Show TIIE SALINA Ity SALINA UTAH C N lmiil CALL UTAH STATEEVVS The new city administration of Midvale contemplates the Installation of a water system in the near future The next Municipal League convention will be held in Sandy next January that town having won over Mt Pleasant and Manti at the Logan contention Scott Lynn a midshipman from Salt Lake City has been dismissed from Ajnnapolis and his friends In Utah bave taken steps to have his case reconsidered Members of the Manufacturers association of Utah are making a determined effort to arrange for the reopening of the Provo woolen mills which have been idle for several years An election Is to be held at Price on February 15 to vote on the proposition of bonding the city for $10000 for the purpose of erecting an electric lighting plant and establishing a sys tern f Land owners under the new state canal north of Richfield have secured the promise of the use of enough water from the state land board to irrigate 2000 acres of new land this year While driving along Twenty-fiftstreet in Ogden a buggy belonging to George Butler was run into by a street car and Buer thrown to the pavement but he escaped with slight bruises George Bridenbecker one of the injured trainmen In the Lemay wreck on the Southern Pacific will not lose his leg as was at first supposed it having been found that the member can be saved Widespread interest is being manifested at Murray in the proposed reFor vival of the flax Beed industry the past two months meetings have been held and a great deal of good accomplished Property values in Juab county are on the rise The greatest demand appears to be for dry farm lamjs which often bring as high as $60 per acre The country is booming agriculturally and prospects for the coming spring are unusually bright George Radcliffe and Charles Murphy suspected of holding up and robbing thA conductor and mocorman on a street car in Salt Lake City have been placed behind the bars in Salt Lake City Radcliffe has made a confession which Implicates Murphy In the holdup Whether or not it is legal for the city to impose a license against the butchers 'while other kinds of business are exempt will be the point at Issue when the case of seventeen butchers arrested for failing to pay the license for the year 1909 will come up for hearing in Ogden Mr and Mrs Frank Sprague and William Morgan have been arrested in Salt Lake City on a charge of coun The remains of a counter terfeiting felting plant was found at the Sprague residence while several counterfeit coins were found in the possession of both Morgan and Sprague Within a few weeks the Utah Packcompany which ing and Provision filed articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state a few days ago will begin the erection of one of the most and modern packing plants west of Omaha In Salt Lake City The company has a capital of $100000 An outbreak of the disease known as goitre has developed In the little town of Freedman nearly every suffering from the sense a swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck Physicians believe the water used by the residents of the town is responsible for the disease Joe Arnone a prominent Italian of Pueblo and Mattie B Murray a girl 17 years of age have been arrested in Salt Lake City it being charged that Arnone had abducted the girl who was living with him as his wife from her home in Pueblo A few hours after being ordered confined in the state mental hospital A E Davis a motorman employed on the Salt Lake street railway died in a padded cell In the county jail Davis wa in a street car wreck some time ago In which his closest friend was killed and worry over the affair drove him Insane As the result of the verdict of a coroner’s Jury William Naughton head brakeman of the freight train with which a passenger train collided at Lemay on January 17 must answer to the district court on a charge of criminal negligence due to leaving the switch open thus causing the collision and the death of four men Union depot in The subterranean Ogden which were among the improvements planned in this city by the Harrlman railroads for this spring have been abandoned at least temNo reason for this change porarily has been announced ' PARISIANS ARE DESPERATE WORKING FOR GOOD ROADS Jr With Streets Flooded the Once Gay City Presents Desolate Appearance of a Vast Lake Paris — The flood situation is Improving in this city and it is believed the worst phase has been encountered Officials are convinced that the end Is in sight and that the waters will bej gin to recede The city presents a weird spectacle Soldiers Bailors firemen and police are hastily temporary constructing walls by the light of campfires and torches In an endeavor to keep out the invading floods while pickets patrol those sections of the city that are plunged in darkness President Fallieres and Premier on Friday drove In automobiles to the flooded suburbs where distress Is greatest speaking words of comfort to the homeless and encouraging soldiers and others engaged in salvage' and rescue work Charitable organizations are with the authorities in throwing open their buildings and in sucSeveral convents coring refugees and a number of public buildings have been equipped with military cots and bedding and transformed Into hospitals The Red Cross is performing splendid service in distributing food and clothing numerous Instances Nevertheless are cited of women and children who had refused to leave their homes In the submerged districts shrieking from their windows for bread The number of refugees arriving here is enormous Charenton alone sending in 38000 who had got there from Calais and other afflicted points Many thrilling rescues are recorded The family of M Barthou former minister of public works whose home in the Avenue d’Antin is surrounded was taken out on the hacks of soldiers and in boats A large number of schools are closed because of lack of heat arid the adthe municipality is considering ' visability of closing all Communication with England Holland Denmark and Austria and many cities and towns in France is completely cut off The telephone has been practically abandoned in Paris New districts are being flooded constantly and the people are evacuating Several hospitals blocks of buildings where sick refugees were taken are in a dreadful plight the water having quenched feres m the furnaces MEASURE INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE FOR POSTAL DEPOSITORIES All First Postoffices to Receive Deposits From the Public In Sum From One Any Dollar Up Clast savings Washington— The postal bank bill drafted by Senators Carter Dolliver and Owen a of the committee on postofflces and on Thurspost roads was perfected day and was Introduced In the senate by Mr Carter The bill provides that a system of postal savings depositories under the supervision of a board of trustees to consist of the secretary of the treasury the postmaster general and the attorney general shall be established This board is uthorlzed to make all regulations custody of governing moneys deposited with the postal savings banks All postofflces Enthusiasts From Utah Idaho and Wyoming Consider Means for lm- - -provement of Highways Salt Lake City— About 375 good roads enthusiasts from different sections of Utah Idaho and Wyoming assembled In this city Wednesday morning as delegates to the second annual Good Roads convention As a result of their first day’s deliberations and discussions the movement for good roads throughout the intermountain section has been given Impetus and bids fair to advance to a realization even beyond the fondest dreams of those most vitally interested in the movement under way While the opening session was devoted to organization and the preparation of futiire business considerable headway was made especially with reference to improved road conditions for the state of Utah A resolution was offered that the legislature each year build 20 miles of road ten north and ten south from Salt Lake until the Idaho and Arizona lines shall have been reached Governor William Spry was present at the afternoon session and made an earnest plea for better roads Except for a paper by Robert C Skelton on “The Advantages of Good Roads in the Eastern States as Compared With the Poor Roads of the West” the sessions were given over to informal talks and spirited discussions In which delegates from the different counties of Utah and from Idaho and Wyoming participated The second day of the convention was even more interesting than the first There were three excellent papers and the discussion was lively The questions and answers indicated that the delegates are taking a deep interest in all that is being done in the convention and that they recognize the importance of having good roads in order that transportation may be easy and swift A resolution was introduced by a Twin Falls Idaho' delegate memoral-izinthe legislatures of the 'states of Wyoming Utah and Idaho to pass such laws as shall be necessary for the laying out and constructing within these three states a road to be known as the highway connecting the capital of the states of Wyoming Utah and Idaho of class authorized issue orders and such money others as the postmaster general may are declared to be postal designate savings depositories They are to receive deposits from the public and are to be for transaction of open the kept business In the usual postoffice business hours of the town or locality where they are located Accounts may be opened by any person 10 years old or more and by married women In their own names and free from Interference by their husbands No person will be permitted to have more than one account An account cannot be opened for less than $1 and not more than $100 can be deposited in any one month in Deposits postal savings banks will draw 2 per cent interest credited to the books of depositors once a year No person will be allowed to have a balance in excess of $500 exclusive of accumulated Interest Funds received by postal savings banks are to be deposited in banks subject to public supervision and as nearly as practicable In the neighborhood in which the funds are received The banks are to pay for the funds not less than 2 per cent interest Provision is made for the maintenance of a reserve fund not exceeding INQUIRY BEGINS 10 per cent'of the total funds deInterest and profits accruing posited t Controversy to Hold from deposits or investment of postal CONVENTION CLOSES Center of Stage for Awhile savings are to be applied to the payof ment administration of expenses — t The Washington Good Roads Advocates Chose Ogden and any excess is ''to be a part of poscongressional inquiry began its public and Pocatello as Next Places tal revenues sessions on Wednesday with Louis R of Meeting T Glavis chief accuser of Secretary BalCHICAGO GRAFT SCANDALS Salt Lake City — The second annual linger on the witness stand convention of the good roads advo- Eleven As a result of many interruptions Men Charged With Conspiracy cates came to a close Friday afterDefraud and the final decision of the committo the City noon Interest in the meeting grew tee to Insist that Glavis’ counsel make — Paul Redieske Chicago resigned from the beginning and only leacned an opening statement of the specific its crest when the meeting was ready deputy commissioner of public works the Michael II McGcVern wealthy con- charges against Mf Ballinger to adjourn has had many big city witness did not get far in his narratractor who The next meeting will be held in and nine city officials and tive contracts Ogden July 5 and 6 of the present The charges in brief are “That employes of McGovern were indicted year that is the meeting of the Inter- by the to entering the government sergrand jury on Thursday They prior Good mountain Roads association are with to de- vice in any capacity R A Ballinger The Utah fraud charged of conspiracy which has been organized as acted attorney in drawing up an the city $254000 Good Roads association continues its The indictment on this charge came agreement in escrow and deeds in the existence and will work as an integ- as a complete surprise as it was al- Wilson Coal company cases in Lewis ral part of the interstate association leged frauds involve only about these cases becounty Washington The 1911 meeting is to be held in Poin the “shale rock” scan- ing an alleged fraud upon the land dal catello Idaho laws Mr Ballinger’s name did not apThe officers of the Utah Good pear in court records in the case Political Debate by Lawmakers are: President Roads association “That Mr Ballinger as commissionWashington— An animated political er of the land office in 1907 did not William Spry Salt Lake City James E Jennings debate with the tariff as its chief show due diligence in investigating feature of entertained house the repSalt Lake City alleged frauds connected with the The agriThe Intermountain Good Roads as- resentatives on Thursday Cunningham coal land claims in ' cultural appropriation bill was under Alaska that he had sociation officers are: knowledge of all and on consideration — it speaking President E iv £herman Twin circumstances these surrounding Falls Idaho Representative Boutell of Illinois up- claims and in spite of this entered — A r Kendall held the tariff law as the employ of one of the claimants Rock Cpringsf Wyo one that would be eminently satisfacafter leaving the land office and before memorial committee — tory to the country and especially to Chairman becoming secretary of the interior John Dern Salt Lake City southern states ’ine senate received that he ordered these claims to be the postal savings bill an administra- “clear listed” for patent without due MET HORRIBLE DEATH tion measure and referred it to cominvestigation and that would mittee A bill was passed providing have gone to patent if they' Glavis and Woman and Child Burned to Crisp for description of unallotted Indian others had not intervened” After Going Over Precipice land In South Dakota FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Dalhart Tex — Plunging one hunWould Cinch Gold Standard dred feet to the bottom of Blanco canWashington— A bill providing that Indictment In Panama Case Quashed yon and then burned to a crisp amid or indebtedof certificates by Court the debris of a wogan was the fate any bonds of Mrs S R Break a widow and ness of the United States hereafter New York— The indictment against child near the little issued shall he payable principal and the Press Publishing company pubher standcoin interest of gold in present lishers of the New York World chargplains town of Floydada Mrs’ Break was moving across the ard value was introduced on Thursand ing others Joseph Pjulitzer with of New criminal libel against Theodore RooseP country in a wagon loaded with her day by Representative Payne velt President Taft and others was household goods and not being an ex- York chairman of the house commiton ways and means It has the in- quashed on Wednesday in the United pert driver she let the team get too tee close to the brink of the canyon At dorsement of the treasury department States district court this moment her dog ran yelping down and probably will be reported to the Judge Hough ruled that the statute upon which the indictment rested was the road and frightened the horses In house shortly The measure further that such bonds may be is- not sufficient in authority or in other the provides reining them up too quickly sued in such denominations as may words that the court had no jurisdicwoman caused the frightened horses be prescribed by the secretary of the tion to rear and back the heavy wagon treasury ver the precipice As the wagon Balloon Trip Across Atlantic Blew Hia Father with its helpless passengers plunged New York — A balloon trip across backward over the abyss a hot stove Minot N D— Charles Moline aged the Atlantic will be attempted in May was overturned and before the strug- 23 confessed on Thursday that he had New York and Berlin are capitalists gling human beings and horses could murdered his father Frank Moline behind the scheme and the dirigextricate themselves from the wreck- last Friday He said bis mother who ible for the purpose is now big conbeing age the whole mass was In flames at had been divorced from Moline be- structed in Germany The big bag will lieved Moline was about to remarry the bottom of the canyon carry 50000 cubic feet of gas and will To add to the futility of the wom- and was afraid he would leave his have two motors It an’s struggle for life a large can of property to his second wife The son is planned that the balloon shall leave gasoline In the wagon exploded and said he meant to murder both kls Berlin on May 15 with Vancouver father and the woman hastened the destruction by flames !3 C as ita ultimata destination to StATTLE MAN WOULD PAY FIFTY I CENTS A TON TO MINE ALASKA COAL Offer Coming on Eve of ' Investigation Which Would Net the Government Millions In Royalties — ' new and sensational Washlngton-r-- A factor prepared Tuesday to add intensity to the already sufficiently excited situation over the Alaska coal lands on the eve of the beginning of the investigation' John E Ballaine of Seattle said to be the largest lndiyidual property owner in Alaska made a proposlton in writing to the senate committee on Beverterritories of ’which Senator idge of Indiana is chairman offering to the government a royalty of 50o a ton on coal mined for the lease of 5000 acres of some of the choicest coal lands in Alaska in the Katalla Such a tonand Matanuska districts nage royalty would net to the government Mr Ballaine claims as high as $2000000 per hundred acres TAFT IS NO CRUSADER President Fully Set Forth His Annual Message onTaft Washington — President the following Tuesday made public statement as to the report that the administration is planning a crusade against unlawful combinations of cap ' ital either was issued “No statement from the attorney general’s office or the White House Indicating that the with purpose of the administration reference to prosecutions under the t law is other than as set forth in the message of the president of January 7 1910 “Sensational statements as if there was to be a new departure and an indiscriminate prosecution of important The industries have no foundation purpose of the administration is exactly as already stated la the president's message” Purposes of In UTAH COPPER’S VICTORY Wall Injunction Dissolved and Merger Will Proceed New York — Utah Copper gained a decided victory Tuesday afternoon in Trenton N Jf when two judges of the United States cout dissolved the injunction recently obtained against the merger of the Bingham properties This injunction was obtained by CoGraham lonel E A Wall and C W Shortly after the decision the Utah Copper shareholders voted in favor of taking over the Boston Consolidated on the basis of one share of Utah for f shares of Boston Altwo and most one million shades of the two millions capitalization of the Nevada Consolidated have expressed a desire to exchange with Utah Copper on a shares ol basis of two and Nevada for one of Utah Fear Loss of Trade Washington — Alarmed by the critical turn in the tariff controversy between the United States and Gerof from chambers many appeals commerce and boards of trade of several cities were made to the national board of trade in session here on Tuesday urging that body to recommend that the state department recede from its position that American beef and cattle must be admitted to Germany Resolutions presented to the national body maintain that there can be no advantage in insisting on a German market for American’beef because the home consumption is increasing at such a rate as soon to command all the supply Railway’s Lower Rates Reno Nev — Sweeping Reductions out of in the cost of transportation Goldfield as agreed upon by the local railways and their competing lines some days ago goes into effect February 8 and will afford great saving to mining men who are shipping ore for instance from Goldfield to Utah and Pacific coast points All ore between $20 and $30 in value is hauled for 60 cents per ton less than heretofore while to Colorado points there is a reduction of 50 cents per ton haulage charge on all ore up to and including $20 per ton materially lightening the cost of hauling low grade ores Indian Officer Slain In Courtroom Calcutta British India — Shamrul Silema a police officer who wa prominent in unearthing the Midna pur Bengal bomb conspiracy was shot dead in the high court on Monday The murderer a young Bengali fled to the street where he was pursued When overtaken by mounted police the assassin threw a bomb at the police and when this failed to explode drew a pistol which however he did not have a chance to UBe being quickly overpowered |