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Show V YOL. XIV. RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY,iXJTAH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1910. HEWS OF ft WEEK III COIIDEIISED F RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlator) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAI- Edith the Seman, daughter of H. W. Seman, of Denver, found a bottle containing carbolic acid while playing and drank the contents, Other dying within a few minutes. children playing near her sought to take the bottle away from her, but she ran behind a chair and drank the poison before they could reach her. January floods, which put the Nevada division of the Salt Lake railroad out of commission, has cost that contract with the system a government for the transportation of transcontinental mails. The estimated ifalue of this contract was ? 130,000 four-year-s annually. Believing that 'certain rays of the machine may cure leprosy. Dr. H. Stover, a Denver physician has sailed for Hawaii with the intention of making experiments at the leper colony at Molokai. Dr. Stover, took with him a small but especiall constructed apparatus, supplied with a new feature of his own invention. . Tow Ewing, whose mind has been affected for some time, committed suicide at Ophir, Utah, deliberately preparing a charge of dynamite, lighting the fuse and blowing himself up. Four million acres of land, representing 2 per cent of all forest servas in the-- country, much of- - if 4a Utah .and other lntermountaln states, will be restored to the public domain, the result of an order issued by President Taft. With military precision and without .tie least disorder, the 310 children and teachers of the Centennial school In Trinidad, Colo., marcned from the building when a fire broke out in the basement. Justice William Kerr, of Pueblo, in sentencing Antone Sime for beating his wife, said: If I ever hear or you doing this again after you get out of Jail, I will personally lead a party of men who are men and tie you to a telegraph pole and beat you to death. DOMESTIC. A, lone robber held up the cashier and two patrons in a bank at San Bernardino, Cal., and got away ' with a tray of gold amounting to about X-ra- y fl.OOO. George Ebellng has pleaded guilty to having taken part in the robbery of a passenger train near Eureka, Mo., on the night of January 21, and implicate W W. Lowe, James Lowe and 3. W. Emmerson, who are in jail. 8. T. Lockhard stabbed and killed his friend, Carleton Swinney, at Broveton, Texas, when the latter, while temporarily Insane, broke into the home of the former. Lockhard thought his friend was a burglar. Charges that certain of the insiders in the company, mowing in advance that the 300 per cent melon" would be cut, had tricked stockholders out of their holdings, will be laid before the interstate comWells-Farg- merce commission in New York on Friday. Howard Little, who murdered Mrs. Bessie Justis, her George Meadows, and his wife and three children, in their home hear Hurley, Buchanan county, last September, was put to death by electrocution in the penitentiary at Richmond, Va February 11. A verdict of 175,000, said to be the largest ever rendered in an alienation suit, has been awarded to Mrs. Chas. of Brooklyn against C. Hendrick Laura Biggar, former actress, accused of alienating the affections of Mrs. Dr. Hendricks divorced husband. Chas. C. Hendrick. Dr. B. C. Hyde has been arrested on the charge of having murdered Colonel Thomas H. Swope, the Kansas City millionaire philanthropist, after a coroners jury had decided that Swope came to his death as a result of poisoning. Hyde is the husband of the late millionaires niece. Oliver Spitzer, convicted at New York of conspiracy to .defraud the government in the sugar weighing cases, and sentenced to two years imprisonment, declares he has been made a scapegoat by the sugar trust, which had hounded and ruined him after twenty-nin- e years of faithful service. Peace has been declared between the shirt waist manufacturers of Philadelphia and their striking employes, the girls winning a substantial victory, shorter hours and recognition of their union. son-inla- The villago of Lakeland, Fla., has been wrecked by a hurricane, twenty-fiv- e persons being Injured and a number of houses demolished. In a pitched battle between whites and negroes at Hales Bar, lean., three negroes were shot to death. One was Daddy" Baker, a negro preacher and ringleader of the black rioters. After two weeks of the thirty days' meat boycott in Pittsburg, the prices of meat continue to rise. - Miss Beatrice Snyder, of Buffalo, N. Y committed suicide by wading into the river and being swept over Niagara Falls. Her Intention was not discovered by several witnesses to the tragedy until it was too late to save her, Colonel Thomas H. Swope, the Kansas City, millionaire, came to his death by reason of strychnine administered in a capsule by Dr. B. C. Hyde, husband ot the millionaires niece, according to the verdict of the coroners jury in Independence, Mo. WASHINGTON. The senate and house have practically decided that a court of law has not the power to summon before it a committee of congress, the decision being based on the plea of the constitutional prerogatives of members of congress. On$ contributing cause to the high price! of meat, according to a report or the department of commerce and labor, is the fact that livestock receipts for the year 1909 at seven leading interior markets of the United States were the lowest since 1904. Commander Robert E.- - Peary, discoverer of the north pole, will not be, given the rank of rear admiral in the navy, as proposed, in recognition for his services as an explorer if copgreos approves the action of the of the house committee on naval affairs. - Waterway projects throughout the country at a cost of 342,355,276, of which 37.206,430 is for continuing contracts, are provided for in the rivers and harbors appropriation bill reported to the house by the committee on rivers and harbors. Tty Beiiiu, Etwhirelsia vejIlC reg ulating the traffic in immoral alien women, has been approved by the senate, practically in the same form as passed by the house. Gifford Plnchot, deposed chief bitterly assails the action of George P. McCabe, solicitor of the department, who, as temporary chief after Pinehots dismissal took action to abolish the collegiate training of forx esters at government expense. Wade H. Ellis of Ohio has resigned his position as assistant to the attorney general in the department of justice to accept the chairmanship of the Republican executive committee of Ohio and to assume charge of the Ohio campaign this fall. FOREIGN. Antoinetta Frattini, who was seventy-two years old, shot herself at Padua, Italy, because she had been awaiting death for fifty years, and there was no sign as yet of her dying. Recently the doctors of Paris demanded and secured a higher scale of fees. The nurses emboldened by the success of the doctors have placed a minimum rate of 31 a day on their services. Shefket Pasha, the new minister ot war, intends to thoroughly reorganize the Turkish army, and the navy also is to he put on a sound fighting basis. German ideas will prevail in the army and English in the navy. A number of Chinese girls, specially trained in San Francisco, have begun work in Peking as central operators in the telephone system recently opened there. Subscribers, when ringing up, address them as Lily of the Air and Butterfly that Talks. Because of the great success of the police dog exhibition at Monaco last year, arrangements are being made for a similar show, which will take place toward the latteV part of March. Several Belgian and German dog detectives have also been entered. created Lady Constance-Richardsoa stir a few days ago when she appeared upon a London hall stage and danced for charity. Her daring gowns and her startling poses drew great crowds, but they also called down the wrath of King Edward, who ordered that her name be stricken from the list of those entitled to attend court functions. Driven helplessly from her course, in one of the wildest storms that has in forty swept the Mediterranean Transatlantic years, the Fiench Steamship companys stpamer General Chanzy while running full speed in the dead of night, crashed on the treacherous reefs near the island of Minorca and all except or.e of the 157 persons on board perished. Whether the Hawaiian islands shall be dry will be left to the Hawaiian people themselves, and will not be determined by congress. This was determined by the senate committee on Pacific islands and Porto Rico, when it adopted a report providing that the question shall be submitted to a spe cial election. King Gustav of Sweden has been operated on for appendicitis, the operation being a success. for-reste-r, NO. 42. UTAH STATE NEWb Gossip of Washington DEMONSTRATIONS BY 80CIALiis CULMINATE IN CLASHES WlT ' THE POLICE. e r. Protest Against Suffrage Bill Cauj of Meetings, Officers ' Charging! Crowds With Swords When ? I Trouble Began. The What Is Going On at the National Capital. Oh My! Women Must Tell Their Age is ostensible head of every the course, household, but when it comes to making an official report to the government there may be a difference ot opinion. Supervisor Hotchkiss said another of the most important question discussed was that of fully acquainting foreigners of the real purpose of the census. A display of official papers and badges tends to frighten the foreigners, said Mr. Hotchkiss. They fear it has something to do with deporting them or forcing them to give up money, and their instant refuge is to give untruthful replies to the questions put by the enumerators. To guard against this we decided to try to educate the foreigners beforehand so that when the enumerator calls they will know just what to expect We are educating them through their children in the schools, through the churches, the foreign newspapers and settlements qnd societies in various parts ot the country. A carelessly taken census shows a smaller population than a carefully taken one. An enumerator often finds people in his district are not at home, and instead of returning there later he passes them up entirely. , Demonstrations by Sofetw-ist- s throughout the kingdom after mass meetings held on Sunday to test against the suffrage bill, result-:in serious affrays between the .demonstrators and the police in ASHINGTON. atiy "Pardon me, madplaces. In Berlin several polioenlfo am, the government of the United were severely wounded by stones States would like to know your age. thrown by rioters, and scores of With that remark the census enumalist supporters received serious Inj' erator will politely display his badge tes from sabers of the police. and prepare to make an entry In the Reports from places outside Of EifUffleial census papers. The question lin give s' number of casualties. is, will every woman in the United worst affair occurred at Hewmaaatc States when they start taking the in Holstein, where a worklngmanrcs census April 15 disclose her real wounded by a knife thrwn. her of years, or will she reply that it the lungs; anothers hand waa cat o: is none of the governments business T while a third lost an ear. $ The sporting editors says the betting is about even. At Halle, after the olose of Willard E. Hotchkiss, supervisor of meetings, 2,000 Socialists attacked tie polloe, who drew their saber or,l the First district of Illinois, which inwounded many. At Koenigs berg wtve cludes Chicago, was in Washington the Socialists returned in a body frolP recently to confer with supervisors at- of other large cities on this and other surburban meetings, the police-lf- t tempting to divert the crowds Into the problems In taking the census. side streets used their side arms. They Another question necessitating conalso made a number of arrests. ? , siderable tact is that regarding the At Dulsberg on the Rhine, Socialhead" of the house. The man, of ists, in a series of street demonatr-tlons- , came Into collision with the police. The latter used their saheff and several manlfestants were erl was missing that caused the concern; ' A and bruised. it -- was the fact that that one error might lead to others, which wouldn't Berlin. - d num-mortal- te y Senator Dicks Experience in a Bank VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE. be discovered possibly for a week. Then the confusion would have been ' 7 almost endless. , Italian Government Publishes Casualties on December 23, ItT Lte7' . . RomeATht.HUai.svernmeBL published an official return of th number of victims in the earthquake which devastated southern Italy on December 28, 1908. At Messina thert was a total of 77,283 victims; 27,523 bodies were recovered and buried; 223 Inhabitants died from their injuries, and- - 32,477 persons are missing, lost beneath the ruins. In the other localities the deatn number: Reggio and district, 7,969; Palml, 1,734; Villa San Giovanni, 1,092; Galicco, faui; Pellaro, 922. Several sman communes have a collective death roll numbering 7.108. Today Messina numbers 70,000 inhabi-of whom lived in the tants, four-fifth-s town before the disaster. Americans Are Thirsty. must b Washington. Americans a thirsty nation, judging from the Imports of drinkables set forth in a statement just issued by the bureau ol statistics. The United States drank the essence of more than a billion pounds of coffee in 1909, valued ai 386,000,000 that was about a dollar worth of coffee for every person in the United States. A litie more than a hundred million pounds of tea, valued at 316,000,000, came In. But in spirits, wines and malt liquors, the nation touched its highest record foi importation in 1909 and consumed foreign products of that kind to the value of more than 326,000,000, more than twice as much as was imported in 1899. Vigilance Committee for New York. New York. Fifth avenue has organized practically a vigilance committee to deal with a brand new form of brigandage that gangs of stylishly dressed "holdup and strongarm women are maintaining on that arlstocratio It is to be known a thoroughfare. the Fifth Avenue Association, and among its members are William K. B. F. Yoakum, Jacob Vanderbilt, William A. Clark, Schiff, Harry Payne Whitney, William Ellis Corey and others equally well known. n Originator of Meat Boycott. Cleveland, O. Fred W. Sebelin of Cleveland, is the originator of the Is the meat boycott. Mr. Sebelin shop foreman of the Cleveland Twist Drill company. He suggested to the men in the factory that they give up eating meat till the price came down to something reasonable. They accepted his lead and one day only six meat orders were given in the big room of the company, which holds 50 men. The fame of the boycott spread. Then it spread to other states and the government at Washington took It up. Boy Shoots His Mother, New York. John Brady, 9 years of age, shot and instantly killed his mother. Agnes, aged 31, in their home In the Bronx. The bullet first glazed the cheek of a baby in Mrs. Bradys arms, then buried itself in the moth ers heart. The babe, too, would have been killed, the police said, but tor the instinctive action of the mother in tearing it from her breast at the instant the pistol flashed. The boy had been punished by hi3 mother, but he claims the shooting was accidental. ffffHEN was a young fellow, says Senator Dick, I worked in a bank. One day a Saturday, when, for some reason or other, I was anxious to get aw-aearly it was found that the cash was 25 cents short We worked for an hour trying to And that money. My time was growing shorter every minute. "At length I dug down into my pocket and pulled out a quarter. Here, I said, and I tossed the money down on the counter. I didnt see why that wouldn't settle things. But my employer was very strict. Young man, he said, take that money back. We will find that quarter if it takes all 4 I night. Well, we worked till midnight. Then the banker told us to come back the next day Sunday. We did, and It was noon before we found the error. Of course, I've since learned that it wasn't merely the fact that a quarter Pictures of , A treasury official was fit a fuVon the otber tngbt and 'Was present to a charming young woman. As soon as she learned he was in the treasury department, she said: I want to complain to you about that inquisition over there. What Inquisition T The examination of baggage at the port of New York." But Im not In charge of the customs. Made no difference to the young woman. She forced the official to listen to her story. She bad come over from Rurope with a lot of ribbon In her trunk. An inspector ordered the trunk opened. He asked her what she was going to do with the ribbon. She told the truth, though she was a good deal embarrassed. "Why," said the official, he only wanted to know if you were going to sell the ribbon or use it 'yourself. You need have given him no more Information than that Like Chromos Ex-Speak- ers That is, they are called pictures. Many of them are flamboyant thing in colored crayons, that would make a kindergarten kid weep to gaze upon them. A lot more of them are done In black crayon, and they are certainly the limit. A few of the latter ones are done Id oils, and the poor speakers whom they represent look as though they had been boiled in oil while sitting for those same portraits, so pained and injured Is the expression on the faces of most of them. In the latter class are Speaker Reed and Speaker Crisp. Speaker Reed, when gazing upon the canvas that represents him one day, turned , I dont to a friend and said: wonder the Democrats bate me If I look like that to them. The picture of Charles S. Crisp is a smug, fatlooking customer as little like the Hall of Horrors, where and bronze and plaster effigies of dead and gone statesmen, jurists and warriors speck the walls around what was once the old bouse of representatives, the painted effigies in the lobby back of the house of representatives arouses the risibilities of every lover of real art who passes through. That gallery of equal horrors is now up for attack. Hanging upon the walls are rows and rows of pictures of former speak- genial-faced- , ers of the house of representatives. as anything to the NEXT marble Sa-ay- clear-eye- could Speaker Crisp well be imagined. to Be Citizens Indians Dont Want United States to live up to the treaty 3 county commissioners have granted a pet It km to make Annabella Vq of 1823 guaranteed that the In dians should be wards of the government and be taken care of as long as grass grows, water runs or the sun shines, meaning forever. The government is not living up to that treaty with the Oklahoma Indians. Mr. liarjo bits Indian education as it now stands some bard knocks. He is the who EUFAULA Harjo, The education of the Indian in Washington of the says: is a farce. Schools accomplish nothfour tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, is All we ask Is our rights under in Washington trying to Induce con- ing. of 1823. the treaty take-some action to protect gress to Mr. being an Indian and, like the Chickasaws, Cheiokees. Creeks all theHarjo other "wards of the governIn Oklahoma Indians and Choctaw dead sure of clothes and food from the operation of Oklahoma laws, ment, the Indians are wards of the while which make the Indians citizens of much prefers for that the state. Mr Harjo declares that his government, to stand. of condition things people do not want to be citizens. He It Is a heap easier to draw annuities to to want continue be says they from the government to live upon than wards of the government. He says: it Is to get out and hustle, and that The red man is not fitted for citi- has been one of the chief faults of the zenship. This government takes far treatment of the Indians in this counmore care to guard the rights of the try. negro than It does those of No work la so small but that faithSurely the Indians have as much, if not more, claim on the United fulness in it will sooner or later b States than the negro. We want the seen and rewarded. an incorporated town. Increased cost of living is the reason given by the cement workers of Salt City for a demand for an increase in wages. The county commissioners of Tooele county intend furnishing the farmers with strychnine with which to exterminate the ground squirrels. It is now being rumored in Salt Lake that the St. George route will be chosen by the Salt -- ake, Ixw Angeles and San Pedro railroad when the road is rebuilt. Government cattle inspectors are in, finding very little tuberculosis Davis county. Of ninety-ninhead of cattle inspected, only three were found affected. Front reports at hand the wool season in Utah this year will be a splendid one, with a good clip and good prices. Prices now being offered by eastern buyers range from 18 to 22 cents a pound. P. G. Taylor, one of the early pioneers of Weber county, who reached the age of 83 years on February 8, celebrated his birthday anniversary at ' an entertainment, with fifty-thre- e of his progeny present, at his home in Harrisvllie. A a recent meeting of the Kane Commercial club, the board of governors wad authorized to appoint a committee ot five to investigate the feasibility of forming a stock company for the purpose of making a dry farm ex-- . perlment in the region of Kanab. The mayors and councils of the several cities in Utah county will meet in Provo, Friday, February 18, to discuss the applications for Interurban railroad franchises through the cities and see if an agreement can be reached to make all such franchises uniform. George Johnston, a laborer, who had been acting In a peculiar manner, pursued by a couple of policemen, . mounted a three story building " in , A Salt Lake City and jumped to the , t pavA-u-jflkilling hitrwwif, Ij,,- - n is believed, Johlistons mind was e , John S. Bramwell, as administrator of the estate of Fred Bramwell, the lad who was electrocuted November 13 on the top of one of the steel towers of the Telluridd Power company near Harrisvllie, has filed a suit against the company for 340,000 damages. Investigation is being made into the death of Hazel Astill of Sandy, who is believed either to have committed suicide by poisoning at her home or to have been the victim of foul play, B. C. Coter, a young man who kept company with the girl, has been placed under arrest. The organization of a beetgrowers union among the farmers of the Hooper district a few days ago may result in the Amalgamated Sugar company discontinuing its plan to double the capacity of its Ogden factory this year. The farmers want better prices for their beets. John Quincy Adams of Kanab was seriously injured a few days ago in a powder explosion. With John Cramm he was working in the north end of the lower tunnel at the Kanab dam. They had set off a round of shots and Adams returned to the tunnel Just as a slow shot exploded. Miss Edith Sutherland, daughter of Senator and Mrs. George Sutherland, is to wed Robert Elmore of New York and Washington, temporarily residing in California, where he is a was bond broker. The engagement announced a few days ago, the wedding to take place May 3. Wiley Parker, a young man of Webt Weber, has been arrested on a charge of attempted highway robbery. In a hand to hand fight with Parker, at a lonely place on the highway, Alonzo Hadley was seriously Injured, the would-brobber using a jack-knifThe explosion of a stick of dynamite in the furnace of the crematory at Salt Lake City came near wrecking the plant and causing the death of Foreman Fred Madsen. The dynamite had found its way into one of the garbage cans in the business district, and had been taken to the crematory. According to statistics compiled by State Statistician H. T. Haines, the total assessed valuation of property in , all the counties of the state is indebtbonded and the total edness of all the counties is only 3492.068. Only nine counties In the state have bonds outstanding. Rasmus Henningson, one of the oldest persons of Mantl, Is dead of paralysis. He was past 87 years of age, having been born October 29, 1822, in Denmark. He was by trade a harness maker and since coming to Mauti in 1875 supported himself and family by his trade. Counsel for Nick Vooas, convicted at Ogden of murder in the second degree for the killing of John Contos, have filed a motion for a new trial, holding that Judge Howell erred when he refused to grant Vacos a change of venue. e . . 3' |