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Show SALT LAKE IX, NUMBER 16. GIVES A MILLION ON WEDDING EVE BEAUTY MARRED BY CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY RAILROAD ABUSE OF WATER TRAFFIC WOLFHOUND 27, 1908. Weather BRUTAL MURDERER FIGHTS PRICE FIVE CENTS | Today-Fair. FATE OF SHEETS SOON TO BE KNOWN FOR LIFE ' VOLUME ee President Transmits Inland Commission Report With Pertinent Comments. CEREMONY PRIVATE STAND AGAINST MONOPOLY Indications of Truce in Family Feud and Social Warfare, Unregulated Competition Destroys Development of Transportation Facilities KEPT Case Will Go to Jury This Afternoon, According- to Attorneys. altace." Philadelphia Quinine Queen Bestows One-Sixtieth of Fortune on Relatives. ALEX M'WHIRTER FAINTED - OY YY Elder of Famous Brothers Swooned During Thurman's Argument, - Washington, Feb. 26.-President Roosevelt, in transmitting to congress today a preliminary report of the Iinland waterways commission caused considerable {nterest by discussing at some length the findings of the commission and by giving his individual Views on the decadence of inland water traific. The President in his most emphatic way supported the statestions of the committee He told congress that the report represented the mature judgment of a body of men exceptionally qualified by personal experience and knowledge of conditions throughout' the was preserved which sailed for Liverpeol at 1] o'clocik. The ceremony was performed in the emall chapel of the cathedral by Archbishop Farley, assisted by Rev. Father Lewis, Only two friends accompanied the couple to the chapel witnesses to the wedding-an elderman and a middle-aged woman The bride celebrated the event. b} giving away $1,000,000 to" re lative and charities Among those remembered were three daughters of Mrs. Jones Wister of Philadelphia, whose unsuccessful attempt to break the will of Mrs. Walker's father created a sensation several months ago Mrs Walker gave nothing to Mrs. Wister herself, but the fact that Mrs. Wister's children were at the wedding indicates that the family feud has been ended The announcement of Mrs. Walker's engagement to Mr. Penticid was made only a few weeks ago In adinitting the engagement Mrs. Walker! said that the marriage weuld occur some time in the future; that no date had The tention played Fortune Opened the death Social keeping Weight- | She © pues was daughter of owledged In the mention Quaker her 1 man of city. NIN A She IN carU had} marricd his only son and she was a} great favorite with him until the son} died. But when she early in he | widowhood married Jones Wister, the aged man became embittered. First Mrs. Robert Husband ua Senate Committee W'AUENE on lndian Congressman. Penfield's first J. C. Walker, lawyer and died about Mrs. A. C, Fox, formerly Miss Kate Parsenow, the most beautiful Geractress who ever came to this country, whose nose was Pe. off vor. |3 nd, eeeee visiting at the dog sho wii F besantyr i S\ k Bie da In his will. member of four years | | congress ago She He} is} highly cultivated, speaking several languages fluently, and fs a devoted patron of art, literature and music Although Mr. Penfleld is wealthy,| his fortune is really paltry beside his bride's vast wealth and Income of more than $38,000,000 a year He was widower, his first wife dying several ) UP TO LAST COURT Cause Des Water 1 ty of 30 to ¥., 12 the Feb. 2t senate -By today a Otto Kelsey, superintendent of Ins ance, whose removal from office wa demanded by Governor Hughes Superintendent Kelsey retalr hi office by the will o fthe majority, despite the adverse report of Matthew C. Fleming, appointed by the iy ernor to investigate the 19 -speciiic and incompetence charges of nege] made against | | OIL AND GAS 5 FOUND IN LARGE RESERVOIR| : Principal the plan to have the great 0/ Of} in) * English| collection of pictures, recently exhibited at Berlin, placed on view at Stockholm to Monopolies. the consolidatior companies, the must die i en *' of t | Want All of that=i ote he will of ehrouch other the Supreme court an appeal to Governor Hughes, yardon, or commutation of seni ful ae hat there are the United States mavigated rivers Recommendations. b Yesterday "proved a one for the state, contradict some of the by Chier Sheets when for tende testimony given ne was on: the stand the day previous, that the chief had testified a GOULD RAILROAD IN VANGERBILT GOLD MAY FADE AWAY HANDS OF RECEIVER council investigating had seen testimony had r th I Feb. nat I il & a th 26 Great | el r e! by t Cc t t he rould | « tion i t} "« nade ‘ ‘ 1 follow ( (rt re- [eCormick that all the de lin part fed- Free- a ( predict iid the p. Ji for n Che m placer f rr The Nor LOX: I ' etion on Inter- the an- I aoe i ad So wo much t 7 000 a m omed 1 rr} ‘alsed t built t Lui ‘ insol ing in ‘ and t ( the Tuesday that receipt, -he : failed to payment é t receipu This #tveng point made by the state not only #oes to prove that Sheets has told different stories of the affair all the way through, but that he actually knew, when Bell and the MeWhirters were in the room with him, that there had been a robbery as well as @ crooked game. Sheets was on of the in pay the stand a_ short time in the morning to submit to the closing round of Mr. Hanson's crossexamination He admitted that he had told McWhirter on the night of the robbery that Bell returned with the $250 in such a hurry that it wag (Contiowed protect t tain bond unable and > that $8,000 to McWhirter. was several sources, this variance with~~the Sheets seen for On the eve of sending the Sheets case to the jury, evidence Was produced by the state to show that Sheets not only Knew that the McWhirters n.robbed of the $8,000 in adtion to losing $2,000 In a poker game but that the former chief testified before the investigation conducted by the city council that he had seen such @ wid to it road had that or- nent it a \ ter it is oT 1d | ild ‘ of never The fact before the committee receipt State Scores Heavily. Countess Szchenyi in Danger Interna itiona | and Great :4erthern of Texas Fails to Ray of Losing Money in Un. ite rest. entire the given by Parrent brought out from yeing directly at. ant President The principal recommendations of the commission are: "We recommend that any plans for improving the inland waterways shall take account.of the present and prospective relation of rail lines to such waterways, and shall ascertain so far as may be whether such waterways when improved will be effectively used In the face of railway competition; and that the relations between railways and. waterways be further examined with the purpose of devisjug means of rendering the two systems complementary and harmonious and making such fair division of traffic that rates and management. may be co-ordinated economically and with | benefit to the country "We recommend that hereafter any plans for the use of Inland waterways in connection with Inter-state comrnerce shall regard the streams of the oe country as an asset of the people, and Continved on Page Two.) & /ST. LOUIS GRAFTER|S 19, hands for the state will be Attorney Fred C. ven and at least an éqval aniount which are navigable or might.be made so by Pet ncticar: there are also some 500 miles of navigeble canals, and over 2,500 miles of sounds, bays and bayous readily connectable by canals aggregating less than 1,000 miles Ir length to form inne passages paralleling the Atlantic and Gulf coasts these belng additional to some thousands of miles (reckoned. between leading ports) of regularly navigable waters in lakes and land locked bays. These waterways lie in or along the borders of forty-two states; while the development of rivers for irrigation, power and other. purposes will also render navigable certain waterways in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexlco, Utah and.Wyomine. OF ae The Crown Princess Margaret Sweden, who, is a great patroness art, is one of the prime morere Power Pinchot. It -was determi 1e mainland of some es of | | him. ROYAL PATRON TR lette, who sourl, Senator Batikheac of Alabama, General Alexander 2: izle, Herbert Knox Smith, comnrk wer of corporations, and W. J. °M and Gifford upheld |‘ the Grace Brown, sweetheart of Ches ‘A, Gillette, and Pegs latest pho <E Gil. nies controlling water. power." The preli ary report of the committee was : nitted by Representative Burton of Ohio, Senator Newlands of Nevada, Senator' Warner of Mis- vote | in ¥ a says; "Armunge these monopolies, as the report of the committee points out, there jis uo other which threatens, or has ever threatened, suck: intolerable interference with the daily life of the people as the consolidation of compa- KELSEY IS UPHELD BY NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. N. power placed It is pellewg transp Referring water the chair. "for ways. {| i | re- with September higher After stating that the various uses of waterways are now déaic With by bureaus scattered through four federal departments, and that. it is. nevertheless possible to deal with a river system as a singie problem, he takes up the suggestion of the commission that congress should provide some administrative machinery for co-ordinating the work of the various departments so far as it relates to water- pj; of Loofbouro saceabe be allowed | to continus unless Urder careful government regulation.' of Mysterious Death in Moines Carried connection closing argument made by ee the "They lana | I Egypt by be fornow charge proved a strong one for the state, an@ when court reconvened: at 2. o'clock ‘finds com- along in -robbery will Sheets, Salt-Lake, yesterday afternoon, County Attorney Willard Hanson began his argument to the jury. He spoke less than an hour and was followed by S. R. Thurman for the defense, who occupied most of the remainder of the afternoon. BE, A. Wedgwood of the defense will not arcue: the case. Shortly before adjournment, Soren X, Christenson of the defense started his arsument and will complete it~ this morning He will probably require another hour or ‘more, Then >the largely in he eir hand s. ‘This w. ural and. doubtless inevitaplePander tlhe circumstances, but. it shouli nat | years ago. Mr. Penfield {s a New Engl and was once on the educational of the Hartford college From 1890 to 1897 he was United State diplo-| matic agent and consul g¢ neralin Albany, rates Killed oats the millionaire and heir to his His death and his ght to light a social feud and ividea Wists society not the their rivers, recouping themselves charges elsewhere. mau, tlie quinine king, of Philadelphia,| Mrs. Walker was practically unknown socially. down bribé A. of the Alex McWhirter rose from. his seat white and weak and staggered from the court room. He was followed into the hall by A. J. Smith jr., and there fainted. The Incident occurred while Judge Thurman was making his argument to the jury and condemning the McWhirters for their testimony against Chief Sheets. , The last day of. taking. testimony eountry. The-report shows that commerce was driven from the Mississipph by the railroads. While production was limited, the railroads, with their convenient terminals, gave quicker and more satisfactory service than the water ways. Later they prevented the restoration of river traMe by Doors. of-Willlam on jurors sometime this afternoon. A mild sensation was caused in the court room in the afternoon, when petition which prevented or destroyed the development of commerce on our inland. waterways The Mississippi, our greatest. natural highway, is a case in point. At one time the traffic upon it was without a rival in any been set. Untill 1906, President then turned his atto the part the railroads have in the destruction of river commission," he says, s unregulated railroad police the United States to understand and discuss the great problem of how best to use waterways in the interest of all the people. as ly a George of trial McWhirter aie vale secrecy of chief celving wy greatest mer fate Standing 2 The about the ceremony. Immediately thi bride and bridegroom emerged frorm the cathedral they drove to the Cunard line pier and boarded the Carmania, The ‘RiAtataal New York, Feb. 26.-Mrs. Anna M Weightman Walker, worth $60,000,000, one of the richest women in the world was married today to Frederick Courtland Penfield, diplomat, clubman and yachtsman, in St. Patrick's cathedral. eas ss ee ountain Republican The ‘Suter- on Page Three.) 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