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Show The date on your name label of this paper Is the date to which your subscripiton is paid. Kindly be as prompt as possible in paying in advance. NOTICE 1HE VOL. VIII. NO. CUBANS SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4G. ARE HAVING TROUBLE Fork Press DANISH TO HOLD IT IN KEEPING WITH ITS APPEALEDTO NAME Entered Feb. 2, 1909. flICO il, 1902, as at Spanish Fork, Utah. LORDS DEFY THE Wmm s matter, rout Office Act of Congress March 8. 17. second-clan- WiLD BOAR'S PRISONER'S SAVES (Copyright, ZELAYA SOUGHT HELP WHEN HE LEARNED UNCLE 8AM WAS VEXED. i 1 Havana. Not since the downfall of the administration of President Palma has the political atmosphere of Cuba been more obscured and more laden With suggestions of trouble than now. Is The republic scarcely nine months old, and already rumors are persistent that some way Is being sought to secure the retirement of President Gomez, either by and to persuasion or compulsion, place Zayas at the bead of the nation. Probably the most serious condition that the president faces Is that result lag from the continued failure of efforts to effect a complete fusion between his partisans and those of Zayas. For three years negotiations to this end have been la progress, and at least half a dozen times announcement has been made or their success. In the presidential campaign there was a truce, but, with the beginning of the distribution of offices The United States la to establish a great naval base at the Hawaiian under the new administration, mutual In the Paolflo ocean. Islands distrust was A few days ago General ' Gomez startled liberal leaders In a letter In which he stated that, so far as he was RECLAMATION LAWS TO STAND officially conoerned, he had decided to X. I I J .iub vuuaiucr iuhuu us a auuinuuimneuJ fact and In view of this, he would make appointments to his cabinet Senate Committee, After an Exhauswithout reference to the particular tive Investigation, Decides There MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SHOT faction of the liberal party to which Is No Reason for Charges. the appointee might have belonged. DOWN BY SHERIFF'S POSSE Changes. IN KENTUCKY. LARGE OFFICIAL FAMILY. Vice-Preside- Vice-Preside- BSTTLEIMIIEII 1 The Employes of Uncle Sam Exceed 370,000. . Washington. The personnel of Un ele Sam's establishment Is Increasing by leaps and bounds, the grand total of all fedaral employes being approxl mately 370,065, against 306,141 , In 1907, an Increase in the two years of These and 63.9?4, or 20 per cent other Interesting facts are brought out In the official register, or government "Blue Uook," for 1909, soon to be Is sued by the census bureau.. The District of Columbia leads all the states and territories In the num ber of persons working for the gov ernment in this city. Arizona is cred Ited with the smallest number nineteen whose - aggregate salaries amount to 125,226. " ... ' Washington, D. C After a trip of fifty days, during which practically all the government reclamation projects were inspected, the senate committee on Irrigation has come to the conclusion that It is Impracticable and impossible to make any modification In the reclamation act without the risk of losing many advantages of the present law. While the committee's report will not be ready for same time, the expressed opinion of the senators In the inspection trip was to that effect, according to Director F. H. Howell of the reclamation service, who has returned from the trip with the committee. The sentiment to expedite the work, If necessary by the Issue of bonds or other Interest-bearinobligations, is unanimous In the committee, and the senators are said to stand together on the demand that every dollar that has been spent by the government In the work of reclamation must be refunded. It Is considered impossible to amend the system for repayment already provided in the law. Accident Causes Eearthquake Rumors. San Francisco. The failure of an enema iu one ui me oig power nouses, caused by a shutting off of the feed water condenser. Interrupted all tele graphic and telephone commun'catlon with the outside world for a few min utes Saturday night, but Isolated San Francisco long enough to give rise to a flood of rumors throughout the coun REVOLUTION SPREADING. try that the Interruption had been eaused by an earthquake. For about Insurgent Forces Appear to Be Gaintwenty minutes the hundreds of wires ing Ground In Nicaragua. nrunlng east, north and south were In revolution Washington. The silent. Nicaragua Is spreading, In the opinion Enormous Production of Tobacco. of Captain Shipley, commander of the United States cruiser Des Moines, 'Washington. More than 150,000,-00- 0 which is off the east coast of Nicaraof pounds cigar tobacco and near gua. The revolutionary forces are ly four times that quantity of the reported to be maintaining an effecether types of tobacco was grown In tive blockade and are patrolling oft the United States In 1908, according with two gunboats. AssurGreytown to a bulletin issued by the department ance was given that American and ef agriculture. Kentucky leads - all foreign interests are being protected. the states In tobacco growing, producThese are the Important facts cond of the crop tained In a ing more than cablegram received at the or the country. While some tobacco navy department Thursday from the Is produced in almost every state, less commander of the Des Moines at than 1 per cent of this country's crop Port Llmon. Is grown west of the Mississippi river. Alleged Bomb Throwers Acquitted. Couldn't Hit e Balloon. Chicago. Vincent and Joseph Alt-maaccused of throwing a bomb New York. An anchored balloon sent up off Sandy Hook, at a continu- which wrecked the plant of the ation of the army's test of aerial war Standard Sash and Door company in fare, passed unscathed through a fire this city In 1906, were found not from a gun especially designed for guilty Thursday morning In Judge the purpose. Twenty shots in all were Tutbill's court. One of the sensafired, but none hit the bag. Results tions of the trial was the testimony of the experiment are being kept a of Bruno Verra, who declared that he brothers make secret. The balloon was Bred upon saw the defendant at a height of about 500 feet, but a bomb and knew that they had set whether the failure from the weapon's lire to a number of buildings as the Inefficiency or poor marksmanship agents of a labor union. Aa attempt was made to connect the defendants eould not be ascertained. with the repeated bomb throwing Labor Leaders Appeal to Higher which has marked the course of what Is known as the "gamblers' war" in Court. this city. On of Samuel behalf Washington. Uompers, John Mitchell and Frank Want Freight Pools. Morrison, the labor leaders, a petition President Taft re Washington. was filed In the supreme court of the ceived a of coal miners and delegation United States on Saturday for a writ on Wednesday, headed by operators t of ef certiorari requiring Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvanappeals of the District of Columbia ia and President Thomas L. Lewis of to certify to the nation's highest tribunal for Us revision and determina- the. United Mine Workers of America, tion the appeal by them la the famous who called to urge him to advocate some change In the Interstate com Bucks Stove A Range case. merce law that would allow railways to make freight pools or agreements Shot the Wrong Man. under government supervisions. InA to be believed Paris. man, sane and having an Imaginary grievFatal Fight at Dance. ance against the war department, shot Mobile. Ala. News has reached ind seriously wounded General Verand here of a fight at a Saturday night en Sunday, on the steps of the Hotel dance near Point Clear, In Ala., Continental, as the general was en which' two men were killed and two tor lag the building to attend a ban- Injured. The daughter of Simon Nelquet. The mail was arrested. Later son, at whose house the dance was It was learned that he tiad mistaken held, refused to dance wtth vmtnr General Verand for General Brun, man because she said he had been minister of war. The attempted as- drinking. He began cursing and the sassination created a sensation. . atht started g one-thir- . the-cour- . LIFE 1909.) Oomes Announces He Will Make Ap-- , polntments Without Considering Any Faction. m ATTACK, Family Feud Reaults In Terrible Tragedy, the Two Women Being Killed While Endeavoring to Prevent Capture of Relatives. Va. Williamson, W. the doorway of their Firing from home on a sheriff's posse to give their father and brother time to escape, Mrs. Charles Daniels and her daughter were shot to death near Devon, Mingo county, by the officers. The shooting of Mrs. Daniels and her daughter grew out , of a family feud between the Christians and Daniels on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia. The Christians lived in Mingo county, West Virginia, and the Daniels in Pike county, Kentucky. About three weeks ago, George Christian ventured to the Kentucky side and was slain by Jim. Daniels. Christian and Daniels were brothers-in-laand bad until recently been allies. After the killing of Christian the two families and their friends became Involved. The Christians obtained warrants for Jim Daniels and his brother Charles and led a posse of Pike county officers to the home of the Daniels. When the officers approached within a few feet of the house, Mrs. Daniels and her daughter opened fire with rllles. one of the posse receiving a bullet in the .arm. The Christians returned the fire. Mrs. Daniels was shot down In the door way, but the daughter stood over her mother's body and fired upon the posse, until she dropped dead across her mother, pierced by three bullets. The officers closed In, but by forfeiting their lives, the mother and daughter had so effectually covered the retreat of their father and brother that the latter made their escape. Courts Must Decide. Richmond, Va. The question whether a Japanese is a white man in the law meaning of the naturalization was vigorously debated In the United States court of appeals here Namyo Bessbo, former enlisted man and steward In the United States navy, Is an applicant for American The district attorney cltlenzshtp. maintains that he Is barred by the law which gives the right of ctlzenshlp to "all white persons and all those of African descent who are of good moral character." The case may not be decided for several days. Corporation Tax Will Bring Revenue Million. of Twenty-fivWashington. Corporation tax regulations are now complete and ready for the printer. It has been a great task to meet all the complexities of the law and expected attacks upon It by the corporations. Latest estimates Indicate a net revenue from the tax of approximately $25,000,-00annually and 122,000 corporations probably will have to pay the tax. e 0 -- Rats" Abolished. St. Louis. The thirty nurses at Mullanpny hospital began their labors Friday with only their rolled hair on their heads, following the order of Ulster Gabriel that all "foreign material" should be abolished. The injunction prohibiting "rats" was "The Isaued for sanitary reasons. tiny cap perched on a 'ratted' head," said one of tht sisters, "looks like a Sower oa a dlshpan." - President of Nicaragua Is Now Trying to Evade Consequences of His Acts and It Is Rumored He Will Retire. For First Time In Three Hundred Years tht British Peers Reject Finance Bill Passed by House. , London. The house of lords on Tuesday night, for the first time In 300 years, refused Its formal assent to the budget, thereby making It Illegal for the king's agents to collect taxes with which to carry on the government. This action of the peers was taken In direct disregard of the advice of such able members au Rose-berMoriey, Lord James of Her-forLord Cromer, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the Earl of Lytton, Lord Courtney and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. The budget will now go before the country" for its approval or rejection; that Is, the crown, through the ministry, will dissolve the house of commons and order a general election. Whether the present liberal house and ministry shall be sustained In Insisting on tbe budget will be the Issue in the contest at the polls. A llboral victory at tbe polls means an amendment of the constitution and curtailment of tbe hereditary privileges of the lords. San Salvador, Republic of Salvador. It Is reported here that when of President Zelaya Nicaragua learned of the Intention of the United States to seek reparation he vainly appealed to Mexico for help. Cablegrams received by the Italian minister here from Managua say that President Zelaya has offered to summon congress and place the presidency in Us bands, thus practically abdicating. States Washington. The United consul at Nicaragua has been threatened by President Zelaya and he has been granted permission to occupy the legation premises, as being more secure. It is rumored President Zelay will retire and possibly attempt to esFARMER8 SMA8H ALL RECORDS. cape from the country at night by the Pacific coast. Anarchy, It Is Total Value of Farm Products Estisaid, may ensue. Persistent rumors mated at 88,760,000,000. from Various quarters. indicate that Washington. Secretary of Agricul Irlas may succeed Zelaya as presiture Wilson,. In his annual report, dent of Nicaragua. says: The value of farm products Is CASTAWAYS RESCUED. so Incomprehensibly large that it has become merely a row of figures. For Members. of Crew of Gunboat Adrift this year it is 18,760,000,000, a gain of in Gig Are Picked Up. $869,000,000 over 1908. . The value of Washington. Five of the members the products has nearly doubled In of the deck crew of the gunboat Mari- ten years. The most, striking fact In the etta, who were adrift in a gig off Port Llmon, Costa Rica, were picked world's agriculture la the value of u by a rescue party of the Des the corn crop for 1909, which is about It nearly equals the Moines on Monday, according to a 11,720,000,000 dispatch received at the navy depart- value of the clothing and personal ment. The men had made their way adornments of 76,000,000 people, ac to the shore of Coleta point, about cording to the census of 1900. Cotton Is now the second crop In twenty miles from Point Llmon. The gig was not recovered. The nve men value and this year's cotton crop la adrift on the whaieboat of the Mar- easily the most valuable one to the ietta have not been heard of, but it Is farmer that has been produced. With thought their rescue will be reported cotton lint selling at 13,7 cents on soon, as searching parties have been the farm November 1 and with cotsent out for them. ton seed selling for about 25 per The men In the boats were missed ton, the lint and seed of this crop Friday, but as provisions are kept In are worth about $850,000,000 to the the boats, R is believed they have farmers. suffered little from hunger or tnlrst Third in value is wheat, worth about $725,000,000 at the farm, and KILLED BY NOBLEMAN. this largely exceeds all previous New Story Being Circulated Regard- values. The November farm price il" was almost an even dollar a bushel, ing the 8telnhell Case. a price which bail' not been equalled New York. Gossip In Paris, ac- since 1881. This Is the third wheat cording to a story brought to New crop In nolnt of size, with 125,000,000 Jork, mentions a Russian noblemap, bushels. who subsequently committed suicide, The hay crop Is valued at $605,000 as the slayer of Jacques Stelnhell, 000; oats at $400,000,00; potatoes at whose wife recently was acquitted of $200,000,000. and tobacco at nearly the crime and is now supposed to be $100,000,000. Beet and cane sugar In England. and molassea and syrup, from farm According to the story,' this noble- and factory, will reach the total o( man was trapped in the Stelnhell about $05,000,000. Tbe bailey crop Is mansion by tne husband and in a worth $88,000,000; flax seed. $36,000,. and 1,000,000,000 pounds of rice, fight which followed, Stelnhell was 000, killed. Stelnhell's mother, in the $25,000,000. The production of all cereals commeantime, the novel suggestion con- bined Is 4.711.000.000 bushels, an tinues, ran into the room and died amount considerably greater than rather from fright or from strangula- that for any other year except 190U. tion after swallowing her false teeth. SWITCHMEN STRIKE. City Must Protect Citizens Vested Rights. Thirteen Railroads Tied Up as Result Washington. The supreme court of of Demands of Men. the United States on Monday upheld St, Paul, Minn. After fifteen days the finding of the supreme court of of negltlations between the Switchidaho in a case Involving the ques- men's Union of North America and tion as to whether a city has the the Joint committee of railroad manright to lay out streets so aa to en- agers, representing thirteen railroads croach upon private property. The of the northwest, a strike Involving action was brought to compel Louis 2,300 switchmen became effective at tu. Squler to remove buildings which $ o'clock Tuesday night. encroached -- four feet on a street In The men are employed by railroads tne town of Lewlston. It was shown west and north of St Paul, running Uiat the property had been occupied from Lake Superior to the Pacific by Squler before the town was laid coast, and unless speedily settled, the out, and the Idaho supreme court strike will mean a serious Interrupaeld that under those conditions the tion of traffic streets could not be so run by the The first effect of the strike was a surveyor as ,to deprive the occupants sharp bulge In the price of wheat la of vested rights. the Chicago grain market. Reforms In Naval Circles. Abe Ruef Wants Freedom. Washington. Heeding the cry tor San Francisco. Abraham Ruef, the reform in naval affairs, Secretary former "political boss" of this city, Meyer will at once Inaugurate the has petitioned the superior court tor most sweeping changes In the navy release on ball, on the ground that department since the establishment his continued confinement pending an of the bureau system In 1842. Himwhich he has made to the apself a former director of banks and appeal court has greatly Impaired his pelate manufacturing companies, he hopes health. The petition Is based on the to put the department on a business statement of twenty physicians who basis beyond the dream of his prede announced that his Incarceration In cessors.-- The keynote of his reforms Jail where he ban branch the county Is the subordination of the bureau been confined for several months was chief. undermlnlug bis health. American Bilks Frenchmen. Child Csnnot Be Held for Debt. Paris. A wealthy peasant of Ar- Fresno, Cal. By writ of babeal genteull has lodged a complaint of corpus, Mrs. Minnie Sprang has re fraud against Leon Goldsmith, alleged or her to be an American doctor, to whom gained possession Ruth, held by Mr. and daughter. the plaintiff claims he gave 116,000 Mrs. Frank D. Holland, for debt. Th tor an Interest In a project to obtain Hollands claimed $50 for care of th gold from river. sand. The peasant child. Judge Church, who issued tht - Goldsmith declar placed in the said that In this civilized ag writ, the samples of gold dust river of a child under lien or which fie afterward recovered for ex- the holding Is not to be thought chattel mortgage hibition. Goldsmith has disappeared. - : rour-year-ol- d : Guards Flee In Terror Leaving Manacled Man Who Faces Peril Bravely. the" Vienna. A Servian prisoner, under sentence of death, but now reprieved, owes his life to a wild boar. H happened thus: The prisoner was being escorted by guards to Belgrade Jail from a village outside the city. WhUe passing through Rakov'ts Forest the wild boar appeared and charged the party ferociously. The escort promptly scattered, leaving tbe prisoner manacled and helpless. He received some severe wounds from the brute's tusks, being unable to defend himself or run away. When the home minister beard of tjki The Escort Promptly Scattered, Leaving the Prisoner Fanacled and Helpless. the man's adventures be granted a reprieve and the man Is In the hospital recovering from bis hurts. HOW DISRAELI WAS ELECTED The Part That Mrs. Wyndham Lewis Took In the Maidstone Election. , The first time I really made Lord Beaconfleld's acquaintance was after my first marriage, at Lady Stanhope's, when I sat next to him at dinner, says Lady St. Helen In Harper's magazine. He was very kind to me, while I was shy and nervous at my proximity to the great man; but he wss specially sympathetic, as Col. Stanley bad Just stood (unsuccessfully) as conservative candidate at the election for Maidstone wss the first constituency which returned Lord Reaconsficld to parliament, and he had shown his Interest in Col. Stanley's candidature by writing a letter to him, which In those days was rather an unusual occurrence. I found on talking over the names of our supporters that some of them were well known to him. But I did not like to tell htm a story connected with bis own election which our agent had told me, as Mr. Wyndham Lewis, Mrs. Disraeli's first husband, was his colleague and was defeated. The elections then lasted for several days and on the closing day the conservative agent was standing In the garden of the little Inn which was the headquarters of the conservative candidate. Mr. Disraeli come Into the garden where Mrs. Wyndham Lewis and the agent were sitting, and throwing himself down on the grass, exclaimed that if he was not elected for MaldBtone bis career would be ruined. Mrs. Lewis, in great agtla-tlowent Into the house, leaving the two men together, and she waylaid the conservative agent as he was leaving the hotel, and pressed a small parcel Into his hands, saying, at whatever cost, Mr. Disraeli must be returned at the head of the polL Our chairman used always to relate with great delight endless Incidents connected with that election at Maidstone,, and spoke of Mrs. Wyndham Lewis' evident admiration and devotion to Mr. Disraeli, and that her great object all through had been to get Mr. Disraeli n, returned. What They Missed. "Adam and Eve must have felt heart broken when they were turned out of the Garden of Eden." "No doubt And yet matter might have been worse." "I don't 'understand you." "They didn't meet a bunch of news paper reporters at the gate who In slated on knowing how it all hap pened. . |