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Show J COALVILLE TIMES Cmelter - Denver, Jan. trust TIMM rCMUMK "V j i OO. COALVILLE. UTAH- - UTAH NEWS. . - Grand count hu a fruit growers' association, to fouter ths business of flowing and curing frulL Ao Insane deaf mute waa arrested In Salt Lake last week and committed to (be state insane asylum. Mcndoo, Cache county, did not bare a death last year. . No arrest or trial Mere bad, and the o fliers of constable and justice of the peace were entirely honorary. There ia for the statement that the Vanderbilts had secured ia ta prcc-- 1ft. s. Trul. A national smelter rgaaiztlon. It will pi see all Jead, silver and copper plant between' the- Atlantic1 and Pacific coasts under on msnagemeoL Early in .November last the representatives of the western smelters and refiners met In New York City. The conference wsa a success, snd the first maul fee tat on of Its purpose was seen in the formation)! the Colorado syndicate of snfeltcrt, chemical plants and ore buyers, with its revised schedule of charges, which are yet In fell force. Then came the question on silver In ores, another result of the New York meeting. When the present Colorado syndicate merges into trust, the difference between spotquotatiooand silver ia ores figures will be done awsy with. Controlling all of the bar silver on sal in New York, the firm representing the trust wiQ announce it price each day, and the seller of ores must abids by the result, aa tha figure will represent the whole busisilver in ore, ness spot cash or anything else the trust may seem fit to term it, trust will embrace all , the , The smelters and refineries of Colorado, Utah "and Montsmarwitfh the chief ofllce in New York and the western branch in this city. The chemical plant will not be Included, while, the refineries and ore'sampliog plant will be treated aa mere adjunct to the " " . 1 ' , , imelter. f control of the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line, thus giving them a line of railways peaching from coast to eoasL The Oregon Short Line has closed a contract with a Wyoming firm for S.noo tons of steel rsils, which will be laid on the Idaho division to replace ' . lighter ones. Don Nlagntre "of Ogden is engaged In visiting Utah's mining camps to gathef a mineral exhibit for the Omaha exposition. lie gathered the fine collection that made Utah talked of at the World's Fair. Madam Mount ford, the lecturer on Ohio lisibs r f I Doly Land topics, has sued a Provo 0- - Jan, lft, Th senate for Columbus, for 110,200 alander. photographer The photographer ia aning her for coir ntttee has begun It Investigation into the charge of bribery made by 107.50 for an unpaid bill for photoof the taken Representative Otis during the recent graphs lady, William Smith, fattier of lion. Joseph senatorial contest. The members of A- Smith, of Providence, Cache county, the house committee appointed to inwaa foumldead In his barn by a neigh- vestigate the same charges were Inbors boy, who called on an errand, vited to be present, but they did not nis wife waa visiting in Millville, and oartlcipste officially, and there will be i It seems probable he had been dead at separate investigations. s bold was to deckled executive It least twenty-four- s when discovered. and take the testimony in public. The transfer of the property of the There were tour witnesses examined. ML Nebo Land and Irrigation company' The witnesses refused to answer senate took place the 17th. The new com-pan- e and to prodnee their books will erect a auger factory with a juration and copies of messages They were 600-to-n capacity to be ready for the hours in which to given twenty-fou- r crop of 1809, and hopes to have beets to do so they will be answer, failing enough raised by colonists on its own Severely dealt with. land to supply the factory. BRITAIN'S FIRM STAND. Heber Hennlonof Taylorsville ie In charge of the department of agricul- Or! vital Foil, ; Will be DifimlwJ liraffat ture and statistics, and will show in a at of War. realistic way what can be done by London, Jan. hb The country genIrrigated farming in Utah, In this he erally is greatly pleased by the an will be materially assisted by the Bear Bounce men t made by the ehancellorof -- River Canal company, who will have a Ibe exchequer, Mir Michael Hicks-Beacminiature Irrigated farm In operation at Swansea, in which be eeboed during tha exposition. tha previous declaration of Mr. Bal h January IS waa tha four at Manchester, on the Indian Paro-wa- n of the settlement of anniversary policy of the government, and added and it waa observed by a celebra- that the ministers were determined, tion at which all the pioneer present ven at the oost of war, that th.Chi-nes- e made short addresar a.They were: commerce should not be closed to William C, Mitchell, Robert G, Milter Orest Britain, This declaration Is and wife, , B Decker and wife, John taken aa outlining the governments Henderson, Mrs. Wstts and Clarissa position, and both the Liberal and Whitney. This wss the mother kettle-me- Conservative newspaper commend the of tha south. plain speaking. The Utah Sugar company hat conBUFFALO TO BE SERVED. tracted with 111 farmers for 833 acres of beets, The Indications point to n 0n,ast' of ths Slock Grower' Uon WIU Be Hbl trio, larger acreage this year than last, when the total acreage was 833 acres Denver, Jai, 10. The committee of planted by 183 farmers An Increase arrangements for the National Stock In the number of a convention, at its meeting ta also 0 row-erlooked for, aa the Increase in the price last night adopted the report ot the of beets and improved outlook for a committee having la charge all prepgoo 1 season will induce quite num- arations tor the bai becue on the 27th. ber of farmers to plant beeta that hava This feast will be historic, for the reason that It will be .ibe Jest time-I- n not dene ao heretofore. United States Senator Cannon has America where wild buffalo, bears, elk and antelope will be served, 40 sheep, 4 engaged B. Ciuff, jr., of Provo, to proceed to Sandwich Islaud, his mission bears, 10 pigs, 200 opossum, jg barrels of oeing to learn the real idea of the plcktls, half a ton of cheese, forty barnatives concerning annexation,, as the rels of tweet potatoes, 8000 loaves of opposition ta the treaty seems to be bread anf 400 kegs of beer, based more upon alleged objections of Tiller Rasa. nit os. the natives than any other cause. The Washington, Jsn. lft. The senate eenstor desire to satisfy hi mind aa committee on finance voted to refjrt to the genuineness of these claims. the Teller resolution, declaring for Mr. ClnfE spent eight' years among the payment of the national bond In silver native aa missionary, know their dollars aa well as gold. The vote stood language and customs, and will readily 8 to 3, The resolution is practically arrive ai the true status of affairs. the same as the Stanley Matthewsreso-lution- , The Salvation army will establish a adopted some years ago. Those votlug for the resolution were: colony in Utah this year. Colonel Holland Sod Adjutant Ferris, two Vest, Jones Arkansas), White, Walpeople high In authority, who hkve just thall, Turple and' Daniel, Democrats; established a colony in California, art Jones (Nevada), Silver Republican, and In charge of the project In Salt Lake, Wolcott, Republican. Those against. and hope to secure 10,000 acre of land Morrill, Allison, Aldrich, Platt on the Ik nr River Canal. Their plan and Burrows, 1 to locate worthy poor people from Iwdrlllv Tr(djr, tbeoiUen on small farms, giving each ', Leadvllie, Colo., Jan. a cow.horse and necessary equipments, Slate last night shot and killed Mrs. a taking mortgage ou the whole to se- Minnie Smith and then killed himself. cure paymenL In this way they fur-nls- h Slate had been attentive to Mrs. means for people to become who la a boardlng-hoos- e Smith, keeper, who are or are liable to she but ' absolutely refused to permit become public charges, his attentions. . , In Salt fit last year, 377 perSlate persuaded Mrs. Smith totak sons died as against X?8 in This awalk with him, but they bad only la a death rate of 8.24 per 1,000, In gone a block when he drew, n revolver, lSOl, J.163 pvrvons died, n nkiagw rate her twice in the head, kiU-hof 23. 46. per 1,000, Salt Lake City lx shooting Instantly. He then turned the most healthful city in the United the pistol on himself and put a bullet States, Inhla brain. The tramp nuisance is receiving atColor, do Coal Miners' Strike. tention at Provo A the city has no Colo., Jan. 19 The L Lafayette, work for them to do, the marshal's allowance for grub has been reduced fayi IU Minors' union has called out ail from (0 to 30 cents per day, with the the miners employed la the Lafayette j district. It was decided bjr th mem- - j bop that the diet would be leas lnvlt bera of the union that they would not to work nutil the old schedule ol I ire in the Reed hotel at Ogden one go waa restored, 43 cents pep ton, wages night last week damaged the building after machines and 50 cent to the extent of 53.0Mb The fir on pl'l-' .r curved at midnight and mauy of the rpfr The united mine here,nticipting guests rushed from the hotel in their strike, have closed down. Th Gladnight-clothe- s. The fir was quickly stone mine has also closed down. xilnguisl ed. J lives were lost About 300 men are already ouL , -- -- ( I - r sea-lion- forty-sevent- et beet-ralscr- a (Con-aecticu- t) . er ; Hauer's Ft Denver, Colo., Jan. 18 Tha appointment of State Sanator H. A. W. Tabor aa postmaster at Denver ha prows a very popular selection. HU name wee not mentioned for the place, and bU nomination was a complete surprise. The half dozen applicant for the place all seem satified with Tabor's selection, realizing that he U entitled t ) great consideration at the hands of the people of Colorado at Urge and Denver in particular. Atone time Mr. Tabor was worth 10,000,001, but two year ago his last taken from him piece of property w He resolutely picked Up his prospectors tools sod went it) to the hills. He t Labors ag JllwwaM aa4 Colt saga AbruaSL Washington, Jan. 18. Senator Wolcott of Colorado, chairman of the Bimetallic Commission, in a speech Jn the senate, detailed the work of that body and assigned some reasons for its failure. In It be did not represent the commission officially,, but said later In the eeaeioo aa official document would be presented. He expressed appreciation of cordial assistance extended the commission in iu labor by i m'la&sador abroad and by the administration, and charged failure to the bad faith of England. Indias reply, he charged, was Inspired in London. Mr. Wolcott spoke at some length upon the conditions in India, explaining the value of the rupee since the closing of the minte to silver in 1803. The closing of the mints had created w ide dissatisfaction, and there waa a general impression that the Indian government would be glad to retrace its steps. There was a general opinion, not that the India j limited to England, government would be quick to avail j itself of an opportunity to reopen its mints, and I am sure that I violate no confidence when I say th answer ot the India government protesting . against reopening the India mints waa a much a surprise to the English tnin-- 1 istry as it waa a disappointment to us. , TABOR. 5 While the protest waa made final, and located a good prospect in Routt while the English government in Loncounty, which be it developing by don could have overruled the objection means of a loan mad him by N. 8. from India, yet such action would have been contrary to all precedent 8ratton of Cripple Creek. The To us, Mr, Wolcott said, the India is thought to be again on tha high road to prosperity lie waa very situation is inexplicable. Millions of liberal with his motley in hi palmy people, most of them extremely poor, day and his brighten Dig pros poets are have for years Invested all their saving in silver. These accumulation a gratifying to all classes of people. few years ago, were worth a thousand TROUBLE NEAR KLONDIKE LINE millions of dollars and more. Today they are worth less than hslf that s I'nlted States Cei sum. By the closing of the India mints to atrip of Laid. and the artificial gold value given to Victoria, B C , Jan. n, Collector India is at a great disadvantage silver, Milne L. in receipt of a letter from the with neighboring countries, th Sksguay ia which it ia alleged that J. j of which are stimulated by the U, Smith, United States commissioner exports for Dyes and Skaguay, claims a atrip higher premium on gold, and they are of land three miles down from the robbing India of much of her manuhead of Lake lien nett, which ia near facturing and export trade. The presthe boundary line, aa it is defined by ent policy inflicts upoa India as well the United States, and which would as the erila of an insufficient and .evils which give the United States control of the steadily lessening currency vicissitudes the of that dependency territory from the coast to the lake. Commissioner Smith, the letter al- during the past twelve months have served to emphasize. leges, has ordered all locators of lota The world has heard much of the to have them recorded with him, A in India and of the famine fundi party of Americans, the writer Sat, subscribed for it victims. great not has It followed up the commissioners declaration by hoisting the American flag been, however, generally known that the famine was one of money rather just below the police barracks, where than food; that the contributions woi a the union jack waa flying. The police forwarded to India in the form chiefly demanded an explanation and, after of money and not grain, and that darome parleying, the flag was hauled ing the whole period ot the famine rice down and an apology tendered. bundaut where men were starv- Th. same letter contains th mation that Bernard Moore la having ing, and its price was but a trifle over more trouble with locators on land a cent a pound, less than the price of which he claims at Skaguay. Early wheat In England. Forslt these evils, in the present month he turned oat the loss in the value of the savings of with an armed force and drove then the people, the disadvantage of a difoff the land. It ia also stated that ferent purchasing value for silver In that which prevailed In loan ahootlng vaa done, but nobody India frotn. China, the evils of an insufficient volwas hurL ume of money and the enormous Injury which commerce suffered through vioUNION FOR SILVER. lent fluctuations in the rate of exLeaden of th Three Fortlee la Confer- change, we offered what we believed to be a remedy. ence at- Washington. Our offer was refused, and the reWashington, Jan. 17. A a result of the conferences held 'within the last fusal must be considered a final until upon few between several leaders of tha failure of various parties, it i said that Chair- which the India government has enman Jones of tha Democratic national tered shall be demonstrated. . committee. Chairman Bntler of the Kotod Outlaw at Largs Populist national committee, and Chair Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 18. Matt Free-mataau Tow oe of th Silver Republican th last ot th old Zip Wyatt national committee will issue a joint gang, escaped from jail at Taolga. for manifesto the early part ot the week, the aeeond time in year. Freeman with a view to securing common action and hi wife conducted a ranch in the by the three organizations iu the polit- Glass mountains and it was the headical contest of 1HSI8. quarters for the gang. Mrs Freeman Tomorrow the American Bimetallic waa Wyatts moat trusty lieutenant. Union, of which General Warner of One time the gang was besieged for a Ohio ia president, hold, its meeting week by deputy marshals She rode here, and this la expected to give the gauntlet of theirulleta and esfurther cohesion he joint silver caped to.briogreloforcemente and move me nL Later she was captured, and spent a year in the federal jail LexdvIUe Desperado Captsrsd. Leadvllie, CoL. Jan, 17. John Garry, here. She waa converted while in jail noW traveling as an evangelist highwayman, and Ambrose Thomas, and is who was harboring him in bia mounfvMBlftMil ruk Mm Ioub6, tain cabin twenty miles from here, Jose. CaL, Jan. 18. Professor' J. San were captured after an exchange of M. Romne, who has been finishing his e shot In which no one was twenty-fivstudies at Stanford university, was hurt here and adjudged insane. lie Garry j the leader of a gang of brought to Agnews He has committed was highwaymen who have been holding ainee September and Stanford at been up saloon and other places here. ia supposed to have caused Through a woman who was f d lowed overstudy mental trouble, He issnieidal and i the to his cabin he was located, at times. Ilis home is at Salt Thomas and Garry saw the officers violent Utah, and be was preparing to coming 'and raa up the mountain. Lake, takeharg of a chair Ju a college Thomas was quickly 'covered and d He Is 3ft years of age and an Tha poise poured hot lead into there! Hi wife, who ha been s able man the log behind which Garry was lying. Palo Alto, ia much griered at St being This scared the fugitive, who threw up Doth are said to be isfoHn his shotgun into the air nnd Salt at esteemed highly - i , j Jys ' WOLCOTT SPEAKS. TsUs ent cap-ture- . Benjamin Battcrworth Dead. j Major Ward Dead. Thoiuasvillo, Ga., Jan, 1'., lion. . Snn Diego, CaL, Jan. 18. Major II. Benjamin ButterworthL United States (. Ward baa died In this city, aged 67 commissioner of patents, who has been year. D lien a young man he waa ill at Piney woods hotel several weeks, j e inductor on the New York Central nied at 3:13 yesterday afternoon. him by Thej nilivay. Through a tip given end was peaceful, and when it came Mr. Weils of Wells, Fargo A Co.,' Ward his wife and chi d --cn were at his bed-- 1 a millionaire, residing in Paris, aide. He came here to reenfersle from I'.Vith his son Frank, now of Buffalo, an attack of pneumonia ami recovered N Y. be hat several Panama canal rapidly until two weeks ago, when he contracts aud made money. Later Masuffered ' from uremic convulsions Ward lost his fortune in Wall Yom that relapse he never recovered. jor He came to California ten year street Mr. Butterworth was member of five for terms. congress Wm rihle ran Marsa. Philadelphia, Jan. Th body of Percy Loekar, who waa murdered on Friday night by Samuel Henderson, baa been found In th bottom of Reddies" creek. Sixtieth and Catherine streets The body of the ehild, when found,' wss weightecLby two heavy stones, one about his neck and the other around his ankle. Uia skull waa crushed ia and there was a knife thrust just' above the heart, and similar wounds on hi breast, tide and forehead, while on one aide of his face waa a long cut extending from below the eye to the chin. Henderson claimrthat he made the wounds, bnt that it waa accidental. F earing Vengeance he threw the body in the creek. The police, however, believe that it waa a planned murder in which the guilty one also purposed ending the li'e of another small boy, Willie Addi-soaged 7 years. Henderson, it is claimed, has been reading trashy novels of the wild west stamp, and has shown a desire to emulate the hero 6f these tales. The police assert that Henderson accompanied Lockyar and Addison to the woods, as he told them, bnt instead of any accident happening to either, Henderson tied both children to a tree. Addison broke away and ran home. It waa then, it is said, that young Lo.kyars death was accomplished. The knife thrust above the heart waa the eanse of death. The other cuts and bruises were evidently made to mutilate the body, in a spirit of gloat, 17. n, ing fiendisbnes. .FIGHTING MKENNA, NORTHWEST NOTES. Twenty gambler left Butte within a Week for the Klondike. Wolf hunting with bounds ia active In the Saratoga valley, Wyo. Fort Steele ice i being paV np tor Mediciny ltow and Carbon, Wyo. A county bridge is to be 1 o ostructed over Rocky Ford creek. Crook county, Wyo. The new seven-da- y mail service for Hanna, Wya, went into effect on tke 15th instant. Natrona county, Wyo.. stockmen report that sheep snd cattle are doing good in that section. The shaft house and upper works of the Leopard mine, east of Tnscarora, were destroyed by fire last week. At the annual meeting of .the Montana State Bar association at Helena, Charles R. Leonard of Butte, was elect ed presiil eat Editor P. A. Gatehell of the Sheridan Journal is slated for register of Buffalo Wya, land office. The change will about March 1. Charles Wilson of Kberidan c ounty, Wyo , has been bound over in the sum of 9 ',000 to appear before the district court on charge of criminal assult, the victim being a 12 year old girL Laramie conaty's (Wyo.) share, 81,300 has been raised for a county and state exhibit at the Omaha exjjosition. The full amount was pledged by leading eitizens in a few hours. from Hay and Grain shipments Missoula, Mont., and the Bitter Root are heavy this month much of the stuff going to the Cceur d Alene e Effects Being Made to Prevent HU Oea-firtlon a Supreme Court Justice. country. Tha Carson Appeal, the Lyon matter Times and the Tusmrora County Washington, Jaa. 17. Th Times-Revie- w of the confirmation of Attorney Genhave placed the name of , eral McKenna as a member of the William J. Bryan iorpresiLleal in iftoo United States supreme court has been at the head of their editorial colums. laid over for a a eak, at the request of The coming Grand Army fair at Senator Allen of Nebraska. (There are is now an assured success. Cheyenne a great number of protests on file Presents have been donated for distriagainst his confirmation, a vast ma bution to ticket holders amounting to 81,600, and will reach the 82,000 figure before the fair opens. The offscouring of some of the neigh boring towns have centered in Reno. Several of the buisness men have talked the situation over and unless certain individuals move on within n reasonable time something will drop. The Butte Ministerial association which started in a short time ago to r age war on Sunday places of amusement has not by any means given up the fight, and from what is said by some of the members there will likely be some interesting developments in Attorney General, JOSEPH MKENNA, the next few weeks. of California. At DlxonWyo., John Joues, Democratic A. of candidate for county comsowhich are A. P. from jorlty cieties in various states. These will missioner, who con e t:d the seat of find no champion in 'the isuatc and W. A Clark to that position, and by de cision of the supreme court was enwill be ignored. There are charges of lack of judicial titled to same tinder the educational discrimination, and of unfitness for qualification clause of the state constithe position, brought against McKenna tution. secured his bonds during the by members of the Stats Bar associa- past wi . tion of California, which remain to be At Laramie recently several case of disposed of, and it was to give time diphtheria developed in various parts for their consideration that the matter of the city and the school board decided went over. McKenna friends be- to close the puhile schools till further lieve there is no doubt of his confirm- notice. The disease is not of a maation. lignant type and there is little in consequence. One of Jumped Sixteen Htoriet to Dgath. cases is that of Miss Mary Wright, the Green-leaf, Chicago, Jan. 17. Alfred G a teacher in the high school. a bookkeeper, committed suicide A railroad will be built from the-tun- nel by jumping from the sixteenth floor of at Whitewood to the coal banks the Masonic temple. His leap was at Sundance, Wyo. Ore will be hauled witnessed by hundreds of from the in toes at Dead wood, and people. Greenleaf had been ont of emLead City, acfl treated "at the mills becomsome for time, and, ployment which will be erected on 8and creek, decided make Jo way ing despondent, ana ore, coal and cattle 111 he hauled " with himself. His first attempt was made in the chamber of commerce from the onntry around Sundance, it a paying road both ways. building, where he was caught in the making ' The act of jumping over the railing to the working force in the Union Pacirotunda and ejected from the building. fic shops at Cheyenne, has been reduced 'The suicide was once a wealthy by laying off 40 men. The force ia wholesale merchant of ColumbuiO. now smaller in the shops than for Until ten years ago be was at the head some years pasL Such reduction of of the wholesale dry goods house the working force is especially, felt by merchants of the city, and. is sot a which his father founded. His brother-in-law is now the senior partner in bright outlook 'for 1898. In picking the firm of Bancroft, Sheldon A Co., out the UBcn to be laid off in the shops, whlch succeeded the firm of Greenleaf Superintendent OHfgrne Selected, as A Son. His fortune was dissipated and neatly , as' possible single men, who he drifted to Denver and finally to were for the most part young men. Chicago, where he ended hi career, George Brown,' the insane man wly ,, penniless. created such an excitement in the The opposition comes in a large Missoula (Montana) hospital the other ly from hia own state. California, and day, chasing ont all the inmates and from the l;gal profession. taking possession ' until the police -was brought npln the district arrived, The Is Persuasive. court and inquiry made as to hia sanity,. Constantinople, Jan. 17. The sultan During the trial Brown waa not quiet has granted an audience to M. Zino-vief- f, for anJnsUn fc He keptialk ing fi rst the Russian embassador, who, it to one and then to another, ' occaia asserted, made aa Important communication with reference to the can- sionally creating a disturbance by tryto tear off his clothea He told didature of Prince George of Greece for ing the jury that jbe knew they were his the governorship of Crete. The Ruse, sian minister declared that unless the brothers, andlwlshed them to so and air the end of the trial he sultan would remove his objections to insist 1 upqn shaking hand with the prince, Russia would approve the Judge Leslie. annexation of Crete to Greece. A corps of Burlington A. Missouri To Reqipen Drcyfm Case. railway surveyor is at work locating Paris, Jan. 17. M. Anatole France, a line between Lead City, R D., and M. Zola, M. Declaux, head-o- f the ra-teu- r Newcastle. Wya The line will be Institute, M. Trarieux and M. used as a short cut to Supply the Marcel Proust with numerous promi- Black Hjlls mining camp with fuel nent doctors, lawyers and writers, from thft Cambria mines have signed a petition in favor of a reForeman Gna Kirby and Polander,' viser of the Dreyfus trial on account of who is known among his fellow workthe violation 'of judicial forms and men a Pet Smith" were injured rethe mystery surrounding iL cently by the premature explosion of gian powder in the work of the Suita to enforce the payment of the United Smelting A fitfflning company guaranty qf the fund for the, Berlin at Bast Helena, Mont, exposition of 1908 has begun. f awe-strick- Cr con-tiuu- ' I ' 1' , I |