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Show SILVER CONVENTION. American Fork World Silver Rtpslilksui .4dait By W. H. MOTH. UTAH. AMERICAN FORK. UTAII NEWS- - Frank Frtt of Brigham City sheared head of sheep in one day recently, and Lara lsnien, alio of Brigham City, 301 a beared 190 sheep iu one day. The Union Pacific Coal company has made a cut of 50 cents per ton on lump coal, which waa promptly met by the Diamond Coal and Coke company. The aegolllly, Utah's state flower, is very much in evidence now. There never has been a year in the history of the state when they were so plentiful or beautiful. George Murphy one of the oldest citizens of Round Valley, Rich county, died last week, lie was 56 years of age and settled iu Round Valley twenty years ago. The state lard board has approved some selections of lands. The board has decided that hereafter land worth leas than $1.25 pet acre will not be selected, as it would be of practically no benefit to the state. Special Master Loomis of the Utah Central railway and the purchasers of the road have reached an agreement as to the amount of 'cash which is required to meet the purchase price. The amount agreed upon is $123,609,88. William Hobbs, the young man who waa accused of trying to extort money n from llop. Thomas Kearns, the lark City mining man, has been acquitted of the charge in the criminal division of the Third District court. Strawberries in Clinton last week brought 11.50 per box. The erop is large this year. The lucern crop looks well, but the grain ia very pour, a great deal of it won't pay to cut; some of it la not moe than three or four inches high and all headed out. It ia aald that if rain does not soon come there will not be more than half a grain crop In Cache Valley thia season. The dry farms in Box Elder county are badly in need of rain. The recent showers hardly reached some of the dry farm regions. ( Karen A. Jensen, a Danish woman of Salt Lake, 77 years of age, has been adjnged insane. Mrs. Jensen ia a believer in the presence of evil spirits, and declared during the examination that the physicians were imps. She has been taken to the asylum. The eldest son of A. J. McCnistion, of Provo, a lad about 15 years of age, well-know- undertook to scrutinise the biting of a rattlesnake. His curioswas rewarded with a sting on the ity third finger of the right hand; he has been nursing a badly swollen and very painful hand, but is recovering. The railroad line to Deep Creek proposed by George Q. Cannon and hla associates ia by far the best Deep Creek proposition yet made public. Should negotiations now pending be successfully carried ont, the railroad situa- ns tion would be considerably changed, and the Short Line would gain two important feeders. Henry Johns of Salt Lake City took a lot of chloroform with suicidal in tent, which only made him sick, and lie begged the attending physician to let him down to earth once more with an appetite, and he would not attempt auicide again. Allen llusscll of Lon wus caught while catching fish for a sick wife In Fish lake. Upon examination the officer discovered that he had enough for ten sick women1' and took the fish snd disposed of them according to law and placed Russell under urrest. Provo has a perpetual motion philosopher who declares that he has shattered all theories that friction is antagonistic to continuity of motion and P. P. Rathkey says he can produce a machine simple in construction, but the paragon of perfection, which will when once set to work continue on until the crack of doom without the aid of steam, electricity or any other force. The machine is constructed on a plane, slightly elevated in the center, upon which are set rolling balls which evolve power by their increased distance from the center and are regulated by a pendulum. colonists from Fairfield, Twenty-si- x IU., have come to Utah for . the purpose of settling in its fertile valleys and establishing their homes for the future. Home of them will enter business in Salt Lake city, while others will go to Mount Xebo to take up residence. All of these persons are in comfortable circumstances, who have brought with them adequate bank accounts for investment in this state. Mrrt la Chicago and On Trial Far Forger . Cleveland, Ohio, June 9. diaries N. Cunningham, the man who was arrested several months ago fur trying to pass a forged cheek for 170,000, liearing the signature of Judge 1 T. Hamilton, ia now on trial in the court of common pleas. The defense plea is that he i insane, his condition being due to an injury received by being thrown from a horse in Colorado. To prove their theory they hud the man sent to a hospital where his brain was examined. JThe surgeon had testified that he believed Cunninghahi insane, and persons with whom the prisoner iad had dealings corroborated that testimony. Witnesses will be produced by the prosecution to prove that Cunningham waa sentenced to state prison in New York fur a similar crime he ever went to Colorado. Tho trial promises to be very inter- states Chicago, June 9. Thirty-tw- o were represented at the first meeting of the provisional committee of the Xatiunal Silver Republican parly, which met in executive session at the liclnnd hotel. Resides the committeemen of the various states represented over a hundred silver Republicans were present from all parts of the country. The states represented were Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Ixraisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan. Missouri, Minnesota, Montuna, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota. Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and West Viresting. ginia. ESCAPED Frank Hamilton FROM THE PEN. Galna Freedom by Hla Cunning. Salt Lake City, June 8 Frank Hamilton, one of the youngest and who, at the same time, is regarded as the hardest inmate of the state penitentiary, has mude liis escape. Telegrams and letters, the latter containing Hamilton's photograph, were immediately sent out in the hope that he might be intercepted, The escape was a daring one) and must have been cunningly planned. One of the regular trusties was kick, and another prisoner was detailed to take his place, One of the tasks of the trusty was to carry out a gigantic box of ashes and dump it outside of the wall, The names of the men who carried out the box are Kennedy and Merrill. Horae time after the big ash box had been dumped. Hamilton was missed, and a general escape alarm was then Th Woman Wins. After perfecting organisation and Anderson, Indiana, June 9. Mrs. given. providing for organization in unrepA search about the grounds revealed resented states, the following resolu- Harriet Wilkie, of El wood has been admitted to the county circuit and su- nothing but Hamilton's convict cap, tions were passed: Resolved, That the Silver Republican perior court bars, over the protest of lying on the ash dump, and the warden party of the United States favors the Attorney John Herles of this city, who at once concluded that Hamilton had immediate establishment of bimetal-is- protested on the point of constitution- been carried out in the box. by the independent action of the ality. The Ogden Gateway ContiOTeray. The case has been under advisement United States through the free coinage June 8. Results of the openOmaha, of both silver and gold at the ratio of for same days, and this ruling is very of the Ogden gateway and of the ing 16 to 1, and the clothing of both metimportant as a precedent, as this is between the Union Pacific als equally with every attribute of full the first time the question of the disruption and the Oregon Short Line are appearmoney, with the right of 'very debtor legality of a woman practicing law in railway circles almost daily. to choose which coin shall be the basis has ever been brought up iu the state ing One of the 1 a test and most important Of payment; and of Indiana. and compleis the The protest was bused ou several tion ofreported purchase Resolved, That the achievement of the Salt Lake A Ogden railway this great object is deemed by ns of sections, of which the principal one by the Union Pacific and the Southern paramount political importance, and waa the requirement of an attorney to Pacific jointly. The Salt Lake & Ogshall form the controlling motive of lie a voter of good standing. Helen. den railway is built and in operation our political action until it is accom- Uongar and other women who are over twenty miles, running from Ogplished. championing the cause of woman's den to Farmington, seventeen miles rights, have been encouraging Mrs. north of Salt Lake City. TROUBLE ANTICIPATED. Wilkie. She argued her own case It is rumored that the Southern PaWhite Hull at Iarge U Ith Warrior and splendidly. cific aud Union Pacific are negotiating Will ltrttt Armt. Murder In a Court lliwm. for the purchase of the Salt Lake & Miles City, Mont., Juno 9. There is Junction City, Ark., June 9. A Ogden railway. When acquired the very little change in the Indian situawas enacted here in a road will be built through to Salt Lake tion. The sheriff will reach the res- bloody tragedy Justice court room, in which one man City and the Overland route will ervation as Boon as possible. It is wus murdered. The murdered man have a line into the Utah capital indegenerally thought among citizens who was W. J. Coffee of Eldorado, and the pendent of the Oregon Short Line. know Chief White Dull that he will murderer is J. J. Sheppard of the Does Xot Feed Her War Prisoners. not be taken alive. same place. Doth men were lawyers. White Dull and his followers are at Havana, Cuba, June 8. Spain bolds They were opposing counsel in a trial the rural and determined threa hundred population of Cuba as prisonlarge before the Justice court. During the men are trying to arrest him. Four ers of war in prison camps. Unlike progress of the case the attorneys bewhich claims to be nation other any companies of soldiers on hand makes came involved in a dispute and abused civilized, she does not feed her prisonmatters very complicated, and a mix-u- p each other, shocking profanity being ers of war. may occur at any moment.' used. Coffee picked up a chair and Orders have been received by the There ia no means of learning th Sheppard drew a pistol and fired four exact number of the reeoncentrados. commanding officer at Fort Keogh from shots in rapid succession into Coffee's An American consul who has made the war department at Washington to him almost instantly. body, killing careful study says it is more than inform Major Newell, who has charge is in the city calalioose unSheppard of the troops at Fort Keogh at the resder a heavy guard to prevent lynchA Spanish officer reports that there ervation, not to return to Fort Keogh are more than 150,000 of those starvuntil further advised from that office. ing. A Cor rapt Little Republic. ing country people. The best opinion Calhoun From Cuba. the number between 190,000 and places 9. W. GaJune Calhoun J. Washington, London, June 9. The St Janie's who was sent to Cuba by President zette, commenting upon the dispute 200,000. In not all the places are they hemMcKinley, has arrived here and between Japan and Hawaii, which it med in by ditches and barb-wir- e immediately went to the state depart- describea as a corrupt little republic fences as at Camp Florido, but they ment, where Judge Day, the assistant run by a handful of American filibusare under military guard. everywhere secretary of state, was awaiting him, ters, says: As Hawaii has no resistand together they proceeded to the ing power, the question arises will the White house. They were shown into United States government see its proKRCEGER'S MURDERERS. the cabinet room, where President Mc- tege through its trouble? The JapanTblnk They Have the Kinley and Judge Day listened to Mr. ese may land an armed party at any Thu Police of notto Men la Custody. Right Calhoun's description of the situation moment. Then what will the PhilaRutte, Mont., June 8. Complaint n in the island and to the delphia do? Japan, since she smashed been filed by the police charging has conclusions reached by him. the Chinese is believed to be spoiling Frank Moody and Thomas Freaney Judge Day declined to be interview- for a fight with a white power, and she with the murder of William Krocgrr. ed on the subject of the conference may find America ready to oblige her and his brother Henry were Kroger to interwas further than say it sooner than she expects. very held two up by highwaymen on the Mr. t Calhoun,- likewise, prefer-noesting. Alien The Labor Canadian 25tli of lllli. last William ofMay night to talk of the interview further fered was and resistance 9. The house of shot, dying a Ottawa, Ont., June than to say that he had reported to hours few later. commons alien has passed the Moody and Freaney labor the president what he had seen and have been arrest since a few under bill. The a bill is of the heard. murder. the The police say after American two with Iu days bill, exceptions. Cuban Talk In Wmriilngton. have evidence to hang American the first the while law enough they Washington, June 9. There was a can he place, men. both custom in a force house put by revival of Cuban talk about the senate Krceger's murder was what led to the on account of the return of Mr. Cal- oHlcial, the Cunadian net can only be of the organization of a citizens committee houn. The Republican senators, some enforced by the attorney-generdominion or somebody whom he au- and the driving out of town of all idle of them monitors of the foreign relaand suspicious characters. to do so. tions committee, say that there is no thorizes Iu the second place, the act only apAttacked by Train pH. doubt that the president will take acto the United States, as already plies Mr. soon as tion ns Calhoun's report is Helena. Mont., June 8. Charles W. said. The act will never be put in received. No definite information waa Collins, a brake man on the Montana force, but to a measure of gettingsonie was attacked by tramps at given concerning the attitude of the with the Central, arrangement satisfactory senaof but the impression liig Kandy and thrown under the president, United States. wheels of a moving train, one of his tors from such reports as they have arras being ent off. It was the work hoard, was that there should be a Fnwdrr Factory Struck by Lightning. from of the poltramps driven out of Butte by vigipresent negative change Muncic, I nd., J"oe 9. Lightning lantes, and other icy and the adoption of n definite line organizations of vigof action with a view to endeavoring struck a powder factory situated about ilantes are being formed at Benton and to secure a settlement of the present three miles from Rosenheim, explod- Great Falls as a protection against ing 11,000 pounds of powder. The toughs Virginia City has also organunfortunate state of affairs in Cuba. doors of houses at Rosenheim and ized a e branch, and the vigiSchlatter Not Iraii. Stephans-Kircheabout smile and a lante days of 1864 are rerapiply being A 0. man who half from Rosenheim were tom from Cleveland, O., June vived again. declares that he ia Francis Schlatter, their hinges, big trees were uprooted; the alleged healer who was reported snd eleven houses were shattered, llut A Sensation la tho Davis Will rasa. to have starved to death in Mexico, in spite of the fearful force of the exRan Francisco, June 8. A sensation has been sprung by counsel for the has arrived in Cleveland. With him is plosion no lives were lost contestants in the Davis will case. a man named Holland lterger of New Foiaoned by Mice, It was shown that the ashes of the York, who says they intend to deceased millionaire, over whose prop9. open an institute in this city. It is June Jerome Owensboro, Ky. difficult to prove or disprove the claim Smeathers, his wife and seven children erty his heirs are now wrangling, are of the alleged healer, because if he is were poisonrd at Yelvington with par- being held by Undertaker Schuyler of Schlatter he has shaved his beard en- ts green. The poison waa on a shelf Philadelphia as security for the sum tirely off, but there is certainly a and mice cut the paper, the contents of SHOO, the value of the casket in strong resemblance between his fea- sifting into a bucket of water below. which the remains reposed before betures and some of the published pic- One child is reported dead, two dying, ing cremated, os well as for the pro cess of embalming. tures of Schlatter. and possibly none will recover. BERNARD'S MURDERER. Hr. Bernard Arrested a aa Aciomplle of "Annie Cunningham. Sundance, Wyoming, June 8. Deputy Sheriff W. B. Livermore of Bismarck, X. IX, arrived here with Annie Cunningham, the cowlioy who on November 16 last hot and killed ranchman Edward Bernard of this county. Mr. Livermore was paid $359, the amount of the reward offered by by the county commissioner and Sheriff Armstrong for Cunningham's capture. Mrs. Bernard, wife of Cunningham's victim, was brought to town Friday and placed nnder arrest, charged with complicity in her husband's killing by Cunningham. It i that authorities the county alleged by one of Bernard's sons, now at large, was also implicated in the killing, which was the result of a conspiracy between Cunningham, who was Mrs. Bernard's lover, and the rest of the family to get the husband and father out of the way. The trial of the accused, which will take place at the fall term of the District court, promises to be one of the most sensational ever held here. m 250,-00- war-ridde- - fac-simi- le al old-tim- u, Ilia me tlia 1'owen. Havana, June 8. El Cominercio in a leading article on the war, blames the European jingoes for not having arranged the matter diplomatically so aa to avert bloodshed. It compares King George with Mr. Cleveland and President McKinley, peaceably disposed generally, but lacking the power to maintain a conservative d policy and to stifle a demand. popular A more The article continues: bellicose attitude may probably plunge the United States into a horrible war. in which old Spain, like Turkey, will surely have the official sympathy and moral support of the ruling diplomatists of Europe. Young Greeces defeat and humiliation should be a warning to American jingoes. Greco-Turkis- h rattle-heade- Gage's Financial Measure. June 8. Secretary Washington, is Gage preparing a financial measure to be submitted to congress jiext winter. In pursuance to this plan he has sent out a letter to 200 leading bankers and merchants, inviting suggestions for placing the currency on a sound basis. In outline the scheme will embrace the gradual retirement of the greenbacks and the substitution of national bank notes therefor; allowing national bonks to issue to full limit instead of ninety per cent as now; reducing the tax on national bank circulation from 1 percent to of 1 per cent; limiting the denominations of bank notes and all other paper money to 110, and substituting silver for all below $10. one-four- th Cattle Shipment Larger Thaa Ever. Nenver, June 8. The shipment of feeders from the cattle ranges of Ore- -' gone and Utah to this point for delivery in Wyoming and Nebraska has been larger than at any period during the history of the business. Three thousand head were received at the yards in one day from these points. Several smaller shipments have been received aud mere are to come. The demand for Utah stock has grown to such proportions that G. W. Ballentine who is manager of the Union left last night for a ten days' tour of Utah in search of feeders us well as beef cattle. stock-yard- s, Escaped From lhi Marshal's Office. Kansas (Tty, Mo., June 8. Prentice Teller, alias Charles H. Price, the no- torious express robber and forger, who waa released from the Michigan penitentiary last week aud immediately arrested, charged with the robbery of the mail sucks ut St. Joseph, Mo., escaped from the United States Marshal's office here this afternoon. Teller was in tlie custody of Deputy Marshal Chris Madsen, who was in the room with his prisoner at the time of his escape. While Madsen's back was turned Teller noiselessly opened the door and walked out and escaped among the crowds on the street. Americana and Spaniards. Mexico City, June 8. A conflict lias occurred at Vera Cruz between twenty marines of the Spanish gunboat Nue-v- a Espana, and Joseph Lang and Charles Holbrook of Texas, and about a score of Mexicans who sympathized with the Americans. The Texas men used their knirca and the marines their bayonets. The Mexicans were not all armed, hut they rendered effective assistance to the Americans. The trouble was ended only by the appearance of a large force of police and a company of 100 soldieti, ordered ut by the authorities. |