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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-15
NOW FOR THE GOLD STANDARD
NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE
DEMANDS ACTION.
Wants Congress to Legislate Before
the Next Presidential Election
Bank Notes Instead of Greenbacks

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE subject first
considered at today's meeting of the Ma
tional Board of Trade was embodied in
a resolution offered by the New York
Board of Tradetand Transportation, urg
ing upon congress the Importance of
6nacting a national trademark regiStra-
ton law. This resolution was adopted.
1he committee resolution urging con-
gresS to exercise it's power to prevent the
ing to stifle full and free competition, was
voted down, failing to receive a two
thirds majority.
The committee on banking and currency
reported a resolution favoring the gold
standard, which was adopted without dis
cussion. The resolution is as follows:
we favor legislation:
"That will permanently establish the
gold standard;
That will retire all kinds of paper cur
rency issued by the government as rap
idly as can be done without undue con-
traction or injury TO the agricultural in
duStry or commercial interests of the
country;
That will provide for currency issued
by banks. in safe proportion TO their
sound capital surplus, as the needs
of the country equire, under such gov
ernmental supervision and control as viii
insure it's redemption in gold at banks of
issue and at the leading monetary centers
of the United States.
I'VE deem this matter of vital import
ance. and we urge it's immediate consid-
GRAFTON by the congress, to the end that
legislation enbodying the principles set
forth in these resolutions may be secured
If q special session of congress be neceS-
sary. the magnitude and Importance of
action upon the subject demand that
such a session be called
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Mrs. Botkin Purchased Both at San
Francisco.
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY
WANTED ARSENIC TO BLEACH A
HAT.
Drug Clerk Recommended Other
Bleaches, But She Would Have
None of Them-Girl Who Sold the
Candy Not Positive Mrs. Botkin
Was the Purchaser.

San FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-THE trial of
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin is becoming more
interesting to that part OF the public
which takes an interest in such pro-
ceedings. Today was cold and stormy
but the crowd which managed to pack
itself into Judge Cooks court room waa
as large, if not larger, than on any pre-
vious day, and the police had hard
work preserving order. Never has a
murder trial of such import progressed
so rapidly in a San Francisco court
room. Witnesses are subjected to but
slight cross-examination, as a rule, and
the attorneys on both sides rarely pro-
test against the admission of evidence.
Thomas Price, the analytical chemist
of this city, who examined some of the
candies sent to Mrs. Dunning, was the
first witness called. Professor Price
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stated that he received eight samples
Of the candy from Chief of Police Lees
on Sept. %, and that his analysis
showed an aggregate amount of eigh-
teen grains Of arsenic in the candy
submitted to him. He described the
different forms of arsenic for the ben
eft of the jury, and was excused.
Dr. Wolf, the chemist from Dover,
was recalled, and was asked if he had
ever heard of arsenic being used for
bleaching straw hats. He replied in the
negative. This question was asked for
the reason that Mrs. Botkin admitted
shortly after her arrest that she had
purchased some arsenic for the purpose
mentioned.
Frank Gray, a. pharmacist, furnished
important information regarding the
purchase of the arsenic by Mrs. Botkin.
He said that on the 1st of June Mrs.
Botkin, whom he knew slightly, called
upon him for some arsenic, and Volun-
teered that she wished it for the pur-
pose of bleaching a straw hat. Gray
recommended several other bleaches,
but Mrs. Botkin said She was familiar
with arsenic and preferred it. Gray
made the entry on the poison book of
the store, indicating the use to which
it was TO be subjected. He entered the
name on the book as Mrs. Bothin."
David Green, a pharmacist employed
in another store, failed to positively
identify Mrs. Botlxin as the woman who
purchased some arsenic from him,
though "she was short and stocky.'
This description fits Mrs. Botkin; but
only to a limited extent.
Miss Sylvia Henri, d saleswoman for
George Haas & Sons, candy manufac-
tureTs and retailers, was the most i'm
portant witness this afternoon. She
identified some of the candy sent to
Mrs. Dunning as being from the stock
Of her employers.
She identified the box, and explained
that she did not quite fill it at the re-
quest of the purchaser, who said she
wished to put something else in the
box. Miss Henri identified a seal used
by the firm and said that the pur-
chaser appeared nervous during the
whole transaction. Miss Henri's identi-
fication was not positive, but She quail
ified it by saying that she believed that
Mrs. Botkin was the person to whom
she sold the candy.
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pleted the first draft of their report,
and it is now in the hands of the sec
retary of the interior. The report re-
cites the work of the commission, and
concludes by reporting failure to in
duce the Indians to accede to an agree
ment accepting allotments on part of
the reservation and opening the re-
mainder. They say that further legis-
lation by congress upon the subject is
necessary.
Senator Rawlins will now press his
new BILL which assigns the Indians to
a. portion of the reservation and sells
the remainder for their benefit. He
said: THE Indians may not advocate
this course, but it will prove the best
thing for them. and the government
should always try to do the best thing
The Indians are like infants, or other
wards of government in this respect .
ILLEGAL REVENUE TAXES.
Representative King appeared before
the house subcommittee on claims this
afternoon and secured an agreement
for favorable report on the bill re-
funding the illegal Utah revenue taxes
of 1873 and 1879.
The subcommittee will submit as its
report statement drafted by Judge
King.
IeepIeseHldtlVe hInS also called on
the treasury department officials today.
He is endeavoring to secure favorable
recommendations from them for both
the Salt Lake and Ogden public build
ing bills.
Pensions were granted today as fol-
lows: Idaho, original William w.
Woods Wallace, $S; Wyoming, original.
Platt A. Hinman, Encampment, Sc; in
crease, Rees Williams, Cheyenne S12
to $17
Thomas N. Crosthwait was today ap-
pointed postmaster at Cora, Latah
county, Idaho, vice Mrs. Eliza Simpson,
dead.
| Senator Shoup called on the surgeon
general this afternoon and secured a
promise of the appointment of DR..
Sweet as contract surgeon at Boise.
FRANK H HOSFORD.
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Shocking CRIME UNEARTHED
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED AND
BODY CREMATED.
Several People Arrested at Hot
Springs, Ark.-Mrs. Borne Was
Killed For Her Money.

Hot Springs. Ark, Dec. 14.-Grad-
ually the mystery surrounding the dis
appearance from this city several
weeks ago of Mrs. Nellie j. Borne,
beautiful young woman who was Wis
iting this health resort, and who, the
authorities believe, was murdered by
young Hardy Sheffield and robbed of
her money, is being cleared up.
Hardy Sheffield is in Jail. charged
with murder. The sheriff returned to
the city today from the home of Shelf
fields brother in Hot Springs county
where it was reported the body of Mrs
Horne had been found. He brought a
sack containing gruesome evidence that
a human body had been cremaIed,
piece by piece, in Sheffield's house The
sack contained human bones and other
articles from the fireplace. Experts
are at work making a scientific exami-
nation of these ghastly relics, and it
is already established that the bones
are those of a human being.
Sheffield's mother in whose house
the crime is supposed to have been
committed, was brought to Hot Springs
by Sheriff Williams and placed in Jail.
as We're also several others who are
charged with being accessories to the
crime. Some startling DEVELOPMENTS
are expected.
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UniOnism to Be Pushed In the
Mountain States.
WORK OF FEDERATION
PROTEST AGAINST THE ANTI
SCALPING BILL.
Denounced As Legislation In the In
terest of Gigantic Combine-De-
mand That Congress Enact an
Income Tax Law Boycott On
American Tobacco Company.

Kansas City, Dec. 14.-Speech-m making
consumed the morning session of the
third day Of the annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor. The
delegates listened with interest to the
talks by William Thorne and William
Inskip, delegates from the British la
Dor congress, and to response thereto
by President Samuel Gompers.
President Gompers said, in the course
of his remarks, that there was some
times a misapprehension as to the con-
ditions of workers of our country. A
greater percentage of labor outside the
agricultural element, he said, were or
gaHized in America than on any part of
the globe. Small conventions We're not
necessarily an indication of lack of
strength. While he declared that union
lists were active in defending their prin-
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joint session of the Georgia legislature
this afternoon. His reception by the
general assembly was warm and hearty
in the extreme, and his speech was
Dunctured with frequent outbursts of
cheering. It is admitted on all sides
that the address marked an epoch in
history, and is tonight on every lip.
Upon the presidents arrival at the
capitol he was greeted with a field ar
tillery salute, and was at once escorted
to Governor Candler'S office There was
a short informal reception there U..on
its conclusion the president, followed
by members of the cabinet, was con-
Quoted to the assembly chamber, where
he occupied the speakers chair with
Governor Gambler on his right.
When President Dodson of the SEN
ate called the legislature to order the
galleries were thronged with men and
women The body of the chamber was
fairly well filed with state senators
and assemblymen, while the uniforms
of various officers and the governor S
staff gave a touch of brilliant color to
the gathering.
On the first row, facing the speakers
chair, sat Secretaries Gage, Long, VIII
son and Postmaster General Smith and
Secretary Porter. Beside the speak
er's desk, and below the president, Cen
CIclS Wy neeltF, 11dWlOu tl1u 1OulSJ III
full UNIFORM. sat on chairs.
The speaker raped for silence, and
introduced the president to the aud
fence, after congratulating the state of
Georgia upon the presence of their dis
tinguished guest AS the president
rose the audience applauded.
During the course of his short speech.
Mr.. Mckinley referred often to his
notes, and constantly paused for the
cheers to stop. A scene of intense en-
thusiasm followed when, amid impress
sive silence, these words fell from the
lips of the president:
Every soldiers grave made during
the unfortunate civil war is a tribute
to the American valor.i And while, when
those graves We're made we. differed
widely about the future of the gov
ernment, those differences We're long
ago settled by the arbitrament Of arm,
and the time has now come in the
evolution Of sentiment and feeling un-
der the providence of God, when, in
the spirit of fraternity, we should share
with you in the care of the graves of
the confederate soldiers"
A wild cheer went uD from every
throat in the typical southern audience
a cheer that echoed and re-echoed
throughout the chamber until it was
taken up by the crowds outside. Old
men who fought for the south rose
from their seats and waved their hats
One confederate veteran, now ven
erable legislator, had pressed forward
until he was leaning against the speak
/ er's desk, hanging on each word the
president uttered. When the reference
was made to the confederate dead this
old man buried his head in his arms
nv, Po
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PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT.
Volunteers Form an Association and
Will Remain In the Islands.

Volunteers Form an Association and
Will Remain In the Islands.
Manila, P. L, Dec 14-At an enthu-
siastic meeting at the Astor battery at
it's headquarters today, preliminary
steps were taken to establish the Phil
| ippine Development Association OF
! American Volunteers. for the purpose
of promoting the development of the
! islands when the volunteers are dis
charged from the service. While will
ing to bear arms as long as required,
| many of our volunteers are deS1rOuS or
remaining here to engage in various en-
] terprises. Some of them are determined
! to settle down in the Philippines, even
| if they are compelled to return to the
| United States in order to get their DIS
! charges. The association proposes to
| communicate with the United States
authorities in order to obtain the dis
| charge of all volunteers who are de-
sirous of settling down here, and will
urge that the men be granted travel
i ling allowance in lieu of transporta-
| ton when their time has expired.
! Meantime the association intends to
| procure information regarding Ine re-
sources of the islnads. Its member
| ship is confined to enlisted men OF good
| character.
The Astor battery has been ordered
to deliver up its equipment TO the quar-
| termaster, preparatory to embarking on
/ a homeward bound transport.
NEW PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC.
Official advices from Iloilo contain the
names of the members OF the newly
| formed ''Viscayan republic" They are
as follows: Lopez, president; Nlneente'
| Franco, vice president; Ramon A
Yancene. secretary of state; Venancio
Conception, chancellor of the exchequer'
Jovita Tusay, chief justice; Fernando
/ Salas, departmental secretary.
A proclamation issued by the COVER
nor general saluted 'the sovereignty
of the Viscayas and expresses the hope
that under Gods protection they VIII
soon be a free people, under the SHADOW
of the tricolor banner and the basis OF
the Filipino republic.
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Gould After Clnicago Ia Alton.

New York, Dec 15.-The Press SAYS:
George ]. Gould has made a bid to buy
the Chicago & Alton railroad. a line from
Chicago to st. Louis and Kansas City
The bid is made in competition with the
Vanderbilts, who had offered to buy. the
property, which has been in the market
for sixty days.
The rivalry between the bidders created
much interest in Wall street when it be-
came known that Mr.. Gould was consid-
ering the purchase of the railroad
The Alton would give to the Goulds a
northern Quite. for their whole South
western system. which includes the Mis-
souri, Pacific. the st. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern, and the international
and Great Northern,
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ciples in politics, citing the fact that
seventeen union men we're members of
the Colorado state Legislature, Mr.. Com
perS, nevertheless, urged Increased ac-
tivity along this line. Upon the employ
ment Of women, Mr.. Gompers said:
The American Federation of Labor
has always stood for the organization
and recognition of those women who
are compelled of necessity to work. But
we do demand now and we must always
demand equal pay for equal work.
These sentiments were greeted with
applause.
A resolution providing for a fund to
push the organization Of trades unions
in the intermountain states was
adopted.
ANTI I-SCALPING PROTEST.
At the afternoon session a resolution
presented by Adrian NJ. Jones of Chi
cago, protesting against the passage of
the anti-scalping bill, recently passed
by the national house of representa-
tives, was adopted without discussion.
The resolution protests against the
passage of the bill or similar measures
as being q. blow at the liberty Of indi-
viduals," and classes it "as legislation
conceived in the interest of a gigantic
combine and trust.
1T is the sense of this convention .
continues the resolution, that a ticket
purchased from any transportation
! company should, in all equity and JUS
tice, belong to the purchaser, and he
should have the same right to dispose
of it as of any other lawfully acquired
property"
A copy of the resolution viii be sent
to each United States senator.
FOR INCOME TAX.
The income tax resolution offered by
J. S. Kent of Nebraska was not adopt
ed. but this substitute was unanimously
endorsed:
Resolved, That the American Fede-
raticn Of Labor is of the opinion that
the decisions of the supreme court on
the income tax are not in accord with
the constitution or the spirit of the
American people, and that the fedora
ton demand of congress a law making
a tax on incomes a feature of federal
taxation"
Convict labor came in for a share of
the conventions attention. The reso-
lutions condemning convict labor by C.
/ w. Coy were referred to the executive
council, with instructions that it take
/ such steps as may check its encroach-
ments upon the interests Of the honest
/ working people of the laid.
The convention emphatically reaffirm-
1 ed the boycott on the American Tobacco
! company, declaring it to be a monopoly
I and a trust, and to be under the ban
/ of organized labor.
4 At $3.50 o'clock the convention ad-
1 journed for the day.
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SHORTAGE OF DRUGS.
Medical Outfits Were Abandoned In
the SANTIAGO Campaign.

Medical Outfits Were Abandoned In
the Santiago Campaign.
Washington, Dec. H.-At the session of
the army investigating commission to-
day Dr. Benjamin F. Pope, who was chief
surgeon in the Shafter expedition to
Cuba, and in charge of camp at Tampa.
early in its occupancy, said, surgical
pressing materials enough TO care for
5000 wounded were taken aboard the
transports. He ascribed the woes of the
medical department in that expedition to
the wholesale abandonment of the regi-
mental outfits of medicines and stores by
the regiments. He did not know who was
responsible for this, but conceded it was
hardly likely that so sweeping an
abandonment would have been made save
on orders from Major General Shafter
VINO commanded. lie admitted that some
seriously wounded were loaded in heavy,
jolting army wagons and that this
aggravated the suffering, but he only
knew Of one instance in which death
might be ascribeG to such transportation.
Witness testified to an almost chronic
shortage of drugs. which had caused him
great trouble and uneasineSs When. the
Relief arrived she was supposed to have
700 tons Of supplies on board. but though
she was unloaaed on the 10th or 18th the
crpgs ran out again about July 20,
f1r. Conner remarked that the shortage
On drugs seemed to be chronic every
Nhaeoe except at Montauk
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PARADISE FOR OUTLAWS.
Extradition Treaty With Mexico Will
Soon Be Abrogated.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Unless the un-
expected happens, the United States
and Mexico will be without an extradi-
ton treaty on the 18th of next month.
The situation promises to be one of
gravity, and the Mexican border is
likely to be q paradise for fugitives
from justice and criminals of every de-
scription until a new treaty can be
agreed upon. Mexico denounced the
existing treaty because our government
refused to deliver up. on extraditiOn
proceedings, certain MeXicans, who had
escaped across the line and were ac-
cused by their own government of va
rious offenses of a criminal character
but who, it is asserted, We're really
wanted for political reasons The case
of Guerra, who was involved in one of
the periodical raids across the border
of New Mexico organized by the lead
er, GarZa, caused the break
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THE LUErGERr SESAMOID.
Nspy Piece Of Bone Prostrates Police
Captain.

GaJLd1A.
Chicago. Dec. 1.-THE sesamoid that
sent Adolph Louis Luetgert to a felon's
cell for life has laid Captain William
+. Knoch on a bed of pain from which
he may never rise. Luetgert was made
its victim by the evidence this tiny
oSseOus particle constituted, while Cap
tain Knoch has been felled by the virus
that clung to its scaly sides. The Sc
rious ailment that has kept Captain
Knoch confined to his bed for several
weeks is pronounced by his physicians
to be undoubtedly blood poisoning and
the source Of it they conclude is clearly
discoVerable in the malignant little
sesamoid.
When the first trial of Luetgert was
begun, Captain Knoch was made Gus
todian Of the exhibits in evidence for
the prosecution. Among these was the
sesamoid. This piece of bone, no lon
ger than cne's finger nail, is said to
have been found by the police in the
middle vat in Luetgert's S sausage fac
tory. This bone was regarded by the
states attorneys as the convincing evil
dence that Mrs. Luetgert had been
murdered and that her body was dis
solved in the vat until it was q. sapoa-
aceOus mass that was flooded away
as sewage. The traces Of the crime, it
was said, were found on the floor and in
the vat but the most significant of
these was the sesamoid.
One day in July, after handling the
sesamoid, Captain Knoch rubbed his
hand to his bare breast on account of
the heat and perspiration caused by the
torrid weather. Not long after that
event he fell i'll and a physician pro-
nounced his complaint to be sepsis. The
9Rs9se Of the blood poisoning was in
De- into at The same time and laid
illness Of six weeks, he recovered suf-
ficiently to be about. Two weeks ago
he was taken i'll again and again his
illness was pronounced to be sepsis.
The doctors say that it is a recurrence
OF the old attack and due to the same
cause.
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HEADING. Off R.ennhlicans.

Topeka, Kan. Dec. 1LGovernor Leedy
will issue a call tomorrow morning for a
special session of the legislature to meet
Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. This
course was decided upon tonight after
a conference Of POpulist leaders. The
Populist leaders responsible for the
issuing of the call desire to enact several
Populist measures into law before the
Inauguration of the Republican legisla-
ture elected in. NoVember
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Northern Presidents Tribute
to Confederate Heroes.
NOTABLE UTTERANCE
AT ATLANTA JUBILEE
Young Southerners Cheered and
Aged Veterans Wept.

"The Time Has Come When We
Should Share With You In the
Care of the Graves, Of the Confed-
crate Soldiers Said the President
General Wheeler Eulogized Nc
Kinley, But Alger Would Not
speak-Enthusiastic Receptions.
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