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Show IBS DESTROYED lw i i SOLDIERS ARE CANTILLONS STAR PITCHER ORDERED READY FOR TRIAL FALLS ASLEEP DURING GAME TO NAVAJO RESERVATION a Unpleasant Situation Has Developed as Result of Alleged Interference Indians Claim That White Men Are Stealing Their Grazing Lands and an Outbreak is Feared. of Officials. Dead and Thousands Homeless in Crows Nest District of Canada. One Hundred An unpleasant situw Washington. tion has developed between the United States and Honduras, growing out of the action of President Davila in canceling the exequaturs of the forSix Towns In the Path of the Flames eign consuls at Ceiba, Honduras, because of their alleged friendliness t4 Are Wiped Out, the Terror Stricken the revolutionary cause. These ofResidents Fleeing to the Open ficers include the American consul. Lives. Their for Country Drew Linard, and Vice Consul Reynolds and the vice consuls of France towns C. on Six the and Norway. Cranbrook, B. The reports which have reached the of Canadian the branch Nest Crows state department unhold the contenPacific railroad have been wiped out. of the consuls that they have not tion destructof are in danger many others of any breach of probeen guilty ion, over 100 lives have beeen lost, priety; that they did not advise the a propthousands are homeless and of the town when demanded surrender erty loss Into the millions has been by the revolutionists as charged by caused by the fiercest forest fire ever Honduras, but simply communicated known In the history of western Canthe demand to the commandant. The incident has caused consider ada. The fire was in the Elko valley, able annoyance to this government in the richest coal and lumber district In which ever since the revolution its exerted commenced has Honduras sitIs The Columbia. district British efforts to prevent any breach o! uated in the extreme southeastern cor- best in Central America, which neutrality ner of the province, just north of the adverse to. President Daprove might Montana state line. vilas government. The towns known to have been deTHREE TOWNS FLOODED. stroyed, together with their population, are: Fernie, 5,000; Michel, 1,500; 200; Cloudburst in Colorado Does Damage Coal Creek, 1,500; Sparwood, Crows of $100,000. 1,000. 400; Nest, Ilosmer, One hundred square miles have alA cloudburst FriColo. Florence, ready been swept by the flames, and it day afternoon in the headwaters ol is feared that scores of homesteaders Oak and Coal creeks sent a raging have met death In the deep woods. torrent down those little streams, The inhabitants of the towns have three towns, washing out flooding fled to open districts In the vicinity and doing damage estimated bridges In the hope of safety. The railway less not than $100,000. be to companies have placed all available No loss of life is reported, though trains at their disposal. For the past month forest fires have Mrs. J. Burns,' an elderly woman, was been raging in the mountains of the taken from her home in this city, Elk river valley country, but they which had been flooded by the water, have not been considered serious. Sat- in a serious condition from exposure urday morning a heavy wind sprang Hundreds of hogs and chickens on up from the west and early in the afttruck farms to the south were the ernoon the flames appeared over the drowned and in the towns of Rock-salcrest of the mountains to the west of and Williamsburg hundreds ot Fernie. This ran down the mountain houses were In Florence, flooded. side and before a fire guard could be Coal creek leaped its banks and floodWithtown. organized had entered the ed more than 100 homes. in an hour the town was doomed and the inhabitants sought safety in flight, HOPE FOR LAMPHERE. leaving their all behind them. Town after town has been attacked Mrs. Gunness and Children Given and destroyed by the flames, and Strychnine Before Being many lives have been lost in an enCremated. deavor to check the flames, or save effects. personal La Porte, Ind.Coroner Mack announced on Thursday that Dr. WaiCASTRO IN FOR SCRAP. ter Haines of Rush Medical college, of Offered Affront Which Chicago, who analyzed the stomach Hollanders S. D., of Aberdeen, Andrew Helgelen May Result In Bloodshed the last victim of Mrs. Belle Gunness, Willemstad. The Tlufch cruiser fafinding strychnine and arsenic in Gelderland arrived here" ?n Sunday has also found in th,a stomtal doses, from La Guira, Venezuela. "Hgr achs of Mrs. Gunness and two of the declares that he sent a boat children arsenic and strychnine in ashore at La Guira with an officer and quantities sufficient to have oaused was refused all means of communica- death. tion with the shore. The authorities Attorney Worden, who represents to the declined he Lamphere, charged with the Gunness accept there, says, accomletter bags and an official communica- murders, and with being an tion to the German minister, who is plice of Mrs. Gunness in the Ilelgelein that the discovery death, declares in charge of Dutch interetss in Caracas. He reports also that Venezuela shows that his client could have had is preparing her forces for a defense nothing to do with the death of the of the country. It is generally believed woman and her children. here that Holland will take prompt acCONFERENCE ON PANAMA. tion. Denver. General Earl D Thomas, commanding the department of the Colorado, has been Instructed to dispatch Immediately six troops of cavThe alry to the Navajo reservation. orders came from the w ar department Saturday, and are Induced by the fear that renegade Utes will Induce the Navajos to rebel. The chief cause of the dissatisfaction is the use of the water holes and grazing lands by the whites. The Indians claim the white men are stealing) their privileges and resent the Intrusion. The troops will be sent from Forts Whipple, Apache and Wingate. Bit Burnt of Washington Wanders into Dreamland in Midst of Hot Contest. If the ball players became as much excited during a close game as do a majority of the spectators there would be more ballooning indulged in on the diamond. Some players are more phlegmatic than others, but the game has never produced a more cold blooded individual than big Bill Burns, the young California pitching wonder on Joe Cantillon's staff. Even the old battle tried veterans of the diamond, men like Cy Young, get worked up to a high pitch when in one of those 1 to 0 battles, but not so with Bill Burns. It is an actual fact that during a close game which he pitched in Chicago recently he fell fast asleep while his team was at the He had to bat in the eighth inning. be aroused from his slumbers to take up his work on the slab when the side had been retired. Nothing Bill. He does not care whether it is a close or a lobsided score. AH he knows is to go on the rubber and He believes rest espitch his best. sential. and while his team mates are hustling for victory Bill Is taking naps between halves. It is nothing unusual for him to fall asleep in the 'bus or carriage on the way to the park, and on days that he ex-Mt- CLOUDBURST IN CANYON. and Vast Young Woman Drowned Amount of Property Destroyed. Reno, Nev. A telephone message from Verdi, Nev., says a destructive cloudburst visited that section between 3 and 4 oclock Sunday afternoon in which' one life w'as lost, while scores of live stock, cabins and a great quantity of logs were carried off. Miss Etta Tlxley, aged 24, daughter of John Tlxley, foreman of the Verdi Mill & Lumber company, was on the porch of the lumber office, located In the canyon, when the water, fully tpn feet high, rushed against the building, carrying Miss Tlxley with It beneath the floods. Is reportLuke Smith, an ed to have lost his life also, hut this cannot be confirmed. A cloudburst occurring in Spanish canyon near Steamboat Springs, caught several people in the rush of Of- ficials. Oyster Bay. President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Wright have decided that the eight cadets who were recently dismissed from the United States military academy at West Point for hazing, shall be reinshall stated, and that their be administered according to the disciplinary methods of the academy. Secretary Wright said that he discussed the matter thoroughly with the president, and that both he and Mr. Roosevelt were of the opinion that dismissal was too severe. He said that the cadets acted In a manly manner in telling him all about the offenses with which they were charged. pulsh-men- Jealous Lover Shoots His Rival and Sweetheart. an Does Not Wish to be Thought La Crosse, Wis. Jealous because Imitator of the Sultan. his rival had taken his sweetheart to London. The Times correspondent a country dance and was escorting her at Teheran says that the news of the home, John Newburg, 24 years old, a revival of the Turkish constitution young farmer, waylaid and shot Arahas greatly disconcerted the reaction- bella Miller, 18 years old, and Will go. has been in several 24 years old, at Waterloo aries and encouraged the nationalists. Ileider, near and has always shown on Sunday. contests, West Salem, said bridge, are The shah and his entourage It is ru- Miss Miller was shot through the his best form in the latter innings. to be greatly disturbed. In the cheek, arm and abdoBurns is a slayer, and with a little mored, the correspondent adds, that wrist, men. Helder to grappled with Newburg more experience he should be one of postpone the shah has determined Helder the most valuable men pitching in the the election lest it should be thought and wa3 shot hisIn the wrist. and escaped American horses up whipped sultan. the was' league. he imitating with the injured girl. The young Californian is of an exAuto Run Down by Train. tremely quiet disposition. lie seldom Prophesies Prosperity. big has anything to say, but is a good lisDriving their Philadelphia. ana better Prosperity Washington. touring car across the Reading rail- saner than the United States has ever tener. The fart that Burns has shown way tracks at Hunting Park avenue seen before Is foreseen for the next steady improvement in his work, in in the northern section of the city in decade by Professor Henry C. Adams, that he learned the points of the game front of an in bound express train for twenty years in charge of statis- quietly, promises much for him, for late at night, Charles Humphreys, tics and accounts for the Interstate by next season he ought to be a finchief clerk in the bureau of police, Commerce Professor ished pitcher. commission. and Harry B. Bromley, a prominent Adams is recognized as one of the materials, dealer In upholsterers Says Fans Cheer at Wrong Time, of Industrial and students closest Portions killed. and down were run of service In the conditions financial is strange, says Jimmy McAlecr, scat"Jt were of their mangled bodies His Intimate assothe fans who see baseball games that tered along the tracks for 100 yards the government. with the railroads arid their and except for the contents of their ciation after day and year after year, day a thorough has given him pockets, identification would have operation should keep on applauding at the insight Into business conditions. been almost impossible. time. Now, there's nothing wrong from Honolulu. very difficult about catching a ball Returns Admiral Rear to Blame. Waa Coal Company Rear Admiral W. that hangs high in the air whether San Francisco. Cheyenne, Wyo. In a report made naval bureau of you have to cut across the field for It of the chief I Capps, to Governor B. B. Brooks on the who sailed or take It over your shoulder, running and construction repairs, of last Hanna coal mine disaster on board the batleshlp Kan- in the direction it is going. It always Hawaii to lives. State March, costing, sas of the Atlantic fleet, returned me I cant help it when the Coal Mine Inspector Noah Young de- Sunday on the Siberia. During the ad- riles crowd gets up and cheers such a the witlaws he certain governing clares that miral's stay in the Islands sits motionless and silent and catch vionessed the target practice and battle operation of coal mines had been a fielder comes in and grabs a when made and comCoal Pacific of the Union maneuvers squadron lated by the to ball at his toes an infinitely harder entiy an extended tour of Inspection pany in its haste to open up an there-bI think there will In- catch. Sometimes Admiral harbor. Capps Pearl a been had fire, there In which Island Mare at difference bethe be naval should the The taught yards inspec- spect causing an explosion. to tween the comparatively easy and the tor suggests that the mine be sealed and Bremerton beforeto returning the secretary desperately difficult plays. forever as a tomb for the men whose Washington to report the of navy. recovered. not bodies were Ex-Stat- Successful Aeroplane Exhibition. New York. Henri Farman, who came from Pari3 to give a series of aeroplane exhibitions under the management of an American syndicate, made his first public flight in this country at the Brighton Beach race track Sunday. The exhibition was a success to the extent that it demon- strated the Inventor's ability to fly under favorable atmospheric conditions and entertained some 2,0b0 enthusiastic spectators. Farmantraveled nearly a third of a mile in about thirty seconds and did not appear to be hurrying. Never Worried for a Century. Chicago. A full century and seven years of life without a single moment of worrying was ended Saturday when Mrs. Anna Miskus died. at the home Alof her grandson, Julius Anixter. had Mlslrus Mrs. though 107 years old, full possession of her faculties until the moment of her death. She was prominent as a settlement worker. She fg survived by forty grandchildren. .,When only a child in her native home in MaryDeple, Poland, she took a vyow never to worry, and to longevity. his vow v she attributed r I ama matters with the president, arrived Friday evening. With General Wright and Secretary Bishop the president Friday night went over the situation in Panama. SHAH POSTPONES ELECTION. From now to the end of the American association campaign, this circuit will be infested with major league scouts. The A. A. Is the cynosure of all the big league eyes, and as soon as a likely looking player develops, everybody Is hot foot after him. There hasn't been a whole lot of Needle Parts and Supplies tot boA development this year, but the stock Vheeltr Sc Vilsoa and Singet Machines that is showing the beat looms up like a pretty good proposition. SOLO ONLY BY There are four, and possibly five, backstops who will be put on the examination block in the fall or next Toledo has Grover Land, Inspring. dianapolis has Paddy Livingstone, St. SEWING MACHINE CO. Paul will offer Jack Meyers. Block No. 97 North Academy Avenue, may be taken from Minneapolis and James from Columbus. PROVO, UTAH Livingstone and Land are by far the John Jackson, Mgr. best of the lot. The Hoosier is probably the cleverest mit man In the league, and should have gone up last fall. And he would have, too, If Watkins had not schemed to hold him back. Land has shown big league class this year and will unquestionably get a trial. It has been reported that Built in ProJack Meyers was already sold, but vo 115 W. the St. Paul owner denies the allega5 So., BY THE tion. The redskin looks good on the surface, but he has a lot to learn about his position. The same thing applies to James and Block. The Minneapolis catcher is a comer beyond a doubt, but he is still shy on the inside stuff, although his general work is favorable toward a promotion. Janies is a natural catcher and will be a good one Borne day, but he is crude and awkward now, and needs a lot of pruning before be could hold 24-i- n. a situation in the faster company. Marquardt and Joe Wood are the best looking dingers in this company. Rube" Goyer of Columbus may be snatched, and it is possible Otto Hess Liddiard has put 24-incewill revert to Cleveland if lie shows ment tiling into these Provo any improvement. Geyer looked better at the start of (he season than he does wells: Bp.Wentz, Mr.Weeter, now, and will have to brace up to be Dennis Davis, Henry Davis, advanced. Sarah TidbuII, Mr. Hicks, Mr. From the looks of things, Toledo hasn't a twlrler who will be taken up. Bruner, and L. lloolbrook. Louisville is liable to lose 'Brose Putt-manfor Old Put has been going ANY DEPTH OF WATER along like a house on fire this summer. Adams has also pitched neatly. Oberlln and Fiene, particularly the latter, may bo taken away from Minneapolis. Fiene is steadier than his team-matand would deliver where Seventh West and Center Street Oberlln would fall down, "Hank" Gehring may also go back. There la a PROVO, UTAH chance that Cliff Curtis will get a SINGER sm limit itti e really great pitcher. Unfortunately, his record of victories Is not as great as his work warrants It to be. He has trial. not pitched a game this season that Charley Carr is the best looking he should not have won had he had first sacker and is really major league the proper kind of batting support. but lie has fallen down on big timber, It has been his misfortune to have his and the assignments, team hit poorly behind him In a ma- company chances are he will not be taken up, jority of his games, with (he result unless as a "cover up. that when he has held his opponents Barbeau and Bush are the best indown to a few hits and less runs, field bels. The Jap" has had one he has still been charged with a dechance, and the magnates of the basefeat. ball Four Hundred may be a little Unlike most left handers, Burns re- of giving him another. Bush will goshy up lies principally upon his Bpeed to debut whether he will do or not surely, ceive the batsmen. He uses but a few is a hard question to decide at this curves during a game, but his fast time. ball has a shoot on It which is hard As far as outfielders are concerned, to hit. Burns differs In many ways Armbruster, Hayden, Davis and Ranfrom most left handed pitchers. It dall appear to have it on the other has always been contended that southAH four have been tried paws cannot go a long route. It Is and found wanting, lit might show argued that the fact of something with another chance. with their left arm affects their heart, Davis has gone up and been chased and statistics show that lefthanders back twice, and it doesn't seem as are apt to weaken after going eight though anyone would take the chance or nine Innings. Not so with Burns, to pay out anything to look him over He really does not pitch his again. Armbruster, Hayden and Ranhowever. best ball until he has been In action dall are all sure to get a proabout four or five Innings. When once motion. thoroughly wanned up to his work, there is no telling how long he could GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND He Failed to Secure Conviction. e Senator R. Portland, Ore. A. Booth of Eugene and his brother, of the James II. Booth, land office at Roseburg, and Thomas E. Singleton, who have been on trial for several days in the United States district court on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of 160 acres of public land in Douglas county, were acquitted by the Jury on Sunday. The jury was out nineteen hours. It is stated that largely because of the failure of the government to secure a conviction a number of other complaints will be dismissed. aged an automobile manufacturer of San Francisco, who, with T. P. McCauley of the same city, was on his way to Inspect some mines near Gila Bend, perished on the. desert and McCauley was overcome by heat and Is terribly shocked. The men left Yuma against all advice and plunged Into the desert. They probably got out of the machine to make repairs, as they were found unconscious beside the car. McCauley revived, but Spaulding died five hours later at Blalskell. Least Four Catchers Will Be Given Tryout During the Coming Fall or Spring Livingstone of Indianapolis Undoubtedly the Best Barbeau and Bush Best Infield Bets. ch is slated to pitch he fields bunts before the game to keep from falling aslV. Sleeping is not a disease with Bnrns. He says he thinks it helps him to pitch good ball. If Burns can keep up the pace he has set to date he will come out of his first campaign in a major league with a record for effectiveness which few young pitchers have ever established. Burns has been a most consistent performer and has proven beyond any questionable doubt that he is a Summons Wright and Roosevelt Bishop to Sagamore Hill. on Oyster Bay, N. Y. A conference conditions in the American canal zone at Panama and on the relations of the canal zone with the republic of Panama, was held at Sagamore Hill Friday night. Secretary ot War Wright and Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission Joseph Bishop, who had been summoned here to discuss the Pan- 45, MEN Tiling Murders His Friend While In Drunken Rage. a 111. A. Morrell, J. Aurora, wealthy farmer living at Blackberry Center, a small village fifteen miles from here, was fatally shot and his housekeeper was murdered by John Anderson, who was employed on Morrell's farm. Anderson later committed suicide with a shotgun, blowing the top of his head off. Anderson had for several been drinking heavily weeks, and it is believed he was demented. Anderson, when sober, was devotedly attached vo Morrell, who had always treated him more as ,a friend than as an employee. Another Desert Tragedy. Yuma, Arlz. F. D. Spaulding, At OVER Curb your well with Cement t Child Abducted From Chicago Home is Given Her Freedom. Chicago. Veronica Cassidy, the girl whose mysterious abduction on July 30 caused unusual police activity In this and other cities, returned to her home Saturday night whither she had from Cincinanti, been taken by her alleged abductor, F. J. Blair. She told her parents that Blair had placed her aboard a train Immediately after leading her away from home, and that they had been In a rooming house in the Ohio city until Saturday morning, when the man gave her a ticket to Chicago and told her to go home. oom-mand- SCOUTS LOOKING at waters, but after battling desperately they finally saved themselves. West Point CLASSY LOT OF GRADUATES COM. ING FROM AMERICAN ASSOCIATION CLUBS. Buy Buggies old-time- r, President Overrules BY BIG LEAGUES their-pitchin- Provo Meat and Packing All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats; Green and Fancy and Staple Groceries. We handle tho Farmers Products, and pay CASH for all Fat Butcher Stock. Nos. 47 to 55 North Academy Phone 39-Avenue. 2. PROVO MEAT and ten-innin- fifty-nin- e y The players of the New York American league team presented a fine diamond ring to their late manager, Clark Griffith. Scorers in the Eastern league have trouble with these names: Phyle, Toronto; Phyl, Providence, and lfyl, Baltimore. With the release of Hess, Cleveland finds Itself the only big league club in the country that does not possess a southpaw. Outfielder Speaker, purchased by Boston from Little Rock, has passed the century mark, being the first in the Southern league to make a hundred hits. Friends of McAleer in Youngstown, O., have raised a purse of $1,000 to bet St. Louis wins the American league pennant. Here's a bunch fired by the Cincinnati Reds who are still In the game: Dorner, Ritchey and Kelley, Boston Nationals; Mathewson, Seymour, Don-liand Brldweli, New York Nationals; Elberfeld and Newton, New York Americans; Bergen and Maloney, Brooklyn; HartBel and Seybold, Philadelphia Americans; Street, Jim Dele-hantWashington; Eddie Phelps and Howard Camnltz, Pittsburg; lunch-maand Chech, Cleveland; Crawford, Detroit; Stelnfeldt, Fraser and Overall, Chicago National; Jack Barry and Hostetler, St. Louis Nationals. n n PACKING TRY THIS ORANGE CUSTARD. Confection That Will Be Appreciated on a Hot Day, A delightful dessert, called orange custard, is made by taking the Juice of a sweet orange and half the rind, which has been boiled until tender. After it has cooled and has been beaten fine in a mortar, a tea- spoonful of brandy should be added with the orange Juice, half a cup or more of granulated sugar and the yolks of four eggs. Into this mixture is poured two cups of boiled cream or rich milk, and the whole beaten until the custard Is cold; then it should be poured into custard cups, with a bit of preserved orunge placed on the top of each cup, and served at once or set away to cool. Butter and orange Juice la prepared by mixing the Juice of three sweetened oranges with as many teaspoonfuls of rose water, then adding the yolks of six eggs, the whites of four and two cupfuls of powdered sugar. Tho mixture should be stirred over a slow fire till It thickens, then a tablespoonful of butter should be poured Into a dessert dish and sot away to cool. well-beate- |