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Show cv i I American Fork World W, K. SMITH, rubllahar. UTAH. AMERICAN FORK, UTAH NEWS. tire destroyed the E. N, Jenkins piano factory at Halt Lake City last week, entailing a loaa of 13,000. At the result of a fall from a 13 foot ladder on December, bringing on brain fever, John Iturton, janitor of the Balt Lake Herald, ia dead. The Western Union Telegraph company will establish a messenger service in Salt Lake City, and may establish a telephone system later. Carbon county's sheriff and county attorney Bred a dozen shots at each other at dose range without efiecL An old grudge ia responsible for it, A jury has awarded Mrs. Stevena of 8andy S3, 000 for the death of her husband who was killed by an Oregon Short Line engine three years ago. The Ogden Electric Street Railway company has presented a bid to the city of Ogden to light the streets of that city at per lamp per month. Senator Stewart of Nevada, while in Balt Lake last week, stated that bimetallists in the senate had no hope that anything fur silver will be done by yoeitlon. Wtrg tinaton ou4. Silver Soon aftercon- Washington, Jan. gress reconvenes, an effort will be made to find out just how the McKinley Republicans from the mountain states really stand on the silver question now. Wolcott, Shoup, Carter, Warren and Clark will put on record a proposition to adopt the Stanley Matthews proposition as an amendment to one of the appropriations. This will probably be offered by Senator Teller himself. This resolution was passed in 1878 by Republican votes. It declares that All the bonds of the United States, issued or authorized to be issued (under the refunding of 1870, the act to provide for the resumption of specie payments of 1890, etc.,) are payable, principal and in terest, at the option of the government of the United States, in silver dollars of the coinage of the ' United States, containing 412)4 grains each of standard silver, and that to re-- ; store to its coinage such silver coins as a legal tender in payment of said bonds, principal and interest, is not a violation of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights of the public , ! ; creditor. Counterfeit SI OO Bills. Washington, Jan. 4. One of the most dangerous counterfeits ever discovered has made its appearance. Mr. at John Creamer, of the sethe to brought today lhiladelphia, sub-treasu- ry Governor Wells has appointed Mau rice King Parsons a delegate from the state of Utah to the National convention, to be held in 1898. Denver on January There are prospects of a very large yield of wheat this season in Davis county. The acerage is perhaps greater than ever before, and farmers, generally, are anticipating a prosperous season in 1898. William Lewis, the sheriff who shot and killed James A. Gier at Sandy in 1893, has been acquitted on a plea of insanity, He has been an inmate of the State asylnm almost ever since the killing was done. Mayor Olendenning of Salt Lake and Mayor Spencer of Ogden were formally presented to Mayor Van Wyck of Greater New York on New Year's day, on which occasion they were afforded opportunities of seeing and rs 35-3- 7, ; S ty bnl-lio- is-u- one-fift- h hs one-ten- th Mc-Kiss- e, . W. Lawrence, executive committee. 901.-000,0- While Claude Gulick, the old ton of W. 1). Gulick of the Provo Steam old laundry and Frankie, the son of Dr. McCurtain were playing at Cleveland Turtles to Build Ogden Factory. the letters home on Dec. 30, a WinchesLos Angeles, Jan. 4. E. II. Dyer A ter rifle which had stood in a corner of Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, have closed a the room was in some manner contract with David Eccles and Joseph the bullet entering the breast Clark of Ogden, Utah, for the construcof Claude, killing him almost instant- tion of a beet sugar factory at Ogden. The terms of the contract provide ly. Frankie McCurtain aaya the gun fell from the watghstand and went off that the factory, which will have though the position of the wound and daily capacity of 700 tons, shall be range of the bullet make it difllcut to completed in time to handle the beet ace how the weapon was discharged crop of the season of 1898. When comfrom the floor. A old brother pleted, the plant, it ia said, will repreof Frankie who was in the room said sent an expenditure of 9700,000. Frankie shot Claude. The verdict Messrs. Eccles and Clark have careof the inqneat wan accidental death. fully inspected the sugar factory at The parents of both boys are nearly Los Alamos, and have returned to 10-ye- ar 956,-000,00- 0. , d, j , distracted withgrlef. Report of Monetary Commlaaloa Currency Reform Proposed. Washington, Jan. 3. The report of the monetary commission, containing the plan of currency reform proposed by it, has been sent out. Under the head of silver currency the report says: We have 9354,355,051 of notes of 95 and under, and 900,190,788 of silver dollars in actual circulation, making a total of 9414,551,819 of current money in use, exclusive of gold, in denomina-ation- a of 91, 93 and 95. Our total stock of silver dollars is 9453,713,793. This is an excessive quantity to have at the existing discrepancy between their legal and actual value. But with further coinage of them discontinued, and their parity assured by the exchange of gold for them on demand, it is better to retain them as they are than to attempt a final solution at this time of the problem which they present By withdrawing all silver certificates over 95, and all other notes under 910, a place will be made for nearly all the silver dollars in a way which will give the proposed act the country full benefit of them for If at the end of five Tears next after current use without imposing upon the taking effect of the proposed act the treasury any serious burden in any United States notes or treasury their maintenance. notes shall be outstanding, a sum not Concerning banking, the report exceeding of such outstandpoints out that the chief difference of ing amount shall be retired and canthe proposed from the existing system celled each year therealter ; at at the of bank notes is that it gradually does end of ten years after the passage of away with the requirement that there tha act the United States shall be a deposit of bonds with the notesproposed and treasury notes then out-- , government as a condition for the isshall cease to be legal tender suance thereof. As now the notes are standing for all debts, puMie and private, exto be first lien upon all the resources cept for dues to the United States. of the banks, including the stockholdThe monetary commission, headed ers' liabilities. This change is necesby Charles Fairchild, has completed sary because of the scarcity of United the work of drafting a bill which emStates bonds, and the at tempt to sub- bodies the recommendations of the stitute other bonds would lead to many committee on the monetary question evils. and the reform of the currency. This But the chief Interest in the report bill will be introduced in congress afcenters in the plan of currency reform, ter it convenes, by Congressman presented as follows: who has been in close touch The existing gold standard shall be with the commission in its work from maintained; and to this end the stand- the time the work began. as of value shall ard nine-tent- hearing everything. Manager Cutler of the Lehi Sugar factory, David Eccles of Ogden and other Utah capitalists have decided to erect a sugar, factory at La Grande, Oregon. Mr. Cutler has secured an option on a piece of land there and may take some experienced beet growers along with him. An operation was successfully performed at the Holy Cross hospital at Salt Lake, Dec. 39, of removing a lady's steel hair pin from the stomach of little Ida Wilcox, who resides at near Preston, Ida. The operation consisted in the opening of the stomach. The pin had been in the stomach for some time, as shown by the fact that the steel was corroded, and was broken in three pieces. Some months since the announcement was published that petroleum springs had been found in Great Sal Lake, near Promontory, several locations were made, and assessment work has been done on some of them. George Payne of Syracuse was the discoverer, and has some of the best claims, which be intends to develop next spring. The State Historical society of Utah has been organized and its first officers elected as follows: Franklin D. RichIsabel Cameron- ards, president: vice llrown, president; Jerrold R. Letcher, recording secretary; James T. Hammond, corresponding secretary; Lewis 8. Hills, treasurer; Antoinette It. Kinney, librarian; Oeo W. Thatcher, Joseph Geoghegnn, Lewis W. Shurtliff, Joseph T. Kingsbury, Electa Rullock, John T. Caine, Robert C. Lund, Charles C. Goodwin and Henry Rlv-erdal- ary for the benefit of the division of issue and redemption, and not for any other purpose. The secretary of the treasury shall be authorized to sell from time to n time, at his discretion, any silver in the division of issue and redemption; and tha proceeds in gold of such sales shall be placed to the account of the gold reserve in the division of issue and redemption. The gold certificates and currency certificates shall, whenever they are presented and paid or received in the treasury, be retired and not reissued. The assistant treasurer in charge of and redemption the division of e shall, on demand, pay in gold coin all United States notes and treasury notes presented for payment, and as paid, cancel the same up to the amount After that amount of 950,000,000. shall have been paid and cancelled, he shall, then from time to time cancel such further amounts of notes so paid as shall equal, but not exceed, the increase of national bank notes issued subsequently to the taking effect of PLAN. cret service five 1100 silver certificates The genhead of President Monroe. eral appearance is excellent, and after a close examination the officials of the treasury cash room were undecided as to their genuineness, and only after the notes had been soaked in hot water and, when the two pieces forming the back and the and front of the note came apart, were they convinced of the fraud. The note is in the series of 1891, check letter "IV," face plate, 1; Tillman, register; Moogan treasurer; portrait of James Monroe. All numbers so far seen begin with 345. (Secretary Gage desired the stateunit ment made that, in his judgment, it continue, was unsal for business men or others now, to consist of 25.8 grains of gold to accept silver certificates of this define, or 23.33 grains of pure nomination and in case any were now gold as now represented by the Dn hand, they should be sent to the part of the eagle. banks for transmission to the treasury All obligations for the payment of at Washington. money hereafter entered into, shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be deemed, and held, to be payable in llannm'i Forres Routed. coin of the United States, as deColumbus, 0., Jan. 4. In the sena- gold in the standard aforesaid: fined torial contest the opposition to SenaNo silver dollars shall be hereafter tor llanna has won the first test vote coined. and organized both branches of the There shall be created a separate dilegislature. Representative Mason of vision in the treasury department, to Cleveland, Hanna's home, was elected be known as the division of issue and temporary speake of the house by a redemption. Han-ua vote of 56 against 53 for Boxwell, To this division shall be committed candidate. The tests show that all functions of the treasury departHanna is three short of enough to ment pertaining to the issue and reelect. Friends of Buahnell and to Friends of the demption of notes or certificates and are hopeful. coins. of senator have not given up hope, and the exchange It shall be the duty of the secretary claim that the organization of the of the treasury to maintain the gold legislature will have no effect on the reserve in the division of issue and resenatorial vote. This view is generaldemption at such sum as shall secure ly expreased by those high in party the certsin and immediate redemption councils, yet it is plain that they are of all notes and silver dollars presentworried. and the preservation of public conThere has been some talk of bring- ed, fidence. ing Secretary Sherman into the race To provide for any temporary defirather than to see a democrat or Silver ciency which at any time may exist Republican elected. the secretary of the treasury shall be authorized, at his discretiou, to issue I'tih's Metal Output. certificates of indebtedness of the Washington, Jan. 4. Director of the United States, payable in from one to Mint Preston estimates the Utah gold five years after their date, to the deproduct for 1897 at 78,000 fine ounces nomination of 950 or multiples thereof, and the silver product at 0,500, OtK). with interest at a rate not to exceed 3 Utah is the only state that does not per centum per annum and to sell show an increase in the gold product, and to dispose of the same for lawful according to the reports received by money. Mr. Preston. He says, however, that Whenever money is to be borrowed he expects the final statement will ex- on the credit of the United States, the hibit a slight increase for Utah. The secretary of the treasury shall be aufigures he has now at hand are from thorized, instead of issuing the usual Assayer Braden, in charge of the forms o( engraved bonds, upon receivHelena mint ing lawful money of the United States The estimates for Nevada, as fur- in sums of not less than fifty dollars nished by Superintendent Adams of (950) in any single payment to cause a the Carson City mint, show the gold record of all such payments to be product of the state to be 93,179,000, made in books to be kept for that pur(coin value.) pose in Washington, and thereafter, Director Preston estimates the gold from time to time, to pay to those so product of the entire country at registered on such books interest not and the silver product at to exceed 3 per cent per annum in the administration. Stock-growe- INDIANAPOLIS Ogden. gold coin. United States notes or treasury otes once redeemed shall not be paid out again except for gold coin, unless there shall be an accumulation of such notes in the division of issue and redemption which cannot then be cancelled under the provisions of the act in which case the secretary of the treasury shall have authority, if In his judgment that course is necessasy for the public welfare, to invest the same or any portion thereof in bonds of the United States for the benefit of the redemption fund; such bonds to be held iu the division cf issue sad redemption, subject to sale at tha discretion of the secretary of lbs t"sas- - Floods lo WMhlartra. Wash., Jan. 1. The valley is a dreary waste of water.. That is all that confronts the eye in every direction. Farms and highways alike under several feet of water, and men go from one point to another In boats. Fish Commissioner Little, when he left the fish hatchery on the Chehalis river, rowed across farms and up the country road, now buried under Tacoma, Che-hal- ts . ten feet of water. Mr. Little arrived from the flooded district today on the first train that-hasucceeded in getting through. He says the loss will not be very extensive, but the prospect Is not at all encouraging Some of the farmers will lose a large part of their grain and hay stored on the farm, and others ma lose some stock. The floods are the highest ever known in the valley. The smaller streams, many of them tributary to e Chehalis, are out of their banks, and the usually placid creeks have become raging torrents. The Sachet is four feet higher than it has ever been, and the Wynoocho ia over the railroad tracks. At Oakville the branch line is under three feet of water. It is not probable that much stock will be lost, if the water subsides soon. The farmers will lose heaviest on their stores of grain and hay, which were in the granaries or in stacks. MEXICO'S CONCESSIONS. Moods lo the ftnlf of Mosleo Abound Is Guano sod CoroL of Mexico. Jan. 1. Eduardo-ChesiCity has received a concession from the Mexican government for exploring natural products of several uninhabited islands in the Gulf of Mexico, where there are large amounts of guano, woods and medicinal plants, and also for a spinge and coral collection. It is understood this concession has been offered for sale in the United States. President Diaz has approved of the concession for establishing packing houses at various points in the republic. The department of communicaOPPOSITION TO HANNA. tions and pnblie works has received thirty-seve- n plans and specifications Four Yetss Short of Enough to Elect to from architects and builders both here Over-stree- t, tha United Htntas Sonata. and abroad, for the new legislative Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 3. Opposition palace, which is to accommodate both to the Election of M. A. Hanna to the the senate and chamber of deputies senate from Ohio is developing and it and will cost 91,500,000, exclusive of will require a hard fight on the part of land and foundation of the building. the administration's friends to win. A decision in the matter will be given Some recent appointments have in Jannary. early been used to cement the opposition, and thus the administration has been STEEL WAGE SCALE. matter. into the brought Bat Blight Change la tha Wage ef Carnegia Governor-elec- t Bushnell seema to be Men. the man upon whom the opposition is Jan. 1. A new scale for Pittsburg, united. In behalf of the opposition, the employees of the steel works and the governor, in an interview tonight, blast furnaces under the control of the said: Carnegie company has been posted to I am a candidate only in the recep- take effect Jan. 1. The new scale makes tive sense. I want the members of but slight changes in the wages of men the general assembly to select for employed by the day but the scale for themselves. If I have any political intonnage men shows a reduction varifluence, I want to rest upon it right ously estimated at from 5 to 25 per now upon my opposition to Senator cent. However, agents of the comHanna The people of this state, in pany claim that the tonnage will get my opinion, are tired of bossism. equally as much money as they did at 1 am blamed because of my apthe time when the last scale was first pointees here, some of them were adopted, their claim being that imworking against Senator Hanna. The proved machinery introduced during city ia full of federal employees from the past few days has enabled the Washington for him, and nothing is men to handle a greater tonnage. Tosaid about that. I am tired of this at night many of the tonnage men are tempt to hold me up. It seems to me declaring that they will not sign the that I do not owe anything to Senator new scale, but a considerable number Hanna, after the way I was treated by have already signed. him and his friends in the last convenTHE IOWA TRIBE. tion If Senator Hannas friends think Petition for Fro Rata Distribution of they can scare me by threatening to Trait Fond. stop the inauguration of officers, they 1. The Iowa tribe of Jan. Chicago, are simply mistaken in their man. Indians in living Kansas and Nebraska A. C. Thomp Here is have just sent to congress a petition soin of Portsmouth, telling it about to have their tribal trust funds disthe hotel lobbies that if I don't look tributed pro rata among the members out I will have no inauguration cere- of the tribe and credited to the several monies at all. If the people of the shareholders individually on the hooks state don't want it 1 am sure I don't of the tieasury department, to be discare. bursed for the benefit of each individual, at the discretion of the secretary No Fomins In Klondike. of the interior, the balance, if any, to Seattle. Wash.. Jan. 3. Forty-fiv- e Klondikers arrived last night on the be paid to the heirs of each at death steamer Corona from Skaguay and under the law. The petition is signed with full written signatures, with the Dyea. They brought no late news aa of one man, the only adult exception all of them left Dawson previous to who cannot write his own tribe in tlie Nov. 35. In reference to the food situname. ation, they confirm the stories of last Bkagaajr Route the lint. week's arrivals that there will be no famine this winter although provisions Washington, Jan. 1. Secretary Alare scarce. It will be necessary, how- ger has received two reports from the contract ever, they think, to get supplies in Captain Robinson, early in the spring, as the stock on quartermaster at Beattie, touching the hand will be pretty well exhausted by respective merits of the different trails the time the Yukon epena for naviga- from the seaboard into the Klondike tion. Among those coming from Daw- country. He mode a thorough inson were Dr. Van Sant, leoria, 111.; quiry, at the direction of the secretary, Allan R. Joy, Portland, Ore., and A. E. and in substance his conclusions Murphy and James E. Kelly of Helena, reached, after conference with Jack Dalton and other experts, is that the Mont. The trip ont waa a very hard one, on Dalton trail is well adapted to the account of the extreme cold, the ther- uses of the government expedition mometer ranging from 5o to 70 below during the winter, but that the sera SkaguoF route is probably the best. |