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Show L- - THE WEEKLY REFLEX PRESIDENT MOYES-PU- FOR MERGER DISSOLUTION W. P. Epperson' A Eon, Leases I . UTAH XAYS TILLS . THE UTAH BUDGET -- ' marriage licenses were Issued by the county clerk at Ogden during the month of June. The state board of equalization has announced its assessment for Utah county at more than $4,000,000, . Jleher Allen aged 21V of Huntsville, fell from a horse aht sustained frac- ture's of the ankle and of a bone in his foot. -- It Is reported that the sugar beet crop oMJ tah county will not be more f as large as it was last than year. One hundred thousand dollars Is the estimated damage from flood waters that swept down the valley of the Ashley river in Uintah county. The womens clubs of Ogden have asked the city commission to appoint a woman probation officer to Sixty-tou- r CRUMPLED CORPSE OF MURDERED CHILD FOUND IN TRUNK " ! i . one-hal- .. BY BAGGAGEMAN. ( diSsolu-tionnHthplTnl- Woman Admits That She Placed Pidy of Little Girl irT Tr1jnl7 But TeTii" Conflicting Stories Regarding Death of Child. st Ogden, Utah A,. revolting murder was brought to light here Saturday afternoon when the body of Frantes Ekman, aged lv, was found in a trunk in the baggage' room at the un'ou depot. Mrs. Minnie Ekman of Salt Lake City, mother of the murdered child, was arrested a few hours later, and baaadmUtfid-killingU- .chlldfind he in-t- the iwllcJdepartmentr placing the body in the trunk which tCopjrrlKht.1 In 1911-1the number of children of she shipped to Ogden. i hool erLrAMersoir'wlKrlirsittrt tiVtiavn whom 92,129 were enrolled In the pub- been Mrs, Ekniana husband before SENATOR ASKS CHANGE IN 2 - - -- representing 100,000 bearing tree. ! Alfred Swlnyard, aged 80, of Logan, died at Ogden while on his way to attend the old folks celebration. Mr. Swinyard located in Logan in 1885, where he conducted a blacksmith and , carriage building shop. Frank Knox, president of the National Bank of the Republic of Salt Lake, was chosen president of the Utah State Bankers association at the concluding session of the fifth annual convention held at lleber City. . With a school population of morl than 23,000 and an average dally attendance of about 18,500, only 198 cases of truencywere discovered in the entire school system of Salt Lake during the school year of 1912-1As a result of a play" duel with - wooden ewordp with one of his playmates, Leo Rulon Jensen, 8 years old, of Salt Lake, received injuries to his right eye which it 13 believed will cause the boy to lose sight of the eye. Clarence Nixon, aged 14, of Price, was badly burned about the leg by a gasoline fire, lie was taking gasoline from a tank when some of it spilled onto a lanterp near by and caught fire Instantly." While painfully burned ,th lad will recover. Leo Gardner of Salem, who was seriously Injured at Spanish Fork when a haypoie struck him on the' head, fracturing the skull and causing concussion of the brain, is now so much Improved Jhat he has been taken to his home at Salem. Only .fourteen states have.a higher ' rate of school attendance According to school population than Utah; There is a compulsory education law which holds parents responsible for the proper educational opportunities that should be afforded to children. Reports from all parts of .Davis county indicate that the rains that fell almost continuously during tour days last week have done Incalculable good l kinds of crops, and farmeds generally are now expecting to harvest ncreased yields of grain and hay. Discussion of plans for a state-widcampaign to arouse more Interest In Com- development work through-th- e merrial clubs of . the . state w as . the principal business at a meeting of the board of governors oPthe Utah" Do-- ' velopmenr league held at SalrLaka last week. Lou I). Sweet of Denver and Colo, will give an extra ; ; !' ! n t iit' 1 M 3. - I ; . i A f t a ! f. . A J to-ar- 5 ill it t ! e : if - 4K t I : r,- - ( ; . 'l"' r Car-bondal- j '"Fii?e"fn'ttre"tate-potato- i .. "I f J 4 i 1 I r uV a i e i y n iy,:-- - I . r t r Y - growingooiv test conducted by Prof. J. C. .llogen-soofthe extension division of the Utah - Agricultural, college to --the boy who succeeds in getting first prize at the coming state fair. Caught by the descending weight of the elevator' at the Moxum hotel at Salt Lake while he was in the shaft tightening cable bolts, Joseph Patrick Gavin, 17 years of age,' son of Thomas Gavin, proprietor of the hotel, suffered a fracture at the base of the skull, . which . may prove fatal. Utah paid $24.11 per- - capita of the school population iiT'the school year 1911-1making the total expenditure for elementary and, secondary education $3,702,363.63. In 1912 the per capita cost for teaching the young Idea bow to shoot had risen to $35.88. F. W Bruner,' a brakeman - ployed on the Denver ft Rio Grande, - was Instantly Allied., at the Lehl sugar works, when be was struck by passenger train, running at about forty miles an hour.' Bruner had stepped upon the main track and did not see the approaching train. n -- Receivership for Union Pacific Avoid-e- d by Agreement to Dispose of ' Southern Pacific Stock. BULGARIANS ATTACK SERVIANS ,AND GREEKS WITHQUT GIVING THEM ANY WARNING. Washington. President Wilson on Saturday approved-thplan formed General by Attorney .McReynolds and. the railroad attorney tor the Prolonged Effort of Powers to Prevent Pacific merger untie Outbreak pf FratrictdalvWar der the Sherman anti-trulaw; as ditween Allies Comes to Naught, rected by the supreme court of tbe Each Army Blaming the Other. Unitea States, so as tp avoifi a , receivership for the great combination. This latest attempt of the many London. The prolonged efforts of made to dibmember the combination he powers to prevent the outbreak, provides for the disposition of the bn of a fratricidal war between the Bal tire $126,650,000' of Southern Pacific Ran allies seems to have failed just at stock held by the Uaion Pacific. the moment when It possible appeared While no official announcement has for the four premiers to meet at fit. been made, it Is understood the plan, Petersburg "and submit their differ as one. s,tep, provides for the exchange ences for Russian arbitration. of $38,292,4Q0 of Southern Pacific Fighting began Monday morning all stock for the Pennsylvanias holdings along the lines where the Bulganan Baltimore ae In glh r v i an s "a h d ' fore es ar approximately of the same value. The Greeks. - Jheso probably were only' remaining- - $8857,600 - oLiSouthernPa-cificTwil- l jiitpcaf'attaekg, but accord ng to beUIsrfanchiBe3''aBa TUtced official account the Bulgarian in the hands of a trust company as attack extended over' the Greek and trustee, and against this stock will Servian front of 140 miles. fce Issued .certificates, with no voting This la manifestly war without a power, to shareholders of the Union previous declaration of hostilities, and Pacific, we accordingly are forced to order oui to advance, says the official divisions SENSATION IN LOBBY INQUIRY. statement. , ' Blackmail Th opposing armies accuse eact Plot Lovett' other of initiating the offensive. TLc Against Union Pacific. Bulgarian representatives at Athens-an- d Disclosures growing Washington. have preBelgrade, ouL of the sensational charges of sented notes respectively, against Greek' Judge Robert S. Lovett of a blackmail and Servian protesting attacks. The Servian plot against the Union Pacific, details that government by replied charging of which were first published several the are attacks and Bulgarians making days ago, took a most independent all responsibility. repudiating of a a In statement turn Sunday lobby Bcheme sworn to by ELEVEN BOYS DRQWNED. Colonel Martin M. Mulhall, formerly general field lobbyist for the National Afooden Walk Leading to Municipal Association of Manufacturers. Bath Houae Gives Way. , ' This latest exposure, which the sen' Mass. A narrow wooden Lawrence, ate lobby committee proposes at once to investigate' thoroughly, ls but a walk leading over fifteen feet of water ramification of a scheme to offset the t6the munlciparbath"bbu8enih Merrimac river on Monday gave wa effects of legislation against cert4! under the, stamping feet of a crowd trusts. ' of impatient boys and eleven of the committee Members of the lobby announced they would lose no time In- little fellows were drowned. The boys, bringing to light every particle of evi ranging in ago from 9 to 15 years, dence' possible to substantiate or re- were waitng for William B. Blythe, the bath house keeper, to open the door. fute! tbe Mulhall charges. No one knew how many were lq the STEAMER RUNS AGROUND. party, hut It 1 thought that forty is a conservative estimate. The boys were7 Eastern Tourists' Have Scare, But Jumping qp and down as they shouted All Are Rescued. to Blythe to open .up, when the sup ' ' , '. Seattle, Wash. The steel steam- ports sank and the walk . extensioc ship Dolphin, of the' Alaska Steam dropped like a trap door, rolling th . which left here Friday lads Into the river. night, went ashore early Stinday near TWO MEN ELECTROCUTED. Alert Bay, B, C., on her first trip for this season to southeastern Alaska. A wireless message to the company Workmen Meet Death When Wl w said all passengers, many of Comes in Contact With Live Wiri. whom were eastern tourists, were Twin Falls, Idaho Two men taken .off by the Canadian Pacific were instantly killed and one mas steamship Princess May. Officers-owas severely nea. the company said the Princess May Acequia while injured Monday wires for the stringing had landed the Dolphins passengers Mountain States Telephone & Teleat Alert Bay as It was believed the graph company. The dead are P. L. Dolphin could be floated undamaged Bryan and W. E. Chitty. The injured and they would continue their- - jouv man Is Edward Berry, who may die. ney northward. Bryan' was a resident of Greelej, Colo., where he had a wife, and two Queen Puts Ban on Gambling. children. Chitty waa a- - resident of London. Queen Mary of' England, Boise, and a widow survives him. ' Incensed at a game of baccarat that The accidents-- were caused by the was carried on In secret In Buckingtelephone wire breaking and coming ham palace In defiance of her request into contact elecwith a that all forms' of gambling be dropped, tric power wire. T has enlisted the aid of Marchioness of Crewe in a crusade to banish gamPUMPMAN .SHOOTS THREE. ing from all houses visited by royalty. Any houses, where, hostesses continue .Kills One Man and Wounda Two' Oth,' to approve of gaming at their func. trt as Result of Quarrel., , tions will be placed on a blacklist by Caliente, Nevada. Wjlliam Robin-Queen Mary; son was Instantly killed' and ' Phillip r v e Dubois and Joseph Meyers were fatal; Nicaraguan Uprising Suppressed. ly Injured lira row which occurred Ip Governor the Elks saloon Managua, Nicaragua. here at 2 o'clock Vargas of the department of Estlll. The three men arp said morning. In tho north of Nicaragua, rebelled to hfye been' shdt by George Harper, against the government Saturday af- aged' f!0, who Is apumpman, Dubois ter being relieved of his post. The is 38! 30 ana of years age, uprising was Immediately suppressed, Robinson Va3 28. Meyers is has made Harper but Vargas succeeded in escaping his escape. and is now a fugitive. r Murderess May bejntone,. .l, Wilsons at Summer Home. .Sait Lake CLtyThe ; pk'niaR mur .WilCprulsh, k, ll son find Miss Eleanor Wilson arrived der case has begun to turn upon an here Saturday and took possession of investigation of the sanity of Mrs. liarlakenden.! house, pKtneip' sqtAmer Minnie Ekman, who, after her arrest home.-- They are "hopeful that 1 the Saturday, confessed to murdering hei daughter Frances and placing tbe president will be able to jola them body in a trunk, which was shipped, ' soon. to Ygden.' The police department has 1 1 Norway 'Will Establish 'Wireless! started a series of inquiries among Christiania. The storlhlng, by a tha neighbors of. the family and will from vote of 99 .to 16, on Saturday," sanc- endeavor t- - securo'-opiaiotioned the S tpntf act arranged be! other citiegMn which the,wohaan has tween the Maigonl company and Lhe lived. late Norwegian govern tnnt, provid! Editor Now a Warden. f ing for a wireless service between Kans Thomas Leavenworth, United States.' Norway and j Morgan, a newspaper editor of Minister Sateflflbe Llfe4 n Vain.. tawa, Kan., on Monday took the oath Lodi, Cal. Rev. yr. A. McKune, a of office as warden of the federal peniBaptist clergyman of Utica. N. Y tentiary here, succeeding jfaj. Robert W. McClaugkry, who visiting here, lost bis life in the resigned 'after! river jsjturdaj? In a futile at- fourteen years as heat of tempt fescue a dnoanmgjCiM. ' tution. e with lic schools, and 3,217 were attending private schools, The stork -- was busy In Salt Lake last week, according to the report of the board of health, and 59 births were rworded. Of these 33 were males and 26 females. Five lads were seriously hurt at Park City, two so badly that death may result, as the result of an escapade with a box of dynamite caps which they claim they- found. Frank H. Rowland, 55 years of age, who fell from the roof of bis house in Bait Lake while attempting to saw of! the limb of a tree, died at the county hospital from his injuries. The Utah Fruitgrowers association, which was recently "organized, reports that more than 200 contracts have already been signed by fruitgrowers, N her second marriage, is also tinder arrest, having been taken Into custody when he called at the baggage room In Ogden tor the puriiose of the trunk. Mtb. Ekman, who had recently been separated from her second husband, hag admitted the killing of the child, and the placing ,of the body In . the trunk. Shefer lares that .she. chlorcn formed the child. The woman has told conflicting stories of the crime, one being that she killed the child by giving 'her sleeping powders and afterwards spreading a handkerchief saturated with chloroform over her face, because she feared the child would never recover her health and for the further reason that she did not care to see the child starve and that she was unable to provide for the little one. She has told another story In which she declares that the child was assaulted by a Greek while the mother was away from the home for a few moments; On her return Bbe found the child In a dying condition. That she placed thebody in the trunk and attempted fo get rid of It because she feared no one would believe her story. The girl had been dead four days when the body was found In. Ogden, Jhe discovery being made because ot the terrible stench that came from the trunk while a wisp of hair that appeared from a crack In the trunk caused the baggage men to begin an investigation. The woman Insists that Anderson knew of the death of tbe girl, but had no part la the crimp, except to attempt to aid her In Its .disposal. August, Ekman husband of the murderess, who Is working at Kemmerer, Wyoming, declares that he believes the woman to be Insane. It is thought that Anderson and Mrs. Ekmap had decided to forget their former differences and again live together but that, the child was in their way, and this fact Bealed her d doom. 8UGAR TARIFF CHANGE DELAYED Postpone Date on Which New Schedule Shall Go Into Effect Until March 1, 1914. . Former Brazilian President Dead. .Sao Taulo Brazil. Dr. Manuel de Campos-Salles- , president ot Brazil from 1898 to 1902, died here Saturday,' aged 73. During his term of office a? president he was responsible tor much of the work of reconstruction of the republic, which had just emerged from a long period of Fer-raz- e unrest In New Mexico. Albuquerque, N. M. As the result of a c loud bhrst El ota.-M., th rty miles north of here, part of a trestle spanning an arroyo and a considerable stretch of track on the Santa Fe transcontinental line washed out st .Will Aid Buffalo, N. Y. 1 N. Fire Victims, j. Enough people have volunteered as donors of skin to supply 10 000 square Inches needed for grafting on the victims of the llusted elevator explosion. Seventy people have volunteered.' Panama to Let Down Bars. Colon, Panama. President Porras promised Saturday to cal! & special meeting of the assembly to obtain a modification of the more stringent provisions of. the. law. restricting' Chine 88 ltrunigrftlifm. r r . . . -- Family "Perishes in Flre. Columbia S. C. Six persons, members of one family, lost their lives In s fire a house at Lexington, S. C., Friday night The bodler were found in the ruins morning. that-destroy- ed Sat-nrds- y CURRENCY BILL TOWARD MEXICO A change in the atti'"Washington. tude of the United States toward the warring factions In Mexico was urged in the senate on Friday, with the result that the foreign relations com mittee of that body Is to take up the question Immediately. (Senator Fall of New Mexico attacked the present policy and asked for the repeal of the neutrality resolution of the' last con gress. Under this authority, he said, arras were permitted to go across the border to the Huerta-factio- n, but were prevented by the armed forces of the United States from going to the factions opposed to Huerta. Senator Fall praised tbe Wilson administration for refusing to recognize what he termed tfie "assassins of the president of Mexico as the established government In the republic; but he declared the practice .of he administration In allowing arms to go to'one faction andnot to the ether bad resulted In retaliatory steps toward American citizens that no other nation on earth would permlt- - ADMINISTRATION MEASURE PRESENTED TQ SENATE AND HOUSE BY OWEN AND GLASS., Several Changes Have Been Made In the Bill as the Result of Numerous Conferences Between PreeldenV and Party Leaders. OIL EXPLODES ON STEAMER. The administration currency bill was launched on j the' troubled consldera Washington. seas of executive tioaTbursday -- when- it - was introduced In the senate by (Senator Owen, and in the house by Representative reGlass. The house immediately ferred the measure to the banking and currency ' committee. , .J Several changes had been made In tbe bill as the result of the numerous conferences in which President Wilson, Democrats of the house and senate committees, trWsury' department officials and committees of bankers took part, following the publication of the proposed measure several days ago, but despite earnest appeals that the federal reserye, board to control the proposed new currency system be increased and that the bankers be given representation, no change .lh this provision was made. The board will consist of seven men to be appointed by the president. In the Senate, Senator Cummins contemplates an amendment which proposing would make the board . an elective body. Reinserted In the bill was the original proposition for retiring the present bank notes within twenty years and the substitution ot additional federal reserve notes for them. This eliminates the proposed limit of In reserve notes contained In the bill ub originally made public. 'In replacing the bank notes the .government 2 per cent bonds, upon ...which they are now issued, wquMx'be by 3 per cent boricls withbut the circulation 'privilege.1 , . " Five Men Killed and Six Injured as Result of Accident New York. Two hundred tons of fuel oil on board the steel tank steamer Mohawk owned by the Standard Oil company exploded Friday after noon with & terrific roar and a burst of flame while the vessel was at anchor jott Tompklnsvllle, Staten Island, fiPNew York bay. Five men were killed and six others Injured.' A dozen more are unaccounted for but are believed to have been rescued. Two bodies were seen floating in the hold whUeflre boats still were pouring water into the wrecked steamer. The other three victims were probably blowh to pieces. ' SITUATION .CRITICAL.. Rumania Threatens Invasion of If War la Declared. London.' According to a Vienna report Russia and France, with tho object of preventing war, through their ministers at Bucharest have persuaded Rumania to send a note to Bulgaria threatenlng anjnvasion of Bulgarian territory Immediately vnr Is declared between Bulgaria nd Servia. Telegrams from Bucharest confirm the report. that such- A note haa been dispatched. Thesotelegrams add that it Is clear thatCa grave situation has arisen, as the king of Rumania has suddenly postponed his departure from Bucharest. Bui-garf- a -- . ' d - eSe the-Gre- ek Attacks Policy of Permitting Shipments of Arms to Huerta Faction .and Not to His Opponents. BALKAN Washington. Postponement of the date on which the new sugar tariff shall go Into' effecturitll March" 1, 1914, and a change of date when the Income tax shall be operative from' Janaury 1, 1913, to March 1. 1913, were agreed upon by majority members of the senate finance committee Sunday. In advancing the date when the proposed rate of a cent a pound on sugar shall be applied, the committee did not. amend the schedule to affect the provision that sugar shall go on the free list May 1, 1916. Washout ATTITUDE ef he $500,-000,00- 0 Oregon Lunbr Plant Burned. Hood RlyelC Or Fire which de stroyedtne Oregon Lumber compands plant at Dee, Ore., on Satue day is estimated to have caused $500,-00loss. In addition to the ml!) buildings a million feet of lumber Tn the yards was consumed with a number of freight cars, a. railroad bridge and loading machinery. The town of Dee was saved. 0 . Duke of London. . Sutherland Dead. Cromartie Eutherland-Leveson-Gowe- r, fourth duke f Suth- erland, died Thursday night. . The Netherlands.. Cabins UJltalgn,, Puke of Sutherland, .whoivas horn 20, 1851, was, with the exception July The Hague, Netherlands. The cabinet under the .premiership of - Dr. o! the emperor of Russia, the largest Theodorus Heemskerke resigned Fri- land owner In Europf. Hts Scottish : day. The recent elections to the sec- estates embraced nearly, a. million I. ond chamber of tbe states general and a half acres. places the coalition supporting the Family Drowned. ministry In a minority. Beatrice, Neb. Alfred Jones aged Heat Causes Wreck. 65, and his sod were in Blue the river drowned Ind. Intense Thursday heat, causing Peru, the tails to spread, is given as tbe night by the capeizhig of a row boat cause of the a reck of the passenger Miss Jones, has disappeared, and Is belnan attempttrain known as the Fast Flying Vir- lieved to ed rescue. ginian,' Saturday, when twenty-fivpersons were Injured. Gettysburg Veteran, Dies; Attorney Asked to Resign. - Lincoln, 111 -- Dr. C. C, Sater of AtWashington. When asked about lanta. III., a Gettysburg nnion vetpersistent reports that United "States eran, died here Saturday, asa result Attorney W. H. Atwell of Dallas, of chronic illness from wounds' reTex., had been asked to resign. Attor- ceived In the battle. Dr. SaUr was ney General McReynolds declined to preparing to join his .comrades at t discuss the question. Gettysburg. Mann Attacks McReynolds. Tango Dancing Fatal. Chicago. Charles Werner, 40, fell Washington. In a vigorous speech to the Hoof unconscious while dancing in the house Thursday, Representathe tango at a north side dancing tive vMabn of Illinois; he Republican academy early Friday morningHe leader, Attacked Attorney General bein a police ambulance-whil- e for -- postponing- the white .. a to removed cases slave In San Feaneisea, hospital. ing Hayden Succeeds McNabF Makes Second Failure.- - - .r"j Thomas E. Hayden Washington. Washington. A second unsuccessand Judge M. T.xDooling hav vieen ful attempt 'was made on Bf selected by President Wllsoa for Unit- Senator Chamberlain to Thursday ac--' get early ed States district attorney and United tlon on his bill authorizing the presiStates circuit judge, respectively, for dent to construct a government railthe northern district of California. road in Alaska, have-drowne- e dl -- . ship-compan- the-15- f . . high-tensio- " n , Lop-da- y -- r i . . . -- I 1 ns , th' t 1 ie the'-insti-- Paris Chaiffiura WinStnkV' . ?Heat Kills Thirteen. ' Milwaukee Wis. Thirteen jiersonc Paris. A strike of 11,850 taxicab chauffeurs out of the 12,000 In Paris In Wisconsin were reported as dead because of their objection to police Monday, from the etrenje heat, .while traffic regulationfwias brought to an the prostrations wilt ' reach ; several, end in a few hours Saturday by scores." In Milwaukee three persons died. whiia.lhirty-twc- t wutei hvercbiB'e' jr jT i Lexington, Ky. Tattersalls horse market; one of thS lirgestHfi the fcobV fry,' was destroyed by fire Sunday aft- ernoon. Fifty fine saddle and, harness horses' were killed, the loss being half a million.- - i - oer-tiu-ep- h ihoi-aelMark- A t .t i I. forty-si- x Dead at Chicago. 'Forty-siChicago. persona are, . knoWn to hive died 'here Monday Wa ' result of the Intense heat.' This sum , her includes only the bases reported by the coroner arfiT'the police, and lx is expected will be increased. x -- v |