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Show ISSUES. LIVINGFOSTER'S PAPER.) (WARREN frmruiTT to tbo ImraB-Momraa- asvooatb m wilukd roms, rwuir. BALT LAKH CITT. Boom 78 Hooper Blk.. UTAH NEWS. Joe Walcott and George Dixon, the two noted colored pugilists, hare been In Utah the past week, on their way to the coast where they are matched for a fight which will take place very soon. United States Senator Cannon has delivered four lectures on his observations in the Orient since his return two weeks since. His observations show the inhabitants to be a quaint . people. John Dent, the colord man who was hot at a Salt Lake City dance on Thanksgiving night, died Saturday night at St. Mark's hospital. The ball from Shaver's revolver entered the back, piercing Dent's kidneys, the lower part of one lnng, and lodged under one of his ribs. The code commission expects to receive the first 100 volumes of the revised statutes of Utah from the Nebraska publishing house by the end of this week. The contracting printers will forward the balance of the law law books in larger installments at intervals of about once a week until the full number is reached. . . Utah's Congressional delegation departed this week for Washington in time to be present at the opening of Congress on Decemder 6th. Senator Kawlins and family left on Tuesday, and on Thursbay Senator and Mrs. Cannon, together with Congressman King, who wiUbe joined by his family latsr. A slight hitch has occurred between the Salt Lake A Los Angeles people and the Oregon Short Line regarding the consolidation and transfer that was to hare been made as a preliminary to the building of the Deep Creek road. It involves the validity of some outstanding bonds, but it is not thought it will stand in the way of consummating the transfer. Mary Ilepworth is suing the Lambert Paper company and the Jennings Ivestment company of Salt Lake for 120,000 for the death of her husband, Thomas Ilepworth, who died from injuries resulting from a fall into an elevator shaft in the place of business of the Lambert Paper company on West First South street, on January 13 1895. The building was owned by the Jennings Brothers Investment company. The plan of locating a community of Christian people in the Payette valley In Idaho was formed a year ago, by Bev. B. F. Clay, pastor of the First Christian church of Salt Lake City. So successful have been his efforts to put his idea into effect, that on January 1st he will give up his pastorate in Salt Lake and remove to his Idaho farm. Several Salt Lake families and in addition a number living in Eastern States have declared their Intention to follow him into the neighboring state. William Cheney of Carbon county, who has a sawmill in Nine-Mil- e canyon, Beaver valley, Carbon county, found the skeleton of a man about two miles from the head waters of the creek, a short time ago. The skeleton was buried in a shallaw grave covered by leaves and brush. The skull was crushed in above the ear, and from the condition of the body the man had evidently been dead for over a year. Dr. 0. K. Ilansen, a. dentist of Fairview aid that the man was about 20 years of age, judging from the condition of the teeth. He was about five feet ten inches tall, had black hair and was dressed in winter clothing, wore a navy blue shirt, a knife scabbard and a cartridge belt Slowly but surely and satisfactorily the Utah silk commission is founding the nucleus of a most important and profitable industry. The work is advancing on lines that assure the largest measure of the best results ultimately. Individual or household efforts count for the most, and it will not be many years before the nation awakes to a realization of the fact that Utah, with its favorable climate and other conditions, is capable of rivaling the old world in silk production, not only as to quality, but in quantity. The commission has caused to be planted 5,000 mulberry trees and the gathering of 2,000 pounds of the best grade of cocoa during the past season. The commission's annual report will deminonstrate that the fosbe to needs only properly dustry tered and encouraged to be a grand silk-produci- snccsss is Utah. Justice Field Ke tires. Justice Fields Washington. from the retirement supreme court, o) which he gave official notice to tho president last April, took place yesterday. There was no formality attendant upon it. The justice was not present in the court room, and as ho had not sat with the court on auy day since the opening of the term, the proceedings did not differ iu any respect from the ordinary days. It had been supposed that the general transfer of the scats of the associate justices, which always occur when the senior associate retires, would take place, but even the formality was postponed until Monday next. Justice Harlan, who now becomes the senior associate justice, will change his seat from the left to the right side of the chief justice, taking the seat vacated by Mr. Field, and Justice Gray will become Chief Justice Fuller's neighbor on the left. All the other justices will move up one chair nearer the chief. If Justice Field's term had continued until next Tuesday, he would have had U nder 44 years of continuous service. the law he will draw full salary until lis death. Dec. 2. 8TORIES OF WRECKS. fhts Born la tha Bays end Forts of. England. London, Dec.. 1. Stories of wrecks, fatalities and damage done by the recent storm continue to be received. All the bays and ports are full of ship-du- g more or less seriously damaged. Such sights have not been seen for The inland towns of many years. Kent are still flooded and a long time must elapse before repairs can be made. The seaside resorts have naturally fared the worst At Margate alone, the damage is estimated at 60,000,and at South End 30,000. The severity of the weather prevailing in Durhamshire can be gauged by the finding of a frozen body of a laborer . ho lost his way in a snow storm. The Ramsgate lifeboat with a tug, the two vessels having a score of men on board, went to assist a vessel in danger on the Goodwin sands and have not been heard of for twenty-fou- r hours. New England, an island near Sontn End, several thousand acres in area, l, and surrounded by a high was swamped during the gale, and everything, including a farmer, his Alleged Wife Murderer. family, the farm buildings, sheep, Sandoval, Ilia, Dec. 3. This little horses and cattle, were swept off it. town is in the throes of a sensation. WHISKY PAINT COCKTAILS The man about whom the storm is raging is Dr. George II. Rice, one of Killed Eleven Farmers and Laborers In the most prominent physicians of Alabama. Marion county. Mrs. Rice, wife of Dr. George II. Rice, died last August, and long continued rumors culminated today in the exhumation of the body, at the instigation of the Metropolitan Insurance company of New York, in which she was insured in her husband's favor for (20,000. She was the sister of his first wife, who died eight years ago, whose life was insured for 18,000. Dr. Rice is a medical examiner of the Metropolitan company here. The company sent its agents to investigate the death, and ordered the body exhumed. Dr. Rice was greatly opposed, but finally consented, and the body was exhumed, and portions of the internal organs taken out and sent to St. Louis for examination. The Metropolitan company made the charge that arsenic had been discovered. Entire Train Destroyed. Albuquerque, Dec, 2. The most disastrous train wreck in the history of the Santa Fe occurred tonigtft. While going down a steep grade the train cars got beyond control. Twenty-on- e loaded, one car empty and two big mountain engines flew the track, and what was left of them was destroyed by fire. The body of Engineer Watson was dug out of the wreck and turned over to the undertaker at sea-wal- Maplesville, Ala., Dec. L Seven men are dead and seventeen more are not expected to live from the result of drinking a mixture of wood alcohol and cheap whisky. The liquor was bought in Selmi, Alabama, by Bill Anderson and another farmer and brought here and retailed to farmers and laborers on the Mobile A Ohio extension, which is in process of construction through this place. A great number of farmers and railroads hands purchased some of the mixture and immediately after drinking the concoction were taken violently ill. No physician was at hand and many of them died before attention could be given them. The alcohol was labeled For mixing paint only. Anderson and his partner are among the dead. i . THE LOVERINQ CASE.. r - Only Keren rM Is to Approve Sentence of Court Mart L ! Washington, Dec. 1. Secretary Al- has received from Lieutenant Colonel Hunter, judge advocate of the l in the case of Captain Leonard A. Lovering, Fourth infantry, the record of the proceedings and the findings of the court. The secretary Flagstaff. officer has been found No traces of the bodies of Engineer admits that the of Private nammond Newton and Freman Sperry can be guilty and has been senat Fort Sheridan, found and their remains were evidentto be tenced reprimanded by the secly consumed by fire. Conductor Okel-l- y of war. was slightly hurt and Fireman retary Secretary Alger took the papers over Ford who jumped just before the train to the cabinet meeting and they were flew the rails is considerably injured discussed. It is understood that the The Westinghouse airbrakes failed to will be approved by the proceedings hold the train going down hill and and that the reprimand department the hand brakes were absolutely usebe administered through the pubwill less. lication in official orders. It is underTo Invade Oklahoma. stood the reprimand will be severe. L. E. 2 Dec. Wichita, Kan., Captain CARRIED OUT TO SEA. Hews, the boomer who claims to have 300 to the recruits Wichita enrolled in Farmer Idaho Cattle King Missing From sooner army, with which he hopes Boa Franrlsco. to invade the Wichita mountain counSan Francisco, Dec. 1. Andrew I. try within the Kiowa and Comanche Sweetser, president of the Cordelia Indian reservation, in Oklahoma Ter- Wine company, Cordelia, Sonoma counritory, has left for Oklahoma City, ty, and formerly an Idaho cattle king, where he will continue his recruiting. has been missing since last Saturday men with nine wagons, afternoon, Twenty-fiv- e ne was then seen in a accompanied him from here. small boat, just off Lime Point lightcommander-in-chief-1 of the house. Andrew I. As Sweetser, who is sooner army, he has addressed a letter as haring been carreported to Secretary Bliss, in which he asserts ried ont to sea from San Franeisco, is that there is no desire on the part ot well known in Idaho, having at one himself or his men to act in defiance time been heavily interested in the of law or justice, but by the memory cattle business here, His son is now of George Washington, the father of engaged in an immense placer mining our country, sir, he adds, we have seneme on Snake river. He was exthe right of free born American citi- pected here before long to invest in it. zens to expect consideration from you and all other servants of the people of AMERICANS IN PERU. ger court-martia- . ng the United States." Water Qqmtlon Bet tied. Boise, Idaho, Dec. 2. The supreme court today handed down a decision which settles affirmatively a mooted point concerning assessment for maintenance purposes of stock of irrigation companies of the mutual benefit order, of which there are many in Idaho. Suit was brought to enjoin a comnany from selling stock for a delinquent assessment, the stock being fully paid. Judge Stanrod decided the case for the petitioner but the supreme court reverses him. The court soys under the statutes oi Idaho the stock in corporations of the character of the defendants in this case is subject to assessment. Growing Ont 01 McCord Claim. Washington, Dec. 1. The state de- Dangrr of partment bus been notified that the Peruvian authorities are threatening the interests of Victor McCord, the American engineer, who was arrested and confined in that country during a revolution, and in whose behalf our government has preferred a claim for indemnity. The notification was formally given to the department through a letter from an attorney, who is prosecuting the claim. The attorney urge that if payment of the Mcford claim if not enforced other Peruvians, under pretext of rebellion or revolution, will be emboldened to murder and maltreal Americans at wilL Members of Congrea Talk. Washington, Dec. 1. Members of POINTS FROM THE PRESS. ' Plutocrat is defined as one who exongress are unusually alow in putting ercises political power by virtue of hi ifc their appearance here for the reguwealth. It fits like a glove and lar session, which convenes next Monno reason for ruling it out of the day. Up to this time there have been vocabulary. Civic Review. scarcely more than half a dozen arrivals each day. From now on, howThe total output of the gold and silever, it is expected the rush will bever mines of the United States last gin, and that every attendant will be year was about $125,000,000,about what in his place on the opening. Few of the wheat and corn crops of Kansas the leaders of either house are here for 1897 are worth. Topeka Advocate yet. This is especially so of RepubThose owning orchards allege that licans. Neither Speaker Reed nor Mr. Dingley, the floor leader, will reach apples are too cheap to pick. The alWashington until Sunday or Monday legation is probably true. However, out this way they are too dear to eat next. With the exception of pronounced The railroads want 1,000 per cent more-:thathe farmer gets for hauling them n and radical pro and cona few hours.' Result: Apples rot on gressmen,. the members of both ;the ground. Lets have government houses, as a rule, seem to be holding of railways. Stillwater their judgments in abeyance until ownership (Minn.) Populist they ascertain from official sources exactly what the situation is as to Cuba. It looks as if President McKinley In the matter of the currency, it might attack the stability of our curseems already established that the rency by placing a few more RepubDemocrats and their free silver allies licans In the offices now held by Gold Sliver-KnigWatchwill oppose stubbornly anything the Democrats. man. majority is likely to propose, and the fact that the opposition in the senate Wouldnt It be nice to elect your seems 'insurmountable, inclines many man every time you vote? The pref-of the Republican members of the erentlal ballot does that very thing, house to the opinion that it would be and yet the professional politician ls wise not to attempt any legislation against it Pittsburg Kansan. whatever. These are some of the powerful flgi WouudrS while Avoiding an Offlcor. ures given by the Single Tax advoLaramie, Wyo., Dec. 1. Donald Mc- cates. There is not the most remote tax! Kay, a prominent sheepman living on doubt of the fact that the single would hunninety-nin- e a benefit in Four Mile creek, forty miles north, was dred of shot and seriously wounded last night Colusa the fanners of the country. Sun. by Henry Sage, a Union Pacific and special police. McKay In the last five years George Gould had been drinking during the day add ihas lost $25,644,637, or at the rate of trying to provoke a fight with another '$5,000,000 a year. In the last three well known ranchman and cattle own- 'months he has made it all back ex- er, Tim McCarty, but the lattes avoided cept $9,728,525, which Is incontrovert-- 1 him all day until evening, when the ible proof that the Dingley law Is the two met in a saloon on Front street. workingmans best friend. Chicago McCarty declined McKay's invitation News. to drink, and left; but the latter folCall it by any name you like, it will lowed and attacked him, striking and smell just as sweet, when confiscakicking him in the face and head. tion or repudiation seta in in 1900: Sage heard the trouble and attempted That's what Johnny Bull called It 121 to arrest McKay, who resisted. The years ago, when the American colonies officer showed his star and finally shot rebelled against the British off his revolver. McKay ran, the That is the ultimatum now, andi officer firing two more shous, one takIt is brewing fast Coming Events. ing effect in the back. He was taken to the Globe hotel, where a physician ; The most dangerous anarchist Is one attended him, locating the bullett worth a million dollars, mouthing padeeply embedded in the muscles of the triotism and piety at every step, and man's back, and pronounced the wound continually trampling upon and aeU at defiance the laws of God and vety painful, but not necessarily fataL ting man. Hanford Radical. Sage was arrested and gave bonds for (200 to appear for a hearing today. The Chicago A Alton railroad pulls six mall trains daily between Chicago .and St. Louis, for which it receives Depredation Claims Against Ctes. This means each train Washington, Dec., 1. Lieutenant .$360. The distance$60is for about three trip. Colonel Randlett, acting Indian agent hundred miles. To operate a train at the Uintah and Ouray agency, in 'requires an engineer, fireman, conduct-- ! hs annual report to the interior de- or, three brakemen six men who re-- j partment says official information ceive, say, $4 per day each. This from the department of justice shows makes $24, leaving a balance of $36j that more than 600 depredation claims for coal and each train's proportionate! hare of the office and track expense.!. amounting to more than (1,000,000 hare been filed against the Ute Indians You can plainly see that In the United States court of claims, charges pay all the expenses of operat-- j and the suits instigated in such man- lng a passenger train, even if the pas-- ! ner as to hold either of the confeder- .sengers were carried free and no ated bands equally responsible for the charge were made for hauling the ex-- j And yet some are so! press car! alleged depredations. that they believe that the thoughtless The provision of the government for railroads do not pay because their counsel to defend these cases is stated stock is purposely manipulated so that to be inadequate, and the southern it is worthless except to gamble in.! Ute s of Colorado have united with the Appeal to Reason. Uintas and White Uncompahgres, Rivers of Utah, in contracting for adThe utter unreliability of telegraph-- ; ditional counsel. ic news reports has come to be a seTho agent alleges that without doubt rious question. No. man can now tell nearly all these claims are fraudulent, with any degree of reasonable certainthese Indians also have just ty whether a newspaper report la true claims against the United States that or false. Generally it seems to be false should be adjusted. It is claimed that and contradictions occupy nearly as there are large bodies of land in Colo- much space as original reports.mostThe of which has rado that they have relinquished their Associated Press, e ninety-ninon throat the the papers by rights in on condition that it should year contracts, seems to have utilised be sold and the proceeds accrue to its cinch to revel in corruption and their benefit; that no credits have beeq unreliability. After a while national made to them from such sales, and enlightenment will bring a postal telthat most of these lands have been set egraph, and then It will be lmpractl-aside by executive orders for publia cable to form combinations between parks, for which, if so retained, it is telegraph and newa monopolies. Sacramento News. urged they should be paid. I we-se- n anti-Cuba- I ht night-watchma- n tax-gather- er. . the-xna- ll and-tha- t That waa a powerful comparison which George Fred Williams of Boston drew when he said that the British officers and men who shot down citizens in front of the old Boston State House on March 5, 1770, were surrendered to the civil courts for trial, while Sheriff Martin and his murdering gang of deputies were protected from arrest by Pennsylvania militia In September, 1897. More than what was gained in the war of the revolution has been thrown away In government by injunction and military rule today. San Francisco Star. To Stay tha Savages of Consamptioo New York, Dec. 1. Dr. Biggs of the board of health made some startling statements before the board of estimates while the body was today considering the city budget for 1898. The board ofjestimates was asked to approve a grant of (60,000 for the cure of tube ruloais in a special hospital. l)r. Biggs as peaking for the. board of health in support of the appropriation, declares that one out of every seven persons who die in this city are victims of tubercular consumption. Dr. Biggs further states that among the working classes the percentages of deaths due to this disease was The board of health was unabie to deal definitely with the matter, but at its regular meeting will pass a resolution asking the appropriation cf money to tiie ravages of consumption. Bo It Was. It was a good thing for Patrick Henry that he lived during the last and century, for If he was alive made a speech in Virginia like the one that made him famous, some little cor- one-quart- to-da- , y poration judge would close his mouth with an injunction and probably send him to jail to boot Tacoma Son. a |