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Show Southern Salt Lake COUNTY ENTERPRISE W. D. 8. Harrlncton. Uanaglns Editor BANDY, -- TT HIM UTAH. UNCLE PEOPLE SAM ISNT GOING TO BRAQY CF WORRY HEAD AT CF CSNSRESS PERISH IN FLOODS Elected President Commercial Congress Despite Precedent of Years. Idahoan UTAH STATE NEWS Council No. 6 of the Native Sons of L'lali lia.i been organized at Logrn. The body of an unkuown man, about 12 years old, was found in a ditch a short distance out of Thistle. It is believed he was murdered. Grand county will send a maid ol honor to attend the irrigation queen t the parade which will be held in Salt Lake City during the latter pari of September. The citizens of Iron county will vote on the proposition to bond tbf rounty for $30,000 at the comlug election. The money will be used for constructing highways. The body of an unknown man wa taken from the Spanish Fo rk river a half mile below Thistle Junction. Physicians say he was about 30 years of age and was drowned three or four daya ago. Steve Israel has surrendered to the Salt Lake police and confessed to the murder of Benjamin F. Platt, an aged Jewish clothing merchant in North Topeka, Kan., on the night of Feb- IDAHO MANY RAINS CAUSE TERRIFIC DEATHS AND PROPERTY LOSS OF MILLION AND A HALF. COLONEL WRITES LETTER IN REPLY TO RECENT TESTIMONY OF ARCHBOLD AND PENROSE. Railroad Tracks Washed Away and Houses Swept From Their Foundations by Deluge That Swept Over Wide Area. Believes He Progressiva Candidato Has a Complete Refutation of Any Testimony Reflecting Upon Him Regarding Campaign Fund. c-- Trans-Mississip- Fait Lake City. Former Governor James H. Brady of Idaho was elected president of the Commercial congress, and Wichita, Kan., was chosen as the 1913 meeting place, at the final session in Assembly hail Friday mcrning. of tbe Following the completion business of the session the congrer-adjourned sine die. A precedent of twenty-thre- e years was broken by the congress in electing former Governor Brady president instead of John II. Powell, who was chairman of the executive committee it has always been customary to elect the chairman of the executive commit tee to the presidency. A resolution presented by Stephen 11. Iove of Salt Lake urging congress (o recommend to tae railroads tho immediate establishment of faster train schedules, to be maintained until normal traffic conditions prevail and the danger Qf a car shortage is eliminated, was adopted. Trans-Mississip- pi s rittsLurg. As a result of terrific mins Sunday night and early Mon day, throughout West Virginia, west ern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, are dead und others missthirty-siing. From monger ret ports It is be lieved the monetary damage will approximate $1,500,001). Transportation facilities in all directions from this city were practically put out of com- Oyster Bay. Colonel Roosevelt on Sunday made public his letter to Senator Clapp, chairman of the senate committee investigating campaign contributions, in reply to the recent testimony of John 1. Archbold and Semtor Penrose regarding an alleged contribution of $100,000 by Mr. Archbold to the Republican campaign oi x 1904. mission. hours of excesAfter twenty-fou- r sively hot weather, the storm broke Sunday evening. In addition to an extraordinary rainfall, the electrical features were most pertarulnr. The ruary 22, 1911. steady rain caused every stream tc A severe hailstorm played havoc leave 11 s bank. Within a short time with the Oregon Short Line wires in the water had washed away railroad the neighborhood of Whcelou, Box El- tracks and sent tuns of earth from der county. Thirty telegraph poles surrounding hills making all thorwere blown down and the wires were oughfares in the flood zone impassput out of service. able. Fire which started from unknown Latest reports from the various dis9 hardat a in at oclock tricts origin give the following table of fatalnight ware store at Park City spread rap ities: Colliers. W. Va., eighteen dead. idly to a pool hall and a drug store, and caused a total damage of $5,500 Cherry Valley, Pa., six drowned. before it was extinguished. liurgettstown. Pa., four drowned. A statewide campaign to eliminate Avella Pa., three drowned. noxious weeds from the highways and Gannonshurg, Pa , three drowned. byways of travel was instituted by the Wondlawn, Pa., one drowned. board of governors of the Utah DeAt Ford City, Pa., a dozen houses velopment league at its monthly meet- were washed from their foundations ing held in Salt Lake last week. Lightning struck a score of houses William McEIroy, a cattle-buye- r of aud McGrahn a suburb, Is under three Chicago, claims that two confidence to five feet of water. men mulcted him of $2,000 in Salt At Colliers. W. Va., nine persons are known to hare drowned and rumor him had after Lake, inveigled they were Into betting on fake horse races in has- It that at least iwenty devastated drowned. A cloudburst the heart of the business district. is sitThe cool weather of Jhe last week the valley in which the town The entire valley was deluged uated. has retarded somewhat the ripening and houses were swept Troni founda sf peaches in Weber county, and the tions. shipping season will not begin until Woman Suicides at Goldfield. September 10, at the very earliest. The crop will be exceptionally heavy. Goldfield. Mrs. Billy Blake, a reThe recent order of the post office cent arrival from southern California, lepartment concerning Sunday closing aged 30 and prepossessing, shot herwill not affect Provo. The local office self between the eyes with a heavy was one of the first twenty in the Colt revolver Monday morning, dysountry designated two years ago by ing instantly, in the establishment of the postmaster general to close on the a locaji photographer, of whose place lie was caretaker in his absence. Sabbath. Esther Chideater, 6 years old, of She had been addicted to the use of Bingham, is in a Salt Lake hospital morhplne, hut had been discharged suffering with a fracture of the skull, from a hospital as cured. Since then the result of injuries received at she had been drinking to excess. She Bingham when a rock which bounded Is reiiorted to have belonged to an town a hillside struck her on the excellent family at Colton, Cal. - lead. Darrow Addresses Workmen. Caught by the rapidly revolving San Francisco. Clarence S. Harhaft of the concentrator of the Ohio row of Chicago, addressing a Iabor 2opper company at Bingham, Harold day throng here Monday rounseled tolMatt, aged 20, suffered a broken leg, erance in the attitude of working men received severely bruised feet and is toward Y!lllHm M. Wood, presideat thought to have sustained internal of the American Woolen company, injuries. who was indicted in Massachusetts Wreaking its fury upon the fruit, on a charge of having conspired to beating the oats and alfalfa to the incriminate labor unions, deplored the ground, perforating the beet leaves bitterness and violence of industrial and denuding trees, one of the most warfare and restated his belief that violent wind and hall storms on rec-3r- d the McNamaras had committed only tore its way through Cache valley a ''social crime. 3n Wednesday. Tragedy in Idaho. Governor lliram W. Johnson of Michael Idaho. Sheriff Wallace, candidate on here who returned Monday Malier, !he National Progressive ticket, told that i large audience at the Salt Lake the-str- e from Euarllle, Ida , reported who shot and a John Lonma, rancher, on Wednesday night that he believed in the conservation of human killed John IJndquist. wounded Sylvester Jarley and barricaded hiself !e sources and rights. Leslie Maycock, manager of the in his cabin, had slipped through the him and had taken teelphone plant at Spriugville, was IiOBses surrounding fired at LindYouma hills. to the while wires. lectrocutcd testing without and warning as quist Jarley Physicians worked over hint for over of a Socialist meeting. out came they had after been the body in hour, to be Insane. owered to the ground, but were un- He is thought able to restore consciousness. China Is Resentful. The election held throughout CarIrondon. Deep resentment Is felt in bon county to vote bonds for finishing China over the British demand for the high school building, now under Tibetan autonomy. Many of the roust rucl Ion at Price, wac carried fa- Chinese merchants in Tientsin and voring the issue of an additional $45,-)iDthcr cities threaten rcfaliation for in bonds. The structure will be what they regard as an insult and sne of the finest in the state, costing propose to boycott all British goods entering Chinese ports, according to a news agency dispatch received here. Construction work on the interurban line between Salt Fears Trouble in England. and PayBon, which is to connect England With the exception o tho Irondon. with the Bamberger line at Salt Lake hardy and still loyal Ghourka and Taml the Hccdes line at Ogden and comllinn soldiers, all the Indian regiments plete an electric road from I'ayson to of England are to be disbanded and to commence is within Brigham City, their places filled from the home land. thirty days. K new Indian army Is to be created, David Starr Jordan, president of :he nucleus of which will be soldiers the Leland Stanford university, ad- who have seen war service. dressed a large audience in the stake Ministers in Labor Day Parade. tabernacle at Provo on Sunday on "The Case Against War," in which he Seattle, Wash. Six members of the showed the waste, misery and crime Ministers' union walked in the liig resulting from war and the utter use- Labor day parade, and four others lessness of armed contests between rodo in automobiles. This was the nations first appearance of the clergymen's Waller Prestlor and Thomas and organization in a labor parade. Georgo Scotenis, miners employed by Journal Suppressed. Haven Milling comthe Bingham-NeThe spread of sediCairo, pany, were entombed in the mine at tion in alwmt the sitje brought Egypt Bingham for seven hours by a fall of on Monday of the Nationalpres-io- n earth, hut are none the worse for ist Journal, El Isswa. Four natives their experience. also were arrested on a charge of laFrank Stranger, agpd 24, a resident ming seditious literature. was of Marriott, Weber county, Disclaim Responsibility. drowned in the Weber river near Athens, Greece. The Greeks and Slatervtile, Sunday afternoon. Stan-ge- r and six friends wero spearing Cretans disclaim all responsibility for fish, when Stanger stepped into a the proH)Sed filibustering expedition to the island of Samos in the Aegean deep hole in the river, llo was unable to swim. sea, where French and British war a, pro-i-ose- d shins are now stationed. The letter is a document of approxd imately 18,000 words. About is devoted to copies of correspondence by Colonel Roosevelt while president with James S. Sherman, now Senator Bourne aud others and to the reply of President Roosevelt to the charge made by Alton B. Parker in 1904 that the Republican campaign fund was financed in large measure by the contributions of big corporations. In his letter Colonel Roosevelt he has a complete refutation ol any testimony reflecting upon h!m which was given before the senate committee that investigated campaign contributions. "I have answered every question is fully and explicitly as possible, he said. Of course, I cannot go on inexplaining the things which definitely RESIDENTS OF CAMP INTEND TO are always being brought up. They FIGHT IF NECESSARY TO PROare brought up five million times, an 1 TECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN. after I have explained them five mib lion times, they are brought up again, just as though I never had explained them. Immediata Surrender of Rich Mining WHAT CAUSES REVOLTS? Property In Mexico Owned by Americana Demanded by Rebels Will Investigate Senate Committee Who Would Finance Revolution. Affaire in Mexico and Nicaragua. Alarming Washington which is spreading rapsentiment Douglas, Arlz. A force of 300 rebin Nicaragua and Mexico is causels on Thursday demanded the sur- idly grave danger to American lives ing render of El TIgre mining camp, an and will probably hasten the property American property, located sixty-fiv- e to be made In Nicaragua inveslgations miles southeast of here. Forty Amerof the and Mexico by a icana, fully armed, intend to fight Ii senate committee. relations foreign necessary to protect their women and One of the alms o the children. Seventy federal soldiers' will be to ascertain if them are defend the town. El TIgre Is one of interests behind the revolusinister the richest gold mines in Mexico, con- tions. oRth revolutions have been trolled by Kansas City capital, and li heavily financed and It is tlie theory captured by rebels could finance the of quite a number of senators and ofrevolution. ficials of the state department that Mounted messengers representing feeling has been Rafael Campa, leader of the rebel the tbe machinations engendered through band, rode into the mining camp early of the funds. Interests the supplying Thursday and demanded ita surrenWhile the real purpose is to deterder. It is reported that no definite will assure peace answer was given. Campa's force is mine a policy tbat American Interests withand protect encamped only fourteen miles west of out precipitating foreign complications the mine property. between the Rio Another force of rebels is reported in the countriescanal and the Grande zone, it is beto be moving in from a point thirty will unlieved that the mllea to the east. earth evidence of deliberate plots to overthrow the present governments Earthquake at Reno. financial returns. Nev. Three Reno, distinct, though for slight, earthquake shocks were felt Fire Threatens Butte. here Friday at 9 o'clock through a Mont. Fire of unknown oriButte, period or fifteen seconds. No damage or the was done. Chandeliers were rocked gin, starting in the basement block here Thomas destroyed Sunday, and dishes shaken. The direction rethat building and threatened the enported was from east to west. tire business distrirt. Help was summoned from surrounding cities, and BILLINGHURST PRESIDENT the train bearing the Anaconda fire department jumped tbe track, killing Patrick Duffy, the engineer, and fatally injuring the train fireman and Chief Charles Collins of the, fire deSeveral other Anaconda partment. firemen received less serious injuries. oue-thlr- , TOLTON TO LEAD DEMOCRATS. s PRESIDENT OF WOOL REBELS TRUST UNDER ARREST Charged With Conspiring to Place namite In Order to Discredit Labor Unions. Dy- Boston. There was an astounding outcome Friday of the great strike of mill operatives at Lawrence, Mass., which lasted from January 12 until March 14 last, alarmed the country and brought the workers and militia In sanguinary collision. William M. Wood, president of the surrenAmerican Woolen company, dered himself here on learning he had been Indicted for conspiracy. Mr. Wood ia accused of plotting to plant dynamite so as to discredit the labor unions. It is charged that he and others planned to conceal the deadly explosive and then to betray ita hiding places to the police so as tgjMPatfl-thimpression that the strikers proposed to destroy some of the mills from which they had walked out. The dynamite was discovered in a Syrian lodging house, a cobbler's shop and a cemetery at Lawrence last January. Oldest Man In the West Reno, Nev. Frank BaccuB, a negro, claiming to be the oldest man in the west, on Friday celebrated his one hundred and twenty-secon- d birthday, Baccus Is an Inmate of the state hospital and, despite his years, is strong and in good health. Baccus was born at St. Geneve, below St. Ixiuia, on the Mississippi, in 1790, and was sold as a lave. He came to Hangtown, now Plaeervllle. Cal., in 1850, and later migrated to Nevada. Attack Was Result of Plot. Washington. That Enrique Mpza, the reporter who attacked Hugh Gib-oAmerican charge d'affaires of the legation in Havana, was merely a tool in the hands of Cuban plotters who are antagonistic to the United States and would like to get the Cuban government into trouble with this country, was the opinion expressed here the Cuban by Senor Martln-Rivero- , minister. HEN n n Threatened by Volcano. Guadalajara, Mexico. Warning has been issued to this, the second city in tho republic, with a population- - of 150.000, that it is to be destroyed by a volcano. The warning lx given in all seriousness by the government branch of through the seismograph the national observatory at Mexico City. Roosevelt Assails Both Parties. St. Jolinslitiry, Vt. The trust attitude of the Democratic and Republican parties was scatchiiigly assailed by Colonel Roosevelt in a siwerh here Friday night on the village green, winding up a Lireless day f stumping. The denounced the two parties as straddling the problem of controlling thn corporations. Widow of Rogers Dead. New York. Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, wife of tbe late of the Standard Oil company, died suddenly Friday in a dining rar in the Grand Central station at the conclusion of a Journey from Hretton Woods, N. 11., to her home here. Auto Company Falls. N. Y. The E. It. Thomas Motor Car eompnsy, assets II.700.00S, liabilities $960,000 has been placed In the hands of receivers. Inability to meet extension notes is the cause given for the failure. Buffalo. Goea Wrong. Fran laco. William Cmhln, secretary of lle Continental and llulld-FhLoan association, dissolution of whirl Is now sought in the courts, was anested Friday on a warrant chareing falsi Ural ion of accounts Secretary San g Beaver County Man Selected by Democrats for Governor of Utah. Salt Luke City. The Democrats ol Utah in convention on Thursday placed a complete state ticket lu the field, beaded by John F. Toll on, of Beaver county, for governor. Toltou was selected on the fourth ballot. The platform of the Democrats is a long and vigorous document. It was prepared for the most part In advance of the convention by leading Democrats. who hud decided It was neces-i-rarthat the platform should set forth fully the principles and other merits of the party. The platform declares for the initiative, the referendum and the recall, and other ad-vimced political measures. The conteats for congress and governor were the only serious ones of the convention. Most of the other candidates were named by acclamation. The Democrats adopted a plank in their platform declaring for a nonpartisan educational system and the appointment of the superintendent of public Instruction by a board of education. A. C. Nelson, present superintendent of public instruction, was indorsed for to this position. The ticket follows: For Governor John Frank Tolton. Beaver. Matho-niha-h For Congressmen-at-Larg- e Thomas, Balt Lake, and Till man D. Johnson, Ogden. For Justice of the Supreme Court Le Grand Young, Salt Lake. For Secretary of State Charles England. Logan. For Attorney General Joseph W, Stringfellow, Salt Lake. For State Auditor John 8 Blaln, Spring City. For State Treasurer John F. Mendenhall, Spriugville. For State Superintendent or Public Instruction A. C. Nelson, Salt Lake. For Presidential Electors Jesse Knight of Provo, O. W. Powers of Salt Lake, Janies Andrus of St. George. Thomas II. Fitzgerald of Sa't Lake. y 1 j non-partisa- n Marked Increase in Imports. A marked Increase In Washington. both Imports and exports la shown iu the July figures of toreign commerce as complied by the division of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. July imports were valued at $148,547,964. against $118,054,204 In July, 1911 and for thu seven months ending with July $1,031,199.-690- , against $88 1,800.1. '.6 in the corresponding months of lust year. Heinza Triumphs Over Opposition. Idaho. Wiih a voting Burke, as of twelve one, strength half tbe against that at Tonopah Sunday Hcinze completely routed the opitosi-tiopromise made by Ambassador Richheaded by E. J. Carter at tho ard C. Kerens and David Keith who of the were hero recently on a tour of in- meeting of the stockholders Stewart at Kelheld Mining company or Route Lake propSalt the spection erties. that the road would he extend- logg. Tho Ileinze forces mustered ed to Tenopah will he ninde good and 750,000 votes against 73.000 voles for tbat wu:k will begin in the near fu- the Carter faction. Tho meeting was in session less than ten minutes. ture. May Build Road to Tonopah. Goldfield. Nev. Word was received n Will Test the Coal. men from the. Seattle. Thirty-fivUnited States bureau of mining mailed on the steamship Mariposa for Alaska Sunday night to investigate tho value, extent and availability of the Bering river coal fields for the uso or naval vessels. e Sonor Guillermo Bllllnghurst, presideof Peru, who eueceede on September 24, was Legula Agoeto born at Arlea In 1851 of Engllah par-anta. Ha was educated In Valparaiso and Buenoa Alrea and for yaara haa bean prominent as both a scientist and a politician. Ho haa hald many publlo offices. nt-elect ; ; Alaskan Coal Claims Canceled. Juneau, Alaska. Three hundred ol the 1,100 Alaska coal claims l.nve been canceled by the general land office. In most of the cases the charges filed against the rial was tlmf application for patent had not been made within the time required by law. Four Killed In Railway Wreck. Pittsburg Four men were killed, one fatally injured and a number slightly hurt when tho Pennsylvania railroad train which left Pittsburg Friday morning for Cleveland over the Cleveland & Pittsburg division, run into a work train engaged In clearing up a freight wreck that had occurred a short titno before. Musselman Wins. forty-ninDetroit. Results from counties give Amos S. Mus'-li'iuin Grand Rapids, 3.488 majority over his opponent. Secretary of State Ft ml nomiMartimlale, for Ilia Kcpubl.i-unal l'u for governor e Motorcycle Accident. Senator Smith Renominated. Two nu n wire probDetroit. Voters balloted in s::i'i-widably fatally injured, a not Iter seriously for primaries for candil;tt-and five more considerably bruited in offices. anti state, county ci'y Occidents five inotoreycle Involving nine nten and six machines here Sun- William Alden Smith bad no opposion tion for renotninalioii for day. the Republic, III ticket. Debs Has Hopes. Inventor Blown to Pieces. New Ship to be Bu'lt. Wash. Eugene V. Delis, Everett, Milan. Marquis Roberto Inipcrlnh, i A sister sirp to tin M Vallejo. inventor of thd new explosive, Imper-lalil- Socialist candidate for president, on ' will In built at Mare it tils belief that I on Thursday was blown to Sunday declared orders to bee In work vere Washington would be one or tin first j Tcdcgiuphic I pieces and his factory was hurled Into states Wasliiiiateii received ruin Tnsl.iy I in w won! which the Sochi the air at Monte Chlarl, near Brescia. , J morning. Both gunboats will control. gain Ifalv. In Chinese wa'cis. Two Killed in Mine. Superintendent Trinidad, Colo. William Tweed dale and Fit Boss Alfred Reuben wete instantly killed by gaa explosion in the Krhro mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company, near Trinidad. e, 1ms Angeles. e sr.-ato- r nnc-uc- u.-.- |