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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

What are we coming 10? Long since
II was proven that Washington never
had d little Ratchet and that his father
never owned cherry tree. Now 1t is
said that Lincoln was not the author
OF the saying, you can fool all the
people some Of the time and some Of
the people all Of the time. but not all
the people all the time"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11
on RELIGIOUS TOPICS.
From nn Edinhnrg Cable.


Sabbatarlanlsm IL gradually breaking
down IN Scotland. Letters may be had
on Sundays at various postohices by
calling for them. During Christmas the
postal authorities at Aberdeen boldly
took the bull by the horns and sent
heavily laden postmen out TO deliver
letters and parcels TO the citizens on
Sunday morning. The experiment was
the frat OF It's kind in Scotland, It
not only helped the postofiice officials,
but proved convenience to the pub
lie
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11
New York churchman.

II there is any form or phase OF hui
man endeavor or human experience that
the church cannot enter as guide and
helper, then the Church mlsrepresents
Christianity or Christianity is made
quate to the needs OF humanity The
effort 10 limit the church's mission to
individual men, as units In the aggre-
gate instead OF as members OF a society,
II perverson OF Christianity whic,i
tends to deprive the Christian church
OF 1t commanding power.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

The Kansas lower house has adopt
ed resolution for an investigation Of
booding charges. What's the matter
with Kansas seems to be what's the
matter with a good many state legis-
latures.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11
New York Examiner.

Preaching, strictly considered, is the
proclamation of Christ crucined and
of the great salvation offered in his
name. II IL the delivery OF the mes
sage OF reconciliation from God to men.
Perhaps the reason why there Is so lit
tie evangeization nowadays X because
there Is so little real preaching. There
IL certainly "A great deal of ineffective
sermonlzng--m ineffective, that IL, in
bringing souls to Christ. Is there not
need Of more earnest. direct pleading
with men to accept the great salvation?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

A contemporary says that the Ari-
zona strip scheme has become a Slam
csc twin OF the statehood bill Rather
has Il not become a vermiform appen-
dix which should be cut Off?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

II is reported that on Wednesday
next there will be a general railroad
strike throughout Poland. The woes
are treading thick and FAST on each
other IN the Cars dominlons.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

Every reason FOR having national
and state banks examined by bank
examiner applies with equal force to
private banks
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

Mrs. j Hays, daughter OF Jefferson
Davis would 30 wisely to remember
and heed the Injunction to let the dead
bury the dead.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

Russian soldiers continue to shoot
down Russian strikers, while the Rus
sian authorities continue to say that
peace and quiet have been restored.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

Hoch admits the soft impeachment
that he married ten women For each
impeachment there win be an lndlct-
ment.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

II would be worth fortune to have
the contract for furnishing the Rus
Sian press censor with blue pencils.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

The public sentiment of this state
Is against partisan boards, And the
public sentiment Is right
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

A winter battle between Russians
and Japanese would leave many cold
I'm death,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

It looks as though winter was get
ting a good ready to llnger in the lap
Of spring,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

The Legislature must be doing lots
Of work, It Is making so little splurge.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

Mayor Weaver Is going TO give Phil
adelphia a great shake-up, Shake
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

As yet the Gear has not learned that
revolutions never go backwards,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

Hoch's last wife seems to have been
the submerged tenth.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

An ambassador at the court OF ST.
Petersburg says that the Car sses no
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-11

signs Of peace, He probably sees signs
OF disaster, though.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08
CITY NEWS

Mrs Archibald McKinnon is recuper. ating in the Berkshires.
 The funeral of Patrick Rodden will be held from the family residence at Watertown Sunday afternoon at 2:3C o'clock.
 On Bank street this afternoon a horse owned by Liveryman Sackett fell and was so badly injured that shortly after 1t was shot in the Nc. Grath barn.
 The funeral of John LawIor of Stone street will he held from his late residence on Stone street tomorrow morning with a mass of requiem at St Francis Xavier church at $ o'clock.
 The clock in the City hall tower was not Illuminated last night. The trou. ble is said to have been brought about by painters who have been doing some work there and accidentally shut ofI the switch.
 The funeral of William !. Darling will be held from the residence of his grandmother. Mrs John Altman. nn Ayers street, to the Immaculate Con. eepti0n church tomorrow morning at SEQ o'clock.
 The funeral of James Brownlea will be held from his late home on Walnu, street tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock with service at the house by the Rev Dr Davenport and interment in River side cemetery.
 James Ryan and Thomas Healsy were arrested this morning. Both were using their fists in clever fashion when Officer DosIsIs appeared and gave them a ride fin the patrol wagon.
 In the cify court this afternoon bc- fore Judge Peasiey. the ease of <. B. Pierp0nt against Thomas Holmes was tried. The suit is over bill which the plaintiff claims is owed him by the defendant. Attorney Thoms appeared for The plaintiff and Attorney Lynch for the defendant.
 The Salvation Army intends to feed 1000 hungry people on Christmas day. and with a view to raising funds ta buy things with they have set up col lection pots in different parts of the city. They hadn't been up long when people caught onto the idea and money dropped into them sa fast it waulG seem that the management made mistake In not selecting larger pats and thus save the troubie of ernptying the smaller ones euce ur twice a day.
 The funeral of John D. Kieb took place yesterday afternoon from his late home on North Main street with seFvice at the house hy the Rev Paul Ilempke and inteFneut in Riverside cemetery. The heareFS were Alfred Iresier. ChaTie< SteiumeFsr. Luawi< Sehuzter and Joseph Friend. The Hsrsl tributes inclutef s pillow from the widow af the deceased. wreath. Ssxe & Flote- tsouqnets. Mrs Friet man. Mr and Mrs IaAun- Mrs GSe~<srt. Mir and Mrs An6erSon-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08

 WILL BE HANGED Men Who Killed Ameri-
 can Missionaries. THIRTY WITNESSES Told of the Massacre-25 Arrests Already Made Including a
 Buddhist Monk

Hong Kong, Dec S-Mail advices From Lienchau dated December 1 say that the commission appointed to in quire into the massacre of American missionaries, early in November, has examined thirty witnesses and that swenty implicated persons includ- Ing Buddhist monk have been ar- rested. It is expected that three of the ringleaders will be executed. Searchers have been dispatched to HOnan to capture witnesses and oth- CTS who have run away from Lien- chau. The Chinese officials banquetted the commissioners November 30
 The American consul, Julius G. Lay, has thanked the authorities for their kindness and hospitality to tine mem- bers of the commission. Mir Lay in- tends to recommend that a Carnegie medal be awarded to Chinaman who rescued Miss Elda c. Patterson at the imminent risk of his own life.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08
NEARING THE END
Six Day Bicycle Riders Are Look. ing Ahead for the Big
 Prize of $500.

New York, Dec S-Spurred on by the prospect tomorrow night of ST. 5oO prize, the six teams which for 10 hours have been one-tenth Of a mile behind Bedell brothers in the six day bicycle race at Madison Square Gar den began long, desperate sprint Just before dawn to-day This was the beginning of the next to the last day of the long endurance contest which started at midnight last Sunday. When the sprint was over only one team out of the six haG made up the lost distance. Root and Fogler being the successful combination. Two of the other five teams maintained their position of one lap Denind. thereby keeping within striking distance of first prize money. The three others lost one more hap apiece Besides these seven teams there remained three more who were far behind the leaders when the sprint started and at it's close one of them. Dorefinger and DuSsot, were an even four miles in the rear.
 These ten teams remained in the race until 9 o'clock today when Kee- gan of the Keegan-Loga team, which was well up toward the leaders. was forced to withdraw from the race on account of sore foot. Achorn of the Achorn- -Downey team then withdrew and the partners of the two retiring riders immediately formed new team under the name of Logan and Downey. At 10 o'clock the record was ou foiIatrrS.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08

place at 1:13 this afternoon. She had been twice reprieved on account of appeals made in her case by her coun- sel and the last blow which really signed her death warrant was when the Unired States supreme court re fused to take any action in the case.
 Comparatively few persons wit messed the hanging. the number being prescribed by the laws of Vermont. Mrs Rogers was pronounced dead by the prison officials ar 1:271s. She main tained her composure to the last and mounted the gallows with q steady step. Although deathly pallor over spread her countenance. hardly q mus cle quivered as Deputy Sheriff Staf- ford pronounced the fatal words, 1 now proceed to execute the sentence of the law and may God have merc~ on your soul" When the words were pronounced Deputy Sheriff Angus Me Auley sprang the key and the trap Cell.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08
THE DISTRICT COURT.
Case Three Years on Docket Will Be
 Tried Next Week.

In the district court next week a case is to come up which has been on the docket the past three years. It Is one of those horse deals whirh occupy shis court a goo1ly portion of the finse. Three years ago Gilbert Rogers 0f wafertown. soU a horse to James E. Wooster for S35 Woos- ter in turn sold it to a man named Clarke who found the horse so haIky be was unable to drive 1t. After keep ing if a short time he brought it 10 Wooster and there two tn1k if tN Rogers. the original owner. and told him ther were unable Co drive if Rogers hifchei the animal to a car -iaxe and found no difficulty Iu riding ls.sini It. Nevertheless Clarke would not take back the horse and left ft an the hands Of Rogers who had tn hrari him for soUe time. He tEEen entered shit and feeeivef damages from Clarke fn the WsteF4own eaurt. Shorfiy after Clarke resAilased and suef RsgsrS and Wooster for SI51 Att0rney Kennedy reFresentss1 Clsrxe. Thauss Wooster and PeasIey Ro<srS. Fvery time she case cane Hp ore nf fhe hwyeFx he'd senne exeu<e ts sf- fer and H weHt aver New Tm5ze Coxeli sayx it muSt be used nsxf week
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08
TO REGULATE PLAYERS.
Dartmouth College President Recom'
 mends an Athletic Board.

Dartmouth College President Recom-
 mends an Athletic Board.
 Concord. N. H., Dec s.-An inter- collegiate athletic board to pass upon the fitness of all players and the bring ing of officials of the game directly under college jurisdiction, were reme- dies advocated for eliminating the un- favorable conditions attending foot ball. by Rev W. I. Tucker, president of Dartmouth college, in an address here last night. President Tucker spoke as the guest of the Wonolancet club, one of the most prominent of the social organizations of this city. He said:
 Athletics has proved to be the best employment of the leisure of college which has been devised. It has dis placed a very considerable amount of mere likeness and of gross dissipation. have always taken certain pride in football as the most distinctiyely academic among our national games. have noted the fact that it has not been taken up as a sport by the rough CT clements in our cities.
 '-The two serious charges against the game are dishonesty and brutality dishonesty in making up the team, brutality in the playing of the game. There has been very great gain at both these points through the efforts of the better athletic committees fin our colleges, but if more definite and more general action is required I should advise the interference of the college authorities al each of these points. Let there be an intercollegiate committee appointed by the faculties which shall pass upon all personal questions of eligibility as board of examiners would pass upon candidates for admission 10 college: and, further, let the umpires of the games be en- tireIy fin the employ of the college au- thorities. with arbitrary power to control the game. affixlng and using such penalties as may guarantee it's character. X certain element of dan ger. of course. remains as in any sport and in many kinds of work. but the danger diminishes with attention to the physical condition of the men and with the skIll of the team"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08

preyious to the day the reprieye was granted, the sheriff of Windsor coun- ty. Henry H. Peck, to whom fell the task of executing Mrs Rogers, went to Montpelier, accompanied by ms deputies and petitioned Governor Ben to grant a reprleye.
 On May 1Tth last the full bench 0f the Vermont supreme court heard the evidence on which the petition for new trial was based, and little more than d week later denied the petition
 On June a second reprieve by Gov ernor Bell removed the doomed woman from under the shadow of the scaf- fold. This reprieye was granted in order that the United States supreme court might pass upon the eonsutu- tionaIity and legality of the proceed ings governing Mrs Rogers sentence.
 The United States supreme court was then petitiOned for q writ of CT TOT in order that the case might go be- fore the highest tribunal but this was denied. On June 10 habeas corpus proceedings were instituted. Further legal activity on the part of the con demned woman's attorneys resulted in the case being carried before the supreme court of the United States on an appeal from the rulings of the Yer mont court. On November 2Tte last the United States supreme court re- fused to stay the sentence of the Yer mont court.
 With the decision of the highest court in the land Mrs Rogers ls<t hope for life vanished. as Governor Bell had announced that he would not iIl- terfere with the sentence of the court.
 Mrs Rogers was the daughter of Mrs Josie Callahan of H0Osick Falls, New York.
 Certain disclosures regarding scan- dals in the Vermont state prison at Windsor where Mrs Rogers has .been confined. have. it Is claimed affected public sentiment According to tes- timony before the prison investigation committee of the legislature one of the convicts at Windsor had access Co Mrs Rogers cell some time after the first reprieve was granted by Gov ernor Bell. It was alleged that this was part of q conspiracy on the part of certain prison officials 10 bring about such a condition as would fur ther postpone the execution.
 Mrs Rogers Is the first person sen fenced to death in Vermont within the past thirteen years who was refused rIemeney. The last murderer exc cuted in the state was Sylvester Bell who was hanged in 1872 for wife mur- der. The last woman 70 be exeeutesl was Mrs Emeline Meeker. who paid the death penalty zt Windsor on March S0. Iss3 In Vermont all exc euti0us are held at the state prison and by a peeuIisrity Of fhe Vermont Iaw the duty of hanging condemned muFaerars deToives upon the sheriff of Windsor counfF- rezanileSs of the sec tIan of the state in which inc crime wMs committed
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08
MITCHELL IS DEAD
The United States Senator Who Was Convicted Some Time
 Ago of Land Frauds.

Portland, Ore, Dec S.-United States Senator John Nipple Mitchell is dying at his home here and he may not live through the day. For some weeks, in facI ever since his convic. Zion of fraud in connection with gov ernment lands he has been gradually declining. He has been suffering with hemorrhages and early today was at tackled by a severe one. Physicians Mho were summoned succeeded in stopping the hemorrhages, but the sen- ator began to sink rapidly. At s o'clock this morning he was so low that life was kept in his body by hy- podermic injections of saline solution.
 John Nipple Mitchell was born i'll Washington county, Pa, June 9, 1885. He was graduated from Butler acad- enly and then studied law. lie prac- ticed law in Pennsylvania until April, 1860. when he went to California. In July of that year he came to this city The energy that has characterized his entire career caused his election on the republican ticket as town counsei of Portland In 1861. The next year he was elected to the state senate. He had formed a law partnership in 1SG2 with the late United States Senator J. N. Dolph. enduring until 1873 when Mir Mitchell was elected to tine United States senate. A democratic leSisla- ture in 1879 failed to -aturn him to the senate. In 1885 he was reelected to be United States senator at , spe' cial session of the legislature. He failed to be returned ill 1897 and fol- lowed his profession until 1901. whe< he was again elected to the United States senate.
 It was only when his connection with conspiracy to defraud the gov ernment of it's public domain was made manifest by his conviction in the federal court, that he lost the political influence which he had held for a greater part of half century. From his roth birthday, June 22 last, the day OH which his guilt was decreed' Senator Mitchell has rapidly declined'
 Senator Mitchell's wife is in Paris, France. where she has spent large part of her time since the marriage or their daughter, Margaret, to the Duke of Rochefoucauld A son. John H Mitchell. jr. resides at Minneapolis. Lieutenant Hiram Mitchell, U. S. A. is also son of the senator.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08
Suggestions
 FOR Christmas Gifts.

Shirt Waist Boxes. s2.00 to s10.00. GentIemen's ChiffonIers, Ss.50 to s55.O0.
 Ladies' Work Tables. s15.00 to $35 in mahogany.
 Morris Chairs, S6.50 to 5000.
 Library Tables, 5000 to s60O0. Parlor Tables. S3.o0 to $500.
 Music Cabinets, S6.50 to S45.00. Jardiniere Stands, S1.00 to S8.50. Mahogany Tea Tables. s10 to S20. Large, old fashioned Easy Rockers. Turkish style, 1900 to S25.00.
 Some fine, large Oak and Leather Rockers. 5000 to S25O0.
 Parlor Suits. 5000 to S225.0O. Princess Dressers. 5000 to s4500. Dressing Tables. 5000 to 5000. Sectional Bookcases. best fin market. Desk Chairs, S4o0, $500 and up- wards.
 Handsomely Framed Pictures. n0d to s15.U.
 Buffets. China Closets. sideboards and hundreds of beautiful pieces of furniture too numerous to mention that will make the most pleasing Christmas gifts.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-08
STORY OF THE CRIME.

The crime for which Mrs Mary Mabel Rogers was sentenced to be executed was the murder of her hlis- band. Marcus Rogers at Bennington, August 13, 1902. At the time the crime was committed Mrs Rogers was only 10 years old. She had been sep. arated from her husband for s0uls time and was desirous of marrying q young man named Maurice Knapp. On the day of the murder Marcus Rogers went to Bennington to visit his wife and that night she arranged to meet linn in the woods near tbo waIloomsac river. While caressins him she induced him to allow her to bind his hands and while he was DOW erless she chIoroformed him. In this she was aided by Leon Perham, hals witted boy. who was the son of the woman with whom she boarded. Another woman. Estella Bates, was present.
 After chloroforIning Rogers. Per ham and Mrs Rogers rolled the body into the river where it was found tle next day. In order to divert suspic- ion the woman wrote note 10 which she signed her husbands name, giy ing the impression that he had com mitted suicide.
 Immediately after the murder Mrs Rogers endeavored to collect her hus- bands life insurance, amounting ID sJO0. and also made arrangements 10 purchase furniture for the house where she expected to live when she had married Knapp.
 A few days after the murder Mrs Rogers. PerhanI and the Bates wu. man were arrested. Perham made a complete confession and both ha and Mrs Rogers were found guilty of mur- der fin the first degree. Perflam was sentenced to Imprisonment for life. while the court sentence in Mrs Rog CTS case was death on the gallows.
 Under the Vermont law the pOwe. of pardon and communication of sen, tence rests with the legislature anal the Iaw also provides that when a person is sentenced to death session of the legislature must be held be tween the time of sentence and the date set for the execution. At the last session of the legislature various attempts were made to commute afTs Rogers sentence but all failed ThcN sn attempt was made 10 pass a law aboIishlng capital punishment in Yer mont but that also failed. An attempt to secure a pardon for the woman shared the same fate. \ bill was then introduced providing for the appoint ment or a state commission tp exam inc into the woman's sanity. This tyiIi passed the house unanimously but was defeated in the state senate A. though the vote on the bill in the sen afs was never made public it is bnowm that the ration opposed to it's l5uSsage was about 3 to l.
 The date set for the execution was February 3. 1SG. On Feigy7ary 2, after Mrs Roges had received thx last rites Of the Roman Cathphs church. Governor Charles J BeE granted her a reprseve until June 7. fn order that the claim Of her attor- npys to uxwly discovered evidence mlxhf be aired befoFe the Vermont surreme court fn an attempt tn serfrs snr the woMan a new trial Ire dey