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Show T COALVILLE TIMES. INSAJJE 4k IL imI But I rim iQkll, Hitsr M h patOr lurr'l SiM t. MM. M ta hMOMl-C- Pilri (it Tim jtata Calvin. Mtttor. ta UELIOJON Cwh, INAUGURATE REIGN OF TERf P08ED AS A MAN FOR j TWENTY-FIV- E COM- - 4 Mi-s.- I Nine-Year-Ol- g AdvMk ...... . f 'l u m. K M mrim i MMMMMIaMM te-r- - UTAH STATE NEWS. s W Salt Cltyhrto have a new So elallst paper, to be called The Crisis The citizens of Uintah are preparing to give a big banquet on the tlst In honor of the old folka. The Utah state building at the 8t Loots exposition will be adorned by paintings by Utah artists. Wayne county It taking a step to have a creamery established and a telephone line put in the county. The snowstorm of Sunday night was so heavy tn Ogden that street car traffic was brought to a standstill. Kick, Boras, a Greek, was Instantly last week. killed on the Lucln cut-of- f He fell between the cars and was badly mangled. The bodies of Mrs. Lulu Alexander and her two children, victims of the Chicago lire, were Interred at Spring-villod the fitb. Orders have been received by the Twelfth Infantry, stationed, at Fort Douglas, to prepare to leave for the Philippines on March 1. Prank Rote, the barber who murdered his wife in Salt lake City on Christmas day, will probably be examined as to his sanity. received The Uintah creamery 11,90 pounds of milk during the month of November, Prom, this 3,515 pounds of butter were made. Utah now has a state band, articles of Incorporation having been filed last week. The band is competed largely of Salt lake City musicians. Daring the year 1903 the county clerk of Cache county isued 384 mar riage licenses, which Is more than were issued In any previous year. It Is rumored that there Is a deal n on foot for the absorption of the street railway system by the Consolidated light Power company. Tha people of Willard City are thinking very much of the proposition of having Willard Cttyand Its" private dwellings lighted with electricity, Richfield has a curiosity tn a tour year old Merino wether ? which has four horns. The Animal will be placed on exhibition at the 8b Louis exposition. A aheepherder by the name of Polish, a Mexican, froze his feet badly while la the mountains east of Thistle and was brought to Falrvlew for medical attention. He may lose part or all of one foot Senator Kearns has Introduced a Joint resolution providing for printing 40,009 additional copies of the report Profeasor Elwood Mead of the agricultural department relative to lrri- gation affairs tn Utah. nine-year-ol-- , i vt i i ut to-elude- r THE MARKETS. THE EFFECT WOOL GROWERS IN PORTLAND. a i Og-de- t w ta a MOa BOUNTIFUL I (kl . ysoxsoscas soososootottoiMOoosot - . Time.. Democrats Select SL Louis as Pises For Holding National Cenvti$iL The Democratic national commit on Tuesday furnished a surprls-ielectlng SL Louis av the place for bid lng the national convention of 5041 The date fixed for the convention as Wednesday, July 6, at 11 oclock?r vlous to the meeting of the comnjltei it seemed a foregone conclusion; hat Chicago would be selected, but Jtitl-cexigencies entered Into the station and a majority of the commite voted for SL Louis. - al Pine Lines In Territory. Delegate McGuire of Oklahoma has Introduced a bill giving the secre dr of the interior authority to grant perin the mission for laplng pipe-lineIndian Territory, s GENERAL WEYLERS REASONS IN BRIEF. Decline to Go on Re- tired List Three officers of the army recently have declined to go on the retired list with in creased rank. They are Brigadier General John F, Weston, commissary general; Brigadier General A. W- Greeley, chief signal of- ficer, and Brigadier General O. M. Randall, commanding the department of Luzon. Each of these officers was tendered a major generalcy on condllion of his Immediate retirement, and In each case the offer was declined, on the ground that the officer preferred active duty to promotion under uch conditions. - Buchanan Is Minister to Panama. The senate, tn executive session, Monday, laid on the table the motion to reconsider the confirmation of the nomination of W. I. Buchanan to be minister to Panama. The vote was thirty-eigh- t to sixteen, divided on party lines, with the exception of Senator McCreary (Dem., Ky.), who Voted with the Republicans. By this action Mr. Buchanan now has full powers to act for this government In all diplomatic exchanges between the United States and the new republic. Eluded Officer for Fourteen Years. Harry H.' FlelcRer, for fourteen years a resident erf Bakersfield, Cal., and an employe of the Kern County Land company, has been arrested on a telegraphic warrant from Sheriff Glllard at Texarkana, Ark, for the alleged murder of his cousin, Fred Coffee, In Hempstead county, Arkansas, fourteen years ago. It Is stated that Fletcher, while under sentence of death, broke jail and euded pursuit until now. Fletchers brother-in-laInformed the officers of his presence In Bakersfield. ' J DISASTER MARINE placed dynamite in mine. Sensational Testimony Before Coro IN LOST ners Jury at Butte. STRAJT8 OF JUAN DE FUCA. of The inquest over the bodie Samuel Olsen and Fred Qjvel, who Every Woman and Child Aboard Were killed by an explosion January Steamer Clallam Sacrificed t6 1, In what is termed the legal raise j Fierce Storm Which Caused of the Pennsylvania mine, owned by Vessel's Ruin. the Amalgamated Copper company, aa the result of an alleged under The new steamer Clallam, of the ground dynamite clash between the Seattle-Victorifleet, aent down ear-- i Amalgamated miners and those etn ly Saturday morning midway between ployed by F. Augustus Heinze, was Smith Island and Dungeuess In the concluded at Butte Friday evening straits of Juan de Fuca, ays a dls--I after the coroners Jury had listened from Seattle. Washington. to six sessions, at each of which vol patch Flfty-fou- i were drowned. ominous testimony was introduced. persons Every woman and child atioard the Albert Frank, Heinzes superintend Clallam was a sacrifice to the fierce enL gave sensational testimony, ac storm that raged In the straits. knowledging having ordered the dyna Within three miles of the, shore miting of the Rarus stopes for the sole out the Amalgam at a time when it appeared certain purpose the Clallam could not be saved, a des- mated men, Frank claimed he did perate effort was made to sate the not know that the United States court women and children in the life boats bad Issued an order permitting an inThey were placed In the first boat to spection to be made by the Amalgaleave the ship, which Captain Law- mated. Superintendent Frank also adrence, a Yukon pilot, volunteered to mitted that his men left unshot holes, command, and which was manned by but he did not know how many. deck hands. The frail craft went The verdict of the Jury was that down within sight of the Clallam. the men were killed by the explosion A second life boat filled with male of a large quantity of giant powder passengers and In command of Sec- by persons unknown; that the level ond Officer Currln. was probably lost where the explosion occurred la una few minutes later. Aboard the Clal- der the control and being used and lam watchers saw waves sweep pas- worked by what is termed the Johns sengers from their hold on the seats town Mining company, and that soms person or persons having access U and hurt them into the waters. Though the life boat was righted the said S00 foot level of the Rarui later, still afloat, a diligent search ex- mine and the Michael Devltt claim tending for twenty hours has fallel to were the person or persons causing this explosion. find trace of her. More passengers were lost and members of the crew HUNTING FOR TROUBLE. when a third life boat was swamped In an attempt to launch it. It Is Believed That Colombians Ar Three passengers were picked up by Preparing for a Fight. the steamer JFtahata, who had fastened A fleet of warships Is assembling at life preservers about their bodies. Colon, presumably with the purpose They had died from exopsure and their of making a hostile demonstration bodies were brought to Seattle SunColombia, says a New York against day. Herald dispatch from Panama. The Clallam was a staunch, new The authorities will Insist upon th passenger boat on the Seattle-Vtctori- a withdrawal of the Colombian army run. She left Port Townsend for now lined up across the border this facing a terrific southwest gale. side of the Atrato river. Naval ofWithin sight of her destination a huge sea overwhelmed the little steamer, ficer feel certain that It Is the Intenflooding tion to compel Colombia either to smashing in her her hold with water, extinguishing the withdraw her troops or to fight. fires beneath her bol'ers and placing All the warships are due at Colon her at the mercy of a howling gala before Tuesday, prepared to start ImCONFESSES KILLING CARMEN. mediately for Titumatl or Cartagena It is believed In Colon that the ColomJohn M. Shockley Admits Murder Ol bians are ready to fight. In Salt Lake City. . Two Men JAPAN BACKING DOWN. John M. Shockley, under arrest for the' "murder of Conductor Thomas Brighton and Motorman Amass Glea Wiser Heads Are Averse Plunging son In the sheet car hold-uCountry Into War. in Salt Lake City, has made a full confession I The Japanese government has prac-tlcalof baring committed the terrible determined to continue negocrime, alone and unaided. In making tiations. It Is dissatisfied with Ruhis confession, Shockley admitted to ssias latest terms, but does not feet the officers that he was in fear of pun- warranted in Issuing an ultimatum or and will ishment after death, and for this rea- breaking off negotiations, son he desired to make reparation, as make another effort to secure their far as might be in his power, for the modification before resorting to force. awful deed he had committed. He It Is anticipated that the discussion stated that he was heir to quite a little property, which would come to will consume a few weeks, during him in a few years, and that he de- which Interim a breach of tho peace sired to sign over this property, or Is very Improbable. his Interest therein, to the families of his victims. DIETRICH SET FREE. FIFTY-FOU- R LIVES , I a Vic-torl- United States Senator Warren of Wyoming, president of the Wool Growers' association, presided at the opening session, and the business of the convention was inagurated with the reading of his annual address. Army Officers Colombian Preparing for War. Unltqd State navdl authorities at Colon appear to be convinced, from the tenor of the report which are continually brought In, that Colombia I determined to tend an army to attack Panama. The Panamanian authorities on Tuesday received official confirmation of the fact that the Colombian troops at Tltum&ti number at least 4,000 men, under the command erf Generals Ortis, Uribe-Urlbe- , Bustameate and Nova These troops are well armed and supplied with ammunition, and have four guns, three steam launches and a large tupplv of cattle. The district Is an unproductive one, and the provisions and other supplies which the troops possess Manti people are becoming some have been brought to them from other what excited over oil of late, and are place. thinking of Investigating their own section with n view of learning whether or not anything of the kind can be discovered there. John Uhariet, a aheepherder for A. R. Smith, committed suicide on Hop np mountain, fifteen miles southwest of Kelton, on the 6th. No cause is "" Known lor the deed, as the 'man seemed In excellent spirits. Q. M. Wiley of Salt Lake has been appointed to n position in the office of ... the secretary of the senate, Mr. Wiley was formerly conected with one of the hanks' of Salt Lake City, and his new position pays 13,000 per annum. Joseph Mergenic, au Italian em-- , ployed In a lime quarry near Salt Lake City, was instantly killed by ... beiajj struck on the head by a loose rock which In some manner became dislodged and struck the man without warning. ' A number of the wealthier members - of the Commmercial club of Salt Lake City have formed themselves Into a sort of committee on ways and means for the financing of a new club building. which they wish to build ah soon as possible. Great excitement prevails st Cak le&toa, due to a series of hold-up- s ol mea" supposed to" have money, '"by thugs and rounders who frequent the . hobo saloons of this place. One man Wat shot last week, but fortunately was only slightly injured. Isadora Lei and. 28 years of age, - was found dead in the "drunk house of the 8alt Lake City Jail on the 8th, the cause of his death being acute alcoholism. Leland has spent almost the entire past eighteen months la - Jail for drunkenness. Watkln Reese, a miner, fell eighty- five feet down a shaft in the Hors diver mine at Frisco and was instant !y killed. He leaves a wife and five children. The body was taken to Beaver, his former - home, toy Western 8tates Represented at Convention of Sheep Owners. The convention of the National Woco Growers association was called to order lij'the Baker theatre at Portland, Ore., at 10:30 oclock Monday morning. The theatre was filled from the western with sheepmen states and with representatives of allied interests from various parts of the coutnry. Among these In attendance were two of President Rouse-- ; veil's commissioners to Investigate the public land question, which will be one of the Important matters pre- sented for consideration by the wool growers. j A YEARS. Convsrta of American Mlsslona Tortured by Chinese Bandits, j WomB Empi0yed as a Cowboy til Mls-.lt of the American Bag-i.arii-Oregon Whose Secret Is'OiScov- complained rtrxgf j of Foreign ere d at Her Death. Deed Committed to Presence of ly recently to Unite State Minin y j A remarkable case of .awomaomas-ueradlnCong.-rat'Peking that their Con VI af the Son,- - Who Gavo as a man has Just come to f Pa . Tlng-FIn the dRtrb i w!; Alarm, But Too Lat. near Rockvlile, in the western light being looted ! ban Ills who claln 4 of Idaho, pear the Oregon line. A part lud that a reign , A. A. Botha, s farmer of to be Catb a well few days ago Joe Mcnc-ghanprevail d in the dUtrlcL 1 I known cowboy, died suddenly at the Sioux City, la, murdered his wife In s fii' ml- - feared to act and Cblut boarding house In I am Angeles, Cal , residence of Barney Malloy, on Suctlans who refused to 1 J Chit eral by cutting her throat with a po ket cor creek. In Oregon. When the body Their ltd knife and then, turning the weapon on blackma'l Vr uirturei. was being prepared for burial it was were tin ken and some died from :f himself, ended his own life In a simfound that the deceased was a woman. 4 Min Inter Conger request ilar manner. The deed was committed injuries ridden the ranges of eastern She had the Chinese government to supprt l In the presence of their twenty-fiv- e for years, and was Oregon the bandits, but this demand vii an expert, faithful, as known ion, who was awakened by the sounds widely without apparent resulL Secret! Of the struggle and gave the alarm. untiring cowboy. She worked for the vrll lams, after a weeks personal buCtoo late to an use assistance cattlemen during the summer and v estimation, effected an arranges) Both yere dead before medical aid winter and looked after stock of her with the officials of the district, eould be summoned. Bulks was sup of which triie possessed quite a own, the people if promise! to protect posed to be temporarily deranged herd. The woman was small of stat-g- r cease to mu ide- Censer would matter, and to have comuuiltLln'-- , w bit u injured them at tbs hut very active and strong. She T mitted the crime In a moment of Ir vest of government. was an expert shot with a revolver He had been acting rifle. Her home was in a dug-oand responsibility. Borrows Money to Buy Guns.1 She was well Rockvll'e. near Jueorly for about a week, and on one d Viceroy Then at Shanghai has Sc&sion recently kept his famllv up who knew her well, but all liked by a loan with a German Arm for all night praying, exhibiting a rev. I she avoided people excepting as she 1h In to order ta mill. on a to ver at the time and threatening purchase came In contact with them In her lake the-i- lives. Krupp mountain guns. work. Deceased was about 64 years of age. Nothing la known of her anON tecedents. She served on juries In Oregon and voted at elections. MAN KILLS HIS WIFE AND MITS SUICIDE. r SI TfKRitW 4 Biur. ON V Abhor Servian Assassins. dead-light- p ly Rebels UsetCannon. Advices from San Domingo under date of Wednesday, Jan. 6, say: There was firing last night around the city, the Insurgents using cannon. A shell struck the city hall, doing considerA shell exploded In able damage. front of the United States legation, but did not result In Injury to the building. The political situation here Is unchanged, though several arrests of In subgent sympathizers have been made Provisions are plentiful, and milk and other products are coming In. Chinese Railway Employes Deserting Their Posts. Predictions In the Chinese press that a war Is Inevitable and Immediate, and that China will certainly be Involved, are causing great uneasiness. Many Chinese fear a repetition of the scenes of pillage and murer which made the year 1900 memorable Numbers of the employees on the railroad between Ney Chwang and Shat TTalkwan have deserted tbelr posts thinking that thev country traversed by the railroad will surely be the scene of the fighting. Nebraska 8enator Against Brought to an End. United States Senator Charles H. Dietrich and Jacob Fisher, postmaster at Hastings, Neb., were released from custody at Omaha on Friday, Judge Van Devanter In the circuit court Instructing the Jury to bring la a verdict of not guilty of the chargee of bribery, etc., and the district attorney entered a nolle in the Indictments recently returned against them. Case ELECTION RIOT IN TENNESSEE. Two Officers Seriously Wounded and Ballot Box Burned. In a Tint following the closing of th poll 8 in the city election at Memphis, Tenn., a mob attacked a polling booth and after a fight, In which forty shots were fired, a ballot box was secured and burned. C. Simon and George I.iebmann, officers of election, were shot ahd seriously wouLded ' The contest which resulted In the fight for the ballot box probably will bo taken Into court Shot at Polly Pry. The French minister to Servia, M. Met a Horrible Death. BenolL bn been recalled and another Mrs. R T. Anthony, a newspaper W. R. Temple committed suicide In official sent to Belgrade to act as woman, well known In many parts of Ran Francisco by throwing himself charge daffaires. This Is a result of the country tinder the name of Polly before a Southern Pacific train on the failure of King Peter to take ade- Pry was shot at twice at her home Townsend street He was employed quate means of redress for the assas- In Denver by an unknown man. The by a book publishing concern. On sination of King Alexander and Queen bullets went wide of the mark. Mrs. his desk was found a note saying he answered a ring at her dcor would make a Drag. According to Information re- Anthony good Job of it, and bell 9:39 about a and Sunday night,, ceived at the' French foreign office, with Russia. soon as the door was a man, ending with' to mcsL If hot all, the nrinlstere of the fired two shots at her opened He was an Englishman. The body of from a pistol leading powers nave been .withdrawn and then fled. It is thought the man the man waa horribly mangled. M. B. or are about to withdraw from Bel- became Incensed at something Mrs. Montgomery, engineer of the train, Anthony had published in her weekly was arrested on a T grade. charge of manpaper. - - Gen. Weyler shortly will publish a book entitled My Military tad m," lltlcal Campaign in Cuba." Two Interesting chapters will be headed )fy Project for Landing In United States Territory" and Reasons Why I Wu Obliged to Abandon the ProJecL" M adrtd Dispatch to Chicago Inter Ocean, Germans Believe That Llttl Japan I Simply Bluffing. According to advice from Berlin, the German foreign office holds to the opinion that war In the far east Is till highly Improbable. Beyond this th official statements do not go. Unofficial opinion, especially that of the newspapers, regards the - statements telegraphed from the far east of extreme) tension as part of a great diplomatic game designed to make Rut-al- a believe that more concessions must b made or Japan will attack. Hanna to Sentte, The Ohio legislature by separata ballot of the house and senate ca Tuesday voted to return Marcus A Hanna to the United States senste for a se-eterm. Senator Hanna Is tn striking contrast to his eleetton six year ago. when, af'er a most exciting political contest v cured only vote to joint bslloL ate ballot nd me vote Cleveland. -- i Russia Make Promises. The Russian government has the powers that it will respect Manfulty the right any nation has In China. This with under treaty churia declaration I mad without reservation. Russia gives formal expresstoa to this policy now In consequence of the controversy with Japan, on of whose persistent contention has been for x definlton of Russias policy In of Manchuria and acknowledgement Japanese trade privilege. Panama Question Settlsd. Secretary Hay hars sent another communication to Rafael Reye, the Golomblan' envoy. In response to his protests against the action of the United 8tates regarding affairs on the Isthmus erf Panama. While state department officials decline to make any specific statement as to Its nv ture, it is understood that In a general way it follow the lines laid down In the reply to General Reyes first note, which practically declines to reopen the Panama question. slaughter. He was released on bond Took Hit Own Life. W. J. Allen, for many years Is charge of the offices of Senator W. A Clarks United Verde mine at Jerome Arizona, but recently resigned, com mitted sulslde while In a fit of d hlmsell spondency by shooting through the head with a revolver. The deed was committed on a ranch owned by Allen, on the Verde river, about four miles from Jerome. H had complete charge of- the companys finances ever since Senator Clark bought the United Verde mine. - ? |