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Show THE ATCH WAVE VOL. XVI. HEBER CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, UTAH STATE NEWS. has been operatA female hold-uLake In Salt City. ing The Bank of Southern Utah, Cedar Citys new bank, will open for busip ness March 20. Smallpox is again on the increase in Salt Lake City, ten cases having developed in as many days. A meeting of the postmasters of the state will be held in Salt Lake City on April 7 tor the purpose of forming a state association. The old city hall building at Lehi was destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th. It is believed the fire was the work of an incendiary. Final surveys for Cedar City's water system are being made, and it is expected the system will be completed within a few months. Firebugs attempted to burn the Southern Pacific wooden bridge across the Ogden river one night last week, but the blaze was discovered in time to save the structure. There is a movement on foot to have the postoffice at Kaysville closed on Sundays, the idea being to receive or dispatch no mails on the Sabbath day. The towns of Lehi, American Fork and Pleasant Grove were in darkness for three nights last week, a big land slide having crushed the pipe line a short distance from the power house. The .house warming of the new science building of the branch normal at Cedar City is to occur Saturday, March 26. Invitations have been sent to about 1,000 people throughout the south. The camp of Basin in the La Sal country, has two new stores, two saloons and numerous other business enterprises contemplated in anticipation of a busy and prosperous season in that section. The Salt Lake Route has extended Its track to a point fifty-ninmiles south of Cilientes, and work Is progressing rapidly. It is expected that Wabba, on the Mudthey will dy river, by April 1st. Henry Waddell, the convict, was last week found guilty of shooting at Guard Naylor during the break at the Utah tate penitentiary on October 9, 190.".. and sentenced to twelve years impi isonment. The Southern Pacific company is gradually extending the block system on its system and it is expected that before the end of the year it will be In effect on all the line between Ogden and San Frahcisco. There is every prospect of unusual activity in the La Sal Mining district this season, a number of new companies having been organized, while the older ones are preparing to do an unusual amount of work. A kindergarten school is to be established in Mt. Pleasant during the coming summer, to be continued each The year for an indefinite period. Twentieth Centurv club is inaugurating the move for the school. An incubator in operation in an outhouse adjoining the residence of Mrs. Jacobson of Sandy caused a fire Sunday morning that destroyed the borne of that woman and came near cremating her and her two sons. William H. Clow, postmaster of Kaysville. has forwarded his resignation to the postmaster general. His reasons are old age and declining health. Mr. Clow was appointed to the position on August 13. 1890, and has held the place continuously under Democratic and Republican administrations. Houston Valentine, aged 6, of Salt Lake City, will lose the Bight of one eye, and probably both, the result of throwing hot water onto lime. The lime had been left in the yard for building purposes and a number of children were amusing themselves bv throwing water on the lime when the accident occurred. Joseph H. Parry, secretary of the State Board of Horticulture, in a speech at the farmers institute meeting held in St. George last week, showed the necessity of Dixie farmers changing their methods, and instead of growing lucerne and wheat on their valuable lands to use the more profitable fruit crops. Melanka Naranric. a Greek who is In jail in Salt Lake City charged with a murder committed in Austria several years ago, has admitted to two murders, while it is believed he has killed four people within the last four years. A Lehi special says the discharge of J. fi. Cotter by Judge Noon of Provo from the charge of arson seems to have given general satisfaction to the people of Lehi, who believe the case, so far as Cotter was concerned, to have been a case of blackmail. Surveyors of the Moffat railroad, are now in Spanish Fork canyon, at Castilla Springs. Surveys have been run from Green river in Uintah county to that point and it is considered probable that the road will enter Utah valley through Spanish Fork canyon. E. G. McGriff of North Ogden, the orchardist and grape grower, has leased a large tract of land and is arranging to plant another large field of small fruits. It is expected that he will have a field of blackberries and raspberries comprising fifty acres, e ch BATTLE OFF PORT ARTHUR. Japanese Make an Attack at BARK (JOES TO BOTTOM MURDERER MEETS HIS DOOM. Louis H. Mott Pays the Penalty for Murder at Missoula. Mont. Louis H. Mott was hanged at Missoula, Mont., at 6:08 o'clock Friday morning for the murder of his wife, Five minutes after the trap was sprung he was pronounced dead. His neck was broken. Mott walked unas sisted from the jail to the enclosure in which the gallows had been erected. In a brief speech under the gallows he stated he believed his conviction had been brought about through dishonest methods, and concluded by saying that he was willing to give life for life. The crime for which Mott was hung was the shooting of his wife on Sunday, January 4, 1903. For months previous to the murder he had been addicted to the use of liquor and mental drugs, causing a depressed condition. While east on a business trip his wife sold his laundry business tn Missoula. He became greatly angered on his return, brooding constantly over his wifes act. On the day of the murder he became involved DEWEYS GO FREE. in a lengthy quarrel with his wife, Kansas Cattlemen Acquitted on Mur- which was followed by his shooting her four times with a revolver while der Charge. she was fleeing from the room. His Chauncey Dewey and his two cow- wife lingered for nine hours before boys, Clyde Wilson and William J. death. The case has been bitterly a considerable sum has McBride, have been acquitted at Nor- contested, and to save been spent In an endeavor ton, Kans., of the charge of murdering Mott from the gallows. Burchard Berry, by a jury which had SUBMARINE BOAT CUT IN TWO. twenty-eigh- t considered the case Mid- lost as o sult 21-2- o MARTIAL LAW IN COLORADO. Governor Declares Las Animas County in State of Insurrection. A proclamation has been issued by Governor Peabody of Colorado, declaring the county of Las Animas in a state of Insurrection and rebellion. Subsequently an order was issued for BOO troops under command of Major Zeph T. Hill to proceed to Trinidad, the county seat. In his proclamation the governor says that there exists In Las Animas county a certain class of individuals who are fully armed and acting together, resisting the laws of the state and offering violence to citizens and property. The civil authorities of the county are quoted as authority for the statement that not less than 1,500 unemployed men are armed In apparent anticipation of an open conflict. Las Animas county forms the larger portion of the southern Colorado coal fields, where the members of the United Mine Workers of America have been on a strike for several months. hours. Chauncey Dewey, a young millionaire ranchman, went to Cheyenne county, Kansas, early In 1900 to manage the Dewey ranch. Soon after his arrival there he became Involved in trouble with the Berry family, who were also prominent cattlemen. Trivial misunderstanding grew into serious differences, which terminated in the killing of Burchard Berry In June, 1903, at the home of Alpheus Berry, during a fight In which Dewey and ten of his cowboys were pitted against the Berrys. Will Investigate the Beef Trust. The department of commerce and labor, through the bureau of corporations, is making an Investigation into beef the operations of the trust. A part of the Investigation is being conducted in accordance with a resolution passed by the house of representatives recently. Prior to the adoption of the resolution the department, through its regular channels, had collected and tabulated certain Information regarding the beef trust. The resolution, which was drafted by Representative Martin of South Dakota, requested the department officials to asecrtaln. If possible, the cause of the difference In price between beef on the hoof and dressed beef. It was pointed out that western stockmen believed that they were being discriminated against by the trust. Rockefeller Has Enough. the world's John D. Rockefeller, richest man, whether ruling sovereign or private citizen, has set January next as a definite date for retiring He will then from active business. have reached his 66th year, and he has informed the members of his business cabinet that from that date his successor will be his only son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. An intimate friend of Mr. Rockefeller said this concerning Mr. Rockefellers his yearly income: wealth is so great that no one may know accurately what his income is. If you should fix the sum total at OflO a year It would be as accurate an estimate as could be made. , $36,-00- TORNADO IN ARKANSAS. One Life Loet and Great Damage to Property. Little Rock, Ark., dispatch says: tornado did great damage to property and caused at least one death In central Arkansas. At Fourchee Dam, four miles from Little Rock, a negro school bouse was blown down and a pupil was killed. In the section twenty miles north of Little Rock great destruction of property is reported. The storm did much damage to property In Little Rock. A A The Race Question In Texas. Republican state convention held at Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, the feature noticeable was the absence of negroes, who have heretofore taken a prominent part In the conventions. While the regular convention was being held there was held a session, s, with a composed chiefly of neg-oefew whites, and a holt from the regular convention was effected, two white and two negro delegates being chosen to represent the state at large in the natonal convention at Chicago. la the Japs Becoming Civilized. A legislative scandal Is threatening in connection with the proposal of the Japanese government to create a toIt Is alleged that bacco monopoly. certain members cf the diet agreed support a movement o increase the compensation to he paid to the manufacturers fo, a share rf the secured. It was criritaliy orcrrsel tr tc pay the manufacturers a rum equal three vears' Income from their hrs'-nesIt Is said h"t fh I'licit pretext was to secure the e.Uiva.ioi of fyuv ears income. s Persons Lose Their Lives aa Result of the Accident. A Portsmouth dispatch, under date of March 18, says: British submarine boat No. A 1 was run down and sunk off the Nab lightship today by a Donal Currie liner, and eleven persons were drowned. Including Lieutenant the senior officer engaged In the submarine work. The liner passed on and reported that she had struck a torpedo. At the time she was struck the submarine was off the lightship engaged In the maneuvers, and was lying seven fathoms of water waiting the approach of a battleship. The boat OWES ALL TO UNCLE SAM. was one of the newest of the fleet of and was built from Cubans Attribute Prosperity of Their submarine vessels but she has always latest models, the Country to United States. been a bad diver. She was Inspected Admiral Dewey, who has returned recently by both King Edward and the from the navy maneuvers in southern Prince of Wales. waters, called on President Roosevelt MINERS WILL NOT STRIKE. Saturday to present to him a personal message of good will from President Vote to Accept a Two Years Wage Scale Offered by Operatore. Palma of Cuba. The admiral told the new of the the A that people president dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind., republic were notably prosperous and dated March 18, says: The tellers tothat both President Palma and the Cu- day completed the count of the votes ban people attributed their prosperity of the miners on the proposition to to the government of . the United accept or reject the operators' offer States. . of a two vears wage scale, and announced the result as follows: Total WOMEN ARE ORGANIZING. vote cast. 165 887. For accentance of against the scale Unions the scale. 98.514;a strike Will Trades Establish 67.373. Maand in favor of United States. Throughout the jority against a strike, 31.141. With the object of promoting woJapa Will Care for Miaaionariea. mens trades unions In the United WoThe following report has been reStates the executive board of the mans National Trades Union league ceived. at the state department from at Its annual meeting In Boston voted United States Minister Griscom: Tn to send a general organizer and sec- view of the fact that there are some in retary throughout the country who twenty American missionaries are unable to will act as a business agent, organiz- Fusan and that they communicate by telegraph with Mr. ing trades unions among women, In- Allen In Seoul. I deemed it advisable and strikes. stituting lockouts to mention the matter informally to Baron Komura. In reply to my inPunishing Whltecappers. quiries Baron Komura stated that amFederal Judge Jacob Triber at Hel- ple measures were being taken to ena, Ark., has passed & penitentiary protect all foreigners in Fusan. sentence upon' three whltecappers, War Will Be of Long Duration. convicted of conspiracy to intimidate Admiral Stackelberg, who on acPoln-sette negro workmen at a sawmill in of count illness, turned over the com county. The defendants attorof the Vladivostok squadron mand to an the supreme appeal ney took court of the United States, proposing to Captain Reitzensteln. has arrived to test the constitutionality of the in St Petersburg. He expresses the federal state enacting Into a law the opinion that the war will be of long fourteenth amendment to the constitu- duration. Judging from the extensive tion, claiming that under this statute Japanese preparations, which were the negro citizen is granted a protec- thoroughly understood at Vladivostok, tion in the federal courts that is not where war was expected even earlier than it came. given to white men. One Hundred Filipinos Killed. News of an important military engagement has just been received from Cstsbato, capital of the province of On March 7 detachmenta Mindanao. of the Seventeenth and Twenty-thirInfantries, troop B of the Fourteenth all cavalry and Gatleys battery, inGen450 strong, under command 'of eral Leonard Wood, attacked and captured the cotta (fort) which was held y by the Datto All, who resists the law. His defensive works were destroyed and their abandonment forced by the accurate fire of the d anti-slaver- battery. to return, a pitched battle may occur If they persist m their purpose. Governor Peabody declares he will DRIVEN FROM TELLURIDE take stepa to prevent the marching of WILL RETURN HOME. armed bodies of men into Tellurlde. MINERS twenty-twrelives night, But Little Damage la Done. OF COLLISION. A dispatch to F .'uter's Telegram company from St. Petersburg Bays: Japanese torpedo boats appeared off The Bark Lady Cairns Sent to the Bottom and the Entire Crew Port Arthur at midnight of the night Drowned. of March and the shore batteries and guard ships shelled them The German bark Mona collided for twenty minutes. The Japanese retreated, but reappeared four hours with the English hark Lady Cairns off The later, when they met with the same Dublin bay Sunday morning. Lady Cairns sank in a few minutes. reception, when they retired again. was drowned. At 6 a. m. a Japanese squadron of Her crew of twenty-twtwo divisions, composed of four and The Mona, which was much damaged, was assisted into Dublin harbor. eleven ships, and accompanied by ThsLady Cairns was a three-masteeight torpedo boats, appeared and the Russian squadron sailed out from the ship of 1,616 tons. She was commanded by Captain L. Evans and was outer roadstead to meet them. No further details regarding the bound from Liverpool for Timur, New action are obtainable. At 9 a. m. the Zealand. The Lady Cairns was built Japanese battleships, having fired sev- In Belfast In 1869 and was owned by eral shots at Liao Tishln and shel- L. Tulloeh of Swansea. The Mona was commanded by Captered behind the promontory, commenced a bombardment of Port Ar- tain Schwartlng and was last reported at Adressan. thur. MEN NO. 1904. WILL FIGHT Will Be Accompanied by an Armed Eecort, and Pitched Battle May Occur as Result of Such Action. The news comes from Denver that the committee representing the miners evicted from the Tellurlde, Colo., district, by an organization of business men has abandoned the attempt to appeal to the governor for protection, after trying in vain for three days to obtain an audience with him. The members of the committee have departed for Ouray, where the deported men are making preparations to march to Tellurlde, accompanied by an armed escort provided by the miners' unions of Ouray, Silverton, Durango and Ophir. As the citizens who drove the miners out of Tellurlde declare that they will not be permitted COMMANDERS OF Man-serg- wholly unfounded. Russians Bound for Korea. The Paries Temps correspondent at St Petersburg asserts that a Russian army corps Is descending from Vladivostok toward Korea. He adds that Port Arthur has a garrison of 30,000 men and is provisioned for a year, The Russian ministry of marine, the Temps' correspondent, further asserts, claims that Japan's losses since the opening of the war are four cruisers and five torpedo boat destroyers, and the machinery of a 12,000-toTtom&u batJ tleship seriously injured. The correspondent concludes his Admiral Uriu Is, according to thebest obtainabls information, In com with asserting Ahat the condispatch mand of the Japanese equadron which bombarded Vladivoetok and le of Russian troops at Mukcentration aearching for the Russian squadron commanded by Capt. Reitzensteln, If It den and Harbin is considered as terhas not already met and destroyed it, as reported. Admiral Urlu Is a graduate of the United States naval academy and hit wife was graduated minating the danger from a Japanese from Vattar. landing in the northern part of the bay of Korea. bound together refilled the cells just WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS. Timber and Stone Act to be Repealed. vacated. Korean Prisoners Confined at Seoul The senate committee on public It Is probable the representatives of Being Executed. the foreign powers will investigate, lands, after a contest extending over two years, in which an attempt was Numerous executions at the Seoul and, if justified, take action. made to repeal all of the general land prison are reported to be due to the movement of the supreme court In the Kuropatkin Preparing for an Active laws of the country, has authorized a Campaign. favorable report on Senator Quarles direction of clearing out the place. The first headquarters of the Man- bill to repeal the timber and stone The total In three nights past has been six prisoners decapitated and thirty-eigh- t churian army after General Kuropat-kin- s art. As reported the bill has a proarrival will be at Liao Yang, the vision authorizing the secretary of the hanged. Many of these victims had been In jail for years without general having selected that point In- Interior to sell at public sale or othstead of Mukden whence to direct the erwise the right to cut timber on govtrial. Iiao Yang In ten miles ernment lands. The bill was amendin operations. Some were former students west of the ed to provide that the moneys derived railroad, being connected were thieves, highJapan, others of 'public with the main road by a special line from the sale of these rights should embezzlers waymen, funds, political offenders and traitors. which will be completed by the time be covered Into the reclamation fund As the bodies were carried out strings General Kuropatkin arrives, and has for irrigation purposes, and is now identical with one introduced two men many advantages over Mukden. of ten or twenty condemned months ago by Senator Hansbrough, chairman of the committee. COMMANDER NAKAYAMA. LIEUT. MIURA. Pardon for Filipinos. . J?r7zmmsr ft X M H ft & ill Only Four of the Crew Picked Up After the Explosion. While entering Port Arthur on the 16th Inst., says a dispatch from Che-fothe Russian torpedo boat de- stroyer Skorrol struck upon an un placed mine and was blown np. Four Viveroy of the crew were saved. Alexleff wires a report confirming previous accounts of the damage done to Port Arthur during the bombardment of the 10th. but says the story of a fire there is a base fabrication. Dr. Wood Confirmed at Major General. and General Leonard Wood was conJohn Gingle, a highwayman authorities the firmed wanted by major general by the senate on thief, horse at North Yakima for a number of Friday, the vote being 45 to 16. The rank dates from August 8, 1903, the crimes, was killed by Spokane officers Roosevelt made the In a fight at Spokane Sunday morn- day President his contest The against a to He was killed in the engagement at traced promotion. been had ing. Gingie on November 19. confirmation began the of city. eastern in part the He was one of the officer of the Port Arthur Feb. 9. He was a memcabin convened congress of Rear Admiral Togo's staff, and The cabin was surrounded by officers. 1903. soon after and continued 'Japanese battleship Fuji, under Com- ber in special session, second In command of the battlewas Deputy Sheriffs Doak and Pugh broke He mander was Nakayama. standing session. When in the door and commanded Gingle through the present ship Fuji, on which he met his death from on the bridge with hie commanding Hanna Senator removed death was who The latter, to surrender. a Russian shell. The ship was but the opposers of General Wood only officer when a Russian shell struck by but not disabled. From the lying on his back, opened fire, minear From both. damaged, the the in remained two them, killing bullets Republicans missed. The officers put three newspaper, Japanese leading Leading newspaper, Japanese in Gingle, who died without speaking nority. Killed While In Bed. Will Recognize Morales as President It is probable that an end may be made to the Dominican difficulties by the extension on the part of the United States government of full recog nition to General Morales as president of San Domingo. One result of the Mayflowers trip was to confirm the official opinion that Morales has sufficient strength of character and resources to maintain a stable government if the United States snd other nations will nrevent the Illicit supply of arms apd Cotton Kino Fails. Daniel J. Sully, who has for fifteen months been the largest figure in the cotton markets of the world, and who has "bulled cotton from: 7 cents a pound to 17 cents, on Friday announced his inability to make good his engagements on the New York cotton exchange. Within a few moments cotton fell nearly $13 a hale from the highest figures of the day. Many crashes have been recorded, but probably none has been accompanied by and confusion, inch f"zy OF DEMONS. Horrible Treatment of German Settlers by Africans. Letters from German South Africa have arrived in Berlin giving details IN PATH OF CYCLONE. of the ghastly treatment of German One Man Mortally Wounded and Fifty settlers, 113 of whom were killed outright or tortured to death In the disBuildings Wrecked in Missouri. trict of Okahandja alone. Women outA special from Higglnsvllle. Mo., and dismembered and with are buildings says fifty partly raged of their bodies nailed to the pieces wrecked, one man Is mortally wounded and several others hurt; the town doors of houses, snd bodies mutilated and left to die slowly were frequent is In darkness, and the streets strewn spectacles. The expeditionary columns with debris as the result of a tornado and hailstorm which struck this on coming tn sight of a farmers house would see the heads of its occupants place late Monday afternoon. The hall on the streets was a foot fastened to the roof. These sights apdeep within five minutes after tha pear to have excited the rage of the soldiers. The letters express longing storm came, and some of the hailstones were phenomenally large. Doz- for revenge and a determination, at ens of trees In the town were blown one writer says, to kill everything down and several horses were killed black. In the street. REFORM3 IN MACEDONIA. It Is estimated that 2.000 windows were broken by the storm. More than Austria Threatens to Resort to Ex fifty houses have been unroofed. treme Measures. The Vienna correspondent of s RIVAL FLEETS. Paris paper says that Count the Austrian minister of foreign affairs, has authorized the publication of the following declaration, which he made officially to the French, British and Italian ambassadors: "The Austrian entente on the subject of Macedonia is firmer than ever. A perfect understanding exists on the subject of the modus vivendl in Macedonia and of Turkey's application of the reforms proposed by the two powers snd accepted by the sultan. Russia and Austria are determined to use all their Influence, and even to resort to extreme measures, to obtain the fulfillment of the sultans promises. They insist that full powers shall be accorded the heads of the international gendarmerie. The rumors that Austria ia mobilizing Is troops 1 A MINE. DEEDS Golu-chowsk- l, Eleven SHIP STRUCK DIABOLICAL 4. HUNTER MURDERED. Found in Hit Cabin With Bullet, Hole in Back of His Head. John Spittal, a hunter and trapper, was found dead in his cabin on Lulu He island, ten miles from Vancouver. had a bullet hole in the back of his head. The door of the shack was found secured on the outside with a locked padlock. Spittal's two guns were missing, and there was a strange coat In the room where the body was found. No gun was found inside the house. There Is no clue to the Japanese Repairing Their Ships. The correspondent of the Paris Figaro at Rome says that the Japanese legation there announces that repairs to the Japanese fleet are actively proceeding, in order that the vessels may be ready to meet the Russian Baltic fleet. The battleships Mikasa and Hatsuse and the armored cruiser lwate are in dot k. as are also several cruisers and torpedo boats. It is intended. according to the information received from the Japanese legation, to have the fleet in perfect condition by the end of June, n The president has granted pardons to two Filipinos, Arturo E. Chealer and Elias Mendoza, convicted before a military courtmartial of the murder of a native corporal of police. The pardon is granted on the recommendation of the Filipino civil authorities, the Judge advocate general of the army and the secretary of war, because the offense grew out of the insurrection and would have been Included in the president's amnesty proclamation of July 4. 1964, except for the fact that the cases had gone to final trial. Claims Protection of Great Britain. Mrs. Stewart Forbes, wife of the secretary-treasure- r of the Tellurlde (Colo.) Miners union, who was deported by the Citizens alliance, has taken up the matter of her husbands banishment with H. V. Pearce, vice consul of the British consulate at Denver. Should Mr. Pearce fail to guarantee protection to Mr. Forbes upon his return to Telluiide, she will appeal to the British ambassador at Washington. Forbes is a British sub- ject. Colombian Legation Closed. The Colombian legation in Washin ton has been closed, and Dr. Tomas Herran, who for a long time has been acting as charge daftaires, will leave for his foimcr home in Medeiin Fu ture communications heiweeu the Co lombian government atd the state department will be ro. ducted through Consul General Arturo de Brigard at New York. The eies:ng of the legaof the events tion Is the direct ending in the secession of Panama, reiit and the negotiations rauauia yanai treaty. of the piesent |
