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Show X0 s V PETERSON. Editor ui NMr Entered at the PoitofBc la Col villa. K. J. Ultk. iltr M attar. H 1, fit Thftt iisrt Month Copt ta ... NEWS -- him crushing be- Walter Clark, a trainman, and Caul Joarln, an Auatrlan. were severely burned by the explosion of a quantity of copper at the American Smelting Refining company' plant. John McVlcker, the pioneer Salt I.ake - assay, from whose office the ore from Utah's first mines were assayed, died In Salt Lake City on the ..27th, after a brief lllnesa. A former resident of Friend Stone, Ogden, waa accidentally killed al Reno, Nevada, last week, his revolver falling from the holster and exploding. the bullet passing through his ab-domen. been rumored that the It ha Bchwarxschlld ft Salzburger company, which haa large packing . establish menta In Chicago aqd Kansaa City, is considering the placing of an extensive plant In Salt take City. of Salt Chief of Police Sheet take City muit atand trial on a charge of accepting a bribe of $1,800 from the alleged McWhlrter bunko men. aa a result of a decision ren- dared by Jfidge Morse last week. The registration at the State University haa reached 720. Of this number 483 are college students, making the largest registration of college T atudenta ta the history of the school. a it miner af. Bsaneaeteepst-ede" , -- Robert S. Campbell, formerly general manager of the Utah Light 4 Railway cotapany, who attempted to .end his life a Logan several weeks ago with a raior, while temporarily . . demented, haa completely recovered from his Injuries. Alex Agobdet was accidentally shot while hunting for some cattle near Ogdea. Agondet carried a shotgun in his hand and while running fell over a stone. The gun was discharged and th shot lodged ta hla wrist and thigh. Inflicting painful wounds. Daniel McCullura. who wss sent to the state mental hospital from Provo last week, was apparently driven Insane by the apparatlon of a dead friend- - McCuIltmi claimed that hla friend, who waa killed some time ago, was constantly by hla side ' Attorney General M. A. Breeden hla that under the state gives opinion law a county officer cannot be paid by the county of which he is an officer anything for hUlservlces ta excess of the salary prescribed by law and allowed by the county commissioners. hui? City people sre beginning to complain about the prices being charged for foods, t'ntll he recent fetirrlng up In Salt Lake prices In Park City were lower than elsewhere, but now. It ts claimed, the prices are being falaed. George Bee ley. a miner, fell ion feet down a Park City mine, head first and hli-fa'and head are cut and bruised, the lower jawbone Is Bees-lebroken, and his ba k ijurod was working bv himself and wan not found until the morning shift went to work. The prot-s- t (if Ogdcit aqainst the screech hnfr gni'tiohcrnes that make iltii In the nickel theatres of the city was formally presented at the council mretins last week, w.uuv Councilman J tick sou introduced a resolution to direct the cMf f of police to abate them as nuisances The Escalante valley, fmm Milford to Modena, Is receiving considerable attention Just nmv as to the agriculExtural posaiMIttlcx of the desert perts in the employ of California capitalists have been haunting the desert Irriexpanse recently. Investigating gating possi.dlitie The Lehl Mercantile company made an assignment last week to the Utah Credit Mens association. The reason given for this Is the inability of th concern to pay Its debts. Aa far a ran be learned, the liabilities are about $15,000, and are just about covered by the assets. A defective electric light wlie caused a destrucUve fire at Garland, some of the occupants of the burned buildings barely escaping with their live, end the entire business portion of th town being endangered for a time. The loss will amount to bo tween $3,000 and $4,000, e ! . Over Six Hundred Lives Being Lost in One Town. .t it him, '' 1 Sk s. ENGLAND mu-0"- BETWEEN WAD 1 - JAPS AND AMERICANS BOUND Houses Were Swept Away by the Raging Waters and the Helplesa People Drowned Like Rata In a Trap. FrSit Bamboo vices of a ter Victoria, n (' rlble disaster due to the great floods reprevailing In Japan have been w f of river the overt! Ths ceived. Otonashigawa, running through the town of Fukuchiy.tma, mux Kyoto. Caused the loss of more than 600 lives In this river the water rose moie than fifty feet 50 shirk u) anil sw pt over the w hole town of FnkwhtjsmB and drowning over boo Inhabitants sweeping away a large number of the frail harnlHK) and thatih houses of the Japanese tow tisprople The barracks of the Twentieth ment and Tent.li engineers battalion, situated on heights near the town, damage, whim the town was overwhelmed, and the troops were hurried out to render what assistance could be given to the survivors and to rescue drowning people. The population of the town was over 12.U0U peoHurriedly fifty or more sailing ple. junks were secured and despateneo to the scene, being sailed over what was formerly a thickly settled town soldiers manning the junks, saving large numbers. The police have recovered 600 bodies and others are believed to have been lost. The water subsided next morning, August 27th, and great damage waa revealed. One half of the town was entirely swept away and the remaind er had large numbers of collapsed buildings. The whole town was practically destroyed, the scene being terl rible beyond comparison. General and Governor Omorl of Kyoto Fu were In the city, the former being engaged In Inspecting the troops, and Is said to have narrowly escaped the danger. -- Congressman Hepburn Bays Lsited Could State Profitably Adopt English System of Control of Stock and Bond Isaua. TO COME UPON BLEAK ISLE HepWashington - Representative burn of the Kig.it h Iowa dlatrtct. chairman of the house committee on later state and foreign commerce, who ha returned from a trip to Europe, lathe course of which he looked Into the English, railroads, said that he - believed this country could profitably adopt the English system of control of slock and bond issue of roads. He said he expected legislation along this line at the coming session of cop gress. though there would be opposition based on the Idea that congress has no control over the Instrumentalities of commerce. He said there w in English railroad no speculation lie found English Investe( unties ors i oncerned over American railroad se.iurulcsu lie himself. dU .not. sea lm any one had the courage to IP h-.- i In American railroad stocks, and laid much of the blame at Harrlmal'l disir In tills connection Mr. Hepburn cop deruned the treasury practice of pat ting money into the banka to preveat ullcgcd money stringencies. He 14 this money went to aid New York speculators, and it was nonsense to talk about the west needing money to move crops. There is no longer crop moving period In the west," slid he. "There used to be before far-erwere so prosperous. Now crop, are moved all the year round. a STRANGLED by convictions,, are sufficient to render the corporations liable to fine ggfOgStlng $124,000 to $2,480,000, the minimum fines prescribed by law on each count being $1,000 and the maximum fine $20,000. The defendant corporations are accused of secretly cutting to $1 tne published rate of $1.25 on through from Kobe, shipments of matting Japan, to San Francisco, and thence throughout the United States. FERRY BOAT CAPSIZED. Ons Whits Boy and Thlrtan Negroes Art Drowned. , Mobile, Ala. A ferry boat crossing the Tomblgbee river ot the government works at- McGrew shoals near Jackaon, Ala., capsized, drowning one white boy and thirteen negroes. The boy waa Leslie VernulUe, 16 years ot age, residing In Oakadale, a suburb of this Cltyt The scene of the accldefil haa long been regarded as a very dangerous place by navigators of the river, on account of tba rapid and trearh-erou- f current and the rocky shoal ' there. - VENEZUELA JANDS PAT. Minister Ruttell on Revision of Steam-shiCompany Award. The Venezue Venezuela. Caracas, la government hmrTrubtisheil part oi be the correspondence exchanged tween the American legation here and the foreign office on the subject tu the American claims against this re public. Minister Russell, writing un der date of Sept. 2d. Said. In accept'ng the tir--t Installment of the awarls of th mixed commis slon. my government lie tat s on a re .vision of the Orinoco Steamship com iwuiy award and y final set tlemcnt no money which Venezuel on acpays w Ilf be considered count or applicable to that award " The Venezuelan government, lu an awering this note, Sept 21. made the This govern following statement: t will not accept the pretension that it shall revise the arbitration awards, thus definitely closing the.dis cuHskm. Venezuela has no concern regarding the disposition which the American government makes of the moneys already received and to be received. pen-Un- to--b- rm-n- DISASTROUS FIRE IN CHINA. Hundreds of Houses Burned and Great Lota of Lift. Hongkong. Hundreds of houses and many boats were destroyed Friday by a fire at Wu Chow. It la feared that the Iona of life was heavy. The conflagration la said to have been due to Incendiarism growing out of the recent establishment of a new Interior custom station at Wu Chow. The Inhabitants ot this place are bitterly op posed., to an extra, taxation. - Hatched in New York City by American WHoae Names Are In th Posaession of tha Government. Havana. The secret police have ar rested General Maso Para. General Tuan Ducasai and General Lara Mlret, charged with conspiring against public order. General Para is the alleged leader of the' conspiracy to start a revolution against the Americans in Cuba, with the use of funds supplied through some firm In New York. Simultaneously with the arrival of Para at Ha vans, three Santo Domingans, well known on account of their previous revolutionary records, also arrived. It is known that the conspiracy was hatched In New York by Americans whose names. It Is said, are In the possession of the United States government, and It Is stated that the leaders hero were professional revofu tionlsts, hired for the Job, which. It is believed, will result lu a fiasco. Governo Magoon, however. Is amply prepared with 5,000 American soldiers and 5,000 rural guards to crush any movement. A MYSTERIOUS CABLEGRAM. Revolutionists Attempted to Use New York World to Further Designs. New York. Cuban conspirators, whose plot to overthrow the provisional government has been thwarted by Governor Magoon In Havana, attempted apparently to use the World to further their designs. An unsigned cable of 182 words was received by the newspaper several hours before the plot fcame public, stating that a meeting of prominent merchants of Havana had been held Monday night and a resolution adopted to Inform the WorltTof the true state of Cuban affalr The message then said that there would be a general uprising Thursday and Friday. In language ot alarm the message told of credit Impaired; property in danger and general anarchistic demonstration to follow, all for the purpose of "causing an embarrassing situation at Washington.' It added that "If American troops shed Cuban blood, genera!" uprising and open war " lifeless bodies of the men. against the United States will be Inevitable. RIOTOUS SCENES ENACTED. Revolutionary leaders, the cable were known to have taken, Old World Quarrel Breaks Out In Ntw stated, Into their service arms and ammuniYork City. tion which never had been taken over New York. Alleged socialists Sun- by the provisional government Glve( thls the widest publicity and day night made the moat riotous demonstration ever seen In Cooper Union, save the situation, the dispatch conIn a determined effort to break up a cluded. meeting of the Federation of Italian RUMORED RAILWAY AGREEMENT Societies, called to protest against the recent action ot the Italian governHill, Moffat and Clark 8aid to Have ment against the clergy, and the atFixed Up a Deal. tacks to which Cardinal Merry del Boston, Mass. it Is reported - here Val. the papal secretary of state, had been subjected during the agitation. that agreements have been reached For twenty-fivminutes the disturb- between James J. HIM for the Burling ers, who were Italians, held the po- ton; D. H. Moffat, who has built 20C lice at hay, and Jt was not until a mllee of a Une over the JJocktas tp police captain with relnforccffienta ward Salt Lalie, and Senator Tlatk hurried to the rescue of Lieutenant tpt th use 'ot the Moffat and Clark Powers and eight men detailed to the lines a djreq the Burlington the meeting tjjat onjer wa$ reptoud throughbj route To TBeTaetlc in alliance and the meeting permitted to con- with th Rock Island. This will ntake tinue. Nine men. supposed ringleada point on the shortest direct Denver ers, were arrested, and a hundred One front Chicago to the coast and en more beaten by the police and thrown tef iitQ competition with the Harrl-maout into the street. system for through business. ct e Girl Foully Murdered. lota, Knn Miss May Scipp, thd 13. year-oldaughter of John V. geipp,' a well farmer, was found murdered In the hark yard of the, Scipp home at Moran, Saturday night. Her throat had been cut. evidently with a razor that a as found close by. motive for the murder has not been found. Miss Scipp, after dinner, She had stepped out into the yard been gone hut a few minutes when she screamed lor her mo her Mrs. d into the an! and fouudL Scipp ru-her (laughter iinrnn-- i mux. lying In g to-d- hf pool of blood Lumber Trust is kfext. St Paul Mm e f. do nil graad whl begin jury jn ir.vt stkatlon of the lumber which is und( rsiood to have its be it; juarterX in Mlnne.ipolts Filly w i.t ses hv been summoned to tesiitv before the grand juiy. It is under tood that the government has been collecting the testimony to show that the lumber treat has been using the mails for purposes- - in its te squeeze the Independent companies t exhaustion. r i sor-Alh- i -- ul Patrol Wagon Struck by Street Ci Ban Francisco Crash!. ig into the rear end of a patrol wagon loaded with prisoners, as it was crossing ft car tracks on Polk street, a street (at overturned the wagon, throwing t policemen into the street, and fattfly Injuring George Bonrdeau, one of ft prisoners. The policemen. John Morgan and R. G. Skain, were both but not seriously. Bourdsa received a fracture of the skull md died on the operating table at (h hoapttal. Five of the prisoners . caped. the Opinion of Russian Paper, Expresses Belief That Taft Will Negotiate an Agreement With the Czar. i St. Petersburg Taft's Secretary tour of the world is being followed with unusual interest here. The gov ernirent is taking measures to surround the journey through Siberia and European Russia with attentions usually reserved for rulers of states, and the press is busily speculating 6a the likelihood and adopting of a convention, the object of Mr Taft's visit to Russia being, it Is alleged, to negotiate an agreement between the United States and Russia. The conviction prevails here that war between Japan and the United States Is Inevitable in the distant future. The Novoe Vremya published an article entitled The New World Power," the , marvelous picturing growth of America as a sea power during President Roosevelt's administration, warning Russian diplomacy "not to be caught unawares by coming events" and by adding: "The day when the United States fleet passes out of the Straits of Magellan and moves proudly into the waters of the Pacific will open a new era for the eastern world. Official courtesies and the temporay lull in war talk do not conceal the fact that America is reaching out for the mastery of the Pacific and already strong enough to attain it. Russo-America- THEIR GUARDI BY Fata of Servian Officer Who Bscams Weary of Priaon Lit. Belgrade, Servla. An extraordinary occurrence In the government priaoa here Sunday resulted ta the death of two former officers and free street rioting. The two army officer, wit were appointments of refl were detained h clde regiments prison on a trlvfgl charge.- - Being driven to despair by the delay . aid illegal obstacles put ta the way d bringing their cases to trial, the twi prisoners, while exercising in the rldor, wrested guns from the prtstt CHARGED WITH CUTTING RATES. guards and. barricading themselves a room, fired through the wtadowi Indictments Against th Southern Pa- Into the street The commandant the priaon ordered the guards to sells cific and Pacific Malt. them and a desperate fight followed. federal Cal. The San Francisco, Two guards were wounded, and, acgrand jury haa returned five indict- cording to official account the twe ments of 124 count against the Southofficers committed suicide with ern Pacific company and the Paclfie formerlast Other account their cartridges. Mall Steamship companyL charging vi- the two officer however that" say olatlona of . the Interstate commerce were strangled by the guards, whp Ku-rok- uch Three Generals Placed Under Arrest, Charged With Conspiracy Against Public Welfare. t CAST SAILORS OF Dimtrous Floods Ravage Japan, ti ll T October 15 will be Utah (lav t the lamestown exposition. A (rami jury will be railed In Salt Jjtae City oil October 9, to investigate the alleged food trust. Halt l.akv now ,m a pen iactorj. the only factoij wee- - of Akron, Ohio, that manufariuieH fountain pens. A Salt Lake concern la now Importing Kansas butter into the capital city, and selling the beat creamery grade for 30 cent;) a poiind The sham battle fought bv the G A. R. veterann at Ogden last week was a grand suiockh. eteraiiH from all over fhrstafe taking part The Stundard Oil company is to have a rival In the Utah field, according to Lhc latent report, a new company now being In the process of formation John J. Holland, a miner, met datb ghll at work lu a Patk City mine, a mass of loosened rock - in MH f "gjk cond-Cl- s AItum. UTAH STATU falling upon neath it, PATTERN or ivBioumoR. PaymMa Ou Month Ttf u lilt, r -- , COALVILLE TIMES r- - 1 MONEY WAS WASTED. San Francisco Railway Company Have Secured Franchise Without Bribery. San Francisco. Twice, on Wednesday, during the Tirey L. Ford trial, wherein the chief counsel for the United Railroads is charged with bribery of public officials, it was affirmed that confessed bribe-takermembers of the board of supervisors, would have voted to grant the United Railroads a franchise for an overhead trolley franchise without the use of the money which is alleged to have been so lavishly distributed. James L. Gallagher, former chairman of the board of supervisors, explicitly declared hla belief that the franchise could have been secured without any attempt to Influence the opinion of the members. Supervisor Samuel Davis, the only other witness of the day, reiterated this assurance on his owi Could account Four of tiie Crew of go Americas Bark Perish and Others Endure Horrible Sufferings. Boat Built From Wreckage ia Used to Sack Assistance For Suffering Men Marooned on laland la "the Land of Fire." n New York. The story of tfie wreck of the American bark Prussia, on bleak Staten Island, Terra del Fuego, the land of fire,", is a thrilling one. Six of the crew have been landed her by the steamer from Montevideo. Four perished and three are in a hospital at Puntas Arenas. The Prussia ia San Francisco and sailed from Norfolk, Ya., March 27, with a cargo ot coal tor San Francisco. On the night of June 19, which was stormy and bitterly cold, while Captain Johnson was trying to make the New Year's Island light, the bark went ashore and soon broke up. Eleven of the thirteen men in the crew succeeded lu reaching a strip of sand, sheltered somewhat by overhanging rocks. At dawn it was discovered that Sabata, the Japanese cook, and Harry Hammond, a sailor, were missThe strip of sand was narrow ing. and huge cliffs barred and escape across the island. Captain Johnson soon died of exhaustion and was buried in the sand. The survivors had a few provisions and subsisted off these. Meantime a boat was laboriously built from the wreckage. But fear that the provisions would not last led to two of the men, S. Prothln and Joseph Hosteth, .trying to work across the mountains to obtain help. Prothln crawled back a few days later with his hands and feet badly frozen. Hosteth, he reported, had died from the cold. The food gave out and the men lived on shell Osh. Eventually, after much danger. Mate John Hunter, Carpenter Carl Stark and Seaman Heine reached New Yorks Island, in the frail boat, a distance of thirty miles. Lieutenant Del Gado, in charge of the light house there, rescued the suffering men on Staten island after much peril and delay. They were kindly nursed at the light house and then taken to Punta Arenas. was-owne- GOVERNMENT8 BIDE OF CASE. Prosecution Reveals Its Chargss Borah 8nator of Idaho.. Against DISCOVERY Boise, Idaho. The government has Man, Been Able te' Produce Life by revealed its charges In the case of . United 8tates Senator Borah, charged Ms ns of Chemical. with timber land fraud. The Jury was Paris. Remarkable experiments in at the morning session on the chemical development ot life have completed and during the afternoon-Judgbeen effected by Profssor de Lage ot Tuesday, M. C. Burch of Detroit, Mich. the Sarbonne. In his laboratory at special assltant to the attorney genRoseoff, ta Brittany, Professor de eral, made the opening., statement of Lage placed unfertilized eggs of the He arraigned the sea urchin and the star fish In sep the prosecution. BY FRENCHMAN- ,- -- water, adding a solution of sugar with a few drops of ammonia and tannin In about an hour segmentation, which la the first sign of life, began, and the eggs produced larvae. The great majority of these larvae soon died, but Professor de Lage, by copstanj and minute care, has brought four of the urchins and two of the star fish through the larvae stage, and they ar now healthy growing specimens. DISCOVERY It Ts OF CIENTI8TS. Warmest Abovs th Polls and Coldest Over the Equator. Dresden, Saxony. At the meeting on Wednesday of the Congress of German Scientists, a remarkable statement was made by Prof. Hergesell of Strasburg university, that the atmosPresident's Opinion of Oklahoma Con- phere at high altitudes is the coldest over the equator and the warmest stitution "Not Fit for Publication." above the polls. This surprising fact, President Roosevelt he .Washington. was determined by bal announced on Thursday that he would loonexplained, ascensions made during the constitution. approve the Oklahoma month of of the various latitudes, The president said he had examined under theJuly auspices of the internathe document with Attorney General tional committee which has been inand he the felt that that Bonaparte the atmosphere at high al vestigating not to question of his approval ought tltudes. be based on bis personal opinion of the document, but upon whether it Walker Charged With Murde. came within the terms of the enabthe Utah. As a result of the of act. His Ogden, personal opinion ling document, the president laughingly verdict of the coroner's jury which Insaid, was "not fit for publication. the circumstances survestigated the death of Pr! Earl S. rounding . Attempted to Bribe Juror. Beers, who died as a result of a beatFindlay, O. L-- - B. Williamson has ing admlnlstred fcy F. C. Walker, who been arreated on an Jndfrtment charg- charges that Beers had been too Ining him with attempting to bribe Chas. timate with Mrs. Walker, both Walker Thompson, a juror in the case of the and his friend, A. E. Lawrence, who State of Ohio against the Standard was In the room at the time the fight Oil company, which was tried here took place, have been placed In Jail, last June. Mn. Chas. Thompson said charged with murder In the first dethat Williamson approached her ana gree. It Is charged that some blunt asked her to persuade hqy husband tc Instrument was used in the attack disagree and hang the Jury ta th upon Beers, his friends contending It final vote ol would have been Standard Oil case. The impossible to Inflict the Jury was 8 to 4 - for conviction such terrible injuries with the bare Williamson, it is said, admits mak flat Ing the proposition to Mrs. Thompson. Missouri Railroads Will Fight. Vollva Is Down and Out SL Lou la According to complied Chicago. Wilbur Glenn Vollva, who statements made by officials of the successfully grasped the reins of gov- various railroads in the state, the ernment of Zion City from the hands two-cen- t of the operation passenger exof John Alexander Dowie, and law has caused the railroads of MisLo reign ta hla stead after the pected souri to lose $1,500,000 the past death of Dowie, Thursday night an- three months The lawduring effecbecame ta followers nounced to 1,000 of his ta Missouri on June 17, and, by tive that city, torn by many factions, that agreement with Attorney General be had given up the fight there. At Hadley, the railroads decided to rethe same time he anbunced that he duce their fares and test the law, unhad lost the options upon the land ta til October 1. It waa announced on New Mexico where he expected to Wednesday that the trunk lines have found a new colony, hut would buy jotaed to fight the further enfeivemeat property adjacent to Zloa City and ot the law. found a colony there. late Governor Frank Steunenberg as. In the alleged conspiracy by which It Is claimed that more than 17,000 acres of virgin forest lands, thick with towering pines, came fraudulently Into the possession of the Barber Lumber company, a Wisconsin corporation a operating Piflfit ta Ms city. Mr. Burcn cffihlcted Senator Bore hi with the land transactions only as attorney, first for Steunenberg, and then for the lumber concern. He declared that Senator Borah Interested himself In all matters having an outward bearing on the lands claimed by dummy qntrvmen, turned over to dummy trustees and by taem deeded over Barber company. the central figure to-th- Minnesota is Fighting For State's Rights. St. Paul. Attorney General Toung on Tuesday obtained from the county court a writ of mandamus directed against the Northern Pacific Railroad company to compel it to comply with the commodity rate law. whose operation was enjoined by Judge Lochreu of the United States court. The railroad officials probably will ask Lochren for an order citing Judge Attor ney General Young for contempt or the United States court. If the attorney general Is declared in contempt a writ of habeas corpus will be Issued and the matter taken to the United States supreme court for a final decision, as to the states right to regulate rates. Insane Mothers Awful Crime. Mrs. Bertha Mund,-ai- s 27 years, strangled her three aged'8 years; Helen, ag 2. and Freda, aged 8 months, to det at their home In Clinton street. Af committing the deed, she went to Pennsylvania railroad yards, wh her husband, Frederick Mund, la ployed as a member of a wreckl crew, and Informed him of her tlon. Mr,. Mund was placed nut srrest. The woman has been ill w nervous trouble, and undoubtedly v Insane. Buffalo. 1 Wsalthy Lumber Merchant C( of Manslaughter. Cblcago. IU. Amasa C, G a wealthy lumber merchant of Wis., who killed Dr. Benjamin ris ta the stock exchange here last winter., and whose him guilty of manslaughter 1 waa the unwritten-lawfoun at the hands of a jury, whlc , Windes court on Tuesday, panylng the verdict .was a rec fiatloa by the Jury that the ment be fixed at one year In Itentiary, the minimum nen lowed by law. d |