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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
WILL POSTPONE THAW CASE
Jerome May Conclude to Send a Com
missioner to South Africa
to Take Testimony.

New York, Dec. "A motion of coun-
sci for Harry K. Thaw that a commits
sion be appointed TO take testimony Of
witnesses out of the state was granted
by Judge NeWburger in the supreme
court today. 1t will be an interroga-
tory commission, and testimony will he
of witnesses for both the prOsecuti on
and defense.
The motion was made by Clifford w.
Hartridge one of Thaw's counsel. who
suggested an open commission and
named as the witnesses whose testino-
ny is desired Thomas McCaIeb and
Truzton BeaIe, botll of whom, he said.
are in California.
District Attorney Jerome told Justice
Newburger he had no objection to the
appointment of a commission provided it
be allowed to take the testimony of wit
nesses for the prosecution who are out
side the state. Mr.. jerome said he wanted
the testimony of the mother brother and
sister of the defendants wife, and possihIy
that of a witness who is, in South Africa
AS the lawyers were leaving the court
room Mr. Hartridge turned to Assistant
District Attorney Garvan and said:
why. this is an awful thing IL Won
find it necessary to get the testimony of
q witness in South Africa it will be
months before the case can be called
Mr.. Caravan made no reply.
The witness in South Africa is Miss Ida
Veronica Simonton, daughter of DR.. ST.
monitor of Pittsburg. She sailed from this
country Aug. 1. Miss Simonton has gone
to Africa to study the monkeys in the
jungle.
The appointment of the commission will
have the effect of postponing Thaw's trial
which was scheduled to begin early i'm
the coming year. When attempts were
made to see Thaw in his cell in the Tombs
his one reply to all notes was:
You will have 70 see my lawyers"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04

Filipino Prisoners Were !nocu-
lated With the Real Thing
Instead of Serum.

Manila, DcS Am investigation
made at Bilibid. where ten prisoners
who had been inoculated with cholera
serum recently died, has disclosed
traces of plague germs in the dead bod
les. No formal report on the result of
the investigation has been made and
the government has reached no decision
in the matter 1t is asserted that
tubes containing plague germs and
others filled with cholera serum. which
are so much alike that it is almost i'm
possible to distinguish them apart, were
mixed in the laboratory by visitor,
who examined the plague germs and by
mistake placed them in a rack with the
serum tubes. This is said TO have oc-
CURED during the temporary absence
of DR.. r. P. Strong, of the bureau of
science, who has been conducting ex-
perimentS and inOculating prisoners
with cholera serum to test its efficiency.
The natives generally are in ignor-
ance of the situation, but the native
newspapers are indignant and bitter
1t is not believed that criminal charges
Will be preferred, but it is possible that
DR.. Strong may resign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04

boosted his corner $4,000 and Mr..
Llchtenstein wanted il bad enough to
pay the $780, asked. A year ago Mr..
Fleichman purchased the property for
$4,000.
Il consider Salt Lake real estate the
best property in the United States to
buy" declared the Los Angeles man
like it anywhere. The town is starting
on an unprecedented boom"
Late yesterday afternoon MIR. FIeich-
man, through Little & Little. sold his
State street property, between Fourth
and Fifth South streets, to Sam Reg
gel. for $14,725.
A. Fred Wey Busy.
A. Fred Wey. the hotel man. yester-
day purchased the e6x165-foot property
on Second South street. Immediately
east of the Grand theatre, for s25. 600.
from the Constant Lorraine Investment
company of Los Angeles. through Kel-
Sey q Gillespie, who closed other sales
during the day for between $50, 900 and
100000 worth of property on Second
East street, between Fourth and Fifth
South streets.
The Barlow corner. at First South
and Third West streets. has been sold
for S1S.500 to Out-Of-tOWn purchasers.
Mr. Reggel has purchased the Crimson
property, opposite the Commercial club
on West Temple street, for S19, $50. A.
B. Richardson bought the Brocbank lot
on Fourth South street, just west Of
the former Rosenfeld corner. and will
erect a twO-stOry building on the prop
erty at once. The consideration was
So, 937.
Carl E OsteTlich purchased the Cam
non property on Third South street, op-
pOsite the ManitOu hotel, for $44. 500.
This is Mondays record of actual
sales. There have been numberIess op-
tons taken on downtown property in
the last three days, and the market
has taken a decided speculative turn.
Men are securing control of valuable
property for a few months or weeks
time, hoping they can turn it to a good
profit before the expiration of their op-
tiOnS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
UTAH SENATORS PRESENT
Smoot the Object of Much Curiosity
When the Senate Was Called
to Order.
(Srecial u The Herald.)

Washington, D. c., Dec. 3.-Senators
Smoot and Sutherland ware present
when the senate reassembled today.
and both received a fair share of the
general handshakings and greetings
which always marks the opening of d
new session of congress.
SmoOt shares with Depeyr of New
York the interest of the galleries as
the most talked OF senator" and Il
half suppressed whisper There's
Smoot" is always heard when he en-
tiers the senate chamber. Smoot has a
little the best of Depew, however for
the latter sits where only the bald spot
on his head can be seen by the ma
jority in the galleries, while Smoot has
seat on the center aisle, where his
full profile is directly in view OF nearly
everybody
The Smoot case is expected to relieve
the monotony of the present session, as
its discussion will be transferred from
the committee room to the senate cham
Der, where larger audiences can hear
it, The opening speech in the case will
be made by Senator Burrows on Mon
day next, and Dubois will follow sew
eral days later.
Senator Sutherland, who will talk ir
Shoots defense, has not decided when
he will make his speech.
Senator Burrows today said he had
not decided when ne would ask Cor a
vote in the case.
Senator Bubois delivered 4 lecture on
.-Mor1nonism'' this evening before a
meeting Of the General Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist church in this
off
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
Cause Of the Trouble.
PASSENGER SHOT BY
KANSAS TRAIN R0BBER

Kansas City. Dec. S.-While Santa Fe
passenger train No II. which left Kansas
City at 1880 p. m, was standing on a
siding at Holiday. Kan, at IL O'Clock
tonight sneak thief attempted to leave
the train with an overcoat and suit case
belonging to E S. Ward of Purcell. /.
T. Ward grappied with the thief, who
drew a pistol and shot Ward in the leg,
breaking it, but Ward recovered his prop
erty. The thief apparently made his es-
cape in the darkness, but instead he made
a short detour and entered the smoking
cartn front, where he stole new hat be-
longing tc one of the passengers. The in
truder then escaped.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
WILL NOT BE PLACED
UPON MUSTER ROLLS
Special to The IIerald.)

Washington, Dec. 3.-Senator Smoot.
since his arrival here. has endeavored
without success to have the muster rolls
of the SprIngvilIe militia company. which
served in the early Indian wars in Utah
Incorporated in the official muster rolls
of the war department
Military Secretary AinsWOrtff. in deeIin-
ing TO accept the proposed muster rolls
states in a letter to Senator Smoot that
they are evidently mere copies and moth
ing more than lists complied after the
close of Institutes. Even if original rolls
he states they could not be accepted be-
cause the troops were never mustered into
the United States military service Fail
ure to accept the rolls, Ainsworth adds.
Goes not effect the prescribed status 4 {
members of the organization in question.
as the rolls would be gust as effective IL
filed with the adiutant general of Utah
as the war department.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
THREE CORPSES
BY THE WAYS|DE
Triple Tragedy in Southern Cal
ifornla-W0man and Two
Men Die With Boots On"

San Diego, Cal, Dec. 3.-Three corpses
by the side of the road between Escon-
dido and San Luis Rey dam resulted
from what was but a casual meeting of
two ranchers named Howard Gore and
Edward Brady this morning The two
have been at enmity for some time
over a lawsuit over a claim Gore is al
legged to have jumped and it is said
that many threats have been made.
This morning the two met on the high
way sixteen miles from EscOndido. in
what is known as Hell's Hole canyon.
along the line of the Escondido irriga-
ton ditch. The dispute was renewed
and Gore shot Brady, killing him. Mrs.
Brady, who was present. got hold of a
gun and shot Gore, who then succeeded
in killing Mrs. Brady before he died.
Gore is understood to be unmarried
but Brady had been married twice, his
divorced wife being now Mrs. E. NJ
Abel, of Escondido.
Gore the Aggressor.
1t is said that when the three met
this morning the Bradys were unarmed,
while Gore carried his rifle and imme-
diately began firing at Brady. Two
shots took effect, but, though seriously
wounded, Brady was able to get to an
Opcli tilCtl he SuuSHl ~ pIOlSCl
himself from Cores fire. Gore ran
up to the ditch and deliberately fired on
Brady. killing him. He then turned his
attention to Mrs. Brady, who had start
ed for her house. He fired twice at the
woman. wounding her. and continued to
advance. She succeeded in getting into
the house, where there was a rifle,
which she loaded and knew how to use.
AS Gore continued to come toward the
house, Mrs. Brady broke out pane of
glass in the window and fired. The
shot took effect, but before Gore
dropped he managed to fire another
shot, which killed Mrs. Brady.
Brady was 81 years of age and Gore
was &c. Virgil Woods. who was at the
Brady house. was the only witness to
the triple tragedy.
Cause of the Trouble.
Mrs. Brady was as years old. She
was formerly Mary Ann Adams. of
Oakland, California. Some years ago
Brady filed on a piece of government
land in HelPs Hole canyon and was
residing there, but engaged with an
other estate to take care of it and Sc
cured permission from TIE government
to reside there 1t was while the Bradys
were at the latter place that Gore
moved on the government land and had
to be forced off by an ejectment suit.
Brady and his wife moved back to the
claim and Il was there that the shoot
ing of this morning took place
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
sMooT CASE NEXT MONDAY.

:. Washington, Dec. 3.-Senator ::
:. Burrows, chairman of the senate ::
:. committee on privileges and, cleo ::
:. tions. has announced that he will ::
:. on Monday next bring up 1.-THE re- ::
:. port against Senator Reed Smoot. ::
:. of Utah, being permitted to retain ::
:. his seat. I:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
ARE MILITARY MEN.

l. Honolulu. Dec 3.-IndicatiOns are L
: cropping out that the Japanese, who 4
\ have been arriving here for some .
i time past as well as those who have !
y been granted passports and who will :
\ arrive in the future. are picked men :,
= with military experience =
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
SUICIDE AT PITTseURe.

wears old. and bachelor, a member of
one of the most wealthy families of Pitts
burg, committed suicide today by shoot
ing No cause can be assigned for the
deed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
Alleged Combination.

The commission made a rather ex-
tended inquisitiOn into the alleged COM
bination of retail coal dealers of Pueblo.
which is said to be detrimental to the
interests of the consumer outside of the
corporations named. None of the deal
ers subpoenaed would admit that such
a trust existed. although they did not
deny that the prices on certain kinds of
coal are always cautiously close as be-
tween different dealers. One witness
said that ninety per cent of the coal
handled in Pueblo comes from the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company and the
Victor Fuel company, although he said
he knew of no orders implied or other
wise applicable to the scale of rates to
the consumerd.
morrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
CLARK SECURES
MORE EVIDENCE
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Inquiries Into Coal
Shortage at Pueblo.
LOCAL DEALERS PAY MORE
ALLEGED IMiNATION NOT
EXPLAINED.

Pueblo, Colo, Dec. 3.-United States
Commerce Commissioner z. Z. Clark,
assisted by Attorneys Thomas and
Marchand, this morning began an in
vestigation of alleged land frauds and
the relations between common carriers
to the production of coal and oil and
the transportation of same"
This was the way the commissioner
explained his visit to Pueblo. 1t is
understood that large number of wit
neSses will be examined today in con-
neCtion with the coal land holdings of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company,
the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado
& Southern and Santa Fe railroads for
the purpose of securing data which will
be submitted to congress for definite
action. Should the investigation bring
out facts to warrant it. however, the
matter will be brought to the attention
of a special United States grand jury,
called for the purpose of indicting
those against whom charges may be
preferred.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
Pueblo a Coal Center.

The hearing in this city was held Ow-
ing to the fact that it is the distrib-
uting center for the vast coal fields at
Canon City, Trinidad, Walsenburg and
the entire southern portion of Colorado,
and the commissioner expects to gather
some valuable information. Within the
at Washington has caused to be with
drawn from entry more than a million
and a half acres of land said to con-
tain coal, in the Pueblo district, Ito pre-
vent mOnopolizatiOn of the coal indus
tries of the country by railroads and
other corporations"
Rate discrimination in other lines of
business may also be looked into.
At the conclusion of the hearing here
the commissioner will go to Denver to
continue his Investigations along SINH
lar lines.
The morning session was devoted 10
the examination of Denver & Rio
Grande local officials.
The principal evidence was the al
legged fact that the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company pays a rate of 81 ton
for coal from Crested Butte to Pueblo,
while the small local dealers pay 81 per
ton.
Another piece of alleged discrimina-
ton in favor of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron company was shown in the matter
of the rate on coke from WalsenbuTg,
being 10 cents ton for the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company, or about half
the amount charged the general public.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
Great Discrimination.

Under rapid fire questions shot mer
Cilessly by J. T. Marchand, one of the
attorneys for the commission, witnesses
admitted that while the freight rate on
coal from the Trinidad fields TO the
Pueblo coal dealers is 81 per ton, the
same service costs the smelling COM
pany but 10 cents per ton, difference
of % cents which was unexplained and
undisputed. The 81 rate is the published
tariff. applicable to the public. The
smelling company pays 81 per ton
freight on coke from the Walsenburg,
Colo, district, while the published tar
iff is 50. according to testimony Coal
from Canon City costs the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company 37.5 cents per ton
freight, while the public pays 10 cents
per ton. The nominal charge in freight
to the fuel company for certain classes
of coal from The Walsenburg district is
s175 per ton. but the revision clerk of
the Denver & Rio Grande charges but
SO cents per ton, the evidence developed
today. These damaging admissions
were from a Rio Grande employee, who
said that the cut in rates to the smelt-
ing company was made pursuant to
letter received from Fred Wild, JT., gen.
eral freight agent of the road, who
made it clear that the communication
was of confidential nature. The bill
ing clerks were not notified of the re-
ductiOn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
Effort to Explain.

There was no effort on the part of
the Rio Grande attorneys present in
court today to explain these alleged
determinations. Z. n. Clark. one of the
railroads legal representatives, merely
made a futile attempt to have the tes-
timOny of the witnesses stricken from
the records on the ground that it related
to shipping within the state of Colorado
purely and could not be- considered
within the scope of the interstate COM
merce commission. Commissioner Clark
refused to strike out the evidence, eX-
planning that under the Tillman-GiI-
lespie joint resolution of congress- such
matters are proper subjects for inquiry
Accordingly, there was no cross-exam-
nation of consequence and no evidence
in refutation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04

People get the idea that the
store that has little to say has
little in stock that Is worth talk
ing about.-''S Suggestions"
, 1906-06-16

left this morning for the bone fields,
intending to work during the summer
in Natrona county. a considerable dis
lance north of this city.
I. b. Ford, formerly %bookkeeper at
the plaster mill, and who resigned that
position that he might enter the Uni
yersity of Kansas at Lawrence. arrived
in the city last night n is visiting
among his friends in this city.
Mrs. Farr, the mother of Jake Farr,
the Laramie plains ranchman, who
lives in Indiana, is contemplating a
visit to her son in the neal future.
Mr.. Farr was in the city this morning
and received notice of her coming.
E. J.. Bell of the Millbrook ranch is
in the city, coming to meet Senator
Nixon of Nevada, who will visit here
and at the ranch for a day or two.
The senator is en- route from Wash.
ington to his home at Winnmucca,
New.
Senator George Nixon of Nevada ar
rived in the city from Washington this
afternoon n will spend a few days
here and at the Millbrook ranch. He
will go from here to his home at Win
nemucca, New, for a few days on pri-
vate business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Anderson Of
Portland, Ore, old friends and neigh
bors of Senator j.. w. Johnson at Car
bon, are in the city, on their way to
Sweden for a visit of a year or more
at their former home. They will pro-
coed eastward tomorrow.
DR.. Irene NJ. Morse of Boston, who
will be one of the members of the
faculty of the University of Wyoming
summer school, arrived in the city yes
terday afternoon and is the guest of
Drs. Grace Raymond Hebard and
Agnes Wergeland at their home at
Tenth and Garfield streets.
Mrs. Leopold Lovinger of Sedalia,
Mo, was in the city today, en- route
from Lookout to Denver, where her
daughter, Mrs. ]. A. Hoskins, is i'll at
a hospital. Mrs. Lovinger will take
Mrs. Hoskins and her baby daughter to
Sedalia as soon as they are able to
stand the fatigue of the journey.
Fred CAN'T of Deadwood, S. D., who
has been attending the Kemper mill
tary academy at Boonville, Mo-, at
tended the cadet officers ball at the
university gymnasium last evening in
a uniform very similar to that worn
by the cadets of the University of
Wyoming. Mr.. CAN'T is the brother
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred d. CAN'T of
this city.
, 1906-06-16
TERRIBLE FATE OF MOROCCAN
COBBLER CHARGED WITH
DESTROYING THIRTY-SlX
YOUNG WOMEN.
Was Ordered To Be Beheaded, But An
~nouncement Caused Clamor from
Foreign Countries That Order Was
Changed and Now He Will Die
Standing In Place only Large
Enough for Him to Turn Around.

T~angiers, Morocco, June 16.-Even
a more horrible fate than crucifxion
has been given Mohammed Mesfewi,
the cobbler whose death on the cross
was ordered for the wholesale murder
of thirty-six young women.
Was Walled Up Alive.
The old cobbler has been walled up
alive in the public market place, the
walls being built up, giving the doomed
man just room enough to stand and
turn around, and there, with his back
chained to the wall, he is left to die.
Victims Found In Gardens.
The bodies of a number of Mesfewi's
victims were found buried in his gar
den, and after daily torturings by the
enraged citizens, the miserable cobbler
confessed. The announcement that he
was to be beheaded created such a
clamor Of protests from foreign Jul
tries that this punishment was done
away with and the announcement
made that the shoemaker would lot
be beheaded.
He was, however, held kept in the
, 1906-06-16
HOMES TO BE SUPPLIED AT THAT
PRICE AND MANUFACTURING
CONCERNS AT TEN
CENTS THOUSAND.
Provisions of Ordinance to Be Submit
ted at Special Meeting of City
Council of Kansas City Tonight
San Francisco Committee Will
Publish Names of Companies Re-
fuslng to Pay Losses in City in Full

Kansas City, Mo, June 16.-Natural
gas at 20 cents for homes and at 10
cents per thousand feet for manu-
featuring purposes is provided in an
ordinance to come before a special
meeting of the council tonight. From
the gross earnings a fair dividend and
a sinking fund to retire all the liabil-
tiles on its %$7,0OO,OOO plant is to be
paid for the plant, which is then to be
turned over free to the city. British
capitalists are back of the plan, which
is a move in the city's fight for free
dom from the natural and artificial a
m~onopolies.
, 1906-06-16
Will Publish COMPANIES.

San Francisco, Cal, June 16.-The
committee of forty adopted a resolution
last night providing that funds be set
aside to pay for the publication in ey-
cry state of the Union the names of in
surance companies which fail to pay in
full their just liabilities as a result of
the San Francisco fire. 1t is proposed
to continue the publication ten years,
the list to appear the same day and in
the same papers as the companies
annual statements.
, 1906-06-16
FELL DOWN CELLAR
AND BADLY INIuREr

William Neithe, who lives at 1853
Hodgeman avenue, fell down the Gel
larway at his home last night and lay
there, unable to move, for two hours,
his groans finally attracting the atten
ton of passers by, who went to his
relief. Mrs. Neithe was at the uni,
versity, assisting in tie work al the
cadet officers ball supper, and Mr..
Neithe was preparing to go after her
when he lost his balance and fell. No
bones were broken, but his body was
bruised and sore, and he required the
services of DR.. Hamilton.
, 1906-06-16
CALLED TO
BY FATHERS De-

BY IN 7EH'S DENT #.
Prof. Frank w. Lee, superintendent
of the city schools, left at noon today
for Baraboo, Wis, where his father died
last night. B. B. Lee was 81 years OF
age. The last time the professor heard
from him he was in his usual health,
and the news of his death this morn
ing was a great shock to him. Mrs.
Lee is herself so years of age and the
son is Fastening to her to comfort her
as much as possible under the distress
sing circumstances.
, 1906-06-16

Washington, D. c.. June 16.-Pres-
ident Roosevelt this morning sent an.
other letter to Representative Wads-
worth. He admits that he made an
error when he said the Wadsworth
amendment did not contain the pro,
vision making the plants accessible at
night. He reiterates his objection to
the court review provision and says
it is absurd that any such provisions
should be needed.
, 1906-06-16
Correspondence Made PUBLIC

Washington, d. c., June 16.-The
publication of the correspondence be.
tween the president and Congressman
Wadsworth over the packing house bill
has caused a sensation. Speaker Can
non says he not only agrees with
Wadsworth's argument, but approves
his sharp tone in critislng the president
for what he terms executive interior
ence with the legislative branch of the
government.