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Show mormon conference. (Uc ikyuhlic Slxty-I- - ighth It. (lathering o t Semi-Annu- al A p.tle ROAD TO DAWSON. Congtruetion Will Nut II. m I ery u I One. Chosen. San Francisco. Oct. 4. The conALF ORME, Publisher. W. L. ROE struction of a railroad from Vancouver Salt Lake, Oct. 5. The sixty-eightUTAH conference of the Church or from some point east of that place NEPHI, convened at the taber- on the Canadian Pacific- line, to DawChrist Jesus jf nacle yesterday morning and two ses- son City and the Klondike country-igeneral will not be a very difficult sions were held. The attendance was UTAH NEWS. very large, all parts of the state being or expensive undertaking, in the opincame ion of Collingwood (schrieber of OttaJohn C. Graham has been appointed represented, while a number wa, who is now in this city--. He arstates. the from surrounding postmaster at lrovo. rived in the were The general authorities present city accompanied by a About $30,000 worth of cattle have number of Ottawa people, including follow's. Apostle Heber J. Grant beas been sold around Filmore the last two E. Newcombe, the deputy minister of ing unable to attend on account of weeks. Of the first presidency justice. severe illue-- s: The Rio Grande safe at Mt. PleasIn discussing the building of a railMilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon ant last week was robbed of $79, by and Joseph F. Smith. Of the quorum road to Dawson City, Mr. Schrieber safe blowers. of twelve apostles Lorenzo (Snow, said: The Rio Grande Western is having Franklin D. Richards. Brigham Young, Twosurveys are now being made ten new engines built to take care of Francis M. Lyman, John ITcnry Smith, from different points on the Canadian its growing business. George Teasdale, John W. Taylor, Pacific. The latter company is makTwo thousand ducks were shot at Marriner W. Merrill and Anton H. ing one of the surveys and the governthe mouth of Rear River near Corrinne Lund; Ratriarch John Smith. Of the ment's making the other. It will be on the first last., for market. necessary to build only 90 miles of first seven presidents of seventies 1!. railway to make a good rail and water Kaimiel II. Jepperson of Provo is su- Seymour B. Young, C. D. Fjelsted, H. Roberts, George Roberts, George route from the Canadian Pacific to ing the Oregon Short Lino for causing the death of his litt'e pirl at a crossing Reynolds and Jonathan G. Kimball. Dawson. William Ii. The railroad may be operated the 1. 10. j Of the presiding bishopric in June last, for T- - Burton and John Robert ytar around, but during the winter The Hall of Relies will be closed Frestotl, the water route will not be open iot R. Winder. this week, when the State Historical. steamboats. The chief object of the Q. Cannon prePresident George of . . r western , Society will he made custodian the and ministers and after sided. visit is to prayer deputy singing most of the treasured articles. of work on the conference was formally opened. inspect the progress Salt Helen E. Louder, a The presence of President Willford Crow's Nest Pass railroad, which virabLake girl, died last week from an Woodruff was marked with pleasure tually means another Canadian transscess. Her people are Christian ScThe governthe large congregation and his continental railroad. by ientists and refused medical aid. w ith ment to has listened a were of $10,-00- 0 it remarks granted subsidy opening a mile. It is being built by way The fourth assistant postmaster-genera- l close attention. He spoke brietty. exhas appointed S. A. Harper as pressing his great pleasure at being of Nelson, on Lake Kootenai, and will postmaster at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake, permitted to meet with the confer- run through the Rossland mining disvice E. C, Dickinson, who is said to ence. lie called attention to the im- trict. have resigned. Bitched Rattle With (.ttle thieve. portance of the duties and the necessiBaker City, Ore., Oct. 3. Sheriff The supreme court has decided that ty of proclaiming the gospel to all the the state, board oi equalization im- world. lie closed by referring to the Kulburn and posse engaged in a battle properly raised the assessed valuation evidences of the hand of God in the with cattle thieves about 9 o'clock last night on the Lower Powder river.. of Salt Lake county. The assessment establishment of the church here. was raised 5 per cent. Addresses were maue by Apostles About forty shots were exchanged. It was dark when the sheriff and his Martin Mock, the Murray farmer Lund, Merrill. Taylor and Teasdale. At the afternoon meeting Apostle posse caihe upon the bandits who had who was shot two weeks since by Ren Eggington as a result of a quarrel John Henry Smith was the principal with them about 80 head of cattle. over water, is dead, and Eggington is speaker. He had been impressed, he Both parties opened fire and Fred under arrest. said, with the laxity shown among Hull, one of the bandits, was shot the arm. Both escaped in There is a vacancy in the board of some of the Saints as to the observance through of the the darkness, and Hull rode to this The Sabbath. of the gospel and labor, arbitration conciliation, caused by- - removal from the state of V. Saints allowed more freedom than city, where he called a doctor to dress condemnahis wounds. He was arrested in ,his S. Willis. As a result the governor that of other creeds and no room in the morning. and with His partner, connected was dancing tion will have to select his successor. and like pleasures. The Earl AA heeler, has not yet been captheatre going Mrs. Eliza A. Lingo, the oldest It was the plan of the thieves had never been denied proper tured. Methodist in Utah, and the first name Saints of amusement. The effect of to drive the cattle into Idaho and exsources enrolled in the then territory, died at this must necessarily be pleasing and change - them and then drive the (Salt Lake last week. She was 85 years But while this is proper, strange cattle back here for slaughter. of age, and seventy years a church satisfactory. in week day life, there The thieves are- - members of a gang he continued, member. is now a tendency to convert the Sab- which has operated extensively in this ' Work has been commenced on the section. bath into a clay of pleasure-seeking- . Improvements to the Fort Douglas Unless this tendency is curbed the ENGLAND INTERESTED. water works system, and w lieu comsacredness of the day will cease to be Discoveries on the Yukon Has Caught pleted wMl be second to none in tlie Temptations are ramappreciated. English People, country, says City Engineer Kelsey o( Sabbath of the the for breaking New York, Oct. 4. Gen. C. H. Mpant Fait Lake. but the Saints should not allow' them- cIntosh, lieutenant-governo- r of the Mrs. Minnie P. Gridin of Salt Lake selves to le led astray. The Sabbath northwest territory, in which the was aw arded a decree of divorce, last day should be devoted to communion gold mines of the Klondike are situweek, the home ;n Salt Lake, the bugwith God. otherwise the reverence for ated, arrived in this city from Southgy and horse. Si, lot) and the custody God would cease tube as patent and ampton on the steamship St. Paul toof the boy, until he shall have attain strong as it once was. day. ed the age of 14 years, at which time he BEOONIJ T Y8 SESSION. The greatest possible interest is may choose who shall be the guardian The features of the second day s ses- taken in the discoveries on the Yukon of his estate and person in the future sion of conference were the filling of by all the English people, he said, A reunion of the Taylor family will the two vacant apostleships and the CaDd I was compelled to delay my debe held at Draper the 11th inst. There address on politie.il matters by Presi- parture two days on account of an will he an attendance from the various dent order received to address officially the George Q. Cannon. branches of the family from many Abraham Owen AA oodruff and Ma- leading financiers and public men upstates. It is expected that more than thias T. Cowley were the ones selected. on the resources and prospects, not two hundred will he present. Norman Both appointments created consideraonly of British Columbia and the YuTaylor of Moab is the oldest member ble surprise, as neither have been gen- kon, but of all northwestern territory of the family and its recognized head. erally known in church circles. generally. 23 years At the conclusion, the general Noah Potter of Cleveland, killed a Apostle Woodruff is about of opinion was that the empire large mountain lion, measuring nine of age and a son of the present presifeet from tip to tip. Noah was in dent. He is an employe of Zion's Sav- owed it to her premier colony that close quarters and had to make good ings Bank and Trust Co., and for over British capital should be invested in use of his shooting iron. The lion was two years labored as a missionary in the development of wealth from minThe selection of one so eral sources i.i the western colonies. hounding straight for him when he Germany. looked is upon as something unlowered himself on his knee and took young Rich .New Mexico Mines. of the deadly aim. The lion was shot between precedented in the history N. M., Oct. 4. A syndicate Roswell, church. the eyes. It made a jump in the air of capitalists, headed by and came down dead. Apostle Cowley, the other appointee, is a resident of Breston, Idaho, and is Barney Gibbs of Texas, has had an Roy R. llutler who was recently arFor a long expert for the past week at Nogales of age. rested in Ogden, is still in jail and hi) about 35 years been he has actively engaged in investigating the mines there with a There time history is being investigated. in the Inited view of investing- in' them,.' Large w ork both missionary is reason to believe that the prisoner abroad. quantities of ore have been found that States and is none other than the murder who eswas the only runs in gold from $1,000 to $t0.(00 per Cannon President caped from Red Lodge, Mont., about a afternoon. He led up ton. The Amctica has ore enough in month ago. When first arrested he speaker in the of to the subject politics by referring sight to keep it running fur six months became desperate and said he might ns He and is only down 150 feet. There are to the authority of priesthood. well be killed as captured. Since then numerous other mines that are as to inclined igwere said that people he has appeared to repent the rash the cause oi promising as the American. was that and nore this, words and has tried the insane dodge, He then their present bondage. Fevt'p Increasing. lie will be held for identification. out the way of deliverance, pointed Edwards, Miss., Oet. 3. The doctors The State Hoard of Horticulture is which was to be gained by a more 14 new cases of yellow fever, making a display of fruit at the en- strict adherence to counsel and a not report of which seven are whites. There trance to the Hall of Relies, Salt Lake, too stiff allegiance to partisanship in were two deaths. Total deaths to which is a credit to the state. The exdate, 12; total number cases to date, hibit is principally from Salt Lake, politics. Gambler Kills Ills I' He. 317; total number under treatment Weber and Utah counties. There are Kansas City, Oct. 0. Edward McEl-ro- 127; total convalescent aud discharged handsome specimens of Jonathan, a gambler, shot and perhaps fa- 178: number seriously ill, 7. There Winesaps and Rhode Island are four eases at Nitta Yuma. Greening apples, Flemish Beauty, Fall tally wounded his wife and shot in their room at an early hour Ilartlett and Mount Vernon pears, The Fever at New Orleans. New-- Orleans, Italian, Hungarian and Silver prunes, this morning. He sent two bullets into Sept. 4. The state Muscat, Concord, Black Coneorniclcon, her breast, one into her chin and the board of health's official statement Fleming, Tokay, Sultana and Mission fourth into her arm. He ended says: During the 24 hours ending at a bullet into his brain. There 9 grapes, peaches, aprieo's, crab apples, p. in., Sunday, Oet. 3, there were plums, strawberries and other small are but small chances of his recovery. 31 cases of yellow fever, and 2 deaths. Me Elroy came here from Toronto. H is d fruits. Washington county's Total cases of fever to date 317: deaths fruit exhibit attracted a large share of wife was formerly Ida Morris of Bos- to date, 30: cases absolutely recovered, attention, as did its almonds, raisins, ton. She had threatened to leave her 93. pomegranites and figs, in addition to husband. At Carson City, Duncan Marigold Us green fruits. Instantly Killed. shaft in the Silver Homestead entries for the month Purow an, Oct. 5. This morning at fell down a 10:30 a young man of 30, son of Robert Star mine, dying soon. just ended have been more numerous than for several months past. Forty E. and Eliza Miller, was instantly The body of Charles F, Ewing, an entries have been recorded, about killed while working on a threshing attorney from Greenville, Ky.. was machine. equally divided between the southern taken out of the river at St. Louis on end western portions of the state. He was putting a cap on the eleva-to- r the 3d. Desert land entries fell off somewhat, standing on the table preparatory The National Congress of Miners September's register sliow-inonly to feeding the machine, when the ta- which has been in session in Liege, eight Last month there were fifteen ble gave way, throwing him on his Belgium, decided to make a demand The hack for an advance of 15 applications for mining claim patents left side into the machine. per cent in wages. covering properties in Ophir, West of his head and left arm were torn to If this demand is not granted by the He leaves a middle of Mountain, Rig Cottonwood. Tintic, pieces on the cylinder. November a general strike Uintah and Dugway, Rocky mining wife and three children. will be called. districts. Lai semi-annu- - I f - . con-sens- him-hhnse- lf g sun-drie- 70-fo- intali Survey Route. Washington. Oct. 5 The Rio Grande R. G. Diffl-r- IV. I Western railroad has applied to the secretary of the interior for permission to survey a route across the Uin-ta- b Indian reservation. Accompanying the application w as a statement from Indian Agent lteck, to the effect that he had consulted the Indians and that they offered no objection to the survey. (secretary Bliss referred the application to the commissioner of Indian affairs and that officer has returned it with his approval. It is regarded as aftogether probable that the secretary-wil- l grant the request of the company, "It should he understood, said Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs Smith, "that the Rio Grande Western company has not asked permission to build a road. The application is for the privilege of surveying to ascertain the feasibility- - of a line through the reservation. Neither Agent Iieck nor the Indian commissioner in their favorable recommendations have passed upon the building of the road. TRAIN LOAD Cripple (reek Mine OF II 111 h;. COLD. Ship to Phll-nl- el DEATH AND DEVASTA i 1 errible Haoc I I ON. Winnepeg, which raged all oner the country SatThe urday- died out during the night. morning s sun daw ned upon a terrible scene of death and devastation. Farm houses, implements, crops and. live stock everywhere were consumed. Many farmers lost their all. At Beause, forty miles east of this city, two women and five children named Moreski were burned to death. Fire came upon their house In the woods from two directions simultaneously and shut off every means of escape. Only a few charred remains were found the next morning. There were many narrow escapes, and a number of families are homeless aud Utter- ty destitute. Bagot, seventy miles west. was wiped out of existence. At Stony Mountain fire ran upon the Canadian Pacific platform, where, by desperate efforts, its progress was stayed. At Oakland, on the Portage branch of the Northern Faeifie railroad, several hundred cords of wood and thousands of tons of hay were consumed by fire. Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct, 5. A Year Wheat Crop. handling the gold Chicago, Oct. 4. The Orange-Judoutput of the Cripple Creek mines will Farmer, in its final estimate of the be put iuto use by the operators of pear's crop, says that figures based on that district. actual threshing returns indicate a The plan is to set aside the output total yield of 589,000.000 bushels, of for one month, take the bullion there- which 373,000,000 is winter and from and ship it to' the United States bushels spring wheat. With mint at Philadelphia in a single con- the exception of Illinois and Missouri signment. A special train will be se- the winter wheat yield represents the cured for the purpose of transporting full capacity of the sort. The spring it, the bullion will be placed in the wheat yield in Minnesota and the Daeharge of some express company kotas has proved a disappointment, which can guarantee its safety, and all the aggregate being only 129,000,000 t bushels. necessary precautions taken to The shortage there is in a accident or theft while the con- measure counterbalanced by the good signment is in transit. yield in Nebraska, Oregon and WashAs the present output of Cripple ington. Creek is over Sl.000.0u0 per month, th s The report 6ays the corn crop is will be one of the largest shipments disappointing, with an outof gold bullion that ever crossed the side estimate of 129,000.000 bushels. continent. Drought during the past two months reduced the average condition from ANARCHISTS SCORNED. 82.3, a month ago. to 7S.9 on October 1. Chicago Lahorl nlon Repudiates Their FraAn average oats yield of 28.7 bushels ternal Advance. per acre suggests a crop of 914.000.000 Chicago, Oct. 4. Anarchists who are bushels, 100,000.000 bushels more than arranging a demonstration in memory-o- f last year. the men executed for the Ilaymar-ice- t massacre, have dropped a bomb, so WATER FAMINE. to speak, iuto the Cnicago Federation of Labor by asking for the official enLack of II ater Causes Suffering in Missouri and Kansa dorsement and of union Kansas City, Mo.. Oct. 4. A water labor. The invitation stirred up half in hours violent debate. At length famine is impending in this part of the the high council of union labor went southwest. In the immediate vicinity f Kansas City there has not been such upon record by repudiating any ima scarcity of water for 17 years. All plied fraternity between unionism and small streams and many of the the and to refused take anarchy, flatly any part in the coming exercises. The ponds in Jackson county are dry, aDd invitation to take part in the memor- the same is reported to be true all over Almost ial servieee was rejected by a vote of this section of the country. about 4 to 1. After the vote a major- every town in Missouri and Kansas ity of the anarchist element left the is already feeling the effects of the fiall in a body. The anarchists will water famine. Those which are the hold the memorial meeting as usual, best off are the ones which have arbut it is expected the gathering will tesian w ells. The suffering among the farmers is greater than in the towns, be a tame aff air. however. Many farmers have for days Idaho Women Sene as Jurors. been obliged to haul water for miles-StocBoise. Ida., Oct. 5. For the first as well as people are suffering tune in the history of Idaho, women and vegetation is drying up. Unless yesterday served as jurors. It was a rain comes soon, severe, results may civil suit in the probate court in the ensue. case of Dr. Fairchild vs. Ada county, fhe following women served: Mrs. Yukon Mining District Kens R. E. Green. Mrs. A. J. Boynkin. Miss Seattle, Wash., Oct. 4 George Sta n Frances AA'ood aud Mrs. E. J. Pasley, who is mining on Eldorado creek more. One woman. Mrs. Joseph Pink-hain the Yukon, writes to his father was disqualified by reason of in this city that claims owned by his her firm declaration that she would he father and partner, Warden, on Eldogoverned by her own opinion and not rado creek, will pan out $500,000 in by the testimony of the phi sicians as gold nuggets this coming winter. The to the value of the services rendered. letter predicts that claims on Bear After the laughter following this lake will turn out as rich as those on frank announcement, the judge com- Bonanza and Eldorado creeks which manded her to he removed from the pan on an average $5 each. Stanley box. No question was raised as to also writes that the Canadiaa governthe legality of the panel. ment is exacting a royalty of 25 cents per cord on wood to be used in thaw--inMill Ketume Shortly. out the gravel this winter. A Diamondville, AVyo. , Get. 5. The similar charge is also made for logs in striking miners at this place are still cabins for the miners. Durout. although at the present time the building summer the forest fires have deing difference between their demands and a large amount of cord wood. the price the operators are willing to stroyed Owing to the scarcity of water but pay is but 2 cents a ton. The companies offer 4s cents a ton and agree to little sluicing has been done. weigh the coal on top, including slack Strychnine Kills Six Persons. and other refuse. The miners demand Schuyler, Neb., Oet. 4 A physician 50 cents. They have heretofore been summoned hastily to the home of Frank paid 70 cents, the coal being weighed Divis, nine miles northwest of here, after passing over an inch and a quarfound four of the seven litter screen, which took out about 25 yesterday, tle Divis children and the mother It is ex- dead, a fifth child in a dying condition per cent of the gross weight. pected that a compromise will be and a sixth victim ill. Strychnine had reached in a few days and the mines been put into the coffee, apparently by started the mother, but for what cause is not II oman Suffrage Loses. known. Mr. Divis and his eldest son Camden, N. J., Oet. 5. The return left home before breakfast. When the hoard of judges made their returns of meal was prepared the rest sat down, the constitutional amendment election and early in its course the mother Eat a good yesterday. The official figures show a made such remarksai: majority of 102 for the breakfast and we'll all go together. amend. nent and 3xo for the regulation One of the older sons, frightened at of appointments and 905 against wothe remark, did not partake of the man suffrage. meal. novel scheme for Yukon Frozen Over. Wrought by the Canadian I'oted Fire. Oct. 4. The prairie fire d pie-ren- g Kansas City Cable Car Robbed. Four men in the employ of llcnnessy Kansas City, Oct. 4. Two men at Bros., sound fishermen of North Lom Branch. N. J., were drowned luo yards the points of revolvers, stopped a cable train one mile south of the city on the from shore. Summit street line on the last run W. A. a MeCaleb of During quarrel. Sunday night, secured what small Chicago murdered his wife by cutting her throat from ear to ear with a ra- change the conductor had and escaped. N. J. Israel did not comply zor. He then shot himself through Gripman with the order to stop quick enough the heart. Jealousy. and one of the men fired a shot at him. Burglars broke into the office of the No damage w as done and the conduetoi steamer Flyer, at Seattle, ambearried submitted to his pockets being searchaway the safe, weighing 400 pound ed. There were no passenger on th which contained onlv about $30. car. The robbers were young men. San Francisco, Oct. 2. The revenue eutter Richard Rush arrived fiom today, bringing the latest news from St. Michaels and the Yukon that came to Unalaska from the north by the Alaska Commercial company's steamer Bertha. The Bertha left St, Michaels on the 14th of September. On the 13th the steamer C. 11. Hamilton, belonging to the Chicago corporation. returned to St. Michaels and reported that bhe was unable to ascend the Y'ukon river above the flats near FortY'ukon. Her passengers and cargo were loaded at Fort Yukon and were waiting the arrival of the Alaska Commercial company's steamers Margaret and Alice for tronsportation to Dawson City. These steamers, being of lighter draft, will get to Dawsoi about September 20. Una-lask- j a Belle Fourche Bank Bobbers In Jail Deadwood, S. D., Oct. 2. Officers have arrived from the country, having in custody the three missing Belle Fourche bank robbers. Their capture was only effec ted after a lively fight in which one of the robbers, Frank Jones, was wounded in the arm. The men who give thtir names as Frank Jones. Tom Atkins and Walter Putney, tleny any connection with the robbery of the Belle Fourche bank or that they are members of the Curry gang, so badly wanted in the northwest for various crimes. One of the posse w hicli arrested them and is was a witness to the hold-upositive aliat they are the right men. They will he held in the Deadwood jail for safe keeping. All danger oi trouble from a mob is past. ll p California Prisoner It; no res His Lawyer. Han Diego, Cal., Oct. 2. Judge Lor-rene- e yesterday sentenced Joseph Henr- - Eubanks, under sentence of death for the murder of two people on the beach near Oceanside two years ago, to be hanged at Han Quentin on Friday, October 8. An unprecedented action was taken by Eubanks just before the death sentence was passed, totally ignoring his attorney, he arose and asked permission to argue a motion for a rehearing on the ground that he was insane at the time the murders were committed, and that the evidence given in the trial court had not been presented to the supreme court on appeal. Also that the civil code provides that a man could not be in jeopardy twice for the same crime and claimed that his life had already been in jeopardy during his incarceration here. This motion was denied. Spain Wants to Adjust Matters Honorably. New York, Oct. 2. General Julio Sanguilly, who was arrested in Cuba, tried, convicted, pardoned and released at the request of the United States government, said today, discussing the I do not believe the Spanish crisis: formation hy Sagasta of a liberal cabinet will have any effect on the Cuban insurgents. The efforts of the previous administrations have come to be looked upon in Spain as the wrong policy, and the feeling is now for any honorable method or means to end the Spain's Cabinet Resignations Accepted. Madrid, Oct. 2. As a result of the interviews General Azearraga, the retiring premier, and General Polavieja have had with the queen regent, her majesty has become convinced that it is impoosible to reunite the conservatives in order to form a strong minii-try- . Therefore she has accepted the resignations of the ministers. The opinion is general that General Sagasta, liberal leader, will succeed General Azearraga. Many of the prefects, under secretaries and directors general of the departments have also resigned. , Wolcott in London Awaiting a Reply. London, Oct. 1 Senator Wolcott has arrived here from Paris. In answer to a question, the monetary commissioner said he was merely waiting for the answer of the British government, which he hoped would he favorable to the propositions of the commission. e President Stevenson, who is also a member of the commission wi;l be in London on Monday next. Ex-Vic- AY alter II. A'eager of Cheyenne, AA'yo., has been appointed a clerk in the railway mail service. A special dispatch to the New York Herald from Havana says that General AA'eyler has resigned. AA'ork on the repairs of the battleship Texas is raidly nearing completion and she will be ready to join the squadron next week. and Professor Harry Tolert-sHolmes, whose mysterious adventures n Switzerland have attracted international attention, have been located. They are alive and well at Lucerne and expect to leave for Berlin. The National Irrigation congress, at Lincoln, Neb., closed its labors the 30th nit. Cheyenne was selected as the place for the next meeting. The battleship Oregon still remains in San Francisco ready to go to sea on notice. It is thought hy a her officers that if she is not ordered to proceed to Honolulu she w ill be sent to Puget sound. After many trials, the miners have succeeded in stopping the men that have been working in the Spring A alley, I1L, mines. few-hour- s . |