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Show TKEMONT TIMES EMPEROR BY C. E. 8HERMAN. THEMONTON En NO! PRESENT ST TREPOFF f $1,943,440. The dedication of the new Masonic temple in Ogden, which marks the completion of the first Masonic build lng in the state of Utah, was held Sun day afternoon Frank Hevoy, aged 31, is under arrest in Salt Lake City, charged with attempting to pass counterfeit money. He attempted to pass a bogus $5 gold piece at a saloon. Emmett Richesen, a laborer from Logan, shot himself in the breast with a shotgun in a lodging house in Salt Lake, and is dead, aa the result of a Quarrel with his wife. I. N. Harper, a colored man, was He held up in Ogden by two men. started to run and one robber fired at him, the bullet striking him In the arm. The wound is not serious. The Crystal Springs Trout com pany, organized at Morgan City for the artificial propagation of fish, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state last week. The Utah State Federation of Labor, as an organization, will not go Into politics this fall. This was decided upon at an all day session held In Salt Lake City last week. Robert Naylor, living in the suburbs of Salt Lake, sustained serious injuries in a runaway, his skull being crushed. He is in the hospital with about even chances for recovery. There were GOO students present on the opening day of the Brigham Young University at Proeo, for the the lancet nmw par iftnfi-opening day in the history of the Comment. Petersburg ment. MS Government Hat Been Thoroughly Aroused by Prospects of American Intervention. peace in Cuba and thus avoid any kind of American intervention. The object of these endeavors, it is said, is that it may be able to say by the time Secretary of War Taft and Acting Secretary of State Bacon arrived that peace has already resulted; that therefore there is no need for American interHongkong. A destructive typhoon vention, either to restore peace or to occurred here Tuesday. A dozen Insure pernia.ient tranquility. steamers in the harbor have sunk or It is claimed that they are making are in a sinking condition, or have the efforts in accordance with the adcontained in President Roosevelt's been driven ashore. At least 100 lives vice !i that they have no objection to tter; were lost. the friendly assistance of the United The American ship S. P. Hitchcock Stat is in the matter if it becomes but that they believe they can is ashore. The British steamer it between the government and settle Chow has sunk. steamer The Kwong ilionists without the necessity of ft Ifonteagle, belonging to the Canadian any Intervention. At least, they say, Pacific Railroad company, Is ashore. they are making an attempt to accomTwo other British steamers, the San plish their end unaided, and with fair of success. Cheung and the Wing Chal, have prospects sunk. The Fatshan is ashore. The BEACON LIGHT FOR OLD WORLD. German steamer Johanne has been beached to prevent her sinking. The Monument to George Washington Un German steamer Appenrade is in a veiled at Budapest. condition and the German sinking Budapest. Sunday, September 16, steamers Signal, Petrarach and Em- was George Washington day in Hunmaluymen are ashore. The German gary's capital, and the entire populasteamer Prinz Baldenar was damaged. tion, from morning until night, gave The Monteagle had her stern post itself up to enthusiasm over the unbroken. Attempts are being made tc veiling on monarchial territory of a float her. monument to the first president of the The military quarters and the tem- United States. The stars and stripes porary buildings were demolished and and the Hungarian colors intertwined the men were quartered in the case- were to be seen everywhere. In the men! s of the fort. morning tnere were special sermons A fleet of nineteen deep sea junks in many of the churches, the preachers calling attention to the importance was washed on Stonecutters' island. A tramp vessel collided with the of the event. In the afternoon thouFrench torpedo boat destroyer Fronde sands of persons lined the streets and it is reported that twenty French through which passed an imposing pamen were killed. The French torpedo rade to the city park, which was surboat destroyer Francisque is ashore rounded by many thousands more. the steamer Apenrade is badly Francis Kossuth, Hungarian minister stranded on Stonecutters' island and of commerce, and Count Albert Appon-yi- , minister of worship, represented the British steamer Radnorshire is the independence party at the ceredamaged. monies, and were not present in their TRAIN WENT THROUGH BRIDGE. capacity as government officials. Vessels Driven Ashore and Collide During Storm, While Military Quarters and Temporary Buildings Are Demolished. RELIEF NEEDED AT ONCE. i, - - t .... t- ! five-gallo- d shoe' Terrible Accident on the Rock Island in Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla. Eight people are dead, twenty more or less injured and as many more are missing in the most disastrous wreck in the recent history of the Rock Island, which occurred three miles from Dover, Okla. The engine, tender, baggage and mail cars, smoker and day coach oi passenger train No. 12, northbound, left the high bridge that spans the Cimarron river and plunged into the current, flanked by treacherous quicksands. The locomotive disappeared from sight almost immediately. The mail and baggage clerks escaped from their coaches and swam to the shore. The accident was due to the defective condition of the bridge, which was swerved out of line by the pressure of driftwood carried down by the swollen stream. DOWIE CAST OUT BY ZIONISTS. Founder of Peculiar Religious Sect is Spurned By Former Followers. Wilbur Voliva has been Chicago. chosen by the people of Zion City as their leader by the overwhelming vote of 1,911 to 6 for his opponent, A. N. Bills. The election was held tinder the orders of Judge Landis of the United States district court, who was asked some time ago to settle the conbetween John Alexander troversy Dowie, founder of the church, and Voliva, as to who should have control of Zion City. AERO CLUB DEMONSTRATION. Will Send Up Five Balloons, Loaded With Passengers, at One Time. New York. A special to the Times from Plttsfleld, Mass., states that the Aero Club of America Is planning the in ballooning biggest demonstration that has ever taken place in America. It is proposed to send up about five large balloons here in one day, each balloon carrying from three to five The latter part of this passengers. month has been selected for the time of the ascension. HAD NARROW ESCAPE Young Woman's Peculiar Escape From Death Which Claimed Comrades. New York. Miss Fannie Day, a young department, store employe,, who was one of eight persons in a naphtha launch which capsized in the lower bay Saturday, had a most remarkable escape from death. Three of her comthe panions were drowned when launch, with disabled engines was run into by a mud scow. When nothing was seen of Miss Day for hours afterward it was reported that she met death. But when the mud scow had been towed nearly to its destination and the deck hands were adjusting the dumping apparatus, they were startled to find a handsomely dressed young Miss woman in one of the pockets. Day had been scooped out of the water by the dumping machisery which had been left open after the scow had discharged its load at sea. Pacific Mail Steamer Manchuria It Finally Floated. Honolulu. The Pacific Mail comwhich pany's steamship Manchuria, went aground on Rabbit island, August 20, was successfully floated on Sunday and towed to this harbor by the tug A great crowd of peoplo Restorer. towed watched . the.. Manchuria . .being , o . in. During me nnai enoris to pun me thou reef off several the Manchuria sand bags of flour were jettisoned. fhese were washed ashore and picked up by natives. V. Man Shoots Himself Rather Than Un dergo Operation for Appendicitis. Oakland, Cal. D. J. Powell, a real estate dealer of Fruitvale, committed uicide Sunday by shooting himself through the head. Business losses and a dreau oi an operation iui . , . i flw. litis are neneveu to nave uccu uw opee chose the Powell cause. Mr. streets as his place of death. He fire? live shots, which aroused the neign His body was found on th mrhood. sidewalk, with a revolver clutched in his hand. V tiim, Three Seamen and Mate Saved. Charleston, S. C The Clyde liner New York brought Into port the mate and three seamen of the American schooner R. I). Bibber, Captain Sayres, lumber laden, from Savannah to New York, wrecked off the Frying Pan shoals. The vessel turned turtle and went to pieces. The men were found clinging to the spars. The captain and others of the crew were not found. The normal crew of the schooner R I) Rihhcr was eleven men. Town Damaged by Flood. Jackson, Neb. -- At 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning water from a cloudburst part of Dakota in the northwestern eastern pari of Dixon county and the the down valley of Klk rushed county creek, sweeping away hundreds of tons of hay. drowning hogs caught In p as. rail Hooding cellars, washing awaj road tracks, and doing oilier damage, all of which is contenrativelj eatla mated at $100. urn). The wave of ter In the creek when it struck this town was seven feet high Brakes Were Defective. San Francisco. - A car accident, due to defective brakes, occurred at Sutter and Fillmore streets when a street car plunged Into a crowd of rigs which had no time to get off the tracks after the warning gong Fred Randlzae, who was sounded. driving a wagon, was thrown from his seat and seriously injnred. The car was heavily laden, principally with women returning from the morning's shopping, and from the amount of impact a panic followed. Three other rigs were smashed. Count Witte is Annoyed. Homburg Count Witte. minister of Russia, who is being treated here for polypi of the nose, la much annoyed at the utterly untrue report published In the United States that an attempt was made on his life at hy an anarchist named Rosenherk Soden Saturday. Count Witte is taking no precautions to guard against an attack, as he is not In fear of any one. He Is out of Russian public life now. hi friends say, and Is not regarded aa the obvjct of a terrorist plot e . ; CUBAN CONGRESS GIVES PALMA NATURAL FULLEST POWERS Hffl Cuban nec-ess- Although an attempt by revolutionists to interrupt the service wai feared, nothing happened. The fact that the emperor did not abandon his pleasure cruise to return and attend the funeral of a devoted his return was subject, although scheduled for Tuesday, has aroused much unfavorable comment. It is recalled that his majesty absented him self from the funeral of General who lost his life at Port Arthur. The emperor and empress were represented only by magnificent wreattis. A high police officer explained that the absence of the emperor was due to Premier Stolypin, who had been informed that an attempt might be made against his majesty and telegraphed him not to To-pek- a, 4augrous. TREPOFF DIES Hongkong, China, is Visited by a Most Destructive Havana. The government is makTyphoon. Umi'ri ing final strenuous efforts to restore General was buried on Wednesday. the emContrary to expectation, peror was not present at the funeral. His majesty is still cruising in Finnish waters on board the imperial yacht. A great throng of army officers and high functionaries followed the casket on foot, according to the Russian custom, through lines of soldiers representing all the units of the St. Petersburg garrison, from the villa where the general died to the cathedral, and thence to the place of interSt. Trepoff The Arouses Unfavorable Stranded Passengers in Serious Plight on Midway Island. Washington.-T- he plight of the 500 passengers of the Pacific Mail steam-- ! ship Mongolia, which recently went ashore near Midway island, was made known to government officials hero through a cablegram received by the manager in this city of the Commercial Cable company. The necessity for, the immediate sending of supplies was made apparent, and the question was raised if it would be in contravention of the coastwise navigation laws to send a relief ship under foreign register. The matter was to the brought attention of (he department of com- merce and labor, and in turn the treas- ....... ,i lin were eonsu lu" 1,1 omciais "'J aiui the decision reached that there would be no objection to sending the acnool. foreign built eahleship Restorer, now at Honolulu, to Midway at once, carIt is now believed by the authorities needful provisions, supplies and that the man whose mangled body was rying wrecking apparatus for the relief of found on the Oregon Short Line track the Mongolia and passengers. There ear Layton, Thursday of last week, are ordinarily less than forty people on Midway island, and the Influx of was John L. Atkinson of Saylersville, 600 additional population would mean Kentucky. a serious drain on the resources of Charles O. Card, who died at Logan the island unless immediate relief last week, came to Utah in 1856. He were given. had served as president of the Cache SCOTCH EXPRESS WRECKED. take and superintended the erectiop of the Logan tabernacle and the LoHorrible Accident on the Great Northgan temple. ern in England. London. The crowded Scotch exFollowing the example of the court, Judge Morse of Salt Lake press train on the Great Northern la.week granted preliminary injunc railway, leaving Uindon Wednesday tlons in three suits brought by rail- night, was wrecked outside of Grantroads to restrain local ticket brokers" ham at midnight. The train should have stopped at Grantham but failed from doing business. to do so. Shortly after passing the The sweepstakes silver cup, which station the train left the rails and was awarded to Utah for the best then jumped a bridge. The enginb fruit exhibit at the Boise Irrigation and several coaches were dashed over the embankment, the congress, arrived in Salt Lake last turtle. Several coachesengine turning Immediately week and will be on exhibition at the took fire. Ten persons were killed anil sixteen The engineer Commercial club for a time. injured. and fireman were crushed under the Aa the result of a saloon row la engine and the superintendent of the Park City, George Coughlin received mail car Is missing. The failure of a slashing at the hands of J. Wil the brakes to work properly caused liams which will lay Coughjin up for the accident. some time for repairs and which re A Day of Tragedy. quired nine stitches to close. Fxcelsior Springs, Mo. Three llvet. Arrangements have been made for a were sacrificed in two tragedies which Bait Lake day during the Daria Coun occurred here. Domestic trouble ty fair in October, and on that day caused Curry, manager of the Joseph the Manufacturers and Merchants' as Central Sash & Door company of eoclation will attend the exhibition in to shoot and kill his wife Kan., a body, accompanied by a band and then kill himself. At almost the A general shortage in labor is same hour James Farley, a contractor,' prevalent in Utah, as well aa throughout aged 40. of this city, walked Into a drug (tore and poured out a clip of the country. The local employment carbolic acid from a bottle agencies have been able to fill only and drank it. Farley was despondent thirty per cent of their orders for over the death of his wife. men during the entire summer. Appalling Loss of Life. The crops of tomatoes, cucumbers Hong Kong The harbor Is strewn and Bugar beets in Uavis county are with the wreckage thrown upon the in excellent condition, and the yield Hundreds of Chinese boatmen will be very heavy. The canneries are shore. and families were saved by the their busy now with tomatoes, and the pack of the police and civilians, bravery Will be large and of very high quality. but thousand of the Chinese The Denver & Rio Grande railroad waterseveral dweller! must have perished, Is company planning to shorten its many within short distances of the hOM, line between Denver and Salt Lake by The losses In lives and propthe Chinese were appalltunneling Marshall pass and Cerro erty among The police stations In Holgkong ummit and broad guaging the narrow ing. are surrounded by Chinese identifying guage road between Sallda and Monttheir dead. The Chinese take the disaster calmly. rose. "ob McCurdy, one of Spring Got the Best of the Auto. Tilies oldest cltliens, In dead. Mr New York Caught between two McCurdy was born In New Jeraey strict cars at Broadway and Thirty-firs- t eighty eight years ago. and came to street, an automobile touring car Utah fifty two years ago. He has owned by John H. Springer, lespeo of In Sprlngvilie most of that tbC (irnnd opera house and 00OO pied time. by himself and family, was ground to N. N. Norton was shot In the back pipoes while the occupants marvelous-lby Matt Donn, after Die former had escaped without serious Injuries. Mr. Springer Infrared most, being held up Donn s saloon, securing $19. bruised, v blip Mrs. Springer, Norton oscaped, but waa later on apainfully son. John II.. Jr and daughtei arrested and will he charged with rob Gladys and the chauffeur, though they received some bruises suffered moro bery. His wound la not considered from fed-era- UK 101 PUCE II Action of C?ar of Russia in Failing to be Present at Last Sad Rites of Friend Eva C. Riddle has been appointed postmaster at Escalante, Garfleld county. Salt Lake's new packing house, with a daily capacity of 100 cattle, 1,000 Bheep and 1,000 hogs, will be completed by October L A. Mancuroso, a section hand on the Oregon Short Line railroad, was instantly killed in Salt Lake City, be lng struck by a passenger train. During IMS the coal mines of t'tah produced 1,832,372 short tons, rallied at $1,793,510. The production for 1904 was 1,493,027 tons, valued at EFFORT LIFE REPORTED UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS Illll LOSS OF Most Hated Man in Russia is Dead But Not at Hands of H.s Enemies Has Right to Appropriate Any Publle Funds For War Purposes and May Treble the Force of Rural Guards. Havana The extra sc sion of concomgress called by President pleted at one sitting the business for Six Attempts Had Been Made on His which it was summoned, namely, the granting to President Palma of the Life Within the Past Three Years, fullest powers not already constituin One Instance a Man Who tionally possessed by the executive for Resembled Him Being Shot. carrying on the work, including the right to appropriate any public funds war purposes, revoking appropriaior St. Petersburg. General Dmitri voted at the preceding session tions Trepoff, commandant of the diimperial palace, died at 6 o'clock Sat of congress in order to permit the to of involved the version moneys urday evening in his villa at Peterhof prosecution of the war, and authorizof angina pectoris. General Trepoff, whose name was ing increase of the rural guards to indelibly linked with reactionary re- 10,000, and the artillery to 2,000 men. This trebles the former force of rupression in Russia, was a remarkable man. He was a natural despot, a ty- ral guards and doubles the artillery. rant by inclination, education and con- These measures, which were comviction. He was one of those men bined in one blanket bill, were passed who have constantly appeared in Rus by party votes, the liberals and insian history just at the time when con- dependents refraining from voting the liberal nationalists voting ditions were most promising for put- and with the moderates. ting an end to despotism to turn RusROOSEVELT TO TAKE A HAND sian rulers from liberalism to reaction It was he who bec;ime the guiding to Cuba to Make Inspirit of the reaction after Nicholas Will Send Taft 11 had issued his vestigation of Conditions. manifesto in the fall of 1905, promising the people a share Oyster Bay. After a protracted in the government. Holding the powith Secretary of War conference sition of master of the palace, in league with the court Intriguers who Taft, Acting Secretary of State Bacon were determined to restore the old and Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, regime, he constantly had the emper- President Roosevelt has addressed an or's car. to Cuba, communication In all six actual attempts on the important to send Taft and Secretary arranged life of General Trepoff have been made within three years, and only last July and Bacon to that island to make a General Kozloff of the headquarters thorough investigation of conditions was assassinated at Peterhof by a ter- there and lend their Influence to rerorist who believed he was firing upon store peace. Trepoff. The communication Is addressed to General Trepoff would have been 51 years old in December. Several the Cuban minister to the United months he had been suffering from a States, Senor Quesada. It is an imheart affection and asthmatic troubles passioned to Cuba to realize her plea and some time ago was forced to reabandon a large amount of his routine responsibilities as a work. public, and to restore peace in the island. Her attention is called In no Brutal Murder of a Messenger Boy at uncertain language to the responsibilGcldfield, Nevada. ity which the United States bears to Goldfield, Nev. John Moritz, aged the island and the certainty that our 19, was shot to death by Jack Thompresponsibility will necessarily be exercised could peace not be preserved. son, a gambler, early Sunday morning president says he has certain inMoritz was a messenger for the tele- The formation that the peace of the isphone company, and had occasion to land is now menaced and that Amergo to one of the notorious dance halls ican property has been destroyed. of the "red light" district. There, it is said, he accidentally bumped into SPIRIT WAS FLESH AND BLOOD. Thompson, who was dancing. Thorn swore at him and threatened that Woman Exposes Medium and la he would fix the boy later. About 3 Beaten For Her Interference. o'clock in the morning Moritz' was Lake City. George J. Arnold. Salt on a saloon his wheel, by passing when Thompscn drew a pistol and the Spiritualistic medium, was fo.md fired, the shot striking Moritz in the guilty of committing battery upon the hip. He fell from his machine, and person of aged Mrs. Mary Brandon on Thompson deliberately walked to the the afternoon of the 8th of this' fallen boy, leaned over him and demonth. The testimony of Mrs. Branlivered another and fatal shot. don and her W. H. Dye, Excellent Opportunity Offered Ameri- showed that had visited the esthey cans for Increase In Trade. tablishment of Arnold and his partWashington. Special Agent Charles ner, James Dickson, at 269 East Third M. Pepper, who was sent to Egypt to South street, for the purpose of exreport upon the prospects for in- posing what they had been led to becreased trade with that country, in a lieve was a rank fraud; that Dickson was giving them a "sitting" in a darkreport to the bureau of manufacturers says the imports from Egypt have ened room when the old lady lay hold reached nearly $10,000,000, and the upon the flowing drapery of one of average for seven years was $7,758,657, while in return direct shipments of the bogu3 spirits which the "medium" goods from the United States rarely had called forth; that, the spirit had exceeds $1,000,000, and in some years proved to be a flesh and blood being have fallen below $50,000. of much strength and agility; that a The total foreign commerce of struggle had ensued, the lady trving Egypt in 1895 was a little more than hard to maintain her hold on the robe it Mr. said that $100,000,000. Pepper of the spirit and the latter to seeking to five amount in less than will years make its escape. of which will be $250,000,000. one-hal- f In the midst of this struggle Mrs imported goods. There is a wide de- Brandon received a mand in that country, the report says, face, which knockedheavy blow in the her She for machinery. had recognized Arnold as down. the person who had struck her MEXICAN FOURTH OF JULY. INSIST UPON DEATH. ndependence Day Celebrated at MonMove for Clemency in Weber Caae I. terey Without Sign of Disorder. Strenuously Mexico. The celebration Opposed. Monterey, Sacramento. Strenuous efforts are of Mexico's day of independence was observed here Sunday by general being put forth to prevent Adolph At daybreak the na Weber's death sentence being commute merrymaking. tional flag was hoisted over all federal ed to life Imprisonment Attorney municipal buildings and a salute was General Webb, District Attorney K. P. Eobinson and Sheriff Charles Kenna fired from the barracks. of Placer county and Detective At 9 o'clock the governor, accomChaa. H. panied by his staff and many promi- dee Reimer were, before :..,..,.- - d- afternoon Friday to the Juarez in opposition to nent citizens, proceeded theatre, where they listened to the any show of clemency. reading of the declaration of independence and tho singing of the na- Handcar Loaded With Workmen Goea tional hymn by a prominent vocalist. Through Bridge. Band concerts were given on the Toledo ,0 A hand car loaded with various plazas during the afternoon and evening. In the afternoon a great trackmen of the Wheeling & Lake military pageant, participated in by Erie railroad ran off an open draw of thousands, was formed and marched the Haumee bridge Friday night and through the principal Streets of the all on the car were drowned. The city. There was not the slightest dis- r.umher of men on the car is said to order, and so peacefully was the affair carried out that the authorities have been twelve. 9o far nc bodies say it win tend to counteract the ef have been recovered. Owing to the fact that the men took the car from a feels of the rumors of an feeling, which have been rife for some point some miles from Toledo, where months past. work is being done, identification of the missing men has not been learned. WRONGLY ACCUSES SELF. Wyoming Democrats Have Placed Man Who Declared He Committed Their Candidates in the Field. Murder Held Not Guilty. Pheyenne. Wyo The Democratic New York After a thorough inves stale convention has named the followtigatlon the police found that Henry ing ticket: Governor S. A. D. Keis-ter- , Fremont county; secretary of Dean, who accused himself of mnrdei at a prohibition meeting at Mariners state, Daniel w. Gill. Laramie county; harbor. BtatOS Island, was gatlttesa Bi mate auditor Thomas A. Dunn, Big that crime. The unidenilfu d man Horn county; state treasurer. James L who Deaa asserted was his victim de liObban. Sheridan county; stale superof exposure Dean, however, it, o intendent public instruction Miss up to await trial on a cbtr?ti of heal May Hamilton, Natrona county: congrbis mother ess-John ing C. Hamm of Umtah county. -- a son-in-la- anti-foreig- |