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Show 7 THE SEMI-WEEKL- Y A MAI) NATION. B. T. BTDS. Pobliabm, LOOAN. UTAH Klbil I and obtained Ui: HOMES. .in-.- i .iililii-ute- s DEWEY IS GOING TO SEA. to it with no trouble at all. The chief interest in 1ocateUo cenHAVE COMMAND OF LARGEST FLEET FORT HALL RESERVATION IS OPENED AND tered in the mineral lands, and prol-ab- ly WILL SINCE CIVIL WAR. HUNDREDS OF PE0FLE MAKE staked out 1,000 claims were LOCATIONS. within six or seven miles of the city. Probably half of those who took part The Admiral Will lio Tlarrtl In Command or Fleet to Awieuiltle Nnr ( in the rush were armed, but in apite of West loilirs. for Ibo Fully .1,000 llouirnerker- Many of Tlioiu this and the fact that in scores of inWinter Maneuvers. Women, Make a KukIi for ( liolca stances many men were after the same Owr I.IIIMI Mineral Claim Near Pneaieliu claim, no personal encounters took Admiral Dewey is to go to sea again, Ntakrd (tut. There were many exciting place. hia Hag, with the four stars, in flying races for favored locations. command of the greatest fleet in numA. J. Pierce a lid other believe they After man' years of nailing and exbers the United Slates has gotten tohave discovered indications of coal Hull reserthe Fori Indian since tlie days of the Civil war, pectation, and were gether vation in Idaho has been thrown opru within four miles of Pocatello and far more powerful in offense and to bcltlement, and a mad rush was the first on the ground, covered the defense even than any of those war statemade by the prosiecLive settlers who same with a coal declaratory fleets. ceris had been waiting at the boundary lines ment. The shale they exhibit Secretary Moody has conceived tlie tainly of a very promising character. for many weary days. idea and after consulting the pleasure Tbe ceded iiortion of the reservation, of Admiral Dewey, it has been arKuea to Laud Office. which was thrown open, compribea The special train provided by the Or- ranged that he shall he placed in suabout 418,000 seres, of which 00,000 is egon Short Line left Poeatello at 2:08, preme command of tlie fleet (comprisclassified as agricultural land and the making the rn;; llsckfoot in thirty-tw- o ing the North Atlantic, the European balance as grazing land. A large porabout 50 and the South Atlantic squadrons), minutes, V1 tion of it is mountainous and gives passengers, were from which ia to assemble near Culebra isDecempromise of great mineral wealth. rocatello going to the land in the West Indies, next SecreThe lands except those within five land office for maneuvers. tlie winter ber, on of fonhj.tpoM filing miles of Pocatello were open to entry claims they had The remain- tary Moody himself desires to witness under the homestead, stone, townsite der were spectiV these maneuvers, and it is even possible and mineral acts. The price for agrithat the president may find time to Th best , cultural land is 87. SO an acre and for was made V make a voyage to the south to sge the r an land to $1.75 acre, grazing big ironclads in war movements. Adthe special ,"T,r be paid down snd the remainder when miral Dewey goes gladly to his work. ing tlielifty final proof is made. The land is sold of horses la twtf DEWET SURRENDERS. in forty-acr- e tracts and no person can minutes. H'.n acres. The land take up more than The first filing at the land office was Fought I nlll There was no Mora Hope of within five miles of Poeatello is to be made by Thomas F. Terrill, the second CpboliliiiK Ilia Cause. sold at auction July 17th for not less and third by .Ljslina Munn and F. E. Dispatches received in London from than $10 per acre. South Africa show that the surrenders Dekay, respecTOely. All kinds of men, in all conditions So far there ia no news of persons! af Doers are proceeding with the greatof life, were in the advauee guard that encounters, but as there are fully 2,000 est good will. Tlie total of those who made the race fur new homes, many men who are arcauuied to be out on have already surrendered numbers women being also in the crowd, and the resrrve arjTAit a limited number ami tlie ltritish are extending ulo-br- a. UTAH STATE NEWS. - There in no longer a trace of smallpox in Kimberly. Work has commenced on the new poatoflice building at Park City. Halt Lake plumbers are on a strike for higher wages and shorter hours. Lehi. Logan, Hpringville and have announced Fourth of July celebrations. The county commissioners of Sanpete county have granted a bounty of 11 per bushel on grasshoppers. Fountain drove and Moroni are to he lighted by electricity in a short time, the two towns using the name plant. Owing to the frequency of accidents, the Salt Lake Street Car company contemplates placing feuders on all their cars. Cal Dean, formerly a resident of Salt Lake, was instantly killed in Rutte last Sunday by the overturning of bis back. All the flowing wellsof Lehi are failing and probably SO per cent, have ceased to flow within the past few months. John T. Axtnn, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., at Salt Luke, is to receive an appointment aa a chaplain in the United States army. Dry farm grain is now suffering from drouth, and some of it has already been badly damaged. Irrigated crops are making rapid growth. News comes from Colton that two unknnwu men had been killed there in a box car, but no particulars of the accident have been received. The burn and sheds owned by llenjamine Krindle, of Springville, were burned last week, the fire being started by tramps smoking in the barn. The first week of the university summer school ended with u registration of 117 students, five more than the total registration of last years sesaion. l'eter Mortcnsen, on trial at Salt Lake for the murder of James R. Hay, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. Sentence will be passed Ily-ru- m v fififhom andfV-jlfjJWso- CLOUDBURST IN VERMONT CAUSES FIVE DEATHS. FitlfSt Train Kuu Into Washout and tbe f raw arm Hurled Iteuaufh tbs Wreckage. In addition to property damage caused by a cloudburst at llarrc, Vl., five railroad men lost their lives by a freight train on tlie Central Vermont railroad running into a washout at Middlesex. The dead include the I'oniluctor, engineer and fireman and two brake-meThe train consisted of a locomotive and twelve cars. Passing through Middlesex, it was running at a fair rate of speed when it struck a ditch washed out by a torrent of water. The locomotive leaped luto the ditch, and freight cars piled up on top of it. The trainmen were buried under the ruins. Tlie Winsooki river rose to spring freshet heights, aud caused a great deal of other damage. The railroad bridge at Dolton waa destroyed, and a Sawmill, together with the house adjoining, was demolished in the town of Middlesex. One hundred thousand feet of logs were carried away. n. RACE WAR IN ILLINOIS. Residents of Eldorado Order All Negroes to Leave That Town. The race war which has been in progress at Eldorado, Ills., since May 29, when a mob attacked tbe colored Normal and Industrial institute, a school modeled after the celebrated Tuskegee, Ala., school, still continues. The homes of the colored citizens have been stoned, warnings sent the occupants to leave the vicinity, and shots fired into tiieir homes lute at night. Many, through feur, have left, sacrificing their homes and in some rases their crops. There remain only every kind of conveyance was used in who have return'd, there are fears ex- every possible kindness to the uieu who five families, and two of them will an endeavor to be first on the ground pressed that treble will be had. come in. The appcuraucc of Genera leave at unee. Last night a mnli visited Peter Green, pastor of the African and secure first choice of claims. Some Dewet at the camp at Winburg was Rev. M. E. church, ami stoncr his house. 1rnnpertoy Were Shut Out. enwent iu on horseback, some used biof the signal for a great display Sonic of the white residents profess to A special Tisf fetch to the Salt Lake thusiasm. When lie arrived at the fear that colored labor will be used in cycles. others vehicles, while a few the mines which are being opened in walked and look their chance of get- Tribune from Pocatello says: Men camp, tieueral Dewet was at once surthat vicinilv. frewi makhilla the after Doer of overmore' thousands the rounded arriving what just fortunate men, by ting looked. ing mineral locons report that W. women und children, who struggled SLAIN BY HIS NEIGHBOR. It is estimated that over 3,000 settlers II. King, T. II. Smith and Charles S. and clamored to shake the hand of Spaulding, all of Pocatello, were found their hero. General Dewet mounted a Montana Handier I liiNiuntly Killed In participated iu the rush. Ouurrrl Over Water Itlglil. on the reservation before nooo by the table and delivered an address. He For the first few miles tlie race was Reese Putvell shot and killed Charles They were arrested wurmly applauded the staunch support quite as lively us exciting, but after a Indian police at Meveiisville, Mont., MonLinseull After held and s until the lime many of the horses failed to reopening hour, that the women had given the brgh-erPowell was locked up at spond to the lasli and spur, settling and when they .reached their objective during the war, which, he said, had day evening. down to the easier gait of the gallop. point they fqnd that others had greatly eueou raged the men iu the the jail following the shooting. Ilotli principals are ranchers and Olliers kept up the mad run for ten located ahead of them. These three field. Continuing, he recommended their here and have his hearers to be loyal to the new gov' properly adjoins. The trouble nud fifteen and even twenty miles men are between the men arose about a dam, of known the existence of tlie best eminent, and said: without faltering. which Linscutt built in a ditch carrymineral lands in the reservation. The The spectators who watched the Perhaps it is hard to hear this from ing water through both ranches. July Slh. work of the Indian police deprives my month, but God has decided thus. Powell removed the dam and Linscott spectacle from the hillsides saw little George Erickson, aged 12, while ridROrae of the choicest of their I outside the clouds of of duat that fought until there was no more hope replaced it. Powell ordered Linscott great ing a bicycle along the streets of Salt selections. pccted of aa obliterated it upholding our cause, and however to clear tlie ditch, but this the latter crept everything Lake was run down by a runaway to do. init uiay be, the time r as now coine to refused tn and received injuries which may swiftly down the valley. Only at Powell went to hia home, secured a lay down our arms. As a Christian gun, tervals would the duat cloud lift iu va fatal. returning to where Linscott waa God now demands that we be faithful shot liis qeighbbv through to our new government, let ns suifcnit standing, tgfond jhryVif Utah ebunty last sections to disclose groapi'of strugghim almost instantly. the deck, killing horsemen all intent to his decision. upon reaching KJk brought in an Indictment against ling desired tliein the that by ground they FIRED ON MORMONS. Frank Connors, charging him with the ELECTRIC STORM IN CHICAGO. murder of William Strong at Provo on might begin the really desperate race FuHillaiie Intu Mormon to the land office at lllackfooL June 27, 1899. Three Churches Struck, a Man Killed and Kentuckian anilFire Convert Keturu tlie Fire. Meeting to aimed make Some nearest School Caused Children. the Ianle Among Work on the Clark electric light The of the Davia chapel secrailway station to catch the special Chicago was visited by an electric tion ofpeople plant at Tooele has begun in earnest. train Marshal county, Kentucky, are for the land office at ltlackfoot. storm Sunday lastt which wrought Sixteen men are now at work on the exercised over the firing of a Others with relays of fleet horses aimed death, caused a panic among 700 school greatly pipe line and survey for the line of fusillade of bullets into a Mormon to of make ride the ahead the long children and demolished much proppoles between Tooele and Stockton. tlie of the proseby meeting cerand opponents be train thus special nearly erty. Three churches were struck by lytes. Harry Lamb was shot in Ilyrnm, in Cache county, is trying tain of their the a was It Memounique ground. electric bolts, one of them, the The Mormon converts, fifteen or to get railroad connection and has apleg. race between tlie great iron horse of rial German church, being destroyed. sixteen, returned the fire, and more pointed W. C Parkinson, 1. C. Tli is feared. Iess than a year the rails and the sturdy range ponies. Cavalry E. Presbyterian church. West bloodshed and Itoueche John llowell Joseph tho Mormon church there waa ago in ridera twenty-fiv- e Forty-secoFully and got relay streets, burned and two elders driven Congress a eommilte to see about getting it. away. ahead of the special after desperate while the Sunday school The Mormons have taken the matter was struck ana hia business rides. Others after miles of Seuator Kearns services were being held. The bolt to the grand jury. struggling partner, David Keith, will sail from in the saddle saw the special dash past entered the Bteeple and tore through Ilnnn mill tha Presidency. New York for Europe during the week. hundreds of settlers and leav- - Poatuntre Inspector Predirt It Will Be the building, causing a panic. The bearing Senator of will a make tour Hanna, in reply to a suggesAtUrhed to the l olled State. together They ing them absolutely no chance. building caught fire, but all tlie chil- tion from Colonel Cutter Smith of Ireland and tlicu visit continental Colonel Harry Williams, who has just dren were rescued without serious inltlackfoot, the mecca of the throngs Florence, Ala., that he become a canEurope. of homesteaders, was on Tuesday evenreturned to Springfield, Ills., from Cu- jury. for president iu 1901, has Writ didate II. of Archie Salt Lake, ing filled to overflowing. Sheppard, ba, where he has been employed for tlie storm lightning demol- ten to Colonel Smith as follows: During of a from the fell rapidly platform Early in the niorniDg of the opening tlie last two years as government jiost- - ished one of the steeples of tlie Lady I appreciate sincerely the friendmoving street car while endeavoring seven prominent citizens of Pocatello office inspector, suys it is a grent re Jackson boulevard Sorrow of church. which prompts the the high comship to make room for other passengers, apprehended by the Indian police leitnas to whether Cuba can govern and Albany avenue. Joseph Killian, pliment paid me in your suggestion. and was instantly killed, the wheels tinder H. . Evans on the ceded lands, herself, now that she does have the opwhile eating in a fisherman's but on I am grateful for such confidence but his over body. were back marched passing to Pocatello portunity. His duties as postoflice in- tlie shore of Luke Calumet, was killed They I a in not to lie conThe city council of Lehi has passed and as it was rather a long walk they spector gave Colonel Williams the op- by lightniug, and ill different parts of must insist that in sidered sense a candidate for any an ordinance making it an offense to entirely lost the opportunity to secure portunity to visit every section of the tlie city, while the siorin was in pronomination for the president in 19U4. hold a religious or political meeting a very promising copper claim which island and to Btudy the people and con- gress, many other persons received shocks. on the streets or any public place withWyoming Sheepman Analnuled. they iiad in mind when they so inad- ditions prevailing among its inhabiIn discussing the conditions he DEAD MAN ALIVE. A report from Casper, Wyo., says SUPPOSED out first having obtained a permit from vertently strayed on Uncle Sam's pre- tants. I predict that it will not be said: the mayor or city council. serve. many years before Cuba will be an- Charte Stout Kurirle Ills Friend In that Dan Ferris, a sheepherder, was Seven soonern hid on the reservation nexed to us. George Foster Peabody, the New brought into that place with a shat(heyeuue. York philanthropist, lias offered to about five miles south of Rosa Fork on tered arm, caused by a bullet from a Charles Stout, supposed to have been STATUTE OF BLAND. rifle. He was shot Saturbuy a SilT.'iOu lot and present the same the road to lilacktoot and at 12 o'clock to the Salt Lake Y. M. C. A., providing noon, stole the handcar from the sec- One Erected to 111 Memory Levelled In killed in California a year ago, has day night at a sheep camp at Ruffalo tnrned up at Cheyenne, Wya, thereby creek, eighty miles north of Casper, Lebanon, Mo. they will guarantee to erect a 830,000 tion foreman of the Pocatello station shocking his friends exceedingly. Ila during an attack by unknown men. building for the use of the rociety. A bronze statute erected to the memwho was stationed near them protect Messrs. S. J. Taylor and James W. ing the track for the Short Line spec- ory of Richard Park liland, who served left Cheyenne about a year ago and II is partner, Fred Knasahan, was ina few days later an Hccount of his Clark came to Lehi last week with a ial. The soouers threw him $3 for his in congress almost from death nnder tlie wheels of a locomo- stantly killed by a bullet through the continuously brain. Ferris escaped by flight and band of fifty horses from Uuby Valley, car and left him to walk to Ioss Fork from 1S72 until 1399, was unvailed at Los was in received. was pursued some distance by the astive Angeles Mo., Nev. They are finding a good sale at and report it to the division superiu- Tuesday, with impresssassin. lie says he recognized one cf cere Ixis ive ia was An inon tea. at the Stout immense time, crowd Angeles 8300 8200 to from per span. The hprses tendeut. the men. gathered to hear addresses by William bu t cannot account for the report A weigh from 1,200 to 1.000 pounds each. great many anonera filed on land J. Kryan, William J. Stone and others. Kaw Cuban Minister Arrive In Wshlng The Pleasant Grove compressed brick ton und I Presented to President. Eieaprd Convicts r Hrn. Duel on the Street. TO SETTLE COAL STRIKE. works are at work now with a force of David and tha Merrill, Sen or Gonzales de Quesnda, the new W. T. McMichael shot and killed W. Harry Tracy I rn position to Ro I n t roil u cod In twelve men. They intend running all E. Congress notorious convicts who escaped from Cuban minister, waa on Monday esJohnson, a young busifor nn Inquiry. summer and have at present 80,000 in ness the Oregon penitentiary a week ago, corted to tlie While House by Secrerosn, on the ttreets of Oklahoma Allan kiln burning uud 00,000 in the shed Representative McDermott of . after killing three guards, crossed the tary Hay aud presented liis credentials aeon-of a over dispute City, the result has announced that he will Columbia river and went into the state to President Roosevelt. drying, capacity being 20,000 per day. The new mintested land claim. While he was lying Jersey City introduce in the house of Representa- of Washington. They are now more ister was Mra. llarlow Ferguson, of Salt Lake, on the McMichael Johnson shot by any atground tives a resolution looking to a settle- than sixty miles away from the Ore- tache. It unaccompanied who has performed the remarkable feat in the abdomen. had been expected that the Johnson expired ment of the coal strike. It will pro- gon penitentiary and are in the vicinof fasting for thirty-si- x McMichael days, felt the within a few minutes. apeechea exchanged between the presivide for an investigation by a national of hunger Thursday morning cannot live. Johnson waa a sergeant ity of ulerrill'a home in Clark county, dent and the 'minister would be impangs If the fugitives succeed in portant and interesting, but it wns last for the first time since she left off in Col. Roosevelt's rough riders and ' board of arbitration to be apiointed Wash. the otherwise, and the exchanees This by board shall president. the more a Cubnn served month than She it reaching the mountain! there will be quite campaign ago. through eating were formal and I have exceedingly McMichael have to would settle all disputes ba-- a slim chance to capture them, as they power till able to be about and perform light with honor, had hs been not been tween labor badly lynched and uow every foot of the country. household duties. capital. wounded. one-fif- lli t 10,-50- t old-time- rs ! ! ore-se- n, nd , prob-we- j i jenn. I I i well-know- n J i j 1 |