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Show . TWO TICKETS I THE FIELD OF SULTAN OF TURK Court Official of Minor Rank Attacks | Him With Knife, But Coat of Mail Defiects Biow. Idaho Democrats Fail to Agree in Convention and Both Factions Constantinople.—The news has just| Select Candidates. Anti-Dubois Faction Leave leaked out that Sultan Abdul Hamid; was stabbed in the breast on Monday | Title of “Regular” Democrats, With Judge Stockslager as I ate apartment. When the prisoner was searched byj Wallace, Idaho.—A split occu | the palace guard a large sum of the Democratic state convention 1 } money was found upon him, An exhere on Thursday, two separate οἱ of his living quarters | ventions being held and both the Du | amination | showed he had packed his baggage| bois and anti-Dubois factions ad ready for flight. | plaiforms and placed tickets field Except that the Dubois convention ~ declared for local option and pro nounced strongly poiyga against unlawful cohabitation and cpnurch | terference in polities, on which ὶ jects the other convention wa the platforms are much alike The split in the convention came in conventio the forenoon when the failed to sustain a protest of the ant Dubois faction against the seating Οἱ the Dubois delegates from Bear Lak Oneida and Fremont counties The anti-Dubois faction left the hall. The Dubois faction then formed a permanent organization The “regular” Democrats, as the anti-Dubois faction denominate them selves, went over te the Masonic hal!, where Judge Stockslager was chosen chairman. The anti-Dubols faction nominated the following ticket Senator, C. O Stockslager; congress, J. L Sewell: governor, M. Alexander; lieutenant Boyd; secretary of state, W. W. Snell; attorney general Frank Moore; state auditor, J. A Bradbury; superintendent of public instruction, Miss Gertrude Noble treasurer, David L. Evaas; mine in spector, George Lamb; presidential electors, John C. Rice, M. D, Mills and ‘T. C. Galloway The Dubois ticket, or the ticket chosen by the regular convention, is as follows: Presidential electors—Henry Heit felt, Nez Perce: Harry L. Day, Sho shone, and H. | | | 1 | | | | William B. gation of the case, as it is be —United States S@hator Allison died of heaft fail- ure at 1:33 p. m., Tuesday, Avigust 4, The death of Senator Allison Temoves from the senate a man who for more than a quarter of a century has been one of its most prominent members. had served continuously since 1873 Mr. Allison was born*at Perry, 0., 1829, aud removed to Iowa He served as a member of se the house of representatives in the STRIKE ON CANADIAN PACIFIC. | Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty first congresses prior to his | election to the estate, Biggest Strike in Canada. | Two weeks ago the aged ‘senator Montreal—The Canadian Pacific | left his home in the city to escape the railway has on its hands the biggest | strike in the history of Canada A i life. low 1 | Dubuque, la pollee are making a thorough | He | inve | lieved the assailant had been bribed | to make the attempt on the sultan’s | Other arrests are likely to fol- Mareh 2, in 1857. | | general strike was issued Wednesday j night by Bell Hardy, secretary of the Associated Mechanics of the Canadian | Pacific road, and from the Atlantic to | Governor—W. C, Whitewell, Lemhi; McBride, Bonner; state treasurer, William W. Brown, Idaho county; attorney general, Edwin McBee, Kootenai; state superintendent of public instruction, Miss Edna Gillespie, Bingham; inspector of mines, John Pressley, Shoshone; justice of supreme SO EARS LIGHTNING STRIKES AIRSHIP. ΖΡ WILLIAM B. ALLISON, Remarkable Voyage of Count Zeppe heat. For a few days his condition seemed to improve, but he later be gan to grow worse. Saturday morning the senator was brought to his home in this city. Soon afterward he relapsed into a condl- lin Ends in Disaster. Stuttgart+-After making what was undoubtedly the most remarkable voyage in thejhistory of aerial navigation Count} Zeppelin’s airship was struck by Iiehtning and destroyed at tion of almost unconsciOusness. With work repairfig one of the motors, the aeronaut hawing descended for that purpose at 1:33 p. m. on Tuesday. News of the serious iilness of the aged senator was kept from the pub- o'clock in the morning after coveriyg 300 miles. No one was the most intimate friends of the famfly were aware of his critical and un- KOREANS BUTCHER JAPS. trol. The destruction of the Zeppelin airship means the disappearance of a vast fortune. It is estimated that the Soldiers Surprised at Night and Com- and $700,000 in perfecting building his injured. trip made by Count Zep- conscious condition since his return to the city. count. has expended between $500,000 AUTO WENT OVER PRECIPICE, airship. Prominent People Have Harrowing Experience on Pleasure Trip. WILL BUILD CUT-OFF. bay regarding the annihilation last month of a detachment of Japanese Rio Grande Plans to Put Salt Lake and Denver One Day Apart. New York.—United States District Attorney Baker of Washington, who soldiers oh the Russo-Chinese frontier by a band of Korean insurgents. The Japanese troops were encamped on Denver, Colo.—The full significance of the plans of the Denver & Rio Grande in the near future to build a successfully prosecuted fierce struggle and the dead bodies of the Japanese. The local population was questioned, but professed entire ignorance of the occurrence. Judge Decides Against Strikers. Seattle, Wash—In an oral opinion in the federal court, Judge C. H. Hanford, granted an injunction asked for by shipowners and steamship companies against the various longshoremen’s unions of the Pacific coast, handed down a decision restraining the Puget Council of Longshoremen and the local union from interfering with strike-breakers in loading and unloading ships in Seattle. The court held that he had jurisdiction in a case where interstate traffic was affected and that the labor unions were responsible for the acts of violence committed. Snub for Uncle Sam. Washington—Honduras has declined to comply with the wishes of the American government by revok ing the decree issued by President Davila cancelling the exequateurs of American Consul Drew Leonard and Vice Consul Virgil C. Reynolds, at Celba, on the ground that they had interfered in the internal politics of Honduras, and that, with the vice consuls of France and Norway, they advocated the surrender of Celba to the revolutionists. The degree of cancellation has been published in the Official Gazette of Honduras Bartlett of Nevada Wins Out. Reno, Nev.—The question at issue in the Democratic primaries throughout Nevada on Wednesday was whether George A. Bartlett should be renominated for congress or District Attorney McCarren of Tonopah. Bartlett worked for the state police bill at the extra session of the legislaiure and was supposed to have aroused the hostility of the miners. The reports from the different counties show him to have won a majority of the delegates to the state convention. In Reno he was overwhelmingly de-! feated. Reno, Nev.—A telephone message from Verdi, Nev., says a destructive cloudburst visited that section between 3 and 4 o'clock Sundayafternoon in which one life was lost, while scores of live stock, cabins and a great quantity of logs were carried eff. Miss Etta Tixley, aged 24, daughter of John Tixley, foreman of the Verdi Mill & Lumber company, was on the porch of the lumber office, located in the canyon, when the water, fully ten feet high, rushed against the building, carrying Miss Tixley with it be cutoff between that system and the govern- ment land frauds in the northwest, and his bride of two months and several friends who were accompanying the them on their honeymoon, had anal- Moffat road and to build a cutoff south most miraculous escape from death on Tuesday. While the automobile in which they were traveling was running down a sharp hill on Walnut mountain, near Liberty, N. Y., the machine got out of control and plungeA over a precipice nearly 300 feet in of Denver to Leadville has not yet become public, but enough is known for it to be realized that these changes will make a vast difference in the rail- road map. The south clude yet it tance work planned immediately of Denver is understood to inonly fifty miles of construction, will cut off 100 miles in the disbetween Denver and Leadville. height. The machine, a big covered car, turned three complete somersaults in the air and lodged in the boughs of a tree thirty feet from the brink of the precipice. There it hung suspended, top downward, with the frightened occupants beld prisoners in the inclosea top of the machine, When they were The connection with the Moffat road will reduce the distance to Glenwood Springs and Salt Lake City by nearly 200 miles and bring the latter within one day's travel of this city. extriceted from their perilous posiYoung New York Broker Gets Corner | tion, all were moreor less bruised, but in Cotton. none seriously injured. New York—The entire supply of | cotton stored in New York City and TOWN WRECKED BY WATER. available for delivery on contract has | Mountain of Water Causes Heavy been cornered by J. L. Livermore, the Property Loss at Bisbee, Arizona. young broker who last May made more than $2.000,000 on a corner on the July option. The New York visible supply consists of only 39,000 bales of cotton worth about $1,800,000. During the last two weeks cotton has advanced in this market over $3.50 a bale and the shorts have been bordering upon panic Dorr Says He Will Pay. San Francisco—Fred Dorr, the stock broker who suddenly went east a short time ago, leaving behind him a number of anxious creditors, quietly returned to this city Tuesday night, and said: “No one need have any fears for what I owe them. Myseats in different stock exchanges are worth $100,000, and I have property worth as much more. All the debts I have will not aggregate any such sum.” Ten Thousand New Steel Cars Ordered for Gould-Harriman Lines. Pittsburg, Pa—The biggest contract ever let for stee] cars is closed with the Pressed company of Pittsburg by Harriman interests. It is 10,000 steel cars to supply now being Steel Car the Gouldfor about every one of the Gould lines, and the price will be about $10,000,000. The contract wifl covér three and perhaps five years’ delivery and will give employment to about 1,000 men for that length of time, and is the result of an investigation of the rolling stock by Harriman. Are Wiped Out, the Terror Stricken Residents Fleeing to the Open Country for Their Lives. Cranbrook, B. C.—Six towns on the Crows Nest branch of the Canadian Pacific railroad have been wiped out, many others are in danger of destruc: tion, over 100 lives have beeen lost, thousands are homeless and a property loss into the millions has been caused by the fiercest forest fire ever known in the history of western Canada Τη fire was in the Elko valley, the richest coal and lumber district in British Columbia. The district is situated in the extreme southeastern cor ner of the province, just north of the Montana state line. The towns known to have been destroyed, together with their popula- tion, are: Fernie, 5,000; Michel, 1,500; Coal Creek, 1,500; Sparwood, 200; Hosmer, 400; Crows Nest, 1,000. One hundred square miles have already been swept by the flames, and it is feared that scores of homesteaders have met death in the deep woods. were recently dismissed from the United States military academy at West Point for hazing, shall be reinstated, and that their puishment shall be administered according to the disciplinary methods of the academy. organized had entered the town. With- Hollanders Offered Affront Which Bisbee, Ariz—A cloudburst Tuesday afternoon did $100,000 damage in Bisbee. One side of Main street, including the postoffice, in less than ten minutes was changed from two hundred yards of big stores, costly sa- | loons and business offices toy mass of wreckage by rocks, water ad mud that came tumbling down eff the mountain side. Postmaster M. ®, Cassidy and Sheriff Jack White, wht were in the postmaster’s office, narrowly 65- caped with their lives, as did the force of eighteen girls employed in the postoffice, when the inrush of water almost without warning struck the side of the building and filled it to a depth of six feet. Huge boulders and tons of dirt and rocks slid into the first floor of the postoffice, where the force was ai work. Cleveland O.—Confessing that she had bound the hands of her four-year old chud with oil-soaked rags and set them afire, Mrs. Helen Nagy has been sentenced to serve three months in the workhouse. The mother, with a three-weeks-old baby in her arms, stated in court that she Lad supsected the older child of stealing the quarter they had last for household ος. penses, and hunger and desperation had caused her to endeavor to make the child confess by this punishment, Neighbors rescued the child before she was badly burned. | in an hour the town was doomed and 7,000 men, women and childre in | flight from the flame-swept region of Crow's Nest territory, are camped in Cranbrook and on the surrounding hills. Relief of food and colthing is anxiously awaited. In Fernie the loss of life was greatest in the west, and there the flames spread so rapidly that it was impossible for the inhabitants to outrun the approaching heat. Searching parties save been sent out for those who were evercome. Bodies are being brought in every hour, Vancouver, B. C.—This city awoke | to a full sense of the completeness of \the destruction around Rernie, on Tuesday. According to a competent | authority, the loss will exceed $10,000, 000, and the death list total will never be known. It is now believed that at least 200 have perished Vancouver wired $5,000 for relief and a trainload of supplies went out. Winnipeg dispatched a special train, with nurses, doctors, hospital stores and provisions . | Loggers to the number of eighty in | the camps of the Ely Lumber com| pany have perished in the flames and | settlers with their families, who lived on the line of the railroad between Fernie and Michel, have disappeared. | The death total will probably grow larger, and a special dispatch from Winnipeg declares that it will reach 400. When the flames were consuming Fernie all the prisoners, with the exception of five “Black Hand” sus| pects, were released. Later they were recaptured and sent to Nelson. Crowds of refugees have already arrived at Nelson, the overflow from Cranbrook. These are being cared for | as much as possible, but their condt- | {ion is pitiable. In their flight they the inhabitants sought safety in flight, | brought nothing away but the clothes | they stood in, leaving their all behind them. Town after town has been attacked and destroyed by the flames, Figures Received From Fernie of Loss and } From Fire. Secretary Wright said that he dis- | many lives have deen lost in an en | cussed the matter thoroughly with | deavor to check the flames, or save | Fernie, B. C.—Following is a sumpersonal effects. j the president, and that both he and mary of the loss of life and property Mr. Roosevelt were of the opinion | in the fire which has raged in east CASTRO IN FOR IscrAP. that dismissal was too severe. He said --- Kootenai since Saturday. Number of fenses with which they were charged. at ¢n hour, under perfect con- fing the frontier noticed the disappear- Vast that the cadets acted in a manly man- were forty miles ance of the Japanese flag from over the encampment. They thereupon visitea the place and found traces of a and what, he had remained in this condition until death came to his relief at ile meechanies ‘court, John M. Flynn. Kootenai; Unit- the frontier near Hunchun. They were attacked unexpectedly the night of July 11 by a strong band of Korean in‘surgents and perished to a man Russian cossacks who were scour- Drowned Amount of Property Destroyed. terdingen ‘ed States senator, William W. Woods, St. Petersburg—Further details have been received here from Possen Young Woman brief spells when he recovered some pelin previofs to the accident had demonstrateg the success of the machine, whicl! raced through the air at pletely Annihilated. CLOUDBURST IN CANYON. 3 o'clock W@dinesday afternoon at Ech- lic as much as posible, and his death came as a sudden and almost totally unexpected shock to his thousands of friends residing in this city. Only ‘Shoshone. men are stealing! their privileges and resent the intrusion. The troops will be sent from Forts Whipple, Apache and Wingate. Winnipee.—The destruction of ΗΘ and proyerty in the fire which has raged in east Kootenai since Saturday is simply appalling. From 5,000 to Six Towns in the Path of the Flames lk river valley country, but they have not been considered serious, SatPresident Overrules West Point Of-| urday morning a heavy wind sprang ficials. up from the west and early in the aftOyster Bay.—President Roosevelt ernoon the flames appeared over the and Secretary of War Wright have crest of the mountains to the west of Fernie. This san down the mountain decided that the eight cadets who side and before a fire guard could be hour shifts; the company wished to ‘interlap an hour at each end, in order to avoid paying overtime. How far reaching the strike will be | | it is impossible to say. If the strike | is prolonged the movement of the! erops will be affected. lieutenant governor, William Hunter, the dissatisfaction is the use of the water holes and grazing lands by the whites. The Indians claim the white less. trict of Canada. canyon near Steamboat Springs, trains at their disposal. caught several people in the rush of For the past month forest fires have waters, but after battling desperately | been raging in the mountains of the they finally saved themselves. Among the chief points in dispute was that of interlapping of hours. The Latah; secretary of state, Jesse Walling, Canyon; state auditor, Frank J. Earl D Thomas, Peegie Were Trapped by Forest Fires, Hundreds Losing Their Lives and Thousi nds Being Made Home- One Hundred Dead and Thousands | Homeless in Crow’s Nest Dis- The inhabitants of the towns have ed to have lost his life also, but this fled to open districts in the vicinity eannot be confirmed. | in the hope of safety. The railway A cloudburst occurring in Spanish companies have placed all available | men wanted to work in three eight- Harris, Wash- Denver.—General commanding the department of the Colorado, has been instructed to dispatch immediately six troops of cavalry to the Navajo reservation. The orders came from the war department Saturday, and are induced by the fear that renegade Utes will induce the Navajos to rebel. The chief cause of Luke Smith, an old-timer, is report- their tools. The strike has been brought on because the conciliation board which was appointed under the Lemieux act of the Canadian parlia| ment was not what the men wanted. ington. an Outbreak is Feared. neath the floods. | the Pacific some 8,000 men laid down W. Lockhart, Bannock, Congressman—Frank The Avy The assailant πα] arrested while trying to escape A. Veteran Statesman Had Served Iowa in the Senate for Mere Than Quarter of a Ceatury. he had galmed entrance to the sultan’s | Chairman. C. indians Claim That White Men Are Stealing Their Grazing Lands and by a court officia) of minor rank. The | sultan alWays wears a coat of mail, which deflected the blow of the would- News of His Illness Had Been Kext From the Public, and His Death be assassin. The official who attempt- | Came as a Sudden and Totally ed to take the sultan’s-life was overpowered by the guard, through’ whom Unexpected Shock, Conven- tion Hall and Organize Under the governor, ARE ORDERED : TOWNS DESTROYE()Weta fo Sere. ALLISON SOLDIERSTO NAVAJO RESERVATION TO QUTRUN RACING FLAMES CALLED oY DEATH SY FOREST FIRES ATTEMPTMADE ON LIFE - (CE SEHATOR ner in telling him all about the of-. people killed, 170; number of people homeless, 6,000; district swept by fire May Result in τ” from near Cranbrook to within four miles of Brauk, Alberta, a distance of Willemstad.—The jutch cruiser Child Abducted From Chieago Home| Gelderland arrived Le on Sunday is Given Her Freedom. | from La Guira, Veneguéla. Her comσηἰοσαρο.--Υοτοπίςα Οαβαἰάγ, {16 12-.' mander declares that he sent a boat year-old girl whose mysterious ab- | ashore at La Guira with an officer and duction on July 30 caused unusual po- was refused all means of communica. lice activity in this and other cities, tion with the shore. The authorities returned to her home Saturday night there, he says, declined |p accept the from Cincinanti, whither she had | letter bags and an official communicabeen taken by her alleged abductor,| tion to the German minister, who is fifty miles; towns destroyed, Fernie, Coal Creek, Hosmer; partially de stroyed; Michel. Total property loss estimated at $5,400,000; property loss in Fernie, $2,000,000. The origin was a bush fire in slashings of the Cedar Valley Lumber company, across the river from Fernie. Practically every F. J. Blair. She told her parents that | tn charge of Dutch tnteretss In Cara- insurance company in Canada is interBlair had placed her aboard a train | cas. ested, but no details are available at He reports also that Venezuela immediately after leading her away is preparing her forces for a defense from home, and that they had been in a rooming house in the Ohio city of the country. It is generally believed here that Holland will take prompt ac present. Spokane the First to Send Relief. until Saturday morning, when the. tion. man gave her a ticket to Chicago and | told her to go home. | Murders His Friend While in Drunken Rage. Another Desert Tragedy. | Aurora, Ill—J. A. Morrell, a Spokane, Wash.—Relief from Spo kane was the first to reach the fire refugees of Fernie. Over 2,000 are being cared for at Cranbrook, and the first car sent out by Spokane citizens wealthy farmer living at Blackberry arrived there Monday morning. A’ speCenter, a small village fifteen miles cial car loaded with tents, clothing, San Francisco, who, with T. P. Me from here, was fatally shot and his | 3,000 loaves of bread, 150 gallons of Cauley of the same city, was on his housekeeper was murdered by John milk and other foodstuffs left Monway to inspect some mines near Gila Anderson, who was employed on Morday afternoon. At a mass meeting of Bend, perished on the desert and Mc- rell’s farm. Anderson later commitcitizens over $1,000 was subscribed in Cauley was overcome by heati and is ted suicide with a shotgun, blowing terribly shocked. The men léft Yuma the top of his head off. Anderson had a half hour and a relief committee appointed to raise more funds and start against all advice and plunged into been drinking heavily for several the desert. They probably got out of weeks, and it is believed he was de- | regular shipments of food to the fireswept district. the machine to make repairs, as they mented. Anderson, when sober, was were found unconscious beside the cevotedly attached το Morrell, who Pluck of Property Owners. car. McCauley revived, but Spauld- had always treated him more as a ing died five hours later at Blaiskell. | Fernie, B. C—Amid the smoking Yuma, Ariz.—F. D. Spaulding, aged 45, an automobile manufacturer of friend than as an employee. Jealous Lover Shoots His Rival and Sweetheart. embers of their homes and offices, with the great forest fire still roaring Failed to Secure Conviction. in the ditsance, the plucky men Portland, Ore.—Ex-State Senator R. A. Booth of Eugene and his brother,| James H. Booth, ex-receiver of the | land office at Roseburg, and Thomas | of Fernie, B. C., had begun clearing away the ruins, pitching tents, checking up the missing, and announcing a country dance and was escorting her home, John Newburg, 24 years old, a E. Singleton, who have been on trial plans to build a new and better town young farmer, waylaid and shot Ara- for several days in the United States| before the ashes of the town ruthbella Miller, 18 years old, and Will district court on a charge of con- | lessly destroyed by the flames had Heider, 24 years old, at Waterloo, spiracy to defraud the government of grown cold. A village of canvas—a bridge, near West Salem, on Sunday. 160 acres of public land in Douglas | villages with many men, but few woMiss Miller was shot through the county, were acquitteg by the jury on | men and children—will be in evidence The jury was out nineteen wrist, in the cheek, arm and abdo- Sunday. It is stated that largely be- | where the former town stood, until men. Heider grappled with Newburg hours. | material for building can be secured. and was shot in the wrist. Heider | cause of the failure of the governwhipped up his horses and escaped ment to secure a conviction a number | Seven Victims of Auto. | of other complaints will be dismissed with the injured girl. La Crosse, Wis.—Jealous because his rival had taken his sweetheart to | Prophesies Prosperity. Successful Aeroplane Exhibition. New York—Henri Farman, who hington.—Prosperity better ano sarer than the United States has ever tame from Paris to give a series of en before is foreseen for the next) aeroplane exhibitions under the manhcade by Professor Henry C. Adams, agement of an American syndicate, this r twenty years in charge of statis- made his first public flight in ties and accounts for the Interstate country at the Brighton Beach race track Sunday. The exhibition was 4 Commerce commission. Professor success to the extent that it demon: Adams is recognized as one of the) strated the inventor's ability to fly unclosest students of industrial and der favorable atmospheric conditions financial conditions in the service of and entertained some 2,000 enthusiasthe government. His intimate asso- tic spectators. Farman traveled near | ciation with the railroads and their) ly a third of a mile in about thirty | operation has given him a thorough seconds and did not appear to be hur-|| insight into business conditions. | rying. Rear Admiral Returns from Honoiviu. San Francisco.—Rear Admiral W. L. Capps, chief of the naval bureau of construction and repairs, who sailed to Hawaii on board the batleship Kansas of the Atlantic fleet, returned Sunday on the Siberia. During the aamiral’s stay in the islands he wit. nessed the target practice and battle Never Worried for a Century. Chicago.—A full century and seven years of life without a single moment of worrying was ended Saturday when San Francisco.—The second disas- }trous automobile accident within | forty-eight hours, involving prominent | San Franciseo people, occurred Mon| day afternoon near Burlingame, the fashionable suburb of this city, when a huge tonneau, occupied by five wo| men and two children, plunged down | a steep embankment asa result of the | snapping of the brakes, and caused | the death of five of the occupants and injuring of the two others. The dead: | | | | | Mrs. Thomas McCormick, Miss Clara McCormick, Mrs. Ira G. O’Brien and infant son, and Ira G. O’Brien, Jr., George Pettibone Dead. Denver.—George A. Pettibone, for aged 3. years prominent in the councils of the Western Federation of Miners, and Mrs. Amna Miskus died at the home | charged with President Moyer and of her grandson, Julius Anixter. former Secretary Haywood with com| though 107 years old, Mrs, Miskas had plicity in the murder of former Govfull possession of her faculties until Στ Steunenberg, of Idaho, died at maneuvers of the squadron and made | the moment of her death. ΑἹ:| She was St. Joseph’s hospital Monday night an extended tour of inspection to prominent as a settlement worker. | from the effects of an operation for Pearl harbor. Admiral ps will in- | She is survived by forty grandchil- | cancer. Mr. Pettibone had been ill spect the naval yards at Mare {sland dren. When only a child in her na- | practically every since his confine and Bremerton before returning to | tive home in Maryneple, Poland, she ment in the Idaho prison, which began Washington to report to the secretary | took a vow never to worry, and more than a year previeus te the fa of the navy. | &%& vow she attributed bar leegevity mous trials at Boise, |