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Show American Fork World W. K. KM UTAH. UTAH NEWS. Joe Walcott anil George Dixon, the two noted colored pugilist, have been in Utah the past week, on their way to the coast where they are matched for a fight which will take place very soon. United States Senator Cannon has delivered, four lecture on hi observation in the Orient since hia return two weeks since. Hi observations show the inhabitants to be a quaint people. John Dent, the colord man who was shot at a Salt Lake City dunce on Thanksgiving night, died Saturdiiy night at St. Mark's hospital. The ball from Shaver's revolver entered the back, piercing Dent's kidneys, the lower part of one lung, and lodged under one of his ribs. The code commission experts to receive the first 100 volumes of the revised statute' of Utah from the Nebraska publishing house by the end of this week. The contracting printers will forward the bulaiice of the law law book in larger installments at intervals of shout once a week until the full number is reached. Utah's Congressional delegation departed thi week for Washington in tjme to lie present at the opening of Congress on Deccnider 0th. Senator Kawlins and faiuilv left on Tuesday, and on Tliursbay Senator and Mrs. Cannon, together with Congressman King, who willbe joined by hia faiuilv later. A slight hitch has occurred between the Salt Lake A Los Angeles fieople and tile Oregon Short Line regarding the consolidation and transfer that was to have been made as a preliminary to the building of the Deep Creek road. It involves the validity of some outstanding bonds, but it is not thought it will stand in the way of consummating the transfer. Mary Hep worth is suing the Lambert l'aper company and the Jennings Ivestraent company of Salt Lake for 130,0110 for the death of her husband, Thomas Ilcpworth, who died from injuries resulting from a fall into an elevator shaft in the place of business of the Lambert Taper company on West First South street, on January 13 1895. TJie building was owned by the Jennings Itrothers Investment company. The plan of locating a community of Christian people in the Iayette valley in Idaho was formed a year ago, by liev. It. F. Clay, pastor of the First Christian church of Salt Lake City. So successful have been his e (forts to put his idea into effect, that on January 1st he will give up his pastorate in Salt Lake and remove to his Idaho farm. Several Salt Lake families and in addition a number living in Eastern States have declared their intention to follow him into the neighbor- ing state. William Cheney of Carbon county, who has a sawmill in Nine-Mil- e canHeaver Carlion ton, valley, county, found the skeleton of a man about two miles from the head waters of the creek, a short time ago. The skeleton was buried in a shallaw grave covered by leaves and brush. The skull was crushed in above the ear, and from the condition of the body the man had evidently been dead for over a year. Dr. O. K. Hansen, a dentist of Fairview said that the man was about SO years of age, judging from the coudition of the teeth, lie was about five feet ten inches tall, had black hair and was dressed in winter clothing, wore a navy blue shirt, a knife scabbard and a cart ridge licit. Slowly but surely and satisfactorily the Utah silk commission is founding the nucleus of a most important and profitable industry. The work is advancing on lines that assure the largest measure of the best results ultimately. Individual or household efforts count for the most, and it will not be many years before the nation awakes to a realization of the fact that Utah, with its favorable climate and other conditions, is capable of rivaling the old world in silk production, not only as to quality, but in quantity. The commission has caused to be planted 5,000 mulberry trees and the gathering of 3,000 pounds of the best grade of cocoa during the past season. The commission's annual report will deminonstrate that the dustry needs only to be properly fostered and encouraged to be a grand silk-produci- success is Utah. Oua Wsjrlor BespouaUlila for Nctrljr Nov. 30. ' -- FIGURES. MU-lli- m llvstliH. IT 11. 1ulilUliar. AMERICAN FORK. STARVATION The World's New York, figures of Cuba' starvation were timidly moderate. They showed the death of only Loo.ooo. Hut every painful faet undcrneatii tends to prove them nearly double that number. When the grim returns are all in it is now almost certain that this Cuban massacre of tiie innocents will reach 400,000. And this awful number does not include those killed in battle oi the thousands and thousand of women and children who have died of exposure, disc use and massacre in the swamp. It now eem certain that more than half a million people, for the most part loyal ubjcct of Spain, have been killed by Spanish war in Cuba, A week's trip through the provinces of Havana, Mutanzaaaud Santa Clara has tended to muke moderate this tremendous extreme figures. The figures of Spauish official reports show but a part of the mortality. They only give the number buried in conecreted ground they do not give that fully. h And yet, these official, reports of burial permits issued admit that in the province of Santa Clara there have died and been buried since Weyler's fiat, 71,847 persons. The number of people for whose existence Weyler is directly responsible is 155,132 in Santa Clara province, and of these he has killed 86,216, or over one-haof them. Santa Clara has so far been by far the least destitute of the province. It baa many cattle and not a very thick population. Hetwccn its 52 per cent dead to Pinar del Rio, admitted, are the provinces of Matanzas and Havana, within (Ml and 70 per cent mortality, respectively, These percentages are established now by the actual figures in some thirty cities and towns. Applied to the denser population of their respective provinces the total deaths since Weyler's Hando" will foot up nearly a million. ultra-Spanis- lf DEMAND INVESTIGATION. Statement of the liidUns Involved In ths Mrrnt Colorado Hui-kakl- Hunt. Washington, November 30. Captain Wright and Lieutenant Cavanaugh, Ninth cavalry, who commauded the troops in the recent disturbance in Colorado, have demanded an investigation of the affair by j the interior department. Captain Wright secured a statement from the Indians of the affair, the sum of which is that a small party of them were captured on Snake hill, hunting deer, the majority of them in the hills and but four bucks were in camp, when a party of armed white men came into camp. They remained there some time, the Indians nut understanding them. Finally one opened hia coat and showed a star, saying they were buckskin police and the Indians must go with them; the Indians refused, upon which the whites covered them with their pistols, and several grasping the two bucks by the wrists, a struggle commenced. A squaw ran to their assistance, when the police literally riddled her with bullets. A warden on the outside of the party shot the squaw in the bark of her head, and another in the arm. The surviving bucks saw their chauce to run for horses, which they had in the briiHnli and did so, making their The Indians insisted that escape. neither at that time, nor since, have they fired a shot at a white man. End of ths Coal Htrlko In Illlnoio Victory for tho Minora. 29. The coal mining Nov. Chicago, in htiike the northern Illinois district is ended. Twelve thousand have gone back to work in the Coal City, Braid-wooCarbon Hill, Spring Valley, Lodi, Seaton ville, Lasalle and Oglesby fields. One thousand men remain out at Streator, the only, point where miners and operators have not agreed. A settlement is expected within a week. Victory la with the miners, althou? they have not won all they asked. Their chief demand was for mine run price, that is, a rate per ton, as the coiil comes from the mine, unscreened This has been conceded in some places. Where the rate remaind fixed in price per net ton of screenes coal, a substantial advance has been won. The increase in wages all through the district approximately, is 10 cents a ton over the schedule made last May. The strike ha been on since July 4. It started as a part of the general strike ordered by the United Mine Workers of America, The Iennsyl-vani- a and Ohio miners settled their differences early in September. The Indiana work was resumed about the same time. The 30,000 miners of Illinois refused to ratify the terms of the agreement made at Columbus, O, , and continued the strike. Sec-ret- ay Kiimltjr of northwest notes. THOUSANDS RESUME WORK. Our AlaikM Troop. Washington, Nov. 30. Willium the superintendent of the government reindeer herds in Aiuska, has arrived in Washington and called at the war department to advise Alger as to the state of affairs in the ter ritory when he left Mr. Akjellman sailed from St. Michaels October 9. Hefore his departure, the little force of United States regular soldiers, under Lieutenant-Coloue- l Randall, had arrived and had taken up their quurter at St. Michv..ls. Moreover, they had made the first arrest, in the person of a mutineer, ths cook of a little schooner, who, with a couple of revolvers, had eowed ths other members of the crew completely and assumed command of the craft The officers bosrded the boat aud overpowered him. d, Unzuirii. Vienna, Nov. 3d. It is stated that as soon a the new cabinet is formed that Haron Yon (lutsch Von Frankentliurn, the former minister of public instruction and ecclesiastical affairs, who ha been entrusted with the task of forming a ministry to succeed that of Count Casimir Had ini, which resigned yesterday, will enter into negotiation with the leader of the Germans and the Czechs with the view of bringing about a modification of the ordinances making the Czech language with the German. It is this ordinance that canned the riotous scenes in the lower house of the reichsrath, which, BURNED AT THE STAKE. in turn, produced among the populace a ferment bordering on revolution, in Cremated bjr so Infuconsequence of which the Hadeni min- Negro Murdererriated Slul istry resigned. Southport, N. C., Nov. 89. A white Forncst of Vrruuii Naval Hill. boy was brutally murdered by a negro man, and the mnrdcrer burned to foreHerlin, Nov. 30. A cast of the government naval bill has death by an infuriated mob of white been issued. It endeavors to make it farmers near here last Thursday. During the fall a party of farmers appear that the scheme gives scope to have been fishing on Cherry Grove the Reichstag's judgment and provides beach near Little riyer. One of the irona total fleet of nineteen the name of Stevens, left for boys, by clad, eight coast defense iron clads home on the Waccamaw river, with his and forty-twincrease of cruisers, an s five and nine an ox cart, carrying a package of money. The father of Stevens went cruisers. The additional expense Involved is home, hut found nothing had been 8(15,000,000 marks, the s mount to cover heard of bis son since he had left the seven years, when the warships are to beach. It was learned that a negro man lie completed, the Reichstag to decide named Nathan Willis had borrowed a yearly the number of vessels to be commenced and the amount of the na- gun and left the beach shortly after val budget. This increases the bud- - Stevens' son had departed for his get from 118,000,000 marks to 150,000,-00- 0 home. A party was organized by the mirks, but, according to the fore- sheriff, and Willia was found at Town cast, the additional 'expense will not Creek, N. C., having in his possession necessitate the levying of any special Stevens' ox, cart and a cloth hat full of shot holes. He was carried by the taxes. sheriff and posse back into South CarNo Delav la the Durrant Cite, olina. San Francisco, Nov. 30. Acting AtReports say that Willis was taken torney General Carter has received from the sheriff by a mob of infuriated word from Attorney General Fitzger- farmers and carried off into the woods, ald to the effect that he will advise where he was chained between two d Warden Hale to carry out the execupine trees. Light wood was tion of Theodore Durrant, regardless piled around him and he was burned of any legal proceeding that may be to death. instituted by ' Durr ant's attorneys, semi-offici- al sea-goin- g o sca-goin- g Iron-clad- box-face- after the present legal quibble has been decided. Durrant will be rescntenccd as soon as the controversy now pending is settled, after which the attorney general of the state believes no legal step can accomplish further delay in the proposed execution of Durrant. to Break the Combine. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 30. Governor Fingree's object in getting possession of a Venezuelan asphalt lake is now asserted to lie to break the asphalt combine so that municipal ownership of asphalt paving plants may be assured sod to permit lsying asphalt pavements by local contractors instead of STORM SWEPT ENGLAND. allowing the combine to monopolize Worst Known for Many Years, Rraultln the business. The governor does not In Terrlblo Lons of 14 re and Hunt. admit his connection with the asphalt Loudon, Nov. 30. The latest reports business, but in an interview he defrom various points along the coast clared that within seven years nothing show that the gale which swept En- but asphalt will be used for paving in glish waters yesterday and last night, the United States. and which had not abated its fury up Koliller Hub'll! e at Boise. to midday, was one of the worst storms of recent years. I n many places Boise, Ida., Nov. 30 Oliver FXinkitt, it was almost cyclonic in it violence, commissary sergeant at Boise barand the long list of disasters includes racks, committed suicide by hanging a large loss of life, many wrecks of himself. He went into the second story large vessels, and the loss of scores, if of the commissary department, adjustnot hundreds, of smaller craft, with ed the noose around hia neck and serious damage to property ashore at leaped through a trap door. He leaves a wife and two children here. Flunkitt many important towns. In the north the wind was accompan- recently rame here from Walla Walla. ied by blinding snow and hail that hid In his position he handled considerable the lights and immensely increased the money, and his accounts are being exdifficulties of navigation. Many ships amined. He left a note stating that are known to have foundered, in most despondency, induced by drink, wai cases it is feared, with all on board . the cause of the suicide. estown a on coast the has Scarcely The Santa Fe robbers got over caped without more or less injury, so the sheriff says. falling walls and flying debria adding A dispatch from Jacksonville say to the loss of life. that the Dauntless landed a large exThere have been rocket and boat pedition in Cuba Sunday night. number. signals almost without The cruiser Brooklyn has been Stories of thrilling escapes come from in the timber dock all sections. At Norfolk, llacton and safely New the York at navy yard in Happishurg, five vessels, as yet unidentified, went down, and all perished. J Plngra 890,-00- dry-dock- 0, Athletic I'nlvcralty Rule Amended. Chicago, Nov. 29. Representatives of a number of the leading colleges met here today and decided to amend the athletic rules in several particulars. The meeting was preliminary in its nature, but there is no doubt the changes suggested will be carried out. They are as follows: A four-yea- r limit for college athletes. Preparatory students to be barred from college athletics. Games at colpractice leges to be regarded as games. Summer baseball nines to be discouraged. Further elimination of rough football. The colleges which are party to the agreement are Northwestern university, lardue university. University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin. Can't Get Wool. Washington, Utah, Nov. 39. Thon as Judd, lessee of the Rio Yirgen mills has given notice that he will terminate his lease of the mills next October. The chief reason assigned is the difficulty of obtaining wool to run the factory, that product being influenced greatly by the cosh market Mr. Judd also desires to devote more of his time to his ranch near Toquerville; and the fruit industry, this line being a specialty with him. The factory la running up to its full capacity now, and doing its nsual fall trade in the various products of the Though it is not likely to country. run longer than June next, owing to a lack of materlaL Lessee Jiuhl intends settling everything up prior to his transfer back to the company's property. And will leave few accounts unpaid. He is notifying creditors to this effect. Fort lialleck, Nev., is to be sold at public auction in February. Ed Smith, a bartender at Wadsworth, shooting-himsleNev., committed suicide dy in the head. W. E. Kiplinger, of Cheyenne. Wyo., man of 07 years, has insane. been adjudged A1 Ford, a negro, 'was acquitted os the charge of complicty in the murder of John Hawkins, at Butte. A telephone war la on at Great Falls, Mont., between the Rocky Mountain Bell company and tho Electric City. The value of the live stock and agricultural product of Flathead county, Mont, this year was 81,300,000. Miss Susan H- - Anthony will make a number of woman suffrage speeches in Nevada during the campaign next year. W. O. Whitney proprietor of the at Fayette, Ida., nursery, was arrested liButte for selling fruit without a cense. Castings are being shipped to Hawthorne, Nev., daily over the C. A C. to equip the company's cars with the new f gray-haire- d air-brake-s. In Ravalli county, Montana, thi year, the Anaconda Copper Mining company will pay 89,099 taxes, and Marcus Daly will pay 85,504. About a dozen young men have been laid off at the De La Mar (Nevada) works for being under age, as a precautionary measure to conform to the law. Mayor Miller and Attorney Arnold state in the most positive manner that the ordinance against gambling in Cheyenne would be enforced without favor. Robert Riddle of Belgrade, Mont., ays the snow in Gallatin valley is disappearing and that farmers are now ploughing and getting ready for another crop. District Attorney McGowan at Carson Nev., says he will bring the Jones murder case before each session of court, and insist upon the rearrest of young Guinan. Andy King, an Anaconda pugilist, has been arrested for engaging in a prize fight at Deer Lodge Montana, He knocked out Ed San try, of Chicago, in three rounds. There la a curiosity along the Stillwater in Montana, in the shape of an albino wolf whose coat is as white as snow. lie stops with a band of 10 of his gray brothers. W. R. Stall has instituted a man- damus suit against the city of Cheyenne to compel it to issue a liquor license. The city authorities claim that hiB saloon is a disreputable resort. Because the single word felonious was omitted from the judge's charge to jury, the Montana supreme court has ordered a new trial of the case against C. M. Oliver, sentenced to three year for roberry. The work 'of allotting land to the Indians on the Wind River, reservation, Wyoming, has been going on quite rapidly; bat it is reported that there will be a cessation in the work through the winter months. James Newlands who has charge of the Newlands ranch at Fort Church-hil- l, Nev., has lately completed the purchase of 1,100 head of beef cattle from Fred uangberg of Carson valley. The cattle will be taken to the home ranch and fattened for San Francisco and eastern markets. A train of twenty-tw- o cars of Weston (Wyoming) cattle was shipped to South Omaha recently. Most of the stock was very fine, but one car shipped by Winchell and Manaugh, was said by experienced men to be probably the finest car of beef cattle ever shipped from northern Wyoming, They brought on an average 859.67 per head. James Westfall who has been in Grand Encampment for a year past, eloped with Mrs. Julia Tennel form erly of Denver. The couple drova W Rawlins, Wy., arriving there in tho ffirening, and took the afternoon westbound train. That they expected the injured husband to follow them was evident from Westfall's nervous actions. He told several parties that he was anxious to get out of town before they could be overtaken, as he expected Tennell to do some shooting, if he caught sight of them. Westfall ent the telegraph wire. G. II. Booth, of Concord, N. II., haa gone to Nine Mile, Missoula county, Montana, after his wife, who ran away last August. Ho says her head was turned by fairy tales concerning the opportunities for women to get rich in Montana. |