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Show He gos Iter imm WtXOM, eeoad MAN RUNS AMUCK Proprietor. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Oft Yoor, la Advonto U Monibi Throe Mouth ttUrad at the Pott DENVER ....Il.ttM HORRIBLE CRIME IS THE RESULT OF A LAWSUIT. .M Oflca at Brlfham City aa tiau mattar. Man and lbs Wife, Wounds Several Policemen and Finally Commits Su.cide. Teamster Kills DIED WITH SONG UPON LIPS. NORMAN LEE. Kdlltr. RUSSIANS One Girl Killed and a Score Of Persons Injured by Gas Explosion. The explosion of an acetylene gas tank in the basement of the Granger ward meeting house, eight of Salt Lake City, at 7:45 Tuesday night during the Joint session assocla of the Mutual Improvement tions, wrecked the building and killed Miss Nellie Mackay, 21 years of age. while she was singing a sacred solo. Twenty-fivothers in the audience were more or less seriously injured. Miss Mackay 's body was taken out from under the organ, which had been blown to the celling. She was standing at the Instrument, singing, when the explosion occurred While Miss Mackay was singing If Theres Sunshine In Your Heart the lights commenced to grow dim Suddenly there was a flickering of the lights. Lambert Bowden and his cousin Willard Bowden, who had charge of the building, rushed to the basement to fix the lights. Lambert Bawden opened the door Into the basement on the east side of the building as the explosion occurred. He was knocked down and stunned The explosion could be heard for several blocks and the blttlding was shaken to Its foundations. The falling of timbers, window glass and debris came like a crash and aroused the entire neighborhood. The floor heaved upwards. Ths audience were thrown from their seats among the falling debris and, the cries of the injured rang out above the noise and tumult. Every window and door was blown from Its hinges. A mad rush followed to get out of the building. The people pled over each other, were knocked down and jammed out the doors and windows. The roof was lifted from the sides and gables and the shingles torn off. The walls and gables were twisted and wrenched about three feet out of plumb. Part of the ceiling fell In. One gable is resting against the roof, which is hanging two or three feet over the east end of the church. The stove was bolted to the floor, but the top was blown off. Fortunately the live coals were not scattered on the floor to set fire to the debris and cause further dis- Mad wilh lage because of his defeat In a lawsuit in which the man he pronounced his bitterest enemy had been victorious, and swearing veugcanee against him and Ins family, George Schlister, a teamster, of Denver armed himself with a rifle on Sunday and PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. when the smoke of battle ha I cieareo away three persons were dead one was missing and three others lay UTAH STATE NEWS. wounded, two at least dangerousl Sehlstler went to the home o Fir. destroyed the home of Albert Fills, and shot and killed both Mr S'. Nelson of Sandy, entailing a loss Mrs. Fill and then set fite t t.ie house ef $1,500. and it la suppose 1 their son waf The week on the Salt Lake mining burned to death. When the police came to a tea change closed on the sale of 89,825 hares of stock for $23,232.75. Sehlstler they were met with a slit we: A special election Is to be held at of bullets. During the attempt to go Ephraim to vote $20,000 bonds for the at the murderer, thtee ufiuers wetc Installation of an electric light plant wounded. When the officers finally suet ceded The local post of the O. A. R. has to the murderer; laid out an elaborate program for the in gaining entrance house, he was found dying, whehet on In to be held fire Ogden camp wounded by his own hand ur by the May 15. policemen, is not known. Mrs. Schist-le- r was away from home when bet husIn the debate at Moscow, Idaho, beband started on his vengeful missl-tween the University of Idaho and and when told of the affair fell prosthe University Of Utah, the former trated. It Is thought she will die bum were victors. the shock. The horse and buggy stolen from JAPS CAPTURE FORTY THOUSAND Ernest Pappas, of Bingham Junction, last week have been found, but the Kuropaktin Believed to Have thief Is still at large. Nearly Half His Army. Small children and matches were reThe latest dispatches would indicate that while General Kuropatkin has ap sponsible for a blaze at Sprlngvllle, which destroyed a hay shed and barn parently succeeded In saving more of bis artillery than seemed possible, his belonging to Amos Hatfield. W. Williams, a negro of Ogden, at- losses In men, ammunition and supplies in the battle of tempted to kill a fellow African, firing several shots at him, but fortunately Mukden are far greater than earlier reports Indicated, and even that pormissing. Williams Is In Jail. of Lehl's most tion of bis army which he succeeded Death claimed In extricating from their positions prominent citizens last week, Alexanaster. der H. Loverldge, Mrs. Matilda Evans, around Mukden Is still In serious Many of the occupants of the room besides Miss Mackay were quite badly James Lamb and Mrs. George Evans. danger. While a small portion of Kuropat-kln- s Injured, but the case of Melvin Grow, Hyrura jfcvans of Lehl was severely army has' reached Tie pass, the who was Injured Internally, Is regardinjured a. the result of a runaway, beed as the most dangerous. He may part of those who escaped die. ing thrown from a heavily loaded greater from of Mukden are still the battle wagon and the wheels passing over struggling onward, being at last ac- THE BLOODIEST BATTLE him. OF WAR WON BY JAPS counts between twelve and sixteen The University of Utah is to have a miles from their goal, with the JapanSoldiers of the Czar About Mukden medical department, conducted under ese, flushed with victory and reinAre In Full RetreaL the supervision of Dr. R. V. Chamber forced by fresh men, harassing them, lain, assisted by several men from the The following dispatch waa received It is more likely that Kuroaptkin east. will fall right back to Harbin with In Tokio at 4 p. m. Wednesday, from Twelve carloads of potatoes were what he can save, and there wait for the headquarters of the Japanese shipped from Mt. Pleasant to local and the reinforcements that SL Petersburg armies in Manchuria: Our force, which has been engageastern markets during the past week. has already promised him. A possible obstacle to the plan Is General Kawa-mura- s The price ranged from 16 to Iji cents a superior force of the enemy in ing army, which has not yet been ' of Macbuntan per bushel. loclited, and which may also be head- the neighborhood (southeast of Mukden), dislodged the Sarah Tharp, familiarly known as ing for the northern capital. General Kuropatkin ' admits that enemy from bis positions at 8 o'clock "Grandma" Tharp, died in Ogden on 1,190 officers and 46,931 men are not the 8th. She was born ln'1811, and responding to rollcalls. This is rather this morning, and is now purusuing baa lived under the administration of vague. It may or may not Include the him northward." A second dispatch from General thousands of wounded who have been twenty-fou- r presidents. sent north, and again It may not Inheadquarters in the field, sent Mrs. B. L. Miller, a Salt Lake wo- clude the losses suffered by the Third via Fusan, says the Russians, under suca man who has been conducting cover of the darkness, evacuated the army, with which the commander-ln-chle- f was not in communication for whole line along the Shakhe river ana cessful real estate business for the figures given by the are now in full retreat northward. The past nine years, has fallen heir to an some time.warThe office appear more rea- Japanese Infantry is pressing them Japanese state valued at $200,000.' sonable, namely, 40,0U0 prisoners, closely. In the first round of 'what was to left dead on the field and 90,000 Before retreating the Russian set killed or the of latter fire to great h ape of supplies, which twenty-rounwounded, have been a figure, contest, Burt Danford, of Smlthfield, put Billy course, including the dead found by burned throughout the night. The fall the Japanese. The Russian losses, of Mukden imminenL The Hamp, of Logan, out of the contest, therefore, total more than 100,000 men, Japanese are appears pushing the Russians or more than Hamp being knocked out. of the whole hard on the east. A crowd of about thirty young men army. The fact that tle Japanese reA HUNDRED THOUSAND SLAIN. port the capture of only Blxty guns Inand boys were arrested last week at dicates that Kuropatkin at the last moMoroni for catching fish from the ment succeeded la sending a consider- Bloodiest Battle of the War Between streams of the county out of season, able portion of his artillery northward Rusaia and Japan. on the railway. and a fine of $10 each was Imposed. The continuous battle now raging The Japanese losses were Ed Hales, of Hooper, was trimming as 41,222, not including thereported In the army vicinity of Mukden is already the limbs from an apple tree when the which pushed north beta ten Mukden the bloodiest of the war. Upon the ax slipped, striking Hales thumb in and Fushun. ground that General Oku alone gained such a manner that he was obliged lie eight thousand Russian dead. The MRS. CHADWICK GUILTY. to suffer the loss of that member.. reports from the other armies are exAbout one hundred members of the Judgment Rendered Upon Every Count pected to triple this figure. It is estiIn the IndlctmenL r legislature, legislative employees and mated the Japanese have lost 50,000 others were guests of Governor CutMrs. Cassle L. Chadwick was found making the joint slaughter thus far ler at a dinner at the Commercial club guilty of conspiracy to violate the exceed one hundred thousand men. United States banking laws by conIn Balt Lake City Saturday evening Details of the combat are lacking, spiring to procure the certification of last checks on a national bank when there but it is believed tb&t the Japanese Harry Harrison, a guard at the pen- were no funds In the bank to her have cut the railway north of Mukden, She was found guilty on every leaving only the roadways and a light itentiary, may lose his arm as the credlL count of the indictment upon wnica railway from Fushun to Tie pass as result of an accident while cleaning the was at liberty to Judge her, avenues for the retreat of the Russans, Jury a pistol, the weapon being discharged seven tn all. Mrs. Chadwick collapsed but army headquarters refrain from and the bones of hla arm badly shat- after the verdict was rendered. Her affirming or denying a report to that effecL It is thought that Mukden is tered. attorneys will ask for a new trial. still In the hands of the Russians. A mass meeting was held in Trouble in Poland. ville last week to discuss the advisDepartment of Justice Will Continue Agitation among the peasants against a of waterof Investigation of Beef TruaL system ability Installing the use of the Russian language in the works for that town. The prevailing Warsaw the attorney general Although administration is Increasing sentiment was In favor of lntsalllng The acting governor general of Warto discuss the subject, It is saw has issued a proclamation im- known that tlie the system. report of the departA suit has been filed in the district posing severe penalties on persons ment of commerce and labor on - the who in way interfere with local ofcourt by Minnie Luker of Elsinore ficials. any Peasant strikes constantly beef Industry, published last week, against Antone Nielson of that place, break out in new centers where labor- will have no eeffet upon the investigacharging him with having made state- ers are admittedly well treated. This tion now being conducted by the dements of defamatory to her character is regarded as indicating that a syste- partment of justice to ascertain matic campaign has ' been opened whether the injunction issued against and asking damages In the sum of throughout the country by Socialist the beef combine in Chicago Is be$10,000. ing observed. This investigation will agitators. William W. Randolph, night watchproceed as originally planned. Arizona Inundated. man for the Salt Lake Hardware comAdvocates Murder of People. The whole territory of Arizona is pany, was found dead In bed at bis A Bensatlon has been caused by a home in Salt Lake City. The cause covered with water as a result of the of death was heart failure, and when heavy recent rains and snows, and In leading editorial In the Moscow the traditional spokesman of autfound Randolph had been dead for many places the desert, that has not known water for a decade, is now a ocracy, declaring that the present resome time. Plans for a home life insurance com- lake. At Silver city there has fallen volt in the interior should be put Inches of rain during the down immediately Tn the fashion in pany which will divert vast sums ol twenty-eigh- t money from eastern companies, is be- last eight months, and rivers hereto- which Michael Muravieff crushed the Polish and Lithuanian rebellion in ing formed in Salt Lake City, and it fore dry are now crossed by ferry- 1863. It would be a sad sacrifice of Is said Joseph F. Smith, president ol boats. All records for moisture have life, says the Gazette, "but a hundred been broken in this entire section. the Mormon church, will be president now than if the revolt were Railroads are demoralized, not only times less of the company. allowed to continue until it becomes from washouts, hut from soft tracks. absolutely necessary to take decisive The Park City Record has been sued steps. Russians Say War Will Go On. for $25,000 damages by M. H. who recently got out a busiOfficial Russian Officers Beheaded. Russia is determined to ness guide in Park City. The Record carry on the war and St. Petersburg With Japanese flags flying, a band spoke of the swindling of the business reports that orders have been issued of Chinese bandits at Newchang bemen by advertising fakirs, but men- for the mobilization of more troops. headed two young Russian i who were tioned no names. This may prove a difficult task with alleged to be spies at Sinmlutin. The The streets of Richfield are lighted the temper of the Russian people in its first one cxecuicl was evidently an ofwith lights, placed at present conditon. There is still hope ficer, bnt he wa woaring a Chinese intersections. These lights are sub- In SL Petersburg that Russia can ex- overcoat. He kneeled without a murscribed for by private individuals, the haust Japan financlaly and for months mur, while hie companion watched the The latter whimpered company having made a figure at there has been talk of the mobilization death stidke . rcs&lneJ his nerve Vhlch a great many owners of corner of an army on the Siberian border for a moir.-rtwhich would compel Japan to keep her and struggled frr--- - lv. lie was thrown ots feel they can afford the vast army in Manchuria. inns- trumpets nd killed wit! light INSTRUCTIONS TO CORRESPONDENTS, luma of newt art solicited from all parts of Aba country. Writ upon oca tida of the papar only. Writ proper namaa plainly, la order to protect tba publUher from la position from Irresponsible person, the full aama of tba author should be signed to all communications. The Identity of eorraapondente will be withheld whenever dee trad. e cken fir Ku-rok- 26,-50- 0 d one-thir- d g , Har-ringto- - 10 10SE MUKDEN LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. March" 6. were passed by the two being rejected and three house, Bills were new measures Introduced. board armory an passed: Creating and making an appropriation for the N. G. U. Appropriating $30,000 for the Asking Lewis and Clark exposition. legislation. congress for The measures rejected were: S. B No. 91, forbidding the sale of dead fowls unless they shall be stripped of their feathers and disemboweled, and H B. No. 172, to abolish the arid land commission and reclamation fund transfer its duties to the state board But three HAS SO GENERAL KURCPATKIN ADVISED THE CZAR. toother Defeat Added to the Lone, List Handed Russia by the Brave Little Brow-- i Men. bills pure-foo- d That the battle of Mukden will go down In historj with Llaoyang in th allong list of Russian defeats is the in pessimistic most universal belief St. Petersburg, which has forgotten the meaning of the word victory. The war office does nut admit that the is- of land commissioners. The senate did a big days work, sues of the great battle, which alrekdy exceeds in magnitude of operations killing three measures, receiving three foland losses that of Shakhe, has been new bills, and passing eighteen, as is positively It lows: decided, although Providing a penalty for discriminastated in high quarters that KuropatNich to tion Emperor kin has telegraphed against newspapers. Prohibiting bucket shopping. and Bias that It will be Impossible to hold bucket-shopol Cheating state board of examiners of Mukden, and that the withdrawal and regulating the practice the army northward has already been osteopathy of osteopathy. Creating reservoir land, begun. grant fund and providing for reservoir sites. Fixing fees of district and "RUSSIAS HOPES VANISHING. county clerks. Relating to reports and settlements of county treasurers. RePosition of Kuroaptkin is Regarded as lating to court stenographers and fees to be collected. Prescribing fees for Extremely Desperate. unprecinct officers. Providing for reA dispatch from SL Petersburg, DeAll hope cording of certain instruments. der date of Mau-- 7, says: word folio. the fining Providing that General Kuropatkin will be able fees of county recorders. Relating to to turn defeat into victory is rapidly the practice of dentistry. Making apvanishing. The position of the Rus- propriation of $1,000 for state laboratory for bacteriological research. Resian army has been growing Increasilating to the serving of summons twenty-flast the ngly desperate during Creating state board of horticulture. Is our hours. The gravest danger Relating to final accounts and settleDefining larceny. from the Japanese left, which has ment of estates. Prescribing fees of county commisbeen pushed northward on the sioners. road to a point eight miles March 7. northwest of Mukden, where it has The of west governors from the apopintment Joined a flanking column around the village of Tatcheklao, John Sharp as fish and game commissioner was confirmed by the senate. which is located at this point. The battle raged with terrible bit- The governor had formerly appointed terness throughout yesterday, with all A. H. Moyes, of Ogden, and the senthe reserves hurried to the scene to ate refused to confirm the appointblock the stroke at the Russian line of ment communications. Bills were passed by the senate: ReBaron Kaulbars, who Is defending this wing, Is cnly able to hold his lating to surety companies. Relating own. On account of the desperate sit to suretyship on bonds by a corporauation there General Kuropatkin has tion. Providing for an experimental not attempted to drive home his counter-sIn Washington county. Relating troke at the Japanese center, and fair his offensive, which was abortive, has to reports of county superintendents. In the house bills were passed esbeen abandoned. It la rumored that Kuropatkin has tablishing juvenile courtB and providalready given the order to retreat, and ing for the punishment and probation that he is gradually withdrawing Requiring forces from the center, but experts are of youthful offenders. dealers inclined to believe that he has waited pawnbrowers and second-hantoo long; that he must fight it out in to make weekly reports of their purhis present position, and that it is Im- chases to county sheriffs. Providing possible to extricate more than that the statute of limitations shall not remnants of his army. begin to run against the larceny of stock until the owners discover MUKDEN HAS BEEN EVACUATED. range that the stock has been taken.' Repersons desiring jury trial to Such Is the Report That Comes From quiresnotice either at the time give ' - of the setting or Jn orally London. writing. H. B. No. 202, to prevent employers The London Dally Telegraph's cop from entering the plea of assumed risk Tokio at says; Reports in personal injury cases where the asrespondent are current here that the Russians are sumed risk is in violation of law, and in retreat and preparing to destroy the S. B. No. 20, giving to municipalities General the right of eminent domain over railway north of Mukden. water needed for domestic purposes, Kuropatkin is said to have gone to were killed. Fushun, after holding a council ol March 8. war of 100 officers. His left rear t guard, consisting of 20,000 picked Bills were passed by the senate retroops, is retiring. Chinese report that pealing the sericultural law and transMukden has been completely evacuated, and that its great magaslnes were ferring property to the Agricultural set on fire by Japanese artillery. college. Providing for uniform examination of school teachers throughout Rough Riders Reunion. . the state. Relating to election of It Is announced that the reunion of school trustees. Making provision that the rough riders, President Roosevelts when school fund is insufficient in a old regiment, which had been sched- district the state school fund be drawn uled to take place at San 'Antonio, on to cover deficiency. Relating to Tex., 'on the 31st instant, has been the duties of school teachers, requiron the until request April 7, postponed of the president. To attend the re- ing attendance on county Institutes. union the president had Intended to Relating to the duties of county superleave Washington on the 27th inat., intendents. Appropriating $2,500 to but he found that probably he might, not be able to leave at so early a date 'David Wilcken for Injuries sustained According to the present arrangement in state prison break. Appropriating tentatively made now, he will leave $2,500 in favor of Zebulon Jacobs for Washington on the 4th or 5th ol Injuries sustained in state prison AprlL break. Appropriating $10,000 additional Two Lose Llvet In Fire. for regular and bontlngent expenses. In the house bills were passed as The plant of the American Cereal Permitting county commis company, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,, the follows: largest of Its kind In the world, com- sioners to consolidate schoof districts prising two entire blocks of brick and and to provide that the consolidated iron structures, was destroyed by fire, school districts shall be managed in with the exception of a small group of the same way as the schools in cities cooper shops, storage and packing of the second class. Providing for the taking of state census in October. Prorooms. The loss Is estimated at viding that present ownership maps with insurance at nearly Two persons are known to shall be presented to county assessors In January instead of in February. Prohave lost their lives in the fire. It is no liqquor license shall be feared that several others lost their viding that in the country without the lives, but this is not definitely known. granted consent of a majority of the taxpaying electors in the precinct. Forbidding New Yorkers Learning to Walk. school trustees to be interested in conWith one collision in which twenty-nin- e tracts for the erection of schoolhouses. persons were Injured and none Requiring that cases of tuberculosis shall be reported to boards of health. killed, New York ou Tuesday gassed Allowing district courts to determine of the general the sufficiency of sureties on appeals through the first day strike on its rapid transit system. By from Justices courts. Appropriating this accident and some minor casual $10,000 to pay the regular and continties, due to abnormal conditions, the gent expenses of the legislature. Prosum total of the day was annoyance viding for the payment of bounties and vexation to a million or more peo- upon wild animals. Providing for the ple usually dependent upon the Inter- issuance of scrip against special taxes boroughs lines' for transportation to for public improvements. Providing and from business, and who had to for the manner of recovering special walk. So far there has been but little taxes paid under protest. Medical bill, disorder. Killed by Bomb. , 8anto Domingo Treaty. A telegram from Lodz says a bomb Without determining any question was i, exploded In the mansion of of policy in regard to the Santo Domillionaire cotton manufaca mingo treaty, the senate decided, on turer, and one servant was killed. M. Tuesday, that the treaty should be re- Poznanskis employees had gone out ported as soon as possible from the on strike. The bomb exploded in the on and committee foreign relations, hands of the house porter, who is supthe entire question fought out In execposed to have been examining it. He was the sentiment was utive session. This bombs blown to pieces. Twri-otha- r of the foreign relations committee, as and incriminating correspondence was two well as the entire senate, and in found in the porters apartments. The sessions of the committee the proceed- police believe the bombs were inings were with a view to reporting the tended to kill M. Poznanski. treaty as soon as possible. Rigid Inquiry into Oil Combine In The Strike In Warsaw. Bleeding Kansas. The strike in Sosnovlce, Russia, conCommislsoner James H. Garfield of tinues in full force. The Saturn coal the bureau of corporations, has instimine, owned by the richest company tuted a rigid Investigation ot the operin the district, is the onlyTnlne work- ations of the oil Industry In Kansas ing, the men having received an In- and contiguous states. In response to crease of wages such as the owners a resolution of the house of represent-atievs- , of other properties say they are unintroduced by Representative able to concede to their operatives. Campbell of Kansas, the investigation Warsaw te comparatively quiet, there of the oil industry will be carried on being only occasional cases of assanlta as rapidly as is consistent with thorin which individuals or , policemen oughness. The report of Commishave been shoL Several persons were sioner Garfield will be Biade directly severely wounded In outlying sections to President RoosevelL of the city Monday nlghL s n d -- Poz-nansk- of physl providing for the revocation clans' licenses and examining those who treat without drugs or surgery. outProviding for sanitary school that municipalities houses. Providing and school districts shall be liable for the debts of principal contractors for abor on public works. Relating to the Crecomposition of the state militia. ating a commission to investigate the use of voting machines. Providing for the examination of banks receivingto public funds on deposit. Relating loan, trust and guarantee companies Relating to becoming sole sureties. the qualifiaction of surety companies on official bonds. , March 9. This was the last day in both branches of the legislature, but as the work was not finished both the senate and house have concluded to stop the clock and saunter" until a few more laws have been placed upon the statute books. Bills were passed by the senate. Making an appropriation out of reservoir land fund for reservoir site. Amending law relating to limitations. Fiixng tax rate for state revenues for years 1905 and 1906. Providing medals for Indian war veterans. Repealing law requiring county recorders to transmit to assessors abstract of mortgages, etc. Proposing amendment to ' constitution relating to uniform tax Relating and exemption therefrom. to fees of sheriff and defining same. vilFixing liability of cities, towns, lages or school district and principal contractor to Bills were passed by the house: Amending the irrigation law by taking judicial powers from the state engineer and making water herafter appropriated appurtenant to the land. Prolividing for the examination and censes of osteopaths, the revocation of their licenses and reciprocity between states. Increasing the salary of the national of the adjutant-genera- l guard from $500 to $1,000 per year. Abolishing the arid land reclamation fund commission. Authorizing the state board of land commlsisoners to select and reserve suitable reservoir sites. Appropriating $15,500 for experimentation on crops for dry and arid land. Creating a commission to investigate and report on the best means of preventing the duplication of courses in the University of Utah and Relating the Agricultural college. to the sale of real estate under tax deeds. Amending the law creating the state board of horticulture. Sermon and Farewell to Hla People liL England. Penn 8 last farewell to England Is the title of a rare tract which Is to be offered with a fine eok lection of Americana at Davis & Harveys within a few weeks, says the New York Times. There are only eight small quarto pages In the tract, .which bears the date 1682 ou its title-pagThe work, while of great rarity, is not unknown, although it Is not mentioned by Lownes, and Stan. V. the veteran book auctioneer, has never had a copy pass through his hands. Divided into three parts, the tract is a simple sermon to Penns people William e. Hen-kel- William Penas FAREWEL ENGLAND: E P fs T L E ' 8EING AN SALUTATION AIL TO A REPROOF AND to tRe Unfaithful,' A Vifitation to the Enquiring, la A Solemn F JK. BK'EL to dm all in (be Land of my Nativity. LmJm. Printed fix Hmm CtAft iS8j-- In England, being an epistle containing a salutation to the unfaithful and a visitation to the inquiring, in a solemn farewell to them all in the land of my nativity. The last part is signed, your well wishing Friend, W. P., and is dated from the Downs, the 30th of the Sixth Month,' 1682. From this date it would appear that after Penn went on board the ship Welcome, which was to bear him to his beautiful province Pennsylvania he felt that he might never see his natal shores again, and so decided to send a farewell message to the w orld. To the unfaithful, Penn adds, as a March 10. -Now that the regular number of peroration, This I send you as a farewell to you, in the name and power of days for the life of the legislature has the God of my salvation, and in so stopclock been has the and passed, am I clear of you all. doing a ped, both branches are turning out - Crow as a PeL large amount of work. -- The following It is surprising to see the amount bills were passed by the house: Procan be shown by viding that the $3,000 still remaining of intelligence that a tame bird owned by in the silk commission fund shall be a crow, but Sherbrook Howard, the Bon of Mr. and turned back Into the state treasury. Mrs. Henry W. Howard, exhibits It to Providing that the $2,131.12 now In a large degree, Each morning the bird flies to bis the hands of the treasurer of - the Louisiana Purchase Exposition fund masters bedroom window and utters commission shall be covered into the shrill cries to awaken, him,, but will the window again state treasury. Requiring all com- never go towardWhenever the day. hungry he during plaints in Justices courts to be veri- files to the kitchen and keeps up a to profied. Amending the game law continual squawking until fed. He rehibit spring shooting and limit the fuses to run away, 'and so far as known has never been more than a bag. Exempts water users associations from regulations applying to for- quarter ot a mile from his adopted mation of private corporations. Per- home. mits water users associations to seA few nights ago several other cure certified copies of incorporation crows from neighboring fields did papers without costs. Permits sum- their utmost to get him to fly away mons to be served on any officer, with them, but, preferring the home agent or employee of a of his young master, Mr. Crow refused Requires officials whose to stir. Bath Independent. corporation. terms of office are extended to give fresh bonds. Appropriates $10,000 Blasting Out Frogs. annually for a capitol building fund, This frog story comes from to be invested by the state board of Tfexas. Mark Twain is not its and To tax loan commissioners. -- r non-reside- .Ter-lingu- gifts legacies. Requiring children under 16 to attend school thirty weeks in the year. Making officials and public employees subject to garnishment. Permitting corporations to merge their stock. Extending the time for paying territorial jury scrip to the year 1906. that congress allow Recommending the Utah Indian war veterans pay for thirty days service. Providing for an ad valorem tax of 5 mills on all property in the state to raise $750,000 for school purposes. Bills were passed by the senate: Relating to changes of venue in justices courts. To regulate purchase, sale and transfer of merchandise. Amended. Fixing penalty for making false statement of financial responsibility. Amended. Requiring that pri- vate banks and bankers make at leaBt four reports a year to the secretary of state. Requiring that peddlers ot agricultutal implements, vehicles, etc., pay a state license of $500. Relating to the recording of plats of burial lots, etc. Making appropriation of $500 for the purchase of medals of honor for Indian war veterans. Relating to the registering of births and deaths within the Btate and defining the duties of the state board of health. Relating to the powers and duties of school trustees. Repealing section 4036 of the revised statutes. To prevent deception in the sale of renovated butter. Amended. Providing for a constitutional amendment permitting the legislature to appropriate money for the high schools of the state. Consolidate Ing school districts in counties of the first class. The bill making an appropriation of $600 In favor of the Utah Dairymen's association 'was killed in the senate. Brutality of Russian Police. advices give details of the student riots at Tomsk, western Siberia, Mall February 26 preceding the Closing of the university and technical institute. They represent It as a horrible affair, in which students were herded, shot and slashed by the-- infantry, guards, Cossacks and police. Nine students were killed and twenty-eigh- t were author: At the mines of the Chlsos Mining while the Mexicans company were at a depth of about 25 feet, the; blasted a large number of frogs out ot the solid rock. They came singly, and by twos and .threes, and in several Instances, whole families. Austin dispatch In New York Sun. Just Not Appreciated. Trouble has ensued for two girls In the grammar school at Portland, Conn., because they wrote a note to other pupils In which they said that they intended to marry the young Wesleyan student who was substituting for the regular teacher. The matter has been settled by the girls making an apology to the young man. Novel Purse for Women. The picture shows the garter purse, 1.000 of which a New York bank gave away to its women customers. The purse is of chamois, and is fastened to a steel slide, which runs along the garter. f Life Sentence for ThefL A fisherman ot 24, who while drunk robbed a man ot 80 cents at Nice, has lust been sentenced, owing to an error of the jury, to penal servitude for life as being guilty of highway robbery seriously wounded. Over a hundred with violence without extenuating ciryoung men and women were taken to cumstances. the police station, where they were It was admitted that the tribunal stripped and some of them beaten had no alternative but to pronounco into insensibility. the maximum sentence, and the intervention of the president of France will Peculiar Fatal Accident be necessary for a rectification of the Smoking a pipe while - riding a sentence. New York Herald. bicycle proved fatal to an , English drummer recently. He fell, and the Made Hie Hen a Wooden Leg. stem of his pipe was driven into his One of the agricultural freaks to tongne. Nicotine entered the wound, be Been in Lancaster county is a hen and set up blood poisoning. with a wooden leg. The fowl is the property of Daniel Brubaker, a farmer In South Carolina. Tippling living near Rheems. The Columbia (S. C.) State notes The chicken lost a leg by an accithat the dispensary sales in Sumter dent, and a humane member ot the (population 5.680) for the six days family fitted ft with a wooden appendending Dec. 24 aggregate $6,442 age as near like the original as possimore than $1.00 worth of rum for each ble. The hen is said to Btrut around Inhabitant without any difficulty. i |