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Show BLAND-ALLISO- THE NEPHI RECORD. ACT. N HENliV ADAMS, l'ubllsher. NEPHI. .t Its ConstitutionMichigan Lawjrr to ality in Supreme Court. I UTAH UTAH NEWS. Three new pas wells are to be sunk in the gas fields south of Salt Lake. An extensive tract of country contiguous to Vernal is to be sectionized th is 6prirp. Uintah county shipped four carloads f honey the past season, beside supplying the local market. The first consignment of trout eggs for the state fish hatchery has arrived and been placed in the troughs. It is expected the railroad grade will be finished and trains be running from Belknap to Marysvale by March 1. No new smallpox cases have developed at Payson and the quarantine is to be raised and the schools opened. A case of smallpox has developed at Salem, Utah county, but the authorities do not fear a spread of the dis- Washington, Jan. 11. A record and brief have been received by the clerk of the supreme court of the United Spates in a case from the supreme court of Michigan that may have a bearing on the financial question. It is the case of Baker vs. Baldwin, in which F. A. Baker, a Michigan lawyer, seeks to test the constitutionality of the act. making the silver dollar of 371.25 grains of pure silver a full and unlimited legal tender in the payment of ail debts, public and private. Mr. Baker claims that the act of 1873, establishing the gold dollar of 23.22 grains of pure gold as the standard of value is the only valid act in existence making coined money a full legal tender and that all contracts since entered into payable in money without stipulation as to the kind of money, can be settled only in gold dollars or in United States Dotes redeemable in gold. He contends that the act is unconstitutional because the bullion value of the silver dollar at the date of the passage of that act and ever since then has been less than the value of the gold dollar and that congress has no right under the power to coin money to issue a debased coin and to make it an unlimited tender, where no provision is made for its redemption in coin of full value. Mr. Baker is a silver man, and in 1890 was chairman of the Democratic state committee, but believes the position he has taken is the true legal one. and the ease is a friendly one to determine the matter. Bland-Alliso- n Bland-Alliso- n ease. The business men of Vernal provided a Christmas tree for several hundred children, which was duly appreciated by the little ones. The amounts paid for leather, shoes, harness and other leather goods shipped into Utah aggregate more than a million dollars annually. The past year has been one of prosperity with the briekmakers of the state, they finding it almost impossible to fill all their orders. makers of cheese report Twenty-twtheir product for 1899 to be 1,397,987 CONSPIRATORS SENTENCED. pounds. It requires ten poundsof milk The French High Courts Acts In Three to make a pound of cheese. Cases. Haworth, the mau now confined in Paris, Jan. 10. The high court (SenIn the Davis county jail, charged with ate,) in secret session, condemned M. the murder of Watchman Sandall, is Buffet and de Roulede to ten years aid to he on the verge of insanity. banishment. Work is progressing favorably at the M. Guerin was sentenced to ten years University grounds. Brick is being confinement in a fortified place. laid at the normal building, and founM. Saluces was sentenced to ten dations are going in at the physical years banishment. o building. History of the Utah Volunteers is the title of a book to be published in the near future. It is to be a history of the volunteers written by the volunteers themselves. Lehi, which for the past two years has been a prohibition town, will in the future have licensed saloons, the citizens having decided that the prohi-bitiqtpda- were a failure. The public schools of Richfield have reopened after a four week's vacation, three weeks of which was owing to the ainallpox scare. There is no further fear of the disease in that vicinity. A hide and pelt dealer estimates the export from Utah of hides the past year PAUL DE ROULEDE, at fifty carloads, valued at $100,000; and decision condemns the convicted The the pelts at over forty carloads, worth men to pay the costs of the prosecution. $80,000, bringing the total up to 8180,-00The sentences to take effect immed0. The deposits of guano on one of the islands of Great Salt Lake are estimated at not less than 250,000 tons, and it has been decided by the courts that these deposits may be worked as placer claims. Albert Adair, aged 11, of Provo, while Climbing on a passing wasron, tell under a hind wheel and his pelvis was so badly crushed that he succumbed to Bis injuries, despite the best of medical iately. It is asserted that M. de Roulede was hurried to the train and immediately departed toward the Spanish frontier, he having decided to reside at San Sebastian. Monsieur Guerin will be removed to a French fortress probably on the is- land of Oleron, off the west coast. Monsieur Buffet will go to Belgium. STRONG PHILIPPINE ARGUMENT Senator Beveridge of Indian Favor Re. attendance. taiuing the Islands. The fees paid into the office of the That man Washington, Jan. 11. of for the common knows little state, mainly incorporsecretary people of the ations and insurance, during the past republic, little understands the inyear, amounted to 530,225.25, an in- stincts of our race who thinks we will crease of about 812. 000 over 1893. This not hold the Philippine archipelago is equal to a tax of of a mill on all fast and hold it forever, administering the taxable property of the state. just government by simplest methA consignment of Lafayette dollars ods. This sentence was the keynote of a was received by a Salt Lake bank last and the souvenirs soon found speech delivered in the senate by Mr. week, their way into the pockets of the Beveridge of Indiana. Every senator The coin is the weight and fine- was in his seat and scores of represenness of the average silver dollar, but it tatives came over from the House. The occasion was inspiring and Mr. aells for twice that sum. His Two of Spanish Forks school maams Beveridge rose to it brilliantly. was was It deeply interesting. grew tired of the enforced vacation speech caused by the smallpox scare and were replete with striking sentences and Spoken married last week; and now theres well arranged information. with and el all the earnestness, vigor of school maams who any number would like to secure a position in that oquence of a fine orator, enthusiastic in his subject, who was passionately town. dramatic at times. When he declared Roy Jones, aged 8, of Spanish Fork, with deep solemnity, to those whose while playing was kicked in the stomvoices in America have cheered those ach by a playmate, but concealed hla misguided natives on to shoot our solinjuries from bis parents until inflam- diers down, that the blood of those mation had set in, and after a weeks dead and wounded boys of ours is on intense suffering the little fellow their hands and the flood of years can to his injuries. never wash that stain away," there The total amount of capital invested was a deep, although suppressed senIn thirty three Utah creameries ia sation among his auditors. of these report 157,978. Twenty-fiv- e Senator Iloar replied briefly, stating their production of butter in 1899 at that the course pursued by the admin1,704,338 pound. Probably about 90,000 istration had caused all the trouble, cows are required to supply these end that the president bad power to rasmsries with milk. nd the war at any time. citi-een- sue-enmb- -- s. to Taking Away Their Wealth, Would He Welcomed. New York, Jan. 10 Governor Roosevelt recommends vigorous legislation for the control of trusts. In his recommendations to the legislature he says: The contrast offered in the highly specialized industrial community between the very rich and the very poor is exceedingly distressing, and while under normal conditions the acquirement of wealth by an individual is necessarily of great incidental benefit to theeommunity as a whole, yet. this is by no means always the case. In our great cities there is plainly in evidence much wealth contrasted with much poverty, and some of the wealth has been acquired or is used in a manner for which there is no moral justification. The chicanery, and the dishonest, even though not technically illegal methods, through which some great fortunes have been made are scandalous to our civilization. The man who, by swindling or wrongdoing, acquires great wealth, stands as low morally as a malevolent and is a more dangerous member of society. Any law, and any method of construing the law, which will enable the community topunish him, either by taking away his wealth or by imprisOf onment, should be welcomed. such are even needed laws more course, in dealing with great corporations or trusts than with individuals, BOER REPULSE AT LADYSMITH. General White Successfully Opposes an As saulton the Town. London, Jan. 10. British hopeshave been revived by the news that General Sir George White has successfully repelled a vigorous and protracted assault on Ladysmith. .The enemy was in great strength and pushed the attack with great courage and energy. Some of the intrencbinents on Wagon Hill were three times taken by the Boers and retaken by the British. One point in the British works was occupied all day by the Boers, who were driven off, however, about 7 oclock by a bayonet charge during a fierce rain storm. The Boer loss was heavy. Notwithstanding the victory, the fear is often expressed that the ammunition at Ladysmith is getting low and it might be impossible to successfully resist many such attacks. General White has 9000 men at Ladysmith, and their capture would prove aA overwhelming disaster, and leave the Boers now engaged at Ladysmith free to attack Buller. Any Law, Even as Burgher and All White Men t lnw-eMay be lone i Into the Ariuy il Capetown. Jan. 9. Intelligence has been received here from the Free State that President Steyu has issued a i UTAH DEFENSE. CONGRESSMANS PLEA BEhORE COMMITTEE. Constituent Competent Judges of Moral Statu ofa KeprehentatlT. Claim Evidence line Not Sustain Charge. Washington, Jan. 7. Mr. Roberts of Utah begin his plea on his own behalf yesterday, speaking in all about five hours The committee adjourned before he had concluded At the opening of the session a letter was received from John (1. Carlisle, arguing against the citizenship of Mr. Roberts, and stating it was his belief that Mr. Roberts would not be allowed to vote in tiny state in the union on the showing made. Mr. Roberts said: The questions to be considered are the prima facie and finai right of B. II. from 'Roperts, representative-elec- t of house a seat ia to the repreUtah, sentatives, to which he. was elected in the month of November, 1398, by the people of Utah: the electorate of said state gave him a plurality of vote of 5,605. It is a case in which there is no contest and where it appears, so far as the proceedings before the committee ' bWY are concerned, the representative-elec- t PRESIDENT STEYN. possesses all of the qualifications preproclamation declaring that every scribed by the constitution of the white man, irrespective of nationality, United States and where there is no is to be considered a burgher, and is statute so far as made to appear before liable to be compelled to fight for the the committee either in the state of defense of the country. Utah or the United States applicable to ROBERTS CONCLUDES DEFENSE the case which disqualifies the repre from the office of conScores Attorney Schroeder and Refers to sentative-elec- t Tatriotism of the Mormons. gressman in the lower house of the Washington, Jan. 9. It has been American congress. decided to continue the Roberts hearIt is left to those constituents to until the when tomorrow, argu- determine, said he, what shall be the ing ment will be concluded by John G. moral status of the man they wish to Carlisle, who will argue against seat- send to congress as their representative, and not to the house of congress. ing the member from Utah. In closing his remarks, Mr. Roberta Mr. Roberts took up the evidence of said he bad observed that the ladies the witnesses who appeared against involved in this question of plural him and questioned some of their state, wives were quite generally received in mentsi the circles of gentile ladies in Utah. Ith as not even been established, rr He tehemently denounced what he said he, that B H. Roberts was ever characterized as the sensational cru- married to Margaret C. Shipp Roberts. sade made agaiost him, and also the It has been shown that he was seen effort to arouse public feeling by say- near the house and once in the house. ing The American Home was in dan- But there was no testimony of marIf necessary, he exclaimed, "I riage, nothing as to their maintaining ger. could call attention to 10.00C evils martial relations, nothing as to their which threaten the country without having been seen at the theatre or at the church, or otherwise associating as going to the state of Utah. Mr. Roberts referred to Mr. Sehroe-de- r man and wife. as a tenth-rat- e A3 to the testimony that he had Atand in lpwyer, closing said that the patriotism of the tended the funeral of a child of Celia. Mormon church could not he ques- Dibble Roberts, that was. Mr. Roberts tioned. hen a fund was raised for said, not remarkable. There was the benefit of the survivors of the bat- nothing extraordinary in his attending WESTERN INVESTIGATIONS. tleship Maine, the Mormon church had a funeral and the inferences drawn of tlie entire could not be viewed as proof. As to Coeur d'Alene AlTmr anil Utah lostniag-ter- g contributed to be Investigated. amount. When the country's authorany direct marital relations with Celia. Washington, Jan. 10. The house has ity in the Philippines was questioned, Dibble Roberts, he said, there was no ordered two investigations as a result Utah's guns, bandied bjr Utah men, direct testimony. of resolutions introduced by Represenhad been in the forefront of the fray. In the maiu the evidence was as to tative Lentz of Ohio. The first istobe general repute, he contended, which IN DANGER. LADYSMITH an investigation by the committee on was short of that conclusive proof reSurNews Expected That the Town Has postotliees and post roads into the quired. lie challenged the charge that rendered to Hners. that two the federal charge appointees 9. The British public he had contracted three polygamous London, Jan. of the president, John C. Graham of is at last face to face with a critical marriages. Provo City. Utah, and Postmaster OrMr. Tayler said he had never heard moment in the campaign. It may safely son Smith of Logan, Utah, are under be said that at no previous time have of such a charge, as three polygamous indictment as polygamists, and whether there been such anxious hours of sus- marriages would mean four marriages affidavits to that effect were on file at pense as will be passed through until in all the time of their appointment. I challenge this, said Mr. Roberts, the arrival of further news regarding The other is a general investigation because it is one of the charges on of Ladysmith. of the military committee into tliecon-dueto- f the fate The week opens with only fresh ad- which excitement has been worked General Merriain and the United ditions to the disasters that have be- up. States army officers during the Ward-neMr. Roberts vehemently exclaimed fallen British arms, and there is no Ida., riots and subsequent thereto. longer any sustaining confidence to against those who had hounded him.. MANILA HAS THE PLAGUE. They were not the hankers, merchants, buoy up public opinion. The editorials fully reflect the ex- lawyers and other substantial citizens Three Native Stricken by the Bubonic Iest. treme gravity of the situation, with a of Utah but they were in the main Washington, Jan. 10. The plague painful under-curreof ominous fore- eastern missionaries who had' gone to has broken out in Manila beyond a boding, mainly caused by the fact that Utah to oppose Mormon ism. doubt. Colonel Greenleaf, assistant while the Boers have now At one poiQ Representative Mc changed surgeon-genera- l surgeon in their tactics and assumed the offesive, Therson of the committee asked: the Ill ilippincs..wi res that three na- General Buller is apparently unable to Under your faith, was the taking tives are down with the dread disease. do more to assist General White than of plural wives merely allowable or The first effect will probably be to in was it required? making a demonstration. have quarantine laid uponi the most It was mandatory, replied Mr. The Morning Post says: lie might according to the view of rigid sanitary regulations, I and this as well have ordered a display of fire- Roberts, leading Mormon authorities. work will be undertaken A Colonel works. Mr. Roberts continued until 4:30 p. Greenleaf pending the ar.( Nil at MaAs the heliograph ceased working m., when he asked that the hearing go nila of the marine hospital J (vice off- Sunday, it is presumed that General over, having spoken almost five hours. icers now on the way. t White's last message was sent by a General Wood Releases Prisoners. General Sternberg says Vlolonel piegon or runner. Its purport is serious Havana, Jan. 7. General Wood has Greenleaf is exceptionally fitted enough. issued an Important order giving freeto cope with the present ei( dom to forty men in the province of Gnbernatlonal Content, Kentucky be has no doubt that th Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 9. Republican Santa Clara. Some of them had been soon be stamped out. leaders who are on confidential terms detained without trial and others wero with Governor Taylor have intimated suffering excessive punishment. All Coin Harvr yw Book. been released ten months before that the Republican contestees may Chicago, Jan.jf The advanl not quit the fight in the event the legis- by an order issued by General Bates, sheets of Coh Airvey on Monej Trusts and J erialism have beeJ lature and state contest board vote to but they were immediately rearrested issued, with iview by Willis J, Ab seat Goebel as governor and the other on orders from division headquarters bott, chief of the literary bureau of Democratic contestants. They have on the ground that a department comthe Democratic national committee. by no means given up hope that they mander did not haye the power to parwill wifi in the legislature, but are don. After looking carefully into 1I10 The volume is illustrated, containing ' 184 pages, and is Wood decided that the put forward as pre- taking time by the forelock and are cases. General of General Bates regarding case moves in around for other judgment the senting argument upon which the Rooking their release was wise, and consequentbeshould is win. Goebel It bases Democracy its case for the presigenerally the order setting them at liberty lieved they will seek to raise a federal ly dential campaign of 1900. was promulgated. The official review issued by the question and take the case into the Reports from other departments are daily expected, and it is believed that literary bureau of the Democratic na- 'United states supreme court. the end of the month a large tional committee says of the book: It The contest comes tip this wi ek and before number will be especially in is the text book of the Democratic will probably last several ays, as the province of released, Havana. The cases of there is nipah evidence to ha. heard on those who have been held for a long party in 1900. time in detention without trial wlU be both sides) the first to be investigated. -- - one-fift- r, I nt and.-chie- f b-- - . rJ: t ROBERTS DRASTIC MEASURES OF ORANGE FREE STATE ROOSEVELT ON TRUSTS. " |