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Show NORTHWEST NOTES. NKV.'S Vl.lIMARY. DUELS ON LAND AND WATER Nevada wLl he near the heal of the letter Teee..e,l from Asuncion, Paraguay, says t!iat several rases of list this year In mlle3 of constructs n bubonic plague have appeared there. of railroad. August Koch, restaurant proprietor, General Piu-taraxla, the chief of the Uiuguayun re.olutioiiists, la dead, was rut. down and 1.1 led by a Rout.i and peuca negotiations have been be- ern Pod tie train within the city limits A gun. General Kuroirtkh estimates the Russian Iorocs fr m August 28 to September 5 at 4,0tu kll ed and 12,000 wounded. James I'.rlll lai agreed to fight Joo Cans after he lias disposed of the Corbett affair. lJolU boxers agree to seale 133 iniiid tlngf-hie- . Five children ' ro burned to death and their paiepii Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sapp, fatally Injirel at Roily, Adair county, Ky. All vert asleep. The triennial ret Rogue of Yale university, Issued la i week, shows that there are 12,7 M living graduates and 9,291 dead gra In cs of Yale, a total of 22,085. Edward John-.- r , a member (if the Oak I'aik t .i .g,) baseball team, waa hilled by a halted ball during a game. The lu ll ti.uek him Just below ; the heart. To put to i crowd of boys and High glrl3 who ha 1 le'u annoying him, Albert March, an ,v,ed Bohemian, of filed Imu ;;.e crowd, killing David Durham, a, el 10. Harry Ilucl.ricr. agcl 15 years, shot and killed his fa her at Stockton, Cal., because the latte. struck the boy's mother. The young patricide gave himself up to the authorities. Two Germain, one of whom had ibeen in America only a few weeks, have fought n at. ret duel In Brooklyn. One of them Is new In the hospital, Seriously wounded In the shoulder. In a friendly hexing bout at Atlantic City, N. J., Ale- at der Tllghman, a waiter, has jvr !ved a body blow which was follow by almost Instant death. Ills opponent was a fellow waiter. Elijah Gere, a regro preacher, who. It Is charged, Is the leader of a Before Day" club, which has planned, It Is alleged, the murder of prominent white men of Hamilton, Ga., has been Chi-cag- 1 captured. The Whit Si' line steamer Celtic, which sailed lnt week from Queenstown for New Yerk. carried 3,500 souls, believe to ho the largest number ever taken In cno vessel from a British port. Alve Rivera wya instantly killed while robbing the lank at Warsaw O., Friday night. The village marshal emptied a shotgun tnto him. Ills two hut are being folcompanions e.ic lowed by a posse. A dispatch from Toklo announces that disturbances have occurred throughout Chi U province, threatening the security of the railway from Peking to Harhi w, which Is a French-Belgia- n coneejsion. According to dispatches received at Buenos Ayres, the revolutionists of Paraguay are concentrating their land forces at towns parallel with the rail ' way and have cut off supplies and communication with Ascuncion. In endeavoring to turn out to avoid a farmers wagon, an automobile containing two no a and two women was emprecipitated down a thirty-foo- t bankment near Ballwin, Mo., killing one of the occupants and Injuring the others. - It has been leeommended that the force of American soldiers In the Philippine Islands ho reduced from its present standing of four regiments of cavalry and nio of Infantry to three regiments of cavalry and seven of In1 1- fantry. In a riot in the foreign colony of Portland station, Ohio, ono man was beaten almost to death, while others lhad their ears chewed ofT and noses smashed. Plstois, knives and clubs wore used freely. Nineteen of the riot- ers were ariesu d. Rev. Albert Kcluhnrd, aged 38, pas-to- r of Holy Tnuity church, at Somor-itet- , Ohio, and editor of the Rosemary, .a church magazine, published by the (Dominican onU r. was stricken with .paralysis Just as he had finished mass .waa still at the altar. , J. Potter, lormer Fnltod Slates consul In Pnisma. who was widely puiown In sclent i de clrchat In the Unit-le- d States and al .xad. is dead at Washington, aged 62. 5 r. Potter was tho first person to ititi uluco In this country the culture of side worms. An unusual infill of lilsh Immigrants In tliu last two months, Is reported by the immigration authorities. The records show that la the last seven days ne rly 1,500 Irish Immigrants have air'vcd In New York. Of these nearly 7u rer cent were girls. Enraged because he had been for Keeping Into hours, Edward Dennis, 17 years i Id. shot his grandfather, F. H. Melsier. with whom he at New Springfield, Staten Jived island. The lad then turned the pistol upon himself and inflicted a fatal S. d Wound. Rear Admiral Walker, the head of the Patvnma declared on , tils arrival In New York front Colon St.ves Intended to that the Unit. beep the two i u r coils In the canal gone In spite if env protests which Piniuua might bo land ly 1 I : of Portia ml. It whs unanimously doddid at n meeting of the Jluite Butchers union to raise the boycott on all of the products of the eastern packers. James Miles of Hoquiam, Wash . and kldel the woman with wlun he lived, and then fatally wounded O! Sand, a logger, and ended the shooting by killing himself. Robert Williams, a bar toy In the Copper King saloon, was shot and seriously wounded at Butte liy Jerry Thompson, a negro, as the result of a row over 15 rents. Freddie Dardino, aged 9 years, waa shot and killed in a rabin near Nook-sack- , Wash. An old man who alone Inhabited tho cabin may he held responsible for tho lad's death. Saly Rauhelm, a well known mining engineer, la dead at hla home In New York City. He wa3 Identified with tho opening and development of many Important copper properties In the Mo- ntana field. Five masked men held up and robbed the saloon of George Cooper in Butte and secured $114 In cash. Bartender S. J. Cummings was hit over the head with a gun and suffered a so vere scalp wound. The official figures of the spring salmon pack of Columbia river for 1904 were made public last week. The statement of the pack Is based on cans to the case. four dozen The total number of cases is 302,759. The remains of the murdered man found hack of Kirkland, Wash., have been Identified as those of Alfred E. Plummer, stepson of Col. T. M. Fisher, the local Chinese Inspector., No motive Is assigned. The young man was 22 years old. Tho general land office has directed the withdrawal from all forms of disposal of 3840 acres of public lands In the North Yakima district In WashThs ington for Irrigation purposes. withdrawal Is In connection with the Clallum reservoir site. James Nesbet, once & brilliant politician, wanderd away In a fit of and was lost In the Idaho mountains, says a Butte special. After a long search his friends found the body. A faithful dog stood guard over the corpse for several days. A contract for the grading of the MofTat railroad from Arrowhead, seventy miles west of Denver, to Hot miles beyond, has Springs, twenty-fivbeon let, and the woik will begin October 1. The contract calls for an expenditure of nearly halt a million dolone-poun- e lars. According to the figures of State Labor Commissioner O. P. Koff, the population of Oregon Is at present 470,024, against 413,526 In 1900, an Increase of In making his computation the commissioner found that the number of children of school age who arc not attending achool la Increasing at 58,488. an alarming rate. A dispatch from NIehart, Mont., says that, mistaken for a deer, Charles WIfta was instantly killed by Matt Sjinds. The two men were members of a camping party, and Wittala, thinking to bag an animal In the early morning, was leaving ramp when Sands, aroused by his friends movement, and thinking him to be a deer In the uncertain light, blazed away with a rifle, sending a bullet clear through Wittalas It head. F, Bcuuett, a sawyer, In tho head at Tacoma shot last week him-sel- d , Di .1 s ' Weapons That Have Been Chosen to icJde Deadly Quarrels, and Conditions tat Have Caused the Challengers to With-v- t iT' :f 4 v. ! THE TOURIST'S FAVORITE ROUTE From time Immemorial duels have been fought In every land under the sun. Premeditated combats have tak-- j en place between two persons for the purpose of deciding some private ference or quarrel and have been I, fought with deadly weapons and with a purpose to take life. Tho challenger has generally been ono who was confident that he could worst tils ndvirsary with pistol or sword, hut there have been many Instances where men, goaded to desperation by persecution or slander, have challenged the ones who made lifo unbearable even when they felt that the chances wero against them, but like the man who meditates suicide, they felt It was the easiest way to end their troubles. However, in most cases, duelists are either selfish or wantonly thoughtless, for the duelist values his honor above the life of his antagonist, his own life, and the happiness of his family. In Franco and Germany dueling enjoys a certain amount of popularity, although the laws forbid It, and, until a half century ago, a fight with swords or pistols between prominent men In this country, who wished to settle a contention, was by no means uncommon, and a description of several of these Incidents occupies many pages of American history. They Invariably resulted fatally for one and sometimes for both of the combatants, so that dueling became exceedingly unpopular with Americans. Duels have been fought not only with all kinds of weapons, but In various other ways, some of them under the most dramatic circumstances and with the most tragic results. The methods employed have been most original; some have been fiendish, with the outcome utterly hopeless for either duelist. Davy Crockett, frontiersman, Indian was once fighter and congressman, challenged to mortal combat by a famous duelist In Washington. Crockett's bravery was unquestionable, but the odds were against him with sword or pistol, for the skill of the challenger with either wenpon was world renowned. However, Crockett accepted, and, being the challenged party, had the right to name his choice of weapons. He had gone Into the wilderness on numerous occasions and with his brawn and a sharp axe had cleared hundreds of acres of timber land. His prowess with the broadaxe was familiar to everybody, and when he chose broadaxes as dueling weapons his challenger hastily apologized to him. Then what might have been a famous duel was averted. Crockett regarded his would he antagonist as a coward, and he proved It. The hero of the broadaxe, a few years later, fought to the death with a little band of brave men In the Alamo, of whom It was written: Marathon had her messenger of defeat; the Alamo had none. The moral of this Incident Is obvious. A few years ago two Swedes went out upon a railroad track in a cut In the mountains of Pennsylvania and fought until an express train killed them. Both saw the approaching train, and taunted each other to continue fighting where they were. They battled to the death. Daniel O'Connells son was challenged by an English student to fight He went to his father, the great and asked what he emancipator, should do. The father advised him to accept, to choose pistols, the conditions of the fight to bo that, facing each other and toeing a mark, they should place the muzzles of the pistols in each other's mouth, and, upon tho word from a referee, they should fire simultaneously. When young OConnell's conditions were made known the bull) mg Ilriton declined to fight. Two expert swimmers, whose reputations are international, engaged in a hot argument one night several years ago at a beach near Boston, and a novel dwl was tho result They agreed to swim at midnight, straight out to sea, In the rays of the moonlight, no bonis to follow, until one or the other became exhausted. They swam several miles, and the Boston swimmer toweu his adversary back to the bench and restored him to : ; dif-sh- i ) Castentenus was a Greek and la early life belonged to a crew of pirates which opt rated In the Aegean sea. When pirating proved hazardous on account of cruising war vessels he had himself tattooed from head to foot, came over to America and became a very popular freak. During his career as a buccaneer he became enamored of a very pretty girl, daughter of the mate of the black flag craft which he commanded, but he had a rival. Under oaths which hound them together they could not fight, and so they appealed to the girls father to decide their respective claims upon his daughters hand. Tho father knew Castentenus and his rival as desperate men, and so he resolved upon a desperate method to test their love for his daughter. He outlined bis proposition to them and both accept- SAL! THROUGH till LAKE MD SCERIC COIGJ III TO THE WORLD 10 1,1 t fair . FAST FLYEIiS DAILY BETWEEN OGDEN AND DENVER; CHOICE OF ROUTES. PULLMAN THROUGH AND TOURIST SFEEppj FROM OGDEN OR SALT LAKE TO ST. LOUIS WITHOUT CHANGE OF nF; V; A Free Reclining Chair Cars. Dining Car Service a la carte on all through trains. For Folders, Illustrated Booklets, etc address TcSTf - I. A. BENTON, G. A. P SALT LAKE CITY, tJTji The Popular Route to tb ST. 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From all Indications, tho forest fires west of Anaconda, Mont., will continue to burn for a long time to rotne. Tho fires are sweeping over the thickly wooded sections of the mountains northw est of Anaconda and at this season of the year there is small chance THE NEW WAY of a heavy rainstorm. THE OLD WAY" ss. A coroner's Jury Investigating the A duel in the clouds credited to two murder of Gus Brener, the Portland, French aen mints terminated In the Ore., saloonkeeper who was killed on death of both. It was deliberately Thursday night of last week, has re- planned and executed. licss than ten ) ears ago two locomoturned a verdict that Brener came to NKW EQUIPMENT, ELECTRIC LI3HT9 AND ELECTRIC FANS American Grapevine in his death from pistol shots fired by tive engineers in Texas, who had sevHungary, BETWEEN American grapevines are unknown persons. Five Italians who eral petty differences which they proving wished to sett.r, decided upon a most tho salvation of tue Tokay grape," said wero playing curds In Rreuor'a place Julius original duel. Taking two lust evening. Ho lud LOUIS at the time of the murder and who told they went out upon a plain engines, on the Just returned from Hungary, where stories directing suspicion on a car- same track, and when half a mile lay tho .Tokay grape Is grown. have been ar- between tin m they whistled for the "In the early 90s a vine lone made penter named ALL TRAINS DAILY LC AYR maxima. rested, evidence having been discov- beginning of hostilities, opened the Its appearance in the Tokay fields," he ahkiv 1 t. 2 .oi SilSTS S ered pointing t an unknown member throttles wide and hurled their loco- continued, and In an incredibly short motives at each other with tremen- time had devastated every of the party as the assassin. In vineyard dous speed. In a few seconds there the district. Four men, 13d. Stlrkney, Charles was a frightful crash, the boilers ex- experimented American shoots were Raw Pa hri nk TS Reclining Chair Cr r- - S',15noh" with, and It was NoW w !'rlioa ' C Hannon. N. P. Anderson and A. F. ploded and the explosion was heard that the louse refused to touch found Oar.Alltn 70,ca Vuo;brrr,T.10U tuM&LMki them td. Oi MiMipVltItlerlnJiWili. t"1,1' r"1 1T p- Loula vi new ronM rUBl Brown, were surprised In their quar- for miles, attracting a large crowd to they being Immune from Us ravages "After these shoots had grown the ters In Tacoma, Wash., In the act of the scene. It was found that the two cent engines had collided and that the two first year, shoots of the Tokay plant making counterfeit, twenty-fivepfl XOHVu'iVxhi oA? ,Tk BT LOlTI" FROM DENVER. COL had been killed. The ab- were grafted cn them, and t and these aloanaetlona W pieces, hut made smooth engineers Colorado, tUh. Irt.he iid In sence of firemen the locomotives lowed to grow another year. Tho on one side to piny slot machines. third brought out the fact that a duel had ipring they were cut down and wound Aak ih. Ticket They were caught In the act of making taken place. about tho root stein of the American Af.ol fog through tloketa via the coins, and one of the men showed Capt. CaMentenua, Barnuras origi- plant, and allowed to shoot forth fight with a gun, lmt was quickly dis- nal tattooed man, who died a few year. But It was not until the armed. The men were taken before years ago, ingnged In a peculiar dud fourth y nr that an attempt was ma,'-t- o tt was the outcome United Stales t'on.nilssloiier Bridges many years v.oa warn garni the harvest,' a and hound fur trial In the sum of of a love flair Sentinel W' 11,000 each. H. H, SHIPPER ul .fir I ed. One night he went Into tho small forecastle and set a barrel of sulphur ablaze, and then ordered both men to go down Into tho stifling gases and to remain there for ten minutes. They did as he directed, and upon the expiration of that time he signaled the lovers to come forth. Castentenus, who was a man of remarkable physical powers, groped and staggered up the companionway to the deck, bearing on his shoulders the limp and unconscious form of his rival. Castentenus was bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose. When he got Into the fresh air he swooned. He revived an hour later, but his rival passed Into the great beyond. He had lived but a few moments after being carried out by the tattooed man. The woman for whom the great sacrifice was made never married, for she was taken sick and died in a few weeks. There have been electrical duels, duels with poison wherein two rivals have dared each other to quaff a deadly draught at a specified time, and early last month two Boston longshoremen engaged in a conflict that was decidedly novel, to say the least. The story of tho battle in which they engaged has only Just come to light. Bad blood had existed between these two sons of toil and they concluded to settle their differences. Both were fine specimens of that type of hardy manhood which Is employed In loading and unloading the great ocean liners men who usualy settle their troubles at fisticuffs, which fact makes this incident all the more startling and Interesting. One night they went down upon the New York & New England docks at South Boston, and, removing their clothing, they plunged into the waters at South bay and proceeded to drown each other. They battled for at least twenty minutes, during which time the results were about even, when suddenly one seized the other by the neck and began to strangle him. At the same time both sank beneath the surface. How many feet they went down Is not to be recorded, but the strangler, becoming exhausted, rose to the surface. A moment later the apparently lifeless body of his adversary made Its appearance. In the dim lights cast upon the waters by the distant electric lamps the victor realized that his deadly work was accomplished, the strife at an end. Thoughts of arrest for murder, the electric chair, crowded upon his mind and his almost benumbed senses were quickened. Ho grasped his victim and shouted lustily for assistance. A party returning in a catboat after a pleasant day's outing In the harbor heard his cries and reached both men Just In tho nick of time. They wero taken Into the boat and after artificial respiration had been applied for a time they were restored to consciousness. After a bracer or two of brandv they were put ashore at the public landing on Ing wharf and arm In arm started for their homes. A small paragraph appeared In the morning papers which stated that two men were rescued by a yachting party and cared for until they were able to go home. But there had been a duel In the dark waters of Boston harbor tho night b fore the Fourth." He who would have been a murderer became a life saver; his magnanimity has been recognized by the man who might have left him to his fate had ho been as suece.-sfin that terrible conflict as the other, and now both vow eternal friendship. T . of Four New Worlds Fair Train KANSAS CITY AND ST. """W I k V I Fly Col IU the w the Yo tt! Gr ; I - e five-ccn- r CHICAGO AND ALTON - W'.uJV JA |