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Show THE WEEKLY SENTINEL uf a jiiuui, ncirtii nil UTAH STATE NEWS..Utah mines paid dividends to tbs mount of 8 690,000 during tbs month of July. Mrs Nichols, the Salt Lake woman whom Clarence Kenney attempted to murder with a knife, is recovering. The Dlackhawk Indian war veterans of Sanpete county will hold n camp-fir- s and reunion In Mantl on August 17, 18 and 19. At the Pioneer day celebration at Carland seventeen floats were in ths procession, which was the greatest in the towns history. Pearl Prisbee, an aeronaut, while making an ascension at Huntsville fell a distance of forty feet and had several ribs broken. A severe electrical and windstorm t Garland did considerable damage to dry land wheat and much fruit was blown from the trees. It is announced that the proposed electric railwsy from Bantaquln, this state, to Preston, Idaho, will be wader construction before long. The auxiliary plant of the Utah Sugar company at Leiand is nearing completion, and within another month will be ready for the fall crop. A private in the Utah National Guard hag been sentenced to nine days in the Balt Lake county Jail for refusal to attend drill. The recent strike in the Ontario mine in American Fork canyon baa been the means of Inducing much activity in the mines in that district. Sevier valley has experienced soma severe rains during the past week, some damage having been done to grain by beating it down to the ground, James Boltomer, who shot Pal Smythe in Ogden on July 16, will have to face a charge of assault with to murder. Smythe is recovering from his injuries. During the Pioneer day celebration at Richfield a game of base ball between the girls and young married women of that town was witnessed by a large crowed. The girls won. The electrical storm which struck Salt Lake City on Thursday night o last week did 11,000 damage to the treat railway, while a messenger boy was severely shocked by lightning! The first appropriation for the shop plant of the Short line In North Salt Lake, amounting to nearly 6320,000, has been approved by the executive committee of the road la New York city. Frank C. Gattung, of Salt Lake City, while erecting an awning, fell to the pavement, striking on his head, and was so severely injured that he has been deranged ever since the ao cident, Harry Buckwey, aged 12, was smothered to death while playing in a sand bank in Ogden. The boy had dug a hole in the bank, which caved in on him, and before he could be rescued he was smothered. Reed Baker, whose home is in Michigan, tried to board a freight train at Colton, for the purpose of going to Salt Lake, fell underneath the wheels and suffered the loss of his foot. Native Utah asphalt Is being used In repairing pavements in Salt Lake City, the crude asphalt Just as It comes from the mines, near Thistle, being used. The Utah product is being used as an experiment. The production of coal in the state of Utah during the year 1903 is placed at 1,681,409 tons, valued at 62,026,038. This is an increase over the production of the previous year of 106,314 tons, valued at 6228,684. Complaints have been made to ths State Board of Health to the effect that cattle suffering with tuberculosis are being slaughtered in various parts of the state and put upon the market, and the board is investigating. The leading business men of Lehl will organize a business men's association, which will hold regular meetings, for the purpose of furthering the Interests of Lehl and building up the business of the town. Reuben Fuller, aged 11, was drowned in the Sanitarium, in Salt Lake City, on the 27th, but no one noticed the lad and his body was found after he had been unfor some time. water the der in Washington New Harmony, county, was visited by a cloudburst last week which did damage to the amount of about 63,000. Several persons lost everything they had, but fortunately no lives were lost. Andrew Miller, for many years known in Salt Lake City as the "Crazy Swede, " has been taken to the asylum at Provo. Many years ago Miller's sweetheart was drowned while on a voyage to America, and since that time he has kept his house fantastically decorated inside and outside, awaiting the coming of his liride. the blow having robbed him of his reason. in-te- Mus-kogo- 4VAB0DV ISSUES STATEMENT. Colorado Governor Declares Hs Is Not Waging War on Labor Unions. H. Peabody Governor James Colorado baa Issued an address explaining and vindicating his acts in dealing with tbe labor troubles in Colo redo. He refutes tbe contention that tbe strike inaugurated by tbe Western Federation of Miners at the ore reduo tloa works In Co orado City was cslieJ because of the failure of the lesisia. law. ture to enact r.n eight-hou- r pointing out that it was called on ths 14th of February, some five or sis weeks before tbe adjournment of the legislature which then had under conlaw. Later I sideration an eivhl-hnu- r sympathetic sirihe was declared by the Federation in Cripple Creek to cut off the ore supply of the mills. Governor Peabody then goes lnts tbe history of the Western Federation of Miners, which, he declares, has been replete with h vaults, dynamite outrages and murder. In affording protection to men who desired to la, bor, the governor explains, "It became necessary, in my judgment, to confine certain men in military guard houses as one of the safest and most expedt tious methods of restoring order." Governor Peabody denies ths charge that hs Is waging war on labor unions generally. d FORT ARTHUR HAS NOT FALLEN INTO JAPANESE HANDS Beth Tokle and SL Petersburg Officials Pronounce the Rumor Untrue. The rumored fall of Port Arthur is pronounced to be untrue by ofllclali In Tokio. The report of the atormlng and capture of Fort Arthur waa received In SL Petersburg with smiles of Incredulity. Tbe war 0(11 re contra dieted the rumored fall of the fortress. There Is no change of Importance is the situation In Manchuria exrrpt that the Japanese have made a alight ad, vance toward Hal Cheng and tbat they are developing a flank movement from Sim ouch eng, fifteen miles from Hal Cheng. They continue active In Slk-sera- A FIGHT TO THE FINISH. No Sign of Abatement In the Chlcage Strike, Both Sides Being Confident of Victory. The conflict between capital and unionism which has been going on la ths packing trade Industry throughout the country for nearly three weeks shows no signs of abatement Both of the opposing Interests seem es .determined as ever on a fight to a finish. Tha packers declare they have practically won their fight and that the strikers are becoming demoralized, fu direct opposition to this statement of the employers, the strike leaders assert that the victory is with ths workmen and that it will be a matter of hut a short time until the packers will be compelled to ask for peace, RUSSIA MUST FIGHT OR RUN. Curs Men In a Position Where They Must Make Good. A SL Petersburg dispatch says that although public attention has beet distracted from tbe events of the wai during the past week, first, because of the fear of international compiles, tlons, and second, because of the assassination of Minister of the Interior Von Plehve, the situation at tbe front la regarded ns critical. Tbe envelop lng movement of the three Japaness armies of Generals Kcrokl, Nodzu anJ Oku around General Kuropatkin'a position appears to be almost complete, and the extended line ofthe Japanese earns to be the only drawback to concerted action. It Is realized here tbat the Russian general must now eltbeT fight or withdraw tbe whole army northward. He is being closely pressed at Halcheng. Prompt Payment DESPERATE FIGHTING Government Seeks Information. JAPANESE ASSAULT INNER DE ment of commerce and labor, who obFENSES OF PORT ARTHUR. tained evidence for the government oa which an Injunction was issued about two yean ago by Judge G rose-cuFor Three Dayo Brown Men Display of the federal district court, enFanatical Bravery. Despite Fearful tha larger packing companies joining Lose, Twenty Thousand from combining in making the prices Being Slain. either aa buyera of livestock or sellar uf meat, was In the stock yards at A desperate three-daassault os Tuesday afternoon, investigating the Inner dofensea, on the northers conditions. The Inspector's presence and eastern aides of Port Arthur, ha la by direction of the department ot failed, according to advices brought commerce and labor, actuated, it Is to Chee Fno by two junks. stated, by direct orders from PresiA Russian, wbo escaped from Port dent Roosevelt, who is anxious to obArthur via Pigeon bay on tbe night tain exact information. of July 29, states that the earth trembled under tbe terrific cannonading which began at 4 a. m., July 26, and ended during the night of July 28. when tbe battle ceased. A Chinese, who has arirved at Che Foo on a separate junk, confirms ths Russian statement that the Rusaiaz killed and wounded during the assault numbered between five and alx thousand. The Japanese, In their repeated a suits against the eastern forte on tbs hills, through barbed wire entangle ments and over mines, displayed fo natlcal bravery. They were mows! down by tbe bail of shells and bulleti and the explosion of mines under the p Ch-cag- o, y' feet Their losses are estimated r twenty thousand. The Russian declares that the Rm-lan-a held all the eastern forts leafing to Golden Hill, and that the Japanese, shattered and exhausted retired to the eastward. Aa related by the passengers of thr two junks, the Japanese advanct. which began from Kwokau before July 26. waa directed again! Kinkisham ant Klkwan, KInkitun, Pchtouahan forts, lying near shore. The Ruslsan outposts were drive back. In the meantime Admiral Togo shelled the forts at long range, but tbe return fire of the forts kept hli hips at a safe distance, rendering the cooperation of the fleet lneffectlva On the morning of July 27 the Russian fleet steamed out, keeping under the protection of the Golden Hill guns The Russian vessels did not fire os tbe Japanese, and soon returned to their anchorage. The assault on the northern side ot the city occurred July 27. The Japan eae left at Halkau advanced on As Russians at Shlnahl Ting, hut werewet. pfllseff. The junks were within bea5fc distance for three days after leaving, hut no more firing waa heard. BUTCHERS BAYS ONE OF THE UNION OFFICIALS. Instead of Disrupting the Union, the Disintegration of One of tho Greatest Combines in the World Has Set In. Homer D. Call. International secretary of the butchers organization, in an interview1 in Chicago, is quoted aa saying: "The greatest feature of the strike Is that the meat trust has been broken. Instead of the packers disrupting the union, the disintegration of one of the greatest combinations tbe world baa ever seen has already set In. For ten years, from 1890 to 1900, the consolidation of the meat companies was carried on, and from 1,741 packing plants In this country the number was reduced to 7G0. "Now the tide will set in the other way. The packers know that tbey have already lost control of a large part of their business and that tbe livestock dealers will do all tbat is possible to assist In the defeat. Since the strike the independent plants of InChicago. Louisville. Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Springfield, dianapolis, Maas., have been working night and day. This trade will never be recovered by the trust. "The public is supporting the Independent plants because of the damaging evidence secured by the government against the meat monopoly." DECISIVE BATTLE NEAR. n daj-hrea- THE - Demand. Under a treaty with several for- Black sea squadron under the guise eign powers Turkey is obliged to pre- of merchantmen has aroused Great vent the passage of warships through Britain to protest against the treaty is strongthe Dardanelles. This historic atraiL violation. The Dardanelles n Krupp once known a the Hellespont la ly fortified 'with sixty-seveon on one side and forty-fiv- e guns e forty-fivmiles long and varies in other. It Is also protected at tbe the width from 1.000 yards to two miles narrowa with heavy cablea and and connects the lllack sea with the mines. The United States are not a sea of Marmora. The reported pass- party to tbe treaty respecting warage of Russian warships from the ships In the Dardanelles. Kansas Populists and Democrats Fuse. The Populist convention at Topeka. the proposition Kansas, accepted made them by the Democrats and Judge David Dale was nominated for This was accomplished governor. after thirteen hour of speerhmsklng. A faction of the Populists bolted and will nominate a straight Populist ticket. The Democrats, also In session In Topeka, were given the privilege of nominating a governor and half the other state officials, giving The the Populists the remainder. ticket thus nominated will be called Democratic. Increase in Coal Production. The forthcoming report of tbe Unit ed States geological surrey will show that the United States ozceoded a!) previous record! in tho production of coal lu 1901. The total amount of the output of the coal mines of ths cou try during that year was 969.421.811 tons, as Increase of nearly 69,000.009 tons, or nineteen per cent over ths preceding year. The value of ths products Is given as 8604,190,736, aa Inereass In value of 88 per cent ovee the preceding year. Death of Mrs. Miles. Mrs. Nelson A. Miles died at West Point. N. Y Tuesday night, of heart disease. She and General Miles had been visiting their son Sherman, who ia a atudent at the military academy. General Miles was not present st tbe time of bis wife's death, be having gone nut of town for the day. Mrs. Miles was 62 years old. She made a number of calls Monday and apparently was in her usual health. Mrs. Miles was the daughter of Judge Charles Sheruinn. Hold Up Harvest Hands. Three men held up and robbed a quartette of harvest hands In a box car on the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fa railway near Hutchinson, Kins., and in a fight that followed all of them were wounded. The robbers escaped. A. B. Frasier waa shot In the leg and foot and J. S. Frazier was cut in the throaL but not oriously. William Rota and Scott Fleming, the latter from Cedar Rapids, la., were beaten badly. The Fraziers, who are brothers, and Rosa are from Ronance, M& L ex-pre-ss ATTACK POLICE STATION. Engage In With Fight Chicago Coppers. Rioters atoned the Deerlng street police station in Chicago Monday night and for a quarter of an hour the police battled with the crowd of 2.000 men and women, aa It charged the station repeatedly with sticks and atones, shouting vengeance against the police. The trouble started when the police went to the assistance of Frank Castellano, a strike-breakemployed in the stock yards, who had been dragged from a street car and severely beaten. Before the police could reach Castellano he had fired four shots from a revolver at his assailants. One ot the bullets took effect in John Sheehans arm. The mob became infuriated when they aaw that their companion had been shot Nearly a dozen times the police sallied forth and charged the crowd-witclubs before the rioters dispersed. In one of these charges three policemen were injured with bricks,. er FOUGHT FOR TWq DAYS. BEAUTY SPOILED BY ACID. Troubles of Colombia. a remote inkling of tbe potsi Just an upheaval which rumoi of blllty ays has occurred in Bogota reache Washington through official ehanneli some time ago. Tbla was to tbs ef s element !i feet tbat tbe tbe lower house of the Colombian con gress was dissatisfied with the wsy li which things were going and gave evidence or strong opposition to him for the prcsldei! y. The Colombian congress Is supposed to hare met lu Bogota on tbe 20th Inst -- all heavily Four highwaymen, armed and two of them wearing masks, held up the passengers on tha Illinois Central Chlcago-SLouis train No. 1, known aa the Diamond special," aa It neared Matteson, Ills. The robbers secured all tha money and valuables carried by tbe thirty passengers in the two Pullman sleeping cars, stopped the train and escaped In the darkness. The forward sleeper waa entered first the occupants aroused and with nothing on but their night clothes were marched back to the Pullman car behind. Two of tbe passengers wbo were alow tn responding to th command of tbe robbers were bit o their heads with n hatchet and one waa seriously Injured. So systematic waa the work of the robbers, and with so little confusion, that the train crew waa unaware of what waa going on. It waa not until the engineer. In response to the signal, brought his train to n atop and seeing nothing of the remainder of the crew walked back to the rear of the train to ascertain what waa ike matter, that he learned of the robbery. No attempt waa made to rob the mall or express cars. The rolv-ber-s secured more than 91,000 In money and valuables. REMAINS IN SECLUSION. at the Home of Her Mother. Mrs. Florence Maybrick continues in the seclusion of her mothers home t Rouen. Neither she nor tbe Rareness de Roques, her mother, has gone farther than the garden since Mrs. Mayhrloks arrival, and. as far as Is known, they have received no visitors. At the house. Information regarding ttie movements of Mrs. Maybrick is steadfastly withheld. anti-Reye- an Bandits Rob Faaasngera Train In Illinois. Fairbanks Accepts Nomination. Charles W. Fairbanks, senior United States senator from Indiana, was on Wednesday formally notified of his nomination for vice president of the United States by the Republican National convention. The notification address was made hv Elihu Root, of war, who was temporary chairman of the convention. The exercises were held on the veranda ot Senator Fairbanks' borne in Indianapolis, in tbe presence of the members of the notification committee, and Invited guests. Fully 5,000 people were present. Mrs. Maybrick Still 4. TRAIN. After Many Hours of Fighting. A dispatch to a news agency In London from Toklo says there Is reason to believe that, after two days fighting, the Japanese occupied thus cutting off General Stakelberg from General Kuropatkln. If It Is true as pointed out in the foregoing, it leaves the Russian forces In an exceedingly serious posit A report from an apparently reliar ble source received at St. Petersburg a was to the effect that General main force had been rapidly moving north for several days. According to this rejmrt no troops proceeding to the front from Russia had gone past Harbin in the past three days. Tbey will be detained there and every available piece of rolling stock will be rushed south empty for the removing of troops at Liao Yang and other points to the northward, leaving a skeleton force to contest the Japanese advance on vital positions. The report comes from Willemstad Island of Curacoa, tbat Herr Pelllram, tbe German minister at Caracu, h&i delivered an nltlmatnm demanding thi Immediate payment by the Venezuelan government of the Interest on tbe amount ofthe award to be paid to Ger many aa stipulated tn the protocol signed by Herbert W. Bowen, repre sentlng Venezuela, In February, 1903 If this demand la not compiled with the report aaya, the minister will leave Caracal Auguit Four A Mob of Men and Women Believed That Greatest Fight of Campaign Will Take Place Soon. Whether a general engagement is already progressing around Liao Yang between the forces of General Kuro-patkland the three Japanese armies, which have been moved against them from the south and east, the decisive battle of the campaign Is regarded as certain if the Japanese energetically follow up their preliminary successes of the last three days. At various points the fighting has been of a desperate and bloody character, the Russians offering the most stubborn resistance. ' Tbe losses, therefore, although their extent ia not yet established. must be heavy on both sides. Between 6.000 and 8,000 men is one The map shows the Tsugurt, or estimate given of the Rusalan losses. Sungari, straits through which the All the estimates, however, are little Vladivostok passed into better than guess work aa yet and squadron the Pacific ocean. There are various possibly the Russian casualties may guesses aa to the Russian purpose in be much larger. going into the Pacific. One la that the squadron primarily will look out Railroad Men Help Striking Packers. for and search American vessels Complications and embarrassments hound for Japanese ports. Another in new fields are now confronting the bund tor French todChl- - packers, according to information that to join the squadron which la ex- has reached strike headquarters in to leave the Baltic for Chicago. After slaughtering and prethe orient paring beef for market, much of tbe product Is spoiling en route, it la asHISTORIC DARDANELLES. serted, because of difficulties encountered by the packers In icing refrigerator cars. Little difficulty Is experienced In icing tbe meat cars at the stockyards, where machinery is largeg stations, ly used, but at the the country, scattered throughout where the supply is replenished, railroad employes, it Is said, are refusing to do the work, resulting In heavy losses. ,na HELD UP MEAT TRUST BUSTED Inspector Carroll, tha special repre entatlve at tha United State depart- Many People Leaving Port Arthur. The forts at Port Arthur bristle with caliber, guns, including many of but the naval artillerymen are alleged tn have inflicted the heaviest loss on the Japanese. The present ezodus from Port Arthur Is due to the granting of permission to leave the besieged city, which, heretofore, the In Russian officials have withheld. most instances the refugees are people of the better elass. who are compelled tn pi; pxorh'tmt prices for luiiks. which are c Brown Men Prove Victors Kuro-patkln- Young Man Accused of Scarring a Woman Attempts Suicide. Someone threw carbolic acid in the eyes and face of Cornla Ramsay, a young woman of Clarksville, Iowa, as he waa on her way to a neighbors house. She was rendered partially blind and will be disfigured for life. High Wheeler, who waa arrested later on information furnished by Miss Ramsay, tried to commit suicide in bis cell. No cause for the assault la known. Japa Are Fighters. a result of a fight between white men and Japanese at the fishing village of Steveston, B. C., three men were injured fatally. Half a dozen white men and nearly a hundred Japanese were involved In the row, which began after a wrestling match between a Japanese and a white fisherman, in which the Japanese was defeated. Two policemen who tried to atop the fight were beaten into unconsciousness. Seven Japanese are under arrest. As Californians Are Winners. Tbe Elks' awarding committee at Cincinnati has awarded a prize of 8MIU to the Los Angeles lodge for tha greatest mileage, on the ground that all of the 124 marching members bad come to Cincinnati especially fur that purpose. The Manila lodge, which claimed the prize, had the greatest aggregate mileage, hut It waa held tbat they had several members in line who were in this country for other purposes than attending the Elks rcunios. |