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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11

Possibility That the SmOo Case May Be Reopened Evidence
Taken in Utah During the Recess of
Congress-

Burrows and other leading members of
the committee are not satisfied with the
testimony given at the hearings in refer
ence to the endowment oaths The tes-
timony was very conflicting and unsatis-
factory, and IL is desired that the exact
nature, or, if that is impossible the sub
stance Of these oaths be obtained There
are some other matters also with which
the committee is not satisfied. and which
its members believe could be cleared up
if the committee visited Utah.
While definite information is not avail
able as to this change in the plans il is
certain II is being seriously discussed. and
the delay on the part of Chairman Bur
rows in calling further meetings of the
committee and evident Discrimination to
hurry the printing of briefs is taken a
an indication that the report may not be
made this session and that the committee
will accept the suggestion of Chairman
Burrows to visit Utah and get testimony
TO clear up various uncertain points in
the case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
INDICTED SENATORS GATHERED IN
California Legislative Scandal viii Be investigated in the
Courts as Well as by the Usual Special
Committee

Q ACRAMENTO Cal. Feb. 1c.-sena.
" tor Eli Wright, Indicted by the
grand jury Of Sacramento county
last night on a charge of bribery, was
arrested this morning. His attorneys
say the reason he was not arrested last
night was because he could not pro-
cure bondsmen and did not want to
spend the night in Jail.
State SenotorS Bunkers, French and
Emmons. also indicted for bribery. who
were placed under arrest last night
have been released on bail of $4,000
each
The four senator's named are charged
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
Especial TO The Herald.)


AIASHINGTON, Feb 10.-The certainty
wv that the senate cannot reach a final
decision in the SmOot case at this
session of congress is making 1t possible
that the privileges and elections commit
tee may make a radical departure from
the course it was generally expected to
follow in its further treatment of the
case. 1t has been supposed that the com
miJtee would consider the testimony of
witnesses briefs and arguments of coun-
sci and endeavor to make report or
reports on the case before the close of
the present session. Now there are indi-
cations that this may not be done and
that the committee may reopen it for the
purpose of taking further testimony and
go to Utah during the coming recess of
congress. Within the past two days Chair
man Burrows has conferred with some of
the mem berS of the committee as to the
sentiment towards such course of action
and he met with a favorable response.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
EXCITEMENT BEGAN EARLY.
Mistake Was Made in Paying the
Men in Advance.


Men in Advance.
LODI, Feb. lO.-There was great ex-
Clement here this morning among the
strikers who are gathering about the
mills IN a somewhat threatening man
1ler- An additional regiment of infan-
try has arrived here. Troops are sta
TONED in the street leading to the
Grand hotel where the governor has
taken up his headquarters
The manufacturers today agreed on
In ultimatum to the strikers to the ef-
1eCt thar unless they return to work
heb. l3 all the mills Will be shut down
indefinitely.
1t is reported that the Socialist or
EanizatiOnS have directed the strikers
10 resume work, the present agitation
having sufficiently demonstrated the
strength Of the labor movement, and
more favorable opportunity for fur
1hering their cause. 1t is feared, how
ever. that the agitation has gone be-
%Ond the control of the leaders.
The manufacturers realize that they
made mistake in paying the men IN
ADVANCE. Today the strikers are clam
oTing for another installment. The
governor has issued an order prohibit
ing further payments, and sent troops
10 one factory today to prevent the
men from approaching the premises
The authorities are making every eff
fort 10 prevent bIoodshed. The gov
Gnless attacked.
The general situation is far from re-
assuring. Reports which have been
circulated here of proposals to raise
money in England for the benefit Of the
strikers have created a bad impression.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
TOMORROW'S HERALD.

The Sunday Herald tomorrow won't contain the testimony of
Senator Smoo before the committee The Herald pub
hed the complete abstract the the
Associated Press, at the Mr. Smoot testified.
Instead The Herald will be packed with entertaining reading
and pictures and will all the from
the world In the way special matter the first Of the Sher
lock Holmes SERIES The Adventure of the Empty House will
appear will chronicle with railroad
which the troubles of that
forth Myra Kelly will have interesting story
East Sde Morris and the Honorable Tim
of the specially articles which will appear exclusively
The Herald The whole paper will interesting readable
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
JURY DOUBTED THE
ALLEGED MIRACLE

Chicago, Feb. 1O.-Inga Hanson, the
Salvation Army girl who for five
years has been involved in sensational
litigation with the Chicago City Rail-
way company. was today found guilty
of perjury She sued the railway cor
pora ton for damage on account of in
juries received by her in a street rail-
way accident. which she alleged de-
prived her of speech. sight. hearing
and power of locomotiOn. She even
tuaIly lost the suit. and claimed 90
have been restored TO health by a mir
acle-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
HIT BY AN AUTO.
One of the Presidents Carriages
OVerturned.

Washington, Feb las one OF the
presidents carriages was being driven
from the White House to the stables
today an automobile cut across ahead
Of the team at the corner or Seven
teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
The horses became frightened and "a
on the sidewalk. striking IN IRON fer
The carriage was upset and the drh ~
Julius Wheeler. thrown to the GROUND
receiving a severe bruise on tbs right
nip The horse that struck the fence
was thrown and a cash cut in its
breast
The carriage. q closed coupe. mas Just
conveyed Miss Jean, a daughter Of
Whitelaw Reid. to the railway station
and Was being returned 10 the stables
when tbs accident occurred.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
"BLUE SKY AND HOT AIR"
Terse Description of Wildcat Insur-
ance Scheme by One of the
oT,anfara

Chicago. Feb. 10.-''Blue sky and hot
air" was the way Walter NJ. Cowell
today described the securities" of al
legged wild cat insurance schemes
which he and Wallace A. Lowell his
former partner. are charged with ex-
plotting. Cowell has turned states evil
dence. In testifying today Cowell, who
also is under Indictment. told Of wort h
less stocks and securities and fiictitious
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
CHEYENNE BUILDING
PROVES TOO SMALL

Washington, Feb 10--The supervising
architects office has settled in fun with
Forster K Smith contractors of the Chev-
enne public building In settlements the
firm was paid $1,000 over the contract
price for additions made Since the com
pletiOn OF the building il has been found
that 1t does not contain rooms for the
accommodation of several federal officials
located at Cheyenne. viz pOstOffice in
spector and deputy collector of Internal
revenue and the supervising architect
has directed that bids be received for
partitiOning off several rooms in the attic
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
coRoNER's INQUEST.
Three of the Wives Confronted the

Three of the Wives Confronted the
Prisoner.
Chicago. Feb. 10.-Police Inspector
Shippy said today that Johann Hoch
had named the tenth woman whom
Hoch admits having married. She was
Mrs Henry Bartell of Cincinnati. In
marrying her Hoch said that he had
used the name John Schmidt" Hoch
was the central figure today at the
inquest over the death of Mrs. Marie
WeIcker- Hoch. the last of the long list
of deceased wives.
Two photographs of HOch sent to
Germany by the police officials have
been returned with the information that
they are pictures of Jacob Schmidt,
who formerly lived at Bingen, Ger
many.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
POLISH BLOOD
BEING SPILLED
Strikers Moved Down by Bullets of
the Soldiers.
SITUATION is AGAIN ACUTE
THOUSANDS OF MEN OUT IN ST.
PETERSBURG.


= Warsaw. Feb IO.-Over 100 :.
- strikers were killed or wounded ::
= by the military at the conflict ::
= which took place at the Kathe- :.
- rinen iron works at SOsnovic yes :.
- terday evening. The strikers were =.
- attempting TO put out the fire in :.
= furnace Of the smelling depart -
- ment of the works when troops :.
= appeared and a conflict ensued. :.
= The. soldiers fired three vOIleys :.
= and finally scattered the workTnen. :.
= LODI. Feb. 10.-It is reported e.
: that a general railroad strike VIII :.
: commence Feb. IA throughout Po- :.
= land
y An official report received here :.
: today from Sosnovic says twenty :.
: strikers sVere Killed and twenty =.
= one wounded in the conflict of =
: yesterday. =.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
Bride Is Off.
Standard oil Fight.

Previous to the appointment OF the in
VeStlgating committee the supporters
OF the measure which provides for the
erection by the state of an oil refinery
won a victory for their bill when they
secured its reference to the committee
of the whole. The measure already
had passed the senate, and the vote to-
day referring il TO this committee in
dicates, it is believed. that it has
enough supporters to insure its pas
sage by the house.
Speaker Stubs, who is opposed to
the refinery bill, sought TO have il re-
ferred TO the Judiciary committee from
where, its friends assert, il would never
come 10 light again this session.
Some lnsinuations.
Before action was finally taken there
was a sensational discussion. One
member had the clerk read the newspa-
per story asserting that certain oil in
terests were using money TO prevent
the passage of the refinery bill, and
saying that some statesmen are under
suspicion"
Representative Hackney, who later
was appointed a member of the inves-
ugating committee, said:
This is a reflection on every gentle
man in this house and it is done 10
force you TO rush this measure through.
The plan is damnablc. as is the legisla-
ton proposed, and the member who
NoNiu De llHuehFeu thereby IS a cow
ard and a poltrOon."
Speaker Y Wroth
Speaker Stubs. who took the floor to
move that the bill be referred to the
judiciary committee. said that the bill
brought up constitutional question,
and he was in favor of going slow until
lawyers could give an opinion on it.
Mr. Stubs took o. = sion to denounc-e
the STANDARD oil company as THE most
dastardly, fiendish concern i'm this
country, and, continuing, said: TT
has been limited in certain papers that
L have interests in common with the
standard Oil. The man who uttered
such a statement is an unmitigated
and malicious liar. I want to say that
the action of the trust in cutting the
price of crude oil is now costing me
S1,OOO a month. My interest as COM
pared with the interests of the state.
however, are a mere bagateiIe and l
do not regard them"
After further discussion the bill was
referred to the committee of the whole
and il was made the special order for
Wednesday, Feb. II.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
FEARS WERE REALIZED.
Thirty Thousand Men Now Out in
st. Petersburg.

Thirty Thousand Men Now Out in
st. Petersburg.
st. Petersburg. Feb. 1O.-The appre-
s,ension OF further trouble with the
Ftrikers was partially justified today
when the whole of the Workmen of the
PutilOd iron works and those of the
Franco Russian works struck because
the directors were unable to promise
them a work day of eight hours. The
men at the PutilOff works who yester-
day announced their intention of try
ing TO enforce an eight-hour day re-
orted at Z o'clock, worked an hour
end then demanded to see the director
OF the works, who conferred with the
mems delegates The latter demand
ed eight hours, no discrimination
against the promoters of the recent
strike and pay for the weeks strike
The director declared he was unable to
bccede to the demands, and thereupOn
$4,000 men Of the Putilon works went
cut.
The employees of the Franco Russian
FvOrks took similar action. In both
cases the men marched out quietly and
formed groups in the streets.
The troops continue to assure the
maintenance Of order at the Putilon
End Russian works and at the
either factories.
English Mills Conceded Demand.
Rumors were rife yesterday evening
that the men would go out in several
large factories, and three English mills
decided, in view of the gravity of the
Situation, TO grant all their employees
demands, including an eight-hour day.s
Increased wages and strike pay. This
-necision was condemned by the ma ori-
~ Of the employers. but the English
rnen pointed out that it was not ad-
Sisable to wait until the machinery of
the law for reforming the conditions
o. abOr had been set in motion.
Minister of Finance KOkOVsOff has
summoned a conference of factory in
EpeCtors for Feb. Is To discuss state IN
Eurance, hours Of labor. medical aid
and labor unions. A proposal OF the
minister that the manufacturers hold
q similar conference was refused.
Psraded the Streets.
Some 5000 OF the PutiIon works
Ftrikers later traversed the streets
with the object OF stopping work "a
CONTINUED on PAGE -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
KANSAS Is ALSO
INVESTIGATING
Committee Appointed to Locate &
Supposed Barrel"
AIR FILLED WITH RUMORS
FIGHT ON THE STANDARD OIL
CAUSED SCANDAL.
T oPEKA, Kan. Feb. 1o.-The house

7 OPEkA, Kan, Feb. 10.-The house
today adopted a resolution empow-
ering Speaker Stubs to appoint a
committee of five to investigate
charges of alleged boodling. and the
speaker Immediately named d commit
tee ana instructed it TO go to the bot
tom or the rumors and report its find-
lnSs tonight. The resolution grew out
or hery talk INDUCED i'm by members
curing the recent consideration of the
Dill TO establish q state oil refinery. and
eliminated in the publication by a To-
cal paper which declared that stand
ard Oil failed TO buy the senate VIII
it succeed in buying the house?"
Bride Is Off.
Following the adoption of the reso-
luton, Speaker Stubs said:
Il should like to see this committee
go TO the bottom of things and if any
member has been found guilty of mis-
conduct, l would like to see him eX-
PEELED from the house and his name
bulletined for the benefit of the state 20
One of the members of the commit
tee suggested that the committee be not
limited in its investigation. and sug-
gested that railroad attorneys be
brought in and compelled 10 exhibit,
their pass books and stubs.
4 do not care" said Speaker Stubs.
the bride is off, and you are to go
into anything you want to. If there IS
a barrel here we want to know where
il is"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
CALLS DIVORCE
ENROLLING SIGN
Mrs. Georgia Snow Carleton Talks
to Ladies Literary Club.
THINKS MARRIAGE LAW LAX
SAYS GREATER STRIcTNEsS
WOULD AVOID TROUBLE.

7 HAT the grsat evil Of divorce is
largely due to the laXity of the
marriage laws; that such laws are
the result of a perversion Of the mari
tai idea that the remedy is being ap-
piled to the wrong end Of the problem !:
and that the marriage contract Is not
a Christian sacrament are some of the
things stated by Mrs. Georgia snow
Carleton at the meeting Yesterday of
the Ladies Literary club. She main
tanned that the divorce evil deplorable
as II is today. is only an evidence of
the effort of humanity to reach higher
and better plane Of life and 10 realize
the true sanctity of the marriage reIa-
ton, and that Christianity as accepted
today has done nothing for woman but
TO make and keep her enslaved.
Mrs. Cartoons remarks were aD-
plauded by her audience and at the
hour of adjournment the time was ex-
tended by unanimous vote 10 enable
her to finish.
Mrs. Carleton prefaced her talk
which was on Uniform Marriage and
Divorce Laws by "A brief review of
the various actions which have been
taken particularly I'm she past few
years. in regard to these sociological
laws. and declared il improbable that
an easy solution of the problem viii be
reached. when there is i'm this country
alone separate standard of marriage
and Of div rec in every state of the
Union. with all the border states sOlv-
ing more or less of the problems as
they come up in Canada where the di-
Vorce laws are stringent. She quoted
largely from Professor Howard of Chi
cago, who has treated the subject i'm its
various lights, and also from A. II.
Hummel, the celebrated New York law
yer. She reviewed carefully the laws
of marriage and divorce OF the various
-
between the omnibus laws of Arizona
and the exclusive ideas of the divorce
laws in New York. The speaker showed
the great laXity in regard 10 the re-
quirements for marriage and accounted
in a large measure for the divorce evil
BY these figures
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
STRIP Is LOST
IN THE SHUTTLE
Utah Not Likely to Get ANY Part of
Arizona.
RULED BY KING CAUCUS
REPUBLICANS INSIST UPON THE
HOUSE BILL.

IkI ASHINGTON, Feb. 1O.-Statehood
wv for Oklahoma and New Mexico
will not be granted during this
session of congress unless it be on
lines provided in the house statehood
Lii. This was decided today at a con-
ference of Republican members of the
house.
The following resolution setting forth
this position was adopted, 1I2 to 80
after three hours of debate.
Resolution as Passed.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
congress and the Republican caucus
Of Republicans held April Is touching
the statehood of New Mexico and Ari-
IONA, as provided in the bill of the
house, which bill has been amended in
the senate and is now pending in the
house committee on territories, be in
sisted upon, and that we insist on such
parliamentary proceedings as can be
had by a majority of the house or a
special order as can be ordered and
adopted by a majority of the house,
under which the aforesaid policy of the
Republicans of the house viii be
worked out
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
WOMEN EASILY
DUPED BY HOCH
Married Deceased Wife's Sister Soor
After the Funeral.
CoRoMER'S INQUEST BEGUN
THREE OF THE WIVES OF The
PRISONER PRESENT.

~ HICAGO, Feb. 10.-Johann Hoch to-
u day heard himself for the first time
accused by witnesses and pointed
out to a jury as a bigamist Before a
big and curious throng he sat while the
manner of Mrs. Welcker- Hoch's death
was described. Before entering the
jury room in the criminal court build
ing where the inquiry was held. Hoch
confessed, the police say, TO having
married thirteen of the thirty-nine 30
men who claim him as husband TWO
IN Milwaukee and two in Cincinnati
were admitted by him today. But he
holds firmly to his denial that he pois-
cned any of them.
All along the route from the. Chicago
avenue police station to the criminal
court building, crowds We're waiting de-
spite the cold, as if a big parade was
anticipated. At the criminal court
building another throng was lined up,
forming an avenue through which Hoch
and the police in charge of the prison
er had TO pass
Hung His Head For Shame.
HOch kept his overcoat collar turned
up and hung his head. All sorts of re-
marks were made about him by the
throng, but he never responded.
The grand jury room where the in
nesses, officials and newspaper men
when HOch arrived. Mrs. Emile
Fischer-Hoch, his latest spouse: Mrs.
Bertha Sohn, Mrs. Emma RenCken. one
of Hochs wives" Mrs. DelfuegO, an
interpreter. and Mrs. Klippel. a friend
of Mrs. Fischer-HOck, were the only
women in the room
At the inquest Hoch sat at the head
of d long table. The good humOr that
marked him upon his arrival had de-
parted. He sat in a detected attitude
with eyes downcast. rarely looking up.
HOch was positively identified today
by Henry Ness of Cincinnati, o.. a
man who under the name of Henry L.
Hartmann was married there July 20,
1897.
This IS a new case, Mrs Hartmann
never having appeared before in the list
of wives
Hoch was taken to the bureau of
identifications to be photogra phed and
measured as a confessed criminal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11

4 OBJ. Russian Poland, Feb. 1O.--It is
reported that five persons were
killed and sixty-eight wounded in a
riot at the Cheibler factory, and that
seven were killed and forty wounded
at the Marcus Kohn factory.
LODI. Russian Poland. Feb. 1O-A
conflict between the troops and strikers
took place here this afternoon. Ac-
cording 10 one report, the strikers fired
on detachment of soldiers from win
COWS. and the latter then fired a voIIey
INTO the crowd in the streets. Another
report says one striker was Killed and
four wounded. Other persistent re-
Forts estimate the number of killed at
twenty, and say that fifty were wound
cd.
The conflict occurred at Louis Gey-
er's factory. where troops were lined up
Il prevent the men from entering to
demand their pay.
The strikers generally are enraged
at the refusal Of other manufacturers
L give them their pay, and several of
The encounters between mobs and
troops are reported from different di-
ectionS- 4 number of people were
said to have been wounded.
The greatest alarm prevails here. The
shops We're closed early this afternoon
and the windows were boarded up.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-11
Inquest Begun.

At the coroner's inquest today as
Hoch entered the room he looked nei-
Their to the right nor to the left. but
walked to a seat apparently without
seeing three Of his alleged former wives
who sat in front Of him.
Frank Spreyn, an undertaken, who
prepared the remains of Marie Welck-
er-HCch for burial, identified Hoch as
the husband of the dead woman.
Mrs. Emile Fischer Hoch. who mar
ried the bigamist four days after the
death of her sister, who also had been
one of Hoch's wives, testified as fol-
lows:
Il was introduced to Hoch by my
sister. She and 1 had not been on good
terms ever since she came from Ger
many. She seemed jealous because
had accumulated little money. We
made up that evening. Ny sister in
troduced me to Hoch as her husband
and I said that 1 was very glad to see
him -