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Show NEPIII RECORD R. J. Ilenrlod, Publisher. NEPHI UTAH Colonel George History of UTAH STATE NEWS Over fifty delegates attended the second annual convention of the State Firemens association in Ogden last Week. Oto Odama, a Japanese employed in the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden, was hit by the traveling crane and Severely injimd. Omor Caff, who, with his brother, built the first flour mill in northern Utah, died at Willard, September 15, at the age of 75. The Ixigan city council has decided to submit the question of prohibition to t lie people, and a special election will be held on November Within the next month the ship tnents of material for the new freight depot to be constructed for the roads at Ogden will begin to nri ive. Waiter Moore, a well known character of Ixigan, was found dead in the city jail, where he hal been placed the night previous for drunkenness. A school for the use of the blind is being fitted up in Salt Lake City. The necessary equipment has been ordered and the school will be opened as soon as possible. The different towns in Utah county will pay taxes this year totaling $30 201 . Provo alone $101,896, paying Lelii being second with $4 1,093 to contribute to the treasury. Lehi will be dryafter January 1, 19lo. The city council has passed an ordinance making it an offense to sell intoxicating beverages even for medicnal or mechanical purposes. Resolutions looking to the protec tlon of the health of the people o! the state were discussed and finally passed at the last days session of the Utah State Federation of Labor held In Ogden. The opening session of the Utah county teachers institute was held at the Geneva resort Saturday, Septem ber 18. It was the first session for this school year and was largely of a social nature. The installation of the block signal sjtyom on he Oregon Short Line Har-ri.nu- n - C?ty and Ogfen on convicted, The system la also to he installed between Ogden and Cache Junction. Contracts were' lot last week for portions of the work on the mammoth new' hotel to he erected on the ground formerly occupied by the old Deseret News building in Salt Lake City, the contracts totaling $1, 2 17, Out). John a took win Ilolla.lay, prominent, part in breaking up the fa, inous gang of cattle thieves operat Ing in Utah county and further south in the latter part of the seventies, died at his home in Santaquin, September 1G, at the age of SO. A rather gruesome find was un earthed by D. B. Jones at Murray, Mr. Jones was plowing some ground in the center of the street passing hi? farm, when the skeleton of a man was turned up. All the bones were in good condition, and the teeth were was Lh The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAI- Rodney Williams, aged 5. is dead, and two other children are at the point of death as a result of eating noxious weeds at John Day, Ore. The rhldren were plaving in a sheep pasture, where the weeus wt re growing, and it is presumed mistook them for some gat'den vegetable. Mr. ami Mrs. II. L. Davis of Coeur dAlene, Idaho, are on a unique honeymoon trip. They were recently mart led in Idaho, and decided to make a horseback trip to New York for their wedding trip. They expect to make the trip in 110 days. With the idea of suppoi ting American business interests, in Chinese Immigration transportation, in future the inspection of Chinese coming from the Orient and seeking admission to ihe United States from Canada will he "made at Vancouver. The grand jury is investigating into the mysterious death of Charles Todd a Iioehe mining man, whose body was found in a well near the home of Julius Weir, Sr., at Bristol, Nevada on June 7 last. Julius Weir, Sr., his wife, Mis. Kate Weir, and son, Ju lius Weir, Jr., are suspected of murdering Todd. A daring attempt to rob a Denver & Rio Grande passenger train was made four miles west of Malta, a small siation near Leadville, Colo., on September 1G. The express car was dynamited, but no booty was secured. B. M. Harvey, presi- dent of Harper & Brothers, and editor of the North American Review and Harpers Weekly, was seriously mpEBJI in- jured when his automobile turned turtle while running at a high rate of speed near Moimhawhen, N. J. Worrying over the loss of her home, which was destroyed by fire recently, Mis. Anna Huber, 8G years of age, deliberately walked in front of a train at Fresno, Cal., and was instantly killed. Mrs. Edward II. Harriman, who by the terms of her husband's will becomes probably tile worlds richest woman, is expected to ask for an official appraisal of the financier's estate, within two weeks. Until tfcU appraisal is made nothing definite will be known as to the amount of vveal'h accumulated by Harriman. Millions of grasshoppers swarmed into San Bernardino, Cal., on September 17. Attracted by the lights, the insects carpeted the streets In the business section at night. So far there has been no report of damage to vegetation. Mrs. Jacob Silvers, of formerly New' York, shot and killed Mrs. Julius , and com'Tripp, her mitted suicide in the apartments of the former in a fashionable residence district in Chicago. Mrs. Tripp died at the hospital after confessing the crime. WASHINGTON. The recent threat of a body of citizens in California to establish another state because of dissatisfaction with the taxation methods has attracted the attentionVof officials in Washington. Congress would have to approve such a move, as well as the state legislature, before it could be accomsister-in-law- plished. The,-ne- traiff board, appointed by the president under authority of the tariff act, probably will hold its first meeting in Washington in the next ten days to outline a working plan. The total cash receipts of the general land office for the fiscal year ended June 30, last were $11,627,088, which is a decrease of about $1,000,-00DOMESTIC. compared with the previous year. The party of United States conPresident Taft on Sunday, at Minneapolis, met the fifty members of gressmen that has been touring the the Japanese commercial mission to Hawaiian islands lett on the Pacific the United States. He bade them a Mail liner Mongolia ror San Franhearty welcome, assured them of the cisco, Sunday morning. The average laborer is today livlasting friendship of the American people, praised their qualities of in- ing better than Queen Elizabeth did dustry and patriotism and in conclu- in her time, said James Wilson, secsion drank a teas' to the emperor of retary of agriculture, upon his return Japan' as ftie vfan.il 'and sincere to Washit aUui trom a months vacation on his low'a farm. friend of America. It is expected that at least 5,000 delThe transcontinental automobile relay run from Philadelphia to Seat- egates will attend the convention of tle, Wash., under the 'auspices of the the National Harbors and Rivers conPhiladelphia Press, came to a sudden gress, which meets in Washington in and sad end Sunday, when the first December. Efforts are being made relay car was wrecked at Rcbesonia, to have Canada represented. John R. Early, the leper, Pa., one of the occupants being killed and two seriously injured. has been struck from the rolls of the In a running battle with John pension office, as he has been found Schmelzer at Des Moines, Detective to be entirely free from any disease, Frank Delmer was shot and' killed. having recovered from the skin erupSchmelzer was shot twice, 'but prob- tion which was declared by eminent 0 physicians to be leprosy. ably will recover. Mrs. J. TO. Harding, a nurse, was FOREIGN. burned to death and Miss Constance Delegates just returned to New Rainsberry, the matron, was serious- York from the International Medical ly injured in a fire that lestroyed the congress at Buda Pest declare that St. Caroline hospital at Redding, Cal. the Americans are far ahead of other Samuel Dollarhide, driver of the nations in many branches of surgery stage from Bieber to Redding, Cal., and medicine, as shown by the testiwas killed when the vehicle upset on mony and the exhibits at the conThis is particularly so in the the intact. approach to the bridge across the gress. case of appendicitis. at Sacramento river Redding. cement That the output in Utah in The flood sufferers from the two Robert Hayw'ood, aged 6G, thought 1908 was almost double that of the northern states in Mexico are still to have been the sole survivor of the previous year is shown in statistics on the cement business comniled by second Arctic expedition of C. F. Hall. appealing for help. They are in urneed of food, clothing and medState Statistician Haines. The num American explorer, died at Baltimore, gent icines. 19. September ber of barrels of cement manufac Mail advices received by the El Three Indictments have been made tured in Utah last year was 469,427 Paso Herald states that the uprising at IE as against only Chicago in the alleged grand jury ,123 In 1907. at Monterey, Mexico, on attempted it case, The president of the Salt Lake & packing being alleged that the night or September 15, is believed the Rail-oa- d three accused, men, will Ogden prominent company probto have been an attempt of Reyes ably petition the Ogden city council had conspired to draw names of grand supporters to start a revolution. for permission to run trains into the jurors in a manner contrary to law. The annual convention of the Social Three robbers entered the Neosho city along Lincoln avenue, with Democratic Falls party, held at Leipslc. (Kans.) Siate bank, dynamited steam, temporarily, until the work revisionist of electrifying the road between Salt the safe, and escaped with $o,000 in showed that the cash. The bank building and fixtures wing was stronger than at any preLake and Ogden Is completed. vious convention. Mrs. bVivina S. Southwick was were badly wrecked. In escaping, the Reports received at Honolulu by found dead in her bed at Lehi, She robbers exchanged several shots with wireless telegraph state that the volhad evidently passed away some time the city marshal, without effect. Los Angeles, Cai., was chosen for cano Kilauea Is extraordinarily' acduring the night previous from heart tive. Lava is rising fast and Is now 19 lu convention of the American the the exact cause Is not failure, though one hundred feet from the rim only San Antonio of definitely known. She had been a Bankers association, the crater. and resident of Lehi for nearly fifty years. withdrawing putting in a bid for A prominent Russian who has just The trial judge has refused to ac- the convention of 1911. returned to Victoria, B. C., from SiThe in case the of E. jury cept the recommendation Harper of the beria and Mongolia, says: "Russia prosecuting attorney that Nick Vacos, Bennett, who has been on trial at Los is massing a great army in Siberia; who killed a Greek candy manufac- Angeles for poisoning his wife in June four or five barracks are being built, turer at Ogdpn, be allowed to plead last, reported a disagreement and and fortifications made, and extensive were Bennett contended discharged. guilty to murder in the second deas to a second war with speculation that his wife either took is the and it gree, poison probable that Vacos is a common topic of converherself or that death was caused by Japan will now stand trial. sation among the Russian military The secretary of the interior has ptomaine poisoning. men. Flve arrests have been made at withdrawn temporarily from all George Montorgueil of Paris, in an forms of selection, disposal or settle- Kansas City, following the unraveling elaborate review of Robert Fulton's ment, land in the Green river coun- by the police of what appears to be a career In France, published recently, well developed white slave traffic. try, Utah, approximating 101, GGO reproduces an official account of Fulacres. The land withdrawn lies along Evidence was procured, the police as- tons trials on the Seine January 26, the Green river and within a quarter sert, that will convict at least two 1803, and Fultons own words saying of persons ol a mile of the stream. dealing in young girls. that the real inspirations of his dis-Governor Johnson of Minnesota is A peculiar and unknown ery were the experiments of Mardisease, that Is go far as it has been diag- in a hospital at Rochester, Minn., quis Jouffroy at Lyons in 1783. nosed, has broken out among The British steamer Umhlall, from the having undergone an operation for adhorses In Morgan county. The dis- hesion and hernia of the Intestines. London for Port Natal, has run ashore President Taft has pardoned L. A. off Cape Point in a thick fog. The ease Is principally confined to Croydon and the surrounding district, six Potter, sentenced to life imprisonment crew and passengers left the Umhlall head having died in Croyden within for holding up a stage In Texas In in small boats. One boat capsized a week. 1885, when Potter was a mere boy and five women and six men were and imbued with Wild West ideas. drowned. d c v TO HEAD BANK OF TURKEY the establishment of a national bank Turhas taken a decisive step towards reform and By key order which all Europe is watching with interest, and England with the keenest interest of ail, for the bank has been floated chiefly with English capital and its president appointed at the request of his majestvs government,1 in the person of Sir H. BaLington Smith, who will resign his present appointment of secretary to the postoffice and proceed to Constantinople soon to take up his new' duties. Until now the Ottoman government has been at the mercy of two foieign banks, the Ottoman bank and the Deutsche hank, and whenever Turkey got into pecuniary difficulties and found herself without the wherewithal to pay overdue salaries to government officials, or the troops were on the verge of mutiny without their money a not at all infrequent occurrence she hurried off to one or other of these concerns and humbly begged a loan to pacify her creditors. .Now, however. Tin key is regenerating ber system of government and henceforth will have a regular budget, so such a state of affairs will no longer be necessary, and the national bank, as soon as It gets into working order, will perform those financial transactions which the two foreign concerns formerly carried out. These will be of an extensive character, embracing those of an industrial, commercial and bank, and it is intended, also, to make it a channel through which foreign capital shall be attracted to the country for the development of its resources. It will not be Sir Henrys first experience of Turkey. Before his appointment as secretary to the poscfiioe he was British representative on the Council of the Ottoman Public Debt for three years, and the experience gained during that time will douotless prove of great value to him in his , land-mortgag- e present position. WORLDS BIGGEST FARMER David Rankin is the biggest farmer in the world. Lots of men have more land than I, says Mr. Rankin, but they use it for cattle .Mr. Rankin neiranges only. Mine is a farm. ther raises cattle nor furnishes range. He buys the raw steers from the plains and fattens them until they are worth twice what he pays for the feeders, as they are called. lie never sells any coin, either, because by feeding it to cattle, according to a minute calculation of his own, he gets more ample returns. Nearly 40 years ago Mr. Rankin, then an Illinois farmer, discovered that land on one side of a state line was selling for $20 an acre, while he might buy any amount on the other side of the imaginary dividing mark for less than a third of that amount. But real estate men told him that no railroad would ever go near the Missouri lands, but for all that he sold his farm and bought all he could of the land at $6 an acre. Reiently he took an inventory of his posscssionsm ttie neighhorhl of Tarkio, Mo., where he bought thp cheap acreage, and it showed thaVffie owned 25, CIO acres, 12,000 fattening hogsr-9,00- 0 cattle. 800 horses, more than 100 cottages, in which the employes of the big farm were housed, great quantities of farm machinery and the like. Mr. Rankin comes of Scotch-Irisancestry. He was born in Indiana in rural poverty, and he got his start in life trading a colt for calves and raising tha latter into steers in addition to his farm, he owns an implement factory, a municipal water system, a telephone company, a bank and other and the notion takes him he adds $50,000 or so to the when enterprises, endowment of Tarkio college, a Presbyterian school in his home town, which To-da- has known his generosity to the extent of $250,000. FIRST WOMAN CORONER In thm-- days of suffragists and suffragettes women are filling ail sorts of offices, but it remained for a St. Joseph, Mo., woman to become . the original lady coroner. The duties of the coroner of Buchanan county have for several weeks been performed by Mrs. 0. F. Byrd, whose husband fills that office when he is at home. Just now Dr. Byrd is visiting at Seattle and is enjoying his vacation with the assurance that the emoluments thereto-accruinare not escaping the purse of the Byrd family. Since Coroner Byrd left home there have been an unusual number of coroners cases in St. Joseph and the county, and in each of them there has been a prompt response by Mrs. Byrd, who was legally commissioned as his deputy before Dr. Byrds departure. Mrs. Byrd has been summoned to investigate half a dozen suicides, the same number of fatal accidents, and has officiated in two cases of murder. "I havent found the duties of coroner especially disagreeable, said Mrs. In the absence of my husband I look upon the w'ork as Byrd. my regular business and I try to dispatch it in a businesslike way. I am pleased to know that I have won the commendation of the other authorities and have not been criticised by the public. e . HIGH RANK FOR DUKE When the duke of the Abruzzl returns to from mountain climbing in India, in the Italy near future, he will be promoted to the rank of admiral in the Italian navy and put in command of the naval arsenal in Venice, according to information from naval officials. These same officials assume that the duke has given up hope of marrying Miss Katherine Elkins. But in this assumption it seems most probable that the wish is father to the thought. The duke is as far as evei from being on good terms with King Victor Emmanuel, Dowager Queen Marghe-rit- a and others of his royal relativeswho oppose his marriage to the American girl. Nothing could prolong the dukes quarrel with his kin but his continued determination to wed the woman he loves. Geographers all over the world are lauding the duke for his ascent ef , the lofty Himalayan peak, K2, or Mount as the Royal Geographical society named the mountain in honor of the first explorer of that region. K2 Is the highest mountain In the world, save one. It is 28,250 feet only 725 feet lower than Mount Everest, which rises to the blue higher high than any other part of the earth. The duke reached the height of 24,000 feet oa Goodwin-AusteMount and this is a record in mountain climbing eclipsing that of Dr. Graham, who, in 1S83, reached the top of Mount Kabrr in Lko Himalayas, an altitude of 23,900 feet. , Goodwin-Austen- n, |