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Show M : 1. !T JL" H j-- "1 All th You a Jo,IP- - " th It Th Psopla Try the Paper That Give All the News Truth- fully. That' Why They Take the Journal. Advertiser Cannot Afford te Forget Thin. A.11 i"! That Murt H.v It. Subscribe For th Journal. a yuhlinhrfr Daily at (Oitfru. Utah 63 VOL XIL-- No. THE GREAT BEIH6 COMMONER HM WEI BRYAN'S JENNINGS BIRTHDAY. WILLIAM FORTY-EIGHT- H P A H Many Congratulatory A1 Reoeive Town Peopl of Hem MtMg Homo Hi Life A Felicitation Joia i" A Meat and Exemplary. simple A A LINCOLN. KA, March 19. h William 4 birthday & Jeuning" Bryan's a iclebrated today by the Democrat & Lincoln and throughout Nebraska. A Hundreds of congratulatory messages from admirers' in many states and fowisn countries were delivered today A at the Bryan home near Lincoln, where the famous Commoner finds relaxation A occa-atonforty-eisht- agricultural pursuits In the periods of rest between politilecture engagecal campaigns and ments. Mr. Bryan is today in ChiIn cago. Although Lincoln la largely Repub-- al 41 , the ita political tendencies, people of the city are Immensely proud of their famous citlaen, and Republicans ss well as Democrats Joined in the days felicitation. The Bryan home la about four miles Lincoln. It la from the heart of named Falrvlew, and It la well named. The view on every aide la fair and far. It is a circling stretch of undulating prairie, thick dotted with buildings, large and small, and livened on the west by the smoking chimneys of the city and the dome of the ata(e house. And tbs winds never rest at Falrvlew, which la a purely modern house of chipped red bricks, looking as If It had been Intended for a City street and had got to Its present place by Uran In A - A A A A A UAL IT M F01EIIE STEPS T SAYS MONEY POWERS pit hide 4 4 Tiiv filings made by Oily Engineer A F. Parker on Wednesday in the 'f(i-uf the state engineer in Salt Lake nil the water of Ogden river means that it Is the Intention of the present illy administration to give to i iguen its own water system and to build a municipal electric light and lower plant. Mr. Parker was in Balt Lake on the busluesa all of Wednesday and today, and la going Into the details of the filings which are on the watcra of the river In South Fork and above the city of Huntsville. In the absence of the city engineer. Mayor Brewer today outlined tha proposition to The Journal representative. The filings, he said, were mad high up In the South Fork aiul away above Huntsville. The purpose of this is to avoid any drainage from Inhabited places into the stream and to have an absolutely pure source and supply of water for domestic and Irrigating purposes, and to secure water for a power plant to supply light to the city, both the corporation and the public, at cheaper than the present rates. You may say to the public," said the mayor, that these two projects will be carried through, or there will be a reduction of rates in both electric current and the city water." The application for water for domestic uaee asks for 25,000 acre fet of the waters of the south fork of the Ogden river, and a dam to retain thia e ' v 4 A 1 4 v 4 J A A 4 SAN DIEGO. March IS. The supply ship Culgoa carrying e fresh meats and fruit valued at 1125,000 for the fleet In Magda- - 4 lens Bay sailed from here to- - e day. Chairman F. J. Symmei of Ban Francisco, member of $ the celebration committee, was aboard. f f A TOlERMIT Up! i chai.:. constructed the stream, the io lie ucross the dam to of masonry and miiircte. The .! is ;nv to be conducted to tli tin li pipe line.' city i: ,i which tciii tv 70. non feet in length. Th. Mt oiict application asks for fifty cnii.l fivt iif tile same stream for turner purposes, the point of to lv at tile junction of the right iif.d loft forks of the Ogden river, and the water to be ciiiidiicted in a thlrtc inch pipe line a distance of 40.-0fcit to a power house a short distance fnnn Ogden; ill fuel, near the mouth of the canyon. The plant will have water wheels caable of producing l.rmil horse power for the electric lighting of Ogilen and llie Ogden valley towns and for pniivlltng machinery The application provides that the wiiter so used and diverted for power will be returned to the main channel above the heads of all Irrigating canals that draw from the Ogden river, an that Irrlgutiun rights will not lv interfered with. The intimation has been given out of the state engineer's office that both appIlcHtlona will at once be grunted. There have been no proteats and none are expected. It la intended by the Administration that the two planta will he realised In the shortest possible lvrind of time, and that they will be serving the city before the present administration goes out of office. limed the cty ? WAPHlNGTllN. e l.:i 41 e tlif c'eiitnilixeil 4 (4' r 4 00 4- - 4 4 4 4 4 4- - 41 poMi-i- - in - lu. .f sciial,. hi ,.f:ei- Tile speech mis a ivn- iiiMin. linuulion of the emvcli 4' some day ago. lie explain'd (hat since last Tuesday he had 4' reeetved evidence In prove to Ills J1 mind that the panle was planned 4 and curried nut by tin- - ceiiliult- - v sill iHiwers of industry, trails- - 4 porta tlon and hanking. He read r a teller from (lie presideid of the Waslilntoii l.tfe. Insurance 4 company, dated June, lsu7. to FI. A. Whtltier, tls mnnuK1 r at Newark. New Jersey, ilireeitng him to eut hunk bulunees and semi the money dlreet to New York. Senator held that this letter disclosed ii svs- teinnlic attempt to proiluee the 4 money strlneiicy. The senator 4was even more drastle than In his ttrst speech. He was listened' tii with marked at tent Ion by 4 a great crowd. till- - 1 - 4-(- A 4 In th SOI SIGNS OF RETURNING PROSPERITY MUST 161-ac- (By the United Press.) March 1. ConWASHINGTON, two bronse beasts, also from Japan. Warner today Introduced Jn gressman The beast on th left la Conservatism the iKfflhe the senate bLi-- to piwntl Its mouth Is shut tlghL The one on soldiers engaged In the Brownsville Its mouth riot to tbs right la Radicalism upon swearing that wlds oien, and Its teeth show even were not engaged In the shooting. they more than Teddys when he smiles and The house passed the senate resoluays tion authorising Secretary Taft to esTwelve years ago, . when ha had tablish harbor lines In Wilmington saved up a little money from hia law harbor, San Pedro, at Los Angeles, at five practice, Bryan bought the first the request of Congressman McLochll.1 sens to this farm. To put It hla way, of California. each acre coat him flOO for scenery, ' 1100 for climate and 150 for anil. ABE HUMMELL IS OUTt The farm la well stocked with prise WILL SAIL FOR EUROPE cattle, sleek horses and fat awlne, and (By the United Press.) the Nebraskan finds one of hla greatX7W YORK, March If. Abe Hum. est pleasures in these animals. The house Itself la handsomely but simply mell left the penitentiary at Bing Sing In close confinfurnished, with the library aa Ita moat today, but waa kept Is ement It that he will sail expected distinctive feature. Like the rest of the house. It Is for Europe Saturday. with handsomely furnished, JRS. ANNA GOULD AND of polished oak and four walla of InCHILDREN ARRIVED TODAY teresting pictures pictured walla very often reflect the pereonalltlea dwelling (By the United Press.) within them, you know. NEW YORK, March II. Mrs. Anna Many Pictures en the Walls. Gould with three children arrived toFrom these walla look down Linday. She expects to visit Jn this councoln and Webater, Tolstoy, Bryan try for several months. Her name aphimself a large portrait In oil and Mrs. pears in the passenger list Mrs. Bryan, and Jefferson. There Is Miller. Deaaen expected to arrive also a picture of the capital in Wash- within a week. ington, done in split straw by an Italian admirer. big desk In the office In the basement The hooka on the shelves run the of Falrvlew, la a little stand at which whole gamut of literature, ancient she alts whenever be la there, taking aqd modern, with the emphasis on dictation on the machine or anawe:-ln- g some of the hundred or more letassays and economic subjects, and tho flat top desk, a massive affair, la ters that are sent out to him from ' lightly burdened with writing material, the Commoner office every day. offloe to the delivered la since the bimetallat All hla mall he la still that don nearly all of hla writing In hla of hla weekly paper, which la Just oif office In the basement. the main street In Uncoln, and la In the library, aa in every other supervised by his brother, Charles W. And last year 100,000 letters room, there are curious and beautiful Bryan. to William Jennings Bryan, valuaddressed trtnklets, soma of them rare and able, which were given to the Bryana with variations, were received tnor. In foreign countries. He seldom goes to the cfflce jf III In the billiard room upstairs are aper, although, he writes the leading hosts of queer looking contraption editorials for It each week and keep liven him by missionaries here and a close eye on the proof. Home Life is Simple, there In heathen lands. Among these re many samples of the hats worn His home life Is as simple as that wrell-to-farmer, by various peoples, and In these the of the average the latter In from differs It Nebraskan takes peculiar delight He though dons one after another, even to the moat ways. In a cosy little frame wlrd headgear of the Pareee widow, house not far from Falrvlew lives his and each time he smiles a funny smile, farm superintendent who looks after If seeking som sort of expression the stock and the crop, for Farmer" desk to fit the e. Bryan seldom has time from hla of actual the running after look to Gets Up With Th Larks. of how Bryan, when at home, gets up at things: He keeps close track and every morning, so aa to write a matters are cornin on," however, while before breakfast and from that he knows good corn and wheat and a aa well aa he know time until 10 at night la about as fine cow almost bosy as any man in the country. And political economy, which la very well th biggest Bryan la the Indeed. with Mrs. Bryan, who la hla constant Hla exemplary life, which. In Its moral aspects, might well be accepted She romparon In everything he does. studied law Just after they were mar- as a standard by any young man. has ried and waa admitted to the bar not repaid him many fold for the few because she wanted to pleasures of which It may have practice, but because she wanted to be a real help deprived him. At 41 he la as freshly a man half hla age , and to her husband in hla work. Anil I hat strong "he was and still is. while 46 I by no means old, most Bow that his work ha resolved men of that age who had done all In the way of hard Itself so largely Into writing writing Bryan has done leas lit than he. far would be editorials, lectures. letters, books and work articles for magaslnes she has learned Tet his side hair he has none on top 10 4a Iron grey. ee a typewriter, and, beside hla lst "de-llght- do top-piec- ed (K)ieclal to State Journal.) BALT LAKE CITY, March 19. A tremenduous sensation waa sprung In the trial of Jo Rulllvan, who la on trial here for hla life, charged with tho killing of Policeman Ford, today, when Richard Demlng, a convict, testified that he had been instructed by officials of the sheriffs department of Salt Lake county to aaaist Sullivan to escape; that the officials would call upon Sullivan to halt and if he did not Immediately comply, they would kill him. As thia testimony fell from the lips of the witness. It created a moat profound sensation. Nothing compared to it has been witnessed In a court of Justice In this city before. Demlng, who la held on a charge of CONDUCTOR SAYS (By the United rreas.) WASHINGTON. March 19. LilU-wit ut the i!Hinite end of tlie room tmliiy when the coiiimltti-resumed tha Kiihmurine bust Investigation. He to have nothing to do with Ihe Hou -inquiry furtlu-r- . Oiugrcssiuan idle submitted a letter from William Duties of New York denying that he resigned the directorship of the boat he believed It waa e pro-IHim- -s e eiisrfgeil In iirruit iirai-tires- . Secretary Metcalf testified that he iihihIiIi red submarines a Replying t a question aa to why the deto buy on Lak j partment i iintrac-iet- l submarine ! wt when the appropriation bill uf last year provided for right of the one proved tn e tlie beat at tho NewKrt test, at whleh test tha Electric comimuy's boat proved to be tha best Mr. Metcalf raplulned that Bonaparte ruled that the Lake host could be bought although shown lo be Inferior at the test. Mr. Metcalf said further than Thurston, attorney for the laike company, suggested asking Bonaparte, lie said no member of congress urged getting tha decision; that some (if tha representatives urged that tt wga best to buy both lak and Holland boata, but nona ad vim a ted a special boat. Mr. Metcalf, continuing hia testimony, said there was no chiusc pending tn the naval appropriation bill compelling him to buy only Electric boats. He said he thought the pending bill allowed the Lake comparty equal opportunity to get contracts with th Klee trie company. This Is contradlrtel by Llllejr. NEW TORK, March 10. The Hamilton National bank, which closed its doors during the financial flurry last fall but was reopened early thia year, under a deferred payment plan, will make Its third payment to depositors ( tomorrow. According to the agree- - , having robhed a negro, testified furde- -' ther that he was placed In the cell nient between the bank and the not until la due this payment poaltors, with1 Sullivan. He waa caught sawMay 20, but the director have decided ing the bars of the cell, as waa re- to anticipate It by two months. Two ported at the time, and, he auid, some of the officials told hlin to continue (ayinenta have already been made by the bank. suwlng. When he completed hla work he waa to let Sullivan escajte first. 'KANBAN CITY, Mo., March II. He Would be detected, called upon o have been completed for Arrangements halt, and should be fall to comply, the eleven duys hence, of would be ahot down. the National Bank of Commerce, one For this work the authorities were of the and most Important to see that Deminga sentence waa financial largest Institution west of the (By the United Press.) made aa light aa possible. which closed Its doors on DeNEW TORK, March 19. Democratlo Continuing hla testimony, Demlng cember 5. W, IX Rldgely of Washingdelegates from New Turk state to tho who said that the sheriffs officer ton, comptroller of tlw currency, has Denver convention will be unlnstrurt-e- d. said that been selected aa president of the regave him hla Instructions At a meeting of the state comthey did not think they could convict organised Institution. held In this city thia afternoon mittee In this way they wanted Sullivan, and Practically all of the depositors are a resolution favoring an unlnatructed to get rid of him. In entire agreement with the plan for delegation passed with little opposireopening the bank, and it la thought tion. Tha convention to select deletothat Ita rehabilitation will go far gates for th state at large waa called ward restoring confidence in the for Carnegie hall In this city April 14. E UNINSTRUGTED DELEGATION FR0SIN.Y. si Mis-stsstp- Mouth west HE SAW ESCAPED TO WORK AT OGDEN Word reached the office of Sheriff Wilson last night from A. M. Messenger, a Southern Pacific freight conductor, that he had seen two men at Reese station, ten miles west of here, who resembled two of the men who escaped from the county Jail Sunday night When Mr. Messenger called at the Jail and was shown photograph of the men who escaped he Identified that of Clark as one of tha men he had seen, and the other Is believed to be Jack Conrad. Last night Deputy Sheriff Murphy boarded a freight train and rode to Lakeside, and Is now working hla way back to Ogden, but so far nothing has been heard from him. A telephone message was received from a lady at Rlverdale last night stating that two men slept in her barn on Monday night and that Tuesday morning they started west on the railroad tracks They may ha the same men whom Messenger saw, and they may not; It la a matter of con- Witness Says Secretary Bonaparte Ruled That Lake Boat Could B Bought Although Shown to B Inferior at th Test. Her-reta- ry SOLDIERS TO Front Yard. TESTIFIED HE CONSIDERED SUBMARINES A NECESSITY. IS liuirgeil tile I'lrKcM panic unit it,)iies).i'ii t speech in tliti-ty-si- lie.) Much Unlli-ti- f mistake. In the front yard of the great Comre moner's farm stands a tall stone lantern, which waa given him In Japan during his recent trip around the world. Flanking the broad atone step leading to the front porch are IRE STAND ON RKIKE (By the United Press.) MAGDALENA BAT. Mar. 1!. On Board the Georgia Xoraion Roe reports by government wireless via Ban telegraph Diego that Uncle Sam's boys are making splendid records In their target practice and that all goes well with the fleet. Battleship target practice con- tlnued uninterrupted through- out Wednesday on four ranges with splendid resulta Night practice will begin tonight. Tar- ets are located by searchlights developing surprising skill of the gunners. It la unofficially reported that target practice will be completed April 10. Fishing is the principal recrea- tlon of the officers and men. The dotted with bay Is dally launrhes and life boats and large catches are common. BILL THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1908 Whatever the proportions of the strike of the Rio Grande marhlnlata in Salt Lake, there la scarcely a ripple In Ogden. Only five men have quit her and three of those thought better of It and voluntarily applied for permission to return to work which waa granted. Contrary to the published reporta A Rio Grande system Is already feeling the effects of the strike and that there are many locomotives on aide tracks and In roundhouses awaiting repairs, a Rio Grande official stated this morning that the company has plenty of available power. He stated that fifty new locomotives recently received have not yet been put In commissi cm and that they are scattered along the line from Denver to Salt Lake. These are available In two or three days, all that would that the Denver b required being the breaking In of each of them, and this la an engineer's Job. The official referred to said that If every one of the old locomotives jecture. wet laid up for repairs, an unlikely TEH HAYTIEN CRISIS IS PAST contingency, enough new power could (By the United Press) be put Into commission immediately WASHINGTON. March II. Official, to handle the traffic. reports to tho state department yester au Port from at Minister Furnlas day CONVENTION OF MINERS Prince Indicates that the crisis ! past ADOPTS WAGE SCALE and no further complications are anticipated. (By the United Press.) March 19. The INDIANAPOLIS, TROUBLE SEEMS TO BE of miners toconvention International AT AN END NOW. the day adopted report of the wage scale The policy Is to committee. (By tha United Press.) to adopt districts 10. The permit PORT AU PRINCE, March separate 'rouble seems to be at an end at this wage scales and contracts with operaone place. The American cruiser. Creasy, tor. Such contracts will run for arrived In the harbor today. The pop- year, providing not le than presIndiana ulace Is under control and there are no ent rates." are established. expects to be the first district to sign signs of rouble. When the bank opens it will owe depositors 119,000,444 and will have $6,000,000 cash on hand. This la more than double the requirement fixed by the government The day the bank opens depositors will be permitted to check against their accounts for the full amounts. DISCOUNT RATE REDUCED. BY BANK OF ENGLAND (By the United Press.) LONDON, Eng., March If. The Bank nf England today reduced the minimum rate of discount one-ha- lf of one per cent, fixing It at I per cent. For the past two weeks I and one-ha- lf NEW TORK, March 16. According per cent discount has been In force. to tha announcement of the trustees, The reduction la expected to have s everything will be In readiness for th marked effect In the financial world. resumption of business by the Knick- GOVERNOR CURTIS GUILD week erbocker Trust company on AT POINT OF DEATH from today, the day set for the Institution to reopen Ita doors. The reor(By the United Press.) , ganiser are busily engaged In putting BOSTON, March 19. Governor Curaffair In shape for next Thursday, tis Guild, Jr, la at the point of death with every prospect of complete suc- at his home In this city. He Is sufcess. Under the reorganisation plan, fering from a complication of rheumacontrol will not revert to the original tism and la grippe. He has a chance stockholders until the depositors have of recovery but his family and Imme-l- et been paid In full. friends are apprehensive of the The Knickerbocker Trust company outcome. waa the first and largest banking Institution to close Ita doors In the panic THERE ARE OTHER COUNTS AGAINST J. ED BOECK days. The company suspended on United Press.) the (By after October 2, morolng, Thursday NEW TORK. March If. Officers will a run of two hours had exhausted of the company's $8,000,000 of probably leave today for Ban FVanclaco cash. Bines then the committee has to brink back J. Edward Boeck, former been working Incessantly In the face Jewelry salesman. He will have to fkce of Innumerable obstacles to prepare a a number of other chares besides the theft of 616,000 worth of Jewelry satisfactory plan for resumption and alleged E. W. Dayton, hie former emfrom deassents from the 17,000 get enough ployer. positors to maks It operative. ' RATES ON FLORIDA FRUIT FIRE AT THE ELKS JACKSONVILLE. Fla March 19. A hearing waa held here today by the Interstate commerce commission to take up the matter of cheaper and more uniform railroad freight ratos on through shipments of Florida fruits and vegetables out of the state. The present rate on carload lots of oranges from Florida points to New Tork Is from SOU cents to 69Vfc cents per box. The Florida Fruit A VegeProtective association table Shipper asks for a blanket rate of 50 cents per box from all Florida points to New Tork. i CLUB AT SALT LAKE Information received from SaR Lake to the effect that Are started at about the noon hour In the fine Elks club house on State street. Chief Vail said that the origin of the fire was a spark from the flue on the roof, and that the loss to the building would not exceed 625. The Elke say, however, that the damage to the furnishings by water will amount to 61,000. la |