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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
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NAI ASHINGTON. Feb. 7.-BishOp H.
w Smith WooIIey. assayer of the
United States assay office. Boise,
Is again in the public eye His resig-
nation has been called for on account
of Irregularities in the conduct of his
Office, and it is doubtful If a resigna-
ton will save him from criminal pro-
ceedings- Recently it was reported to
the treasury department that Woolley
was carrying the name of his brother
~ h Wooiley, on the rolls of the assay
ONCE, while in reality he was not on
duty and was absent from the office on
ieaNe of absence without pay. Secret
Service Agent Tdylcr was sent to in
Fesugate and found that while K. r
Woolley was absent his name has been
carried on the payroll from Sept Is to
Oct 81, 1904. and the payrOlls had been
recelpted- On this showing it was pro-
posed TO immediately remove Assayer
Woolley from the service. but an appeaI
was made in his bshalf by friends here
and it was decided TO permit him to
resign. His resignation has not reached
here, but it is understood to be forth
coming Much chaSrin is felt by
Woolley's friends from Idaho. Senator
Hepburn and Repre- sentative French. at
the tiaSco in WOOlley's affairs. 1t was
upon this strong personal appeal that
the long drawn out fight against Wool
ley's appointment was decided in his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
F0UNDERED DURING HEAVY STORM FIJI
Steamer Damara Lost 80 Miles From HafaxChie Officer
and Members of the Crew Saved-Caplain Passengers
and the Rest 60 Down.

II ALIFAX, X. s, Feb. 7.-During "a
II raging and binding snowstorm
which has swept the Nova Scotia
coast for the past twenty-four hours,
the ocean steamer Damara, of the Fur
nessia line, ran on the rocks at Mus
quodoboit, thirty miles east Of Halifax
early today, and is believed to have
fOundered with the loss of many lives.
The first officer of the ship, with
eighteen of the crew. escaped in one of
the lifeboats and landed at Pleasant
Point, after a terrific struggle with
wind and sea. Captain Gorst. master
Of the DamaTa. four passengers and the
rest Of the crew, left the vessel in an
other lifeboat. They have not been
heard Of since and il is feared that
the boat which reached shore were ut
teriy exhausted. and many Of them
were badly frostbitten. They had
narrowing experience. battling in the
darkness for hours in the open boat,
with tempeStouS seas on a tTeacherous
coast, with the thermometer 10 degrees
below zero, and an Arctic blizzard rag
ing They landed on shore some time
during the day and reached the tele-
graph Office at Musquodoboit harbor
tonight. whence they wired the first
news of the disaster to the agents of
the FurnesSia line at Halifax, to which
port the Damara was bound.
Struck During the Night.
The survivors say that the steamer
struck about O'Clock this morning
when the blizzard was 50 thick that it
was impossible to see a ships length
ahead, on what proved to be Musquo-
doboit ledge, five miles from the main
land
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
FELL AMONG THIEVES
German Fieeced Out of $4,000 on
Pretended Wire-Tapping
7r..-- Scheme

New York, Feb. 7.-0n the allegation
that he had been ffeeced out of $50, 900
by a pretended overlapping scheme
John F. Felix has caused the arrest of
Lawson Crane and the police are
searching for two other men whom
Felix charges with being concerned in
the scheme. Felix is a German and a
dealer in musical Instruments He says
that since ne came from Germany last
June he has lost $4,000 by PLAYING rou-
lette. Lately he said a stranger who
pretended to have met him i'm a gam
Hing establishment came to him with
an offer TO enable him to Tecoup his
losses by a tip on the New Orleans
races to be secured by wire tapping.
With two others, one of whom Felix
alleges was Crane, the stranger took
Felix TO the offices of a reputable firm
of bankers in a hotel after business
hours, when the firm leaves its office
open for the convenience of patrons.
and induced Felix to bet 500. 900 on OLD
Stone to win at New Orleans. The
trio of strangers disappeared with the
$50, 900.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
w. C. T. U. ACTIVE.
Iii Put Forth Every Effort to Save
the Woman.

the Woman.
reading, Pa, Feb. 7.-Letters from
parts of the country continue to
pr In upon Oliver Lentz, attorney for
IS. Kate Edwards. In each case the
ter thinks that it would be an out
Be to hang her. A number of rea-
IS are given for this belief, the prin-
pal one being that she is a woman
II the state she was ih at the time
4 crime was committed was caused
part, at least, by the conduct of her
|sband- Many of the letters are elo-
|Pnt and the writers offer to circulate
ILitions to be sent to the board of
lrdons. 1t is estimated that at the
letting of the latter next week petit
|ns signed by $4,000 people will be
scented asking for mercy for the
man. The press department of the
G. T. T. has written that it is try
10 get concentrated action on the
lt of the entire association in the
liter and that it will use every effort
its power to save the condemned
man from the fate that overshadOws
kttorney Lentz mailed today to the
bird of pardons at Harrisburg, the
IitiOn to have the sentence of Mrs
wards committed He will cali on
vernon Pennypacker tomorrow in an
|ieavor TO get a reprieve. and John
Rothermel, counsel for Samuel
easer. the negro accomplice, will go
Harrisburg on a similar mission
|ursday.
kew. Stephen Schweitzer of Ephrata.
l. Mrs. Edwards spiritual adviser, to
ose congregation she formerly be-
|ged, is circulating petitions among
people of her old home. There has
been one refusal. In the meantime
Is. Edwards is preparing for death
n her prisOn-born daughter, Alma,
her cell.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
RECK DELAYS TRAFFIC
ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC

Reno, New, Feb West bound
uthern Pacific train No. was
|ecked at Verdi. New. at O'Clock
Is morning the two engines, baggage
n express cars and two day coaches
wing the rails. The wreck was
used by the rails spreading. The two
q coaches slid down a 25-foot en-
nkmeHt. but did not overturn.
9ne passenger was thrown through a
idow and had his face severely cut
glass. this being the only injury
at resulted
Traffic viii be delayed for six or
sht hours.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08

An immense hole, through which the
sea poured in torrents was smashed
in the bow of the steamer The shock
of the impact awakened every one on
board, and huge bTea kers swept the
vessel fore and aft. Lifeboats imme-
diately were ordered over the side, and
all hands left the ship.
1t is believed that the steamer must
have foundered quickly, and small
hope is entertained by the survivors of
the wreck that the captain and other
occupants of the missing lifeboat could
have successfully withstood s. the cx-
treme rigor of the weather prevailing
OH this coast for he many hours which
have passed
The wind tonight was off-shore, and
if the missing boat has not already
sWamped il has been driven seward
many miles and is now probably adrift
on the Atlantic in the worst weather
of the winter.
Search For the Missing.
Tugs were dispatched from this har-
Dor tonight to search for the boat and
To locate the hull of the Danara.
The Damara left Liverpool on Jan. "A
for Halifax by way of st. Johns, n. F.,
and left St. Johns for this port last Sat
urday.
The names of the survivors could not
be learned tonight, but it is known that
all of the crew were shipped in Eng
land.
The Damara was a schooner-ri rugged
steamer of LAG tons net. She was
owned by G. Furness. Witty & Co. of
Glasgow, and was built in 1885 by A.
Stephens & Sons at Glasgow. Her prin-
feet; breadth, 50 feet, and depth, %
feet
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
MONTANA RAILROAD
COMMISSION BILL

Helena, Feb. THE senate this after
noon passed the Bremen railroad com
MISSION Dill which is patterned after
Ine, Minnesota railroad commission law
w. I. King are named as commission
Inc Dill provides for an elective com
MISSION or three members. to be chosen
at the next general election. In the
meantime the first commission is to be
appOlntlVe. The commission has power to
fix traffic rates, but the railroad affected
may go into the courts to protest against
any acts or the commission that may be
regarded as unjust
Inc Dill provides that no rebates shall be
given by the railroad companies and that
there shall be no preferences or discrirn-
nations in rates to the disadvantage of
any persons firm or corporation, The bin
also Iorblds the combination or pooling
Of interests Of different roads
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08

halls. dancing resorts, dancing paw
lions and all places or resorts TO which
persons of opposite sexes may resort
for purposes of dancing or indulging
in other social amusements."
At present, the city council of Salt
Lake has no authority by which it may
reach resorts of the above mentioned
nature. When Chief of Polio Lynch
closed the Utahna park pavilion last
week, he did so because the manage
ment had not yet obtained a license
for this year. Neither this. however.
nor the city ordinance prohibiting the
maintenance of a dance house where
"disorderly persons assemble together
for dancing covers the ground that
Wootton's amended house bill does.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
RYING TO SAVE
NECK OF WOMAN
rey Asked For Condemned Penn
Sylvania Murderess.
.TITIoNS ARE POURING IN
TIE OF THE EXECUTION is
FEB. IS.

harrisburg, Pa. Feb. $50 numerous
re Deen the requests from all over
country from people who want
vernon Pennypacker to commute to
Imprisonment the sentence of Mrs.
tie Edwards, who is to be hanged
Reading on Feb. 16. that it has
n found necessary for the executive
partment to prepare a circular letter
answer TO these requests.
his letter quotes the state constitu-
p TO show that the governor has no
|ver 10 commute a death sentence to
h Imprisonment except upon the rec
|mendatiOn i'll writing of the board
.pardons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
LOCAL SNOW is PREDICTED
Cold Wave Dispels the Low Area"
and 1t is Now Central at
Grand Junction.

The low area which was lowering
around Salt Lake City for the past ten
days disappeared early yesterday MORN
ing and is now central around Grand
junction. with a tendency to migrate
To the southwest. It had its quietus in
this locality when the forerunner of the
cold wave came over the Wasatch
mountains Monday night.
Yesterday was much colder here
abouts than at any time during the
past Two weeks, but the weather was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE WILL AID
CITYS FIGHT AGAINST DANCE HALLS

The dance hall evil" with which
Salt Lake has been recently contend
ing is directly affected by a provision
of house bill No ~. by Wootton which
yesterday passed the lower branch of
the Legislature on third reading.
WOotton's bill is entitled, An act to
amend section 206, revised statutes of
Utah, 1898. relating to the power of
city councils. as amended by chapter
l3S, session laws, 1907
The section through, which il is pro-
posed TO get at dance halls was in
serted as an amendment by the Judi
ciary committee at the instance of
Chairman Kinney. 1t delegates to city
councils the power to license. tax.
regulate, prohibit or suppress dancing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
eoPoN I'M sWITzERLANo.

= st. Petersburg. FEB. FEATHER Co. :.
= pom, the leader Of the workmen of :.
= St Petersburg i'm the affair of Jan. :.
= p IS now known to be in Switzer- :,
= land. The police have discovered at =.
= the residence of Municipal Council :.
=. Tor Kedrine. one of those who were =.
:. arrested with Maxim Gorky after the =.
- attempt TO interview Minister of the =.
:. Interior SviatopoIk-Mirsky the =.
- night before the collision between :.
:. the soldiers and the workmen in this :.
- city, and who is stiil in st. Peter :.
- and st. Paul fortress. the draft OF :.
= Proclamation melting the army to re- =.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
STICK BY KERENS.
Missouri Boilers Will Not Vote For
Dark Horse.

jefferson City, Mo-. Feb. THE sew
enteenth ballot for senator taken to-
day failed TO break the deadlock. The
vote:
COckrell, S.; Niedringhaus, IS; Ker-
ems. II; Pettijohn. .: Finkelberg 1;
State Senator Frisby, l. There were 40
pairs.
Immediately after the joint session
adjourned the Republicans callSd a
caucus for this afternoon TO arrange If
possible upon compromise candidate.
Previous to the caucus the name of
Colonel David p. Dyer of ST. Louis,
United States district attorney. was
mentioned. Several of the Kerens ad-
Eerents announced that they would not
attend, but will remain loyal to their
candidate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
STATE OIL REFINERY
Kansas Legislature is Buckinq the
RockefeIlers

Topeka. Feb. THE Kansas senate
sitting as a committee of the whole to-
day recommended fer passage the bill
providing for the establishment of a
state oil refinery at a cost of $4,000
Tie bill will pass the senate tomorrow
morning and will then be submitted to
the house The friends of the measure
claim 4 majority for it-in the house A
number of members of the house. hith-
erto regarded as supporters of the re-
iincry scheme. have come out against
It. It's passage. therefore. is not at all
certain. The Standard Oil company has
a powerful lobby here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08

Continued from Page IL
The office of procurator general is
one of the highest in Finland. The
procUrator general is head of the de-
partment of justice Of the Finnish
senate. The Firms have the right to
petition the procuTator general in the
case Of any grievance in connection
with the administration of justice and
the procUratOr general can order a new
trial.
Soininen was as years old. His father
was q pastor of Pedisjarvi. Young
SOininen studied law, was appointed
secretary Of the department of
economy in 1892, senator of the depart
ment of justice in 1900, and procurator
general in 1901.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
NEW JOCKEY CLUB
NOW TALKING BUSINESS

New Orleans. Feb. The committee
on rules. bylaws and constitution Of the
American Turf association was ia ses-
sion today one of the most important
rules adopted was that members Of the
ulIIerenJ associations would only he paid
mileage TO attend the monthly meetings
or the association. she members vii. not
nave their hotel bills and othc- cNDclaes
paid Neither VIII they be under h.eh
salary Jockeys VIII be compelled TO pay
50 Tor licenses. and trainers SetWeen s.
and $40 The rules Of ra.su.- viii ie
similar to those of the Western Jockey
club.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
GO0DNOW HAS RESIGNED.
Will Return to China and Enqaqe in
Business

washington, FEB John Goodnow,
consul general at Shanghai. called at.
the state department today, and after
conference with Assistant Secretary
Pierce, it was announced that the con-
sui general had rendered his resiena-
ton, TO take effect March 81 Mr.
TOounoW VIII return to Shanghai to
turn over the business TO his successor
and VIII remain in China to engage i'm
private business His successor as
consul general at Shanghai has not vet
been named.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
EBATE ON THE
RATE MEASURE
Continued from Page -

% congress as bOmbshell. he assert
the house would have set for twen-
years TO come without action upon
ir. Lamar, while speaking of the
rsI--hiiA--aEaz- Interrupted by Mr.
'livan of Massa chusetts with an in
~ as to why Mr.. Hearst did not ex-
in his own bill, remarking that he
He'd TO note an elucidation of it
Retort Courteous.
|Ir. Lamar tartly replied that he was
|able to furnish elucidatiOn and COM
ehension at the same time. Imme-
Itely thereafter Mr.. Lamar was
iced to admit, in answer to Mr.. Will
ms, that neither himself nor his mi
rity colleagues on the Interstate and
|eign commerce committee at any of
conferences had proposed to put pri-
tie car lines in the bill they were try
k 10 report.
During the day speeches were made
Messrs. Hanshaw of Nebraska,
hnger of Pennsylvania, Mann of I'LL
is. Adams of Pennsylvania. Smith of
IVA anG Gaines of West Virginia in
ppOrt of the Townsend bill.
After listening to a message from the
esident recommending a board of
l-vey for the Philippines archipelago,
: house, at 5:36 p m, adjourned I'M
tomorrow ~ 1 o'clock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
PRIZES OFFERED FOR
DRIVING CLUB MEETING

Tho Gentlcmen's Driving club is al-a., ~
beSAnnlnS to get busy for the summer
racing season. \ ruhber-tired road. suIkv
and a-sct of light road harness We, So
cured yesterday and put up as prizes for
the ttrSt meeting The date OF this
meeting has not been decided uCDn. ut
II is understood that il will TAX place
on the State Fair track just as soon
as the weather viii permit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08

bracing throughout the day and the
sun shone until early in the afternoon
The weather sharps predicted last even
ing that there would be local SHOWS
during the night and today, but il was
not thought that the fall would be
heavy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08

Fact of Resignation May Not Save Him From Criminal
cuton-0IdTim Grating Scheme in Boise
Assay Office

favor Former United States Marshal
Joseph Plnkham is said to be under
consideration as WOoney's successor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
Burnett's Vanilla

Leaves good taste in the mouth 1t
Is pure and wholesome Don't be cheat
ed with cheap goods.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
FINISHES FAIR
INVESTIGATION
Legislative Committee is Drafting
Report.
EXECUTIVE MEETING HELD
EX-GoV. WELLS AND J. @. CAN
NON AMONG LAST WITNESSES.

The joint legislative committee. COM
posed of Senators Walton, Bennion and
Larsen, and Representatives Marks.
Lyman and Vaughan, appointed to dis
cover the why's and wherefore of the
over-expenditure offS10. 600 by the Utah
commission of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition. met yesterday afternoon in
a room adje@ning Governor Cutters
private Office in the city and county
building and completed its eXamina-
items.
who, by virtue of his office was presi-
dent of the commission, and General
John q. Cannon, who was secretary of
the commission, were present at the
meeting by invitation. They were
closeted with the members of the COM
mittee for more than an hour. and
when they emerged from the room they
lost no time in going elsewhere.
Ex-Governor Wells and Secretary
Cannon were not the only members of
the commission present, but were the
principal ones questioned.
Report Almost Ready.
The joint committee. it is learned,
has been delayed in bringing in a re-
port owing 10 the fact that certain arti-
cles belonging to the educational ex-
h1bit have not yet been returned from
the east. Not that the absence or loss,
even, of few features of the exhibit
viii cut much figure in the final sum-
ming up, but the committee desired to
have its work complete when a report
was submitted. 1t is expected that the
missing exhibits viii be here either to-
day or tomorrow, Director General S.
II. Whitaker having been notified to
that effect. In case word is not received
by this afternoon, the committees re-
port viii be submitted Thursday after
noon.
Two Will Draft Report.
At the committee meeting held yes
terday and at other committee meetings
held during the past week, Senator
Walton has acted as chairman and
Representative Marks as secretary. 1t
is understood that the final joint report
TO be submitted this week will be draft
ed by two members of the joint COM
mittee, representing the senate and the
house.
In the words of one of those close to
the committee secrets, everything has
been examined, and when the report is
ready nothing will have been left I'M
covered"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
WAR WITH JAPAN
Is NOT POPULAR
The Average Russian Would Wei
come Peace Tidings.
MEDIATOR NOT WANTED
FRANCE WILL ACT WHEN THE
TIME COMES.

St Petersburg, Feb. :. u:3O p. m.-The
renewed peace talk resulting from the
visits of Ambassador Cassini and Minis
ter Takahira at the state department. in
Washington and the conferences of Am
bassador Surand and Mr.. Spring-Rice,
first secretary of the British embassy at
St Petersburg. with President Roosevelt
on Sunday finds not the slightest echo
in official and diplomatic circles in St.
petersburg, where Emperor Nicholas
declaration that the war must be carried
10 satisfactory conclusion remains the
keynote OF the situation Considerable
satisfaction is felt consequently, at the
washington Telegram stating that assur-
ances have been gwen by Ambassador
Cassini that Sir Mortimer Durand's anu
Mr. Spring-Rice's presence at the White
House was in no way connected with the
termination of the war This is all the
lomauc world is aware that Mr.. Spring
Rice Is a personal friend of Mr.. hOose-
E eIt- On the other hand the visits or
Count Cassini and Minister TakahIra to
Secretary Hay are more easily attributed
10 discussions of Chinese neutrality than
TO terms OF peace. The prevailing opinion
among diplomats in ST. PETERSBURG is that
japan and Russia would choose France
rather than the United States when the
tlme arrives to discuss terms of peace. IL
IS dtthcult If not impossible, to teif when
this time will come.
Russian Sentiment.
The present current of press and public
opinion in Russia appears to be setting
toward peace. The newspapers no longer
proclaim the necessity of continuing the
war at all costs Articles appearing in
the Russ and the NOVOe Vremva under
the signatures OF well known war CORE
sDondents who have Just returned from
Manchuria criticize the conduct of opera
uons there in unmeasured terms, while
these papers editorially declare that hopes
of victory are remote. The NOvOe Nremya
bluntly remarks:
I'VE go out buying evening editions hop
ing to hear news of a Russian success,
but little or nothing is done to assure it
The war never has been, in the fullest
sense of the word, popular. The present
distress and discomfort of the working
class and the general desire for reform
by the upper class may develop a strong
peace movement with which the govern
ment may have TO reckon, but on the
other hand it is generally admitted that
if peace should be concluded under dis
advantageous conditions il would ma
terially strengthen the enemies of the
present government, which will not fail
to keep this fact in sight and hope that
some means can be found of reaching an
adjustment satisfactory to Russia ana
Japan. This places special Importance on
the mission entrusted to NJ. AdbadaZa, d.
rector of the committee in the far east,
who is believed to have gone thither 10
report on the possibility of reaching q
compromise with Japan without material
prejudice to Russia's interests.