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Show MS . COALVILLE TIMES WOHMI ADMITS N. JACOB PLTERSON UTAHNS TORTURED . Editor and .Manager COALVILLE TERRIBLE CRIME UTAH Bl UTAH STATE NEWS The people of Bingham have voted 125,000 bond for municipal Improve- ment.. Niela Anderaon, bom in Sweden in 1835, and an Immigrant to this state in 1855, died at Ephraim. June 13, after an illness of only a few hours. Steps are being taken by County Horticultural Inspector Carl Isaacson to enforce the horticultural laws in regard to spraying for the codling moth in Boa Elder county. C. M. Christensen, who shot and killed bis wife and was in jail in Sait Lake awaiting trial, eulclded Wednesday, cutting bis throat with a razor with which he had lust shaved him-MISuffering from insomnia. Col, El 8. Terry, of Salt Lake, one of the best known residents of the capital city, fired a ehot through hla brain nnd died the following day without having regained consciousness. Suffering a stroke of apoplexy while eating breakfast in an Ogden cafe, David N. Stephens, nged 53 years, died while being removed to police headquarters in the patrol wagon., He was n lifelong resident of Ogden. J. p. Christenson, one of Ephraim's most prominent and progressive cltb sens, died June 10. Mr. Christenson was injured in. n runaway just one week previous, caused by. his horse taking fright from n passing automobile. That it will not be necessary to issue a general blanket dipping order throughout the state, because sheep are practically free from the disease of sheep scabies, has been decided tfy the state board of sheep commissioners. Believing that much good could b accomplished by the appointment of a woman police officer, women's clubs pf Ogdaa hsvs petitioned the board of city commissioners to consider the advisability of appointing such no officer. Cornelias T. Richmond, veteran conductor for the Denver A JUo Grande, one of the oldest men in point of service empldyed by the compssy, died at n 8alt Lake hospital last week at the age of M years. Death was dus to paralysis. Price narrowly escaped a disastrous wkwL.jV Cuthe'4 . I?,.- r mmhwtwh hydrant runvwws, nanny . There ning that there was no pressure and s only the strenuous efforts of saved the bouts. Because a ride sold to blm by the Union Pacific Coal comand destroyed his pany "back-fire0 right eye, Peter Gaspard wants damages from the company. He entered hla suit in the district court at Salt Lake last week. Brokea la health and totally blind, C. O. Harris, former general superintendent of the Utah Independent Tele- - phone company and later secretary of the old Merchants and Manufacturers association In Salt Lake, died last week at Los Angeles, While replacing a water wheel in a pit at the Nephl electric plant, volun-fear- 4 .IS-caltb- $10,-00- KI1-ha- rt Wilson, aged 30, was killed by the breaking of a temporary bulk-kea- d placed to keep water back from tho work, and G. B. Hobbs and O. N. Boswell were seriously Injured. An punishment for misconduct and chemea to break Jail and bludgeon his Jailers, Caleb A Inlow, convicted murderer-o- f "Eddie 'White, Is being compelled by the sheriff of Salt Lake county to sleep on an Iron bed in bis cell without any bed clothing. Proprietors of many hotels In Salt Lake have signed an agreement not to Increase rates for the National Education Association convention, which will be held there July Private homes and boarding houses will be thrown open to convention visitors. To discuss tbs marketing and shipping of coal and tho safety of coal miners.' about 500 superintendents, mine foremen and fire bosses, representing coal mines in Utah, Idaho, Colorado and New Mexico, held n three-dasession In Salt Lake during tho past week. Mrs. Evelyn Nielsen. 31 years old and a bride of but a tew months, was seriously and perhaps fatally injured by a fall down an elevator shaft -- in Salt Lake. She Jumped from tho elevator while It was In motion, was knocked backward by the caging, and fell to tho basement Work on the state highway between Brigham City and South Wllard te progressing rapidly and within a few days the county commissioners .will pnt on another big force of men and teams south of Willard to work northward from tho end of the completed road built by the convicts in 1909, Under tho terms of a contract Just closed between the Denver A Rio Orande Railroad company "and the American Refrigerating Transit company, the latter company will hereafter handle all the fruit and refrigerating business for the rood. Upen a written guarantee that the Aim will be shown ln forty mqtlon picture theaters bit the middle west, the Ogden publicity bureau directors have entered into a contract with the North American Motion Picture company of Denver for a reel of pictures, ""LfiOd fcf la feigUi of Ogden winea 1 DIMES MISSOURIAN AND HIS DAUGHTER SLAIN WITH AN AXE AS THEY LAY IN THEIR BEOS. RANCHERS TIED UP BY ORDER OF REBEL LEADER8 AND FORCED LIVES. TO BEG Declares That Shs Was Impelled by s Force Tr.st Phe Could Not Reeiet and Disclaims Re for Crime, sponeibility - After Having Taken Everything The) Wished From Ranch, Bandits Are Reported to Have Wantonly Destroyed Property. FOR-THE- Wlf J PUR FOR FDR BETTER ROADS INTERMOU STATES Good Delegates at Intsrmeuntaln Roads Association Meeting Working for Better Highways Boise, Idaho. The Good Roadi association litennountaln closed Its annual convention hero Thursday night after a three days session, following a spirited conflict over the place of the next meeting and the presidency and secretaryship. Butt Mont, won against Provo. Utah, for the 1914 convention. Dr, I P. MpCalla, chairU. P. HAS NEW PLAN. man of the executive csmmlsslon in charge of tho present T convention, Exchange Southern Pacific was elected president He la a promStock for B, A O. ' inent physician of Boise. T. H. BurSL Raul, Minn. Attorney General ton of Nephl, Utah, was elected secMcReynolds served notice Thursday retary. Resolutions adopted declared for an that the government was opposed to giving the Union Pacific railroad any open auto rout through the Yellowfurther extension of time within stone National park in promotion ot which to dispose of its holdings of ,the national movement t "See AmerConvict labor on good Southern Pacfilc stock as ordered by ica FlraL roada was also highly fcdorsed, tothe supreme court Mr. McReynolds declared that he gether with the good reads departcould see no objection to tbo proposed ment of the federal government conexchange by the railroad of $38,000,-00- ducted in connection wlt the departworth of Its Southern Pacific ment of agriculture. ,irl5T!t!W worth of Baltimore Ohio stock held A by the Pennsylvania railroad. Famine Impending. Washington. Famine, with only eal meat to keep off starvation, threatens the people of the Pribylof island of Alaska, at a result of congressional delay in passing the sundry civil bill, the department of commerce announced Thursday. There are food suppllee on the Island tor but a month longer, and until funds are provided the department can send no- - more. - Even - If - a, vessel - sailed from San Francisco at once. It could not arrive before July 4. Would-b- e Suicide Saves Life. Baltimore, Md. After an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide, Zantl, 33 years old. gave two quarts of his blood to a mother of seven children, who was In a dying condition at a hospital. It la said tho woman will live nnd that Zantrta not In danger. Cam-mlll- SAMUEL HUSTIN o THOMPSON L Salt Lake City. Press dispatchei and private messages received here In dicate that James Alma Cunnigham Jr and Roy Cunningham, sons ol J. A. Cunningham, Sr., ot this city have been painfully Injured by Mexl can rebels in an attack which the rev olutlonlata made on the Cunnlghan ranch, known aa Hacienda de Concep tlon. In San Lula PotosL The rebels are reported to havt numbered more than 2.000, and aftei taking everything they wished Iron PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA the arnch, It ia reported that the) DISPOSES OF HIS RIVAL wantonly destroyed everything that possibly could be burned or damaged Including the bedding, food, clothing pictures, ranch houses and other prop General Gomez Imprisons General erty of the Cunninghams. The messages declare that the three Chalbaud, Claiming Diecovery of Cunningham hoys were tied up foi Conspiracy Against Government. four hours and that James Cunningham was repeatedly forced to beg on hla knees for hla Ufe. Willemstad, Curacoa. Details of the MONOPOLY PROHIBITED. recent political disturbances in Venezuela, where a large number of prominent men were imprisoned or took to Water Right Policy of tbs Government Announced by Secretary Lane. flight following accusations of conreachthe spiracy against government, The lower the rati Washington. ed here Friday. charged to consumers by electric It Is stated that a plot to assassi- power companies, the lower will be nate President Juan Vicente Gomez the tax which such power companies was frustrated by the Imprisonment of must pay to the government General Delgado Chalbaud and a numSecretary Lane of the Interior depart ber of hla friends. The plot was to ment announced Sunday ae "the heart have been carried out at the inagura-tlo- of the policy adopted as to the disposiot the Venezuelan Automobile tion of water rights of the governclub a tew weeks ago. Mr. Lane has pending bo ment In connection with the approaching fore him several applications foi campaign for the presidency there la rights to use the public landa and much speculation in Caracas. Many waters of the navigable streams for believe that Gomez will try to succeed the development of electrical power. himself, although such action is con- He la opposed to making use of trary to tho constitution. If thla Is these waters as a source of revenue Impossible, ha will endeavor to secure to the government but la in favor of the election of one of hie trusted requiring the fullest use of them for friend In either case It la consid- the benefit of the people. ered certain that some trouble will fttlliw . FREIGHT STEAMERS COLLIDE. Should disorder break out General " i Gomes has a great many things In hla On Survived 8hock, But Fate of the favor. The army la In splendid condiOther la Unknown. tion. The officers are loyal to him Mich. The ore steamer Calumet and there 1b plenty of money in the Jesse Spaulding, damaged to an ungovernment treasury. known extent In a collision with the coal steamer William P. Snyder, Jr., Is Raid Mall Boxes, 8uffragets missing on Lake Superior, someEdinburgh. The militant suffraget where, it Is thought, in the vicinity ol campaign was resumed' here Friday Kewwenaw point The distress signal with the biggest raid that had yet from the Spaulding ceased suddenly been made on mall boxes. Twelve after the collision during a heavy log of these receptacles from one end of and the Snyder, which had backed the town to the other were attacked. was unable to find the other inChemists teet tubes filled with a col- clear, veasel. -jured orless acid which caught fire when After a long search for the Spauldthe glass was broken were dropped the Snyder, which waa badly daming, Into the boxes by the suffragettes and above the waterline, waa forced aged many letters were damaged. to attempt to reach its home port Superior, Wis. Astor Estate Distributed. New York. The estate of Colonel Windpipe Partly Severed. John Jacob Astor, who perished in the New .York. A sagging wire caught Titanic disaster, was officially apprais- the throats of two members of a piced Friday at 384.966.611, of which nic party riding on top of a doubleVincent Astor receives 368,964,499, decked automobile bus near Long Mrs. Madeline Force Astor 37,678,896 L. I., and swept several men Beach, Muriel Astor $4,856,758, and John Ja to the ground. One of the men, Wilcob Astor, eon by hla second m&rirage liam Pleng, la suffering from a partly $3,933,673. severed windpipe and probably will die. F. A. STRONG Serious Earthquake in Bulgaria. Sofia. The earthquake of Saturday were renewed Sunday in many parts of Bulgaria. Two violent shocks i a where much occurred at ', damage was done. At Tlrnova many people were killed and churches and public and private buildings were damaged. There are many homeless and destitute. . IS roll,' representing the real department of the national government; , Douglas White, who spoke ot the subGood Roads and Railrmds; R. R. Lyman, professor ot the UniverConstruction sity of Utah, on of Earth Roada; former Governor James H. Hawley of Idaho, en "Good Roada and Their Relation to Mining; Ellas Vander-Horof the National Good Roads association, en "HT-mon- y Between National and' Local Road Builder ject, st President-J- . A. Hendrickson of Lo- gan In Ms annual address to the convention, declared that last year Utah alone graded 331 miles f road and surfaced elghty-sl- x miles, while the total expenditure was mote than $496.-000and this year more than 500,00o will be expended. He advocated a federal bond Issue of 1100,000,000, to be apportioned among the various states, so that the total expenditure will be 3400,000,000 for better road Addressee were made at the Wednesday session by C. F, oelsch, author of the Idaho highway commission law; A. Q. Batcbelder on Roada That Lead Somewhere; E. M. Ammons on "The Midland Trail; ud Miss Lnna E. Bigelow, representative of the government good roads department, on The Benefit of eBtter Highways to 1 School Children. The convention was starred to enthusiasm by the address !of Iloratiu II. Earle, known as Good Roada Earle, who spoke on (the nubject "Good Enough Roads for the Traffic. The evening program Include an address by B. H. BurreH united State highway engineer on The Modern Day Road Question," inp Frederick Vlnlng Fisher of the Paiama Pacific f exposition on "Good McAdoo Washington. Developments of the last week at both ends of the capltol have indicated a growing detenu. nation on the part of the Democratic leaders of congress to pass' tariff bill and wind up the work of the extra session without action upon currency reform or any other important subject. The tariff revision hill is to he pushed to completion and Wild before the Democrats of the senate in caucus before the end of this week. In the meantime, noth withstanding President Wilsons repeatedly expressed desire to see some positive action takento-- . ward the reform of the nations currency system, congressional forces of the party in both houses are showing s disposition to defer action on monetary reform until the regular session opening next December. WEST VIRGINIANS .TO 8TRIKE. Operators Are Charged With Failure to Live Up to Agreement Charleston, W. Va. Word came to Charleston Sunday morning from va. rlous sources that the miners at work in the mines on Paint end Cabin creeks had voted, at a mass meeting, to renew the strike wMch tor a year has convulsed the coal field. The miners were at work under an agreement framed by Governor Hatfield end agreed to by miners and operators. Mutterlnga of discontent had been beard among the miners for sevIt is charged that the operal day erators have failed to live up to the agreement proposed by Governor Hatfield which provided that the strikers were to be taken back to work without i Is crimination. Slaughter of Moor official Alhucemas, Morocco An dispatch received here say: A large party of Moors boarded the Spanish gunboat General Concha, after the crew had been taken off, when she went ashore on Thursday near here. They were pillaging the vessel when the cruiser Reina Regente came up and fired her entire broadside among them, killing nineteen and wounding sixty. Nun Victim of Auto Accident, ( Fresno, Cal. tSiater Mary AJwcoquj, mother superior of SL Augustines academy at Fresno. Cal., for thirty-tw- o years instructor ot vocal music at 8L Marys academy. Salt Lake, waa almost Instantly killed Saturday, when an automobile in which, oho and two ther sisters of the academy were riding, turned turtle on the state road near Freeno. . Not a Lobbyist; Oh, No. Washington. Henry T. Oxnard, the of the Amermillionaire ican Beet Sugar company, testified Saturday before the senate lobby committee that he estimated he had spent n an average of $20,000 a year in Washington for the last twenty-thre- e years In behalf of the beet sugar He declared that not a cent had been spent Illegally. Killed While Hunting. Ogden. Struck in the face by the full charge of a shotgun accidentally lischarged, Brigham Bollaatyne, manager of the Ogden Plumbing A Heating company, va instantly killed ihlle on a hunting trip near Snowville, Box Elder county, Saturday. A companion tripped and fell the gun being lischarged full In his face. Navigation Tied Up.-SCatherines, Out. Four gates of he Welland canal lock No. 1 at Port Da.housie were carried away by a relght steamer Sunday, allowing all level to the water In the three-mil- e lock No. 2 to flow out and completely tying up navigation. Breaks Altitude Record. Vienna. The French aviator, Ed Washington. Tho American yacht mund who holds the world Columbia, seized by the Japanese au- iltitudePerreyon, for an record aeroplane, both thorities for unlawful entry In the or and pilot and one passenger, pilot closed port of Nagahama, has been broke the world a record for carrying released, and what threatened to be an two He on Sunday. International Incident h disappeared. reachedpassengers' of a height 15,240 feet. Bomb Thrower Killed. Irish Labor Leader Assaulted. Los Angeles. Two young Italians Leeds, Engand. Sir Edward Car-owere terribly burned and mangled by the leading spirit in the fight a bomb- which they hurled under th home rule for Ireland, wae igalnst porch of a house on Fourteenth street struck on the head by amiesile early Sunday. The honse waa com brown by some unidentified person, pletely wrecked. .Saturday night Motorcycles Collide. Will Disarm Bulgara. Oakland, CaL Miss Natakl Sul tiff; Sofia, Bulgaria. It is understood Joseph Souza and Wesley Hoffelt wer tere that the European powers lnten Instantly killed Sunday as a result ol S' make a collective demand for the a motorcycle collision .on a sharp lemobllization of the Bulgarian army carve. The young woman waa hurled vs eoon aa the cabinet has been over a fence. Japs Release Yacht Rs y Part of the Democratic Leaders to Revise Tari.'f and Depart for Heme. Growing Determination on IR . Arthur Mo. Mrs Harrlsonvllle, Keller confessed late Thursday that It was she who killed her husband, a railroad laborer, andtbeir daughter, Margaret, 7 years old. Kellar and the girl were slain with an axe as they lay In their beds. "Ood knows I would not have killed them bad I known what I was doMrs. Kellar said In her confes-Ion- . ing She declared she had frequenther acts ly been Irresponsible for since she received a blow on the head two years ago. In her confession Mrs. Kellar relates that when she went to bed Monday night she was feeling badly, and lay down with her clothes on. Later he awoke, and. Impelled by a force she could not resist, she says, she secured the axe, and, returning to the room where her husband and Margaret were asleep In the same bed, struck them both, blow upon blow. Only after the deed was done did she realise what she was doing, she declares. i remember striking them both," the confession says, "but I don't know which one f struck first The blind was up and I could see them there in bed. TO ACT OX CURRENCY Explains. Washington. McAdoo Secretary said Thursday that hla statement announcing that 3500,000.400 of emergency currency would he forthcoming should banks need It, was made In response to numerous Inquiries from bankers who were anxious to know whether additional currency would be available for crop movement. Coulon Finally jgn(j. the newly appointLos Angeles. Bantamweight Chamed assistant attorney general who depion Johnny Coulon of Chicago and fends the government In all suits Williams were the U, S. Court of Claim He ta Johnny F. A. Strong la the newly appoint, a Pittsburgher, graduate of Prince-to- matched Thursday to Igjtt her the ed governor of Alaska, who succeeded and a close friend or President night of July 39 forjh bantamweight " championship of the vorld. Walter SL Clark. Wilson. Mr. Thompson Is bo-for- a Will Missionaries Buying Glrla, Issue Orders From JaiL SL Louis The missionaries In In Mass A statement urging Ipswich, dla are buying yonng girls bp tbs the hosiery mill strikers to remain 10 cents apjece in ordet F.rm thousand at la their demands waa Issued from to save them from Immoral Urea ia Jail by Carroll L. Pingree and Nathan the temples, was the statement mads YftrinaiL-Indus trial .Worker - of - tho In the local Y. W. C. A. Sunday. World leaders. wnty-fou- r Injured. Rick- - Ceupie --Eulclds ;blncVRians Ivi wi ye T "' Try! n fl lo ' Sta rvs City." Twenty-fou- r Madrid. Because Louis . person St TOte In the see Mag-glH. Zurich. Swltxertand N. at Eugene Enraged Portsmouth, Brownsville, Texas That consLtu-donalissged 41, and hla wife, aged 35, be- Spanish senate revealed a plu in the Ing hla former sweetheart In com most of them women and children are endeavoring to starve rear-enwere street cat the injured la a lieved to be the wealthiest persons Liberal party, Couat Alvaro de with two other men. Robert of Monterey, Mexicor and pany city the premier, handed hla rea- - White shot and killed Miss Jennie collision on the Grove Conr lake Uni In Switzerland, suicide committed JorceLitherr federal garrison Jhere n ceou-ty- , fiesdayntgirt-TwTbnvsds being actuated bywbeer igoatioa.toKiag AJossa.- - His'Teaig vfader'16"year ol trail d'TfifciTTt tided to withdraw, is the Information received -women probably will die. nation wai accepted proviaotaly. tst In life. hia own Ufe. bore Sunday. Four Killed In Collision. Stamford. Conn. -- Four persons are dead and many injured,, some seriously, si ibi result ot a rear end eoL liston on the 'main llne 'of the New Tork, New Haven A Hartford railroad, opposite the Passengef; depot '' Pray for paaca. Will Fight Huerta. El Paso, Texaa Congregations of Texaa Constitutional Pass, Eagle El Paso churches will Join In praying 1st hedquarters at Plo raa Negara re for peace in Mexico next - Sunday, official advices from Governoi eelved while ministers in the different pulBrito of the state of Campeche Castillo pits will comment on jhe needs of h bad taken tho field with 1,004 that .peacemen against Huerta. . ts .. SL-Lo- c |