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Show THE MONT TIMES AVALANCHE Mill IK SMIIIS IN BY C. E. SHERMAN. FROM MP UTAH. TREMONTON UTAH STATE NEWS The legality of running trade slot machines Is to be tested in the Ogden courts. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company has the Wiilard exchange nearly completed. Earl Ashton, of lehl, was struck by a snowball in which a rock was concealed, resulting in the breaking ol his jawbone. There are about 8i0 tons of beets till at Wiilard. The sugar company baa lost lots o! tee beets on account, of the bad winter. The propositi OS to teach telegraphy in the Ogden High school is being opposed by the Commercial Telegraphers' union in Ogden. A strike is reported in the Midnight Bell mine above Alpine, which goes sixty-eigper cent lead, four ounces silver, and some gold. The Utah Kayolin company of Leal, last week shipped 1,400 pounds of kayolin to different schools, where it t used for modeling purposes. The coal shortage has been keenly felt at Payson, the mild weather making the suffering much lighter than ordinarily would have been the case. A luncheon was given William Jennings Bryan at the Alta Club in Salt Lake City on Saturday, at which a number of prominent people were present Minnie bearing, aged 4, of Salt Lake, is dead as the result of eating the hardened sugar from a can of condensed milk, causing ptomaine poi- soning. Walter Cowley, aged 9, died ir Salt lake last week from brain concussion, the result of a bump he received in falling from his sled while coasting. to By raising the saloon license 11200 a year, the city fathers of He-be-r City have compelled three of the five wet goods emporiums to close their doors. William Chambers died at Smith-flel- d last week at the age of 90. He eame to Utah with his family in 1853, ngaging in his trade of blacksmith to the day of his death. An Italian convicted of shooting rabbits near Ogden was fined flO, under the statute that prohibits any alien from doing any shooting of wild animals without first securing a per. mit Charles Riss, an crook, scaped from the Salt Lake jail by tawing through the bars. Rlss was wanted in a number of places, and had Just been sentenced to seven years' Imprisonment for burglary. City Attorney Ogden Hiles of Salt Lake has advised Mayor Ezra Thompson, chairman of the juvenile court commission, that the commission la wittiout. power to remove Judge Willis Bro .. u of the juvenile court. F. H. Hamilton, lawyer and San Francisco earthquake refugee, pleaded guilty to charges of forgery and uttering a forged instrument, in Salt Lake last week, and was sentenced to aerve five years in the state prison. The Kaysville Brick company, a corporation of Salt Lake and Davis coun ty men, expects to begin operations not later than May I. The plant has a capacity of 100,000 and the company controls forty-fivacres of excellent brick clay in Davis county. Robert B. Paine, former councilman of the First ward, Ogden, who was ejected from office for the alleged appropriation of illegal fees, has filed notice of appeal to the supreme court of Utah to have his case reversed and referred back for a new trial. Oliver Carlson and John B. Hopkins, two youths of Logan, weut to the barn of John IS. Dahie and took a valuable mare therefrom. They hitched the animal up and drove her almost to death, t being necessary to kill her when she was found the fc Mowing morning. The preliminary examination of William Ilanley, who is accused ol robbing R. M. Edmunds at Stockton on Jatiuary 17, was held at Tooele. At the conclusion of the evidence for the held to prosecution the d. lendant the district Court under $1000 bond. Willie Davit, a Salt Lake boy, is dead as the result or a prao tlcal joke by some of his playmates He was pushed irom a bench whik resting at the ice skating rink, tne bench striking him In the back of the head, causing concuBskm of the brain The city council of Green River last week granted to Merrit & Cook an electric franchise to the purpose of unnlng a street car lino from the lepot to the dam in the river, a distance of about seven mllej, also for he purpose of furnishing lights for he city. John D. Douglas, who on May 201, 1898, was sentenced tO life Imprisonment for killing his wile, has made spplleatlon for a pardon. Donates in the fall of i:)03, assisted tho prison officers during a serious outbreak, and his sentence was commuted t twenty- to years. d e s Snowslide Wrecks Buildings at Monarch and Several Persons Perish. Salida, Colo. At least seven Uvea were lost in a terrific snowslide that came down Monarch mountain, strik ing the little town of Monarch, at 9 o'clock Monday night, completely over whelming three business houses, and burying their occupants under fifty feet of snow and dirt. The Wrecked buildings are Steve bkinner's saloon Fred Mason's room ing house and Fred Schrader's rest aurant, the inmates of which had no warning and no time to get out before the crash came. Several of them, however, have Fred been rescued. They are: Schrader anil family of five; James Smith and one child and Fred Mason. The slide came down with such force as to continue its course across the main street of Monarch, caving in the front of Carroll's hotel. None of the guests or employes were hurt, however. Mrs. Fred Mason, James Lecky, and one unknown man have been taken from the slide dead. Lecky's Bon is under the snow, but has not been located. Monarch is an active mining camp, the center of a rugged section oi Chaffee county, to waioh access at thia time of the year is difficult, except by the single track of railroad which serves for ore transportation, but which is now covered with fifty feet of snow in the cuts and gulches. MEN 111 (Oil BEGINS. Defense Will Rely Upon Plea of Hereditary Insanity. New York. The state laid its case against Harry K. Thaw on Monday a plain, unemotional story of the ahooting on the Madison Square garden roof. The defense replied with a plea of hereditary insanity. It was asserted that Thaw in slaying White believed he was acting as agent of Providence; that real or fancied wrongs committed against him by the architect and former friend of his wife had caused the impulse to kill. When the deed was done Thaw made no movement to escape its (consequences, but stood as if mutely proclaiming to the world "The deed I done; it was right, it was not wrong." BROWNSVILLE AFFRAY AGAIN. Senate Begins Its Investigation, Many Negro Soldiers Being Present. The investigation by Washington the senate committee on military affairs of the Brownsville affray began A score of the negro 3n Monday. soldierB of the Twenty-fiftinfantry who were discharged without honor were present, but only a United number were permit ted to sit In the committee room during the proceedings. Attorneys were bailed, the negro soldiers having no representatives present. It is understood that Senator Foraker will look after the interests of the men if they are placed in HELPED THEMSELVES TO COAL. armers Board a Freight Train and Take Coal From Tender. Uathrle, Okla. A Midland freight train was "held up" at Foraker, In the Osage nntlon, Sunday night and a party of determined men climbed Into the tender ami. without ceremony, un- leaded nearly all the coal Into vo hides. The residents of Foraker had l"'on ithOUl eoel for weeks, and the 'ncl scarcity had reached a critical stage. KILL THAW RECEIPTS GRAIN Action of American Officer IN ths Kingston Incident is Upheld by the Chief Executive. Standstill. Internal Commerce of United Testimony Brought Out Thai White Displayed Revolver States Last Year Eclipsed Washington. In unequivocal terms All Former Records and Made I hreatS. President Roosevelt has approved Ad be- degrees by govern- ment thermometers on Tuesday Most of the other thermometers went to Zero weather has prethirty below vailed for seventeen days. For three days previous the temperature has been ueai ly as low as on Tuesday. In North Dakota thirty degrees below has been common, and there has Railroads have been Been suffering badly demoralized. For several days? Iiast the main lines of the Soo, Great Northern and Northern Pacific have been blocked and many of the branch lines have been at a standstill for weeks. This lias caused a coal famine in many North Dakota towns. There have been reports of many people freezing to death, but these reports have been denied from North Dakota sources. It. is, however, admitted m ' road managers that the opening sp ng will tell some grewsome tal of suffering, starvation and death. Under the Leadership of Attorney Delmas, of California, the Defense of the Young Millionaire Begins to Take More Definite Form. J New York. The defense of Harry K. Thaw, under the direction of Attorney Delphjn M. Delmas of Call fornia. began to assume definite shape When court ad- Wednesday. journed testimony had been placed before the jury to the effect that Stan- ford. hite had been heard to make t to kill the defendant, coup- e uireax with the display or lver; that Thaw's actions 101 the killing of White on the Madison Square Garden was red by several HEREDITARY INSANITY. to have been "irrational;" that an . ,1... -uwww. wwwuu. This is the Defense Made by Thaw's amt lnaw Passea 8 lnal Lawyers for Murderer of White. note to ner nusband during dinner New York. The task of proving to at the Cafe Martin the evening of the a jury that Harry K. Thaw was intragedy; that District Attorney Je sane, through hereditary and mental rome has this note and refused, on stress, when he shot and killed Stan the demand of the defense, to introford White, was laken up Tuesday by duce it in evidence. the defense in this famous ease. The alleged threat, against Thaw's In Thaw's attorneys endeavored life was made two years and a half vain to place before the jury evibefore the tragedy occurred. District Attorney Jerome objected to the evidence, declaring the defense was not understood by him to be one of on es - miral Davis' entire action in connection with his visit to Kingston, Ja- maica, and requested the secretary of the navy to express to Admiral Davis his heartiest comnuudation of all that he did. The expected report of Admiral Davis on the circumstances leading up to the withdrawal of the fleet from Kingston reached the navy department on Friday, and was at once laid before the president. Inasmuch as the president already has announced that tpe diplomatic phase is a olosed incident, the report itself will not be made nnhlie. However. Seere. tary Metcalf gave out the letter of Admiral Evans, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, warmly com mending Admiral Davis for his con duct of a situation "which was to say the least somewhat embarrassing." The correspondence is supplemented by a strong letter of commendation of Admiral Davis by the president and by Secretary Metcalf. THAW JURY SECURED. : lJ en Eight Days Time Taken to Select the Men to Try New York Murderer. New York. The selection of the twelfth juror came as a complete sur- prise at the end of a long and tedious the eighth of the trial and im- mediately after this last member of the trial panel had been sworn in Justice Fitzgerald adjourned court until 10:30 o'clock Monday morning. The jury is composed of: Foreman, Dem-inS. Smith, 55; retired manufacturer; married. George P. Pl'aff, 64; hardware; married. Charles M. Fecke, Mr. Delmas replied that ihe de- 45; shipping clerk; married. Oscai fense intended to take advantage of A. Pink, 46; salesman; married. Henevery legal defense allowed in the ry C. Harney, 50; piano dealer; marstate of New York, be it insanity, ried. Harry C. Brealey, 35; advertisor any other legitimate ing agent; married. Malcolm S. Erajustification of the taking of a hu- ser, 40; sal .nan; married. Charles man life. D. Newton, 65; retired railway of- This was but the first of a series ficial; married. Wilbur S. Steele, 60; ot interesting tilts between the dismanufacturer; married. John S. De- trict attorney and Mr. Delmas dur- nee, ss; railway treight agent; uning the day. and it was agreed that married. Joseph B. Bolton, 57; clerk; Mr. Jerome had found Thaw's new married. Bernard 36; Gerstman, leading counsel a foeman worthy of manufacturer's agent; married. his best efforts. The two men are of widely different types Mr. Jerome PLAN UNREASONABLE. quick, passionate, forceful, sarcastic and brilliant at ridicule; Mr. Delmas Japanese Opinion of Proposed Solu- resourceful, witty, rAjjvrtnirteous, tion of Present Dispute. dpfuy and ethical, to whom the diswas trict attorney "the always Tokio. After a careful survey of learned district attorney." There was never a deviation from .jis method public feeling here regarding the prospect of a satisfactory solution of the of address. San Francisco school controversy, it TRAIN RUNS WILD. may be stated that while the ap- proach of the termination of the dis- Engineer Dead But His Engine Kept agreeable affairs Is welcomed, yet the on at Terrific Speed. repun iiom w asiiing urn mai a solu The Congressional tion may be effected by a mutual Philadelphia. treaty excluding the immigration of limited train on the Pennsylvania laborers is generally disbelieved as railroad ran through this city Wed- unreasonable. nesday night at terrific speed with According to the prevailing feeling the engineer, Joseph Toms, dead at a solution must be effected on Japan's the throttle. The train makes two treaty rights pure and simple. stops in this city, one at West PhilaDryden is Out of the Running. delphia and the other at North PhilWashington.-Unite- d States Senator adelphia. John F. Dryden of New Jersey, on Shortly after leaving West Philadelphia, the fireman. Harry Mitch-ner-, Sunday announced that he had withnoticed that the speed was un- drawn his name as candidate for reusual. The train swayed as it roundelection to the United States senate. ed the curves, but the engineer gave This action was taken on the advice no signals. Mi tenner called to Toms, of senator's the who physicians, but received no answer, and when the train rushed through Fairmount warned him of the danger to his Park and neared North Philadelphia, health if he persisted in attending the the fireman climbed over the big public meetings arranged at his reboiler inlo the engineer's cab to find quest to be held in Trenton Monday. Toms dead, with his hand at the It was Senator Dryden's intention to throttle. His head was hanging out address the Republican members of of the cab window and had been the legislature and set forth the reacrushed by striking some object along sons, in his opinion, why he should to the senate. be the road e Third TRIAL OF THAW AND OOEillEII 1000(1011 II KILLED. Mine Explosion In West Virginia Within Two Weeks. Elklns, W. Va. The third mine explosion in West Virginia within two weeks occurred Monday at the Davis Coal & Coke company's mine No. 25, at Thomas, near here, and twenty-fiv- e or 'thirty miners ape said to have been killed. The disaster occurred shortly after 7 o'clock in the morning. Late Monday the first rescuing party entered the mine. The bodies of six foreigners and one American were recovered at a distance of 100 feet from the shaft. Before further progress could lie made a deadly wave of poisonous fumes enveloped the rescuing party, which was composed ol General Manager Ott, D. M. Boyd, Superintendent Henry Hine, Daniel Jones, Mine Boss Arthur Stewart and John Jenkins. Before the rescuing party could reach the surface Jones died from suffocation. Officials of the company say the accident may have been caused by an accumulation of gas in a pocket being ignited by a shot of dynamite or by a miner's lamp. LIVESTOCK Towns of Northwest Short of Coal With the Thermometer at Thirty Below, and Trains at St. Haul Twenty-tw- o low zero was registered Terrific Slide Came Without Warning Wrecking Buildings and Burying Inmates Beneath Fifty Feet of Snow and Dirt. TWENTY-FIV- IKEI MADE THREAT HARRY KENDALL THAW. (On Trial for the Slaying of Architect Standford White.) dence tending, it was said, to prove a strain of Insanity in the collateral branches of the defendant's family, but they were blocked at every point by District Attorney Jerome, whose objections were upheld by the rulings of Justice Fltagerald. The defense did. however, get before the twelve men in the box the testimony of an expert, that in his opinion Harry Thaw was suffering from insanity the night of the tragedy. Mr. Jerome undertook to break down the evidence of the alienist Dr. C. C. Wiley of Pittsburg and for three hours put him through a as severe as was ever heard in a Now York court. The prosecutor was relentless in his attack, and before be bad finished Dr. Wiley protestingly "I didn't come here as an expert. came as a Witness to a fact, and I have been convened into an expert without being prepared for it." SENATE MOVES SLOWLY. WAXES WROTH. BAILEY Texas Senator Comes Near Having Fight With Witness. Austin, Texas. A dramatic scene was enacted in the Bailey investiga-tlo- i Tuesday shortly after the legislative committee resumed consideration of the charges against the senator. E. N. Mentz of Houston, was on the stand, when Representative Coke asked Mr. Mentz if 'Colonel Cowart of Dallas went to New York to see Bailey while he was there, ostensibly to have his throat treated, but really to attend to buslnetl for. the KIrby Lumber company. Senator Bailey arose and said that any one who said that Cowart want to see him in ew York was a liar. The witness understood that Sena tor Bailey mean) bin, and he am ;. his seat and declared that he would al low no man to call him a liar. Senator Bailey started for the wit w ho sei med ready to meet him ness, . . I u t ....... . ov.....! n line ..siuieu ot'uaiur ivciiuij nniui tt'i.it.. Bailey and trouble was averted. THIRTY EIGHT MCTIMS Little Progress Made in Day's Work on the Indian Appropriation Bill. Washington - The Indian appropriation bill was again the sole topic of discussion by the senate Ota Wednesday, and hut little progress was mailt The day was spent io. a discussion of the proposition to repel the re strlctions on the alienation of surplus Indian lands in the Indian territory, No conclusion was reached on this niittier when the senate adjourned. One Chink Worth Two Japs. Milwaukee, Wis A special from Fond du Lac, Wis., says: General Edward S. Bragg, former United States consul general at Hongkong, today said that there was no danger of war between the United States and Japan. "A more Insinuating, class of people than the are at present would be hard to rind," said the general. "This Is tlue largely to their recent victory One Chinaman over the Russians worth two Japanese so far as and manhood are con- cbaractei cerned." swell-heade- Jap-iineu- p Little Support. Feb. 6. The advocates Washington, is Now Known. of a fourteen toot channel for the MisMklns, W Va. The death list In sissippi river from Chicago to St. Loull the Thomas mine explosion is thirty-eighand the Gulf met defeat when the Of these thirty seven were house in committee of (he whole, havworking In the mine at the time of ing mi imsjrtaratloil the river anil the accident The thirty-eightvicharbor appropriation bill. voted to tim was Mine Hoss Daniel Jones, who the recommendation of the stand ... . L.- -f by ............ v.t.. nr.. ii.,.. ' nT " opposition to the pro , , was much there Althoughthe work of reeOAering bodies, and ject. speech-makinon the part of the only sixteen have been brought out friends of the measure, they secured onlv 4o: vote, for the amendment Full Extent of Thomas Mine Disaster t. i Z "',:!""" Had Washington. The movement of commerce during the past year exceeded that for any previous one in the history of the country, according to a statement issued by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. Livestock receipts at the seven primary markets aggregated 40,727,058 head, exceeding those of the previous year by more than 150,000. Shipments of packing house products from Chicago, except canned meats and dressed hogs, show gains, as compared with those of either of the two immediate preceding years. Of these product during the year, the aggregate shipments were 67,775,800 pounds; canned cured 117,699, 050 pounds; meats, meats, 804,642,049 pounds; dressed H1A79 9RK nnnnilahoof Hresjfrt bogs, nbuo pounds; hides, 175.-da175,520 pounds; lard, 421,914,52 pounds, and pork, 35,768,016,443 pounds, being over 100,000,000 pounds in excess of the previous year. The total grain receipts at fifteen Interior primary markets were bushels, an increase of 250,-00over 1905. The total movement embraced: Wheat, 243,735,058 bushels; corn, 242,722,716 bushels; oats, 233,300,239 bushels; barley, 69,469,294 bushels, and rye, 9,294,282 bushels. The reoeipts of grain at six Atlantic and gulf ports aggregate 214,846,-99bushels, an increase of 14,000,000 bushels. Shipments of anthracite coal from eastern producing districts aggregat ed 55,647,290 tons, a perceptible de- crease. The total freight shipments from all parts of the great lake country, exclusive of exports to Canada, aggregated 75,628,090 net tons, an increase of almost 8,00,000. - 1 y 798,-521,5- 0 8 NEED MORE SHIPS. Have to Send Supplies for the Philippines in Foreign Vessels. The quartermaster Washington. general is confronted with a situation which probably will compel authority May w uuun 6TvT Phllinnlnea J"i bottoms. Every effort has been made in tnrcur-- to induce American owners to submit bids, but the only proposal received was from the steamship China, which would not, it is said, make more than a couple of trips a year. If it appears impossible to conform with the rule that requires shipment of government supplies in American bottoms, it will be necessary to make arrangements with owners of foreign ships. TO MODERNIZE OREGON. Famous Old Battleship to Be Brought Up to Date. Washington. The famous battleship Oregon is to be modernized, and Secretary Metcalf announced Saturday that he had authorized the expen diture of one million dollars out oi the naval repair fund for that purpose Of the best type of warship when she was launched, the Oregon is already almost obsolete, and to make her r equal to modern she musl be extensively overhauled. men-of-wa- Heavy Loss of Stock in Montana. DEATH RATE STILL HIGH. Kon Kohrs, of Deer Butte, Mont Lodge, Mont., one of the most promi- Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria Epidemnent stocKmen of the state, is in ic in Chicago. Butte, and states that he is in reFew cases of scarlet fever Chicago. ceipt of advices from the northern and other contagious diseases were ranges that his stock losses will reach reported to the health department ci at of his herds, so about eighty per . . : K ., t . ft,.,.,,., i. .tit' m ii.: it.' id is uwceying Sunday. No decrease, however, was the northern districts of Montana, shown in the number of deaths. There Mr. Kohrs states that the conditions were S3 cases of fever, 26 of diphthein Valley county and the other big ria and 19 of miscellaneous cattle and sheep sections is simply as compared with 407 cases diseases, of fever, appalling, the stock dying by the hun- - 87 of diphtheria and 59 miscellaneous dreds. a week ago. Seven deaths were reported. Rolled Down Car Embankment. Woman and Children Frozen. Sacramento, Cal. At 6:10 o'clock Portland-SaGrand Sunday morning the Rapids, Mich. A woman and Francisco train No. 15 was wrecked two children were frozen to death In two miles east of Dunngag, ten miles an upstairs tenement here, with a north of Woodland, in Jolo county, third child In an adjoining room badand Charles Charles, the express mesly frozen, but alive. Miss Jennie Livsenger, killed. Tho express car rolled ingston called at the residence to pay from the track and the heavy safe a visit and found her sister, Emma used by the company toppled over Livingston, and one child dead in bed. upon him crushing out his life. one child dead on tho floor and Helen on the train say that in an Passengers adjoining room badly froze. three tramps who were beating their It is supposed they became partially way on the blind baggage were also asphxicatcd by coal gas and were then killed. frozen to death. To Favor the Farmer. Alice Roosevelt-LongwortIII. The president has inWashington Washington. Mra. Alice Roosevelt Hill formed Representatives and Longworth, wife of Representative Marrhall that he would use his Influ Longworth of Ohio, and daughter of ence to secure an early vote upon the the president, is 111 at her home In bill providing for tie changes In the this city with what is stated at her denatured alcohol law which are be- home to be a slight attack of the ing demanded by the fnrmera. and Mrs. Koose-veThe present law is regarded by grippe. President spent some time at the Long-wortmany to be theoretically all right, but home Sunday and were very It Is h!d that Its practical operation much concerned about their daughbars farmers from njoytng any bene- ter's health when they were Informed fits because ot the large expense re by the attending physician that her Quired In starting business temperature had gone up to 102. i ' Shipments of Livestock and Grain Shows an Unusual Condition of Throughout the Prosperity Length and Breadth of Uncle Sam's Domain. i. h lt h |