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Show NOTICE 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. The panish Fork Press SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY JUNE 3, VOL. VIII. NO. 20. TAFT FLOODS FOLLOW TOUCHED THAT GOLD FIERCE FIST KEY ON OPENED EXPOSITION FIGHT OCCURS FLOOR THE OF Two Oklahoma Towns Devastated by High Winds and Rainstorm Which Swept Over Wide Area. At Least Fifteen People Met Death, While Many Were Injured, it Be- - .. tng Estimated Two Hundred '" Are Left Homeless. Oklahoma City, Okla. At least fifteen people were killed Saturday night la a tornado that devastated the Oklahoma towns of Key West and Forty or more were injured. At least ten were killed in . Key West. That figure Is confirmed by a De-pe- number of people who fled before the Btorm. Five are dead at Depew. The tornado swept over a wide stretch ol farming country. Following the wind came a deluge of rain. Floods then added to the ter rible situation. The wreckage of Key West soon wan overwhelmed by the rising waters. Practically nothing wai left of the town of 200 inhabitants. The residence of J. I. Hart was demolished after being rolled over a hall dozen times with the occupants ln side. Every member of the family was injured. Mrs. Hart's back was broken, a little girl's leg was wrenched from her thigh and Hart and two children were seriously injured. Depew was destroyed by a double-twiste- r that formed from that striking Key West and from another coming from the east. The tornado wiped out Depew and then pushed on northeast, presumably spending, its force a few miles further on. At an early hour Saturday after noon was witnessed most unusual phenomena. Small tornadoes rapidly followed one another. They rose blgh Into the air, circled about and dipped. As many as five were observed during the display. The little tornadoes had spent their force when the big one came- - along at, o'clock. i TEXAS TOWN DESTROYED. Killed and Many Others Injured as Result of Tornado. Brown wood, Texas. A tornado of great fury struck the little village of Zephyr, la the eastern portion of Brown county, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, and left a path of death and The destruction seldom paralleled. death list has reached a total of thirty-two- , and the number of seriously and fatally injured will reach fifty. The storm formed half a mile southwest of Zephyr and swept down upon the village, cutting a wide, swath directly through the residence and business districts. Nearly fifty houses were entirely demolished. Lightning started a conflagration Which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was made to fight the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded the attention of every one. Thirty-tw- o Idahoan Stood Up for Rights. Seattle, Wash. Because he object ed to the erection of a selling booth on the grounds allotted to his state, A. D. McKlnlay, commissioner from exIdaho to the position, was arrested and escorted from the .fair grounds by exposition guards. A protest was Immediately lodged by friends of Mr. McKlnlay with Exposition President J. E. Chll-berand Director General I. A. The result was that an apology was offered to Mr. McKlnlay and the booth was ordered from the Idaho grounds. . Alaska-Yukon-Paclf- Na-dea- WORK OF ARKANSAS MOB. Unable to Capture a Negro Murderer, They Lynch His Brother. Portland, Ark. A posse of citizens on Sunday lynched Joe Blakely, a negro, brother of Sam Blakely, who hot and killed Deputy Sheriff Cain near here Saturday morning. Unable to catch the alleged murderer of Cain, the posBe lynched the brother, after he declared that he Intended to "got" Bud Harper, who had killed the Blake ly brothers' dog. Trouble over the dog resulted In Cain death and the lynching followed. Vice Admiral Urlu Wants Peace. Washington. Vice Admiral Sotokl-ch- l Urlu of the Japanese navy and Baroness Urlu returned to Washington Sunday from Annapolis, lite ad miral and the baroness In the evening were the guests of the Japanese ambassador and the Baroness Takahlra, Admiral Urlu said: 'You ask of war? I speak only for peace. Why should not this great nation have all of that and more? It hus abundant resources, It has wlxdnm to guide. To me it Is a great happiness 19 br among you, for I lore th's gienl nation o' the west." Thrown Open to the ..Great Multitude Being Present Tl IJ volved In Rough c Seattle, Wash. The exposition that cost $10,000,-00and the first sod of which was turned exactly two years ago, was officially opened at noon on Tuesday, June ' 1, with fitting splendor and ceremony with a great multitude In attendance. In the east room of the White House lu the presence of a distinguished gathering of diplomats, President Taft opened the exposition by touching a gold key, studded with gold nuggets taken from the first mine A hearty opened In the Klondike. cheer from the assembled guests followed the flash of the electric circuit to the other side of the continent. The military parade, the speeches, President Taft's signal, the magic response all were carried out exactly and Tumble President Alaskan-Yukon-Pacifi- . as planned.. When James J. Hill was Introduced In the opening exercises, a tumult ensued that recalled the demonstrations for favorites at national political conventions, except that here 40,000 peo- ple were cheering spontaneously for only one man, who waited several minutes before he could begin his address. The management In their nicely, calculated program had omitted to count on this ovation, and when President Taft pressed the golden key at noon, and touched off the high signal gong he cut short Bishop Keator's A striking feature of benediction. the parade was the popular applause for the Japanese visitors of the cruisers Aso and Soya. HEINZE'S LIEUTENANT JAILED. Must Remain in Prison Until Missing Books of Copper Company Are Restored. New York. George Baglln, of the United Copper company, was taken to the Tombs prison on Tuesday and must remain there under an order oT Judge Lacombe of ' ta VnlteSts4eMlfltr1ct"e5tifritit missing books of the company, which contain evidence In the case of F. Augustus Heinze. are produced. A similar punishment hangs over San-for- d Robinson, a prominent director or the company, whose case will be further considered by Judge Lacombe Wednesday. Both men are alleged to have permitted the spiriting , away of the books that were under subpoena. Baglln testified before the Brand tnrw that he had overheard Robinson and one or the Heinze brothers conspiring to remove the books' and had Interposed no objection. EDITORS SCORE A POINT. Government Must Prove Malice In the Indianapolis News Editorials. Indianapolis. Delavan Smith and Charles Williams, editors of the Indianapolis News, on Tuesday success-full- y resisted, for the moment at least, their removal to the District of Columbia to stand trial for criminal libel on account of publishing articles Intimating that there was enormous graft In the Panama canal purchase. Lawyers for the publishers denied malice In the stories and editorials complained of. They gained from Judge Anderson a ruling that should be Introduced to this effect. The defendants committed no offense for which they could be removed to another district for trial, they said. Attorneys for the government vigorously resisted the Introduction of testimony, but were overruled. evl-den- Two Men Arrested Springfield, 111. A pugllistlo encounter between State Senator Jame A. Hensoa and Thomas Sheridan, an In which assistant sergeant-at-eras- , blood was spilled, marked the closiif hours of the senate session early Sunday morning. The general assembly wtt in a deadlock on tie question of sine die adjournment and the fight' occurred wLen Senator Hensou attempted to leave the senate chamber after he bad been refused permission to t. it Principal Speaker ' at Unveiling of Monument to Men Who Fought at Gettysburg; Declares That Services of Regular Army Have Never Been Commemorated Adequately by Congress ' or the Nation. The dedication ot regulars who fought at Gettysburg was the occasion , Senator Henson attempted to open which brought President Taft to this the locked doors, when Sheridan, who city, on Monday, May 31, a grateful is young and athletic, caught him if congress having somewhat tardily the arm. According to Sheridan, Uov caused to be erected a $200,000 shaft son thereupon turned and struck him In the bloody angle where the regulars In the face. A moment later the two bore the brunt ot the fighting upon were Involved In a rough and tumble the last day at Gettysburg. The imposing shaft of granite was fight. At the steps leading to the main floor both fell. They were unveiled by the president's daughter, dragged apart, while Senator Heard, Miss Helen H. Taft, while the president an soldier, begged paid tribute to officers and men of them to "remember Illinois," and not the United States army, past and disgrace the senate. Senator Henson present The president put himself squarely rose, his face bleeding, and started at Sheridan, but was restrained and fur- on record as opposed to any reduction ther trouble was averted. Later apol in the standing army. He told or the has arisen prejudice that often ogles were made by all concerned. . against the possible aggressions or a regular army and a professional solPATTEN'S DEAL SUCCESSFUL. diery, and of the corresponding diffiBull Leader in Chicago Pit Satisfied culty in arousing that love and pride of the army which expreBse Itself With a Profit of a Million Dollars. today, and has frequently expressed Chicago. What Is generally conced- Itself In the past in behalf of the navy. ed to have been the most successful The president asserted that the serwheat deal in the annals of the Chi- vices of the regular army have never by cago board of trade, closed Saturday, been commemorated adequately nation. or the congress of without and it closed squeezing ' "The of arms always shorts, which in other' days was wont has beenprofession an honorable one," he deto furnish a show to the gallery vis- clared. "All honor to the regular army itors and leave La Salle street stag- of the United States. Never In its gering. history has it had a stain upon its esJames A. Patten during Saturday's cutcheon." from On the way to Gettysburg brief session made a fixed price of $1.34 a bushel. Through bis pit clerk, Pittsburg, the president's car was "Ed" Walker, he bought or sold at sidetracked at York for two hours, his stay be made a brief that price, but the buying was almost and during which he declare again his address la on He his part. purely .theoretical hove-- for .the earirenacUuent .or a did' take In a few thousand bushels tariff law. "if the Lord will only be from some "trailer" who waited until good and send some real hot weather the last moment for his profits, but in June." In the main, tie disposed of about a Four regiments of the regular army half million to shorts who had hoped were here to participate in the exer against hope to the last .moment, and cises. There also was a personal es then, in the parlance of the pit, "took cort to the president, composed ot their medicine." veterans of the regular army who Mr. Patten has made a fortune,, how fought in the Gettysburg campaign. much he cannot say until his cash The president arrived Hhortly before wheat Is marketed. His own admis- 10 o'clock and was taken for a drive 0 sion, however, seenis to make $1,000,-00- over the battlefield. At several points a conservative estimate. It may he alighted and stood on the promi run much larger. The losses, It is nences overlooking the valley below said, have fallen mostly on profes- and the mountains In the far dis sional speculators. , ' tance. to his private car for Returning WIZARD OF THE AIR. luncheon, he remained until the ar of his daughter from Washing' Count Zeppelin Travels 456 Miles In rival Miss Taft came with the secre-tar- y ton. His New Airship Without Landing. of war and Mrs. Dickinson. In Berlin. Count Zeppelin, whose" re- the party from the capital were also otnceri or me markable performances In his first air- many distinguished army. ship brought unbounded honor to the The ceremonies of the unveiling Inventor, on Sunday accomplished tho were slmDle. Miss Taft pulled the silk most striking feat in his career. He en cord that released the flags draped guided his Zeppelin II from Frledrlchs-hafe- n about the monument and the magnitv to Bltterfeld, a distance of more cent shaft ot granite was exposed to than 456 miles, without landing. the view ot the applauding ' throng. Journey lasted nearly twenty-twMontana Mining Man Suicides. hours. ' Mont Walter Mesch, Sheridan, Count Zeppelin, who personally was la charge of the airship and whose aged 40 years, a prominent mining band was at the tiller during the man of this part of the state, commit suicide Sunday afternoon by stab, greater part of the Journey, had not ted In the heart with a hlnsr allowed a word to be made public rel- Dockethimself Mr. Mesch had not kinlfe. ative to his Intention to undertake an been feeling well for some time past. endurance trip. It was, however, and it Is believed was not in complete common knowledge that he purposed possession of his faculties when he to seize the first favorable op port u. killed himself. His brother was the nlty to proceed to Berlin in his newest only one In the room with him at tho craft, Zeppelin II, which was rebuilt time, and although he immediately to displace the one destroyed near tried to prevent him from stabbing Ethterdlngen. himself, was too late. Madden Fined $500 for American Steamer Saved from Dan "Skinny" Bribery In Connection With Strike. gerous Position by Wireless. hours of Chicago. After forty-siGuaymas, Mexico. Through the use almost constant wrangling, the jury of wireless telegraphy the American In the case of Martin ("Skinny") steamer Precursor, rendered helpless t. Madden, M. J. Boyle and F. A. by a broken propeller, was rescued labor leaders, charged with from a dangerous position ana tawca strike grafting, on Saturday brought intn this nnrt nn Sunday. The Pro- In a verdict or guilty, fining each of cursor had drifted aimlessly for three the defendants $500. The long delay Hnvii when a. wire ess communication was A la' Bald to have been due to the In- was bad with this port. the tug steamer annt nut ami brought ability or the twelve men to find a to port. Some of the passengers bad common ground or punishment. Maduncontrollable jrom rear ano den almost collapsed when the ver- become locked In their staterooms. be to had dict was read. lie was scarcely able to rpeak. Religious Crank Gets Twenty-fivYears for Murder. An Idaho Tragedy. Kansas jury In the City. Mo.-- The Idaho Falls, Idaho. John Lamp, In the early hours of Saturday morning, case of James Sharp, or "Adam God, truck down his wire. May Lamp, charged with the murder of Policeman while asleep In bed, with a hammer, Michael Mullane In a religious riot morn and then committed suicide by taking here December 8 last. Saturday of or verdict a returned carbolic acid. Mrs. Lamp Is In a pre- lug murder in tho second degree, ana carious condition and no hopes are was sentenced to twenty-flventertained for her recovery. The Sharp veurs In tho penitentiary. When the victim's head was crushed by the vonllet man read. Sharp It heard blow. No cause can be assigned for without show of emotion. "That's all tho tragedy other than Lamp, durln? he. "It's the will ot the ntist winter, sat on a Conner's right," said case The God." against Sharp's wife, jury, which Is supposed to have Mellasa, will com u. noon. turned his mind. de-par- Gettysburg, Pa. a monument to, the . o . Conference on Trusts. Washington. Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, conferred with President Taft on Tues-daconcerning Investigations in his bureau, Mr. Smith says some Investigations have been on foot for years and only the Inadequacy of his forces prevented the clearing up 'of all the matters, at once. The steel trust and Its business, the harvester tniHt and - all machinery combinations, cotton exchanges, lumwater transportation, water ber, powers and tobacco are the principal matters under Investigation. y Good Football Player But No Jurist. footWashington. "Too much of ball player and not enough of lawyer" Is the sealed verdict of the senate committee In the csbo of George W. Woodruff, nominated some weoks ago as federal judge for Hawaii. In consequence 'of this verdict, the committee has declined to report ihe nomination of Mr. Woodruff and the nomination remains p'geon holed In the committee room. Unless there Is a change of sentiment among membori of the coninilt.ee, the nomination Is r" likely to be reported. x Pou-cho- e 3 Omaha Are Identified by Engineer and Fire- man as Men Who Forced Them to 8top Train. ,y.; s Sergeant-at-Arm- Fight. . T TO State Senator Hanson of Illinois and InAssistant Exposition Public, a Alaska-Yukon-Pacif- n SENATE T - Entered Feb. II. 1902. as second-clamatter, Post Office at Spanish Fork, Utah. Act of Congress March t, 1171. TUFT'S TRIBUTE FEARFUL TORNADO The- 1909. In Negro Fireman Was the Cause of the Trouble, and He Waa 8plrltd Away From 8cene to Prevent Lynching. Omaha, Neb. Frederick Torgensen and W; D. Woods, under arrest here, have been Identified as two of the men who robbed the. Union Pacific Overland limited Saturday night, May 22. Engineer Mlckeljohn and Fireman Prowl Identified them as the bandits who crawled over the tender of their engine and forced them to stop the Atlanta, Oa, The first violence to railroad property In the Georgia railroad firemen's strike occurred Friday at Lit linight A moving freight-traion ha, Ga was attacked. In consequence the race issue loomed up more sharply than before. A negro fireman was apparently the cause of the trouble, and he was rushed to Attrain. on an engine to save him from lanta A man living In the vicinity of the a mob. The train was stoned and men as robbery identified the suspects then boarded by men who set the he bad seen examining the ground In brakes and broke It into three secor a the before district that twq day tions. hold-up- . The engine left tor Llthonla to bring Bight registered mall pouches taken a tralnload or perishable provisions lim from the Union Pacific Overland into Atlanta. Assurances had been ited on May 22 were found In the that in the interest or local attic of the Brown Park school in given whose valuable cargoes were shippers South Omaha. tied up, no demonstration would be This and other developments in the made these cars to hold up Investigation have caused the Atlanta.against hauling the engine When, however, police officials to assert that in Woods reached Llthonla Its negro fireman Gordon and Torgensen they have the was seen. About 200 people gathered men who robbed the train. Chief of at the station and Just as the train Police Biggs said he expected to se- was getting under way the mob which cure a confession from one ot the had gathered began a bombardment with stones, and soon secured control prisoners. The mall pouches had been opened or the train. The race Issue has developed In and every letter and package rifled. The robbers replaced the letters in what constitutes Its two strongest the envelopes after removing the holds on the southern people. The first waa the unanimity shown by an money and other valuables. entire community In resenting the to UKlng of negroes In a capacity CHILD SAVES MOTHER'S LIFE. which they objected. The other senHeld Her Head Above Water Until timent was the determination of employers to stand loyally by negroes Help Came. who have rendered them a long and Stockton. Cal. Mrs. Warren Jones, faithful service. wife of a well known farmer, and the IDAHO BONDS PLACED. son of his sister, Mrs. Isaac Robinson, lost their lives in an automobile accident near Stockton, Tues- State Treasurer Dlsposee of Issue Authorized by Last Legislature. day. They were drowned when the automobile was overturned in two Treasurer Idaho. State Boise, feet of water. Hastings has returned from a trip to Mrs. Robinson was saved from Denver and Chicago, where he had drowning by her daughter, a child been to interview E. H. Rollins ft of 7 or 8, who held her head above Sons, who purchased the majority ot water until the farmers came and the Idaho state bonds authorized by raised the machine. the last legislature and amounting to The - automobile was - driven by $430,000. Isaac 'Bobinsbnr"ahd wtth " htm were "' A portion of these bonds had been Mrs. turned down by Charles B. Wood, the his wife and his sister-in-law- , Warren Jones, and their two little recognized leading bond attorney In children. Nearing the bridge across the city of Chicago, on the ground Middle river, the machine skidded on that the levy provided was not suffa high embankment and went Into the icient to establish a sinking fund for water. The occupants were caught the payment of the bonds, but was beneath the heavy machine. Mr. Rob- amended through other legislative enand actments. Theso constitutional inson was badly injured. other objections which for a time BRYAN MULE IN NEVADA. threatened to invalidate the bond sale and leave Idaho Institutions without funds for building, were met Goldfleld Democrats Now In Possession of Mascot. INCREASE OF VICE. Goldfleld. Nev. The Bryan mule the mascot awarded by William Jen- Charge Made That Americans Are Renings Bryan to Goldfleld as the dissponsible for Spread of Vice In trict showing the greatest Democratic Havana. gain at the last election, arrived here has been a markHavana There Friday In charge of a student of the ed increase In immoral performances Nebraska university and was turned at the theatres of Havana, accomover to the chairman, Jack McLaughof vice panied by a general lin, of the county central committee. and an outbreak or spread since gambling The mule was given Bryan last year the American came to an, occupation during the campaign by the students end. In order to counteract there of Minnesota Agricultural college and tendencies, a meeting was held Frihas been in the candidate's posses- day night at the residence or Bishop sion until shipped a week ago. No one Estrada. Many prominent ctttoens has yet essayed to ride it, owing to were present, and a society tor the reports of Its trlcklness. It Is said prevention or vice was formed. to have caused an army officer who mounted It to spend several weeks Congratulates Lawyers Who Secured In the hospital. Indictments Against Haskell. General Attorney Washington. s. Preparing for Dry Farming Wickersham on Friday sent a tele-graor congratulation to United ' Mont. Although the States Attorney Gregg and Special AsBillings, will sistant Rush at Tulsa, Okla., aixin fourth Dry Farming congress not convene at Billings until next their 'success under adverse condiOctober 2G, 27 and 28, there are al- tions, in securing Indictments against ready several candidates among the Governor Haskell and others charged cities of the west for the fifth ses- with fraud in the Muskogee town lot sions. Among the first communities cases. The attorney general said that of great to start campaigns for the next con- the counsel were deservingwhich with credit for the they gress are San Antonio, Texas, and had handled aability situation. trying busiSan Antonio Douglas, Arizona, ness men are making arrangements Expect Floods In Idaho. to send a large delegation to Billlate spring Idaho. The Boise. ings. Supervisor G. J. McCabe ot spells floods In southern Idaho to Palmerlee, ' Arizona, member of the" those who have made a practice of of the Dry executive - committee watching such things from year to Farming congress for that territory, snowfall wss has announced his Intention of bring- year. Last winter the heavier than usual. While there are ing a big delegation here to secure no official measurement, It Is stated the fifth congress for Douglas. by people living In the South Idaho mountains than the fall was a third Good Roosevelt Having Shooting. neavlcr than for many years past, East Africa A comparatively little of this snow hss Nairobi. British staff correspondent or the Associated melted. When hot weather comes it Press returned to Nairobi Monday will take the snowbnnks down with morning, after a two days' visit at a rush and the streams will be sudthe Roosevelt, camp as the guest of denly filled with flood waters. Mr. Roosevelt. The camp was located MAY ABANDON TUNNEL. on the Heatly ranch, on the banks of the Nairobi river. Mr. Roosevelt and Cave-iof Tunnel at Tennessee Past his son, Kermlt, are in remarkably Now Extends to Surfice. good health, and they are delighted Grand Junction. Colo. It is reportwith the success of their expedition. of the Denver The accuracy of the rifle fire of Mr. ed here that the cave-IRoosevelt and his son has astonished A R'o Grande railroad tunnel at Tennot only the settlers, but the mem- nessee pass now extends to the surbers of the party. Kermlt killed re- face, three hundred feet above the tunnel level, and that the constantly cently at close range a hyena that ground mav necessitate the had attacked him, and he has also caving of the tunnel. The rucome near making a record bag ot abandonment to be based on the refemale wart bogs In a given space mor purports port of Chief Engineer Klcard, who ot time. is In charge of the work at the pass. . . 1 Con-gres- n |