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Show BY C. E. TREMONTON TAFT WATER 8HERMAN. - UTAH STATE - NEWS fell Iake City and sustained a broken leg. About one thousand people were treated to their Thanksgiving dinner by the Salvation Array of Salt Iakt City. tUber Manning of Taylorsville ha been assessed $ to bv the forest reserve department for trespassing on the reservafion. The sum of $2,287 was added to the. treasuiy of the St. Mark's hospital as the result of the charity ball held in Bait Lake City. Thirty births were reported to the Salt Lake City health department during the past week, of which twenty were males and ten females. Harry Wadsworth. who came to 6alt Iake three month? ago from the west, was killed last week by an en gine on the Salt Lake Route. musical A vocal and instrumental programme was rendered for the entertainment of the convicts in the State prison on Thanksgiving day. Alleging that she was given a wrong prescription, Geneve Knowlton has sued the Wlllis-HornDrug 'company of Salt lAke City for $5,000 damages. Governor Cutler will appoint a successor to Commissioner Joseph Stanford of Weber county, resigned, the county commissioners failing to name his successor. Raymond Bowdle, aged 15, was accidentally shot in the leg by a playmate at young Bowdle's home in Salt Lake, while the two lads were playing with a pistol. The sheep in Utah and Idaho at the present time are in a most satisfactory condition as regards the prevalence of scabies, there being almost none in either state. Arrangements for the state teachers' convention to be held in Ogden have been about completed and within a few days the official program for the occasion will be out. A company formed in Ogden last week has secured lands on the lake shore west of Ogden and is prepared to begin the evaporation of salt as soon as the summer beginR. Albert Angel, aged 65, foreman of a blasting crew in a quarry near Salt Lake City, was struck on the head by a boulder while at work, and died from his Injuries a short time later. The Ely Construction company of Springville has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The company purposes to do railroad construction work in Utah and Nevada. The Salt Lake officers arrested three Provo boys, the eldest only 13 years of age. on suspicion of being connected with the Perry store burglary in Provo last week, and the boys confessed to the crime. A Dumber of dairymen of Ogden, have served notice on their customers that the piice of milk will be increased. Instead of receiving twenty quarts for $1, the customers wilTnow get fifteen for $1. The motion to retax costs in the famous Hamer-Howel- l election contest case came up for hearing before Judge Morse in Ogden last week. After the introduction of the facts In the case the court granted the motion to reduce the mileage fees of certain witnesses, reducing the bill frm $298.15 to $280.40. Anton Fritz, formerly of Pittsburg, Pa claimed to have been robbed of a large amount of money by Leora Morgan, a negress. who was arrested in Salt Iike September 2G, was killed by a train at San Frenaudo, Cal., on Sunday According to reports received in Ogden, the head which was missing from the body of the man killed in the Ifontello wreck was discovered a few days ago in a quantity of prunes. It was buried with the remainder of his body. After spending nearly three days in an inquest into the death of Thomas White, who was found dead in the office of the Bingham Central mine, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of death bj the accidental discharge of a revolver. The report of the state board of pharmacy shows that during the past year the hoard has examined sixty-eigh- t applicants, of which number thirty were registered, thirteen were registered as assistants and twenty-fivfailed entirely. Senator Burrows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, says that lie will call up the case of Senator Smoot of Utah at the first H added that he hoped opportunity. to get a vote verj soon, and if possl ble to do so befora the holiday recess Alleging that he was allowed to ab tempt to kill himself, and that he cut. his own throat with a razor, George W. Morehouse filed a suit In the d s trict court at Salt Lake last week against the Keeie Institute company lor damages in the gum of $1P.80. e IK 1 IF UTAH. William A bell, a prospector, down a fliprht of stairs in Salt sramiga. i saw mm HUM morning, not since then." "Oh, if he should have fallen mt, the water!" cried Constaice. "Have yon any idea where be can be?" ' No. but I will find him," he said, confidently. "I will find him." Mr. Carter looked at him In some surprise. "Well. I hope you can get He may him home before nightfall. be somewhere ill the neighborhood with the other children." Inquiries were made through the vil lage, but no trace of the little fellow could be found. Nothing had been seen of him since be stood in the yard at the close of school; bnt one little girl professed to have heard bim say With he was going after beechnuts. this clue a company of men and boys at nightfall started to scour the woods with lanterns and torches. Constance, nearly frenzied by this time, sat with tightly clenched hands, listening for any sound she might hear from the Clare had direction of the woods. cried herself to sleep on the sofa, and Mr. Carter walked nervously about the yard and down to the edge of the woods a score of times. "I wonder where Edes went. I didn't see him with the men," he said to Constance. "Did you not?" she asked, lifting a white face to his for a moment. "He seemed confident he could find Perley, uncle." "So he did, Constance. Well, the night is warm, and Perley won't be apt to suffer much except in his feelings," said Mr. Carter as cheerfully as on a pile oi TUEMONT TIMES OISCHARGE OF SOLDIERS TIN Clifton, Arizona, Visited by Flood and Many Reported UPHOLDS PRESIDENT a Buildings in Which People Were Living Were Destroyed by the Raging Waters and Helpless Woman and Children are Drowned. Frame Bisbee, Ariz. One of the worst floods In the history of Clifton, Ariz., came down the San Francisco river and Chase creek Tuesday night. The principal business section of the town was almost completely ruined. From seven to twenty persons Is the report of the loss of life. Then name of only one victim, however, has been obtained, Mrs. Joseph Throm, who with her husband and Children was caught in a falling building and killed. The other members of the family had narrow escapes. One of the saloons which was washed away carried several men Into the torrent and all are believed to have drowned. A women and a child were lost in a small restaurant which was dashed to pieces in the flood. A number of small frame buildings in which people were known to be living also were destroyed and it is feared that a number of famlles perished. By MARY R. P. HATCH Author of "The Bank Tragedy" Secretary of War Thinks Roosevelt Did Proper Thing in Dismissing From Service Battalion of Negro Soldiers. Lives LU THE MISSING MAN Washington. An extract from the annual report f Secretary of War Taft relating io the Brownsville, Tex., outrage by negro soldiers, was made public on Wednesday Secretary Taft recites the crimes of the soldiers, as already described in news dispatches; the failure of the war department to obtain the names of the offenders and the discharge of the battalion. Secretary Taft iusiifies the discharge, saying: "It may b,. thai In the battalion are a number of men wholly innocent, who know neither who the guilty men are, nor any circumstances which will aid in thpir detection, though this cannot be true of many. Because there may be innocent men in the bat talion, must the government continue to e it to guard communities of men, women and children when it contains so dangerous an element impossible of detection? Certainly not. The only means of ridding the military service of of a band of would-bmurderers women and children, and actual murderers of one man, is the discharge of the entire battalion." u-- e CIVIL SERVICE REPORT. in Politics Goes on as the Olden Days. Washington. -- The annual report of the I'nlted States civil service commission issued Wednesday states that PRESIDENT'S VIEWS. there is still too great a disposition on the part of persons in the classified Members of Both Houses of Congress service to participate actively in poliListen to Annual Message. tics, in spite of the executive orders President Roosevelt's issued fro intime to time. The sentiWashington annual message to congress occupied ment In favor of the merit system is the attention of the senate for two steadily growing, the commission f hours Tuesday, to the ex- says, not only in congress, but also and four of which have the clusion of nearly all other business. among civilstates, service laws. adopted introwas the to this The exception the The commission held during duction of a resolution on the Japanyear 689 examinations and a total of ese situation by Senator Rayner of 122, 0H1 persons passed and 41,877 were appointed, a decrease of 26,696 exam Maryland and the adoption of appro- lned and 1,184 appointed. From 40 to those 60 per cent of the highest eligible depriate resolutions regarding members of the house of representa- clined appointment on account of the tives who have died since the last low salaries offered by the govern session. ment. The reading of the president's mese SHEREMETIEFF GETS HIS. sage consumed two hours and twenty-fivminutes in the house, and was followed closely by a large number of Cruel Russian Police Inspector Shot members, while the crowded galleries Down bWorkman. gave close consideration. While the house waited upon the St. Petersburg Police Inspector secretary to the president to appear Sheremelieff. who alter lie anti-Jewith the message, Speaker cannon ish outbreak at Bialystok in June last, appointed Robert G. Cousins, of Iowa, which he was said to be responsi for' on committee of the chairman foreign affairs to succeed the late Robert R. ble, was transferred to St. Petersburg He also appointed was shot and mortally wounded by a Hitt, of Illinois. Representative Frank O.' Lowden to a workman Wednesday morning near place on the same committee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Fontanka canal. While the in spector was passing a house which Mr. Hitt. was searched Tuesday on the sus pleton that terrorists were harbored Condition of Army Is Good. there, a man who was lurking in the Washington. In his annual report, court yard entrance fired at him with made public Tuesday, Brigadier Gener- a revolver. Though wounded in the al Thomas H. Barry, acting chief of head, Sheremelieff drew his revolver and joined in the pursuit of the ter staff, calls to mind the fact that the rorist, who fired again, fatally wound government Is without water translng Slieremetieff. portation facilities in cases of emerDenies Opposition to Governor. gency in the movement of troops. He cites the case of army of pacification Albuquerque, N. M. Major LlewIn Cuba, and says that the lack of New Mex was ellyn, district attorney for facilities such transportation In mentioned recent ico, dispatches "Had there been a severely felt. Btnall fleet of transports In reserve on sent out from Santa Fe as a partici the Atlantic coast the movement could pant in certain charges against Govmuch ernor been have accomplished Haggerman, which, it is alleges, sooner." have been tiled with President RoosePraise is given to the army as a velt, flatly denies all knowledge of and rewhole for Its adaptability the charges in a statement given out sourcefulness when dealing with novel Wednesday. "1 have made no charges and unprecedented conditions. Gen- against Governor Haggerman," said eral Barry giving as an Illustration know of no Maim Llewellyn, 'and the work of the army during the San one who has." Franclsoo earthquake and Are. Teller and Cash Are Missing. Saved From the Scaffold. Kansas City. William C. Anderson, Kansas City. - Austin Francis, a collection teller of the First National switchman, found guilty of murder In bank of this city, is missing, and K. the first degree at Kansas City in No F. Swinney, the president, admitted vember, 11105. after a trial for the murwas short der of Winona Newton, his sweet-hear- i Wednesday morning that he Mr. in his accounts. 9,000 Anderson, 15 was freed by years, aged the supreme court of Missouri, which who bad been in the employ of the reversed the verdict of the trial court. bank tot nineteen years, left the city Francis is 21 years old. The girl's on Monday last, supposedly on a body weighted down with heavy hunting trip. Ii has developed that ih" stone, was found in a dry creek upon he had abstracted fB.OOQ from the southern outskirts of the city. bank's funds, taking the money in Francis was accused of forcing her to three lots during the past week drink poison. Slight Earthquake Causes Panic. Would Eliminate Sunday. Kingston. Island of St. Vincent. A Guthrie. Oklahoma. By far the prolonged earthquake was felt here most sensational feature of the presnight. It lasted fully Wednesday ent constitutonal convention, was the eight seconds were The vibration The people of Kingston were resolution presented by an Oklahoma slow delegate on Tuesday calling on the thrown into a panic. The Island of convention to draft a law maintaining Barbadoes. about loo miles io the the individuality of the church and and the Island of SI Luna, about east, state. The original resolution was a 250 to the northwest, also felt miles practical embodiment of a similar memorial from the Seventh Day Ad the shock It was most severe at St. ventlsts. The latter Is signed by Lucia. Theie has been a continuation of earthquake shocks here at Irregu5.000 voters and asks that no reference be made In the constitution to any lar Intervals of varying severity since last February. day be set aside for public worship Stock Sharper Sent to Prison. Found Corpse in His Net. O On Toledo. plea of guilty to Eureka, Cal. While pulling in a of the United States Ihe charge using .1. A a fisherdrag net. deman, was horrified to find the corpse mails to promote a scheme to Norton Charles fraud. tras Whitney of a man in the net. it proved to be that of Thad O'RoUfke a brakemati sentenced to the Ohio penitential y lor on the Oregon ft Kureka railroad, eighteen mouths and to pay a fine of who disappeared two weeks ago last $luu by Judge Taylor In the district Sunday. On Ihnt day he wsh seen court on Wednesday. Norton was Indicted by the present grand Jury. He He wan dunking with some friends dereil away from them and was not had operated In various parts of the His specialty was mining seen again He had just drawn bis country He turned the proceeds of monthly pay ami the fart Ilia! he Int.! stocks only 45 cents In his pocket, lends sales of patron'' Stock to his own use color to murder theory. Participation in one-hal- Copyright. CHAPTER IX. Continued. "Them curtings will be in the wash tub a Monday, though 'tain t a great while sence washed 'em; but I will keep neat if I don't do nothin' else. See, here's his brush, with a few hairs slicking to it," and she held up one for the inspection of Mrs. Hamilton, who sat spellbound, it seemed to Mrs. Fry. What was the cause? She knew many months later, but not then. "There ain't no light color to the roots on't,'' said Mrs. Fry, striving to attract her regard No, there was not. The hair showed no indication of having been colored. "Perhaps he attends to it every day," said Mrs. Hamilton, arousing herself and shaking off the occult influences of the room. "Well, then, the hair dye must be 'round handy. Shall I look in the trunk? The lock is broke, I see." But Mrs. Hamilton stood looking out the window and apparently did not hear her, for she did not reply. Mr. Fry lifted the cover and began to rummage the trunk. "Not a thing here that would color a rat's whiskers," she said. "You look." "Oh, no," said Constance, shrinking. "You are right. I presume." "Well, here's one of them marked shirts I told you about. Ain't that 1S2, by 1 "! She"" "I suspect such things always did.' he said," "for 1 never knew people of the sort to count in a suspected person. Guilty people, or those with anyname thing to conceal, don't give one and carry about articles of clothing marked with contradictory initials." "I should think your reasoning good," said Constance, much impressed. "Perhaps Dan Fry is right in thinking that some one gave him the articles. "I will find out if I can," said the detective. And he did to his own satisfaction that very day. for he learned that Dan had asked the question already, and been answered to all appearances truthfully. "A stranger gave them to him," he said. "He is a harmless person, you can see that," said Swan, "and an ignorant one. Dan Fry says he cannot write nor read, but is anxious to learn. 1 saw a copy that Dan wrote for him and the fellow tried to follow. Here it is. Down here he has put All capitals! some of the letters together. CON. Your name, as I live. Mrs. Hamilton! I remember you signed your letter Constance Hamilton." "Yes," said Constance, woefully ashamed of the miserable scrawl which told so much to the keen-eyedetective. "He is evidently trying to learn how to write your name first of all." and he "Do you H. A.?" looked at her hesitatingly. " Constance came eagerly forward and think may I ask looked at the initials put on with "Ask what you wish," she answered inaelible ink. with an effort. "Then perhaps you will tell me "Yes, you are right. The letters are H. A. If they indicate his name it can whether he seems to regard you with not be Primus Edes." more than ordinary interest?" "I am afraid he does," and Mrs. "Wall, you see there ain't no in the room, an' no signs of Hamilton mentioned the fact of his none," said Mrs. Fry, straightening the having watched her house many times, room a little preparatory to leaving it. but forbore to speak of his glances ai "Do you want to look any more?" church, though not that he had "No," said Constance, rising from touched her little girl's hair. her seat at the window as if to follow Swan smiled a little, but looked puzher from the room. But as she passed zled. the bureau she deftly extracted from "I should dismiss the matter from the the few strands that my thoughts if I were you, madam," he clung there, and with them hidden in said, after a little thought. "This man dye-stu- hair-brus- d ff h i 1 -- ( Yes, lights and shouts and cheers. her hand went down into the sitting evidently has no connection with the room, as she thought, unobserved; but subject of your husband's disappearMrs. Fry had seen the act as she ance. He has seen you and admired chanced to glance back, and wondered. you, that is all." Mrs. Hamilton's first act after reA simple solution of a great mystery, turning home and removing her wraps thought Constance, if only she could was to write to Swan and send him the believe it. It looked plausible after three strands of hair, neatly gummed she had thought of it awhile, and she to a paper. was indignant with herself that she "The hair," she wrote, "was combed had allowed so slight a matter to ruffle her. when she was already borne from the head of a person resembling my husband in some respects. Do not down by such heavy burdens. mistake me. I do not believe the man Primus Edes did not come to her to be Mr. Hamilton, but I wish to know house now. She never saw him exthat he is not. Please submit the hair cept at church, and then he did not to a specialist In such matters, if such glance at her. But he did at Perley, a one can be found, and learn whether and one Sabbath the boy surprised it has evef been dyed.'' her by leaving her side and walking Swan knew of no Bpeclalisl in such off with Primus Edes. When reprimatter;-- , but he felt convinced that a manded by his mother he said: only practiced dealer in human hair might I know him. "Oh. seen I've him Acgive Mm points of elucidation. lots, and I like him. He has made me estabto the went he large cordingly a kite, and now he's at work on a lishment of Springer & HolllS on for me." ship Washington street, Boston, and as it "But Is he a good man, Perley?" chain ed was fortunate enough to see Mr lliillis and state his errand to him. asked she. seriously. "Oh, yes. He says 1 must mind my "There is one person in this buildand he hurries me to school mother, ing on whose judgment you may rely. so 1 won't be late." Ambrose, tell Mr. Hawkes to step this Incontestible proofs to Perley, but way." not to his mother, though she could In i moment a quiet, gentlemanly not think wholly ill of him. Indeed, Individual made his way toward them, the time was coming when she was and Mr Mollis showed him the strands to feel inexpressibly grateful to him. of hair, after introducing tin- detective and stating his errand. One day Perley did not return as Mi Hawkes look It and disappeared When he usual from school, and for some time with it for a few moment.--. hamli ,1 It back to Swan the detective his mother was not alarmed, as she supposed he had called to see his fancied It to be slightly wet. friend Edes, but by six o'clock Mrs. "Will?" said he, interrogatively. Hamilton experienced a sudden thrill It Is the "It has never been colored of fear that he had not returned. na'ural shade." She went to the mill at once and to "You may count on Mr Hawkes opinion as reliable," said Mr. Mollis. her uncle s office, but he had not seen Perley. "Is it what you expected to learn?" "Where does Mr. Edes work, the one "Hardly. I suspect the oni who sent it in mi thought II might be colored," who boards at Mrs. Fry's? Perley may he with him." Swan The detective answered Mrs Ham"Kdes? Oh. he takes away from the ilton's Inquiries In person and he could saw. I will go with you." It was the first time she had ever let she was relieved somewhat when she learned what Hawkei bad said. spoken to him. she thought, for nil this At his reIn. 'red. she told him so. wild questioning of her heart and of quest she told mm the few facts she other people. But It was but for an bsd learned regarding Primui Edes, Instant this occurred to her. for she was not a little alarmed about Perley. which, however, did not appear to Im"I will pa out and .".unt him up." he press Htm much until the matter of '1 :uarV il shirts ami up said putting on his coat that lay nv he could. "Oh, but my baby out in the woods all alone!" and a rush of dark tears checked her words. Mr. Carter choked at the thought and started off again down the street, this time followed by Constance, who fancied she saw lights coming toward the village. Yes, lights, and shouts, and cheers. "They have found him," cried Mr. Carter, hurrying away, and Constance, faint with sudden joy, though she almost feared to give it room, was forced to loiter for a moment. Not many rods away now came the tramp of forty men and boys who held their torches high above their heads and made the village ring with a prolonged shout as soon as they left the woods and entered it. Mrs. Hamilton, with wildly beating heart, was at the entrance to the bridge, made darker by the flashing torches beyond its range. As she entered it she saw not far away a man with something in his arms, who no sooner saw Mrs. Hamilton than he said, in a voice so overcharged with feeling that it vibrated upon her nerves like an electric shock, "I found him. I knew I should. He lay fast asleep with his head on his aim, in a hollow shut in by tall trees. But I found him." "Oh. thank you, thank you! My baby, my baby!" taking the boy, still sleepy, into her arms and covering his face with kisses. "Poor little darling, to get lost!" "No one could find him but me," said the man again, with his childlike air, as if longing to be praised again and again, an air strangely at variance with his thought-seamebrow and well shaped head. After this, it was impossible to one of so grateful a disposition as Constance t be unmindful of Primus Edes. She felt that he had a claim on her kindness which it was a pleasure as well as a duty to requite. it would With one so absent-mindebe easy, she fancied, to make changes in his surroundings which he would never notice except In a vague way, or suspect that they came through her. hi By gradual evolution, therefore, room at Mrs. Fry's came to wear the dainty look that white drapery, pictures and books could give it. Next, as cool weather approached, a stove mysteriously found its way there, and a comfortable dressing gown, or loose coat, if he chose to call It that, was found hanging in the closet. (To be continued.) FIT FOR PRIZE RING. Prize Fighter's Verdict on His Portion-o-f the Steak. Richard Harding Davis, when he was a reporter In Philadelphia, delighted to disguise himself as a "tough" young man and to mingle with the odd characters of the Ninth street district ot the Quaker City. Mr. Davis got to know this district with peculiar intimacy. Its prize fighters he knew especially well. Not seldom, in the gathering of some he would v company a third rate pugilist to his cheap boarding house and dine with him on the most unpalatable fare. "I used to know one fighter," said Mr. Davis recently, "who was a char acter, a wit, a man of no mean intellect. "One day I dined with him at his boarding house, a typical boarding house, one of those where the land lady sits at the head of the table and serves the dishes to the submissive pensioners ranged in two lines below her. "My friend got a piece of steak thai was full of gristle. Finding this steak tolerable tough he began to amuse us all with burlesque attempts at carving it He turned back his cuffs am' carved. Then he tool, off his coat Then he held his knife like a chisel and pretended to hammer the hand'e with a biscuit. "The landlady, up to this moment, had been loo busy serving to notic the pugilist's antics Now she spoke news-item- , up. "Is there anything the matter with your steak?' she said in a stern voice. "The pugilist smiled polltelv and n swered : "'It is a trifle overtrained, perhaps, madam: but. ren'',. sew a birdt- - muscle' " nr-vc- |
