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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
HILL is I'M EARNEST.
Formal Announcement of New Road
TO Portland.

Portland. Ore. Sept 16-Assistant Gen
cral Passenger Agent a. ID. Charlton or
the Northern Pacific railroad acting I'M
der telegraphic Instructions from Presl-
dent Howard Elliott, today made public
formal announcement that the Northern
Pacific railway and the Great Northern
railroad will jointly build a road from
Kennewick, Wash, to Vancouver. Wash,
along the north bank OF the Columbia
river. Bridges will be built across the
Columbia and Willamette rivers in order
to secure an entrance to Portland.
President EIliotts announcement as
given out by Mr. Charlton follows:
THE Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific companies have organized and own
Jointly the Portland and Seattle rail-
way company. That company viii build
a railroad as rapidly as man and ma
teriaI will permit from Kennewick, oppo-
site Pasco. along the north bank OF the
Columbia river to Vancouver Wash,
bridge the Columbia and willamette
rivers forming a connection with the
present line of the Northern Pacific north
of Portland. When the railroad bridges
Northern and the Northern Pacific a first
class entrance TO Portland and direct
line to and from the east. The companies
hope for the friendly cooperation of the
people of Portland, or Oregon and Of
Washington.
Supplementing President Elliott's an
nOuncement, Mr.. Charlton said it is es-
timated that about two years Will be
required 10 put the road in operation.
Articles Of incorporation of the Portland
& Seattle Railway company were filed
at Olympia Wash, yesterday. the nomi-
The distance from Kennewiek to Port
land is a little more than 200 miles, and
unofficial estimates place the cost at ap-
proximately sl25o0,009
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
FEELING Is FRIENDLY
RiOtOus japanese Not Hostile to For
eigners in General or Amer
leans in Particular.

Washington, Sept. l6.-An official re-
port concerning the recent anti-treaty
riots in Toxic was today received by the
Japanese legation. On the basis of this
report Mr.. Hi0ki. charge d affaires of
japan said today:
MY advices from Toxic do not at
tempt TO minimize the Importance of at
fairs as they existed.
The immediate proVOcation of the
riotOus outbreak was the action of the
police who sought TO prevent political
mass meeting. and not the slightest feel
ing of hostility toward foreigners in gen
eral, or Americans I'm particular entered
into the spirit of the mob.
"Of course there are many Japanese
who are disappointed at the terms of the
peace treaty and it is natural that they
should express their disappointment, but
the majority of the thinking class of ms
country deprecate the riotous action and
regret the injurious impression created
By these disturbances. which apparently
led some people 10 regard them as an
indication of a feeling of hostility on the
part Of Japan toward the United States
/ am authorized TO say that notwitii-
standing what differences of opinion may
exist in Japan over the terms of peace.
there is a strong, united and friendly
feeling toward the United States and
deep appreciation Of the earnest, i'm
partial and sincere goodwill which has
attended the efforts of President ROOse-
velt"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
LONG EXILE ENDED AT LAST
Famous Russian Prisoner Liberated
by the Japanese.

Portland, Ore, Sept. ia Victoria. B.
c., special TO the Evening Telegram
states that the Empress liner reaching
c. special to the Evening Telegram
Victoria from Japan, Oct. 5. is expected 10
have as passenger from Yokohama Pro
lessor Alexieff Torogoni. at one time
among the most distinguished savants
Of eastern Europe, doctor in the Uni
versity of Moscow and a lecturer on in
ternational and constitutional law. with
continental reputation. Professor TorO-
goni has been dead to the world for the
past quarter OF century, and his resur-
rection due to the japanese occupation
of Sakhalin, is enc Of the dramatic minor
features of the war. Professor Torogoni,
upon his arrival in Japan after the Jap
anese occupation of Sakhalin. had pre-
pared for the press a detailed account of
the horrors of exiledom. This was sup
pressed by the japanese authorities for
political reasons. IL TorogOni at the
same time being requested TO leave Japan
al the earliest possible moment. DR.. To-
rogoni tells most remarkable story of
barbarous cruelties endured during his
quarter of a centusy's Imprisonment in
various parts Of Siberia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
SIGNED UNION AGREEMENT
Twelve Additional Chicago Master
Printers Promise the Shorter
Work Dav Next January.

Chicago Sept. l6.-Desertions from the
ranks of the Chicago TypOthetae in its
fight against the establishment of the
eight-hour day in book md job offices
were reported today by union officials,
who declared that several members of the
master printers organization have signed
the union agreement providing for a
shorter work day Jan. J, 1906. \ report
compiled by strike leaders tonight shows
that ll2 printing houses have agreed TO
grant the union demands. Included in
this list il is declared, are firms that
have heretofore employed nOn-uuiOn
printers exclusively. The signatures Of
twelve additional concerns were secured
To the union agreement today, and no
more strikes were called. II is estimated
by union officials that the eight hour
day has already been established for ] 400
union printers i'm book ana job offices
throughout the city. Firms employing 700
printers are still TO be heard from.
IN the face of these claims by the union
officials the members of the Chicago
Typothetae declare that the fight has
just begun and that the smaller printers
who have signed tn union agreement
will eventually be governed by the prin-
ciples which prevail i'm the Typothetae.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
FirstJ Contract Let.

Reno. New, Sept. 16.-The Virginia &
Trlckee railroad at Carson has closed
a contract for the construction of the
first eighteen miles of its new road.
headed, il is thought for Sacramento and
tidewater. Actual construction work will
begin, it is said, on next Monday morn
ing.
The right of way has been secured. the
surveys completed and everything is now
ready for the graders. The new road VIII
open up a rich agricultural country, as
well as tap one of the richest mineral
regions in Nevada and California. Other
contracts will be let as fast as pos
sible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
WARNING CAME TOO
LATE TO SAVE LIFE

New York, Sept l6.-A telephone
message from "a woman from Baltimore
today notified Roche's hotel on Thirty
eighth street that j. ). Green. a Balti-
more boy. IS years I'D. was probably
dead in his room. The woman said she
was the sister of Green and asked that
the management hurry 10 her brothers
room 70 save his life. if possible She
had just received AT her home al Balll-
more a letter frOn the young man an
nOuncing that he intended to commit
suicide
The hotel management found the boy
in his room dead with a bullet in the
region of the heart. He came to the
hotel last Wednesday.
In an unaddressed note which Green
left in his room, he named a Baltimore
man as the cause OF his trouble The
ntoe also said that the writer had had
a good time since his arrival i'm New
York To it was pinned a 81 bill. the
purpose OF which. the letter said was to
reimburse the hotel people for the in
convenience 10 which his death might
put them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
CITY JEWELLERS DEMAND A VOICE
With Less Population the Agricultural Portions of The German
Empire Control TwO-Thirds of the Votes
In the ReiChstag.

n ERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE decision Of
. the city council of Berlin to call a
convention of the representatives,
of the cities of Germany to demand of
the government, in the name of their
populations, that meat and food ami
mails be allowed to come in free of duty,
marks a new period in the pressure of
the town populations for larger fnfiu-
ence upon the government. The agita-
ton goes deep into German political
and social life. 1t is a contest of ins
dustrial and commercial interests for a
dominating voice in the government
against the landed interests. The town
population equalled that of the couAtry
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17

Idaho State Taxes Alleged 10 Have Been Boosted Above the
Limit Fixed by The Constitution Will
BE Called Upon 10 Decide.

Nevertheless dehnuuencies still accrued
ana a large amount is owing the state
The last legislature authorized a Few
Of ! mill annually 10 liquidate this in
debtedness. and on this basis a total Of
nearly No,OO IS levied against the five
northern counties. There are other speciaI
taxes. Attorney General Guheen ex-
presses the opinion that all of these are
excluded from the 5-mill limit THAT an
plies in his opinion, only to the levy for
general state expenses and all special
leVies may be added
The levy 10 raise the $4,000 ad valorefn
tax for this year is just about 5 Der cent
OF the assessed valuation last year upon
which il must be apportioned and the
various special levies including the de-
lnquencies levy, carry the total above
the limit. The attorney general is pre-
pairing an opinion on the subject hut
the controversy will probably have TO go
to the courts for settlement as some
500 600 is involved
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
OLD OFFICERS REELECTED
Work of the Foreign Missionary
Board Ended.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 16.-The American
board of commissioners for foreign mis-
siOns this morning reelected all OF the
officers of the past year for the ensuing
term. Five changes were made In the
personel of the prudential committee, the
Rev F. j. Van Horn being chosen to fill
out the unexpired term of member who
died during the last year and the follow
ing elected to serve until 1885,
The Rev Edward &. Moore. Samuel 9.
Darling Frederick Fosdick and Arthur
II. Wellman.
The meeting of the board is now prac
tically over This afternoon the members
are enjoying the hospitality of the Seattle
chamber of commerce, who are taking
them for cruise on the sound. The
party will visit the Puget Sound navy
yard. Tomorrow the services in most Of
the churches of the city will be in charge
of visiting members of the board. 4 few
addresses by missionaries will be deliv-
cred at a morning meeting Monday, and
a farewell address spoken by the Rev.
Edward Lincoln Smith of Seattle. This
will end the ninety-sixth annual meeting
of the board
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
FIRE ALARM CAUSED
PANIC AMONG GIRLS

Chicago, Sept. l6.-Fire in the base
mcnt of the Occidental building. 81
Market street. caused a panic among
500 girls employed in the eight-story
structure al Market and Washington
streets today order was restored only
after men employed there had pei
suaded fifty young women To leave the
fire escapes on three sides of the struc-
tufe The women then turned to the
stairs and elevators and were conduct
ed safely 20 the street. Twenty of the
girls tainted after escaping the flames
The property damage was small
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
MINISTER POWELL
HAS NOT RESIGNED

Washington. Sept. 16.-Mr Powell.
American minister TO Hayti, who now is
at his home ia New Jersey on leave of
absence. has made TO the state depart
ment denial Of the interview which has
been published IN which he is said TO
have stated his intention of resigning his
post and TO have commented upon the
large amount of revolutionary trouble
which occurred during his ministry as a
reason for his resignation. II cannot be
asCertained how much of the interview
Mir. Powell repudiates. but so far his res
ignation has not reached the state de-
paTtment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17

n USE, ia. Sept IA furry has
y been caused in state official circles
by the action of She northern eOun-
ties in refusing to pay state taxes in ex-
cess of the 5-min limitation, provided by
the constitution in those counties. The
county attorneys have instructed the au-
ditors 10 reduce the amount to be paid
the state TO the 5-mill limit
1t appears the protest arises mainly
from the levy Of 1 mill as special tax to
meet county delinouencies to the state
In 1895 in order TO avoid delinquencies,
change was made in the manner of max
ing the state levy. 1t was formerly a
mill levy, but in the year named il was
changed to an ad valorem tax. this being
appOrtiOned to the counties IN proportion
to their assessed valuation of the DreVi-
OuS year
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
MANUFACTURERS EVADEO THE LAW
Imported Parts off Machines Into Argentine at Lower Rates of
Duly and Assembled the Paris Into Complete
Machines After Admission

tAI AsHINGTON. Sept. Administer
w Beaupre, at BueRos Ayres, in ac-
cordanoe with Instructions cabied
him bv Acting Secretary Of State LOOMS,
has investigated the matter OF the pro
posed new high rate of duty on agricul-
tural machinery and extra parts for re-
pairs, and reports today by cable that
the tariff bin has been passed by the
Argentine house and Is row before the
senate This bill provides that agricul-
tural machinery and implement repair
machinery may be imported free of duty,
but says that the clause IN the bill seems
ambiguous and reads as follows:
Repair pieces, by which are to be I'M
derstOod such as form an integral of the
machine for which they are intended shall
enjoy the benefits accorded By this law
only when they are imported with the
machine.
1t would appear thar repair pieces not
shipped with the machines Of which they
are an integral part, viii be subject TO an
ad valorem duty of % per cent.
The minister has been instructed 20 be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17

in 1889, but the census of 1890 showed
that the population of towns of about
1900 and above amounted To "a $40
per cent of the population Of the cOun-
try. Chancellor Won BuelOw said in the
reichstag early this year that the pOpu-
lation of towns of more than 5000 was
81 per cent of the total population.
Although this is so, the cities and
those thickly packed industrial centers
where one mining or factory town
blends into another as in the Rhine
land, have less than a third of the rep
resentation in the reichstag This is
because there has been no redistricting
of the reichstag since the formation Of
the empire, and il is since that Ger
Mays immense industrial develop
mehts have taken place
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
MlKAD0 REMEMBERS
SICK COMMISSIONER

New York. Sept. ia cablegram
containing IA message from the cmper-
or OF Jaoan was received today by
Baron Komura, the Japanese peace
envoy. 1t read:
His EXcellency. Baron Komura, New
York: His majesty being much con-
cerned at your illness, has commanded
me TO inform YOU that he wishes YOU
to take good care OF yourself and hopes
for your speedy recovery.
(Signed)
The peace plenirOtentiaTy replied by
cable 10 the emperor, stating that his
present condition was satisfactory.
The daily bulletin of one of the bar
On's physicians. announced that all de-
Velopments IT, the case during the past
twenty-four hours have been favorable
10 the patient.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17

unceasins in his efforts TO bring about a
satisfactory adjustment of the matter.
from some statements made to the de-
partment by American exporters il is
surmlsed that the purpose of this new
Argentine legislation may be to stop a
practice which is said to have grown up
Of evading larger tariff duties on machines
exported to the Argentine republic bv
shipping III a large number OF parts at a
lower rate of duty and assembling these
parts into complete machines after their
admission into the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
MANS CHANCE TO BE GOOD.

= Washington, Sept. 16.-Mlss Nan
= Patterson. the actress. is to marry :
y her former husband. Leon g Mar
y tin. from whom she Was divorced =
= three years ago. The license vas
= issued today and the ceremony
= VIII occur at the home of the
= brides father in this city this aft :
= ernoon. Mr.. and Mrs. Martin will =
= reside in New York, where the for
= mer manages hotel. ~ -,a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
.FIENDlSH CRIME
PUZZLES POLICE
Body of Handsome Young Woman
Found in New York Suburb.
CLOTHING TORN TO SHREDS
FOUGHT DESPERATELY FOR LIFE
AND HONOR.

Al EW YORK. Sept 1.-THE finding to-
IN day of the body of a handsome
young woman. about . years of age
lying bruised and battered in clumD OF
bFiaF bushes near the Pelham road in the
Bronx revealed one of the worst crimes
with which the police have had to deal
in many years. An autopsy tonight
showed that the woman had been Grim
lnally assaulted and chOked to death,
There WAS every indication that she hau
fought her assailants desperately. Her
Tonight to body rests in the Fordham
morgue. while half a hundred detectives
are eudeavoring TO establish the victim 5
identity and TO find some clue to the
murderers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
City Party Meetings.

Tonight three town meetings were held
under the auspices of the City party as
a protest against the methods of the or
ganizatiOn. Immense crowds attended all
OF the meetings.
The principal speakers were Mayor
Weaver. Charles Emory Smith, former
postmaster general Wayne MacVeagh,
former attorney general, and William
Potter, former minister to Italy.
Five days before Mayor Weaver broke
with the organization the regular Repub-
lican convention nominated candidates Tor
the judiciary, the sheriff. coroner and
city commissioner The contest made by
the City party on the ticket resulted IN
the withdrawal of all the candidates last
week with the exception of the nominees
for the bench.
Today the citizens committee, after
conference with a subcommittee of the
Republican city committee, presented the
following names as substitutes for those
withdrawn: Sheriff Dr. Joseph 5 Neft;
coroner Thomas Dugan; city eommls-
sioners, Howard A. Chase and William
EmsieV.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
Two Men implicated.

The autopsy physicians were of the
opinion that the woman had been dead
about twelve hours. Evidence points 10
the fact that at least two men were inn
plicated in the crime That the woman
was robbed is not doubted. tor nothing
of value was left Ou her person, while
her fingers show that rings which she
must have worn We're torn from them.
The girl was five feet two inches IN
height. of fair complexion with brown
hair and blue eyes.
An empty dress suit case was found
near the scene of the crime, but in neither
this nor any other article OF clothing was
there the slightest means of Identified
ton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
AUDIENCE WITH KAISER.

Homburg. Prussia, Sept. 16.-Emperor
William today received in audience Mr..
Meyer, the American ambassador TO
Russia Mr.. Meyer was with the en-
peror for two hours. The ambassador
also breakfasted with the emperor and
the empress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
REFORM STILL
THE BATTLE CRY
New Ticket of Philadelphia Gang
Proves Unpopular.
CROWDED TOWN MEETINGS
NOTED SPEAKERS DENouNCE
THE RiNesTERs.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. l6.-New i'm
petus was given the political contest
here between Mayor Weaver and the
reform element of which the City party
is an integral part. on the one side, and
the regular Republican organization, led
By Former State Insurance Commissioner
Israel W Durham, on the other, by to-
days development in the situation. In
order to regain whatever prestige II
might have lost since the mayor began
his crusade for good municipal govern
ment, the organization, aided by COM
mittee of twenty-one prominent citizens,
all members of the Union league. today
selected a new local ticket TO be voted
for at the November election.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
Lands All Taken.
sHosHoNE CONTRACTS LET.
-Four Million Dollars Appropriated
For This Project.
Especial to The HeraldJ

Washington, Sept. 16.-The secretary
OF the interior today awarded TO Prem
dergast GARRISON of Chicago the
contract for building the dam of the
Shoshone irrigation project. Wyoming,
AT S5l5, l5O and 10 Charles Spear of
Billings, Mont, the contract for the
Corbett tunnel on the same project. at
a cost Of S594,S25, These were the low
est bids. The Shoshone project con-
templates the diversion of a portion of
the waters of the ShOshOne river for
the reclamation of 160. 600 acres of Dub-
tic land on the north side of the river
IN Wyoming. seventy-five mil5s east
Of the Yellowstone National park. Just
below the junction of the north and
south forks the ShoshOne river flows
for three and Une-half miles in a can
Eon, the first mile of which is through
solid granite with almost perpendicular
walls several hundred feet in height.
An lmpoundage Dam.
1t is proposed to construct an inn
poundage dam at the head of this can
yon, with bottom width of sixty-hve
feet, top width of $50 feet and an eIe-
walton above the river bed of 24O feet.
The reservoir thus created will have a
storage capacity of $50 600 acre feet.
On account of steep canyon walls it is
necessary, in order to provide for spill
way, 10 allow excessive floods TO pass
the dam, TO construct a tunnel from
the surface Of the proposed reservoir
around the dam through the solid
granite of the mountain. to discharge
into the canyon several hundred feet
below the dam. This tunnel will have
a capacity of $4,000 cubic feet per sec
ond, sufficient to carry the largest
floods of the stream
Engineering Features.
This project is of special int rest be-
cause Of its unusual engineering fea-
lures. The storage dam, built eighty
eight feet below the river bed 10 bed
rock, and with a total Insight of 32S
feet, viii be the highest i'm the world.
The flood spillWay tunnel through solid
granite viii have a capacity of p. 600
cubic feet per second. and there will
be two outlet tunnels. each three and
one-half miles long, one taking its sup
ply directly from the reservoir for a
high line canal, covering 10000 acres of
high land in the upper valley, and the
other diverting the water from the
river sixteen miles below the dam for
a low line canal TO supply the remain
ing portion The canals viii decrease
In size with the distance from the tun-
nels as distributing bitches are taken
out. The secretary Of the interior has
set aside 100000 for this project.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
DENIAL BY HANLeY.

y Indianapolis. Ind. Sept. 16.-In I
y reference TO the report that Gov I
= ernor Hanley borrowed $3.50, 600 4
= from David L. Sherrick during the
= last campaign, the governor said 4
y today:
= 1T is not true that Mr.. Sherrick I
, ever loaned me a dollar of money I
B in his life for any purpose"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17
NO SURPRISE TO THE REPUBLICANS

6John Mccall president the life insurance
inquiry testify before the committee when its
Assenbyman
is a
The i
We of