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Show f&T I! jj. VOL. XII. ROBINSON, UTAH, SATURDAY, AUGUST S!HTE WKEGOES J$ TO TELEGRAPHERS' Claims That Cperators STffi BUCK Ninety-fivPep Cent of Are Out and Will Stay e Out Until They Win. New Eridge LLrier Construction Near Quebec, Canada, Collapses and Workmen Are Drowned. . New York. S. J. Small, president the Commercial Union of Telegraphers, arrived in New York Sunday morning from the west. Speaking of the strike situation, he said: We have full 93 per cent of all the Nearly Half of the Bridge, Which Was commercial telegraphers in the Unita Mile and a Half Long, Went Into ed States on strike. This applies to the River, Carrying the Doomed small and large cities. Thousands of Men Down to Death. offices are closed, and the keys to the doors are In possession of city officials, to be turned over to Quebec, Canada. The new bridge the inspectors of the company when under construction about five miles they arrive. We have started to below the city, collapsed late Thurs raise a large fund two of them In day afternoon, and fifty of the work- fact. One of these is for the benefit men are known to have met their of the strikers, and the other to be exdeath in the seething waters, white pended in propaganda work in favor the total may reach one hundred when of government .ontrol of the teleall of the workmen who were engaged graph. Although the call for funds in the construction of the mammoth has only been out for a few days, bridge when the accident occurred, many remittances were received before I left Chicago and, strange to say, are accounted for. The bridge was about a mile and a as much was received for the campaign fund as for the benefit of the half long, aud was nearly finished. strikers. Much has been published Nearly half of the fated structure, be- about arbitration, but the cry from ginning at the south shore, ft 11 into coast to coast is No arbitration. the river, and the hundreds of woi lIRELANDS OPPORTUNITY. enten wane precipitated into the ragwaters a warnwithout moment's ing Frank Sullivan Looks Forward to ing. American-JapanesWar. A steamer with thirty doctors and j men was to rushed the newspaper Fontency, Belgium. The lord mayor scene of the accident as soon as the of Dublin on Sunday unveiled the monmessage of the horrible occurrence ument erected to commemorate the had reached the city, and those who of the Irish brigade In the had been able to escape from the waf-er- s braveryof battle Fontency in 1745 in the preswere made as comfortable as posence of 300 Irish visitors, the local sible, and the work of recovering the and the clergy. The monubodies of their unfortunate comment presented to the town by varjvas panions begun. ious societies. Frank Sullivan of San Francisco, in replying to the toast, AGREEMENT AT DENVER. The Gael, asked that Ireland be patient and await the inevitThe Railroads Make Concessions ard able war between America and Japan J Also Certain Demands. for control of the Pacific. He declared re that Irishmen should not enter the Salt Lake City. An unoffiahil port from Denver is to the effl'Jt that British army or navy. the joint conference of the representaAN OUTBREAK IN ARGENTINE. tives of the leading twelve lestern o! railroads and the repiesont.vt.es CiHiefof PdIic. Was leader of Shirt-Live- d their employees have comeC to an Insurrection.' agreement between the roai. and A local revolution Buenos Ayres. their yardmen. j broke out in the city of San Luis, capiThe agreement concedes the p a town advance in the wages uf the tal of the province of San Luis, of 11,000 inhabitants situated about the railroad yardmen, providing 140 miles southeast of Buenos Ayres. unions agree to certain conditions, reThe chief of police was the leader of of tie and overtime the right garding the insurrection and the government roads to employ and discharge men and other provincial authorities were for what they consider to be good made prisoners. The insurrectionists cause, irrespective of the opinion d immediately chose a new governor, union officials. The railroad represen named Adaro, and installed him in oftatives also demaud that the com.es fice. News from San Luis received sions shall not be used as a club Sunday, reports that' complete quiet the members of the telegraphers', con has been restored and further disturbances are not anticipated. doctors and engineers' unions. Grand Master P. II. Morrissey, whf Mines Close Down on Account of Ma fill1 has virtually been delegated power by the yardmen, is quoted a1 chinists' Strike. saying that, in his judgment, an ami Butte. The big Gagnon, Never-swea- t cable settlement would be arrived ni and West Stewart mines and before the week was out. crosscut have been the Daly-Davi- s forced to close down by the machinRESTRICTING JAP IMMIGRATION ists strike. Business men are be Hereafter Only 500 May Enter Canad; coming alarmed at the possibilities of the strike on the part of the maDuring a Year. chinists. It is feared that other mines C. Hereafter nc may follow the example of the propVancouver, B. more than 500 Japanese a year will b erties mentioned and shut down as permitted to land in Canada. This m fast as the machinery becomes unfitted for use. Both the unions and the the announcement that comes fron Ottawa. For some time past the mining companies show no sign of weakening. Canadian and Japanese governments have been negotiating legarding tin Another Junket to the Isthmus of restriction of emigration from Japan Panama Proposed by Tawney. Canada asked that Japan agree to su on An examination Washington. pervise the departure of her subjects for Canada, and permit only a limited the ground of the estimates for the number to embark for that country appropriations for continuing work on the Panama canal, submitted by SecJapan has now agreed and fixed th maximum number of emigrants at 50f retary Taft for the fiscal year of 1909. is to be made by members of the next annually rather less than have aimed on one ship in the past. congress, who will have charge of the Furthermore, in the 500' are to be preparation of the sundry civil bill, m which the appropriation for the canal counted all who come by way of th is incorporated. Hawaiian islands. of one-ma- n e d cents-an-hour Deaths From Plague in San Francisco. b Washington. Advices received the surgeon general of the public health and marine hospital servlet show that from August 12 up to August 29, there have been nine eases of plague at San Francisco and six deaths. Two of the cases were sail ms from coasting vessels. The othei cases have occurred In the county and navy hospital and In other parts of the city. Instructions have been sent to all quarantine officers on the Pacific coast to carefully Inspect vessels from San Francisco and at the larger stations to fumigate. NATIVES COST LESS. Will Hire Filipinos to Keep Islands in Shape. Inquiry at, the war deWashington. partment on a report from Japan that the authorities plan to Increase the. troops ,in the Philippines by adding thirteen regiments of natives, shows the story originated In a recommendation by General Mills, department of Clsayns, that the scout force be increased by fifty companies. The ire-- ' ommendation is due to the desire to reduce expenses, natives costing less than American soldiers. So Government Indian Languages Oklahomans to Reject Show No Change Taft Advise I. Constitution. T. Tlie Indian has Muskogee, made no progress In the udaptnbilpv Oklahoma Pity. Secretary Tart, in of bis language. An interpreter In any a speech Saturday night in convention of the five civilized tribes will use hall to 1,000 people, advised tho twice or three times as many words of Oklahoma and Indian Terrltoty in repeating his own language what 'to reject the constitution recently he will In say This Pngi'sh. at Guthrie, lias become very apparent n Indian adopted by the convention next congress would the and declared teiiltory in the last six months when pass a new enabling act. Taft emphaIt lias heroine necessary oil account he was not repreof polities a. id arhms oilier events tc. sized the fart that that the President Roosevelt; senting try to dlssi mlnnto Information to tin views exm-css- i il are ills own, and In no full bloods who cannot iinilei stand sense f,plreil by tha president. anv language except their own. dtl-tsen- a Congress Will fee Asked to Authorize the Construction of Four IS FORMED STANDARD 551, 10 OIL Massachusetts Congressman Says We Must Make up Our Minds That it is Necessary to Maintain a Large Fleet in the Pacific. New York. An American Company Being Organized to Develop Millions of Acres of Oil Lands in Mexico. cording to an announcement published Monday, which plans to develop several million acres of oil lands in Mexico. The purpose is to ship the pro duct to Central and South America, also to Europe and Africa, to compete with the Standard Oii company. The syndicate will take over the Mexican Petroleum company, which was organized in California in 1902 .and owns approximately a million acres of oil lands in the states of Vera Cruz, San Luis Potosi. More than a hundred gushers are reported on this property, with the oil of the same grade as that of the southeastern Texas fields. sti-tion- anti-beilur- - has-bee- a NO. 1)5. P1IC CO, Roberts, Congressman who. w ith other natal committee, investigated the needs of the Brooklyn navy yards, makes the statement that the trip of the battleships via Magellan is for tactical reasons alone. We all believe the Suez route tao easier and cheaper, said Roberts, but going by the hard route will determine HERMIT OF OSCEOLA DYING. some of our needs in the Pacific, parin of matter the coaling ticularly Pioneer of Nevada Supposed to be Son I have not the slightest doubt of John C. Breckenridge. that a million dollars will be used un tactiin the Pacific route, but if naval Ely. Nev. Patiently waiting for the cians wish to determine certain things final summons, John Breckenridge, an now is the time. octogenarian, is lying at the county Representatives Foss, chairman of hospital, steadily refusing to disclose the naval committee, said the commit- his history. Although one of the piotee would probably ask congress to neers of White Pine county, little is authorize the construction of four known of him, but it is believed he ts more battleships. He said: a son of John C. Breckenridge, the faWe may as well make up our mous u Kentucky statesman of the minds now that it is necessary to days. maintain a large fleet iu tpte Pacific. Breckenridge came here forty years Our interests on that coast are too ago, and since that time has been a regreat to do otherwise. cluse, living most of his life in a BATTLESHIPS FOR THE PACIFIC. squalid cabin near Osceola. Of fine stature and magnetic charcter he has Admiral Evans is Busy With Details avoided contact with his neighbors, and of the Trip. until a year ago boasted but one Washington. Details for tne govern- friend. That friend was John Winner, ment of the great battleship fleet a saloonkeeper, after wl.ose death tho around the South American continent i ol d man tolerated no visitors. He has are being systematically developed never received mail nor sent any, and aboard Admiral Evans flagship, the never permitted any one to question him as to the past. Connecticut, and at the navy department, where, by thp presidents order, VTAKES SLAP AT UNCLE SAM. w tvjtht;ri?.jdr the various burerns rro V .. frA to execute plans for the fleets ' moveVenezuelan Intimates That Paper ments. It is settled that the battleUnited States Protects Adventurers. ships, or at least a number of them, will go to Puget sound. Toe number Caracas, Venezuela. El Constituwill be determined by the capacity tional, the government organ, comof the sound to accommodate them. on the $3,000,000 fine assesmenting The battleships carry only 120 fathoms sed against the New York and Bermu-des- e of anchor chain and most of the water Asphalt company, for complicity there Is more than sixty fathoms deep, so as safe practice requires that the in the Matos rebellion, after stating chains be not less than three times the that the evidence against the comdepth of the water only a few ves- pany was taken mostly from the recsels can be accommodated near Brem- ords of cases tried in the United erton at once. States, says editorially: It now .remains to be seen If tho KING OF PACKERS DEAD. will state department (American) convert itself into the protector, again Game to United States a Poor Boy and defender and tutor of adventurers who Became Captain of Industry. have confessed their guilt and who are Chicago Nelson Morris, head of the legitimately chastised by the legislahis tures of all civilized nations, including concern bearing big packing name, died here Tuesday of heart dis- the United States, in which counof kidnpy try there abound sentences perfectly ease and a complication :rouble. He came to Chicago from analagous to that now pronounced Germany when a boy of twelve years against the guilty company by tho md did not rest until he found employ- Venezuelan court. ment. He got it in the stock yards WORK OF INVADING TURKS. at $3 a month. He burned the carcasses of dead horses, cows, and hogs thrown aside and sold the grease. His Persian Women and Children Slaughtered and Property Destroyed. wages for the year amounted to $50, and at the end of the first twelve General Dowlch and other Teheran. months young Morris had $35, which to reports received he had saved. He was one of the most officials, according been and afterhave here, captured in loved of all rich men America, for his heart was always tender and he ward were killed by invading Turks. was ever ready to help a person in Many inoffensive Persian villagers, inneed. Nelson Morris has started cluding women and children, were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young slaughtered, women carried off and men in business, and helped them property destroyed. Turkish regulars make success. with artillery were within four miles of Urumiah on the fifteenth, and conHITCHCOCK'S ORDER REVERSED. tinue to occupy Persian territory. Turks are reported to have occupied Punish Administration Determined to Merivan, Persian Kurdestan. The inthe Guifty, But Not Innocent habitants telegraphed that if the govWashington. The interior depart- ernment was powerless, the people ment is revolving the orders of Secre- must beg Russia to assist them. tary Hitchcock, suspending thousands Burned to Death In Hotel Fire. of public land entries in the west and as soon as possible all entries Boise, Idaho. R. N. Jenkins of where proof is complete and against Rockville, Idaho, was burned to death, which no charges are pending will four persons were injured and one is be passed to patent. Hundreds of as the result of a fire which missing acres were tied thousands of up by tho Commercial hotel at Secretary Hitchcocks orders of sus- destroyed Caldwell early Monday mornIng.( Tits pension and there is not a single vord of evidence in the files of the depart- overturning of a lamp Is thought to ment to justify his action In a great be the cause of the fire, which for a majority of the rases. The present time threatened to wipe out the entire administration is as determined as business portion of the town.- - Volunland thieves, teer firemen, after hours of work, got Hitchcock to punish but does not propose to punish the the flames under control. Besides the innocent along with the guilty. Commercial hotel, several other buildings were burned. The loss is $10,009. VILLAREAL. OF CASE Fell Over 300 Foot Precipice. Mexico Must Make Request Through Ran Diego, Cal. Word lias been re Department of State. ceived of the sudden and tragic death Washington. Villareal, the alleged of Miss Eugenia Goold, formerly of Mexican revolutionist, is being held at tills city. Site was with a camping Ims Angeles awaiting Hie action o( party near Howard, Colo., and while He the Immigration authorities. climbing the side of a canyon the in the United States more than earth gave way and she fell over 3no three years and cannot lie returned feet, her body bounding from cliff to to Mexico except for some special cliff, until it lodged behind a houhU r son. Villareal will probably lie din far below, The body was recover-the unless from Jlcu custody charged "Hh difficulty. Miss Goold white In can government requests through tin fliis city was an active member of the state department that lie lie sent ti Baptist church, and was highly es. Mexico. tt'cmml. of Massachusetts, members of the 1007. WILD Now York. Arrangements have "aeen completed for the organization of a $30,000,(100 American syndicate, ac- Mere Fijhting Machines- -' o Will Effect a Thorough Reform In t'n Land System and Establish New System of Judiciary and Police. Powder Explosion Across the Bay Causes People to Believe Town Was Visited by Earthquake. Tokio The details of Marquis Ito's plans regat ding the conduct of Korou under Japanese control are unknown, but the fundamental points are beThousands of People Become Panic lieved to consist in effecting a reform in the land system which Stricken and Stampede, a Numis now in a chaotic condition, and also ber Being Tramped Upon and the establishment of a new system of Injured by the Frightened judiciary and police on the Japanese Crowd. plan. Tlie.se measures will naturally be considerable of a drain on the Japanese treasmv. It is thought that Ran Francisco. An explosion which Marquis Ito plans to ask an extra anoccurred Saturday morning in tho Du- nual outlay of a little over l.Ono.oim pont powder works at Sobranto on tha yen for a period of five years. Those bay shore north of Berkeley, caused well informed are confident that with a panic and the injury of a number a refonn effected iu the land system of people in this city. When the ex- Korea's revenues will increase remarkplosion was heard by the thousand em- ably without in the least inconveniencployes of the California Fruit Cannery ing the piesent taxpayers in the next association, who were at work in tho five years. With Korea's financial independent o big establishment of the company at the foot of Van Ness avenue, they assured, it is more than likely that loans will lie floated with Japan's guarthought it was caused by an earthantee. Marquis ito by his usual tact to a and rush made mad escape quake now apparently won over the powto the streets. During the stampedo has to his side and conseerful a number of persons were thrown quentlypoliticians no opposition will be laised at down and tramoled upon. So far as Fridays council meeting. It is also is known no one was killed, but many expected that his plans will pass the were badly hurt. Several ambulances uext diet without much opposition. were at once sent to the scene and WILL APPEAL TO POWERS. all the aid possible was extended to the injured. The main crush occurred in the Persia Will Ask England and Russia to Stop Turkish Atrocities. main hallway of the building into which nearly all of the 500 women emtho Constantinople. Replying to ployes rushed. Those below somehow Persian complaints regarding the last slammed the heavy doors leading to violations of the frontiers by Turks, the street and the hundreds of women the porto blames the Kurds, but it is who threw themselves headlong down certain that Tnikish troops support.-the stairs were crushed again the the Kurds, who, as always, committed barred and bolted exit. Not until great atrocities. Lieutenant Wright arrived with a Persia will again apply to England squadron of patrolmen were the doors and Russia to intervene and put an end opened and the women allowed to to this dangerous situation. reach the street. News from the Persian frontier is contradh tory, but there ts no doubt SHRINKAGE IN VALUES. that the incident ill the Suj BulaU disThe Bankers Magazine Will Print a trict was of a serious character. The Turkish ollUial version stat.-Startling Story. Inal The $ ain't t ci.iiii,iaiiuuin a uetaeli London. The next issue of the ment ofilim men which has been sl.i Bankers Magazine will print a table tinned for tour months at telling the tale of millions evaporated a disputed frontier town, received inon the stock exchange by the depre- telligence that the Persian commander, ciation of securities of ail grades and Medjiss Saltana, with regular troops, of all varieties, which the editor lik- l.ooo Persian auxiliaries, and 400 Arens to a survey of a district afflicted menian revoim binaries was preparing to deliver an atlaek. He consequently by the devastating calamity." for and two applied Fof August the decline in 3S7 rep- batallions of reinforcements, Infantry and one hatteiy resentative stocks reached the' stag- of artillery were sent from Van. The This Persians subsequently made an atta k, 080,000, 000. gering total of makes an aggregate of $1,725,000,000 but were repulsed with heavy losses, since the beginning of the year, of particularly among the Armenians, which $355,000,000 is in American rail- many of whom were captured. road shares, $240,000,000 in British Resolution Presented at Meeting of funds and $180,000,000 in English railis Tabled, Association Bar stocks. Judged way and ordinary Portland. A resolution purely from a percentage basis, criticising the most serious losses have President Roosevelt for commenting been in the South African market, upon the trial of the beef trust case in averaging 25 per cent. Chicago a year ago and adveiseijr As regards the month itself, the tathe presiding judge and his ble indicates that American railroad criticising securities are far in the front, with a rulingsof was introduced at the final session the American Bar association Yhi!ock of Baltimore, it by George AND LIGHTNING THUNDERSTORMS met instant disapproval from all inns of the hall. President Paiker repeatEight Hundred People a Year Killed edly asked Whitlock to withdraw his in United States, resolution, lmt Whitlock insisted tint Washington. An average of 800 peo- It lie voted on. A motion to table tho ple are killed in the United States each resolution prevailed. year by lightning, according to data Our Trade With collected by the weather bueau. This Washington According to official means that about one in each 100,000 Undo of the United States of population is killed in that manner. figures, theI.atiu-Aincican countries in The belt of most numerous visita- with (lie tions includes all of Florida, except the tlie fiscal yiar just ended aggregated southermost tip, the lower edges of mere than $i;nu,iiiiii.niin, against in 1897. In I.a'i'i-Amenin Georgia and the southeastern corner of Alabama. In that belt an average of countries are im luffed British Honduforty-fiv- e thunderstorms a year is ex- ras. British and Dutch Guiana, an tlie West Indian islands under British, perienced. The zone of next greatest frequency Dutch and Danish control. The impoiis Includes the more northern parts of from tlie same countries in 19U7 Georgia and Alabama, and its annual amounted to $':5o,0ut),iioo. against in 1K97, having tints a litrio average Is forty storms. more than doubled during the decaff. Refuse to be Held up and Are Shot by Runyan Puts Blame on Lady Friend. Highwaymen. B. Runyan, New York Billings, Mont. Four men were stole neailv former vim teller, pnylng one maimed for and one shot, fatally at Hunt-ley- , $100,000 irom the Wind or T r nst. life in an attempted hold-utold tlie court on Wediie.-da-y inn on the .government townsite o.i of his downfall, and attributed story the recently opened Huntley project. &ix Finlanders and one American it chiefly to Lain a Chester, who lie box car charged with receiving some of tho a in were sleeping stolen money. Having taken some awakened when by an order to money tor tlie purpose of speculation hold up their hands. The Fins re- and i.ist. lie said she urged him to fused. The robbers opened fire. Three more so as to have enough for take wounded. were Fins and one robber yntitsifff." Runyan said he gave her comTha latter was captured but his $10, Oil!) besides Severn smaller sunn. panion escaped. Of the amount stolen $25,01)0 Is si'll South Dakota Blue Law Which Would missing. thoi-oug- h 1 s howr-ever- , . ! $2:!i,-(inu.iiii- c 1 $155,-(too.on- -- Prevent Flirting. Highmore, S. I). The common council has passed an ordinance prohibiting male and female persons from loitering on the steps of any church, pub'io building or doorway of any store for tho purpose of visiting, eating candy or peanuts, or loitering in t ho stres, alleys or vacant lots, or any other obscure places for the purpose of flirting in tho evening, it will he unlaw-f- u for parents or guardians or other persons having minors under their charge to violate this ordinance. State Mexico and United otn-pan- in Accord. Washington.- Ad ing So let ary of Stale Adee anno, m 'e- - that Piesi Roosevelt and Diaz are now iu entl'v nccord ecu, tuning the teture of Central Ann ih a und the settlement ol tie disputes between the live republic' This Is taken to mean that tin lull d Slates and Mc'i-,ave I'onmihiie a joint note to tie Cntnri Ata'innn Invitn; them to boll n conference vvlrii a view ti agneing unon a trinity iiisurm p. t 'on ui p, ace 'u - : in pi i" situi is il it nl live , vn, t mill tless o l liter s u ti ,i ,l e on' I 1 |