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Show THE LOGAN NATION. XATIOM LOQAN. ... PUBLISHING lie of Colombia and of this govern moot. the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, HIS newly elected chaplain of the senate, clad in flowing black silk clerical robes, occupied the chair of the preThis siding officer just preceding the ses- The canal question EXPRESSES PRESIDENT VIEWS TO CONGRESS. CO. UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS. . Makes a Specific Denial That Government Planned the Revolution on the Isthmus. sion, and on tbe body being called to order offered a Btlrring invocation. At the opening of the bouse the chaplain prayed for peace between Japan and Russia. The resignation of Mr. McClellan of New York was announced. No quorum could be obtained upon a vote on a resolution to investigate certain charges made by the fourth assistant postmaster general, and the house adjourned. War Is being made on the slot mar The senates first session following chines In Ogden. the holiday recess, held on Monday, St George has been enjoying fine was devoted entirely to Panama. Presweather, with no snow, and men out ident Roosevelt sent a message tn the of doors in their shirt sleeves. subject which was received with great continued Discussion The indications at the oil veil at interest. ML Pleasant point strongly to early throughout the day, speeches being made both In defense of and against and very satisfactory results. which had been pursued. In a train wreck near Bascom, eigh- the policy Co Me mas defended the presiMr. ty miles east of Ogden, Joe York, a dent and asserted that his action passenger, was fatally Injured. would stand if tested in court. A lone bandit held up a street ear Mr. Stewart of Nevada severely In Salt Lake City, Saturday night, criticised the Bogota government for and relieved the conductor of $20. Its selfishness of action in preventing During the past year there were 396 construction of the canal. cases of smallpox In Salt Lake City, Mr. Morgan of Alabama stated hla all of whom recovered except two. The troops stationed at Fort Douglas have been ordered to be in readiness to go to Panama on short notice. There were 352 cases of typhoid fever reported In Salt Lake during the past year, there being 21 deaths from the disease. Springville Is jubilant over the completion of the new electric light plant, which has been erected by the city at a cost of $30,000. John Crosby, aged 14, employed in Mine No. 2, at Sunnyslde, was killed on the 2nd, being run over by a trip of loaded coal cars. While coasting In Salt Lake City, John Wiscom, aged 9, and Fred Thorne, aged 10, ran into a telegraph pole, and both were seriously Injured. Sheriff Froyd, of Iron county, has ,thls year collected $893.42 in fees in jthe discharge of the duties of his office. The sheriff's salary is only Porto Rlcana Are Not Aliena. In an opinion by Chief Justice Fuller, the supreme court of the' United States has decided that citizens of Porto Rico are not aliens of the United States, and that they are entitled to enter this countrjpyrithout obstruo SEASON OF PEACE ON EAHTH BY YOUNG BANDITS. California Stoned to Death by Three Boya From Reform School. War Regarded as Inevitable at Tokio, While Chinese Cruisers Are Preparing for Active Service. War with Russia Is regarded In Tokio aa unavoidable, and the press Is urging the immediate opening of hostilities. All the banks are withholding funds, and It la believed this is the result of official Instructions. The government has completed and perfected arrangements for the transportation of troops and supplies, and the people calmly await developments. The continued dissemination of optimistic views from Berlin causes genuine surprise and regret In Tokio. A cable from Shanghai Bays: Chinese cruisers here are preparing for active service. They are taking on hoard am mi' "i i ion and supplies. They will remain here for orders. The mystery surrounding the death of Ansel Lewis, whose body was found near Banning, Cal., on Thanks- giving day, has been cleared up. murdered by three boys, accordto stories told by one of them, ing who had escaped from the Whittier reform school the day previous. John Schofield, Cornelius Crowley and Frank Ritchie escaped from school the day before Thanks-givinOn Friday last Schofield returned to the school, gave himself upbe was conscience end, because stricken, told of the murder of Lewis. He says that while Ritchie and Crowley engaged Lewis In conversation, one of them walking on either side of the victim, Schofield dropped behind, secured a heavy stone and, slipping np behind Lewis, struck him a blow on the head with It CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER Lewis fell from the blow, hut was Theatre Owners and Building Com- only stunned. When he attempted to get up the three boys,, according to missioner Under Arrest. Schofields story, fell upon him and, manwith Formally charged with stones, beat out his brains. They slaughter, Managers Will J. .Davis then robbed the dead mans clothing, and Harry J. Powers of the Iroquois divided the booty and separated. theatre, Chicago, with City Building FRANCE EXPECTS WAR. Commissioner Williams, were on Saturday held under bonds of $10,000 Possibility of a Conflict With Great each. Britain. Arthur E. Hull, whose family perThe rumors of war continue to fly . ished in the fire, and who was the thick and fast, and the general Imcomplainant, waB present when the pression In Paris is that the conflict two theatre managers and the city between Russia and Japan cannot be official underwent the ordeal of fac- delayed much longer, and that when ing tbe charges. The hearing of the It comes It will give the Impulse to a cases was Bet for Jan. 12. war In which practically all the powers of Europe will be Involved. Alleged Hypnotic Murder. At the navy yards in Toulon a force Paris Is deeply interested in the al- of many thousand men are working leged hypnotic murder of a woman night and day, and in a month named Chappuis, 61 years old, whose French navy will be ready to Leon surviving relatives Include meet any emergency. ' conductor; Gresse, an operating Though the friendship between Liuetenant Glradot of the army, and France and England is apparently M. Toutaln, a bank offlciaL Tbe gaining strength every day, there Is of tbe Chappuis woman an undercurrent of uneasiness, and neighbors acts of were a family named Martin, consist- occasionally words orshow that even government ing of husband and wife, who are In official circles the possibility of a. Spiritualists. It is alleged that Mme. conflict with Great Britain as the ally Martin obtained a commanding Influ- of Japan Is being considered. ence over Mme. Chappuis, with the LONG RECORD OF CRIME. result that Mme. Chappuis made a will In her favor, cutting off her nat- 8ummary of Train and 8tage Robberies for Past Fourteen Years. ural heirs, after which she died. , The Cincinnati In People Struggle to Its the January issue, gives following Get Out of Burning Hall. summary of train and stage An explosion wrecked the hotel and In the, United States durhall of Joseph Galaida, and more or ing 1903, together with the record for less seriously Injured thirty persons the past fourteen years: Total numat Kaesby, four miles from ber of trains held up in fourteen N. J., while the St John Beyears, 341; total number of people nevolent sociely was celebrating Its tilled, 99, and tbe number of people anniversary by a dance. There were Injured (shot), 109. The number of about 500 in the hall, and one of the trains held up In 1903 was 13, as comtwo exits was closed by tbe wreckwith 22 last year. The number became panic pared The people age. of robberies in 1903 was 6, stage stricken and fought to get out, many while that of last year was 7. This being trampled on and seriously in- years record shows that no passenjured. gers or trainmen were killed by robbers, but there were six wounded-LaChicago Theatres Closed. year one was killed and One robber was killed In Mayor Harrison has ordered the as with three killed 1903, in compared theater of Chicago every closing last year. without exception until It has been Mexico to Adopt Gold Standard. definitely ascertained that they are not violating any city ordinances. A plan for reforming the currency This Is supplementary to the mayors of Mexico has been prepared by the order of last week, which closed sev- fifth of the national enteen theatres. In Issuing the order monetary commission. The commisthe mayor made the unqualified state- sion advised that In order to obtain ment that they were all violators of stability or fixity of International exthe city ordinances and that none change the government should be adwould be permitted to open Its doors vised by a monetary commission nSin until it absolutely complied a monetary system based on with every requirement of the ordi- the gold standard. The committee-doenances. not recommend the immediate of the gold standard, but adoption Windows. Rioters Smash rather a system very similar creating Riotous scenes marked the street to which that United States govthe car strike In Bloomington, Ills., Sun- ernment has put in operation In the. day. Windows in six cars were Philippines. smashed by missiles thrown by strike Prison a Good Place for Him sympathizers who congregated sevDr. Charles O. Rice, who was aceral hundred strong at various points of murder by the Jury at quitted R. G. along the line. J. Knocks and after a sensational trial, Pueblo, Cola, cars Morris were dragged from their on charges of inbeen has arrested adand severely beaten. The mayor and confined in Woodcraft with sanity to not able Is cope mits that he an and on his sanitarium, Inquest President Demonge the situation and medical condition will he held. Rice, announces of the street car company while In a state of wild intoxication, that he will request the mayor to ask on October 7th, killed Policeman Marta. The jury states that under for militia. the instructions of the Judge they could give no other verdict than that Chicken Bone Mends Leg of Boy. of acquittal on the ground of Insanity. d James Lenahan. an Death Ends His Troubles. hoy of Cincinnati, was run down by a freight train last summer and both of Adolph Krug, former city treasurer his legs were badly crushed. One of Seattle, who before tbe expiration leg refused to knit, and as a last re- of his term of office In 1894, was consort the shin bone was chiseled down victed of embezzling over $100,000 of and a piece of chicken bone grafted the city funds, was found dead on Frion to It. The boy left tbe hospital day. Coroner Kellan of Kitsap counSunday, and while his log Is not so ty says heart disease was the causa strong as the surgeons hoped, he Is Krug was sentenced, on conviction of Mile to get about with the aid of a his crime, to seven years In the state lie served three penitentiary, crutch, and there are hopes that the and was paroled and afterwardyean parbone will eventually become entirely doned, since which time he has been engaged in the saloon business. knit & He-wa- s the-refor- g. . the-whol- $400. the-Frenc- Joseph D. Mclntire, a well known .railroad man residing at Ogden, was 'killed near Lucln last week, the supposition being that he fell from the . train. A young man named Charles was of Salt who but Hughes Lake,, friends had in his Paradise, visiting kicked broken through being thigh by a horse. It is reported that on the desert about Modena and other places are amusing themselves by shooting horses. Frank Hyatt had a valuable mare and two colts shot out there recently. The Utah Sugar company tendered the employes of the Lehl factory and its several cutting stations a complimentary ball in the Apollo at American Fork on the 30th. Over 400 invitations were issued. The fees received in the office of the secretary of state during the year 1903 amounted to $49,498.65. With the exception of the two previous Express-Gazette- Panic-Stricke- From the Chicago Daily Tribune. sheep-herde- rs years, en in s The James MURDERED JAPANESE PRESS URGING OPENING OF HOSTILITIES. this is the largest amount tak- since statehood. death penalty Imposed upon Lynch for the murder of Colonel Godfrey W. Prowse In the Sheep Ranch gambling house, in Salt Lake City, has been commuted to life imprisonment by the state board of pardons. The new superintendent of Methodism in Utah to succeed the Rev. J. His L. Leilich has been elected. name is Harry Talbot,1 who Is at present located at Portland, Ore, where he is pastor of the First Methodist The opinion was delivered in Rican woman, Gonzales, who. In 1902, was refused admission to the port of New York on the ground that she was likely to become a public charge. The decision to was based entirely on the immigraPresident Roosevelts message longress was in regard to the part tion act of 1891, and took the ground aken by this country in recent events that the Porto Ricans swear alleto in the Isthmus of Panama. After re- giance to the United States, and no other government. tiand Jus newing the entire matter, ding the course this country has tak-- Gravelle, the Blackmailer, Sentenced in the premises, making a specific to Ten Years in Prison. ienlal that this government planned Isaac Gravelle, convicted of sendbe revolution on the Isthmus, the ing threatening letters to the Northpresident ssys: ern Pacific company, was sentenced "In conclusion let me repeat that at Helena, Mont, on Monday last to be question actually before this gov- ten years In the penitentiary and to ernment la not that of the recognl-Jo-n pay a fine of $5,000. This Is the maxof Panama, as an independent re- imum penalty of the crime. Granext public. That is already an accom- velle will be tried for burglaryremaininformations are four There plished fact The question, and the ing against him and basis exists for mly question, Is whether we shall or twenty-fiv- e actions. If convicted of shall not build aa Isthmian canal." burglary the dynamiter may be senPresident Roosevelt transmits with tenced for life. lia message copies of the latest notes It is officially announced in view oC !rom the minister of the republic of reports current abroad of renewed atPanama to this government and of tacks on tbe Jews at Klsheneff that ertaln notes which have passed be- the city never was quieter than at tween tbe special envoy of the repub- - present ireference for the Nicaragua route md maintained that the present was ourse of the administration ireaklng down the established policy if the United States regarding tlon. the case of a Porto neu-rallt- y. m Church. Frank Rose, the Salt Lake barter, who murdered hid wife on Christmas child alone day and left his and without food for two days In the d bed with its dead mother, declares he will place no obstacle In the way of the law, and is ready to pay the penalty. son of B. A. William The of Monnds station, was fatally burned pn the 1st. The child visited the camp of a freight outfit near his home and In some manner hla clothing became Ignited from the embers of a camp fire. Aa the result of a collision with s telegraph pole while coasting down a hill in Salt Lake City, Tommy Bowen may die and George Laux Is badly cut about the face, while Beveral others d who were on the were badly NEAR THE DANGER LINE blood-staine- robberies-committe- Wood-bridg- st fifty-eig- e From the Philadelphia Inquirer. d. t s eleven-year-ol- bob-sle- e, three-wounde- . Bh&ken up. The Rodes and Bushman families of Lehl held a joint reunion last week In the opera house. At the banquet sat down to the Rhodes forty-ninto tbe Bushman tables, tables and besides these there were about thirty invited gueBts. n |