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Show THE TRANSCRIPT GIVE CHINESE VALENTINES James Dunn, Publisher . UTAH TOOELE . m 10 PEOPLE CZAR OF AMERICAN FINANCE HAS NO INTENTION OF DYING ' IN THE HARNESS. THE UTAH BUDGET The 112th anniversary of the birth of Hyrum Smith was fittingly celebrated in Salt Lake on the 9th. The postoffices Hi Cedar City, Man-t- i and Pleasant Grove have been designated postal savings depositories by the postmaster general. Representative Howell has recommended to the postmaster general the establishment of a mail route from Randolph, Utah, to Sage, Wyo. Word has again come from Payson that Jesse Knight is making preparations to erect a sugar factory near that city during the coming summer. Attempting to jump from a buggy. Professor J. W. Jensen, engineer in charge of the proposed state dam at the mouth of Logan canyon, fell and sustained a broken arm. The Utah Development league and the Commercial club of Salt Lake are making active preparations for the Utah exhibit to be shown at the Los Angeles land show, March 12 to 28. William L. Mclntire, a freight brakeman on the Denver & Rio Grande, dropped dead in the caboose of his train as it was nearing Ogden, his death being due to heart failure. The board of governors of the Native Sons of Utah has adopted a resolution which favors the employment of Utah architects to design the cap-lt- d and Utah builders, mechanics and laborers to construct the building. Representative fruit growers from the southern end of Salt Lake county met in the Murray Commercial club rooms Friday and organized the Fruit Growers Association of Salt Lake County, The Utah-ldahSugar company has completed the season's beet contracting at Spanish Fork. The acreage contracted for is an advance of about 5 per cent over last year, being 4,600 acres. The spring conference of the Mormon church will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 5, 6 and 7, this year, according to a decision reached by the first presidency of the church. Sylvester J. Lynn, capitalist, former councilman and pioneer of Salt Lake, died February 9 at Los Angeles, death being due to heart trouble. Mr. Lynn was 69 years old and served in the civil war. The county commissioners have effected the consolidation of the schools of Sevier county into one district of the first class, to be known as the Sevier school district It is segregated into five representative precincts. If the plans of the war department for the Joint maneuvers of the regular army and the militia next summer do not fall, the Utah National Guard will take part In the largest and most Important maneuvers yet attempted in this country. Tony Samuels, a merchant of Butte, Mont., on his way to Los Angeles, was assailed by two highwaymen in front of the O. S. L. depot at Salt Lake, and robbed of a check of deposit for $170, which he was forced to Indorse at the point of a revolver. William Howard, charged with forgery, came near escaping from the city jail In Salt Lake, having loosened the bricks with an iron spoon which had been smuggled into his cell. He was betrayed by the dust oa the floor and a Jail break prevented. which have I Because of complaints been made to the city authorities of Spanish Fork concerning poo! rooms, the city council has passed an ordinance which will allow but one entrance to any pool room and this entrance must' be from the street. C. H. Converse has returned from California to Utah to serve his sentence of one year in the penitentiary, rather than forfeit his bond of $500 deposited by friends In Ogden. Converse was convicted In March, 1910, of stealing ostrich plumes valued at o $100. Mrs. Margaret G. J. Clawson, who died at her home in Salt Lake, February 10, at the age of 70, was the leading woman In the first perform- ance given at the Salt Lake theatre, fifty years ago, and was regarded as one of the founders of dramatic interest in Utah. The Brigham Young university at Provo will soon equip Its agricultural department with an exhibit of the very latest farm machinery. This machinery will come from the different implement houses of the Btate and will be in the course of instruction In that department. Male stenographers are not numerous enough to supply the wants of the government, as a result of which women will be admitted to the forthcoming examination for the positions of stenographer and typewriter in the field service to be held at the Federal building in Salt Lake March 5. An apportionment of the $34,869.10. representing 25 per cent of the amount received by the state from the national forests in Utah during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, has been made by the state board ol examiners. Five hundred and thirty-fou- r descendants, running to the fifth generation, survive Sylvia A. Sandford, who died recently at Springvilte, aged 97 years. Born in Vermont, Mrs. Sanford was one of the early converts to the Mormon faith and crossed the plains to Utah in 1848. LASTED DYNASTY WHICH HAS NEARLY THREE CENTURIES PASSES INTO HISTORY. Man Whose Fortune Is Estimated at Three Hundred Millions Has Decided to Act Hereafter Only in an Advisory Capacity in Affairs of Firm. New China, With Four Hundred Million Subjects, Begins Career as a Republic Upon Surrender of the Throne by Child Emperor. Pekin. China has Joined the sisterhood of the worlds republics. In three imperial edicts the Manchu dynasty on Monday changed 400,000,-00- 0 subjects of an absolute ruler to citizens of the largest nation on the earth. The first edict announced the abdication of the dynasty after 300 years of absolute rule, the second declared that the throne accepted the republic, and the third approved all the conditions agreed on by Premier Yuan Shi Kai and the republicans. The third edict created great astonishment. It had been expected that the Manchus would demand conditions which would safeguard many of their privileges, but according to the proclamation the surrender is unconditional. The edict informed the viceroys and provincial governors of the retirement of the throne from politcal power and instructed them to continue doing their duty and to preserve order throughout the land. It declared that the step taken by the throne was in order to meet the wishes of the people. Victory Won by People. The abdication of the Chinese throne by Pu Yl, the child emperor, brings to an end the powerful Manchu dynasty which has reigned in China since 1644. The boy ruler has been on the throne since November, 1908, when the Emperor Kwang Su, his uncle, died. His father. Prince Chun, was appointed regent and waB the chief figure in China for three years. Surrounded by a large number of princes of the Manchu clan and Manchu officials with reactionary ideas, the regent was brought face to face with a revolutionary movement in favor of modern reforms. He endeavored to placate both parties, hut ended by causing general dissatisfaction Whlctv lxl to W tMlgntUoii on December 6, 1911. The promise of a constitutional government made by the dowager empress on her death bed in 1908 was not fulfilled in any way until May last year. In that month an imperial edict abolished the old grand with the council which, together court, held absolute power, and substituted a constitutional cabinet. had been ideas Revolutionary spreading In the meantime and the southern provinces declared against the continuation of the Manchu rule and broke Into open revolt After much fighting the revolutionists proclaimed a republic at Nankin and Dr. Sun Yat Sen accepted the presidency on December 59. Negotiations between the republicans and the imperialists followed and an armistice was arranged. This was not strictly observed, but the negotiations continued with the result that the Manchu rulers, seeing that China proper was almost entirely in favor of the republican Idea and the the outlying dependencies of Tibet, Turkestan, Mongolia and Manchuria were breaking away, decided that it was their best policy to yield to the popular demand and abdicate from power. TAFT SCORES INSURGENTS. President Calls Progressives Political Emotionalists or Neurotics. New York President Taft brought his celebration of Lincolns birthday to a close here Monday night with a political speech to the Republican club, in which he breathed defiance to the Democratic party, declared it was his belief that the Republicans would triumph next November and made It plain that he had little sympathy with those of his own political faith who call themselves progressives," hut who are political emotionalists or neurotics. New York. J. Pierpont Morgan, czar of American finances, has retired from active business life. The business interests of J. P. Morgan & . are now in the hinds of Mr. Morgan his younger partners. himself is no longer at the helm, nor does he intend to resume that post when he returns from Egypt. He has definitely laid aside the burdens and cares which he has borne for fifty years, and has decided to act hereafter only in an advisory capacity in the affairs of his firm. Not until Sunday did It become known that Mr. Morgan, just prior to TO GO ON MISSION OF AMITY his departure for Egypt, on December 29, called a conference of his partners and acquainted them with his intention to retire from active business affairs. Secretary of State Knox to Visit The partners had kept the secret with care. Republics in EnMr. Morgan on that occasion made deavor to Solve Problems. the dramatic assertion that his entire personal fortune was at the service Washington. For the purpose of of the firm and would remain so in his solving diplomatic problems and ac- lifetime. No onejoutside of Mr. Moras information accurate quiring more to conditions in Central and South America, Secretary of State Knox, Dy direction of President Taft, will make a five week's trip to the Spanish-Americarepublics bordering on the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico. As now planned, Mr. Knox will not visit Mexico, but that country may be included In the program before he returns the first week of April. Although the official announcement of the trip, made public at the White House late Saturday, gave no details, it was made known that Havana would be Mr. Knox's first stop, and it was reported that in Cuba he might attempt to solve the problem" that brought about hints of American intervention there a few weeks ago. g Aside from a possible expedition to Cuba, the purpose of the trip was announced to he the promotion of friendly relations In CenJ. PIERPONT MORGAN. tral America. In many respects it will he similar to that taken around and a few of his most intimate South America several years ago by gan associates knows how great that, forRoot. ot gor j tune Is. It is estimated to- he at least C-o- Government Clash Over the Cancellation of Contracts With Syndicate and Attempt to Seize Property. There Puerto Cortez, Honduras. has been a clash between the United States and Honduran authorities over enforcement of a government decree directing representatives of W. S. Valentine to surrender to government authorities the railroad, wharf and other properties held under lease by the Valentine syndicate. Seventy-fivmarines from the United States gunboat Petrel landed and seized the wharf and railroad. Honduran trpops were then ordered to stop all trains. The governor has filed a protest. The population here was greatly incensed at the landing of the marines. e SEEKING Momentous Character Haldanes London. TO AVERT WAR. Mission Whether the of Viscount to Berlin. overtures for the visit to Berlin of the British secretary of war. Viscount Haldane, originated in England or In Germany is disputed, but it is impossible longer to disguise the momentous character of the mission. There are not wantWho evtttf wiwr ttmrte Swing. ede of war or peace depends upon its success or failure. The visit of Viscount Haldane Is largely associated in the public mind with the speech of David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, at the City of London Liberal club February 3, in which the chancellor said the moment was auspicious for a discussion of a reduction in armaments, which was considered as an effort looking to the conciliation of Germany. At present, however, it is impossible to "define the subjects of the mission of Viscount Haldane. Spanish-America- n n peace-makin- ment's criminal charges against the bath tub trust was marked by what the government claims to be a victory when Judge Angell ruled In favor of submission of certain trade agreements signed by members of the defense prior to the final agreement charged in the indictments concerning the alleged license plan and re-- : sale prices. Convict Stabs Warden. Lincoln, Neb. Just as the chaplain was about to pronounce the benediction at the close of the morning chapel service at the state penitentiary Sunday, Albert Prince, a negro under sentence for assault with intent to kill, fatally stabbed Deputy Warden E. D. Davis. The warden died late Sunday evening. Women Want Place on Bench. leaders Seattle, Wash. Suffragist of Washington are preparing to circulate a petition to he signed only by women, asking President Taft to appoint a woman to the federal bench for the district of western Washington to succeed Judge George who will retire soon. Don-wort- Five Workmen Killed When Cable Broke and Car With Its Human Freight Fell 168 Feet. Casper, Wyo. The snapping of an aerial cable across the Platte river at the government ' Pathfinder dam Saturday night hurled a gang of workmen In a tram car 168 feet to the rocks. Five are dead and several others seriously Injured. The scene of the accident is fifty miles southeast of Casper. A courier, after an ride through a wild and rugged country, reached Casper with the first word of the accident and an appeal for medical assistance. From his meager knowledge of the disaster it was learned that the men were crossing the Platte river in the aerial tram, as had been their custom for months, when the cable broke and the car with its human freight was hurled upon the rocks. Serious Floods in Portugal. Lisbon. Floods continue in every part of Portugal, but the southern districts are most seriously affected, and the distress among the population is acute. At Oporto a large number of barges on the river Douro have been swept away, and several small coasting vessels have been driven out to sea and lost. Philippine Democrats Divided. The Democratic territorial tonvention for the election of dele-fate- s to the national convention at Baltimore was in continuous session ar twelve hours Saturday and was larked by quarrels between two which resulted in a divided Each faction elected six dele-ite- s to the national convention. j Manila. fac-on- con-pntlo- re making false internal revenue turns on sales of oleomargarine. Blown From Engine, Elizabeth, N. J. John Adder, engineer, and Joseph Fitzsimmon, fireman, were blown out of the cab of a freight locomotive nere by the explosion of a flue. It is not believed the fireman will recover. Forbids Intermarriage. Berlin. Dr. Solf, the new secretary of state for the colonies, has Issued an order forbidding for the future all marriages between whites and natives in the two Samoan Islands belonging to Germany. Tunneled Towards Vault. Talmage Dead. Cal. Discovery of a tunnel DeRev. akland, The Frank Philadelphia. witt Talmage died at his home here hided toward the vaults of the Oak-Bank of Commerce became known He Friday night of heart disease. was 44 years old. His father was the ; urday. The tunnel was fifty feet r and had seventy feet to go before famous divine. Rev. T. DeWitt re king the bank vaults. Coal Famine Washington. Nome, Alaska, the army post the inhabitants Relieved. The coal famine In has been relieved by there, which supplied ' with coal. Cudahy Packing Company Indicted. Atlanta. The Cudahy Tacking company was indicted here by a fed-eafor grand jury on 265 counts Rev. Pastor Washington. The Ching Hwa republic Is the official name of the sew Chinese republic. Ching Hwa means Chinese. Formal announcement of the passing of the Ta Ching dynasty, which has ruled China for about 300 years, and the erection of a modern republic on its ruins, was matte at the state department Tuesday by the Chinese legation, which supplied a copy of an official telegram from Pekin to the following general effect: "While a provisional government is being established, all ministers accredited to foreign governments shall act provisionally as diplomatic representatives and continue to perform their duties as heretofore. All members of the legation staff and consular officers (in America) temporarily shall retain their present posts. It is not known here if the appointment of Alfred Sze to be minister to Washington, which was made in the last days of the tottering dynasty, will stand, and the belief is that he will give place to ome pronounced republican. "The state department will Instruct Its officials In China to do business in a provisional way with Yuan Shi Kai in' the north and President Sun Yat Sen in the south, until a complete fusion of the two elements is effected, when the regular government of all China will be duly recognized. COMPETITION IS HUMAN NATURE Will Exist in the World as Long as the Law of the Survival of the Fittest Endures, Says Hill. Washington. For the benefit of the Stanley committee and the public at large, James J. Hill on Tuesday gave his views on the proper way to conduct the government, making the announcement that only once in his life did he try to he a monopolist, and that was when he organized the Northern Securities company, because he needed $90,000,000 to Bave his Great Northern from Harriman, and did not have that sum of money about him at the time. Mr. Hills philosophy of government, as he expounded it to the committee when he had concluded his testimony, is as follows: Before we can have government control of industries that will eliminate competition, we shall have to change human nature by eliminating the selfish motives which dominate $300,000,000. The great financier expressed to his not only human beings but every other partners that he felt compelled to re- form of life. Competition will exist in the world tire because of his age. He is now In as long as the law of the survival of his seventy-fiftyear and has stood the wear and tear of financial leader- the fittest endures and that law will last long after our present laws have ship for half a century. been wiped off the statute books. If the federal government undertakes to Preparing to Play War Game. Washington. In anticipation of an eliminate competition it will he a allowance by congress of the war de- short step to the time when there will partment's estimate of $1,350,000 for be no federal government, but rule by the joint maneuvers next summer of the mob. the regular army and the organized GERMANY MAY CAUSE TROUBLE. militia, Brigadier General Evans, chief of the division of militia affairs, has Will Insist Upon Complete Investigajust communicated with the adjutants tion of Alleged Murder of German Wash-ngtoof general Californa, Oregon, Citizen on Mexican Soil. Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah definitely to ascertain the Washington. The demand of Gernumber and the kind of troops each many for an immediate investigation staLe will be able to furnish. by the Mexican government of the alleged murder of Dr. Engleman, a GerShoots Seattle Woman. Lodger man citizen, has aroused a feeling in Seattle, Wash. J. Grossmitz, a the state department closely akin to tailor, returning home Saturday night, anxiety. found the body of hi3 wife No agreement exists between the lying on the dining room floor witli a United States government and Mexico bullet hole in the left temple.. Up- that Mexico shall be protected by the stairs he found Philip Bromberg, 30 United States ' against foreign exacsecond-hand dealer a in clothyears, tions and the manner in which Gering, lying on the bed with a bullet many will enforce her demands promhole in the right side of his head. It ises to establish a new precedent. It is supposed Bromberg shot the wo- is certain that Germany Is convinced man and then himself. that she can proceed in the matter without violating the Monroe doctrine Leper Will be Fenced In. Tacoma. Shunted about from place and as a consequence becoming Involved with the United States. Whethto place as the result of the long government Investigation to determine er she Is correct In this assumption which the state departwhether he was a leper or not, John is a matter ment must decide. R. Early, formerly of Washington, D. C., has been found at Summit, near Judge Whips Belligerent. here, and will be fenced In on an acre Midland, Texas. Judge J. H. of land. Earlys wife and three small Knowles laid aside judicial dignity for children are with him. ten minutes here Tuesday while he beat up a man wuo had called him a Rioting in Paris. Paris. Thousands of Socialists, rev- liar. Judge Knowles, who is regarded olutionaries and anarchists attended as the mildest of men, was presiding the incineration on Sunday of the at a session of the commissioners Syndicalist Aernolt, who was promi- court when he was called a liar by nent in the labor troubles here several Commissioner Driver. The judge adyears ago and who died while serving journed court until he had whipped in a disciplinary battalion in Africa. Driver, when he reconvened court and Following the ceremony they began fined himself $10 for fighting. Tioting, a large number being Injured Zapatas Wife Arrested. in encounters with police. Cuernavaca, Mexico. Senora Emili-anof Moody Dead. Zapata, wife of the chief of the John M. Hitchcock, for southern rebels, her son and Chicago. mother of Dwight L. and two brothers were many years a here brought Moody, the evangelist, died of apo- Tuesday from Ayala by order of Genplexy Sunday. Mr. Hitchcock was 79 eral Justinco Robles, federal comyears old and had been a leader in mander. He has made no announcethe Moody church for forty years. ment of any charge against them. Murderers Granted Reprieve. Snow in Kansas. Washington. President Taft hog res Kansas of Kansas City prieved for ninety-ondays Mattie Lo- Is covered by snow that began falling max, a negro woman under sentence erlv Tuesday and which in some of death here for murder of her husplaces has reached the depth of ten band, pending a decision of a case in Inches. In the northern counties the the District of Columbia courts. fall is the heaviest. h Progress of Canal. Washington. Work on the Panama i nal progressed Portland, Me. steadily in January, the Haw- i cording to cable reports received Nelson Allen, pastor of thorne Park Presbyterian church of I the isthmian canal commission. ith one working day less, tjie canal Portland, was delivering an illustrated sermon Sunday night, his wife dis- lingers excavated cubic 2,641,441 covered a burglar in the parsonage ytrds in January, as hgainst 2,439, 2i6 t:? preceding month. next door and effected his capture. Peace Conference in September. From Shuster Sails England. Srussels. The exLondon. W. Morgan interparliamentary Shuster, treasurer general of Persia, was a fcee union has called the next inpassenger on the steamship George ti parliamentary conference for Sep-- t iber 17 next. The place of meeting Washington, which sailed from Southpjbably will be in Geneva. ampton for New York. omen Ejected From Court Room. Yaquis Revolt ort Worth. Women who persisted Douglas, Ariz. A report from ap reached in emaining in the court room where parently reliable sources i. Sneed is on trial for killing Cap-tDouglas Friday night that the Yaqui J i A. G. Boyce were ejected. The Indians were in revolt fourteen miles north of Guavmas, west coast of Mex- cc it held that the testimony was unfit or the womens ears. ico. Wife of Who Have Fought for" Reformer Freedom Select Ching Hwa, Whioh-MeanChinese. - TRAM CAR DROPS ON ROCKS. all-nig- Bath Tub Trust on Trial. Detroit. The trial of the govern- REPUBLIC KJLI.LE Captures Burglar. While the Rev. E. Frank 1 o Two-third- e Stove Overturned on Train. Emporia, Kan. Mrs. S. H. wife of a Chicago broker, was seriously burned when an acohoi stove overturned in a compartment of a car on the Santa Fe California Limited train near here Sunday. Soher-merhor- Secret Code Can be Bought. Washington. :The secret code of the state department can be bought at 'Paris at any time, according to Henry N. Hall of New York, who testified Tuesday on the purchase of the French Panama canal. t |