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Show ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION WILL BE GREATEST EVER HELD ON EARTH ...THE NEPHI RECORD... SWING A COOK, Fubllshsrs - NEPHI. Proprietors " UTAH. BULGARIANS DECLARE THEY ARE BEING DRIVEN INTO WAR. Frontier and Measures Police Greatly Oppressive Irritate the Balkan People. Mobilization of Troops on UTAH STATE NEWS. Estimated Cost, Exclusive of the Value of the Exhibits, Is from Modena is to have a newspaper !a the near future. A number of young ladies of Beaver have organized a literary club. It Is estimated that the value ol he poultry product of Mt. Pleasant last year was $30,000. The D. & R. G. surveyors are in the vicinity of Parowan surveying, and it Is expected grading will begin soon. The new trolley line to Sandy and Intermediate points is being construct ed as fast as the weather will permit. With a fine supply of enow in the mountains the farmers of Santaquln are very hopeful of a good crop this year. Police officers of Salt Lake have In augurated a crusade against wine rooms which are kept open later than 7 LAYS BLAME ON TUEKS p. m. Ogden Greeks have prepared a petl-tlosigned by more than 1,000 names, n asking the Greek government to ap at Ogden. point a C. L. Maxwell, who assisted the officers during the break at the penitentiary when Haworth and King escaped, has been granted a full pardon. store was com The Alpine Co-opletely destroyed by lire on the morning of the 17th, the loss being estimated at $3,000, with $1,000 insurance. Senator Smoot has introduced a bill to establish a United States fish hatchery In Utah, the United States fish commission to designate the place. Reports have reached Lehl that a herder who was in charge of J. E. Austin's sheep on the Uintah reservation is lost, and a searching party has been sent out. A tralnload of 2,500 fat muttons were shipped from Lehl last week. The sheep had been fattened on pulp at the sugar factory and were in prime condition. An epidemic of whooping cough Is Paging among the children of Salt Lake, and a number of adults are said to have been included in the list ol victims of the contagion. As the result of a young woman of Salt Lake City attempting to clean a pair of gloves with gasoline, property to the value of $3.oo was destroyed, the gasoline exploding and setting the house on fire. After March 31st the name of the Lehl post office will be changed from V. Loh! City to Lehl, and Stephen Ross has been appointed to act as postmaster. The office Is almost unl versally known as Lehl. In a few days Modena will be con nected by telephone with St George, Cedar City, Toquervlllo, Washington, Coneryville, Leeds, Pine Valley, Pin to. Enterprise and Bellvlew. The lino win reach about 7,000 people. William P. Walters of Mercur, In a spirit of daring, took hold of a live signal wire In the Golden Gate mine and was electrocuted, while a companion who endeavored to rave Walters had a narrow escape from death. " John F. Blls, a newspaper man. was Instantly killed at Ogden last week, falling underneath the wheels of an engine, the body being horribly mangled. He attempted to climb a friend and upon the engine to fell underneath the wheels. Agent Thomassen of the Short Line at Kaysvllle came near being killed last week, when a huge lump of coal fell from a passing train and crashed through the window, narrowly missing the agent's had. The office looks like It had rcn bombarded by s Japanese man of war. Elgin Bone of LM became enraged at Jay Sumner because the latter spilled some water down his back and attacked Sumner with a knife, Inflicting a vlciou stab In the ribs. The assault would probably have proven fatal had the knife not struck a rib. Either the Eleventh Infantry or the Ninth cavalry regiments will supplant the Twelfth Infantry at Fort Douglas after the departure of the Twelfth are profor the Philippines, of the the coming against testing Ninth, which Is a negro regiment. The state supremo court has affirmed the judgment of th lower court In the case of Charts Botha, known as "Dutch Charli" who was convicted the miirdcf and FenfeTire.1 to dsfh In William Tibbetts Ms and wife r;f vice-cons- p ntlns fr Marr h. 1302. Forty to Fifty Million Dollars Miles of Wonderful Displays in More Than Twenty Buildings. It Is now a little more than two months before the gates will open upon the World's Fair at St. Louis and the public will be invited to see the greatest exposition that has ever been created. The vast exhibit palaces are complete and many of them have been finished for several months. Within the next two months all of them are to be brightened with new coats of paint so that, on the opening day, the magnificent array of palaces will appear as fresh as a newly blossomed rose. No one, no matter how vivid his imagination, can picture to himself the scene that will be presented when the Exposition Is complete. The more one sees this great collection of exhibit palaces and countless other buildings, the more deeply Impressed he becomes with the grandeur of the undertaking. As the days grow longer and the air becomes balmy with the breezes of spring, the Exposition will take on far greater activity than it has seen during the boisterous days of winter. in spite of . the severe weather, work has not ceased upon the construction of the World's Fair for more than a day or two at a time and there Is every expectation and promise that it will be complete on the opening day. The buildings and grounds, magnlfl- - been loth to believe such a statement. But such is the tact. The exhibit palaces of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition average much larger than those of Chicago and are greater in number. About 130 acres of floor space are provided in the various palaces of the present World's Fair and more than twenty buildings will bo used for exhibit purposes. The largest of these la the Palace of Agriculture, which covers twenty acres. The next In size is the Palace of Transportation, covering fifteen acres and containing four miles of railway tracks for the exhibit of locomotives and cars. At the Chicago Exposition there were practically no outdoor exhibits. At this World's Fair about 100 acres are given up to outdoor displays, supplementing in a most pleasing manner the hundreds of thousands of indoor exhibits. At the Chicago Exposition one building was used for no less than three important departments. At the World's Fair in St. Louis four buildings, covering forty-fiv- e acres, are given up to the same four departments. The total cost of the World's Fair is estimated at from forty to fifty million dollars, exclusive of the value of the exhibits. The Palace of Mawill alone contain exhibits to chinery the value of eight million dollars. AT THE WORLD'S FAIR, ST. LOUIS. Exposition season, thousands of birds representing many species and climes. The largest hotel ever built, contain- ing 2,300 rooms. 13 within the World's Fair grounds. The largest statue ever cast will stand in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy as the exhibit of the Iron Industries of Birmingham, Ala, Twelve acres are devoted to a mining gulch containing all manner of mining machinery and exhibits. A floral clock, 112 feet in diar-etethe bands of which weigh more than a ton each, will tell the time of day upon the slope north of the Palace of Agriculture. A map of the United States, six acres In extent, planted with cereals and other plants common to the various states, is an interesting display by the United States Bureau of Plant Industry. Forty acres are devoted to the Philippine exhibit and thirty acres are devoted to the Indian display. Six acres are devoted to the garden of roses. Twenty acres are set apart for the accommodation of airships, which will participate in the contests for prizes amounting to $200,000. The Quadrennial Olympic games will be held during the World's Fair upon the athletic field of the Exposition Grounds. An l railway, having fourteen miles of track will convey the visitors RUMORS OF FIGHTING. to any part of the Exposition. Some forty restaurants will feed the multi Russians Said to Have Been Repulsed r, intra-mura- on ; . . View looking east from the Plaza St Anthony. Palace of Varied Industries the right. Palace of Manufactures in the cent though they be, are but the setTo mention the big things of the ting for a far more Interesting display. World's Fair of 1904 would be to give In all the buildings the best products a catalogue of the greatest achievethat the world can offer will be arrang- ments of man In many lines of ened in the most attractive order and deavor. For example: We shall see will convey to the mind a better Idea the largest locomotive ever built, of what the wide world is doing than weighing ninety-fivtons and having would years of study and inquiry. twelve driving wheels. We shall hear Fifty-onnations of the world and all the largest organ In the world In the of the states of the American Union most beautiful festival hall ever built will be represented In this extensive We shall see some of the greatest defense guns manufactured for portrayal of the world's present-daeffort. the United States government. In the Those who are familiar with the Government Building, which is the Columbian Exposition at Chicago have largest exhibit building ever erected often asked if the Louisiana Pur- by federal authority at an Exposition, chase Exposition would equal In ex- there will be a model of a half of a tent or grandeur the celebrated Ex- battleship for the Navy display. The position of 1S93. When told that It United States Government has also would be twice as large In extent of erected a bird cage so large that tall grounds and SO per cent larger In trees grow within the Inclosure, la exhibit space In buildings, they have which will be held captive during the e e sea-coa- st y at the eel grass required for the sea cow's food, sometimes through Ice ten It Is Necessary Now to Cut Through inches In thickness and often through Ice of five or six inches. Ice to Get at the Eel Grass. Sometimes when the Ice had moved The man who does the marketing for the Aquarium's sea cow has had to out with a shift of lue wind, leaving do some lively hustling this winter to open spaces, access to the eel grass keep that big animal supplied with would be easy, but frequently the Ice would have closed In, and then It food. The sea cow is eight foot long, would be necessary to cut holes In It weighs 800 pounds, and has a healthy to get at the eel grass below. So the work of supplying the sea appetite. In the first eighteen weeks after Its arrival here from Florida, on cow's table has been so far this winSept, 3 last, it ate ninety bushels of ter attended by more or less difficulty, eel grass, six bushels of fennel leafed but there has never been a day on pond weed and two bushels of ulva, which the sa cow has hrd to go hunor sea lettuce, making ninety-eigh- t gry. New York Sun. bushels of aquatic plants In all In Brain Growth. eighteen weeks, or an average of Brain development is found by Prof. about five and onehalf buhels a week, which is about its present rate Seggel of Munich to have two of acceleration from 10 to 11 and of consumption. The eel grass and other things for from 17 to 18 In girls, and from 12 to the fea cow's table are gathered In 13 and 19 to 20 in boys. At the period Oravesend Bay or the waters there- of most rapid Increase In height from with connected. Barmen say that the 12 to 14 years the growth of the that present has been the hardest winter brain Is Ws than of the body, but at 17 to 19 It grows hereabouts on the watr In twenty-fivyears. On many days It has been nec- one thirtieth as fast, and at 20 reaches t.f the body growth. essary to cut through the Ice to get MARKETINQ the Yalu. The cables are still absolutely silent with regard to the progress of tho war, but there are vague rumors of land fighting. As an Instance, In the Paris edition of the New York Herald the correspondent at St. Petersburg talks of a Russian repulse on the Yalu river with a loss of 2.500 lives. These rumors are unconfirmed, and from a reliable quarter the London Morning Post's Chofoo correspondent says he learns that tens of thousands of Japanese are advancing by forced marches from vr-- ' us parts of Korea on tho Yalu river, and - that severe fighting Is expected shortly. These are the only references to actual operations that have reached London. set v.-;:- : M. Zoltovltz, the Bulgarian agent In Paris, makes the folowing statement: "I can give the most formal assurances that Bulgaria has more than ever resolved to do nothing to compromise the peace. It is with great satisfaction we have seen the powers elaborate a plan for reforms in Macedonia, and we wish, when the powers are following with anxiety the events In the far east, Bulgaria will avoid doing anything that would cause the belief that she proposes to profit by the crisis. The Bulgarian people have unanimously expressed warm sym . pathy for Russia. ' "It la unfortunate that Turkey persists in her regrettable hostility. Besides the annoying police measures 6he has taken against our people, our commerce suffers serious obstacles and, finally, the continued concentration of Turkish troops at strategic points is menacing us." M. Zoltovltz said there is a war party in Constantinople which has a preponderating Influence, and quoted from consular reports to the effect that the Turks fear a military insurrection If war with Bulgaria is not declared. FOR THE SEA COW. ko one-hundredt- e one-sevent- - . I V- Santo Domlngan Rebels Beaten. The state departmont has received a cablegram from Minister Powell, dated at Santo Domingo. Feb. 16, saying: "A decisive battle has boen fought between the government forces and the InsurponfR. It extended over two days and resulted In a victory for the government. The Mcjre has been raised and the Insurgents are In retreat." Philippine Commerce. The development of th Philippines distance. commercially and Industrially for tho tude, and an amusement street a mile past nine months of 1!13 Is the subject long, containing the most novel and of a special bulletin by the bureau of wonderful entertainments, will furnish Insular affairs. It is shown that both diversion to the guests of the Exposi- In and was an there Imports exports tion. Increase compared with a correspondAll SL Louis Is preparing for th World's Fair, which will open on April ing period In the preceding year. 30 next and continue for seven Heavy exports of hemp and copra, offmonths. Hundreds of buildings have setting havy Imports of rice, exbeen remodeled Into hotelc, and thouplained the Increase. During the pesands of homes hsve been listed, upon riod named the Imports were $26,601,-C1Invitation of the World's Fair manage$21,328,322 for 1902. The against ment, to help care for the visitors. to amounted an Inexports $23.5f,3,128. aratlon has been made for Every pret crease of a period of unusual festivity, and 8L nearly four and one half milLouis expects to give her visitors a lion dollars. delightful season of sight seeing and entertainment. Ptrry Heath Resigns. A dispatch from Cleveland. O.. dated Thlrtyflve miles of roadway have 20, says: prrry 8. Heathy been constructed within ths World's February former first assistant postmaster genFair grounds. eral and secretary of the Republican national committee, wired his resigHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND. nation of the latter position to Acting Chairman Payne at Washington, as Amusing Error of Frenchman That follows: "Due to the dath of ChairCost Him S. A French visitor to New York, an man Hanna, I tender to you my resigenthusiastic automoblllst, has learned nation as serretary of the Republican a lesson as to how things are don national committee, effective ImmeIn America, On several occasions diately." Mr. Hath stated that the when speeding a machine through told the rntire story, and h telogram Central park he has seen policemen hold up a hand. The result was aa had nothing to add to It Increase of speed and a wave of the Russia Agrees to Scheme. hand In return. The police have been In the hopes of catching him, and Count Cassinl, the Russian ambasfinally one of them did so by placing sador, makes th following statement: his horse la the auto's track, com pall"Russia, and gladly willingly favorel ing It to come to a standstill. In court the of suggestion Secretary Hay that the Frenchman was amazed at lbs cause of his arrest He took ths sig- as far as possible the belligerents In the far east war localize hostilities nals of the officers as commendations and congratulations ted turned on and respect the neutrality of China In more power to show them what ha the Interest of a continuance of pace-f'l- l could do. The lesson cost him $3. Intercourse of the rest cf the world. My government express4 the convicFrench Taxes Increase. tion that Mr. Hay's etiegestlon was Itetorns of the revenue from IndiIn rect tai3 France In 1303 show that prompted by motives t,t the hiehfst to $50880,289, an humanity, and was mutually advanamounted receipts increase of 25,SS7.SR9 over the esti- tageous to the beTIieerents." mates, and $30.175,60 over 1902. on the left. Palace of Electricity on 0, |