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Show hc Republic; w. 1 ROE ALF ORME, Publishers. UTAH NEPHI, UTAH NEWS. There is renewed talk of the build-Inf- i of the Deep Creek road, and definite arrangements may soon be announced. Maw Chung, a Chinese gardener of Salt Lake, having tired of life, committed suicide by taking an inordinate dose of opium. The Utah county fair demonstrated what can be done in Utah in the way of fruit and stock raising. Doth features were excellent. The city of Ogden has abandoned the idea of collecting a tax on the Instruments and poles of the Telephone company that are in use there. The Ogden Standard is suing the Associated Dress to compel it to abide by a contract the Standard alleges exists that binds the company to furnish its service to that paper. One month ago a young girl named Williams started from Riverside, Nebraska, for Ogden to stay with relatives. Nothing has been heard of her and foul play is suspected. The Congregational society of Utah has decided that it cannot affiliate with the Mormon church, although there was strong argument made to disregard denominationalism. John Williams, who came to Utah as a teamster with Johnston's army, died at American Fork last week. For tha past fifteen years he has been a resident of Montana, having returned to Utah but a few weeks since. lie was 72 years of age. The Natural Gas company of Salt Lake City is experiencing some trouble in securing a sufficient flow from the wells to supply the demand, and manufactured gas has had to be mixed with it. Last winter the same trouble was experienced. The company allege It is a choking up of the pipes and not diminuition of the supply of gas. II. N. McGrew has been appointed registrar of the land office at Salt Lake. Soon after McKinley's election he removed to Arizona and was a candidate for congress. Failing in that he returned to Salt Lake and made application for the registrarship. II is support was from eastern men. Local republicans are sore and will probably attempt to defeat his confirmation. The Vulcan mine at Fish Springs, in the Deep Creek country, has passed into the hands of parties residing at Nephi, Utah. The mine was located in 18U0, and for a time was a shipper, but of late all energy has been directed to blocking out ore, awaiting the coining of a railroad. The new owners will resume active development. The mine is regarded as a bonanza. George II. Ganoway, colored, sued the Salt Lake Dramatic association for 510,000 for attempted forcible ejection from the Salt Lake theatre in XSOj, where plaintiff went to attend a free silver meeting. An usher ordered him to leave a stall which had been set aside for someone. Upon his refusal a policeman was called and placed The the nippers on Mr. Ganoway. crowd raised such a protest that the effort to eject him was abandoned. Plaintiff was given judgment for damages in the sum of $400., Chief of Detectives Colleran of Chicago and four of his men have raptured four of the most successful and daring burglars of the United States, aDd The pris25,000 awaits identifiation. oners are Sheneney Joe Rubeustein, the leader and brains of the gang, James Williams, Harry Rogers and James Flahtrty. Letters found in their possession show they have been taking a flying trip from coast to coast robbing right and left. Evidence was found on them indicating they had committed robberies in St. Lake City, San Francisco, Denver, Omaha and iany other cities west and east. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones Cutcliffe, known as Utah's only centenarian, died last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James liertoeh, at rieasant Green. Mrs. Cutcliffe was borne in the county of Devonshire, England, in May, 1707. She was the mother of fifteen children, thirteen of whom died before her. Her living descendants are two daughters, eighteen grandchildren and twenty five greatShe came to Utah in grandchildren. 1805 and remained in Salt Lake to the time of her last visit to her daughter's home. At the Jubilee celebration Mrs. Cutcliffe was an object of special care and attention, and was taken to Fort Douglas as a guest of honor. The Telluride Dower company which proposes transmitting power from Irovo canyon to Mercur, is having trouble with farmers near Cedar Fort regarding right of way. The company offers $1 per pole for a right of way four feet wide A proposed telephone extension from Saluhria to Council valleys and Seven Devils, says the Weiser Si gnal, is in a fair way to materialize. A company with this object in view has been incorporated for $5,000 as the Idaho Telephone and Telegraph company. -- MONETARY Prominent Montanan Salebles. CCMM1SSION. OEATH Mont.. Oct. 18. John A. Baker, one of the most prominent bus- Iness men in Butte, committed suicide at an early hour yesterday morning by shooting himself through the head. His family and social relations were pleasant and his business in a prosperous condition, and the only cause that can he assigned is temporary insanity. For several days he had been complaining of severe neuralgia pains in his head. Baker has held a number of positions of public trust in this city, lie caine to Butte from and his brother is private becretaay to Senator Boies Penrose of as The deceased Pennsylvania. and in circles railroad known widely was formerly with the Northwestern Union Pacific in in Chibago and Omaha. Later he held other mercantile positions and under the last administration he was assistant treasurer. He was also school trustee, retiring last spring. Great Britain Over Her Huff. Washington. Oct. 17. The State department confirms the report given out by the foreign office in London that Great Britain assents to a meeting of experts in Washington on the seal question, and Mr. Hay cables that Prof. Thompson, the British expert, was to sail today. It Is expected that the conference of the delegates of Russia, Japan and the United States will hold its first meeting the last of next week, and the meeting of the American and British experts will probably take place a week later. A recent announcement from Ottawa was to the effect that Sir Louis Davies, Minister of Marine, and Mr. Macoun, assistant in the Prof. Thompson's Pribyloff islands investigation for two years, had been nominated by the Canadian Cabinet. Butte, Believed That Itn;lml t ouferent-e- Will Sot Join the . London, Oct. 10. The I nited States monetary commissioners have received no information of the action taken by the British cabinet on Saturday lat. Irivate advices, however, convince them thal the cabinet has dealt the death blow to their commission. It is the commissioners will expected shortly be informed that her majesty s government regrets being unable to accede to their proposals but is willing to listen to any other plan they may suggest. Doth parties to the conference h now that no other practical scheme can he advanced. In the event of the expected reply being received, the United States commissioners will return to the United States. It is learned the only thing the cabinet officially discussed in connection with the currency question on Saturday was Sir James Westland's reports. Sir James is head of the financial department of India and his voluminous report took the strongest grounds the mints. against The commissioners believe their failure means that no further effort for bimetallism will he made for many years to come. They attribute their failure to the opposition of the hankers and of the London Times. Until these forces were aroused all signs of the pointed to the British government. IN JAIL. COUNTERFEITING Counterfi-l- t Fleers Flfly-te- tured 111 Manufac- Riverside Fcnitentiary. Oct. 19. Warden E. S. Pittsburg, Wright of the Riverside penitentiary has discovered that convicts have been manufacturing counterfeit pieces. He has unearthed the metal from the queer-money that was made and the moulds in which it was cast. The counterfeits are magnificent specimens of the coiner's art. The liich they were made is die from al- most perfect and the milling of the coiiu,, which is the government's chief protection of metal money from those who would imitate it, is as near perfect as it is possible for human ingenuity to make it. That such coins could be made within tae walls of the Riverside penitentiary with the crude implements to he obtained by the prisoners is startling. The counterfeiters had already secured a connection with outside parties and some of the had money is now in circulation. Warden Wright has a list of nearly a score tf convicts and persons supposed to be connected with the counterfeiting, and when the full story of the crimes eoine out it is said there will be some sensational revelatious. DUcontejiU'd ImlianSi Chelsea, I. T., Oct. 19. There is In session at Forty Mle creek, forty-milesouth of here, one of the largest meetings of full blooded Indians that has assembled here for many years. Not only the entire Cherokee commubut the nity of of other tribes surrounding are there. The purpose of the meeting is to settle the question of quitting the land of their birth that now confronts the five tribes of Indians. They will also prepare reasons why the government should not be abolished and present it to the senatorial soon to visit here. The proposed immigration to Mexico will be fully discussed and full-blood- it is come full-bioo- probable that the Indians will to a final decision soon. Pnila-delphi- a, OF CHARLES Aspen. s Charles M. Daggett, for many years to returned resident of this city, has to reach Aspen from a futile attempt the Klondike. He reports that hundreds of men the who, a few months ago. left for and gold fields in the best of spirits now with well filled pocketbooks, are returning heartsick and discouraged, dead broke and without a cent in the 10.- world. Out of between 8.000 and Klonthe for w 000 neople ho started dike less than 2,000 succeeded in getting over the passes. returnSpeaking of those who are their ing, Professor Daggett states that condition is deplorable. Some idea of the number of men who are without means now in the fact country ean be gained from the dis were x that twenty-sistowaways covered on the boat which brought the these professor down. Not one of on the were and cent a possessed verge of starvation. Circle City, heretofore the metropolis of the interior, is absolutely deserted. The conditions at Dawson City are mueh more encouraging. The town is food lively and work plentiful. The supply, however, is a source of worry. America's UrcatB Journalist Fasces Away t Hi Long Iblnutl Foma. New York, Oct. 17. Chailes A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, died at his home at Glen Cove, Long Island, at 1:20 p. m., of cirrhosis of the Mr. Dana's death had been exliver. for several hours, and his fampected ily and physicians were at his bedside when the end came. His condition has been feeble for several months, and the end was hastened by the extreme heat on Friday and Saturday. Char'es Anderson Dana was born in Hills ale, N. II., August 3, 1819. His boyhood was spent in Buffalo, N. Y., where he worked in a store until he was 13 years of age. His earliest newspaper experience was gained in the management of the Harbinger, which was devoted to social reform and general literature. After about two years of editorial work on Elizur Wright's Boston Chronotype, a daily newspaper, Mr. Dana joined the staff of the New York Tribune in 1847. The next year he spent eight months in Europe, and upon his return became one of the proprietors and managing editor of the Tribune, a post which he held until April, 1362. The extraordinary influence and circulation attained by that newspaper Creeks Object to Money Sharks. during the ten years preceding the Muskogee, I. T., Oct. 20. The treaty Civil war was in a degree due to the between the Dawes and Creek comdevelopment of Mr. Dana's genius for missions, which was concluded at this journalism. place last month, was rejected by the In 1861 Mr. Dana went to Albany Creek council in session at Okmulgee. to advance the cause of Mr. Greeley, The vote in the house of warriors, as a candidate for the United States which is the lower house of the Creek senate, and nearly succeeded in nom- council, was unanimously against inating him. The caucus was about tl.e treaty, and only eight members of equally divided between Mr. Greeleys the house of kings voted in favor of it. friends and those of Mr. Evarts, while The principal objection to the treaty Ira Harris had a few votes which held is that it does not give the Creeks their the balance of power, and, at the inpro rata share of all the lands of the stigation of Thurlow Weed, the' sup- Creek nation, and leaves too much porters of Mr. Evarts went over to room for the money sharks and specu- Will Return to Klondike, Judge Harris. Youngstown, Ohio, Oct. IS. Mr. and During the first year of the war the Mrs. Thomas S. Lippy of Kinsman, ideas of Mr Greeley and those of Mr. Ohio, a few miles north of here.'have Dana in to the proper conduct returned from a successful trip to the of the regard were someoperations military Klondike, to which place they went in what at and this disagreevariance; April, 1996. To an Associated Press ment resulted in the resignation of Mr. representative Mr. Lippy affirmed the Dana, after fifteen years service on report that he had cashed in $65,000 the Tribune. He was at once employed worth of gold and had left a claim work Stanton in by there worth $1,000,000. He left five of Secretary for the war special department, importance men to guard his claim, and says that and in 1363 was appointed assistant he and his wife will return to it in of war, which office he held secretary M arch. until after the surrender of Lee. They made the journey back on foot At the time when General Grant's and by sleds and boats until they character and usefulness probable reached the Yukon river, when they were unknown Mr. Dana's quantities, Berof took a boat to Seattle, by way confidence in Grant's military ability ing sea. Mr. Lippy advised all not to probably did much to defeat the powattempt to make the trip befor spring erful effort then making to break down sets in. the rising commander. Mr. Dana was in the saddle at the Hazing In Colorado. Boulder, Colo., Oct. 13. Dekalb front much of the time during the Wellman, aged 17, a new student in campaigns of northern Mississippi and the preparatory school of Boulder Vicksburg, the rescue of Cha'tanooga university, has been seriously injured and the marches and battles of Virby being tossed in a blanket by older ginia in 1864 and 1865. After the war his services were students. Wellman struck on the back of his head and shoulders with sought by the Chicago Republican, a great force on the ground, paralyzing new daily, which failed, through the upper part of his body, physicians causes not within the editor's control. think he will live, hut say he will have Returning to New York, he organized, a serious curvature of the spine. The in 1867, the stock company that now injured boy is a son of a merchant in owns the Sun newspaper, and became this city. Citizens are very indignant its editor. The first number of the over the manner in which he was Sun issued by Mr. Dana appeared on treated and demand that hazing at January 2f, 1868, and for nearly thirty the university he summarily stopped. years he has beeffi actively and coutin-nousl- y engaged in the management of Itig Reception to Cisneros. successful that journal, and solely reNew York, Oct. 18. The popular for its conduct, lie made sponsible Cossio Miss to Evangelina reception indeCisneros in Madison square tonight the Sun a democratic newspaper, in the expresand outspoken pendent was an extraordinary demonsti ation. sion of its opinions respecting the afd Fully 50,000 persons, nearly of either party. of them women, crowded fairs Perhaps to a greater extent than in the upper half of Madison Square case of any other conspieuoas jourpark and filled Broadway and Fifth the idenavenue, to greet the fair Cuban. M- nalist, Mr. Dana's personality is mind tified in the the with public urat Halstead was chairman. Speeches were made by United States Senator newspaper that he edited. lie has reThurston of Nebraska, Congressman corded no theories of journalism other common sense and huSulzer, Dr. De Zayes and Henry than those of man interest. He was impatient of George. prolixity, cant and the conventional A Wealthy Beggar. of news importance. standard San Francisco, Oct. 13. Mrs. E. G. Mr. Dana's first book was a volume Van Dusen of Moulton avenue, who is of stories translated from the German, of age, is in a padded cell at 70 entitled The Black Ant. In 1855 he the receiving hospital charged with planned and edited with George Ripbeing insane. She is dressed in rags, ley. the New American Cyclopedia. yet on her person was found $1,457, With General James IL Wilson he nearly all in $20 gold pieces. The wrote a Life of Ulysses S. Grant. money was in five rolls, tied to her His Household Book of a Cowaist. She is said to own valuable llection of the Best Minor Poetry, Poems of the property on Van Ness avenue, yet she English Language, was first pubhas been accustomed to beg her meals lished in 1857, and has passed through many editions, the latest, thoroughly from people on the streets. revised, being that of 1884. Narrow Escape of ( cell Rhodes. Wyoming; Lamia Leaned. London, Get. IS. The Daily Graphic Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 18. The state says that it hears that the recent re- board of land commissioners has leased ported illness of the Hon. Cecil Rhodes lands on valuation at Inyanga. was due to shock from in- 9,520 aeres of school 50 cents to $1.50 per acre: from ranging juries received at the hands of hostile natives beyond Salisbury. It ap- 33,418 acres state lands, on a valuation acre. The rental from these of St pears that Mr. Rhodes lost his way lands per will amount to more than $2,000 from a had narrow and death. escape per year. No Cattle for Dawson City. Heavy Snow In Colorado. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 13. A special Crested Butte. Colo., Oct IS. A correspondent of the Dost Intelligencer snowstorm struck this locality yea writes from Skaguay, Alaska, under date of October II, as follows: The terday, which has broke all records drove of 125 cattle which Walter Thorp here for this time of the year. In adhours' continuous of Seaetle attempted to take into dition to thirty-siDawson City by way of the Dalton downfall, it is still snowing. trail has been brought hack to llainbs The Salt Lake County Fish and mission. The great depth of snow on the mountains and the extreme cold Protective association is discouraging rendered the undertaking too hazard- violations of the game law by offering ous. Thorp had driven tbe cattle 125 rewards for tlie conviction of violators. miles into the interior before he de- For dynamiting fish, $25, and. for other violati'ns $5, is offered. cided to return. lators. Claims Hes The Wrong Man. Elko, Nev., Oct. 20. Sheriffs Mateer and Easton of Elko and Lander counties have arrested Harvey Whit-toalias Jas. Hall, at Battle Mountain for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Jack n Atlen of Gallatin county, Montana, on January 16, last. The prisoner c aims they have the wrong man, and that he has been in this section since Jan. 12. He answers the description in every way. Sheriff Mateer arrived with the prisoner yesterday and Montana offAn officer icers were notified at once. is expected with the necessary papers to take him back to Galatin county. Town Depopulated. Leadville will not be pumped out. Eben Smith, eliai.-maof the committee appointed by the mine owners to secure funds to buy and operate the necessary pumps, snid that the pumps would not be started as long as silver remained at the present low price. In addition to 450,000 contributed for the purpose of unwstering the mines, it was found that $.5,000 more was needed, and it was impossible to raise this as David 11. Moffatt, one of the principal mine owners, has flatly refused to give another dollar. of Bryan and Carlisle Lincoln, Neb., In Nebraska. Oct. 19. The campaign in Nebraska promises to become very warm. Mr. Bryan, Who has thus far only made occasional speeches in the state, will start out to make a. thorough 'canvass, speaking twice a day at various places in the state until the close of the campaign. Mr. Bryan thinks the situation has steadily improved for the silver forces in Nebraska, The gold Democrats, who are assisting the Republicans, expect the Hon. John G. Carlisle in the state the latter part of the week to make several speeches. llAngnt Hornelf. Casper, Wyo.. Get. 19. Mrs. Oscar Lehman committed suicide at Lost Springs, west of here, yesterday, by hanging herself from a rafter in the house. The woman was insane and attempted to cut her throat with a razor a few weeks ago. Troop Return to Boisa. Pocatello, Get. 19. A special train of eight ears will eonvey the troops from the Fort Hall reservation to Boise City, leaving Ross Fork soon after daylight today. NOTES. There are five cases of insanity in the Butte jail. It is said the gambling law is being violated at Butte. The Odd Fellows grand lodge will meet at Butte this week. The state authorities are taking a sheep census in Montana. Work in the railroad shops at Evanston is picking up, new men being e in ployed steadily. C. J. Maitland, arrested at Garrison, Mont., confessed to robbery at the Mc- Dermott hotel. A bar of gold worth $13,090 is on exhibition at Boise. It is from the government assay office. The country along Deep creek, Mon- tana, is infested with timber wolves which prey upon stray cattle. Orders are said to be booked at Baltic, Mont., for 600 cattle cars. The shipments the past week have been heavy. Elmer B. Carter, the Billings stock broker. has purchased in Fergus county some 30.000 head of sheep, paying an average of $2 per head. The paving dispute between Butte city and the street railway company, has been settled and the latter has commenced to pave its portion of Main street. Veno. the healer, in jail at Butte, admitts he acquired $7000 there and left because he feared lynching. He would like to return the money but cannot. The telephone line from Lewiston to Melville, Mont., which is only in oper- ation from Lewiston to the Bower ranch, near Oka, was sold at receiver's sale for $75. A stick of dynamite was malicously placed in a wheat stack near Helena and last week was fed into the thresher. The machine was totally wrecked but no one hurt. Col. W. II. Root, of Laramie, Wyo., has gone east, and it is his purpose to extend his trip to Norway in the interests of some prominent eastern capitalists to secure reindeer for the Klondike transportation business. Gov. Richards, of Montana, says about 600 new buildings have been constructed in Butte this year; that there are more employed and unemployed men there than at any time in the city's history, and that by 1900 Butte will have nearly 109,000 population. Wyoming State Fish Commissioner Schnitger has been investigating the local hatchery at Sundance and speaks well of the work which has been done during the past year. 100,000 brook eggs have been ordered from Massachusetts. and will be placed in the hatchery in December. It is expected these will yield about 90,000 fish which will be distributed in Crook county Mobile, Ala., Oct. 20. The sixth week of the fever begins with five new cases, no deaths and 11 recoveries. The temperature has steadily fallen all day and tonight the weather is so chilly that fires are a comfort. The little town of Flomation is depopulated. There were about 200 in- streams. habitants, 30 of whom have taken Great Falls, Mont., society is in a some form of fever. The exodus is so complete that only the nurses and the turmoil over the exposure of the dual life led by a former physician of that sick remain. is now located at Shelby place, Firemans Face Burned Junction. He is Dr. George Arthur Cheyenne. Oct. 15. Thomas Gordon, Ings, son of a wealthy shipbuilder of a Union Pacific fireman, had his face Charlottetown and later a resident of badly burned in an unusual manner-Whil- New Glasgow, N. S., where he left a corning to Cheyenne on an en- wife and three children some three and while throw ing in coal, the years ago and moved to Great Falls gine, smokestack suddenly choked up, forc- with a woman whom he claimed as his ing the flames through the box door wife but who in reality was Mrs. Dunwhile Gordon had his face near the can Grant of his former home, by opening. The mans eyesight is not whom he has had two children. Wife destroyed, hut he will probably be No. 1 is on the ground and the doctor scarred for life. promises to right the wrong as far as he is able, but just how does not apOut. Indians Drive Silver City, N. M., Oct. 20. Reports pear. Alexander Gillian and James Gibson from the Yaquicato state that the were saloon partners at Libby, MonencroachYaqui Indians resent the ment of white men in search of gold, tana, and enamored of the same woand that the Indians are driving all man. Two weeks ago Gillian took a white men out of the country. A cor- shot at Gibson but hit a bystander, Peace reigned until Tuesday, when respondent at Harmosillo, Mexico, adGillian steadied his revolver on the as the vises white men to stay away, Indians will not allow them to pene- bar and missed his partner three shots when only five feet away. Gibson trate the gold fields. seemed dazed for a moment hut reachAnother Fight Predicted. ed for his revolver and fired three Carson, Nevada, Oct. 20. Dan Stu- shots, all of which passed through art has written to his representative Gillians body below the heart and here predicting that next June or July none of them three inches apart. Gilthere will he another championship lian had emptied his revolver by this contest in Carson between Corbett and time and hit nothing. He expired in At the same time the a few miuutes. Fitzsimmons. feather-weigchampionship will he The big concentrator at Golconda, decided, to be followed by a ten days' Nevada, is nearing completion. The racing meet with at least $20,000 in building has been finished and the purses. machinery is being placed rapidly in Idaho Woman Postmistress at Dyea, position. It is the biggest plant of Boise, Ida., Oet. 19. Miss Clara II. this kind in the state and it will not Richards of Boise has received notice be long before it is started up. of her appointment as postmaster at I ire destroyed the MacQueen house Dyea, Alaska. This is the first ap- at Miles City, Mont., entailing a loss discovered It pointment that has been made for of nearly $75,000. some tune to Alaskan positions. Miss about 4 o clock and had gained such Richards will leave about November headway when the firemen were 1 and will join her brother, who is at aroused that they could do but little. All the guests escaped. Dyea. Thomas Tway, convicted of rape in Wyomlng Man Seriously Injured, Fremont county, Wyoming, and for 19, While Wyo., Oct. Cheyenne, whom a new trial was ordered by the near forest in the trees Dougfelling las yesterday, Orr Marshall, a prom- Supreme court of the state at its recent session, has been taken back to inent ranchman, was struck by a tree, and seriously and perhaps fatally in- Lander. He has already served 15 months of his 15 year sentence. jured. An ax which Marshall was Sheridan Post G. A. R. of Great his on shoulder cut a deep carrying Falls, Mont., will receive an gash in his neck. Columbian cannon from the United It is accepted as a fact that the Ha- States government. It will be used to waiian government will not accept the form the base of the monument to be points made by Japan or sign the erected in the soldier's plot at one-thir- well-dresse- d Flooded Mines at Leadville. Denver, Oct. 19. The flooded mines .NORTHWEST Coming From Alaska Get. .o. Professor Colo.. nandmls A. DANA. Gold-Seeke- ht s x treaty. I |
