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Show VOL. HI. NO. 47. SPANISH FORK. UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1904. UTAH STATE NEWS. DOWN Harrf J. Joslln agod 2G, a deserter the regular army, suicided ia City, taking poison Uke gait snowstorm of the season first The on the 2nd, about two Richfield fjslted Inches of the beautiful falling. The members of the National Guard have organized a U Salt Lake City Rational Guard Indoor baseball league. At the annual rabbit hunt of the American Fork gun club, M. Christen-K- n was the star guuner, killing 150 om rabbits. skeleton has been found near which is believed to be that af a prospector who had fallen over I cliff and was killed. A Ophlr I a prominent citizen of Lake and one of the oldest of ' citys real estate dealers, died, on 1st at the age of 52. Ell B. Kelsey, Salt the the Engineer Rene Burke and Fireman Bartlett were severely Injured near Farmington as the result of the of the engine blowing out. Ogden is to have a $10,000 brick factory which will have a running capacity of 65,000 bricks per day and give employment to about sixty men. The Rio Grande railroad has planted in streams along its line the past sea-io6.095,000 trout, which in from two to three years will mean much to fishermen. The Ogden board of health has declared against Impure ice and will prohibit the cutting of Ice for domestic use from any of the Ice ponds In their present condition. Judge Lewis of Salt Lake has decided that a prisoner who pleads guilty in the police court and is there sentenced, cannot) afterward appeal to the diatrict court. boil-rbea- Contracts have been let. for the extension of the Lagoon road to Kavs-villMr. Bamberger, the owner ofr the road, says the line will be extended to Ogden next year. Miss May Houston has been appointed a jury commissioner for Garfield county, being, the first woman eer apm! eiT'JEo the office of jury commissioner in ho state of Utah. A farmers plow exhumed the disintegrating bones of a womans skeleton near Layton, Saturday. The remains are thought to be those of some squaw buried in days long gone by beneath a heap of stones. It Is announced that the next small road to come Into the Rio Grande family will bo the Uintah railway, which has just been built from Mack, Colo, to Dragon and Is to be extended to Fort Duchesne. Neva Fontan, an Italian quarryman, was Instantly killed at the Kalbaugh Lime and Stone companys quarries In Parley's canyon by being caught be neath a falling rock. Fontanas body was horribly crushed and mangled. Disheartened and discouraged by the death of his wife and Why boy, Herbert D. Parkin, a foundryman, S3 years of age, committed suicide at bis home In Balt Lake City, Sunday afternoon, by shooting himself through the heart The training class at the Normal school now numbers 112. The great recognition received by the exhibit of the local school at the St Loula exposition has brought many new students both from Utah and the adjacent -- J SHOT EXPRESS MAN FAITHFUL burg Saturday night. Korolonko. a prominent Russian novelist, presided, and among those in attendance were Maxim Gorki, in his customary peasants attire; Somevsky, the historian; Madame Galliua, the poetess; Madame Shapia, the novelist, and other writers. Numerous resolutions were adopted constitutional demanding reforms, freedom of speech, a parliament,' etc. A poem was read denouncing bureaucracy, for carrying on an unjust war to Manchuria. Many women were in tears when Gorki, in a scene of enthusiasm, kissed one of tho orators. The meeting closed at 3 oclock in the morning amid shouts of Down with the autocracy." Bold Outlaw Loots Car Single-hande- d and Makes Good His Escape With MURDERED BY BEGGAR. San Francisco Woman Killed by Man She Had Fed. Murdered, the police believe, by a beggar to whom she had given food, tho body of Mr!). Margaret Kelly was found one day last week In San Francisco by her son James. The boy, who is 12 years old, had returned from school with his sister, and he hurried upstairs to ask permission to play in the street. The door was locked and he climbed up the fire escape, when he came upon his mother's body. At the time his playfellows were waiting at the street door for him. One tf the most important clues to the murderer is the bloody mark left by a man's thumb on tiie tablecloth. The mark is plain, showing a thumb of unusual shape, and will be most convincing testimony, according to the famous Bertillon system of measurements. GREAT IRRIGATION SCHEME. Demonstrates Successful Experiments With Soil Culture Millionaire ' Method. J. P. Pomeroy, "who has been. engaged in reclamation projects for years, has determined to Interest railKansas, road companies traversing Nebraska, Colorado. Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah and Texas in soil reclamation. He hopes thereby to reclaim fifty million acres of land. Mr. Pomeroy is a millionaire mine owner, and also owns ho.floo acres of land in western Kansas. He owns the Pomeroy Model farm at Hill City, Kan., where he has spent thousands of dollars experimenting, employing the Campbell soil culture method introduced by Prof. II. W. Campbell, under the latters direction. It Is, In brief, a method of conserving moisture by treatment of the soil and has been so successful that the larger project U to be undertaken. Revise Trestles' With Other Powers. As soon as the new RussoGerman treaty Is ratified, Russia expects to open negotiations for tho revision of commercial treatlos with other powers. One of the moat important resnltH. doubtless, will be the ending of the annually. Bank Does Business at All Hours. Impressed by tho need for an Institution where money mny be obtained at any hour, prominent New York financiers and commercial men have, It Is announced, ly the Herald, organized the First Night and Dny Bunk & Snfe men Deposit company. The names of social and business In the prominent world appear on the organization com$260.-00- 0 mittee, and the captial stock of The subscribed. already has ben concern also will have a working surplus of $260, 0d0. ' Burglar Under the Piano, For half an hour Miss Bertha Black played the piano In her fathera parlor In Columbus, O., while a big negro Unburglar lay crouched beneath It. hla position cramped able to keep In longer, ho stretched his legs, and Black Miss the moved so piano. doing stopped playing and looked under tbs Tho negro presented Instrument revolver and orderod her not to move lo EMPLOYE LAID BY TRAIN ROBBER. Contents LOW of the Safe. aa second-clas- s matter. Post oftlas Utah. yVct of Congress March I, UHL 21. 1903, FOULLY MURDERED. WAS CITY DRUG STORE JNO. Assassinated and His Home Fired in Order to Conceal g wt. Crime. Homer E. Ward, a young ranchman miles aged 23, living twenty-fou- r : : 1 1 : of White northwest Sulphur Springs, C Mont., was found dead Iq his rabla on the 2nd. His hody was partly burned and there was a bullet hole In hla ' head. A hole, made by a bullet, through a PRESCRIPTIONS COMPOUNDED BY EXPERIENCED PHARMACISTS. window pane, indicated that he had SfmmfWfmpnmmwniHmnwwwnffnuniiniHHinHiimwiimmwwwwwwwwnBi been shot from behind as he was seated at his table eating. The body had then been laid upon tho bed, covered , DR. W. R WARNER. HI with bed clothing saturated with keroHi sene and a match applied. This act OSes and Bmeidanee Josh Greatest Insurance Agency of incendiarism failed. The dead man's sooth of (Sky Square. barn was burneu. . . Ctxhj Spanish Pert, The crime was committed several a was discovered and by days ago, Phone 48. man who works at Dan Mumbrel C. T. 411 S. Academy At. ranch. No motive Is known for the UTAH. crime. The dead man was a brother Office at ol CRB8R Bill I Dlllll. Pease Inlaw of County Attorney Gallatin codnty, who, with a deputy Night call, anewnred Speal.h Eerfei sheriff, is working on the case. Utah. from Jamae KoberMon'a. Independent Insurance Agency. WOMEN STRIKE IT RICH. 8 BAST C. B. 0 LIT. Asaasw ft. Momas, Denverites Invested in Mine Which it BAGLEY & MORGAN Proving a Bonanza. Firs, lift, Accident, Health and Plait Clast Wealth, such as they never dreamed ATTOKIt W of, has fallen In the laps of two of PROVO Kelght Building Telephone 71 X Deuvers young women, according to a WRITS US FOR WATS. special dispatch from that city. The fortunnte ones are Miss Edna HopIn the Lead Twenty Years. A. SAXEY, kins, telephone operator at the ColoATTORNBY.AT-LArado Fuel & Iron companys office, and and Notary Publle. Conveyancer Miss Anna Rand, stenographer at the OBIne Over Dank of Big Five Mining company. Spualih Fork. Last summer, when there was a Utah. Spanish Fork, great deal of talk about the wonderful Goldfield, Nev., discoveries, the young women became Interested in the subject, and In a spirit of fun took a If you want to buy, or it Later, when the reports were "flyer. more favorable, they Invested more, you want to sell Farms or and now they find themselves wealthy. City Property of all dea- AltO They do not know the exact figures, criptions anywhere ia this but it is believed tbnt each Is worth county, see at least $100,000. Other Denver beneficiaries by the strike are J. S. Temple, J. P. Doftsup, Charles M. Wadsworth and George S. Rudd. These Produce. gentlemen and the two ladies now Bailed Hay comprise a company which owns the A Sandstorm claim, assays from which will run $3,000 to $50,000 per ton. -COMPLETE LINE OP opposite Postoffice TROUBLE IN VENEZUELA. Ranchman remarkable meeting of 700 persons, the cream of the Russian intelligent classes, was held In St. Peters A trade war with the United States which arose over the Imposition of a countervailing duty on Russian sugar a few years ago. Russia retaliated, states,. the maximum duty on AmerAt the Millard county farmers' in- imposing American stitute held at Fillmore, a paper on ican goods, virtually ending the growand destroying arid farming was read by Bishop importations Russian market for American manChristian Anderson, showing that ing ufactured goods. Tho loss of Amerboat and rye, with proper working, trade baa been about I10.0o0.oo0 can be raised profitably without Ir- ican rigation. Lathe Esther Moss, aged 6, of Bountiful, Is dead from burns sustained by her clothing Igniting from a bonfire. Her father was badly burned on the hands and arms wtallo extinguishing he flames which caused his childs agonizing death. Joseph nithell of Ophlr has recently returned from the gold regions of Klondike, where he has been for the past four years. Aside fronr acquiring a small fortune, he has various mining interests thero which promise much (or the future. A son of Goorge Williams of Glen-WtK- d was very severely hurt a few days ago by bolng thrown from a horse which stumblod and fell The for was hart about the back and for some time hi condition wag alarm to, but he la recovering. Only fifty-on- e deaths took place In 8lt Lake City during the month of November. This, as compared with seventy! In October, abows a fall tog oft in the death rate of twenty-This, however, la ala more than same month last year. UDIT Ruasian Reformers Meet and Demand Free Speech and a Parliament. d n WITH AUTOCRACY. Entered Feb. at Spanish Fork, BANKS, Prop. An unknown bandit entered the express car on the Santa Fe overland passenger train, Monday morning, some time between 2 and 4 o'clock, shot Express Messenger Evan O. Roberta twice, Inflicting probably fatal Injuries, secured the Contents of the way safe and leaped from the car while the tralu was running at full speed. The robbery occurred somewhere between Needles and Daggett, Cal, but was not discovered until the train reached tie latter place.. Conductor Hawes opened the door of the express car at Daggett and found Messenger Roberts lying on the floor of s condition the car iu a and the contents of the rifled safe scattered about the car. Roberts was so seriously wounded that he was unable to tell how the robbery occurred, except to say that he had disrovered some one on the "blind baggage shortly after the train left Needles, and hud opened the door, when the man, whom tie took to be a negro, sprang inside and before the messenger could draw his revolver opened fire, shooting and wounding him twice. One of the bullets struck Roberts in the left breast, passing through his body, the other striking him In the right side. Roberts fell to the floor and the robber immediately went to the open way safe and took what he wanted of the contents. He then opened the door and leaped out. Roberts was so badly hurt that he was unable to make au outcry. The amount of money and valuables secured is not known at this time. Messenger RoIktIs was brought to l,os Angeles on board the train, which arrived shortly after noon Monday. The way safe contained envelopes holding roney and check which were being scut to the general offices by station agents along the line. Santa Fe officials In Isis Angeles decline to make any statement regarding the amount of money that was likely to nave been In the safe, but maintain that It was not large. Messenger Roberts was a resident of Ixis Avgeles, and was one of the oldest and most trusted employes of Foreign company. the Wells-Farg- PURE AND DRUGS MEDICINES W. H. RAY, DR. KENDALL, PROVO, ..INSURANCE.. Jox Lumber Sompany. notice Building Material. lohn Christianson & Real Estate SHERWIN-WILLIAM- S Element is Apprehensive of Danger. have reached the state deReports ADJOURNED. AND MET CONGRESS of a very unsettled state of partment Little Business Done in Either Branch affairs in Venezuela. Many citizens at First Day's Session. have been put in prison for alleged poWith the senate in session thirteen litical offenses; public opinion 1b and serious apprehension tot minutes, the last session of the Fifty-eight.22-S- alt R. congress was assembled Mon- their safety prevails among the forelement. Btate The department day. In both the senate and the house eign a committee was appointed to wait Is closely watching the progress of upon the president and Inform him events there. It Is patiently awaiting final decision of the supremo court that congress was ready to receive any the of Venezuela In the case of tho Amercommunication he had to send. Reso- ican asphalt concern. When that Is handed down announcement lutions of respect to the memory of the late Senator Hoar of Massachu- will be made of the policy to be by this governmenL setts and Quay of Pennsylvania were TIME TABLE adopted by both houses, and the adtribWorlds Fair Ended. journments taken were In further busiirrBcr JULY S. 1901. is ute to thrtr memory'. Tho only The Louisiana Purchase exposition Northward Southward ness outside of the usual first day rod-tin- e has ended. From the of the Nol Inception resolution a of was the adoption p. m S os In the house extending until January project to hold an exposition to fitS si the one hun6, 1905. the time within which the tingly commemorate f sz commission may 40 merchant marine t 06 dredth anniversary of the purchase of I make its report. r ov the Louisiana' territory until the porf IS tals were thrown open and the world FELL INTO AN AMBUSCADE. 74 was Invited to enter, occupied seven I Oh In a Attempt Given Licking The ot tn duration the years. Japs exposition Turn Rennenksmpffs Flank. has been seven months. Since the exopened, on April 30, there S M There is a persistent rumor In Muk- position Lavo been 13,317.457 admissions retI den that the force of Japanese sent to corded. The banner months attendU flank turn General Rennenkampfls ance was In heptember. when the to- Train No, t and 4 make direct connection at Snlt Lake for nil poluto enet nnd north has been repulsed with great loss. Tbs tal attendance was 3,651.873. The via Oregon Short Lino. was attendance single largest confirmed, days E. W. Uii.i.ztt. Uunrr.1 Pn.rngnr Agont. story Is not yet officially on Louis I Moosn, Dl.lrlol when St. J. 15, Agent. day but details are given with great cir- was September N, PvrgHHKM, Dr pot TioSet Agent. observed. ..PAINTS.. San Pedro, Los Angeles h Lake R. pur-suo- d cent Spanish Fork, Utah SPANISH FORK MEAT COSlff DEALERS IN j FRESH AKD CURED KEATS FANCY ADD STAPLE CROCERKl HIGHEST CASH PRISE PAID FOR 1 J4IBE9 jkND PEUTS. 1 LORENZO THOMAS! PiftHIOEABLI One block north ot Beak, e . Bptalsh Ferk, l.rtinr cumstantiality. eral Ronuonkampff. is stated that ! Stodle la MarteU building. Mala etreet. Opeq every day from 10 a. m. UU I p. m. Workmoe. See hip and malarial guaranteed Freaoleee cad New York atylee. BpeaUhVWrftj T j.pGod Stablo. Hack Meets all Trains 'most Ten Peoplt Injured. Ten person were Injured and $25,-00- 0 worth of property destroyed ft the result of explosions caused by ft spark leaping from ft gasolina machine on which ft chauffeur was working In Now York City- - Forty automobile were destroyed or bsdly damaged, and so rapid was th progress of th fir that men working in the sorond tory of tho building bad no opportunity to I Expects to Make Lasting Fatal Trip of "Fed-Kilter.- " leter Nlssen, who started across Lake Michigan in his boat, "Fool Killer No. 3," was found dead on tb beach two and ft half miles west ot Etcveusvlllo, MIcb. Nlssen Is sup posed to havo been washed ashore during the nlghL Ills "Fool Killer" was about twenty rods down th beach from tho body, and wa much ds ragged. The body wa brought to Kiev nnsvltle, where It Ilea In th town ball Tb band and faco are frozen, and tb feaulro reflect great suffering. Olahi SiWSS Spanish Alliance With Japan. The Imdon Dally Telegraphs correspondent at St. Petersburg claims to have unimpeachable evidence that Russia Is reckoning on the necessity of making a lasting pcnco with Japan by means of an offensive and defensive alllaco, which is recognized as an Indispensable condition for tho success of Russia's eastern policy. So. 12. Ppanl.h Fork, WHAT RUSSIA HOPES FOR, TO - Livery Gen- who knew the movement was maturing, awaited the Japanese at tho mouth of one of the raptured passes, and that tho Japanese turning foreo threw themselves Into tho ambuseado. unmiapceling tie fight, tho Russians after where, lolleeted 60 Japanese corpses. It Is added that there are l.oou more Japanese corpses which It has been Imfire ot possible to collecL owing to thoInclude the Japanese. This doe not the Japanese loss In wounded. Tbs Russian I osa, according to this account, was only thirty or forty men. Ctih. G.O. EIR1KSSON, PORTRAIT ARTIST; ft B. H. BROWN, It Co-Operal- Fork i ivo TIME TABLE Arrival and departure of trnliie from Depot: No. - For HprlngvIlla.intvo.Cnlt f Aka nnd wo.i ...1.06am nnd nil No. 29 Forsprlngvlll IrovoS.ll l.nke and all point, en.t mul wont ..S 42 p m No. For I'.nreke, M.moioib nnd fill T- el . rerOliy No. IS For Kureke, Mammoth and ver t Sli- city FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY Dealer In General Merchandise pm Sis am Connection, made la Ogden Union depot with all tralutof Southern Fnotflo end Oregon Short Liao. DFFERS CHOICE OF Ft Institution, 40 H AND TEHEE DISTINCT SCENIC ROUTES rulmna Palace end ordinary Sleeping earn to Denver, Omaha, K city, St, Louie and Chk-egwtibeutebange. Chair Care; Free fbwtlnlng Per.en.lly no, darted Ezeuralonej a per I eel Lining cor Her vice, Per men, folder eta . Inquire of t CLAUD Skou N, llokel Ageev r write I A. aknton, u. A. U., Sett Laks OUy. and 4 J ProdUCOe tlAftsfaeturer of Harness, e r. Flour, Crain O a4 Boots Shoes, O joiuf rrara, Kept CptBlah Fork. I ! e (14 : |