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Show r TIMES TBEMONT IslIKII WKKKl.Y PI HI TREIHONT W. H. Capwell, 1KI TIMES COMPANY IS Editor ind Manager MONTON I n is cimatrd tkat the otter creek reservoir will cost jiuu.uuu. Volney C. Gunnel! has been appoint ed Judge of the juvenile court It Supreme Court Hands Down Opinion Which Sets the flatter at Rest. Ogden. Governor Cutler has issued a proc lamation designating April 15 as Ar bor day. The fighting game in Ephraim reblow at the city ceived a knock-ou- t council meeting last week. The merchants of Ephraim are agitating the question of having a wholesale booM erected in that city. Utah leads all the states In this in region in the nnmbt:r of Cigars manufactured each y ai Lehi will probably have one of the largest clay working establishments In the west within the next few months. The range herds of sheep in I'tah have been ordered Inspected at once for scab. About 2,500,000 sheep will be Inspected. A Japanese laborer named Naka-fnerwas struck by a train while crossing a bridge at Ogden and killed. C. J. Lindell, a switchman, was caught between two cars at Ogden and badly crushed, but there is hope of saving his life. frosts have done considerable dam age to fruit at Green River recently. The outlook for a good crop of peaches and apples is, however, excel lent. Contracts have been signed for an inter-statdebate between the Uni versity of Oregon and the University of Utah, to be held at Salt Lake e April 28. Rev. P. A. Simpkin, recently ap pointed judge of the juvenile court of Salt Lake City, has declined the appointment, owing to his numerous other duties. James Leavitt, aged was stabbed m the back by Roy Evans, a playmate of about the same age, during an altercation in Ogden. The wound is Vft regarded as dangerous. Mrs. William Hall, ot l.ehi, was knocked down by a cow which stepped tin her arm and broke both bones just above the wrist. Owing to her ad vaneed age the fracture Is a serious one. The records of Hie revenue collec tor show that during the past ypar 8,170,152 cigars were manufactured in the state of Utah, the revenue col lected for the same amounting to $18.51 0. The first "Get Acquainted" exctir slon to be conducted by the Manulac turers & Merchants' association of Salt Lake City this year will be made on April 24 to the northern part of the state. Mrs. Thomas Green died at Kays niie on me ,iim, ai me age oi n. She was one of the rapidly diminish ing number who in early life knew and associated with the Prophet Jo seph Smith. vwmain ratnenngnam, aged ;n, a well known citizen of Lehi. was killed near tiy an explosion ot dynamite Stephenville, Mont. He was thawing dynamite In a cook stove when the explosion occurred. "Teddy," the big brown bear who for eight, years has been in the zoo at Glenwood park, and who was believed to be the best specimen in cap tivity in the slate, escaped last week and it was found necessary to kill him. Carl Barnes, a young man employed in a furniture store In Salt Lake City, accidentally shot himsell while fooling with an automatic re volvcr In the presence of his fiance, his recovery being doubtful. The people of North Sanote are determined to have a sugar factory, not withstanding the dissolution of the Sanpete and Sevier Sugar company. A local company Is to be organized and a factory but It. about midway be tween Moroni. Mount Pleasant and Spring City. The Utah Construction company of Ogden, has received the contract for building the remaining .121 miles of the Western Pacific lino from Deeth. Nevada, to the line, at an approximate cost of Nevada-Californi- a 96,000,000. John Dewey, the veteran chief engineer of the Lehi sugar factory and 'hree of his associates In the machine shop department have recently perfected a smoke consumer which they claim will consume any kind of fumes fed Into It. J. H. Bailey, of Pnrk City, is the owner of a cow that has calved twice within seven weeks. The first calf wa." liorn February 14, and on March II the cow gave birth to the second calf Old stockmen sHy there Is no explanation for the freak HUNTING OUTLAWS TAII NEWS UTAH STATE I mm causes IMC ISLE OF PiNES Case Originated in Connection With the Importation of a Few Boxes of Cigars. Isle an Integral Part of Cuba. That the bit of Pines Washington.Is not American territory has been officially and judicially decided by the supreme court of the United States. The decision was ten vied in ihe case of Edward .1. Pearcy vs. Nevada N. - Representative Charley Pray Leads a Posse After Kid Curry Gang of Train Robbers and Horse Thieves. Helena Mont Congressman Chas. N. Pray, who took that office only last month, is heading a posse in pursuit of the notorious Kid Curry gang of train robbers and horse thieves in northern Montana, who started from Havre this week. It was the gang who held up the Great Northern train at Wagner three years ago, stole a large consignment from the United Stales treasury for a Helena bank, for the forging of signatures to which certain members thereof were arrested in St. Louis and Knoxvllle, Tenn. Several were convicted, but Curry made a sensational escape from the Knoxville officers, and it is believed has returned to his old haunts in northern Mon tana. A. G. Gill, a wealthy pros-perir and ranchman of northern Montana, and a close personal friend of Pray, who was an avowed foe of the Carry gang, has disappeared and it is to find his body and round up the Curry gang that the trip is be ing made. Pray is being a?sisted by both United Slates and Montana officers, and the outcome Is awaited with much Interest. The reason of Curry's sworn enmity toward Gill is that the latter was declared to be an informer when Curry was seriously in need of shelter, and which nearly resulted in his capture. - Stranahan. collecter of the port of New York, and the opinion of the court was announced by Chief Justice Fuller, who said that up to the Paris treaty, the Isle of Pines had been considered as an integral part of Cuba and that it could not be held to be covered by article two of that treaty, which included only Islands in the vicinity of Porto Rico. The case originated in connection with the i m ort at ion of a few boxes of cigars by Pearcy In September, 1908, but. its hearing by the court was from time to time passed in the hope that the status of the island might be definitely decided by legislation or diplomacy. The cigars were made in the Isle of Pines of tobacco grown there, and when they arrived Pearcy refused to pay duty on the ground that they were of domestic origin. HANDS OF GOVERNMENT TIED. The collector thereupon seized them and Pearcy appealed to the United Stales Circuit court, where he secured Important Decision Rendered in Land Fraud Cases. noyclief. as that court sustained a de murrer filed by the government and In the opinion of OsAngeles. dismissed the appeal. car I,awler, United States attorney for this district, the supreme court of the CORTE2 AND CEIBA FALL. United States, by its action in the Complete Success of Nicaragua In cases of five of the seven J.os Angeles War With Honduras. men indicted In the Oregon land fraud Mobile. Ala. Puerto Cortez, one of investigation has effectually tied the the principal ports of Honduras, is hands of every United States attorney now In the hands of the Niearaguans in the country, so far as the prosecution of big criminals is concerned. according to advices received here. Advices received from Commander He adds that prosecutions involving Ftillam of the United States gunboat extradition will be farcical until conMarietta, via sleamer Columbia, say gress adopts a new law. "The holding of the supreme court that Ceiba was taken on the evening of April :i by the Nicaraguans. Not that an indictment alone is not suf a shot was fired. The N'icaraguan ficient cause for removal of a prisoner forces hen left for Puerto Cortez on to the center "of trial wITen his arrest board the gunboat Onietappe. They Is made outside the district, virtually were preceded by the Marietta to pro- allows a defendant two trials of his case," said Mr. Lawler. "Under this tect American Interests. ruling a man arrested in Arizona on That, Puerto ('otto, was surrendered an indictment found In California without lighting and that about 1,500 nemand a Hearing there and the may gov Hondurean soldiers abandoned the ernment has to go to the expense ot port two days before the Mcaraguan recalling and transporting its grand troops appeared was the information Jury witnesses, in addition to Sufferbrought here by the learner Anselm. ing the attendant delav. Also, the The Hondu nms did not desert their United States attorney has to show hitt post, through cowardice, according to hand and the defendant has a. chance these dispatches, but decided the war to find out the government's ease was over. They returned to, the ban- without himself exposing a single card ana plantations where most of them in the game. It amounts to an absohad been employed as laborers be- lute bar to, prosecution of the trusts fore the war began. Interstate commerce cases, and big federal conspiracy eases like that of WOULD SET NO DATE. the Louisiana lottery." i, s I Taft Has Not Decided About the Elec tion in Cuba. INSANE Havana. The members of the com mute., of ihe insurgents, with whom Secretary Taft arranged for peace in Cuba last September, had a confer nee with the secretary on Monday lasting three hours. Secretary Taft refused to give his visitors the date of the withdrawal of the American troops from Cuba. At Ihe close of the eon lerence. Sen ator Zayas and Gome, informed the Associated Press that Mr. Taft had dt la red it ispossihle to hold elections in Cuba until a complete census of the aland had been taken, which will oc cupy about lour months. He added that municipal and provincial elec lions would probably be held In Sopem her. hut he w ould not give anyprobable date for Ihe presidential ele. tlons - - SIX THOUSAND MEN IDLE. Man WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND Shot Down While at the Salt Lake City. As the result of a trivial misunderstanding, Mrs. Hooley shot and instantly killed her husband. William T. Hooley at their home in this city. Bd-l- wished his wife to go with Hooley him to Bingham, she refused and he then said he was going to take the two children with him. lie went to ' r r Speaker Cannon a Witness of Rescue of Thirteen People From Sinking Ship. 3eople Rescued Were Nearly Starved to Death, as They Had Lived far a Week on a Few Water-Soake- Biscuits. New York. Nearly every vessel that has arrived from Southern ports during the past week has brought some story of marine disaster wrought by the tornado off Hatteras during The tbe last ten days of March. BMiecher, arriving from West Indian port. was no exception. Standing in disconsolate groups about her decks were thirteen people, whom the liner had saved from their foundering bark, the Gulf port, as the vessel was on the verge of going down. The rescue was witnessed by Speaker Joseph G. Cannon and others of the congressional party on board the Bluecher. Those taken by the lifeboat of the liner from the waterlogged wreck were near starvation, as for nearly a week they had had nothing to live on biscuits. except a few water-soakeThursday morning the Bluecher altered her course to head for a wreck that had been sighted. The passen gers hurriedly quitted the breakfast table and gathered on deck to see the crew of the bark clustered about the aft rails. Little difficulty attended the work of rescue. The lifeboat, in charge of Chief Officer Beyer, was lowered from the Bluecher and rowed to the wreck. Into this went Captain Larsen of the bark and twelve members of his crew and in a short time had the refugees safely on board the Bluecher. 1MB Ml 01 FIGHTING 6E INNS UP TO STOCKHOLDERS. Deal Regarding the Alton Submitted to Governor. Springfield, Dl. Attorney General to Stead, in an opinion submitted Governor Deneen expresses doubt as to whether it iv the province of the state of Illinois to proceed against E. H. Harriman and his associates for the alleged manipulation of the Chicago & Alton railroad properties. If the state should revoke the companies' charters the loss would fall on the stockholders, the Harriman already having disposed of a The large portion of their holding's. attorney general concludes, therefore, that the best plan would be for the company it self to seek a remedy for the situation, or even for one or more stockholders to act. At the same time Mr. Stead assures the governor that should he become convinced on further investigation that the state can relieve the road's condition he will make the necessary moves at once. Opinion peo-ujj- BEYOND Series cf Conferences at the State partment Over the War in Central America. AWFUL HORRORS OF FAMINE. Starving Chinese Eating Corpses ot Those Who Have Succumbed. Washington. To correct an erroneous report that has found general circulation with harmful results, the Red Cross has issued the following statement in regard to the Chinese famine: "The famine in China is unprecedented in severity and the period of greatest agony is yet td come. Many week's must puss before there will be relief from new crops, and millions today are kept alive only through the contributions of the American people who have sent their donations to the National Red Cross at Washington and to the Christian Herald of New York. These two great organizations are working together for the common cause, and have furnished over of all relief supplies sent to China. The large amount of money and shipments of supplies already made have only partly relieved the situation, while hundreds of thousands of lives have been saved, hundreds of thousands must yet die unless large additional sums and ship ments ut ioou are immediately provided. "When a people have been reduced to such straits that they will dig up and eat their own dead, the severity and wide extent of the famine can be realized." two-third- RULINGS AGAINST THEM. Committee Withdraw Their Watchers. New York. The international committee has issued a statement pointing out alleged violations of the present insurance code by the companies in the recent elec tion of officers and the alleged in efficiency of the department of insur ance in conducting the supervision ol the election. "The international committee," savs the statement, "has maintained for months in both the Mutual and New York Life canvass a force of watchers and translaters and every effort has been made to protect the inters ests of who have voted against the old managements, but the ruling of the inspectors have been so uniformly against us. and, being fully satisfied that it is Impossible, under the present conditions, to s cure a fair count of the votes as cast we withdraw onr watchers.' Policy-Holder- IMMIGRANTS. Belief in Rome That They Are Ex ploited in This Country. Rome. Francesco P. Materl, member of the chamber of deputies, has made public a letter in which he urges the government to extend its protection to Italian immigrants, not only on board steamers crossing the ocean, but even after they have dis embarked in the United States. He expresses the belief that emigrants to America are exploited and used for work in unhealthy section's of the country. The writer points out that in 19(16 800.000 Italians emigrated an that. 500,000 went to the United States. He estimates the total miniher of immigrants for 1907 at one million persons. I Teachers for the Philippines. and Washington. One hundred twenty American school teachers will sail for the Philippines before June !. The first of the new teachers will go upon the Korea, sailing from San Francisco on A pri I 2.1. Another party will leave upon the America Mant on May 3, and the third party will sail on the Siberia May lo. Most of the new school teachers are men, as commission the Philippine prefers them to women, because of the hard ships which must be endured at the interior towns. policy-holder- Jews are in Great Fear. Odessa. A sensation has been caused by the results in the municipal elections, just ended, which resulted in a victory for the Union of True Russian people. Out of seventy two members of the town council, sixty seven are now members of the union ne previous liberal council was re garded as the only safeguard against disorders and the onh body capable of interceding with the authorities against the black hundred The Jews are in fear of fresh out rages. anti-Jewis- Killed by an Avalanche. Tacoma. Wash. The bodies of three miners have been found in the ruins of a cabin in the Glacier Mining basin, 100 miles from Tacoma. The cabin was crushed by an avalanche or a hurricane, and It is believed the miners were killed about the last of December. The party consisted of Ernest Shaller, aged 40, of Htuklev Nels Brown, aged 28, of Seattle, ami Albert Preastling. a boy aged 15, of Shoshomish county. They went in with a stock of provisions In the fall to work for a mining company. Episcopalians to Meet in Boise. Fought Storm for Sixty Hours. Idaho Great preparations New York. With seven of her are being made by the Bp seopalians crew Injured and others utterly exof Boise for the fifth conference of hausted, the steamer Virginia arrived the seventh department of Episcopal hero Saturday from Kingston. Jachurches of the United States, includ- maica, after a desperate struggle with ing the Islands of the Pacific, and a storm of sixty hours' duration off Alaska, to be held here the first week Hatteras. The Virginia ran Into the It is said that a number storm on in May. Tuesday, and from that time of the until of foreign representativeThursday It was a constant batchurch win he in attendance at this tle with the sea. The wind reached conference, and this will be the great a velocity of sixty miles. At one est event In the history of (he BpiscO tinif six waterspouts were sighted nallnn In Idaho from the stcmi. ,:0 Boise, i 1 T De- Hoot and Washington. Secretary Mexican Ambassador Creel have decided that the time is ripe for concerted action to terminate hostilities in Central America, If the result could be accomplished by moral suasion and earnest beyond representations, United the which point neither Stales nor Mexico is willing to go. A series of conferences has been held at the state department between the interested parties. A notable fact was the absence of the Nicaraguan minister, Senor Corea. It was suggested that the purpose of the conference was to frame an agreement for the future settlement of all disCentral American putes between countries and to submit this to Nicaragua and request her adhesion, failing which that country would find itself standing alone among the Central American states and without their sympathy. It is believed that a few days will bring about important developments and that either peace will be declared or a general war will follow between Nicaragua on the one side and the remaining four states on the other. policy-holder- ITALIAN aunt MEN d President Roosevelt is Reticent as ta the telephone and was calling a numAlleged Conspiracy. ber when Mrs. Hooley fired two shots, Washington. I). ('.President Rooseone of which passed through his heart velt is receiving many letters regardand the other struck him in the the combination which it is assertmuscles of the neck. Kit her wound ing ed has been formed to defeat at the would have proved fatal. Beside the campaign the woman as she fired the shots stood coming presidential of Mr Roosevelt Information policies little Johnnie Hooley, their lOyear as lo the identity of the writers and old child. the precise nature of their communiThe aciious of the woman con- cation! is withheld, but those who are vinced the county allornev that she close to the president say the diswas Insane and he has tiled an aftid.i closures have stirred up considerable, vlt charging her with insanity. feeling. Vast Army of Men Out of Work Be cause of Strike of Fifty. Butte, Mont Because fifty two elec Murdered an Actress. trical workers, machinists and black' Chicago. Howard Nicholas and smiths struck at the Boston & Mon tana smelters at Great Falls Monday lyeonard Leopold have been fWTlUud afternoon, six thousand men are idle, of the murder of Mrs. Margaret Les Nicholas was sen the shutting down of the smeller be He, an actress. ing followed by (he suspension of the tenced to life imprisonment and Leo Boston & Montana mines In Butte. pold was given a fourteen-yeaterm The electrical workers, machinist in prison. On the morning of Octo and blacksmiths demanded an 'itv 19 last year, the body of Mrs crease of 10 cents per day, refusinsr her vas found ill her room at the lo confer with John D. Ilyan, managPalace hotel with an undergarment ing director of the Amalgamated comtied around her neck. The room unpany, who had offered the men an infilled with gas from an open jei crease of N cents per day on a verdict of suicide by gas poisoning contract. was rendered by a coroner's Jury. Woman Will Not Hang. Evidence In the Bradley Case. Kansas City. Governor Folk at Two commissioners to Washington City baa commuted to life imtake have been authorize. deposition prisonment the sentence of Mrs. Aggie Myers and Frank Holt man, whose In the Bradley case. Judge Stafford execution for the murder at Kansas named Florence Hartley, of Salt Lake City on May 11. 90 of the woman's City, to take the oral depositions of husband, Clarence Myers. pressman, Garnett, Judge Thomas Marl had bpen set for April 10. This ends a celebrated case. Mrs. Myers Is in oneaux, Samuel King, Judge w. i Jail at Liberty, Mo. and Hottman is King, Senator George Sutherland and Cuthbert Olsen. Hugh R. Osborne In jail at Kansas City. Hottman confessed the murder and said Mrs My- of Santa (Jim, Cnl , was commls ers helped hi in commit It. so they sloned to take ihe oral deposition ,,f M. H. Maddisoti. Mrs Itro.iw. might oiar v v father. live-yea- a he ma IT'S I MORAL SUASION Slayer of White Wins Victory After a Rigid Mental and Physical Examination District Attorney Jerome Enters Vigorous Protest Against Confirmation of the Commissioner's Report by the Court. Trial to Proceed. New York. Harry K. Thaw was declared sane on Friday by the unanimous report of the commission in lunacy appointed to inquire into his present mental condition. The moment the decision was handed down from Justice Fitzgerald's desk, District Attorney Jerome was on his feet vigorously protesting against its confirmation by the court. He declared he had been excluded from the last session of the commission and demanded to be allowed to have access to the minutes and stenographic notes of what transpired at the final mental and physical examination of the defendant. When Justice Fitzgerald declined to turn the minutes over to the district he attorney, Mr. Jerome declared would carry the case to the appellate division of the supreme court, asking that a writ of prohibition or mandamus be granted to prevent a continuance of the Thaw trial until the higher court had ruled upon the legality of the commission's course. Unless Mr. Jerome should secure a writ of prohibition in the meantime, Justice Fitzgerald is expected to announce on Monday morning that he has confirmed the report of the commission and order that the trial proceed without further delay. HUNDREDS OF HOMES LOST. Earthquake at Bitlis Causes Eight Deaths and Destroys Many Houses. Constantinople. The following dispatch was received here Thursday from the Rev. Royal M. Cole, head of the American mission at Bitlis: "At 10 o'clock in the forenoon of March 29, there burst upon us unannounced the worst earthquake witnessed in forty years in these or the Erezerum volcanic regions. Such was its force that our city seemed to be in the jaws of some monster, who would shake us into shreds, as a mastiff does his game. Down came the plastering, the furniture was overturned, cracks were opened in strong walls, roofs were shattered and rain poured in. During the first day there were fourteen shocks and they still continue. There have been altogether twenty-eigh- t shocks. Of the 4,000 houses here over 300 have fallen, and half the remainder have been seriously damaged, about $50 to $500 being needed to repair each house. The officials report that eight persons were killed by falling walls, but they are all unknown it Bitlis." Southern Pacific Employees Directly Blamed for Colton Wreck. Colton. Cal Coroner Van Wie on Thursday swore out warrants for the arrest of the employees of the Southern Pacific who were held responsible for the wreck on March 28, in which twenty-fivThe people were injured. charge is manslaughter without malice. The following are the names of the men against whom warrants were issued: L. R. Alvord. foreman of the switching crew; J. G. Crusemeyer, switchman; Clarence Warmington, engineer. The complaints charge them with causing the death of H. F. Walthers of Sacramento, who was among the killed. e JUSTICE CAME QUICKLY. Embezzling Banker is Arraigned and Sentenced Within Three Minutes. Cincinnati Bar" liolomew Cavagna. former teller in the First National bank, was on Friday indicted for the embezzlement of $20,000. Immediately-arraignedpleaded guilty, and was r given a sentence in the peni tentlary. was minutes Only three taken from the reporting of the indict mcnt to the final sentence. , six-yea- Conspiracy Cry is Raised. Washington. It was said on authority at the White House on Friday that there is ample evidence at hand for the claim that the president holds that there is a movement afoot to defeat his policies In the next congress and In the next convention. It is declared that the combine has already a fund of $5,000,000 with which to carry on its campaign In opposition to the president, and to elect a man opposed to his policies. Thirty Firemen Hurt. York. Thirty firemen, among them Chief Croker and Deputy Chief Guerln. were hurt by falling debris, and damage estimated at $50,000 was caused by a fire In a building early Thursday. Only two oY the men werr severely injured Anurow Swert, assistant foreman, and David Murphy, fireman. Nearly a hundred firemen were at work on the burning building when an explosion ripped off the roof and the wall began to fall. New five-stor- y |