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Show - , The Morgan County Star HEWS OF Published Every Saturday I I'EEK lil UTAH MORGAN UTAH STATE NEWS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST Utah ii fourth among the atatea of MANNER POSSIBLE. the Union In tomato canning and fifth In pea canning idustry. The Utah county commiaslonera have placed the total tax lery at That Are Making History of 1 mill lower than Happenings nxiUs, one-hal- f Information Gathered from Ail for the last fiscal year. Quarters of tho Globe an A new automobile directory will be Given In a Few Line Issued by the secretary of state with will in a week. The now directory show about 2,350 automobiles in the INTERMOUNTAIN state. The conference of western goverWhile skating in the street, James Bair, aged 10, of Salt Lake, was struck nors at Boise on Friday discussed by an automobile, sustaining injuries plan of working out a system of interwhich resulted in his death half an state highways through the tion of the fourteen states in the ashour later. Two banks of Box Elder county are sociation. value ever Marking the highest contemplating the erection of new buildings And another newly organ- reached by Salt Lake real estate, the corner has been sold ised bank is having a building remod- old Godbe-Pitt- s for $240,000, or at the rate of $4,000 eled for its use. Conditions in the coal mines at per front foot. Word was received from the train Castle Gate are good, according to State Coal Mine Inspector J. E. Petit, dispatcher of the Colorado & Southwho has returned from that section ern at South Platte, Colo., a summer resort, that a man had run of Carbon county! Continuance of the use of bands on amuck and bad shot and perhaps fruit trees to prevent the attacking of killed three people. Traffic was interrupted and telethe fruit by parasites Is advised by J. C. Stay, county horticultural inspector graphic communication was upset in of Salt Lake county. western Nevada Thursday by floods About 400 citizens of Riverton and attributed to cloudbursts. Midvale met Wednesday afternoon in By next December, according to C. the Riverton ward meeting house to P. Allen, chairman of the highway celebrate the completion of the elec- commission, the road between Meeker, Colo., and Vernal, Utah, now declared tric light system in Riverton. The total number of qualified voters to be imp&seabie, will be improved so la the county precincts of 8alt Lake the big highway will be open throughcounty, prior to registration, is 10,752, out the entire year. Three desperadoes, members of the according to a check of the books just pompleted by the elections clerk. gang, escaped from Damage to the extent of about $1,000 jail at Craig, Colo, and a posse is waa done at Eureka as a resist of in pursuit. A battle is expected. a cloudburst. The Finn saloon waa Ending In a turmoil after one of flooded with water, the force of which the most bitter fights in the history tore the front doors off their hinges. of Idaho politics, In which Provisional The new jail at Garfield, constructed Committeeman Arthur H. Allen lost by the county at a cost of about $4,000, his fight, the progressive party cloaed waa approved and accepted on beb&ie its convention at SL Anthony, Idaho, of the county n few days ago. The without nominating a state ticket. ' DOMESTIC structure is of the most modern type. "Hard Luck Johnnie" Neil1 commitEdward Games was struck and killed by lightning at a aheep camp ted suicide at Darry, Pa., by taking la the mountains west of Mendon. carbolic acid early Friday morning. Two other men were badly burned Johnnie was noted as a child of misat the same time and two dogs were fortune. He had been shot, stabbed, truck by a train, sustained broken killed. had rheumatism The Utah Indian war veterans will leg and knee-cap- , hold their second annual reunion and and had been jilted by his fiancee, tampfire at SprlngvlUe August 20 to whom he had given $200,000 to buy $2. An extensive program of events her trousseau. The recent reconciliation ' and reha bee prepared for the old India marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cudahy fighters. A cloudburst caused damage to foot-hi- ll was made more domestic pn Saturday farms estimated between $4,000 when their four children were given and $5,000 and brought nearly the en- into their possession by Mrs. Michael tire population of Farmington out to Cudahy. The United States has commenced be of assistance to those in the path of the big storm. issuing rations to Mormon refugees, L. E. Dunning, former nalea agent now in El Paso, using an appropriaof the Studebaker Vehicle company In tion made by congress last week. A been established Juab county, was arrested at Lynn supply depot has last week on a felony warrant charg- near the refugee camp. The jury at Atlanta, Ga in the case ing him with having embexzled $3,000 of Mrs. Daisy Oplo Grace, charged from his employers. The election at Murray to authorise with attempting to kill her husband, $60,000 In alternative ten and twenty-yea- r Eugene Grace, returned a verdict Frifour and one-haper cent bonds day afternoon of not guilt. Immedito establish a municipal light and ately afterward Mrs. Grace was nearly power plant, resulted In a vote of 256 at the point of collapse. Just as he was beginning to sing In favpr of tbs bond tj 137 U&mTnatlon will be held In the "Miserere," from 'll Trovatore," Franseveral counties of the state, Thurs- cisco Alblach, the Spanish tendr, apday, Friday and Saturday, August 15, pearing before a Newton, Iowa, audi16 and 17, for teachers desiring cer- ence, fell over on the stage uncontificates to teach in the country scious. He died a few hours later. of thirty-fiv- e schools during the yeaM912-1913- . Finding that twenty-nin- e companies members of the Yellow Caught under a falling wall, Charles Henry Nielsen, a mason, was killed at Pine manufacturers association had anti-trulaw of Missouri, Riohfleid, while seven other men, in- violated the Commissioner Special Reynolds has fell hla who of three eons, cluding with the wall, narrowly escaped filed his report in the state's ouster suit against the lumber companies Ih death. Nielsen was instantly killed. Much loss to sheepmen who graze the supreme court at Jefferson City. A movement is on foot in the natheir stock on the Wasatch reserve in American Fork canyon haa accrued tional Progressive party to name a this spring and summer through the Democrat from the south as Colonel killing of aheep and lambs by bears. Roosevelts running mate, if an availThree of the marauders have recently able man can be agreed upon. The colonel said leaders of the new party been killed. had made this suggestion and that he Caleb to State Engineer Acoordlng favored the plan. Tanner, the state will be asked to ap-Like the Jews coming out of Egypt finish to the $45,000 propospropriate ed automobile road to the Grand can- In Biblical days, the Mormon women yon. When the road Is complete, there and children are leaving the different a will be a direct route for autos from Mormon colonies of Pacheco, Diaz, Juarez and Dublan for the Salt Lake to the Grand canyon. ' The commissioners have fixed the border and all it means to them is tax levy for Caohe county at eight life and Uherty. Letters written by Walter Connor, mills. With the state tax levy at n young rancher of Inglewood, a subseven and one-hal- f mills, county elgnt urb, of Los Angeles, who died July 8, s mills, schools nine and been placed in the hands of Los have mills, and city fifteen mills, the levy attorneys, who will present Angeles amount to and in Logan forty them to the coroner with a request for mills. an investigation of the writers eviElaborate exercises were held at dent belief that he was being slowly Ophir on August 1, to celebrate the poisoned to death. rail-tol& John of the St Ophir opening Republicans of Nebraska parted extending nine miles from SL company on Tuesday, holding two disJob station on the Salt Lake route tinct conventions, adopting opposite 300 strangers declarations to Ophir. More than of principles, selecting were present to join In the general two state committees and paving the jollification. way for two state tickets. President Anthon H. Lund of the The Williams and Bartlett Springs AnMormon church has wired Apostle waa held up -- t the Prim grade, stage thony W. Ivins at El Paso, telling him about thirty-fiv- e miles from Williams, to to do everything" In his power help the robbers Cal., obtaining $2,500 in the Mormon refugees from Mexico and beside much jewelry. cash, will stand be stating that the church Several hundred more women and hind him in everything he may do. children, refugee from (he rebel war Two masked men held Hip the Vin- cone in northern Mexico, reached El cent bar at Midvale Monday night. Paso Tuesday morning, swelling the The robbers secured $88 from the colony now in El Paso to over 1,200 cash register, $106 from the pocket women and children. and a diamond stud from the shirt Former Senator William D. Washfront of Willis Vincent, proprietor, a leader in the upbuilding ot burn, of besides some money from patrons j the northwest, died Monday at Minnebe place. apolis. He was SI years old. lf Chui-chup- three-fourth- one-fourt- Jackson Hatch, one of the foremost and at one attorneys in California, time a candidate for the supreme bench on the Democratic tlckeL must serve a sentence of seven years in San Qnetln penitentiary, on the charge of embezzlement. was made Formal announcement Friday by Governor Wilson that he would not resign the governorship of New Jersey during his campaign for the presidency. Emilio Vasquez Gomez and five of his followers were held under heavy bonds to a federal grand jury at El Paso, Texas, on charges of violating United States neutrality laws. This action was ordered at the preliminary hearing of the accused men. Harry K. Thaw is suffering from ptomaine poisoning as a result of eating preserved food while in jail at White Plains, N. Y. Thaw has been confined to his cot since his return to Matteawan. WASHINGTON The United States senate on Friday issued a warning to the nations of the world against encroachment upon the continents of North and South Am- erica The interior department has approved a bill proposed by Representative Kahn providing that asbestos deposits may be located under the placer mining laws. There has been conflict as to whether lode or placer, locations should be made. , A resolution offered by Senator Bailey aproprlatlng $100,000 to provide transportation for American refugees now at El Paso, Texas, to the home of relatives and friends passed the senate Friday afternoon without opposition. With pratlcally all features upon which President Taft based his veto eliminated, the army appropriation bill was again reported to the senate on Friday by the military affairs committee, carrying approximately UBISTER OF WAR STARTS REVOLUTION BANDIT TAKES LIFE IN NICARAGUA WITH LAST BULLET FIVE CHIEF EXECUTIVES 'IF 8TATES DISCUSS MEANS OF DEVELOPING THE WE8T. General Mena Leads Uprising Against President Diaz, Having Attacked Managua, the CapitaL Declare for 8tate Rights and Against the Conservation Policy as Now Fastened on tho Western States by Federal Department Head Boise, Idaho. Declaring for state rights and against the conservation policy, as now fastened upon the western states by federal department heads, through their rules, regulations and construction of laws, passed with the object of helping settlers. Governor Norris of Montana on Thursday opened the first annual session of the conference of western governors here. The opening of the important subject by the chief executives present, and prominent representatives of other states, started the conference off on a live wire issue that may de velop lDto cry8tallzed action towards bringing relief. The surprise of the opening days conference was a proposal made by Delos A. Chappell of Denver, personal representative of Governor Shafroth of Colorado, a big electrical power developer of that state, that the confer- - A new revolution Washington. broken oitl hai In Nicaragua. Captain Terhune of the gunboat Annapolis et San Juan del Sur on Wednesday rad! ographed the navy department that Managua, the capital, was attacked July 29 and ia now cut off from communication. General Mena, whose resignation as minister of war was demanded by President Diaz, led the uprising. Mena now is said to occupy the small forts near Managua. Granada is In posse sion of Menas son, whom be recently appointed commandant About 800 troops are there. Leading liberals all over the coun try have been thrown into prison, Captain Terhun'a reports say. The situation Is said to be aggravated by poor crops. Telegraph wires have been cut by the revolutionists. case of waterways and watersheds that were interstate in character. Boise, Idaho." The conference of western governors on Friday discussed the plan of working cut a system of interstate highways through tho cooperation of the fourteen states in the association, after Governor Hawley of Idaho had made the proposition in the paper he read to the visiting executives, considering at length prison reform, discussing the Oregon system presented by Governor West, and the question of the entertainment of visitors to the west during the 1915 exposition. The governors were gue3ts of $94,000,000. James H. Brady at luncheon , i and banqueted by the Boise CommerSenator Dillingham of Vermont has cial club at night, as well as were declined to serve on the subcommittee of the senate foreign relation comguests of honor at the league baseball game ih the afternoon. mittee, charged with investigating the Governor West advocated the sterireported fomenting In the United lization of degenerate prisoners and States of revolutions in Cuba and confinement within prisons during the Mexico. Senator Borah has been sebalance of their life. Governor Haw-lelected to take the place of the Verdeclared he was unqualified opmont senator. d of posed to the placing of The Democrats of the senate agreed the prisoners in a penal institution In caucus to stand behind the Lafol-lett- e under the honor system and stated wool bill and ask the house for be would not go higher than 25 per a conference. The house had refused cent or even less. Governor West to accept the bill as it passed the created surprise by advocating 50 per senate. cent or more. FOREIGN OSWALD WEST Governor Oddie advocated the preA dispatch from Constantinople Governor of Oregon paration by all states and their cities says the Turkish government haa apfor special entertainments during the pointed a mission to discuss peace be- ence of western governors and the ublic lands convention join handa in exposition year to attract the visitors, tween Turkey and Italy and that I them in the more poputhe fight for tolief, from the concentrating prill meet the Italian delegates at Laus-h-r ' lated center. , iron of the federal rules Switzerland. sanne, department Weslt ot wregun Governor Oswald Bombs exploded the market place heads, and install a publicity depart- was honored nlgat b? the of Kdtschana, fifty miles southwest ot ment at Washington for the purpose conference of Saturday western governors by of having proper legislation enacted. Uskup, European-Turkey- , killing or being elected president of the conferThe called a forth and proposal lively to wounding fifty persons, according heated discussion. Definite action ence for the ensuing year. This act a dispatch from Salonlkl. of thr governors, together with the No fewer than 224 deaths from bu- was postponed until later. memto the fact that Owing many bonic plague and seventy-thre- e deaths from cholera were reported to the au- bers of the conference are engaged thorities in the city of Amoy during in political campaigns in their own states, the opening attendance was the three months ending July 31. small when the session opened. Those The Turkish goverment is willing to enter into peace negotiations with present are: Governor Norris of Monof Utah, Govtana, Governor Italy if they are conducted In a man- ernor West of Spry e Oregon, Governor ner compatible with Turkeys honor Nevada of and Governor Hawley. and dignity and her rights are adeGovernors of Carey Wyoming, quately safeguarded. This was an- Veasey of South Dakota, Eberhart or nounced in the chamber of deputies at Minnesota, Stubbs of Kansas, Cruce Contantinople during tbe reading of of Oklahoma, Shaffroth of Colorado, the new ministerial program. McDonald of New Mexico, Hunt of Business in the capital of Japan and Arizona,' Johnson of California and the country, Hay of Washington were unable to atgenerally throughout which came to a standstill with tbe tend. Governor Eberhhart is repredeath of Emperor Mutsuhito, waa re- sented by Edwin J. Becker. x sumed on Wednesday, Emperor Yosi-hit- o In his address Governor Norris dehaving expressed the desire that clared that the western people are there be no further cessation, owing devoted to the interests of the nation to the losses entailed on the poor and of the other stated, but feel they people and the Interference with in- may properly exert their best efforts EDWIN NORRIS ternational exchanges. to protect and foster such Interests Governor of Montana Mrs. Minnie Brldgeman, an Ameri- as are of right their own. can, was shot and killed by Mme. In his address Governor William election of Governor Oddie or Nevada Block in the former's apartments in Spry of Utah delivered a powerful as secretary, the selection of Salt Lake the Rue Vlgnon, Paris. The killing appeal for the conservation by the in- as the place for the next meeting, toIs said to be the outcome of an al- dividual states of their own natural gether with the passage of important Mme. resources, Instead of conservation by between leged attachment resolutions, closed the first meeting of Blocks husband and Mrs. Brldgeman. the federal government, except in the the conference. All of the visiting Seven strikers were shot, one of left Saturday night for governors them dying later in a hospital, and their respective states after an excurtwenty others were seriously woundsion to Arrow Rock to see the big ed as the result of rioting at the docks dam construction work. in London. The two officers elected and the govSix Frazer river salmon fishing ernor of the state where the next boats were seized off Point Roberts meeting will be held, Spry of Utah, by a United States revenue cutter on constitute the executive committee of the ground that they were operating the conference and are authorized to meet later and set the dates for the in American waters. next annual conference. D. Sydney Buxton, president of the The resolutions adopted by the conLondon board of trade, announced In ference call for the speedy adoption the house of commons Wednesday that by the federal and state governments the board had framed new rules govof policies for the conservation of meron erning precautions natural resources more beneficial to chant vessels, based on the recomthe states themselves; give the state3 mendations of the committee which tfiese resources; indorse the , blue had considered the Titanic disaster. law's" permitting states to have supervision over investments; urge liberal Mail advices received from Seward, appropriations for the San Francisco Alaska, says Katmai volcano, which exposition by all western states; dewas in violent eruption June 6, ia still clare for uniform laws of western of dense clouds smoke, and emitting states governing the use of waters in to this is ascribed the cloudy weather lakes and Btreams for Irrigation purwhich has prevailed in southwestern WILLIAM SPRY. poses and the construction of storage Alaska since the first outbreak. reservoirs to prevent floods. Governor of Utaff. Alcoholism among women Is in Crane McWillln Nominated. creasing yearly, according to Dr. Mag Boston. Senator Winthrop Murray McMUlin Tenn. Benton Nashville, of chief the Paris insane bureau, nan, who addressed the International easily won the Democratic nomination Crane has been elected to succeed aa Republican national com Eugenics congress at London on Tues- TOr governor in Thursdays primary. himself from Massachusetts at a mitteeman were at Estimates that he midnight day, the closing day of the congress. e of the Republican state comat counhad least meeting earned seventy-fivA three-da- y near battle Mexico City mittee. would of and half ties about the poll is reported, with heavy losses on both total vote of probably 85,000, sides, it being the evident intention Marshall Willi Pay Own Expense. I ot the rebels to march upon the cap Found Dead In Bed, Governor Thomas R. Indianapolis ital SL Louis. Captain E. W. Bixby, Marshall says he has declined an offer Premier Asquith denied in the house who taught Mark Twain how to pi- of four friends to make np a fund of commons on Tuesday that the gov- lot a steamboat, was found dead in to meet the expenses of h's persona! ernment proposes to frame a meas- bed at hl9 home Thursday He waa campaign as Democratic candidate for ure for a single tax of land. 86 years old. I the v one-thir- V, Od-di- life-savin- g d. r y. GUN-MATENNESSEE CHEATS POSSE AFTER HARD FIGHT NEAR LA JUNTA, COLO. Desertion of His Girl Wife Caused Man to Run Amuck and Shoot Four People and Burn a Summer Reaort Hotel. La Junta, Colo. Battling desperatehe gave before a posse led by five determined depute sheriffs, wounded almost to death,1' George Ballew, Tennessee gunman, sought a moments respite behind a haystack and fired the last bullet in his revblver through his brain three miles southwest of here at 11 oclock Sunday. Ballew, after shooting four persons, two of whom are in a critical condition, and burning a summer resort hotel at South Platte Friday night, fled to the hills and had been bunted by a dozen po3ses since then. It Is thought that Ballew tried to get to Las Cruces, N. M., and complete his avowed vengeance by killing his girl wife, who recently deserted him. It was because of her desertion and because he thought' a number of people at South Platte had turned her against him that Ballew ran amuck " Friday. ( Ballew was a stage driver, and came to Colorado from Copperhill, Tenn, about two years ago. ly every Inch of ground FUGITIVES ARE DESTITUTE. Their Lot One of Suffering and Sorrow, But They Were Glad to Escape. Hachlta, N. M The condition of Mormon colonists who have arrived here from Colonla Diaz and Conolia Dublan continues to be one of suffer ing and sorrow. They are desperately in need of clothing, bedding and other essentials of bodily comfort. There ia a scarcity of food and water. The refugees are discouraged and heartsick, bat are glad to escape with their lives, considering the physical and mental suffering they have undergone. On the morning of July 28 an ultima-tur- n came to the colonists from General Salazar giving them until the evening of the day' io get across the frontier, er k.uffer a massacre. The neis came with the suddenness o htning In a clear sky, but the mes- was too sinister to be Se IN 8TREET8 OF TACOMA Traveling Man Shoot to Kill and Then Turns Gun on Himaelf. Tacoma. Clyde A. White, aged 37, traveling salesman tor a Tacoma grocery house, was shot and killed early Sunday on one of the busiest corners of Tacoma by E. J. Templeton of Washucna, Wash., a former traveling salesman for a Spokane grocery house. Templeton then sent three bullets through his own breast and fell dead beside his victim. Tbe murder and suicide, according to the police, was the result of an estrangement between Templeton and his wife, whose photograph was found in the pockets of each of the men. ' Call on King. Denmark. Aarhurs, King Christian on Sunday received at Marsellsborg castle the members of the committee representing the Association ot which has presented a new national park in Jutland to the government The American minister to Denmark, Dr. Maurice, on behalf of President Taft, honorary president of the association, read a message from Mr. Taft extending greetings to the king and people of Denmark. Danlsh-America- Must Accept Roosevelts Doctrines. New York. The National Progressive party must accept Colonel Roosevelts political doctrines if he is to be its standard bearer. He said late Sunday 3 he started for Chicago that he woyld Insist upon making his confession of faith" to the delegates before the platform committee makes Its final report and that he would not accept the nomination- - on a platform he did not approve. Crane May Be Treasurer. Seagirt, N. J. Charles R. Crane ot Chicago, wealthy manufacturer and supporter of Lafollette in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, may be treasurer of tho Democratic national campaign committee. Oldest Odd Fellow Dies. Albuquerque, N. M. H. Collins, the oldest Odd Fellow In the United States, having Joined the order at Danville, Ky., in 1842, d ed here Saturday at the age of ninety-fiv- e years. Fighting in Nicaragua. La Liberia, Salvador. Armed conflict is reported in Nicaragua between President Diaz and the revolutionists headed by General Mena, former minuter of war. The United States war ship Annapolis has arrived. Nine Boy Scouts Drowned. London. Nine Boy1 Scouts were drowned Sunday by the capsizing of a cutter off Sheppey island. A large party of Boy Scouts was proceeding at the time to their summer camp on th island |