Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-02
AUPT|AL TRIALS
IN CANAL. ZONE
RooseveIt's Rules Regulating
Matrimony on the Strip Had
To Be Revised.
HAPPY THOUGH NOT MARRIED.
Trouble All Came About Through Ix.
ecutive's Use OF Words Rec.
ognizcd Church"

Special Correspondence.
Washington, u. G. June 29.-~President
Roosevelt, In the absence of any formal
parliamentary body 10 control affairs I'm
the canal zone, is charged with all sorts
of duties in connection with that strip
of territory. Besides the military con-
troll of the strip and the executive man
agement OF the work ON the big ditch it,
self the president must from time 10 time
formulate regulations covering all sorts
of civil conditions In the zone. SOM
lirle last winter 1t was discovered by
the authorities that law or a reel
larion governing marriages In the strIn
was necessary. In consequence the
president issued an order I'm March last
which empowered the minister of any
recognized" church In the zone In
perform marriage ceremony provided
the contracting parties had first Sc
curea a license from the clerk OF the
circuit court. That word ''recosnlzed'i
In the executive order caused some
trouble and a good deal of worry and
IL might have led 10 very serious COM
plications involving the legitimacy Of
the issue of any such marriages as well
as the title TO property.
About the middle OF last Nav tho
was married TO young American there
oy protestant minister residing In the
zone The affair was chronIcled in Inc
society REPORTS and everything was
lovely until shortly after the bridal
party had left for the United States
SuaueniS one morning Judge Stephens
mad a. thought. 1t was not n nleassnt
one. He was struck with the Tecollec-
ton that the old laws Of the rep,,h,ic
or Panama prevail In the zone where
not otherwise specifically provided for
Iheu the judge remembered that under
inc old law of the republic of panarna
Whlch mad been brought down from the
uaHs Wnen the government of Columbia
was paramount the Roman Catholic
church Is the only ''rccognized' cb,,rcb
IN mat country. Although the weather
was hot the Judge had a chill. The
daughter and son-in-law had sailed
away and II was impossible TO have The
ceremony repeated by minister OF the
recognized church The Judge got
TO the president and he followed If I'M
Win letter explaining the situation
ana suggesting change in the executive
order The president saw the point ar
once and he did not hesitate 10 com
ply with the Judges suggestion, with
connlendable haste he caused to be pre-
pared a, new marriage regulation which
was promptly transmitted to the gov.
erhor OF the zone which empowers any
minister of any church OF any judicial
oItcei' TO celebrate marriages on tho
isthmus The executive order also VAL
ldates all marriages which have been
performed By other than Protestant
clersyinen since the control OF the canal
zone passed to the United States.
II Is understood that large number
OF marriages which have taken place
Within the zone within the past two
der
WANT SOMETHING PRACTICAL.
During the past 30 years paraEranbs
nave appeared In country weeklies
patent insidcs. and even In more pre-
lehtious publications to the effect that
me government has a standing reward
oHered OF vast sum of money-any-
where from hundred thousand To a
hundred million--whlch is to he given
TO the man who will discover perpetual
motion The patent Office is filled with
models of machines designed to run
without power. OF course there is no
reward outstanding for perpetual mo-
tloh and equally of course no one has
ever discovered a method of creating
power without energy. Nor is it likely
that any such discovery will ever me
made But II inventors VINO have been
chasing the ignisfatuus of perpetual
motion will devote their energies and
brains to the construction of some prac-
lical device for grabbing off mail bags
py fast moving trains there Is a for
tune in sight for them.
The present method is to place a
mail sack suspended from the arm
OF the post which Is caught by a hook
protruding from the side of the car.
This portion of the work is fairly salts
factorily performed but when It comes
10 delivering the sacks at a station
from fast moving train the trouble
begins. Sometimes the sack lands IN
the ditch; at others the suction from
beneath the cars Is so great that the
pouch or bag is drawn under and de-
stroyed by tho wheels. For years the
second assistant postmaster general has
been trying TO get better method, es-
pecially OF delivery and Mr. McCleary
The present second assistant asserts
that there is comfortable fortune in
sight for the man who has brains
enough TO invent device which VIII
do the work.
NEBRASKA" IN COMMISSION.
The new battIeshlp Nebraska which
has recently been accepted from the
builders, Moran Brothers. Seattle. Will
be put IN commission next week. She
VIII be under the command OF Captain
Reginald II. Nicholson. and that means
that one OF The ablest sailors IN the
American navy VIII control this latest
addition 10 Uncle Sans feet Of battle
ships. Captain Nicholson comes from
family distinguished in the naval his
tory OF the United states. But he does
not have 10 go back TO his ancestors
for his record. He created that record
for himself
Everyone who has any recollection nf
that little scrap between the United