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Show fltUSSOCIMJ jnjnrrr PBESS im HAH smttt mill F03EMST Fair and Colder Thursday; Friday fair. i VOL. II. NO. 40 OGDEN CITY. UTAH, THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 9, 1905. VVVVVVWtAAJV PRICE FIVE CENTS pi DECLARED Senate and House the signal for applause from the Republican side. At the suggestion of Senator t'urk-re- ll (Mo.) to save time the reading of the subsequent certificates in uetall was dispensed with, the result of the vote waa simply announced. Intense Interest was shown by the occupants of the galleries which were densely packed. At every mention of the names of the candidates their respective admirers applauded. When the total vote waa ready. Senator Burrows announced that of ths total electoral vote of 476, of which a majority was 239. that Theodora Roosevelt, for President and Chos. W. had each Fairbanks, for received SS6 and that Judge Alton B. Parker for president, and Henry had Davis for each received 144 votes. Senator Frye recapitulated the vote and then made the following announcement: This announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the United States each for the term beginning March 4, 1905, and shall ba entered, together with a list of the votes, on the journals of the Senate and House of Representatives. He then dissolved the convention. In all the proceedings occupied exactly fifty minutes. The House, within a very fow minutes, resumed discussion of the railroad rare bill. Mr. Jauiea (Ky.) accused the President of taking the platform of the Democratic party, "that beam the bloody stain of Bryu's faithful feot, and holding it up la the people of the country. He cared not how much It waa said the Democrats wvre following the President. He knew that the soldiers of the United States followed the President gallantly at Ban Juan MIL "But. he added, uo more, sir, than the Democracy will fallow him when he charge the Harrhnane, the Vanderbilts, the Cassatts and ths Hllla iu this country of wealth. The Democrats applauded Mr. Heflin (Ala.) when he said shat "Wb. Jennings Bryan, the Daniel of Democracy, has advocated the present legislation before the paople of the coun- PRESIDENT in Joint Session G)unt Electoral Vote of Every State in Record Time of Fifty Minutes, Gas-saw- t, SACRIFICES HER LIFE BY FIRE Chicago, Beb. Frances Wakeley of 63ti9 Low Avenue, be-lieviug that she had received a de-vine call to offer heru-l- f a sncrl- fica, today poured oil over her clothing and a pile of torn book and paper ou which aha stood and set the whole mas on fire. She is now in the hospital so terribly burned that her recovery is deemed Impossible. In the next room waa the aged mother of the giri, paralysed list- euiug to her daughter's voice and unable to aid her in any way. Miss Wakaley, who is 25 years old has lately joined a secret rs- ligioua cult, tin nature of which nona of her friends will divulge. it is believed that constant study of tha new religion bad un- settled her mind. S.-- Miea . thou-anCalumet, Mich., Feb. Ten d pouads of dynomite stored underground iu a magazine at tha eighth level No. 3 shaft of the North Kcar-aabranch of the Osceola consolidated mine exploded today killing several men, three of whom have been accounted for and injuring manv olh-e- r. MILES DEFENDS HIMSELF The forre of the explosion was . felt for miles around, and men workng Says Agitation Over Hfs Treat meat of In other portions of the mine some distance from the scene of tha exploJefferses Davis la Vituperative, sion were knocked down by the concussion. Tbs cause of the disaster ia Boston, Feb. 8. In a ,1 element Isa sued today concerning the recent dis- shrouded In mystery and may never ba as Wm. Pollltt, Jr the cussion of tlis imprisonment of Jtffer-eo- n maadiscovered who wsa ia rbarge of ths powder, Davis at Fnrlrsas Monro, in was probably blown into thousands of 1865-6General Nelson A. Miles says: no trace of bim having bees The matter has been agitated al dif- pieces, up to this hour. The list of the ferent periods during the last forty found known dead: years, but never nan it beea discussed WILLIAM POLLfT. JIL, la eiiarge in tha hall of congress. tha magazine, single, aged 2s It la to be regretted that tha high of years; blown to pieces. officials. President. Johnson. Secretaries MATTHBM KASKALA, a miner, Stanton and Dana. Judge Advocate blown to pieces. General Holt and Major General Hai-ler-g, PETER KULPA, a 1 rammer, sufare not living in order that they focated, aged IB, married, leaves a might answer the vicloua vituperation wife and three children. by which their nam are now aoeailed. The more seriously wounded: Still, 1 am aura that they acted in William Willi. good faitb, and, as they believed, for Peter Pula t he best interests of the country upon Gua Duoaid. the information then in tbelr poseea Joseph Novie sion and tbs condition of tho country Wllford Humphrey. at that time. Ban Orchard Elector. b Highest Democratic Elector. PAUL JONES In a characteristic speech Mr. Gabies (Tcun.), who was the sole Democrat who voted with the Republicans on the adoption of the rule, aald ba did eo because he found them right on the question even though tlisy gritted thels teeth after having been egged on by tha President, wbo had applied the cat-- o' nine-tail- s to tbelr backs. During the debate the following members spoke in favor of rate legislation: Messrs Padgett (Teun.), CochFeb. 8. Ambuss dor ran (Md.), Bmka (S. D.), Underwood Washington, (Ala.). Sen or (Ind.), Gregg (Tex.), La- Porter has some reason to believe that cey (Iowa). Davie (Mina), Murdock be baa at last discovered ths remains (Kansas), Hamlin (Mo.), and Hughes of John Paul Junes. About four years age ha secured a clue which in(N. . In addition io Messrs. Vreeland, dicated that the remains of John Paul Scudder, and Rider, all of New York, Jones, who died in Paris, had been inopposed any legislation on the subject. terred in a small urban cemetery, but At 4:47 the House adjourned until a search fur this cemetery disclosed tbs fact that it bad been abandoned early tomorrow at 11 oclock. Roosevelt receives 1.748,768 more in ths last century and that its site waa covered with buildings, leaving little hops that any re mi in of (Continued on Page 8.) corpses interred there coukl be found. Those facts were represented t tint Mate department at that time, and there the matter has Tasted until recently. Net long ago, however, Mr. Porter came into possession of some additional Information which warranted at least the hope that the sallora skeleton was not removed when the buildings were erected, and tliat it now reposes beneath the foundations or within the cellar of some of the dilapidated old flats which stand on the ground once occupied by tbe cemetery. The information does not indicate under which particular building John Paul Jonet remains are entombed. Uf these dues are to be followed, therefore, It will b necessary to rase anywhere from four to a doxen buildings. It has been ugft'Med that even if the remains were found it would be possible to Identify them after tbe lapse of time as those of John Paul Jones. Mr. Porter, however, thinks otherwise, pointing out that the American sailor uniterfere, this question bring a purely waa buried in a lead coffin, a very economic one; but be has Intimated usual means of Interment at that Jets to the m inters that it Is desirable that and one likely to preserve the body In they should rrach a settlement with fair condition for an indefinite period. tlu-i- r It is true that Jonea, by bequeathing men. It is hoped, in view of iluc conciliatory attitude of the maa-- I to friends and Immediate attendants ters and the appareut readiness of the upon bfa deathbed his sword, bis !mrn to listen to arguments that so- medals and jewelery, which otherwise would have been found in bia coffin, other crisis will be avoided. haa added to the difficulty of identificaMAXIM GORKY. tion, but Mr. Porter feels that the hermetically sealed coffin, if found, will m. The St. Petersburg, Feb I, till contain sufficient evidence of the interrogation of Maxim Gorky by tha identity of its inhabitant Tbe ambassador has suggested to the public prosecutor was begun day in the court of justice, to which president that to defray the cost of ; he was driven in a carriage from the searching for the remain, congress be fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. asked to appropriate n fund of $ Jo, 000, and tbe president, it is believed, will approve this recommendation. J-)- Washington. Feb. 8. Although the presidential election was known early in ihe evening of December 8, it via not until today when the senate end house met in joint session that Theodore Roosevelt Mid Charles W. Fair-Unk- s were offieially declared to ba elected president and vice president, wipectirely, for four year beginning March 4, 1908. This quadrennial function of congress attracted to the house chamber w licrr the electonil vote was canveased an immense gathering, prominent among the auditors being 31m. Rocweveil, Mias Alice Roosevelt, the president's sister, Mrs. Cowles, snd Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks .wife of the vice president elect . President Pro Tern Frye of the Mute, presided and delivered the an- nouncement of the result of the count which showed that Roosevelt and Kair-hanreceived 336 electoral votes and Parker and Davis 140. The whole Proceeding consumed exactly fifty siinutes, thereby establishing' a new rowd in counting the doctoral vote. For two hours preceding anil for three hours following the joint preced- Russell (Texas) of the House then took their places at the speaker's desk and the certificates were read by each teller in turn. The stales were called in alphabetical order. The first mention of President Roosevelt's name cime when the vole of California waa announced. It was lhe question of freight rates reheld full sway. As on the Previous days of the debate, both and democrat! claimed the fredit for originating the present ing flation Mr. Bartlett, supporting wll, explained the attitude as not being radical. Mr. E-- h who (Wis.) the minority of the south aasisled In traming the Townsend bill, summed up rue argument! for and against that bill op to the present time. Some, he said. it as the most important r,relcilr'ldsince the rebellion, while jWatlon wntr had contended it amounted to B,lph extreme views he helil r.hi be Indicative of the fitet that the bill what it was claimed to be a ia com-Prom- Mr- - Grosvenor (Ohio) ridiculed the Mnocmts for their claim to credit ELT1 Relation. He provoked Wtr when be declared that "Fol-n- g our footatepa. our vrackr where we camping wnied last night tonight and to be a n board, la not a begging new policy or Pfracipie of the Democratic party. Wf; Groavenor was tho discussing ative merits of the several bills was inierrupted by Mr. Bchac-tkT- u ViT with the statement that hill had been dentrd an opportunity to be considered. UilPkV rpplied Mr- - Groavenor. amid r n'1 Rcpnbiiean applause, Vmi. Prty denied It before we did. , Hearst bill, he declared, was aa CMar having been .U Watered by a Democratic raucus. w!,0C,ock' Doorheoper Iyons of e PtJm ,nno,,m'd the arrival J7ldsnt. pro tem and the Senate of the itod 8rak President Pro Tem to the HM..e!ISeJnoun,rt ,he of,8l,M,w Cannon. At the me W'kairielT hogany box the electoral vote wsa de-,hf ,I'eakr table and op- praorx in t.ha meantime !.h rirtt Hid of hl I" thfy were being seated Pre .lent Pro Tem House stood tip. Frye pwidl ;hP two hotI!'' Mesant. "rrnw VVm "? Hey (Texas) of A'e nate of-th- r"tt Ga.ncs (W. Vaj and Recrudescence of Violence is Prevented By Conciliatory Attitude of Employers Who Will Concede Nine Hour Day St. Petersburg, Feb. 9, 3 at the Putiloff partial strike works and the complete tie up of the St. Pcteramirg car factory gave rtee to rumors yesterday of a general recrudescence of the strike movement not but the- - strike Has here, xtended to other establishments and the success of the manager of the Putiloff works in preventing the great body of workmen from following the example of their comrades in two of the shops who bad walked out given basis for hope of an The present settlement. trouble involves the question of pay for the time the men were out on strike and the eight hour day, which were riHcussed at a meeting of employers last nighe. The employers came to na absolute decision but determined to mdopt a They probabconciliatory attitude. ly concede a nine hour day. which will satisfy the employees pending general legislation on the matter of an eight hour day which will be binding upon At Russia. employers throughout present - six government factories and thirteen- private establishments are working 67 hours or lem weekly and 28 other large enterprises more than 57 hours. The question of allowance for time on strike Is not so easy of settlement, Some works, including the American Westingbouse company, have voluntar- paid their men for the whole week they did not work, but several largeestablishment. Including the St. Petereburg car factory and the Putiloff works, refused to do so. claiming that it would swallow up moat of their The Putiloff works, yearly profits. where the strike of orlginsted and was of double duration, would be epeclally hit, as the strike pay roll would . amount to 3130.0000. The St. Petersburg car factory al- readv has paid three days, but is no-Governor to concede more. Titjoif does not wLh. to ia-- Ga1 It J yeaier-amiccb- le ; SHIPWRECK VICTIMS ARE SAFE After Battling With Waves for Twelve Hours Daman's Survivors Reach Shore. rations are said to be baseless. chief reason for the dread of confined in the fortress is due to the fact that an inmate is unable In any ' i way to cummunicate with hi fellow The casemates are aound-il-y prisoners. proof. The Associated Pres representative talked with liras. Gorky wbo apparent ly Is not deeply worried. After lier terview with her husband on Tuesday she petitioned the commandant of the fortress that M. Gorky be allowed to wear ordinary clothes and use writing materials, but she Mid to tha Asaoe-har- d iau-Press that her husband was not anxious to write. What ia the uae of be told her, when, accordingwriting to the resa regulations, what 1 writ Biut ha burned when I finish, i j In-ir- fort-willin- g rg .. John Norte It ia feared that four or five are still in the mine. Action of Kansas Senate May Ba The Osceola Consolidated Mining Vetoed By Governor. company will suffer heavy financial ,. PASS OIL REFINERY BILL. Iona. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 8. The Kansas senate today panned tha MU providing for the erection of a state oil refinery. The matter wiU not come up in (he house, where it is said that the measure has enough supporters to secure its passage, deapite the opiiosltiou of Speaker Stubbs. It is tbe rouvlclion of politicians generally that Guv. Hocli will veto the bill on account of the large appropriation Involved. Tha railroads have joined their lobbying forces with thorn of the Riandnrd Oil comp nny in an effort to defeat the pending oil legtidalion. The maximum rate law regarding the transportation of crude and refined oil which is a companion measure to Urn refinery law, ia what ths railroads nr fighting. HEAD OFF BIG STRIKE as S.-- a... Porter Finds Resting Place of Brave Privateer One Republican Explosion at Mine Will Ever Remain Mystery as Man in Charge of Powder is Blown to Atoms. 6. try." a Pleasant Point just before dark last The seaman reported that all ia the captain's lifeboat were badly frost lH ten and exhausted, some of them being so benumbed that they had to be lifted out of their seals. The landing was affected with the greatest difficulty and all in the boat were thoroughly drenched by the big breakers. Every person wis encased witu ice from head to foot. Nearby house were opeued up to the sufferers, but it is nut kuuwn whether or not any of them will succumb. Mrs. Prows. the woman passenger, wbo was in the boat bore up uruler tha trying ordeal wonderfully well and endured tire great haritsbip with fortitude. She encouraged the men when they were almost overcome by the cold and wearied with constant work at the (Mrs. Wheu near tha landing the rowers were so faligned that (hay could not force tha boat through tha surf and the men on shore waded out and dragged the boat in. Captain Grosst said tha Pern era foundered at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. They had stood by her for six hours In ihe lifeboat and it waa only when the steamer wont, down that they pulled away. evening. Halifax. N. S . Feb. 8. After battling for twelve hours In an open boat with the temperature below aero and a mighty gale lathing the sea, Captain Goast, three passengers and ten of the Furnea liner crew of tbe Damara have reached Pleasant Point In safety. Tbe news of their safe arrival was received here late today in a telephone message from Mnsquo'doboit harbor twelve mile from tbe point of landing. The news was brought to after a bard day's travel snow almost impassable through drifted road by one of th crew who landed in tbe first boat tint left the wreck veatenlsy. He telephoned the agents here that Captain Govsst and the others in the eeconri life boat which had be?n reported missing reached OF said his relations with the Santa Fa had always been plosaani' and flint if he ware going to slay in railroad work, ho would never have left the Santa Fe. GUNBOAT IS DISABLED. New York. Fell. 8 Tho Mallory Una steamer Concho In today from ths disabled jesterdsy passed United States gun bout Newport, which sailed from Do ton a week ago for Santo Domingo. Tha Newport wsa reimrtad as having lost her propeller al era on Feb. J. When passed by tha Concho she waa Is Ut. 36.20, lung. 75, and proceeding under sail, heading for Norfolk. She simply asked the Concha to nqiort her. Gal-vest- WANT DUTY ON LUMBER. Vancouver. B. C., Feb. I. A big date egatloa of British Columbia lumber mru, boards of trade and manufacturers. aaki-- the Canadian government today, to place a duty on Americas lumber to enable British Columbia mill men to secure the Mg markets iu Mam. Hobs and the northwest. Premier laurter aaw it waa tbe intention to revise the tariff and that at soon as the Unsure minister reaches Ottawa the question will be dealt with. J DEMOCRATS PILE UP EVIDENCE KENNA IS LOBBYING. Resigned of Santa Fa la Not Going to Balt Laka Road. Thaie Experts Declare That Republican Ballots Art Fraudulent and Own Votes Art ladeotifled. Topeka, Kansas, Feb, 8. E. D. Denver, Feb. 8. In the Adams-Pra-lwKenna, first vice president of the Bantu gubernatorial contest this after-noo- n Fe is here ia connection with railroad the Democratic attorneys introlegislation before the legislature. He duced their first export testimony. lias been la consuls) ion all day with testifying handwriting expert the legal representative of the Bants onTwo four precincts in La Animas counFe hut refused to discuss anything ty stated that out of 1.449 ballots, 58 that was considered. Republican and 63 Democratic wore Discussing his resignation from the written by four or five persona Bants Fa directorate, Mr. Kenna deThe vole of one of three precinct; nied that he would toon be identified known as Primero, for governor was with the new Balt Lake road. He nut counted by tbe count v ranvaascra as the polls had been moved by the Republicans to a plan nut autlmriMkl by the rounty autliorltie. but the Democratic attorneys, fearing the Republicans Intended to Include this precinct in the returns fur Peabody, had their experts examine the ballots. Omitting Primero precinct Adam makes a gain of 410 votes should tha other three precincts be thrown out. The moat important witness of lie afternoon was James P. Bolan, Democratic committeeman for precinct 14 ward I, Denver. Canvassers had declared they could not find 57 of tbe people who voted in this precinct. After looking over tlie list, Mr. Solan declared be knew personally 35 of the 57. A Pealioily expert had declared there were 168 Denmriitla bailout in this piitciuct writ teu by two or three pertains. The witncjjs Identified 15- - of Ibe-- e voters. Three wlinc.se Identified their ballots today. Expert Storking, appointed at the Adams aUonu-ytain inemliers of the bouse for tho lotance of Govnrnor on tha two ballot nature of their testimony before the repotted tonight Animas county. Tho committee which be claimed was far liiixf from lota the towns of Boitria different from what they had told Mm. linxoa were from and Brgundo. inhabited largely by cool Members of tbe Investigating commitminer employed by the Colorado Furl tee, one after ihe other, nice and and The expert reportIron holly resented Mr. Cunierford's re- ed findingCompany. a total of 518 ballots In tha flections un the aciioa of the commitbox 107 Republican ballots betee . tine after another. mMiibe.s at- Koprls ing written ia fo4 hxnd writings, and tacked Mr. Comerford for hia attacks 46 Democratic lallota in two handwrion them. box from Segnndo tbe exIu Mr. Oimrifnr-demanded the right ting. foundthe 306 ballots, 89 of which were aa a defendant of having lat word, it pert written in two hands with tha wonl was given him. in roll call, the resoluat the top, and 44 others "Republican'' 121 was to written in three tion of expulsion adopted handwritings being the 12. Eight members declined in vote. Democrat. He also stated word that tha poll books ware incomplete COOL IN' HAWAII. in that tbey showed no record of assisted voters and ware not signed by Washington, Fell. 8. Tha weather tlie election official. A number of witnesses ware sworn bureau today issua.1 a report announcing that the weather in the Hawaiian and Identified tbelr ballots. Louis Goodman, a city fireman, was islands bas been so abnormally cool rince ihe first of the year as to retard asked if he had ever been compelled to contribute to campaign funds and the growth of young cane. replied that he bad not W. 8. Marsh, a Republican judge from Ward XL pro-clS. Admiral Feb. Rear Washington, 12, where one of the experts said Frank O. Cosby, U. 8. N. retired, died 75 fraudulent Democralle billots had 65 He from years. paralysis, aged today been cast, said that such a thing was rewas war and civil the served during inipofcstble. Ha Identified hia own baltired In 1902 after having served as lot and several others written by him general inspector of the pay corps. in naeiatlng illiterate voters, nil of whiuh were included by the expert in eeeaaae the bunch claealfled aa fraudulent. dy EXPELS COMEREORD His Charges of Corruption Are Declared to Be Unfounded at Which Decision He Fiercely Protests. Frank D. Comrrford. a representative of tha 8. Bprlngfleld, III., Feb, second senainrfal dntrlrt of Conk coun- general assembly was today expelled as a member of tliat body and his name stricken from the rolls of the bouse of assembly. His ty to the expulsion 44th was the climax of a aeries of sensational charges of corruption and attempted bribery mads bv Mr. Comer-for-d against members of the Illinois legislature in a lecture before a law college in Chicago, which were investigated by a special committee of the house appointed for that purpose, which found, after protracted kitting and listening to a great mass Of tesii-motliat the charges bronght by Mr. Comerford were utterly unfounded, toits findings day this committee reported nor against to the house, neither for punishment to ba inflicted upon the but the countv member, young Cook reading of the report was followed by resolution providing lor tbe expulxiou of Mr. Comerford. The resolution cited Mr. Comerford to appear before the bar of the bouse tomorrow and show cause why he should aot be exnv pelled. Mr. Comerford emphatically de- clined to take up the time of Ihe house bv further delay, waiving his right to that he prepare his defense, and staled hlm-selwa ready right then to defend He waa taken at his word, and a iu a brilliant sjua'ch of more than an CAPTURE ALL REBELS. hour's duration, he reviewed the testithe Investigating before taken mony Buenos Ayres, Feb. 8 All of the committee and flereeljr scored the comhave been captured or sur- rebels of the c scope so for limiting mittee hins-nerendered escept one military leader. "Ck'd Almighty tliat iDetiiiftAlion 200 prisoners were then More be vouM prevents came if h transferred by the pilire to a self today evidence against from getting trial by are and awaiting a warship confessed thief.' a council of war which has bees al- "This commiure stands convicted readv constituted. An official noie to subbefore the country of resorting Investi-gatkhas been iMued declaring the eun- real to any prevent terfuges plete pacification of the republic. be said. Everything Is normal. Mr. Comerford had his speech be a frequently but form, typewritten text to denounce cer-departed-fromJ- ts C. -- tf, a a ut H. M. Rhoads, a wall known news- paper editor, whose name ea tha registration list was declared by a canvasser testifying in the interest of Peabody, to be fictitious was put on the stand to prove Hint he wee nHve. He stated that be wsa a McKinley Republican. had lived In one house for 18 years and d. know nearly everybody ia ths neigh-bnrlinn- Mr. Rhoads' son, Robert, and afi immediate neighbor, were tneludrj In the list of alleged fictitious voters. Mr. Rhoails testified to their having voted ea rleo registered regqlarly-an- d tiou-jla- y. " " |