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Show j t 4 stf? flfeJBfr. t 4 ...THE NEPHI RECORD... .... BITING A COOK, Fobtlthar NEPHI. Past Year Proprietor - UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS. The Lace House, one of Salt Lake' largest dry goods houses, has filed a , petition in bankruptcy. Clyde Fullmer of Green River fell from a loft about twelve' feet to the ground and broke his arm, besides re- reiving other injuries. A leading hotel of Salt Lake City Lag placed a ban on cigarette smoking by its employes, habitual smoking lag cause for discharge. A gun club has been organized at Pleasant Grove with twenty members, it being the Intention to challenge all comers In shotgun shooting. Assistant County Physician Odell of Bait Lake county was the victim of a sleighing accident last week, in which ho sustained a broken collar bone. The bowling clubs of Payfm and 8pringville had a contest of five games at the latter place last week. The Sprlngville club was victorious by 392 points. The cases of diphtheria reported from Mantl recently have all been radicated and again health and strength is reported by the health board. . While coasting in Salt Lake City, Joseph Calder, aged 17, ran Into an electric light pole, his skull being crushed, death ensuing within half an hour after the accident. Lester Chipman. aged 14, of American Fork, was thrown from a cutter one day last week, his head striking a telegraph Ple. Inflicting injuries which will lay him up for some time. For the past two years the receipts f the Ogden city police court have been $65,013.05, of which $62,268.50 was from lines and forfeitures and the balance miscellaneous receipts. H. C. Hudson, aged 70, wa found ttaconsclous on the Spring Branch road In Grand county, having been stricken by apoplexy. Mr. Hudson was ne of the early pioneers of this state. All arrangements for a conjoint de bate between the University of Utah and the Colorado College of Colorado Springs have been completed and the two schools will meet In Salt Lake City on the 22nd of April. Henry Crouse of Moab has received new commission of notary public. At the expiration of his term he will have oen in continuous service for twenty-threyears. He was the first notary public in Grand county. F. N. Christiansen of EphraJm came Bear meeting death last week when he was thrown from a sled and severely kicked on the breast by a horse. He will be unable to attend to his usual tfntle for several days. The senate, in executive session, has confirmed the following nominations f postmasters In Utah: Edwin R. Booth, Nephl; John Peters. American fork; Larson Lawrence, Spanish fork; Joseph O'Dell, Logan. Wilden & Black have bought the old line from Parowan to telegraph Beaver. They have sold twenty-fivmiles of wire to St. George parties and will use the rest of it for fencing around their farms In Beaver. Otto Sieloff of Chicago was given the decision over Jerry McCarthy in Salt Lake on the 29th. at the end of twenty slow rounds. McCarthy was unable to land effectively on the eastern welterweight at any rtage of the 4 e e pur-pos- fight The Commercial club of Mantl has taken up the matter of the erection of a modern court house at the Temple city, to cost about $25,000. The club guarantees $3.no for citlrens and asks the commissioners to start work at once. A bulletin Just Indued by the Utah state board of horticulture shows that portions of southern Utah are admirably adapted for the cultivation of raisins, and believes that more attention should be ra'd to this profitable Industry. Onethlrd of the space originally awarded Utah for her mineral exhibit at the St. Ixmls World's fair has been withdrawn by the managers t f the fair and a vigorous protest apalnst the action has been sent In by Director General Wbitaker. Socor de Pallah. a Mexican whose feet were frc zrn w hile on the desert west of Kpbraim, underwent an operation last week. Oanercne hal set In. and to prevent further spread, the tKs and a portion ((f the right foot were amputated. ... sbeep-berde- AFTER SEVEN YEARS TAFT'S REPORT. r, In Philippines of Much On Suffering Among the People. The president on Monday sent to the senate the annual report of the Philip pine commission, Including the report of the civil governor of the Philippines and the reports of the heads of the ex ecutive departments for the period ended December 23. 1903. The report of the commission contains a detailed statement by the ' auditor for the islands of expenditures under the ap propriatlon of $3,000,000 for the relief of distress In the islands. Governor Taft says the year was one of much suffering among the people of the Philippines, on account of a short food supply, but that the worst Is passed. While he does not consider the future as bright as it might be, he believes we are beginning an era In the history of the Islands which, with the assistant of proper tariff reduction In the United States and proper navigation laws for the islands, will be one of decided material developments. Speaking of the conditons In the islands, Governor Taft says that at no time has there been less ladronism than when the report was written, December 10. 1903. One court writes around An Almost Forgotten Crime Brought to Light by the Betrayal by His Wife of One of the Murderers. ' It is believed that a murder mystery of seven years' standing Is about to be cleared .up in Salt Lake City, three men. George W. Muncy, John Rice and Abe Hunter having been lodged In Jail, charged with the murder, on the night or February 2f, 1897. or Fred Buetler, a miserly umbrella-mender- , who was round strangled to death in a are-charge- cabin In Salt Lake. In a signed confession made before Slie-lEmery and County Attorney Westerve.lt, Muncy states that on the nlrht In question he and John Rice and Abe Hunter went to Buetler' cabin for the purpose or robbing the old man or $1,000 In money which they understood he had concealed in the house; that he (Muncy) threw Buetler on the ALMOST A CYCLONE. bed and held him down while Rice stuffed rags In his throat to stifle his High Winds Sweet Over Colorado and cries for help, and that after proceedWyoming Towns. were ing thus far they High winds prevailed Monday along frightened by ff WHEN THE INDIAN SENATOR TAKES HIS 8 EAT. IN COREA. THE INTRIGUES Move OF A SALT LAKE MISER BEHIND THE BARS. MURDERERS time of the murder, but was released from lack or direct evidence. Soon arter his discharge John Rice went to Tooele county, where he engaged in the sheep business, and was later married, having now a wife and several children, and with his departure the murder of Buetler was practically dropped as an impenetrable mystery. M Both Rice and Hunter deny all knowledge of the crime with which but it is claimed they' several remarks Rice fall has let that which It will be hard for him to satisfactorily explain. It is said that when he was found at Grantsville and informed that Sheriff Emery wanted to see him, he exclaimed: "What in does the sheriff want with me; It must be about that Buetler case." The statement Is ma:e that Muncy and his wife frequently quarreled, and that he had threatened to have her sent to'tbe insane asylum. She, in a spirit ot revenge, gave the officers a clue which led to Muncy 's arrest. Have American-EducatePrince on the Throne. of the Intrigues at the Corean about which Miss Scidmore to the Chicago Tribune centers Prince Ku. whom the emperor's to d PREPARING FOR TROUBLE. Mobilizing Japanese Are Secretly Men Being Disguised Troops, as Coolies. The correspondent of the London Dally Mall at Chefoo cable he has learned that the Japanese naval reserves were mobilized last week, and that the first army reserve waa partly with great secrecy, the mobilized troops arriving at their destination disguised as coolies. Over 100 transports have been requisitioned, the correspondent continues, and twenty-eigh- t wartransports and thirty-eigh- t e twenty-fivat Saseho, ships are lying of west Nagasaki. Forty mile north by transports filled with the Kumanato division are lying at Takes Hiki harbor, in Tsu Shima. ready for invaaon. The destiantion of these latter vessels is believed tp be Chung Yu, whence the isolation of Korea could be easily effected. WAR IN COLOMBIA. General Reyes Discredits Reports That Troop Are Marching on Panama. General Rafael Reyes, special envoy from Colombia, said, regarding the report that his country was about to end an army to Panama: "If Colombia i thinking of going to war, I know nothing of it and have nothing to do with It." General Reyes expects to leave for home In a few day. He said that bo far a he wa concerned his negotiation with the state department at Washington ended with hi note of January 18, delivered to Secretary Hay. "Negotiations terminated then," he added, "and unless the state department reopens them, I have nothing further to add to that note." WENT INTO DITCH A section of Senator Quay territorial representing the territory wife. Lady Om, seeks to make suc cessor to the throne in place of the crown prince, who Is regarded as a weakling. The subject is made more interesting to Americans by the fact that Prince Ku is being educated in this country, being now at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, O. TAFT AT THE HELM. New Secretary of War Takes the Oath of Office. At noon Monday William H. Taft of Ohio took the oath of office as secretary of war, in the presence of the members of the cabinet, the general staff of the army and a number of per- sonal friends. The ceremony occurred at the war department. He immediately entered upon his new duties. The ceremony took place In the large reception room attached tg the secretary's office In the war department, and the transfer of authority from Ellhu Root, the retiring ieeretary, to Governor Taft. while simply made, was more Impressive than any similar event In many years. some one knocking on the door, when the three would-brobbers made their escape, leaving their victim alone in his death struggles and without even looking for the money which led them to commit the crime. The man Muncy was never suspected of any connection with the murder of Buetler until very recently, when be let fall some slight allusion to it in conversation with his wife, who reported what he had said to the officers. Muncy, the man wo makes the confession. Is 56 yean old and a Virginian by birth, and Is said to come from a good family. When a young man he emigrated to Illinois, and at the breaking out of the civil war enlisted in the Forty-eightIllinois regiment. At the close of the war he was discharged with the rank of sergeant, In the regular and at once army, serving three years. Following this service he drifted to the far west and has lived In Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana John Rice, one of the trio behind the bars, was arrested on suspicion at the e h ed BIRTHDAY OF KINO OSCAR. Entire City of Stockholm Rejoices with the Ruler. The festivities In honor of the seventy fifth birthday of King Oscar were Inaugurated at Stockholm Jan. 21 with special services la all the Broken Rail Cause of Wreck of Train Running Forty Miles an Hour. The (Colorado flyer on the Missouri Pacific railway from Denver for Kansas City was derailed near Miller, Kan., Sunday, while running at a rate of forty miles an hour. The engine and the rear car, a Pullman, alone remained upright on the track. The baggage car, mall car, smoker and a chair car were thrown Into the ditch, turning over, and were badly shattered. One W. L. Brown of bill provides that one of the senator De Moines, peron. who was en route to la., shall be of Indian descent. Hansom, Kan., was killed and thirteen Injured, one seriously. The wreck was the eastern slope of the Rocky moun- caused by the snapping of a rail, due tains in Colorado and Wyoming and evidently to the severe cold weather considerable damage to property was of the past week. wrought. In Denver two men lost their Progress of Rebellion In German 8outh Uvea as a direct result of the gale. Africa. Charles Ormsby and William Daniels A dispatch received from Swankop-mund- , came in contact with a live electric German Southwest Africa, says wire which had been blown from its that alnce Janaury 21 three men have fastenings into the street and were been killed In sorties from Okahandla Instantly killed by the shock. against the besieging rebel natives. Report are being received from The garrison at Omarurru repulsed a points In northern Colorado telling of severe attack on January 27, and it I the destruction of farm building and assumed is also bethat Otlmblngwe haystack in the country districts, and beto railroad the sieged. Repair the railing of trees, small buildings, Karibib have been commenced. In towns. yond the etc., chimneys, Okabandpa is a mission station eighty miles from Walflsch bay. It was reFie Children Cremated. At 2 o'clock Tuesday mornlngvthe ported recently that the Kaffirs bad effected a junction with the Hereros. residence of Peter Christiansen, at who were besieging that which Council Bluffs. Iowa, was destroyed by was being defended by place, Lieutenant fire, his five children, ranglng-lago Eenlow with 200 men. from a babe In arms to 11 year of Mr. Maybrick'a Release. age. burned to death, and Mrs. Christiansen burned so that she will die. Mr. Florence Maybrick, who 1 The husband was in the country at the erring a life sentence for the murder time. No one knows how the fire of her husband, has not been released, sarted. The dead: Edna, 11 years: Frank, 8 years; Li la, 4 years; Jane, 2 but wa removed from Aylesbury years; baby, S months. prison Janaury 25, presumably to a private institution, for the purpose of recuperation. She Is still undergoing entence under guard, and, though apparently not an Inmate of any prison, he still remain as much a prisoner In the eye of the law as when she wa at Aylesbury. It Is thought she wilt be released within two months. n Jiminez a Loser. According to information received at the state department, all the ports of San Domingo are now in the possession of the Morales provisional government, which succeeded the government of General Wo y Oil. The s revolution seem to have been tamped out, though there ha been no diplomatic recognition of the Morales government. United State officials In San Domingo have entered into relations with it. this step being necessary for the protection of commercial business. - In' fr 1 7 r M mm ('I1 Jlm-Jne- l & Fiend' Crime. When George Shield arrived at hi? home In Roanake, Va., he found hi daughter lying In the entrance hall In a pool of blood and his wife pushed Into a clost-- t on the second floor with two wounds In her head ani unconscious. A razor and a bloody hatchet were found J'it outside tb Monet, the door of whifh had been with a rhalr. Mrs. Shield ha sufficient to regained consciousm5? av that h was pfnsrk In the head with the Latch et ly a licgro. A churches. Tl?? dry wa? pr, finely decorated. The king rcc-lvcthe congratulations cf the royal family, the court f.fiVials; the Fw-UofiTid Norwegian Ministers tl.e of the riksdag, an th" nrm'ciial ait!io.r;tle. The la?t nam" i preics a contribution of .$4Uufl .La act j tfc? krng J e f jnd f"r ?h of KlockitoTfeb , ' " i s h m?,-nt.ef- 1 Itar-rkade- . ib-lle- CURE FO E CN-- tPiicert-rrmtutBpifTe- : --: , - ' TUB BOY BANDIT. ' . V , .. . s d |