Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-08-31 | Page 2 | Briefly Told

i brieflyToCd SAN JOSE, Cal., Aug. 30. Commo-rcial organisations and clly .officials Joined today to-day in a telygram Inviting Theodore RoohovoII to address tho state convention conven-tion of realty dealers In this clly bep-tember bep-tember 10-13. No answer has so far been received. LOS ANGELES, Cal,, Aug. 30. Judge Rives of the probate court ordered the estate of E. .1. (Lucky) Baldwin today to puy the state $217,000 inheritance tax Immediately. So far as known this is the largost amount, ever assessed against the heirs of an estate In Callfornal. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Aug 30. In the presence of his co-workers In tho field of religious endeavor, the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist, was married today lo MIhs Mabel Cornelia Moulton at the home of her mother, Mrs, Rulh W. Moulton, in this city. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 30. Prof Chnrlos F. Libby of Maine, in his address before the American Bar association asso-ciation today, advocated the election of United Slates senators by the direct vote of the people. lie also opposed the Income In-come tax on the ground that It would restrict tho power of the stato. WASHINGTON. Aug, 30, Tho converted con-verted yacht Siren, purchased during the Spanish-American war for $40,000. Is to be discarded by the navy. Tho vessel Is now at the Norfolk, Va., navy yard. Bids for the little vessel will soon be asked for by the navy department. WASHINGTON. Aug. 30- Submarine and torpedo boat destroyers authorized by the last session of congres are not to be constructed under the provisions of the eight-hour law. Tho department of Justice today Informed Hie navy department depart-ment lhat the law did not require their construction in conformity with that law. STOCKTON, Cal.. Aug. 30. A business busi-ness and residence block bounded by Lafayette. La-fayette. San Joaquin, Sonora and Tluntor streets, was swept by fire this afternoon, with losses aggregating about $100,000. The lire destroyed the Enterprise planing mill, tho Atwood printing office and three residences. PASADENA. Cal.. Aug. 30. Accustomed Accus-tomed to life on the eminences of the old world and the new, the eighty-five members mem-bers of the International Union for Solar Research, started today to climb Mount Wilson, whore the fourlh conferenco will begin tomorrow. They left Sierra Madrc early this morning on burro or afoot, and the last of them straggled into the Carnegie Car-negie observatory at the summit tonight. The conference will open with a business session tomorrow and continue until Sunday.