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Show Utah County Democrat ATTEMPT OF PROVO - UTAH Idaho Democrats Fail to Agree in Convention and Both Factions In 115 miles of track 117 bridges have been built across the Mussel shell river in Montana by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. An unknown man riding the was ground to pieces at Livingston, Mont. Fragments of his body were scattered over five miles of track. new Twenty-eigh- t Select Candidates. s locomotives, charged with having raised a check given her by Colonel D. P. Jenkins, nestor of the Washington bar, Spokane millionaire and philanthropist, has been released from custody on $2,000 bonds. The last spike connecting Butte with Chicago on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul coast extension was driven at 6 oclock on the evening of July 27, by D. A. Macintosh, one of the contractors. The spike was one of brass. The big prize fight arena of the Butte Athletic club, on the flats below Butte, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin on July 31, entailing a loss of $3,500. In this arena all of the big prize fights of Butte have been held. An unknown man who was stealing a ride on the Overland limited was ground to pieces beneath the wheels and his body strewn in bits for over a mile, three miles east of Winnemucca, Nevada. An inquest did not develop his identity. - Sheriff of Cissoula, Campbell Mont, while visiting a friend at Taft, near Missoula, happened upon two holdup men In the act of robbing Henry Smith. The sheriff gave chase and caught both robbers, after an exciting and long chase. The Montana Bankers association held its annual convention in Billings last week. The feature of the opening session was the addresses by United States Senator Thomas H. Carter and John G. Maronlt, president of the association. Three lives were lost by the capsizing of the yawl Elizabeth, In the Everett, Wash., harbor, about two miles from shore. The drowned men are George Morton, aged 21, his sister, Mamie Morton of Everett, and Miss Florence Scott of Victoria. Stephen G. Grubb, a Civil war veteran, whose action at a critical moment probably saved General William T. Shermans entire store of ammunition just before his famous march from Atlanta to the sea, died at Tacoma on July 30, age 73 years. John Murphy and Joseph N. McNeal were instantly killed 'at Nimrod station, Mont., on the Not them Pacific railroad, and Gus Wassen was seriously injured. The men were riding the pilot of a work trains engine when the front trucks climbed the rails. A jury at Fort Benton, Mont., acquitted Fred I.arimore of the murder of W. P. Turner at the latters ranch near Beatrice, last April. Judge Tat-tascored the jurors severely when the verdict was read, and intimated that had a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree been returned it would have met with his apu proval. Jesse Fifer, a street killed his eight-year-ol- d Faction Leave Convention Hall and Organize Under the Title of Regular Democrats, With Judge Stockslager as Chairman. Anti-Dubo- worth about $300,000, are said to be tied up at Denver as the result of the strike of the shopmen on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Application for a receiver for the First bank of Rawhide has been made. The appointment will be made on Aug. 6 and in all probability A. A. Codd will be named as the man. While hunting deer in the woods near Lovell, a small town near Tekoa, Wash., on the Ceoeur dAlene reservation, John Gates, an Indian, was killed by the accidental discharge of his weapon. Invitations have been sent to William II. Taft and William J. Rryan, the rival presidential candidates, to attend the interstate fair and exposition in Denver in September and deliver addresses. Capital is now developing the water power of the Cherry Creek section of Nevada, for an Irrigation project in Coal valley, and an area thirty by fifteen miles in extent eventually will be under cultivation. Mack Thayer, son of William Thayer of Fenton, Wyo., accidentally shot himself with a .22 calibre revolver. The bullet entered between the ribs and lodged under the left shoulder and Thayer will recover. Albert Penny, a Union Pacific shopman at Laramie, Wyo., has fallen heir to a share of an estate valued at The property is located in New York and Pennys share will amount to about $800,000. Mrs. May Helle Cottrell, SULTAfl 01 LIFE OF TUI! on I!! THE FIELD NORTHWEST NOTES brake-beam- MADE car grlpman, daughter Hazel, Mrs. Dennis Nihoul, a confinement patient, fatally wounded his wrife, Mrs. L. Fifer, seriously wounded Mrs. Ethel Warren, his sister-in-law- , at Seattle, and then took his own life. Fifer was crazed because his wife had left him. Rex Beach, the novelist and playwright, who has just returned from a bear hunting trip in Alaska, is confined in a Seattle hospital, under the care of an eye specialist, with a serious attack of iritis, which, it is feared, may result in the permanent loss of sight. James Gallagher, a liveryman m Twin Falls, Ida., has caused the at Denver of George Kern and George McLaughlin, whom he accuses of having swindled him out of $5,000, vflgered by him on a wrestling match, he now declares to have been ar-res- t Wallace, Idaho. A split occurred at the Democratic state convention held here on Thursday, two separate conventions being held and both the Dubois and factions adopted platforms and placed tickets in the anti-Duboi- s field. Except declared nounced unlawful that the Dubois convention for local option and pro strongly against polygamy, cohabitation and church interference in politics, on which subjects the other convention was silent, the platforms are much alike. The split in the convention came in the forenoon when the convention failed to sustain a protest of the faction against the seating of the Dubois delegates from Bear Lake, Oneida and Fremont counties. s The faction left the hall. The Dubois faction then formed a permanent organization. The regular Democrats, as the s faction denominate themselves, went over to the Masonic hall, whenf Judge Stockslager was chosen chairman. s The faction nominated the following ticket: Senator, C. O. Stockslager; congress, J. L. Sewell; governor, M. Alexander; lieutenant governor, C. A. Boyd; secretary of state, W. W. Snell; attorney general, Frank Moore; state auditor, J. A. Bradbury; superintendent of public Miss Gertrude Noble; Instruction, treasurer, David L. Evans; mine inspector, George Lamb; presidential electors, John C. Rice, M. D. Mills and T. C. Galloway. The Dubois ticket, or the ticket chosen by the regular convention, is as follows: anti-Duboi- s anti-Duboi- anti-Duboi- anti-Duboi- Presidential electors Henry Nez Perce; Harry L. Day, Shoshone, and II. W. Lockhart, Bannock. Frank Harris, WashCongressman Heit-fel- t, ington. Governor ar Court Official of Minor Rank Attacks Him With Knife, But Coat of Mail Deflects Blow. The news has just Constantinople. leaked out that Sultan Abdul Hamid was stabbed in the breast on Monday by a court official of minor rank. The sultan always wears a coat of mail, which deflected the blow of the would-b- e assassin. The official who attempted to take the sultans life was overpowered by the guard, through whom he had gained entrance to the sultans private apartment. The assailant was arrested while trying to escape. When the prisoner was searched by the palace guard a large sum of money was found upon him. An exof his living amination quarters showed he hpd packed his baggage ready for flight. The police are making a thorough investigation of the case, as it is believed the assailant had been bribed to make the attempt on the sultans life. Other arrests are likely to follow. STRIKE ON CANADIAN PACIFIC. Over 8,000 Men Lay Down Tools in Biggest Strike in Canada. Montreal. The Canadian Pacific railway has on its hand3 the biggest A strike in the history of Canada. general strike was issued Wednesday night by Bell Hardy, secretary of the Associated Mechanics of the Canadian Pacific road, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific some 8,000 men laid down their tools. The strike has been brought on because the conciliation board which vflis appointed under the Lemieux act of the Canadian parliament was not what the men wanted. Among the chief points in dispute was that of interlapping of hours. The men wanted to work In three eight-hou- r shifts; the company wished to interlap an hour at each end, in order to avoid paying overtime. How far reaching the strike will be it is impossible to say. If the strike is prolonged the movement of the crops will be affected. LIGHTNING STRIKES AIRSHIP. Remarkable Voyage of Count Zeppe- lin Ends in Disaster. Stuttgart. After making what was undoubtedly the most remarkable voyj age in the history of aerial navigation Count Zeppelins airship was struck by lightning and destroyed at W. C. Whitewell, Lemhi; lieutenant governor, William Hunter, 3 oclock Wednesday afternoon at Latah; secretary of state, Jesse Wallwhile mechanics were at ing, Canyon; state auditor, Frank J. state treasurer, work repairing one of the motors, the McBride, Bonner; William W. Brown, Idaho county; at- aeronaut having descended for that torney general, Edwin McBee, Koote- purpose at 8 oclock in the morning nai; s.tate superintendent of public in- after covering 300 miles. No one was struction, Miss Edna Gillespie, Bing- injured. The trip made by Count Zepham; inspector of mines, John Press-ley- , pelin previous to the accident had Shoshone; justice of supreme demonstrated the success of the macourt, John M. Flynn, Kootenai; Unit- chine, which raced through the air at ed States senator, William W. Woods, forty miles an hour, under perfect control. The destruction of the Zeppelin Shoshone. airship means the disappearance of a vast fortune. It is estimated that the KOREANS BUTCHER JAPS. count has expended between $300,000 Soldiers Surprised at Night and Com- and $700,000 in perfecting building his airship. pletely Annihilated. . WILL BUILD details St. Petersburg. Further Possen from here been have received bay regarding the annihilation last Rio Grande Plans to Put Salt Lake and Denver One Day Apart. month of a detachment of Japanese frontier soldiers on the Denver, Colo. The full significance by a band of Korean insurgents. The of the plans of the Denver & Rio Japanese troops were encamped on Grande in the near future to build a the frontier near Hunchun. They were cutoff between that system and the attacked unexpectedly the night of Moffat road and to build a cutoff south July 11 by a strong band of Korean In- of Denver to Leadville has not yet surgents and perished to a man. become public, but enough is known Russian cossacks who were scour-linto be realized that these changes noticed the the frontier disappear- for it ance of the Japanese flag from over the will make a vast difference in the railThey thereupon visit- road map. encampment. The work planned ed the place and found traces of a immediately fierce struggle and the dead bodies of south of Denver is understood to inthe Japanese. The local population clude only fifty miles of construction, was questioned, but professed entire yet it will cut off 100 miles in the distance between Denver and Leadville. ignorance of the occurrence. The connection with the Moffat road will reduce the distance to Judge Decides Against Strikers. Springs and Salt Lake City by Seattle, Wash. In an oral opinion in the federal court, Judge C. II. Han- nearly 200 miles and bring the latter one days travel of this city. ford, granted an injunction asked for within comand by shipowners steamship Young New York Broker Gets Corner panies against the various longshorein Cotton. mens unions of the Pacific coast, New York. The entire supply of a decision restraining handed dow-the Puget Council of Longshoremen cotton stored in New York City and and the local union from interfering available for delivery on contract has in loading and been cornered by J. L. Livermore, the with unloading ships in Seattle. The court young broker who last May made held that he had jurisdiction in a case more than $2,000,000 on a corner on where interstate traffic was affected the The New York visiand that the labor unions were re- ble July option. supply consists of only 39,000 violence of for acts the sponsible bales of cotton worth about $1,800,000. committed. During the last two weeks cotton has advanced in this market over $3.50 a Snub for Uncle Sam. bale and the shorts have been borderdeHonduras has Washington. ing upon panic. clined to comply the wishes of Dorr Says He Will Pay. the American government bv revoking the decree issued by President San Francisco. Fred Dorr, the Davila cancelling the exequateurs of stock broker who went east suddenly American Consul Drew Leonard and a short time ago, leaving behind him at Vice Consul Virgil C. Reynolds, a number of anxious creditors, quietly Celba, on the ground that they had interfered in the internal politics of returned to this city Tuesday night, No one need have any Honduras, and that, with the vice con- and said: suls of France and Norway, they ad- fears for what I owe them. My seats vocated the surrender of Celba to the In different stock exchanges are worth revolutionists. The degree of cancel- $100,000, and I have property worth lation has been published in the Off- as much more. All the debts I have will not aggregate any such sum. icial Gazette of Honduras. Ten Thousand New Steel Cars OrBartlett of Nevada Wins Out. dered for Lines. Nev. The at issue Reno, question in the Democratic primaries throughPittsburg, Pa. The biggest contract out Nevada on Wednesday was ever let for steel cars is now being whether George A. Bartlett should be closed with the Pressed Steel Car renominated for congress or District company of Pittsburg by the Attorney McCarren of Tonopah. Bartinterests. It is for about lett worked for the state police bill 10,000 steel cars to supply every one at the extra session of the legislature of the Gould lines, and the price will and was supposed to have aroused be about $10,000,000. The contract the hostility of the miners. The re- will cover three and perhaps five ports from the different counties show years delivery and will give employhim to have won a majority of the ment to about 1,000 men for that delegates to the state convention. In length of time, and is the result of Reno he was overwhelmingly an investigation of the rolling stock by Harriman. n traveling evangelist who had halted for the night at old Lim Jucklins house had said that he hoped to see the time when there would be no more war, when the old man remarked: Yes, and I. reckon King David hoped to sde the same blessed day. In this life there are two sets of prayers that dont appear to have had much effect prayer for rain and prayer for war to cease. But there never was but one time when there wasnt no war r.owhese on earth and that was when rain wasnt needed. I refer to the time of the flood when Noah held his peace congress in the ark. But the time of universal peace will come, insisted the preacher. A Yes, agreed the old man, when all of the kinks have been straightened out of human nature. Its a mighty hard matter to correct a thing that has started off wrong, and man seemed to have set out with his worst foot foremost. He got hungry and he fought for somethin to eaL He fell In love and he fought for woman, and then kep on flghtin because hed got his hand in. And ever since I can recollect they have been holdin peace congresses every once in a while; and whenever they hold a right good one a war is sure to follow. One nation has always got somethin that the other one wants. Statesmanship shows a nation what it needs and then the soldier goes out to get it. The statesman that has avoided war is nearly always put down as a failure. If he goes into war and gets the worst of it, then the people know that he wasn't a statesman after all. But I am inclined to believe, said the evangelist, that with the passing of the war between Russia and Japan the great wars will have come to an end. "Yes, a big war always has been the last one. When they got the machine gun the wise men said that the end of war had come, and it looked that way till another war came along and asserted itself, and then it was observed that the machine gun didnt cut any very big capers. Man has always shown sense enough to outwdt the machine he invents. Whenever they find that to stand off five miles is effective, theyll stand off five and a half and go a little closer when they want to be desperate. The Japs have taught the world that war hadnt quite reached the top notch. Every age has thought that it had the best of everything, but compared with the time to come every age has been a dark age. Ever since time began the sun has been cornin up, and no man has lived in the noon of the world. He thought he did, but his clock was wrong. Unfortunately about all he can study with any degree of accuracy is the past, and you may know all the past and yet be a poor guesser as to the future. The college is the storehouse of the past, but the little chap that can't talk yet Is the future, and you may know all that has been said and not foreshadow what he is goln to say. There aint nothin' that is more of a constant experiment than wisdom is. It keeps man on the dodge. The man that writ the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire could sit amid the ruins and look back a thousand years, but he couldn't look forward as far as his eyelash. "The Lord is opposed to war, said the minister, and in His own good time will bring it to an end. Yes, in His time, but not in ours. It was said that the Lord was sorry that He made man, and it aint on record that He was ever glad again. Limuel Jueklin, said the old man's wife, "you ought to be ashamed of yourself to talk that way, and in the presence of a preacher, too. Sister, remarked the preacher, smiling kindly, he might as well say it as to think it, for what a man thinks he thinks in the presence of the Lord. There, said the old lady, what do you think of that? I think its all right, Susan, because I dont see how he could have said anything else. But gettin back to the subject of war: After we have printed an extra million or so of tracts and blowed particularly hard over the work of our furrin missions, we always like to think and believe that the world has been made kinder, that even war itself is more humane, that men are killed in a softer and gentler way than before. And then we read of barbed wire intrenchments full of spikes and secret mines ready to blow a whole division of an army into the clouds. But after all, war is war, and when a man's killed, no matter whether it's with one of these nice little bullets or a snortin minnie ball, he's dead, and so far as he Is concerned the whole earth has been split asunder. I recollect that while our civil war was a goin on the folks over here at Ebeneezer meetin house used to assemble and pray for it to end. Old LIge Anderson was the principal prayer and sometimes it seemed that he would command the Lord. He never came into the house of prayer that he didnt have some special information for Providence. Yes, he was goin to hold the Lord personally accountable if the war didnt end putty soon. The folks that had been conservative with Providence after a while turned radical, and I remember that we were all mightily astonished one night when Lige he suddenly flopped. The preacher looked up in astonishment, and the old man explained: To flop, you know, means to make a quick break for the other side. Yes, Lige he flopped. And the cause of his sudden turning was this: He come Into possession of a beef contract for the army. I dont know whether the government got afraid that he might have an influence with the heavenly powers or not, but at any rate he got the contract. And the next meetin afterward when old Brother Haskill had poured forth the usual dose of lament because the war hadnt come to a close, why Lige he suddenly gets up and without strikin the usual attitude of prayer, snorts out: Lord, before any action is taken, I think it might be better to use your own jedgment in this matter. Of course, we would all like to see the war close when you feel that it ought to close but The blasphemous old beast, said the evangelist. Well, yes, Limuel admitted, but it didn't sound so then. And the war lasted till old Lige he wras rich; and afterward I heard him say how thankful he was for what the Lord had done for him. After a time the preacher said; "It does not appear, then, Brother Juck-lithat you believe In the effectiveness of prayer. n, Oh, bless your life, yes. But the greatest good it can do a man is to make him feel his dependence on the divine will his humbleness. The man that prays for something he needs is simply selfish. I know an old fellow that was kneelin beside a log la the woods prayin to beat the " Limuel, his wife broke in. "To beat the Salvation Army band, and everybody that saw him was struck with his piety. But I happened to be lyin off on the other side of the log, watehin for a wild turkey, and I hearn what the prayer was about. And it was simply a beggin petition that he wanted the Lord to grant wanted to make money on a certain venture that he had set on foot. Tryin to set up a bucket shop in the new Jerusalem. That sort of prayer aint half a3 honorable as cussin. But don't understand me to say that prayer never does any good, for it does: It makes a man better able to stand misfortune. It doctors his mind and fortifies it against sufferin. I know that prayer rightly employed is a good thing on the farm. The most religious man I ever saw raised the best crops. Prayed twice a day night and morning. Yes, sir. Prayed night and morn-in- , but between prayers he worked harder than any man in the neighborhood. His prayer was for strength so he could labor. I tell you that there is many an amen in good digestion and many a hymn in a muscle. Yes, sir; and I want to say to you that war will cease not when the world becomes more merciful, but when every nation is so well prepared that no other nation can afford to attack it. The big battleship is the plea for peace. (Copyright, by Opie Read.) CUT-OFF- Russo-Chlnes- e Thinking g Qiarles Battell Loomis 'll? I HY is it that the understands the value of tags. She of buys them by the dozen at her staImportance tags is so often tioners. She goes around in her gushundervalued? How ing, compelling way, and says: Oh, are we to know Im so glad youve come. Whom do whether a thing you suppose I have captured for tois good or not if night? Albrecht Musikheim, the wonwe don't know derful pianist from the Dresden conwho did it? How servatory. He has played but once are we to know in this country, and then it was more whether a man is of a rehearsal than anything else; to be treated at that impossible Mrs. Bushels, with distinguished who would extinguish Etna if she consideration and came near It. I have asked him to respect if he has play that adorable thing of Greigs no tag? that he composed for King Oscar. You Let us put it in have never heard until Glen-woo- d strike-breaker- s Gould-Harrima- n Gould-Harrima- n piano-playin- concrete form. Let us suppose a room full of men and women assembled for a musicale. They have come to be music which they presume is up to a certain stahdard, for have they some faith in the judgment of their hostess, whom we will call Mrs. Bushel; but it happens that she does not understand human nature, and she carelessly neglects to place a label on the young man who sits down to play, and what is the result? Why, he is rewarded with apAnd he himself neglects to plause. say that the piece hs is playing is a thing of Greig's, and the audience is doubly handicapped. They see he plays well, but they do not wish to be led away by false enthusiasm. v half-hearte- d well-know- n Yet, as it happens, this young man is a great pianist, and not only that, but a man who in Dresden is- beloved by the ladies a second Paderewski. Imagine the chagrin of some of his auditors when they hear him the next evening at Mrs. Lionhunter's. She g And then when the audience is assembled and quiet she leads Herr Musikheim in on stilts and all In the room are immediately swayed by his magnetism, and prepared to accept him before he touches the piano. Even you who heard him last remember that you thought he was remarkable, although you forgot to say so. He knows that his tag is on for tonight, and he plays better for the And you know that the knowledge. piece he is playing is famous, and by Greig at that, and you immediate! predict his success in this country. But let me tell you, it will take plenty of tags and a good deal of ability too, for some of these newspaper critics are really discerning. I say some of them are really discerning, and one or two claim that they can dispense with tags. I wonder! Years ago the magazines did not tag their articles unless they were by men who had been tagged for years, men like Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. What was the result? Why, people had no opinion of American literature, but read English books in preference to those written by Americans. Then ! some magazine started the fashion o tagging; literary journals sprang uj to puff those tagged, and it acted ai a direct stimulus on the writers, am also enabled the readers to express in telligent opinions. if read an essay by Howells we know it is good; we fee that we are right in liking it, and w say so. But if the same essay wer To-da- w-- e signed X. X. Smith, while we migh be pleased at it, we would not g around saying, Oh, have you read th essay of a man named Smith in th Aroma? because it is rather ridici lous to enthuse over an unknown mar Now and then the ordinary run c mortals enjoys the huge farce that i enacted when a number of art critic dispute as to whether a newly dii covered picture is by one of the ol Dutch masters or not. The pictur has swallowed Its tag, and they are a at sea. There are two sides to th question, and equally eminent critic take opposing sides. Is It an old but hideous daub b some strolling Haarlem or is it one of the best examples ei tant by Ruysdael? The question is nc an easy one, and experts have to b called In. If it is by an unknow r and crude it naturall possesses only such value as clings t an antique of any sort, but if it i one of the best examples extant c the great Ruysdael there are a doze millionaires who are willing to pa thousands for it. sign-paint- sign-painte- It is a pretty question, and it fui nishes employment for the expert! But it shows the necessity for tag! and I dare say that somewhere in th vast unknown Ruysdael and the itir erant painter are splitting their side over the discussion. Only it is a littl humiliating to Ruysdael that hi picture is not its own tag. (Copyright, by James Pott & Co.) |