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Show CWXMO COOK. Tprtm ll i UTAH. HKPHI. UTAH STATE NEWS. The house has passed the bill making Salt Lake City a port of delivery The Salt Lake route la now extenf-eto a point fifty-twand a half miles south of Calientes. In a debate at Marysvale the other night it was decided that Russia is in the right against Japan. Director-Genera- l Whltaker has gone to St. Louis to superintend the installation of Utah's exhibit at the fair. The Iron County Farmers' Institute, held at Cedar City, was well attended and much interest was manifested. The city council of Coalville has franchise been asked for a to install in the city an electric light plant. The Japanese in Utah will contribute about $10,000 to the war fund. Bach Jap in the state is to contribute $20. Plans have been completed and ground will be broken In a short time for the Y. M. C. A. building to be erected at Helper. o J 17 I HREME COURT DECIDES FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT. IN Northern Security Railroad Merger Is Held to Be In Violation of the Anti-TruLaws of United States. st In the United States supreme court Monday an opinion was delivered in the merger case of the Northern Securities company vs. United States, in favor of the government's contention that the merger was Illegal. The opinion of the court was handed down COSSACK J4) MANM fifty-yea- r VT" trrcrrO 'Ofinc circaitrcrniTtTu trlct of Minnesota In every particular. Four of the justices dissented from CIVIL the five constituting the majority. The division in the court was due to a dif ference of opinion as to the right of federal control of state corporations The majority opinion proceeded on the theory that congress has a right under the constitution to control in terstate commerce, no matter by whom conducted, while the minority, or dissenting opinion, was based on the theory that in the present case the effort to regulate the ownership is not interstate traffic. MOUNT HIGH -- V JT 1 ' Jfl J X jjy,) COMPABtfM RUSSIAN AM) or TMC JAPANWf A shipment of trees and shrubbery for the southern Utah experiment farm near St. George was received last week from Fresno, Cal. The report comes from Sunnyside that at present there are 602 men employed in the various branches of coal mining and the coke industry. Christopher Aadnesson, who died at Ogden last week at the age of 90, came to Utah in 18G9, and had lived In Ogden about a third of a century. A movement is on foot to install an immense electric light and power plant at Richfield, it being the Intention to supply electricity for all the towns of the valley. An interstate track meet for high school athletes has been proposed, and from present indications such a meet will be held in Salt Lake City some time in May. The supreme court has denied the petition for rehearing In the case of the State vs. Charles Botha, under death sentence for murder in the first degree. The town of Lewlston, in Cache county, is to be incorporated. The town will embrace what Is now known as the Lewlston school district, and is about three by six miles In extent. The Salt Lake road was opened to Riverside, Cal., on the 12th with a special excursion and a local celebration. The Salt Lake route now has 104 miles of track In operation In California. A wholesale drug corporation with a capital stock of $200,000 or $250,000 h one of the new business propositions in Immediate prospect for Salt Lake. The Commercial club of Salt Lake Is making an effort to get a permanent home for the National Mining congress established In Zlon. A committee is at work on the matter. John Jones of Salt Lake City, who was recently severely injured while employed as a conductor on a street car, has been awarded $(5,000 damage In his suit against the street car In Cavalry the Russians Have Greatly the better of the Japanese Forces. ANOTHER COLORADO OUTRAGE. Masked Men Beat Mine Workers' Official With A special from Trinidad, Colo., says: Chris Evans was beaten by three Monmasked men with day on board the Colorado & Southern passenger train bound for Pueblo, and s. was taken off the train at Walsenburg In a critical condition with five bad scalp wounds. The masked men boarded the train at tho Santa Fe crossing. a mile east of Trinidad, and, after beating Evans, jumped from the train. Evans is financial manager of tho United Mine Workers of America, and was sent to Colorado by President John Mitchell. Michael Calabrace, a 'striker, was killed by guards Monday at Pryor. Calabrace is said to have fired four shots at a negro and then barricaded himself in his house. The guard i burst open the front door, and as Calabrace ran out the back way they shot him. Risked Life for a Small Sum. A special from San Bernardino, Cal., says: A. E. Wilson, a young man from Ogden. Utah, this afternoon t leaped from the top of a pole at Needles for a wager of $3.60, and, plunging through the canvas net held for him by twelve citizens, landed on his feet and shattered both his hips, besides sustaining serious internal InWilson had just reached juries. Needles from Ogdon. and, to turn some easy money, collected a crowd of citizens about the pole, saying ho would make the leap to the ground. He then passed his hat, securing a small sum. Twelve men volunteered to hold the canvas net. On reaching the top of the pole he hesitated a minute and then leaped off. As his body shot through the net and struck the ground, a cry of horror arose from 200 people who witnessed the mishap Wilson was unconscious when picked up. His bones were protruding throurh the flesh, making a sickening sight. The lower part of his spine was also Injured, making It almost Impossible for him to recover. fifty-foo- 1 JT7 com-pan- Information has Just reached Salt Lake friends of the death of Captain James E. Brett, IT. S. A., retired, formerly an officer of the Twenty-fourtstationed at Fort Douglas, and well known In Utah. The city officials of American Fork made a visit to Ogden one day last week In order to lew the parks of that city for the purpose of scouring pointers for perfecting plans for the city park at American Fork. x An unknown man. aliout C years of age, was killed by a Rio Grande pa senger train tier Sprlngville on thi night of the 12th. the body beicg found wedged on the cowcatcher when the train arrive! at. Sprlngville. cutoff, eliminat-!nThe Ogden-Luci145 mile of the main line of the fjrthern Pacific over Promontory mountain and shortening the road by 43 miles, was opened to regular traf flc on the stb. The first trsin to cms the lake was composed of 3.1 cars of Asiatic freight. Frank Hope, who on Christmas day shot snd killed his wife an I left his 2 year-old boy for two days without ' rd and alone In the room with iriurdered mother, has been sen- r,cAl to be shot to deafh tf April 22. h Official Map of Harbor of Vladivostok, JL. French and English at Outs. Trouble Is feared between the French and English garrisons at Shan Hal Kwan. The soldier of the two nations stationed In that fortified city are constantly on the verge of a serious conflict. Insults continuously arn bandied between the men and personal asuauits are frequent. The Sikhs, who constitute the greater part of the British force, are drilled five hours every day, and all the British troop in North China are asserted to be resting under manning orders. Star Chamber Session of House to Showing Forts. Moro Camp Raided. The following comes from Manila: Wood reports "Major General an aVack upon a reeonoitering force east of Cottahao by a strong patty of Moros made hocti.e ,y the passage of the antlFlaverv law. The Moroa titlon was shelind and the Moros i!ankd and the outwerk taken. Thy e ctrrtng anl well constructed. Cannon old raptured, tuenty-onSpanish, thirty-threLantakas, ale! large quantity ff amnnition and No casualties on our side." e e sup-piits- . Korea Shall Be Russian. In- vestigate Charges Made by Brittow. The special committer of the nou to Investigate fhe pofstofTire "indie, ment" of member of congress continued Its work behind f lose J floors for three hours on Monday, and then took a reeeao. The committee tnak ing a detailed study ef rarh rase i.i the report. It will first determin those ases in wl,! h tbre appears i,ti the surface an Jnd;eaf.!en of wrong doing on the part of number. If xhrf are any such. t.efere taking tn testimony of wtnern. Location of Batteries and the course of his conversations in the train wjiile fratcling from MosIn cow, according to a Far is correspondent, (Jrneral Kurepatkin repeated his Jesire that r"aee should be signed t.Jy In Tokio. The geneial said tha' Fiance, Germany and Austria bate aireed with IUkp-- f,, prevent fJrfat Britain Ir.tertenin wiib anotj.er ller-iir- t "'it,!.tter'v ill r.eter ri tfTn'etfere for pTmit the purt"-tre ,f ir.,f5ir,g ,m (,f Hi fruits ef a 'V ar'y houtM - r.'-f!- e tea shall b" H i"? an.'' vtoty. AUTHORITIES AGAIN CHARGE OF TELLURIDE. IN Union Miners Who Have Bern Deported Will Be Allowed to Return to the District. Arkansas Father Burned to Death While Trying to Save His Babea. Fernando Walters and his three children, Claude, aged 14; Gertie, aged 12, and Melvin, aged 10. were tmrned to death in the destruction of their home, fourteen miles north of Rogers, Ark. A brother of Mrs. Walters, aged 15, was so seriously burned that death is expected hourly. The Are was started by a spark from an open fireplace. The father, mother and four children slept downstairs. Upstairs were four boys. Walters got those downstairs out in safety and then rushed back to warn the boys. Unknown to him Gertie followed Walters upstairs through the smoke and flames, and went to a room where Bhe kept her dolls. The boys attempted to descend the stairs but the flames drove them back. Two jumped from the windows and were unhurt. The last thing they heard was Melvin, the youngest boy, begging his father to jump first Just then the roof fell in, killing Walters, Melvin, Claude and Gertie. Captain Bulkeley Wells, in com' mand of the military in the Telluride, Colo., district, read an order on the street Friday night, signed by Governor Peabody, declaring martial law here at an ead. At a banquet given to the militiamen in camp, which fol lowed the reading of the order, an other order from Adjutant General Sherman M. Bell was read directing the men to quit camp and return to their homes. All the men In camp at this time are residents of the district. The effect of the order abolishing martial law will be the doing away with the press censor, who has passed on all news sent out by correspond ents for some time past, and the return of the civil authorities to power. It will also enable the union miners, numbering over 100, who have been KILLED FIVE MEN. deoorted. to return to the district. While there Is no change in strike conditions as far as tho members of Chicago Car Bandit Confesses to Long List of Crimes. the Western Federation of Miners are concerned, It Is claimed by the operaGustav Marx, one of the three Chitors that the mines of the district are senworking the same as when conditions cago car barn bandits now under tence of death, declared in a confeswere normal. sion made Sunday that he was one of BATTLE OF TORPEDO BOATS. the three men who held up the Chicago & Northwestern express train In Fight Off Port Arthur Both Sides near Dekalb four years ago. The Lose a Boat. crime, which has passed inta history as one of the most desperate ever A cable from St. Petersburg says The Russian torpedo boat flotilla left committed in or about Chicago, has Port Arthur at broad daylight Friday uever been fastened upon anyone. Marx says both his confederates In morning and attacked the Japanese fleet. One Japanese torpedo boat was the robbery are dead and he refuses sunk and one Russian torpedo boat de to give their names. One of them, he was declares, "died with his boots on." stroyer, the Bezposhtchoonl, sunk. The fate of the latter's crew The railway authorities admitted a loss of $102,000 by the robbery. is not known. Marx says the robbers secured only Admiral Makaroff Inaugurated his ' assumption of the command of the $8,000, the rest of the money having Russian fleet at Port Arthur by a been destroyed by the explosion of complete change of tactics. As soon dynamite used to crack the safe. In a sort of footnote to this startling as he appeared on the scene he or Marx admits the killing of confession dered the removal of the battleship Retvizan. which was stranded at the five men in his career.' mouth of the harbor and barred the channel at certain stages of the tide, JAPANESE FIRE making the egress of battleships Impossible. Friday morning he directed a sortie of the torpedo boat flotilla, Twenty Soldiers and Three Civilians Killed at Bombardment of Port supported by a part of the Russian Arthur. squadron against the Japanese squadron. The details are not yet known A Russian refugee, who has arrived except that the encounter resulted in the loss of one Japanese torpedo at Tien Tsln, throws valuable addi boat and one Russian torpedo boat de- tional light on the bombardment of stroyer. Port Arthur last Thursday. He says the attack was Intended for the that Fled From Russia to Escape War but the Japanese fire over forts, Service. reached. There was small destruc Of the 2.0CS steerage passengers tion, and the casualties were not nu brought to the New York port Friday merous. Twenty soldiers and two by the Graf Waldersee and landed at civilians "were killed and three civEllis Island. '1,800 are Russians, many ilians Colonel Verehinln. injured. of them. It Is Fald, being refugees of Port Arthur, was slightly governor who fled to escape possible army wounded. The Japanese used 300 or service against Japan. An imperial 400 Russian shells, which they found edict Issued several weeks ago sus on the captured transport Manchuria. pended the Issuing of passports to any male between the ages of 14 and MORALES CAPTURES CITY. 45. and prescribed the period for army service, the result being, according to in War In those on the Graf Waldersee, an ex Progress of the Rebellion flicted Santo Domingo. odus from all the villages within reach It the frontier. Every possible ruse, After severe fighting which lasted It Is said. Is resorted to In order to two days, San Pedro de Macoris has get across the frontier. been recaptured by government forces, says a Santo Domingo dispatch. PresDietrich Case Begun. The senatorial inquiry Into the ident Morales has returned to Santo charges against Senator Deltrlch of Domingo from San Pedro, leaving Lula Nebraska began Friday before tho Tejura to act aa governor of the town. special committee In Senator Hoar's The rebel leader Rodrlgue escaped. committee room. The Inquiry, which was instituted upon the demand of Many men were killed or wounded on Senator Dietrich, Is for the purpose of both sides during the fighting. The disproving the charges on which the city Is quiet. senator was Indicted last fall In Ne braska, and which were dismissed on Still Filling Bull Pen. demurrer. The committee consists ol Although martial law was suspended Senators Hoar, Piatt of Connecticut In Cockrel! and Pettus. the Cripple Creek, Colo., district Spooner, over a month ago, the military Is still PLEASES RUSSIA. exercising Its powers, as Is evidenced In the arrest of Peter Calderwood and President's Proclamation Commended his incarceration In the bull pen. The by Count Casslnl. Incident arises from an alleged violaCount Casslnl called on Secretary tion of the law concerning the deseHay Friday, and In a long conversa cration of the' American flag. The tion on relations per Western Federation of Miners, on a sonally and officially thanked the sec poster discussing the present strike, retary and through Mm the govern printed a picture of the American flag. ment of the United States for the Across this appeared certain Inscripproclamation Issued by the president tions, which It Is ' claimed violated Thmsday, enjofnlnr prudence and caution on officials In speech and acFrench Sttamer Missing. tion relative to the far eastern war. A Halifax, N. f., special says: No news having been received from the Nerve of Rioters Failed. A mob of seventy-fivmen from French steamer Fro Patrla since she Carbondale, Ills., made an attempt to Wt St. Preire, Miquejon, for Halifax, take Thomas Vanehn. a nepro. frrm fourteen days ago, fears are now the county jail Intending to lynch that she has met with dishim. Sheriff Tberp had been ap and he and aster. She should have reached this prised of their comln ivpiiiy Woodruff lay In wait. When port March 2. Tf e pro Patrla carried the mob reached the Jail the officer? a crew of twenty tnen, under command trained their riot runs on It. The of Captain I .a FoRreade, and on board mob quickly dipporeed. tlt nof nn . were forty pae,isrers, an nnnsnally three of Its members had been Deputy Wfiod ruff's gun was large complement for this season ol dlsrhargei prematurely, tearing bis the year. arm so that amputation was OVER-REACHE- Rnso-Amerlca- n e cap-lured- |