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Show he I VOL. IL NO. I BANISH SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1903. 4- - UTAH STATE NEWS. WARNER. ' aad Realdenc just aoath ot City Squara. Offloo - t t I 1 ! j I Falrvlw w citizen, are making a strong sffort to secure a system of waterworks v , town. for that VUh, Fork, The total number of men in this state available for military duty, but not pR. J. H. SLATER, organized, is 27,344. The water in the Great Salt Lake la & slowly but surely rising, increasing at Offioo at the rate of two Inches per month. Store. Fork Drug The four cases of smallpox In Lehl Cotnpaayi Ipanlik have about recovered and it la be lieved all danger of the disease spread H.F- - THOMAS, ing is now over. In a recent decision the supreme court holds that the law compelling ,.d ISSTSICTIS. barber shops to close on Sunday is Boom No. 7, Knight Block, PROTO ' uU Surgeon, Physician P I NOTARY PUBLIC Spanish Fork Drug Go. constitutional. The department of agriculture has recommended Utah as the beet state for producing alfalfa from seed imported Medicine, Chemicals, from Turkestan. Fancy and Toilet Artl: The shopmen in the employ of the oles, Perfumery. Toilet Short Line at Salt Lake City Oregon Soaps, Sponges, Brushes. declare they will not strike, as they Pbysldsns Prescrip tions Carefully Com have no grievance. pounded. The town board of Price has ordered Utah. a special election to be held on March Ipanlsk Ferk, 7 on the proposition to bond the town for a system a waterworks. SAXEY, Last season over $5,000 was realized Attorney-at-Laby the beet raisers of Sevier county. Nextscason the yield will' bring $10,000, Conveyancer and Notary Publlo. , ' according to all predictions, Office Over Oran Lewis Store, of From comes the report Utah. Kimberly kpanish Fork, another big snow aud a fierce blizzard that shook some of the largest buildings In the camp from their foundations. 9 9 9 9 9 W Dont Keep son of Mrs. Ileber The Seek of Mantl, while playing near a tub of soap suds fell In head first. The We Sell Them, little fellow was missed by his mother That's Ml. and rescued just in time. When the. county commissioners oi Utah county met to select a county FihMIOIlBLK physician last week each member ol the board had a candidate and the mat ter was decided by drawing straws. One block north of Bank, Fred S. Crowley of Kaysville has a Utah Spanish Fork, cow which has given birth to six calves within a period of ten months. The B. F. HODSON, oow is a grads Durham and the calves MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR, vere born in two batches of three each. A full line of Drugs, A. w, i I Xiclelsof I f lfqtftfison. ld I ; r HEAD STONES. LORENZO THOMAS i Tailor, ' f i PIANO AND ORGAN per lesson of 1 hour. Stu Hours from 10 till oclock every day except Sunday. - Terms dio ; J Bflc. st residence. LARS JENSEN, I t i i Watch & Clock Repairing, ti Blocks Fast of DpanUh Fork Co-e- p 1 1 Ted Woods. (Lessee of Will Boyaek Stables) Feed, Sale & Transfer stables. Hack Meets all Trains Spanish Fsrk, Utah. A. J. Pedersen. Blacksmith & Wheel-w- ri Flril.cl.it Material always ee hand' Opposite Bank, kpsnl.k Ferk. I B. H. BROWN, Livory 2-Pe- ed Stable. Hack Meets all Trains rnosE No. 12. Utah Bpealsh Ferk, k Spanish Fork Co-Operat- j ive Institution, Deelere In General Merchandise, i Flour, Grain 0 and ProdUCO. Ifanofscturers of Harness, Boots and t Shoes. ID 0 JOHN JUNES, Supt. . Utah. Mpaalsk ferk, At a recent meeting the county commissioners of Sevier county authorized a bounty of 5 cents a head on jack rabbits. The bounty will obtain for sixty days and appllesto the entire county. Henry Smith, a negro who is un doubtenly insane, attempted suicide In Salt Lake City by jumping bead first into a vat of wbitew&rh. He imagines he has been sentenced to life imprison meet for murder. Intense cold weather prevails in the vicinity of Parowan, and cattle on the range are suffering from lack of feed, as the snow has formed such a crust that stock is unable to get through it to obtain food. The members of the Maccabees, Modern Woodmen and Ancient Order of Forresters of Springville, are taking the preliminary steps to organize a stock company to erect ,a lodge building and amusement ball. The University students who were suspended for throwing vegetables at the principals in a drama presented by members of the University, have returned to their studies and peace now prevails in that institution. The borne of O. M. Whitmore, cashier of the First National bank of Nephl, burned to the ground before sun up on the morning of the 4th. One fireman, James D Pexton, was struck down with falling joists and badly Injured. Petition, are being circulated tn Sanpete county to be presented to the leg Islam re asking that body to appropriate the sum of $1,U00 to assist In building a new wagon road across the mountains west from Richfield to Ksnosh The lowest temperature recorded by the Sail Lake weather bureau during the month of January was 15 degrees and the highest was 53 degrees, while during the month there were ten clear days, nine partly cloudy and twelve cloudy. Six years ago the gross receipts of the Lehl postofflce for the year ending December 31, 18D0, were $1,311. The tuslnes has increased since then nearly C2 per cent, and for the year ending Deccmtwr 31, 1002, the gross retclpli were $2, DU. A disastrous fire visited Richfield on the night of the 3rd, the los being over of men and boy 3,oo0. Hundred formed Into a bucket brigade, and by a gallant fight subdued the Dantes. Lome of the bucket brigade were slightly Injured but not seriously. Wallace Naylor, a boy of hamIn head with a was the hit Trice, mer by William Iludestad, a lad of 13. and Najlor was fatally Injured, Rode-ta- d claim, he struck Najlor in anlf. defense, after he bad Item attacked by the former, who had been drinking. Entered Feb. II, TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS SOUTH SEA ISLANDS UTAHS LEGISLATORS. THOUSAND NATIVES EN. all having been swept away by the GULFED BY TIDAL WAVE. storm. The French government, upon re. cetpt of news of the disaster, took Terrible Story of Dentation and prompt measures to relieve the dls. ty Death Which Cornea From the tressed district and dispatched twt Islands Surviving In. ' warships, the Duranee and Zelee, with habitants Destitute of Food fresh water and provisions. ' The Ital. and Shelter. ' ' Ian Calabria accompanied the two French vessels on their errand News of a fearful loss of life in a of mercy. As the supply of fresh water destructive storm that swept over the and provisions was totally exhausted South Sea Islands last month has by the storm, It is feared that many reached an Francisco on the steamer lives will be lost before the relief shlpi Mariposa, direct from Tahiti. The loss arrive. of life is estimated at 1,000 souls. On Asthe islands were barely twenty ac13 tidal last a above sea level, and not sur. wave, feet huge January rounded by coral reefs, it was necescompanied by a terrifie hurricane, the Society islands and the sary for all the Inhabitants to take to Puamoto group with fearful force, the cocanut trees when the tidal waves( causing deaths and devastation never began to cover the land. These trees before equaled in a land of dreaded grow to an immense height, many storms, a verification of mans inabil- reaching an altitude of 100 feet All of the lower trees were covered by the ity to contend with wind and sea. The storm reigned several days, raging seas, which swept with pitiless force about and over them. The reaching its maximum strength in the taller trees were safe until January 14 and January 16. From the meager advices received at the cocoanut roots gave way, and then Tahita up to the time of the sailing they, o, were swept onward, tar out of the Mariposa, it is estimated that Into the sea. The 400 survivors brought at least 1,000 of the islands Inhabit- by the Excelsior to Papeete gained the ants lost their lives. It Is feared that ships side by swimming three and four later advices will add to the long list. miles from the tops of the cocoanut disThe first news of. the disaster ar- trees. The Elmeo, though badly off as also abled brought by the storm, rived at Papetee, Tahita, January 26, to her swim could as persons many in the schooner Elmeo. The captain unof the Bchooner placed the fatalities at sides, she, like the Excelsior, being 600. The steamer Excelsior arrived at able to run close to the shores because of the fearful violence of the ocean Papette the following day with 400 abdestitute survivors. The captain of the swells, which continued to run week a after the for high normally Excelsior estimated the total loss of life to bo 800. These figures comprised tidal disturbances. One of the many acts of heroism reonly the deaths on the three Islands is that of a woman who climbed ported of Hao, Ilikuera and Makckau, whose one of the tall cocoanut trees and ra ordinary population Is 1,800- - On lashed little babe to the branches, her Island, where 1,000 inhabitants on to the body ot the tree were engaged In pearl diving, nearly hanging beneath little one as best she the onc-hawere drowned. On an adThere could. they remained for ten jacent Island 100 more were washed out to sea. Mai okau and Hao are de- hours, suffering great torture, until fin. rescued. Conservative estimates ally populated. of tons of copra and over Thousands at Tahiti place the number of islands 200 tons of mother of pearl shells are visited by the tidal wave and hurricane at 80. All of them are under the known to be lost 'ine pearl shells control of the French governor of Ta- are valued at $1,800 per ton, and many valuable pearls may now be lost to hiti. tbe world forever,' as these were con. The surviving Inhabitants are left sldered some of the best pearl Islands destitute of food,' shelter and clothing, In the world. ONE So-cie- man-of-w- ar na-tlv- lf AGAINST SEATING OF regular procedure after protest Is pree, SENATOR FILED. sented will be Its reference to his to which the credentials of Smoot and other protests, If any are United States Senate is Asked to Set received, will also be referred. The Aside the Election, the Document nature of the charges or allegations Bet Being In the Hands of Sena, out In the protests will determine the tor Burrows. future action of the committee. If the charges are of a serious nature hearA special to the Salt Lake Herald ings may be ordered to determine the from Washington contains tbe follow- truth of the same. If not the commiting: Senator Burrows, chairman of tee may pass upon them without far. the privileges and elections committee, tber testimony than shown on the face has received a protest from citizens of of the protests. Senator Utah against seating Senator-eleBurrows received teleSmoot, Senator Burrows has not de- graphic notice two weeks ago from the cided when he will present, the protest Ministerial association that a protest In the senate. It Is possible he may would be sent by It against seating defer filing It until after the credon-tlal- s Smoot and that a representative of the of Smoot are presented, but after association would come to Washington a conference with other members of and appear before the committee tbe committee the protest may be pre- against Smoot, but up to the present time this promised protest has not ar. sented prior to the receipt of the Senator Burrows says the rived. PROTEST com-mitte- (A Rational Aoclatloa John Christianson. P. O. Box TL Spanish Fork, Utah. See Ifeue. 3(6 vly T- - a: JOHN Flrat-claFarms of moat any else desirable, and city prop arty with comfortable bntld Isgi, or vacant lets, for sals by as CUKLSTUhSON, E.al Estate Agent, si Bpanl.h Fork, Utah. Hotel Charlotte, February S. The senate passed three bill, Introduced three and adjourned until Monday. Th. flrst bill passed was No, 67, by Lawrence, pro-vldithat when an ordinance or resolution 1. vetoed by the mayor the oouncll will not bav. to take Immediate action on the veto, but may let tbe matter go over for one week to enable the mayor and the council tocorne to a bolter Senate The best sendee to tho Traveling Trade both la the Hotel aad Livery business. mMimauJI t understanding. It also gives the mayor th. right to veto any Item In an ordinance or reso68, by la Will ratlUa yon to homo or farm Mfj 11000 aaah, or pay oH your mortgage, aad may bo returned ot tbo rate oi I3.B0 per month on each $1000 with lni terest ot I per oenl per annum. Apply ' dither In person or by letter to lOinml-.slone- Commercial Men, Watch for the Boat at the DepaL Lawrence, amends the present law to enable claims against cities and rntnot Saekara flve-wl- towns, L. H. JOSES, Fr.p. other than for damuges from sidewalk accident, to be pieseoted within a year. Burrett's bouse bill No. 8 was passed by unanimous vote. It llxes the amount of powdet or other high explosives that may be stored In a mine at sulllulent to run the mine fur twenty-fou- r hours. It llxes the penalty for violation at from 1100 to 11,000. Housn Four bills weie passed by the house. Mr. Barretts pharmacy bill was the Ursl measure passed. 9 11. B. No. 8, by Mr. Barrett, relating to tbs storage of powder, was returned with amendTIER CARD. ments by the senate, and Mr. Barrett ssked Arrival and Departnra oi fralna from that the house concur In the amendment. house without Tlie bill was then passed by Rio tirando Weiteru Depot! a dissenting vole. Mr. Chipman moved that the house concur No. 7, for Springville. Provo, rein the seinue amendment to 11. 11. No and all pointa Salt lating to oincers nut eniillid to witness feus, 8:0$ a pa and Weak East and ine bill passed unanimously. Mr Muivueux requested the pussugoof H. B. Provo, for No. 39, No. 61, a substitute for 11. B. No. Iw. relutiug Springville. s and all pointa to Salt conventions. The rules weie 8:43 p m Suspended and the substitute bill passed WItU and East West, It ui.u'iuailve aud uo to gative votes. A milliner of new bli.s w. re Introduced and I Ho. 8, for Fureka, Mammoth the house adjourned until Monday. 6.40 p m and Silver City, Mammoth for Eureka, No 38, February 0. 8:13 a m and Sliver City, Wells baa sent In his flrst veto message, It being agulusl Senator Whitmade In Ogden Union Demore s senate bills Nos. 8 aud 3, Intended to Connection, pot with All Trains ot Southern relieve from taxation state lauds held by indibad the to viduals until hnal payment slut, pacific and Oregon Short Liao. tH.cn made. OFFERS CHOICE OF house bill No. 6, by Brink, passed th. Ike text-boo- SKMATl-Uover- AIIE AFTER SENATOR REED SMOOTS SCALP . OWI TODS HGMI.: A newton was takes up and passed.- - It prohibit, the sale of intoxicating Manor, within &v. miles of any labor camp, except where incorporated elite, and town. ar. within th. limit. (HUor bills passed were: S. B. No. BO, by Johnson, reprallnf the mileage law for district judge, and district attorneys, and providing for tbe payment ot actual expenses; No. 68. by Lawrence, enabling administrators, executors and guardians to lease and bond the mining claims of minors; No. M, by Lawrence, to give titles and towns the entire month of July, Instead of up to the first Mnndav, tor tbs fixing and assessing of tuxes; No. W by Law renoe, to give incorporated cities and towns, as well as counties, one year In which to bring notion In relation to rejected claims; No. 1, by Loose, being a complete substitute for all present laws relating to the powers and duties ol county commissioners 'Ihe only change made In tu r present law Is to give county10 years Instead power to grunt franchises for nee. No 08, by Lawr, of twenty-ovgivtug attorneys right to suy what paper legal notice, must be published In Senate bill raising salary of supreme Hops court stenographer was passed, bcsldos th. two bounty bills; one by Mr. Watts of tbo house, to provide for certain bounties, and tlio other by Mr, Larsen of the senate, to prevent tbe duplication of bounties. No. second-clas- s STOP Paying Rent February S. Srnats Nln. bill, were passed by the senate. The brat bill Introduced In the present lution. Postoflloe u Aot of Congressnatter, Of March I, 1879 1002 at Spanish Fork, Utah. nor senate by unaulmoOs vote slier being FAST THROUGH amended. The action of the bouse In Cling the 6'th day of the session os the limit tur Introducing bills was not concur; ed In, und M uutors Job-s- on and Barnes were appointed commute, on conference. hentue bill No. 66, Introduced by Murdock, dellnt-- condition, of child despondency, and 111 treatment; prescribes methods for tbe piuiecllon, disposition aud supervision of the dependent, neglected and 111 treated children aud prescribes punishment for neglect or of children. The senate refused the Invitation of Prest- deni Kerr to visit the Agricultural college In n body, but voted leave of absence to nil senators who desired to go. Housn Bill No. 88, by Mr. Nash, providing for tbe burial of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines, which was defeated lust Friday, was called up again and passed. Tl). bill .mending th. law relating to lb. investment or disposal of funds derived from the sale or rental of the public lands to permit the stale to borrow eueb funds on It. own notes, Introduced by Morris, was passed. Mr. Larsen's grasshopper bill, wua passed after It had been amended to make th. bounty SUICIDES. General Urlbe-Urlb- e GENERAL URIBE-URIB- E published a letter on. cent per pound. Th. senate amendment to H. B. Na 86, by Deqembor 12, advising Colombia to Mr. Brink, was concurred In .nd th. bill was Colombian Former Revolutionary await the lapsing of the Panama passed by th. bouse. It now goes to tbe Leader Take Hit Own Life. In 1904, which would leave tbs governor. The bill Includes lodglng-bouse- s Tho British steamer Para, which has Colombian government a free hand In In tbe provision of tbe Isw protecting hotels aud boarding bouses from deadbeats. arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, from the matter of the canal. The reports An Invitation to visit tb Agricultural on brought by the Para Indicate the pos. at Logan accepted and Messrs. Barrett, Colon, brings news of tho suicide January 30 of tbe former Colombian slblllty of another revolution In oppo- Stoker and Merrill appointed to meetthewith the Juuket. senate committee end errrange for Urlbe-Urlbsition to the Panama canal TRAINS . neg-U- ot ct DAILY. AND Three D:stinct Scenic Routes, olmaa Palace aad Ordinary hleeplif (art to Denver, Omaha, Kaatal (tty, SL Louis and Chicago without change. prre Reclining Chair Cara. Parionally Conducted Exeuraleiat A Perfect Dining Car harvleo. For rate, folder, etc., inqulra of U. or writ J. COOPER, lleket Agent, I. A. BkSTON, General Agent, Pnasr DepmU halt Lain City, ls. con-cessi- col-le- g. revolutionary general, treaty e. Locked In Fire Trap. Two little girls were burned to death at Walltngton, N. J., Saturday. They had been locked In tbe bouse while their parents were at work. They were the children of Frank Zabolusky, who works in a dye house. His wife works In the botany mill The house was burning fiercely on tbe inside when the neighbors discovered the fire. Those first on the scene found it im. possible to enter, although neighbors aid the children were Inside. After-war- d charred bodies were found. Caught in a Spring Bed. 85 years old, at one time a prosperous manufacturer of Manhattan, having loet his money, lived alone at Ilempstead, L. I. Not having been seen for several days, friends went to look for him, and found him uncon. clous in his room. Ills foot had been caught in a spring bed and in endear, orlng to extricate it, the olu man bad partly fallen out of bed and struck hit head, which rendered him unconacloua. He had boon in this position for three Race Riot In Georgia. A race riot occurred at McDonald, Ga., Sunday, between two white men on one side and a crowd of negroea on the other, the result being that two negroes were killed, oue mortally and eight others badly wounded wounded. Tho report Is that two white men, well known in the section, went to a colored festival, and, after having neB little tllillrulty wtlh some of the groes, lot ked the two douia ot tbs negroes were building In whit gxnclng and commenced firing into tho uuwd with shotguns. Needs of Hawaii. Superintendent ot Public Worka Henry E. Cooper has furnished Gov. ernor Dole of Hawaii with his estimates of the needs ot the Island gov. ernment, and they will be transmitted to the legislature for action. Superintendent Cooper says that in the next two year his department will require f G.COO.OOD for public improvements, in. eluding the construction of bridges, roads, and buildings and for running expense. Cooper proposes that part of the money be raised by loan. te John Chase, day. ;PATEHTS-- & Al R? J lu 8 Inventive A" PH hoUoe P h 1 ADVKE TO PATENTAB'LfTY I tl 1 ft ua La Book How to obtain FatonU" 1 COoryM nJrdJ., No fee till potent Is second. T cwnfldeotisl. litters strutty Address, ftlsnl liafftt. WstMngtoo, D.fl.1 g. . am k aw a j . WM. ROACH February 10. Sekati Flftwjo bills wer. Introduced In th. s.n.ta. Of thru. Senator Law rune. Introduced l.v.n, and nln. of the, ar. aimed at amending and amplifying th. cod. In rnUUoa to city courts. ..n.t. passed IIoum bill No. 84, which provide, for tho eedlug to tbo Federal govorn meat by tho ntnto of aU nltcs for Fcd.rol buildings. Tho house amendment to Senato bill No. It, eutilog th. bounty on graanboppera to I cent a pound, wm eoueurred In. Senato blit No, ,63, Ltwreneo, Intended to prevent tbo destruction of property belonging to electrical eompanlra, passed tho .coste under suspension ot th. irulns. Senator Law. rence Mid this measure was lulcndcd primarily to prsvent the breaking of tbs glass Insulators' Many of then are now shot by buntera. llousa Mr. Condon's bill extending th. tint, for tho appropriation for tho school for th. deaf, dumb and blind was passed. House bill No. M, by McKinnon, providing tbnt. When poaslblo, trespassing animals shall b. advertised In n newspaper In th. earns man aer ss .strays, wm passed. Rous. blU No. 65, by Mr. Luther, providing that tb. certiorate. Issued to grand and petll juror, and County treasurer, and assessor. b reported to tbo stale auditor Instead of th warrant. Issued on th. certilliato., a. al present, was passed. A. concurrent resolution making th. forty fifth day nf th. session tha tost day fur lb. troductlon ot bills, was adopted. Th. 1 Bock oi Lewis' More, KpanUh Fork. Jox Lumber Company. AND Building Material. Bailed Hay & Produce. 3 Emfolartnif BROOMS hpaalak Fork, Utak. |