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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS GOVLRNOR Publisher ANDREW BPANISH FORK - UTAH STATE - III m EIGHT northwest notes ICSES WITH shocks were felt Three earthquake of Montana on May DEATH iTSsrvm.diwej.NjtM rtneks were UTAH the disturbance. Navsda'a Governor Passes Away After Long Illness Due to Great Nervoua Strain and Overwork. NEWS Salt Lake boasts of & brass band, Express Train Crashed Into Train all of Uie members of which are Loaded With Pilgrims on Their Way to a Shrine. ladleB. The fund for the construction of the new Commercial club building of Salt Lake City bad reached f 134,000 at the close of last week. Three suspects have been lodged In Jail, charged with robbing a store at Lehl, when a considerable quantity of merchandise was stolen. The assessment rolls of Juab coun-ty- , Just made public by the county assessor, shows a valuation of exclusive of the railroads. A recent addition to the Industrial Interests of Utah Is a factory for the manufacture of all kinds of coal tar products, which has been established In Balt Lake City. In a debate held In the Lehl taber-nacl- e last week between representatives from Lehl High school and the Weber High school, the Lehl representatives were victors. While attempting to alight from a Street car In Ogden, Frederick Collins, an elderly man, was thrown forcibly to the ground and sustained Injuries which may prove fatal. The Ogden chamber of commerce, recently organized, Is establishing permanent quarters, six large rooms In the heart of the city having been secured and are being fitted up. annual convention The twenty-fiftof the Knights of Pythias, Grand Domain of Utah, was held In Salt Lake City last week, delegates from all portions of the state being In attendance. During a fight In a pool ball at Kimberly, Ben Carter shot Lawrence Hamel, the bullet entering his mouth and going through the fleshy part ol his cheek. Hamel Is not dangerously hurt. Twenty of the leading wool growers of Utah have organized a corporation for the protection of that industry with a capital of (20,000, and to bs known as the Utah Wool Growers' as soclatlon. Oliver Noe, a private of company F, stationed at Fort Douglas, while despondent as thd result of a pro traded spree, placed the muzzle of s rifle to his chin and fired, his head being frightfully mutilated. 'The state board of health has Issued a circular letter to the health officers and county commissioners In hll parts of the state, notifying them that the board Is ready to begin the free distribution of antitoxin. 1 Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life Imprisonment for the murder of Policeman Ford of Salt Lake, made a vicious attack upon a follow prisoner last 'Saturday, stabbing him with a knlfo. Sullivan has been, placed In solitary confinement. Preparations are being made at the state school for the deaf and blind foi the triennial convention of the American Instructors of the Deaf, which will meet in Ogden July 3, prominent educators from all parts of the cow try having promised to be present. The highest court of Mexico hat confirmed the death sentence of the three Mexicans who murdered George Rose, a mining man whose home was In Salt Lake, the tragedy occurring In Guanajuato, September 11, 1907 while the men were pillaging Rose's house. A good roads" mass meeting was .held In Salt Lake City last week, at which representatives from Weber, Davis and Salt Lake counties who are vln favor of the Improvement of the roads of those counties were present, plans being laid for improvement of 'the publlo highways. An Invention which will ultimately ot result In the saving of fully one-hal- f the labor connected with gathering sugar beets has been received at ths office of the Utah-IdahSugar com-Ianand placed on exhibition. The .machine is the Invention of Abraham Goodmanson of Lehl. Edwin S. Snelgrove, for the past five years bookkeeper for the Utah Association ot Credit Men, committed suicide In Salt Lake City, placing a revolver In his mouth and blowing 'oft the top of his head. Despondency brought on by Irregularities in his .accounts led to the deed. A bold sneak thief, armed with a pair of plyers, detached a slot telephone from a business bouse In Salt Lake, broke open the lock and secured about (10 In ntckles, dimes and quarters.- - The bold and unique robbery was performed In broad daylight and the thief escaped. As the result of the giving way of a scaffold on which he was working, Grant Patterson, a Park City carpenter, fell a distance of twenty feet and narrowly escaped death. As It Is, be will be In the hospital for some time, with several broken ribs and a sprained shoulder and wrist. , As the result of a decision 1 the case ot s' couple of Salt Lake merchants who bad refused to pay their merchants license, the court deciding that the law was constitutional, it Is believed the problem of collecting this license has been solved and there will be no further trouble. It Is announced that henceforth the workmen in the Southern Pacific hops at Ogden will be given six days work each week. For some time past the men have been laid off from two to four days each week, this move being In the Interest of economy, the railway official claimed. , 4 y A Accident Is Supposed to Have Been Due to a Misplaced Switch, the Care Being Telescoped and Shattered to Matchwood. Reno, Nevada. Surrounded by bis three sons and daughter, Governor John Sparks, conscious to the last, sank to death at 8:30 o'clock Friday morning. , But a moment before his death the I do not fear death; governor said: I have done my best; I am tired and These am ready to go. Good-bye- . were his last words. The lllntJi which culminated In the governor's death was directly due to overwork and nervous strain, attendant upon the extra session of Nevadas legislature late last fall. Governor Sparks was born In Mississippi, August 30, 1843, and came to this state in 1863, engaging In stock-raisincattle He owned large ranges In Nevada and Texas, as well as a large cotton plantation In Texas. He was elected governor In 1902, and again In 1906, by large majorities. Lieutenant Governor D. W. Dicker-so- n Is now governor of Nevada. He came to Nevada eight years ago. wife, - Antwerp. A railroad accident ol unprecedented horror In the annals of train disasters occurred Belgian Thursday morning at Contlch, a station six miles southeast of Antwerp, on the main line. An express train from Antwerp to Brussels crashed Into a train loaded with pilgrims on This their way to a local shrine. train wag standing on a aiding. Several of Its cars 'were telescoped and shattered to matchwood. The total number of dead Is placed at fifty and the wounded at over 100. Rescuers' from Contlch were at GUARANTY FUND DRAWN UPON. once on the scene, and the labor of succoring the Injured and removing Oklahoma Banking Law Ciuses Joy the dead was conducted with all posto Depositors. sible baste. Special trains with docone hour Within Okla. Guthrie tors, priests and nurses were sent to from the time H. II. Smock, pklahoma Contlch from Antwerp and Brussels. had taken The accident Is supposed to have been hanking commissioner, charge of the International Bank of due to a misplaced switch. The engineer and the fireman of the express Colgate, for alleged violation of the train were killed outright. banking laws, be had authority to pay the depositors In full, though the WILL SOLVE CURRENCY PROBLEM bank's cash and available funds In banks fell (22,000 short of the other Senate Adopts Joint Resolution Cretotal amount of deposits. The commissioner was enabled to do this unating Monetary Commiaaion. der the operation of the new bankThurs-daon senate The Washington. law, and this Is the first time It adopted a Joint resolution report, ing has been called Into use. When the ed by Mr. Aldrich from the commitcash was exhausted the commissioner tee on finance creating a commission drew checks upon the state guaranty to be called the national monetary fund. Under the operation of the commission, to be composed ot nine guaranty banking law In Oklahoma, a senators to be appointed by the prw tax or 1 per cent Is levied upon the siding officer of the senate, and nine average annual deposits of all state hanks, and the money thus raised la representatives to be appointed by used payment In full of all depos the speaker of the house, to Inquire itors in of an Insolvent state bank after Into and report to congress at the tho funds of the bank have been exearliest date practicable what changes hausted. are desirable, or necessary .. In the CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY. monetary situation of the United States or la the laws relating to hanking and currency, and for this pur- Bill That Would Have Effect of Reducpose the commission is authorized to ing Congreaaional Representation sit during sessions or in the recess In South, of congress at such times and places desirable. as they may deem Washington. The bill requiring publicity for campaign contributions waS No Reduction In Pricee of Steel. passed by the house on Friday by a New York. E. II. Gory, chairman vote of 160 to 125, with the Crum-packamendment added. of the board of directors of the UnitThe amendment would have the efed States steel corporation, has given At a fect of reducing congressional repreout the following statement: meeting on Thursday of representa- sentation In the southern states. It Is tives of the principal manufacturers believed the bill will not pass the senof steel In this country the opinion ate. The bill provides for publicity of was expressed by each one present that the prices of steel are reason- contributions made for the purpose of able and should not be reduced; that influencing elections at which reprereduced prices would not increase sentatives In congress are electee, purchases, and that most of their with what Is known as the Crumpack-e- r customers do not expect or desire any amendment, prohibiting fraud in change. The opinion was unanimous registrations and providing data for a that the meetings should be discon- red notion of representation among the tinued for the summer months, unless states. the chairman should deem It advisCase Regarded ae Closed. able to meet any time for reasons which do not now appear." Washington. No action looking toward the expulsion of Representative Fullerton Elected Moderator. George L. Lilley of Connecticut from Kansas City. Rev. Dr. Baxter P. the house Is contemplated. When trie Fullerton of SL Louis was elected special commission appointed by moderator of the Presbyterian church Speaker Cannon to Investigate the In the United States on Thursday to charges brought by Mr. Lilley against succeed Rev. Dr. VAT 11 am II. Roberts the Electric Boat company submitted of Philadelphia. The first day of the its report to the house last Tuesday general asnembly of the church was and more so after the report had been characterized by a spirit of unity and read on the floor the next day, there which promises much was much speculation as to the probfor the results to be accomplished able outcome. Tho severity with which during the ten days the conference is Mr. Lilley was handled in the committo be In session. Rev. Fullerton was tee's findings gave color to a report not opposed In his candidacy for the that these were to be made the basis of a resolution of expulsion. office of moderator. ' OF GIRL OF NINE AN ACCOMPLICE BAND, DARING FEMININE IT IS ALLEGED. CHARGED WITH MANY CRIMES Be Mysterious Automobile Burglars Fear-teThese Been Have lleved to Women Contentions by Accomplices. st in Bridgeton, N. J. Masqueradingresimen's clothing, two women, old dents of this city, have been arrested and charged with 48 robberies. Twice as many more crimes will be laid at their doors by the detectives terror who, after a veritable reign of In Bridgeton, took the woman, a male d girl, accomplice, and a Into custody. their A long series of daring robberies, In which at least two lives were lost and which extended over all South Jersey for two years, are blamed upon these women. Among these are the famous robberies In which the mysterious red automobile and two masked women figured, and which have been a puzzle to even the Pinkertons. Mrs. Elizabeth Parson, alias Mrs. Blizzard, who confesses to 55 years and seems nearer 70, is said to have been the leader of the band. She has a long police record. Her pretty young Is adopted daughter, Mamie Parson, lieutenchief her charged with being ant. With house after house being robbed and thousands of dollars worth of goods disappearing, the offlclalo and police force of Bridgeton were threatened that if any attempt was made to catch the thieves their homes would be Instantly robbed and their own lives be Imperiled. Confessions have been made by the accomplices of the two women. The citizens of Bridgeton have been afraid to stir out of their houses for the last few weeks, and not a night has passed since the middle of March without a new report of some daring burglary perpetrated within the heart of the town. It was the mysterious threats sent to the officials, coupled with the almost supernatural character of some of the burglaries, that paralyzed the wheels of Justice In Bridgeton. Harry O. Blizzard, 26 years old. Is the youthful desperado who was Mrs. nine-year-ol- er 1 letters. Life Sentence for Murderess of Ruth Miller. Kansas City. Mrs. Sarah Morasch, years, was on aged forty-eigh- t Thursday found guilty of murder In the first degree by a Jury In Kansas City, Kans., which- tried her on the Ruth rharge of poisoning four year-ol- d Miller. .The woman wll he sentenced to life imprisonment. The little girl died from the effects of eating poisoned candy, which the woman sent through the malls to the child's four stater, against whom she held a grudge, ' teen-year-ol- In Ruef Case Failed to Agree. San Francisco. After being out for houra the Jury In forty and one-hal- f the trial of Abraham Ruef,' the former political bosa of San Francisco and the central figure In the bribery-graf- t prosecution, against whom wholesale Indictments were returned, failed to agree upon a verdict and was discharged. The specific charge against Ruef In the trial Just closed was the offer of a bribe of (l.Ono to former Supervisor Jennings Phillips to Influence Ms vote favorably upon in electric railroad franchise. Jurors Coal Miners of Southwest Will Return to Work. Kansas City. thousand eoal miners of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, members of the United Mine Workers of America, who have been on strike since March 1 last, will return to work af once. The convention of miners of these Btates here on Friday ratified and Blgned the agreement reached by the Joint subcommittee of the miners and operators late Friday night. Prices and conditions are to remain the same as they were last year. Thirty-fiv- e To Entertain Wives of Delegates. Chicago. In order that the rlty may entertain in a proper manner the wives and daughters of the delegates who will come to the Republican National convention, members of the Chicago Womens clubs are making their piano on a wide scale. A committee of four, with Catherine Waughn McCulloch at Its head, has written to Chairman Up-haof tho local committee offering entertainment for the fair sex, particularly the wives and daughters of the delegates and the members of the national committee. 8eandal Forces Kansas Pastor to Tender Resignation, Leavenworth, Kan. Something of a sensation was caused here on Friday when It was announced that Rev. R. A. EUwood, pastor of tho First Presbyterian church of Leavenworth, had tendered his resignation to the elders of the church to take effect at once. The resignation which was accepted, was admitted by the elders to be the result of charges preferred against tne pastor by the mother of a young girl In the church, who laid before the elders letters which her daughter had received from the pastor. e To-an- nltro-glycerl- n - Ths Mysterious Red Automobile. Parson's right-hanman. Little Ethel Parson, nine years old, a Bister of Mamie Parson, is thought to have acted as and to have helped dispose of the mass of stolen goods. Acting as an accomplice of Blizzard and the two women has been Benjamin Franklin Thorn, a night watchman. But so remarkable are the circumstances under which he became Involved In the chain of robberies that, by common consent, he has been released on parole, and in all probability will not be prosecuted. According to the story which he tells, and which Is corroborated by Blizzard, he became an accomplice of "Mom" Blizzard only through threats of olacknmll made by her after he had stolen food for her to Bave her daughter from starvation. In his confession to Detective Lord the old man tells of how, on a wintry night last- January, Mom" Rivard came to him leading a child by the hand, and appealed for money, saying that the child was dying. When Thorn told her he had none, she beggeed him to steal some provisions and milk for her to save the Infants life. Tho old man did so Ever since that time, by threats of informing his employers and causing bis discharge and disgrace, the old woman has forced the old man, he says, to be an accomplice In her robberies and to help dispose of the stolen goods. Mrs. Blizzard was caught returning from one of her numerous visits to the plant of the Arctic Ice and Milk company In company with Blizzard. She had on her male clothing. They were pointed out by Detective Lord to P,v llcemeu Smith and Woodruff, who took them to the Bridgeton Jail. 8everal thousand dollars' worth of goods, the police say. have been at the little Blizzard house on the outskirts of BrJgtoa. - half-froze- n S serious .damage of Clyde' Forest fires In the vicinity acres 1.000 over Colo., have destroyed were reports last at and of timber Coloof watershed moving toward tho o rado Springs, on the south slope Pikes Peak. as G. A. Flnkelberg, who resigned district States Judge of the United account court at St. Louis In 1907, on In DevF died health, of failing near Cologne, May 18. He was born 1837. Iff Prussia, and two Pierre Gouyet, Lew Oouyet in arrest under are women French forimporting with Helena, charged country for eign girls into this is along crusade The purposes. of Secretary efforts the of line the Straus to stop this traffic. crime Lewis Ferris, accused of the of dynamiting the eastbound Burlingof ton express at Butte on the night were killed, three people when May l, pleaded not guilty of the charge when arraigned In the criminal court at Butte, and his trial has been set for June 1. Judge Langdon of Carson, Nevada, has appointed Frank Wildes, ddputy state treasurer, as receiver of the State Bank & Trust company, which besuspended last October. It Is lieved the bank will eventually be able to pay the depositors at least 50 cents on the dollar. Ole Nordahl, a Musselshell rancher, was arraigned at Lewlstown, Mont., last week, for the murder of the entire Schleuter family, a mother and three children, who were found dead two months ago on a lonely ranch. Nordahl pleaded not guilty. There ti no motive for the crime. Snow which In many places reached a depth of three feet fell at Shep Idan, Mont., last week. Fruit will bs ruined and the suffering of livestock great. It is the worst spring storm years, extends ovet in twenty-livnorthern Wyoming and parts of Mon tana, also into western Nebraska. W. R. Davis, private secretary, tc the late Governor Sparks, died at hit home in Carson, Nev., on May 23, ol stomach trouble. W. R. Davis, bettei known as Riley Davis, served as seo retary to Governor Sparks since the latter first took office. He formerly was a resident of Dayton, Nev. , W. W. Hendricks, a foreman In the employ of the Utah Construction company, which has a contract on the Western Pacific, may lose his eyesight as the result of the explosion of a box of dynamite caps. One of his eyes was torn from its socket; and It Is feared be will lose the sight of the other. Announcement Is made that the M-x-t annual convention of the American Bankers' association will be held In Denver during the week beginning September 27. The date was decided upon by Frederick C. Farnsworth, of New York, secretary of the association. after a conference with officers of the Denver convention league. Three masked men robbed Old Kirk between Reno and inn, half-waNevada, and with revolvers forced the night bartender and a woman who was in the saloon with the night bartender into a closet They blew open the safe and completely wrecked It with and secured (980 and left thd place on horses. The announcement of .the discovery of a theft of dynamite from a car of the explosive on the Dawson siding, near Butte, has caused much alarm among railroad people as the result of the recent dynamiting of the Burlington train near where this powder was stolen. The tracks are being closely guarded and every precaution taken. The coroners' Inquiry Into the deaths of Seaman J. J. Staub and F. LuInBky of the New Jersey, who were killed by a street car at Bellingham, Wash., returned a verdict exonerating the motorman and the traction company. It was shown that the seamen were riding on the front fender of the car, and It was admitted that this was against the rules. A dispatch from Missoula, Mont., states that the body of Henry Meyer, better known as Dutch Harry throughout Montana, has been found on a. sandbar in the Missoula river. Meyer Is believed to have wandered Into the river and drowned while bewildered. Dutch Harry" was a well known early day character during the exciting time of the vigilante reign, acting as a freighter for Bill Buntou at the tme he was taken from his camp at Drummond by vigilantes and strung up to a nearby tree. was out looking for bis horsesHarry and when he returned to camp found Bunton suspended from a limb. Stanley reek shot and Instantly killed Andy Saterro, a fellow emIn the Southern Pacific ploye e room at Reno. Nevada, and then telephoned the officers to come and fveek Bave " th reaaon for his act the alleged undue Intimacy of Saterro with his wife, A woman known as Evelyn Arthur shot and badly wounded a mining Johnson, In the tenderloin district of Wlnnemucca, Nevada. The woman claimed Johnson had taken ihn. he declaresrefU8ed t0 return he never saw tho woman before the shooting. At the annual tournament of the Sportsmen's Association of W.1 last heM ,n WaIla "alia! week, a, L. Becker of y - Platt Case Ended. ' New York. Mae C. Wood, whose suit for an absolute divorce from United States Senator Thomas C. Platt ot New York, has been on trial In the supreme court here for several days, was committed to the Tombs prison late Thursday, after Justice O'Gorman had dismissed the complaint In her action and ordered her held In (5.000 bnll on a charge of perjury. This sensational and dramatic climax to the Omaha woman's suit against the aged senator came after a day In which the defense had attacked tire authenticity of the famous No or don't you caret business do We .. by malt all and s uarsntss our goode to k,T, or refund your monT"8 bag-gag- Cirffi SALT LAKE CHILD, COLE ( BROKERS SOLICIT YOUR PATE2- ?- Our facilities for handii your account unexeell Wo mako liberal agy,,? on all Utah Stocks 100 Atlas Sleek, Salt L.t,,0l conpouiiDi;: PRESCRIPTS THATS OUR BUSHIEST Mail Orders filled and forward by return F. J.TheHILL mail. DRUGCC Never Subitltutori" Salt Lake City MANS TRUEST Wonderful ANIMAL FRlt; Love and Loyalty to Ita M aater. a There was a time when th Coj no human friend, perhaps, but early In the life of the world hi man came together, and the doi h stuck ever since, says a writer hk New Haven Register. Man husk and neglected the dog. He la t lowed him to accumulate faster i he can be matched with friends, a hence tbe dog has deterloruM j friendless dog Is tbs neglected k, and the neglected dog becomes, from his own fault but from tbe is of man, the dangerous dog. Et tbe laws to regulate dogs, which sn much In the Interest ot the dogs' I the interest of bumans. To the Ideal of one flag. One try, one wife at a time," nikl added one dog at a time. One k Is enough for any man. It U sufi;i for Ideal companionship. Then I something Insplrlngly pathetlo Is t comradeship that aometlmei spX up between tbe right sort o( i and the right sort of a dog. Tbtril a fidelity that might shame bis: man In the love and loyalty of adef his master. History and Utwi are starred with Its brightness R beauty. Pity the man who cant if' elate a dog, even If he doesn't bif to own one. Surely bis soul k something more essential than it tlon of muslo hes fit for worn! treason, stratagems and spoilt From LI Hung Cheng. Impertinent. question! tootin' comments on their appearance, a bad breeding, and lead to aarj j " v bukes. . LI Hung Chang, the famous & man, while visiting this couutij! known for tbe keenness of and the fineness of bis courteslal day when he was calling afc,( American lady her little bof. had been looking sharply at said: I Say, mister, how few bain have!" And, my little man." ialdU.1 ting him on tha head, "ho manners you have!" I Fatal Explanations to fr Nothing la more fatal relations than complaint proaches and demands for tlos. People must be Judged wholeness of their conduct sand subtle Influences, unexp unforeseen events, have their and reaction on life. A thousand occar that can neither be H Many a temporary Is effectively overcome by ,1,e proaches, questioning, but gulf. Leaving It alone, taking Interests and Ideas, bridge It 1 ( anaijtf-define- J i J Castles In the Air. There never was a rlsbteou In the air that did not ngPr TM , thing good for. the soul. Around the to tumble may away In the smoke of the dregl architecturally and morally , the castle In the air may ler will bs the everyday struggle for gl1 good thoughts that Manchester Union. Much Surface to CovIt costa 6,000 to paint tower. - J UpMt If' "I have noticed," remark'd Thlni and server of Events nothing gets upset more than himself when he looks la drawer for something be cant Yonkers Statesman. . That Ground-Ho- g The ground-hoprophecy baa a grain of truth In JL after Candlemaa 1. SL If the good saint oome and be will break it, and If tber be will make If |