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Show I THE GUNNISON GAZETTE DY t NEPHI GLEDHILL GUNNISON Y'NEW FACES Largest Representation in History of the County, Being Composed Members. of Ninety-tw- o w.ts acvidt ntally killed while deck burning uar It a. Idaho Ins eiu:in-r- . Tin Salvation Army provided near of S.ili ly I.oimi Lake's unfortunate Thanksgiving din about January 1. atcn Love, aped CO, who for mon than thirty years has been a residen' of Weber county, dropped dead In Ogden on the 27th. George A. Morgan, a machinist, buI elded in a lodging house in Salt Lake City, as the result of despondency over domestic troubles. annual convenThe twenty-secontion of the Utah State Sunday School aisociation was held in Ogden on Friday and Saturday of last week. Everett Buckingham, who has been general superintendent of the Oregon Short Line, with oflices in Salt Lake City, since 1904, has tendered his res lgnation. A railroad man at Ely, Nov., Is au thorlty for the statement that there will be direct railroad communication between Ely and Salt Lake within two years. Salt Lake citizens are in a fair way to get the benefit of a reduction d & I 1 Members, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH A brilliant scene charCOFFIN WAS A 6o Pennsylvania NUMBER. BACK Man Sold It and Will Purchase Another. Isaac Coffman of Hatton, Pa., na sold a coffin be made many years ago. lie sold It not because be felt bo would have no use for It, but because bis wife insisted that It was out of date. Mr. Coffman Is nearing bis eightieth birthday. He .explained to a friend that he constructed the coffin 20 years ago. It was built of fbestnut because, as he put It. Many's the time I have sat beside a cheery blaze of chestnut ogs and heard them crackle and burn merrily. It makes such a homelike blaze that I picked It In prefernce to other woods. It was my desire to lave the coffin as cozy as possible, and I rejected the frivolities which so many persons affect In the matter of coffins. In order to havo it handy I kept It In the garret. But my wife from his own party. tells me that styles have changed, and The appearance of William J. Bryan since I have accumulated a little foron the floor of the house also was the tune she will not permit me to die unoccasion for enthusiastic cheering by less I consent to get an the Democrats. casket. To avoid trouble I agreed to When the adoption of the rules for sell the old one. But at the same the government of the house during time I think that the coffin which was the Sixtieth congress came up, the good enough for me In my poorer rules of the last congress were op days should satisfy me now, and I posed by John Sharp Williams, and shall always feel out of place in the In the he was S, up-to-da- te Knitting , well-poste- e, Re- con-gieb- Mills company of Springville filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state last week. The capital stock is $100,000. Italian laborers at the rate of aboul 100 a day are leaving Salt Lake for Italy. Most of them are discharged employes from the Western Pacific railroad in Nevada. Claude Clarke, a negro, who killec Lewis Jones, colored, at Ogden several months ago, during a fight in a gambling house, has been sentenced Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee has to five years' imprisonment. a great reputation as a humorist, and While working at a sawmill neai during his recent campaign for the James county, Torrey, in Wayne Heath fell on a circular saw, and was almost cut in two, but despite his serious injuries may recover. A rabbit hunt in which a number of Salt Lake sportsmen took part on Thanksgiving day resulted in about Paynter of the bunnies 1,000 being slaughtered, field of slaughter being Cedar valley. The farmers of Willard are busy hauling beets from the dump to the cars. They had to sign contracts, agreeing to put them on the ears, before tho sugar company would allow them to dump the beets. Nearly 1,000 sheep have recently tbere Repub leans and 268 bei.ng died on a ranch near Monticello, San ' Democrats. will be many m- Tnere Juan county. From all appearances and picturesque characters it seems that the death of this large teresting in the house. flock is the work of some spiteful There are ninety-nin- e new members fiend who poisoned the animals. in the house, but of that number twelve have served in that body prior Representative Howell will intro- to last congress. Of the new men of session at this duce bills congress sixty-on-the e are Democrats. to establish an assay office at Salt Lake, provide for public building at Moorish Tribesmen Reckless in As Brigham, Park City and Richfield, and saults Upon the French. national soldiers home at Salt Lake. Latla, Maghnia, Algeria. Marabout Word has been received by J. H. a holy war, Luckartof Plain City, that he is one) and his has proclaimed are emissaries busy stirring of the heirs of the Cornelius Drake frontier the up tribes, telling them estate of New York City, valued at are the French as all that helpless, $20,000,000. The news came as a to have Casa the soldiers Blanca. . gone Thanksgiving offering to Mr. Luck-art- In a fresh attack on the French near Adjeroud Saturday night 4,000 Thanksgiving festivities at Wells-vill- e tribesmen hurled themselves v with were saddened by the accidental reckless bravery against a French d death of Arnold Smurthwaite, 13 force of 400, but the guns years old, son of Alfred Smurthwaite, of the French resulted in the mowing wh-shot himself while crossing a down of the ranks of the tribesmen, who finally retired, leaving the ground carrying his gun by the strewn with corpses. muzzle. foot-bridg- Law- acterized the meeting of the Sixtieth congress on Monday. In the senate Nearly One Hundred New Members o: and house of representatives there the House, While Seventeen Men were notable gatherings In the gallerfrom Various Parts of Counies of representatives of the off. rial try Sport Togas for society of the capital. The routing Time. First together for the first time of the men who have been elected to the senate and the house, about one hundred of In Washington. The senate will be whom have not before served made the occasion one of par- the largest in the history of the conn try, as it will be composed of ninety-- tlcular Interest. . two members, the Increase being I The striking scenes of the day were representatives, made by the admission of Oklahoma In the house of of Joseph selection formal where the L. whose two senators will be Robert G. Cannon again to be speaker of that body and the designation by the Democrats of John Sharp Williams as their leader, were occasions for ovations for those gentlemen. The .'ast hall of the house of representatives rang with the cheers of Republicans and Democrats for their leaders, and re- Idaho, and Jonathan Hourno. Jr., of the speaker received as warm a ception from the minority as he did In fire insurance rates, as a result of the recent meeting of the board of fire underwriters. The Progress Spinning Sixtieth Assemblage of makers Adjourns Out of spect to Deceased Washington l with a xur. According to one of the bank of flclals of Ogden. the local Institution! will not resume cash payments until sulii-tantln- " cm ttkt Afttr Finishing Routine Ousincss, the i.ano mm Ma!nn, a ! You rood earo of toy turplut Mvlngs boat by buying diamond of ua, and at fha tamo lima onjoy lh waarinf of a boautiful gom. Ifl THE SENATE STATU NEWS A, " dooo "w Tht out with UM It t dliwofld. l SON. UTAH UTAH Chains THE ONLY THING . . . joined opposition by Democrats and by a single Republican, Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin. The old rules were declared to be too autocratic, placing too much power in the hands of the speaker, but after a somewhat acrimonious discussion they were adopted by a party vote. Committees were appointed by both houses to inform ' the president that congress had met and was ready to receive any message he might wish to communicate. New senators and representatives were sworn in and both houses ad- journed out of respect to the memory of members who have died during tho recess of congress. I new fangled affair. METHODS ARE TOO STRENUOUS. Why Yankee Salesmen Have Not Suc- ceeded in South America. In the matter of salesmen abroad, must have men who not only speak the language but who are also thoroughly conversant with the customs and Idiosyncrasies of the people with whom they deal, says the Engineering The South American, in Magazine. his buying as in almost everything else, Is a most deliberate person as well as a sensitive one. A salesman who will call, smoke a cigarette, talk Inconsequently about the weather, the theater and the races, and answer questions should any happen to be asked rather than make assertions about his goods, will outsell, five to we Charred Remains of Four People Found in Ruins of Ranch House. Salem, Ore. News of the murder of four persons on a ranch near Mac- leay has reached here. The bodies of one, the liveliest hustler that ever a Airs. Casteel, her daughter, aged opened up a sample case. This is a about 24; her son, aged about 19, and thing so contrary to the instinct of the the foreman of the ranch, a man: American salesman that, to date, in named Montgomery, aged about 50, his wanton disregard of it, he has conwere discovered in the burned ruins stantly played into the hands of his of their adobe house on what is more experienced European rivals. known as the Hurst ranch. Just how Your Yankee drummers, says the latter politely, are the greatest sales. . , owing to the charred condition of the men in the world in America. bodies, but from the fact that a shot-- ' hatchet were gun and blood-staine- d Advance in Miscroscopy. found near the place, it is surmised The wonders revealed by the ordithat those weapons were used in the nary miscroscope are increased a slaughter. hundredfold by a recent invention, r President Opposed to Restricting Im- which enables the use of a lens as large as six inches In diameter migration. thus bringing the whole of objects Roosevelt instead of details only under observaWashington. President is opposed to the bill restricting tion. By this means a common houseOriental immigration prepared by fly is magnified not in parts, but all Representative Hayes of California. at once, till it appears to be as large The provisions of' the measure were as an ostrich or a condor, and, being made known to the president by Mr. inclosed in an open space, where it is Hayes and Representative Kahn of kept directly within the field of the California. Beyond stating that the glass and yet has ample room, considpresident indicated his opposition, and! ering its size, to move about and enalso stating that he should neverthe-- j gage in its usual occupations, the opless introduce the bill and press it to portunity for studying it are immensethe best of his ability, Mr. Hayes de- ly in advance of anything clined to discuss the question. He! enjoyed by scientists. Vast previously worlds of said, however, that the bill was in', microscopic hitherto life, only accordance with the sentiment in Cal- dreamed of, are to the suddenly open ifornia, which had become universally,' gaze of mankind, and discoveries of opposed to Japanese immigration. Immense value can doubtless be made. -- high-powe- |