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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- IN STATE NATION. Y OF SIEGE. BURNED HIS BABY SISTER. . Strike Situation la Harm Iona Has Become - Vary Harkins. UTAH LOQAN. UTAH STATE NEWS, It ! said the Twelfth battery, at Fort Douglas, is to be eeat to Porto Rico. The First Presbyterians of Salt Lake are planning for a magnificent new Church building. A bill has been introduced in the senate for the establishment of an assay office at Provo. .It is estimated that four wagonloads of Valentines were mailed at the Salt Lake office on Valentine day. The 1100,000 bond issue to be placed by the city of Provo will probably be taken up by E. if. Rollins A Sons Co. A system of electric lights Is to be Installed at the state penitentiary, replacing the locomotive headlight which have been in use there. James P. Madison has been appointed postmaster at Manti, while N. C, I'oulaon receives the appointment for the Richfield postoffice. its-tion- ed Burglars entered three different ' business houses in Park City one night last week, but succeeded In getting very little cash for their trouble. J. W. Taylor, a teamster of Salt Lake, received serious injuries by being struck by a street car while attempting to cross the track in front of the car, It is said the money for building a sugar factory at Gunnison will be forthcoming as soon as the farmers will insure the required amount of acreage. Lewis King, of Coyote, is dead as the result of injuries received from a gunshot accidently discharged by a companion, the accident occurring over a year ago. The Payson city council has granted a franchise to the Bell Telephone company and a local exchange will be established. Spanish Fork will be included in the exchange. At Panguitch, membranous crop has caused a number of deaths recently. Within the last six weeks ten children ranging from 1 to 1G years in age have succumbed to this disease. Peter Mortensen was arraigned in the Salt Lake District court last week on the charge of murdering J,uim II, Hay and plead not guilty. The date of the trial has not yet been set. Panguitch sue Circle Valley people have gone to work in earnest on their Ilatchtown reservoir, expecting to keep ten feet of water for use this season, otherwise crops are likely to be slim. The bloods" of Hinckley have yielded to the prevailing fad of rabbit hunting, two sides entering into aeon-teone day last week which resulted In 130 buuniea being killed by one side and seventy by the other. John Hendricks, the Park City miner who died at a Salt Lake hospital last week, left a cash estate of S13.000, half of it is willed to the wife of a boyhood companion and the other half to the Kearns St. Ann's orphanage. 8. W. Rose, postmaster for Lehl, has received word from the department at Washington that the inspector will be In Lehi in a few days to look over the route and if it is all right rural delivery will be established from that place. Big John, the medicine man of the Grass Valley Indians, died suddanly near Leamington Saturday night of last week, from the effects of poison. Be purchased a bottle of lemon extract for a severe cold and drank it straight A little child named Franz, in Elsinore, recently had a spell of the grip. During the time it went to sleep and could not be awakened during fifty-eighours. W hen the sleep was over the little fellow semed better and will recover. At St George the church has given the Hurrican canal people a gift of 15,000 to help them complete the work e of construction ou their ditch around a perpendicular ledge, whioh it now considerably advanced in const ht nine-mil- struction. The owners of the registered stock at Springville have organized a society known ss the Registered Association of Springville. The association will hold a fair at Springville, Msrch 15, when lihersl prizes will be awarded. The demand for school teachers In the district schools throughout tbs state is so great '.hat it is next to impossible to till the vaesneies existing at the present time and it is though by some that next year almost the same ondition will exist. Stock-Owne- rs HOW SHERIFF' RICKER DIED. . The strike situation in Barcelona, Spain, is liecoming more grave. A state of aige has been proclaimed. The printers have tied up all the papers and none of them are appearing. It is estimated that 40,000 men have struck and serious rioting has occured there. The mob attempted to sack the market buildings and stopped all street traffic. The factories and shops In the city have been closed. Groups of women bearing banners are taking a prominent part in the disturbance!. Daring the rioting at Barcelona the troops fired on the mob, killing one person and wounding twenty-fon- r. To Taka op the Cabas Bsgar Problem. With the passage of ths war revenue reduction bill In the house, informal plana are being considered on both sides of the chamber for the consideration of the Cuban reciprocity question now pending before the ways and means committee. Chairman Payne said that no definite plan bad yet been matured for taking np the question, either by the Bepublicsn members or by the committee as a whole. At the ame time there le a pretty general understanding among the Republican members of the committee that they will confer on the question later In the week. The Democratic members of the ways and means committee met immediately after the passage of the war revenue repeal act, to consider plana of proceeding with the Cuban reciprocity question when it comes np. No definite line of action was deter- Indiana Boy Bola Flro to Ills Bister's Clothing aud Hutchn Hrr Hunt. Willie Nownk, the thirteen-year-ol- d son of Mr. and Mrs. John Nowak of Hammond, Ind., is said to have deliberately act fire to the clothing of hia baby sister and watched her burn to death. The mother had reprimanded the boy. and left him with the baby while she went to the grocery store. During her absence he secured matches, set fire to the little ones clothing, and when the mother returned and opened the kitchen door the sickening smell of burning flesh almost overpowered her. On the floor lay the girl writhing in pain, and burned almost beyond recognition. Standing nearby was her little brother watching the flames which had begun fifteen-months-o- ld to eat into the pine floor of the room. A Gigantic Bale sf OI1 Lands. special from San Francisco to the Salt Lake Tribune says: The gigantic . A deal in oil properties which has just been made public here between the Chanslor Canfield company and A. B. Butler on the one side, and the American Consolidated Oil company on the other, is the largest transaction of its kind on record. Through that transaction, the one company transfers to the American Consolidated 108,000 acres of oil land situated in California, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, for a consideration of Of this land 35,000 acres is nearly ail in Wyoming. Machinery in large quantities has been shipped from California to the mined upon. new oil fields, in competition with Cleveland, Pittsburg and other oil well Hobson to bo Retired. supply centers in the east. The maThe president has sent the senate a chinery was shipped from here to Uinta connty, Wyoming, where tlie message recommending the retirefive drilling rigs at work, company ment of Naval Constructor Richmond and the has principal developments are P. Hobson, and in accordance with this being made with satisfactory results. recommendation Senator Gallinger The company has considerable holdin adjacent counties, butconsiders immediately Introduced a bill provid- ings them of less interest. ing for Mr. Ilobaon's transfer to the retired list. The president recites BELONG8 TO HIMSELF. that Mr. Hobson's eyes have been Philadelphia Judge Decides That a Man troubling him, and that further work liana Right to Couunlt Suicide. In the service might prove serious to Herbert Wright, of Philadelphia, has his eyesight, and in closing says: In been arraigned before Judge Arnold consideration of the foregoiug, but on the charge of taking laudaim especially of the gallant service ren- with suicidal intent. Wright pleaded dered by Mr. Hobson in the sinkieg of the Merrimacin the harbor of Santiago "guilty to attempting suicide, but not during the recent war with Spain, I with intent to kill myself." In disrecommend the enactment of a favormissing the case, Judge Arnold said able measure for his retirement he doubted if there is such an offense Thousands of Lives Lost iu Earthquake la in this country ss kttempting suicide. The law Rossis. emesy.Jig says, from witch mr aiow y arrmng'sr euvnr ii k MiffiNlvtiy KTngi shd wlio adopted tlie theory that it Baku from Shamaka, Russia, show was women wrong for a man to kill himself and that 3,000 persons, mostly chile ren, perished as a result of the and thus reduce the number of king's The judge asserted that earthquake last week, and that 4,000 subordinates. a man's life belonged to himself and houses were destroyed. hia' creator, and he did not know but Thirty-fou- r villages of the country that the man had the right to kill surrounding Shamaka also suffered. himself if he so desired. To add to the terrors of the neighborThree Men Lose Their Lives Its Roota to hood a volcano near the village o I Thunder Mountain. Marasy, eastward of Shamaka, has A miner hHs arrived at Lewiston, broken out into active eruption. A from Warrens, bringing the news of great crevasse has appeared, whence the death of three men who were immense flames and streams of lavs are being thrown out. The course of caught in a snow slide near the head the river Geonchaika has been altered of the Smith gulch on the route to the Thunder Mountain. Tlie victims are in consequence of its bed being dammed with earth. Bert Tules, J. 8. Campbell and B. M. Skyles, of Weiser, Ida. Arid Williams New York Snowbound. Weston and Myers of Boise were of New York city has borne the blunt the other mem hers of party, bnt of the fiercest snowstorm that had they escaped. The men the were traveling struck this section of the country since over snow a foot iu depth wheit a slide the great blizzard of 1888. Beginning from the mountain entombed them.-!- . soon after midnight, Sunday, the To Open the IlnUh Reservation. storm increased rapidly until by dayis understood there will be a It break Monday the whole city wad unanimous report made by the senate completely snowed under. The rising committee on Indian affairs, signed by force of the gale piled the snow in all mem tiers with tlie possible excepgreat drifts that for some time almost tion of Senator Quarles, on Senator suspended traffic except in the main Kearns's bill for opening the Uintah thoroughfares, where the car tracks Indian reservation to settlement, thus were kept open only by the use of with the subject of the away doing snowploughs and sweepers. The storm lease of mineral lands to the Florence extends all over New York state and New Jersey. Trains are behind timii Mining company. With a unanimous report of the senand other traffic is greatly interfered ate committee early sod favorable with. setion is guaranteed. USED WIRE HAIRBRUSH. Three Hundred Killed by Earthquake. Scratch From s Wire Urlstle Causes Daath The latest news received from ShamThe death of Charles Otto, which aka confirms the appalling character occured at Tacoma, recently is said by of the earthquake at the place, and doctors to have been caused primarily adds that three hundred corpses have by a scratch on his scalp, received a already been taken out of the ruins. number of weeks ago in a barbershop. The piles of wreckage are so vast that At that time a wire bristle of a hair the search is necessarily slow. Most brush pierced his skin and blood poison- of the victims were Mussulmans. The A large gathering town is now almost ing resulted completely deformed and was subsequently removed stroyed, only a dozen housea being left inby sn operation, from that time Otto's standing. Twenty-fiv- e thousand health declined. 11c lost his appetite habitants are without food and shelter. and become melancholy. Finally hla mental and physical condition brought Strangs Accident Happens la a New York I'li .ire. on heart disease. While the audience at the Victoria UI(Ml Hullding In tbs World. New York, was sitting in theater, A permit was Issued in Chicago Mondarkness looking at a scene representday for the construction of what la a man ing a cotton field in planned to be the largest building in fell from tlie first moonlight, landed and balcony the world. The building is projected on the head of a woman who was sitby the First National bank officers, in tlie orchestra. The fall was end will house, when completed, 0,00(1 ting fully twenty feet. The woman wai people. The building will stand at Dearborn and Munroe streets and will not seriously hurt. A panic was narcost 3,000,000. Work will begin in rowly averted. Police took charge of man. t5.875.OOa em-pero- rs the spring. the Filipino Want lo Ivum Into (ba I' alee. : v Krava Wj outing Officer Klllad la a Mast Tbs memorial of the Federal party of tbe Pbilippino inland was transmitted to the senate Wedueaday by the secretary of war, together with a letter of transmittal by Governor Taft in whose charge tbe document was given. The memorial was adopted at sn extract dioary session held in Manilla in' November. It sets forth that tin. performance of that obligation of tlie treaty of Paris which gave tlie United Slates congress authority .to fix the status of the Philippine islands had been deferred to this lime because of the attack by the Filipinos upon the sovereignty of the United States, an act brought about, the memorial says, through a misunderstanding and not through hatred of the American sovereignty. It further states that out of the sixty provinces and districts war exists in nly two Batangas and Sa mar. The memorial is divided into two parts.- The first of these is a petition for annexation and a presentation of the form of government desired. The second part of tbs memorial seta forth tbe aspirations of a social sad economical character of the principal of which the memorial represents to be tbe securing of a remedy of the "ancient veil known as the friar." . Under this designation the memorial includes all the religious orders now existing in the islands. Complete and general amnesty to the Filipino people is asked. liratal Mauurr. Wiisuit Owens, who has arrived at Casper, Wya, to testify in the Woodward case, says Woodward told him how. he murdered Sheriff Kicker. Woodward weut to the barn to get a horse to ride out of the Country. He did not know tlie sheriff was anywhere near there. He aaw a number of horses in the barn and lit a match to pink out the lest one aud leave. The barking of a dog attracted tlie atlem lion of the sheriff, who started for the barn from the house. Woodward saw the officer coming out of the house and waited until he got within ten feet of the barn door and then took deliberate aim and fired. The sheriff fell to the ground at the first shot. After lying there about two minutes the sheriff called for help and Woodward came from the barn and dragged the dying man over a little hill where the deputies from the house could not fire upon him. The sheriff was yet alive and attempted to call the men at the honae to come and help him. Woodward then struck him in the face and head with the butt end of his revolver besting hia brains out. After killing the officer Woodward robbed the body of money and revolver and ammunition and returned to the barn, tnrned tlie horses loose, and after remaining in the barn about an hour, slTboting towards tlie house occasionally, he crawled through a Pitched Ilallla Between Kentucky Officer manure bole in the barn, canght one sort Mountaineers of the hdraes and rode over the mounSix men are dead and ss many more tains and escaped. are dying as the result of a battle beTrain Struck by a lloulder aud Bavaa Man tween officers from Middlesboro, Ky and mountaineers. The battle, which Killed. most was one of the desperate in the Seven men were killed and at least mountain of occurred history warfare, fourteen seriously injured by a huge House" Lee at .. Turner's "Quarter boulder, weighing fifteen tons, crashand a miles half from three saloouj into the caboose of a work train on ing Middlesbora the Choctaw Oklahoma A Gulf Lest mouth some mules and other twenty miles west of Little Rock, of Turner's were levied on in Arkansas, Friday. The work train goods was headed west, the engine pushing payment for a debt, and a few nights aix cars and a caboose. As tlie train ago, it is alleged, he with others, went was passing under tbe high bluffs to Virginia, where the property had been taken, secured what was formerly bordering the river, two miles west of Little Maumelle, the crew saw ahesvy his, and returned to the "Quarter rock rolling down the steep declivity, House. Depnty Sheriff Wat Thompson sumhaving been detached from the hillside moned a posse of ten or fifteeu men by the rains. The train was going for the purpose of arresting Turner at alowly, bnt was almost upon the rock his saloon. when it struck the track. Engineer When the posse demanded Turner to Nazor reversed hia engine at once, but submit to arrest, he and hia men the train struck the rock with almost which was returned by the fire, opened Tull force. The caboose was at the and in whioh followed the battle posse head of the train and was shivered into splinters. Most of the men who five Tnrneritcs and one officer were were killed and injnred were ia the killed, and a number of others probably fatally wounded. The officers caboose. returned to secure reinforcements, and President Dole of Hawaii Will ba Allied to further trouble is expected. Resign. . rail-wa- y, . Mail advices from Honolulu are to ADMISSION OF PHILIPPINES. the effect that senator George U. Carter of the Hawaiian legislature has Senator earmark lutrodueru Resolution received a personal letter from President Roosevelt, asking for a statement of the political situation in Hawaii. Senator Carter will leave tor Washington February lltli to present the matter in person. President Roosevelt's request, together with the report that President Dole's resignation would bs called for, has caused unusual interest in Honolulu political circles. A Notorious Renegade Slain. The Pansy scouts, under the command of Captain Wa'ker, in sn engagement in the island of Samar, recently captured seven a rifles and numerous bolos, killed a number of Filippinoa and the officer in command, who was a notorioes renegade, named Winfrey, a deserter from the Forty-thir- d regiment whom the American troops had for months 'been endeavoring to capture. A man named Long, who deserted with Winfrey, ia still operating with the Filippinos. Aro Leaving Wyoming. Japan All the Japanese in Rawlins, Wya, have left for the reason that they felt they were unwelcome. The Chinese left several years ago. The Jape said they could not put up with the insults and personal attacks from white laborers. The recent action of miners throughout Colorado in driving them ont probably bad something to do with their departure. During the pact few months a number of Japs had been sssulted and badly beaten np. At a Spanish cabinet council the minister of foreign affairs, the Duke of Almodovar, has been authorized to sign a treaty of friendship with the United States after , the council of state shall have deliberated thereon. The American merchants in Manila complain of the action of the consular purchasing agent in making the majority of hia purchases at Hongkong, where materials are cheaper, on account of Hongkong being a free port. Against Bach Movement. Senator Carmack has introduced the following resolution: That tlie United States regard with extreme disfavor any movement having for is object the early or ultimate admission of tint Philippines as a atato or stales of the union, and any action on the part of the persons holding office under the authority of the United Slates that gives sanction or encourage to such a movement is hereby con dernned. That to confer the rights and privileges of citizens on the inhabitants of the Philippine islands would tend to destroy the integrity of citizenship aud to degrade the character of the government of the United States; that to main the relation of sovereign and subject between the government of the United States ends people under its dominion would be repugnant to the principles of the Constitution. Fight Over Fniperty Itesaits In Death. During a fight with the followers of risvi claimants to property lying along tbe Lake Shore drive, tlie most aristocratic boulevard in Chicago, Frank Kirk, a watchman for one of the claim ants, was shot through the head and killed. Captain Gea V. Streeter, claims the ground on the rights of a squatter. The police later arrested Streeter and all hia followers. Tragedy Follows Hoys Attempt to Frighten Roommate. Clare Hannum, sou of W. G. llan-nuan assistant paymaster of the United Slates navy, residing in Brooklyn, has been found dead hanging in his room at Peddle institute, at Ilights-toN. Y. Tlie boy had fastened his door and pushed a bureau against it, and had then hanged himself by a small cord tied to a screw book over a closet door. While the tragedy has every appearance of suicide the general belief in the school is that the hoy lost his life in sn attempt to startle hia roommate by a "make beiieve" suicide that turned into a terrible when it was too late for him to reality save himself. m, n, |