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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. AKDBCW JENSEN, FablUbw. PLEAD ' SPANISH PORK. v UTAH. A ' WHEN ARRAIGNED ordinance has The been passed by the Provo City council 'There are now three families undei quarantine for smallpox at Spring vllle. The Silver King mine at Park City bas paid $10,225,000 In dividends up to date. A movement has been Inaugurated In Provo looking to the suppression of the slot machines. It is estimated that the windstorm In Salt Lake last week caused $5,000 damage to property. After working two years on the matter, Sandy Is to have electric lights In her streets and houses. Work has begun on the fair buildings nt Provo, and great preparations are to be made for the Utah County fair this year. The home of the Commercial club at American Fork Is being fitted up in elegant style and will be ready for occupancy in a few days. During the storm at Enterprise last week, four or five families were forced to flee from their homes, and the residence of John Alger was completely wrecked. C. F. Jarvis, section foreman for the Southern Pacific at Moline, while anli-clgaret- Steamer British King: Goes Down 150 Miles South of Sable Island- Lives Are Lost and the Remainder of the Crew Saved From an Ocean Grave by Heroic Rescuers. Twenty-seve- n and mental Boston. Suffering, physical, and numerous acts of heroism In saving life rarely equaled In the record of tragedies of the sea attended the loss of the Phoenix line steamer British King, which on Sunday last, In the raging Atlantic storm, foundered about fifteen miles south of Sable' Island and carried to death twenty-sevemembers of the crew. Thirteen members were rescued from the sinking vessel by the Leyland liner Bostonian, bound from Chester to Boston, and eleven by the tank steamer Mannheim from Rotterdam to New York. Five others who had been drawn down In the vortex into which the British King was engulfed, were picked up by the Bostonian from a frail bit of wreckage which they had grasped after a desperate struggle for life In the whirlpool. Two lifeboats from the Bostonlaa walking along the track near that were crushed to fragments and the and locomotive place was struck by a volunteer crews which manned them g seriously injured. were thrown Into the While attempting to control a frao seas while engaged In the work of resaboard tlous horse, Salvatore NarSbla, an Ital- cue, hut all were safely landed steamer. the ian, aged 18 years, was thrown sudThe British King sailed from New denly under the wheels of a street York on the 1st, for Antwerp with a miscellaneous cargo and 150 cattle. car In Salt Lake City and killed. Previous to the appearance of the resLehl farmers and gardners will this steamers every small boat of cuing and spring plant 100 acres of cucumbers the King had been demolished for the Mount Pickle company of SaU there was no way In which the crew Lake. A salting station will be built could leave the ship. on the Salt Lake Route at Lehl. PARKHURST MARKED FOR W. E. Clarks barn at Pleasant Grove DEATH. was destroyed by fire last week, the work of an incendiary, but the firebug Police Officials Said to Have Planned Assassination of Preacher. turned loose the horses that were tied In the barn, thus minimizing the loss New York. An alleged plot to asA. B. Owen, aged 30, a ho had been sassinate Rev. Dr. Charles H. Park-burs- t, following the recent municipal employed in an Ogden hotel for the past eight months, suicided in the election in this city, inspired,' it is asbrush near the city,- shooting himself serted, by a police official and In reIn the mouth. Ill health led to the venge for raids made on certain places deed. by agents of the Society for the PreThe directors of the Beck Salt Com vention of Crime, knqwn also as the Wedpany have let the contract for a $25,-00- Parkhurst society, was revealed when District Attorney Jesalt refinery to be erected neat nesday in Doe proceedrome summoned Joe a where San on the Pedro, Kesslers, H. Shlels John been Acting ings Captain has sidetrack recently private of the West One Hundredth street pobuilt The American Fork creamery is run- lice station; John Phelan, a plain and two civilians, clothes ning again, after having been shut Richard policeman, Wilson and L. Rogers. down for ten days, during which time Rogers, one of the witnesses, and a the plant received a complete over- man named Kelly were employed durconing the last campaign by the Citizens hauling and was put in first-clas- s Union. A few days after the election dition. told Kelly, it Is alleged, of the Rogers The city olfiiclals of American Fork plot to murder Dr. ParkhursL Achare taken a determined stand with cording to statements already made, reference to the selling of tobacco to Rogers said he was approached by a minors. Hereafter any merchant or policeman and asked If he would taka the task of killing Dr. Parkhurst. It party selling tobacco to minors will be Is declared that the policeman said a prosecuted. police official would pay $500 for the The burning of the celluloid films of work, and Rogers asked Kelly if he to go into the scheme, a moving picture machine at the opera was willing for his part $200, while he house in American Fork caused a taking (Rogers) would get the remainder of stampede of the audience, but some of the sum. the cooler heads prevailed and nc one was Injured. ST.JOHN RELEASED. While attempting to cross the road near the Enterprise reservoir during But Was Immediately Rearrested on Charge of Assisting In Murder. the storm last week, C. S. Fackerali Boise, Ida. The defense In the dyhad a narrow escape from drowning, having sunk twice beneath the water namite cases scored Its first victory before he was rescued. Wednesday when Judge Stewart, in It is announced that $50,000 worth the district court, ordered the release of machinery for the new smelter to be of Vincent St. John on a writ ol built at Ogden has been purchased, and habeas corpus. The defendant waa that the contract of furnishing the Immediately rearrested by Sheriff power has been awarded to the Brig- Nichols of Canyon county on a charge ham City Power Co. of assisting In the murder of Steunenberg and the victory While at work on the Rocky Mounwas, therefore, only a technical one. tain Bell Telephone companys line at Still the attorneys for the defense did American Fork. Earl McCune of Salt not coneeal their gratification over Lake City received a very bad Injury Judge Stewart's decision. to his eyes. It is thought that he will lose the Bight of his left eye. Cut His Throat In Jail. The Ogden city council bas passed Norfolk, Va. Louis Brown, 29 years an ordinance regulating the speed ol old, awaiting trial for the murder of automobiles to eight miles per houi Flossie Reese, at whom he threw a through the streets and four miles per lighted lamp which exploded, fatally hour over crosswalks. It is expected burning the woman, committed suithe mayor will veto the ordinance. cide in his cell In the Norfolk jail A representative of an eastern furnl by cutting his throat with a sharp ture manufacturing company Is in Salt knife whlrh he had In some unknown Into the Lake for the purpose of locating a manner smuggled jail. branch plant In Utah. He states that Brown's act was not discovered until a prisoner occupying a cell below from 200 to 600 persons will be em- beard a gurgling noise, and jumping ployed In the plant to be established from hla cot found himself bespatin Utah. tered with blood which had run the floor of the cell above. With hla year-ol- d daughter clutched through in his arms, Samuel G. Klrkman, aged Wanted to Shoot J. P, Morgan. 38, of 8alt Lake, drank from a bottle New York. At a hearing In tha of carbolic acid with sucldal Intent chambers of Magistrate Wahl Mrs. Klrkman was suing for divorce, private In the Tombs police court Wednesday and Klrkman decided he was tired of Mra. G. B. Williams, an English wolife. man who resides at the Hoffman A young man by the name of Warn-Hickbouse, waa committed to Bellevue of Monroe, committed sutrlde to be examined aa to her hospital at the Sevier mine Thursday of last sanity. Mra. Williams was week by taking atrychnlne. He had In front of the offices of J. arrested Pierpont Just put in a couple of abift. He was Morgan ft Co., on a warrant aworn out the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. It. by former Assistant District Attorney laird. She had threatened to ahoot Hicks of Monroe. J. P. Morgan and bis ion. n high-runnin- - 0 Plea of Not Guilty la Entered by the Court, But No Date for the Trial Waa Set. George Adams, connected with a grading outfit, was struck by a train near Laramie, Wyoming, .and killed. The population of Lusk, Wyo., is increasing so rapidly that new school building Is being demanded by the clfc tzens. Mrs. Mary Powell, accused of the theft of several head of cattle from a rancher, will be tried at Laramie, Wyo. in May. Fred Ruprecht, who came to Laramie, Wyo., in 1872, and had lived there ever since, being amongst the oldest business men In the town, is dead. A Japanese track walker slid from an embankment near Apex, Nevada, and was crushed to death between a train and the bank by the southbound Boise, Ida, Accompanied by six deputy sheriffs and Pinkerton detec-;lveall armed with Winchester Harry Orchard was taken from Boise to Caldwell Thursday morning to be arraigned for the murder of former Governor Steunenberg, to which he is Orchard illeged to have confessed. declined to enter a plea, but the court directed that a plea of not guilty be entered for him. Attorneys Coxe and Bryan of Payette were appointed to defend Orchard. No date for the trial was set, but It is understood that the passenger train. hearing will begin immediately after Charles F. Miller, formerly probate the conclusion of the trials of Hayof Laramie, Wyoming, and for Judge wood, Moyer and Pettibone. many years prominent in the live stock business of Wyoming, died last week HAMILTON HAS HIS SAY. at the home of his sister In Culpepper, Money Was Given Him With Knowl- Va., aged 72. edge and Approval of Trustees. .Two fires at Missoula, Mont., which Albany, N. Y. Andrew Hamilton ap- for a time threatened to destroy a peared before the Insurance investlga-tin- large portion of the residence district committee Thursday afternoon of Missoula, resulted in a loss of $5000, aud broke the silence which he bas and the burning of several horses and maintained, except for his statement hogs. The wind was blowing 35 miles brought from Paris by John C. Mc- an hour at the time of the fires. Call, ever since his name was first The Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad, mentioned in connection with the the line now under construction by great sums of money shown to have Senator William A. Clark and his been paid to him during the past ten brother, J. Ross Clark, Is now in opyears on account of his legal and leg- eration as far as Indian Springs, forty-fou-r islative work for the New York Life miles from Las Vegas, and a large and other insurance companies. of freight and passenger bus! amount He declared unequivocally that every payment to himself by the New York ness for the Nevada gold fields is beLife was made by the knowledge and ing handled. approval of the trustees, especially of The sugar war between Claus the finance and auditing committees, and roundly scored the officials of the Spreckles Western Sugar refinery company, who, he said, were not fit to and the Sugar Factory company cl administer the affairs of the company. Honolulu, has caused, the former company to bring raw sugar to the coast LOCKED WIFE IN BATH ROOM. from Cuba. Mr. Spreckles has put in Then Murdered Actress and Put an a line of sailing vessels for t6e pur from pose. He also gets cargoes End to Hla Own Life. the and Java Philippines. New York. Louis Nosser. a race The officers of the Seventh Infantrack man, locked his wife In a bath room Thursday, and while she was a try, stationed at Fort Missoula, have a petition to the county prisoner there shot and killed Miss presented of Missoula county, commissioners Stella Reynolds of New Orleans, an saloons near the milthe that asking actress, who was a visitor at their be abolished. It is repro post itary Miss seated that the saloons exert a dehome, and then killed himself. Reynolds, it was said, waa formerly moralizing Influence on the soldiers and that their presence tends to dean intimate friend of Nosser. While his wife was in the bath room stroy discipline. Nosser turned the key and went to Logan Blissard, a fugitive convict, was shot and killed by Sheriff John Miss Reynolds room. Their voices, the man's threatening and the wo- Owens of Newcastle, Wyo., one mile mans pleading, were heard by the south of Kimball. Neb., when resisting wife in tue bath room. Mrs. Nosser heard Nosser saying to the woman. capture. Blissard, who was 19 years Theres no use for you and I to live old, was wounded several weeks ago any longer. The best thing I can do while endeavoring to escape with stolen horses. He escaped from the Is to kill you and kill myself. Nosser then shot Miss Reynolds in deputies while being taken to the penthe temple and himself in the forehead, itentiary. both dying almost Instantly. The report comes from Kalispell, Mont, of the loss of $3,000 by the MAY SETTLE QUESTION. O'Brien Lumber company at the hands c of John Peterson, a in highwaymen. Russia May Agitation trusted employee, was carrying the Redound to Benefit of Jewc. St. Petersburg. Out of the violent money from Kalispell to the works at about nine miles distant Near c agitation may come unex- Tomers, mill he was stopped by three men. the pected good to the members of the op- One held the team, another held a gun pressed race. The entire Jewish ques- at Petersons head and the other setion has been raised In acute form cured the currency. and may be settled forthwith. The An agitation has been started for a emperor Is said to be amazed at the bill in the next legislature for a revelations made by the Jewish depof the state Judioial disutation which the' premier received in tricts of Wyoming. It is proposed to audience March 7, and to have inin formed Count Witte that it was neces- place Laramie and Albany counties the first district, Carbon, Sweetwater sary to settle the question. A bill according the Jews equality and Uintah counties in the second disexcept in eligibility to possession in trict, Converse, Natrona, Fremont and the official and military service Is now Weston counties In the third, and the said to have been prepared.- remaining portion of the state in the s, g , Anti-Semeti- antl-somiti- Prisoners are Tortured. St. Petersburg. Professor Courtenay, a member of the Academy of Sciences, In an open letter describes the horrible tortures to which, he asserts', the political prisoners at Warsaw were subjected by Chief of Police Greun. He cites as example of the cases in which prisoners starved, and on four consecutive nights were beaten with clubs. Jumped on. their hair pulled out by the roots and the soles of their feet rut with knives until they signed statements confessing their guilt. To Confer With Operators. Indianapolis. The national convention of the United Mine Workers of America opened at 10 oclock Thursday, with over l.Ooo delegates present, representing 1.461 locals. The convention has been culled by President Mitchell to consider any questions that may arise In an agreement with the coal oKrators that will prevent a general strike on April 1, that would bring 425,000 men from the mines. The conference with the operators will begin here Monday. fourth district The board of education of the Douglas school district 1ms sold to the state of Wyoming for a premium of $146.60 an Issue of $10,000 of 5 per cent bonds, for the purpose of building an addition to the public school during the present summer. Fire In the Rochester hotel, at Taco-m- a caused the loss of $10,000. Many prominent citizens and their families make their home In the hotel, and for a' time there was considerable anxiety ats to their safety, but no one was Injured and the flames were confined to ZXD&4 u4mD7T (Copyright. Because of rouge skilfully applied, the little geishas cheeks were rosy, and because of paint her lips were very, very red, like threads of crimson silk. She wore a klmona of cool, shimmering gray, with storks in erratic flight all up and down It; her blue obi like an overgrown pillow was adjusted with care, and atop of all r under the high, was her face, satiny black coiffure, her slanting eyebrows ah, Art helped Nature there her eyes at once luring and childlike, and the scarlet line that was her mouth. When Raeburn, lately arrived in Tokio, came to the teahouse under the nature rewistarias, his beauty-lovinshe was told that her he and joiced, like roses and gray mist." O Taya San looked pleased, though all she understood was the young Merlcana smiling eyes: but she poured his tea, and clapped her shell-pinpalms together for more cakes, and, when another girl shuffled in, they danced. In movements as graceful as roses swaying In the wind. It was late before Raeburn remembered that he hadnt stopped In Tokio merely to visit teahouses, and that he must get back to Dunns rooms as fast as a rickshaw and a coolie would take him. He was comforted to find that Dunn had turned In; it saved the bother of explanations; only a sleepy servant remained in the hall, to be gently prodded and kicked into wakefulness There was a late and hurried breakfast the next morning, after which Dunn, as a good servant of governmental red tape, went to hla office, leaving his friend to spend the day as he liked. He was pleased to loaf throughout the morning, to write a few letters, to scribble some of the Inevitable post-cardand, late in the afternoon, clad in creaseless white, to travel via rickshaw to a teahouse a certain teahouse with purple curtains of wistaria flowing all around it. O Taya San ftas there, and tinkled away at an instrument that seemed a cross between a banjo and guitar; Raeburn sat himself down, with easy manner of grace, in the cross-leggehis they laughed together over he. quaint efforts to talk Merl-caand the task of teaching was so pleasant that when O Taya San lifted her thick lashes and said, You come he answered, gain some more? Sure, quite as if he were in Tokio only for the pleasure of talking to pretty teahouse girls. Shes beautiful, he confided to Dunn, a few days later, after that cynical person had been jeer Ing at him for going daffy over a mere teahouse girl, kept there for such chumps as you. My dear boy, replied Dunn, languidly Interested, theyre all beautiful in Tokio but youre bound for Manila on serious business matters, and then home, and, let me tell you. If youve a sweet- lily-fai- g long-legge- d vis-a-vi- n, lean-jawe- ftjr love- blue-eye- of immaculate white drill hu ing smile, who could resist l- Ceitalnly O Taya San couU: u Raeburns luggage was pIM hall; his steamer was due to next day for Manila, and be lacing himself with cigarettes You cant take her aloaj know, was Dunns silence!" k- - 1 remark. Who? Your pagan friend, 0 TW who else? Dont you know," continued : forming cne, that the girl D owned, body and soul, by the F old devil who owns that tethoc others like it: dont you h1 you would have to buy ber.P1 you would buy horses at bons' "Dont; I cant stand It; jumped up, pushing his cb noisily: pagan or not, dart shes a dear little girl, and broke up at leaving. "What about her?" came tb( For answer, Raeburn a1 which would have to be rep' on this page by daBhes, and itself out; Dunn beard him In tk! whistling for hla rlcksba. Th) boys a fool, be mu hes got a lifetime to learn It J 1 s. - a pretty geisha learn, but There had been other V but nono like him; when k straight and tall, fair as a roc, with bright hair : from his forehead, with bit query. , The Bates hole, Wyoming, ranchmen anti stock owners have formed an association to assist In the extermination of wolves and coyotes, which have killed considerable stock In that section thin winter. John J. McEuchern of Cripple Creek, Eight Men Horribly Burned. convicted of conspiring to deColo., workmen were Eight Pittsburg. fraud Northwestern Mutual Life tlio burned by an explosion of hot metal in Insttranro has confessed, company, :he converting mill of the Edgar George R. Halt, an under Thomson steel works at Braddook, taker; l.uke Kellogg and John Varley la., on Thursday. The accident was In an alleged plot to awlndlo the above caused by the oerturnlng of a ladle company and several fraternal J which had just been filled from one of the furnaces and was going across the Thomas L. Foster, a carpentar, of rlndcr pit AH the Injured were for- Spokano, threw himself In front of a eigners. They were hurried to this train a ft Pasco, Wash., and had both :lty and placed in the Mercy hospltnl. hla leg's cut off close to the body. The physicians say three will probably Foster dUd half an hour later.- - No lie. the deed In known. etusa There had been other Mericr-none like him, Taya San blossomed like drous flower In a new klmourf with glints of silver woveaK it: she danced, she sang to It songs of Nippon, and he taa l for she was a willing pupUHn his speech. Perhaps, too, there wett things be taught her: for whits I1 the attic. Buildings were shaken and windows shattered for a radius of several blocks in the business district of Bellingham, Wash-by the explosion of a gas tank In th$ rear of Mrs. M. E. Alllce's hair dressing establishment on West Holly street' Mrs. Alllce nnd two other women had marvelous escapes from In Jury. Pub. Co.) Raeburn around to the nicer he knew, and giving him a meet a lot of friendly English But the boy was blind to t charm they possessed blind memory of a girl back home, i no other face than his; hlae; only for a little figure in a i mona, for a face with welcome with red lips pouting chill his kisses. So he forgot, and continue: remember, in spite of Dun sional protests, and the smilk. of those nice English girls. The teahouse under the r. knew him for a frequent g 1906, by Daily Story Vlfef O Taya 8an. heart back in the States, better let this little O Taya San." "That it? Well, let her and all her kind alone; even a gelHha may have a heart, you know. whata-her-nam-e Raeburn towered above him, handsome, flushing with anger: Thats the limit, Dunn; I never broke a heart yet, and Ill not begin with this little beauty. Hla companion laughed a laugh of unbelief but be told his Irate friend to calm down, and wheedled him Into going for n ride. Now, Dunn knew his Tokio well, likewise his Yokohonm; perhapa that U way he made It u point of trotting A curtain of purple bloomy to the breeze: In a teahouse. and clasped, and said goodbye, and r arms again clinging eyes, tears and klsse M1. tears,- One to slay, weepingto that to a geisha Is be( and one to go whirling bar - city. ' The ship was gone, and fol10 dny, all cruelly alike. other eoollea dashed up to house steps, and other Me'1 white aults sat at the 11" but life wan not the same. Because of rouge, nkllfu'1? tho little gclaba'a chocks and because of paint bef eery, very red, like thread son silk; her gray Unions a silken mist, and dor flight trolled all acroa Hj , eye of O Taya San wert . tn ajio did not nnawer when her name. An for Raeburn but Kacn never know. |