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Show THE SPANISH STORY OF LOVE AND MURDER SWIMS 30 MILES REVEALED BY HERMITS DEATH TO ESCAPE DEATH. FORK PRESS ANDREW JENSEN, Publisher - SPANISH FORK . UTAH Character of UTAH STATE NEWS QueerMontana Whom L ttle Was Known, Dies in Rival tn Germany and Cabin--Kill- s' F.ees to America. Green Rlrer now baa p. atate bank, With a capital of f 15,000. plain City la to have a new canning factory, a 120,000 company having been organized for that purpose. Tbe Davis county fair will be a sure fo this fall, an association having filed articles of Incorporation last week. The Oregon Short Line company wlH operate the first Yellowstone park ex curslon of the season on August 25. The Logan band, consisting of twen e pieces, spent two days last week In visiting Salt Lake pleasure resorts Farmers In tbe Monroe fields have commenced cutting their grain and indications for a good harvest are excel ty-on- lent The drug stores of Provo will remain open for business on Sundays In the future, but will not be allowed to sell liquor for any purpose. State Treasurer Christianson reports that 135,Ci)0 state funds were collected during the month of July, while 1C4,400 was paid out. Joseph McMahon, the aeronaut who fell a distance of 200 feet while making a parachute jump at Salt Lake City, Is dead from his injuries. The encampment of the Indian waa veterans at Ephraim last week was an unqualified success, every county In the state being represented. Tbe tax levy for Salt Lake county was fixed at 4.5 mills and the county school tax at 2.5 mills by the board ol county commissioners last week. eon of Joaeph Tbe little feet Jackson fell Into a well, fifty-fiv- e deep, at Draper, and would have been drowned but for the timely arrival of assistance. Daniel W. Elite, county recorder of IWeber oounty for three consecutive jlerms, has tendered his resignation. Uls private Interests demand his per- sonal attention. James McDonald, a alt Lake boy, waa seriously Injured last week, being knocked down and Iran over by a surrey while he was playing In the street. School census enumerators In thirty lx of the districts of Salt Lake have completed their labors for jthla year. The Increase shown in the( thirty-sidistricts Is 688. The company boarding house at Winter Quarters was destroyed by fire last jweek. Ilsd it not been for tbe excellent condition of tbe waterworks, the entire town would have burned down. Superlntedent Martin of the Park City public schools has just completed the school census of Park City. The census shows 575 girls and 580 boys, a jfcjtl of 1 ,155 children of the schoo seven-year-ol- fifty-tw- d o x ; age. '' Henry C. Gale, aged 19, was killed In a mins in Granite district, Beaver eounty, he having entered the tunnel before all the shots had exploded and received the full force of the explo-lio- Ben Noble, a Salt Lake man who Laa long been known to the police as confirmed drunkard, was found dead la his cell in tbe city jail one morning last weak, death being due to alcoholism. t Charles A. Carman, an electrical en-- . glnoer, fell down stairs, while starting home from a resort . on Commercial street. Salt Lake City, receiving Injuries which resulted la death a fee hours later. - The distillery to be built by the .Utah Sugar company for ths manufacture of denatured alcohol from the made by the sugar companies of this elate, will be established In Balt Lake or Ogden. Mary Pattlson, a Salt Lake girl, has iyd the street car company for 15.000 mo-lass- damages, alleging that she was forced to stand on the of a crowded street car, from which she fell, sustaining permanent injuries. It la probable that a son of the emperor of Germany will come to Utah to study mining. lie Is now a student at the University of Uonu, and after his graduation be will continue bla study of mining In this country. The Cambrian Bocloty of Salt Lake at a recent meeting appointed a to Inquire iuto tbe advisability vf having an eisteddfod la Salt Lake In foot-boar- , d com-knltte- o 3907, during the Inter-Mountal- u FEAT OF A FISHERMAN. WAIIAN REMARKABLE fair, such as were held In 1895 and 1898. Ths nsws that Governor Cutler had refused to call the legislature together in special eessioa was received with much satisfaction In Logan, and tbe people are now very hopeful of success for the college In the coming campaign against ths consolidation. Ernest C. White of St. John, Milliard rounty, died at the L. D. S. hospital In Balt Lake, from Injuries caused by n Ho was wagon running over bint. tworklng at tbe Ophlr Hill mine, hauling ore from Ophlr to St. John station, When he fell off tbs wagon. Twin Lrldgcs, Mont. Letters and pupeis discovered In a rusty old tin box hidden beneath a hoard In Jho floor of a little old weather-beaten- , dilapidated miner's cabin dinging to a mountainside not fur fioin here tell one of the strangest stories that has conic to light In this legion In many years. The story Is of an eccentric old hermit who died in the cabin In which the papers and letters were discovered. The name of this hermit was ItoscoH Overhardt. For years before he died Overhardt lived alone In the little old cabin and wandered over the mountains hereabout iu quest of game and gold. It was always supposed by those who knew him, or rather by those who saw him, for no one hereabouts knew him, that Overhardt was mentally unbalanced and that he was extremely poor. In the twenty-odyears that he made his home In tbe little old cabin on the mountainside he never spoke of bis own free will to any person, never raised his eyes to look Into those of a man or woman with whom he met face to face and never bought groceries or clothing at a store In Twin Bridges or any other town In this part of Montana. The furniture in the one room of his cabin was of the meanest sort. The clothing upon the old man's back was shabbier than the furniture in his cabin. A dog was the hermit's only friend and companion. For the dog he seemed to cherish a deep, warm affection, while the faithful animal's love for him was well-nighuman tn Its tenderness and constancy., The strange, silent old man fell ill a few weeks ago in his shabby little cabin on the mountain side and could Dot leave his bed thereafter. No one knew be was 111 until the day he died, when a prospector, happening to pass that way, stopped at his door to ask for a drink of water and found, him dying. Before a doctor could be reached the hermit went to his final count! as soon as he should send for her U come to him. Th lentil of Schoenfeldt was still ihroucel In mystery, so far as the 'police and relatives and friends of the dead man were concerned, when Over-lia- r dt left Germany and fled to Paris. P.e remained In Paris a few weeks and few then went to London, whence weeks later he came to the United States. IN HA- WATER NEARLY 17 HOURS goat Capsizes in Squall and His Three Is Nearly Companions Perish Driven Mad by Crabs During Awful Experience. , H. 1. Edward Duvau-chellea of hero of Molokai, Is the story of human oiost remarkable and of. a marendurance and courage velous escape from death. The fact that he was one of the team that represented the natkmal guard of Hawaii at the rifle shooting at Sea Girt, N. J last fall will perhaps add some Honolulu. They had moonlight until nearly set. By this midnight, when the moon exwas becoming Pawaa Dan time himself hausted and could barely keep afloat. Thereupon Duvauchelle gave , up the float to him entirely. placing him on the middle of it and he himself swam without the assisting buoyancy When about 500 yards of the float. of a little rocky Islet, shore the from about a mile from the Molokai coaut Pawaa was overcome with exhaustion, Duvauchelle good-band bidding the float, sunk and nev-e- r from dropped rose. Duvauchelle succeeded about an hour later in reaching the rock and dragging himself, wounded and bleeding, beyond reaeb of the wait He sought and obtained employment an assumed namst but, fearing that the mystery sup rounding Schoenfeldts death might bs cleared up and that he might be discovered and arrested there as his exslayer, he set out for the west He Interest to' the tale of his thrilling perience. Monday night, May 28, Duvaut belle, who Is a fisherman, living at Pukoo on the southern coast of Molokai, with three native hawailans as companions, left home In a whaleboat with . load of fish for Lahalna, Maul, about 12 miles away. They arrived there safely, sold their fish, and about eight oclock started In a dead calm to row back. A light breeze sprang up and they hoisted sail, making the sheet last. A gudden squall capsized them before they could ease off the sheet. The boat became waterlogged and began drifting out to sea. They were at the time a mile or two from Kaana-pal- l landing. Maul. They made a float with four oars and the mast and with this to help them, two of the natives, at their own request, started to swim ATELT. ashore to get help. After waiting their return for three where he fell asleep from exhaustion, hours In vain Duvauchelle and his re- not awakening until past noon the Pawaa, next day. Then he swam to tbe Molomaining companion, Dan two kai shore a mile away and made hiB to came the the conclusion that IN THK QUARREL OVERHARDT men had failed to reach shore, and as way home. STARRED SCHOENFELDT. the whaleboat was drifting still farthWhen he started on his swim he spent a few weeks In Cincinnati, being er out to sea they decided that they had taken off his shirt, as it was a attracted there by the large German would themselves attempt to reach hindrance In swimming, but had kept element In the population. Then he the Bhore by swimming. They made a his trousers on, bo that the white Bkin went to Louisville, where he remained float of the boom and gaff and all that of his legs would not attract the several monjhs. From Louisville he was left of the boat's gear and start- sharks which Infest these waters. He went to St. Louis and from St. Louis ed. The current carried them In the was terribly tormented while in the to Milwaukee. He remained In Mil- direction of Naplli and they were able water by small crabs which fastened " waukee six months. to gradually make their way toward themselves to the skin of his chest rest. he was 'Meanwhile writing regularly the shore. When within half a mile and clawed and bit him almost to A careful search of the dead man's to and receiving letters regularly from of It they discovered, to their conster- madness. He wag in the water nearly cabin brought to light a rusty tin box his sweetheart In Germany. He told nation, that the current was setting 17 hours and swam a distance of becontaining a few gold coins and the her that he should send for her as against them and that in spite of all tween 25 and 30 miles. letters and papers which tell in pa-- t soon us he should settle down and be- their efforts they were drifting farther Duvauchelle Is of French and Hathe story of hla life before he came come able to support her and hlmsell away this time In the direction of waiian parentage, 38 years old, tall west to spend his declining years In In comfort. Molokai, which seemed to them to be and powerfully built. In many reloneliness. , On coining to this state he began about ten miles distant They there- spects Duvauchtlle's experience Is Itoscoe Overhardt was born In Ger- prospecting for there gold, and within a year fore made up their minds to swim to- without a parallel, although many, according to the story these he struck a rich lead. Thereupon he ward the shore of that island. They have been several somewhat similar letters and papers tell. Ills father dispatched a letter ,to hla sweetheart, seemed to be making considerable occurrences In these waters, the comwas a well merchant in Berlin begging tier to come to him at once. Headway and by sunset were as near paratively narrow channels between and he gave his son a university eduShe answered his letter, saying that is they . could judge by the line of the Islands of MoTokal, Lanai and cation, Intending him to adopt the pro. because of the Illness of her mother breakers on the reef, four or five miles Maul tempting many to cross In fession of medicine. In his student she could not leave whaleboats and other small craft her home. A few rom the shore. days young Overhardt paid coijrt to weeks later he received another letter pretty Katherine Metier, and finally from her, saying that her mother was GGOQOOCQCOQGCQSCOO'SOGOQQCCOCOCOSCCOQGOOSOQQQGOSOSOOOR won her consent to marry him. better but that tor other reasons she Katherine Meller had had another could not then come to the United suitor before she met Overhardt. Ills States to Join him. Apparently realizname was Matthew Schoeufeldt, and ing finally that his sweetheart did not he belonged to a dignified family at intend to join him, Overhardt ceased Frankfort. Schoenfeldt flew Into a writing to her and abandoned hope. high passion when he learned of Miss 11a disposed of his mine several Mellers engagement to Overhardt, months after he received his last letDecoctions Which Have Been en and young girls were becoming sought out the girls accepted lover ter from his sweetheart and, coming Alluring slaves to the liquor habit through Appeasing Seattle Appetites and picked a quarrel with him. In to this region, built the little cabin on . from Barred partaking of drinks thoroughly satuSale. the quarrel Overhardt stabbed Schoen- the mountainside. In which he rated with liquor at soda fountains. feldt, who died of his wounds soon the rest of his miserable life. spent It Is The owners of these places announced Wash. women Seattle, Society afterward revealing the Identity of his believed that In his loneliness and his down town shopping and young that 23 drinks for which there had slayer. grief his mind finally, became de- school been a large demand In the past could of Overhardt, well night crazed with ranged and that was responsible for can no girls haverespectable families no longer be sold because of police their for longer appetites grief, went Immediately to his sweet- his eccentric habits. ' What became opposition, heart and confessed his crime to her. of tbe fortune which the old man realSuch decoctions as Louisville" She begged him to flee to the United ized from the sale of his gold mine Is punch, "champagne with freeze, to him In States, promising this a mystery. join Kentucky and "frozen frappe" sherry punch, do' not contain ' any poooooooooooooooooocooocooooaoooooscoaoooooooo&oocoy secret as to their Ingredients. The suggestiveness of the names, police BRAVES SEA AND eflleials claim, was fully borne out by the mixture when served. f STORM BALLOON The entire list of 23 drinks no LIVES longer gened at the fountains affordts Rescued Far Out in Ocean After Allen started from Providence at ed a variety of Jag that no licensed thirst emporium advertised. The ponoon.. It was raining at the time, Being Buffeted by Wind and and soon the lightning was playing lice authorities claim the sale of these Twice Drenched by the about the Mg gas bag. There wa drinks to women and children and Waves. even to male visitors barred after one something wrong with the anchor a. m. from the saloons satisfied an rope, and Allen let out enough gns Boston. After being buffeted by to bring the balloon to earth. The appetite for Intoxicants which must ducked In twice the thunderstorm, hereafter be appeased only In licensed ballast was ocean and spending the night In the trouble waa righted, saloons. car attached to hts balloon, James K. thrown out, and the balloon shot Into to a the such air Until the revised menus of the fashaerothe that hrtght resAlien, a veteran aeronaut, waa ionable resorts came out after the cued off Block island by the crew of naut was able to look down and see the storm raging far below. majors orders there was no clear un The wind was Mowing from the destanding of the extent to whtuh the sale of intoxicants was carried on west, and at dark Allen found himARREST self over the tip end of Cape Cod and ITRKOU3 OF at soda fountains. It was SODA WATER JAGS. tindei stood that a few liquors generally being rapidly carried out to sea. The could be balloon sank lower and lower, and had from a friend) soda fountaif Allen drifted rapidly at n height ol exhilarating Intoxicating drinks satis- clerk, hut the rounders did not fied at the fashionable soda fountains 100 feet above tba water, the anchor the Varbffy of drinks that and temperance drink parlors of the were rope trailing through the waves and served. Moore has Instructed The polke orders are to retarding the progress. Twice the city. Mayor car was dashed Into the water, but Chief of Police Wappenstein to put prev-- nt any fuither sale absolutely an to end the practice, declaring at dtlnks, and all the down-tow- n of these each time Allen threw over ballast foun time the that many respectable wom tains have withdrawn and the balloon rose. them. At daybreak no land was tn sight The captain of a tug towing string icoococcoc2cc5D&5Co5coacccccoo5oococoo5o5oa! of barges heard Allens cries for help, YOUNG MAN IS VARNISHED BY HAZERS and gave chase, hut the balloon was Marion. Ind.-Ev- erett Storts. 18 going too rapidly, and Boon the Tee-ee- l his pulse and listening for heart years old, escorted Miss Blair to her jng dropped out of the race. he wa dead and ran awa" Several hours later Allen came near country home, after an entertainment the schooner. The vessel started In Van Buren. When Storts was ro Storts said he was ronsclous, and toward hint, but failed to reach the turning to his home in Van Buren at that when. the young men left drag rope In time. Members of tbe 12 o'clock at night he was overpow-ero- d walked to Van Buren, notified the crew were out In dories, however, by a dozen young men. was fleers and had warrant Issued ior and one of them managed to seize the gagged, bound and tied to a tree. Var- the arrest of the young men. II, had rope. Tbe dory was dragged through 1,ra,,ford- - Con TUB CAR DASHED INTO TUB the water at a great rate for a time, nish and turpentine were used to and anoint then Charles Smith one him, of the out WAER. young and ( larence but Allen let gas and managed to Brown, and all were a men declared he Intended to stnb him. at to car the from the bal inched e CharKe wf the fishing schooner, Frances V. Silva step A wet thumb wa thrust against riV.' and They and brought to this city by tbe tug loon to the dory without getting hie Stort'e neck, and the varnish that pleaded when run wet. arraigned, and wer, flue,? on, dollar Clara E. Ula. Though he has made feet down over hts collar wns by and costs In each la spite of his thrilling experience Storts to be blood. He thought more than 400 ascensions, Allen stye rase. Is raid to The young men said It wa this latest on was the most thrilling Allen retains his nerve, and says he have fainted. The young men cut the the Ion to frighten U hie life is ready to make another ascension. ropes that bound him, aud, after teet Storts, ha-- e him and then let him ro. In New York under d to-d- POLICE PUT A STOP TO SODA FOUNTAIN JAGS. AERONAUT IN AND S illT" in-te- nt Refusal of Widow to Him Caused Jealous to Commit Crime After Shooting Woman, J ' Lovn Rancher Wounds Young MaW Attempts to Arrest Him, and ln Danger of Being Lynch 1, Casper, Wyo.-- At the ranch of j John Adams, four miles east ol place, Jack lllianis, a well ranch hand, shot and serlor wounded Mrs. Adams, who Is aw her husband having committed clde three years ago. The y passed through the right arm penetrated the breast. Mrs. Adams fled from William concealed herself In the bara Williams left. She then went to neighbors, who brought her to Cas for medical attention. In all proi ility her wounds will prove fatal. After shooting Mrs. Adams, Winn went to a hay camp near by and what he had done. A young man the field demanded bis surrender Williams refused to give hlmsell A struggle ensued and the boy shot twice by Williams. The hung on and, although very weal knocked Williams down and sum ed in fastening his hands and feet left him there, came to town, not Sheriff Webb and then went to a ( tor to have his wounds dressed. and a party went to the hay Held secured Williams. The refusal of Mrs. Adams to ma Williams caused the jealous mas commit' the crime. lie had resided the Adams ranch for three years, wife secured a divorce from him f years ago. Adams Is said to h killed himself because of jeal over tbe attentions Williams paid Adams. Feeling Is running high and Hams may meet summary punishm i jo Jtf fe u Vie u, 1 it ti p Be1 ? W id X STOCKSLAGER FOR GOVERNOI Democrat, of Idaho Place Ticket In Field. Coeur dAlene, Ida. After sir uous two days convention, the Du crats of Idaho placed In noroina the following ticket: United States senator Fred bols, Bingham county. Member of congress Rees Hal baiigh. Idaho county. Justice of the supreme cour Stewart S. Denning. Latah county Governor C. O. Stockslager, Bla county. Lieutenant governor George Chapin, Bingham county. Secretary of state Flceurnoy loway, Washington count v. Attorney general Karl Paine, county. Tieasurer J. D. Morris. Lewie Auditor J. M. Bennett. Cat county. Mine . Inspector Samuel Nonr Shoshone county. Superintendent of public Infract Miss Permeal French. Blaine eotr Judge. First district Major W Wood, Shoshone county. district Autho Judge, Second delegated to commlteemen from e ties In the district to select candid Judge, Third district J. D. Ca Ian, Ada county. ' Judge, Fourth district C. A. Bannock county. district Gus Sixth Judge, C.niatles, Lemhi county. Judge, Seventh district Edward Brjan, Canyon county. ' Auto Collides With Milk Cirt Oakland, Cal. Carlton Wall, s known oapitallft an J club man son of the Into Genera! Wall. rrolmblv fatally Injured In nn ut( bile accident near 'Elmhnrd Tu1" morning, ills car. which he him was diivlng. ctdllded with s f wagon nnd he and his rompati Thomas Dennluttn, Douglas Men'1 and Georgo Hahernlcht. were thrown out. There air sld 10 f been fieral women In the parif. of whom was hurl. Parachute Failed to Work. Johnson Utica. N. Y. William balloonist, nindo an ascension in northin' with a street fa'r In L Falls, Tuesday. In coming down a parachute the apparatus fnlleo work, and Johnson jell oPnn road tracks, receiving Injuries undoubtedly will cause his death is estimated that Johnson was fet hlRh when he left the balk' make whnt I called a double I chute descent. The first Prf opened well, and Johnson d'sff'x s shout of the distance he fell. two-third- Woman to Die on Scaf0 Sockton, Cal. Mr. Ftnnta Ia han brton pentonml to I) bangod her 19 next on her conviction Hl'r murder of A I bet N. MrVienr. ln,(1 lornevg presented affidavit to impeach the diameter of Juror h' ter, but Judge Nutter deemed 0 for 'naufllelent a n bsl for a new trlnl. Tbe convicted heard her sentence with There waa neither fear nor drnin Ihs expression of her heard her doom pronounced f fr V |