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Show t N THE SPANISH FORK ANDREW JENSEN, PRESS MINES AND MINING Publisher FROM PRINTERS DEVILS TO NATIONAL PROMINENCE Tho Western Pacific Mining company, which owns mining claims on - - - UTAH Silver island In the Great Balt Lake, SPANISH FORK filed articles of incorporation last week. Tho profits that have accrued to Investors in Goldfield stocks by tbe re- LADDER FAME CLIMBED BY MANY Thirty carloads of sugar beets were cent rise In the price of these secur-Ite- s shipped from Vineyard this season. Is variously estimated at from Samuel House, of Grantsville, was 130,000 to $100,000,000. Injured In a runaway accident last The nows has been Hashed from ' ' Men Whose Names Now Are Household Words to week. S Boston that a big corporation Is being i Esther Gifford has been appointed organized to take over the Witch Millions Commenced Life as Humble Assistants to the postmaster at Springdale, Washing group of claims at Ely, Nev. It Is Twa.n and Horace Greeley ton county. Vdlage claimed the Standard Oil company is of the project. , The first teachers Institute of the back Shining Examples. for Summit county, was held in Park At the regular quarterly meeting of City last week. the directors of the Consolidated Mer-cu- r at Is in full company, held In Salt Lake last blast again Threshing William Dean Howells the name becoming foreman at an early date per GrantBvllle, busy shifts being put In week, the usual dividend of to mind at once "A Modern In- and displaying strong natural tastes 'alls between storms. share, or $25,000, was posted for pay- stance" and "The Rise of Silas and capacity for editorship. In a street car collision at Ogden, ment on December 19, books that nearly all have read Mark Twain in a Printing Office. From fifty to seventy people a day with greut pleasure. Motorman Charles Fisher was badly But how many If laughing Is good for man, then cut about the face and hands by brok are rolling Into Ely, Nevada, now and, know of the days of long hours that Twain deserves well of Ills Mark Howells put In working as a "printer's as soon as it Is possible to get materen glass. for no man has done Jevll?" From to countrymen, devil" printers The recent windstorm at Vineyard ial and men to handle It, the camp world-wid- e to the American public cheer more renown Is a long step; not did considerable damage, a number of will experience such a building boom anly a long step, hut a succession of than this great humorist. small buildings being blown down and as no new city ever saw. At 12 years of age Bamuel Lung-bornlays and weeks and years of hard and Tbe Commonwealth Mines company unremitting toil. Clemens (Mark Twain! was trees uprooted. to quit school on account of a man name new is a has the lain of at down that obliged Many corporation night The Tooele electric light company unknown outside of his Immediate the death of his father, and It was of been laws has the under organized Is putting In more facilities, In order circle of acquaintances and awakened then his education In real life began. that better service can be given to Wyoming to operate in Beaver coun- In the morning to find himself famous. Always having been a delicate boy, is for 600,000 ty, Utah, It capitalized the cltlens of Grantsville. Not so, however, with the "printers his father had been lenient in the matof a par value of $1. The Davis County Teachers Insti- shares devil, that lad of arouuj a ter of attendance at school, although Within the heart of the Falrvlev, printer's office. He must work hard he had been anxious that his children tute, which for years has been held seven and long, and his promotion comes should have good educations. His , monthly during the school season, In Nevada, district at this time are of be slowly. His Is not the cleanest work wish was fulfilled, although not exactwhich could half Farmington, will hereafter be held In properties, high-gradore, were it not there is, for he must clean the type, ly in the way he would have planned. shipping Kaysville. vilfor the conservative policy which is weep out the composing room, and do Mark Twains high school was the Bamuel Steel, Victor Shill and Will all the odd jobs that come up In a lage printing office, where his elder their management brother, Orion, was conducting a newsBanders, all Utah men, who had lived being pursued by printing office every day. The development work in progress None but a lad of sturdy material paper. at Provo, were killed by a premature on the Louise Con., near Ogden, Is and possosslng great pluck could pull The boy, then only 13, served In all explosion in a lime quarry near Dougdemonstrating the continuity of tbe himself out of this rut, for his hours capacities, and In the occasional ablas, Arizona, vein. Ihe drift to the south is now were long, and whatever knowledge he sences of his chief reveled in personal The great scarcity of coal has been in about 400 feet, showing ore all tbe obtained was gotten by study after his Journalism, with original Illustrations hard days work was done. Yet, not- hacked on wooden blocks with a pencreating considerable trouble In Park way, and a recent development shows all these drawbacks, knife. These "illustrated withstanding City lately, and several times some of seven feet of grey copper. articles many a man whose name Is now a riveted the town's attention, but not the mines have been on the verge of Notices have been posted through- household word has started In as a Its as his brother was admiration, closing down. out the plant of the Macbeth Lease, "printer's devil, and worked his way wont to confess with a good deal of Several Grantsville capitalists have at Mackay, Idaho, announcing the fact up to fame, and sometimes to fortune. feeling. He, being the editor, had to purchased 1,300 acres of land near that the take the consequences upon his reStepping Stone for Many. management had made an the City of Mexico, and will cultivate A11 walks of life have had men who turn. in wages of all the skilled Increase the rubber plant on their newly ac- labor In 1853 Mark's adventurous disposi' employed, amounting to from have started In In this way statesquired plantation. 25 cents to 60 cents to each man per men, authors and bne even who was tion made Itself manifest, and he disan aspirant for presidential honors, al- appeared from home to try his forMany settlers on the Uintah reserday. vation, It Is said, have made no at- , Two mines of Goldfield are piling though falling to reach that goal. tune. He became a veritable tramp These same men look back with pride printer, and wandered from one easttempt as yet to put In any crop, hav- up their hlgu-grad- e ore to make a to the time when they stood at the ern printing office to another, supportIn ing spent their time erecting their milllon-dolla- r shipment, and it will be side of the press and applied the moist ing himself by setting type. Finally houses and barns. a guess until the ore is finally placed Ink to the type. Such a man is How- his wandering came to an end on acAn Irrigation system Is now under aboard the cars as to which will be ells. count of lack of funds, and he returned William Dean Howells' early life to live with his family. It was at this construction on the Uintah reserva- the first to break the worlds record. tion which will water about 10,000 The mines in this unique race are the was far from being an easy one. Ills period of his life that he luduced Horfather was editor and proprietor of the ace BIxby to teach him tbe intrleacioi e acres of land. The cost of the canal and the Frances-Mo-hawk- . Hamilton (O.) Intelligencer, and later of steamboat piloting. will be about 195,000. of the Dayton (O.) Transcript. Mr. Twain First Literary Effort. The directors of the Naildriver com- Howells senior advocated the abolition David Galllphant, driver of a launwas It met Lake week while in Salt car and with BIxby that Mark last of slavery, and lu those days such pany dry wagon, was struck by a street In Salt Lake City and seriously in- levied an assessment of three cents views were not overpopular. His pa- undo his first venture into literature, this is sometimes disputed, jured. The wagon In which he was a share on the outstanding capital per was a medium for the transmis- although and Gen. R R Bunker, of Candla, N. sion of his and views, apnaturally stock of the corporation. It will riding was demolished. to a Btnall slass; therefore 11., appears to have been the one that pealed only Into the treasury nearly $9,000, the Over 30,000 was distributed by the bring family pocketbook was very slim. gave him the mentat push which startUtah Sugar company among the sugar which will be applied to development His boys were unable to obtain ade- ed him on his career. Gen. Bunker work. The shaft is now down 830 beet growers of Sevier county two feet quate schooling, for they were obliged had played a game of cards with Clemto turn In and help get out the paper. ens. and during the course of the game weeks ago as one Installment on the comThe East Butte (Montana) William often set type until 11 o'clock had been much amused at the pithy beet crop for this year. pany Is today earning about $7,000 per at night and then rose at four in the observations Into the Interjected William E. A. Innes, a Nevada minyoung man. neing called to Aurora month from the leasers now operat- morning to deliver the papers. ing man, suicided In Salt Lake City, ing the property oa a royalty basis. Although unschooled, young William on business, the general invited Clemchoking himself to death with his sus- By January 1 next all leasers will be read everything that came his way ens to accompany hint, and a few penders, which he knotted tightly excluded from the property. By this that would tend to Instruct, and vqry days later was shown a description of about his neck, while on a protracted time the company Is planning to developed literary aspirations. the trip written by the young man, ship early his first efforts were In and was astonished at the wit disNaturally spree. to the Washoe smelter 300 tons of ore verse of such high quality played in the composition. He sugand verse, i Green river Is to be made a division per day. , that James Russell Lowell accepted gested that It be sent to the San Franpoint on the Rio Grande system. With Experts who have been searching some of It for the Atlantic Monthly. cisco Union, but Clemens would have tne establishment of a division point the Sierra Madre range of mountains, It was a great day for tbe young man none of It, remarking that they at this place It is said that the freight north of Ogden, have made the most when he learned thut his first attempt "wouldn't publish such nonsensical division offices now at Helper will be flattering reports as to their richness, In verse, "The Pilot's Story, had trash! After a good deal of persuasion he moved to Colton. not only in many of the rare metals, been accepted by his favorite magazine, From this beginning Mr. How- was induced to send the story as such and Bruce Ditty, a twelve-year-olalong, molybdenum, ells has rllmhed rungstate boy until to- but nothing would Induce him to sign step by of Granger, has been deserted by his etc., but also tbe garnet, which Is day he ranks among thestep greatest of his name to it. He did not want anyused so extensively as a polisher for the realistic writers. parents, who sailed for Ireland last metals. one to know that he was the author of In those strenuous times when 1 low- - such trash, and so decided to week and neglected to take the boy sign A prominent mining man says that with them. He will be furnished a will outstrip Butte, good home by citizens Interested in Ely, Nevada, Meat, so far In ten years that the bis case. marvelous wonders of the latter camp What will be one of the most giganwill appear ridiculous by comparison. tic electric ratlroad systems in the If two or three. Instead of one big west will be the electrification of the Smelter enterprise develops, the camp Ilarriman lines from Green River, will boast a population of 100, Out) Wyo., to Sparks, Sev., and from souls, he says. Butte, Mont., to Salt Lake City and The large plant of the Utah Smeltthe Garfield smelters. ing company near Ogden, began oper-atlon- s The cold snap, which It is feared last week. The smelter Is the will be continuous for the winter, will first to be erected In this locality, and cause considerable loss to beet farm- Is backed by the Kcclcs interests. The ers in the neighborhood of Provo, who mile from plant is situated one-hal- f have not yet been able to deliver the Utah Hot Springs, and Is connect their beets, for the reason that the fac- ed by a spur with the main line of tory could not work them up. the Oregon Short Line. Nell Glllis, one of the very early day Hyrum Youngberg, alias Hyrum Young, has been arrested In Salt Lake miners of Park City, and at one time City, and is charged with a dozen bur- shift boss In No. 2 workings, died In Pasadena, California, last week. Nell glaries. Though Youngberg is but Glllis came from Nova Scotia and nineteen years old, be Is believed to went to work at the Ontario mine be one of the cleverest burglars that within a year or two after Its disever operated in the city. covery. A. J. Coleman, the colored waiter, The feature of 8alt Lakes business who shot and killed John F. Larson, situation for the past ten days has a business man, in the yard of the been the unusual number of big minNo city and county building in Balt Lake ing companies organized here. less half a dozen companies have early one morning In last March, will filed than articles of Incorporation with a not be brought to trial. The negro total capitalization ranging close to mistook Larson for a highwayman. $5,000,000. In a decision by the supreme court The subscription allotments to the last week in a divorce case, the court stock of the King Edward silver bolds that where a marriage Is con- mines, the Cobalt company of which summated In Utah, or Is consummat- Bamuel Newhmise Is president, and xzr.zzz? smvr0 ed elsewhere and is maintained or es- Barney Barueh, Harry Payne WblW ney and Eugene Meyer. Jr., are di- ells worked as a "printer's devil" there It with the Mississippi leadsman's rail tablished here, service oy publication rectors, have now been made, says a was one man who was more fortunate for two fathoms, "mark twain, A few or constructive summons," Is valid. Boston paper. In advancing his views than Howells' day later the Ban Francisco paper J. Kyakl, a Japanese of Brigham John B. Welmer Is now regularly father, and that man, William Lloyd came, with the sketch, followed by a City, has succeeded in leaving Brig- shipping to the Balt Lake market cop- Garrison, started In life In the same check for $100. Of course the check ham City wth close to tlS.noo iieiomt-in- per ore from Idaho that Is averaging manner as the younger Howells. At was drawn lo the order of Mark to numerous Japanese laborers better than $1.50 a rarloed, net. Ills II years of age Garrison was appren- Twain, and great curiosity was maniemployed In the beet fields north of first shipment was made In October, ticed to the printing business In tho fested as to who this might be. FinalWillard. The authorities of three two montha. or such a matter, after o!tlre of the Herald, ly, however, the secret came out, and counties are searching for the miss- he bad taken possession of the prop- where he servedNewbnrypurt until he r ag Clemen got his money and at open- ing man. erty Is operating. UTAH STATE NEWS OF Ed.torMark 2c e k e was Just lng In the literary world that suited to his talents. It Is Interesting to note that upon the publication of Mark Twains AdOwing to the heavy passengers ventures of Huckleberry Finn, which now cn to the Greenwater Is now considered one of the classics, h "Were Mark Nevada, an automobile overtax one critic declared: vice is to be established at Twains reputation as a humorist less we connection with the Salt Lake well founded and established, rou The Las Vegas and might say that this cheap and perTonopah m nicious stuff Is conclusive evidence road company is that Its author has no claim to be gress in laying themaking rails VthJ ranked with Arternus Ward, Sydney from to Rhyolite, and Bull? Beatty or John any Dean Hay Swift, Smith, expects to be conected up b.T other recognized humorist above the first of the coming month. of that outrageous the author of grade The Ute Indians who fiction, Peeks Bad Boy., have traveling through South Dakota 7m Horace Greeley as a "Devil. Mark Twain came from the west, Wyoming In defiance of the ernments orders, have arrived and the advice of one "printer's devil who attained success was: "Go west, Fort Meade, accompanied by young man, and grow up with the Sixth United States cavalry. knows Every schoolboy country." Sixty lives were lost and who gave that advice. Born In direst nearly . score of vessels were able not was swept to poverty, Horace Greeley to obtain much of kn education, as structlon on treacherous reefs anrf after his sixth year he was only al- sand bars of the Gulf and River Lawrence during the season of lowed to go to school during the winnavt ter months. He and his brothers had gation now drawing to a colse.to help their father eke out a miserAt the quarterly meeting on the able existence from the plot fifth of December, at Cheyenne, Wyo which, with the ramshackle house upof the State Board of Medical on it, was the elder Greeleys only posEt the board will begin th amlners, session. In 1826 Horace Greeley entered the preparation of Its report to Governor office of the Northern Spectator, In Brooks and the state legislature. East Poultney, Vt., as an apprentice, Coroner Carroll, of Seattle, ha and for the first six months wmrk rea certificate stating that Mr signed ceived nothing but his board. After Maude wife of the leader of Creffleld, In addition received the princethat he the "Holy Rollers, who died suddenly ly sura of $40 a year for four and a half years. At the expiration of his In the county jail, came to her death apprenticeship he went to Erie, Pa., by aulclde from strychnine poisoning. and thence to New. York, where he The people of Port Blakely haveap-pealeto the government authorities at Seattle for permission to use dyna. mite in order to blow up the wrecked steamer Dix, so that the bodies of thoso who drowned in the cabins may be recovered. Con Lopez shot and killed bis NORTHWEST msjsmr zzr asiizsr g u r Jiosl Tt b. e d paramour, Therese Repossa, la t house of at Newman, CaL Lopez than shot himself through the head, falling dead across the body of his victim. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy. The Las Vegas & Tonopah raie path trim loum recei had that It first, iI B ' ou E fm fresli strec Cl Love Th Aald, ,Dg dve ' B ioub tfcrl S, pride care lam Wl 0 bori Jy. jacrl Is no As ;4US and hank hem Th ;nmu ithe "Bi ihool oa which Is Incorporated rlth under the laws of .Utah, filed an -- N amendment to its articles of Incorpo- ter p ration with the county clerk at Salt enotij HI f, Lake City last week, which will peoftli rmit of its building aline to the 1 c mining district In Inyo county, Cal. iay Stfl The identity of Mike Kelly, who ace committed suicide in the county jail ired at Colorado Springs, has been die font as zovered and the discovery practically Ider one of was he the that proves theory oum the three divide bandits. Kelly wa I known for many years at Colorado juain City and in the Ute pass region a I r "Kelly the Robber" "SI After a Jury had been drawn in z he suit brought by Vhlted States District th j Burlinthe Burke Attorney against and gton railroad In the United States di.now strict court at Cheyenne, for violation But of the safety appliance law, the aer ttorneys for the railroad confessed heir iroth Judgment. The suit was a civil action 11 and a fine of $100 and costs was Imposed by the court. egal Charles A. Smith, proprietor of s ay tier. drug store in Billings, Mont., Is In a Tw critical condition as a result of being ng groin and shot through the shoulder he 1 by Daniel F. Watts. Watts also shotIn if re Oscar Colburn, prescription clerk. of tl the back of the head. He will re stay cover. Watts had been discharged my r for the register. the c The demurrer of the defendant in Print the action of $100,000 damages brought king. tbe M by Charles II. Moyer, president of Western Federation of Miners, against lack former Governor Peabody, former Ad- luali dvld Ad' jutant General Sherman Bell andis o- her I Wells, jutant General Bulkeley returned W I be btained in an opinion the .Un tally of Lewis E. Robert Judge lway company, Green-wat- Hayes-Monnett- d soift landed with but ten dollars In his pocket. For days he wandered from one printing office to another, trying to get work, and finally through the aid of another printer who had come from Vermont, secured work that had been refused by the other men. Here his perseverance and pluck showed themselves, and it was not long before his value was recognized and he was given steady employment. He rose steadily, and finally became editor of the New York Tribune. Greeley was described by John G. Whittier as our later Franklin." He was a candidate, although an unsuccessful one, for president of the United States. Every one knows of Horace Greeleys magnificent life, of his triumphs and successes, but few know of his early struggles and privations when he worked as a "printers devil" for "nothing a month and his hoard. When mentioning the "later Franklin, one should not overlook the fact that the first Franklin was a printers devil, and performed all the menial tasks around his brother's office. The youngest son of a poor tallow chandler, and one of 17 children, nothing but his talents and untiring Industry would have enabled him to rise to distinction. to-da- Off ths Beaten Track. The old captain whose seafaring days were over, looked from the easel to the artist and back to the easel again with a tolerant smile. "Hanging around the wharf, as I see a good many of your kind," he said In a friendly tone. "Going to I the sea. take It. Well, Im glad paint to see you setting down to It. "Dont the others sit down?" asked do, I the artist. u'jimn r Jiri her eyes. Finally where the view seemed to pl Bqulntln but she kep steppln back, ateppln barkard, ttl at It ofT. stepped "No great harm don," adt captain, stooptug to look moi ly at the picture on the east fished her out. an I guess al the was content to paint con louth s Companion. short-changin- g States district court at Denver. alleged wrongful imprisonment by tne and usua at V drive Moyer miltary. Material Is being assembled PI0 Callente, Nevada, for the About route. Lake branch of the Salt t half the rails are already unloaded 08 will Callente and enough ties hand within the next sixty days or to cover the line.. Linemen at Laramie have begun stringing a copper wire in tbe $ line to connect New York and leased to a N Francisco . already York brokerage concern. The lr m of copper, 210 pounds to the cost 23 cents a pound. Since the destruction of the roojjJ house at Wlnnemucca, Nevada,, fire a short time ego, the Soutbr Pacific has decided to make Emiej. a station midway between Humbo House and Mill City, a division Pin Instead of Wlnnemucca. 0. Al Trasses, a brakeman on the R. A N., was killed a few mile Huntington, Ore. He wan brakes on a car on a siding. I manner he fell from the car, another that had been kicked struck him, crushing his head. Joe Collins, section foreman la j Valon Lararue, Wyo., yards of the . "Weil, what?" rctur looking up from her fas "Why, they say you band to carry a latchkr "Bo I do." The speaker drank cool glass of Htrawlx soda at her elbow. Th tranquilly; "So I do. Uni the. ke J'x'r. 1 Just , t him ra hint, lie likes to show ou know, utid mu in. Independent." ,wlt was run down by Instant almost meeting a Relmers, foreman of the south of the yard Lis left leg broken above the Conductor Frank Lsnd I ' Brakeman Burnside Is fatally t on accident the result of sn pine branch of Ihe Colorado them railroad near Lendvllle. train of 17 loaded coal 8r j htsvy f loose while climbing ctflc, glne, John Just the tory' "T said, v heir he w nun ng. Fred "S esa' tad ra hen hlni Tl H ilan t tl 'he I '1 pi or bar due h; t nil "r n Nr . IF) had Pur. 01 . M. he ou fell |