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Show sr i i D1IIS Utah County Democrat PROVO f UTAH 1 ... i i j i 1 to I I I I i f 1 1 I $ I I I t t stunned. son of Harrell, the Mr. and Mrs. William Young of Mammoth, secured possession of a giant cap and proceeded to hit it with a rock, causing it to explode, with the result that he is minus the thumb and two fingers of his left hand. Gerald Maxfield, aged 17, of Butler-villwas carrying a bottle of carbolic acid in his hip pocket when the bottle broke, as he wa3 stooping over, and he was so badly burned about the side and limbs that death resulted after a few hours of horrible suffering. Monday, August 3, was the biggest day In the history of the state board of laud commissioners, so far as the virtual sale of lands was concerned. During the day applications were made for the purchase of aproxlmate-100,000 acres of land at $2.50 an seven-year-ol- f d e, f y ' ) acre Salt Lake Citys chain gang of about twenty members is. constructing an excellent boulevard for automobiles aud carriages upon the county road between Whites hill, at the Salt Lake and Davis county line, and St. Mabks hospital, a distance of about four miles. Members of the Utah State Wool Growers association and the sheep men of the state at large are much interested in the adjourned meeting of the National Wool Growers associations committee on the storage plan to be held In Salt Lake City on I 5 ' ? f I 25. August It is announced that within the present year officials of the Salt Lake Route will issue a new folder containing a great deal of Valuable and practical informatibn concerning and agiarian conditions in the old Lake Bonneville basin, which is traversed by that road. hydro-graphi- c FLEET Gaily Decorated and Townspeople Enthusiastic Over Visit of American Cousins. Virtually in the Hands of Fighting Men Summoned to Teheran to Auckland, New Zealand. Sixteen whits ships comprising the battleship division of the United States Atlantic licet, under the command of Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, arrived at When Shah is Unable to Comply With S:40 oclock Saturday morning, AuTheir Extravagant Demands for gust 8, and anchored in two columns Money, the Tribesmen Threaten In the roadstead abreast the city, to Pillage the Town. after a voyage of thirty-thre- e days from San Francisco, including a stopover of six days at Honolulu. They St. Petersburg. Special dispatches will remain here until next Saturday. received here from Teheran, give a The city is elaborately decorated in tragic-comi- c description of the posi- honor of the Americans, and thoution of the shah of Persia, who is vir- sands of persons have come into the tually a prisoner in the hands ot wild city in order to assist in paying homtribesmen summoned to Teheran to age to the officers and men. Queen Protect the Throne. I protect the throne against the revolutionists, but who have become greater menace to the monarch than his other foes. The tribesmen are extravagant in their demands for money, which the shah is unable to grant and they threaten to destroy the palace and pillage Teheran. The $250,000 secured from the Russian hank recently as a loan on the crown jewels of Persia already is exhausted. General Liakhoffs cossacks are unable to make any headway against the tribesmen, who have refused to permit the 6hah to leave the camp at Bade Shaks for Saltanabad, where the harem is now staying. Famine is reported to be imminent in southern Persia and this promises to bring about a crisis in political affairs in the autumn. DISCORD AMONG OFFICIALS. Former Ministers of Sultan Now AFFAIRS Largest Flouring Mills in the World. Minneapolis, Minn. As a step toward reorganization, certain stockholders and holders of the Flour Milling companys paper on Saturday petitioned the federal district court for the appointment of receivers to direct the business. The petition was granted. The application for receivers has created surprise, but It is not expected to cause any flurry in milling or financial The milling interests in Minneapolis have enjoyed an exceptionally good year, and the conditions that comaffected the pany have been peculiar to that organization, bad management belag charged. The indebtedness of the company is set at more than $5,000,-00without security. The book value of the company's property exceeds Ac- street, the leading thoroughfare the city, is profusely decorated with flags and bunting, the stars and stripes and the union jack of Great Britain being seen at every hand. The townspeople are enthusiastic over the visit of their American cousins aud throng tire water front of the city to view the stately ships lying at an chor in the roadstead. As a special honor the board of education has changed the date of the Michaelmas holiday and will give the children their weeks vacation while the fleet of is here. FUNERAL OF SENATOR ALLISON. Services Held at Residence Devoid oi All Ostentation. Dubuque, la. As he lived, so was Senator William B. Allison buried on Saturday, In a manner devoid of all ostentation. Services were held at the residence of the dead statesman and while not of a private character, the limited accommodations of the home permitted only the presence ol the distinguished visitors, the relatives and the most Intimate friends of the late senator. The services were simple and consisted of the psalm, the reading of the twenty-thirfifteenth chapter of the Epistle to the Corinthians and a prayer. The Rev. Bergeten of th-- Westminster Prescburch officiated. There byterian was no music. The interment was private, and after the Presbyterian service had been read by Dr. Bergeten, the body was lowered into Its last resting place on the hillside which overlooks the Mississippi river. cusing Each Other. Discord Constantinople. reigns among the former ministers and pal-rcofficials detailed at the ministry of war. Men Dough Pasha, former minister of the Interior, is at logger-head-s with Tahsin Pasha, the sultans former secretary, wh-- reproached him with not having adopted his advice three months ago to solicit the sultan to grant amnesty to political prisoners. The secretary, who Is suffering from acute melancholia, replies that it, were better to have died than to witness the present state of affairs. Kekhl Pasha, who was recently dismissed as inspector of military schools, Is also reported to be a prisoner at the ministry of war, half demented and constantly requesting a revolver with which to end his life. KAISER IS INTERESTED. To this request the response was made that he must live and render to Makes Donation to Enable Zeppelin the nation an account of his doings. to Build Another Airship. He has contributed $25,000 toward a Berlin. Emperor William has given fend to purchase two cruisers to be named after the heroes of the revo- $2,500 to the fund to enable Count lution. Zeppelin to construct another airship. While riding in the Tiegarten SaturPARKER TO THE RESCUE. day his majesty met Herr Rath-enau- , manager of the General Former Presidential Candidate Aids Electricgeneral company, to whom he exIn Stopping Runaway. pressed himself as deeply moved San Luis Obispo, Cal. Judge Alton over the Zeppelin catastrophe. He B. Parker of New York brought first said he was delighted with- the generaid Sunday afternoon in what was al- ous contributions made in all parts most a fatal runaway. of the empire, representing, as they While A. U. Mills, wife and daughdid, the national feeling. ter of this city, and David Oliver, a Foraker and Dick as Spectators. school director of San Francisco, and Cedar Point, O. Arthur Vorys, daughter were riding in a surrey the team became frightened at an ap- manager of the movement which culproaching automobile and ran away. minated In William H. Tafts nomi-nstiofor the presidency, will preThe surray was overturned and Mr. Oliver and daughter and Miss Mills side at the open meeting of Repubwere caught underneath. Mr. and licans nt Y'oungstown September 2. Mrs. Mills were thrown clear of the The orators will be General Harris, tangle, but Mr. Mills grabbed the who will speak on state issues, and reins, and after the surrey had been Governor Hughes of New York and dragged 100 yards with its pinioned Senator Beveridge of Indiana, who captives, succeeded in checking the will expla'n the national Issues. s runaway team just as Judge Parker will be extended to Senators and Delancey Nlcoll, also of New Foraker and Dick, though their York, whirled up the road In an auto- names will not appear on the program mobile. Cor addresses. e d n Invl-latlon- Russia and Japam Will Soon Arrange the Details. Mukden. Japan has arranged for through connections over her South Manchuria railway from the China coast to Europe, and Russia has agreed to run through trains from Kuan Chang Tsu to Irkutsk, thus doing away with the change of cars heretofore imposed on travelers at Harbin. The details of these plans are to be arranged in Harbin this summer, and by autumn it Is expected that there will be complete between the Russian and the Japanese railroads. The Japanese will sell through tickets to Europe. The South Manchurian line will charter Tairen steamships to run between and Chinese ports connecting with the expresses to and trom Days of Fighting in the Streets of Tabriz. Tabriz. There has now been thirty-fiv-e days fighting in the streets of Tabriz and the casualties, due chiefly to bombs thrown from mortars and shrapnel, are estimated at 800. Many of the finer residences of the city and hundreds of shops in the basements have been looted, the loss in this direction being placed at more than Thirty-fiv- missionaries In the city have been exposed to stray bullets, but although they have had some narrow escapes none of them have been injured. During one of the heavier bombardments a piece of shrapnel fell in a garden within a few feet of one of the mission servants. Crazed With Heat, Former Pugilist Kills Himself. New York. Probably crazed by the heat of the past week, Robert Turn-bull- , a prominent operator in suburban real estate, formerly' a professional pugilist of some note, shot and Killed himself in his home in Brooklyn on Thursday. Turnbull is said to have been formerly amateur lightHe weight champion of America. fought against Jack Dempey for the professional championship three times and was defeated after fighting two draws. Afterwards he traveled with the John L. Sullivan athletic combi- nation. Believe Murdered Girl Was a Stenog- rapher. New York. That the charred body of a young woman found on a refuse dump in Green Point a week ago may be that of Annie Herivil, a Detroit stenographer who came here seeking work, is the latest police theory. Her parents in Detroit have never heard from Miss Herivil since she reached the city a fortnight ago, and the descriptions and photographs of the pieces of clothing and the body lead them to believe that it may be that of their daughter. New Religious Craze. Newark, N. J. John A. Heckerson, a negro who calls himself the high priest of a band of his race In this and vicinity, each of whom, men women, claim to be "the new Jesus, has been arrested, with William Hughes, a white man, who is a follower of the sect. Heckerson was arrested on information furnished by the daughter of Hughes, who said she was taken to the headquarters of the sect by her father, detained two days, and that Heckerson kissed her "in the name of the Lord. Grief Leads to Suicide. Auto Went Over Embankment. Broken-hearteYork. New an because O. When automobile Toledo, plunged over a steep embankment on the Children's society had taken from the Mltcha road two and a half miles her the infant she could not nurse west of Sylvania, Sunday afternoon. and was too poor to feed, Mrs. Mario Charles W. Pohlman, a wealthy Cleve- Sicaria, only 16 years old, killed her-sef- l In. the miserable rooms she and land merchant tailor, and Father Geo. Vahey, pastor of Columbkills parish, her husband, a laborer, occupied In Cleveland, were instantly killed. Mrs. Long Island City. After attempting to Charles W. Pohlman, her daughter poison herself with matches, and by Florence and F. C. Dietzel, a Cleve- drinking a quantity of cheap washing land dentist, were in the touring car, fluid, the distracted woman shot herhut escaped injury. The automobile self in the breast with her husbands landed at the bottom of the embank- pistol, ran down he front steps and ment bottom side up. died there. e ponent . J CcLpitaJ. ; $100, 000 DIRECTORS: Reed Smoot C. E. Loose L. Holbrook, Groceries end Provisions promp' In s President, Vice-Preside- nt, J. Wm. Knight, Geo. Roger Farrer, Taylor, sr, BercK John R. Twelves. JOS. T. FARILEIL. . ible ' Syrup 1 the the State and by all per b' j J And get them to figure on wiring your house for electric lights. It is the only clean, safe and reliable method of lighting. w. Fad. eral Courts. . Office. 95 N, Academy Avenue Both Phones 37-- 2 ILinJs Offices, rooms 3, 4 and 6 Knight block, Provo City, Utah. the TELEPHONE NO. 91 V. rou free State Bank of Provo KAIGHN m. THURMAN ATTORNEYS-AT-LA- F. WALKER BUILDING SALT LAKE CITY W. H. Brereton, Pres., Ohi John Marwick, Cashier, Alva Nelson, Asst. Cashier, In lng to bac t Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Drafts on 8l1I Parts of the World. HARVEY CLUFF BOOTH & CLUFF ATTORNEYS-AT-LA- ROOMS 5 uATES-SNO- i ly In Opposite the P. O. on W and 6 BUILDING. g1 Electric Co. Farrer Block JACOB EVANS, A. L. BOOTH si j Do it Now See The Provo City, Ufah D. Pri fornia ATTORNEY-AT-LA- in on the ! HOVTZ Practices Law Co- j To g PROVO. Attorney-et-La- EUir I Tha PROFESSIONAL. 3 cellent : Cw.kiay, General banking business transacts Safa deposit boxes for rent. 335 So. Academy Avenue, Provo. 618 Dooly Block, Salt Take City. Nos. 1, 2 and J . Architects. D. D. accept ! ma of The American Killed by Falling Chimney. Szgedin, Austria. The storm wh-lcpassed over this place Sunday and during which a large foundry collapsed, burying a number of workmen, caused more or less damage to every house in town. The only loss of life occurred in a hemp factory in course of construction. A tali chimney, which had just been erected, fell on a partially built heating house on which a hundred workmen were emSeven dead and) thirteen ployed. wounded have been taken out. Anglo-Japanes- value taiietio , t Joint T. T&ylor, Watkins always ' tScien' lrovo City, Utah, Beck. Watches sad Jewelry $1,000,000. Struggle for Mastery of Pacific. Christ Church, New Zealand. The newspapers here cordially welcomed the arrival In New Zealand waters of the American Atlantic fleet. The Christ Church Press, in an article on the subject of the visit of the fleet, declares that the conclusion of the alliance was only a temporay expedient to secure peace, and professes to Bee in the future a struggle for the mastery In the Pacific, in which the United States and Great Britain will be natural allies against the far eastern forces. l, it Co., end Produce. BLOODSHED IN PERSIA. Preferred Suclde to Starvation. New York. Unable to find work, Robert M. Miller, a carpenter, committed suicide in a peculiar manner. Tying a rope to a bridge over the New Haven railroad tracks in the Bronx, Miller placed a noose around his neck and jumped from the bridge. His suspended body hung In the pathway of a northbound train, and an early freight train was stopped by it after the engineer had whistled vainly for the man, whom the engineer, supposed to be alive, to get out of the way. n Decker Fruit Europe. Caterpillar Plague in Saxony. The Saxon auZittau, Germany discovered what seems thorities have to be an excellent way to put an end to the caterpillar plague which is having such a disastrous effect on the local forests. They have discovered a method to catch the brown nun moths that lay the eggs by which the caterpillars come. They make use ot what they call the electric light trap. The forests of central Europe have from time to time been ravaged by moths from Russia, whose larvae denude the trees of their foliage. non-unio- J. TRAINS TO EUROPE. Woman Shackled to Bedpost. Miners Killed. Bisbee, Arizona. The1 authorities Three men were Ala. Birmingham, have been advised that there is no killed and seven injured, Instantly law under which the deportation of two of whom will probably die, when Mrs. Wardwell, the leper, to the leper a fusillade of shots was fired Into a colony of Molokai can be ordered. train loaded with passenger Mrs. Wardwell, who Is in quarantine at Blockton, Sunday morning. at Tombstone, has become a raving miners, On of the town the engioutskirts the maniac and Is kept shackled to a bedpost. Her husband, General Ward-wel- neer suddenly saw a log across the aged 88 years, Is very weak from track and at once a fusillade was nn operation for cancer. Governor fired into the train. The engineer did KIbhey will be asked to pardon Albert not stop but let the pilot throw the Cole, a brother of Mrs. Wardwell, who log from the track and put on full is serving a term in prison, in order epeed. Another company of militia that he may care for the aged couple. will be sent here at once. Non-Unio- C. F. n $15,000,000. THROUGH Directery for those wishing the address of any of the following business men of Provo. n ci-cl- es. Pillsbury-Washbur- mo ennui ci suss OUR BUSINESS GUIDE. MUDDLED. Pdlsbury-Washbur- City of Auckland STATE NEWS g AMERICAN OF TRIBESMEN UTAH Hy-ru- i PILLSBURY ZEALAND Receiver for the WELCOME M. E. Sliontley, a liquor dealer of Parowan, was last week fined $150 for selling liquor to a minor. At the present time 5,200 tons of coal are being shipped out of Scofield every twenty-fou- r hours. Mrs. Mable Gustaveson of Salt Lake City is in a critical condition as the result of eating canned tomatoes. As the result of the explosion of a gasoline stove, the home of Peter Engstrom of Ogden was destroyed by fire. A banking institution backed by Ogden capital will begin business in Utah, August 15, with a capital stock of $25,000. The school census of Salt Lake shows that there will be 714 more children attending the public schools this fall than last year. George Field, who years ago was a resident of Salt Lake City, was struck by a street car at Green Bay, Wis., on July 29 and instantly killed. Salt Charles Owen, a Lake boy, is dead as the result of attempting to dive In the shallow water at Saltalr. He struck a stone, Dreak-inhis neck. Captain W. H. Glore, for many years at the head of the fire department of Covington, Ky., has been appointed chief of the Salt Iake City fire department. Utahns interested in irrigation are raising a fund by popular subscription to insure a creditable exhibit from Utah at the sixteenth national Irrigation congress. As the result of a quarrel, Emma Branek, a negress, shot Mary Garrett, also colored, at the home of the latter in Salt Lake. The Injured woman is In a critical condition. Superintendent Christensen or the Salt Lake public schools has recommended to the board of education that bath rooms be installed in the school buildings one at each building. Before the summer of 1909 opens, It is highly probable that the Ogden Rapid Transit company will have extended its car line through the Ogden canyon as far as the Oaks resort. Fifteen of the Austrians, Greeks and Servians who participated in a riot at Garfield, in which several shots were fired and a number Injured, but no one killed, have been lodged in the county Jail. The state board of land commissioners has made a loan of $15,000 to Car-bon county for the purpose of building a court house. The money will be repaid when the taxes are collected this fall. AVilford H. Osgood of the National Biological bureau is just now in the district in the vicinity of the Sevier mountains, where he will study Utah animal life for the benefit of the biological bureau. An effort Is being made to interest the fruit growers of Weber county in the advantages to be derived from a membership in the Ogden Fruit Growers association and to increase the membership roll. According to the supreme court the word "street means a highway in a town or city used by the public for travel by means of vehicles or on foot, and embraces all the area between the lots on either side. Christopher Anderson, formerly of Snowville, committed suicide at Twin Falls, Idaho, on August 5, shooting himself through the brain with a rifle. Anderson had been drinking heavily and had threatened several times to take his own life. John Rollen, a young man who recently came to Utah from Arkansas, V'as drowned while bathing in the reservoir of the Utah Copper companys mill at Garfield. In diving it is thought he fell so hard that he was J 'OF HEW Academy Provo, Utah Avenue. the sir the EGLESTON jui PROVOS LEADING SHOEMAKER 123 N. 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