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Show ISSUES. LIVINGFOSTERS PAPER.) Marine Tragedies (WARREN Sneeeuor to tt Boom Advooats WI1X1KD roaTKK. rablishsr. 78 Hooper Blk.. BAIT LAKX CITY. UTAH NEWS. The know is disappearing very slowly in the desert, which will mean a great loaa to sheepmen unless warm weather cornea soon. Mrs. Catherine Cnmminge, aged SS, one of the early pioneers, died in Salt Lake City last week. She came to Utah when a child. , The telephone line from Thompsons Springs to Moab has been completed and the citizens of Moab are highly slated over the fact. The temperance people of Logan are pushing their fight against the saloons and have a monster petition asking for legislation in the matter. Nephl Jensen of Hyrnm, who pleaded guilty to' stealing sheep from J. B. Oakey, has been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Harriet Evans Richards, mother of State Auditor Morgan L.- - Richards is dead. She was 78 years of age and came to Utah in 1854. ' ordinSince the Lake law Salt in ance has become a look a great deal City the sidewalks be will The law better. rigidly enforced. The authorities of Spnngville are making it hot for one O. L. Ihrig, who is charged with keeping a gambling house. The authorities are determined to enforce the law. The Christian Scientists of Salt Lake have decided to build a church and have purchased grounds for that purpose. The building will be a handsome and substantial one. George Buckner, who resides in Provo and who has been in jail in Salt Lake City on a charge of. sending obscene matter through the mails, has been released upon a $750 cash bond pending S Fate of the Maine Recalls Other Disasters of the Deep, jj Equally Horrible and Equally Mysterious. THE TORPEDO IN MODERN WARFARE. 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 8 ' No navy Is free from sad stories of explosions In its powder and ammunition magazines, and since the beginning of our civil war the number of easels destroyed by torpedoes in some form, or by submarine mines, makes a grewsome list. Is it generally known, for example, that in the civil war seven monitors and eleven wooden vessels of war were totally destroyed by submarine mines? Had the Confederates possessed the 'same knowledge at the beginning of the war the struggle would have been, at the least, much prolonged, and the disaster to life and tonnage been greatly Increased. During our early struggles several vessels were blown up, notably the Randolph, of Immortal memory, but the most memorable case, and surely one of the most pathetic, was the destruction of the Intrepid, commanded by the gallant Somers. She was fitted out as a floating mine, and on the night of September 4, 1804, started from off shore under ar il for the inner harbor of Tripoli. Anxious eyes watched her from the I iockadlng fleet, and at ten oclock a thunderous report was beard, a column of flame was seen vibrating in the skies, and then the roar of hundreds of guhs mounted ashore. No one came back to tell the story, hut it is believed that Somers kept his word not to be taken alive by the enemy, and blew up the ship to escape capture. It was learned that the Intrepid had grounded on the north ledge of the harbor, and that she had been attacked by three gunboats , Articles of incorporation of the Jensen Brothers Milling company have been filed with the secretary of state. The capital stock is fixed at 113,000 and the principal place of business is Moroni, Sanpete county. Grand county at present boasts of having 40,000 transient sheep, besides 50,000 owned by home parties, which will make a great deal of work during the shearing season, which will commence about April 1.. pro-vend- er have perished. II. Palmer, alias T. C. Clemmens, who is in the county jail in Salt Lake City, attempted suicide Sunday morning by tahing sixteen grains of morphine. lie would undoubtedly have succeeded in his intentions had not the dose been so large. The dose he took simply acted as an emetio and was expelled from his stomach. He was foupd on the floor of his cell by the jailor and medical attendance summoned and was soon pronounced out of danger. Palmer was in jail awaiting trial on a charge of forgery and seemed to have suffered so keenly from the disgrace of the charge that he procured the morphine from a fellow prisoner with the intention of ending his earthly career. On Sunday night Ialmer again made two unsuccessful attempts on his life, once by hanging and later by unscrewing a gas jet, but he was detected in each instance in timn to prevent hie death. St A I dangerous, however, and all effort was thereafter directed to the dirigible, or the automobile, tprpedo. Generally described the dirigible torpedo Is one that contains its own propelling and and Is piloted from firing the shore by means of electric cables, which function the machinery. The automobile torpedo is a weapon that Is shot from a tube, generally called a torpedo gun, and takes up Its line of progress by machinery contained in its body. There are many forms of these, like the Howell and the Whitehead, for example, and some ex- - on board. Among other crimes laid so unjustly to Irish sympathizers by the English press and people was the destruction of the British gunboat Dotterel in the Straits of Magellan. She arrived off Punta Arenas about nine a. m. on April 26, 1881. The captain went ashore soon after to pay his official call, and about ten a. m. two terrible explosions were heard, and an immense cloud of smoke was seen hovering over the ship in the perfect calm of the morning. Projectiles of all kinds, masses of human beings, of ship equipage and of general wreckage were discovered flying through the air, and the water for a quarter of a mile around the ship was littered with debris. Boats pnt off from the shore, and out of the whole ships company of over 150 souls only sight,. were saved. Fenian plots were held to be the cause of the disaster, and South America and Australia were the scenes of police Inquiry for months. It la now believed that the explosion was due to the spontaneous ignition THE JUNIOR OJTIO ERS OF THE MAINE. of paint then used in the British (2) Engineer French, (8) Gherardi, (4) Wodhams, (S) Prootor, G) Engineer navy. This, under deterioration or Dr. (7) Engineer Mansfield, (8) Ramsey, (10) Butler, (6) Ward, Richards, when exposed to heat, was found to (11) Watson. give off a highly Inflammable gas, and as the first explosion occurred in the Albetraordlnary results have been obtainneighborhood of the paint locker, this ment Cushing destroyed the same ed with both. The Whitehead Is disthe at own now boat his is and marle plausible theory accepted. During the last twenty years two othHm., and then made one of the most charged from the tube by eteam or er eases have occurred one, when in daring and romantic escapes In the an- powder, and Just as it leaves the muz1880 a Spanish gunboat was blown up nals of naval history. Many Im- zle a lock automatically opened rein the harbor of Santiago de Cuba, and proved systems were employed and leases the compressed air carried Id the other. in 1898, when a most dam- much ingenuity was displayed, the a flask and seta in motion the maaging and distressing explosion oc- most inventive of all experimenters chinery. Three things must he done curred on board of the German ar- - being a confederate officer, who prevl- - by It must go through the water at a hlgn speed, preserving its linear direction; it must float at a constant depth, and on striking it must explode. The ingenuity end simplicity of the mechanism which effects these three things are really marvelous. The Howell torpedo is based upon the principle of the gyroscope. Its speed and surety of direction are given by the functioning of an inner wheel, which is relatively very heavy on the periphery, and revolves with such velocity and In such a constant plane that high speed and great straightness of trajectory are secured. There ere many other forms, hut these two are employed in our service, end the Whitehead is used by nearly all the navies of the world . Submarine Hlnse. The term submarine mine is applied to defensive mines or to those which would be used to obstruct the channels of a river or estuary, or the approaches to a fortified or unprotected seaport. Col. Samuel Colt, the inventor of the American revolver, first demonstrated the practicability of blowing up vessels by submarine mines fired by electricity. In 1842 he blew up the old gunboat Boxer, and In 1843 he destroyed a brig in the Potomac while the vessel was under way, river, mored ship Baden, then at anchor off ous to the. war had been a n at the rate of five miles an sailing Kiel. dancing master. hour. Of the war Inventions employed to Handling Torpedoes. destroy ships by submarine or aerial For a season towing torpedoes were A Misunderstanding. projectiles or by mines the number is In great favor. These were handled American Tourist "I understand. legion. We were among the earliest from the ehlp, and by certain dextrous that Marquis, you fell In love with to employ these, and our contribuhiftings of the connecting lines were distinguished Americas on actions to the history of torpedo warcarried off each at a safe count of her pretty foot? lady Marquis fare have been very many and very angle, and made toquarter dire at the deDat Is It De pretty vay she foots de notable. The famous Battle of the sired moment. They proved to be bills. New York Weekly. heroic mock been in Kegs has sung verse, and the Philadelphians of 1777 had many a merry jest over the valorous attack made by the British grenadiers upon these Innocuous barrels. Capt. David Bushnell of Connecticut was one of the earliest experimenters with torpedoes, though Robert Fulton was the first to call a magazine of powder Intended for use under This great inwater by this name. ventor made many experiments, and the partisans and opponents of the new system filled the journals of that day with acrimonious discussions. The failure of torpedoes in the war of 1812 and the general feeling against this mode of warfare as inhuman and barbarous caused, however, its practical abandonment for many years. Tha Confederate Torpedoes. Submarine boats had been generally employed in all experiments up to the beginning of the civil wtr, and it was really not until 1863 that movable or fixed isolated torpedoes were brought Into general use. The confederate torpedoes were usually made of copper and filled with powder, varying In weights, according to circumstances of employment, from fifty to one hundred and fifty pounds. These were carried on spara attached to ahlps or boats, were anchored on the bottom, or were sent drifting singly THE MAINE-FR- OM A PHOTO or in pairs, connected by long lines. THE DAY AFTER TIIE DISASTER. it well-kno- a divorce from her husband, regret of his death. Phillip Jones of South Jordan and another man were rescued from almost certain death on the desert last week by Robert Carless and David Harman, tw well known miners who were en route from Fish Springs to Salt Lake City. Jones was mounted on a bony horse, whose hoofs had worn down until they bled. The other man was on foot and had given up and was urging his companion to push on for help, but this was out of the question. The men were entirely without food or for themselves or the horse. Jones wss coming across from his Nevada mines and might have gotten through. The other man would surely Secrets FAMOUS VESSELS BLOWN UF. trial. Christina Swensen has been awarded N. P. (wensen, the Logan man who was accused of doling out a weekly pittance to his wife for the support of herself and children and then beating her if she exceeded the allowance, which was much to small for her nee la Patriarch John Lyman Smith, cousin to Joseph Smith is dead. He was one of the early pioneers of St. George and was 70 years of age. He crossed the plains in 1847 and entered Salt Lake valley on September 25, 47. He was a man widely known in Utah and a host of friends will learn with ana Their down tide streams. The fuses were generally of the percussion type, and fulminate of mercury entered largely into their composition. The Housatonlc was destroyed by a submarine boat, but the Albemarle was blown up by Cushing with a torpedo carried on the end of a spar. This torpedo was made of a stout cylindrical copper case, filled with powder and fitted with a hollow tube, which carried at its bottom a fulminate cap. A small sized grape shot, secured with a pin, was held at the top, and by releasing this at the eventful mo- - hut never known, prevent the valuable supply of ammunition falling into the hands of the enemy, Somers fired her, destroying his own people and the Tripolitans warming out of their boats Ipto the In Jnne, haplees American tender. then wooden the Fulton, 1829, ship stationed as the receiving ehlp off It wss surmised, that,1 to Brooklyn, blew up from causes never Seventy-fiv- e revealed. persons were and about killed, thirty were wounded. Tradition has woven many a romantic, many an Impossible story One yarn told about this disaster. how a gunners mate had ereeplngly been pnnlshed as he thought unjustly, and In revenge destroyed the ship. In o doing he lost his own life, but failed in killing the object of his hatred, an officer, who had left the ship quietly a short time before tha commission of the crime. The real story aeems to be that a fuddled gunners mate by some error made his way into the magazine with an exposed lighted candle, stumbled into the powder barrel of the period and thus blew the ehlp skyward. Tha Amphlon's Destruction. In the English service there have been a number of notable eases of exOne plosion, but mainly in action. well known in time of peace wss the destruction of the frigate ' Ampblon, Capt. Israel Pellew ' commanding, off Plymouth, England. Here, too, a gunners mate appears as the god in the machine for, apocryphal or not, it Is believed to this day that the seaman in question went with a lighted lamp into the magazine to ateal powder, which then had a ready market Several hundred people were destroyed, among them prominent officials and citizens of the town who were dining well-know- |