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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1903
Page
1
Utah news notes 136 bills before the legislature. smallpox cases rise in Salt Lake City. Fountain Green electric plans. prohibition on selling game or fish after next summer. weather shows wet January. Several incidents include burn injuries, a streetcar crash injury, a bachelor Springville settler death, pneumonia outbreaks in Wellsville, robberies, and various local accidents.
Salt Lake City officer Horace A Heath in a confrontation with three masked robbers at J G Morrison’s grocery kills one bandit and is wounded in the foot. Earlier, the same trio robbed T F Morris at Seventh West and Fifth South, binding him before departure.
Yerbert W. Bowen Venezuelan representative in Washington sends to Britain's ambassador a firm stand against a 20 to 10 per cent division of claims. He proposes sending the preferential payment issue to The Hague for arbitration, insisting all other points be settled as previously agreed, while the blockade remains tied to negotiations.
A Vancouver special reports a deadly blaze on Malcolm Island near Vancouver. A single living house housed twenty four families. eleven women and children died, seventeen were injured as rescue efforts failed due to no water. Men watched in distress as occupants leaped from the second story and the hotel burned. About 100 families lived on the island with the structure serving new arrivals.
The British cruiser Pioneer collided with a torpedo boat destroyer near the Channel of Corfu on Saturday. Fifteen men are believed drowned. only two bodies have been recovered. The Orwell’s after section was towed to Corfu.
The French legation warns Caracas that France may revive direct collection of part of Venezuela customs revenues. The move recalls conventions from 1867 and 1885 ceding and then renouncing payment rights tied to French claims from earlier revolutions. France has pressed President Castro via diplomat visits as Germany England and Italy watch the stance.
The House will see the statehood bill as unfinished business while the Senate delays the antitrust measure. Debate limits for antitrust are under discussion and may allow two days of general debate, with timing tied to the post office appropriation and currency bills. Senator Quay shifts tactics, abandoning night-session quorum attempts and leaving opponents to bear responsibility for delay.
Captain Richmond P Hobson of Merrimac fame resigns his post as naval constructor. He had sought relief previously but was deemed fit for duty and ordered to oversee construction at the Bremerton Washington naval station. Friends note an eye ailment has kept him from active service.
In a cabin near Redding California two men Lee Barnes and George Silverthorn quarrelled over gambling stakes and fought with knives. Silverthorn died of fatal wounds after Barnes also sustained injuries. A single witness observed the fatal ending of the affray.
Reports from Urique Mexico describe four earthquakes on the 22nd 25th 26th and 27th with loud explosions and only slight damage overall eighteen houses destroyed at Guazapares leaving residents panicked and fearing a volcano.
Two cars from a westbound freight train at Vicksburg plunged into the river after breaking away at the incline. One car, a combined freight and immigration car, carried a family of six from eastern Alabama bound for Arkansas and all six drowned.
Mrs Jennie Deppert a Christian Scientist from Indianapolis died of smallpox without medical care. Women attended and relied on prayer and rest and a coroner launched an official inquiry to consider warrants for manslaughter and criminal neglect against faith healers.
John Newdick was fined $40 in Mayor Brouses court for whipping his wife during prayer after she failed to join in worship. Mrs Newdick testified he rose from his knees and beat her, knocking her down, while she tended dough. She argued her duties at home prevented perfect devotion and she could not predict his sudden demand for prayer.
The New York World prints an interview with Baron von Sternberg citing the German diplomat who rejects claims of German plans in Venezuela. He says the Kaiser admires Roosevelt, supports the Monroe doctrine, and would not seek territory, insisting Germany seeks peace and friendship with the United States.
Reports from provincial and Berlin papers claim the crown prince of Saxony will renounce his succession to the throne in favor of his 10 year old son George. The motive cited is a military code of honor forcing a husband wronged to leave service.
Willard Winters a leading Butte figure and former county auditor shot himself Saturday with a Smith and Wesson revolver. His fiance broke off the engagement after learning of his drinking, and he died on the proposed wedding day. The bedside table held heaps of wedding presents intended for the ceremony planned that night.
Officer William Daniels, 25, killed at Cassopolis Midh when a large icicle fell from the roof of C L Smith's general store. He had just approached the door, was unmarried, and had served three years in the Philippines.
John Alexander Dowle told 7000 followers in Kenosha Wisconsin that next month he will take his 3000 strong restoration host to New York. He has engaged Carnegie Hall and Madison Square for three months of daily street meetings. More than 5000 volunteers sign up for the voyage.
Washington dispatch reports Justice Clabaugh of the district supreme court ruled Antonio M Oposio de Yease a Filipino born in Manila in 1880 remains an alien but may elect U S citizenship upon reaching majority. The decision allows his declaration to be received but notes appeal to the court of appeals.
The captain of the German cruiser Galileo anchored at Puerto Cabello invited German Colony members to celebrate the emperor's birthday aboard the ship. Everyone declined, including a Puerto Cabello firm head who said the invitation surprised him amid Venezuela's suffering from what he called unjust aggression by Germany.
A London Morning Leader dispatch reports Buhamara of Fez challenging the sultan to give battle outside Fez, accusing the sultan of cowardice for remaining within the holy city. In response the sultan ordered troop concentration.
The senate passed a resolution on the national irrigation congress to be held in Ogden and approved a bounty bill on grasshoppers locusts and crickets. Debates over abolishing district attorney offices and police and fire department powers marked the session with veto threats and health day proposals for October housing and lodging establishments to disinfect occupancy sites under state health board direction.
The senate discussed a pay raise for supreme court stenographers to 1200 and district court judges to 3600. A bill on curing drunkards was set as a special order. A tax exemption for state lands until title passes was approved for a period. Several new bills were introduced covering initiative referendum county taxes school funding and other reforms.
Senate debate over the Garrett bill regulating powder and high explosives in mines ends with failure to pass on final passage after a point of order. Several members were absent on a junket to Provo, and new house bills include experimental farms and changing grounds for divorce.
The record lists multiple bills and resolutions introduced in the Hawiey legislature. Bills cover penalties for lottery related crime, appointment and designation powers for notices, additional judges, irrigation funding, corporation law amendments, and various local measures. A joint resolution directs a commission to negotiate for the Arizona Strip.
The famed Ward Bros, world champion oarsmen, have mourned the death of Charles Ward at Long Island. Separately, U S Senate agriculture committees plan amendments to the house agricultural appropriation which may sustain the government irrigation investigation office based in Cheyenne with Prof. Mead directing from Washington.
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