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Show y Jf News from Washington Spelling Reform Order of the President Causes Agitation in Official Circles Destruction of the Earth ' Prophesied Condition CUBAN PALMA Ill CM WASHINGTON. There Is considerable agitation in official Washington over the recent order by the president directing the use of phonetic spelling in all messages and other printed documents Issuing from the White House. In addressing the order to the public printer the president has gone as far as he can to modernize orthography. He has instructed the public printer to "follow copy and his cabinet office) a will of course fall into line. They will have all the annual reports of division chiefs and other subordinates as well as their own prepared with the words spelled as the president has decided they should be. The orthography advocated by Banker Matthews and in part approved by the president, while phonetic, possesses the combined advantage of brevity. It will save time in writing and typesetting, and will economize on the printing bill. In addition 'to the use of the contracted forms, thru and tho," the past tense is obtained by a suffixed "t" instead of "ed," as "dasht instead of catalogue" "dashed, and silent syllables will be dispensed with, being spelled "catalog, for example. In contemplating the Introduction of the improved system in the various departments, the officials shake their heads in despair and point to the white-haire- d clerks. They appreciate the difficulty they are certain to encounter. There is a suggestion that the stenographers employed In the departments will find it necessary to organize a night school to master the new system. The only encouraging part of the order is that the modernizing process is to be gradual. Should the changes in spelling be limited to easy stag of 100 words at the time, the stenographers and others who write the letters and prepare the departmental reports have some hopes of 'retaining their jobs and keeping out of aa insane asylum. , t DOOM OF CITIES PREDICTED. Prepare for shocks. Prophet Edmund S. Stevens, of this city, has prophesied a long aeries of dreadful catastrophes which will culminate in the destruction of all the cities of the earth in the year of our Lord 1982. Mother Earth is not of plumb, according to this prophet, and ail the terrible earthquakes that have occurred and are yet to come are due to the fact that the earth is gradually resuming Its proper position. When this atage of transition is reached there will be a new earth and a new heaven referred to in the Bcriptures, The prophecy follows: "CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKES. "The earth is out of her place, or upright position. It is gradually resuming it. Whenever there is an accelerated or faster motion then in that period earthquakes occur. We are now in one of these periods, from Mont Pelee, 1900, to 1905. Again from 1925 to 1946 and again from 1965 to 2000 A. D. "In 1982 the earthquake la of such extent that all the cities of all the nations fall. From 2035 to 2144 A. D. the earth Is in continual perturbation and In the latter year settles to Its upright position. This, brings in the new heaven and new earth. EDMUND S. STEVENS," Prophet Stevens proves all his predictions by an elaborate collection of charts which are intelligible to him only. WHYTE A MODERN SPARTAN. Senator Whyte, Marylands picturesque grand old man," who is occupying the seat of the late Arthur Gorman, had a birthday recently, and he is now in his eighty-thiryear. Whyte is probably the moat remarkable man in Maryland d to-da- . He has never tasted a drop of liquor nor smoked and has never been inside of a saloon. He is not a member of any club. He defended 60 alleged murderers and all were acquitted. He always rides in an ordinary day car on a passenger train and on the street cars in a city. t' (ordinf Los Angeles Catalina Publlo Has Right to Appropriate Any and May War For Purpose Funds Treble the Force of United States Sailors, Fully Armed, Camp in Front of Palmas Palace. Harper t .lisln s ganer tiling litlon. b o? moi Rural Guards. lonopoH THE TRIP OF A, LIFETIME of ae conSee nearest agent of ban Pedro, Los Angeles Salt Lake, or write to Havana. The extra session of comPdma President gress called by J. II. BUItTNER, ,D. P. A., Salt Lake City. business for pleted at one sitting the which it was summoned, namely, the Sailors Were Landed for the Proto of the granting to President Palma tection of the Lives and Property constituSherwin-William- s not already fullest powers Buggy Citizens Small of American for executive the by tionally possessed Guard Will be Left at tho for made is painting buggies. Is also well suited tho American Legation. carrying on the work, including Stands most for porch and lawn furniture. right to appropriate any public funds and hard wear. severe outside exposure for war purposes, revoking appropriasession A of the at voted preceding gloss paint Havana. One hundred and twenty tions digreat durability armed sailors from the United States of congress in order to permit the involved to and splendid covprotected cruiser Denver landed version of the moneys authorisand the of war, ering capacity. prosecution Thursday evening and camped to The colors are front of the president's palace in an- ing Increase of the rural guards to 2,000 men. clear, clean and ticipation of possible unriBings within 10,000, and the artillery This trebles the former force of rubright. Put up or attacks upon Havana. the doubles artillery. and inconvenient ral guards comsized packages, were which anmeasures, These Washington. It was officially ready for use. nounced here late Thursday night that bined in one blanket bill, were passed inthe sailors who were landed at Havana by party votes, the liberals and shades. from the American cruiser Denver dependents refraining from voting nationalists voting liberal the and vessel to their to return were ordered Wtstua with the moderates. immediately, save for a small guard which will be left at the American le- ROOSEVELT TO TAKE A HAND gation. This action followed the receipt of an official report by Acting Will 8end Taft to Cuba to Make In Secretary of State Bacon from Mr, vestigation of Conditions. Sleeper, the American charge dafOyster Bay. After a protracted faires at Havana, regarding the land with Secretary of War conference ing. ; The report was not made public, but Taft, Acting Secretary of State Bacon afIt was announced officially shortly Use the same judgment as you would in making aoy ordinary terward that the sailors were landed and Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, President Roosevelt has addressed an from the Denver solely for the protecpurchase. Try to determine its value - The value is mea. tion of the lives and property of Ameri important communication to Cuba, ured wholly by the number of people you can call and be can citizens; that such action was in and arranged to send Secretary Taft called by. Bell subscribers can call 150 people in Paysoa Mr, between discussion pursuance of a a to make to island Bacon and that and Spanish Fork, nearly 800 in the county, over 17,000 in Sleeper and the naval commander, thorough investigation of conditions with the belief that it was a wise Utah, and 31,000 in Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. looking to the protection of the there and lend their influence to relives and property of Americans. store peace. There was no intention, it is stated, The communication Is addressed to to do otherwise than to safeguard Bell the Cuban minister to the United and the serAmerican inhabitants, It la an Imvices of the sailors were to be utilized States, Senor Quesada. onfy in case of disorders within the passioned plea to Cuba to realize her city which threatened such inhab- responsibilities as a re Company. itants. That the landing in any way contemplated the protection of either public, and to restore peace in the the Cuban government or the Insure-gen- t island. Her attention is called in no propaganda. President Palma or uncertain language to the responsibilany other persons than American cit- ity which the United States bears to izens, was disclaimed officially and it was pointed out that this fact could the island and the certainty that our responsibility will necessarily be exnot be emphasized too strongly. ercised could peace not be preserved. 0 O O O DEALERS IN 0 O O 0 The president says he has certain inADAMS WINS OUT. formation that the peace of the isIs Choice of Democrats of Colorado for land is now menaced and that Amer- Fresh & Cured Meats. ican property has been destroyed. Fancy & Staple Groceries Governor. & Paint cai: of d tery, rater, of her ot 'Each the' fact i tb tn classei ai drawl Tin ai. haste, an tat rid re sceticlam, vilely so their ditc wh poets plumbers re rich pen la nillionair athletic, degenerat tei who te fiends Eight good LI JE3C IjUMBER Co, In Subscribing for a Telephone , Everybody Rings the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone g J. S. Lewis & Son Denver. After three days of strenuous sessions, perhaps the most lively and In some particulars the most extraordinary ever witnessed by Demo-- ' crate of Colorado, the Democratic state convention on Thursday nlghi adjourned sine die after nomination a ticket headed by Alva Adams for governor. The action of the convention which waa considered by all concerned as the most momentous, was the reading out of the party of the Speer faction oi Denver county because of their alto local utility leged subservience corporations. He framed the instruments on which the 'unique government of the District of Columbia is founded. He lives outside of Baltimore, jret Is able to appear at a trial In Baltimore In the morning and be in Washington in time to answer to the noon roll call of the senate. Twice chosen United States senator, be has also been governor, mayor, state senator, state representative, city solicitor, attorney general and state controller. He was defeated for the United States senate by Gorman and then succeeded him. He was a member of the Maryland legislature when Gorman was a lad in Howard county. He began the study of law while a boy, Bitting on bags of burlap in a commercial house, where he worked from seven oclock in the morning until ten TRADE WITH PORTO RICO. oclock at night Ho has argued cases before courts in Annapolis, Md.; New York and Boston, within a period of two days. Heavy Increase 8hown Since OccupaHe will never talk politics on Sunday. tion by United States. lie is unquestionably a gentleman of the old School. Washington. In a statement given out by the department of commerce TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF POOR. and labor concerning the growth In Resident of few cities In the country are Porto Rican commerce It is stated: more proud of their town than are Washingtons, "The value of merchandise sent but they have been deeply humiliated by the disfrom the United States to Porto Rico coveries that have been made recently by inspectors authorized by law. luring the five years prior to 1898 Within two or three blocks of the Capitol averaged about 12,090,000 per annum, and in 1906 was 119,000,000. or pracbuilding there are slums where human beings, old and young, exist in great numbers in habitatically nine times as great The mertions so small and vile as to stagger belief. It chandise sent from Porto Rico to the bas been stated that these buildings are worse United States In the five years prior to 1898 averaged about two and a half and more overcrowded than any to be found in New York or Chicago. 8lnce the agitation of million dollars per annum, and in 1906 the question of housing the poor it bas ben found was 4,000, or about eight times as that the old army barracks, which did duty away treat back In 1861, 62 63, 64 and 65, have been constantly occupied by hordos of the colored populaWIfs of Pennsylvania Farmer Beaten tion. Without any sanitary provision whatever, it Is to Death With Hatchet needless to argue that such sections of the capital Jlty are hotbeds for the breeding of pestilential Media, Pa. Mrs E. II. rcvltt, wife disease and moral depravity. of a farmer, was beaten to death at But recently there has been an awakening to these conditions, and laws her home near here with a hatchet. been have passed which authorize the destructioa of dens of Infamy and Her with the head crushed aldegradation in the nationa capital. The work has already been begun by most body, Into a pulp, was found by her the cleaning out of the alleys and the removal of the tottering domiciles, mis- husband upon his return from Chester, called houses. Their present oecupams are to be scattered in different directions, and helped to secure aanltary abodes In localities better suited to their where he had gono to market the farm William Nelson colored, products. spheres in life. The commissioners are now armed with authority by law, and it Is not was arrested on suspicion The negro likely that they will be dilatory under the pressure of the press for Imme- proved an alibi and was released. diate action. Therefore, doubtless, the days of Queen's court" Chinch Meantime the authorities are investigating the movements of Pavltt Row," "Naves Row and O Street alleys are numbered. t FULLEST POKERS CITY of the Poor to Be Improved. excursions Summer TO CONGRESSGIVES an1 latter seeking to make its escape. In the midst of this struggle Mrs ?a?endmhtrhCevVed hPavy bl" n the her down. She had recognized Arnold ns tbe person who bad struck her. INSIST UPON DEATH. Move for Clemency in Weber Case I Strenuously Opposed. Sacramento. Strenuous efforts are being put forth to prevent Adolph Webers death sentence being commuted to life Imprisonment Attorney Genera! Webb, District Attorney K. P Robinson and Sheriff Charles Keima of Placer county and Detective Chaa. !lIlor wre before Governor Par-doFriday afternoon in opposition to any show of clemency. e moderati Green Groceries in Season. -- SPANISH FORK, arm the UTAH there i; I dagge iedetta wi IS ILL IT WILL are p COST TH to writs for our big FBEK KICICLC caUlcra howin most complete line of BICICLXa, TIBJBS and SUNDHIE8 atluCM BELOW any ether maxmfacturer or dealer is the world. bwh-rif- c 'OT BUY a BtOrOLESVR son-in-la- 1110 lncitim 1 SPIRIT WAS FLESH AND BLOOD. Woman Exposes Medium and Is Beaten For Her Interference. Salt Lake City. George J. Arnold, the Spiritualistic medium, was foind guilty of committing battery upon the person of aged Mrs. Mary Brandon on the afternoon of the 8th of this month. The testimony of Mrs. Brandon and her W. H. Dye, showed that they had visited the establishment of Arnold and his partner, James Dickson, at 269 East Third South street, for the purpose of exposing what they had been led to believe was a rank fraud; that Dickson was giving them a sitting" in a darkened room when the old lady lay hold upon the flowing drapery of one of the bogus spirits which the "medium" had called forth; that the spirit had proved to be a flesh and blood being of much strength and agility; that a struggle had ensued, the lady hard to maintain herVhold on the' robl GEN-- Gen. Cai oronairr of ttrwui niuYVTo bay nctiw4 onr completa Free ct- e kgMa nluiiratiog and yeecrfbinf every hind of and totfidt P411 d toteit mod la, and laarn of our remarkable 10 29,.cJ,2aokl wo odarfnl naw offers made possible by f. telling iron teenq direct to rider with no middlemen' profit WE SHIP OH APPRO VAL vithoui a toni itfotii, Pay the Frelftrt ai Trial and make other liberal term which so ettar J! do. Von will team everything and get nechnl. able information by (imply writing aa a postal. s bribe oted to t m girls Sunday infanticl high-grad- Vi to make money i Asm la every town and can offer aa epprtntf to aiitablc young men who apply at once. 50.80 PUriOTURE-PnOO- F Bogota if Prloo $8m60 per pair. letrotnioo fa Wo MU Sell You a Wa at filadotta tf who to X and, 'orlou (o in the TinES?.Ll in SOy 4ltiQ SamHo Po!p top Only uup (cash with onoxn g4.ee) NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES. Result of ij years experience In tire danger from THORNS, vaw-TV- S. PINS, NAILS. TACKS or GLASS. WotlM the thick rabbwtiwf "A" sad puncture etrip Serious punctures, like intentional knife con and U," alio rim etrip "JT cut, be vulcanized like any other tire. prevent rim rutting. TUJ Two Hundred Thousand ttew will outteet any etkj nw In actual Bit. Over pain make SOFT. KLASIIO tevnty-flr- e Thousand pain told hut year. KASg KUDIN liPftOMPTIOHt Made tn all the. lt to lively and eaay riding, very durable and lined bjHj with a (pedal quality of rubber, which never becomes which done up (mail puuctww wt.hou.alU.wln the air to -c- ape. We have hiin.leeAe e Wtlre fro euairenMI '?. imped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more uelltieo being given by several layers o? thin, it01! Back" sensation commonly felt when ridmgonWoero or toft roads it overcome by the parent nx 'flaiket Weave" tread which prevent all ar rroen equeeted d thua overcoming all auction. The regular price old" tires iafS " of only e.. Von do not Wewf FULL fcnrturertiiiSfc, ."f ("4 Puncture closers on full paid order be tew 8V?P,0 BeUl kuile ninltoual cut or heavy (raHa). Tire to the,r ,r Bot eatiefactory on examination. are penectly reliable .JS011 money lent to na i. at. : i. h.., a.k vour PodHn nT&Tlire1 nfeJlli u,d 0T " nr price. K . uK wrerUer We know that you will be o well P'ca" OO ASTER BRAKE? anddlaa, pedals part Handcar Leaded With Workmen everything In the bicycle line ere (old by u at half lb pnem cnaigcqby cealeta and repair men. Goea Write for our big HUN DKV calalnrue. a! orIbeboip St Petersburg. The resumption of DO ROT WAIT k?1 Trt, Through Bridge. 1 p?u1 iiy. i humsknow not or of .i,KC1,e until Plr ? you anyone wonderful we offer, are Toledo ,0. A hand enr loaded It telegraphic communication with Sled-lic- e to learn everything. Write It MWwith onlya a has enabled the press ot St trackmen of tho Wheeling & Lake HEED CYCIE CHICAGO IG; COfiPlHY, Depl. Petersburg, for tho first time, to pre- Erie railroad ran off an open draw of lent a picture of the conditions in the the Ilaumce bridge LtitSf indumnlty School Land Selection. Friday night and ravaged town. As in the case of tho massacre at Blniystok. later messages all on the car were drowned. Tbe NOTI8E. United States I and om., greatly reduce the number of dead number of men on the ear Is said to Salt Luke ( It t tah, from that given in early reports. Tho have been twelve. So far no bodies property losses, however, from the the have been recovered. roni n 'Who. J May to Owing the fury and cupidity of the inob and the fact that the men took the car from a destruction by bomhnrdmcnt and sub- point some miles from Toledo, where sequent fire, are placed higher, run-in- g work is being done, Identification of to $200,000. tho missing men has not been learned. Xiin.tie.ofa mining Uuiuvion ,liiVan?ry Cave All 8hs Had. Wyoming Democrats Have Placed . r. 4 ... Mg Lake SL Petersburg. Their Candidates In the Field, "Long Live the Ur M Revolution for Land and Librelate to taid Royal Cheyonne, Wyo.-- The Democratic JET b descriptive (tihdlvUlooe ln.nl? erty." These wre the last words of tate convention has named the follow. foauptcuoualy pouted tn BACK MKK He xrnereji.P"UB ir,i,.... Zcnalde Konopllanlkovo, the girl who Ing ticket; Governor S. A. D. KeisALL trains assassinated General Min last month ter, Fremont county; of secretary and who was sentenced to death by state, Daniel V. GUI, Ixtramle eounty; HOLUtirnt eourtmarttnl. They were uttered ns state auditor Thomas A. Dutm, Big llMrrlbrtl the rope was placed around her neck. Mountain Tea Nu088ls Rocky She refused to see a priest prior to lorn county; state treasurer, James L A Buiy Maliulni for BT the execution. She mounted the soaf-fol- d Lobban, Sheridan county; state nupi-i- s Ifllt RtfilVN wL'.hin'Z IrfrtoW Fiwd Briny QolJa Health with firm steps and would not ho intendent public Instruction Miss (peel lie forCnnatllwtlon. I"'11 I aided. On a photograph she sent to May Hamilton, Natrona county; Vlinplra. ew Kidney s " Blood, liail Drouth, hUiyyi.h bar sister, she wrote th words: "My John C. Hamm of Uhiuh and Uackactie. It' Hindif mud W life was all I had to give." iet form, M rente a box, county. -Vi lioUdSisn Dut-- CouriNt, llu-lfirst pubilc.tioSjiVw.'lyi1"'' U,M'r FOR SALLOW IW GOLDEN nl OUR BLUEJACKET8 BEST SHOOTERS. American sailors are the best target shooters In the world according to our naval officers. While admitting that the record of tho British ship Bruiser's six pounders, said to have made 46 hits out of 64 shots, shows excellent work, naval officers here are not Inclined to give the palm to the British navy for accurate shooting. The record of the American navy shows that at least In one instance 22 hits out of 25 shots were wade by a six pounder. In discussing tho work of the Brulzer naval officers aay that before they can make any accurate or valuable comparison between British ami American marksmanship U will be necessary to know the size of the target tho rate of speed at which it waa moving, and the actual time in which tho 61 shots were delivered. The targets used by the British navy are considerably larger than those used on this side of the water. The latest official atatement regarding target practice, which covers thi navy's work of last year, shows that since 1S9H the size of tho target hat been reduced, the rapidity of tiring has been Increased, and the percentage of hits to shots risen from 40 to between T5 and 90 per cent, in main battery guns. The target has been red ured from loo by 25 feet to 21 by 8 feet, and while a gun was given five minutes for each shot it has this yuar made a record of three shots and three hits within one minute. Naval officers point out that with tho great Improvement In the rapidity with which guns on American warships are loaded and discharged there has come a proportionate accuracy in s limiting, so that 12 and 13 Inch guns are not only fired 15 timea as rapidly as formerly, but the percentage of hits has I risen proportionately, making the efficiency of the individual gun at least 20 Utncj wist it was before. Reports Exaggerated Lost of Life. iui JL lilies, rticuy :xr!, m - FeedStqbles V:., byuut tet eon-gros- paBSS! "f ' i NUGGETS j vei |