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Show THE GUNNISON GAZETTE ONE DY NEPHI GLCDHILL A SON. GUNNISON PEOPLE PERiSH H NEWS The Socialism of Weber county ha o placed a county ticket In the field. Vorlonc3 Idle, Heavy Damage tc Crops and Fierce Forest Fires Due to Lack of Water. There arc now fourteen smallpox patients under quarantine In Salt Lake City. The Fifteenth regiment of infantry, Dried Up and Small Stream ft aliened at Fort Douglas, indulged Many in WestObliterated Practically In a five days hike last week. ern Pennsylvania and EastThomas Mnnnix. the young man ern Ohio and West who was thrown from a horse in Park City, died from Ilia injuries. Five hundred children and seventy five decorated vehicles appeared in rittfcburg. With losses aggregatthe flower parade held In Salt Lake week. ing several million dollars from forCity last The next general meeting of the est fires and heavy damage to crops a State Federation of Womens Clubs and live stock; the reported loss of timIs to be held at Manti, beginning number of lives, due to fighting ber fires; the enforced idleness of Oct. 21 and continuing three days thousands of workmen owing to susRaymond C. Kill, a car Inspector, was killed at Ogden last week, the pensions because of lack of water; setrain starting while he was under- the health authorities anticipating disrious epidemics of contagious neath a car Inspecting an and man) small streams dried Nows has been received in Ogden eases, up and practically obliterated, the ' that John Pawlas, a former resident of 190$, which has held westof that city, was killed in a train drouth ern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and wreck near Hillings, Mont., last West Virginia In its grasp for more week. than two months, remains unbroken, Den Foreman, the young man ar- each day gradually increasing the serested in Ogden on the charge of riousness of the unprecedented situastealing a horse in Park Cijy, has tion. been bound over to ihe district court While in the Pittsburg district the for trial. water supply Is sufficient, to carry oh An automobile ran into a street car all business, the low stage of the in Salt Lake City one day last week rivers has caused a congestion .oi and put the car out of business, the much coal in this vicinity. Every auto and Its occupants escaping available barge and float has been without injury. loaded with coal, and at present, with cantof cars There has been fifteen almost twenty million bushels in the of River out Green shipped aloupes Pittsburg harbor, the river coal mines of so far the year. Cantaloupes have been compelled to shut down are River Green bringing for lack of shipping facilities. There variety $3.50 per crate on the New York are about. 15,000 miners employed in market. the river mines along the Mononga-hela boom There is valley. This great fleet of coal regular building on in Vernal. Not for a long tinio is for the supply of points in the have so many buildings been in. the west and south, and the probabilities course of construction, and for the are that there will be a coal famine, most part they are to be modern and especially in the northwest, should conditions prevent the shipment of commodious. sets in. Although the Elberta peaches are coal before the cold weather In West Virginia lumber plants, now gone, Willard people are still iron and steel busy with) fruit. Several varieties of glass factories and the rivers are late peaches are coming in, and the mills located along on account of insufficient heavy crop of plums and prunes is closed water. In eastern Ohio the same conready for shipment. ditions prevail, and it is feared the Highwaymen have begun holding great iron and steel mills at Youngsup automobiles in Salt Lake City, town, Ohio, employing over 20,000 One night last week a joung mmi men, will have to suspend operations was slopped at Ihe point of a revol- unless the drouth is speedily broken. In all sections of the dry zone pray ver, while taking a spin in his maof ers are offered up daily, and these $182. chine, and relieved Governor Cutler will address the prayers will continue until they are at San answered with rain. congress Francisco, October 6 to 10, if his en- BRITONS MAKE DEMONSTRATION gagements will permit hiis attendance. His subject will be The Con- Meet in Hyde Park and Protest servation of Natural Resources. Against the Licensing Bill. ' Cars of Ogden fruit have been reLondon Of the great demonstracently disposed of in Omaha, Denver, tions held in Hyde Park in recent St. Paul, South Dakota, Minneapolis, years, that of Sunday to protest Chicago, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, De- against the licensing bill, was by far troit, Cleveland and Philadelphia. the largest, but it lacked the enthusiNot bad for the supposed-to-bdesert. asm which was manifested at other air-brak- trans-Mississip- TEN IN WRECK UTAH UTAH ST AT ih-h- H HUH j pi e Mike Kofales, a Greek, employed as a wheel brass helper in the Southern Pacific macliine.shops at Ogden, had the first three fingers of his left cut off by a swiftly revolving circular sawr, while attempting to saw a piece of wood. When a street car was accidentally derailed in Salt Lake City, John Pot- terf aged 40, a resident of the capital City, was. thrown from the car and under the rear wheels, his body being horribly mangled, death b.emg al- most instantaneous. Samuel Boyer, a young man of Silver City, died from Injuries sustained while out horseback 'rid ing. The horse that he was riding was going at a fairly good clip, anif in some way which cannot be accounted for ran into a caw. well-know- n Ship Star of Bengal Caught In Storm, Torn From Hold of Protecting Tugs, and Destroyed. One hundred and 137 persons of a total of ten out aboard the cannery ship Star of Ren gal were drowned when the vessel was lorn from the hold of protectin tugs and dashed ashoroi at Helm Point, at the southeast end of Coronation island. The terrible tragedy occurred on September 11, and the news was brought by the tug Hattie Gage, Captain Farrer, which carried In all. The the survivors, twenty-sevesurvivors before leaving Coronation Island buried the bodies of fifteen white men on the beach Captain Wagner of the hark Star of Ilengal, which was wrecked on Coro- nation Island with a loss of 110 lives, was unconscious for an hour after ho was rescued. He charges the captains of the tugs Kyak and Hattie Gage, who cut loose front him, with rank cowardice. Unable to speak above a whisper, Captain Wagner wrote the following: "When the tugs cut the tow line we were lying In ten fathoms of water, and for four hours hoped for help from the tugs. We burned blue lights, hut the tugs would not come in. Had tr.ey done so, every man aboard could have been saved. I will send both tug captains to the penitentiary if possible for their cowardice." The survivors of the wreck number twenty-seven- . The ship broke in three pieces and is a complete loss. Wrngel, Alaska. Provo Mining Man Refuses Nomina lion for Governor at Hands of Utah Democrats In Letter to Democratic Mr. Committee, Make to the Declines Knight Race, and Committee Must Select Another n FIND A WATERY GRAVE. Salt Lake City. Jesse Knight, of Provo, nominated at the State Democratic convention at Logan, as their I candidate for governor, has len a letter to the Democratic State I positively declining to committee, make tho race. Mr. Knights declination will be referred to the now committee, selected at Logan, ami a. selection will be made by the committee of a candidate to take the place of Mr. Knight. Mr. Knights letter to Chairman Martlneau is as follows: "Provo, Utah, Sept. 23, 1508. To Stale committee. tho Democratic Hon. L. R. Martlneau, Chairman, Salt Lake City, Utah. Gentlemen: At the Democratic Slate convention, recently held at Logan, Utah, I was, so I am informed, nominated for governor of the state of Utah. I hereby , notify yoa that 1 cannot accept such nomination and hereby decline the same, and respectfully direct that my name be not placed upon the Democratic state ticket. You will, therefore, select some other i name to take the place of mine. My reasons for this action have been heretofore fully stated by mo and discussed in all the newspapers of the state, and need not be further expressed. 4I will say, however, that I find the duties of the office would require my whole attention, and, owing to my age, I have not the time nor the strength to give to the position. My mining interests are in such condition as to demand my closest attention, and I feel it a duty to myself and thousands of friends who , have Rested their money in minin propositions under my management, to give these companies my personal Nine Persons Perished When British Schooner Was Wrecked. Mobile, Ala. Nine persons are believed to have perished in the wrecka ing of the British schooner E. M. Bertha off the coast of North Carolina, previous reports of the finding of wreckage of the schooner having been made by the master of the steamer Cherokee upon arrival at New York on Wednesday. Three of those on board who are believed to have perished, with six members of the crew, have relatives here and in Cayman' Brae, Ik W. I. Relatives here hold out little hope that those on board were rescued. It is believed that the Bertha turned turtle and went down with all attention. on board and later went to pieces. From the commencement I have to all my friends that I could insisted BE WILL MONSTER PARADE. not accept the nomination, and to none have I ever said that I would acNinety Bands and One Hundred cept; and most of my intimate Demonstration. Speakers Will Make friends promised that they would not i London.---Propert- y worth $1,200,000 force me into the position where 1 Is behind a gigantic protest which will would be embarrassed and have to be made next Sunday in Hyde Park refuse. As I said before, I feel that I against the licensing bill on the ground can do have more good for the state of that it is not aggression Utah and her Pe0Ple as aaainst nrivate but i not zen than I could do as Private of governor P pause f temper- - the state. My only desire is to be The Procession which, it is left to work out my own plans, to 300-00men in line, work for the wli? of the inter- building include not only employers and ests of the state not up as a public of- ficer but as a Private citizen. I have Mm?nSytradplrh?ty-TiC011ernedf fmancial tried to show my faith in Utah and who look upon the measure her people by my works- - please let as a dangerous precedent, and, also me do so in the future as a ia otber trades, who loves the state, andnot as citizen gatherings, particularly of the sufWr?ieri a pub-hat with ninety brass bands and 100 lie officer, fragettes! The crowd of Sunday was afternoon promises estimated at 300,000, filling the open speakers the Ever desiring the success of the amusement. unique from stretched which Hyde Democratic party in the state and naspace tion, I am, most respectfully, Park corner to the Marble Arch. They Fever Caused Use of Milk. by in fourteen proImpure came to this section JESSE KNIGHT. and in countless small Washington. Recently government cessions Farmers Will Fight Railroad. groups from all the nearby counties experts have been giving the question of handling of typhoid fever a consid- Silver Creek, Neb. A hundred and all parts of the metropolis. amount farmers erable of whose lands adjoin the Union 200 trains to Close brought attention, and many special in those from the outside districts, reports have been rendered from vari- - Pacific right-of-wain this county wrhich numbered fully 60,000, and who in different Parts of the have formed an organization to fight States. These .reports deal that road in its contention joined in the various processions, that the 100 which wrere accompanied by bands. ennrVe 4g ent Ifnd Ninety speakers declaimed againsi .the bill at different central points for an hour or more, and at- a bugle call sensns of opinion of practically all of right-of-waa resolution condemning the bill was the experts who. have reported that den are madebetween OmataMd Og eligible to membership. proposed and carried with a great more cases of fever are directly trace- - A full set nf outburst of cheering. anle n?hthe one f lmpure milk tl,an to Wooster as President wls selected3 known cause. Ifv It? 7 citi-J?oper- ty 0 S, f V y ?TUS-i?Cer- s - r W Msr'svs. x: inrs y |