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Show CINCH THE THE SPANISH FORK PRESS SCANDAl ARREST BY COMES TO CLIMAX OF THREE ILLINOIS TWO saloon, near held up and robbed of FROM NAVY DESERTERS SLAY CAPTAIN OF VtSSEL AND STAND OFF CREW. 5 The "Last Chance" Copporton, wu 4125 by a lone bandit The game warden at Huntsville arretted John Hays of Ogdon for shooting pine hens out of season. A. M. Richardson, formerly of Salt I.ake City, shot and killed Jesse C. llale, at Portland, Ore., for ruining bis home, Ccorge Bromley of Echo was sentenced to serve sixty days In the county Jail for stealing a borne and buggy belonging; to H. Morton of Coalville. The failure to report cases of typhoid fever, Salt I.ake City physicians ax likely to be prosecuted by the city stealth board. Dancing will form one of the chief tnasementa for the children at the public playgrounds in Liberty park, Salt Lake City. A consignment of 100.000 trout has fee received from the bureau of fisheries at Washington for distribution la the Provo river. R. W. Buahnell, a business man of Ogden, was arrested for issuing several checks for small amounts, without funds banked to pay them. C Click, a professional beggar, was arrested in Salt Lake City for throwing Iodoform upon two young men, vho refused to give blm alms. The Salt Lake postoffice Is ninth In the percentage of gain in gross postal receipts out of fifty of the leading in the United States during the anon th of July. Hugh Williams of Provo pleaded guilty to the charge of assault on the person of Miss Swinson of Sptingvllle, and was assessed $50 by a justice of the peace. William Ryan, former fight promoter mt Salt Loke, who makes his home in the sporting district of Park City, was found guilty of petty larceny in Judge Crcesman's court and sentenced to pay fine of $75. While on the way from Nephl during the past week, William Bardsley of Gunnison was attacked by a swarm f bees and one horse that be was STrivlng was killed by them. W. E. Smith, In charge of United States fish car No. 3, is distributing black bass and trout fry in Utah streams and ponds, as an experiment ander government direction. The first Western Pacific train pulied into the new Gould station Fri-4awith a delegation of newspaper men from California, who were guests of the Salt Lake Press club. John Krebs, of Salt Lake, who tried to commit suicide at his home by hanging Friday, was adjudged insane In District Judge Armstrong's court Saturday and ordered committed to the state mental hospital. Suffering from the hallucination that the devil ordered blm to kill himself, John Krebs, aged 26 years, , eon . of Mrs. Louisa Krebs of Salt Lake City, attempted to commit suicide by hang' . ing himself at his home. of-fte- The tomato canneries throughout Davis county will commence operation for the season this week, and the prospects for a bumper yield of the fruit this year are bright. Work on the construction of a louble track road from Kelper to Spring Glen is being rapidly pushed, and from all indications the nad will be completed by e end of October. Preferring to take the chance ot Jumping from a thirty-foo- t cliff in Waterfall canyon than being bit. en Crater of Of by a rattlesnake, Fr-den, aged 19, suffered a severe fracture of the left leg. , d Mrs. M. La Mar, of Ogden, was nearly burned to death by her cloth ing catching fire from a bonfire. Most of her clothing was burned away, and It is feared she will die from her Salt Lake City council is contemplating the passage of an ordinate to cortall the wholesale use of "dopey" drugs and thereby lessen the future number of "dope" fiends. Soothing syrups for infants will come under the list of objectionable drugs. Damages In the sum of $10,000 axe asked in an action filed in the federal court Thursday by R. L. Thompson against the American Bridge company of New York for Injuries alleged to have been received by Thompson while employed on the steel work at the new Utah hotel on May 19, 1910. Suddenly stricken with heart failure, Mrs. Nellie J. McMahon, a widow, of Beardstown, 111., fell Into the arms of friends as she was coming off the dance floor at Saltair beach at 6:25 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and before help could bo given her she was dead. George Martin, a Bingham miner, was found dead In a room In the American house at Salt Lake City. It Is supposed that death resulted from excessive use of morphine, as a package of the drug was found on his per con. To strengthen credit linos In Utah, which It Is declared bave drifted from worse to worse, and to put all whole sale business houses in the state on a definite and uniform credit basis, is the purpose of a committee appoint ed by the Utah Association of Credit Men. GRAFTERS RESOURCEFUL Dlsha Warner, Publisher SPANISH FORK . . . UTAH THE UTAH BUDGET CHIEF Nsrvt of Falls and H Leaps Overboard; Other On. In Irons. On ,0l CENTRAL TAFT'8 KEYNOTE T0 J? .' BASIS FOR COMINQ S FURTHER r Millloni That Aggregate Frauds Accused the by , Charged Against Still President Harahan. It Convinced BHM.thBe.tC Chicago. Three former officials Think. oi It Need, the Illinois Central Railroad coropanj San Francisco. With her captain dead in his cabin and bringing a tale of piracy unparalleled In modern sea- I Jusr COTTAR PIT TMEWrJ N faring annals, the steamship arrived in this port Monday. ' Buck-ma- n George Washington Wise, one of a pair of buccaneers, who has been In Irons on board the vessel since he was captured early Monday morning, nas confessed that he and bis partner in crime, French West, planned to murder the officers and crew of the steamship before beaching her on the coast near Point Blance. That bis plan would have been carried out had it not bees for the cowardice of Wise. Is the belief of the officers of the Buckman. After holding shotgun leveled at the quartermaster and second mate for three hours, Wise deserted his post and seeing the futility of trying to overcome the crew West is believed to slnglehanded. have jumped overboard. No one saw him make the leap, however, and the hip lying at her dock here will be thoroughly searched In the hope that the murderer of Captain Wood may stIL be on board. Heavily armed and equipped with cord to be used In tying up the Owl watch, the two modern pirates Invaded the bridge at midnight, entered the wheel house and compelled Second Officer Frederick Plath and Quartermaster Otto Kohlmeister. who was at the wheel to hold up their hands. Then began a battle between two on one heavily armed desperadoes side and the officers and crew armed with one revolver on the other. When It was over the captain was weltering In his own blood in bis cabin, the crew was barricaded In the darkened engine room, one robber was probably overboard and the other was cowering In his bunk. FIFTY FOREST FIRE VICTIMS. A TO-DA- hi u Copyright. 110 slt-jwjo- JAPAN ABSORBS KOREA EMPIRE MIKADO'S GOVERNMENT QUIRES VAST AND POPULOUS TERRITORY. Mllltla to Fight Flrts. Portland. Or t. The six companies of the state mllltla In Portland, aa well as eleven other companies In Oregon, are preparing to take the field against the forest Area in southern Oregon at aa hour! aoUca. DEATH AND U d CITY AND VAST AREAS SWEPT BY BLAZING STORM. LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS ENORMOUS. WHOLE Dynasty Will be Made Princes; People Art Kept in of True Situation. Heads of Toklo. Withla the week "the Hermit kingdom" and the empire of Korea will become historical terms, twelve millions of people will be added to the pot ilatlon of Japan, and territory as large as England will become part of the Japanese empire. The treaty of Portsmouth, which settled the war between Japan and Rus sia, provides that Japan shall bave the "guidance, protection and control" of Korea, and the last stage of this agreement Is now becoming an actuality after three years of experiment ing to discover a practical method for conservation of the national entity of the Korean peninsula. The privy council of Japan Sunday was summoned to meet at 10:30 o'clock Monday, and this is regarded by well Informed persons as practl cally the signal to complete the nego tiations between Lieutenant General Terauchl, the Japanese resident gen eral In Korea, and the emperor of Korea and his cabinet, which have continued for a week. The Tl dynasty in Korea has lasted for 618 years. Seven branches of the family remain, and the heads of these will be given rank as princes, A uum ber of other officials will be elevated to the Japanese nobility. the negotiations the Throughout mass of the Koreans have been kept In entire Ignorance of what has been transpiring. The newspaper censor ship is complete, and Japanese news papers have not been permitted to be sold In Korea. n n i FIRES CAUSE AC- con-vect'o- n Years. Get Forty-fiv- e Dunbar BishCal. Charles Vallejo, op and Joseph C. Brown, the two young men who confessed to holding mall near Goodnp the China-Japayear, Cal., last April were sentenced to forty-fiv- e years each. i i ) Situation In Idaho On To Strike Terror to Souls of Men. 8pokane, Wash. With over fifty persons known to be dead, with 100 or more missing and a list of Injured that will approximate 200; with half the town of Wallace swept clean and the possibility that two or three more towns in the district have suffered complete destruction; with half a dozen or more small towns and villages seriously threatened, and the Inhabitants by the thousands hurrying to places of safety, the Pacific northwest faces the most terrible forest n Are situation In Its history. The la most acute In the Coeur d'Alene district of northern Idaho. Reports from other parts of the northwest are of less discouraging nature. Someof the fires have been controlled, others are less threatening owing to an absence of wind, while In some districts the fire fighters have ESTRADA WINS IN NICARAGUA. diverted the course of the flames from Revolutionists Defeat Madrla Forces towns that were threatened. The new and Are In Control. fires that have sprung up during the hours have not so far Washington. The provisional govpast twenty-fou- r ernment of Nicaragua Is tottering to proved serious. Its fall, the Madrlz army Is demoralCRUISER IS WRECKED. ized, consternation reigns in Managua Cruiser Bedford and Dr. Madrlx his general-ln-chleArmored British Toledo, and Dr. Irlas, are preparing to Off Korea. Rock Strikes Sunken flee the country. This, in effect, is London. Eighteen lives were lost the news received by the state departwhen the British cruiser Bedford ran ment Sunday from United Sttaes Conashore on the rocks of Quelpart island, sul Ollvares at Managua, and these Korea, Monday, according to a report advices are confirmed by dispatches received here by the admiralty. The from Mr. Johnson. United States conmen were members of the engine room sul at Corlllo. staff. The panic in the capital is threatenThe accident occurred during full ing lives and property of Americans. speed trials of the vessel and the Crowds are reported traversing the cruiser was evidently badly smashed, streets crying "Death to the Yankees." since the deaths are stated officially The cruisers Ylcksburg and Yorktown to have been due to "the rush of and in close touch with are Corinto at sunken water." There are many rocks In this vicinity and navigation that legation, and the consulates In In the passage between Barlow Managua are under heavy police guard Island and Glffard Island, its neigh- and preparations have been made to bor, is not recommended. meet attacks on American lives and property. Socialists and 8oldiers Clash. STRIVING" FOR' HARMONY. Salt Lake City. Soldiers tried to break up a socialist meeting Monady Split In Republican Possible Under night by throwing eggs at a socialist Present Conditions. speaker, and assaulting Mm. When New York. More than one Republia police sergeant attempted to stop can leader of national prominence has the fight, he was knocked down by before tbat many predicted days Vice. O. Walker a bystander, who in turn James S. Sherman would rePresident a down was knocked patrolman. by the position that he has been Walker and one of the soldiers was sign in the Interests of harmony, replaced socialcast by arrested. Aspersions allow his name to go before to fuse is ist speakers at a recent meeting New York state Republican the oause of the difficulty. as temporary chairman. In this event the honor would go to Salt Lake Gets Convention. former President Theodore Roosevelt; Salt Lake has secured the 1911 con but in view of current political events vention of the American Association of In the Empire state, It Is believed Optometry. This cheerful informa- Colonel Roosevelt would spurn the oftion was received in a telegram fer as his name has been turned down Thursday from Delegates H. O. Jen-te- by the state Republican committee once. and Francis King. Fir Y Kill Captain. San Francisco. A wireless report received by the Merchants' exchange Sunday states that Captain E. B. Wood of the steamer BucKman, was killed Saturday night In a struggle with an Insane passenger. Kills His Brother" Martiies, Cal. Endeavoring to protect himself and others in the house from death or serious Injury, Speslna Bllleccl, an Italian fisherman, shot and killed his brother, Joseph Bllleccl. Sunday night Passenger were arrested Friday in connection! with the alleged huge frauds bj mtans of which the rallrond awrti It was defrauded out of $1,500,000 The men arrested were. Frank B. HrtTlmun, former genera! manager of the road. Charles I Ewing, former managei of lines north of the Ohio. John K. Taylor, formerly genera! storekeeper of the road. The warrants were sworn to bj President Harahan of the railroad concerned. They charge the tbret men with conspiracy to cheat and dc fraud the railroad by false prctt-nwand with operating a confidence game Harrlman and Ewlng were taken tc the Harrison street police station Their bonds of $10,000 each were signed by professional bondsmen. The allegations in the graft case are among the most sensational in which high officials of a great corporation bave ever been named. The investigation began ovei a year ago. It reached a crisis last spring, when President Harahan be gan actions to recover sums said tc aggregate more than $1,000,000 alleg ed to have been secured by car repalt companies in connivance with high of flclals of the road. Harrlman, Ewing, Taylor and a large number of other! of lesser magnitude resigned their po sltlons. Much of the money Is said to have been repaid privately. The name ol of the Ira G. Rawn, road, who resigned to become presi dent of the Monon, and who was found dead recently at his home with a bullet wound in his breast, - was brought into the scandal. Murray Nelson, Jr., attorney for the Illinois Central, stated that Rawn's death headed off warrants which would have been Issued for him. Party of One Hundred and Eighty Caught in Seething Zone and Alarm Is Fe.t for Their Safety. Missoula, Mont. Mercilessly and relentlessly the forest fires In western Montana and Idaho are sweeping over a vast area, driving hundreds of fugitives before them, destroying small settlements and wiping out of exist ence millions of dollars' worth of property. The situation Sunday night is more serious than it was in the early morn ing, except as to Wallace, Idaho, where It is believed that nearly half of the city will be saved. Communication with Wallace to the west has been possible at intervals Sunday, but eastward it is entirely cut off. It is known that the entire east half of the town, above Seventh street, has been burned. West of that a bard fight Is being made, and with an improvement in the water supply there is more chance that the flames may be driven back. For a few minutes Sunday at ternoon a reporter at Wallace had a wire. He summarized the situation as follows: ' "Thirteen lives lost; property loss one million; Are still threatening." Refugees Reach Missoula. About a thousand refugees have been brought Into Missoula Sunday. There Is much distress among them. Their wants are being supplied by Mlssou'a people, and they have been given temporary homes. Three more rescue trains reached Missoula Sunday night from the west. The Milwaukee ran In two of them and the Northern Pacific another. There were about 500 persons on the trains, but none of them Is In the distress that marked the earlier arrivals. The last Northern Pacific train brought information that the town of Saltest, reported earlier to be threatened, had caught fire before this train St. Regis. From all directions come reports of deaths In the flames, but they are not authenticated and it Is not believed that there have been many fatalities. Two unknown men were overcome by smoke In the forest near Iron lit NATION THEATRE MAD. More Than One Hundred Millions In Theatrical Business. New York, he new theatrical season which is just opening will be the most Important, from many in the theatrical history of the United States. While managers throughout the United Stales are optimistic in their perdlctlons, nevertheless there is an undercurrent of alarm engendered by the theatrical war. More than $100,000,000 is now invested In things theatrical in this country.' Over forty new theaters have either been built for the new sasiin or are In the course of construction now. One hundred and fifty new plays will be produced. As usual, Charles Prohmnn Is the central figure In the arrangements for the season, and the greatest national Interest is centered In his forthcoming production of "Chanticleer." Beverly, Mas.-iw- Bnl Keynote speech for the campaign became know,0 The president I fj JH will favor vision of the tariff While he is still Payne-Aldrlclaw m-in- e , . h nas had ""'iry tm ML1 rlimUn that wici, lucre is room provement. Mr. Taft does not business will be upsetpropJ h.l wholesale revision, but in I mena to congress that iJ schedule, in the tariff smJ) en ud separately and be dk' on a scientific basis. The new revision t to b upon the findings of the tar mission as to the cost of at home and abroad, oj. profit Is to be allowed th 4 ?ruuucers. . t r , iuruuuaie and nnW resident t..i.rj -profits, - the .imra oe loieraiea no longer. The president has outline tion In the letter be ha tn resentatlve McKlnley of m, publication In the Rennh: gres8lonal campaign text M letter wa. mailed from Beted day. The time of making has been left entirely to tie - 1 1 w PI tee. Political observers resaid n' as about the shrewdest ttuti made during the present id tion. 9 a. 11 for oners an excellent m and repiJ in the campain. the Insurgents together Taft has been exceedingly J find ground upon which tie could meet without embarn The principal fight of tj genis was on some sconum tariff bill. President Taft them more than half muWEALTHY WOMAN EVICTED. ting that individual seta) further revision. Marshal Chops Into House and Piles At the same Ume be is bJ the In Furniture regulars in that he bcl: Street New York. Miss Delleripha Rich- did the best they could witi ardson, said to be worth more than liable Information that wis hi $30,000,000. was evicted Friday from the home in which she had lived since his birth, fifty years ago, because she would not surrender posseslson to the man to whom she had sold it A city marshal Anally had to chop bis way through the front door. Miss Richardson is one of the wealthiest women In the world. When her father, Joseph Richardson, died in 1897 she Inherited the bulk ef his great fortune, and has since lived frugally with a maiden cousin. Although she sold her home, she would never allow the buyer on the premises, and he had to make his plana for rebuilding It from outside observations. ' PORTUGAL ALARMED. O'sve Fears of Government Over Activity of Republicans. Lisbon. The Seculo says the clerical party's strong and ETO win it itlaaat. iBfactlon with the liberal policy of the government has culminated in the or a revolution to overthrow the administration seize its meniDers and set up a military dictatorship, the first object of which will be to stamp out the Republicans. The government Is greatly disturbed over the Intense activity of the in preparing for the elections next Sunday. The general candidates for office have entered every constituency In ihe country. The authorities have searched the homes of a number of Republicans and have found stores 0f arms and ammunition. British Cruiser Aground. Toklo.-T- he British cruiser Bedford ran ashore on the southwest portion of Quelpart Island Sunday. Japanese warships have been sent to her assistance. The weather Is bad. The ,h Ume Wf ,he accident n,at El88" n w th h British squadron China, for Naga sakl, Japan. Joy Rider Held Under Bail. New York.-T- he police custody Friday E. T. on of a wealthy needle manufacture? Is bands. DIVORCE GRANTED Celerity With Which Case k Indicate. Prearranged Kansas City. As a sequel P. (Jack) Cudahy's attack S. LI1I18, In the Cudaly shortly after midnight of last, Mr.. Cudahy Tuesday a divorce from ber husband The decree was granted James H. Stover on the compatibility 01 temperai minutes after Mrs. Cudahj her petiton. Mrs. Cudaly maid, Elizabeth Johnson. only witnesses called. No was made of the LIM tffa ri Cudahy was not In con said to bave been here M he could not be located h represented him at the they made no protest granting of the decree sad witnesses. Determine, to Utlca. N. Y. of t iiAV age Into the west by plac directly In opposition to country. Senator 1: sa studii aerer took jre." Wasted t. urn a that have threatened by the beeo forest Are fighters too weary Kfrihlnsr hilt a long northwest Voun W SO! to go 1(5 :s A ( to pin you J fflocrat RCDI lH the Tw. same thcr pu the lave fie ba; H ,0m " the Purcl the flap man Montana hm aj; 1' ' 11 your j j Jj ex Oil ro sal. Pplos. liter, y BOW. JjJJ x foi Fry Jlckly, enstcrn Washington, (.race Hugh. wno WM Idaho mllltla and Unlteo carriage which was truck auto are ou the way to do mob,egolD fifty rallea tnAD. hut the ft01" enhelmer said he was in his machlnt compllHh little more W of the threateneaio Preacher Goes on Stage. Fined for Making False Hoke 8mlth Show j Return.. Chicago. Rev, Dudley C. Fosher Helena. Mont-Jos- eph return Allanta.-Early for the last three years pastor of the convicted ,n the couVtTS Aav'm nrlmnrV frOBl Pf' Ryder Memorial Universale church ebon has resigned and has county in the state dori! candldw'1 Hoke Smith, mU8lCal COmedy comEy here and apparently he over the present goern,j Student Fasts Forty-siDay. Mad Dog Bite. Drown. Ten. Denver. Rowland Miller, a Made Long 8wlm W"J student of this city, ha. not i. mrcMn'g food for forty-siNew York.-J- am days. Water h hlte bull whL Jl'T drinks In great Quantities, it. .,. fell from man. wnt mad Frld. "nd ? poses to eat nothing for ten night and or Tuesday daa PWom. dodged a shower J mora. waters U the d escaped hi. through pursuers. the land witn a WjbJtr as SITUATION Forest Rainfall In th AmelM Gives Hope For SiK)kane. Wash.-U- eM tn foil Tuesday afternoon urA f.ther Coeur o",f I.lrihn. I 'in ai fall boy tnd he Speaking Daveni)ort. who Is a itiat slve, and whom Mr. SherM that he would not support man was out of town anil Colonel Roosevelt. NORTHWEST of ;p Theodore tvtiirtrt nn rha first dent Sherman. president's own endorsed State WT," M See the pour will aucmib-th- e eating up the big Roomer MRS. rig. |