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Show NOTICE The date on your name label of this paper is the date to which your subscripiton is paid. Kindly be as prompt cs possible in paying in advance. Spanish Fork MM ' VOL. IX. NO. 4. SPANISH fflKK, UTAH, THUIM POWDER EXPLOSION RESULT OF BLUNDER , two Idaho 1 PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHEStlNTO MOTOR CAR AS Rtsuui f C OF HASTE OF CONDUCTOR. t - Copyright. Men-Me- Coroner J. P. Nowland, and a Mexican named 8andy Lopaz.Jost their lives. They were hauling thirty pounds of giant powder to the company's works and had Just arrived at their dredge when the powder exploded. The horses attached to the sleigh were killed and the sleigh blown to splinters. The Mexican was torn to bits, while young Nowland was horribly mutilated, but .ved a short time. Just how the powder, came to explode is not known at this time. So far as can be learned no blame attaches to anyone for the explosion. It being one of those accidents that come about In the handling of frozen powder. head-ocolli. Ogden, Utah. In a on the car used motor a between Ion Malad branch of the Oregon Short In the 5 Line and a passenger train. motor the In this city, railroad yards car was wrecked and the thirtyshak-In-org more passengers had a severe up. at least three being dangerously Injured. I The passenger train from the north was a few minutes late, and Impatient to get a start for the north, the motor car In charge of Motorman Case and Conductor H. W. Logan Is said to have 'disregarded orders to meet the southbound train in the local yards, and atthe "town track" by tempted to makeTwenty-seconstreet the of way head-ocrossing, the result being a collision. , None of the passengers on the southbound train were Injured In the least. Had either train been traveling at a In tlgh rate of speed, the loss of life the motor car would undoubtedly have been appalling... Passengers who were on the car and escaped '. without In; would "Jury say that the motor, care case a In death veritable traps prove tot a serious wreck, as there is no way ito get OUt except lurougu a nnow doorway, the round windows being too fimall to admit a human body. n TAFT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE. d n President Willing to Stand Sponsor for Federal Incorporation Bill. Washington. The federal Incorporation bill. Introduced in congress on Monday, Is not to be pressed for passage at this session. If the bill should pass. President Taft has stated his willingness to. stand as Its sponsor and take.the responsibility for having ' . recommended 'It.' '.'" J . Further than this, the president told several callers that he would not make the.. Incorporation bill an administration measure. He declared he felt he .had no .right to do so, and that It. Aid. not rank with the proposed amendments tolhe Interstate commerce law, the postal savings banks and the measures designed for the conservation of natural resources. These latter were ' promised In the platform upon which the president was elected, and he feels that the party is responsible for their passage at, this session of- congress. Idaho Town Threatened by Fire.. Malad. Fire originating from a cig arette In s ball on the second floor y of the Harding rooming house, a frame structure, Monday night, threatened for a time to wipe out the entire business section of the town. but after two hours of hard work on the Dart of the volunteer fire depart residents, the ment, and hun4reds--oI- . flames were kept from spreading, ana at 1:15 Tuesday morning, were under OPPOSED LOAN OF TENTS. control. The Harding-- , buifdini was ; burned to the ground, together with Heyburn Stirs Up V Little Excitement most of the personal effects, of tne.ia-mate' ' Senate. . . . es Washington-irembrjof the Civil war wererey.l.vfI.Jn the senate on Case of Interest ta,:1dahoahev Boise. Idaho.--ln- an opinion! handed Monday, when Senator Heyburn bitdown Tuesday Judge Frank S. Dietrich terly nnnnaprf a Xnan nf tanta tv h sf the federal .court holds that In a governmffpi!3lflRHat the annual en suit brought to' enforce a forfeiture or campment of fAmfederate Veterans at the title to a reservoir site located on Mobile, Ala., next . April. However, subtle land, on account of an alleged every Republican present. exceDt Mr. breach by; the grantee, of a. condition Heyburnroted for sthe bill authorizing . ubseduehtfv embraced In the- - original theloanVV" The ' senaJte:'paflfed more than a grant, the United- States should de clare forfeiture and that the same dozen bills for the establishment of should sot be required by an act of fish baOclflfllesijn the various parts of congress as contended by the defend the. country. ?: The, president's federal incorporation ant. This sweeping ruling Is of vast bill was o$pdedj'--ithe house by :. Importance In this state. Garrett'- - of Ten Representative nessee on .thYgrohnd ' of unconstltu- Jumped From Roof of Building. Salt Lake City. Pursued by two iiunuiur. . ,. r"....... policemen George Johnston, a laborer. Meat Prices Still Rising. who had acted suspiciously In the cen tral part of the city Tuesday night, Pittsburg. With the opening or tho tired of the chase and rushing to the second wee,kof the thirty-daymeat roof of the Luna theater In Third boycott lii tliia ell v. meats rnntlniipri South street by means of a fire es- to rise prlcalMonday morning cape, committed suicide by leaping sheep ad$nced. Jrom 25 to 50 cents Home-dressfrom the building to the sidewalk, a huhdreUfwolgfi't" pork three stories below. Ills skull was led in .cjjtf jby 1 cent a pound wholefractured, both , upper jews were sale and from 2 to 3 cents retail. Beef broken and both arms and legs badly advanced"Mmr 10- - to l.v cents a huncrushed. dred 'iHnurfiK. UuU.ed; dates Attorney Between His Satanic Majesty and the Jobu.Jpjdgncaiised 23,000 eggs, In a cold stuiu'seplluit 16 b4 attached, and Deep Sea. will ask to have them destroyed. Washington. The house committee 'Ul-fci:- .-; r 7 njulry Into the high cost of food on Judge Threatens to Assist In Lynch-- . Tuesday developed the fact that the retail merchant of Washington can Pueblo'fliTtr. In giving Anton SIme not buy direct from the farmer withlimit sentence on Monday for the out bringing down upon his head a beating his girl wife while oycott by the commission merchants, she was in a delicate f condition, md he Is therefore forced to trade the" "It-acWilliam J. Kerr hrougu that medium to charge to the said: "H I ever hear of you doing iltlmate consumer whatever the inthis again after you get out of Jail, I creased cost may be. The middleman tnus held responsible for keeping will personally lead a party of men who are men and tie you to a tele' v me prices, graph pole and beat you to death." Farm Output Fa lie" to Keep Up With Swedish King Has Appendicitis. Growth of Population. Stockholm. Kins Gustav was operChicago. The failure of the farm 'Utuut to keep up with the growth of ated on Monday nlsht for appendicioil I'opulatiun was given as the explana- - tis. The oriiclal reports given "on or the hlfh prlcos of food pro state mat the operation was a sucmts by K. p. Pfarrlous In an cess. The king had been suffering before the Council of North from continual Internal pains since American Grain Exchanges Tuesday. early Sunday evening. It was not unrnurrlous said it was impossible to til Monday evening that the physi"'crease the price of beef when this cians dlugnosed his ense as one of apan Immediate wintry showed 8.000.000 fewer breed- - pendicitis, requiring in cattle In January, 1910, than in operation. -two-stor- -- -- ' s. in-th- . :'? cr ... ad-res- s 131)1), Prehistoric Relics In Arlxona. El Paso, Tex. Another prehistoric "lge has been unearthed In Art ,,n. Prank C. Erwln, while digging irrigation ditch fourteen miles ''m Cochise, unearthed a number of nsug and skeletons and then found wall twenty feet long and tables I ... "ntlK nimii..i.i. w tne discovery. it Indiana Call on President. ' of Curtis Washington. Senator Presto Kansas on Monday introduced In ident Taft eight Kaw Indians. honor or the occasion the braves were auired In gorgeous native costume. One carried s Bhlnlng tomahawk, while another fanned himself vigor Alously with an eagle feather fan. the made gayest ..ae Indians together, house for picture seen at the white time. ami ' . .v ..' Ogden City has spent over $8,000 parks and public grounds during the past year. The new Denver & Rio Grande de- pot lu Suit Lake City will be compleU ' ed by April 1, It Is said. After two years of agitation anil discussion, the town of Murray now owns fU waterworks system. A herd of deer, about thirty In number, have been ranslng the northern. slope of Ogden canyon for several un Its ". . V 4. Six Members of 'Crew Perish In to Obtain- Relief for Pas- sengert Who Are Picked Up by Passing Ship. - '. weeks'unharmed. Eureka is to have a hospital for the care of sick and Injured miners as soon as sufficieut funds can be ob- Seattle. A cable dispatch from SeThe ' Alaska ward, Alaska, says: Steamship company's steamship Is a total wreck on a reef near Uiamna bay, and six members of her crew are believed to have perished In an attempt to obtain relief for the pasThe passengers : and memsengers. bers of the crew arrived here Sunday aboard the steamship Victoria, by which they were rescued February 3, after spending nearly., a month encamped In weather frequently 40 de' ' grees below zero. The Faralldn ran to her doom on 5, during a blinding suow-storJanuary. ' The' passengers and crew High Prices of Corn and ' Pork Ar e Strong Factors In the Increased managed to get ashore and went Into of Cost .'' Living. ... camp, some supplies and clothing being taken ashore. On January 7 the second mate and SAILORS' SAVED BY WIRELESS Ave sailors started in a small boat for PROMOTE PEACE Kodiak, where' they expected to connect with one of the other vessels of the Alaska Steamship company. Since Steamer at Bottom of the Sea, But No then these men have not been heard from, and there Is practically no hope Lives Were Lost, as Distress REPRESENTATIVES OFTHECOUN-TRIE: that they are alive. Aid. :'.'. Signal Brought OF CENTRAL AMERICA ONE MAN ESCAPED. LAYING PLANS FOR FUTURE. Far-allo- n - 10 , New to the wireless and the International distress signal "S. O. S.," Captain- - Moore and his crew of forty-simen are safe on. board the Mallory liner Alamo bound for Key West, while their vessel, tho steamer Kentucky, Is at the bottom of the sea off Cape Hatteras. .It la another case of another disaster averted by wireless and told to the world by the same medium.: The Kentucky, a wooden vessel of 996 gross tonnage, and 203 feet long, was bauiMrom Newt ..York. to. the Pa a clflc to carry passengers between and Alaskan ports for the Alaska-Pacifi- c Steamship company. First news of the . Kentucky's' distress was received at the United Wireless company's station at Cape Hatteraa at 11:3- 0- o'clock Friday morning. ' ' There the 'operator heard the "S. (JTS.- ,- Quickly followed by ' . . the message": . "We are sinking. Our latitude is York.-rThan- Steps Will be Taken Toward Bringing About a Peaceful Settlement of the Present Revolution In Nicaragua. . Washington. After having been postponed at the stipulated time of meeting In January on account of the disturbed state of affairs in Nicaragua, the second Central American conference, a congress of representatives of the countries of Central America to promote peace and better commercial relations has at last convened In San Salvador, the capital of Salvador. Upon being Informed of the assembling of the members of the conference,. Secretary Knox on Thursday sent a cablegram to its president congratulating the body on the happy Inauguration of the meeting and expressing his confidence in the fruitful and beneficial outcome, of the confer-- . ence. The United States and Mexico are represented by .their., minister. in American Central diplomats Washington said they, .thought the conference would take .some step toward exerting its influence in bring-- ) ing about a peaceful settlement of the present revolution In. Nicaragua: Other subjects which wlll.be discussed or a uniform will be the formation monetary system for those' states and uniform 1 customs and commercial regulations.. Jatln-Am-srlca- n TARIFF WAR AVERTED. s ed .' ALASKAN VVEAMER 'A TOTAL LO&S..BUT. PASSENGERS REACH SHORE, --V , - "UUljr, 190S.) et Montpeller, Ida. A frightful accident occurred at the Telfurlde Power company's works at Dingle, about ten miles from this city; Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, in which Lester Nowland, aged 21, and son of County Three Passengers Dangerously Have Jured, While Many Others In a Terrifying Experience Veritable Death Trap. . THE UTAH BUDGET VJ Death .While Hauling Thirty Pounds of Giant , Powder WY ejgh. ; j i ' VICTIMS Amicable Settlement Reached Between United States and Germany. Washington. Concessions by both ihe United States and Germany have averted a thiatened tariff war. Ne gotiations have been concluded between the two countries which settle he question of minimum and maxl-uurates, with the exception of the nine ana aressea meat issue, hub !vas eliminated from the present ne gotiations and will be taken up later n separate diplomatic representa tions. Under the agreement made on Thursday, American minimum rates will be exchanged for the entire minimum list of Germany. The result Is to both considered advantageous countries. . Method of Suicide. his head Francisco. With thrust Into the envelope of a small balloon Into which a stream of Illuminating gas was pouring, C. A. Far-rar- , was found dead on the roof of the house where he lodged. He had been missing for two days, and it la be lieved that HI health led him to" take his own life. Farrar was undur contract with an amusement hall to send up a balloon every night from tho roof of his lodging house.; A .searchlight In the hall, located a block or wo away, was directed at the gas buj for the edification of the patrons. Novel San 1 -- "Big Tim" lyi Few Shoes. New York. In the days when "Big Tim" Sullivan 'state senator and Tammany leader, was small and at school, his teacher gave htm a pair of shoes. He never forgot the kindness, and for many years he has commemorated it on the 6th of each February by a distribution of stockings and shoes to all tho needy or the Bowery. Five thousand pairs of stockings and shoes were given away on Sunday. . ks x Ta-com- Explosion In Mine Resulted In Death of Eleven. t Indiana, Pa. Ten Hungarians and one American met death In a gas explosion Saturday In the numerous slopes of 'the Furnace mine of the Jefferson & Clearfield Coal company. The explosion occurred in the heading where- twejve men were working. One of these, Andrew . .razcer, escaped by crawling a quarter of a liule on his stomach to evade the noxious gases. QjieJmridred 4utd- - ten .men working In the same stope escaped through other headings, although tney were held back for ten hours by the black damp, until a rescue party reached them. . -- " Expects to ' Scale Mt. Balloon, . McKlnley In - St,. Louis, John Berry, aewoaut of many flights. Is ready to balloon his way to the crest of Mount 32.10 lQtogltude.J-Te.SO.McKlnley in Alaska, in search of the Almost simultaneously the bpertorJrecyrdl pr.; Frederick- - Ai Cook states heard ,the 'steamship Alamo respond he placed 'there.' Berry hopes to set to the (Kentucky's, call, for help, and for all the question of. the highest Captain Moore that the Alamo whether Cook ; was making all speed to the :iriouBtal on the continent, , or "bust" lar the. attempt. , .Captain Berry Buys assistances that the. venture will cost him $.'0,000. Mo.-Cap- ta'n -- " tle-onc- e ever-scaled- sinking-vessel'- . "' CRIME OF CRAZY FARMER. . A St. Louisian - . will accompany him. Pictures' will be taken as primary evl deiticVof'the trip, , ' tained for Its erection. After doing business in Ogden for less than a month, the Five Centa Amusement company has been placed In the hands of a receiver. There is one gristmill and one sawmill In Piute county. Two saloons arelicensed by the county. There are Beven unincorporated towns. Announcement is made that thai Snow academy at Ephralm will during the coming suiimer erect a gym- -' naslum building at a cost of $10,000. The town marshal caught four boya ante on a playing cards with a truck at I.ehl Junction and the local Judge gave the lads a fine or $10 each. William Piatt and M. Young of Stockton were badly burned by a premature explosion ot powder while get- ting out gravel tor the Tooele smelter. A Japanese contractor Is In Ogden making a canvass among land owners for a lease of land on which to plant a colony of Japs to go Into the beet raising industry this year. Examinations were held Saturday In Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo and Logan of applicants for places as census enumerator!. In Salt Lake four hundred applicants took the examina tion. Salt Lake capitalists have formed a company which will take over the property of the electric light plant and flour mill at Sallna, and extend the operations of these concerns im ; mediately. ' Henry O. Heath of Salt Lake declares Utah Is the greatest state In the Union. , in which to raise onions. Mr. Heath. claims to have raised 1,050 bushels ot Spanish Globe onions on 102 square ' rods of ground. A Salt Lake paper declares that the Southern Pacific Is figuring on aband , because of oning the Lucln damage done to the trestle by storms, and building around the south end of the lake, through Salt Lake City. Counsel for Nick Vocas, convicted at Ogden of murder In the second de gree for the kUHng or John Contos. have filed a motion for a new. trial, holding tbut Judge Howell erred w hen he refused to .grant a chance .... of venue. - ' . Rasmus Henningson, one of the. old est persons of Mantl, is, dead of par-ftlysU,' Hft.waa.past ,87 yara. of age, v naving oeen oorn uctouer 23., ,X&ll, in Denmark.' He .was by trade a harness maker and since coming to' Mantl' In 1875 supported 'himself and family br . .. ,,. bis trade. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. D. McCresney of Ogden had a narrow es-from death by poisoning when cai they got hold ot a bottle of belladonna llnament and drank several ounces of the poisonous fluid while the older members of the family were absent from the room. 1 The sugar factory at will fin ish the .season's run about February 15. The run has been a most suc cessful one, the mill consuming up wards of 1,000 tons of beets a day. The policy of siloing 25 per cent of the crop adopted last tall has not proved a success. The engineer in charge or the Straw berry valley project, reports that the work is progressing very favorably ' and that 425 feet or the tunnel was driven during the month r Januury. The snow Is eight feet deep at the west portal of the tunnel, but this does not Interfere with the work. With a view to taking steps to pre vent enormous damage, likely to bo oc casioned by what. It Is figured, will be the greatest floods In the history of Ogden, the city has begun building levees on the south batik of the Og- nen river, following urgent petitions from business houses in that section. To establish an easier through Weber canyon and to double-trac- k the line out or Ogden to the east, the .Union Paclflo Railroad com pany has Died an application in the land office asking for to change its right of wuy through We ber and Morgan counties, for a dis tance of several miles. Only three of the larger cities of the United States led Salt Luke City in the Increase In building operations for the month Just ended over Janu ary of 1909. . These were Memphis, Anwith a gain of 4SG per cent: geles, 173 per cent, and Baltimore, 163 per cent. Salt Lake Cltys' increase was. 139 per cent. Piute county is one of the smallest counties in Utah. Easterly and west- miles rly Piute Is about thirty-twmiles wide, and 'ong by twenty-fiv- 10-ce- cut-off- . Va-eo- .'. -- Kills. Wife and Four Children and At-' , Tempts Suicide. , 1 ..Child Died in Her Arms. , Fergus Falls, Minn. William' Ruck Colo.-Cra- zed by the d s helm, a farmer, aged 50 years. mur.f daugh that, her, dered his wife and four children and was dead' in her arms, Mrs. ter, shot himself Thursday night at 'ParVhlte wlfe of a rancher of ker's Prairie. He was found dying yCftn'tis tried to throw herself when hia son went to the farm on Fri- Fillni6re,; Cal.,window-ofrom car the the Denver & . . '? day. Rio Grand California limited train ' Ruckhelm declared that he hart' de- as It was coming into Pueblo. Mrs. ceived a divine command to proceed chilto a certain graveyard, where he and White, accompanied by her three was "returning home from a visit dren, his family were to exhume several to ,:ber. mother at Camargo, 111. She bodies, using only their bare'handS? was Holding her little daughter In her c'oAled Unless this command were arms, and, stooping over to kiss the out before Easter, Ruckheim said, he i,(,hild. discovered she was dead. ana nis lamny woum ue. dragged j 10 death. Charged. With Brutal Murder, After examining the graveyard auLL nciHnatl.-..0.-ThaJesse Vail finding it would be Impossible to per- Zandt killed' his wife and, that he form the task on account of the fro .en choked and tied her before placing her pruned, Ruckheim Bald he. killed hls cooking stove in their home family, to escape divlna vengeancei2, oithe Ihe litre is belief of the Cincinnati poHEARING POSTPONED..., lice, who say nis act was due to a desire to wed Miss Agnes Berry. They Counsel . Given Week's say that they already have sufficient Ballinger'a Tirne to Study Cae.'. evidence to convict him, even though !"ut circumstantial. Van Zaudt Washingto- n.- order to permit tb.jl1t arrival In the. city of Counsel for See-- ' ana his wire are said to nave quar retary Ballinger and to allow counsni. reled over the pending divorce proto become familiar wlth'the case, rte ceedings. His wiie asserted that he was madly in love with Miss Berry . e Ilalllnger.-Pinchotlnvestlsatlng and wished to marry her. adjourrtod its hearing on Fri' ' ,. 11. . ...... . After Grafting Officials. day, February John J. Vertrees of Nashville, Tenn.', Chicago. Four true bill?,' charging and 'Carl .Rasch, formerly United city ball officials with conspiracy In States district attorney for Montana, connection- - with ae $45,000 "shale have been selected to represent Sec- rock" scandal, were returned by the retary Balllnger, Land Commissioner county grand Jury Saturday. The men Dennett and Field Agent Schwarta in Indicted were: John Ericson, city enthe Ballinser-Pincho- t controversy. gineer. Michael H. McGovern, con tractor. aul Redleske, former depCongressman Loverlng Dead. commissioner of public works. uty Washington. Representative Wil- Ralph A. Bonnell, former assistant liam C. levering of Massachusetts city engineer. died at his residence in "this city at Marines That Cannot Swim. 9.20 o'clock Friday morning, aged 75 Washington. Attention is directed years. Mr. Loverlng was serving his seventh consecutive term In congress. In an official report by Rear Admiral He had been in feeble health for sev- Scbroeder, In command of the Atlantic eral months, having suffered a break- fleet, now engaged in , practice ma down during the tariff discussions of neuvers In Guantanamo bay, Cuba, to last summer, when the heat in Wash- the remarkable fact that more than ington was intense. The house or- 2,000 men In the fleet cannot swim. dered the appointment of a commit- In a brief report of the fleet's opera tee of fifteen members to attend the Hons In the last week, the commandet contains approximately 800 square funeral of Mr. Loverlng, and says instructions were held for tot miles. Its population is estimated at men who are at home on the water. about 2,300. until Monday. 1' - .lp, three-year-ol- d , t 1 com-nilHe- , o e |