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Show nr I COALVILLE TIMES MEET S. JACOB PETERSON. Editor and Manager ML FIRE MAKES DEATH 7 UTAH COALVILLE flames UTAH STATE NEWS At a meeting of the board of direct ora of the Utah Stale Fence society, It waa decided to hold the aouual Peace day May IS. Garfield la to bate a brick jali foi the aafe keeping of prisoners at the atnelter town until they are brought to the county jail In Salt Lake tp the Because of tbeTapid number of anetl'pox patten ism Salt Ijike, it la probable that the Isolation hospital will be closed down within the next week. Work, upon the completion of the new Sandy city paik will be completed within the next two weeks. This park will be one of the fiuest In this section of the county. II B. Holmes, who claims to come from Denver, and an unknown man who escaped, fought a duel with knives in Ogden. Holmes was badly cut about the fact and throat son of Peter HanThe son of Fountain Green was killed by being run over hy a disc harrow, when the team became frightened and dragged the harrow over the boy. John LaRoae, n tramp, fell from n Southern Pacific train near the bridge over the Ogden river at Ogden, sustaining n broken leg and Internal Injuries which may cause his death. Charles Murphy was sentenced to ten years and George Radcllff to five years in the state prison at Salt Lake M Wednesday, having been convicted of bolding up a street car In January. John Fitzgerald, a miner from Park City, attempted suicide in the Salt Lake City Jail, endeavoring to saw bis head off with a piece of wire, which In some manner came la his possession. The grand conclave of the Knights Templars, called at Ogden to organise another grand commandery for Utah, closed with a banquet after completing' the organization and electing the officers. Option on the HatchtOwn reservlor project of the state board of land commissioners expired on 'sprll 20, and bow the land board wll soon take action regarding the disposition of the Hatchtown lands In Garfield county. A half million dollars Is to be expended during the coming summer In raising the grade of the Lucln cut-ofand Insuring Its safety to Southern Pacific traffic. This much has been definitely announced as the result of do-rea-- e Business Th'irty Destroy Blocks and Many Residences, -Causing $4,000,000 Loss.. SNUFFED OUT IN AN OHIO EXPLOSION COAL MINE. EIGHTEEN LIVES BY Some of the Victims Believed to Have Been Suffocated by After Damp, While Other Met In stant Death. Stubenvllle, O Tin- - lives of etgh teen miners t re snuffed out In a tremendous explosion in the Youghio gheny & Ohio Coal company's mine at Amsterdam Friday night. "Seven men, bruised and burned were rescued from the mine, and their escape from death Is regarded The Interior of thias miraculous mine was wrecked and all ventilation shut off The cause has not jet been determined The mine had been Inspi eted but two days before the explosion by Deputy Inspector Thomas Morrison. From the condition underground, it Is said the exp'osiott In point of fotce In was the greatest ever recorded Ohio. When the explosion occurred, two pie thought there had been an earth quake. A train was passing the mine and every window In every car was The trainmen fled, as a shattered. car of dynamite was attached to the train. After working all night, the rescuing crews located six bodies During the afternoon, government experts from the geological laboratory at Pittsburg arrived with oxygen outfits They failed to find more bodies. E. O. Jones, the night superintendent, was blown over several cars, and gas flames passed over him. Jones, when found, was badly burned and bruised. All the other men rescued were burned, but nohe seriously. Two men, brothers, were found locked In each other's arms. Thts leads to the belief that the men were not killed Instantly, but were suffocated by after-damp CHINESE CONTINUE RIOTING. lake Charles, La Five thousand persons ,jLje home'ess. several scores injured and property damage to the extent of $4, Odd,out) has resulted here from a fire which started in an old opera house, near the center of town, wiping out thntv Ijum ness blocks and then but ned a pa'h f section through the residential tlie town late Saturday x Dynamite was used to slop the paih of flames. The flames wt-icheeked In thliLjiianner, but not until they had practically w iped out the town Of t the many persons missing, R was Impossible, to tell whether any have been JTMea. Temporary shekel-lncamps have been established on the outskirts of the burning city, and the thousands of homeless and in Jured are being cared for ap eonifort At ) 'opyrifflited ably as possible. With the sudden drop in tempera It is certain that the sufferings ture, ENTOMBED FORTY MINERS ARE of the stricken peopi will be intense. Lake Charles, while an old community, is practically a new city of 20,000 Inhabitants, it is the big EsAll Off Chances of Explosion Cuts gesT town in southwest Ixroisiana and cape of Man and All Are BeNOTED AUTHOR AND HUMORIST a big rice and lumber dlstrlcL It 1: also the center of the Jennings oil lieved to Have Perished. LINPASSES AWAY-tAFTEfields. GERING ILLNE88. FR08TS CAUSE SERIOUS LOSS. miners Birmingham, Ala Forty Central and Middle State Suffer From were entombed in the Mulga mine Cold Weather. of the Birmingham Railway Coal it Man Beloved by Alt the People, Who Had Delighted Miltione With Hie Iron company at MulgaAla., by an Chicago. Despite the almost un Quaint Humor, ie Worn Out by explosion at 9 o'clock Wednesday precedented storm that swept over a Grief and Agony. night. It is believed all are dead. dozen states Saturday and Sunday The rages in the 'shaft of the mine and government prediction of more were so badly sprung by the force of cold and snow, the shifting of the the explosion that they are useless, Conn. Samuel Redding, Lng- wind to the northwest promises to and all other means adopted by res- horne Clemens dled mitigate extensive crop damage In the (Mark Tcaln) cue parties In an effort lo reach The at 6:30 oclock Thursday middle west. painlessly entombed men have proved futile I A canvass of the situation shows night of angina pectoris. He lapsed There re fifteen white and twenty-fiv- Into coma at 3 oclock damage has resulted In Iowa, greatest Thursday negro laborers In the mine. Fol- afternoon and never reifovered con- Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. lowing the explosion, flames shot up sciousness. It was the In Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky qnd of a man the mine shaft 400 feet and the outworn snow is expected to protect small of and by agony grief aute ground Is covered with charred tim- body. 1 fruits and lessen loss on apples. Mia bers, which were blown from the bot- , At the deathbed wera Mrs. Gabrilo-witsc- h slssippl, Tennessee and Arkansas re t tom of a shaft by the explo(Clara Clemens, her husband. ports show considerable damage ha3 sion. Every window In the little mta Dr. Robert been done by the coldest late April Halsey, Dr. Qulntard, AlIn those states. lng village was broken. bert Bigelow Palne.who will write weather on record Information from Wisconsin and Mark Twains biogratihjr, and the two HEARST BOOSTS TAFT. Michigan Indicate the fruit crop wlli 1 trained nurses. not be much more than half usual Mark Twain wasl born Samuel size. Issue a Remarkable Statement Afler Langhorne Clemens, 'in Florida, Mo.,' Calling on the President American Girl Murdered in Japan. November 30. 1835. My parents, Washington. W i tl I a m Randoih he writes in his own burlesque autoNaples. The finding of tbedrodyol Hearst, former aspirant for the Demo- biography, were neither very poor. a. beautiful young woman on the - T en -- last-on- enj -- 4 O.-e- v - BEEN Leaves Leadership to Others In Order to Accept, But Will Not Take Seat Until October, Owing to Adjournment of Court. Washington President -- Taft late Monday received from Governor Chas. E. Hughes of New York a letter ac- cepting a tendered appdlntmeut as an associate justice of the supieme court of the United States. It Is understood that he will remain as the chief executive of New York.' until October, and ' will not take the oath of his new office until the fall term of the supreme court opens, the second Monday in that month. Before accepting the nomination. Governor Hughes gave the matter careful consideration, and it is known he regarded the presidents offer as a call to public duty which he felt he must accept. He realized that he could not. In justice to himself, and to his for farrjily. accept a renoihination governor If tendered him. Two determining factors entered Into the governors decision 161 to b a candidate for a third term. On 350-foo- ' -- OF NEW 'YORK HAS CHOSEN IN PLACE OF,,, JUSTICE BREWER. ' GOVERNOR e and Children Fleeing for Their Lives From Changsha. Hankow. The situation In Hunan province is reported as critical. Women and children are fleeing for their lives from Changsha. A number of villages near That city have been burned by native-mob- s. T 1$ placarded with threats to kill all on Wednesday night Issued a remark-ablstement, over htsewn signattft, This news was brought by mission in which he unqualifiedly endows Lorenzo II. Hatch, father of IL E. who arrived here Frl Mr. Taft. In doing so, he Also crttl- Hatch, president of Thatcher Broth- - ary refugees fromand nearbysta- - IcUes la severvst terais day Changsha era' bank, a patriarch in theMormon tlons. of them had traveled tlon of President Roosevelt and in so Many died an active coloniser, church, sad words warns the American naat 7 o'clock Wednesday evening at thirty miles on foot, and reached the many a renewal of the political tion In Their river against Tangtse Klang rags. his home In Logan. Mr. Hatch was houses of domination the former president had beeu and burned, they VerA of native 85 years of age and Mr. 'Called Hearst at the White House lost all effects. their personal mont He spent half afternoon. The missionaries stated that gun- Wednesday To illustrate the discipline of tho an with hour the In Upon boats river have the president. their guns pupils of the Ogden public schools, an trained and nearby leaving, Mr. Hearst said he had called upon Changsha was at called fire drill unexpected to pay his respects to Mr. the Grant school, with the result that points and have afforded a refuge merelywhom he said he admired. Later, Taft, tor thouThree many foreigners. 525 students left the building la perhe Issued his endorsement of the Taft Chinese sand soldiers are Imperial than minutes order three la less fect from the time the fire alarm waa occupying the strateglo points of the administration. are being capital and detachments sounded. Proposed Memorial to Morton, hurried to districts .the . autoan outlying While proving ike safety'! As a memorial loth where Is Washington. rioting reported. matic revolver to a friend at Vernal, Many Chinese have been killed. In late J. Sterling Morton, the first sec-r- e shot and Joe Tolliver accidentally ta ry of agriculture, a bill was Inkilled himself. A curious thing about one Instance a technical school was were troduced Friday by Senator Burkett the shooting was the fact that, three set afire and thirty students to provide for the establishment of burned to death. days previously, Tolliver bad pur the "Morton Institution of Agricuchased a plot of ground In the Vernal MU8T PAY THE PENALTY. lture and Forestry" at Nebraska City, cemetery. Neb., the former home of Mr Morton. be ex weevil can That the lucerne Finds New York Youth The institution is ta advance the sciterminated has-beproved in the ot Atrocious Crime. ence and practice of forestry. It the where of southern part Utah, pest New York. Albert Wolter, s youth would he conducted undet the direcIs probably more prevalent than In of 19 years, who gloated over lewd tion of the department of agriculture. any other locality. The plan Is to pictures and was crazy" about wo- The cost of the sltfi and build'ngs is a wait until the lucerne has stained men, must die In the electric chair limited to 230,0oo, and $10,000 is height of from four to eight Inches, for the murder ofRuth Wheeler, a ajktd to begin the wo.k. and then turn a flock of sheep Into the field. pretty stenographer. Maud Adams Averts Panic. After onex hour and fifty minutes Apples by the carload will be ex Kansas City.- - By her cosiness in an hlblted at the state fair next fall, ac- of deliberation, a Jury In the court of emergency. Maud Adams, the actress, cording to plans of directors of the special sessions on Friday found him prevented what might hive been a State Fair association. It Is proposed guilly of murder In the first degree. panic In a local theatre. to have the largest exhibit of thlsJTirlnglng to a close a trial marked by night, following the blowing Thursday out of a class of fruit In the history ofthe Its swift movement and Its testimony fuse In the footlights. Miss Adams of horror. annual show. bad entered the Btage In the second The boy's counsel said with eloUnless there are other heavy frosts set when there was a Hast and a puff this fprlng, there will be hut little quence that Wolter was too tender- of Rmoke arose from the footlights a hearted to harm but twelve and a panic sfemed immlnenLMist 'damage to the fruit, crop. .From all men decided that" he cat, had Adams ordered the curtain run down parts of Utah have come assurances Rutl Wheeler and thrust "strangled her. while and --then, that the damage to thla season's crop coming forward assured Id-r-hls fireplace, where, the audience there vacua danger Is practically of no consequence, ex- yet allvet soaked with oil. her cept in certain localities, where half writhed and burned crumpled body Street Car Robber Captured. , a crop may be expected. e Lake City. At Salt of 'the At the closing session of the Utah On More Trust Nailed. Order of hlghwajmen who have ieen causing grand lodge. Independent St Paul. The Minnesota supreme so much trouble in this cltv his been Odd Fellows, held In Salt Lake City. In an opinion filed on Friday court After robbing captured 0ne 03 It was decided to build a state home held that the Creamery Package comstreet cap but the conductor. for' aged and Indigent Odd Fellows pany. Incorporated In Illinois aqd do- who escaped. Jack Davis wit arrested andr Daughters of Uebekah. Such a home wNl In all probability becotp a ing business In Owatonna. Minn., was In hts home thirty mlnues later -a combination In restraint of t.ade, simply caught with the ods on. reality within six months. and ordered that Its licence to do Davis was Intoxicated whe,r he robbed J. P: Fitzgerald, who Is suspected business In Minnesota be forfeited the passeng-rs- . and his arelessnes hy the police of being Insane, attempl--led to his arrest. of "the city Jail in Salt Lake7where Cleveland, O. Warren J? Binger Hermann III. Stone, he had been placed by the Jailer head of the Brotherhood of . Roseburg, Binger Herrmann, after being booked as a Jodger. Fitzannounces that 500 engineers, from OiefOo. who has of the vein to open gerald attempted Big Four engineers have been given been seriously 111, Is retailed by his small wtre7 7 his wrist with a substantial Increase In pay. physician to be slightly Mter. la the death of Leht Fltchforth. a on lost has Insane Indian, Nephl Bold Robbery In'Minng Camp. Asylum ScandaL of Its most respected citizens. JHe died Reno. J. C. Driscoll, former superPark pity Utah. Tw- armed but Tuesday of heart disease, after a visor of the Nevada insane asjlum, Unmasked highwaymen 'oldly entered brief TnhetirTVhea he waa lour year who was removed from office hy a the Oak saloon on Mala treet at 12:45 of age he was, adopted hy . Samuel majority vote of the asylum board re- oclock Fbtday morningand lined the Fltchforth. cently, has filed a long complaint twenty occupants of tb saloon up In against Dr. S. G. Gibson, superintend- the back room, tapped the faro bank Ruling that the Elks club Is not charitable Institution, and must, there- ent of the asylum. This complaint and roulette game, frtn which they $500 in goldmd silver, and fore, pay taxes In Salt Lake county. has been filed with the board, of com- procured made then good their escape, The Judge M. L. Ritchie of the Third dis- missioners for the rare of the Indi- holdups did not molot the cash reg gent insane, la this complaint Dris- Uter, In which was sðlng like $75 trict court has made a decision, which will affect practically coll charges Dr. Gibson with misman- neither did they aeare any of the oc every club In Sa't Lake and la the agement, misappropriation of certain cupants of the salooa They a so left state w large owning Its own property furds, with graft, neglect and Inhu- about $75 In sliver 1 the roulette man treatment of the patients. f game. Women f , MANY HOMELESS d - - ' CHARLES E. HUGHES. was the heavy financial drain to which he haw been subjected during llest ancestor of the Tw&Ins have any suspicion of murder.-"- " Apparently the the last three years; the other, the tecord of was a friend of the family woman died about three days pre- mental strain incident to the gore- x by the name of Higgins. vious. The body was scantily clothed, norehip. New York state pays Its governor The county chronicles have it that and thisfaas led the authorities tc an annual salary of $10,000 and the ebler Clamens fitiled Justices oTIEe United" and died, leaving b(t son the ample victim of crime. The body was iden- penses States supreme court are paid world to make his fortune in. tified by the proprietor of the Hotel and there Is a possibi'ity that Twains ac- Castello as that of Miss Astella Reid, this may be Accordingly, Mark Increased to $17,5')0. quaintance with literature began In supposed to have been an American So far as state affaire are concerninto words not Ideas putting who was a guest at the hotel. She ed, the governor la of the opinion that type, into words. Educate only in public was described as being very eccentric what has been accomplished under to a hts administration will be adhered to. schools, he was appientlced A Million Immigrants in Year. By the second week In October Mr. printer at 13. and worked at his trade will have practically completIn SL Louis, CinclnStl; Philadelphia Hughes to present Washington. According and New York, until,4 a 16, he could Indications immigration to the United ed his term as governor. Lieutenant Governor Horace "White will become gratify a boyish amtdthn to become States for the- - fiscal year 1910 prom- governor upon Mr. Hughes' formal r II a cub to a Mississippi one million people, pilot. ises to reach and will hold office until Both these happenings reacted pro- the record for the first nine months resignation a new executive Is Inaugurated. foundly in his later life. His knowl- of the year Is maintained. The arrlv CASE POSTPONED. edge of - river lifer acquired when hV , als ter March were 136,745,, and foi was a pilot, took form J Tom Saw-- ' the nine months of the fiscal yeai Time to Hear ArguyerJLiHuckleberry Flnb and Life 667,949. It has been several year Judges Havent ments in Merger Suit. on the Mississippi, regarded abroad since the Immigration figures reached as his first title to fame. 1 even sug- the million mark, the last year being The Washington. government case Mark 1907, when 1,285,349 aliens were ad for the dissolution of the merger of gested his pseudonym, dor to the mltted to the United States. Twain is a leadsman's ci the Southern Pacific and Union PaIn shallow cific railroads will be heard prqbably stages. pilot to Death Mother and Children Burned about October 1. The selection of & And his familiarity with Sprinting Ponca, Neb. Mrs. Jerry Miner anc definite date and place wl'l be mad turned him naturally first work, then Into creative writ- five children were burned to deatt by the judges of the Eighth circuit at ing, and finally into the publishing Sunday morning when their cottage St. Paul, Minn., In May. business, wherein, like Sir Walter three miles north of here, caught file Announcement to the effect was Scott, he suffered a bankruptcy dis- Mr. Miner saved his baby at the department of justice on astrous to everything but bis honor, by throwing It out of the window. Tht made Monday. Attorney General Wicker-shaand, like Sir Walter again, paid off by father made a desperate effort to res received advices Circuit his pen debts not of his own mak ng cue the other members of the Vandeventer at Cheyenne that Judge family as described has Twain Mark been, not after correspondence with the other in his own words, a silver miner In He was terribly burned, and is live. The of to th justices of- the Eighth circuit, the origin Nevada; a gold miner in California; expected court had- determined fix the hearnext a reporter In San Francisco; fire is unknown. Miner, who operates ing for about October. to next a special correspondent In the a ferry on the Missouri river, saw Sandwich Islands; next a roving cor his heme ablaze and hastened to tht Carnegie Commends President Within five minutes tht respondent In Europe and the east; rescue. Andrew Carnegie, adWashington. on house was In ruins. next an Instructional torchbearer dressing the members and guests of the lecture platform; and, finally, I the National Press club Monday General Elections in France. became ft scribbler of books and an Immovable fixture among the other Paris. Thegeneral elections to tht fight, declaied President Taft was rocks of New England." new chamber of deputies brought out one of the greatest presidents this eountrv has had and that for his efHe was married in 1872 to Olivia L. Dls 3,000 candidates for 597 seats. forts for world peace the Langden of E rnira, N. Y. Four chilpatches Indicate the balloting through would grant him a high place country In hisdren were born, of whom two. a son out the country passed off quietly, ex tory; commended the Payne-Aldrlcand daughter, died early. One other daughter, Jean, who had been an In- cept for a few rows, notably In tht law as the best tariff law ever enactvalid for life, was found dead in her St. Etienne region, where the labui ed; extollwl the progress and spirit bath tub last fall In her home at Red- situation Is troubled. Available re of the west and made a vigorous plea ding. Conn. Her tragic death greatly turns Indicate the Catholic agitatloc fbr universal peace. saddened her father, who declined In had j,ttle effect lhe Tepubiiear War Not Yet Ended. New Orleans now in control is called left of the That the Nicaraguan lowltsch, wife of the pianist, whom she "Their members will be returned witl insurgents now have several impromarried last year. losses. vised gunboats and had planned to Mark Twains first book was The only slight either sink or capture the gteamer- Doctor Occupy"PuTbits. Jumping FVog." His best knowiTTS Venus was Irdicated here on Monday this country possibly was "Innocents Pueblo, Colo. Tuberculosis' Sundaj by the testintony of General Richard Abroad." His surest title' to fame AlJI'n generally Is believed "to beTonT 5awTyay"ot)8trTtJ Medical sod given Captain J. F. Hyland and Louis the members of Pueblo The and volume, ,us.flompan!cA yer" Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' la ety occupied the puplts and gave t Kohlman, master and agent respecall his books had a sale of more than lecture on the cure and prevention o' tively of the steamer. Hy'andt and The Services were held Kohlman were charged with violating 500.000 copies and were translated tuberculosis. the flentrallty acts. churches. in twenty-fivsix . languages, lqto le $12,-500- ,r-e- er m frn h j - I e Mark Twain Laid atvRest. Elmira, N. Y. Under a tent on the grassy slope of the Langdon 'plot in Woodlawn cemetery,, with rain beating fiercely against the canvas cover, a little group of mourners silently watched' an Sunday as the body of Samuel L. Clemens was lowered into an evergreen lined grave beside the bodies of his wife And children. The Rev. Samuel E. Eastman, pastor of Park church and a close friend of the late humorist, conducted a brief and simp e service and Mark Twains final pilgrims' c waa at an end. Escaped Convicts Recaptured. , Leavenworth, Kan. Two of the sij convicts who" escaped Jrom the federa penitentiary at Ft7, Leavenworth or Thursday by seizing a switch engine and threatening the prison -- guardt with dusty revolvers, made of wood are betng sought ton'gbt by a posse of forty armed guards and scores 01 citizens. Four of the convicts werf recaptured after a few hours of liberty,. Farmers for miles around arj Joining In the fiunt Mr the two convicts still at large ia the hope of get" ting a reward. Heinze Again on Trial. New York. Seven of the fourteen counts In the indictment found F. Augustus Ilclnze-la- st' against month In connection with his handling of the Mercantile National Banks funds whi'e he was its president were ilsmissed by Judge Hough in the United States circuit cou.t here on Uonday. Judge Hough sustained th emafn'ng seven counts. - Thlj Indict-ne- st was included In a consolidation ndietment oa which Heinze'a case was called to trial. ' |