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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
GoMPERs MAKES DENIAL.
Never Said That He Would Deliver
the Labor Vote.

Washington.-"Th report that
have ever said that would or would
not deliver the labor vote to any polit-
ical party is an infamous lie" said
Samuel Gompers, president Of tht
American Federation of Labor on
Thursday. Organized labor Is nol
only honest, but intelligent enough to
choose the party for its support
7hich will best represent it's inter
ests.
ut is possible that by lies and mis-
representations the enemies of organ
ized labor may injure me personally
and even be successful in accomplish
ing my removal as president Of the
American Federation of Labor" said
Mr.. Gompers, "but that will never
change my course in battling for the
principles for which l stand"
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
THREE TOWNS FLOODED.
Cloudburst In Colorado Does Damage
Of 100000.

Florence, Colo.-A cloudburst Fri
day afternoon in the headwaters of
Oak aud Coal creeks sent raging
torrent down those little streams,
flooding three towns, washing out
to be not less than 100000.
No loss of life Is reported, though
Mrs. J. Burns, an elderly woman, was
taken from her home in this city,
which had been flooded by the water,
in a serious condition from exposure
Hundreds of hogs and chickens on
the truck farms to the south were
drowned and in the towns of Rock
sale and Williamsburg hundreds OF
houses were flooded. In Florence,
Coal creek leaped it's banks and flood
ed more than 100 homes.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06

heat. For few days his condition
seemed to improve, but he later be-
gan to grow worse.
Saturday morning the senator was
brought to his home in this city. Soon
afterward he relapsed into a condi-
tion of almost unconsciousness. With
brief spells when he recovered some
what. he had remained in this condi-
tion until death came to his relief at
1888 p. m. on Tuesday
News of the serious illness of the
aged senator was kept from the pub
lie as much as possible, and his death
came as a sudden and almost totally
unexpected shock to his thousands of
friends residing In this city. Only
the most intimate friends of the fam
lily were aware of his critical and un-
conscious condition since his return
to the city
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
HOPE FOR LAMPHERE.
Mrs. Guinness and Children Given
Strychnine Before Being
Cremated.

La Porte, Ind-Coroner Mack an.
nounced on Thursday that DR.. Wai.
ter Haines of Rush Medical college,
Chicago, who analyzed the stomach of
Andrew Helgelen of Aberdeen, s. D.,
the last victim of Mrs. Belle Guinness,
finding strychnine and arsenic In IA
tai doses. has also found in the stom,
achs of MRS. Guinness and two of the
children arsenic and strychnine in
quantities sufficient to have caused
death.
Attorney Worden, who represents
Lamphere, charged with the Guinness
murders, and with being an accom-
plice of Mrs. Guinness in the Heigelein
death, declares that the discovery
shows that his client could have had
nothing to do with the death of the
woman and her children.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
Mine Horror Narrowly Au.r..A

Nontrose, Colo.-Fourteen workman
employed in driving the west end OF
the Gunnison government irrigation
tunnel had miraculous escape from
being drowned. A huge cloudburg,
broke in the gulch just above the Yves,
portal OF the big bore, flooded tbe
power house floor to a depth of eieb.
teen inches, put out the fire. which
stopped the dynamos and fans. spread
over the level streeh near the powe+
house, under which the tunnel is driv.
en- The men escaped by an old sbaft
as the water rushed into the tunnel
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
Chased Lion with Slippers.

Paris, France-A lion broke loose
at the electrical exhibition at Mar.
settles and made his way on the stage
of the theater, where ballet was be-
ing rehearsed. The panic among the
ladies appeared in their midst was in
tense. Three of the ladies', however,
were possessed of more courage than
the rest, and, snatching off their
shoes, they beat the greatly astonish-
ed beast into submission When the
lion tanner arrived the lion welcomed
him with evident Joy.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
SENATOR ALLISON
CALLED BY DEATH
Veteran Statesman Had Served Iowa
in the Senate for More Than
Quarter of Century.
News of His illness Had Been Kept
From the Public, and His Death
Came as Sudden and Totally &
Unexpected Shock.

Dubuque, Ia.-United States Senator
William b. Allison died of heart fail
ure at 1888 p. M, Tuesday, August T..
The death of Senator Allison removes
from the senate a man who for more
than quarter of century has been
one of its most prominent members.
He had served continuously since
1873. .a5a
Mr. Allison was born at Perry, o.,
March 2, 1929, and removed to Iowa
in 1867. He served as a member of
the house of representatives in the
Thirty eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth
and Forty-frst congresses prior to his
election to the estate.
Two weeks ago the aged senator
left his home in the city to escape the
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
VIII Give Lumber Trust Run for
Their Money

Topeka, Kan.-Attorney General
Jackson on Thursday filed in the dis
trict court of Shawnee county custer
quo warranto and injunction suits
against the Yellow Pine association
OF st. Louis. The attorney general of
Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma, it is
stated, filed similar suits in their re-
spective states, in concerted effort
to break up what is alleged to be an
illegal combine to raise the price Of
lumber to a figure said to be unrea-
sonable and fictitious.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
Coal Company Was to Blame.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-In report made
to Governor B. b. Brooks on the
Hanna coal mine disaster of last
March, costing ffty-nine lives, State
Coal Mine Inspector Noah Young de-
clares that certain laws governing the
operation of coal mines had been vio-
lated by the Union Pacific Coal com
pany in its haste to open up an entry
in which there had been fire, there,
by causing an explosion. The inspec-
tor suggests that the mine be sealed
forever as a tomb for the men whose
bodies were not recovered.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
Auto Bun Down by Train.

elphia-Driving their big
touring car across the Reading rail.
way tracks at Hunting Park avenue
in the northern section OF the city in
front of an inbound express train
late at night, Charles Humphreys
chief clerk in the bureau of police,
and Harry b. Bromley, prominent
dealer in upholsterers' materials,
were run down and killed. Portions
of their mangled bodies were scat
tered along the tracks for 100 yards
and except for the contents of their
pockets, Identification would have
been almost impossible.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
lnhuman Mother Sets Fire to Child.

Cleveland O.-Confessing that she
had bound the hands of her four-year-
old child with oil.soaked rags and set
them atire, Mrs, Helen Macy has been
sentenced to serve three months in
the workhouse, The mother, with
three-weeks-old baby in her arms,
stated in court that she had supsected
the older child of stealing the last
quarter they had for household ex.
penses, and hunger and desperation
had caused her TO endeavor to make
the child confess by this punishment.
Neighbors rescued the child before
she was badly burned.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
TOWN WRECKED BY WATER.
Mountain Of Water Causes Heavy
Property Loss at 6isbee. Arizona.

Property Loss at Bisbee, Arizona.
Bisbee, Ariz.-A cloudburst Tuesday
afternoon did 100000 damage in
Bisbee. One side of Main street, in
cluding the postofiice. in less than ten
minutes was changed from two hun
dred yards of big stores, costly sa-
looms and business Offices to mass of
wreckage by rocks. water and mud
that came tumbling down off the
mountain side. Postmaster NJ. f. Cas-
sidy and Sheriff Jack White, who were
in the postmaster's office, narrowly es-
capped with their lives, as did the
force of eighteen girls employed in
the postoffice, when the thrush of
water almost without warning struck
the side of the building and filed it
to depth of six feet Huge boulders
and tons of dirt and rocks slid into
the first floor of the postofiice, where
the force was at work
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
HEAT WAVE CAUSES DEATH.
Eleven Citizens Of Chicago succumb
to Heat and Over Sixty Pros
trations.

Chicaeo.-The relief promised in the
government weather forecast from
the heat of the previous five days,
which has been responsible for eleven
deaths and more than sixty prostra-
tions, had not arrived at midnight on
Thursday. Four more d-dths were ad-
ded to the roll on Thursday, and OF
the fifteen prostrations reported, sew.
eral victims are in critical condition.
The maximum temperature was SO de
greeS
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
CONFERENCE ON PANAMA
Roosevelt Summons Wright a
Bishop to Sycamore Hill.

Oyster Bay, N. VA conference on
conditions in the American canal zone
at Panama and on the relations of the
canal zone with the republic Of Pan.
anna. was held at Sycamore Hill Fri
day night.
Secretary of War Wright and Secre-
tary of the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion Joseph Bishop, who had been
summoned here to discuss the Pan
anna matters with the president, ar,
rived Friday evening. With General
Wright and Secretary Bishop the pres,
ident Friday night went over the sit.
uation in Panama.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-06
SHAH PosTPoNEs ELECTION.
Does Not Wish to be Thought an
imltator of the Sultan.

London.-The Times correspondent
at Teheran says that the news of the
revival of the Turkish constitution
has greatly disconnected the reaction.
aries and encouraged the nationalists.
The shah and his entourage are said
to be greatly disturbed. 1t is ru'
mored, the correspondent adds, that
the shah has determined to postpone
the election lest 1t should be thought
he was initiating the sultan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
Uniform Pure Food Law

On Monday of next week officials from the southern states will assemble in Atlanta to consider and prepare a bill directed against the sale of impure food and feeds. This bill will be pre- sentel to the southern legislatures as fast as they meet, and the hope is that they can be induced to adopt uniform law.
 Such a law would supplement the national pure food law, and it would go beyond it by promoting in feeds the use f cotton seed meal and cotton seed hulls, and, best of all, the use of cotton seed oil as a condiment and cooking Oil thus driving out the lard made from cholera-stricken hogs.
 The Georgia pure food law is consid- cred perhaps the best in the south and no doubt the officials who are to meet in Atlanta will make that law the basis  of their action. The need for a high grade law shutting out all impure food and feeds is very great in the south, and uniform law would be all the more effective. Alabama will, let us hope, be represented at the Atlanta meeting. The laws of this state relat- ing to both food and feeds are nototi- ously imperfect, and the Atlanta meet ing may serve to put us in a way to get laws that will raise the standards while they promote the consumption of the wholesome by-products of the cotton Dlanf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
REGULATING TRAMPs.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Some excellent sociologists have been studying the tramp problem and seem to think that it is possible to treat the disease as of a single origin. To place the finger on the sole cause of the dis
 case is to provide the remedy, etc., etc., to an extent which is a little bewilder- ing.
 There have been but two men fin this country who have ever had practical ex- perience with tramps to an extent which made their views on the subject of inn portanee Unfortunately, both of them
 are dead Possibly they are dead because
 they were tramps for the race Is mo- toriously short lived Not long ago Josiah
 Flynt, nephew of Miss Frances Willard,
 went to his rest after a career that is
 more astonishing than anything in flc-
 ton. He was a man who had all the
 opportunities which can easily come to
 any American. He went to college here and to a German university, but there was in him that spirit of wanderlust which made close application to hls books i'm
 possible. He went out into %e world
 and saw it from a point Of view denied
 to most of us. He tramped Europe from
 Manchuria to Spain and America from
 one end of the country to the other To
 certain extent he was a constructive
 philosopher, since he was able to assist
 the Pennsylvania railroad to rid its lines
 of the tramps and thieves which had done so much damage
 But in his posthumous memoirs he gives us fine perspective of the tramp, which
 ought to be studied by every legislator, by every administrator and by every rail- way man. The tramp is not open to the ordinary influences. Jail is often to him
 a pleasant place for temporary retire ment and good food. He can stand incar-
 ceration with more aplomb than any other class In fact, this peculiar sort of dere- licts ought to be taken Tn hand with
 some intelligence and discretion Most tramps love the open air and desire some exercise. We should think that breaking stone on the public roads would be just compensation for their sins. All pos sible sentiment is wasted on them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24

Its second duty is to reduce duties greatly upon manufactured articles, and to abolish entirely those no longer needed.
 The democrats in Congress need not seek a policy nearer the ideal than this is. but the burning question is, what will the Aldrich-Hale inner circle in the Senate, the Cannon-Payne-Dalzell ring iR the House. seek? That they will accept anything so reasonable, just and constitutional as Mir. Carnegie's plan simply surpasses belief. They will support q scheme that has been devis ad to maintain the incomes of the privileged few who foot the bills of the republican party itself. The scheme for rsbbing consumers for any such purpt SC disgusts MT. Carnegie, but 1t does not disgust the Aldriches and Dalzolls who rule Congress. Tariff agitation must therefore go on indef- nitety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
Our Railroad MagnateS

The Wall Street Journal says the country has acquired new railroad nagnate in John L. Billiard of Meri- den, Conn. Many are called railroad magIales who are not all wool and a yard wide. To be a real railroad mag nate one must personally own a domi- nant interest in a great railroad sys- tenn. Only three have of late filled the bill, namely, James J. Hill, E. H. Harri- man and Harry Walters. MT. Billiard becomes No. through the purchase of a controlling interest in the Boston and Maine, a system 2142 miles long in New England Billiard may be un- known to fame, but that does not mat ter If he goes on acquiring railroad after railroad. He would then have the goods and no one could say he was not magnate. MT. Morgan scatters too much to be one, and MT. Rockefeller is true to oil because it is true to him on dividend days.
 Our Big Four is therefore Hill, liar riman, Walters and Billiard. Billiard and Hill have no systems in the south. but Hartman and Walters have. Con sidering the matter up one side and down the other, we are inclined to pre- fer Hartman and Walters to Hill, who knows it all, or to Billiard, who has suddenly become, says the Journal, loquacious and triumphant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
BIG MONEY IN ONIONS.
From Leslie,s Weekly.

From leSlle $ w eehly
 Texas gives us a practical lesson in the benefits of protection, and strangely enough, the facts are brought out by that high priest of free. trade, the New York Evening Post. Our able contemp- orary reports that the onion growers of Bermuda are very much moved because posed by the United States is driving them out of our markets and leaving clear field for the onion growers of south Texas. In an article on the Bermuda onion industry in Texas, the Technical World says that in eight years the value of the annual product of onions in Texas has grown from nothing to more than $2, ,0O00C0 and that, as a result, land that wa s thought to be worthless and only fit for goat grazing now brings an annual net return of $500 to s50o per acre from the onions it produces. This land has risen in valuation from s1 or S2 per acre to not less than $1000, and many onion growers would not be willing to accept less than 5000 per acre, as on that price the annual net return averages 25 per cent on the investment. 1t IS safe to say that when the tariff revisionists get to work next winter the onion growers of Texas will be on hand to enter their vigorous pro- test against a reduction of the duty on Bermuda onions and that the Bermuda onion growers will have their representa- tives on hand to fight for free trade in the industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
Need Horse Ambulance.

"One of the worst needs of the city of Birmingham is an ambulance for horses" said Humane Officer L. A. Bennie yes- terday.
 T do not know of single town of the size of Birmingham which does not own a horse ambulance. These convey ances have become almost necessity in large cities. Frequently horses get in such condition that they cannot move and without a horse ambulance it is inn possible to move them. In many cases animals are so badly injured that 1t is necessary to kill them and it is not all ways best to shoot them in localities where they are found For instance, it would not be well to kill horse at the intersection of Second avenue and Twen- tieth street.
 ''The urgent need of such an ambulance as described is emphasized almost every day The conveyanees are not costly and it seems to me the city might easily af- ford one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
The Iron Market.

The pig iron market continues strong and active but there has been no advance in prices since the present buying move ment set in. There is this difference, however: A few weeks ago the SIS quota tion was shaded and considerable ton mage was contracted for at $12.5O Ever since early in the month consumers have paid $13 on No. basis and the price has tended upward.
 Some of the large furnace interests have discouraged an advance on the theory that since there is a reasonable profit at SIS and melters are willing to pay that price, it is better to let well enough alone. The market is steady and healthy TOW, but had the price schedule been advanced to s14 or $15 there would have been danger of a feverish condition fol- lowed by demoralization.
 The Sloss-Sheffield company has sold considerably over 1O0,OOO tons since the latter part of October-the bulk of the tonnage having been contracted for since the election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
oBSCURITY.

From Puck
 Not since the Renaissance, and perhaps not since the dawn of authentic history, has there been so little available obscur- ity in the world as there now is. The stock has been running low especially rapidly of late years in spite of the tariff on wood pulp; yet so insensibly withal that not until the difficulty of securing candidates for the vice presidency had taken on an acute Tease were patriots generally made aware of the scarcity.
 And obscuilty is not only hard to obtain but even harder to keep. There is no spe- cies of holding more precarious, in fact. Though a man shall be so fortunate as to surround himself with enough obscur- ity to make comfortable his declining years, he doesn't know what minute he may not be dragged out of it.
 There is undoubtedly more obscurity abroad than with us, but the growing practice among American heiresses whereby each of them marries, success sively, d number of noblemen, is not un- likely eventually to put the balance in our favor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
NEWSPAPER REsENTs ATTACK

From the New York Times.
 The Sun announced on it's editorial page yesterday morning that it had instructed its attorney to begin at once an action for libel against the Life Publishing com- pany, claiming punitive damages for the publication of an article signed Metcalfe in the current issue of Life
 The article is in four sections, each bearing the marginal title s151." It says that Life a week ago called attention to the discharge of Walter P. Eaton, dra- matic critic of tine Sun, and prophesied that tine Suns columns would probably disclose the reason. and that the reason was disclosed in the Sun of November 8 in the form of an advertisement of the theatrical attractions of K1aw & Erlanger, which for some time had been absent from the Sun, contemporary with the employment of Mir. Eaton. whose frank description of the nastiness of a certain show and candid criticism of another per formance' did not exactly conciliate the theatrical advertisers.
 "To state the matter briefly" the arti- cle continued, Ion the face of 1t the Sun was rewarded for MT. Eatons discharge, for no apparent cause except that he wrote too fearlessly and too honestly, by the insertion of advertising amounting to s151 a week..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
The Atlanta Contest.

'Tn Atlanta there is no such thing a tame election, but the present mayoralty contest is exceptionally spirited" said 8 looker-on whose business takes him fre- quently to tse Georgia capital The impression seeris to have get abroad that the betting is largely in favor of Wood ward, but from all l could learn in At lanta last week the indications point strongly to a Maddox victory. Woodward is coiiceded by all to be a man of fine capacity and eigh integrity, but Maddox is also nan of marked ability and his character is the highest. The latter Is being surporyed by the business interests generally and many of the politicians.
 ''The registered vote of Atlanta is about 1400o. sonethng like 11,0D0 to 12,O00 will be po!led Nell-infornaed Atlanta men tell me toat Maddox is good for 5000 votes prot ably morc.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-24
Mir. Carnegle's Conversion

Alter filling his own purse to reple- ton ty means of highly protective tar ifs, Andrew Carnegie now rises to re- mark that "tariff for protection should now give place to tariff for revenue, and therefore there should be a strict maintenance of the present duties upon foreign luxuries, paid by the rich" This is good-enough doctrine for any body at the present time, and the only wonder is that it took Mir Carnegie so long to discover what is just to con
 sumers and wholly within the terms of the constitution. His magazine article comes late, but the old maxim, Better late than never" should be fitted to it. He gives up nothing substantial when he puts himself on a revenue-tariff platform, for his bonds will be duly and promptly paid, tariff or no tariff.
 In relation to immediate tariff legis. lation Mr. Carnegie outlines policy too good to be true, for he says: "The next Congress dealing with the tariff will probably be inclined at first to re- duce duties all around, and perhaps to abolish some, but the first care should be to maintain present duties. and sven in some cases to increase them, upon all articles used almost exclusive. ly by the rich. and this not for protec- ton. I ut for revenue, not drawn from the workers, but from the rich. That is ths first and prime duty of Congress.