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Show The Nephi No. 52. Nephi City. Utah, Friday, December 30. 1904. Vol. 15. wwwww J The old year 1904 the least money. We start in the new year with the determination of doing a larger business than in the old year just passed, and hope by fair dealing to merit your patronage more than ever. Always one price to all. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year, 5 . Our Effort during the year 1905 shall be to continue to merit our rep utation fort Reliable Goods p and -c- Chas. Foote & Sons Russo-Japanes- e It will be Bayan, and the protected cruis- plies at the front. a of er, Pallada. transportalargely question Now that the Russian fleet has tion. Can the single-tracSibebeen destroyed, Admiral Togo rian railroad, 5,000 in length, can send his battleships to Ja- maintain a larger army than the pan for dry docking and general Japanese with their few hunoverhauling, leaving his smaller dred miles of transportation over vessels to maintain the blockade three or four independent routes and prevent the sending in of from Korean and Manchurian supply ships.- - lie will have am- ports to the front? This is a viple time to get his fleet into ab- tal question which will be ansolute first class condition ready swered very soon after the of the severe eastern for the advent of the' Baltic fleet, break-uthat is, if it ever arrives. For the winter." xconviction must now begin to Homeszekers Excursion. force itself upon the Russian Admiralty that the four modern Have your friends come to and two old battleships, and the Utah and Nevada. Tickets two still older armored cruisers on sale by Eastern lines via. Salt of the Baltic fleet, will be no Lake City to points on the Salt match for the four battleships Lake Route, and San Pete Valley and eight armored cruisers, all Railway, January 3d and 17th, of the very latest type, which February 7th and 21st, March they will have to confront and 7th and 21st and April 4th and sweep out of the way, if they are 18th, 1905, with stopover privito break down the sea power of lege in Utah or Nevada. See any Japan and isolate her Manchuri Agent Salt Lake Route, or adan armies from their base dress, J. L MOORE, District "Were the personel of the op- Passenger Agent, Salt Lake City posing fleets of equal skill, and general efficiency, the Every Man Is Entitled in would material To some insurance, if he helps advantage still lie with the Japanese; but himself in time. Some wait unhaving in view the necessary til they are over ripe, and some rawness of the hastily improvis- ore shaken or blow off. Don't be ed ciews of the Baltic fleet, and a windfall. the lack of morale shown in the P. nn Mutual Life, 68 years oid. North Sea incident, it is not con- Farrell & Grant, General Agents. ceivable that they can win any G'W. Sudbury, Local Agent. victory over the veterans of the Lawrence Blackett and Miss Port Arthur blockade, trained and hardened as they will be by Fiorina Cazier were united in the more than twelve months of ar- holy bonds of matrimony at the Manti Temple, Wednesday, Deduous campaigning. "The command of the then, cember 28. A reception was is assured, by all the laws of held at the home of the bi ide's The bride probability, to the Japanese, and parents Thursday. Russia must bend her energies uuu giwm utc uuvu ujgiiijr into the prosecution of the cam- spected young people. paign on land. There seems to It has been arranged to rebe little to choose between the peat the big New Years rabbit fighting qualities of the average hunt of two Free Japanese and Russian soldier. dances will beyears ago. evenin the given Both are equally brave and perhouse and the the at opera ing sistent. It is also true that in ward meeting house, for north strategy, Kuropatkin seems to the hunters. Remember the be fully a match for Oyama. 2. Therefore, the issue of the great date, Monday, January Manchurian campaign next year Mr. and Mrs. J E Booth and will depend chiefly upon the rel- fainilv came ui from Provo to ative ability of the contestants spend Christmas with relatives to place men, munitions and sup in Nephi. k now passing iorever, has been a prosperous year with us; we hope it has been with you. Our motto for J 905 will be as in the past, to give you the best goods we can for The Crisis of the RE CORD. War. The last issue of the Scientific American gives aWery interesting resume of the situation in the Far East, predicting that 203 Meter hill was the the crisis of the war and sounds "the death knell to any reasonable hope of ultimate success of arms." It is as follows: "That the crisis of the Russo Japanese war should have come and gone without producing so much as a ripple of excitement in th6 columns of the daily press, is a curious commentary upon the popular estimate of thn relative importance of na The very columns val events in the Far East. that were filled with lengthy telegraphic accounts of the torpedo attack of last February, which, after all, merely opened the war, now, in the very toour of the crisis of the war, can find no more than two or three inches of space to record the destruction, in one fell blow, of Russia's naval power in the Far East, and the souDding of the death knell to any reasonable hope of ultimate sue cess of Moscovite arms. "We showed in a recent article that the defense of Port Arthur, which really meant the defense of the Port Arthur fleet, was the key to the present situation; for it meant the protection and preservation intact of of this fleet until it could Join hands with the approaching reinforcements under Ilojcsvensky. Hence the terrific attacks on r Hill, the possession of which by the J would afford implacements for heavy Japanese guns, capable of commanding the anchorage of m battleship and cruisers that constituted the of the Port Arthur fleet. Unquestionably the osition the crisis of the marked this for struggle present war. Had it proved impregnable, Japanese command of the sea. with every thousand leagues of advance of the Haltic fleet, would have become increasingly imperiled, and the command of the sea once lost, the capitulation of Oyama's Manchurian armies (cut off from their baso of supplies) would have been merely a matter of time. The Japanese, once in possession of this hill, lost no time in dragging their heavy naval batteries ii.to position, and then commenced what must go down into h'utory as one of the most tragic disasters of any great naval war. There at anchorage lay six modern battleship and cruisers, the very flower of ihe Russian Asiatic navy, and each representing a money value of from four to six million dollars. Upon the distant hill was a battery of high powered modern guns, whose gunners, getting the range to a nicety, proceeded to sink the ships in detail. It took but a few hours to send property of a total value of over $30,0, to the bottom, and then for several days llie high cxalosive shells were mined pitilessly upon the lulpless ships until they were wrecked beyond atij possibility of s;ilvag?. The sunken vessels arefye battkMiips Iel vsran, l'obieda. Teres let, Pol ra aud Sebastopol; the fine armored cruiser, Mos-covit- e 203-Mete- na-vj(- -- f0 Reasonable Prices, Hyde & Whitmore Co. V Ggarettes and Crime. Probation Officer W. C. Johnson, of Kansas City, addressing an audience of several hundred boys in that city, said cigarettes caused nearly all the downfalls among youths. In nearly every case where a boy breaks into a store the first thing he steals is tobacco. "Out of 450 boys who have been taken into the Juvenile court," said Mr. Johnson, "95 per cent were cigarette smokers. I never saw a boy who played hookey from school but did not also smoke cigarettes. The habit is the beginning, of crime. "I know a little fellow on the West Side who lies in bed for two and three hours at a time smo king cigarettes. He has become addicted to the habit and says he cannot stop it. lie will be sent to a reform school where he can't get the poison ous things. "Two boys were caught stealing in a store not long ago. Each was a cigarette smoker. One of them quit this habit, however, and braced up. Now he is the leader of a Sundav School class. while the other, who kept on with the cigarettes, lias gone lower ever since." -- There is a wave of condemnation, says the Louisville Courier. Journal, for the Chad wrick wo man, upon whom the strong hand of the law has been placed for acts which are no worse than those committed constantly by men who swindle investors out of their money by false representa tions, and yet go free to pose as successful financiers. Forgery is, after all, only one form of mis- presentation, differing in moral crime from the floatinr of bogus corporations and selling of worth less stocks, in the punishment affixed I t the form-mcIf all the magnates who roll in wealth by practices as fraudulent as those for which Mrs. Chadwick is now held up la obloquy were treated as they deserve there would not be prison accommodation sufficient for them. r. The lucky numbers drawing prizes at :t : so-calle- d Excelsior Mercantile Company. 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Kate, 11.30 a day. Livery accommodations and feed barn in connection. Hack meet all trans. L. 11. KWELL, Proprietor. The president's protest against race suicide seerns to bo effective. A Washington man named Winneberger, who weighs only 113 pounds is the father cf four sets of trans and one set nf quadruplets twelve b ibie in ill. The president will, no doubt, .shove him int'j the; cmsus oHice on a good salary. |
