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Show Napoleon Fighting, in North Page 3, Section 3, To dajrt3 Innrn Italy-- Sss New k Dm hort nt nfrom pur Mart w tbe people eye, ' SATURDAY JANUARY 17,1914 SALT LAKE CITY UTAII on and pin. SIXTY-FOURT- LOFTY PURPOSES . YEAR H KLE IIIEGEAtiD APPLEQUIST IS -- KILL THEMSELVES Utah. Accompanied fey -- Severe .. EarthquaKe, Causing Collapse of Many Buildings Lava Flowing Fall of Ashes Has Down tojthe Sea-G- reat Been Pronounced Physical Change in Island-?-Numb- er s Includes Development Clean TownT Contest, Meaning Death to Bouse Fly.- - - National Union Resolution When ; ANOTHER HOPE, CIVIC BEAUTY Tariff Comes Exert Pres- So Far, However, Fugitive. Sus- Blanche Wood Gets Note From sure But it Will bet Along Conpect in Morrison Murder Case A B. Wood That It Is His In- stitutional Lines.' . Has Not Been Detained. tention to Commit Suicide. - Attacking the Up, He Uses : Some Vigorous Language. Will DIRECTED UPON GOVERNMENT POSSE HUNTED HIM " FRIDAY. RUSHES HIS' HOTEL TO Annual Meeting at Logan Jan. SAYS CONVENTION SEEMS." Will Ask For Measure Granting it, Sheriff" AljetsTof Tooele County Upbraided Him;' Took Pistol From 30-3- 1 Revision of Bylaws TO BE A PARTY MEETING Puts Men on the Trail Along : Drawer, Shot - Herself- ;- He Maybe In Form of Amendment To Franchise Bill . ProposedCarpenter Resigns Salt Lake Route. violent eruptions of the Snatched it and Kills Himself. ' . Victims Probably Immense. jgoshima, Jan. "Volcano 17. Two further hy'a'Bever.e earthquakei SakuraJima7'acoompanied -- xurred.mMtxaiiamg.cQlIapsemmamuildings,, who had returned fled of Kagoshima' Numbers of the inhabitants are falling thickly today. Ashes the from in terror city. again fca blood been1 relieved another calamity ' a hall of in Klutbiu. : over Kagoshima todsyand the dark- - 'occurred "The northeast, poorly favored by '"such that nlghtnigPAlfl..h4. nattnr8tameairMb1iffnetfoiili .nn and is becoming Impoverished. to be employed on the railroad. The the paet is now suffering a great famine and It few the that thick so was dust flying Its people are eating only wild, fruits making and pedestrians on the streets Snow herbs to .stay their hunger. of the city covers the land, to the suffertheir way to. the outskirts adding , had to cover their mouths and noses Ving. Tha un looked like : t league nssm-j-ple-ted yesterday the details for Its annual meeting at Logan bn Jan. 80 and 81, at a meeting of the board of governors held at the Commercial club. President .CL R Hollingsworth presid-ed- at 4M,.m8eUos,-A-eommlUr- Deliberations HsJPsekllsund Like Those of (Spaciai-t- o So far as tha 7 The Newa.)? , case la concerned, ' London, Jan. 17. Pressure of the fle mand for suffrage will be kept up by haa settled ? over the women of England with unrelenting pollca station. though tha aearch Is vigor during the year 1914, according being diligently pursued by officers in to announcement. from. (he NLtonal Chari v of laspector Carlson- and CapUnion of Womens Suffrage Societies tain Roberta This organisation which is working "Nothing new aa to the supposed only along constitutional lines, will hold whereabouts ot tha hunted man In Salt Its annual council, in February to map Lake haa developed, though report out Its polttlsa campaign, which. It haa have been received " from various begun already .been decided, - will -tha affect that of th slat with a great "mass meeting ta Albert parts" or aomeone resembling to voice the united Applequlst, hall on Feb-- 14 and constitutiona ... demand fromeU blm,.4iaa been Ken during tha'Jfaat the Republicans In Convention Assembled. - was e' .r the appointed, to of the league, the purpose being to revise the bylaws so that the league may be enlarged and- more public good ? accomplished fop the state.The league will hold a clean town" e offered for : tn re!lev thU CQniekt.and. We were with towafs hr handkerthiefs to pre dlatrees when planning In news came of the erup- the best suggestions vent suffocation the number of tion in the south,-wittyphoid fever people burled sea in the.Oulf ; of Kagoshima or o scorched with fiery ashe and "the-be- st way to eliminate the fly had' nottme to save ' their nuisance lntne summer.' It 'was pointcoined to be hailing and the quantity that-the, relatives. No greater calamity ed out that a good many typhoid cases of floating pumice stone was ao great nearest have come from the yontaglon carried can be Imagined," . that it prevented navigating.' by files. :. The .Development league proposes to help, rid the contamination. ""El u ej scketAf rum the Japanese fleet sympathisers for donations. SecyTT. B. Beatty; of the state board SUFFERING INTENSE. today discovered , native of health, made a few remarks and talnlng 18 refugees from Skura. who Bishop Walter Andrews of the Eng-lia- h said that would be willing thft famine, churclr In were tntratarvtng condition. They rewr brinrbSlitbetter tSe sufwrites the stricken that to floating district, J sanitary conditions throughout v the ported that, owing The state. le1 Intense. s. masses of pumice stone and the high fering everywhere" RnA aavs. 4rT j!f The committee in charge of the conseas they had been unable to steer their families are eating soups made test Js composed of J. M. Klrkham, of their boatand had. spent three daye of chopped straw. leaves" and rotten, Lehl, J M. Briggs, of Logan, and J. -, from cats TV. adrift atthemercy of the elements potatoes and meat taken McHenry : of Murray, who' were The and dogs and fish. .. The more fortunate appointed to take charge of the matter. and without a morsel of food. made or thin gruel., have The town surrey was discussed gnd of rice were able to Teach them wheat a the committee was" appointed to wedge-shape- d a raft, are net, writes, he The, only by using the posxlblUUes of laying out result, many '! with which they pierced ,, a field of death from cold and starvation and an better i. reels In ths towns of this state. C- - R. Mabey of pouw-tsfu- l. of crime and beggars. . Many It Is compoeed-opumice stone resembling ice floes. . increase E. Y Dunn of Brigham and girls, he declares, have been sold into - V s LAVA FLOWING D?W Tbs uoi f tpang.jiiilkM slavery H tell frptnish Fc rk. ThemetcY jb. poOLE - the biuird of goversors or s ale bei of from of it luck taimtns c Lavs. today was flowing steadily the Utah Ifevelopmcnt league ere: C. VTIio Spoke to the Woolgrocrs Today . down the side of the Volcano to the food R. Hollingsworth or Ogden, J. .W. Mca,-- increaBlng the mresr of the Island Henry. Murray: J. M. Kirkhanu Lehl: VLJbe Dsmocvattc wing of t,he National a the substance solidified on reach- r. M. Drlggrs. Ogden: E. W. Dunn. oolg rowers , 'association i had Ha tha water, ing H- - Bullen, Logan - R. T, Brigham-Citaeismo- this, moiblfif, Thurber. Spanish Fork: C. R. Mabey. when. Jamta H. logist pointing to the Village of Yoko lawyer, .Moyle, G. Will Balt Farrell. Bountiful, and lie on Sakura. where 40Ohouaes hama and Democrat. aroae and fa Lake. burled. In lava, said: terms denounced the attitude H. C. Carpenter, assistant secretary aeathlng "Are the people burled there as in of the league, tendered his resignation of the convention on the tariff law. Pompeii?" and . answered himself, Mr. thstoonven of Moyles castigation ; the future can reply. yesterday .afternoon. at the meeting., ha. "Only occurred JuBt after, the' first reso to have OF THE; CIVIL WAH having accepted a position with the tion Many refugees been driven insane as a result of ex Vogeler Seed company. Mr. Carpenter lution presented In .the report of the hat been connected with the league for comn lttee on resolutions, danoum ing posure and terror. several months and has- - accomplished the tariff law as passed by the present a great deal-IJan. 17. Another promoting the develop-ment-o- f- administration, was presented for conby-la- - f- eaeof tn-ta- ' Hnlr-Kald- o. h. , bye-lectl- on f R.-T- 1 i- .. - - :- y: .wool-grow- er. X , Pronounced Physical .Washington, Change m lsland . Kagoshima, Japan. - Jan. 17. Prof. Omorl. the Japanese seismologist, who arrived here yesterday, circled the Island of Sakura today and found a pronounced physical change. Huge molten rocks formed a range Into the sea, practically blocking . the bay across to Osuml. Many dwellings Temaln in perfect condition on the northern coast, but on ths devastated eastern coast ashes and lava reach to the eaves of the houses. Many new hills have sprung into existence The professor saw a women on the shore, but when he spoke to her eh fled wtldiy. She was undoubtedly Insane The new craters formed on akura-- JIma are still pouring - volumes of smoke in the direction of Osumi-Aho- ut seven-tenth of the island Is a desert of lava and the remaining land is in such a hopeless condition that it must be abandoned. Fifteen hundred of the 8,000 houses on the leland-wer- eburied. ThS" etr-mate-d damage on this account is yen (15,000,000). How to deal with the Islanders Is a great problem, the professor says, but evidently they . -- t i : must ... migrates Prof, Omorl thinks the entire volcanic range of Kluahiu has' entered nn a period of activity that recurs every fO .years, and.. that eruptions may be expected at any time,- especially from the Volcano. Unsen. eight, miles from Obimax in the prefecture of Nagasaki.. Tbe geologist Ok&da Is of the opinwill continue ion that- Sakura-vTlm- a 4ta eruption for a month. -- - -- Probable Loss of Life rtWill Prove Very Heavy -- " Tokio, Jan, 17. An indication that loss of life on the island of Sakura the which was devastated by the eruption of the volcano Sakura-Jlm- a may be much larger than at first supposed Is given in a report received here from an official of the Interior department who-Wasent to Kagoshima to .Investigate. , He reports that 9.QM out of Sakura estimated population of 19.W0 had been accounted for up to thfe eve' 7 ning ot the sixteenth Other refugee It Is expected will, be found In other directions, but the. toss of life. evidently was extreme Measures for the relief of the sufferer from famine In the north and eruptions In the south are rapidly assuming shape bow, that the extent of the disaster is more definitely known. .' c s -- APPEALAFOR - HELP""A relief association, national in has "been organised here and has scope, the following appes for help- - issued Heaven has brought us disasters one after another,. While the suffering from famine in the northeast has jit yet notable- to "the national capitals beavettfuL ."nmrbto.,.ro.w street and almost within a stones throw of the White House will be the magnificent Red Cross memorial to the women of the Civil war, the site for whlchl was announced today by Secy. Garrison, of the war department, chairman of the commission to select the location for the memorial.! The new building will take In an entire square between Seventeenth .and Eighteenth and D and j B street flanked on the northwest. Tt will the"gtate.''' "" -addition . : north by the Corcoran art gallery and on the south by lbs beautiful home of the Daughters of the American- Revo-lutlo- n and the building. AU' are built of marble and with the completion of the Red Cross buildings--which, like the other structures, will face the beautiful eltpse directly of south the Whlte House. Seventeenth street will form a row of buildings with which no other thoroughfare Washington.. con . boast. Of - the 8700,000 already pledged toward the - Fan-Americ- an $300,-00- The remalnder was given by vate subscription. .... his face Jlrawn and tlvld, and expre WOMAN GRAND JURY CRITICIZED BY JUDGE City, Cal.. Jan. 17.The grand jury" In California, was not a great success. In tbe opinion of Judge : George of the superior court, who discharged ths Jury here yesterday after he received Its report, and saying whathe-theugabout It, : Eleven members of the bodywer women. The court criticized the jury for Its unfavorable reports on county ofiloesr-whlehbe told the jurors. waa based on Inadequate knowledge, and concerned matters essentially trivial. The county officials - mentioned in the report, were the auditor, whose system of, transferring accounts was censured, and - the county recorder, found by the grand jury to have withheld fees, duethg. county- -. longer than Is permitted by the statutes. , Redwood first-wome- ns k -- ht .- 0, pri- AMERICANTRADE -! AUDUBON SOCIETIES GIVE DUTCHER MEDAL Plainfield, N. J., Jan, IT. Per- his services as president of the. National Association of Audubon societies, William Dutcher of this city, known as movethe father of ment, has received from the Campfire club of America the award of a gold medal and on. January 21 will present it to him. It la Intended as ,a. recognition of special work for game or forest protection.: Only, five! other men hsve- been so honored by tjie Campfire club. Dr. William T. Hornaday, In 1908, Gifford Pint,"hot In 1909, Theodore Roosevelt In I HO. Ernest Thompson-Be- t on in 1911, and Daniel U. Beard In 1912. ' thei-Audub- -- shouted Mr. Moyle, one would that he was attending a conven-- : tlon of the Republican party, instead of of a deliberative body ' of woolgrowers, - Mr, Moyles-addres- s tTert6da sfnsaL tion. After he had talked a few min-- : conclude Arthur, a delegate; dethat -- the chairman call Mr. utewEdward-J- manded r not "Com Moyle4o orderT here to listen to a poetical addreea, said Mr, Arthur. M, I. Powers, vice president, of. the aaaoclaikm. 'was in the chair.-- Ha ruled the motion of Mr. Arthur out of order. Mr. "Moyle was permitted to. proceed -- We-have .. J ' with his address. 1 have refrained heretofore from entering into thls dlscusston,"": said Mr. Moyle-U-aoeheoid not have done so now, except that I think the resolution too I have been proposed sweeping. charged with, entertaining a discordant d on the matter of the tariff. It waa so when I went down to. Washington to try to get wool recognized- In the ached ule. I say t hese charger awru n founded. I am neither a free trader nor a protectionist. I afti not proud of the reactionary Ism of the state, fori believe that the principles represented by the administration elected last fall will be perpetuated and that President Wilson la one of the greatest men who has ever been chosen president. I want to place myself right before the members of this convention.' I do not thst the government should enrich itself by taxing ny of its mam-her- e. I; bellcva. In the tariff tax. but 1 1 believe it should, be equably distributed, that the burden ahould be borne by all ahd not by a few. ' " CALLS IT LNJL8T Your tariff. resolution la too sweeping. It denounces the entire law. This Is unjust and uncalled for.- - Some of the princjp.tea.cnacted .In that law are for the pro&fces of the country; I believe the wool induetry. has been discriminated against.-- and to tharr: extent It is not a Dernoeratic measure. During Mr. Moylnw talk the limit expired several tlnaea. . Ha gen- Fra n kR. Good Ing a nd barlh yielded theif tlqie ta him,-ancontinued Mr. Moyle at son). length. Tho dlaeiisslon was taken up and Anally f resulted In the adoption-oan amendment by W. D.- - Candland. .embodying the lda set forth by Mr. Moyle,' in confining the criticism f the tariff law relating to the wool ln , .' duatry. The jvinuttonr a amended, reads as follows; Whereas; the tariff board did make -- - -- - tag'mffl&5ir"withYu "emphaslg that there could be no doubt of hla strong feeling In. the matter, Mr. Moyle denounced, the attitude of the woolgrow-er- s convention on this subject. . . After listening to the speeches and remarks on the subject of the tariff, view from my DEVELOPMENT OF Washington, Janrl7. Further- prointo effect gress towards carrying plans for the development 'of American trade with foreign countries through a reorganization of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, as outlined to Congress by bocy. Redfield of the department of commerce, cannot be made until the money-- Is forthcoming, Jhe secretary made this plain ' today. He declared that no attempt would be made to the bureau Until nets favorably upon his recentCongress recommendation, The. secretary; however, hcs. carefully worked out the details of h;p plans and Is ready to put them into execution the moment the necessary jnpney Is in plghL-...- " with terrible 'earnestness sideration.-- MJyfLOIl OF-THE New York, Jan, 17. Additional a imless accounts of the rescue 200 miles east of Cape Race early yesterday by the crew of the steamship, Xaisltanla of Cipt. "Halfyard and seven men of the Newfoundland brigantine Mayflower: were received here today. The rescue was effected, according to the sine sages, af.tcj,a three hours' light by a lifeboats crew In very high seas and In the face of a northeasterly gafe. apt. Dow of the Lusitania saw the schooners danger - - signal a - flaring torch and the sudden stopping of the engines which , changed the ship's course brought almost every passenger on deck.' Every able seaman and many stewards and firemen off watch wanted te man the boat.r It finally got toff with First Officer Alexander at the tiller.' For more than two hours the boat's crew struggled to reach the schooner. The men who had beam, clinging to the rigging Jumped overboard one by one:; They were hauled Into the boat. Capt. Halfyard waa the last to quit his --- -- vessel.' Capt. Halfyard, said he sailed In the Mayflower from St. Johns on Kept. 17 for Bahla,-Braxl- l, and arrived Nov.' 15. The trip back bad been one tong strug' gle wltly gales and head seas. Three days before the rescue he had tost bis rudder, his sails had been carried away ami the Mayflower sprang a leak.: . T- be-lle- X , te - (jContlnued on page two.)' :a : ; ; . . -- . : ctassei throughout the country for a two daya for womens For the most part, tha rumors ,hava government measure ' Tr It latlvaught not panned out,"-anthat - ApplequUt,l4f caught,- will - be "REVIEW OF WORK. In review-o- f the work of the peat apprehended by the police of acme- ot year It Is pointed out that increeaed tha larger cities, probably on the papressure haa been directed upon the cific coast government mconsUtuencleaePreseot:!Tirhen-- 7r ed by minister, afld upon atrengthening the position ot tht, Ogden laat night that no trace of Ap tabor party, the only party In the house iequlst had been found in that city, to of commons which has mads the wom- interest In' th pursuit shifted In en's cause an Integral part of tta policy. points along the Balt Lake Route was man The whole work has been concentrated the desert rg!on,.wher th board on the demand for a government meas- variously reported as trying to ThursIn Garfield ure, attempte during the year previ- a fast freight train ous for a blU Introduced by - private day, morning: aa eating a large and Tooele boarding members or an amendment to tbe gov- late supper 4ln Thursday night and later leavernment franchise bill having both houses ing ahd counting the ties on the failed, . : Fait Lake Bqit in tha direction of In South Lanark A recent Stockton.- p the f A confltoErng'' report wa to th cltdaa showing tha activity ofLlb-wto aweep away a women. :emt Wed, ',that Applequlst Libof reduction the majority lit- Eureka, -- where he- - epphed era? "strehgTirjis eTbd reported In many nesday for work at a mine. The job waa not important conatituenciea forthcoming,' according to th report, .The review continues and Applequlst took hi departure. "Not tong ago Sir Edward Grey ad- - Tr,e original ot many of the report mltted that the record of the houM of do not prove aattefftcNMy'aa a source oommona on the women' suffrage ques- of Information to the police, who extion bad not been good, and if to suf- press some wonderment that the man been fragists it haa been profoundly unsatis- resembling Applequlst haa knot hi supfactory, the success of the advance In detained, since the new the-of- Morrison th country ly only the more ilfirUflcMt posed connection with The pilgrimage in July from Edinburgh murder has been scattered broadcast. to London was the greatest demonstraposses on tion which the National union, or in However, Acting Bherlft Ath Wll deed any suffrage society ever proltam took the precaution Tast night i . duced. with to communlcateVy telephone SOME HOOLIGANISM Sheriff Philip . Aijeta of Tooele, with -- ..uAtAtiraewkenrosorKment-wgatnst tftat jiowes were ant tm militant jnetboda waa at Its height, the mediately from Tooele to point along country villages ahd the great towns the Balt Lake Route, It 1 the. belief of the officer that APP'qul,t, providshowed their appreciation of he haa faded from the jurisdiction propaganda, by hundreds of crowd-e- ing for meetings. Isolated acts of hooli of th Balt Lake police, has struck southern along tha southganlsm there krere,. but they gave way ern route California and probably la headed for rapidly before tbe general good-wt- ll which haa above all demonstrated In Los Angeles or San Pedro, where h haa friends. The Los Angeles police the great final mass meeting In Hyde have bean given detailed doaacrlptiona Park on July 28. Of him.' - The support tot womehs suffrage .. .Thera seems no Jongar- - to- - h adobt citizens iw re presented of th ultimata recovery of Joe by. favorable resolutions frorq nearly In th wounded 200 countyr town - and rural district the eeunty jail ae-w suspect'- -: In the council," and front the branches of double murder of the Morrisons. Yestn'the terday afternoon, Hillstrom seemed to country. be in better spirits and to have rePractically ail the greater women's covered to Mnn extent from th first organizations support womens suffrage. shock of the wound and th effects of Including the National Union of Women the drug administered to' relieve his Workers,- which has once - more dlf suffering. The healing process of the is cussed the question this year, and of wounds In the chest and - hand the 80 suffrage societies existing, the satisfactory, acordlng to physicians, Seemed Thememberunion" National alone has a prisoner ship of neartyW, 000. while between 28,; tak notice::: battac - yesterday- - after000 and 20,000 Friends of Womens Suf- noon than at any tlma since hla arrest, refused to comment furthfrage have been enrolled up to. data, though 7, About $100,000 baa been administered er on bis from headquarters during the year and tbe total number of meetlnga held la states and other legislature. In ths considerably over 2,700, . far oatt China Was about to be ad' mitted to the Interaatlonal alliance and " A DANGER AVERTED. even Persia now has har progressive One. dangsr during " the "year has movement. Of the enfranchised counbeen averted. The passage of the tries, . Australia, California,.. Norway, manhood suffrage bill waa rendered sent official ln the face of unredeemed government representatives to the conpledges. After the speakers ruling gress and - during . th .: session, news and? the postponement of the bill till was received that Norway's had obthe end of the session was decided tained her full equal suffrage rights. upon,- - the annual conference ef the The territory of Alaska must also now n be added to the list, and in June IlliLabor party by 2 to 1 passed a opposing any further extenaton nois obtained enfranchisement oh, th inof the franchise to men without the -. asme terma a man, involving the en--women. eltwtwt-o- f Tn the 'following franchisement- of her million women In September the trade union congress Chlcagor .ja: adopted a resolution o censuring the redeem' ns ICELAND GRANTS FRANCHISE.; government for falling-tpromise about women's suffrage and Since the International congress th demanding a government ' reform bill, parliament In Iceland has again passed which would Include women, v Finally the amendment to the constitution the yegr has marked the growing granting the vote to women on the strength of the movement-- ln the tame terms as men, and the bill now church icohgress at Southampton and awaits tbe sanction of the king of the tetter of the bishop of Winchester Denmark. This will be granted. If the Int- bin Is confirmed by th d urging the definite prospect of thefirst-claroduction of a suffrage MU next AprIL On Oct. 7 and parliament measure. ' 8, the reform bill In Denmark, includThe strength of feeling a mongatJ-heing tha anf ranch lacroent of women,: more- progressiva "Liberal women and having passed Mb third reading In the their determination to stand for suf- lower hou set waa heard for the first frage principles or for what they re-- , time In tha upper chamber. When gard a an essential part of 'Liberal parliament opened in Holland, th rather seen in the "recent for- queen In her speech gave a promise of policy. Is mation I of the Liberal Womens Suf- a bill for amending the: constitution Union. .Amongst men it haa Us and granting equal suffrage rights to frage counterpart in the Liberal Men's Arso-- , women and hr Poland the president Of. elation for Womens Suffrage. tha diet when replying to a recetvt deputation, stated that. hla new SUFFRAGE GROWING. for reform. ..'would Include proposal A review of the suffrage during the woman suffrage, though not eligibilcarried us far beyond the ity. The situation In Sweden la very past, year limits of our own country. When ad- encouraging and there is reason to supdressing the international congress last pose she will obtain her enfranchiseJune, Mre. Chapman Oatt, the presi- ment during 1914, while in Finland th dent,: reminded her audience that the parliament elections tast August requestion of woman suffrage had been sulted In an increase In the number considered In 17 national parliaments of women members of parliament; of during the, past winter,1 and In il whom thefe are now 2L . antl-auffrag- lst A ; the trail,' -- me-nrewu- law-abidi- ,1 e Hill-stro- .man--confine- ,. - d - h'ca. n ; resi-lutlo- t - newly-electe- Wood and a friend, Edward Roberts, Tennessee, -- - ,, been to a p!ctureaho w. II with Edward- - Roberta Ilobarts left "" hln;,at Wood' hots! and went to hi X owiThome. where h found Miss Wood In a state of hysteria. She had found the note from her uncle saying that be had decided to- - kill himself, as he ; had lost hs money and hts friends had " " deserted nlm. - ' ' ' THE TRAGEDY- - i Wrood-had , ; X .Wood haatened ,to . the haul and buret in on Wood. Roberts and Miss Wood 'tl5traldeJ-iitrfor what tne woman termed a ghasuy Suddenly ane took a?voivvr juke. from a bureau drawer and snot her- self lihrouglr tue heart. Wood leaped aeroea ht body - snatched the Weapon and shot him- f through ths heart. Both ! died .wi'.r m a few minutes. Roberta and Mi ncaa Roberta said that Wood.- -- - unlit two - u- - - ' year ago, was on the Teaneaae to, f3on preme court bench.' rear ago.. Francisco about According to Roberta, Wood had be- -, come Involved pelltlcat matter that caused him to leave Tennessee, He said he did not know hla friends real name and Msu.m.ed thatjia.nad.,;,: adopted th name Wood1 after coming to California,- - He said Wood hail a aon living In Memphis and a daugh84 ter lit Dexter,: Mo., .Wood wa . years old. In Baa Francisco Wood engaged in th ' restaurant- - business, ' but six month ago he sold his business Ml ; ald. had literary as- niece, Robert ptratlon and wrote short stories and motion picture scenario. He-cam- :: li t ' - ; . UNUSUALLY HIGH PRICES FOR POTATOES i; Washington, Jsn. 17. Unueually high prices prevail in the potato mar-kst- . wause the farmere this year are holding a larger proportion of tht vegetable than was held In the lsst- four years In the belief that thsy wltl profit by a future rise In prices, to statement today by department of agriculture, lb Supply, however, la said to be normal and the condition do not forecast any ma ' tarlal advance In consequence of the firm holding ' of tha potato by producer of Main, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota important 1producing states th prlc was about 17 H cent a on Dec. bushel higher than a Year ago, and- ' year 18H cenU higher than three ago. Th department estimates that about 42.1 "per entef ,th marketable sup- - : ply of potatoes of the 1918 crop in the henda of farmers and ' 9 8 per cent In tha hands of dealers on Jan. 1, In the Important potato growing states. , - -- aJ th" ed Died at 110. Totdam, ., Jan. 1 7. Mrs. Nora SUllIvan died her yesterday, aged 119, She wa burn. In Kerry county, the IreiSqd, and was employed in hpustuild of Daniel . OConnell, the N-T- Irish barrister, before coming to erica 76 Veers ago. She had used tobacco for the . , 8o yeara U Am- r-tUlU- S San Franclaco, Jan. If, Capt sen and the 11 men In Ms ci ashore at tow tide today schooner Polaris which went laat night under the bluff, linaa, north of the Gotden of th crew wa injured, will be a tots), loss. ... , . f last1 OF THE POLARIS . X -- ' truf-fra- ge r ' Earlier In the evening Wood, who had made several suicidal threat had left a note to hla niece In which h aid he would take hla Ufa. Wood 1 . s&Ll .io have been for-- -' merly a. supreme court juatlca of ; V J him-tei- f. ss . , : -- A X woman then took'tha weapon and killed auf-frag- e. the-stat- 17c--A a Roberta was attempting to disauad Wood from eommittinj suicide. Wood : - Jan. ierj in the presence f her uncle, A. B. Je prlaes-wntob- fora-decrea- .The San Francisco; known a Blanch Wood, 24 years Id, icized a revolver and ahot V herself dead early this .raorninjr at. a itotel ; : - |