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Show UTAH NEWS. Carl MUlen, of Jllg Cottonwood, last week captured alire a monster wild eat. which he disposed of to a Salt Lake furrier. The outlook for next year's wheat crop i very bright, and both farmer and millncn anticipate a prosperous fcaason. Some symptoms of blackleg- are said to have appeared around Jensen among the poor cattle and some feara are felt on this score. g Tooele valley is incoming a great dry farming district, and the acreage thia season will be double that of any previous year. Two more new business houses are to be erected on Main street. Park City. That city Is eojoytoy a substantial building' boom jut now. Helen Gould has presented the .Sheldon .Shel-don Jackson College, os" Suit Lake, with a cheek for $3,0OO. with the assurance that "there is more to follow." The Lehi Sugar factory ran 125 daya during the season jutt closed, and converted con-verted 52.C?5 ton of beets into sugar, an average of 410 tons per day. Plans have been submitted for the new court hous to beCerected at Ver-cal. Ver-cal. The building will cost 814,000 and will be modern in ever) respect. Fred Holes, of Spanish Fork, died last week of smallpox, he having been 111 two weeks and the disease having been treated at first as chickenpox. While I, tans citizens are Just now enjoying ideal spring weather, the weather observer declares the coldest spell of the season will occur during February. The next encampment of the G. A. R. veterans will be held in Ogden during the latter part of February or the first of March, the date having not yet been decided upon. The sum of $15, 619. 9-2 state school money has been distributed to the several sev-eral districts in Sanpete county, being 13.96 per capita, Sanpete county hav;ng a school population of 5,277. Tbe telephone company has placed heavy orders with eastern mannfac turers for construction and operating material, in preparation for extended work when spring opens. The thirteenth annual exhibit of tbe Utah Poultry association was held in Salt Lake City last week, the show be ing regarded as the best one by long odds ever held in the state. V. K. Thompson, of Nephl, left last week for the Cape Nome, Alaska, mining min-ing district, which he expects to reach about the middle of May, taking in Skaguay and Dawson enroute. An entertainment and banquet was given in honor of tbe old folks of Mt. Pleasant on the 16th inst.. fully 500 persons, many of whom were between fO and aO years of age, being present. Inquiries have recently been received from points in Montana by Salt Lake firms, asking as to the advisability of investing in lands in Utah with the idea of raising lucern seed. Considerable money made in Montana will be put into Utah land early this spring, and the lucern seed industry, already a big item in the revenue of the state, will be greatly increased. Salt Lake has been selected as one of the places to be touched by the horseless horse-less carriage of the American Automobile Automo-bile Advertising Co. in the overland trip of one of its vehicles, from New York to San Francisco, starting about the first of April. Mrs. Sarah Hannah Shires Howard, who came to Utah in the early 60' is dead at Salt Lake. She was the wife of Thomas Howard, who operated the first pap.' mill in Utah, and who made the first paper ever manufactured west of the Mississippi river. W. G. Hutchinson and Alex Anderson, Ander-son, while working a mining claim adjacent to Man ti. attempted to thaw out some dynamite, when it accidentally accident-ally exploded, and that they were not Instantly killed they regard as simply t miracle. Ex-City Recorder Fred Stevens of Park City is dead after an illness of Aeveral months. Mr. Stevens was an old Comstocker, and came to Utah some twenty years ago, being for a number of years employed at the Ontario mine in Park City. E. W. Penney and son (Jeorge, who left Kanosh on November 14 for a two weeks prospecting trip into the Wah Wah range of mountains, have not been heard from since and it is feared they have either perished in the mountains or been foully dealt with. A number of trout kept in the show window of a Salt Lake restaurant died last week in a mysterious manner, the entire school dying within thirty minutes min-utes after a thin stream of white substance, sub-stance, evidently lime, had entered the tank from the city water pipes. It is said the quarantine regulations in the southern part of the state have been flagrantly violated, largely because be-cause people refuse to believe the prevalent prev-alent disease is smallpox, and timorous officials hesitate to stand up in the face of publie opinion and enforce the law. Alexander Majors, one of the history makers of the west, is dead. lie was born in 1314, and spent his entire life in the west. He established the pony express, from the Missouri river to San Francisco, in 1S59, and in the early 70s was enaged in mining in Utah. The University of Utah has resumed ita work after a prolonged recess, each scholar being compelled to aubmit to a rigorons examination before being permitted per-mitted to enter the class-room, tbe faculty fac-ulty being determined that smallpox hall not enter the university. A eels brat ion was had at Parowan on January 14, it being forty-nine years since the pioneers entered Parowan. Although there are only six or seven of the old pioneers left, they still celebrate cele-brate tbe day and have a royal good time. Game and Fish Commissioner Sharp ays that when all the fish eggs promised prom-ised him shall have arrived the state hatchery will have nearly one million eggs, tbe full capacity of the hatchery. Be expect to handle about three times that d amber in the coarse of the year. Dr. Tallage of the University of Utah, who recently returned from attending at-tending a two daya session of the Western section of the Geological Society So-ciety of America betd in California, emyt there Is a good chance of the next meeting being held in Salt Lake City. CEN. STANTON NEAR DEATH. rift-htlng- Paymaster" Danreroalljr IU at Hla Home In Nebnuki. Omaha, Jan. 24. Brigadier-General T. H. Stanton, U. S. A., retired, formerly form-erly paymaster-general of the army and generally known as the "fighting paymaster," is lying dangerously ill at his home in this city. His trouble is a general breaking down of his system and is complicated by grip. He earned his title of "fighting paymaster" by always iusistiug on being transferred to the line when there was any trouble with the Indians. ELECTION OF SENATORS. Report on Hou.e Bill Rrvltiil Argument In Fifor of Changes. Washington, Jau. 24. The report filed on the house bill for the . election of United States senators by the people peo-ple reviews the arguments made in favor of this change and refers to the unfortunate conditions which have occurred oc-curred in Kentucky, Delaware and other states under the present system. Th. bill as reported leaves it discretionary discre-tionary with legislatures to coutinue the present system or adopt the system of a choice by the people. BEEF (-OR BOERS. f-Arent.of Krojr rur-hali; 750. OOO . founds In Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 24. A trainload of beef 750, 000 pounds for the use of the Boers, is being purehasee here by an agent of the Transvaal Government. On account of recent seizures by British Brit-ish warships of ships bearing supplies destined for the Transvaal, packers have refused to sell the beef for delivery deliv-ery beyond Chicago, and negotiations for transportation are pending. This is the second trainload of beef soldjiere for the Boers, the first consignment sold about a month ago being now. it is said, on the ocean. KILLED HIS DAUGHTER. Texas rarmer Attacks His Family with at Knife. Houston. Tix.,Jan. 24, A. J. Honey-cutt, Honey-cutt, aged 60, a farmer living near Cen-tir, Cen-tir, attacked hi.? wife today with a knife. Their children ran to the assistance as-sistance of the mother, when Honey-cutt Honey-cutt stabbed Resa. aged 16, killing her instantly. The wife and two sons, aged 13 ane 10 were so badly wounded that they may die. Honeycutt is in jail and precautions have been taken toprovent a lynching. DEFENSE APPROPRIATION. What the State Department Expended of This ratal. Washington, Jan. 24. The president sent to the senate in response to a resolution res-olution of inquiry from Secretary Hay as to the portion of the S-50,000,000 defense de-fense appropriation expended by the fetate department. The total amount was $49.3, SflO. the principal items being Paris Peace commission S1I5. Hr Philippine commission lJ6.4Jt TI rauspurtation of destitute refugees irom cuua ana Porto Kico Pav of special tit-en ts ll.KH Cablerams Negro Shoots Three Men. Macon, Ga., Jan. 24. Two negroes were shot to death and two white men desperately wounded, a? the result of an attempt to arrest a negro murderer here today. J. H. Butler, colored, is the man who did the most of the shoot ing, and who was himself shot tc death. His victims were Armstead Bryant, colored, shot through the heart; B. heltman. white, shot through the stomach and wiil probably die, and John Reed, white, shot in the neck and is in a precarious coudition. Filipinos Suffer Another Defeat-Manila, Defeat-Manila, Jan. 24. Two companies of the Forty-sixth infantry, under Major Johnson, and three companies of the Thirty-eighth infantry, commanded by Major Muir, defeated 800 insurgents at Taal, province of Batangas, Saturday, taking the town. The United States gunboat Marietta also shelled the place. The insurgents had four Cannon, twe of which were captured. Two Americans Ameri-cans were wounded, and ten insurgent dead were found upon the field, the number of injured being unknown. Texas Rangers (inard a Court. Austin, Tex,. Jan. 23. An additional company of rangers have been ordered to Bastrop to remain there during the trial of the men charged with the murder mur-der of Arthur Burford. the son oi Sheriff Burford of Colorado county, who was killed a few days ago by members of the Reece faction. The trial is set for next Wednesday anr subpoenas have been issued for 1.24C i witnesses. The rangers will disarir. j every man as he enters the town. The j governor has ordered that every possible possi-ble measure betaken to prevent further bloodshed. ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF OTIS. I nknown Soldier Reported to Hav Taken a Shot at General. Victoria, B C, Jan, 23. J. P. Molera, who arrived from Manila, tells of ao attempt on the life of Gen, Otis. In conversation in reference to the situation situa-tion there, he said that Gen. Otis once appeared on the firing line. when a shot from the rifle of one of the soldiers whizzed uncomfortably close to his head. As to who fired the 6hot, nc clue was discovered. He Hanged His Rival. Chicago. Jan. 23. Because he loved Bartholomae Pieta's wife, John Staezch a farmer, tried to hang the man who stood in his way. In the little cottage of his rival out near Rose Hill cemetery, ceme-tery, the self-appointed executioner partially carried out the murder. He would have succeeded had not hi? vic tim fought so for life that he escaped with the nooe about his neck. While the hanging was not a success, it may fet refcult in murder, for the victim is In a critical condition; Woolen Mills Born, Ashland, Or., Jan. 23. The Ashland woolen mills, one of the oldest industrial indus-trial establishments in the state, owned md operated by E. R. and G. N. Artder- lon, have been destroyed by fire, which supposed to have originated in the weaving room. Machinery to the ralue of $5,000 had recently been added k the plant, and the concern was in Jie most prosperous condition. About (6,000 worth of blanket and blank et- ng were also burned. The total loss a 165,000. Insurance 513,300. HARSH TOWARD ROBERTS. Majority Keport I ses Harsh Terms Concerning Con-cerning I lull's Congressman. Washington, Jan. 23. The full report re-port of the majority of the committee elaborates the summaries and in some parts uses strong language against Mr. .Roberts. As to his plural marriages it says: "Prior to 12, B. H. Roberts had married one Louisa Smith. She has borne him six children and is still living. "About 15. when Utah was fairly ringing with the blows of the Edmunds Ed-munds act of 1982; while numerous prosecutions were going on, and after the supreme court had passed upon the validity of the act; when the American people supposed polj'gamy had received its death-blow; when no man of the many whose cases went to the United States supreme court pretended pre-tended the provisions against polygamous polyga-mous marriages were invalid; with al' these facts insistently before him, Brigham II. RolHjrts took another wife, his first polygamous wife, Celia Dibble by name, who in the following twelve years bore him six children. 'This second wife he married in defiance de-fiance of the Edmunds law. He spat upon the law; he declared by his act that be reco-jni.ed ao binding rule upon hiiu of a law of congress; he declared de-clared by it that lie recognized a higher high-er law. "The congress.of -the United Stales was to him an object of contempt. The supreme court of the United States might declare the law for others, but not for him. lie laughed at its futile decrees and spurned its admonitions. "The executive which had declared in solemn message its gratification that polygamy seemed gone forever he defied and despised. "Of what consequence to him were the laws of congress and declarations of the highest court and proclamations of presidents, in his sensual interpretation interpret-ation of a sensual doctrine'.' "But he had not yet sufficiently proclaimed pro-claimed his utter contempt for the supreme su-preme court, for congress and its most solemn enactments. A few years later he took a third wife. "That B. II. Roberts's persistent, notorious and defiant violation of one of the most solemn acts ever passed by congress, by the very body which he now seeks to enter, on the theory that, he is above the law. and his defiant violations of the laws of his own state necessarity render him ineligible, disqualified, dis-qualified, unfit and unworthy to be a member of the house of representatives. representa-tives. And this proposition is asserted assert-ed not so much for reasons personal to the membership of the house as because be-cause it goes to the very integrity of the house and the republic as such.'1 FIGHT OVER ESTATE. Judge Ileatty Confirms A J. Davis's Title to a Hank. Butte, Mont., Jan. 23 Judge Beatty, sitting in the United States court here today deciced the last of the famous bank-stock cases growing out of the fight over the estate of the late mil-lionairs mil-lionairs and banker, Andrew J. Davis, Harriet Wood, a sister of Davis, sued to set aside the deathbed bequest of the decedent to his nephew and namesake name-sake Andrew J. Davis, by which' the latter acquired practically the whole of the First National bank of Butte. The decision is in favor of the defendant and finally confirms his little to the bank. NICARAGUAN CANAL BILL. London Chronicle Declares Congress will Pass It. London. Jan. 23. The Daily Chronicle Chroni-cle says editorially today: "According to advices we have recived from Washington, a canvass of the Senate and House of Representatives has placed it beyond dispute that Congress will not only pass the Nicaragua canal bill, but will pass it in a form directly at variance with the ("lay ton-Bnlwer treaty. "This is a statement of decidedly serious se-rious importance and we hesitate to believe that the United States Government Govern-ment will commit itself to a course which this country would haye to re-guard re-guard as unfriendly. CAPTAIN MILLS IS FREE. Jury Agrees on a Verdict of Not Guilty In J u.st ix Minutes. Salt Lake City, Jan. 23. The jury before whom Captain F. J. Mills was tried for the murder of J. C. O'Mel-vency O'Mel-vency was absent from the courtroom just thirty minutes, six of which were spent in the jury room The verdict seems to meet with general approval, although some maintain that a light sentence should have been imposed. Captain Mills received the verdiet in a calm manner, lie will spend a few weeks quietly in Salt Lake, after which he will probably accept a position in Honolulu. FAMOUS WOMAN DEAD. She Kent the First Mesxage Over Morse's Telegraph. New York, Jan. 23. Mrs. Aunie Ellsworth Smith, widow of Roswell Smith, founder of the Century company is dead at her home, aged 73 years. It was Mrs. Smith who, in 1844,. when 6he was a girl of 17, sent the famous first telegraphic message. "What hath God wrought,"' from the United States supreme court room, Washington, to Baltimore. Secretary Davis Will Call on Kruger. Lourenco Marques, Jan. 2 3. Web ster Davis, United States assistant secretary-of the Interior, arrived here yesterday on his way to Pretoria, and called upon the governor general, John Alvaro Dacosta Ferreira, who gave him a most courteous reception and requested re-quested him " to convey a message of special friendship . to President Mo-Kinley. Mo-Kinley. The Transvaal government hat informed Mr. Davis that President Kruger "s carriage will convey him to Pretoria. - China on Her Knees. Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 3?. The Monmouthshire Mon-mouthshire brings news from Shanghai that China has. acquiesced in French demands for territory at Kwang Chan-wan Chan-wan Bay, after two more Chinese defeats. de-feats. China has dismissed the viceroy of two Kwang provinces, appointing Li Hung Chang to succeed him. China also agrees to decapitate the prefect who began the warfare against the French, and t. pay 200,000 taels indemnity in-demnity to the families of Frenchmen Who were killed. MEANING OF UNITED STATES. Settlement Has Special Bearing on Tariff and Immigration. Washington, Jan, 21. An important import-ant private conference of Democratic members of the IIou.se of Representatives Representa-tives was held last night at the Ways and Means committee rooms, for the purpose of considering the question recently re-cently raised as to the application of the term "United States," as used in the constitution, to onr insular possessions. posses-sions. The meeting was attended by eighteen of the most influential members mem-bers on the Democratic side. The decision de-cision of the question is considered to be all-important a? determining whether these possessions are to have the American tariff or atariff of their own, and also in affecting the right of free immigration from these islands, with its resulting influences on labor iu this country. TO HEAR ALL EVIDENCE. Kentucky Contest Committee to Have Plenty of Time. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 21. The House this afternoon, after a long debate, passed Mr. Orr's (anti-Goeble Democrat) resolutions instructing the contest committee com-mittee hi the case of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor to take all the time necessary in order to arrive a$ ai full, lair and inst conclusion, and to hear all of the evidence on both sides. This resolution was brought forth to meet the complaint of Goebel's, attorneys attor-neys that the interference of outside events had cut off much of their testimony. testi-mony. In the debate on the floor Cantrill and other (ioebel leaders opposed the resolution, but a large number of Democrats Dem-ocrats broke away from party lines and the resolution finally passed, by a vote of 78 to 14. The preceedings today before be-fore the contest committees were uneventful. un-eventful. INNOCENT MAN HANGED. Confession Keveali That Judicial Murder Was Committed. Redwood Falls, Minn., Jan. 21. A report re-port has just reached here from relatives rela-tives of the deceased that old man Slover recently died in California, and that he made a confession to the effect that he killed Moses Lufkins in Gales township, this county, some twelve years ago. instead of William Rose, who was afterward hung for the crime. There was only circumstantial evidence against Hose, whose attentions to Grace Lufkins had been forbidden by her father. On the first trial the jury disagreed, dis-agreed, but the second trial resulted in conviction. In a speech from the gallows. Rose affirmed his innocence and charged Slover with the crime. WOOD'S COURSE APPROVED. President Indorses Action to Purify Public Service in Cuba. Washington. Jan. 21. At the cabinet meeting a communication from Havana Hava-na covering the action of General Wood in removing Mr. Mora from his office as public prosecutor was read. The president and the members of the cabinet cabi-net fully indorse General Wood's move to purify the public service at Havana, and he will have all needful support. Otherwise the cabinet meeting was devoted de-voted to routine matters. FRUIT-GROWERS' UNION. One Hax Been Organized In Kansas City LJKansas City, Mo., Jan. 21. The fruit-growers and farm product ship pers have formed a permanent organ ization to be known as the Growers and Shippers' National Protective union. un-ion. The capital stock is placed at $50,000, in shares of SI each. Head quarters are to be in Kansas City, with i 1 -. , . urttuciies in otner cities. Any grower or shipper may become a member by paying for one or more shares. Menage From The Dead. rottsville, I 'a., Jan. 21. The body of Yilliam Galloway, fire boss at ' the Kaska William mine of the Dodson Coal company, who was entombed by the fall of coal on December 18th has been recovered. These words were j -i -. . . . uiscuvcrca wrmeu on asneet of iron on a brattice door addressed to his wife: "I think I am gone. Good-bye Janie. He good boys, Guy aud Willie. I dont think you will see your father' 'any more. I think this is Wednesday. Bank Kobbcd and Men Kscape. Rochester, Ind., Jan. 21. The Commercial Com-mercial bank at Silver Lake, was last miduight robbed by burglars of $3,500. Five charges of hitro-glycerine were used to open the safe. The robbers shot their way through a nosse nf citizens who attempted their capture, and went to North Manchester on a hand car. William Price, a clerk, was severely wounded. One of the robbers rob-bers cried: "I'm shot," but escaped with the other burglars..' Secrecy of Peace Commission. Chicago, Jan. 21. Former Secretary of State Day, who was a member of the Paris Peace commission, speaking of the senate resolution ordering that the proceedings of the commission be made public, said: "On that point I agree with Senator Davis as opposed to publicity pub-licity of proceedings. While there was nothing the commission had to hide, it was understood that the proceedings' being of a diplomatic nature, 6hould be kept secret, and I cannot see that any advantage could be derived by making them public. Marrura at Naples. Naples, Jan. 20. Charles E. Macrum, former United States consul at Pretoria, Pre-toria, who left Lourenz'o ' Marques on December IS, bound for New York, has landed at Naples. It is reported that he bears a letter from President Kruger to President McKinley, asking the latter to meditate between the Transvaal and Great Britain. Onley 19 per cent of the population in Manhattan has even one patent born in this country. Everything goes to show that the wrecked steamer of the coast of St, Johns, N. F., is the Helgoland, the property of the Dutch-American Petroleum Pe-troleum company. Among a number of flags picked up near Holly Rood was one with colors blue, white and red, with the letter "E" Sn the center. This is the house flag of that company. Taken with the finding of the boat off Cape Pine, it seems to leave no doubt as to the identity of the vessel A life buoy was also picked up with the name painted on it but could not be read. FIGHTING NEAR LADY SMITH. Until Along; Ai-c, South and West of Lady-smith Lady-smith Began. London, Jan, 20. Military critics in affiliation with the war office consider that the expected battle along the wide arc south and west of Ladysmith can hardly be delayed beyond today. From Durban it is reported that fighting has already begun. General Buller's forces engaged in the flanking operation across the Tu-gela Tu-gela are some 13,0U0or 14,000 bayonits, 1,200 horses and forty guns. The disposition dis-position of his other 15,000 or 20,000 men is not known, although the assumption as-sumption is that the whole army will be in action when the hours for combined com-bined movement arrive. Three weeks ago General Buller had 30,000 men. Considerable reinforcements have since reached him, giving him probably 35,-000 35,-000 men and eighty guns, all told. Estimates as to how many men and guns the Boers have to oppose him are mere guesswork. In not replying to General Lyttleton's shell fire they are using the tactics that proved so successful suc-cessful in the battles of Magersfontein and Colenso lying low in the trenches and thus hoping to conceal their precise pre-cise position until the infantry advance. Boers Blew up Culverts. Stetkstroom, Jan. 20. The Boers have blown up three culverts on the Dordrecht line, five miles beyond an outpost of the police camp. The com mando at Dordrecht numbers 1,000. CLAIMS FOR PENSIONS. Many Are Filed as a Result of the Spanish War. Washington, Jan. 20. A large number num-ber of claims for pensions are being received by the pension office as a result re-sult of the Spanish war. Statistics prepared by the bureau show that the percentage of applications from volun teers is much larger than from the regulars. The battle of San Juan was selected by the bureau as a basis for calculations, as the greatest number of casualties occurred there. There were 192 regulars killed, 1,097 wounded and thirty-five missing. Claims for pensions from the regular army number 2,9(52. At that battle thirty-four volunteers were killed, 177 wounded and forty-five missing. The claims for pensions from volunteers number 3,558. There were twenty-three regular regiments and three regular batteries engaged in this fight, as against nine regiments of volunteers. vol-unteers. One regiment lost none in killed, wounded or missing, but has 419 laims fo r pensions pending. Christian Scientists Indicted for Murder. Council Bluffs, la., Jan. 20. Mrs. P. E. Yates, of Tabor, Iowa, against whom the grand jury has returned an indictment for manslaughter, in connection con-nection with the death of her daughter daugh-ter Ethel in this city on January 5, was arrested at her home today and is now in jail here awaiting the perfecting perfect-ing of her bond in the sum of $3,000. The girl died of appendicitis after the physician attending her had been dismissed dis-missed and she had hen for several days under the care of a diyine healer. Mrs. Yates was accompanied by her husband and several friends and will pass the night in jail. During the afternoon, af-ternoon, when it appeared impossible to secure signers to the bond, the party knelt on the jail floor and prayed for help, after which Mr. Yates took the next train for Yates to hastle for sureties. sure-ties. "Divine Healer" James of South Omaha, indicted along with Mrs. Yates, has disappeared. ROBERTS WILL TALK. Will Be (ilven Another Opportunity to Defend De-fend Himself. Washington, Jan 20. Chairman Tayler of the Roberts committee and Representative Littlefleld of Maine, are busy preparing the majority and minority reports respectively, in the Roberts case. They will be filed together, to-gether, probably today. It is not expected ex-pected that the case will be called up in the House until Tuesday or Wednesday Wednes-day of next week. The debate is expected to oscupy two or three days. Mr. Roberts will be given an opportunity to be heard on the floor in his own defense. Shot Through the Heart but Lived 60 Hours Baltimore, Md., Jan 20. The post mortem examination of the body of Charles F. Seeberger, the electrician, who was shot last Saturday night at Brunswick, Md., by Conductor Jerome Swartley, and died Tuesday, revealed the fact that Seeberger lived sixty hours with a bullet hole though the heart. Tha wound in the heart, the doctors say, was of such a nature that instantaneous death should have re sulted, and that the man lived sixty hours after receiving it, is regarded little short of miraculous. MONTANA FORGERSJC AUGHT. Bntte Man to be Returned From St. Paul - For Tria'. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 20. Governor Lind has honored the requisition from Montana for A. E. Beck and wife, who are charged with forgery in Butte. Officers are here for them, and will re turn with them at once. Beck was in the real estate business in Butte, and the charge is that he forged several conveyances amounting to S7,000. The couple deny the charge and are willing to return and stand trial. Is Ladysmith Relieved. London, Jan. 20. It is persistently reported at Capetown that Ladysmith has been relieved. At midnight the war office announced that it had no further news for publication. When questioned with regard to the rumored British victory and the relief of Lady smith the officials replied that they had received no information to .bear out either feature of the rumor, and were inclined to think that serious fighting must precede the relief of the town. The Boers last week attempted to rush a hill held by a company of the Yorkshires and tbe New Zealanders, but they were repulsed at the point of the bayonet. The Boers had twenty- one men killed ana arout mty wounded. As a result of the bombardment of Maf eking last week the British fort at East was demolished and the British retired. One Boer was wounded. Advices Ad-vices from the head laager at Ladysmith Lady-smith report that the attack on that place January 16 was disastrous to the British, and that Ladysmith appears to b in sore straits. EXCLUDE ROBERTS, COMMITTEE SO DECIDE VOTE OF 6 TO 2. BY A Statement of Facts Agreed Cpon Cnanl-mouHly Cnanl-mouHly Minority Favored Seating am' Then F.xpelling the Utah Man. Washington, Jan, 19. The special committee of the house of representatives representa-tives to investigate the case of Brig-ham Brig-ham 11. Roberts of Utah has reached a final conclusion. On the polygamous status of Mr. Roberts the committee was unanimous snd agreed upon a formal statement of facts. On the question of procedure to be adopted the committee was divided. di-vided. The majority, consisting of all the members except Littlefleld of Maine and DeArmond of Missouri, favored exclusion at the outset. Messrs. Lit-tlefield Lit-tlefield and DeArmond will make a minority report favorable to seating Roberts on his prima fiicie rights and then expelling him. The statement of facts fouud by the committee is as follows: "We find that B. II. Roberts was elected as a representative to the Fif ty-sixth congress from the state of Utah, and was at the date of his election elec-tion above the age of 25 years: that he had been for more than seven years a naturalized citizen of the United States and was an inhabitant of the state of Utah. "We further find that about 1878 he married Louisa Smith, his first and lawful wife, with whom he has ever since lived, and who, since their marriage, mar-riage, has borne him six children. "About 1885 he married as his plural wife Celia Dibble, with whom he has ever since lived as such, and who since such marriage has borne him six children, of which the last were twins, born August 11, 1897. "That some years after his said marriage mar-riage to Celia Dibble he contracted another plural marriage with Margaret C. Shipp, with whom lie has ever since lived in the habit and repute of marriage. mar-riage. Your committee is unable to fix the exact date of this marriage. It does not appear that he held her out as his wife before January 1, 1S97, or that before that date she held him out as her husband, or that before that date they were reputed to be husband and wife. "That these facts were generally known in Utah, publicly charged against him during his campaign for election and were not denied by him. That the testimony bearing on these facts was taken in the presence of Mr. Roberts, and that he fully cross-examined the witnesses but declined to place himself on the witness stand." s A resolution to report in favor of seating Roberts and then expelling him was voted down. A resolution to exclude ex-clude him carried as follows: Yeas Tayler (O.), Freare, Morris and McPherson, Republicans: Lauham and Miers, Democrats. Nays Littlefleld. Republican, DeArmond, De-Armond, Democrat. Chairman Taylor was authorized to prepare the majority report, and it will be ready within two or three days and will come before the house some time next week. BULLER SURPRISED BOERS. Makes a Dash and Crosses the Tugela and Occupies a Strong Position. London, Jan. 19. General Buller completely surprised the Boers and occupied the hills beyond Potgieter's drift, fifteen miles weft of Colenso The report says Lord Dundonald, by a dashing movement, occupied the hills V GEN. SIR REDVERS HENRY BUL-RER. BUL-RER. above Potgieter's drift, fifteen miles west of Colenso, taking the Boers completely com-pletely by surprise. General Lyttleton's Lyttle-ton's brigade followed and shelled the Boers with Howitzers., General Warren's War-ren's force crossed five miles above. Blules Must be Vaccinated. New Orleans. Jan. 20. The American mule must be vaccinated before he can be enlisted in the British army service in South Africa in the future. The admiralty has passed upon his case and the decree is final. Seventy-five or 100 of the mules died of glanders, or a kindred disease," after they were landed on African soil. The animals are sep arated, temperature taken and virus injected. The vaccination of the ant mals is what caused the delay in load' ing th transport Corintha. Man Without a Part Washington, Jan 19 The Democrats are strenuously opposing the confirmation confirma-tion of Hon.' W. D. Bynura to be general gen-eral appraiser of merchandise at New York. Opposition to him is on the ground that he is not a Democrat, and his nomination as such is an evasion of the law. Mr. Bynum served several terms in congress from Indiana and was among the most prominent of Democratic leaders, but he opposed the cause of silver in the last presi dential campaign. FlghtiuR Near Ladysmith. London, Jan. 19. A dispatch from Pietermaritzburg says heavy firing Is heard in the direction of Frere. It is probable that General Buller is en gaging the enemy. A rumor is current cur-rent here that a portion of the British force is near Ladysmith. : A dispatch to the News says How itzers are evidently busy as the .firing, is the heaviest yet heard In Natal. TJie belief is expressed that the Boers are contesting BuUer's passage of the Ta- gela. .'t'vu rfM tZzZ NEWS SUMMARY. The Burmese rice crop has broken the record. Over 3,020,000 tons will be available for export. The Philippine commission has completed com-pleted its report and it will be rerdy for distribution this week. In one ward in Brooklyn there is a population of 25,000 and not a single Protestant church or mission. There are more non-Christians in New York city than in the entire Western half of the country. United States Senator John 11. Gear was formally elected last week by the Iowa legislature to sueced himself in the United States senate. A negro named Anderson Ganss was found hanging to the limb of a tree pear Tengin, Tenn., Sunday. It is supposed that he was lynched. Mrs. S. M. F. Henry, for twenty-five years national evangelist of the Woman's Wo-man's Christian Temperance Union, is dead at Gray sville, Tenn., of pneumonia. pneumo-nia. Passengers from Skaguay on the steamer Danube report the blockade raised on- the White Pass & Ukon railway, and traveling from Dawson very good. The board of Rapid Transit commissioners commis-sioners of New York have let the contract con-tract for the building of the underground under-ground railway in New York City for 535,000,000. A Mexican who arrived at San Diego overland from Ensenada reports that the gasoline schooner Anita had blown up and that six persons, all on board, had perished. Northwestern broom manufacturers, after a conference, have decided to advance prices from 25 to 50 cents per dozen. This is the second advance in three months. Mrs. Roswell P. Flower has presented 100,000 to Flower hospital. New York and Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, daughter daugh-ter of Roswell P. Flower, also gave the institution 8100.000. The American Steel and Wire company com-pany has advanced the wages of its employees em-ployees in the iron mines at Crown Point, Essex county, N. Y., 10 per cent to take effect at onee. Mrs. M. J. Patterson the only child of President Andrew Jackson, is critically ill at her home in Greenville, Tenn., and is not expected to live. She is over 80 years of age. The cotton cloth trade of the United States with China shows an increase of about 52,000,000 for the first eleven months of last year, as compared with the same period of 1898. Secretary Long and Rear Admiral Bradford appeared last week before the senate committee on naval affairs jn advocacy of the construction of a Pacific cable by the government. Henry Hughes a hero of the old navy has been admitted into the Chester (Pa.) county almhouse at the age of 95 years. He was on the Kearsarge when Dewey was a Lieutenat on the same ship. Both Great Britain and Germany, it is said have formally served notic that they will protest against fortification of the Nicaragua canal if that waterway be constructed by the American Government. Govern-ment. It is feared that F. II. Clayson and a man named Olson, Dominion telegraph tele-graph linemen, have been murdered on the trail. They left Dawson on the 17th of December with 84.000 and have not been heard of since. Owing to the rapid rise in the price of wool, manufacturers of men's and women's hats, by agreement, advanced the prices of wool hats 75 cents per dozen on cheap grades and higher qualities in proportion. The customs committee of the French chamber of deputies resolved before examiniug and deciding in regard to the Franco-American commercial treaty to hear the delegates from the industrial and agricultural chambers and societies. In 6 Columbus, Ga. , Captain J. W. Murphy, cashier of the Third National bank, shot and killed Teller P. L. Sohultze, and then committed suicide. This occurred while the bank was full of customers and the full corps cf clerks. Murphy is believed to have been insane. Among the bills introduced in the senate is one by Mr. Mason to prevent the adulteration of goods aud drugs. It creates a bureau of chemistry in the agricultural department and provides for food inspection bj'that department. Col. W.J. Bryan and President Arthur T. Iladley of Yale have been interview ed in regard to the latter's proposal to ostracise trust magnates. Both agree on the idea that social recognition should be denied to any man engaged in a trust or other business enterprise inimical to the public welfare. The election of J. C. S. Blackburn as senator was duplicated last Wednesday in both houses of the Kentucky legislature, this action being taken on account of a question among lawyers as to whether the election of a week ago was legal. The possibility of legislation for Porto Rico causing a serious division in Republican ranks is being discussed in the capital. The discussion takes into account the possibilisy of the question entering actively into the next national campaign. The present Congress is expected to give a. medal to the heirs of Ilaym Salo-. mon in recognition of financialaid given by him to the country during the Revolutionary Rev-olutionary war. The medal is regarded as a compromise of a claim for $300,000, which has been before Congress since 1848. New York Commissioner of Charities Keller has dismissed from the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan hospital on Blackwell island twelve physicians who because of differences with Superintendent George T. Stewart of the institution, hanged him in effigy in the morgue, using a cadaver for the purpose. Miss Helen F. Clark, of the Evangel band, addressing a Methodist preachers' preach-ers' meeting in New York City on "The Religious Condition of New York," said that as a heathen city New York beat Tokio: that there are 1,300,000 persons in New York City without any religious affiliation at all. "fSS Alexander Savage, who disappeared from his home in Bloomsberg," Pa., thirtyfive years ago and has long been mourned as dead, has turned up alive j and well. His brother is in receipt of j a letter from him announcing that he is an ofBicer of bigh stahdir.g in the Spanish army and resides in Madrid. NORTH WEST NOTES. John Tobin. one of the Union Pacific special service men, has been appointed chief of police at Cheyenne, Wyo. It is stated that Tim Kinney of Rock Springs, Wyo., has about 100.000 head Of sheep ranging in that slate. The weather has been unusually favorable to the sheep industry so far. At Belgrade Montana, last week, Frank Rogers, a merchant, shot and killed his landlady, Mrs. Etta Davis, and then killed himself. Jealousy and drink were the causes of the deed. It is reported that the contractors for the government work at San Pedro harbor, near Los Angeles, will throw up their contract. In that, event the sureties on their bond will form a company to complete the work. Denver authorities will pay 8500 for the arrest of Wellington C. Llewellyn, who murdered Police Officers Griffiths and Clifford, August 13. 1899 Llewellyn Llewel-lyn was a soldier in the Thirty-fourth fnfantry at the time of the murder, ami 5iad previovsly served in the Texas cavalry. William Lee of Ontario, Oregon, is preparing to make use of a great head ;bf steam generated in the interior of the earth, for running pumps with which to pump water on a large scale for . irrigution purposes. The steam reaches the surface through ajarge artesian ar-tesian well between Ontario and Vale. In the district court at Cheyenne. Wyo., suit has been entered against Messrs. John W. Ward, Blythe and others of Evnnston. by the Pinkerton Detective association to recover '.'."i. said to have been spent by detectives employed by the defendants in (lie Crocker murder case while securing evidence. Ten persons weie injured in a train collision on the Great Northern at Hill-yard, Hill-yard, four miles east of Spokane Friday Fri-day morning. The eastbount passenger was standing on the main line by the depot. There was a dense fog and a freight train running at high speed crashed into the rear sleeper. The wrecked car was filled with escaping steam from the locomotive, and some of the passengers were pinioned by the debris and were re.scued.with some difficulty. The shock of the collision knocked down several persons in the dining car, and a number of. them suffered suf-fered slight injury. None of the injured in-jured persons are seriously hurt. If a new and unusually rich placer district dis-trict is discovered in the nonr future in Colorado it will be due to the omnivorous omni-vorous appetite of a small 'and otherwise other-wise ordinary turkey gobbler. Alexander Al-exander Bjorklund and others of Denver Den-ver are hot on the trail leading to the ranch where this turkey gobbler spent his happy boyhood days, and when they find the ranch will immcdiatly purchase it for placer ground. In the craw of a turkey Bjorklund recently purchased for $1.15 his wife found a gold nuggett valued at SH,S. Now Bjorklund has the mining fever and is making every effort to find where the fowl came from, judging, and with apparently ap-parently excellent reason, that if tbe place can be located it must be very rich placer ground, as the piece is undoubtedly un-doubtedly placer gold. While the search is progressing, Mr. Bjorklund is congratulating himself on how, by a streak of luck he got his turkey for nothing ana a bonus of 3 cents, even if the rich placer is never discovered. During a quarrel over the payment ifor a drink, Thomas Dillon, an ex-policeman, and Charles Joyce, a saloonkeeper, saloon-keeper, engaged in a fight with pistols. pis-tols. Joyce was instantly killed aud Dillon was seriously wounded. Several Sev-eral shots were fired. The body of Charles Swanhack, a Finnlander, about 28 years of age, was found four miles west of Rock Springs, Wyo., last week. The condition of. the body indicated that he had been dead two days. A severe wound in the back of the head, his right leg brokeir and his face badly bruised and scratched, evidently proved lie had fallen from a train, as he lay only a short distance from the track. He formerly worked for MyetS'tt Wagner at Carbon, where his parents and sister lived, hut who are now in Michigan- ' ' ' ' One-hundred and fifty Portland newsboys news-boys went on a strike last week aud refused re-fused to handlethe Evening Telegram, because that paper had refused to,, al low. them to return unsold papers. All carriers were stopped and several thousand copies of the paper were destroyer! by the boys. Every person, seen with a Telegram was given rough usage, and many were knocked. dwj on the street. A dozen policemen were called to the scene and a number of the leaders were arrested, but were afterwards released. " ' Arrangements are being made to, purchase an elegant and costly silver, service for the battleship Wyoming, which is being built at the Union Iron . Works, San Francisco, and which will be launched during the coming surn- .. nier. . . . Laramie has many Englishmen : among its residents. B. A. Beler, a wealthy rancher, left last, . week for England to join the army fo fight the Boers. He was preceded by.seyeral weeks by a brother, who is now ii .Buller's army. 'Mrs. Douglas-YVillan has a brother on Buller's staff. The sum of S800,60O was1 talfeii "fVo"fn. the Bank of California in Sah;,Frahcis- " co one day last week and ea.rted but to the Hibernia Bank. The money was paid upon a check given in payment ' for the Baldwin Hotel property' by James L. Flood to E. J. Baldwin. ' . Shortly after 1 o'clock I riday morn, icg two masked men held up Golob'a soloon on Harrison avenue, Leadville Jerry Ryan, the bar-tender, refused to throw up his hands and was shot twice by one of the robbers, dying instantly. The robbers fled. The board of regents of the state university at Reno, Nev., have accepted ac-cepted the resignation of Prof. R. D. Jackson, who occupied tbe chair of mines. Their action evidently surprised sur-prised Prof. Jackson, who called his classes together and made a statement which excited their sympathy. Prof. Phillips stated in an open letter that he declined to meet his classes until the board should remove the cloud un der which Prof; Jackson stood and his chair was declared disgraced and va- ftnt. |