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Show T COALVILLE TIMES K.J. PLOT TO PETERSON, Editor and Manager MURDER Cl TO THEJ !S KIPPED iH IT Entered at the Poetoftlre In Cutlvlll. Utah. May T. 114. aa Second Matter. TEAMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Para' la la Advance, One Tear Six Months Three Months Single Capias 0 ................... Eighty Conspirators in th $chn Make Way With the Rulerc Russia Are Captured, J The Task of Selecting: Jury In 75 t of the Famous Cases Now Under Way. the Fir .40 05 Preston and Smith Must Pay Penalty for Shooting: Opponent of I. W. W. London The Daily Telegraph reports Peteihbnrg accidental discovery and folllug c greatest terri rlst plot since th ywrf quensherist plot Of eighty-lwago. The conespondent says klb th story from the authorities u cording to the version no fewt eighty conspirator resolved of months ago to assassinate Ei,je or Nicholas, and plans "were fi: tl fixed for catr.'lng otit the deed du li Faster The plotters Included off t and other officials and civilians, a of loyalty hitherto had been undout ot A large number of plotters, th respoudent says, was necessitated b the , elaborate precautions. doi ts nowadays to protect Imperial per rtij ages. The plan was, th correspogiSf la lit says, to approach Tsarskoe-Seltlnct groups and then execute a sad 4 and daring attack on the palace, ' tv first group, consisting of thlrtj-- f m men, arrived on the Russian G Friday, when by some means known suspicions against them win were arrtsjri aroused, all thirty-fou- r and documents found In their pot slon led to the apprehension of (bt other members of the band In , fit Petersburg nrre-qondei- it UTAIF STATE NEWS lanou The Utah State Medical in held Its thirteenth annual Salt Lake City last neek Diphtheria of a virulent type ha again made Its appearance at KayavlIU. and an epidemic la feared. An Ogden woman who wax sent to the asylum last week imagined that ahe war Evelyn Nesldl Thaw. J. J. Bryant, a brakemari, fell from a tialn near Ogden and wan seriously Injured, hla skull being fractured .pr'wpecmr, dropped dead on the streets of Halt Lake, death being due to heart disease J. H. Bobbins, a traveling man, was thrown from a buggy In a runaway near Tremont and sustained a broken leg. The Lehl Fourth ward will build 17,000 meeting house. The ward has been holding Its meetings In a rented room. The next session of tne grand chapter of the Eastern Star of t'tah will be held In Salt Lake May 0 and 10. 198. -' . The Woodmen of the World held their thirteenth district convention In Provo last week, about 100 delegates being present. Prize fighting Is not to be tolerated In Salt Lake, aays the chief of police, and the contest between Christie and Williams baa been called off. Robert Molr, aged C5, a laborer, sul tided In a lodging house In Salt Lakti, He left a note taking strychnine. saying that HI health was the cause. W. D. Candland, of Mount Pleasant, shipped 17S head of bis giaded sheet to a Salt Lake firm, having sold the punch there He received over 2,00C for the lot. . A daughter of James Tltcomb. of Falrview, Utah, about 16 years ol age, fell asleep with a pin la her mouth and swallowed 'it. an operation being necessary to save the girl's life. William H. 8mlth, a motormao em Salt , Lake .. Street car. ployed,, oty .,. , a collision between two cars, his yighl ' leg being badly crushed and broken. Announcement Is made from the census office at Washington that Jo seph P, Smith, Jr., of Utah, had been appointed special agent to compile statistics on churches and religious work. Michael Kllborn, an old locomotive engineer, lost n leg In an accident la the Rlo Grande Western yards In Salt Lake. A switch engine ran over him. nearly severing hla left leg between the ankle and knee. The supreme court, in a decision handed down last week announced the principle that when there )s substantial evidence to support the findings of the trial court, such find tngs will not be disturbed. Fearing that he would be seriously Injured because hla car was running Bubb away, a motorman named Jumped from a Salt Lake car coming down a bill and broke hla arm. The passengers were not Injured. The president la said to be considering the advisability of naming one ol the new battleships of the Dread-naugh- t type for the state of Utah They will be the largest ships In the navy, and contracts are soon to be awarded. Unless some unforeseen delays occur in the transportation of tbelr traluload of machinery, supplies and laboreia, Maney Bros, will begin work on their Western Pacific construction contract at Wlnncmucra within two weeks. 3. W. Carpenter, of Coalville, forsuffered merly Is business In Kama a I3.500 loss by the burning of his big barn at hla Katnas ranch. Bo sides the destruction of the structure, which was a complete loss, several vehicles, harnesses and a horse were destroyed. James B. Martin, formerly a resident of Salt Lake, was found locked In a box car at Pueblo, Colo., and was more dead than alive, he having been In the car for five days without food ur water. Martin was, stealing, a, ride and "was "locked In while he wa asleep. Glenwood Park, one Of the most st tractive amusement places of Ogden, will this year atari out on a new career. Manager K. A. Grant, of the Opera house and Utabtia. has secured a lease on It for five years, and will have charge of the bicycle races st that place. The coaL dealers of American Fork have given orders to the jcoal com panics to ship alt the storage coal they can consistently send to that city. The dealers are certain that the coal famine during the coming winter will he far more severe than during the , past winter, ,, Family of ths Accused Man in the Court Room at the Opening Session, Which Was Unmarked by Unusual Incident. May 9, Boise, Idaho - Thursday. the opening day of the trial of Wll Ham D. Haywood, the first to tie placed on trial of the alleged partiiipants In y by which It the'SYenglng Is averred the assasslnat ion of Frank Steuneuberg was plotted and executed, was unmarked by fiinrsuariuMeiir It;' was earnest "and business-like- . Us striking feature was the entire absence of crowds or in any form. At no time, or afternoon, was the courtmorning room more than half filled, and the streets forming the courthouse square contained not a single loiterer. The case was halted shortly before be an 5 o'clock, adjournment no and until taken Monday, ing Juror was secured, but substantial progress was made. Mr. Haywood was brought Into the court room sharp at 10 o'clock In the morning. He found his family In a line of chairs to the right of hla scat, and In front were all of his counsel. to htx He devoted more attention youngest daughter than to any one else, and throughout the day took practically no part In the selection of Juror. Many men In similar Jeopardy, as a rule, make close study of their prospective jurors, and frequently express their personal preferences, but Mr Haywood seems content to leave the matter entirely In the hands of his lawyers. Haywood gave no sign of any feeling or emotion, but sat quietly throughout the day. Mrs. Haywood and the older daughter stood the ordeal of appearance In court very well, hut the younger child cried after the examination of talesmen began. Mrs, Haywood and her children did not attend the afternoon session. The question of the defense took much wider range than that of the atate, and Its moat striking feature dealt with ih'qsilitliiLCgecl.oppClb.i mlitda and attitudes of Jurors of the letter of President, Roosevelt In calling Haywood and his associates clUies,1' the speeches In Idaho of Secretary Taft, the message of Governor Gooding to the legislature of Idaho, the speech In Boise of Senator Heyburn, . and the action of the Idaho legislature lit passing a resolution and appropriating money for the proaecutlon of the three prisoners. The chief concern of the counsel for the state in the examination of talesmen, aa Indicated by their questions, was their attitude teward circumstantial evidence, the absence of the accused from the atate when the crime was committed, the effect of the manner in which the prisoner and hla companions were brought from Colorado, views of the talesmen aa to the death penalty for murder In the first degree and union labor. They also questioned each talesman as to his acquaintance with the murdered governor, with a view to disclosing (friendship or enmity. Judge Wood announced that he intended to give both sides a wide latitude In the examination of talesmen He also showed a willingness to grant challenges where there seemed any reasonable objection to the attitude of the talesman, and In the one contest ed of the day with the defense, which had challenged the talesman, and was resisted by the atate. Lawyers of Boise not connected in any way with the case, but who know as much aa is known of what both aides expect to do, say that after the Jury Is secured the trial of the cat -- wo weeks. Judge ought to be over-IFremont Wood exfects to waste no time and another adjournment Is not looked for. The court will alt from 10 a. , m. to noon and from 2 to 5 p. m., and sometimes until 6 o'clock, with one long session on Saturdays. -- Several member of tbe Western Federation of Miners who are now in Boise watching the progress of the case, do not Join In the belief existent In some quarters that Orchard 111 refuse to testify. They believe that he will make hts statement upon the stand. On all sides there is a question as to how far Orchard, wii be allowed to go In his statement which, It Is alleged. Implicates Hay wood. M oyer , a ml. PcUibione.,.. It is around this evidence that the whole case undoubtedly will move. o Body of Long w- - y Who Want to Hold Political Congreaa Reach London. London. The 180 Russians who left Denmark on Wednesday for London for the purpose of holding a congress, after having been refused permission to del so In Norway, Sweden and DenOne mark, arrived here Thursday. of. the leaders said the party represented two, hundred district in Russia, and explained thet the- - proper title of the body waa the Social Demo- Ruaaiana shot srtyw,.Wo xitstoUv-nd--nranj- r party," this leader Bald, but a are not terrorists. We shall meet to consider the conditions prevailing dzaAMvJ tton&ry n ; in Rusal 1 n Ninety Lives Lost In the Tenaras In State of Durango, Mexico. men are Ninety City of Mexico supposed to have lost tbetr lives in a fire which tar ted in the Tenaras copper mine at Vejerdena, In the state of Durango, last Friday night. The fir Is still raging and is said to be beyond control Thitt five bodies have been recovered up to this time Seventeen miners are known to have escaped. This information has been onveyed in a The burning dispatch to this city mine belongs to the tluggenhelms. -- Japs Want Constantinople Equal Recognition. The pour parlers by which Japan is seeking to estab- ' j lish diplomatic relations with Turkey and the loi atlon of a Japanese ambassador at Constantinople, have encountered rather serious stumbling blocks, Japan wishes to be treated on the same footing as the great powers of KuroH- - with to the "capltula- t ions" bv which Tiukej .gives foreign.. powers certain supervision over her affair-- . - i'ernal Including schools, missions, consular courts, etc. re.-pe- Seattle Lawyer Found Near Beach Bathing Resort Fiendish Outrage. Rushton. La Unknown persons set Long Beach, Cal. A floating body off a of some high explosive charge supposed to be that of T Wright here under the house of Samuel Ctjok, Robinson, a young lawyer from Seat- a negro, early Sunday, blowing the twro was here who drowned weeks tle, house to pieces and killing Cook and ago, was found on the surface of the four other negroes sleeping lq a front ocean late Friday. The body was In room. Cook's body was blown about a state of decomposition and has not feet away Into the fork of a eighty yet been positively Identified. It Is tree. The body of a woman' was blown thought to be Robinson, however, as he was attired in a bathing suit, simil- 100 feet or( more Into the air, falling ar to those In use at the Long Beach through the branches of a high tree. The entire town wag shaken.. No , hath rooms. A clew n Crew Company Sends Out Armed to the Teeth, and When Toa a Strike Sympathizer Brick Few They Open Fire on the Crowd. 0 and to devise t ways and means of improving and uplifting1 the , oi king people. We shall direct Our tactics accordingly." In Sight; of Two Mon Drowned Pleasure Seeker. CANNIBALS CAUGHT. Santa Monica, Cal. Two men were drowned In the surf at Ocean pork Natives of Charles Hardy Islands th South 8ea Punished. of Sunday afternoon by B. C. According to adVancouver, A gasoline launch. For nearly an liner hour and a half the victims clung to vices by the Canadlan-AuatrmUathe overturned vessel In full view of Manuks, from Sydney, the North Ger8,000 people, while desperate efforts man Lloyd steamer Sumatra recently made to achieve their rescue. FlnxL railed at the Sir Charles Hardy group ly one of the men, a San Pedro fisher- In the south seas and discovered that man, exhausted by the pounding of cannibalism was being carried on to the waves and king struggle to keep a large extent among the natives of his head above water, cut the lashings the group. The captain of the Suthat bound him to the little craft aod matra reported the matter to Dr. Hahl, dropped Into the water, evidently hop- the German governor of the Islands ing to be washed ashore. Instead, be ho dispatched the yacht Seestern to disappeared from view and was swept seaward by the undertow. John Coch- the Islands. All the villages were deran, owner of the vessel, remained stroyed and all the ringleaders, eleven bound until the Incoming tide over- natives, including three women, wet - eswhelmed and drowned him. IBs body arrested. One of the prisonerwere The to others caped. brought was recovered some time later when efforts to reach the launch succeeded. Herbert Shope and Imprisoned. , he-rul- - a finish. Neither side Is willing to Murder In accept arbitration and the citizens' Second Degree and Smith Convict-acommittees appointed to secure indusof Voluntary Manslaughter, trial peace have been unable to find After Trial Lasting Three It has been any basis of settlement. Week. demonstrated that the present police force Is inadequate and that stronger measures will become necessary to Goldfield. After a legal battle last- insure a general resumption of service ing three weeks. In which every Inch If the struggle is conducted on present cl ground has been bitterly contested, lines. the charge In the Smtth-PrestomurAssistant to the President Mullaley der trial was given to the Jury said on Saturday that he had several Thursday afternoon, and a verdict waa hundred strikebreakers, motormen and returned late at night. conductors, quartered la the company 'a Preston was found guilty of mur- barns, and that they are competent to der In the second degree, which car- - operate practically the entire street a Its a penalty of from ten years to car system. Mayor Schmitz said the tie. Smith was found guilty of volpolice department "is competent to untary manslaughter, with the pcualty cope with the situation. Chief of Pofnm one to ten years. lice Dinan said his men will preserve The conspiracy case of St. John and order. Meantime the population of other members of the I. W. W. went San Francisco Is deprived of a street over under a motion to quash the in- car service, subjected to the alternadictments, but the flndings'of the jury tive of walking of paying five prices against Smith, who was charged aa an for an execrable wagon service. ascccssory, presages an opinion from Reduced to an arithmetical aspect, th court against the the problem Is simply this; If fifty The Jury In the matter of police are required to afford safe conduct to two Btreet cars dally over six Prc-'nrecommended mercy. miles of tracks when no passengers Silva, for whose death Preston and are carried, how shall 2fi) cars be Smith are held responsible, wan con- operated In passenger traffic of 230 ducting a restaurant in Goldfield, and miles of tracks with a total of only half of 700 police, not more than during the recent strike discharged Us I. W. W. employes and refused to whom can be on duty continuously? That the running of two or three that union. The charge has entire been made that he was murdered by cars a day may constitute the 300,-00the accused men at the Instigation ot Btreet car service for a city ofis perpeople for an Indefinite time the leaders of the union because of an adequate the stand he took in opposition to fectly apparent isunless supplied. protective force the'r organization. WILL SPEND A BILLION. DENY THEY ARE TERRORISTS. d Shriners Meet With Terrible Disaster While on Their Way Home, jt I.ompoe, Gal. A terrible wreck occurred between 3 and 4 oclock Sztur-daafternoon on the roast line ofth Southern Pacific, five miles soutk of of the pa Surf, In which thirty-twsengers were killed and elghtee$ or twenty more were seriously injured The train was a special loaded ftitb Shriners, who were on their way Los Angeles- to their homes In the east. The train consisted of 'six coaches. yhile running at a high rate of speed a wheel on the engine brake, and the locomotive jumped the tuck and turned over. Four of the ftpnt cars of the train followed it, and were litterally smashed to pieces. The 4ead and Injured were thrown In every direction. The train caught fire after the wreck, but It was extinguished by passengers of the two rear coaches, who were uninjured. JThe ears- - wee hurled all over tho oegtpv of the "passenger vr burned and scalded to death bjt escaping steam. Some of, them were t mutilated beyond recognition. THOU8AND8 WATCH TRAGEDY, San Francisco The street railway strike has developed into a fight to n TRAIN JUMPED TRACK. t The Street Car Strike in San Francisco Results in Riot and Bloodshed. Pedestrians. d o Inkae-dlatel- " Preston Found Guilty of a con-pirac- Outlook Bad for Settlement of Strik in San Francisco, and Meanwhile People Are Becoming Expert Demonatrate Astounding Figures Growth of our Railroads. Chicago. American railways will spend close to a billion dollars during the present year In an extraordinary effort to secure sufficient .equipment, power and track, Including new roads, to make It possible to handle the great amount of traffic being offered to them. If the car and locomotive builders and the steel railmakers do thelr part, the year will be a record one In the three Industries mentioned. '"Itf t WimareirttiarTt the .niauWa turers are equal to tne task, between 340,000 and 350,000 freight cars to the total equipment of the railways ot ths United States, fully S0.OO0 passenger cars and more than G,000 locomotives will be added to the1 steam power which Is now available. It Is said now that the railroads will pay fully $92,000,000 for steel rails If this year. during the present proves true, the steel mills will have to turn out about 3.300,000 tons ol that product. The output last year was about 3,250,000 tons. It is said the western roads will use fully tons of rails And that nearly 1,000,000 tons of this will be rolled in the eastern mills. TRUST may-stat- e . non-unio- STEP TOWARD HOME I RULE. Long Hum-mell- ENJOINED. o San Francisco The strike of the union motormen and conductors of the United Railroads developed on Tuesday into a riot, in which more than a scote of poisons were Injured, some fatally Tha coiuiMny uudertuok to operate Each Its cars with mm union men strike-breake-r sent out on ttie can revolver strapped carried a around his waist, outsid.his coat. At 2:30 cars were started from th employe barns, where the are housed and fed. The appearance of the cars In Fillmore street, front which they wero switched into Turk street, was the signal for an Immense outburst ol the cars had jeers and howl's. Before gone one block they were made ths targets of showers of stones and bricks. In a few moments every pan of glass had been smashed and sev era! of the armed operatives had beer struck, cut and bruised. At Turk and Buchanan streets an especially flerc attack was made on the foremost car A guard on the rear platform an swered the flving stones with a pistol shot. The bullet struck one of th union sympathizers in the arm. th This happening transformed crowds into a wild mob, and thence forward for twelve blocks a pitched battle was fought. . Sympathizers ol the strikers, aided by hundreds of youthful hoodlums, kept up a running shower of missiles: the guards oi board the cars responded with fusil lade after fusillade of pistol shots. Eight men received bullet wounds, some of which will prove fatal, among those injured being a detective ser geant and a patrolman. Finally a dozen or more of ths guards were taken under arrest by squads of reserves from the central station, and a unipn crowd boarded the rearmost car and started it back to the barns. Arriving there, ths strikers charged that revolver fire wa opened on them from the barns. It thin encounter everaj more rtteji. yere . threw the snot. A switch at the corner of Turk and Fillmore, and the derailed car shot Into the sidewalk, maiming two men. In the stampede that followed here, scores of women and children on ths outskirts of the mob In Fillmore street were hurled to the pavement and trampled upon. 1,700 Expected Irish Bill Introduced in British Parliament. London. The Irish bill, the object of which Is to provide for the establishment and functions of an administrative council at Dublin, was IntroLAWYER 18 CONVICTED. duced In the house of commons Tuesday afternoon by the chief secretary Must Serve Year In Prion for Con- for Ireland, Mr. Birrell. before an audience which crowded every corner of spiracy to Annul Marriage. the house. New York. One year In state prisThe bill was anticipated the was the $500 of on and to pay a fine keenest interest. Its advocates refer , lo It as the "Irish council bill," pwlng sentence imposed upon Abraham tho lawyer, who was convicted to its creation of a council to take of conspiracy to annul the marriage over a number of the administrative divorce features of Irish rule. But to Ireland in the famous Dodge-Mors- e and the public the bill is the Irish case. Hummell's conviction and sent1)111." with home rule presented In a ence has been affirmed by the appelneA and modified form. late division of the supreme court. Trouble Between Mexico and Guatemala Has Been Settled. No More Black Lists Against Dealers The Mexican ambasWashington Who Cut prices. Mr. has authorized the Creel, sador, lnd. The Ihdlanapolls, that the trouble betw-estatement enwas perpetually "Drug Trust Mexico and Guatemala, which for sevon from Thursday continuing eral joined days has threatened to terminate ItS operations by the decree In the the diplomatic relations between the United 8tates court In this district of countries, has been adjusted. Mr Indiana, upon the complaint of the Creel received advices to t tis effect the United States government filed by Friday. He declined to reeal "You the of basis agreement. LL atS. district Joseph B. Keating, however, he said, "that the torney. trouble Is over. In numThe defendants, ninety-twBixby Quits Good Position, ber, Who are the members, officers, directors, agents and attorneys of the Washington. Tams Bixby, who has National Association of Retail Drugfor many years been the commissionproprigists association, the five civilized tribes of Into er diList "Black Manufacturers, etors, wholesale contract rect dians in tbe Indian territory, at a proprietors, contract proprietors and Charles C. salary of $5,000, has sent In his resigPaumbaugh, are perpetually enjoined nation to Secretary Garfield to take from combining and conspiring to reeffect June 30. An attorney for some strain the sale of drug, fix prices or blacklist retailers who of the Indians several months ago filed cut prices, or to refuse to sell any charges against Mr. Bixby., These retailer on equal terms. All publica- were investigated and Mr. Bixby was After the Interior departtion of black lists Is forbidden and all exonerated contracts and agreements covered by ment had given' him 'a ctean bill, Mr. the charges are declared void. Bixby concluded to put a stop to further complaints by resigning. Omaha Packing House Employes Ask Big Order for Rails. For Increase in Wages. New York One of the largest InOmaha, Neb. A committee repreorders for steel rails placed dividual senting 6,000 packing house workmen steel company, has a with single Omaha in the South packinghouses called upon the managers ot the plants been given, to the Tennessee Coal & on Thursday and asked for increased Iron company by the Harriman lines. calls for 150,000 tons of wages. A strike Is threatened if the The contract close to $5,000,000. representing rails, The not Is granted. packers Increase tons are for the 110.000 Of this order, asked time to discuss the matter with Union and Southern Pacific systems, I the Chicago heads of the companies. for the Illinois CenThe workingmen who are making the and the balance for delivery demands were ' granted an increase tral. The contract calls115.000 tons a In 1908 at the rate of last Monday. paly month. DRUG Non-Unio- POLICEMAN TURNS THIEF. Attempts to Hold Up Chinamen and is Captured by Fellow Officer. Mont. Patrolman John Butte, Walsh was charged with burglary on Tuesdav night by Wah Chang Lung, a Chinese merchant, who says Walsh visited his place three times, stealing $35 the last time Wah and other Chinese resisted Tuesday night and Walsh drew his revolver, - but was overpowered bv other officers, who were attracted by the melee. County Attorney Murray immediately took up the case against Walsh. Four Trainmen Wheeling. W. Va Killed. In a dense fog early Tuesday the New express No. 7, upon the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, crashed Into an freight train as it was taking the siding at Rosbjs Rocks, twenty miles east of here, killing four of the railroad men, seriously Injuring three others and slightlv Injuring five The engines, ...bqggagc, mall andexpress'earswere demolished. but the passenger coaches and the sleepers were uninjured. York-Chlcag- o east-houn- d Six Years for Bank Teller. Birmingham, Ala. The jury In the case of Alex R. Chisholm, former pay- ing teller, charged with having embezzled $100,000 from the First National bank at Birmingham, which sum It Is alleged he lost in cotton speculation, brought In a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at alx years In the federal at Atlanta. When asked penitentiary If ho had anything to say as to why sentence should not he Chisholm arose and said pronounced. that. he regarded the verdict rs a Just one. v 1 . |