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Show (lIic !le;mblk W. L. ROE a ALF OR1IE, Publisher. NEPHI, UTAH- - UTAH NEWS. HARR1TY DEFEATED. RICHER THAN KLONDIKE. PecBtylrtola Imooratic State fonventlo by a Majority Kemoies Him. Reading, Ta., Sept. 1. The Democratic state Convention convened in this city and nominated Valter E. lleider of Lycoming county for auditor general and M. E. Brown of lllairs-rill- e New kilning District South of KlnaCIkw Tacoma, Aug. 31. A letter to the for state treasurer. The matter of the selection of candiThe Box Elder county fair will com- dates was entirely overshadowed by the fight to force the retirement of Mr. mence September 10 at Willard, Ilarrity from the national committee, George McKee has been sentenced to to his hostility to silver. four years in the state penitentiary by owing The opponents of Mr. Ilarrity succeedthe district court at Vernal. ed in pushing through by a vote of 200 Utah fruit interests will be repre- to 131 a resolution indorsing James M. sented by displays at the Intermonn-tai- Guffee for his position. Mr. Ilarrity s fair at lloise the 15th. friends contend that tho state convenr C. II. Ingham, a from tion has no power to declare his seat Salt Lake was arrested one day last In the national committee vacant and week for violation of sheep ordinance, that he will not surrender without a by grazing sheep in Eich county with- fight. out license. lie w as fined $100. Villiam F. Ilarrity showed no dislam A man named Reidelbaugh, from may over his defeat. He said: Salt Lake, found a giant cap up Spring not greatly disappointed at the outcreek, near Coalville, and began to come. When I recall that during the pick with a nail, when the cap ex- campaign of last year such names as ploded and mangled his hand in a W. C. Whitney aud David B. Hill were dreadful manner, necessitating the hissed in meetings held in Tammany amputation of four fingers at the sec- hall because of the refusal to acquiesce in all declarations of the Chicago ond joint. to be Springville has a musical prodigy in convention, I find it quite easy the person of Willie J. Clyde, son of philosophical over the situation. William Clyde, a carpenter and bandNicaraguan Canal. master. The little fellow is not yet 8 Sept. 1. The Bureau Washington, years old, and hardly large enough to of American Republics will issue a carry the instrument he plays, which is bulletin on the Nicaragua canal in a an E flat tuba, but he can readily read few Director Smith, the author days. and execute his music. of the bulletin, states that he believes Numerous complaints come from Emthe administration will prosery county from saw mill owners that ecutepresent that Nicaraguan canal enterthey are unable to obtain permits to prise. cut timber upC1 the government lands In my opinion, said he, the matas has been the custom to grant them. ter will be pressed upon the attention The saw mill owners cannot obtain of Congress as a National undertaking timber to cut into lumber to supply with the object of securing not only the rapid and large demand for lumber great commercial advantages to all of from ranch own ers, who are now ready the American republics, hut that disand anxious to erect buildings. American control of the waterJohn Williams, a resident of Coa- tinctly between the Atlantic and Pacific, way lville was instantly killed on the 20th which is so important in both a Snst. Ho was engaged in constructing and military sense, to a diplomatic a stall in his stable and misplacing one Monroe of the props which supported the roof proper enforcement of the the roof fell in, one piece of timber striking Lira in the jaw, and it is also Silver Parties In Nebraska Combine, thought his neck was broken. He was Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 1. There is no 53 years of age and had been a resident doubt in the minds of the delegates to of Summit county for twenty years. the free silver convention that the free Mr. T. II. Spencer of Provo has given silver Fopulists, Democrats and Renotice, through the recorder's office, will unite harmoniously and publicans that he claims and appropriates all the nominees for supreme court waters of Jordan river and Utah lake, agree upon two state university reand judge not now appropriated and used, to the W. J. extent of 1,000 cubic feet per second, gents, will Bryan said: The three get together in for the purpose of irrigating about parties and certainly his opinion was the senfusion, 20.000 acres of land situated in Salt on every hand. timent of the Lake county, and lying Easterly, west- A conservativedelegates estimate places the erly and northerly along and on both number of delegates at 2,500. There sides, the whole length of the Utah is no hall in the city large nought to and Salt Lake Canal company. accommodate them in a single conThe sum owed, in round numbers, vention, so a separate convention will by Salt Lake City municipality is said be held by each party, each convention to be $2,500,000, payable in from fifat the same time. teen to twenty years. All, or nearly convening "T " all of It is payable in gold coin. This After Cattle Thieves. immense debt draws interest at the Vernal, Utah, Aug. 31. The sheriffs rate of 5 per cent per annum, or about Utah aifd Wasatch counties have been $125,000 per year, $10,417 per month, work ing in Union with Sheriff Treeee $347.25 per day, $14.35 per hour, or 24 of this county for the last few days in cents per minute. At the present rate quietly locating the whereabouts of a of silver it would require 5,000,000 gang of cattle thieves that have been ounces to liquidate the indebtedness. operating in Strawberry valley, where The foregoing does not include the Preston Nutter grazes his cattle. debt of the board of education, which Charles Atwood has been arrested, Is an additional burden of $850,000. and yesterday Sheriff Murdock of WaThe annual amount paid for the use satch started with him for Ileber. of this sum is $42,000, making a total Sheriff Preece left this morning for yearly drain of $170,000 upon the tax- White river, to intercept others of the payers of Salt Lake City. gang who are supposed to be making Threshing of grain has commenced their way into Colorado. In the valley below Milford. In many fields the grain stood the dry weather Tallant Recovered. s and came out in good shape. Chicago, Sept. 1. Banker John D. Men who had abandoned their grain Tatlant of San Francisco, who became altogether a few weeks ago on ac- insane on a train August 23, while en count of the mineral in the land, find route to New York, and who was now that in several Instances it has placed in a sanitarium at Fake Geneva, turned out fairly well and will bring Wis., for treatment, called at the posomething like 75 cents per 100 pounds. lice station in company with Brooks Many of the farmers, however, will Wright, his secured his not get their seed hack. The cause property taken in charge by the police. for some of the land producing and Mr. Tallant has recovered from liis other failing is a question not solved mental derangement and will leave for among ranchmen. The water supply New York in a few days. From there has been short this season, but the he will proceed to Dresden and join dryest land appears to have had water his family. enough, the fault being in the mineral Troops for Cuba. in the land itself. Madrid, Aug. 31. At a Cabinet counAbout twelve Uintah Indians arrived at Trice recently with their horses, cil held recently it was decided to wagons and trailers, for the purpose summon the next class of 80,000 reof hauling their freight to their homes serves, 27,000 of whom will be sent to on the reservation. The Indians say Cuba and 13,000 to the Philippine they have no lands for sale to either islands. Tho Ministers when questioned dethe Uncompahgre Ute Indians or any one else, and it was now a matter of nied that the council was occupied talk among the tribes whether or not with the subject of colonial reforms they should proclaim such an edict, or with political questions. for the reason that they understood Emperor William Threatened. full well that the last session of conSept. 1. At 11 oclock at night Paris, gress said the allotment of lands to the 150 persons with flags flying a of band Uncompahgre Utes should be upon the left the opera house and proceeded in Uncompahgre reservation, or elsedirection of the Elysec shouting: where, and that the Uintalis had no the land for sale on their reservation, if Down with Emperor William. Two of the leaders were placed under it was the supposition that their reserarrest. vation was the .elsewhere. Nicaragua's Financial Condition. The state board of land commissionManagua, Nicaragua, Sept. 1. ers hold its next regular session September 7, when it is expected that ap- A recent meeting of merchants which was largely attended has been plications for patents to the number of 2.000 which have been pending, will held here. Resolutions were adopted commence to be disposed of and pat- deploring the financial condition of Nicaragua and petitioning the governents issued. ment to place the country on a gold During a thunderstorm at Teoa on basis, estimating the present paper or Saturday of last week, while Andrew silver dollar at 30 cents gold, asking Jorgenson was reaping wheat in a field for the issuance of gold certificates in near his residence, lightning struck their place at this valuation, and his two horses aud killed them. Mr. requesting the government to export Jorgenson was prostrated by tho ana sell the present silver coinage of Nicaragua. stroke. n sheep-owne- first-clas- son-in-la- Ledger has just been received from the north fork of the MacMillan river, Alaska, from George Lemmon, addressed to his wife in south Tacoma, giving particulars of a fabulously rich strike on this tributary of the MacMillan river. He and his partner went there from the Yukon on information from an Indian who accompanied them last spring and he says that they have struck a locality richer than the Klondike. In three months they have made a clean up of $55,000. He says they- - have a large bucket and a big can full of nuggets and although they have no scales they believe it will reach the amount named. They have staken off five claims and he tells his wife to send up four friends, whom he designates, as quickly as possible to locate the adjoining properties, tiie law being that one man can locate only one claim. The letter was sent down by the Indian who toek $500 or $500 worth of nuggets to lay in a fresh supply for the winter. Lemmon says he will not be out before next summer and that his friends can reach there by the middle of October over the Chilkoot pass. MacMillan is between 200 and 300 miles south of the Klondike and in what until lately has been an unexplored region. SHOOTING IN SHOT FOR STEALINQ FLOUR. JAIL. Minnesota Deputy sheriff Fire Shot at a Sleeping Man. Minneapolis, MiDn., Sept. 1. FJeven There baa been a sensational shooting affray at the county jail. James L. Murphy, a deputy sheriff, brought to jail a woman of the town who he said was under arrest and sent for Matron Woodburn;having thuseleared the way he entered the latter's apartments and opened fire on her husband, Clavis II. Woodburn, who was asleep in bed. He fired eleven shots, five of which enterI'll teach ed the body, exclaiming: him to ruin my daughter? The watchman rushed in and prevented Woodburn, who had by this time secured his own weapon, from firing at his now retreating enemy. Murphy gave himself up and refused to discuss the case, except to say that he was a Kentuckian and had shot to kill. Woodburn is dangerously, but not fatally shot, lie will not talk. The Ciguerot Romance. Washington, Sett. 1. Consul-Gener- Klondike Miner Make an Thief. Eunipl of Seattle, Wash., Aug. 31. An unknown man has been shot on the Skaguay trail by a committee of vigilantes and his bones are now rotting between a pile of rocks w ithin a few rods of the pass. This news was brought down by the steamer Utopia, which left Skais guay Aug. 23. The story in general all that can be learned, the details being unknown among the Ltopias six of passengers. Some time ago ft sack flour was stolen. Suspicion pointed to a man who was encamped near the summit. A committee of six were chosen to ferret out and punish the thief. These men went to the tent of the suspected men and found the missing sack. The man begged for mercy but the committee, satisfied of his guilt, decreed that he should be immediately killed. The man was dragged from the tent and tied upright to a pole. The committeemen stood off a short distance and at the word shot toThe thiefs body was pierced gether. in six places. Feeling their duty done and sick of their task, the vigilantes left at once, not even waiting to put the bleeding form beneath the ground. For three days it hung there in full view of those passing with their packs. The odor emanating from the body became so offensive that two men cut it loose, and carrying it up the hill side, covered it with a pile of stones. Lee's investigations into the circumstances attending the arrest of the young Cuban girl Evangelina Cossio Cisneros have resulted in sweeping away a great deal of the romance that attached to her case. He cabled the state department today from Havana that the girl is not the neice of Marquis Santa Lucia, as has been proclaimed, but is the daughter of a poor and respectable Cuban named Augustin Cossio. Her mother's name, being CisBRYAN AT HOME. Skaffuay Is Now Booming. neros, was added to her own according Seattle, Wash., Aug. 31. The follow- to the Spanish custom, making her Says Bimetallism is a Live Issue In the West. ing letter was received per steamer name Evangelina Cossio Cisneros. Aug. 31. Hon. W. J. Lincoln, Neb., Associated Utopia' today by the Moreover, Gen. Lee reports that this home today from his arrived Bryan Press girl is not an only daughter, nor has conSksguay, Aug. 31. The jam is brok- she been raised in wealth and luxury, lecturing tour. The journey has sumed three months. He was greeted en on the Skaguay trail. A number of hut is one of five or six children. with great acclaim throughout the outfits have gotten over and there is a as he approached his journey's state of stream moving humanity STRIKE CONSIDERED SETTLED. 6teady end, and his arrival here was the sigmixed uT in an almost indescribable Will Resume Work at Sixty-foCentf nal for 3,000 people to gather at the mass of horses of all sizes, ages and Pending Arbitration. uepot and hurrah for the apostle of conditions, mules, steers, milch cows, Columbus, O., Sept. 1. The coal bimetallism. of vehicles also and every strike is considered settled here. The dogs, goats Mr. Bryan declared that his trip had description. Three steamers are now plan is to resume at 64 cents and work been a success in every respect, and which on convey lighters unloading arbitration. that at no place had there been sucli the freight as near the shore as possi- pending The direct parties in the conference an enthusiastic reception as in Neor ble, where it is loaded on wagons of adjustment are President Ratchford braska towns. carried over in the high tide. of the miners and the executive comHe thought the silver sentiment had, The Utopia is loading at the only mittee of the A number oi if operators. structure. is anything received an impetus in the which a wharf, shaky the latter were in the city and the re- past few months; at any rate, he found are at work on another Two sult is that a decision may be looked it flourishing. subto a he which is intended dock for at any moment. l Bimetallism, he asserted, would be stantial affair. A new got up The direct effect of this decision will as live an issue three years hence as steam for the first time this morning. he the opening of the mines and it was last fall, and would be found to thous$27 is lumber worth per Rough resumption of work by all striking be a much more powerful argument in and, but cannot he got half fast miners the beginning of the coming securing the ballots of the masses. enough at any price. week. The prosperity of Nebraska he conThe city of tents is not being disceived to be due wholly to the good New of. Mall for Service a reinforced Klondike, placed, but by city and that the prosperity incident crops, shacks of all sizes and degrees of 1. letThe first Washington, Sept. finish. Skaguay is the boom town of ter mail to be dispatched from this thereto was absolutely in spite of the Alaska. Every- - man whose heart fails country to the Klondike region under Republican tariff and the success of him when he encountered the first the new reciprocal arrangement with the gold party. hardship has turned tovvnsite boomer. Canada, effected by establishing an TRIAL OF BOB MEEKS. Four ago Skaguay was not international exchange between Dyea known; today there are not less than aufc Dawson City, will be forwarded Identified as On of the Montpelier Bank Robber. 3,000 people here in addition to those from Seattle by a steamer leaving Aug. 31. The district Paris, Ida., on the ships in the harbor. there September 11th. From that time forward, letter mail will go over court is now in session here. Bob Miners Starving, the new service regularly once a Meeks, one of the supposed Montpelier 31. An The last opportunity to send bank robbers, is being tried. Dimonth. immense Lebanon, Ind., Aug. strict Attorney Budge is prosecuting, meeting was held tonight at the opera newspapers and reading matter genhouse in behalf of the starving coal erally into the gold region until next assisted by Attorney John A. Bagley, who appears in the case in behalf of miners in Indiana. Judge Thomas J. spring will be afforded by the paper the bank and insurance company. AtTerhune made a statement of the con- mail' the last of the season, which dition of the miners as he found it will be forwarded by steamer leaving torneys R. S. Spence and T. L. Glenn appear for the defense. while making his investigation as San Francisco, September 4th. Nine witnesses were examined for Governor Mount's special commisCondition of the Crop. prosecution, eight of whom posisioner. In the course of his address identified the prisoner as one of 1. The tively weather Washington, Sept. he said: who robbed the Montpelier the three There are 8.000 families in destitute bureau, in its report of crop conditions defense had only two wit The bank. for week ended the 30, August condition. says: Thirty thousand people are literally starving. A few years Early corn is maturing in Iowa, Mis- nesses, both from Wyoming, and who, ago they received $1.25 per ton; now souri, Kansas, Nebraska and South judging from the testimony given, the average price paid is about 35 cents Dakota, but it has made slow progress Lave been doing business with the in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and prisoner, and who are supposed to per ton. In Kentucky, Tennessee have got money from him and invented A good miner can make $1 a day Michigan, and is allowed to work two or three and Arkansas the crop promises to be it in cattle. Their evidence is very conflicting. days each week. They are compelled short, owing to drought. to trade at company stores and the Spring wheat harvest is nearly comFor Killing a C'alf. prices they pay are left entirely to the pleted in Minnesota and North DaLaramie, Wyo., Ang. 30. M. J. mine operators. The miners admit kota, and threshing in general. In Coughlin of this place, charged with that they cannot live on the present Washington and Oregon the weather unlawfully killing a calf belonging to has been especially favorable for William scale of wages. Lannon, was given a prelimiA large subscription to the relief threshing the heavy wheat crop, which before Justice Fitch and nary hearing has been harvested in these states. fund was raised. bound over to the District court in the An intersum of $3000 bail for trial. Supposed Holdup Captured Comptroller Eckels in Helena. to catch of the laid trap esting story Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 1. Word was Helena, Mont., Sept. 1. Comptrolwas told by the witnesses at Coughlin ler of the Currency II. Eckels has arriv- received here this evening from the the hearing He had been suspected of ed here from the East, en route for Yellowstone National park that two cattle unlawfully. In the prekilling the Yellowstone National park, where men had been captured who were sup- sent case the calf in question had been he will spend ten days. He entertain- posed to he the persons who held up marked two copper rivets driving by ed a large number of callers here, the park stages two weeks ago and into its hoof, When it was missed among whom were depositors in the robbed the passengers. from its pasture a visit was made to United States Attorney Clark willgc defunct First National bank, Coughlin's place and the premises exhad deposits of $3,500,000 when it to tiie park to conduct the preliminary amined. The witnesses testified that accused. of the closed, who not only have not had a hearing the horns and hoofs of the calf were dividend, but could not find out when found buried under a kettle of potaTwo Children Burned to Death. there would be one. He told them 1. While toes. The hoofs found contained the that he would be glad to answ-e- r their Fort Wingate, N. M., Sept. copper rivets. The defendant offered outin matches old an with requests for information if they would playing no evidence whatever. building used as a storehouse, little write to him at Washington. Alice Winstone and Harry Arnold, A lightning rod agent has been From here he goes to the park; then to Butte, and to Salt Lake, and thence aged 3 and 4 years, set fire to a can ol lynched in Minnesota. Alice was E. R. Balfour, the famous Oxford on a hunting trip into the mountains oil, causing an explosion. ft charred and unrecognizable burned to oarsman, died in Scotland. of Colorado, leaving his family at mass. Harry was badly burned about A commercial treaty between Japan Glenwood while he goes into the wilthe bead and will probably die. and Portugal has been signed. derness. pile-drive- saw-mil- Hank of Ontario Robbed. Tapanee. Ont., Aug. 31. Some time Friday night the branch of the Dominion hank here was entered by burglars and $32,000 in checks and cash taken from the vault. When the officials tried tiie vault Saturday morning they could not work it, and an expert was sent for. It was not until 7 o'clock Saturday night that the expert got through his work, and the discovery was then made of the robbery. By that time the burglar had a good Start. The Suit of a Bloomer Girl, Mrs. Annie Kirk and her husband, W. S. Kirk, have sued W. A. Atwood, a dentist, for $2.'i0 damages alleged to have been sustained because he positively refused to examine the lady's teeth after he had agreed to put them in good condition. The reason for his refusal was that she came to his otliee on her s She bicycle and wore bloomers. that he dew the line at her attire and expressed himself too freely before other people in his reception San Francisco. Sept. 1. coin-plain- room. There are many cases of yellow fever at Colon, in the Isthmus of Panama, notwithstanding all the late denials. The fund raised in Canada for the India famine sufferers has been elosed. The amount contributed was $17,161. AVm. Maher, a blacksmith of Albany, Ore., was stabbed probably fatally by James Blackburn, a son of Judge D. U. N. Blackburn. Forest fires near Georgetown and Silver Lake, Mont., threaten great damage, but it is believed immediate danger is over. DARING JAIL BREAK. Prisoner Kwape, Peaking tho Jailor Locked Lendville, Colo., Aug. 30. A daring ail break from the county jail occurred nere at 9:30 p. m. Five prisoners made ' their escape and the night jailer, at a late hour is locked up in the jail, while the prisoners who escaped made way with the keys to both the outer and inner doors. The prisoners who escaped are the two Bohannon brothers, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Fahev; J. D. Spann, charged with rape; James Bristol, charged with forgery, and Jim Dawson, charged with assault with inFl j tent to kill. When Night Jailer Martin entered tiie corridor to make his rounds Spann, who was walking in the corridor, jumped upon him and clapped his hands baek of him. He was at once joined by the two Bohannon brothers, who dragged the jailer to the rear of the cells, where they bound him. big posse has started in pursuit. A Cuban Expedition. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 30. The expedi-thleft daring the night was delayed somewhat by a washout on the Plant system. The party did not embark on the tug at Cleveland until midnight, when it set sail. The train arrived at Cleveland at p. m. and seventy Cubans landed with their baggage. Each had a valise and many had bundles. They bore no arms. The Cubans are very much elated but many of them are fearful of the results of an expedition that starts under Spanish colors. The Spaniards are pleased, for they predict that an expedition starting under Spanish colors is likely to pnd under them. The revenue cutter, Forward, arrived at Port Tampa and sig naled at once calling Capt. Rodgers ashore, whereupon consultations were held with the treasury officials. The cutter still remained at anchor at Dark. at 5 Idaho Convict Captured. Hailey, Ida., Aug. 30 James Donnelly, George Rolston and George Simms, guards from the Boise penitentiary, lodged in the county jail Jesse Coleman, who escaped from the penitentiary a short time since. He was captured near Sawtooth lake. lie had a new Winchester, hut was out of ammunition. James Trumbull, the other escaped convict, was with Coleman until a short time since, when they separated, for unknown reasons. Coleman was making for Jackson's Hole, and were It not for the fact of his exhausted supply of cartridges the guards might not have fared so well, as he is known to be a dangerous character. lie had traveled nearly 200 miles on foot. The guards leave at once to take the trail for Trumbull. Alleged Smuggling of Chinese. ashington, Aug. 30. The treasury department is conducting an investigation of charges that Chinese are being smuggled into the United States at Port Townsend, Wash. The reports pon which the investigation is based indicate that the Chinese has made use of forged certificates. No charges were made against the customs officers at Port Townsend, except by implications. Soecial Agent Cullom has been ordered to proceed to Port Townsend to investigate. W Wyoming Miner' Peculiar Accident Hanna, Wyo., Aug. 30. A Finlander named John Ukeri lost his right leg while working in the mines here, in a peculiar manner. He was employed in letting cars down an incline by means af a rope snubbed about a post. While so employed he accidentally placed his foot in the coil of rope and before he could extricate it was pulled by the descending car to the ground, the rope crushing the bones of his leg and tearing off the flesh in such a shocking manner that amputation was necessary. Earthquake In Japan Tacoma, Aug. 30. The Japan steam-e- r, just in, brings news of severe earthquakes in Japan on August 5th, followed by a tidal wave, and great floods. A thousand houses were inundated and 200 persons were killed and injured. Sixty-fiv- e Chinese villages were inundated. Bank Robbery In Kansas. Elmdale, Kas., Ang. 30. Shortly after midnight cracksmen literally blew the vault of the Exchange bank Citizens surrounded the bank and fired into it promiscuously. Du. ing the excitement the robbers escaped from a rear door, taking with them $1800 in money and $700 worth of -- drafts. Sheeplierder Meet a Lonely Death. Saratoga, Myo., Aug. 30. A sheep-herdenamed Owen Carrigan, by Robert Jones, was found dead at his sheep camp on e creek Friday. Carrigan was in charge of the camp and was alone. He had complained the evening prior to his death of feeling unwell, but his trouble was not considered serious. lie was found the following morning lying by his wagon and had evidently been dead several hours. r Ten-Mil- |