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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
FOREST FIRES IN WYOMING.
Raging About Laramie Peak and
Doing Great Damage.

Omaha, Neb. Aug PA Bee special
from Cheyenne, Wyo.. says: Immense
forest fires are raging about Laramie
peak, in the northern part of Laramie
county The fires have been burning for
the past ten days and have destroyed a
large quantity of valuable timber.
The fires have been reported TO Special
effort to have them extinguished, al
though it is feared they have obtained
such Roadway that this will be impossible
unless rain comes. The Laramie peak
district suffered greatly last year from
forest fires.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
Damage to the Wilmington.

Washington. Aug. "a dispatch re-
ceived by the navy department from the
commander of the Wilmington at Monte
video. states that she has lost fiange
of one propeller. 1t does not state how
serious the damage may be or whether
any delay will be occasioned. The Off
Gals here say. however, that the remain
ing propeller and the crippled one will
give her ample power to proceed in case
it is not convenient 10 dock her at Monte
v;deo. The ship has been up the Amazon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
NEBRASKA MAN MISSING.
Mysteriously Disappeared From His
Home at McCook

Omaha, Aug. "a Bee special from
McCook, Neb., says: This section of
Nebraska is much stirred up over the
mysterious disappearance of Robert
Barr, a prominent cattleman and a
bachelor. Two weeks ago he left his
boarding house south of this city, say
ing he would return on the following
morning. On Thursday of the same
week his horse was found saddled and
bridled a few miles east of Oberlin,
Kan.
Search for the missing man was i'm
mediately begun and continued for sew
eral days, but so far without success
beyond the fact that he was traced to
a point two miles north of Dresden.
Kan, small town on the Rock Island
road. about thirty miles from the place
where he started.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
IS MENTALLY INCOMPETENT.
Guardian Is Appointed For Lady
Yarde Butler at Oakland, Calf.

Oakland, Cal. Aug. 27.-Lady Yarde
Butler, daughter of the late General
Kirkham has been declared mentally in
competent by Judge Hall. and a guardian
appointed for her. She ina gines she has
money on deposit in the Bank Of England
and from time TO time signs checks for
various amounts.
Another of her decisions Is that she is
in the secret service of England and that
she receives large sums of money for her
work in ferreting ous crime Her hus-
band is resident of England.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
THE HERALD BULLETIN.

PAGE ONE
How Mrs. Joe Lippman Died.
Treachery of Filipinos.
State Offers Reward For Assassin.
Idaho and Wyoming Troops at 70.
kohama,
Forest Fires Raging.
PAGE TWO.
Mercier Is In Danger
PAGE THREE.
Episcopal Convocation Opens.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial.
PAGE FIVE.
Orphanage Corner Stone Laid.
PALE SIX.
Buys California Mine.
PAGE SEVEN.
PAGE EIGHT.
Evils of Justice Courts.
Nebraska Boys In Town.
Charley Auer to Be Arrested
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
TO FREE CLEVELAND BOYS.
For Discharge of 200
With the Fourteenth Infantry.

Cleveland. o., Aug. IA determined
effort is being made to secure the dis
charge of a number of volunteers In the
Fourteenth United States infantry, now
stationed at Manila AT a meeting held
today to discuss means 10 secure the dis
charge of 200 Clevelanders in the regi-
ment, two letters from Adjutant Ward
were read. They were dated few hours
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
OCEAN RACE IS ON.
Two Clipper Ships Leave Philadel-
phia For San Francisco.

Philadelphia, Pa. Aug 27.-Two clipper
ships. the Tillie E. Starbuck. built of
iron, and the st. Francis, a wooden YES
sci, both owned in New York. left this
port today to race for San Francisco for
stakes aggregatlng $4,000 put up by
prominent Philadelphia men. Their time
will be counted from the moment they
reach Cape Henlopen light.
Picked crews are aboard each ship and
the race is expected to determine the
mooted question as to whether the old
wooden or the modern iron or steel ships
are the most speedy. The ships are about
1.SOO tons each and carry a general cargo
The Starbuck is commanded by Captain
Curtis and the st. Francis by Captain
VIM
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
Story Is Doubted.

st. Louis. Aug. 27.-Up to midnight no
word conhrmatory of the report re-
ceived last night from Newport, Ark,
about the alleged wiping out of Pleas
ant Plain by tornado had been re-
ceived in this city. The story is looked
upon as untrue 1t is said there are
only three houses in Pleasant Plain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
sultan's Marrow Escape From Death

Morocco, Aug. Observation-Disclosures
the sultan of Morocco. had a narrow es-
cape during a recent thunder storm
when an electrical bolt killed several peo-
pie including two court ushers who were
standing within a few feet of his majesty.
The occasion was the birthday of the
prophet and the. sultan was. receiving
tribal gifts in the quadrangle of the
palace.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
OIL TANKS ON FIRE.
Great Damage Being Done at Whit
ing. Near Chicago.

Chicago, Aug. PA destructive fire
occurred at the Standard Oil reaneries
at Whiting tonight, caused by a leak
in one of the stills. a few minutes
after the fire broke out there was a
terrific explosion, and the flames spread
rapidly to the two immense tanks. con-
tanning 2,200 barrels of partially re-
fined oil. AT the present time it looks
as though the eight remaining will be
consumed. The loss so far is estimated
at 800, 600.
Steve Wilkens, a fireman; Harry
Bonney, engineer at he works, and
seriously burned by blazing oil.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
FARMERS TO MEET.
Preparations For the National Con-
gress at Boston In October.

Boston. Aug. 27.-The National Farm
srs Congress will meet in this city Oct.
8 TO G. and the local committee of ar
engagements is planning the details for
their entertainment. the legislature hav-
ing made an appropriation to that end.
This is the first time the congress has
ever met in New England. and large
and interesting meeting is expected. Ex-
Governor Hoard of Wisconsin is president
Of the congress. and John NJ. Stahl of Chi
,ago is secretary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
Brazil Will Take No Part.

Rio Janeiro. Aug. 27.-Dr. Campos
SALES. president of Brazil. in the course
of an interview granted this morning to
the correspondent OF the Associated
Press declared that Brazil would take
no part in the Pan-American exposition in
Buffalo. He also said that General Roca
president of the Argentine republic
would pay visit TO the United States on
the same occasion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
Destructive Fire In California.

Hanford, Cal, Aug. pa fire at Ar
mona today, the cause of which is I'M
known. destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty, including a large quantity of this
seasons crop of raiSinS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
POLICE CAN FIND
NO TRACE OF SMITH
FruitleSS Search Made BY Officer
Randolph.
Last Night Governor Wells Tele-
phoned The Herald That He Had
Concluded to Put Price On the
Assassinate Judge Powers and
Warden Dow-Sheriff Howells
Acts In the Case.

Governor Wells telephoned The Her.
aid last night that he had concluded
to offer a reward of $500 for the ap-
prehension and delivery to safe jail
of the man who sent the Internal ma
chimes to Judge Powers and Warden
Dow Saturday last, and whose where
abouts is as great a mystery as it was
at the hour OF the appalling discovery.
Tolls Fastening On smith.
There is little doubt that John Y.
Smith is the guilty man, and to find
him no stone will be left unturned.
Sheriff Howells yesterday dispatched
Deputies Ben Harries and Sam Dowse
to Bingham, where they will await de-
velopments. Police officer Abe Ran
dolph has gone through the Tintic dis
trict TO Mercur without securing any
trace of the plotter. The police, since
receiving reports from Randolph, are
more certain than before that Smith is
the man wanted. The officer made
some discoveries while at Eureka that
will fasten the crime upon the eX-con-
Wet more firmly, but of What nature
the officers will not divulge.
1t is claimed by a rancher named
Stringham in Bingham canyon that
Smith was at his place Friday night,
which seemed to throw cold water on
the claim that he deposited the boxes
with the Eureka express agent the
same day. 1t was ascertained. how
ever, that he could have left Eureka
on the o'clock train and reached
Stringham's that night without diff
Guilty.
Powers Is Congratulated.
Besides the offer of a reward there
are no important developnr1s1Ss& in the
case. Judge Powers has received hum
dreds of congratulations upon his es-
cape-as has the warden-and the judge
is still wondering what power prompted
him to desist from opening the pack
age.
He is doing everything possible to
bring the culprit to justice. The ex-
penses of the officers engaged on the
case are to be paid by himself, though
he did not feel disposed to hold out any
large reward for the would-be assassin.
The boxes remained locked in a desk
at the police station yesterday with
the Powers machine still loaded Dur
ing the day they were uncovered for
various officers and citizens who desired
one look only at the death-dealing in
struments.
Storrs a Visitor
Among those who were attracted
were Sheriff Storrs of Utah county
and Special Agent John Brown of the
Rio Grande Western. Mrs. Sheets, wife
of the detective, eyed it curiously and
no doubt reflected with much uneasi-
ness how she might have become a
widow. if things had not gone just as
they did.
The search will be prosecuted with
vigor, though the police are somewhat
since all the mining camps,
in one of which they had hoped Smith
might have been located, have been
visited without return.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
RECEIPTS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Over SIS, 100000 Have Been Taken In
By the United States.

Washington, Aug. 27.-The statement
of the receipts of the Philippine islands
from the date of occupation by the
United States government to July 81
last shows that the total receipts from
all sources for the period named was
$5,249,411. The receipts from all
sources by ports for the above named
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
TRAGIC DEATH Of
MRS. L|PPMAN
Neck Was Broken and She
Died Instantly.
HUSBANDS INJURIES
ARE NOT SERIOUS
Body Arrived In Salt Lake Last
Night.

Coach In Which the Unfortunate
Woman Was Riding Struck a
Boulder and Careened-She Thrust
Her Head Out of the Door and It
Came In Contact With Tree, Dis
locating Her Neck-other Passen-
gers Were Injured
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-28
TIE MINING INDUSTRY

is one of Utah's greatest resources,
The Herald publishes more min
ing news than any other Utah
newspaper.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10
BRILLIANT
Was the Reception and Ball Given in
Havana by General Ludlow, Sat
urday Evening : Disorder Near
Puerto Principe.

HAVANA, July 9.-The reception
and ball given last evening by General
Ludlow, the military commander, out
shone every other social function in
Havana in recent years. 1nnumerable
red, white and blue electric lights,
thousands of roses, hundreds of flags
and no end of sabres, bayonets and
rifles artistically grouped, made the
scene within the palace memorable.
More than a thousand guests attended.
Music was furnished by two military
bands. All the foreign consuls were
in evidence, most of them wearing gilt
tering orders, and many of the women
wore handsome jewels. Gen. Ludlow
gave the function in honor of Independ-
ence Day, and the representative Gu
bans and S%paniards of Havana were
present.
At Sancti Spiritus, out of one hum
bred and eighty men mustered out, pay
ment has been made to one hundred
and seventy-fve. Two hundred and
e~ighty-four applications have been re-
fused.
A despatch from Puerto Principe says
the rural guards there were notified of
the presence of a band of forty armed
men neal the city and pursued them
TO Carvaal plantation, where the out
laws gave fight from behind a stone
wall. After ten minutes of hot firing
the band made a dash for the road and
escaped, losing one man. The rural
guards had two men wounded. They
captured Is horses which the outlaws
had been leading. The band recently
stole eight rifles, a number of revolvers
and machetes and a quantity of cart
ridges with which it was evidently in
tended to arm additional men.
Ell Diario de la Marina to-day asserts
that a farmer was recently robbed by a
band claiming to belong to a new junta
organized to GUST the Americans by
wal if necessary. 1t does not give the
name of the farmer nor location of the
farm, except to say that the robbery
took pace zeal Mariel.
A prominent Spaniard said this even
IL that most of the letters received by
local business houses show a decided
hesitation to extend operations in
Cuba until matters are more tranquil.
At 3 O'Clock this afternoon the tenn
perature in Havana was IS degrees.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10
TIE KISSING BUG"
Bla med for the Death of a Child at Tren-
ton, N. j.

ton, n. j.
TRENTON. N. j., July 9.-Helen, the
t~wo-year-old daughter of Frank Lersch,
died last night, and the attending ply
stefan, DR.. Griffith. is satisfied that
death was produced by a bite from a
kissing bug.
About a week ago the child went cry
ing to its mother and said it was hurt.
There was a red spot on the child's leg.
The mother assuming hat it was a
mosquito bite. used witch hazel, but
without effect.
The child's leg began to swell and
DR.. Griffith was called in. The child
was treated for blood poisoning and
the pain somewhat subdued, but
the swelling continued and then ex-
tended to the other leg. The arms also
began to swell and then these members
turned black. DR.. Griffith called in
assistance, but efforts to relieve the
child proved ~unavailing and the little
one died as stated.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10
A REGULAR DEUCE.
Everything in the Vicinity Of Manila
Aioat, and the Soldiers Suffering
Great Discomfort Men Sleeping
Over Three Feet of Water.

MANILA, July 10, 8 a. MT has
been raining and storming almost
constantly for two days and the coun-
try along the American south and bay
lines is literally flooded. The soldiers
are suffering great discomfort. The
Thirteenth infantry regiment, at Pa
say, Is in the worst position, being
practically surrounded by water. The
bridges that were used for getting sup
plies have been washed away and
some Of the companies are now separ-
ated by streams six feet deep. In
man cases the men are sleeping with
three feet of water beneath their
hunks, which are elevated on cracker
boxes. The company cooks, when
preparing the meals. stand knee deep
in water.
Some Of the roads leading to Pasay
are simply impossible and the rice
fields on all sides are n great lake.
A high wind blew over several tens of
the Second reserve hospital.
Manila Say Is impossible Of naviga-
ton BY either launch or canoes. and
no vessels are leaving the harbor.
The United States transport Centen-
NAL is ready TO sail for san Francisco
with discharged soldiers. but the lat
ter have to sit around the water front
all day, drenched to the skin, waiting
for a launch to take them TO the
steamer
The river Pasag and all the other
streams are swollen and the city streets
at low points are covered with water.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10
A ENIED

TERRA HAUTE, Ind, July 9.-Na-
tional Committeeman Fred. Dilcher. of
the United Mine Workers of America,
m an open letter to the Express, de-
MES the statement made by the South
ern Indiana coal operators that the
operators are expected by the miners
TO pay a two per cent levy on their
earnings for the support OF the miners
union. After outlining the object and
workings OF the union. Mr.. Dilcher says
that instead OF seeking to a~ntagonize
the operators, the miners union is
striving for a better condition OF af-
fairs; the union wants to give opera
tors what is rightfully their right, but
will fight to the last ditch for what It
considers the rights Of the men.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10
THREE SHIPS ASHORE.
A Serious Disaster on Lake Erie. Saturday
Night.

Night.
CLEVELAND, O., July 9.-Three YES
sells went ashore last night during the
gale on Lake Erie. They were the
schooners George H. Warrington and
Sophia Minch, and the steamer Sequin.
The Warrington and Minch were in
tow of the steamer John N. Glidden.
They left Ashtabula early in the even
ing on their way up the lake. Several
miles west of Ashtabula the Glidden cut
loose from the two schooners and they
were permitted to drift ashore. 1t was
after midnight before the life saving
crew got to the wrecks. The crew of
the Minch, consisting of six men and
one woman, was taken off. The crew
of the Warrington remained on board
during the night.
The Sequin tried to brave the storm,
but her wheel broke and she drifted on
the beach in the trough of the sea, her
crew remaining on board. The three
boats are hard aground, but it is believ-
ed the Sequin and Warrington car be
saved without much trouble and posi-
bly, the Minch can be pulled Off also.
The sea moderated to-day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10
IN APPALLING TOTAL
Of Loss by the Flood 10 the Brazos
Valley.
THE AGGREGATE ESTIMATED AT
EIGHT AND ONE HALF MIL
LION DOLLARS THIRTY Y
SEVEN LIVES LOST UP TO
DATE-THE RIVER THIRTY
FIVE MILES WIDE AT CANEY.
A TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.

GALVESTON, Tex, July 9.-Relief
work in the Brazos flooded district has
been systemati-ed, three Nlief trains
leaving Houston, Galveston and San
Antonio daily. Probably 10000 ne
groes are now being fed and will need
to be sustained for some time by the
relief committees. All sorts of estim-
ates are made as to the amount of the
cotton loss. An estimate of so per
cent is considered conservative. This
would be a money loss of 5000, 900.
The loss sustained by the destruction of
other crops, houses, fencing, stock and
bridges will be 81, 500, 900, while the loss
to the railroads is probably $1,000, 900,
making a total OF. 49, 0 900.
Owing to the exaggerated reports
recent floods, the News has made a
special effort to secure the facts from
eacn county. Reports received from
thirteen counties show a loss Of thirty
seven lives from drowning.
Reports from Sealey state that a
white woman and a negro woman died
there to-day from the heat and expos
urs. There are five hundred negroes
at Sealey, at the point of starvation.
Rations will be sent by the first train.
At Herne, a mass meeting of the
citizens was held to-day, and commit
tees appointed to request supplies
from the Governor for immediate use.
Intense suffering is said to exist in this
locality.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July "a special to
the Globe-Democrat from Angleton,
Texas, says:
All the streets of this town are under
two or three feet of water. Very few
lives have been lost in this vicinity, but
the losses of live stock and crops will
have been drowned by the thousands.
The destruction in Oyster Creek valley
is absolutely complete. Negroes cab
ms have been washed away by the
dozens and the poor blacks are abso-
lutely penniless, homeless and hungry.
The Brazos now extends from Caney,
in Matagord county, on the west, to
Chocolate on the east, "a distance of
| thirty-five miles, and has carried COM
plete destruction and desolation with
it. Absolutely nothing is left which
was touched by the food.
AUSTIN, Texas, July a.-Governor
| Sayres to-day issued a flood sufferers
| proclamation especially requesting that
| neither supplies of any kind nor money
be sent to any place in the overlooked
| district without first advising him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10
KENTUCKY POLITICS
The Republican State Convention,
to Assemble Next w ednesday,
Promises Quick Action-Talk OF
Another Democratic Ticket.

LEXINGTON, KY, July 9.-The Re
publican State Convention which meets
here next Wednesday, may be a record
breaker for quick work The Demo-
cratic State Convention at Louisville
two weeks ago broke the record other
wise, being in session an entire week.
There were three candidates for the DEM
ocratic nomination for Governor-Goe-
bel. Stone and Hardin. There are also
three candidates for the Republican
nomination for Governor-Taylor,
Stone and Pratt. Attorney General
Tavlor claims that about two-thirds of
the delegates are instructed for him.
His friends claim that the delegates Tor
Col. Stone and Judge Pratt cannot af-
feet the vote of Taylor by any combl-
nation between themselves or even
with candidates for the minor places.
Col. Stone and Judge Pratt are ex-
pected here tomorrow and their frlends
promise some surprise, but the present
indications are that the Taylor men
will organize the convention and be
able to carry through what is known
as the Taylor slate" Taylor is called
the national administration man, while
Governor Bradley and other State adj
ministration men are considered as Ia
oring some other man. Since both
Stone and Pratt were distanced in the
race before the county conventions,
there have been efforts TO concentrate
on John w. Yerkes Or some other dark
horse. but so far without apparent sue
cess.
BOWLING GREEN. KY, July g
Ever since the Democratic convention
at Louisville two weeks ago. there has
heen talk of another Democratic State
ticket. The anti-Goebel Democrats OF
Warren county have called a meeting
here for tomorrow. In the event Of
he movement here being taken up
Ia other parts OF the State. Hon. John
D. Carroll, Col. W. C. P. Breckenridge
and Ex-Governor j. Proctor Knott are
spoken OF for the nomination for Gov
ernor
LEXINGTON. Ky, July s.-Anent the
story sent out from Bowling Green that
the Democrats would hold a new conven-
ton to nominate a new State ticket OF
which Col. W. c. P. Breckenridge would
probably be the nominee for Governor,
Col. Breckenridge said late tonight:
Il am not only not a candidate for the
nomination for Governor. but | would not
accept a nomination for that or any other
Office from any party. AS I stated when
the kilograms were sent from here saying
that / was a candidate for the nomination
for Congress In this district. | was not and
am not a candidate for any ~nofs.nation.
nor would / accept any i rendered me"