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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-08

The legislative situation stands IS Re
publicans TO "a Democrats
If kootenai gives the Republicans four
they will-be added TO thar figure while
they stand to lose one in Shoshone and
TO gain one in Lemhi. Following is the
lineup at present:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-08
PANIC DURING FIRE.

Columbus. o.. Nov 7.-Foremen rescued
twenty terrified girl employees of Andrew
Dobbie dry goods merchant from the
third floor of his store during a blaze
there early today. A few were slightly
injured.
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sent letter to President Fish giving
their reasons for refusing to vote for
kis reelection. The letter declared that
in June last. without consulting the
other members of the board of direc-
tors, Mr.. Fish issued a circular TO the
stockholders requesting proxies for the
annual election.
AT the next meeting of the board it
was declared Mr.. Fish. by breaking the
quorum, defeated a resolution for the
appointment of a committee to solicit
proxies. Later Fish and Hartman eff
fected an agreement by which the Har-
riman-Kuhn-Loeb proxies should be
given to Fish. who would vote for Har-
rlman'S selection of a successor 10
Grinnell at the annual meeting. Henry
W. Deforest was Harriman'S choice,
but, the statement says Fish absolute
ly refused to vote the proxies as
agreed, and instead used the proxies TO
elect FiSh'S individual nominee. Fish
further wrote and caused TO be pub
lished statements rejecting on his fell
low directors. The letter continues;
Not the Whole Thing.
This incident is the climax of Sc
ries of events during the past few years
showing an inability on your part TO
distinguish between the powers and du-
ties of the president and those of the
directors of a corporation.
we Will not for a moment admit
that you are more loyal TO the stock
holders or more keenly alive TO the in
terests of the public in the perform
ance of the public duties of the COM
pany than your fellow directors, nor
will we, while directors of the COM
pany. permit you TO assume TO act as
the entire board, to make agreements
and violate Them or to aSperSe the mo-
tiveS of your fellow members in the
expectation of securing personal advan-
tage at their expense.
THE situation is solely of your own
creating; but in view of what has
taken place, of your deliberate viola
ton of an agreement intended to create
peace in the board and your attitude to-
ward your fellow members we are
convinced that you have rendered i'm
possible that harmony which must ex-
list between the president of the COM
pany and individual members of the
board. and that you have SO seriously
impaired your usefulness as an officer
OF the company as to compel US to re-
fuse 10 vote in favor of your re-elec-
ton"
Statement by Hartman.
This is not my fight" said Mr.. Har-
riman. after the meeting 1T is a fight
OF the BOARD or directors ana Mr.. Fish.
l acceded to the July agreement re-
sarding the election of directors at the
annual meeting. only in difference to
the wishes Of the board The July
agreement was made primarily TO quiet
the public clamOr which was being
raised in the press and to silence the
various recrimina lions which were be-
ing made in the public prints as an
outcome Of the contention which had
arisen-in the board of directors. Per
sonally, / had not word TO say at
tOday's meeting of the board. The board
took no action whatever in regard to
the appointment of any committee to
take charge of the management of the
! road
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LOSS s35o,00o.

Hamilton. o.. Nov. "A loss of more
than $4,000 was incurred by fire which
started after midnight in the heart of
the business portion of the city.
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ROOSEVELT is BUSY.

Washington. Nov To-day. the last be-
fore the departure of President Roosevelt
for Panama, was a busy one for the chief
executive
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TINS table does not INCLUDE Ine NOIe
in Garfield. Willard. Morgan. Piute- San
Juan and Wayne counties. These coun-
ties will probably swell the Howell piu-
"a litv 10 15.OG0
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Votes Not Counted.

Today other reports were received in
dicating that Independence league votes
for Mr.. Hearst were not counted in Erie
and Allegheny counties Reports came
in also showing that in districts in Clin-
ton. Cattaragus, Herkimer. Wayne, AL
bany. OnOndaga and Washington coun-
ties there was failure on the part of
the election boards to count the vote for
Mr.. Hearst which was cast under the
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EptcT ISSUED BY CHINA.

Pekin, Nov An imperial edict pro
viding for the reorganization of the gov
eminent was published in the official ga
zette today
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There is as much use in some
people advertising as there is in
throwing Sones in a river to
stop the tide.-Jim's Junk.
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''The Troubles of Pete the Ped
lar new series of funny stuff,
starts next Sunday. It's real fun
ny, too.
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Vote on Governor.
The LEGISLATURE.

otaI --------.--.-.l e.9VO
Net plurality OF ITO for GOoding.
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Continued on Page 10.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-08

The seventh state legislature OF Utah
viii consist very largely of Republicans.
The state senate will be entirely RepUb-
lican il ID. II. Morris IS beaten in thu
Eleventh district, as seems probable. Tbs
house will have at the outside not to eX-
coed five Democratic members out OF the
fOrty-fiVe. Following are the names of
the members of the senate:
First District-Peter Clegg, Tooele,
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-04
III. WILSON, CALIFORNIA,
SHOWING TRAIL TO It's SUf1nlT
UP WHICH TIE AUTO
11UST CLIf1B

to supply current to the four motors
located within the wheels. One of
the conditions confronted in this case
was the distance from a charging
station, which rendered the use of a
storage battery impracticable. 1t was
replaced by a generator of compact
and comparatively light type, which is
mounted in the forward part of the
truck and direct-connected to a gaso-
line engine of forty horsepower.
The electric motors are of four
horsepower each nominally, but are
destined to stand heavy overload.
They are incased within the wheels,
each Of which is formed of two dish
shaped disks, between the edges of
which the heavy rubber cushion tire is
secured. The motors are set so that
the arTnatuBe shaft is in a horizontal
position and nearly at right angles to
the axis of the wheels. The shaft is
slightly at variance with such a right
angle, however, to permit pinions at
both ends to engage circular racks at
taehed near the rim of both of the
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You?

recognition of his rights. His eYor+.
TO recover possession quickly dfssipafs6
his accumulations and Downing ended
his days on the poor farm. Joel q
Polack also claimed title to thu isIand
under deed from General Castro. but ~.
rights were never seriously considered
Jose w. Limantour. whose whoIesaIa
fraudulent claims OF property occsnia5
the public mind FOE years ana cause6
great expense, litigation and troubis
included the island in his forged graf
but he never occupied It. The isiand
was transferred TO the Navy Denart-
ment several years ago and IS now m.
der the control of that department.
In the deep cove facing the ri.,~
sun stands the naval apprentices frasrs
ing quarters; the clean white OF tn
reek-modeled buildings cleaning ~
the sun against the background OF +ha
green sward of the slope thar rfsas
from the main buildings to the ofa-
GERS quarters. Daily the trim f,,t,,-.
petty officers can be seen drfr1in~ -
the parade ground In front OF 9het-
quarters or exercising at the guns ~,
board the old Pensacola. That Ola vss-
sci that followed FarraEut at Ne
orleans and Mobile Bay is noor.a =,
dlsnified retirement at the pier Sufffn-
out In front OF the training quarters
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GOAT ISLAND It
It's Story You Should Know 1t :

The first mention Of the island is
contained in the report of the found
ing of the Mission of San Francisco de
Assisi-our Mission Dolores. The In
dians of the locality of the Mission
were at feud with rancheria further
down the peninsula and, in fear of
dread reprisals for murder. done, fled
on RATS constructed of dry tules to the
isolation of the island. There, in that
wide-moated fastness, they bade def
ance to their enemies and caused great
disappointment to the good padres.
That flight deprived the missionaries
of the native audience at the dedi-
catory exercises of the mission and
made the gaining of neophytes much
more difficult than any other mission
had experienced, all of which was men
toned in the report to the Superior OF
the missions Of Alta California
There is every evidence of a consid-
cradle permanent settlement of abor-
igines at some far distant time There
are large shell heaps, the so-called
Kitchen middens," with annular strata
of shells and ashes that show genera
tions, IL not centuries, were required
for their rearing. A burial ground on
the eastern slope has been a mine of
interest to scientists and ethnologists,
who have unearthed skeletons and
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inner walls of the wheel. Thus the
power is applied from both ends of
the motor shaft and at both the for
ward and rear sides of the wheel,
forcing the forward side down and the
rear side upward when the vehicle is
moving forward. A great saving of
power is effected by this arrangement
through the elimination of thrust"
on the bearings, and the advantages are
obvious. The most perfect traction
is secured by the application OF. power
through the four wheels, and slipping
of the wheels is next to impossible.
No attempt was made to obtain speed
results in designing the car The truck
is expected to make a speed of seven
miles per hour on level roadway and
about two miles per hour IN climbing
the mountain, fully loaded in either
case. The average load will be about
five tons.
This wonderful truck not only drives
through all four wheels, but it steers
with front and rear wheels simuIta-
neously. This is made possible through
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the motors being mounted within tho
wheels and on the same bearings. The
.manner in which the vehicle is ma
neuvered in congested traffic and tight
places cannot fail to surprise specta-
tors accustomed to the conventional
methods of steering. The steering de-.
vice is so arranged that ordinarily both
front and rear wheels turn at the same
angle, but in opposite directions, SO
that the rear wheels follow exactly in
the track of the forward one. With
the wheels fully DETECTED very small
circles are made. When there is occa-
sion for it the connections are changed
by device operated from the drivers
seat so that all the wheels turn in the
same direction, and the vehicle then
executes an oblique movement back
ward .or forward. Again, the rear
wheels may. be. locked so that the We
hicle steers like an ordinary automo-
bile. The remarkable facility with
which the truck is manipulated makes
it especially suited to the conditions
met in the case of moving the big tele-
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Der to several hundred These animals
were one of the sources of meat sup
ply to the settlement of San Francisco.
and, with the rush of the gold-seekers
the island was visited frequently by
hunters in quest of fresh meat. Spear
sold his interest in the flock to Davis,
but before Davis cousd realize on his
investment the hungry argonauts had
killed all but a few of the most wary
In little swale overlooking the
Oakland hills are three graves-mel-
ancholy relics of the first white settler
on the island. General Juan Jose Cas-
tro claimed grant of Yerba Buena
Island from the Mexican Government
and sold 1T to Thomas Bowling. an
Irishman. who had deserted from a Wis
iting trading vessel and married Mex
lean. At the beginning of the gold rush
Bowling erected a house near the SPOT
where his first born and two friends
still lie, and brought his family there
to live. He earned a living and ac
cumulated some money by cutting wood
and supplying the shipping and the
growing city with fuel His title was
never recognized by the United States
and when the contro1 of the island was
ceded to the War Department Dowline,
was elected. For years the old man
begged and struggled and pleaded for
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sole concession tc private industries is
the cable crossing and the huge warn
ing sign of Gable Crossing" ;" with it's
eight-foot letters, to warn the new
come mariner from casting anchor in
the cable way. This Government pos
session is much coveted by public SER
vice corporations and utilitarian busi-
ness men, who desire the surrender of
the island for railway terminal sta
tiops and deep-water docks. Petition
after petition has been sent on it's way
to Washington in hope of Government
surrender, but deaf ear has been
turned in every case.
Nathan Spear and Jack Fuller, to-
gether with William Heath Davis, two
of whom have given their names to
San Francisco streets, are responsible
for the name of Goat Island. a name
which the Federal authorities and local
historical societies have for years
sought and in every way endeavored
to obliterate. In 1912 Spear and Fuller
obtained six goats from Captain Hoyer
of the American ship Fama, and, not
knowing where else to put them, OBJ
tanned permission from the Alcalde to
place them on Yerba Buena Island.
There the goats found luxuriant pas
turage and multiplied rapidly until, in
1S49, the flock had increased in num-
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utensils of bone and stone mortars,
pestles, arrow heads. avis and beads.
The Spaniards visited the island freT
quently to gather wood, and the lux
urious growth of that sweet-scented
herb, yerba sbuena. prompted them to
name the island after it. Whalers of
the Pacific filled their casks from the
spring on the northern side and re-
plenished their wood supply from the
thick growing oaks. The four hundred
odd acres We're at one time thickly
covered with vegetation and trees, but
the goats which were pastured on the
island destroyed the fine underground,
even to obliterating the yerba buena.
and the shipping and early settlers
cleared oft most @of the woods Yet,
today the island has it's hooks and ra-
vines and thickets that carry the in
quisitive wanderer far away from
thoughts of nearby city and passing
ferry boats.
The Government holds envied pos
session of the island. On the southeast
promontoryNit has established a light
house and fog signal. Near by on the
east is the lighthouse supply station
and pier; on the northeast portion Is
the naval training school for appren-
tices, and on the topmost point is the
naval wireless telcgraphy station. The
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time an aid to navigation, Yerba
Buena Island, commonly called Goat"
Island, towers some three hundred odd
feet above the midchanneI Of San
Francisco Bay. Daily thousands of
commuters and travellers pass it's
rocky shores, with little heed to it or
its history. Our bay-city dwellers
know little beyond the fact that Goat
Island is in the main line of bay travel
and that it is equipped with fog siren
and lighthouse. Local romance and
history receive too little attention, for
familiar things provoke no investiga-
tion and interest, save from the few.
Even the origin of its unpoetical nick
name is not known. No longer ago
than the other day heard a prominent
local woman explaining to an Eastern
visitor that "the outlines OF Goat ISL
and look so much like the profile of a
goat that the discoverers of the bay
called it Goat Island and it's had
the name ever since"
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~
tomobile truck, designed and
constructed for the specific pur-
pose Of moving to the top of
Mount Wilson. near Pasadena, Cal.
the largest telescope in the world, has
just been completed at the plant OF
freight wheel company in Grand Rap
ids. Mich. The trial tests of the big
machine are now being mrade. and it
viii be shipped to California within
fortnight
The automobile truck is unique in
design and in many particulars differs
from anything Of the kind ever made.
It is manufactured under motor pat
ents which cover interesting innova-
tions IN the application of power to
the propulsion OF vehicles Among its
peculiar features may be noted the
fact that it drives through all four
wheels, each being hollow and having
an electric motor located within it, and
the fact that 1t steers with all four
wheels, making the shortest turns pos
sible and affording the widest range
in its manipulation. Then the power
IS supplied by a small electric plant
which It carries with it-an electric
dynamo connected to gasoline engine
supplying current to the four individ-
ual motors instead OF the conventional
storage battery.
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a Motor in Each Wheel.

One OF the most novel features OF
this car lies in the source OF power
In the trucks ordinarily built by this
company q storage battery is provided
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: Adolphus E. Graupner

BULWARK against the tides, a
sentinel amid the inrushing
fogs, a menace, and at the same
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Great Sixty-Inch Lens.

The telescope which is to be moved
20 the mountain top is being completed
IN the workshops at Pasadena, and
work on the monster lens of the instru-
ment has been IN progress about three
years. This lens measures sixty inches
an diameter, or twenty inches more
fhan the great Yerkes telescope, which
IS now the largest in the world. The
huge mass of glass weighs ton alone,
but there are other parts of the instru-
rnent still more ponderous. and the
heavy casting Of the base weighs five
tons.
The parts of the giant star gazing
tube are nearly ready to be mounted
n the observatory at the top Of the
mountain. The task of getting them
there. however, proved one of the most
serious problems in connection with
the great telescope understanding.
The observatory on Mount Wilson is
about nine miles from Pasadena, and
in that distance there is rise of about
5000 feet. The mountain trail is rough
and precipitous, at some points turning
sn an arc with a radius of but fifteen
feet and at others shelving perpen-
dfcular walls of rock on narrow Lodges
overlooking steep precipices, where q
sIip would mean fall OF hundreds of
feet. over such a road ii seemed i'm
possible TO carry the heavy parts of the
big instrument by any known means
OF transportation. A gasoline truck
was designed for the purpose, but il
was rejected unsuited TO the re-
ouirements The building Of a rail-
way to the top Of the mountain was
considered among other schemes.
~1f
study Of more than a score of plans
G. W. Ritchey. superintendent of in
strument construction, adopted the
plan Of improving the roadway to the
top of the mountain and employing this
specially designed automobile truck
The sum Of $4,000 IS now being ex-
pended in improving the roadway from
the base OF the mountain to the OBJ
servatory.
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-04
By Edward James Hart

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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-27
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
BASIS OF $4,000 SUIT
Paul F. EngIer Sues Three Par
ties in Third District
Court.

Paul F. Engler has filed suit in the
and Samuel Christensen and c. f, Du-
rand, Justice OF the Peace, to collec;
damages in the sum of $4,000 alleged TO
have been suffered through false i'm
prisonment and also to restrain the de-
PENDANTS from taking any action TO
collect on judgment standing against
the plaintiff In the court of Justice
Durand
The plaintiff In his complaint alleges
that he owed bill amounting to $50
to the Chrlstensens and that In Sep
temher. 1905, he gave his note In pay
ment of the bill, He further alleges
that Notwithstanding the settlement of
the bill in this manner the Merchants
Protective association of this city filed
suit against him I'm Justice Durand's
court for the amount, together with
interest and costs, making the amount
S64 so
Engler alleges further that through
his attorney he filed a demurrer to the
complaint, but was never given an op-
portunlty TO have a hearing on the de-
murrer and that judgment was entered
agaisnt him in the records of the court
That he was not aware of the iudg-
ment standing against him and that In
October. 1905, he was arrested and fined
IS for contempt of court for not ap-
pearinG before the court.
In addition TO the $4,000 for damages
the plaintiff asks for writ of certI-
orarl. that Durand be ordered to pro-
duce the records of his court before the
District court and that the judgment
standing against him be removed.
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NOTICE

Notice Is hereby given by the City
Council OF Salt Lake City Of the inten-
tion OF such Council to make the follow
Ing described Improvement. to-wit:
TO curb and gutter with cement (saId
gutter TO be thirty 500 Inches wide) the
east side OF Thirteenth East street from
tho south side OF First South street 10
tho north side OF Second South street, In
Paving District No. 27, and defray the
thereof estimated at eight hundred and
twenty-five (sS2o.0O) dollars, or one and
25-I0o Isl 25) dollars per front foot of abut-
ting property, there being 66O feet abut-
ting said improvement. by a local assess
pent upon the lots or pieces OF ground
yitl N the following described district
being the district to be affected and
benefited by said Improvement. namely.
All OF lots .. g. and s. block 49, plat
"F.' Salt Lake City Survey
The total cost OF said Improvement Is
eleven and e5-loo Gill 65) dollars. OF
which sum the city's portion is two hun
dred eghty-six and 65-1O0 G2ss e5) dol
lars. leaving eight hundred and twenty
Ave (ss25. .0O) dollars TO be raised by local
assessment
All protests and objections to the oarry-
ing out Of such intention must be pre-
sented in writing to the City Recorder on
or before the End day OF July 1906 being
the time set by said Council when II Will
hear and consider such protests and OBJ
BY order of the City Council OF Salt
Lake City. Utah
Dated April 30th. 1906
JOHN B. MORETON.
Curb and Gutter Extension No / yloe4
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CASH REGISTERS

NATIONAL CASH REGISTER. Os.
car Groshell, sales agent, No. 221
Main ST Expert cash register repair
ing. Secondhand registers always in
stock. nl580
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Total. s2l7 900. 900 s4s5. .ooO. 900 s27S, 900 600

OF the proceeds of the new issues
there was expended on Improvements
and additions s122 100000. and invested
in stocks OF other companies. which are
yielding satisfactory returns and arc
worth much more than their cost. s140
900 900; the balance being represented
by advances to subsidiary companies.
supplies on hand and cash. In addition
TO the expenditures from new capital
during the six years s70.000.0 600 was
taken out of income and put into i'm
proVements. AS TO the results. since
1898 the gross income has increas scd
from $71 600, 900 to $144. .0G0, 900: the net
income from $l1 600, 900 to $50. 900, 600, the
dividend from per cent to per cent,
and the surplus from $4,00o.000 to s11.-
T00,0 600 So the Increase In the cost of
the plant appears to have been justi-
fed fully by the increase in the prod
uct; in fact. the new outlay was large
ly forced upon the company by the
wonderful growth in traffic require
ments.