasshoppers have destroyed master, I do hop I1, the Island of Papua. Owing to the the He said: lie vexed; wont of tho crops Plcurls Indians In Taos I've eaten all the swampy ground and tangled undermargins, hut 1 rww go the text." growth. walking and canoeing are al- county, New Mexico, and the governmost impossible. The native dwel- ment will have to help them over the Wanted to Obey Literally- winter and supply them with seed lings are built In trees, and as a ' Dr. Theobald Smith While next grain of the conditions existing the naspring. lecturer on bacteriology in the Tuelvo hundred men have gone on cal tives are gradually losing the use Department of the Columbian of their lower limbs and are unable a strike at a packing plant In St. versify a hoy catno to him with a vb' to walk on hard ground without Joseph, Mo., because tho superintend- sago from a relative, who was their fet bleeding. Their bodies have ent refused to discharge a flremnn Ing In Washington. When the F developed enormously while their legs who was charged with being unfair to saw the doctor be put the note In hi pocket, saying: "Its anotV and thigh have become atrophied. union workmen. Dr. Smith the noto Is for." In figure and carriage they are apeHugh II. Price, surveyor like. "Let mo sen the namo on the s general of Arizona, has boon removed from office elope." said tho doctor ciirlou'1 Resolution Failed to Para. as a remit of an "Thnt I my name. The note Investigation mad At tbo convention of tho Evangel- into charges preferred against Price me." ical Lutheran synod of New York and and his chief "But I was told," replied the h W. E. Murphy. 0f "to give It to the bald Dr. Smith' ' New Jersey, bold at Asbury Park, N. In the office. work "Oh. you got turned around a on J., Thursday, a resolution waa Inon tho name, thats all," replied Undo' Finney, an troduced by Rev. C. W. Holder of Al90 doctor. rea hlng for tho note. bany, In sympathy with tho movement years of age Used n a caUln But It took considerable arffum'' to oust Reed Smoot from bis seat In Franklin eoumy. Virginia, and was to convince tho boy that the the United States senate. After top regarded by ignorant people living D tho right man. New York Tlm minutes' heated discussion tho motion the vicinity fta being a sorcerer. A was laid on the table by a vote of 1 few night ago Chinese Trade. called to rtS! to 13. whm,wn mca Tho most Important trade th toJwtV Chinese I that of the Yangtse rl WORK OF BOLD BANDITS. It Is understood here that rot t Is whirh drain tho lnrgeat and P"1' anxious to Induce the United Turkey The dnctlve area of China. Five Men Robbed In a Hotel at Point States to cf withdraw the American the United States fu thl trad of Plitol. warships from shown Turkish waters, by a consular report. believing that such elves tho Fivo masked men entered tho bnr action perccntngo of buslnet would dlscourago the Chrln- - the various nations: room of the Hotel Obelt In Tacoma LiM11 "j, Amrrlcan German, 17.5; Japanese, 30; shortly after midnight Thursday night, vcnUon can, 1.6. held up five men. Including the barA. Jarraud, the lunntto who tender and proprietor; robbed the till 3. A. behind the bar and forced the proMcKinney at Rttjrnlrg Youthfulne1, 1 Th hnlr and heard of WRl'r ' 18 8,111 Bt hreo- - Not prietor to open the safe In the office Sismi adjoining the bar room. The robber Ie!e ! M ar , f hlm Cadiz,, who is 35 year Wn of y with f l.ooo In ensh and four got nc I and which hat been snowy III r'fie and eiul ca rim:, five watches and several gold ITL away t , j rrpldly turnlS frm nuggets. hkbIii, shooting toward the brVh n tin-hor- i lick-lookin- I j l, know-Wel- er Rev. of p 1 sen iplsco as -- 11 ran diet etowi is tl He )n on Dr. W York sed, .ed reach k, him o: inti that nary bund-int- Outlook Still Gloomy and Situation Becoming More Alarming. The powers are evidently still exerting pressure both at Constantinople and Sofia to avert a war, apparently with some temporary sucess, but meantime an Increasingly terrible tale of atrocities, committed in Macedonia, shows that the situation Is daily becoming agTurko-Bul-garla- n gravated. The news that a French squadron Is going to the Levant is also considered ominous, and this step by the French government probably will bo followed by similar action on the part of other powers. The Turkish embassy In London. In its denial issued daily of Turkish atrocities, declares It to be "absolute-lfalse that the Ottoman troops are burning villages, the truth being It H the Bulgarians, who. at the approach of the troops, use explosives to burn the villages before leaving them and then accuse the Turkish troops of inch abominable deeds. y BLOOD Feared That They May Attack Christians In Constantinople. Reporta received by the foreign office la Faria from Constantinople say there la renewed Shot Himself and Wlfa. If. M. Hayden of Denver shot hid wife through the body and then fired three bullets Into himself, one passing through his wrist, one taking effect in his breast and the other entering his brain, killing him. The woman will probably die. They derided last Monday to separate, lmt later Hayden became Intoxicated, and. going to his wife's home, committed tbo double crime. They were lmt It Tach was native of Pennsylvania. about 30 yenra old, and they had bceu married seven years. EVE it B; V :imer he of t Non 3 uples be e c: ,ke yo inti irey scrll to-4- lOUS pul apei d K Men pa-po- fresh-cooke- reture1'-the- MUSSULMANSTHIRSTFOR agitation among the Mussulmans within the city, and feanare expressed of a possible Mussulman attack on the Christian population. This agitation followed the appearance In the Turkish papers of accounts of the Bulgarians dynamiting trains and blowing up the steamboat Vaskapu. The government considered that official sanction of the publication of the news was the best means to avoid exaggerated stories ot the explosions. As the government ian. had rigorously suppressed any menExtra Session of Congress Will Not tion of explosions during the past Convene Before November 9. twenty years, the recent publications After mature consideration and caused widespread agitation. consultation In person and by mall RUSSIA WANTS FURTHER TIME. with members of both the sonate and bouse of representatives, President Propotcd Postponement of Evacuation of Manchuria. Roosevelt bae abandoned the suggesA Taking telegram received tn To tion that congress be eallod In extraIn exOctober. The kohama, which U semiofficially conordinary session anfirmed at Toklo, says tho Russian ho session which traordinary nounced many months ago would be minister has proposed the postponehold this fall will bo called, according ment of the evacuation of the Kirin to prcHunt plans, to meet on Novem- and Amur districts of Manchuria, set ber 0th. for October S. A band A War May Come In It. Spite of Efforts to Prevent of EuropeMs standing on the edge on London in a precipice, declared Thursday, a diplomat who is particinegotiapating In the International tions In connection with the Balkan but question, and no one can tell and see Turkey that tomorrow may of Bulgaria plunged in war In spite all the efforts made to prevent It, and though the powers separately have made strong representations to BulInsurgaria to desist from aiding the of eve making the on are and gents, a Joint demand for the observance of a policy of strict neutrality. In the meantime Turkey Is becoming encourtoaged by the attitude of the powers ward Bulgaria, and there is a strong feeling among the Mohammedans that the opportunity is at hand to take sumon the Bulgarian mary vengeance The porte has been warned people. against engaging In war and we believe hesitates to embark on a move which may result In the armed Intervention of Europe. The only encouraging sign in the situation is tha understanding between the powers, all of which we are sure are upholding Russia and Austria in their efforts to maintain peace. Turklsh-Bulgaria- Reservation In Montana. A strange and sensational story comes from the Blackfoot Indian reservation In Montana regarding the mysterious disappearance of the body of the great chief White Calf, which has been stolen from lta grave. "kite Calf died In Washington, D. C last February, where he went as a member of a delegation to protest Killed In Auto Race, against the leasing of the reservation Frank M. Day, formerly of Cali- lands. , fornia, was killed in an automobile acWhite Calf's tomb was sealed up In cident at the State fair grounds at his house, located on a lofty cliff. Milwaukee while driving Barney Old- When the Indians went to prepare field's record-breakinmachine In a the tomb for the winter against the five-milrace against time. Day had attacka of wild animals, they found coverod about four miles of the dis- the door burst open and the body of tance when, upon reaching the head the dead chief, together with his posof the homo stretch the powerful ma- sessions, missing. Members of White Calfs delegation chine swerved, ran into the fence and declare his body was stolen for the over. As machine the uptoppled Smithsonian Institute. Indignation is set, Day received a terrific knock on high and the bucks are becoming ugly the back of the head which rendered over the situation. him unconscious, and be dlod without regaining consciousness. POWERS TRY TO AVERT WAR. Morrison, French, Congressman Judge Sullivan, Major Fred Reed of Halley, Attorney General J. A. Bag-leof Bear Lake, J. II. Brady of Pocatello, Colonel S. J. Stark, register of the land office at Halley, V. C. Annett of Boise, RepreKills Partner In a Mine. sentatives C. C. Moore of Fremont fierce battle In one of the a In county and J. M. Steele of Bear Lake drifts of the Waeseka gold mine, sevcounty, State Senator Clark of Cbs-sl- a hundred feet under the ground, eral county and many others. says a Virginia City, Mont., dispatch. Mortis Gailor ran the sharp point of President Congratulates. Fred J. Klesel, chairman of the ex- bis candle stick through the heart of ecutive committee of the National Ir- Bud Brown, his working partner, alInstantly killing hltn. The trourigation Congress, received the .fol- most over a trifle, the two men arose ble from President lowing telegram as to the positions they disputing Roosevelt: should take in the stopo. Brown, it "White House, Washington; Oyster is said struck Gailor In the face, who Bay, N. Y., SepL 13, 1903. My Dear then made a terrific lunge at his opsending the spike almost Sir: rorinlt me to express through ponent, him. through you to the Irrigation Congress my CLUBBED TO DEATH. hearty congratulations upon what has been accomplished In the year that has Just passed, especially because I Father of North Carolina 8enator regard this as opening a new era In Killed by a Negro. the treatment of Irrigation from tho F. C. Simmons, father of United National standpoint. Nono of our Internal policies will be of more con- States Senator F. M. Simmons, of sequence to the future of tho country North Carolina, was killed Sunday on during the next few decades than this matter of Irrigation. It la of bis plantation, a few miles from North Carolina. He had vital consequence to the states and to tho entire semi-ari- been missing since Saturday mornregion, and what Is of vital con- ing. Mr. Simmons had been shot sevsequence to one portion of our coun- eral times with a shotgun. Bruises try la of vital consequence to the about the head Indicated that he was whole country. Sincerely yours, clubbed also. A negro named Danlols "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." has been arrested. ON EDGE OF ic-su- it Anti-Smo- jilt, r jt nig t di jter Itroll nly bo onli $!" on!1 y ! Ring wi inlot iCt Inch hair sail 'it Co f J n lu ens 1 lta flit ch-rk- . th 'tl?. chi i- It c rlz If Uie Uv PP 1 Mar J. a ' br fr ?! 1 rnt it HI lib kl rut t'M! m tt 11 -- 8d |