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Show lAAAf&Syi r-- --- VOL. ) TELEGRAPHERS PREPARING FOR STRIKE IRS ATTACK Official Says Prohibition Will Keep Many Desirable Government Away. Law Will Make the Negro Worse in His Habits, as He Will Take the Lead in Defiance of Law and Hypocrisy. New A high official of the Washington. Immigration bureau is authority foi the statement that the prohibition movement in the south will seriously interfere with efforts to get immigrants to that section of the country. It is none of my business, he said, as although I have been the with imm'gration far as possible bureaus of the states of South Carolina, Virginia and others. So soon as the class of people being sought in the south find out that prohibition laws encumber their personal liberty they will refuse to go south, ard those now there will leave. "The German, Austrian, Swede, Finn and nearly all other classes of Europeans will not go where they can not get beer. Besides that, they resent any interference with what they shall eat or drink, believing these are matters of personal liberty. They do so light a . not hold the view that ' drink as beer, when taken in moderate amounts and under circumstances to which ' they are accustomed, ts either a sin or crime. People of the countries mentioned look dowa upon whisky drinking In this country as a moral weakness, to which Americans should not be addicted, and probably would not care what happened to the ardent spirits. deprived or Kt they object toI being think a great beer. Personally, is being made in the- south, il these prohibition laws are being enacted to make the negro a sober civ Izen, the error wi'i be discovered in a few years. The negro will now become an imbiber of the cheapest and most fiery grades of mean whisky, and I will venture the prediction that states of the south In prohibition crime will increase. It is history that prohibition runs out the mild drink like beer and brings in the worst ol the ardent class. The negro naturally goes with blind tigers, and it will not be long beforb .j fee will take the lead in defiance of He will copy law and hypocrisy. ifter the white man, it is true. When he sees prohibition laws defied, he will pay less attention to other laws. It is well known that in many portions of the south where prohibition Is in force through local option, the negro has turned to cocaine and drugs, and has become so worthless that he is a menace. mi-ta'.- CUTS WIRE AND DIES. Strong Probability That the Operators of the Northern Pacific Will Go Out in a Few Days. Billings, Mont. According to an official connected with the Northern Pacific Telegraph company of this city there is a strong probability of tho Northern Pacific railroad operators going on a strike for shorter hours and higher wages within the next few days. Except at division points, the majority of the operators are compelled to wrk from twelve to sixteen hours per day at salaries comparatively small. In case of a walkout, the operators will demand increased pay and a working day of eight hours. The authority states that the company has foreseen the present situation and has for some time been employing young men as learners at very small salaries and in case of a strike it is his opinion that these learners will be placed in the positions of the Preparations are regular operators. also being made to install the block system along the line of the Northern Pacific from the coast to Fargo, N. D., and for more than a week material has been distributed along the line to prepare for the emergency. GAVE LIFE IN VAIN. Rescuer Dragged Down by Drowning Women. Cal. Mrs. Charles Sacramento, White, her cousin, a girl of about 18, aud the formers brother, Charles and Manuel Palm, Greggs, were drowned in the Sacramento river at a point about a block north of Rocky Point on the Yolo side, on Tuesday. Greggs, who was an expert swimmer, lost his life in attempting to rescue hie friends. At the time of the accident the party was in a duck boat endeavoring to reach a house boat, in which Mrs. White lived. The house boat capsized. Gregg witnessed the aeddem from" shore, and .went to the assistance of the party, but was grabbed around the neck by the three drowning persons and dragged under water. Would-b- e THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE. The Associated Press ment in the Reports ImproveSituation. The Associated Press serChicago. vice has made gradual improvement during the past, wpck, la pite of the In the eaststrike of,lW operators. ern and central divisions, 170 of the old men are at their keys and less than sixty men are out. Five of the best men' have returned to the Chicago and practically every wire in tho Chicago office is manned day and night. In California regular operators are at work in San Francisco, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Fresno and San Diego and the leased wire, service is going to papers in those cities. office STOLE MAIL SACKS. Utah Edward Bingham Junction, McDermit, a telephone lineman, was Instantly killed Sunday night by 2,300 volts of electricity passing through his body while be was trying to save an electric piano from binning up. The accident was caused by one of the main feed wires of the Progress Power company of Murray, which supplies the town with electricity, coming in contact with a guy chain supporting an electric sign in front of the Leader store. In so doing, the full current passed through the chain and heavily charged all the electric light and telephone wires on that transformer in the main business part of the town. A half a dozen other people were Injured when they went to turn on their lights, and that none of the others were killed is regarded as miraculous. Mysterious Theft From Train Is Puzzling Detectives. Lincoln, Neb. Three registered mail sacks containing about a quarter million dollars disappeared, from the Burlington train between Denver and Oxford, Neb., Sunday night. Detectives and postal officials are investigating. Superintendent Butler of the mail clerks, believes the robbery was just west of the Nebraska line. BoHi tho mail clerks slept while the train was passing along stretches between the few stations. It is believed somebody entered the car and threw out The destination of the the sacks. sacks was Chicago. Taft Settles Panama Difficulty. Washington. Secretary Taft has concluded arrangements with representatives of the U uitod States of Colombia and Panama for the settlement of the issues between those countries and the United States growing out tit the separation of Panam aand the creation of the canal zone. It provides for three heaths, one of which, if approved by the president and Secretary Root, probably will bo submitted to the senate at the next session. It is understood the arrangement pro vldes for the final settlement of the claims of Colombia upon Panama. Four Deaths From Bubonic Plague in San Francisco's Chinatown. San Francisco. Five rases of bubonic plague, four of which have resulted In death, have been reported to the health department within the past week. Tito patients with one exrep. tion were of the poorer class of foi rigners dwelling In the neighborhood of the old Chinatown. The exception a wus a foreign sailor, taken from coastwise Btemner. Prompt Rnd ao live measures were taken by the locai state and federal authorities, and n spread of the disease is aid teared. May Capture Raisuli. Tangier. Raisuli, the captor of Sir Harry McLean, is at his old camping ground, El Hauta, the shrine of He has written a letter to El Merani, the uncle of the sultan, telling him he was sent out by the suit an to light, not to remain inactive. i This communication angered El and he moved his army to witni.i of Raisulis eight miles position. Fighting is imminent. If El Merani is defeated, the hill tribes will lose Alcazar, but if lie la victorious the situation will be saved and Raisuli captured. Sidi-kuscpl- i. Me-ran- Save the Peace Conference From Utter Failure. The Hague. Nearly all the governments have instructed their peace delegates to endeavor to bring ubont some obligatory arbitral ion law, also the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration, In order to save the conference from failure. Efforts of the d. legates ure directed towards arrangement of a treaty with Germany, which country has thus far opposed the world treaty on the ground that it would minimize rather than promote obligatory arbitration. Would SHOT NO. 23 FROM FIS TO Y DEATH itiiu tivj unuuL Parachute Failed to Work 'and Horror Stricken Crowd Watches Boy Fall a Thousand Feet. After Short But Sharp Engagement the Tribesmen are Put to Flight by the Casablanca Patrol. Field and Machine Guns With Deadly Effect in Repelling the Attack, and Are Assisted by Shells From Frenchmen Use Cruiser. Casablanca, Morocco. A large force of Moors suddenly descended upon the French camp early Monday morning, but W'ere driven oft after a sharp conflict. The tribesmen advanced to within 800 yards of the city, when General Drude sent against them under cover of the guns of the warships a detachment of fifty Algeriau Saphis (Arab horsemen In the Frenca service). The Moors permitted this small body of calvary to advance for a half mile unmolested, when they suddenly ambuscaded them and In a wild charge got right among the Saphis. The head of one Saphi was cut off with one sweep of a big Moorish sword. The French officer in command of the Saphis and several of his men weie wounded, but the officer rallied his force and slowly retired, fighting until a large body of Saphis from the town succeeded their comrades and routed the Moors. The fighting covered a front of about sixteen miles and lasted from 7 to 11 a. m. The French used field and machine guns w'ith deadly effect in repelling the attack of the Moors, and shells from the cruiser Gloire also rendered efficient service. The Saphis and sharpshooters each lost one man killed and had several wpunded, including Captain Coud of the Saphi. About a dozen horses weo killed. SCHMITZ DOWN AND OUT. Supreme Court Decides That Removal of Mayor Was Legal. San Francisco. The state supreme court has rendered a decision in tho McKannay salary case sustaining the legality of the removal of Mayor Schmitz and the appointment of Mayor Taylor. - Out, "OiOe, unstated effects ofof the Dr. opinion is to iipftoii. legality Taylors board of supervisors and discourage Mr. Schmitz appointees frem-anfurther efforts to claim seats. The gist of the opinion in a nutshell Is that the conviction of Schmitz of the mayoralty and the pendency of his appeal does not bar Dr. Taylor stepping Into the vacancy. ARMY SCANDAL IN PHILIPPINES. Washington. The war department has learned that Brigadier General Ernest A. Garlington, who was specially charged by Secretary Taft to make a further Investigation into the allege I Irregularities in Ihe quartermasters department In the Philippines, arrived In Manila July 5, and entered upon his work the following day. The original Investigation was based on the allegation that a number of army officers stationed In the Philippines had caused a lot of expensive furniture to be manufactured for their friends in tho states, for which no proper return was made to the government. Telsgraphers Advised to Break Agreements Rather Than to Scab. If any of you have an Chicago. agreement with the capitalists that compels you to work while your brothers are struggling for their rights I say, break that agreement. There never was an agreement so sacred as to compel one laboring man to scab on another. With this advice William D. Haywood urged several thousand workingmen to support the strike of the Commercial Telegraphers union at a picnic for the benefit of the Chicago Dally Socialist at Rivervlew on Monday. Iron Worker Meets Horrible Death. Los Angeles, Cal. Joe Nelson, an Iron worker, met a horrible death on the Young Mens Christian associaA tion building Saturday morning. huge Iron girder had Just been swin g out with a eiane to lie bolted Into t place. Nelson was endeavoring to the bolt when the heavy glrdei Losing Ills swung away from him. balance, he was compelled to grn the end of the girder and swing with It. His additional weight caused tin girder to it) end and slip throul tlie chain In the center, and man am! girder fell six stories to the base meat. uu MLniliil i CAMP Officers Accused of Buying Expensive Furniture With Government Funds. Man Attempts to Prevent Conflagration and Loses His Life. BALLOONiST CANNON FRENCH Says the 40 ROBINSON, UTAH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1907. XII. Immigrants fl Former Secretary of the Treasury Shaw Sees No Reason for Being Blue Over Present Financial Situation. Telegraphers Are Willing to Submit Their Differences to Outsiders New Haven, Conn. Five thousand for Final Settlement. persons saw a boy fall 1,000 feet from a balloon Wednesday afternoon and dash to pieces on top of a factory building in the outskirts of this city. He was Theodore French, son of a local policeman, and was 19 years old. During the past week the city have been plastered with announcement that John Mack, an aero-- ' naut, who has been making balloon ascensions all summer at Savin Rock, would give an unusual exhibition. His assistant, French, the posters said, would he shot from a cannon attached to the balloon when it was floating a mile over the city. an im- The advertisements drew mense crowd to the point. The spectators had an opportunity to study the cannon, which was attached to the basket of the balloon. It was a metal case large enough to hold a parachute and an ordinary sized man. When closed a spring inside released the parachute and the passenger. French fearlessly locked himself in the cannon and the balloon was cut loose. The combined weight of the cannon and the boy inside seemed to When 1,000 make It unmanageable. feet up there was a flash of smoke and the throngs running in the wake of the balloon saw a dark object shoot downward with incredible speed. The parachute did not open. French landed on top of the Mathushek Piano companys main factory building. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. s MAY LEAD TO WARFARE. Murder of Indian Strongly Resented by Members of His Tribe. San Diego, Cal. Jose Capistrano, an Indian sixty years old, belonging to the Santa Isabel reservation, was attacked and killed near Julian, Monday, by three Indians of ihe Anahuae reservation. According to Capistranos wife, the assailants, who were drunk, demanded wine from her husband. He refused and the men at-- , un-ttacked him. He defended Jh'" one of the Indians seized an ax and struck him on the head. Capistrano died the next day. The Indians who attacked h'm are under arrest, and there is s.rong probability that the tribal fee Ing between the two il reservations i lay result in further trouble, as there is no love lost between the Inr Ians. - PORTLAND BANK FAILS. Was Capitalized for $3,000,0p0 $100,000 and Had Deposits. Portland, Or. The Portland Trust and Savings bank wrns unopened on A notice posted anWednesday. nounced the Inability of the bank to realize on securities and that It was closed by order of the court and a receiver appointed. The bank Is capitalized for $100,000. The deposits are about $3,000,000. At a meeting of the bankers of Portland, It was decided not to respond to the banks appeal for assistance. Vice President Lyttle attributes the failure to the action of Cashier Morris In buying and selling securities without the directors authority. Telegrams by Mail. It is not illegal to send telegrams through the mail. This Is the statement made cm Wednesday by United States Attorney Lyman M. Bass. Efforts were made by the striking telegraphers to bring the managements of the Wes'ern Union an-Postal Telegraph companies Into court for receiving them by mail. Mr. Bass says there Is no federal law to cover the case, therefore no prosecution could be brought in the federal courts. May Send Buffalo, N. Y. Nativesof British India Barred from Naturalization. Francisco, United States Attorney Devlin recently received several applications for naturalization from natives of British India. Being In doubt as to what action to take he asked Attorney General Bonaparte for a ruling on the subject. He has just received a reply in which the attor ney general states that the natives referred to raniot lie classed as while people, and tnerefore arc ineligible to become citizens of the United States. San New York. secretary of the following financial and Our farms Leslie M. Shaw, former the treasury, authorized intervk w on the present industrial conditions: General Strike Order Issued by produce more than President Small Caused But Little per annum and the prosChange In Situation, as the pect is good for an average crop. Our Men Disposed to Strike mines yield more than $1,500,000,000 and our forests more than $1,000,000,-00Were Already Out. and neither of these sources of 0 wealth has been exhausted. The output of our factories in other than food products is $12,000,000,000 and no fires have been extinguished. The railways earn more than $2,000,000,000 and they are all in successful operation. The payrolls of our factories and railways aggregate approximately $3,500,000,000-00- 0 and the scale of wages has not been reduced. In other words the real n sources of the people's wealth have not yet been affected and the ability of industrial concerns to pay dividends Is not measured by the market price ot their stocks. Logical reasons for serious conditions are therefore wanting. Psychological reasons are never wanting. If I judge correctly, the people will If have exactly what they expect. those who have money iu the banks withdraw It and lock It up; if the banks refuse to grant accommodations, and if the consuming public decline to place orders, then we will very soon witness the effects. Let those who think that times of disaster follow each other at regular intervals bear In mind that this country never yet experiWITH OR WITHOUT WIRES. enced a period of depression that was not traceable to financial or economic Inventor of a New Telegraph Ma- agitation or legislation, and usually chine Would Solve Strike Problem. to both. In 1893 the redemption of greenNev. W. H. Valentine, Carson, the inventor of a machine to send backs In silver instead of gold wa3 In powtelegraph messages without the ttse of openly advocated. The toparty remove tho an expert operator, left the city fri-- ' er was under promiseo u my."1 day evening. He came down from protective tariff fiom and the free ol silvTljrat'tiej cionage Lake Tahoe several days ago, anl i was championed by while there met a man named Foss ratio of ..V Arlington hotel, .2;; Gticmlnere prominent members of both patties. from Chicago. The two were closeted The country might have survived any several days j and It is one of these sources of alarm, but It together known that Foss, when (ie left here, could not survive all three. At this had authority to deal with one of the time no one questions our financial not big telegraph companies j for the ex- system, and the tariff will months.be touched least for at eighteen clusive rights of the machine. Some check In the speed at which There was no exhibition 'of the mawe are going is most desirable, anil the chine here, but it is known, that Valprocess has probably begun. entine represents the samel machine checking It will require a fair measure of conwhich was exhibited in Loa Angeles fidence and courage, to prevent undue a few weeks ago. It sends messages retardment In our Industries. Capiactuated by a typewriter anm receives tal cannot be forced Into activity, buc them by printing them automatically it can be forced out of activity. I on a sheet of paper so that f the mes- have never seen the time when universal sanity was more essential to sage looks like ordinary typewriting. our well being. No other operator is required at the receiving end and the message sent TRADE OF SOCIETY ISLANDS. Is duplicated on the sendinJ machine. Mr. Valentine admitted that the Bulk Comes to United States, Accordcompany was about to establish staing to Report of Consul at Tahiti. tions in Nevada as the service could The following inforWashington. be made with or without wires. mation concerning the trade of tho Society islands in an extract from the Government Spies Said to be Working annual report of Consul Julius D. for Railroads. Dreher of Tahiti: Of the total Imports into the SociChicago. The Record-Heralsays secret service agents of the United ety islands in 190G $330,052 the imStates department of justice, work- ports from the United States amounting through the bureau of corpora- ed to $255,543; and of ihe total extions, are said to be on the pay rolls ports during the same year $717,342 States of all the big railway corporations and the exports to the United trust combinations in the country. In amounted to $31G 807. Although the 1906 Chicago alone it is said there are at trade with the United States in lu in less was 1905, than somewhat 130 to least special agents watching laws both imports aud exports, 48 P"f cent ascertain whether corporation are observed In letter and spirit. of the total imports were drawn thereWhile no proof is obtainable as to the from and 44 per cent of the toial exwent thereto. Tho loss to tho presence of these spying employees, ports United States in imports may be ae. in several instances men who have counted for In by the earthquake been suspected have been removed and fire in San part Francisco, with which on the grounds that they were gov- city the greater part of the trade is ernment spies. done. of Chicago. Despite the issuance the general strike order by President Small, the situation in this city was not materially changed on Friday. All of the men who were disposed to strike were already out. It was believed by the officials of the union that the order would paralyze a number of brokers and commi-siohouses, but no additional strikes was reported. Efforts at peacemaking have so far produced no effe9t either on employers or telegraphers. The officers of the Telegraphers union late Friday changed front on the proposition to arbitrate, and announced that they would accept the offices of the general board of arbitration of the American Federation of (Labor lu settling the differences with fhe companies. This board consists pt John Mitchell of the Mine Workers, Daniel J. Keefe of the Longshoremen and President Samuel Gompers. It was Mr. Gompers who made the above announcement. 16-fo- -- d or Pueblo Will Get Dollar Concern. Chicago. A miilion-doll.t- r packing plant, completely modern in its details, will ho erected at once in Colorado by the Sell warzehild & Sulzberger company, according to a statement Tie1 d fmade by G. F. Sulzberger. inite location of the plant has not The choice lies been determined. between Denver and lueblo, and within the next week the officials of !ho company will decide which of tho two cities Is preferable for a packing Either Denver Million plant. Representatives of Sehxxarz-- e left for Denver and Im-blto make a careful rex lew of the tit nation. i lid & Suzberger Girl Prefers Death to Loss of Reason. Portland, Ore. Conscious that she was mentally deranged. Miss litra Lourutz, 20 years of ago. killed herself on Saturday, by taking strychnine, The girl had been enraged to ho married for several months, but reeonUy She had became afflicted menially. received medical treatment, but eon' tinned to grow worst', and the grow ing realization of her unhappy future, together with the fact that in her condition she could not wed, impelled her to destroy herself. Portland Couldn't Stand Poevrty. Preferred Death to Wedded Life. I.os Angeles, Cal. William Brouse Denver. Following an unhappy marWill Cross Africa Irt an Automobile. once wealthy aud respected, said tc have been cashier of a hank and worth ried life of four months, during the Berlin. Dispatchers from Dar last three weeks of which he had inheritance, hang, i by German East Africa, state that $100,000 in tho rear of 241 West See been separated from Ills wife, Joint I of the Prussian himself Graotz Lieutenant He hue ond street early Saturday, Temple, aged 24 years, committed suistarted from there Saturday on climbed ft slt'it kultb r, tied llte noon cide by swallowing an ounce of car- army an attempt to cross Africa In on auto- around his neck ami kicked the Indict bolic add. The act was committed He purposes to tide through from beneath him. He Is said to hnx in the homo of his mother In law, Mrs, mobile. ot Gorman East Africa, Rhodesia mid m't Annie Huffman, lit the lost his money through false to Africa Southwest Swahopmutid, so bt him that his wife. Mrs Bertha lie Temple, Wbett tht result and on the jouri Ills xxnik Police Surgeon Preston arrived at tho occupying about six weeks to and xinahle was J '.at if all goes well. He lias a specialHe Unit to, k U house lit r spouse to h rail Ihe young ney,built finally discharg'd Im43 horsepower car. xxlth man was unconscious and died soon ly 'cl; lie xx.n and ht'cnv a drugs 4 wheels In diamfeet mensely heavy after. 40 yotra ef a;. xxlth massive tires. eter. prc-enc- e atl'-eie- t |
