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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-05-01
Benson Stake Ward Conferences,

The regular annual ward conferences
OF the Benson Stake will be held as
follows:
Lewiston and CovcviIle sunday,
May II
Charleston, Newton, Smithtield Sec.
ond ward SUNDAY, May 10.
Richmond, Smthtield First ward
Treuton-Sunday, May 20.
Meetings will be held at 10 m. anC
2p. m. 1t is record day and all rec
ords of the different organization:
should be at vestry of meeting hous,
at ga. m of said day for inspection.
ALMA MERRILL,
b. A. HENDRICKS,
WIN. WADDouPs.
Presidency Of Stake.
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From the Logan Bindery.

Some time ago we notified the pub.
lie of our intention to discontinue
bookbinding on account OF the Ill
health of J. w. Wilkinson, but the
many applications of our customers
have led us to finally make arrange.
ments 10 continue this branch Of our
business. Therefore, send us your
binding as usual, and it will receive
the same careful workmanship that
has Away characterized our work.
WILKINSON & Son.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-05-01
Stake Meetings.

The Hyrum Stake Relief society will
hold their officers meeting in the
Third ward meeting house Saturday,
May 4 at IL a. m.
The Hyrum Stake Relief society will
hold their conference in the Stake
house at Hyrum Friday, May Il, 1907
at 10 a. m. and p. nj. Members Of
the general board in Salt Lake City
are expected to meet with us.
NELLIE +. PARKINSON,
President.
GEoRGENE RALPH,
Secretary.
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Benson Stake Fast Day.

The regular fast day of the Benson
Stake, which occurs on Sunday, Ma,
>, will be held on Sunday, April 2S
Also the priesthood meeting, which
should be held on Saturday, May 1
will Ue held at Lewiston on Saturday
April ~. at II a. m.
ALMA MERRILL
b. A. HENDRICKS.
VIM WADDoUPs,
Presidency Of Sake.
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Bids Wanted.

Sealed bids will be received by tie
undersigned at his Office in Logan
City up to 6 O'Clock p. m, Thursday
May 2, 1907, for the purchase for cash
Of the log building on the Sixth ward
meeting house lot, corner Main and
Fourth South streets. Said building
to be removed at once.
The right to reject any or all bids is
reserved. A. l.. SKANCHY,
Bishop.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-05-01
Benson Stake Conference.

The regular quarterly conference o
the Benson Stake will be held a
Smithfeld on Saturday and Sunday
May 4 and 3. ALMA MERRILL,
b. A. HENDRICKS,
WIN WADDoUPs,
Presidency Of Stake.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-05-01
Notice TO Contractors.

Sealed bids will be received up tc
~ O'Clock noon Wednesday, May !, BY
the recorder Of Logan City for cast
iron sidewalk plates and other foundry
work that may be needed by the cor
poration up to December 81, 1906. The
right is reserved to reject any and al
bids.
COMMITTEE ON SIDEWALKS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
The Steunenberg Outrage Is
Repeated in Oregon.
Bomb Exploded When He Open.
ed His Front Gate.
CONDITION CRITICAL.
One Leg Gone and an Arm
Badly Shattered.
The Windows of His House
Were Demolished.

! Baker City, Ore, Oct IAN attempt
was made at 1890 o'clock last night to
| assassinate former Sheriff Harvey K.
Brown, at his home in this city by
blowing him up with a dynamite bomb.
Mr.. Brown is at the hospital in crit1-
cal condition. One of his legs was
blown off, one of his arms badly mutila-
ted and internal injuries were sustain
ed. The outrage was similar In manner
of execution to that which resulted in
the death of former Governor Frank
Steunenberg of Idaho.
Mr.. Brown was returning home and as
he opened his gate the bomb exploded,
wounding Mr.. Brown and blowing in
the windows of his house. The explo-
sion was heard in the center of town
half a mile away The chief of police
and county authorities are wholly un-
able to fathom any cause for the deed
and are also unable to obtain any clew
to the perpetrators OF it.
Assassins Waited for Him.
Portland, Ore, Oct. IA special to
the Oregonian from Baker City says:
Ex-Sheriff Brown, who was dynamited
last night had just returned from a
trip out of town to some mining pro-
perty. He was found lying the
sidewalk several feet from the gate, the
large posts were 1OunQ DIOWn 10 pieces
and the fence shattered for some dis
tance. The perpetrators left no track
of their deed except a wire which ex-
tended about 20 feet north along the
fence and then went west about 80 feet
to the middle of the road.
1t is presumed that the assassin or
assassins were lying in wait for Mr..
Brown and pulled the wire as he en-
tered the gate.
Immediately after the explosion a
neighbor of Mr.. Browns heard some
men running north from the direction
of the Brown house. 1t is thought that
Mr.. Brown had some idea of the identi-
ty of the men who perpetrated the out
rage, for he was heard to mutter just
before lapsing into Inconsistencies,
They have laid for me, and they got
me-"
Mr.. Brown became unconscious Few
later and said nothing that
would give any clue to the identity of
the asSaSsins.
Mrs. Brown is prostrated by the
shock and the physicians fear she will
not recover. Mr. Brown, while sheriff
of Baker county, was diligent in en-
forcing the law against saloon men and
gambl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
DOWN THE RIVER.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt on the
Steamboat Mississippi.
Begins His Journey on the
Father of Waters.
'FLOTILLA FOLLOWS.
Made Up of 20 Big Packets and
Launches.
The Governors Went South on
a Special Train.
Negroes of KeOkuk Gave Him
Gold Headed Cane.

Keokuk, Ia, Oct. President
Roosevelt began his river trip from
Keokuk this morning. He arrived
here at 9:1O and was met at the sta
ton by governors of Iowa, Florida,
louisiana. Minnesota, Nebraska, both
i Sotas, Oregon. Wyoming ana
Inois and by three companies OF
tate troops.
The morning was fair but sprinkle
of rain began shortly after the presi-
Dental party started in carriages TO
the band park where the speech was
delivered.
Followingt address, which was
heard by 2O,0UO pers ons, the president
was driven to the lower lock of the
government canal and boarded the
steamer Mississippi for the trip south.
He reviewed the display of 100 pleas
ure launches in the river and departed
leading the fiotilla of twenty big steam
boats and the launches. The COVER
nors left at noon on a special train Tor
St. Louis. Ten special excursion trains
brought in great crowds JUST before
full of strangers.
Keokuk was decorated in the most
lavish manner of any occasion in its
history and entertained the greatest
crowd ever seen here.
The inland waterways commission
arrived last night on the steamer
Mackenzie. joining the president here.
President Roosevelt was presented
with a gold headed cane by Keokuk
negroes.
The president boarded the boat at
IL O'Clock and left shortly before
boats ever seen on the upper Mis-
siSSippi river.
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WILL ASK DISMISSAL.
Borah's Attorneys Say There Is No
Evidence Against Him.

Boise, Idaho, Oct. What will prob
ably be the last day of the prosecution
in the Borah case began this morning
With the Introduction of evidence to
show that the defendant in mis- capacity
at attorney for the Barber Lumber
company had many deeds to timber
lands recorded in the office of the coun-
ty clerk in this city. The defense an
nounced yesterday that this could in no
way connect Senator Borah with any
criminal conspiracy and that they were
ready to concede The fact without any
testimony whatever. The government
attorneys declined to accept the offer
It is stated that Senator Borah's
counsel will move to hive the case ta-
ken from the jury Immediately after the
government closes. Judge Whitson
notified the prosecution last night that
he would allow no more testimony of
general nature until some evidence con-
Meeting the defendant with the alleged
crime was produced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
LITTLE LAND IS LEFT.
III. f. Millikan Tells How 1t Has Been
Snapped Up.

H. F. Mi1likan, register of the
United States land office at Dodge
City, was in Topeka Monday. Mr..
Millikan is we'll known to the old time
politicians of the state He was the
leader of the Republican faction dur
ing all the exciting political battles of
fusion days.
There is still little government
land open to settlement in Morton
and Stanton counties" said Mr.. Milli-
kan, "but it is fast being taken up by
settlers Practically everything has
been cleaned up in other counties.
About a thousand filings have been
made during the past year. The land
out in those counties is all right; pro-
yided there is the right amount of rain
fall. Of course there will be bad
crop years now and then, but crop
failures are likely to occur every
where.
'I was out at Steve Caves place at
Santa Fe not very long ago. He has
a big pond there which is fed from
deep wells He has windmills run
ming all the time pumping water into
those ponds, and 1 had as fine fish
brea kfast there as 1 ever had The
pond is full of fish.
western Kansas is a whole lot diff
ferent from what it was some years
ago. People are more prosperous, and
more confident of the future. In my
town. Dodge City, they are building
big -four mill. The money comes
from western capitalists who have
the situation carefully, and
have come to the conclusion that
wheat in Ford county Is crop which
can he depended upon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
SUES PLATT AGAIN.
May Wood Asks Legal Separation
From the Senator

New York. Oct. Inlay Catherine
Wood, the former government clerk,
who has been suing United State Sen
ator Thomas c. Platt for several years.
has brought action in the supreme court
alleging that she had been married to
him in the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, in 1901. ]. D. Lee, representing
the plaintiff announced the action as
''Platt against Platt,'' and he said the
motion was for the purpose of framing
an issue. He said he wanted the de-
tails to become generally known.
John B. Stanchfield, who appeared for
Senator Platt, asked that the matter be
heard in private by referee. He said
Senator Platt was never married to
Miss Wood and therefore there was no
ground for divorce. Justice Seabury
reserved decision.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
AN IDEAL AUTUMN DAY.
Temperatures and Falling Leaves Tell
of = Passing Season.

For one word, ideal, comes mighty
nearly describing the weather condi-
ton which has prevailed all day and
promise to continue for another, though
a big show is billed for tomorrow. The
sky is hazy and typical of autumn and
in the country the trees have COM
menced their annual contribution of
vartously tinted leaves.
In the city the smoke from the CHM
neys hangs low or winds lazily upward
unmindful of the breeze which is blow
ing from the southwest at the rate of
IL miles an hour. The temperature has
been slightly higher than that of yes
terday. though the change is hardly no
ticeable. There was a slight shower a
little after midnight last night. the pre-
cipitation amounting to but .13 of an
inch. The following table indicates the
moves of the mercury since since z
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
MAIL WEIGHING IS ON.
All Matter Carried to Be Tested for
Thirty Days.

New York, Oct 1-At one minute past
midnight this morning railway mail
clerks throughout the country began
weighing of mails in obedience to
general order of the postmaster general.
Congress is responsible for this.
In the regular appropriation bill of
the postal service, approved March L
the clause requiring the weighing for 80
days was inserted. 1t was the first time
In the history Of postoffice department
that the weighing Of all mail matter in
all trains over all roads on which mail
clerks are employed was required.
In former years in order to arrive at
an average. special periods were set
aside to determine the amount of GER
tain classes of mail carried over certain
routes. or in certain postal sections of
the United States
The object of 80 days trial is to give
the denartment and congress reliable
statistics TO determine the cost of hand
ling and transporting different classes
of mai matter
For this special purpose congress ap-
propriated 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
LANTRY GETS CONTRACT
One on the Wisconsin Central. the
Other in West Virginia.

Kansas City, Oct. 1.-The Lantry Con-
tracting company has been given two
important contracts. One is the COR
struction Of d tunnel 1000 feet long into
Duluth for the Wisconsin Central rail-
road. The other contract is for the ball
lasting of the track of the Tidewater
railroad, which extends from the coal
fields in West Virginia to Norfolk. The
work will require 100000 yards of bal
last. The contract price is q million
dollars.
I'VE are pushing the construction of
the Ration tunnel CT, the Santa Fe sys
tenn" T. T. Kelley, secretary of the
company, said this morning. The pres
emf tunnel is 2140 feet long. The second
tunnel is to be 800 feet long, seventeen
feet wide and twenty-seven feet to tbs
top of the arch, and is to cost X million
dollars It is 10 be completed January
1. The Santa Fe is to be double tracked
through the hill and will use the new
tunnel for the second track"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
RAINBOW AT NIGHT.
IL. $ Passenges Tell About
Seeing One. Coming Over.

New York. Oct. 1.-The Atlantic
transport liner Minnenaha, just in
from London. brought to port a story
of having seen a rainbow at night.
Captain Robinson and a score of pas
sengers vouched for the truth of the
story.
H. w. ScoveI. retired merchant of
Newburyport, Mass, said that the
rainbow appeared just before mid
Wednesday, All that day
S.-c., been occasional showers.
oiorI- hing there was clearing,
Ssi Ssi.hI nlsht a mist settled down over
a. water.
a. Along about midnight" said Mr..
g. ~. "a peculiar half circle of col
- ;ht appeared in the west Both
ends touched the sea, and although
not as vivid as the rainbow we see in
the daytime. it was clearly defined
and a beautiful sight"
The phenomenon remained in view
twenty minutes and finally faded
away.
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CHECK ON NEWSB0YS.
Those Under IA Can't Sell Papers
After 10 O'Clock p. m.

New York, Oct. IA new law by
which boys under IA years old are
prohibited from selling papers be-
tween 10 p. m. and a. M. goes into
effect today. Boys who violate the
law can be arrested either by police
men or truant officers. Boys under
10 are not allowed to sell at any time,
while those between 10 and IA have
to secure board of education permits
as formerly. The board of education
will enforce the laws strictly.
This law is one of the several new
child labor laws passed by the last
legislature. A law prohibiting the
employment of children under 16
years of age in factories before
o'clock in the morning or after 5
o'elock in the evening is one of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
DIVIDEND LOWER.
AmaIgamated Is Not Paying So Well
as Formerly.

New York. Oct 1.-The directors of
the Anaconda Copper company, the
main producing company of the
Amalgamated Copper company, today
declared a quarterly dividend of 125
a share.
This is a reduction of so cents from
he dividend declared in the previous
Juarter and is 20 per cent per annum
instead of the rate of % per cent. as
declared for the previous quarter.
Copper is quoted today on the metal
exchange at a reduction of Il Of
cent per pound. Lake copper is quot
ed at Ia y @15.
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WITH A RIFLE BULLET.
DIR. III. Il. Darrin of Wichita Commits
Suicide

Wichita, Kan, Oct. DIR H. F.
Darrin committed suicide here in his
room over 24S North Main street by
shooting himself in the forehead with
a 22 caliber Winchester rifle
DR.. Darrin, 1t is said, was addicted
to the alcohol habit and had not been
in a normal condition for three weeks.
He was in a similar delirous state last
spring. At that time he imagined
that there was gang" after him and
that he would have to kill himself. A
rifle was taken from him At still an
other time it is said that he told a
friend that when he died he would
take the easiest way.
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SECRETARY OF PEACE.
That Is the Private Title Conferred
Upon Taft.

Washington, Oct. 1.-Seoretary of
Peace Taft has accomplished half the
errand Of his world betting trip. Treaty
negotiations with Japan, suspended
months ago in Washington, have been
resumed IN Toxic. At least that's what
Official Washington reads between the
lines of the dispatches from Toxic tell
ing of the dinners and receptions ac-
corded Mr. Taft in the chrysanthemum
land and of his interviews with the war
minister Terauchi.
Nominally the secretary's sole task in
the Orient was to beam benignly upon
the beginnings of self government IN
the Philippines. Actually the greatest
responsibility placed upon MN was 10
straighten out bad American-Japan-
ese tangle as he Strengthened out
friars' land tangle in Rome, revolution
in Cuba and Isthmian canal complica-
tions on numerous occasions. About
the time congress adjourned last spring
negotiations for a new treaty with
Japan had reached a bad stage. The
Japanese insisted that the school ques-
ton be settled to their satisfaction ard
as an act of justice under existing trea-
ties before a step should be taken
toward the settlement of the immigra-
tion question.
The Trouble in San Francisco.
They made it clear that for any ex-
clusion concessions Japan would de-
mand a quid pro quo, but they were
equally emphatic that the readmission
of Japanese children to San Francisco
schools should not be regarded as con-
stituting that quid pro quo. Under
standing treaties Japan contended that
its children in this country had right
to school privileges and its diplomats
stood on those rights. If the children
were readmitted to school privileges
the diplomats would then be willing to
consider a restriction of japanese coolie
provided the United States
could and would trade some privilege or
to Japan for that restriction.
When President Roosevelt and the Cali
fornia authorities finally informally ar
ranged for the return of the school
privileges and coupled this with tenta-
tive exclusion legislation by congress,
the Japanese dropped the negotiations
and took a verv peevish tone. While
the children were back in school, there
had not been secured the formal ac-
of the principle involv-
ed The United States had arranged
for what was supposed would be
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
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THE, CORONER'S VERDICT
Examination of Miss Sapp's Body
Proved Most Satisfactory.

Moran, Kan, Oct. 1.-Dr. D. w.
Reid, coroner; DR.. James Reid and
DR.. S. A. Coffman finished the second
autopsy upon the parts of the body of
Miss May Sapp at lola without learn
ing anything that sheds any light on
the mystery of the girls death. Miss
Sapp was found dead in the back yard
of her home last Friday night with
her throat cut. The coroner said
Monday there was nothing wrong
with the young woman's condition.
This will obviate the necessity of a
further examination of the body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
STRIKE IS AVERTED.
Marine Engineers and Companies
Reach an Agreement.

New York, Oct. All danger of
strike of marine engineers on the
ocean and coast wise steamship lines
whose vessels sail from this port
bearing the American flag has been
averted.
The demands were for an increase
in wages avera ging 10 per cent and a
number of rules governing overtime.
1t was declared last evening by rep
resentatives of both the companies
and the men that a satisfactory ar
rangement had been reached.
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SALOON BLOWN UP.
Another Nitroglycerine Explosion
Touched OFF in Chicago.

Chicago, Oct. 1.-In the midst of
the grand iury'S investigation of pool
selling in Chicago and the bomb mys-
terry attached thereto, there happened
last night another nitroglycerine ex-
pIosion. This time the explosion oc-
Cured at the saloon of ex-Alderman
John A. Rogers at West Madison and
May street. Rogers was one of the
witnesses who appeared earlier in the
day before the grand jury, which is
expected to return wholesale gam
bling indictments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01
BOOKER 7. BUYS land.
Purchases Governor Corners Planta-
tions for Negro Homes.

Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 1.-Governor B.
B. Conner has sold his plantations in Bar
bour and Bullock counties consisting of
IS 600 acres for $162.0oo. TO Internal Reve-
nue. Collector o. F. Thompson of the Ala
bama district who. it is understood, is
acting for Booker T. Washington. 1t is
said to be Washington's intention to es-
tablish colonies of negroes on the land
nearly all of which is under a high state
of cultivation.
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Wreck Kills 10

Seoul, Oct 1.-Forty-two nersons
including thirty Japanese Soldiers,
were killed by the derailment of a
southbound train from this place
early today. The responsibility for
the wreck has not been fixed
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STUBS FOR GOVERNOR.
Ewing Herbert Comes Out for the
8 Lawrence Politician.

TIiawatl1a Kan, Oct 1.-The Hiawatha
world comes out for W. r. Stubbs for
GOVERNOR In its last issue it saws:
HStubbs is the man the Republicans should
make governor. Ninety per cent of the
people of Brown county are for Stubbs for
governor to succeed Hoch-"
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BONDS ARE BROKEN.
Empress of China Proclaims a Con-
stitutional Monarchy

London, Oct. IA special dispatch
from Pekin says the dowager empress
has issued a decree declaring the gov
ernment of China to be constitution
al monarchy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-01

Jacob Smith has been rather seri-
onsly III Tor two days at his home,
sos Harrison street.
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lVeafhe- INDICATIONS.

Chicago Oct. Forecast for Kan
sas: Generally fair tonight and Wednes-
day, moderate temperature.
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Need of Wise Laws.

Therefore we need wise laws, and we
need to have them resolutely admins
administrator only IL the people are
alive to their interests. The other day
/ listened to an admirable sermon by
Bishop Johnston, of western Texas. His
theme was that the vital element in
Judging any man should be his conduct,