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Show THK AMH1MCAX EAGLE M. A I I.I.I M SON . rul.li-hf-- r. UTAH. MUR AY. Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 3. A li tter has been received here from Henry Itehnson, who left here for the Yukon via Skaguay witli a well equipped party in July. The party conist-- of but one grew faint hearted an i returned. They had reached the summit on Aug. 'SI, and expected to arrive on Stewart river before winter sets in. Dead horses are reported along the trail, and at one spot where their party lost one horse through falling over a precipice six horses were killed in the same day. Two men were caught and shot. were stealing Large numbers of people are turning back and outfits can be purchased cheaply, but he ad vises no one to go up depending on purchasing outfits. He says horses are an absolute necessity. Haywood of the force went up to who here, police Dawson City in the spring, says in a a letter that "God only knows what will become of the crowds now heading this way." At the time of writing provisions were very scarce in Dawson City, but a steamer was expected daily. ei-ht- UTAH NEWS. 'rTie Box KMcr county mence September GeorJ- - 10 fair will com- at Willard. Kce lias been sentenced to in the state penitentiary by Mc four years the district court at Vernal. Utah fruit interests will be represented by displays at the Intermonn-taifair at Boise the loth. n r from II. Ingham, a Rait Lake was arrested one day last week for violation of sheep ordinance, by grazing hheep in Kich county without license, lie was fined 8100. A man named Reidelbaugh, from alt Lake, found a Riant cap up Spring freek, near Coalville, and began to pick with a nail, when the cap exploded and mangled his hand in a dreadful manner, necessitating the amputation of four fingers at the second joint. Springville has a musical prodigy ia the person of Willie J. Clyde, son of William Clyde, a carpenter and bandmaster. The little fellow is not yet 8 years old, and hardly large enough to carry the instrument he plays, which is an E flat tuba, but he can readily read and execute l is music. Numerous complaints come from Em-fr- y county from saw mill owners that they are unable to obtain permits to cut timber upon the government lands as has been the custom to grant them. The saw mill owners cannot obtain timber to cut into lumber to supply the rapid and large demand for lumber from ranch owners, who are now ready and anxious to erect buildings. John Williams, a resident of Coalville was instantly killed on the 29th Inst. He was engaged in constructing a stall in his stable and misplacing one of the props which supported the roof the roof fell in, one piece of timber striking him in the jaw, and it is also thought his neck was broken. lie was 52 years of age and had been a resident of Summit county for twenty years. Mr. T. II. Spencer of Provo has given notice, through the recorder's oflice, that ho claims and appropriates all the waters of Jordan river and Utah lake, not now appreciated and C. sheep-owne- ryj for the purpose of irrigating about 40,000 acres of land situated in Salt Lake county, and lying easterly, westerly and northerly along and on both sides, the whole length of the Utah and Salt Luke Canal company. The sum owed, in round numbers, by Salt Lake City municipality is said to be S'.'.MXi.OOO, payable in from fifteen to twenty years. All, or nearly all of it is payable in gold coin. This immense debt draws interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum, or about $125,000 per year, 510,417 per month, 5347.25 per day, 514.35 per hour, or 24 cents per minute. At the present rato of silver it would require 5,000,000 ounces to liquidate the indebtedness. The foregoing does not include the debt of the hoard of education, which is an pdditional burden of 5850,000. The annual amount paid for the use of this sum is 512,000, making a total yearly drain of 5170,000 npon the taxpayers of Salt Lake City. Threshing of grain has commenced In the valley below Mil ford. In many fields the grain stood the dry weather and came out in good shape. Men who had abandoned their grain altogether a few weeks ago on account of the mineral in the land, find now that in several instances it his turned out fairly well aud will liko 75 ceuU per 100 pounds. of tho farmers, however, w ill Many not get their seed back. The cause for soma of the land producing and other failing is a question not solved among ranchmen. The water supply has been short this season, but the dryest land appears to hate had water enough, the fault being in the mineral la tho land itself. About twelve Uintah Indians arrived at Trice recently with their horses, wagons and trailers, for the purpose of hauling their freight to their homes on the reservation. The Indians say they have no lauds for sale to either the Uneompahgre L'te Indians or any one else, aud it was now a matter of talk among the tribes whether or not they should proclaim such an edict, for the reason that they understood full well that the last session of congress said the allotmentof lands to the L'ncompahgre Utes should be upon the first-clas- s briu-someth- ing reservation, or elsewhere, and that the L'intahs had no land for sale on their reservation, if it was the supposition that their reser- rr-ompah- gre vation was the '.elsewhere." niCHER ThL KLONDIKE Discouraged Alaskan. , ASKED TO REMAIN. Andrews ltequesfed to Withdraw ill Kenlgnation Providence, It. I., Sept. 2 The cor- President New Mining Dlil, HARRITY ..nh of Klondike. letter to the received from the -- A Tacoma, Aug. Ledger has just t ..... m M jTi river, north fork of ad- ,re Leiumon, Alaska, from dressed to his w in south Tacoma, I f a fabulously rich giving partieula Macstrike ou this tfcitary of the Millan river. went therefrom He and his irom an ..rniation on the Yukon Indian who ae ,panied them last spring and he S tnai, liiey struck a locality her than the Klon dike. In three ml hs they have made a clean up of S.'.f a large bucket He says they aland a big can full nuggets and bescales they though theyhavew lieve it w ill readme amount named. They have staked live claims and he tells his wtfto send up four friends, whom he ;signates, as quickly as passible to cate the adjoining properties, thelaw'eing that one man can locate only on claim. The letter was'st down by the Indian who toek $:0 or $000 worth of nuggets to lay irt ifresh supply for the winter. Lemmonayshe will not be out before next smmer and that his friends can reaolihere by the middle of October over he Chilkoot pass. MacMillan is to.veen 200 and 300 miles south of t'e Klondike and in what until latelyhas been an ; - par je SHOOTING DEFEATED. Pennsylvania Iieiuoeratlc State Contention by a Majority Ktiuuit-- i iliiu. Heading, Pa., Sept. 1. The Demo- cratic state convention convened in this city and nominated Walter E. Reider of Lycoming county for auditor peneral and M. E. Drown of Blairs-vill- e for state treasurer. The matter of the selection of candidates was entirely overshadowed by the fight to force the retirement of Mr. llarrity from the national committee, owing to his hostility to silver. The opponentsof Mr. llarrity succeeded in pushing through by a vote of 2'.0 to 134 a resolution indorsing James M. GufTee for his position. Mr. Harrity's friends contend that the state conven tion has no power to declare his scat in the national committee vacant and that he w ill not surrender without a fight. William F. llarrity showed no dismay over his defeat. lie said: "I am not greatly disappointed at the outcome. When I recall that during the campaign of last year such names as W. C. Whitney and IHvid 15. Hill were hissed in meetings held in Tammany hall because of the refusal to acquiesce in all declarations of the Chicago convention, I find it quite easy to be philosophical over the situation." Kiearaguan Canal. IN JAIL. Minnesota Deputy Sheriff Hres shots at a Sleeping Man. tleven Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 1. There has beeu a sensational shooting anray at the county jail. James L. Murphy, a deputy sheriff, brought to jail a woman of the town who he said was under arrest and sent for Matron Wood burn ;having thus cleared the way he entered the latter's apartments and Cluvis H. opened tire on her husband, bed. He in was who asleep Woodburn, fired eleven shots, five of which enter"I'll teach ed the body, exclaiming: him to ruin my daughter'.'" The watchman rushed in and prevented Woodburn, who had by this time secured his own weapon, from firing at his now retreating enemy. Murphy gave himself up and refused to discuss the case, except to say that he was a Kentuekian and had shot to kill. Woodburn is dangerously, but not fatally shot. He will not talk. The CUneros Romance. Washington, Sent. 1. Lee's investigations into the circumstances attending the arrest of the young Cuban girl Evangelina Cossio Cisneros have resulted in sweeping away a great deal of the romance that attached to her case, lie cabled the state department today from Havana that the girl is not the neice of Marquis Santa Lucia, as has been proclaimed, but is the daughter of a poor and respectable Cuban named Augustin Cossio. Her mother's name, being Cisneros, was added to her own according to the Spanish custom, making her name Evangelina Cossio Cisneros. Moreover, Gen. Lee reports that this girl is not an only daughter, nor has she been raised in wealth and luxury, but is one of five or six children. Consul-Gen-er- poration ot Brown university, after a Washington, Sept. 1. The Bureau long meeting, requested President of American Republics will issue a Andrews to withdraw his resignation region. bulletin on the Nicaragua canal in a as president of that institution. The few days. Director Smith, the author request was embodied in a resolution Skagnay is low lioominR. of the bulletin, states that he believes sent to Andrews, in which it was Seattle, Wash.; Aig. 31. The follow- the present administration will prosstated that a serious misunderstanding ing letter was reeived per steamer ecute that Nicaraguan canal enterhad arisen which should never have " Utopia'' today :y the Associated prise. occurred, and concludes as follows: Press: : "In my opinion," said he, "the mat"The corporation cannot feel that the Skaguay, Aug.,.. The jam is brok- ter will be pressed upon the attention divergence of views upon the silver en on the Skagmivtrail. A number of of Congress as a National undertaking question and of its effects upon the outfits have gottecover and there is a with the object of securing not only STRIKE CONSIDERED SETTLED. university between you and the memsteady stream oi moving humanity great commercial advantages to all ol bers of the corporation is an adequate mixed indescribable amost in an the American republics, but that dis- Will Kesume. Work at Sixty-foCent( cause of separation between us, for the mass ofuphorses of all sizes, ages and American control of the waterrending Arbitration. tinctly is corporation profoundly appreciative conditions; mules, steers, milch cows, way between the Atlantic and Pacific, Columbus, 0., Sept. I. The coal of the great services you have renderand dogs, also vehicles of every which is so important in both a strike is considered settled here. The goats ed to the university, of your great sacdescription. Three steamers are now diplomatic and military sense, to a plan is to resume at 04 cents and work rifices and love of it. It therefore reon lighters which convey proper enforcement of the Monroe doc- pending arbitration. news its assurances of highest respect unloading the freight as near the shore as possi- trine. The direct parties in the conference for you and expresses tiie confident ble, where it is loaded on wagons or of adjustment are President Ratchford hope that you will withdraw your res- carried over in the high tide. Silver Farties in Nebraska Combine. of the miners and the executive comignation. The "Utopia"' is loading at the only A number of Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 1. There is no mittee of the operators. which is a shaky structure. doubt in the minds of the delegates to the latter were in the city and the rewharf, Kneaped Convict's Kille. are at work on another the free silver convention that the free sult is Two that a decision may be looked I'.oise, Ida., Sept. 2. Win. Dunlevy dock which is intended to be a subsilver Populists, Democrats and Re- for at any moment. has arrived in the city with a rifle stantial affair. A new sawmill got up publicans will unite harmoniously and The direct effect of this decision will which he and a trapper named Wil6team for the first time this morning. agree upon nominess for supreme court be the opening of the mines and liams took from James Turubough, Hough lumber is worth $27 per thousjudge and two state university re- resumption of work by all striking escaped witli Jesne and, but cannot be got half fast gents, W. J. Bryan said: "The three miners the beginning of the coming Corj.ia 'i'lde latter having been cap- euoiigli "rice. pt any parties will certainty get together in week. tured. Dunlevy did not learn until The city o tents is not being dis- fusion," and his opinion was the senseveral hours after that Turnbough New Mail Service for Klondike. placed, but reinforced by a city of timent of the delegates on every hand. was a runaway. Washington, Sept, 1. The first let"shacks" of all sizes and degrees of A conservative estimate places the Turnbough robbed Williams' camp. finish. ter mail to be dispatched from this of There boom town is at of the 2,500. number Skaguay delegates The trapper followed his trail for a Alaska. Every man whose heart fails is no hall in the city large nough to country to the Klondike region under day aud came on to him eating dinner him when he encountered the first accommodate them in a single con the new reciprocal arrangement with He held both of them with Dunlevy. has turned towusite boomer. vention, so a separate convention will Canada, effected by establishing an and forced Turnbough to take off the hardship Pour weeks ago Skaguay was not be held by each party, each convention international exchange between Dyea clothes he had stolen and was going to and Dawson City, will be forwarded there are not less than convening at the same time. turn him loose naked, when Dunlevy known; today from Seattle by a steamer leaving 3,000 people here in addition to those interceded. Thieves. Cattle After Dunlevy convinced Wil- on the From that there September 11th. ships in the harbor. liams that he had nothing to do with sheriffs 31. The will mail time forward, letter Vernal, Utah, Aug. go over Turnbough and after taking his rifle been have counties Wasatch once a Utah and service the new Mi n rs Starving. regularly away left for Boise in blissful ignorPreece Sheriff in to with Union send The last opportunity month. Lebanon, Ind., Aug. 31. An immense working ance of the pri.e he had in his hands. of ahis county for the last few days in newspapers and reading matter genheld was at the tonight opera This happened after the capture of meeting of a erally into the gold region until next house in behalf of the starving coal quietly locating the whereabouts beabout miles twenty-fivColeman, been have that thieves of cattle spring will be afforded by the "paper miners iu Indiana. Judge Thomas J. gang yond Banner. where in mail" the last of the season, which valley, Strawberry Terhune made a statement of the con operating his cattle. Nutter Preston will be forwarded by steamer leaving-Sagrazes dition of the miners as he found it foal Taken a Drop. been has Atwood Charles arrested, Francisco, September 4th. while making his investigation as WaMurdock Sheriff of Cleveland, O., Sept. 2. The publicaand yesterday Governor Mount's special commis Condition of Crops. tion of the news regarding the negosioncr. In the course of his address satch started with him for Heber. is tiations which it hoped will end the he said: Sheriff Preece left this morning for Washington, Sept. 1. The weather miners' in its report of crop conditions coal strike, has affected the "There areS.OOO families in destitute White river, to intercept others of the bureau, coal market in this city. Purchasers who are supposed to be making for the week ended August 30, says: condition. Thirty thousand people gang are cautious and are buying only in their way into Colorado. Early corn is maturing in Iowa, Mis are literally starving. A few rears small quantities. Nearly all the opereorasKa ana .outi souri. Kansas, received 51.25 per ton; now Tallant Recovered. made slow progress ators are sanguine that the end of the ago they has it but Dakota, the average price paid is about 35 cents D. 1. Banker John in strike is near at hand, but there are a Sept. Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and ton. of San Frat cisco, who became Michigan, In Kentucky, Tennessee few who express doubt on the subject. per Tallant "A good miner can make SI a day insane on a train August 23, while en and Arkansas the crop promises to be All are awaiting the meeting of the and is allowed to work two or three route to New Y'ork, and who was short, ow ing to drought. miners' committee at Columbus, at days each week. They are compelled w hich the new in a sanitarium at Lake Geneva, conbe will proposition Spring wheat harvest is nearly com to trade at company stores and the placed sidered. Wis., for treatment, called at the po- pleted in Minnesota and North Da prices they pay are left entirely to the lice station in company with Brooks kota, and threshing in general. In mine operators. The miners admit Low for Major. secured his Washington and Oregon the weather his Wright, New York, Sept. 2. The boroughs that they cannot live on the present taken in charge by the police. has been especially favorable for property committee of the Citizens' union has scale of wages." Mr. Tallant has recovered from his threshing the heavy wheat crop, which A large snlcription to the relief mental derangement and will leave for has been harvested in these states. nominated Seth Low for mayor of fund was raised. Greater New York. Congressman New York in a few days. From there Supposed Holdups Captured. nigg. chrirman of the Republican orto Dresden will and joiu he proceed Comptroller Kckels In Helena. ganization, lias repeatedly asserted his family. Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 1. Word was Helena, Mont, Sept. 1. Comptrol that the nomination of Mr. Low by the received here this evening from the TriM.p for Cuba. Citizens' union would drive the Repub- ler of the Currency II. Eckels has arriv Yellowstone National park that two ed here from en for the route East, lican organization to look for a candiMadrid, Aug. 31. AtaCabinet coun men had been captured who were supthe Yellowstone National park, where cil held recently it was decided to A special messenger date elsewhere. posed to be the persons who held up left this city late tonight for North- he w ill spend ten days. He entertain summon the next class of 80,000 re the park stages two weeks ago and east Harbor, Me., with the letter of ed a large number of callers here serves, 27,000 of whom will be sent to robbed the passengers. the Citizens' union, notifying Mr Low among whom were depositors in the Cuba and 13,000 to the Philippine United States Attorney Clark will go defunct First National bank, which islands. of his nomination:. to the park to conduct the preliminary had deposits of $3,500,000 when it The Ministers when questioned de hearing of the accused. closed, who not only have not had a nied that the council was Colorailo Mine Kobbery. occupied Two Children llurned to Death. Cripple Creek, Colo,, Sept 2. Five dividend, but could not find out when with the subject of colonial reforms He told them or with political questions. armed and masked men stole ten sacks there would 1H one. Fort Wingate, N. M., Sept. 1. While of silvanite ore, valued at that he would glad to answer their playing with matches in an old outEmperor William Threatened. 5 looo from tho shaft house of the requests for information if they would building used as a storehouse, little Paris, Sept. 1. At II o'clock at night Alice Winstone and Harry Arnold, Orphan Hell mine, about 3 o'clock this write to him at Washington. From here he goes to the park; then a band of 150 persons with flags Hying There were four men on morning. aged 3 and 4 years, set fire to a can of to Hut to. and to Salt Lake, and thence left the opera house and proceeded in watch at tho shaft house, but they Alice was oil, causing nn explosion. were taken by surprise and threw up on a hunting trip into the mountains the direction of the Elysee shouting burned to a charred and unrecognizable their hands when ordered to do so, of Colorado, having his family at "Down with Emperor William." mass. Harry was badly burned about Glenwood while he troes into the wil Two of the leade M were placed under the head and will offering no resistance. probably die. dcrness. arrest. unex-plore- d ur . pile-drive- rs .thJsM.'bo.. e son-in-la- high-grad- e 1 |