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Show American Fork World W. B. HITS, nkIkkWi UTAH. AMERICAN FORK, MUTINOUS MASCARDO. TO SETTLE DISPUTES. UNCLE SAM AND JOHN BULL FAVOR ARBITRATION. COST OF CtHM Ws Tboosoad Holdlors te Revels Agolnat Uovoraoioat of ipiuMs New York, May 10. A special from Manila esys that the destruction of Agninaldo's government is bat a matter o4 a few days. What the Americans Will Raid Together at the Peeve have no far failed to accomplish, the la Advoratlng a Srheaae for Settling Troable Beinsurgents themselves are doing. tween Nations. Six thousand Filipinos are ia open mutiny against their commander-in-chieand a bloody fight is imminent. Washington. May U.The United The rebellious ones are under General States and Great Britain will stand to- Mnscardoe, and at thia time hia forces gether in the advocacy of the adoption and those under General Luna are of a scheme for the settlement of in- drawn up against each other in line of ternational disputes by arbitration, battle. which will he presented to the The state of affairs threatens the conference at its meeting in immediate downfall of the Filipino The Hague on the 10th of the present ith mutiny among his governmenL mon th. The A merican delegates, head, own forces and so closely pressed by ed by Embassador White, are equipped the American troops, it is impossible with a fairly well digested plan for the that Agninaldo can carry on a warfare execution of thia profurther It would be safer for him and ject, while the British delegatee are hia government to surrender to the prepared with a plan which is almost Americans than to fall victims to identical with the American project in his own ranks. The details cannot lie procured for treachery The situation ia thoroughly apprecipublication in advance of the presenta- ated by General Otis, and be will push tion of the projects to the conference. his campaign with renewed vigor. It ia known, however, that there are The outbreak has been expected by essential differences lietween this last the Americans, for there has been displan and that embodied in the treaty sension in the Filipino ranks for some drafted by Secretary Olney and Sir time. Julian launcefote, which failed of acGRANTS GUNBOAT. tion in the senate when submitted for ratification. The differences are rather The I'tah Soldi.!-Hal- lo r. Shell Two Towns in the methods approved for securing and Taka Prisoners. an impartial adjudication, than in the New York, May 10. The following of the former convention, has been received from Manila under principles and it ia believed on those points the date of May 8: British and American propositions are The army gunboats Laguna de Bey not precisely similar. and Covadonga, under command of While ia is not confidently expected Captain Grant, which started up the that this scheme will be adopted by San Fernando river for Guagua yesterthe conference, it will plant the seed day, as was presumed, to establish which it is hoped in the end will have there a base of supplies for the troops substantial results. engaged in the northern campaign, reMac Arturned today, C2RAIN CROP STATISTICS. with connect the . thur having failed to Condition In Karopa Shown to bo Very expedition. Fsninbls . The gunboats found rebels en.- The 11trenched at Scsinoan and Guagua on Washington, May grain statistics which the fronts of the towns. The the water crop supplement recent winter grain report of agricnl-tnr- e vessels steamed past the works, shellshow that the winter grain con- ing the occupants and driving them ditions almost everywhere in Europe out are favorable. Russian reports comLanding parties from the boats entered both towns, capturing at plain of deficient grain, but the general condition is represented as satisa Spanish captain in full uniform who was ostensibly a prisoner in the factory. Little if any harm seems to have hands of the rkbela, andfclto a native been done by the severe cold weather officer. In March In the western country and DEWEYS SUCCESSOR. reports of spring cultivation and seedAdmiral Walawn Will Co aim a ad tho ing are favorable. Considerably less Rmi A.latle Btallon. than a normal crop, approximately Washington, May 10. The navy deis Indicated for India as a whole, Bengal alone reporting un- partment has selected a successorAsi-to Roumania Admiral Dewey to command the equivocally good atic station. reports 1898 wheat 58,450.904 bushels; Orders were issued Monday detachrye, 7,358,688, maize, 88, 000, (NX). This Rear Admiral Watson from coming is a large gain over 1897. Austria 1898 wheat crop is reported at 40,400.000 mand of the Mare Island navy yard Admiral bushels. Italy's wheat crop for 1898 and ordering him to report to officer ia officially put at 13,371.000 bushels. Dewey at Manila to relieve that be can feels that he spared In Argentina the area under wheat when he there. 1898-9 refrom which the crop was for Rear Admiral Kempff, at present cently gathered, has been officially on waiting orders, has been ordered to estimated at 8,150,319 acres and the succeed Admiral Watson in command aggregate product is unofficially esti- of the Mara Island navy yard. mated at 70,000,(XM) bushels. MAJOR MARCHAND DEAD. The United States minister at Buenos th. Famous Expedition Mar- Ayres reports that the quality of the Leader of aorod by Moraudora. wheat crop ia fairly good and the yield 10. It is presistently ruParis, May extraordinary. The maize crop now mored here that Major Marchand, gathering ia, like wheat, a good one. In the United Kingdom, the increase leader of the famous Marchand expein the wheat crop over that for 1897 dition which was returning from was 18,088,331 bushels, a percentage of Faahoda on the Nile to the Red sea en nereaae nearly three times as great in route to France, was killed by a band of marauders while on the way from production as in arciE Addis Abeba, the Abyssynian capital, QUIET AT SAMOA. to Raa Biboutil, the French post on the coast. Operations Nun pended leadlag Arrival ol Barn-tie- s, ia also rumored Coo-ferea- ee UTAH NEWS. Thera la a scheme on foot in Tooele to bnild i (3,000 creamery. Work on the new county jail at Mnnti ia being vigorously prosecuted. C. E. Loose, one of Utahs successful miners, has offered (100,000 for the Cliff House property,- near San Fran- f, t- cisco. For the fiscal year ending June 30, the Oregon Short Line company's gross earnings will reach the enormous figures of (7,418,891.70. Preliminary work has been commenced on the Hpringville sugar factory. Water rights for the factory have been purchased and the pipe line will be laid immediately. The first four months of 1899 have witnessed a period of greater activity in respect to improvements and work in Thistle than has before been seen in that thriving town. Mapleton is preparing to erect a brick school building this summer, for which the district has been bonded for (3,100. The bonds have been disposed of at a premium of 1.01 1899, six-roo- m per cent Samuel Ilarrett, a Lower Mammoth miner, is in a Salt Lake hospital minus one hand and with his face filled with fragments of earth and rock. Ilarrett was injured in a prematura blast last Saturday night. d The daughter of David of Sargent, Payson, found a bottle of strychnine one day last week, and partook of the contents, and before three-year-ol- medical assistance could be summoned the little one was dead. An aged German named Schmidt was killed by a Bio Grande Western train near West Jordan last week. Schmidt was in his seventy-sevent- h year, and deaf, and did not see the train as it rapidly rounded a curve. It has been finally decided that the salt palace will be located on a tract of fifteen acres just below Ninth South street andThetween State ami Main streets. Work will begin on the palace within the next few days. Work has been commenced by the Tel u ride Power Transmission company to double the capacity of the Irovo canyon plant, adding 3,000 more horse power for the Tintie district market. A large force of men is engaged in the work. Reports from the recent storm show that considerable damage was done by frost The greatest damage will be in Salt Lake county, while in the vicinity of Payson, Manti, Springvills and Provo, the fruit trees will suffer somewhat Major Young, on behalf of the Utah batteries, has acknowledged receipt of a copy of the resolution of thanks passed by the recent legislature, and says the boys were very much gratified at the action taken by the state's law- makers. Young Chegwidden, the Park City boy who came in contact with a live electrlo light wire, has lost both hands, the doctors having performed the operation last week. It was simply a miracle that the .young man did not lose his life, as the shock was a severe one. The board of pardons have declared Harry Hayes innocent of the Pelican Point murder, and the man who was once sentenced to death is now free. The board decided that the man Wright committed the murder. When Hayes was told that he was free he said he knew that right would prevail sooner or later. At a recent meeting of the state land board. Secretary Groo was authorised to notify persons upon whose applications lands have been selected for sale, to eome in and make contracts for the purchase of tbeland as required by the now law, within thirty days after the receipt of notifications. A deposit of S3 cents per acre is also required. Joseph R. Morris, of Salt Lake county, who has already been twice tried on charges of bribery in connection with the city and county building furniture deal, will be tried again on the charge of agreeing to accept a bribe, the supreme court having handed down an opinion in which it is held that Morris may be tried by a jury of twelve men. Charles Suck, a Rio Grande Western brakeman. was seriously injured late Saturday night while switching cars In the yard at Helper, and Sunday unan derwent the amputation of his right arm. which was taken off at the shoulder. long-cherish- Major-Gener- al . Sos-mo- on three-fourth- s, EX- GRAND TOTAL SHOWS AN Thla Total FIGHT LIKE INDIANS, CONGRESS. Don Nat Inrlodn Hpodflr - FILIPINOS FIRE ON A FLAQ OF TRUCE. Adoption of Tact Ice L'sod la fighting tha Unltad Htntao Havao Goo. oral Uvtu'i Foveas From Appro-prlatla- as Last SvmIou Lass Kspaaslva Thaa Haaaad Kcsslaa af 1IM. Washington, May 9. The volume relating to appropriations, new officers, etc., required by law to be prepared and published at the end of each session of congress, under the direction of the committee of appropriations of the senate and house, has been completed for the third session of the session by Mr. Thomas P. Fifty-fift- h Cleaver and Mr. James C. Courts, chief clerks respectively of those committees. A summary of the appropriations shows the grand total of (074.981,033. The details by bills are as follows: ( 3,730,032 Agriculture 80,403,204 Army 1,714,534 Diplomatic 0,834,534 District of Columbia 4,909.903 Fortifications Indians Legislative Military Academy Naval Pensions Postofiice River and Harbor Hundry Civil Appropriations. Deficiency 7,704,776 23,410.841 575,554 48,099,970 145,233,830 105,034,139 10,010,043 49.385.031 35,005,913 osla May 7. Detailed reports of the work of Lawton's expedition show that harder fighting took place daring the early psrt of the week than earlier accounts indicated. In the attack on San Rafael the American forces were met with n heavy fire from a large nuinber-orebels who were concealed in on all bides. It was only in the adopting of tactics followed in Indian fighting in the United States, every man for himself, that saved General from great loss. Lawton, as usual, was at the head of his staff. Scott's battery demolished, d a trench at short range. The insurgent leaders, Gregorio and. 1'io del Pilar who hod 800 men in Ball-na- g, retreated when General Lawton , appeared at the town. Chief of Bal-Inag with eleven men, entered ahead of the army and rang the Washington, Major-Gener- al f tbe-jungle- s the-divisio- stone-fronte- Scoute-Yonng- Miscellaneous appropriations, including (30.000,-00- 0 to carry out the treaty obligations with Spain.. 38,744,590 chnrch bellB to announce that they had possession of the city. General Lawton, when attacking outside of lialinag, saw women and children in the rebel tranches and sent Captain Case in advance with a white flag to warn the insurgents When the within 500 yards of the trench two volleys were fired at Captain Cases, party. ia-forc- Permanent Appropriations 138,078,320 Grand Total (074,981,033 In addition to the specific appropriations made, contracts are authorized to be entered into for increase of the naval establishment and for variqus public works throughout the country requiring future appropriations by congress in the aggregate sum of These contracts cover three new battleships, three armored cruisers and six protected cruisers, to cost, Including armor and armament, river and harbor improvements, (23,800,334; public buildings in various states, including the new government printing office in the city of Washington, (8,163,45a (77,-047,37- 4. (44,-104,50- 0; The new officers and employments specifically authorized are 49,609 in number, at an annual cost of (13,150,-B0and those abolished or omitted are 853 in number, at an annual compensation of (843,371, a qet increase of at a cost of (11,307,49a Of this increase 38,315 in number are for the military establishment under the act increasing the efficiency of the army, and are exclusive of the volunteers authorized, and 9,573 are for the naval establishment, at an aggregate annual cost for both establishments of (10, leaving for the executive departments and all other branches of the public service 930 new officers, at an annual cost of (909,370. A comparison of the total appropriations of the third session of the Fifty-fift- h congress for 1900 of (074,981,033, with those of the second session for 1899 of (893,331,015, shows a redaction In favor of the ihird session of 7, 48,-81- la-dlo- 7, ts. Chief of Scouts Young whose bravery at Balinag was most notable, served as an Indian Scout under Major General O. O. Howard in his campaign in the Northwest in 1876. The work of Young's scouts was a feature of the expedition On Wednesday, the 3rd, the men encountered some Filipinos beyond Balinag and drove them until their 150 rounds of ammunition had been reduced to fifteen. They were about to retire when Lieutenant-Boy- d with a troop of the Fourth cavalry came up with them and chased the enemy into San Miguel. There are 2000 Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos at San Miguel. They are served with 5 cents , worth of rice daily and are compelled to work hard on the rebel defenses. Several hundred of the Filipino wounded are at San Migael. The iusurgents are sending their women and children to the Bianaona-batt- e mountains. Strikers L'so Djruaiulte. Duluth, Minn., May 6. The first serious demonstration by the street railway sympathizers and strikers occurred Friday night. They used dynamite to stop traffic. Four cars were derailed, three at West Duluth and one on Garfield avenue. One of the can in. West Duluth was smashed almost beyond repair, and all of the glass in the other two was broken. The car on. Garfield avenue was served likewise. One man waa seriously, if not fatally GO FOR MILES. injured, and four others were slightly hurt. When Manager Warren of the Finding of tho Kerf Court of Iaqaliy U street railway company appeared on JUndo Public. the scene with a wrecking-car- , he was set the strikers. upon by 9. direction of By Washington, May the president, who approves the findHarlMl Troaaaro Found. ings, Acting Secretary of War Meikle-Joh-n Cincinnati, O., May 7. Buried treahas made public the report and sure in the shape of eleven (1,000 findings of the military court appointed bonds, bearing unclipped coupons to investigate charges made by which add several thousand dollars to Miles, commanding the army, their value, were found by Thomas that the beef supplied to the army Iiawson, a negro laborer, while digdeduring the war with Spain was unfit ging in the cellar of a down-towon store Sixth The street partment use of the troops. The most for the was formerly the property important features of the report are: ground that Captain It of Britting Bros., piano manufacturers. Joint ComniiMloa. that the Finding generals charges who brought Marchand'a report that discovery solves a mystery which the refrigerated beef was treated This Auckland, N. May 11. Advices had a source of angry contention been to the situation Faahoda with chemicals were not sustained; from Apia, Samoa, state that every- regarding tha heirs of Julius Britting, Paris and subsequently returned to that hia allegations among the thing la quiet on the island. Opera- join in the retirement from Fashoda, canned fresh or canned concerning roast beef were .whose sisters brought suit against tions have been suspended pending the was wounded in the same encounter. Britting, a brother, charging sustained as to its unsuitability for Martin food as used on the transports and As him with having concealed the bonds. arrival of the join ( commissioners from HAS NO COMMENT. field ration; censure a San Francisco. Ilootllltloo Ead la Samoa. for Miles General of "error in failing After the cessation of hoatilitica a Gsssrsl miss Dssllnss to Bay Aay thing ou to Washington May 7. The secretary the of promptly notify secretary tbs Bssf Ksport. detachment of British soldiers visited war when he first formed the opinion of the navy has received a message the battlefield of Yailima, where they Washington, May 10. When asked that the food waa unfit; censure of the from Admiral Kauts at Apia. Samoa, (then General Ea- stating that Mataafs and hia chiefs recovered an American machine gun with regard to the probable action he commissary-generfor too the expensive gan) purchas of have that had been captured by the rebels. would take in view of the adverse re- the canned beef as an untried agreed to keep outside lines preration; The rebel forts at Lottopa and Vailima port of the president. General Miles is censure of Colonel Maua of General scribed by Kants and the Britiah were two miles longhand of great quoted as saying: "The president ia Mila's staff; the finding that the pack-er- a commander, and to observe peace unwere not at fault and that the til the arrival of the of the army and strength, being reinforced by trenches commander-in-chie- f peace commisthe srmy were of tho meats and rifle pits. It was found that sev- my superior. He haa approved tl)t same suppliedas tothose sion. is It there will be d thought supplied to the eral rebel had died in the trenches findings of the Wade court of inquiry. trade quality more No recomand the that fighting. steps have been generally, from the shock of bursting shells, but Therefore I have no comment to make. mendation that no further proceedings taken to avenge the ambushing of It would be au unsoidierly act were I will be taken in the premises. . without having been wounded. American marines two weeks ago. " to do so. I TraotothoFUff.J Did Not Kill Mm A'taua. Fallaros of tho Fast Month. Solti la ra or Kldnoppod. 9. Two large mass May Chicago, New York, May 11. Roland BurnNew 10. Salt Lake City, May York, May 7. R. G. Dun A, Co., Speaking of ham Molineux, who has spent several the detention of the Utah soldiers in meetings were held in Chicago Sunday in their weekly review yesterday aay: to voice approval of the policy of the weeks In the Tombs prison,, charged the in April were the smallest The failures Philippines, Senator Joseph administration with reference to the with the murder of Mrs, Kate J. in any month since records by months is quoted as saying: The and to protest against tha Adams, has been discharged, the grand retention of the volunteer in the Philippines 38 per cent smaller than in sentiments expressed on the previous began, of last year, not a third of jury having failed to indict him. He Philippines is a crime in every sense of April at the meeting wasiin mediately fierwsrd of 1887, and not half th the word, and 1 can see no palliation Bunday In Central music hall. The amount charged with as&ult with Intent to or excnee for !L The men are simply were held in the Auditorium meetings of April of any previous year. and Cenkill in sending cyanide of mercury to kidnapped by the government, and Both In manufacturing and in trading' tral music hall. In spite of the inwere the smallest ever known in Harry Cornish. The prosecution hopes coered Into fighting the Filipinos. clement they weather, the aggregate atto submit the last charge to another Their detention ia illegal and forcible. month and in trading the smallest that If every one of them should desert ia tendance woe probably 10,09a Great in any month. Froaperity ever known grand jury, with a view of connect lag a body be couldn't lawfully pun- Interest was manifested. ' the prisoner with the Adams poisoning, ished forthey is In evidence. iu out-turn- 398,-33- (318,-350,59- Major-Gener- 6, 3. al n long-continue- d al - . . the-amoun- t anti-expansio- n- |