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Show NOTICE The date on your name label of this paper it the date to which your aubscripiton ia paid. Kindly be aa prompt aa possible in paying in advance. Press FTT1 I HE Spanish Fork ..I SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, VOL. VIII. NO. 48. CONGRESS WILL ACT ON THE (Copyright. f KlnG FARM DEATH Aged Monarch of Belgium to Undergo Operation In Hope of Saving His Life. WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE HOLIDAYS TO BEGIN REGULAR WORK. to Carry Into Effect Recommendations of tha Presldant In Hla Annual and 8peclal Meaaages. Washington. Appropriation legislation will be undertaken by congress before the adjournment for tbe Tbere baa been a general that all measures of any character would be postponed until after the first of January. There are two elements In congress. One favors extensive general legislation. Tbe other takes the position that, as a general tariff bill was passed In the extra session, congress should be content to do little more this session than pass the appropriation bills. All recognize, however, that some effort will be made probably to carry Into effect recommendations of the president whether contained in his annual message or In pedal messages. He is laying out an extensive program, and nobody believes that it will be possible to do all that he will ask. His recommendations with reference to railroad legislation are apt to give more trouble .khan anything else, because It is expected that there will be a public demand for much that he will recommend, and because congress is ways divided on the policy to be pursued with reference to the railroads. The conservation policy, postal savings, merchant marines and other questions will not attract so much at-- . tention, and may be more easily put aside than the railroad question. There is a general antipathy to bond Issues, and any measure involving such a feature will be carefully considered before it is adopted. No one expects any anti-trulegislation until tbe supreme court passes on Important cases Involving ' the Sherman law now before the tribunal. im. ft v wtim Ms boll-Bay- s. sup-positi- ii II V 6ET HOME RULE u B TRAGEDYOFTHELAKE British Premier Makea This Promise In Case His Party Is Returned to Power. BURNED CLARION FREIGHTER AND ONLY SIX MEMBERS OF THE CREW RESCUED. i t n Latin-America- n d s s matter, Poit Om t, 117. Aot of Congress March 10 SOLVE PROBLEM SHARKS PROTECTORATE ADVOCATED LAST RESORT IN CONTRO-VERSWITH NICARAGUA. ATM HIS WRECK'S AS Y Twelve Men Entered Life Boat and Have Not 81 nee Been Heard From the Supposition Being That They Have Perished. Cleveland. Two men lost their their lives and the fate of thirteen others is unknown as a result of the burning of the steamer Clarion near Point Pelee in Lake ' Erie, early Thursday. Six members of the crew were taken from the Clarion by the steamer These U C. Hanna and Brother. say all attempted to leave the Clarion as soon as it was discovered she could not be saved. Captain E. J. Bell of Ogdensburg, N. Y., and twelve other members of the crew took to the life boats. Survivors say one of the crew fell overboard when attempting to enter the life boat, but was rescued by those In the boat The mate was frozen to death. A vain effort was made by the six survivors to enter another life boat REVIVES CONTROVERSY. to Dr. Cook's Personal Attorney Said Have Deserted Explorer. New York. It' is announced that Dr. Frederick A. Cook's personal lawyer, Henry Wellington Wack, has ' severed relations with his client. Mr. Wack has refused to confirm or deny his withdrawal, but it can be affirmed on competent authority that, after a consultation with his partners, Mr. Wack wrote Dr. Cook so long ago as November 30 that he must beg him to seek legal advice elsewhere. "I have not the remotest idea," said Mr. Wack, "where Dr. Cook Is keeplug himself or why he persists in seclusion when his presence Is vital to his own Interests and his friends. I read that he is in Brooklyn, in a sanltalrum In Maine, in a Philadelphia asylum, but personally 1 incline to tbe belief that be is abroad." UNITED 8TATE8 8ECOND. . Superior to Germany In Some Respects as to Power of Navy. Washington. The navy year book for 1909, compiled by Plttman Pulis-feclerk of tbe senate committee on r, naval affairs,' shows the race for second place among the navies of the world Is still close between the United States and Germany. Of fighting ships (battleships and armored cruisers) built, building and provided tor, this country has forty-lv- e and Germany forty-six- , but the iKgregate tonnage for the United States is 009,24 1 as against 785,687 for Germany. Germany's superiority in respect to all vessels is due largely to her torpedo destroyers, where she has ninety-seveas against our thlrty-slx- . Germany also outnumbers us in the matter of large guns, the number being 208 as against 180. n Central Americans Hold a Veritable Indignation Meeting, Mexico City. Fifty members of tbe various colonies of the Central American republic met here Thursday night at a private residence, and at a late hour adopted resolutions denouncing President Taft, Secretary Knox and the action of the United States toward Nicaragua. Before the adoption of the resolutions, a number of speakers excitedly denounced the Americans. Some present were adherents of Zelaya, while others favored other men for president of Nicaragua. A regular organ!-tatlowas formed n If PASSENGERS BITE FI8H THROWN INTO 8EA WHEN SHIPS CRA8H. Insurgents Fail to Dethrone Zelaya the United States and Mexico Could Take Charge of , 101 Affairs. Washington. One of the project! for the solution of the Nicaraguan situation that has been strongly urged upon the state department Is the establishment of a protectorate, either singly by the United States, or Jointly with Mexico. This may be regarded as necessary In the event that the Insurgents fall to dliplaoe Zelaya by their own efforts, and It may follow an Insurgent triumph that would leave the country without responsible leaders. It Is said precedent for such action could be found in the cases of Santo Domingo and Cuba. In the first instance large sums of money due career. spectacular American citizens could not be colTELL SICKENING STORIES. lected from the Dominican government (then in a state of chaos) by Women, Passenger In 8teerage Vilely diplomatic means. In the case of f Treated. Nicaragua the government has deA on steerage faulted In payment in agreed allotWashington. report conditions based on Information ob- ments on the Emory claim. In the tained by special agents of the Immi- case of Cuba a state of disorder that gration commission traveling as steer- threatened lives and property of Americans and other foreigners was age passengers on different steamers was made public Tues- the warrant for Intervention. There is reason to believe that a day through presentation to the senate with recommendations for legisla- forward movement will be adopted tion to better oondltons. Conditona by the government, perhaps as soon found In many of these vessels are as a sufficient number of marines have been gathered off the Nicaragdescribed as appalling. The general report of the commis- uan coast. sion contains the reports of IndividuFOR GOOD ROADS. als giving their experiences on board steamships on which they posed as National Aid Requested at Convensteerage passengers. A woman agent, tion Held In Kansas. who was Insulted and compelled to Topeka, Kan. National aid for perwithstand repulsive privations, said: "In those twelve days in the steer-ag- e manent roads, a system of national I lived In a disorder and in sur- highways connecting capitals of the roundings that offended every sense. various states, and of state highways use Only tbe fresh breeze from the sea connecting various county seats, overcame the sickening odors. The of federal prisoners for, building vile language of the men, the screami roads, and the establishment of on a strictly business basis, of the women defending themselves, the crying of children, wretched be- are some of the suggestions made cause, of their surroundings, especial- Tuesday at the opening sessions of ly, every sound that reached tbe ears, the tenth National Good Roads conirritated beyond endurance. There vention. A letter from President Taft dewas no sight before which the eye did clares against national aid to any not prefer to close." great extent. Tbe president says: FIGHTING IN NICARAGUA. "My own views of the good roads question is that It Is chiefly a state That Insurgents Were function, and that all states ought to Reported Beaten by General Vasquex. unite in an effort to promote good Managua. The report is current roads. I do not think that the farmhere that there have been severe en- ers are as much interested In the gagements near Rama between the matter as they ought to be. Next to government troops commanded by education, tbe system of good roads General Vasquex and the revolution- Is the greatest clvllier." ists, with heavy loss of life. There Fatal Auto Accident. has also been a report that Rama has Pasadena, Cal. Agnes Claypole, 18 been captured by the Zelaya forces, years old, the daughter of a wealthy but this Is not confirmed. According to dispatches, the revolu- resident of this city, was Instantly tionists claim that they were at- killed, and her fiancee, Harvey Rus tacked in violation of the armistice, sell, 24 years old, a son of a Grand manufao Rapids, Mich., millionaire but this is not believed. was Injured fatally perhaps turer, Inis Telegraphic communication terrupted and the exact facts are lack- when their automobile went over the ing, but It Is supposed by government grade on the Eagle Rock valley road officials here that General Vasquez and fell 100 feet Miss Claypole's was attacked by the enemy, as he was body was found under the machine. and right leg under orders from Zelaya not to Blssell's collarbone make an attack. The armistice, were broken and his spine Injured se which was arranged between General verely. He Is still conscious, but un able to move his lower extremities. Vasquez and General Estrada, ended at 3 o'clock Friday morning. House Takes Up Measure. Washington. Taking up the presi DENOUNCES ZELAYA. dent's annual message to congress, the house of representatives on Tues Would Senator Him Maryland Bring day went through the formality of to Bar of Justice. It and distributing it among referring Washington. Vigorously" denouncthe various committees. Mr. Payne ing President Zelaya for "having mur- who brought In the resolution for ref dered" Cannon and Oroce, officers of offered an amendment pro erence, the revolutionary army,. Senator Ray-ne- r of Maryland on Monday advo- viding that those paragraphs relat to appropriations be referred to cated the passage of his resolution ing what he designated as the "sleeping" the of the authorizing president committees on departmental expendiUnited 8tates to apprehend and try tures, of which there Is one for each the president of Nicaragua" for his department. crime against these two American Oklahoma Bank Falls citizens. "The private life of Zelaya, almost Guthrie, Okla. State funds amount unspeakable in its enormity," .said ing to $122,867 are on deposit In the of Tulsa, Mr. Rayner, "should be made public Farmers' National bank by the state department, In order that which closed Its doors Monday night, the people of the United States might according to a statement by GovThe governor sold know the kind of man Zelaya is." Mr. ernor Haskell. Edward Cassldy, secretary of the Rayner said there was ample authority in International law for the course school land commission, had deposit' he advocated to bring Zelaya to tbe ed 870,000 In the bank, and that State Treasurer James Meuefee bad depos bar of Justice. ited $32,807. The state treasurer's funds are protected by a surety com' 8lx Killed In Wreck. pany. N. Y. The Twentieth Century Erie, A Wall Street Melon. limited,' the New York Central fast train en route from Chicago to New New York. An unexpected banking York, collided with the rear end of "melon" was sliced up In Wall street passenger train No. 10. on the Lake on Tuesday In time for the Christmas Shore railroad at Northeast, Pa., six- holidays, when the First National teen miles east of here, shortly after bank declared an extra dividend of 8 At the time of per cent for the quarter, making the midnight, Monday. collision the Twentieth Century was total disbursement of 40 per cent In miles an dividends for the year. Tbe bank has easily making sixty-twhour. Six bodies have already been a capitalization of $10,000,000 and dis taken from the wreck, and It Is be- tributes this year $4,000,000 in dlvt lieved there will be more fatalities. " dends. trans-Atlanti- London. At a monster meeting Friday night In Albert hall, Herbert Henry Asqutth, British prime minister, laid down the policy on which the Liberal government Is appealing to the country. He repeated what had been said by other ministers that, if it were returned to power, the governmentwould demand the limitation of the power of the house .of lords; and then went a step further, and pledged that the Liberal party to Irewould grant land. The meeting was marked by tbe greatest enthusiasm of the audience, entirely composed of men, women been denied admission in the ' Met Horrible Death."-""" having tear that there might be counter demiPlttsburg. Entrapped In a lake of onstrations by suffragettes. turning tar, four men were held fast ZELAYA IS INTERVIEWED. at the McClintock & Irvine company's SunIn this city early roofing plant Holds Shooting of Americana to Have day, and were compelled to watch Been Perfectly Proper. vthe gradually approaching flamea. Managna. President Zelaya , in an , jjbree of them were burned to death, Interview here Friday with a staff corthe fourth to extricate managed jiut " hlm'elf. although he was seriously respondent of the Associated Press, ourned. It is said the men were not said: . "The United States unjustly conemployed at the works, but had been I prosleeping there at night The valve demns my administration. of a tar vat opened in some manner posed to Secretary of State Knox that end engulfed the men before they he submit the case to the Investigarallzed their danger. tion of a committee of his own choosing, agreeing to surrender my rights Paroled Lunatlo Accused of Murder. to. the presidency if charges in his 25 letter to Isidore Sezera, former Chicago. Lawrence Ehrhart, years old, Is being examined in the minister to the United belief that he shot and killed his States, were sustained. Secretary brother, Joseph, 28 years old, In a Knox has not replied. farmhouse In the village of Manhat"Defenseless against tbe hostility tan, near Joliet. According to the po- of a powerful nation, I must submit, lice, the man accused of the shooting although I nave been conaemnea unwas released recently from the Kan- heard." kakee Insane asylum as cured. .. The "The coercion of the United States hooting took place In the dining room will not redound to its credit as a naof the Ebrhart home, the parenta and tion, whose motives are questioned in rest of the family being In the next all Tbe countries. room when the alleged crime was shooting of Oroce and Cannon was committed. proper. Both were amenable to the laws of Nicaragua, which distinctly Thinks House of Lords Is Doomed. authorizes the shooting of Individuals London. Henry Labouchere, the rebels. noted radical editor, in an interview commanding "The Initiative In the shooting of on Saturday declared in favor of an Oroce and Cannon was not mine. I elective upper house in the British simply refused to extend clemency to milparliament modeled on the plan of , them after a properly-constituteHe itary tribunal bod passed upon the States senate. the Unted holds that the bouse of lords as a case." hereditary national legislative body is ; Federation to 8upport 8wltchmen. doomed, but be Is opposed to the idea v Cincinnati, .0 The American Fedof a single chamber with the supreme of Labor will support the raileration governing power and thinks It would road switchmen on strike in the northbe dangerous. west to the extent of its powers. This Picture Transmitted by Light Waves. announcement was made Friday by of the Paris. Two Frenchmen, I. Blgnoux Samuel Oompers, president conferextended an after federation, and Fournler, have perfected an of Frank with ence Hawlcy, president which will transmit like-union. It nesses of persons standing at either the American Switchmen's to mean, that if railroad end of a wire, enabling people talk- is understood officials do not concede .to the deing over a telenhone to see as well as mands of the strikers, trouble may to hear each other. Tbe picture is until it involves other great spread, transmitted by light waves over the labor organizations In the railway wires, JuBt as sound waves are trans- field. . mitted. An electric light of French Buy United States Steel. by a mirror , candle power is projected York. It was announced here New on the object to be portrayed and sixty-fou- r .wires are needed for this Friday that the block of 100.000 shares of commou stock of the United , purpose. States Steel corporation, purchased Women Will Write Book In Hope of by a syndicate of French bankers last Freeing Poland. spring, and which, it was reported, Dresden. Mrs. Benjamin Shears of was to have been listed on the Paris and Miss Angela bourse, had been entirely taken up. Scranton, Pa., Reeves of Nantlcoke, Pa., have ar- Most of the shares have been placed rived here from Warsaw, Poland In small lots with French Investor!. where they have been collecting data Battleships Collide. for a history of Poland. The two The battleship GeorWashington. ladles declare they hope to create and Nebraska collided while gia sufficient sympathy for the Polish In tactical exercise off the cause by their book to result in the engaged The effects were not capos. Virginia j Mrs. of ultimate freeing the nation. were able two and tbe aerlous Shears and Miss Reeves have made a i to return to Hampton ships Roads with the tour of Poland and will begin the act-- entire fleet. RlveU In he two vesual writing of the book here.. sels were strained. 1 iI f I A President Brown of the New York Central Railroad 8aya In Future, Farmera Must Be Scientific IRELAND TO seoond-clu- BIG Brussels. Leopold II, king of Belgium, Is making a desperate fight with death and tbe odds are strongly against the aged monarch. As a last resort the surgeon's knife is to be' tried. If the operation is successful. King Leopold may live. If It falls the end Is Inevitable. All will depend upon the king's strength and vitality, which are ebbing fast. Rheumatism has already conquered the aged and wasted frame. Dropsy has developed, and an obstruction of the intestines, which must be removed, has greatly aggravated his condition. Tbe general opinion Is that the king will not survive the operation. King Leopold Is still as lucid of intellect aa ever. This masterful mind, which conceived and carried out the gigantic Congo project and roused the whole world into bitter indictment and discussion, calmly directed what seems to be the final chapter in his An Effort Will Bo Mad "1 KEAR Entered Fsb. 11, 101, aa at Spanish Fork. Utah. 1MB.) u A - LEOPOLD 1909. c PERSONS ARE DROWNED Mail 8teamer, Cut In Half In Collision Near 8lngnpore, Sinks In Two Mlnutee Sixty-on- e Rescued. The mall steamer La the Messagrles martltlme ser-- Singapore. Seye, of pore, and on ber way to this portal, crashed Into tbe On da, of the BrltlsbA ; s. India Line, and sank within two min-'-ute- ' - Seven European passengers,. Including Baron and Baroness Benlczky, the Captain of La Seye, five European officials and eighty-eigh- t others, comprising native passengers and members of tbe crew, were drowned. The rescue of sixty-onpersons, practically from the Jaws of shoals Df sharks, formed a thrilling incident of the wreck. ' e o'clock In the morning In a thick mist Tbe vessels were steaming st good speed and the La Seye waa cut almost in half.' Tbere was no time tor panic nor for any attempt on the part of th officers of the foundering steamer to put out the boats. The majority of those on board were caught In tbelr berths and carried down with the vessel. Tbe force of the collision brought the Onda to almost a dead stop and ber engines were at once Vwed and boats lowered. The rescue work proved thrilling, for not only were the rescuing parties Impeded by the darkness, but shoals of sharks were already attacking those clinging to pieces of wreckage in the water. Sixty-onpersons from tbe sieamer were finally dragged Into the b"ats and brought by the Onda to this e d road-makin- g . o . Hurled Into 8chool of Sharks. port Many of them had been bitten by sharks and several were severely Injured. In the Wrong "Den." Under the head of "Synonyms," Will Creer was explaining his position to tbe Ad club the other day. "Words he ' said, "and have associations," synonyms sound strange to the ear when used in other than familiar terms and connections. So, when I read In the financial column of one of the papers that Pittsburg coal, common, bad demonstrated indications of salient resiliency, I knew at once that the automobile editor had filled In for the financial editor. We are accustomed to associate the resiliency business with rubber tires, and so with the automobile line, although Its application was perfectly sound in the connection In which It was used. "A man came Into the bank recent ly to sell us some advertising cuts, embellished with what he called epigrams. The., first he sprung on me read like this: 'A savings deposit la a potential power pregnant with possibilities.' I told him he was in the wrong shop. What he was looking for was a School for Alliteration." Cleveland Leader. , Too Horrible. "A young woman In Paris who bad been Jilted by her lover went Into cage of lions to commit suicide. Brave, wasn't he? "Somewhat; but you never hear of a woman going Into a cage of mice. , |