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Show The Spanish Fork Press I. NO. VOL. 47. jTI WARNER, and Residence Jnst touth of City Square. Office fork, physician & Office Surgeon, at Store, Ipnlali Fork Drug Company CAPTIVE VENEZUELAN FLEET Preliminary steps have been taken at Richfield to provide waterworks for Utah. that place. The reported coming of the Moffat SLAT HR. H. pR. J. SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY. DECEMBER UTAH STATE NEWS. )R. ntsh road is causing considerable activity in Uintah county. The price of sugar lias advanced t!0 cents per hundred pounds within the past two weeks. President Roosevelt will visit Utah while on his way to the Yellowstone Park. THOMAS, The plant of the Salt Lake Brick & Tile company was destroyed by tire last week, entailing a loss of $10, non. and ABSTRACTER. The rabbit bunt near Goshen last Boom No. 7, Knight Block, PHOTO. week resulted in the slaughter of 511 bunnies, the winning side bagging 2,8. Spanish Fork Drug Go. Since November 17 not a single day A (nil line of Drug, has passed without one or two earthChemicals, Medicines, Fancy and Toilet Aril quake shocks being felt in Pine Valley. cles, Perfumery. Toilel ITyrum Parraniore of Charleston nad Soaps, Sponges, Brushes. his hand blown off on the night of tne Prescrip-ti- n Physicians us" Carefully Com ?0th, by the accidental discharge of his pounded. gun. Utah. While working on a new building at BpanlHh Fork, Lohi, Monroe Wilson and H. J. StewSAXEY. art were Injured by the falling of a scaffold. Attorney-at-LaIt Is said that the wife of Frank Convey sneer anti Notary Public. Hinsdale, who suicided at Schofield, is Omen Over Oran Lewis' Store Deing closely watched to keep her from Utah. following his example. Spanish Fork, The Utah crop of potatoes Is short this season, because of the drouth, and w v v already a few potatoes are being We Don't Keep shipped in from Idaho. In March or April, gl notary public w, lq prison. ificlelsoq HEAD STONES. Wk Sell Them, Jll. That's LORENZO THOMAS FASHIONABLE One block Spanish B. F. north of Bank, - Fork, Utah. HODSON, MUSICAL INSTRUCTOR, PIANO AND ORGAN Terms 5()c. per lesson of 1 hour. StuHours from 10 till day except Sunday. dio at residenee. Oclock every The rural free delivery service has been Inaugurated at Lehl. The route supplies residents at the sugar factory, Sego I,lly ami I.ehi Junction. The Utah Wool Growers association has named 100 delegates to the National Livestock convention to he held tn Kansas City from January 13 to 16. The report of the state treasurer shows a balance on hand Dec. 1 of $161,997.69; receipts during November, $157,124.84; expenditures. $121,164.24. Smallpox is practically wiped out of Salt I.ake City, but four cases being cared for by the department during the month, and three of these being tran- sients. The flowing well at the Oregon Short LARS I I Line's Lehl station, which has for so many years furnished water for the Watch & Clock Repairing, companys big tank ut I.ehi Junetiou, seems to have become exhausted. W Mocks Lust of General Manager Bancroft of the spsnUh Fork Oregon Short Line announces that on January 1 that road will establish a t JENSEN, l'o-o- p. Ted Woods. (Lessee of Will Boyach Sale Feed, & Stable) Transfer stables. Meets all Trains Hack Spanish Pork, Utah. A. J. Pedersen. Blacksmith & Wheel wright -- Material Plrat-rli- a always on Opposite B. H. hand"' Rank, Spanish Park. BROWN, Livery Peed Stable. Hack Meets all Trains It. PUONS No. . Malh rork, Utah pension system for employes who have been with the company twenty years and upward. John Marshall of Pangultch lost 600 sheep In this last snowstorm. The wnen sheep had not left the m"'tatns the snowstorm came, and they were snowed In. Several more herds are In the same condition. A Tribune special from New York auCity says that it hi stated on good of railway thority that a new line has been surveyed from Salt Lake ity to San Francisco nmnv miles shorter than the Central Paid lie." While at woik in the Annie Laurie mine at Kimberley. Snow McDonald came near losing his life through the caving of timbers, which, fortunately, struck him on the head, throwing him no backward, lie fortunately received permanent Injuries. and IVter City Marshal John Adam were Fork, American of Anderson, both shot by the accidental discharge fell of the marshal's revolver, which ball passed The from his and lodged through Adams left ankle, left leg. In Andersons While working In the sugar taitory pn.-k.-- was caught In and carried wheel the mammoth beet With rare room. to the top of the of mind he graaped an Iron presence tore rod and hung on while the wheel tho clothing from tala body. Co-Operative Tb lors In General Merchandise. Flour, Grain Produce. and otfaeturers of that native trout, ducka and quail doing well. Huge hetia. deer ara but ar on the Increase, range. owing to poor aulddcd at Schofield, Hinsdale F. L. Hina-dalof taking an overdose Saltmorphine. offlrlnlM take wanted by was under on a charge of obtaining money a It la -and false pretenses, h hd disgrace the of realisation himself prompted tho mu-sod brought upon deed. Harness, fit passenger engine running t.rande Itlo the or high rate of speed k at a point Western Jumped the trai fireman Lthe and near West water, John Engineer killed. C. Readel. was and broken Cummlng had onehadleg his ,i,ulder llenson Mall Clerk broken- A Boots Shoes. - JOHN JONES, Supl. MFalib Fork, San flah and game warden of pete county reporta trout uckcrs. carp and eastern brook not are ara Increasing, but that bsa Institution, od t at Lehl. Morgan tatt Spanish Fork $ I:. . Utah. FOL K WIKtmi'S SKIEI) MV IIKlTDiH SAMOAN VOLCANOES ACTIVE. DEATH Horel 1'aople Flee In Terror m Flame Forth From Mountain Peak. OF SPEAKER A report from the United States naval station at Tutuila. Samoan Morement Mattie to Coerce Vm.u.l Into islands, under dale of November 24. Settling Claims of 111, Two Cowere says: On November t the Samoans I Itluiatuu! to lie Delivered. at the western extremity of the group at the island of Savali were startled A dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela, dated December 9, says: The com by severe shocks of earthquakes bined British and German fleet today which lasted throughout the night and were (Tuesday) seized the Venezuelan fleet, morning. Some of the shocks cona down to throw severe enough of four warships, in the harcomposed bor ol La Guay i a. It is reported also crete church and wreck several oththat an ultimatum will bo delivered to- ers. Then tire was seen to burst forth morrow (Wednesday), asking for an from several of the mountain peaks, answer and a compliance with the de- and the people fled In terror to places mand of the British and German min- they considered safe. These extinct isters, All British and German sub- volcanoes, now active, are toward the jects in Caracas nave been placed un- west of Savaii. Tradition speaks of der arrest by ordei of the Venezuelan a violent eruption about 150 years ago, government officials. In Washington when that portion of the country was this action Is believed to be in the na- & flowing stream of molleii lava, and ture of a retaliation for the ultimatum travelers have wondered at the extent which lias been sent to Venezuela fot of the eruption when they have had a settlement of the longstanding to walk over the fields of waving rock claims of Gem any ami England chilled as it llqwed down the mountain against Her. Incidentally, such action sides toward the sea. The fires at present are observable by Venezuela will, it is believed, Inat four peaks of the mountain ridge volve this government, as the German which form the backbone of the and British representatives in Vene- island, and so long as the disturbance zuela, before leaving Caracas, request Is confined to that portion of the counIt Is ed United States Minister ltovven to try little harm can happen. take charge of their interests in Ven- stated that the other parts of Samoa, being ot more recent origin than Saezuela. vaii, will not lie affoit-'i- l by the outburst. Previous to tho present outburst BOLD ACT OF PIRACY. the only eruption known to the people Itain! of Filipinos l.ctl by an A merlon nt now living occurred between the islands ot Tail and Oloost ga. In the Kot Kicli ( IiIiichp Merutiantft. e The steamer Shaw milt, from Manila, Manna portion ot Samoa, about thirty-fivwhen the sea became years ago. brings news ot piiaey on the Philip- greatly agitated sand and rocks were pine island coast, the desperadoes be- thrown up, and the island of Oloesega became devastated through the vapors ing led by an American. The brig Mar-icibound lrnm Catanauan layabas arising from the .scan where the disfor Manila, bad beaten up the coast turbance took place At the same timu were but millions of and was becalmed off Cavite Day . She the hank then formed destroyed, which has a bad as passenge'-- five Chinese mer- depth of water over it of thirty fathchants, who were on their way to Ma- oms, and is a favorite fishing ground nila to pm chase goods. I nning the for the people of Manua now. night a sloop came alongside and six THEYRE AFTER VLNtZUELA. men climbed over the rail and immediately overpowe.od the captain and Great lirilnlii ud Gariamny lltav PrMut(l Ttilr ritliiialuimi crew, binding all hands with ropes. Great Britain and Germany have One of these men was an American dressed in the garb of an inspector of presented ultimatums to Venezuela, constabulary. Two of his followers which will be followed by the seizure also wore constabulary uniforms and of the customs unless a satisfactory carried revolvers, as did the American. settlement is forthcoming within a The remaining three Filipinos were brief period. Tlie ultimatums have a armed with bolos. Upon the pirates time limit, lint the exact date cannot be asectrainrd here. The British forreaching the deck of the Maricia, claimed he was the hoard of eign office stales, with regard to the limit: "It is a rcsonabh time in which health inspector, and intended to Venezuela .an satisfy the Injured govammusearch the vessel for arms ami ernments. Both notes are practically nition. Instead of doing this, after the identical, although the amounts of the claims differ The notes merely recrew had been o' erpowered, the Chicontinued disregard by the nese were brought forth and at the iterate tlie Venezuelan government of all our repto point of drawn revolvers eie made resentations. specify our claims and give over their money, about $17,960. demand immediate action on the part embarked of President Castro's government In Obtaining this, the pi'iitcs In their boat again, and. heading toconnection therewith." Tlie British wards Cavite, threatened to kill all government's case is practically idenhands on the brig if they did not keep tical with the statements made in preIn vious dispatches from quiet was it which first announced the that NEW TREATY WITH SPAIN. action was contemplated. Should the British ultimatum meet with a hostile Com mil tv on Forl(a Rll)n, reception, the British minister, V. H. Convention. D. Haggard, has been Instructed to go The senate committee on foreign re- aboard a British warship, or if that is of lations will meet for the purpose Impracticable, to go into the neighboring British colony. considering a treaty between the United States and Spain, which hus been Father and i lilld ('rmtd In Thlr llouin negotiated recently anil sent to the Fire destroyed the general store and 1898 there senate. Since the war of of Max Manthcy, at Colgate, dwelling two the has been no treaty between Vi8. Mr. Manthcy, In attempting to to war operated having countries, the fell from the porch and broke annul those In existence. The new escape, his neck, dying u few minutes luter. of amity In treaty is the usual agreement the excitement a child 8 years old and friendship between countries on was forgotten, and was burned to and does dentil. Another child was good terms with each other, fatally and from the old three otlicrs seriously Injured. Tho not differ materially that there mother am) two other children were treaty with Spnu ex ptwere the only ones to escape uninjured. Mr. In that, there are not In fronManthcy was over tin years old. Tho Spanish ding prov'-doregai any newas consisted of tho father anil Tinfamily a treaty mere tier In mother and seven thihiren, who, with gotiated in Spain ' Minister Smut. tho servant, were In the building at Urn time of the lire, it Is thought the lUl.y Cmimiii Hun niv. fire was caused by an overheated furmother Ills because of fit n In rag' nace. hi younger rebuked him and petted 3 Eo(ltir KIIIimI, Two Firmn Injard. brother little Janies MiSbeeliey. himPeter Peterson, a Santa Fe engithrew Conn., of Derby. years obi. end was Instantly killed and two firewater neer, tub a tailing self Into he died. men were seriously Injured in a head-ovmik so terribly seelded that freight collision on the Santa Fe The two ihildren were playing while In kitchen In the Peach Springs, Arlx. Both ennear worked their mother quarConn. were wrecked, and They several at gines Derby. her home foot bath freight cars were smashed up. A. O, a laid mother the and reled, full of si aiding water she was tarrying Wells, general manager of the western lines of the Santa Fe company, nn the flour and took the younger boy Mars from in her arm. She wiped the aya that from the advices he bad reJames. ceived the wrck was not a serious tils eve, while ibe scolded burst one, except for the death of Engineer Janie, a nervous, weak child, he threw Peterson. into a passion of sobs. Then hulling himself, shrieking. Into the him Trull? I ara t olllila. out. water The mother dragged Inter-urbaTwo trains collided part The upper writhing with pain. lb died a even miles from Tacoma Monday ut IBs body was parboiled, few hour later In agony, afternoon. nine persons Injuring and breaking the legs of Gushile Inking slightly iirirint si AitrrMt 0111. tave of Seattle. Thu accident arrested i was hist caused suhi-by the motorman of the Thirteen Tacoma train running past the switch nesr Spea Hal... after a desperate at where he should have met the Scuttle Ui prised tin At niggle. The police w.r- - in the n.t train. The while th.y Injured were aide to meeting to to Tacoma and Scuttle, where Uf taking an oath will, puigm.rh 1"' 1. they received medical attention, and ,M.sinatc King VI. "oil- e was taken to the hospital at the "f it"' I.iet of the anar. Kent i e'tttd ev etelv were tl.-i-h - tl-i- n 111 pro-ceee- d MJ REED DISTINGUISH ait) STATESMAN A FT Kit SHOUT il.I.NF.HS. SIC-HMD- S AM) UKKMAXI. W Entered Feb. SI. ltWS at, Mtcond-olnmatter, Iostoffloe MSpenith Fork, Utah. Act of Congress of March I, 17 11, 1902 Farmer Speaker at the Home of Kepreeea tatlrei WaeCoullaait to HI Had Hat Serea Da? When lie Faaaad Fearefully to the Ureat STOP Paying Rent (. TOUR ROMS. contract la Bis National OWN A Home-Seek- I' Association er Will entitle you to a home or farm of. $1000 cash, or pay off your mortgage, Iteyond. and may be returned at. the rufe of former $5 50 per month on each (Moot) with InThomas Brackett Heed, 8 annum. Apply speaker of the house of represents terest at per cent per In or to either letter by person tlves, and for many years one of the most prominent characters in public life. Is dead, his death occurring in P. O. Box 71, Spanish Pork, Utaha Washington. D. C.. at 12:10 oclock Sunday morning, after a short illness, the Immediate cause of death being uraemia. At the bedside when he died First-rlaa- e were Mrs. Heed and Miss Katherine Farm of inot soy lie desirable, utid rlty prop Reed, Doctors Gardner. McDonald, Bitihop and Gooduow, and Die nurses. erty with comfortable bonMr. Reed passed awny peacefully and ding, or varant loft, for sale by JOHN CHRISTIANSON, apparently without pain. Thomas Brackett Heed was horn OcReal Kutate Agent, tober 18. 1839, in Portland, Me., and mm Spanlth Fork, Utah received his early education In tho common schools of that city. In 1860 he was graduated from Bowdoln cole lege, winning one ofthe highest In Eng prize for excellence lish composition. The next four years were spent by Mr. Heed In tenehlng The bet sen Ice to the Traveling Trade and tho study of law. Before his ad- both la the Hotel and l.lvery business. mission to the liar he was appointed acting assistant paymaster In the United States navy. Watch fur the Bn at the Depot. After his discharge in 1865 Mr. Reed returned to lortland. passed the L. If. JilNLN, Prop. bar and entered on the practice ol Ills profession. Three years later he was elei ted as a Republican In the legislature of the state of Maine. In 1869 he was elected to the house and In 1870 made state senator, passing from tho latter position to that ol attorney general of the state the same year. Retiring from this office aftei effective service in 1873, he was then made solicitor of the city of PortTIRE CARD. land. and Departure of Trains fro In September. 1876, he was elected Arrival Western Depot Ulo Grande to the Forty-fiftcongress of the United States, which Assembled In De- So. 7, for Springville. Provo, beSalt take and all points cember, 1877. He Immediately came prominent through a speech, one East and West, of the few formal ones ever delivered No. SB, for Springville. Provo, Salt Luke and all points by him, In which he argued against the paylmont of damages hjr tho Unlb East and West, ed States for Injuries received by No. 8, for Eureka, Mammoth William and Mary college at the and Silver City, hands of United States troops durlnff No. 28, for Eureka. Mammoth the war. The subsequent policy ol and Silver City, the government in relation to wai vi::3 claims was largely determined by th Connection made In Ugden Union Dedefeat of this measure, to which Mr pot with All Train of riontbera Reed signally contributed. He wa Pacific and Uregon Short Line. also one of the minority members ap election to ol the OFFERS CHOICE 07 pointed Investigate President Hayes in the famous Hayes-Tildecontroversy. Ilia skill ns a debater was at once recognized, and hla I nil uence more strongly becoming marked ench year, the leadership ol his party was finally conceded to him, and In the Forty-nintand Fiftieth ADD congresses the complimentary nomP Throe Scenic Routes. Distinct nation to the speakership was tendered him by tlie Republicans. Pol mutt Palace and Ordinary Sleeping In the Fifty-firs- t congress, that par t aro to Denver, Omaha, haotaa ty having obtained the ascendancy. h (Ity, tit. Lonlx and Chicago wllheat was elected speaker on the first balchange, lot. In the first days of his administration of the office much opposition free Retaining Chair Cars. was made by the minority to the enPersonally Conducted Ixenralons. forcement of what Mr. Reed believed A Perfect Dlaln? Car borvlce. . his constitutional power, to count I members present In the house as par For rates, folder, eta.. Inquire of H. J. COOPEK, tirlpatlng In a vote, despite their reticket Agent, fusal to tlHe their privilege. The question of silence on such occasion con- or write I. A. RKKTO. stituting legal absence, and the dtp General Agent, Pasr Dcpmla structlon thereby of a quorum, was, Halt Lake City. however, set at rest by tho adoption of new rules by the house, February 14, 1890. In September of the same OfSICNl year Mr. Reed was reelected to ths maa aaoiuPvsu.His congress by large OUDUktD jority, Mr. Reed proved himself an as novice to indefntlrahle worker, even while In wextb'uty Noun tn lueuti. A,. congress, and aside from his duties as Bout liowkuobUua I'.itJito" and congressman spenker he fsund CWwf oKxifs. Ko fk Hit Mtont to menrad. eanlulmlUL AdtlrMO, Lrtlrtrk-tttime to contribute to several magaI. Q. SILQtRt, PilMl L,tw. WMhtoglo, O.C. zines of the day articles pertinent to various political and economic questions which were from time to time agitating the country. LOADED WITH SILVER. See i, ! I) h Hotel. Charlotte, 5! K. Commercial Men, r iHkiif i t FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY. PATENTS Fifty-secon- .....Tq mUE-MKK- WM. ROACH,' Blacksmiltiing, Drawn)! b? lb Wlght at Cola II to Parana, A peculiar drowning Is reported from Canarsle, Long Island. With $3u0 In silver In bis pockets, which hs bad saved for his wedding, Edward Porter was knocked from his sloop while returning to port and was drowned. Owing to the storm, hlq crew could render no assistance, and weighted down by the coin. Porter, al though a good swimmer, sank almost Maa to Horse Shoeing, Back ef taw la' More, Mpanlih Fork. Jox Lumber Company. D 1 Instantly. Tb Moiaa Faa4 lh Word of Paln Dill Wit hon The house on Saturday passed pen elon appropriation bills carrylnj $139,000,000 without a word of debate. Mr. Barney (1 In charge of the measure, explained that the apprnpria tlona It carried, aggregating $139,847,' 000. were practically Identical with those for the current year and that it contained no new legislation. The blit waa then passed without a word of comment, exnctly ten inlnutca having been consumed In It rouslderatlon. AND Building Material.; Bailed Hay & Produce. B 5 I BROOMS bpanlxh Fork, Utah. . !i! John Christianson, hon-orsth- . : i j |