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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 The vol. viii. no. panish Fork Press ; :n. SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY AUGUST INTENSE JAPANESE KILLED BYEJ A Uil BUSINESS-LIK- E VIEW (Copyright IMl.) E HEAT CAUSES 19, 1909. DEATH SHERIFF Entered Feb. tl. 1902, FOILS Nine Persons Dead and Between Forty and Fifty Injured. Colorado Springs. Nine, persons are dead and others are expected to die, between forty and fifty were injured; three engines are in the ditch, two baggage cars, including the contents were smashed, and several passenger coaches are badly damaged as the result of a headon collision between eastbound passenger train No. S and westbound passenger No. 1 on the Denver ft Rio Grande, near Hunted, thirteen miles north of this city, at 10:25 a. m. Saturday. The wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders. L08T ON DESERT. Woman Lives a Week in an Abandoned Tunnel. San Bernardino, Cal. Mrs. Ella McCormick. an woman, who had been lost on the desert, was found in the tunnel of the abandoned Daley-Moormine on the edge of the desert. She had 'wandered for fifteen miles out of hor way and had lived for almost a week on groceries which she had when she started to her homestead when she became lost. Her sufferings were terrible, she said. Aged e - Must Haul Down Their Flag. London. Unless Greece complies with the demand of Turkey and forces the people of Crete to haul down the Greek flag which they have hoisted, the four protecting powers of Crete, Great Britain, Russia, Italy and Prance, will perform this act, using force if necossary. This was the substance of a joint note signed by the four powers and presented to the Turkish government on Sat, urday. In order to carry out this policy and to be prepared to use force if necessary, additional s will be sent to Cetiea. war-ship- Office 1871. II un If iu Result from High Temperature in Missouri, Kansas GOLDFIELD CITIZENS AROUSED and Oklahoma. TO FRENZY BY MURDERS. RETURNS TO SAVE COLD-BLOODE- Kansas City. Unusually Intense eat, officially recorded by the gov bureau as high as f110rnment weather degrees, caused several deaths, numerous prostrations, and much qamage to crops on Monday In. Mis souri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. All through the southwest the day was the most trying since the devastation nd drouth of 1901. As the withering winds swept across the plains much vegetation fell. In Kansas City the beat killed one and prostrated a score, some of whom are In a serious condition. t The last eight days In Kansas, each With a maximum temperature above $0 degrees, and a minimum which has not been below 70, is the hottest period for that length of time since The Dead It Said to Number Thirty, While Many Were Injured, Hun dreds of Buildings Being Destroyed or Damaged. Political Activity of Census Supervis-ors Limited to Casting Vote. Beverly, Mass. President Taft has taken the. thirteenth census out of politics. In a striking letter addressed to Secretary Nagel, the president has ordered that the political activities of all census supervisors shall be limited to casting a vote. Any further oartlci pation in politics, the president de-Clares, shall be regarded as sufficient cause for immediate dismissal. The rule had already been laid down by the president that merit alone would be considered In the se lection of the supervisors, one hundred and thirty-fou- r more of whom were announced on Saturday. The actual work of collecting the census will begin on April 15 next and will consume about thirty days. About xnree months' preliminary work devolves upon the supervisors, however, and there wjll be about six months of work for them after the enumeration has been completed. PA8SENGER TRAINS COLLIDE. matter. Poet I 1901. : Three deaths were reported at St. joe due to the heat, among them being William A. Kenyon. a civil war ' ' veteran, aged 74. Two men died of the heat at St Louis and nine additional deaths, John D. Rockefeller Says It la the Duty ef Every One to Bring Light InM which occurred Saturday and Sunday the Lives of Others. tnd which had not been made public, became known by tha burial permits, t In Oklahoma City the government IDAHO YOUTH KILLS FATHER while thermometer registered 10- -, THAW INSANE thermometers In the buslnei district reached 112. It v.as the holiest day recorded there tn fifteen yaars. Wl Declares He Shot In Self Defense, and patches say Oklahoma crops have sulThat His Mother and Brother LONG FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF been materially damaged by the wind. try Helped Bury Victim. STANFORD WHITE'S 8LAYER A hot wind olev all day at Mc HAS BEEN IN VAIN. Alester, with the temperature at 108. Vegetation there Is being killed. CotIdaho Falls, Idaho. Mrs. Augustine I ton materialy damaged. Pierce and son, Edward, accused of complicity in the murder of the hus Judge Order That Pittsburg Million--' CRIPPLE CAUSE8 TRAGEDY. band and father, Gustavo Pierce, at air be Returned to the Asylum, Mud Lake, In Fremont county, thirty Former Railroad Man Kill Woman a His Release Would be Dan- -' ' Ave miles from the Oregon Short Line and Injure Two More. gerous to Peace and Safety. railroad, have been placed under ar Goldfleld, Net. Patrick C. Casey ' rest. formerly a railroad man of Ban The younger son, Paul, who was arWhite Plains, N. Y. Harry K. Francisco, on Monday night shot and rested previously, has made a full Thaw's latest attempt to gain his lib- Instantly killed Mrs. Thomas Hesllp, confession to the murder of bis was defeated on Thursday when wife of a well known mining engt erty father, saying that his mother and Justice Isaac N. Mills dismissed the nVor, seriously wounded Mr. Alice brother however,helped Hm bury, the writ of habeas and declared Mann and stabbed Frank Dunn, an corpse, after a coffin had been made the release of thecorpus would be undertaker. petitioner of boards taken from a barn. Casey, who came here four months peace and Paul says that he shot bis father "dangerous to public was drinking, when he saw Mrs, back Thaw An ago, order safety." sending twice after a quarrel and after the to Matteawan. was signed Friday. and Mrs. Mann sitting on the Hesllp victim had threatened to kill the en ot the Hesllp home. After for no There is of comfort crumb doorstep tire family. Mrs. Mrs. Hesllp, he shot in Thaw the killing "Bill" Williams, a neighbor of the banded down by Justice Mills. Mann twice In the leg. Dunn Inter opinion Pierces, noticed the absence of the All the contentions of his old adver fered and was stabbed in the shoul murdered man and began asking District Attorney Jerome, are der. His Injuries are not serious. questions. As the answers aroused sary, that Mrs. Mann may not recover. Casey, Is declared and it supported, his suspicions he caused the arrest Is still Insane, still suffering who has but one leg, made no effort Thaw of the younger son and the confes from persistent delusions and still as to escaie. After his arrest, there sion soon followed. on the day be were threats of lynching. Mrs. Pierce and Edward were found auchsa paranoiac as shot White. Stanford on the outskirts of this city ELECTROCUTED IN BATHTUB. camping Thaw, waiting In the White Plains Thursday night and arrested by of out an news with received the Prominent Montanan Comes to Death ficers from Mud Lake and local po jail, ward calmness which appeared more lice. In Peculiar Manner. The Pierces owned 320 acres of the forced than real. Butte, Mont. Byron M. Whitney, gem state's finest land and all went MILITIA CALLED OUT. one of the oldest and best known well for awhile, but troubles finally builders and contractors In the city, to show A few r weeks ago Twenty-foubegan up. Men Injured In Riot of was found dead in the bathtub of his Mrs. Pierce and her eldest son had Dock Laborer. apartments on the third floor ot the the father arrested on a charge of in Fort Ont. For the first Phoenix block on Monday afternoon William, He was examined by the Fre sanity. in Its history, Fort William Is by the janitor of the building. Charlos mont county authorities and that dif time under martial law. This resulted Lair. Dr. J. B. Freund, who made an ficulty seemed settled, when he was from a fight waged on special Cana examination, slated that it was a liberated. dian Pacific , police on Thursday by plain case of electrocution; that 1,000 striking dock laborers. Whitney' hand was probably wet IRRIGATIONISTS ADJOURNS. Twenty-fou- r men were injured. when he turned on the key, and, holdAsk for a Ten Million Dollar irri three futally, Including Chief Ball of ing the bulb Immediately next to his tho railway company's local force and heart, the shock fcad been complete gation Fund From Congress. and death Instantaneous. two strikers. Spokane. With the election of of A regiment of militia was called out Prohibits Demonstration of Strikers, ficers, the selection of Pueblo. Colo.. as the next meeting place, the pas after Mayor Pellet lor had read the Stockholm. The police on Monday riot act. sage or resolutions commending both prohibited a great demonstration arThe strikers had twenty-fiv- e rail the efforts of Plnchot and Newell in constables penned up In the ranged by the strikers. The attempt the forestry and reclamation bureaus, way Canadian Pacific railroad bunk houne. to firce.the agricultural workers to asking a 110,000,0(10 irrigation fund They fired through the windows and strike and to refuse to harvest the from congress and commending the were ha proved a failure. Hotel propreparing to storm the house crop the when the police persuaded them to prietor are apeallng to the military Mississippi deep waterway. seventeenth National Irrigation con deBlst. governor of the city for permission to gress came to a practical adjournsupply ftletboltc liquors to guests who Elidore Villazon Sworn In as Presi take substantial meals In tba'r place ment Friday afternoon. on the ground that the prohibition dent of Bolivia. All remalnlna traces of the Bal- aft La Paz, Bolivia. Elidore Villazon against such service Is seriously hostilities disappeared trade. tourist their fecting on the last day ot the congress with was Inaugurated as president of Boperhaps a mention now and then by livia on Thursday in succession to Is- Girl Wife Is Slain With Babe In Arms. mail Moutt. Owing to the fact that home kindly disposed speaker. San Francisco. Holding her baby Richard W. Youne ot Utah was Villazon is believed to favor Argen In her arms, Mary Bergstrom, the 16 tina's award against Bolivli In the year-olelected second vice preslr.tnt, and wlfo of a Southern Pacific Newman of Montana, third boundary dispute between Bolivia switchman, was thot In a lodg'ng and Peru, it was expected that house on Fourth street early Monday would ensue. There has been and died within an hour. August BANK. YOUTHS ROB no trouble, however. The lower I!rx8troin. the husband, who claims nsfes opposed General to have entered the room just as the Secure $7,000, But Are Captured With Manuel Jnstrongly Pan do, newly annolnt'd 11 in Two Hours. minister of foreign affairs, because he Bhot wu red, told the other lodgers and the police that his wife had comSan Francisco. Two men arnwd favors accepting the Argent na awarJ. mitted, suicide. He was taken to the with shotguns and unmanked walked Sheriff Refuse to Continue Evlctlcns. city prison and Is held pending an in Into the Valley bank ot Santa Clu;a, Pittsburg. The sheriff of AJLw vestigation. shortly after 10 o'clock FrlJay, and gheny county late Thursday flatly re. Drowned In Hotel Water Tank. covering the cashier and his three fused to continue the work of evict Mont. News was brought Helena. clerks, demanded $7,000. After secur ing the strikers and the families of to this Monday of the drowning city ing the money they fled in a waiting the strikers In houses owned by the at Radersburg of the little daughter, automobile, but were captured two Pressed Car company at McKee's years, of Wilhours later seven miles from town, Rocks. The sheriff asked the com- aged two and one-hal- f liam Haldaway. The child fell Into to men htm to rarrv out submitting without resistance. pany give a water tank In the kitchen of the When tho fugitives surrendered to the furniture and household effects, hotel, of which Mr. Hold- the menacing influence of rifles and but the company, It Is said, refused, Rcderburg I It Is not known away proprietor. t wilt mv "Then itnnnHoa allnw tint shotguns, it was discovered that they In was she how the tank, but long to out fu'rnlanother of carry piece were little more than boys. Neither when found she was almost dead. The me turo. aociarea More snerirr. be 18 over appeared to years of age, rlnllnf. during which a fnrelirnr child's were unable to revive and It was evidently their first at- - killed, caused Intense excitement In her and parent was no there physician In the a such crime. at empt the Schoenvllle strike zone. neighborhood. ' STILL : . llnger-Pincto- I, dls-ord- WHEN OP WIFE AGO IS DEPRIVED OF SECOND HUSBAND. REAPPEARS CEN-TRA- MUST KEEP OUT OF POLITICS. second-clas- s IB Much Suffering SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN JAPAN CAUSES LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. received concern' Toklo. Report lng the earthquake In central Japan on Saturday show that there was a number ot fatalities and that great damage was done to property. The dead at present Is said to number thirty, though it is feared that the fa talities will be greatly increased In the outlying districts when heard from. The number of persons injured Is S3. Thus far 362 buildings, including many temples, are reported to have been destroyed and more than 1,000 others badly damaged. The shock occurred at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon and affected a wide area in the Shiga and Gifu' prefectures. The town of Ozaku in Glfu Buffered terribly. The banks of the Hida river there broke and the coun try was Inundated. The people of the district fled to higher ground and in the open all night. Inter mittent shocks were felt throughout Saturday night and early Sunday The mountain Ibukl. a morning. short distance west of Glfu, emitted moke in the early stages of the earthquake and then collapsed with a thunderous roar. Slight damage was done at Nagoy, to the southward of Glfu, and neigh boring villages. as at Bpanlsh Fork, Utah. Act of Congress March I, YEARS to Storm Jail and Lynch Two Men Come to Naught When It I Have Discovered Prisoner Been Taken to Tonopah. Plan Goldfleld. Nev. Infuriated by the n suicide of Thomas Hesllp, the mining man, who ended his life by taking cyanide of potassium on Tuesday, while crazed with grief over the death of his wife, who was shot and killed by Patrick C. Casey Monday night, a mob organised later in the day, determined to storm the county jail In which Casey was confined, and string him up to the nearest telegraph pole. The mob also determined to wreak a similar vengeance on Mar tin Sheridan, who has beep awaiting trial for wife" murder for six month. It was the purpose of the mob to dynamite the Jail, which withstood an attack Monday night just after the killing of Mrs. Hesllp and the wounding of Mrs. Frauk Mann by Casey. The plan was defeated by Sheriff Callahan, however, the prisoners being smug gled out of the jail and carried to Tonopah in automobiles which were manned by heavily-armeguards. well-know- WRECK DUE TO NEGLIGENCE. Train Crew to 8tand Trial on Charge of Criminal Negligence. Colorado Springs, Colo. The cor oner' jury which Investigated the head-ocollision on the Denver ft Rio Grande railroad at Husted, Colo., Saturday morning, when ten persons were killed and three score injured, returned its verdict on Tuesday. The verdict finds that the wreck was due to criminal negligence on the part of the train crew, composed of Engineers " Fireman Lesslg and Holllngsworth, Wright. Conductor Datton and Brake-maMcElhern. The .verdict also, declares that the evidence show that a defective system for Issuing train or der was employed by the railroad at the time of the wreck. An order was sent to Denver to arrest the members of the train crew. n n INHALED DEADLY FUMES. , KEEPS SILENT FOR 20 YEARS John Taggart, Former Pastor, Wandered In Strange Lands, But Never Lost Trace of the Woman He Loved. Bloomsburg, Pa. Presumably dead for 20 years, Rev. John Taggart, at one time pastor of a Methodist Protestant church at Glen Lyon, this county, who has with silent resignation endured the role of an Enoch Arden for a greater part of that time, ha now reappeared just in time to save the wife of his youth from poverty. Her second husband, whom she married after she was convinced that Taggart had perished in the Johnstown flood, I la jail in consequence of a domestic crime that has completely estranged him from his family. Therefore, Taggart appear a a helper and a savior, to take back the wife of hi youth and to provide for her and her children by her second marriage. Taggart' history is a strange one, and not the least Interesting feature of It Is the fact that for year he ha known that hi wife wa married again; yet he has been silent and ha always managed, no matter how far away he was, to somehow keep in touch with affair here. Why Taggart left this section ha long been a mystery, and it Is still unHe was a prominent pulexplained. pit orator and a great favorite with the Glen Lyon flock. Handsome and ambitious, he seemed destined for a high church career. He fell in love with Miss Ellia Ivey, one of the prettiest girls In Bloomsburg, and thiy were married. Though they were devoted lover their romance was In some way an unhappy one. A great neat or gossip arose regaraing n, ana about the time their little son Elmer was born the young minister disap-- 1 peared. He says that at that time he had to bear a burden of trouble that was too much for him, and he left home to escape It Afterward he resolved to return and fight out hi Salt Lake Editor Meet Death In a Peculiar Manner. Salt Lake City. Corydon W, HIg- gins, associate editor of the Salt Lake Mining Review, was instantly killed on Tuesday by Inhaling poisonous fumes from a room that was being disinfected at his apartments, on North ' Temple street. The lifeless body o! Mr. Hlggins was found lying on the floor of the room at 3:30 p. m. There was no one with Mr. Hlgglni at the time of his death, but it is presumed that, not knowing that the room was being fumigated, Mr. Hlggins opened the door and entered, and that he was Immediately overcome by . the fumes. , CLOUDBURST IN MINING CAMP. Large Furnace Is Wrecked and Two Men Barely Escape Death. Bingham Canyon, Utah. Following a cloudburst In Bingham canyon on Tuesday at 1 o'clock, a torrent of mud and rock swept over the storehouse and ore bins of the Yampa smelter and caused an explosion of No. 1 reverberatory furnace. The damage Is estimated in excess of $50,000, and two men were seriously Injured. William P. Mahoney, storekeeper for the smelter, and Christ Pokas. a Th Sequel Was the Appearance of Greek assistant, wero burled under a Taggart at the Van Horn Home. mass of 100 tons of waste rock and mud and both escaped as by a miracle, troubles, but when he was about to start back he learned that the bride sustaining only severe bruise. he had left was already the wife of Trial of 8ugar 8trlke Leader. another man, John Van Horn. His Honolulu. The trial of the leader wife had heard that he had perished In the sugar strike conspir- In the Johnstown flood and mourned acy are nearing an end. William A. him as dead and had then married Kinney made the opening argument gain. or the prosecution on Tuesday, while Taggart resolved not to complicate abanJoseph Llghtfoot, attorney for the matters. Remorseful over hi Japanese defendants, replied. Ktnney donment of his family, he felt that he expressed the view that the strike of had no right to return and make new the plantation workers probably would trouble. Therefore he went to the far have been beneficial to the territory, west and became a wanderer upon the caused a movement that would end face ot the earth. the' domination of Japanese labor in Some time ago, how he will not tell, the Islands and give more encourage- be learned that serious domestic troument to the citizen class. ble had arisen with the result that John Van Horn, his wife's second hus South Carolina for Prohibition. had been sent to Columbia counCharleston, S. C Prohibition won band, ty jail to serve a sentence for a serious In fifteen of the twenty-on- e county elections on Tuesday. Tho county dls crime, and that his wire and children were In precarious circumstances. pensary system will be retained in The sequel was the appearance re only six of the counties voting. For cently of Taggart at the Van Horn the first time, the league about three miles from this took an active Interest In the prohibi- home, With her were Taggart's son, tion movement in this state, and not pluce. and her two children - by her since the stirring factional contests of Elmer, the early nineties, when Benjamin R. Second marriage. He Immediately pro Tillman wis first entering upon his posed that his wire and her children leave this section and go with spectacular polltcal career, has such should a lively campaign been wltneHsed as bun to the west, there to start life new. This the woman agreed to do. . ' that waged. Anti-Saloo- n ' |