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Show THE GUNNISON GAZETTE IN 10 OFFICERS BATTLE BY NEPH1 GLEDHILL 4. SON. GUNNISON lb 2..,(Ktn Had Secreted a Small Pistol in His Twice and Shoe, Although Searched the Presence of the Weapon Was Overlooked. at Four Men Killed by Negro and Ten Iasi week. Others Injured Before Black school wan dedicated iMiUso The new Millard county high school in ho located at Hinckley, four miles from Hut tiier. Marius Larsen of Spring C'lty had bis hand badly crushed while working on a steam ihretdier. Plans are being discussed for a new fUAOuo hotel for Logan. Salt Uike capitalists are behind the project. Alonzo King of Salt Ijake City ai ladly Injured In a train wreck on the Hock Island road near Pueblo, Colo. The new town of Hurtner In Millard county is fast becoming one of the liveliest little places In the county. The complete election returns for Utah county show that Taft carried of 1 .300 JC county by a majority He. The brass band rum posed of boys . from the State Industrial school, has Instruteen Increased to thirty-six ments. It now develops that Che frost of August did roorp damage to the grain In the vicinity of Ephraim than was at first supposed. i A company has been formed In Ogden for the manufacture of re inforced concrete building block Invented by a Balt I,ake man. . Owing to her foot becoming entangled in a rug which she was carrying, a Salt Lake woman fell from the front porb of her home and broke her ankle. After January 1 the mail carriers In Salt Luke City will he required to pay full fare on street cars. In the past they have been permitted to ride for 3 cents. Not only are the salaries of the school teachers in Salt Lake City to be increased, but it is announced that the length of the school year will probably be extended. The Ogden Rapid Transit company will in the near future substitute steel rails in place of the rails now used on the line from Ogden to Hot Springs. Upwards of 3,600 voters in Weber county faild to exercise the elective privilege, according to the vote for presidential electors as reported by the board of canvassers last week. The "Tag Day," under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. of Salt Lake, netted $2,000 for the organization. The young women of the organization spent the entire day in selling tags to the citizens. A resident of Brfgham City was recently fined $5 for maintaining a thorn fence which was overhanging the sidewalk. He paid his fine and immediately set to work trimming his hedge. The total number of votes cast in Weber county at the past election was 10.GG3, as against a total vote of 7,023 cast at the last county election two years ago. This shows an increase of 3,645 votes in the entire county. Four companies comth-contract for the conpeted for struction of the battleship Utah, bids for which were opened at the navy department, November 9. The Utah is to be a sister ship of the Florida. Plans are being made for the establishment in Salt Lake City, by English capitalists, of a factory for the manufacture of linoleum. The factory is to have a capacity of 3,000.000 yards of linoleum and will employ 500 people. Word from Mexico is that one of the condemned murderers of George W. Rose, the Salt Lake man who was foully murdered by three Mexicans who attacked his dwelling, died sud denly in prison at Guanajuato on No40-pou- 30-pou- . ship-buildin- g e , vember 2. BRAINS UTAH tiw Jlimklv OUT HIS BLOWS UTAH STATE NEWS The SHOT HENEf Man is Killed. Occurrence in Oklahoma Lead to Belief That Race War it Imminent and Governor Order Out the State Militia. Okla. Five Okmulgee, persons were killed and ten others wounded Sunday afternoon in a fight between Jl.rq Deckard, a negro desperado, and local officers. The disturbance began at the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad station when Jim Deckard engaged In a fight with an Indian boy, Steve Grayson, and beat him Into Insensibility with a rock. Friends of Grayson notified the police, and when Policeman Klaber went to the station, Deckard fled to his house nearby, barricaded himself In, and. when Klaber approached, Deckard shot and killed 'sheriff Robinson gathered a posse a few minutes and hurried to the scene. Part of this posse was made up of a group of negroes, whom the sheriff commissioned as deputies. As In the posse approached the house Deckard opened fire with a rifle, firing as rapidly as he could load his weapon. Sheriff Robinson fell first, Instantly Then killed. the two Chapman brothers, negro deputies, were slain. DeckardTs hotise was surrounded by a Fire frenzied mob of armed men. was set to a house just north of Deckards, volleys were poured Into Deckards house and he was shot down. He was seen to roll over on the floor, strike a match and set fire to his own house, which was soon a roaring furnace in which his body wras baked. Deckard evidently had a large quantity of ammunition stored in his house, for many cartridges exploded while the house was burning. Governor Haskell, at Guthrie, was notified of the battle and of the bad feeling bet wen whites and negroes that had grown out of it and threatened a race riot. The governor at once orderd the militia com'pany at Muskogee to prepare to go to Okmulgee, and a special train was made ready to carry the troops, the governor remaining at his office to keep in touch with the situation. News of the preparation to send militia here had a good effect on the disorderly element of both races, and at 7 o'clock Sunday night the crowd had dispersed and further trouble is not expected. Mind Unbalanced by Drugs. Denver, Colo. Entertaining the be- lief that, others may have been implicated in the plot to dynamite Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps besides Mrs. Allen F. Read, the home of the woman whose life was placed in immediate jeopardy, is now guarded night and day to prevent any repetition of the attempt to blackmail her by persons who may have inspired the crime, or who may have been directJ ly implicated in the plot. It is Mrs. Reads mind has been unbalanced by drugs. be-liev- Radical Quarantine Measures. Austin, Texas. Governor Campbell has issued a quarantine proclamation effective Saturday, declaring a rigid quarantine against persons infected or liable to be infected with smallpox, bubonic fever, cholera, typhoid communiable or other diseases, plague either within or without the state of Texas. This is a radical departure from any previous quarantine ever issued by a state, and while it is not expressly mentioned, it is understood "other communicable diseases means tuberculosis. Explosion in German Mine Causes Greatest Loss of Life in Mining History of the Country. San Francisco.- - Morris Haas, who attempted to assassinate Francis J. Heney, on Saturday night committed suicide by shooting himself through the middle of his forehead with a pistol he had concealed about his person. Haas went to bed at 8 oclock at the county jail and cover.ed up his face with a blanket. At 8:40 a shot was heard from his cell, and when the guards entered it was found that he I Hamm, Westphalia, Germany. Quo had rolled out of bed and was lying I of the most horrible disasters in the dead on the floor, with a bullet hole In I history of mining in Germany occurred I single-sho- t his forehead. A Thursday morning at the Radbed I was in his hand. mine, about three miles from this Deringer grasped His left trouser leg was pulled up, place. There was a heavy explosion and examination showed a mark on about 4 a. m., and almost Immediately his 'examination showed a mark on the mine took fire. Of 380 miners his leg where the weapon had rested- working underground at the time only while concealed In his left shoe. tlx escaped without Injury. Thirty- rfaas wore galterg wJtb elastic sides, five men were taken out badly hurt I which made this possible. were dead when tnd thirty-sevewas shot After he had Heney, Haas brought to the mouth of the pit. The searched by Police Captain Duke, De-- remaining 302 have been given up for tectlve Bums and a police officer. Af- - jost ter he had been taken to the county lo Th ''nus"a115 Jail he was searched again, but at one of the shafts, neither tlmo were his shoes examined, khi. destrojlng had to be partly repaired be-h- is Haas went to bed Friday night with shoes on and again Saturday night, fore the rescue work began. In addi-an- d when asked why he did this, said I tlon, the flames and smoke proved allhat he would rather sleep with them rnost insurmountable obstacles in the on. Ills wife called on him during earjy efforts of the rescuing parties. I A special corps, composed of the men during the interview and they who rendered such valuable aid In the could not possibly have slipped the terrible mine disaster at Courrieres, weapon to him. France, in March, 190G, arrived upon HENEY MAY RECOVER. the scene shortly before noon, but were unable to enter the mine, being forced ConWounded Prosecuting Attorney to wait the efforts of the firemen tinues to Gain Ground. the flames in check. Meantime heartrending scenes took San Francisco. The condition of at mine when the dead and the Francis J. Heney is still most satisfac- piace were wounded brought to the surface, tory and the attending surgeons rewere and similar scenes in the there port that he is making excellent pro- town when the injured were transportIn ed gress on the road to recovery. through the streets to the hospitundoubted believed will he is it fact, als. At 1 oclock the fire had made ly recover. Although the bullet has j great headway, and later in the after-bee- n located, embedded In the left ll00n after a consultation of the engi-jaabout an inch in front of the ear, ueers it was decided that any fur the surgeons have decided not to ex- to rescue the entombed er tract it until Mr. Heney gains more men attempts would be in vain, owing to the strength, as it has as yet given no impossibility of entering the galleries. cause of trouble At the same time an order was issued flood the mine. to DOWAGER EMPRESS DEAD. .41-calib- - n I ',Ilm ' K to-kee- w, Passing of Remarkable Woman Who Ruled Chinese for Half Century. Peking. Tsze Hsi An, the dowager empress of China, autocratic head of the government, which she directed without successful interference since 1861, 'and without protest since 1881, died at 2 oclock Sunday afternoon. An edict issued at 8 oclock Sunday morning placed upon the throne son of Prince Pu Yi, the . Prince Chun, the regent of the empire, in accordance with a promise given by the dowager empress soon after the marriage of Prince Chun in 1903.on Friday made An edict issued Prince Pu Yi heir presumptive. The foreign legations were notified Sunday morning by the foreign board the death of the emperor and the succession of Prince Pu Yi. Troops have been in readiness for several days to quell any disorders that might arise on th-- death of Kuang Kuang Hsu. The possibility of up-risings was made greater because of the fact that the death' of the dowager empress was known to be close at hand.' Until word of the death is spread broadcast no disorders are apprehended. China is quieter1 now than time since 1900. Local disorders in the south are possible on any pretext, but the north S3 more inclined to peace. There are few signs of antagonism to foreigners, and there is no manner of doubt that Prince Chun will be able to meet the situa- . at-an- y ion. i RED RECORD OF RAILWAYS. . During Year 3,764 Persons Were Killed and 69,989 Injured. Washington. There were 3,764 persons killed and 68,989 injured in railroad casualties in the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30 last, according to an announcement of the interstate commerce commission on Thursday. This is a decrease of 1,236 killed and 3,297 injured, as com- pared with the previous year. In the three monthg ending June 3() there. were 591 MUei and 13;098 injured, a decrease of 1,752 from the preceding quarter. The thirteen passengers killed in train accidents during thequarter is the smallest ever reported in the quarterly report. The collis-o- f Ins during the quarter numbered 820, ?nd the derailments 1,431. - j I Suffragettes Invade Church, London. The suffragettes Thursday tight for the first time carried their into a place of worship. Au- gustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland, while addressing a meeting in favor of disestablishment at City Temple, was subjected to disgraceful insinuations. Nearly a score of the adherents of the suffragette movement, men and were ejected from the building amid uproarious scenes of struggling and violence. This was after an earnest appeal by Birrell and the pastor for the suffrar ettes to withdraw, |