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Show i THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. he AXDKEW JENSKX, fablUli.r. SPANISH PORK, ua IIS no pqy, MUCH ATTEMPTED 10 THE FATAL REQUEST U O R F O fUT OUT Of 111 UTAH. p Missourian Supposed to Have Been Killed In Oregon by Man Who Robbed Forest Grove Bank. T D O Dr A. L. Harris Author of "Mine Own Familiar Friend," etc. 0 j) r r y A I , If f b I i t h i nAf Cam pant. i, t bp Cattail , Oapprtght, Young VTAH STATE NEWS UN Entire Family is Poisoned at Breakfast Table, Bnt All Strati bp Smith. weakness. be repeated. And how can you deny aught In the face of this confession which I hold In my hand? And he shook the envelope in his face. This action stirred the other powerfully. I comGive It me! be cried. mand! I implore! That eonfesslon though how you know It be such I cannot tell is sacred. Or, no with a sudden change keep It and read it after I am dead! I am a Not dying man no hear me out! long ago an eminent physician uttered my sentence. He gave me a year to live a year, that Is, if I kept myself free from all excitement and reI ceived no sudden shock. feel, has reduced my term of existence to days or hours. It Is not for myself that I ask this it Is for my child." He had touched the one responsive chord. Ted laid the envelope which contained the secret, down upon the CHAPTER XXIV. such unmistable physical What is that you say? cowered . with u f writing hgAy scrawling hand, which kiw k. weM. "THE TRUE ' NARRATIVE CONFESSION OF MR. JAMES i RERS, OF THE STRANGE EDY OF THE 25TH OF APRij.., "I arrived In England on the v of April, after having been at,,; twenty year. The reasons faU prolonged absence I do not propoiT enter Into at length. Suffice it to that I had committed an act i brought me within reach of th t and, but for the influence of frw I might have expiated the deed The Enigma. Kansas City. R. N. Snyder, a well He turned and saw behind him Will Recover. known financier of New York, received none other than that same James a telegram from Portland, Ore., Frl Ferrers, whose narrative and confestransportation. sion he held In his hand; and again, day Indicating that his son, Carey "Reckless extravagance, betting of Colorado and Hla Wife lurking behind him in the shadow Snyder, had been murdered by men gambling, with a mad attempt to of the doorway, he saw the pale, and Daughter Have Narrow cover my position by speculating suspected of a bank robbery concernnarrow, furtive countenance of Perto Have was Been Said supposed money which was not my j," ing which young Snyder kins, the housemaid. For a moment ' me to this shameful to know too much. The bank robbed Threatened With Fate brought there was an intense silence, durThe matter wag,, allowed to of Steunenberg. was at Forest Grove, Ore., and the ing which both seemed to bold their over to be hushed up and th authorities at Forest Grove and Portbreath and nerve themselves for the al sum made away with was rt' land notified the police of this city struggle that lay before them. bursed. But I waa a Pariah an Canon City, Colo. Former Governor "The letter! he cried, advancing that they suspected Carey Snyder, cast shunned and despised bj : Blitz and George Perry ot James H. Peabody, his wife and their towards the other, threateningly. "Pinky" but one. One friend stood by j of passing bogas checks, bas been sea " The letter, or Blitz and daughter were poisoned by food eaten one man still gave me help ot committing the robbery. teneed to live years' Imprisonment. There are five chambers In the countenance and extended the Perry, who are cousins, are notorious at breakfast Thursday morning, and revolver still undischarged, waa the The Bank of Ephraim is now la police characters here, and hand of fellowship towards ms, the Miss Cora is daughter. Peabody, Snyder G calm Is that what you are reply. stalling its furniture preparatory to had been involved In serious trouble. In a dangerous condition as a result he was my old friend, Silas Bur A Br thinking of?,. He alone was there to bid me & . opening Its doors for publlo patron . The governor and Mrs. Peabody, aL The other man fell back a step well as I left England, a dlsgra WANTS CASTRO TO APOLOGIZE. age. 111 refor several m though quite hours, and hla face became ashen In hue. man. He alone bade me hope fort t ' The diphtheria epidemic In Founcovered sufficiently to devote their atWhat do you mean?" he gasped. jn ter look to France and Vene Will Send Warships forward to,t things s tain Oreen is said to be about over, Who are you, and now do you dare tention to the daughter. Physicians trievlng the failure of the past ini t ag zuela to Avenge M. Talgny. You-to me? thief! a are there cases defy several In wo, although are attendance upon the young promise of the future. So I sett, . You asked my name this morn- table. Washington. It Is learned here that man and unless a there. for the worse for America, with the expressed. change waa the reaand will France an demand consent immediate ing," for I to answer, If the you punspare comes they believe she will escape of not returning until bu Mrs. Booker T. Washington, wife o4 . h! sons of my own, I refused to give ishment due to the deed, be said solve bad and v those years elapsed the noted negro educator, visited Sallj apology of President Castro for what serious consequences. It Those exreasons no you. Your must all. I know first longer slowly, were acquainted with my An air of mystery surrounds the afLake last week, lecturing at the Y. is regarded as his Insulting and unist. Do you still wish to know It?" written confession, to be perused after warranted treatment of M. Talgvy, the fair. were either dead or else i -M. C. A. waa from The master of the house contemEnough gleaned death, wlll'not satisfy me. How shall forgotten it and me. French charge daffaires. Three friends of the family, however, to show plated the man he had that W" Leonard Smith, a oerpenter morning I know then that you have not lied? of French At last the term of years whit warships are within striking that there is a belief that an attempt discharged from his service with feel- I must have It from your own lips bad set as the limit of my volunti Helper, committed sulcldg in Salt distance of the Venezuelan coast, and was made to destroy the family by ings he could not have put in words. now, or exile Lake City, shooting himself through two more. It has been all but expired, I Such utter And have you not already had it tured having fearlessness, such a total reported from poison. An intimate friend of the Pea-bodto return. I lingered purpr the head. of the consequences of the from my own lips?" exclaimed Mr. Paris, are on the way to West Indian said that several letters bad disregard ly on my Journey, so that whe act In which he had been caught Fully seven hundred birds were on waters. What form the displeasure been with sudden Have landed at Ferrers, -passion. received by the former governor Dover, It was twenty seemed to point either to the I not declared to you that I am not exhibition at the annual show of the of France will take has been tentativeto the very day 1 had first set sat! v within the past week or two calling his most hardened criminal, or to one your fathers murderer? Am I not Utah Poultry association in Balt Lake ly decided and the details of the proAt Dover I waited the arrival w attention to the manner of the death who knows he Is possessed of some ready to swear it, however much aplast week. I old friend. v , my gramme will be communicated confi- of former Governor Steufienberg of secret power. His voice failed him, be against me? pearances may He and i the wu; Belt Lake now has a negro polloe-macame, Co meeting dentially to the Washington once and governwith a more, Idaho, and threatening him with a mingling of swear I never murdered him!" The one on both 1 1 1 SOC sides. painful His duties will, it Is said, be ment Not until President Castro has similar fate. suppressed fury and incomprehensible young man put his hand to his head, After so long a parting, there v ? ' j confined to the negro district of the felt the form of French dissatisfaction he gasped, The letter bewildered. Referring to the Incident hla family apprehension, a sense of restraint between us, i I via I Insist and your name!" Do you deny that yon are the man will the world know whether a peace- went capital oity. as there could hardly have failed! through Governor Peabody said: The man advanced a few who young wrote summon the letter which 'i . The office of the Bell Telephone ful blockade Is to be established or "I do not want to say where I think " ed my father to Dover? or that you steps. My tame, he said, is li company at Nephl was entered by whether a custom house will be seized. the responsibility lies until the results' and he whispered the rest in his ear. are 0, 1 jjx the other passenger who traveled seizure of custom houses of the burglars one night last week, about Shouldthethecoast No need to ask whether he knew by the 4:30 train and occupied a com- - to say, and I, for my part, had ms Investigations now being made be decided on it Is not along questions to ask and much to lee $15 being taken. unlikely that In order to disabuse the are known." One thing I did learn the most i Je Mr. of ColoThe railroads have all granted n anxiety the European powers legt Peabody was governor of : of ; t which all was portant that, one-far- e rate fer visitors to the "See the payment of their claims Is to be rado during the labor troubles at Cripone exception, I might consider i an America First" conference to be held stopped France may ask some outside ple Creek and Tellurlde, when troops self free from the fear of any i j otl neutral power to act as receiver for took possession of the two camps, and In Salt Lake City . nesses of the past appearing f Cr, tl the custom house returns until Preswhich time the Independence during blight the prospects of the future w. J Semes Master is, a Greek,, fell ident Castro has apologized and giveu depot dynamite disaster happened. assurance of his intention to It was agreed that I should spc." resume through the snow at the scene of the diplomatic relations with France. the next night under his roof, t--r ' BUTCHERED AS THEY SLEPT. snowellde In Provo oanyon and was make the acquaintance of his drowned in the river. Wright Goea to Japan. and family, and we agreed to trsiT.' 1 Latest Outrages In New Guinea The merchants of Kaysvllle, Layton that train known as tl Washington. Luke E. Wright, govby North Australia. 4:30 express. and Syracuse are considering the ad- ernor of the Philippines, has been VJctoria, B. C. Advices of massa5 (To be continued.) visability of placing their businesses named by the president as the first cres the In blacks New and by Guinea f X7e on a strictly cash basts. American ambassador to Japan, This north NO MOR6.r t SHAKE Australia were .WILL received the by announcement was made Friday at The report that Chief Justice t steamer Moana. In New Guinea a George W. Bartch la to resign from the war department: Judge Ide, govSavage Handgripping Now the Fad ikt tai of made warriors on a raid the party the benoh to engage In the praetloe of ernor of the Philippine Islands, hus fdatas English Society. asked to be relieved from further village of Eklrl, thirty miles from the I have made up my mind absolute Utl law, la denied by the Judge. thirty-tPort killed Moresby, and duty, June 1 next, after six of capital, to shake hands no more. The stur V The entrance of the pioneers to faithful and efficient service years hree of the Inhabitants, who were as comcustom never appealed to me, but , on Farowan valley was celsbratsd on the missioner and vice governor In these Bleeping. The bodies were much muhave complied with it, hitherto, t made islands. The president considers that tilated. The village was looted and 13th, It being fifty-fivyears alnoe the to avoid hurting people's fee ter h order Is be entitled to the dignity and honor company entered this valley. destroyed, anything of value being i Ings. A i of the governor generalship during carried off. The About 2,000 people visited the elgh that period. Upon Governor Ides theft Now village constable esbecots the that grip" has "Cruel, cowardly, cold blooded murdererl General James E. Smith, caped, though hla loin cloth was teenth annual show of tha Utah State fashionable, however, I shall have i' txr t now a member of the commission. Juspartment In the fourth carriage from be callous. After an, it la far bettr pierced by spears thrown at him, and it No need for further explanation. Poultry association during its tour tice of the With a sudden cry, his hand press- the engine?" . Philippine supreme court, after uat I should hurt someone's feeling c' In In the session bush Laka some for hiding Salt week. last days' days ed to his heart, and a ghastly grey will succeed him, and General Smiths The other man bent his head, a little than that they should hurt r ? 1 two with other name survivors will he to sent be A. the senate after reported ness settling down upon his face, do not deny It." William McDonald, agsd 44, of hand a great deal at Port Moresby to report the massa- Mr.- - Ferrers Salt Lake City, la dead an the result the confirmation of Governor Ide. "And you deny that the bullet that dragged himself to the At a reception I attended the otie T 'c and a force cre, of armed constables nearest chair. was discovered in the padding of the 5 ef taking earbollo add, mistaking it there were three acquaintasc INCREASE IN WAGES. night, were sent to punish the raiders. The medicine the medicine!" he same compartment, which TT tor soma medicine which he had been fire ot mine sitting in a group. I went g the, The other massacre at Port Keats, whispered. In a dreadful tone, point- only partially consumed was dis- to them and shook hands all round. United Mine Workers Expect the Old taking. Involved the killing by blacks of six ing with one hand towards the charged from the oue empty chamber The first man ground together Scale Will Be Restored. George H. Dublin' of American The other, following with of the revolver which lies yonder?" my knuckle bones. white men and three natives. The The secoz his eyes the direction of hla gesture Fork, lost twenty head of beef cattle Indianapolis. An increase In the men were killed "I do not deny It," was the same squeezed my fingers until with tomahawks they we saw a bottle ,and glass. ene day last week, thsy bslng killed wages of coal miners equivalent to the while sleeping. monotonous answer. reduced to a mere palp. The thlr Ted made a couple of strides In Then tell me," cried the young not to be by a freight train which ran into a reduction accepted by the United Mine twisted my wrl'.r LIVES SNUFFED OUT. the direction signified and was back man, in a frenzy, tell me, whose and almost baulked, Vtl Workers In the Joint wage conference bunch of forty. Jerked my elbow out of again with the medicine bottle and was the hand that fired that ahot? socket The senate has passsd Ssnator of 1904. la the proposition which the Eighteen Miners Meet Death In Dust glasa. He read the directions on the Mr. Ferrers raised his head and I cursed them, root and branch, Smoot's bill giving borasstesdsrs on operators are expected t .defend In measured out the proportion answered clearly, and without hesitalabed, Explosion. away to the far end of the Joint conference to Inconvene In the recently opened Uintah reservaprescribed and held the same to the tion, Mine! room. When 1 locked back, they we Charleston,. W. Va. Eighteen dianapolis the of seemed what almost upon the Hhe of The effect of dying tion an extension until May IS, nsxt, adjournment lips answer was elec- regarding each other with of1 the present annual convention of the are believed to have been killed man. trical. to sstabllsh residence. mouthed astonishment I could United Mine Workers. terrific explosion In one of the mines Mr. Ferrers, apparently revived by In a tone that thrilled "What! that they had meant well; the ac The first annual tournament of the of the Detroit & Kanawha Coal com the draught he had swallowed, partial- through the hearer "you admit all fashion waa to blame. China Growing Wiaer. , Western Bowling Congress will be pony at Detroit on Paint Creek, this ly recovered hla voice. this, and yet. In the same breath A few year ago, you will retn Pekin. It Is now proposed by the I hla to held In Salt Lake City, beginning said he Lock door!" the deny that you killed my father?" miles from here. county, twenty-fiv- e It was considered rather smif March 7. The Salt Lakers will hang Chinese government that all forelgu "I never denied that I killed him," her, The explosion occurred at 12:30 old friend's son. He obeyed, and the to hold your hand high In the air v. were face to two alone face. left settlements In China to be opened In o'clock. Had it been either before was the calm reply of the elder man, wave up $1,000 In cash prises. or It to and iro In gentle contr. the future must differ from the old after the noon hour They oonfronted each other In alienee, aa hla eye encountered that of his with the hand with AJsx, of your acquaintasc the charged obtaining death list the one still seated, the other stand Inquisitor without Elnyrs flinching, and he That fashion, too, was Idiotic enottf money under false pretense from the treaty ports. It Is pointed out that would have been still more appalling, Ing opposite to him, with folded arms, seemed to have cast aside for the but It was Infinitely more clvllls Lehl bank by mortgaging sheep which these treaty porta are praetlcally for as hundreds of men would have been looking down upon him. moment all agitation and alarm. than this furious, Insensate grlf4 What have you to say to me?" he did not own, has been bound over elgn territory and that therefore they killed. The force of the explosion was Edward Burrltt tried to frame the 10 dl8Pu, 1 Sketch. .re, abJ the Chinese ao great that the hills trembled. Tons asked the former, in a feeble, broken next j to the district court for trial. question and failed. HI lips claims for damages, as was Instanced n voice. moved, but no voice proceeded from Mrs. Mary Miller, of Springvllle, in the riots at Shanghai when China of wreckage and debris were hurled Made Speech to Amuse Wife. ty What have I to say to you?" re- them until waa A great many speeches have bw hat been arrested on a charge of at- to debarred from maintaining troops from the mouth of the mine, blocking the never latter hla moving "Liar!" he muttered, hoarsely, with delivered In keep order. It ts the plan of the the entrance and making the work of peated the house of represent tacking her son, whlls shs wu under government generally to eye from the face of the man before hla ayes glaring, "to try and fool me rescue difficult. tlves without any apparent excuse the Influence of liquor, nearly severing privileges of foreigners. restrict the him. Whet should a son have to like this! How can you have killed all, ao the New York member wVr Private Session at Moroccan Confer- sty to hla father's murderer?". two fingers from his hand with a my father and yet not be hla murOrchard In tha Penitentiary, spoke merely to entertain hla wl!; Mr. Ferrers rose from hlseat hJ derer?" butcher knife. ence, had ample Justificative undoubtedly Infamous was hurled the title at him, Boise, Ida. Sheriff Nichols of CanBecause," said the other, "I shot at Algcclras. The delegates to the James B. Watson of San Francisco The New York member waa In tb his rountenane and, despite hla pallid own yon county changed hts mind on Moroccan conference held a request!" suicided in 8alt Lake City, taking private and evident weakness, there was a gallery with hla wife, but the M and Harry Orchard, the man session lasting two hours Thursday left He grew tired of the humdrum proceri letter a morphine. natural dignity about him now as he Thursday stating xho stands CHAPTER XXV. charged with the assassl-natio- n afternoon, The session resulted prac- faced the furious and menacing counInga and announced her Intention that he had embattled the funds of of former Governor Steunendeparting. He coaxed her to stiT his employer In Ban Francisco and retically In an agreement on the main tenance opposed to him. The Narrative, but she waa Insistent, until her ho1 tl3 berg, was bustled from Caldwell to lines of a This Is not the first time you have morse led to the deed. Theie remarkable words were Fol- band plan for the repression of Boise and lodged In a cell In the f vt; made a proposition. shameful that word to me," lowed by another contraband entering Morocco It was applied alienee, during Frank Warburton, a young man of If will stay an hour," he pro The reason for the sudden you said. This he must be." not which the younger man aeemed turnfeared that this question of contraband Coalville, who was about 17 years of change of front has not been made Ised, 1 will go down on the floor as11 What!" cried the young man. ed to stone, and the to Franco-tfermalead who Is apbut other, might public, believed it tension it arose f t from etryoh-ninmake a speech. suicided last week, taking age, "After having once admitted the peared completely exhausted fear that an i by the be made as to who would carry out the represShe agreed to stay and the do you now seek to deny it? strain of the last few There was no reason known to rescue the attempt would crime, or to make sive measures let mlnutea, prisoner t mb York sithla hut member this Then proposed, hear me repeat It again," and himself fall back Into hla promise, tor the deed unless it was remorse away with him to prevent the chair and Ing, In fact, akept possibiluation happily appears to have been rising hla right hand, he emphasized breathed very creditable art1; over a quarrel with a young lady. ity of his making a confession. heavily. mont about something In which averted. each word by pointing with hla foreThen the first, recovering himself, The movement of the Clerks' Pro Charges That not the slightest Interest had finger "Murderer! Cruel, cowardly, Shippers Wars Robbed nd speaking In a Beef Packers In Court. hoarse, strange tectlve association of Provo for early cold blooded murderer!" at Kansas City Stock Yards. voice, which even to hla own ear closing has been successful, and meri The other man staggered as though Bounded Might Be Worts. Chicago. The trial of the special Kansas Evidence of the exasked unnatural, ehandls stores and butcher shopi istence at City. Blffbang and They say Meeker leads of himself J. struck, with supported Ogden Armour aud the What do you mean? What horrible the stock yards tu this city pleaa life at home. on will now close it I o'clock p. m ex regular on dogs back of the terembllng.hand other Is and r packers " this? What foul lie of an organization of men to ddraud itory attorneys now Cumsoe hla chair. Unhappily married, I cept on Saturday and days preoedlna shippers The other man pointed to the letIndictment for conspiracy to reby a system of overweights It la false," he said . pose? false! I holidays. ter on lying the table bet s een them. and underweights was dlsclosod In the strain trade and commerce were em guiltless in Blffbang Well, not exactly; but hi thought It not In Read It," he said, with an effort, Georgs Anderson was painfully cut trial here of I opne( Thursday before Judge Humph wife shares her affection equally be J. deed!" Miller, a trader, Jay end, even as he spoke those two tween him about the head by bslng thrown from 1 States district court and her poodle. He spoke with difficulty, end again charged with perjury. Millers trial Is' I W5r ,n tbe words, the greynese began to return a baud sled coming down the Stiver the first In the cases Among the defendants In court at the hla hand waa pressed to hts aide. of eleven s and deepen, and hla face aeemed to King canyon at Park City. It Is thd opening of the case were J. Ogden An and other at the stock "What Is that yon Brief, But Polntsd. asked hla fall In. mour. Charles V. Armour. T. J. Con- opponent who had ray?" custom of the miners to take the sleds Indicted last ear following an yards. little Johnny "Bay, pa," queried not caught the InvesThus Ted Edward Morris. Charles F. Swift, last adjured, atrlpped off the Bnmpernlckle, "what's a fool klllorT ts the mine and rid down the can tigation by a committee of the Trad-er- a nors, but who words, Involuntarily outer cover. Edward Swift, Edward Cudahy and A. Exchange. 'A fool killer, my son,", replied U' ; yon from work. lowarad hla vole In 'he nreicnc of 11. Veedsr. Within were several sheets of pa- aid man, "la the gun he hlowa in." A county hone fair will be held In Provo eerly In April. The Commercial club of Provo la working for the organisation of a county fair aaaoclatlon. Poatal receipts in 8alt Lake for 1905 eiceeded those of 1904 by $25,994.16, or more than 13.8 per cent. During the windstorm at Provo on Friday evening a barn belonging to Joseph Lundford was blown down. John Pamato, of Monida, convicted r Ee-ca- ' To-nigh- a 1 sham-histor- y r ' n. r' V d ;Cri e , man-tleplec- . j? r-- t:; IJ penl-tentlar- 1 e. un-de- weigh-master- |