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Show THE WEEKLY SENTINEL mi iim UTAH STATE NEWS. lira. F. P. Roach of Ogden made an tmancceasful attempt to commit suicide. Ill health la given aa the reason. The Democratic Mato central committee haa Used Beptemlier 8 an the data fur holding the Democratic state convention. Bert Fuller, a Salt chauffeur, haa challenged Barney Oldfield, the "world-heater,- " for a one mile autorace. mobile match Fred C. Jensen of Ephraim haa har vested hi honey, secured nearly seven tons. The crop this year la finding a ready market at good prices. A Toquervllle dispatch says it la almost Impossible to utke care of tba fruit, for drying la oui of the question, and It cannot be marketed during the wet season. Under the supervision of the Relief society, the old folka of Parowan were to the number of slaty-fivwith a banquet and entertainment on the 3rd. After September X Kayavllle will have a rural free mall delivery, route No. 1 having been located and an order received from Washington for the services to he establlHbed. An Ephraim correspondent writes that the crops in that vicinity are the largest In the past ten years. Second crop lucerne la exceptionally good and the yield will break all previous records. Mrs. Mary Morton of Salt Lake City fa In Jail charged with setting fire to her husbands barn, destroying property to the value of 33,000. The couple had separated and a suit for divorce Is pending. There are 907 school children In the American Fork school district between the ages of 8 and 18. They are very evenly divided, there being Just me more boy than there are girls, 464 hoya and 463 glrla. It la claimed Salt Lake City has the highest birth rate and the lowest death rate of any city In the United States. The death rate for July was only .78 per cent. There were 130 births la the city during the month. That the population of Salt Lake City la steadily Increasing Is shown by the last school census, Just The returns show a net Increase la the school population, children ranging in age from 8 to 18 years, of 883. Two masked men entered a saloon la Ogden and held up the occupants, besides taking all the money from the till, after which they made their escape. There Is no clue to the Identity of the men and but little hopes of their capture; son of Waldemar The Lybberts, a farmer living at Naples, was riding a horse when the animal suddenly reared and Ml backward upon the boy, one of the hames of the harness passing through the lads bead, killing him Instantly. Elner Sorensen, aged 11, was accidentally shot while at the Old Arm Chair summer resort, near Balt Lake City, his injuries proving fatal. Some of the guests were firing at a target when Elner ran across the firing line and was struck In the neck. The Ogden authorities may have a deportation case on their hands, If a certain young Hollander, now In the Jail, does not soon recover his reason. The young man's name is F. C. Bruin, and he arrived In Ogden recently, apparently mentally unbalanced. According to reports thus far received by the state board of equalisation, there Is an Increase In the assessed valuation of taxable property In the state of 34.432.444. The total valuation this year Is 3132,863.671, against 128.221,127 for the year 1903. A move Is on foot In Mantl looking to the erecting of a cold storage plant In town, where Ice can be manufactured. The object will also be to purchase eggs during the seasoi when they are low in price, keeping them until they are more valuable In price. Figs, pomegranates, almonds, and many varieties of peaches, prunes and apricots do well near St. George. At the experiment farm, near that place, an effort is being made to ascertain which of the varieties are the most suitable and prosperous for the e ' com-plate- . state. In playing around a washtuh filled with boiling water, Ruth, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Christensen of Ephraim, came near being fatally scalded. The child tipped the tub from a chair, pouring the hut water over its face, arms and hack. Fire among the haystacks belonging to Edward Steed of Farmington destroyed a barn full of lucerne, 30 tons of timothy hay, two wagons and harness and some sheds. The loss will amount to 31.300. with no Insurance. The lire was started by a passing engine. On the experiment farm near St. George, where about forty varieties of grapes, mostly foreign, are being tested, It has been found that the Thomp son seedless does well, and the state board Is making great exertions to have the horticulturists taka hold of this variety. ATTACK 18 RENEWED ASSAULT OUTER JAPS AGAIN WORKS OF PORT ARTHUR. Russian Advices, However, Are to thd Effect That the Japanese Have Received Worst End of Argu-men- ! JAPS WAITED TOO LONG. bridge, floated with that to a curve, END IS NOT IN SIGHT made by tbe caving bank, and crept out of tbe water. He then rushed to MANY LIVES LOST IN RAILWAY a telegraph office nearby and gave the STOCK YARDS STRIKE REMAINS FIRM AS EVER. ACCIDENT IN COLORADO. alarm. Two Bleeping can and tha diner (topped at the brink of the Neither Side to the Conflict Seem to chasm. hungry Paqaangar Train Crashes Through Show Any Evidence of WeakenBridge, Passengers and Crew BeMANY WILD RUMORS. ing, and There Is Llttls Hops ing Drowned In the Raging of Settlement St Pctanburg is Stirred by Stories Torrent. From Chefoo. After a light which ha luted tat The city of St. Petenburg to full of The wreck of the World'e fair flyer four weeks, a settlement of the stock-yard- s wild rumors that Port Arthur haa on the Denver A Rio Grande railroad remote strike seeme to be due to report! from Chefoo of near Eden, aeven mllea north of Pu- fallen, time since the struggle for at any another assault in which the fortress Neither aide to the eblo, Colo., proves to have been one was taken by the combined land and supremacy began. of the greatest railroad disasters In all this time, bu during conflict, sea forces, though the Japanese lost the history of this country. Two shown any signs of weakening. three warships, including tha protectcrowded passenger cars and n bagThe packers, while asserting that ed cruisers Chlyoda and Itsukushlma. will soon have their affaire la gage car were engulfed In the torthey le not the slightest confirmarent that tore out a trestle spanning There normal condition again, so successful tion of these rumors. It Is believed Steels! hollow, otherwise known as have they been in securing that the Japanese are still unable to still admit that so far they have Dry Creek, and, so far aa known, only outer works, much leu men, been able to get but 550 of their old three of the occupants of these care cepture the the fortress Itself. death. Fortunately, two back, and that the majority escaped There le Increasing Impatience employees of their men are unskilled workers. deepen and a diner, completing the among all classes for decisive news In the last statement given out by train, remained on the track at the from Llao-yang-. General Lieutenant the edge of the abyss and none of their Sakharoff'a packera It wu said that nearly report that there had not half many men were at work now occnpanti was killed or Injured. been any change in the Manchurian How many perished probably will These before the strike began. of operations merely men have been brought to Chicago never be definitely ascertained, for army's sphere adds to the tension which possibly from all parts of the country, tbe mathe treacherous aande are drifting will continue for some time. There le jority of them never having aeen n over the bodies. At last reports seveg bouse before coming no telling how much time the notoribodies had been recovered, nty-six here. With these men, ine packers methodical slow and preparaand of these fifty had been identified. ously have succeeded in accomplishing a tions of the Japanese may consume great deal of work, but, according to Two bodies were taken from the before they feel ready to advance on the strikers, every animal that bu stream eight miles from the scene of General Kuropatkia'a strong posi- been slaughtered since the strike wu the disaster. bandied at a financial loss to tba tions. It seems that the train crew were packers, as In the majority of cased the loss of skilled men hu made It on the lookout for washouts and EnAGAINST THE BOYCOTT. Impossible to work in the gineer Charles Hindman waa running and thus this business, which under about fifteen miles an Judge Decides Against Legality of normal conditions Is a clear profit to cautiously Uniona Picketing by Labor the paefeera, has been allowed to go hour, aa u approached the arroya, which Is spanned by a bridge ninety-l- x Superior Judge Hunt, In San Fran- to wute. President Donnelly, of the strikers, feet in length. The condition of cisco decided against tbe legality of ays: I have received usurances labor and by was not known boycotting until the picketing the bridge from the most powerful labor organlocomotive bad nearly crossed. Fire- uniona. The decision wu rendered izations throughout the United States man Frank Mayfield, with a large In the case of E. G. Pierce against the that they are with ua In this fight are only waiting to have repretorch that. the engineer and fireman local Stablemen's union and others. and sentatives from our union sent bestated by the Judge, fore had been nslng to ascertain the con- The union them and make the request when dition of the track, was In the gang- called out hie men employed In the contributions to our financial support Under these Hindmtn plaintiff's stables and picketed hie will he freely made. When way. Engineer circumstances there le nothing for us to refused business he of because machine In place tremor the great felt the fear, aa the victory will be with us n man and substi- to and canght a glimmer on the water, discharge a In the end, no matter how long that he ehouted hie lest words: "Put out tute a union man In hla stead, at tha may be." that torch," evidently thinking that In demand of a walking delegate of the THREW BOMB INTO CROWD. the accident he felt certain was com- union. The action wu brought to obn permanent injunction against Italian Cauus Much Excitement In ing, the flames would serve to spread tain fire. But before Mayfield could obey tho defendants, to restrain them from New York City. the bridge gave way as If it had been continuing tbo boycott. A bomb thrown Into a crowd of Itala stack of kindling, wood, and the Priuner Removed from Nevada Jail ians In New York City injured a score locomotive dropped with the hissing to Prevent Lynching. or more persons and led to the arof steam through thirty feet of flood George Redding, a negro, attempted rest Sunday of Vlnvenzo Donetto. Doto the bottom of the arroya, crosswise to usault Margaret Flynn, a domestic netto, the pelice believe. Is a member to the track. employed by Morits Scheellne, a of the "Black Hand"' society, which The baggage car, smoking car and banker of Reno, Nevada. On the ap- for some time has terrorised residents chair car followed the locomotive into pearance of several white men tbe of the Italian district here, extorting tho stream and ware swept away. All money from them by threats and acta negro fled and hid la a barn, where of violence. the occupants of these cars, save be wu captured a few hours later and Donetto wu himself more severely had not the and three men, perished, In Jail, but threats of lynching Injured by the bomb than any of tha placed roof of the chair car burst asunder, made hy many of the but citi- othere, one leg be.ng badly torn. Two not one would have escaped. The being the officers became rival saloonkeeper on opposite street frightened zens, fireman, aa the locomotive went over, and quietly took their prisoner to Vir- corners wera giving away beer In an vms thrown out, and managing to ginia City, where Le wu lodged In effort to outdo each other, and n crowd surrounded each place. grasp a piece of wreckage from the JnlL Several children wera Injured slightly, and one nuns chin wu blown off. Bo far NOW STORM CENthe police have MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION OF been able to learn, no ona wu fatally TER OF THE LAND CAMPAIGN. hnrL PLUNGED INTO ABYSS Neglect of Mikadoo Forces to Act En shies Russians to Retreat. Again the chance of s decisive battle between General Kuropatkln and the commander of the Japanese army seems to be disappearing. According to n statement issued by tbe general staff at St. Petersburg, rains are a gal a falling over a wide area of Manchuria, with the prospect of Impeding operations, but even more Important la tbs an exceptional Information from source that the Japanese have ones more delayed to long. General Kumpatkin haa now withdrawn the bulk of hla army aafelf north of Mao Yang, leaving only t strong resr line to contest tbe when it comes. According to this Information, thf Japanese have shout 3H0.000 men Is the armies operating against Kuropat kin, rendering It too nnmerona for him to risk a general engagement From a source hitherto reliable, It la now aaid there la good reason to believe that the Japanese are renewing their attack on the remaining outer positions at Port Arthur. All the Russian newspapers express great relief over the reports from Port Arthur. The army organ says that although General StoettsePs report gives no details. It Is evident that the Japanese have suffered n severe reverse. The paper also pays a tribute to the navy's part In the defense of the besieged fortress. The officers of the cruiser Fuerst Bismarck, lying at the outer edge of TO SETTLE STRIKE. Chefoo harbor, express the opinion that the firing heard Monday night Determined Efforts Being Msde t Put End to Stockyards 8trike. was an encounter between detachments of the belligerent warships, apDetermined efforts are now belsg proximately twenty miles northwest made to settle the stockyards strife of Chefoo. From the cruiser's ad- at Negotii-tlon- s Chicago by mediation. vantageous position, the flashes prebetween the Retail Butcl-er- a begun seen. be could detonations the ceding and Grocers' association and repVEST 18 CALLED. resentatives of several labor unlois which would undoubtedly be Involvtd Venerable Missouri Senator Passes In the strike should it be prolonged Away After Long Illness. much longer, resulted In the After lingering for weeks between pointment of a committee composed Senator of former life and death, those who attended the meeting to George Graham Vest of Missouri negotiate with the packers, In an passed sway at Sweet Springs, Mo., to hrlng about a Joint meetlig on Tuesday. He hsd been so near between the employers and the strikdeath for the past three days that ing unions. the end came without a struggle. He It waa the sentiment of all who at was conscious until about 2 o'clock tended the conference that, should tie Sunday morning, when he sank Into meeting be arranged between the tiro n state of coma from which he never y opposing Interests, a settlement aroused. He lost the power of speech to both aides could be realSaturday morning. For several days ized. before that he talked very ImperfectARMENIANS RETALIATE. hours ly and during the last thirty-siof his Ilfs bis breathing was barely perceptible. The flutter of his pulse Bomba Thrown Into Turklah Garrison was all that showed that life still reand Many Persona Slain. mained. Governor Dockery has IsThe Tabriz (Persia) correspondent sued n proclamation on the death of of the Dally News, In a disformer Senator George Graham Vest. The committee appointed to attend patch dated August 6. says: "On July the funeral of Senator Vest as repre- 13 a band of Armenian revolutloniits sentatives of the state Is composed of appeared near Ontchklllssa. Turkish 100 men, prominent In all walks of life, and Is headed by Senators F. M. soldiers and Kurds, finding an excuie, attacked and destroyed the villages Cockrell and William J. 8tone. of Outchklllsss, Koomlouboujsk, Gou-gsDYNAMITED RESIDENCE. Karabszsr and Baytn. butchering men and outraging women. Men Blew Three Unknown Up "Two large Armenian bands marchHouse In Butte. to Sarann to help the Insurgent ing ,fhe residence of Mrs. Bells Powers leader.. Antrsnlk. attacked tbe ffiprlc of Butte, Monti was blown' to pieces sons at Mossunzory and Goutclagh at 2 oclock Tuesday morning. Three for on July 25. At Jawn revenge unknown men placed n large charge bombs were thrown Into these jjlaces, of giant powder In a closet, lighted One hand forced Its many. killing the fuse and Ned. The trio were seen way through the Kurdish tribes toleaving the house by Guy Sweet, an ward Arjcss. The number of inidlers engraver, and a roomer, but as the killed amounted to several hundred." dwelling Is inhabited by several famof Franco la Dead. ilies, he thought nothing of It until Former premier of France, the explosion came. Bweet and his died Wednesday afterwife and Tom Howie sad Mr. and Mrs. Swan Johnson, all of whom were noon, at his country residence, it Cor-belin bed, were more or less severely Ineighteen miles from Paris from jured. The house was demolished. effects of an operation whlrh his the The police believe the dynamite was meant for Colorado refugees, medical attendants deemed to be a scores of whom have come to Butte, final necessity. All the newspapers and that the dynamiters mistook the print eulogistic obituary notices of house. former Premier Waldeck-Roussesdeclaring that France has lost a THE TURKISH SITUATION. great. It not her greatest, statesman. American Minister May Leave His The organ of the party ' bewails the failure of the late premier Post, Creating 8erlous Situation. Secretary Hay occupied consider- to carry his views far enough, and, able time at the cabinet meeting dealing with the effect of hla death M. Tuesday In a presentation of the lat- upon the political situation, says: death will make est phases of the Turkish situation. Walileck-Rousseau'- a He explained the reasons which hsd a great stir in the world, hut actually actuated him In requesting that the It will change nothing at all." American European squadron should Judge Parker Notified. be sent to Smyrna, the most convenient port, to Constantinople. It waa Judgo Alton B. Parker waa. on not deemed wise by the secretary Wednesday, formally notified of hla that the reasons for his action ahould nomination as the candidate of the he disclosed entirely at this time. FreMi negotiations with the ports Democratic party for president. The hare been Instituted and In the event ceremony occurred on the lawn of of their failure It may be that Min- Roscmonnt. his handsome country ister Irishman may leave his post home nt Ksopus. K. Y and In addiand go aboard the American flagship, thus creating a situation of soma tion to the members of the notification committee and many prominent seriousness. men of his party, hundreds of the canLABOR STRUGGLE IN CHICAGO. didate's friends and neighlmr assembled to witness the event, ('omireaH-ma- n Champ Clark of Missouri delivPolice and Strike Sympathizers Enered tbe address of notilleatlon on begage in a Number of Fighto. half of the committee. An attempt to move meat from the Call for Irrigation Congress. stockyards to the Fulton market on Clark of Montana has President In Randolph street. Chicago, s distance of four miles, caused a number1 sent the official call for the twelfth of fights between the police and strike Mutual session of the National Irrigation congress, which meets at El sympathizers who attempted to preNovel- - b r l.l to tillvent the passage through the streets committee of the Soutbsc-ter- n of the wagons bearing the meat. Imitation Hssoeiatii'ti of El Ia-- n for Action Fully a hundred shots were fired by examination and approval. the police and the members of the will be taken nt a meet tig this mob. hut nobody was stmek by s buweek ami the rail will be ready for llet Two of tbe officers were cut on circulation early nest week. Much Inthe head by stones thrown by rioters. terest Is being taken in (lie meeting, A score of the rioters were knocked and It Is predirt cd the at'embitice will down hy the pnlirenien and wera careclipse that of nil previous meetings. ried off by their friends. Due to Color Line. DYNAMITE IN FOUNDRY. The color line was dran in a singuVn.. whi n a white Explosion Shatters a Plant In Water-vlle- t lar way at Itellleld. Itelfield on k cm the an and Clare-niobra of the Southern railway branch A partially successful attempt was to accept a mail parkas, from made Tuesday to wreck the plant of refused a colored postal clerk Tbe train was the West Side Foundry company la delayed nt Clnn-nion- t in ore titan aa Colonle, Just outside the city of hour while frantic rninniiiniiM'lons Watervlict, N. Y., with dynamite. Aa were being wired to the superintendent. and the result was Unit si veral explosion In the motor room shattered one motor and started a fire employee of the road wpp diswhich was extinguished with little charged and a son of one of th- - employee of the road carried the mall damage. No one was hurt. The comfrom the car to the jtostofflee. pany has had trouble with Its employees, who are on strike. . satti-factor- x n, u u non-unio- n u u meat-packin- u non-unio- u l, TRAIN DROPS INTO CREEK. Report That Eighty Paeungere Are Killed In Train Wrack. Train No. 11, the Missouri Pacific flyer, crashed through a bridge over tho Arroya, or dry creek, near Eden, about eight miles from Pueblo, at 8 oclock Sunday night It Is estimated that of the 125 passengers on board tho train, between SO and 100 lost their lives, either under tha waters of the raging torrent or beneath the wreckage. Upcn the newe reaching Pueblo a special train hearing nil the available surgeons and the Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific officials left for the scene. The relief train brought to Pueblo seventeen of tho puungera who had escaped with Anti-Cleric- - their llvu. MUST ANSWER TO ALLIANCE. Cripple Creek Business Men will be 8corad for Furnishing Benda for Strikers. men who Eight of the forty-eigwore arrested after the Independence explosion and charged with murder, conspiracy and the Victor riot and murder, have been released on bonds furnished by business men of the Cripple Creek district In sums ranging from 31.600 to 310,000. Thus bondsmen have been summoned before the Citizens' alliance to give their reason for going on the bonds. Former Sheriff Henry M. Robertson, who returned to the district Thursday, departed Saturday for Denver, after having made a formal demand on U&der Sheriff Parsons for possession of the office, which he asserts he wu forced to resign under duress. He says he will attempt to his former position through the rourts. While In Cripple Creek, Mr. Robertson was compelled, under threat of arrest, to report twice daily at the sheriff's office. ht la the moat Since the Japanese occupation o f Tatcheklao, In strong force. It Is s Gen. tkln holds which Kouropa uutherly point large Chinese city, surrounded by ol d stone walls, which, of course, arc useless for protective purpous unde r tho conditions of modern warfare, firm s tand here. It will be compelled to do-- n If the Ruoslan army makes the neighboring hills. The map and puns o pend on Its earthworks ehowv tho roads which lead to Tateh ekiao and Siuyen. Along the former Gen. Oku's army le advancing, and a long the latter the Takuahan army, In clou supposed to be commanded by Gen. N odzu, both armies being touch. Hai-Chen- g London Newspapers Approve of Hay'a Circular Regarding Contraband. Tht Times and other Ixindon newspapers on Monday contained editorials strongly approving the circular issued by Mr. Hay, the American secretary of state, aa to what constitute contraband of war. The Time says: "Mr. Hay lays down & sound and reasonable rule on the subject. We trust our government will not delay In letting It be known that we fully share the views cf the United States, and we shall steadfastly uphold them." Uncle Sam Wilt Rule the Sea. Captain Thomas Allnut Breasey, peaking at Catfirld. England, said he wu convinced that within ten years the command of the seas would have passed from Great Britain to the United States. The latter country Is now building more battleships than England and its reour-e- s are greater than are those of Great Britain, whose only hope was a federation through which the colonics would aid In the building up and maintenance of the navy of the mother country. re-gai-n TRIED TO KILL RULER. Torpedo Exploded at 8ide of Carriage of President cf Uruguay. An attempt was nude upon the I of President H.r.lli-- Ordonez at Mu. tevld-- o. on Saturday. While driving with hi family along one of ih principal street i.f the eiiy a hurni-.torpedo was exploded -t tin- - side . ' tho earring.-- . 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