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Show UTAH NEWS. t The mineral output VL'tah for 1899 Will considerabla exceed that of 1898. Governor Well: and his staff wil attend the Dewey reception in New York. The Btate fair will be held during conference, thus giving conference visitors vis-itors an excellent opportunity to visit the fair grounds. the state has been seriously damaged by frost, shrinking the grain and rendering ren-dering it unmarketable. The rural mail service recently established es-tablished at Salt Lake is proving so satisfactory that soother district, running run-ning as far south as Sandy, is likely to be formed. The tour of the Tabernacle choir baa been postponed on account of the illness of Mr. Higbee. who arranged for the tour. It is expected the tour will begin in January. Hereafter, children under 13 will be admitted free to the Salt Palace grounds at Salt Lake on Saturdays. Two free shows have also been provided pro-vided as extra attractions. The gross earnings of the Rio Grande Western for August were t372,700, the largest ever made in any month in the road's history, and 8101,200 more than for the same month last year. Maurice N. Barber, a visiting stranger, strang-er, had his leg broken by a policeman while resisting an attempt of the officer offi-cer to remove him from from the seats reserved for invited guests at the Bryan Bry-an reception. If the desired franehise can be had Salt Lake will have a new depot as soon as it can be built. It will be erected on Third South and Fourth West streets. The ground has already been acquired. The Colorado volunteers were entertained enter-tained a few hours as they passed through Salt Lake Monday of lass week. They spoke flatteringly of the Utah batteries. The train carrying them was in four sections. The University of Utrh has begun proceedings to compel State Auditor Richards to draw a warrant for 85,000 for the University, to be nsed in erecting erect-ing new buildings. The auditor claims that as no debts have been incurred in-curred the appropriation is not available. availa-ble. The public schools of Davis county the only one in the state. The larger districts contribute about 8100 and the smaller ones 840 to the library fund. The books will be transferred about once a month, making the circuit in a year. Fred Cox of Spanish Fork, addicted to the drink habit, committea suicide by taking strychnire last week. He kissed his wife and four children, and telling them God had cursed him and he did not wanr to live, swallowed the poison, dying before medical aid could reach him. rri ' . . . n i , m 11 t- M .1 j. lie oiaie ocnooi lur me ucni auu Blind will make an exhibit of the work of its pupils at the state fair. . Samples of the work of all of the departments will be shown. Superintendent Met-calf Met-calf has nsked the fair magfs-ntfjsr 10 entire alcove section in which to display the work of the institution. Thr Utah signal service has offered its services to the government for service ser-vice in the Philippines. Governor Wells sent the telegram to the war department. The corps numbers twenty-one men, two short of the full number, but it could .be recruited in an hour's time. The two largest orehards in Utah are in Davis couuty, the Adams and Home orchards' From the lattei this year 1,000 bushels of prunes, 5,000 bushels of peaches, and 4,000 bushels of apples will be marketed. The Adams Ad-ams orchard is operating a cannery anb markets its fruit in a preserved state. Major James E. Prett and Captain A. C. Dreat of the Twenty-fourth infantry, in-fantry, have been appointed colonel and lieutensnt-colonel of the Forty-ninth, Forty-ninth, a new colored regiment that is being recruited for Philippine service. ser-vice. The state land board last week sold 8712.66 acres of 'school land in Millard county. -Th prioa varied from 75 cents to 86. OO per acre. . The sale Is the largest larg-est yet g ade by the board. The land Ilea along the Oregon Short line near Clear Lake. . . Joseph E. Taylor, counselor to President Presi-dent Angus M. Cannon of Salt Lake s ta.lt , nu arrested last week on a warrant charging unlawful cohabitation cohabita-tion sworn to by C. M. Owen. He gave, a bond of $100 to appear in court when wanted. About twenty Spanish Fork ladies have: been engaged in the silk industry the past summer and have harvested 500 pounds of cocoons. They have applied! ap-plied! for the state bounty Of 35 cents per pound, which amounts to the neat little sum of 8175. The Ogden sugar foctory began its second years' Operations last week. The Ogden factory is thoroughly modern, mod-ern, and made the most satisfactory first year run of any sugar factory in the west. It is principally owned by the Utah Sugar company. ? I A claim from Summit county for 8514.17 for bounties for animals killed daring the month of August, has been made; upon State Auditor Richards. The law provides that the state shall pay fcalf the bounty. The animals killed were nearly all squirrels. Bjrom Sterling of Spanish Fork was arrested last week and lodged in jail at ProvO for failing to make a final distribution of an estate of which be is administrator, as ordered by the ooart- It is alleged he baa 81,500 belonging be-longing to the state in bis possession. Wesley Main, a Salt Lake man employed em-ployed by John Peterson in the property of the Pleasant View Mining company at Silver Camp Montana, was fatally Injured by a premature explosion of a shot in tunnel No. 2, Wednesday, dying the following, afternoon. T John H. Heath, ot Price, last week found a portion of a prehistoric tooth, 1 i about one inch square and three iachea long; and weighs two ounces. No roe seems to know what it is, and be Will aeod it to Salt Lake to find out what animal it belonged to. Condemned Soldiers Will be Executed. Washington, Sept. 20. Unless fuller details change the mind of the president. presi-dent. Privates Damphoffer and Conine, sentenced to death by courtmartial for assaulting Filipino women, will not receive any mercy at his hands. The sentence of the courtmartial will be carried out as soon as the proceedings and findings in the two cases can be reviewed and approved of by him, unless un-less there should be some irregularity about the proceedings. It is stated upon high authority that the president had fully determined not to interfere in the execution of the sentence of the courtmartial. He reached this conclusion on the receipt of a message from General Otis in answer to an inquiry from the war department de-partment confirming the newspaper reports of the crime committed by the two men and the sentence imposed by the courtmartial. General Otis further stated that be would forward at once all the papers in the case for review by the war department, as required by law and regulations. Lives With His Neck Broken. New Vork, Sept. 20. An extraordinary extraordi-nary surgical operation has been performed per-formed on Walter Duryea, 30 rears old, son of Edward Duryea, the millionaire mil-lionaire starch manufacturer. On the 7th of August he dived into shallow water and broke his neck. Since that time he has lain in a water mattress, encased in plaster of Paris, part of his body paralyzed. An X-Ray photograph of the neck and spine revealed with great distinctness the fractured part of the backbone. It was decided to lay bare the fractured fifth and sixth vertebra, remove the splinters and await results. The operation was successfully performed per-formed yesterday. Owing to the pa-tieot's pa-tieot's weakness an anaesthetic could not be administered, but cocaine dulled the nerves of the back. The injury to the spinal cord was found to be even worse than had been feared. The physicians say young Duryea has a fair chance of recovering. CALIFORNIA SHERIFF KILLED. Shot Down While Trying to Arrest a Suspected Sus-pected Incendiary. Salinas, Cal., Sept. 20. Sheriff H. R. Farley of Monterey county was shot and killed by George Caesar, whom he was trying to arrest for arson. Caesar, who had been drinking, threatened to shoot four officers and burn the town. Shortly afterward a barn and a house were discovered on fire, and the sheriff, with ex-District Attorney Zabal, went in search of Caesar, who had run home. As the sheriff entered the house, Caesar shot him through the forehead, Farley .dying soon afterwards. Caesar escaped but was recaptured, and with difficulty was kept out of the hands of a mob. Mexican Cowboys and Indians Fight. Mazatlin, Sept 20. Twenty-five Mexican cowboys have been attacked in Sonera by mounted Yaquis, who opened fire on them and drove the horses and cattle guarded by the Mexicans, Mex-icans, away. Seeing themselves outnumbered out-numbered the Mexicans ran away save one courageous young man who remained re-mained and fought the whole band of Indians, killing several of them before he was finally shot. His' body was shockingly mutilated. The Indians escaped to the hills with the stock. Receipts of Philippines. -AYhJtonSept. 20. The war department de-partment makes the statement tnaf the total receipts for the Philippine islands for the month of July were 8732,845, divided as follows: Customs receipts at Manila, 8391,147; customs receipts at Iloilo, 822,111; customs receipts re-ceipts at Cebu, 831,043. To this should be added internal revenue receipts to the amount of 8106,226 The remaining remain-ing receipts consist of provost court fines, water rents, market and slaughterhouse slaugh-terhouse receipts, etc. Think Schley Is Not Rlg-htly Treated. Washington, Sept. 20. Governor Lo ndes, Senator Wellington, Mayor Malster of Baltimore and General Felix Angus called upon the president and formally protested against the assign men t of Rear Admiral Schley to command com-mand the South Atlantic station, on the ground that it was not commensurate commensu-rate with the dignity and the service he had rendered during the Spanish-American Spanish-American war. The protest was made voluntarily and without the admiral's knowledge. CHICKAMAUGA NATIONAL PARK Another Large Tract of Land Purchased to bo Added to It. Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 20. General Gen-eral II. V. Boynton, president of the Chick amauga Park commission, announces an-nounces that the government has purchased pur-chased another large tract of land on Missionary ridge, to be added to the Chickamauga National park. The place purchased is the famous Ualloway farm, where a number of generals had headquarters during the Chickamauga engagements. Death in the Harrlcane. St. Johns, N. F., Sept. 20. Reports just received add sixteen lives to the death roll resulting from Thursday's hurricane. The schooner Angler went down in Placentia bay, with five men; the schooner Lily Mace was driven aihore on Mistaken Point, with the loss of seven men, and the schooner Daisy lost one man overboard and subsequently subse-quently had a boat capsized, drowning three. It is feared that even toes casualties will not exhaust the tale of disaster. Con greu ma n Ermentrout Dead. Reading, Pa., Sept. 19. Hon. Daniel Ermentrout, who was elected in November No-vember last to his sixth term in congress con-gress from the ninth district, (Berks and Lehigh counties) died at his home yesterday. He was 62 years of age. On Thursday last while at dinner a piece of meat lodged in his throat and a physician had to be called to save him from strangulation. Paralysis of the throat followed, but his death was unexpected. un-expected. Mr. Ermentrout is survived by a widow and a son and daughter. TeUow Fever at Key West. Key West, Fla., Sept. 20. Fifty-four new cases of yellow fever have been reported in the past forty-eight hours, and three deaths, making the total nnmber of cases to date 362, and seventeen seven-teen deaths. Revolution la Venexaela. Caracas, Sept. 30. The government troops have reoccupied Puerto Cabello. and are concentrating there and at La Victoria. TKANSVAAL aiTTTn 1 v..,-. BEPLY TO BRITISH NpTE A VIRTUAL VIR-TUAL DECLARATION OF WAR. British Demands, Including Claim of Suzerainty, Su-zerainty, Repudiated Orange Free Btate Sides With the Transvaal. London, Sept, 19. The reply of the Transvaal to "Mr. Chamberlain's latest note practically repudiates suzerainty, reverts to the seven years' franchise, and declines to give equality to the Dutch and English languages in the Volksraad. In short, it is politely negative and defiant. All dispatches from South Africa talk of the imminence of hostilities and the preparations for them. In Johannesburg it seems to be taken for granted that the Orange Free State has approved President Krueger's note and promised active assistance in the event of war. An official telegram posted at Volks-rust Volks-rust says that the Transvaal, with the assent of the Orange Free State, repudiates repu-diates British suzerainty, and adheres to the seven years' franchise. At Capetown it is rumored that Mr. Hofmeyer, the Afrikanker leader, sent a communication to President Steyn of the Orange Free State, entreating bim to do his utmost to preserve peace, but that he received in answer the words, "Too late!" AH military men agree that it is out of the question to begin hostile operations opera-tions before the middle of next month, no rain having fallen and the veldt being still bare. The Morning Post says: "The Boers mean to fight. That is the plain English Eng-lish of it." The Standard says: "The Transvaal note is unsatisfactory and, indeed, a dangerous composition. It would be going too far to say that the last hope of peace has vanished, or that diplomacy diploma-cy has said its final word, but it is idle to deny that the rulers of the Transvaal have brought their country very close to the brink of a disaster which th'e British government has done its best to avert." BLOODY RIOT OF MINERS. White and Black Miners of Centervllle, Ills., Fight Six Killed. Centerville, Ills., Sept. 19. As are. suit of a riot between white and negro miners here six negros were killed and one fatally wounded. A company of the state militia has arrived and will endeavor to prevent fresh outbreaks. out-breaks. Forty miners from the Herrin mines left that place for this city this evening, even-ing, armed with Krag-.Iorgenson rifles, determined to assist the white miners should their services be required. Trouble has been brewing ever since the militia was recalled by Governor Tanner last Monday, since which time the white miners have refused to allow the negro miners to come into town. Today thirteen negroes marched into the town and opened fire on a crowd of whites. The whites returned the fire promptly and a running fight ensued. en-sued. The negroes, closely followed by the whites, scattered, some running up the main street, the remainder starting down the railroad track. Here the wor'SJ execution was done. Six npffroes twill nilerl nn ilcaH aft.r rtn-nnTSrusided. Further trouble is fearec' t to . iory Honored. HaTaDa,1 J- The ceremony of exhuming tbe"-ie, aits ' General Antonio An-tonio Maceo and Y""ancisco Gomez, son of General Maximcft5omez, took place at Bejucal. Two thousand people went by special train from Havana"7"and as many more attended from the sUCr rounding districts. Governor-General Brooke was represented by Adjutant-General Adjutant-General Richards. The exhumation was followed by addresses. Generals Gomez, Pedro Betancourt and Ruis Rivera, assisted by a committee, carried the remains to a temporary shrine. The permanent mausoleum will be begun be-gun immediately, The speakers expressed ex-pressed the belief that Maceo was the greatest man whom the revolution had produced. Plot to Rob the Short Line. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 19. It is learned that an attempt to rob No. 1 of the Short Line near Ontario, Ore., was expected ex-pected Saturday night and the train was heavily guarded. The train was four hours late, and instead of passing Ontario about midnight it must have been daylight when that point was reached. No attempt to board the train was made, but the lateness of the hour may have prevented it. Armed men -were secreted on the engine, in the express and mail cars, and on the superintendent's car, which was attached at-tached to the train, and a lively fight would have ensued if the attempt had been made. ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED. Man and Wife and Six Children Crushed to Death. Las Vegas, N. M., Sept. 19. An adobe house five miles from Mora, N. M., collapsed col-lapsed during the night, killing Manuel Man-uel Cordova, his wife and six children. It had been raining in that vicinity for several days, and the dirt roof of the house, having become saturated, fell upon the inmates, crushing them. Only one member of the family, a boy of ten years, escaped, be being outside the house when the accident occurred. Britain W1U Fortify Newfoundland. St. John, N. F., Sept. 19. The British admiralty has prepared a war map of St. Johns and vicinity, as a preliminary prelim-inary to fortifying the town. One copy, which is a most complete topograph topo-graph ict! presentation of the city and its environs, with every road located within a radius of twenty miles, has been forwarded to the British colonial office. The work of .preparing for forts and garrisons, it is understood, will begin next spring and rushed to completion. Plot to Kill Saltan of Turkey. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 19. Abrsham Dah rouge, a Syrian, now in jail, has made the startling statement that be knew of a plot to kill the Sultan of Turkey; that the chief conspirators in the scheme have been ic Cincinnttl and later in Indianapolis. Dah rouge Ss charged with obtaining two type writers by false pretenses. He has claimed to be ia communication with the consul general of the Ottoman em pire, and has exhibited letters from that official. CHEATING -rue- Rnnif Miif w Fufm of SwlnjUr .Tb-f ; Santa c, r. u. " Sepx. 16. S. G. Burn, the English mine expert, representing rep-resenting Thomas A. Edison, having formally received possession of the Oritz mine grant, for which the inventor in-ventor and his associates paid 83,000,-000, 83,000,-000, left South Santa Fe county tonight to-night for New York, carrying with him a large supply, of placer gravel which will be used in making an ex-nibition ex-nibition test of Edison's gold-saving device. The exhibition will be made in the presence of the stock-holders of the new corporation purchasing the 3rite grant, styled the CJestro company. com-pany. This is to be the final test, others having been highly satisfactory. Mr. Burn says there are 8800,000,000 n gold in the gravel beds near Santa Fe, which his company now controls. Edison is quoted as saying: ; "I expect to go to New Mexico with the machinery and to superintend the eonstruction of the plant. We shall begin work at once At the start we shall produce 810,000 worth of gold every day. There is 8800,000,000 worth of it there. The electric machinery will take it direct from the sand. There will be no transportation of the ore. We shall handle it all on the spot, and merely ship the pure gold. My process has solved the problem of gold mining without water. l has been tested and found to fulfill all requirements." require-ments." Colorado Volunteer Charges Corruption. Denver, Colo., Sept. 16. Napoleon E. Guyot, late private of company G, First Colorado Volunteers, who, during dur-ing the last three months of 1898 served as a clerk under Major Kil-bourne, Kil-bourne, and later under Lieut.-Col. Potter, auditor of public accounts, Manila, publishes a signed statement in which charges of corruption are. made against American officials in Manila. He says an examination of the vouchers forwarded to Washington will show that exhorbitant prices are paid for all kinds of supplies purchased pur-chased in Manila; that vast quantities of high-class wines and other supplies have been purchased, ostensibly for the Spanish hospitals, while in the American hospitals only the coarsest supplies are furnished. The robberies, he asserts, will aggregate ag-gregate an enormous sum DREYFUS TO BE PARDONED. Cabinet Ready to Liberate Prisoner on September 19. Paris, Sept. 16. The Matin this morning asserts that the cabinet has agreed to a pardon for Dreyfus, and that the decree will be signed Septem-berl Septem-berl 0. Many of the provincial papers publish articles insisting on the granting grant-ing of a pardon. The Figaro says that many officers of the army are asking that Dreyfus be pardoned. Countess Prokeschostein, president of the Austrian Red Cross society, has written a letter of condolence condo-lence to Mme. Dreyfus. Indians to Fight Fl.'lpinoa. Washington, Sept. 16. Colonel James n. Tillman of South Carolina, a nephew of Senator Tillman, visited the White House and asked the president to authorize auth-orize the organization of an independent independ-ent company of Indian scouts for service ser-vice in the Philippines. It is proposed to make Mr. Tillman, who was colonel of the First South Carolina regiment during the Spanish war, captain of the company, and Joseph II. Woodbury, "IIole-in-the-Day," the chief of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, first lieutenant. Mamy more than a company com-pany of Chippewas are ready to enlist in case they are allowed to go to the Philippines as an independent organi sation. ANTI-IMPERIALISTIC POLICY. Congressmltn Lentz of Ohio Will Personally Person-ally Investigate Affairs In the Islands. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. t5.CbTrresT- man John J. Lentz is being urged by some of the most prominent anti-imperialists to go to the Philippines and make a personal investigation of conditions con-ditions there preparatory to leading the demonstrations in congress in the attack on President McKinley's policy toward the Filipinos. The trip was tb.2 subject of a conference confer-ence in New York state a few days ago. Transvaal Situation Growing Worse. Pretoria, Sept. 16. The discussion of the first draft of the reply to the Britibh note has ended. The reply will be in terms strongly influenced by the Orange Free Slate, and among other features the maintenance of the convention of 1884 will be strongly asserted. The situation is not considered so favorable as formerly. The burghers of the Orange Free State at a meeting just held,- passed a resolution to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Transvaal Trans-vaal in case of hostilities. Agoncillo Slips Into Philippines. Chicago, Sept. 18. A letter received from Paris reports that Agoncillo has abandoned the Filipino headquarters, and has gone to the Philippines. lie returned to Manila by way of the Suez canal, landing without detection and safely passed through the American Ameri-can lines and reached Aguinaldo, upon up-on whose staff he is now serving. Native Police at Manila. Manila, Sept. IS. The Filipino police, po-lice, numbering 250 men, armed with revolvers and clubs, began patrolling Manila yesterday. The force is controlled con-trolled by the provost marshal. Tacoma's Mayor on Trial for Bribery. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 16. After being be-ing out all night the jury in the trial of Mayor Johnson Nickeus, charged with having solicited a bribe of 812,500 for approving an ordinance compromising compro-mising a 81,000,000 suit against the Tacoma Light and Water company, for fraud in selling the plant to the city, could not agree and were discharged. dis-charged. New Yellow Fever Cases at Key West. Key West, Fla., Sept., 16. Fifteen new eases of yellow fever have been reported in the past twenty-four hours and one death. Philippine Commission Ordered Homo. Manila, Sept. 1 . CoL George Den-by Den-by and Prof. Dean Worchester. members mem-bers of the Philippine commission, have received instructions from President Presi-dent McKinley asking them to return as soon as possible. They will embark on the steamer India, which sails from Hongkong September 26th. The commissioners com-missioners have just moved into new offices and expected to spend some months working on the establishment of municipal government. : i rrsr DEAD. 'TTi nw' "-"rwreat NeIV -laUroad President Sne - cdmbs to Paralytic New York, Sept. 14. Coj aelius Van-derbilt, Van-derbilt, head of the Vanderbilt family, died at his residence in this eity at 5:45 o'clock from a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Vanderbilt was in his 5(H'n year. At his bedside when he died was only his wife. No physician was in attendance. The attack was very sudden and entirely en-tirely unexpected, and it was impos. sible to reach any physician before death occurred. Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on Staten Island, November 27, 1843. William H. Vanderbilt, his father, was at the time a farmer, and Cornelius at the age of 16 left school and secured a place as messenger in the Shoe & Leather bank. His grandfather, the commodore, learning of this, sent for him and asked why he had not applied to him for a place. "Because I did not want to ask you for anything," was the rej.ly. This pleased the commodore, and it is said that he made a codicil to his will a few days later leaving 81,000,000 to his grandson.. At the age of 21 his grandfather induced in-duced him to enter the railroad service, where his promotion was rapid until he became the leading railroad man of the country. At the time of his death Mr. Vanderbilt was president of the Canada Southern railroad, vice-president and director of the Beach Creek railroad; president of the Detroit & Bay City railroad; director of the Cleveland, Cleve-land, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad; director of the Detroit & Chicago Chi-cago railroad; director of the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburg railroad; director of the Hudson River Bridge company; president of the Joliet & Northern Indiana railroad; president of the Leamington & St. Claire railroad; rail-road; president of the New York & Harlem railroad; president of the Niagara Ni-agara River Bridge company; president presi-dent of the Spuvten Duyvel railroad; director of the Wagner Palace Car company; com-pany; director of the West Shore railroad; rail-road; director of the West Shore & Ontario Terminal company; director of the Toledo, Canada Southern &. Detroit Railway company; director of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, and a dozen other affiliated railroads. KRUGER WANTS TO ARBITRATE Would Like 1'nlted States to Appoint One of the Arbitrators. New York, Sept, 14. President Kru-ger Kru-ger makes the following statement to the World: The South African republic repub-lic wishes arbitration upon all qnes-tious qnes-tious not settled amicably which bave arisen. We prefer the president of the United States shall appoint the fifth member. England objects to all foreigners. for-eigners. England has heretofore refused re-fused arbitration. Kruger also promised to send a copy of the diplomatic dispatch of April. 1897, which he contends will prove the abolition of British suzeranity under un-der the convention of 1884. Fire In Coltou Coal Mine. Colton, Utah, Sept. 14. A fire broke out in the Pleasant Valley Coal company's com-pany's new mine at Clea-r Creek, six miles above Schofield's and great loss was only prevented by the prompt flooding of the mine. The fire had gained considerable headway before the water reached it. The canvas curtains cur-tains used between rooms and entries in some way caught fire several hundred hun-dred feet under the mountain. This caused an explosion which set fire to the coal and timbering. About forty men were in the mine at the time of the explosion, und some of them were almost suffocated with the smoke. Monthly Statement of Exports. Washington, Sept. 14. The monthly statement of the exports of domestic .products of the United States for Au gust were; Breadstuffs, 825,580,452, against 819,909,329 for August, 1898. Cattle and hogs, 82,583,014; increase, 8135,610. Provisions, 815,584,755; increase, in-crease, 83,184,179. Cotton, 83,609,589; decrease, 889,822. Mineral oils, 86,575,-009; 86,575,-009; increase, 8554,502. During the last eight months the exports of these products amounted to 8431,828,813, against 8480,960,773 for the corresponding correspond-ing period in 1898. Texas Tragedy. Longview, Tex., Sept. 14 Andrew Simpson shot and seriously wounded James Forsythe, killed Forsvthe's father arid then blew his own brains out. Forsathe, a highly respected young man, married Simpson's daughter daugh-ter against the latters will. Several young people in the neighborhood aided the couple to elope. This so angered an-gered the old gentleman that he saddled sad-dled a horse and rode to Forsythe's place, declaring he would kill the entire family. His daughter escaped by-hiding. by-hiding. South Dakota Volunteers' Troubles Settled. San Francisco, Sept. 14. The trouble in the First South Dakota volunteer regiment has been settled. Colonel Frost withdrew his charges against Lieutenant Colonel Lee Stover, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Horace Bates and Major R. C. Warner and the order of arrest against them was removed by General Shafter. Colonel Frost did not relent until he had received letters of apology from all three officers, which they wrote in response re-sponse to appeals made by the citizens reception committee. Hunting Arizona Train Kobber. Wilcox, Ariz., Sept. 14. Detectives and sheriffs are still searching for information in-formation in this vicinity concerning the robbers who held up the Southern Pacific train at Cochise station, near here. Several clews are being followed. fol-lowed. Reports have been received which lead the detectives to believe that the bandits may have taken refuge in the Chiricahoe country, the wildest district dis-trict in the southwest, and an ideal rendezvous for outlaws. Trouble Between Otis and Wheeler. New York, Sept. 14. A dispatch from Hongkong says: " General Joseph Wheeler only obtained an assignment to active doty after a serious dispute with General Otis, who wanted to side-track the veteran fighter by sending send-ing him to some obscure post ia the southern islands. 'General Wheeler now declares that he will apply for permission to return to the United States soon unless i h ire is some change in the management of affairs in the Philippines. NEWS SUMMARY". The floods are subsiding in Upper Bavaria, but railway communication with the south and southeast is still interruped. Joseph Brenner committed suicide at Ashcroft, B. C, while temporarily insane, in-sane, by throwing himself in front of a freight train. Imports of wheat into Liverpool for the past week from Atlantie ports, 83,300 qrs. ; Pacific ports, none; other ports, 27,000 qrs. Major James W. Pope has been relieved re-lieved as chief quartermaster at Manila, Ma-nila, his place being taken by Major Crosby P. Miller. Secretary RoQt has approved the action ac-tion of General Ludlow in suppressing the Reconcentrado, a paper formerly published at Havana. Captain Leary, the governor-general of the island of Guam, has reported his arrival at his post on the steamer Yosemite, under date of August 7. The report of a shipment of 10,000 tons of copper to this country turns outtobea transfer of Chile bars to one of the works for refining. The president of the Italian commission commis-sion to the Paris exposition, has resigned re-signed as a protest against the verdict of the He tinea court-martial. An insane merchant of Berlin named Herman Bordasch was arrested at a hotel in Leipzig last week for threatening threat-ening to kill the king of Saxony. The steamer Rio tie Janeiro, which has just arrived at San Francisco from China, will pass into the hands of the government for the transportation of troops. The BVench budget for 1900 shows an increase in the estimated expenditures of 45,000,000 francs. The war and marine ma-rine ministers ask for 36,000,000 francs increase. Secretary John Willis Baer of Massachusetts' Massa-chusetts' Society of Christian Endeavor Endeav-or has declined t'oe nomination for governor tendered by prohibitionists of Bay state. General Otis has cabled the war department for 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition for the army rifles. The consignment will be sent from San Francisco. The German third-class cruiser Wacht, while participa-ting in the autumn au-tumn maneuver at Kiel exploded her boiler. Four persons were killed and four others injured. Charles Allen, a mail robber who escaped es-caped from Ludlow street jail in New York, in 1895, and Sydney Wennie, a pick-pocket of Washington, have been arrested at Frankfort. The secretary of the interior has approved ap-proved the allotments of lands to the Yakima Indians in their reservations in the state of Washington. There are 675 of the allotments. Joseph Gill of Steubenville, O., was nominated for congress by the Sixteenth Six-teenth congressional district Republi can convention on the two hundred and ninety-ninth ballot. General D. M. Dodge of New York, announces that subscriptions for the Dewey memorial fund in New York now amount to 875,000. The home is to be erected at Northfield. In many parts of Cuba there is great want of labor, in spite of which the Cubans are crying for foreign labor to leave the country, and in Havana work is being improvised for vagrants. The war department has abandoned the steamship Morgan City to her owners. She lies in the inland sea below be-low Nagasaki, and wreckers have been engaged in the attempt to float her. An Armenian journal reports that Turkey absolutely refuses to permit the Armenians who emigrated to the Caucasus at the time of the Kurdish atrocities in Armeian to return to their homes. Assistant District Attorney James G. Grady, a brother of Senator Thomas F. Grady, dropped dead in the office of former police judge, Joseph Hocb, New York. Death was caused by heart disease. The navy department has decided to assign Rear-Admiral Farquhar to command com-mand the North Atlantic station, in place of Rear-Admiral Sampson, who will assume command of the Boston navy yard. Telegrams have been received at Shanghai announcing that several British missionaries have been driven out of the city of Paongan, situated 160 miles across the. border in Audone province, Thibet. "The armor for the battleship Wisconsin, Wis-consin, in coarse of construction at the Union Iron works, San Francisco, is now arriving'but the vessel will not be turned over to the government until un-til next spring. Admiral Schley has been assigned to command the South- Atlantic station. An iron bridge over the river Traunn, at Amunden, Austria, collapsed Iwhile twenty men were efldeavorlDg to strengthen it. Nineteen were drowned. drown-ed. ' . - '"u, : The president announces that he has decided to extend his Chicago trip to Minneapolis and St. Paul. American farmers are to have competition com-petition from a new quarter in the wheat market of the world, Asiatic Russia. Great Britain and Portugal, it is reported, re-ported, are about to sign a convention by which the latter leases to the former certain territory and stations in Portuguese, Portu-guese, East Africa. Germany, it is said, has also secured similar advantages. advan-tages. Near Ichang and Chun King an anti-Catholic anti-Catholic uprising has been caused by the kidnapping of children. Children have been stolen almost by the wholesale whole-sale by wandering gipsies, but the natives na-tives believe they were eaten by the hated foreigners. - . - There is some uneasiness at Seattle regarding the scLooner Mildred E, which sailed from St. Michael August 1 for Seattle, with thirty or forty passengers. pas-sengers. The bark Hunter, which sailed at the same time, has bees in port for ten days. - When Secretary Long returns W Washington he is expected to issue orders for the relief of Bear-Admiral Watson and Howison front the command com-mand of the Asiatic and South Atlantic Atlan-tic stations, respectively. N0KTHWEST NOTES, J. Thomas Hall of Campbell, Texas, has been appointed a teacher In the Carson Indian school, Nevada. H. Sutton was murdered and robbed of 8200 at Fairfield, near Spokane, by highwaymen, last Friday. He resisted the attempt to rob him and was shot. A passenger train on the Great Northern North-ern railway was derailed near Harlem, Mont., last Wednesday, the engine, baggage and mail cars and two coaches leaving the track. Seven persons were hurt, none fatally. Patrolman Jack Martin of Tacoma was shot and wounded by two men whom he was attempting to arrest. He wounded and captured one of them, who proved to be Tom Moore cf Butte, but the other made his escape. Mrs. Truman B. Hicks, the wealthiest wealth-iest woman in Wyoming, died last week and was buried at Three Rivers, Mich., her former home. She came to Wyoming in 1867 with her former husband, hus-band, Hon. A. R. Converse, who died in 1883. J. T. English of Sumpter, Ore., has found a pocket of ore in the Golconda which will make him rich, as he expects ex-pects it to run 88,000 per ton, or 8160,-000 8160,-000 for the car. One carload will be shipped to San Francisco this week, to be followed by others soon. The Wyoming bureau of irrigation investigations have collected a number of photographs, and is now engaged in making plans of irrigation works for exhibit at the Paris exposition. The photographs and plans will be uniform in size, being 18x22 inches in dimension. dimen-sion. At the trial of the mayor of Tacoma on a charge of bribery, C. B. Hurley testified as to conversations with the mayor relative to signing the ordinance authorizing a compromise of the million dollar judgment against the Water and Light company, Hurley swore the mayor demanded 812,500, and that he agreed to pay it. James B. Clark, a Seattle barkeeper, is under arrest on the charge of attempting at-tempting to murder his wife. Clark claims his wife shot herself and his story was corroborated by his wife until un-til she was warned that her wound might prove fatal. She then said she was shot by her husband. The board of health of Livingston has declared war on kissing. Notice has been served in school to the teachers teach-ers that they are hereafter forbidden to kiss their pupils on the ground that the practice breeds disease. The peculiar pe-culiar order has aroused considerable indignation and ridicule. Jimmy Tai-Pai-Newt, an Okanogan Indian held in the county jail at Spokane Spo-kane for trial before the federal court on a charge of murder, took his life in his cell last week. When found he was hanging in a noose formed by his handkerchief and a blunt stick broken from the cover of a fruit basket was stabbed three inches into his side. So remarkable was his fortitude that the night jailer, sitting less than ten feet way, heard no groan. Private Thomas McVeagh, company G, First Wyoming volunteers, who was tried by general courtmartial convened at Imus, P. I., June last on the charge of striking bis superior officer, and found guilty and sentenced to be shot to death, has bad his sentence commuted com-muted by President McKinley to dishonorable dis-honorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and confinement at hard labor for the period of three years. Alcatrez island, California, has been designated as the place of confinement Joseph Jenson, who is one of the two men who attacked Blackaby & Park's store at Jordan Valley on August 23, has been apprehended and is now in the penitentiary at Boise awaiting trial. Joseph Lawson, his partner, was killed at the time of the attack. The postoffice in the store was raided, which enlisted the government in the task of running the culprit to cover Jordan Valley is across the line in Oregon and Jensen will be tried in Portland. Jensen belongs to a desperate desper-ate gang, one of whom is a woman named Morgan, known as "Calamity Jane." This woman owed Blackaby & Park some money. Driving some cattle cat-tle into the town, she sold them and paid her debt of 6ome 8450. She had previously arranged with Lawson and Jenson to raid the store after she made the payment. The plot leaked out, and guards were stationed who opened fire, the result being that Lawson was killed. Oakland, Cal., has accepted the offer of Andrew Carnegie to give 850,000 for a public library building, providing that ai least 84.O0O a year is guaranteed for its support, and has taken measures to provide the necessary amount by a slight increase of the tax rate. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company will expend 8200,000 on the line between Denver and Salt Lake. The line will not follow the Union Pacific Pa-cific main line between Laramie and Fort Steele, but turns southwest from Laramie to Penhampton; thence from Penh amp ton the main line runs west to Saratoga, from Saratoga northwest to Fort Steele and thence to Salt Lake. When this line and the Denver-Missouri river connections have been established. estab-lished. Salt Lakers can talk to Chicago and New York friends by telephone. Forest fires were last week burning in the Laramie Peak timber district and along Muddy mountain, in Wyoming. Wyom-ing. Special Agent Abbott of the Interior In-terior department, who went out to investigate and put out the fires if possible, pos-sible, had a force of men working in the Laramie Peak district and succeeded succeed-ed in checking the fire there, but nothing noth-ing could be done toward fighting the Muddy mountain fire, on account of the dense smoke, and it will be allowed to burn itself out, which it will do in a few days. During the fore part of last week the worst forest fires in the history of northern Wyoming raged in them on n. tains between the north and south forks of Tongue river, " west of Sheridan. Sheri-dan. Four townships in that district were burned over, and the town of Rock wood was completely wiped out The tie camp of McSbane & Co., together to-gether with a number of sawmills and a large quantity of railroad ties and lumber, were destroyed. Many of the tie-cutters had narrow escapes from death. MARKET REPOKT SILVER. New York... 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Wheat V Cwt. $ Corn Cracked com Rye Barley Oats Alfalfa Mixed hay '" Timothy Straw, per bale .".."..". !."." "" 100 1 10 1 la 1 00 1 00 I 30 50 55 60 25 10 12 8 6 12 10 1 tt4 55 to 12 15 Live Turkey Uobbiers , Live Turkey Hens Chickens, hens " Old roosters ."!.".".!."! Broilers, pr lb ."."."..". Young duck Young Geese Eggs, Utah, per case " Butter, creamery Ranch butter San Fraucliico Ural a. May wheat December ."."!!.'..".". Burley December I 15 1 10 4 Portlautl. Walla Walla 59) Val'ey ZZoi Bluestem 6163 LIVE STOCK. Chicago. Good to choice cattle ft 81 a 6 70 Common grades. 4 30 ,5 60 Stackers and feeders 4 20 tj4 95 Bulls. 1 75 5 40 Cows and heifers i 75 5 40 Calves 4 eo 4,7 75 lexns steers 350 ft. 4 75 Lambs 5 so 6 w Western rangers 4 fti t4 40 Sheep 2 00 43 40 Kansas City. Native steers H 50 06 15 Texas steers 2 8 ((4 40 Texas Cows 2 25 fo3 10 Native cows and heifers 2 00 nl 2i S lockers and feeder 3 50 t4 75 Bulls and stags 3 05 fe4 00 Lambs 4 00 fcS -.'0 Muttons 8 00 4 00 Ouialia. Native beef steers H 80 06 10 Texas steers.. 370 fo4 50 Cows and heifers 3 m 4 30 Canners 2 25 3 .V) Stockers and feeders 8 60 (.4 90 Calves 4 00 ji6 25 Bulls and stags 3 oil 4 00 Sheep Yearlings 3 (hi 4 15 Western muttons S 70 4 05 Stockers ; 3 6 1 fa.3 95 Lambs 4 00 tg5 25 bvnrer. Beef steers 3 75 5 50 Cows a 75 m) Feeilers, freight paid to river.. . 3 25 ft. 4 65 Stockers. freight paid to river.. . 3 75 $4 85 Bulls and stags 2 25 fifc4 U Good fat muttons Lambs HKCF1PTS. Chicago Cattle 100 Sheep 2.000 Kansas City Cattle 160 Sheep 6,(CQ Omar.a-. Cattle 1.100 Sheep 100 Denver Cattle 800 Sheep lie Knew the Bird. From the Washington Star: The military man walked nervously back afid forth till his spurs jingled like sleigh bells. Stopping abruptly before be-fore the woman who had confronted him, he asked: "How do you know all these things about my past?" "A little bird told me." " 'S death!" hs hissed; "another round-robin!" Canada Favorinr the Jap. While Canada's tax on Chinese immigrants im-migrants is to be increased, Japanese are to be permitted to come in free only for imperial reasons. Does Hot It form. An inquiry instituted some time ago to ascertain what percentage of youthful youth-ful criminals discharged from the Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts reformatory returns to criminal life showed that in Deer Island Isl-and prison, in Boston habor, .there were 250 prisoners who were formerly inmates of the state reformatory. Bapid Shoe Shine. To shine boots quickly do not blacken, black-en, but rub them with a piece of orange. Let the Juice dry in, and then polish with a soft brush, when they will shine like a mirror. Kan sen to Go South. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, is now fired with an ambition to try the Antarctic Ant-arctic regions, and hopes to have an expedition organized and ready to start by 1902. - A Chess-Playing- Village. Erery inhabitant of the Austrian Tillage Til-lage of Storbeck is a chssj player. The children are taught to play chess just as they are taught to rend am! n'rite. Ho Foreign Flags A lowed. Only Turkish flags are allowed ia Constantinople, . |