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Show 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. NOTICE pamsh 'Fork Press IHE SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY J UNE VOL. VIII. NO. 21. s R OT Pit C CAUSING DEATH ME OF Oregon Farmer Blows Up His Own Home, Killing His Wife, Daughter and Himself. art Non-Unio- May 14 There Hae Been an In. crease of 105 In the Number of National Banks In Oklahoma, Bine 71 , 4 lllll LANDSLIDE OF JEFF HID Memorial Park In Kentucky Town Purchased by Admirers of Con. federate Chieftain Is For. j mally Dedicated. Prominent Men Are Charted With Making Fake Reports to State Bullion Tax Collector. Falrvlew. Ky. Among the trees have grown up about the birthplace of Jefferson Davis since the year, early in the nineteenth century, United States Oliver ef Senator when the Davis family removed to Wiland Senator Pennsylvania Mississippi, the Jefferson Davis Meof Pittsburg Are liam Flynn morial park was dedicated on ThursConnected With the Prop-day, Northeast across the state Is erty Being Inveetigated. Hodgenvllle, near which Lincoln was born eight months after his great op. ponent. indictNev. Forty-siIn September, 1907, when the gray . Goldfleld, ranks of Kentuckys famous "Orphan ments were returned by the grand brigade" met In Glasgow, Ky., at the Jury on June 4 against officers of the Peak and . Florence-Goldflel- d grave of General Joseph H. Lewis, Plttsburg-SUve- r their commander, former Mining companies of this Governor Buckner of Kentucky, broached tho state, charging that false reports had bulplan of the Jefferson Davis Memorial been made by them to the state were lion tax collector in connection with association. Subscriptions started, the women of the south aid- the output of properties. The names ing ably, and when all but $4,000 had of those Indicted were not made pub- s been raised to purchase seventeen lic and will be withheld until the named are served to appear. acres at Falrvlew, General Bennett The action of the grand Jury Je H. Young, commanding the Kentucky viewed with great Interest, because Veter division. United Confederate ans, advanced that sum and made the of the fact that many prominent men are connected with the companies in memorial possible. Oratory, music and flowers made official capacities. United States Senator Oliver of the day notable. A basket dinner and William a barbecue were provided by the peo Pennsylvania and Senator ple of Todd and Christian counties, Flynn of Pittsburg are connected whlrh share equally the town of with, the Silver Peak mine, while A. x tier-son- i Packing Company Pays $86,000 Fine Topeka, Kan. That the Cudahy Packing company has paid $82,000 to the government, this being the amount due under the Indictments se cured against the company for alleged violation of the Internal revenae laws, Is announced by United States Dis trict Attorney IL J. - Bone. Indict ments on C95 counts are now pending against the company. The company h was charged with putting a cent revenue stamp on oleomargarine that required a 10 cent stamp. one-fourt- e ;.' p - p I Tor-- . rent. a Detroit ft Machllnac railroad locomo tlve standing unguarded, with steam up, Joseph JeskonnkI, 12 years old, climbed into the cab, pulled the throt tie wide open and Jumped to the ground again, ss the engine went spinning down the tannery sidetrack toward a standing freight train. The wild locomotive and several freight cars were domollshed in the resulting e.msh. The damage amounted to $3.' 000, and the boy, who was slightly In. Jured, was arrested. BURNED TO DEATH. Carelessly Dropped Match Causes Awful Tragedy. Mont. Fred Bach man, a par Butte, alytic, is lead from burns received as he lay on a couch smoking a pipe. Lighted ashes or a carelessly dropped match lighted, a curtain, and Bach man, unable to move or utter a sound, was slowly enveloped by the flames, which covered him from head to fool and burned the bedding from under him. In an adjoining room lay Bachman'i mother, also suffering from poralysU and unable to move hand or foot to save her son. The fire department extinguished the flames. Bach man was a well known bricklayer and a pioneer resident of the city. He was stricken with paralysis a Week ago. cap-ture- " Torpedo Exploded on Man's Heao. Denver. A railroad torpedo, useo to stop trains when the tracks are blocked, effectually stopped Claude Hackney. Riding on the rear plat form of a special train carrying an Eagles' picnic crowd from South Platte to Denver, Hackney became embroiled with Tom Brcnnan, who seized a trainman's lantern and struck A Hackney over the head with it. torpedo attached to tee lantern struck Hackney's forehead and exploded, tearing out one eye and injuring him so badly that recovery is doubiruL PARALYTIC e Cloudburst Transforms Creek to Bartender a Good Marksman. Bingham, Utah. Pete Bogdan shot tnd Instantly killed George Donlch In the Derkely Club saloon there at 2 o'clock Saturday morning. Donlch entered the saloon about half an hour before the shooting occurred, and began to swear at Bogdan, the bartender. He finally became so enraged that he pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot at Bogdan. The bullet went wild and entered a post fupporllng the building. Seeing Donlch again preparing to shoot, Bogdan brought his own revolver Into play tnd killed the man. y , e vice-preside- General Young, a former lieutenant ot the gray, wrote the chief address of the day, and it was read by Colonel Milton. General Young asserted that every southern state should rear a shatt to Jefferson Davis, whose char acter and sufferings he dwelt upon. He paid high tribute to Lincoln, saying that the time had come when men might speak kindly and truly ot the past. The plan is to raise $V),000 more with which to build a memorial temple to contain all the records of the confederacy and to remodel a residence on the Davis farm to bouse the widows of confederate soldiers. two-stor- LEPERS ARE CURED. . 0 Mandeville, La. By the collapse of a freight wharf here, upon which about sixty-fivpeople had rushed early Sunday evening to board the excursion steamer Margaret on her return trip to New Orleans, eleven persons are known to be dead, and a rescue party Is searching for bodies of seven other persons who are missing, All were residents of New Or leans. The Margaret did not land at the wharf to which she was accustomed to tie up. Instead she ran into a dock built especially for skiffs and small craft. This small wharf was pulled by the steamers ropes entirely sway from the main pier, and some twenty people went into the lake In about eight feet of water. The cries and shrieks of those precipitated into the lake were heard all over this place, and many men rushed to the wharf to join in the work of rescue. The officers and crew of the Margaret rescued many by throwing them life preservers. Floods In Idaho. Spokane, Wash. According to reports received from Le wist on, Idaho, the Clearwater river is a raging torrent and Is rapidly reaching the high water stage of 1834. The Commercial Trust company's bridge at Lew-lto- n la liable lo go. The Snake river Is seventeen feet above low water, and one foot below the highest record. Several houses on the lowlands are flooded. At Kantian, onr tone p!er for the new stet-- bridge has been washed away. At Freer, a rise of another foot will block the railroad. , FOR HERO FUND. Excursionists Precipitated Into Lake and Eleven Are Known to Have 7 Been Drowned as Result of Accident. Compliments Magoon and Barry. Washington. President Taft trans mitted to congress with a special mes sage on Saturday the report of Chas, E. Magoon, who served as provisional governor of Cuba during the Iat American occupation. , The president takes occasion to congratulate Gov ernor Magoon warmly and gives high praise to Major General Thomas 11 Barry, who was In command of the United States forces. Th president said: "I am glad to express the hope that the new government will grow it. capaclt) strength and under the provisions ot the Cubau con Btitutlon." FRANCE. .:. '- , i DAVIS Held Prisoner by Indian Police. Los Angeles. Ralph Rogers, a banker or this c'ty, has Just reached I.os Angeles from Palm Springs, Riverside county, and relates a thrilling story of how he and his son, Leslie Rogers, were attacked by two Indian police from the Agua Callente reservation, (to whom they surrendered aler being shot at several times. The them to Indians, then handcuffed gither and held them In the hot sun on the desert for eight hours with the temperature at 115 degrees. The trouble arose over a question of land ownership. IN Regular Passenger Service Through the Air to be Established. Paris. The French Aerial league has perfected plans for lines of dirigible balloons from Paris respectively to Nancy, Lyons, Pau and Rouen. Five dirigibles will be employed in this ser vice. Their length will be between 60 and 80 meters. Two Wll have a capacity of 4,500 cubic meters, one of 5,000 and two of 7.000 cubic .meters. Alt will be capable of an average speed of 31 miles an hour. One of the dirigibles, which has been named Wille Nancy," has been constructed. and the Paris-Nancline, with a dally service stops will be made at Meaux and. Rheims. . paid Roosevelt Flooded as Result of Slide Carnegie Extends His Operations to France, "America's Only Ally." Three MJIes In Length. Boise, Idaho. A special to the , Paris. Andrew Carnegie's letter to Statesman from Roosevelt, Thunder Premier Clemenceau, donating $1,000,-00to the ' hero fund," was made pubMountain, May 31, via Smiths Ferry, lic Saturday. Mr. Carnegie writes that June 2, says: success of the fund in Canada, , "A landslide three miles in length the end 200 feet wide, that piled up along America and England Induced the deMule creek to a depth of 100 feet, oc- sire to extend the benefits to France, curred here today. The creek was "the only ally America ever had." Afforced out of its bed, the back waters ter expressing his gratification that an flooding Roosevelt until, as this word era of peace and good will between is sent, most of the buildings In the France, Great Britain and America now Is established, Mr. Carnegie said: town are floating. "War Between these taree powers "The placer property of Caswell & Curran is destroyed, the giant ma- is inconceivable. They are marching together, toward the suppression ot chinery and pipe being luried. No the world's worst evil the murder ot lives were lost and no one was Inman by man, as a means ot settling jured so far as known. .; International disputes." "Everything Is In a chitotlc IMPROVING NATIONAL FORESTS. CASE POSTPONED. Thousands of Dollars to Be Spent on Roads and Trails. Prominent Men to Testify in Celebrated Panama Les Majeste Trial. Washington. Six hundred thousand Indianapolis. Judge Anderson on dollars will be spent during the fiscal Wednesday continued till October 11 year 190S1909 for the construction of the hearing of the case growing out roads, trails, telephone lines and other of the publication of the Panama graft permanent Improvements on the nacharges. This was done on the gov- tional forests. Congress has appropurernment's contention that such delay priated the same amount for this 1909-191was necessary in order that the, wit- pose during the fiscal year of nesses might t heard. In order that the forest rangers Prominent financiers, polltlc'ans and government officials must testify may cover the large area contained in the district, it is very necessary that In the criminal libel case of the govof trails be constructed ernment agalnt Delavan Smith and a system Charles R. Williams, owners of the along routes which give the best control of the areas to be patrolled. Indianapolis News. Health Officers Want Government to Strikers Overpower Deputies. Protect Living from the Dead. . Cal. The power-housSisson, and That danger lurks in Washington. d lighting plant at McCloud were of the bodies ol the transportation by the striking shingle mill emwho from Infectious died have those ployes on Wednesday and the town was In darkness Wednesday nlg:u. diseases was made evident at SaturBetween 300 and 400 armed strikers day's session of the annual meeting of inarched on the plant in a body late the conference of state and provincial boards of health of North America. In the day, drove off the twenty-fivcommittee appointed to report on The on sheriffs deputy guard and took possession, compelling the men at work the subject found fault with the presto quit. The deputies deemed it use-les- s ent system of shipping bodies from to attempt resistance, and left one state into another, and pointed out when ordered to do so. Not a shot the necessity for changes In the preswas fired. Troops have been ordered ent regulations, adopted twelve years ago. to the scene of the trouble. Hold-uKnocked Out. Woman Was Probably Murdered. Utah.Deliberately feigning Ogden, Los Angeles. As a result of the drunkenness to allow a supposed highof the body of Mrs. Eugene wayman, who was shadowing him, to Bennett, it Is learned that strychnine overtake him and go through his pock-et- a was- found to have been the cause of man the hold-uand then death. This announcement has been a knockout handing under the chin, was punch made by the district attorney's office. the method employed by Nets Larson Harper B. Bennett, a real estate man, In capturing a "bad man," Policeman tiusband of the woman, is being held Dan Martin be'ng summoned after the for preliminary examination. Bennett was down and out from highwayman hod brought suit for $50,0OO damages the punch delivered by his victim. against a local grocery firm, alleging The highwayman gave the namo ol that his wife had been killed by pto- Clyde Irvin and . the "hold up' took maine poisoning, due to eating canned place on Washington avenue. chile con came. ROUTE BALLOON tribute to the activities of Lafayette and other French allies of the AmerThe presentation ican revolution. ceremony brought out one of the most brilliant assemblages since the- earthquake of. April, 18, 1908. MILLION IN IDAHO. BIRTH Limon, Colo. A cloudburst transformed the Big Sandy, ordinarily a dry creek. Into a raging torrent which spread out over the lowlands, ot the Col- causing mucn damage to crops. While D. Parker, orado Southern railroad, and Thomas attempting to ford the stream in a Lockhart, a millionaire of Reno, Nev., buggy at a point ten miles from the are interested in the city, Walter West and Miss Alexander were swept along with the current and drowned. The first news of MAY NOT VISIT WEST. the accident reached the city Monday, when the horse they were driving apIllness of Mrs, Taft Will Cause peared at its stable with the empty buggy. Search resulted in finding the of President's Trip. , bodies of the two victims of the flood Washington President Taft on Fri- wedged in behind a tree trunk on the day sent for Senator Guggenheim of bank of the stream. Colorado, who has been active In urgTaft Opens Carnival of Roses. ing the president to visit the , west this summer and Informed Mm "that Portland, Ore. Promptly at noon owing to the continued illness of Mrs. Monday, June 7, Portland's third anTaft he would be unable to make his nual rose carnival was inaugurated western trip as early as he had ex- by President Taft, who was sitting in pected and would have to postpone his office at the White House in until some time in Ihe fall." The Washington. He pressed the telepresident had planned to go west in graph key which set in motion the August to attend the Grand Army en- week of festivity-- which has been arcampment at Salt Lake City, August ranged by the rose festival commitat tee. President Taft's message to congress 10; Denver, August 16; formal opening President Ralph Hoy of the festival of the Gunnison Irrigation project, committee was as follows: "I have pleasure in sending good and 19; Important meetings wlBhes August for the success of the rose at other western cities. festival and greetings to those He also had considered extending participating hearty in it." his visit to Alaska. His change in ' Ban on Sunday Ball Playing. plans will make it necessary to give up these engagements which, howAtlantic City, N. J. Charged with ever, bad been made but tentative. violating an ordinance which prohibThe president expressed much regret its all Sunday amusement, Edward that he would be unable to carry out Bader, secretary of the Atlantic City his original program and that he Athletic club, under whose auspices would have ot disappoln so many the American league Philadelphia friends and organizations from whom team and the Reading TrI State leag. he had received invitations. uers played a baseball game here on Sunday was summoned into police 8AVED EXPENSE OF TRIAL. court Mondap, and fined $200, The game was the first Sunday exhibition Own Montana Murderer Ends Hla of the sort here and was played deLife In a Lonely Spot. , spite the protests ot the Sabbath alliance, the Good Citizens' league and decomKallspell, Mont. The badly the pastors of different churches. posed body of Edward Finley, Who in cold murdered James Rafferty Noted Sheriff Shot Down. blood, shooting him down . without Edward Jackson. Ky. warning In a saloon here on the Callahan, famous throughout this secnight of December 3, and disappear- tion of the state for the part he ing in flight before the officers arin the numerous feuds that rived, was discovered by Mrs. Paul played have Breathitt county for disrupted Raller in the dense underbrush In a was shot from ambush early years, two coulee miles southeast of this Monday, and, it is believed, fatally city last Friday. The ghrMly ca- wounded, at his home In Crocketts-vltle- , daver lay on its back clutching the sixteen miles from Jackson. stock and trigger of a Winchester Callahan had swept out his store prerifle, the same weapon with whltf.i paratory to opening for the day and death had been dealt to Rafferty, was the refuse from the of alleged short change by front brsuhlng door when the shot was fired. the bartender. The entire top ot the The ball took effect In the left side skull was blown off. of the abdomen. 9434,-7634)9- non-unio- n when the mayor, in response, Withdrew From the National System. Washington. During the current fiscal year the national banks of. the sountry have received in deposits a billion $4,826,060,384 more than and a halt dollars In excess ef the entire outstanding money supply of the United States, according to figures made public June 6. The year has been one of exceptional prosperity tor national banks Since May 14, 1908, there has been an increase of 105 in the number of na ttonal banks. Of the number that went into liquidation, 71 were in Oklahoma and withdrew from the national system to reorganize under the state law to take advantage of the state guaranty law. Notwithstanding the unusual number of banks withdrawing from the national system, the aggregate capital, surplus and profits ot the banks reporting on April 28, 1909, amounted to $1,729,057,010, or an increase of $58,580,428 in the year. Loans and discounts Increased deposits, $513,403,584, and total resources $774,261,145. non-unio- n to save them from harm. The imported crews proved a disappointment to the company, many of them deserting their cars at the first sign of trouble and leaving them standing in the street at the mercy of " the mob. OF which Strike-Breake- re rar sixty-fi- ve figures Just Made Public Show an Enormous Increase of Business for the Current Fiscal Year. Attempts of Street Car Company to Rod n With Men Oregon City, Ore. In a fit of InsanResults in Fierce Battle. ity, Bert Garrett placed a charge of dynamite under the kitchen of his house, twenty miles from here, and blew himself, his wife and daughter, Over Ont Hundred Men Injured Duraged 5, into eternity. ing Conflict, the Another daughter, Villa, aged 16 In a Number of .Cases, Desertyears, who was In the upper portion of the house, was perhaps i fatally Ining Their Cart. jured. The tragedy took place whep Mrs. Garr-- tt and her little daughter Philadelphia. The attempt of the Beulah were Inside preparing break Philadelphia Rapid Transit company to fast. The little girt was Instantly run Its cars with men re- killed, as was Gerrett, who was blown sulted Wednesday night In a, number thirty feet from the bouse against a of serious riots. It was the first ef- tree, almost tearing off his head. The fort to operate the lines at night, and force of the explosion was so great after several futile efforts to get the that Garrett's body was blown twenty cars through the mobs they were sent feet beyond the tree. Mrs. Uarrettwas back to the barns. At least one hun- so badly Injured that she died In an dred men were more or less seriously hour. The effect of the explosion was felt for a great distance. Injured in the rioting. Garrett had acted strangely of late In the Kensington district, where had inquired the quickest means and many mills are located, feeling ran of but never Intimathigh. Mobs of men, women and chil- ed that he wanted to kill the memdren pulled the motormen and con- bers of his family. WMll. ductors from their cars and beat them cars FRANCE HONORS 8AN FRANCISCO. severely. , In many Instances were set on fire. The police were powerless to control the strike sympa- Presents Medal to Commemorate Rehabilitation of City. thizers. When they charged a mob It separated only to form again In San Francisco. Citizens of two rethe vicinity of another car. Several publics commemorated anew on Satpolicemen were Injured. urday the reconstruction of a city In Wert Philadelphia dynamite caps practically annihilated a little over were placed on the tracks and crowds three years ago, and San Francisco restoned the workmen when ceived from the diplomatic representthey attempted to bring out cars, forc- ative of France a great gold medal, ing them to return to the barn. In bearing a sister republic's acknowledgthe downtown section conductors and ment of a heroic achievement, when motormen were pulled from their ears Jean Jules Jusserand, ambassador of and their clothes torn ott by mobs of the French republic, handed to Mayor strike sympathizers. In some cases E. R. Taylor the splendid token of a the terrified men had to be taken to nation's appreciation. The enthusiasm private houses and guarded by police 3f the multitude reached a high pitch s matter, Post Office of Congress March I, 1I7S. second-clas- BANKS ARE PROSPEROUS RESULT OF STRIKE Entered Feb. It, ltOS, a at Spanish Fork, Utah. Act 10, 1909. , Years of Their Lives Are Wasted and They Are Left Desolate. Honolulu. After some of them had spent twenty years of their life in the leper settlement on the Island ot Molokal. ten of eleven lepers who were returned here at the Instance ot the territorial legislative committee for have, been found free of the disease. Or these, two are boys of six and seven years, but the others vary in age from 27 to 79. and some ot them have spent many years, in the settlement. A pathetic feature of thq is the probability that some of the older patients will petition to be returned to the Island, as they have been shut off from the world and tne'r friends so long that they have no place else to go. A few of the patients were sent to the settlement test for before the bacteriological leprosy was discovered, and It is believed that in some cases a natural cure has been effected. But Alpinja. Boy Causes Wreck. Mich. Discovering Poet-poneme- It Trans-Mississip- ; Denverltee Capture Railroad. Denver. The control of the Argentine Central railroad, operating from Silver Plume, Colo., to the top ot Mount McClellan, has passed to syndicate of Denver capitalists. The road, which was built by B. J. Wilcox to transport ore from the Waldorf mine on Mount McClellan to Sliver Plume, is eighteen miles long It Is the intention of the Denver syndicate to extend the road threo and a half miles to the top ot Gray's peak, where a summer hotel will be built. The altitude atta'nnd will be 11,141 feet. Fishermen Have Hard Luck. St. Johns, N. F. Death, injury and destruction formed the burden of a tale brought from fishing schooners, which .after a long imprisonment in the ice fields off the coast of Newfoundland, have finally reached various ports. The death was that of a man who was swept overboard from tho schooner Emma White. The schooner William Cross was so badly crushed by ice that the crew had to abandon her. They walked across the ice to tho shore. The schooner Gallant, after losing her rudder In the Ice, drifted to port in a helpless condition. Funston Fights With Burglar. Leavenworth, Kan. Brigadier General Frederick Funston, commandant of the army service school at Fort Leavenworth, engaged in a revolver fight with a supposed burglar In his quarters at the post early Monday, The man escaped and General Fun. ston was unharmed. General Funston had retired late and remained awake. He had been in bed perhaps an hour when a closet door opened and a man stepped forth. The general saw hlra and reached under his pillow for a revolver. The intruder saw tha motion and fired. |