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Show I THE TOOELE TIMES HEWS OF A WEEK III C. T. STONCY, Publish TOOCLE Battleships almost as UTAH go to COKED FORM the scrap heap last as pugilists do. Smoke costs Chicago $21,830,000 year, not to mention the agony. a IMPORTANT RECORD OF THE EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. The process of dying poor Is easily achieved by nine men out of ten. woman takes taxicab rides to cure the blues. Not her husbands, however. A Chicago Thieves In New York stole a wagon load of cheese. The police, we presume, are on the scent. man went mad a barbers chair In New York. Probably the barber was talking winter baseball gossip. A In It Is now possible to go around the world In less than half the time It took Jules Vernes hero to make his trip. Possibly this world would be better oil if there were no pistols in It. At least, there would be more people here. There Is more money In being an of Portugal than In being an of the United States, but there Is less excitement. Hello! Heres Vienna exceeding the Some of those old getting nearly as big 8,000,000 mark. world towns are as a young American city. A new golf rule reads like this: "The shaft may be fixed at the heel or at Is this any other point in the head. golf language or what is It? A New York man who had lost his memory was found with $60,000 In his pockets. Probably discovered on a witness stand at an investigation. It Is said that a St. Louis man kissgirl 15,000 times In one month. Must have used a kissoineter to keep ed a the count. It Is said by a dealer that Chicago men have reason to be proud of their small hands. Since when have small hands been a source of masculine pride? glove One of New York's millionaires is going to marry a telephone girl because she was always polite to him on the wire. Why spoil a nice polite telephone girl? A popular danseuse makes oath that her entire property is worth only $250, which may account for her economical use of stage dress. The "singing sparks" invention of the German professor will have no Influence on the sentimental sparking songs of the American parlor. i Madison Square garden, New York, on sale at $3,500,000. Anybody want a nice little garden, centrally located? Gardening Is fine for the nerves, the doctors tell us. Is The general manager of the Chicatelephone company says that the question, Whats the time? is asked of his operators by Chicago subscri bers no fewer than 62,000 times a day. There ought to he a good market In Chicago for clocks and watches that will keep time. go A girl In Vienna was recently fined cents for scratching a mans nose In the street with her hatpin. This is the first poetic retribution which has overtaken the elongated feminine hatpin, and it is so because the enormity of the offense was equaled only by the hugeness of the fine. 36 Now that It has been demonstrated that cattle can be herded with an aeroplane, we may expect soon to see the police handling crowds at parades and other public celebrations in the same manner. It will be an Improvement over the pushing and hauling ol the method in vogue at present. of the bubonic The prevalence plague In the east has put American health officers on their mettle. There Is no occasion for special alarm, for medical skill is equal to the emerThe gency, says the Troy Times. fact that several cases have .been discovered on incoming steamers and that effective quarantine has prevented further spread of the ailment Is assurance that vigilance is It has been Judicially decided that when a man gives a girl a diamond ring as an engagement token, the ring belongs to her and she cannot be made to give it up if the engagement Is broken. Soon poor mere man will he beginning to count his few remaining rights and wonder when they are all taken from him if he can accomplish anything with the dominant sex by becoming in his tarn a militant suffragette. England, and especially London, U making great plans for the coronation of King George next spring. It Is ex pected that the gorgeous spectacle Will surpass anything of the kind evei seen in the British capital, and the show will bring enormous crowds tc the city. Such affairs always mean a magnificent display of British power and also big money for London mer chants, hotel keepers and others. Sc the glad news la received with glow tng anticipations. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN Three men were killed and five others severely injured by the explosion of an engine in the rod mill of the Minnequa steel plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron eompany at Pueblo, Colo. Bearing marks of one of the most cruel and heartless murders ever recorded, the body of Barbara Iloltz-maa 5 year old girl, was found on a bed in a looming house in Portland. The child had been sent on an errand, and it is supposed was lured to the room by a man who has since disappeared and was murdered. Twelve nurses employed in the King county hospital, at Seattle, went on strike Wednesday night, leaving 250 patients to be cared for by Dr. William P. O'Rourke, superintendent of the hospital, and two nurses who declined to join in the walkout. The strike followed a refusal of an increase in wages by the board of county commissioners. The commission form of government was instituted at Spokane on Wednesday, when the first board of five commissioners, elected last Tuesday, assumed control. Professor J. II. Walters, principal of the Anacortes, Wash,, high school, dropped dead while hearing a recitation. Walters came to Anacortes a year ago from Cedar Rapids, la. Julius Sirmay, the Hungarian youth convicted January 17 of the murder of Thomas R. Karrlck, a Salt. Lake schoolboy, will be shot to death at the state prison on May 5. DOMESTIC Branche Cole, aged 18, has written from Los Angeles, Cal., to Governor Carroll of Iowa, requesting that he aid in locating her mother, from whom she was kidnaped by her father at Keokuk, la., thirteen years ago. Just prior to 'his death in Los Angeles, recently, the father confided to the girl the story of her earlier life. Army men are discussing a rumor that wlthiiy the next six months a force of 12,000, including infantry, cavalry, field and mountain artillery, will occupy the Hawaiian and Philippine islands. state-wid- e The prohibition bill has been signed by Governor Col-quof Texas. It provides for the submission of a constitutional amendment for state-wid- e prohibition at an election July 22 next. In the ninth round when Ad Wol-gas- t, was champion, leightweight bout to knock out ueorge Memsic, Referee Eyton stopped the fight in the Vernon arena near Los AngeleS. Adin Ballou Capron, until March 4 representative in congress from the second Rhode Island district, died at his home in Stillwater, R. I., on Friday. He was seven times elected to congress as a representative. Dr. Edward W. Hubbard, a w'ell known physician and surgeon, formerly of New York City and Providence, R. I., is dead at his home in Pasadena, Cal., as the result of burns sustained when his clothing caugnt fir from his pipe. Charles Elliot Mitchell, who was United States commissioner of patents under President Harrison, died of apoplexy at New Britain, Conn., on comes from The announcement Oakland, where Joaquin Miller hat been 111 for some time, that the aged poet is well out of danger and on the road to complete recovery. Orders have been received at San Antonio, Texas, from Washington that Gen. Carters maneuver division shall hold itself in readiness to break camp and take the field as if for actual warfaie within two hours. By the collapse of the walls of the building of the Fall Hardware company, at Nashville, Tenn., which burned about ten days previous, about thirty men were buried under tons ol brick, mortar and lime. A four-foo- t rise in the Colorado river near Yuma, Arizona, has swept away a large part of the trestle and partially finished dam across the new was also carchannel. A ried away and a Mexican laborer drowned. Geoige Shamey, capitalist and cattleman, was shot and killed at Globe, Ariz , by City Marshal Bob Anderson, while the two, with a party of friends, were beings served a supper in a Chinese restaurant. WASHINGTON The navy department i3 preserving what it regards as a consistent at titude in declining to accede to the demand of the various religious or ganizations that it refuse to allow the battleship Utah to accept the silver service donated by Utah on the ground that one of the principal pieces bears a portrait of Brigham Young, and a picture of the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City. As the first direct result of the govpile-driv- ernments suit against the electric lamp trust, the department of justice has received intimation that the prices of all electric light bulbs will be reduced 33 per cent all over the United States. Careful study of the neutrality laws has left the administrations advisers doubtful if the United States can prevent the shipment of arms and ammunition to the Mexican insurrectos. The present partol of the Mexican frontier will be increased in a few days by several troops of cavalry from the mounted forces now being assembled in the southern border states. anti-trus- t 3 FOREIGN The Japanese conquest of the For mosa savages has only been begun, according to mall advices received from Yokohama. Tuere are 110,000 of these aborigines, who live in the mountains that extend the full length of the Island. With the leader, Louis Rodriguez, and seven of his followers dead on the field of battle at Tecate, Mexico, and the remnants of his band scattered to the four winds in the mountains; with the Mexican federal infantry holding the passes and hamlets, the revolution on the west side of the mountains in northern Lower California received a severe blow on Friday. The excavation in the central division of the Panama canal, including the great Culebra cut and the Chag-re- s section, during February was the greatest on record, being 1,409,338 cubic yads, St Patlcks day was celebated throughout Ireland with unusual enthusiasm because of the promise of home rule at an early date. The trooping of the colors at Dublin castle was carried out with elaborate ceremony. The war begun in Formosa by Japan last year, and tfhich has caused the death of hundreds of Japanese soldiers and thousands of natives, has resulted irf the Japanese gaining control of 125 square miles of territory between Gerau and Shinshiku. Eight thousand savages have surrendered their firearms. It is understood the Mexican government has made overtures for peace with the insurrectos. The insurrecto leaders declare that before they will listen to such proposals, President Diaz must agree to declare null his election of 1910 and must agree to submit to a new election under the terms for a free ballot allowed by the Friday. Nine men, including a former rail- constitution of 1857. He must agree road president, bankers, brokers, and to grant all tne political reforms deThe insurrectos must not financiers, were indicted by the fed- manded. eral grand jury at Cxvcago on Thurs- be required to surrender their arms day in the Matanuska river coal land until peace is assured. cases. of the accidental Investigation Frank Gotch, champion wrestler, in death at La Paz, Bolivia, of Malcolm his bout at Chicago witn Henry Bahn, Knowles, son of American Minister known as "Samson, ' the 260 pound Horace G. Knowles, developed that German champion, threw his oppo- the trolley pole of an electric car fell nent so hard as to cause a fracture of and, striking the young man, crushed the German's skull. Physician at the bis skull. match declared Bahn was seriously The dry farming congress meeting hurt. at Adelaide, Australia, has decided to in The jury at Hopkinsville, Ky., the system followed in Wyothe case of Dr. Amoss, alleged night adopt exwhich several Australian ming rider, brought in a verdict of not perts recently investigated. The reguilty. sults of the experiment will be tabJohn Callahan, alleged to be the ulated for purposes of comparison. e leader of a band of bank and to the Salonlki A from dispatch robbers, was convicted in the federal court at Wichita, Kans., of Frankfurter Zeitung says that the Young Turks control committee has selling stolen postage stamps. received a dispatch from the seat of In into a gallery shooting Walking hostilities in Yemen that the Turkish labora San Francisco, Jack Kane, Arabs to flight er, laid a dime on the counter and troop3 are putting the asked for a revolver. He fired a shot everywhere, and that the machine have caused great havoc among carelessly at the target, then shot guns the tribesmen. himself, dying instantly. The rigorous winter Just closing What Is regarded as a strict form caused extreme suffering and has at of enforcing Eagle neutrality Pass, Texas, on Wednesday, in the probably .many deaths among the peoarrest and imprisonment of Frederick ple in the barren Labrador peninChicon, an American citizen. He was sula who have been cut off for months accused of unlawfully carrying a pis- by great ice fields from the possibility of securing food and clothing, tol. A total of $875,709,925 gold has While eating her supper In a resyears by taurant at Flomation, Ala., Miss An- been Invested in twenty-on- e nie Cook of Montgomery, Ala., was as- foreign interests In Mexico outside sassinated by a shot fired through a the mining industry, according to a She bulletin issued by the bureau of manwindow, killing her Instantly. had been away about a week, and it is ufacture of the department of comAmericans head believed enemies followed her to kill merce and labor. the list. her. it pos-offic- UTAH LEGISLATURE An Inducement. ADJOURNS church house in a certain rural district was sadly in need of repairs. The official board had called a meeting of the parishioners to see what A Considered and Passed Than at Any Previous Session, With But One Exception. More Bill Salt Lake City. The ninth legisla-tiv-e assembly adjourned without day at noon on Saturday, after extending nine days over the sixty day schedule. A great portion of the legislation of after the session was accomplished the clock had been stopped because of the expiration of the time alloted the and More bills were considered more passed by the ninth legislature than by any other In the history of the state with the single exception of The ninth the first state legislature. legislature not only passed more laws than any other, but it also passed more measures changing present conditions than, any other legislature. Because of several drastic and revolutionary measures passed the legislature will probably be the subject of a great deal of criticism adverse as well as commendatory. Among the Important bills passed by the legislature was a measure assuring early constiuction of a state capitol. The general liquor measure, providing tor elections in each city and town of the state to decide the liqour question; taking the licensing power from city councils in cities of the first and second class and placing it with thes district courts; and providing various regulations for liquor traffic. Measures providing for the Des Moines commission lorm of municipal government for cities oi the first and second class, for the election of nonpartisan boards of commissioners and for their nomination at primary elections. The appointment of new district judges for the Second and Third judicial dislricts. The appointment of a commission with judicial powers to investigate and recommend changes in the system of revenue and taxation. A revision of the pure food laws of the state. An increase in the salaries of state and county officers and the proposal of a constitutional amendment to Increase the salary of the members of the state legislature. The enactment of a law prohibiting the employment of children, and of a measure preventing the employment of women more ftaz nine hours a day. The passage of a measure forbidding the sale of cocaine, morphine, opium or heroin. The prohibition of the sale of cigarettes or cigarette papers. The passage of a measure forbidding gambling a felony. The enactment of laws bettering health conditions in the state. Providing for the erection of armory building for the Utah. National Guard. More beneficial Insurance laws, protecting policy holders and safeguarding the states interests. More beneficial land laws, to Induce settlers to come to Utah, and increasing the acreage In dry farms. More stringent banking laws, furnishing greater protection to depositors. The creation of an Immigration and labor bureau, under state supervision. Providing a relief fund for disabled firemen. Among the bills of more than ordinary moment that failed to receive the approval of both houses and the governor the bills that failed to pass were the reapportionment of the state into representative and senatorial districts in accordance with the census of 1910. of the proposed The ratification amendment to the federal constitution authorizing an income tax. The bill providing for primary election for United States senators. The hill prohibiting the use of corporate funds for political purposes. The Initiative and referendum. The public service commission hill. bill. The anti-pas- s The revision of the insurance code of the state. The revision of the fish and game laws. The regulation of rates for transportation of coal. The appointment of a commission to investigate construction of the Moffat road. The construction of the state capitol Is now assured. The legislature has made available for construction $1,750,000 and makes operative the provisions of the laws enacted two years ago for the erection of the capitol. This amount in addition to the available half million previously makes a total now available for the construction of the capitol of more than $2,250,000. This sum will be practically sufficient to complete the How do You Elat? Q Is your table fitted out with good tableware? h costs you very little for a swell set of Oneida silver. ( Send for our book. Free. could be done toward raising the necessary funds. A middle-ageman, known to be one of the wealthiest and at the same time one of the stingiest of the adherents of that church, arose and said that he would give five dollars, and sat down. Just then a bit of plastering fell from the ceiling and hit him squarely upon the head. Whereupon he jumped up, looked confused, and said: I er I meant Ill give fifty dollars! then aagin resumed his seat. After a brief silence a voice in the back room was heard to say: O Lord, hit im again. National Monthly. d SALT Excursion Sa!EBg3 BBSaA8B!gg!M NV Los Angeles and return, $40 Wifely Solicitude. Appealing to the police to find her husband, who went to work and had not returned home at 8 oclock, but requesting that the officers neither arrest him nor "talk cross to him, a woman left a note in the hands of Patrolman Hickerson at Sixth and Edmond streets containing information concerning the missing husband. The note in addition to giving a description of the missing man read that the wife was worried nearly sick because it was the first time that he had done this. I dont want you to arrest him, continued the note. Tell the police to please not talk cross to him. St. Joseph Gazette. VIA UTAH DAY AT LAND SHOW, MARCH 27, Ml Tickets on sale March 21 and 25, e good returning twenty-fivdays ' from date of sale. See agent for information and reservations. 169 Main Street, Salt Lake City Transaction Followed. Vera (eight years old). What does c mean, mother? Mother. Across the Atlantic, of course; but you mustnt bother me. Vera. Does trans always mean across? Motther. I suppose it does. Now, if you dont stop bothering me with questions I shall send you right to trans-Atlanti- A POSITIVE and CURE FOR Drunkenness and Cpiunt Diseases. bed. There it no publicity, no neknen. Lactic treated ns privately at in their own hornet. THE KEELEY IN334 W. South Temple Street. Salt Lake City. Vera (after a few minutes silence). Then does transparent mean a cross parent? Ideas. STITUTE, Dont Hold on to Them. great honor for a statesman to have his portrait circulated It LAKE CITE UTAH. BEING THE ONLY SEEDSMEN In the country making thoro Field Tests of Seeds, we lead all competitors. Write for our Big Free Catalog of Is a before the gaze of posterity on our national currency, remarked the treasury officer. "Yes, replied Senator Sorghum; and yet did you ever know anybody to hold on to a dollar bill long enough to know whose picture is on it. Washington Star. PORTER-WALTO- N CO., Salt Lake City UKE.T0PPlr Co. Some Difference. 177 MAIN ST., SALT LAKE CITY PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR PHOTO "I dont believe any two words in EXPERT KODAK FINISHING SUPPLIES the English language are synony mous. MEN AND WOMEN to Learn Oh, I dont know. Whats the BarberTrade in Eight Weeks, matter with raise and lift? Tuition, with set of tools, $55. With partial set of tools, $45. With your own Theres a big difference. I raise tools $35. Address Moler Barber College chickens and have a neighbor who 13 Commercial Street, Salt Lake City. Utah. has been known to lift them. PhilKindly Mention This Paper When Writing adelphia Ledger. to Advertisers. Newspaper Changes For good and sufficient reasons the connection heretofore existing between the Bee Publishing Company, publishers of the Omaha Bee and Twentieth Century Farmer, and Leonard Fowler no longer exists, and those publications are no longer represented in this territory. Patrons are requested to deal directly with the Omaha office. The Bee Publishing Co. OMAHA, NEBRASKA PUBLICITY PROMOTION maaaesa COMMUNITY EXPLOITATION I have entered the field of publicity promotion and community exploitation to the exclusion of any direct connection with any publication w hatsoever. Associated with me is Mr. J. H. Blanck of Chicago, who brings a deal of new ideas. References' LEONARD THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL BANK Salt Lake Oitv, tTtah THE PINCREE NATIONAL BANK Ogden, Utah Suite FOWLER 6 The Semloh Salt Lake City, Utah The Point of View. Request for Prayers. A lady of a mariner about to sail Ah, Sir Charles, when Lady. your wife looking so beautiful on a distant voyage sent a note to exquisite furs, dont you re- the clergyman of the parish, expresA hus yourself those charming lines sing the following meaning: band going to sea, his wife desires the prayers of the congregation." Crusty Fox Hunter (cutting in What I repeat to myself is, A hunthe good matron Unfortunately, dred and pound ten and was not skilled in punctuation, nor no second horse. Punch. had the minister quick vision. He read the note as it was written: "A Change in Time. husband going to see his wife, de"William, said a fond father, here- sires the prayers of the after you will get up just an hour earlier." An American Savior. Why, dad, cried the horrified hopeA school teacher in a foreign teneful, "standard time isnt changed, is structure. ment district was coaching his puit? Des Moines bills The "No, replied the father, but son pils concerning the father of his counwhich passed both houses change time is. Cleveland Plain Dealer. try, and discovered considerable igradically the municipal government norance. And what did WashingThe Canny Scot. in the. five largest cities in the state. ton do for the American people? he Instead of mayors and city councils in The canny Scot wandered into the asked, and a shrill-voicegirl cried, Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo, Logan and pharmacy. He died for us. Success combe and will mayors there Murray, Im wanting threepennorth o missioners who will have legislative laudanum, he announced. In Salt and administrative powers. At the Telephone. asked the chemist What for? Lake the commission will consist of He Is that you, darling? suspiciously. the mayor and four commissioners She Yes. Who is that? Fliegenda "For twopence, the responded and in the other cities a mayor and Scot at once. Blaetter. two commissioners. at bills most drastic passed The His Choice. His Reason for it. A the session were the highway robbery, I cant see why, because a Wife. Three boys, aged three, four and gambling, cigarette and drug bills. five years respectively, were dicus-Bin- g woman marries a man, she should Highway robbery is made a felony, the matter of attending Sunday take his name. in the school. punishable by imprisonment I quite agree with Jbu. Husband. state prison from four to fourteen The oldest hoy quickly made his I think that the poor chap ought to years; men who operate gambling choice, saying: Id ratner go to the have something which he can call his games are made felons, with punishown. Illustrated Bits. Episcopal Sunday school. ment to fit the case, while men who wouldnt, responded the four-yea,T Janitor Attends to Everything. gamble are made guilty of a misde"Id rather go to the Methodist. Do any perquisites come in your meanor; the sale of cigarettes or cigWhered you rather go, brother? arette papers Is made a misdemeanor, old. way at the office? turning to the three-yea- r Not much, they dont. We have a and the sale of cocaine, opium or simI'd rather go to the Hippodrome, ilar drugs is made punishable by fine replied the botrher. From Norman husky janitor, who throws them kind and imprisonment. of folks out. Baltimore American. E Mack'3 Nation U Month Poetic you see in her peat to fifty-seve- n d r, |