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Show TV. E. IimVE ii UTAH. NEPHI, UTAH NEWS. A new bank is to be established Corinne. at association has been in Lake City. Salt organized Twenty families of Springville are making preparations to move to Idaho A Baseball this spring. The Wallsburg Creamery company was incorporated last week, with a capital of 53000. The incorporators number forty-twsatch county. residents of o Wa- A bag supposed to have contained several thousand dollars, was found by a workman while repairing the house of William Langton at Salt Lake City. Neither the money nor the workman can be located The money is supposed to be the boarded wealth of Henry Smith, who died in the house several years ago. James T. Monk, who tested the mining recorder law in the courts last year, has been convicted of perjury in connection with the trial. The penalty is from one to ten years. The jury recommended him to the mercy of the court. A Spaniard was in Salt Lake City one day last week on his way to San Francisco, and the report gained circulation that he is an agent of tha Spanish government, Cruise of CETS TWO WARSHIPS. -- OBME, rabllshprs. AI-- 'the Oregon. 14. The sendMarch Washington, Agents of .Navy Department Close the ing of the Oregon away from Mare Deal With Brazilian Govern merit. Island, San Francisco, is an exhibiwith which Washington. March 15 A weeks ne- tion of the gotiations closed toilay by the tri- the secretary of the navy is observing umphant purchase by the navy departthe situation of today. The vessel's ment in London, of two fine cruisers orders are to cruise down the Pacific built and building at Elswick, for the coast, touching ia from time to time at Hrailian government. Possibly the various points where cable connecofficials took more pleasure in closing tion exists to receive any orders that op the business in this manner bethe department have to give. In this cause of the knowledge that Spanish way it is expected she will work as far agents had been striving to secure south as Valparaiso, Chili, a here she these very ships and that to Spain it is will await order. Valparaiso is very said, they would be of much greater much nearer Cuba and to Admiral value in ease of trouble than to the Sicards fleet than Mare Island, while United States. The next question is if it should be desired to send the how to get the ships home, and that ship to the Asiatic station, this can be has not yet been settled, according to done almost as conveniently from Valthe secretary of the navy. paraiso as from San Francisco. At The United States flag will be hoist- Valparaiso the Oregon will be where ed over the new ships within a week, she can be most usefully manipulated probably, and just as soon as the crew in case of an emergency. can be put aboard the 'Amazonas she REVOLTING CRIME. will start for the United States. The other vessel will follow at the earliest Incest and Murder Charged Against an possible moment. The terms of sale Arkansan. are secret. Little Bock, Ark., March 14. A mob Orders have been sent to Commodore of enraged citizens of Cleburne county Ilovvell, commanding the European staare hot in pursuit of William Messer, tion, to send a force of men from the a white man, whose home is near Quit-maSan Francisco to take possession of in that county, and a lynching is and hoist the United States flag on the considered inevitable if he is captured. Brazilian ship that is ready to go into Messer was his daughter by charged commission at Newcastle. This will with a crime. A month ago revolting prevent any difficulty in case hostilithe mysteriously disappeared ties should break out, as the ship and daughter Messer is now accused of having would be under the flag but lying in a murdered her. Judge Middleton isfriendly harbor. sued a warrant for Messers arrest, and a posse of officers went to serve Benjamin Clulf Returned. the writ, hut he escaped from them. San Francisco, March 15. Benjamin The posse was at once reinforced by a Cluff', Jr., president of the Brigham large number of citizens and they are Young atalemy at Provo, Utah, has searching every cliff and ravine deterreturned from a visit to the Hawaiian mined upon lynching Messer, should Islands, where he went at the solicita- he be captured alive. tion of United States Senator Frank J. Week' Warlike Frr p irations. Cannon, to determine the status of the annexation sentiment among the Washington, March 13. The history Hawaiian Islands. He speaks the Ka- of the week just closed will form a naka language fluently, and has made splendid record of what can be accoma thorough canvass among the natives plished by the nation in a short space of the islands of Oahu, Maui and Ilile. of time under the necessity to provide He said: for the national defense. Beginning As a result of my investigation 1 with the appropriation of 550,000,000 of to be expended by the president withwould say that probably one-hathe intelligent natives of the islands out limitation, there follows rapidly are pronounced advocates of annexa- the placing of orders for enormous tion. quantities of war supplies, the instituOf the remaining half, I would say tion of negotiations for the purchase that the great majority are primarily of ships abroad, of men in favor of the restoration of the mon- for the navy, thereation of two addi" archy, and, secondly, they would tional regiments of artillery, the commuch prefer annexation to the United missioning of monitors, cruisers and States to a continuation of the present rams, the manning of new posts along government. the seacoasts aud finally the rearrangement of the great military departFLOODS IN CANADA. ments to meet modern conditions in Fifteen Hundred People Driven From military practice. U. S. Cite tq.utllic. going west to inspect the Pacific coast defenses and other things. Tracy and Lant, two of the convicts who escaped from the penitentiary last spring by bolding up the guard, will be returned to Utah If Colorado oflieers cannot convict them of complicity in the murder of Hoy at Hrown's park. If returned they will be tried for holding up the guard and relieving him of his clothes and for stealing a horse which they forcibly took from a passing man with which to escape. The ladies of Springville, instructed by Miss Pyerof Salt Lake City, are in a fair way to develop an important industry. Ninety pounds of cocoons were produced from an ounce of silk worm eggs last week. Under the state law every pound of cocoons is entitled to a bounty of 25 cents per pound. The people of Utah, Washington, Weber and Cache counties are engaged in silk culture to a sullieient extent to entitle them to the service of a state instructor E. L. Lovesy, president, and John II. Fagg, secretary of the Utah State association, have issued a no- n, lf Homes In London. DisToronto, Ont., March 15. patches from western Ontario tell of the overflow of the Grand and Thames rivers, causing serious damage along Sections of London, their valleys. Brantford and Galt are completely convention tice of the submerged to a depth of from five to of the association, to be held in seven feet. In London 1,500 people Salt Lake City, April 5. Among are been driven from homeless, the subjects to he discussed are their homes. having and Bridges buildings the representation of the industry were the rushing torby swept away at the Omaha exposition; the trans- rent. In Bradford firemen and citiportation and marketing of the bee- zens fought the raging waters all of keepers products, and the best method yesterday, but were finally beaten out, law. It is of enforcing the and west Bradford is a regular lake. desired, as far as possible, to obtain At Galt heavy loss was sustained by samples of liouey from every county in the business portion. The ice jam in the state, and it is expected that all the Grand river gave way and the parts of the state will he represented flood following it tore away bridges, by delegates in the convention. trees and wrecked a number of factoUtah has been granted, at the ries and private residences. exposition grounds, EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX. 2000 square foot of space in the Mining building and 1300 feet in a good loca- Federal Officials Take Charge of a Kention in the Agricultural building, and tucky lest House. a simular space in the Manufactures Middlcsborough, Ky., March building. In the Mining building but smallpox situation here has bethree other states have heen granted come so dangerous that the United .space, California, Colorado and Mon- States government has sent Post Astana. In the apiary a considerable sistant Surgeon Wertheimer of the space has heen set apart for the exUnited States to take charge of the The hibits of Utah pest house. Hear lliver and Lake Canal company The state medical authorities surhas heen alloted two acres of ground rendered only on orders from Frankfor its exhibit. Utahs appropriation fort. The county refused to support of 58,000 is much smaller than that of the house and the inmates were pest 0 other states. Montana will spend on th verge of starvation. There are on her exhibit and Colorado nearly ten 100 susand smallpox patients 50,000. pects. The entire community is alarmed The jury in the case of P. V. Saunders vs. the Southern Pacific, on trial and almost demoralized, as the disin Ogden last week, returned a verdict ease is epidemic in the adjoining counof 51000 for the plaintiff. It is said ties in Virginia and Tennessee. that the sum was purposely made less Landsmen' Accepted For Navy. than 55000, the impression being that Philadelphia, March 15. Today for by so doing an appeal would he prefirst time landsmen" were enthe vented to the supreme court of the for service in the United States listed United States. The ease has already at the League Island navy yard. navy to been that tribunal, haying gone man who answered Any up on the old territorial law. the physical requirements was admit-ed- . The local committee of the International Mining congress, to be held in The reason for this action, one of Salt Lake City in July, are working the oflieers of the ship yard said today, energetically ia making preparations was that orders had been received for the big gathering, and to show the from Washington to recruit as rapid-- j visitors the temptations Utah affords ly as possible 200 laudsmeu to serve as i for investments. seamen. Bee-keepe- rs semi-annut- tl foul-broo- d Trans-Mississip- 13.--T- honey-grower- s. 530,-00- able-bodie- d he Activity at Navy Yard. Washington, March 14. There NORTHWEST NOTES. it IT ashingtot general activity at the workmen of shifts three navy yard, hours continuously. ing twenty-fou- r The completion of the big guns ther is being pushed ahead with all possible haste. The rush has led to a largt demand for machinists of all kinds, which up to now has not been met. An enlistment office for bluejackets has been opened at the yard. Thirty marines have been detailed to go vv ith the Columbia or the Minneapolis. ai They are held in readiness to start a moment's notice. Some of the guns have been Indian Ileac to completed and shipped a Not to be tested. day passes but what guns of some calibre are finished and taken down by the tug Triton tc the proving grounds to he tested. Two or three of the monster guns, with the exception of a few finishing touches to be put to the breech mechanism, are ready to be tested. A test was made of one consignment of rapid-fir- e guns, just received from the Colt factory at Hartford. It is known as the six millimetre and rapid fire automatic Colt, and is capable o firing 200 shots a minute, with a range of 2000 yards. The test proved that the bullet would pass through a steel s of an inch in thickplate ness. These guns, of which three have arrived, will be used along the rail of vessels against torpedo boats, and also in the fighting tops. four-inc- h 13-in- 1 three-eight- E. W. Thomas of Chicago will start a bank at Grand Encampment, Wyo. The trial of Thomas Riley, who kill, ed Banker Largey at Butte, is set foi March 20. The business men of De Lamar, Nev., have heen called upon to organize a fire department. It is reported that the Dun Glen mines, Nevada, are soon to he opened up by Eastern parties. The commissioners of Humboldt, Nev., have fixed a rate of 53.27 on the 5100 as the tax levy in that county for 1898. J. S. Galloway, a Butte druggist, has been arrested on a charge of perjury, in connection with a suit over a promissory note. . Another of the Moose Lake, Mont,, miners who went on a wood alcohol spree has died from the effects of the liquor, making three in all. Deer Lodge county, Mont., will sell a 5100,000 issue of 5 per cent bonds on April 12, the proceeds to be used in erecting a new court house. Arguments on the motion for a new trial in the murder case of Kenneth McRea are now being heard at Casper, Wyo. From the central portion of Wyoming comes cheering news of the condition ot the range and flocks of sheep.-SheeRailroads Prepare to Haul Troops. never fared better in that secAtlanta, Ga., March 14. Orders have been received here by the master me- tion. chanics of all the railroads entering James McPhearson, proprietor of the city to have every engine steamed the Rawlins sandstone quarries, exup and ready for use at a moments pects to close contracts for furnishing notice. stone for three or more large jobs in. s of several A trip to the Denver. roads did not elicit any information. Justice Belknap, William Woodburn Those in charge said the engines were and Attorney General Judge are most merely fired up for emergency, and that mentioned for the silver sent be to prominently some ready they always kept out in case of a or putting party nomination for the Nevada suout of extra trains. It was denied that preme court. Word comes from San Francisco that any other order had heen received to have any extra number of engines Charley Wilson, formerly employed in ready for use, though the report was the mipt in Carson, Nev., is dying. current around the shops that a move- He is about 70 years of age and has ment of troops was expected early in been ailing a long time. the week. The old Indian reservation at Acting on instructions believed to Nev., was sold at public auchave been received recently, the Weston tion the ground recently, by V. L. ern & Atlantic shops have a full force of the United States Receiver Snelling, at work. Engines which have not been office Land at Lake view, Or., and was used for a year, and freight cars aban& Curtner. in bid Evans by overto doned some time ago, are be i The machinery is now on the road hauled, and all rolling stock is being for De Lamar's ice factory and cold repaired. The conference of railroad men in storage plant. It will be in operation Washington has lent color to the re- about April 1, and will go a long way port that emergency work had heen toward keeping the citizens of that W ant to Crepe the American Flag. ordered on several of the roads, al- Nevada town healthy, as the germs 14. March The Madrid, Imparcial though it is denied that, such an order will all be boiled out of the water beto is time There still prepare has been issued, and it is known that fore frozen. says: and it is perhaps information has reached Atlanta looka few A workman at the Kinkead mill at possible to buy a few vessels abroad, ing to the pushing of this work. Tuscarora, Nev., made the blunder ot but in any case we have some merNAVY AUXILIARY, drinking a dipperful of cyanide soluchant ships which could do a lot of to tion, mistaking it for water. A Vessels Detailed Board Examine harm to American commerce, and we Special Offered run for the docters office will have to arrange to carry on a priMarch 12. The board and the prompt Washington, application of n vateering war, from which as much re- of naval bureau chiefs find it impossi- stomach pump averted what would nown may accrue as from the guerrilla ble to pass judgment in WashingtoD otherwise have proved a serious matwarfare which vanquished Napoleon. upon the fitness for naval service of ter. Continuing the Imparcial exhorts vessels that may be offered for the Captain Thomas Miller, of company the government to allow the present branch of the navy at the C. Wyoming national auxiliary guard, Buffalo, crisis to pass over and to turn the time various seaports, so they have been Wyoming, has riceived orders from the If our flag to good use, concluding: aided in their work by the creation of colonel of the regiment to recruit his goes into mourning, let us at least he a board which will undertake company to its maximum special strength as able to put some pieces of crepe on the to visit each of the where ships soon as possible. ports Necessary additional Americans obnoxious flag. may be offered and make a careful and supplies have been sent the company Arttllery Ordered to Move. personal inspection of the various for its full muster. Junction City, Kan., March 14, --r crafts. The hoard will consist of George T. Beck, son of the late SenOrders have been received at Fort RiRodgers, Lieutenant Commander ator Beck of Kentucky, is preparing ley ordering the three batteries of ar- Kelly, Passed Assistant Engineer Dix- to organize a company of sharpshoottillery at this post to the south. Bat- on, Assistant Naval Constructor Taw-res- ers in the Big Horn basin, Wyoming, and Lieutenant Sargeant. Lieu- whose services tery B of the Fourth artillery, Captain will be offered to the Anderson, goes to Fort Monroe; bat- tenant Kelly has been specially in the event of war with government tery F, of the Fourth, Captain Taylor, charged with the inspection of the Spain. Some of the best shots in the goes to Savannah, Ga., and battery F, of merchant vessels suitable for naval basin will join the company. the Fifth, Captain Riley, to New Or- service. He will be of great service as The owners of the Rock Springs a member of the board. leans. The Nashville arrived at Key West opera house have sold the building to The orders are such that it will compel the movement of these batteries to today, while the Marblehead arrived the Rock Springs Opera House and their new station not later than next at Tampa. The naval officials will not Hotel company, the consideration bestate the purpose of the Marblehead's ing 57,175. It is the intention of the Wednesday. new owners to build an additional is who visit to Tampa. command in Major Randolph, story and fit out the lower part of the of the artillery post at Fort Riley, has PROTECTING THE HARBORS. building for hotel purposes. not been ordered elsewhere. There is A boiler explosion occurred much excitement here and at Fort Torpedoes Being Sent to Many Southern recently Points. at the No. 2 mine of the Cambria Coal Riley. New York, March 14. The steam Mining company, at Cambria, WyomNetwork of Mines. ing. lighter Caroline left the dock at Engineer Kirkwood and MaNewport News, Va., March 14. AcPoint, L. I., with a load consist- chinists Robinson and Bleschsinith cording to Captain Rreenmyer of the ing of twenty-fivdrums of torpedo were standing on the boiler at the steamship Castilla, from New Orleans cables, consigned to Bar Harbor, Maine, time of the explosion examining the to Hamburg, which is now coaling where Lieutenant McKinsev is in valve. Ribinson was severely safety here, there a network of mines in charge of the torpedo work. Each scalded and hurt by a flying brick, but Havana harbor. Three years ago, he drum or of cable weighs about all escaped serious spool injury. says, his vessel was about to steam three tons. Reeent orders received at The coal company at Rock Springs into the harbor when she was signalled the fort call for 140 drums of cable to has inaugurated a new method of coal enter. A pilot boarded the nof be sent to various points south, where ship and explained that the engineers the torpedoes are to he laid, and a mining in its No. 1 mine. The miner will be required to undercut his coal were planting mines and that it would force of engineers and soldiers is kept to a depth of five feet, and shot inspecbe necessary for him to wait several busy all day and some times until far tors will direct the direction of the hours before proceeding into port. in the night preparing the various drill hole, the amount of powder to be Captain Greenmyer was then master supplies for shipment. These supplies in used will the direct the and He blast, Albino. was at u e time in of the consist of cable, shackles, plugs, switch of of method This the shot. firing German the army. boxes, mooring rope, storage batterie mining is adopted in expectation of anchors. and 500 and 1, making less slack. men-of-wa- round-house- break-dow- n it, r, record-breakin- Cap-tai- d y Wil-let'- s e 1 000-pou- g |