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Show Coalville N. J. fCTtXSON. SV times 4 Maaajer Editor Entered at the Poatofflee Utah. Mar 7. UH, a Matter. " In ME ALIVE B! JIB BURIED FLAG Socond-Clw- OVER o $189 .71 Wars Caught by Mammoth Slda ef Snow and Four Were Dead Before Their Comrades Could Dig Them Out. '.14 Three Months Fin e Copies .W 1 UTAH STATE NEWS f TO AVALANCHE Coalville, TEEMS OP irisnkipTios. Para la la Advance One Tear Fix Months EIGHT Bellingham, Wash Eight miners were burled alive in an avalanche of anow kt the Brlttsnla mine ou Howe sound, forty miles north of Vancouver. Four were taken out dead, four were rescued. Two Japanese were In the group, and one was killed. The men had been working in the logging camp owned by the Copper company, securing material to timber the mine. ' About 9 o'clock a Storm broke over the mountain and the workmen started down the Incline to the mine. They had not proceeded far when a huge 'aaas of snow swept the aide of the hill, burying the men In ita path. Fellow workmen rushed Instantly to the scene and began digging out their comrades. The flrst man taken out was iffVdnBuf unconscious. The rescue party next caught sight of a pair of feet spread apart and sticking up out of the snow. The men worked as fast as possible, hut for ome time It was not known how many men hud ben covered by the slide had elapsed beSeveral hours was fore last recovered. body The rescued who was Japanese the last of the men to be brought out, had been burled for almost an hour under thirty feet of snow. None of the rescued men. It Is believed, will die as a result of the accident. Weber eoonty farmers have con; tracted to plant 4,000 acres of sugar beet this season. Utah and the western states In general will not be affected by the Increase In freight rates. j While the family were at church the o residence of 8. 8. Worthington Grantsvllle was destroyed hy fire. As a result Of an outbreak of diphtheria at Grantsvllle. the schools, churches and amusement places have been closed. The factory site and real estate of the Sanpete A Sevier Sugar company have been purchased by the Utah " ffugafm pinyT" A large canning factory la to be erected at Syracuse Junction, In the very heart of the tomato and fruit district of Davis county. ' Some one with a spite against dogs scattered poisoned meat at several laces at Leht Junction last week and E ot six dogs in one day. Edward J. Yard, chief engineer of the Rio Grande railroad system, died of pneumonia at SL Mark's hospital, Salt Lake City, on Saturday. John Ripley of St. Jobns Malad valley, Idaho, suffered the loss of his left leg at Brigham City when be waa at- FOREIGNERS IN GRAVE DANGER. tempting to board a moving train. ReSalt Lake City has a population of Spread ef Famine In China May in Uprising, sult made to estimate an pi ,602, according Washington- .- From Shanghai adby the cenaua bureau, but the citizens of Zion think this figure Is much too vices received at the state department it appears that the ruling dynasty In mall. la seriously alarmed over the China In That pneumonia la still the victor ta number of victims over the white effect of the spread of famine through ofplague in Utah, la shown by the Feb- the country and the opportunity It to fers to societies enlist ot seditionary ruary bulletin of the state board converts to their cause directed health. The The skeleton of n man found at against the government. ' to relieve suffering, In Creek the country. Deep pugway, Is believed to be the Tremaine of Cltaa. it la said, has been magnified and the of the people attributed to Larson, who has been missing sines hardships lack of sympathy by the government last Jane. ' for the poor classes, Grazing feea for 'the use of the winThe Information Indicates that a der range on Anttaro mountain In the propaganda' has been organized to furUintah national forest, Utah, will be ther the circulation ot atorlea of the returned. ,Thls has been decided upon character outlined, and it la aaid that state department officials fear that a A teat case, ' S spread of hysteria may engender a Among the sundry civil expense genera uprising. FIENDISH ATTEMPT LOUT: ' 111 of the- - government-passed-la- st (congress waa the item of $2,000 for jild fort Prlbi " JUMroy,cftU)fJlia m wold, Utah-- At Lewiston the big cattle barn .ol A. I Hyer was wrecked by a windstorm last week, but hla fine cattle, In ome miraculous way, escaped Injury, h'kere Waa a great electrical display - 1 during the storm. A la an opinion banded down by tb Plate Removed by Unknown Persona, But Straight Track Proves Salvation of Pas- eengera. ROUM Were Included in the Transfer ef Property to Uncle 8am by the Panama Republic, and art Held to be Part of Canal Zona. Chicago Limited to Chicago on the .from Pennsylvania railroad, while running ut thirty-livmiles an hour' wae wrecked at Stewart, seventeen mile Mat of here. The engine and the Ural ffite cars were derailed, but no one Ms hurt. An Investigation by the railroad oDclala showed that tbe hsd been removed at tBe rail Joint, tie bolts having been taken out and tie rails bent inward. Tbe train was derailed on a straight track, and to this was due, beyond a dubt, the escape of the passengers from serious injury. e 8AY8 PRESIDENT WAS TO BLAME -j- !i! 0, 5. Vj, d Failure of Veneruoian Revolution. Caracas, via Willemstadt It is of flclally reported that General Juin Pablo Penalosa, the Venezuelan who with 400 men Invaded the state of Tachlra from Columbia March 17, as met by 4,000 regular troops-unde- r General Celebtino Cactro, brother of President Oastre. and defeated. Details are unobtainable as the telegraph w (restate cut. Another report say that Celestlno la-drwaa not engaged with . IVualosu's forces, but with a band of guerrillas. t. UNCLE SAM IS THIRO. to Fire Upon Mob and Several People Are Injured. York fish-plate- s R. Rogers, Richard Washington for the Isthmian consul canil general commission, who started Saturday for Panama a 1th Secretary Taft and hla party, will Investigate the titles (o the small rocky Islands In Panama harbor and recommend what steps shall be taken tor their acquisition The Pacific by the. United States Mail Steamship company ?'ls using one ot the lslaniIs,halng'storeE6uaes and shops there, and claims title to 6The Panama railroad the property. baa also been making use of some ot the property These islands were included in the transfer of propb ty to the United States by the Panama republic, and are held to be part of Ihe canal tone and the title of tee steamship company la questioned by the commission. Tbe title Is said to date back more than fifty yegrs, but there is some doubt as to the original transfer by Spam. The canal commission is anxious to gain control of the islands and settle all dispute as to ther ownership, because of their strategic position, and the desirability of one of them aa a location for a quarantine station. Soldiers Compelled The Pittsburg. New Ow-tw- h TRAIN III j United States Proposes to At quire Title to Taree Small Pacific I lands. de-ca- s A issiim if imi ms imoom Jth Burton of Kansas Accuses Rooaevalt of Personally Prosecuting Him. Abilene, Kan Joeeph R. Burton, former United States senator from Kansas, received a leceptlon more enthusiastic than that given him when he flrst returned us senator, when he returned to hla home town Saturday, after five months' Imprisonment at . Ironton, M0.1 At the theatre, at night thrf delivered his expected speech on the subject, Why I Was Pwwe-cuted. The theatre, which accommodates about 900 persons, waa packed to its capacity, many people standing and many unable to gain admittance, . When Mr. Burton, without an Introduction or other ceremony, rosa to .apeak he was greeted by an outburst of applause, and hla speech was requenUy lnteiTupted by applause. waa much. affected The WEALTH OF UNITED STATES. down en time, and once- he obrokewtheeOCceJ lrol - wad wetluri"5 lhe.,f.plech,,h,! :r," $107,104,192,410. come by wife, wbc on tbe stage, was the only woman sat - Washington. Th total estimate of in tbe audience, the national wealth In 1904 was Mr. Burton, during the course of lit according to a special re- address, charged President Roosevelt port iaaued by the census bureau on with being guilty of personally per wealth, debt and taxation, which rep- securing him, because, as he claimed, of hla acting Independently of the resents an Increase in the four-yea- r president, and charged that the presperiod from 1900 to 1904 of $18,586,-885,63- ident has promoted about every mao This advance In national who has .helped to convict him. wealth has no palallel In the history Hash Nearly Killed Them. of the United States except the Leavenworth, Kan. More than 1,000 from 1850 to 1860. In 1850, when at the National. Soldiers' veterans the first estimates of the national wealth were made, the figures were home here are suffering from ptomams the result of eating meat only $7,135,780,228. The most potent poisoning, No deaths were (rebreakfast. hash at cauge for the Increase In the nation's The first symptoms ol Weklth from 1900 to 1904. It Is stated, ported. was the reaction from the low prices trouble wsh manifested shortly aftei Soon the home hospital of the period ot depression from 1893 breakfast The annual increase of was crowded with sick veterans, and to 1896. wealth per family from 1890 to 1904 ambulances were rushing In from ths barracks with loads of them. All ths waa 182. patients will recover. 8MALL TOWNS ARE UNSAFE. 8sized Police Station and Directed Arrest of Saloon Men, Jews Are Given Warning by Rouma. X sensational series of nian Authorities. New York Bucharest. As a train conveying raids upon alleged violator of ths peasants reservists from the district exc.se law was made Saturday under of Teleorman on the Danube was pro- the direction of Charles S. 'Whitman, of the board of city maceeding to Moldavia, It was stopped at president The magistrate forcibly gistrates. the town of Alexandria by a large seized the West Forty seventh street number of reservists belonging there. station In .the upper tenderloin, deThey stoaed the train and persuaded posit the sergeant in command, directed the arresi of several violators their fellow reservists to join them Of the excise law and then held an in demolishing a synagogue and In Improptu session of court In the itolloj completely ruining Jewish angBfeek station. shops. Little Marvin Boy in England. The rlotera were charged by cavalPortsmouth Knqtiin,'-- . England ry, and took refuge In a neighboring confirm here the made wood. stqUment teTbe authorities have warned all legraphed from Washington that the Jews In the small towns and villages consular agent bete, John Main, and to leave Immediately for the sake of the local police were In receipt of Insafety, and large numbers are contin- formation whkh they hope may lead to the recovery of the kidnapped t ually arriving here. son of Dr. Horace Marvin of In view of the serious state pf af- year-olfairs a number of member of the Kltt'a Hammock, Del. A bov answerchamber of deputies Intend to pro- ing exactly Maxim's description in every detail was seen here March 19 pose proclaiming' a state of siege In He has disappeared, but the police tbe disturbed districts. are hopeful of finding him. supreme court, the Judgment of tb lower court la affirmed In the case of J. D. Skeen, appellant, vs. Thomas E Browning, chief of pollce bf Ogden, and the chief la permitted to retain hla position. The Commercial club of Monroe held Us Initial meeting last week and appointed a committee of four, con- slating of Lorenzo Ltaoubee, Austin ; Yergensen, Martin 8lmmonaen and Olot Mlchelsen, to draw up a set- - ol fur tbe association. In Mendon the house ot David Lows was unroofed by a windstorm, and the members of ihe family had to take hurried refuge In the cellar. A few minutes later the wind snapped the roof off tbe cellar and the thor oughly tetflfled people fled to the barn, bnt the barn was blown across the street. No one was hurt. While employed In the assay office ot the Daly-We- st company, at Park City, Oscar Jensen was badly burned by acid, a bottle of the liquid having broken while It waa being handled Mr. Jensen sustained Injuries about the head, shoulders and feet The master plumbers of Salt Lake have declared they will operate noth lng but open shops from now on, aa a of about sixty result ot the walk-ou- t Journeymen plumbers, upon the re fusal of their employers to raise wages . from $4.5U to $5.59 and $6 a day.. J. C. Butler, a car repairer, of Ogden, waa struck on the head with r sledge hammer and had his skull caved in. Tie was working with helper, who was wielding the hammer, when it glanced from the chisel and struck Butler in the base ot the skull Will Not-- - go to the According to officials of the state Twenty-Fifthealth board, the legislation recently Philippines. enacted, authorizing inspections ol 8an Antonio, Tex. Preparations rellaughter houses was not only sorely to the movement of the Twenty-fift-h ative la but t needed, woefully Inadequate meet conditions that are described ai Infantry to the Philippines havo revoltiag and a menace to the publU been suspended. Chief Quartermast er Stevens has been notified to cancel health, David Shields, a miner at the' Na all contracts for the movement, which was to have begun at the end poleon it, Maghera mine, In the Stern of this month. Tbe departure Is deMadre mountains, near Ogden, let I layed, It is said, through tho Influence heavy loaded tunnel car go over th of Senator Foraker. who contended dump and went with 1L Tbe dump that It would not be for the good cf la a precipitous cliff, and he fell with the service to send tbe regiment short the car forty feet, sustaining bad of officers. bruises. WRECK THE ISLES govern-mentainablll- - TO is .mi FIERCE RIOTS th Army Reserves Have Been Called to the Cplora to Restrain Peasants and Suppress Agrarian All - Bucharest, recommenced Trouble. Roumanla. Plundering at VasluL The peasant surrounded tbe administrative palace, Intending to demolish the building. Further plundering occurred throughout tbe town. Troops on Friday Intervened and the major commanding and several officers were wounded. The soldiers then fired upon the mob and wounded some of the rioters. Flve of them were stabbed with pay: onets. Another collision occurred at Jassy between troops and peasants trying to Invade that town. Major Color! was wounded, two peasants were killed and many were wounded. All the array reserves have now been called to the colors with the .result that the governmeht has plenty of troops to speedily suppress the Agrarian troubles. Troops are being huriied fiotn all central points to scenes of disturbances numbers of Jews front Jassy, Vaslui, Hotosahni, and other Moldi-vlktowns which have been terrorized by peasantry have arrived here. They report that the Rusbian portion of the with population largely participated the peasants in the plundering and in cendiarlsm of ltotosahnl. The peasants succeeded In breaking the cordon and entering the town, where they looted several residences A number of neighboring villages were plundered United State Occupies Among World's" Exporter of Manufactures. States Washington. The United Mw ranks third among tbe world's exporters of manufactures, according ta a monograph on exports on man ufatturea In the United States anc. their distribution, issued by the bu resu of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. It is shown that not only do the exports of manufactures bow exceed $790,000,000 per annum, and iav doubled in value in a single decade btt the share which products of the fac tory form of the total exports it A steadily Increasing. comparison blows that In 1880 manufactures farmed but 15 per cent of the tota, exports of domestic produi ts. while In 1S06 they formed 40 per cent. In the decade ending with 1905 exIncreased 198 ports of manufacture REJOICING IN GOLDFIELD. per cent, while those of Germany increased 75 per cent. United Kingdom Assured 49 per cent, and from France 35 per Peace in Labor Circles Action of Miners. teat. . Goldfield, Nev. By a vote of 1,120 ADMTIS MANY MISTAKES. to 768 the miner of Goldfield and Diamondfleld have decided to hold Russian Government Upholds Constitheir meetings entirely seperate from tutional Democratic Partys Plan. those of the Industrial Workers of 8t. Peterburg. After a long debate the World. This Is really the flrst la the lower bouse of parliment on on the part of the Western step ths formation of famine relief comFederation of Miners of this district missions, aa proposed by the constitu to wlthdrowr from the organization tlosal Democrats, Premier Stolypln which bag been the cause of their aoaouuced that the government fully trouble. Among many the ImpresJoined in the proposition and would sion Is prevalent tha$ the action of miners settles the strike. This to the work the give full assistance Is far from the truth, but it is a of the commission. The premier most, favorable .slga as now farJthn flrst time In the history of the camp, i Hjilstake. miners will be allowed to meet .the was .Tils affinounrement the first ap alone enddiscuss freely the questions by the goverment of the policy most Vital to their eual Interests . the constitutional Democratic party Is little doubt that within The proposition was carried unanl- a There short time this will mean the withmously. drawal pf the miners from the I. W. W as the majority of the men are TO EXPLORE THE CONGO. satisfied with the pay and the hours and are anxious to go back to work. Expedition Planning to Discover New It Is estimated that their lose of wages already through the closing of and Groat Gold Fields. the mines has amounted to $100,000, with After consultation Brussels, and tbe drain Is beginning to be felt. the delegates of the American finan LEVEES CRUMBLING AWAY. ders who are interested in the enter com International Forestry prise, tho Sacramento Valley Experiencing pany, In which Messrs. Guggenheim Worse Than Floods of 1904. That and. Ryan of New York are largely In Sacramento, Cal From all downterested, has decided to send out a mineral prospecting expedition to the river points comes alarming news that Sacramento river Is higher than Congo country, where It is ant tpated the ever known and that the s!tuatlon all discovwill be that great gold fields the levees is appalling. Every along ered. man Is assisting In the R. Dorsey Mohum, the well known the water that Is pour against fight to lead .been appointed ha explorer, into branches the and inundating lng be will It composed tho expedition. of acres of the finest farm of Americans and Belgians and will thousands lng land In the state. leave for Africa about May 15. Special dispatches to tho Union from Freeport, Courtland. Walnut Grove PLAN TURNED DOWN. and Franklin state that the river has Roooovolt Doesn't Favor Conference reached the highest stage ever recorded and It Is predicted that tho Of Governors. terrible scenes which were witneseo St, Paul. Governor Johunon baa re- during the tremendous floods of 1904 ceived a letter from president Roose will be surpassed. Standing on the levee near Court-lanvelt In reply to the governor's propoone may look for sixty miles tr sition for a conference of gvernors the southeast across an unbroken sea and the various state railroad com- of water, which extends clear to missions to consider railroad ques- Stockton. Thousands of cattle are he tions. The governor said the letter lng sheltered on top of the levees, I have as there Is no other place for them, was personal and added: nothing to say concerning it except and if the water does not fall soon, that President Roosevelt says there an Indescribable condition of disaster will be nv conferees of the governors is considered Inevitable. Pseition h - -- able-bodie- d d ot the states.' i i jj May Clsse Up Mystery. Elizabeth City, N. C. Former State Senator BeaHy, for the kidnaping and murder of whose sob, Kenneth, the Pasquotank eensty- court oa Friday sentenced Joshua Harrison to twenty has reyear In tb penitentiary, . In Arkansas a lawyer ceived from what be regards si a clue concerning bis boy, and ha left for that state to follow up the report sent him. Mr Beasley Is confident that he is at last upon the right track. - Burton Out of JatL who Ironton, Mo. Joseph R. Barton, - federal In the conviction nntil his court was United State senatAr from Kansas was on Friday released from Pif rounty Jail here, having complete his sentence of six months Imprison ment Imposed when he was founf statnU guilty of violating, a federal de a before government by appearing partment as the paid reprrsentativ concert of an alleged of gL Loula. Burton entered the Jat at Ironton October 22, 19'kl. rEx-Senat- 4 - Opening of Transvaal Parliament. Pretoria, Transvaal. The first parliament of the Transvaal colony under the newly granted constitution met here Thursday morning in the hall In which the late President Kruger presided for so many years Dver the sittings of the upper house ot tbe erstwhile South African republic. In a speech at the opening of the legislature the Earl of Selborne, high commissioner for South Africa, dealt with the question of Chinese labor. Irrigation in Egypt.- Cairo. has Egypt. The council adopted the proposition to Increase the height of the Assouan dam sufficiently to raise the water stored In that reservoir by nearly twenty feet above the present maximum. It Is cab culated that this will give sufficient new water to irrigate another million acres of northern Egypt which It Is estimated would yield an Increased cotton crop to the value of $17,500,000 to $20,000,000 annually. It la stated that the work will take six years to complete and will cost $7,500,000. Ths Session Lasted Sixty-EigDays and Five Hundred and Eighty-Si- x Bills Were Introduced. Salt Lake City. The Seventh general assembly adjourned on Friday, without The 22, March delay. G8 lasted has session days eight days more than the limit ed 68 days 8 days more than the llffiit prescribed by the constitution, hence all the work transacted since Thursday, March 14, has been transacted under that date. There has been no adjournment since then, no recess taken. until the closing day. During the life of the legislature the following measures were introduced: 217 Senate bills 4 Senate joint resolutions 2 Senate concurrent resolutions 4 Senate joint memorial 310 House bills 11 House resolutions House concurrent resolution .... 5 11 House joint memorials 15-Jlo ..petition Total 586 LEGISLATIVE AFTERMATH. Sihvt Sundays, earlv closing for saloons and anil ci tarette legislation wenrriiy the board. The report ot the coal investigation committee were ordered sortad on the minutes of the bouse henceFirst aid to the injuredforth must be nudeud by all mining companies employing more than ten men. After a struggle that in iv be classed as remarkuble, the act extending the right ot eminent domain to smelting companies was successful Hereafter any one found guilty of burglaiy in the first degree will servo a sentence of from twenty-fivto for ty years in the penitentiary. Death overiook the bill for the creation of a police and fire commission in cities of the first class This measure earlv was designated the rippet - e bill. Senators .1 H. Seeley and Petei Clegg banqueted the members of th third house tae newspaper men or Wednesday evening before tbe clos of the session February 27 was the fatal day for the railroad commission bin, a rncaa ure regarded as one of the big onet of the session. It was defeated by vote of 34 to 5 In tbe hoube. One of the notable laws passed by the legislature, and one which haa rt ceived but little public notice, was tb bill providing for the introduction ot the Torrens system of transferrin! land title in Utah. Randalls .. bUL provlding 7.for. th. granting of permission to cities ot, more than 30,000 to create park com missions is' designated particularly tc benefit Ogden., That city has already a fairly good system of beautiful parks. . The legislature convened January 14 And its constitutional limit of sixty days expired March 14, but by stopping the clock the solons were able to continue their labors for one week, although they had ceased drawing their per diem. gtpte, county and city treasurers are to care for tbe public money In their keeping as they see fit, depositing the tunds In banks not designated by law. Two bills requiring designs rion of depositaries for state and city funds were killed In the house. The vexing problem of juvenile courts teems to have been solved by adoption of two acts relating to tb" ease of delinquent children. The bills which survived of a number that were Introduced on the subjeit provide for the appointment for first and secoml-tlas- s cities of juvenile judges by a commission consisling of the governor, attorney general and state superintendent of public instruction. Provision Is made for experiments in subterranean explorations with a view to discovering flows of water that may be used for both land reclamation purposes and domestic uses. Generous appropriations have been made for systematic borings and demonstrations. The governor has signed the bill allowing the Salt Lake school board to levy a tax of 64 mills instead of mills, the limit now allowed by Th law. means that the teachers will be allowed an increase jn salary at the beginning of the next school year. As a result of the bounty bill passed at this session, sheepmen are to be assessed a tax of three mills for the purpose of destroying wild animals. Certificates are not to be issued after the fund Is exhausted, which means that there win bo no back claims in the future. House bill No 72, relating to the collection of polltax, was disapproved by the governor on the ground that the title was defective in material , ways and that corporations and employers were made collectors of the tax without compensation. Tha veto was sustained The governor sent in his veto of house bill No. 2CG. providing for the organization of mutual fire insurance companies. The executive said that eighty per cent of mutual fire Insurance companies have failed anti that the history of such organizations Is a history of disaster. Just at the close of the senate session on the 19th, Chaplain P. A. Simp, kin received a handsome gold fob from the senators In appreciation of his efficient praying aa President Love, who made the presentation speech, put it The affair was a complete surprise to the parson. |