OCR Text |
Show THE SPANISH A1NCRKW PRESS FORK JENSEN, Publisher SPANISH FORK - - - UTAH HEEDED SHIT time during Sunday night thieves broke open the door of the sanctuary of the St. Josephs Catholic church, at Ogden, and stole the contribution box, together with its contents. The Cedar Arid Farming company of Cedar City, filed its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state last week. The capital stock Is $5,000, divided Into shares of the par valuo of $20 each. The seventh annual reunion of the Utah Indian war veterans In Salt Lake City was held last week and was most successful, over a hundred of the veterans being present, together with their wives and daughters. A number of Ogden men have organized a company for the purpose of launching a new canning factory at Brigham City. The factory will be ready for business by June 1, and the plant will have a five months run each year. Jacob Q. Bigler, who was burled at Nephl on the 2Cth, helped to build the temple at Nauvoo, came to Salt Lake City In 1851, and moved to Nephl In 1852, where he had resided ever since, lie was the first bishop of Juab county. Stuart McNamara, assistant Untied States attorney, who Is preparing the case against Mrs. Anna Bradley and will be active In conducting tbe prosecution, says that the case will prob-be reached as early as the first tbly in May. While on an outing with a woman companion, James A. Godfrey, a railroad employee, was drowned In the Ogden river near the mouth of Ogden canyon, Sunday afternoon. Godfrey became dizzy and fell from the bridge Into the stream. Some Tbe bouse has passed the senate act to place the name of Harry A Young on the army rolls as assistant surgeon of the Utah light battery, with rank of first lieutenant, from Jan. 18, 1899, until Feb. C, 1899, when he was killed In action. After examining fifteen witnesses the joint legislative committee which has been investigating the coal short- age believes that it has been sufficiently enlightened as to the complex subject of rate making to recommend some legislation whlcb will relieve the atrlugency In the coal market during tbe whiter seasons. Announcement is made that A. L. Brewer, who controls several canning factories In Weber county, will erect two additional factories In time for the handling of the rrop next fall Approximately $30,000 will be expended to equip the two plants with machinery. O. W. Roberts, a huckster, was thrown from his wagon In a runaway In Salt Lake City and badly Injured. Six soldiers stationed at Fort Douglas have been arrested on a charge of assaulting and robbing Harold Bor rum In Salt Like City. Bcrrura wai badly beaten. I a spectacular robbery shortly be fore mldnntght, two masked road agents held up the Warm Springs saloon In North Salt Lake and stole $5o. After getting the money the men made good their escape and It la believed caught the 11:45 Short Line train for Ogden. llyrum Goff fell from the cars while at work as n brakeman at Bing ham Junction and was knocked senseless. A fellow brakeman happened tc walk down the track ami atumble over hls body Just In lime to pull the unconscious man front In front of an approaching train. 3 ill.'. tu Chambers. Salt take's colored policeman, died lust week from an attack of pneumonia. Just a year ago he had been appointed a member ol the police force and during that tlm has won the respect of every ntent her of the foreo on account of hli gentlemanly actions. Governor John C. Culler has Issued a proclamation calling upon the poo pie of Wayne county to elect a mem her of the lower house of the state legislators to snreeed Seth Taft, whe was killed in an accident at Itlnghatr recently. The date of the special election Is March 30. I IH CALIFORNIA Congress Which Expired on Monday Broke Record for Money Expended. One Billion Amount Approximate! Dollars, River and Harbor Appropriation Alone Being $83,000,-00- 0 Salary of Public Servants Increased. From all Parts of the State There is an Urgent Call for Mer, Women TENANT EXPLORES PLACE TO and Teams. ' WHICH SPECTRAL HAND HAD POINTED NIGHTLY. San Francisco. The development locked the bedroom door, and I told be there, and reconstruction work that Is going myself nobody could possibly STORY and REVIVES on in San Francisco has resulted In a DISCOVERY then I boldly turned to look. most appreciable shortage of labor "It is a wonder I did not die of all over California, end from ull parts fright, for there, by my bedside, stood of Woman, Clad in Red Chintz, the form of an old woman, nearly 80, Figure of the state there is urgent call for seemed Appeared Promptly at Midnight very thin and gray. And. what men and women, aud for teams. It she had only one most me Found Old Document to terrible, Is estimated that 17,000 teams are at She had on tooth, which projected. Under Eaves. work In San Francico, and to supply cap, such as old her head a this extraordinary demand all the London. An ancient farmhouse In women wear, and sl.e wrore a garment towns and cities, and even the farms Golden Drove, standing alone on the of red chintz California levels ot Thorney Fen, ten miles outcretonne. themselves, throughout have been depleted to such an extent side Peterborough, has been believed "When I first saw her she held her that the shortage is a serious one. for generations by the superstitious thin hands clasped low down, as though In grief, but as I watched she tabor shortage Is also noted In all fen folk to be haunted. estiIs have raised her right hand and pointed at and it The memories of the ghost agricultural districts, mated that employment will be ready been revived by the discovery by Mr. the ceiling. Then I put my head under for many thuuand men beginning with Bcttinson, the present tenant, of a the clothes, and when I dared to look the earliest fruit season, in all the in- parchment relating to the disposal of again she was gone. terior towns and cities where are valued at "ten thousands of j "I could not sleep, and next mornlocated small factories there is con- the estate, one John Cave, who died ing I told my hostess I was 111, and of pounds," stant and Increasing demand for fe over could not stop, and f was driven a there century ago. male help as operatives. In the lumThe otory runs that a spectral wom- straight home. Others, I have heard, ber districts there Is marked shortage and It Is estimated that between an, clad In red chintz, was accustomed can iell of uncanny noises at night ten and fifteen thousand men will be to appear punctually at midnight In there the sound of corn being shaken needed to supply the demand. the "ghost chamber" of tho farm- In a sieve by old John Cave himself." A similar story was told by Mrs. house, and then to point to the celling, SENATOR SPOONER RESIGNS. above which the document was found. Russell: I went to the house," she said, as Mr. and Mrs. Ilettlnson have only Wisconsin Man to Quit Senate to Relived In the house three years, but a dressmaker to make costumes for sume Practice of Law. As there were before that it was occupied by a fam- the Misses Fullard. Senator Spooner has ily named Fullard, who were related many guests, I was asked if I had any Washington. written a letter to Governor David- by marriage to the Caves. , objection to sleeping In what I now Mr. Bettlnson heard "strange noises, know to have been the ghost chamson of Wisconsin tendering hls resignation as a senator of the United and, anxious to ascertain their cause, ber.' I lay awake until, at the first climbed up through a trap door under stroke of 12, I heard heavy footsteps States, to take effect May 1 next the slanting roof, and while rummag- on the stairs. but was dated The letter Saturday, "Then I felt It near, I heard It ratabout ing among the beams found the the fact that such a letter had been a of loose under at the door, and I felt It near me. tle parchment piece written or that Mr. Spooner contem- wood. There was a sound of something being become At first Mr. Bettlnson thought It was shaken, and I shrieked. I am sure my plated resigning did not known In the senate until late Sun- a will, owing to Its phraseology and visitor was neither animal nor human. day, when It created great surprise the. references to "last will and testa- It was a being from another world. I and the Wisconsin senator at once to sleep there again. I had found himself the subject of many ment, with the mention of valuable never tried In ghosts, but I cannot and believed But never chattels. goods experts anxious Inquiries. To all these he re piled that hls mind was fully made who have seen it declare it to be the explain my experience by any other theory." up. lie had found, he said, that to ancient grant of probate by the Archcontinue In his present position would bishop of Canterbury, once attached Mr. Bettlnson, however, is no believer In ghosts. require a sacrifice on his part that to the will of John Cave. he could not Justify himself In mak When the tidings of this discovery "I certainly heard noises and waillng. In reply to questions he said spread, two women Miss Morris and ings, he said, "but I think they were he would resume the practice of law Mrs. Russell living In the village of only rats and. mice, and but declined to say whether he would were much Interested, for disturbed owls. Thorney, did He In Wlnconsln. be located had often told of their supernat"When I went up to look I did not say, however, that he would continue they to be a citizen of the state as long ai ural experiences In the very house. expect to find a parchment, for no "I know I could not be mistaken, be lives. ghosts have ever come to tell me their Miss Morris said, "and now that I troubles. FOUR PER CENT GUARANTEED have heard of the discovery of this The document, which Is dated "thirdocument I am sure what I saw was teenth of May, In the year of our Lord Bank Bib Agricultural Philippine one thousand seven hundred and ninety-sereally a ghost. Pasted Through House. When the Fullards Mrs. Fullard ven, has lost the heavy seals which should be attached. Washington. By a vote of 187 tc was a granddaughter of John Cave As a family document and a record G9 the house on Sunday passed the were living I often stayed at the I slept In the 'ghost cham- of the time when the probate was In but house, establish for the bill senate providing the hands of the primate, it is of great ment of an agricultural bank In the ber only once. "I went to bed early, but I could not Interest. But the mystery of Its hidPhilippines. and the spectral woman in chintz go to sleep, and I remember well It Tbe passage developed diametrical- was a moonlight night, with every ing will probably never be solved. ly opposite views on the part of the two leaders of the minority, Mr Dearmond of Missouri, voting for the road. He also had been delayed. while Mr. Williams, the WOMAN THINKS BEAR measure, were Immediately procured, the Lights stood squarely leader, minority IS WAITING HUSBAND alarm given and a thorough search against It. The following Democrats made, but nothing could be seen or voted for the bill: Aiken, South Caroheard. lina; Bankhead, Alabama; Dearmond Next morning the tracks of an ImMissouri; Howard, Georgia; Kline MOTHER, IN DARK, HANDS CHILD mense bear were found leading from Pennsylvania; Lcgare, South Caroll TO ANIMAL, MISTAKING IT Ruppert, tho point at the fence where the child na; Ransdell, Louisiana; FOR HER SPOUSE. New York; Sherley. Kentucky; Small. the disappeared upward through North Carolina; Taylor, Alabama; woods toward the mountain. No trace Va. & Janies Ingram, Afton, young Wiley, Alamaba. yet been found of the missing Infarmer of Nelson county, had occasion has Female Bull Fighters. to go to a neighboring plantation on fant. During the Intense cold of the last El Paso. Ten thousand people wit- business the other afternoon. Know- few daya wild animals from the mounwould he not be to able ing return, tains have been forced down nessed A novel sight at the Jnarei to the until late and that his wife desired Plaza del Toro Sunday afternoon. A settlement for food. There Is scarcely him to to her home the accompany bull fight In wblc. places of ninta' of a any doubt lhat the infant was deneighbor, where there was to be voured by the huugry bear. dors and banderillas were filled by female Spanish bull professional fighters. The matadors killed three SEPARATED FOR 16 YEARS. and failed to kill the fourth bull, and two of tbe kill would have done credit to any mntador who ever ap Father and Son Meet By Accident at pen red la the Jatirez plaza. In the Toledo, Ohio. audience was Madam Nordics. Toledo, O. To find hls Dangerous Humboldt Bar. son clerking In a Toledo candy store, Eureka, Cal. Humboldt bar nearly after ho had not seen tho hoy since he was a balm of three years, was the claimed another victim Sunday when experience of J. O. Ileimerdlnger, a tbe steamer Oakland, In an attempt The other ifcy traveling salesman. to reach the Inside entrance, ran on the father stepped Into a candy kitchtbe rocks of the south jetty. For alen to Invest In Home confectionery. most an hour the Oakland remained Business was dull and he got Into on the rocks and the bar tug Ranger ion with tho clerk who was was culled to her assistance by the life saving crew. When the tug waiting on him. The customer said ho was from New York, and the reached the Oakland. Captain Kraget boy clerk replied that ho was horn In retused aid. A big wave washed the Oakland from her perilous position, that city himself. Then each told In but also tore off her rudder, and the what section of the great metropolis tow to In. her tug had lie had lived and the two learned they were from the same neighborhood. Trains Collide. "Did you ever know a man there by tho namo of Helmerdinger? Waterbury. Conn. With an Impact asked tho younger, "for he was my father." of sufficient force to crash the pon"That Is my name, so I guess I am derous locomotives together like your father." cume the reply. twist and bend them and topplt Then there was handshaking and them from the track down an emThe Bear Made Away with the Baby. mutual Inquiry about relatives. bankment and Into a ditch beside the It developed that Mr. Helmerdinger track, two passenger trains, a regu- a dance. It was agreed that the wo- lmd separated from his wifo and lar and a special, met In a he. clou man should start alone, taking their balms In New York 16 years ago. H0 collision at l'lutts Mills, about a tulle child with her, nnd meet her husband disappeared one dny and left no truce and & half below this city, resulting at a fence near a small body of woods. of his in the death of four men. tho serious Shortly afterThe joung woman started later ward Mrs.whereabouts. Helmerdinger and her chilInjury of two more and lesser Injuries than she Intended. It was dark and dren came to Toledo, where sho has to over a score of others. cold when she reached the fence where lived ever since. The mother d her husband was to have met her, Shut Up With Dead Wife. her family by conducting a She saw a figure In the dusk on the Asheville, N. C. Refusing to bo other side of the fence and took the rooming house ut 914 Jefferson ave-nuseparated even for an hour from the object to be her husband. Culling age and the youngest son some time secured employment In a cundy earthly remains of hls wife, who died him by name she handed the child kitchen a short distance down the Inst two weoks ago Friday, William ever without hesitation. avenue. C. Gray, a wealthy resident of Edger-townWhen she hnd climbed tho fonce The mother and children got alone Mass., will not allow funernl ot and looked up she was astonished to very well without the aid of n 1U The old burial services. see the figure disappearing, taking band uml father. Tho hoy. when he has shut himself up with the dsd the baby with It. Rho then noted met hls father last and refuses admittance to rulli. It t evening, hoped hut tho figure traveled low on the that the Is snld ho will not leave the casket long nlmeut one would return not and ground like a man. upright to hls take to meals, Ids long enough having family. But It was not to he. Frantic with fear she ran scream- The father the food sent to him. Mr. !.ui be did not even call on hit comes violent when any sugges'ions ing and calling to her husband, whom wife, although she lived but twi ihe met coming Inward her along the squares front the are trade na to burial. randy store. lace-frille- large-patterne- Washington. More money was appropriated during the short session ol which Fifty-nintthe congress, passed into history at nopn on March 4, than during any previous session. Tbe amount approximated a billion dollars. Two big battleships for the navy were authorized ' and the artillery corps of the army was reorganized A general service pension bill was granted to veterans of tbe Mexican aud civil wars, and life provisions For were made for army nurses. the river and harbor Improvements $83,000,000. appropriation aggregated Increased salaries were given to cabinet officers, the vice president and senators, the speaker of the house of representatives and Its members; to ambassadors, ministers and consuls; to poBtofllce clerks and h letter carriers. Tbe public made more Inquiries fot Information from the document rooms of congress regarding the ship subsidy bill, the currency measure and the bill regulating the hours of service of railway employees than any The ship other pending legislation. subsidy bill died hard In tbe last hours. The Immigration bill, one of the measures brought over from the long session, was completed under the spur of the president, that he might meet the California Japanese situation by giving the administration control of coolie Importation through passports. The bill further restricts the admission of aliens to this country. A bill was passed for the establishment of an agricultural bank In the Philippine islands. The free alcohol law of last session was modified that farmers ma; distill waste products to be denatured. Tbe right of appeal In criminal rases was granted the government, a measure Intended to strengthen the anti-trulegislation by affording a means whereby the supreme court may pass on tho constitutionality aud construction of such laws. was authorized An investigation regarding the condition of women and The interstate comchild workers. merce commission was authorized to ascertain If the express companies of the country are evading the railroad rate law of last session, by buying, selling and handling on consignment fruit, vegetables and oysters. Reed Smoot was retained by the senate as a senator from Utah, ending four years of controversy. The senate ratified treaties with Santo Domingo and Algeria. The president was authorized to use hls good offices to prevent atrocities In tbe Congo. The senate also launched an exhaustive investigation of the Brownsville affair. After the recess the house agreed to the conference report on the general deficiency bill. A number of monument bills were passed. DEADLY UNLOCKED SWITCH. Two Victims of Wreck In Los Angeles Yards; Five Others Hurt. Los Angeles. An unlocked switch on the Los Angeles, San Pedro & Salt take company's line caused a within tbe disastrous train wreck city limits on Sunday. C. S. Hamilton of Angeles, tho engineer, was ground to pieces under hls engine; Walter Pruett of Pomona, aged 14, was fatally acnldcd and burned, and five others were more or less seriously hurt House Members Work on Sunday. Washington. The house experienced trouble In obtaining a quorum on Sunday, but when the nocessary number was secured business pro cceded as usual. A greater part ol the day's session was given to considOl eration of conference reports. these a partial report on the sundry civil hill and a partial report on lb La Follette railroad bill were accepted and the hills seat back to conference for further consultation with the representatives of tho senate. Dynamite Exploded at Train Pasted. It was learned here Pittsburg. early Monday that the New flyer on the Pennsylvania railroad met with a remarkable accident near Huntingdon, Ia east ot Altoona, and an unknown wottinn passenger and Ilnvld Wilcox, of Marlon, were Injured. Railroad emInd., ployee were blasting alongside the tracks and three charges of dynamite were fired as the train passed. All tho windows In the train were brok fit, and several steps were blown oO the cars. York-Pittsbur- g The house bill providing p rlon of counties In the state pass the house. Claims of various newspaper. 4 state, aggregating $1,978, lowed by the house lust week.' The senate on March 1st killed burled the Croft iiich passed the house a week V as midthing as clear as day. Then, Every couu.y In Utah presentb In the great night chimed, I turned have a juvenile court, if a hm some was I bed In fear, for felt there duced by Marks of Suit Lake bee terrible thing in the room. I had a law. SESSION UTAH STATE NEWS The trial iff Mrs. Bradley may b; advanced bo that It may be commenced In April. a brakeman, Christopher Reese, was caught betw en two cars at Bingham Junction and so badly crushed that he may die. From Denver comes the announcement that Harry Lewis and Pete Sulli van are matched to fight six rounds In Salt take on March 10. The county commissioners of Weber county have decided to spend be tween $8,000 and $10,000 for macadamizing roads during the coming summer. The Provo Pressed Brick company will go extensively into the manufacture of drain tile this season. Ma ehlnery with a capacity of from 15,000 to 20,000 a day has been set up. The Deseret Reclamation company of Cedar City has filed its articles with tho secretary of state. The capital stock Is $13,000, divided Into shares of the par value of $10 each. GHOST GIVES CLEW TO HIDDEN PAPER OF I j con-vers- pa-pe- sup-porte- o . & s antl-clgaret- CH Ai bout st iar , The conference committee reiK lng the appropriation for A. L t man, former sheriff of Rid, Injured In a fight with an insane,, at $1,250 was adopted. If the legislature of Utah cant Its way, a national department mines and mining will be created the president will appoint a,! member to hls official family 0,. lnet. HAuse bill 17C, regulating the of barbed wire within the state,, failed to pass, was called up for' sideration last week and referr the committee on highways her e se ha ils, n ept h Ihen pud irtlan the A need m foi they They , bridges. A Joint memorial session of was held on the 2th In of Represent! of the memories Taft and Clint B. Leigh, who losti, lives In the lamentable accident Bingham. A bill Introduced by Represent! Kuchler amends the present j relating to the Utah school for blind so that It will not be mania; upon the Institution to receive pt from other states. Senate bill No. 69 has been proved by the house. It Increase work of assessors by compelling j to visit every section of the to; in which they reside and person Inspect the property assessed. A bill providing that officers members of tbe police and fire de ments In all Utah cities shall hold positions during good behavior, cannot be removed except for has been Introduced In the senate Senator Ilulanlskl. The Benate has passed the bill lng the salaries of the members state board of euqalizatlon from to $1,500, after amending It so s make the number of coramlsslos three instead of four, as the board; always been constituted. House bill No. 115, passed last is by the late Representative TaR requires flags to be raised on ic es; 3 0! It houses on legal holidays. passed after adding Lincoln's bin and flag day to the list of dap which the flag should be raised. The business of dairying is di in II. B. No. 279, Introduced by L; son. The measure requires that r person engaged in the dairying k ness shall first obtain a license. ' state dairy and food commission to Inspect tbe cows and the prat of the applicant for the licenses tloned. There was nothing Indecisive si the way the members of the to sent tbe railroad commission bil its doom. The count showed I of 32 against the bill and 7 la fare It Two of those who cast their favorably, however, changed then fore the poll was announced by d J is HI ut a ipuloi to t need speaker. bills werefc Six more duced in the senate last week ;pend test ust the certa be si rad y of i a B. " I! F ht, to 3, degr, e of ally hat ted pal: ?nce .I, re! the ywhe lowly Ti 10 i!s Is Jorli heir lauui peak Hu; r, t us as )ucb B01 ,e t: :ess,' Jit c prev- tter am by es grow will will iland f a 1:0 :ng! rls! ve . be met; wa hi 3 ;htln Pr S-- and The 152. object Is to l str in Nos. 151 1 ami anti-Luk- e Judiciary committee. All of then aimed to correct abuses Incident: the practice In Justice courts aai peclally the notorious Murray presided over by Judge Durand which Is used by Francis G. agency. Senate bill 127, by Lawrence,; vlding that contractors on public provements shall give bonds for prompt and full payment of and laborers, and No. IS Johnson, granting a railroad cow power to sell its lines lying a foreign country, have been proved by the senate. Inspection of cattle, sheep v and goats before being slaughters the burden of a bill. II. R. Introduced by Robinson. The la11 Mon shall be made by the stated) and food commissioner. Post B examinations are to be made; some meat Is to be designated spected and passed. Two of the most Important met' affecting the retail trade are ltc come before the house the first of week. They are Mark's house I k eg nselv to proposed legislation 0 he , S O )Vt e I h t 1th G 1 of protect retail merchants against "dead b: The governor has sent to the hls message of disapproval of b" b bill No. 37, providing for an facr tho salary of the state superb ent of schools of 1200 a In year-$1,- to $2,000. The 800 V r; governorll' was based on the tneagorneee of Increase. A bill providing an annual lK for corporations and described I Speaker Joseph ns ono of tho Important measures of tho pf session, has passed the house the measure becomes a law, It tlmated It will provide an anual enue of $ 00,000. Following tbe recommendatk Governor Cutler, Senator MlHefi man of the ways and means comm of the upper house, baa Introdm Joint reaolullon submitting a WJJ' tlonal amendment to the vots people relating to the rato of tion for state purposes. If the fire and pollre cotmnl1 has half as smooth sailing whs tors tho senate ns It had In the It wlll'speedlly be In the hnndi governor for hls executive I'; The ripper measure went tw wi tho lower branch on rolleull eight votes recorded against a The senate passed fourteen W the 27th, the record of the a'81 . either of the legislature. TMD " were aennte bills Nos. 113, 1 SO. J 1 19. 120, 12t, 129 and 31. nl K bills Nos. 19, 115, 21. 23 and J of tbe measure! were of a tf asture and of no general Int n hi dov IJ t m! lute 'er W ;h a urn; . ( Got irlot f I r ri ?iut tt |