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Show 1 TJb Morgan County Star HEWS OF Published Every Saturday. C. H. Ruble, Editor. Telephone 77. Terms of Subsoil tion (In advance) Three mouths, 40c; Six month,75 One year, 91.50. rj i WEEK III F UTAH STATE NEWS OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. RECORD Council No. 6 of the Native Sons of Utah baa been organized at Logan. The body of an unknown man, about 22 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 at the parade which will be held in Salt Lake City during the latter part of September. The citizens of ' Iron county will vote on the proposition to bond the county for 150,000 at the coming election. The money will be used for constructing highways. The body of an unknown man wa taken from the Spanish, Fork river a half mile below Thistle Junction. Physicians say he was about 90 years of age and was drowned three or four days 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- ruary 22, 1911. A severe hailstorm played havoc with the Oregon Short Line wires in the neighborhood of Wheeion, Box Elder county. Thirty telegraph poles were blown down and the wires were put out of service. Fire which started from unknown origin at 9 o'clock at night in a hardware store at Park City spread rap idly to a pool ball and a drug store, and caused a total damage of )5,500 before It was extinguished. A statewide campaign to eliminate noxious weeds from the highways and byways of travel was instituted by the board of governors of the Utah Development league at its monthly meeting held In Salt Lake last week. of William McElroy, a cattle-buye- r Chicago, claims that two confidence men mulcted him of 2,000 in Salt Lake, after they had inveigled him into betting on fake horse races in the heart of the business district. The cool weather of the lffst week has retarded somewhat the ripening f peaches in Weber county, and the shipping season will not begin until September 10at the very earliest The crop will be exceptionally heavy. The recent order of the post office lepartment concerning Sunday closing will not affect ProrqhBwJocblflice was one of the first twenty in the sountry designated two years ago by the postmaster general to close on the Sabbath. Esther Chidester, 5 years old, of Bingham, id In a Salt Lake hospital suffering with a fracture of the skull, the result of injuries received at Bingham when a rock which bounded Iowa a hillside struck her on the tend. Caught by the rapidly revolving haft of the concentrator of the Ohio Copper company at Bingham, Harold Haft, aged 20, suffered a broken leg, received severely bruised feet and is thought to have sustained internal Injuries. Wreaking Its fury upon the fruit, beating the oats apd alfalfa to the ground, perforating the beet leaves snd denuding trees, one of the most violent wind and hail storms on record tore its way through Cache valley on Wednesday. Governor Hiram W. Johnson of Calcandidate on ifornia, the National Progressive ticket, told s large audience at the Salt Lake the-- 1 stre on Wednesday night that he believed in the conservation of human resources and rights. ,, Leslie Maycock, manager of the teelphone plant at Sprlngville, was slectrocuted while testing wires. Physicians worked over him for over in hour, after the body had been e lowered to the ground, but were to restore consciousness. The election held throughout Carbon county to vote bonds for finishing the high school building, now under construction at Price, was carried favoring the issue of an additional $45,-0- 0 in bonds. The structure will be ?ne of the finest in the state, costing Happenings That Ars Making History Information Gathered from All ' Quarters of the Globs and Given in a Few Llnsa INTERMOUNTAIN Frank Baccus, a negro, claiming to Se the oldest man in the west, last week celebrated his one hundred and twentyuecond birthday at Reno, Nev. Baccus was born at St. Geneve, beiow St. Louis, on the Mississippi, in 1790, and was sold as a slave. Three distinct, though slight, earthquake shocks were felt at Reno, Nev., Friday, through a period of fifteen seconds. No damage was done. Chandeliers were rocked and dishes shaken. The direction reported w&3 from east to west. Former Governor James H. Brady of Idaho was elected president of the conCommercial gress, and Wichita, Kan., was chosen as the 1913 meeting place, at the final session at Salt Lake Friday morning. With a voting strength of twelve ai) against one, Heinzs completely routed the opposition headed by E. J. Carter at the meeting of the stockholders of the Stewart Mining company held at Kellogg, Idaho. George W. Tannehill of Lewiston, Idaho, has announced that if the next Idaho legislature is Democratic he will be a candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator Borah. Frank Mahoney, 56 years old, jump ed from the fourth story window of a hospital at Denver. He was dead when picked up, his neck having been broken. The Oregon Short Line has created the office of chief fruit Inspector for the state of Idaho. C. J. Stinsel of noBoise will be the tice of his appointment being made Wednesday. - Numerous reasons why America in general and the west in particular should be seen first in preference to Europe were set1 forth graphically in addresses at Salt by speakejjf national repute, attending the Commercial congress. Of the many striking features that testified to the great work and purposes of the Tr&nsmiseissippi Commercial congress at the opening sessions of Ite twenty-thir- d annual convention, at Salt Lake, was a resolution demanding lower freight rates. Trans-Mississip- -- Jke Trans-mississlp- pl DOMESTIC Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, wife of the late of the Standard Oil company, died suddenly in a dining car in the Grand Central station at the conclusion of a journey from Bret-to- n Woods, N. H., to her home in New York City. Six experts from the veterinary department of the Kansas state agricultural college have been sent to western Kansas by the school to investigate a strange disease which has killed hundreds of horses In that section. The college live stock experts believe the strange malady Is cerebro spinal meningitis. William Corbin, secretary of the Continental and Building. Loan association, dissolution of yhlch is now sought in the courts, was arrested at San Francisco on a warrant cfiaiging falsification of accounts. The E. R. Thomas Motor Car comliabilities pany, assets 11,700,000, 960,000, has been placed In the hands of receivers at Buffalo N. Y. Inability to meet extension notes is the cause given. Mrs. Emilio de Baro and six of her seven children, ranging from 5 months to II years of age, met death at Rutherford, N. J., in a fire which destroyed their home. De Baro, the husband snd father, and the seventh child, a boy of 13 escaped by jumping from s second story window. 1100,000. Federal incorporation of the Grand d Construction work on the Army of the Republic probably will be interurban, line between Salt the leading question to be considered Lake and Payson, which is to connect at the national encampment which with the Bamberger line at Salt Lake will begin at Log Angeles Septemind the Eccles line at Ogden and com- ber 9. plete an electric road from Payson to Frank Lees, alias Frenchle, the Brigham City, is to commence within opium smuggling king, was arrested thirty days. at Tucson by officers of the United David Starr Jordan, president of States secret service, on the charge the Leland Stanford university, ad- of smuggling opium from Mexico. dressed a large audience in the stake Caroline Beets, aged 40, who said tabernacle at Provo on Sunday on she was from Greenville, O., was ar'The Case Against War, in which he rested by Pittsburg detectives at a showed the waste, misery and crime Columbus, O., hotel while waiting for resulting from war and the utter use- President Taft with two long knlve lessness of armed contests between concealed in her clothing. She is benations lieved to 'be demented. Walter Prestler and Thomas and Two hundred and forty kegs of powGeorge Scotenis, miners employed by der exploded, killing three men and Haven Mining com- injuring four at the Sand Powder the Bingham-Nepany, were entombed In the- - mine at companys mill near Knoxville, Tenn. Bingham for seven hours by a fall of Those killed were laborers employed earth, but are none the worse for in the mixing department their experience. John Wanamaker, merchant anq Frank Stranger, aged 24, a resident former postmaster general, Is report; was ed seriously ill at his sons home In of Marriott, Weber county, drowned in the Weber river near Atlantic City. Slate rv Ole, Sunday afternoon. Stan-ge- r President Taft in a speech from the and six friends were spearing rear platform of his private car at fish, when Stanger stepped Into a j Springfield, Mass., declared that he deep hole in the river. He was un- I did not intend to take any part in acable to swim. tive politics. un-kbl- pro-pose- , William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen company, has been indicted at Lawrence, Maas., on the charge of placing dynamite at different points in the city, presumably to discredit the labor unions. The trust attitude of the Democratic and Republican parties was scathingly assailed by Colonel Roosevelt in a speech at St. Johnsburg, Vt., Friday night on the village green, winding up a tireless day of stumping. General Homer Lea, former military adviser to the Chinese revolutionists now at Ocean Park, Cal., plans to return to th orient in the near future and resume his military duties. He has fully recovered hia eyesight. A pet kitten saved Olive Henderson of Venice, Cal., from probable death. The kitten led the way to the end of an amusement pier, where the child was found hanging head downward from a large spike in a pile. She had fallen from the pier and her clothing had caught on the aplke. WASHINGTON That Enrique Maza, the reporter who attacked Hugh Gibson, American charge daffaires of the legation m Havana, waa merely a tool In the hands of Cuban plotters who are antagonistic to the United States, ia the opinion expressed by the Cuban miuister at Washington. A marked Increase in both imports and exports is shown in the July figures of foreign commerce as compiled by tbe division of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. July imports were valued at against 1118,054,204 In July, 1911, and for the seven months end-lifwith July, 61,033,199,690, against 6881,800,156 In the corresponding months of last year. Judge R. W. Archbald of the commerce courts whose trial under Impeachment proceedings is pending before the senate, has asked Chief Jus tice White of the United States supreme court, temporarily to rellevs him of duty. Emphatic demands upon the Panama government to control tbe Pan ama police and put an end to the gross brutality with which Americans soldiers, sailors and civilians h&vs been treated have been issued by ths American atate department. A new stamp in commemoration of the Panama-Pacifi-c exposition in San Francisco in 1915 has been Postmaster General by approved Hitchcock. Cities hereafter may have tree water for municipal purposes and for in rigation under a revision in regula tlons for governing water power development on public lands outside national forests. '"Repair men examining the furniture of the house, discovered that Speaker Clark, during the lat nlre months, had used his gavel ith such effect that virtually the entire top of the desk was wrecked. FOREIGN Warning ha.j been issued to Guadalajara Mexico, the second city in the republic, with a population of 150,000, that it la to be destroyed by a volcano. The warning la given in all seriousness the by government through the seismograph branch of the national observatory at Mexico City. Virtually a deadlock has been reached in the unofficial peace 'conversations between Italian and Turkish delegates In Switzerland, according to a special dispatch to the Paris Matin. Great Indignation in American and foreign circles was caused at Havana by the release again of Enrique Maza, the newspaper man charged with assaulting Hugh S. Gibson, the American charge d'affaires. The judge let him go on ball of 6500. . Americans will be killed by rebels after September 15, la the declaration of Colonel Emilio P. Cam pa. a leadei of Orozcos rebel army, who, with 800 men, ia operating along the Southern Pacific of Mexico below Nogales, Arts. Great Britain has reaffirmed Its protest against the Panama canal bill. In a note filed with the state department by A. Mitchell Innes, charge of the British embassy at Washington, It was stated that if a satisfactory .agreement could not be reached ' Great Britain would appeal to The Hague tribunal for arbitration. Thirty-fou- r thousand persons stood with bared heads while forty bands thundered the sonorous music of the "Dead March From Saul Wednesday night as the body of General William Booth, asleep forever In a plain pine coffin, waa borne through the great Olympia to the funeral bier. H.' J. D. Auley, the aviator, flew from Hendon, England, to Hardelot, near Boulogne, France, in three hours and five minutes. He carried as a passenger in his biplane Miss Mary , Davis. William Joshua Stevens, a Mormon settler at the Pacheco colony in Chihuahua, was killed at his ranch Tues day by an unknown man. Only meagre details have been deceived as the telegraph line hae been down between Juares and the colonies. Several hundred Chinese brigands attacked a moving train at Fayuen, on the line from Canton to Kankow. The engineer, in spite of a hall of bullets, refused to put on the brakes. Several of the trainmen and passengers were wounded and the cars considerably damaged. son of Sherley Clark The of North Cobalt, Ont., caused the death of his sister by pouring acid into her mouth. The mother of the children was out of the room when the elder child got hold of the poison bottle. 6148,-547,96- g . PRESIDENT OF WOOL TRUST UNDER ARREST 1 FIERCE BATTLE with Charged With Conspiring to Place namite in Order to Diecredit Labor Unions. rattlers CVILGDi 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 American Woolen company, surrendered 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. j It is charged that he and otlprs planned to conceal the deadly explosive and then to betray its hiding places to the police so as to create the Impression that, the strikers proposed to destroy some of the mills from which they had walked out. The dynamite was discovered in a Byrian lodging house, a cobblers shop and a cemetery at Lawrence last January. 1 Oldest Man in the Weet l' Reno, Nev. Frank Baccus, a negro, claiming to be the oldest man la 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 Snd in good health. Baccus was born at St. Geneve, below St. Louis, on the Mississippi, in 1790, and waa sold as a He came to Hangtown, now Slave. Placerville, Cal., In 1850, and later migrated to Nevada. $ Attack Was Result of Plot. Washington. That Enrique Mpza, the reporter who attacked Hugh Gibson, American charge d'affaires of the legation in Havana, waa merely a tool la 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 Martin-Riverminister. Marked Increase In Imports. Washington. A marked increase in both Imports and exports is shown in - the July figures of foreign commerce as compiled by the division of stalls-ticof the department of commerce at Large ESCAPED in FROM Three Dead Also Contained Bodies and Half Dozen Crates of Chickens The Snakes Perched on Coffin and Ate the Fowl. Jar New York. Just to show the public that the ship newsmen haven't a corner on real live tales, the Jersey City correspondents of New York newspapers went down to meet the trains the other day to see if there was any news from the west And what do you think! As No. 4 rolled Into the station at Pavonla avenue at 8:45 a. m. out of the baggage car leaped a pale, haggard man, who was none other than William Conklin, express messenger, who makes the run from Salamanca, N. Y., to Jersey City. Bill fell into the arms of bystanders and was carried over to a baggage truck. Along came Andy Patterson, baggage man on the train, also much the worse for wear. Both, let It be written down right here now, are total abstainers. Keep everybody away from that Its full express car! Bill gasped. nf snakes! Terrified, everybody ran to look Into the car to see the shakes. They couldnt see any, and returned to hear Bills story. "There are four rattlesnakes in that car ae big as boa constrictors almost, said Bill after he had been propped up and handed a strong glass "I soda. nf chocolate ice cream fought em all night in the dark. Andy, he helped me. Andy nodded confirmation. "It was this way, Bill explained. I took the express car at Salamanca and when I got aboard the messenger t relieved got receipts from me for among other things three bodies, tour rattlesnakes in a box and halt a dozen crates of chickens. We were boomin along early thl morning before daylight, and the first July Imports were valued 6148,547,964. against Roosevelt Assails Both Parties. Four Killed in Railway Wreck. that shot oft your fair eyebrows? What twisted your spine so out of line that now you make aldewlse bows? And were ye a fool to tickle a mule and stand at Its rearward heels. Else why wear these splints and black-an- d blue tinta and bruises and scratches and weals? My son, my son, didst thou think to havs fun by dodging an automobile? Tour head has been whacked and four ribs are cracked, your cheek Is beginning to peel. Did dynamite burst at Its mightiest worst and shoot off the Anger and thumb? Come, tell me the truth, my pitiful youth have you been assailed with a bomb? Aw, cut It all out! What you talkin about? the lad makes a mumbling reply- - m - i Man Vain Man. He can explain the wireless telegraph system to hia wife and hie letters come back to him for better directions. He manifests acorn of royalty- - and joins the crowd that follows a visiting nobleman. a He pays 65 to see two cheap maul each other and whips his son for fighting with another boy 9 at school. He laughs at the green goods jokea In tbe papers and forgets about the time be sent money to Miller. He explains just how to settle the difference between two great nations and goes to law with his neighbor over a line fence. He derides woman for her frequent changes of fashion and gives bis overcoat away because it is not full enough in the back. a He aneera at faith cure all the hair tonics that are recommended to him. prise-Oghter- St. Johnsbury, Vt. The trust attitude of the Democratic and Republi- Pittsburg Four men were killed, one fatally injured and a number slightly hurt when the Pennsylvania railroad train which left Pittsburg Friday morning for Cleveland over the Cleveland Pittsburg division, ran into a work train engaged In clearing up a freight wreck that had occurred a short time before. My son, my son, didst blow In a gun 1, I'll get well with I haven't been hurt: a spurt but maybe I'll need a glasa eye. Theyre training us now, and showing us how to grapple and tackle and maim. Our coach is a mild as an Innocent child Just wait till we get In a game! Hslnxe Triumphs Over Opposition. Idaho. With a voting Bnrke, strength of twelve as against one Helnze completely routed the opposition headed by E. J. Carter at the meeting of the stockholders of the Stewart Mining company held at Kel logg. The Helnze forces mustered 750,000 votes against 75,000 votes fot the Carter faction. The meeting was in session less than ten minutes. , my son, now what havt ye done that your optics are blackish brown T And why doth your ear today appear to be put on you upside down? Hast fallen beneath a trolley car or been in a falling lift? And why are your teeth ail out beneath, thus giving your Jaw a shift? My son, . 3H8.064.204 in July, 1911 and for the seven months ending with July 61.033,199,-690- , against 6381,800.156 in tbe corre spending months of last year. can parties was scatchingly assailed by Colonel Roosevelt in a speech here Friday night on the village green, winding up a tireless day of stumping. denounced the two The parties as straddling the problem ot controlling the corporations. J BOX s and labor. D.NESBIT WILBVR ' - Express Car Give Messenger a Night of Horror. Reptiles Rattlesnakes Above and Below. thing 1 knew I looked up and there were four rattlesnakes twisted around the bracket that held the lamp. I was scared. I can ride along with a body without feelln squeamish, but nix on the rattlesnakes. I picked ap a small package, the first thing I got my hands on, and heaved it at the snakes. went my only light, and there was I in the dark with four rattlesnakes And the train was goin o fast that I did not feel like jumpin, and, besides, I had to deliver 'em. I lighted matches and got hold of my gun. and started after them. But. interrupted one of tbe crowd, were you going to kill these and-trle- Politico. Politics ia made up of several kinds of men. There are the Leaders, who shape the Principles and analyze the t the Public Mind, thus arriving Choice of the People. The Choice of the People ia called a candidate until after election. He is also called many other things, during the Campaign, by the Opposition. The Opposition la made up' ot a lot of Benighted Men. The Platform is composed of Planks. It is prepared by a Committee of Eminent Gentlemen who fondly imagine that they are adding something to A Platform ia remembered History. t. about as long as a There are also Voter. They are essential to Politics, for It Is to them that tke Spellbinders deliver their impassioned Appeals not to Drag Old Glory in the Duat nor td forget the Heaven-borPrlnclpuls for which the Forefathers Battuled. Ker-smas- h Threatened by Volcano. Guadalajara, Mexico. Warning has been issued to this, the second city in tne republic, with a population of 150,000, that it is to be destroyed by a volcano. The warning is given in all seriousness by the government through the seismograph branch of makes? the national observatory at Mexico "Sure, if I got a chance," said Bill City. fervently. "I did not have any contract to deliver live snakes. Snakes, Earthquake at Reno. that was all the bill of lading called Reno, Nev. Three distinct, though for. Dead or alive, the express rate slight, earthquake shocks were felt Is the same. here Friday at 9 oclock through a "So I chased em around the car. period of fifteen seconds. No damage They were kind of afraid and ran. was done. Chandeliers were rocked "Ran? and dishea shaken. The direction reRan all around the car, and finally was from east to west ported perched on top of the coding, just as cute as could be. I was goin' to Widow of Rogers Dead. New York. Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, hoot, then I remembered the coffins were hermetically sealed, and that wife of the late of the I mustnt put a bullet In em." Standard Oil company, died suddenly Then I Bhooting for help. in a Friday dining car in the Grand The bullets began went through the roof. Central station at the conclusion of a he came from the next car, and journey from Bretton Woods, N. H., Andy, be solved the problem. to her home here. What did be do? asked the Secretary Goes Wrong. porter. He chased the snakes into the San Francisco. William Corbin, secretary of the Continental and Build- shlcken crates and they began eat-i- n efatekena You never Bee chickens ing Loan association, dissolution of which is now sought in the courts, go so fast The snakes must have was arrested Friday on a warrant eaten a dozen apiece. Yea, yes." fromtbe easr reporter charging falsification of accounts. What then?" Unable to Agree. We lay down and went to sleep." But the snakes! Weren't they still Paris. Virtually a deadlock has been reached in the unofficial peace "con- dangerous? Not a bit, said Bill. They ate so versations between Italian and Turkish delegates in Switzerland, accord- many chickens that they couldn't get ing to a dispatch on Friday to ttie pat of the crate. Matin. . Vice-Presiden- n vice-preside- ( Convincing Evidence. Do you think that mesmerist who Is giving shows at onah town hall la an impostah, Kun-oel- ? First Kentuckian Kentuckian No, indeed. No, indeed. Why, suh, laa night I saw him make Junnel Souab-mas- h drink water an smack is lips oveh it, suh. Second MaJoh. Youthful Deduction. The lens of the eye, teacher of physiology, "is little onion. J said ths Just like "And. asked the inquiring scholar, is it the onion in our eye that makes us weep? |