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Show APPEAL TO COURTS. THE WEEKLY SENTINEL B4Y JAKEMAN, Men HHMtn t'TAB STOCKTON. UTAH STATE NEWS. A volunteer Are brigade has been or- ganized at Garland. A severe frost visited Ogden valley Saturday night, doing considerable am age all over the valley, particularly to the potato crop. J. R. Bassett, a mining promoter kulclded in Salt Lqke City, taking laudanum. Financial difficulties hag caused him to become despondent. L. H. Farnsworth of Salt Iake City Kras chosen supreme prelate at tbs meeting of the supreme lodge of ths Knights of Pythias in Louisville, Ky. The directors of the Weber County Fair association have decided on tbs tlates for the county fair this season M September 28, 29, 20 and October 1. The damage done by the electrical torn of a week ago at the Ogden fower house Is estimated at 115.000, wo large transformers having been burned out. Roscoe Countryman has been arrested at Harrisville, Weber county, fharged with assaulting Carl Yager With a pitchfork. The trouble arose yver a woman. Pupils of the State School for thsi (leaf now at the St. Louis fair are atj trading a great deal of attention and feceive many compliments from eduV fatora and other visitors, The Socialists of Utah have placed state ticket In the field. Joseph A. Cauflman of Bingham Is named for, pvernor and W. H. Schock of Sevier for representative In congress. The Injuries sustained by Mrs. J. M. Doran, who waa struck In the eye by i batted ball at a ball game at the Hot Springs, north of Ogden, on July 4, lave made It necessary to remove the ir. i TO KEEP HANDS OF! Deported from Cripple Creek Bring Suit Against Men Who Ran Them Out. N. H. Helmerdinger and J. 8. Hall, representatives of the Interstate Mercantile company, who were expelled from Cripple Creek Saturday by a mob on Monday, bad a consultation with former Governor Charles 8, Thomas, In Denver, and Instructed him as their attorney to begin suit In the federal court for an Injunction forbidding Interference with them and their party in Cripple Creek. They will also seek compensation from Teller county for their losses. will also be Suita for damage brought by the deportees against the leaders of the mob, who are all known. No appeal will be made to Governor Peabody for protection as heretofore troops have been used both to deport men and to prevent deportees from returning to their homes. Thomas Parrot, who waa beaten by the mob, is preparing an affidavit to be forwarded to President Roosevelt with a request for federal protection. KAMIMURA'8 VICTORY. jAPfcN- - half-erase- d le Question of Neutrality at Shanghi Must be Solved Without the Aid of - i the United 8tates. TORNADO KILLS MANY Russians at Port Arthur Can Not Hold Out Much Longer. A Junk which left Liao Ti promontory the night of August 21 haa just arrived at Chefoo. She reports that the Japanese have succeeded in occupying Antazchan fort as well as another fort, probably Etzshan, about a mile southwest of Antazchan. They have driven the Russians from the parade ground, which lies about two miles north of the harbor; .they have destroyed two forts at Ch&oobanko, which Is within the eastern fortifications, and they have advanced to a This hews point near Cbaocbanko. oonfirms information received at Chefoo previously and which the local Japanese were not inclined to believe. The Junk heard firing until midnight of August 22. Scarcely a building In Port Arthur remains undamaged. The town hall, which was used as a magazine, has been destroyed. Four large warships nnable to fight are at Port Arthur. Only one ship, a vessel with two masts and two funhas guns on board. nels, ' The fire of the forts not captured by the Japanese, together with the ef feet of land mines. Is given as the reason why the Japanese have not as yet conquered the Russian stronghold. Tw Hundred Buildings Are Wrecked, the Damage to Property Being Estimated at Three Million Dollars. Consul General Goodnow cabled tb that tki conference of foreign consuls Shanghai, which adjourned MondAJ morning, was resumed In the after noon. After a good deal of discusslot no solution was offered for the pre ent condition of affairs, and It w suggested that each consul .report recti y to his own government askl&l what had been done. If anything. M Goodnow had no suggestion to offer b the state department He has beet given Instructions which It is believe! will prevent the United States fron being entangled In the settlement d the question of Chinas neutrality a Shanghai. It la asserted positively at the natff department that the Amerloan flee at Shanghai Is not charged with tN protection of Chinese neutrality fc; any special instructions. The official here are convinced that the Japanese have no intention of violating Chines neutrality and, furthermore, that the' WORK OF DYNAMITERS. would not jeopardize the lmmensel' valuable foreign interests In Shanf faal by making the harbor a naval bat Hundreds of Lives Endangered in At- tleground. No instructions have beet tempt to Wreck Reservoir. sent to Admiral Stirling to interfen Before daybreak Tuesday the gates with tha action of the Japanese ver at the head of St Marys, Ohio, reserels. I voir were blown up by dynamite. The VICE ADMIRAL WITHOFT. report of the explosion was heard for miles. The buildings here were shaken and windows were broken. Intense excitement prevails, but every precaution has been taken to prevent a flood. Many consider the reservoir a menace to surrounding farms. If the explosion had blown out the entire bulkhead and opened the flood gates hundreds of lives doubtless would have been lost This bulkhead la one through which the Miami & Erie canal is fed and the reservoir is the largest artificial body of water In the world. Bloodhounds have been put on the trail of the dynamiters. There has been much ill feeling among the people living In the vicinity of the reservoir, owing to the widespread belief that the banks pf the big body of water are not safe, notwithstanding the state has spent large sums of money In strengthening the earthworks. state department Monday 11 4 f.. v Z3. Admiral Kamlmuras victory over the Russian Vladivostok squadron waa won twenty miles from the coast of Korea, In the northern part of the traits. It was at this point the' Rurik was sunk. Admiral Kamlmura rescued about 600 of the Rarlk's crew and took them to Sassebo heforg starting In pursuit of tha remaining ships of thd "Sqniilrcra. TWO HUNDRED INJURED. Storm In Minnesota Mors Destructlvs Than at First Reported. The damage wrought by Saturday's storm In SL Paul, Minn, Is 1,780,000; 500,000; Stillwater, Minneapolis, 100,000; Waconla, 75.000; country districts, 100,000. In addition to the fatally injured nearly 200 persons sustained injuries of a minor character. The city government has a force of 300 men at work clearing the streets of the vast amount of debris with which they had been strewn; gangs of linemen are at work repairing damage to electric wires and the bouses have their emwholesale removing damaged goods and ployees making temporary repairs to their warehouses. TELL OF ARMENIAN MASSACRES. Villagers and Soldiers filled Inj Sanguinary Encounter Ths Tsbrls (Persia) correspondent disof the London Daily News, la patch dated Aag. 6, says: On July 23 a band of Armenian revolutionists appeared near Owtch-klllssTurkish soldiers and Kurds, finding an excuse, attacked, set fire to and destroyed the vlllagss of Outcbklllssa, Koomlouboujak, Geu-gaKarabzar, and Sayto, butchering men and outraging women. Two large Armenian bands marching to Sassurn to help tha Insurgent a. four-year-ol- d VtCEDfVML MTWFF Fifteen are reported to be dead, twq soore Injured and property loss estimated to reach three million dollars are the results of a fierce tornado that swooped down on SL Paul, Minn, shortly after 9 oclock Saturday night Ths Tivoli theater was demolished; the Empfre theater razed; the High bridge, an immense structure crossing the Mississippi at a height of 200 feet waa almost totally destroyed and 200 bulldlagi are more or less damaged. The storm was of short duration, lasting not more than fifteen minutes. The devastation it wrought Was terrific. The wind, according to the govt blew eminent weather observer, eighty miles an hoar, coming from the southwest Buildings were unroofed and fronts blown In, the cellars being flooded with the rain which came in great waves along with the wind. Electric wires were prostrated and many persons were injured by contact with electric light and trolley wires. Fort Snelllng, situated on a level plateau and unprotected from the fury of the storm, the government nrtli ltary buildings miraculously escaped severe Injury. The storm center seemed to follow the river course, only the edge pass, lng over the northwest end of the reservation. Trees , were uprooted, branches torn hurled away and them to tha against wires, crashing ' ground. Vice Admiral Wlthoft, who was killed In the naval, battle Aug. 10, waa one of the czar's trusted naval com- - Twsfc'Ke tot, stationed at Vladivostok on April 13 lasL when he was sent to take naval command at Port, Arthur, rvlievlng 'wnoifcws nr-Y- Admiral Prince Ukhtomsky, who was temporarily In command. Admiral Wlthoft served with distinction In the Turkish war. He was 53 years of age. This Is the second admiral Russia hai tost In the war, Mak&roff having per lshed when the battleship Petropav lovsk was lost. PAID THE PENALTY. Negro Criminal Shot to Death and His Body Cremated. Jim Glover, a negro was shot to death at Cedartown, Ga, near the home of the white girl he had assaulted, and his body dragged a distance of about a mile into the city and burned on the public square. A mob estimated at 500 composed the shooting and burning party. The crime for which the negro waa thus punished was criminal assault opon Levis Reeves, the laughter of a well known farmer. MAP OF THE GREAT BELT. Lees Severe at Minneapolis. The center of the storm hit the bus!, ness section of Minneapolis at Nlco lette avenue and Sixth avenue. Hers the front of the Glass block was blown ovt and a huge skylight was blown off. All of the stores In this district had windows blown in and all suffered more or less damage to stock. The mammoth skylight of the Guaranty Loan building fell twelve stories through the Interior court, and great damage was done by water to offices. The street car service was tied up until noon Sunday, trolley wires being down in all parts of the city as the result of falling trees. The loss Is estimated at fully 1,000,000. TEAMSTERS WILL WORK. . Four lives Lost at Bergen. tornado struck the township of Rich Valley anu Bergen Saturday night about 8 oclock, killing four persons, Mary ODonnell, aged 13, daughter of Patrick ODonnell, and the son of Anthony ODonnell, and Frederick Cross and his mother, and destroying thousands of acres of grain and many barns, houses and sheds. Decide to Give No Further Aid to Butcher Strike. The members of the Chicago Teamsters union who have been on strike ftr several weeks In the effort to aid the striking butchers at the stock yards held a protracted meeting Tuesday night to determine whether or not they should withdraw from the trike. The meeting lasted until after midnight, and at times the arguments were heated. It was finally decided that the teamsters as a body would refuse to give any further assistance to the strike and the question of remaining on strike or of going back to work was left to the vote of the various local unions. . FUSION Waconla, Minn., was visited by the tornado Saturday evening, which devastated the country for miles about, and from the meager reports obtainable four persons were killed and several Injured. IN NEVADA. Democrats and Silver Men Nominate a Ticket. The state convention of the Demo--! era tic and Silver parties of Nevada concluded their labors by effecting a fusion based on a division of the ticket as follows: The Democrats were accorded senator, congressman, three electors and Ftiort-ten- n university regent; the Silver party were given supreme judge and long-terregent Each convention nominated Its apportionment of representatives and then met in joint convention and ratified the nomination. . Murder or Sulcldef The coroners Jury Impanelled to investigate the death of Wilford A. S. Vermillion, the young druggist who was found dead behind the prescription counter in his store In Salt Lake City, on Monday night, declare "tHe young man was murdered. Death was due to a pistol wound. With the coroners Jury agree many friends of the dead man who Insist that absolutely no motive for existed. Suicide, the police and county authorities declare. Is the only theory that can be accepted at this time. General Wood Will Teach Filipino Guerilla a Severe Leaaon. .. Advices from Manila state that the forces under Datto All, on the island of Mindanao, have adopted guerilla Scene of the Massacre. tactics in fighting the United States Star Indicates approximate location Of Vlllafca named In cable dlepatch. soldiers. To counteract this departure leader Antranik attacked the garriShowing the coarse of the Russian Major General Leonard Wood has orsons at Mossuniory and Goutchagh fleet from the .Baltic to the North for revenge on July 25. At dawn sea, on Its way to the far East The ganized four crack fighting companies of 100 men each, composed of Infanbombs were thrown Into these places, great belt is a wide channel be- try and cavalry, which are to operate enkilling many, and severe fighting tween the Danish islands of Fennsn and conduct a vigorous sued. The number of soldiers killed and Zaaland, together with the sound Independently campaign for the capture or destrucamounted to several hundred. between Zealand and south Sweden. tion of the enemy. Mob Breaks Loose Again. Suicided After Being Robbed. Ne Serious Fighting at Liao Yang. A special from SUverton, Colo, A man named Bencher, who comThere has been no serious fighting e, says that a party of citizens from mitted suicide near Meadows, Idaho, In the Liao Yang region, bat there including prominent mine man- last Friday, is said to have been pos- has been a small skirmish at An agers, came over to the property of sessed of considerable money shortly Shanahan, where atthe Black Bear Mining company, lo before he killed himself. He was the tacked a Russian Japanese troops were and outpost cated in Ingram basin. Sunday after- owner of a ranch and considerable driven off with a loss of six killed. Lightning came near killing Thomas noon, and compelled all the miner to In the Liao Yang has experienced two days tVilde Jr., at his ranch near Oakley. come out of the shaft and line up be- valuable . mining property f bright weather, and there is a was In a wagon and the lightning fore them. Four of the miners were Thunder Mountain district, and had Ile both his horses. The man was selected from the party and told to come to purchase supplies for the win- touch of autumn in the air. The rainy unconsclou for several leave the neighborhood and not re- ter. It is thought he had been robbed season has apparently terminated. Iendered The military inactivity is credited at boy, who was in the wagon, turn. They are accused of being and that he became desperate an to the fact that the Jappernicious agitators la behalf of Shot himself. He was about 60 jears Liao Yang concent'-atinWas struck and his arm badly paraanese are all their atunionism. of ago. lyzed from the shock. tention on Fort Arthur. Tel-lurid- g . LAWLESSNESS IN COLORADO. i Number of Citizens Art Driven n Miners. From Homes by afresh out at Trouble has broken On Cola a Creek. Satnrday Cripple n miners jnob composed of rounded up and deported a number of citizens. The men expelled from the camp are: Eugene Engley, a former attorj ney of rite federation and formerly attorney general of the state; J. C. Cole, formerly assistant deputy district attorney; F. J. Hangs, an attorney for the federation; A. L. Pierce, J. W. Higgins, Gulrd, H, M. Heim- erdenger, James Redd and Pat Maloney, who are all aoeused of being agitator; Fred Aiken of Victor; T. H. Parfet, one of the managers of the store, and Mike ONeill and twp butch, era la the union store, and a man whose name Is not given. Under guard of 2,090 men they were escorted to a point on the old Canyon City stage road three miles from the city. The spokesman stepped forward and said: You men are not wanted In this camp, you are not going to be allowed to live here. You do not seem to be happy unless you can stir up trouble. We have had enough. You are going on and you are not coming back. If you do there will be either a bullet or rope for every one of you. Now, go and keep going. Returning to the city a part of ths crowd made an attack upon the union Store Officers at first repulsed ths attack but they were overpowered and about twenty men entered and com. pletely wrecked the stock. The stock cost about 3,000. The Immediate cause of the out break was the Btartlng up of the unioo store under the name of the Inten mountain Mercantile company and ths report that a number of deported union men were on their way back to Cripple Creek from Denver. A KILLED BY FIFTEEN PEOPLE TWISTER AT ST. PAUL, MINN. 1 i William. J. Hooper, one of the early pettier of Balt Lake City, who haa keen connected with the Salt Lake theatre for forty-thre- e years, died on the 18th of general debility at the age of 9 years. It la said that the fare to Los Angeles, one way, when the new Salt L&ks fonts will be running trains, win bo Reduced to about 31.50. The single fare from Salt Lake to Lot Angeles si present is 44.50 first class. According to the geological survey lUtah Is the sixTS" salt p rod u cfn g b late In the Union, Out of a total production of 18.9G8.089 barrels produced in ths United States In 1903, 181.710 barrels were produced In Utah. Margaret Field, aged 34, met her death In Salt Lake City by drinking wood alcohol. She complained of feeling 111 and went to the cupboard to secure some medicine,, and it is supposed took the alcohol by mistake. Despondent over lack of work and by Jealousy, Thomas R. Edwards of Ogden, attempted to cut bis wife's throat with a razor and lucceeded In making an ugly but not dangerous gash in her neck. t Word comes from Fillmore of a very damaging flood whlchvistted that section. Alfalfa and grain fields were badly injured, dams were torn out and the town left without water. Many tattle were drowned In the canyons. j Nothing can bs learned concerning tbs friends or relatives of Otto La page, the man who broke his neck at Utahns park, Salt Lake City, while attempting to lop the loop. La Page came to ths capital city with a circus. The home of David Williams at Slat-nrilwas destroyed by fire on the Mr. tOth, entailing a loss of 2,000. Layman, a neighbor, in fighting the fire, cut one of the arteries of his band and came near bleeding to death. The total expense of sustaining the State board of sheep commissioners for wo years will be about 6,000, but it is Jalmed this amount la a good Investment, as thd flocks are now free from scab and the wool yield Is far better than ever before. George Rollo, a lad, had bis left leg cut off at the ankle by a mowing machine at Huntsville. The ad was playing In the grass near srbere his father was cutting bay. He wandered In front of the machine, but was unobserved by the driver until too te. The school census of Davis county, returns of which have been received, how a somewhat surprising condition m the south part of the county, where there was a decrease In the (umber of children of school age. The districts south of Layton have decreased nearly 100. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Goodfellow of Ogden had a narrow escape from death In Ogden canyon. While coming down the canyon during a heavy electrical torm the horses went down the grade, nd the whole outfit went Into the escaped serious Injury, (Iver. They buggy was demolished. UNCLE SAM WILL NOT BE DRAW INTO CHINESE TROUBLE, i IN THE LAST DITCH. ' Russians Naked When Captured. Six hundred and one of the crew ot the Russian armored cruiser Rurik, sunk In the engagement Sunday with the Japanese squadron, commanded by Admiral Kamlmura, have been landed at Sasebo. One man died there and are wounded, 177 of the survivors many of them seriously, and a number mortally. The number of officers rescued has not been determined, as all the survivors were naked when captured, having stripped off their clothing before the cruiser sank. Thus It Is Impossible to distinguish the officers from the other men, as the former are concealing their rank. FOUGHT WITH ARTILLERY. Revolutionists Dislodge Paraguayan the Government's Guns. An artillery engagement has been fought between the San Jocomlno battery of the Paraguayan army and a body of revolutionists, in which the latter succeeded In dislodging the guns of the government foroe. The losses on either side are not given. There has been no bombardment of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, since last reports. MOSQUITO KILLS MAN. Non-Unio- non-unio- TERRIFIC TORNADO VISITS WORLDS FAIR CITY, One Person Killed and Fifty Injured, While Property Damage le Immense. A tornado of extreme fury swept down upon the residence portion ot North St. Louis late Friday, resulting In the death of one person, Injury to probably fifty and damage to property estimated at 100,000. The path of tha tornado was about g block and a half wide, along which bouses were unroofed, window panes broken, several manufactories partial, ly demolished and the streets littered with debris. A Broadway trolley car containing leven passengers was struck by falling telegraph poles and wrecked. The passengers had a remarkable escape from injury and only the motonnaa received slight bruises. The casualties occurred! Just across the river, where one person was killed and ten Injured. Mrs. Beal, who was killed, met her death by the falling debris of her home which was blown to pieces. Mrs. Wheelless, who was probably fatally Injured, was the occupant of a houseboat moored along the river which was crushed by a falling tree. Five members of the Bennett family had hurried into a small woodshed that was demolished and every member of the group received injuries. TREMENDOUS BATTLE RAGING. Victory Hanging in the Balance at Port Arthur. The first detailed news of the general assault on Port Arthur indicates that a tremendous conflict is waging and that victory Is hanging in ths balance. Chinese who left Port Arthur Saturday and arrived at Chefoo Sunday, say that the Japanese, by making desperate charges, which were by an artillery fire from Shushlyen and Lonlsa bay, swept from the north Into the Pigeon bay territory and drove the Russians back from the main forts. The ground being comparatively flat In this vicinity, the Japanese were nnable to hold It in tne face of the Russian artillery fire and they retired north, an eighth of a mile beyond the zone of fire. The Chinese declais that the Jap XDese captured one Important fort, located on the Itzshan hills, midway between the west seacoast and the railway, on a line drawn approximately from a point midway between Pigeon and Louisa bays. RIOT IN STOCK YARDS. Hootler Farmer Dies From Effect ot Bite of Insect August Anderson, a farmer ot Starke county, Indiana, Is dead in a Chicago hospital from the bite of a mosquito. Anderson suffered a slight Injury which caused an abrasion ot the skin on his right hand. A mosquito bit him in the abrasion and a few days later Anderson began to He came to Chisuffer intensely. cago for treatment but blood poison lng resulted. One Man Instantly Killed and Three Othere Injured. During a riot in the stock yards In Chicago, Saturday night one man was shot and Instantly killed and three other men wWre injured by bullets. Andrew Nebroutski was shot In the forehead, and died immediately. Barry Hanson, wounded in abdomen; Dennis Ryan, shot in side, serious; Daniel OMeara, shot' in leg, not seriously. Russian Gunboat Destroyed. Advices from Tokio" state that Russian gunboat of the Otvajni type struck a mine and sank off Laotl promontory, the extreme southern point of the Kwan Tung peninsula on which Port Arthur Is situated, at 8 Oclock on Thursday night The Otvajni Is an armored gunboat of 1,500 tons displacement, launched In 1894, and carries one nine-incgun, one gun and ten quick-firinguns. She has two torpedo tubes, haa a speed of fifteen knots and carries erew of 142 men. Bey Saves a Train. Clande Nickerson of Valparaiso, Neb., ten years old, is the hero of all Nebraska. Breathless and almost fainting from fatigue, the little fellow finished at the railroad station of her town a run of three miles In time to enable railroad employees to save a Union Pacific express, carrying 180 passengers, from plunging through a The train was burning bridge. brought to a stop on the approach to the bridge just as the structure fell with a crash into the dry creek many feet below. h slx-lnc- h g |