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Show ycw &ljc LOST IN CLOUDBURST STAKDINU WIXOM, Proprietor. "- .I. Trms tt SnbaorlptioMl Cm Year, ia sUrssos Mi Months m Vhres Month.. r .. Xntertd siffta at Brtf ham City aa aaooad s.asa matiar. Post Offlo as EXCURSION PARTY ON TROLLEY CAR ARE ENGULFED. Wall of Water Sweeps Down Upon Unsuspecting Merrymakers and Many Lives Are Lost. A teloph me message received from Jeanette, a short distance east of Pittsburg, Pa, Is to the effect that a cloudburst struck that place Sunday night, and conflicting reports say that from 25 to 50 persons have been drowned. It Is said that Oxford park dam, PUBLISHED noar Jeanette, burst, engulfing an exi-cursion party on trolley cars. UTAH STATE NEWS. Oxford park Is a summer resort about a mile east of Jeanette and sevIt Is stated that the work of layini eral hundred men, women and chilthe first track on the Moffat line will dren are known to have been there commence on July 10. during the afternoon. Just how many Plans are on foot looklrj to ho es- lost their lives Is not known. The tablishment of a free cooking school reports are conflicting, and run from 25 to 100. lit the of Sal1, Lake City. The damage done by the cloudvisitStevens of while Lehl, Harry In the vicinity of Greensburg burst In Salt Lake City on the Fourth ing had a finger blown off by a giant fire- will not be less than (250,000. Brush creek rose higher than ever before cracker that exploded In his hand. Joe Percy of Salt Lake Is In the and washed away everything along its banks. Scores of people barely had hospital as tie result of the explosion so of a can of powder on the morning time to escape from their houses, stream. In was the sudden the rise of the 4th, the can striking him in the At least 800 persons were at the head. seeking relief from the heat. park ! Earl Finney was seriously injured When the storm hurst the greater In a runaway In Salt Lake City on the number sought the hillside, preferring 4th, the boy being thrown from a cart the shelter of the forest trees to the and the Tunaway horse stepping, on park buildings, because they did not bU head, care to be below the level of the dam Harry Grow of Salt Lake City had and but little above the dry season his left hand blown off on the morn- level of Brush creek. ing of the 4th by the premature exWhen the dam broke a solid wall plosion of some powder which be bad of water twenty feet high rushed In a can. down and completely filled the narrow The state supreme oourt, in an ravine with Its car tracks, car barn opinion written by Chief Justice Bas- and restaurant. In front of the car kin, holds that the Inheritance tax law barn stood a car containing from fifpassed by the legislature of 1901 Is ty to seventy passengers, many ol . constitutional. them seeking to return to Jeannette, Frank Browning was shot In the others using It as a temporary shelback with a shotgun by some Salt ter. Lake lads who were celebrating the With the Immense body of water Fourth, his injuries being quite pain-- behind It, the crest of the flood bore ful, but hot serious. down with lrresistable force. As it The first sunstroke of the season swept down the narrow ravine It carwas .reported in Salt Lake City on ried with It the loaded street car and July 1, when Albert William, a bill the crowded restaurant. The flood poster, was overcome by the heat and was filled with men, women and chil' dren struggling for their lives. taken to the hospital. The victims of the' flood grasped 'The messenger boys in the employ that might save them from anything of the Western Union Telegraph comof the water, seized the trolthe fury Lake a In on Salt went pany City trike July 1, the company having re ley wires and met death by being electrocuted Instead of being drowned. .duced the scale of wages. Several bodies have already been reMrs. Caroline Young Cannon, wife that show death was the relot the late President George Q covered, of this cause. sult 'Cannon and a daughter of the' late 'President Brigham - Young, died in OFFICER 8HOOTS DESPERADO. Salt Lake .City last week, Arizona Murderer Captured Mrs. Caroline Headburg of Salt Supposed After Being Wounded. had the end of her finger bitten A special from Douglass, Arizona, horse last week. The aniby states that Officer Lon Graham shot mal became hand seized her enraged, s . dt . w. Ae wounded a pi an named and fatally in his mouth and bit the finger off. to lie the man who Smith, supposed There was list- of accidents . - a -large killed Officer Thomas Vaughn and In Salt Lake City occasioned by ceie Wounded Graham at Douglass on May (rating tbpFourth with gunpowder 16. The In a saoccurred shooting and fireworks, nq less Than1 sixteen loon. Graham Smith and recognized I persons being injured f with' explosives. drew a gun on him, demanding that James McDonald, 67 years old, Slid he throw up his hands. . Smith in veteran of two wars, was shot In reach for his gufi ftfld drnhstn shot Ehn breast by W. J. Bryan in Sail him in the neck. Thousands of people Lake last week, as the result of s were attending the carnival, and with over a deg.' McDonald will difficulty Smith was removed to the quarrel recover. hospital, where Captain Ryanlng of Leonard Hess, a farmer, was ar- the Rangers placed a guard of two rested In Salt Lake City for stealing men. High feeling exists against n garter from a drug Smith, and should he recover it will tore, and now some people are won- be difficult for the officers to protect him. dering if all Utah farmers wear v- Li' , ' ,ff silver-mounte- d silver- t garters. . At a meeting of the stockholders of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Balt Lake railroad, held in Salt Lake City oh the 2nd, aa Issue of (50,000,000 r of 4 per centgold Interest bearing bonds was authorized. , A fight la to be made against the pests which Infest the orchards of Utah, the Utah state board of horticulture having just issued a pamphlet containing formulas and recommendations for the disinfection of orchards. There is war between the contractors and carpenters of Salt Lake City, and It Is feared building operations will come to a standstill. The trouble arose over the refusal of the contractors to recognize the carpenters union. Both sides declare It will be fight to the finish. A copper statue of Maud Adams, the noted Utah actress, may be one of the features of the states exhibit at the St Louis exposition. If the Idea Is carried Into execution the copper will be the product of a Utah -mounted fifty-yea- life-size- d mine. e vls-ili- Mac-kay'- Reptile Five Feet Long Ensconces Itself Inside a Music Box. A musical snake ensconced itself on the inBlde of an square piano In the house of Miss Mollle Carr, near Charleston, Ind., and did not make Its presence known there until several days ago, when It was charmed from its hiding place by a melodious strain drawn from the instrument by Mr. Lyon Morrison of Inwho was visiting his dianapolis, daughter, who Is spending the summer with Miss Carr. Mr. Morrison ran his fingers over the keys, and, drifting into a soft melody, did not look np for a moment. When he did he saw the head of a huge black 'snake swinging to and fro before him like the pendulum of a clock. The snake was charmed and made no effort to avoid his glance. When he eased to play It gradually colled Itself back Into Its old abode. The lid was removed and the reptile killed. It measured nearly five feet DROWNED IN CAR. Trolley Goes Over Bridge and Three .Passengers Are Drowned. A traction car on the Center and Larimer line of the Pittsburg Railway company jumped the tracks on the Lincoln avenue bridge and went over the bridge, falling nearly 100 feet There were four passengers and the conductor and motorman on the car at- the time. Three of these were killed outright and the three others were probably fatally hurt The car was completely wrecked. - FLOOD IN MARYLAND. Portions of Cumberland Covered With 8ix Feet of Water. Rain Sunday night flooded the northern section of Cumberland, Md., to a depth of six feet Many plants and residences were damaged. The street car line was entirely tied up by the debris on the tracks. The is West Virginia Central railroad closed by landslides. Hyndh&m, Pa., and was flooded by a cloudburst, much damage la reported. The total damage hereabouts Is estimated at (50,000. The demand for harvest hands In Kansas cannot he supplied, despite the fact that men are being shipped In from all over the country. Colombia Is AM Right. A dispatch from Bogota, dated July 2, says the minister of foreign relations has sent a message with reference to the Panama canal to the senate and house of representatives, and that the latter body has appointed a committee of one member from each department to consider the proposed treaty. From this committee the treaty will pass to another private committee. It is safe to assert, says the dispatch, that the government has a big majority In the house of representatives. Negroes Threaten to Destroy Town. Owing to threats made by negroes at Norway, S. .C., to revenge the lynching of Charles Evans there, a LatallLn of state militia, ordered to Norway on a soecisl train, has left for that place. It Is reported that large forces of negroes have surrounded the town of 200 inhabitants, and are threatening to destroy the The cause place, which Is helpless. of the alleged th.cats of the negroes Is the lynching of Charles Evans In that place last week for the murder of an old soldier. The Manchurian Plot. e Me-has- a e Nothing has yet been heard In official quarters at Washington of the ultimatum delivered to China by Japan and England, according to the Odessa dispatches printed. It Is certain that the United States has not recently been approached In this direction by either of the governments named a3 parties to the agreement, at it has had no opportunity to so indicate whether or not it would lend its moral support to an effort on the part of England and Japan to protect their Interests In Manchuria. During the month of June the highHanna Has No Time for Business. est temperature recorded In Salt Lake was 91 degrees, on the 28th, and According to a telegram printed In the lowest 54 on the 4th. The mean the Cleveland (O.) Leader, Senator temperature for the month was 70 Hanna has disposed of all his business degrees, and for thirty years past 67 Interests which necessitated his perdegrees. sonal oversight and is now merely a The report of County Clerk James stockholder in but one or two of the of Salt Lake county shows that for several large concerns In which he was interested. The reason the first half of the year 1903, ending for heavily this, the Leader says, is to give June 30, there were 708 marriage li- the senator more time to devote to censes Issued, and 118 divorce com- politics, the senator having .come to the conclusion that he cannot do jusplaints were filed for every six mar- tice te both business and politics at riages one divorce. the same time. Invasion. Industrial Gross of an American locomotive company, has arrived conIn St. Petersburg, And siderable newspaper comment has his aroused presbeen by It ence at the Russian capital. is saiu that his mission concerns not only locomotives, but an Investigation of the financial and economic conditions of Russia, In the interest of various groups jof American financiers, and also an inquiry Into the feasibility of exporting South Russian Iron ores to America. Approved Chamberlains Policy. The agricultural and commercial bodies of the Island of Barbados and Demarara have adopted resolutions heartily favoring the supporting of the Zollveretn proposals of the British oonoliai secretary. Mr. Chamber-lain- , and expressing profound appreciation of the Importance of drawing closer tne bond of union between Great Britain and her colonies. The resolutions declare that the adoption of Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy will tend to cherish and develop mutual commerce. , The report of the health department for the month of Jane shows a mortality in Salt Lake City corresponding to an annual death rate of 8.16 per 1,000 of the estimated population, and a birth rate equivalent to an annual birth rate of 18.10 per L000. At Colombia, Ceylon, a British gunner was killed and another was injured, owing to an accident to a gun of a land battery while firing a salute In honor of Independence Day, as a compliment to two American cruisers. William Wilson, aged 20, was shot and dangerously wounded by Policeman Leaker in Salt Lake last week. Wilson and three others resisted arrest, took the policemans club from him and were beating him, when he hot In , The management of the Saltalr Beach company has arranged for the construction of an aquatic railroad, run on the principle of a moving sidewalk, which will be used for the purpose of carrying bathers from the out to the de.p water. :TTtr: ye AFFIXED AT ANA ON THURSDAY. SIGNATURES Russian Fears Humorist Thinks We May for Starring Changes. Simeon Ford, tho is rated as a humorist of standing, telates that as be was riding in a Boston trolley car, the only male passenger in a crowd of women, his eye was attracted by a Half the people on sign which read: Chicago HAV- Treaty Safeguards the Rights and Privileges of American Residents of Isle of Pines. tar are wealing Bunker this HU! To this assertion Mr. Ford pants. The treaty covering the naval and takes modest exception, but we are coaling stations and the treaty plac- inclined to believe he is wrong. Noing the I.sle of Pines under Cuban body will pretend to affirm that Mr. wore trousers, sovereignty were signed Thursday Ford's companions which, in so elegant a community as at noon. The two treaties, which are the Boston, are the recognized nether garment for last of the six between the United Ford nor gentlemen,manbut neither Mr. is prepared to any other in subscribed were States and Cuba, assert with confidence that they did duplicate at the secretary of states not wear pants, either of the Plywere Minister mouth Rock, the Bunker Hill office. 1 he signers or the Squiers, Senor Garcia Montes, secre- Washington Elm variety. The women tary of the treasury and acting sec- of Boston are distinguished for their retary of state in Senor Zaldos ab- progressiveness and their indepensence. The others present were Sen- dence, and it is wholly conceivable that they have been quietly experior Pevia, assistant secretary of state; menting, unknown to the general pubSenor Diego, chief of the department lic, but detected by the advertiser, secretaries the legation of justice; who could not repress hl3 eagerness to spread the glad tidings. Perhaps and Mr. Squiers oldest son. The Isle of Pines treaty was signed at a given signal, not long distant, the last. While turning over the Island outer habiliments of the masquerade to the absolute sovereignty of Cuba, will be thrown off, and true Boston womanhood will stand revealed in her the treaty safeguards the rights and emanenpated gladness. A American residents the of privileges pant, as our clothing store friends on the island as though they were on term it, is much more symmetrical judiAmerican territory. Property, than the short skirt, and far more cial and educational rights are espesymbolic of the strides which woman cially guaranteed, as well as the con- confidently expects to make in the coming yerrs. Roswell Field in Chiveniences for reference to and registration ot property and other build- cago Evening Post. ing business. HUGE NEST OF FISHHAWK. It is pointed out that the American landnolders are better off in respect unwould be to taxation than they It Is Four Feet Across and Weighs der United States sovereignty.' 400 Pounds. naval and of the The possession The giant nest of the American osbe' will stations perpetual, coaling or which has been the rental price being purely nomi- prey, in fishhawk, the crotched top of a pine nal and based on the question of ac- placed on a point of land jutquiring sites and stations by the Cu- tree growing ban government, the United States ting into the lake near the main enadvancing any money for the pur- trance to the Bronx zoological park,' chase of private lands at Guantanamo is attracting a great deal of attention from the increasing crowds these (ad Bahia. balmy days, says the New York LOST BOY FOUND. Times. The nest, which was secured at Gardiners island, off the eastern e Lived for Twenty-onDays on Green coast of Long Island, has the shape Berries. of a huge bowl, probably four feet In across and a yard high, and weighs J. D. Daly arrived 400 pounds. It is composed chiefly with his stepson, Boise Thursday of sticks and among the Charles McCarty, who was lost in the other materials are pieces of broken mountains. The boy was found withoars and wrecked boats, fishnets, in two miles of Roosevelt camp, comskeletons of quail, fishbones and a pletely exhausted. He had been withlong strand of barbed wire. The in two miles of the camp for three huge nest also has a number of subor four days. He heard them firing tenants, for about its sides are built guns and heard his stepfathers voice the nests of three pair of purple or blackbirds. The osprey calling, but was too weak to make grackles is not a hawk, although any response. It is well able to take care of itself When found he was unable to give in encounters with other hawks and any account of his wanderings and will not allow them to approach its could not remember his own name. After he had rested and partaken nest. It is presumed that the wise In the os sparingly of food, he brightened up grackles made their home some of the privapreys nest for protection from other and tions ae had suffered. He said he had hawks. no gun or matches with him when he wandered away, and for twenty-onHow to Keep Young. days ne lived on green huckleberries. Speaking from a text of interest to a He saw great many deer and other all women "How to Keep Young wild animals, and could have secured a lady writer on matters of feminine something to eat if he had carried a interest said: Given a woman of rifle. ordinary healthy habits who is not DROWNED IN A PIT. overworked, the first thing to be considered Is her sleep. She should take Colorado Miner Meets Death Like a at least eight hours rest. Women Rat In a Trap. may accustom themselves to less, but - s. . It means a loss of vital force In the men five was killed and man One long run. Many women take an early narrowly escaped death in an accimorning cup of tea a pernicious com Grande at Oro the Placer dent habit In fact, the less tea or coffee a panys properties near Dillon, Colo. woman takes the better for her The end of the cribbing slipped out health and good looks. Comfort in from behind the two immense eleva dress Is another Important point Tight tors Into a pit where six miners were clothing whether in gloves, boots or corsets should be avoided. Any anat work. discomfort In a womans .The great load of debris took with noyance or on It three of the big flumes and a new clothing soon makes its Impress the countenance, and means a tax on elevator Under construction, precipitating it into the pit ninety feet be- the nerves as well. As to her dally low. Five of the six men escaped, fare, It need not be luxurious, but it but one of them, Cyrus Ruth, was can he wholesome and sufficient. But caught by falling rock and before help ample rest Is the chief thing, for It could reach him the pit was half filled Is that which conserves the vital with water, and he was drowned. His forces. body has not yet been recovered. well-fittin- SNAKE IN PIANO. Assassin Burned In Kero sene. It is rumored from the Moroccan frontier that an attempt was recently made to assassinate Muley Mohammed, the sultans brother, who Is In league with the pretender, Buhamara, while In camp at Sldehalssa. A tribesman fired a revolver at short range.- - The bullet missed Muley Mohammed and wounded a soldier. The would-bassassin was Immediately seized, drenched with kerosene and burned alive. Would-b- TREATIES ARE SIGNED v v EVERY THURSDAY , R e HYRUM STANDING, Editor. iHlntHSM to Corraspoadaats, , Turns of saws ars aoUelted from all parts of tt country. i si da of tha paper only. , Writs U0a Wrlu yrepsr aaaiss slalaly. 1ms nufeltahar from In order to p re task the aaltloss from IrmsponsiSlo peraona, tha full ' Bams of tha author should ha slaad to all Ths ItlaatUy of sorrss pond said 111 ba withhold whaaarar dost rad. - isea i..u Isis.. j. .!, realize .... a. n that the rescuers REPORT OF MINE hCRR-further auempts to of ihe futility NOT AT ALL EXAGGERATED. If ach the entombed miners below the Philippine Islands Now Connected Miners ,tveitpmth level. Two Hundred and Thirty-fi.With United States by Wire. Added to the honors of the fire, Lose Their Llvt3 in Explosion huh vid doubtless destroy the of The Pacific cable was successfully wotkinzs, is the danger ft Hsnra, Vyo. completed at 10:50 on the night of the which may occur aroihcr explosion, the men iwnt Of ?f2 .ntj decid-edlin the 4th, eastern lime, by the welding toat any time. The situation is 1 Nw s beCcal Pacific are Union mruoany the and western of the n'ens eastern and grave, gether mire at Hanna, Wo, Tu v lay morn- coming a armed for the safety sur-of links at Honolulu, on board the cable-shib the explosion these who are working below the Anglia, thus completing the en ing. 235 we e killed in haulthe dead aie face, and a'so tho,sc engagedthe mouth Most of of black damp. tire line of telegraph from Sin Frandebus from the away ing and regres. cisco to the Philippine islands, a dis- Finlanders of the slope. About 65 per cent of the miners tance of over 8,000 miles, and bringThe effe.--t of the disaster is intense and ing to a conclusion the greatest and were Finlanders. They have opened suffering and want to the widows who are most difficult of cable en- their hall for the reception of those children now In Hanra. mercies of as soon as they thrown suddenly upon the e terprises undertaken in tht history of of their nationality charity, v.'ith absolutely no other have been put in the caskets. ocean telegraphy. means of support. The town is There were thirteen men who were unable tc care for the unfortunates. A message from President Roosemembers of the Knights of Pythias About (1 000 raised for the purpose of velt to President Maokay of tne Comof July celebramercial Pacific Cable company was order, and their remains will he taken holding a big Fourth has been turned into the general tion reas soon as order that Ip charge by sent over the new cable around the relief fu id, and other contributions moved. They all belong to the Car- from citizens have been made, as s world in twelve minutes, and to reply was sent around the world bon and Hanna lodges except one, much as they are possibly able on the In nine and a half minutes. The best Theo. Schill, who belongs to the or- - give. Tourists passing through previous time for a message around PRIMITIVE NEW JERSEf FIRE ALARM. the world was made on one sent by united States Senator Chauneey M. There Is a curious fire alarm In the trol,ey on the railroad and the counDepew from the National Electrical settlement of Woodcliff, over on the try traversed by the line built up rapexposition, Grand Central palace in New Jersey Palisades, opposite Cen- idly. The crossing with the strange metal ring on the tree became a cenWashington, In 189C. Tt took fifty min- tral Park, New York. utes to transmit the message. Several years ago, when what Is ter of activity, and diagonally across PACIFIC CABLE FINISHED. good-size- was mainly forest through which ran the old railto Coytesvllle, passengers on the used to notice an odd circular depending from the Umb of a tree at a highway crossing and to wonder what It was and why It was there, as the train went by. Steam gave way to the electric sow land, road cars band Woodcliff ganlzatlon at Pittsburg, Kan. Schlll bad been granted a leave of absence and went Into the mine to get his tools. He was on his way ont and had reached the ninth level when the explosion occurred. He was probably killed outright by a heavy timber that was found lying across his body. The startling Information Is made from an experienced miner and fire fighter who penetrated the mine to the sixteenth level, that the workings below the seventeenth level are ft mass of flames, and It now appears that the flames will add horror to the already terrible calamity and that the victims will be burned. The efforts of those working below the surface are now confined to the work of walling up the entries and slope and putting up fireproof barriers which will prevent the flames from reaching the seventeenth and other levels above. This is taken as an from it was built the postoffice and general land office of the community. Woodcliff Is now a village with stores and all the marks of progress, but the metal ring remains on the tree In an open comer lot, and serves as It did formerly, as a fire alarm of a very efficient character. trains have also swelled the relief fund considerably. United States Senator Clark of Evanston telegraphed Senator Hanna of whom the town was Ohio, after named, and asked him to raise (2,000 for the relief of those in need and distress. It is a certainty that means cannot be provided for the large number of hapless wives fend children. There is hardly a home in Hanna that has not lost at least one member of the family. Many instances are known thj fatter has perished &nd with him two Sons!. e canvass was made A of the town by the employees of the company to ascertain as near as possible the exact number of those yet In the mine. The canvass shows 169 miners drivers, mine bosses and others who undoubtedly met their fate In that thlf the explosion. It la believed er, Is far short of the at there are many unmarried men with cannot be account out relatives who ed for, and the total will unquestion ably reach 200, perhaps more. house-to-hous- exact-numb- WASHING THE "STATUE OF FREEDOM. The bronze statue on the Capitol been gouged out by the electric holt and projects like spikes. dome at Washington, known as the The statue was completed on the Is which Statue of Freedom, and sometimes incorrectly called the Goddess of Liberty, Is receiving a thorough cleansing. A scaffold has been erected about the statue, which work was accomplished with much difficulty, the two workmen who built It being obliged to nso the utmost care. They were working at a height of (67 feet and had only narrow four-incledgee to move around on. It was Intended to clean the statue with pumice stone, but it was found that this process brightened the statue considerably, and It was decided to thoroughly clean off the green coating with a weak acid solution and then give It a coat of lacquer. The statue has withstood the weather remarkably well, the seams where the different sections were joined being at firm as they were when the statue was built When the workmen first ascended the statue It was found that lightning had struck it in numerous places, the metal being melted and fused and the surface of the bronze deeply furrowed. In some places the metal hag Ten Lives Lost in Tornado. Ten people lost their lives in a tornado which passed over Heron Lake, Mrs. Joseph Minn., Tuesday night. Fritcher, her baby, daughter and father-in-laliving two miles from Heron, were killed. Joseph Mathias was killed eighty rods from his house by flying timber. Six miles west of Wiudora the house of Daniel Gallagher was struck by lightning during the storm and burned. Gallagher and his two daughters, Ella and Nora, were killed. Two were killed on a' farm southwest of Heron Lake. h Blames Turkey. It Is announced that Bulgaria has sent a circular to its representatives abroad and the ministers of powers in Sofift calling attention to the attitude of Turkey, which, it declares, has not only failed to so operate in carrying ont the reform scheme, but Is concentrating troops and artillery on the frontier, where the Turkish soldiers, under the guise of searching for arms, are perpetrating all sorts of outrages on the Bulgarians In the hope of provoking an International conflict d bird-killin- g e Cattle Starve to Death aa Result of Grasshopper Raid. Professor Cooley of the state agricultural college at Bozeman, Montana, haB returned from an investigation of the grasshopper ridden district about Forsythe. He says the insects have devoured everything In a strip seventy miles long and fifty miles wide and that as a consequence of their passage range conditions are the worst he ever saw. The plains are dotted with cattle that have starved to death as a result of the grasshopper raids. Cloudburst In Texas. A cloudburst has visited the south western section of Texas, causing the death of several persons and entailing a heavy property loss. No accurate reports of the loss of life can be obtained, but enough is known to warrant the belief that at least twenty people, mostly Mexican laborers anniversary of the execntlon of John and farm hands, perished In the flood. Brown at Charlestown, Va. (now At Beeville one Mexican was swept West Virginia), which occurred In away. Near Normana ten Mexican farm hands are reported drowned December. and twelve more are said to have Woman at the Bottom of Shooting been drowned at Peltus. Which Results In Death. San Pedro Deal Complete. Bud Garth, meber of a prominent The negotiations between Senator Todd county, Ky., family, killed Youn Clark, who controls the San Pedro, ger Watkins, aged 20, at the latters Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, for home near Trenton Wednesday night 550 miles of the track of the Oregon They fought several days ago over a Short Line railroad were completed woman and Watkins swore out a war- in Wall street Thursday, according to rant for Garths arrest Garth went a special dispatch. The San Pedro to Watkins farm and was met by road has issued bonds for the purchase of the road. When these bonds Youfiger and Henry Watkins, armed are sold the cash will be refunded with a shotgun. Shots were ex to the syndicate and the balance was killed. be issued for construction and will changed and Younger other Garth is being searched for. purposes at the rate of (1,000,000 month. Machen Pleads Not Guilty. COINAGE OF THE YEAR. W. August Machen, against whom three indictments have been found for Total of (74,000,000, of Which (26,000,-00accepting a bribe in connection with Was 8ilver Coin. government contracts for letter box The statement of the coinage exefasteners, was arraigned Wednesday cuted at the mints of the United before Justice Pritchard In criminal States the fiscal year ended court No. 1, Washington, D. C. He June during shows 30th, the total coinage pleaded not guilty, and was given un- have been (74,203,000, as follows; til July 20 to file a demurrer should Gold, (45,721,773; silver, (25,996,536; he wish to do so. Later In the day minor In addition coins, (2,484,691. the Groffs pleaded not guilty. It was there were coined 19.182,829 pieces for announced that Machen and the the Philippines 750,000 pieces for the Groffs would be tried at the fall term government of Venezuela, and 1,860,-00- 0 of the court. for the government of pieces x " A Song of Duty. Sorrow comes and sorrow goes, Life Is flecked with shine and showsft Now the tear of grieving flows. Now we smile in happy hour; Death awaits ns, every one Toiler, dreamer, preacher, writeW- Let us, then, ere lit be done. Make the world a little brighter! Burdens that our neighbors bear. Easier let ub try to make them; Chains, perhaps, our neighbors wear. Let us do our best to break them. From the straitened brain and mind Let ua loose the binding fetter, Let us, as the Lord Make the world a little betterl t Selfish brooding sears ths soul, Makes the heart a nest of sorrows. Darkening the shining goal Of the morrows; Wherefore should our lives be spent Dally growing blind and blinder? Let us as the Master meant Make the world a little kinder! -- Denis A. McCarthy, in Good Counsel Magazine. Mexican" and "Gold. The American who has lived long In Mexico and come to New York Is How much did yon queer on money. say you made last year? yon ask, and his reply will be A hundred thousand What is Mexican, or (45,000 gold." your regular salary as president? He Twenty-fivthousand gold.. "Five dobuys a hat. "The price? llars." Gold, Mexican or gold? treasury certificates or silver dollars. Here's an old hat that cost me (43 in the City of Mexico. That's a fine Panama, We will sell you one like it for $25. Mexican or gold? United Mine cost $43 States currency. Mexican, so I beat you (5.65 bold. It takes the clerk all the rest of the day to figure it out. e Kindergarten Labor. Speaking of how seriously education is taken in these days, a certain school had to be closed because of an epidemic of some childrens disease and one of the parents met the kindergarten teacher on the street You must be glad of this unexpected rest, she said. Well, I should be but that there will be so much back work to be made up when we return. Mamma mused, as she went on her way, where the arduousness of the labor came in in making the little three and four year olds recall that they had once learned that classic Good and other morning, merry sunshine, jingles of that ilk, |