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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The new Grand Opera house at St.
Thomas. Ont, was burned last night. Ii
was owned by Rothwell. of Detroit
! The water in the St. Lawrence is still
receding tonight and apprehension of a
| Hood at Montreal has almost passed away.
Truman b. WEIGH, superintendent OF
the Duluth Gas & Water company and
the Commercial Light & Power company.
committed suicide by shooting.
1t is expected that Governor Rogers, OF
washington Will tomorrow announce his
decision in the case of Henry Craamer,
sentenced to be hanged at Seattle next
Friday.
Among the passengers who arrived at
new York on board the French
line steamer La Navarro from Havre was
Carolus Duran, the French portrait
painter.
At Tacoma. the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company last week increased the
working hours of all employees at the
shops from eight to ten hours per day,
with a proportionate increase in wages.
The route of the proposed road from
Seattle to Portland is kept secret. but it
Is understood that il is to be by way of
Vancouver and that a bridge will be
built across the Columbia river at that
point.
Robert Reitzel noted German anarchist
writer and editor of Adaware Tufel. is dy
ing at his home in Detroit. He will be
remembered as having made the leading
speech at the funeral of the Chicago an
archists.
In the case of the United States VS..
Benjamin Butterworth. ex rel. the United
States supreme court again decided that
the name of the successor of govern
ment official could not be substituted by
the court for the name of his predecessor.
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
arrived this morning at Port Antonio.
Jamaica, from Barbados. and the United
States gunboats Wilmington and Casino
reached the same port shortly afterward
from st. Lucia. Three warships are coal
ing.
The Pennsylvania railroad depot in Jer-
sey City was damaged by fire yesterday
TO the extent of 100000. The mammoth
train shed and the large office building es-
capped. Much United States mail matter
was destroyed. Train and ferry traffic
was seriously crippled.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
An Authoritative Denial BY John
Dern Last Evening.
MAY USE ELECTRIC POWER
OBJECT OF MR.. JACOBS VISIT
TO THE EAST.
Opening Session of the Transcontin-
entail Freight Bureau Held at
Monterey Yesterday-The South
ern Pacific Mulcted Again-The
Latest By Wire-Local Notes.

The Salt Lake & Mercur road has
not been sold.
This statement was made BIZ John
Dern last evening as an authoritative
one
Eastern business publications have
stated within the last few days that
the road had been disposed of, the Bull
letin of Chicago claiming the line had
been sold to Chicago parties, who
would operate the same by electricity.
The story was reproduced in a local
paper, and later comes to hand in the
Railway Age, which says that Hirsch
Bros. of Chicago are the purchasers.
Il saw the story" said Mr.. Dern,
land ii is not true. Mr.. Jacobs is in
the east and will be home Wednesday,
but he did not go there for the pur-
pose of selling the road. He is there
to make some financial arrangements
and has completed them, so 1 am led
TO believe. rney do not include the
sale of the road
Asked if there was anything in the
story that the line was to be operated
by electric power. Mr.. Dern declared
he had heard nothing of it; that the
subject had not been under active dis
cussion.
The latter rumor may have some
ground, however, despite the statement
of Mr.. Dern, ard he would not deny
that the road might be operated, as
stated, by electricity, provided the
power could be obtained cheaper than
steam as now used, and with as coed
results.
But the road has not been sold.
Some bonds were f1oated in the east
and that doubtless gave rise to the
tale that it was on the market. Hirsch
Bros. may have handled the paper, but
that is all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
Wyoming.

The prospects are that Wyoming will
make no state exhibit at Omaha, but
several of the counties will be repre-
scented.
Laramie Republican: Mrs. W. z.
Towle, who owns a ranch on the Little
Laramie river, about 20 miles west of
Laramie. trapped two coyotes a few
days ago. The intrepid ranchwoman
clubbed one of the animals to death
and shot the other enc after he mad
dragged the trap q considerable dis
lance over the country.
The boom at Kemmerer in Uinta
county is phenomenal. The first build
ing in the town was put up in August.
1897. The first shipment of coal from
the mines was in November 1897. To-
day there are fully 90 two and three
story buildings of frame and stone.
There are 300 miners in the employ of
the Kemmerer Coal company and Is
many more at the Diamond Drill camp,
one mile distant. The three towns Of
Kemmerer, North Kemmerer and Dia-
mon1ville viii be under one incorpora-
ton soon. and will have a population OF
1900 people within year. These
camps are shipping from 60 to 100 car
loads Of coal per day.
DR.. n. A. Johnson. who will be the
editor OF the True Democracy, to be
of April. says the plant has been pur-
chased in Denver and will be set up
in Cheyenne next week. Ee reports sub
scriptions coming in rapidly for the
new organ OF the silver reform forces
The interest of the people in the cause
is increasing throughout the state as
the campaign approaches.
While drilling a test we'll for oil on
the Brenning tract, near Douglas, the
Wyoming Oil company struck a strong
flow Of water, which gushes in n six
inch stream to height of 16 feet above
the mouth of the well. The water was
struck at a depth of 600 feet and is al
most as valuable a find as oil would
have been, for il will enable large
tracts of land in this part of the state
to be irrigated if a strong artesian flow
of water is found to be general.
State Ceologist w. c. Knight has
compiled the following statistics of the
mineral production of Wyoming for
the year 1897: Coal. 2.744.960 tons;
value, s3.431. 200. Coke, 1880 tons:
value s47, 900. Decomposed granite
SHERMAN graveD, 304, 936 tons; value,
S152, 49,. 80. Iron ore. 1920 tons; value.
$64. 800. Plaster. 800 tons; value. $780,
500. Petroleum, 5000 barrels (estimat-
ed; value. $4,000. Clay. $50 tons; value,
1910. Gold, $1,000. This is the first at
tempt to make a compilation of the
mineral production of Wyoming.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
INSANITY AND MURDER.
The Plea of Insanity as an Excuse
For Crime.

London Hospital: 1t may be we'll that
a man who could not be called insane,
but merely, say, an ordinary member of
the criminal classes. with strong pas
stems and feeble intellect, would, in the
presence of an opportunity long ex-
pected and hoped for, the consequences
of which his thoughts had frequently
rehearsed. be really for the moment in
capable OF restraining his hand. We
should hang him, nevertheless. without
the slightest scruple; ana we should
waste no compassion upon the absence
of self control. 1t is. in fact, impossible
TO frame q definition of irresponsible
ity based upon absence of Self-control
without including all sorts of crimes
which at present are punished by law.
For years back there has been a kind
of feud between the lawyers and the
alienists on the subject, so that even
the textbooks speak of legal insanity
and medical insanity as distinct. To
take extreme cases, jurists have con-
tended that no degree of insanity should
exempt from punishment for crime I'M
less it has reached such a point that the
person is utterly unconscious of the dir
ference between right and wrong at the
time of committing the offense, While
medical men nave very generally nelu
to the opinion that this is not a proper
criterion; that many of the insane are
fully conscious of the difference be-
tween right and wrong, and that to en-
force such a test means the hanging
of many a lunatic. There can be no
doubt that of late years the medical
view has met with q wider acceptance
than it used to do, and that even law
yers have shown an increasing readi-
ness TO admit the doctrine of frrespon-
sibility. But this is a very anxious
question, especially in view of the re-
cent dogmaS as to degeneracy, how far
this doctrine is to be allowed TO go.
The condition of affairs is much more
serious than some people think, and 1t
is highly necessary that these who adj
minister the criminal law should be on
their guard against any insiduous es-
tablishment of immunity for the vio-
lation of its most sacred principles In
any case of murder, the presumption
in favor of hanging should be so strong
as to leave very slender prospect of es-
cape for any man who, prior to the
commission of his crime, had been
thought fit to be at large. If this con-
dition cannot be secured. it will become
matter of grave necessity TO take
prompt steps for the incarceration OF
many people of evil passion who are
now at liberty, and to render the utter
ance of threats a matter to be dealt
with by the alienist as we'll as by the
MAGISTRATE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
NOTABLE DEAD.
Principal In Clithro Cass

London, March 21.-E. H. Jackson,
who became prominent in 1891 as the
principal in what was known as the
Clithro case. is dead. Miss Emily Hall,
who was born in 1860, was married in
1887 to z. Haughton Jackson at Black
burn. They never lived together, she
returning to her friends and he going
to New Zealand. In 1888 Mr.. Jackson
returned to England, conversed with
his wife and had one interview with
her. but she steadily refused to live
with him. Litigation between the
couple ensued. A decree against her
was obtained in 1889. On March 8, 1891,
Mr. Jackson and others seized Mrs.
Jackson, who was coming from church
at -Clithro, and carried her off to his
house at Blackburn. where she was
placed in charge of nurse and close
ly confined. Friends of Mrs. Jackson
obtained a writ of habeas corpus and
she was brought before the court of
appeals. which eventually decided, on
March 10, that a husband has no legal
power to detain his wife against her
will Mrs. Jackson returned to her
friends
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
Short Orders.

A. NJ. Jackson was admitted to the
bars Of the United States district and
circuit courts
Hyman Harris VS.. the Snyder &.
Baker Stove Works; dismissed at plain
tiff'S cost.
w X Sullivan, receiver Of the Amer
lean Building. Loan and Investment so
ciety. vs.. Susanna G. Hansen ct al. F:
judgment and decree Of foreclosure for
the plaintiff for SS90.S0 ard costs, by de-
fault.
The United States vs.. receivers of
Union Pacific Railroad company ct al. :;
three cases. actions to set aside patents
90 coal lands: trial reset for March %.
INC decree was yesterday enetered in
sse case of William Westfall against
the Beaver Valley Land and Irrigation
company, in favor Of the plaintiff for
S43.S74.05. and $500 attorneys fees.
The decree orders the sale of the
mortgaged property.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
FREIGHT BUREAU.
Opening Session of the Transcontin-
entail Association Yesterday

--~-ON4eSAS44 4lY.
Monterey, Cal, March 21-Many
members of the Transcontinental
Freight bureau arrived here today and
opened the first session of the six days'
convention at pm. R. H. Countess of
Chicago presiding. Nothing but the
formal opening and roll-can of mem
bers was accomplished today, owing to
the delay in the arrival of several
prominent men from eastern points.
The actual organization Will occur at
10 am. tomorrow, when the work of
the bureau will be taken up, and dur
ing the next six days will have i'm
portant results affecting all traffic reg
ulations.
There is big docket to be submitted
to the meeting. much business relating
to applications for division classified
ton of rates having accumulated dur
ing the five months since the last meet
ing of the bureau in Chicago a read =
justment of the present transcontinent-
al tariff will be made the special sub
Ject for consideration during the con-
vention. The bureau comprises prom
inent freight officials of all the trans
continental transportation lines.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22

In the suit brought by the Standard
Publishing company of Ogden against
the Associated Press for an injunc-
ton restraining the defendant from
violating a contract by which it agreed
TO furnish the plaintiff. for publication,
its night news report, Judge John A
Marshall yesterday handed down an
opinion sustaining the defendants de-
murrer to the complaint
The court sustained the demurrer on
three grounds.
l. In the complaint it is stated that
the agreement between plaintiff and
defendant was lin accordance with the
provisions and requirements of section
l, article II of the bylaws" Of the de-
PENDANT association. The bill of COM
plant contains, however, no aver
ment as to the nature Of the bylaws
referred to and they are not before the
court, and without them ii would be
impossible for the court to ascertain
the intentions of the parties with that
certainty necessary to the relief of spe
c'fic performance of the contract and
the suit. although IN Injunction is in
effect for the specific performance Of
contract.
= The contract could not be en-
forced specifically as against the plain
tiff. The promise of the plaintiff was
not only to pay a monthly sum, S175,
but 20 serve as the defendants agent
and correspondent at ogden. The du-
ties TO be performed were personal and
continuous. the value of which de-
pended in ar especial degree on the
will with which they were done. No
court would specifically enforce them.
3. \ decree of specific performance
could be rendered migratory by the
defendant without violation Of the
contract. BY the terms Of the con-
tract the defendants board of directors
is given power. without limitation, to
fix the monthly payment to be made
by the plaintiff. That payment may
be fixed at a sum SO large as to force
the plaintiff to avail itself of its re-
served right to abandon the contract.
The court viii not make a decree
which at the mere viii of the defend
ant may be rendered futile.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
FOREIGN NOTES.

Bishop Kemp. of Fulda. has been electe
Archbishop Of Freiburg. Germany.
The Countess of Warwick. formerly
Lady Brooke. has given birth to son.
The japanese parliamentary election re-
turns show that the two parties have
about equal strength and that some ),
neutrals will probably hold the balance OF
power.
Colonel Dyer. a member of the Arm
strong Whitewo1th firm. is dead at Lon
don. Colonel Dyer managed the affairs
of the employers in the recent lockout OF
the engineers.
The ST James Gazette, commenting
upon the mobilization of the French fleet
suggests il me-r be connected with the
Spanish question, and says: If the
trouble between Spain and the United
States should become acute. il would
France"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
MULCTED AGAIN.
S. P. Elects Another Passenger and
Has to Pay Big Money.


In its eagerness to escape being i'm
posed upon by scalpers' tickets, the
Southern Pacific has again been COM
PEELED to reduce its net earnings by
putting up $1,000 to an irate passer-
ger, who was put off one of its trains
and compelled to pay fare. Some time
ago merchant from Ohio caught the
road for $3.50 by reason of having been
forcibly elected from a train while on
his way to this city, and now Charles
j. Harper, a merchant of Providence,
r. /, gets $1,000 for similar state of
affairs. Harper bought a return ticket
at Chicago and rode west on the same
and went to Los Angeles. On the way
back to San Francisco he was called
upon by the conductor to sign his name
in a. book carried for that purpose The
conductor was not satisfied that the
signature was genuine, and told the
passenger so. Harper said it was all
wight. but the attache of the road said
No, and demanded that the passen-
ger get off. He declined and they fired
him off, brakeman or two and the
Pullman conductor engaging in the
work.
Harper took the next train to San
francisco, and when he got there he
started to begin suit. The officials
heard of the same and compromised
for the amount stated. If this kind of
business keeps up, a passenger will be
able to ride on the Southern Pacific bv
presenting a visiting card
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
THE C. P. DEBT.
Must Be Paid Government In Full
With Interest

Washington. March 21.-The senate com
mittee on Pacific railways today decided
to report the bills for settlement of the
Central Pacific and the Sioux CITY &.
Pacific debts. The secretary of the treas
ury, the secretary of the interior and
attorney general are created committee
TO settle the debt and to make such ex-
tensions as may be necessary to secure
the governments interest. In the case
or the Central Pacific an amendment was
adopted providing that the full amount of
the governments principal and interest
must be paid. No limitation was placed
on the Sioux City & Pacific, and il is
probable that Senators Morgan and Har-
rts will make a minority report in favor
OF similar restriction to that placed on
the Central Pacific settlement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
Montana.

Fire at Clancy Saturday night de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.
A passenger from North Carolina to
Spokane became insane on a Northern
Pacific train, and was turned over to
the Sheriff Of Domson county.
Thomas J. Riley, charged with the
murder of Banker Largey at Butte.
has applied for a change of venue. and
his application is backed by 1863 affida-
Wits by many of the most prominent
men in the city, who do not believe
Riley could get a fair trial at Butte.
The capitol building commission has
awarded the contract for making the
state house plans to the firm of Bell &
Kent of Helena, for $3.50
Jacob letters Of Libby, who made a
trip OYER the Horse Shoe range last
week. saw 200 deer in one day, within
a ra6:us ot three miles.
The Sand Coulee Coal company has
sent to the Omaha exposition a single
block Of coal that weighs five tons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
DAMAGE SUIT.
John II. Stander Sues the D. & B. G.
3. r. For S15. 500.

John H. Stander yesterday entered
suit in the United States district court
against the Denver & Rio Grande Rail-
road company to recover S15,S1o, dam
ages for personal injuries.
In the bill Of complaint it is alleged
that the plaintiff, on Sept. 10, 1897 was
a passenger on a train of the defend
ant company from Pueblo to Grand
Junction. Colo. Near Newcastle the
train on which the plaintiff was rid
ing collided with another train. owing.
it is alleged, TO the negligence of the
defendant company, and in the col
lision the plaintiffs right leg was
broken and he sustained other injuries
and bruises which he claims have Grip
pied him for life, TO his damage in the
sum named, for which he prays iudg-
ment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
Back to the State Court

The case of the American Publishing
company VS.. the A. Fisher Brewing
company, which was sent to the federal
court from the state Third distiict court
for trial. was remanded back to the dis
trict court by Judge Marshall. to be
tried there. The case was tried in the
district court under the territorial form
of government, and appealed by the
plaintiff to the United States supreme
court. where the judgment of the lower
courts was reversed and the case re-
manded. Or the ground that the case
had been remanded by the United
States supreme court TO the state court.
Judge Marshall sent the case back to
that tribunal. The proceedings under
the order remanding the case were
stayed for ten days
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22

Chicago Evening Post: Just before the
order to advance was to be given the
captain of the hardy warriors stepped in
front % them and said:
We are now about to go against the
famous regiment of amazons of the king
of DahOmey"
'Hurrah!' yelled the troopers.
Il trust you will acGuit yourselves well
in this emergency continued the cap
tain.
I'VE viii, We will" they cried.
Then It was that little man stepped
out from the ranks and asked:
with what are they armed2'
Rolling pins. replied the captain.
There was a simultaneous movement to-
ward the rear and a minute later the
rout was complete.
Tha captain had forgotten for the mo-
ment that his command was composed OF
married men,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Idaho.

Gibbonsville- has an organization OF
youths who style themselves Coming
Men of America
st. Anthony Republican: Wednesday
last j. c. Brandon was arrested on a
charge of Justification of accounts while
serving rs . public officer. The COM
plant was sworn to by Orson Waldram.
Mr.. Brandon was taken before Hyrum
Kicks, justice Of the peace at Rexburg,
and placed under a $4,000 bond to APP
pear for examination next Monday.
AT Blackfoot, last week, in the case of
the state against the receiver of the
Bunting, to recover So. 900 on deposit at
the time of the banks failure, Receiver
Thum stated that when Mr.. Bunting
retired from the office of state treas
urer and gave his successor check
on his own bank for $50, 500, he had but
$4,000 of state money on deposit.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-22
CAPITAL TOPICS.

The treasury shows an available cash
balance of $223, 1908; gold reserve. Sl1,-
179. 797.
The house committee on invalid PEN
sions has favorably reported the over
street bill' prohibiting the Withholding.
suspension. modification, or cancellation
of any pensions except for fraud. clerical
error. mistake of fact or recovery from
disability.
The Spanish minister called at the state
department yesterday and presented
Msssrs. Angule. Valera and Cadenas, who
are the direct representatives of the au-
economist cabinet at Cuba With this pre-
sentation negotiations toward a CONNER
cial treaty will be opened.
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ALTA BELLE VS.. DUTCHMAN.
Judge Marshall Finds the Issues For
the Defendant.

Judge Marshall handed down an opin-
ion il the case of Henry D. Smith VS..
Henry Newell. D. c. Mclaughlin and
joan Kennedy, in which his honor finds
the issues for the defendants. cuieting
their title against the plaintiffs adverse
claim tc the mining property in con-
troversy. The court thus held that
the original location by the defendants.
which antedaled that of the plaintiff,
was valid
The suit was brought in pursuance of
an adverse claim filed in the land office
by the plaintiff. who claimed to own
the Alta Belle mining claim, against
the application of defendants for a pat
ent for the Dutchman lode, in the Tin
tab mining district, Sumit county.
The court. at the END of quite a
lengthy opinion. says: THE plaintiffs
case rests on the theory that a record
of location and the making of it on the
ground, being shown, the court should
presume a discovery of a vein lin the
absence oe evidence that there was a
vein). I do not think such a presump-
ton should be made
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Prominent Law Catholic.

Louisville, Ky, March 21-Granville
w. Smith. one of the most prominent
laymen in the Catholic church of
America, died today of Brights dis
ease. Mr.. Smith had been i'll but a
short time. but his death was not a
surprise, as it was known that his
condition was not critical. He was
founder and at one time president of
the Catholic knights and Ladies Of
America. He was one of the leading
members of the Society of Saint Vim
cent de Paul, and was identified with
other church work. Mr.. Smith was GO
years old and had been an undertaken
20 wears