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Show Ogden, Utah, December 14, 1908. VOL XII. NO. 299 CIVIC MAIM Affair Truth of Brownsville NEW I! IBS Last Begins to Come Out At Taft, Samuel Gompers, John President-elec- t PRESIDENT SENDS SPECIAL MESSAGE 10 CONGRESS ON THE OLD ell, Andrew Carnegie, President Eliot of HAIRS TRIAL Distinguished Guests. AliPRESEKT Amor.i; IS TEDIPERATE IN TOHE OE RECOMMENDATION Browne's Report of Results of Investigation Showing How Nep Soldiers Plotted to Shoot Up The men. he NEW YORK. IVc. 14 -- With Pivel-- i t anil Hr Taft as tli- - guests . John Gninji-rsof honor, ami Saini-Mitchell, Andrew Carnegie. President Eliot of Harvard, Archbishop Ireland und score of other famous capitalists, labor leaders, educators and clergymen on tile program, the National Civic was known as a session of the convention will devoted to the discussion of the trade as a means of promoting inagreemt-u- t dustrial peace and commercial prosperity. Among those who will speak are John Mitchell, William C. Brown, of the New York Central, and Samuel Gompers, president of the Amerlean Federation of Labor. Still other speakers will be Andrew Carnegie, John Hays Hammond, lYesl-deCharles W. Eliot of Harvard. Benjamin Ode Wheeler, Beth Low. Nicholas Murray Butler, Archbishop Ireland, August Belmont, Marvin llughitt and Isaac N. Seligman. To-da- y' lie bciit-clcc- money lender. Backsd Saloon. Thornton Jenkins Puts in AppearHolliiinan was said to be '.he financial backer of the Allison saloon. He is ance With Composed Manner said to be the son of a Jewish trader n nd a Mulatto woman of Georgia. The Federation today neued its annual ane Stately Tread. letter from Foraker to Conyers was convention in the assembly rooms of referred to by Brown as the cause of the hotel Astor. the difficulty In getting further eviTli theme of tile discussion for the dence. The replies of Conyers, it Is 14 The two days will be the promotion of FLUSHING, N. Y., Dec. he the detective that said, related to trial of T. Jenkins Haina began today friendly relations between employers had written for advice. The letter says at 12:55, the defendant, hla father and and employes and measure designed that It is not clearly understood what for the welfare of the working people. brother Included being present. Haina entered this It phrase: transpired. Judge Taft will make the chief speech hia erect courtroom and with eyes the "1 remember you ss a witness before at the annual dinner f the organizaIn was Ha attired modestly the committee and I am sure that you snapping. tion tomorrow evening, when as chslr-maundid not there testify to anything ex- a dark business suit and apparently Emof the Federation's Public . concerned. He exchanged glances of, to cept the truth." il sympathy with hla father, brother Teddy's Special Massage. Taft also will I make hla report. counsel table. near the President Roosevelt today sent to other relatives ot lh " d Hains took hla seat next to his chief "Peak on congress a special message regarding committee same the the Brownsville affair and submitting counsel. McIntyre. The room Th wlfJ of blea a country court and holds 250 evidence. He said: to take actlv. part In the dlsros-mis- s dto- to moved defence The talesmen. I enclose the report of the Investiof the convention. At the "Iona the indictment, alleging that the gation as conducted by Herbert J. chal- - Ing of tho woman a department of the to denied waa the right war Browne, who waa employed by the read a re) the Individual members of the I federation she also will consider department with Captain Baldwin, to lenge many to is convention The them of and certain that Jury and Investigate the Brownsville matter. grand to employers relating were prejudiced against them. The questions those questions set Among waa motion denied. employes em(Continued on Pago I.) After numerous objections and coun- for discussion are: How may the ter objections, the selection of Jurors ploye and his family be Inprotected case of waa started. against financial stringency this Shall deathT" or Illness Darrin asked Walter Young, the accident. flrat talesman examined if in the event country follow England by providing Shall the state pension the court outruled the alleged confes- an old-ag- e the or state, em-Mor It the could employer, sion of Mrs. Haina he put Ger-ployec and employ Jointly, aa In aside In considering the verdict. to incident burden : tha bear said Let court many, The objected. Intyre me warn the counsel that they may death or bodily Injury of an employer examine the Jurors ss to what opinions they would believe from the witnesses, but they must not assume what a man might do from hearing anything inevldence." The objection was n the Town is Given to Senate X This Afternoon. resem-Pariment- Dec. I4.--A report of the Investigation of the Browns-vill- a case by Herbert J. Browne submitted to the war department and sent to the senate with a special message WASHINGTON. punishment tor the shortage in ridges was threatened but It was er Inflicted. At a saloon, Allison, colored of the president says that Boyd Conyers of Company B confessed that William Law son, a colored detective, himself and four others, led the shooting and gave details of how the ammunition wna secured. Conyers afterwards tried to suicide, saying that ha feared he would be murdered when the confession became known. Later after receiving a letter he from Senator oFrakw to wrote, Conyers refused to give any Information. He seemed to take the senator1 , letter as a mandate and stuck to the original story which he -- ad told the senate committee. Were Prepared. According to Conger's story, the soldiers appeared to have heard of the threatened trouble at Brownsville before they went there. They prepared to get even with the crackers" and held out cartridges on the rifle range and others while on .their way to the fort, saying that they gave them to people at the stations as souvenirs. The ex-Priv- If E BE fojlcapiiai Salt Lake ex soldier, It was agreed to make the celebrated raid at midnight on August Hol1904. John IS, Conyers, loman, John Brown and Carolina uenrauiisure were the chief conspirators. Helloman the Leader. The real leader, Conyers said, was Holloman, who distributed the ammunition which was undoubtedly done with the knowledge and of Sergeants Jackson and Reid. Holloman got them together and Holloman and Brown slipped out of the barracks where they were Joined shortly by Conyers. Deeaaaaure, who slept In the guard house with the guns, fired signal shots which were answered by the sentry at the fort. It waa Impossible for the gun recks to be opened, but the soldiers reached the gallery la time to fire after the signal shota The number firing from the barracks la unknown, but a small number followed the leaders Into Cowen alley. Five minutes after the shots, the men were at the fort. Whiskey Responsible. The guns were cleaned end fresh ammunition waa supplied before daybreak. Conyers said that whiskey was responsible because unless the men had been drinking, they would have had the nerve to shoot up the town. He dertared that when Reid was told of the plana he answered, -- un't go out there and let a lot of crackers' get This statement. It Is the best of you. alleged, was made before witnesses while Reid was talking to Lawson. Conyers was found at Monroe, Ga Man Remembered in President Roosevelt's List WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. President Roosevelt today sent to the senate the following nominations: Asnayer In charge of the office at Salt Lake City, Jldle U. Eldredge, Jr.; Justice circuit courts, Hawaii, A. Matthewman; thlr circuit Jus- tice, Charles E. Hardy; fourth circuit, J. Hardy, all of Hawaii. Captains are recommended tot read admirals, Wm P. Porter Newton and E. Mason. HR Sits -- meet-defenda- nt CASTRO SAYS Taft very canal, strongly Intimated that he might appoint Frank. B. Kellogg of Minnesota, attorney-general- . . The possibility of the selection of Kellogg for Bonaparte's cabinet seat was disclosed In, this. way. "You mean the deputy attorney-general?queried a reporter. "And the next attorney-general?- " " asked another reporter. chuckled and The president-elec- t said: Got that down?" and then Mr. Taft said that he might have been off guard a bit. Is it true that you intend to per vice-preside- nt Extract from John Mitchell'a address to the civic Federation: It is a waste of timeto, deplore the passing of the individual relationship ween employer and workman which existed under the old order of production. The organisation of labor and the combination of capital is tha natural and logical aejuence of cruel, wasteful and ruinous competition. Whether for weal or for woe, tha old system has gona forever, and the new alignments, with all their latent possibilities of good and evil, are here to stay. "The national civic federation. In keeping with (! spirit of tha times, haa declared: That at all times representatives of employers and workers, organised and unorganised, should confer for the adjuatment of differences or disputes before an actual strike Is reached and thus avoid or minimise In-- 1 BOTCH THEFT IS (Continued on Peg O KAISER HAS VENEZUELA sustained. Venezuela Government's Action Says Holland's William J. Hill was accepted aa first Juror. Thomas Walsh, a builder of , Head long Island city, was accepted is Henry I$ecke$l, a reporter, Daniel W. Johnson, retired Richmond Hill, fourth. third, builder, T Dutch Cruiser Takes Possession THREE THOUSAND UNION CITY. Tenn, Dec. 14. Before Joseph E. Jones, presiding In the circuit court which opened at one o'clock this afternoon, the triala of the night rider canes will be begun. The town is crowded ylth visitors today. SHIP L OSES secon-l- Naval Brigandage. HE WILL President-elect- . c1 of Little Venezuelan Guard E HUTCHINSON, Kan, Dec. WiHielmn Forced Ship. tral Castles WASHINGTON, 14 Kan- sas hens and their masculine consorts, to the number of 2,000, are on exhibition today at the opening of the annual show of the Central Kansas Poultry association. The poultry Industry adds millions of dollars annually to the wealth of the Sunflower state, and the. present show affords an excellent die-play of the beat breeds of the birds all Kanaana delight to honor. Indictments against the night riders, have been including 124 men brought These men will face charges ranging from the assassination of Rankin and the attempted and Quentin Investigate Panama visit sonally car In the rumors of mismanagement nal'a construction? I contemplate starting for the canal zone. he replied, probably the last week In January, and shall be gone about 20 days, returning some time in The president and I have -- coruary. times, talked the matter over several but I will say that recent, statements In the newspapers and from other sources have determined roe to go NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Even before down there and explode some of the the murder trial of Thornton J. Hains. lies about the canal. Burton brother of Captain Peter C. Hains Is You saw Congressman Ohio senatorthe about Washington called, there Is trouble over the Jury. ship?" The prospect of being locked up over I e talked It over casually. Christmas and New Year's has derstand Burton Is still a candidate for stampeded many of the tried and true" he s Bng Senator Foraker z seat and told citizens of Queens county, who have bark to make a contest of It I my been impaneled for what promises to him as I have told everybody that be the most sensational case tried In handa are absolutely off." e, . r BERLIN, Dec. 14. President Castro of Venesuela today declared the seizure of the ship Alix by Holland was no more than naval brigandage of the worst sort and that it Is an outrage on civilisation. He said: By this act Holland has put herself outside the pale of decency. I dontt know what Venesuela will do." He arrived this afternoon, declaring he would visit and consult Dr. Israel. He declares that whoever says he Is. not sick, lies. He engaged the Amt floor Datsctivas' Work. with thirty rooms at the spianade hotel. His bill will bo $250 a day. En, the Investigation. 1S4 of the were located. The detectives gaged ten motors cam at $500 dally visited thirty states. Holloman, at and army of detectives, with a retinue the time the report waa made was liv- of flunkeys. ing In Macon and Dessassure in Savannah. IL L. Collier, another alleged leader, had taken up hia home In Barnesvllie and Brown had gone to Atlanta All have kept In touch with each other since the shooting. It is declared that It would have been easy to the members of all companies except B. Other members of company B besides those named by Conyers, who were mentioned as conspirators, are Bailey, William Anderson, James LemWilliam Charles Conyers, Jones Harry Jlmerson, ons, Harry and James Johnson. Holloman was serving his fourth enlistment and had a good character on the records. NEW YORK, bee. 14. Following an announcement that he purposed In the company of expert engineer! not now on the Job, personally to visit tha Panama and pyplode lies about the 7n of Dec. IS. in Order to Informa- Strengthen Cash Box. tion secured by an official tonight Is has that the Dutch cruiser coast Veneiuelan little the captured BERLIN, Dec. 14. It is reported that J guard vessel, Alix. tho private flnancea of the kaiser are The act of Holland In the absence of bad way. The stringency la ef In a In seisins any justification known here a part of the navy of Venexuela Is con- great that the Imperial castles at Ben strued as a possible prelude to war. It- rah and Jagerschloss, near Dusseldorf, haa been known, of course, that Vene- are to be sold in the near future. The auela did not respond to Holland's embarrasstlmatum and that hostilities might be chief cause for the financial to be Is the ment said extravagance expected. The general Impression prevailed, of the kaiser In gratifying his artistic however, that Holland would undertake tastes and personal fads. a "peaceful blockade" before resorting It is said that millions have been to the secure of Venesuela's navy. It affairs la understood that the Gilderiand has squandered In this way, but that such a reached its tjiesa with have stage Curacoa prise. to gone expenditures have been reduced to a UNION LEAGUE HOLDS minimum in the past month or so. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Another Influence almost aa strong IN QUAKERTOWN as the shortage of ready money in curb ling tha Imperial extravagance, has PH LA DELPHI A, Dec, 14. An cleo'jbeen the fear of further evidences of such as was Itlon to choose officers of the Union popular displeasure, League for the coming year will be brought about by the debates In the held today. Judge Dimmer Berber, Reichstag and the famous telegraph the present president, was nominated interviews, Other candidates are i . for BAR SILVER, Charlemagne Tower, John Bailer, WH-Ham M. Coates, James F. Hope, Wll-- j NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Bar silver, Ham T. Tllden and EL T. Btoutea-- J jtDIAc. bury. J . . . 1 murder of Colonel Z. Taylor to conspiracy to murder and committing assault. The men will be charged with going upon the premises while masked, with making assaults, with burning houses and with whipping women. The men arraigned today are Garret Johnson, Bam Applewhlt, Roy Ransom Bud Morris, Fred Pinion, Arthur Cloar, Tld Burton and Bob Huffman, who are accused with first degree At noon today BALT LAKE, Dec. Trouble Getting Jury Colonel IL Nevlns, of the Grand Army of the together with the fourteen For the Hains Trial public, The bers of hla staff, will arrive. - to Sell Ances- GUik-rlan- d (( cf Nominations. John cartnev- Har- vard, Archbishop Ireland Are Among BEGINS WITH SUBJECT Mitch- 14. M. commander-in-chie- f Re- mem- - party will also Include a number of women, the wives and daughters of the Queens county since the Gulensuppe officers, aa well as a number of officers murder. of the women's auxiliaries of the G. A. There was a report today that Ad- R. Colonel F. M. Sterrett, executive dimiral Robley D. Evans, who lately retired after commanding the American rector of the encampment, and W. J. fleet In the first half of ita trip around Halloran, president of the Commercial the world, would be one of the princi- dub. will leave this morning at $ pal witnesses for the prosecution. The oclock to meet the party at Provo. fact that the admiral la now In Cali- - Upon arriving In Salt Lake a number fornla and beyond reach of Prosecuting of automobiles will be in waiting and Attorney Darrin, discounted the report. the entire party will be escorted to the Knutsford hotel, where reservations of rooms have already been made. The afternoon will be for the most part given up to rest although an executive meeting may be called some time during the day. In the evening the visitors will be the guests of the Salt Lake G. A. R. organizations at a camp fire" arranged In their honor at I. O. O. F. haH. At the Commercial dub preparations on an elaborate scale are going steadily forward for the entertainment of the visitors as the guests of honor at the dub's annual dinner on Tuesday evening. A11 the decorations have been prepared with special reference to the presence of the veterans, as well aa the program and music. |