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Show I AN UNCROWNED KING. PROTECT 1 1 ALIAN a avs. ViNEYARDS. llo KREIGDEN ISLAND IN THE MISSOURI HAS A MONARCH Ml i Turbulent but lilijrrla L' Hilar 111 tuatruj Trouble That Irb Are battled B 1riiuitlve but Effeetlva Meaner. Bat, ('om-pluta- ly There are within the borders of the United States several loianue at least that, while they nominally constitute A part of the whole nation, in reality bow to no law save that Imposed by the strongest of tne community. The Dominion pays not a cent of taxes to Any county or i(aio, and no rouuiy or state looks after the :ui biiiimaion of Its affairs. The hunter, trapper, Usher king dot's (hat. All this has come about bee:1 use the Missouri river is always changing, and the states in lutircst have in several instances been unable to come to au understanding certain regal ding changed tracts. It is these where the jurisdiction is unclaimed that have become the little monarchies within the borders ol the republic. Krelgden island, so called because a man of that name is the master of It, lying In the middle of the river, half way between Nebraska City and SL Joe, Is one of the biggest of the kind, and the management is typical. The island came into existence away back in the early '70s, and was covered with squatters long before the question of stats jurisdiction was raised. At the first Intimation of the intention on the part of some to establish state Authority, Krelgden took the leadership of the party that didnt want It, and, though his efforts may really hare had no effect In the matter, he thinks they did, and he makes his fellows think so, And for him that is sufficient. That is what makes him king. His kingdom is three miles long, wuu varies In width from a hundred yards to a little more than a quarter of a mile. It would aeem the management ;of such a little spot, especially when settled by only a few dozens of people, would be easy enough. But that li not so, for when you come to understand the conditions thera is more of interest In the first place, these island folk are the sort that try In other places to get along without work; the shiftless man with a gun, a pack of dogs and a host of children and a slovenly wife. He U the type. Generally speak-lahe has corns to ths island because there was no vsry gentle regard for him In the community In which he lived. It might have been unjust to accuse him of stealing or some other petty crime, but, generally, he was under suspicion. Under no circumstance will he ever tie eomplalnt against a fellow Islander for any offense, anywhere committed. g, Their Owner Eight jhrMintt Danger from Storm. -, funnel-shape- d taumm that loo I liki gigantic sptakiug trumpets eel up on three legs are objects of wonder to the traveler pass ng through thi vineyard districts of Italy. Some ol them stand aa high from the ground at the roof of an ordinary houae, whllo others are not more than ten or fifteen feet high. The largest could hold three or four men iu their openings and still have room to spara. When dark rluuds begin to gather and drift toward the vineyard districts, men may be seen hurrying toward the cannou carrying rolls of ammunition. They are going to drive off the threatening iliunde! storm. If i isslble. As the $ turin appruiuhts, a (lull boom, like the ilis large of a piece o' heavy artillery, is heard, and a ring of smoke risis from one of the trumpris the cloud bank. More cannon are discharged as the sfonii clouds draw ehfcu r to the vineyards until it seems as if the huiUry w.:s engaged iu a contest with the elements. If the storm promises to be heavy, all the available cannon are called into action in the effort to prevent the thunder and hail storm from sweeping over that part of the country and doing enormous damage. Even these determined efforts to fight off the thunderstorms are sometimes Ineffective. The elements come off victorious, with the result that a mass of hailstones descends, cutting down the vines and other vegetation as if hewn with knives. In five minutes the work of a year may be destroyed, and every bunch of grapea in the vineyard ruined. The weather cannon have been In use for about two years in northern Italy, as well as In some parts of Spain and southern France. The idea originated In the French Republic, where winemakers near Marseilles discovered that the rapid discharge of a field piece tended to ward off v'S'iw.fXsvfX? i': SStfAs iw'T'S'i'awitjASSti tSS'5 GcEclp From VJ eLshinrfton i ij; (eAt-'i'i'- i iS oHsoriaf tss Happenings of Parlor. - Interest in the C&pit&l '4' i' i'i'i i jjl jX City. on sou.e u. the questions upon which I Special Letter.) The pM'sideni is beginning to be the republicans in congress are more famous amoug other things for big or less divided, such as the tariff. He dinner parties, for big lunches and in thinks that lie ship subsidy bill as gcii.-ra-l lor a large and generous hos- presented to the lifty-sit- h congress pitality. He seldom or never lunches ought to lie inoilillcil; lie favors the , or dines and mure often Lis Nicaraguan cuinl, hut thinks it ought guests number half a dozen, lie is an to lie purely an American institution, ideal host. without an Euglisit accent in any Mrs. Roosevelt did not receive on syllable of it." lie wants tbe of the Geary, or f'htnrse exFriday. Tlu re is a rumor that there Is iu favor of tbe passage clusion law; be to had afternoons have iigrccnblc gireu up. The crowd of wiilsh ego- of the river and harbor hill, and gen13. 1)13 AN, in liberal legislation and tists who insist on forcln1; themselves erally belii-veUTAB PAYSON. upon her privacy ami pushing through apprupriuihiiis. Thu spetikir is more occupied at the Wliie House doors have obliged her to r fuse to be at home to the present with members importuning few. Mrs. Harrison solved better, perhim about good committee assignments) haps, than any oilier preMdent's wife than anything else. Old members want the problem of Infuruian gatherings. to be advdm-con committees, aud new She found special iiivitniious tlie'joaiy members are auxloua to get on impossible means of limiting the number portant committees for tbe purpose of of her guests. Those who remember getting some show. lie handles them her pleasant little uitisirnles and even- all iu an easy, suave style, and while ings in tbe "upstairs" apartments ak some leave him disappointed, very few ways have regretted them. She gati sgo away angry. the names of those invited to the door Contrary to expectation, the throng keepers and resolutely refused to re- of jiBitora at the White House has Inceive outside intruders. creased, Instead of diminishing, since Gen. Henderson of Iowa, the new congresa came to town and opened speaker of the house, is one of the shop. Until this week the White House most popular men in Washington. Alhas been the center of attraction and ways approachable, he never seams to arrivals at the capital have made be too much overwhelmed with public bee line to "see the president." It was business to grant a caller attention. thought the opening of congress would Gen. Henderson was born in Scotdraw the crowd toward the other end land In 1840. At the age of six he was of Pennsylvania avenue, but it la ap ' brought to the states, and shortly parent tbe president will gain and not thereafter took up bis residence in lose visitors by the assembling of the Between Denver and Chicago via the lawmakers lows. He entered the forty-eighSanta to Fe Boats provide mb comfortable are conwho raise Tbe people trying congress representing the third means of travel as can lie offered gressional district, and has reprtient-s- d money for the purpoee of erecting a that district in every congress up memorial arch to President McKinley leepera excepted. Aa an economical THE FREE to this time. On tbe organization of have devised a scheme to make the measure they are unsurpassed. They the fifty-six- th congress he was elected people of this city contribute. One of are hauled on fast trams, aud ara in speaker of the house, and has Just been the largest theaters In the capital haa of experienced and polite port-er-a. charge been secured for each Sunday night by tbe majority iu the RECLINING CHAIR congress to again preside over during the winter. Prominent minisJAPAN AND RUSSIA. All easentiala for the toilet towels, ters have been asked to deliver a lecthat body. water, combs and brushes are soap, to admisalon the winter Little Kauua la No Way Afraid of Its Gen. Henderson is. as has been ture during CARS provided free of charge. by his overwhelming choice which shall be free. In the middle of Mighty KltaL C. F. WARREN, are discourse to the with hla as the pause speakers speaker, extremely popular About Japan Russia thinks night and to permit the arch build-er- a Gen'l esaide and is of the enough chamber, Agt A. T. & S. F. R'y. long highly with of When the she, day. help 411 to Malt Lake City. a take the the democratic teemed procollection, up Block, by minority. Dooly Franca and Germany, had unceremoniceeds of which will be devoted to the of legislation the genmatter In the out of kicked Arthur' Port ously Japan and off the mainland of China, Russia eral has not taken a decided position arch. probably thought that she bad done with the little island empire for a long S. time. But Japan thought otherwise, oC and proceeded to lay out a program Public. naval and military expansion due to OFFICE IN BANK. mature a short time before the Trans-Siberirailway was to be completed. Many things have conspired to binder Servlee. New the progress of the great railway, but will be elegantly equipped ara Theae train Japan's military and naval schemes iy legal and Always on time. Fgtroaiaa have gone steadily onward In pits them whan you travel, of all financial difficulties. TIME CARD, LOCAL y she baa a magnificent navy. by purchasing your most battleafloat In the July U, MS, Including powerful vt Am4vo and at the arloue ship afloat, stronger than any fleet tattoos aa Follow Russia could safely send to the far Worth Bound nth Bound east, while her army is at least equal A. Mr. I Ar .TLvTT statioit in numbers and superior in equipment Wo. 1 No. S Ko.1 Li and scientific training to the land PAYSON, UTAH. A If PM 10 MH7 M forces Russia could muster on the eastOgdon Hearse in Connection at Reason-- I5S: ern side of her vast dominions. And' Sklft8-- 1 able Prices, ; between the two nations there lies, Lah! Junction Korea a territorial deadlock, a politiLahi American Fork Russia cannot allow1 cal antimony. HOMEMADE CUPBOARDS AND . PleaMMit Ur ova Japan to have it, for that would give Provo her eastern border a land frontier to Hpriugvilln FLOUR BINS AT LOWEST PRICES, j SpaiiUu Fork a military power. Japan cannot allow Payaou Nlhl Russia to have it, for at would leave her island home almost within gunshot of the troops and the naval bases On nil of the Colossus of the north, and deClear Luka overprive her of an outlet for her Lvf Milford At present Japan flowing population. I.iind is gaining, for her influence and her Mudenn f Mll ilvailn J people and her trade are increasing in 7 M Frluoo Korea every day. Fast Trains Daily It la a very dangerous situation InAll Points East. QJ train to dally li!trTwo o' fart UMklt deed, aaya Henry Norman in Scrib--. free roved ner's, and Russia would give much to (.hiaago without hair Cara alt Lake for a diplomatic exit from this miliPullman Palace and Ordinary) re. Klegant Uny Coachaa only line opernt mg dinluy tary and naval anxiety. So, too, would from ralt Pe.teat Linn i knrtMt and Sleeping Cars. nil Japan, whom it has nearly ruined, and to Deuvar, Kenans City. Mmnho and the situatron would Inevitably hatch Free Reclining Chair Cars. la float. Mr. David II. llenderaon, at out a treaty, except for the simple dtff-- J nengara not carried o freight train. Perfect Dining Car Service. .BANCROFT, Vlen-- I re end Gen. Mgr Acuity that neither country will re-off. He saw monkeys apparently stopHOMICIDE IN AMERICA. S. W. flOCLBUen.Trf. Mgr. other the tho only thing linqulsh ping to think for a long time before I. Burley. Genl Peaenger Agt. wants. Startling Figaro Bhuw Iiirremulng Dis- making some move. These animals, Conducted Excursions. regard far llaniaa Ufa. Personally by the way, rarely drink water, but A Louisville preacher haa recently eat Juicy berriea and fruits instead. Meant to ('sunn mllnnt's Death. made the startling assertion that The explorer waa Impressed by the The recent assassination of President McKinley has brought into prom-- j "home life Is safer in the dominions fact that even In a tropical forest soma Trains leave Fayaon for Tintic and, h.aAje a queer relic In possession of' of the ameer of Afghanistan than it animals have to work hard for a living. intermediates at 6:43 a. m. ami 6:52 p. the London police. About a year ago' Is In Kentucky. There are more mur- Some of them travel miles every day m. For (Salt Lake City and all points a crowd collected aroung the Amerl-- j ders In Louisville with 200,000 people to get food, and have all kinds of East and West at 7:50 a. m. and 8:11 can legation In Victoria street, watch-- : than there are in London with its trouble In finding a safe place to spend In Onn behsd on the Mngnlfleent p. m. the night lng the queer performances of an Ital--' 7.000.- 000. There are more murders of ti Limited Train Ian. He had placed a little wax figure: Kentucky with its 2.000, 0n0 people than of the American president on the door- -j In Great Britain with a population of Training RbuIu Iollremen. step, anil set fire to it He was Just; 40.000.- 000. Finally, there are more in Is not generally known that in SL It the1, than States when United second tbe the in murders figure up lighting police tame up, and he ran away. He the whole of Enrope, with Italy and Petersburg there exists a spefcial school where young men are trained for poFor rates, etc., inquire of left behind him the second figure, Turkey left out and Itussiu included. In which represented the American eagle, The Nashville American says aud lice service in the two capitals. W, H. SIIEIIMER, Agent, Tayson. and was stuck full of pins. The man who can deny that this statement is consequence of the numerous outbreaks GEO. W. IIEINTZ, The American assiverates thal and ihe growing necessity for a more was a brother of Guido Mazarre, who true. Asst. General Passenger Agent d belief efficient Louisiana. nation His and was lynched in approaches "no other civilised police force, was that he was avenging his kinsthis In the question of murder, and the minister of the Interior has reOMAIIA daily at 6:00 p. m., man's death by entailing upon ths those which come nearest to it are solved to open a second policemens Leaving for CHICAGO. T.O. WIMMBR Provident. President a slow and lingering death. such countries as Italy and Turkey, training school for service in the provW.H. TANNfcK The coincidence of Mr. McKinley's where the assassin's knife is freely inces. The school will have several gleotpic-K- " K.S. W1MMBK. Ceehler was a strange used and where men allow their auge courses of lectures and pract'cal drill death within the year A Hhorleed Oepltnl Stook one. and hate and disgraceful passions to for officers and men. During their rule their conduct. This nation has training the young men will be used OF 840,000.00. a red record of which it should be occasionally for actual service In the Russia. la Mach Khnlng As many kisses as shots are ex heartily ashamed. capital, so as to give them practical Chair-CarDining-CarCoaches, experience in the discharge of their Diy PAYSON EXCHANGE changed on a big field day with the duties. Who can help admiring the Russian army. The emperor kisses Animals Know to Laagh. and Palace Sleepers. Library-Ca- rs n his oflic rs. t': e oftlie s. the ofllcers M s A explorer of Africa painstaking care and foresight of Ruseach other, men embrace lovingly; old says there la no doubt that many ani- sian autocracy in defending its own generals kiss; in fact, everybody is mals talk and laugh in certain ways precious existence? or Ihone who sleep well on a train, Fnyeon, Utah, thoee kissing and being kissed when ths cans among themselves, in Africa he has have what you want For elect-lendirreneeet a General Bnnhiag Buetaera an reviews his troops. dent sleep well we have berth Experiments are now being made by beard tbe gorillas laugh when they In your liy On a public holiday the mistress of came to rob a man's field and found many European manufacturers as to lamp 4 per cent intern cb you can read all night if you the house salutes all her servants, that elephants h.l already destroyed the steam making economies of Amerpaid on time depouit other. b, without disturbing both male and female, with a morneverything, as If they appreciated the ican roi. with a view to nalng it. conveniences modern the I fart all The coal fields of tbe south cover ing kiss, while her lord and master Joke against themselves. Again, he i for SAFETY anJ COMFORT, scarcely enters or leaves ths room that beard a gorilla which be found (0,000 square miles, seven times as to Ira hail if you travel via the C. day without first bestowing a kiss cm among aome choice berrlee call an- large as those of Great Britain, France, k St. P. Ry. tho forehead, cheek or hand of his other monkey that was a long way Germany and Belgium combined. DOWNING, Commercial Agt. A spouse. l bell-shap- uli-ne- line bath room in connection: Proprietor. s t th fifty-seven- th ed R. OREGON SHORT Wixnmer, Notary LINE RY. an Train Can. Save Honey To-da- CQVFlN&jjLfilSKESJL Dc-o- of King of Krelgden Inland, Thus it happens that tbe settlement of all troubles arising among them must be settled among themselves. As they are not tbe sort of men who will get along with a republic, they have to have a king. He Is generally the strongest of their kind, and he rules them. He is their Interpreter of right and wrong, their judge of fact and lf his subtheir counselor. If jects are arrayed against the other half and all of them up in arms, be must put shot cartridges into his own gun and go out with the faction he thinks best for him to lead. Troubles that end in that sort of thing frequently arise. Whatever is done in the way of patching up the troubles after the feud is settled, so far aa the community is concerned. Is done ny the king. He declares who shall contribute to the support of this widow and of that child, and whatever he says goes. So far, Kreigden's title to his throne and his kingdom is not in the least danger. Three counties in as many different states lay claim to the right of taxation, buc there is no way of getting the matter settled, and it is altogether likely he will end his days there, a king with a country, lint without a crown, and one in fact, though sneered at as a mere duck hunter, fisherman tnd catcher of skunks. one-ha- China's Elaborate Apolocy. The letter of apology recently sent by the Emperor of China to the German Emperor Is described as an exquisite work of art. It is painted on a single piece of yellow siik over four yards in length, and is beautifully illumined with dragons, flowers and arabesques, embroidered in gold thread and allk of various colors. The work Is so perfectly executed that at first sight the embroidery Is mistaken for enamel. Tbe letter is enclosed In a yellow silk envelope, which is also elaborately embroidered, and fastened by Ivory studs of the most Ingenious character. Locks la said to have spent over six years In ths preparation of hla assay ca the "Human Understanding," PE'i'EfiSON, 3 Q Io. All the Comforts of Home Best Local Train Serv ice in the State. well-traine- nt ft golid ed Train s, s, SAVINGS well-know- BANK ng COLLECTIONS SPECIALTY,' |