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Show 'tea THE MORGAN POST John Stahle Jr., Kditor & Proprietor UTAH MORGAN HOT UP TO STAND PRAISES President AID FOR There will be a bumper crop of apple in Weber county this year, la me statement of the horticultural inspectors. The attendance at the Box Elder school high school for the the double be will practically year attendance of the present year. Weber county will begin the installation of a pipe line for sprinkling purposes along the state road, from south Ogden limits to the Davis county line, at once, at a cost of 97,000. A total of $68,000 will be needed for the maintenance of the Weber county schools, according to the estimate submitted to the county commissioners by the clerk of the board. Arrangements have been made to hold the fourth annual musical festival la Salt Lake City, probably the week of July 18, although the date has not been definitely settled. Wayne county is the third smallest county la population in the state, containing 2,009 people, Kane and Rich being the next Wayne county In area eoatains 2,413 square miles, and In acres 1,629,000. There Is noticeable activity at Wel-by- , the tawa site between Midvale and Bingham. Already many substantial dwellings have been erected, while real estate In that vicinity la going at good prices. Two people killed and two others In the hcepitai, their recovery being problematical, with half a dozen others Injured, Is the record of automobile casualties in the streets of Balt Lake City during the month of April. Miss Millie Smith, aged 39, whose borne was la Lehl, was drowned in Utah lake on Friday, the circumstances leading to the belief that she had committed suicide. For the past doaen years she had suffered from melancholia. Dan H. Harrigan, 54 years of age, and a section foreman, died in a Salt Lake hospital on Sunday as the result of a peculiar accident. He had, while 4a a tool house, overturned a can of gasoline, and breathing the fumes of the gasellne was responsible for his death. Falling head first over the railing of tbe stairway en the third floor to the second floor, Gus Miller, 45 years of age and employed as a shoemaker, ,was Instantly killed In a rooming house in 8aK Lake City. Miller was Intoxicated when the accident occurred. A amber af new buggies belonging to the Studebaker company, stand Ing on tke street In Pleasant Grove, were almost ruined by some envious person throwing a solution of sulphur! sold over them, destroying the lops end seats and otherwise badly damaging them. Th good roads convention which was to have been held in Ephraim May 7 has been postponed until May 14. An excellent prgramn.e haa been arranged for the occasion and a large crowd Is expected. Delegates will be present from Sanpete, Sevier end Jaab counties. Investigation by a deputy dairy and food Inspector of the quality of the Bilik being distributed in Bingham and vicinity, showed that of eight samples takes from shipments, five r to one-hasontslned from water. Prosecution of offending ship pera Is likely to follow. George Martin , aged 50, a well knewa brewery worker of Salt Lake City, suicided on the streets Monday night. In tke presence of a large number of people, shotlng himself In the head. Despondency due to the fact that he had been out of work for some time was the cause. Governor Spry has issued a proclamation setting aside Sunday, May 15, s Peace day. The purpose is to have this day celebrated throughout the state, in churches and other meeting places, and to encourage the Idea that wars are terrible things and should be frowned upon. The mayor of Murray has served notice on all the merchants of the city that an ordinance will be drawn up prohibiting the Bale of firecrackers and other explosives for the celebration of Juy 4. The ordinance will also provide a punishment for anyone caught discharging firearms, Louis D. Zenet, an Ita'ian, while engaged in his work as timberman in Haven mine at the Bingham-NeBingham, accidentally lost his footing on one of the stopes In the tunne, and fell a distance of forty feet, striking on his head. His skull was fractured and he died almost Instantly. The strike of the journeymen horse-shoer- s in Salt Lake, which has Ken In progress for about two years past, has been amicably settled. Satisfactory concessions have been made by both sides and the prospect is that henceforth there will be no hitch between master sheers and journeymen A love letter promising all of ones earthly possessions to the woman soon to be taken as a bride is not a will, decides the supreme court iu an opinion in affirming the lower court In the contest of the will of JtAn Jensen, who died at Dragon last year. Henry Smith, now held at Reno Nev., Is to be returned to Box Eller county to face the charge of abandon Ing his family. The requisition for Smiths return to Utah was issued by the governor on Tuesday. It is charged that Smith left his wife and children destitute. Pittsburg. President Taft ended his two day's stay In Pittsburg with Such Is Statement Made by Secretary a speech at the Grant day dinner of the American club Monday night in of Agriculture Wilson In Address which he dwelt almost wholly with the to Farmers, Who He Ssye Have affairs of the nation. The foreign Not Put Up Prices. president paid a striking tribute to the secretary of state, Mr. Konx, who was present. He vigorously defended St. Louis. That the farms of the and Justified the secretarys NicaraUnited States are not producing half guan policy and flayed those who inwhat they should because of a lack vented the phrase dollar diplomacy." f practical education among farmers The president was preceded at the was the statement made by Secretary banquet by Senator Borah of Idaho, of Agriculture Wilson, In an address who made an eloquent address on the Tuesday night at the Farmers Union. life of Grant Senator George T. 1 believe the solution of the cost of of Pennsylvania was toastmaster. living problem lies in good hands, The farmers are said Mr. Wilson. WESTON REACHES GOAL. awake, and no country Is In danger when that is the case. I have invesPedestrian Makes Trip Across tigated charges that the farmers have Aged The Continent in 77 Days. combined to put up prices and rob the New York. Cutting his way through community and have found they are not true. Of the fourteen states of a mass of 20,000 cheering people, hla the Mississippi valley not one Is pro- white locks bared to the breeze, his ducing half the crops It should, be- shuffling feet keeping time to the cause the farmers have not been strains of the Banner," taught scientific farming. We can and Edward Payson Weston on Monday will, ultimately, double every crop we brought to a triumphant end his are growing, and at the same time walk. He ascended the steps care for a population of 200,000. When of the city hall at 3:10 p. m., completweve done that the agriculturists of ing his journey of that day will 6how how to double the miles In 77 walking days, a feat crops again. The farmer must be ed- without parallel In the annals of pedes-trianisuni ucated. We need a country-wid- e verslty. If 1 had nothing else to dc The grizzled athlete was welcomed I should become a lobbyist in my state to his home city by Mayor Gaynor, who of Iowa to demand that agriculture presented him with a purse of $400 be taught In every one of the thirty hurriedly raised by a handful of his ador more colleges there. If we teach mirers in the last hours of his spectacthe young farmers, the old farmers ular walk. This and the applause of will soon take Interest We must keep thousands who have followed his our young farmers on the farm. Im- tramp since it began at Los Angeles that February 1, is all the reward migrants who have lived on farms came to the septuagenarian after his should be placed on farms when they months of trudging through heat and come to this country. cold across the continent. 1 ll Ol-liv- Star-Spangle- d ocean-to-ocea- Governor of Oklahoma Granted Further Time to Complete Defense. Tusla, Okla. The trial of Charles N. Haskell, governor of Oklahoma, and five other men in the Muskogee town lot cases was continued Tuesday afternoon until the next term of the federal court. Governor Haskell asked for a postponement on the alleged ground that he had been denied access to the documents In the possession of the department of the Interior at Washington. These documents, he asserted, related to the distribution in 1901 of 400 town lots at Muskogee, Okla., which were disposed of by the government In behalf of the Creek Indians. He declared the nse of the documents was necessary to prove his defense. Coal Miners Return to Work. Telle Haute, Ind. Eleven thousand Indiana bituminous coal miners have returned to work, thereby ending a strike which has been on in the Indiana coal fields foj thirty-thre- e days. This is the result of the temporal agreement reached here late Tuesday by the joint conference of miners and operators. Under the agreement, only thofTe mines where the northern outside day wage was being paid prior to April, 1910, will resume operations. The mines that will not come under the agreement lie south of the Baltimore & Ohio, employing 3,000 men. A settlement of these mines will be taken up soon. The temporary agreement made gives the miners a 6.55 per cent advance. Shot Editor, Then 8uic!ded. Walden, Colo. J. M. Davis, former marshal of Walden, shot and seriously wounded Alfred J. Law, the owner of the dally paper here, and then killed himself on Tuesday. The trouble arose over an article printed the municipal by Law concerning water plant, where Davis had been working. The men met In the court house, and after a tew hot words Davis drew a revolver and shot Law through the lungs. He then put the revolver to his own head and fired. Brute Commits Murder and Suicides. SL Louis. While ten policemen surrounded his house In an effort to arrest him, John Briscoe shot and ki'led his wife and himself on Tuesday. Mrs. Briscoe bad summoned the police to protect her from her husband, who was beating her. Three policemen answered the call, but BrisReinforcecoe refused to surrender. ments were summoned and a march on the house waa.started. Then Brls coe fired the fatal shots. Typical Fench Duel. De Lesseps, son of Count Ferdinand De Lesseps and an officer of a cavalry regiment, fought a duel on Tuesday with Count Just De Poligny in the Parc des Princes. Six shots were exchanged, but neither was hit. The two antagonists left the field without a reconciliation A Paris. Count Ismael Ruth Bryan Married Again. Lincoln, Neb. In a wedding devoid if any publicity, Mrs. Ruth Bryan-Leaviteldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bryan, was married in Tuesday to Lieutenant Reginald A. Owen of the Royal Eng peers corps ol he British army, stationed In Jamaica. Only members of the fami'y witnessed the ceremony. The Rev. Harry Huntington of Crete, an old friend of the family, who officiated 'sst summer at the marriage of W. J. 3ryan, Jr., performed the ceremony. Mrs. Owens first marriage occurred ment. when she was 18. t, Wl.o Was Compelled Abdicate and Flee From Haytl, Succumbs to Grim Reaper. Nord Alexis, t Bill Which Has Passed the Senate and Is Now Before the House, Provides For Government Loan of $3,000,000. Washington. The bill authorizing a government loan of $3,000,000 to complete existing reclamation projects, which passed the senate and is now on pending before the committee ways and means of the house, will be reported. It is stated on high authority, and be passed before the session adjourns. President Taft has assured western senators interested that, he will use his influence to put It through, and the western senators, led by Dixon of Montana, were given a promise of favorable action on the bill if the; would agree not to put Into execution their threat to put the bill as s rider on the river and harbors bill in the senate. Enjoy the pleasure of the Best Tea on the market? In your next grocery order, gently but firmly Insist on Jamaica. Nord Alexis, of Haytl, died her on His May 1, after a brief illness. health, however, had been considerbeing sent, and refuse ably broken by the experiences of all substitution. th past eighteen months, after he was deposed and sent into exile. He has been here since the revolution of tTflE.7UI?K 0F 6 jkAGUARANTEEj 1908, and possessed considerable property In Kingston. A picturesque character was taken from office when Alexis wrs compell- To spring? ed to abdicate and flee from Hayti on December 2, 1908. Port au Prince You should give her that Ws have mountwas then In the hands of the revolutionists, and General Antoine Simon, ed a lot of medium priced solitaire who afterward became president, was particularly chosen for engagement and up. mraching up the peninsua with an ring, 925.00 army of 5,000 men. Alexis was variously estimated at from 80 to 100 years. He was a descendant of one of the oldest families In Haytl. He took part in many wars. Nord Alexis became president of Haytl In 1902. His term was to have expired May 15, 1909, but his administration was not conspicuously successful. Prominent politicians grumbled because he did not give them what they considered their fair share of the spoils, and his conduct in punIs the newest town in Idaho. ishing some notorious looters of the It will be opened early in June national treasury excited widespread with sale of lots and excursion indignation, as it was regarded as a on Oregon Short Line new of breach gross precedent. branch to he completed to that Early In 1908 the movement against Alexis had gained great strength, point at the same time. : : : : and In March a reign of terror was suddenly Inaugurated in Port au Prince. The government seized many of the revolutionists and summarily put more than a score of them to death. The number of executions, according to some reports, reached The wonder state of the west, ight. General Simon took up arms has developed in the last five against the president. His march to years thousands of new acres the capital was a triumphant one. The and homes. Do you wish to people surrounded the palace, Decemlive and thrive in a really ber 2, and took possesion of the city. At the last moment Alexis yielded to the pleas of those about him and decided to take refuge on board the French warship, Duguay Trouin. Kingston, HEWLETT'S TEAS be married this ongags-mentrlngato- no. PINGREE FARMERS MEETING TEST. Question of Feasibility of Irrigation Law Now Being 8sttled. Washington. The acid test of prao tlcabillty of all the government reclamation work is at hand. On April 1 there was due and payable Into the reclamation fund from the settlers on the various projects, approximately $1,000,000 for water rights. If the farmers are able to meet their payments, it evidences that the government is aule to secure a return on Its investment. If the payments are not made, the law la a failure In one of Its most important provisions and the operation of the reclamation service would quickly be brought to an end. UNCLE 3AM LOSES CASE. But a careful canvass of the projects on which water rights charges are Will Be Obliged to Refund $5,000,000 due Indicates that the settlers, as a of the 8panleh War Taxes. rue, are able and willing to meet States them. Washington. The United court of claims on Monday decided in TORTURE MEN AND BOYS. favor of the plaintiff In a case against the government investigating the Reported That Barbarous Customs, tn question of the obligation of the secNicaragua Have Been Revived. 6 retary of the treasury t refund collected under the Inheritance Washington. A letter written to tax provision of the Spanish war rev- the American consul at Managua, enue act of June 13, 189$. The pres- Nicaragua, by Narclso Arellanes, a ent and prospective claims, which are citizen of Nicaragua, detailing Incipractically decided by this case. It is dents of cruelties in that republic, believed, will aggregate about $5,000,-00- has been forwarded here to Senor The act of April 12, 1902, di- Castrillo, representative of the Es rected the secretary of the treasury to trada forces in Washington. In his refund as much of the tax under the letter Mr. Arellanes says: I think li act of 1898 as may have been collect- best you shoud know these people ed on contingent beneficial interests are at their old work again. They which had not become actually vested are torturing men and even boys at prior to July 1, 1902. Nandaimo and at Granada, whipping them, suspending them, from the GUEST OF CROWN PRINCE. thumbs with cords all this to wrench Former President Occupies a Palace out confessions from them as to who carried provisions to Callxto Tala-vorIn Denmark. guerillas beyond Nandaimo. Copenhagen. The stars and stripes floated above the royal palaces on PLEA8ING THE MINORITY. Monday for the first time In the history of Denmark, and Unci Joe Cannon 8ays We May Have Roosevelt, in the absence of King to Change the Constitution. Frederick In southern France, was Mass. When we have to Boston, the guest of Crown Prince Christian, one of the palaces being placed at change the rules of the house to per the disposal of Mr. Roosevelt and his mit the minority to dictate legislaon behalf of special Interests, we family. The prince, presiding at a tion will be confronted with the necessity Mr. thanked dinner Monday night, Roosevelt for coming to this country. of changing our constitution and all The colonel, In reply, said that he had our conceptions of a peoples governreceived a cordial message from the ment, where the majority shall legisking, and thanked the prince for his late and accept responsibility for the hospitality. He then proposed a toast legislation. to the king and royal family of DenSpeaker Joseph G. Cannon made mark. the foregoing declaration Saturday bight In addressing the Middlesex Outlaw Killed in Fight. club on the occasion of a celebration North Yakima, Wash. George Carl, of the eighty-eightof an outlaw, was killed by a posse on the birth of General anniversary Grant Monday near Granger, after a running fight Carl Is supposed to have 8mall Tornado in Kansaa. entered the home of J. W. Frazer. Kansas City. What is described as When followed by Frazer, Carl drove a small tornado swept over Emporia, him back with a revolver. Deputy off telephone Kansas, and cutting Sheriff Dekraay organized a posse, service. The extent of the telegraph which followed Carl to the river. The in that section is not known. latter emptied his revolver at his pur- damage on Trains the eastbound California suers, who fired in return, mortally limited, on the Santa Fe, on arrival at wounding the man. Topeka reported a violent hall storm Ballinger Will Not Resign. at Neva, Kansas. Telegraph poles were Washington. "If I were disposed blown down, they said. A little before te consider the question of resigna- midnight the rain and electric storm tion, I would not do so so long as struck Kansas City. The cupalo of at- the city hall was struck twice by lightthese vicious and unwarranted no great damage was tacks continue against me. Secre- ning, although done. on denied tary Ballinger thus Monday the renewed rumor that he contem- Wants Oleomargarine Tax Abolished. plated retiring from President Tafts Washington. George EL Green of cabinet soon after the Ballinger-Pln-chPeoria, secretary of the Illinois Meris concluded. I cantile association, told the house Investigation have no intention of resigning, he committee on agriculture on Saturday emphatically declared. that as a huckster, back in the 80s, he nad difficulty In selling white butFalls Three Stories and Lives. Washington. While fighting a stub- ter. He urged thp committee to reborn fire in a large grocery store move all the restrictions on oleomarwhich supplied the White House garine. The tax was characterized by kitchen in diplomatic row, Fire Lieu- Mr. Green as an Incentive to evasion The retail misrepresentation. tenant Stanton was overcome by and in of sale the oleomargarine original smoke and fell three stories. His inpackages was his solution of the juries are not fatal. whole trouble. Prohibitionists Lose. Naval Battle Expected. Montgomery, Ala Emmet A. ONeil, New Orleans. That a determined leader of the fight aga'nst the prohi- effort will be made by the Estrada bition amendment to the constitution forces on the east coast of Nicaragua of.Aabama, defeated H. S. D. Mal- this week either to capture or sink lory, a supporter of the amendment, the steamship Venus, which sailed by 20,000 to 5,000 votes for governor, from New Orleans Saturday destined to Greytown with munitions of war In the Democratic primaries. for the Madriz army is the impression of New Orleans. Following their sucJapanese Spy Jailed. Hongkong. A Japanese spy, who cessful effort to detain the vessel at his port by legal action, It is reported was caught sketching fori the insurgents have fully armed here, at the entrance to this harbor,' was id equipped three small vessels to k sentenced on Monday to Imprison the Venus before it reaches trans-continent- HASKELL TRIAL CONTINUED. n WHY NOT 1IGA1II Vigorously Defends Seers-tar- y Knoxs Nicaraguan Policy LOAN FROM THE GOVERMENTTO In Pittsburg Speech. COMPLETE PROJECTS NOW SEEMS ASSURED. FARMS OF THE UNITED STATES ARE NOT PRODUCING HALF-WHATHEY SHOULD. T DEAD EXILED HIS PRETTIER THE UTAH BUDGET 1910-191- 3 TAFT f 3 $4,-28- s IDAHO forty-e- NEW TOWN ANOTHER NEW IDAHO TOWN. Will be Distributing Point of Section to be Occupied by Thrifty Farmers. Boise, Idaho. Pingree Is the very latest city to spring up from a former plain. A few years ago the valley of the Snake river from Blackfoot to American Falls was, for the greater part, a vast desert. Today It is one of the most desirable farming districts In . the entire state and is dotted with farm houses from ons end to the other. Fine fields of grain and orchards are taking the place of the former waste land and in the center of this vast area has arisen Pingree. Irrigation Is the magic wand that has suddenly transformed this great area Into a most productive valley, possible of supporting thousands ol farmers, and to serve their needs and to establish a commercial center Pingree was planned to occupy the center of the valley. The Oregon Short Line will build a direct branch Into Pingree and it will he in operation by May 30th. The railroad will erect a new station and already completed Is a fine hotel, strictly modern and eight arranged In one building. On June 6th the new townsite will be opened to the public and It is on this date that the drawing for choice of lota will be held. The town, like Twin Falls, will he the distributing center of this new valley of the Snake which Is already showing the evidences of the hand of the thrifty farmer. sage-brus- If so, ask about PINGREE. Merchants of all kinds are wanted there at once. Now is your opportunity.. Write for booklet to h store-room- W. H. Scott, Gen. Manager Pingree Town$ite Company 5 Pingree, Idaho or Jas. F. Barton, Secretary Ogden, Utah Ai rl J THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO .IS VIA.. DEETI), NEVADA u mIjt 65 aile frna JARB1DGE tk Mil lia ef both tlw Sasthera Pacific nil th Vtit era Pacific Railroads. DEETH uJ i m s TESTED SEEDS It eoats hundreds of dollan every year to test our ansae But when you buy them you can depond they poeeeee The Quality. Write for our Froo Deecriytivo Catalog. PORTE CO.. Salt Lake City h n at-c- Puts Roosevelt on Griddie. RooseLowell, Mass. Theodore velts action In not meeting Pope Plus on the former presidents recent visit to Rome was called insultim and a violation of Mr. Roosevelt, principle of "square deal by the Most Rev. William H. OConnell, archbishop of Boston, at a public meeting of the American Federation of Catholic societies of the diocese in this city on Sunday. John Callan OLoughlln, former as sistant secretary of state, who conducted the negotiations between Mr. Roosevelt and the Vatican was severely castigated by the archuishop. ly castigaeed by the archbishop. Albanians are Routed. The fighting at Constantinople. Kachlnik Pass between the Turkish troops and the Albanians lasted thirteen hours. Finally, surrounded on all sides, the Albanians made a disorderly retreat, leaving may prisoners. The Albanians lost 50 men and the Turks 100. The great loss sustained by the former was because they had no artillery, while the government troops were amply suplied. It is believed the re capture of this Important pass has broken the backbone of tne rebellion, Horsewhipped an Editor. Portland, Me. A horsewhipping was administered by Colonel Frederick Hale, son of Senator Eugene Hale, and a leading candidate for congress from the First district, to Charles Thornton Libby, publisher of several suburban weekly papers, at the ters office on Monday. The cause the assault was an article published in the Six Towns Times, in which Colonel Haes mother was ateacked After Colonel Hale left the office Editor Libby said: I like him better han I did hefora RUBBER STAMPS CHECKS, Etc. Full, line Rubber Type Outfits, and supplies In stock. Mail orders receive prompt attention. OALT LAKE STAMP CO., Salt Lake City At or About This Time. Why do they call them ocean-linersshe asked. They're getting new terms every day," he said, without looking up from the sporting page. I never heard it before, but an ocean liner ia probably a hot one, that isnt fielded well and rolls Into a puddle of something." She made no answer, but when b had gone to business she phoned about him. Buffalo Express. ? r At the Players Club. One afternoon Francis Wilson was sipping lime juice with several brethren of the buskin, when John np to the group. Hello, Wilson, he said, here you are again with your little coterie. Yes, returned Wilson, smoothing: his vest, and with my little vestry and pantry, too. Llppincotts. Drew-sauntere- Just Thats Just d His Luck. my luck! Here Is aib airship overhead, and Ive got a stiff neck! Fllegende Blatter. The Scotchman at the Reception. Tve had a glass of lemonade and a biscuit, waiter. How much Is it?" Theres no charge for refreshments, sir. No charge! An theres ma wife-sittidoonstalrs aw nght and never eatin a bit of anything." The Tab-tie- r. Alive and Kicking. Wife You are different from my first husband. Husband Yes, 1 am, thank goodness. Im alive; hes dead. |