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Show COALVILLE TIMES. Eitr C a. 105LJ, IwtttAl at )U( OlM lu T. i 1HH. and ImIrmi PualaAe w SewaS-Lla- luig. la Co. trill. Matu. Utu, ... ...... MH.IW Utah Lake Preposition Will Be at Once, Other Projects in the General Ccheme of Reclamation to Follow. 1 tl M Tkr. HmUi. A a Ml from V JAPS In WILL SPEND VAST GOVERNMENT SUM IN IRRIGATION PROJECT. or aiMCBurrior. mu r.itM. t. um. T ...... Maifca Newell, .to Is taking gwt Uret CROSS YALU the prnismeil Ltah pRojettt Ul who Is Imllniit to be very litrfpl THIS MARKS OF BEGINNING dealing with the Utah propositM- - H BLOODY LAND ENGAGEMENTS. tb that hied dm has hten UtalpRe pre jj. . ii mi involt Ing the expear (.After Five Day of Fighting, the Firet r,rupA.vd. of jl imhkhiO, wm d Japanese Army Forced a Crossing tfce wuhi' !) pro0 of Yalu River and Put Rusfr.nu jiti l (f a g ncral relalon Ake sians to Fligl t. w in .i .Tituii. tot entire ;a, FOR FT A II MILLION'S tlaLollui ami hinroii coi tain-- i TIIE the PTOJeeU-'- ".i1 - f l ( ree wol !, taken 4 A ST-- i ' r I . re-.i- -i - UTAH STATU NEWS. it i I - hnol are preThe Davis cobnty paring an exhibit fur the St Iamis exposition. The smallpox patient at Layton are recovering Th- - disease I a been i - i ' ! v dlvi- - l.t-hl- con-propo- v I Nine Utah mines distributed denda during the mouth tallng 2C!i,Hiu It Is reported from the southern part of the state that the fruit was damaged by the recent cold weather The Anue Laurie Mining company at Kimberly is now running two shift at mine and mill, with 110 men employed Tweutyone and one half inehea la the total rise In the waters of the Great Balt lake since tiny commenced to come up Charles Bruce, while attempting to board a freight train at , fell under the cars and was fatally Injured, hia skull being crushed Mrs. Hanna Webb, one of LehlB first settlers, la dead at the age of 72. She passed through many trying ordeals In the early history of laht. Dan McFarland of Wilson was injured In a runaway accident last week, his team having run Into an Irrigating canal, upsetting the vehicle. About 100 teachers were present at the jolnt eounty teachers Institute between Sanpete and Sevier counties, held at Richfield on Friday and Saturday. During the month of April the sales on the Salt Lake mining exchange Aggregated 345, 3G7 shares, the total payments for which reached v I j RUSSIANS BURN TOWN. Abandon Antung After Consigning the Town to Flames. The new comes from Toklo that the Russians were forced to abandon Antung on Sunday. They burned the town and retreated to Feng Hnang Cheng. The dispatch further asserts that the Japanese now control the estuary of the Yalu. FORMAL-OPENIN- $169,-186.3- 5. Frank Kellner, whose parents live !ln Grand Rapid, Mich, suicided In Salt Lake City Saturday night, taking THE CHRISTIAN PARTY. 'strychnine. He left a note saying he Iwae tired of life. Candidate to B Nominated In the Legal proceedings are to he insti- Name-oJesus. tuted against a Salt Lake woman, The national Committee and the tsp-- . who la acctr 'shlnjwee 'Li to thd national convention of daughters tiy tump a wallow cayenne pepper. ' the National Christian party of the George Robertson of Sprtngville United States, which la to nominate was struck on the head hy a large a ticket for the next presidential elecrock while working In a rock quarry tion, la In eeesion In St. Louie. The platform, entitled "In Jeans on Thursday of last week, sustaining Name, was adopted after much disInjuries which proved fatal. The wines of the state produced cussion. It declares that the platduring the past month precious met- form and purpose of the Christian party is and ahall be to work and als worth in the neighborhood of The copper production alone tend for union in hia name for the reached a grand total of 4,300,000 fulfillment of Goda law through direct f del-3te- .ln-Nvi- m pounds. Several fine lead claims have been (located this week eighteen miles Vorth from Callentes, from which assays of 20 per cent lead and 36 gold have been taken from a two and one-hal- f foot ledge. Lee Kenner of Mantt, last week In capturing a mountain Uon which had been feeding on his sheep west of the city. The animal weighed 135 pounds end was about T feet In length. At the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Eph-raover 1,500 people were bap- quoted and In the evening's ball was given at which 200 couplet tripped the light fantastic. The Indian office has detailed Special Agent Thomas Downs to make a general Inspection of the Pangultch ledtaa school for the purpose of Information for use tu erecting the proposed new school buildings. President JTarrlman, after a visit cut-of- f to the Ogden-Ludlast week, admitted that a sink was found in the cut-ofbut that the officials were -- not discouraged on this account and had no thought of abandoning the MAP SHOWING e legislation of the pet pkioverned by the Golden Rule, re gutless of sex, creed or color. War la opposed b mob violence or and public Utilities la favored The platform, after declaring agast government revenue from the anufaeture and sale of Intoxicating toort ns a beverW are opposed to age, concludes: all trusts and combes contrary to the welfare of the coanon people and declare that Christa government through direct leglshion of the people will regulate the rusts and labor problems according n - the Golden Rule. conde--ownershi- p -, 5 MUKDEN aYvnir n, MANCHURIA d OF FAIR. G Louisiana Purchase Exposition At SL Louis Now In Full Swing. President Roosevelt on Saturday pressed the golden key which completed the electrical circuit and released the gigantic power of the Louisiana Purchase exposition at SL Loula, putting In motion the 40,000 horsepower machinery and the fairy-lik- e on the exposition cascades grounds. The ceremony occurred In the east room of the White House precisely at lrl4H oclock, eastern standard time. . As the president pressed the key the Third battery of United States artillery, stationed on the grounds of the Washington monument, south of the White Rouse, fired a battens! salute of twenty-on- e guns. Congratulory messages were then exchanged between the president and David R. Francis, president of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. THE COLORADO STOPPED CHICKEN FIGHT. n f, project While attempting to board a moving freight train near Woods Cross on the Oregon Short line, a teamster named Hull was thrown under the wheels and received injuries that necessitated the amputation of hia As London Views It. The map shows the location of near which place a number of Japanese transports hare been seen, apparently with the purpose of effectright foot Potinsa is on the The body of Samuel Stewart who ing a landing. shore of Korea Bay. and had been a miner and railroad la- northern about twelve mllee east of Takuchan. borer, was found In a shack in Salt It la fifty miles west of Antung and Lkke City la a badly decomposed con- the tame distance south of dition. He had been dead for at least both of are two weeks whetf the body was discov- believed to be held by strong forces ered. Death was due to natural causes. of Russians. , Potinsa is connected The telephone line connecting MoSocialist Bagged Several Russian. dena with St George and intermediThe minster of the Interior at SL ate points and Cedar City, which haa been under construction for sev- Petersburg confirm the Warsaw reeral tiontbs and which was expected port of April 28, announcing the killto he in operation about a month ago, ing of two police officers and the will probably be completed this week. wounding of three policemen by a Socialist named Mayor, whose hoyse the A few days ago Dry creek overa suspicion of Illicit flowed its bank where it empties Into police raided 00 Utah lake, near the head of Jordan printing. Mayor dentes complicity in river, and thousands of carp were any conspiracy. The arrests were limwashed out on the grass lands. About ited to Mayor, an unnamed accomplice tons of the fish were gathered and the landlord of the house In which ep and distributed among the citizens lived. The a confiscated Mayor police of LahL printing press found In the building. Po-tine- Feng-wangche- which-plac- es g by a road with Dalny iad port thur, distant fro the latter town K0 ml1 os Should the landing be made m tce miRUi) critic are agreed that it would mean a serious menace to Port Arthur at veil as resuit in a Banking movement of the present UinMan Dispatches indicate that it t Fengwangchen that konropatKm s troop are prepared to make their tirst stubborn resistance. Ar-bein- Threw Her Babe rom the Train. Driven efiazv, it Is app8,ed, by lack of food and the care of Bine children on a journey across the continent, Mrs. Mary nKi, ,ki ttrwr er baby through the window of a Great Northern train near Columbia Fa!!. Wash She tried to follow it. but was held by passenger. The train backed up and the Infant was found. Apparently a had fallen on some shrubbery and roded Into a mud Prat tically 'unharmed. "? The mother wag brought t6 Spokane. ld 1 v ' -- HAVE TO SAID PERUVIANS CROSSED FRONTIER. Spain has decided to recognize the republic Of Panama he The Japanese continue to cro-e- Yalu river In small squa K Gernial Payne ?s reLite deturned to li ib de-- i, at the po-partment The bent' me of Mrv ( ' 'el'a But P Dunkin for the tmiu'ir of Mr- ii un' ' May 9 ha "M pom '"in ning The town of llhg on tin teUbt of Somaliland has been bombarded by The uHan o' Dbg "as the liritKli captured Arribtb of anti Ru ian 1"' It 111 a'l p ,rts of Iluroja an Russia indiiate the extent of tie mvoiu tionarv movement p The V.'V day ce'ebruiions we-- e Its nt Frar" through! nnnu rolls than usual and were not a. tended bv disturt antes Dr Spellrneytr is of the opinion that trom lliOUli to 20 0MJ persona will arrie in las Angeles during the ton fertnee of the Meth'xlists Carl Mytr of Pueblo Colo suicided near Santa Fo, N M bv throwing His last will himself under a tram and testament was found on Lis hotly. The latest Jajamse naval movement against Vladivostok failed of success betause of the dense ftgs which prevailed in the vulruty of that port. About 200 houses of the town of Buczacz, Austria wete destroyed by fire which broke out early in the morning Some 3,000 inhabitants are homeless J C. May, an Indian trader at Fort Wingate, N M , shot himself through the heart, a pistol dropping out of his hand accidentally and being discharged Miners of the Tuscarawas, Ohio, district, about 3,000 in number, have is quit work until an agreement reached on the. scale. The trouble la over the machine rate Samuel Parks, the former walking delegate of the Structural Iron Workers union in New York, la dying at the hospital at Sing Sing He is suffering from consumption. A message received at Halifax, N. S., states that the schooner Orono, bound from West India for Halifax, with molasses, Is wrecked at Herring Cove, and all on board lost. The caving in of a coal mine at Toacini, Spain, buried many miners. Fifty bodies have been recovered. Ten of the miners were rescued, but all of them are badly injured. King Oscar of Sweden has signed a decree declaring strict neutrality between Japan and RusBla during the war. The decree is similar In terms to that issued by the Danish govern- Both Countries Claim a Strip of Rich Territory, and Brazil is Mobilizing Trcops, to Protect Her Rights. ruinu td 111 Itlo Janeiro that or sued for the mohill have tu-zalion of i,rdiliau troops and lor the collet nt ration of all the forces tn the Fil'd military district at points on the frontier wheie Peruvian troops are repotted to have crossed into The Important accounts of the fighting' on the Yalu river have reached London, and various opinions are expressed regarding the Importance of the Japanese victory. It Is considered in some quarters that It was never the intention of the Russians to hold the right bank of the Yalu, except for tactical purposes, and that the real struggle haa not yet been reached. All the papers, however, recognize that the auccesa of the Japanese will greatly nhanco tbelr prestige. Four Tramp Burned to Death. Three men Jand a boy were burned to death in a box ear in the Northwestern wards at Council Bluffs, Iowa. They are believed to have been tramps trylngto steal a ride, hut no tJne as to their identity has been obtained, as their clothes were practically destroyed. The car was discovto be on fire while being ered witched, and the cries of he men for help were heard by the trainmen, but all four succumbed to the flames before car was 1- could tby fiiied with be reached. bedding. d Hi ih - -- ail we-te- The !t 1 -- incidents it was an untuned from Rio Janeiro April 2J, wtu reojnted tu have occurred on the tiontier of Brazil, where the Peruvian troops, in bpite of repeated demands had refused to evacuate rt guided as belonging to Brazil The liiriiory in dispute includes Jmua and Purus valleys The gover nor of the ii ov met of Amazonas, in Oi tuber of last vear notified skippers going to he upper Jurua, that they should not submit their papers to the Piiuvian (oiihii,-- . as Brazil did not recognize the sovereignty of Peru over that pait l the country iu ter-ritoi- y JAPS AGAIN ATTEMPT TO BOTTLE UP RUSSIAN FLEET. Their Fireships Are Discovered and Sunk by Torpedo Boats and Land Batteries. to advices from St According Petersburg Vice Admiral Togo made another desperate attempt to block the entrance to Port Arthur Monday , night, but failed Viceroy Alexieff reported officially that the Japanese sent eight fire ships to block the entrance, hut they were all sunk by Lhe Russian torpedo boats and the fire from the land batteries, leaving the channel clear The viceroy also reKirted that the Russians sank two Japanese torpedo boats The fire ships were discovered by and searchlights of the batteries guard ships, creeping toward Port Arthur from the east and southeast The torpedo shortly after midnight boats and torpedo boat destroyers were ordered out, but none of the Admiral Alexieff larger warships. blmself went on board the coast defense vevssel Otv&shnl. The guard ships at the entrance of the harbor and the forts opened a fierce fire on the fire boats, which lasted until 5 o'clock in the morning, when the last fire ship went down. The official report does not specify the exact spot where the steamers were sunk, but it is plain that the Japanese attempt to cork the entrance to Port Arthur has again failed. The Steamers were armed with Hotchkiss and Maxim guns and responded hotly to the Russian fire The Russians succeeded In saving a few members of the fire ships, including two officers Japanese Still Driving Russian Army Before Them. The fighting continued on the Yalu Monday. The Japanese pursued the Russians, who resisted stubbornly. The Japanese had about 300 more s. it has been learned at Seoul that after the fighting of Sunday on the Yalu the Japanese, on Monday morning. started to pursue the enemy The Russian through the mountains forces are said to number 10,000 men. They sustained heavy losses It is now admitted in St. Petersburg that both Generals Zassalltch and Katchallnsky were wounded and that twenty-Seveguns were captured by the Japanese during the recent fighting on the Yalu river. n A Humane Officer Saved the Rooster, But Killed a Man. C. David Frye, a butcher of Los Angeles, was shot and killed Sunday ftrnoon by A. Carpenter, a special officer of the Humane society. The shooting occurred near Troptco, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and resulted from a raid of half a dozen humane officers on a cocking main at that place. Carpenter was arrested and is bow in the city jail charged with murder. g NEWS SUMMARY. FIGHT ON THE YALU. WAR. National Organizer Nearly Beaten Te Death By Theee Men. William WardJon, national organiser of the United Mine Workers of America, was terribly beaten over the head and shoulders with revolvers by three unknown men at Sargent. Colo., and lies In a critical condition at the Denver & Rio Grande railroad hospital at Salida. Mr Wardjon was from Crested traveling eastward Butte, where he had been organizing the Colorado Fuel & Iron companys miners, and was attacked in a car while the train was standing at Sargent Waydjon declares that his assailants were a detective of the Reno detective agency, named Greeory, and two men by the names of Wolf and Walter. LOCATION OP POTINSA, WHERE JAM8ESE TROOPS MAY EFFECT A LANDING. BRAZIL EXPECTS WAR ll Advices received in Tohio state that the folio lug lilt ri rli'.ig llUi: i the Twelfth divifion of the Japanese iu.i un ui - wi h Hi-- - land rvKrw un to the j ii o' ( of I tali nyaiiliiif' i ,i in aie army foried a trussing of the Yalu niin mate Tie nt itoj t nt n gr at K1 ' ii a river above Wlju piM before dawn trv,(t- wil seiji Ing tiie and land- - of the The second pon t. u- allot in Saturday morning Kir hauls who lilt for hail la!' t to toon bndgp across the river near Wlju s ut month .I j'i mi m id. of, legal qu sons day i veiling said thai hi vva- - t was completed at 8 o t lock Saturday itii tlir project erirouiag'd at the pri splits lit a I' p and the lmpc.ia! guards of the night v w to an harafiious the tlon by the reclamation nin Second division crossed during the l.t in t w el n the various Utah irrigation poi'ti- Imr ind tie - ity of Salt Lak i other night. alt Lake vt n r - of land and water Ing his slay lure he lias ha v u ia After five das of fighting largely I. n rim i r with conference ,ii 'v Clip f with artillery, the first Japanese army under General Kuroki. has forced a DOUBLE crossing of the Yalu river and with a gallant infantry charge, covering a frontage of four miles, it drove the Russians from Chi Tien Cheng and the heights on the right bank of the Iho, or Aida river which enters the Yalu from the north a most c p posit e Wlju. The Japanese turned the left flank of the Russian position, and in the battle they swept away the new front interposed by the Russians to check their onward movement The present position of the Japan ese la a dominating one, and they may force the abandonment of the defenses erected by the Russians at Antung and other points lower dc wn the river. It la claimed that in the recent engagement the Russians lost 8(H) men, while the Japanese lost 700 men. ! I PEST OF RATS. Millions of Rodents Take Possession of Three Counties in Illinois. Millions of rats have suddenly made their appearance In Mercer, Rock Island and a portion of White-sid- e counties, in Illinois, and are doing great damage to stock and grain. Where the Invaders came from is a mystery to the farmers. The rats appear to be the most numerous in Edgington township and In both in Mercer county. Thousands more have appeared In the rural districts of the other three eoun ties. An Idea of the magnitude of the pests can be gleaned from the fact that F. N Montgomery of in two weeks succeeded In capturing and killing 3435 of the rodents, using steel traps to catoh them. In spite of this enormous slaughter, his farm Is still overrun, and there appears to be no diminishing of the nunber. The rats attack droves of hogs, biting them and tearing their flesh, which results In blood poisoning Hundreds of hogs have been killed In this manner. n Disastrous Storm In California. The storm which swept the southern California coast last Sunday, doing much property damage, and imperilling life in many instances, may have caused the death of stx who left Avalon bay, Catalina island. In a yawl during the height of the storm- and who have not since been beard from. The Yawl was anchored in Avalon bay Sunday when the storm arose, but the force of the waves caused her to drsg anchor, and to avoid being driven ashore, she was finally put to sea. 40-fo- ug.-tato- ment May day was celebrated in Vienna by an unusual concourse of workmen in the Pyater, a park and forest on the east side of the city. It is estimated that 20,000 men marched in the procession Brigadier General Joseph Dickinson, the last of the adjutants general of the army of the Potomac and chief of staff under Generals Hooker and Meade during the civil war, Is dead, aged 73 years. The collapse of a cage in the Robinson mine at Johannesburg precipitated forty three natives down 1,000 feet to the bottom. All were killed. The bottom of the shaft is a quagmire of human remains S. Mehuela, clerk of the Hawaiian house of representatives, has been found guilty by a Jury of the federal court of destroying certain voucher for expenses of the house incurred during the last regular session. As the mother was In the act of laying her baby in tied, Fleming Fro-ma-n of Dallas Mills, Ala., shot his wife, followed her as she ran Into the yard, cut her throat, killing her, and then Inflicted fatal wounds upon him- , self. The Spanish steamer Zazpirak Bat was sunk off the Sicily islands 4n a collision with the British steamer Cresyl, bound from Cardiff for Bueno Ayres. Thirteen members of the crew of the Zapirak Bat were drowned. Bandmaster Innes, while leaving his hotel for the Worlds fair grounds to lead the massed bands of the mnsic program at the opening ceremonies, was painfully Injured by a trolley ear. The carriage in which he was riding was wrecked. Rev. Victor Garak, director of the Polish Catholic church at Snowshoe, Pa., has been arested charged with having caused the death of Andrew Sosko, a 16 year-olboy, by beating him with a club because he refused to attend church. It has been decided to send a military attache to Hayti and Santo Domingo, and for this duty Captain Charles Young, Ninth cavalry, has been selected. He is a negro, a graduate of the military academy and possesses a fine record. Russia has called the attention of the Peking government to reports received from the Russian military authorities Indicating that stray officers are making their way through Mongolia to the railway near Harbin with the intention of destroying it. d X 4 c4i |