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Show American Fork World MT, IS. UTAH. UTAH NEWS. It is thought that the Utah boys la Manilla will probably be discharged from duty within six weeks or two months at the outside. The Utah troopers are now comfortably quartered in barrack, which is a welcome change, they haring been domiciled in tents for some months. According to City Treasurer Robinson's list, there are just thirty delinquent taxpayers in Coalville for the year 1808, and the amounts aggregate 72.30. COMPUSLORY CONVENES. ful Attention. Washington, Dee. 8. When the senate convened for the closing session of the fifty-fit- h congress the chamber a and beautiful apnotable presented pearance. By 11 o, clock the publio land private galleries were filled almost to their capacity with a distinguished assemblage, including many ladies in brilliant attire. On the floor of the senate the display of flowers waa unusually beautiful for the opening day of a session of congress. The odor of flowers filled the chambers. Just before the senate waa called to n order several members of the diplomatic corps appeared in the diplomatic gallery. Among them were Sir Julian Pauncefote, embassador of Great Britain to the United States and dean of the corps, with a party from the British embassy. Mr. Wn Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, and party, and Mr. Ye. Pom Chin, the Korean minister. All were interested spectators of the opening scenes of the session and attentive listeners to the reading of the president's message. The reading of the president's message, which, occupied two hours and eighteen minutes, waa received with very careful attention for an hour, but after that the senators drifted to the cloak rooms or to the committee rooms where they could peruse the message at thsir leisure in the printed copies with which they hod been furnished. Promptly at the stroke of 12 o'clock Hobart entered, and to his desk, rapped for ascending order A call of the senate developed the members. The presence of sixty-seve- n usual resolutions were offered and adopted. Mr. Cullom of Illinois offered one to appoint a committee to inform the house that the senate waa ready to transact business. Mr. lisle of Maine another, that fixing the hour of dally meetings at 12 o'clock noon, and Mr. Morrill of Vermont that to appoint a committee to notify the president that the senate was awaiting any communication he might desire to make. i At 3:45, on motion of Mr. Ylatt of Connecticut, the senate adjourned. THE HOUSE. Private John Burrows, company K, Twenty-fourt- h infantry, stationed at Fort Douglas, was dishonorably discharged from the service of the United States November 29. According to reports received from different sections of southern Utah the recent storms will be received with Joy by the agriculturists, and especially welcomed by the dry farmers, Salt Lake City can boast of a silk factory where silk handkerchiefs, dress goods and neckwear are manufactured from the silk out of the cocoons. This is the only silk factory of its kind east of California. The Farmers' Union of Wellsville is sow fully prepared for business, and its fine new creamery, with a capacity of 20,000 pounds of milk daily, is in successful operation. The corporation Us composed entirely of farmers. About 225 scholars reported at the 'Fort Douglas post schools, which opened December 5, who are, by the army regulations, compelled to attend. Fight of the brightest enlisted men in under Chaplain the Twenty-fourtdetailed as been have Allenswortb, teachers. A new well has been commenced at the gas fields The territory chosen for the venture is about 1000 feet north of the old wells There are about twent-fiv- e men now engaged in the construction of the auxiliary plant, and the date set for the first gas to Issue Is January 1. State Auditor Richards has applied to the boards of the various state institutions for estimates of their exA few have not penses for made reports, and in the event that Called to Order mt Koon, With 867 bars Present. they are not received within a few days, he will be compelled to proceed Washington, Dec. 6. Congress rewithout them to make his consolidated assembled under circumstances of unestimate. usual public interest, aud'the galleries Trooper William II. Goldman, who and every available apace were crowdserved with I troop, Torrey's regi- ed with interested spectators. As the hands of the clock pointed to ment, arrived at his home in Salt Lake is a Goldman Mr. 3. noon, the giant form of the speaker City, December nephew of County Commissioner Raw- pushed through the green baise doors lins, and lives at South Cottonwood. of the looby in the rear of the hall and Since the mustering out of the regi- Mr. Reed ascended the rostum. A ment he has been visiting relatives in wave of applause swept the floor and Iowa and Missouri. galleries upon hia appearance. A A flood of Inquiries regarding the light smile played over hia benign various industries, climate, health and features as he raised his gavel aloft Exactly at noon the gavel came religion of Utah are conatatly pouring with a sharp crack, the great down the not in to state offleials who have entwined with silver and mace matthe in ebony time to do the state justice with a silver eagle waa surmounted to ter of supplying information prosits marble pedestallifted into place-oa of formation The pective settlers. of American folds advisflags were deemed spreading is of statistics bureau able, and it will probably be consid- broken to the breeze abont the brillant stained glass ceiling and the house of ered by the coming legislature. entered upon the dotRobert Simpson, a motorman with representatives session of the memorable war the Salt Lake City Street Railway ing congress. company, met with a painful accident The chaplain will offer prayer, anwho Mr. one day last week. Simpson, nounced the speaker in low tones. is a large man, tried to close the front bowed reverently aa the were Heads door of the car while it was running in eloquent words, invoked at full speed, and in so doing lost his chaplain, divine the blessings, giving praise for footing and was thrown to the ground. the victory that had attended our arms, He received a severe scalp wound, and and the peace which had come, and was badly bruised on the arms and asking for strength and wisdom to lega face the new problems which conJ. R Gogarty, who is in charge of fronted the nation. the Ouray Indian agency and the At the conclusion of the chaplain's Uncompahgre Indians, was in Salt prayer the speaker announced that the Lake, December 5. Ilia business was first business in order would be a call In connection with Winn, who, with of the roll to determine the presence his son, is charged with burglarizing of a quorum. the government commissary at the The roll-ca- ll developed the presence reservation and stealing United States of 267 members. 179 being a quorum. supplies. Winn is a rancher in the Three new members, Mr. Chas. Dick vicinity, and was seen to take the of Ohio ; Mr. Thomos Spraight of Misgoods by one of the Indian police. Mr. sissippi and Mr. William II. Graham Gogarty made the arrest and is a wit- of Pennsylvania, were then sworn in. ness in the case. Mr. Dingley, the floor leader, offered The hoodlums of the Sixteenth ward, the cnatomary resolution for the apSalt Lake City, have organized a pointment of a committee of three to secret organization and have grips and join a similar committee of the senate passwords. They purloin everything to wait upon the president and inform stoves and use an abanbut red-hhim that the house waa ready to redoned barn for their headquarters and ceive any communication he had to 6o store their plunder. They attend make. It waa unanimously adopted Sunday school regularly, after which and the speaker appointed Mr. Ding-leMr. Canron and Mr. Hailey. they plot treason and do the stealing act whenever opportunity affords. When the house reconvened after re The police succeeded In arresting five eeas the presidents mcaaage waa preof the gang and this, it is believed, will sented and read, after whioh, at 3:50 have a tendency to break up the p. m., the house adjourned. well-know- h, 1809-100- 0. EXHIBITION OF CHEEK. Miller Thus Fi-llnl- (ir nt n ot y, NORTHWEST NOTES, Chniriti the rename Canal UBleala' Bladen. WarThe ezecutive comNew York, Dec. 5. mittee of the Cuban assembly agreed ner Miller, who was at the head of the at its last session to make it compul- Nicaraguan Canal company, in a pubsory on the part of any Cuban officer lio statement, touching the fact that insulted by Spanish, American or other representatives of the Panama Canal into officers, to challenge the person so company are reported to have gone measure the sulting to fight a duel.' The Washington supposedly to oppose has two aims, according to the Cubans, building of the Nicaragua canal, aaid first to maintain the digutiy of the he looked upon' it as an astounding Cuban army," and secondly to check piece of effronery on their park" Mr. the Impudence and insolence of many Miller calls attention to a message Cuban officers, who, without sent to congress by President Ilaya on ever having put their courage to a March 8, 1880, in which he said. catest, having enlisted after the armisThe policy of this country is a The tice, are swaggering about with Cuban nal under American control. uniforms, endeavoring to offend SpanUnited States cannot consent to the ish officers" surrender of this control to any It is learned on good authority that European power or to any combinathe Cubans have recently secretly ac- tion of European power. Our comquired quite a formidable armament, mercial interest in it is greater than all he ulterior object of which la not other countries, while its relation to known. It ia added that they have onr power and prosperity as a nation, purchassed over 8,000 rifles within the to onr means of defense, onr unity, last ten days. The fact ia causing con- peace and safety, are matter of parasiderable speculation here. mount concern to the people of the United States." OUR IMPERIAL POLICY. Mr. Miller then say : "The AmeriLondon Times Bays Wo Must Strengthen can people will have no canal under Our Xavjr. any auspices save their own, that of London, Dec. 3. The Times discuss- their own government, and if the The Panama canal ia ever built, it must he ing editorially this morning strange and embarrassing problem fac- surrendered to the control of the ing the United States that springs United States. from their novel imperial policy." DEATHS AT HAVANA. says: It is Impossible to view the policy, FUthj Conditions tho Canso of nn Appalling disclosed in Secretary Alger's report as Death Rato. complete, or even intelligible until it Nxw Yobk, Dec. 5. Surgeon General is known what the Washington gov- Wyman of the marine hospital serernment means to do for the navy, ' If vice haa received a report from Dr. W. the Philippines are to be effectually F. Brunner, the United States sanitary occupied, a large navy and transport inspector at Havana, covering the power will be necessary. The United week ending Nov. 24, which shows States must show themselves ready to little or no improvement in the health repel any attempt on the part of other oonditionsof that city, in spite of the powers to attack a position which for efforts now being made to prepare it some time, can hardly be regarded se- for the American army of occupation. cure, or to assert a claim to a share in In the week there were 440 deaths, giving an annual death rate of 114.40 the spoils of disorganized conquest" per thousand, most of them being due MESSAGE ANOTHER ANDREE to the filthy condition of the city and the lack of good food. Yellow fever, Questionable Tula Comes From the entericis fever, malarial fever and perUral Mounts. na. nicious fever are credited with caus.Dec3. driver An ing respectively four, thirty-tw- e sixty-foStockholm, engine are and nine deaths; sixty-ninearned Detke has written to the x to to Havana, Dee. 3. Beading of the Momsco, Which Decupled Too Moure sod Eighteen Minutes, Was Received With Care- Vice-Preside- DUELS. Hew the Dignity of The Ceben Ann? WUl lie Maintained. SENATE GALLERIES CROWDED WITH NOTABLE PEOPLE. SMITH, rabllihM, AMERICAN FORK, CONGRESS Ex-Senat- or so-call- o, attributed ur entericis, at St Petersburg one to starvation, nine to dysentery, a letter in which he says that he found to tuberculpneumonia and fifty-fiv- e in the vicinity of the Ural Mountains a bottle containing two papers, one of which bore tfce following message, written in French: Andree's balloon has crossed the Ural Mountains. (Signed) Andree. The other paper, inscribed in RusGive this letter sian, waa as follows; to the consul or to the police." The balloon Eagle, with Professor Andree aqd two companions; String-ber- g and Frankie, in the car, left Dane's island of the Spitsbergen group on July 11, 1897, in an attempt to cross the pole. Since then no definite news of the aeronauts has been received beyond a message found attached to a carrier pigeon, found by the whaling ship Falken, which arrived at Copenhagen on Sept 2. The message read: July 13, 12:30 p. m. LaL 82.2 N. Long. 12.5 R Good voyage eastward All well. twenty-si- osis. Of the four cases of yellow fever, two were among the Spahlsh troops in military hospitals, and the others among civilians. Dr. Brunner thinks there are less than sixty eases in the city. A ROCHEFORT ROMANCE. Fortor Dantes tha Editor's Statement. Dec. 5. Henry Rochefort, Paris, editor of the Intransigeant, having declared in that paper that General Horace Porter, United States ambassador to France, recently aaid England financed the Dreyfus syndicate with a view of dividing and weakening France. General Porter, on being shown the paper, aaid that Rochefort's statement waa a fabrication, pure and simple. Colonel Picquart, now in custody and awaiting trial on a charge of having communicated to hia counsel docuMILES. ARMY BILL. ments that had come into his possession in the military department of the logrtud the Regular Organlutlom to secret service, has applied to the court Hen. 100,000 of cessation, now engaged with the Washington, Dee. 3. General Miles, Dreyfus affair, to declare whether he commanding the army, haa prepared is amenable to or civil the draft of a bill providing for a reg- diction. His military is basedjurisupon ular standing army of 100,000 men. various articlesapplication in the case of criminal The bill, it ia said, will provide for an procedure. organization of twelve companies to WOULD BE A MELICAN MAN the regiment, with an arrangement for a third lieutenant for each company Applies for Ameriin case of need for that office. It will A Fllllplne Chinaman can Citizenship. contain provision for a staff corps Washington, Dec. 5. The United largely in accordance with the Government ia being called upStates of the heads of the varion to face some of the questions of ous bureaus, as recomended to them in interest resulting from the expansion tbeir annual reports. Chairman Hnll A question of the greatest imof the house committee on military af- policy, is the determination of the fairs intends to present the measure in portance status of some of our newly acquired congress at the first opportunity. citizens or subjects. Already a Chinaman by birth bat a Pilippine by citiACUINALDO'S FORCES zenship has applied for recognition as Apmniardi Claim He Cua rat 60,000 Haa an American citizen. Another ChinaIn tha Field. man in Hawaii wants a passport showParis, Dec.l. Spanish sympathizers ing he ia a citizen of the United States. annexation law prohibits the comwith the The into Aaving a the limits of the United Statea ing Spanish commission are making much of Chinese persona from Hawaii, but over the reported attitude of tho Fili- the constitutionality of any act that pinos toward the United States. These proposes to discriminate among Ameri sympathisers profess to have informa- can citizens has been raised, and this tion that Aguinaldo means to fight, and that he now haa 60,000 soldiers, Chinaman is a citizen by adoption. armed with Manser rifles, and eigb Indians KUllns Game. teen quick-firin- g guns, and it is asserted than he will bo satisfied with nothSank Rapids, Minn., Dee. 5. About ing but independence. Agoneillo, a dozen ox the White Earth Indians Aguinaldo, s agent reticent when have been camped on a small lake about questioned on the subject this morn-i- fifteen miles north of here, killing g aaying that he had no definite game contrary to the law. Game Warinformation from his government. den Stephens, in company with D. W. this place, went out and atThe French embassador at Madrid Glason ofto arrest them. The Indians tempted has handed to the queen regent of drove the men out of the camp and Spain an insignia of the Grand Cross of threatened to scalp them if they came the Legion or Honor bestowed upon back. Later Sheriff Bombough, with her majesty after she had decorated a posse of twenty-fiv- e men, are after M. Faurc, the president of France with the reds, but they have not yet been the Order of the Golden Fleece. found. quasi-connecti- n. Ambassador i Alvaro Evans of Reno has cleared this season in shipping cattle and hogs from Nevada to eastern mart keta. Peter West, a former resident of n am bolt county Nev has applied for a divorce from bis ninth wife. Mr. West's residence is now in Oregon. An explosion occurred in a saw mill near Montrose, Cola, which resulted in the death of five men, C. C. Dunn and Miner Dunn, father and son, and Ed Whitney, the engineer. Gov. Richards has issued commissions to officers of the Alger light artillery promoted by reason of the death of Captain Palmer, as follows: Captain v 220,00 Harry A. Clarke; First Lieutenant, J M. Gilmore; Second Lieutenant, Charles Bristol. Peter Brady, single, aged 35, fell 200 feet one day last week, to the bottom, of the shaft in the Orpha May Mine, Cripple Creek, Cola Death was instantaneous, He is the third person killed in the Orpha May during the past, two months. Suit haa been commenced in States courts against the Cambria Mining company by R R Copeland. to recover 253,000 damages for injuries received at the coal mines in Cambria, Wya, by the plaintiff, for the breaking down of a ear platform. Word has been received from Dongas, Wya, stating that Sheriff Dozen of that county has returned from an unsuccessful chase of John Koch, the murderer and ranch robber. Koch ia the man who shot Flockmaster Joe Vedder a year aga Several members-elec- t of the Nevada have failed to file their legislature statement of expenses in the time pre scribed by law, and it might cut quite a figure in the general round-u- p when that body ia called together. Juab what effect the neglect will have re-mains to be'seen. A strange man aged about 24 has recently been missing from Forest City, Sierra county, CaL A mule that he rode returned to the town, and his effects were found in a cabin, bnt no trace of the man haa been fonnd. Ashe exhibited a d purse at Forest City, it is thought that he was murdered and robbed. The ranchers below Wasboe City, Nev., are taking precautions against year in the future. They have n force of thirty men at work digging n canal between Washoe lake proper and the lower lake. The dam at the lower-lakwill be closed as soon as the ditch Is finished, and the water will bo stored until next summer. It is alleged by Mrs. I red ale that tho election returns in the possession of the county clerk were tampered with and the tally list of the vote of Green River precinct fraudulently changed to give Mr. Reavell a majority of ono rote. The vote waa canvassed on November 16 by the Sweetwater county-boarof commissioners and declared o. the-Unite- well-fille- e d tie. The Indians of the valley near Carton, Nev., organized a rabbit drive and abont fifty of the braves, accompanied, by their squaws, as retrievers, moved northward. In a few hours they came back in a bunch with the squaw-anboys ladened with rabbits, moat of the Jack variety. Washoe Johnny ays the pine nut crop is a failure, but that the rabbits are in full bloom, therefore he predicts a hard winter. Mrs. Abbie L. Marble, the aged in-law of the late blames G. Blaine, for some time a resident of Fruitvale, Cola., met with a tragic death at San. Leandro. She waa driving in a light buggy, when the horse took fright. and ran away, going through an open gate into an orchard. A low hanging-limstruck Mrs. Marble in the breast, throwing her from the buggy and killing her instantly. She waa 70 years of age. Joseph T. West, assistant superintendent at Helena, Mont, of the sister-- Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company, committed suicide recently in storeroom in the company's building by swallowing opium and turning on the gas. He had been acting queerly for several days, and it ia thought he was mentally unbalanced aa a result of illness, lie moved to Helena five Tears ago from Ogden, where he had been a lineman for the same company. Frank Pierrepont Graves, late president of the University of Wyoming, has been formally inaugurated president of the University of Washington, The features of the inauguration were addresses by Gov. John R. Rodgers, President Diid S, Jordan of Leland Stanford university and President Graves The exercises were held at Denny hall, which was filled to the doors and beyond. Many people were disappointed at not being able to get ' within hearing or seeing distance. |