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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
JUDGE SHOWS NO
MERCY TO WOMAN
Mrs. Martin, Convicted of Dynamit-
ing Home Of Californian, Sent
to Prison for Life.
Counsel for Convicted Woman Fall to
Secure Stay of Sentence on Their
Plea That Woman Is Insane.

Oakland. Cal-Mrs. Isabella j.
acy In the dynamiting Of the home
Ct Judge Ogden in this city, was sen.
fenced on Saturday to Imprisonment
for life.
The jury which tried Mrs. Martin
occupied but eight minutes in their
deliberation, and Judge Wells took
but about a minute passing sentence.
When Mrs. Martin appeared In
court her counsel presented an afll'
6avit TO the court asking for stay
of Judgment on the ground that she
is insane. Judge Wells responded that
there was no question in his mind as
TO her sanity, and that It had been
fully evident in all the procedure of
the trial. Then. ordering Mrs. Martin
10 be arraigned before him, he told
her he had no desire to add to her
humiliation, but that she had been
given fair trial adiudged guilty. and
the sentence OF the court was that
"she should be confined in the peni'
Tertiary for the remainder of her
life"
That Mrs Martin was determined
10 end her life as soon as the oppor-
tnnity offered, became apparent in the
afternoon, when she was seized with
q severe fainting spell shortly after
heing sentenced to life imprisonment
from which she did not rally for near
~ and an hour and half. Two small
papers containing white powders we're
found. one in pocket of her coat and
the other beneath the corner of the
bed in her cell. That taken from her
coat contained powdered glass. The
contents of the other are believed to
be strychnine. Mrs. Martain declared
she wanted to die, declaring she did
not want to go to prison and disgrace
her SON
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
MODERN ENOCH ARDEN.
Pathetic Story UnfoIded by Priest o,
Philippine War Veteran.

Corvallis, Ore.-Revelation that
George Mcdonald, or Morgan, who
died at the city Jail recently, was an.
other Enoch Arden, with an unusual
ly pathetic career, has come to light
in a dispatch from San Francisco.
The dispatch says Mcdonald went
to the Philippines during the war
days, leaving a wife and daughter. Aft.
er the war he returned to find his wife
married to another man, having re.
ceived a report he had been killed
No message preceded him and his ar.
rival was not made known to the won.
an. He came on north to Oregon,
keeping his secret and his sorrow He
was at Eugene and Springfield, then
came to Corvallis, where his death
took place in the city Jail, following
a debauch probably induced by his
trouble.
He had told Father Butler of Cor.
Wallis that he was married by Rev
Father Netterville, at st. Dominic's
church, San Francisco, and that his
wife's second marriage was performed
by Father Nugent of St Roses church.
San Francisco. Coroner NJ. s. Boyee
has communicated with Father M.
gent to help locate the dead mans
daughter.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
SAW HIS BROTHER
STARvE TO DEATH
SRlPPLED WITH RHEUMATISM,
JOHN FLAHERTY WAS UN-
ABLE TO HELP MAN.
BEGS FOR A GLASS OF WATER
Invalid, Almost Helpless, Spends
Hours Trying to Crawl Only a
Few Feet-Taken to Hos
pital Seriously III.

New York.--Michael Flaherty was
found the other night sitting up dead
in a chair in his little shack in Bay
avenue in the Greenville section of
Brooklyn. He had been dead SO hours,
and had died of starvation. Beside
him lay his brother John, 60 years OF
age, helpless with rheumatism and
weakness. John was hurried to the
hospital as rapidly as possible and
when he was undressed $l,35O was
found in his pockets.
The men were found by the merest
chance. John James, a butcher, hap
pened to drive by the place late In
the afternoon, and saw the dead
Michael sitting staring out of the win
dow The butcher had seen him in
the same position Friday and also Sat
urday. The man seemed to look worse
than he had on the two previous days,
so James got off his wagon and
Knocked at the door.
When no answer came he burst the
door in. The sight that met his eyes
staggered him John lay on the floor
moaning feebly; his tongue was black
and protruded from his mouth. The
butcher bent over him and heard him
murmur single word: Water
The butcher drew water from a tap
near at hand, and dashed 1t in the
mans face. He then turned his atten-
ton to Michael, and found that he
was dead.
became unconscious on the way and
was revived only after the most hero
ic work. He was then able to tell a
story which for its horror rivals any
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Boom for NeneY.

Washington.-Amo the admins
tration followers, the coming to
Washington this week of Francis ].
Heney, the prosecutor of the land
and timber fraud cases on the Pa
cific coast. is being made the occa-
son for launching OF a Heney boom
for attorney general in the new Taft
cabinet. Il being understood as al
most certain that the Pacific coast
will have representation in the cabi
net. Heney's friends feel that TAFT
could make no better selection.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
John Tried to Get to His Brother But
Failed.

thing that ever came from the brain
of Edgar Allan Poe.
The two aged men, it seems. have
lived for nearly year in the little
shack. 1t is miserably furnished and
has but two rooms Since the men
took up their residence there John
Fiaherty had become practically
cripple from rheumatism Wednesday
night, he said, while he lay in one
room and his brother in another, he
heard his brother call family for wa
ter. John tried to get to him but
failed. After a while he called to
Michael, and as the other man did not
reply John presumed that he had fall
en- asleep.
Thursday morning dawned and wore
on to noon. A half dozen times John
tried to get to his brother but was
still unable to drag himself across the
floor. He lay helpless all day, fell
into doze at dusk, and again about
midnight he heard his brother cry
once more for water. Again he was
unable to get to him.
The distance between him and his
brother was probably a dozen feet.
The cripple knew that his brother was
In dire extremity, and, weak as he
was himself, determined to get to him
II 1t cost him his life. He decided to
crawl to him foot by foot. His broth
er, when well, had always brought the
crippled John his food
John, when he began his tragic
progress across the floor to the other
sick man, was so weak from pain and
starvation that every move caused
him to lapse into Inconsistencies A
foot of progress, then couple of
hours of stupor, then another foot,
then another period of unconscious
ness. So the horrible hours dragged
on.
When John was found he was with.
In a foot of his brothers chair.
The 1880 in his pockets remains
from $1,000 which the brothers re-
ceived year ago from the sale of a
piece of property.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
BICYCLE RIDER TAKES
PLUNGE THROUGH WINDOW
LANDS IN LAP OF WOMAN EAT.
ING DINNER, CAUSING GREAT
EXCITEMENT.

Denver.-Dners in the Indian room
OF the Savoy were almost thrown into
panic when man plunged head
long through one of the heavy plate
glass windows and landed squarely in
the lap of Mrs. Il. A. Kincaid, who
was sitting with her husband at Il
table near the window. The man was
Dave Thompson, an employe of the
hotel, and as the result of his strange
experience, is now lying at the couu
ty hospital.
While riding a wheel with a coaster
brake down Seventeenth avenue
Thompson tried to turn into the alley
between the Shirley and the Savoy,
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Roosevelt Will Send Engineers to In
vestiqate Canal Work.

Washington,-The president Is con-
sidering the advisability Of having a
thorough examination and report
made on the character of the founda-
tons that underlie the locks and dams
along the line of the Panama canal.
1t is regarded as important economy
10 determine at this time the exact
magnitude of the task of providing
stable foundations for the locks and
dams. For this duty the president
likely will employ eminent civil engi-
neers not now in the service of the
government.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
SENATE TO PROBE CHARGES.
Statesmen Aroused to Action by Pres
ident's Criticisms.

Washington. senate on Wed
nesday decided definitely to enter
upon an investigation relative to the
portion of the annual message of the
president which criticises the action
of congress in prohibiting the detail
of secret service men to duty in
other departments.
The resolution directing the inquiry
has been in contemplation ever since
the message was received on Tuesday
of last week, but there had been some
difficulty in arriving at the terms in
which 1t should be couched and in
agreeing upon the proper person to
introduce it. 1t was at last decided
that Senator Aldrich should stand
sponsor for the measure.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Reward for Hanahan.

New York. Announcement was
made here on Sunday that John j..
Hanahan, grand master of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen, will
January next sever his official con-
nection with the organization to take
the vice presidency Of the American
Automatic Stoker company, with Of
fees in Chicago. d. w. Ross, with
Offices in New York, is president of
the company, in which Edward Haw-
ley and Theodore F. Shonts of New
York are interested
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Wholesale Poisoning of Soldiers in the
Philippines.

Manlla.-Eleven deaths have &C.
Cured and thirteen men are seriously
Ill at Keithley camp. M!ndanao island,
as a result of the men OF the Eigh-
teenth infantry drinking Calumbic
acid. q vegetable compound extract
from the Columbia root An official
investigation is now being made by
the military authorities, but no details
have been given out. The beverage,
1t is learned. was served as Vino"
a native drink, at resort near the
camp, on December Is. The last
death occurred ON December II.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Thrilling Experience Of Wyoming Mar

Pinedale, Wyo.-Lost in the Big
Sandy desert and suffering terribly
from thirst and exposure G.. w. Gree
rough, prominent ranchman. wan
dered for fifty-four hours before he
staggered to the McQuillan ranch and
fell exhausted, more than 100 miles
distant. across trackless desert from
the point where he lost his bearings.
Greenough had left his wagon to look
for laprobe that he had dropped
and became lost when a storm came
up.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Shooting ARRAY in Austrian Colony
at Reno.

Ely, Nev-George Bretano and
Amelia Began. the latter but IS
years of age, who were shot and seri-
ously wounded on Saturday by Peter
Digosisich, an Austrian, are still alive.
II is believed that both have chance
for recovery The girl had but re.
Gently arrived from Austria, whore
she had known Digoslsich. The lat
ter, who is In Jail, at first admitted
waylaying and shooting the couple,
but later denied knowing anything
about the affair
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
stockmen viii Meet in Los Angeles

los Angeles.-H. A Jastro of Bak'
ersield, Cal. president, and T. w.
T'omlinson of Denver. secretary. OF
the American National Livestock as
ISOLATION, arrived in Los Angeles on
Sunday to arrange for the twelfth an
nual convention of the association,
which will be held in this city from
January &c to %. The officers will
arrange for speakers before the con
vention. These will include the best
in California and probably also Clifford
Iinchott, chief of the bureau of for
estry. From 500 to 1000 delegates
will be in attendance.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Priest Suicides al Sea.

Queenstown. Ireland,-A Marconi
gram from the steamer Arabic re
ports the suicide of Father Kelly of
St Agnes Roman Catholic church.
Paterson, by jumping overheard at 3
q. m. Thursday The wireless report
says rescue was impossible, owing to
the tempestuous sea running at the
time. Father Kelly was on his way
To Ireland to spend the Christmas
holidays with his relatives. He had
been suffering from melancholia and
was greatly depressed during the voy.
age.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Possibilities of Bitter Root Valley.

Hamilton, Mont.-Even the govern.
ment has recognized the value of the
Bitter Root valley as site for a
nursery and the next few years will
see one of the largest nurseries in
the forestry service in operation at
the station on the west fork of the
Bitter Root river near Trapper Creek
station. Already the nursery has
been started and number of trees
will be raised this year. but from the
small beginning it is stated by mem
bers of the forestry commission that
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
elacksmlth Froze to Death.

Park City, Utah-After walking
hut a mile and a half on his way to
the Keystone mine, during the bitter
cold of Saturday night. c. e.
Chalcote, a blacksmith, sat down at
Rocky Point and froze to death. His
stiffened body was found lying in the
snow, where ne had seated himself
the night before. He was found at
Z O'Clock Sunday morning by team
ster from the King Consolidated
mine
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Whltelaw Reid May Come Bacl
Home

London.-In diplomatic circles of
London 1t is stated that Whitelaw
Reid will quit the diplomatic service
when the new administration comes
into power at Washington. Ambas-
Sador Reid has caused it to be known
that he is willing to continue at his
present post, but was unable to OBJ
tain any intimation from Washing,
ton that President Taft would be
pleased to permit him to remain at
the court of St James.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24

Since 1902, when the federal recla
nation act was passed, the govern
ment has added 100000 acres to the
country's habitable land, and these,
added to the 100000 reclaimed from
the desert before that year, make an
increase of 100000 acres in tn
country's habitable area, an average
of 100000 acres per year-Popular
Mechanics
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
OUTBREAK is FEARED.
knti-Forelgn Movement in Canton
Caused by Portuguese.

Hongkong.-It is feared that the
anti-foreign movement at Canton,
originally caused by the death of a
Coolie on the steamer Falsham, who
is alleged to have been brutally
kicked by Portuguese Waterman on
the vessel, will eliminate in out
breaks against all foreigners. So
serious is the situation that the Brit
ish otrpedo boat destroyer Hart has
been sent to Canton.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
Man Whirls on Shaft A,iv.

Shenandoah, Pain the act OF oil.
ing machinery at Ellangowan colliery.
John Sands was caught in a shafting
at l4O revolutions a minute.
He was whirled around several
times, when every stitch of his cloth
Ing was torn from his body, and then
he was hurled 20 feet, sustaining a
broken arm, dislocatng both shout.
ders and being badly cut and bruised.
but he will recover.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
cooks sudden popularitv

Marie Carane, a Partisan cook. has
won $4,000 prize in lottery. With
in half an hour after her good fortune
became known she had two proposals
Ct marriage and a suggestion to elope,
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-12-24
A BacksIider,

Hewitt-What sort OF fellow is he +?
Jewett-He has New England con
science badly ont of repair.
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When an old maid makes goose of
herself it merely proves that she is no
chicken.-New York Times.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05
Dangerous Bathing Companions.

That bathing in Manila bay might
be considered a doubtful joy by most
people is proved by the following from
the Manila Times: Manila bathers
have generally scoffed at repeated
warnings against sharks in Manila
bay. Not long ago Capt. R. M. Lasala,
whose residence is on Malate beach,
reported a large shark seen close to
the beach from his house. The launch
Nina of the Manila Navigation and
Transportation Company has just
brought to the company's offices a saw
fish found stranded at Salinas, Cavite.
The sawffsh measures from the end
Of the saw to the end of it's tail just
1871 feet, and from tip to tip Of its
fins measures Az feet. 1t would seem
to behoove bathers, more especially
those who are in the habit of SWIM
ming from ships in the bay, to ex-
ercise care"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05
War Department Seeking a Legal Drink

the laws of Massachusetts it is held
that a beverage containing more than
one per cent. of alcohol at so Fahren-
heit is intoxicating.
The law in regard to the nonsale of
intoxicants in post exchanges, must. of
course, be followed in good faith by
the army. In the absence of any fed
eral decision as to the question at is
sue, the authorities must fall back on
the decision of the state courts. These
vary materially, and, therefore. the
department may seek the solution in
a practical way by a~scertaining the
view taken in prohibition states as to
the sale of any given drink.
Where post exchanges are situated
in a prohibition state it is considered
entirely safe to prohibit the sale in
such exchanges of preparations not al
lowed to be sold under the prohibition
laws Of the state. Where such ex-
changes are situated in nonprohibi-
ton states 1t would be safe to ascer.
tain whether any specific drink is al
lowed sold in any prohibition state
and let the exchange be guided accord.
ingly.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05
Former Blacksmith a Power in Congress

and-dried convention-in short, the
practical politician who gets out the
vote.
Tawney, when he came to congress,
wasn't welcomed within the big tent.
He had to wait around on the outside.
Then the blacksmith got busy. He
just walked off the reservation, taking
enough insurgent Republicans with
him to spill the beans for the big
five. And SO it came to pass that
the big fellows reckoned with Taw-
ney, and 10Y he is chairman Of the
most important committee in the
neutrality-suspicious.. Hon. Jim is a
fighter from Ffghtersville. But he Is
that kind of a fighter who knows when
to fight and when to let the other fell
low do the fighting.
Only nee has Tawney been
whipped. That once came from Con-
gresham Goebel of Cincinnati, when
he got the mail carriers pay increased,
in spite of Tawney and Chairman
Overstreet. The whipping didn't
tickle Tawney. So. when the fight
to hold down the appropriation on the
agricultural bill came up Tawney
quit guarding the treasury and let
Scott of Kansas tackle the job. Taw-
ney went to his committee room. The
farmers wiped up the floor with Scott.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05
At the National Capital
Gossip of People and Events
Gathered in Washington
Rapid Strides of Capital in Population

will undoubtedly be greater in the
decade from 1900 to 1910, for Balti-
more's growth vas checked for a year
or more by the losses of the great
fire of 1904, while Washington's
growth has been stimulated by enor-
nous building operations most of
them conducted under the auspices OF
the national government.
The check to business resulting
from last falls panic will also be felt
less in Washington than in perhaps
any other American city. The ma
tional capital does not depend for a
livelihood on manufacturers or COM
merce, and its workers have steady
employment assured them because the
governments activities are being con.
tinually extended.
In its physical aspect Washington
has gained enormously in attractive
ness in the last eight or ten years. 1t
is an ideal residence city, and it's
charms appeal most potently to Amer
leans with leisure enough to enjoy
them. 1t has become the winter home
of families of wealth and refinement
from all parts of the union, and it's
quiet. order and beauty make living
within it's borders constant satisfac-
ton. 1t still has great p~otentialities
in the way of architectural develop
ment, and its material prosperity is Sc
cured by eyer-brOadening activities Of
the great governmental machine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05

I'D EFORE Jim Tawney got into poll
ID tics up in Minnesota he was a
blacksmith. He was so rough that
they had to throw him down to put
him into a boiled shirt, some of his
warmest admirers say.
That blacksmith training proved
mighty good experience for him, and,
applying blacksmith methods to his
congressional career, he has forged
to the front so rapidly that they do
say down here in Washington that
if Speaker Cannon doesn't look out
some day he will get run over, be-
Jim Tawney is coming with
wonderful strides.
Tawney is the man who would be
picked out at a glance as the real
ward politician of the house. He is
just the kind of a man the voter al
ways finds ready to tell him how to
vote at the primary; the type of man
who always leads the revolt in a cut
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05

THE war department is looking for a
L beverage to take the place of
beer and whisky at army posts. The
beverage must not be of the class of
drinks prohibited by the a%nticanteen
law.
The federal courts have never
passed upon the question of the per-
certage of alcohol which will render
a beverage an intoxicant. The state
courts also have been chary of decid-
ing the question. In certain cases the
authorities have spoken, however.
Thus, in Rhode Island, it has been
held that where beer contained 2.S9
per cent. Of alcohol no evidence was
necessary to show it was intoxicating.
In Texas, a tonic containing from 3k
to 4 per cent. of alcohol has been
held to be intoxicating liquor. B,
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05
Cruade Against the FIy.

AS the national crusade against the
house fly is now in progress, supplant.
ing temporarily the international issue
against mosquitoes and rats, Prof.
Underwood of Massachusetts declares
that n fly killed this month ma pre-
vent the existence of 1000, 900 by
midsummer. Such is the prolific ma,
ture of the common fly. Such, too,
is the ignorance of the past that when
a Roman emperor was found killing
flies as a habit he was not hailed as
a ~benefactor, but was finally d~ethroned
as too trivial to be tolerable as a
Roman despot. Still it appears in the
light of history as a whole that this
is a good time to invest as much as
ten cents in a first installment of fly
paper.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-06-05
Death Reward of Dogs Devotion.

oVGSh VI SSS
Pete was the name Of a smart dog
in the Loudner family back Of Millrift,
Pa. The Loudners are Germans, and
The youngest is three years old and a
l ". Because the dog was too clever
1t was killed.
But it was a mistake.
The child and the dog wandered
some distance from the house in the
afternoon, romping with a rubber ball
fastened to the end Of a stick. Sud-
denly the dog appeared at the house
and ran about the rooms, and, barking
and yelping, pulled at the women's
dresses and otherwise acted in such
a strange as to cause them to
scream Mad dog" and seek safety
on chairs.
George Loudner, attracted by the
noise, came into the house and shot
the dog. Then the child was missed
and search was tnstigated. They
found the youngster in high glee at
the antics Of a big rattlesnake which
was playing with the rubber ball.
The boy would reach out the whip
with the ball attached and hit the
snake on the head. The reptile
would resent the attack, plainly trying
to sink its fangs into the rubber globe,
all the while rafting and coiling and
uncoiling as the ball circled about it.
Mr.. Louder killed the snake. The
dos was not mad, but had tried in
vain to get some one to aid the child,
and met it's death by being too faithful.