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Show KILLED HY SAVAGES THE LOGAN NATION. - LOQAN, MISSIONARY PARTY MURDERED IN AFRICAN FORESTS. PCBLISHIKO CO. NATION - UTAH. Natives Had No Grievance With White Men, But Chief Decided to Nip Possibility of War in the UTAH STATE NEWS. Bud. It Is estimated that fuliy 2,000,000 head at sheep will graze upon the Minister Lyon has reported to the ranges of Utah this winter. state department from Monrovia, The gross receipts of the Salt Lake Liberia, under date of November 4th City postofflce for 190S exceed the last, the details' of the massacre In gross receipts for 1902 by 110,730.78. the depths of an African forest of a Courtney E. Phillips suicided In Of den by taking strychnine. He had once before attempted to take his Ufa The wool clip for the year 1903 ll estimated at about 10,000,000 pounds, r about 2,000,000 pounds less than the dip of 1902. The Republicans of Ogden will, on the 4th, celebrate their recent victory by a ball and banquet, 700 Invitations having been sent out. The farmers of Sevier county are making a vigorous and united effort to secure a beet sugar factory for the local consumption. The cost of labor employed In the various processes of manufacturing sugar In the state of Utah during 1903 amounted to a little over 200,000. election conIn the test for a seat in the Salt Lake City Council, Dean, the Republican candidate, has been declared the winner. The Utah state building at the Louisiana Purchase expos! ton at St Louis Is about completed. The building will cost between 6,000 and 57,000. The yield of wheat in this state during the past season is estimated at not less than 3,000,000 bushels, as against 4,000,000 bushels for the previous year. E. Petit,' a farmer living near Salt Lake City, was injured in a runaway accident last week, when he fell between the horses, his leg being fractured. A statement made by the Salt Lake banks for the past year show a total Increase of deposits of 11,426,816, and an increase of loans and discounts ot Dean-Burbrldg- white missionary named John G. Tate, with all of his followers; eighteen In number. It appears that the massacre took place as far back as March 15, 1901, yet this, the first detailed account, has just come to hand in an affidavit by Mrs. Mary L. Allen, a white missionary at Liberia. She has the story from some of the native Doo tribesmen, who knew of the killing. Nou-nakro- o, Tate had a large mission 'and farm, and besides he maintained a considerable school in the jungle and altogether nineteen people were in the mission when it was surrounded in the night by the Doo. The first man who answered a knock at the door was shot. The,. 'interpreter next was shot, and as Tate appeared and tried to protect the body of the interpreter, he, too, was Bhot and cut to pieces. .The Doos then Killed all the remaining inmates of the house, cut off their hands, and placing the bloody members in a coffin, sent them back to their people as trophies. In explanation of their action the Doos said: We have no fight with the white men, but if we do not kill him now, he will bring his country to make war upon us." Minister Lyon, on tne strength of this affidavit, communicated with the Liberian secretary or state, with a view to securing fuller information and perhaps the punishment of the perpetrators of the massacre. n, - 61,302,717. 51.160,-832.9- 7, The tptal output of Utahs coal mines during the past year foots up about 1,752,500 tons. This was pro duced in 300 ' days, the strike Interfering with the output, which, otherwise, would have been much greater. - Judge W. H. Dickson is hovering between life and death at his apartments In the Knutsford hotel. Salt Lake, as the result of Injuries received by slipping on the tile floor, the back of his head coml&g In contact with the hard floor. The production of refined sugar In Utah during the year has aggregated about 47.000,000 pounds, turned out by the factories at Lehl, Ogden, Logan and Garland, 200,000 tons of beets being used, for which the farmers were paid about 31,000.000. In 1903 the Inland Salt companys plant at Saltair produced 20,000 tons at salt, which, valued at the average price of 5 per ton, gives the total at 3100,000 for the years output. The average number of employes at the salt works Is fifty. While walking on Main street in Salt I.ake City, Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Miriam Ford, mother of Colonel John D. Ford of the national guard of Utah, accidentally fell against an Iron pillar and fractured her skull, causing ah-mo- instant death. two-year-ol- e . 166,-56- I e e The body of Thomas Jones, the well known mining man who died from s dose of cyanide ot potassium in Denver, will be brought back to Salt Lake City for burlaL Under the homestead law 16,682 acres of agricultural land were proved up by settlers during the year 1903, while the total area of public lands 1 disposed of during the year was acres. Slot machines have again been placed under a ban by the Salt Lake police force, and henceforth only machines which pay in merchandise will be allowed to remain in saloons and other places of business. The records of the state board of health Tor the past year show a continuous improvement In sanitary conditions throughout the state and a marked decrease In the number of cases of contagious disease. The mines of Mercur In 1903 produced 56,336.62 ounces of gold, for which the producer received while in addition to this output of the yellow metal quicksilver of the value of 820,000 was retorted. Japan Inquires of Russia as to EvacSALT LAKE BARBER CONFESSES uation of Manchuria. TO HORRIBLE CRIME. Lien Fang, first secretary of the board of foreign affairs, visited RusMurdered Wife on Christmas Aftei sian Minister Lessar in Peking, Monconnoon and Left Child to Guard the information day, and requested Russian of the intentions Body for Two Nights and a Day. cerning the evacuation the ' government regarding of Manchuria. Frank Rose, a barber, called at the Sunthat said in reply, Minister Lessar, police station in Salt Lake City officer with informed the at and could done be present day morning nothing a view to evacuation, for two reasons. In charge that he had murdered his In the first place, the minister pointed wife on Christmas day and that her out, the cold weather made It imposbody was still lying in the bed at sible to remove the troops from their home, where he had shot her. Alpresent positions, besides which there though the police discredited his story were no barrack accommodations to and thought Rose was insane from be had elsewhere, and, in the second drink, an Investigation was made, place, he said, it would endanger Rus- which confirmed his story in all lta sian Interests to undertake evacuation horrible details. The body of the during the progress of the negotia- woman was found in bed, clad only tions between Russia and Japan, for in undergarments, while beside its the reason that the Japanese might mother lay a child, the seize the opportunity to invade Man- little ones being saturated clothing churia. with its mothers blood, but, despite-thBADLY MIXED. fact that the baby had remained In the room alone for two nights and a. Two Provisional Governments In day, It has apparently suffered no ill 8anto Domingo. effects. Rose, in his confession, deIt Is reported that General Gelletler clares he Bhot his wife while they has formed a provisional government were lying In bed, and that she lived shootat Azua de Compostella, presided over for an hour and a half after the before-shhim and the baby kissing ing, by himself, and that the Inhabitants died. After she died he went up of Barhona have joined In the movetown and commenced drinking, not ment and the two forces are jointly giving himself up until he had spent ah of his money. He declares he marching on that city. Consequently killed her because she had been unnow two there are provisional gov- true to him. ernments in the republic of Santo DoANOTHER RAILWAY HORROR. mingo. Santo The German warships left In8eventeen Killed and Thirty-onDomingo on Sunday for Kingston, JaMich. Near Grand Rapids, jured maica. The United States gunboat Seventeen now war vessel is persons are dead and the only Newport, at Santo' Domingo, and, owing to her thirty-on- e injured, several of them fasmall crew, she cannot restore order as the result cf the collision near if a serious outbreak occurs. The sit- tally, uation demands the presence of more Grand Rapids, Mich., of two passenger trains. The collision, which was head-owarships. The city so far Is quiet was caused, according to a stateGHOULS ROBBED THE D&AD. ment Issued by the officials of the road at the general offices in Detroit, by Many Acts of Vandalism Committed at the high wind blowing out the red 8cene of Wreck. lamp at McCord's, where the It is believed that, despite the ex- signal westbound freight. No. 5, should have treme precautions and watchfulness of and received orders to pass the Pere Marquette railroad officials stopped the eastbound train at Fox. and many acts of vandalism The trains met with a terrific crash, were committed at the wreck near the baggage and smoking cars behind East Paris, Mich., Saturday night and each locomotive being instantly rethat ghouls despoiled the bodies of duced to a pile of kindling wood. No person occupying the cars other than the dead. the baggage and smoking cars, with Coroner Hilllker declares that noth- very few exceptions, were seriously ing of any value whatever was found Injured. by him when he searched the dead, STILL POUTING. and that he is satisfied ghouls robbed the remains, either while they were in the wreck or were being carried Colombians Will Go Home Unless-- . into baggage cars to be brought to Their Requests Are Granted. Grand Rapids. Unless the United States, in the which Secretary Hay will make Murderer Captured. to note of General Reyes, accords the The Portland police have captured Colombia that measure of satisfaction David Van Houten, who killed A1 from her point of view, she which, Voung, a saloonkeeper, for the alleged feels herself entitled to with respect alieniation of his wifes affections. to Panama, both General Reyes and Van Houten was arrested at his barn Dr. Herran will leave Washington. The about five miles from the city and is entertained both by General made no resistance. He refuses to hope and Dr. Herran that in the Reyes Mrs. Van event of a refusal by Mr. Hay to admit make any statement. Houten denies her husbands story of their contentions, the United States her alleged infidelity and asserts that may agree, as a last resort, to a subwhile she has known Young for sev- mission of the propositon to The eral years that her relations with him .Hague court of arbitration. were not of such a character as tq LOOTED THE BANK. warrant the charges made against her by Van Houten. Mrs. Van Houten Bandits Dynamite Safe and Secure accuses her husband of beating her About 32,800. and not providing for her needs. A gang of five bank robbers looted American Gunboat Goes to Korea. the bank in Kiowa, L T., Sunday Rear Admiral Sterling, temporarily and escaped after several; In command of the Asiatic station, morning, hundred shots had been exchanged becables the navy department announc- tween the robbers and a poss of the gunboat ing the departure of of Kiowa. The robbers dynamited the safe and Vicksburg from Shanghai for Chemulpo, Korea, where she has been order secured, about 52.800 in cash, some of ed at the instance of Mr. Allen, the which Is believed to have been mutiAmerican minister at Seoul. The lo- lated by the explosion. The bank cal riots at Chemulpo recently en- building was partially wrecked, the dangered American life and property, damage to the building being about and the dispatch of a warship was 31,600. thought necessary. Welser Woman 8erlously Burned. Cabinet Meeting. Japanese By an explosion of gasoline the resiAn important joint meeting of the dence of J. D. Dudley Smith of Welser, cabinet and privy council was held Idaho, was badly wrecked and burned, Sunday to consider ways and means and Mrs. Smith received serious burns in view of the grave situation, but no on the hands and face. Mrs. Smith difficulty is now anticipated in provid- was engaged in cleaning window curing for the extraordinary expend- tains with gasoline, having on a pair of gloves. She was using a itures, including the completion of the tub rubber with considerable of the fluid In railway. 1L It being rather cold on the porch, It is believed that unless Russia where she had the tub, she carried It modifies her reply, Japan will imme- into the kitchen, where there was a diately safeguard Korea, though such hot fire. In a moment there was an a step will not necessarily mean war explosion and the room was in with Russia. Met Horrible Death. A The Chinese Treaty. dispatch has reached Douglas, At the Chinese legation the conf- Wyo:, conveying the news that Mrs. ident hope is expressed that the throne Joseph Messersmith and her thirteen-year-o- ld at Peking will ratify the American-Chines- e daughter, Florence, of Dougcommercial treaty recently las, were burned to death In a fire ratified by the United States senate, which destroyed the home at which and that ratifications may be ex- they were visiting In Braid wood, 111. The fire started at night and Mrs. changed without delay. In cabling and were overhis government several days ago the come. Frank her daughter Smith, a In announcement of the ratification of the attempting to save the neighbor, of the jives treaty here. Sir Liang, the Chinese two ladles, lost his own, all three minister, took occasion to urge that bodies being found close together the ratifications at Peking be expe- burned beyond recognition. dited as much as possible. re-"pl- y LEPER8 IN NEBRA8KA. Russians Said to Be Afflicted With Dread Disease. A special from Lincoln, Neb., says: Residents near Ninth and H streets have reported to Health Officer Rhode that twenty-fiv- e Russians living in the vicinity have leprosy. The alleged lepers returned from the beet fields a week ago. The Informant reported that a physician had tried to rent several rooms for a sanitarium in which to cure the lepers. The Russians have been doing washing in families in the city. The authorities are investigating the mat-Twenty-fiv- e ter. The Russians do not speak Eng- lish. CANADIAN8 VIOLATE TREATY. Are Building an Armored Cruiser for tfie Great Lakes. The building of a Canadian armored cruiser for the Great takes has caused comment in Ottawa on the treaty supposed to restrict such a movement. Under Secretary of State Pope pointB out that no treaty exists between Great Britain and the United States limiting the number and armament of vessels to be maintained by the United States and Canada on the Great takes. There is an agreement to cease placing thejn after six months notice by either country. Mr. Pope doubts if it Jb binding. - RECIPROCITY fifty-citizen- Beoul-Fusa- s n - Mes-sersmi- th . |