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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, high tn (rout, and six stories ill the rear, the upper story Wing midway b.iik from till' Ft wet. and is designed for the xer ants' iiiarters. The front MORTGAGE FILED E of the houses are pure Corinthian, the lower port inn to le richly carved. The interior will be in keeping with the general style of architecture. Spacious hull and correspondingly spurious MAGNIFICENT INSTRUMENT is MARBLE AND parlors, reception rooms, dining hulls OF BONDS. GRANITE STRUCTURES. and libraries, all finished in the most exquisite style, will le marvels of ProcMds to Bo Used in Building the Senator W. A. dark1, the Most Spl.n-di- d beauty, while all the Improvements of Them All. to Cost Road, Construtcion of Which will be the most modern. Each of Some, Will Soon Commonca. thing Like $4,000,000. these houses will cost upwards of a million dollars. FRIDAY, FKKRUARY 5 1901 5 oo .0 PACIFIC to secure latest development in 'Western indiPacific matters and one which cates that the actual beginning of construction work on the road will not is the filing of a he long deferred $30,000,000 mortgage, to secure a bond losue of equal amount, with the Salt This was done Lpt county recorder. the papers the Herald, yesterday, says H. Farnsworth, cashbeing filed by I Bros, bank and Walker ier of the Western Pacific the for In Utah agent of the bond IsThe proceeds company. sue are to be used for the purchase and construction of a new road between gait Lake and San Francisco. The action of the company In filing the mortgage and preparing for the indisposal of the bonds is taken to once action the in at dicate vigorous way of constructloln. The enterprise, to be which is generally believed hscirpd by George J. Gould and John D. Rockefeller, has been carried on quietly hut In a manner to Indicate that it was to be carried through In a business-lik- e manner and without delay. Over was spent for terminals In San Francisco, and several small California railroads were acquired. Surveyors hav$ been In the field for about a year, going over the entire ground between Salt Lake and San Francisco, and It Is understood that they have completed their work sufficiently to determine the route to be adpoted for practically the entire distance. This being the case It Is believed the filing of the mortgage Is a prellminary.to active construction work all along the line. .The Western Pacific is looked upon as the westernmost link of George Gould's projected coast to coast system. It will connect at Salt Lake with fiie Rio Grande Western. It is expected that construtcion will begin from this end before long, although an official statement on the subject is Impossible to obtain. Already work Is In progress at the ether end.-The mortgage filed yesterday is made Work, is living pushed with renewed activity on several Fifth avenue man- sions above and hvlow Fifty-nint- h street, and that fashionable residential section of the erstwhile brown-ston- e thoroughfare will ere long become pretty liberally Interspersed with white marble structures. Including some veritable modern palaces. Money does not figure nowadays In the construction of these pretentious piles of masonry and steel. It is a question of grandeur and architectural completeness, regardless of cost, that Is uppermost in the minds of those for whom these palatial mansions are being reared. When It conies to the expenditure of money, builders, as a rule, profess Ignorance. They seem to have carte blanche to go ahead and construct something that will be no matter what the cost may he. An instance of this lavish expenditure of wealth is shown in several Fifth avenue structures now under construction. Chief among these is Senator W. A. Clark's magnificent palace, at the northeast corner of street, facing Central Park, now about two years In course of construction, and which will probably not be completed for another year or two. The plans for this huge pile of marble were prepared by Lord, Hewlett & Hull, who carried out the ideas advanced by the 330,000.000 Montana mining king, so far as Interior arrangements are concerned. The palace, which occupies a plot 51 feet on the avenue and 165 feet on Seventy-sevent- h street, will be wholly of granite and white marble. The cost of the stone is more than $300,000, exclusive of the cutting and carving, and it will cost, when completed. In the neighte, Seventy-sev- enth EIGHT-STOR- Y Plans for a fine new eight-stor- y business block, to occupy the northwest corner of Main and Second South streets, have been submitted to the J. R. Walker estate. The intention Is to erect a brick and stone building to cost $300,000, taking the place of the present structure occupied by the Walker Bros.' bunk. The site has u frontage of 150 feet on Main street and 165 feet on Second South street. The building contemplated is of the French renaissance order, modern. On the first floor will he the bank, and above will lie offices. There will be entrances on both streets, several elevator and handsome Interior furnishings. The intention Is to begin .work In the spring. It is expected that the new building can be put up without forcing the bank to seek temporary quarters. There Is little excavating to do and the present walls can be supported by tranverse steel beams while the new walls are being put up outside of them. 8UPPOSED CA8E OF SUICIDE. Three vials, containing as many different kinds of poison. were found within a few feet of the dead body of Mrs. Allen Whitworth In a vacant house at 410 Post street yesterday morning. The bottles contained strychnine, chloroform and laudanum, and one or more of the poisons Is believed to have been the cause of death. The case Is evidently one of sulrlde, although it is possible that death may have been caused by exposure, as the woman had been wandering about the streets all night scantily clad. Mrs. Whitworth was discharged from the Provo mental hospital about one month ago and a recurrence of her malady is supposed to have been the cause of her ending her life. ur J ? The invite youi attention to the superb line of Furniture and Carpets displayed We BUILDING FOR WALKER ESTATE four-year-o- da 0 0 And Vicinity - th 0 SALT LAKE borhood of $4,000,000. In style the Clark palace will be the French Renaissance of the time of Louis Xm but so modified as to be little different from modern French. As to the interior, an accurate description would be futile without adequate space In these columns. Suffice it to say that it will include some marvelto the Bowling Green Trust company, ous appointments. There will be a trustee. It is a first mortgage on the theater in the "L" on Seventy-sevent- h railroad and terminals already acquired street, a gymnasium, a Turkish bath and on the entire system with branches and swimming pool, while the bath hereafter to be built rooms will be marvels of beauty and MISSING BOY RETURNS. The mortgage Is dated- September 1, comfort ld son Thomas Peck, the IMS. The bonds are for thirty years, The choicest tinted and white mar- of Mr. and Mrs. due September 1, 1933, bearing InterHenry Peck of Big bles, onyx, bronses and woods from Cottonwood, who wandered away from est at 5 per cent both principal and all parts of the world will be liberally home Thursday noon, and who it was Interest payable in gold. The mortused in the Interior finishings, while thought had been kidnapped, returned gage was filed here because tbe Westfabulous sums of money will be spent to his parents about noon ern Pacific Is a Utah corporation. yesterday, In the furnishings of the palace. Senafter having been gone about twenty-foThe greatest secrecy regarding the ator Clark, through his agents abroad, hours. tepe taken by this company is being has already paid a fortune for antique preserved at both ends. L. H. Farnsfurniture, rugs, tapestries $100,000 for ARRAIGNED FOR MURDER. worth, the Utah agent, could throw four of the latter famous paintings, Abe Hunter and Jack Rice, the two no new light on the subject yester- half a doxen of which cost $300,000, and men charged with murder In first deday. that will harmonize with the gree for the killing of Fred Beutler in The mortgage was sent to me to- statuary of the senator's New Salt Lake seven years ago, were arday to be filed, and I filed It. he said. general grandeur York home. raigned in the city court this morning. Beyond that I have no information to Another will be the new home of the No complaint has yet been filed against rive out" Criterion club, now at No. 516 Fifth George Muncy. Although Gould has given an evaThe new club house is at No. sive denial that he Is connected with avenue. 83 Fifth avenue, one door south of MERGER OF 8CHOOL DISTRICTS. the road, It Is known that Gould men Fifty-fourthe street, adjoining The proposition to merge the thirty-thre- e are directing the operations from bemansion of former Governor school districts of Salt Lake stately hind the scenes, Virgil G. Bogue, who Levi P. Morton. The club house, county Into two, each to be controlled la Goulds exconsulting engineer, has which will be six stories high, two of by a board of eduactlon consisting of ercised general supervision over the a colo- five members is meeing with general surveys so far made. Other Gould men which In the mansard roof, has red brick liber- favor among the various boards of front nial composed Itave figured quietly in the work from with handsomely carved time to time. The president of the ally trimmed The Johnson-Kah- n marble. white WITHOUT A MAYOR. 001,1 Pany Is W. J. Bartnett of San Salt Lake Is wlhtout an executive company are erecting the house from Francisco. Eisen-drat- h. head. Mayor Morris being out of the The prospective route of the road Is plans prepared by Simon B. ft municipal confines and the city counLowinson O. with associated across the southern end of the Great of the house will cil not having selected a mayor pro Salt lake over an embankment or Horwits. The Interior new to the clubs tern. features contain many trestle, similar to the Lucln cut-o- ff of It will cost In and the Southern of day, the present Pacific, close to the Deep The house KILLED IN MEXICO. of $250,000. Crcak region in the vicinity Utah, and across Ne-'aFYed May by for occupancy be Goddard, a former Salt Laker, must ready south of the Southern Pacific, was shot and killed In Sonora county. near Eureka next 1, and Austin, crossing the Sierra Nevada In Another marble mansion Is being Mexico, Wednesday morning. California over BeckW. Vanderbilt and with Puss and entering San Francisco. erected by George 11 Is ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. D. Sloane. These W. claimed that the road will be still another by third middle I wont give you anything to the "No, wnewhat shorter than the present two mansions occupy Fifty-fir- st feand the vinegar-face- d exclaimed route of the between block eat," Southern Pacific. Rich of the site of male. "You are a fraud, sir a transformer the mineral resources will Fifty-secon- d streets, be tapped by the haw road, not the least of which are In the orphan asylum, and faces the grim parent fraud." the Deep Creek "I ax yer pardon, ma'am, said the brownstone palace erected looking region of Utah. W. It weary victim of circumstances. "I The prospects late the ago by years many are that the shops IH be I had but knowd I wui purthy thin, built In Salt Lake, which will Vanderbilt he the eastern These new marble mansions adjoin nd ideer anybody could see through terminus of 'the 'line, bn the south, while on me." vlng employment to many hundreds the Union dub f men. of the block ancorner the northern A Frightened Horse. is now in mansion other magnificent The trouble Morton for construction of course behind. Dt the n mtT eem Running like mad down the street a small thl: F. Plant, the millionaire steamship house trouble which lies bel dumping the occupants, or a hundred man. Foundations for the latter Vanderbilt other accidents, are every day occurmagnitude that nnli are already completed. The rences. It behoves everybody to have are being which to may cause set and Sloane houses, from a reliable Salve handy and there's none Son. ft Weeks of such great erected by C. D. 700 hould will as good as Bucklens Arnica Salve. Hunt, ft Hunt carefully guai plans prepared by TUt eyes richest and Burns, Cuts, Sores, Ecxema and Piles, handsomest examined and be among the Iflutes-t- he Sixtieth below quickly under Its soothing disappear structures right kind t private 25c, at Jesse J. Driver's drug effect street Utter, o Eccl bldg. Phone 4 houses will each be five stories store. j Our big Store has been thoroughly remodeled and fitted with increased facilities for displaying Furniture $50,-000,0- The tP. nnouncement RUSSIAN -- JAPANESE TROUBLE Brief Statement of the Matters Issue Between the Belligerent Countries. at A Great Offering of Superb Stationery at prices that trouble in the far east? trying to keep IIihhI;i out of Wh.it in the in Korea. What is Korea anil where is it sit- uated'.' Korea lx an autocracy under Japanese influence, uliout as large us Kansas. with u population estimated at between S.OUO.OOO and 16.000,000. The empii-- occupies a iieninsula Just south of Silieria. Jutting Into the Pacific ocean between the Yellow sea and the Sen of JapHn. and reaching within 100 miles of the southern end of Japnn. lx Korea u rich country? Not especially. It is purely agricultural land and the niethoiix of cultivation are primitive. A few gold mines are operated and there are supiNwed to be deiKwits of copiier, iron and coal. Why, then, does Russia want Korea? Chiefly because of its position. Korea is an extension of Manchuria which practically belongs to Russia. In the natural development of contiguous territory Russian merchants have crossed the boundary into Korea and Russian interests accumulating there under the weak native government, naturally look to the Csar for protection. ''Why Is Korea of strategic value to li twain? For two reasons: First, Russian vessels must make a long detour around Korea to pass from Vladlvns-too- k, Siberia, to Port Arthur, the RusIn this sian harbor In Manchuria. must a narrow traverse journey they strait I et ween Korea and a Japanese To island, comparable to Gibraltar. insure free passage Russia seeks to control the end of the Korean peninsuIts la. Second, when Russia begins of China it anticipated absorption would be Inconvenienced if a hostile power should have a military base on the northeastern const of Asia. Therefore it desires to annex Korea. Why does Japan object to the Russian annexation of Korea? Because a pan is overcrowded with a population twelve times ns dense as that of the United States, and it seeks an outlet for Its emigrants on the mainland. The island empire hns hoped, too, to make Korea the bast of an attempt to extend Japanese influence throughout China. Furthermore of Koreas It nfw conducts nine-tentcommerce and owns Koreas two railways. Its trade and railways would both be threatened and probably be deprived of value In the event of Russias success. And, finally, Japan holds that Its own Independence would be menaced were Russia to gain the harbor at the west end of the Korean peninsula, almost within cannon range of the Japaese fortress of Tsushima. Does Japan want to annex Korea? No. It is satisfied to maintain Koreas sovereignty with the expectation that its natural advantages of situation will give It a lions share of Korea's trade. When did the trouble between Japan Defy Competition j There are llurlhurt'a, Crum' s and Hurds writing papers in our stock, and during the next few days all must go at our trilling prices. A twenty per cent cut in Stationery for this occasion. ROSS BOOK. STORE Fat Bananas Big, TOMORROW ONLY, 20c PER DOZ. We have Wine Sap and lien Davis Apples, the best in Ogden. Oranges, cheaper and better than ever. BARROWS GROCERY CO. The place where they always have the Best Fruit and Vegetables 2456 WASHINGTON AVE. Telephone 67 X CLEANLINESS Is one distinctive attribute of our factory for the pasteurizing of Dairy Products. We invite inspection and trial orders. A phone our man. PASTEUR message DAIRY 2446 Phone 37 fetches COMPANY Qrant Ave. I hs Riverdale or Pluenix ... FLOUR Indian teachers taught us how to grind and bake maise (Indian Corn), but Improved and modern methods enables us to furnish you with such a desirable wheat flour as the RIVERDALE or PHOENIX, than which there Is none better at any price, few as good at a hlghei'flgure. Made by Ogden Milling and Russia begin? Elevator Co. war Japan to had forced China recognise Korea's to and grant Japan the EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL WITH Independence keep posted about Russia southern end of Manchuria. forced Japan to give up Manchuria, seised, the surrendered territory and secured a timber cutting concession in the Talu valley In Korea. White ft Kemble Atlas Mop and Volume COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC ofThe Hut lot lit should lie tn the hands of every What brought on the present crisis? stockholder. Nowhere else is the ssme amount COMPANY. of Information accessible to the public. This Last year Russia advanced the volume shows by s map the loestlon claim that the timber concessions exof plants, ore lands, railroad end steamship STANLEY I, ST SVENS, Mgr. of earnings, official statements anil lines, gives tend to the valleys of all rivers tribdistribution of capital, division of securities, Phone SI4X. 2279 Washington A vs. text full of bylaws, incorporation certificate, utary to the Talu and that It gives, the complete legal digest n! mortgages, etc., etc., corrected to October, 1910. Russians the right to build railways BBBBBBBBBB Price $5 get. Is acesmpafiy each order and to monopolise the port of FOB SAL OMLV ST mouth. at the Talu's DOW, JONES & CO. Did Russia annoure its Intention to 44 Broad St., New York annex Korea? and CHINA of 6 Our fine lino GLASSWARE must be closed The oldest News Agency of Wall Street, and It did not But Japan took the publishers of the Will Street Journal. 2 meant J out at great aaerifioas. ground that Its procedure INVESTORS HKAD THE virtual annexation and so Issued a J L A OLSEN i&A,.. S a protest. It began In 1895, when by U. S. STEEL Those Lite Men Corporation live-col- Yong-amp- ho I Removal Sale! : Wall Street Journal |