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Show TIIE NEPHI RECORD. HUNKY ADAMS, Story Fubllbr. LAWTON WAS That He nt Out From San Was in Joint FramI-o- . The story is sent out from San Franthat lots of mail advices from Manila prove the existem-of a regular conspiracy tLero-t- o United States army officers. The man UTAH NEWS. who killed General Lawton was a in the gurrdia The Populists hare endorsed Judge named Garcia, and a voluntary civile, NV. II. King-the Democratic nominee, fund of $100,000 was raised in twenty-fou- r for congress. hours, of which Gaieia was given Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Werthimer $75,000. celebrated the golden anuiveisary of Senor Pobiete, editor of the El their marriage at S lit Lake the L'tith. Pueblo del Grito, is treasurer of t lie y Lieutenant teorge . G;bb.s, of fund, ami Judge Arellano of the a to Lttle snug A, lias fallen loir supreme court is an active member of fortune in Massachusetts, his former the clique. home. Every pa t riot w ho rids his country reby death of a hated American officer is The old l'ort Thorn berg military be liberally rewardc 1. The fund is to since restored serve, near Vernal, long now about S'.oo.Ono. been has ordered to the public domain, surveyed. COAL MINE EXPLOSION. Moreton Frewiu, the well known English bimetallist, was in Salt Lake Fitly Uncovered Hint I)lath last week getting pointers from Utah 125 Will rrubnMy bimetallists. The most destructive mine explosion Apostle Lund, who was mentioned as ever known in the New River (West a Republican nominee for Congress, Virginia) district lias occurred at the declined to permit his name to go be Red Ash mine. Although the most fore the convention. heroic work- of the rescuing' party lias Major II. W. Young has purchased been going on incessantly, it is imposand shipped from Manila to Governor sible to estimate the full extent of the Wells a Spanish cannon cast in 1770. loss of life and property. More than fifty dead bodies have alas a present to t he slate. number James Wilson, alias Charles Head, ready been taken out, and tlie 17.5 or more. of dead reach the may suspected of having murdered a poThe Red Ash mine is a large drift, liceman at Des Moines, is detained in and the explosion occurred near the the Salt Lake county jail. entrance, which was t Inis closed by the Provo is again infested with tramps, slate, entombing a large numwho have been committing numerous falling ber of miners. petty depredations and causing the officers a great deal of trouble. Favorable Report on Itynum. held vernal The Senate committee on finance at recently Sheepherders a meeting in which it was agreed to lias authorized a favorable report upon stand for seveu cents per head for the nomination of tlie lion. W. I). Bynum as appraiser of merchandise at shearing instead of six as formerly. . The comPoland Harris, who escaped from the tlie port of New York-tee on mit divided party lines, the Rereform school several months ago, was Democaptured in Salt Lake last week, where publicans supporting and the confirmation crats Bynum opposing Montana. he had recently arrived from was nominated as a Democrat but was J. P. Kelley, a Park City miner, was opposed Democratic leaders who struck on the head by a roclj u liicli fell asserted ly that he had ceased to be a from the bucket while hoisting, and Democrat when he affiliated with the painfully though not seriously injured. Palmer and Buckner movement in A buildingatTorrey which was being used for school purposes was burned NEW PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. down on the. 77th ult. The school was in session when the tire was discovered ISernnril Moses of California the Last Member Selected. hut no one was hurt. Professor Mo.es of the UniBernard G. N. Kimball of Ogden, who has of has been tendered California been promoted to Pirst Lieutenancy versity the vacant place on the new Philippine in the Thirty-fiftinfantry was an commission, and has accepted it. in Utah officer the troop of cavalry durThis the commission, completes n war. ing the whose personnel is as follows: Judge Salt Lake City, at an expense of Taft, Ohio, president; Dean C. Worcesabout $500i), is having surveys made to ter, Michigan; Luke Wright, Tennesdetermine the cost of building levees see; Henry C. Iile, Vermont; Bernard to raise the waters of Utah Gake, with Moses, California. a view to increasing the citys water ConrpMintui liarmer Dead, supply from that source. Alfred C. Banner Congressman The question of whether judges of (fa! her of the house,) the representathe last election hold over for the tive of the Fifth Pennsylvania district, special congressional election has been is dead at his home in Philadelphia, decided by the board of commissioners 75 yenrs. aged and of Salt Lake county that they do, Mr. Ilarmer had been ill since last appointments will only be made to fill November, when he was stricken with vacancies. a severe attack of kidney trouble. lie Mrs. Hatch Murray of Vernal, who recovered sufficiently to attend the has only been married two or three of Congress in December, but opening months, is sufferingfroni insomnia and was again confined to his bed. nervousness, and at times it takes the Favorable Report on Iacilic Cable. strength of two or three men to hold her on her bedand prevent her from The House Committee on Commerce doing' violence to herself and those who has ordered a fayorahle report on the are attending her. Mie has been act- bill for a Pacific cable connecting with Hawaii, the Philippines ing queerly for some time, but no notice was taken of it particularly and Japan. It provides for private until she broke out violently and pro- construction of the Hue, the Governceeded to demolish her household ef- ment paying cSOP.OOO annu 'y foi fects. twenty years for transmission of mesE II. Chase of Park City, was found sages. dead in bed at Anaconda, Mont., last Family Killed by Negro Roys. lie was prominent in Wednesday. I)an Mills, a young farmer living mining circles, and formerly traveled twenty miles from Baxley, Ga., ha. for the Union Iron works of San Fran- been brutally murdered by two negre cisco. lie was a drummer boy in the boys. Mrs. Mills tried to get away Kintli Michigan cavalry in '05. from the negroes, but they captured who escaped from her, killing her baby, and beat the Frank Edwar.. w in 1S07 ith Lant, Tracy and woman so badlv that she will die. The the pen Brown, by holding np a guard while murderers escaped. engaged in digging' a water trench a island lias Moved. mile east of the pen, is just finishing a Chief Officer Cooskey of the transterm in the Missouri pen and will be port Grant, arrived at San Francisco, brought back to Utah. says that on February 3rd the ship The present indications are that a sailed over a spot where Morrell island sugar plant will be installed upon an has generally been supposed to be ideal site midway between Ephraim located. and Manti, where there is sufficient Successor F r Admiral Watson. waterpower for such an enterprise. George C. Homey, al Tests have demonstrated that the soil in command of the Portspresent of Sanpete valley is adapted to raising X. II. , mouth, of navy beets. yard, will be a first class paying crop ordered to succeed WatMiss Mary Teasdel, a Salt Lake girl son in command of tin Asiatic station. who has been studying in Paris for the College irofessor Commits Suicide. past three years, has won high honors dn the world of art, and one of her Professor E L, Harvey of the Unipictures has been accepted by the jury versity of Maine shot and killed himof selection for the Paris exposition, self at his home in Orono. He had and it is to be hung at the Grand Palais been suffering from mental troubles ,des Beaux Arts with all the finest con- - resulting from overwork. UTAH NEPHI. cisco second-lieutena- , Dat-ter- Kimm-I- - . is. h Spanish-Aincrica- . Rear-Admir- al Rear-Admir- OUTLOOK DUTIES ON PRINT PAPER. ASSASSINATED? KeMolutlon Introduced in the House i Representative Devries of California has introduced a joint resolution for j the repeal of duties on white or print-- ! iug paper, aud the material from which j it is made, and directing the attorn. ygeneral to proceed under the law against tho-maintaining a mo'1 such in paper ami material nopoly The resolution recites that the existing duty of $d per ton greatly aids in thei maintenance of the monopoly; that the price of paper has been increased CO and that this per cent to the to is a menace result popular education tion of information. and the a governor of the dep.i: tment of absoClara, says: Trouble is lutely out of tbe question in Cuba. The future depends largely upon thq agricultural prosperity, and ivhera work is plentiful, wages are good am a couutry is prosperous, no sensible inan wishes to alter conditions. The best the Tinted States can do for Cuba, and the Cubans is to give every opportuniiy for improving tlie value of tlie land by putting it to tlie Le-- t In this capital would doan immense amount of good here, as well as secure large returns. General Wilson suggests supplying cattle for working purposis on a time basis, accepting regular rates of interest, which should he about one per cen t per month. Cattle, says lie. can be landed here at a cost of $70 a yoke, which once here, would bring' more than $150. Earg-- numbers of working cattle are g required by reliable and men who are anxious to obtain them. i February 2 7. House The debate on the Porto Rican bill was closed by Doliver for DemoRepublicans and Daily for the crats. Senate The amendment to tlie Hawaiian bill providing for a postal savings bank was withdraw n. and an amendment adopted providing for the payment by tlie Umtcd States of all sums now on deposit m the . postal savings bank-- Mantan-zas-Sant- -i anti-trus- tj e eoii'-unu-- February RAN INTO MIN ERS TRAIN. Two Men Killed and Icrty Wounded on an lidian Coal Road. train carrying 4(H) workmen employed at the mine north of Brazl, ml., to their homes was run into by a local freight train on "the C. A. I. railroad A 1 and the caboose and two cars weie shattered. Melvin Faster and ( liarle Cropey were instantly killed and more than forty persons were severely wounded, seveial of whom will die. The wreck occurred in a deep cut in the center of a short curve. Hundreds of women gathered at the depot and grasped their maimed and bleeding husbands and brothers in their arms when they were carried from the train. The Porto Rican 175 to l'il. fu'l vote wa: made. the out effort to get Six ineu were brought from beds of sickness and two from hospitals. Six of rum; Republican-- , Messrs. Indiana, Fletcher of Minnesota. Littlefield of Maine. Lorimer of Illinois and McCall of Massachusetts, voted with the opposition against the bill, and four Democrats. .Messrs. Davev and Meyer of Louisiana, Dories of California and SibleyT of Pennsylvania, voted with the Republicans for the bill. An e tort to fix a date for consideration of the Nie-- i araguan canal hill was objected to, owing to tlie pendency of the ILiv- -i Pauneefote treaty in the senate. passed j hard-workin- j COINAGE OF SILVER EULLION. Treasury Mill Fxpedito il M lira Financial I5:li IwssfH. It at s, is SECRETARY ROOT IN sub-sidar- y' sub-sida- ry House March 2. Iht ml. l; n j Lieutenant Knheier Led Into an Ainlmsh and Slain. Lieutenant Edgar F. Koheler of the Ninth infantry was shot in the ab- domen and killed at a village six miles north of Tarlac, where he went iu search of some rifles. A Filipino, promising to produce the rifles, led him into an ambush away from his command. Tlie soldiers, in revenge, burned the village an.l killed twentv-fou- r of the enemy. licciuise They Were Silver Men. In closing bis argument, in favor of seating Mr. Quay, Mr. Hoar said senators knew that the three seats claimed by Messrs. Mantle, Allen and Beckwith were decided against those men because they were silver men, and the senate was about to enter upon the consideration of the repeal of the Sherman law. Frohlhitton for Philippines. Representative Gillett of Massachu- setts has introduced a bill prohibiting the sale of distilled or intoxicating liquor in the Philippines in quantities less than twenty gallons, except on a physician's prescription for medical purposes. Neuat ion it I Charge KvgaiMiug l (Master I'ilcil at the Naval htmcui. Serna! ional charges are contained in an anonymous letter which has been received at the navy department from Manila. The communication relates to the wrecking of the Charleston and makes the serious statement that a number of the officers of the vessel at the time of the disaster were under the influence of liquor. The correspondent who furnishes the information claims to have verified the allegations by diligent inquiry among the officers of the Charleston. An investigation has been ordered. CHILDREN INCINERATED. Die in liurnhtg Rudding During Absence of IarpntH. John, Charles and Emma, aged respectively 5, 7 and !t, children of Charles Winger, living eleven miles from Olym- take lip Within two hours of the refrom the president a of message ceipt recommending the placing of all the money collected in revenues from Porto Rico since that island became United States territory, and all that in future may he collected, in the hands of the president to relieve distress in the island, a bill was framed and passed by tlie house by a party vote. '1 he immediate sum involved is $7,0'.5,4.V, and was collected in fourteen and a half months. Discussion was limited to on each side. The minutes twenty money, it is said, is tube used to relieve the sufferers Vom the disastrous storm which swept the island Iasi fall, Senate Consideration of the Porto Rican tariff' bill was begun. A mes- sage from the president recommending the appropriation of monies eolleeted on Porto Rican products for the relief of the islanders was received anti referreil. A resolution was adopted asking the president for information concerning tlie number of saloons in Manila since American occupation. House Making a Tour of Inspection Arouiul the n 1. An attempt to election ea-- e from Alabama was defeated by the votes of two Republicans. Mondell of Wyoming ami Smith of Michigan. .Consideration of the Loud postal hill was fixed for March 70. American registry was granted the ship Windward, in which Lieutenant Peary will attempt to reach the north pole. Senate The Hawaiian bill passed the Senate without division, party lines not having been drawn. The Porto lliean hill was made unfinished business and a vote ordered on the conference report of tlie finance committee for Tuesday, March 0. CUBA. Secretary Root is on a flying trip to Cuba. With him are Mrs. Root, Miss Root, Edward Root, his son, Colonel PriCarter, assistant adjutant-generavate Secretary W. S. Coursey and Arthur Brooks, attendant. It is expected Civil War Again Threatened in Kentucky. the trip will occupy about two weeks, Th shipment of guns anil amuumi-tiofor a weeks tour around the allowing to London still continues by order of Cuba. island of tiie Re;rtViicRii authorities. Senator It is gathered from rather urgent Tripplett, Democrat, has offered a reso- communications that have been relution to investigate published reports ceived from Havana that notwithstandconcerning shipments of state arms to London by Governor Taylor and de- ing the apparent serenity of conditions in Cuba generally. General Wood has mand the return of the same to the aisenal. If the return is refused tlie reason for grave apprehension as to committee shall bring in a bill making the future, not because of the possibility an appropriation of $750,000 to buy new of outbreaks, but rather owing to tlie extreme gravity of imnortantque.stions guns, also authorizing General Castle-mathat are pressing from all sides for imto issue a call for a sufficient nummediate decision. ber of volunteers to take the guns from ROBERTS FACES NEW ARMY. those now in possession of them and ISoera Occupy a strong FoMtion Near Scene return them to the arsenal. of Cronjes Defeat General YVlieeler Return. Lord Roberts, at Osfontein, six or General Wheeler has arrived home from Manila on tlie Warren. The eight lpiles east of Iaardeberg, faces Warren made a stop of ten days the reformed Boer army, from five to six thousand strong, their left resting at Gaum to permit General Wheeler to on a high kopje and their right on the make investigation of the government river. This may be merely a corps of established there by Lieutenant observation, ready to retire on prepared Leary. is receiving acThe vessel brings news from Hon- position. Doubtless it cretions from late the besiegers of olulu that of the three suspected eases from other and Ladysmith, points. of plague reported on February 7(th but one proved to ie genuine plague, Whatever the force may he, Lord Robami when the Warren left Honolulu erts has ample troops to cope with it. As a heavy rain is falling on the veldt, the authorities were of tlie opinion ami that the plague had about died out, a the grass is improving, this will be good thing temporarily for the Iloers. though every precaution was being WRECK OF THE CHARLESTON. tul cn to confine every fresh outbreak, MURDERED BY FILIPINO. the house. March the intention of the treasury department to expedite as fast as possible the coinage of the silver bullion purchased under the Nhennan act still remaining in the treasury. There is still on hand bullion purchased under this act costing $7S,)O0.t;i)5. and represented by that amount of treasury notes outstanding. The department has been coining this bullion into dollars at the rate of $1, 00, 000 a month. The financial bill authorizes the coinage of enough of this bullion into suhsidary coins to bring tiie total coinage up to $1,000,00!). This will require about $75,000,000 in coins. Irogre.s in lhillppines. General Bates's expedition to southern Luzon, consisting of the Fortieth and Forty-fiftregiments, a total of 7,304 men, has occupied Xueva Caeeres, province of South Camarines; Daet, province of North Cimariues and the The neighboring smaller towns. enemy resisted at one point, and two Americans were killed, including John D. Gallagher of the Fortieth regiment. At Libnianan, north of Nueva Cace-rethe enemy w as concealed in a rice field and resisted a battallion of the Fortietli regiment which engaged them at close quarters with bayonets. After forty minutes fighting the enemy tied The and Libmanan was occupied. Amerieaus buried sixty-fou- r of the cuemy. whose total loss in killed and wounded is estimated at 140. 7 House n-- es. dis-cmi- na Lieu-ten- WEEK IN CONGRESS. CUBA. General Wilson Says Trouble is Ont of tbs Question. General James II. W ilson, military I to lit cal Them. IN j -! .Marc b House A bill was passed for the acquisition of certain reservations of giant trees in California. The death of Representative Eppes of Virginia w as announced and the house adjourned out of respect. Senate Thirty-seveprivate pension bills were passed, when the death of Representative Eppes was announced and the senate ndj mimed. n March House District of Columbia business largely uci'iipied the attention of the House. A lull to incorporate ' he I' l'ederiek Douglas Memori il hssm which is inunded to collect a history of the movement, was prevented from passing' by of Representative Bailey of Texas. Senate Senator Carter of Montana spoke in favor of seating Mr. Chiay on appointment of t lit governor of Pennsylvania. Senator Poraker g ay e notice of an amendment to the Porto Bieo bill to impose a duty of five cents a pound on coffee, chicory roots and clncory imported iuto Porto Pico, and to prevent the importation from Porto Rico to the I nited States of goods or products not actually of Porto Rican origin. n. anti-slaver- y tillibu-der-in- g March 6. House The House spent tlie entire day iu consideration of the Ahlrich-Robbi- ns contested election case from the Fourth Alabama district.' Senate Tlie conference report on the finance bill was adopted by a vote of 44 to 7(1, a majority of 18. The pia, Wash., were burned to death Sat. resolution of the House in favor of urday night. The parents were absent from home attending a dance, and an acquiring two groves of mammoth, elder sister, aged 17, was left in charge trees in California was concurred in. of the house and children. She was The Quay case was resumed. Senator Mitchell of Oregon, opposed seating badly burned in attempting to rescue her brothers and sister. Being unsuc- Quay, and called attention to the fact Mr. Quay was paired against cessful, she finally jumped from a sec- that Mr. Corbett of Oregon, last seating ond story window eight feet from thi as an appointee of the (iovernor ground. The fire is supposed to have year, of Oregon. heater. originated from ;id air-tig- ht |
