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Show COALVILLE TIMES N. J. PETERSON, Entered at Utah, May Matter. Editor ltd Mier In Comllle. Potofn 7, in m the HfiBii One Tear Six Months Three Months Single Copiss 1 50 A 0i Strange Explanation Given of Strife Between Nicaragua and Honduras. UTAH STATE NEWS ear In r v Provo, August 20 23 The atreeet railway company of Salt i,ake City has ordered steel rail to couatruel over K miles of track. 1 The annual convention of the Inter Nicaraguan Cavalrymen Appropriated a Mule While on Territory Claimed by Honduras, arid War Was Required to Settle the Matter. One mule a mule Washington to Heitor Ireito Salgado-w- a the chief object of dispute be tween Nicaragua amt Honduras when they began the qua ire which finallv ended In the war that lx threatening the ieace of all Central America! according to the official communira'ions of the for exchanged by the niliiisu-relgn affairs for the two republics, copies of which communications have txn received In Washington The controversy began when Augus-tC. Coello, the Honduran minister for foreign affairs, wrote a note to Jose D Domex, the Nicaraguan minis ter for foreign affalis, on January 28, protesting against the theft of a mule from Ireno Halgado by thirty five Nlca raguan cavalrjinen, who were charged wfth entering Honduran territory In reply, Henor Gomez said the Nicaraguans (lid not quite enter Honduran territory, although Ihev passed near to the little town of Los Mauos, In that republic. The taking of the mule was not denied, but Senor Gomez insisted In bis letter that Salgado was not a Honduran clien, but a Nlcaru guan who had to leave that country lutlon two year before. Consequent maintained that Hon ly. Nicaragua durss had no right to fly to the defense of Halgado's mule. This note brought a spirited reply from Honduras, the minister ror for elgn affairs anounclng that Ireno Hal gado, the Nicaraguan refugee, waa llv Ing In Tegucigalpa, happily engaged In trade there, while a man by the same name, a most reputable and re spected- farmer, a Honduran of un questionable eitlienshlp, lived at Los Manoa and owned the association mountain Photographers' waa held In Salt Lake City last week The shearing of sheep 1m gins at Mo dcna April ! -- One hundred and t.wea, thousand head are Hated thus far. The town of Loa, In Wayne county, la thoroughly alarmed over what Is believed to tie an epidemic of spinal ' meningitis. Peter Etzel, a miner working at the IJttle Bell mine. Park City, was Injured by falling down a chute a distance of thirty feet. A case of smallpox was reported in Salt Lake dtv last week, the first rase of the disease to be reported In the capital city since August 8 During the coming summer the city of Nepbl will lay sewer blocks of street and sidewalk pavement, constructed of concrete snd cement. Three clever pickpockets robbed Clarence Johnson, a young farmer from Glenwooa, Sevier counfy, Utah, of 410 In Salt Lake City last week. The contract for the new dally mall service from St. George to Modena, 'Via Enterprise, Utah, has been awarded to Charles J. Bastian, of Walter Green, a resident of Hooper, was thrown from, his horse at that place and killed Instantly. Green was 2C years old and leaves a wife and one child. Henry Delluff, one of the oldeet cltlxens of Park City, was run down by a frelght traln and killed. DeHuS was deaf and did not notice the ap- mule. Nicaragua replied that it waa true proaching train. that Colonel Juan I. Rocha, who com Tke sense shaepjafJCUkftoJi mantled a party of calvarymen. took Inspected This jresF before they- - are A mule tiehf A Manqg, hnrrefteraastf thot the Animal . waa not taken inJJon. dipped, and the inspection wUPstarr duran territory. Dispatches grew longet the regular, dipping polnta In the er as the controversy waxed warmer state early In Aprll . Other questions arose. Then the arbl Chief of Police George A. Sheets tratlonal tribune was opened and finalof Salt Lake City, has been bound ly the break camp when President of over to the district court on a charge ber of Nicaragua withdrew his memthe board of arbitration and of conspiracy, in connection with the war between Honduras and NicaraMcWhlrter robbery. gua actually began. The do show held In Salt Lak DUELING IN RUSSIA. City last week proved a grand success, a number of line doga being ex- Captain Cuts off Ear of Princo and la hibited and the attendance 'and Inter Shot. ext of the public being most gratifying. St. Petersburg. A shooting affray Cox, a seamstress employed took place In the dining hall of the at a bedding manufacturing establishGrand Hotel de Europe between ment in Salt Lake City, was caught Prince Nokaridse, a marshal of the by the balr In a sewing machine and nobility from Kutals, and Captain Kos-lof- f almost scalped, her bead being badly of the east Siberia sharpshooters. rut. In the midst of a spirited argument Despite the protests of the Sioux Inregarding the autonomy of the Caudians against having the White river casus, Prince Nokaridxe made a disCtes share their reservation, the presi- paraging remark about Russian milident has decided to quarter Utea with tary prestige. Thereupon Captain the Cheyenne Sioux Indians for the Kosloff drew his sabre and cut off the prince's ear.' Reaching Into his pocket, present the prince pulled a revolver and fired Teachers In the Salt Lake schools twice, the bullets the are assured of more pay, the senate neck and breast of thepenetratingA surcaptain. having passed house bill No. 217, geon sewed on the prince's severed raising the limit which Salt Lake may ear. Captain Koxtotf b wound are danglevy for school purposes from 64 to erous. 4 mills. CAGE CABLE BROKE. Fred Bentson, of Evanston, Wyo., Miners Meet Death aged 21, a brakeman employed by the Twenty-twUnion Rhenleh Rueela. killed near Pacific, was Emery, Utah. He was riding on top Rhenish Prussia. Snarlouls, of a freight train, when his back was two were killed at the miners Twenty broken by a pipe front a water tank German hard coal mine. They were Judge Thomas Maloney, candidate descending one of the shafts in a cage on the American party ticket for the when the cable broke near the top, supreme court of the state at the last end the miners plunged down several electiun, died at Ogden on the 15th, hundred feet. They all met with Inafter an Illness of four weeks, the stant death The mine belongs to the Prussian cause of his death being an abscess of the liver. government, which has begun an official Inquiry Into the accident The whole section of central Utah Is greatly enthused over dry farming, Burton Will Get Even. and there Is a section of country about Abilene, Kan Joseph tn by fifteen mile In area lying west R. Burton, who is expected to return and south of Xephi which ta shortly to his home here this week from to tie the center of a great grain pro Ironton. Mo, where he Is In Jail servduring country ing a six months' sentence, has Mike and McCabe illlarn J the local theatre for March 23, O Leary, two of the six soldlers wht when he will deliver a public address. were arrested on February 28 on ihf Senator Burton has for some time t barge of having assaulted and robbed threatened to expose those whom he Harold Berrunt In Salt Lake City, with being responsible for his have been bound ovei to the district charged and It Is said that his re conviction, court for trial marks wtl prove sensational. " e s ser-lous.- - much-moote- d Ze-lay- ' XV d W. H. Parrent, a criminal and the star witness for the prose- Several Men Shot While Engaged Riot in Eaet Chicago. cution In the conspiracy case against Hammond, Ind. In a street riot at Chief of Police George A. Sheets, ol the East Chicago mill of the Republic Salt Lake City, has been released on hia own recognisance, by request of Iron A 8teel company several men the county attorney. While driving across the track In Ogden, a wagon Id which Prank 8kane waa seated, waa struck by a paasengei train and Skane thrown under' the farm. Before the wheels reached his body the horse succeeded in kicking him from the track, out of danger. a - - f , nr 7 Causes Much Damage resulted In the dealh of seventy-liv- e miners and the injury of twelve others. Many of the bodies were so disfigured that they were scarcely recognizable The work of bringing out ttie Injured men and the bodies of the dead was very slow, the galleries being choked with wreckage. The mine Itelongs to the Dewen-ilels- , one of the richest mining fami. lies of fieW 'The' brothers have given $25,000 to relieve the immediate of he afflicted families. mil-ion- s coal-carryin- h - -- Danced Herself to Death. Philadelphia -- IVu'li t hnnieil Mrs. Anna Shercr, of un7 McKean street early Sundav morning as she began the final waltz ai a dance in a hall at Seventh and Mooic sheen alter dancing all evening She was a sulferef Mrs Kheter waa from heart trouble 37 years old She was aware that her heart waa weak, but persisted, Jh, The ball was given by the dancing women of the Aurota society She took part in evert number, enjoying herself greatly. INFLUX OF JAPANESE. Now Troubled With the Little Brown Men. El Paso So great has been the Influx of Japanese through this port that hundreds have stopped in El Paso, readily securing emplovnient as Mexican house servants, displacing help. The result is that the Mexican authorities are taking cognizance of the matter and propose action looking to the abatement of ihc Jap. tie.--,, im migration utiles- - the new amendmen to the United States i.nmim alien law brings relief. MbxIco it e a J the White House and treasury department have been flood ed with appeals for President Roosevelt and Setretary Cortelyou to take some action to avert the "threatened in the financial and rail disaster road world It can be stated authoritatively, however, that President Roosevelt will not change his attitude toward the railroads, though It U admitted that the administration has no intention of entering on an extremely radical attack on the rail way corporations. While it la known that the visit of J. Plerpont Morgaa to the White House-o- n the Monday night, president to issue a reassuring statement to the country in regard to the administrations attitude toward the railrtuds, and the apparent failure of the financier's appeal, has had much to do with the panicky conditions that swept over Wall street on Thursday, President Roosevelt has repeatedly said that he is not an enemy of the railroads, and that those that obey the laws have nothing to fear from the government. While it has not been definitely decided, the president may Issue statement outlining his attitude after he has conferred with Presidents McCrea, Newman. Mellen and Hug hltt, on the railroad situation. The conference with the four rail road magnates, which waa granted by the president at the earnest request of Mr. Morgan, will be held early next week. It Is generally un derstood by those close to the president that the railroad officials will some urge Mr. Roosevelt to take steps to allay the public anxiety now threatening' to obstruct railroad Investment and construction and as to the relations between the railroads and the government. Serious Charges are Brought Against I. W. W. Leaders at Goldfield. Day and Night by ReHeavily Armed Cowboys as sult of Threats Made by Agi-to- r of Anarchistic Element. City is Patrolled War Between Sawmill Owners end Industrial Workers. Portland, Ore.-VTdeadlock beday while enroute to Boston, said tween the sawmill ownerj and the Inthat the railroads prefer federal to dustrial Workers of the World over state legislation, and that Is why the the question of wages to be paid presidents of the trunk lines are apmill hands, remains unbroken. The He attribpealing to t.te president uted the timidity of Investors to what mill owner are apparently indifferent be railed the attempt of the railway as to the duration of the present troupeople to terrorize the state legisla- ble. They say they lntend to make treirentlonz tures. The shrinkage In no concessions, that they are holdthe market values of stocks be attribing no meetings to consider the sib uted to, the squeex'ng out of th uattin. and do not Intend to hold any. water.' The atrikera are equally belllgeret. J Idaho Albert K Steunon-berg- . of Caldwell, on of the most prominent bankers and financiers of Idaho and a brother of the late et Governor Frank Stennenbet g. of this state, who was assassinated a little over year ago. died at his home in Caldwell at a late hour Suml.u night Hi death was caused b a (implication of of diseases, the most promtum-ewhich was liver linn'll. imm which he has sutfeied fot ume nine White House and Treasury Department Flooded With Appeals From New York Financier. THE ELF! Nullify Doctrine of State Right Washington That state legislatures have no right to legislate regarding traffic ffaJrs. even on matters strictly within the state boundary, is the doctrine to which President Roosevelt has substrlbed. 'He holds that the commerce clmse of the constltu tio gives congress 'the right to control not only Interstate but also state did not ever commerce. Congre else this fight until the recent rate law was enacted, and consequently up to that time state fr it liberty to proceed. h Boise. BOBII Reuf Trial Postponed, gan Francisco. After the names of four taleamen had been, drawn from the Jury box, the trial of extorting money from French restaurant kee-erwsa continued in Judge Dunne's court until Monday morning. Counsel for Ruef objected to the drawing of any further name daring the absence Dumbrell from Court of Juryman excused, who ha been temporarily and Judge Dunne thought it well to take a recess until Monday. I of Martyred Steunenberg Called by Grirt Reaper. TO T Nevada Just after th cruel murder alleged to have been committeed by a walking delegate of the I. W. W , of one of their enemies, John Silva, Vincent SL John one . of Hue .disturbers from Cripple Creek, who is directing the efforts of the I. W. W, stated, it is currently reported, that if the present difficulty between labor organization in Goldfield should not be settled according to the dictates of the I. W. W., the city would be reduced to ashes. Wednesday morning it was discovered that the halls and stairways of the McKenzie building, near the Nixon block, were saturated with oil. It was just back of this building that shots were fired Tuesday night All day Wednesday there were current rumors that the entire block would be The man burned before morning. who fired the shots was disturbed, it Is believed. In the act of firing the building. He has not yet been apprehended. D. McKenzie, whose office are In this building, is one of the men aaid to be marked for slaughter 'by the I. W. W. John Cook, the prominent banker of .Goldfield, who la a close business friend and associate of Nixon and Wingfield, was the target of the shots fired by the alley asWALL STREET DEMORALIZED. sassins. The two bullets missed him only a few Inches. New Low Records for Year - Estab The Inquest over the remains of lished and Panic 8eemtd InevJohn Silva, brought forth nothing new, excepting the statement of Conitable. stable Inman, who testified that the New York. Under the effect of 25 deceased had named hlB murderer aa per cent money and the generally one of the walking delegates of the W. W. pessimistic sentiment developed as a One of the picturesque features of result of the recent heavy decline, the present situation In Goldfield is trading on the stock exchange on the patrol of seventy-fiv- e cowboys Thursday reached a stage of demor- who ride the streets and the outskirts alization bordering on actual panic, of the city day and night armed to he wop perip of the day waa teeth. shortly before the .closing "of the stock fiTRA'NCE CAREEiror 'owurrAnp. there exchange session, although waa an extremely violent falling off From Owner of Interest In Rich Mlno in prices between 12 snd ,1 o'clock. to Prison Cell. New low records for the year and In Denver. From a sixth ' owner some Instances for several years in the Hercules mine, In the Coeur were established in the active speculative Issues under prlcipttate sell- dAlene district, now estimated to be ing, with the market apparently withworth $25,000,000, to a felons cell out buying orders than those of the bears to cover their short contracts awaiting trial In the Idaho courts on charge of the murder of former and realize their profits. After the close of the mafket much Governor Frank Steunenberg, Is the relief was expressed that there had strange freak of fortune that Harry been no failures during the day and Orchard has experienced. that of all the rumors In the street Against the advice and desires of there seemed to be none affecting the his wife, Orchard sold out his holdor of solvency any banking brokerage ings In the Hercules and, packing up house of any importance. hia possessions, went to Cripple Creek. He received in the neighborBLOODY WORK OF RUSSIANS. hood of $500 for his share In the Proprietor of Estate and Hit Em mine. Ills associates in the mining venture continued their efforts in de ployes Butchered by Robbers. veloping the mine. They were able to Yellsavetgrad, Russia. One estate make a showing to capitalists and secured all the money needed to install in this vicinity waa attacked by robbers Thursday, who bound and de- amachinery and work the property on large scale. One lucky strike followed another, capitated the proprietor, five laborers and a woman. Two witnesses of the and all the miners who had held their slaughter, a soldier, who hid In a share of the mine were made wealthy. Edward Boyce, who had not so haystack, and a child, lost their rea- large an interest In the mine as Orson. The soldier subsequently died chard had, Is a millionaire two or in a hoapllal. The booty secured three times over, and his fortune Is on the Increase. amounted to $1,000. On the occasion of the funeral on Trainmen Are Drowned. Thursday of a prominent reactionary, Three nen drowned, a Pittsburg. who waa killed by revolutionists, an railroad washed away and an bridge to was made start attempt excesses. Rioters began beating engine and five freight cars In the Jews in the streets and sacking the water are the results of the rapid bazar and Jewish lodgings, but they rise during Wednesday night of Deer were stopped by the prompt intervention of the troops Several Jews creek, near Harmarsvllle, Pa., on the were wounded, one of whom died in West Pennsrhania railroad. A freight the hospital. train which entered upon the bridge The local .rabbis have telegraphed got no further than the second span, complaints to the lower house of par- when it gave way. Before the enliament and to Premier Stolypin. gineer. fireman or brakeman upon the forward part of the train could realto Admitted School. ize what happened, the bridge went Japanese In accordance with down. San Francisco. the action of the board of education Foced Man to Confess Crime.. the resolution which rescinding Denver. Unless new and important barred Japanese pupila from the evidence shall he found against Benschools, nine little Japanese girls apC. Wright, he will probably peared Thursday morning for admis- jamin never be tried on the charge of mursion to the Redding primary school. dering his wife and child. District Miss Mary Deane, the principal, answered their request with the state- Attorney George A. Stidger admits that evidence to convict the man is ment that she bad not received for- lacking, but has not yet dropped the mal notification. of the boards acInvestigation. The alleged confession tion. and them to return at made by Wright to Chief of Police 1 o'clock, and which hour they were Delaney is said to be worthless as eviadmitted. All of the children speak dence, having been obtained by use of English remarkably well. physical force. Alsace-Lorraine- Chicago Sewer Collapses. Chicago. Five men were injured, on of them seriously, by the collapse of a sewer in which they were work two were shot, probably fatally. The lng at the Intersection of Kvanston trouble started when fifty laborers and Lawrence avenues About twenty struck for higher wages Twenty men were in the sewer when about thirty feet of it fell in upon them. later went back to work and the re- The majorltv of the men were pinned maining thirty broke through the In by the debris, and alien It waa steel to of tho at their plant get gates away they were found uninWhen once within the cleared The companions. five men who jured. followed. riot In which were cut about the bead andwere hurt plant a bloody severely 100 shots were fr u bruised tbont t'e . Inundated and Square Mile Thirty Blast Furnaces Put Out of Commission Suspension of Furnaces Will Cause Scarcity of Iron. ps the rapid receding pittsburg.-W- ith I the waters in the Monongahela, ilegheny and Ohio rivers, conditions l resuming normal proportions. The fproaches to the bridges are now liar' of water and 'street ' ear serge in the flooded district has been isumed. NEGRO SOLDIER CONFESSES. Ten square ntlles were Inundated, ke ioss is summarized as follows: Membere of Twenty-FftInfantry fcss in output of steels mills $3,000, Shot uq Brownsville. 0. Loss In output of other lndus-Hes- , Galveston- - Tex. The mystery surv losses in wages of $2,000,000. rounding the alleged raid of the negro mployes, $1,837,000. Estimated dam-g- e In fan soldiers ft mu the Twenty-fiftto Industrial plants, $2,600,000. try uMin tiie people of Brownavllle.f jotal, $,337,000. Texas, on August 13, last year, has' Various other estimates are being been cleated up. according to a story! Bade s from ten to twenty ranging printed ii the Galveston News. of dollars. Reports from num-vouAfter sevru months of investlgatlotf western Pennsylvania points by fedetel authorities, what appears ta ire to the effect that the flood he the I rue version of the crime bait las subsided. been secured from D. C. Gray, one o Thirty large blast furnaces In this the dischargtd soldiers, who adtniti dty are out of commission It Is said that be part (all) participated. iere that the suspension will cause The man has been living in Galvea. scarcity of Iron. ton a large Mrtion of the time alnc VIOLATED ANTI TRUST ACT. was discharged from the arm he soon after the outrage. Acordlng to his statement, the tty Complaint to Bo Filed Against Coal tack was not pi emedttated, but wai Carrying Railroad. the result or an alleged Injury done one of the soldiers hv a white man la Washington. An important confer Brownsville half an hour before thf aneo which is likely to have raid. The negro, returning to the results was held late Saturday barrarks, seized his rifle - and an- afternoon between members of the innounced that he was going to kill the and white man. Several other negro tod- terstate commerce commission dlers volunteered to go along and see representatives of the coal operators the work well done, and to wipe ott and ' coal ' miners in other scores which they had against southern Indiana andorganizations Illisouthern the cltlxens on account of Injuries which they claimed to have suffered nois. , The negroes returned to the barIn addition to a complaint which, racks after committing the assault tki aa a result of the conference, is to be . the town, and many soldiers asalsbid-.- . with the commission, it is In the hurried cleaning of the gun for the Inspection which followed soc probable that the attorney general wlfk bw-- b after the shooting in the' town cei urged tq institute prosecg Aparentiy the soldiers from- - only am ution, against officials of the railroads in Indiana and 'Dlt-no-l company participated In the rald.'d-thougfor alleged violation of the practically the entire battafim act. knew the soldiers had done the shutt- Sherman anti-tru' ing. TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL DAVIS. SET OFF THE DYNAMITE. British Foreign Secretarys Opinion ef Swettenham Affair. Revenge of Workmen Who Had leen Discharged by Contractor. " London. The Incident involving Cincinnati. By the explosion ef two Governor Swettenham of Jamaica and hundred and fifty pounds of dynamite Rear Admiral Davis, U. 8. N., came in a shack on the site of the net City np In the house of commons Thurshospital early Sunday, great dunage day in a hypothetical question by waa done to residences and buildings Jesse Collins, liberal unionist, who throughout the surrounding residence waa In Kingston at the time of the section. Incendiarism Is assigned as the cause, a number of men recently disaster. Mr. Collins asked if It waa discharged by the hospital contractors in accordance with interuMional law being said to have made threats. for an admiral of a foreign couutrv land an armed force In British coloTrust Conference. nies without permission of. the govNew York. The national Civic fed- ernor. Foreign Secretary Gray said eration, which railed the rust conNo, and I may add that no such ference of 1899 In t'hlcago, has derights were claimed In the incident cided to arrange for another confer- referred to. What I am convinced ence' of the same nature to consider of 1 that while In the of that problem In Its latest aspects', es- such a catastrophe therepresence naturally pecially the question of federal and was a certain amount of misunder atate regulation of the corporations, the American admiral was and the question of the operation of standing, by single-mindemotives inspired the Sherman anti trust law. It Is pro- and a desire to relieve suffering. Any in hold to this conference May other construction placed on his acposed at a city to he designated later tion is most unworthy and untrue.'' Brother ATTITUDE, of the week to Property. Poi Imt It, Germany An explosion nf fire dump In an underground shaft of tin- - coal mine at Kleinrossein, near , IN FLOOD fill Waters in Pennsylvania I HUGE Of THE ADMINISTRATION at Mining Village Disaster Which Hat Brought Sorrow to Many Homes. o ' 00 Near- - Forbach, Germany, "5 The Blak Hawk Indian an' ratnp fire will be held n: our LOST Serious TEKMS OF SI BSCRIPTIOX. raja to to ASraare. of flits SfllllMllf Mil ! EOF flats 1SS4. aa Second i H" Goldfield, anti-Jew-Is- h Bryan Adheres to Hi Position. New Y'ork William J. Bryan, wh was In town for a short time Tburs he |