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Show TB.E SPANISH FORK PRESS Dish Warner, Publisher VTA1I tPANIStf FORK i ALLEGED PLOT TO i "LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY" 10 i TWO MEN AND A WOMAN ACCUSED Of ATTEMPT TO KILL CHILDREN OF ENEMIES. cian of Concord. The colored people of Ogden who have been endeavoring to raise funds for the erection of a church edifice on PIngree avenue, where they have already purchased a lot, are meeting with success. The water famine In the vicinity of Ogden has become quite menacing and I H Is feared by many that there will be a heavy loss of crops unless Irrlga- tion water can be economized more 1 than It has been. With a bounty of S cents offered by I i the health department of Salt Lake on every rat delivered to the city crema-- i tory, rat catching promises to become a thriving indur-trduring the remain-- J der of the summer." Daniel M. Elsenhower, the aged Civil war veteran, who walked Into Og-- ; den from Omaha, was found dead lean--, Ing agalnBt a fence In a vacant lot I Death evidently resulted from neuold and of heart the age. ralgia Following a brief Illness, John ; Greene, pioneer contractor, died Aug ust 4 at his home In Salt Lake. Mr. Greene came to Salt Lake nearly thirty years ago and bad since been 'engaged in the contracting business. The state fish and game commissioner has already commenced to collect the specimens of wild birds found In Utah, which will be Included in the i exhibits of the new fish and game ' ! building at the state fair this year. All of the raiYroad dining cars pass-.- ' j J Ing through the state of Utah have , I been Inspected and found to conform 'to the Utah dairy and food laws In 1 nearly every respect, according to an I announcement made by the state I dairy and food department. Verne Preston, 19 years of age, son I of Mrs. Kate Preston, a widow of Lo- fgan, was drowned in Bear river, a i ! short dlEtance weBt of Deweyvllle. The young man, who was employed on a ranch, went to the river to bathe ; and was seized with cramps. I James Lumbardo. aged 27, charged with having shot and wounded Watch-'ma, i i Mrs. Boyd asked for $15,000, alleging that Dr. Ellis had defamed her character. ,Tbe jury brought In a verdict for the defendant Jefferson .Woods was named In the suit The first alleged attempt on the lives of the children was made several weeks ago when a package of chewing gum was found In the yard of Edward McPherters, a nephew of Judge Robert Mcl'heeters of Fulton. I ess than a week ago another package of gum wa placed near the gate of the McPhccters home. A old child of 'the family was In the act of placing a piece of the gum in Its mouth and when an older member of the family Interfered the gum was sent to a chemist, who discovered that with it was profusely sprinkled strychnine. Twice since then pack ages of gum have been placed near tho McPheeters home and each of them was found to contain strychnine. Conditions In Mexico Beyond Control San Antonio, Texas. "Conditions here are beyond control and I would ask that you return and take charge of the situation," reads a cipher cablegram said to have been sent by Provisional ' President Francisco de la Barra of Mexico to Jose Yves LI- mantour, who Is In Paris, a copy of which II. D. Bradfleld, a mining man from Mexico, who Is In this city, claims to have received.' There are a number of mining men of Mexico In San Antonio at present and Mr. Bradfleld says they will hold a meeting soon to take action toward proof tecting the lives and nroDert Americans In Mexico. All Mlrza Wins Battle. .St Petersburg According to a dispatch from Astrabad, Persia. Mohammed All Mlrza has won his first fight against the government forces, when he defeated them at Damghan, at the northern foot of the Elbruz mountains, fifty miles south of Astra-bad- . The battle Is said to have been John O. Carlson, in the Salt Lake hard fought. The exsnah's Turco'yards of the Denver & Rio Grande mans finally took the town by storm, A railway on the night of December 12, capturing guns and ammunition. has been returned to Salt Lake from victory has greatly enheartened the adherents of the exiled monarch. ; Pocatello, where he was arretted. I etrenu. are officers making Ogdea Slayer on Trial. ous efforts to apprehend Alexander La Junta, Colo. Bob Harris, the Bhupe and h's female companion who who Is charged wita killing negro are believed to have left the state durof Chief Police Craig and Night Marfor two the or pup Ing the past day shal Jake Kipper of Rocky Ford, earpose of marrying, deBpite the objec" In Is on trial. The first day ly July, Shune. of young Uons of the parents was spent In excusing twenty-fiv- e JurI him hlch IllneFf an kept Following ors who are now residents of the new 'in Invalid at a Salt Lake hospital of Crowley, this being done to more than a year, Barney McMana-mon- , county avoid which any legal complications 86 years of age. dean of Utah , might result came 4. He prospectors, died August Crowds Flock to Opening. ; , to Utah in 1862, and for more than forty years had been actively engaged MInot, N. D. Judse James W. Wit-tewho will be here August 11 ready is a prospector. t The Boosters' club of Logan te pro- - to take charge of the opening of the moting a county fair to be held In that Berthnld Indian reservation, August city on September 26, 27 and 28, and 14, estimates that practically 100,000 ' has sent a committee to wait on the people will register at the four regiscounty comm. esionera and ask them tration points. Mln,ot, Bismarck, Ryto exercise the right conferred them der and Plaza. ;' by the last legislature and make a levy President Accepts Invitation. for county fair purposes. Kan. Mayor Vincent ot Mot-fa- t Hutchinson, of the 'i Dodge General Manager road stated at Denver last week this city on Tuesday received President Taft's acceptance ot an Invitathat the Union Pacific Interests hal tion to lav the corner stone of the withdrawn all opposition to the Moffat new convention hall on Septemcomcity the insures early road. This ber 26 while the president Is attend-ILake Salt to road City. of the pletion the Kansas State I In an endeavor to make the 1911 fair. r.tate fair the best In history so far as ' horticultural displays are concerned, Grain Thives Punished. the State Fair association and the Winnipeg. Seven Dominion govBoyd Park Jewelry company wi!I offer ernment grain Inspectors on Tuesday three special prizes for county fruit were sentenced to terms ranging from A handsome silver cup Is two months displays. to six years for thefts offered by the Jewelry company to the from In the Canadian Pa cars freight armost county having the largest and clflo yards. The proceeds of their tistic exhibit robberies were valued at nearly j Ogden is at last free from measles. V More than 500 cases were under quar-- ' Gave Life for Girl. .ntine during the epidemic, and atone 100 casts San Cecil It Karoerg, a rethan no less were Diego there time j , recorded besides a probable number porter on a San Diego newspaper, was , Which were not known to the board of carried out to sea and drowned Sunday at La Jolla, seven miles from I health. after rescuing Dorothy Grew, 12 here, of disappointment. Following a life " ' ; for-- ' years old. In which she had struggled for 1 tunes thet she believed could be real-Thought Pistol Was Empty. under-- 1 the of 6hadow the zed under Louis. While playing St. bandit world. Mrs. Ruby LaVatta, 25 years of with two revolvers thought to be emp' me. wife of Ed LaVatta, ranchman of ty, Vincent Plzziment, 9 years old, acRoss Fork, Idaho, suicided In Salt cidentally shot and probably fatally Uke last Wednesday. wounded his chum, Henry Scherome-toro- , " It years old. n : n, n semi-centenni- MAINE FINANCIER LOSES SucBegan His Service In Senate cessor of James G. Blaine and at One Time Acted as Vice-Preside- . LONG F1EK1 John W. Gates, the Americas n "tt i. nu. n .1.. wis bisi, re(.siuiiy In Ik, . Arms of His Wife and So, W. Gates, the Parls.-J- ohn Plana are being drawn for the new 125,000 tabernacle which It to be Fsud Results from Llbsl Suit, Chtwlng erected at Price thin fall by the Later-daCum Sprinkled With Strychnine Saints. Being Placed Where It Was Ex. John Kosovlch, an Auutrlan miner, ptctsd Little Ones Would Get It was killed while working In the old sulphide tunnel of the Boston Control Idated mine at Bingham.. Fulton, Mo. What county authoriThrough clothing and other effects ties believe to be a plot for the wholethe body of the man found on the sale poisoning of children has been beach of Great Salt lake near Garfield unearthed at Concord, In Calloway has been Identified as that of Peter county, and as a result two men and a Rogers, projector and mining man. woman were arrested there Sunday by The annual outing at the State In- order of the prosecuting attorney and dustrial school for this year has been brought to Fulton to be arraigned. abandoned r,nd. Instead, each student The persons arrested are L. O. Boyd, a on the roll or honor will be given a farmer; his wife, Mrs. Anna Boyd, short distance west of Deweyvllle. and Jefferson Woods, horse dealer. (origin MIL Crop conditions In Bos Elder counThe children whose lives wero enty are very encouraging thla year, ac- dangered belong to families whose cording to the reports that come from members testified In a slander suit re- GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED the various dry and Irrigated farming cently brought by Mrs. Boyd against district north and west of Brlgham Dr. B. Ellin, a prominent physiCity. DEAD STATESMAN FIGHT IN LONG. REAPER. WITH GRIM Id age. ,.4 1 IE VETERAN' LOSES THE UTAH BUDGET Joseph Parry, a resident of Ogden for over sixty mni, Is dead, till death being due to heart failure and SEII can financier, died at 6:10 morning In the arms of hit ilta bum, v...v v.. J 11 AaJ r.7 v.:t . I , The end was peaceful and it seem-- as though be was falling Baleen rT usual restoratives failed la the. uJ criBia, Lewlston, Me. The state ot Maine lost its senior United States senator faithful serand an almost vant when William Pierce Frye died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, here. Forced by the condition of his health to resign his position as president pro tempore of the senate at the beginning of the present special session ot congress, although he retained bis membership In tho senate, Senator Frye soon afterward made his last journey to the city wulch always had been his home. For several weeks he bad been ill, last week his illness takROOSEVELT DEFENDS ACTION ing a serious turn. A general breakdown, due to age and his extremely arduous career. Is ascribed by physicians as the cause of death. Railroad Officials Fear That All the Former President Shoulders Respon- Senator Frye was almost 81 years slbllilv for Merger of Temessee Roads In the West May Suffer old, having been born in Lewlston, Me , September 2, 1830. Company In Steel Trust by Walkout of Men. Senator Frye was one of the last coterie ot two of that remarkable which Maine with statesmen, began of railroads the That the wish New York. "I Chicago. It distinctly west are threatened with a general understood that I acted purely on my Hannibal Hamlin, enedd with himself strike was Indicated here Monday own Initiative and that the responsi- and Senator Hale, who retired at the night by statements of a high official bility for the act was solely mine. of the Union Pacific and Southern Pa"If the same situation should face' cific roads. According to his state- me again, I would flo exactly what 1 ments unions have presented did then." that would mean an additional These declarations were made Satburden of $50,000,000 a year to the urday by Theodore Roosevelt in the western roads. most unprecedented event In AmeriSeveral strikes already have oc- can history. The only living curred In various cities, and more ot the United states gave utterare threatened unless concessions are ance to them before a congressional obtained from the rail carriers. The committee in the course of an explandemands were formulated by various ation he was making of one of his unions, Including those of the black- official acts. That act was his official smiths, car workers, Iron moulders, sanction of the absorption of the Tenmachinists, and pattern makers, and nessee Coal and Iron company by the were submitted to the railroads sev- United States S'eel corporation at eral weeks ago. So far the officials the solicitation of two of the highest of the various unions have met with officers of that giant combine. a flat refusal of any of the requests "If I had withheld my consent I do from the lines they have negotiated not doubt that the steel corporation with, and It was announced Monday would not have purchased tne Tennes night that the roads are determined see Coal and Iron company," declared not to recede from the position they the when a question on that point was put squarely to him by have taken. WILLIAM P. FRYE. The fear has been expressed that Representative Bartleft of Georgia, a all of the roads in the west may be member of the congressional commit close of the last session of congress, tied up by a walkout of the different tee that is Investigating steel, and and included James G. Blaine, William which for ten days has been holding Pitt Fessenden, Thomas B. Reed and employes. hearings in New York for the special Nelson Dlngley. Both he and Hale Oregon Congressman in Trouble. purpose of developing all the facts began service In the senate in 1881, that Con- connected with the absorption by the and served side by side for thirty Washington. Rumors gressman A. W. Lafferty of Portland, trust of its only great rival In the years, a much longer time than any Ore., had been guilty of an Insult to United States, contrary, as the ma other two men eat together in the a Washington girl, for which he had jority of the committee declares, to j been forced to apologize under pain tne spirit and letter of the Sherman Frye began his service as the sucof a public whipping, were confirmed anti-trus- t law. cessor of Blaine, and Hale as the sucby the young woman's father, S. J. cessor of Hamlin. Kubel, on Monday. Mr. Kubel is chief STARVED PATIENTS TO DEATH. Mr. Frye was in congress forty clerk of the bureau of geological surhim the longest continyears, Made Grave giving Seattle Charges Against vey. The affair is causing a sensation uous congressional record, with the Woman Who is Known as "the here. In a statement made here Montwo exceptions of Justin S. Morrill ot Starvation Doctor." day, Lafferty declared that the pubVermont and William B. Allison ot affair had which attended the licity Seattle, Wash. A warrant was IsIs part of a conspiracy against him. sued in Kitsap county Saturday for Iowa For fifteen years Mr. Frye had been president pro tempore of the senarrest of Linda Burfield Hazzard ate, and Shot by Revenue Officer. by virtue or the fact that he known as "the starvation doctor," on Kalispcll. Mont A report reached an information charging murder in held this office when ten late Hobart died, he assumed all this city Monday giving meager de- the first degree. the functions of .of the tails of the shooting of L. Larson at Mrs. Hazzard Is accused of starving United States during the latter part Poison by Special United States Rev-- ; to death Miss Claire Williamson, a of President McKinley'B administraenue Officer Miller, when Larson, towealthy English woman, aged thirty-twtion. gether with a compalonn, . entered Several of Mrs. Hazzard's paBy reason of the recent Democratic Poison dock early In the morning tients are said to have starved them victory In Maine and the resultant with a launch In which the officers selves to death, notably Lewis E. election of a Democratic governor and believed was being smuggled a quanstate formerly deputy treasurer, tity of liquor. Larson was shot in and Frank S. Southard, a prominent legislature, Senator Frye will be succeeded by a member of that party. the shoulder and although the wound attorney ot Seattle. The will reduce the Republiwas not thought serious at first, he While Miss Williamson was dying can change died later at the hospital. she signed a will bequeathing her es- nine membership of the senate to forty-and increase the Democratic tate to Mrs. hazzard, and the latter Boy Caged With Hyenas. to forty-one- . membership Senator sought to be appointed administratrix Frye's term would have Rapid Cityf S. D. Kept In a cage of the estate. ended March 4, 1913. with a pair of South American hyenas which were being shown with a carLone Bandit Holds Up Passengers. Helena's Mayor Resigns. nival, and being bitten and scratched Salt Lake City. A lone bandit held until he moaned when any one touch- up a Salt Lake bound Saltalr train Helena, Mont Mayor V. J. Edwards, ed him, is the experience of a Saturday night, compelling one of his whose term will expire next May, has boy, according, to the charges victims to search the others on the resigned and the city council has of State's Attorney Dehn, who caused car. One of the passengers objected elected Edward Horsky, city attorney, the arrest of the child's foster par- to his rude treatment and grapp:ed as his successor. Mr. Edwards wiii ents, Mr. and Mrs. James B. John- with the bandit, being slightly wound- give no reason for publication why of his at real the Instigation ed and two other passengers shot, but he resigned, but he told the council ston, mother, who is here from Omaha. not seriously Injured, before the in executive session that the voters c in succeeded passenger throwing at a recent bond election did not apGovernor Shafroth Files Appointments the bandit from tho moving train. pear to be in sympathy with tho polDenver, Colo. Governor Shafroth Jack' Mays, aged 36, an automobile re- icy on the Installation of a new water on Monday filed with the secretary of been has arrested, charged system which he haa advocated. state h!s appointments to the new pairer, with the holdup, which was one of was which created the boldest pieces of work In the hiscourt of appeals Holtslaw Again Confesses. ' by the last legislature to relieve the tory of the west. Washington. Feebly defending his ot state the criwded docket supreme confessed graft, former State SenaSupports Initiative and Referendum. court Under the political tor D. W. Holtslaw, the 62 year-olWashington. Ethel Wants Freedom. has which been built In this Illinois banker and church leader system became known ' country, government Is not up on Tuesday retold to the senate Lor' New York. It reptruly Thursday night that Miss Ethel Barry-- ! resentative and will not be until the imer committee his story of being more had filed papers In her contem- - people have the power to make it so, paid for voting for Lorlmer for senaplated suit for divorce against Rus said Senator Bourne of Oregon, who tor. Incidentally, he told of asking sell Grlswold Colt, and that service spoke Saturday In favor of the Initia- and ot being promised $1,500 for buy. had been made upon Colt at his apart- tive, referendum and recall provisions Ing furniture for the Btate from a ments at the Yale club here. of the Arizona constitution. concern. life-lon- . I la hnil VibHIaiI fni Braalra L with a disease of the kidneys, when it was believed he was aim sure to recover, ne contracted pttet Upptd t hen. monla. , One of the most picturesque pJ Lorn tw sonalitles In American financial,. it knJ nals was John Warner . Gates. T&, characteristics ot to 0 predominating nature, energy ana speculation, du irelessn1 he trap tlcularly the latter, earned him ttJ late to C sobriquet of lyearly under which cognomen he was .J brated In two continents. He wiii :55.00 big man and did only big things m ,'eato. In a big way. At the time of hi, tat y death he was one of the most ttrlkio, 3ttl figures in the money world, flghting needletsl as he was, the Standard Oil compagj er sol Jettftbo 1 mm. te o. Ra-de- r, he-ro!- d i .. Suicided in Presence of Family. Salt Lake City. In the presence of his wife and five small children, none ot whom Is older than 12 years, John T. .Waterhouse, a contracting brick mason, shot himself Friday night, death resulting a few hours later. Peruvians Beat Colombians. Guayaquil. According to advices received here, a battle was fought between Colombian and Peruvian troops In Caqueta, a large unorganized territory in Colombia, and the Colombians were defeated. Kills Wife, Then Suicides. Farrlbnlt, Minn. Thomas K. Talbot shot his wife to death and then killed himself, after drinking heavily. Talbot died from a bullet wound after he bad also slashed Ms throat from ear to ear with a razor. Earthquake, Rain and Hall. Mexico City. The unusual combination of nn earthquake shock and a rain and bail Btorm occurred here Saturday. The shock was a slight one, but the etorm was terrific. l houses were wrecked, Sev-era- Wife Was Too Affectionate. Louls.-Ph- 7 ,mmm'wm T1 Sk I rjge. reasons: if watei isroe) mmA -- mm JOHN W. GATES. and holding an imposing position k the affairs of iron and steel.. Pros inent In his spectacular career was tk distinction of being the first and b! gest wire magnate in hlBtory. ... As a boy. Gates erew ui on ih Illinois farm, near Turner Junction (now west of Chicago), where he iu born In 1833. Mr. Gates began his business career as proprietor of a hardware store at ' Turner Junction.'-'- ' From a hardware merchant Mr. Gates became interested in barbel wire, first as a salesman and later u a manufacturer at St. Louis. Following the Southern Wire company he or ganized the Braddock (Pa,) Wire com pany, which in 1892 he combined with other wire concerns as the Consoli dated Steel & Wire conmanv. Six years later this was sold to the Fed eral Steel company, now a subsidiarr of the United States Steel corporation. Primarily interested in steel and later in oil, the financier was also identified with many large ODeratlou of railway and industrial stock. '', APPROVES STATEHOOD BILL Judiciary Recall Provision to be ft submitted In Arizona, Says Senata bill grantini Washington. The statehood to New Mexico and Ari zona, legislation that has been for many years the dream of the people of those territories, was passed by the senate Tuesday night, to eighteen, after the relectlon of the Nelson amendment which proposed striking out of .ae Arizona constitu tion its judiciary recall provision. The bill as nassed by the senate differs only slightly from the house measure, and It Is said may be unsatisfactory to President Taft. The bill as nassed compels Ari zona, as a condition precedent to entry Into the Union, to submit the re ;a.. proposition to the potcrs lot ilnat decision as to whether It shall emaln In their rnnntitution. Ne Mexico must vote on a proposition ambodled in the bill which would nake the constitution of the state easier of amendment. flfty-thr- e Pension Examiner ' n:ihet uk for To b it for ft ny sent, i nates Vbonl t vlxie :lHer v v ome uter nn."- 1 t iiS Mall ter itally ipcakl Is met the n there Statei of pe An: luallt wtua on wa -Of t sent u fal i The i in 43 ater Ion." condil ncar! iittppl; ewa; reak 'hat i Michl iaexl "howi ! the near ran I what Chlca The tusin nord blct most 'bis i feet ard IftTg Ma (Veqii Mt, ( metU s (r fake And ti wry ! ate tloo. Cr! Dies. twenty examiner of the . . years special ... . t'niiea States pension bureau, wai found dead by his window at Bailey'. iuii lailfUIl. DtvertU Iliuuiue Mr. Randall resiened because of ID health. Gets Severe Sentence. uwvnvvii, V CM , J U U.li T l victed of stealing two small sacks of tobacco from a grocery store, sentenced by Judge C. W. Norton of the superior court to two years ' Folsom penitentiary. ilip Preparing for Fight. Chicago. Rai.road Ciduls In Chicago on Tuesday began arranges conferences to u.bcuss the strike that is Bald to threaten western lines, with the purpose of JndlvldcC. trout in case JUSt las wn Mutineers Condemned to Death. Nickerson, a Madrid. A court martial ot Cadii salesman, cut his arteries in an at- on death twentytempt to end his life berause he said -six Tuesday condemned to mumen who took part in the at a hospital, where he Is battlesblp tiny on board the Spanish his wile is too ....ectlonate.recovering ' He has Numancia while the vessel ' been married only three months. Tangier Saturday. St. !a It I ma ioe alty of art ours ii respc !u our pn our f !4 ds - persons fever as Steamer Has Close Call, enveToledo, Ohio. When flames loped the bow of the F. II. Brince, wooden steamer bound from Dctro1 to Cleveland, ue vessel hastily Pj bark to Kelly's Isle and reached lefore the fire got beyond control ndi if tl our from tirti Ton &arn 'on nd 0 l at( mor tut; re or ton, Hea etr pun I. ef Nt 1 far od bis |