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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- NATION. Y Frcalrieut Powers Advocate Closer Orgeat-allolu Order to Snare Heller J'rlccs. X. T. BTDE, FmblUbMi UTAH LOOAN. wUHTHWEST WOOL GROWERS IN SESSION AT HELENA. The fifth annual meeting of the cific Northwest Wool-Growe- rs u Pa- associa- tion was opened at Helena, MonL, Tuesday afternoon.- Delegates from five states, included within the association, Oregou, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, were prevent, but the attendance is not so large as was - UTAH STATE NEWS, During the month of January Utah ra'nes paid dividends to the amount o: 439,000. In a rabbit hunt at Loa last week' James Iace waa slightly wounded, one ahot striking him in the nose. Bida for the construction of the Salt Lake federal building will be callec, for within the next sixty days. Frederick Warde, the eminent tragedian is to lecture this week in Salt Lake City for the benefit of the Press club. The Salt Lake hotel and restaurant Ikeepers have refused to arbitrate their differences with the cooks' and waiters unions. Chief Ililton of the Salt Lake police force has purchased boxing gloves for the use of members of the force, who will have practical instruction in the manly art. George Wilkinson, a machinist, had both ankles crushed by falling rock while engaged in putting in a new pump at the Ontario mine in Park City last week. Paul Tarpey, of Salt Lake, has bean elected captain of the junior baseball team at the Stanford University, the club to take part in series of games scheduled for next week. te The Utah millera have succeeded in having the special rate on Oregon wheat raised from 40 to 50 cents a hundred, aud will restore the recent decline in the price of flour. Efforts by llichfield horsemen to establish a racing club and to have a regular meeting of running horses promises to lie a success. The races will likely lie held at Monroe. It is not likely that any part of Utah will suffer next summer from a shortage of ice, for ice men are giving the assurance that not before in. five years has so large a crop been harvested. Great strides are being made in the different gold camps, particularly Gold mountain and Stateline, and it is predicted before the year closes these camps will have several contributors to the dividend list. A. E. Henry, a collector who embezzled ftJOO from Ora E. Krupp, a Salt Lake groceryman, thus forcing Krupp to go into bankruptcy, has been arrested in San Francisco and will be brought back to Utah for trial. Richfield is to have a kirmess lasting six days, beginning on the 3rd of March. The affair will also have an auxiliary kangaroo court. The entire affair will be to raise money for seating and otherwise equipping the new ward building. It is intended by the people of Sandy to offer the Consolidated Railway A Power company a bonus sufficient to Induce the company to exlend its Murray car line this spring a further distance sonth of five miles to the central part of Sandy. The farmers of Wayne county are rejoicing over a good snow just fallen. Up till the 28th day the roads have been two inches deep with dust since last August. A good supply of water is looked for in the summer, as the mountains are full of snow, as well as the valley a Attorney General Breeden has given an opinion that county officers must fill out blanks for the information of the statistician free of charge. It is claimed this will greatly increase the work and expense of the clerks and treasurers offices in the larger counties, and is meeting opposition. William B. Cronk, an employe of the Utah Light A Power company of Salt Lake City, claims to be one of the heirs to the estate of f SO, 000, 000 .held in trust by the Holland government, to which Mrs. Chauncy M. Depew and a number of other heirs in this country are trying to establish their right. William Harkins has been missing from Gold mountain for a week past and it is believed has perished in snowstorm. Hu left Kimlierly during the storm to go over to the Trappers Pride mine, four miles distant, aud has not bceu heard of since. Three men were brought to Paro wan Friday afternoon from Buckhorn Springs with their feet badly lozen. The men left Reaver Sunday morning, walking through the county, going South. When they reached JSnckhorn Springs their feet were badly frozen. The farmers of ('ache valley held a conference at Logan last week and formed the Coche Vuiley Farmers' association, the object of which is to and protect the agricultural interests of the valley. Oflicera were elected and a constitution adopted. 10-ce- nt ad-V(d- ch anticipated. Gov. Joseph K. Toole, on behalf ol1 the stale, welcomed the association to Helena. He was followed by Mayor Frauk'J. Edwards, who welcomed the delegates to the city. E. D. Weed of Henela responded on behalf of the visitors President Powers said he favored a closer organization because such a ona could handle theoutput of the growers, sustain a weak market and carry It until pricea were better. He quoted the copper, sugar, tobbacco and other staples as examples of hia idea for the wool growers to follow. Secretary J. W. Bailey, in his annual report, called attention to the necessity for closer organization and working as an organized body. He advocated the wool growers indorsing the Grosvenor shoddy bill, and carrying the contest for pure woolen goods and stamped shoddy ones sloug the same lines ss the dairy men in their fight for the oleomargariue law. Several interesting papers were read. State Labor Commissioner J. A. Ferguson spoke ou The Possibilities ol Wool Manufactured in the Northwest'' and Professor Emil Startz delivered an Illustrated lecture on Sheep Scab." President Powers named aa the executive committee J. E. llickok of Utah, It. C. Judson of Oregou, G. 8. Blythe of Washington, P. B. Moss of Montana and Joseph Gans of Wyoming. The committee on resolutions is composed of R. C. Judson, R. A. Selway, 11. H. Nelson, William Liudsay aud J. I). Holliday. General Milas Protests Against Location of Now Army Iosts Near Largo I'ltlr. The army post board, which hat been in session in Washington inter mittently since November 35th last, has concluded its labors and adjourned sine die; It is understood that there has been a considerable divergence of views among members of the board aa to the location of new posts. Lieutenant-Gener- al Miles, the preside (he board, has taken a strong position against the location of new posts in the vicinity of - great cities, on the ground that it can only be construed ss intended to menace organized labor, and he has go ns so far ss to enter a formal protest with Secretary Root against such locations London Paper Cenaure Foreigner for Attending Keceptlnn of Dowager Empress Commenting on tha recent reception of the wives und children of the members of the diplomatic corps at Pekin by the dowager empress, the emperor and the empress, the London Globs wrathfully remarks that it was humiliating to every European and American and expresses indignation 'at the fact that the ministers permitted their wives and children to be degraded by bowing to ths infamous woman and receiving decorations from her bloodstained hands." The newspaper assarts the dowsgsr will make use of ths inci. dent to convince Chinese the foreigners to her. Trouble Is prediotsd to arise from ths circumstance. to-tow- Japan Will Hold Grant Expo Itloa la 1903, The great national industrial exhibition which the imperial government of Japan will hold at Osaka in 1903 is attracting much attention. It is resorted that although tha limit within which applications for apses must be filled has officially been set at June 30, 1902, the applications from tha United States and Europe already aggregate' more than the estimated space allotted, and private individuals have offered to put up their own buildings in order to exhibit machinery. The occasion will be made the most of by foreign nations to introduce modern methods among the Japanese, who are just at the stage when they are ready to adopt nsw ideas The competition will be keen between the United States and Great Britain. BRITAIN WILL NOT ARBITRATE. Holland's Effort to Scrura Inci In South Africa Fall. The British government Tuesday replied to Dr. Kuyper, the Dutch premier, that if the Boers in the field desire to negotiate for peace, negotia tions can he entered Into, but only in South Africa. The British government adheres to its intention of any foreign power. This action waa a disappointment to Holland and other Boer aym-pathiz- on the continent. ers Authority of ihn I'rtKklrni In IrfutlN IoIhi liiiiirett Into. In view of the contention set up by Senator Cullom in the senate that reciprocity treaties effecting the revenues can be negotiated' without' action of congress, Mr. Tawney of Minnesota has introduced in the Iioum a resolution the ways directing and means committee to fully or the whether of Investigate question not the president, by and with the advice and consent, of the senate, and independent of any action on the part of the house of representatives can negotiate treaties with foreign governments by which dnties levied under an act of congress for the purpose of raising revenue are modified or repealed and report the result of sneb investigation to the house. Government Taken Step to Collect Union Pacltle Debt. In response to a request for information ss to what steps had been taken looking to the collection of interest due the United States from the Kansas division of the Union Pacific railroad, Attorney General Knox has sent a communication to the senate giving the status of the government's account with that road. He says that in 1898 there was received on account of the subsidy claim of the goverument $64,-751,23- 3, leaving 16,500,000 in interest unpaid, Of this latter amount 8831,897 was paid in 1899, and tl 33,942 in 1900. He also says that a suit ia pending in the United StateB circuit court of Massachusetts against the American Loan & Trust company for 8548,000 on account of the proceeds received by that company on securities held by it. Uontanaua Petition Again! Kootenai For eat Reserve. The people of western Flathead eounty, Montana,, are signing a petition against the creation of the new Kootenai forest reserve proposed by Commissioner Hermann. The land all ties in the west end of the county and, It is claimed, should all land incorporated in the recent order of withdrawal be finally segregated and withdrawn from settlement, it wyi work a hard-hi- p upon many actiyil settlers who ire living upon unsnrveyed land. The Kootenai forest reserve, aa proposed, will embrace over a million and a quarter acres of dense timber lands in ths states of Mop tans and Idaho. Hutu Man Saji Ills Wife Has Several Husbands. SerreUry of tli treasury Shaw Takes th JUDGE ADVOCATE LEMLY Gath of (Jllicr. REPLIES TO SCHLEY'S APPEAL. At 10.30 o'clock Saturday morning, in the presence of the chief officials of the treasury department, Senator Dolliver and nearly all of IowaVdele-gatio- n In the lower house of congress and other friends, former governor, Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa took the pr& scribed oath of office aa secretary of the treasury, stcceeding Lyinan J. Gage. The oath was administered by Justice Shlras of the United States Supreme court, in the largest of the secin tlid treasury retarys office-roobuilding. Secretary Shaw was warmly congratulated by each person present upon hia accession to his high office. The retiring secretary waa among the first to grasp his hand and aa he did so said: "Mr. Secretary, I congratulate you and wish for your administration the highest possible degree of success." thank Secretary Shaw responded: you sir must sincerely, and if my success shall be anything like that of my predecessor I shall be fully satisfied." The new und retiring secretaries then received all of the officials and clerks in the treasury building to the number of S000. t Secretary Gage baa the love and respect of the officials and clerks of the department as waa shown in their leave taking. Reply Cunleuil That Kelilry Hite Miiftsd We Ground Klara Hie Hearing. ' The comment" of Juilge Advncrte General Lemly and Solicitor Hauna upon the apiieal of Admiral Schley, as submitted to tbe president by Secretary Long, is ' less, than a third as long as the appeal itself, a fact accounted for by the comparatively few. quota--tiou- s from the court's finding in the case of the comment." Tiiecoinmen-tator- s begin with the statement that Admiral Schley and his counsel have shifted their ground. They say the chief features of the case were the retrograde movement, disobedience of orders," inaccurate and misleading official reports," failure to destroy vessels of the enemy lying within sight" and injustice to brother officer." These matters are all grave. The first was that the finest aggregation of American naval vessels under one command was, by Schley's direction, turned about and headed, for Key West, more than 700 miles distant, when within twenty-tw- a miles of Santiago, where the enemy' ahipa were. The second was that Schley deliberately and knowingly disobeyed tbe secretarys order overtaking him in hia retrograde movement. The third waa that Schley's reason, officially given, for the retrograde movement and .disobedience of orders, i. e., "that the flying squadron was short ou'coal," was not true. The fourth was that foa four days the Spanish ships lay within reach of the flying squadron and no sufficient effort was made to destroy them. The fifth alleges that Sampsons plan of night blockade forced the enemy to come out of the harbor in daytime, and that had Schley not abandoned the position assigned to the Brooklyn, and thereby made an opening through which the Spanish vessels put to sea, they would have been sunk in the channel, or soon after emerging from it. .I Dust Explosion Kills 108 Mexican Miner. One hundred and six miners killed and buried under debris is tha awful record made by a dust explosion at the Hondo mines in Mexico Saturday, The Hondo mines are located at Coaliulla, at the terminus of a branch of the Mexiean International road, about 100 miles south of Eagle pass, and are the most important in that slate. Details of the disaster are meager, no names of the victims being learned. There was a total of 106 miners at work in the mine when the explosion occurred, aud all of them are dead. The majority of the victims are Mexicans and Chinamen, very few Americans having been at work in the mine. The work of clearing away the wreck in order to get to the bodies ia being rushed as rapidly aa possible, but there is no hope that any of the 106 men will be rescued alive. The explosion oe curred in mine No. 6 and waa occasioned by striking a gas pocket. Edward J. O'Neill, of Bntte, Mont., Clsnrjr, Montane, Has Big Fire. .. ; The rail roads' town of 'Clancy, Monhas begun auitjiskig forlivorijroni. bis wile Mrs. Emma I O. Desmond' tana, twenty 'mtfes sodth of Hetfaa, Estes, who Mr. O'Neill says he mar- waa nearly wiped out bv Are Ithat ried in Weber county, Utah, on April started in Peter Leary's haH,'whre O'Neill claims that the dance was held Saturday night The 25, 1893. woman has several husbands living in loss was about $14,000, on which 88000 various parts of the west and that her Insurance was carried. The Albany hotel, owned by Leary, maiden name was Emma L. Ohl. was destroyed, as was his saloon and O'Neil says hia wife seems to be of disposition and wants two or hall; loss $9000, Other losses were: three husbands at one time. He be- Jamea Ryan, store, 83000; Martin Gorlieves she is how in Nevada residing don, lodging-hous81G00; John ilarb, with one of the number preceding market, $500. him. Jerry Ellis, a volunteer fireman, who waa overcome by heat, may die. Hill to Aid In Adjusting labor Disputes In ths Senate. Montana Lumbermen Repudiate Unions. Senator Hoar, from the committee The big Western Montana lumber on judiciary, has reported fuvorably the bill to limit the meaning of the companies, controlling the lumber outword conspiracy and the use of re- put of the western section of the state, amounting to millions of feat straining orders and injunctions in certain eases. The bill provides that a annually, have formed an organization and adopted a resolution pledgcombination to do an act or not to do ing themselves not to recognize any it shall not be punished more severely labor union. During the winter the then the act Daelf, and that combinalumber jacks have organized a nnion tions of this character between emand in its membership all it comprises ployers and employees engaged in in- of the men at the mills, employed terstate commerce shall not be considseveral thousand. At a numbering ered in restraint of trade or commerce. recent the nnion fixed meeting the The bill is intended to aid in adjusting scale of wages for common labor at labor disputes on rnilroads. $3.50 for a day of nine hours. The Pcandel Arise Over Fries Fold for British rate heretofore paid has been $2 a day Cavalry Horses. ten ten hours. The scandal arising from the pro1800 Reernlte Rail for Manila. ceedings brought against British The transport Thomas sailed Saturofficers by Sir John Maples, M. F over the purchase of horses for the day for Manila with 1,500 recruits and army, is cauaingacrimonious comment. a large number of passengers. Tbe It is announced that Major General Grant is scheduled to sail February 7tli William II. Trumann, inspector gen- and 'will also carry many recruits. eral of the remount department, asked The transport Rosecrans left Manila for the appointment of a court of In- January 24th with eight officers and quiry. The war secretary, Mr. Brod- 475 enlisted men and the Third baterick, replying, said he agreed that il talion of the Twenty-seconinfantry. was desirable that a thorough investi- The Twenty-seconinfantry left gation should be made of the whole Manila Saturday and the Twentieth subject, and promised that the inquiry infantry sails February 10. The secshould be opened without delay. ond battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry will Btay at Manila until the Rich New Fork Woman Commit Suicide airival of the Twenty second Infantry In California. . e, d d from San Fransciaco. The Identity of a middle-age- d richly dressed woman who committed suicide War Tain Will He Greatly Reduced. in Stockton, California, Monday night The majority and minority reports has Wen established. She was Mrs. on the bill reducing the war revenue Hammond Moore of New York city, taxes are practically completed. the widow of Colonel Hammoud Moore, Chairman l'ayue's majority report is au officer of the Confederate army, foreshadowed in his recent statement who settled in New York shortly after when the bill was agreed upon. It the civil war. She came to San Fran- deals mainly with the facts and details cisco from Guatemala last May in the of the redactions, which is said to be course of a tour around the world the largest single reduction of taxation which she began three years ago, and ever made by a nation. which ahe had just completed. The esuae of her suicide ia unknown. CATTLEMEN TO MEET AT DENVER. Will Confer on the Und Uaelng Rill und Other Mutter of Interest. Tbe American s' .association, composed of leading cattlemen of the west, will meet in Denver March 4th to discuss the the association now having a kill congress. basis of representation in thia association is individual membership, and any grower or breeder of cattle or fbe managing officer of any corporation engaged in the growing or breeding of cattle, is eligible to membership upon the payment of an initiation fee of $5. The programme will be limited to a few set subjects or papers, it being the purpose of the convention to confine the proceedings to open debate and argument on the part of the members. After the presentation of each subject or paper, sufficient time will be given for the members to discuss the same in speeches. The convention will be wholly in the liandsof its members, and ample time will be given for the discussion of all subjects presented. Many matters of interest to cattlemen of the west will be introduced, one of the most important of which i the bill, now in congress, prepared by a committe appointed for that purpose by the association at its last annnal meeting. The 'disease of cattle and their remedies will also come up for discussion, and papers will be presented by the most able men in the country on the best mode of feeding and fattening cattle for market L Vid rfion of the where but little grain is raised.' west, Cattle-Grower- pend-ink'b- re -- five-minu- te land-leasi- Condemned Mnrdei Pnt Gourde Koa nnd Eaeape. Da Edward and John Biddle, awaiting execution in the county Jail at Pitts I for the murder of Grocer Thomas D. Klianey of Mount Waahing-to- n, overpowered the guards at 4 aclock Thursday raorningnd escaped. Both prisoners had been provided with aws, with which they cut the bars ia their cells. The prisoners occupied adjoining cells on the second range. They evidently had assistance from tha outside', as both were armed with revolvers. They shot one guard inflicting a slight wound, and locked liii and two others in a dungeon. Hull Man Twice Sentenced to IUng ie R-- 1 Free. After being confined in the county jail at Butte for four years and seven months, forty months of which he was under sentence of death, Joseph Shafer, the mulatto who killed a colored man named John llawkina in 1897, la once more a free man. Thursday morning County Attorney Breen made a motion in Judge court that the charge against Shafer be dismissed, all the witnesses In the esse being dead or gone, and Judge MeClcrnan set the colored man free. |