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Show VOLUME vm. NUMBER OGDE N, 104. TJ T iY II TUESDAY, MARCH 8, RUSSIA IS NOT READY TO ACCEPT OR 1904 APOSTLE MERRILLS SON TELLS OF SUGGEST MEDIATION TO END THE WAR HIS WIVES le Has Two and Explains to the Committee the Must First Retrieve By Sweeping Land One Which He Considers His Victory the Disgrace of Overwhelming Defeats in Naval Encounters. i Legal Spouse. .i LONDON, March 8w Information from various sources is that the Czar is most eager to have the powers mediate in the Far East to put an end to the war. It is said that Russia would be witling to refer the whole dispute to The Hague tribunal. ST. PETERSBUURG, March 8. A prominent offioial who was interviewed on the report that Ruseia wished mediation, said that it was preposterous and would continue so until brilliant successes had been obtained by Russia to retrieve the reverses at sea. Efforts will be concentrated on the army toward winning a sweeping vicland. This ia considered imperative in order to sa tory over the Japanese on before theworld. nation tho of caste the ve JAPANESE DENY MORE WA8 NOT BOMBARDED YESTERDAY VLADIVOSTOK ST. PETERSBURG, March 8. RUSSIAN CHARGES Ac- advices the cording to Vladivostok maneuvered fleet merely Japanese bombardno was there and 'Monday ment as reported In Paris. The impression here is that the Japanese want to regain possession of Island, ceded to Russia, which is important to the food supply of northern Japan on acount of its flsb- en eries. The esar has denied the petition of Buriat tribesmen of the section net to he placed under the Russian administration. Admiral Starks wife, who has arrived from Port Arthur, indignantly denies that the admiral and his officers sere ashore the night of the first attack attending a ball in her honor. rans-Baik- al 48,000 WASHINGTON, March 8. The Japanese minister this afternoon made an aditlonal statement in answer to Russian charges of violation of international law, admitting that Japanese troops landed at Korea before declaration, but not before a state of war actually existed. The Imperial government declares that the charge that Japan declared control over Korea la without foundation. CLASH BETWEEN KOREANS AND COSSACK RAIDERS SEOUL, March 8. Small bands of Russians cross the Talu every day on foraging expeditions and are sweeping the country in the direction of W1 Won and Cho San. Their outrages have roused the Koreans, who ambushed and repulsed a strong party of CosTERRIBLE SUFFERING OF MANCHURIAN REFU&EE8 sacks, both suffering heavy losses. BERLIN, March 8. Die Tageblatt reports that Dr. Kynart, chief of the Russian ambulance corps, dispatched to Manchuria, was obliged to disband and dismiss the men on arrival at Har. bin owing to their drunkenness. , Another report states that 5.000 refugees from Port Arthur, Vladivostok and other Manchurian towns have been shunted on sidings for days to enable transport trains to pass east. The refugees are suffering terribly from cold and lack of food. - COALING UP FOR WAR. A most characteristic spectacle is here depicted, the sketch being made aboard the Russian war vessel PobiedS) during tha hurried filling of her bunkers to enable har to proceed at once for Far Eastern waters in response to isudden orders from the Tsars admiralty. Officers and man display favored jenergy to win the race against tims in a dash to the aid of thoir beleaguered brethren, hard pressed by the Japanese sea heroes. MARQUI3 ITO GOING TO KOREA ON MISSION POISONED CANDY TOKIO, March 8. Marquis Ito Is going to Korea on the 15th Instant on a special mission for the emperor, the purport of which has not been made known. BOXALL JURY COULD NOT REACH VERDICT MEANS OF MURDEO port KILLED OR INJURED Iowa Woman Under Arrest for Limited Train Running at High Speed Collides With a Causing Death of South Dakota GirL Freight. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., March 7. The Jury in the case of William Box-al- l, The Frankfurter Zeltung asserts that charged with shooting his uncle, Russian Minister of the Interior 'Plevne Charles Lloyd, was dismissed . this has Instructed the local authorities to unable to agree on a DES MOINES, Iowa, March 8. As extaort money from the Jews to sup- morning being The Jury had been out since verdict port the field hospitals. the result of the death at ; Pierre, 8 oclock yesterday afternoon. South Dakoto, last night of Miss Rena RU88IAN8 BANK ON HARVESTER MACHINE WORK8 poisoned Nelson, who ate alleged ABILITY TO RUN AWAY TIED UP BY STRIKE candy mailed from Boone, Iowa, Mrs. stands charged with ST. PETERSBURG, 8. All Sherman Dye March 8. The STOCKTON, Cal., March murder. fety of the Russian Vladivostok but four of the 150 employees of the Governor Cummins today listened to squadron it Is believed will be preserv- Holt ' Harvester works of this city arguments for the extradition of Mrs. ed by its speed, enabling It to avoid struck this morning and the big plant encounter with the Japs until the com- le completley tied up. Probably other Dye and withheld hie decision pending a legal opinion. mencement of the summer. local Industries will be drawn Into the The husband of Mrs. Dye strongly The Finnish senate has voted to trouble. The Holt works are closely his belief that she Is Innocent protests veil its war fund contribution a mil- picketed by strikers in an orderly remains with her In the Jail. and lion marks. manner.' Minister of the Interior Plevne has ALBANIANS ANNIHILATE ked the provincial governors to re- OFFICER AND ENTIRE BATTALION OF TURK8 SUICIDE COMMIT FAMILY duce their seed allowances to the public works estimates. 8. Lieutenant March BERLIN, March 8. The Morgen BERLIN, his wife, daughter and Post reports that the Albanian rebels retired, Beseke, REPORTED MASSACRE OF two sons, all living in a fashionable have annihilated a Turkish battalion CHINESE AND JAPS villa at Wilhelm Strasse, were found of five hundred st Diaakovo, central dead from poison today. The unsat- Albania. ra ROME, March 8. The Agenda isfactory state of the family affairs la reports that a number of Chinese believed to have driven the family to nd Japanese have been massacred in PASSED HIM BY. suicide. the Vladivostok district. The Japanese government is said to have entered a SUICIDE OF NEPHEW Hie Occupation 8aved Little George Pretest OF M. H. DE YOUNG Robertson 8ome Trouble. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. Pierre another ATTEMPT TO "Gloomy Gus Is the cognomen that Jacobson, a nephew of M. H. DeYoung, BOTTLE ARTHUR FLEET proprietor of the Chronicle, committed nearly all the pretty typewriter girls In suicide last night by inhaling gas. town have given to little George RobPARIS, March S. It is reported here Despondency and financial troubles ertson. Little George is the prettiest t the Japanese have made another are said to have been the cause. attempt to block the entrance to Port and brightest of all the messenger Arthur by boys... He is the kid that everybody sinking coasting ships. De- GENERAL STRIKE OF rails are NEW YORK BUILDERS from the chief of staff down to the oflacking. NEW YORK, March 8. Six thous- fice hoy waits for. He Is the boy we all admiral MAKAROFF HAS and building laborers struck today look for. Well, little George was going home REACHED PORT ARTHUR against a ten-hoday without inlast night and was held up at NineIn wagea crease PORT ARTHUR, teenth street and Washington by two 8. Admiral March 8 reff burly highwaymen. has arrived at Dalny and is LINEMAN ELECTROCUTED. ed here today to assume charge SAN BERNARDINO, Cal- - March 8. When the Robin Honda demanded thes quadron. was his valuables at the point of a revolver Walter Cooper, a lineman, Complete tranquility mornor two, Gloomy" said: revaiie in the district Redlands this at about Port Ar- - electrocuted Ur "Oh, I'm a newspaperman. NotMng can be seen of the ing. He foil dead at the feet of Ms mwmy. The jobbers passed him by. wife. Ll-')e- MtHIH BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 8. The southbound limited express on the Queen Crescent road, from Cincinnati and running at a speed of sixty miles an hour, collided head on at 6 oclock thia morning with a northbound Southern railway freight train twenty brothers and seventeen sisters. on the Joint track of the two roads He did not know how many nephews near Kewane, Miss. and nieces probably one hundred. The known dead are: Three of his brothers married plural Engineer Larkin and Fireman Bank of the lim- wives and two of his sisters married ited, Mall Clerks Riggs and Nichol- Into polygamous families. His father son: missing, Baggagemaster Hinds lives with his first wife and comes to and a mall weigher, name unknown; the home of hie mother once a month, fatally Injured, Engineer Case and the "Father is a very busy man," ha fireman of the freight: badly injured. added. Express Messenger Hinds. Francis Lyman, a member of the 'The mail and baggage coaches and first presidency and prospective sucthe entire freight train was burned. cessor to President Smith, showed the The bodies of the dead mail clerks same defiant spirit ' as his superior and were cremated. The officials of the confessed that he had three plural road assert that none of the passen- wives. He declared his Intention to gers were killed. A big force of sur- keep the two now living "in obedience geons has been sent to tbs scene. of the law of the country, of the church and of God," as Senator Hoar FREIGHT OVER put It, 'and Is not only living in polygamous cohabitation but expected to Cars continue to do so. Train Consisting of Thirty-fiv- e . CUT-OF- F. Crossed Today Inaugurating CONNCLUDING TESTIMONY OF PRESIDENT 8MITH New System. A tea train consisting of thirty-fiv- e After the WASHINGTON, cars leff Promontory this morning at beginning of the afternoon session yesthe cutabout 16 oclock to come terday, Mr. Smith said that according off and Is,' due to arrive somewhere to his, best understanding Presidents -t- -- March or about. 8 this afternoon.. This is the first freight train to pass over the new route and inaugurates the new system? . -- ur 8. Mrs. a polygamist; that such WASHINGTON. March appointments Mabel Barber Kennedy was again have been based on merit alone. Mr Worthington announced that he placed on the stand this morning In had finished with the witness, and Mr. the hearing of the Smoot case before Tayler then asked If four out of seven the senate committee. members of the board of trustees of In nnswer to Attorney Worthington, the agricultural college are polygaMrs. Kennedy said that she did not mists. Mr. Smith said he believed that know of any reason for her Journey of to be the case. He answered also that seventy-fiv- e mllea from Dias to Juares, his election ae president was since Mexico, to be married as a plural wife Mr, Smoots election as an apostle. to James Francis Johnson. She did Senator Foraker asked Mr. Smith If he not know whether any effort bad been had had any objection to Mr. Smoot made to have the marriage performed becoming a candidate for senator, and at Dlax. Mr. Smith said: 1 gave my consent Mrs. Kennedy Mild that she did not to his lHfoming a candidate. Inform the ninn who performed the Why did you think your consent ceremony that Johnson was already necessary? asked Chairman Burrows, married. So far as she knew the cele"Because it is a rule that any one brant might have believed he waa mar- of the general authorltlee of the church rying Johnson to his first wife. to engage in any business outdesiring She had heard that Apostle Teas-da- le side of his church duties must get the objected to her plural marriage consent of the first presidency and the and had refused to marry her, notwith- twelve apostles before he can do so, standing the intercession by her moth- said Mr. Smith. er, who waa Informed that all that had The presiding officer of Mr. Smith's been done away with. ward waa given as George IL Emory, Charles Merrill, son of Apostle Merwho, he said, la reputed to be polygarill, testified thnt he was the son of his mist. father's third plural wife and himself Mr. Tayler returned to the testimony a polygamist. He was first married In in regard to the number of children 1887 to a wife who died In 1889. In Mr. Smith had alnce the manifesto of 1891 he married Chios Hendricks by 1890, and he repeated that there had whom he. had five children. In 1988 he been eleven, to the best of his recolmarried Anna Stoddard by whom he lection. had four children and waa living with Are you sure of the number? askher when he married Chine Ilendrlitks, ed Mr. Tayler. whom he called hla legal wife. I cannot say that I am absolutely Mr. Merrill said that he now has two sure. wives and Is cohabiting with both. Ha "Now, I dont want to be Impertidenied that the woman he married in nent, but Isn't It a fact that there 1888 la his legal wife, explaining that have been twenty? asked Mr. Tayler. when he married In 1888 he had a wife "No, nothing like it, was the anliving and that he understood that un- swer. der the laws that marriage was now "Well, how many by your wife namlegal; therefore his marriage In 1891, ed Alice? Please give the names. after the death of his first wife In 1889, "By Ailed there were Fielding, Jesae made his last marriage legal. and Andrew, The youngest is about When questioned concerning the four years old, answered the witness. marriage ceremony In 1888 Witness "That is the one born on the day of Merrill declared that he cohld not re- Mr. Smoot's accession as an apostle, is member how It was performed. He it not?" asked Mr. Tayler. could not repeat It, but when closely The witness answered that it was examined by Mr. Hoar admitted that and proceeded to give children born to he knew the ordinary wedding service. his wife, Mary, alnce the manifesto. The witness said that he lived with By Mary the children are Silas, both wives, who had separate ftiotnes, James and Agnes," he eald. at Richmond, Utah. At the time of his "Whose child Is Samuel? asked Mr. second marriage his home was with his Tayler. mother. His father was on the under"He le Mary's," he answered. He ground, that is In hiding because of stated that he could not give Samuel's the prosecutions then going on for pge or the age of his son Calvin, and So far as he knew hie that by each of his other three wives polygamy. father did not know he had a wife he had at least two children since the already when he was married by him manifesto. to the woman he calls his legal wife. Mr. Tayler pressed the witness for a His father had six wives and he had detailed statement of the children by HAD HI8 LEG AMPUTATED. W. LJchter, the young man who had his foot crushed a few days ago down In the railroad yards, had his leg amputated yesterday above the ankle at the general hospltaL The young man Is twenty-thre- e years of age. His condition Is reported favorable. 8. the other three wives and the witness protested vigorously, "Am I to understand that I am not permitted to have children ny my law- ful wife? he asked of the chairman. "Unless I am compelled to do so, I shall decline to answer any questions In regard to the number of children I have had by my first wife. "What do you mean by lawful wife?" asked Chairman Burrows. 1 have a legal wife," answered Mr. Smith. ' I mean the woman I married first the woman I married many years ago. She is the mother of eleven of my children." Do you include the number of children you have had by this woman since the manifesto in 1890 in the number of children you have had by all your wivee since that time?" asked Senator Hoar. I do," was the response.' Mr. Tayler again asked for a detailed schedule of Mr. Smith's children born since 1890, and over the protest of Mr. Smith, Chairman Burrows directed that the question be answered. Mr. Smith gave a list of children by the wives In the order In which he married them. The list Is as follows By Julia Edith and Rachael. By Sarah Asfath and Jennetta. By Mina Martha, and one child Woodruff and Snow conformed to the former's manifesto and obeyed the law. He said that of the six apostles ap. pointed since the manifesto of President Woodruff, only one, M. F. Cow- which died. ley, is a polygamist In regard to JoBy Alice Fielding, Jesse and Anderseph M. Tanner, president of the fac- son. ulty of the Utah Agricultural college, By Mary Silas, Agnes, James and Mr. Smith said It alls "understood maybe Calvin. that he had more than one wife. He He reiterated that he did not know declared that so far as he knew.no the age of the last named. . one In the church had been appointed an official In thi chufch because he Is (Continued on Page 5.) 0 |