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Show --4 1 " 7 NpTICE The date on your name label I 4 VOL. VIII. NO. 51. SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY BOYCOTT THREE GREAT FINANCIAL POW. ER8 FORM COMBINATION WITH CAPITAL OF $150,000,000. ' M TO National Anti-Truto Follow REDUCE PRICES League Organized st Plana Successfully Inaugurated by Germans. Plana for a national Washington. boycott of those combinations that Increase the cost of living were laid here Thursday night, when the National Anti-Trus- t league waa launched. Members ot congress are Interested In the new league and immediate steps will be taken toward forming state organizations. Then when prices soar, league members, by stopping the use of such articles or commodities as . have gone above a certain level, will try to put them back by refusing to furniBh a Morgan, Ryan and Morton Will Unit Three Great Trutt Companies, Making Largest Merger of Ita Kind In Country. Now York. J. P. Morgan, Thomas Ryan and Levi P. Morton, linked bands In New Tork on Monday In a trust company merger which unites resources of 1150,000,000. It la a triple combination, bringing market the Guaranty Trust company, the MorThe plan was tried in Germany a ton Trust company, and the Fifth few years ago and, according to a reAvenue Trust company, all ot this port, broke up a combine that had city, under one head with the title raised the price of coffee to aa alof the Guaranty Trust company. The most prohibitive point merger la perhaps the largest ot Its The women of the United States kind la the United States. Directors will be taken in on equal terms with of all three companies met on Mon- men and will have a voice In the fee will be A nominal day and Informally approved the campaign. terms of the merger. charged members to cover the cost of Levi P. Morton, president of the mailing proclamations against articles Morton Trust company and of the of food that have been pushed too Fifth Avenue Trust company both high 1a"th'e' market known as Morton-Ryaconcerns has KILLEO IN DUEL. consented to act aa chairman of the board of the merger companies. The new move in finance follows This Combat In France Proved To Be n the recent absorption of the Guaranty MorTrust company by the gan interests, but upon what terms the merger was made is not disclosed. The Guaranty Trust company waa organised in 1891 and baa total deposits of more than $88,000,00u. The Morton Trust company, formerly the banking house of Bliss, Morton ft Co., waa organized In 1S99. Thomas F. Ryan la vice president Its deposits aggregate more than $45,000,0 .v. Like, the Guaranty Trust company. Us oapltal and surplus are $2,000,000 each. The Fifth Avenue Trust company, founded ten yeara ago, la one of the better known uptown unancial institutions. With a capital and surplus of $1,000,000 each, It has paid large dividends. The capital stock of the new company probably will be fixed at with perhaps a like amount 0, for surplus. BOOSTS FOR RECLAMATION. President Makes Promise of Help to Western Senators. President Taft has Washington. told the western senators who were Interested in reclamation work, that he will recommend In his special message to congress on conservation, which will be sent to the capitol on Monday of next week, that congress authorize a loan of $30,000,000 to be floated either as short term bonds or certificates of indebtedness to secure the necessary money to complete existing reclamation projects. The money is to be paid to the government from the proceeds received from the ale of the reclaimed lands.' Senator Borah of Idaho la the author of a bill which authorizes an issue of bonds to Che amount of $30,000,000. He is opposed to the issue of the certificates of Indebtedness, benevlng that the bonds will be taken more readily. Senator Carter and some of the other western senators are Inclined to favor the Issuance of certificates instead of the bonds. Will Prosecute Night Riders. The government is Washington. preparing to go after the night riders in those districts of Kentucky and Tennessee by bringing proceedings against the Burley Tobacco society. Convinced that the society Is a combination In violation of the Sherman anti-trulaw, the department object Is Investigating its operations. Agents recently have been sent to the tobacco growing regions to make' inquiry concerning the methods of the association.) and they have reached the conclusion that the organization la connected with the depredations of the night riders there. Four Firemen Lose Lives. Milwaukee. Fire in the local plant of the American Bridge company Monday night caused the death of four firemen, who were buried under a falling wall, and a loss of $250,000. One of those killed was Capt John J. Hennessey. It was first thought that the entire engine company of No. 4 Bad perished, and not until the debris had been removed at midnight it determined that there was no other bodies in the rulna. Several firemen were Injured. The Are was ooa under control. t I it! J I Kindly be as prompt as possible in paying in advance. I HE panish Fork. Press 4 i of this paper is the date to which your subscripiton is paid. T. 'i Had to Show Him. St LouIs.-Ra- iPh Owens, 24 years ld, of Memphis. Tenn., walked the streets here for ten daya with a broken neck and did not know It until he vent to Mullanphy hospital to get treatment for rtuumatlstn Monday afternoon. He fell,, he said, ten days ago and since that time his head had been drawn back, but he did not Buffer touch pain. He ,waa operated on at the hospital Monday and has a slight Chance for recover MEXICO WILL LEAD Word Is Oklahoma City, Okla. Five men who intended to rob the three banks Latin Americana Fear Establishment and the postofflce at Harrah, Okla., of Protectorate Over Central and early Friday ran Into a trap set by United States Marshal "Jack" Aber-natbSouth America Which Will Be As a result two bandlta are Distasteful to Republics. dead, one in Jail at Guthrie, wounded, and two auspecU are In jail here. Frank Qulgg waa shot down in a El Paso, Tex. Mexico is preparing with the posse and Instantly fight to head the general South American killed. He lived at Atchison, Kan., on the coalition to resist aggression and waa the son of a wealthy mother. part of the United States and to pre- Frank Carpenter, another robber, waa with too vent much interference In the fight, and died in Jail South and Central American affairs wounded here. J. C. Ditbeck, the third bandit, While by the Washington government. wus only slightly hurt , this would probably be officially deThe robbery was well planned, but nied by the Mexican government, it was learned here on Saturday on high Carpenter made the mistake of telling a number of people of the plot In authority that the mission of Senor thla way postofflce inspectors learned Enrique Creel in Washington was not so much to represent Mexico in the of the affair. .Marshal Abernartby was notified, Nlcaraguan mixup as to consult with Central and South American repre- and when the robbers reached the bank he was ready for them. The sentatives in Washington with a view to concerted action for the establish- pease caught the men in the act of ment of a Monroe doctrine of their breaking into the rear door of the Harrah State bank. The robbers' ran aimed own, against the United and the deputies fired, wounding CarStates. and Ditbeck at the first volpenter That Mexico, in common with all ley. Qulgg snapped his revolver, but Latin America, Is alarmed over all the before he could return the fire he' was tone of aggression presumed by the United States in dealing with Nic- killed by a rifle ball. aragua, Venezuela and Chili In recent RAILWAY CARS CAUGHT FIRE. y. 11 ' , forty-eigh- . , - Caused by Spread- Ing RaHi, Trenton, Mo. Three pe'opi?.,two of them women, were killed and vy-thre- e were injured, three seriously; when Rock Island paasecger train No. 3, the California special, westbound from Chicago, waa wrecked two miles south of here at 8:30 o'clock Friday morning. The cause of the wreck Is unknown, although it is believed to hare been caused by spreading rails. V hile the train was running at a high speed, the engine and tender left the track and plunged over a five-foo- t They were followed by t ggnge cars, a mail car, a tourist and a Pullman sleeper. Of the entire train only a sleeper and observation car remained on the track. The cars caught fire and a. number of the injured are suffering from burns. Terrible Dlsa.nf- 'SJ - ' nt .- TAFT GREETS THOUSANDS. Receives Long Line of Visitors on New Year's Day. President and Mrs. Washington. Taft held their New Year's levee at the White House on Saturday. Although Mrs. Taft has not yet regained her full strength add seemed rather pale in a gown of white silk, she carried out her original Intention of remaining in the receiving line until the members of the cabinet the foreign ambassadors, members of their households, and the justices of the supreme court had paid their respects. At the end of twenty minutes, Mrs. Taft retired. The reception began at 11 a. m. and ended at 1:55 p. m. In the two houra and fifty-fivmlnutea he held his position at the portal of the famous blue-room-. President Taft shook hands with 5,575 people. e Aiding the Farmer. The United States Washington. government is spending $18,000,000 a year on experimental work looking to increasing the yield and efficiency of the farms of the United States This money is not expended in fool ish experiments, but all investigation! are made under personal supervisor of experienced departmental headr. Secretary Wilson is a practical nine and requires results from all lines l investigation. Every avenue of trade is covered becauae the farmer is argely dependent upon them for his luccess. His prosperity ultimately brings profitable results in all other lines of business. Lived Five Weeks With Bullet In Hla Heart After living for St Joaeph, more than five weeka with a bullet In his heart, Francis Drysdale, 21 years old, died Friday night Attending physicians were astounded, as the wound had healed over, and recovery seemed assured. A delicate operation bad been performed on Drysdale, a rib being removed and a hole in his heart closed. The bullet was not removed, as the physicians feared death would follow any attempt to probe for it Mo. North Idaho Timber Cases. Bolee, Ida. The Kettenbach conspiracy and perjury caaea of north Idaho, wherein William F. Kettenbach of Lewlston, Keater and others are charged with defrauding the government out of valuable timber lands, will be tried In Boise, oommenclng Febru ary 15. Judge Frank S. Dietrich having granted the motion for a change ot venue from Moscow and designating Boise, as the place for holding the trial. Entered Feb. SI. 1103, at second-clas- s matter. Poet Office at Spanish Fork, Utah. Act of Congress March I, 117ft, COST OF UK Ill Joint Committee From House and Senate to Investigate Condltlona and Report What Remedlea May Be Effected. The increased cost of Washington. waa the aubjeot ot a concurliving rent resolution offered in the nouse on Tuesday by Representative Hull of Tennessee. It provides for a Joint committee ot seven members ot the house and five members of me senate to' Investigate conditions and report what remedlea may he effected through legislation. In consonance with the resolution Introduced by Representative Hull, Secretary Wilson ot the department pt agriculture haa ordered a sweeping inquiry Into the cost ot living in the United States. I realize," said Secretary Wilson, toat we have undertaken a blgi contract, but we can carry it out We hae the men and we have tue money. ,Tbe work will be done thoroughly. rtttiirti work will be done oy inspector ot the bureau of animal Industry, but Oth'et divisions of the department will assist." Obtaining unanimous consent to address the bouse for thirty minutes after that body reconvened alter soon TILLING FIGHT WITH INCREASE HAS CAUSED EVEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE. , 3 ion-MtuUo- BANK ROBBERS WERE TRAPPED Two Killed, One Wounded and Two REPORT OF COALITION FORMING ' In Jail aa Reautt of Plana Being Carelessly Discussed. TO RESIST ALLEGED AGGRESSION OF UNITED STATES. Joke. London. received here of the death at Paris of Earl Percy, controversies is certain. Naturally Mexicans hate and fear Henry Algeron George, formerly under secretary of atate for foreign af- Americans and feeling that it will be only a matter of time when Mexico fairs. herself may be called sharply to time According to the family, death waa due to complications following an at- has intensified this feeling. Right or wrong, Latin Americans tack of pneumonia. It la widely refeel that there is a growing tendency earl's the that here, however, ported fatal Illness followed wounds received at Washington to establish a protecin a duel In which he is said to have torate over Central and some parte of South America which will place the taken part in Paris some daya ago. Earl Percy waa the oldest son and republica in the aame position as heir of the seventh duke of Northum- Cuba. President Diaz has become conberland. He had represented South vinced that Mexico, by reason of her 1895. since in Kensington parliament In 1902-0he was under secretary of geographical position, ber wealth and atate for India, and In the two suc- population, must place herself at the ceeding years under foreign secretary. head of thla government It is stated He. was born in .1871 and was unmar-- . that already Diaz hag assurances of hearty support of practically all Latin rled. His home was in London. America and plans have been quietly TOBACCO CASE COMING UP. and unofficially, placed before the principal European nations and he has Brief been assured of their moral support General Submits Attorney That the United States may be Against Trust called on to face a united Latin In a printed brief of Washington. America, in case of further attempt 268 pages. Attorney General Wicker-shaand his special assistant J. C. to Interfere with Latin American internal affairs la regarded as certain, McReynolds, on Thursday presented to the supreme court of the United and it la probable that this coalition States the case of the government in will have the backing of Germany at the St. Louis Tobacco Trust cases, least which will be argued next week in FLOODS IN CALIFORNIA. that court The cases were tried in the United Railroads Suffer 8erloua Losses While States circuit court for the Southern 8ome of the Residents Have district of New York, which, after disNarrow Eacapea. missing the petition as to foreign toLos Angeles. After being isolated bacco companies, and some of the t for hours, as the result of subordinate American companies, a heavy rainstorm of four days' duraan the others to be parties to communication again la unlawful conspiracy and enjoined tion, partial between Los established and from them continuing their operations the outside world. There Angeles is still much and from engaging In 'interstate concern felt by officials of the three transcontinental railroads reaching this city. Two long stretches of roadCURBING ZELAYA'S TONGUE. bed are washed away between Los President Diaz Gives Dictator a Bit Angelea and San Bernardino on the route used jointly by the Salt Lake of Fatherly Advice. and Santa Fe. Mexico City. That President Diaz 'Who had been Twelve on Thursday gave Jose Zelaya a lit- marooned persons, on a narrow strip of land tle friendly advice in regard to talking between two branches of the Santa to newspaper representatives and Ana river near Downey all night be would ear in his it that whispered when the river cut them off from es wise for him to refrain from expresscape, were rescued early Sunday adwaa too his freely, ing opinions members of the Venice mitted by Zelaya's secretary Thursday morning by night, when he returned a card to a newspaperman with the remark MORSE DENOUNCES COURT. ot Nicaragua had that the just adopted a policy of refusing to Convicted Banker Issues Statement be Interviewed and would have nothas He Starts for Prison. ing more to say for publication for New York. With a supreme effort six days. Wny six days was named to be cheerful, but with emotion occa he would not explain. sionally getting the better of him, Charlea W. Morse left New York SunPresident Asked to Interfere. to begin a fifteen years' sentence day C. James Mayor Minneapolis. Haines has asked President Tatt to In the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., strike. for violation of the national banking Intervene In the switchmen He sent the president this message: laws. Before leaving the Tombs, where he "The continuation of the switchmen's strike on railways la this section la had been confined for the greater part of the last year, Morse received bis highly injurious, not only to interested parties, but also to the general pub wife and two sons and then the lic. Much loss and Buffering have newspaper men. He was too affected occurred and this will be greatly in- - o say anything, but handed out a creaaed unless an early settlement is arefully prepared statement in which declared: affected. I trust that you win iena "I am going to Atlanta to begin toward such you official influence the most penal servitude under settlement" brutal sentence ever pronounced Luck of Newspaper Man. igalnst a citizen in a civilized counNa York. Mayor-elec- t Gaynor an try." nounced Thursday that he'Jwlll apPrehlstorlo Animals In Utah. point Robert Adamson, a newspaper Pittsburg, Pa. The director of the man, as his secretary. Tne salary la museum haa announced the anla Carnegie 'first Thla r the tnnnn a - Tt- in Utah, by a Carnegie exdiscovery the announced Incoming by polntment of the bones of three party, 37 old Is ploring years mayor. Mr. Adamson He has apeclmena of the souropod dinosaur. and waa born in Georgia. There ia every reason to believe these been city editor oi me Atlanta and in thla city haa worked specimens of the giant dinosaur are on the Evening Sun, the Brooklyn older than the famous dlplodoius on exhibition here. A detailed account of Eagle and the now yora Morning the discovery Is being prepared. World No (i, 1910. the holiday recess, Representative Douglas of Ohio declared tnat ae whod of making appropriations for government expenditures appeared to him to 6eV?4Vcally wrong. Ha said no opportunity wa afforded members of the house to oonsVier the relative Importance of various "apErPriationB 111 FIERCE BATTLE IN A STABLE CAUSES A PANIC AMONG 37 HORSES. BIRO ATTACKS A MILL MAM Beaten Off By the Plucky Watchman In the Barn, the Owl Fllea to the) Street and Viciously Aaaaults Pedeatrlan. Pittsburg. Battling desperately for almost an hour with a glgantlo owl that sank ita talona Into hia arms and) shouldera repeatedly, at the earn time trying to quell the excitement ot 37 big horses thrown Into a panlo by the wild pranks of the big bird, waa the experience of Michael McConnelL night watchman at the Ardary-Burn. Company's stables, Sixteenth and a Pike-streets- McContell pluckily continued - ts beat at the bird until It was compelled to retreat out of the barn into the, early morning air. Flying across Sixteenth street the big owl, without provocation, attacked a mill man om his way to work. With his dinner bucket he fought the owl off. Finally It disappeared in a vacant lot near the Sixteenth street bridge. It waa McConnell'a presence ot mind and rare pluck that prevented a serioua atampede among the 37 big ' About dray horses In the stablea. three o'clock while he waa making his rounds in the rear of the building ha ' was attracted bysthe horses Jumping, and kicking. McConnell rearing turned on the lights and aaw the big , owl on the back of a horse sinking its long and sharp talona into the animal The owl sprang at McConnell'a proposed. Mr. Douglas said that the tort production of the country waa notV?P head. r . Ing pace with the growth of poputa McConnell, although an aged man. tlon, and yet, he said, congress had la ve "agile and sidestepped the bird, done practically nothing to encourage which "faaded against the aide of a development of the soil. i Again. end stall, again the owl at- to "Last year congresa appropriated or tne gi mm. lacnea to military the army and navy and bird fluttering;mefjieni peuaiou $JSS,Cv0,0O, o,i 67 jrr cent of our total revenue," continued Mr cited the 37 horses and McCtmneT Douglas, "and we appropriated to out found it necessary to forget his own safety and pacify the horses to pregreat department of agriculture or about 2 per cent of our re- vent a stampede. " venue.' Finally the owl flew to the top of a stall, and placing its head under Its Whole Family Polaoned. wing seemingly went to sleep. TaLos Angeles, cal. Nine persons king Mcadvantage of the are dead and two others axe not ex- Connell approached andopportunity was about to pected to survive as the result ot eat- land a death-dealinblow with a ing canned peaches containing pto- broom when the bird made a dive at Saw-tellmaine poison Saturday night at him. It struck him in the chest with a suburb of this city. All are all its force and nearly knocked him members of the Preclado family, a off his feet The fight continued un- well known family, which were the til the bird flew out Into the street first to settle in Santa Monica. The where It attacked the mill man. can of peaches was put up several McConnell aald that judging from months ago by Mrs. Preclado and was Its wealth of soft lax plumage and partaken of by all those who are dead size he is Inclined to think the owl or suffering from the effects of the poison, at a family reunion on New ' Year's day. befw4icjtfl? g e, Wool Growers Make Kick. Cheyenne, Wyo. Resolutions pro- testing against forest reserve management indorsing the tariff and opposing tariff changes, Indorsing a wool warehouse and demands for better railroad rates on freight and better government of quarantine regulations, were adopted at the final session of the Wyoming Woolgrowers' association Tuesday. President J. A. and Secretary George Walker were The next convention will be held in Sheridan. Senator V. E. Warren and Congressman R. D. Cole of Ohio were the chief speakers. Haa Had Enough of Polar Politics. Washington. Denying that polar politics or dissension In the board of management or any similar cause, waa responsible for hla decision, Professor Willis L. Moore, for five yeara president of the National Geographic society, which organization passed on Lieutenant Peary's north pole records, on Tuesday addressed a letter to each of the members of the board declaring that he does not wish again to consider his name in connection with the presidency. Del-feld- er Expert Farmer Wanted. Washington. "Expert farmers wanted, salary $1,200 per annum." The Indian service is making this offer to agricultural students. Appoints ments will be restricted to graduates of agricultural colleges. Successful applicants will be designated by Indian Commissioner .Valentine to manage agricultural demonstration farms on Indian reservations In arid and semi-ariregions of the west ' The Owl Sprang at McConnell'a Head. waa of the American Tawney apeciea. Thla apeciea of owl la known for Ita fighting qualities, and ia aald to be next to the eagle in atrength and ill temper. When several employea ot the big atablea reported for work at all Bandit KQlod In Chicago. o'clock in the morning and heard Chicago. An4unldentlfled man, said story they began a search by the police to have been an accomp- for the owl but were unable to locate lice of Otto Olsen, now under arrest It for the attempted robbery v? tne Nor wood Park postofflce was shot and First Caae on Record. killed by the police here. The shoothad juat aald that he Waahlngton ing occurred as the man attempted to lie. "Surely you dont a couldn't tell a In from house hart which he escape been surrounded by the police. This testify from the absolute?" cried hla Is the third robber killed by the pollc.-- . father. Plainly, he wondered how U account for It ilnce January 1. d ' |