Show THE SAEINA By C N Lund CALL Ill Jr t VTAH SAUNA UTAH STATE NEWS The new block system between Salt Lake City and Ogden on the Oregon Short Line railroad was put In com mission last week Jacob Jacobson who was run down by a street car near Murray and severely Injured has lost his reason as a result of his terrible experience be Governor William ' Spry will asked to declare G A R parade day August 11' a holiday according to a resolution adopted by" the G A R committee In a fit of despondency John Ingo a Finn living in Bingham placed the muzzle of a 32 caliber revolver between his teeth and' sent a bullet crashing into his brain The examinations of school teachers for state certificates and diplomas will be held at Salt Lake City Logan Provo and Mantl Friday and Saturday September 3 and September 4 Until the location for the new 1100000 freight depot Is definitely settled the work of rearranging the Ogden railroad yards of the roads will be held In abeyance There are to be no more bicycle races in Ogden this season Owing to the bad financial condition at the Glenwood saucer track the' rest of the series of bicycle events has been called off It Is probable that airship' flights and trained lion exhibitions will be among the most attractive show fea tures at the big Inland Empire fair to be given in Salt Lake City this fall by the Utah State Fair association’ A feature of the musical arrangements for the national encampment of the Grand Army will be the massing of all the visiting bands Into one giarIf present gantic organization rangements can be consummated A company has been organized In Salt Lake City which will make and manufacture moving pictures of exclusive western subjects’ This will Include objects of natural beauty and ’ the making of real western dramas Suit has been filed by the government against the Denver & Rio Grande railroad to recover $700 for violation of the safety appliance act The suit is instituted at the request oiv4wr-wminerc- 2 e "commis-elo- Thornwell Anderson 45 years of age a rancher who lived a hermit’s life blew off his head with a shotgun at his home on the Uintah reservation He had evidently been dead several days when his body was discovered While a "lookout” watched on the outside expert entered the store of the E D Pidge Produce company in Salt Lake City cracked the safe scattered the contents over the floor and left the premises with $200 in currency and $600 in checks At the Utah State Retail Merchants association’s convention at Logan a number of leading members of the Utah State Manufacturers association earnestly discussed the problem of how to lower the percentage of loss between the manufacturer and the consumer The state horticultural inspector and the several county inspectors throughout the state are busily engaged putting into effect Section 14 of the new horticultural law passed which pro by the last legislature hibits the sale of wormy or fruit William Ford of Midvale has been seriously Injured by being thrown from a horse Ford had Just been to the pasture and was astride the animal when it made a leap to clear a ditch upsetting the rider and throwing him violently to the ground ' Isabelle Jackson daughter of M R Jackson a farmer living between Sandy and Murray was badly injured and had a miraculous escape from death when she fell out of a car on the roller coaster at Wan-- ' damere park near Salt Lake City Several lawyers who have looked into the laws passed by the last legislature relating to a state capitol have decided that the law i t mandatory and that the governor must under the law proceed with the preliminary work looking to the erection of a state capitol The following Increases In the salaries of postofflee employes of the Ogden poBtoffice was authorized last week: Four clerks $900 to $1000 per annum five from $1000 to $1100 two from $800 to $900 seven from $1000 to $1100 Utah is planning an exceptionally strong representation at the Seventeenth National Irrigation congress to be held at Spokane from August 9 to August 16 this year Delegates to the congress have been appointed by Governor Spry and by several civic bodies in the state and it is expected 100 delegates will attend TWO Twenty Republicans Voted In Oppoeitlon to the Bill and Two Democrats for It— Democrats Do- nounce the Bill Fourteen Lives Known to Havt Been Lost and a Score Perhaps Fatally Injured the Property Damage Being Enormoue Washington — The house on Saturday night adopted the' conference report on the tariff bill 195 to 183 The Republicans shrieked In their ’delight over the final outcome and Chairman Payne was the central figure of an crowd admiring and congratulatory of colleagues Twenty Republicans and two voted against the report Democrats for It J The vote was the climax or an conducted session through most oppressive heat but it was enlivened by notwithstanding a dozen or more speeches of more or less fiery nature The temperature did not deter a vast throng from going to the capitol to witness the closing scene Chairman Payne defended the report and appealed to his Republican to support it pophesy-Incolleagues at the same time that when the bill was enacted into law it would meet with the approval of the country Mr Clark minority leader and denounced many of his colleagues the bill and chastised the Republicans for failing as they alleged to revise the tariff downward and thus keep their party pledges sensational most the Perhaps speech of all was by Mr Mann of Illinois Republican who said he would Vote against the report provided rates on pulp and print paper as reduced by the house were not retained He denounced that particular schedule and he declared that Canada would take such action regarding pulp wood and print paper as to place an almost prohibitory price upon paper in this country Mexico City — Central Mexico from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Querato on the north to Oaxaca on the south a distance covering more than 1000 miles was shaken on Friday by a series of the most severe earthquake shocks felt in the region for a quarter of a century Reports of the loss of life are not complete but the official figures show that fourteen were killed outright and more than a score perhaps fatally InThe towns of Acapulco and jured Chllpanclngo have been partially destroyed Six persons were killed in Mexico Four persons City and Its environs are In hospitals their recovery being despaired oL The large American colony escaped unscathed The peonB were terribly For dayB they had been frightened predicting disaster because' the snow on the peak of the volcano Popocatepetl visible from this city has been An old Aztec legend demelting clares that when the snow on this volcano- - disappears so too will the city at its base The property damSome of the' car age here is slight thedral walls were cracked and scores of adobe walls were sent to the ground but the main business district showed no signs of the severe shaking which it had recived The observatory officials declare Mexico City rests on an old lake bed the made ground upon which a great part of the city rests acting as a the spongy mass which neutralizes severity of the shock A message from Acapulco says the lower half of' the city has been destroyed and that four bodies bad been taken from the ruins Later a messtated that sage from Chllpanclngo three deaths had occurred there and that the number of injured was not knwn" The barracks national palace and hospital there were badly damaged Acapulco noted for its great landlocked harbor is the chief port of call for steamers plying between San Francisco and South American ports Its population is about 5000 The city ships hides cedar and fruit to San Francisco It is situated in the state of Guerrero and is about 200 miles southwest of the City of Mexico Chllpanclngo is about twenty miles from Chilipa and has a population of 6500 The town was badly wrecked by an earthquake in January 1902Mexico City — Another severe earthquake shock occurred at 12:39 o’clock Its duration was Saturday afternoon seconds Buildings rocked violently in this city and the people So far rushed out of their houses as known no damage was done El Paso Tex — The city of Acapulco which was almost destroyed Satand tidal urday by an earthquake wave has been suffering) all summer from a terrible epidemic of fever and Lack of many deaths have occurred a sewerage system was given as the cause of this condition which was so bad that reports to the municipal council declared that many buildings were sinking into the earth which had been saturated with Bewage from the cesspools 0jwmrM£ The Potato Family Promises to Be Very Exclusive This 8eason Owing to v the 8hort Crop JAPANESE FIGHT BIG FIRE ELECTRIC TRAINS COLLIBE Twelve Lives Sacrificed as Result of Carelessness of Train Crew'Which Failed to Obey Orders Osaka Japan — Confusion still prevails here as a result of Saturday’s disastrous fire Thousands of persons are homeless and facing hunger A system of relief has been organized by the municipal authorities but it is inadequate to supply all needs Outside cities and towns are generously sending in contributions to be of the used in alleviating distress homeless and destitute The number of casualties has hot yet been determined but hundreds of injured are crowding this place PROVIDING FOR DEFICIENCY The latest estimates are that 20000 buildings were destroyed Senate Approves the Urgent DeThe conflagration lasted more than Bill ficiency Appropriation hours In the burned twenty-fivand ’ Houses (rfSbow w3 Washington— Provlsi “6f thYnev-Aafl- ff were mostly of wood law by the adoption by the senate Property of people who were able on Saturday of numerous amendments to save anything from their burning to the urgent deficiency appropriation homes is piled in great heaps along In addition the railroad tracks from Osaka to bill which was passed to the salaries for judges and other Kobe where it was removed on Sunofficials and employes of the new day Au area more than four miles United States court of customs apsquare containing some ef the city’s peals the senate appropriated to aid the state department in handsomest structures including the Buddhist temple the largest in the making commercial treaties $100000 to pay the expenses of the advisory world was entirely burned over beboard which will assist the president fore the fire was brought under conIn carrying out the duties imposed trol upon him by the maximum and miniSPANISH FORCES DEFEATED mum provision and $100000 to defray the expenses of a bureau which will Were Driven Back Under Walle of enforce the collection of the new corMellila by Moore poration tax re Madrid —Official dispatches ceived here admit that the battle bePeopls Cheer Soldiers and the Barcelona — From Monday to Wed- tween Moorish tribesmen nesday as many as fifteen convents Spanish forces outside of Mellila on were set on fire and the glare of the July 27 was a disastrous defeat The flames lighted up the sea and terror- Moors cut off the communications The civil guard with the Spanish outposts and the ized the population and police were hissed and jeered main force of the Sjanlards was driveverywhere but food and cigars were en back under the walls of the city offered to the soldiers who repeatedly where fighting continued desperately in the city The Spanish killed and refused to fire “The people acclaim- almost 3000 ed the soldiers with cries of ‘Long live wounded numbered the army’ ‘Down with 'the war office’ which takes no account of the men and they were followed about the at the advance posts who evidently streets by crowds of women who were cut off and abandoned to their shook their hands and embraced the fate Mellila is full of wounded men necks of their horses crying ‘You FEW WILL GET FARMS will not go to war’ ” President Delighted With Tariff Bill One Out of Every Thirty Applicants Will Securs Homestead Taft has Washington — President out Wash — Twenty-ninexpressed himself as pleased with the of Spokane every thirty applications for hometariff bill as it was agreed to by the on the and Flathead steads Spokane ccnleret'3 kridav even ng It is known d’Alene Indian reservations lie is not entirely satisfied with all of Coeur will not eVen be given a number by the bill and he told several of his so great is the rush the government callers that it would be a miracle if a for James lands Superintendent tariff bill could be designed that announces that the land deWijen The presiwould please everybody partment will draw Just 9500 names dent said there were a great many out of the huge heaps of applications things about the bill that he was de- it being estimated that even this will lighted to have had a part in and that be thrice the number of good homehe would be equally delighted to sign for location and defend the measure in its finished steads actually available on the three reserves “ state' Spokane — Twelve are known to be dead and nearly fifty Injured In a Coeur d’Alene & collision on Spokane electric railway twenty-fivmiles east of Spokane Saturday afternoon Passenger traffic on the line was particularly heavy on account of the thousands passing between Spokane and Coeur d’Alene to register for reservation lands The two trains collided head-oThe one coming from Coeur (J’Alene crowded to overflowing was complet-lwrecked the cars being ground to The moans and cries of splinters the injured filled the air and the whole scene was one of indescribable confusion f r onvcioJoot tiv' line have as yet made no statement as to the responsibility for the wreck It is said the eastbound train did not take a sidetrack as it was ordered to The motorman of the westbound train is among the dead Both trains were running at high speed especially the westbound train and were presumably beyond control Hughes at the Exposition a busy day at the exposition where New York day was being celebrated Governor Charles E Hughes was the guest of honor at a banquet given Monday night in the New York state building by the expositiQn management During the day Governor Hughes visited the various exhibit buildings delivered an address in the exposition auditorium and held a public reception at the New York build' ing During the course of his address at the exposition Governor touched the upon Hughes problems confronting American national life Governor Seattle — Closing TOWNS BY A In ( 1 PARTIALLY ' 8ERIE8 OF 8EVERE 8HOCK8 MEASURE REPORTED BY COMMITTEE APPROVED BY VOTE OF 195 TO 183 Twenty Thoueand Buildings Go Up 8moka and Thousands Art Desolate Big Shipment of Fruit Sacramento Cal — The biggest day’s shipment of deciduous fruit In the history of the Sacramento valley was made here Sunday when the California Fruit Distributors started 221 cars to various eastern markets Last year on the same date 115 cars were forwarded to the east which was the record for that season In the shipment Sunday were ninety-ninand a half care of peaches the largest shipment of that fruit ever made from this state In any one day This year 737 more cars of fruit have been hipped than were sent east up to the same date last year Kills Two Children and Commits Suicide by Inhaling Gas caused Chicago — Marital troubles Mrs Emma Michael to kill her two children 12 and 15 years old and then commit suicide by inbaling gas on Sunday The children were found dead in bed with every gas Jet in the house open and Mrs Michael also dead was seated In the kitchen In her mouth was a rtfbber tube one end of which had been attached to a Mrs Michael left a letter In Jet which she gave the reasons for her act Spanish Army on War Footing San Sebastian — The entire army is The being placed on a war footing recruits and the reserves of every class have been called out In spite of the reports from Madrid direct reliable private reports from Barcelona say the revolutionists stlll hold much of the city and that the artillery has been unable to dislodge them Commander Burgos and an army corps have arrived at Bllboa capital of the province of Biscay to suppress the general strike which has been announced There is much excitement In the Basque provinces Chinamen Held as Witness Charged With Murder New York — After having held him as a material witness for more than a month the authorities obtained a warrant for the arrest of Chung Sing Leon Ling's friend on a charge of first degree murder as an accessory after the fact in the death of Elsie Issuance of the warrant folSigel lowed application on Saturday on a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Chung Sing from custody Some evidence against Sing came to light in the affidavits on which the warrant was issued Narrowly Escapes Death Yosemite Cal—The Sierra club has arrived at El Portal after a tramp In the mountains an incident of which was a slide of 800 feet down thd" icy slope of Lyell glacier by Glen He was Miller of Salt Lake City saved from death by striking a snowbank and suffered only a dislocated accident The other shoulder only was that of Willoughby Rodman who fell In Tuolumne canyon dislocating bis hip The arduous trip which included the climbing of several mountains 12000 feet or more high was taken by 175 members of the club Baseball King 8uicidea New York — Harry Clay Pulliam president of the National League of baseball clubs died Thursday morning from a bullet which he fired through his bead with suicidal intent Broken in health from overwork in a high his long fight to maintain standard of baseball Pulliam in a moment of mental aberration (Shot Pulliam went to his room himself Wednesday night and lying on a sofa fired a bullet into his head The ball entered the right temple tore out the right eye and passed out at the left temple Disastrous Storm in Iowa Sioux City Iowa — A gale blowing sixty miles an hour carrying hail and rain with it struck Huron Armour and Pierre S D and vicinity FriJay afternoon doing great damage to crops and destroying small buildings A strip of country from two to five miles wide was laid waste Hundreds of acres of wheat and oats are leveled in the vicinity of Huron alone Near Armour the storm was three miles wide It covered a locality where the best crops In years were about to be harvested New York Tailors 8trike New York — Monday afternoon most of the coat tailors In New York walked out on strike with the hope of forcing employers to restore a 20 per cent wage reduction made during the financial depression of 1907 ' |