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Show DAILY PAGE TWO. UTAH STATE MONDAY, JOURNAL. MARCH 1905. 13, Chicago Salvage Youll Find the Latest, Newest Spring Clothing Styles FOR MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN. INVESTIGATE SALE SPECIAL COMMITTEE PUBLIC LANDS OE GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY ALLEGES ON PART OF OFFICIALS. United Arraign Exposition Commit-ioand Charge "Gigantic Finding AFFIDAVIT ACCUSES UTAH FUEL CRIME ONE OF MOST CRUEL AND ATROCIOUS EVER COMMITTED COMPANY OF FRAUD. Fraud. In terms of no uncertain meaning1, the reirt of the special house committee appointed to investigate the Louisiana Purchase exposition commission, arraign the officials of Utah' commie "Ion as having been guilty of gross carelessness and. neglect in conducting the exhibit and in rendering a flnul accounting of state moneys; reaffirms the charge of forgery against John Q. Cannon, secretary of the commission, In having signed the name of Governor lfeber M. Wells to warrants; and, in an appended reisirt from the which went to St. Louis, alleges a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the officials of the exposition In the matter of "awards and prise ' ribbons." The report was drafted by Representatives Kuchler and Miller of the committee, was submitted to the committee and approved Friday and was considered in executive session and approved Saturday afternoon. It was at first intended to present the report Monday, but & few minutes before recess was taken last night, at 11 o'clock, it was returned to the house and unanimously adopted. The report is in the form of a general the former as the and a findings of the special house committee, composed of Kinney, Miller, Kuchler, Stookey, Joseph, Gundry and Peterson. This contains In effect the testimony adduced at committee hearings. rt The covers fully what was learned by Representatives Joseph, Stookey and Oundry during their stay in 8t Louis. Together they contain over 3,000 words. sub-repo- rt, sub-repo- . TEA We want no money for unsatisfactory tea. Dont be shy I Your EitKcr .Mum. ymui mammy Brhillim. 11m. IT job dost States and State Land Office All the Facts and Circumstances clude the Idea of 8uicide. Used to Capture Property Worth Millions. lilt The Salt Lake Herald says: An In vestlgution into the sales of public lands in the state of Utah to Indlvida als and the methods whereby title has been acquired, which Is being quietly conducted by the ITnited States government through siiecial agents whose Identity has been kept secret, has dls closed the fact tnat hundreds of thou sands of acres of valuable coal lands have been acquired by corporations in devious ways and by questionable Pre- While a coroner's Jury is sometimes mistaken, the verdict rendered In the case of Mrs. Stanford, at Honolulu, was no doubt correct in attributing death to strychnine poisoning, with murderous intent, by some person or persons unknown, says the Sacramento Bee. No other conclusion would have been in accordance with the testimony of the four physicians who declared to the Jury their conviction that strychnine was the cause of death. At least one of these doctors attended Mrs. Stanford from the time she called for medical aid, and so had opportunity to note ail the symptoms, and all four were present at the autopsy. There Is high medical authority for the statement that the distinctive symptoms of strychnine poisoning can be relied upon quite fully for diagnosis, and that a competent observer should never be mistaken in attributing them to disease or to tetanus, which is another name for lockjaw, caused by a germ. The post mortem appearances, moreover, are also characteristic of strychnine poisoning, extreme muscu- methods. The land, in many Instances, has been filed in and patent thereto issued by the land office as agricultural or grafting land, through state land selections, when in a majority of cases it would be difficult for a mountain sheep to find sustenance on a thousand acre tract. Great tracts which have been purchased in this way have since imssed into the hands of the Utah Fuel company, which is seeking to control all the coal of Utah. The land contains vast deposits of coal, and is worth many millions of dollars. In many cases the land has been filed lar rigidity persisting for days after on by individuals acting in behalf of death, or until decomposition sets in. The fact that the chemists failed to the coal company, as coal lands, which detect poison in the stomach does not for held the law strictly forbids, and fourteen months, the period given in make the verdict doubtful. It Is not therefor. the poison found in the stomach, but which to make payment While the land was thus held under what has passed into the circulation coal entries, title was acquired to the and acted upon the brain and nervous causes death from strychmajor portion of it by other persons system, that as agricultural or graxlng land, for nine. Thus a fatal dose, which la much which 31,50 an acre was paid, instead less than half a grain In some cases, of 330 an acre, the stipulated price of may leave no trace In the stomach. But the chemists found traces of strychcoal lands. I nine in the liver and kidneys, which these coal entries 2.000 of More than have been made in the local land office, tended to confirm the opinion of the and not more than one in fifty of the doctors in the case. Chemical analysis demonstrated the persons who made the filings has completed the purchase. Their filings have presence of strychnine in the bottle of been allowed to lapse, but in the mean- bicarbonate of soda of which Mrs. time title has been secured by selection Stanford took a half teaspoonful or of state lands and the payment of a more before retiring for the night The poison In the remaining contents of the nominal sum per acre. vial was In the proportion of about Robert E. Forrester, known to have one-tenof a grain to a teaspoonful been connected with the Utah Fuel the soda, and no one knowa Just company for years, has acted as the of much of the soda the victim may agent for not less than sixty entrymen how in cases where the application or fil- have taken, although Miss Berner, her testified that she secretary, ing has been allowed to lapse. In each private Instance he made the affidavit required took out half a teaspoonful from the to be used by her employer. by law that he knows that the land bottle, contains coal, and that the work re- Supposing this testimony to be true, even if it be assumed that no more quired to develop coal measures there- and on has been done by his direction. Yet than half a teaspoonful of soda was no effort was made to acquire title to swallowed in solution, it is not unlikely these entries, even after the expense that the poison was unevenly disindicated by his affidavits hud been in- tributed in the soda, and that in the portion taken from the top of the vial curred. The recent exioxe in Oregon, where there may have been much more many prominent men were indicted for strychnine than the average of the con-i'm- tx conspiracy to defraud the government, show would asindicate. Medical records small & quantity as a that has led to a quiet Investigation in other western states, in which the work is quarter of a grain of the poison has done by secret service men. Utah has been fatal to a woman, and even a sixteenth of a grain has caused death been found to be a fruitful field. It was during the administration of in children. The advanced age of Mrs. Stanford and her enfeebled condition, Singer Hermann, now under indictment. ns commissioner of the land of- may have rendered her more suceptible fice that the bulk of coal land filings to the action of the drug. While the verdict of the coroner's were made. Efforts were made under his regime at dlffefrnt times to start Jury was necessarily confined to the of the poison taken at Honolulu, prosecutions and contests, but each effects move of this sort on the iart of sub- the fact that an attempt was made to ordinate officials was squelched when poison Mrs. Stanford in San Francisco last January Is of great weight it reached headquarters. It is believed that the present ad- in the matter. It has been shown by ministration may not be so ready to the written statement of a capable smother investigation and that it will chemist, to whom Mrs. Stanford sent for analysis part of a bottle of minprobe Into the conditions. eral water from which she hod used a quantity, that it contained strychnine in poisonous proportion, so that a glassful of the water would have been fatal. Had she not been relieved by vomiting, on that occasion, death probably would have resulted. She at that time declared an attempt had been made to murder her, a declaration whii-she repeated in Honolulu Just before her death. And she died believing that some unknown murderer or murderers was sending her to her grave. It i a fact of interest in this regard that the poison used in both Instances was of an impure commercial sort, such as that cnmmonly bought for poisoning squirrels, gophers and other pests. This would tend to indicate that in each case the same person or persons were responsible. lu There have been convictions for murder by strychnine In rases where chemical analysis failed to detect traces of the poison In the body after th HAVE ALL BEET GROWERS MADE CONTRACTS? The time will soon come when the farmers who are going to raise sugar beets for the Amalgamated Sugar com pany will want to commence planting the beet seed. The present fine weather indicates an early spring, and the Sugar company should have the contracts all in at once, so they will know bow many drills to send to each settlement and how much beet seed. Let every farmer get his contract at once without delay. The field superintendent has visited the settlements in Weber and Davis counties for the pur pose of meeting farmers, but many did not meet him. Each Saturday the farmers can find Mr. Pingree in his office in the First National bank building in Ogden City. This matter should not be neglected. 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The settlement of these difficulties is to be emphasised by the erection as soon as possible of an armory In Salt Lake that will compare favorably with the best there is in the country. If the design already outlined Is carried into effect. Sixed up with other states, Utah has never been conspicuously prominent in the matter of state defense, but if the plans now nearing their fruition are brought to a successful termina tlon the national guard will meet all the requirements demanded by the national government and will also be a pride to the citlsens of the state. When he signed senate bills 64 and (6 Saturday, Governor Cutler made possible the reorganisation of the na tlonal guard, and now it remains only for the officers of the guard to see that the provisions of the appropriations are faithfully executed. They have already started work. Gives Health, Vigor and Tone. Herbine la a boon for sufferers from aneamla. By its use the blood is quickly regenerated and the color becomes normal. The drooping strength is revived. The languor is diminished. Health, vigor and tone predominate. New life and happy activity results. Mrs. Belle H. Shlrel, Middlesborough, 111., writes: 1 have been troubled with liver complaint and poor blood, and have found nothing to benefit me like Herbine- - I hope never to be with I have wished that I had out it known of it in my husband's lifetime.1 66c. Sold hr Geo. F. gave. death. A famous case was that of Palmer, who was hanged in England fifty years ago for the murder of a man named Cook. The symptoms exhibited by the victim were regarded by doctors as sufficient evidence of strychnine poisoning, and taken with other circumstances indicating guilt, left no doubt in the minds of the trial Jury. The murder of Mra Stanford Is one of the most cruel and atrocious ever committed. It is hard to bellevtf that any one, and particularly any member could be so of her own household, heartless and so wicked as to do this deed. But all the facts and preclude the idea of suicide. And recent developments as to the practice of grafting methods by certain of her employes tend to furnish a possible motive for the crime. Beverly, a former butler of Mrs. Stanford, has confessed himself guilty of these practices, and has declared he shared his "commissions with Miss Berner, her secretary. So it appears that had either of these persons been apprehensive of a disclosure to Mrs. Stanford of the facts, and feared discharge, or being cut out of her will as the result of such discovery on her part, there would have been a motive for murder. But Beverlys story may be false, so far as Miss Berner is. concerned. And suspicions have been excited with regard to Elizabeth Richmond, a former maid of Mra. 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