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Show PORK IRELIS FILL IS MILLIONS Of CHINESE ARE VERGE Of STARVATION UTAH'8 CROSSES GREAT DIVIDE LEGISLATORS Clegg has introduced in provide f Mil x YEAR e tiate money. The office of mailing clerk has been created in ihe house and J. W. Kelly of Pinto Hpimiiiti-- to tbe ponlifnn. r d Detalla of Awful Giving Famine in Flowery Kingdom Received from a Noted Mis- Message Former Secretary of War Had Been 7eeble for Some Time, But the End Was Not Expected. sionary. hill No. s S. far HoJliugawairth, state to and duties of jHitt.-r- talari) ut equalization in & taxation. Ilxih tin- - sens! - and the him: on K.lday until Monday, thus Misfiling K.nuitluy Hint Sunday as da;, a i f i- of $83,466,138. Now York. The American Bibla so the following Ciety has just leiviu-cablegram Hum the Rev. John 1L Ilykev, D. 1J., ilu- uui-n- t of the society The House Will Probably Consider This Bill the First of Next Week Amounts Asked for Exceeds by Millions Expenses of Former Years. Washington. The river and harbor appropriation bill, which was reported to the house on Wednesday by the committee on rivers and harbors, carries an appropriation aggregating Of this sum $34,601,612 la appropriated in rash, to be available July 1. 11)07, and July 1, 1908, and for contin48,K34,52G la authorized uing contracts, no time limit being fixed as to when it shall be expended. ' The bill will probably not be considered by the bouse until next Monrecord-breake- r In day. This bill is a millions the many size, exceeding by amount allowed for river and harbor Improvements In any other congress. In spite of the fight made for an appropriation to continue work on a deep water-wabetween Chicago and St, Louia the committee did not grant the of request, and the appropriation 9190.000 for a survey of a deep waterway between St. Louis and the gulf, which Chairman Burton Insisted must precede any expenditures for a deep water-wa- y in Illinois, is the only consolation offered. 8. y COLD. Entire Continent of Europe in Grasp of Arctic Weather. London. Arctic weather conditions continue to prevail all over Europe, while curiously enough the actual orotic regions, northern Norway and Iceland, report the prevalence of mild and rainy weather. All the vessels reaching British ports are covered with long Icicles and have snow on their decks. Telegrams received from all parts of the continent give almost Incredible reports of the extreme rigor of the weather and consequent suffering. Many deaths are reported. In Austria two sentinels were found dead at their posts as a result of the cold. The heavy snow continues in Russia and Turkey and the Danube Is frozen over in several places In Roumanla. are reported from , Slight earthquakes Batoum. The blizzard continues at Constantinople, where the snow Is said to be several feet deep. Navigation on the Bosphorus and the Black sea has been practically suspended. TWENTY MINERS KILLED. i I - for Chiua: "Notify all liiiunls Shanghai lonary asocial iun, 274 members, resenting uiueu-t-i- i bodies, urges relief peal famine through I ! Mil- - ! rep- ap- all -- churchcH. Million uml quarter starving. Refugees already Hocked cities. In district 2,uuu,ouu destitute. Many millions alTecu-d-. dcuths al- - : Iauy ready, though five mouths, suffering relief commit- only begun. Cem-rutee, representing all Interests iu this part. East unite in placing work relief entirely In responsible bands. Opportunity of century to Impress China." .k Fpecial meeting of representatives of missionary Itodh-- s of the United States having work In China has been held in New Yurk in response to this cablegram and ll was by them unanimously recommended that churches, societies and Individuals be urgently requested to contribute liberally uud promptly to meet this emergency. j d j I THE COW MOST DANGEROUS. ROADS. Railroads Must Reform or Stock Business Abandoned. Denver. President Munlo Mackenzie's annual address whs the main feature of the opening session of the Tenth annual convention of the American National livestock association, which assembled at 10 o'clock Tuesday in the Broadway theater In this city. A report on Legislative Questions," of vital Interest to all the members, was made by S. II. Cowan of Texas, attorney for the association. The delegates were welcomed In a fellcltious address by Gov. Henry A. Buchtel. President Mackenzie referred "to previous grievances stockmen had against the railroads,- - and said: During 1906 there have been, to my knowledge, more complaint! of poor service by the railroads than in any year In the past, and unless something is done to compel railroads to give a reasonable speed limit to perishable goods in transit, such as livea loss that stock, it will create-sucultimately stockmen will have to abandon the business. ' LUMBERMEN BOUGHT CAR8. Had to Pay Employe! to Get for Their Gooda, Says Trans-poratio- n Patton. IndicatWash. Evidence Seattle, ing that lumbermen have been paying money to railroad employes to have cars spotted" on thelrv tracks, was Introduced before Interstate Commissioner Franklin K. Lane at the bearing Tuesday afternoon into the car shortage question. Charles E. Patton, president of the Reliance Lumber company and vice president and secretary of the Atlas Lumber and Shingle company, made course of the statement during his examination. To say that the evidence of Mr. Patton was a sensation would be putting it mildly. Victims of Explosion in Primero Mine in Colorado. Colo. Twenty miners, acTrinidad, Information authentic to the cording available, lost their lives as a result-o- f an explosion which occurred In the Colorado Fuel & Iron company's mine near Primero, twenty miles west of this city. Twenty coffins have been ordered by the company from a local Two of undertaking establishment. the dead are Frank Hobat, miner, and R. J. Lumley, Are boss. The names of the other men killed have not been Robbers Used Automobile. learned, as the shift boss wbo checked dp the men who went into the mine. Los Angeles. Two robbers, who Is missing. "All the men except Lumley were foreigners, most of them being rode in an automobile, perpetrated an e audacious daylight burglary of n Italians. at Conlva, a small town on the TALK DRY FARMING. Southern Pacific, thirty miles east of this city. During Monday afternoon Western States Well Represented at the two men rode up in front of the Denver Conference. postoffice and alighted, entered the Denver, Colo. When the Tranamls-pour- l building through the front door. Here Dry Farming congress opened In they quickly forced an entrance this city Thursday for a two days a locked door to the Inner through session, some of the most noted agri- office, where in a few minutes they In Am- 6roke cultural men and stock-raiser- s open the safe and took what erica were in attendance. Montana, money It contained. The men then ntered the machine without their Utah, Idaho, California, New Mexico, Washington and many other states work having been notice and whirled were well represented. Elwood Mead, away. chief of the bureau of irrigation and BAILEY RETAINS TOGA. drainage Investigations; E. C. Chllcott, I dry land agriculturist, and Mark A. Carleton, United States ccrealtst, ar- Senator From TOxaa Wina Out After rived Wednesday nighL 8trenuouo Fight Texas United States Sens-to- r Austin, SHIP SUBSIDY THE SLOGAN. Joseph W. Bailey was on Tuesday President 8ends Message to Congress 'United States senator la Advocating Measure. Joint session of the legislature by a president on vote of 108 to 45. The senate gave Washington. The Wednesday sent a message to con- Bailey 19 votes and his opponent 10. gress urging the desirability of legis- The house cast 89 votes for Bailey lation to help American shipping and and 35 against him. The opposing vote cast for Cecil Lyon, the Republitrade by encouraging the building and whs can nominee; Governor T. M. Campawift and of of lines large running former Representative A. W. Ter-resteamers to South America and the bell, and others. orlanL . te post-offic- ll Appropriates Assembly Money to Fight Japanese Case. Sacramento. Cal. The assembly on Wednesday passed assembly concurrent resolution No. 9, Instructing the attorney general to intervene In the suit brought by the federal government In the United States district court In the Japanese school question and to represent the San Francisco board of education, the county and the tat In that proceeding. The resolution provides for an appropriation of 110.000 for special counsel to assist In representing the state. During the a.v he business and ttas at tin war depart mem up to a late lunii At the bed Wednesday side tthcii he passed away w-- rc Mrs Alger uud their son. i'uptuln F. M Alger, uud Ids villa. Doth the senate and the house ad loiiriK-n i hiii notification of the death of (icneral Alger. The formal announcement of Ken fM ateraogmpk, copy rtfXt, fcy PaOwwoed M tManrtad xi or Alger's ileaili wax made to the Senator La Follette is noted for his aggressiveness and won hla spurs army by Rocreiary Taft In an order iu by fighting the railroads in his native state. While lecturing laat summer he took occasion at times to score the political actions of aome of his colleagues wldeli, after recounting Senator Al the very men who introduced him and who were sitting on the stage beside Kers services and paying a tribute tc him. They intend to wreak their revenge, it is said, opposing the bills which La Ids character, It Is ordered thut ths Follette will attempt to have passed during the present session in congress. flags ut all military post ha displayed at hslf mast on the day of tli funeral. The order says; "Secretary of War Alger was the subject of unjust criticism because ol the country's luck of foi In a helpless way war when war came, prepiratlon IAUSE8 MORE DEATHS TIJAN ANY tuberculosis mati-rlu- l although for this through his use of dairy products he was In no wise responsible. OTHER BEAST. from tuberculous cuttle. While many cases of tu1 crculoais LAW TO SERVE A8 MODEL. luroau of Animal Industry Issues Bul- undoubtedly have their origin through food directly or indirectly Infected President's Message Advocates Inaur letin of Warning aa to Danance Legislation for District with fresh tuberculous persons, them ger of Tuberculosis from la no means y by which persons Roosevelt Washington.-- - President Milk. are brought Into closer contact with in Thursday sent to congress a mesfresh tuberculosis material than milk Washington. In a most remarkable and dairy products obtained from and sage favoring a model Insurance law report published as a bulletin by the In the environment of tuberculous 'n the District of Columbia, aa recombureau of animal Industry of the de- cons The wide use of milk, Its rapid mended by the superintendent of of the district, who suggested partment of agriculture, warning is distribution because of Its perishable sounded as to the danger of tuberculo- character, the ease with which It may in insurance law for the district upon sis being communicated to human be- be contaminated, all speak for one !he lines Of the Amos bill, ings through rows. conclusion, namely, that we have no but revised no as to Include all the deThe bulletin embodies a report of more active agent than .the tuber- sirable features of the "uniexperiments that have been conducted culous cow for the Increase of tuber- form bill." The message says: by Dr. E. C. Scbroeder and W. B. Cob culosis among animals and its pep "With proiier modifications this bill ton, of the experiment atatlon of the aistence among men." muld be enacted Into a law so combureau of animal Industry. They hav indertaken experiments witUf hogs prehensive and Just that It would CLEVELAND BOY BAD AGAIN. and cattle for the main pufpese of Hand as a model of equity. I regret on Head Offsets Reformatory greatly that that there is nut national testing the susceptibility of the to Infection from tubercle bacilli' Work of Burgeons. power to deal with ibis subject, but gardless of the point at wblch-fh- e tnasmnrii ad' tfalff seems "at 'present to terial enters the body. Not only iland, O. The fates seem to be the case, we should at least estabr It shown that tuberculosis may read? Leo lish a model law In the District decided that ot in ahull be a bad boy, la spite o( Columbia. Ily be caused in the lungs, no matter "I feel that the department of in through what channel the bacilli gala juvenile courts, reformatories and sun entrance to the body, but various oth- goons trepanning. siirance of the District of Columbia er facts were demonstrated having an Leo had quite a record as an Incor- should be a bureau In the department Important bearing on the communica- rigible before it waa discovered that of commerce and labor. tion of this dread disease. his perversity dated from a whack on THANKS AMERICANS. The experts as a result of their in- the head he had received when a child conclude that tuberculosis Cranial surgery for the correction ol vestigations of West Indies .Sends Is contracted .hrough the entrance of mental abnormalities was Just coin- Archbishop Cablegram to President Rooaevelfc, tubercle bacilli; that the lung la the ing Into vogue and through the instruRoosevelt Washington. President organ most frequently affected, regard- mentality of the Juvenile court I.eo less of where the Infections materlsl became one of the first subjects ex- bag received a cablegram from Most enters the body; that tuberculosis In- perimented uon here. Drs. George Rev. Dr. Kuos Nuttull, lord archfection may pass from one part of the W. Crile and Harry II. Drysdalc re- bishop of the Went Indies and chair body to another without leaving A lieved the pressure on Leo's brain and man of the Kingston relief committee, chain of lesions to mark Its path; that Leo got to be a very good boy Inhis thanks for the prompt tendering fresh tubercle material has the high- deed. One day he say some men taking risk of the American warships under est significance, and that dried and Rear Admiral Duvls. The messago pulverized material has a doubtful sig- down an awning. The spectacle enchanted him anil he stood gazing up follows: nificance. We all appreciate deeply American These Important conclusions la re- ward. A hammer slipped, fell and by Incredible mischance tymiwthy In our distress and the gard to the cattle and dairy products an almost cracked Leo on the bead In tho exact prompt visit of your men of war for ire drawn: Tuberculosis material from cattle pot where fate had buffeted blm In our succor. has the highest virulence for all tested childhood. "Happily, the supply of food availNow Leo is a bad boy again, a very, species of the mammalian kingdom, to able for relief committees Is suffiwhich man anatomically and phys- very wayward delinquent. Mrs. Calla- cient. After meeting the cost of this ically belongs, and tuberculosis ma- ghan, probation officer, has Interested our next great want will be the means terial from man has a lower viru- herself In his behalf and hopca to In- for making small houses habitable duce the surgeons to repeat theli All our people are lence. splen Man is constantly exposed to frerh work as the fates did theirs. dldly." afti-mooi- i. l ARE BITTER TOWARDS Washington.- - I'nitcd Slates U'i.-m--I A. Alger of Michigan died slid b illy at bis ivMili-ucin this city ut S: l"i o'clock Thm-.-damorning, ful lotting all acute ii Muck of ol the lungs, tttih which lie was Mrickei . -- li.'i'i ly alter 2 nVliK-k.Mlhnligh .Hor A Ik' l' hail not I cell In good healih roe some lime, bis death was uioi-- t mi on Wednesdij xpecied. The night tt'us apparently In Ids nsu:i i J California ITH GENERAL RUSSEL A. ALGER ItcpicKt-niaiiv- OH River and Harbor Appropriation Bill Carries the Sum MANY DEATHS F.ROM Junior Senator hem Hucuaiji. j Cullom's Fifth Term. Springfield. 111. Shelby M. Cullom has been elected to the United States senate for the fifth time. Cullom received the entire vote of 132 Republican members of the legislature. The Demcrstic aspirants were Carroll C. Boggs and Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, corporation counsel of Chicago and former congressman-at-larg- e from Washington, who respectively received In caucus fifty and seventeen votes. Under the unit rule, Judge Boggs in the balloting acquired the total party vote. to-da- d d LOOKING TO FUTURE. Oklahoma THE PRODUCTS OF THE MINES. Output for the Year 19tt creese from $859,383,604 In 1904 to $921,024,019 In 1905, a gain of Worth $1,623377,127. To these products should be added A most interesting unspecified products, Including Washington. chapter In the volume entitled Min molybdenum, bismuth, tungstten and valued at eral Resources of the United States. other mineral products, 1905, published by the United States $400,000, mqjclng the total mineral geological survey, is that which con- production for 1905 of $1,623,877,137. Besides the usual table and sumtains a summary of the mineral production of the United States during mary of quantities and values of the country's mineral output by products, that year. In 1905, for tbe seventh time, the the volume contains this year, for the total value of the country's mineral flint time, a summary, In tabulated production exceeded the enormort- form, of the value of the mineral turn of $1,000,000,000. The exact fig- Products by states ures for 1905 are $1,023,877,127, compared with $1,360,883,554 In 190t. Beyond All Speech. A number of As heretofore, iron and coal are the years ago there lived mineral products In the town of Westbrook, Me., a very most important wae The value of the iron In 1905 wealthy man by the name of Winslow. $383,450,000; the value or the coal. He had a very nice hearse built, and Increased The fuels $40,756,963. presented It to associafrom $584,013,236 in 1904 to $602,477-- , tion of the town.the cemetery or 217 In 1905, a gain of $18.4.73.91, In due course of time the new 3.16 per cent. Anthracite coal showrrveI- - A large number of S2.904.SM if1" of In ed an Increase value Inhabitants of the village turned from $138,974,020 In 1904 to $141,879.-00- 0 out to examine the new vehicle, The Increase in value In 1905. among them a simple-minde- d man by over of the bituminoue coal output the name of Libby, a pauper who In1904 wee $29,480,962. a combined lived on the town farm. He stepped crease in value of coal of $32,385. up to Mr. Winslow and said: in 1905, or 7.3 per cent. a nice one, haln't It?" jj11' toTbe gain of $262,993,573 In the Do you think so?" ! replied Mr. tal value of the mineral production Winslow. and metallic In both to due gains drawled Idbby, "and say, products, the metallic pro Winslow, l 'spose that when It comes nets showing an Increase from 7ur turn to ride In that 'ere hearse 099,950 In 1904, to $702,453,106 you'll feel so darned big you west and 1905, a gain or $201,353,158. to anybody." aa showing Bonmetallic products Country's 5 J r ) Legislators Making Profor 8tato Ownership. Guthrie, Ok. The constitutional convention has placed an amendment In the hill of rights granting to the state the right to engage In huslneas, Industry or the exercise of the right of common rarricr. The amendment was Inspired by the probability of the of a stale oil refinery. A provision rovering the latter will lie submitted on tbe floor later and tbe constitution was arranged to allow this. vision Limit of Single Track. Seattle. That the Northern Pacific railroad had reached the limit of Ita capacity as a single track railroad was the principal defense put forward to the condition of freight congestion that exists on the sound by C M. Levey, third vice president of the road, and U. E. Palmer, assistant general superintendent, at the investigaInterstate Commerce Comtion missioner lame on Wednesday. Mr. d Levey said that tbe road had for improvements, which were either under way or soon would be. e i London Merchant Assassinated. London. William Wbl'dey, founder of the first big department store in London, wu shot and killwi Thursday afternoon by a young man, who afterwards attempted to commit suiwas uion the cide. Mr. Whin-lepoint of leaving his store when his assailant rushed up to him with a revolver In his hand, fired several shots, and the merchant fell dead where he Btnnd. The asKaaxtn then emptied the revolver into his own body. Inflicting what are believed to be mortal wounds y IIoiim- 7. hr appr'-iirla'i-M- i bill in- - ttOlilw and guarj and - rvp-ilui- again..! tin- - ores. of . it Dime, will again iidr. din.-i- fa at tin. idgin hour lilmr law. laid ns:uii of Ihe - Iti'l-l-- I MMliw- .- 'I :li - l in--- hill 19, by Hash. ni.l, provldi-- i that ml shall file case nf aiviili-nally therefor. in tin- dji.- of list r I'liiergi-ii'-.- . is and pi'n.i.iiiig a ixu - iiiIii-'-- fi pi-i- t - had a hliori and uneiert-fu- l Friday alterr.uon. inn li ininuieK elapsing from me rull lo r der to tin- - nintiiti lo adjourn on") Monday at 2 o'clock. Hr, line hill No. 35, introduced by Hi tvsi-n- i stive Neplil Jeiiwin. Is itileudi-to correct the evils complained of )s Tile mil- - wllli the oieratlnn nf court at Murray. contiei-ili.jiiKlh-c'- s tbs House hill No. 12, by Clegg. stahi-ft unlawful for any person ill rcquiio the giving of surety bonds lit corporal tons tint authorized to tiareai't s in the slate of Utah. Sen a i or ilulatilski, of WVher county, has Inirndiired a measure whlrh pin. vidrs that the name of a candidate shall only appear once on a ballot and under only one parly designation. House hill 23, by Meeks, is a measure In relmhmae Mt. Cnrinel district No. 2, Kane county, for lit ilebtedncNS Incurred In maintaining a school In county. Appropriation $250 The hottoe on Friday passed a resolution, offered by Mr. Kuchler, Inviting Ihe TransMIosissippl congress, which meets In Denver next auinnter, lo hold Its annual convention in 1908 In Halt Ijike. Senate hill No. 4, passed Iasi tttA. provides that any person serving a life sentence at the penitentiary upon conviction of assault with intent to Mli or do grcnl bodily injury shall suffer death. House hill No. 14, by Jackson, would eresie a commission to ascertain the feasibility nf procuring subterranean water in dry land farming and approfor tbe expein priating money thereof. The district attorney's office is probably doomed, at least so far as tbe house is concerned. A measure is ta preparation which proses the famine-latsSonUas st-- tSWXM wtiStwtatet attorney. Senate bill No. 12, by Hulanlaki, provides that salaries of county ofil-ceshall be full compensation TOr all service rendered, and providing for the compensation of depul y conn-lofficers. The deficits Incurred by the various slate boards, amounting to upAixt mately $87,kh), will lie Investigated by Ihe senate and their authority lo exwill be ceed ile-l- r appropriations brought Into question. An unfavorable report from the committee tut agriculture and horticulture in House Bill No. 4. by Dean, authorls-- 1 to eming the couuty commissioner ploy agents to exterminate iieinlelous weeds, was concurred In, killing Ihe e y bill. - Barnett of Juab Representative xuinly. In a bill introduced last week. pmiKmes to put a stop to the alleged practice of railroads of appropriating :o their own use coal and other fuel designed for public or private use, while in transit. Representative Giles has offered In :he house a bill providing for the manner of creating new count lea. It nag no reference to the proposed new lie anility of Bingham, which Is tocase county, in Sliced from Suit he plans of the promoters go through. The railroad conimliun bill is now Tho bill is a before tbe and voluminous one, provides for the creation of s board of three railroad commissioners, to be aiqmlnled by the governor, not more than two of whom shall be of tho aame political parly. The salary of the three coinmli'Slouers 1 placed at $3,6m a year each, and they inay apisiiut a secretary, whose salary shall be $1,Kim a year. i The S' t la madu to apply to rallrttHd-- engaged In the transportation of freight and to pasttengera within this state, and express companies, hut not lo street and electric railroads engaged In transporting passengers nlmie. President Love last week advimnl 'he senators to inspect the various itate institutions at as early a date as possible, as the last few weeks-o- f the session would be so filled with work that It would lie difficult to accomplish much in the "Junketing' f 6 UJ line. The present legislature will be called upon to provide means for the payment of $19,569.59 for outstanding animal bounty claims, according to a report sent to both houses by the stale board Tbe report Is an echo of examiners. of the bounty fraud expose of two years ago. The state mining committee has recommended the Rasbsnd bill, provld Ing for the equipment of all mines with medical suplh-- for use In an emergency. The bill makes any neglect to obey Its provisions pnlahable by a fine of $300 or imprisonment not exceeding six months. House bill No. 19, by Robinsoa. amends the act creating a state hoerd or equalization. It Increases the salaries of the four utemlers from $800 to $2,000 a year and requires them to dudevote their whole time to ties. The iiime luenxiire has uppeim-in the sens'- -. I- I' ii t !r a lr I S |