| Show LOST HIS PASSES house on fire was the message that he received the finding of a couple of railroad passes in ogden canyon in the name of mr and mrs D E kelly has back of it a story of an outing a fire and a rush home A cruel trick of fate deprived D elleott kelly manager of the salt lake telegram of his home at the time that mr kelly was peacefully angling for trout in the ogden river on sunday A hasty message notified mr kelly of the fire which had nearly destroyed his home and abandoning his fishing trip he hastened to salt lake to provide a place of refuge for his family on saturday mr kelly with his family came to ogden prepared to spend a few days in the peaceful at mo sphere of ogden canyon leaving mr kelly made a thorough inspection spec tion of his home at second street to see that everything was all right satisfied he departed on sunday afternoon neighbors noticed smoke issuing from the house and soon flames were seen eating their way through the roof the fire department was at once called while the neighbors seeing that the flames were confined to the upper part of the house endeavored to save some of the furniture on the first floor when the fire department arrived the fire was burning briskly and had extended to the greater portion of the two streams of water soon subdued the blaze but not until the root had fallen in and tha contents of the house become water soaked chief bywater later made an indea ti gatlon and stated that it was hig belief that the fire was of incendiary origin the loss will be about 1000 LEPER WILL ESCAPE guilty of crime but court Is afraid of disease correspondence of the associated press honolulu june 28 secretary at kanson chairman of the new territorial board of immigration who haa just returned from washington Is preparing plans tor the encouragement of settlers to come here atkinson wants a liberal land policy and says that his conferences with officials have convinced him that it they ara allowed land here on liberal terms american settlers will come to hawaii A case of embezzlement from the at the leper settlement has been brought to the attention of united district attorney breckons but will probably not be prosecuted as prosecution would require a session of the federal court at the settlement the defendant is a leper and there y no jail in which he could be confined if convicted four japanese editors or proprietors of newspapers have been indicted by the grand jury for conspiracy in the third degree on account of their campaign against japanese consul makl saito they are alleged to have conspired together to injure him and prevent him from carrying on his trade of consul general UTAH POORLY represented building at the fair Is state als grace nepal J pratt a former resident of salt lake city who is now in the furniture business at tacoma wash was in tho city with his wife for a few hours saturday mr and mrs pratt have been on a visit to san francisco for several weeks following a visit to th fair at portland speaking of the utah building at the fair mr pratt said utah should not havo put up a building at the fair unless she could have done better than she did do there the other states all had their choice of bites before utah got a chance to choose her site and as a result the site of the building la a very poor one it Is in tact tho poorest and the least adapted to the purpose for which it was allotted of any of the sites occupied by state buildings it utah had done the right thing after getting a deal like thai sha would not have put up a building at i all she was clearly snubbed in this important matter and should have retaliated talia ted by not making a allowing at all SHANGHAIS BIG SHOWING shanghai july 5 tho revenue customs at shanghai for the first halt of this year wore pounds aler ling against for 1901 |
