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Show 1 'Jul: 'ACES , TCD -- THE PROVO HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER '46 OUXXVI-N- O. EAWO MMBAJLB )MERUDEBAKER MANAGER RECOGNIZED Milium EXHIBITiUG DEADLY i FLOflEfJCE IV $11; ".xjmplary Life in Pris on Leads to Pardon r - . and Citizen ihip li- - '""11 innnfr ic Maxr1F4orence tells reporter in New York of his experience in case of securing pictures inside the Mormon Temple. Talks glowingly of Being angered becausetbe SiEzra assault and battery against the publicity he-igetting. Says he wouldn't take $100,000 for the mons was not sustained by the jury . , '. , in Judge Jones court about a "week pictures. Denies story that the pictures show any views of the polyga ago. H. S. Siler, whose son is alleged " to have been injured,, shot at Simons mous marriage records, or any other records. last Saturday, and after an investiAdmits receiving a message from Joseph F. Smith calling him gation by Deputy Sheriff Gardiner, a charge of exhibiting 'deadly' weapons a thief and says he may bring libel suit. wiU be preferred Describes some of the pictures which he says are now separated County. Attorney Jacob Evans. It Is stated that the felony charge Is. not in eight different safety deposit boxes made because there have been any Gilbert L. G. Bossard was admitted to the temple five or six misunderstandings between the parties at Clinton. " , times last June by Gottlieb Wutherich, former assistant gardener ty, When the Jiattery charge did not hold in the court, a charge of disturb- jut The JefnpTerrThe plcWferwer ing the peace was brought against EzBossard and Wutherich, with, Max Florence, incorporated a ra Simons and is being heard this aftcompany with capital stock $f $10,000, for the purpose of selling ernoon." glasfc-hlfB--- VITH STUDEBAKER one-ha- 'f I have that say, Judge, ely mining claim; . consideration, made the mistake of my life, and I 1500. Martin Friedel et al. to American am here to make amenda. I came here I Pork Mining company, all their Inter wLlingly, and if there is any mercy est In Silver No. 3 mining claim vferi man hvtbatposttion7isbalr"be In American King Fork "mining ' district; consideration, $500. .grateful for lt,"vThis is the statement made by T. , Fred Suchting - to American . Fork Mining" company,- all interest in the H. Bolla when ho wa sconvicted of Snow Storm mining claim tn Amerimhezz ement in February,' 1909, to can Fork .mining district; consldera- I Judge' BoothroJUi)urtliUi8Jxict 1 Ioju450.court a 44 reports indicate that he; Martin "FrTedeTairtoAmericaa Fork, Mining company, all interest in ' Bad Jived up- - to the arrangements the Economy, East "Star and Snow made and that ho h.s been an exem-- r Storm - Mining plary man ever since his arrest II. George A. Friedelto American Fork Though' much rief and trouble Jias Mining company, an undivided come to him since his sentence, Warinterest 4a- - the - Healy den Pratt has much praise for the mining claim in American Fork min 1 prisoner, ing district; consideration, $1 R. H. Healy et at tor American Fork . Colin, served his time in prison and when released went into the employ Mining company, quit claim deed for all interest in the Healy claim; con' of the Studebakers, and has a. better -- J sideration, $1. one than had to abanthe be position Charles Hansen to Richard Healey, don here. Manager Qufgley has ex- - all grantor's Interest in Healy claim; $65. , pressed confidence in Bolin and as- consideration, L. 0; Hickok et al. to American sisted him in obtaining the exoneraFork'Mlnlng company, all their rights tion from the board of pardons. to the Healy, Silver King No. 2, and Snow Storm .mining claims In Amer Tcan Fork ffiM COMMITTEE . WILL : ."' -- - . ; , claims;-considerati- on. : At a meeting of the executive committee in charge of the Utah county' exhibit at the State fair at Salt Lake City, the following committee 00, finance was appointed: James H. Gardner,- Lehii W. LV Hayes, Pleasant Grove; Charles H. Ward, Provo;' GuyJ Aienaennai', springviiie; D. T. Lewls "Tpnlsb Sork; Joseph Reese. Pavson i According to the reports which are being received from the committee, the exhibition from this county will be the best that has ever been sent The call has been recognized in. all parts of the county and there will be no lack' of material for the exhibit - v..;;. BARN IS BURNED. . A barn jwned by Joseph Sanders I . PUH1ET There were persistent rumor3 in Salt Lake City . yesterday that ; the church authorities, when they learned some weeks ago that the pictures bad been taken, at once took views of the . vatfousToomsthemselvesandb.ad them copyrighted, with a view to enhis joining Florence from exhibiting ' ? set of pictures. Once having obtained the copyright, theMormon church would be in a position to prevent any other person from exploiting the views, it is claim; yrprr-r first councilor In -- ed. Anthon H. Lund, the first presidency of the churcfi. last night denied that the church authorities tad taken this actlonr He admit ted that It would have have been an excellent move, but unfortunately, he said, the church authorities had not thought of it "Trealdeht Lund : admitted, however, that the authorities were considering the matter of having views taken and scattering thenf-- broadcast to - maga sins and newspapers. J.? -7 It developed, yesterday that another man in addition to Bossard and Wutherich was connected with the picture-takin- g venture.: This man was Will. iam: Seller was induced by Bossard and Wutherich to invest $300 in - the scheme.. The $300 paid to them, it Is said- Bossard and Wutherich frighten-edyoiin- gr Seilerby-teiling-hinrth- atit might become necessary to murder the guard to gain admission to the temple. The prospect of a murder was too much for Seller and he pulled out of the venture, and shortly afterward left for Portland, Oregon, where, it is said, he pow Is. s It Is said that Seller .told his mother of his part in the affair. Gaddard Is Notified. Bishop prrln P. Miller of the preside ing bishopric is quoted as saying that the church attaches no blame --to W. F. Neuman "tfie head landscape gardener and florist In whose department Wutherich was employed. It appears that Nauman, as soon as he learned of the fact that views of , . the temple interior had been taken, notified Benjamin Goddard, custodian SUCCESS of the entire temple square, 'and that a few days later when Bossard and Wutherich came to the temple block the two were turned over to Chief No charge was According to the estimate of J. C. of Police Barlow. Stay, Salt, Lake. county horticultural placed against them, and their denial Inspector, 6,500 householders of the of any connectioii"with the affair was city took advantage of the Opportuaccepted and they were released." nity to buy direct from the producer - President Smith takes the situation at the farmers' market on Second philosophically, it is reported at the Bee Hive house. He is quoted as sayWest street during the last week. ing that he does not propose to make Patronage ok the market is f" l-CIEf- , at North First East street, burned to the ground at an earry hour this morning. The bufding contained considerable furniture and curios which had been gathered in the Samoan Islands. : The damage is set at $500. S87 tlon, $1,000. "V'Th"'" the : FINANCE -- . ni cn - . . T. JL Bolin, formerly manager Studebaker Bro in this city, las been pardoned from the state penitentiary. The pardon is in die form of an exoneration, Bolin 1111TU pi cDit having served his entire sentence f or embezzlement and had been I LLU IVII ULLIIIl 'released "about two months when the pardon was granted. Through the pardon, he is granted his citiThe following deeds were filed for record with the county recorder here is Bolin in zenship rights. again 1 r the ' employ of Studebaker Bros. yesterday: Richard Healy et aL to .L. C. Hick-oc- k and is said to be doing good work. et al, a interest in the "All to I Is GATHER '. by for i v- .iiiJMew-York-.-:----;-- t increasingsaid-MPi-StayT-1'- coft-stantl- y. any-st-lr- ? believe that, rf it is aPowed lo constreet market will be turntinue, the ed 4nto - a .retail market within six ESTABLISHED 1831 ons to haul their .papers away. You would have, to pay me a lot of money Thd give me a share of th6 profits of the edition besides. Get me? I had a te'ephone call from a .magazine this arternoon .asKing ,Di ir 1 oad . made my arrangements to sell the-- pictures. I said they were here to fco to the highest bidder be he 'Mormoa,' Jew Gentile; I don't care wticn, : No Pictures of Records. 1 Mr. Florence made an important admission in response to a question as to whether or not his picture showed any views of "Mormon" marriage recprds, especially, of polygamous marriages performed since their alboIifloX" leged ' ."My pictures, po8ltIyelyh.ve-oth-ing-- to do with the records," he said. "How5 could they have? I found that the recorda were kept locked tip In vaults. I think the most important records are kept 'epen outside of the temple itself, for the 'Mormons' knew that the first place that Would be raided ,therLshoHld j hej aseaxcb. for the records would be their tern pie. I found ino reeordsi but 'I did obtain Information about the records which could go with these pictures In a moving picture lecture. " "Are the films moving picture films " was asked. "No" Mr. Tor- ence replied, "they were not moving picture films, but they could be made into that quite easily and with a lecture to accompany, them would make we'l. I have made money in my day and given It away, but this time I'll make It and then Just watch me." in response to many more questions this 6tory of the raIdupoalbe sacred temple was obtained: "I found it a p'ace nobody, could get into who was an outsider and was not kaown to the guards. They say I hired a workman to take theililms. -- 1 did not. :rney say aiso 1 must nave Driued a guards That story also is false. How did J do It, then?- That's my busi nesB. I got it done I did not go into the temple myself, but my money, ac Mmplished it No guard helped me tq. tne least and no workman helped me. Say, I know that building from cel'ar to step Just as well as the architect. Threatens Jo Steal Moroni. ; T"I felt frisky today and I had mind to wire to that Mormon prophet that u pe made me any madder that I'd come back, there and steal the an gel Moroni off the main steeple. That snows how easy the temple is for me, Now,- - it isn't stealing goods to take pictures. You don't take anything away onjy the camera you take In, and you leave everything Just as It . -- igt : - - . Ben and James Garbett, of Goshen. who are charged with assaulting an officer, will be brought to the county Jail this afternoon by 8herift Judd. Both men caused a disturbance at a dance in Santaquln about a week ago and when the marshal made an attempt to arrest theni they showed fight and knocked the officer down with a rock, and made their getaway. Ben Garbett was. caught and stood trial and was fined $50 and thirty days In Jail. .During the night he escaped from the Goshen Jail and could not be located until today. Sheriff Judd received word ' this morning that the menwerelheld inGoshen and ...that here toTTOttd tbey will triaL County Attorney EvaPs will prefer " charges against them bi-broug- - 's ; 4 er CITY -' . . tele-Ph- ne - d neg-lecte- " suto-moblle- s, SEILIII The "case Adamson, Of .whih..hwa4J Aaejioaa-Farkw-ia the western and northern portions of the- eompany'a-terrtto- ry and will e cupy about two weeks' time,. It will teel ode Utah, Haho. Montanal .Wyotn-ing and Co'ondo. Mr. Field has new er coverOd the' territory ai: whole, although he has visited It previously, as he wss years a dlreo tor of lhTTTckyjff6imTafn Bell Telephone comrmay prior to the organisation of the Mountain States Tetephon It Telegraph tompany.- ; d Teteohone Man.- '" Mr. Field was one of the early pioneers in the telephone-busines- s, nod has been Identified with the Amerlcn Telephone ft Telegrftoh Interests for many vara. His energies have beef devoted large'y to the financial side of the Jbulsness in reecnt years. Members of the party, exprew-themsplves - as much Imnrese4 ' an! pleased by the many evidences of sub stnntlal prosperity they noted In th city and in the region surrounding it - of John C charged with maintaining a hquse of nuisance, was heard- - before Justice Tan. Huong, 01 ajpme yesieraay, a change of venue having .been asked. The county presented evidence that liquor had been sold In the place of business,- - showed glasses " and; $400 worth of liquor which had been con fiscated. The sheriff was of the opin ion that a strong case had been brought forth, the defendant present ing no evidence. Judge Strong dismissed the case for lack of evidence, will, it was from a place that would make him twice as mad as the others. They started with the beautiful gold oxen that hold up the baptizing tank in the basement and vehded in the grand paradise room on the fifth floor. And then there was one taken from the roof Just to show him that we had .been up there-.'That's a gorgeous temple Inside. I talked - with 'Mormons after I knew all about it and found that 9 per cent of them had never-see- n most of the rooms I got pictures of. "They thought they had been Only through J$eJenjPle'lut theyhad ; been In a few of the rooms; ' J'The first Jaeard after my letter to Smith was his telegram telling me he did not deal with thieves andJtrafc flkers in stolen goods. I sent an an swer: "Joseph F. Smith, Salt Lake City I have done nothing against the law. You should consider me a most confidential Mend for obtaining posses-sior (Signed.) ; J n. v - y unresponsive. Instead, he talked of the publicity he was getting free because of his adventure and made public his' reply to President Joseph F. Smith's . telegram to him that.be (Smith) would not deal with a thief or a traffiker id stolen goods, preferring to let the law take care of "" such a .man. . v Make Fortuned ,:;t7T to Expects JHow much do you ennsidex your pictures worth PliMr. tJFlorence. was sked. 'He amoked a 'arge' cigar for a moment and then declared he' would rather burn themup 'In the gas light h?n accent anything' so sma'l as 100.ooo Jor them, "That is the sum the 'Mormons' Bav I blacknial'ed them for," be said. "I didn't name that' sum. ,. It wouldn't have been - nearly g'ow-ingl- GRAIN DESLERS -- THE -- for-sever- al Exre-lence- ". - el - INVESTIGATES 8HOOTING. , Denuty Sheriff Ellas Gnrdner. of Thistle, Is- -' investigating . chargs -- made by Ezra Simons. of (Tinim. wbj clams that H. B, S1er. a'so of CTnton, Hred a shot at Slmohs one day last week, .following tbe acauittal of Simons on the charge of assault sni battery committed on Roy Slier, sol-o- f H. BrSl'e'rTSimons wIP have a : hearing tomorrow on the charge of disturbing the peace, growing out of. the sam eclrcunretances the battery charge-wapreferred on. .The two famries, Siler and Simons, have had cons'dorable over, divisional s . feficep. LAND THRO IVf I OPEN TOSETRER ed SAYS TREASURER Treasurer ,.Palfreyraan states that here is often a lull until the last rreat rush, for a Tew flays at the end, Then the taxpayer har to stand in line 'it , hours rat aimejljan the treas-reroffice force is worked night and. ay. While the man who has big ixes to pay, on which the interest self would be considerable and ie man who pays by :. check, when 9 does pay, may find it profitable y wait until after November 1, to ive up bis money to.. the countyr "t'm easurer believes that it wl'l pay Uw tie fellow, the Interest, on whose jtes Is not considerable, to . Come irller in the season to pay np. The slay at the eleventh hour. H to the taxpayer and the pub- -i alike, whereas-a- t present the tax--ycan receive prompt attention. TOUR 1 s Although' many people ' may not '.now it, their taxes are now due, and ,t is not necessary-twait until November 15 before paying. County With Valley . . TIKES Pres. Field of Mountain States Co. Pleased - - . IRE v Provo had a visit today from a distinguished 'party of offlcers,.beaded by Pres- v Ident E, B. Fle'd, of the Moun- - 4tain States Telephone & Tele graph, company. The party in- eluded Mr. Field, his wife and . daughter, Philip - Hamlin, as- sistant to the president; B. M. Burgess, general' manager; fc rMrtBorgess, and J. E. Mae donald, secretary of the com-- " V- Charles C, May, who has neglected pany, who arrived from Den- - 4 to care and provide for his wife and 4 ver on train No. 1. private car nth otlhe . Denver -- AcMaXenwlio;tte711" Gbshenr-was-a?'yToIa Rio Grande. J "Tv will rested at Park City today and be brought Jo this city tonight to anA swer the charge. -- An effort has been Mr. Field and members of bis party-- . made for some time to locate May, but f he had not been caught until "today. were met at the train by local rep?e a is in It is said that hir family sentatites of the telephone .company : , condition. and escorted about the city In remaining In Erovo until th departure of train No. fi of the Den BOOZE ver A RteJJrsnderwhicb took the car to 8a't Lake City. "MrTTIeld'BTrtnJroTJhe, nature of a visit of inspection of the pronertles CHARGE FAILED 6anathe company and to note additions improvements required. The visit "MAX A. FLORENCE.'" Thatman Smith te'egraphed me I MAX FLORENCE'S STORY, ll-- was a thief; maybe I shall have a Message From Unknown Max Florence,- - the moving picture libel suit against him. And, say, that ."Then I waited for,another message showman from 8alt Lake ' City, who youngjellow who took these pictures. from Smith, but it did not come. In months. Mr. Stay said that some idea of the declares he has invaded the inner pre- He was a brick,' though. I shall send stead on the 16th I received this mes him' a ticket for him to come on here, sage: Amount of peaches on band, 5,00ft cincts, of the sacred and hitherto ' " 'Max ' Florence, Hotel Imperial, for I am not afraid of anything.- - In "Mormon" temple and cases, may be gained from computing a large number of photos of al- one room he wanted a picture that New York: The law regards the re--. 'hatr it means more than three full tars and interior furnishings, - at his was a good - one and - he stacked eeiver and traffiker in sto'.en goods on carloads of peacheB. Jonathan apples have put in an ap- rooms in the Imperial hotel last night two chairs up, one "on top of the a par" with the thieves. This on my pearance on thefaarket about 300 told about his experience in capturing other, and put his camera on top of personal responsibility. Signed.) bushels Jeln , offered. Utah' grapes the photos. Upon this theme, how- them, and as the room was dark and will be on the market-thi"t.abnt a. snrvlce messasre to Salt ever, Florence was very taciturn and It was to be a slow exposure, why week. hate been obtained. the-pictur- 1 ht : about-tbe-matter- 1 1 d YOUR PJATV H iu nil iiiihl , ni IN THE HERALD ""TELEPIOOE MS s J NEWS IS TWO DAYS EARLIER TO .MILLMflB "The date'set "for "the'meeting of the. Utah. Grain . Dealer- - Millers' - association Is October 4, the day prior to the arrival of the president;1 the banquet to be 'held at the Hote' Utb from t to 6 p. m;, followed by the business meeting.. Governor Spry and Professor, Widtsoe are to attend and -- speak.:: ; ..v - '. T " . . big enough." .: - .. . y; r - . ' , The object of the meetingTitr A reporter asked for how much be bring more to the front the idea of would ' release some of the ' temp'e raising the grade of wheat in this Tiew4.j6t.tBe. newspapers.state, so as to "prevent Utah raised h "Do you think 1 am a rubefy he wheat' from being downed ?. In the nggsnted, . "tf you see snvthingl of market by the bettereastern grain ti?e rube shout me, III tke ! off. rn and flours. Turkey Red wheat is- the "re for tfie cash." Now. if anv " bra io be doptodbyUta1i my secret "pictures ' farmers.' hare o hire extn "xnres? wse- ' - - - nd-des- news-fTrr-Trint- ed ired Vne-.v'- i he walked around Jn fronUand bad his own picture (taken in the room. And I have that picture, , It is one of the 68. "The camera.- - Oh, that was a rapid lens affair. Not all ' the 68 pictures were good,- and I did not have .them all taken in a day1. It required months picture a day sometimes "was a good record." 'T . ."FlagblightS were taken In several rooms... Say. how. was that foL jou the' boom of a flashlight in the torn-- . pTe? Well, I had these pictures far away from Salt Lake and watched the mandevelop them very carefu'ly. He did iot know what they were about Then I brought' them down here to New York and ihad them enlarged. My first move was to offer tb em to Joseph F Smita I marked the letter important and wrote on it thaHt should not be delivered to anybody but the man it was addressed to. ' . Pictures Sent to Smith. "Jnf to show him I was no faker I sent h'm eig'it of the beautiful thTm"weTetrom' inside the temple and the other" ons." ed Authority for the opening to entry of nearly 1000 arces of public land la Utah has' been received by the local land office. The date of formal entry will be September 29. and the entries may be' made under section 2 of the enlarged homestead act, which reLake City asking who C. H. W. was, quires residence on the land entered. but.Jc0uld.not find out.1 From Pen- - The land ts described as fo'lows: Ths ver I got a message telling me to be west half of section 30, township 38 very careful- of the goods and our south, range 4 & west; all. of section in township 33 south, range 4 Mi selves as a- plot would no- doubt be formed against us Another message west; the south half of the northwest warned me to get the pictures copy- quarter of section 6, - township 84, righted at once and to see the mov- range 4V4 west; a'l of sections 6 and ing picture snd postcard men. Maybe 7 of township. 34 south, range 4 wes V you don't thinjt I have got them guard the west half of section 8 to townsb ip ed thouah. - They - are senaratod in 84southi range MrwoBts the north- - eight different -- Safety deposit r boxes west quarter and the northeast quar- 7' quarter of eo ' in "While I was stndingr at the te'e-- tlon 17 of township 34 south, range 4 graph idesk; finknown to the operator, west; the northwest quarter of the , I read a message addressed to the northwest quarter; the south half of- ' Lake City. Tt the southwest quarter of the southoperator from .Salt - east half of section 19i township 34 reafls Uke'thfs: V " 'If . rossfb'e, snnpre8 service en south, range 4 west; the north half burs'. No. 24. to Max Florence, Hotel of section 30; township 34 south, ranje Answer 44 west; and the northeast quarter Imperial. Signed. Smith. of the southwest quarter of section ourk 8igned Knight at Salt Lake.' know Kn'gbr. be Is the Western 23, Uwnship 5 south, ange 6 wcbL Union manager there Now, why do vbu nnrnoe Rwih wanted his mes LICENSED TO WED Marriare licenses nave been issued sae called back?" : Dwri"e this with the reporters to the following cotibles: John S., Ol it'r. Florence insisted that the Hote' son and.' Anna Holderson.' both of Oliver Hood and Tmrrlal bouse detective should re- Spanish" Fork;' of Provo bench.Emma McEwanooth. room. main In the thiawnjsgsfc: J. sr i - M; . tik - |