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Show WEEK IN CONGRESS. American Fork World Waaiores Kansas Town Without' Water. Fort Soott, Kan., Dee. 14. Not Clalalnf lha AUcotlva of Both Washington, Dec. 14.- - If the pres-tn- t program is carried out, congress will adjourn for the holiday recess next Saturday, The week in the house promises to be made memorable by the formal inauguration of the war against the civil service law. The legislative Executive and judicial appropriation bill, which will be taken up on Tuesday, contains the regular appropriations for the civil service commission, end whether or not all the members who favor the repeal or modification of the law unite to strike down the for its maintenance as the quickset and most direct method of crip" plingits operations, remains to be seen. How long the debate will last it is impossible to predict, but as this is the only item in the bill which will attract much of a contest, Chairman Cannon hopes and believes the bill can be passed before Saturday. UTAH. AMERICAN FORK, UTAH NEWS. The Oregon Short Line is enlarging Ita ehope t Salt Lake. ' The Salt Lake achool hoard will Invest $20,000 in Salt Lake oinking fund bonds. Bishop is a new aspirant for the United States district Attorney-Gener- al pro-risio- n attorneyship. State Treasurer Cbipnaan has funds on hand to pay state warrants np to registered No. 1000. Mrs. Iiringhurst, an old and feeble Springrille lady, met with a fall Monday which is likely to bare a fatal termination. SIXATK POKKCABT. 'Henry Hills of South Jordan, has The work of the senate, so far as it been brought from his herd in Rush valley, with a crushed foot, caused by has been mapped out for the week. Includes the consideration of the imhis horse falling. The annual meeting 'of the State migration bill, which stands on the calendar as unfinished business; Kindergarten association will be held the probable debate of the census bill, on Saturday next in the joint building and the pronouncing of eulogies upon at S p. m.. Salt Lake City Holman of Inthe late Salt Lake City did not succeed in diana. Representative securing the conrentton of the NaThe general opinion among friends tional Educational association. It will of the measure is that there will be no be held in Washington, D. CL very strenuous opposition to the imGeorge V. Bean, a pioneer of Utah migration bill, and that it may be and an influential man, died at Rich- passed after a brief debate. When a field last week at an aduanced age. He similar bill was before the senate last drore an ox cart across the plains in session it had its principal opponent in 1747-Senator Gibson of Maryland, and as A landslide at U taline last week covhe has retired from the senate, the ered the Rio Grande Westenf track for friends of the bill are hopeful that no 250 feet There was one boulder 00x45x-2- 0 one will be found who will feel called feet, one of the largest ever dis- npon to champion the opposition. lodged by a slide. They remember, however, that when Lehihas a farmers union. It had it was necessary in order to have the ita origin from an idea that the Lelii bill become a law to pass it over the vote veto, the sugar factory was not paying enough president's not could be for that purpose requisite for sugar beets. The organization no be to There secured. appears may spread to other districts. reason to doubt that when the vote There will be no session of the Den- shall be reached that the bill wil1 tal congress held in Salt Lake next ossa. summer. Salt Lake dentists objected By special arrangement between to the vice president selected for Utah, Senators Carter and Lodge, in charge and the date has been canceled. respectively of the two bills, the imThe Rio G.ande Western will absorb migration bill will be temporarily disthe Utah Central on December 22. This placed on Tuesday, in order to give ' will give the Western entrance to Mr. Carter an opportunity to call up Park City's business. The extension the bill providing for the next census. from Provo to Park City will not be The senate leaders express themaffected by the purchase of the Cen- selves as agreeable to the house protral. gram to adjournment for the holidays d on Saturday. The eulogies upon the Francis Hermanns, the Salt Lake preacher-murderwho late Representative Holman will be is charged with murdering Aupie Sam delivered on Friday. uelsen two years ago, is again supposed to have been located, this time Cuban Proclamation. in Texas. He answers the description New York, Dec. 14. T. Estrada very welL Palma, representative of the Cuban Alice Rogers, the Salt Lake City girl provisional government, has received who disappeared from home October 4, from General Maximo Gomez, a copy has been found in Kansas City, where of a proclamation he has recently isshe was found conductings small res- sued rejecting autonomy. The docutaurant. The mother has gone after ment, which is addressed to the army the girl, whom she will bring back to of liberation, reads: Salt Lake City. "Patriotic Soldiers who are Fighting for the Emancipation of the Cuban Charles Gray, the burglar, who did a People: wholesale business in Salt Lake a Blanco, the substitute for short time since, plead guilty and was the Geneyal Weyler, bloodthirsty sentenced to five years in the pen. He and threatens us, comes to establish still has two charges yet to answer new features in the war. an lie Woman and Boj Bent to the Fen. Waverly, la., Dee. 14. Judge Clyde today sentenced Delilah Falls and Will Kern, aged 20 and 17, respectively, to twenty and twalve years in the penitentiary. Kern and the Falls girl were lovers, to which the father of the boy objected. The Falls girl planned to murder the fa'her, persuading the son to assist her. August 23 she wrote the elder Kern a note to meet her in the woods, about five miles from Cedar Falla, and when he arrived at the appointed place she shot him three times, and with the help of Kern'a son covered the body with brush and burned it up. Young Kern was arrested for the murder and a short time ago confessed his part, declaring the Falls girl committed the deed. After she was arrested she confessed her guilt She claimed the elder Kern ruined her when she was but 13. and had inea been the cause of breakjng off two engagements when she was to be happily married, by circulating stories about her. She expressed no remorse for the deed, saying she felt relieved after the deed was done, and was perfectly 8. . two-third-s- hppy- - badly-wante- for. From advices received from Montana, it appears he was released from a three years' term there in June last. ' Some Salt Lake boys, of tender age, found a stick of giant powder recently that a burglar had left while trying to blow open a safe at the New York store. They broke it open, tested and examined it, and came to the conclusion that it was sawdust. After several days half a stick of it was found by a police officer in a boy's possession and tenderly confiscated. Utah Is being liberally treated in the matter of new postmasters. The following were appointed Friday, December 10, 1807: John P. Holmgren, Hear River City, Box Elder county, vice Alma Nelson, removed. J. J. Jones, Coalville, Summit county, vice A. D. Bower, removed. Fred Hayes, Ileber, Wasatch county, vice Richard Bridge removed. George E. Pope, Garden City, Rich county, vice II. B. Teeples, removed. Saturday, Deo. 11: J. T. Taylor, Fremont, Wayne county, vice H. N. Young, removed: Fred Lyman, Oak Cits, Millard county, vice Henry Roper, removed: Eliza A. Lloyd, Pine Valley, Washington county, vice R. G. Gardiner, removed; Lucy J. Bingham, Salem, Utah county, vice A. S. Engs-berremoved; John 8. Whitmore, Santa Clara, Washington county, vice Rudolph Freie, removed; Sophia Niguard, Sevier county, vice Christian Meyer, removed' George Coleman, Teamiale, Wayne county, vice ( harlea Snow removed; Charles Denny, Union, Salt Lake county, vice Alma U. Rock, resigued. g, Da-tru- ' Starring Mlnan Leaving Dawvon. Victoria, B. CL, Dee. 14. The steamer Topeka, from Tali brings the news that more than 1000 men stampeded from Dawson during the latter part of October and impelled by the haunting fear of famine, are now madly forcing their way across the mountains Aulcy the Indian mail carrier brings the report, and says the vanguard will begin to arrive in ten days. Auk declares that fully 25 ;per cent of the men will never survive .the trip. The stampede started, it appears, from the fact that the river t teamen Bella and Wears, did not land more than 100 tons of provisions on been held np at their last Circle City. Ank's story is discredited by well informed men, who at least elaim that it la so greatly exagerated as to be er who-dispise- a drop of water haa been served to the consumers of thie city since Mayor leaser took charge of the waterworks Saturday evening. Employes of the water company refuse to work for the eity, and no enginner can be found who can operate the pumps. The city authorities accuse the companys engineer of having spiked" the pumps. The snperintendent of the works has served notice on the city that the pumping station is in danger because of the Incompetency of the men who are attempting to ran it. Hotels, factories and consumers generally are compelled to obtain water from private sources, which are insufficient to supply the needs. The trouble grows out of the city forcing the water company to sell its plank llflUMO. W, K. DMITII. PbIiIWi MOTHER MKINLEY trip,-havin- practically untrue. s says in his proclamation to the country and to the army, bnt we do not desire to make any changes, and the war will be carried on by us just the same as we commenced it, since all my circulars are in accordance with civilized warfare. Everything that helps the enemy must lie destroyed and everything that seems to harrass him must be accomplished. This is our right "Our purposes have been well defined and sufficiently proclaimed to the world. IVe aim at the independence of our country. Cuba for the Cubans; America for the Americans. "To attain these high and honorable results we rely on our pledged honor the possession of the island and the lapse of time.- Resources to carry on the struggle will spring forth from our resistance. The hopes of Spain to sndue us are already blasted. Gen-erBlanco represents her last and final resort" - al rannoa's Ground Map. Washington, Dec. 12. Interest in Senator Cannon's proposed ground map of the United States is being revived, and the measure is receiving the endorsement and hearty good will ol many influential men, both in and out of congress. The commissioners of the District of Columbia have approved the resolution now pending before congress, providing for the appointment of a commission to Inquire into ttye practicability of the creation of a great gronni map of the United Ssates. The newspapers are lending their aid. Idaho Sheriff Wants Fme Boise, Ida., Dee. 14. The sheriff of Kootenai county, George H. Pease, has refused to turn over to Warden Van Dorn of the Idaho penitentiary two prisoners, Antone and Jack Volk, sentenced to thirty yean each for robbery. Sheriff Fease claims the right to conduct prisoners to prison himself, thereby securing a large fee. He claims the law requiring the warden to conduct pnsonen to the pen was illegally passed by the last legislature, according to the supreme courts recent decision in the fee law case and denies the right of the warden to take the men. An agreement has been reached whenby the sheriff will bring the prisonen down, the warden coming with them. The sheriff yy ill then put in his bill and a lfegal fight will ensue- Raw Dnrrant Sensation. DEAD. Pnssod Quietly Away Burraaaded fcyaUtka Family. Canton, Ohio, Dec. 13. Mrs. Nancy HAWAIIAN Dn-pre- y, - ANNEXATION . Treated Patti the II Will ba Btradllyto Famed. Meeaare Washington, Dec. 13. The friends of the Hawaiian annexation treaty have definitely decided to consider the session of the question in executive senate. A few of those who support Hawaii in this matter were at flrat in dined to believe that unless it became necessary evident that the to secure the ratification of the treaty from the beginning, yu assuredwaste of time to take the be a matter up at alL It is now stated on behalf of the annexationists that to abandon the treaty at the present time would create tbe Impression that they had surrendered the fight entirely. There is also another reason for desiring the consideration of the treaty behind closed doors which actuates the committee on foreign relations. This is the fact that Japans attitude toward annexation is such as to involve some delicate questions, which the members of this committee think it not advisable to act before the public in the way that they might be aired if the matter should be taken up for de bate In the open senate. Their plan, however, contemplates a foil debate of the question on the treaty in executive session and a subsequent transfer of the matter, if necessary, on a resolution similar to that bj which Texas was annexed, and the pressing of this resolution to a speedy Allison McKinley passed from life at a few minutes past 3 o'clock this (Sunday) morning, with all her children and other immediate relatives at her bedside. She did not suffer any in her last hours, but gradually passed from the deep, palsied sleep in which she has rested almost constantly for the past ten days, into the sleep of death. The end was most beautiful in ita quiet peacefulness. She seemed to sleep so sou dly that it was difficult to tell whether she had yet breathed her last This condition continued for half an hour. There waa no struggle. She seemed to sleep her life away. The president and all of the familw were by her side. There were no recognitions, however. Her last consciousness was hours before her final taking away. On December 2 she suffered a paralytic stroke, and waa conscious at short intervals only since. President McKinley, who waa in Washington at the time, was summoned to her bedside. He returned to Washington to open corgreas, and then immediately came to the alck chamber again. She recognized him then, and he spoke a few comforting words to her ere she lapsed into unconsciousness. She had watched with a mother's pride her. son rise from county prosecuting attorney to the presidency; and seemed less restless when he waa vote. present. The resolution will require only a In 1809, near the present eity of Lismajority of votes, bnt to he effective it bon, Nancy Allison was born. Her will be necessary that it shall also pass girlhood was passed on the farm, and the house, where delay la feared. in 1827 she married William McKinley; a young iron manufacturer. The couKaroltlng Crimf la Mlmoarl by s Xegre. ple Uved first at Fairfield, and after Hannibal, M&, Dee, 13. Bill Underward at Niles and Poland before mova negro recently released from wood, ing to Canton. Nina children were the penitentiary, called at the home born to them, five of whom preeeeded-he- r of Christian Pabst, a farmer living to the unknown realms. four miles southwest of here, and deWilliam McKinley, Sr., died in No manded money, Pabst refused, and ember, 1893, at the age of 85 years. Underwood drew a revolver and made him lay down on the floor. He then BELIEVES DURRANT INNOCENT. pressed the revolver against Mrs. PubMakes Pabst's temple and commanded her to Merriam of Arkaneee Judge with hind her husband's arms and afeet lic Statement. f Little Rock, Ark., Dee. 10. Judge twine. The poor woman obeyed. The E, M. Merriam of this city who once brute then took her into another room defended Joseph F. Blanther when and assaulted her. In the morning she managed to elude Blantber under the name of Forbes, him ran to the house of her and waa charged with a crime in this eity, a brother-in-laLouis Pabst, a mile belief his that publicly reiterates Blanther and not Theodore Dnrrant distant, Louis returned with a shotIpiurdered Blanch Lamont and Minnie gun. Underwood met and disarmed him and made him walk into the room Williams. He declares that the execution of where hia brother Christian still lay Dnrrant will be a judicial murder. bound. Louia suddenly made a bound Be insists that there can be no ques- for Underwood and, after a scuffle, setion but that the confession produced cured the gun and a moment later the in Texas is in the handwriting of riddled corpse of the negro was., Blanther, and he declares that this stretched on the floor. Mra Pabst may confession must be accepted as true, die. as against the merely circumstantial Two Committed at Win evidence which fixes the crime on Dur-ran-k Washington, Dee. 13. That the ways The fact' that Blanther was seen in and means committee, snd not the banking and currency committee, will Atlanta, Gs., between April 13 control currency legislation In the He aside. April 15, 1895, Merriam puts house of continues to representatives have left argnes that Blanther could much excite feeling among represenAtlanta on April 4 and been in San SecFrancisco in time to murder the two tatives. Little doubt is felt that ao will divide aa hia bill Gage girls on the night of April 12, or possi- retary tne cover to various quescurrency bly the night before and returned at tions that Mr. Dingley's committee will once to Atlanta. get control of them. Members of the Hostile to Labor. banking committee aay the matter will Philadelphia, Dec. 13. The United be carried to the floor of the house if Labor League passed a resolution necessary, and the issue of the comauthorizing the officers of the league mittee authority will be raised which to send a protest to President McKin- will defeat any currency bills proposley against the appointment of ex ed by the ways and means committee. Chief Justice Paxsou as a member of commerce commission. Bryan In Mexico. the inter-stat- e The grounds for the protest grew City of Mexico, Dee. 13 W. J. Bryan out of an opinion rendered by Mr. and a party of friends, including Faxson when he was chief justice of Crittenden of Msssouri, are the supreme court of this state, in re- visiting Mexico, where Mr. Bryan is lation to the Homestead strike. The studying the silver question. At various state capitals the governprotest will state that Mr. Paxson'a appointment will be an insult, not ors have personally greeted the Demoalone to the organized labor interest, cratic leader, and he has been accorded bnt to every workingman in the Unit- exceptional facilities for seeing everyed States. thing. The discussion over the protest was lie was received here by a member of waa motion before the and the spirited, president's staff, and taken to hia agreed to, personalities were exchang- hotel in the president! carriage. ed with so much liberality that the Bryan is regarded aa a national presiding officer refused to allow sev- guesk Not since Grant and Seward eral members to apeak. visited Mexico have auch unusual honors been paid any American. Oar Tariff la Germany. is no donht Mr. Bryan's posiThere Berlin, Dec. 13. The greater part of tion on the silver question haa much the speech of Baron von Thielman, sec- to do with the warm sentiment of retary of the the treasury, in present- friendship exhlolted to him. ing the budget to the reichstag, was devoted to sugar. He said the role England and Sugar Bounties. America played in the sugar question London, Dec. 13. The Times, re resembled that of a pike in a carp ferring to rumors that the British govpond, and that the effect of the Ding-le- y ernment contemplates imposing countariff had been to increase the netervailing dnties on bounty-fe- d sugar, cessity for the carp to combine forces asserts that the government has deagainst the common enemy. The abo- cided nothing except to inquire as to lition of the augai' bounty, he declared what would be the effect of anch duonly to be a gain to Germany, and he ties, because it is anticipated that an waa glad to inform the house that the European conference may be held ere latest negotiations opened in this di- long to discuss the possibility of abollution proved a more successful issue. ishing the bounty system. two-thir- aJ - San Francisco, Dep. 14. Eugene the attorney who is making such a fight for Theodore Dnrrant, gives warning of aensatlonal developments. He says Dnrrant will not hang in January, as is generally expected, and declares he will eventually go free. The attorney saya revelations art non to be made in the ease that will cause a profound sensation. Dnprey aaya they are on the track of the real murderer, and arrests will soon be made. Kefoiw to Wanr Prison Garb. Schnectady, N. Y., Dec. 14. Orders were recently issued that the entire national guard of New York should be supplied with uniforms made1 in the state prison. The members of the thirty-fiv- e separate companies hate announced that they will never consent to wear prison uniforms. They say they will disband rather than wear prison made uniforms. It is probable the matter will be settled by the men paying for their own uniforms. . ' |