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Show ciiox.ie gives I THE NEPHI RECORD BENBY ADAMS, DESPERATE FIGHT WITH Mxicau SURRENDERSON ANNIVERSARY lublUhr. OF MAJUBA HILL. UTAH NEPHI. it. Nerxy Ccr.pral IlnBlii Another Army to I util liners Collect Iis)uteiiolerts Entrance into Transiaal. UTAH NEWS. General Conje surrendered uncondito Lord Roberts on the morntionally William J. Eurfey of Salem, Utah, 27. Lord Roberts, in of ing February lias been granted a pension of $8 per news. the mentions the wiring month. fa.-that the surrender occurred on the A trainload of cattle and a car of annit ersary of Majuba Hill, and hopes hogs was shipped from Richfield dur-th- it will he satisfactory to the British past week. public. His dispatch, dated February John II. llamlin. a Salt Luke painter 27, is as follows: and decorator, lias keen nominated by General Crorije and all of his force the Social Labor party for congress. capitulated unconditionally at day There has been no snow on the Lrecn light, and is now a prisoner in roy No snow is camp. The strength of his force will river desert this winter. I hope that encountered until after the Wasatch he communicated later. Her is entered. Majesty's government will considrange A new creamery is projected for er this event satisfactory, occurring as Manti, with a capacity of a ton and a it docs on tiie anniversary of Majuba. General Cronje made a brilliant dehalf of milk a day. It will be in operfense, bill was overpowered, and his ation by J line 1. only aim appears to have been to hold Spanish Fork lias prohibition, and out long enough to allow the Iloers to no liquor can he sold within a radius concentrate another army in front of of one mile of the town unless a resoto Roberts his entrance to the dispute lution adopted by the county court is Transvaal. Jle resisted for a week, ignored. and his losses must have been heavy, Thomas Reilly, a miner working in although he refused an offer of medithe llonorine at Stockton, last week cal assistance from the Rritish a few fell down a shaft !2 feet deep without hours before the surrender occurred. sustaining injuries more serious than Safe conduct for the women of the a few bruises. camp through the Rritish lines was A dividend of 18 per cent has been also declined. set aside ly the Richmond Mercantile Several small bands of Iloers have tfc Creamery company for the purpose been captured within the past few of installing a cold storage plant at days. Cronje's forces are estimated at the creamery. from to 8,000, so the Rritish have Acting Governor Hammond has ap- probably 10,000 men as an offset to the pointed John A. McAllister trustee of 3,0o0 Rritish forces in Pretoria. the Agricultural college to succeed ANOTHER BOER ARMY MApostle M. W. Merrill, resigned. cAllister is a resident ol Logan. Assembled Near llloemfonti-ito Dispute Koberts' Entrance Into the Transvaal. E. J. Kline, a newspaper reporter, The Iloers are assembling an army who has been out of work for several near Rloemfontein with which to disLake suicide Salt at months, attempted last week by takingmorphiue. Prompt pute the invasion of Lord Roberts. This action saved his life. intelligence comes from Pretoria by way of Lou reneo Marques. The comMrs. C. E. Allen, wife of Allen was selected regent for mands are described as hastening Ftah of the Daughters of the American from all quarters of the two republics. No estimate is made of their numbers, Revolvtion at the annual meeting of but the withdrawal of the Iloers from the society held in Washington. last most of the places where they have week. been iu contact with the Rritish, exWhile cutting kindling wood George cept the district near Ladysmith, may A. Smith, receiver of the land oftice, raise the resisting force to 30,000 men. was struck in the eye by a flying piece This figure assumes that the Roers of wood and feais are entertained that have between 00,000 and 70,000 men in his sight muy he permanently' imthe field. paired. The gathering of this army across land owners residing at the Twenty-twpath of Lord Roberts gives signifiRichfield have incorporated tiie Richcance to General Cronje's steadfast defield Cottonwood Irrigation company, fense. He lias engaged the corps of for the purpose of controlling the Lord Roberts for ten days now, and waters of Cottonwood canyon, in the whether lie is relieved or not, he has mountains west of town. given time for the dispersed lloer fracAn incendiary burned a stack of tions to get together and to prepare containing- eighty tons near Moab positions to receive the Rritish advance last week. A thresher w Inch had been Nrttioual Holiday In Cuba. set to thresh the seed was saved with of General Wood, making1 The order ditlieulty. It is estimated the lueern 24th a holiday in honor of February seed burned was worth $l,uoo. the beginning of the revolution, is The Hercules Power company is very popular, and was observed strictlbuilding a new Hume in Logan canyon y. Except for a few Americans it a mile in length, w ith a fall of If!.-- feet, was impossible to find a business capable of developing l.Ano horse power. establishment open. The Cubans conRumors of an electric road in connec- sider the day in the same light as the tion with the enterprise are current. Americans do the Fourth of July. James Adams, R. A. H. Williams and All the speakers accepted in good Cockerell Crawford, confined in the faith the avowed intention of the county jail at Ogden for burglarly Fuited States government to establish dug through the wall bet w een ti amt a Cuban republic, and oue of the prinp. m., last Friday night and cipal subjects of discussion was the escaped. A prisoner who would not method of Hoating the first loan for go with them was hound and gagged the payment of the soldiers of the to prevent his giving an alarm. Cuban army. The remains of J. A. St romberg. a More Jlt'iiiiii-MCel Otliee In Kentucky. former residi nt at Salt Lake arrived The Kentucky State contest hoard from Los Angeles last week, where ho awarded certificates of election to lias He was tiie father ol was drowned. Led. a Strombergg a quarrel over w Imm all the Democratic contestants for resulted in the killing of Hurton C. minor state offices. Immediately afterward the contestants were sworn in, Morris by John H. Ren broke. and repaired to the state house in a A snow slide in the La Sal mountain-las- t where they made a formal deweek swept over the cabins of tht body, mand on the Republican incumbents International Copper company, bury- for possession of the offices, but the ing William Peterson and llez Hatch. demands were not acceded to. This They were dug out, when 1eterson virtually leaves the state without a was found to be seriously injured and until the courts pass on was taken to Salt Lake for treatment. government the question. The Ftah society. Sons of the Amerit o j ' j n ) Western Fniou Telegraph comlias absorbed the Deseret company The Deseret lines were conpany. structed se oral years before the Western Fnion, and was then invaluable as a means of communication between the. scattered The Against Ievy. j j Jumped From a Train in Koyal (iorge. Charles Flowers went insane on the Denver ifc Rio Grande express, and ns the train was passing through the Royal Gorge Sunday, plunged head-- , long through the double plate-glas- s window, striking on the rocks below. The train was going forty miles an hour. Flowers was trying to climb the perpendicular walls of the gorge when found. He was taken to Denver and is in a hospital, lie will probably recover. lt:ih j There are likely to be two reports on the investigation of charges that certain Federal appointees in Ftah are The House committee polyg.i mDt s. on postoffices and post roads took the testimony and (Messrs. Mel'liersou ami Brow nlow have drawn a report, Rut the Democratic members of the com-- i m it lee are not disposed to accept this report on the ground that it goes too far in dismissing the charges. Washakie Giien Military llurial. The most imposing funeral ever held in Wyoming took place over the remains of Chief Washakie, who has ruled the Shoshone Indians for seventy-eigh- t years. The dead chieftain was given a military funeral usually accorded to a captain in the United States army, the ceremony being very im- The United Status Court of Claims has entered a decision on the claim of pressive. Admiral Dewey for prize money on troker Still Laid I p. Richard Crolter has been compelled account of the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor, decid- to defer his return to America until ing against the Admiral's contention the latter part of May. A message that the enemy's force was superior to from him said that the wound recently received by him when thrown from a his, and awarded him S.i75(). horse at Wantage, was still giving him Arkansas Voting on Expansion. a deal of trouble. In Arkansas the people are voting on M it.'nlraw lug Troops frotn Cuba. the question of expansion in connection It is the purpose of the war depart- with the United Males senatorship. ment in carrying out its already anSenator Rerry, who is an ardent nounced policy of reducing the force of and Governor Dan V. American troops in Cuba to begin withan avowed .tones, expansionist are the in six weeks the reduction of tha opposing candidates. The election is present force of SqOOO to 5,000. being conducted on the primary plan. W tut-'i- House 50,-Ou- O p.i-- o k. l pa-se-- 1. Rri-iisli- semi-silenc- j e Oflit-er- 1 - 1 i i A ppoimtTH. 1 ruarj Cl bill is The Porio Rican under consideration. I!riti-.near 1aadersberg, about thirty Senate The Senate passed a bill miles Irom Rloemfontein. granting to the stale of Wyoming i:i continuation, aeres of land to General Cronje has been in a desperof the maintenam-and a ate plight, endeavoring to stand off enlargement force several times as large as hisown, Wyoming- State Soldiers and Sailors in hopes that reinforcements would Home. Fifty-twpi ivte pension bills come to his aid. The fighting is de- were passed and also a lull granting Riaek-hauscribed as the hardest of the war. pensions to survivors of the and Seminole Cherokee Creek, When Cronje left Magersfontein he made a magnitieent night niareli. He Indian wars, hetwein 18 ;2 a::-- 1842. lYhrimi) 21. was so encumbered with heavy guns, House The Senate bdi providing however, that hi.-- , progress was slow. Rritish mounted infantry was sent for one woman commissioner to repreafter Cronje to either Hank and cheek sent the Daughters of the American his advance or compel him to leave his Revolution at the unveiling of the siege guns behind. He chose to fig tit, statue of Lafayette at the Paris expoConsideration of and selected a strong position at sition w a.s with the Porto Rico tariff bill was resumed. Koodoosrand, which the Senate The Senate passed the folsuperior numbers, were enabled to surround. The ha ttle began Sunday. The lowing hills: Authorizing the Cape Deapproach to the Roer position was Nome Transportation, llridge and across level country and the Rritish velopment company to construct a, loss was heavy. bridge across the Snake river at Nome Alaska: to incorporate the AmeriCity. were Rritish Sixty guns continually Red Cross; to pay James can National shells Roer into the camp, dropping of Canada $5,000 William Crooks and which apparently wrought fearful of on the seizure of account havoc. damages in lsi2. vessel Lord the Nelson, The third day of the fight Cronje 23, asked for an armistice to bury his dead. February House The house agieed to vote on Fight to a finish or surrender unconditionally,'' was Lord Kitchener's the Porto Rican tariff' bill Tuesday, reply. General Cronje immediately general debate to close Monday. Consent back word that his request for a sideration of the measure occupied the truce had been misunderstood, and that entire day. his determination then, as before, was Senate A resolution to consider the to fight to the death, question of seating Quay of PennsylThe battle went on. This was the vania, on appointment of Governor situation of General Cronje Tuesday Stone, was passed by a vote of 34 to 23, which is considered a test of strength evening, as sketched in the scanty telegrams that have emerged from the and that Quay will he seated when the of South Africa. question is brought to a vote. Reinforcements marching to General February 24. House Porto Rican tariff bill still Cronje's relief were intercepted and scattered by Lord Roberts. under consideration. Senate Rills were passed as follows: DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. To aid certain stales to support schools of mining; for the appointment of an National Contention M ill be Held at Kansas City, July 4th. additional United States commissioner The next national Democratic con- in the northern judicial district of the vention will be held at Kassas City Indian Territory: granting to the state July 4th. This was the decision of the of North Dakota 30, 0uu acres of land to Democratic national committee, which aid in the maintenance of a school of met at Washington to fix the time forestry. and place of holding the convenFebruary 30. tion. Milwaukee was the only city Rouse The Porto Rican tariff hill which competed for the honor of enterwas amended to limit its operations to the and the convention, taining poor tw o years, and to reduce the average showing she made when the vote was duties from 25 to 15 cents. taken (the result being Kansas City, Senate Consideration of the Ha4U: Maw aukee, 9) caused general sur- waiian bill was resumed. An amendprise. The claims of the rival eities a? ment was made striking out property to hotel accommodation, railroad and qualification of voters for the legislatelegraphic facilities were presented ture. Consideration of the Quay case in open session by representatives of was resumed and in progress when each city and subsequently in execu-- ! the Senate adjourned. tive session. New Insurance Point Rained. A curious point in insurance law has Hank Arrested. On application of a committee repre- - been raised in California in a suit filed senting 500 creditors warrants were by the executors of the estate of J. L. issued for the arrest of the following White, who was killed while rescuing two women from the Raid win hotel officers of the defunct Millanpliy Sav-ings hank, of St. Louis: J. II. Kott- during the progress of the great fire in man n, president; Louis G. Kammerer, Novem tier, IS'.H. A short time before his death White cashier; Henry Klages, Conrad Kellers-from the Mutual Life Insurpurchased Charles man, Schumacher, Joseph Marks, Casper Gestriug and Frederick ance company of New York for $53,833 Roite, directors. It is alleged in the an annuity policy entitling him to warrant that the crime of grand lar- - $3,000 a year. The law of New York eeny was committed by these officers enacted in 1875 provides that annuities in having accepted and sanctioned the are properties which may be divided reception of deposits aggregating $10,-- i among the heirs of annuitants the same in the ease of 214 after they had knowledge of the as other property. fact that the bank was in an insolvent White's policy it was riot stipulated that no apportionment should he made condition. of the annuity in accordance with the SPAIN KEEPS SULU. New York law and the insurance comInland Not In the Boundary Lines Laid when asked to pay the annuity pany, Down by Treaty. to White's heirs, disclaimed all liability Upon representations of the Spanish under the policy. The company lias government to the effect that some oi now been sued 1o recover the amount the islands south of the Philippine paid for the policy. archipelago which had been taken posAguinaldo apturt-- lint Turned l.ouse. session of by United States gunboats rl here is a were really- the property of Spain, the story in circulation among some of the army officers who have authorities of the state department have examined the charts and con- just returned to Washington from cluded to direct the withdrawal of our Manila that the army actually capclaims to the islands of Caygayen, tured Aguinaldo in Cavite province as a suspicious Sulu and CibuWi, all of which lie withamigo, and then reout the boundary lines laid down by leased him, only to liearof his identity after he had gotten away. the treaty of Paris. The ability of the Filipino leader to Aguinaldo May be in Japan. make up as a Chinaman is said to be United States Consul Wildman has remarkable, and only a fellow native information that three members of the is able to penetrate suck a disguise. Filipino junta, Lubon, Ponce and Coal Famine In Germany. Agoncillo, brother of the Rritish enThe coal famine continues in Gervoy, recently left for Japan to meet Aguinaldo. This gives credence to the many and artificial coal, from peat, is story that Aguinaldo escaped from the being made in Kiel and .Mannheim. Island of Luzon to Formosa when The WestphaliaD ccnl syndicate achunted by General Lawton's expedi- knowledges its inability to meet tlia tion through the noithern part of the demands made upon it, but refuses to raise prices further and warns middleisland. men against raising them. Agreement In Kentucky. The parties'; interested in the legal Soldier Mlio Escorled Lafayette Dead. tangle in Kentucky over the governorAt Northampton. Mass., R. E. Cook, ship have reached an agreement that who, as a captain of New York militia, there will be a 6peedy trial by the did escort duty toGeac-- II, ifuyetteon courts on an organized ease involving his up the Iludsc.n river in 1824, trip all the issues, the first to he before is dead, aged f7 years. He was the Judge Emmett Field at Louisville. The father of taiitaiii rank A. Cook, comthree suits now pending in the state mander of the cruiser Erooklyu during courts are to be consolidated, all being the late war. heard together. ith 8.000 Men, Hemmed ir lly the Itritish General Cronje is surrounded by the Ilocr t.cncrul h d o Court of (.laiinq Claim That American Cowlvoj Lead the Indian. The Mexican federal troops under General Torres have saved Guaymas from the Yaqu. hut by dint of the fiercest fighting of the war and at a sacrifice of 200 soldiers. The town is filled with wounded and all public buildings are utilized. Torres anticipated the surprise the A aquis intended. The Indians were accompanied by ten adventurers, miners ami cowboys, who acted as commanders of separate companies of forty men each. The Yaquis also had a Maxim gun. which hud been smuggled through at llisbee, Ariz. . in a load of machinery. The gun was manipulated, the Max icans claim, by two exrough riders. Iloers Attar k llritish at Faartlerberg. Parties of Roers recently arrivec from Natal attacked Rritish outposts at Paarderberg Sunday in force. They lost a good many killed and wounded, and nearly 10(1 prisoners, including a commandant and three field cornets. Rritish casualties were four officers wounded, nine men killed, twenty five men wounded, two men missing. On the 21st and 22nil oue officer and thirteen men were wounded. Six of the Rritish were wounded by hollow-noseMauser bullets. The nickel cases slit with four slits, making the projectile of the most expansive and explosive nature possible. A wounded Roer brought to the Rritish hospital had sixty of these bullets ic his pockets. til Convene. Bimetallist Judge A. R. Rucker of Denver, president of the United States Monetarj League has been in Washington severa days, conferring with the leading hi metallists, with the view of getting their opinion concerning the propriety of holding a national convention of th bimetallists at some time in the nea; future. It is now definitely determine! that such con vention will be held at Kansas City on July 4. A eommittei has been chosen to eonfer with tin local committee at Kansas City for tin purpose of securing accommodation for the guests. Fuel Scarce at Nome. There is plenty of food in Nome to last through the w inter ami until the first steamers arrive there next siun- rner. 1lie only scarce article there is wood, which is selling at $05 pci cord. The supply of wood along the beach Pas been consumed for a distance of ten miies up and down from Nome City, and the prospects are for a practica-- ! famine in this fuel before spring. Tin coal price for sale is 7 cents a pound, though there is little of it on hand and it is being refused to buyers. The large transportation companies, however, have enough coal on hand to last them. WEEK IX COWuESS. CRONJE SURROUNDED. AQUIS - ! 1 can Revolution held its annual meetThe foling in Salt Lake last week. the were officers elected: lowing C. E. L. Dr. J. George Nye. president; vice John Q. Cannon, King, president: secretary: Eugene Gaylord, treasurer; Dr. E. W. Whitney, registrar; 1). R. Gray, historian: Hr. S. Ewing, chaplain- L. II. 1 'arnswoi th. Hoy t Sherman, Jr., F. 15. Stephens. F. D. Hobbs and E. S. IV right, hoard of managers. Y - |