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Show American Fork World W. E. SMITH, THEY WANT TO QUIT. Filipino Envoy Kctorq to Manila to Fnbltoh. UTAH. Manila: Major General Arguelczca and LieuUTAH NEWS. tenant Jose Bernal of the staff of General Luna returned here today to reFarmer are already cutting' theii new and press the request of General bay down in Dixie. Luna fur a cessation of hostilities ML Pleasant is to hare a new founThey have found tlie field of labor a dry and machine shop. most uncongenial one. Tlie two offA train of twenty-fou- r cars of beet icers were received in conference with . steers was shipped to the eastern marOtis. ket from Farmington last week. The proposals which they had to In many localities of Salt Lake submit differed but slightly from those county the recent cold snap did con- which they brought from the Filipino commsnder in the first place. They siderable damage to the fruit crop. Pansies are all the rage among Salt desired a little time in which to sumLakers at present, and the demand is mon congress, and express themselves as being confident that congress will considerably greater than the supply. decree peace because their people deThe state fair project is booming, it. sire and interest in the coming event They represent that Aguinaldo is materially increases as the days gojby. without power to surrender the army, The RichGeld city council is consider- and that the congress must decide that ing a proposition for municipal light- question. Incidentally the Filipino ing, using the water of Sevier canyon envoys ssserted that Aguinaldo had for power. not yet made a fair test of his strength It is now confidently expected that against the American forces, because the Utah volunteers will be home in only d of the army had been time to take part in the Fourth of July assembled together. celebration. The envoys presented a letter from About thirty-fiv- e of Salt Lake City's Senor Mabini, president and minister leading business houses have decided of foreign affairs in the cabinet of to close their places of business at 0 p. Aguinaldo, and who is the backbone The xn. in the future. of the Filipino organization. unofficommunication and is personal will state wool be of this The output heavier this year than for many years cial and seconds Major Arguelezea arpast, but the prices paid for the clip guments. will be lower than last season. TROOPS AT WARDNER- Charles Mace has sued the owners of the Uumbug mine for 850,000 for in- Striking Miners Maks Threat Agslnat Soldiers, llut There Has liven no Collluloa. juries received in the mine on December 33, 1808, while in the employ of Wardner, Idaho, May 4. The first the defendants. detachment of regulars have arrived Sunday base ball playing will be from Spokane, and were met at the prohibited in Salt Lake City this sea- depot by a crowd of business men and son, but the boys will play ball just citizens, who gave them a cordial the same, having leased grounds out- greeting. It ia hoped 500 regular will side the city limits. be here by tomorrow night. The Thistle Gun clubs first shoot of Shortly after the arrival of company the season shows an average of 70 per M, Twenty-fourt- h infantry, Captain cent and ran up to 00 per cent. The Batchelor, commanding, a report waa members of the club think they could spread among the inhabitant of the get a higher average shooting at Fili- place that the union miners from Canpinos. yon creek has started down to WardThe Provo woolen mills will con- ner for the purpose of wiping out the sume 750,000 pounds of wool this sea- company of regular troops before reinson, of which 400,000 pounds has al- forcements could arrive. Sixty nonready been purchased. The outlook union men armed with rifles immedifor the season at the mill is regarded ately rnahed down the road from as very satisfactory. Wardner to the railroad station one a half miles, for the purpose of and 16 of met Albert Jensen, age, years with an accident at the Provo woolen stopping the nnion men. The report proved unfounded and mills last week that may result in the loss of his left leg. Ills leg was caught was probably occasioned by the susin an ascending elevator and crushed pension of telegraphic communication between Wardner and Wallace. as far as the knee. Sixty-fiv- e men have been dispatched From all over the state comes the Helena for this place, 120 are from gladsome news that new settlers are from Fort Russell, while 120 coming in, new buildings are being coming erected and hundreds of acres of for- picked soldiers from Fort Douglas, veterans of San Juan, are on their way, merly barren land is being placed and the citizens are beginning to feel this season. Max Madison, the member of battery easy. B, Utah volunteers, who was killed in HELPING THE REBELS. the battle at Caluinpit, enlisted from Balt Lake City with Wedgewood'a Rending Sedirecruits, lie was born in Denmark, tious Literature to Manila. .and was about twenty-fiv- e years of. Washington, May 4. The postmasage. ter general lias directed the postmaster ' Professor II. F. Moore of the United at San Francisco to take out of the j States fish commission has decided, mails far Manila three pamphlets isafter making experiments, that it is sued by Edward Atkinson of Boston, impossible to produce oysters in or vice prgddent of the about the Great Salt Lake. Its waters league. This order does not apply to 4 contain to great a percentage of salty the circulation of the pamphlets by ) matter. mail in this country, hut. bars their Within a very short time the Utah A dispatch from this country to the I 'Pacific will be ready for operation Ihilippincs, discontent and even muthrough to its terminus at the Nevada tiny among the soldiers being stated State line. For the first time in the by the department to be the design of history of many of the southern towns these publications. their people will be within easy reach Postmaster - General Smith says: .of a railroad. "These pamphlets actually Incite to The advent of warm weather has mutiny and it would be utterly uncaused a collapse in the coal business, justifiable to permit their circulation land some of the coal mines have com-- i among the soldiers of the Philippines. me need running on half time. The Their circulation is a movement to inpast season has been one of the most duce the soldiers to disobey orders and (Successful in the history of the coal in effect to embarrass and resist the 'business in the state. government in whose service they are Not only are they designed The state superintendent has com- - engaged. to incite to mutiny the American solpie ted the apportionment of university diers on those islands, but also to ifree scholarships for the year. Salt foment and encourage insurrection on (Lake county gets twelve scholarships; of the the Filipinos themselves. part jUtab, six; Weber, four; Cache, three; - Sanpete, three; and the balance of the TAKES ANOTHER TOWN. counties one each. Captura llallnag, State Auditor Richards is preparing General Lawton's Troop tha Inaurgaut Huffvrlug Rvvvra Low. to send to the executive committees and Manila, May 3. General Lawtons 'those in charge of state institutions westward from Nor. blanks upon which to make requisitions column passing and village! for funds for maintenance and expenses. zauaray captured llalinag in vicinity yesterday, scattering and (This, it is believed, will aid in keeping pursuing 1,1100 insurgent troops. His their accounts correctly. causnalities, two wounded; insurUtah is experiencing an era of pros- only gent loss, several killed, large number perity. In almost every town in the wounded and captured. Number is state new buildings are being erected, not stated. Have open communication iand improvements being made on old with Lawton via Malolos by means of tones It is hard to secure enough Hale's troops and detachments from ;workmen. Financially the state was Otis. eity. jnever in a better condition. Major-Gener- al one-thir- tlo -- HE DENOUNCED THE RECENT LYNCHINQ8 IN GEORGIA. Filipinos Hllll Continue. The followWashington, May ing cablegram has been received from Ills Church Dsaegtd and Notices 1aetsd 4.- - AMERICAN FORK, Preparations for Kualilng War Against Ko-no- w 1'eaeo I'ropuoals. Lrtu SENDS PEACE ENVOYS TAKING NO CHANCES. THREATEN MINISTER. Warning Him to Leave Town He Has Nerve and Declares He Will Not Ua. Atlanta, Ga., May 3. The Baptlsl tabernacle in this city, the largest church of that denomination in tht south, and recently constructed, wai entered Sunday night and considerably damaged. The doors were broken in, the new carpets torn np, paint was smeared over the seats and a water-tanupset. On tlie outside of the church were tacked placards bearing such inscriptions as "Negro-lover,- " "Run him out of town, and other sentiments of that nature. One week ago Dr. Broughton denounced the burning of Sam Hose at Newman, and said the lynchers were as much murderers os Hose was. Dr. Broughton received one or two pieces k AGUINALDO The following Washington, May advices have been received at the war department from Manila, under date of April 30: While it is the general expectation among Americans that the Filipino emissaries will return with revised proposals from General Antonio Luna, Otis is not letting this with his preparInterfere prospect ations for pushing the war. Yester. Lawton day he ordered to return to Angst, a few miles north, west of Xorzagaray, and not to advance aggressively while the negotiations are pending. General MacArthur ia apparently acting on the same policy, but he is repairing bridges and strengthening the lines of his force, which is stretched out with a four mile front and within a quarter of a mile of the enemy. The possibilities of peace are gratifying to a great majority of the army, who have regarded the war aa an unpleasant duty that must be performed according to American traditions. Manila is cheerful over the prospects of a return to normal life, though there are skeptics who remark that a truce would enable the insurgents to rest until the rainy season, upon which they have been depending as an important aid. Major-Gener- al Major-Gener- HE KNOWS WHEN HAS ENOUGH. 2. Ask For Term of Pear From General u Tli End of tha Filipino Oil liuur-reetlo- Now lu Right. Washington, April 30. The end of the Filipino insurrection is in sight, la the opinion of army and navy officials. A telegram received from General that Aguinaldo haa taken what is regarded as the first step toward surrendering, namely, requesting a cessation of hostilities. Secretary Alger said last night, tbat while it could not be said that peace-waassured, he regarded the prospects as of the brightest and felt confident-tha. the end of the insurrection a. be would To his mind, there repetition of the negotiations which were had before Santiago. Everybody is prsisiugthe volunteers a marked change in the sentiment expressed a few days ago, when it w that the same men were to be pleading bronght home. Colonel Funston came in for the most commendation, even the regular officers taking-notwith admiration of the fact that his achievements were all strictly within the lines of the plans laid down for him by his superior officer, General s t was-near- of horse's flesh, accompanied by threatening letters. Sunday he denounced the senders of these letters as cowards and declared that he was not afraid of all the devils in hell. Dr. Broughton said last night that he would not ask for police protection, nor would he order the janitor to atop in the church as a precautionary mea sure. The police have found additional placards posted in prominent places Wheaton. on adjoining streets, bearing these General Corbin is quoted as saying-tha- t INDIANS ON WARPATH. sentiments: "What do you think of every volunteer who participated Broughton? I think he ought to be Bond of Chilkat Urlvo White Man From in the fighting in the Philippines Alaska Trail. whipped;" Who will join in a crowd was declared should have s. to whip Broughton, the negro-lover- ? Seattle, Wash., May 3. Advices from medal of honor. By the terms of their Skagway, Alaska, under date of April enlistments, they were entitled to IN HANDS OF ENEMY. 84, say that the Chilkat Indiana are on withdraw from the service, but they Twenty bucks, armed bad remained voluntarily, performing-morFilipinos Have Two Ofllcsri and Elsvsn the warpath. with rifles, gathered from their several Hon From American Army. than was required of them, which, Manila, May 3. General MacAr-thn- r Tillages slong the Chilkat river, and was more than the ordinary duty of 9 has sent officers to General Anto- marched to Rocky Point, eight miles soldier. nio Luna, the Filipino commander, from Haines mission, where eight It is expected that there will soon b under a flag of truce, carrying money white men were blasting rock for a further negotiations with the insurgent, and provisions for American prisoners trail to Klukwan, a distance of twenty-fWhile the hope is exin his hands, and asking an exchange ive miles, and drove the whites representatives. commission will notour that pressed of prisoners and the names of such as away. to a to so lead severe hole as out terms Word was immediately sent to the he may have. withor the the of renewal It ia reported that the insurgents United States marshal and commis- drawal of the fighting insurgents to another have two officers and sixteen others, sioner at Skagway and to Captain Yea-tafurther north, it is realized in command of the troops at Tails. stronghold, and it ia supposed that among these exercise care to must Otis General that are Lieutenant J. CL Gilmore and Sixteen soldiers, under command of a do make sure that not, in bad they eleven men of the crew of the United sergeant, were at once sent to Ilayne'a of the opportake faith, advantage States gunboat Ydrktown, who fel! mission. It is understood that parties of hosa afforded suspension by tunity into the hands of the Filipinos last who are opposed to the construction of month when the gunboat visited Bales the new trail have incited the Indians tilities to secure whatever benefit to on the east coastof Luzon. to make trouble. The Dominion Tele- themselves may come from the rapidly season. graph company is making rapid prog- approaching rainy CASUALTIES OF wAr. OTIS. CONGRATULATES ress with its line from Lake Bennett to Number of Lives Lot In Spanish War ComDawson. The line has been located President McKinley Thank Roldlers In pared with Civil War. fifteen miles down Lake Bennett and 3. A memoranWashington, May poles have been distributed almost to Philadelphia, April 30. Immediately dum has been prepared at the war de- White Horse rapids. upon receiving from Washington tho partment comparing the losses in the MONTANA LEADS THE WORLD. dispatch from General Otis, President with war first the in thi Spanish year McKinley sent the following message civil war. Its Total Production of Mineral Wealth of congratulation and thanks to The aggregate strength of troopi Larger Than An y Other State. in tli : Philippines: employed during the war with Spain Butte, Mont., May 3. The annual Philadelphia, April 38. Otis, Manila: was approximately 375,000, covering report of Eugene B. Braden of the Your message announcing the achievethe period from May, 1808, until April, United 8tatea assay office, just pub- ments of MacArthnrs division and 1800, inclusive. During this time the shows the Montana mineral deaths from all causes were 6100, oi lished, for 1808 by the insurgents of suspendas follows: product is most gratifying. Conhostilities tit per cent. ing Gold, 353,867 fine ounces; value, The mean strength of the first year to officers and men heartfelt convey of the civil war was 376,371, with an gratulations and gratitude for their ??rcgate loss by deaths of 10,150, beSilver, 14,818,661 fine ounces; value, a 6.8. of signal gallantry and triumph ing percentage e -- since-peac- e n, the-oldier- s l 819,150,482,17. Copper, fine pounds, 316,979,354; value, 826,102,616.29. Captain Korkfellow of ths American Forest Lead, fine pounds, 31,403,593; value, Falls Into the Hnnds of the Enemy. CAPTURED BY FILIPINOS. 8809,055.70. The following Washington, Total value of mineral production. has been received from Manila: Cap 851,319,000.1G. tain Eoekfellow, Ninth infantry, missThe state leads the world in its total ing since April 28, ultimo. He was on mineral but ia the third state the line commanding a battalion neat in the output, production of gold, Colorado and Caloocan; visited outposts at 0:30 p. m.. California leading in that product. and has not been seen since. Diligenl Silver in Montana is entirely a search waa made that night, two miles to the front, but nothing was discovered. There was no enemy in front. Ran FrancUco Rhakcn Up. Search has been prosecuted ever since, San Francisco. May 2. Two shocks without success. Private papers that of were in his possession were found on earthquake were distinctly felt in the 26th ultima It is the belief that all parts of the city Sunday. The first he lost his course and was captared. shock was rather mild, bnt the second, which followed immediately afterward, QUIET IN SAMOA. was of much greater severity. It was Only Few RklrmUhee Jletwean Rebels and a matter of comment that the shocks Friendly Native. which were felt abont2:45 p. m. should Auckland, N. Z., May 3. Samoan have occurred during a pelting rain, advices, under date of April 32, stats and with an unusually low temperature that the rebels have retired from theif for this season. While the second shock fortifications at Yalima, which they was responsible for a general fright, demolished, together with other fort! particularly to those who were higher along the coast. There has been no np than the ground floor, so far as farther serious fighting, although some known no damage has resulted from skirmishing between the rebels and the earthquake beyond trivial housefriendly natives has occurred in tht hold disasters to glassware and china. vicinity of Apia. May 3. ct Heath End Holiday. Rochester, N. Y., May 2. Three perIt if sons were killed, more than a dozen pointed out that a curious result ol seriously injured and fifty leas seriousMajor General Woods announcement hurt as the result of a wreck Sunday that the marriage ceremonies of all ly afternoon on the Rochester & Lake religious sects are legal, may be the Ontario railroad, better known as the temporary legalization of polygamy, Bay railroad, at Rosenbauers Corners, In any event, there were some 3,00C one and onc-liamiles nort of the city "irregular" marriages in this province line, when two cars on an excursion during the war, and as there are no train filled with passengers left the marriage laws except those of the Ro- track while rounding a curve at full man Catholic church, the new ordei sod were completely wrecked. insures the lcgitimatization of the off- speed, The fireman and engineer escaped. spring of such unions. May Legalise Polygamy. Santiago, de Cuba, May 3. lf William McKislet. WHAT DIEDRICHS SAID. Tha View Taken by German Ofllcar of the Little Affair at Samoa. Berlin, April 30. A dispatch from Kiel to the Voss'ische Zietung says that-nava- l officers there are smiling at made by Captain Joseph B. in the course of his speech at Coghlan the Union League club banquet In New York last week. Those officers claim that Admiral von Dicdricks answer to Admiral Deweys threat was simply: "Gear for action and quietly steam through the American lines into the harbor. Mr. George Not Guilty, Canton, O., April 30. Mrs. Anna E. George haa been acquitted of the charge of murdering George D. Saxton. This decision was reached after a trial of twenty-tw- o day of actual sessions of er and court and after twenty-thre- e hours of deliberation in the jury room. It set at liberty the woman who had occupied a cell in jail for seven months. Twenty-tw- o ballots were taken by the jury. She remained in the court room for some time receiving gratulations of friends. three-quart- IMtr and Desolation. Ma, April 30. Scenes of utter distress and desolation were pictured yesterday in the little tornado swept burg of Newtown, forty miles north of the St Paul railway. A day of ceaseless search among the ruins and wrecks for the injured and suffering followed a night of gloom anil despair. Fifty families are homeless. There are about fifteen dead and over thirty inof tlie place Is in jured, whileonc-hal- f ruins. A complete list of casualties will not be known for several days. Chillicothe, |