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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Christian Andersen, Newtons oldest citizen, Is dead at tho age of 83. Alva Nay of Monroe accidentally shot two of his toes off while out hunting. David Madsen of Mt. Pleasant was badly Injured about the head last week by a hay fork striking him. Louis Iscraan of Salt Lake City Is suffering from blood poisoning caused by the coloring matter in a pair of black socks. Many tons of hay will be lost in the vicinity of Junction through the storms preventing the farmers from gathering it In. The people of Salt Lake City use but 2,300 gallons of milk a day, and It Is claimed that less milk Is used In Zion than In any other city. Richfield now has a perfectly organized fire department, and with the completion of tho waterworks that town will be well protected from fire. Tho assessed value of all the property of Juab county for the year Is $2,744,108, of which $383,352 Is represented by the net proceeds of tho mines. A Salt Lake woman attempted to rid a bed of bedbugs, one day last week, with a lighted candle. She got rid of tho bedbugs, also tho bed and contents of the room. Frank Holmes of Salt Lako City, While oiling some machinery In the cement works, was caught In the belting, his arm being torn from his body, death resulting In a short time. J. II Morrison of Richfield, while driving a mowing machine across a ditch, was thrown to the ground, badly dlt locating his neck, llm life was despaired of for a time, but ho In now out of danger. In tho oro and bullion market of .Salt Luke the month of July closed on AN UPRISING IN CUBA LAZY REBELS ARE SIMPLY TOO TO WORK. Although the Full Extent of the Trouble Is Not Yet Known, the Government Is Able to Cope With the Situation. In spite of tho asseitlon made by Benor Yero, secretary of tho Interior, that the killing of throe men and tho eaptnre of a fourth man, their leader, who had attempted to cause an uprising In the vicinity of Bayamo, province of Santiago, effectively ended the only semblance of an uprising In Cuba, the rumors of uprisings In eastern Cuba were fully confirmed Thursday In the governments reports received from the governor and otbPr officials of Santiago provinces. These are to the effect that slnco the night of Sunday last sixty armed and mounted men have appeared outside villages In the Cauto river district, prolalming a revolution and demanding the payment of the former members of the revolutionary army. No ails of violence have been reported, but the Inhabitants of the Cauto region are excited. The leador of the revolutionary party is tamed Pupo. He Is a brother of one of tlie bandits killed by the rural guard on Tuesdny. f Genetal Rodriguez, comma of the rural guard, Uns ordered the mobilization of all tho rural guards In eastern Cuba nod the governor of Santiago province has been Instructed to enlist ns many volun teers ns may be d emed necessary to vvitli the mounted troops. Secretary of the Interior Yero says there Is no doubt that the authorities will be able to cope successfully with the situation, ns all reports, he adds, agree that popular sentiment Is with the government of President Palma, and that those who have risen In rebellion mostly belong to the wanton lazy class of Puerto Principe. nder-ln-chie- settlements aggregating $1,829,250, this Independent entirely from tho wealth that poured from the furnaces of tho copper smelters. In an altercation In a snloon In was badly Stockton, John Brazier WOMEN FIRE FIGHTERS. wounded with a knife In the hands of a man named Plxton. The knife would Ladles In Spanish Honduras Help to Ibave revered the juglar vein, but that Subde Conflagration. It struck a rtltlly starched collar. A disastrous fire occurred In Ceiba, At Junction last week lightning Spanish Honduias. July 15. tho particstruck one of the shade trees In tho ulars of which have Just been received court house lot, killing a horse which The fire originated In iy stenmer. feet from tho the dwelling house and store of Anwag tied twenty-Ilvtree, and stunning three men who tonio Plzzlatl and spread quickly to wore at least seventy five feet away. the building of the Vaecaro Bros. Mrs. Miles may loco her hand for a Steamship company, thoughth ly taking hold of a cable. frame, the largest building In Central t Siltalr aud Sho was In b tilling America. Many houses caught fire to her enjoyadd would It thought and the flames covered the city. Tho ment to catch hold of the cable that & Alnroz, P. TYVoux moves tho raft, lustcad of that she Stores of Taifitte A Co. several and others of like charIn a the hand her wheel, cog placed member being badly mangled. acter were consumed, together with II. E. Gregory, w ho it Is claimed for- many small stores and residences. The , merly lived In Utah, has been attest- officials and people, under Julio the commandant, and Jose ed at Georgetown, Colo., charged with orearDed a bucket brigade, In making threats to blow up the dam which even the women served. of tho United Light & Power company. It Is claimed this Is the outBRIDGE COLLAPSED. come of trouble between members of nud their union miners the employers. Three Killed and a Number Injured at A Salt Lake judge h is decided that Portland, Oregon. thero Is no valid poll tax ordinance in A section of tho bridge which spans Salt Lake City and has not been since river at Morris the city ordinances were repealed h the Willlamette shortat Portland. Ore., red. collapsed In 1S9S. A who man the legislature had been sued for poll tax Baik tho ly after 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, case Into court and won. Tim citv precipitating more than 100 people forcouncil will puss a ucw ordinance at ty fed Into the water, Threo pimple o two-stor- v Auga-larla- Ta-rart- onco. Tho second crop of alfalfa Is making a rapid growth and cutting lias .il ready begun in some few hot winds and dry weather hue had a iletrlmi ntul effect on this oiop and the yield will probably fall short of the average. For the tint time in four years the pest housi In Silt Lake City Is with out a patient In It. Four years ago when smallpox broke out an old .hom-was secured for an Isolitlon hospital and thero have been patients there ever siiuo. HIDDEN are known to have been drowned an6 It is feared that the list of dead will be much larger when all are accounted for. Many struck on two small boathouses moored to a pier of the bridge Immediately under the spot where were 'It gave way. About twenty-fivon the either by striking Injured, s or by falling timbers. Many people fell from tl j roofs of the boathouses into the water, but dozens of small boats and launches In the vicinity In an Incredibly short time commenced to piek them up. Thousands of people had gathered on the bridge to watch an armless man swtm the river. e boat-house- Pope Leos Successor. No one can tell who will be Leo XIIIs successor, but, considering all things, Gotti Is believed to be the man It Is said that he of the situation. has tho cordial support of Germany and Austria, that Italy is favorable to him, and France would not oppose His good qualities are recoghim. nized by all tho European powers who do not forget his work in Brazil. It Is not generally known that when Gotti was In Brazil he was officially appointed by many European governments to do his utmost to check tho civil war when It broke out at St. Paloa, against President Peh.ioto. a Church. An attempt of half a dozen colored poisons opposed to Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskogee Institute, to ask quest ions at a meeting whlih he was adies!i.g In the Zion church In Boston, almost resulted In a riot, and twenty-fivpollcpinen were called to quell the diiiirbanre. Sev- arrests were made one policeman receiving a deep stab from a bat pin. while a man, said to be one of those opposed to Washington, received sev- eral razor cuts and Is now In the hos- pltnl. After iho arrests Mr. Wash Ingtun was allowed to proceed, and spoke for nearly two hours. Riot In years and one nn n'h. I'ntil reel i tly she had been able to road without glasses. The entire family of D. W. Ward, a merchant of Ballah, Neb., were poisoned by eating sardines. Mr. Ward and three children are dead. Mrs. Ward will recover. A large area of coal, estimated to contain 250,0(10,000 tons has been located In tho Peace River country, B. C. Some of the seams are said to be nine feet thick. The bodies of Mrs. Faille Booth and F. P. Egan, of Morchester, Mass., were found in a yard with their throats cut. It Is believed to bo a case of murder and suicide J. S. McMellan, an American, has died of yellow fever at Sierra Blanca, Mexico. This is the first American to succumb to the disease, although a number of natives have dio;l. Sentiment against negroes in southern Indiana has become so Intense since the recent trouble at Evansville that negroes are daily leaving for the south, where they will seek homos. Pursuit of Convicts Abandoned. Twelve of the desperate convicts who escaped from the Folsom, Cal., penitentiary are still at large and latest developments Indicate that the pursuing officers have become weary of their fruitless search. Following false clews through a rough country under a hot sun has exhausted both civilians and militia. Governor Pardee has Issued an order withdrawing the Placerville company of tho Nn- tlonal guard from the chase, and many members of the sheriffs posses returning to their homes. Boy Saved His Mslher. In the case of John and Elizabeth Wiltrax, on trial In Chicago The jury fir tho murder of Paul Paszzkowskl, returned a verdict of guilty against John Wiltrax, while his wife, Eliza-bellwas acquitted. Twenty five years Imprisonment In the penitentiary was tho sentence rassed upon Wiltrax. The trial attracted much attention from the Re t that tho son of the defendants gave tho most damaging testimony against them, and afterward took tho stand for the defense and denied all his for- mer testimony. i, In the case of the United States against Franklin, charged with causing Pat Hill, a negro, to he held In a state of peonage, brought In a vordlct of guilty. Franklin was fined $1,000. U. N. Rev. H. D. Hitson, a negro preacher, shot and killed his wife in a confectionary store In Kansas City, Kans. The shooting was thp outcome of a divorce suit brought by Mrs. Hilson. Anthony Montanino of Roston was pursued and captured at Chelsea. I. ", n' a duel w th Joseph Mass., following Corso, In which the latter was stabbed to death. The murder resulted from a quarrel. It is statisl that as a result of !w quiry by Austrian and Russian consuls Into the recent events at Austria and Russia will demand the dismissal of the chief of police at Fahmica. At the Populist conference held In Denver last week, the resolutions committee reported an address to the public. which was adopted, declaring that nil differences between the two factions of the party have been settld. Dispatches received In Snlonlca say that eighteen Bulgarian officers have left Foflv for Silonlca for the purnse of renewing the dynamite outrages Several of them are supposed to have already arrived. The population Is anxious, Mrs Ida duller has been arrested at Bunker Hill, Ills., charged with poisoning a ! year old hoy l.y means of poisoned candy. It being charged that she committed the crime because his father had secured a salaried position held by her husband. The government has decided to ac quire a square in Washington, be tween Eighteenth and Nineteenth and E and F streets, located Just west of the state, war and navy building, as a slfo for the proposed hall of records for government archives. The monthly statement of tho public debt shows that at the close of business July 3t, un3. the debt, loss cash In the treasury, amounted to $930,023,2ffi. which is a decrease of $13.01 1,(171 as compared with June, due to a decrease In cash, Walter U. Condon, formerly of Cold-- j water. Mich, said to he heir to $350-joo, was found last Saturday after a long seirch. employed elevator mn doctor In a Chicago office building. Condon left home seven years ago to make a nume for himself, Ex Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii, speaking before the Home Rule con-cation, urged that cong-or- s ho mo-bjorlallzed to giant Hawailn tndepend nc, He so strongly favortsl th sUbllshment of government for th 'Band similar to that of ruba. - 1 mWrJr . 'wife? ' j 1 v i No Donovan there; his place: The sun is fire but a Ive taken the water; Ill tha That scorches, that maddens, I J( nM . need burns unto death. And the waves of his fury beat higher and higher, Till een the gray lizard Is gasping tor breath. The yucca no longer sets gray against doubt, And the best man, I reckon mi ' u,l! in the race. Gray dawn on the desert. The sun sent a ray, Like a first arrow shot by a merciless foe. And tne shades of tho night-timcrept slowly away, And the sands were alight, like a furi ace aglow, Then Human awoke, rubbed hi3 eyes, li ood about ho whispered, Maggie, opened his eyes What matters the pain when t race has been run? And I judge there is justice ic: where neatli the skies, For, oorne through Death's cald: tne lior-- l man had won. Alfred J. Waterhouse, in New T Times. High noon on the desert, high once again, Mid the dry bones of death ehbi white where they fell; The sagebrush has vanished, the And Duncan, a victim to thirst white poppy fled, U its pain, And the sand ocean stretches away and away With tne blood in his veins 11U 1 Oer the desolate leagues of a world liquid of hell, that is dead. Yet staggering on. To and fro, to., White night on the desert. The solfro, emn moon glows Ran the white flames of heat Oer the sands where two camp their devilish play; through the cool of the night And the lying miiage is making and of words, What matters the story show then blows? a green land of peace where t of will men aro fair, While women waters play. cool quaircl and firiit. was fairer by Mi Now Maggie Henry At eve on the desert one found far at rest, is known who maid a Than many Crushed down, beaten low In as a belle; furnace of hell; And Duncan had vowed she should found him, and kissed him, t She shine as li is star. held to her breast. While Donovan's answer Id shudlaved him with water And der to tell. soothirgly fell; And, FARM ON HISTORIC GROUND Rid o nsei-mb'- TALE desert. High noon on the Mrs. lyilia Haricot k is dead at her the ago of home in P.i'iiier, Mas., PICTURE PUZZLE. 1 man won the OFbest THE MOJAVE DESERT policeman. "i-.i- l The body of Roy I urkln, the 1 year old lad who was drowned while butli lng at Silt Ur ott the 2ird. was found on the 28th on Antelope island, at a point four tulles from where Ills comafter Larkin rade, It. E. Wells, lamb-had gone to the bottom. Mart Sanderson has a badly Injured hand, the result of a fall while unload lng hay at his home at Fulrvlew. II. was carried up a distance on a load in ; which the fork was slicking up and in falling ran a tine of a pitchfork through a linger and hand. E. M. Roberts, a deserter from Fort ,,v Douglas, suicided In Park City on Sun day, taking forty four grains of morphine. He left a letter In which lie said he had made two previous at tempts on his life without result, but .hoped to be successful the third time Pod th Farmer L0t tbrrp. Daniel Allen of Fpringv tile may lose Doubt Cardinal In Their Cell. his eyesight as the result of an aeci Hanging In Arizona, dent lietr Chico, Cal., when live Il.lurlo Hida'pit and I'r.inrlseo Rnn The largest conclave In tho history pounds of blietlng powder over whiri. K of tmirdoterx of Goddard i the Catholic church has now assemtod terla, jin and two other men were stooping n t it ton In the Flstlno chapel for tho put In Cox liodd at Frank Feb bled ud In all three being badly exploded, m h.in .e.l In t! e me of electing a slieressnr to Jtire.l, Mr. Allen Is a grading tom ru.iry of this year, tractor. Jail yard at Prescott, Arioni. Friday MIL Sixty two cardinals, with over Earl, the nlm.veir old son of Mr. morning from the ime no .ffold Both 2m clerical and lay attendants, are to I'.rUdmui and Mrs. P. J. I aiven. Tin all Intents and purpose exhibited Iho Rivaled itotve. prisoner City, shot himself In th l"g. InMIci.n.t fruitier smiled tin the wltlitu the Vatican One of them. Caran ugly wound live or six inches long, scaffold and s'ilut"d n number of ue. dinal llerrnra y Espinosa, archbishop ranging downward along the thigh In the riov.il, thqnalntHiices spertie ef Valencia, was prostrated tmuieitl Tho hid was playing with a .22 caliber tors bidding them Adhm Hidalgos utely after entering the conclav and toy pistol supposed to bo loaded with peek was Broken, while Renteria' Hank cartridges. lie 111 In hi celL death occurred from arargulaiioa. e a strik- It Is reported that twenty-onTlf ers were killed by soldiers near Us, Russia, on Saturday. Charles Binsfords of Fulton, Ky., and mistook his wife for a burglar her. shot, fatally injuring DuRobert M. Wilson, editor of the walk to started rant, III., Clipper has to Cape Lisburne, on the Arctic ocean, &,0t0 miles away. Rev. J. L. Ainsworth, pastor of the Giror-ileaPresbyterian church of Cape Mo., was drowned while bathing in the Mississippi river. excitemuch High water caused Sunon ment in North Topeka, Kans., a in number floors first the day, when of houses were Hooded. Three persons were killed and more than a score injured by lightning at New Hope church, Appomattox county, Virginia, on the 3nth. The third trial of former Secretary of State Caleb Bowers as accessory to the murder of Governor Goebel, has begun at Georgetown, Ky. In Vienna the supreme court has decided that marriages between Christians and persons of no particular creed are invalid in Austria. Viceroy Cprzon has telegraphed a lengthy protest to the homo government against saddling India with the cost of the South African garrison. The in gro who killed a policeman at Evansville, Bid and thus started Irom Injuries the recent riot., is ricned in the encounter with tho , e At Montgomery. Ala., tho Jury SEWS SUMMARY. l V4k4k Secretary Wilson is tailing priie directing this work. The porkt the 1 ce estate set apart for purposes Is about the poorest piece land In that section of the country was entirely unfit for agricultural; poses, and it was necessary to an improve it. The expert! ; the Aurii nltuial department to demon-fat- e that the poorest i in the country can he profitably r ized K,r successful farming opera: ' Gen. Lees former home is me in the v the most lr'autilul it of the national capital. Then sron staii, Is on the brow of a: which slopes away half a mile to Iotomao, 2u0 feet below. The t irom the poitico of the olu hern famed for a century. IT I afayotte vas a guest, at Arlir: lie the prospect from porch one of the most beautiful bad ever looked upon. Since La tho view has been chat, site's vi-new beauties have been added, x ome of the old ones were destn y the ravages of war. The icjsj d capitol, with its majestic dorm., symmetrical Washington motnur.1 he beautiful Congressional Jihr ind other architectural features In In t'e pictuie, wi taken their pla maio.-f'trees wd i of grove -- raced the slope below the Imu'e w during the gr.a itterly Iv conliiit ever waged. One of the most famous faims in the United Ftates is being conducted by Uncle Sam on a jiortiun of tho historic estate formeily the properly of Two hundred Gen. Robert E. Lee. aires are set apart for tanning operations. The remainder of the is the National Military cemetery, where aie buried It! 000 Union soldiers win) lost their lives In the civil war. Uncle Fam is not engaged in tanning lor his own profit, says the New York Pi ess, hut for tho benefit of the farmers of the entire country, who will he given the results of tho experiments by the exports in the employ of the government. For mote than a year laborers have been engaged in clearing tho land and preparing it for crops. Modern buildings are in course of cons imci ion, and within a short time the farm w,il be in full operation. Breeding of superior wheat, corn and oats will also lie New fruits will he introattempted. duced. and these already piown in this country will be improved upon. Hist uses of piars, peaches, plums and other fruits will be studied with a view to stamping out the ailments of fruits and making fruit growing mire profitable. Experiments for the purpose of determining the best forage crops and the most economiial plans for Boding cattle will ho some of the features of this interesting place. fa-- c e - 1 mat-ha- it C (l,"-tioy- 1 I GO DACIt TC SAVAGERY There are about hill! a dozen men living somewhere in the interior of tho big Alrieu'i contiuent that the Engli-- h military autlio, ities would hie to interviiw. And it wouldn't he a long illten iew, either. One of ti.se ninth wanted individI uals w In the tormeilv a Russian army, but had to leave It under disgiai e'ul t In umstances. Another Is a ITiiss'an who al.--o got into trouble at hi me. Tho re.--t were Kurop ail soldiers of various natiuualiiies. All of them drit'eil into Ivvpt, where they abjimd Moliammeil.ini m and jnm-the fui ces of the .Valid! when tha on minus party was at th" Ium'.-I.- of his pnwir. Tlielr nii'itary expire me made i hem valuable ami as tie Arabs (boll.!l) tliur umvelts wire Simile and looked ''pon t ieni with tli utim-- t favor, all obtained positions In the at my ot tin Malidi. 3 lie Malidi and bis followers were not inclineii to deal any too gently with Christians who fell into their hands. but thesn apostates vvnt far t tlie i!i rv Mies in erm Uy. TIiciT erne with the Malidi ultimate cime known, and the feeling ti them among th English soldi.R quite ilifiV rent from that felt h the deivishos, who were repaid" brave men and their legitimate -- Chri-tlanit- mi 'S. et, while thousands (,f better: before tl'.e svvei ; of the Ms-the terrible Large at OtmB" these apostati"' estaned. At t ir bodies Were not tuiinl battle field, a it Ik iit-- a moxt G' h was made fir them It' lou d i nr they lb d to the scutl-arrow hiding with s i.i tribes of Afrita or tin Ill Soudan. Flu III J the. eef" it to the hands of the Ki',nk Hut take long to deride Un it Tie rail of the wild, u:irctrj Ilf" is: I lie that at time' uhk a many. It m the old t all m' the J and forori. But there Is Httlo : ot ret laimlng the man who hu r yielded to It. B ll , 111 y, i I ; A tiih with GHOST ker SAVED THE TRAIN ri at cn Recent hiav-- rains In Montana so raised the tm untain streams that quiet creeks bieatno raging (orients which tun atoned the Great Northern railroad at many points. One nlriit tho engineer on ono ot the passm n Mipetstitjous fellow- - vvaa speeding his tiala along at a pretty itlff gait and was rapid v nearing a ti pruearlous spot wiilrit. to common report, was huntcirding tod, when ho was horror 'tib cit to pet.-- , Ve ,n the brightly Miitrii of traek abend a slndowy figure with uplifted waving aims. Trained to art promptly under nil i lreumstnnci he Instlnetlvelv rut iff steam nnd applied the powerful brakes With sparks si reaming fr, U brake shoes, lurching and groaning In every Join. tb mechanism soon rnme to n full in. stop, vest ignt ion showed it t ,e fw feet front a bridge whichhut waga got-train- I , I hanging togi ther hy only a fr i"ds, tin fiuitiiai Ions havirS onipli tidy washed away by tint leek. Tim r.nlcly j ( pmiring t, m, mad" aeipiainted b disturbed t ri w I1 ,t hxrir irinrni th their pm b uth In one tlf its nurd h,r forms tho engineer, tmimw'-r (niiti t g n awe stlli ken tolH xli litis of so 1 gin-a kindly ,,f I'Bil e wa rudely liitcrii'P1''1 lie i ot dm tor shouting md tl had til enverei) the ghost, rile! out tvvetfy eager voice r t nt sedate official P,nl' the headlight, nnd there, nt ncS ,r dlsc'eni.ittre Of the engltecr. " s "v i. e l a simple little hi1 f( It.g u ..it i , the inner sui'b1' lens In his effort to escape ,w nim prison. Its et IftfS projeitod sbni'ew had, itub'C-thwonderful gheri. I p All t?cki )Ry j brow-tur- am Pall btiiti au n, i A rn'd am Set Rv her least brsa bal |