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Show V 4 ... J4.S. T. JAKEMAN, STOCKTON, s UTAH. Falrview' citizens ire making a wrong iffort to secure a system of waterworks for that town. total number of men in this state available for military duty, but not organ lied, is 27,344. The water in the Great Salt Lake is elowly but surely rising, increasing at the rate of two inches per month. The four cases of smallpox in Lehi have about recovered and it is believed all danger of the disease spreading la now over. In a recent decision the supreme court holds that the law compelling barber shops to close on Sunday is constitutional. ifhe department of agriculture' has recommended Utah as the best stats for producing alfalfa from seed imported from Turkestan. The shopmen in the employ of the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City declare they will not strike, as they hive no grievance. The town board of Price has ordered a special election to be held on March T on the proposition to bond the town for a system a waterworks. Last season over 15,000 was realized by the beet raisers of Sevier county. 2?extseason the yield will bring 110,000, according to all predictions. From Kimberly comes the report of another big snow and a fierce blizzard that shook some of the largest buildings in the camp from their foundations. The son of Mrs. Ueber Beck of Mantl, while playing near a tub of soap suds fell in head first. The little fellow was missed by hl mother and rescued just In time. When the county commissioners of Utah county met to select a county physician last week each member of the board had a candidate and the matter was decided by drawing straws. Fred S. Crowley of Kaysville has a cow which has given birth to six calves within a period of ten months. The cow is a grade Durham and the calves wsre born in tyvo batches of three each. At a recent meeting the county com- mbslonera of Serii- ed a bounty of 5 cents a head on jack rabbits, The bounty will obtain for Sixty days and appliesto the etf$re county. Henry Smith, a negro who is un doubtenly insane, attempted suicide in Bait Lake City by jumping head first Into a vat of whitewash. He imagines be has been sentenced to life Imprison. ment for murder. Intense cold weather prevails in the vicinity of Parowan, and cattle on the range are suffering from lack of feed, as the snow has formed such a crust that stock is unable to geuhrough it 'to obtain food. The members of the Maccabees, Modern Woodmen and Ancient Order tof Forresters of Springville, are taking the preliminary steps to organize a stock company to erect a lodge building and amusement hall. The University students who were suspended for throwing vegetables at the principals in a drama presented by members of the University, have returned to their studies and peace now prevails in that institution. The home of G. M. Whitmore, cashier of the First National bank of Nephi, burned to the ground before sun up oo the morning of the 4tb. One fireman, James D. Pexton, was struck down with falling joists and badly injured. Petitions are being circulated in Sanpete county to be presented to the legislature asking that body to appropriate the sum of $1 ,000 to assist in building a new wagon road across the mountains west from Richfield to Kanosh The lowest temperature recorded by the Salt Lake weather bureau during the month of January was 15 degrees and the highest was 53 degrees, while during the month there were ten clear days, nine partly cloudy and twelve cloudy. Six years ago the gross receipts of the Lehi postoffice for the year ending - December . 31, ISG.were The business has increased since then nearly 62 per cent, and for the year ending December 31,. 1902, the gross reteipts were $2,164. A disastrous fire visited Richfield on the night of the 3rd, the loss being over $3,000. Hundreds of men and boys formed into a bucket brigade, and by a gallant fight subdued the flames. Some cf the bucket brigade were slightly injured but not seriously. ' i two-year-o- ld Klondike Endure Great Suffering. Reduced to starvation in the Arctic wilderness in. the Yukon region, Victor Virgil Lowry and John Bevins of Dawson ma'nfalned their lives on dog and porcupine flesh. The story of the suffering and hardship of the men has Just reached Dawion by mail.1 The were en route from Dawson to the Koyukuk diggings. Theyleft Dawson October 10. The fifth day after being lost their food became exhausted. The men were la desperate straits. They had no gun with which to shoot game, and not a living soul nor a place of reruge was known to be within hundreds of miles. In their desperation they could not parley over the proprieties of nicety. Lowrys faithful dog, his companion for three years, was the only available source of food. The dog was killed and eaten. But the flesh from the animal did not last long. Thq. two enervated men traveled two days more without a mouthful of food, when they came upon a young porcupine. This they ran down and clubbed to death and devoured partly roasted. Twenty days after they had started out the men wandered into a wood choppers camp on the Yukon, almost dead. After a few days they were nourished sufficiently to travel. Two Men in the MUU. r UTAH STATE NEWS. ' TIDAL LIVED ON DOG MEAT. THE STOCKTON SENTINEL ONE ' ' THOUSAND NATIVES EN. GULFED BY TIDAL WAVE. Terrible Story of Devastation and Death Which Comet From the Society Islands Surviving In. habitants Destitute' of Food and Shelter. two-me- New f a fearful I ss destructive .storm HOOPER YOUNG CONFESSES. SWEEPS SOUTH SEA ISLANDS WAVE of life In a swept over the South Sea Islands (..month has reached ban Francis on the steamer Mariposa, direct from Tshltl. The loss of life is estimated !at 1,000 souls. On January 13 last a huge tidal wave, accompanied by a terrifle hurrlfcane, attacked the Society islands and the Puamoto group with fearful force, causing deaths and devastation never (before equaled in a;: knd of dreaded storms, a verification of mans inability to contend with wind and sea. The storm reigned several days, Reaching Its maximum strength between January 14 aid January 16. From the meager advices received at Tahita up to the taze of the sailing of the Mariposa, it Ts estimated that at least 1,000 of the islands inhabitants lost their lives. It Is feared that later advices will add to the long list. The first news of the disaster arrived at Papetee, Tahita, January 26, on the schooner Elraeo. The captain MANY LIVES IN PERIL of the Bchoonerlaced the fatalities at On Hundred Men Have Narrow Es. 500. The steamer Excelsior arrived at cape from Death in a Fire. Papette the following day with 400 Fire, caused by the explosion of an destitute survivors. The captain of the automatic burner in the Pennsylvania Excelsior estimated the total loss of railroad shops at Pitcairn, Pa., Tues- life to be 800. These figures comprised day, destroyed the passenger car reonly the deaths on the three Islands pair section and cabinet shop, entail- of Hao, Hikuera and Makokau, whose ing a loss of $15,000 to the company. ordinary population Is 1,800. On HiOver 100 men wre at work in these kuera Island, where 1,000 Inhabitants departments, and they barely escaped were engaged In pearl diving, nearly with their lives, many losing their one-hawere drowned. On an adtools and the clothing which they jacent island 100 more were washed wore to work. There was a shortage out to sea. Makokau and Hao are deof water, and the fire burned so fierce-lConservative estimates populated. that for a time it was feared that at Tahiti place the number of islands the immense shops and round house visited by the tidal wave and hurriwould be destroyed, sbut the excellent cane at 80. All of them are under the work of the railroad fire brigade kept control of the French governor of Tathe flames confined to the repair sec- hiti. tion. The surviving Inhabitants are left destitute of food, shelter and clothing, A FILIPINO ROUND-Utifar , " lf y P. all having been swept away by tha storm. The French government, upon receipt of news of the disaster, took prompt measures to relieve the distressed district and dispatched twc warships, the Duranee and Zelee, with fresh water and provisions. The Italian Calabria accompanied the two French vessels oajheir errand of mercy. As the supply of fresh water and provisions was totally exhausted by the storm, it is feared that many lives will be lost before the relief ships arrive. As the islands were barely twenty feet above sea level, and not surrounded by cor$.l reefs, it was necessary for all the inhabitants to take to the cocanut trees when the tidal wa70c began to cover the land. These trees Immense height, many grow an altitude of 100 feet. All ot reaching the lower trees yere covered by the raging seas, which swept with pitiless force about and over them. The natives in the taller trees were safe until the cocoanut roots gave way, and then they, too, were swept onward, iar out Into the sea. The 400 survivors brought by the Excelsior to Papeete gained the ships side by swimming three and four miles from the tops of the cocoanut trees. The Eimeo, though badly disabled oy the storm, also brought off as many persons as could swim to her sides, she, like the Excelsior, being unable to run close to the shores because of the fearful violence of the ocean swells, which continued to run abnormally high for a week after the tidal disturbances. , One of the many acts of heroism reported is that of a woman who climbed one of the tall cocoanut trees and lashed her little babe to the branches, hanging on to the body of the tree beneath the little one as best she could. There they remained for ten hours, suffering great torture, until finally rescued. Thousands of tons of copra and over 200 tons of mother of pearl shells are known to be lost 'ine pearl shells are vaiued at $1,800 per ton, add many valuable pearls may now be lost to the world forever, as these were considered some of the best pearl islands in the world. man-of-w- ar ton . 11,3-41- . ALTER, SENATOR REED SMOOTS SCALP The goverrflient Is preparing to P,nd up the disorderly hi; elements in XUiiatan )rov in and Rlzal, weTe accordance with orders received from the war department, will be reinforced by several companies of native scouts. The rumors from the disaffected provinces are believed to exaggerate the number of hostiles, of which It Is said there are 2,000 In the field. More trustworthy reports say there are not over 500 natives under arms, and that the bulk of these scattered after Sundays It Is' believed that the chief fight. difficulty will be concerning them. There is little doubt but that the will be speedily suppressed. hos-tile- s SEDITION CHARGED. PROTEST AGAIK'f jstMTino BENAT Jtt t ILED. or t! mu United tiwunOkL1! Asked to Set Aside the ElectioX the Document Being in the Hands of Senator Burrows. A special to the Salt Lake Herald from Washington contains the following: Senator Burrows, chairman of the privileges and elections committee, has received a protest from citizens of Utah against seating Senator-elec- t Smoot. Senator Burrows has not decided when he will present the protest In the senate. It Is possible he may defer filing it until after the credentials of Smoot are presented, but after a conference with other members of the committee the protest may be presented prior to the receipt of the credentials. Senator Burrows says the Judge Calls Editor to Account for Criticism of Court and Jurors. John W. Trame, editor of the Daily Record-Minof Juneau, is confronted with the charge of sedition. In a conSUICIDES. troversy growing out of the attempt GENERAL of Judge M. C. Brown to put a stop Former Colombian Revolutionary to gambling, the Miner 'has freely Leader Takes His Own Life. criticised the court and jurors. Judge The British steamer Para, which has Brown has appointed a committee of at Kingston, Jamaica, from arrived the leading members of the bar to Innews of the suicide on Colon, brings vestigate the utterances of the editor 30 of the former Colombian January to and report their findings to the Uribe-Uribrevolutionary general court. er URIBE-URIB- E e. TROUBLE IN Locked in Fire THE BALKANS. Trap. Two little girls were burned to death Russian Officers Ordered Ready at Wallington, N. J., Saturday. They Rejoin Regiments. had been locked In the house while It Is announced ia a dispatch from their parents were at work. They a news agency from St. Petersburg were the children of Frank Zabolusky, that all the officers of the Russian who works In a dye house. His wife army reserves have been notified to works In the botany mill. The house hold themselves In readiness to rejoin was burning fiercely on the Inside their regiments in twenty-fou- r hours. when the neighbors discovered the lire. In the event of mobilization orders be- Those first on the scene found It iming issued. The measure. It Is added, possible to enter, although neighbors appears to be connected with fears said the children were inside. Afterof trouble In the Balkans. ward the charred bodies were found. CARRIE NATION ARRESTED. Race Riot in Georgia. Saloon Smasher .Violates an Ordi- A race riot occurred at . McDonald, nance in Lot Angeles. O., Sunday, between two white men Mrs. Carrie Nation, who Is filling a on one side and a crowd of negroes on lecture engagement at the Chutes the- the other, the result being that two atre in Los Angeles, was arrested negroes were killed, one mortally Tuesday for violating q city ordinance wounded and eight others badly forbidding the advertisement of at- wounded. The report ia that two white tractions by the use of carriages dec- men, well known In the section, went orated with painted banners. The to a colored festival, and, after having has never been made effec- a little difficulty wtih some of the netive, and Infringement of Its provis- groes, locked the two doors of the ions has usually been overlooked In building in which the negroes were the pasL Mrs. Nation was released on dancing and commenced firing into the bail crowd with sbotgvns. ce , regular prwetiurty after protect is And Is Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Murder of Mrs. Pulitzer. William Hooper Young, on trial in or the murder of Mrs. New York City-f- Anna Pulitzer, pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, and was sent tenced to life imprisonment. he that Herrick Justice explained had advised Youngs counsel to change his plea, and so advised the district attorney to accept it, this action being taken because of the prisoners mental condition. According to the report of the doctors, he was not insane in the legal aspect of insanity, but from a purely medical point o.f view, he is not sane. Tljj, crime which Young has admitted was the murder of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer on Septemoer 14 last. Mrs. Pulitzers body a as found in & canal near Newark, N. J. Suspicion pointed to Young, and a seajpn of his rooms evidence. revealed Incriminating was fled and Young captured in DerMrs. Conn. Pulitzer's body was by, badly mutilated by her murderer, there being twelve staj? wounds. She was disemboweled. Youngs trunk, in which were a bloody dagger and some of Mrs. Pulitzers clothing, was located in the Chicago depot, he having sent it there by express just before he fled. Youngs infatuation for the woman ana his abnormal conditions are held to be responsible for the murder. THE SMOOT PROTEST. PamConsists of a Men. Prominent phlet, Signed by The protest against the seating of 6enator Smoot, which has been received by Senator Burrows, chairman of the committee on elections and privileges, has been carefully prepared In pamphlet form, and consists ot Blxty-tw- o of matter pages printed Quotations from sermons, manifestos, trials, newspaper Interviews, etc., ar made liberally, with frequent to church books and church announcements. It is contended: 1. That the Mormon priesthood, according to the doctrines of that church Is vested with supreme authority in all things, temporal and spiritual. 2. That the first presidency and twelve apostles are supreme in the and transmission of this authority. 3. That this body of men has not abandoned the principles and practice of political dictation, also It has not abandoned belief In polygamy and cohabitation. "" 4 TJiat this attitude? idency ana anostoiaiL suspensory manifesto o fTa J 0"ISTTu denced by their teachings since then 5. That this body of officials, of whom Senator-elec- t Smoot is one, also practice or connive at and encourage the practice of polygamy and polygamous cohabitation, and those whom they have permitted to hold legislative office have, without protest or objection from them, sought to pass "a law nullifying the enactments against polygamous cohabitation. 6. That the supreme authorities in the church, of whom Senator-elec- t Smoot is one, the first presidency and twleve apostles, not only connive at violations of, but protect and honor the violators of the laws against polygamy and polygamous cohabitation. The document is dated at Salt Lake City, January 26. and is signed by the following: W. M. Paden, P. L. Wil liams, E. B. Oitchlow, E. Wilson, Sixty-two-Pa- refer-ence- s e sented will be its reference tojhis to which the credentials of Smoot and other protests, if any are received, will also be referred. The nature of the charges or allegations set out in the protests will determine the future action of the committee. If the charges are of a serious nature hearings may be ordered to determine the truth of the same. If not the committee may pass upon them without further testimony than shown on the face of the protests. Senator Burrows received telegraphic notice two weeks ago from the Ministerial association that a protest would be sent by it against seating Smoot and that a representative of the association would come to Washington and appear before the committee C. C Goodwin. - U. Colbath V. A against Smoot, but up to the present Clarence T. Brown, Ezia Thomptime this promised protest has not ar- son, John J. Corum. J. W. Leilarh W. rived. Mont. Ferry. H. C. Hill, S. H. Lewis, George R. Hancock, George M .Scott, General e published a lettei Clarence E. Allen, Abicl Leonard, H. December 12, advising ' Colombia to G. McMillan. await the lapsing of the Panama conNAILED MANS FOOT TO FLOOR. cession in 1904, which would leave the UoTombian government a free hand in Horrible Outrage Inflicted on a Pole the matter of the canal. The reports in Pennsylvania. brought by the Para indicate the posAnton Merhoon, a Pole, of Pittsburg, sibility of another revolution in oppo- Pa.; suffered one of th emost excrusition to the Panama canal treaty ciating tortures ever allotted to man. For four hours he stood with one of In a Spring Bed. Caught his feet nailed to the floor. Then he John Chase, 85 years old, at one time a prosperous manufacturer of Manhat- underwent the pain of having the nail tan, having lost his money, lived alone extracted that he might be released. at Hempstead, L. I. Not having been Merhoon was employed as a laborer seen for several days, friends went to at the ischoenberger mills, having arFor look for him, and found him uncon- rived in this country recently. scious In his room. His foot had been some reason his countrymen disliked him. He says that this dislike Is due caught in a spring bed and in endeavto his having succeeded one of their oring to extricate it, the olu man had most Intimate friends at the mill. They partly fallen out of bed and struck his that he took the place for less allege head, which rendered him unconscious. At any rate, they resolved to money. He had been in this position for three get even with him. Merhoon was days. working alone In a room. Suddenly the Needs of Hawaii. door was thrown open and his four Superintendent of Public Works countrymen entered. Merhoon says Henry E. Cooper has furnished Gov- that they .demanded that he give up ernor Dole of Hawaii with his esti- his place at once and leave the mates of the needs of the island gov- This Mernoon refused to do. The city. four ernment, and they will be transmitted men then set upon him and beat him to the legislature for action. Superin- In a terrible manner. Then one of them picked up & hammer which was tendent Cooper says that in the next lying on the floor, secured a nail or two years his department will small spike about four inches long, require which was driven through the strug$6,600,000 for public improvements, in. mans gling right foot and Into the the eluding construction of bridges floor. They then left, locKing the and roads, buildings and for running floor, ue unfortunate man being slots expense. Cooper proposes that part for four hours before he was discovof the money be raised by loan. ered in an almost dying condition. com-mitte- e, to-wi- I- Uribe-Urib- t, Xel-dw- i, |