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Show Utah County Democrat PROVO UTAH NEWS has passed the house estaba lishing United States assay office at Salt Lake City. Lee Hong, a Chinese truck gardener of Ogden, was struck by a street car last week and seriously injured. The state convention of the Socialist party was held in Salt Lake City on last Saturday, when candidates for state offices were nominated. The Newcastle Reclamation company last week filed articles of incorA bill The company will reclaim by irrigation lands in Iron county. Nephi Ilowthorp, of Holliday, was found unconscious in the suburbs of Salt Lake one day last week, and died the next day, death being due to apoplexy. Frank Campbell, who hired a horse and buggy from an Ogden liveryman, and was later found in the act of selling the outfit, will face a charge of horse stealing. George Tremayne, a mechanic, was found dead in his bed in Salt Lake City, death being due to alcoholism of the heart, Tremayne having been a heavy drinker. A fight for fewer saloons and better regulation of those that continue in business is on in Davis county, the movement having its inin Kaysville. ception Alonzo Watson, a Salt Lake boy, while riding his bicycle alongside a afreet car, holding to the car, slipped thrown nnd fell, his hand being across the rail and cut off. The state boaid of land commissioners has completed its purchase of land on which to locate the proposed at a Piute reservoir, near Marysval cost of between $30,000 and $35,000. Four cases of smallpox have developed in Ogden within the pa'st two weeks, but it is believed a rigid enforcement of the quarantine law will prevent a further spread of the disease. The state organizer of the National Humane society is endeavoring to enlist the efforts of the school children throughout the state in a warfare against the mistreatment of dumb animals. It is estimated that there will be 5,000 uniformed men and 100 floats in line in the parade to be held irt Salt Lake City during the convention of the Commercial Travelers, June 18, 19 and 20. Leonard Boutwell, who says he is a son of the late Governor Boutwell of Massachusetts, has been arrested in Salt Lake for attempting to get money on a check issued on a bank in which he has no funds. The senate passed the bill granting a perpetual leasement and right of way across the Fort Douglas military reservation to the city of Salt Lake for the purpose of laying conduit and water pipe lines. The fruit growers of Weber county have organized an association which will take care of the fruit shipments from that county, and in future it is expected that fruit will be shipped in train loads instead of carload lots. Salt Frank Gilbert, a Lake boy, was accidentally shot nnd dangerously injured by a playmate who pointed a target gun at him, thinking it was not loaded. The bullet struck the Gilbert boy in the neck. Not only in Utah, but in southern Idaho and western Wyoming the wool growers are joining in the movement started in Salt Lake for the storing-o- f the years clip until the present low prices are broken and better prices offered. Benjamin Hopkins of llencfer, employed as foreman of a repair gang at the Devils Slide plant of the Union Portland Cement company, near Ogden, was instantly killed by falling fiorn an elevator a distanceof fifty feet to the ground. One immediate result of the meeting of the good roads advocates in Salt Lake was the appropriation last week by the Salt Lake city council of a sum of money to assist in the improvement of the road leading out of that city to Ogden. The fifteenth annual convention of the Commercial Travelers will be held In Salt Lake City June 18, 19 and 20. Rates have been granted by all the lailroads. and it is expected the greatest crowd of tffie year will be in Salt Lake on those dates. L. U. Colbath, one of the most widely known mining men in the country, died at his home in Salt Lake cn Tuesday of last week. He came to Salt Lake in 1870, and had been connected wilh the Ontario Mining company since 1872. The movement recently taken by the Utah woolgrowers to store this years clip until the market becomes more satisfactory to them is said to be meeting with great success. The total amount booked for storage is said to be 900,000 pounds. A dead man was found on the tracks near Echo, his pockets being empty, nothing being found about his person that would serve to identify him. Two tramps say they saw the man riding on a baggage car a few hours before his body was found on the track. Trackmen and other laborers on the Utah division of the Union Pacific are being laid off daily in order to keep down expenses on the system until the beginning of the new railroad year, July 1, after which, it is announced, the men will be put back to work P vocptopof rmusMos mPDEmomDiMDERs, One of the Last Three Surviving Lieutenant-Generaof Confed- Qx K J. rove City, Utah. Deck, 1 uff jry Y ' " poration. - ' - .i,, v e A'h'ty;vYy.v r,J vira- "ii -- ii W K s.uf-x-' Vt ' o k'i , ri J uated 1 VT anti-saloo- a ,$! ?.'' . 1 f fX Rv j,- - t vi Watkins BercK . , - iJM 4 - SrEWct Naturally, the largest industry in Newfoundland Is the cod fishing, but decidedly the most picturesque is sealhunting, one of the most perilous of the worlds vocations. From 8,000 to 10,000 men are regularly employed in it, and many an exciting adventure do these men experience in their quest for the valuable skins of the seals. We enare reminded of the dangers countered by the fishermen when we read in a telegram from St. John's of five sealing steamers being badly one having sunk damaged by with the loss of 20,000 skins, valued at ice-floe- $00,000. succumbed as a result of their exposure to the cold, while the third Is now a cripple, being paralyzed in his right arm and side, and unable to do any manual work. A few years ago sealers from one vessel were frozen to death on an Indeed, the whole business is very risky and dangerous. Apart from the possibilities of the men being lost on the ice, the steamers are liable to be crushed in the ice or to go down in a gale. During one hunt the sealing steamer Huntsman was crushed by the ice off the coast of Labrador, and over 100 men perished. A few years ago two steamers, the Bloodhound and the Retriever, were also crushed in the ice, and sank, but their crews, numbering over 500 men, managed to reach Battle Harbor, on the Labrador coast, over the ice, after enduring Another steamer, great hardships. 4S ice-flo- The scene of the hunt is the icefields which drift southward in the spring of each year from the Arctic bleaker or more desoregions, and late region could scarcely be found. The Arctic current, sweeping southward along the coast3 of Labrador and Newfoundland, carries with it a variety of animal life, and is one of the fish great feeding grounds for deep-sesuch as cod and mackerel, which form the food of the seals. There are four species of seal in the waters around Newfoundland and Labrador the bay seal, the harp, the The bay hood, and the square-flippeseal does not migrate like the others, but frequents the mouths of rivers and the harbors near the coast. It is never found on the ice. Mostly taken in net, it Is commercially of small Importance. The harp seal the seal of commerce rr r is so called because it has a broad r v curved line of connected dark spots proceeding from each shoulder and meeting on the back above the tail, forming a figure something like an ancient harp. The hood Is much larger than the haip. The male, called by the hunters doghood, Is distinguished from the female by a singular hood or bag of flesh on his nose which he can Inflate and use as a is IdenThe square-flippe- r protection. tical with the Greenland seal, but is S. S. Greenland, Sealer, Nipped only occasionally met with cm the iceand Sunk. floes off the Labrador coast. ml c Nos. The gathering together of the two great herds of seals, the harps and the hoods, at the same spot and precisely at the same time every year, is one of the most interesting facts in natural history. Up to the middle of February the seals have been wandering all over the ocean, but just at this time they settle down on the a great plain usually or anchor-ice- , frozen in solid with the land and surrounding islands, for the purpose of breeding. With the gaff the hunter delivers a ehafp blow upon the nose of the seal, the most vulnerable point, and in the case of young seals this blow is instantly fatal. In a moment the man is is on his knees, his large jack-knifat work, and the skin with the adhering fat is detached rapidly from the carcass, which is left on the ice. The pelts, as the skin and adhering fat are called, are then bound up in bundles and dragged over the hummocky ice to the side of the steamer. The old seals are not so easily disposed of as this. The skull and the hide of the l are frequently so thick that he cannot be killed with the gaff used on the younger ones. He is therefore shot with a rifle. Each squad of carries at least one gun, intended for this purpose. The men do not cease their work until there are no more victims in sight, or night closes in. Sometimes they go several miles away from the vessel, and are obliged to remain on until morning. This is a the very perilous situation, for the reason that at times gales come up which break the fields into small pieces, or blizzards come on in which many a hunter has been frozen to death. Last season a party of five hunters missed their steamer and were only discovered two days later. Two of thsm ice-flo- e e dog-sea- seal-hunte- the Monticello, also sank in consequence of injuries received from the ice, but her crew were all saved. They were picked up in a most deplorable condition by another vessel. The men had subsisted for several days on raw As already stated, the ships return as soon as a sufficient number of pelts has been obtained. Sometimes a vessel is back In harbor again in a couple of weeks laden to the gunwale with as many as 30,000 or 40,000 pelts. The crew of a single vessel has been known to capture as many as 20,000 seals in seven or eight days. The crew of the Neptune secured. a season or two ago, 42,000 seals in 18 days, the pelts filling not only the hold, but being piled upon the decks as well. The watchers at the harbor know at once whether a vessel has been successful, for it is the custom to hang a broom aloft if the catch has been a particularly good one. Sometimes, however, a steamer is unlucky, and after buffeting about amongst the ice for seven or eight weeks, returns with only enough skins to pay bare expenses. The moment the cargo is landed the to work and separate the skinners skins from the fat. The former are salted and stored ready for export. By means of machinery the fat is cut up by revolving knives into minute pieces, then ground finer by a sort of gigantic sausage machine, afterward steamed to extract the oil then exposed for a time in' tanks to the action of the suns rays, and fluallv barreled lor exportation. The annual catch of seals ranges usually from 200,000 to 300,000, and the annual value of this industry to Newfoundland is over a million seal-mea- t. seal-steam- steam-drive- glass-covere- dollars. d ' H. J. SHEr STONE. Do It Now See The 1, 2 and 3 Electric Farrer Block Provo City, Ufah JACOB EVANS, Attorney-at-La- Practices Law in tbe State and 3, 4 Sod Co. mor bi knees, beefsti how t were my sb used 1 got nc the th less ferine time Then Culic me t safe and reliable method of lighting. Fed. and Office. 95 N. Academy Avenue Both Phones 372 K.inji 5 Knight blook, Provo City, Utah. General Lee played a prominent TELEPHONE NO. B1 V. part in the siege of Vicksburg, and lollowing the fall of that city was taken prisoner. He was later exchanged and promoted to the rank of KAIGHN TIIVRMAN major general, and ordered to the southwest. He was subsequently asATTORNEYS-AT-LAsigned to the army of the Tennessee with the rank of lieutenant general, D. F. WALKER BUILDING SALT LAKE CITY and served until the close of hostili ties. At the close of the war, General Lee devoted himself to the edu- A. L. BOOTH HARVEY CLUFF cation of southern youths as president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college. On the death & of General John B. Gordon, General ATTORNEYS-AT-LALee was unanimously chosen nder-in-chief of the United Confederate veterans, and was always the ROOMS S n4 S BUILDING. most conspicuous figure at the annual Provo, Utah not t went State Bank of Provo shoes Geor Cone W. II. Brereton, Pres., John Marwick, Cashier, Alva Nelson, Asst. Cashier, W Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Droits on nil Parts of the World. CLUFF BOOTH Ci clean, w. eral Courts. Offloes, rooms Limbs Fee And get them to figure on wiring your house for eleo-tri-c lights. It is the only ajt Opposite the P. O. on W comma- Avenue. Academy GATES-SN0- reunions. I EGLESTON WRIGHT TO SUCCEED TAFT. Resignation of Secretary Depends However, Upon His Nomination ha anc PROVO'S LEADING SHOEMAKER for President. 123 N. ACADEMY Tl thai jew mar pre AVENUE tuc 6d can m AL th dm Farmers and Merchants Bank anc bui lur I 1 PROVO, UTAH OFFICERS Man Ice hood g envied Dunne, ATTORNEY-AT-LA- KIDNAPED WOMAN. in thei fun'ral off General banking business tramaotsd Safe deposit boxes for rent. D. D. HOVTZ The fact that inforWashington. mation is refused by responsible persons regarding the accuracy of the statement that General published Luke E. Wright of Tennessee has been selected to succeed Secretary Taft upon the retirement of the latter from the war department, in the event that he is nominated at Chicago for the presidency, goes far toward confirming the belief that there may be, and probably is, foundation for the story. a he Hav man w got out JOS. T. FAR.R.EIL. Cwskier. PROVO. burg. BPORmroF,SEijsftNflVE MIES MAY to talk r, PBOFESSIONAL. when he was made a brigadier general and sent to Vicks- R J. Wm. Knight, Geo. Taylor, th' licl of Antietam, . Vlce-Priid- BL Roger Farrer, John R. Twelves. 335 So. Academy Avenue, Provo. 518 Dooly Block, Salt Take City. that institution, receiving his commission in the artillery. At the outbreak of the civ tl war General Lee resigned his commission in the United States army and entered the confedHe served the confederate eracy. army in Virginia until after the battle S timretf'LEmNG-TfEJrE-mE- 21 Architects. Vicksburg, Miss. General Stephen D. Lee, commander-in-chle- f of the United Confederate veterans, and one cf the last three surviving lieutenant-general- s of the confederacy, died here .Thursday at the residence of Captain Kv. T. Ridby. Overexertion at the Ceremonies attending upon the reunion of Iowa and Wisconsin veterans of the G. A. R. at Vicksburg brought about General Lees illness. General Lee was born in South Carolina ip 1833. He received his appointment to the United States mill tary academy at West Point and grad- : PrMidnv, C. B. Loos L. Holbrook, J TjL , 8oo fcwa Veterans. ,- Rookin' 1 g kid, tant rel, with us a go to exciting neighbo $100,000, DIRECTORS: John T. Taylor, Was a Graduate From West Point and Took a Prominent Part in the Civil War Was Commander-in-Chie- f of Confederate V I was it jovval c different - 9 Ca-pite- Groceries and Provision! 5,.. ice-cak- e thr niver se counthD Watobee and Jewelry) eracy Passes Away. ... li?i Wbin Co., Prult and produce. ls A' fnn'rals F. Decker v' 'PERILOUS C joyous adDirectory for those wishing tbe busineM tba of following of dress any men of Provo. C. UTAH STATE MR. d OUB BUSINESS GUIDE. Attempted Unique Revenge and is Shot Dead by a Relative, Ligonler, Ind. William Tatterson kidnaped a Mrs. Sargent Thursday afternoon and was shot dead by posse which went in pursuit. The fatal shot was fired by Patterson brother-in-laafter he himself had been wounded by the abductor. The Pattersons live at Lake Wawase and Mrs. Sargent also lives there, being warm friend of Mrs. Patterson, recently Patterson and his wife separ ated, and Patterson blamed Mrs. Sar .gent for causing the trouble. Got What He Was Looking For. N. D. A Ambrose, desperado known as Dutch rode his pony into a blind pig here and shot up the place, after which he ran his horse through the streets, at the same time firing into buildings and wounding J. A. Lipphardt, an editor, in the hand. He also attempted the life of L. S. Todd, an attorney. A dozen or more citizens armed themselves with guns. A pitched battle with the outlaw followed, between thirty and forty shots being fired. A ball entered the head of the desperado, who dropped dead. Childs Miriculous Escape. Chicago. Nine coaches of an express train on the Chicago & Northwestern railway, flying along forty-fivmiles an hour, passed over Julia Weigle, 2 years old, at Mayfair, without harming a hair of the babys head. The suction of the flying cars drew the child under the train. Engineer James Lewis, leaning from his locomotive cab, saw the baby jerked under. He stopped his engine and ran back. At the spot where he expected to find the mangled remains of the baby he found little. Miss Weigle sitting in a depression between the ties. c ti AND DIRECTORS. Thomas N. Taylor, President; HSmer J. Rich, Vice President; J. D. Dixon, Cashier; James A. Loveless, Robert Bee, John J. SiCraner, Andrew Knudsen, mon P. Eggertsen, Wm. R. Wallace. General Banking Business Transacted. Interest paid on time deposits. Safety deposit boxes for rent. Drafts issued on all parts of the world. 1, d IP YOU HAVE A GOOD aBUSIHL CY-- r r . Hi HOT JTIF Dl Advertise v, AND GET IT WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. sJ KB-- fl uple Latest IN EACH T0WH RIDER AdBT and district M7de7-Ra"- nr hlrvrl, to StehS d by EEyLllKEL) imtil you receive and approve of your bicycle. We n Unt delU ln ,dvance- frtpay frtifht, J lowT L N IjaY S 'Vi t T Xllxf during wrnen time you maynde the bicycle and u ti y0U ,r not Perfectly satisfied or do not wish to t,ltn rentiie oicycle ihip it back to us at our expense and you will mt be out ont cent. furn,Bl,utlie highest grade bicycles it is possible to make FACTORY PRICES It 6one ah-'- r s profit above actual factory STow bycl until uu nvc uie nunufactre?sVr'ar- t bicycle or a of tires from anyone you receive our catalogues and learn pair our unheard oi Jactory prices and rtmarkablt tfactal offers to ruler agents. YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED iclcivc ",rJb'autit,! catawned y iOU,r uPerb models at the wonderfully ll.fiWI V Tear- you W'selJ die hienest grade bicycle, for leu money W re o profit above i you can Mil our bicycles uudei your Vto name r double--,ouprices. Orders filled the diy received. w do not regularly handle second hand but - SiECi?I,Ila A1i? on taken In trade by our Chicago retail stores. These bicycles, we clear out promptly at pncea ranging from S3 to 68 or 610. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free COASTER-BRAKEd In, I? at any RirvriVnSa DO ' OT UUY fae JpLai B1y9Li,I y U HEDGETHORll e Protecting Alaskan Coal Deposits. President Roosevelt Washington. has signed a bill which, in the opinion of many persons, is the most radical measure of legislation enacted during his administration. Its title is To encourage the development of coal deposits in the territory of Alaska, and its principal provision includes an attempt to prevent monopoly by restricting holdings to 2,560 acres oi coal lands and providing a penalty of forfeiture of all holdings of persons, individually or by combination, who get possession of more than this number of acres. a FEH3CTBRE - FRG0F $ Tie regular retail price oi that lira is $8M per pair, hit to introduce toe unit sell youasample pair for f4JSOkashwUhorder$)S5). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not lot th. air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over tw. hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in alt sizes. It is lively and easy rtdtng, and lined inside wit h verjrdurable A SAMPLE PAIR to MinaoucE, only tig j I jf Te ,i 4I ; -- f A ill J j! ' . cli Notloo the thick rubber tread tng the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisA and punoture strips B fied customers stating that their tireshaveonly been pumped and D, also rim strip H uponce ortwlce in a whole season. They weigh no more than to an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other by severs! layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the make SOFT, ELASTIC and tread. The regular price of these tires is so per pair, but for EASY RIDING. advertisingpurposcswearemakingaspecialfactorypnceto the rider of only R toper pair. Ail orders shipoed same day letter is received V approval. You do not We will allow a cas send FULL CASH WITH nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned aT 61 R expense" if for reason'they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to imy us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride run faster, wear beLer. last longer and look finer than any tire vou have ever used or seen easier, once. We at know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will crive any us your order. B We want you to send us a tnal order at once, hence this remarkabh tire offer. . , . IF the w YOU NEED TIRES special introductory price quoted above, ,v, iitv describes snd qdoles all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. write us I postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING bicycle WAIT wtAtll or a pair of tires from anyone until know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only coats t postal to learn everything. you Write it NOW. nn jvnr wl J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILU |