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Show THE NEPHI RECORD. HEX BY ADAMS, FoblUhar. NEPHI. UTAH UTAH NEWS. Paradise and Newton have ashed the county commissioners that they be as towns. Joseph E. Reese has resigned as principal of the Spanish Fork schools, and is succeeded by I)avid Prior. Governor Wells has returned from his trip to Washington, where he attended a meeting-ogovernors. E. C. Loose, mining magnate, has resigned as a member of the Provo City council, giving as his reason pressure of private business. In the vicinity of St. George peach trees are in full blossom and a bounteous harvest of the luscious fruit this season is predicted. The grand lodge A. O. U. W. met in Salt Lake last week and changed the assessment plan of this jurisdiction from the level to the graded plan. All the schools in Manti have been closed, owing to the recent outbreak of smallpox, and the school rooms will be thoroughly disinfected during the vacation. V. S. Poet, emigration agent for the Hear Iiiver Land company, last week brought in six families and a carload of baggage from Nebraska. The newcomers will settle at Dewey ville. Uurglars entered a store at Wood's Cross one night lust week and appropriated a quantity of clothing and a few dollars in cash. Tramps are supposed to have been the guilty parties. Charles Read, lately held in Lake on suspicion of being wanted elsewhere, is wanted in Nebraska for the murder of a man he was traveling with last summer, near Grand Island. Mrs. M. A. McLean lias been appointed matron of the Ftah county infirmary at a salary of fc'.'ii) per month. Mrs. McLean was for a number of years matron at the state insane asylum. Governor Wells lias announced liis intention to appoint a senator to fill Utah's vacant, seat in t lie F n i ted Mates senate, in the event thatttuny of Pennsylvania is seated, and expresses the opinion the t'uay will he seated. A stock company is being organized in Lehi for the purpose of erecting, during the coming summer, a modern opera house, costing in the neighborhood of from s lo.ono to ifl'..ooo, and the success of the project seems to he assured. Work on the tunnel at Altns is being d to completion by the rapidly Rio Grande Western people, and the two gangs, whiili are working toward each other, will meet about April 1. Altns is one of the busiest places in the state just now. The home of dames Anderson, four miles east of Richfield, was destroyed by fire while the family was at Sunday school. A little boy was seen about the place by neighbors and it is the opinion of some that he set fire to the y uilding. Leo Whitehead of Salt Lake, w ho was arrested in Washington at the instance of his wife, who claimed that he had deserted her and children in Salt Lake and married another woman in has been held in SC, 000 bonds for pa-lie- P.alti-mor- e, further hearing. It is reported that there is a considerable number of smallpox eases in the vicinity of Koosharem, and that there are no quarantine regulations in force, and the state board of health has been asked to investigate the report and see that the law is complied with. An unusual railway accident occurred near Centerville last week when both side bars on the engine, connecting the drivers, broke squarely in two, while the train was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, the cab being torn Kroner Ai'pcnl. Through Fnltcii States. E0EI1S TYAYT PEACE, There is reason to believe that the United States government is using its good offices to restore peace between KRUEGER ASKS FOR AN ARMISTICE PENDING NEGOTIATIONS. Great lfritain and the South African republics. This has not taken the British Profess to Relieve It Ik a .Vove to shape of a proffer of mediation. That (iaiu Time uni) Are not Disposed would be distinctly repugnant to Great to Cirant the Hequent. Uritain. and according to the rule of intertiouu! law, which has without exPresident Kruger has appealed to ception governed the state department Lord Salisbury for a cessation of hosin the past, could not be volunteered tilities, offering at length by cable the by the United States until it was terms which he was willing to accept. known to be acceptable to both parties These, however, have not been taken to the war. as included practically Rut the United States might very seriously,more they what the Transvaal than nothing properly serve as an intermediate to government offered prior to the issuing transmit an appeal for peace and the of the Briti-.ultimatum. terms upon which peace can be secured. Official circles in London regard the proposition as merely a ruse of the CHINESE BOYCOTT CASE. Iloers to gain lime, ami do notconsider V Icriimncnt that President Kruger is yet ready to Injunction lifmcd Against Unit-- - I ahor I'nioni. consider the sweeping demands which Judge Knowles of the United States Great Britain will make as reimbursecourt at Rutte has handed down a de- ment for the loss of life and great excision iu the noted Chinese boycotts, penditure. The proposed terms include which has been pending in court for a guarantee of the independence of the several years. He made permanent the two republics. It is understood that President Kruinjunction against labor unions and labor leaders who had for years prose- ger's advances have met with an emcuted a boycott against the Chinese phatic rejection at the hands of Lord and all employers of Chinese. It is Salisbury, who is believed to have said understood that claims for damages that no such attempt to retain the inwill now be presented to the federal dependence of the Transvaal can be considered fora moment hy the British government by the Chinese minister. government. New Yoi k Subscribe to ItrltiHh YVar I.oan. BOERS FIRE ON WHITE FLAGS. The Mutual Life Insurance company of New York has subscribed for Lord Robert Protects and Threatens to Disregard Them In Future. 82,C(iO,Oi)() of the new English war loan. Lord Roberts has addressed the folThe olfer of the company was made before the books were officially opened lowing telegram to Presidents Kruger for subscription, and it is believed and Stein: Another instance having occurred Stands as the largest subscription for of abuse of the white flag of the gross investment made in the country. signal of holding up hands in token of surrender, it is my duty to inform you family Is Foisoueil. that, if such abuse oceursagain, I shall A family of five, named Madden, most reluctantly be compelled to order living near Comstock. Nebraska, were my troops to disregard the white flag all poisoned by eating bologna sausage. entirely. r They were not discovered until twenty-fouThe instance occurred on a kopje hours later, when a neighbor, of Driefontein farm and was witeast t lie found girl dead going in, nessed hy some of my own staff officers and the rest of the family unconscious. well as as myself, and resulted in the The condition of the survivors is critof several of my officers aud wounding ical. h men. lyiinin:t in a t liurch. An empty beer keg, surmounted by a dynamite bomb, was found by police on tlie floor of St. Paul's church at Cedar liapids, Iowa. The Rev. Mr. Lockwood, the pastor, has been active in opposition to the saloon petition and it is supposed th- keg and bomb were - intended a a Nimv thieat. ork Corruption The expose snowing that 3,090,000 a year is paid by the gambling-houskeepers of New York City to a gambling commission which affords them protection from any interference on the part of the police, has stirred that city as no other publication of rtcent large quantity of explosive bullets different kinds was found in Commandant Crotije's laager and this has been the case in every engagement Such with your honors troops. breaches of the recognized usages of war and of the Geneva convention are A of three a disgrace to any civilized power. A copy of llie.--e telegrams has been sent to my government with the request that it will be communicated to all neutral powers.- e years. Yirnlent Snuil in Arkansas. The community about Jouesville, Ark., is literally honeycombed with smallpox of the most virulent form, and during the past six weeks nearly On some lot) deaths have occurred. days the death rate has been so large that it was impossible to secure coffins. - ABOUT INDIANS. Lc-i- than 300.000 In Haim I'nitc'l States. within tho 'Hie annual report of Indian agents sl.mv that the entire Indian population is .07,90.3, of which number 93,679 wear citizen's dross while 31,923 wear a ixture of Indian and civilized clothing. Those who can read number 42, .397, 8id ,33,311 can carry on an ordinary conversation in Fnglish. There are 2.3.230 dwelling houses birlt for Indians, 11.33 of which were built within tho last year. Tlie number of births was 4 .'37, and the deaths 53.33. Indians were killed by Twenty-si- x whites and seven whites by Indians. Tlie number of Indian criminals was 1469. There are 31,6.3.3 Indian church members and 31S church buildings upon the various reservan atal Heroes at Santiago. has introduced a joint Senator resolution authorizing the striking of medals to be distributed among the officers and men of the North Atlantic squadron who participated in the naval engagements which occurred off the tion. C'ubau coast during the Spanish war. LIEUTENANT CILMORE HOME. flleilalR Tor Mason pun-i-dic- .Returning Troops From Tliillpplnea. By direction of Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn, instructions have Otis to rebeen sent to turn to the United States, some time in May, one battalion each of the FourMajor-Gener- al teenth, Eighteenth and infantry. Twenty-thir- d Telegraph anil Telephone Kates Itpnglatecl by Law. One of Heroes of Philippine Campaign rive in ?aii Tranrinco. d Ar- Lieutenant Gilmore has arrived at San Francisco from Manila. The story of the capture of Lieutenant Gilmore and fourteen men of the crew of the Yorktown hy insurgents on April 12, 1898, and their detention as prisoners until January of this year, is well known. During the period of their captivity the prisoners endured great hardships. At one time General Tino ordered that Lieutenant Gilmore and his men be shot. Their lives were spared and later they were abandoned in the woods. At times they were forced to eat grass, hark and horse flesh, and for hree weeks were without a decent meal. The Nebraska supreme court, for the oil, but no one injured. second time, but in different cases, has Morgan T. Woodhouse of Lehi has affirmed the constitutionality of the accepted an eight months' contract with lawgiving the state board of transportheE. 11. Dyer company in the capacity tation power to regulate telegraph and of agricultural expert for a sugar facrates. telephone tory they arc erecting at Cleveland, O., Kruger Appeals to Great Towers. during which time he will instruct the farmers in the art of growing beets. It is learned from a reliable source HIGH OFFICIALS ARRESTED. From Lake canyon, an offshoot of that President Kruger, through the has appealed for Rentuiky Secret .try of State Arrested For Spanish Fork canyon, comes the report consuls at Pretoria, that valuable rock has the intervention of the great powers in Complicity in Goebel Murder. been found, and that at a point about the Transvaal war and has also apSecretary of State Caleb Powers, of eight milts from Thistle many colors pealed to the governments of Belgium, Kentucky, Captain John W. I)avi3, have been exposed. There is a great Holland aud Switzerland. policeman of the capital square, and V. II. rush for the new district. Coulton, a clerk in the office of Mining Suspended at Hossland. State Auditor Annette Jensen of Sandy, recently Sweeney, have been arAil work in the way of mining derested on charge of complicity in the released from the state insane asylum has virtually been susmurder of Governor Goebel, and are in as cured, has been recommitted to that velopment B. C. Not a single at Rossland, pended institution, her malady having re- miner is working in the War Eagle and jail at Lexington. The arrests created great excitement, and it is feared turned with great violence, she having Centre Star. No ore is being shipped a clash between civil and military driven her husband from home and from the Le Iloi. will result authorities to his throat. threatened gold-bearin- et g KRUGER HAS FAITH IN oes. I.oitge on Government For Fhilippl GOD. Seuator Lodge, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, in a notable State T roopi. senate, has declared it speech A dispatch from Pretoria says President Kruger has been visiting the would be a great mistake at this time legislatroops at the front and cheering them to undertake any the with tion Fhilippines. dealing up. In a.speech he said: "Although auGod is testing our people, my personal The president, he said, should he and opinion is that the limit of the test is thorized to control the islands, he clearly defined. nearly reached. If the people are sus- aur position should tained by faith iuthetimeof adversity, He deprecated making a party issue of God will soon again turn the tide in the Philippines. The policy we offer is simple and our favor. If we have strong faith in God he will surely deli ver us. The God itraightforward. We accept the fact of deliverance of the olden time is the that the Philippine islands are our!1 same God now. today and that we are responsible for The speech of the venerable president them before tl.e world. The next fact brought tears to the eyes of men and is that there is a w ar in those islands, women alike. The Free State's volk-laa- d which, with its chief in hiding, aud (national autliem) was then sung. with no semblance of a government, The visit of President Krugerhas done has degenerated into mere guerrilla warfare and brigandage. Our immedimuch good and has cheered the ate duty, therefore, is to suppress this dents. disorder, put au end to fighting and FIRE AT LEAD. S. D. restore peace and order. Beyond this we ought not to go by a legislative act, Forty Bullilin;! Burned, Doing Damage to except to make such provision that Kxteut of $500,000. there may be no delay in At Lead City, South Dakota, a fire civil government when the war which broke out in the Dalkenburg ends. saloon consumed forty buildings before it was extinguished and caused a Boers Flanked by Roberts. loss which is estimated at $500,000. Lord Roberts has forced the Boers to The Deadwood fire department was retire from the position they occupied called on for assistance and re- in front of his advance near Bloemsponded. fontein. by flanking them. The posiIn addition to the combined fire de- tion was fifteen miles long. The Boers partment it was found necessary to retired in confusion consequent upon blow up buildiugs in tlie path of the hasty withdrawal. fire with dynamite in order to stop its Nothing was done by Lord Roberts spread. Owing to the high wind to disturb the the deadly which was blowing, the scarcity of ingenuity of the Roer trenches in front water and the inflammable nature of of him. He marched out infantry esall the buildings, the firemen were timated, from the commands named, at unable to do anything to stay the 30,000 men, aud sent ln,i.()J horsemen flames in any other way. and horse artillery in a hold sweep around the Roer left, whereupon the AiuetuimtMit to Trenty Would Not be AcRoer center and right became untencepted. able. British fell when the cavFifty The proposition to amend the pendcame into contact with the Roers. alry ining treaty ly the clusion of certain articles of the Suez General heeler Talks About Guam. convention which guarantees the EgypGeneral Joseph Wheeler and party, tian government the right to take any who have been in since measures deemed necessary in case of their arrival from thequarantine Fhilippines on war to defend Egyptian rights, has not the Warren, have been per-- ! transport been submitted by any responsible mitted to land. When asked about person to the judgment of the admin- the island of Guam which be inspected istration officials. Moreover, it is said for the I had a government, he said: by those competent to express the very interesting visit to Gram. It is a opinion, that if it were submitted it beautiful island. I rode over a great would be disapproved. The particular deal of it, traversing its length anil articles were omitted from the llay crossing it three times. I visited all Pauncefote treaty, not by accident or the towns, and was much pleased with error, but liy design, according to the the people. Their and ap-- ! hospitality statement of authorized persons. parent desire to express good feeling toward Americans was very gratify- Drastic I.aw in Kentucky. A bill making it a felony punishable ing. Wyoming; .lurisf For Alaska by confinement in the penitentiary lion. Melville U, Rrown of Laramie, from ten to twenty years for an occu- pant of a state office to forcibly main- Wyo., has been nominated by the Prestain possession of the office for more ident of the United States judge of than five days after the legislature or the district of Alaska. He was born in other competent authority shall have Maine, and came to Wyoming in 167, decided some other person entitled to since when he has been practicing the office, has passed the Kentucky law. He is the oldest member of the senate. Four Democrats voted against 'Wyoming bar. Judge Rrown will be located at Sitka, his tenure of office it. being four years. At present the posi-- j Killed by an Ehctric Mire. tion carries a salary of S3. (loo per tear, E1 ward Neve, an employee of the but a bill is now pending in Congress ', Snoqualmie Falls, Wash., lower which increases this to 56,000. as patrolman on the line between CAPE DUTCH WANTS PEACE. Auburn and Tacoma, was killed near Auburn by coming in contact with a Movement to Obtain Settlement of bout It live wire. Eight thousand volts of African Tang Its A electricity passed through his body. movement is in progress It was evident that he had fallen from amonggreat the Cape Dutch to obtain a setthe top of a pole, where he was work- tlement of the South African question ing. consistent with tlie maintenance of the independence of the republics. A proRejected Lovers Crime. Frank Sprague shot and killed Mrs. posal lias been made by a deputation of the Dutch party to visit England Guy T, Gale, and then killed himself in the interest of peace. Gales at logging camp, about seven shortly miles from Tacoma. Sprague arrived Bubonic Plague Siiijim't in Sail Francisco there recently from Cross Fork, Ia.,' A ease of what is supsosed to he is Mrs. he met it Gala bubonic claimed, where, plague, though the exact and was a suitor for her hand before nature of the disease is yet uncertain, she married Gale last November. has been discovered in Chinatown, San Irancisco. The patient, who is a To Govern Cape Some Miners. Thinese resident at 1004 Dupont street, The House committee on public lands is isolated, and the wholeof Chinatown has agreed upon a substitute for the has been placed under strict quaranLacey Cape Nome mining bill. The' tine regulations. A large force of purpose of the substitute bill is togive police is being kept in Chinatown to the miners, through miners meetings, maintain the quarantine. the power to control the workings of To Preserve Irehintorir Ruins in Western the beach claims on the sixty-foo- t reState. served strip and tide lands. Representative Shafroth of Colorado introduced a bill in Congress setting Yalueof limn Iroducctl In Cnited States. George F. Kunz, the gem expert of apart the lands in Utah, Colorado, the geological survey, has submitted Arizona and New Mexico, containing his annual report on the production of prehistoric ruins. The bill is designed precious stoucs in the United States to preserve these important antiquities for 199. lie reports an increased out- from vandalism. They are placed by put of sapphires in Montana. Total the bill in the custody of the bureau of value of gems produced last year was American ethnology. Cheering Cp the Droopint; Spirits of Tree in-th- e j de-ap- V , coin-pau- 8185,770. To Consolidate panose Railways. Japanese finaneiershave a big scheme on hand in the nationalization of rail1 1 ways of Japan. A committee of the Diet has reported favorably on a hill for the purchase of the nine railways for 200,000,000 yen, hy means of five par cent bonds. Big Wyoming Irrigation Scheme. Nate Salisbury, the showman, who Is interested with Ruffalo Bill in the Wild West show. aDd Colonel Cody, have arranged to build a big irrigating canal in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Water will be taken from the Shoshone river and 75,000 acres placed under irrigation. Work will be commenced on the project at once. |