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Show I i I COALVILLE TIMES FIRE DESTROYS ON N. JACOB PETERSON. THE SKYSCRAPER GRIDIRON i Editor and Manager. UTAH COALVILLE THAT CHINA DEMANDS RECOGNIZE THE INDEPENDENCE OF MONGOLIA. RUSSIA THE UTAH BUDGET January 24 will be Indian War Vet-cra- n day at the Provo achoola. Lawrence Martin, a drug fiend, died at Salt Lake last Friday as the result of taking an overdose of morphine. V. M. Fltigerald has been appointed postmaster at Robinson, Juab county, Utah, vice M. Gunderson, resigned. A movement Is on at Ogden to have the stores, except clothing houses, close at 7 oclock Saturday ' nights. The state land board Is receiving bids for concrete culverts under the extension of the Piute dam. The cost will beabout 12,500. Unless the citizens turn it down. American Fork will have a $40,000 high school building before another school year commences. Utah annual The twenty-fourt- h show was held In and poultry pigeon v Balt Lake the past week. Nearly a thousand birds' were entered. s member of the Louis Garrick stock company at Salt Lake died Sunday from an attack of spinal meningitis, after a week'a Illness. Sidney T, Mending of Ileber City and H. C. Drezon of Richfield have been appointed irrigation engineer under the department of agriculture Fire destroyed the building of Ec i ties A Sons at Dells, and but for tht would bravery of hU grandfather cost the life of Mr. Eccle young on. was arrested , A Salt Lake doctor last week, charged with writing a prescription for cocaine for an habitual drug fiend who a as not hli developTwo Important ments on Monday Intensified the la teest in the situation In Chins. These were s renewal of hostilities and the demand of the Russian government men were Logan, Utah Three killed Sunday in an avalanche ol snow In Blacksmith Fork canyon, near tbe sawmill of John E Miles twenty-fivmiles southeast of this city. The dead are Jo:hn E. Miles, Jr., of Paradise, son of the owner ol the mill; Fletcher Morris, of Paradise; George Ellis, of Smithfled. These, men, together with another who escaped Injury, were logging in a ravine near the sawmill. A heavy snowstorm was raging at the time. Without warning a large body ol snow on tbe hillside gave way, and coming down into the .ravine with irMINISTER CONFESSES CRIME resistible force, overwhelmed the loggers, burying them deeply. One of the party extricated hlmsell after great effort, and made his way Nev. Rlcheson Admits Poisoning His to Hardware ranch, five miles distant. Former Fiancee and Will Probably From there .news of the snowsllde was telephoned to this city. Go to the Electric Chair. The slide is attributed to the sir perlrappsed weight of a damp snow which fell in the mountains. Boston. The Rev. V. Clarence Rlcheson, In a remarkable statement AGED COUPLE MURDERED. ado public Saturday, confessed that ie caused the death of Avis Linnell, Are Believed to Have Been Tortured toe pretty little Hyannis choir sing- to Death by Religious Maniac. to whom he waa engaged to be New York A case of double murHarried before he became the fian-der discovered in an East Side' house of Miss Violet Edmands. IThe confession came as a surprise Sunday Is one of the most shocking since the Guldensuppe dismemberto District Attorney Pelletier. It was Fated that Rlcheson would plead ment and the "Jack the Ripper" series guilty to murder In the first degree of crimes. Isaac Futterman, 80 years and would be sentenced to death in old, and his wife, Rachael,. 72 years toe electric chair by Judge Sander-am- , old, were found dead in their rooms, the law providing no other al- their bodies terribly mutilated. The police believe the aged couple ternative. The defense will? rely upon t Commutation, of the 'sentence .to were tortured to death and in the of any well established motive ieprisonment for life by Governor for such a crime, think the Futter ms and the executive" counbil. AGs' Linnell of Hyannis, Mass., mans were victims of a religious oMe fiancee of Rev. C. V. T. Riche-set- , maniac. . Futterman was a retired manufacwas found dying, apparently a at! ide by cyanide of potassium, in a turer who had 'accumulated a small bjthroom of the Boston Young Wo-n- fortune, but always bad refused to i's Christian association on Oct'. 14. leave the East Side neighborhood, Sc piclon was directed toward Riche-se- a where he bad settled when he came who was arrested October 21 and from Rusgla many years ago. Ini cted on October 31. On December 30, Rlcheson attempted suicide in INSANE WOMAN POISONS FAMILY hlj cell. He made a confession to Deserted Wife Places Poison In Food hi counsel on January 3, the confes-beinof Boarders at Her Home. made .subUc January .6, Rkl3ons attorneys declare the conPhiladelphia. Driven, insane fession was voluntary, declaring: , "It of her husband's abandonment, wts not lie result of inducements or Mrs. Bridget Flanagan, who conductany expectation of clemency. The man ed a boarding house. Is believed to unburdenel himself as he did because have placed poison in the food. of her it did hit good. He has thrown boarders with the result that three of himself upsn the mercy of the court her own family were killed, one of the Ht feels sorry for what he has done. boarders is dying and four others are seriously ill. Mrs. Flanagan also parPOWERS WILL OPEN RAILWAY. took of the food and died in great Detachments of German, British, agony. The deed of the demented woman French and Japanese Troops Stawas discovered Sunday when one of tioned Along Line From Pekin.-those who was 111 started to summon Pekin. The treaty powers have un- assistance. His failure to arouse any dertaken the protection of the rail- of the Inmates of the house aroused road between Pekin and the sea. Inhis suspicions. The boarder went terruption of traffic along this line, through the various rooms and was which had prevented the passage of horriged to find thd bodies of the victhe- - mails for four days, resulted, in and the stricken persons tn varl tims this decision. Detachments of Brit- ous of tbe house. He summoned parts ish, German, Japanese and French the police by telephone. Interstationed at troops haYcen vals between-Fekiand Chin Wang Tao, according to the plan devised two months ago. A Japanese general is In command, as he '18 the ranking that Chins recognize the e indepen dence of outer Mongolia. and Revolutionists from Shan-S- l Bhen-Sl- , having recaptured the town of ShenChow, are advancing in while reinforcements have been The dispatched to the Imperialists armistice haa not been renewed and, as there is a deadlock In the peace negotiations, early fighting is expected. In addition to requesting China to recognize the Kutuktu of Urga as monarch of outer Mongolia, the Russian government has notified China that the Independence of outer Mongolia, as far as concept Interna) affairs, must, be recognized it once. The note adds that RunsIs will assist the JUongollang in maintaining order knd intends to build a railway from Klakhta. Siberia, to Urga. Henceforth fhina wllj not be permitted to maintain mlTftary forces or send colonists to outer Mongolia, but may retain control of external relations. To this note, China has made no reply To the other powers, however, the communicated Chinese government tho substance of the Russian demands Undoubtedly, a strong pro test will be made by the Chinese government against the action of Russia, hut China is unable to defend herself now or In the future with reference to Mongolia. Hereafter the desert of Gobi will niaik the Chinese boundary on the nortbwest. Ho-Na- years. Mrs. Anderson ly ninety-nincame to Utah In 1862, and has been resident of Gunnison since 1865. The reports of the city superintend ents of waterworks and electric Rights at Brigham City shows these utilities to be worth upwards of $1$0,000, which Is nearly double the amount of the original investment An explosion In the hot water tank In the bouye of Ole Larsen at Ephraim Injured three of Mr. Larsen'i grandchildren who were sitting neat e 1 Son of Sawmill Owner and T we Workmen in Path of Avalanche of Snow Which Came Down Upon Them Without Warning. Pekin patient A statement of fees received by the secretary of state's office durtng the year 1911 haw been Issued by Secretsry of Ststo Tlngey and allows total receipts amounting to $119,958 63. Mrs, Christiana Anderson of Gun niaon is dead, after a career of near ( Revolutionists Having Recaptured the Are Advancing Town of 8hn-ChoIn China Will Protest Against Russia's Action. Ho-Na- n jve ' THREE MEN MEET DEATH IN THE MOUNTAINS, BEING BURIED UNDER TONS OF 8NOW. (Copyright. LONE BANDIT , HOLDS UP TRAIN Robber Is Believed to be College Man Who Came West for His Health and Turned Highwayman. Red<ig, Cal sheriffs' posses anJ railroad dete tlves are searching the rough country surrounding this city in an effort to capture the lone bandit who robbed the mail tsar on Southern Pacific train No. 16, the Oregon express, on Friday. Rewards amounting to $2,000 have been offered for the captuie of the man, who, according to the description given by the mail clerks, probably is a consumptive. Officials believe him to be a college man who came west for bis health, and who, unable to obaiq work, resorted to robbery., - , The robber entered the rnaij car at Red Bluff and U4he point of' a re-- ' volver compelled Mall Clerk Charles' J. Rhein to tie the hands of Mall Clerk Robert B. Warner and Helper Peter Henrlch, and to gag them with their own handkerchiefs. The mens feet were tied into empty mall sacks. The robber, who appeared cool and somewhat amused, ordered Rhein to open the registered mall sacks, and picked out and opened all letters, but disregarded packages. Head of Crans Company Dead. Chicago Richard T. Crane, head of Crane company, and foe of universities and higher education Institu-tlons- , died at his home Monday after a three days Illness of grippe. Nearly eighty yean old, Mr. Crane, who had been without the advantages or disadvantages, as he characterized it of training in universities and had worked his way to the head ot a large , 1912.) 4 e u . EVANS LAID TO REST. g , worthless fixture and Walter Perry, alleged accomplice versity was ' of Gladye Whitney, who was found that the money devoted to higher more profitnot guilty ot robbing J. D. Diehl ol education could be spent In extending Industrial education nearly $10,000 worth of diamonds to ably Salt Lake aeveral months ago, is to and aiding persons wbo had met with adversity. be placed on trial January 29. A sever blow to the loan agencies Bank Robber Caught of the otate was dealt by- - the supreme Hoffman Los Angeles. Charles court last week In an opinion which holds that they have no right to en- waa arrested here Monday by agency force the terms of a contract calling detectives, charged with being directfor the payment of exorbitant Interest ly connected with the robbery of the The state land board .has decided Bank of Montreal at New Westminthat loans within a limit ofv $50,001 ster. B. C.. Sept. 15. 1911, of $375,000. will be made by the state to lrrtga Hoffman Is credited with a long crimtion districts where tbq applicant inal career, and Is said to have served conform to tho terms of the state law time In the Stillwater (Minn.) prison and tho regulations pf the land board. for robbing a Great Northern railroad A letter asking that Skit Lake ar- train near Carlisle,' Mind., on the 1899. range to hold a state convention to se- night of May 20, lect delegates to the second World's Poverty Chief Cause of Divorce. Christian Citizenship conference to be Kansas City. Poverty is the chief held in Portland, Ore., front June 29 to July t, 1913, has been received by cause of the present divorce evil, according to W.- - W. Wright divorce Mayor Park. James T. Strang, pioneer of 1849, proctor, who spoke before the SociaVeteran Jeweler of Salt Lake, dted list Education society here Monday. average workingSunday at tho age ot 70. At the age "The fact that the from debt causes of eight years he accompanied hli man la seldom free more marital unhappiness than any parents over the plains to Salt Lake Influence," Mr. Wright com- other one valley, with one of the said. panies of 1849. Lorenzo Walker, aged 47, a native Loses Life In Slide. of Utah, died at a Salt Lake hospital Iver Anderson, a ranen Mont. Belt, last week of abscess of the brain. In the employ of Tony Wegge- hand with suffered ptoSome time ago he was buried In a snowsllde and main - poisoning, which affected hls land, kll ed and Mr. Wegge , and waa able brain and epine. Operations to get hlmeelf to esfety after having tailed to save him. In order to make the annual discus- gone down In the slide only after sions of fruit growers ot a greater three hours of hard work, Monday, while the two were riding the range lasting benefit, the Utah State Horticultural society Is arranging to have looking for a missing band of sheep. tho proceedings of the eighth annual Sink Differences at Banquet Board convention, to be held In Provo JanuWashington. No party dissension, ary 2$ 31, published in book form. no party prejudice as to where the Jt the Utah Development league folbebeTd.-hlows the suggestion of Its board of homing convention shhuld to as for presinominee the partiality governors the exhibit of Utah products la Salt Lake will be taken over dent marked the Jackson day banquet by nearly Monday night, attended .by tho leaguo and augmented until It 1.000 all from leading Democrats will compare with the permanent exhibitions at Los Angeles and San sections of the copntry. Frsnaisco. Warren's New Land Bill. A sturdy bucket brigade of a score Senator Warren haa Washington. resibusiness and men saved of the dential district of Garfield from de- Introduced a bill providing for homestruction' Fridayr when fire developinr stead entries of 640 acres In Colo-- f sdo, VuA, Wyoming. Montana. Ore-tnrom the explosion of a gasoline light generator razed the general store Son- - New Mexico, Nevada, .Arizona of Cooper Bros., entailing losses estl- - and Washington of lands designated by the secretary of tbs interior. mated at $30,000. Idellu. M. Dye was held to the die-Owen Will Fight Hook. trict 'court at the eoncuslon of hlsr, ssb'ngtom-Sen- ator Owen preliminary bearing at Salt Lake on nounced If President that Monday la who murder. Dye. of the charge sent to the senate the nomlna-lrecused of shooting Joseph Rainbowot Judge W. C. Hook as member a holdup. Is the son of a welt'000 Court he would fight the of supreme Colo. of Pueblo, known attorney confirmation indefinitely. Edith Elvira Antell, two years and patAttack Naval Stores Trust sine months old, ate twenty-twent medicine tablets containing forty Macon, Ga. Suit was filed here In four grains of acetanilide at the home the federal court on Monday to disof her parents In Bingham. She died solve the , American . Naval Storea a few hours later In great agony. The company and subsidiary corporations, mother was ill In bed when the child which has Its principal offices In Savannah. got bold of tbe tablets. Full Military Honors Mark Obsequies, ' b Trtbut Gorman Emperor. Washington. President Taft, members of his cabinet, Admiral Dewey, practically every naval officer on duty In Washington and many prominent officials attended the funeral of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans Friday. The obsequies were marked with full military honors. .An unusual tribute was paid to the memory of Admtral Evans by Emperor William of Germany. As the special representative of the emperor, Commander Retzmann, the German naval attache, placed a wreath on the bier of the admiral who had been intimately known by the emperor. Early In the day the body was transferred from the family home to All Souls Unitarian church,, the casket being wrapped in a rear admiral s B,np"d jje-caus- e i n officer. - I g n - -- o r forty-se- ox-tea- d' rr m .inriiiM ii mi New' Mexico Now a State. , Washington. New Mexico, the state to enter the union, ceued to be a territory at 1:33 Saturday when President Taft signed the Four proclamation of statehood. members of the presidents cabinet, from New tht two congressmen-elec- t citizens Mexico, a dozen prominent white from the new state, several employees and three photographers witnessed the ceremony. Slurdf lm to appear M.thecommanding S anley investigating - , Tre i . V. Fifteen to Go to China. of Union. Fifteenth Infantry KaOlla. The Governor Former Washington. at McKinley, George Curry of New Mexico arrived regiment stationed here Wednesday In charge of elect ion here It arrived December 5, is being returns of the first state election In held in readiness to proceed to China New Mexico and with the state elec-tlo- It tas broughtup to wsr strength on RUrrlvsl. returning board's statement. -- Eggs Scarce In Chicago. Chlcago.The lowest total on rec- ord for receipts of eggs at Chicago: was reached Friday and there was a consequent increase of a cent a dozen for all, grades. Responsibility was charged to the extreme cold. -- INVADE CHINA. in Blue to Aid Soldiers of Other Nations In Keeping Open Road From Pekin to Coaat. lapse of Washington. After a more than ten years, American troops again are to invade China. They are to aid in keeping open the railroad from Peking to the sea. In the course of eight or nine days 500 regular Infantry .will be disembarked at the little Chinese port of Chin Wang Tao. The movement was ordered after policy in- - , zaatoM.Di4ratJoo volved In landing American troops m a foreign country under the peculiar conditions now existing tn China. It is understood the Fifteenth infantry, now at Manila, will be called upon jo supply the troops who wi'1 be embarked upon tbe transport Thomas. Boys of-tR- Grip of Commission Tightened. Washington. The grip of the Interstate commerce commission over the commerce of the country was tightened Teusday by a series of decisions by the supreme . court. Tho principle was laid down that , shippers suffering from civil injuries from railroads must go to the commission before rushing to the courts for relief. The paramount authority of the commission in reasonablerate;mak-inwas upheld by the court's decision. g Indictments In Wallace Bank Case. Spokane, Wash. The grand jury at Wallace, Idaho, on Tuesday returned a second secret indictment in the State Bank of Commerce case! The first one was given to the court last week. It is Bald that these two In- dictments,' together with any others that may be handed down, will be made public not later than Saturday, when the consideration of the bank Cases will be nearly or entirely completed. 19. Woman Juror Locked Up With Men. Dod- - Mater. Croker Breen, Sew York. Ethel Clubman Run Down by Auto. San Franeisc. Jesse Bryan, . ths supicma. hall, has il'?d-lrprominent attorney and clubman of ' for abso.ute do, action an this city, was killed by an automo- - (h here front John J- - Breen, the riding ' bile as he was crossing a downtown vfce . i t m it t ti mn ixe vv. On Threshold AMERICANS TO May - on. of Ridln9 0 derson senteticehlm "Wdeath In the electric chair In the week beginning f com- ,n B ash ng New York The Immense marble and granite home ot tbe Equitable Life Assurance society, qovering a block In lower Broadway, an historic landmark of New Yorks early period of skyscraper buildings and one of the citys important financial centers, was destroyed by fire Tuesday with a loss of six lives and probably $6,000,-00In property. A dozen persons were injured. The fire started in the kitchen of a restaurant in the basement of the building. Valuable records. Including tbe biography of E. H. Harrlman, and two priceless libraries, which cannot be replaced, went up In flames, and the fate of hundreds of millions (ft dollars worth of securities stored In the safe deposit vaults Is in question, although It wag believed that save would fireproof construction them from damage. The great structure which, besides containing the main offices of the Equitable Life Assurance society, fa the home of the Mercantile Trust company, the Equitable Trust company, tbe banking houses of Kountze Brothers and August Belmont & Co., the Harrlman railroad lines, the Mercantile Safe Deposit company,, the Lawyers' club, and many law firms, stands a shell of granite. Of those who lost their lives, three employes In the building were killed by jumping from the roof, to which they were driven by the flames. Battalion, Chief William J Walsh disappeared in a whirl of smoke and flame when a caveln occurred on the third flooT. Two other men, William Campion, captaizi of the watchmen In the Mercantile Safe Deposit company vaults, and Frank J. N'eiiler, a special officer, a hose bodies have not been recovered, complete the list of dead, bq far as known. Former Pastor Condemned to Die. Boston. With the appearance of a man who had abandoned all hope of life, the Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlcheson on Tuesday stood at the bar of Justice, declared hls guilt of the premeditated murder of hls former sweetheart. Miss Avis Linnell, and without a tremor heard Judge San- Carnegie Must Testify. Washington. Cornered on the steps of his great stone mansion in Fifth avenue. New' York, Andrew Carnegie, who steel master and philanthropist, knows more than any other living hu-- mu being about the real value of the, . K plants a flag- aed the- stars and stripes.- - Theservices were conducted by President Tafts pastor, the Rev. U. G. B. Pierce. During tbe service, the famou. "Paul Revere" bell, which rang out a warning to the minute men for the first battle of the revolution, was1 tolled. Building Equitable Life Insurance Burnt, Six Live Being Lost. While Property Loo is $6,000,000. dridge, tbe only woman on the Jiy-that Is hearing a manslaughter case, slept Tuesday night behind a screen j In tho same foom with the elbven men on (he jury, under t ruling made regrnt troubehn the lsand of Joo, by Judge J. T. Ronald, Tuesday. lhe American troops, under had the attendance of a Pershing, succeeded in fore- - woman bailiff, who occupied an ad' lng to disarmament of bands of the joining couch. Moros. Brisson Persians Run Amuck at Tabriz. Paris Henry Brisson, the radical Tabriz. Great mobs of Persians Socialist from the Bouches deputy the Russia on for, crying vengeance Du Rhone, who has been In the chair execution of Persian subjects, . ran since 1906, wag president amuck in this city on Saturday, (de- of the chamber of deputies on Tues-dabuilding stroyed and damaged other property. Doukhobars to Go ts. California. One Hundred Families Homeless. Los Angelea. The entire colony of Jersey City, N. J. Flames rendered Doukhobars. consisting of about 12.-0more than 100 families homeless philosophic anarchcaused $150,000 less and threatened ists. professedly will be moved to southern Calia still more disastrous conflagration fornia from Saskatchewan according by sweeping nearly an entire blbck In to jocal Russians 1 y. Passes Century Mark. Stanford. Conn. Mrs. Maria Grieka her 105th on Saturday celebrated birthday at her home here. She has outlived all her family .Including her husband nL sixteen children and (a ' feeble. from TupVann srenn far I 00 T I ' |