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Show v.' v 7 RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY , UTAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 2G, 1910. YOL. XIY. H. Johnson, of Fresno, Cal., has against the estate left by OF WEEK III Daniela claim Russell of Melrose, Mass., declaring that he is Russells son. He Is the second California to make a claim upon the estate, valued at 1750,000. Fire of incendiary origin in Huntington, Pa., caused the death of an invalid and the destruction of property RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT valued at 200,000. Charles W. Fairbanks EVENT3 TOLD IN BRIEFEST United States on to the returned MANNER POSSIBLE. Thursday, after an absence of nearly a year on a tour around the world. A deal Involving 85,000,000 worth of Happening That Are Making Hlatory oil property located within a radius of a few miles of Bartlesville, Cal., Information Gatherod from All has been closed by George C. PriestQuarter of tho Globe and ly, acting i for a company of foreign Given In a Few Lino. bankers. The company will build a pipe line to the gulf of Mexico and will export all of the oil. Two men were killed and several Full responsibility for the order Injured by an explosion of dynamite which moved two passenger trains in the oil and gas fields twelve miles out of Cascade tunnel near Welling- north of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. ton, Wash., to the point' where they Enrico Caruso, the tenor, appeared were overwhelmed by an avalanche In a Brooklyn police court pn Wedand nearly a hundred persons killed, nesday as a witness against Antonio was assumed by Superintendent Missian and Antonio CIncotti, who James ONeill of the Great Northern, are accused of trying to extort 815,000 the first witness called in the cor- from him by threatening letters signed oners inquest. Black Hand. Two body guards acThe Denver Times declares that the companied Caruso. Bock Island system has officially anIsaac Emory was shot and killed by nounced that it will not buy the Den- his brother, Ira Emory, v near East ver, Northwestern & Pacific railroad. Prairie, Mo., following a quarrel over David H. MofTat states that other the feeding of cattle. plans for extending the road to Salt WASHINGTON. lake City are being worked out. Senator Cummins of Iowa held the An abscess of the brain resulting floor of the senate for four days in from a bullet wound received at some a speech against the adminmaking remote period caused the death of istration railroad bill. Mrs. Blanche Davidson, writer, and The house committee on ways and wife of a wealthy mine owner at Ely, means does not seem favorable toconNevada, It was announced at the bill providing for the issuthe ward clusion of an autopsy performed by ance of 830,000,000 certificates of incoioners physicians. debtedness for the completion of the Eli Dewey, aged 77, and said to be reclamation under way, and a cousin of Rear Admiral Dewey, was may retuse toproject the bill. report struck and killed by a Santa Fe Taft has come to the conPresident passenger train at Prowers, Colo. He clusion that the slaughter of seals on was a wealthy farmer. the islands of St. Paul and St. George The Brown Palace, one of Denvers must stop, and has sent a special best known hotels, has become a part message to congress recommending of the endowment of the Myron Strat- that the government take charge of ton home for aged miners, which is the islands, their inhabitants and seal to be built In El Paso county. This is herds. In compliance wttli the will of the lafe The Rover nh&uUs uefews''b'T the W. S. Stratton. The trustees of the of the corporation constitutionality home instead of selling the hotel, tax of the new tariff law provision which Is valued at $1, 500,000, will has been submitted to the supreme operate the property. court of the United States. Upon Teleford Thoni, a farmer residing this brief the goevrnment w'ill shape near Filer, Idaho, killed his wife and its oral defense of the law. two daughters, aged 14 and 15, and To ascertain if Secretary WiisOns then after depositing a strong box policy governing users and persons with a neighbor containing a confes- entitled under the land laws t6 pasion of the crime, declared that he tents of national forest lands, is Actuwas tired of living and did not want ally cairied out. Associate Forester to leave his family behind, returned Potter has left Washington to confer to his home, cut his throat, and set with national forest officers in the fire to his house. The charred corpses w est. of the entire family have been taken Senalor Aldrich, in a speech in the from the ruins. senate on Wednesday, in answer to One hundred beet growers of Plain the charge that there was an attempt City, Utah, representing more than to put the administration railroad 8,000 acres of beet sugar lands in measure through without amendment, Weber county, have decided not to admitted that the bill could be , plant any beets this season, because amended. of differences with the company. FOREIGN. Government veterinarians are to be who bolds Lieutenant Shackieton, detailed to continue the work of as- the record for further south and sisting to wipe out tuberculosis of cat- who sailed from Ixtndon on Saturday tle in Utah. for the United States, has his plans DOMESTIC. well advanced for another Antarctic President Taft, in a speech before expedition in 1911. the chamber of commerce at RochesBubonic plague has appeared in the ter, N. Y., appealed to members of Hawaiian islands. Rear Admiral Cow-eP. Rees, commandant of the naval congress to .sacrifice their individual opinions that the platform promises station at Honolulu, cabled the navy of the Republican party might be ful- department that there were two deaths filled. from plague on the island of Konokas Carmello Capriso, an Italian store- and two on the island of Hilo. A peasant who deliberately felled keeper, was murdered in his place of business in Chicago by an unknown a tree across the road near Munich, luan, who escaped after being pur- was the cause of the death of the Arsued several blocks. gentine consul and four friends, who Two were lynched at were killed in an automobile accident, negroes Marion, Ark., by a mob of 300 men. the auto striking the tree. The peasfhe victims were charged with aiding ant's daughter bad been killed by an auto. jail delivery. American shipbuilders, it is assertAlbert Scherrer shot and fatally Wounded his wiie as she ed, have been deprived of the priviJay in bed, his explanation for the lege of submitting bids for the concrime being that she refused to let struction of the warships of the Ottoman government, to cost 825,000,000. him kiss their baby. The 'debt of the Mexican National Charles R. Drummond, member of 4 wealthy St Louis iamily, charged Packing company to the United States with matting a second marriage before Banking company is 82,082,878, acstatement being legally divorced, declares that cording to an itemized bis self was in control, filed by the receiver of the bank in and that his real self was unaiware of the civil courts at Mexico City. After the close of a huge Socialist the act, in giving testimony on the witness stand. meeting held in Kiehl, Germany, the to march The blunt of the St. Patricks day Socialists attempted celebration at Chicago fell upon P.es-den- t through the streets and in a battle Taft, who made six different ad- with the police several pistol i shots dresses during the day. In one of his were fired, the police being forced to speeches the president declared that take refuge in shops. The estimated earnings of the Nabe had learned more during the first year of his . administration than he tional Railways of Mexico and leased could hope to assimilate in the next lines, computed in Mexican silver, three. for the last week of January of this Oue hundred and fifty prominent year, were 12,017,029. For the correNew Yorkers have been named to sponding week of January In 1909, the compose the committee which will earnings were 81,709,400. A bottle which was thrown overy give Colonel Theodore Roosevelt a welcome home, and preparations are board from Commander Pearys Arcnow under way for the celebration of tic ship Roosevelt off Greenland on of the the home-comin-g September 2, 1909, was picked up off Mrs. Lewis Doran, aged 35, the wife Kinsale, Ireland, Wednesday. A letof a liveryman, and her two joung ter inclosed in the bottle and adsons, died at Wilson, Kans., from dressed to E. Millan of Frankfort-on-the-Maiburns suffered when an oil lamp exsays the bottle was set ploded, setting fire to their home. The adrift with object of ascertaining the mother was burned trying to save the rate of the current on the Labrador v coast. children. HEWS l filed Mllll V DEFEATED Bf SPEAKERSHIP SHORN OF VAST POWERS AFTER SENSATIONAL . POLITICAL BATTLE. Insurgent Republican and Democrat Sucotcd In Removing 8peaker From Committee on Rules, But Refute to Declare Speak- f erehip Vacant. - INTER-MOUNTAI- n 1 j Washington. After one of the most sensational political battles In the history of the house of representatives. Speaker1 Joseph G. Cannon on Saturday lost- - the ancient prestige and weapon of that office when the allied Republican Insurgents and Democrats took from him not only the chairmanship of, but even membership in, the committee on rules, the chief aset in his stock of power. By a yfde of 191 to 155, the Republican Insurgents voting solidly with the Democrats, the house adopted the resolution of Mr. Norris, Republican, to fifaugmenting the membership teen, and eliminating the speaker, A thirty-hou- r session, the liveliest In recent legislative annals, followed. On Friday the house adjourned and a series of conferences, with a view to compromise, were started. A compromise measure to make the committee ten In number and to displace e speakers fror membership was rejected. On Saturday when the house convened at noon. Speaker Cannon sustained Representative Dalzells point bf older against the Norris resolution. Non is appealed, and the house voted sustain him. Representative Norths moved i he previous question on his resolution, shutting out debate. The Norris lesolution was voted on and was sustained by the house. A roll-cawas then taken on the question: "Shall tbq decision of the speaker stai.d as the decision of the house? and the speaker was overruled. The Norris resolution was then voted on by the house, having been' taken out of the hands of the speaker and given direct to the representatives for division. Speaker Cannons term expires next Match, but it is persistently rumored that he will resign before that time. This gives rise to speculation as to who will be his successor. The Democrats will, it is said, advocate Champ Clark, while the father of the resolution which has been the bone of contention for the past few days. Representative Norris, of Nebraska, is now itt the limelight, and will probably be a candidate. But in the meantime, Joseph G. 2 Cannon is still the speaker of the tmtse, though shorn of much of his former power. BATTLE MAY NOT BE OVER. Insurgents Not Pleased Over Caustic Remarks Made by Speaker Cannon Before Republican ' ' Association. The titanic . struggle which resulted in the destruction of the speakers pjwer in the committee on rules, yet leaving' Mr. Cannon the speakership iiseU, may have marked not so much i7 end- - of 7h'e.e..7,;3 V Uuule-aa- - the. beginning of a great political war. Haidly any one in Washington thinks the condition of affairs after JOSEPH G. CANNON. the momentous battle represents a of Nebraska, requiring a reorganiza- satisfactory conclusion. The speaker and his friends appear tion of the rules committee. Increasing its membership from five to ten, to interpret the refusal of the house and declaring .the speaker ineligible to depose him as justifying them in to membership thereon. By the curiously identical vote of 191, to 155 but with a decidedly different personnel of alignment the house defeated a resolution of Representative Burleson of Texas, declaring the speakership vacant and ordering the immediate election of a successor to Mr. Cannon. The Norris resolution was aS follows: There shall be a committee on rules, elected by the house (hitherto the committee of five, like all other house committees, has been appointed by the speaker), consisting of ten members, six of whom shall be members of the majority party. The speaker shall not be a member of the committee, and the committee shall elect its own chairman from its own members. Resolved, further, that within ten days after the adoption of this resolution, there shall be an election of this committee, and immeGEORGE W. NORRIS diately upon its election, the present from Fifth District of committee on rules shall be dis- Congressman Nebraska. solved. It was upon the adoption of this claiming to have wrested victory from resolution that' one of the greatest defeat, endorsement from repudiation. contests In the history of the house Not a few of the Insurgents who was waged. The regular Republicans voted for Mr. Cannons retention are were opposed to the adoption of the wondelng today if. they made a poll resolution, which means the. practical tical blunder;' whether their anti dethroning of the speaker, while the Cannon constituents will not, indeed "Insurgent" Republicans Joined with hold the retention of Cannon in the the Democrats and succeeded, after a to have nullified the vote bitter and prolonged fight, in securing speakership to eliminate him from the rules com votes enough to pass' the resolution. mittee. When the tumult had partially subThe Republican regulars complacsided after the vote on the Norris claim the insurgents who voted resolution had been taken, Speaker ently for the speaker have returned to the Cannon gained' the attention of the taunt fold. The Democrats members and made an address in party these with having been reinsurgents which he declared: There are two creant to the logic of their Insurtourses open for the speaker to pursue: One is to resign and permit the gency. Nobody seems entirely happy new combination of Democrats and about the outcome. Speaker Cannon's defiant speech Insurgents to choose a speaker in Reharmony with Its acts and purposes Saturday night before the Illinois The other is for that combination to publican association, in which he condeclare a vacancy in the office of temptuously denounced the insurgent members of the house who stood by speaker and proceed to the election of him In the final test, as cowardly a new speaker. The speaker declared that'to volttn members of congress, without th tarily resign would be a confession of courage of their convictions, has cut weakness or mistake and an apology to the quick those men who respondfor past actions, and as he was not ed with the votes to what they say conscious of wrong-doing- , had con- they believed to be their duty to the strued the rules as he found them, party and to the country and saved and as they Bad been construed by him from further humiliation. reJust now the feeling among these not he would previous speakers, Insurgents is one of the bitterest sign. The vote on the motion to declare resentment over the attitude assumed If this is the manner the speakership vacant showed that toward them. there was no desire upon the part of of our treatment for saving the Rethe majority to change speakers, but publican party," said one of them on simply to eliminate the speaker from Sunday, who refused td allow him name to be used, "this battle Just the qommittee on rules. On Thursday Representative Norris ended will be followed by another beintroduced a privileged resolution to side which the first one would be (a t change the house committee on rules, skirmish. ' ! . f I AVERT WF NO. 46. WAR Special rates will be given by the railroads for the land opening at SITUATION HOPEFUL AFTER BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND CANADIAN MINISTER. E Many Detail Remain to be Worked Out, But It is Believed There Is i Now No Danger of Tariff War Between Canada and U. S. Albany. At the conclusion of a conference, which, with two or three interims, covered practically the entire day. President Taft on Sunday night seemed hopeful that a tariff war with Canada may yet be averted. The negotiations between the president and W. S. Fielding, the Canadian minister of finance, did not result either' in agreement or disagreement. Many details remain to be worked out and at this time it was declared the following official statement sums up the situation: Eleven days remain for friendly negotiations before the maximum law autorates of the matically go Into effect against those countries that are regarded by the president as "unduly discriminatory" against the United States. The Jaw is arbitrary as to Its application, but lAe president is given Judicial powers in reaching a conclusion as to what constitutes undue" discrimination. Up to this time Canada has been regarded by the presidents staff advisers as "unduly discriminatory and unless concessions are granted by the Dominion government to place the Payne-Aldric- h United States on an equal footing with France and thirteen other countries that have been given preferential rates under the Canadian tariff, it seems inevitable that Canada will be the one Important country in the world against which the 25 per cent increase in the maximum American rates will be applied, The fact. that President Taft Z Mes-JIrfJeaa- -- sum-- 1 oL'Xnsoatti the governors mansion and thanked him for his part in helping to bring about Sundays meeting, indicates the outlook Is not so dark as It appeared a few days ago. CARMEN TO CONTINUE UTAH STATE NEWS STRIKE. Lynn on April 11. The secretary of state has sent out notices and blanks to all of the state and private banks In Utah for reports on the banks at the close of business on March 14. A reward of 8200 has been posted for the arrest and conviction of the the person or persons who robbed postofflce at Mantl, securing 830 in cash and l,000 in postage stamps. believed to have Despondency, been caused by 111 health, prompted M. E. Knowles, a young railroad clerk, to take his own life by swalat lowing an overdose of morphine Ogden. The anniversary of the organization of the Relief society of the Mormon church was appropriately celebrated on Thursday by the 700 branches of the organization throughout the country. Another power plant is promised for Sevier valley. J. H. Manson, Hugh B. Lisonbee and Milan Packard have tiled on an ideal site in what is known as Daniels canyon, which opens into the upper part of Grass valley, near sixty-eight- h Plateau. Antitoxin administered to the pris- -' oners in the Ogden jail now under guarantine for smallpox, "caused the breaking out of a rash on the faces of several of tW prisoners and Incidentally gave the police officials another bad scare. Salt Lake City stands fifth In line In the percentage of gains in the postal business during the last yea among the fifty largest cities of the United States. Salt Lake's percentage of gain last year over the preceding one was 25 84 per cent. Through the efforts of the Ogden Betterment league the city ordinance regulating the sale of Intoxicating libuors has been so amended that of the B&loons, closing at X oclock that hereafter will be required to close their doors at the stroke of f . , midnight. J meW of tlfllk Prominent busts A - ryjrtuS' i ' tatives of the Commercial club, in ipected the Sevier River Land and Water company tract at Lynndyl, a few days ago, and pronounced the project one of the best ever undertaken In the west. A mammoth beating plant for tho heating and lighting of the various the Mormon buildings owned by church in the north end of the business district of the city and involving an expenditure of from 8150,000 to 8200,000 is the latest improvement planned for Salt Lake. Shooting Private Paul P. Shaunty, her husband, through the heart as he was leaving the kitchen of Captain Ulines quarters at Fort Douglas, Laura Shaunty, hysterically scobbed, "1 guess that ends It, but he drove me to it by his Incessant The woman is under arrest. Utah ranks second In the Union as the habitat of the stork for the year 1909. Government figures Just out bear out the claims of this state that babies are Utahs best crop." The . the Phil Offer of Settlement adelphia Rapid Transit Company la Rejected by the Men. Philadelphla.--Repudiati- ng the offer of settlement trom the. Philadelphia Rapid Transit company through the assistance of United States Senator Penrose, the executive committee of the striking carmen late Sunday night voted to continue the strike against the company until all the demands are Made by granted. The proposition for their considers tion provided for the immediate reinstatement of as many strikers as possible with the payment by the com pany of all surplus men of 82 a day until places are provided for them, a wage increase to 23 cents an hour on June 1; an annual Increase of one half cent an hour until the wage reaches 25 cents; recognition or grievance committee and a reservation by the company to recognize other giievance committees; disposition of the cases of the 173 men whose discharge led to the strike, by a board of arbitration composed of President Kruger of the company and President Driscoll of the carmens union, with a third to be appointed by these two in case of a disagreement. This proposition differed from the others in that until jobs are provided for them, the strikers were to receive a day and that the 82 Instead of 173 men are to be handled by an ar bitratlon board instead of as provided by the act of ls93. 81-5- Unrequited Love Leads to Death. Lewistown, Pa. William Shrader , shot and Instantly kiled Bertha aged 28 years, of Derry township. The girl was horesbaea riding and stopped for a drink oi water at the home of her sister, where Shrader boarded. The latter fired from an upstairs window and the girl fell dead from her horse. It is said that the girl had rejected Shrader's attentions. Sin-gey- Search for Missing Girl. Akron, O Catherine Mantz, the from girl who disappeared her home at Massillion on Friday, shortly before the discovery of the mysterious death of her sister, Elizabeth, has been traced to this city. Chief of Police Ertle of Massillion, aided by the local officers and several detectives from Canton, are searching the city for the girl. Three Are Killed. Winnipeg, Man Three men were killed in a railway accident at Me Neillie siding, nyar Nelson, on the Crows Nest branch of the Canadian Pacific railway. '.The engineer, fireman and head bra,eman were crushed to death. ) fe ' i . percentage of babies who came to Utah, computed upon every 1,000 population, was 35.2, Dakota got first place. Salt Lake City is to have a string of restaurants which will dispense good food at popular prices and which will be conducted on the successful plan of eastern restaurants. If the project started last week by a restaurant man is carried out. It is proposed to serve meals at a nominal profit. Neighbors found Robert Shirle of Stockton dead in his chair In his cottage. The day before he had summoned a physician from Tooele, but he was not thought to be seriously 111. He lived .alone and had never married. He was 77 years of age. The board of directors of the Lund detention home at Murray has rented a large tract of land near the home for the purpose of maturing a large crop of farm products. The directors are seriously considering the advisability of purchasing additional land near the school. The Federation of Womans clubs is considering the feasibility of making public the names of the grocers of Salt Lake City who have refused t respond to the circular letters sent out several weeks ago by the clvio committee of the organization asking compliance with the clean food ordt-- , nance. The young son of Robert Walker, of Union, as the result of an accident, will probably be deprived of his sight. While playing with a companion, young Walker found a can containing black powder. Having seen older boys blow up a can, he proceeded to do the same with the result that he may become blind. Overturning a kettle of boiling water that had been placed by her mother on a bench outside the home at Carr Fork, Bingham Canyon, Hil-m2 years of age, daughter of Mrs. Eli Perttunen, was so terribly scalded that she died six hours later. , |