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Show if THE INDEPENDENT. CHAI. P. DIEHL. Baiiu Entered at the postofllce at SpringviUe. Utah lor transmission turougn tue at ails as aecona class matter. Issued Every Thursday Morning. TERMS OF SCHSCKIPTIOX: One Year 12.00 Six Months 1 00 Three Months 5 ASK. FOR ADVERTISING RATES. UTAH STATE NEWS. The Utah solons report having bad a delightful time on their Idaho trip. An examination for a naval cadetsbip will soon be held in Utah, by direction of Congressman King. An eastern lady has offered to make a cash donation of 810,000 to the Sheldon Shel-don Jackson College, of Salt Lake. The snow storm of last week was gsneral throughout Southern Utah, ad was a boon to farmers and stock Mrs. Oscar Eliason has taken up the profession of her husband, that of a magician. She is performing in Aus Iralia. Salt Lake is likely to hare a plethora of telephone accommodations. Two ew companies are seeking franchises, acb promising to reduce present rate almost half. Natural gas is seeping up through " ne"tateT' of ' Green i river near Greeq Hirer station. In se Te rV-p laces the flow has been sufficient to burn xigor-r ously when lighted. The legislature left on a junket to Boise Friday, as guests of the Short Line, to visit the Idaho solons. They returned Sunday and were ready for basinets again Monday The Harriman railroad system, em- bracing the Short Line. Union an Central Pacific roads, is the longest in the world. The combined mileage ii 14,078, almost enough to girdle the globe. . m. Christie who lived in Salt Lake from 1889 to about 1894, and who was prominent in real estate and min Ing circles, was killed in Cripple Creek last week. He was run over by a locomotive. loco-motive. A number of the Utah battery officers nave applied for appointments in th regular army. Among them are Joseph v. .nystrom, Frank T. Hines, Charles Asplund, Nelson Margetts and William Kneass. The Salt Lake city council at its last nesting passed a resolution not to is sue any new saloon licenses. The num-, ber of saloons in the city now is seventy-nine, and that is the maximum number num-ber hereafter to be allowed. 8. V. Eccles, traffic manager of the Short Line, has been appointed traffic manager of the American Smelting company, and will have charge of all ore shipments made by the company. Bis salary will be $20,000 a year. The pen which Governor Wells used In signing the bill providing for the burial of indigent soldiers and sailors is to be given a place among the relics prized by G. A. R. men of Salt Lake, of which they have a large number. M. P. Plank, a Salt Lake stockman, ) was. fouiid eight miles from Idaho Falls, Idaho, Friday, lying in the road In an unconscious condition. lie was the victim of a runaway, and while seriously, is not dangerously hurt. Ilenry Ferguson, who was arrested at Richfield, recently, has been taken to Snohomish county, Washington, to answer a charge of robbery. He waq located by ex-Sheriff Storrs of Utah county, who was looking for George H. Wright, the Pelican Point murder ex. A private letter received in Salt Lake city from England states that Utah missionaries have carried smallpox small-pox from Utah to Europe, and that a son of Geo. Q. Cannon and his wife eaught the Infection from a missionary at Rotterdam. Both the pesthouse. were put into John Ming, a christisdized Chinaman China-man of Salt Lake, has given the police Information concerning several Chi nese gambling and opium dens. The Keepers or the dives have threatened file life and driven him out of the r-1 . mucoe quarters. Ming la staying with Rev. C. T. Brown, pastor of the Congregational church, temporarily, ;n i 1 K'" . once on the new pumping plant to be built by the Utah Sugar company in Utah county. It will be located about half a mile north of the Provo bridge, near the Oregon Short Line track. As a result of the building of a pumping plant at Provo It is thought that at least 500 acres ol beets will be raised in that neighbor-hood. neighbor-hood. The Salt Lake county commissioner have ruled that a man need not support a plural wife who refuses to live where ft directs. The case in point was FrankHansen of Hunter, whose plural had removed, without his consent, to Apostle Francis M.Lyman has been called to take charge of the European mission, with headquarters at Liver-pooL Liver-pooL He expects to depart about April 1. Mr. Lyman la one of the old-eat old-eat apostles, being removed only fourth from the presidency. Articles of incorporation of the Grand River, Caatleton and La Sal railroad were filed with the secretary of stats last week. The line isto be operated by electricity, and will run to Mineri Basin from a point on the Rio Grande projected extension. 6alt Lake savings banks, baring deposits de-posits of tS.OOO.OOO, on which the annual annu-al Interest is $200,000, are considering the advisability of lowering the rate ot Interest from 4 to 3 per cent, claiming that they cannot find profitable invest, sent for so much money. Mrs. M. Mattson, of Logan, gave an infant grandchild, which is in her keeping, a teaspoon ful of carbolic aeid, mistaking it for cough syrup. The child was terribly burned, bnt it ia thought did not swallow any of the aeid, and will recover. Edward Buckley of Franklin, Idaho, baa offered to build a woolen mill at Logan if sufficient inducements are offered. of-fered. Logan citizens are seriously discussing the matter, and a publlo ting has been called by the mayor to take steps toward securing- the factory. ANTI-VACCINATION BILL IS VETOED. t tab's Governor Returns the BUI Without Approval, Accompanied by Substitute. Govornor Wells has returned the McMillan bill, which takes away from the state board of health the power to adopt and enforce regulations regarding regard-ing contagious diseases, without his approval. He accompanies his message mes-sage by a substitute measure, the substitution sub-stitution of which he recommends. The substitute modifies the present law by preventing the closing of schools to unvaeclnated children in districts dis-tricts where smallpox does not exist. The govornor advanced the following reasons for his disapproval of the measure: Practically the scientific world agrees that vaccination and evacci nation la a certain preventative of smallpox. The American citizen is guaranteed no rights whicn interfere with the rights or conflict with the welfare of others. Quarantine is a restraint of liberty. Yet no one who has the public welfare at heart complains of it. If a person may be restrained who is already infected with disease, another may be compelled to do an act which will prevent him from becoming infected. in-fected. Children of the school age are wards of the state. It can exercise control over them. Iowa, with 249 cases of smallpox. compelled every person over one year of age to be vaccinated, while in Utah more than 3,000 cases have been re ported. To place among our statutes such a bill as this would be a step backwards. wEich will be disastrous. WITrfDPAWNG FRQM-CIJBA. United State Will not Retire Before Next FiU at Earliest. Officers of the administration believe it will be scarcely possible for the United States to withdraw wholly from the government of Cuba under the most favorable circumstances be fore next fall at the earliest. This is conceding the possibility that the Cu ban convention may adopt a constitu tion entirely acceptable to this govern meat on or before the 1st of April next. fit is recognized that it will require several months after the adoption of the constitution to complete the or ganization of the Cuban government and have it in successful operation All the national officers must be chosen, laws enacted for the collection of rev enues and the establishment of a stable government, a police force or constabu lary organized to take the place of the United States military force for the preservation of peace and the mainte nance of the order, and the municipal governments organized. Britain Declines to Acct-pt Amendment to Hay-l'auiicefote Treaty. Great Britain has framed a reply to the Senate amendments to the Nieara- guyn canal project, declining to comply com-ply with the senate's demands. Neither Neith-er is it in the nature of a flat refusal, though for purposes of immediate construction con-struction it will be tantamountto such. It consists mainly in a counter proposal propos-al or proposals, likely to necessitate extended negotiations. In British official opinion it is likely that several months will elapse before the matter reaches a conclusion, by which time the Hay-Pauncefote treaty will have elapsed, on the basis of the senate's amendments. The British counter proposals are now formulating. and It is hoped an entirely new agreement, agree-ment, satisfactory to both countries, will eventually be reached. Congressman Shaw Fonnd Dead In III Room. Representative Albert D. Shaw of Watertown, N. Y., formerly commander com-mander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was found dead Sunday morning in his room at the Riggs house, Washington. A physician pronounced pro-nounced death due to apploplexy, suffered suf-fered probably about 2 o'clock in the morning. Col. Shaw had returned about 1:30 o'clock from a banquet at the Ebbitt house in honor of his successor, Gen-Leo Gen-Leo Rassieur, and was apparently in the best of spirits and health. Topekn Joints Must Close. A mass meeting of the citizens of Topeka, Kan., Suuday afternoon, at which 3000 were present, decided that the joints of the city must go at once. riday, February 15th, is named as the time when the cleansing of the c'ty must be made complete. If it is not done by that time an army of a thous-end thous-end men will iuuuedhuely move upon the joints and remove them by force. Conservative men, who have heretofore hereto-fore advocated moderation, insist that the people of Topeka shall take the law in their own bands. OfPBunn Fr Attack In fekln. is reliably reported that more than 20,000 Mohammedans have reappeared in Pekin during the last four weeks, with object of creating disturbances during the Chinese celebration at New-Year. New-Year. The Germans have accordingly issued an oriirr to their troops that no one shall walk alone and noone go unarmed. un-armed. The order directs the German troops to search all Chinese, and never under any n; idei ation to enter Chinese Chi-nese private liousis on invitation unless un-less in considerable numbers. t'arnt-gia tiets Bis; Pay. Developi-ieuls in connection with the negotiations touching tbe transfer of the control of the Carnegie Steel company com-pany to J. P. Morgan and his associates associ-ates Bhow that Mr. Carnegie is to receive re-ceive S1500 for each S1000 share of hia stock; second, that minority holders who desire to sell will receive the same terms as those given to Mr. Carnegie, third, the formation of a new corporation corpora-tion is contemplated, the bonds of which will forma large portion ci Carnegie's Car-negie's pay. To Legalize Joint Smashing. A bill to legalize joint-smashing has been introduced in tbe Kansas legislature, legisla-ture, making a sufficient defense to show that the property destroyed was used in the operation of a joint. A company of the Forty-seventh United States volunteer infantry, operating in the island of Catanduanea, of the south-east coast of Luzon, have captured Bu&tosas, the insurgent Governor of the island. MEXICAN MINE EXPLOS'ON KILLS EIGHTY-SEVEN PEOPLE Several Hundred Tons of Dynamite Sly tariously Set Off, Wrecking a Prosperous Milling Villngs. A dispatch from Chihuahua. Mexico, Friday, says several bundled tons of dynamite stored in an underground chamber of tbe San Antonio mine, situated sit-uated in the Sierra Madres, in the western part of the State of Durango, exploded with terrible force, blowing tbe whole top of tbe mountain off and destroying a portion of tbe village of miners there. Eighty-seven men, women and children chil-dren were killed and many others badly bad-ly injured. Among the killed were Herman Leu-timan, Leu-timan, superintendent of the mine, and his family. Electric wires, connecting with tbe hoisting machinery, passed through the room in which this dynamite was stored, and it is supposed that these wires became crossed, thereby causing a fire which set off the dynamite. All of the killed and injured were located lo-cated on the surface, most of them occupying oc-cupying residences right over the underground un-derground workings of the mine, and the victims of the catastrophe were blown into small pieces. At tbe time of the explosion there were several hundred miners at work in the lower workings of the mine, and, strange to 6ay, none of them were seriously seri-ously injured; although they were alt severely shocked by the terrific force of the explosion. They rushed to the surface through one of tbe shafts thai, was not filled with debris, and the sight that met their eyes in the almost complete destruction of thelittle village is indescribable. The work of gathering up the fragments frag-ments of the unfortunate victims of thu explosion scattered over the mountain was begun, and they were placed to gether and buried in one grave. But few of the mangled remains were rec ognizable. Summonses were sent tc neighboring camps for surgeons to attend at-tend to the injured, and it was some time before they arrived. The San Andres mine is the mos! celebrated silver mine iq Mexico. It is valued at 20,000,000. It has produced pro-duced many millions of dollars' wort! of ore. Steel Combine Kffeoted. The $1,000,000,000 steel combine, with a practical monopoly in the Uniteo States, is an accomplished fact, as p result of Andrew Carnegie's sale of his holdings. The Carnegie company, with its vast supplies of coal and iron close at hand, will be the parent company to produce tbe raw material for the vari-ous vari-ous corporations manufacturing finished fin-ished products, and the economies that can bis introduced through cooperation and harmony will make it possible fo the great industrial corporations to manufacture goods so cheaply as to drive small competitors out of business and to give to Amer ican manufacturer-, a large place in the markets of the world. Refused a Vote, Slie I'st-il h Rock. Mrs. Nation addressed the Kansas legislature Thursday, anil in asking for further legislation mid: "I have been forced to do this smash, sng business. I a in going to tell the truth to you; you have not been doing your duty. A good solid vote is tht best thing in the world with which to smash the saloons. You refused me a vote and I had to use a rock. "The saloon man is a malicious pau-per. pau-per. He thrives off the life blood oi the men of this nation. Whisky makes perjurers. I would not believe a joini keeper on oath, even if it was only about a dog fight." For Seal Disappearing. The number of vessels reported by the consul at Victoria, which -psopos: to engage in seal hunting from tlit port of Victoria this year is thirty four. This is one vessel less than cleared from that port last year on the same business. Ten of the vessels will hunt on the Japanese coast, and th. remaining twenty-four on the coast oi British Columbia, Washington, Oregoi. and California. The general expression among the sealers is that the. fur seal is steadily disappearing and that the time is soou coming when the business will cease to be profitable. HOLLAND'S QUEEN WEDS. Dake Ilenry of Merklenberg-Srhwerln the Groom All Holland Celebrate. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland was married to Duke Henry of Mecklen-berg-Sch werin, Thursday, who became Prince Heinrich of the Netherlands. All Holland that could come to The Hague to participate were there. Those who stayed at their homes in other cities and villages of the kingdom eel ebrated with parades, decorations an! banquets. Oil Fire at Bakn, Russia. Cause Death of SOO People. A dispatch from Baku, Russia. Thursday, says that 500 persons per ished in a conflagration there, and that the. flames are beyond eontrol. The police station, ten large tenements, 500,000 tons of mazout, 350,000 tons of naphtha and all the Rothschild reservoirs reser-voirs were burned. The Journal of Commerce and Industry savs Ten. mouse lake is burning. The mazout aused explosions which killed many ol the spectators. Bontelle's Resignation In. The resignation of Congressman Charles A. Boutelle as representative of the Fourth Maine district in th. jational congress was received by Gov- srnor Hill Thursday. The resignation is to take effect on February 28. To relieve the weakened prices of zinc ore, about seventy-five of the leading lead-ing producers held a meeting at Joplin Ma, and determined to close down their mines for a period of four weeks. The number of vessels built in Canada Cana-da during 1S9.) was iT7, measuring 21,-098 21,-098 tons registered loi.tiage. Estimating Estimat-ing the value of these tit S4.- per too it gives a total value of SJ4j,410 for thr new vessels. The North American Fish and Game association has decided to recommend that in waters which are partially in Canada and partially in the United States, the open season for black bass bail be from July 1st to January' Jst. CHINESE MUST PAY PENALTY. Leader of the Anti-Christian Outbreak to be Beheaded for Their Treachery. The ministers at Pekin definitely decided de-cided at a third meeting held Wednesday Wednes-day night to demand the imposition of the death penalty upon all twelve of the Chinese officials named in the list submitted, including those who are dead, Rang Yi and Li Ping lieng, on account of the moral effect upon the Chinese. The sentence on the living must be inflicted except in the cases of Prince Tuan and Duke Lan, which the Emperor may commute to banishment to Turkestan. The principal offenders are Prince Chaung and Priuce Tuan. Prince Chaung was commander-in-chief of tbe Boxers, who had a large share in the responsibility for promises of rewards of fifty taels for the capture of foreig-ers foreig-ers and the death of persons protecting them. Prince Tuan was the principal instigator insti-gator of the troubles into which he dragged the Cninese government, who was appointed president of the Tsung-Li-Yamen after giving advice to the Chinese government who was responsible responsi-ble for the edicts against the foreigners foreign-ers issued between June 30th and Aug" ust 16th, and was mainly responsible for the massacres in the provinces, especially es-pecially Shan Si; who ordered the troops to attack the legations in opposition oppo-sition to the advice of his high mandarins manda-rins who were looking to a cessation of hostilities; who secured the execution nt . members of the Tsung-LUYamen who were favorable to fore;.gnrfiiwb.o is the recognized author of the ultimatum ultima-tum of July 19th, directing the diplomatic diplo-matic corps to leave Pekin within twenty-four hours, and who ordered before the expiration of this delay firing fir-ing upon all foreigners found upon the streets of the capital, and who was practically the author of the asssassi-nation asssassi-nation of Baron von Ketteler, the Merman Mer-man minister. ARRESTED FOR TREASON. Prominent American at Manila, Who Enjoyed En-joyed Confidence of Officers, Charged 1th Aiding Insurrection. Theodore Carranza, a prominent and wealthy Spanish merchant and hemp buyer, of Manila, was arrested Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon, charged with fur nishing supplies to aid the insurgents. Carranza is a partner of I). M, Car men, an American contractor and owner of boats, who bad considerable transportation contracts with the government. gov-ernment. The provost marshal nd secret service officials have been watching watch-ing a number of merchants and transportation trans-portation men for some time past. Tbe police otiicials have had a long interview in-terview with Carrauza, and the arrest of several merchants is expected to result. re-sult. At the close of the interview between be-tween the police and Carranza, the latter was placed in confinement in the Anda street police station. Carmen was arrested later, and after considerable con-siderable questioning was sent to the same station. The men are charged with the conducting of the business of buying copra (the fried kernel of the coacanut, broken up for export) from insurgent residents at Pagsanjan, in the eastern boundary of Laguna de Bay, and also with paying assessments for the insurgents cause. The evidence evi-dence adduced was to the effect that the prisoners have supplies of the striped clothing used for insurgent uniforms. Carmen is one of the best known Americans in Manila. He has a monopoly mo-nopoly of carrying goods going through the custom-house ashore from the ships, and has made - a great deal of money. He possessed the confidence of Gen. Otis. Other Manila merchants are being investigated. Canada May Put Duty on Lumber. The lumbermen of British Columbia have been holding conferences with the parliamentary representatives concerning con-cerning the lumber tariff. A tax upon American lumber imported into Canada is urged. At present local lumbermen claim that United States lumbermen ean come freely into the Canadian mat kets, whereas British Columbians are required to pay a tax of 30 cents per thousand on shingles taken to the United States. TORTURED BY BURGLARS. Toman Probably Fatally Injured by Kob- berg at Toledo. Burglars bound and gagged the post-distress post-distress at Rossford, a suburb of Toledo, Tole-do, Ohio, early Wednesday morning and robbed the office of S150 in stamps and 85 in coin. The postmistress at first refused todivulge the hiding place of the valuables, and lighted matches were applied to her feet and she was struck over the head and brutally kicked in the side. She became unconscious, uncon-scious, and may die. Old Couple Brutally Hen ten. Robbed and Left to Freeze. Nicholas Michaels of Chicago, an aged saloonkeeper, and his wife, were brutally beaten by three masked men in Michael's saloon Wednesday, atu! J. rooueu oi juu in casn ana -ouu in checks and negotiable paper. Kings were jerked from Mrs. Michael's fingers, fin-gers, lacerating the flesh. The thugs finally locked the old couple in the icebox ice-box and escaped. A lodger released the couple from their, frigid prison. Both are seriously injured. Hereed. California, Under Water. As the result of heavy rains Tuesday Tues-day and Wednesday, Merced, California, Califor-nia, is under water. From three inches to three feet of water is standing in every yard of the town, every cellar is tilled, and business is at a standstill. The Santa Fe and Southern Pacific tracks are both washed out south of town for a distance of nearly a mile, and trains are tied up. Two northbound north-bound Santa Fe trains are tied up two miles south of town, and a local liveryman livery-man has taken a contract to transport the passengers, about 100 incumber, from there to town, where they can transfer to another train going north. The number of vessels built in Cana-a Cana-a during 1899 was 277, measuring 21,-093 21,-093 tons registered tonnage. Estimating Estimat-ing the value of these at S45 per ton, it gives a total value of 8945,410 for the new vessels. The North American Fish and Game association has decided to recommend that in waters which are partially in Canada and partiallv in the United States, the open season for black bass ball be from July 1st to January 1st. UTAH LEGISLATURE. Seventeenth Bay, February S. House The House passed Steven's bill, H. B. No. 7, raising the salaries of state officers as follows: Governor. W.OCO; secretary of state, 13,000; treasurer, 81.500: auditor, SI.VO; attorney-general, K.0O0; superintendent of pub-lie pub-lie instruction, 12.000. This is an increase of from $r00 to fc.000 per year. This was the bill defeated the previous day. Glasmann's bill, H. B. No. 15, providing for the registration of voters by affidavit under certain conditions was also passed. The following bills were introduced: H . B. No . f 6. by Smith - Relating to polling places at municipal elections. H. B. No. 87. by Axtou Relations to the abolishment of the board of public works in municipalities. H. B. No. 68, by McGregor Relating to the organization of co-operative companies. H. B. No. 89, by Langton (by request) A bill for an act to provide for the initiative and referendum in legislation. Tie proposed act provides that 2 per cent of the voters can petition peti-tion that the people of the state may pass upon any law put into effect by the legislature, unless such law passes by a two-thirds majority. It is provided that all measures to be presented to the legislature shall be tiled with the secretary secre-tary of state and by him presented to the lawmaking law-making body. Should the bill fail to puss, it shall then be presented to the people, when request re-quest is made. H. B. No. 90, by Bench Relating to the mileage mile-age of district judges. Provining that the judges shall be paid mileage of 10 cents per mile. H. B. No. 91, by D. C. Johnson A bill for an act relating to the sale of rights of way over state lauds. The act provides that the state land board can sell or give rights of way over state lands for telephone or electrical companies' com-panies' poles and wires. Sesatjc The greater part of the day was devoted de-voted to a discussion of Senator Whitney's bill providing prizes for text books on natura1 fizJmtrfor use in the higher schools of Utah. T,t bill waCa&Uy passed, 10 to 6. The followftbills were Introduced: S. B. No. 41, by Murdock Providing for the Initiative and referendum in legislation, containing con-taining same provisions as House Bill No. 89. S- B. No. 40, by Howell Providing for the distribution of rthe estates of decedents and for supplementary accounts to be rendered by executors ex-ecutors and administrators. S B. No. 42, by Smoot-An act in relation to the transaction of insurance business (other than life), requiring that local agents of insurance insur-ance companies (other than life) shall countersign counter-sign all policies and receive the regular commission com-mission thereon, in order that the taxesre-qulred taxesre-qulred by law to be paid on premiums collected for lnsurauce may be received by tte state. Allison proposed an early check to the introduction intro-duction of bijs by introducing a concurrent resolution, reciting that in order to minimize the burden on the people, both houses should adjourn as early as is consistent with the discharge dis-charge of public business. Therefore, the House concurring, it is resolved that no bi.ls shall be introduced or considered in either house after the fortieth day, without unanimous consent. Eighteenth Day, February G. House The greater part of the days' session was occupied In a joint session of both branches of the legislature to listen to eulogies of Dr. John R. Park by Senators Whitney and Allison. Alli-son. At the conclusion of the joint session the House adjourned to visit the penitentiary. Mr. Holzheimer presented a petition asking for an appropriation of i2,000 to build a road between Utah and Juab counties. New bills were introduced as follows: H. B. No. 92. by Glasmann The bill is a substitute sub-stitute for H. B. No. 10, and provides that every railroad, street car. telephone, telegraph, can express company, corporation or association' excepting banks, loan companies or associations and foreign insurance companies, shall, before the first Monday in April, tile with the state board of equalization a sworn statement for the year preceding, setting out: The name of the company, the nature of it, the amount of capital stock issued, the market value of the stock, the amount of bonds issued, total amount of interest, inter-est, dividends, annuities and other payments made the preceding year, the gross receipts and expenses: which information shall supply a basis of assessment. H B. No. 93, by Harmon A bill for an act to provide for the office and appointment of a live stock inspector, whose duties shall be to inspect in-spect stock shipments, charging $5 per car, and fixing his salary at $1,000 per year and neces-BiU5- expenses. " H. B. No. 94, by Anderson Providing that counties having an outstanding indebtedness on June 5. 1896, evidenced .by bonds, warrants-promissory warrants-promissory notes or other evidences thereof, may refund the same by issuance of bonds. Senate Senate bill No. 19, by Barnes, regulating regu-lating the banking busiicss, and S B. No. 28. relating to annual and special school taxes were passed. H. B. No. 43, by D. H. Morris, which changes the time for collecting poll taxes was passed under suspension of the rules upon Senator Tanner's exnlanation that the change would benefit the southern counties, where road work is impracticable at the present time of collecting collect-ing poll taxes because of the dryness of the earth. The following bill was introduced: S. B. No. 43, by Howell (by request) An act providing for a state veterinarian and denning bis duties. The measure was drawn by L. A. Merrill of the Agricultural college at Logan. It creates the office of state veterinarian and provides that he shall be selected by the trustees trus-tees of the Agricultural college and his term of office shall be during the pleasure of the trustees. trus-tees. The officer shall also be a professor of reterlnary science in the college and his salary hall be $1,400 per year, half of which shall be paid by the state and half by the college and the state shall pay his expenses not to exceed t300 per year. His duties shall be to protect the health of domestic animals in the state anil lieneral Prentiss Dead. wenerai uiayuerry i-reuiiss, one oij i r i T the oldest surviving generals of volunteers volun-teers of the Civil war, is dead at his home at Bethany, Mo., aged 81 years. He was known as "the hero of Shiloh. ti i f . .. .i .. i t i l ,i t: - O 11C UC1CLCU VJ"lJt'1" ""'"'"i"" at Helena, Ark., on July 4, 1862. was the last survivor of the Fitzjohn Porter court-martial. He was in the volunteer service in Illinois auring me Mormon excitement in the early days. Conger's Authority Demanded. Senator Berry Friday introduced a resolution in the senate requesting the president to inform the senate whether the United States minister to China has joined the representatives of the other .pofat-exn in demanding the exe- culTJrrbf Prince Tuan or other Chinese officials, and if so, by whom he was authorized to join in making such demand. de-mand. There is strong objections on the part of a number of senators to the program mapped out by Germany which demands the beheading of a number of Chinese dignitaries. Cnban Constitution Repudiate .Spanish War Debts. The Cuban constitutional convention, at Saturday's session, adopted by a large majority the first article of section sec-tion 23, which provides that all debts contracted prior to the promulgation of the constitution shall be repudiated, except those contracted on behalf of the revolution from and after February 24,1895. The opinion of the majority of the delegates was that the treaty of Paris. provides for a peaceful settlement settle-ment of claims. Nowhere is love for old fashioned things more powerful than it is in religion, re-ligion, where it is the most uigent and wide reaching of the influences that control the beliefs and sentiments of men. Rightly Interpreted, we cannot wish that it should be otherwise. If it were possible for men to forget their mothers and their homes and their early aspirations and ideals, we should feel that an evil day had come upon the world. Let us make sure, however, that we do not grant to this sentiment more than Is due to it, and assume that Its word la necessarily sure and final. Tbe Christian Register. suppress, control or eradicate contartetu on infectious diseases. It gives him power to kill animals affected with contagious diseases and provides that the expense of killing and burying bury-ing such animals shall be borne by the owner thereof. Nineteenth Day. February 7. House Eleven bills were passed by the House and sixteen introduced. The measures that passed are as follows: H. B. No. 5, by Smith Relating to property subject to condemnation under eminent domain do-main . ii. B. No. S8. by Smith Relating to appc i!s to 'ae supreme court . H. B. No. 39. by Evans-Relating to the ues in which the right of eminent domain may be exercised. H. B. No. 53, by Harmon Relating to informations. infor-mations. H. B. No. 54, by Harmon Relating toexami-nation toexami-nation of witnesses. S. Bs. Nos 20.21,22,23.24 and 23, by Johnson John-son Relat in;,' to duties of district attorneys. The following bills were introduced: H. B. No. 9.. by Glasmann Relating to boards of equalization and eliminating th clause exempting from taxation franchises granted to corporations by the government. H. B. No. 9ti, by the Committee on Live Stocli Substitute for H B. No. 40, relating to tha Dseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, So-ciety, providing that the society 'sexhibits must - be held in Salt Lake City. H. B. No. 97. by Smith -Making trespass op occupied lands a misdemeanor, where the occu. pant has posted notices warning people agaiusl such trespass. H. B. No.,98, by Stuart (by request) An act to permit comities to let contracts for supplies monthly, instead of annually. H. B. No. 99, by Morris (D. H.) Relating tc the tiling of suits against non-residents. H. B. No. 100, by Barrett Authorizing county commissioners to remit ue taxes of th indigent poor in an amount not exceeding $5. H. B. No. 101. by Maughan Forbidding tres pass on private lands. H. Bs. Nos. 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 an 109 were introduced by Harmon (by request and have reference (102) to furnishing frej supplies for pupils, (103 contingent expenses oj county superintendents, (104) examination ol teachers under direction of state board of education, edu-cation, (105) providing places for such exami. nations (106) relating to apportionment o school funds, (107) providing that kindergarten shall be part of school system where schools are graded, (10s) for uniform examinations of teachers, (109) strikes out provision excepting property in cities of first and second-class from taxation for general school purposes. H. B. No. 110, by Bench Making it a misdemeanor mis-demeanor for any person to sell or give away cigarettes or cigarette paper. Senate Allison s resolution providing thai no bills be introduced after the fortieth day in either house without unanimous consent was amended extending the time live days, and providing that a two-thirds majority vota would grant privilege of introducing bills after term had expired The following bills were introduced: S. B. No. 44, by Whitney (by request) Creating Cre-ating a Pan-American exposition commission and appropriating i.OoO for an exhibit of Utah products at the Buffalo show. S. B. No. 45, by Allison by request) Authorizing Au-thorizing the creation of a domestic science department de-partment in the University of Utah and making an appropriation therefore. S. B. No. 4ti, by Alder Making mileage rate for district judges 10 cents instead of 8 cents per mile. S. B. No. 47, by Bennion (by request) An act to relinquish to the United States the un-surveyed un-surveyed school land in lieu of a grant pf 1 ind of equal area to be made by the United States. The following bill was approved by the governor: gov-ernor: S. B. No. 3, providing for burial at public expense of indigent soldiers. Twentieth Day, February 8. House The house held a short session in the morning, when Governor Wells' veto of the McMillan anti-vaccination bill was received, accompanied by a substitute measure, the substitution sub-stitution of which he recommended. The bill was made the special order for Tuesday at 2:30. The bill recommended by the governor is as follows: Section 1 . Whenever, upon investigation bj the state or local boards of health, said boards are of the opinion that any malignant, contagious, con-tagious, infectious or noxious disease is epidemic epi-demic in this state, or that the health or sanitary sani-tary condit ions of the state or any part of it are such that any of such diseases are liable to become epidemic in the near future, said board are hereby authorized, and it shall be theit duty to at once make and enforce such rules and regulations, and adopt such measures as shall by vaccination or other preventive means protect so far as possible the inhabitants of tha state and every part thereof against the introduction intro-duction or spread of any of said diseases; and all sheriffs, constables and police officer throughout the state are hereby charged win the duty of carrying out the orders of the said boards of health in the enforcement of sait rules and regulations; provided, that the said boards shall not have the power or authority tn exclude from schools unvaeclnated children in school districts where smallpox does not exist Sec. 2. Every person who shall violate ai;y of the provisions of the preceding section, oi any of the rules and regulations of the Stat) r local boards of health made in accordanci therewith, shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction shall be pun isht d by a fine not to exceed J100, or imprison ment in the county jail not exceeding sixt; days, or by both said fine and imprisonment. Senate. The Senate sessi n was almost fruitless. Several of the members were absent and so was the chaplain. Senator Love offered prayer, and the reading of the minutes was dispensed dis-pensed with . House bills, Nos. 5, 38 and 3! were referred to the committee on judiciary. Both houses adjourned early to permit th members to make preparations to take the ex. cursion train to Idaho, which left the Short Line depot at 2 o'clock. Highwayman Rnba Philadelphia Man on Alain Street In Broad Daylight. Peter Wooll, an aged an prominent manufacturer, was knocked down on jhe street of Philadelphia Saturday, ,J-ji highwayman as he was leaving a ty'011! bank, and a satchel contain- j fCg $S000 was wrenched from hishand. j-he money WM recovered by a police. &J) whQ captured the thief after an Pxcitiag chase. The highwayman said jis name was Joseph Edwards, this is believed to be fictitious. but London Folice Want Reward. Inspector Freest of Scotland Yard has filed a claim with Ambassador Choate for SI, 000, being the reward offered by the New York authorities for the capture of Frank Allen, who, with two others, Halloran and Russell, escaped from Ludlow street jail on July 4, 1895. Allen was recently convicted con-victed in London under tbe name oi Sullivan for snatching a bundle of bank notes from a lady at a bank counter. Freest recognized Sullivan as Allen and has since conclusively established es-tablished his identity. Queen Welcomed Death. The Westminster Gazette prints an interesting story which it believes tc be absolutely correct, to the effect that before the recent retirement of George J. Goschen from the office ot First Lord of the Admiralty, he sent a letter tc Queen Victoria, saying, in substance, that he desired to relinquish office, as he was weary of public life. In replying, Queen Victoria thanked Mr. Goshen for his long and devoted services, closing clos-ing with the words : "Your old Queen is weary, too, and longing for hei rest." Answers to Our Prayera. t believe that many of our prayers fail to receive answers because there is something wrong in our lives. If we will not confess our sins, then we need not pray; if we will not turn from sin, God is not going to hear or answer. Some one has said that an unconfessed sin in the soul is like a bullet in a man's body; we will never have a healthy body while the bullet Is therein; as long aa the unconfessed ein ia In hia soul, no man can have a healthy soul; It Is a foreign elermnt, loes not belong there. D. L. Mooly WEEK IN C0NGKESS. Tuesday. Hotjsb The House agreed to the Senate Amendment to the resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to arrange for the Inauguration of the president and vice-president, by striking out that part referring to the vice-president. The postal bill was under consideration con-sideration all day. Senate The Senate passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill. The ship subsidy bill was superseded as unfinished business. Mr. Teller's resolution asking for information concerning the deportation from M:nila of Edward Rice, an American citizen, and the suppression of his papers, was adopted. Wednesday. HorsE The postofllce appropriation bill was under consideration. Extension of the pneumatic pneu-matic tube service, which was stopped last year by alleged frauds, was considered at lengtb without reaching any conclusion. Senate The military academy bill, contain ing a clause to prevent hazing was passed after a consideration of an hour. The wai revenue reduction measure was also passed, with amendments levying a tax on transaction! in bucket shops and modifying the tax oc cigars and cigarettes and several others of t minor character were passed. An effort tf compel express and telegraph companies U pay the tax which they now compel their patrons pat-rons to pay was defeated. Thursday. House The postofllce appropriation bill passed, the amendment appropriating $265,000 for extension of the pneumatic tube service having been ruled out of -order. Reduction ol railway mail pay was also ruled out. The senate bill to allow travel pay to certain officers and men who re-enlisted in the Philippines Philip-pines upon their discharge from the volunteer service was passed. , The diplomatic consular bill, carrying an appropriation ap-propriation of 1,808,80, was taken up for Consideration. Con-sideration. SETK-The Senate passe the bill aiiotrin-travel aiiotrin-travel pay to officers and en.ted men of the Eleventh cavalry and ThirtyAdxth and Thirty-seventh Thirty-seventh regiments of infantry who entered the service of the United States in the Philippines, and also a bill putting in force in the Indian Territory the laws of Arkansas relating to corporations. cor-porations. The pension eppropvjrjion bill was then passed after Mr. Gallinger had stated that 1,500 names had been placed on the pension rolls thus far on account of the Spanish war, at aq annual cost of about "iO.OOv'. The shipping bill was then .debated. Little progress was made, although a night session was held. Friday. House Tbe House passed 1H4 private pension pen-sion bills, making so far 9t0 for this congress. Bills were passed to permit homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Feiterman military reservation reser-vation In Wyoming to enter one quarter section of grazing land: to confirm two locations of Chippewa half-breeds' script in Salt Lake City. Senate An ineffectual effort was made to secure an agreement on a time for a final vote on the shipping subsidy bill. Senator Spooner introduced an amendment to the army appropriation appro-priation embodying the provisions of what is known as the Spooner bill for the government of the Philippines. It gives the president greater powers in establishing civil government govern-ment in the islands. Saturday. House Something of a sensation was created when Representative' Hrown of Ohio, standing in the center of the Republican side of tha chamber, made a speech strongly condemning a colonial policy and urging that congress should at once give assurances to the Filipinos that the purpose of the United States was to give them independence. His announcement that he would advocate a resolution to this effect was loudly applauded. Senate i he naval bill was under consideration considera-tion all day. and with the exception of a section regarding the price to be paid for armor plate, was completed. KANSAS TEMPERANCE REVIVAL. Crnsade Itegun by Mrs. Nation Arouses Temperance I'eople to Actiou. Kansas is experiencing a temperance revival. At Ilolton Saturday a band of 1000 men, which was directed by the leading men of the city, wrecked three joints, and for the first time in fifteen years the city is absolutely dry. A vigilance committee was formed to see no others started up. Drugstores in many towns, which have been violating the law have been scared into its observance, and the law now is more generally observed ob-served than it ever before has been. Congressional Committee Severe on Practice of Hazing. The report of the congressional committee, com-mittee, which investigated the practice of hazing at West Point was made Saturday, and is an exhaustive review of the practice in all its forms. It specifies more than 100 different methods of annoying and harrasbiug fourth classmen and describes them in detail. The report states that a system of fighting has grown up which is shocking shock-ing in its character. The fights are described, and the committee states that the West Point code is more vi cious than the Queensberry code. Alleged Dynamiters Arrested. John Boales, one of the best-known business men of Alton, 111., was arrested ar-rested Saturday evening by Sheriff Kotz, charged with being one of the "invincible thieves," who have been terrorizing American IJottom farmers, th-eatening to dynamite their homes unless 81500 were placed in a certain place by the farmers. W. L. Fairman. a well-known attorney of Upper Alton, was also arrested on the same charge, and both Boales and Fairman were placed in jail by the sheriff to await examination on Monday. An accomplice accom-plice is alleged to have betrayed the men. Hawaiian Delegate Answers Treason. Charge of Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii has replied re-plied to the charges against him. lie asserts bis loyalty to the United States, commends the organic law passed for Hawaii; acknowledges, writing letters to the Philippines, but says they were written under a misconception ;declares that he was elected under a fair and free election and is entitled to hold his seat. His hearing began Saturday before be-fore the house committee. Poured His Liquor In the Street. Temperance women of Meckling, S. D., warned Mr. Tice, a druggist, to pour bis liquors into the street or they would do it for bim. He surrendered Saturday and destroyed abotj worth of whisky and other Intoxicants, Intoxi-cants, while the women sang and prayed. . Evidence is accumulating against the incriminated Manilla leaders who were charged with aiding tee insurgents. insur-gents. Reports from China show that the German missions in the province Of Shan Tung are again in operation, the local mandarins assuming the responsi. bility of protecting them. ' In conformity with the course adopted adopt-ed by the former Prince of Wales afterward King George IV., who re, signed the office of grand master when be was appointed Regent.King Edward has now resigned the office of grand master of Free Masons in England which be has held since 1874. NEWS SUMMARY. Tbe Twentieth infantry, which has been two years in Manila on provost duty, has sailed for Vigan on field service. ser-vice. Hundreds of teachers in the United States are applying for positions in the Philippines. It would be easy to secure se-cure 1000. An authorized delegation of Bontoc Igorrotes are returning to the province from Manila with schoolbooks, flags, and high opinions of the Americans. The steps taken by the Government to complete its title to the Bashee and other islands to the north of Luzon it is said were due to representations made by Japan. Baroness von Ketteler. widow of Baron von Ketteler, theGermrn minister minis-ter to China, who was assassinated in Pekin during the Boxer outbreak, has departed for Germany. Eighty-seven members of the Thirti eth regiment have died of wounds and diseases, and 250 have been discharged because of sickness. Remainder sail for home February 18th. Many Japanese and native workmen on the island of Maui, Hawaii, have formed an association, on the lincs'of some American unions, and they have Started a series of strikes. The recumbent statue of the late Queen Victoria, chiseled thirty years ago, is bein? prepared for its place on top of the sarcophagus by the side- the Prince Consort's statue .... Tbe Confederate Veteran association of Savannah has passed resolutions against the invitation to President McKinley to attend the reunion of Con federate veterans in Memphis. On account of non-compliance with government regulations concessions have been revoked on Sixty-Mile. Ten-Mile. Slate creek. Stewart river, Fifty-Mile, Ottawa and Billard creeks. The United States transport McPher-son McPher-son ran about half her length on a reef eight miles west of Matanzas, Cuba, in a fog Tuesday morning while on her way from New York to Mant-anzas. Mant-anzas. Rev Martin Hansen, former pastor of Norwegian Lutheran churches of La Crosse, Wis., and Houston, Minn., has been sentenced to the county jail for three months for deserting his family. Sydney B. Everret, secretary and Charge d'Affaires of the United States legation at Guatemala City, committed suicide Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth. He had suffered a long illness. Dispatches from Baku say all the available hospitals are filled with people peo-ple injured by the naphtha fire, while the sheds on the fair grounds are filled by those made homeless by the conflagration. confla-gration. rat way snot and killed M. Mc-Namara, Mc-Namara, proprietor of the American hotel and at Crescent City, Cal., Sunday evening. Gay had been barred from playing cards by McNamara. Gay surrendered. Enormous snowfalls are reported throughout the Sudelain and Hartz mountains in the West Prussia and in the Black Forest. In some places the snow lies eight meters deep, rendering communication impossible. ' - Rear-Admiral F. Rogers has been detached de-tached from duty as president of the board of inspection and survey preparatory prepara-tory to going to China on the cruiser New York to command one of the two divisions of the Asiatic fleet. Serious embarrassment prevails in the navy because of the inability of the medical corps to obtain competent young physicians willing to accept ap pointments as assistant surgeons. There are now fifteen vacancies. Five members of the W. C. T. U. at-tacked at-tacked two blind tigers in true Nation fashion at Dalton, Ark., Wednesday. All the bottles of liquor were smashed the contents of kegs poured into the the streets and fixtures demolished. The House Committee on Banking and Currency has tabled the bill repealing repeal-ing the ten-per-cent tax on State bank issues and the bill requiring national bank depositories to pay interest to the Government on public deposits. Charles A. Hickley, alias C. M. Morris, was lured across the British Co! umbia line and is now in jail in Con-conully Con-conully N. Y., on the charge of stealing 597,000 from the west Side bank, New York, of which he had been the teller. In view of the recent Boer activity in various divisions, the British Government Gov-ernment has decided in addition to the large forces recently equipped locally in South Africa to reinforce Lord Kitchener by 30,000 mounted troops beyond those already landed in Cape Colony. In Madrid it is asserted that the new Spanish Embassador at the Vatican is charged to inquire into the complaints of the priests expelled from tne Philippines Phil-ippines who are seeking to obtain the Pope's support for their property Crying out that drugs were the agents of the devil, a half-dozen women followers of Dowie, the faith-enre leader, adopted the tactics of Mrs. Carrie Nation and wrecked a number of drug stores on the west side Chicago, Thursday. The appointment of Edward Daniels of Indianapolis to be Master in Chancery Chan-cery in the United States courts, to succeed the late William P. Fishback, is officially announced. Mr. Daniels is a Republican but has never been active in politics. In Georgetown, Ky., the jury inthe case of George F. Weaver, on trial for perjury in connection with the trial of Caleb Powers, one of the men indicted for the assassination of William Goebel, was unable to agree upon a verdict and was discharged. Near Mackay, Ohio, about midnight Saturday, six robbers bound and gagged John Duncan, a wealthy farmer, and four members of his family fami-ly and compelled them to surrender $450 in money and considerable jewelry by applying matches to their feet. The police of Berlin contemplate adopting a new general alarms system. This will involve the erection of booths throughout the city, showing behind lighted tables, automatic elec -trie announcements when murders bank robberies and other crimes are committed. |