Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-03-07

| Representative Scott of Kansas
made the charge recently. Scott to-
day said he got the story from news.
paper
NEW YORK. March 3.-Henry Al.
len of East Orange. n. j.. died today
OF heart failure brought ON by sud.
den shock Aliens mother. woman
Of nearly so years. was about to pay
| him visit As Allen stood in win.
dow. watching for her approach. he
saw her appear. and as she crossed
a railroad track TO approach the
house. train bore down on her, kill.
Ing her instantly. Two hours later
| Allen was dead.
CRIPPLE CREEK, March S.-The
| jury in the conspiracy case against
Sherman Parker and Thomas Foster,
| the Miners union leaders charged with
conspiracy 10 wreck a Florence &
Cripple Crock passenger train. render
ed last night a verdict of not guilty
after being ont a short time
After shaking hands with their at.
/ torneys and the members of the jury
the defendants left the court room in
company with President Meyer of the
Western Federation OF Miners, and
other union leaders
While the jury was absent from tho
court room, the district attorney
nolled the cases against Steve Adams
W. F. Davis and Charles G. Kennison
all union leaders, the latter being the
president OF Miners Union No. so of
Cripple Creek charging them with the
murder OF Melvin Bocks and Charles
N. Mccormick killed by the explos
ion of the Vindicator mine shortly af
ter the inauguration OF the miners
strike in this district.
! WASHINGTON, March 3.-Most
extraordinary is The interest shown
| in the Reed Smopt Investigation. This
morning It was impossible 70 yet near
the room OF the committee ON prlvll.
eges and elections Crowds of eager
mon and women crowded in and police
men had to be called in TO maintain
order. just before the hearing was
begun MIR. Smoot received telegram
from Provo, Utah. stating that his SIS
ter. Mrs George Taylor died this
morning as a result of an operation
Mr. Smoot had not heard of her be-
ing sick
When The examination started in to-
day Senator Dubois, speaking OF the
matter. said that for the first time in
fifty yenrs the relations of this Nor
mon organization In the United States
is TO be tried.
The examination of President Smith
revealed an extraordinary condition
Of nifairs. He contested to his own
position under the laws governing
! poiyesmy. He acknowledged that he
hld Violated them continuously since
the manifesto of 1890. but was ready
now and always had been ready to
face the laws OF the land. He had not
and unless forced to. would not alb
stain from relations with plural fam
ilios
His testimony created quite SEN
sation
President Smith voluntarily made
this statement
"When Utah was admitted to state
hood proviso was made that plural
marriages must cease. There was no
proyiso for forbidding cohabitatlon
with plural wives married before then.
was placed in this position: My
first wife married me forty years ago
the second twenty years ago, and |
have children by both. Since Utah
was admitted to statehood no plural
marriages have been performed with
the consent or knowledge of the
church. | have five wives and treat
them as such. By them l have had
eleven children since 1880"
Further questioning developed the
fact that Apostles Taylor. Merrill.
| Grant, Henry and Smith were all poly
gamlsts.
WASHINGTON. March 3-The
steam gear OF the battleship Missouri,
commanded By Cant. Cowles. a broth
er.in-law Of President Roosevelt. be-
came deranged on the passage of the
North Atlantic squadron from Pensa.
| cola to Guantanamo. and the vessel
ran into the battleship Illinois, dam
aging the latter's port propeller. but
escaping injury herself. The Illinois
was ordered TO the navy yard at New
York fer repairs.
! ALEXANDRIA, La, Mar. 3--Ar.
rangements have been concluded for
The execution tomorrow of Glenn Rax.
a negro Of this place, who was con.
ylcted in Jackson parish of the muir.
der Of another negro. Rax was ar
rested here after having been a fugi.
dive for some time. and returned to
Jackson parish for trial Besides the
murder OF which he was convicted. it
is believed that Rax was guilty of the
murder Of a negro woman near Pine
vile before going to Jackson parish
but the evidence was insufficient to
convict him.
ST. CHARLES. Mo. Mar. 3.-The
Republican congressional convention
of the ninth district met here today
and elected delegates and alternates
10 attend the national convention to be
held in Chicago in June. Resolutions
were adopted endorsing the admins
tration of President Roosevelt. The
district convention to nominate a can
] didate for congress- Will he held later