| Show THE SALINA By C N Lund CALL SPRINGS SENSATION “COUGH” AND THE WORLD (Copyright GALINA SMILES WITH YOU PATTEN PURSUED 6Y A MOB Jr VTAH UTAH STATE NEWS The Springville Commercial club Is to hold the making arrangements Utah county annual horse show In gpringvijle this spring' John JFurey accused of jobbing Finch’s cafe In Salt take City on October 12 last has been found guilty by a jury J HxKeefe of Garfield had his right foot caught In the machinery at the mill and crushed to such an extent that amputation was necessary A ban has been placed on four clubs organized by negroes In Salt Lake City the chief of police having ordered that the clubs be closed A coroner’s jury will Investigate the death of Martin Cahill a Rio Grande section foreman who died in convulsions at Ogden alter eating a can of sardines census superviHugh A McMillln sor expects within the next week to be able to announce the selection of enumerators for the work which will begin on April 15 While adjusting machinery in the new Rex mill at Gold Circle Nevada C Lee Gilson of Salt Lake City was caught in a belt and received injuries from which death resulted Samuel Werb aged 10 was seriously Injured when a giant cap which he had found on the street in Salt Lake City exploded after he had touched a match to the cap to “make It fizz’ A verdict of not guilty was rendered In the ‘Dolly Dimples” case at Mr and Mrs L N Curry Ogden the defendants were accused of swindling an Ogden newspaper In a lrculation contest The county physician of Cache oounty has made application to the county commissioners to contribute $500 to a fund to be raised for providing means for the proper care of Indigent school children A siege of weather far above the average for summer has been experienced at Ibex Millard county and the people there are praying for rain Wheat Is growing about an Inch a day but rain is badly needed Losing his balance while walking across a narrow ledge on a building under construction in Ogden John Sanborn a carpenter fel to the feet ground a distance of twenty-fivfracturing his left ankle and badly spraining his right leg Mrs Marion C Gordon one of the pioneers of Murray is dead as the result of burns which she received while In the act of burning rubbish her dress catching fire from the burnMrs Gordon was ing rubbish pfle 76 years of age and came to Utah in 1848 An scarlet fever Is epidemic of threatened at North Ogden where families have been placed under quarantine to prevent a spread of the There are said to be ten disease cases in the little town all of which are confined to the families under quarantine A petition which has been circulat ed in Mount Pleasant recently asking the city council to pass an ordinance strictly prohibiting the sale or dispensing In any way of intoxicating to the liquors has been presented council witn the names of 700 adult signers attached Edward Boyer 17 years of age and an employe of the International Smelter company at Tooele met death by being caught in the crushing wheels of a planer In the company’s mill He had been in the employ of the smelter company but three weeks and his home was in Anaconda Mont Despite the firm stand taken by the Beet Growers’ organized recently union of Weber county the Amalgamated Sugar company reports that fully 2000 acres of beet land have been contracted for within the week This will be sufficient it is claimed to break the backbone of the threatened boycott striking spirit now Catching the the railroad rampant throughout world several hundred Greek laborers employed at the Union depot In went on a strike demanding Ogden Diplo$2 per day for 10 hours’ work macy on the part of the railroad officials sent the xoreigners back to five work The new map of Utah soon to be issued by the Utah conservation commission will be four and a half by ix feet in dimension and it is believed that it will be the most complete map of any state in the union Small copies of the map will be printed and attached to the next report of the commission The existence of smallpox at the city jail in Ogden is having a good effect on the morals of the city according to the judge of police court who took a holiday on Thursday because of the lack of prisoners to face Not a single arrest ha? his bench been made by the police since th latest outbreaa of smallpox at the jai FORMER SECRETARY GARFIELD STAR WITNESS IN THE BAL- LINGER CASE Statement Made That Guggenheim Had No Interest In Alaskan Coal Claims When Records Showed They Had Secured Options Garfield R Washington— James former secretary of the interior was finally excused from the witness stand t at the Investigation late Thursday afternoon His final half hour before the committee furnished the sensation of what had been a decidedly dull day Mr Garfield stated that Mr Ballinger after having been commissioner of the land office submitted to him on September 17 1908 an affidavit signed by Clarence Cunningham and containing the statement that the Guggenheims had no interest whatever in the Cunningham group of coal claims in Alaska while as a matter of fact the record of a recent hearing before the Benate committee on territories shows that prior to the making of the affdavlt the Guggenheim syndicate had been given an option on a half interest in all the Cunningham claims The former secretary of the interior was examined and on his administration of the office which he surrendered to Mr Ballinger on 5 exMr 1909 March Garfield in plaining what he did in the matter of the withdrawal of lands without specific provision of law declared he was working in the interest of the people and to prevent monopolistic control of power sites and consequent extortionate prices to consumers POSTAL SAVINGS BANK BILL Measure Passed by the Senate on Strictly Party Lines Washington — By a vote of fifty to twenty-twthe postal savings bank bill was passed by the senate late SatAs the urday afternoon passed Smoot amendment was included as also an amendment of Senator Borah The which Cummins amendment would have confined during times of war the investment of postal funds in government securities was defeated py fc vote of 18 to 40LT The bill as passed glVes the money order department in the postoffices of the country authority to accept sums of one dollar or more from depositors and to deposit these sums in the local banks where the money is to remain unless withdrawn by the president in case of war or other exigencies The control funds is vested in a board of trustees composed of the postmaster general the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general The aggregate balance allowed to any depositor is $500 and no person is permitted to deposit more than The govern$100 in any one month ment is required to pay 2 per cent interest and must exact not less than 2M per cent from the banks the extra quarter of 1 per cent being required for the payment of expenses and losses TO RECLAIM EMPIRE Enterprise In Colorado Assured was Pueblo Colo — Annotincement made Thursday at the office of the Colorado Southern Irrigation company that the contract for the construction of the irrigation system of the company and the Canon City Florence and Pueblo Water company had been awarded to Kennefick Quigley & Russell of Kansas City Mo — $12987000 The project is one of the biggest irrigation enterprises ever' attempted and the contract calls for its completion by April 1 1912 Active work will be commenced within sixty days and in con3000 men will be employed 160 structing the twelve reservoirs miles of main canals and thirty miles of diversion canals The largest reservoir will have a dam 197 feet high The reservoirs will have a storage capacity of 750000 acre feet and will irrigate about 300000 acres of land in the Arkansas valley — Big Irrigation Now i QUAKE San IN 1909) Former Wheat King Given a Rough Reception by Enraged Britons at Manchester Cotton Exchange A CALIFORNIA Franolsoo Experiences Blight Earth Tremor San Francisco — A sharp earthquake 10:55 was experienced here about Thursday night The motion was very distinct but long and slow According to the Chabot observatory in Oakland it was one and a half seconds in duration and the vibration north to south Telephone and telegraph companies report that it was felt in other parts of the state At Modesto and Watsonville people ran into the streets and at the latter to place some crockery is reported was The shock have been broken particularly severe on a line running north from Monterey through Watson-dllSanta Cruz and San Jose and it Iso was felt in Santa Rosa London — James R Patten the Chicago speculator was ‘given a rough reception on the floor of the cotton exchange at Manchester on Friday His appearance on the floor of the exchange was the signal for a hostile demonstration which resulted in his forcible ejection from the exchange and a flight through the streets from a mob that was prevented only by the police from doing him serious harm" Patten was hidden for a while in a business office and later smuggled into a cab and driven to a more secure refuge Patten was surrounded by the members of the exchange and hissed hooted and cheered He fled to the street hundreds following him and he was surrounded by a howling mobv The mob hurled epithets and a hundred fists were shaken at Patten who When John D Rockefeller’s Plsns te Benefit Mankind Ar Carried Out turned deathly pale as the threatening crowd pressed closely and seemed on the point of attacking him At a critical moment a strong force of police ADVOCATE NATION WIDE STRIKE arrived and forcing their way through the rioters surrounded Patten and a moment later they had hustled him into an office and out of the back door Would Labor Leaders Pennsylvania into a cab in which he was hurriedly r Call Out Workingmen All Over RETAIL DEALERS SAY PACKERS driven to a railroad station He took the Country to Help Their Cause the first train for Liverpool AND FARMERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIGH PRICES ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY — The promise of help Philadelphia Millionaire Utah and Associate from without and development of Charged With Land Frauds strength in Its own field which ap- Deny That Any Agreement on Prices — Portland Ore Charged with conpeared to take even the strike leaders Among Retailers Exists and Will spiracy to defrau& the United States Not Assume Responsibility for by surprise injected new life into the a large acreage of timber lands of Philadelphia general strike movement Prevailing High Prices on Wednesday David Eccles Utah millionaire tracThe labor campaign received imtion magnate lumberman and sugar petus from the State Federation of king is hurrying to Oregon to submit Washington — Retail meat dealers to arrest and furnish bond for the apLabor at Newcastle that a nationwide would not be too great a placed upon the farmers and the pack- pearance of himself and employes who ers responsibility for the higher price will be price for the success of the local of meat brought to trial in the federal in testimony given before the court here cause All of the defendants who The movement in sympathy with the striking employes of the day senate committee investigating the in- were within the Jurisdiction of the Invaded what was supposed to be a creased coBt of living on Tuesday courts were reported to have Oregon Five retail men from New York been citadel of the opposing forces The placed under arrest Friday strike leaders induced over one thou Philadelphia Baltimore and Washing-Frank M Shurtliff Fred M Ander were heard and Walter Brown a son and William Green waited at sand employes of the Baldwin Locomotive works to walk out Tuesday Washington dealer who kills his own Baker City for the coming of officers leat was the only one who did not Grant Geddes afternoon following the early mornJoseph Barton and admit that the price of meat had gone James Smurthwaite surrendered here ing desertion of an equal number up at least 10 per cent during the last and furnished bonds in the sum of To the threat of a country-widfive years strike if the local traction heads did $5000 each Mr were insisted that Brown prices not arnrirut -- vMtraJlon the company Covering a hundred pages of type- practically the same now as then written matter the indictment return officl4'25— 2lHn se announcAll agreed however that competied against the officers and eming they had said theirlst word on tion the the retailers among kept arbitration and if the widespread of the Lumber Oregon ployes strike depended on their yielding the price to the consumer as low as pos- company and the Sumpter Valley Railsiblestrike would come road company recites the same charthe Each denied witness vigorously Evidences however were given by acter of conspiracy to defraud the for prevailthe employes of many classes that retailers as has been frequently none would admit that government stated in court It charges that all they were confident a national strike ing prices and existed on prices would not be forced and that the any agreement the defendants undertook to secure a sympathetic movement here would among them large body of valuable lands for the While no one charged that the pack- use wear itself out Several firms anand benefit of two corporations witnounced that their hands were re- ers were in a combination all the which are really owner by the same nesses w’ho had dealings with them man Eccles turning to work declared there seemed to be no comWhen comGovernment Files Its Brief petition for retail trade SAYS GARFIELD LIED Washington — “Either the Sherman plaint was made to the packers about act should be repealed or it should be advancing prices they said the latter Idaho Water Users Denounce Statement of Former Secretary enforced in a manner to make the explained that the stock was scarce people respect it” With this declaraBoise Idaho — Branding the declartion the department of Justice on STREET CAR STRUCK BY ENGINE ation of former Secretary of the Intert Wednesday filed with the federal suior Garfield made to the People Injured as Result of preme court of the United States a Thirty-siInvestigating committee at WashBlunder of Some One thousand-pagbrief in support of its ington on Thursday when he stated be disLos Angeles Cal — Thirty-sipetition that “Standard Oil” per- that the government had warned setsolved as in violation of the Sherman sons were injured some of them so tlers against going upon public lands law The brief replies to seriously that they probably will under irrigation projects before the Oil Standard the argument of the die when an Oak Knoll car of delivery of water as absolutely false counsel that the corporations that en- the Pacific Electric system was tossed and citing Instances of efforts of the in 1899 from the track by the engine of tered into the organization a government under Garfield to encourwere not at that time competing with freight train on the Salt Lake Route age such settlement the one another Tuesday night Water Users’ association representing The electric car was crowded with settlers upon a government project Miners and Operators Unable to Agree from has wired such denial direct to the Cincinnati O — The coal miners and people returning to their homes The car had been ways and means committee of the the theaters competitive operators of the central of house and has called the attention of at the to a stop crossing brought field comprising Ohio Indiana and on Aliso street Senator Borah to that fact western Pennsylvania on Tuesday ap- the Salt Lake tracks' and then was started up again and pointed committees to consider the was over the ATTACKS GLAVIS crossing when CUNNINGHAM points at issue between the two fac- the freight train crashed into the rear Both sides were open in their tions on Its side and Says Land Agent Trapped Him Into declarations the miners contending a end of it throwing it winSigning Affidavit strike is inevitable unless their de- hurling the occupants through the roof Cleveland O — A bitter attack upon mands are granted and the operators dows and against the sides andunderLouis R Glavls by Clarence Cunningare emphatic that the demands should of the car Some were pinned neath the car inham was the feature of Friday’s not be allowed quiry by United States Commissionei Taft’s Railroad Bill Amended Frisco Gets Big Fight William J McGee into the administration San Francisco — After weeks of in- Cunningham coal claims In Alaska Washington — The railroad bill was amended in an im- decision negotiations and more or Mr Cunningham was on the witness portant particular by the house com- less controversy between the joint stand all day and under direct exammittee on interstate and ioreign com- promoters it was definitely announced ination by the attorney for the claimcommerce on Wednesday when the Tuesday evening by “Tex” Rickard ants charged the former land agent mittee voted 9 to 11 to substitute the and Jack Gleason that the with having trapped him into signing Interstate commerce commission for championship an affidavit under false pretenses and as the proposed court of commerce battle on July 4 will be held in an of having pretended a desire to have the tribunal designated to receive pe- arena within the race track enclosure the Cunningham entries cleared for titions or applications of railroads de- of the California Jockey club at Em patent when he was really endeavorsiring to acquire interests In other Alameda county just across ing to have them declared fraudulent lines the bay from San Francisco Met the Men Half Way Wizard of Billiard Table Dead A Fool and 'a Pistol Baltimore Md — There will be no Denver — Jacob Schaefer former na1 — While of conductors or trainmen on on strike his Utah way tlonal billiard champion died at IPs Nephl Comjome in this city at 11:65 o’clock home after making a visit to Juab and the Baltimore & Ohio railroad He was a victim of tubercuEdwin Bigler missioner of Labor Neill early SaturIntoxicated Tuesday getting losis from which he had been a suf- fired at the ranch house of the Juab day morning brought to a successful ferer for more than two years Schae- Development company The bullet hit conclusion his efforts at mediation fer who had held all the important a knot and exploded five of the pieces While the basis of settlement was not billiard championships during his ca- hitting a young man by the name of announced It was learned that concesHe defeated Orgill Ivy a man from Sclpio jumped sions were made on both sides and reer was 55 years old at one time or another all the great onto Bigler and beat him unmerci- that in a general way the men and the This is true Mlliard players of the world including fully There are doubts of Orgill’s officials met half way of all matters in controversy vigneaux and other French experts recovery Jt -- |
