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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS ANDREW JEN?EN, Publisher - - SPANISH FORK IH DAILY STALE HELD UP GROWING WORSE about 2,500 Emery county will on May 25. land coal acres of patented The horse fair at Logan has been postponed until Saturday, the 20th JnBt Statistics just Issued show that immigrants arrived in Utah the past year. Miss Ada Chamberlain, of Vernal, suffered a broken leg in a runaway near that place. The Elks of Salt Lake added 11,000 to the charity fund by their two en tertainments given last week. The. annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Salt Lake City on May 1C. Salt Lake City by the first of June will have one of the most modern and best equipped gas plants in the country. Jakka Njaagaanes, a Finlander, aged 14, was killed at Bingham by an ore train which was running from Urn mines to the depot. Utah educators will have headquarters of their own at the convention of the National Educational association to be held at Los Angeles this summer. The descendants of the late Parley P. Pratt held a big family reunion in Salt Lake City on the 12th In observance of Mr. Pratts 100th anni- the Famine Not Half Told, as Fully Five Thousand Persons are Dying Daily. Horror of Bell versary. It is claimed that there Is no county In the state of Utah that is doing more in the line of farm settlements and land improvement this year than Millard county. Two masked men held up Walter Sellg, the bartender of the Healy bar, In Ogden, and secured about C5 in cash and several hundred dollars worth of jewelry. A petition to the secretary of war is being circulated in Wasatch county, requesting the secretary of war to not dismantle Fort Duchesne and to keep the troops there. son of Mr. and The Mrs. William C. Meelor, of Fayette, had his hand shot to pieces by his twelve-year-ol- d brother while the two boys were playing with a gun. Several Lehi citizens have formed a company and will erect an opera house and dance hall the coming summer. The enterprise will be thoroughly modern and will cost about nine-year-ol- d . , 840,000. . The Daughters of .the Pioneers of Utah held an interesting and important meeting in their quarters at the Lion house, in Salt Lake City laBt week, at which all the old officers were The supreme court decided last week that terms of the district court can only be held at the times fixed by law, and that when terms are held at other times all Judgments entered are invalid. Martin Baburic, who had been in the asylum at Provo Bince last September, was deported to Hungary last week, it having been discovered that he had been in an asylum before com ing to the United States. Injured twice within four months by street car accidents, E G. Lock wood has. evidently decided that he will try to shake of the hoodoo which seems to hang over him by suing the Ogden Street Car company fur 4,000 damages. The steamer Cliff Dweller, which hss been in use on the Green river for a year or two is to be dismantled and removed to Salt Lake, where she will be launched and used as a pleasure boat at Saltalr beach during the coming season. By a fractious horse jumping off the roadway in Ogden canyon into the raging torrent of the Ogden river. Miss Rose Phillip, of Ogden, was drowned, her body being found three miles down the river from where the accident occurred. A lone highwayman attempted to hold up the San Pedro station agent at Payson, but failed to secure anything of value, owing to the pluckl-sea- s of AgcntWelch, who fought the would-b- e robber off and saved the company' money. Mrs. Alfreds E. lloolcy, who shot and killed her husband In Salt Lake City, will probably spend the remainder of her days In the Insane asylum st Provo, she having been adjudged Insane by the commission appointed to Investigate her case. Ogden' new federal building Is completed, so far as the walls and the roof are concerned, and the plastering ia all done. Workmen are now putting In the wainscoting, the inter lor cornice and finishing up the laterior of atl the floors. Alfred Hansen, of Logan, fell a distance of 30 feet through an open skylight in a building on which he was working, fracturing his skull and breaking both wrists. In falling he struck August Christensen, a fellow workman, and broke his leg. TD MINKS ANl)inilA LIABLE JLUU China. Telegrams reShanghai, ceived here, from twenty points In the famine district, report that the condl-- . lions are growing worse. The Chinese government and people up to date have contributed over four million dollars for famine relief and the Bums received from all foreign sources total half a million dollars, Including the supplies on their way from America. There are fifty missionaries, with the higher class of Chinese, engaged in overseeing the relief distribution. Confudanlsta, Catholics and Protestants are working together. The telegraph officials are carrying free all messages to and from the relief works and the steamship companies are furnishing free transportation for supplies of food, etc., for the sufferers. Twenty thousand of the famine sufferers are employed In building dams and canals to prevent a reoccurrence of the floods. committee here Is The relief promptly Bending supplies to the front, but the funds are not yet in its possession. Measures, adopted up to date, are Inadequate. Ten million persons are suffering from lack of food and facing starvation. Whole families have been found dead In their houses and corpses are seen lying by the roadside. Probably five thousands persous are dying dally from starvation. A few casps of rioting for food have occurred and cannibalism is beginning 10 be reported. Parents are exchang Ing their children to be eaten. A do) lar, the relief committee reports, will save one life until the harvest, June The 25, and $10,000,000 is needed. whole amount cannot be raised in China. The situation is desperate and Americans are urged to give $1,000, 000 in the next three weeks, not for Chrlr tlan, but for humanitarian work. Work of Nervy Highwayman Near Zcrtman, Montana, Nets Him $28,000. Believed to be a Member of the Kid Curry Gang of Train Robbers and ' Horse Thieve Who Held up a Great Northern Train. Great Falls, Mont. The stage running between Malta and Zortman was held up by a lone bandit, according to a telephone message received here, and a sum estimated at about $28,000 Is said to have been secured. The message gave no details of the daring robbery other than that it occurred just north of Zortman, and the stage was entering the Little Rockies with a consignment of money to pay the wages of the miners at the Zortman mines. The robbers apparently has five or six hours start of a posse mounted upon1 the fastest horses to be had, which left Malta Immediately upon The loreceipt of word of the hold-up- . cation is in a particularly lonely spot in the mountains, affording every opportunity for the shelter and escape of the bandit. One man commanding a trail there could almost hold a halt dozen men at bay for hours. Some member of Kid Currys gang of train robbers and horse thieves is Six years suspected of the bold-up- . ago the Curry gang held up a Great Northern train, in the vicinity of Malta, securing 843,000. Many of the pals of Kid Curry Is still live In northern Montana. JAMES ECKELS CALLED. Former . EVELYN TURNED AWAY. Second Grand Jury Refused to Indict the Congressman. Baton Rouge, La. Democratic Congressman George K. Favrot was set free Thursday night, after having la Found Guilty of One Thousand, Four Hundred and Sixty-threCount of Indictment w e of Currency Comptroller Found Dead In Bed. Chicago. James II. Eckels, president of the Commercial National bank of this city and formerly comptroller BUTCHERS WILL TRY AGAIN. of the currency, died here Sunday o( Meat Packing Industry May Be Tied heart disease. Mr. Eckels died while asleep in his bed. Up By Strike. The fact that he was dead was disChicago. Butcher workmen, who covered by the butlep, who entered tied up the meat packing Industry Mr. Eckels room after hearing a telethroughout the country In 1904, and phone within ring continuously withwho finally suffered defeat in the out receiving an answer. Other mem bers of the family were summoned etruggle, have been organizing for Dr. Frank S. Churchill gave it as his several months, and it is said are opinion that Mr. Eckels had been about to present demands to the dead for some hours. Mr. Eckels was born at Princeton. The packing house butch-er- a packers. in South Omuha, St. Louis, East 111., November 23, 183G, and most ot SL Louis, St. Joseph and to a certain his life had been spent in Illinois. Ha extent In Kansas City and SL Paul received an early education in the are joined with the Chicago butchers school of his native city, later taking in the movement. up the study of law at Albany, N. Y A meeting of the Amalgamated graduating from the Albany law school In 1880. He practiced law at Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America Is to be held in New York Ottawa, III., until appointed by President Cleveland to the post of comp April 22 to fix a date for concerted troller of the currency In 1893. action In presenting the demands. Mr. Eckels during the agitation ot the currency question became promRAN INTO THE RIVER. inent as an advocator of gold standDisastrous Train Wreck In Oregon In ard. Always a Democrat, he became affiliated in 1896 with the gold stand Which Four Meet Death. ard Democrats. He retained the office La Grande, Ore. Westbound pas- of comptroller of the currency until end of President Clevelands term senger train No. 5. ran into the Uma- the in 1897, when he became president ol tilla river fourteen miles east of Pen- the Commercial National bank ot this dleton, causing the death of Fireman city. McPartrldge, two unknown tramps Shoots Three In a Fit of Anger. and an unknown Greek laborer, and New York. Angered because he had the Injury of a number of passengers. The train was rounding the curve been reproved for leaving a window near Cayse station when the filling, open near his bed at night. Frederick loosen by recent heavy rains, gave Matthown shot and probably fatally way, precipitating the engine, tender wounded his nephew, George Hoffman, and two mall cars into the Umatilla with whom he had lived, Mrs. Hoffman river. The body of the fireman Is be- and Arthur Goubelman, a nephew ot lieved to be in the river. Engineer the Hoffmans. Mattheson had been Fred Schllke of La Grande escaped ill for some time and had been cared death by jumping, but both legs were for at his nephews home In the broken, and he is believed to be in- Bronx. He Is now convalescent after a severe attack of pneumonia. jured internally. FAVROT SET FREE. A number of the Deep CW Intend commencing shipment 'S Salt Lake smelters at once. From all reports Cherry J vada, is having the most kind of boom that could be dei! ' IN THAW CASE BY LODE BANDIT UTAH UTAH STATE NEWS STANDARD OIL Harry Thaw Wife Not Allowed to Visit Him on Sunday. New York. Harry Thaw spent a quiet Sunday in the Tombs. Early In the afternoon his wife called to see him, but Warden Flynn told her that she would have to abide by the usual prison rules, consequently she was not permitted to see her husband as she had done on previous Sundays during the eleven weeks that Thaw has been on trial. been In jail continuously for about five months, under arrest on a charge of murder and awaiting action of the grand Jury. The second grand Jury refused to indict the congressman. Mr. Favrot last November shot and killed Dr. IL H. Aldrich of Baton Floods In Asia Minor, Rouge, who bad been his lifelong friend. The congressman declared Continuous heavy Constantinople. the physician had made disparaging rains have caused the rivers to over remarks about Mrs. FavroL The flow, seriously flooding Macedonia and shooting occurred immediately after Asia Minor. The plains of Brusa, an exciting election and while Fav- Adabazar, Kutuahla, Adln and almost rot was still judge of the Baton all the villages are submerged and Rouge court, which on Thursday set there has been heavy loss of life and him free. He resigned and was In- destruction ot cattle and property. dicted by a grand jury which had Coming after the severe winter and the ruination of crops, the floods have been (elected under his Jurisdiction entailed acute distress among the popbefore the shooting. Ileraiiso one of ulation, and the Interruption of railthe jurymen was illiterate tho finding way traffic rendcra relief difficult. was quashed. One More Chapter In Feud. Stars are In Trouble. Beattyville, Ky. Clay Thomas waa Boston. Market operations of the arrested Sunday for the murder of bear party are seriously hampered by Jesse Abner. Thomas says Abner the absence of a great volume of struck him with a rock and came near locks taken out of the market about knocking him off his home, and that A fortnight ago by actual buyers. he drew his revolver and ahot him. It is conservatively estimated that The killing Is the result of the Hargis-Cockrel- l were thus bought in 840,000,000 feud, in which John Abner, a relative, is a central figure. The men odd lots alone and that the aggregate of Investment purhases made are known to have quarreled at the in the late panic was over $100,000,000. time John Abner was in Jail chargod Tbla stock will not come out until with the assassination of I)r. Cox, there is a big rise In pi Ices, and much and Thomas had arrused Abner with of it not then. having been against the linrglsea. Slayer of Stanford White is Remanded to Tombs to Await New Trial. Chicago. The Standard Oil company of Indiana, which had been on trial for the last six weeks before Judge E. M. Landis in the United Trial of States district court on a charge of After Long snd Sensational of Seven Millionaire, Chithe from Pittsburg having received rebates Jurymen Favored Conviction, cago & Alton railroad on uhlpments ol While Five Were for oil from Whiting, Ind., to East St Acquittal. Louis, 111., was found guilty Saturday night on 1463 counts of the original The remain1903 in the indictment. divided-se- ven from the New York. Hopelessly were counts 440 dropped ing of If verdict guilty of murfor a Indictment on account of errors. comfirst oil Is the degree and five for sustained the der in the verdict of insanity on of the fine ground $29,260,000, a to liable is acquittal pany as the Elkins law, which, the Indict- the jury which since January 23 last ment charged the company with hav- had been trying Hary K. Thaw report-e- d hours ing violated, provides a fine of $1,000 on Friday, after forty-seveto $20,000 for each offense. Pending and deliberation, of minutes eight a motion for a new trial, which John that it could not possibly agree on a S. Miller, chief counsel for the dewere men The twelve fendant, announced would be made verdict immediately, no action will be taken promptly discharged by Justice Fitzby the court toward collecting the fine. begerald, who declared that he, too, Thaw was hopeless. task their lieved HELD. FAKE PROMOTER was remanded to the Tombs without Exploiter of Wild Cat Mines Will be ball to await a second trial on the Vigorously Prosecuted. charge of having murdered Stanford Denver. John J. OHara, a mining White. When this new trial would take promoter, who was Indicted by the federal grand jury in session at Pu- place no one connected with the case District eblo last week, on the charge of us- could express an opinion. arwere was there to declared malls defraud, the ing Attorney Jerome homiCommisof accused United States before other persons raigned many sioner Sanford C. Hinsdale in this cide awaiting trial, and Thaw would to take his turn with the rest. city on Tuesday, and was released af- have a to change of venue, As ter furnishing a bond of $3,000 to in- both the possible district attorney and counsure his appearance for trial in the sel for Thaw declared they would United States district court On com- make no such move. plaint of James Wilkinson, of ProviThaw, when he had returned to the dence, R. I., an Investigation of Tombs, gave out the following stateOHara operations was made by Chief ment: I believe that every man in the Inspector E. L. McKee and Field Inspector W. T. Clegg. Of a dozen or Jury possessing average intelligence, more properties which OHara located excepting possibly Mr. Bolton, comin Colorado and Nevada and was pro- prehended the weight of evidence and moting, the investigation disclosed, It balanced it for acquittal. All my famIs alleged, that only one or two gave ily bid mo good-by- e with courage. I evidence of the values which had trust we may all keep well." been glowingly set forth in the literaTo hs attorneys, Thaw said he was ture which was sent through the deeply disappointed. mails to prospective Investors. Stanford White, the Man Shot by Thaw. WANT PERMANENT PEACE. Stanford White was In ' his fifty-thiryear when he met death at the Residents of Nicaragua and Salvador hands of Harry K. Thaw. He was Tired of Warfare. generally conceded one of the foreWashington. The state department most architects in the United States, has received a dispatch from United and his fame was still growing. His for in States Consul Philip Brown at La Influence In art was enormous, work of architecthe comprehensive Union, Honduras, saying that a peace ture - he impressed his striking perconference would be held at the Port sonality on each branch of It as, for of Amapala between President Zelaya example, in mural painting and sculpof Nicaragua and President Flgueroof ture such as no other man In his day had done In America. He was one Salvador, Immediately upon the sur- of the best known men in metropolitan render of Amapala, which at the time life and beyond that, for his activithis dispatch was filed was expected carried him into the leading citmomentarily. The two presidents will ties meet in person and endeavor to reach ies of the United States, and in Lona settlement of the difficulties which don and Paris, where he numbered bis Involved Nicaragua and Honduras in friends and acquaintances by the hunwar and caused Salvador to become dreds. His marvelous energy was at once the despair and the admiration the ally of the latter. of those who were thrown Into contact with him In business affairs. THRASHED BY THE JUDGE. Evelyn Hopes for Bail. Insolent Witness Knocked Down and New York City. Evelyn Nesbitt Kicked Out of Court Room. Thaw was beside her husband when Great Falls, Mont. Because Joe the Jury reported a disagreement. The wife gripped her husbands hand Buckingham, a rancher, became Inso- tightly as the Jury foreman spoke, lent while undergoing an examination and then when he sank down by her before Justice of the Jeace John Q. side she tried to cheer him as best Dempsey of Belt on the charge of cru- she could by saying that she believed be would now be admitted to elty to auimulH, in stabbing a cow bail and that a second Jury would with a pitchfork, he was knocked com- surely set him free. The mother, pletely off the witness stand by a hard the sisters and the brothers, pale and wallop on the jaw fiotn the court, his well nigh exhausted by their tedious, honor following the attack by kicking nerve-rackinwait for a were the unruly witness out of the court permitted to speak with verdict, Thaw for a room. Judge Dempsey then had Buckfew moments to bid him be of good ingham locked up for contempt, but cheer, before he crossed the bridge later relented and released the ranch- of to the cell which until a er, who also caused the arrest of the fewsighs minutes before he had hoped that justice upon an assault charge. he was about to quit forever. NOBLEMAN A CONVICT. Mother Hoped for Acquittal. Evelyn Lord William Nevill Sentenced to a Pittsburg. No matter how cruel Year In Prison for Robbery. Harry Thaw and Evelyn have been to me, I would like to see the Jury London. At the Clerkenwell sesacquit the defendant, for the comfort sions on Saturday Iord William was found guilty of the charge of It would be to Florence. I sincerely the Jury does acquit him. aud robbing a pawnbroker and was sen- hope soon, for the sake of my daughter tenced to a years Imprisonment Ixrd and what It means to her peace of Nevill was sentenced to five years ln " This Is the statement made penal servitude in 1898 for fraud in by Mrs. Charles Holman, mother of connection with a promissory note, ,rrn. Harry K. Thaw, after a strenuous hours of anxiety awaiting the prosecutor being Captain Spender-Clay- , eighteen the return of the Jury. who In 1904 married the daughter of William Waldorf Astor. Convicted Murderer Is Crazy. Los AngoleB. Local authorities are WHOLE FAMILY BURNED. In doubt as to whether V. George Foolish Attempt to Start Fir With Bundrlck, the convicted murderer of Kerosene. John Schroeder, of Cordell, Ga who Denison, Tex. Near Gunter, Tex., surrendered himself here, Is entirely en Saturday, J. C. Price, hlu five chilmentally responsible. There Is no dren and his stepdaughter, Jottle By- question of the correctness of the ers, and his niece, Alice Upchurch, story related by Bundrlck apwere burned to death. Mr. Price had pears not altogether rationalbutonhesome attempted to start a fire with kero- subjects. He has delusion that hla sene. when an explosion occurred. The brother, who helped him kill Schroedvictims were burned beyond recogni- er. la here in jail with him and la wounded as a result of a fight with . tion. detective. Crazy Or a Bruts. Chief of Police Sheets of 8alt Lake Bardwell, Ky. Edward Stockton, 17 Dlacharged on Conspiracy Charge. years old, son of Gilford Stockton, a Salt Lake City. George A. Shoots, farmer, shot and fatally wounded his chief of police, ia again a free man. undo, James Stockton, beat hla Judge George O. Armstrong of the wife uncloa Into Insensibility with the butt end of the gun, saturated her district court on Friday quashed the clothing with coal oil and attempted information against him, and it any to aet it afire. Both are In a dying further proceedings are taken the attorney will have to file a new condition. Stockton waa arrested. county and better Information. The judge There is intense excitement, and vio- held that there was a merger of the lence to the prisoner h threatened. It misdemeanor and felony, that at least Is believed by some that the youth is on felony waa charged, and that the demented. misdemeanor merged Into IL n d g Ne-vll- l The directors of the Utah gi Fish Springs met last week, ed the usual dividend of three a share, or $3,000, The establishment and bucC( operation of the new Utah near Ogden has given great ittl haptep other jn 1 keep me et to out jt its 11 spring3 to subsidiary Industries. Wet had A rich find of Not t g tin has been made In the Black k icess. MJ ookeduP tain region on the waters 0 t j must In river Wyoming. not I A new law In Utah now u thu Dd .elf; o of lief ing companies must have oa of emergency medicines, stretcher! right That such things for injured men. called 1 The spur track to the Mo led out a Shoshone mine has been conp3 1st w J and the shipment of the And I 4 li to the enter Lake Salt I dump smelters h sole it, begun. rince pba Merton-anR. Henry compati be ml London, estimate the production . Then copper throughout the world In pisssenb at 711,675 tons, against 682,12; Eiecutlo ssife. I 1905, and 604,000 the year before. high-grad- e I The treasury department reven him from Iv lb,, said Indeed b our wort bare th led It ov iy on 3n 12tb purchased 200,000 ounces of ver at 66,062 cents per fine 100 ounces to go to San Pram and the remainder to New Orb Jack Leggett, one of the promi and successful mine operator! Butte, Montana, Is now in Boston a conference with eastern stock era of the Raven and Butte and mining companies. The men employed at the 0c: mine at Bark City went on strih the 11th, because of the atted enforcement of a new rule whick quires them to enter and lean mine on tbetr.own time. The entire capital stock ot the S house Mines and Smelters comp has just been added to the. unlit department of the New York its The companys Ha exchange. output of refined copper was 9C, pounds. The spring report of the comm of the Rhyolite Board of Trade the mining Industry of the Lee trict . to be booming in a surpr manner. Less than a year ago the tire district could have been tied for $10,000. am on ns at ight 1; the ea leaned e e the ear tile deal n She hut a ans fac d, am glad ed; It ii Ivr rince and p !i indyou ,my La j to nay t Bred ike min there 1 Toget world. Prli bul kly, ! I thoi the Consolidated if Ing company, with headquarters I Provo, filed articles of IncorponI with the secretary of state of a last week. The new company tar capita of $100,000 in a million ibr of 10 cents each. Ore shipments from Park City the week aggregated 2.513.840 poc( as follows: Judge, 111 Daly pounds; Middlings, 535,000; S' King. 841.840; Daly West. 800.000; tarlo, 209.000; Daly. 100,000; h York, 48,000; total, 2,513,840. Much excitement Is occasioned the report of a rich strike at JJIri Nevada. Ore has been found tt 1 surface which runs as high an H to the ton in gold, silver and cops This ore carries as high as 11 ounces in silver to the ton. Sooner than one thinks, smeh will be operated in Alaska, and il the world will again he astonished I the news from there. As It h the ore must be taken to Everett j Tacoma, 1200 miles by sea and WI railroad, & distance of 1500 mllea I It has Just developed that iaj ditlon to the 100,000 sharea of w Balaklala stock recently offered stockholders at 810 per share and derwrltton at 9V4 through Stone & Co., 25,000 shares wore issued to them at the same pri( The directors of the SwanMining company met in Sprlnr last week and raised the price ol treasury stock 5 cents. The adr Is the result of the rerent strike ea claim In Nevada, whlci known In that state as Mormon The Brilliant shaft of the S'l solldatcd company at Ely, Is now being pounded down thn ore that 1 averaging 3 per cent per. The shaft is over 475 feet and every foot of the distance m fhe 400-fomark hag shows W values ranging from i to mal e The Crown Point of--tbe igbt Iheresa. np al But I j mate, the lef it heart was still c e ton eon tlreai b did no a aigh. kiasec Hew t, hut s ed him da and t to no i come srtfa eds apa th an ware rheresa nut c i and ttbeck retun e nai aow, lore. . s" - Lee-Ech- 14 o -- iteS per rent. All of the miners employed McDonald-Elmine, at Ely, h,crt have struck for higher wage. their demands have been refup Pus the management of the mine, 1 k Is a remote possibility that a Mt k strike, affecting the entire may be called to enforce the d woi i of these miners, but this ! , hu J sldered likely, ir oa rdi ti During tho first quarter rent year the record high Pr,ctjj dead V- .si copper have resulted In the pal hfe s1 of 121,097.354 in dividends by five companies which are dlrecwj Hdli elom teroated in mining or are holders in the United S1811 me Mexico. si Ires The shaft on the Western her Copper companys Gobi JlHl heron the Clifton district. Deep Cr tint now nearing the SoOfoot mark Pole the tunnel level, and by Ik r 8 6hi the coming month the work ol atlon and development at l8 da will begin. y , J |