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Show NOTICE The date on your name label of this paper is the date to which your subscripiton is paid. Kindly be as prompt as possible in paying in advance. SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY JUNE VOL. V1IL NO. 22 THE F RANCE V SITED GOVERNMENT AGAIN , A ON THE TRAIL OF BY IT Fork Press PANiSH 1HE v TRUST 11 HSU SACRIFICE ARE ditions of Sugar Companies. .t: .. w ... . . t . of Washington. Thf department Justice has assigned two agents to duty. In New York, under instructions to examine IntoUhe conditions under iwhlch the recent- compromise was ef fected between, the American Sugar Running comply and the Pennsylvania Refining company. The agents are to examine into the allegations that the compromise disclosed conditions of the Sherman Involving a violation anti-trulaw. ' , A local paper prints what purports to be an Interview with former Attorney-General Bonaparte, which, In efamounts to a declaration that fect, during his administration the department of Justice was without the evidence necessary for a successful prosecution. Officials of the department of Justice declared that the proceedings In their present stage must be regarded as confidential. Horrible Practices at Meeting Place of Pagan Tribes of Asia and ' Russian Religious Refugees. , . 1 The victims at St Cannat and Rog nee were badly Injured. There were evidences that several had Mved for hours Imprisoned by the debris before (hey died. The people rushed Into the streets when the first shock occurred, crying out hi terror. Many of them later returned to the rescue of their families. At Kognes a family of four was buried In the ruins. Their cries could be heard throughout the night, but all were dead in the, morning when a rescuing party reached them. The Chateau Valmoiwse near St Cannat was badly damajred.- - The Com munal chateau at Argulllec was snllt In two. The historic village of Ver nagues was wrecked, but no one vu ' killed. Theoretic Warfare With a Really Tragic Result. SL Petersburg. The submarine tor pedo boat Kambala of the Russian navy baa been sunk In a storm In the Black sea while the boat waa under going trials. Twenty members of her crew, Including the captain, first lieutenant and chief engineer, perished. The submarine flotilla was conducting a series of night maneuvers against the battleship squad Ahe Idea of forcing an en- trance Into the harbor. ' During th operations .the Kambala. upon which Captain Blelekoff, the commander ol the flotilla, and to charge of the maneuvers, unaccountably left her course and swung across the bows of the battleship Roatilav. The two resselr collided and the submarine Instantly . . twenty-eigh- ., t fathoms of wa- Takes Life en His Sweetheart's Grave. Bethlehem, Pa, Brooding over the death of his fiancee, Raymond aged 20 years, of Bowman Helnt-selman- st SENSATION IN. HONOLULU. Japanese Would Wrest Control of Affairs In Islands from the Whites. Seventeen Honolulu. Japanese, leaden In the strike of the Japanese plantation laborers, of whom about 8,000 are out, were Indicted by the grand Jury late Saturday afternoon on charge of having conspired to Incite disorder in tbe Hawaiian Islands.. This action promptly followed the somewhat sensational disclosures of Friday, when a search of. the offices of the Higher Wage association and the Japanese newspaper, JUL by the authorities, revealed incendiary letters, reports and other correspondence tending to enow that a conspiracy was In prospective formation among certain Japanese to wrest the control of affairs In the Islands from the whites, Repeated Disappearance of People In the. District Drew Suspicion to Organization Which is Known as Sect of the Crimson God, Petersburg. Dispatches from Perm, European Russia, say the local police have begun an Investigation Into the sect of the CrimBon God, the members of which are accused of human sacrifices and other horrible practices. Repeated disappearances of people In the district where the sect dwells drew suspicion to the organization, which worships a red wooden Idol, colored, It 1st said,; with, human blood. The police .have located a secret grave containing the mutilated body of a man supposed to have been sacrificed, and they expect to find others. The Ural region, of which Perm is the center, is a breeding ground for many fanatical cults. It Is a meeting place of the pagan tribes of Asia as well as of persons who flee from Russia on account of religious persecution. Refugees of this type cave lived for centuries in the dense forests of the district and their beliefs have developed along the most fanatical lines. ' s FOUR KILLED BY EPLOSION. , town, Pa., swallowed poison on Saturday, and then, hurrying to the cemetery, shot himself through the heart at the grave dug for Miss Florence Reh-rig- , aged 19 years. On Memorial day the young couple were out driving anj met with an accident, which caused the young woman's death on Wednesday of last week. Three Men Drowned In Raging Tor rent In Montana. Kalispell, Mont. Three men were drowned In the raging North Fork, about three miles above the Junction of that stream with Canyon civek, according to a telephone message received here. The dead men are C. A. Lacey, W. P. Powell and Andrew Parker. The men, who were members of a Milwaukee railroad engineering party, are said to have been crossing the river with one of the engineers, when their craft was demolished In the torrent. Sensation In Burglary Trial. Helena, Mont. A special to the Record from Lewlston says that sensations abound In the trial Jn the district court of Wilbur Hoffman, a well connected and prominent resident, who Is charged with burglary. Two witnesses sre to be cited for contempt St the close of the trial for relating on the stand a different story from that told to the court, while Stanley Smith, a wealthy sheepman, and Harold Hanson, a prominent resident, are under arrest on the charge of ha-Jattempted to bribe witnenaos. ' Power Plant of Gaa and Electrio .Company. In Denver Blows Up. Denver, Colo. Four known to be dead, as many missing, three per FILIPINOS MUTINY. haps fatally hurt and six more or Native Constabulary Take to Moun- less seriously Injured, with property loss estimated between $250,000 and tains After Fighting Losing Battle. 1500,000, Is the story of the boiler Manila. A portion of the second explosion which wrecked the princicompany of native constabulary, sta- pal power plant of the Denver Gas ft tioned at Davao, In the Island of Min- Electric company, located at Sixth danao,. Jn.tbe, jKu.tiernpart .fthe) and Lawrence , streets, shortly . after mutinied on' 5 o'clock Tuesday evening. Philippine archipelago, the night of June 6 and attacked the So terrific was the force of the excompany quarters, which they cap- plosion that the heavy boiler ' was tured after wounding one of the. na- thrown 800 feet Into the air.. It crashed through the root of the tive officers. After a fight lasting three hours on plant, completely wrecking the genthe following day. In which one Am- erator and , wallB, cut off the lights for more' than two hours the city erican, named Libby, was killed and and four others wounded, the mutineers was In darkness. The roar of the explosion was took to the mountains upon the apheard for miles, and the houses In the proach of a company of constabulary, stationed at" Mapl. which - hurried to Immediate vicinity were rocked on the relief of the besieged Americans their foundations. and loyal natives. REMARKABLE FIND OF MINER. Senators Work on Sunday. Live Lizzard Found Imbedded in Solid finance Washington. The senate Rock in Montana. committee observed the' Sabbath by Great Falls; Mont. mile at work considering and adopting the paragraph of the tariff bill relating to sine in the Lakeside coal mine in 'Sand ore. Ten per cent ore and over Is coulee, near here, Moses Martlndale, made dutiable In .three classifications, a miner, made a very remarkable dis10 per cent 'ore and over paying one covery, which Is attracting a good deal third of a cent; 20 per cent ore and of curiosity. About nine feet from s of a cent, and 30 pel the surface. Imbedded in the solid over, cent ore and over, 1 cent. The Mis- rock in which he was at work, he unsouri sine producers are satisfied, but covered a lizard, which, so far as the some doubt exists as to Senator Hey-burHis O. K. Is required for some formation of the rock and the surrounding country Is concerned, must . reason. have been there for thousands of years. Attacks Carnegie's Pet 8cheme. There was absolutely no means by Buffalo, N. Y. Andrew Carnegie's which the lizard could have gotten In library Idea was attacked at the con- there since nature closed the ference of charities and corrections on When first uncovered the npreptile gap. apSunday by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of peared to be torpid, and while it moved the Free Synagogue, New York. With- it made no effort to escape. When out naming Mr. Carnegie, Rabbi Wise brought to the light, however, it more showed said: "To call a man who has crushed signs of life, and now his enemies singly and in groups a Is on exhibition at the home of Mr, public benefactor, Is a lie. We need Martlndale. where it has been visited Justice more than we need libraries." by a great many curious people, and A. J. McKelway, assistant secretary of so far there Is no evidence that it the national child labor committee, has been affected injuriously by its long fast and imprisonment In the spoke on "Child Labor In the South." solid rock. Freaklshness of Electrical Storm. ' ; Mortally Injured by Lion. InColfax, Wash. A remarkable stance of the freaklshness In electrical Nalvasha, British East Africa A storms Is reported from the farm ol member of the party of F. C. Selous. August Slier, seven miles south of Col the noted African hunter, and George fax. 8Iler's son narrowly escapee McMillan, a nephew of the late r death and a team, valued at $600, an McMillan of Michigan, was a dog were Instantly killed. Young brought In here Tuesday, mortally Slier waa harrowing with six horses wounded by a Hon. The mans name driven abreast when the storm broke Is Vl!linms. and he was In the serA blinding flash of lightning occurred vice of Mr. McMillan ss a It knocked the boy senseless', lnstaatl) The encounter with the Hon secretary. occurred killed the dog crouching beside him In the Sotlk. district, where the party and struck down the outside horse oi has been shooting. The' Roosevelt either side without even knocking party left here ten days ago for the down the four inside horses. Sotlk district, but nothing has been heard of the expedition since Its de' Soldiers Order Carload of Liquor, But parture. Do Not Get It Junction City, Kan. A carload, ol Chinese Foreign Loan Not Ratified. Pekln. Acting on representations liquor ordered by the soldiers of Fort Riley arrived here Sunday, but Colo made by Henry P. Fletcher, charge nel Ward, the commandant, would d'affaires of the American legation, not let the men have It. The colonel China has agreed not to ratify' the put guards over the car and Insisted foreign loan of $27,600,000 from Britthat It must be sent back to Kansas ish, German and French bankers for City. The stringent laws recently the construction of the Hankow-Sze-Churrailroad. It Is expected that passed by the legislature make It to buy liquor In Kansas. The this avfusal,' coupled with the represoldiers, rot I ve under the enforced sentations made by the .American and dry conditions, placed liberal orders ambassadora In Paris, Berlin will result In arrangements with a liquor spent who was here being made In Europe for American last week on pay day. nartlclpatlon In the loan. . . . . ' two-third- Sen-ato- CAUSE Venerable and Beloved Preacher; Author and Philanthropist In piano ; Norfolk, ' Va, Packed, Closet Earthly Career. boxes and evidently ready for sjito. mem, u quantity oi nnes anaammunttlon, believed to be destined for - waa dls Venezuelan revolutionists, covered at Franklin on Monday., The rifles are said to be a part, of a con signment of 15,000 Mauser . weapons shipped from New York to St. touts and back to Franklin, billed as pianos, and packed to weather die trip to South America. The filibuster suspect steamer Nantlcoke was lying near Franklin, apparently awaiting a chance to take the consignment on board. The rifles and ammunition, It Is said, were stripped first from Belgium to New York and several days ago the rumored plot to send them west and from there back to the south Atlantic coast for shipment to the revolutionists, was .reported , at Washing ton," and orders were sent - out to Watch' for suspicious craft. The collectors of all South Atlantic ports have been ordered to prevent the1 Nantlcoke and the tug Despatch from clearing. BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT DEAD. Waa One of Dom Pedro's Ministers Who Had Risen to the Presidency ' Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Alfonso Mo reira Penna. president of Brazil, died on June 14. He .was stricken with influenza on June? 2, and although quite seriously Ill for a time, Improvement was noted on June 6, which continued until Saturday. The president then suffered from relapse, and there were marked pulmonary and gastric symptoms. Dr. Penna was elected to office by universal suffrage In the twenty federated states in 1906, and assumed office November 15 of that year. His term would iiave expired in 1910. He was a native of the state of Mlnas Geraes, and his success was the outcome of a coalition of the principal states against Sao Paulo, which has Dr. supplied all past presidents. was one ol. Dom. Pedro's minPs7 isters who accepted and ' supported the republic after Its proclamation of Independence. He had been president of his state and governor of the Bank of the Republic of Brazil. He was of the republic and president of the senate at the time or his election to the chief magistracy. . WOMEN PROVED HEROES. IN TEXAS TOWNS DEATH AND SUFFERING OF HALE Consignment of Rifles and AmmunlJ tlon Intended for Venezuela Found Packed In Piano Boxes. , SL . . SUBMARINE SUNK IN COLLISION tank In llfflll PREPARING FORTROUBLE - - Marseilles. Prance. From seventy-fiv- e to one hundred dead and one hundred' Injured Is the estimated total casualties, as the result of the earth-euaX- e which devastated several towns fn the southern part of France, on June 11, particularly la the departments of Herault and Bouches du Rhone. Great suffering Is reported, owing to a lack of bread and other necessaries of life. The casualties may be greatly Increased, as the ruins nave not yet been searched. The villages of SL Oannat and Rognes were completely demolished, and Tambea, which Is twelve miles from Alz,' suffered heavily. Survivors are finding shelter In tents. In many places the streets have been torn up and are encumbered by masses of rocks, making them Impass. able. Houses and public buildings were crumbled to pieces. Among other villages seriously damVenelles, Vauvenargues, aged are Pellasanne, Puy Ste. Reparade and TORNADOES DEATH The Department of Justice Assigns Two Agents to Examine Into Con- - Many Lived for Hour,. Imprisoned by" Debris, Before They Died. Crest Suffering of Refugees Owing to Lack of Necessaries of Life. ter. second-clas- MADE lf( RUSSIA HQUAKE to One Hundred From Seventy-fiv- e Killed and Hundreds Injured by Seismic Disturbance. ron, wlt s Rntttred Feb. II, 1101, as matter, Post Office, at Spanish Fork, Utah. Act of Congress March I, 1171. 17, 1901). Several People Killed When Houses Were Torn From Their Foundations. Train Blown From Track. ... t ffa Paso, Texas. A tornado Thurs- -' day night almost destroyed the little town of Hamlin, In central western Texas, on the line of the Kansas City, Had Been for Three Quarters of a Mexico ft Orient railroad, seventy, Century a Distinguished Figure five miles northeast of Big Springs. Throughout the United 8tates Three persons were seriously Injured. and Foreign Lands, His Nsms In a tornado at Leuders, Texas, A. . Being a Household Word. Golurp and three children were killed. Mrs. Golurp and A. Anderson were seriously hurt. Thirteen houses were Boston. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, wrecked and scores of cattle were D. D., chaplain of the United 8tatea killed. A heavy hall accompanied the senate, Unitarian divine, philanthro- wind. At Merkel, Texas, three louses pist, author, journalist and lover of were wrecked and a score were blown from their foundations. Has- -' peace, breathed his last as the mornwas on ing light breaking Thursday, kell, Texas, also was hit by the storm and serious damage done. June 10, at his home In Roxbury. During a terrific windstorm a pas On his return from Washington. few weeks ago, It was reported that senger train on the Kansas City, Dr. Hale was not In good health, but Mexico ft Orient railroad was blown from the bridge across the Brasos he' soon regained his activities and. river between Knox City and Benjauntil Tuesday, attended meetings and min. Texaa. J. E. Stafford of CrowelL recleved friends. Texas, a passenger, was killed. Seven It seemed as If the whole country persons were Injured, none fatally. Joined In mourning the loss of Dr. SLAIN BY JEALOUS RIVAL. Hale. Messages expressing sorrow and esteem poured Into the Hale household, ons of the first being from Victim of Mysterious Murder In New 'York Has Been Identified. President and Mrs. Taft, For of a century and New York The dismembered body more Dr. Hale had been a distin- of a murdered man which, wrapped guished figure throughout the United In oilcloth, was left by a stranger la States and In foreign lands. Literary the care of a boy In Catherine street work and a ' remarkably effective Thursday night, has been Identified as "Lend a Hand society," which he or- that of Samuel Bersin, 22 years old, street. iginated, made his name a household a painter of East Ninety-eight' Subsequently the man's head, which word even In far countries. Dr. Hale's literary career began un- was missing, was found lying on of Refuse under the Brooklyn usually early, for six years after his birth he was studying Latin under the bridge seme distance from the point direction of his father, Rev. Nathan where the body was left. Benin Hale. His studies were continued at came from Russia about two years was at first believed te the Boston Latin school and at Harhave been the motive, but the case vard college. Besides being a preacher. Rev. Na- took on a new phase on Friday when than Hale was a printer, and In his Mrs. Mollle Isaacson, the murdered office the son Edwsrd learned type- man's sister, Informed the police that Bersin bad been greatly depressed for setting and developed a leaning to the last month because a wo, wards newspaper ork rwhlcb- during man, with whom be "was layoung. love, had course he cul at his college Harvard, forbidden him to call upon herjfMrs. tivated by becoming a reporter on the Isaacson said that Bersin had a JealBoston Advertiser.- In later years, al- ous rival for the girl's affections and though he' had elected to follow his stood much In fear of the man. father's calling as a clergyman of the Through this clue the ' police hope to " Unitarian faith, he became editor of solve the mystery. at the chair the Advertiser, occupying Peculiar Defense In Murder Caae. the time of the civil war. Dr. Hale's Butte. J. B. Sullivan, a well known '.over the pastorate at ,Worcheater Church of Unity, followed service with saloonman of Butts, was acquitted by a number of smaller churches. The a Jury on Friday of the murder of South CongregatIonal church of Bos Joseph Saler l,n thjs city. Saler was" ton became Dr. Hales ministerial shot by" Sullivan September 8. 1908. home In 1856. Since 1899 Dr. Hale and died two weeks later.' The de. has been pastor , emeritus of the fense set np by Sullivan's attorneys was that SalerV death was not iue . , ... .parish. '..As Dr, Hale's J age advanced, his to the wound Inflicted by Sullivan,' friends delighted . to celebrate his but to defective surgery and medical treatment. This defense Involved a Especially . . noteworthy number of doctors, and birthdays, ' nearly disthe occasions of his seventieth .were, soBow Sliver the Medical rupted, and eightieth anniversaries, at both ciety, charges being filed with the soof which public meetings were held. ciety against several of Its member In 1892 a purse of $5,000 was given, and resulting In a hearing and dam? while' In 1902 a fund of 128,000 was age suit The doctors finally compro. mlsed their difficulties. raised. i three-quarte- . h ago.)-Robber- - Remained Cool and Courageous Under Firs of Fanatics. ' Manila. The courage and coolness under fire of the American women at Davao during the siege of the convent In which all Americans were gathered during the mutiny of June 6th when a part of the company of Ph'tlpplne constabulary at that post revolted, Is the subject of warm praise In a private message received on Monday from Davao, Which contains further details of the affair. After the attack on the barracks, which fell Into the hands' of the mutineers, all the Americans of the post and sixteen of the naue constabuWar Among Koreans. lary who remained loyal, gathered In Franclaoo. San Accusing them of the convent ' and repulsed the assaults of the mutineers The womon ha1ng circulated reports that he was remained cool and unafraid ' during mentally deranged, Chong Bong Wha, the defenae of the building and as- a Korean, shot and wounded Yang sisted the men In every way possible. Sun Song and Yong Kim, fellow countrymen, at the Korean mission A. MENTAL PRODIGY. on Thursday and then commltteiLcut- cide. Chong probably will die, but Boy of Fourteen Receives Diploma ss Kim's wound Is not dangerous. The a Bachelor of Arte. had Just arrived from Los former Medford, Mass. Norbert Welner.s Angeles, and expected to sail for his senior In Tufts college, this city, who home In Korea on the next steamer was 14 years old on June 18, has re- bound for the Orient. Wha Is be ceived a diploma at the college com- lieved to have been insane.' mencement as a Bachelor of Arts. his not receive And only will be Montana Court Values Llfs at Fifteen Bachelor of Arts, but he will - Thousand Dollars. be entered on the rolls of Tufts as Mont Helena, that the Holding having completed' a full four years' damages awarded Mrs. C. Q. Young course In three years. Welner Is the most remarkable against the ilelena Light ft Railway student on the roll of any college or company for the death of her hus university. When he was 18 months band, who was run down br a Ilelena old. he knew the English alphabet; at street carTa year aeo, to be excessive; 3 years he could read and write; at the supreme court cut the award from 6 he studied Latin; at 6 he had mas-tre- d 140,000 to 113,000 Unless this arithmetic, algebra, plane and Is accepted within thirty days, solid geometry, at 8 he read books a new trial Is ordered. .'This Is the In Latin, German, French and Russum ever awarded In Montana sian readily; at 9 he could reason largest for personal Injuries, ' Young.,. was a problems In trigonometry and calcu- lumber merchant to the was lus and perusing given works of the snclent philosophers. Applicanta for Marriage Licenses Must Undergo Medical Examination. Emperor William Greets Clergymen. Seattle, Wash. The new state law Berlin. The emneror on Monday for marreceived In audience st the palace at providing that applicants Potsdam sixty English clergymen. He riage licenses must undergo medical made a brief speech In English, ex-- r examination, except where the woman regains the real nleanure It rave him la forty-fivyears old, went Into efto aee the representatives of the Eng fect on June 10. Ten couplea aplish cnnstian churches in ucrmany. peared at the license clerk's office He hoped the visit would tend to with physicians' certificates, and two promote the good feollng between the couples, when informed of the new torn kindred natfons. Sit Will Mil E. law, said they would go to British Donrhen, the British ambassador to Columbia to marry. County officials we in dentat- say the law will result In many Introducing Germany, ion, said that they came In the In- Americans marrying In Canada. terests of peace and good rtlL ' e Stampede for Gold Strike. Nev. This city was almost depopulated Friday by the rush of gold seekers to the Salisbury wash strike in the Ellendale district, where fabulous surface values are reported Automobiles, wagons, carriages,1 horses and burros Jammed the road to the new camp and every wheeled vehicle In town was pressed Into service. The country about the strike for a distance of ten miles Is studded with location monuments and posts and there Is not a foot' of vacant ground to be had. The surface show. Ings are said to Indicate the richest gold deposit In the world. Goldfleld. Town In New Mexico ie deluged by Flood. Trinidad, Colo. Reports . received here from Folsom, N, M, tell of a cloudburst and hailstorm that swept that", region Friday morning. The deluge' waa followed by a flood. AH the business houses hsve been closed' ' and the population has fled to the hills for safety. At last reports the flood was sweeping down the arroya where last August six were drowned In a n similar deluge. From Folsom to the low lands have been transformed into an Inland sea. Cim-maro- Stabs Sheriff en the Gallows. Florencevllle, Texas. Using as a weapon a metal spoon sharpened to a keen edge, Refugio Juarequen, sentenced to hang for criminal assault. fought desperately on the scaffold on Friday to prevent hta execution and succeeded In stabbing Sheriff Wil liam Wright over the heart when he attempted to adjust the black cap. The blade, however, was deflected. when It struck a bone and the wound Is not considered serious. The man proteated Ms Innocence of the crime for which he waa convicted, . |