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Show He HAITIAN gox G3Uer STANDING A WLXOU, Troprlelort. Ob TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ....11.25 Year. In tdfanca. ...... Six Monilia l&ne koaUu..... Bstertd Post it th necond nt Brighin 0c otaaa uuuur. W CHj as HTBCU STANDING, Editor. INSTRUCTIONS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Itams ot news art aolioiud from nil part ol country. Writ upon onn tide of the paper only. Write proper namea plainly, ta order to protect the publisher from Ira oeltlone from irreepoDslble person, tbe tuil name of tbe author ahouid be signed to all com tiunioatioDS. Tbe ldeotiiy of correspondent mUl be withheld whenever desired. ifi PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. i fifty-thre- e son Brigham, the seventeen-year-olof Mrs. Adel Kimball of Kanosh, while helping to corral a band of wild horses, got a fall and fractured his left leg. Albert Bell, Janitor at the Plngre school at Ogden, was badly burned by an explosion of gas. His face was badly burned, but his eyesight Is not affected. While playing ball at Santa Clara, John Stuck! had both bis legs broken between the knee and ankle by coming into collision with the second baseman. The Commercial club of Salt Lake City has appointed a committee to look into the matter of the freight rates and distinctions made against Salt Lake and Ogden shippers. The son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Penrose of Salt Lake City was kicked in the face by a cow one day last week, the little fellow sustaining a broken nose and a badly bruised face. The annual report of John P. Sorenson, inspector of pests in Salt Lake county, shows that there are 2,417 acres of fruit trees in the county, outside of Salt Lake City, and 1,411 acres d , 1 n r it M Irri- gation company, which is composed of 655 farmers, shows that the scheme to obtain water from surface wells for irrigation purposes has proven to be a success. Some 600,000 acres in Washington county have been ordered withdrawn temporarily from all forms of entry except mineral, with a view of creating a forest reserve in that section of southwestern Utah. , A few nights ago dogs got into a corral a mile southwest of Mount Pleasant, where Mart Rasmussen had a bunch of sheep and killed twenty-nin- e of them. The dogs had to be driven away with a pitchfork. Lloyd Chipman, aged 16, was accidentally killed at American Fork while handling a revolver which he bad borrowed from a friend. He was alone in the barn at the time, and it is not known Just how the accident occurred. The phenomenon of a midwinter thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy snow was experienced in Salt Lake City on the night of the 10th. Vivid flashes of lightning were accompanied by heavy thunder, continuing for nearly half an hour. Father John Steele, who died at last week, had the distinction ol being one of the Mormon battalion, a pioneer into the Salt Lake valley, a pioneer into the Parowan valley, and the father of the first baby girl born in Salt Lake. a Chosen as Meeting Place for National Livestock Convention. With the feeling that one cf the most important meetings in the history of the organization was ended, and that much was accomplished that will be for the future success of the livestock business, the sevi nth annual conventiin of the National Livestock association, held at Portland, adjourned Friday to meet in Denver, The unanimous Colo., next year. opinion of those in attendance upon this convention is that a mere successful and more pleasant convention has never been held. They feel that the government recognition of this that the livemeeting is an stock association has won for it elf a place in the public eye to which few or no other organization of a similar character can lay claim. Fiom the opening session of the National Wool Growers convention to the closing of the livestock mens organization unity and harmony have characterized every action. With this feeling prevailing the work of the conventions was easily accomplished. Little Republic is Again the Theatre of Warfare. A cable from Cape Haitian, under date of the 17th, says: The governluo h disembarked rement troops were yisterday Sossua at cently to niau-- on Porto Plata. A brisk a'tark, supported by the guns of a Dominican war vessel, began in the evening. In the morning operations weie resumed, and the government troops entered Porto Plata, causing the flight of General who took refuge in the United Slates consulate. The British cruiser Pallas has landed marines to protect the consulate. The United States cruiser Hartford has arrived. Five persons connected with the conspiracy headed by General to start a revolt against General Nord and condemned to death by a military tribunal, were executed today iu the presence of a vast crowd. Several foreigners who took part in the conspiracy will probably be deported. On January 2, in the absence of ENGLAND BACKS JAPAN. President Nord, who went to Gonaives to take part in the celebration of the Is Not Willing for Russia to Send Fleet Through the Dardenelles. of centenary of tha independence A special cable from London says: Haiti, General Monpiaisir attempted to start a revolt against the president, The in the United but the movement failed. The gen- Statesreport published a news to the effect by agency were son an and erals accomplice that the British government had notikilled and many arrests were made. fied Japan that any attempt of the CAN NOT AGREE. Russian Black sea squadron to pass v- d s, Mon-plais- lr Morgan Is to have an electric light system. There are 300 acres of fruit trees inside the city limits of Salt Lake City. Ogdens exhibit at the St. Louis fair will be shipped about February 1. The senate has passed a bill creating a port of delivery at Salt Lake City. The house of Amos Bradley at Moroni was damaged by fire to the amount of $700. The Seventh Day Adventists of Salt Lake City have finished their new church building. W. H. Bancroft of Salt Lake City has been made general manager of the Union Pacific railroad. Frank J. Hagenbarth of Sait Lake City has been elected president of the National Livestock association. No married man has a right to he ashamed to carry a baby or a coal-oi- l can on the streets, says the Richfield Reaper. The proposed rabbit hunt which was to have been held at Malad, Ida., Ogden and Idaho shooters Gas been called off. Alex Orton of Parowan, while putting up a stovepipe, fell upon the stove, breaking several ribs and badly Injuring his head. Salt Lake City is to have a real Spanish bull fight on the 23rd. The contest will take place at the saucer track at the Salt Palace. Tbe sixteenth annual show of the Utah Poultry association will begin In Salt Lake City on Janaury 26th, and continue until the 30th. Andrew Wallace, employed by the Southern Pacific at Ogden, was struck by a switch engine, bis left leg being severed just above the ankle. On January 13. years ago, the pioneers pitched their tents at Parowan, and the event was duly celebrated by Parowan citizens last week. The Sevier County Poultry association has been organized at Richfield. This is .the first association of the kind to bo organized in this section of Utah. of berries. The annual report of the Lehl DENVER W.NS CONVENTION TROOPS VARCH ON PORTO PLATA. Two Points Between Japan and Russia Which Have Not Been Settled. In what it claims is an authoritative statement, the London Daily Graphic announces that the negotiations have arrived at a stage leaving two points upon which neither Russia nor Japan is inclined to yield, and as to which no means of a compromise have yet been found. Both these points concern their acceptance Manchuria, and would not in the slightest modify the legal statu quo or change the administrative situation in Manchuria; but Japan insists that they be embodied in a treaty between Japan and Russia, while Russia, as a matter of amour propre, refuses to accept such dictation at the hands of Japan. Much, however, is still hoped from the czars Influence. HE KNOWS HOW INSANE ON RELIGION erts of American Missionaries Tortured by Chinese Bandits. Mis i naries of tbe American Board of Foreign Mission complained strong to Unite States Minister y recent! that their converts at Peking Conger were district of Pao Ting-Fin ih being lix ted by bandits who claimed to be Catholics, ard that a reign of preaied in the di trict. The C. incs officials feared to act and several Cliri tians who refused to pay luekirail were tortured. Their legs .vers broken and some died from the . Minister Conger requested njuri-s'h Chinese government to suppress th bandits, tut this demand was without apparent result. Secretary Wil iams. after a weeks personal Investigation, effected aa arrangement with the officials of the district, who premised to protect the people If Conger would cease to make complaints, which Injured them at the seat of government. Ccn- MAN KILLS HIS WIFE AND WITS SUICIDE. Deed Committed in Presence COM-"- " 1 of the Son, Who Gave Alarm, But Too Late. cf in a boarding bouse in I.cs Angeles, Cab, by cutting her throat with a pocket knife and then, turning tha weapon o ' himself, ended his own I fe in a srn-Ila- r A. A. Bo'l.s, a Sioux City. er wel-to-d- Ia, murdre,l it wife cr manner. The deed was committed in the presence of their son, who wa3 awakened by tha s' u J of the straggly and gave the alarm, bnt too late to ar, usa asristarce. Both were dead before med ea! ai could be summoned. Bolks was sup posed to be temporarily deranged ove religious matters and to have committed the crime in a moment of irHe had been acting responsibility. Borrows Money to Buy Guns. queerly for about a week, and on one Tsen at Shanghai ba3 conViceroy occasion recently kept his family up firm for all night praying, exhibiting a revo! cluded a loin with a German ver at the time and threatening to a million taels in order to purchase take their lives. Xrupp mountain guns. nine-year-o- d Min-iste- THE EFFECT ON THE MARKETS. IT IS. I m-- wt It s mt 1 70,-21- America it Their Mecca. The United States continues to be the chief objective point of Italian Immigration, says a dispatch from Rome, the number of emigrants going there in 1903 reaching a total of nearly has Minneapolis Colombians Preparing for War. United States naval authorities at Colon appear to be convinced, from the tenor of the reports which are continually brought in, that Colombia Is determined to send an army to attack Panama. The Panamanian authorities on Tuesday received official confirmation of the fact that the Colombian troops at Tltumatl number at least 4,000 men, under the command of Generals Ortiz, Uribe-UribBustamente and Novo. These troops are well armed and supplied with ammunition, and have four guns, fibres steam launches and a large supply of cattle. The district Is an unproductive one, and the provisions and other supplies which the troops possess have been brought to them from other places. Times. Democrats Select SL Louis as Place For Holding National Convention. The Democratic national committee on Tuesday furnished a surprise, selecting SL Louis as the place for holding the national convention of 1904. The date fixed for the convention was Wednesday, July 6, at 11 oclock. Previous to the meeting of the commutes it seemed a foregone conclusion that Chicago would be selected, but political exigencies entered Into tbe situation and a majority of the committee voted for SL Louis. Pine Lines In Territory. Delegate McGuire ot Oklahoma has Introduced a bill giving the secretary of the Interior authority to grant perin the mission for laping Indian Territory. pipe-line- s en- GENERAL WEYLERS REASONS IN BRIEF trusted Adolfe Rossi, inspector of emigration, with a mission to the United States for the purpose of studying with the United States immigration commission the best means of directing Italians to the agricultural Btates and of thus preventing their concentration in the large towns. Rossi also will investigate the relations of the Italian emigrants to the trades unions. Would Bar Chinese. At the second session of the const) tutional convention held at Panama on tbe afternoon of the 16th, recommendations were presented providing for the prohibition of Chinese Immigration except to those coming to engage in agricultural pursuits, the adoption by the republic of the constitution of Colombia of 1886, except the parts of it In opposition to the present government, nntil the convention perfects one. and authorizing the Junta to make a $500,000 loan. Germans Besieged by Rebels. A dispatch from Windhoek, German Southwest Africa, says the German post at Okahandya, a mission station of Damaraiand, is being hard pressed by the revolted Hereros tribe. Attempts made from Windhoek to relieve the garrison, which has suffered heavy losses, have been unsuccessful. Windhoek itself is threatened, and the militia has been called out. The Hereros are well mounted aud armed, having obtained horses and guns from settlers they have raided. Family Scattered by Military Rule. Six union members were expelled from San Mign! count. Co'o., Friday, by order of Major Zeph Hill, military commander. A the men were brought from Jail a woman with a small child al tempted to fall in line with her husband, but the soldiers pushed her back. At the depot relatives of the men wcie avowed to converse with them until the train pulled out. The daughter of one of the dethe ported men roundly denounced military, but was not molested. Baltimore Herald. renew the apiication and press for Turkish consent. Germanys attitude, as at the time the four unarmed Russian torpedo-boa- t destroyers passed through the straits in September, 1902, is that she has no concern in the matter. Three Years In Islands. The war department has ordered that hereafter all details of staff officers for duty in the Philippines shall be for three years, instead of two, a3 at present SLAUGHTER ALL FOREIGNERS. Gen. Weyler Bhortly will publish a book entitled My Military and Political Campaign in Cuba. Two interesting chapters will be headed "My Project for Landing In United States Territory and "Reasons Why I Was Madrid Dispatch to Chicago Inter Ocean. Obliged to Abandon the ProjecL Germans Believe That Little Japan ia Simply Bluffing. According to advices from Berlin, the German foreign office holds to the opinion that war In the far east Is still highly Improbable. Beyond this the official statements do not go. Unofficial opinion, especially that of the newspapers, regards the statements telegraphed from the far east of extreme tension as part of a great diplomatic game designed to make Russia believe that mere concessions must be made or Japan will attack. to Senate. Hanna The Ohio legislature by separate ballot of the house and senate on Tuesday voted to return Marcus A. Hanna to the United States senate for a second term. Senator Hannas is in striking contrast to his election six years ago. when, after a most exciting political contest, he secured only the requisite number of votes to elect, seventy-three- , on joint ballot, the senate on its separate ballot having given a majority of one vote to Robert L. McKisson ot Cleveland. Cut Hand From Corpse. hand and some money Senator au interview at Pittsburg, Friday, said: "I and jewelry have been found in the have sent out 200 persona! letters de- debris of the Iroquois theatre. The hand was that of a man and apparnying that I am a candidate for the ently had been severed from the wrist I do not and want to be in an attempt to get presidency, of possession 1 considered as such. consider ail such rings. As no body was found from talk a closed incident. The alleged which a hand had been taken, the supposition is that the body may have opposition to the nomination of Presibeen consumed in the fire. The podent Roosevelt has been lice found $30 in bills encased in a and magnified greatly by Dem- chamois skin bag, and also a ocratic papers and others with Demopal among the fragments of broken glass and charred wood. ocratic proclivities. Debating Panama Question. The Panama question was tbe subject of debate in the senate Tuesday. The discussion arose over a resolution looking to the arbitration of Colombias claims on account of the Panama revolution. Republican senators In their speeches referred to the resolution as a confession of wrong on the part of the United States, and expressed the opinion that any agitation ot the question at this time would give undue encouragement to the people of Colombia and misrepresent the attitude of this country. Waterworks In Helena. The Helena, Mont., Waterworks company has begun suit for an Injunction to restrain the city from carrying out a contract recently entered into between the municipality and the Congress Construction company of Chicago for the building of a water plant. The contract price was $579,000, and the taxpayers have the Issuance' of $614,000 in bonds for the work. These bonds are to be offered for sale next Monday. The water company alleges that $579,-00wil) not put in the plant A Closed Incident. A human A. Hanna, in Con- Not Calculated to Cheer the Wom-- a. Benedict A friend of the writer, who ried a woman with a temper of own, tells an amusing story at h expense. They have been married t about two years, and as despite imperiousness they have got aj very well, she smiles when the a is repeated. After courting for some time The proposition to incorporate t a th man summoned up courage t company of livestock men for the pur- young momentous the put Re pose o7 establishing independent pack- duly accepted, but aquestion. throw! hint was of ing houses in tbe stock centers out that he should see her father tbe country to compete with the pack- readily agreed, and one evLr ers' combine nnd restore prices on called to talk the matter over !? topio livestock was the parent. When the matter had beea arrant of discussion in the National Livestock convention at Portland on Wed- the father said: Weil, young man, if you Wan. nesday. By unanimous vote the conmarry my daughter you must first vention endorsed a resolution favor861 your life insured In her favor ing the Incorporation of such a comCertainly, answered the would pany and the establishment of the in- benedict, pleased to find the father 2 for the dependent houses Steps will now be solicitous girls tut Which company would you recorll taken to taise stock subscriptions to mend? the for of an ouot $5,000,000 tbe I would recommend none, of capitalizing the corporation the answer, but, he added as financial a it footing upon rd placing daughter's bursts ot temper came to to proceed with the work of establishhis mind, you had better choose ing plants for the purposes outlined iu some pay-al- l claims company. 1 the discussion. .llow suicide. The idea of the stockmen is to have BIRDS IN a corporation composed entirely of CAKE WALK. livestock raisers, who shall be shareNaturalist Telia of Peculiar Antics of holders In the company and the directhe Albatross. tors of its business affairs. Tho plants In the Laysan islands of the of this company are to compete with Pj. the combination plants, giving the cific the albatross is very tame and A abundant. very naturalist thus dproducer a better price for his stock escribes the dance or cake and maintaining reasonable prices to as the walk, sailors call it, of these the consumer. In turn these independinteresting birds: Two albatrosses ent packing houses are to be support- approach each other bowing profounded by the livestock raisers against ly and stepping rather heavily. the combination. Now that the asso- circle around each other nodding They sociation has endorsed the plan, which lemnly all the time. Next they fence a little, crossing bills and whetting Is entirely separate from the organthem together, pecking meanwhile ization, the matter of interesting livestock men in the project and of se- and dropping stiff little bows. Sudden to raise the ly one lifts its closed wing and curing subscriptions nibbles at the feathers underneath be will necessary capital placed in the or rarely if in a merely turns hands of committees to be appointed its head and tuckshurry its bill under its for that purpose in the stock raising wing. The other bird during this states. short performance assumes a statuesque pose and either looks mechaCHINA PREPARING FOR WAR. nically from side to side or snaps its London Paper So Regard Ratification bill loudly a few times. Then the first bird bows once and, pointing its head of Amcrican-ChinesTreaty. All the London papers have edi- and beak straight upward, rises on its toes, puffs out Its breast and utters torials which attach great Importance prolonged nasal groan, the other to the ratification of the commercial bird snapping its bill loudly and treaties between the United States at the same time. When they and China, and between Japan and have finished they begin bowing at China. The concensus of opinion in each other again, almost always rapthese editorials is that the ratifica- idly and alternately, and presently retion of the treaties implies an act ot peat the performance. sovereignty by China equivalent to a Fond of Ragtime. declaration that Russias occupation of Everybody is repeating an anecdote Manchuria i3 only temporary and for concerning a Washington woman, says special purposes. the Washington Post, who has more The Morning Post money than wit, though why anybody is That says: precisely the point for with skads of money should be expecwhich Japan has been contending and ted to have anything so supererogatory which Russia declined to discuss with as wit is difficult to see. Several pep her. Japan is now in the advantage- sons were gathered together one after ous position of championing a cause noon In a Sixteenth street drawing which is also that of the United room, and just as Mme. Croesus cams In the young daughter of the house States. was playing Ethelbert Kevins hacThe Daily News thinks that China kneyed, but perennially sweet, Nap has displayed ominous courage In her ensus. Mme. Croesus listened to the recent diplomacy, which will make musical picture of the lovely face in for peace, owing to the tremendous the flowing fountain. She heard the hazards which war under the present modulations of the infatuated boys attempts to touch the reflection, first circumstances would involve. in this way, and then In that, and she heard the forbidding water resume its Chinese Treaty Now Effective. hopeless quiet. When the thing was Ratifications of the Amerlcan-Chl-nesfinished she smiled at the player. commercial treaty were exOh, do play it again, she said. at state the Wedchanged T m so fond of those coon songs, and department nesday by Secretary Hay and Sir I just dote on ragtime. Chung Teng Liang Chong, the Chinese minister at Washington. Too Literal Obedience. The treaty provides for the opening of the Superintendent S. D. Smith of the ports of Mukden and An Tung. In Manhattan elevated lines illustrating Manchuria, to the worlds commerce. to some employes who were up on complaints the use of intelligence is The treaty is now an accomplished fact; it remains only to proclaim it the carrying out of orders, told this and appoint the necessary consuls at story: 1 was Mukden and An Tung. going through Washingtos street the other day when I saw a boy Strike Cost Colorado $500,000 for lug out a watering can and begin to Militia. sprinkle the pavement while the rain General Bell announces that a troop was coming down briskly. " What are you doing that for? 1 of cavalry had been organized at asked the boy. It is composed of about sevenThe boss told me always to sprinty-five young men who own horses. kle the pavement before sweeping It, In addition to these he will leave a replied the lad, who showed a most guard of about sixty men at that commendable spirit of obedience, but place. Two companies an utter lack of appreciation of th comprising about 185 men. will be left In the New of the sprinkling. Cripple Creek district for the presenL purpose Up to date the expense of maintaining York Times. military forces in the field in conseAn Unknown Angel. quence of the strikes which began last summer has been nearly $500,000. She walks unnoticed in the street; The casual eye Sees nothing In her fair or sweet. Sailors Duel Ends Fatally. The world goes by Unconscious that an angels feet Two sailors on the French Are passing nigh. ship Vercingctorix, now lying in San FranShe little has of beautys wealth; Truth will allow cisco harbor, fought a duel to death her priceless youth and health. with sailors knives on the deck of Only Her broad, white brow; she on the heart by stealth, grows the vessel at midnight. , As a result Yet 1 Bcarce know how. of their battle Vlnce-Lemeur lies at the morgue and Vincent Lecorves. She does a thousand klndiy things That no one knows; charged by shipmates viih i!;o responA loving woman s heart she brings for To human woes; bi3 sibility death, is being sought face the sunlight clings by the police. It Is said that the men And to her she Where'er goes. had quarreled frequently the during voyage and had agreed to fight out And so she walks her quiet ways With that content their differences when port was That only comes to sinless days reached. And innocent: A life devoid of fame or praise. Victim of Fated Steamer. Yet nobly spent Pail Mall Gazette. The upper works of the lost steamer Our National Bird. Clallam, including the main deck, Let us never forget that he Is oui which appears to have been torn apart national contribution to the poultry-yarfrom tho hull, with the 'deck houses of the universe, for this will acand saloons and state room, is at count at onoe for his supremacy. ney, B. C., having been taken there Even in his advent he stood for th by the United States revenue cutter superiority of whatever is American.' Grant, which took over the wreckage Africa contributes the guinea hen, from the steamer Maude. On the good bird ; central Asia contributes the to Victoria tbe MaudP picked up passing through body near Trial Island, which Is be- pheasant, which, many countries, became the common lieved to be that of Colonel Thompson, a well known Tacoma mining fowl of all those countries; Egypt cuman. ltivated the goose, and all the countries domesticated each its own wild Uncle Sam Will Pay Sy0 duck. America, and she contributed Money Colombia. the turkey, thus from the first placA Washington ing herself upon the highest plane ol dintch cays: for noble products. can be stated by authority that the ad precedence ministration does not contemplate Antiquity qf False Teeth. paying one dollar out of tha United The manufacture and uso of false States treasury to Colombia on ac teeth are undoubtedly of great ancount of the secession of Panama Nor .7, tiquity. The ancient Egyptians were will it go before The Hague tribunal no mean dentists. Jawbones of mumas a party to any proceedings grow mies have been found with false teeth lng out of that secession. It is said in to them, and some with teeth filled do either of these : things would be with gold. The ancient Greeks also to commit the administration to an knew how to fill ineth with gold and admission that It had been guilty ot bow to make fais.' teeth. wronging Colombia. 2 pur-ros- e d five-kar- C Tt Mrs. her c thi3 King Eigli next' and we e d i I, for B. Swat er o Cron will sir, u Such is the Advice Given by the Korean Press. Tbe Seoul correspondent of the London Daily Mail says that the native press Is advocating the slaughter of all foreigners. United States Minister Alien has ordered all American women and children to remain indoors, and he predicts that rioting by the military is imminent. M. Co'.Iin de Piancy, French minister, has vainly advised the emperor to take refuge in the French legation. M. Delegates to National Livestock vention at Portland Favor Establishment of Five Million Dollar Plant HER FATHER y Rocky Mountain News. Porto Rican 8chools. The government ADOPT INDEPENDENT PACKING HOUSE PLAN. FROM e through the Dardenelles would be The annual report ot the commis- checked by decisive action, is unsioner of education for Porto Rico, true. Foreign Secretary Lansdowne Samuel McCune Lindsay, announces a expressed his disbelief that Russia substantial and satisfactory progress had any intention of trying to send a in school affairs of the island. The fleet .through the Dardenelles, adding year closed with 1,005 schools open. that It would be an obvious breach of in The total school enrollment was which Britain Great treaty could which is 19 per cent of the esti- not possibly acquiesce. mated total of the school population GERMANY IS NEUTRAL. of the island, and 7 per cent of the estimated total population of the Will Make No Protest If Turkey island for 1903. For the support of all Acquiesces. schools the department of education That Russia has applied to Turkey had available from Insular atipropria-tion- s $574,676, of which $545,106. ac- for permission to send her Black sea tually was spent. Other expenditures fleet through the Dardenelles is conbring the grand total actually spent firmed authoritatively in Berlin, and for education during the fiscal year up it is also asserted that Russia will to $817,815. 250,000. ADVICE INAUGURATE REIGN OF TERROR. M'C 1! I vain and peop w at. row Thai way Fc i j This wen No Croi to i Tho less cap. biii: |