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Show the c::ly keivcpaper phuted k: caoee cduety W , TAir:c i LL - r f f h ' r J y TIIE JOURNAL . HAS MORE SUBSCRIBERS IN NORTHERN UTAH AND SOUTHERN' IDAHO THAN ALL OTHER . PAPERS . COMBINED v LOGAN CITY, UTAH, JANUARY TUESDAY, Take The Make-Final-A- nd . tiers." holds. A H thinks that, notwithstanding "their undying opposition to the practice of polygamy, the senators will take the view that Mr. Smoot has a perfect constitutional right to his seat, and that they will vote to keep the Provo statesman at .Washington. Hon. Joseph Howell is by no He is means unsophisticated. "something of a diplomat as well as a legislator, J.,.. While he courteously answers all the questions that are fired at him about the Senatorial situation this same line cf inquiry would have developed the- - fact; that as the result of over thirty yeaTs uninterrupted promulgation of and religious belief in the practice of polygamy, in the territory of Utah, certain conditions existed in this state with respect to " polygamous relations.-That all fair minded men in the state and in the nation, were bound to recognize, and most iust men, who are uncompromising in their insistence that polygamy must not become an institution .in this country, have upon its abandonment by the Mormon church and upon the emphatic and unequivocal declarations of the lead ers of the church, that the rules of the church prohibit the practice and that these rules so far as new plural marriages are concerned, it is their . determination to enforce, have become convinced that Tim will work tfubevohition desire without any further cruel and severe measures Inward exist" ing conditions. , Dubois a Jack Mormon. Latterly, during the investiga- tion, many. witnesses without or standing in the have given testimony np-o- n general repute and'u hearsay. So. unimportant was most of ibis t Fathr Tim: Biflgstt and belt He Refused to Resign Lorenzo Benson, the political pooh-ba- h of the Fourth ward, is no longer janitor of the Woodruff school. lie was unceremoniously fired by the outgoing boardIffof education at a special - meeting held on Saturday evening.- - . ' Benson .was in the i building when the hoard anet,and hq was , enact-edrThe- re e -- f 1 - i' - ' t 7- - .If:: r I I- i t. T: E r t on - e I G t k .. ML' A so Was Sum-- 7" . - tf ( - r: - dated Dob. Chefoo, Jan. 2, 8 a. m. When the fog which prevailed here this morning had slightly' lifted it was son that two Rusian torpedo boat dostroyers were ;n th haibor. tf m ;rter olf7ri-toial of four Russian showed i.iul re turpedo boat dostroyi-Ulaunch' in the harbor. A burnlo-of- ' dispatches was sent ashore by the Russians. Tokio, Jan. 1, (7:30 a. m.) The war department confirms the reported assault on and capture of Sungshu mountain yesterday by the forces besieging Port Arthur. The 'attacks began after' the capture .otRihlung mountain. At first the attack failed to sueceod on account of tharprotection' which the Russians enjoyed, apd the desperate' character of their de fense; Yesterday at 10 a. ro. the Japanese exploded a series of mines and immediately assault! the works; which" the-y- entirely occupied by 11 oclock. The Rusl sians exploded a series of miuos aa they retired. A portion of the southward. garrison retreated Another portion held, the "gorge where they were buried by the debris thrown up by the explosion of their own mines. ' .Tokio, Jan.' 1. (11 a. m.) A telegram from the besieging army at Port Arthur "received .today, ' ' says: Through 'an opening at the in entrance into the bomb-proo- f the gorge at Sungshu mountain all the- - entombed ' Russians were The rescued brought. gradually number two officers and over ICO men. According to the prisoners about 150 corpses ar buried un-d- . sent for and asked to resign. He yep quietly but very emphatically yefused to do so, and the brought up. Apperley was the only member; of the board who voted for Bensons retention, and he was therefore declared out. ! .JLSpiith Bens6fi''a successor. . pears no good reason for granting any further delay. -- CongressmanIIowell is ofTtfie opinion that for 'the" present- at least, that title to land in the Uintah reserve shonld only be acquired by homestead and townsite entry. Bills will be' introduced with this object ia view and also to establish another land district with a land lO.fficeT'convenient to settlers who propose to occupy these lands. , Some provision for the orderly selection and priority of right, Congressman Howell thought, should be made, in order to avoid disorder and contention in the rush forJand." Mrr Howell, after "spending week with his family in this city, left yesterday for Washington. . - CHARLES H. J HART - -- , er tbe debriscaused"ty'the sena-torWu- ld - LL ; - - Arthur. t con-fidence- of t World. A . ' Vorl manly Bounced. y, rs Nw j J com-rminit- ?. BENSON WAS1 FIRED time, any important general legislation, other than the necessary Appropriation bills, .will be on the subject without going very ia no doubt; there 'will deep in to the merits oLthe case. be a general discussion .of a numBefore leaving for Washington ber of important measures but it yesterday, Mr. Howell said he eon-- , will require a longer-timto bring fidently believed thaj Mr. Smoot them to a vote. M would retain his seat There seems to - be-twave of titimony,'that8eldommorethan They All Like Smoot rigid economy passing over CongHe has been well received in one. or. two members of the. com- ress "and "all bills appropriating mittee were present during the Washington," continued the conwill be closely Scrutinizmoney, proceedings. Senator Dubois, of gressman; "has gained the ed. . , Idaho, however, is entitled '.to " his colleagues andhas TL . Settlers' Only. ' For wear the belt for' attendance on proven himself 1 in every way seems Thereto be a desire in the committee meetings. "The colworthy of ' membership in that some to quarters, delay the openloquy between this senator and august body. Uintah of the reservation, but ing There are many eminent law-ye- President Budge, -- of Bear Lake inasmuch as the surveys will soon in the house of Representa- Stakewas quite animated, and be and completcd approved of, tives who' voted against the sea- the dignified but keen thursts of which was the cause of the post' the latter often brought the crim ting. of Mr. - B. n. Roberts, or son to the senators to next March, there ap cheeks. Presi- ponement would hate done so had they been members at the time- - that case dent Bridge reminded him of his old time friendliness and of bis came up; who assert that the PRAISE FOR JUDGE of Mr. Roberts was a de- - leaning towards the church in former days when the Idaho parture from strict legal lines and Jndge C. II. Hart, who retired haverbeen-eonsidered a the'aclion"' deprivcdthe'gentle from the office of District Judge man of his constitutional rights. Jack Mormon. yesterday, after nine years of efBegan at Home.. These members - took - the - course i ficient service, performed much of be results the "Whatever may did in obedience to they popular his duty in Boxelder county, and sentiment. In the Smoot ease, m our body politic, of the discus- how .well he did do is attested by however, the members of the Sen- sion and dissension, it is well for the following resolution, which is ate are nht likely to give ' them- us to "remember that our promi- self explanatory in addition to selves so muehlatitrideT TheT Seiff nence and notoriety - bef ort the to. ' 7 ate, as a high court, vested with country at large, is wholly due 7 ' judicial officer. in own our r the right to try and determine all fforts, originating 77 Resolution.' .TT 8tate u gratifying toknow The Honorable Charles' li. impeachments of any Federal' offi- - j Hart, at the public men who are cers, must be governed by law and nine last for past, 'having years with-thlegislative, juthe constitution ; and Certainly in charged District as the 'presided of, Jndge dicial and executive affairs in determining the rights of one of Court of the First Judicial Dismust act with ths country, are broad mnddil, its own members, a trict, of the State of Utah, und he that high sense of justice and calm liberal and just; uncompromising being about to relinquish the ofconsideration of the rights of the in what they view to be evil ; but fice to his successor, Honorable defendent and .of the. law,, that magnanimous and charitable in W. W. Maughan, and this being should characterize the body in desiring .the peace, progress and the last session of court that will prosperity of every section of the be 'impeachment trials. 7 held in Box Elder county dnr7 The evidence, so far," conti- country, in education, in morality - - ing the present incumbency by has and in advancement nued Congressman Howell, our friend and brother, Judge Will Pass No Bills. been largely discursive, covering ' Hart, now therefore, a very wide range. It is often diffother public afIn speaking We, the'Tnembers of the, bar in icult to discern its bearing on the fairs in the national legislature. Box Elder county, do extend to right of Mr. Smoot to sit in the Congressman Howell said : , Judge Ilart our best wishes for senate of the United States. But two months of the present hia success in the future and say No Church Dictation. session of .congress remalq. It is to him that we are mindful of the The attempt to show any ec- - hardly probable that in tbii short many courtesies he has shown U3 -- - - SINGSHU. MOUNTAIN TAKEN; tain,. which" gives them posMiou of the entire line between IEhlung Successful mounUinand - II L fort,' by- - way Japs " Assault After Exploding Series of Panlung mountain. Simultanextreme Japanese right, Of" Mines Death Surrounds eously thesout h alon gPi geon !) ay pressin g CzarY Forces; captured the .heights south of Housanyentao. Tokio, Jan. 2.1 General Nogi Relief Only in Death, reports that he has ' received a Chefoo, Jan. 1, 9 p. in. (' j s letter from General Stoessel reof the Port Arthur Nov..1 r (1 t lating o t he sur re u r of Port the. part of the First Presidency Mr. Howell Does Not Believe the of the Mormon church of of the failOpening of the Uintah Reserva- Twelve. Apostles, has utterly tion Will be Longer Delayed. ed. At any time since the Wants the Land for Actual Set-- Utahs Congressman thinks that the protestants have failed entire' ly in their' efforts to prove the truth of their charges of - Mrr Smoots unfitness for the office he - Successes. clesiostical dictation in politics on Garrison Beleaguered Before Japanese Fading The Roberts Case. lion. Joseph Howell, representative for Utah in the lower house of Congress, believes that Apostle Reed Smootr the junior - senator from this state, will he allowed to . retain his seat in the American ' House of Lords. PORI ART Last, Hopes of Latitude Lower House Employed in JACK MORMON. 1 NO. AT m 1: IN BEGINNING OF END Thinks The Senate Will Not Jt , 1905. 3, SMOOTS SEAT SAFE s M.'Mi NORTHERN t All ' AND iV - SOUTHERN. IDAHO HOWELL: BELIEVES w the best ' VOL. XXVI. DUBOIS A V ADVERTISING 1 - ' and will ever respect him for the manner in which he maintained his high office, and we and all - good citizens may well congratulate ourselves in having so eminent a jurist to serve ns, for no more honorable,-just- , or up right man could have occupied the non-partis- an exalted -- position--of ies ex-)l- AtC oclock Saturday i ' the navy, since Aug.-Uh- .h battl-'L.order lauding the vastopol and Captain Il..cn for five nights withstood numerouir attacks of torp lo : tillas till at last the death ratt. sounded the cra i through in wounds the' Sevastopol's L ' and Russias Asiatic fleet w,. more. Nothing, says the Novacould exceed the nnflineirg votion of. the men who in f arid calmly went forth into l' if rofultfed in the f.ir-arid ultimate destruction. 'l-- ' position Is Iloptlccs . 1 e For the first time since the began-the-Novakr- ri- w!'7- - ai, bas been seemingly to ir. - de-ens- e Charles IT. Hart. We request that this resolution Tokio, Jan, 1. (2:30 p. ra.) be by the Clerk filed and spread t is reported that the Japanese are following up their successes upon the records of the court. as an aftermath of the capture of V J. D. CALL, ' J. S. PERRY, lihlung arid Sungshu mountains. NELS JENSON, They' have captured the obsorva-io- n B. II. JONES, ridge behind Sungshu mounCommittee. tain, slight resistance being shown December 23rd. 1904. )y the Russians. It is reported 4 that the losses of the assaulting Benson Stake Priesthood. uirty on the attack on Sungshu The priesthood of the Benson mountain were small. Every InStake of .Zion will convene in its dication points to a materialwcak-enin- g of the defensive power of regular monthly session. in Lewiston on Saturday, January 7, she garrison at Port Arthur. 1905, at 11 a., m. Tokio, Jan. 1. Following the W. II, LEWIS, dramatic capture of Bang.hu ALMA MERRILL, mountain Saturday morning, the B. A. HENDRICKS, apance charged a recently eon- Stake Presidency. nstructed fort on Panluag moan-le- r - . e 1 v the garrison, betrays signs cf p thetic hopelessness of even tl -most heroic resistance. Discusring the battle cf 2j Meter hill the Novakrai says: Thu hill received on Sis Irra t h the hammering of 800 pcr.n J split even the ro'l went through eighteen ii h rt as through paper. Who but providence eju s .ve which 1 1 us from these tbundorh-lN' We do not, expect the Ed: ' fieet. Wc do not expect relief, but we can fight till death. .What PortArthur goes through it is impossible to dribe, lut Russia will know what her eons ' . have suffered. ! . Cannot Ee Enprearad. past "humanTgenra ter a The fighting at to the Novakrai lrf 1 sixteen days, .until Dec. (i, vhmi death which had had no ret ? sixteen days, ceased her wo : The only other mention f E Russian fleet ia an expr the feeling cf l.' lj les: inevit every or, 3 saw uL'J to H ship after ship R(7f' rher huge J. r ir 203-Met- er morn-n- g . h--: oi machine" guns not yet enumerated. t 1 on s of our m ines. The troph- paint or describe Port Arthur taken include field and sufferings as they really are. our sapping body in front of the east fort on Panlung mountain Jew Up a part of the old Chinese wall and are now constructing Lilian Judge ..... .works there.!.. - . arid Dee. 7. w have reached here, eontaui p.xtLfe roforeuees to tht l.i.st m of last the Russia's .ship Even (Jeimral who ban been silent in resp. t 724 Id!.-accordin- - Robert Presfoa,cr F L I 7 has to pay 2,00 3 ft B.t lb 0, a upon Percy Boyd v six years oM. The vtied out of cwjt ly l; ,0, The plaintiff, by Lis r,.t-Percy T. Badlcr, v.-- f dug f ihO.OCO damn s. The said that the d f- ndant d " 28, 1903, rhasf d, caag! t L n and will o. t any cm ' ir j ' cation, he shook kin si I nr 1 V I the victims whole n v, - -- . n 1 Ilia r 1 j re i- pletJy recour tl 1 ' u Ii- -: an 1 ? c r i he r ; |