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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
CLUB WOMEN ON
RACE SUICIDE"
Salt Lake Mothers Reply to Recent
Structures by Public Men.
WILL GATHER STATISTICS
FEDERATION is PREPARING TO
REFuTE ALLEGATIONS.

OCAL club presidents and club
l. presidents Of all places through
out the length and breadth of tae
land are to be kept out OF mischief
Tor the next few weeks rounding M
the children Of the club members aod
alldlIs the average number TO each.
Iheh when this task is completed fhs,-
may be busy themselves with finding
me number allotted 10 each of tho
mothers and srandmOthers of HE MOI
ern CLUB woman and getting down Ia a.
me point the percentage Ia which thc
cihb woman is guilty of Sinking her
responsibility as a mother.
Representative club women of I-fsb
claim that the proof of their attention
10 The business of having and rajsiuc
babies VIII be or easy matter com
pared To that offered by women En- any
other walks Of life. The burnins cues
lions OF the size of the club uolnaT,'5
family are even now on their way 90.
every president of federated club I'm
the stale
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
Will COMMAND FLAGSHIP

Alexandra. Va, Dee. i9.-Commander
Cameron MacRae Winslow left tonight
for Norfolk, whore he win tomorrow
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Russia AGAIN Cut.

New York, Dee le.-Tbe cable COM
ranies received notice today that tele-
graphic communication with ~.
Petersburg has been severed again.
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assume command Of the new protected
cruiser Charleston which is to be the
flagship of the Pacific squadron.
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e T. PETERSBURG. Dec. 10. . .. NJ
- Russia apparently is ON the eve
OF great if not a final struggle
FOR mastery between the government
ina the proletariat. Both sides have
lncd I'D for hattie
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ACCIDENT ON NEW
YORK ELEVATED
Two Trains Running on Parallel
Tracks Come Together
ONE KILLED. FORTY HUR7
ENGINEER ARRESTED FOR MAN.
SLAUGHTER.

Anew YORK, De-. 1s.-Iu one Of lha
~ most extraordinary accidents
known 10 American 'raiiroading
two heavily loaded passenger trains
came together on -he elevated tracks
Of tire New York Central x Hudson
River raiIoad. tollsn, In Harlem One
man. j. W KNAPP of New Rochelle,
was killed. and forty persons were
more or less seriously injured.
Running on Parallel Tracks.
Both of tac co'liIMg trains were
eas-Eouud and had left NJ Grand
Central stat Oh a. Forty-s eeoud street
within Il feE minutes Of each other
one was q stamford local OF Tn- New
York. New Haven < Hartford railroad
which coMyany uses the New York
Contra, tracks. Tile other train vas
he Pong nkeepsie express of the Cen
rral Rushing along Oh parable tracks.
the two trains suddenly came together
The local was switched from the tnird
track onto The fourth, and IN an IN
slant the eneinc of The express had
eva shed into tho day coach following
The smoking car % The local
Work of Rescue Difficult.
inc tracEs ar tha 1oiat @. tno COLI
son are about thirty feet I'm the air.
Hbis made The W0rF Of rescle difficult.
ana len materially Ia ne terror o. the
passengers. most ot whom were resi-
dents of nearby points n Connecticut
and New York state. who laid come 10
tile city on holiday shopping tours
Fire apparatus tuDm several stations
was summoned anu many persons
were rescued rs means OF ladders
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General Strike Ordered.

81 Late this afternoon all indications
pointed to a declaration Of war be
q tween the prOletariat in the form of
s "a summons for 81 complete general
strike tomorrow which win tie up the
S railroads, the telegraphs and every
Industry and business in the empire.
All the proletariat groups here have
8 decided in favor of "a general strike and
news has been received that the work
mems council and the allied bodies al
MOSCOW have also pronounced IN favor
OF it, The decision Of the central com
mittee Of the railroad union sitting at
8 Moscow. without the support Of which
the other organizations probably viii
not risk a battle. has no. -eJ been
TeceiVed. but il is known that the dele
gates on the committee from 81. Pc
tersburg and the Baltic provinces are
an favor of the movement and the lead
s cTs here are confident that the radicals
will carry the day.
q Tomorrow Russia may again be cut
off from the world. not only by wire.
bur by rail.
Intense Excitement.
There is an air of suppressed excite
1nent throughout the city. The streets
8 have a regular holiday appearance IN
honor of the emperOr's name day and
are crowded.
Collisions between the reds and the
s. loyalists are momentarily expected, but
none has been reported up 20 the pres
ent hour. A big iOyalist demonSua-
zion had been planned and was gban-
8 dOned al the request of the project o,
q police whe believed that it might pro-
VOke bioodshed,
Batteries of machine guns are sta
sSioned at several points of Vantas
Throughout the city. and also infantry
81 land Cossacks are everywhere. y spec
sally heavy guard is stationed i'm me
8neighborhoOd OF the Jewish market
Services were held i'm all the churches
today. and I'm every barracks the EN-
peror's order for an advancement 81
nav and food was read TO the troops.
At the TSarskoe- Seio the emperor re-
s viewed the three guard regiments
whose patron is ST. Nicholas. The re-
view was made the occasion of re-
q markable demonstration of fidelity IN
s. his majesty's honor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
THINK THEY HAVE
THE SANDBAGGER
Police Arrest Arthur Curtis, an Ex-
Convict, on Suspicion.
HE ACTS SUSPlClOUSLY
TRIES TO ELUDE OFFICER WHO
WAS sHADoWlNG HIM.

RTuUR CURTIS. an eX-convict. $
q years Of age, who has served
~ twelve-yoar sentence for burglary III
San Quentin prison, California and q
teu-Near sentence Tor robbery ana as
sauit with "a deadly weapon IN Inc Ten
state prison. was arrested by Folice u
ficer Charles SpeTry last nSnt ON aua-
riciou Of being the sauIpagger VINO ms
recently teIIoriZed Ile city. curtis cam,
down sixth South street ami started Up
Main street alCUt $3.50 O'Clock 1aSt illsLt
Officer Sporry was just across the street,
Curtis actions were suspicious lie
crossed To the west side. or tue slleet anu
Dffic-r SuerrV followed MIN. Al flItn
south officer Sperry took the east SIDE
of the street so that lie could Natch
Curtis more CLOSELY.
When OFFICER Sf5arry came under me
light at Firth South street curtis saw
bim Curtis evidently knew he was ne
ING followed and walked at "a rapid fate
nearly 90 Fourth South street. Here ne
cut across TO the eaSl side az the street
again and came MP within reW yards ol
where OFFICER Sptrry was standing u--
hind q tree Curtis walked east on
Fourth south street.
just at this point an hast FOURTH
South street ear turned tle eoIueF gong
east When the car got between orticVt
SHERRY end Curtis the FORMER jumped
out from behind the tree and boarded
the car. Officer Sp6rry rode % Second
East street and stepped of he lay ~
wait uutil Curtis came up the street
and then stopped him. Curtis made no
resistance, but when searched nothing IN
the shape of @ weapon OF sandbaS was
found on him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
GENERAL BANKRUPTCY.
.Another Strike VIII Financially Ruin
! All Glasses.

ST Petersburg, Dee. l9-l:2O p. m
TIN. Molva, the name under which Ihd
s,luuressed Russ is now appearing de-
slares that the responsibility for
general strike viii rest upon the
shoulders of the government IL
charges that IL is the purpose Of Count
WHITE TO propose the assembling Of the
douma next summer and in the mean
time to 'pacify the country in the old
bureaucratic way.
\ committee representing the Mos
COW hourse arrived here today TO I'M
plore Count Witte To do something 10
ward OF the blow of a general strike
. and also 10 settle the post and tele-
8 graph strike Immediately. as The only
means of preventing financial ruin
: The committee painted the outlook IN
black colors IL told the premier thar
Rlready there had been hundreds or
small bankruptcies i'm the provinces;
that the paper of many firms was go
sns to protest and that large concerns
were hanging by "a thread, IL is sold
that while one week of the general
strike would beggar the proletarilt il
also would spell the ruin of countless
8 A. duStrieS
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Newspaper Men on Train.

The service SO auspiciously maugu-
rated yesterday. or, to be strictly ;Uccu-
rate. on Sunday night. was begun in
the presence of : lively a carload OF
newspaper men as the western cnun-
try has yet been hOn0Ted with AS The
guests of the Union Pacific and under
the chaperOuage Of General Passenger
Agent e L. LomaX and Advertising
Agent Alfred DarlOW, the writer's gath
cred in Chicago from all sections Of the
country.
From New York come H>F. Boards
ley Of I.eslie's Weekly. James F.. Dor
rance of the Tribune and II. ;. Schuy-
Ter of the Times: PittsDurg was repre-
patch. J. NJ Hazlett Of the Leader,
( Theodore Boiee Of the Telegraph and
Gazette; Chicago furnished W ;.
( BrOns Of the American, +. ". Lane Uf
! the Railway Age. W. NJ. Camp o. the
! Railway q Engineering Review a. g
| Thomas and Melville Thomas of the
/ Associated Press. Il. II. Little. recently
/ returned from China. correspondent "a
| large: Cleveland supplied A. F. Nick ee
/ OF the Plain Dealer. from Cincinnati
! came NJ Strauss Of the Times-St2T;
/ Minneapolis aud ST. Paul had j. \. AZ
4 mold ard j. " Hawks Of tine it+bun1
! and Dispatch, respectively The ! Kan
! sas City Star was represented by j. l.
: Steele the Des MoiHes Register aR1
Leader by Gardner Cow les. The Omaha
+ World Herald by r r. Porter. IN
4 Denver Post News and Times by "
A Parrish 4. L. Mayheld and 9 II
! Poole; the Scripps- AicRae News Blu
] reau by II. Brown the Cheyenne pres,
bureau by G. ). Walker and the Oma
ha News Bureau by \. A. Huse
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
Walls Collapsed.

While the fire was at its height one Of
The walls suddenly collapsed and a mum
leT of firemen We're precpitated in the
debris With the exception Of Lleulendnl
Henry BaSsetI OF truck company No a,
who was crushed 10 death, All ui the fire
men escaped with o severe shaking up.
\ number OF the employees were injured in
the panic that followed after The lire
broke out, and for a time there were All
sorts e Umors as To the number of per-
sOns kiIIed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
Publish a Newspaper.

These young mentor all Of them. in
Guiding AiT. Schuyler who has elegant
gray WhislleIs and has n son who is
the American consul general in Siam
couldn't get along without news
paper, so they published one Of their
own the Los Angeles Limited Daily
Coyote. with the motto: Howl. damn
you. howl" Some of the news items
follow.
NJ. s. Schuyler dropped into the sane
tum yesterday and told yc editor a funny
story. we havnt saw the point yet bu1
IL was 2 good story because Schuyler is
stili laughing. Come again. 1T. $
The affable J. n. Steele 81 5he Kansas
City Star WAS seen in Our dislCs Yesterday
renewing 1cquaiutances with old friend"
J. Ms dandy. This is his third time on
earth.
Mr. Dwight Swobe got q shave this H.
IN ana perlled himself an up now r0os5iug
10 the observation car pointing out th-
scenery to the ladies. Ali. there. Dwight
You behave or Wen tell.
q club root is something a man cannot
help. But DafloWs beard is his owu
fault
scene. in the dining car: The waiter
hands 4. c. Thomas two antiseptic tootr
picks in their white tissue paper On
vuiopes.
Mr.. Thomas. highly Indignant Take
them darned things away. / haven't never
smoked cigarette in my life and darned
if I'm going to begin now.
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smoot Sits as Judge.

And because of this reprehensible
paper the editor, r. II. Little, got him
self into serious trouble yesterday
morning. Dwight Swobe aused his ar
rest for criminal libel. Mr.. Swobe de-
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Released From Pen in July.

Curtis was released from the state pris-
on last July and this is the first time
the police authorities knew. he WIS ~
the state Curtis declares he has heeu
living down near Brooks ranch. in the
northwestern part of the city since he
was released tie also said that last
night was the first time he had been
around Salt Lake for over a month. His
sister, Bertha Curtis. IL living on East
Seventh South street ana he had been
there to STE her.
When this was learned, Sergeant John
Hempel. Detectives George Chase ana
Joseph Burt went 20 the place but when
the Curtis woman found out they We're
officers she refused them admittance.
Sergeant Hempel had no search warrant
and they had to give up their plans or
searching the house.
\ close search was made through the
snow where Curtis went up Main street,
but nothing could be found that ne had
dropped Today his premises near
Brook $ ranch win he searched, and also
his sisters house. None of the victims
of the s3ndbagger has been able 10 give
description of tho man who did the
work. but 81 lis the intention Of the police
To- have all of them take look at Cur
It's
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
Council Undecided.

The council at TsarskOe-Selo con-
cludrd its sitting without arriving at a
decision regarding the election Law,
tthe consideration of which viii Dee re-
lsumed tomorrow. The choice rests be-
tween two proiecJs-oue for limited
and the other for universal suffrage,
and both Indirect.
a sensation has been produced by am
lOpen letter To the Nolva written by
Alexander StakOvich of Orel. a prom
sheut Zemstvoist- which reveals NJ
DUrnoVO la the double capacity Of act
ing minister of the interior and seller
o. forage 10 the war department. NJ
StallOVich bought lJ-UOO pools of oats
from NJ Duruovos wife last spring al
a.. but delivery could not be mdde Oh
account of the lack of cars. tn the
meantime, owing 10 the failure of the
crops the prices had risen AMI this
4ali NJ. StakUviJCh says tnaJ DUruuVo
secretly sold oats To the war dcoarJ-
~ { at 81. at the same time present
FiIN Il bill against the department. Cor
500 for storage. Ii is considered that
1he exposure win make il Impossible
Tor n DurnOVO to remain ia the Cabi-
HaF
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
NEW LIMITED
Is IN ON TIME
Los Angeles Flyer Passes on to Salt
Lake Route.
NEWSPAPER ON THE TRAIN
sMooT SITS AS JUDGE IN MOCK
TRIAL.
NEWSPAPER ON THE TRAIN
uTo tick" said General Superin-
tendent Everett Buckingham Of

nTo a tick" said General superin-
tendent Everett Buckingham Of
the Short Line.
1T was easy said Division Superin-
tendent II. Y. Hnil1er.
Nov let the other fellows do their
share; we've done ours. was General
Passenger Agent D. f. Burley's com
ment
The Watches-thOse that were right
marked 4:05 precisely The new Chi
cago-L0s Angeles limited over the Chi
caso & Northwestern, the Union Pa
cidc and the Salt Lake Route had ar
rived in Salt Lake on time. 1t was the
expected that happened. From the
moment il left Chicago at 1905 O'Clock
sunday night the limited had been on
time, except when it was a minute or
two ahead Of the schedule.
General Managers w. Il. Bancroft Of
The Short Line and r. L. Wells Of the
San Pedro, Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent d. S. Spencer and Travelling
Passenger Agent II. l.. Dunn Of The
Short Line, together with number of
other officials of both roads. met the
train at the station and congratulated
each other on the ma gnificent trial zip
of the most modern flyer that mas ever
rolled over steel rails.
Twenty six minutes after the limited
arrived. and eleven minutes after the
hour scheduled for departure. the train
started for Los Angeles. The little lost
time viii be made up long before the
flyer reaches ifs destination.
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plenty Of Families in utah.

Mrs. Ciesson :. Kinney. president 90
the state federation for the past Two
years ana recently reelected 10 the
same office said yesterday.
Utah IL ii shining Example I'M the
matter Of families In club circles as
wei as elsewhere. on rather more iu
club circles than else; here might
name 40 You sevefal of the leading club
women of the state Nhc have been act
i've i'm club Wort, for years whose chit
dreH are a pride and 10Y 10 them iI
point OF numbers and in character
IN the Ladies' Literary club alone. the
largest or the state. there are man
women who are mothers Of families
ranging from six To ten. Some Of theS-
children are grown and many grand
children have been added and tut
mother and grandmother has coutiu-
Ted her WORK with the club and jhe
home through all The years
This is not tyUe OF The city WOreI
alone, for several of he club WOMB
in the outlying towns women Uu
have been most helpful III their uHl
small communities, arc the mothers ID.
large families. Frequently one sees
that 1t is the woman with the sreai @.
cares and the greater rasponsibHitIas
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Reason for Statistics.

Tie questions which nave been pre-
pared by Mrs. Sarah Platr- Decker.
president of the general Federation d,
Nomen's clubs have grown qua Of thD.
recent attacks made by men On .ro-
men IN general and club women EN-
particular in regard 10 IN" so-caiicI
race suicide question. The direct caus.-
seems TO have come IL tEa form % a
call from the Illinois federation 10 o.
fer proof OF the falsehOod 1i the state
ments Of President Roosevelt. former
President Grover cleveland Rabbi
lsadore Philo of Chicago and Miss Olga
Louise Cadijah. IN her book. Turn
ON the Lights" Tho last named SAYS.
"rhc modern club woman commits
race suicide and encourages other lv0-
men to do likewise Rabbi Philn
made sta tements recently from his pull
pit which club women of that city re-
gard as even worse than the state
ments IN The book written by Miss
Cadiiah Among other things be said
in his attack The club woman is
stranger 10 her rhildreu-Whcn she has
any-and her poodl" IS tho object OF
more Of her caresses than either her
children or her husband
This last statement is perhaps the
+ most Calling To the club woman. and
+ the Illinois federation has taken the
( matter up with such vim and Eigor
/ that the president Mrs Decker felt
] called ubOu To act
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Has a Bad Record

Curtis criminal record is Well known
10 the police. His sentence al san QuCn-
tim was for burglary. OF the twelve
Year sentence he received he only served
about eight years. His "cGppcTS Tor
good behavior amounted to tour Years.
Curtis was sentenced 70 the Utah state
prison for entering a store in Or; ngs ,
owned by John e. Aiackay Mr. M1ckay
followed curtis three or four miles be-
fore be overlook him, Gurus had an uc-
compile who was with him, and Mac
Kay was held up nj the point OF a gun
and ordered 70 hit the trai back for
home"
curtis was captured shortly after
wards and was sentenced 10 ten wears ID
the state prison. His "cOppers' reduced
his sentence 20 siN years. In ali ho has
served about fifteen Years of his lie IN
Jail he had three or four brothers. who
have served state prison terms. and one
Of them died in the Utah Denitrntiary
a few years ago.
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List OF the Questions.

She has therefore prepared d set II
questions which she viii submit 20
club women as follows
lioT nsny members are there IA
your club
How many Of these wonen are mar
IieG women?
How many mothers? And hos
many children have they
How many hJVe young chtdreue
Have You any business women. AID
how many
Have YOU any teachers. and hov
mauy2
Give number aud names OF lawyers.
If amy, among your members or doc
tors: OF ministers? OF other profess
sionai women ."
From the answers To these il seems
NSr. Decker expects 10 compile a boo,
setting forth the facts That club We
men are as good mothers and have as
large families as have amy other Nn-
men.
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Martial Law Declared.

Instead of the expected promulsa-
zion of the election law and OF mani
tests donating the crown appanages 70
the peasants. the cmperor's name day
was signalized by the declaration
o. martial law in tho province Of Su-
Walk. on the German frontier of Po-
land, and 10y the Teasing of the army
On Inc country.
An order for the improvement OF
1he condition OF the army and navy.
which preceded the announcement of
. measures for the imnroyement of th~
status OF the privates. adopted ''as a
token of the emperor's good will to-
Nard his army" provides for an in
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NO SIGNS OF HAVING A CONSCIENCE E1PtoSIon AND FIRE
Chicago Factory DesuOyed-Fire-
man Killed and Several En-
ployes i'll the Ruins.

Chicago. Dec. l9.-One fireman was
killcd and several employees may have
lost their lives in a fire which destroyed
the enamel sign factory of the Charles
Al Schank company, 10 10 Park street,
tonight Until the ruins Of the building
have been searched ia viii not be posi-
lively Known whether any Of the employees
" ere killed either ia the explosion which
started the fire or by the falling Of the
walls and floors. which followed soon att
onward =
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LAST EDITION

WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE
: Partly cloudy; local snow; colder,
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{ Silver, 659sc per ounce.
Copper tcastingl. lSt4c per pound
Lead in ore, $50; New York, $50
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