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Show ERGATIS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY P. SIORIS, UTAI . SALT LAKE CITY...... “FIGHTING BOB” EVANS UTAH STATE NEWS Nathan Reynolds has been appoint ed p «tmaster at Cisco, Grand county ΝΆ \ Salt Lake county spent $22,860 in assisting the poor during the year i Rebley Dunglison Evans, better neσ boo i Η will probably be known } to hi story as the man who went to the Pacific || ocean in command of the most powerful fleet that | ever entered these waters, a feet powerful enough to have made 1907. no one who knows The grand jury called to investigate the service for the north. One of his legs was riddled the West The total value of the manufactured articles in the state, including smelting, will exceed $70,006,000 for the year All the business houses of Park City have reduced their forces considerably as a result of the mines closing down. Railroud construction in Utah during the year 1907 dropped off to one fifth of the number of miles of road built in 1906 The value of the sheep, cattle, horses and hogs in the state of Utah ss conservatively 000, estimated at $25, 0 for 1907. Pi.eumonia seems to be running riot with shot, and the surgeons were going to ampu tate it, in spite of his protests, when he pulled a six-shooter from under his pillow and threatened to kill any surgeon who approached him. He finally recovered, but still.walks with a linup Although all his life he had shown himself the very embodiment of a fighting bull terrier, he got this nickname in an expedition in which not a drop of blood was shed. He was sent to Chili to enforce reparation for an attack on American sailors, and he bluffed the Chilians into good behavior without firing a gun, Then he became “Fighting Bob.” ‘All the fighting he had done in that affair was with his jaw tackle, no contemptible weapon, considering his flow of quaint and original profanity This faculty of using emphatic language has got him into trouble at times, notably at the battle of Santiago, when he remarked to those around him, “Spanish will be the fashionable language in hell to-night,” a remark which was denounced from the pulpils of the country for its lack of good feeling and good taste. Rut whenever there was any special service to be per- formed, whether it was to receive a British or a German squadron with princes on board to be put to sleepat the dinner table, or a fleet to be taken to the other end of the world, the navy department has alwaya turned to “Fighting Bob,” and he has always kept up his end of the log. in Ogden. Since November 1 fifteen deaths have occurred in that city from this dreaded malady. An effort is being made to interest the city council of Ogden in a prop osition to install a lighting system to be owned by the municipality. Thomas Vance, the Salt Lake man accused of fatally injuring his wife by beating her, has been held to the district court on a charge of murder, William Gibson of Salt Lake City, a quarryman, was killed in the United Btat ; Limestone quarry at Topliff, Rush valley, by being run over by a car. In Box Elder county, many of the cruit-growers are realizing $1,500 an acre each season from their orchards, the apples being particularly produc- tive, A two-year-old child being cared for at the Crittenden home in Ogden got hold of some strychnine pills a few days ago, and died before medical aid arrived. An indoor baseball association has deen organized in Ogden, and a schedule of thirty games have been ar- ranged between six clubs of the league. The new law, passed by the last Jegislature, forbidding the sale of cocaine, except on prescription of a reputable physician, went into effect FRIEND OF CORTELYOU Frank H. Hitehcook, first assistant postmaster general, is believed to be the man who forced the hand of President Roosevelt and caused him to issue his proclamation declining to be a candidate for a third term. This he did, according to Washington gossip, by telling southern officeholders to elect delegates pledged to Roosevelt but expected to vote for Cortelyou when the president withdrew. Mr. Hitchcock has been the friend and confidant of Secretary Cortelyou, and whenever the latter has been promoted to a new post, his first act has always been to pull Hitchcock in after him, He pulled Hitchcock into one department after another; to the national Republican committee as assistant secretary, back to the government service again,, and would have taken him cabinet, it is said. It is said too, that if Cortelyou got the presidential nomination Hitchcock would get a cabinet job. Hence, it is not a matter for surprise that Hitchcock should take a lively interest in the affairs, political and otherwise, of Secretary Cortelyou. It was his methods that some of the other presidential candidates objected to—or rather the methods attributed to him. Mr. Hitchcock is a man with the head of a business man, the acuteness of a trained lawyer, the frame of an athlete and the nose for news of a_born newspaperman, While President Kinley was being badgered to in in Cuba Mr. Hitchcock, then in the department of agriculture, brought out a report, showing how much the trade of the United States was suffering from the continuance of the Cuban insurrection. While the war was in progress he was getting out reports on the natural resources of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. And it has been so on every occasion. He has always risen to an emergency. on January 1, There are twenty-eight canning fac tories in the state, twenty-two being MEXICO’S FINANCIAL SAVIOR located in Davis, Box Elder and We ber counties, eighteen being in Weber county alone. located The largest reservoir in the state is being constructed in Millard county, ten miles south of Juab. It has a capacity of 90,000 acre feet of water This will irrigate 30,000 acres of land. Senators Smoot has announced the appointment of his son as clerk of his new committee, the senate committee on patents, at a salary of $1,800. Senator Smoot is chairman of the com mittee, For the year 1907 there were issued 629 mariage licenses in Ogden. The revenue derived from the usual fees paid by the happy males reached $1,332.50, which goes into the coffers of the county. Mrs. Minnie J. Snow, widow of the late President Lorenzo Snow, died at her home in Salt Lake City on Jannary 2. Mrs. Snow had long been a sufferer from cancer. She was born in 1854 The Utah canneries, during their run the past season, used 16,442,400 cans, or 235 carloads of cans and five ears of labels. Two hundred cars of coal, 30 cars of sugar, and 100 cars of box materials was used. Edwar! Green, junk dealer, who, with M. Globenfelt, was murderously assaulted with robbery intent by Art Bowen and Richard A. Baker, Salt Lake youths turned highwaymen, is beyond danger from his wounds. Green's skull was fractured in five places At the conclusion of the hearing of Charley Song, on the charge of mur- der, for the alleged killing of Chun Chung Bo in a quarrel over a gambling game in Salt Lake, Song was held for trial in the third distrian court, on the charge of voluntary manslaughter The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peterson of Ephraim was badly injured about the hands and face by fa'ling against the stove. The mother, who was busily engaged in her houschold duties, did not notice wha the child was doing until she heatu it scream. Androl] Kolopulos, the Greek §laborer who received three bullet wounds and a knife thrust in the body during a fight with a 19-year-old Greek lad at Bingham Junction, may die from his injuries. His assailant has escaped and the officers can se cure no trace of him. John Tubb, the aged Indian confined in the state prison, has made application for a pardon, and the citizens of Washington county are assisting him in his efforts to be returned to the simple life. Tubb was sentenced to one year last Septembe: for the Blieged theft of a horse. Scores of Other Indictments Are Pending Against Both Men, How- Jose Yves Limantour, minister of the treasury of Mexico, the man who carried Mexico through the disastrous panic of 1893 and made her rich and prosperous, has been decorated by the French government for her services to mankind, making about 50 decorations he has received from different countries, Although nothing of a politician, Mr. Limantour has been in office since 1892, when he became sub-secretary of finance under Senor Romero. The equalization of finance was a question which Romero did not understand, but his assistant made a studyof it to such purpose that he soon became a recognized authority, one of the greatest financiers in the world. When he } succeeded Romero in 1893 he found his country bankrupt, the deficit amounting to about $3,000,000 each year, The exterior debt alone amounted to $50,000,000 and paid interest at the rate of 6 per cent. The country was without credit and loans were subseribed under the most humiliating conditions. The panic arrived, and to add to his troubles there was a general failure in crops. Limantour converted the annual deficit into a surplus, with which he formed a reserve that now amounis to $100,000,000. He abolished the Al cabales, an interstate customs tax, and allowed trade to flow freely from one end of the country to the other, he increased the federal revenues by $25,000,000 a year, he furnished schools for the children, he introduced the most mod- ern sanitary arrangements into the federal district, he reduced the taxes, he recompensed the owners of estates that had been confiscated, he prohibited free coinage and made the peso redeemable in gold, and he improved the credit of the country to such an extent that Mexican bonds find ready buyers at low rates of interest. WORLD’S MASTER SCIENTIST Lord Kelvin, who died recently at his London home, has been regarded as the world’s most distinguished scientist for 40 years. Although a master in many departments of physics and chemistry, his successes in telegraphy, particularly marine or cable telegraphy, probably have brought bim the greatest renown. Lord Kelvin’s name forever will be linked with the laying of the Atlantic cables, not only the original cable, but several others which were sunk during the ten or fifteen years following the initial experiment. When the problem of ocean telegraphy was first presented te the world there were few scientists who looked upon it as solvable. Most of them, indeed, scoitfed at the idea and said it was visionary. Lord Kelvin was then a young man. He was at that time plain William Thomson. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1824, and in 1855, when the qe cussion about connecting the two continents with a metal wire was hottest, he was only 31 years of age. The dynamical theory of heat early engaged the attention of Thomson anu in the jate “40s and early ‘50s he wrote freely about it. In 1855 he published a paper on “Electro-dynamic Quaiities of Metal,” and it was while engaged in experimental work in this field that he was brought face to face with the mysteries of communication by electric wires There was no scientist capable of mastering this problem, or, at least, none had the courage to announce himself until the young Irishman, who always, by the way, has been claimed by the Scotch, modestly stepped forward and agreed to try. He invented yaricus instruments, among which wa, the mirrer galvanometer, first used in connection with the 1858 cable. In 1867 the siphon recorder was invented and patented. On the successful completion of the Atlantic cable in 1866 Thomson was knighted. Lord Kelvin was showered with honors byall nations. He was president of the international Niagara commission, and has visited America often, Horn mountains, at the head of th Big Horn river, on December 31 A train wreck at Elko, Nevada @aused by a runaway, engine, killed two tramps, injured three others, ead eleven cars were smashed to splint« rs. More than forty pens of sheep have been entered for exhibit at the Na tional Woo! Growers’ convention to be SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ever, and Alleged Grafters Must Stil! Remain in Jail. San Francisco.—A decision was handed down by the District Court of Appeals, on Thursday, reversing the judgment of the trial court in the case of former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, sentenced to five vears in San Francisco on the charge of extortion, based upon the alleged “holding up” of the French restaurants in the matter of liquor licenses and setting aside the indictment on which his conviction was had. The trial was made notable by the appearance of Abraham Ruef, who. controlled the municipal administration and practically placed Schmitz in office, as a Witness against the mayor, testifying that he had paid him his share, $2,500, of the $5,000 received by Ruef from the French restaurants, in order that Schmitz would permit the board of police commissioners to issue liquor licenses to them. Ruef had, previous to this, pleaded guilty to the same charge, at the same time making the enigmatica] statement that he was innocent. On the ground that the Indictment did not show that a public offense was committed, because it did not allege any threat to injure property, the court holding that a liquor license was not property, but mere permission; that s threat to prevent the obtaining of a liquor license by one who had no authority in the premises did not constitute a threat against property, and because of ΠῚ: merous errors in the ruling of the trial judge, the appellate court held that the indictment was invalid and the conviction null and void. In effect, the court held that Schmitz was not given a fair and impartial trial of invalidating the other four indictments, charging Schmitz, as well as Ruef, with extortion, and renders void the plea of guilty made by Ruef, as the appellate court held that no crime was committed. By this reversal it is feared that the prosecution has lost its hold upon Ruef and it is freely predicted that the former politcal” boss will now refuse all overtures for immunity? wholly or in part, to testify in the bribery-graft cases, and fight every in- dictment against him. Although the court ordered Schmitz discharged from custody on the extortion indictments, neither Schmitz nor Ruef can take advantage of the reversal for sixty days. and even then there is little likelihood that either of them will be able to get the enormous bail required for their reJease. There are still pending against Ruef 126 indictments charging briber¥, on which the total bail is $1,170.- 000, and Schmitz would have to get bonds for $450,000 on the forty indictments that remain against him Mental Healers Held Responsible for Death of Child. coroner's Kalamazoo, Mich.—The jury at Plainwell, which has been in- quiring into the death there of Walter Neeley, aged two and a half years, son of Mr, and Mrs. David N. Neeley of Sacramento, Cal., brought in a verdict Thursday afternoon finding that the child died of pleuro-pneumonia, and declaring the mother guilty of gross negligence for failing to secure a service of a vhysician or to call in medical attendance. medical attendance. The child was treated by two members of a sect of mental healers. Hughes Boom Launched. New York.—The candidacy of Chas. E. Hughes fr the Republican presidential nomination was launched at a Hughes dollar dinner given at Terry Garden Thursday night. The governor was not present, but sent a telegram in which he expressed the wish that all should contribute in making the Republican party a constantly effective instrument for the correction of abuses and for conserving the rights and opportunities of all by impartial and straightforward adminis- tration. PLANTS, SEEDS. Best on earth. Free calate. Intera’l Nurseries, lenyer, Colo. Agents Wanted. ane 3 The State Bank of Rocky Ford Colo., closed its doors on January 2 following a rut The officers of the bank hope to resume business short time The decision will have the effect to the treasury department but for the protests of the other members of the David H. Lindsay of Byren, Wryo., Was killed in a snowslide in the Big and 16. service to fight for the south with his brother. He reconsidered in time, however, and did yvaliant here have been no fatalities At the close of the year doubts that he would After the rush of the holidays Is a good time to have your reneiring done. # your watch doesn’t go or your jewelry is broken, send it in. Our repair department is the most compiete —- —‘:cientis the west. held in Helena, Mont., January 14, 15 nearly persuaded by his mother to resign from the meas! ern Pacific is completed from Salt Lake City west to Wells, Nevada Mayor of Sea Fiancisco. dearly love such a fight Evans went into the naval service when he was 16. When the civil war broke out Evans was the alleged Salt Lake food trust was discharged last week Over one hundred homes in Lehi with “Bob” Decision Handed Down Which Sets Aside Conviction of Former both of Admiral Rojest- vensky’s squadron and the Japanese fleet that sent it to the bottom with workinanlike dispateh, and divor Between fifty and sixty were granted during the year in Weber county are quarantined mince-meat COURT FAVORS SCUMITZ AND RUEF NORTHWEST NOTES in Object Lesson. a “Tf the rich of the West side think they have been hurt by the Wall East side The Nye and Ormsby County bank, street panic,” said the with branches at Goldfield, Tonopal dweller, “let them come down some Saturday morning and Reno, Nevada, which closed its cold and drizzly doors Octobe: 71, reswmed operations and look at the pusheart market in the rain. The wet fruit, the ἀτίρon January 2. In spite of the recent financial’ ving paper bags, the drenched carpet flurry, Colorado Springs has within: slippers only half protected by the dripping oil cloth, the ruined neckties, twenty cays raised a total of $137,081.75 to complete a $500,000 endow- the rustling tins, the spoiled suspenders. But more than all they should ment fund for the Colorado college. see the people who try to make their The river steamer Annie Cummings living selling these infinitesimal, someran into a ship anchored in the lower times almost worthless things, lookharbor in Portland and sank in three ing on at the ruin of their merchanminutes, The crew escaped. The dise from the shelter of doorways, of Cummings was a tow boat and carried cellar doors, of the half-protecting no passengers. roof of the elevated if they happen to After practically a year’s unremit be near one, rushing wild!y out from ting work, the newest branch of the these poor shelters at the slightest Salt Lake Route, the Caliente-Pioche show of an inclination on the part of line, was turned over to the operatthe passer to buy.”—N. Y. Press, ing department of the system at midFor the Sick Room. night Tuesday, December 31. “Nursing” is the title of a book pub Frenzied by a fire which partially consumed the second floor of the lished by G. W. Putnam’s Sons, New Western lodging house, in Seattle, Ab York, that should be a treasured posraham Neilsen and Albert Olson, Swe session of every nurse throughout the dish lodgers, jumped from the second story window and maybe fatally injured. length and breadth of the land, later lived in Missouri, coming from there to Oregon. ing.” An “English” Town. If any town deserves to have According to the Portland Oregonjan, adjutant generals of the three Pa Goldfield, Nev.—Highty miners ar- rived in Goldfield on Thursday on a special train and were unloaded at Jumbo Townand taken directly to the boarding houses ot the Consolidated company. Ofthis force, fifty will be employed in. the Mohawk mine. The men are al] Americans, and were recruited in Salt Lake City from former employes of the mines at Park City, Utah. The majority of them are said to have been Western Federation men, but all are said to have signed the pledge exacted by the Goldfield operators. Union Men Denounce Sparks. Reno. Nev.—Fully one thousand anion men attended a mass meeting Resolutions upholdThursday night. ing Gove-nor Sparks in calling for troops were introduced and seconded, hisses, but were voted down amid Resolutions were then passed stating that the troops were an unnecessary expense, were called without cause, and that it was the sense of those assembled that the primary purposefor bringing the troops to Goldfield was to rednce wages and aim a direct blow at organized labor in Nevada. 8 pageant, it is surely Bury St. Edmunds, says London Country Life. cifie coast states have been invited by the war department to go to Washington, D. C,, for a conference at the Probably it is the most charactertstically English and agricultural town in Great Britain, and it is a place delight- earliest possible date on the subject of coast defense. ful to be in, being so free from the Gambling houses, which have beer noise, smoke and turmoil inseparable openly conducted in Denver for sev from our great manufacturing cities. eral years, have been closed by orde Romance and Mystery. of Mayor Speer. Midnight and Sun-| day closing laws, it is announced, wil! | An interesting romance is “Rosalind also be enforced and prize fighting at Red Gate,” published by the Bobbsstopped in Colorado. | Merrill company, Indianapolis, Ind. It County Commissioner Rosenthal ot| is a story full of mystery, besides be- Goldfield, whose resignation has been | ing a compelling and fascinating picture of the old, old story of love, the fused to vacate his office.. Rosenthal. situations being portrayed in a manwas thought by the governor to have ner calculated to keep the reader in been working contrary to Sparks’ in- a state of eager expectancy from the terests, it ts claimed. opening to the closing chapter. ‘“RosaTwo laborers were killed and eight | lind at Red Gate” is well worth the badly injured by a dynamite explosion | time spent in reading. in a construction camp on the Port- | land & Seattle railroad, twenty-five | Reverence. miles south of Sprague, Washington. In reverence is the chief joy and The men were all Bulgarians and were power of life; reverence for what is requested by Governor Sparks, has re. thawing dynamite in a kitchen range. pure and bright in your own youth; William L. Dailey, who, with William N. Byers, founded the Rocky Mountain News in 1859, died in Denver, January 4, after an illness of several months. Mr. Dailey was born in for what is true and tried in the age of others; for all that is gracious Tiffin, O., in 1883. among the living, great among the dead—and marvelous in the powers that cannot die—John Ruskin. Before coming to Colorado Mr. Dailey was with newspapers in Iowa braska. Painters of the Renaissance. connected and Ne- “The North Italian Painters of the Renaissance,” by Bernhard Berenson, has recently been published by G. W. On Sunday the six-inch water pipe through which air is fanned to the Putnam’s Sons, New York. entombed miners at Ely, Nevada, betame bent by the pressure of :ock and earth at the 600-foot level and no air could be sent to them. Rescuers, by redoubled efforts, reached It is a scholarly and artistic discussion of the great painters of that time, with sketches and portraits, and should prove a rare work in the estimation of all those interested in art. the break in a few. hours and repaired the pipe. Do To-Day’s Things Well. While celaring up the debris of the The best preparation for the future wreckage of the Northern Pacific | is the present well seen to and the freight train which ran wild down last duty well done.—George Macdonthe Rocky mountains, and which was ald. ditched near the city limits of Helena, Mont., entailing a loss of $10, Cider the National Drink. 000, workmen discovered the body of When a traveler enters a tavern in an unknown man. It is presumed he Rouen, France, or any of the towns or was stealing a ride. Bank Examiner Collins of Montana villages about it, cider is brought to im as a matter of course; it is the has made public a summary of the universal drink. Unrifortunately the reports of the forty-seven state inordinary brand is not first-class. The stitutions under the supervision of status of cider as a local beverage is that department, and the showing is illustrated by the fact that the cider remarkable. Since the last call in press was carried as the emblem of August, the banks have increased their reserve $210,000 and now have local industry in a pageant organized in 1892 to commemorate the entry of total resources of $26,491,088.90. Louis de Brezes, grand seneschal of Normandy, into Rouen in 1526, George G. Brown,. a laborer, was murdered by one of the four highway- men who robbed the Jargdorf hotel at Strike-breakers Pouring !nto Goldfield. In this day of constant progress and improvements in the care of the sick, the Mrs. Mary Ramsay Wood, the old- nurse plays an important part, and a est white woman in Oregon, died at) constant acquirement of knowledge is Hillsboro, Ore., on January 1, her one a necessity of the successful nurse. hundred and twentieth birthday. Mrs. No better investment could be made Wood was a native of Tennessee and than the purchase of a copy of “Nurs Harold Reno, Nevada. After searching must of the crowd in the gambling house attached to the hotel, the highwaymen took the roulette bank roll and one of them shot Brown as they passed out of the building. In commemoration of the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln, which became effective forty years ago, Governor Henry A. Buchtel on January 1 pardoned from the Colorado penitentiary Edward Free man, a negro, who had served five years of a ten to twenty-year term Set Good Example. Every parent is like a looking-glass for children to dress themselves by. Therefore parents should keep the glass bright and clear, not dull and Spotted, as their example is a rich inheritance for the rising generation. sheep is slightly reduced, the fleeces are certain to average considerably more in weight. 1. A. Lawrence, aged 22, of. Butte A Wife's Position. In England the wife is the queen, was shot and fatally wounded by Frec Baker of Dillon, just as Lawrence ané Miss Nora Baker, aged 16, were abou! to step to the altar. A charge of mur in France the companion, in Germany der has been filed against Baker. The result of an ol¢ novel, The Genial Host. “So that you may all have a good time,” exclaimed the genial host, “I am not having soup served. There will te no celery and no water biscuits with the cheese. I guess all the other stuff can be eaten quietly.” Last year the wool clip of the state of Montana was over 30,000,001 pounds, which brought approximately $6,000,000. For the coming seasonit is expected to reach about the same figure, for although the number &o! killing was the Kramer's Continental Captain.” for murder committed at Trinidad qvarrok Morton “Gayle Langford,” published by Loth rop, Lee & Shepard Co., Boston, ig being dramatized by Joseph T. Mitch ell, formerly lessee of the Empire the atre, Boston, who will adapt from it a stirring patriotic play entitled “The | the housekeeper, and in Italy the slave, is the burden of an old saying. In America she seems to be a little of all the others ao |
