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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-03
UTAHNs AT ST. LOUIS.
Prominent Home Citizens Attended Big
Reception in Worlds Fair City,
Cspeclal 10 the "News.")

ST. Louis, Mo-, May 3,--The Utah
commission attended the reception of
Governor Peabody at the Planters ho-
tel last night 1t was the distinct So
cial event Of the week. More than
a thousand people were present, in
GLIDING notablcs OF this and other coun-
tries represented in the fair.
Colorado has no state building, ana
few exhibits, apparently preferrinB TO
advertise Itself by lavish entertain
ment, Throngs of strangers were at
the Utah building yesterday and today,
1t being the only one In readiness to
receive visitors, with few exceptions,
and it's location at one Of the main
entrances TO the fair making 1t a
cynosure for the curious
Governor and Mrs, Wells Mr. Whit
aker, Miss Thomas Of ogden, and Miss
Crismun Of Salt Lake, did the honors
informally. Judge Powers registered
during the day, Congressman Howell
and his secretary, Lewis r. Cannon,
with their wives are quartered at the
inside inn Immediately opposite the
Utah building
An the Utah people who came to the
opening will leave for home today or
tomorrow. There Is little of interest
to be seen except the outsldes of the
great buildings, their interiors present
ing only a motley aspect of freight
wagons being unloaded. carpenters
hammerlng, painters industriously ply
ing their art and Jefferson guards
keeping the people back. The pike IL
amusing only for IT, lnucscribaeo
chaos.
The weather seems warm, but your
imperturbable st Lousian says the
reason is because people have not yet
shed their winter Undertaking.,
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Deputy Sheriff and Prisoner Drop
From a Train a Short Dis
lance Out of Ogden.
MAN WAS WANTED FOR MURDER
Were Seen by Conductor and Brake
man Just Before Train Pulled
Into Junction City.
Especial to the 'News,")

Ogden, May 3--Thls morning Sheriff
Quinn of Butte, Mont, arrived In Og-
den expecting to meet here a deputy
who had been TO Nevada to arrest
man wanted in his city for murder
The prisoner. MAS laaasissd at Tacoma
New, and, contrary TO Instructions
from his superior officer the deputy
was under the necessity OF making
the arrest and proceeding on the home
ward journey with the alleged muir
derer. The sheriff agreed to meet him
in ogden and this morning received
a telegram from Pocatell0 IN Whluh
the deputy stated that they Woulu al, AZ
rive there at the appointed liile' lhe
train arrived all right but neither the
deputy nor the prisoner were on II,
mysterious circumstance which led the
sheriff to make some Inquiries lie
learned from the conductor ana brake
man that the men were on the tram
up TO within IA few miles OF Ogden'
and that as no stop had been lnaue
since they were last seen. they must
have either fallen Off or jumped from
the train The brakeman stated, now
ever, that he noticed the prisoner leave
his seat and step towards the door Oh
the car but he paid no further atten-
ticn TO his movements as he was qulle
busy with other matters at the time
From this II Is feared that the deputy
man have endeayored to intercept the
prisoner AMI that O scuDie ehsued on
me rear end of the coach I'm which,
perhaps, one or both may have been
hurled from the train.
It is understood that the deputy was
being PsIsted by another man Whom
he gol TO help him at Tacoma, and
who T. Is now thought may have been
a friend Of the prisoner ana assisted
him In doing away with the officer. The
country intervening Is being secured
Cor some clue leading to the where
abouts OF the missing men, but up TO a
late hour this afternoon the search had
been without avsil. Some stick to
the theory that the men may nave
been plunged into :hs Ogden river as
they were not far from Ogden, when
they We're last seen,
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GATHERING OF METHoDISTS
They Are Pouring into Los An
gcles by the Trainload.

Los Angeles, May 3-Deegatcs 10 the
thirty-hrsi Methodist general conference
are pouring into Los Angeles today by
hundreds Sixth 9cial trains, u over
the Santa Re ana Jur over the Southern
Pacific, are due ~ arrive IN the city some
time before night IN addition 10 the .ic-
gates that will arrive on these specials
many are coming On on the regular trains
OF both roads The bishops special" ar
rived from San Francisco after stop
Of nearly Two hours az Santa Barbara
II brought 70 bishops, two being detained
Bishop Moore VI china In San Francis
GO and Bishop Inobum VI Indiana who
w IN I'm Tacoma.
Among the late prominent arrivals Is
Rev DR., James NJ, King, secretary Of
tho board Of church extension. who sue.
cccled 10 that Office during the last
quadrcnnium through the death OF pr
w A. Spencer He WIN IN all proba-
billy be reelected TO his present posi-
ton By the coming conference. Another
churchmun, high In tho councils of tho
church Us Rev Or John KrDnt2, sales
agent OF the Methodist book concern
with him IS Dr. Dlmond Of Cincinnati,
a prominent member OF the book com.
miltcc Rev IT," Charles w. Drccs. super
intcndsut ~ missions IN Porto Rico. ana
Row Charles /. Mead NJ uOboken, arc
also among the recent arrivals.
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srocKMEN's CONVENTION.
Delegates From All Over Country
Gather in Denver.

Denver, May S.--Delegates from
every important stock raising and
shipping point west of the Missouri
river were present at the opening of
the Stockmen's convention called by
the cattle growers Of Texas, which as
sembled at the Brown Palace hotel in
this city at 10 o'clock today, w. w.
Turney, president of the Texas Cattle
Growers association of 1--we stock men
I'm the territory west of the Missouri
\rlyer. Independent OF the National Live
Stocl< association, to be composed of
tMee delegatese from each state live
ft6yS association. Already as re-
sulAof this movement important con-
cessNSs have been made by the rail-
roads tN,Shlppers OF live stock.
j. j. DcTr~eswyf Wasi11gton, Ds,C.,
is attending the meeting as a repre-
sentative Of the government He Is
investigating the operations Of the so
called beef trust.
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OF and she replied he did not, That
what he said was absolutely false and
ridiculous and that she would go on
n witness stand anywhere and testify
that II was untrue. that he was not in
California when he claimed to be"
And here comes an astonishing june
ture In the history Of the effort to get
the witness to go TO Washington. Mr.
Critchlow who had been advising with
MIR, Wilson was notified that Mr.. Cam
non knew nothing; that his wife would
testify that his talk was m Wild. More
than that Mr., Lynch says, "Critchlow
got a letter from me notifying him of
the fact and furthermore, Critchlow
got the information But Angus was
wanted and the truth Of the matter
Is he did non wish 20 go TO Washing
ton and he said so, but he was con-
stantly encouraged and built up TIL he
went. After writing the letter to Mr.
Crltchlow and after he had got the
information thought the subpoena
business had been dropped, and that
Angus would not go. Judge OF my
amazement when / went down to his
house to see him few days ago and
was told by his little daughter that
he had gone the night beforel He was
braced up to tell story but II didn't
come out the way they expected. or
course, | can't help It ana no one
can that | know of, If anything fur
Their is wanted 10 prove that Angus
was not I'm California at the time ne
claimed let the hotel at which he said
he registered, he communicated with
and It viii be readily shown that he
was not there that year, anyway"
WHAT MR.. CRITCHLoW SAYS.
Said Il. y, Critchlow; zone day / re-
ceived n telephone mesesage from Mr.
Wilson at the bank. stating that Angus
NJ. Cannon, Jr., had been there and told
a story Of the marriage OF Abraham
Cannon-the ceremony In question. He
added that Cannon was deseroGs Of
going before the committee with the
story. ! then saw Cannon and he re-
peated II 20 me. II was a perfectly
straight story, and | certainly believed
It. He said he was anxious to tell II TO
the committee, but that he would rath-
er not go to Washington while hts faith
er was there. | said ! could fix that
all right. / telegraphed Mr., Tayler to
the effect that there was a witness
here willing to testify as to that incl
dent II the committee wanted him. Mr..
Tayler replied that II ! considered the
story authentic, the witness would be
subpoenaed, | then sent the name OF
the witness and Cannon was sub
poenaed lie came 10 me and said ne
would have to have money 10 go down
10 Washington. told him the marshal
would Ak that. lie went, and the next
I knew OF It was the report OF his tes-
tlmony I'm the local papers.
II desire to state further that, after
hearing Angus MS story, tried 10
check up on II by wiring his brother,
Frank | found he had gone to Call
fornla. I then saw his brother-ln-law,
James Lynch and he knew nothing
about IT, The chief OF police, another
brother.in-law. had never heard Of II.
The only other man ] might have cor
roboratod II by was out OF the state
James Lynch, brother Ia law OF Mr..
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GritchIow and Wilson Were "GoId-Bricked"
NJ
the on
mons Says n a

Il. b. Critchlow, lawyer and Nor
mon" hater, and Il. w, Wilson, politi-
clan and banker have been gold
brlcked." They admit that. Their
friends have been laughing about II all
day and the incident Will bc the sub
ject of a vast amount OF wltticism and
good naturee joshlng for a long time to
come.
when certain gentlemen found young
Angus NJ. Cannon in his cups a few
weeks ago, INDUCING in a To- of wild
conjecture concerning the Smoot case,
they seized upon sUrne OF his express
sions with the avldlty that Il toad
pounces upon a June bug, The state
ment that most pleased them was this
one.
you fellows think you are wise, why
you don't know any thing compared
VII what know"
We'll what do you know"
What 40 know" asked Cannon. 81
know that Abraham Canon. my cous-
IN, was married to Lillian Hamln and
that Joseph f. Smith performed the
ceremony on a boat between Los An
gees and Catalina Island. ! was one
OF the witnesses, II was In 1885,
This was In substance what the young
man said, 1t was luscious morsel
and Il was rolled under the tongues OF
the chiefs in the anti-Smoot camp un-
Ill the amount Of saliva they accumul-
rted gave them considerable trouble
The men who learned Of it; who were
told the story direct, knew as wen as
they knew anything that the man from
whom they had got this Information
went upon frequent and prouacted
sprees that he was a notorious josh
err" that he did peddlc hot air In
unlimited quantities when the dance
was on" Yet he was braced up anu
encouraged TO 20 to Washington as a
witness to impeach @ the testimony
of President Smith His name, some
how, got to the senate committee on
elections. A subpoena followed Mean
while the prospective witness was stu
on his spree. He had some money.
He got twelve or fifteen dollars from
Mr. Wilson, though the latter says Il
was on "a purely personal matter That
the sum WAS given.
When the subpoena arrived, Mr. Can
non was at home sick in bed. James
Lynch, his brother-in-law, heard or II
md went down 10 the house to see him.
Speaking OF the matter today ne sald 10
the News" 81 got telephone message
a week ago last Tuesday To go ana sec
Angus. | went and found him really
sick as the result of drinking. He told
me he had been subpoenaed In the
Smoot case. asked him what he
knew and he told me about being
IN California and witnessing. the
marriage OF Abraham Cannon ana Lii
Ian Hamlln In 1896 He laughed about
IL and / told him he wasn't IN can
fornia that year. and he said that they
wanted something anyway, ana that
ne would give dose OF hot air. Then
/ told him not to make n d-n fool OF
himself and he laughed again. Then
| went into the ether room and talked
to Kate. who Is his wife. and my sis
ter. and asked her II he really did know
anything about What hs was speaking
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WORLDS FAIR STAMPS.
New Exposition Postage Emblems to be
Put into Circulation Here.

The new exposition postage stamps re-
Gently put into circulation are expected
at the salt Lake postofnce any day. The
reason that they have not reached this
point sooner IL tie fact that supplies
ar, shipped from Washington In the or
der OF receipt OF acquisitions, The re-
qulsition han'C did not reach Salt Lake
until later ,.p.l Yas expected, and vas
Immediately filled out and returned. But
In the meantime, other offices had got
their requisitlons In first, having re-
coivc1 the blanks earlier and 80 salt
Lake must wait It's turn.
Tne new stamps are considerably larger
than the regular stamps and are well de-
med. The special issue includes one,
two, three. i've and - cvnt STAMPS, with
n vlgnet OF Chancellor Livingston IN the
one cent stamp, q yignet Of Thomas JEFF
ferson III on the two cent stamp Monroe
is on the three cent ana Mckinley on
the five cent stamps. on The 10 cent
stamp is depicted 4 nap OF the United
States with the LOUISIANA purchase In a
special col ~.
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PATHFINDER RESERVOIR.
Secy. of Interior Sets Aside q
Million for IFS Construction.

washington, May 3.--The secretary OF
the interior has set aside. Professionally,
the sum Of 81 600 600 for the constfuc.
tion of the Pathfinder reservoir on
North Platte river IN Wyoming Con-
suuctIon Will proceed contingent upon
favorable reports from engineers In the
neld as to various details still under
consideration and particularly as to
whether an adequate area Of lrrigable
iaud can be- found IN western Nebras-
Ia. The reservoir viii be OF sufficient
capacity TO supply all OF the land under
It I'm Wyoming but II Is considered
necessary TO increase this area by ut-
Icing water IN western Nebraska, where
there are large q 'cas Of arid ana semi.
arid country 20 which water can prob
ably be brought. The details Of cost
and method OF getting water 10 TINS
land are to be worked out before the
Pathfinder reservoir As constructed
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Cannon, said Of the matter: 81 can
add little TO what Angus has already
said. | was sent for one day and found
him sick In bed. He then told me about
what he had said and expressed himself
regretfully, as / remember Il. At any
rate, he left the impression with me
that It was all off And ! was surprised
to hear that he had gone to Washing
ton, That Is oil ] care to say about It,"
L, W. WILSON'S VERSION
Relative to the Cannon story, Mr.. Il.
w. Wilson said 'Ansue NJ, Cannon,
Jr, volunteered the Information Of be.
ing present at the marriage Of Abra-
ham II. Cannon to Lillian Hambln by
Joseph t. Smith, 10 at least four Salt
Lake people, He gave In detail, his
bY<lness In California, the parties he
was with, where they went and what
they did, The story was as carefully
checked up as It could be and II was
strongly corroborated by much outside
information obtained. He expressed a
perfect willingness 10 90 before the
committee either here or at Washing
ton and tell his story.
after he was subpoenaed he repeat
ed the story TO three Of the parties pre-
viously talkd with, and at no time aid
he IN any way directly or indirectly.
intimate that the story that he had
volunteered WAS not In every respect
true.
1T certainly Is remarkable that he
did not discover that he was not pres
ent at the marriage until after he had
called at the Smoot headquarters and
talked the matter over with Mr.. Smoot
and his attorneys
y,r,, ca.,,,
II viii be observed that there is
pronounced animus In the last para
graph OF Mr.. Wilson's statement which
he dictated to his own stenographer.
The Associated Press and special dis
patches make II very clear that Can
non had no talk with Mr. Sinoot or HIS
attorneys regarding the case and that
they are completely innocent Of the I'M
piled suspicion that Mr. Wilson hurls at
them. However II Is well known that
Mr.. Wilson invariably sees the word
suspicion spelled I'm big letters these
days.
LANGFORD's CLEAR DENIAL.
Wher seen today Mr. Langford stated
that Angus NJ. Cannon, Jr., was at
least mistaken when he averred that he
personally was IN the alleged party.
Mr.. LangfOrd said; while II ~ true
that I was IN California during that
year | left Los Angeles some days be-
fore Mr.. Cannon was supposed TO have
arrived there. From Los Angeles I
went 10 Daggett, thence overland by
team 20 Milford Utah. and home to
Salt Lake. About week after I ar
rived here Mr.. Cannon died IN this city.
There Is not one sciltilla OF truth in
the story as told by Angus NJ. Cannon.
Ir While I'm California | lid not meet
MIR. Cannon President Joseph +, Smith
or anyone else who Is said according
70 Cannon 20 be connected with the al
legged incident cannot gee why he
should have told such a story am sure
II was hot air sure enough
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CALLED TO WORK.
Big Majority of Men at Topeka
Santa Fe Shops.

Tokepa, Kan, May 9,-The Santa Fe
shops whistle called the big majority Of
the men to work at o'clock this morn
ing All of the workmen except about o.
900 union machinsts carried their dinner
pals and resumed their old positions
quietly. General Manager Nudge says
there will be no trouble in securing the
necessary men to run the shops at To-
peka and other points on the system
without the union workmen. Third Vice
President Buckaew Of the machinlsts.
says the striRe is not declared OF and
will not be until the San Re company
agrees to the proposition Of the union
Mr. Buckalew declares that the order
has plenty Of funds to sustain the strlk-
ers at all points along the line from Chi
cago TO the coast.
The claim is made that there will be
enough "home" men TO run the Topeka
shops without importing workmen. At
Cleburnc, Albuquerque, San Bernardino,
The Needles ad Far West points the
strike Is much more effective than at To-
peka A special to the State Journal from
La Junta, colo, says no attempt was
made 10 open the shops today
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Port Arthur, May (noon) The Jap
anese squadron appeared OFF Port Ar
thur after daybreak today and engaged
the forts and Warships The fight Is
stu proceeding. Thirty japanese prls-
oners have been captured,
ST. Petersburg May 3. 4 p. m--Vice
Admiral Togo made another desperate
attempt to block the entrance to Port
Arthur last night but failed
Niceroy AleXiem reported officially
that the Japanese sent eight fire ships
10 block the entrance, but they were
all sunk by the Russian torpedo boats
ana the fire from the land batteries
leaving the channel clear, The yiceroy
also reported that the Russians sank
two japanese torpedo boats
The fire ships were discovered by
scarchlights of the batteries and
guard ships creeping toward Port Ar
thur from the east and southeast,
shortly after midnight, The torpedo
boats ana torpedo boat destroyers were
ordered out, but none of the larger war
ships, Admiral AleXIen himself went
on board the coast defense vessel OF
yashni, The guard ships at the en-
trance OF the harbor and the forts
opened a fierce fire on the iire-bOats
which lasted until O'Clock In the
morning, when the last fire ship went
down
The official report does not specify
the exact spot where the steamers
were sunk, but II il plain that the
japanese attempt 10 cork the entrance
20 Port Arthur has again failed. Tho
steamers were armed with Hotchkiss
and Maxim guns and responded holly
10 the Russian fire. The Russians sue
ceeded in saving few members Of the
crews OF the fire ships, including two
officers.
ENTRANCE IS CLEAR
Tlen Tsin, May SAN official Rus
sian dispatch received here says that
nine Japanese merchant vessels, steam
ing at the fullest speed towards the en-
trance OF Port Arthur last night, at
tempted to block the harbor. but were
sunk by the fire Of the Russian forts.
The harbor entrance Is clear
ANOTHER FAILURE.
Tien Tsin, May alt Is reported here
that the Japanese have made another
attempt 10 bottle the entrance of Port
Arthur harbor, Eight japanese mer-
chant steamers We're sent I'm at full
speed toward the entrance In an at
tempt TO block II, They were sunk by
the fire from the Russian forts, and.
according to the reports, they do not
oLstruCt the channel
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FELL THROUGH TRESTLE
Switch Engine at Colo. Springs
Iniuring Four Men.

Colorado Springs, colo, May IA
The Needles and Far West points the
& Cripple Creek railway this morning fell
through a trestle into South TETON street
IN this city, -Four trainmen were In.
jurcd, two seriously, The bridge which
stood 80 feet above the street had n steep
hill down which water had rushed for
tho past "a hours, The injured are,
T. G, Craig conductor,
Lcorpld Dew, flrems
j J lIarrhah brakeman,
w r. huer, engineer, all OF Colorado
Springs,
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THIS YEARS RAINFALL.
Already Double That Of Last Year for
The Same Period Of Time,

The total precipitation for the present
storm beginning Sunday, and including
today, up to o'clock, was ,S5 of an
II n, az registered at the government
weather station In - Dooly building
Il Is, however, currency believed that
the precipitation along the eastern foot
hills is considerably l. 'avler than what
falls " the center and Immediately
east OF the city.
1t is interesting o note that the total
recip' a ton of the year up 10 date
Is just twice what II was during the
Jrresponding period OF Ia year. That
Is to say, In 1908 between Jan. / ANA
May g. the precipitation was $40 inches
while for the same tine thfs year, IL
has been 1914 inches.
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Bank of Montreal Won.

Chicago, May 3--The suit brought by
the trustee Of the George H. Phillips
company to recover from the Bank OF
Montreal 100000 which the members Of
the firm had deposited shortly before
the collapse OF the corn corner In 1909,
came to an abrupt ending In the Unit
ed states circuit court here today.
Judge Seaman took the case from the
jury and announced decision I'm favor
Of the bank. The court held that a
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-03

Chicago, May. 3.Thirty-nve thou
sand loaves OF bread were received In
Chicago today from Pittsburg to re-
lleve the famine threatened by the strike
of bakers. Milwaukee and st. Louis.
bakeries were appealed TO for a por-
ton OF the olty's requirements, but re-
fused to respond, fearing that sympa-
thetlc strike In their own establish
ments might follow
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AERIAL CABLE ORDERED.
Last Big Snow Storm Proved Their
Necessity Here,

Twenty-Five thousand dollars wor.h
OF aerial cable has been ordered from
the eastern manufacturers by the Eel
Telephone company Tor use IN this city
alone. The phenomenally wet snow
the necessity Of the general use OF
aerial cable 90 mid break downs and
numerous other disturbances due To-
storms. The recent experience here
cost the Telephone company $1,000,
which is much less than was feared at
the time.
The company viii build a line from
the Cactus miuc 20 NeWhouse in Bea-
yer county and w. &. Mcbride a SER
vice expert, has been broug ht here from
Chicago 20 perfeot lmprovemelts here.
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IDAHO posTMAsTERs APPOINTED
to thc ,Nnws.ol

Especial to the "Ncws')
Washington -, c., May 3.--S Il Ben
son has been appointed postmaster at
whitney, Oneida county, Idaho, vice q.
A Alder, resigned.
James T.. Hancock, has been appointed
regular, and Jasper n Hancock, substi-
tute, rural carrier at Nez Per.e, Idaho.