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Show fc... JTheGIobe i'uMixlx-One year $1.. A) fAYSON - Header "OH REBELS THREATEN Every Thursday. Six months "fie UTAH AMERICAN MINERS UTAH STATE NEWS Council No. 6 of the Native Sons of Utah h&a been organised at Logan., The body of an unknown man, about 12 years old, was found in a ditch a ihort distance out of Thistle. It U Believed he was murdered. Grand county will send a maid of honor to attend the irrigation queen at the parade which will be held in Salt Lake City during the latter part of September. The citizens of Iron county will rote on the proposition to bond the tounty for 150,000 at the coming election. The money will be used for constructing highways. The body of an unknown man wa 'taken from the' Spanish Fork river a half mile below Thistle Junction. Physicians say he was about 90 years of age and was drowned three or four days ago. Steve Israel has surrendered to the Salt Lake police and confessed to the murder of Benjamin F. Platt, an aged Jewish clothing merchant in North Topeka, Kan., on the night of February 22, 1911. A severe hailstorm played havoc with the Oregon Short Line wires in the neighborhood of Wheelon, Box Elder county. Thirty telegraph poles were blown down and the wires were put out of service. Fire which started from unknown origin at 9 o'clock at night in a hardware store at Park City spread rapidly to a pool hall and a drug store, and caused a total damage of $5,50C before it wgs extinguished. A statewide campaign to eliminate, noxious weeds from the highways and byways of travel was Instituted by the board of governors of the Utah Development league at its monthly meeting held In Salt Lake last week. of William McElroy, a cattle-buye- r two confidence claims that Chicago, men mulcted him of $2,000 in Salt Lake, after they had inveigled him Into betting on fake horse races in the heart of the business district. The cool weather of the lafet week has retarded somewhat the ripening Df peaches In Weber county, and the shipping season will not begin until September 10, at the very earliest The crop will be exceptionally heavy. The' recent order of the post office lepartment concerning Sunday closing will not affect Provo. The local office was one of the first twenty in the sountry designated two years ago by !he postmaster general to close on the Sabbath. Esther Chideater, 5 years old, of Bingham, Is in a Salt Lake hospital suffering with a fracture of the skull, at the result of Injuries received Bingham when a rock which bounded (own a hillside struck her on the lead. Caught by the rapidly revolving shaft of the concentrator of the Ohio Zopper company at Blnghaxn, Harold Hatt, aged 20, suffered a broken leg, received severely bruised feet and is thought to have sustained Internal Injuries. Wreaking its fury upon the fruit, beating the oats and alfalfa to the ground, perforating 'the beet leaves and denuding, trees, one of the most violent wind and hail storms on record tore Its way through Cache valley in Wednesday. Governor Hiram W, Johnson of Calcandidate on ifornia, the National Progressive ticket, told al a large audience at the Salt Lake theatre on Wednesday night that he believed in the conservation of human resources and rights. Leslie Maycock, manager of tl teelphone plant at Sprlngvllle, wi slectrocuted while testing wire Physicians worked over him for ov an hojr, after the body had bee lowered to the ground, but were ui jj?e to restore consciousness. The election held throughout Ca bon ""ty to vote bonds for flnishlo Surrender of Rich Mining In Mexleo Owned by Americans Demanded by Rebels Who Would Finance Revolution. Property e ing by paying glowing tribute to the late Fisher Harris of Salt Lake, whom he accredited with having been the leader in the movement of educating the people to "See America First." Important among the many resolutions introduced at the Wednesday session waa one by Henry Welsh of Park City, Utah, advocating that the present regulations and methods of the interior department in handling the resources, mineral, timber and grazing lands of the country should be so changed, Interpreted or modified that the citizens of the country might secure the benefits at their very doors instead of being deprived of them by unnecessary and Trana-Mlealsalp- TOLTON TO LEAD DEMOCRAT8. Beaver County Man Selected by Democrats for Governor of Utah. Salt Lake City. The Democrats of Utah in convention on Thursday placed a complete state ticket in the field, headed by John F. Tolton, of Beaver county, for governor. Tolton was selected on the fourth ballot The platform of the Democrats is a long and vigorous document. It was prepared for the most part in advance of the convention by leading Democrats, who had decided it was necessary that the platform should set forth fully the principles and other merits of the party. The platform declares for the initiative, the referendum and the recall, and other advanced political measures. , The contests for congress and governor were the only serious ones of the convention, Most of the other candidates were named by acclamation. The Democrats adopted a plank in their platform declaring far a nonpartisan educational system and the appointment of the superintendent of public instruction by a board of education. A. C. Nelson, present superintendent of public instruction, was Indorsed for to this position. The ticket follows: For Governor John Frank Tolton, Beaver. non-partisa- n For Congressmen-at-Larg- e Matho-nlha- h Thomas, Salt Lake, and Tillman D. Johf ton, Ogden. For Justiae of the Supreme Court Le Grand Young, Salt Lake. For Secretary of State Charles England, Logan. For Attorney General Joseph W. Stringfellow, Salt Lake. For State Auditor John S. Main, Spring City. For State Treasurer John F. Mendenhall, Sprlngvllle. For State Superintendent of Publlo Instruction A. C. Nelson, Salt Lake. For Presidential Electors Jesse Knight of Provo, O. W. Powers of Salt Lake, James Andrus of St. George. Thomas H. Fitzgerald of Salt Lake. JOHN D. ARCHBOLD - Construction work on the p interurban line 'between S Lake and Payson, which is to conn with the Bamberger line at Salt Lf and the Eccles line at Ogden and cc plete an electric road from Payson Brigham City, is to commence wit! thirty days. David Starr Jordan, president of the Leland Stanford university, addressed a large audience in the stake tabernacle at Provo on Sunday on "The Case Against War, in which he showed the waste, misery and crime Standard Oil magnate who, on his resulting from war and the utter use return from Europe, Is expected to lessness of armed contests between tell a lot about that eompanya relatione with national pollutes. Salt Lake City. Former Governor Jamea H. Brady of Idaho was elected preaident of the Commercial congress, and Wichita, Kan., was chosen as the 1912 meeting place, at the' final session In Assembly hall Friday morning. Following the completion of the business of the session the congress adjourned nine die. A precedent of twenty-thre- e years was broken by the congress In electing former Governor Brady president instead of John H. Powell, who was chairman of the executive committee. It has always been customary to elect the chairman of the executive committee to the presidency. A resolution presented by Stephen H. Love of Salt Lake urging congress Trans-MiasiBBlp- N. Y. President Taft Rochester, Wednesday night rescinded his twelve-hou-r old order directing the immediate despatch from Panama tc Tenth infantry Nicaragua of the From his private car in the Rochester yards, the president wired to the acting secretary of war to recall the order. A sufficient force of marines, the preaident said, would be In Ma nagua, the Nicaraguan capitol, and Corlnto, lta principal seaport, early next week to insure the safety ot American lives and property. The president expressed to frieud on bis car the belief that there will be more than 2,000 United States ma rlnea on Nicaraguan soil by Tues day. The president did not conceal hit anxiety over conditions In Centra America. In Managua and Corlntc and other towns the situation la to Americans dangerous but in other parts of the country pit laging of all aurtB has been going on The people of Nicaragua, the presl dent waa Informed, are Buffering un told horrors, and Americans are auf feting in mauy instances with them. To friends Mr. Taft said that if the senate had agreed to the propose! treaty with Nicaragua, which, he ad vocated on hia long trip last fall, tb misery existing today would not nav arisen. on Douglas, Aril. A force of 200 rebels on Thursday demanded the surrender of El Tlgre mining camp, an American property, located sixty-fivmiles southeast of here. Forty Americans, fully armed. Intend to light it necessary to protect their women and children. Seventy federal soldiers defend the town. El Tigre is one of the richest gold mines in Mexico, controlled by Kansas City ospital, and li captured by rebels could finance the revolution. Mounted messengers representing Rafael Campa, leader of the rebel BRADY OF IDAHO AT band, rode into the mining camp early HEAD OF CONGRESS Thursday and demanded Its surrender. It is reported that no definite answer was given. Campas foVCe is encamped only fourteen miles west of Idahoan Elected Preaident of the mine property. Commercial Congresa Another force of rebels is reported to be moving in from a point thirty Despite Precedent of Years. miles to the east posed nations Two Thousand American Varinei on Nicaraguan Soil Should be Sufficient to Look After American Interests, la Opinion of Chief Executive. Immediate high school building, now undi construction at Price, was carried f of an additional $4! )00 in bonds. The structure ne of the finest in the state, wjil cost! 1100,000. FORCE REGARDED BY PRESIDENT AS SUFFICIENT TO KEEP THE PEACE IN NICARAGUA. RE8IDENT8 OF CAMP INTEND TO FIGHT IF NECESSARY TO PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN. pl inter-moun-ta- ln unreasonable restrictions. to recommend4o Mb railroads the Immediate establishment of faster train schedules, to be maintained until noi Resolutions were introduced in favor of the proposed transcontinental highway, thanking the president and congress for waterways Improvements on inland rivers, and urging further harbor improvements along the gulf coast. F. W. Graham, western engineer and industrial agent of the Great Northern railroad, read an address prepared by Louis W. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the system. Rev. A. E. Hlgley of Denver delivered an address filled with humorous anecdotes which kept his listeners constantly in smiles. He emphasized the wonderful resources of the west and spoke glowingly of Americas natural wonders, which he declared far excelled anything Europe had to offer, both from a scenic and historical viewpoint. An address on "Fire Waste, delivered by Willard Done, Utah state insurance commissioner, was the fear ture of the afternoon session of the conCommercial Transmlsslsslppi on Thursday. gress Robert W. Former Congressman Bonynge of Colorado, in discussing "The Reform of Our Banking and Currency Laws before the congress at the night session, declared that the American people soon would insist upon removing the stigma of being a financial nuisance" among the world powers and would demand a comprehensive banking system. P. E. Quinn, government commissioner N. S. W., Australia, spoke on Problems of the Antipodean Settlement "Our problems are very much the same as your own," said Mr. Quinn. "Australia has great resources arid few people." mal traffic conditions prevail and the danger qf a car shortage Is 'eliminated, was adopted. Salt Lake City. Of the many striking features that testified to the great work and purposes of the Transmls-sisslpp- l Commercial congress at the an.opening sessions of its twenty-thirnual convention here Tuesday, probably none is of more Importance than the introduction of a resolution by Judge E. A. Helm of Wichita, Kans., comprehending lower freight rates at Imperative to the progress and develstates west opment of the twenty-tw- o of the Mississippi. A movement urging the government to utilize the machinery now in use at the Panama canal to Improve the channel of the Mississippi river for the drainage reclamation of vast areas of swamp lands bordering on that great waterway; also a proposal that the federal congress he asked to appropriate $5,000,000 toward the Panama-PacifiInternational exposition of 1915 at San Francisco, formed Important features. guests Among the distinguished present were former Governor James H. Brady of Idaho, who is mentioned as the next president of the congress; Stockholders of Moffat Road Meet. former Governor George W. Pardee of Denver. Stockholders of the MofCalifornia, A. B. Lewis of SL Louis, fat road held a meeting Thursday On the platform at the mornisg sesmorning to ratify instructions under sion were Governor William Spry, which their attorney Is acting In conMayor Samuel C. Park, Joseph El ferences in New York with Newman Caine, secretary of the Salt Laxe Erb and the stockholders protective Commercial club, and others. committee, and to arrange for the A letter from President William H. purchase by local Interests of bonds Taft, addressed to Governor Spry, in the new company which Mr. Erb was read expressing his regfet at will organize after control of the road being unable to attend and hoping the passes to him. ' congress sessions might be fruitful Will Not Arbitrate. of good results. Numerous reasons why America in Washington. Although the state general and the west in particular department will authorize no stateshould be seen first In preference to ment to that effect, it la understood Europe were set forth graphically in here that the administration will deaddresses Wednesday afternoon at Salt cline to permit the question of the air by speakers of national repute, right of the United States to relieve Com- its own shipping from, tolls in the attending the Fanama canal to go to arbitration. mercial congresa. was the This position of the government, it Is "See America First, was the day said, may not be developed fully for It for the slogan day. t apart for addresses dealing n some time. reasons why this slogan Raise Values in Idaho Should stand. Representatives from mre Boise, Idaho The state board of twenty- states were presBkai-,waT,lt ,.Jh part of equalization has raised the value of See America first proghsL taxable property in the state to The lake was one of (the wonders Last year it waa $330,000,000. ofjViO, America referred to tjy speakers, an ty per cent will be taken as the more than 400 persona aaw It for the basis for assessment. The Short Lines first time. About 500 delegates were valuation is fixed at $50,000,000. The total valuation of all roads and interur-ban- s present President Truipbo opened the meet $$5,000,000. d c MARINES FORCE THEIR WAY. Americans Threaten to Attack Towr Unless Permitted to Enter in Peace. Corlnto, Nicaragua. Commandei Warren J. Terbune and a force of 20( American sailors and marines fronr the gunboat Annapolis and the collie Justin- on . way througn - territoICfflwfcwWf? the revoltuionlsts to Ivon, the towr midway between the Pacific coast and Lake Managua, where the liberrle rose In arms on August 19 and In the night massacred the sleeping soldiert of the garrison. The Americans found the liberal hostile to their advance, and it he came necessary for Commander Ter hune to threaten to attack Leon be fore the insurgents would allow the train bearing his detachment to entei the town. Rioting had subsided and the Americans found the city resum ' lag its normal appearance After conferring with the libera.' leaders Commander Terhune withdrew his force from the city, 100 marine going to Managua and the rest of the detachment to Corlnto. Archbald to Quit Bench. Washington. Judge R. W. Arch bald of the commerce court, whose trial under Impeachment proceeding is pending before the senate, has ask ed Chief Justice White of the Unitec States supreme court temporarily tc relieve him of duty. BRAMWELL BOOTH Trans-mlssisslp- en-wu- f1 s $450,-000- . -- Bramwell Booth, who was selectad father, Gen. William Booth, to succeed him as head of the 8alvation Army, contemplatee some changee in the management of that great orgar.L by his Ballon. |