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Show THE MONT TIMES BY C. E. SHERMAN. TREMONTON VILLAGFRS WHEN WERE STARVING SUPPLIES Rush Rescues The Revenue Cutter Citizens of Little Mining Camp in a Fearful Death. D. club. jENERAL RUSSEl A, GREAT ALGER GOVERNOR Seattle, Wash. On January 12, the United States revenue cutter Rush from Acting received a telegram Governor Distin of Alaska, saying that the condition of the little mining camp at Yakataga beach was critical, on account of scarcity of provisions. The Rush immediately put out with a supply of provisions sufficient to last the village for at least five months. She arrived off Yakataga beach on the 14th in a heavy gale. Boats went ashore with part of the food supplies and alter several hairbreadth escapes in the surf the last of the cargo was landed. men, They found the twenty-fivnine women and six children just at the last of their provisions and If the Rush had not come starvation was in evitable. One of the women was 60 years of age, and the youngest child was only six months old. Disaster Occurs in Prussian Property, One Hundred and Sixty Being Killed Fatal Fire Damp Brings Death to Throng of Workmen, the Poisonous Gasses That Filled the Chambers Hampering Work of Rescuers. HAD FOUGHT 10 Hi ( F01 DIVIDE MINE EXPLOSION Alaska From Wallace, a carpenter, fell from a scaffold at the new school house at Granger and was killed. The bricklayers of Salt Lake have demanded an increase in wages from $5 to $6 a day, beginning March 1. William J. Halloran, a prominent real estate man, has been elected president of the Salt Lake Commercial In CROSSES UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS Samuel ARRIVED IN V KILLED DEATH Hi IIIE1 TO APOLOGIZE Former Secretary of War Had Been Jeeble for Some Time, But the End Was Not Expected. Washington. United States Senator Russel A. Alger of Michigan died sud denly at his residence in this city at 8:45 o'clock Thursday morning, fol lowing an acute attack of oedema oi the lungs, with which he was stricker. shortly after 2 o'clock. Although Sen ator Alger had not been in good health for some time, his death was most un expected. The senator on Wednesdaj night was apparently in his usua health. During the day he transactec considerable business and was at tht war department up to a late houi Wednesday afternoon. At the bed ide when he passed away were Mrs Alger and their son, Captain F. M Alger, and his wife. Both the senate and the house ad lourned upon notification of the death of General Alger. The formal announcement of Sen stor Alger's death was made to the army by Secretary Taft in an order in which, after recounting Senator Al ger's services and. paying a tribute to his character, it is ordered that the flags at all military posts be displayed at half mast on the day of tho tuneral. The order says: "Secretary of War Alger was tho subject of unjust criticism because ol the country's lack of preparation for war when war came, although for this he was in no wise responsible." Swettenham Withdraws His Letter, Confessing Sorrow fDr Having Written It. Has British Governor of Been Taught a Lesson That Should Officials at Stte DeBe Lasting partment Regard Incident as Closed. on Who Were Perishing Prospectors From Thirst Wage Battle With Man Who Refuses Them Water. El Paso, Texas. In a fight for water, which meant life to them, out one jn the Arizona desert Friday, and the wounded was prospector with its slenowner of the water-holder and insufficient supply of water, in that barren region, priceless, was killed. After two weeks' prospecting for two young on the desert, gold BUI and Desplain, Lynn brothers, nearly perishing tfrom thirst, came known as "Bear's upon a water-holmiles from Satwenty-fivwells," lome, Ariz. An old man named Jones had taken possession of the water-hol- e and forbade the prospectors trilling their empty kegs. Refusing to obey him, they continued to replenish their supplies from the hole, when Jones seized his rifle and the fight began. When it was over, Jones was dead and Bill Desplain was badly wounded. e creamery is to be established at Wayne county, by local capit alists, the company being capitalized Saarbruck. A fire damp explosion phase The international London. for $2,000. in the ceiirred Monday incident has been Df the Kingston morning Marco Bogdavich, a Greek laborer , Reden coal mine at St. finally closed by Governor Swetten who had just been judged insane: the and Saarbuck, caujed ham formally withdrawing his letter pposite hanged himself in the Salt iake City oss of from 150 to 200 lives. The to Rear Admiral Dais and express-nJail, using his shirt for a rope. mine is owned by the Prussian govregret for having written it. A signal department has been creaternment. Swettenham's withdrawal of his let-eed in connection with the operation Seventy-sevebodies had been and his apology followed volumand maintenance of the block system broght out and fifty-sicorpses are inous telegraphic communications tc n use by the Oregon Short Line. known to be underground. Only fifty him from tile colonial office. The dis Sevier valley is clear of snow, to live men have been brought out, and patch which has now closed the inci the extent that the roads are dusty thirty-ot these the at least doctors say was sent by the governor to the dent HORRIBLE CRIME OF CLERK. mild the weather is and and five will die, as they are frightcolonial office, whence it reached the spring like, with clear sky and warn: Kills His Wife and Two Children as fully injured through at Washington REVOLTING CRIME OF MOTHER. having been state department sunshine. Result of Quarrel. hurled against the walls of the gallerin the usual office through the foreign Used Red Hot Iron on Children BeFarmers in the vicinity of Mill course. Washington. The police have ar ies by the force of the explosion. cause They Made to Much Noise. Creek and Sandy want all pheasants rested M. E. Copeley, a clerk in the An official report says the number Incident Closed. con do killed, claiming that the birds New York. Two little tots, Nellie, census office, on suspicion of having of dead cannot exceed 1G0. Officials at the state Washington slderable damage to the wheat and murdered his wife, Amanda 7 years, and Jennie, 2 years resafter rethe Immediately the to aged explosion discuss refuse Copeley, department corn crop. told cue were workers hurried from all two Magistrate House in the and his Raychildren, port that Governor Swettenham has younger, The most extensive stockyards and court how their stepthe mines 2 Harlem and entered police boldly adjacent mond, old, and years withdrawn his letter to Admiral Ruth, Bheepshearing corrals in the southern 3 months old. The Copeleys had a he Reden shaft in great numbers. Cravius had brandKate Mrs. mother, the out that Davis. It is pointed t stove lifter part of the state are about completed quarrel Tuesday night before retir- The work of rescue has been greatly a means with ed them president has taken every at Milford and will be ready as soon that evident too much it make him to to made known had rein the when play they poisonous gases ing and shortly after midnight Cope- hampered by as needed in the spring. he regards the Kingston episode as a noise. Twice LAW TO SERVE AS MODEL. the recital, the ley called in a physician, saying that sulting from the explosion and by a during de closed incident, so the officials As a result of the supreme court his wife had committed suicide. The fierce fire that broke out Immediately President's prisoner, a woman of intelligence and to comment on it. jline Insur Advocates on notified the Message In the Mill case, Judge Brown physician police and, opinion afterward. This caused efforts at resof pleasing appearance, not more than. ance Legislation for District. of the Salt Lake Juvenile court, has investigation, it was found that the cue to be EIGHTY LIVES SNUFFED OUT. 26 years of age, fainted. two children had been killed, but were suspended, and the workers been requested to resign by the Ju- concealed under the bed President Roosevelt Washington. had to be ordered out of the mine. When restored the woman admitted covering. venile court commission. in on Thursday sent to congress a mes- Explosion West Virginia Mint According to the story Copeley told After all the rescuers had reached she had burned the children, but that About 15,000 sheep are still on the the police, his wife and children re- daylight, according to one version, a sage favoring a model insurance law Brings Grief to Many Families. said that at the time she was posUintah reservation, and it Is reported t,red at 11 o'clock, and within an hour second terrific detonation was heard In the District of Columbia, as recomCharlesto, Wl Va. With a detona sessed by an jiiraccountable mania. he heard the report of two pistol underground. But according to an mended by the superintendent of in- tion heard for miles and that their owners made the offer of shots. hurling de The two girls, she said, had been playHe declares that he imme- other report many of the rescuers surance of the district, who suggested oris hundreds of feet in the air, dust would $20,000 to any one who get diately called a physician. He denies were still below when the second exing with their dolls until the noise them out of the deep snow. an insurance law for the district upon .n the Stuart mine near that he shot his wife and children. Fayetteville and confusion robbed her of her reaplosion occurred, and it is estimated A bald eagle measuring six feet four that the casualty list from the two ex- the lines of the Ames bill, exploded Tuesday afternoon, bringing son and left a resistless impulse to INTENDED TO KILL HIMSELF. punish the little ones. Seizing the but revised so as to include all the de- a terrible death to plosions reaches a total of 300 men. inches from tip to tip was caught in eighty or more stove-lilifter, she pressed the glowIt is as the certain that regarded sirable features of the a coyote trap at a quarry, near Salt Police Believe ''uni men who were at work 500 feet below Can Connect Bell lowest levels of the mine are coming end upon the back of the right They form bill." The message says: Iake, a few days ago. The eagle was the surface. There is no chance that hand of each child, causing scars that pletely wrecked, and the inspectors With Murder of Townsend. but little injured by the trap. "With proper modifications this bill are deliberating upon further measwill be taken out alive, for it is the little ones will carry to their any New York. What the police regard ures to get control of the Are. The :ould be enacted into a law so com graves. The annual poultry show of the Utah thought that the terrific force of the A peculiar feature of the case was State Poultry association, held in Salt as an important piece of evidence in managers are discussing the advisa- prehensive and just that it would explosion snuffed out their lives the of these as levels apparent affection for the children the flooding bility stand as a model of equity. I regret Lake City last week, was pronounced connection with the murder of Dr only felt by the prisoner, that attachment the inguishlng W. Charles at on Townsend his home greatly that that there is not national flames. (jtM by poultrymon the biggest, best and """ The disaster is perhaps the worst, being reciprocated. VQHl cleanest ever held by the association. Staten Island last Saturday, was dis- wtio TWit level assured poster to deal with this subject, but the number of killed, in the his Six in Boys Perish in Burning Factory. Ernest B. Snarr, a trimmer em- covered Tuesday. It Is a letter, found ly are dead. It will take a full week inasmuch as this seems at present to to of this state. Most of the men enter and mine. tory the explore at the of home John Bell, be the case, we should at least estabBrooklyn Dover. At least six lives were lost ployed by the Utah Light and rail' lish a model law in the District of were Americans and many of them In connection with the destruction by road company, met A TERRIFIC SQUALL. instant death who has been arrested in connection were married and had large families Columbia. while engaged in his work li Salt with the case. The letter bears Bell's "I feel that the department of in- There were a dozen or more colored fire of the Cocheco Manufacturing is addressed to his brother One Hundred Lives Lost in Storm signature, Lake City, coming in contact with a surance of the District of Columbia men and about twenty aliens among company's No. 1 mill in this city. Six Howard, was mailed in a Brooklyn live wire. at Hongkong. should be a bureau in the department the victims. The rescue work was hours after the fire broke out it was In late the evening of Janpostoffice of commerce and labor." begun as soon as the shaft house announced that the overseers of the At the weekly meeting 26. A of the uary and intimates that the writer terrific rain squall Hongkong. could be repaired. Wholesale Grain Dealers' association Intended to take his own life. broke over Hongkong Monday morning factory had satisfied themselves that THANKS AMERICANS. "Pray that I may be justified In my and in the space of ten minutes sank in Salt Lake last week, oats and bar none of the employees was missing-Late- r, FULL FARE FOR SOLDIERS. act," the letter concluded, "and that I over fifty Chinese crafts in the har Archbishop of West Indies .Sends ley advanced ten cents on the hun may meet sister in heaven." however, firemen found in the Union Pacific and Northern dred and corn meal declined ten cents Decline tc to bodies of six boys who had ruins the The sister referred to was Bell's bor, more than a hundred natives be President Cablegram Roosevelt. on the hundred. in the mule room. Reduce Rates for Uncle Sam. been wife, who died just a year before the Ing drowned. There were no casul employed Washington. President Roosevelt of the bodies had one Townsend every Mrs. unNearly Bell was ties the white tragedy. John Francis Hardio, past grand among people Omaha The Union Pacific anc has received a cablegram from Most been burned beyond hope of identithe care of Dr. Townsend when Launches from the shore res Rev. Dr. master of the Masonic fraternity in der Enos Nuttall, lord arch Northwestern railroads have refused fication. The financial loss is about she died, and it is said that her hus cued many occupants of the swamped Utah, and a member of the famous Hand blamed the bishop of the West Indies and chair to make any special rates to the gov $000,000. physician for her boats. handcart brigade which came to Salt death. man of the Kingston relief committee, ernment for the shipment of soldiers ATHLETES INJURED. MINE IS BURNING. Lake valley in 1850, died in Salt Lake his thanks for the prompt en route to the Philippines to and tendering TO SAVE WESTERN STOCK. City on the 22nd visit from of San the American warships under Francisco and the quarter Seven Members of Basketball Team Property Near Van Houston, N. M., Rear Anton Chiopussio, an Italian, was House Authorizes Sale Admiral Davis. The message master's department of the departVictims of Runaway. of Government From Shot. Missed Caught killed at the Annie Iaurie mine at follows: ment of the Missouri is much disap Hay at Actual Cost. Fort Jtiley, Kansas. Seven mem-bto- s Trinidad, Cc(lo. Willow mine No. Kimberly. His leg was caught In the "We over all action the of pointed the American appreciate roads deeply of the Kansas Washington. Twenty bills relating 6 of the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain City Athletio skip, and he was thrown against the to the District sympathy in our distress and the On Tuesday bids were opened in club's basketball team and Lieutenant of Columbia were and Pacific company, near Van Houstimbers of the skipway with such vio prompt visit of your men of war for Omaha for the transportation of 000 Megttler of the artillery corps at the passed Monday In the house, this lence that his skull was crushed. ton, N. M., caught fire Monday mornmen, 500 horses and a large amount fort were hurt here while on the way "District day." A joint resolution ing from a misplaced shot, and Is our succor. Ten offices in four different build "Happily, the supply of food avail of equipment from Forts Robinson to the railway station, following a was passed (nutting permission to still burning. All of the miners ex ings iu Salt Lake City were looted the for relief committees is suffi and Russell to San Francisco. Only runaway down a hill, which ended secretary of war to sell during cept three escaped, and it is believed able by amateur cracksmen, one night last the been suffocated. All eient. After meeting the cost of this the Union Pacific and Northwester;"; In their carry-al- l next three months to citizens of that they have being overturned. week, who pried open doors, opened Montana, at actual cost to the United attempts at rescue thus far have been our next great want will be the means BUbmlted bids and both were for reg suffered a comLieutenant Megttler ular For and full fares. officials-saRailroad making small houses habitable desks and broke open safes, but States at the place of sale, limited futile. The llatnes have resisted all All our of the fracture leg and the pound the government will secure no members of the club were people are behaving splen failed to secure anything of value. luantities of hay, straw and grain for efforts to extinguish them. badly cut more cheap fares. dldly." a.uL bruised. The first case of Illegal killing of domestic uses, from the stock providi l"Y BEA RESIGNS. JUDGE ed for the use of the garrison at Fort Too Much Talk in the Senate. LOOKING TO FUTURE. deer since the heavy snow drove the Assinlbolne COMPANY EXONERATED. Idaho Jurist to Retire, animals from the mountains into the The senate session on Washington. lepresentatlve Nixon of Montana, Oklahoma Legislators Making ProAfter Sixteen Years' Service. lowlands in search of food was un- explained that there were 20,000 head Tuesday began with a lecture from Held Not to Blame for Terrible Exvision for State Ownership. 3i cattle In the vicinity of Assiniboine IdahoH. James earthed at north Ogden last week Boise, senator Hale, who contended that too Beatty, for plosion in Primero Mine. .ureatened with starvation by reason Ok The constitutional much Guthrie, of and as a result three men will be if the sixteen the United years judge Trinidad, Colo. By the verdict of talking and not enough worl; bii..ard now raging, and in Convention has placed an amendment prosecuted. was being done. He had particular the coroner's jury in the Primeroi States Court for the district of Idaho, In lire neeu of hay, straw and grain. the bill of rights granting to the reference in his on Monday tnounced that he had tenSo far as tracklaylng Is concerned inability to secure mine explosion inquest, which was otate the right to engage in business CUBAN TRADE GROWING. the passage of the diplomatic and no progress has been made on the to President Industrv dered his resignation concluded Sunday, the Colorado Fuel or the exercise of Hie Hirht nr consular and fortifications appropriaWestern Pacific during the last month, American with a request that his common carrier. The amendment was tion bills, which were on the calen- & Iron company and its employes are Exports to the Island Last Roosevelt, but the ballasting of 100 miles of successor he appointed before March 4 Inspired by the probability of the es dar. Before the session ended the exonerated of all blame for the dis Year Broke All Records. track laid has progressed splendidly, Judge lleattj KBOOBCM no reason for tabllshment of a state oil refinery. A two measures had been disposed of aster as a result of which twenty four He has reached the provision covering the latter will be Senator ives were lost. Nearly 100 witnesses Washington. Never before iu the his retirement and with the exception of a few miles concluded Beverldge his were examined. No trace of the body of United Slates commerce age of permitting his retirement with a submitted on the floor later and the tnree-daistory on his child speech labor this stretch Is now completed and constitution was arranged of Reese J. Lumley, the American Are to allow bill. pension. was Cuba with the of export trade ready lor operation. this. boss, has been found. this country to that island so great Crime of Baffled Blackmailer. The "old folks" of Decides Against McClellan. were royalof Limit Track. as during the past calendar Single Steel Trust to Build a Great City. year. ly entertained last week. There were London - A verdict of wilful murder New York. Permission to appeal Seattle. That the Northern Pacific three of the first settlers of Lehl pres American Importation! from that re- was rendered by a coroner's jury Chicago. The United States Steel railroad had reached the limit of its from the decision of the appellate corporation, public are considerably below those It is announced, has ent, who came here In 1850, and for G Horace the man Hayner, division of the supreme court prevent the preceding year. The total against capacity as a single track railroad seven who crossed the plains with tho closed the of 2500 acres of purchase William a who" shot from this to Whltely. promiCuba exports Ing the destruction of the ballots cast country was famous handcart company. land in the new town of Gary, Ind, were valued at 148,491,944, which is nent merchant. .Iimnary 24. But few to the principal ofdefense put forward in the last the condition city election, was denied Height congestion Flockmasters In the vicinity of Mo- more than $2,000,000 over the export-ationadditional facts developed at the In- that exists on the sound by C. M. to Mayor McClellan by the annellati for a consideration of $3,000,000. It 1905. tor The importations dem are s the largest purcrrase in connection third vice president of the division on Tuesday. The appellau strenuous from Cuba were valued experiencing at $80,065,-295- , quest and the motive of the crime Levey, road, and B. E. Palmer, assistant gen- division had previously affirmed the with the operations of the steel cortimes, and a considerable loss Is rea was as the off unless, $10,000,-00a mystery of police showing falling eral superintendent, at the Investiga- decision of a lower court in refusing poration at that as compared with 1905. ported from flocks of sheep, caught The claim. It was a failure of attempted tion before place and its acInterstate Commerce Com- to allow the ballots to be destroyed quirement gives the In the desert, where the snow Is too marked decline In American Importacompany 8,000 The sons and the old em- missioner Lane on blackmail The Mr. mayor asked permission to takr ocres of land upon which to build its Wednesday. Is accounted for because of the ployes of the murdered man testified tions for deep browsing on sagebrush. reduction in the Levey said that the road had con- the case to the court of nnnenla ndustrial city, which, when com that they had never sVen or heard of tracted price of sugar. Should Hie CUStOIBtUry for improvements, which were Tuesday's decision prevents this. January thaw It Is said, will represent an pleted, of before the the fall to materialize, It Is thought the Rayner day tragedy. either under way or soon would be. House Favors Free Seeds. investment of $75,000,000. loss will he heavy. Bryan at Catalina. Mexican Murderer Caught. London Merchant Assassinated. The house on Tues-uaWashington The report comes from Mount Pleas Avalon. Catalina Island Emperor Bill's Birthday. Mr. an Texas.--IEl Paso, the arrest at passed the senate bill increasing Ixmdon. - William Whl'eley, foun- Mrs. W. J. ant that a man who has persisted in -- Emperor William's birth-JaBerlin Bryan, accompanied by of Juan Navarro Regalado, a der of the first big department store party of 200 prominent citizens of Ixif e neglecting his family was taken out the board of customs appraisers in Juarez was celebrated Sunday by the New York from ten to twelve. The prominent Mexican, It is believed that in was- shot and killn-- i Thurs by neighbors, one night recently, and The their wives the Angeles, country. and feminlnf throughout riven a severe whipping, sixty lashes agricultural appropriation bill occu- the mystery surrounding the brutal day afternoon by a young man, who friends, made the trip to Catalin,-Islan-d rmperor, accompanied by members of being administered. pied mt)t of the day and, f.s usual, murder of two young Mexican women afterwards attempted to commit sul- from San Pedro on board th the Imperial family, appeared m the Charles Plea, ant of Provo. aged 24, when the amendment striking out the of a promlnei.t family who were out clde. Mr. wblteley was upon the steamer Cabrlllo free Tuesday. The trir streets and was cheered enthusiastidistribution of Ins seeds of store leaving Ikh his tv,h reportwas run over and killed by a train and chopped to pieces with an point An elaborate ed the members from the farming dis raged to him with a re- was without Incident. rushed on Sunday assallnnt up on Dec. 11, and were found In their near Spring-vinluncheon was served at the hote cally. Emperor William The general suppo- - tricts outvoted those from the cities, ax volver In his li u. .era! shots, henceforth that an Issued ordinance Mr. and Mrs. Brvan vl Biuon is inai uie voting man was inen ii ruling or i tie ciiair bv a home, on one of the principal streets and the merchant fell dead where he Metropolw. will only Ited the for lose marine majestic In a 136 10 85 aud " stored the of Juarez several uours later. gardens plooa penalties tood. The assassin then emptied the The taking a ride, when he fell between vote bottomed lio.it and both who be noon those Inflicted persons as bit DCeO rias Into revolver the for law on expressed body, I'.'iagrapn authorities say the evidence against Inflicting delight with the novel the cars, as It w.is evident that never e with pr'tnedKa-thoffon "ominit the anr believed to are years. what be experience mortal ucks had passed over his body. Regalado Is conclusive. trip In general. tlon and evil Intent, and not on those wound who do It through Ignorance A Loa, John-on-Star- e x e e red-ho- - d d inriiitaBv wiO' be-.n- g Well-Know- y Ihl s y pop-jlac- e n-- e |