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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS; ANDREW JEnSBn, Publisher SPANISH FORK - - UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS raised The value of the crop titan during 1908 Is placed at In $18,5:19,-013- . The question of Incorporating the town of Bingham Junction la again be- ing agitated. NEWS S UMM ItY - New Mexico is provided for In two bills Introduced by Senator Foraker. Frank Hannum of Laporte, Ind., It at Seattle, Wash., of Injuries re (ad celved In a football game. He was SO years old. Robbers dynamited the safe of tho First National bank at Kufaula. Okla., rind escaped with a sum said to be $15,000. In conIndications multiply that the liquor gress providing for pensions for the question will be a burning one before Utah Indian war veterans and their the legislature which meets In Nashe widows. ville, Tcnn., In January. An a.T VP of 30,000 of sugar beets bill placing The house has passed mined In the slate of Utah during the an annual tax of $100 on all dealers fast seuson yielded 300,000 tons, In clparettes and clparette papers In worth $1,800,000. the District of Columbia. Building permits in Salt Lake City James Curren. 18 years old, wrs Iroke all previous records during the l;IIIed in a boxing bout with Benjamin month of November, coining close to liarnet, 17 years old. at the Broadway the million dollar mark Athletic club, Philadelphia. An effort Is to be made by leading Two colored men lost their lives In men of Ogden to bring the nejet ana fire which destroyed the home of nual convention of the National Asso- "Auntie" Mattle Crosby, an old col ciation of Wool Growers to that city. ored woman In Columbus, Ohio. There are 2,001,152 sheep In thi Ten persons were Instantly killed Kate, worth approximately f7.500.OUO, ev.'hen two passenger trains ran to. Becoming to the annual report of the gether between Pouche and Limoges, slate board of sheep commissioners. lYance. Many others were hurt. Willie suffering from a series of was Instantly An unknown man epileptic fits In the emergency hospi- killed and Marshal C. F. Woods of tal at the Suit Lake city jail, Richard Greenwich, Ohio, was seriously Drone, a laborer, bit off the end of his wounded in an encounter with five tongue. men in the railroad yards of that vilIn accordance with Instructions lage. by the Murray city council, sixty Four men were instantly killed and candle-powe- r lamps have been In- four others seriously Injured by a stalled on all the principal streets ct portion of a concrete pier of the new Murray. bridge being erected over the Poto The pigeon fanciers of the state are mac river at WJlllamsport. Md., col plunnlng for a pigeon exhibit at the lapsing. January show of the Utah State PoulA Northern Paclfla coast train was try association, to be held In Salt damaged by fire to the extent of Lake City. while at the station at St. Cloud Bill Polos, a Greek employed In the Minn. A lighted match dropped by a railroad yards, at Bingham, was passenger on a window curtain start caught between two cars and his right ed the fire. icg so badly crushed that amputation The report of thfi state tobacco mo as necessary.' nopoly filed last week shows that the Utah's livestock In 1908 Is estimat-i- d French nation last year consumed to be worth $28,907,009. The farm $100,000,000 worth of tobacco upon value of horses and mules Is placed which the government made a profit Bt $70 a head and poultry Is valued at of $75,000,000. 20 cents a fowl. By the arrest of nine of the most , Iowa received first lu the awards on Important Bengali leaders and In their state exhibits at the national hortideportation to a Becret destination. It cultural congress. Second place was ii believed the authorities have sue given to Idaho, third to Washington, cessfully put down the seditious movefourth to Utah and fifth to Maryland. ment at Calcutta. According to the report of the Miners and operators on Paint of statistics presented to the Kanawha county, PennsylvCeek, governor, Utah's valuation in real and ania, where 1,800 miners have quit and work following a reduction of wages rallvay property, personal equipment, and livestock, Is placed at posted by operators, are considering a $509,273,031. compromise proposition. There are approximately 9,200 miles Senator Bourne has Introduced a tf public roads in the state, of which bill providing for an Increase In the 8,550 are mountain and 6,050 are valsalary of the president of the United ley roads. Approximately 4,000 miles States from $50,000 to $100,000, and ere passable for loaded wagons at all In tho salary of the seasons of the year. from $12,000 to $25,000. The chamber of commerce of Ogden The Lisbon correspondent of the Co(a endeavoring to get the city council Gazette says In a dispatch that to look into the electric power plant logne he Is authorized to deny the, story matter, and to learn whether the pres- from Paris that Germany Is about to ent companies are taking every preacquire the Bergelen islands, off Porcaution against danger. for a coaling station. The curtailment o' the liquor traffic tugal, Thomas Blrdson, slayer of Dr. Dr; i3 now occupying thj attention of the A. B. ntts, physician ol prominent RichSeld city council. Saloon regulaentered a week last Miss., Hazelhurst, tion has recently been under discuswltb accordance in of and, guilty plea sion, and tome drastic changes in the was counsel, between an agreement city laws may be made. in the penitensentence life a given The chief probation officer in Grand county has reported that when he took tiary. By unanimous Tote the house has office In April a single case was pend a resolution presented by the adopted case This court In the juvenile Ing of five calling on committee has been dismissed and no other case special the president for proof of his charge has come before his court. of an in An overheated radiator caused a that members were fearful secret service the by one school vestlgatlon In an day Ogden panic last week, the fire drill being entirely agents. child of Mr. and The 8 months-olforgotten by the children, who ran of Fesno, Cal., died out of doors. There was fortunately Mrs. Fred Spomer while Its parents slept. It had been no one hurt and no damage done. As the result of being beat over .ne tick from brain fever while teething, debead by a burglar about a year ago. and at an Inquest the parents of means it had cured by George W. Jones, a resident of Salt clared they un become prayer. Lake City, has mentally Statutes fixing the official status of balanced and was last week commit ted to the fctate mental hospital. Frlnce Chun, the regent, were pubol lished In Pekln last week. The prince To cope with the contagion cmallpox sweeping over Salt Lake lu given an annual salary of $105,000 has been and Is made commander-l- chief of City, the city physician to employ a second both the land and sea forces of the F'anted authority assistant and a determined fight will nplre. be made to stamp out the disease. The W. C. T. U. of Delaware has II. A. Pedersen, Judge of the Juve passed a resolution requesting Pennewell to provide, if ille court of Cache county, In his an una! report to Governor Cutler, put! possible, the substitution of water for in a strong plea for the establishment wlno at the naming of the new battleof a detention home, not only In hif ship Delaware at Newport News In own county, but In every county ol February. the state. General Tasker Ik Bliss. In com Government and private enteral!1?! r.and of the forces of the Philippines, the present time are engaged In has reported the death of eleven en, Irrigation projects In Utah- that will listed men of the Eighteenth reclaim 700,000 acres of arl dlands foi stationed at Camp Kcithiey, cultivation. The value of the re Mindanao, from methyl poisoning, re claimed landsrwiril water rights, is suiting from drinking Columbian splr placed at an average of $10 an acre. its. Miss Anna Beach, deputy county Eight foreigners were Injured, two clerk of Cache county, was robbed of them fatally, three houses wen within three blocks of her home in burned and four others dynamited tc Logan, one evening last week, the prevent futher loss at Newbury. Pa. robbers securing but $:i and tho notes as the result of a powder explosion taken at an Inquest held that day, but One of the foreigners accidentally Miss Beach- - was prostrated by tne dropped a match into a keg of pow hock. der. EmbassaJohn W. Att, who shut ami killed Bacon cabled and who dorSecretary Junius Nlelson at Lelshman at Constantinople the will be tried on a charge of murder r solutions of congratulation and good In the first degree, maintains that ho wishes of the senate and houso of rep nad no Intention of shooting Nielsen. resentatlves on the opening of tt)6 Lut mistook him for n man who had Turkish parliament, with direction niven him (Att) a heating a short to convey them to tho proper author time before. Itles. An effort Is being made by ConMrs. Isabella J. Martin, charged gressman Howell to have the state of vlth conspiracy in dynamiting the res Oak-lanUtah reimbursed by the nut tonal Itletice of Judge F. B. Ogden aC for money expended by the Cal.. on March 19, 1907, wus wrrilory of Utah from 1805 to 18(58 for found guilty by a Jury, which was out rfie cqulprrent and" maintenance of less than ten minutes. The motive in defens of the settlers from tor the crime was revenge for fancied Indian depredations.. wrongs. d $lo,-000- bu-lea- n , A FAR CRY The Story of a Happy Christmas By MACLYN DUPREC 10, by Sliurt iiutj I'ulilUbmg It had not been easy U.) John for Wellington, Sr., to select his Christmas gifts this year, although his old wife and one or two servants were all for whom he had to provide. It was Christmas eve, and he had been through bookstores, where handsomely bound volumes of story writers, philosophers and poets were displayed on every counter; through brilliantly lighted Jewelry stores, where precious stones gleamed softly against backgrounds of rich velvet; through the perfumed shop of the florist, where delicate blossoms from famous greenhouses breathed forth a fragrance that gave the lie to the bitter wind and swirling snow outside. With each he had left a generous check, but always with an unsatisfied feeling that he was paying for something he did not care to have. Finally, he had been lured Into a shop whose windows displayed an attractive lot of toys for small boys, and le had selected from its almost endless store of guns, wagons, wonderful animals and "wind instruments," a red tin horn, costing him only 25 cents. This bad given him more satisfaction than any purchase he had made for many times that amount. The other parcels he bad ordered delivered, but this he bad carried himself, as though It were something too precious to be trusted to other hands. It was this that he unwrapped before rcgl-nent- ml-Jtl- a Christmas Dinner ' ; Toboggan Express deer Br ... ALVAH MILTON KERR (CvprrlKbt, mmmm fT i?CJr- - yiSk t I'ti,-"'"- v ifi INpj "I Bought It for a Memory, Mother." the big, fireplace where bis wife sat, as soon as he had come t In from the street As he held it up where the red gleam of the firelight was caught on its rounded surface, a look of surprise swept over the gentle old face near him. "Why, John, you never bought that! Surely they handed you someone else's purchase." storm-swep- "No," he said, his face growing sud- denly tender, "I bought it." His wife, with a woman's quick Instinct, divined the reason. She stepped nearer to him and laying her hand on his arm, looked at him with pleading "But why, father?" eyes, saying: It was the first time she had called him father for a decade past, and there was a pitiful break In the old man's voice as he replied: "I bought It for a memory, mother." That was the first time In ten years he had called her mother, and at the sound of the name, she, too, gave big-bone- gold-bearin- p lover-fashion- iZ ' If !,.-- , .. Finally, being weary of laboring through what was very much like an Infinite bed of glittering down, he reached a point on the steep slope apparently a quarter of a mile or so directly north of the cabin. As he stood there debating it he should return to the "draw" or attempt to find a more direct route to the floor of the gulch, he suddenly felt himself moving. His first thought was that in ' earthquake was swaying the mountain or that he himself had been seized with Tertlgo. Then with a wild thrill he perceived that a strip of snow 200 feet wide and perhaps 500 feet in length was moving down the ; mountain side! Donald's gray eyes dilated with sud- -' den fear and horror. He was thrown headlong In the snow, hearing as he fell the cYunch of stones that were' being ripped out of their beds and the. crash and rending of stumps and' roots as they parted from their sockets in the earth. With every pulse leaping in alarm he got to his feet,' toppling and reeling and shouting for aid as he glanced about him. The next nstant he was again thrown headlong. He was upon the back of a steed beside which the fabled Horse of Death was as an insect Something went through his brain like a sheet of flame, in it a picture of Sumpter sitting by the open fire of pine logs down in the cabin, a book in his hand, undreaming of this ruthless monster rushing down to crush him. The next moment Donald was again upon bis feet, pitching and clutching at the air and shouting. In that moment he saw a very amazing thing, though everything was both amazing and not amazing as In some sort of Indescribable dream. A hundred feet to the rear of him, almost at the upper tip of the avalanche, he saw a bear rolling and tossing on the hurling mass. Thrown out of Its hibernating bed among the rocks or decaying tree-rootthe . animal was pitching about, now upon its feet then upon its back, helpless as a fly upon an ocean surge. Donald never knew why, but he shouted at the bear, and he never could recall afterwards exactly what It was be shouted. He says now that be thinks be commanded the bear not to roll down upon him, which was certainly absurd. In his mind were many glancing Donald's Gray Eyes Dilated with den Fear and Horror. Sud- thoughts. In such moments the mentality of man sometimes seems as a He diamond with many facets. thought of the Christmas tree to be lighted in the parlor at home In Denver, of bow tired he was of corned-beef- , of where they would bury him when they took him crushed and dead from the snow at the bottom of the gulch, whether or not his school fellows If they now saw him would shout "Slide, Donald, slide!" as they used to when he was running the bases when playing ball, and many other things, all, seemingly, in a single moment It must have been a very short period In which he was leaping and tumbling and whirling about on the mighty toboggan, for the avalanche ran down the mountain side like a swiftly hurrying snake, save that its undulations were up and down Instead of sldewlse as with a serpent. It seemed to Donald he had scarcely drawn six breaths before the shot from the precipice above the cabin. Swift as was his flight he was conscious that the elide had leaped from the canyon wall, for throughout a few seconds there was no noise and he seemed being borne upon a bed of feathers through space, then there was a roar as of muffled thunder and he was wallowing deep In snow. The mental picture that had flashed through Donald's mind of his young uncle sitting by the fire engrossed in a printed romance, bad been true to the fact Sumpter had awakened to the coming of the avalanche only when it neared the brink of the wall, 70 feet above the cabin. His book dropped from his hand and be made a leap for the door. The next moment a bear crashed through the roof and smote the floor in front of the fire, leaving the luckless animal lifeless. Sumpter's face blanched as he stared at the strange object then he thought of Donald and hurriedly pushed his way out of the door. The snow about the cabin was up to his neck and the roof was piled deep with It, but the bulk of the slide had leaped clear over the little house, heaping the bottom of the gulch to the opposite wall, some 600 feet away. The bear had dropped from the tall of this rushing mass directly upon the cabin. When Sumpter had got his frightened nephew out of the smother of stuff In which he was floundering, the abandon through the canyons and the clumps of pines on the soaring steeps sing cheerily in the wind and sun. Donald found it all quite magical. He had purposed returning home to Denver in the autumn, but Sumpter having offered him an Interest in the mine, should they succeed In striking quartz, he concluded to remain at least until Christmas. Donald's fasnow-slidther, knowing the value of practical experience, thought It quite as well that his son should stay and rough it for awhile. There were deer and bear and mountain grouse in that lifted, broken region, but the two young fellows had little time for hunting them, being intent on driving the tunnel as rapidly and with as little delay and expense as possible. Sumpter had .built a cabin close against the base of a perpendicular wall of rock at the side of the canyon in which his claim lay. In this cabin they lived very snugly, going down to Ward occasionally to bring un supplies. Donald bad mm a up to that country over a little rail road that runs from Boulder to Ward, a bit of tracl upon which the snow rotary plows are busy most of the winter. Towards Christmas the young miners began to grow a bit lonesome and restless; they especially grew weary of ham and tinned meats and longed for venison, bear, beef, or almost any sort of flesh food that was fresh. Snow was heavy on the mountains and they could get about but little save upon snowshoes. Donald wished very ardently that he might go home for Christmas but made up his mind that to leave Sumpter in that white, lonely world would be selfish and cowardly, so he remained. Christmas morning Donald put on his snowshoes and, flinging Sumpter's rifle across his shoulder, ho declared two young fellows stood with pale he was going to look for fresh meat faces staring at each other for a little His uncle lauyhed at him but the space, then both, seeing what they had escaped, laughed joyously. hardy Scotch youth was resolute. "An old hunter." he said, "told me "Come Into the cabin," said Sumpat the hotel down in Ward, the last ter, "we will have broiled bear steak time I was down, that a lot of deer for Christmas dinner! Too many wintered in the big thickets Just snowslldes around here now; buck of us here; he said we will pull out for Denver. In they were hard to get at but he'd found them the spring we will come back and there twice. I'm going up to Bee." tunnel until we strike the vein." Sumpter assented reluctantly, cautionAll of which came true. ing his nephew not to go too far away Tho day was soft and Bad. , mild, the white world all agleam with sunshine. "Did you enjoy the play last night?" Donald put on a pair of smoked "No. It was awful. 1 could write a glasses and started up the canyon. A better one f myself." half mile away he found a little tii. Then It must be bad." De "Il draw," up the slope of which he trolt Free Press. e old man. to- night father, bring mother with you, and I'll tell you all about It when you get here. You've got time. You see, father, I've kept track of you and mother all along. I wasn't going to let anything happen to the old folks, and" there was a catch In his voice, "I've got the right kind of a report to make, father. Never fear that" The old man could scarcely contain way gave way, womanlike, leaning her head on his arm, and sobbing out himself as he listened, pressing the rea grief that had silently stolen the ceiver closer and closer to his ear, as roses from her checks and the light though he feared some bit of the from her eyes as the years had gone precious news might escape hire. "All right, son, by. The old man's arm went round Then he shouted: , while his hand gent- we're coming on the next train." He her ly stroked her soft white hair. "There, left the receiver dangling on the wall, there, mother, dear. The boy's not and started on a run to the room dead. I'll find him for you. If I have where his wire sat, shouting as he to hunt the world over. ! was to went: "Mother, mother, It's Jack blame," he said, with such Infinite re- our boy. Get ready, mother, I'm gogret In his voice that the old wife ing to have a cab here in 20 minutes reached up and drew his head down to to catch the train for Chicago." She her face and whispered: "Don't take had risen with a wild look on her face, it so, father. I know you thought yoi and had started to question him, but were doing the best for the boy when he shook his head, saying: "No, no, you sent htm away to do or die on his I'll explain later. Not got time now. own account, and somehow I feel to- We're going to spend Christmas with night, as I have never felt before, Jack and his boy." that he may be found." He started for the 'phone again, As she spoke, something In her and then dashed back, exclalmlug: tones made him feel that at last his "Pock the tin horn If you don't pack wife had forgiven him entirely for the another thing. Any child that can cry decision which, ten years before, had loud enough to be heard all the way robbed her of her only child. Always from Chicago ought to have breath before this he felt through all her gen- enough to blow that horn," and he tle and kindly care for hlfn, that dashed again to the 'phone to order s tucked away somewhere In the silent cab. recesses of her being there was just Natural Deduction. a little bitterness against him for the childless state he bad brought upon Peckera I can't understand why so her. But now I hat he, himself, had many people look upon Friday as the come to repent It, he knew beyond a unlucklest day of the week. doubt that the last drop of that bitter-nes- s Mrs. Peckem Why, do you consider had been swallowed tip In a grief it lucky? Peckem It must be. Few people grown sweet from being shared. He sat down in his great arm chair, get married on that day. Chicago and looked up with misty eyes at his Dally News. br W. U. ClwiiouMi.) Colorado for heavy snows and avalanches. Donald came over from Den ver, after graduating from high school, to spend the summer with Sumpter Saunders, bis father's youngest broth er. Sumpter was a very young uncle, Indeed, being but 27 and not very long out of college, while Donald was 19. "Uncle Sump" was a strapping fellow who had played cen ter in his college football team, a man with laughing blue eyes and "teasing" ways but entertaining serious. dreams of owning a great mine, if strength and pluck and persistence would bring one to light. He was run nlng a tunnel on what he believed to be an excellent prospect, up in the Long's Peak country. Don ald went out to help him. The tall boy had notions of becoming a mfn Ing engineer, and here was experience that might prove of value when he should be ready to enter a technical school. The world Is very much In confusion up in that country, the earth having been flung about at all sorts of and ragged and angles, heaped tumbled. Streams sprawl in foamy ing." Then a man's laugh was heard, followed by "A merry Christmas, father. You know exactly what he sounds like, but you don't know what be la saying," and there was another laugh, ringing Joyful, as In his boyhood days, and the old man knew he had found his own. Jack, Jack, my boy, is that you?" he shouted, staggered by the unexpected joy of his sudden discovery. "None other, father, but what you Just heard was another Jack, the second Jack Wellington, Jr. He has Just arrived, and his command of English is somewhat limited, but be was doing his best to Introduce himself, and invite you and grandma to Christmas dinner with him, and" "Oh, Jack, Jack, where have you been all these years?" sobbed the "Catch the Lake Shore Limited 1WH, Donald Saunders bad his first great adventure up In the Long's Peak country, a region famous throughout t. long-distanc- e vice-preside- - climbed until he came out upon the side of the mountain; gleaming thence he made his way slowly westward, passing around upheaving masses of dark stone, across slopes that were smooth as white satin, and, still further up the mountain side, found little hollows, evidently lined with brush but now filled wltb snow, simply big, glistening dimples in the mountain's fat face; but he saw no , tCuiirriiflii, - n wife."You're right,; mother. J .414 think it best. I would rather have sen him dead than worthless, and I knew If he had worth, be would conquer himself, and rise without my aid, more of a man than with It." She put her arm around his neck and patted his cheek. "He has risen somewhere, father. I know it. He could not be your son and fall," she said, the loyalty and love of a lifetime lighting her face "with a soft radiance. Ho took up the tin horn from the table where he had laid it, and fondled It. as If It were fraught with memories, Instead of merely recalling them. "It's ten years since he left," he said, "what a man be must be now 31 But I was thinking, when I bought this, of the time when he was such a little yellow-hairetoddler, and almost drove us wild with just such a horn as this at Christmas lime." She took the horn from him, and looking dreamily at it, said: "We'll keep this, father; maybe Jack's boy will some time make these old walls ring with It at Christmas time as be made them ring, himself, so many years ago." "God grant that he may!" said the old man. "Do you remember, mother, how he used to come chasing down the street after me when I would atari off to my work in the morning?" "Yes, and how you would pick him up and carry him back to me," she said. "And do you remember the time we came near losing him, the day he ran away to hunt you in the city?" "Who that saw you then could forget It, mother?" and he took her hand in his and drew her down to the chair beside him. They sat hand in hand In the silence, given over to voiceless memories of the past,' only the ticking of the old clock keeping an accompaniment to their dreams of other Christmas Eves. They were sitting thus an hour later when a servant opened the door and said, respectfully: "There Is a telephone call for Mr. Wellington." "Can't you answer It, Mary?" the old man asked, loath to leave his comfortable chair and dreams. "No, sir. It Is especially for you. A longdistance call, I think." "Who the deuce wants to talk to me from a distance," he said, as he rose and went to the telephone In the hall. "Hello, who Is this?" he asked, as he picked up the receiver. "Yes, this Is John Wellington." "A party in Chicago wants to talk to you," said the operator. "All right, put him up. Who In thunder do I know in Chicago," he ejaculated to himself, pressing the receiver closer to his ear. A peculiar wailing sound was all he heard, and a puzzled expression crept over his face. 'Talk a little louder. I can't understand a thing you are saying," and he listened more intently. The walling grew a little louder, but still It was nothing but an Inarticulate wall, and for a moment the old man looked thoroughly disgusted. "Confound it!" he shouted at last "You sound exactly like a mewling Infant. I don't know what you are say- Physical tests once In two years for marine corps officers are prescribed In an executive order Just issued. 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