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Show issues. living nMim faf.) rosTEra IwMtior to tha iwrae-Mowrai- w abvocatb WILLARD FOITII, riblMw MH Li CXTT. Hmm n Boopwr Blk.. UTAH NEWS! A poatoflSce ha been established at La Salle, San Juan county, and Fred N! Prewer commissioned postmaster. Wheat at Mt. Pleasant was quoted at 6070 cents per bushel last week, and farmers in that vicinity are disposing' of their supplies. This year's yield is about an average, so there will be a good income from this source. There will be some holding back until spring. Rev. Alex Hartman and wife and two children, who were killed in the recent wreck at Newcastle, Cola, were en route for Payson to fill the Presbyterian mission lately made vacant by Rev. W. Jd. Smith. The local member of the State Press club, W. L. Webb, of Lehi, has extended an invitation to all members of the association to visit Lehi during the fair, which baa been accepted by President James in behalf of the club. Fourteen thousand sheep, of the esH. J. Christensen of Mantl, were seld to the highest bidder one dsy last week. IL A. Kearns of Gunnison bought 0,500 at $1.81; Patten and Anderson 3,500, at $1.95 David Shand for a Mr. Keiser, 3,800, at $1.90 and 300 to Theodore Christensen for $1.75 per head. d Lillie, the daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. Fox, Salt Lake City, was badly burned about the throat and breast, but her injuries, although painful, will not prove fataL The little child was carrying a lighted Japanese lantern and while on her to make a Sunday visit to a neighbor, she thoughtlessly pressed it to her breast, when ths flames from the burning lantern caught her dress, with the above result. Editor Snow of Brigham City has been acquitted. Snow's witnesses testified that the doctor struck him before he drew the pistol and that the doctor had made threats against him and as the doctor was a larger man he was afraid of great bodily injury and drew the pistol in The judge gave lengthy instructions covering every point raised, which was a great assistauce to the jury in helping them to arrive at a verdict Between twenty-fiv- e and fifty people jnmped from what they believed to be a couple of runaway cars on the Salt Lake City railway's line, near the Salt Lake brewery Sunday afternoon and not a few were painfully bruised, Others escaped with severe jolts but all were badly frightened. The motor-ma- n was enabled to get control of the cars and they were brought to a full stop just around the curve. Apostle F. M. Lyman and Johan than G. Kimball of the first seven presidents of the seventies attended the conference of the Y. M. M. I. A. and the St. George stake.holding three days meetings, besides visiting many of the surrounding settlements, last week. The main object of their visit was to acquaint the people with the fact that that the authorities of the church had concluded to publish a magazine, the title to be the Improvement Era, in the .nterest of the Mutual Improvement tate of the late three-year-ol- self-defens- e, Swindle- - ANOTHER KLONDIKE. ,80. jwlhM are Jealous of the Fortloa Where s, Gold Is Found. Denver, Cola, Sept. 20i "When the Uintah reservation is thrown open, look out for a second Klondike excitement, said A. G. Johnson, a eattle-ma- n of Vernal, Utah, at the Oxford hotel yesterday. "I have been upon the reservation twice, and I believe it is the richest gold region in the Rocky mountains. The Indians are very jealous of that portion of their reservation where gold is found and it is a dangerous undertaking for a white man to attempt to penetrate the mountain Although I was protected on my visits by a written permission from the government agent and the military authorities, I was led away as soon as the Indians discovered the object of No white man of recent my mission. years has visited the gold district. The Utes keep constant watch and the bones of more than one prospector are bleaching in the canyons of the Uintah reservation. "I am not telling what I know of the gold values, but whenever it is announced that the reservation is to be thrown open, I will be on the ground. Mr. Johnson came from Colorado twelve years ago from New York and after mining for several years, settled on a ranch in northeastern Utah. He is one of the original locators of the gilsonlte beds and is associated with a Labor Lnloa Min Meeting. syndicate which filed on nineteen Scranton, Pa., Sept. 20. Nearly 5008 claims, each 1,500 feet long, on the labo.ing men, the majority miners and main vein. mine laborers, attended a mass meetg at ing park today, called by ' Death the Sequel to Elopement. the Central Labor union. The gatherButte, Mont., Sept. 21. A young ing was qniet and orderly. Among woman, whose name is said to be Mrs. the speakers was Hugh O'Donnell, the Florence Smith, died in the Lafayette Homestead labor leader. All delodging house today in squalor and nounced the Latimer shooting as wanwant. Her husband, Robert Smith, ton murder, a brutal outrage and is a resident of Salt Lake, but he was massacre, but suggested the law as the deserted by her in May, she eloping remedy and organization as the safewith a man named Forest. The runa- guard of the future. way couple came to Butte, where in a Resolutions blaming Sheriff Martin short time Forest left the woman and and his posse and criticising General after that she supported herself as a Gobin for alleged unwarranted interwaitress. Her parents, Abbot by name, ference with civil law, were adopted. o residents of are said to be Salt Lake and when their daughter Condition Pronounced Oncron. was sick they were requested to aid Athens, Sept. 20. The conditions of the unfortunate woman, but there was peace signed yesterday between the no response. On Sunday her husband embassadors of the powers, on behalf was appealed to, but he wished more of Greece, and Tewfik Pasha, the Turparticulars. The particulars sent him kish foreign minister, at Tophanee was a notice of her death. The woman palace, are universally pronounced by lived for a long time on 10 cents a day, the Greek press to be decidedly onerNay-Au- well-to-d- I'mrj ous. In Idaho. In the district court yesterday a decision was rendered in the ease brought by the state against Thomas Fitzpatrick and D. IV. Fouch, et al., for foreclosure of mortgages given as security for loans of school money made by the state land board. The case against Fitzpatrick was for $3,000 and that against Fouch for $2,500, with interest of four years each. Judge Stewart decided that the state in loaning money stands upon the same footing as an individual. The notes taken by the state carried interest bearing coupons for interest, which the supreme court recently decided to be usurious. J udge Stewart held that the state could not collect interest on these loans. Boise, Ida, Sept. 21. Troops for Alaska. May-fiel- d, All-ma- Threatened McKinley Ufa Joseph Sept. 22. Washington, Bloomfield Jackson, who is said to he a crank from Meriden, Conn., was arrested last night, at the door of the White House after an unsuccessful effort to enter the Executive mansion . Jackson was heavily armed, lie has been in the city several days, and at he Raleigh house, where he stopped, las made mysterious boasts as to what he was going to do to a high official of the Government. He sent a letter to a ocal newspaper containing similar threats. He has been under espionage :'or several days, and is now behind connected with . the Fegen-Bus- h ' rang of swindlers of Chicago and )enver, was arrested this evening on a tharge of using the United States mails for fraudulent purposes. The rharge grows out of a sale of 8,000 shares of worthless stock to John Wood of Illinois a Jyear ago. Some one offered the stock to Wood and referred to Eans as to the valve of the stock. Evans wrote to Wood that his firm would pay 80 cents a share for all the stock Wood could buy and Wood xraght all he could get and has It on his hands yet, while it is charged the bars. Svans and the gang divided the money Cranks of all grades are common received from Wood. abont the President's home, and the officers thought nothing of the arrest Spaniard! Shew Resentment. found Havana, Sept. 19. The Spanish au- nntil on searching the man, they a loaded revolver. the Only charge of thorities do not hesitats to show their and carrying concealed resentment ef the interest displayed vagrancy can made he against him, and by the wires of Americans ia the case weapons be materially not treatment will lls of Evangeline Cossio Cisneros. They to hundreds from different that given have not only shut off all communicafrom the removed of other cranks tion with her friends, but they hare disHouse without White grounds women lewd in throws into prispn for Santa Clara five wodien who dared to turbances, but there is nevertheless Mcprepare a most courteous appeal to the fear and belief that President in out General Weyler for the release of Kinley might, if he had driven closeted Evangeline. These women are Senora the afternoon, instead of being and with attacked pervisitors, been Rosa Plana, the Senoritas Carmen and as the shot he entered carriage. Nicolais Gutierrez, Senora Micaelu haps Ruiz sad Seaorita Consnlo Avila. All It is thought that Jacksons mind is these ladies belong to the best families unbalanced. in Santa Clara. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. Cheyenne, Sept. 21. Colonel G. M. Randall and Lieutenants E. S. Walker and E. Bell left Fort Russell yesterday morning in command of a detachment men of the Eighth inof twenty-fiv- e work. to Klondike country. route en Governor Wells has appointed a num fantrywill establish a military post at They ber of supervisors to manage the ex St. Michaels and spend the winter penditure of state funds appropriated there, and in the spring move to Circle to bnild roads. Alfred IV. Xebekei where another post is to be eswas appointed to supervise the expen City, Before departing the men tablished. tudire of $1,000 in Rich county, and C were months' salary, suffpaid eight J. Corey, of Ogden will do likewise icient to provide for their families unwith the $750 for Weber county roads til spring. The troops sail frem SeatThe balance of $750 to be applied ob tle next Manday. Cache county roads at the junction oi Mobil Has Eleven Cases. the other two roads will be expended Mobile, Ala., Sept 20. The official under the direction of a supervisor tc hours 1 named later. John F. Brown, oi bulletin for the last twenty-fou- r cases new of eleven yellow Kanab, is named to supervise the dis- shows bursement of $750 on a road between fever as follows: J. W. Carlisle, J. IT. Kane and Garfield counties, while Bourns, David Myrton, George Lettie Jackson, E. S. Shannen-ber- g George W. Carroll will supervise the and wife, Frank Collier, Willie expenditure of the $1,000 for the con struction and improvement of a high- Charpin, Eugene Rencher, Miss The total canes to date are way to Ilanksville in Wayne county. total deaths three. There ; twenty-nineThe remains of Henry Backus arabout 3 o'clock toshower small a was rived in 1arkCity Sunday last and from all appearances Backus was mur- day accompanied by a cool wind that dered. There are only three places on was most refreshing after the intense the body what killed the man; sultriness of the past two weeks. there is a bad bruise on the forehead, Charred With Maltreating a Witch. one behind the ear and another over Fort Wingate, N. M., Sept 20 Unthe right wrist. All indications show der escort of throe troops of cavalry, that he had been hit with a coupling commanded by Major Godfrey, the pin. Backus left Butte, Mont., after sheriff of Las Lnnaa county left here loading cattle and was going with last night with the Pueblo priests ae them to Terrace, Utah. He was not enaed of maltreating a woman of the bnmmicg his passage. The body was tribe whom they had accused of witchfound ten miles from Butte Mountain. The prisoners are being taksu to He lived thirty-fou- r hours, but did ery. Lumas for trial. La not gain consciousness. to-sho- -- B. G n. The organs of M. Delyannis, former premier, who commands an actual majority in the Bonle, violently attack M. Rail! and the cabinet, denouncing them as the real ftause of the present misfortunes. The press abuses M. Delyannis ss the "evil ge nins of Greece. The public generally accepts the result with mournful re' signstion. anti-Delyann- is Idaho Miner Driven Ont of Camp. Boise, Ida., Sept 20. A reliable party from Burke reports that Thursday night masked men took out two miners employed by the Tiger Poor-ma- n and led them above the powder honse up Canyon creek from Bnrke, were they were ordered to keep on the old Glidden road to Thompson Falls, never to return. Parties interviewed either profess entire ignorance or ad' mit that it occurred, but do not know the reason for the outrage. The parties have not been heard from since, and apparently obeyed the injunction to travel. Killed by a Cave-I- n. Logan, Utah, Sept. 20. William Richards, aged 35, and employee of the Agricultural college, was killed in front of the college building. He was engaged in digging a sewerage trench ten feet deep, when a cave occurred. ITe was found in a standing position, his neck was broken and the back o: his skull crushed. He was a resident of Logan second ward. It is said he liau been warned of the danger. Richards was the main support of his age parents. The justice decided that an inquest was unnecessary. Silver Camp Meeting. ' o Little Girl la Idaho Played With and Matches. Boise, Ida., Sept. 23. A daughter of Mrs. Bartemus, whose husband died in the hospital at Wallace, a few weeks ago, was burned to death at Mullen yesterday. There were two children in the family, the eldest being a boy, a little older than the girl, who was sick with the measles. The mother had left the two children alone in the house while she went to a neighbor's across the street, The little girl, about 11 o'clock, decided to build a fire, arranging the wood in the stove and then pouring coal oil on it. She spilled the oil over her clothing, and when she struck a match the flames caught her dress, wrapping her instantin a of flames. sheet ly When the fire was extinguished the only clothing remaining on her was some cf her and when they were removed great flakes of cooked flesh came off with them. Kero-Ma- oil-soak- under-garment- s, Tellow Fever Sltuatloa Improving. New Orleans, La., Sept. 22. There were nine new cases of yellow fever reported to the Board of Health at 6 oclock when the day's work of the physicians ended. There were, howr ever, no deaths recorded, and the doc- tors all agreed this evening that the situation was steadily improving. The fever at present, instead of developing into a malignant type, ia as mild, if not milder, than when it first appeared esses in here, as witness twenty-seve- n death. The a two days without single board the of reported night inspectors that most of the esses that had come under their observation were progressing most favorably. There are nearly twenty eases which give the attending physicians reason for alarm. Bom new places of infection are included in the cases reported toUy, but it ia Btated tonight that each one of the patients is doing welL Reindeer for Klondike. Secretary Washington, Sept 22. nil of the department of the interior today instructed the commissioner of education to have the reindeer now at Teller Station, Alaska, which have been broken to work, forwarded to St Michaels to he held there for use in forwarding supplies to the Klondike country in case of emergency. There are about eight of the deer which it is believed by the administration can he utilized in this way, and the opinion more prevails that they would be much travel because they useful than dogs, much more rapidly, draw more and can live on the little forage the country produces. The secretary says that each reindeer will carry about 800 miles pounds and will travel a hundred a day. They are to he sent to St Michaels in preference to other places because of the available stores at that point Took Laudanum. Springville, Sept 21. Ray Matson, son of George B. Matson, sr. , a pioneer, was called back to earth this morning by the assistance of a good physician and all sorts of modern medical appliances. He is a young married man who thinks he has Innumerable domestic troubles, and selected the landa num route to the uncertain hereafter. As near as can be ascertained, there was no real reason for his action, and he is now comfortable and ont of CUTTING DOWN FARMS, Homeaecken Association Propone Reduction to Five Acre. Chicago, Sept 23. At todays session of the National Ilomeseeker's association convention, Mrs. M. Dewey of Chicago read a paper on the advantages of colonization in general and advocated the formation of settlements in Kansas. To overcome the lonliness of country life, the speaker advocated the cutting down the size of the farms to five, ten and twenty acres. Prof. J. W. Heston, president of the South Dakota agricultural college, delivered an address on the possibilities of South Dakota. The convention adjourned sine die tonight. Besrrh Party Return Empty Handed. Pocatello, Idaho, Sept. 22. The last of the search party who went out after Monroe, Kendal and Hogan, the Me Cammon robbers, have returned after It has also a long, fruitless search. been just discovered that Paul Matthews, the colored man who was the only witness against them has disapHe frequently expressed peared. life if the men should his for fears has evidently fled to and ever get ont, their vengeance. escape The Old Story. San Francisco, Sept. 20. Mrs. Mary Ann Calvert was frightfully burned at her home, 424 Jessie street, and is now dying from her injuries. She poured coal oil in the kitchen atove and an ex Irior to adjournment a permanent plosion followed, Mrs. Calvert's hair organization was effected and officers and dress catching fire. Neighbors were elected as follows: President, her sareama found the woman hearing Capt. James Gunn of Idaho; vice- - pres- with her head in the kitchen sink and ident, Rev. John Rusk, Chicago; Mr. her clothing in flames. Her body was Beebe, South Dakota, and F. S. Dry-de- n literally a mass of burns. of Maryland; secretary-treasureNew Cuban Tariff. George E. Gurley, Chicago. Madrid, Sept. 19. The Official GaPROVISIONS FOR DAWSON. zette has not yet completed the publiIf Htesmcr Arrive Safely, Relief Will Be cation of all schedules of the new Ample. Cuban tariff. The reduction in the Washington, Sept 22 Secretary duty on American goods generally is Alger said after the cabinet meeting considerable. On ernde petroleum the today that no steps would be taken duty is not changed, but there is a looking to the relief of miners in the considerable reduction in the duty of Klondike nntil after navigation closes refined petroleum. The duties on fireand the government learns through arms and canned goods, as articles of Captain Ray, who is at St Michael luxury, are slightly increased. r, the exact situation. Secretary Alger received a telegram today expressing the opinion that the four steamers now going up the Yukon will carry ample provisions for all persons now at Dawson City and the vi cinity. If they arrive safely perhaps there will he no necessity for any relief measures. If not it is possible that Mr. Ladue's suggestions for dog trains across the Chikoot pass may be Springfield, 0., Sept 20. There were over 5,000 people in the big tent at the silver camp meeting. Among the speakers dnring the dry were lion. II. Martin Williams of St. John of Kansas; Miss Nellie Robin- accepted. son of New York; Hon. Charles A. DlaerlmlnaMngr Duly. Towne of Minnesota and Mrs. Helen Washington, Sent 22, Attorney General McKenna announced his opin Gougar of Lafayette, Ind. Ion today in the matter of section 22 of Mania for Ralrlda. the new tariff law. He holds in effect Chicago, Sept 20. The record of the that goods coming directly into the coroner's office shows an unusual num' United States from foreign countries ber of suicides during the past week. through Canadian ports are not subNo less than seventeen persons have ject to the discriminating duty of 10 ended their lives by various means. percent, and also holds that foreign Hangingand drinking carbolic acit. oods shipped from countries other were the methods most frequently than British possessions are not subrecorded. ject to the discriminating duty. Martin and Ilia Depntlea Forntah Hall. Wilkcsbarre, Pa., Sept. 22. Sheriff James Martin and about 40 of his. deputies were arraigned in court th i morning charged with the murder o 24 striking miners at Latimer. There were several witnesses who testified, and the judge held the sheriff and his deputies in $4,000 in each case for trial. Bail was furnished aud they returned to Hazleton. Transfer In tha Twrnty.fnurtti. Washington, Sept 19. The following transfers are made in the Twenty--fourt- h infantry: Second Lieutenant Albert Laws from Company I) to Company C; Second Lieutenant John A. Guruey from Company n to Company D; Second Lieutenant Claude H. Mil--lfrom Company C to Company II. A special from Madrid says government is negotiating a. loan guaranteed by the port dues tot-thpurpose of new naval works. er the-Spanis- h e |