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Show y - STOLE NEARLY COALVILLE TIMES Timm rcauuna Brtnub'i oo. COALVILLE, UTAH. lx-Hl- al A AsPEN MINE FIRE. MILLION. Tmwnr'l Shortas fMUsi Vary Gloomy as It Is BoUoral a W1U Boult. Lm Shat-IoAspen, Colo., Nov.16 The owners of mine, which has been oj flresinee Sunday morning, announce that tbe situation is much improved, inasmuch aa they have succeeded in tarrying linea of steam pipes to within short distance of the fire, and hop in a few hoers more to be playing up. In 1L Outsiders,' however, take n different view of the situation. It Is the general belief that It ia not the wooden erio which is on fire, bot ibe shale foot wail itself, which is said to be a very low grade of coal. This belief is strengthened by the fact that ths gaa which1 fs driving the men from the workings on Smuggler mountain ia more like that from horning coal than wood. If this theory is oorrect, nothing but tbe flooding of tha mine will stop the fire. Already ths gas has permeated tha workings (u the various mines on Smuggler mountain for two miles to the north of the Smuggler shafL and 100 men hsve been driven out mnd two or three times that number will have to quit work if the fire Is notquenohed. The gas is gradually going lower, having now reached the seventh level. If it drives the men from tha pumps ia the ninth level, it will mean tbs flooding of the district, as the Smuggler pumps are the principal ones in the 1 istrict. J The feeling here Is very gloomy, aa It is believed a long shut-dow- n of the principal mines of the camp ia certain I 70.000. - A aharity ball to be given la Da ember at Salt Lake City promUee to ba the social event of the season. . William Gilbert, the oldest paid man on the Salt Lake fire department, re tired from active service on a pension the 11th InaL, the first one of the force to do so. Be was granted a pension by the city council, A letter dated OctoWr 9, at White florae Rapid en route to Dawson and the Klondike, waa received in Salt Lake last week, announcing the continued safety of Tom Lloyd and Doc1 Norrell of Salt Lake City. They port good weather and a safe passage of the worst rapids. The Gladstone Mining company ol Mercur has made a great strike. It i sot in ririi ore, but in water, which ii Merenr is about ae valuabla aa gold, A flow of MO, 000 gallons per day has been struck that is fit for all purposes, and at the present rates charged for water, la worth about 1100 per day V utilized. .There has probably never been a time In the history of Salt Lake when (here waa so much Idle money lying in ' the banks as at present. The last tlmt the banks published their statement this waa very evident, and tha probabilities are that deposits have increased since . that time. The nsnal result ol asy money ia found in the demand tot dividend stocks The sugar factory at Ogden look U be an assured fact. Bon, David Evans having taken the canvass for stock subscriptions actively in hand. The factory will cost about 13.10,000, and the intention is to raise the greatet part of that sum la Ogden, and the r malnder in Salt Lske.j The new com psny will be incorporated before Jan-nar- 1. , Anniversary exercises of ths founding ef the Letter-dayds- y Saints college, ne of the leading Mormon ehnrck schools of ths state, were held la the Salt Lake tabernacle last Sunday even lng. Elder IL 'If.' Roberta, in a briet speech, among other things, laid' "This large assemblage is a sufficient refutation of the slander which has gone abroad that tha Mormon churck , wat antagonistic to education.-" 8tnartStepheanon, one of the most successful mining operators and man agera in the atate, died November 14 61 heart disease at bis residence in Salt Lake City, eged Si years. For more than thirty years Mr. Stephenson was a prominent figure In mining affairs ig California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Utah. In Bingham, Tintie, American Fork, Alta, Park City, Mercur, Ophlr and other Utah camps he was well known. The transfer of the properties and franchisee of the Pioneer Eleetrle Power, the 8alt Lake A Ogden Gaa A Eleetrle Light, the Big Cottonwoou Power, end the Citisens Eleetrle Light companies were turned over to the nlon Light and Power company last urday evening. The new eompany oltaiixed at 14,510,000, having been porated laat Anguat The dlrao-thUnion company are George e nnon, John R. Winder, T. (1. W. S, McCornick. , L. S. IIlll lannlster,. Joseph F. Smith, j. Canpo'u and W. J. Curtis, rat named ia president and ths a resident of New York. The chief g.neeraare IL M. Jones and R. F. lay ward of Sait Lake, and CL K. Ban-latof Ogden. The bulk of tbe stock la owned by Salt Lake parties, bealdet those named. The supreme eourt has handed down an opinion in the case of Rudolph Konold vs. tha Rio Grande Western Railway eompany, appellant, which reveraea the judgment of the court below and remands tha cause, with directions to dismiss the action. The plaintiff obtained a judgment in the district court of Weber county for 14,000 for personal Injuries sustained In Emery county. The opinion, which was written by Justice Bartch end concurred in by Chief Justice Zaneand Justice Miner, it a very important one, from tha fact that it holds that all lotions, civil and criminal, must be tried la the county where the cause of action arose, and declares unconstitutional and void sections 5,198 end 5,19? of tbe compiled laws of Utah. This ruling affects a Cumber of judgments already rendered, aa well aa eases 1 pending. The employee of the Union Paclfie In Salt Lake have become abstemious. Monday morning last ' an agreement went into effect eschewing the Use ol Intoxicants of all sorts as well as tobacco In its various forms, including ths festivs cigarette. S. S. Swan, gam v commissioner for the atate of Colorado, waa In Salt Lake City last week for the purpose of mak lng arrangements for the ehipment of a quantity of black bass fish from Utah waters to Stock the Grand and Gunnison rlvsre In Colorado. WAR MU Owoera of the Wee win Orgaalse I of-th- ,, fiVi-r'hlU- d, '"'v OUR COAST NEW LEASE OP LIFE, AGAINST THE SMELTERS. Protect Their talereet. Nor. 18. Otto Lincoln. Netrk Leadvllle, Colo.. Nov. 15. Great Inenjeibig.ihc expert who Iim been Hi terest is manifested here in tha regaged for month In examining ported formation of a smelter trust to Treasbooks and accounts of regulate the price of smelting ores, urer Hartley, has submitted bis report etc-.- One of the largest mine managto the legislative committee, showing ers of the district said: The object of this smelter meeting Bartley's shortage to be 5870.000. Ths amount of defalcation has keen variis known tothi mine owners, and ously estimated at from 570(1, OOft.to mine managers and, aa a result, there 51.000,000. Bartley is now in Douglas ia prospect of a bitter fight, with tha sencounty jail under a twenty years' smelters arrayed on one side and the tence in the penitentiary. An appeal mine managers and owners on the has been taken to the supreme court other. and argument on motion for a new This fight was virtually started trial will soon be made. last Wednesday night, at a meeting of e mine owners and mine managers Kan-- a Pi oorher MMa. disciissed thoroughly W. camp. They Mr. 18. Rev. , Downs, Kao., Nov,, the question and decided to organize A. Me Wright, one of the ablest and assoeiatlbn to protect their own an most popular preachers in the state, interests deagainst tbe smelters. lie baa mysteriously disappeared, In order to show what the smelters serted his pastorate of the Methodist intended to do, one of the mine manchurch at Cawker City last Sunday agers stated that he had been requestand tbe following day took n tra ed been by a smelter to enter into a coneast Since then not n word has tract for the sale of his ore before tha heard of him. Presiding Elder Bull trust went into effect. baa declared McWrigbt s pastorate vaAt this meeting in Leadvllle, w a cant. The affair has canted prodecided that a circular should be gotfound sensation in church ct. ies, Mr. to be sent to all the mice ownten vicup, MeWright's friends assert he is a ers fs the west This circular seta tim of the morphine habit He has a forth the object of the association, and brother lu Wisconsin and he may have calls for auggestiona as to tha also gone there. , time for holding a meeting of all tha Him In Durrani's Css. mine owners. Washington, Nov. 16. On motion of The mine managers insist that inAssistant Attorney General Anderson stead of allowing the emelters to reguthe supreme court today decided to islate the price, that they ought to do sue immediately a mandate in the Dur- It tiiemsel ves. They also object to. the UHJccUrT emelters getting the benefit of the low of Durrant Was In court when the morates and the rebates from, the railFOXY SMUGGLER. tion was made. The court, after a roads, which, it is claimed, they are hurried consultation on the bench, an- Home with One Door la Mexico, the Othev now receiving. nounced through Chief Justice Fuller In Srlxons. There is certainly a bitter fight in J'' " that a mandate should issue forthwith. Washington, Nov. 18. A errious sight A Mr. Anderson thlpks this will settle esse of smuggling- on tha Mexican AS HE SEES IT. the matter and hasten Diirrsnt's exe- border line .has been discovered cution. He said he would have made recently by the government officials at A Sent ef the Salt Lake College Enlighten the motion sooner but for the neces- N'ogale Arizona, and equally curious the People of Mneencbneett. Boston, Mass., Nov. 11. Rev. Charles sity of giving notice to Durrsnt's lotion has been taken to sur press it counsel. On May 6, last, land abont Nogales E. R. Bliss, financial agent of the Salt waa declared subject to entry, and Lake college of Utah, spoke last evenARGENTINAS WHEAT CROP. in Franklin Congregational church, among those who took advantage of ing Comon tha Present Attitude A Toaa Million tbe Somerville, (or Export Folly the right was a man who made a town-it- e ing Year. of Mormonism. selection directly on the internatHe said that the American people Buenoa Ayres, Nov 18. Argentine's ional border line and Immediately eoming wheat crop ia estimated at erected a large houae thereon, with underrate the power of Mormonism The position taken by many that 1,500,000 ton Deducting home con- ioor on both side By this fhesns, ia dead ia untrue. It is still will remain at leas there sumption, according to official reports, .the laws polygamy 1,000,000 tons for exporL many prominent people by practiced would be evaded by backing up wagons The mslxe crop will not be abundant, taden with Mexican goods to the rear in the church, and is generally acunless there coiys a good fall of rain door of the honse, which did not re- cepted by the Mormon people aa true In December. doctrine. President Partridge conquire crossing the iim. The goods Advorso to Land Claimant. were then taken out of tbe door on cedes it to be his belief that God is a Washington, Nov. 18. In tha United the American side, and carried away. polygamous being, loving a female Stntet supreme court, three decisions The case was reported by the collector companion, and that Christ waa also are rendered oa appeals from the of customs, and be, asked that nor pnlygsfnist The polygamous printhe very warp and court of private land claims, involving townaite be allowed unless there was ciple Unas msny grants in tha territory of a street set apart along the border to Woof of his religious conviction all Mormon older the New Mexico, the grants affected being prevent this evasion. questionably, those known as ths Fasteure, the San Ths general land office has acted on leader) share these convictions with Antonio and tha San Diego grants. this proposition, and tha president him, the result of the emphatic end In all these eases the court decided has made a reservation of a atrip of Incessant teachings of the last, fifty against the claimants, and the land sixty feet wide and two miles year and it is a very curious quessupreme court today affirmed the de- long, at Nogales, which, it is expected, tion whether with such men polygamy will secure this government its customs ever can be dead. cision ia each. case. dues. The necessary surveys for the That the Mormon church is steadDen lee Be Is a Candidate. purpose are being made. its power ia ily seeking to Washington, Nov. 18. Thera la no evident from many fact It was IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. truth in the statement recently pubcharged and apparently proved at the lished to the effect that tha secretary Monthly Statement Presented by Bnrsna close of a recent session of the legislao t Statistic. to the presldenL John Addison Porter, ture that a committee of the church be candidate will a for the United Washington, Nov. 16. The monthly had been appointed to supervise pro8tates senate in next year's electioa in statement of the imports and exports posed laws in the interest of the Connecticut Secretary Porter de- issued - by the buresu of ststistics church, and the secret influence over clines to be Interviewed on the sub- shows the exports of domestic mer- its members in the legislature preject, but Is emphatic In the assertion chandise daring October last to have vented the passage of such laws as that under no circumstances will tha amounted to 5109,568,843, k loes of wonld be obnoxious, and that proposed use of his name he allowed In this con- nearly 53,500,009 as compared with laws were defeated by their interest October, 1896.' (The imports of mer- Recently the papers have nection. published chandise during October are shown to the statement that the W Ilpresident Prominence, Deepondsaey, Saldde, have beta 549,469.813, of which ford the Woodruff, has, by authority South Bend, Ind., Nov. 18. Charles waa free of duty. For tbe laat of God, Instructed Mormons to vote as A. Spencer, manager of tha Postal ten months a of 579,343,703 is Mormon gain So marked is the drift that Telegraph company's office at Dead-woo- shown over the corresponding period an intelligent observer of pnblio af8. D., purposely shot himself last year in the exports of merchandise fairs now living in Utah hssracently fatally --last' night. In the Methodist and a galn of 564,444,373 1a the Im- said that in hi opinion statehood has Episcopal church at WestvlUe, Ind., ports. retarded progress in Utah.! greatly where until recently ha was manager j During last October the exports of of the Postal company. The deed waa PATHETIC STORY. gold amounted to 5310,618 and the Imcommitted while the congregation waa ports to 511,340,786. The silver exports a Hen Fraacleee singing, end much excitement follow- during October aggregated 53,335,542 Pride sod Poverty Drava gently to Insanity. In Goto-beed. Despondency end alleged financial and the Import 51.891.061. San Francisco, Nov. 15. A pathetic 1898, the silve reexports amounted troubles are assigned as the cause. (4,794,539 and the Imports 5993,440. scene was enacted in Judge Carroll Mexlewa Reqeeel Healed. Cook' court room today, when John HARDSHIPS ON LABOR. Durr end his three daughters, Kate Washington, Noy. 18. The state deWhy Knight With In Keetrlet Theresa and Sarah, were adjudged inpartment has finally refused the appli' Immigration. cation of tha government of Mexico sane and committed to the Ukiah asyfor the surrender, under extradition Nov. lum. 18 Tha mornLouisville, Ky., The family had been living for many proceedings, of Jessus Guerra, who ing session of the general assembly of was ons of G aria's lieutenant's in his the Knight of Labor waa devoted to years In a little fiat at 172 Clinton Park, attempted revolution some years ago tha discussion on the report of the renting the. basement floor for 513 a The refusal is mad on the ground committee on immigration. It waa month, on which money they have exthat tha offense for which it is sought the prevailing aeotiment thkt vigoroua isted. to extradite Guerra ia purely political. Recently they had been nnable to coltepa be taken to restrict immigration and statistic were presented lect the rent, and the daughter too newspaper Change Beads. proud to beg, were on the verge of showing that nearly 10,000,000 New York, Nov. 61. Lorlllard laborers had come to America foreign atarvation, when their condition waa daring ' t Spencer, for eight yean proprietor of the last twenty-thre- e all of discovered. year the Illustrated American, hae sold which. It ia claimed, worked Durr The family was at one time harda the entire property, including plants on American workmen. eery wealthy. - The lose ef their propship and good will, to a syndicate of capitThe report that Past Grand Master erty affected the girls' minds and they alists. Ths editorship will remain with Workman Sovereign had stepped down began to grow morbid, and even reFrancis Bellamy, the present editor, because he waa an for tha fused visits, from neighbor -- fearing and A. B. Degurzille will take the president on a labor aspirant reform ticket in their pauper condition might be dis1900 waa vigorously denied. business management covered. Mall Robbed Carrier ef St.OOO. Roeeia Bay It Is Tima te Pay Pp, John planing, bond. Warren, Idho, Nov. 18. -- A lone Tbe Russian London, Nov. 18. John Flanlng, CoDsUntinople.Nov.il manager of the National Sporting club, highwayman held up the mail carrier embassy here has made an important here and ordering him to dismount announcement to the Turkish governdied here. The boxing contest between Barrie from his horse, also demanded him te ment In substance, it ia that il and Croot which waa to hsve taken eut open the mail bag, which the car- Turkey intend to apply part of the place before the National Sporting rier did, and the robber then took all Greek indemnity to an increase of the club has been pestponed, on account the registered mail and letters. Thera Turkish armament Russia desires to waa about 54.000 In cash on four dif- .remind Turkey that the of the death of Mr. Flaning. unpaid arferent parties The highwayman rears of the Rosso-Turkis- h war inwore a gunny sack for a mask and also amove to t Heavy winds hsve caused much had sacks 000, 1,300, adding abouthls feet. A sheriff's demnity damage to ahipplng and .weather- posse of tea men immediately set out that if the policy of tha Turkish govbeaten vessels are seeking shelter in in pm, it, but have not ernment ia aa indicated, Russia will yet Narragansett Bay, Mas demand the payment of this amount ex-Sta- te UTAH NEWS. J W. H. T. Pxrrut Wot XSt to bo Eseentad Till IWfe ApproxeU by fit B or, of Secretory to Miles e San Franciaco, Nov. 14. In view I the fact that the anpreme court, which is now in session at Sacramento, will adjourn on Tuesday next until the aecond Monday in January, it is not considered probable that W. II. T. Don-ant- , tbe condemned murderer of Miss Blanche Lamont and Miss Minnie Williams, will expiate the crime for whieh he was sentenced to be hanged in December, 1895, during the current year. Id the ordinary course of event the matter cannot come up for hearing upon the points involved in the order granting he certificate of probable cause, to which the murderer owes bis second lease of life, uDtii tha middle of January, even though the forwarding of the remittitur from tha aupreme court of the United State be Alter the case ha been expedited. decided, another 30 days, at least, must intervene before the remittitur from the state supreme court can reach the trial eourt. and tbe condemned man be resen tenced the second time. This course would not allow the execution to take place before the latter part of February or the beginning of March next. It ia possible that the attorney general may apply to tbe supreme court to advance the case and hear it as special case; but this action is so unusual that few attorneys entertain the suggestion as likely to be accomplished. Meantime Durrant has been removed from thetamderaned cell and returned to his old cell. No. 21, in murderer's row, San Quentin, where he will remain until the aupreme court passe upon the question raised by his DEFENSE. Al- Washington, Nov. 13. Secretary the ger has approved the estimates forGencoast defense work anbmitted by eral Mile and they will be submitted to Chairman Cannon of the honse committee on appropriations some days be furs tbe opening of the session. In his report to the secretary, Gem eral Miles makes no reference to posait ble complications with Spain, but saysi Although the general desire of Is to maintain a condition of all nations, and the policy with peace of the govirnment is one of good will and peaceful relations with all others, yet nothing could be more injudicious than to remain in condition of insecurity and permit the lives of millions and the accumulated wealth of many generations to be destroyed or endant gered by an foreign power with which we are liable to come In contact, and the general plan of defense which has Men adopted by the government should be steadily pursued until the nation is in a condition off security and safety, which a due regard for would demand. In the list of appropriations to bo made for harbor defense, submitted by General Miles, the Pacific coast i itemized aa follows: San Diego, Cal., 5731,000; San Fran-cisc51,336,000; Columbia river, 5005,-90Puget sound, $1,140,000. oue-peopl- o, 0; FRAUBS ON INDIANS. Conspiracy to Cheat tbe Creeks Oat ot Large Bums. Washington, Nov. 13. Mr. J. W, Zen. eleyof the interior department, who waa selected by Secretary Bliss to CHAPLAIN" MCABE. make an investigation of the reported Issue of fraudulent warrants by the or A Qnti Xttbodlil Churchman Looks ft Alaska. Creek Indians, has returned to WashPhiladelphia, Nov. 14. Bishop Cha ington after spending a month in the C. McCabe caused considerable sur- Indian terriiory making the inquiry. prise among the members of the gener- The Investigation established the fact al missionary committee of the Metho- that Isp&rheeher, the principal chief, dist church when he announced that has no knowledge whatever of the Enghe had established an Alaskan mis- lish language, and that all the warsion. He said he had borrowed 5400 rants purporting to have been issued and sent a missionary into Alaska, and and signed by him were, in fact, issued that the latter was now ministering and signed by an under secretary in hi to the spiritual wants of the gold dig- office. The investigation also devel- He asked for 51,600 to enable oped the fact that a number of person ger him to continue the' work in Alaska. had combined togeaher to defraud the Tbe request was refered to a special Greek government out of a large sum committee, as waa also the request of of money. The warrants now known to bo Bishop Newman, who asked that the appropriation for the Chinese mission fraudulently iasned amount to 893,704.-9in California be increased from 57,000 The parties engaged in the conto 57,500. spiracy will be prosecuted. The following appropriations wera The government of the United States made: For mission work . in Nyw baa lost nothing, and the aecretary York City among the Chinese, 51,000; taya he Intends that it shall not He for Japanese and English mission expresses no opinion aa to the liability work in Honolulu, 53,000; for Bohemi- of tha Creek government aa to the an work in Baltimore, 5850; for Bohe- fraudulent warrants, but proposes to see that the Creek Indians are mian work in Cleveland, 93,500. fully The 8paoish mission in New Mexico qrotected. was given 91,000, and Spanish schools in New Mexico 51,750. FEATHERS ON HATS- 3. IDAHO POPULIST SPLIT. of tha Party Orgaa Disapproved Coarse by Osu. Id, Nov. IS. The commotion in the Populist camp over the fiat Topic Touched Upon at the Ornithologist Union, New York, Nov. 13. The final aee-lio- n of the Congress of American Boise. and money middle-of-the-ro- of the Boise Sentinel, the leading organ of that party, continues unabated. Great influence ia brought to. bear to secure a modification ol the Sentinels policy. Congressman James Gunn, formerly editor of the Sentinel, is known to oppose the policy outlined by the Sentinel, and it ia aaid he expressed himself on the subject in no uncertain terms. Borne aay the Sentinel's declaration is merely a bluff at the Democrat with whom the Populist they maintain, will continue to coalesce if vthe nomination for governor 4a given to the Populists next year. Great interest ia manifested and the final result cannot be even conjectured. middle-of-the-roa- d - 4, FATAL WEDDINQ - PARTY. jt Rneetaa Wadding Party Struck by e loes aaoUv. 8L Petersburg, Nov.'M. A terrible accident occurred near Bielostok, Russian Poland, resulting in tbe death of A wedding party waa thirty person returning froiq the church to the house of the bride. All were in one wagon, a huge vehicle drawn by eight The road along which they horse drove crossed the railway track on the level and tbe driver, either through carelessness or ignorance of the train achedule, pushed his swiftly moving horses upon the crossing just as the express waa coming up. The locomotive struck the vehicle squarely, kill lng many members of the party outand maiming others so that right soon expired in most frightful they agony Not a inemlcr of the party escaped. LABOR. LEADERS WRANGLING. i Uow Oxer Coateeted Ddegafloaa Villa Meeting, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 14. at Leal. The gen- eral assembly of the Knights of Labor is wrangling over contested, delegation Nothing is given out as to tbe nature of the contests or from whieh states they come, and the proceedings of the assembly are carefully guarded. Nothing that, is authentic can be learned concerning them,. General Master Workman Sovereign's report Will probably be read tomorrow. I Or- - nithologists Uuion waa held yesterday1 at the American museum of natural The matter of chief interest In the committee on bird protection read by Chairman Willian Dutchei of New York, He prefaced the report with this statement: The continued use of feathers and birds on women's hats is, I think, due to an unwillingness on their parts to ' assnme individual responsibility, most women know the ernelty entailed in obtaining the plumes that orament their hats, but they excused themselves tm the ground that it waa not committed for me personally; it would have happened anyhow. " Reports from western states were discouraging in that they told that the use of aigrettes hnd feathers on hat Waa more popular this year than ever be for PROPOSED SEAL TREATY. Railflratioa by Canada and Great Britain. Washington, Nov. 14. A moat sig- Coodltlooed OS nificant Incident in connection with the beginning of negotiation with the Canadaln premier, Wilfred Laurier, sad the British anbassador, Sir Julian Pauucefote, ia a report that the sealing treaty which our atate department haa just negotiated with Japan and Russia is conditioned on ratification by Canada and Great Britain. Aa tbe information come the raent- -' ly signed treaty ia so drawn that if this condition is not complied with, it shall be absolutely void ahd of no ef- fect The probabilities all ooiut to the' troth of this rumor. Great interest is manifested in the premises those officially concerned. among Millions Capital, New York, ,Xoy. UJ.-- The States Steamship company ha been formed under the law of New 'jersey with a capital of 57,000,000 and With Charles H. Cramp, president of the Cramp Ship Building company, as its president The new companr has completed arrangements by which it acquirasfive' steamers Ohio. Pennaylvania,IndiaD .Illinois and Connemangh and others will soon be added to the fleet Theae steamers will be seat o the west coast and will pty regularly from Sau Fran-aisc- o to Seattle to St Michael ? i |