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Show RUNS AWAYWITH STOVE WHILE PIES ARE BAKING ...--ᾱ--------- ERGATIS Around the Metropolis PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY P. SIORIS. SALT LAKE ΕΠῪ 4 6 ae THIEF IN OHIO TAKES KITCHEN STOVE WITH HOUSEWIFE’'S PASTRY IN OVEN. UTAH OTAH STATE NEWἪ i x SWORN ENEMY OF OIL TRUST WhatIs Going On in New York City Told in Interesting Manner stealing a Youngstown, O.—For stove in which two pies were cooking { Salt Lake lawyers have organized | a base bal] team and declare theyare| ready to play any team of profession- | al men in the state. week The secretary of state last mailed copies of the compiled laws of Utah, 1907, to each of the judges and county clerks of Utah. Work has at last begun on the big viaduct which will span Twenty- fourth street, Ogden, and it is expected it will be finished by December The state board sioners has decided 000 of Logan City bonds at par. The cent interest. of land commisto purchase $25,refunding school bonds draw 5 per W. H. Barnette, a convict serving a twenty-year term in the state penitentiary, was found dead in his cell one morning last week. His death was eaused by heart failure. O. N. Witzell, aged 68, one of the best known musicians of Salt Lake is dead from blood piosoning, caused by a cut on the finger received while repairing a phonograph. Edward Neilson, an 18-year-old boy who nine months ago escaped from the state industrial school, was captured at his old home in Pelasant Grove last week and returned to the school, A detention home for juvenile offenders is to be secured by the commissioners of Salt Lake county, at Thomas W Phillips, the millionaire oil operator, whose home is in Newcastle, Pa., is the one independent producer who never bowed to the His nameis will of the Standard Οἱ] octupus, synonymous with the oil industry of the United States, and always he has been the implacable foe of this gigantic trust, fighting it in the open, and always in a quiet, unostentatious and telling manner. Obtaining wealth through the flow of golden oil from the depths of mother earth, he became widely and popularly known over a vast area of territory and was forced into politics to the benefit of the whole country. After his election to congress his greatest achievement was aiding in the passing of the law creating an industrial commission to which was due the establishment of the department of labor and commerce, and the granting of so drastic powers to the bureau of corporations the* it was enabled to expose the iniquitous system of rebates which are nuw Mping prosecuted in the courts. He followed the Phillips knew no fear; neither did he know defeat. Standard Oil to various parts of the country, bought leases and producing territory before the trust representatives were fairly on the gound. He educated the farmers, expecially in certain parts of Pennsylvania, to the Standard’s methods of doing business, making it a hardship for the trust to get a foothold in some of the best producing pools in the state. He built pipe lines of his own, permitting others to use them, much to the chagrin of the trust. When oil was discovered he and his three brothers gave up farming and went to drilling wells. Twice they were ruined bythe trust, but they won in the end and became wealthy. LONG CHAMPION OF BRYAN George Fred Williams of Dedham, Mass,, is one of the most persistent Bryan workers in the He was with Bryan in 1896 and whole country led the forlorn hope in Massachusetts, a state that is naturally hostile to free silver. That he would fail was what might have been expected, but Mr. Williams did not take his defeat very much to heart. As a matter of fact, he knows defeat and fears it not, and he can take it as philosophically as the peerless one himself. Three times he ran for governor of Massachusetts, and the earnest and continued solicita tion of the juvenile court of that dis trict. J. O. Leary sustained a fracture of the skull when he attempted to dive in a shallow pool at the Utah Hot springs, Ogden, and since that time has been paralyzed in his lower ex- tremities. | The organization of the chamber of commerce of Ogden and Weber county was completed last week, there being now five hundred mem- bers enrolled, the annual dues being placed at $6. The Salt Lake land office has been supplied with copies of the president's proclamation setting aside forty acres of land as a park in San Juan county to preserve the natural bridges located there. Frank Aaron, serving ninety days for vagrancy on the chain gang in Salt Lake City, was shot and killed by Guard George Harris while at- tempting to escape one day last week. Harris has been exonerated by a jury. Henry Mcintosh, a Salt Lake boy, was seriously burned by the explosion of a can of phosphorous which he found in an alley one day last week. He was examining the can when it exploded, burning him badly about the arms and legs. The home of John Dunn of Park City was paritally destroyed by COTTON SPECULATOR QUITS Theodore H. Price, the veteran speculator in eotton, may be influenced only by a desire for the welfare of his child when he resolved to give up the market for a couple of years at least, and it may be merely a coincidence that his cotton commitments, amounting to thousands of bales of the May cotton, will net him a considerable one day last week, the fire starting from a candle which ignited some clothing, the flames gaining such headway that the family had to flee from the house, Peter R. Gillispie, who had been connected with different gambling years past, committed suicide at his home on Friday of last week, taking warbolic acid. Continued ill health was the cause. Mrs. John H. Wooton, of American Fork was very seriously poisoned by taking medicine from a wrong bottle, taking some liniment which was rank poison and was soon in a serious condition. Her life was saved only by the prompt action of the doctor. Alvin F. Heaston, Jr., 17 years old, has been arrested for the murder of Mary Stevens near Orderville, April 20. The only clue to the murderer, whoshot the girl in the back and secreted her body under a pile of rocks, was footprints, and Heaton’s shoes fit these exactly. in any case. It is commented upon as significant in the street that Mr. Price is selling his horses and carriages, and is disposing of his country home at Tuxedo, surrounded by 12,000 acres of land. There would be no necessity for disposing of these at a sacrifice, the gossips say, if he was merely going to pass two years on the coast of μα” ba| Pon Maine. If Mr. Price has deserted the market on account of his heavy losses, it will be the first time he has shown himself so devoid of nerve. When, as head of the firm of Price, McCormick & Co., he was carrying on a heavy cotton corner he discovered that he was being betrayed by his partners who had lost courage and had quietly stepped from under, leaving him in the lurch. The firm failed for $13,000,000. Price, in- stead of creeping into a corner and blowing his brains out, shook off his partners, returned to the market and within a year had paid off all the debts of the house and made three millions besides. He has since experienced several of these ups and downs and has always come up smiling. Mr. Price was engaged to be married when thefirst financial disaster came upon him. His fiancee was Miss Harriet Dyer, sister of Mrs. James L. Taylor. It was currently reported that she had notified him after the crash Wiford Sorenson, a young man whose home is in Mendon, has caused the arrest of two students of the Ag- voted that he would give up the excitement of the market to spend two that the young men had hazed him, tying him up with a halter strap and turning the hose on him for at that the engagement was at an end, but no such intention had entered the young lady’s head. She caused an emphatic denial to be issued and when that failed to stop the gossip she insisted on the marriage taking place at once. She carried her point and was of considerable assistance to her husband when he was struggling to re-establish himself It is little wonder then, that he is devoted to his wife and child, so de- ing, and a force of men A long term course extending from May 11 to June 27 will be a newfeature of the summer school which is to be conducted at the University of Utah this year. This course is sBpecjally designed to meet the new requirements which are to be imposed by the state board of education has been One of the most remarkable build will be the new assay office building, for the construction of which the treasury department in Washington will rec@ive bids May 12. It will stand near the corner of Nassau and Wall streets, will be constructed of re-enforced concrete, and will cost about $400,000. The structure's most striking fea ture will be its chimney, which is to overtop by many feet any building in the vicinity, and any building in New York, except the Singer building From the sidewalk the stack will tower 400 feet, this height being con sidered necessary to carry the poison ous fumes of the furnaces above any offices in the neighborhood. The Chase. Work of Public Service Commission | over the number of trains and cars The con- which were run before the commis- | over another bridge without switching on the Manhattan side. tracts for this work were let by the Fortune Is Paid for Wonderful Feast INNERS at $300 a plate, though | they are not commonoccurrences | even in New York, may become so | soon if the fad for giving feasts be-| yond the dreams of Lucullus himself Dinners at $1,000 a plate! continues. may be expected, although at present | $300 is the high record, as this was the cost of a dinner recently given by a young millionaire to 15 of his friends. The bill, including tips, was an even $5,000. Since one of New York’s most fa- mous caterers has gone on record as saying that as regards food alone no person can consume more than ten dollars’ worth, even in the most expensive cafe, the manner of spending | $300 a plate arouses curiosity. Only a small fraction of this sum, of course, was expended for food, although a} special chef was engaged for the preparation of each of the 22 courses. The remainder went for the decora- | tions and wines, all of the latter being imported for the occasion. The table was in the form of a large hollow square, inside of which was a large burnished coppertankfilled with water. In it swam aquatic birds, ranging from swans to ducklings, while below were rare fish. The edges of this miniature lake were banked with roses and in the center a fountain spurted wine, which, falling into a special receptacle, was carried by an ingenious arrangement of pipes to the place of each guest. The particular kind of wine changed with each course, but all through the dinner it literally ran like water. The coffee served after dinner cost $22 a pound, and the cigars cost five dollars apiece. Strangely enough, the young millionaire who gave the dinner is known as a shrewd and conservative business man who may always be found at his office by 8:30 in the morning. | Heinze Is Going Back to the Mines engineer 15 years ago on his gradua tory said—let me see, what was it he said?” and Mr. hteYU Vs in MacLear and—” “In what?” yelled a listener, “No, no,” said Mr. Tawney, entirely turbed, “I don’t mean MacLear; I was thinking of King Hambeth.” undis- There was a loud shrieking silence for a moment, and then a member lifted his countenance out of a leather-covered sofa cushion long enough to inquire: “Don't you mean Hamlet, Jim?” “Certainly,” remarked Mr. Tawney, with considerable asperity, “that's what 1 meant. Anyhow, I remember that wheneverI recited those famous lines from ‘Hamlet’ I fairly brought down the house. I remember them yet. They go: and so forth. ““Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone—’ “T tell you,” resumed Mr. Tawney, “there’s a whole lot of philosophy in that man Shak—” And then theyfell on him, and up to date his knowledge of Shakespeare has cost him five dinners. DOG, Furious Three-Cornered Fight Proves to have made arrangements satisfac Tawney wrinkled his brow fearfully. “Oh, yes,” he resumed, “I remember; it was WILDCAT, MAN AND sion began issuing orders. | tion from Columbia. Congressman James A. Tawney of Minnesota, ehairman of the heuse committee on appropriations, is said to have a sense of humor about the size of a box of safety matches. He was regretting that he had not stuck to one of the two trades in which he had been successful and made money—blacksmithing and the stage—instead of going into politics, when some of his colleagues asked him for a spiel. He said: “I was just trying to think which one of that fellow Sha-~-Shak—Shakespeare’s characters that son she is to be deported, the men had been discharged. the ings in the lower part of New York TAWNEY ONCE AN ACTOR ability be deported from this country. Miss Tyson came to the United States less than three years ago. Since coming to Utah she has drifted to the under world, and for this rea- arrested in Salt Lake City on the charge of throwing a switch and derailing three cars of an Oregon Short Line train have been bound over to the district court for trial. It is claimed the crime was committed in a spirit of revenge, because arrested drilled in handling those expressly for the moving. least Greeks was York. The buildings wil] house more than 10,000 tenants and have about 27 acres of floor space. There are 52 elevators in the build At the end of this month he hoped Joseph Hair was instantly killed and Elijah Watkins seriously injured in an explosion in a mine at Heber City last week. Both men were working in the Mountain Lake mine, on the 2,000-fcot level. Hair's pick struck an old charge of giant panes, the explosion following, Edith Tyson, an English woman twenty-four years old, will in all prob two of the largest office building in New EW YORK.—Sightseers in lower Manhattan who have become accustomed to seeing “the biggest” skyscraper going up every little while, will now witness the biggest job of moving ever undertaken in New York or any othercity It is the transfer of a small city of tenants to the new Hudson Terminal | buildings of the McAdoo Hudson river tunnel system, and is to be done on so large a scale that special arrangements have been made with the police department to take charge of the street traffic in that locality, while the work is going on. Enough men to make ten regiments of infantry—between 9,000 and 10,000 | —will be engaged, and 4,000 horses will be used to haul the 2,000 vans for moving For the larger corporations, such as the United States Steel Corporation, to move in, certain days have been set apart and no other concern will be allowed to approach the building during that time. | years on a God-forsaken coast. fifteen minutes. The Instead of allowing each new tenant to do his own moving the company has taken entire charge of the moving so that the only labor for the tenant is the signing of the lease The capacity of the Hudson Termi | nal buildings is about three times that loss and that he would be glad to liquidate them E. A. Gunn, an employe of the Rio Grande shops in Salt Lake City, was the victim of a painful accident last week when a fellow employe let a sledge hammer slip from his hands, which struck Gunn in the forehead, inflicting serious injury. Gunn is now in the hospital. ricultural college at Logan, charging 10,000 Men to Aidiin Big Moving Job Keishock other evening after a long chase. The pies cooked as Keishock ran and were well done when Elias Jones, police court constable, caught the fugitive. Both were browned so that the best ehef could not have improved them, Keishock, the police assert, was walking past the home of Charles Pull, on East Boardman street, when the odor of the cooking pies assailed his nose They smelled good and Keishock, who had been without employment for a long time, was hun- gry. However, when he entered the kitchen the pies were not yet done old rapid transit commission, but by He feared to wait until they were the changes made by the public serbaked. A wheelbarrow was outside three times he was defeated, but he is still unvice commission, the subway will bé Taking the stove up in his arms, daunted, heavy grades enlarged and many Keishock carried it to the wheelbar Undeterred by his former defeats, Mr. Wil| avoided. row and started away. liams has been trying to get the Democratic state Early in its consideration of the Mrs. Pull saw the man leaving the committee to indorse Bryan this year, and he problem the commission decided that place and saw the wreck in the even succeeded so far as to get a resolution to the dimensions of the present sub: kitchen. The police were called and that effect “presented.” It was voted down by a majority of 24 to 4. The N the first of April the public ser- way should be enlarged so as to admit Constable Jones started in pursuit. committee objected to what it termed Mr. Williams’ dictation, and intimated vice commission had been in ex | the operations of ordinary railroad | A good fire burned in the stove and that if the resolutions were to be presented later by someone who could not coaches through these tunnels and ac: when Keishock started running the be regarded as a mere delegate of Mr. Williams it might have some chance istence just nine months and it recent: | cordingly in the bridge loop, as well | draft caused by his speed made the ly issued a review of its work. of being adopted. In addition to perfecting the plans as in the Fourth avenue plans, calcula: blaze a hot one. The chase led Mr. Williams’ whole life has not been a failure, even from a political Doud’s alley, a rough thor. point of view, for he was in public life from 1889 to 1893, one term in the for the Fourth avenue (Brooklyn), tions have been based upon this idea, through subways therefore will oughfare. Keishock would not leave and laying out the route All future state legislature and one in congress. He was spoken of as the Bryanite subway the new Broadway-Lexington have at least one foot more clearance the stove and pies even when capcandidate for the Democratic presidential nomination four years ago, but the of avenue route in this borough, it has between roof and ties than the pres: | ture with them was certain. movement never amounted to anything. ent subway. When Constable Jones clapped a Mr. Williams is a lawyer, a scholar and a gentleman. After his gradua- modified the plans for the ManhatKeishock’'s shoulder he Brooklyn subway It is also pointed out by the commis- | hand on tion from Dartmouth he went to Germany and studied at the universities tan end of the and which is to connect the sion that as a result of its work more peers, set the barrow down of Heidelberg and Berlin, and on his return was admitted to the bar. He loop, said: “Wait until I see if the pies has won an enviable place in his profession and has edited several law works. Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Manhat- express trains are operated at the They were and Mr. Pull tan bridges by a four-track subway present time than ever before, and hee done.” He is now 56 years of age. " 30 that trains coming from Brooklyn that in some cases the increased ser: | allowed the alleged thief to eat them, may pass through this locp and back vice amounts as high as 60 per cent. | although he insisted upon the arrest. fire houses in Salt Lake City for several John to his creditors to be start out with a clean slate. able te Tostay away until he can bring back another «ν fortune to RITZ Augustus Heinze, shrewd and dogged as heis, has given up for the present his attempt to beat New renew his fight with the benefit of the experience gainedin the loss of his first fortune is said to be his purpose He soon is go-| an Eye-Opener. Allentown, Pa.—Paul DeLong, residing between Siesholtzville and Red Lion, had,a thrilling adventure with a gaunt and hungry wildcat. As DeLong says: “Had I known*the darned critter was a wildeat I would have let it alone good and plenty. I at first thought it was only a blamed big tomcat.” DeLong was walking through the woods with his little black-and-tan dog, when the latter suddenly became very much excited. Looking around DeLong saw a big cat stretched out on a limb about ten feet above the ground He picked up a stone, fired it and brought down the cat. The latter was somewhat stunned, but quickly recovered when the black-andtan started in to give it a shaking. With one sweep of its claws the cat ripped open the odg’s hide to the bone. DeLong then started in to help his dog and was fearfully bitten and clawed before he stamped the life out of the wildcat. Opinion is divjded as to whether it was a wildeat or only a big cat gone wild. Rats Ate His Money. I]L—Talk about Hamelin and its rats! Sterling has the old town, made famous in rhyme, beaten to a standstill on the rodent question. At least, whenit con *s to the value of the pests. There are—or rather there were—11 rats in this town that cost the man who rbored them, just $97 apiece. That man is E. A. Freadhoff, proprietor of a saloon. He killed the animals, and has entered the sum of $1,097 on the debit side of his profit and loss account. The rats made their nest in a space behind the cash drawer in Freadhoff’s saloon, got into the money drawer and chewed up a roll of bills. Then they were killed. Sterling, He intends to give closer attention to the Ohio Copper Company, near slipped away from him in a_ few Salt Lake City, in which he is inter months as a result of his spreading out ested. In addition to that corporation from copper mining, which he under- he is interested in properties in sev Whether he instands, to banking and manipulation | eral different states. Corns Hurt, Cuts Off Toes of the stock market. He is going tends to make Butte his headquarters | Lewistown, Pa.—Miss Carrie Hogle, back west, the scene of his former he declined to say. It was there he 19 years old, of this city, was operated spectacular successes, to begin all over won his great triumph in February, again at almost the same place as 1906, over the Amalgamated Copper | on by local physicians and the little toe of each foot was amputated on when he went there an obscure mining Company and the Standard Oil crowd. account of corns. Miss Hogle has been York at its own game. ing away from here where his fortune white bread), a quart of beer, a dish Historical Breakfasts. Your reviewer of the Diaries of Ed- of butter, a piece of salt fish, a dish of ward Pease comments upon the sprats or three white herrings. At amazement with which in the present ordinary times the fish was replaced day the use of beer as a drink for chil- | by three mutton bones, but all the dren would be regarded. Astonish- year round these thirsty children— ment would be increased by reference only two in number, by the way, a boy to Sir Jobn Hawkins’ “History of and a girl—demanded and got their Music,” wherein is quoted a sixteenth quart of beer But perhaps their table | century manuscript relating to the attendant was the direct ancestor of menus of the Percy family. The Lent- him who so kindly saved David Copperfield from suddeu death.—London | tide breakfast for the nursery con aisted of a manchet (or smail loaf of Chronicle. | troubled for some time past from corns, and the pain finally became unbearable and the operation was resorted to. After the toes had been amputated the doctors discovered symptoms of gangrene, and the patient is in a precarious condition. Comparative Reasoning. “Didn't you think the man I sent yeu for an instructor for your son was astute?” “No. That is why I took another as tutor.” 4 |