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Show GUNNISON GAZETTE. Dr mm ouonox - GUNNISON, - IMPERVIOUS TO BULLETS onr. BUT WERE SLAUGHTERED UTAH. VTA II STATE NEWS An effort is being made to organize a Commercial club at Mt. Pleasant. Operators and Miners Will be at Peace for a Term of Three Years. An independent company has been organized to build a telephone line from Marysvale to Kanab. Business men of Salt Lake are looking forward to a period of good trade during the coming summer. Many settlers are locating in Green river valley, and the little town or Green River is having a healthy and steady growth. The assessed valuation of Salt Lake county for 1906 has been increased by County Assessor D. M. Brown over that of 190G by $2,743,538. The report has been circulated in the east that the people of Utah have not contributed a dollar to the relief of the San Francisco sufferers. J. P. K. McCallum, an attorney of Fort Collins, Colo., fell from the rear platform of a street, car in Salt Lake City and was seriously injured. Joshua Messervy, 72 years of age, was thrown from his buggy and badly bruised, at Ogden. His horse became frightened at a vicious dog and ran of Eastern Miners and Operators Pennsylvania Reach an Agreement and the Men Will Return to Work at Once. New York. After carrying on negotiations for nearly three months, the the anthracite mine workers and the operators of eastern Pennsylvania have agreed to continue the award of the strike commission for another three years, or until March 31, 1909, and the men will return to work as soon as practicable, probably Monday. All miners who have not committed violence against persons or property and no one will will be be discriminated against because of any action he may have taken in the strike movement. This outcome of the dispute which threatened to develop into a long, bitter struggle and paralyze a great industry, was looked upon with satisfacaway. tion by the coal road operators, as the daughter of agreement entered into is their first Marie, the Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parker of Woods proposition, made early in March in Cross, while playing on the railroad reply to the mine workers original detrack, was struck by an engine and mands. The miners had little to say regardkilled. ing the agreement, except that it was Several cases of tuberculosis in the best they could get. They pointed dairy herds have been discovered near out, however, that the agreement enLogan. The animals were at once tered into is the first general agreement that has ever been signed bekilled, and every possible precaution tween the operators and the miners, taken. and they look upon it as a step forAfter being out twenty-fivhours, a ward in their efforts to have regular .Salt Lake jury returned a verdict of agreements with their employers. guilty in the case of Charles Smith, WARSHIP SENT TO GUADALOUPE accused of stealing eight sacks of llucern seed. City in French West Indies in Hands The church officials have placed an of a Mob. 'order for an organ for the new taberFrench Washington. Guadaloupe, nacle at Lehi, which, when completed, West Indies, is under mob rule, aciwill be the finest in the state outside cording to a dispatch received at the .of Salt Lake City. state department from J. Jarvis BowThe people of Salem have decided ens, the American consul at that point. to build a large modern school house His dispatch says the mob is in conthis summer, to cost about $10,000. trol and the authorities are unable to iThe school district will bond for restrain it. Election trouble are the ;$5,000 for this purpose. cause of the disturbances. For sevbeen weeks eral has there Lehi at rioting, school election a At special to a come is which have to supposed $12,000 was voted to complete the new head Monday, which was election day. central school house. Eighteen While there are few Americans at the dollars was voted last year, place, large quantities of American (Which brings the total up to $30,000. goods are stored there. ' William H. Sutherland, the senior Work will be commenced at once officer in command of the fleet at San on the Mount pickle station near the Domingo, has been ordered to send a Salt Lake Route depot at Lehi. One warship immediately to Guadaloupe to Ihundred acres of cucumbers have protect American interests. jbeen contracted for delivery at the PUPILS HOLD FIELD DAY. sub-committ- representing two-year-o- ld e thou-jcan- d i I j6tation. Reuben P. Robinson, of Williard, Parents and Patrons Are Spectators iwas killed by a pitched ball during a at Rowland Hall. iball game at Logan. Robinson was Salt Lake City. The pupils at Rowjstruck in the head, and finished the land Hall held their field day on May game, but died during the night from 4 on the broad lawn before the school. his injuries. It was attended by several score of Edward M. Le Prohon, civil engitheir friends and the patrons of the neer, while in Boise, Ida., was bitten school. The work was in charge of :ty a poisonous insect. Blood poiso- Miss Anna Isabel Brooks, director of ning developed and he was brought to physical work at the institution. The Salt Lake, where he died, despite exercises opened with a march in which the greater number of pupils every attention. of the school took part. This was folAn effort to have the lowed by drills in the use of Indian machines again installed in Salt clubs, dumbells, ring and wands, inLake City has met with failure, the terspersed with fancy marches and closed with relay city attorney holding that the city has steps. The whole of basket ball races, games tennis, no right to grant licenses for the us ball. tether and machines. ; nickel-in-the-sl- of the ot Fanatical Fury of Zulus Did Not Count Against the Trained Soldiers of Great Britain. Durban, Natal. Colonel Mansells column, which is pursuing the Zulu rebels under Chief Bambaata, was attacked Sunday by 200 Zulus while descending a precipitous hill near the grave of Chief Cettiwaya. Sixty Zulus Colonel Mansell hac were killed. three men wounded. Mansell was engaged in a reconnaissance from Fort Yolland. He was cooperating with other columns in expelling the rebels from a forest, with a view of cutting Bambaata off from escape. He thought the Zulu attackers were Bambaatas men. They numbered altogether over 1,000 men and attempted to employ the crescent formation adopted in the Zulu wrar, and only Colonel Mansells prompt disposition of his forces prevented disaster. The Zulus displayed desperate fury. They were armed with rifles and assegais, and evidently had been drugged by witch doctors, who pretend to be able to render them impervious to bullets. MONEY TO BUY FOOD. Secretary Taft Sends $300,000 to General Greely at San Francisco. Washington. Following the representation made to the war department by General Greely, commanding the Department of the Pacific, Secretary Taft has placed at the disposal of that officer an amount approximating $300,-00f the relief fund of $2,500,000 appropriated by congress for the relief of the San Francisco sufferers. With this money General Greely will pay for supplies already purchased and others fresh which are needed, including is indispensable. meat, which, he says, Supplies heretofore issued, including the tents from the quartermasters stores, etc., and which had been charged against this appropriation of $300,000, will be returned to the army and are available for future use. 0 Traders Insurance Company of 'Chicago in the Hands of a Receiver. One of the Largest Fire Insurance Companies of the West Fails Be- cause of Serious Losses Sustained as Result of San Francisco Disaster. Byron L. Smith, presLent of the Northern Trust company of this city, was on Saturday appointed Chicago receiver for the Traders Insurance company by Judge Julian Mack, in the circuit court of Cook county. The company is one of the largest fire insurance companies in the west and its distress is due to the heavy losses it sustained in the San Francisco fire, the amount of which was stated in the application for the receiver to be approximately $3,748,000. It was stated in the application that the assets of the company will not exceed $3,300,000. In addition to this, the company is Indebted for fire losses and upon other claims to an amount aggregating $111,-96All of these losses are unpaid. 2. The application for the receiver was made in behalf of fifteen stockholders, including John A. King, Clarence Buckingham, Charles L. Hutchinson, Abram Poole, William C. Seipp and George Sturges, all of them wealthy men. The order appointing Mr. Smith receiver also restrains the company from doing business in Illinois until after the termination of the receivership. Mr. Smiths bonds were fixed at $2, 000.000. GAPON IN SWITZERLAND. Russian Anarchist Was Not Lynched by His Fellows. Chicago. "Father Gapon has not Senator Pettus Has No Thought of been lynched by Russian anarchists. Giving Up Toga. On the contrary, he is in Switzerland, W'ashington. Something unusual is alive and well, as I positively know, happening in Alabama. The people said Ivan Ivanovitch Narodny in an want Edmond Winston Pettus to cona Socialist gathering tinue to serve them in the United address before on side north the Sunday afternoon. States senate as long as he lives. Yet Narodny came to the United States they are preparing to hold an election with Maxim Gorky, and was substitutThe to decide upon his successor. as the speaker at the Soed for Gorky reason is that when Senator Pettus cialist gathering on account of Gopresent term expires, in 1909, he will The meeting was held illness. rkys je 88, and the election is to be held of the Industrial under the because Alabamans think he will not Workers of auspices as a protest World the live longer than that. But Grandpa of arrest and the Pettus is indignant. He says he is as against of the Western Haywood of Federation spry as he was at 60 and that he ex- Moyer assassiconnection in the Miners with pects to live out the whole six years nation of former Governor Frank of another term. He is a candidate addon the platform, A Steunenberg of Idaho. Narodny for a mutual ed last that only Monday man is as young as he feels. friend in Washington, D. C., had received a cablegram from Gapon. SUFFERS FROM FIRE. IS YOUNG AT EIGHTY-FIVE- . OGDEN Three Big Warehouses Are Destroyed, the Loss Being $40,000. Ogden. The most destructive fire that has visited Ogden in years broke out in the warehouse district at the street, Sunday foot of Twenty-thirafternoon. Before the flames were gotten under control they had completely destroyed the Boyle Furniture companys warehouse, the Ogden Hide & Pelt companys building and a portion of the warehouse of George A. Lowe & Co. The loss will run up close to $40,000. The origin of the fire is unknown, but the general belief is that a spark from a locomotive se' fire to some of the inflamable materia1 in the Boyle building. d Soldiers Caught in Ruins. San Francisco. The first accidenl In connection with the dynamiting oi dangerous walls by the engineers oi the army took place Sunday. Smallei quantities of explosives than were used last week are now being fired, and this necessitates two or more charges of dynamite being exploded before the desired result is attained. The engineers were working in the downtown district. Twice had dyna mite been exploded under the facade of a tall ruin and a third charge was eing Inserted when the wall fell. Three soldiers were buried, but a mass of twisted iron partly shielded then and only one was seriously hurt. |