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Show 4$ V - ( a Presidential 5 RAVDlira ?! A mprfton. WHOM, TlWi V h !IMIi(mmmimmmi.... ..n.e .. . t kllriflftM , liMMvy. JTinoi HM MM f City M XSItor. RAXSIMO, to OMTHtpoUttOi Urn of BOOT MO MiMtoa - Situation at Jackson, Tenn., Become Serious, and Railway Company Will Ask for Federal Troops. tot afho Ptwl Ofle II Brtiku MW) nine i ii i i tro fpr Mid Of Ik HUM PUIntf, oil ports Ml t . SKtiZS!X&Sw. UwiHr . ' of wwtufcM (tmwMni jatisHso tvenv Thursday. ' I, UTAH STATE NEWS. i jSef , t I- - Short Line expects , The 'Oregon heavier summer t revel than ever In Its Ltetory. ' Beet 'planting was finished In the tft. Pleasant district last tit, U'. ii: Prof. J. J. McClellan, who presides big organ in the tabernacle la Salt Lake City, is to compose a comic opera, entitled "A Romance of Japan.' M. Howe, a pioneer of American Fork, is dead at the age of 83. He came to Utah in the 'early days and passed through all the early trials of the Saints. The merchants of American Fork, Lehl, Pleasant Grove and Alpine have decided to give their clerks half holiday each week during the gammer months. The grading firm of Straw ,& Storrs, of Spiingville. has been awarded the contract for all the grading repair work on the line of the Rio Grande at the it; h l I tlt $ S4 i i H It ? The strike on the Mobile & Ohio railroad Is becoming serious, especially at Jackson, Tenn. One man killed, two trains blocked and business badly tied up Is the result of Sunday in Jackson. Earl In the morning Chiel of Police Gaston and hlB force wer called to the Union depot on account of a wreck, alleged to have bees th work of the strikers. A fishplate had been laid between the rails oC a switch and a monster engine was ditched. The engine was placed again on the rails, but when an attempt was made to pull out a train the switch was thrown and another delay occasioned. 'Later, Will Yarboro, a young man, was shot and killed while on the tender of his engine. Yarboro boarded the train Saturday as a brakeman. The train on which he was killed was the same as that manned by Captain Pringle, a bridge foreman, and his crew of negro bands. South of Jack-sotho negroes were run off the train and at Bethel, Yarboro joined Pringle's train. The strikers say that they know nothing of the Identity ol the man who did the shooting. The railway company will ask foi troops to preserve order on their line MOROS HAVE A PLENTY. Mi -- 4t Party Now In the Land ol Flower. The enthusiastic welcome that has greeted President Roosevelt at every Two Americans Are Killed and Seven stopping place within the boundaries of California seemed to have reached Wounded, While One Hundred and Fifteen Moroe Meet Death. a climax when the presidential train pulled into Los Angeles. Thousands deof has column people blocked the streets on every Captain Pershing's feated the sultan of Amparuganosas side. Former members of the presi force of Moros in the Taraca country dents rough rider regiment, a detachon the east shore of Lake Lanao, Isl- ment of troop D, N. G. C.. and "TedThe Americans dys Terrors, a political club of promand of Mindanao. hundred and inent Los Angeles business men, wear One forts. captured ten fifteen Moros were killed, 13 wound- Ing the rough rider uniform, formed ed and 60 were made prisoners. The on either side of the platform and kept Moros captured Included - the sultan. the crowds back. The annual Fleste de Las Flores, Two Americans were killed and seven the chief feature of which is the elabwere wounded. 'The ten forts constitute serious and orate floral parade, was arranged this strong positions on the banks of the year to coincide wtih the visit of the Taraca river and from them the Mo- president Unusual efforts had been ros vlgorously resisted Captain Per- made by the fiesta committee to make shings advance. The American troops this feature of the celebration particattacked the forts Monday and cap- ularly attractive, a sort of expression tured eight of them without suffering of the floral wealth of southern Call any losses, though the 36 obsolete fornia. The floral parade occurred cannon mounted on the fortifications Friday afternoon, and was reviewed were served with the beet of the ene- by the president and party as well as some 150,000 persons. mys 'ability. When the presidential party arrived The garrison of the ninth fort resisted fiercely and Captain Pershing at Redlands on Thursday Governor An ordered the fort to be shelled and cap- Pardee and Lieutenant Governor Presderson were present to welcome tured by assault, which was done. ident Roosevelt to the great state of Lieutenants Shaw and Grade, leading California. two companies of the Twenty-seventExtraordinary precautions are being the officials looking to the infantry and a detachment of cavalry, taken by surrounded the tenth fort, where the safety of the chief executive. At Los posnitan bad sought refuge, and it sur- Angeles Friday night a cordon of the The forts have been dis- lice surrounded Westminster hotel, rendered. temporay stopping place of the presimantled. dent, and no one except those holding passes were admitted. BROTHER OF CZOLGOSZ IN LOS ANGELES JAIL. .TWELVE MEN KILLED. h Pershings Men Killed Nina Datoa and .Ons Sultan at Taraca. Will Be Detained Behind Bars Until Captain Pershing and his colums President Leavet Los Angeles. have returned to Camp Vicars, Mlnda The report comes from Los Angeles nao, from the expedition through th that, acting under Instructions from country east of Lake Lanao. The col the secret service bureau at Washingnmn experienced no opposition aftei have arrested a man ton, the the fighting el Taraca. The prisoner) who is police of being one of the suspected captured at Taraca took the oath fonr brothers of Czolgoez, the assasallegiance to the United States and sin of the late President jVCestern this year. McKinley. were released. Among the Mon The body of an Infant was found killed In the Taraca forts .were nipt In the Jordan river at Salt Labs City dattos and one sultan. The moral ef last week and a coroner's Jury has do feet of this fight will be jcided that It was murdered, hut dis- and It la doubtful If there will 6l any covered no cine to Its parents. further hostility In the Lake Lanas Clyde Ellison, on trial In Salt Lake country.' jCltjr for the murder of Undertaker A. Captain Pershing estimates the pop a. Watson, was found not guilty by s ulation of .Taraca at 30,000, and that Jury. Ellison accused Watson of be- of the district at 100,000. He says ths ing unduly Intimate with his wife and population of the Lake Lanao district las been nhot him. C. 8cott, of Kimberley, employed at MAY ENJOIN UNCLE SAM. the Annie Laurie mill, was caught In the belting last week and sustained People of Cheyenne Object to Pollution of Waters by Government two broken ribs and n number of 8tablee. , bruises, his escape from death being narrow one. An injunction may be taken out by . Miss Matilda Lund of Ephraim was the city of Cheyenne to prevent the Injured in an accident last week. government from building two large While riding In a buggy with three stables on the banks of Crow creek ' ethers, the reach pole broke and Miss at Fort Russell. Tbe creek flows ' Lund fell face downward upon the through Cheyenne and Is the towns source of water supply. The erection dashboard, cutting her face badly. of stables on the banks at Fort RusJ. Andrew went who Captain Burt, to the Philippines with the Utah boys sell would pollute water and make It for domestic use, although the and remained to take a position in unfit filter beds He between the town and the Manila police department, is back the forL , fn Salt Lake and reports that Utahns LAID WASTE BY FIRE. In the Islands generally are doing well. 1 1 week. Fifty two acres were planted this year, as Against 108 last year. ft is expected that not less than GOO eowboys will participate In the parade fn Balt Lake City when President Roosevelt visits the capital city.' I V ERAKEMAN SHOT AMERICANS CAPTURE TEN FORTS AND A SULTAN. IN COLD BLOOD. Tim ol SaboaolptUa) k(W liOMh..... BeWroS NON-UNIO- DOWN ? BU MoBIDB "" VISIT CALIFORNIA. KILLED BY STRIKERS FIGHTING FILIPINOS. tyc $wr Itor lcu0 5 , lS2te: a s 1i.( Ut f I s? t H'-- l f h Result of a Wreck on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Meager reports have been received at SL Paul, Minn., of a serious accident at Dexter, a email station on the Canadian Pacific railway, 50 miles west of Port Arthur, In which 12 lives were losL A large number of laborers were with a work train at Dexter, ? ? s; i 1 H I Hi I tv j WUford Miller, was 12, aged dragged to death by a horse at Paro wan on the 8th. He was preparing to (take the horse out for the night len it started to run and the boya fedt got fastened in the rope had be waa dragged over two miles before th horse was caught. ! Mrs. Clyde Ellison, wife of the man acquitted of the charge of the murder of Undertaker Watson of Salt Lake, declares she will begin suit for divorce, claiming and cruelty. She professes) surprise at the outcome of the trial and calls it a case of attempted blackmail and mur- i der. 8am Newton, a blacksmith of Amer- ican Fork, tried to kill his wife Sunday last while In a drunken rage, and would have succeeded had K not been for the nerve of the woman, who knocked his shotgun out of his hand after he had struck her with it once, and made her escape. Newton la now fn Jail. Prince Nanzeta Montezuma, exiled ruler of the Aztecs and last of the Montezumas, was a visitor In Zion last week. The prince is 25 years of age, but looks much younger, and wears his hair banging down over his shoul- ders. Red Price, who was pardoned from the Utah penitentiary on account of falling health, ha Just been sentenced to life Imprisonment in the Colorado penitentiary for a murder Committed in Denver a few months ago. ' The big pumps at ijie head of Jordan river commenced sending water to the Salt Lake valley farmers Mon-gaFrom fc&w on eaph of the four "big pumpS will draw 100 cubic feet of water per second from the supply In Utah lake. ; ., . Shearing at the various fans in Sevier county Is almost over and the Count shows losses fully up to what was reported some weeks ago and In some cases in excess of calculations, The average loss Is from 19 to per cent Is estimated that the otttpnt of wool for Utah this season will be not less than 3,000,000 pounds short of the usual amount The entire crop, It Is 9,000,000 . believed, will not run over bounds, and of this, 8,000,000 pounds have already been shipped. While at work in the Paly-Webrine at Park City, Theodore Arnold Was very badly injured about the face 12 It knd will in all probability lose one of frin eyes. He was preparing to blast. And placing the cap on the end of the vheg the cap exploded. fj Hundreds of Houses 8wept Awiy find Many tendered Homeless. ' fire, suspected of bIng of Incenof diary origin, destroyed hundreds lumber bousqa and millions ol feet in Ottawa, Onb John White who had just been released from pie pent-tentjajyiaf ter serving a itqrm' far arson, was caught near where the fire was PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. , first discovered. He was taken to the .Lin.. police station and will be charged Great secrecy has been maintained Where they had been loading ties. The with starting the conflagration. about the arrest and practically no In- train was on a side track and the men formation has been given out concern- were at breakfast in the caboose, or Bubonic Plague In Psru. boarding car, at the end of the train. Callao and Pisco, Peru, have been ing the man. It Is known, however, A passanger train crashed into ths caofficially declared infected with the that he was arrested and confined in boose, where the men were eating, bubonic plague. The bqnks and busi- the city jail. No charge has been overturning the car, and the wreckhim, the police simply age caught fire almost immediately ness houses of Guayaquil are subscrib- lodged against the man on suspicion until from the engine fire. Of the men in detaining ing funds for the purpose of cleaning after President Roosevelt shall, have the car, twelve were instantly killed or burned to death. the city. Three Cosmos line steamers left Los Angeles. from southern ports will be refused OPEN DOOR IN CHINA. DEAD. COLONEL DEWEY admittance here. Ecuadorean troops have been stationed on the Peruvian Well Known Idahoan Passes to the Russia Declares She will Reetore Manchuria to China. frontier to stop communication. Great Beyond. ' Tbe board of health at Payta, Pern, has In the Russian series of diplomatic Colonel W. H. Dewey died of dropsy closed that port to vessels from Cal' Friday morning at th$ Dewey Palace exchanges In the current volume of lao. T hotel at Nampa. He wafi 80 years old foreign relationl now In press Is given Miners In an Idaho Mins Have Se the text of a communication addressed and a native of New York. cured an Eight-hou- r Day. Colonel Dewey was one of the very by Ambassador Tower to the Russian The etght-bou- r day In the mine and prominent men of the state. He made foreign office, relative to the announcemills of the Trade Dollar company at a fortune In ment that China was about to sign the mines of Silver City, an e Silver City, Idaho, lg now an assured and more agreement with the recently developed the bank by which valuable exclusive facL The Miners union at rat- Dewey mine at Thunder mountain, were to be secured by that ified the agreement oflfs committee which is now known to be of great privileges institution. The note brought forth value. with General Manager gjwau and the the Important declaration from Count He built two short lines of Tallway, Lamsdorff, minister for foreign afchange will go into effect as soon as one from other to the Murphy, Nampa that Russia purposed to restore wssible. It is said ihe' chatfgd will Another fairs, from Nampa to EmmetL Manchuria to China, and .would recall ake fcTace fc)C!0rroy, Bud that it will is his Nampa hotel, which her troops from that province, and ho put info effect in the mlde al flfion monument cost It was ago. three months opened that there was no intention to int' as the schedules can be arranged His estate is estimated at fere with the open door arr $250,000, probably within a week or ten days. from $1,000,000 to $1,250,000. menL A Peculiar AcctcTenL Bubonic Plague in Peru. Loth to Leave C D. C. Haskins, Oilman of . The Russians, it Is 'According to recent reports from tolne, Is in the hospital at Lima, Peru, the existence of bubonic reoccupied New r teSonnoed, have Wheatland, Wyx, as the result of a plague has been discovered In the , force and hs &waug wUh a large a garrison in very unusual accldenb Of and the Callao of hoisting suburbs people the forts , at the Ico&bclast Is done by means of that port are much alarmed. Tha auh IUO h of the Liao " river. They hre further reported to be e sollne engine. Haskins attempt- thorities have closed and isolated a ed o start the machine by detaching flour mill, where certain suspicious extensive warlike preparafhe pipe carrying gasoline to the cyl- cases have originated. Forty labo' The news of Russian activity, tions, inder, and blowing gasoline through who were employed in the mll1 Phteh homes from a most trustworthy . . the pipe. The expected explosion in been quarantined. It has hof source at New Chwang, adds that on the cylinder occurred, but a valve fail- to close the principal e jjtoa ing to work properly, a quantity of and to confiscate all -- 0nr coming from their Teturn to New Chwang the Rusgasoline was blown down Haskins' the mill in question. The plhgue has sia troops brought with them several throat not spread. large guns. A large force has been ordered to reoccupy Tien Shwang Tal. The Nicaragua Railway. , Russia is Net Worrying. Buried by a Rock Slide. Former United States Senator John the recent serlwfts Notwithstanding A. Thurston, who is associate counsel Nine men were killed and five othevents in Macedonia, the Russian for- ers for the United States and Nicaragja Injured by a slide of rock In a eign office dock not regard the Ultua-tio- tunnel at company, arrived at Pittsburg Stur. Eggleston Springs, Va., oU as beihg disquieting, basing its day, to be present at the organk zation belief in its unshaken faith of the the Norfolk & Western railway. Railroad contractors were engaged, ,,io meeting of the Great Central ' raiiwav other ' loyal powers particularly conThe Great Central Railway t com the two tunnels at the is capitalized at $10,000,00f , tha ma- - cerned. Russia holds tbhtkhe Bulgarand when the tunneling named, point !rltZ.fKthe t0CHehiyln,r been taken ian governments attitude Is correct, force had removed the earth and Pittsburgers. prorsea t0 and that it is impossible to prevent stone a road 320 miles tong, which will bulM for the railroad tracks a huge congrossing the fron- slide of solid stone gave nect Managua, the fapltal of Nicar- revolutionary bands away on the to wholly check ler into tier Turkey, agua, Tegucigalpa, capital nf mountain Bide and came down, strikmovement Austria's the patriotic and Salvador. ing the gang of laborers and crushing loyalty is likewise Hlnquestioned. out the life of nine men. , ' Russo-Chines- Icon-pcla- i. n double-trackin- Hon-dura- Number of Letters and Words in tbe Holy Book Counted By Unfortunate Confined in Spanish Prison The Word hReverend " Occurs But Once in the Pages, It that the number Is well known of letters, words, verses, etc., contained in the Bible have been counted, but by whom when or where, is not Treat's publicagenerally known. tion, entitled Curiosities of the Bible, speaks of the occurrence as being of Spanish origin, and that the Prince of Granada, fearing usurpation, caused the arrest of the supposed would-busurper, and by order of the Spanish crown he was thrown into an old prison called the place of Bkulls, situated in Madrid,' where he was confined for thirty-threyears, with no other companion than the rats, mice and other vermin that frequented his dismal cell. During his confinement he counted MARTIAL LAW DECLARED. the letters, etc., contained in the Bible, and scratched the several numbers Military Authorities Are New in Conon tbe stone walls with a nail. When trol In Salonlca. bis work was discovered he was furAn engagement is reported to have nished with writing ntensils and oroccurred at the village of Vanltza be- dered to make a copy of the results of his long and tedious task, and, on tween Turkish troops and a Bulgarian its being completed, he finally reband in which sixty Bulgarians, inceived his liberty. cluding their leader, Deltzeff, were The following Is a correct copy of killed, while the Turks had fonr men his great work: killed and three wounded. Thirty The Bible contains 3,566,480 letbouses la Vanltza were burned. ters, 773,746 words, 31,173 verses, A Bulgarian hand led by Petroff has chapters and 66 books. The word and occurs 10,684 times, been routed at Krapestaza. Seven of the word Lord 1,853 times, the word the Bulgarians were killed. Jehovah 6,855 times, and the word A number of dynamite bombs were reverend but once, which is In the captured at Salonica, and martial law ninth verse of the One Hundred and was proclaimed in Salonlca Wednesday. The battleships Sardegna and Eleventh psalm. Francesco Moroslnl, the cruiser Carlo The middle verse is the eighth verse a Alberto and the torpedo cruiser of the One Hundred and Eighteenth of the Italian navy have ar- psalm. The twenty-firs- t verse of the rived at Salonica seventh chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet with the A DRASTIC MEASURE. e e Cala-tafim- 1 exception of the letter J. i' The finest chapter to read is tbe twenty-sixtchapter of the Acts of the Apostles, Thp most beautiful chapter psalm. The nine-- ' is the Tenly-thirteenth chapter of IL Kings and chapter of Isaiah are alike. The four most Inspiring promisee are to be found in tbe sixth chapter verse, and of St. John, fourteenth chapter, second verse; also eleventh chapter of SL Matthew, verse, and the psalm, fourth verse. The longest verse is the ninth versa, eighth chapter bf Esther. The short versa, est verse 1b .the- thirty-fifteleventh chapter of SL John. There are ten chapters In the book of Esther in which the words Lord and God do not occur. The eighth, and thirty-flrififteenth, twenty-firs- t verses of the One Hundred and Seventh psalm are alike. Each verse of the psalm One Hundred and Thirty-Sixtend alike. The One Hundred and Sevtwo but enteenth psalm contains verses, the One Hundred and Nineteenth psalm contains 176 verses. There are no words or names of more than six syllables. It has also been discovered by some person unknown that In Joel, third chapter, third verse, the word girl occurs, and in the eighth chapter of the word Zachariah, fifth verse, girls Is mentioned for the only time in the whole book. ' The eighth chapter of Esther, ninth ts. The word verse, contains fifty-twtimes in snow appears twenty-fou- r the Old Testament and three times in tha New. Boston Herald. h d thirty-sevent- h twenty-ei- Thirty-Sevent- ghth h h lt h o Prevent Discrimination Against Members of Militia Governor Odell of New York has signed a bill designed to prevent disOne Millionaire Vanderbilt Gathered Together the Boots ol crimination on the part of the labor unions against members of the naExecuted Murderers Necklace of Human Eyes the tional guard. The bill Is very drastic Fad of Another Man with More Money Than Sense, and refers equally to labor nnions or employers, making it a misdemeanor Some people find a positive fasci- reign of Queen Anne and has been to interfere in any way with the emnation In the grewsome, and their preserved carefully. ployment of a person who is a member of the national guard on account chief ambition in life seems to be to A museum in Washington has In its of such membership, or to dissuade establish a private chamber of hor- possession a buckskin collar which a person from enlisting by threat of rors. was picked up in a field In Wyoming. injury with reference to his employOne of the Vanderbilts, who died It is artistically covered with shells ment, trade or business. It especially colof blue and white beads, and as pendforbids any trade organization from some years ago, had a mania for lecting the boots of men and women ants boasts five arrowheads of flint dispassing any resolution or criminating in the matter of members who had died on the scaffold, and a and eight human fingers, probably new execution threw him into a fever taken from the bands of enemies by an or against any member of the national When Gulteau met Indian who had acquired the collectof anticipation. guard. his fate this collector traveled by ing fad. .NEGROES ARE RECOGNIZED. special train to Washington , and From the descendants of another Inwaited three days before he managed dian chief a collector bought a lasso, For the First Time in History of Re- to make a deal with the executioner 50 feet long, made from the hair of publican Party In Alabama. to get the assassins boots. Mr. Van- the wives and daughters of pioneer 200 For the first time in the history of derbilt's collection numbered pairs, settlers. He keeps it in a superb cabthe Republican party in Alabama ne- each treasured as if it had been a cost- inet with a number of other horrors, name of including a watch chain fashioned by groes were given recognition at the ly gem, and labeled with the owner and a full history a Corsican bandit from the beard of conference of the Republicans held at its original of his crime. He took as much pleas- one of his comrades whom he had Montgomery Wednesday. The whites ure in adding to his queer collection stabbed in a quarrel over a division took seats on one side of the hall and as in watching his millions grow, and of spoil.' the negroes on the other. on his death the boots were purchased Collections of tattooed heads are Referees W. F. Aldrich, Charles H. fairly common. The finest belongs to Scott and Jo Thompson organized the by a Chicago museum for $7,800. Another lover of the grewsome de- an Englishman who is the proud posconference. In calling the conference to order Mr. Aldrich explained the ob- voted his time to the collection of a sessor of 25. The tastes of some colThe referees necklace of human eyes, each polished lectors run wholly to skulls, and when ject of the meeting. had been appointed, he said, to correct to the brilliancy of a jewel and richly they hear of a new one with a hismistakes and right the wrongs of the mounted on gold. This collection wag tory they spare no trouble or expense recent Birmingham convention. one of the exhibits of the Worlds to annex !L Death masks are In strong Fair In Chicago. There is only one demand by the faddists, and fabulous TRAGEDY AT A BALL. other necklace of the kind in the sums are cheerfully paid for good world. It was found in Kent la the ones. One Man Is Killed, Another Fatally Wounded and Third Hurb Bill to Some Grewsome Fads of Collectors by-la- under-estimate- " Monroe Doctrine Proclaimed Persian Gulf. Foreign Secretary Lansdowne has proclaimed a British Monroe doctrine in the Persian gulf, and has practically notified the competing powers that any attempt on their part to establish a naval base or fortified post in those waters meaos war with Great Britain. I say without hesitation, said the foreign secretary, dealing with the subject In the house of lords, that we should regard the establishment of a naval base or a fortified port In the Persian gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British Interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.1 Lord Lausdownes attitude in this matter generally meets with approval, although the answers thereto of the other powers interested ia the gulf are awaited with some anxiety. British - ; f Some Facts About the Bible PROBABLY MEANS WAR. g Broke Up Bridge Whist A Bay City, Mich., dispatch says: During a free fight at a hotel dance In Big Creek, Just across the Una In Tuscola county, Dave Trombley, aged 88, of West Bay City, was Bhot dead; Harry Schlndehette, aged 80, of this city, was fatally slashed with a knife and FTank Defoe, aged 28, was sSrfc ously cuL Leader of Society Slapped Her Partner's Pact in Page Qftr What She Considered a Misplay Too Many Women Involved for Affair to be Kept Secret " Hot-Temper- t Bombs Are Weapons of Bulgarians. Advices received in Vienna from Salonlca say that notwithstanding the fact that hundreds of Bulgarians have been arrested, street fights are constantly taking place. Women and children, especially young girls, take a prominent part In these disturbances. It is asserted that bomb. outrages have been planned in all the towns of Macedonia. Bombs have been 'discovered in houses at Usknb, European Turkey. 8an Francisco Strike Troubles ed One bridge club has recently gone out of existence and its last meeting Is scarcely mentioned by the members to the outside world, says the New York Sun. The list of the members reads like a page out of the socirj Even that fact, hower register. could not save it from disruptin' aftej the exciting Incidents that ir -arkd tne last meeting. One of the player-- . . whose social posit lished as the rt vio" a ha8 ct that 8h0 lent tenroe- never has which she A found ' necessary to control. Her par taer was a much younger woman, who thought she was doing as well aa she could with her cards. Her partner did not agree with her. She repeatedly showed her disapproval of the others plays. After one that especially displeased and leanher she lost all ing forward she slapped the offending partner on the cheek. t All the wqmeu Jumped .to their feet. The astonished hdstess rushed across the room. The irate player had just raised her hand to apply another slap to her unfortunate partner when the -- Ad' justed. All differences between the T vAhor-tractor- s ers Protective union and Um- association at ' Francisco were amicably ad", Tuesday, and the strike ina- was called on May 1st Yhe men returned to work W' riff-uawage . morning at the new al with less hours of work on 'contracts made since March v .f?L "Eight hours is to constitute a 'dav'a work on all street contracts, public or private, and nine hours a day on all other work. .Jf.ied Another Pony Express Rider Dead. Captain William H. Strope is dead at Cheyenne of pneumonia. Captain Strope was horn in New York seventy-twyears ago. When a child he went to sea, traveling all over the world and having many exciting adventures. As pony express rider for the Wells-Fargcompany he made a' great race across the continent in 1857, carrying the inaugural address of President o o Buchanan to San Francisco, He narrowly escaped death at the hands of Indians daring the Journey. Cleveland Coming to Utato , F. J. Kiesel, chairman of the executive committee of the National congress, is In receipt of a letter from Gilbert McClurg, general representative of the Irrigation congress, who had an Interview with former President Grover Cleveland. The former president expressed a desire to attend the .congress In Ogden next September, and stated that in the event of not being able to do so he will send a paper on Arid Land t' d l, hostess two. attempted to separate th Tvjq hostess got the blow. Her Ml P'.iso at. the force of the blow, was such that she fell under the table. She discreetly remained there until the fleeing guests escaped from the room. One woman got wedged behind a sofa and had to stay there until the row had altogether abated. This hair, pened only after the woman first attacked had burst Into tears, het antagonist had sailed out of the room in unrepentant scorn and the hostess, not damaged but shocked, had clambered to her feet, ' Naturally that bridge club met no belmore to play cardsc All but the ligerent member had a series of Informal discussions looking to the suppression of all talk about tbe affair. They all swore secrecy. But there were sixteen women concerned and the affair leaked ouL It' has been a sensation of the- - winter.' ' Naturally the accounts of it have grown. Some of the exaggerations are grotesque. But they are no more remarkable than the original incident FORMATION OF THE WHALE. peared entirely externally and are represented by the rudiments of hind an Interesting legs, which afe found burled deep Structure Physical in the interior of the animal. These Study for Scientists. Study of the whale is very interest- serve purpose, but they ing to Scientists from the fact that indicate its former life and habits as is Is one of the best examples of the a land mammal and show in a strikinfluence of environment in ing way the effect of envlronmenL of structure. Whales are believed to be descendants of terres,, Only Lived to Die. trial mammals which have assumed An eccentric character has passed an aquatic 'existence a change which away in New York, under strange cirbrought about very' remarkable .modi- cumstances, at the age of sixty-foufications in the structure of the ani- This curious personage believed tbat mals.- Borne- - organs-- ' have become by diminishing the quantity of natural highly specialized, while others have food he would strengthen the spiritual Teeth, for side of his nature, and so he able to completely degenerated. Instance, which are a characteristic comprehend the mysteries behind ths feature of land mammals,, hre entire- hfll of this life. Latterly he had been ly lacking In the adult finback Whale, living exclusively on a handful bf rice their place being taken In part by per day. A few days ago, however, The fore limbs whalebone. have he fell in hla room from weakness ceased to be appendages of locomo- and broke his leg. His death is now tion and have become mainly balanc- announced from indigestion. ing organs, but they still retain the structural plan of the mammalian fore His OM Gama. limbs. The external fishlike form is La Montt I see where a on for swimming famous baseball pitcher Is working perfectly adapted through the water, and the tail Is not a motorman. La Moyne placed on as in fishes, but horizonWell, I suppose tally. The hind limbs have disap curves still knock people silly." ' ' r. |