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Show OUR REGULAR THE NEPHI Wlm HPHI. KECOIU)... .... COOK, rMhra fNfilNwi - UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS. Ike Nelson, a Moroni lad, fell while ivalklngf along the sidewalk and frac- ured hia jaw bone. Sam T.. Brilcy, formerly owner of a aloon In Salt Lake City, suicided on he 30tb, taking a dose of morphine. Toquerville and vicinity Is .experiencing a season cf drought which is ;ct encouraging either to farmers or tockmen. The Z. C, M. I. will distribute 100 ons of coal this month as its annual Christmas donation to the poor of Kalt Lake City. A company has been formed at Ce- pr City to establish there the Ironis ounty bank. The capital stock 15,000, which has nearly all been . aken. Bishop Abiel Leonard of this Epls-opa- l diocese, who was widely known hrouphout the west, died at St. Mark's hospital. Salt Lake City, on he 3rd.. James Slater of Huntsvillo was the Ictim of a serious accident. last week. Vhile feeding a hay baler his foot has caught in the machinery and se- erely crushed. II. J. Griffin, fireman, was killed and Engineer Bogart seriously injured in collision between two light engines t Montello, Nev. Both men were resl-ent- s of Ogden. The new count in the contest be- weon William Driver, Republicau, nd V. Hollo Emmett, Democrat, for ouncllman from the Fifth ward, Og- en, resulted in a victory for Emmett. When the finishing touches have een completed the Holy Cross hos ital in Salt Lake City will have what h said to be the finest operating room ietween Chicago and San Francisco. Moss Kifford, colored, of Salt Lake ity, charged with murder In the first iegree, for the killing of William Har- ey, otherwise known as "Bad Alley, r&B found guilty of voluntary man- laughter. Aurora i lodge, the young woman Lwaitlng trial for the murder of WI1- iam X. Ryan near Salt Lake City last uly, died at the Holy Cross hospital hn the 1st. from the effects of ' an peration performed for appendicitis. It has been ilecided to establish at eland an auxiliary cutting station to apply the Lehl sugar factory with eet juice from beets grown in the iclnity of Spanish Fork, Payson, Ben amln and Salem. Professor Orson Pratt, the oldest hild of Apostle Orson Pratt, and who as lived in Utah for fifty years, be- ng one of the foremost musical in tractors of the state, died at the ome of his son in Ogden on the Cth. For the offense of tying a can to he tail of company G's mascot, a pug og, two men of the other company hieh is stationed at Scofleld were on fined in the guardhouse all day nd made to do police duty the next . ARMY, Secretary of War Submits Report t ths President. Secretary of War Root, in submit ting his annual report' to the president says that on the 1st of December, 1902. the" date of the last annual report, the army of the United States consisted of 3,586 officers and CG.003 enlisted men. a total of C9.589. In addition, there were In the service 3,598 men of the hospital corps excluded by the act of March 1, 1887, from classification as part of the enlisted force of the army. There were also in the service 182 volunteer medical officers and 4,978 enlisted men of the Philipofficers pine scouts and twenty-ninand 840 enlisted men of the Porto Rico regiment. At the date of the last reports received from the military departments, October 15, 1903, the actual strength of the regular army was 3.C81 officers and 55,500 enlisted men. of which 853 officers and 14.667 enlisted men were in tne Philippines. The expenditures for the year ended Juno 30th last were $108,577,762; appropriations for year ending June 30, 1904, are $121,917,345, and the ese timates for 19U5 are $125,929,393. COLORADO STRIKERS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Are Informed That Under Present Conditions He Has No Power Nor Right to Interfere in the Struggle. President Roosevelt again on Monday declined tc interfere in the strike conditions in the TelUiride district of Colorado. He will not go so far even at this time as to order an investigation into- - the conditions. An appeal from the Western Federation of Miners was presented to the president Monday by Senators Teller and Patterson of Colorado, urging him to exercise federal authority in bringing about an adjustment of the situation which has arisen between fche miners and the authorities of the state of Colorado. In answer to the appeal made by tho miners, the president states that under present conditions ho has neither ower nor the right to act in the premises. LANDS GIRL WAS GAME. IN THE PHILIPPINES. Ity, narrowly escaped serious injuries rulses and wounds about the head, e having jumped from the wagon, ghtfng on his head. In answer to the query from the reen River school district, Emery ounty, as to whether the schrol ous may be uel for public dances, fate Buperintondont of Public In- truetion Nelson has written a ICUcr p the clerk of the board of trustees 11 hicb he says "no." The toll line of the Utah Light & u ri t win ai j n, which has been constructed fr mij i i "j t flrave Telegraph Girl Shoots to Death an Outlaw. Alone in a railway tower at Thacker, W Va., Sunday night, while performing her duties as telegraph operator for the Norfolk & Western railroad, Miss Kate Rouburgh, 20 years old, shot and mortally wounded William Howardson, an alleged outlaw. Howardson had entered the tower and attempted to embrace Miss Rouburgh. Breaking away from him she secured her revolver and fired four shots at the intruder. One shot took effect, penetrating Howardson's chest, and he fell to the floor with a groan. After deliberately relating her experience to the telegraph .operator at the next station, she walked a quarter of a mile in the dark to the magistrate's house and surrendered. She was released on her own recog. nizance. PEABODY AND MITCHELL CONFER Colorado's Governor and Labor Leader Talk Over Strike Situation. President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America and Governor Peabody had a conference of an. hour Sunlasting day, yet the settlement of the strike la as far distant as ever. Mr. Mitchell informed the governor that the strike will continue to the bitter end, and the governor just as positively informed the strike leader that he will tolerate no violence, but will order out the troops at the first provocation. While the conference came to naught, both Governor Pea body and President Mitchell expressed themselves as pleased with the) interview, each saying he had a biter conception of the position of the other. three-quartfr- s Colorado Press Muzzled. A censorship of the press has beeti established at Victor. Colo. Majoi Naylor called at the office of the Vic- utlve committer. Had Nose Bitten Off By Dog. When John Culp, a miner of Shamo- kln. Pa., opened his stable Sunday morning to feed his horse, a strange tramp" dog leaped from the manger and clung to his shoulders. Savagely turning on the surprised man, the dog then tore off Culp's nose and chewed at his neck. After a hard struggle Culp shook off the dog and It fled. It Is not known whether the animal was tnad. Culp is In a serious condition. for Jilted Missourian Shoots Sweetheart. Enraged because Miss Annie Hart- i latter p'ace to connect with the- man, whom he had secured a Jleep"5 ompany's line at Ogden, Is complet- - to wed, would not marry him. Frank 1, with 1h" exception of the stringDawson of Paris. Mo., shot and fatally g of the wires. wounded his sweetheart and seriously The secretary of the interior has wounded his successful rival, Obe ithorlzcl tho- - grazing of 125.0OQ The shooting, occurred at a .r-- and l.""'0 horses and caft'e in Hughes. dance at Malison, Dawson enprivate a, 1 Intab forest reserve next seaon, the 'room an1 firing without tering to graxe from July 1st to, warning. Dawson's fan,5'y Is promi 2f,th, rattle and horses from nent. ;:7 15th to October Slst. m 1 1 mikm Sep-pr.b- er Reynold Stayback, aged 10, of LarNearly all the restaurants in San as doors their Francisco have closed amie, will probably be sent to the school for stealing silk from a and of cooks the result of a'f strike 4 ; store. local waiters. ; ' Colonel W.: F. Cody is arranging As a result of the rate war, the Pato re officers cific Mail company has offered to car- fwith Wyoming state in land Big ry Chinese passengers to China for claim 110,000 acres of Horn county. tho sum of $2. At Kieff, Russia," the university has been closed until June 3rd because of of the Montana national guard, tho the renewal of, disorders on the part first since the Spanish war, has been of the students. organized at Butte. Robbers wrecked the safa of the A shooting affray occurred last week bank at Haiti, Mo., with in the Bates Hole, Wyo., district, beMatt and Sullivan Pat and escaped with an amount esti- tween Setoff mated at $10,000. ranchmen, Suiliyan Schraedev a Russia's reply to Japan's proposals wounded. is almost completed, but will not be boy who was Carl, the ready for transmission to Toklo until wounded on the head by his father late in the "week. in Laramie when the latter made his The Charlotte, N. C, Street Rail- murderous attack on his family on way company did not furnish heat for November 17th, is dead:. Dick Lewis, a colored lad from Spoits cars and all motormen and condraw ductors went on strike. kane, fought a . twenty-rounSiddonsof Chicago at with George City free delivery service was eswas Helena. .Lewis very aggressive tablished at ninety-ninpostoffices deal of punishment. a a and great took, fiscal last the making year, during The Rock Springs, Wyo., city countotal of 1033 free delivery offices. has appropriated $300 toward a cil contemThe Chinese government which will be raised by subscripfund plates the raising of an army of for the building of a fine road tions men to protect the province of Rock Springs and Vernal, Chi-LI- , between in the event of hostilities. Utah. The faculty of Rutgers college at David Crismon, a miner, was killed New Brunswick, N. J., has suspended twenty-twmembers of the sopho-- i at Golconda, Nev., by a premature . blast Crismon is the man who, about' more class for hazing a freshman. was imprisoned in a Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Tom- eight years ago, near Wlnnemucca mine by a cave-imy Ryan met in Chicago last week forty-sifor days. bat and agreed to fight a twenty-rounThe Western Hardware company, tle for the middleweight championship of America. conducting a general hardware busihead-oIn a collision between two ness at Great Falls, Mont., has made trolley cars near Hamilton, O., Dr. an assignment for the benefit of it3 Clarence W. Lehman, a passenger, was creditors. The concern's liabilities crushed to death and Motorman Young are about. $11,000. The bond of Charles Weston, state fatally hurt. The Western mine owner whohad a auditor of Nebraska, who is under arnew ear grafted on his head, after rest at Casper, Wyo., for receiving debeing cut from another's head, is now posits at the Deneckc bank, after that out of the hospital. The operation institution was Insolvent, has been I I 7r AAA was successful. Seventeen bodies remain in the The Paris Rappel publishes a disHanna. Wyo., coal mine. It Is expectpatch from St. Petersburg, announced will all be taken out this these ing the massacre by Boxers of a numThe week. last bodies found were ber of . Christians In the Szechuan skeletons. Identified by the mine-tagprovince of China. around their necks. John Spires, aged 30, killed Llna ' James a school girl, with a dagger Spencer, who was sentenced Perkins, to two years in the state last week N. at Winslow, M., and then took his own life with the same weapon. Jeal- prison at Rawlins, Wyo., for forgery, has admitted his fondness for prison ousy was the motive. President Roosevelt 13 to receive life, and prefers incarceration to his $30,000, and his children, Kermit and liberty. This is his fourth term. An Important Wyoming gold strike Ethel, $5,000 each from, the estate of the late King Grade, an uncle by mar- has been made on the south fork of, Encampment river by the King Minriage of the president. Kalman Foldessy, who was arrested ing company. It is said that a twenty-six-fovein has been encountered, as- -' In New York during President Roosein gold to the ton. $52 saying velt's visit last week for writing James Spencer, the threatening letters, was committed to who walked twenty-fiv- e forger, miles the state hospital for the Insane. to give himself up. has been senon the 4th by Negotiations begun the powers may result in an interna- tenced at Rawlins to two years In the Spencer declared that tional administration for 'Macedonia penitentiary. h beats "it that a man going to the lines observed in the presalong the penitentiary for tho fourth time ent government of the island of Crete. on the same charge only gets two The farmers of Texas are being years." unionized at a rapid rate. There are P. Bowman, a well known resident today 3,000 unions In Texas, with a of Laramie. Wyo., has been arrested total membership of 4Q.O00 or more, under a state warrant charging him the organization Is spreading like wild- with cruelty to animals. Angered at' fire. their laziness, be left a team of horses At Eboll, Italy, a peasant woman in 'his stable without food or water named taenia Mirra. decapitated her for several days, the animals being dead from exhaustion when daughter. The woman's almost discovered. motive was jealousy, and he did not J. Ahem, who has been In charge display the least regret for her act of the investigations by the geologiwhen arrested. cal survey in the section about Cody, Kels Nickell, the father of Willie has completed bis work and Nlckell, the 14 year old boy for the Wyo., left for Washington. He intimated murder of whom Tom Horn was before he left that the great Shoshone hanged at Cheyenne, will receive back river project had been determined the bloody clothes taken from the boy upon and This will reclaim after the murder. The clothes were over 20,000accepted. acres of land. used as exhibits In the district and In Cheyenne last week a remark supreme courts and before Governor able wedding occurred, when Judg Chalferton. Alfred D. Gamble of Hartville andi Third Assistant Postmaster Gen- Dr. I. C. White of Denver were made eral Edwin C Madeen, In his anual re- one. Judge Gamble Is an octogenarport, says that the reform of th? ian, being 84 years of age, while the abuses of the second class mailing bride is 25 years old. Judge Gamble ' privileges is moving steadily forward was one of tiie pioneers of 43, and later located in Wyoming. and be completed In two years. Mary Fitzgerald, a 14 year-olThe Mexican chamber of deputies has passed the bill amending the con- daughter of Policeman Fitzgerald of stitution by creating tbe vice presi- Rawlins, Wyo.. Is at the point of death as the result of a practical Joke. dency and providing also for the of the presidential term to She ran Into a barbed wire which some t.oys had fastened across, six years, and the measure goe to tne road and cut a deep gash In her ' the senate. throat. The privy council f,f England decid8. C. Ingram, "Big Tex," died in the ed that placer miners In renewing Rock Springs hospital last week. A leases to their claims mut submit to few weeks ago. in a row with a d any fresh charges the Canadian govman at Rawlins, he was stabbed ernment may chome to enforce. Th In th side. Blood poisoning set In council dismissed fhe appeals of the and caused Ms death. Fred Chris- - , man, who did the stabbing, la under Klondike miners. re-for- nitro-glyr-in- e d - e 100,-00- 0 Regulations for Disposition of Homesteads Submitted to Senate. Tho president has submitted to congress with his approval rules and regulations for the lease, sale or other disposition of the public lands other than timber or mineral lands, in tho Philippine islands, made by the govs eminent of the islands. They provide for homesteading, selling and leasing of portions of the public domain; prescribe terms and conditions to enable persons to perfect their titles; provide for the issuance of patents without compensation to certain native settlers upon the public lands; provide for the establishment of town-site- s n and sale of and for a hearing and decision by the Philippine court of land registration of ail applications for the completion and confirmation of all imperfect and Incomplete Spanish concessions and grants in said Islands. lots-therei- Torn to Pieces by Lions. Frau Fischer, a Hon tamer, was torn to pieces at Dessau. Germany, by four lions in a menagerie cage and in sight of a great crowd of people. She was trying to make a lion spring through a hoop and struck it with a whip, whereupon the animal leaped upon her and disemboweled her at one stroke. The woman shrieked at once and the three other lions Joined In the attack on her and fought among themselves for fragments of the flesh. There was a frightful panic among the spectators and many persons were injured. o n x d n , A s 1 i j ! ot self-confesse- d Congress Meets In Regular Session. The first regular session of the congress began at noon but the senate met half an Monday, hour previous to that time in accordance with the adjournment of Saturday last for the purpose of permitting an orderly termination of the called session. The fact that there hd been an extra session had the effect of robbing the day of the regular session of many of the features which usually characterize a first dayt Little business was transacted in either branch, of congress during the day, except listening to the president's message. Fifty-eight- h Fifty-e- ighth tor Daily Record, the only dally paper In Victor, and informed its editor and proprietor that a censorship had been ay. placed upon the columns of the RecFred Ilolmbcrg, a structural iron ord. Editor Kyner was told that h korker, was instantly killed at the not publish anything but ordimust Portland cement works in Salt Lake news matter, and was compelled nary ity on the 1st, he having aecldcn- - to show his proofs. Major Nay lor ally come in contact with a live the prohibited publishing of the leadilre, the shock causing him to fall a editorial .Ir. ing Kyner had written Officers Roughly Handled by Wives of Istance of twenty feet, his skull be- Italian Strikers. commenting oh the situation. He rig fractured. Eleven women, wives of striking likewise forbid the editor to print the Rasmus Strate, a resident of Spring official statement of the miners' exec coal miners, attacked Marshal Milt h a runaway accident early In the reek- - Mr. Strate suffered several bad NORTHWEST NOTES. NEWS SUMMARY. WILL NOT INTERFERE Hightowcr when they and George Waybright, were tearing down some shanties on the Victor Fuel company's properties in the Italian quarter of the town of Hastings, Colo., Monday. Marie Vanelll struck High tower on the head with a butcher's clearer, nearly severing one of his ears. Other women gave Waybright a se vere beating. The women were arrested and taken to Trinidad for trial. Public Buildings Money. The secretary of the treasury make no provision in his estimate submitted to congress Monday for an appropriation for continuing work on, the Salt Lake public building during the next, fiscal yinr. evidently deeming the funds now on hand sufficient. He, however, asks for J.Vi.000 for continuing the cor t ruction of the Ogden building, and war,?. $25K) earn for buildings at laramie and EvanMon, Wyo. Two hundred and fifty thou-sindollars is for further Imof Yellowstone provements park. d ct d g col-ore- arrest. |