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Show NOTICE The date on your name label of this paper is the date to which your mbscrlpiton is paid. Kindly be as prompt as possible in paying in advance. The panish Fork PRESS VOL. VIII. NO. 30. SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THUKSDAY AUGUST GUESTS LOSE LIVES PLAGUE Oil COAST NOT Entered Fab. 12, 1909. IfflMONISTS GUILTY 11, llOt, aa ioond-cl- matter. Pott ui Office at Spanish Fork. Utah. Act of Congress March t, H7. SESSION IN BOY RGHTS VJITH (Cearrttnt. 1M THE EARLY MORNING, ELEVEN LIVES BEING LOST. , HOTEL,. BURNS . IN ThaM War About Sixty Guaata. and the Flamee Spread WKh Such Rapidity It Waa Impossible to Save Evaryona. ... . o vfiii ' n P ETUvnn lives were loat .when the Okanagan, hotel at Vernon B. C was burned early Tuaadar mornlne. Four men are in the hotpltaL one of whom cannot re cover. Th building waa a .large brick veneer atructure and waa patronized It chiefly by the laboring classes. bad about sixty gueats. and ao sudden waa the onrushlng of the flames that those who escaoed did ao with great difficulty. Some of them never got out of their room. The Are waa When discovered about 2 o'clock. ha flrampn arrived a few. minutes later both stairways were seething alleys or flames, ana in a snort time .was. blazing .la all quar the building " ' ters. - VICTIM SUPPOSED TO HAVE CON TRACTED DISEASE HANDLING GROUND SQUIRRELS. If III AT V a I V - m. Iam. V Tobacco, Clgara and 8ugar to be Ad' mlttsd Free to United States. Washington. Regulations sent- - to customs officers for the tratlon of the Philippine section of the new tariff were made, public on Tuesday by Acting Secretary or the Treasury Reynolds. The regulations are in the usual form except as they relate to shipments of tobacco, cigars and sugar, which articles are admit ted tree up to a certain prescribed amount for each fiscal year. To avoid abuse of the free entry provision, collectors of customs are reoulred to report promptly to tne secretary of the treasury each free entry of sugar. tobacco and .clgara aranted. giving detailed marks and numbers and. other facts needed for the Identification Of the shipments, . Sii.tnii ttt Rattrnarf Mf for Denver. Arthur E. ''Welbey, merly general superintendent of the Rio Grande Western tit Bait Lake, dted Sunday. At hla bedside were his wife and children, while bis i aociatea of the 'Denver, Laramie ft Northwestern road and his old com panlons on the D 'ft R. Q. made a sorrowing company in the corridor of St. 'Joseph's hospital. . Welby waa stricken three weeka ago with a carbuncle, and his strength to combat the aeri-ou- a affection waa sapped by an attack of diabetla. Welby waa one of the beat known railroad men In the "- - v west .' , . 11 - Over trjr Alpa In a Balloon. Challona.' France. The i balloon Si-- . riua has. succeeded In flying over the Alps. The airship' left "here Sunday under the. pilotage of M. Spelterine with . three passengers. . Fears were entertained for the voyagers' safety, but they have been dispelled .by the receipt of a report that they have landed safely near Locarno, at an almen, titude of 6,400 feet The-fouhowever, atlll have a dangerous path to cover on foot Into Locarno. , The Slrlus traversed Mount Blanc and soared over the Aiguille du Dru and the Aiguille Verte. The highest altitude attained waa 18.373 feet. . r Frightened Animals Ruthlessly Slain. Uklah, Cal. Driven before a forest lire which swept over Duncan peak, near Duncan Springs, a few niiujfc of bucks, from Mopland. hundreds does, fawns, rabbits, squirrels'-- ; and other game fled down Into the.' fields about the Springs' to become targets for dozens of rifles, shotguns and pis-tolwith which hotel guests and employes turned out to Join In an unex-pctepot hunt-- . When the fusillade waa over at dusk, fourteen fine bucks and a brown bear were numbered among the slain. a, d Visit of Cuban Chancellor to President Gives Riae to Various Rumors. Beverly, Masa. Don Caesar E. Darranco, chancellor of the Cuban legation, which Is established at Manchester for the summer, caused some comment Tuesday afternoon by a visit to President Tart's office. There are few callers tat the office these days and the appearance of the Cuban diplomat started reports that trouble In hla home Island .had caused him to seek an early appointment with the president for the . .Cuban minister, Carlos Oarda Kclex. Deadly Colorado Cloudburst. Glen wood Springs. Colo. One life waa lost and damage estimated at $50,000 was done by a cloudburst near Gypsum, Colo. Hilda Gustafson, the daughter bf ' Charles Gustafson, a rancher, waa caught by the flood. An unknown man who had applied at the rnnch for employment attempted to rescue the child, but waa himself washed away.. He was found unconscious and severely Injured. Traffic on the Denver A Itlo Grande was blocked until evening by great masses of debris covering the tracka. V . It Vigorous Effort Will Be Made By the Health Officials to Exterminate Theae Infection Carrying Rodents, The discovery Cat. Sacramento, a few day ago of an authenticated case of bubonic plague In Sunola, Alameda county, baa inspired the state board of health to renewed activity in the campaign against the ground squirrel In that and adjacent counties. At a meeting of the board it waa decided to prosecute the work with more vigor than heretofore in an effort to exterminate theae infection-carryinrodenta. Joseph Mendoza, the youth who Is 111 with the plague in the Alameda hospital, is supposed to have contracted the disease through eating or handling Sclentlsta Have Discovered That the tee Tee Fly la Net Primarily Rosses Infected squirrels killed by him on a lalii.SIclineea. ifr;h . " hunting trip. Thousands of squirrels have been killed or caught by hunters in the em japan ig::gre chixese ploy of the marine hospital service, TARIFF BILL and bacteriological examination has demonstrated the existence of plague among them, but not to aa alarming Notifies Powers That ' Antung-Mu- k extent The effort of these officials la den Railroad Will be Built Regard-lea- s PRESIDENT TAFT SIGNS THE now being directed largely to the disof Chlna'a Rights. DOCUMENT AND CONGRESS' covery of an efficient method of squir FINALLY ADJOURNS. rel extermination, and aome interest , ing experiments are being made to Toklo. In J communication lasued this end. on Friday, Japan officially notified the POWERS WILL TAKE A HAND. ' powers of her intention to proceed Im Ferty-eeveSenators Vote for Measure mediately with the reconstruction and Submitted by Conference Com- - ' Greek Flag Must Not Be Hoisted Over improvement of the Antung-Mukde- n While Thirty-onOpmlttee, Any Public Building in Crete. railroad without the consent of, China, Bill aa Adopted. posed London. The acute. stage reached diplomatic negotiations having tailed in the dispute between Turkey and to overcome the opposition of that Greece over Crete is causing anxiety country r to the commencement of In the European capitals, such as al work which Japan believes to be with Washington. The extraordinary" ways accompanies diplomatic difficulty In her rights under the treaty of 1906. session of congress, called .for the In that quarter. However, as M. Is-- The note outlines the entire course ot purpose of revising ,the tariff, has wolsky, the Russian foreign minister, negotiations relative to the Improve finally accomplished . its ... purpose, framed and adopted a new tariff said at Cowea, if there la any awkward ment of the railroad jip to the, pj.eseat development in the situation, Europe ilme."it dedarejf that throughout the will see that no mischievous results wscussiona imna naa naa recourse the lawmakers are now free to return are reached.. "to her well known policy of obstruc- to their constituents and tell them From the latest reports it appears tion and procrastination, haa evaded Just bow It happened. that Turkey has not presented any the Just and reasonable demands ot The conference report was agreed 47 to 31, at 2 p. m. to the thing In the form of an ultimatum to Japan and raised col rat era! questions andby soon senate, the concurrent afterward to but baa herself confined Greece, regarding police authority and. other verbal protests, while the four protect- matters." thus delaying a settlement. resolution making certain changes In the leather schedule waa adopted by "In thla situation." says the note, both ing powers are making energetic rephouses. resentations both to Constantinople "the imperial government la compel! Both houses adjourned sine die ofand to Athena to secure an amicable ed to take Independent action and proo'clock Thursday night The ceed to carry out the necessary works ficially at arrangement of the dispute. .four powers Insist that under no cir- or reconstruction and improvement That Is the time entered upon the cumstances shall the Greek flag be according to treaty rights." Journals, but as a matter of fact the hoisted . over any public building in house adjourned at 5:38 p. ra. and TAFT WILL TRAVEL. Crete and the foreign consuls at Canea the aenate at 5:58 p. m. have been Instructed to impress this "" Will Make Trip "of on the Cretan authorities. TAFT'S VIEWS OF BILL 13,000 Milei Weet and 8outh. Through BRUTAL MURDER IN NEVADA. Not a Perfect Meaaure, or Complete Washington. Before bis departure Compliance With Promises Made. Collector Shot and Beaten and Body from the capital on Frldav. the nresl- ' Thrown Into Ditch. dent made public a. tentative outline Washington. President Taft haa out a statement embodying his Reno, Nev. One of the most brutal or bis trip through the west and south given murders ever recorded In the history this fall. . It will embrace a lournev views of the new tariff act, in which of Reno's Crimea waa committed Fri- of approximately 13,000 miles and will he aupporta the new treasure as a sin cere effort for downward revision.' In day night within 200 yarda of . the do one or tne most notable ever made this statement he declares: , a by president. It will be as diverse home of United States Senator Nixon, "I have signed the-- ' Payne tariff bill when R. J. Little, agent for a San as could be Imagined and a because I belle've the result tour could hardly be de of sincere effort- on ittheto be of Francisco collection agency, waa ahot, the Repart beaten about the head with rocks and vised to embrace aa manv nolnta of publican party to make a downward thrown face downward Into an irriga- Interest In so brief a space of time revision, and , to comply - with the tion ditch,' hla body then being weight- as President Taft will alve to bis promises of the platform, as they have ed down with a stone. Jaunt to the Pacific coast and back been generally understood, and as I Interpreted them In the campaign. Utah' 8e'nator Purchases House In the through the south. "This Is not a perfect tariff bill, or The se. hv president, accompanied National Capital. a complete compliance with the promFred W. Carpenter, retary Captain ises made, Washington. Before leaving here Archibald W. Butt, his strictly lnteroreted, but a aide, on Friday Senator Smoot closed nego- several White House military and fulfillment free from criticism in reattaches, tiations for the purchase of a resi- perhaps a guest or two for various spect to a subject matter Involving dence which he and his family will parts of the trip, will travel In a pri- many schedules and thousands of ar could not be expected. It sufoocupy when they return to Wash- vate car. attached for tha rrontpr ticles fices to say that except with regard of to the Is on part The corner house the trip ington. regular tralna. to whisky, liquors and wines, and In of Connecticut avenue and Calvert CARLISTS TO GET INTO GAME. regard to silks and some high classes . streets-itvery attractive part of the of cottons, all of which may be treat residence section of the city, It con- Don Jaime May Make Attempt to Cap ed aa luxuries, and proper subjects tains twelve rooms and Is modern In of a revenue tariff, there have been ture Spanish Throne. all appointments. The price paid v verv few Increasea In rates. France! waa about' $:i0.000. The Carlist lead . "There have been a Cerebre, number of great ers will hold a meeting shortly at a real decreases In rates and they conLAUNCH CAPSIZED. "Tench frontier town to decide upon stitute a sufficient amount to justify their attitude In view of recent events, the statement that this bill is a subTwo Men and a Woman Drowned It la said. Afterwards, it la under stantial downward revision, and a 'reWhile on a 8unda Excuralon. stood, Don Jaime, the Spanish pre- duction of excessive rates."", Toledo, O. Harry Dill, Frank DINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. and Mrs. Mabel Hudson were tender, will Issue a manifesto declar'no intention to profit drowned and seven men rescued un ing that he baa der difficulty when a launch capsized by the misfortunes of his country, but- President Celebratea End of Tariff In Maumee bay, 500 feet off the that If the present government Is ltowFight by Entertaining Lawmakers. erless to save the honor Washington. With the tariff bill Casino, a summer theater, on Hun- - he will act. The Carlisleof the nation, claim that day. When over the deep channel of they are in a position to arm and passed and the animosities of conferthe bay the launch turned turtle from place In the field quickly 100.000 .'im ence and debate all but forgotten, the "tariff builders" sat with the presithe weight of the party, which had porters burning with zeal. dent at dinner Thursday night In the; collected on one side. The wo nan New Tariff Law In Operation, atate dining room of the White House. waa thrown Into the water and waa unable to get out. received It was Mr.;Taf('s celebration of the Washington. Information at the treasury from New York, Bos- end of the tariff fight and his fare--. Hadn't the Nerve to Suicide.. ton and Philadelphia indicates that well dinner of the season. Auburn, Ind. After wandering In the new tariff law Is working with The Democratic members of the the woods without food for three daya unexpected smoothness. at committees which framed, the tariff Generally and nights, struggling to pitch his the of the operation of anew bill were included In the president's nerve to the point of killing himself. tariffbeginning ;. law niattera In the big custom Invitation. Frank Nlcolnl, assistant cashier of the houses are at "sixes and sevens" for Practically all of the prominent figCity National bank, returned to this a few days, but no confusion haa yet ures In the tariff fight were at the city- and waa arrested, charged with manifested Itself in the administration dinner except the "Insurgents." The having embezzled f 5.000 of the bank's of the Payne law, it is said. By treas- guests Included the five members of funds. "I have fought the fight," aatd ury officials, this Is accounted for by the cabinet who are In the city, all NlroliU, "and I have come back to reason of the new law. having been the members of the senate commitface the charge." He could not com- constructed on the general lines of the tee on finance and the house commitmit suicide, he said, though he had Dtngley act. although, of course, t ie tee on ways and means; Vlce-Pres- l bought a revolver for that purpose. figures differ. dent Sherman and Speaker Cannon. g ,! 1 1 will FILIPINOS ARE FAVORED. tV 99 PASSED n e , . "seeing-all-America- - . d Le-han- - Delegatea Assemble at Spokane to Consider Meana of Improving Con-- . dltlona of Arid Regions. All ESCAPED BEAR GETS BAD W0UND8 BEFORE SUCSpokane. The opening session ot CEEDING IN CHAINING HIM the National Irrigation congress waa UP ONCE MORE. held on Monday, the congress being opened with the "irrigation ode." sung, by the 8pokane chorus ot 250 BAR ONLY WEAPON voices. The address of welcome to SMALL the state was delivered by Governor M. E. Hay of Washington. The response la behalf ot the con Adventure Occurs at Amusement Gar gresa waa delivered by George T den and Cauaee Panle Among Barstow, president ot the congress. Women and ChildrenYouth i .The new constitution providing the Taken to Hospital. . business-likbaela ao much desired prevailed among St Louis.-Pa- nic by the congress waa adopted without women and children at a Delmar gardissent black F. H. Newell, director of the Unit- - den show when a bia broken had chain, which bear, ed States reclamation service, waa the first speaker ot the afternoon. climbed out ot hla pit Clarence aged 17, who is employed at the Mr, Newell read hla address and aniafterwards was compelled by ques- garden aa a mechanic, not aa an mal forward, grasped handler, leaped ot the tioning to atate that he waa the powerthe opinion' that the government la not ful short chain, dragged which bit and clawed him, animal, aa aa In much should done be doing the brute the way of Irrigation because. of the back Into the pit, faatened with pain, lack .ot .funds. He said, bowever, that securely, and then, fainting waa carried to the City hospital, where there is plenty of land tor the home he will be confined for some time. steader who wishes a hone, in fact. A small iron bar was the only weapand not la the story. on Voswell had against the bear's for' M. Joseph Carey of Washington midable claws and sharp teeth. His proposed a system of state laws for effective hammering of the bear's the varloue atatea contemplating the was all that saved him protection of the individual farmers, head probably He waa opposed In aome quartera by being torn to pieces by the angry delegatea who believed irrigation anlraaL "Coasack la not a trained bear," aald lawa might be proper for some of the newer atatea, .but that the older com Voswell. "He la juat an exhibit in a monwealths would be able to care concession on the Delmar Pike, and is for themselves. admired for his size and his glossy ' E. J. Watson, commissioner of the black coat South Carolina department of agriculnever have "I bad any experience ture, commerce ' and Industry, debut has been part it animals, handling of the clared, that "the government of to feed thla work bear, and I my United StAtea is sitting idly by while millions of dollars' worth of natural came to know hla ways, and that ha' waa a dangeroua fellow. resources are going to waste. "While a crowd was steading around BOLIVIA SEEKING A FIGHT. his pit Cossack Jerked his chain loose from the ring and started to climb Diplomats Believe That Politicians ut I beard women scream and saw Are Endeavoring to Bring About breaking away from the everybody Armed Conflict With Peru. place, and I ran over there., There Washington. Is Bolivia seeking a was old, Cossack right tip on- - the pretense to bring on a war, with ground, His pit was only about five feet deep, and IT was' no trouble for This question is being asked by him to get out South American diplomats who are "I abouted to Coasack to go back watching every development in the In the pit He has never learned to situation in which Argentina, Bolivia and Peru are directly Interested and Chile and Brazil Indirectly. Some of the diplomats profess to think that the excitement In Bolivia over the Argentine award, which was favorable lo Peru, is really a blind on the part ot the I'clltlclans there to bring about an armed conflict with Peru, nominally to secure a more aatisfactory adjust ment of the boundaries of the dis puted tract, but actually aimed at ter e " Vos-wel- ntorial conquest " - l, k. A suc. Spljvia haa no aea coast. cessful war with Peru might give her an outlet to the sea by demanding aa an indemnity Moquegua province, the southernmost in Peru and adjoining the Chilian frontier. In that province Is the excellent, harbor of Ho, at the south of the river of that name. ' Chile's probable attitude In the event of hostilities between Bolivia and Peru is also being discussed with much animation. Her financiers have been spending considerable money In the work of railroad construction In Bolivia, and the popular sympathies are believed to be with that country. Killed Woman In Quarrel Over Money. Wash. William J. Free-aton- e . Everett, shot and killed Mrs. E. M. Warn In a dispute over money which Free stone alleged Mrs. Warn owed him. Freestone, armed with a rifle, met Mrs. Warn in front ot her home, and the two engaged In a controversy. As Mrs. Warn waa about to enter her door Freestone shot her In the back and killed her Instantly. Two other shots went wild, one wounding Mrs. J. Platter and the other hitting Mrs. Oliver Hicks. Neither of the latter was seriously hurt Freestone is In jail. 8laln at Father's Grave. her Rochester, N. Y. Leaving home early Saturday to place flowers on the grave of ' her father,' Anna Schumacher, 17 yeara old, wa at tacked by one or more unknown 'men, criminally 'assaulted and murdered. Her body was dragged outaide the cemetery to a depression In a lonely .spot and covered, with earth and leaves. There It was discover d Mon-day- ) .morning by' constables' of the towV of Gfejpce, .who found marks 'bf a struggled in the Schumacher plot la ,; ' the cemetery. , Uncle Joe Still In the Ring. ' Chicago. Speaker Joseph O. Can non stopped off In Chicago Monday evening on hla way home to Danville and disclaimed any Intention of retiring from public life, aa reported in New York dispatches. "When I get ready to step out ot office, I will say ao, but up to date I am making no such announcement," declared the "Also, when my constitspeaker. uents get ready to have me retire, they will no doubt ssv so. However. Lhev have nofglven the words of a rawer"." " Bm AH "He Struck Me with Hla Open Paw." obey, and Instead of doing as I told him be made for me. "I picked up a ahart Iron bar, the only thing that waa handy. 1 bad no gun, and If I had I would have hesitated to uae It I atepped to one aide of Cossack and grabbed his chain, and as he lunged for me I thumped him on the head. "That made him furious, but It made it eaBler for me to Jerk him back Into the pit He Jumped In, and I grabbed the chain, which he bad pulled out ot my hands. "Down there In the pit he bad the advantage of me. There waa where we had our real fight He struck me with bis open paw, tore my coat and under clothea open and dug Into my aboulder. I hit him on the head again, and be made at me with hla teeth and bit me In the right leg. I thought he' had bitten. It off. , he went ao ... ' deep ; "I thumped him on the head with all my might and he let go. Then- 1 snapped hla chain buck on the ring, fastened it aecurely, and jiiBt aa h made at me again wUh hla clawa I Jumped out ot the pit" The bear fight occurred at a tlra when the Delmar Pike waa well filled and various reports which followed It caused excitement among the aldo show crowds, and on the grounds aajacent National Tralta. 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