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They got but 75 cents for their pains, however. The Salt Lake route has reached the Vegas ranch, 116 miles from Callente. The Vegas ranch is but miles from the California line. More business has been done through the Utah custom house during the past month than In all the time before since it has been established. It is now almost certain that the big railroad shops and iron foundries which it was announced some months go were to be built at Ogden are to be erected. Death has claimed the oldest citizen of Richfield, if not of 8ev!er county. At the age of 90 years and 6 months, Mrs. Ruth H. Hayward has passed way at Richfield. A dispatch from Mexico City says representatives of the Mormon church of Utah are negotiating for the purchase of a tract of 300,000 acres of land in the state of Tabasca. Nick Smith of Ogden is lying at the point of death in an Ogdeh hospital a the result of his revolver dropping from his pocket and exploding, the bullet passing entirely through his body. A fruitgrowers union and a canning factory are the remedies suggested for the glut of the fruit market in Utah ir a report adopted at the meeting of the Balt Lake County Horticultural society forty-seve- wld last week. A curiosity was exhibited in Salt Lake City last week in the shape of two strawberry plants with buds, blossoms, green and ripe fruit The plants Were grown Indoors in cans by a farm- er of East creek.' An escaped lunatic, armed with a revolver, terrorized part of Salt Lake's residential district one night last week. It is believed he is the same man who attempted to murder Miss Burton on Main street. Considerable horsestealing has been going on in the vicinity of Marysvale recently. The last flagrant case occurred a few days ago, when a team of heavy draft horses belonging to Albert Potter were stolen from a pasture. A free night school has been started In Salt Lake City for boys and girls who are unable to attend the public schools. The school opened with an enrollment of seventy-threpupils be tween the ages of 12 and 19 years. Rev Elmer I. Goshen, pastor of the First Congregational church, has charge ol Mill e the school. The apples in American Fork and vicinity are more than abundant this year. Many thousands of bushels are going to waste. Some of the choicest are selling at 30 cents per bushel. Im mense quantities are being made Into cider. Dr. J. H. Epperson of Ogden has been appointed deputy grand commander of the Knights Templars, with jur Isdtctlon over the states of Utah, Ne vada and Arizona. The members ol the local commandery are highly elated at the appointment. The report that the tomato crop in Weber county had been seriously damaged by frost proves to be a canard The farmers continue to bring tomatoes of splendid quality to the factories in such quantities as to tax their capacity for handling them. The petitions of Ephraim citizens to get the question of the removal of the county seat from Manti to Ephraim before the voters of Sanpete county have been before the. county commissioners, and it is now up to the voters to settle the matter. Otto Weinshank, a Leadville, Colo., musician, died In the Salt Lake City . Jail last week, as the result. It is said, Of family troubles and drink. Weln-shanbecame a raving maniac when he reached Salt Lake City from Leadk ville, and died in It is reported a padded cell. that hundreds of the students at the Latter-daSaints University in 8alt Lake City have been exposed to smallpox through the presence of two students who came from Mill Creek, and whose are at present under quarantinefamilies y TWENTY-EIGH- T HELD UP BY RUSSIANS KILLED. Disaster Occur Railway Near Warranaburg, Mo. Twenty-eigh- t persons were killed aad aixty injured, some of them facollision Monday, tally, ia a head-otwo miles southeast of Warrensburg, Me., between the second section of Missouri Pacific passenger train No. Horrible Twu Men Killed um ov OBaeumoKi Cm WIN OREAT VICTORY FOUGHT OVER GIRL. LITTLE HAVE THE CZAR'S JAPS MEN ON THE RUN. A girl, young and beautiful, was the innocent cause of the fierce fight Northat Houston, Texas, Russians Are Withdrawing with ward, Having Suffered Heavy on Sunday, in which Ernest Schilling Losses In Recent Encounter was killed and his sons, Frederick With Brown Men. and Henry, wounded. She was the was and it of the house, daughter A dispatch to a London news agency through a visit paid to her by Herman Ottman, who long had been one of from Mukden dated October 14, says her most devoted admirers, that the the Japanese have gained a great victrouble began. Ottman, too. Is dead, tory, and that the Russian lines are Shot through the heart in the savage withdrawing slowly northward, having battle, which was waged suffered heavy losses. The battle conIn the presence of the girl he had tinues and dispatches are strictly cenThe two sored. hoped to make his wife. All accounts of the fighting south of brothers of the girl are prisoners, and will have to answer the gravest charge Mukden that have reached London apthe law knows. But they are In such pear to confirm the completeness of a dangerous condition that It will be the Japanese victory, and the only at least a week before they can be question discussed by military critics is whether General Kurupatkin will given a hearing. It appears the brothers objected to be able to make as orderly a retreat Ottman's attention to their sister, as he did from Liao Yang, or whether while the girl's father sided with the the Japanese possess sufficient fresh reserves to undertake a successful suitor. Ottman called upon the young in which latter case It Is belady, the two young men Insulted him pursuit, lieved the Russians will be compelled In which all and a pistol duel began four men participated. It Is charged to abandon Mukden. A dispatch from Toklo to the Lonthe father sided with Ottman and was killed by one of his sons. don Standard says: It Is unofficially reported that the Japanese right army FORGOT THEIR ORDERS. has succeeded in isolating a force of Another Disastrous Wreck as Result three or four divisions of Russians in district. It is ruthe Fenslhu-Kiatoaof Carelessness of Trsln Crew. mored himself ia with that Kuropatkin Failure upon the part of a freight the force which seems doomed to decrew to observe orders resulted In collision on the Denver & Rio Grande struction. The central army captured eleven guns and the left army twenty-fivrailroad which resulted in the injury guns, while, the spoils of the right of fifteen persons, one of them fatally. more The wreck occurred near Portland army are expected to be stLl disasvaluable. is believed that the It mornColo., at an early hour Saturday trous advance was forced on General ing. In Kuropatkin from St. Petersburg. Francisco-Sal-t Train No. 6, the San left Wichita. Kan., Sunday night for St. Louis with Worlds Fair excursionists, and the heavy westbound extra freight train. The collision occurred In what is called Dead mans bend. Both engineers and both firemen saw the danger and jumped. According to the Kansas City office of the Missouri Pacific the engineer of the freight had forgotten his orders. He had been ordered to wait on a War- siding at Knobnoster, Just east of POSITION OF THE ARMIES. O YKSTAJ IA0YAIVQ zatfAM KOATf e die. g Frederick Augustus Is King. Prince John George and Princess Mathilda were at the bedside of King George of Saxony when he expired at Pillnltz on the 15th. The new king, Frederick Augustus, eldest son of the deceased monarch, received the ministers and officers of the royal household later in the day and fixed the period of morning at twenty-fou- r weeks. The King was also occupied with many details of taking over the government and consulting in regard to the funeral arrangementes and the mourning. Woman Ground to Pieces by Train. Early Friday morning the almost unrecognizable remains of Mrs. John Thomas, a Indian, who was educated at Stewart Institute, Carson City, were found strewn along the roadbed of the Virginia & Truckee railroad at Long Siding, near Reno, Nevada. Engineer Freeman remembers having struck thinkthe but before, something night ing it a dog, paid no particular notice, as people seldom walk on the track at this point. h d half-bree- d Largest Hostelry in the World. Chicago is to have the largest hotel In the world. It will cost 310,000,000, be twenty two stories high, and dwarf In size and magnificence, It is promised. any structure of the kind ever erected. The builders and owners will be a syndicate of Chicago and eastern capitalists headed by Otto Young. The hotel will occupy property measuring 400 feet In length by 171 feet In depth on Michigan avenue, two blocks south of the Auditorium. Steel construction Berlin, which is fixed for Ovtober 17. will be used in building the new hotel. Sarah Bernhardt Injured. Sarah Bernhardt, the actress, was Injured at Aachen, Rhenish Prussia, Saturday by the breaking of the glass In one of the carriage doors. A splinter struck her In the eye, making the services of a surgeon necessary for its removal. She proceeded to the theater, however, where she appeared in L'Aiglon." Madame Bernhardt has cancelled her engagebent in Bremen and Hanover, but has telegraphed that she will not postpone her opening In The first session of the National Congregational council, held in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, was devoted to two of the Congregational the Sunday societies, missionary school and publishing society of Boston and the church building society of New York. The Sunday school society imported that 158 new churches had grown out of the Sunday schools organized by its missionaries, and 138 others had been aided from the beginning of their Sunday school life. The income of the society has steadily increased for twenty years. Surgeon Favors Post Canteen. Before the International Congress of Military Surgeons, Major Louis Livingstone Seaman, U. S. V. E., who has just returned from the scene of the war, delivered an address. He assailed congress for abolishing the post canteen and said it was time for this association of military and naval surgeons to demand another reorganization of the army which would afford the medical branch equal recognition with other branches of the service. Russo-Japanes- 1 e I As subtle as the rainbow's gleam. Yet mighty as an earthquake's throe; Strange aa the wizard's fondest dream. Most generous friend, most wicked foe Co of Tacoma, gram from Dodwell & Wash , that they declined to carry the United States mails during the war, Man's genius brings you to his feet of the And bends your service to his will. malls of the on account of the seizure Each night you blaze across the street on the steamer Calchas, which sailed To advertise a patent pill. from Tacoma early In July. The telegraphic notification protested against the seizure as an outrage against this country, and asked what action would probably be taken by the government. The withdrawal of the steamers operated by the company will not cause disany material difference in the Mails OrienL the to mails of the patch were dispatched by them once a month, and such mail as would have been forwarded by them will be diverted to other lines. There will be six dispatches of malls to the Orient A tall, thin man, deeply bronzed, ing the sea. He stood outside for during October by other lines. None of these companies is un- tiny crowsfeet showing athwart the Borne minutes, brushing perspiration tan at the corners of his eyes, his fore- from his forehead. der contract. Then he peered between the serried Following Is the telegram to the de- head white when he pushed back his soft felt hat, leaned over the rail of a ranks of fuchsia and myrtle that stocl partment: Following cable Just received from small pleasure steamer that made on the broad window sill, and he saw Alfred Holt & Co., of Liverpool, own- short trips between Bar Harbor and a beautiful woman, of nearly his own ers of the British steamer Calchas, Jouesport twice and thrice a week. age, who had blue, gentle eyes, and a Good God and there seemed no gentle face, and an aureole of fair ORLOFF PAYS HEAVY PENALTY. savor of Irreverence as the man spoke hair, that in beams of sunlight looked the Words, and his keen gray eyes to him like a halo. Small man and woman kind were were moist not a speck of change not a speck! No railway apparently, around her knees, from tiny tots to no pier, no anything, after twenty girls of 13, and she was talking and years! And Ive come 12,000 miles teaching as only an angel upon earth or a good woman, which is tne to see you and I find you just as I same thing can talk and teach from left you! Eh eh? Its my body that has the Book of Books that lay upon her lap. grown old, not my heart. And the Australian wanted to go in. Do you get off here, sir? Yes, purser, and look out for me on your way back. What a quaint old place this seems to be! The purser laughed. They say of Sidbridge that no one ever dies there and no change has V taken place for fifty years or more. A Ah, Its different on my side! I'm from the other side of the world. Herbert Seaton walked the plank, the only passenger to alight, leaving buns and babies behind him, and, carrying his grip, he went up tbe main street, looking keenly from hand to jui-3hand. Gen. Orleff, who is blamed tor the The name on the few stores were Russian defeat at Llaoyang, has been familiar to him. He nodded and gave dismissed from the army by the esar. Good day to an old lady sunning herwhich vessel was seized by Russian self upon the doorstep, who returned Vladivostok squadron off the Japan- his greeting with no sign of recogniese coast about July 26: tion. Calchas release appealed against Behind the coast guards cottage la by Russian crown advocate because a small square. You enter it from the among mall matter was financial infor- main street by a narrow passage that mation addressed to Japanese officials looks like a cul de sac, but it opens containing information of value to the out into a tiny quadrangle, where ti.e enemy. We give definite Instructions sound of the sea scarcely penetrates. to notify postofflee department that The houses all of one pattern we refuse to carry any mail for Japan are lime washed and tiled, with green during the duration of the war.' The Calcvaa is one of the regular shutters, and the rust from the hinges liners opernt ng between Puget Sound, ha stained them almost red in London and Liverpool, via Japanese patches. Held out hit arm. waters and the Suez canal. She was on And the man made his way toward her regular voyage and her cargo one with feet that lagged. The green too, and kiss a pair of lips that erstwhile were his to kiss, but he stopped contained no contraband. Understand mark of the Russian crown advocate bases his shutters, the halland their respectabiliand listened, and the lump In his were hung awry, hinges throat choked him, for he was listenappeal against release on the fact that ty, United States mall carried by Calchas rusted. He turned to the next house ing to tbe story of the prodicontained Information for Japanese of- and knocked at the door. At the house of his quest the front gal son, and the narration seemed to ficials. Hope United States will take move tbe sweet saint, and the chilImmediate action against confiscation door swung to and fra dren, who had heard it hundreds of h and detention of the Calchas on acCan you tell me where Mrs. times before, always found some count of carrying the United States has moved to? fresh questions to ask. mails. This is certainly an outrage I have never heard the name, sir. Sweet," was the informal address against the United States that should Did not Mrs. Haygarth her name of one dark-eyenot be slowed to pass. Please be no- was Radford before her boy, who seemed a marriage tified that during the duration of the what would you do if your favorite, come on live to her here wedding son came back to war we must decline to carry United you like this prodigy States malls for Japan. Kindly advise day? . common "Radford is a name here, son who ate husks? what action will probably be taken by Sweet never had a son. Sweet sir. There are three Margaret Raddepartment has never been married, came from Postmaster General Wynne later fords in the parish now." an elder girl. consulted with the president regarding "But the Margaret I mean married And the heart of the man bounded the matter. The state department the New York broker twenty years within him. probably will enter into correspond- ago. I should welcome ence with the Russian government to my prodigal "That is long before my time, sir. ascertain the facts in the latter's pos- But the And the sweet' I have heard, was dearly, of course. broker, session. mouth had grown wistful, but her eyes killed on his wedding day. seemed as if they had visions ot somethMarof me Give these address the ON THE DEFENSIVE. ing-far away. been clean Ive Radfords. awa, garet Would you kiss him, I wonder? Oyama Drawing In His Linas and for many years. Schoolmaam blushed and laughed The Yankee speech slipped back to Awaiting Attack. girl. the mans tongue, and the young worn- - like a young General Kuropatkin is ia the field Yes, I think I should kiss him, aba said gently. personally directing the forward moveWell, lets pretend Im the prodigy ments of the army, which, it la underand you be the man who owned the stood, is divided Into two strong fatted calves. columns moving on each aid of the Seaton chuckled to himself, feeling railroad, whence they will draw their a boy again. supplies, thalr flanks being protected Then he went for a walk, returning an hour later, to find school dismlrsed. by no less than 160 squadrons of CosRusso-Japanes- e I trans-Pacifl- e Uncle Sams Gunners on New York Break Worlds Record. News was brought to San Francisco, Friday, by the gunboat Bennington, that Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrichs flag ship, the New York, during her target practice last month in Magdalena bay, Mexico, broke the worlds record for firing eight-incguns, making the greatest scores, based on time and accuracy, ever made with guns of this caliber, either in our own or any other navy. Official notice has been received by telethe postofflee department. In a rp?ODG4L any case, his move was an unexpected renshurg, but neglected to do so. The Express, while running godsend for the Japanese army. trains met at a sharp curve. thirty-fivabout miles an hour, on The moat of the killed were in the WHIPPED. BADLY RUSSIANS time, and with a clear right of way forward coach, which was well Porta a when within mile and half of Indicate the Czars Men Are crowded wtih passengers. Th spot Reports land, crashed head on into a westGetting Some Severe Punishment. where the wreck occurred was in a bound freight train running twenty narrow cut and this fact with the darkAccording to a Tokio dispatch. Genmiles an hour, and a fearful wreck reRusOku lias captured twenty-livness added to the difficulty of the siteral sulted. sian guns, making a total of about uation. The greatest confusion enThe accident was due to the failure Russian guns which have fallen sued after the first lull following tbs thirty of the freight train, which was late, to and the groans of the injured into the hands of the Japanse since crash take the aiding at Portland and allow were added to the escaping steam of the passenger train, which was run the battle began. It is yet early to the wrecked locomotives. It was some time before the dead nlng on schedule time and had the measure the results of the tremenand injured could be extricated from right of way, to pass. dous struggle which has been waged the debris. The dead were carried up south of Mukden, but ail reports reachGIRLS POI80N TEACHER. tbe track an laid in rows la aa open Kuroing Toklo indicate that General space until the relief train arrived, Were Reproved as Flirts, and Pour patkin has been decisively whipped while the injured were cared for as and severely punished. well as could b. Croton Oil on Hia Lunch. eviwas commander The Russian Professor Byrnes, a school teacher, RUSSIANS ARE ADVANCING at Bainbridge, Ga., reproved five of dently caught while making his dispoUPON THE JAPANESE ARMY the older girls for neglecting atudies sitions and he was beaten before he on recover. Much the could depends Great Battle Expected Within a Few and flirting with boys. In revenge the and resolution of the Japanese Dayat Probably Near Liae Yang. girls procured croton oil and poured ability in applying and following up their adit on Byrnes lunch. While General Kuropatkin has conturn upon The professor did not eat at noon, vantages. Kuropatkin may tinued to advance his entire front and succeed in beatfavorable ground the armies of Held Marshal however, and carried the lunch to his ing hack the Japanese onslaught, but against boarding place. He ate some and the tide seems against him. Oyama, he has not met with any for-gave the remainder to the children of WORSE THAN LIAO YANG. HERO OF RUSSIAN RETREAT. his landlady, Mrs. Barber. All became violently ill. It is feared Four Days of Desperate and Bloody Byrnes and two of the children will Fighting Near Mukden. MEN BEHIND THE GUN. Uor wondrous than Aladdin' slave mysteries of the Who searched th earth, And all Its fairest treasures gave To gratify his boyish mirth OF Lake-Chicag- o Labor Troubles in Argentine Republic. In view of the general alarm produced by the obvious preparations which have been made for a general strike by the working classes throughout the Argentine Republic before the end of the year, the government is dealing adopting measures toward with labor questions previous to the Introduction of a new measure at the next session of congress. It is believed that the governments action will succeed in averting troubles from the movement until congress next May. Electricity. Mails Are Rifled by Czars Men, Ship Owner Enter Protest and Government Will Investigate th Matter. 30, which e A dispatch from Mukden says: The One of the girls In the croton oil plot confessed, implicating others. battle south of this place continued They are members of prominent fam- throughout Wednesday, with ilies. fury. In respect of desperateness, bravery and bloodshed it far exFew Jap Prisoners Taken, In the fighting around Hamantung ceeds the battle of Liao Yang. Toward a few Japanese prisoners were taken. evening the Japanese repeatedly asconThe Russians followed the Japanese sumed the offensive. The fight and deterwith tinues unabated fury across the valley, taking positions in mination. It is now the fourth day the foothills, from which the artillery of the battle. ' shelled the Japanese force, while the While containing no positive inforinfantry advanced through the defiles. mation regarding specific results, the October 10 the artillery duel conlatest dispatches from both Russian tinued, the Rusisans advancing slowand Japanese sources seem to indicate ly. During the night the Japanese that the tide of the general engagechanged their positions and at day- ment now in between the light enfiladed the Russian trenches, Hun and Taitseprogress ia favorable to rivers, pouring a terrific shrapnel fire on the Marshal Oyama. A Tokio dispatch infantry composed of one regiment, the latest reports from the front says was remnant of which a left. only tell of continued Japanese successes. AMERICAN 8TEAMER SEIZED BY RUSSIAN SQUADRON. c f X v aecarr 1 v old-ne- Hay-gart- d oaom jstzmxxt Gen. Meysndorf was In command of the Russian troops which fought back tha pursuing Japanese on ths retrsat of Kouropatkla's army from Llao-Ysnto Mukdsn. It wss tha daggad resistance that bs offered to every attempt of tha Japaneee to attaek the fleeing Russians that enabled Kauropatkin to aaoapa nortk with kls main army. Mayandorf gallantly fought tha anamy in his ordarly baskward march almost to tha walls sf Mukdea. while 0 tka artillery aad baggage train, wounded men and th main army escaped la safety. g 12,-00- sacks. The Russians ar operating along a front of between forty aad forty-fiv- e miles, extending from Kaed Tou Pass to Bentslaputze on the east, aad across the Hun river to the left hank of th Liao river, on the west. They are taking every precaution against possible counter attacks as they advance southward. Field Marshal Oyama. however, has not yet shown a disposition to strongly hold his outer positions. The evacuation of Bentslaputze left the flank of the Japanese position at the Yefltal mines unprotected, and news of the abandonment of the mines Is, therefore hourly Radford felt strangely Margaret lonely when her little flock had run off shouting down the hill, and the sad little look came again into her face. - - And then a shadow fell across tha floor and she looked up. For a moment she did not speak; her eyes grew round, and her breath came and went in deep gasps between her parted lips. The prodigal son has returned, Margaret Lord knows I have eaten husks enough down under! , You are a thousand, thousand times welcome, Herbert Seaton! And sha began to sob. He had not yet even touched her hand, but had drawn nearer. - What did you tell little Bob Carey you would do when the prodigal re- mldabla opposition. However, th expectation la that n battle of magnitude must b fought within a few days. It Is believed that th Japan sea will maka a stand at Liao Tang. Savaral poaltloaa east of that place have bean abandoned by th Japanese. At St Petersburg it is surmised that Flald Marshal Oyama forces have been weakened by the dispatch of troops to aid General Nogl In reducing Port Arthur, and that this condition has afforded General Kuropatkin an opportunity to recover ground lost expected. during the month of August Coal Magnate Will Not Arbitrate. Tha Employers association execu- tive committee, after a protracted discussion of the coal atrlka situation, at Cincinnati on Monday, lssuad declaring that the association will support the coal dealers to ths last In ths present conflict, mnd will. If necessary, raise $109,000 to break up the strike. Th association will not consent to arbitration nor to oonfer with - strike supporter!. The reasons given are that th union la endeavoring to enforce a closed shop. Plot to Murder Jailer. Because a man who ie awaiting tha decision of the supreme court as to whether he shall hang for murder was unwilling to participate In another murder in order to gain his liberty, the plans of six prisoner In the eoun-tjail at Portland. Ors., to murder Jailer Grafton and liberate themaalvea miscarried. Martin Leas la teld Jailer Grafton of the plot and saved that officials life. Two saws, three iron bars and two razors were found secreted in tbe corridor after Leasts revealed the plot. y . Paynes 8uocessor. President Roosevelt has announced the appointment of Robert J. Wynne, acting postmaster general, as postmaster general. Mr. Wynne took the oath of office Monday afternoon. How long Mr. Wynne may continue as postmaster general has not been determined. Beyond the statement that tha appointment is temporary nothing is known. The probability is that Mr. Wynne will be succeeded by Gearge Bruce Cortelyou about January 1. Officials Loot tha Treasury. Governor Bailey of Kansas has given out an official report covering an examination of state school accounts. Tha report says: This examination has developed shortages, irregularities and discrepancies amounting to many thousands of dollars in the twelve Bounties examined. In my judgment th lame conditona will be found exIn th remaining counties of th isting state, not only in the permanent school . fund, but ia the normal and agripul-- j tural funds, and suggest a thorough I Investigation. 1 Saw a beautiful woman. an laughed, for at first the man spoke with the twang of a foreigner. Well, she said, the laugh still upon her lips, there's Margaret who's gone 'clean away, Margaret who bides to Salcombe, and the schule mistress her what bides tew Peak schule. So he made his way to Margaret Radford who bided near the church, and finding the announcement that apartments were to let, engaged a bedroom, and there was no grumbling about her terms, for the Australian had generosity all over him! Then Herbert Seaton made his way up the steep path he had been told led to the schulehouse. In his day he remembered the local cobbler kept school and turned out perhaps poor scholars, but good fishermen, and he emphasized his remarks with a strap. Seaton felt it now. Between hedges twenty feet high, up the steep red path he made his way, and at the end stood the schoolhouse, fac turned? He spoke In a tone of banter to mue the deep feeling that moved him, but he held out his arms and his love flew into them, and he rained kisses upon lip, cheek and brow. My love my love! was all he could stammer out, after a silence of twenty years. And she, too, lay silent in hia strong arms, thinking many thoughts that shaped themselves into a prayer of thankfulness. Why did you ever leave me, dear one? she asked. "Your father told me that you were engaged to Haygarth, and he was richer than I. He even showed me the house you were to live in when you married. And you believed him you, Herbert, my lost love? How could you how could you? To go away without a word! Her eyes had filled with tears again and he took her once more to his heart J |