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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-21
REBELS THROW DOWN
THE GAGE OF BATTLE
Prolatarlat Issues Terrible Arraign-
ment OF the Russian Government,
Charging That Bureaucracy
Has Souandered Gov
ornmental Funds.

St Petersburg. The proletariat or
ganizations, through the invisible
government" threw a bombshell into
the camp of the official government
Saturday by issuing manifesto, fol-
lowing the form of regular imperial
document, declaring the bankruptcy OF
the treasury, ordering the proletariat
army everywhere to refuse to pay
taxes of any description, to insist on
the payment of wages in gold or sill.
yer, and to withdraw all their deposits
from the savings banks in gold.
The manifesto is a terrible indict.
ment of the manner in which the bu-
reaucracy has brought the country to
financial ruin, asserting that the gov
ernment has squandered not only the
country's income, but the proceeds of
the foreign loans on railroads, the
army and the fleet, leaving the people
without schools or roads. yet 1t Is de-
clared there is no money to feed the
soldiers. and everywhere there are in
surrections of the beggared and
starved troops and sailors.
The manifesto even charges the
government with using the deposits In
the government savings banks to spec.
ulate on the Bourse, and with covering
up its chronic deficits in the interest
of the immense debt by the proceeds
of the foreign loans, which are at last
exhausted. The rich, it is further de-
clared, have already taken warning
and are converting their property into
securities and gold, and are sending
them abroad.
The only salvation for the country,
according to the manifesto, Is the
overthrow of the autocracy by con
stituent assembly, and the sooner the
government falls the better. There
fore, the last source of the existence
of the old regiments financial reve
nue-must be stopped.
The document is signed by the mem
bers of the Workmen's council, the
committee of the Pan-Russian union
and the central committees Of the So.
cial Democrats, Social Revolutionists
and Socialists of Poland.
This great step of the revolutionary,
which throws down the gage of battle
to the government was prepared with
such secrecy that the authorities were
taken off their guard and did not even
attempt to prevent its publication in
the newspapers. The revolutionary
leaders expect it will be followed by
reprisals and arrests, but all this has
been foreseen.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
The Advertisement.

Next morning party of three were
assembled at breakfast.
"You don't seem to have much of
an appetite this morning" remarked
DR.. Cartwright, addressing his host,
who appeared rather distraught, with
a tendency to start when spoken to.
"How's that?"
The young man replied, as he fid-
geted with his knife and fork, That
he didn't seem to care to eat any
thing. somehow"
At this moment there was an inter-
ruption. A maid presented herself
with letter which had just come by
hand and gave it to her young mas
ter, stating at the same time, that the
bearer was waiting for an answer.
A letter! and come by handl He
started again as though he had been
shot, and the doctor noticed that his
hand went up to the breast pocket
of his coat, as though there were
something there he The doctor shook
his head as he made this observation.
Ted Burritt took the letter held out
to him, glanced at the superscription
and tore 1t open. 1t apparently con-
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HELD UP THE LIMITED.
Masked Men Dynamite TWO Safes and
Secure Contents.

Spokane, Wash.-North Coast Linn
tied Express No. l, westbound, was
held up and robbed fifteen miles west
of North Yakima, Wash, at o'clock
Saturday night. Two masked men
compelled the engineer to stop the
train, then run the locomotive, mail
and express cars half a mile west Of
the balance of the train.
The robbers, it is stated, then com
PEELED the engineer, at the point OF
their guns, to set off seven charges of
dynamite, which blew out the ends
and sides of the express car and shat
tered the Through and "looal safes
and decamped with the contents. TAX
Ing shots at the fireman, who had
stuck his head out Of the engine, and
at the head of the brakeman, whom
they observed approaching. The
amount Of plunder obtained Ia un
known.
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CHAPTER xvIl.-contlnued.

"Tve been dreaming" he said to
himself. II thought everything had
been made quite clear to me about"
Was he dreaming still, or was there
some one in the room beside himself?
Some one sitting before the writing
table and bending forward as though
The figure had a pen in it's
hand, but 1t made no sound as 1t
travelled over the paper! The next
moment it had raised its head so that
he saw the face. 1T is the continue
ton of my dream" he said, and rub
bed his eyes. He looked again. There
was nothing there.
How does that chair come to be
there, in its old place? thought I
had pushed 1t back. against the wall,
and ! have no recollection Of moving
1t again. 1t Is very strange"
He rested his hand upon the back
Of the chair. oh, 1t was real enough.
There was no mistake about it. But
he could have sworn he had never
moved-Ah, what in heavens name
was that? A simple enough thing,
surely to cause so much amazement
nd-what?-sureiy not fear-in the
beholder. Only pen lying upon the
blotting pad, beside sheet of paper.
But the pen was wet, and there were
fresh words added to those he had
himself written before he fell asleep.
The sheet of paper was the one
upon which he had written those
vague and disconnected phrases,
which had caused him SO much per-
plexity and Improbable speculation.
They had been written irregularly,
just in the same order that they had
occupied on the mutilated sheet, with
blank spaces between each broken
sentence. Now each blank space had
been filled in, and it was with per-
fectly indescribable sensations that he
read the copy as 1t now stood:
"If you have not forgotten the
friend of twenty years ago, you will,
on receiving this letter, start at once
for Dover, which place I expect to
reach tomorrow morning. There is
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Caucus on Statehood Bill.

Washington, d. C.-The Republican
members of the house in caucus on
Thursday, unanimously declared in
favor of admitting Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory as one state, and by
a vote of 10 to IS declared in favor
OF admitting Arizona and New Mexico
as one state. Both statehood ques-
tions are to be contained in one bill.
The conference, which resulted in this
action, took place Immediately at the
conclusion of the session Of the house
and occupied an hour and half.
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Wood Will Command.

Washington, ID. C.-The authorita-
tive statement was made at the war
department Thursday that on the re-
tirement in September next of Gen.
eral Corbin, who will succeed Gen
eral Bates in April next as lieutenant
general of the army, General Mac
Arthur, the officer next in line OF sue
cession. will be promoted to the grade
Of lieutenant general. II also was an
nounced' that General Wood probably
will succeed General Corbin as COM
manding general of the Philippine
division
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every word you have said, and am
much fiattered by the confidence you
have shown in me. But I'm afraid
it's no use talking to him. l was
the same at his age" he continued,
but at forty-four one sees things diff.
ferently."
Are you forty-four, DR.. Cart
wright" she inquired. innocently.
''Then you are not quite a quarter of
century older than am 1 shall be
twenty next month"
81 wish hadn't been in such a devil
OF hurry to be born" thought the
doctor; Il wish / had waited another
ten or fifteen years or so. l wish she'd
got red hair and a squint, or that I
was cut out after a different pattern
myself"
Later in the morning he paid a visit
to the lady OF the house. She sat I'M
| in bed to receive him, with her Indian
shawl over her shoulders, and allowed
him to feel her pulse in the friendliest
possible way. But when DR.. Cart.
wright had left the room, he shook his
head and remarked to himself, "Un.
less I'm very much mistaken. that
woman is dying of just nothing at
ALL"
Doctor" said Ted Burritt. meeting
him at the foot of the stairs. 81 am
AFRAID l shall have to leave you for
an hour or two-a little matter of
business, you know"
Don't hurry back on my account.
/ sha'n't miss you in the least! He's
of! I'll just go and No, he isn't.
Why, what's he coming back for? For.
gotten something?"
I've dropped letter-the one I re.
ceived this morning. thought I nut
it in my pocket, but it isn't there. I
suppose you haven't seen anything of
the kind lying ?"--he cast a
hasty glance round him, but not see.
ing it-"Never mind" he said. After
all. 1t Is not of much consequence, and
| know the contents"
The door banged again and he was
gone. A few moments later his sister
crossed the hall.
i Wohuer Wnat the doctors doing?"
she said. 1T is very rude of us to
leave him to himself In this way.
What's that?"
Her eye had been caught by some
thing white, lying on the mat at her
feet. She picked 1t up and saw that
1t was a letter, the contents of which
merely consisted of a couple of lines
as follows:
Dear sir-The luggage has been
claimed. Can you call upon me at
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-21
New President Of Swiss Federation

Berne, Switzerland.-The national
council and the state council, assem-
bled as federal assembly Thursday
elected M Forrer, the vice president
Of the federal council and radical,
to be president of the Swiss confed-
GRAFTON in succession to M. Ruchel NJ.
Muller was elected vice president. NJ.
Forrer is 60 years old. He was born
at Winterthur, which place he repre-
sents in parliament. He is a former
railroad manager, and known as one
of the best radical democratic orators.
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CONGRESS MAY INVESTIGATE.
Hazlng Seems to Have Become {
Common Practice at Annapolis.

SSHi'loii TTdStiCC at ttnIldpOilos
Washington, D. CA resolution
providing for thorough investigation
of the situation and conditions at the
naval academy was introduced on
Thursday by Representative Loud of
Michigan.
Hazing of every kind, 1t was an
nounced, would be stamped out of the
naval academy, regardless OF the
number of dismissals from the brig
ade of midshipmen necessary to bring
about this result. Two midshipmen
will be dismissed from the academy
within few days by the secretary OF
the navy, one for hazing and the other
for countenancing it by failure while
on duty to report it's occurrence.
Other dismissals will follow as often
as midshipmen are found guilty of
hazing or countenancing it.
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sisted of only few lines, but those
few lines seemed to afford him con-
siderable satisfaction, Judging by the
play of his features. Indeed, to the
two who we're watching him, 1t seem
ed as though the expression which
overspread his face were almost one
of triumph.
Doctor" he said, will you excuse
me a moment? ! have to send an
answer to this by the bearer"
He spoke rapidly, and still that
spirit of elation was perceptible in his
words and actions. He seemed quite
to have cast off that air of abstraction
which had characterized his demean-
or previously. He quilted the room
leaving his sister and friend tete-a-
tete.
"Now," said the latter to himself,
go it, jeremiah! Now's your chance
Make yourself agreeable for once in
your life. But don't forget that you
were forty-four last birthday, and you
look it, every bit. Ahem! I suppose
you are very much attached to your
brother, Miss Burritt?"
Attached to him7" was the ex-
clamation. "Of course ami"
Exactly so-and I'm sure it's very
much to your credit Your brother
seems hardly to be himself. / don't
remember that he was as nervous and
shaky, as he appears to be now, when
first met him-though he had lot
to try him, and"
She put her finger upon her lips
and gave nervous glance at the door
before she answered, sinking her
voice to whisper.
HE has been like that ever since
the funeral. He goes and shuts him
self up for hours, and know that he
is always thinking of that man who
killed my father, and planning how
he can hunt him down and bring him
to the gallows. l don't mind telling
you, because know / can trust you;
but''-leaning across the table toward
him-"I can't help feeling sorry some
times for-that other mani"
! "My dear young lady! I agree with
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-21
Riga and Vendon Districts in
the Hands of the Long
Suffering Insurgents
Revolt Spreads to All Parts Of Cour.
land, Railway Communication Cut
and Many Stations Seized
Sailors Said to be Joining In
the Fight Against the
Government.

st. Petersburg.-The government g
latest advices from the Baltic prov.
inces, forwarded part of the way from
Riga by courier, are of the most
alarming character. Bands of thou
sands of Lettish peasants are roam.
ing the country in the vicinity Of
Riga, putting the torch to the houses
on all the estates, and even threaten.
Ing the town of Riga itself.
The districts of Riga and Vendon
are entirely in the hands of the In
Burgents The revolt is spreading to
all parts of Courland. All railway
communication with Riga Is cut. The
insurgents have seized a number of
stations on the three railroads lead
ing from that city and are advancing
against others.
According to the governments in
formation all sailors from the COM
mercial steamers In the harbor of
Riga have Joined the strike. The
government claims that the troops
there are loyal, though inadequate.
The situation is also bad at Mitau,
where on December IL the troops fired
on the rioters.
The government is making little
headway in crushing the telegraph
strike. The wires of the few lines
over which service has been tempor-
arily restored are constantly cut, and
not a single wire is working out of
ST. Petersburg. At the present rate
weeks will elapse before the service
can be really restored.
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campalan Orator Goes wronn.

New York.-Benjamin F. Chadsey,
the Brooklyn lawyer who was arrest
ed at Niles, Mich, and brought back
to this city on a charge of larceny,
pleaded guilty to attempted larceny in
the second degree in the county court
In Brooklyn Thursday. Chadsey, who
is prominent lawyer and campaign
orator was charged with the larceny
of funds OF a client, Isabella Miller.
He fled to South America and later
was arrested in San Francisco and
brought to this city, where he for
eeited bail.
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Explosion Kills Five.

Marquette, Mich.-Five men were
killed by an explosion on Saturday at
the Dupont company's dynamite
works here. About 1,400 pounds OF
nitro-glycerine exploded in the mixing
house of the company's factory, which
is three miles distant from Marquette.
The dead we're all workmen. OF the
thirty buildings in the plant few es
capped damage and some were badly
wrecked. The mixing house was ut
terly destroyed. In Marquette win
dows all over town were smashed.
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Many Mohammedans Killed.

Constantinople.--A dispatch TO
eeived here from Batoum In the gov
ernment OF Kutais, trans-Caucasia, re
ports the outbreak OF a revolution
there. 1t says that the streets were
barricaded and that fierce fighting
took place The military employed
artillery, and many persons, including
subjects OF the Ottoman empire. were
killed. In response to request made
by the Turkish consul the porte is
now arranging for the dispatch OF yes
sells to Batoum to bring back refugees
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-12-21
MISTAKEN IN THE DIAGNOSIS
Doctors Error Affected the Size Of
His Pocketbook

Albert Levering, the black-and'
white artist responsible for so many
Comics" used to live in Chicago, but
New York. He took his hypochon'
driacal tendencies with him and they
are still in good working order. His
favorite pastime is to read of some
deadly disease, preferably new one,
go to bed imagining he has 1t, lie
awake all night, seek his doctor In the
morning and get assurance that he IS
in perfect health, and then go back
cheerfully to work.
One morning not long ago he turned
up at the Doctors just as the man
of medicine was getting into his car
riage.
I'm in a hurry" called the doctor,
"and can't stop to see you, but it's
all right-you haven't got it,"
Haven't got what?' demanded the
astonished artist.
Whatever it is you think you've
got. Not symptom of 1t. Good bye"
and he drove away.
wei, now, SAID Leyerfng, turning
to lamp-post as the only witness OF
the scene, that's the time he's mis-
taken. l know have got item dol
lars in my pocket to pay his last bill;
but If he's sure haven't I'll try TO
get In line with his diagnosis" and
he went around to the nearest junk
shop and invested the money IN
pair Of brass candlesticks and a cop
per kettle.-Philadelph Post
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Kansas Senator Indicted.

Topeka, Kan.-The federal grand
Jury, which has been investigating
government land frauds In Kansas.
has returned an indictment against
State Senator +. Dumont Smith on
the charge of influencing federal Of
ficer to neglect his duty. Five other
indictments were returned. Smith is
state senator from a district In the
southwestern corner OF the state,
comprising eighteen counties. He is
charged Jointly with his law partner,
Roscoe Wilson, with conspiracy.
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Russian Doctors.

Russia is very short of doctors, hay-
ing only eight for every 100000 inhao'
itants. Great Britain has $50 for the
same number.
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that between us which / think will not
allow you to deny this favor which I
ask. have much to say to you, and
many questions to put which you
alone can answer to my satisfaction.
II you refuse l shall think, rightly or
wrongly, that you still regard me
more as the criminal than what once
was. the friend of your youth.
a."
The young man read this through.
Who had written it? Whose hand
had completed the broken sentences,
and given them the meaning which
they had heretofore lacked? Could he
have done it himself, while in state
OF somnambulism? No; for the hand
writing was not his! At a glance, he
could distinguish the words which
he had written himself. The
words over which he had labored
and perplexed his soul. The words
which had seemed to cast a slur upon
the memory Of his dead father-which
was now removed.
He turned the sheet over There,
on the other side, were those words,
the last probably his father ever
wrote: "My dear" together with
date, april 23rd."
He looked again at those mysteri-
Gus sentences, upon which the ink
still glistened. They were written in
the same hand!
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-06-03

The president Of a large wholesale
company in Van Buron street has re-
Gently received from a customer. who
lives In Akron. Ohio. curio consist
ing OF natural growth 81 naples SO
fashioned as 20 resemble a pair OF
Mexican trousers and part OF n close
fitting Jacket The trousers" are
about long enough fer a man six feet
tall
Tho Ohio customer has farm near
his home city. While exploring the
woods a few weeks ago be discovered
a tree whose peculiarly startled him.
soon afterward he had the sree fclled
and. cutting ont the unique section
sent 10 bv freight % the Chicaro nru
Chicago News.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-06-03

Miss Nary Bowers Moulton Of Pitts
field. Ne has received a very inter
esting heirloom from her aunt. Mrs.
Isabelle Patten of Sheldonyille. Mass.
II Is a handmade lace collar. which
was worn by her great grandmother.
Mary Bowers Symmes. at a ball given
In Boston in 1925. in honor Of Lafay-
cite. on the occasion OF his second
visit 10 the United States. Since that
event the collar has always remained
In the family. and has been worn by
six brides. direct descendants OF Mrs.
Symmes.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-06-03

Ar the Packer Receiving Fair rla,r
Nheu tie Garfield report on tle
business methods ot tLe packers ar
ptafed- aiter eight months irvestga-
uon' lt was severely criticised ard
roundly denounced After three months
oi pN'i.'i'y DO is sisnhcant that those
VINO attempted to discrcdit 10 have
iailed to conirovert thc figures COT.
tanned I'D that exhaustive document
me pnoHe U.s. beginning to notice th.s
omission. ANA the feeling is rapidly
growing il1t Che sensational ch7rgpe
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-06-03
a - snake 60.

THE affair happened on Saturda.
night" says the Buiawago Chronicle
I'm a room on the outskirts OF Rayl
ton. -Four card players were inten.
on a game OF whist and the window
was open 90 allow az some fresh air
suddenly. out of the darkness. five
feet OF black mam1a hurled itsel
through the open window into the
room. For a moment every one was
paralyzed. and then one OF the occu.
pants seized hold OF the most handy
weapon and funs Il az the intruder
n happened 20 be a water bag and
the snake received a cold douche
which vas evidently not 20 It's liking
for 10 vanished just as suddenly as 60
had come. by tho same route. 4
search q the premises discovered
the creature in ara adjoining room
bat Il again made its escape. and. as
the police woui1 say is 'stiu al
large"
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-06-03

" HE farming life OF to-day. as
coutrasted with that OF nfty
years ago. Is a paradise OF
comfort and convenience. The
lonely loghouee. remote from market
and devoid OF advantages that a half
cycle OF time has made possible. would
scarcely appeal TO the present day
farmer.
The twentieth century SOL filler has
practically all the modern comforts.
His mail Is delivered daily. lie has
telephone connection with the buying
and selling world. afrording the best
opportunities for marketing TO advan-
tSge. His home is OF recent architec-
ture. constructed OF wood. brick or
stone. and well furnished. lie has
modern plumbing and modern beating.
and with the advent OF acetylene gas.
be has modern lighting At night his
home is as attractiveiy Illuminated as
that OF his city brother for II is a sug-
gestive fact that "acetylene FOR coun-
try homes" has so appealed to the farm
er that Of the $1,000 users OF acety-
lene gas In the United states the farm
er Is one OF the largest OF ali classes.
Ever seeking the best. he has not hest
tated in availlng himself OF this new
light
The continued growth and progress
OF this great country. ever cause o;
wonderment. has no greater eVempli
hcation than evolution on che farm
Already the farmer is becoming ths
most envied OF men-thc freest The
health.est. the happicstl