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Show Conld Ra Fitted tvr Action. than to occupy one of the alleged "conAttention has been attracted to the ning towers. The smoke pipe passes up through merchant steamships that are classed WHAT A REAL BATTLESL1P IS the center of the tower and receives as auxiliary cruisers to the navy, and in a short protection from iL The smokepipe is which could be fitted out LIKE. utilized as a mast, and carries the usual time so aa to serve most effectively as fighting top and signal yard. The top commerce destroyers or as speedy of troops. An O Hlcer of m Monitor la Ke.pun.lble of the smoke pipe is 100 feet above the transports for the handling for b Kew Itoalgn That Mnj Ho of water line, and as the fighting top Is The available steamships that could be would conValue to tlto .vjr Hot B fifteen feet below the smoke outlet, the utilized by the government believe and to experts suffer men at the lop guns ought not Tbla of Bwatj. stitute a big fleet, service of bargreat would The smoke. prove from It discomfort that any with war country. any of on the event rest tower In and bettes the conning The accompanying sketch was made thick. The four big steamers of the American hy a naval officer who has had some main deck, which Is two inches has a line, the fit. Louis, the St. Paul, the and Is continuous armor side The experience on the larger monitors. It twenty-fthickness of twenty Inches, New York and the Paris, are the largest represents In a general way his con- mean besides these to our Inches amidships, tapering ships of the number, and All ception of the Ideal battleship. of the New The ends. the steamships at are the inches depth sixteen there ships are compromises, and this defeet. of side armor is six and one-hasign departs materially from the baron armor of turrets, thickness The and approved monitor type In Is tower twenty and conning having a superstructure forward. This bettes, feature enables the ship to maintain inches. The length of the vessel on water line Is 300 feet; beam, seventy feet; draught forward and aft, twenty and NORTinVKST NOTES. DESIGNED TO FIGHT. Fire at Clancy. Mont., recently deThe following letter from President stroyed $3,000 worth of property. IV il ford Woodruff, which was written About 500 people are stalled at Havre .u answer to a rctinest for information Mont, by blockade and have eaten the from the editor of the New York Indetown bare. pendent, appears in a recent issne of Gallatin and Madison counties will that paper: build a $7,000 bridge across the JefIn your recent letter to me regard-n- g ferson river at Willow creek. plural marriages you say: It Is siThe Montana state land board has eged that the advice which you pubdecided to make no selection of lands licly gave to the members of the church not appraise $2 per acre. will lo refrain from such marriages is not that The prospects are that Wyoming observed. ' manifesto to which will make no state exhibit at Omaha, In the but several of the counties will be repfou refer I said: enact resented. Inasmuch as laws have been id by congress forbidding plural marThe Sand Coulee Coal company of Montana, has sent to the Omaha exporiages, which Jaws have been constitutional by the court of sition a single block of coal that last resort, I hereby declare my inten- weighs five tons. tion to submit to those laws, and to Jacob Teters of Libby, Mont, who about lf lse my influence with the members of made a feet; displacement, trip over the Horse SliocTsnge the church over which I preside to last tons; twin screw; Indicated horse saw 200 deer in one day, week, lave them do likewise.' power, 5,000; speed, about thirteen and of three miles. a radius within knots per hour; coal capacity, This promise has been faithfully The capitol building commission has 500 tons; main battery, four twelve-inc- h sept, and no one has entered into awarded the contract for making the four-inc-h and six guns; secondary plural marriage by my permission since state house rapid-firin- g plans to the firm of Bell A battery, six the manifesto was issued. Hotchmm. thirty-seve- n two and of Kent Helena, Mont, for $H,250. guns There never were laws of such a kiss revolving cannon. A passenger from North Carolina to sharacter, affecting relations which The sketch represents the ship clearbad existed for half a century, obey- Bpokane became insane on a Northern ed for action, the boats at other times DESIGNED TO FIGHT, MARIX. JUDGE ADVOCATE as those Pacific train, and was turned over to her speed In a head Bea, which is whol being stored on the superstructure. The (He Carried the Report of the Maine ed so implicitly and dutifullyhave been; the sheriff of Domson county, Mont relating to plural marriage ly Impracticable with the ordinary presence of a superstructureofamidships to Washington.) Inquiry monl a comfort Petitions have been filed in the disto the much adds but I cannot say that every one who monitor, although a sea abeam has but Cuba Steamship company, lived in plural marriage before the trict court at Helena for the disbarlittle effect on the speed of this pe- tor's crew and does not increase her York and D and Red and other the and Morgan, Mallory, of size as a target, as bridges culiar craft. For about of the manifesto has since then ment of Attorneys M. L. Wines and E. vessels these of All lines. between Panama Incumber the would space its length the design presents a free gear from such associa- B. Booth, who are charged with per for itrictly refrained board of only thirty inches, which may the turrets and give the enemy as good could be fitted out and preparedwould tions. There is a BUte law, however, Jury. be considered the monitor standard. a mark as does a superstructure. This duty In a very short time. They framed in almost the precise language Helena capitalists made up a pool of the The freeboard at the bow 1b ten feet. point is Illustrated by a comparison of be supplied with guns which snd Edmunda-Tucke- r to law, ( the Hotchkiss and pattern, purchased $100,000 worth of United The twelve-inc- h guns are well located the Minantonomah and the Amphltrite, amenable." a sll to throw are 4 per cent bonds, at 121, on are large States which designed no superstructure. for sea work, being eighteen feet above the former having Conter-- with Annual small great of At the number from New York that there is advices projectiles forthcoming of this model necessarily The design the water line. The turrets are housed Naval officers do not be- - nee of the church it is expected that would be no war. in barbettes. The height of each bar- very full, otherwise the enormous ar-- rapidity. the presidents of six outside mission The trial of the big damage case of will be present: Elder John W. Taylor, E. Rollins Morse vs. the Montana Ore of Colorado; Elder (lea C. Parkinson, Purchasing company at Butte, which of the Oregon and Northwest; Elder resulted in a disagreement, cost each C. O. Card, of the Manitoba; Elder V. side about $30,00(1. T. Jack, of the Southwestern States; Mike Rolla, an Italian who killed Elder E. II. Nye, of the California, Senorio Cortez, at Uorr, Montana, hae snd Elder F. S. Bramwell. of the Mon been captured recently, and ie held for tana mission. murder. He claims that the Cortes The Indian Territory Mission which brothers attempted to kill him. originally was simply composed of the Recent visitors from White Sulphur Indian Territory and Oklahoma, but states Montana, report tbe deepest the these besides Spring, sow including localities in the memory Arkansas, Kansas and Texas, has snow in some Telegraph bad its name changed to the South of the oldest inhabitant. buried. Western Sates Mission. There are poles, and wires are completely Thomas J. Riley, charged with the now in the United States eight mis ions of the church: The California, murder of Banker Largey M Butte, North- Mont, has applied for a charge of Oregon, Montana, Colorado and ern, Eastern, Southern and Southwest- venue, and his application is backed by 169 affidavits by many of tbe most ern States Missions. not memthe of An important conference prominent men in the city, who do at trial fair of a stake could ward believe Riley bers of the Fifteenth get Lake of Salt City Butte. the Mormon church was held Saturday, April 2, when the The Rawlins, Wja, road to the of Elias death the caused by Grand Encampment will coat $2,155, vacancy of selection the filled was Morris by when completed. They expect to Rod with as R. have their atage line in operation by Joseph Morgan bishop, as Morris L. Rawand C. Nephl Badger ney May 3, the date of the arrival in first and second counselors. Bishop lins of the first of fourteen Grand EnMorgan is an old resident and has campment excursions to be run daring long lived in the Fifteen ward, over the spring and summer. which he will in future preside. He Mrs. W. E. Towle, who owns a ranch connected with Z. C. M. 1. Mr on ths little Laramie river, about 20 NaBadger is teller at the Deseret milea from Laramie, Wya, trapped n busitional bank and is a two coyotes a few days ago. The inness man. Nephi Morris is a son of of trepid ranch woman dabbed one the late bishop. Another important the animals to death and shot the othfeature of the conference was the di- er one after he had dragged the trap vision of the Fifteenth ecclesiastical s considerable distance over the counward of halt Lake City, and' the creatry. tion of a new one. That portion of J. IL McLean, a practical sheep the Fifteenth, situated west of Sixth of Buffalo, Wya, baa perfected ihearer iVeat street and on to the Jordan river, for aiding in the work of betweenth South Temple and Third sn invention shearhearing slieep by hand. Sheep South, was separated and organized ers almost unanimously pronounce the ward, a plan the Twenty-fourt- h team sheep shearing machine a failhat has long been contemplated. Ed' ure, and It is believed that McLean's n mason ward T. Ashton a Invention twill, in a measure, take a id contractor, was chosen as bishop. their place. seCaptain Willard Young has been Two women and seven boys were Elias deceased Bishop lected to succeed on comMorris as chairman of the Board of the arrested at Laramie, Wya, of Tenrose plaint of Special Agent Saint's College. Latter-da- y detecrailroad Pacific Union After the present semester there will Denver, with stealing eoal from tive. charged be a separation of the business departAll Saint's College cars in the Laramie yard. two pleaded ment of the Latter-da- y women The to the charge. of Salt Lake City from the rest of the guilty and a with dismissed reprimand, were establishment Hereafter two sepa and amounts small fined were the boys rate institutions will exist but under ten from sentences varying jail the direction of the Salt Lake Stake given 30 to days. Board of Education, of which PresiElko chairis county, still holds the banner the M. Cannon dent Angus for low taxation in Nevada,, the rate man. voted being the lowThe Improvement Associations of of $1.65 recently Washoe far so est levy reported. Brigham City have on the public square in first wealth, ranks which that city built a free library and county, Humboldt, of $3.20 a rate msde reading room, which is open every has ineluding the Winnemucca school tax. week day until 8:30 p. m. $3.27. Storey, which collected NAVY. THE COLUMBIA, THE FASTEST VESSEL IN THE UNITED STATES At the fourthcoming annual confer- Imposes 5 last author-tic- s year, has reduced its levy to ence It is expected that general $4.55 for 1808. of the church will be present, excould not be borne. The lleve that all the available merchant mor lf weights and of twelve is deck the above bette Elders State Examiner Hendesson, of eight-inc- h guns means a steamships would be called upon to do cept Apostle A. II. Lund and of the condition feet A leading feature Is the con- absence of the offensive power, but there duty as commerce destroyers. They Rulon S. Wells and Jos. W. McMurrin, Wyoming report as sacrifice Resources, ning tower, which is a tower in fact of is a corresponding gain In armor pro- believe that half a dozen of the fastest who are absent on missions in the old state banka as follows; well as in name. It has a height due $188,154.73; The loans and discounts, ones would be more than enough to world. feet above tection and In general simplicity. and one-hatwenty-seve- n man cash and one $109,731,38; commanded by can be other banks, feet in ship wipe Spain's small commerce from the the water line, is twenty-fiv- e The Board of the Mutual Improve from handled by a small crew. Tbe de- seas in a comparatively short time. and Items, $57,321.Ui total, miscellaneous thick. Inches and the dissolved, and has twenty diameter, ment League although this that believes ship, acfund, $29,000; could now afloat signer The navy yard at Brooklyn There is nothing equal to It whole belongings, assets, deficits, etc. 1355,207.22. Surplus certifi-sate- s not over two- - thirds as much as costing are $161,468.84; one at most on ships towers deposits, The conning to commodate ten large steamships have been turned over to the Improve com- - tbe Indiana and being much cheaper undivided of deposit, $78,677.76; time if it were necessary to fit them out ment Associations of the Salt Lake SandinToLera.Ps8ayatbdey wouYd ratiir j UJ $14,062.62; total, $355,207.23. notice. short at tne pride Stake, with Elder Richard R. Lyman profits, take their chances on an open bridge for bnt so-call- lf well-kno- pro-aounc- 8,-G- one-ha- one-ha- lf er two-thir- ds Driggs-fichroed- er - . well-know- well-know- one-ha- lf I 5,SBgtCh u president. |