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Show THE SEMI-WEEE- NATION. Y E. T. HYDE, Pibltohcr. LOQAN, I I i r UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS. Tbs new jail at Salt Lake City will be ready lor occupants in about two weeks. Tho American Smelting & Refining company is 6a erect a new smelter at Salt Lake City in the near future cost lng between $500,000 and $750,000. The total enrollment of pupils in the public schools of Salt Lake City, as shown by the report for the first month, ending October 9, 1903, was 12,-75- 1. Mayor Thompson of Salt Lake has etoed the resolution of the city council to dispense with several sanitary Inspectors while contagion still is so Punishment Assured Robbers Secure $7,000 From a Sheridan, Oregon Bank. At about 3 oclock Monday morning burglars entered the banking house of Scroggins & Wortman at Sheridan, Oregon, blew open the safe with giant powder, secured $7,000 in coin and aade their escape before the sleeping residents of the town could be aroused. The bank is situated in a brick building in the center of town, and was established twelve years ago. The principal depositors are the farmers of the surrounding country. Considerable business had been transacted on Saturday, and it was generally supposed that a large amount of coin was on hand. No watchman was on duty, as there has never been any need of guarding the property. CRAZED BY ILLNESS WOMAN COMMITS AWFUL DEED. Brained One Child and Strangled the Others to Death. While temporarily deranged, Mrs. Louis Iverson, of Monterey, Cal., wife of a Salinas machinest, murdered three of her four children Sunday at the dictation, she said, of a supreme power. She first strangled her eldest daughter, Louisa, aged 12 years. 8he then attempted the life of her eldest son, aged 11, who had just come into' the house, but the boy broke away from her and took a train for his home in Salinas. She then strangled her son, ELECTIONS IN ELEVEN STATES. Harold, aged 6, and then went out of the house and got an ax with which Full State Tickets In Eight States, she stmek him a blow on the head. Fusion in Nebraska. in the evening she killed her 7, Later Elections will be held In eleven monthB-olbiby. Marla, by strangling. states Tuesday, Nov. 3. Full state The murder of her children was retickets are to be voted for in Massalated by Mrs. Iverson to Sheriff W. chusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, J. Nesbitt. She Bdded that during the Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa and Mississippi, while in New York, Pennsylvania, Ne- night she had walked about the house, braska and Colorado a justice of the lying down for a short time on the floor. She Bald she realized now that upper courts, regents of the state unishe had done wrong, but believed she versity or minor state officers are to be chosen. Municipal officials are to was doing right at the time she combo selected in Greater New York, San mitted the deed. Francisco and Salt Lake. Early in the morning Mr. Iverson The Prohibitionists have a ticket in himself drove to Pacific Grove. Tie all the states except Colorado, the Soof cot at door knocked front the the cialists in all except Colorado and Netage where his wife and family had braska, the Populists in two states Iowa and Colorado, and the Socialist-Labo- r been living and was told to go around party in three New York, Mas- to the back door. He did so, and ensachusetts and Ohio.- Fusion was effected in one state, Nebraska, though tering the house was about to kiss the Republicans of New York en- his wife when she said: Don't touch dorsed the Democratic nominee for me. Dont put your hands on me. Go judge of the court of appeals. and. look at your children. With that he opened the door of an Colorado National Guard Officers adjoining room where law the bodies Asked to Resign. of the three children, the boy on one proceedings in the bed and two The girls on another. case of Brigadier General John. E. indications and was In disorder house Chase of the Colorado National were plentiful that the two older chilGuard have been adjourned until dren had struggled hard against their' Thursday next in order to give' Col- death. Mrs. Iverson had been 111 for onel Fahnestock, president of the several months and had shown signs court, an opportunity to attend the of mental derangement, her mania befuneral of his father-in-laIt is reing of a religious nature. ported that on reconvening the court , will exonerate General Chase on the EMectrlc Motor to Railroads Adopfc charges of perjury and disobedience 'Po.Ver. of orders which were made against him by Adjutant General Sherman The New York Central railroad Is Bell. It is understood that Governor planning to establish electric roads as Peabody has asked Bell to resign, and suburban branches in the central and should he refuse to comply, it is Bald, the governor will remove him from western parts of New York state, in office. According to report. Major order to save local traffic, which has Zeph T. Hill is slated for appointment been cut into heavily by the independas Bells successor. ent trolley competition, by reducing NICK HAWORTH SENTENCED. fares and Increasing the number of trains. A section of the Rome, Water-towWill Be Shot Deon Friday, ft Ogdensburg railroad, which cember 11. is leased to the New York Central, Is Nick Haworth, convicted of the to he equipped with electricity, it is murder of Night Watchman Sandall claimed, and New York Central trolat Layton on the night of March 28, ley cars can he run to and from all 1899, appeared before Judge Rolapp at points along the southern shore of Farmington, Utah, to hear his final Lake Ontario. This project will possisentence. Friday, December 11th, was fixed by the court as the day on which bly also absorb the Rochester ft Suthe convicted murderer will be shot burban electric lines. Haworth was unmoved during the proceedings, hearing the date of his 8chwabs Star Sinking. death without a sign of an emotion or of Joseph The report feeling. He was ordered to rise by of the United receiver the court. He rose in his awkward, Smith, Jr., company, to Shipbuilding shambling way and stared blankly at States the judge while sentence was pro- Judge Kilpatrick, was filed Monday in nounced. the United States Circuit court at Steamer Grounded Near Seattle. Trenton, N. J. It recommends that Seattle-SaThe steam- a suit be brought to nullify and have Francisco 0 ship Centennial is ashore two miles declared void and Illegal the $10,000,-00M. Charles bond held issue by south of A1 Ki Point, and about seven miles from Seattle. While en route Schwab and through which he controls from Tacoma to this port, she rae on the company. It will recommend that a receiver the beach and is still stuck. A dense he appointed for the Bethlehem Steel fog had settled down over that section which of the sound, and Captain E. H. Gil- company, the corporation lespie, master of the vessel, lost his Schwab and J. P. Morgan ft Co. sold bearings. The Centennial struck bow to the United States Shipbuilding comon, though fortunately on a soft sandy pany. beach. d prevalent A new trial has been granted Convict .King, who with Lynch, is charged with killing Colonel Prowse at Salt Lake three years ago. A new trial was denied Lynch. About thirty of the leading produce dealers of Salt Lake City met last week and organized what is known as the Salt Lake Hay, Grain, Flour and Produce Exchange. The state board of health of Salt Lake City has decided to declare war against the popular patent medicines. It is claimed that they contain alcohol and other narcotics. David Wilcken, one of the guards who was seriously Injured during the recent break at the state prison, is rapidly .recovering, to the surprise of tho attendants and his friends. William M. Owen, a civil war veteran, was buried at Salt Lake Sunday, under the auspices of the G. A. R. and Odd Fellows. He enlisted in the Sixth Ohio in 18G1, and served throughout ithe war. Harold Keller and Nellie Zenzer, a Salt Lake young couple, narrowly escaped death from being run down by street car. The buggy was annihi, lated, but the occupants escaped with but a RUSSIA THREATENS CHINA. KILLS WHOLE FAMILY BANK ROBBED. OREGON scratches. E. P. Johnson, a trusty at the TJtaU State penitentiary, and who was serving a three years sentence for grand few larceny, from Box Elder county, escaped last week. A reward of $50 la offered for his capture. 4 State prison authorities believe tyat two young women smuggled the weapons into the penitentiary that were used in the recent outbreak. Convict Johnson, the trusty who escaped, Is said to be mixed up in the affair. The copy for the financial report of the irrigation congress held at Ogden - a short time ago has been given to the printed by Secretary Beardsley of the hoard of control. The report shows disbursements to the amount of : $21-S90.2- ; - Court-marti- al -- n 4 or While in a Btate of frenzied Jealousy, Mrs. Spates, a colored woman of Salt Lake City, fired five shots at Miss Tucker, another colored woman, who was passing her door. None of the The shots took the desired effect woman claims Miss that Spates Tucker has been trying to Induce her husband to leave her. Three hundred of Salt Lake's teaching corps enjoyed the trip to Park City Saturday and the Inspection of the mines there. Two sections of the excursion train were run, one at 8 and the other at 8:30, returning to Salt Lake at about 7 oclock. The police of Salt Lake are endeavoring to locate August Arriens, until recently employed as a waiter in a local restaurant, to inform him that a fortune is awaiting his appearance. Arriens left the city during the summer for San Francisco. It has been decided by the government officials that Chin Chan, the mayor of Chinatown at Salt Lake City, must he deported. He is the Chinaman who returned to his native land some time ago on account of the death of his wife and remarried there. Roy Mills, a young man who has f as been employed at the Lucin robwas murdered and driller, foully bed at Ogden one night last week.. He was shot through the head and his body thrown in some brush. It is said he has a mother In Cass City, Mich. A sad fatality, which has cast a gloom over the whole community at Sunnyside, occurred last week. Benjamin F. Fulton, while working at tho mouth of a new Minnel J Vn, 9 pi"" i was caught under a esve-iof tons of rock, and killed instantly. j cut-of- n wv-ers- n Colorado Teamster Beaten Into Insensibility. Ed Mason, a teamster, employed by the Colorado Transfer company, at Victor, Colo., was beatea into InBent Viility Monday afternoon by five strikers. Mason had a fight two or three days ago with a man named James. The latter, with his two brothers .and two other men named McCabe and Wilson, are alleged to have assaulted Mason, leaving him unconscious. The five men were arrested by tho military. They will bo turned over to the civil Sits for Reno's Public Building. The attorney general has made a favorable report to the secretary of the tre ;sury on title deeds to property sought to be obtained by the government at Reno, Nev., for a site for a new public building In that city. This property is located at the southeast corner of Front and Virginia streets Naval Officer Resigns. Rear Admiral Francis Bowles, chief of the bureau of construction and repair of the navy department, has tendered his resignation as an officer in the United States navy to the president, and requested that it tako effect November 3rd. Instructor L. W. Capps, now on duty at the New York navy yard, has been selected by the president for tho vacancy. Admiral Bowles is leavine tho navnl service to accept tho pro: i'leiicy of a prlvato utinpany ,r. Hassa11"- - Denver Woman Kills Her Husband. Jennie Davis Bhot and killed her husband, Beverly W. Davis, at their home, 2332 Market street, Denver, Cola, Sunday. Both parties are colored. Davis was jealous of his wife, and after a quarrel, during which he struck her several timos, Davis secured a revolver with the avowed lit tentlon of killing her. In the struggle which followed tho woman secnirsd the weapon and fired, killing Davis almost non-unio- ship-buildin- g setts n A and cost the government $9,000. owntreasury warrant will be sent the ers, tho Occidental Land and Improvement company, next week. instantly. If She Sides With TRIED TO KILL DIAZ Japan. FIVE SHOTS FIRED AT MEXICO'S A dispatch received at London from PRESIDENT. Toklo says: It is reported from Pekin that M. Lessar, the Russian minister, Convict Released From Recently has addressed a long note to Prince Prison Rushes Into Street and Chlng, head of the Chinese foreign ofShoots at the President, But fice, Baying that Japans interference His Aim Was Bad. in the Manchurian question Till compel Russia to adopt final measures and Great excitement was caused at threatening China with severe punish- Guanajuato, Mexico, Tuesday, by what ment if she sides with Japan. This looked like an attempt on the life of action, while the negotiations are President Diaz, who waB a gueBt of pending, has caused deep umbrage. the Btate government during the fesThe newspapers at St. Petersburg tivities there. The president, his staff say the Russian Pacific squadron con- and guests were passing by the r sists of warships, including garden in a street car when a s and five man of the lower class six battleships, eight by the name second-clas- s cruisers, seven of Ellas Toscano approached the car gunboats two torpedo cruisers, two shouting, and fired five shots from a. tor- revolver at the car, torpedo transports and twenty-fou- r fortunately doing pedo boat destroyers, having an aggre- no harm. gate of 750 officers and 13,200 men. Paklo Escanadon, of the presidents There are now on the way to the far staff, rushed from the car and caught east two battleships, three the man, wrenching the revolver from cruisers and eleven torpedo boats of his grasp. The police took Toscano-tvarious classes, with IGA officers and prison. 3,289 men. Toscano has a bad criminal recPreliminary arrangements hare been completed, says a Moscow dispatch, ord and was but recently released for the expeditious calling out of tho from prison at Granditas, where he' Russian Infantry reserves. had served a term for homicide. The 8TO LE A LOCOMOTIVE. matter will be investigated. One thewas drunk, and 8ix Desperadoes Tie Up Division on ory is that Toscano another he that deliberately planned Chicago Northwestern. to shoot the chief magistrate. The The theft of u Chicago ft Northremained perfectly cool and president western locomotive st Milwaukee by. was acclaimed by the crowd of citisix desperadoes stopped all traffic for zens, showing their joy at his escape. twenty miles south of Janesville for Toscano's evil record makes the thesome time. At 11 oclock Thursday ory of a deliberate attempt at assassinight the men stole the locomotive nation more probable. The president from the gravel pits near Beloit, and has received the felicitation of the started south at fu!l speed.. The theft citizens and the diplomatic corps. was not known until the engine was WIFE HIS CUTS seen leaving Boloit the throttle wide BIGAMIST'S THROAT. men aboard and the open yelling ' defiance to the railroad men. who had Man Victim of His Former Lake Salt had been discovered that the engine stolen just too late to turn a switch Young Wife's Rage. and stop the runaway. In a jealous rage at the discovery As soon as the Janesville offices of that her husband had another wife, the railroad company were notified the a woman who claims to be tho pretty train dispatchers stopped every train between Janesville and Caledonia, lawful spouse of Frank McBride, a forBis. The Chicago officials of the di- mer well known citizen of Salt Lake, vision were called out and emergency crews started out with officers in pur--, attempted to murder him at Portland, suit of the fugitives, and every effort Ore., Sunday night, by cutting his was made to catch the runaway en- throat with a penknife. McBride, who is a son of Judge John R. McBride, gine and its crew. well known in Salt Lake, is now lying Prisoner 8hot by Guards at deaths door at the home of wife A special message to the Bee of Sac- No. 1, who also claims to have been ramento, Cal., from the Folsom state married to him there, but decline they r prison, Btates that a to tell who their families are in the named E. Manuel was shot by the Mormon city. It seems that since Mcguards and killed while attempting to Bride came to Portland a short time escape. Manuel was discovered with ago he has been leading a dual life. and was One opium In his possession woman, who claims to be Mrs. was reHe In the dungeon. placed Frank McBride, lives at Tenth and moved by the officers to point out the Market streets; the other, who also locality where other opium was stored. claims to be Mrs. Frank. McBride, He had passed the quarry and had lives at 541 Second street. Both have reached the hill where the famous Son-ta- g children that call McBride their break occurred, when he made a dash for liberty up the hllL He had father. yards when he was gone seventy-fiv- e Pennsylvania Girl Foully Murdered. fired upon by several guards at once. He dropped dead In his tracks. Mabel II. Bechtel, aged 21 years, Manuel was sent up from Madera was murdered Tuesday at Allentown, county for nine years for perjury. Two Pa., heir and body placed in an underyears credits were recently taken In his aUey him posground for adjoining her home, from having opium session. where it was found by her mother. Her skull was crushed, but there were Robbed the Order. no other marks of violence on the Charles L. Conlne, national secreMiss Bechtel went driving with body. tary and treasurer of the National David Weisenberg, and this was the Brotherhood of Leather Workers and laBt time she was seen alive. Harness and Horse Goods Makers, of Mrs. mother of the murKansas City, Mo., has been convicted dered Bechtel, was aroused girl, shortly after ef embezzling $5,070 from tbs order, 1 oclock the of by barking dogs. Upon and was sentenced to two and out of room bed window her looking years In the penitentiary. The money she saw two men an from carry object which Conine was charged with taking a carriage and place it in the underwas apropriated at different times. ground alley near the house. Slie When detection seemed assured he made no investigation, but upon aris fled to Minneapolis, where he was ar- lug in Ihe morning she found her rested last February. Conlne was daughter's shoes, hat and coat in the bonded by a surety company for 815 dining room. Later the body, of Miss 000. Bechtel was found in the alley. to He Show Whether Colorado Farmers Arrested for RobMayor on Trial Had Authority. bing Freight Trains. The trial of Mayor William B. Hays Jackson and Ed Soloman, farmers, of Pittsburg, Pa., on the charge of mis- living four miles south of La Junta, demeanor, resulting from the dis- Colo., have been arrested by deteccharge of Samuel Moore, a veteran of tives, charged with robbing freight the civil war, from his postion In one trains of the Santa Fe road by breakof the city bureaus last spring, has ing into cars and throwing off goods been before Judge Shafer. The case from running trains. About $2,000 being a test one, to show whether the worth of goods of all descriptions were mayor has the right to remove vet found at their farm houses. It la said earns from the city employ for politi- the company has been aware that robcal reasons only, has attracted much bery was going on between La Junta attention. The court room was and Trinidad for the past eighteen crowded. months. Pies Raise in Price. President Celebrates Birthday. h counters Proprietors of President Roosevelt celebrated the In New York are up In arms against forty-fift- h of his birth anniversary the manufacturers of pies. There are Tuesday. Many beautiful and touchfour companies which practically con- ing reminders of the event came to trol the supply here, and they have an- him from every part of the country. nounced an advance from 3 to I Hundreds of telegrams and letters of cents per pie. The lunch counter men are preparing to resist the advance, congratulation were received at the and it is possible the famous product White House during the day. of New England will net he in eviWhen the members of tbe cabinet dence on their shelves in the near fu- assembled for tbe usual ture. There is alre'tsU: c a meeting, they joined in extending factory and a general boycott of their cordial congratulations to the pies. president. Can-tad- or fifty-fou- first-clas- sea-goin- g s first-clas- o -- V second-terme- ; one-ha- lf . quick-lunc- semi-weekl- y trust-mad- e |