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Show TKEMONT TIMES THEIR VISIT TO HISS TREMONTON The Utah Postmasters' association held a two days' session in Salt Lake In The health officers of the state met state convention in Salt Lake City last week. Frank Eggington, aged 18, of Og den, shot off one of his fingers while duck hunting last week. 9ohn W. Parsons has been detailed to investigate and report on sites offered the government at Provo and Logan. In a street car collision in Salt Lakt city a number ot passengers were badly shaken up, but no one seriously injured. Between 200 and 300 people were present at the first reunion of the handcart veterans held in Salt Lake City last week. Alfred Peterson and Hiram Poulson, two prisoners at the state industrial Bchool at Ogden, escaped from that Institution last week. a Swiss, was struck by while walking on the near Harrisville. He was badlj but will probaMy recover. K. Possart, a passenger train track hart, It is proposed to organize a roller polo league, the towns represented In the league being Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, Boise, Ida., and probably Butte. Mont Lutheran church conference Salt Lake City last week, prominent clergymen from Utah, Ida The was Storm of Protest Was Raised Against Proposed Action by Members of the Brit.sh Parliament. held in ho, Montana, Oregon and Maine belne, present. Arthur Anderson, aged 16, while walking on the Union Pacific tracks In Ogden was struck by a switch engine and killed, the body being badly mutilated. Douglas Wardrop met death while duck shooting near Salt Lake. It is supposed he fainted and was drowned, a he was lying in a foot of water When found. The survivors of the handcart com nies which crossed the plains to Utah between the spring of 185(5 and the fall of 1859 held a reunion In Salt Lake last week. George Skachiouroes, a Greek laborer, fell from a new building on which he was at work at Garfield, sus taining injuries from which he died shortly afterward. The Utah County Fair association track in Provo has been accepted by the National Trotting association as an association track, and will be con ducted under the rules of the associa tlon. Nick Lunde, a blacksmith at the Highland Boy mine, at Bingham, was ehot at five times by Joe Reslsh, an Austrian. Two shots took effect, one tn the thigh and the other in the wrist. Joseph E. Frick, Republican nominee for justice of the supreme court, has been appointed by Governor Cut ler to fill the vacancy on the supreme bench caused by the resignation of Chief Justice Bartch. By means of a bogus police raid on a sure thing poker game, Alexander and William Me.Whirter, two recent arrivals from Scotland, claim to have been robbed of $iu,000 In Salt I.aki City on SeptemberTS. Three duck hunters on Utah lake came near losing their lives when a torm came up and their boat filled with water. They reached the shore In an exhausted condition, after losing their guns and provisions. Mrs. Nellie Elsbury attempted suicide In Salt Lake City, taking carbolic were administered acid, but and she Is now out of danger. The belief that she was being neglected b) her husBand led to tho deed. Fred Price, state statistician, who was severely Injured a month ago by falling into a shaft at the Mountain Chief mine, is able to be out. When he fell down the shaft he struck two-htwelve timber and broke It in two. y Sam Davis was Instantly killed by falling down a shaft at Bingham. was signaling to an upper leve' when In some manner ho lost his foot Ing and fell to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 82 feet, breakiiu his neck. Da-Tl- s Alta Holllst, aged Ave years, of Farmlngton, was burned to death In the yard of her mother's home at Farmington. The child had been play lng near a large bonfire together with some other children, and In passing near the fire a flying ember caught In the child's dress. A meeting of the Utah Wool Grow ers' association was held in Salt Lake last week, at which plans were formu Inted for the entertainment of the Na tlonal Wool Growers' association con ventlon, which will be held in the capital city In January. a for the purpose of presenting an address of sympathy to Prof. Serge Mouromtselff of Moscow, who was president of the lower house of the late parliament, is arousing a storm of indignation and protest both here and in St. Petersburg, and strong are being brought to bear to Induce the deputation to abandon its visit on the grounds that the presen tation of a memorial of sympathy with the late parliament would be an unwarranted act of interference, cal ciliated to lead to violence. The depu tation includes half a dozen memberf of the house of commons and social reformers, and It plans to take an ad dress signed by 300 persons, including members of the house of lords and house of commons, numerous repre entatires of the clergy and persons prominent in literature. The committee in charge of the arrangements for the visit met and decided to abandon the visit to Moscow and to await further advices from the friendship committee in St. Petersburg, which will be received Thursday and then considered. Convicted Murderess Still Has Hope and Bears Un With Remarkable Fortitude Date of Execution Has Been Set for October 26. Jefferson City, Mo. The Missouri supreme court has denied Mrs. Aggie Myers a writ of error to the supreme court of the United States. Her attorneys may now apply to one of the judges of the United States supreme court for such a writ to appeal the case to that court for review, October 26 is the date set for Mrs. Myers to be hanged at Liberty, Mo., for the murder of her husband. The first intimation that the state supreme court had refused her attor neys a writ of error to carry her case to the United States supreme court was carried to Mrs. Aggie Myers in her cell at Liberty, Mo., by a reporter. Mrs. Myers was lying on a lounge in her cell, having just finished her noonday meal, when the reporter entered. She arose quickly and listened NEGROES HAVE COMPLAINT. quietly as he told her of the action of the court. Absolutely no show of emoWant to Travel in Same Pullman tion was displayed by the prisoner, With White People. whose remarkable fortitude has been nethe wonder of all the jail officials who Washington. Representative groes of the south, on behalf of their have had charge of her. "I am not very much surprised," race, have complained to the Interstate commerce commission of the use said Mrs. Myers when the reporter had finished. "The three judges in by railroads of the south of "Jim the criminal branch of the state suCrow" cars for interstate passengers, preme court are prejudiced and have requested the commissioner me. I am still confident that against my atto investigate the subject and on the torney will be successful in gaining a before the United States sudevelopment of the facts to issue an hearing court and that I shall finally preme order compelling the railroads not to be granted a new trial, and be acquitdiscriminate against negroes on ac- ted. I have always been confident, as count of their color. The petition filed you know, that I will get a fair hearwith the interstate; commerce commising and that confidence is still sion is signed by Thomas Oliver and W. P. Johnson of Mississippi and WILL BE BUILT BY CONTRACT. about a dozen other negroes. n CHRISTIAN BURIAL Coolies DENIED. FUNSTON of General COMING HOME. to Take His Place Looking After Cubans. Bell in Havana. General Frederick Funs in command of the American forces In Cuba. Governor Taft announced Wednesday that he and General Funston will leave Havana (or the United States on Saturday on the battleship Louis lana. With them will go Assistant Secretary of State Ilacon and the af fairs of Cuba will be left in the hands of Governor Mageon and General J. ton will not continue Franklin Do the Hard Labor on the Panama Canal. Are Washington. It has been finally cided that the Panama canal will Terrorists by Cossacks for Humane Act. Russian Poland. Five terrorLodz, ists, sentenced to death by drumhead cotirtmartial, were hanged Wednesday morning. In the afternoon an im mense crowd exhumed the bodies of the terrorists, collected offerings for coffins and forced a priest to give a solemn blessing. While this was going on a squadron of cossacks suddenly appeared and charged the crowd, beating the people with whips and swords. Many persons were injured and thirty were arrested. The cossacks compelled the prisoners to rebury the bodies of the terrorises. Sympathizers Whipped Will Pell. Killed Girl Who Refused Him. Cleveland, O. In the presence of Euclid sixty pupils in the South school, Harry Smith. 2.r years old, shot to death Miss Mary Shepard. a teacher, 22 years old. Cornered behind the barn in the rear of his home In Win rensville two hours later, Smith shot himself through the head, dying instantly. Disappointment In love is said to have been the motive for the pohl blooded murder. Smith, who was ft fourth cousin of Miss Shepard, had wood her for some time, and recently was rejected. Fell From Hotel Window. Miss Florence McDonald, 26 years old, a member of the chorus In the "Blue Moon" company, now playing at a downtown theatre, was Chicago. killed early Wednesday by falling out fourth-storwindow In the Windsor Clifton hotel. The young woman plunged into an air shaft, and her body struck the heavy plate glass roofing of the rotunda on the second floor. She was removed to the Wesley hotel, where she died about an hour afterwards. of a Cuban Steals a Million. New York. The assignment of J. M. Ccballos & Co.. hankers and merchants, with liabilities bet WWI 000.000 and $4,000,000, was announced Wednesday in a statement which declared that the failure was due to the defalcation ami absconding of Manuel Sllveira of Sllvelra & Co., Havana Silveira's defalcation is alleged to Me sailed amount to about $ I .ooo.nmt from Havana on October 2 OStenilblj for Nei York CttJ to consult with the members of J. M. Ccballos & Co., but hay not renrtii il this city. de- be completed by contract. In a few days the commission will make public a statement setting forth Its reasons for favoring the contract system, and at that time a form of contract will also probably be published showing exactly the sort of document believed by the commissioners to be necessary for safeguarding the work. President Roosevelt is known to support the commission in Its position that the work can be done more satisfactorily by contractors than by the government. This change in building the canal will in no way affect the employment of Chinese labor. Proposals for fur nishlng the Chinese labor were made under such conditions that they can be transferred to contractors and the terms can be fulfilled in such a manner that the government can give the coolies just as much protection as it could If the government were the direct employer. STANDARD OIL IS DEFENDANT Octopus Charged With Anti-Trus- t Violation of Law. Flndlay, O. Charged with "conspiracy against trade" In violation of the anti-trus- t laws of the state, the Standard Oil company of Ohio and its alleged constituent companies, the Buckeye Pipe Line company and the Manhattan Oil company, will he placed on trial here before Judge Gideon C. Banker and a jury In the probate court of Hancock county. In the original Information filed last June by County Prosecutor William L. David, John D. Rockefeller was made a party to the suit, but through the granting of a request for a separate trial Mr. Rockefeller will not be called an a defendant until the case against the company has been disposed of. Mr. Rockefeller, It is said, will not be as a witness and will not al tend the trial. sum-mone- r MOB MEMBERS MURDERERS. Arkansas Judge Instructs Grand Jury to Inquire Into Lynching. Little Rock, Ark Judge R. J. Lea of the Pulaski county circuit court bas specifically Instructed the grand jury as to Its inquiry into the lynching of H. G. Blackman, a negro. Sunday night, In Argenta. Judge Lea told the jurors that every member of tho mob was a murderer and should be hunted down. Members of the mob will be vigorously prosecuted Boraclc Acid In Hams. Warrants were sworn Philadelphia out Monday by Dr. B. H. Warren, dairy and food commissioner, for the arrest of the Philadelphia tn. makers of Armour & Co., one of the members of the "beef trust," charging the firm with the Illegal use of boracic acid In hams. Samples purchased at th. branch house of Armour & Co. were analysed by Professor Lawall, chem 1st of the department, and show. It Iq alleged that the hams have been doctored with boracic acid. -- mm Cause Landslides Which Destroy Much Property In One Place the Water Rose xty Feet. Recent floods in the southern part of the state of Jalisco and in the state of Colima have resulted in great destruction of property and loss of life. The number of fatalities from drowning along the line of the Manzanillo 'tension of the Mexican Central railway is 123. Thousands of tons of earth and rocks descended in great landslides from the mountains. The new steel railway bridge below Tuxpan was destroyed, and a steam shovel weighing twenty-sitons was borne by the torrent for a considerable distance. In one place the water rose sixty feet. Many houses were destroyed by floods in the towns of Tuxpan and Zapolilloc. Twenty-fiv- e lives were lost during the recent floods in the Santiago river. Fifteen were drowned by the capsizing of a boat while crossing the river. It has been some time since there were such tremendous floods on the west coast. Mexico City PRISON DOORS OPENED. Secretary Taft Issues General Amnesty Proclamation to Cubans. Havana. An amnesty proclamation of the most sweeping character possible, pardoning every serious crime which has been an outgrowth of the recent revolution has been issued by Governor Taft. Complete pardon is granted to all persons involved in the killing. of Congressman Villuendos at Clenfuegos in September, 1905, as well as to everybody implicated in the killing of several rural guardsmen at Guantanamo last February. Trouble is predicted y some Cuban publications as a result of this decision to withdraw the prosecutions against the murderers of Villuendos. The proclamation serves notice that armed bands breaking the law after the issuance of the proclamation will be proceeded against and denied the benefits of amnesty. RACE WAR RESUMED. Another Bloody Chapter in Trouble Between Whites and Blacks. Argenta, Ark. Alexander Champion, a negro barber, and a member of a number of negro frafeimaTl orders, was shot to death Tuesday in a saloon at the foot of the free bridge between Little Rock and Argenta, at 11 o'clock. Luther Lindsay, son of John B. Lindsay, who was killed by negroes, alleged to be Garrett and C. C. Colum and Lewis Styles, Saturday night, is now held under $3,000 bond, charged with the killing of Champion. Champion is alleged to have made remarks He was concerning the Lindsays. arrested early Tuesday morning on a charge of carrying a pistol, and his pockets were found to be full of cartridges. He was later released and was endeavoring to raise enough money to pay a $50 fine when killed. Woman Shoots Her Husband Because of a Practical Joke. Hinlon, W. Va. As a result of a Joke on his wife, Charles Smith, mayor of a little town called Brooklyn, near here, is believed to be dying, and Mrs. Smith is also probably fatallv wounded. Smith had Elbert Meddley dress as a woman and call him out to the gate. Mrs. Smith, angered by Jealousy, shot her husband through the stomach and lung, and then shot herself. SUNN! Ulll M IIFE mm High Waters A'so Missouri Supreme Court Will Not Interfere to Save London. The approaching visit of Neck of Woman British deputation to St. Petersburg Anglo-Russia- OF mters E week. IDSS ABANDONED UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS last BEEN DENIED APPEAL BY C. E. SHERMAN. HEW His Authority Will be Equal to That Exercised Formerly by General Wood. Cuba Will Have the Semblance of an Autonomous Government, and Will Be Represented in Washington By a Minister Consuls Will Remain. Washington. Governor Charles E will exercise in Cuba all the power which was vested in General Ieonard Wood when he ruled Cuba under the title of military governor. Governor Magoon will be known as the provisional governor, but his authority will be plenary and he will be subject only to the orders of the pres ident and secretary of war. Cuba will have the semblance of an autonomous government and the United States will continue to be represented In Havana by an American minister and the consuls will continue at their posts. It is officially stated that there has been and will be no subversion ol the Cuban constitution. By incorporating the Piatt amendment into the constitution, Cuba provided for just such an emergency as has arisen and for the United States to intervene and restore order, consequently, it is said, Cuba Is still to be governed by constitutional means and by machinery such as is provided in any commu nity where martial law is necessary. During the occupancy of Cuba it is not expected that the Cuban congress In fact, will exercise any power. there Is no method by which it can be assembled, unless Governor Magoon shall deem such action necessary to prepare the way for another election. Such a meeting is not necessary, for the provisional governor by decree may perform all functions looking to of the civil govhe ernment of Cuba. Ma goon PLANNING FOR ANNEXATION. Efforts Being Made to Organize Good Government League of Cuba. Havana. The preliminaries of an organization called the Good Government League of Cuba were begun on Sunday afternoon at a meeting of Americans, Cubans and others, at which resolutions were passed to the effect that the purpose of the associa tion should be the "promoting by all legitimate means the establishment and maintenance of a permanent, stable and lawful government, competent to administer justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare and insure the blessings of liberty to all the inhabitants of the FAITH IN CUBAN PEOPLE. General Ruiz Rivera Believes All Will Yet Be Well. New York. "To me it has yet to be proved that the Cubans are Incapable ot is the manner in which General Ruiz Rivera has expressed his confidence in the ability of his people to administer successfully the affairs of the Island republic when the American government has completed the restoration of peace. He hopes to : sist the provisional govern ment in its work. SOUTH VISITED BY IS AGAIN A TOMMDO Center of Three Cy clonic Disturbances, Causing the Loss of Six Lives and $1,000,000 in Property. New Orleans the New Orleans. This region was on Friday the center of cyclonic disturbances, at least three of which were tornadoes and caused the loss of six inlives, with nine persons fatally jured. About daylight heavy storms broke within one hundred miles west, north and east of New Orleans. Reports of sugar cane and cotton crops blown down or sugar mills demolished are coming in from this section. The damage, including that done in New Orleans, Is placed at over $1,000,000. The worst of the tornadoes was north of New Orleans, where, between 5:30 and 7 o'clock, it devastated portions of three parishes. New Orleans was visited by another tornado, and a third passed northward of Biloxi on the gulf coast. The first torhado struck west of Baton Rouge parish about 6 o'clock, killing Mrs. Theodore Forel and her Mrs. Forel's daughter, Mrs. White. body was found In a field near her demolished house. Two children In inMrs. Forel's house were fatally jured and five more were injured in the collapse of a sugar refinery on the St. Delphe plantation. Baton Rouge-waslightly damaged. In St. James parish one woman, whose name has not been learned, and Mrs. H. R. W'ebber and daughter, Mrs. John Meyer, and a nero are reported Fifteen buildings fatally injured. were blown completely down in this parish. At Pontehatoula, which the tornado reached about 7 o'clock, George Hawes and son and a daughter were killed by the collapsing of their- house, and another child of the family was fatally injured. A negro was also fatally injured there, besides injuries to a dozen other persons. The third tornado struck New Orleans abouf 8 o'clock. Although no lives were lost here, property damage reached $500,000, and about fifty persons were injured, one fatally. Fully 800 buildings were, damaged, about seventy-fivbeing blown 'flat. Most of the demolished buildings were negro cabins and it was here that nearly all the injuries occurred. The path of the tornado through the In city was about eight miles long. places the storm's path was about thirty feet wide and only at two or three points did it reach a hundred feet. e HIDEOUS CRIMES OF ING. Thanh Thai Slowly Tortures Seven of His Wives to Death. Paris. Thanh Thai, king of Annam, according to stories reaching Pari from has again been guilty of such atrocities that the French government may be compelled to adopt rigorous disciplinary measures, as it did several years ago, when, on account of the scandal caused by the barbarous torture of the king's personal attenaants, the French residents at the head of the gendarmerie entered the palace to save the lives of the attendants and restore order. The mails now report that in August the king was seized, with a homicidal mania, ordered seven of his wives to be executed and looked on with delight as they were slowly tortured to death. A few days later the king shot down a prince, who was 70 years old, a member of the council of the royal family, highly esteemed, and the last surviving son of King Minh Mang. When (tie French resident called to remonstrate with Thanh Thai, the latter declined to permit him to enter tho palace Indo-Chin- HELD FOR BANK MURDER. Gored By an Elk. Murderer Escapes From Conn. B New Haven, Channcey Sheriff and Deputy. San Francisco Police Believe They Have the Right Men. Guthrie. Okla. A special to the McCormlck, a Yale senior, of Chicago, State Capital from Tulsa, I. T., says was gored by an elk in a private park San Francisco. Two men are now that Joe Morris, charged with the mur it Westville Sunday, after a fierce under arrest for the gas pipe murde? der of "Texas" Harper at" the Glenn Oil struggle. He was walking with a at the Kimmon Ginko, the Japanese pool. Aug. 31, has escaped from officers companion, F. H. Revell, Jr., of bank on O'Farrell street. It Is evi who were bringing him to the federal Evanston, 111., when the buck started dent at police headquarters that the The detectives believe that they have in Jail at Tulsa. When the sheriff and after them. Revell escaped. attacked McCormlck, who custody the men whose murders for deputy in charge of Morris reached mimal Cleveland, Okla., the prisoner made a grasped its antlers, but was thrown to loot have three times startled the city. successful break for liberty tinder a the ground. He was struck twice by First came the Pfltzner murder, then fusillade from the guns of the officers. the elk, receiving a wound in the side. that of Frieda, and lastly the outrage A large reward has been offered for He managed to escape by climbing a at the Japanese bank. tree. his capture. Twenty-nin- e Bodies Taken From California Lost His Life While TryLynching in Arkansas. Mine. ing to Save His Hat. Argenta, Ark. As a sequel to the W. Va. Twenty nine Blnefields, San Diego, Cal. F. Comic, an em- killing of John Lindsay and the bodies havo been recovered from the wounding of his son, Johann Milton West Fork mine of the Pocahontas' ploye of the San Diego electric railway, lost his life in tin effort to save Lindsay, here, presumably by Garreft Collieries company at Pocahontas, his hut. He is a member of the con- Colum and Charles Colum, negroes, H. Va., and a conservative estimate struction gang, and was on the con- Blackburn, a negro, 37 years old, was places the total number of dead1 at struction car returning from his work lynched Sunday at the corner of Sixth seventy. The rescuing party reached when his hat blew off. Without think and Main streets. The lynching is the the scene of the explosion, but the III of consequences, he jumped for it. latest link In a chain of clashes be- Immense amount of debris and wreckrolled under the wheels of the car anil tween whites and blacks that started age has hampered the search, for bodwas run over. Both legs were arnpu on Sept. IS, when a white man named ies. There Is no evidence thus far of tated in an effort to save his life, but R. R. McDonald killed a negro mu- Are. Enormous crowds have gathered here from all over the vast coal flelda sician named Wiley Shelby. he died early Wednesday morning. Oklahoma John Redmond Less Emphatic. Iondon. John Redmond, addressParis. A dlspstch to the Petit Par ing a meeting of the Irish league at Men from Constantinople declares Atblone Saturday, reiterated his Limthat the real secret of the recent H- erick warning to tho liberal ministry, ints) of the sultan of Turkey was that but in a much loss irreconcillablo did not Ignore tho he was shot in the abdomen by a Kurd tone. He said he difficulties standing In grave practical Ish woman who was jealous of his the way of the ministers on the homo l&tetl favorite in the harem, beautl rule question, and that he and his coful Circassian girl. According to the lleagues were most sincerely anxious story, the bullet was extracted by a to be nblo to support the government German physician, the lUltaa going un- scheme when th time came He said der the opt 'ration without taking he had confidence In Sir Henry the premier chloroform, and displaying nerve. Sult.n Was Shot By a Jealous of His Harem. Woman Explosion of Illuminating Gas Kills Eight in Philadelphia. men Philadelphia wore Eight killed anl nearly two score persons, Injured by the explosion on Friday of ' illuminating gas in the Market street subway at Sixth street High buildings were shaken and for a block on either side nearly every window was shattered. The street caved In, halt, ing traffic. Fire followed the explosion, but did not damage neighboring buildings. The lrTss. It to believed, will exceed $300,000 |