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Show mmm THE SPANISH FORK PRESS IIU Publisher ANDREW JENSEN, SPANISH FORK CTfllD Piinnr urn ct - - VERSATILE BUSINESS MAN TERS NEW FIELD. UTAH Government Will Institute Suit, the ' Existence of Exteneive NEWS UTAH 8yetem i of Preferential Ratee BeThere are fifteen more oil rigs at Windstorm Strikes Mississippi and Company of Infantry Will Attempt ing Alleged. work in the Virgin River oil fields to Preserve Order at Fairbanks, Texas, Ten Being Killed and than when the year 1907 closed. Alaska, During Strike. Many Injured. Mt. Pleasant Id considering the are to Washington. Prosecutions ot a cannery establishing be instituted question by the government which will can both fruits and vegeagainst the Southern Pacific company tables. Districts Visited by Disastrous Tw't-te- r and against certain officials of that Trouble la Outcome of Demand for Mrs. Kersta Mortensen, a pioneer railway organization on allegation Were Sparsely. Settled or the Higher Wages end Shorter Houre, of Ephraim, and who came to Utah in that they paid rebates to shippers. Would of Lots Life Have and Attempt to Operate Mlnea Information which Is to be a basis 18G6, Is dead, old age .being the cause Much Been Heavier, for these prosecutions was obtained Independently of Western of death. Federation. of the Interstate by Franklin K. As the result of an order of the t commerce commission, last autumn In board of education, all the pupils of Meridian, Miss. Three small Mis- the course of an extensive Inquiry the Salt Lake schools are to have sissippi towns were practically de- made by him into the affairs of the their eyeB tested. Washington. By direction of ths Southern Pacific company. A swine plague has been reported molished by a tornado on Friday. ReActing Secretary Oliver on president, By direction of the Interstate com- Thursday ordered a company of inat Elsinore, Sevier county, and the ports of the number killed range from Commissioner state board of health has taken the six to ten, with the smaller number merce commission. fantry from Fort Gibbon, in Alaska, probably correct. Mossvllle, Service Lane visited the Pacific coast and for to Fairbanks, in that territory, to matter under investigation. The commissioner of Ibdlan affairs and Sovo are the towns destroyed. several weeks conducted his Inquiries order during the mining strike has decided to send a special agent They are all in Jones county, and all into the alleged charges of rebating In that section. Telegrams from Fairto southern Utah to Investigate the are very small, being merely a hand- which had reached the commission. banks to the attorney general stated Commissioner Lane's report of his Inalleged troubles between the Indians ful of scattered dwellings. The top that open air mass meetings are bein Including a transcript ot and vestigation, struck about nado them noon, and cattlemen. the striking miners, and the him In a for- ing held by taken Two hundred men employed as ma- most instances is reported to have mal testimony as an by of violence have been threats that cominterstate hearing comchinists, blacksmiths, boilermakers, carried the buildings in its patb made. merce commissioner, was made pubIn the Rio pletely off the lots on' which they lic on Saturday. The report has been helpers and assistants The distance from Fort Gibbon to were covered fields stood. Nearby Grande shops in Salt Lake have been approved by the commission and a Fairbanks is 155 miles, and the troops with wreckage, and the branches of transcript of the report and of the evi- will laid off until March 2. be carried by sleds over the were littered with Bmall house- dence adduced at the hearing has trees In line with the recent retrenchwhich is said to be a very good route, been transmitted to the department of ments made by the Harrlman system, hold articles. one. If there Is urgent necessity for lustlce for "such prosecutions under the office of assistant superintendent the presence of the soldiers at Fairthe law as may be warranted. at Four Killed lor the Utah division out of Ogden has Tyler. banks they can get there In four or over been ordered abolished. A tornado Tex. five TRAIN HITS STREET CAR. swept Tyler, days. But under ordinary condiWool growers of Sevier county the principal residence portion of Tytions the trip takes six or seven days. have formed an association, the pur- ler at 4 oclock Friday morning, caus- Motorman Disregards Signals, With Fairbanks is in the center of a minDisastrous Results. pose of which Is to advance the in- ing the death of four persons. The ing country, with a population of terests ot the wool producing and dead are; C. A. Francis, aged 28; his or 8,000. Persons in Washington Toledo, O. Seven persons were Mose killed and a dozen child. wife and sheep growing Industry. when a Big familiar with the conditions existing Injured Miss Florence Miller, a young wo- Lee, a negro, aged 80. Francis was Four passenger train struck a Toledo at Fairbanks say the trouble is the man about 19 years of age, died sud- ngent for the Dallas News. His dead & Western electric car at the Michi- outcome of a strike a year or more denly at Parowan last week, being tody was found 100 yard from his gan Cential crossing in West Toledo ago for higher wages and shorter hours for miners. This the operators, stricken In the night and death' re- wrecked home, and the body of his Saturday night. however, refused, and their determibefore In Mrs. street. was the found child morning. sulting of the nation to operate their mines IndeAccording to an Park City Is to have a charity ball Francis body was in the wreckage of wreck, which occurred shortly 'fter 8 pendently of the Western Federation on the evening of February 27, in or- the building. Six persons were seri- oclock, the conductor stopped at the ef Miners may, it Is feared, lead to der to raise money for the benefit ously injured. They are Irwin Frank- crossing to flag the car across. See- trouble. of those who are In temporary need lin, Mrs. Franklin and four Franklin ing the train coining, he motioned tc because of the mining conditions. children. One of the children Is ex- the motorman to stop, but this signal EXPRESS COMPANY IN TROUBLE. II. E. Robison, a Salt Lake insur- pected to die. They were caught In was either misunderstood, or not seen for the car cams Accused of Carrying Mail in Violation ance man, has sued the street railway the wreckage of their home. Twelve or disregarded, with results. Ths were tornado wrecked. ahead, The sickening buildings of the Postal Laws. company for $20,000 damages, charging up from the southwest and tore motorman was among those killed. Al that he was permanently injured as came Cincinnati, O. Violation of the postho ambulances in the city were hast the result of being thrown from a car a path through Tyler 10 feet wide. mall By summoned and the scene of ths tal laws by carrying first-clas- s last December. wreck was soon thronged with exeltec matter was charged against the AmerWELCOMED BY CHILEANS. John T. Lynch, an old resident ol people. Impeding rather than aldlnf ican Express company In a suit filed the city, and one of the American Fleet Passes Valparafro, Is the work ot rescue. in the United States district court Masons in Utah, died at his home In here Wednesday by District Attorney Saluted by Entire Chilean Navy. A BUYS NOBLEMAN. Salt Lake City last week, his death beMcPherson. Valparaiso. The great American ing due to a fall on the ice, when his fleet This suit was the first gun In a of Former Chairman of ths the sixteen of under battleships, Daughter was broken. hip which the government procampaign command of Admiral Rear Isthmian Evans, Canal Commission It Is announced that employment poses to wage against common carafternoon Friday passed Valparaiso a Gets Title. will be furnished to about five hundred riers for carrying first-clas- s matter men on the Strawberry valley project and continued on fts voyage northNew York. Miss Theodora Shonts, contrary to law. In the information as soon as weather will permit. Work ward to Callao, Feru, the next stop- daughter of Theodore P. Shonts, for- which Attorney McPherson filed he will be prosecuted on the tract dur- ping place. All Valparaiso and thou- merly chairman of the Isthmian canal alleged that the American Express sands of persons from every city In commission, was married company on January 6 carried a leting the summer and fall. Saturday at ter the Chile witnessed the of from Belton, Texas, to Cincinnati. passing The student team from the Coloranoon to Manuel Theodorlc Bernard was from Mrs. Will Brown, do State University, supporting the fleet. President Montt and the other DAlbert Do Duke De The letter Luynes, of Belton, and in it sho ordered from officials of the republic came out negative In the Intercollegiate de- high Chaulnes, of Paris. The Duke De a glove company twelve pairs of bate at Salt Lake City, was awarded from shore to greet the battleships, Chaulnes is 29 years old and a memgloves and enclosed an express order Chilean almost the entire and navy the decision over the representatives ber of one of the most aristocratic for $2.47 In payment. Attorney Mcexchanged salutes with them as they families of the of the University of Utah. French nobility. He Pherson claims the letter did Curaumilla around Point and swung jot reThe family of Ole Larsen of Eph- Into Valparaiso bay in single file, has a house in Paris and an hereditary late to the business of the express castle In one ot the French provinces. company, and that the envelope did raim was poisoned from eating canned headed by the Chilean cruiser Cbac beans. Serious results might have buco and five Chilean torpedo boat Theodore P. Shonts, the brides fa- not bear a postage stamp, as required ther, is now president of the Interborou- by law. followed had not medical aid been destroyers. gh-Metropolitan company, which close at hand. Mrs. Larsen has been LIABILITY OF RAIROADS. Should Keep Their Mouths Shut and operates the New York elevated railconfined to her bed ever since. roads and subway. Three hundred and fifty men and Obey Orders. New Bill Introduced in Congress by 200 teams are now working on the West Point, N. Y. With' plain Thinks of Valentine for Sister in Face La Follette and Sterling. big canal of the Irrigated Lands com- words of advice aa to their future duof Death. Washington. A comprehensive empany near Price. The canal 1b to ties the advantages and hardships of Chicago. Stretched out on an operbe nine feet at the bottom, five feet an army career Secretary of War ployers liability bill was Introduced ating board In the Englewood Union in the senate and house on Thursda deep and nineteen feet at the top. Taft on Friday presented diplomas to hospital Saturday night, where two of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin As the result of school children pe- the 108 members of the graduating the staff physicians were cutting off by titioning Governor Cutler to Issue a rjasa of the United States military his lacerated little legs in an en- and Representative Sterling of Illinois. The authors say the bill has Lincolns academy. The secretary Impressed deavor to save his proclamation declaring life, Hermann Hill, birthday a holiday, the chief execu- upon the young men who were com- a newsboy, 9 years old, demanded ol the endorsement of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brothertive announces that he is In favor ol missioned as second lieutenants in the doctors: Say, whichever one ol hood of Locomotive Firemen and that day being made a holiday in the various branches ot the army you guys thats got my nickel go oul and the Brotherhood of Railthat the military service must ever and buy Utah. a valentine and send it to my road Trainmen, and Is intended subordinate to be civil to the governSanpete county h threatened with sister. I promised her one and she le meet the recent decision of the sua plague ot field mice, or moles, that ment, and that it was their serious waiting for it." The little fellow had duty "to keep their mouths shut and been run down by a street car while preme court by which the employers promises, if not checked, to be more obey orders." liability act of June 11, 1U0C, was deselling papers. disastrous to the farmers than the clared unconstitutional. Lectures Club Women. grasshopier pest. In all. parts of the DRIVEN FROM HOME BY WATER. county the fields are overrun with Farmer Are the Victims. York. Mrs. Cora F. Trow New these mice. a Floods Causa Great in ot caused consternation Springfield, O. The Farmers Co Damage at Pittsmeeting Feeling that the prevalence of con- the West End Women's and 20,000 Men Are Thrown operating Harvesting company of burg Republican tagious diseases In Ogden is more Hub Friday by stating that until Out of Work. America, a corporation organized by than the health officers can cepe with, women had leurned how to hold legal Pittsburg, Pa. Spreading ruin and William N. Whitcly, known as the the state board of health has decided elections In their own clubs had disaster In Its path, the annual flood Reaper King, has gone into the hands they to take up the matter and endeavor no C. S. Ollnger or this to demand the ballot. She of the rivers and small streams of this of a receiver. to ascertain Just what is the cause of saidright has been named in that capacity that women voted for the officers section holds city ao much contagion. Pittsburg In Its grasp. by the court. The concern was incorof their clubs berause they liked the Horticultural Inspector Rasmussen way a candidate dressed her hair, or The record flood of last year, when porated five years ago. following the of Weber county is authority for the because they disliked the woman who the water reached a stage of thirty-si- organization of the binder and one-hal- f feet, caused damage trust, known as the International Harstatement that winter spraying of placed the opposition candidate in Women should study estimated at $10,000,000, but sufficient vester company. Large amounts of fruit trees with a solution which be nomination. will furnish to any one desiring it is civics, she said, and become qualified warning was given this year to save stock were sold by Whitelys agents all over the United States, principally much properly. the only method to destroy the pest- to vote Intelligently. farmers. among A conservative estimate the places iferous San Jose scale. number of men thrown out of work by Opera Singer to be Deported. Organisations have been formed New York. Miss J. Trabelllnl. a tho Hood here at 20,000. This great Fighting Bob Evane In Better Health. ell over Weber county by the fruit army of unemployed Is Washington. The navy department singer from the La Scala grand opera increase toto the result In much suffering. has received the following from Adglowers for the purpose of fighting house in Milan, Italy, who, Bhe said, expected and effectually eradiactlng the San For weeks charitable organizations miral Simpson of the Chilean to this country hoping to secure have navy, on been soliciting funds for the un- board the cruiser Jose scale, which has wrought much came nn engagement at the Metropolitan or which Cimcabuco, havoc with fruit trees in that county the Manhattan employed, and now additional apopera house, will be peals have been made for contribu- piloted Admiral Evans fleet partially for the past several seasons. through the Strait of Magellan: deported. This action was decided tions to assist the flwid victims. Attorney General Breeden has ren upon by the Immigration authorities "Talrnhueno, Chile, Feb. 12. AdA great number of families have derod an opinion, in answer to a query on Friday. The singer hnd twice been been to move their house- miral Evans request me to infoim compelled from the county attorney of Sevier admitted to this country, but when hold goods to upper stories. They go the department from the fleet, at sea, Tuesday, 4 p. m bound for Callao county that "a man over 14 years of sho arrived for a third visit, two to and fro in skiffs. On the north side of Pittsburg the via ago may hunt and kill coyotes, lynx, weeks ago, she was sent to Ellis wild cats and rabbits without a li- island and an investigation ot her policemen are patroling their beats in "Everything going on well. l Evan much better in health. skiffs. cense, and not be linblo to punishment. case ordered. Mrs. Anna Dmill, who died In Salt Insurance Company on the Rocke. Bomb Placed for King. 8tockmen In Conference at WashingLake last week, came to Utah In Lisbon. It has been learned thnt a New York. Attorney General Wilton. 1848. and has lived In Utah ever since, Friday living In the same house, sho liam S. Jackson announced Washington. Representatives of bomb wn found tinder the landing had derided that to he nsk for the apwestern livestock In and associations held a stage where King Carlos landed on which wooden pegs help build, were used Instead of nails; as nails pointment of a receiver for the Mu- meeting Saturday afternoon to discuss the day of the assassination. It hnd were not to be had when the house tual Reserve Lite Insurance com- pending legislation regulating grazing failed in explode been lire of a defort was built. pany. The legality of certain Bens on public lands. No conclusion whs In the fuse. A number of persons Mr. ar.d Mrs. George F. Brooks imposed upon policies has been ques-Hone- reached, but it was the sentiment of have railed at the lute home of Butrn, their golden wedding last week, by tho authorities. Attorney the meeting thut no legislation could one of the dead assassins, to give to hiu mother-in-laafter fifty years of married life spent General Jackson said his decision to bo passed at tills session. Tor tho Among money In Salt Lake City. Mr. Brooks and axk for a receiver was based on the those who attended wero Ntidn Mc- support or hi children. Tho proprieleport of Stale Superintendent of In- Kenzie. A. E. Deslequies of Colorado, tor of a department store has opened his wife, then Miss Hannah came to Salt Lake with tho surance Kelsey, who contended that J. C. Underwood of Wyoming, S. II. a subscription for them with f 1,111m, second year's pioneers, arriving from .be company Is Insolvent, with a do Cowan of Texns, Messrs. Plnehot, Pot- also giving .hem free use of their Icit of $1,717,114. house. ter and Byrnes of the forest service. England In STT6l EN- STATE , pre-seiv- e 7,-0- one-year-o- eye-witne- best-know- n . x cele-orate- Bow-tborp- I d la Theatrical Magnate, Financier and Publisher Likely to Be Michl gan Delegate-at-Larg- e Bought to noware certain to you large profits during G. O. P. Convention. make the next six months. New York. Wanted The transforFer informatioe concern in tho minev mation of a versatile business man For tabulated atateaeat ibowing run j ' into a Republican leader. Apply to Edprice during 1907 Tiotic Miniof Districts For of tbo ward D. Stair of New York and Denip For prompt oxecutioe of commUiioe 41 troit, newspaper proprietor, theatrical magnate and financier. Address This might well be the form of announcement adopted by Mr. Stair If he CO. desired to be entirely frank In the to of his be the publication THE BROKERS aspirations delegate-at-largfrom Michigan to the 100 Atlae Block, Bolt Lake City, Republican national convention. Now Braneh Office, Eureka, Utah, 48 years old, Mr. Stair has been steadBoth Phonos, No. 329. ily progressing in the business world since he was 13, when he began his fight for the attainment of his ambiYou may be absolutely satisfy tions. In finance and business he has reached the goal at' which he aimed. nj whan you hava your watch n. But It now appears that there is somepaired by us that It hat bon don more Mr. which to by sklllod oxparts In tha vn is essential thing Stair's happiness and to the real bast poaalbla manner and at the vary lowaat poaalbla prices. quintessence of bliss. The Indefatigable little political bee has recently got extremely busy with the newspaper threatrlcal financial man. The bee has stung him once, to common knowledge, making Mr. Stair desirous of applying salve In the shape of the position of delegate-at-large- . The iro , bee has also begun to sting him, by reMAIN ft , port, a second time. If the bee comSALT LAKE CITY, UTAH pletes the last bit of work Mr. Stair will be seeking additional salve in the PLANTS. 8KKDS. Ht on ttrtk Free catalog. Intvrn'l NiincrW guise of even higher political honors. TREES Louver, Colo. Agent ttntc This, at any rate, is the gossip among men who announce that they are fa- COULDNT FIND THE REMNANT! miliar with the topic they are discussing. Remarkable Diiappearance That PutIf Mr. Stair succeeds as well fn polizled the Hired Girl. tics as he has in business he certainly A woman who goes in for the higher art has a miniature Venus de Milo I standing on the piano, Just to shoe the casual caller that she's wise a to what's what. This woman has the Venus and she also has a new hired girl who comet from furrin shores. In dusting the piano the other morning, while her mistress was out do-lng the marketing, the girl bowled over the Venus. She picked it op, picked up also a chip or two that had been knocked off the statuette, and then eet It in place and sized It np to see If it looked all right When the mistress arrived home an hour later she found the girl down on her knees peering under the piano, looking over the floor and looking in various other directions, all of which suggested that she might be looking for : something. "And what la the matter? asked the mistress of the home in surprise. "Oh, I knocked over the statchoo lamented the girl, pointing to Venus. will let the country know that another "But It doesn't seem to have damlive one has come to the front. The business versatility and success of the aged it any." "Yes, It did, Insisted, the girl, New Yorker-Detroitewhose business It broke off both tearfully. headquarters are in New York and residence in Detroit, are shown by the arms, ma'am and I haven't been able to find the pieces." fact that he Is: A newspaper man, being a large Youthful Smoker. owner of the Detroit Free Press and of Henry Twele, three and a half year the Detroit Journal. old, of Greenock, near McKeesport, A theatrical man, the firm of Stair probably the most youthful smoker la & Havlln controlling 158 theaters in Allegheny county and probably la the United States and Canada. Pennsylvania. The boy has been using A financial man, being director of tobacco for more than a year. HI several banks and trust companies a id father le miner. The boy cries unlei a heavy dealer in real estate. given a pipe or a atogle once or twice And now he wants to shine with a day, and nothing else will parity him. Milk and medicine are spurned, equal brilliancy In a fourth and become a political star of the first and he falls asleep soon after smoking. magnitude. Perfectly Truthful. He is a comparatively newcomer in "I don't believe that you pa really New York business world, having the moved his headquarters here from De- tlculariy wanted to hear me sing troit only in 1900. It Is in Michigan said a young lady coyly. "I did, li that he has spent most of his life, and deed, her admirer protested. "I ha Pick-M- i it was In Michigan that he laid the never heard you before. Up. basis ot his fortune. Mr. Stair started his life struggle Moral Effects of Athletics. with ambitions Aside from its physical effect, the newspaper only. Through all his success In tho moral effect of athletics, In the case field he has been true to his first of the soldier at least, is of no small love and has always been connected value. My experience has been that with newspapers in one capacity or men are less likely to drink la the another. He Is, moreover, more prom- football or baseball season, even inent as a theatrical magnate than as though they may be addicted to the a newspaper proprietor. His firm use of Intoxicants. And thus no sp owns all or part of every popular-price- rial effort may have been made along theater In the United States. these lines by those In charge of the The class of men who ge Every theater Mr. Stair has bought, sports. according to his admirers, has paid in for athletics and excel in such from the moment he took control of It, contests are tho most desirable soas though there were magic In his ldiers and tho best al! around men. touch. In the theatrical world he is Still another advantage of athletic considered a marvel for another rea- is that good athletic teams and the son that Is, because, with al! manner reputation for a post of having chamof temptations to take a prominent pion teurns draw good recruits ami part In the gayetles of "great white soldiers to enlist there. Army and way, he leads a most abstemious life. Navy Life. The sparkle of champagne Is not for Ostrich Farms for Italy. him. Not even does he smoke. NeithIn view of the importance of the c( er does he chew. Whether he swears merce In ostrich feathers, Vice Con or not his biographers do not state. MorencI, Mich., was Mr. Stairs birth- II. M. Bylngton of Naples states tl place, and it was here, at the age of Italians are being urged to start trlch farms In southern Italy, Sic 17, that ho first became a newspaper proprietor, having established The and Sardinia.- The successful rest MorencI Review. Later he published obtained in California and at Nice tho Midland Review and the Maple cited. Rapids Dispatch. Then, at 21, he Killed In Queer Accident. turned westward. He edited the DavenA somowhnt remarkable death tc port Dispatch and then the Coopers-towplace recently In one of the lai Courier. Then he turned back ovens at Tunstall, Staffordshire, E again to Michigan. There he bought land, used for firing pottery, the the Livingston Republican and made censed being Albert Cotton, aged It a power in state politics. Aftcrwurd A nmn named Enoch Goodwin w he went Into the theatrical game, at up a ladder to tho of the ov top which he has thus far held a winning when he fell and alighted on Colt linnd. killing him on the, spot Tho present announcement of the Stair eandiducy for the post of Monarch Was Not Faitldloue. follows the withdrawal Frederick the Great made a sa from the race of Assistant Secretary factory meal on salt beef or york of the Navy Truman H. Newberry. cabbage. 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