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Show & E-C- OA Hi me CAUSED 8RYAN ORDERS INQUIRY INTO MURDER OF BRITISH SUBJECT BY VILLAS MEN. v THE UTAH BUDGET uhhiauE Fire at Bingham on Monday destroyed six buildings and property to the value of $10,01)0. Ogden and Salt Lake capitalists are forming a company for the purpose of erecting a can factory at Ogden. The senate has confirmed the nom- CONVICTION OF FORMER NEW inations of D. R. Evans to be postmasYORK POLICE LIEUTENANT IN ter at Castle Gate and Walter W. MURDER CASE SET ASIDE. Morrison to be postmaster at Rich- BY' FLOOD Operty loss in California Will exceed $4,5oo.ojo and 7 TOLL OF SEVEN LIVES. field. Rebel General Juitifit Hie Action on the Ground That the Rancher Was "An Armed Prowler and Attempted to Kill Him. Waehlngton.-LSecreta- ry Bryan has ordered investigation of the killing of William S. Benton, the British subject, at Juarez. He announced Saturday that until all the facta in the case bad been gathered from all available sources no opinion would be expressed by the state department All information received will be transmitted to the British .government. Explanations made by General Villa to Thomas 0. Edwards and George C. Carothers, the American consular representatives at Juarez, together with the l record, are to be supplemented by further information. Instructions went forth to American Consul Letcher to learn details from Villa, and it is understood that inquiry through Independent sources will be carried on at Juarez. 'Mr. Carothers is consular agent at Mr. Torreon, temporarily assisting Edwards. Advices received byths state department, giving Villas version of the affair, were that Benton was armed, (tad personally quarreled with Villa, had been 'disarmed, tried by l and executed on the charge of attempting the life of Villa. Villas explanation, as telegraphed constitutionalist by him to the agency here, was unofficially exhibited to state department officials and, though read wKh interest, brought no comment Army officers took particular interest In the reference to Ben- aTar-reachin- (CoovftrhtV BRITISH SUBJECT MURDERED AT JUAREZ BY VILLAS MEN court-martia- court-martia- such was wot entitled to Uke protection of the rules of war. "Aft armed prowler, described In Order 100 of the American army, is essentially a .guerilla. SENATE RATIFIES TREATIES. Renews ferFTve Years Arbitration Agreement With Eight Nations. General arbitration Washington. treaties ratified by the senate Saturday renewed for five years agreements with Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Portugal and Switzerland, and marked the first step in the policy of President Wilson to place the United States in a more advantageous position in the world of nations. Opponents of the treaties made no effort to delay the vote. The treaties, briefly, provide for reference to The Hague tribunal of legal differences and questions relating to the interpretation of other existing treaties which cannot be settled by diplomacy. AFTER CHINESE Mexican Bandit Falls to Heed Warning to Protect Foreigners and Orders Execution. BE INDEPENDENT BANDIT. Yank-Kewa- Ban on Tobacco Illegal. m. John ' Alexander 8pringfleld, Dowies dictum against tobacco, which has been, the law of the faithful to Zkn City, I1L, was overthrown by the Illinois supreme court Saturday. The city ordinance ot Zion City, forbidding the use of tobacco to any form within the city limits, was declared unconstitutional. Attempts to enforce the ordinance have kept Zion City to the throes of intermittent rioting for several years. r three-year-ol- d f?r Threatens President Wilson. Newark, N. J. George Bernhardt, a cook, was arrested Friday In West Orange, a suburb, charged with writ lng threatening letters to President Wilson. The letters were- - signed God!s Son. Bank Cashier Went Wrong. Morgan, Mayville, N. Y. Edward former cashier of the First National bank of Jamestown, was sentenced to four years In prison after pleading guilty to appropriating to his own use a fund of which he was trustee. PERL D. DECKER d 5 r Mrtwalr bn and others. itjTB&niel A. Lord of s Wealthy farmer of New Madrid. Mo., adoption of the plan. be- - on the railroad tracks near the city Many rebel leaders profess to lieve that whatever the outcome of limits of Belleville, 111., near here the present revolution the north snflgunday, caused the police to begin investigation as to the manner of the south will not soon be complete! hit death on the presumption that he The north, they ly amalgamated. murdered. Neumann was last sert, already is politically lndepenl I I st Been Saturday night and had a large ent and has adopted a progressive I him. with condl sum of money titude wholly at variance to 1 two fc tlons in the aouth, where Blizzard In Central West tlona the indifferent and the adh Fierce storms have been I predo Chicago. Diaz regime ents of the old to central west, the loss. I the raging inate. It Is feared, amounting to millions. CONGRESS. BEFORE WORK Illinois, Indiana. Missouri md have been the worst sufferers. ProblaR to SL Louis were di-Domestic deaths and Three International to the blizzard. attributed rectly Confront Lawmakers. w11 Storm in the South. Washington. International as ' Much reduced in' in-at domestic problems of importance WAhington. Mb are still confronting congress, which swept out 61 storm the tensity, the bringing withstanding the ratification by Monday, Tennessee senate of the general arbltratMo snow to the west, had veered i itself 6vr treaties with foreign - nations, It southeast, concentrating North western and certain that the foreign relation eastern Georgia committee of the senate will be Carolina. for some time with the and m CHARLES F. NILES guan treaty, before it now, be to Colombian treaty, expected mltted any time by the secretary state. n In addition to these affairs, the is committee relations c1Je with the important duty of upholding the president to the policy he w Mexico, end whether it will me to restrain any longer some of $Ere more senators who favor a slve policy on the part of this even to the extent of urung armed Intervention in Mexico, question. f Fatal Alpine Storm. . aj f mr-elg- t0a fov-ernme- tln 'Berne- - As an express emerging from the new Loetecfiuerg tunnel Sunday It was struck by rifle squall a violent soutbesatern New York. The of conviction Charles Becker, former police lieutenant. of the murder of the gambler, Herman Rosenthal, was annulled Tuelday MEXICAN n the court of appeals at STONE CHINESE. MOB Police Are Driven From Streets When They Attempt te Protect Orientals. Nogales, Mexico. riot occurred Tuesday at Cananea, a s mining town Juat south of the border, according to Information received hare. A mob of Mexican miners and many women began atoning' the Chinese of the town, it was reported, and the police were driven from the streets when they offered Anti-Chine- Art-son- W the Constitution,, against oriental lrniUl, ecea nd WAR AGAINST SMELTERS. Utah Land ,Ownre Declare Fumes Destroy Their Crops. Salt Lake City. Mora than 300 farmers, who say , Aelr lands art within range of arsenic deposits from the smokestacks of the American smelters at Murray and the United Statee smelter at Midvale, assembled at Granite Stake tabernacle on Tuee-daand unanimously adopted a reso lutlou to wage a determined war against the smelters. The sense ol the resolution wan to the effect that arsenic deposited on farm lands, regarded as far more valuable than the meltera, not only destroyed crops, but livestock. y water that they ate each others tails were made in the suit at Ogden of Edward Stuart agalnat a railroad company. The case did not come to trial, a compromise being effected, Tbe uull Dry Farmers association tnd the agricultural college are combined effort to protect to pertence(i aettlers on dry lends of the atate from Imposition by land and Iee(j (harpers. They are going to ask the next legislators to kelp them to mak-Ohl- by Albany, the highest in the state. He is entitled to a new trial, but It now seems probable that he may go free without facing a second ordeaL It was made known that District Attorney Whitman believes that under the prevailing opinion handed down - by the court, conviction a second time will be impossible. The appeal taken by the four gunmen, Whitey" Lewis, "Lefty Louie, 'Gyp the Blood and Dago Frank. convicted as the actual murderers of Rosenthal, and whom Becker was accused of having instigated to commit the crime, was not sustained and they will die to the electric chair, probably to March, except to the event oC executive clemency. Fifty Thousand Women Vote. ' Chicago Chicago. Fifty thoueand women voted to the primary 'election Tuesday. It was their first chance to express tnemselves at the polls o, taex-Kans- -- since the legislature granted then the right of suffrage, but many who this. were registered refrained from vob Jesse Hamilton, a merchant of tog to order to avoid allying themMemphis, Tenn., who was robbed of selves with a political party. $267 by a man and two women to Salt Lake, made such a boiler to the Drowned While Bathing police that the trio, were arrested, l Lake City. The -- body of Sslt confessed and disclosed the biding Williams,superintendformerly place of the money, all of which was ent of the mail order department of recovered. the postoffice, waa found Tuesday ' One of the strangest of all animals, morning by other swimmers in the wild "or domestic, to be found on the deepest portion of the rear pool of Kalbab preserve to the Persian sheep, the Sanitarium baths on West Third Introduced from California by E. D. South street It is believed he was Woolley, end Charles McCormick. stunned while diving. These animals are apparently fulfillIning expectations and the bend baa Rebels Driven Out ef Trou. 2,000. about to creased government Cepe Haitian.1 The McIntyre ft Hassell, who own troops on Tuesday recaptured from of west to the farm land large dry the rebels the town of Trou, south ol Tlntlc, ere now getting ready to mar- Liberte. Tbs victorious army conket their last years wheat crop, which tinued Its march toward Ouanamto-the- , will run approximately 14,000 bushels. where the rebels under Benator Thus It to demonstrated that the Tto-U- Devllmar Theodore took .refuge when else district produces something fled from Cape Haltlen. they betides valuable minerals. Reno Clerks Organise. While statistics for the nation show the average death rate of Infante unReno, Nev. Several hundred retail der 1 year of age to be' about I death clerks ot Reno met Tuesday for the to each 7 births, infant mortality purpose of organizlng and seeking betOre-wel- - -- , . c rec-IngU- ll sho two cars of Jhe traln were overturned and one passenger was killed and the Infant death rate there to .be about 1 death to 14 births, less than half the average national rate. , three were hurt The Cache county board of educaEggs Were Bad. tion has decided te consolidate the 1 68 ! Spokane, Wash. ichoflls vt the county by placing high ana Chios 60,480 eggs Imported from one at Hyrum to the south end of the aviato Spokane Charles F. Niles to the daring recently offered for sale county and the other at Richmond In were voluntarily dellveredjo the city tor who while flying upeide down at the north end. This means that the fell Island, Hempstead Plains, Long f crematory Saturday by hie machine and high seboota at Smlthfleld, Wellsvllle IjOOQ feet, righted company.- - The city bacteriologist and Lewiston will, be abandoned to only twenty He bee9,000 j alighted safely. counted by estimate. 90,0 four vears c!d terla to one of the eggs.' - Four Killed In. Wreck. Sharon, Pa. Four passengers and trainmen were Injured' 8un day when a Pert D. Decker ef Joplin Is the rep. Pennsylvania railroad train ran Into resentative In congress ef the Fifmiles teenth district of Missouri. He v an open switch atTransfer,-te- n from here. Several coaches were bom in Ohio thirty-eigh- t years ago, Is n Democrat and a lawyer. wi "Wind-drive- Gunmon who Appealed With Becker Will Go to Chair, WfesUoI Woods Crum, bins, caretaker of the grounds. The body has not been identified While walkiiyr along the Oregon Short Line tracks in the vicinity of Roy, Weber county, Emil Moleski, thought to be a resident of Rock Springs, was struck by a freight train and received Injuries about th bead. It Is believed he will recover. Gamelial Briscoe, 94 years of age, who until two years ago was robust and even able to perform a vigorous days labor, died Sunday at his home la Salt Lake. He came to Utah during the late 60s and was known as la pioneer of the Fifteenth ward, J Allegations that a car of horses had j been held so long without food and Denver General Villas delay to the attakyv restraining order to prevent the .uance or sale of the $3,000,000 on Torreon and- - reports emanating at the recent from Mexico City that the federal binds authorized a to in any been strengthened has from and emotion proceeding garrison of point where It can put up a formida- manner toward the construction ble resistance, have given renewed tie Denver A Salt Lake tunnel Impetus to the idea of a separation t&rougn the continental divide. of the north from the south and GenWealthy Farmer Murdered. eral Carranza's coming to Chihuahua looked is coast SL Louis. The finding of the head-sstate from the Pacific body of Adolph Neumann, a upon as possibly portending an early a, - Angeles. With a lost of prob-more than $4,500,000 and a toll Steven human lives since Wednes Jhf, southern California began to re cRer Saturday from the effects of th tfst storm in its history. Swept by fcd and rain for three day, most ol th territory between Tecbanchap! Ptomaine and the Mexican line, was ded, but with the sun shining tot of the day the situation Improved fRsJlejsblygnd while nearly an ol tht towns affected remained isolated, P&gress was made toward wire and rail communication. According to an estimate made by A.TC. Hansen, assistant city engineer, $4 Angeles was damaged to the ex-o- f at least $1,500,000. One hun 4td and fifty thousand dollars the damage to city streets nine. The balance represented loss-e- f sustained by railroads and by lost their homes, which swept away by the floods with Uof their household effects. hocpt in the vicinity of Pomona till county, where young groves suf-fseverely, orange growers report ed comparatively little damage KJiches and small farms In the low iMds were inundated, but no reliable fists could be obtained as to the losses sustained by them. is Chihuahua, Mexico. Sentiment growing among certain rebel leaders that if the attack on Torreon Is delayed much longer, or if the federal army succeeds In holding that city, itself northern Mexico will detach from the rest (4 the country and become an independent republic. While General Carranza, the civil bead of the revolution, and General Villa, the military head, disclaim any DENVERITE SEEKS intention to be satisfied with any ol thing Ipsa than the overthrow Wgjld Prevent Issuance of Three Huerta, and the suocess of thi corn Million Dollar Bonds. stltutlonalist cause over the r. The city of Denver end the p' country. It is known that Metfst.-aaonnl- , " republic northern. . MtsUiah a Kills Self, T1.- REPUBUC Plan to Establish Northern Republic Has Been Seriously Considered by Rebel Leaders. eelved Spain, said that Prince Pignatelli committed suicide Sunday in the Bonanova promenade by shooting.. The motive for his At was not known. , . association to 1915, according to W. J. Parker, president of the Utah Canners association. Three men were injured in a fall of nearly thirty feet "when a scaffold on which they were at work, painting the ceiling of the First Methodist church, at Salt Lake, gave way. J. A. Mathias, 23 years of age, a drug clerk 'of Pleasant Groveuffered a serious scalp wound when he fell to the pavement while visiting in Salt Lake, becoming suddenly faint son George Stark, the of Joseph Stark of Payaon, wandered away from borne Sunday. Fifty men went 1b search of the boy and found him, five hours later, a mile from town Twenty thousand deer roam through the mountainous of the portion Kalbab forest on the north side of the Grand canyop at the present time, according to Information furnished to forestry officials. Residents of lower Bingham have been kept Jir a state of terror lately by the roaring of a mountain lion that skulks along the side of the mountain. A lion hunt has been organized to kill the intruder. Plans, It Is said, are under way for the removal of the Midvale smelters of the United States Mining, Smelting k Refining company to the vicinity of Stockton, possibly near the mouth of the Honorine tunnel. The engine pulling the train from Park City to Salt Lake ran off the track three miles west of Park, causing a delay of several hours and much inconvenience to passengers, although no one was Injured, Ttoe body ot a " part- - clt-wh- Washington. A slumbering Mexican situation was brought quickly to a point of Intense International interest Erlday by the flash of a message that William S. Benton, a British subject had been killed in Juarez by order of General Francisco Villa, the constitutionalist commander. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice- , the British embassador, conferred with Secretary Bryan about it; President Wilson and his cabinet discussed it briefly, and a thorough investigation was ordered by the state department from consular representatives on the border. In this case, tor the first time since wwat revolution began a agv the warning from the United States government te 'Mexican factions to protect all foreigners went unheeded, although there la every evidence to show that both the British embassador an dthe state department were advised too late of Bentons impending fate to interceded for him. The news shocked officials who had come to believe that General Villa fully realized the position of the American government in regard to the protection of foreigners In Mexico, partlc ularly In the north of that country. Entrenched "White Weir Strongly and Will Make Desperate Fight. Bandits led by "White Pekin. Wolf" massacred 1,300 men, women and children when they sacked Liuan on Chow, province of Ngan-Hwe- i, January 29. On that occasion they murdered Father Rich, a French Jes-u- it missionary, and captured and held two other foreigners for ransom. An army of 35,000 Chinese troops Is now converging on "WhitevVolfs strongly 'bntrencfaed position in" the of Cheng vicinity White Wolff has a force of 2,000 bandits, half of whom are armed with modern rifles. Prince NORTHERN . MEXICO MAY Now Seems Probable That He May Go Froo Without Second Trial. Can-ner- s Destroy More Than On Hundred Homes In Los Angeles, Railroads Are Crippled and Many Towns Isolated. Aos t " Salt Lake may be selected as the It convention city of the National "torrents g IIEW TRIAL IS A -- - . most has been indorsed by proprietors of several department stores. Rob. Theatre Safe. masked robbers Baltimore.-e-Threentered the Amdmy of Music, a thesr tre to N. Howard street, overpowered the watchmen, blew open the office safe and got away with between $5r 009 and $6,000. . |