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Show FIVE THE WEEKLY SENTINEL RAT VIGILANTES (UNTIiOL a JIHMAR. NMAten coyote wan A In oI Ogden, capture park, la the heart An Infernal Machine Is Exploded In Cripple Creek District, a Number for Trouble. The Hid $, weMli-mii-- (li-i- J- - t r i train No. limit or, was held lbri-iiii-miles i.si-.,-.,ei- ' i 'iii I up by live iijii.-i-- f wurt ul Iaru- itu: a fruit alution midGrand Junction aud way bciAi-cr- . I GlcuMooil Siinr-vdue healed bag Fifteen deaths have resulted from containing sja ie was taken from tbs the dynamite outrage at Independwas dynamited. express safe, v. ence, Colo., and several of the Injured The express ear wa- badly wrecked by are in a critical condition, and two dynamite, but Uu- robbers were forced web-footo- rooster. During the month of May only flflp live cases of contagious and lnfoo-tlouf- l diseases were reported in Suit Lake City, as against 144 for the pro vious month. Thomas W. Beiliaton of Salt Lake City Is dead from injuries received in the Oregon Short Line yards In Salt iAko City, where he was struck by a moving train. Charles Botha will not be executed for shooting and killing his wife and William Tibbetts, the slate board of pardons having commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Ore and bullion settlements In the Salt Lake market during the month of May were the heaviest of any montl) In the present year, the total cutting very close to the $2,000,000 notch. During an altercation at West Westabbed McFarland Daniel ber, Amasaa Ilammon with a pocket knife. Inflicting Injuries that may prove fa-- I si. Both young men are numbers of .prominent families. The copper smelters owned by Individual companies In the Salt Lake valley made a great record during May, their production of copper-goldsilver bullion passing well over the S,600,000-ponnmark. Treasurer J. D. Dixon's report State for of receipts and disbursements May shows a balance on hand ol 0 $215,99C.9G. April 30 there was In the treasury. The May re. -, d $245,-124.7- wOre $119,011.70. Word has boon received In Ogden of the death of A. 8. Messer In Massachusetts. Messer was one of the first conductors ever employed on the Union Pacific out of Ogden, Jtfli ran the first train Into Wasatch. was A. M. Bruce, a brakeman, knocked from a Union Pacific train In Weber canyon, near Ogden, and received Injuries which will probably prove fatal. Ills head struck a bridge and he was thrown into the river. The olty council has completed the knocking out of trading stamps in was An ordinance put Ogden. through which Imposes a license oi $300 on each trading stamp concern and $000 upon each merchant using the stamps. A movement known as the "Chris tion crusade has been Inaugurated with western headquarters in Sail Lake City. The movement, while strictly an Independent one. Is thoroughly In harmony with the work ol the churches. The weekly crop bulletin showi that winter wheat Is beginning tc head, spring grain is eoming to good stands, and luoeru is starting t bloom, while sugar beets are in fine condition. Pastures are good ana stock is thriving. The secretary of the treasury will formally notify collectors of custom in the United States that Salt Lake City is now a port of delivery and imported goods can be shipped on landing from abroad for appraisement at Salt Lake. Richfield Mrs. Sarah Hansen of suffered a painful accident last week, when a kettle of liolling water was overturned upon her, one of her feet being so badly scalded that portions of the flesh were ready to drop oil when her shoe was removed. During the month of May Salt county paid out $1,556.25 in assisting Indigent persons. Altogether 250 families. consisting of 738 persons, sid. The sverage amount given to each family whs $6.2' and the average to each person $2.11. Mr son of Carl, the Shcrer of lruvo. had a Barrow escape from drowning. He fell into th factory race, now running full, aud was carried about fifty feet, when ha was discovered and rescued by William Foote. d Twenty Men Are Shot, an Innocent Spectator Being Killed by Stray Bullet. Workmen Being Mataacred. n j J non-unio- n h - - men were killed and eight wounded In thn subsequent rioting in Victor. A thoroughly organised vlglianco committee, composed of mine owners and their employee find sympathizer have taken charge of the government of Teller county, and large squads of armed men are patrolling the district. These men are ostensibly acting under orders of Edward Bell, the new sheriff, who Is a large property owner and an outspoken opponent of the Minora' union. Sheriff Henry M. Robertson resigned under compulsion. He was forcibly taken to the headquarters of the Mine owners' association and his resignation demanded. At first, he refused to resign, hut when finally a mil of rope was thrown at his feet he weakened and signed the resignation which had been prepared for him. The first act of Sheriff Bell was to take away the star of Under Sheriff .1. Knotnirton. He then appointed twenty-fivdeputies to which large additions have since been made and Inter he disarmed the union officers who had been appointed by (Mty Marshal OConnoll of Victor. Meantime OTonnell had visited the Minn Owners' headquarters. In which about thirty armed men had assembled and demanded that they surrender their arms to him. He was forcibly ejected and after being deposed from office by Mayor French he was placed tinder arrest. Many of the other regularly chosen pence officers of thn various towns in the district have also been deposed and some of them locked np with about 200 union miners who were arrested after the rioting In Victor. Ncn-Un-o- in Victor, in Which A1 conceded Rioting broke out In Victor, Colo., assassin, by merely pulling s wire, exploded an Infernal Monday afternoon while a mass meet' machine, tin reby instantly killing ing waa being held to discuss the murminers by means of eleven new severely wounding der of nine others, mi of whom has since an infernal machine at Independence. Colo., Monday. Forty shots were fired into a crowd In died, at !ndcpcn.--nce- , Mast of the killed and injured were tha street. One man waa killed and n miner employed on the six persona, at least injured. Secretary Clarence C. Hamlin of the Mine night shift of the Findley mine. The men had quit work at 2 a, m. Owners association, concluding a the abort addreps, said: "I want to hear and were wailing to board suburban train on the Florence A what the boys in the mines have got Cripple Creek railroad and return to to ear about this trouble." William Hoskins, a nnion miner their homes In (Tipple Creek and Vio-toJust after the engineer of the from Goldfield, threw up hia hand and approaching train blew hla whistle as houtedi "Let me talk." a signal to the miners, according to . At this the crowd began to hlaa Hoscustom, a terrific explosion occurred kins and cry, "Put him out." A free-for-aunderneath the depot platform on and fight followed and shooting bemen were gan. Moat of the shots were directed ear which twenty-siskyward. Hoskins fell with a bullet gathered. The platform was blown into splint-ir- In his body and the crowd scattered In the depot was wrecked and a hole every direction. Secretary Hamlin, twenty-sifed in circumference and who had been standing on a wagon, about aa many feet In depth was torn kept on talking, unmindful of the in the ground. Fragments of bodies hailstorm of bullets that whizzed .were hurled through space for sev- about hla head. R. McGee of Victor, who was Ineral hundred feet and, later, were Some Of stantly killed, had been standing on picked up still quivering. the bodies dropped into the pit made an embankment thirty feet above the by the explosion, but heads, hands, men who had been fighting and waa and trunks were an Innocent spectator. ears, leg., arm Strewn about on all sides. Pieces of A dispatch from Denver says that 500 flesh were found on building feet away and every- Adjutant General. Beil has been informed by telephone from Victor thing within a radius of fifty feet the force if (he explosion was felt that an attack was made late Monday throughout Hie camp and the crash afternoon on Miners Union hall by awakened everybody. The approach- a squad of soldiers. Major Naylor Mopped and the train! sent guards to aid In quelling tbe dising train crew were th first men to reach the turbance on Fourth street. When the scene of the disaster. They were uniformed men swung into Fourth Joined in a few minutes by hundreds street they were fired upon from of persons, and relief work was be- houses on both sides of the street. gun at once. They returned the fire and raced on ' That the dlaliolical crime wan at double quick until they were near and deliberately Miners Union hail. At that point the carefully hatched is now not the mob had scattered and as the soldiers perpetrated Hu-rshadow of a doubt. Two or three hun- halted several shots were fired at dred pound- - of powder was exploded, them from the windows of the hall. probably ly a revolver attached to The doors of the building had been the wire, which still remains leading left open and a dozen guardsmen fired out from tin- scone of the explosion. Into the hall as fast as they could work mechanism of their rifles. After the PEABODY SUSTAINED. a few volleys the order to take the State Supreme Court 8aya He - Hae place by assault was given and they plunged In. It was reported to GenRight to Imprison Union Men. eral Bell that a number of men were The state supreme court of Colorado has refused the application for killed, but done of the guardsmen a writ of habeas corpus for Charles were injured. Monday's outburst bad its IncepH. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Minors, who Is held as tion in tbe strike of the members of a military prlxoncr at Telluride, by the Western Federation of Miners more than a year ago, order of Governor James H. Peabody. something when 4,000 men work for tha The governor's action In declaring purpose, primarily, quit of enforcing an martial liyw In San Miguel county, im- eight-hou- r day. This action so inprisoning Moyer and other union men censed the mine owners that they deon the ground that they had Incited clared a war on unionism, and tha breach has grown wider with the pasInsurrection and re.'x'llion. suspendsage of time. Considerable lawlessing the writ of habeas corpus and Ig- ness has prevailed in the strike-riddenoring the authority of the local districts, and unionists have been courts as rocuik necessary to him in brought to trial on numerous charges. They were invariably acquitted, howmaintaining law and order Is sus- ever. tained. BLOWN INTO ETERNITY. According to the decision the governor has sole power to determine Death Dealing Explosion in Distillery when a state of Insurrection exists at Peoria, Illinois. In any county of the district. The Ten men were killed, elx Injured, courts have no power to interfere 30,000 barrels of whisky destroyed with hit exercise of this prerogative. and 8,200 Tattle burned to death In The. governor has the right to nso an explosion at the plant of the Cornthe military forces of the state to ing Distillery company at Peoria. Ills.. suppress insurrection. Saturday afternoon, shortly after 4 He has also the power to order the oclock. The Immense warehouse In imprisonment and killing of Insurrec- which the explosion occurred waa tionists If in hia opinion that excompletely destroyed, and three other tremity Is necessary. He can detain military prisoners buildings were 'gutted by the flames. until he decide! that the insurrection The property lose aggregates $1,000,-00- 0 Is quelled. to far. It Is thought that the death The courts of the state have no list will be Increased. Tbe Corning Interfere to with the military right authorities and their handling of Distillery plant Is the second largest in the world. prisoners. - lil-- Life insurance companion paid oj $572,200 In indemnities In the atate ol Utah last year. There were exactly three tinina aa many birtha aa deaths In Salt Lake City during the pmst month. A telegraph station will noon be a tabllahed at Elgin, twenty nil lea weal route from Caliente, on the Salt Harlsnd Loofbourow of Salt Lakt City, while driving a fractious horao was struck by a street car and bus talneil serious injuries. It Is claimed that within acres months trains will be running ovei the entire Salt Lake route between Salt Lake City and San Peilro. The allotment of $72,000 made by the quartermaster's department for Improvements at Fort Douglas has been approved by Secretary Taft. The freak collection at the World's fair Includes a feathered freak from rooster, a Salt Lake, a creature seemingly half dur-- and bait f Street Riot Occur NEWS SUMMARY. e . day last woek. ceipts .ir.d Dynamite Safa, But Are Not ft chly Recent Dynamite Outrage in Cripple Creek District Result in Number of City and County Officers Being Forced to Resign. Lef.toi one REIGN OF TERROR IN COLORADO Shoot Brake rr.'-- MINE OWNERS TAKING LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS. UTAH STATE NEWS. MASKED ROBBERS HOLD UP PASSENGER TRAIN. to take to tin- - mountains before they eculd gather up the valuables in the car. When the tram reached a point three miles west or Parachute Tuesday night two masked men crawled over the tender of the engine. They u the head, of placed Engineer Allison and his fireman and demanded that the train bo stopped. Three men were waiting on the tender. and aa tin- train stopped they quickly ran back and uncoupled the express and baggage ears. These carx, with the engine, were run two miles further west. Tlie members of I iu-- train crew were ordered to remain with the pasengei coaches on pain of being shed. Messenger D. M. Shea of Denver refused to open the car upon demand and piled the baggage of the car up to the front of the car. The entire door was blown away with a terrible crash. Half a dozen trunks which had been piled up against the door were demolished anil their burning contents scattered over the car A ntek of dynamite was placed against the lock of the' safe and it was blown off. ,usl at this point Brakeman Sh who had been ordered o remain wltfi the passenger coaches, two miles behind, came running up the track carrying a lantern. One of the rubbers shot at Him. He wax wounded in the leg and la row in tha Sifters' hospital at tiiand Junction. How the Riot Started. When the robbera saw that tha The sentiment of the Mine Owners, train crew were coming they fled to as voiced bv C. C. Hamlin, secretary the mountains. One of them aa he of the association, la that ail union Jumped from the express car grabbed miners must he driyen out of the ono scaled bag w hich had been bluvn camp. Ilia declaration that the time clear out ol the safe. ' This was the had come to "purge the district" only plunder which was taken. started the rioting at the mass meetWRECK NEWSPAPER PLANT, ing In Victor, called to discuss the dynamite outrage at Independence. Armed Men Destroy Machinery and "It's up to yon to drive these Order Workmen to Leave Victor. scoundrels out," Hnmlln had declared, A special from Victor, Colo., sayi whereupon Alf Miller, a union man who had been sworn In aa deputy eight unknown men, armed with shotSheriff.' raised 'hla 'rifle and" inquired! guns, rifles, pistols and aledge hCd--' "Whom are you referring to?" Mil-le- mers, euterd the office of the Victor rifle was seised and the shooting Record at 11:45 o'clock' Wednesday began which resulted In the killing night, ordered the men to throw up of Roxy McGee, a miner, their hands, broke up the machinery and the wounding of six other persons, one of whom, John Davia, also and then told the men to get out of n a miner, died a few hours the district aa fast aa they could. later. The first shot was fired by There is no due, at the present time! some one in the crowd. - This was fol- to the identity of the men. lowed immediately hy two rifle shots George Kyuer, proprietor of the from windows of the Miners' Union halL paper, was at lunch and Foreman Walter Sweet wan in charge of the ATTACKED BY LAND AND SEA. men. They wen- - busily engaged in I out the morning paper when getting Japanese Make Another Assault Upon suddenly eight heavily armed men Port Arthur. Advices from Chcfon. under date of opened the front doer and walked June 7, state that preceding a sea at- back to the composing room. They tack on Fort Arthur the Japanese ap- threw their guns on 'the atartled men who were at work, and one, who was parently made a determined effort to advance on that stronghold by land. evidently the leader, called out: Liaa A Chinese Junk which left a point up now and threw up your hands." three miles south of Port Dalny early The men obeyed quick y. The men Monday morning has arrived at Che-fo- then wrecked two linotype machines, She reports having heard fight- several presses and all the equiping north of Port Arthur from 7 ment of job office. They smashed the the o'clock 2 until Monday morning oclock that afternoon, by which time telephone and a typewriter. When rhe passed out of hearing distance. It their work of ruin was completed they would appear that the Japanese marched the Record employes out on planned a land and sea attack on Port Arthur Tuesday. The Russians on the sidewalk and tcld them to get out seeing thir sent their Heel out to give of town. The Record has been known battle. The result is not known. aa the organ of the Western Federation of Miners in this section. France Has Right In Morocao. AGAIN UNDER MARTIAL LAW. Foreign Minister TVIcassc gave before a committee of the French chamber of deputies a detailed explana- General Bell Will Rule in Cripple Creek Mining District tion of the Anglo-Frencconvention. Being asked whether the agreement Teller county is once more under gave France the eventual right of o martial law and the military la in suenpying or protecting the Moorish empire, M. Delcasse said that he preme command. Adjutant General could not foresee the future. All he Sherman M. Bell and staff arrived in could say was that France had rights Victor early Wednesday and Immein Morocco which nobody any longer diately promulgated military rule by was she contested and that capable of making use of prerogatives which posting on the door of the armory, all powers recognize without injuring where' a large number of union men the Interests of any. and sympathizers are imprisoned, Acting Governor Warren A. Haggott'v Cannot Pass Through Dardanelles. A cable from London says: The proclamation. Declaration of military rule ha nl- foreign office has not yet received any had a salutary effect. All far- ready roquest from Russia or Tnrkey to tions in the camp are tired of the agree to the passage of the Russian controversy and are Black sea fleet through the Dardaa settlement. That the union planning nelles. It Is pointed nut that Turkey doubtless would be delighted to get miners who went on strike August 10. rid of the Russian Black sea fleet, but 1903, would he glad to bury the the passage of warships through the hatchet is shown by the publication of editorial in the Victor Dardanelles would be a distinct con- a travention of the treaty, permission Record, the mouthpiece cf the West- for which has not been asked nor la ern Federation of Miners, urging that the strike be called off. likely to be granted if asked for. non-unio- r. ll - x s, x . hlixid-staine- -Larger. d Six persons were killed and a dozen Injured as tbe result of a stcot car collision In Norwalk. O. lO.OOfr A lockout against about teamand hodcarriera bricklayer, sters has begun ut Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Bertha Calhoun is supposed to havp perished iu a fire which destroyed her home in Berkeley, CaL Tbe last section of the second cabl America couneciiug Germany and waa completed during the night of June I. In an explosion at the plant of the B. F. Goodrich company at Akron, 0.r half a dozen persons were Injured, some seriously. Russian naval contractors have been advised that final preparations for the Baltic fleet must be completed by the first week in AugusL Reports cf damage to floating craft and ducking facilities come from several port towns along the southern' California coast, resulting from high winds. At their final session at St. Louia, asthe American sociation elected San Antonio, Texas, as the place in which to bold the next annual convention. A tornado at Dallas, Tex., blew the roof off the office of the Western Union Telegraph company and caused damage throughout the city, its far as known no one waa hurt. Higinio Martinez and Simon Garcia, ranchmen of Sanchez, New Mexico, are dead, making iu all seven victims thus far of the poisoned water barrel in use at the Tafoya heme. A dispatch to the London Times from Tangier says that Mohammed el Torres has appealed to the tribes to capture Raisull, saying that this alone can save Morocco from Invasion. Medico-Psychologic- Frank S easier, a rejected suitor, shot himself and MIbb Estella Roney, daughter of the assistant superintendent of the South Chicago shipyards. The girl will recover; he will die. The Missouri supreme court baa decided that the state board of "Srbitra-tlo- n had no power to punish witnesses for contempt who refuse to testify before it. This decision destroy the law. to 157 tbe GeorBy a vote of 106 gia Democratic convention instructed its delegates to the national convention to vete for the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker of New York for president. A compilation of new Incorporations In the eastern states with a capital of $1,000,000 or more, shows that in May they aggregated $132,000,000, which amount ia largely below the totals oi 1908, 1902 and 1901. l A dispatch from Mukden, saya the Russian losses at the battle of Kin Chou May 26 were thirty officers and COO men killed or wounded. The guns abandoned by the Russians were rendered useless. The dead body of Herman S. Petti-bon- e. 31 years old, a son of former A. H. Pettibone ol Congressman Tennessee, was found In a hotel at Washington. He had committed suicide by taking poison. Postmaster General Payne, as acting chairman of the Republican national United committee, has appointed States Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania a member of the committee, to succoed the late Senator Quay. Two military prisoners at Fort Snelllng made an attempt to escape, and one of them, named Winch, vat shot dead. Wisch. who has seven times been convicted of violaticn ol rules, belongs to the field artillery. The foreign office doubts the correct ness of a Constantinople dispatch published in Paris, saying that the consuls unite In reporting that 8.000 Armenians were massacred during tbe recent conflicts between Turks and Armenians. The Echo de Paris St. Petersburg correspondent reaffirms his intelligence. previously that telegraphed, the czar, adopting Viceroy AlexielTa views, ordered General Kuropatkin ta send 40.000 men to the relief of Port Arthur. In the arrest of Michael Donovan, the Chicago police believe they have lw gun the disruption of an organized band of car thieves whose depredations In recent years have cost the railroads nearly $1,000,000. Donovan has confessed. A severe windstorm struck Glencoe. a town of 1 .ono, in Payne county, Okie, demolishing five residences and destroying the Methodist church. Several persons were, hurt, none seriously. Much damage was done to farm property. Continued heavy rains have swollen all streams in Oklahoma and Indian Territory to the point of overflowing end thousands of acres are under water. Railway traffic la threatened In many places. A repetition of last year's floods Is feared. Statistics compili-hy an insurance journal of New York ('fry shew that e arc taking out the American - ra non-unio- n non-unio- semi-officia- n h : : ' I : ; ; two-colum-n An Impression j From Bank to Prison. prevails at Chefoo Aother Revolution in Santo Domingo. Within three days of Admiral Sige-beannouncement that peace bad I turnings promontory at the time did been concluded In Santo not hear any firing, while reports another revolution lias broken out in come from Tong Chow or heavy firing that country. Minister Powell cabled being heard there. the state department on Wednesday Two thousand men engagi-- in con- from Ihirt an' Prince. Iloytl, that "the struction operations In North Hudson, British cruiser Indcfai igalile left that X. Y.. quit work Tuesday because of the refusal of the contractor in grant piaee yesterday, it having been reTinported that General Jiminex had efa working day of nine hour. men have Iteen working ten hours fected a landing at Macoris. Teledaily. The strikers arc nearly all graph communication has I teen that a naval battle took place Monday night In the Gulf of Pechili. Passengers on steamers passing the Liao-tiesha- J. K. Marcell, former Farmers Are Heavy Losers. cashier of the All Kansas rivers, except the Walnut and the Verdigris, in the southern part of the state, continue to fall. Tha streams named are rising slowly, and ire driving families front the low- - wrecked Highland. Kansas, bank, to thirty-fivyears in sentenced of seven on each five years prison, counts of forgery, which is said to have amounted to Il'oii.uiiii, ha lui-- n e lands around Arkansas City and Italians. law. In j I d hut it I not beUevcd that they can so much higher. Rut lirtls rain is reported for this part of the d the tailor shop at the Kansas Hi health is pxr and southwest. A the waters subside the penitentiary. amount of damage wrought hi he wax given light work. Marcell nol be paroled until he has served at ; comes apparent, the farmers holnf least eighteen years of his sentence, heavy losers. , j ran-'gre- at j j ,n ,h, ,BM v"ar 1,11 th, ,tnPll,i,s combined have out claim paid amounting to $25K.25u.uuii. |