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Show that TII2 SPANISH FORK PRESS. TOTAL LOSSES verm JKTtREW JENSEN, rabllihsr. SPANISH FORK, UTAH. VTAH STATE NEWS All previous records In copper pro Auction In Utah have been broken the past year. Fire nt Mercur destroyed the home of Peter Chaldo and partially destroyed the home of Mr. Hall. The members of the Calvary Baptist church (colored), of Salt Lake City, served a 'possum dinner to all eomers on Christmas day. Utah has more dividend-payinmin ing properties than any other state In the union, and she Is fast pushing to front as a copper producer. George Sherbert, a signal employee of the Union Pacific, was ntruck by an engine near Castle Rock and 1b now In the hospital and may die. The poultry farms of Utah were cleaned of gobblers In supplying the Christmas markets and there were fen turkeys for New Year's dinner in Utah. The continued heavy storms are doing much to hinder the construction work of the Utah Independent Telephone company on Its Park City exchange. August Hansen, a Swede, threw himself In front of a train at the onion depot in Ogden and was ground to pieces. Hansen had been on a protracted spree. Ogden has been without Btreet car service a greater portion of the past week, owing to trouble with machinery at the power house and the heavy snow storms. g The municipal eelctrlc light plant at Coalville was started on Christmas, and for the first time In her history the county seat of Summit county was illuminated by electricity. CONFLICT Slaughter at Moscow Bad Enough, But Not so Heavy as at First Reported. Ten Days' Revolt at Moscow Results In the Death of Many Innocent Persons a Well as Participant and Much Damage to Property. Moscow. It is Impossible to ascertain the total losses resulting from the ten days' revolt, as many of the dead and wounded have not been reported at the hospitals, public or private, and some of the bodies were Incinerated. But a personal tour of the hospitals shows that there were 548 killed and and One hundred 1,0(15 wounded. of the Injured taken to seventy-fou- r hospitals have since died. The troops lost nine killed, of whom two were ofwounded. Of the ficers, and fifty-onten killed and fifwere force police teen wounded. Among the killed or wounded were a number of children, the returns generally showing that innocent persons suffered the heaviest. Thfe final figures of the casualties will closely approximate 2,500. An eye witness of the surrender of the last batch on Sundny says that two of the ringleaders were shot without even the semblance of a trial. The property of foreigners In the Presna district has been damaged or destroyed to a considerable extent. e REJECTED LOVER'S CRIME. Kills Girl and Wounds Her Mother, Sister and Himself. Caledonia, Minn. Infatuated with Fearl Wheaton, daughter of S. N. Wheaton, one of the richest farmers In southern Minnesota, and rendered desperate by her refusal to marry him, Matt Styer, a dental student at the University of Minnesota, broke Into the Wheaton home near here Tuesday night and shot Pearl, her sister, mother and himself. Pearl Is dead. The other are fatally injured two-third- foot. Precious Metal Output. The excursion of the Salt Lake Elks to Los Angeles In February may Washington. The preliminary estihave to be abandoned. There Is a mates of the director of mints upon growing belief in railroad circles that the Transcontinental Passenger nano the production of gold and sliver In elation, which has jurisdiction ovet the United States In the calendar jthe matter, will refuse to sanction the year 1905 shows a gain of approxi- . ' excursion. The Rio Grande is at present contemplating the erection ot a large now ice plant at Provo. The plant will be capnble of storing 3, OOP tons of ice and will be a modern and complex building in every detail. The plant U to bo erected for the icing ot re frtgerator cars. The traffic department of the Snlt Lake Route Is preparing for the see-- . rotary of the Manufacturers and Merchants' association of Salt Lake, a tabulated statement of the prospect! and possibilities for the location of at all points on the line and Its branches in Utah. Early itr the spring the Citizens Balt company, organized some thres months since, will build a 110,000 re Ths lining mill in North Salt mill will have a capacity of twety-flvtuns of salt per day, and la to be on of the best refineries of tht kind to this section of the country. e if' 2 o In gold and Ifi.ooO.ooo ounces of silver over the product of 1904. The gain In gold is almost entirely represented by the Increased output of Alnska, the product of which Is placed at 314.650,100, against f'J.lOo.oo In U104. The Alaska gain Is nearly all In Tanaaa district, the returns for which aro 35,107,000. mately l.noo,-Ooo.oo- McCall Digs Up. New York. John ident of the A. McCall, presNew York Life Insurance company, has paid to tho company 3255.000 advanced to Andrew Hamilton anti so far not accounted for by Mr. Hamilton. Thomas P. Fowler received on Tuesday a check from McCall for 385.000 nml a note for 3160,-t)Mr. McCall some time ago promised to make good this sum unless Hamilton, who was legislative ageut for the big Insurance company rendered an accounting. the RUSSIAN 11 II to OverAttempt of Revolutionists throw the Government Seema to be Meeting With Dieastroue Failure. OR FOUND OUT St. Petersburg. The suppression ot Ihe Insurrection at Moscow and the certainty that similar uprisings elsewhere will be crushed marked the collapse of the first attempt of the "reds to overthrow the government arms and administers a defeat from which it Is not believed In government circles the revolutionaries can quickly recover. Now that the smoke of battle Is clearing away the utter hopelessness of the conflict seems to be apparent The populace held aloof and not a single military unit actually Joined the revolutionaries. Even the general strike crumbled under their feet by their challenging and precipitating a conflict before the proletariat organizations have been so demoralized and disrupted by the blow and by the arrest of their most able leaders that it would he Impossible for them to attempt the coup planned for the anniIn desversary of "Bloody Sunday. peration undoubtedly the revolutionaries will again have recourse to acts of terror, which they will spring at the most unexpected moment. FOUL CRIME IN NEVADA. Man' Throat Cut and Attempt Made to Burn His Remains. Ogden. Utah. Trainmen in the employ of tho Southern Pacific Railroad company runlng out of Montello, Nev., and Into Ogden, brought the story here to the effect that an awful crime had been committed near Montello some time Thursday night. An unknown man, apparently a tramp, beating his way across the state, was foully murdered, his throat being cut from ear to ear. After this butchery the guilty parties placed his lifeless body .upon a pile of railroad ties and attempted to cremate It. The body was bodly burned by the fire but not sufficiently to prevent possible Identification and the manner in which the victim came to his death. NO ULTIMATUM SENT. for Venezuela to Recognize M. Talgny. Paris. The foreign office says no ultimatum has been sent to Venezuela and considers that the reports In circulation to that effect are the outgrowth of the conferences between d Secretary Root and Ambassador concerning ftir'her Instructions to be sent to Minister Russell at Caracas. The officials here say tho resumption by Venezuela of diplomatic relations with the French charge daffaires. M. Talgny, Is essential as preliminary to considering the other questions In dispute. France Waiting Jes-seran- Eight Days In a Mine. Wllkesbarre, Pa. After being entombed In a mine for eight days Joseph Davis, a Pole, was rescued Friday unconscious but soon revived. Davis entered the mine Dec. 20, and got lost In the underground workings. He wandered away from one working to another, all the time getting farther away from the opening. He had a well filled dinner pall and for the first four days ate sparingly of the contents. When the food was gone he drank tea for two days. Then ho ate scraps of bread that had been thrown away by miners. Killed Hit Father-In-Law- . North port, L. I. At the Inquest hold here Friday over the body of Bartley T. Ilorncr, who was shot and killed Dr. J. W. Simpson, by his a New York ditntlst, Simpson was held on a charge of murder by the coroner and was taken at once to n prison nt Rivers Hoad. Sensational development camp out at the Inquest. The autopsy disclosed that there were two bullet wounds In the dead man's body about four to six Inches apart. son-in-la- , Copper Put Them Out. Boston. The rerent rise In copper stocks on the Boston stock exchange was nn Important contributing causa to the suspension on Friday of tho stock brokerage firm of H. R. & Co., which assigned for tho benefit of Its creditors. Although tho firm is not a member of nny stock exchange, the assignment wns adjudged of considerable Importance from the fact that the firm has some forty branch offices, all but three of them In New England cities and towns. Burlington Charged With Paying Rebates. Chicago. The federal grand Jury on Friday returned an Indictment sgalnst the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy railroad, Darius Miller, first vice president, and C. O. Burnham, foreign freight agent, on the chargo of granting railroad rebates. The Indictment chnrges that tho rebates were all granted to tho United States Steel Products company of Now York, a subsidiary company to tin United states Steel company. 1 1 CHAPTER XX Continued. is Tuesday. There is a little shabby prayer book somewhere among my belongings. I will put it once and for all out of my power to procrastinate further by fixing upon a certain date and swearing to carry jut on that, and no other, the purpose which has been in my mind so long. , as I have said, is Tuesday, on Friday, then, without further delay, I will insert my duplicate key in the lock of that door first of all ascertaining that it will fit and make, what Dr. Jeremiah would describe as a felonious entry. "Meanwhile, I have to consider Perkins. "She has not shown me so much open animosity since my return; but It will not do to count upon this. She may be only as she would, no doubt burself express it. biding her time.' You dont deceive me,' she said, when ' crept down stairs like a thief in the night and was nearly discovered tLrough her Instrumentality. "What was the threat she employed toward me on that memorable occasion? I'll find out what you are up !' 10, as sure as names Marla Ann And she is a woman who looks though she would not mind to wat pains she put herself, or what time elapsed, so thRt she could avenge herself for her fancied wrongs. y "To-day- Per-klbs- 'Since writing the above lines some hours ago, I have made another disMy master has remained covery. shut up In his private room for the greater part of this time and I, in ac- h J By A. L. Harris Author of "Mine Own Familiar F fiend," etc. by C a a b Pmbliahing V o m p o my Copyright, a a o a , y S t r a a t tail, Copyright, fe dust which it contained mutt have been gold dust at the very W At any rate, he had hla way, and h rled off with the articles as thGg' he were half afraid that she rnig!:' change her mind. Bat, when he rived at the basement, there was nojf ing but dust and flue left In the del pan. The pieces of paper had disty THE FATAL REQUEST "To-da- Walderman H. Peterson, who came 1848, crossing the plains on foot, and who for the past twenty-fiv- e years has conducted a meat market in the capital city, died - on the 2Cth. Wounded. At the fourth annual banquet given Messala Gloats Over Ben Hur. by the Salt Lake Commercial club last Salt Lake City. Alphonse R. Ethler, week 250 members and friends, representing every business and profes who plays the title role in Ben Hur, bad his troubles while in Salt Lake Ion, were present The speech-maker- s Included some of the best in Utah, last week, being compelled to pay in alInjunction suits to prevent eleven full, a bill of 138 which. It was contracted was actor at the leged, by "scalpers" who have offices in Utah from buying or selling railroad tickets Ileber City in 1895, when he had an atIssued by the Southern Paelfio and the tack of typhoid fever, and failed to Denver & Rio Grande companies were pay bis board bill. Judgment for the amount was secured by the Mefiled in the federal court last week. rchants' Protective association, and D. Beynon Davies, former deputy was collected during the slay of the county clerk of Salt Lake county, was actor in Salt Lake last week, thus sentenced to nine months in the coun- giving Messala a chance to gloat over Hur, and also giving a boost to ty jail by Judge J. A. Howell last lien Salt Lake's popular collection agency. week for criminal conspiracy in connection with th bounty frauds ot Paynter to Succeed Blackburn. last year. Frankfort, Ky. Judge Thomas H. Mrs. Anna M. Larkin, mother of Ray Paynter of the Kentucky court of apB. Larkin, who was drowned in the peals was nominated on the first balGreat Salt lake July 23, 1903, will r lot taken in joint caucus Tuesday cover 6,500 from the Saltalr Beach night to select a Democratic candicompany as a result of a decision date for United States senator to suchanded down by the supreme court ceed J. C. S. Blackburn. The nominalast week. tion carries with it the certainty of W. A. Shaw, living at Five Points, a election, as the Democrats have more Suburb of Ogden, used an electric s of the combined memthan light bulb to heat his bed at night, and bership of both branches of the legisabout 4 oclock In the morning was lature. Thomas H. Paynter was born In awakened by. the cries of his little child. He found that the globe had Lewis county, Kentucky, December 19, 1851. set fire to the bedding. J.' Frank Hinton, for six years in Funeral of Murdered charge of the assay department of the Boise, Ida. The funeral of Mine A Smelter Supply company at Steunenberg was held Tuesday Balt Lake, was found dead at his desk In Caldwell, his home town. There on Christmas afternoon, he having was a very A spelarge attendance. been engaged In writing a letter when cial train carried some 2(H) persons the death summons camo. from Boise. Among those present J. F. Horrup, aged forty-one- , and a were the governor and two former employe of the Southern Paall the o(her state officers, the cific boiler shops, was run over in the justices of the supreme court, the Ogden yards by a switch engine of the Judge of the federal court, four of the Rio Grande Western, and sustained district Judges of the state, a former Injuries from which he may not ro delegate to congress and a great ,cover, and certainly will lose his left number of prominent private citizens. to Salt Lake in FOR IS HOPELESS Smith, peared! That same night. In the secluslw Wi of his own room, he occupied nights In the seemingly vain and useless Some To see hov task of separating, sorting and past' ay ing together some morsels of writing paper, which had been torn into the "hen3 minutest fragments. ' Come troopit "I was right when I guessed it to. i wtth tunn be no ordinary letter he was writing, They nod an he muttered. This Is only the hea(v Agn,'f y,hey d Ing of the document that he had beet A little bo engaged In drawing up; but It is gut to enable me to arrive a; ficlent the purport of its contents." j "The true narrative and confession of me, James Ferrers, of the strange ' tragedy of the 25th of Ap " Ah, James Ferrers, you were guilty . of worse than a crime a blunder when you contented yourself with ?n nctl is tearing up that sheet of paper Into particles, which you thought were too jj and she deal, when theyre in love directed what ought to have been a killing glance at the good looking young man opposite her and breathed H sigh on her own account. It apparently missed its aim, but something in this last remark seemed to excite great derision In the breast of Perkins, the housemaid. . "In love!" she exclaimed. "Ha, ha! I like that," and she, too, sent a glance, which might, in a sense have been described as killing if 1 oks could kill across the table. "In love, Indeed!" with withering contempt "Who with, I should like to know? You forget theres never been slch a thing as a young man as shed look at, or touch with the tips of her fingers (there was a strong malicious emphasis on this) "Inside the door once since theyve been living here. "Ah! said the parlor maid, still showing an Inclination to hold her own, praps not. But how about before that? the housemaid, "Well, replied suddenly showing an Inclination to go over to the enemy and side with her rival and Invariable opponent, to the latters vast astonishment, "I dont say as you maynt be right. Anyhow, whether shes In love or whether she isnt, its no good if he ain't her equal. For you may be sure her pall never hear of her marrying beneath her. And quite right, too, put In the cook, who thought it was nigh time she Introduced another of her experl ences. Unekal marriages is most always a failure, as as bln proved over and over again. But for all that with a startling and instantaneous change of the subject "I should like to know why that there will, as I 'elped to drore up, should be called a Testament?' which I thought there was but two, the Hold and the New? Lor, cook! cried the housemaid, with a sniff, "how your mind do run on that will! Anyone would think as it was the only one as ever was, and nobody never signed their names to nothing before." "Wills there may ave bin," answered cook, majestically, but seldom one as the cook were sent for, all of a him-sel- f I fr e ever to be deciphered, Instead 5'our Pcu niat or n of burning them on the spot! aaie But why has he made this con-- ? fesslon? Is It merely to relieve bisjj.f own conscience, or has he some other; object in view which I cannot at: , i present discern? Whatever It may be, that docu-- I ' ment, that confession of his guilt, of ,j which I needed no further confirms- - ( 1 tlon, cannot have left this fiouse u if Is, no doubt, concealed in some secret or hiding place in that, room of $ which I possess the means of entry in the duplicate key. Next Friday may settle that question as well as others." fe ' have the CHAPTER XXI. piece of the glass A Robbery and a Recognition. f Now w The next day, being Thursday, was are read; not destined to pass uneventfully. the three cordance with my position as spy, said tne young man ' size of tl have hung about the door on the for who, reasons, chose to " half, wet prudential chance of hearing some sound, howgo by the name of Edwards, as be fold in t ever slight, or catching sight of his rose that morning; forgetting to take face as he left the room. nto consideration the proceedings of "I have often wondered as to the and their probable influence on manner in which he employs himself tne of affairs on these occasions, when he remains It was not very long before he locked In this chamber for hours. awoke to a sense of mischiei brooding "To-dathere has been no room In the air. Perhaps it was the sight for doubt. He has been writing on of that pale, narrow face opposite to and on, ceaselessly. Evidently he him as he ate his breakfast a face ; 4MMMH uses a quill and writes a heavy hand, on was this wreathed which, occasion, I for could plainly hear the sound the Away with a false smile and characterized pen made tn traveling over the paper. alone ir by a general air of great complacency. f ? y shivered Evidently Perkins was in a high The state of good humor, so much so that clatterli it struck the young man with a vague ; on whh presentiment of impending disaster. fi "coats However, he consoled himself with flat I jthe lov the reflection that there was only one more day to elapse before he hoped ; , and "I anto be In a position to set everyon ; , , sa! ? in shofT that at defiance; and, surely, v many time, she would be unable to meet Agali with an opportunity for wreaking her flap wa spite upon him. i breeze, "After the Deluge, be ; Itdfnu thought, paraphrasing the words of ; to heai the French monarch. Meanwhile, Tell to be considered; there was , the Da if, he had only been aware of the rest cl were fact, the chances of approv f already in danger of being seriously jeopardized by the events of the more immediate present. "Whatever's come to Mariarann?" asked the cook, who was also struck "I've never knowed by the change. er took that way afore. Hacksbully offered to darn a pair of stockings for "Let me relieve you of those things. me, which, what with the preservin' and other things, my ands is full and "Here is another subject for consid- urry, with 'ardly time to rinse the toes is hout. Which Make ay flour hoff er 'ands, to put 'er name to, my eration. while the sun shines, as there's no "He has made his will, and now he which its all very well for some peo- knowln 'ow long the weatherll old Is writing. Writing what? ple to try and run down wills," she is my motter, but lets 'ope Itll up, added darkly and defiantly, "and "Apparently something of importto think small beer of witnesses, last" ance. And she's been and called me dear "Once, too, I heard the unmistak- but Times a pleesman as is halways to my very face, said the parlor maid, able sound of the tearing of paper. amovin' of us on, and we should make taking up the parable; "which you Was be dissatisfied with what he had our harrangements haccordln'. knocked me down with a 5 Just at this point the parlor maid might have written and tearing it up? Did he I was that took aback, and duster, find the composition of the document pushed back her chair and said, "Well, hardly knew whether I was awake or difficult, and, if so, for whose eye was she mustn't sit there gossiping any I wonder what It means?" it intended, that so much time and longer, as she'd got her work to do, dreaming. be continued.) (To It? were was to lavished which dust the master's room, trouble upon "If he is now occupied In writing where he kept his papers and books, LIZARDS THAT LIKE MUSIC. letters of an undoubtedly private na- which you don't dare to lay a finger ture, shall I be Intrusted with the task on, though, for the matter of that Tuataraa of New Zealand Very Fond of carrying them to the post when everything's always put under lock of Rollicking Choruaee. completed? Or, If the work upon which and key before anyone's allowed to A curious fact has lately been learnhe has been encaged is of some other take dust pan and broom to It. about the tuatara, the large native ed At this ordinary enough remark, the what will become of description, It when finished, and what will he do young man who had been sitting there lizard of New Zealand. It la a great fat, sleepy thing, from with the pieces of paper which he h&B very quietly while the discussion Just torn up? Will they be committed to recorded was raging round hint, seem- a foot upward In length, with a measthe flames, or simply to the waste ed galvanized Into sudden action and urement around it of about twelve inches. It Is kept tamed, about rocks extraordinary civility. paper basket? Could he might he bo allowed to Wild specimens are growing rare, "Which," said the cook at dinner the next tiny, "ditchwater Is tho hnnly be of any assistance in lifting any though one island off the coast still word as will eggspress the preslnt thing to heavy for her such as er swarms with them. These harmless things come out as emptying the waste paper basket, or company, no offense bein meant and not hinsinyatln nothlnk agin nobody, anything? a rule only for food. But some one d The parlor maid looked at him in in Christ church has discovered a way feellna bein' things as Is not to be of bringing them out at any time. This by the best of us, and better be surprise mingled with gratification, "Well, I never did, she giggled. "If is by singing to them. low In your mind than In your hldears Is my nmtter, but when it conies to you arent Just polite all ot a sudden! They have preferences in music, too. not a word being' spoke for five min-nit- s Hut master, hes that partlcler about evince much more satisfaction They I by tho kltehlng clock, makin that old room of his, and never know at a rollicking thorns than at a solo but what hes got his eye on me, allowance for Its being twenty-twOne day a song sung by a girl mlnnlts fast by railway time, It do praps he wouldnt like It." The young man seemed Inclined to brought some out, but only their heads seem as someone oughler hlnterfore In a friendly sort o' way." press his request, but noticing Per- were visible, their sleepy eyes openThsn the How much longer sbe would havo kins regarding him In evident per- ing every few minutes. rambled on In the smite key It Is im- plexity. as though not knowing what charmer tried "Soldiers of the Queen" possible tn say, bad not another note to make of this move, ho checked and when all joined In the chorus been struck by the pnrlor maid, who himself and snlil no more on the there was no doubt about the effect on the tuataraa. remarked that. "Miss Agnes hadnt subject. seemed partlcler cheerful the last Ilut when the parlor ntalda work They wriggled about on tho rocks, was nearly completed and she came almost dancing In their excitement day or so." The young man. Edwards, seemed out of the room with the dustpan and and Joy, until the repertolro cf the as though his attention was arrested brush In her hand, she found him singers was exhausted, when fhe Its by this trivial remark and glaneed waiting patiently outside the door. ards sneaked back again to their home across the table Inquiringly. "Let me let me relieve you of among the rocks. "Yes," added the parlor maid, ad- those things," ho said, with an eagerNew Zealand Is the only place dressing herself to him, us she per- ness which, notwithstanding her com the world whero these great llsaros ceived that what she had said had, plete confidence In her own charma, are found, and they are said by biolosomehow or other, Interested him. she found as puzzling as It was de- gists to be out of their place tn this l've caught her sighing to herself lightful. stage of the worlds hlHtory. They be-lmore than once lately, as though she'd You would havo thought by the to the coal period, and like the something on her mind. Iyapa" eager expression on tho young man's mra, ought, hy natural laws, to have with a sudden Inspiration "p'raps face and tho haste with which he re- become extinct long ago. New York she's In love folks genetslly sighs a lieved her of her very slight burden, Sun. y . to-da-y ' to-da-y per-tend- kin-trolle- |