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, 1907-08-29
METHOD IN HIS soLIcIruDE.
WiIIie's Deep Interest In PIaymate's
Health Explained.

This story is well in keeping with
the spirit of the age, says the New
York Tribune. A Bronx man tells it
about his little boy. The neighbor's
young hopeful was very Ill, and Willie
and the other youngsters in the block
had beer asked not to make any noise
in the streets. The neighbours bell
rang one day and she opened 1t to find
Willie standing bashfully on her front
steps.
How is he today" he inquired in
a shy whisper.
Hes better, thank you, dear, and
what a thoughtful child you are to
come and ask"
Willie stood a moment on n foot
and then burst forth again, I'm orful
sorry Jimmy's sick"
The mother was profoundly touched.
She could find no further words to
say, but simply kissed him. Made still
holder by the caress, Willie began to
back down the steps, repeating at in
tervals his sorrow for his playmate's
illness. At the bottom step he halted
and looked up. 'If Jimmy should die"
he asked, kin l have his drum"
, 1907-08-29
FOR SELFISH ENDS.
The Efforts Being Made by the Ameri-
can Medical Association.

The Political activity of the Ameri-
can Medical Association has become
SO pronounced as to cause comment
in political circles especially as the
the avowed purpose of the Doctors of
the Regular or Allopathic school, Of
which the Association is chiefly COM
posed, is to secure the passage of such
laws as will not only prevent the
sale of so-called Patent medicines,
but will restrict the practice of medi-
cine and healing to the schools" now
recognized. This in many states would
prevent the growing practice of Os-
teopathy, and in nearly every state
would prevent the healers of the
Christian Science and mental science
belief from practicing those sciences
in which the faith of so many intelli-
gent people is so firmly rooted.
The American Medical Association
has a Committee on Legislation"
and the committee has correspond
ents in practically every township
some 10000 correspondents in all.
This committee at the last session of
the American Medical Association
held in June of this year expressed a
hope that a larger number of physi-
clans than heretofore will offer them
selves as candidates for Congress at
the first opportunity. In its annual
report this Committee said: ITO meet
the growing demands of the owe
ment, however, particularly If the
work Of active participation in State
legislation is undertaken, a larger
clerical force must be employed"
This is almost the first tine in the
organized class has frankly avowed
the purpose of capturing legislatures
and dominating legislation in their
own selfish interests.
The American Medical Association
has about $4,000 members of whom
$1,000 are fully constituted mem
bers" and the rest are members be-
cause of their a~filiation with state or
local societies. The Association owns
real estate in Chicago valued at SILL
1871 and its total assets are $751;
567.S9. Its liabilities, at the time of
the annual report which was made at
the June meeting, amounted to only
$21, 906. The excess of assets over
liabilities is increasing at the rate of
about 100000 a year., and the purpose
of the organization is to dominate
the field of medicine, and by crushing
all competitions by securing the pas
sage of prohibitive legislation, compel
all of the people of the United States
to pay a doctors fee every time the
most simple remedy is needed.
, 1907-08-29
Finds Eighteen Foot Vein.

Grand Encampment, Wyo.-Jess
Winter recently encountered an
e~ighteen-foot vein of copper ore on
his claim. Through it run several rich
stringers of ore several inches wide.
The concentrator of the Penn-Wyo-
ming company has been in operation
for several days. The tramway is
bringing down large quantities of ore
from the Ferris Haggarty mine, and it
is expected the smelter will be blown
in in u few days.
p. o. Wills, superintendent of the To-
cal smelter, has resigned to accept a
similar position in Chill, South Amer
lea.
, 1907-08-29

The death Of DIR. Weigel, a surgeon
of Rochester, from a disease due to
the constant use Of the X-rays makes
the fourth who has lost his life from
this cause, says the Chistian Advo.
cate.
The others were an assistant of
Thomas Edison, a Boston physician
and a m Of San Francisco named
Fleischman. In the case of DR.. Wei
gel since 1904, when his right hand
and all but the thumb and a finger
Of the left hand were removed, there
had been four operations in trying
to save his life. The first removed
a part of the right shoulder; then a
part Of the muscles covering the right
breast.
Mystery completely envelopes the
cause of death, the disease being I'M
known to medical science, though 1t
is believed to involve some great prin-
ciple of life. DIR. Weigel was presi-
dent of the Rochester Academy of
Medicine and the American Ortho-
paedic society.
, 1907-08-29
CONVICTED MURDERER OF W.
sHAL FRissiE AT LAMAR
WILL NOT HANG.
WELL, THAT'S coon
ACTING GOVERNOR HARp,j
HOLDS cIRcUMsTANTIAl sw
DENcE NOT CONCLUSIVE

Canon City, Colo.-Always a sts
noncommittal and taciturn, Andr,
Johnson, condemned to die for /
murder of Marshal Frisbie at Lam,
received the Jews that Acting 81
ernor Harper had committed his j
tence to life Imprisonment with
smile and the words:
That is good news"
Not another word or comment !
capped from the lips of this insccruts1
man, whose death seemed but a n
hours removed.
Johnson has been a puzzle to WI
den John Cleghorn for months, and }
spite the latter's best efforts to d1
out the man and learn something oil
past and his relations, not the slid
est information could be obtaip1
When Governor Harper's repr1
came Warden Cleghorn made one n
effort to force Johnson to tell some
the innermost secrets of his heart d
life.
Every condition favored Ward
Cleghorn, but again he failed, and d
utterly. Warden Cleghorn ackna|
edged the receipt of the message
these words: 81 am glad to hear |
governor, for the reason l don't re}
hanging men,"
Then Warden Cleghorn put into 4
ecution his plan for forcing johnson
loose his tongue and tell the secra
that lie buried so deep in his he'd
Warden Cleghorn went to the exs}
tion house and walked rapidly to Jdj
sons cell, where he stopped abrupl
and looked through the heavy Sd
grated door.
Step to the door, Johnson" ID
manded Warden Cleghorn.
johnson sprang from the narrow
on which he had been lying and std
attention.
How are you feeling?" asked !
warden.
Fine" answered the convict,
How can you feel fine with da
staring you in the face?" asked VI
den Cleghorn. You know you are
fenced to die this week. Are you red
to die now?"
81 am ready to die" was all Joh1s|
said, in a voice clear, strong and e1
tionless and without the faintest 1
of a culver of any of his facial musd
Turning to Death Watch w. S. Ju
Warden Cleghorn said: Bring ID
son out, then"
Jones unlocked the heavy d
door and beckoned johnson to Cd
forth. The convict stepped from
cell into the long corridor, with
hands on his hips. He was cool
collected and evidently ready for
worst. Warden Cleghorn eyed him
a full minute, but johnson did
change his attitude in the least. u
Warden Cleghorn said:
johnson, the governor has q
muted your sentence to life impris
ment."
A faint smile lit up the prison
face. and he said: well, that's q
news"
Johnson was led by Guard ID
back to his old cell.
, 1907-08-29
WYOMING HAPPENINGS
Held on Murder Charge.

Evanston, Wyo.-Mrs. Bruce and
and daughter have been bound over TO
the District Court on the charge or
numbering their husband and father,
James Bruce, who died of st~rychnine
poisoning near his ranch at Smoot,
this county, one day last March.
The arrest of Mrs. Bruce and daugh-
ter recently created a sensation, al
though the action of the authorities
was not wholly unexpected.
James Bruce was a leading Nor
mon settler of Smoot. He had returned
from a missionary trip and on the a
Of his death went to work in the held
some distance from his home. He
carried a lunch prepared by his wife
and daughter, and was accompanied
by a son
At noon Bruce started to eat his
meal, the son being busy with the
harness. After eating several mouth
fuls of cherry pie, he complained to
his son of feeling i'll, and in a few mo-
ments was seized with commissions
He informed his son then that he
suspected ~strychnine poisoning ana
asked his son to m aid, but be-
fore the doctor arrived Bruce was
dead, having passed away in great
agony.
Pieces of the pie and the contents of
Bruce's stomach were sent to the state
chemist for analysis. His report was
% the effect that the pie contained
sufficient poison to kill several per-
sons.
The authorities then set at work on
the ease and the arrest of Mrs. Bruce
and her daughter followed. 1t is al
legged that domestic difficulties had
prevailed in the Bruce household for
some time.
, 1907-08-29

Laramie, WON. f. Chaplin, reg
lister of the land office at Cheyenne,
who was here recently, gives it as his
opinion that the present months bust
ness at that Office will exceed that of
any corresponding month in several
years in the matter of homestead en-
tries.
This can be accounted for in some
respects" he said, by the influx of
people to the eastern part of Laramie
county, attracted by the efforts at dry
farming being made there. Many of
these will succeed in making a COM
Portable living.
"A number of young women have
taken homesteads through my office
and are inducing their friends to do
likewise"
, 1907-08-29
The French Nobility.

What a become of the French no.
bility and what are its pursuits, are
questions much discussed in the Par
isian press, apropos of Paul Bourgeois
"Emigre.' Under the republic, few
of the aristocracy join the army or
navy. They are generally much rich
er than before the revolution. Many
have married into commercial fam
lilies, and many have themselves en-
tered active business. One marquis
of distinguished lineage is a cham
payne agent at Epernay; another
nobleman sells fish. There are titled
manufacturers of cider. automobiles
and pumps. One blue-blooded baron
is a distiller. If the a]ristocracy were
only numerous enough, we might
soon see all trades associated with
the names of the peers of France;
while the only gentlemen of leisure
would be those who are now com.
mercants." A general strike, com.
ments the New York Post, headed by
a duke, with a marquis bearing the
red flag of the 'Internationale," would
furnish a thoroughly modern spec
tacle.
, 1907-08-29
TAFT TALKS ON RACE PRoBu
Believes Negro Is Essential to
Welfare of the South.

Lexington, Ky.-Secretary
opened the Republican state camp
here with a speech on the race A
lem. He said that the South's lae1
representation in the councils Of
nation was due to the fact that a ~
issue has made it the property OIL
Democratic party so that, hoW9
small the northern head, it COM
that tail.
The negro" said Mr.. Taft, rs
essary to the South as a labo'f
skilled and unskilled. He is an Al
can. He has no other country
this, and when called upon to III
it he lays down his life with they
freedom that the white man sacr1
his. Ours is the flag he loves1
only n he knows.
1T is u duty to see to 1t thaI
path is made as easy as possible
that his progress is as incessal
proper encouragement can make
1.-THE fifteenth amendment does
require that every negro should
All that 1t requires is that he 81
not be excluded from voting bea
he is a negro. II he lacks educap
qualifications, property qualiiicap
or any other qualification thai
state may lawfully impose as
of eligibility for its voters, the'
may be excluded. provided that
one else who lacks similar qua'
lions is equally excluded.
THE fifteenth amendment doe
involve so-called negro domino
and to permit the question at th.
date-forty years after the wei
control the votes of intelligent m1
respect to the issues that are
is to indicate lack of sense OF p'
ton. =
IF only under the influence oil,
dent Roosevelt's administration
Of the southern states. including
lucky, could be led into the ha
can column, in accordance WIZ
real sympathies of the voters oil
states, 1t would be a GROWING
Of his administration. II,
las an American citizen anu
OF my country, ! long for tns
when the South shall be received
into the councils of the natio'
when the people of that section
resume the influence to which W
entitled and which they deny
selves by being frightened al
ghost of the past"
, 1907-08-29

Again comes the startling news
from England that women are becom-
ing taller and more masculine and
that men are shrinking and losing
their Drawn. That is intellec-
tually, spiritually and morally superior
to the opposite sex, Marie Corelli long
ago informed us. New women, equal
suffragists and politicians with a fe-
male constituency hail all this as a
sure sign of human progress. Yet
men of science inform us that the
lower the grade of animal life, the
smaller and more insignificant the
male and the more dominant the fe-
male. At the starting point-so far
as we know 1.-THE female principle
only is indable. Is the race retro
grading?
, 1907-08-29
marrtagr Nut Eth ann AIM
OF mumtatt Il Extstrnrp
By MRS. ~sTUYyEsANT FISH,
Wife of the RailroHd M,arate.

- WOULD rather be a great actress o writer or artist than have
II all the wealth IT social position / could command, because the
4 woman with a profession has achieved something, she lives a
- life of growth and power. 1t is the power that counts and
~ the development of ones individuality is the greatest thing
La k,y after all.
e / sincerely believe women an be wholly emancipated in
~ tellectually if they determine to improve themselves. 1t rests
with the individual woman entirely. I firmly believe that a
woman may become anything she wills to become. l believe
that the great force, the one eternal energy which we call God, is at the
command of every human being. Any woman who has it in her to
progress can, by summoning this force to her aid, rise to any height she
desires in this world.
ANY woman may be what she wills to be- You are what you make
yourself. No n can make you what you arc not. If you have the force
of character within yourself you can compel conditions to serve you.
1t is all a mstake-the tradition that keeps a woman down and n
sHts she is able to fill only one place-that of the domestic, the house
keeper. It is a great mistake to insist that marriage is the end and am
of a woman's existence. For centuries women have been taught that the
great ambition of life was to marry and settle down. That is all wrong.
A girl should be taught first to develop the best that is In herself her
mind.
No woman should be ashamed to be called an old maid. Far better
be al old maid than marry a "a who is not ones equal-one who is not
companionable.
So many girls and women commit the folly of marrying inferior
men, only because they are afraid they will be rdiculed if they remain
single. 1t is absurd that a woman who does not marry before she is 80
should be considered al old maid.
The idea of bringing girls out in society simply for the purpose of
marrying them off is vulgar. The entire education of women has been
wrong. Tradition has hampered women. But above all else, l believe
women themselves are largely responsible for their own false position in
the world.
Women do not stand by each other a men do. I say most emphatic
ally that if women the world over would unite and stand together IN de-
mandng their rightful heritage the position of the sex would soon be very
exalted.
What do we find in the present state? Women SANDER each other.
Woman is the first to pronounce judgment against her sister. With men
the opposite is true. Men stand by each other to the bitter end. l would
urge women to unite to help one another.
, 1907-08-29
Bobbln BOYS, Waoes.

John b. Lennon, treasurer OF the
American Federation of Labor, deliv-
cred recently an address on strikes.
Turning to the amusing features of
h strike question, Mr.. Lennon said:
Il remember a strike of bobbin
boys, a Just strike, and one that sue.
ceeded. These boys conducted their
fight well, even brilliantly. Thus the
day they turned out they posted in
the spinning room Of their employers
mill a great placard inscribed with
the words:
1.-The wages of sin is death, but the
wages OF the bobbin boys Is WORSE"
, 1907-08-29
Waterways.

Any class of water transportation is
incomparably cheaper than land trans
%portation, unless something better
than the modern railroad is invented.
For this reason the greater part of
our domestic, or inland tonnage has
been and is carried by water and not
by rail. For that reason the railways
W the largest steamers on the lakes.
The wheat trade was lost to the Mis-
sissippi, not by competition. says
Charles d. Stewart, in August Cen.
fury, but because the railroads did
not bring it there. The Mississippi
above Cairo is decadent not for lack
of ability to compete. but for lack of
commerce, which is to say accessible
fty by means of its or tributaries.
The Mississippi has 600
tributaries, of which As are navigable;
h tributaries stretch their arms 1900
miles east and west; it has a drainage
area of 1867, Asa square miles, and
with its branches it has a n~avigable
length of $4,000 miles. On a like area
China supports 400, 000, O00.
, 1907-08-29
Lack of

Not only from the great cities,
where population increases by leaps
and bounds, but in lesser urban dis
tricts and smaller communities comes
the complaint of insufficient school &C
commodation, declares Our Country.
Children increase much more rapidly
than s~choolhouses. Reports are made
of hired storerooms, basement and
private houses in the school budgets,
and this has become so general as to
cease to excite remark. Boston, for
years furnishing the model for one
common school system, is several
years behind in Offering sufficient ac-
commodations for its school popula-
ton, and other cities, notably New
York, are behind a much longer time.
, 1907-08-29

1t looks like universal war on the
mosquito. The example set by Amer
leans. who in clearing out breeding
places of the insects have also les
sened dangers of disease, is being fol-
lowed elsewhere. while some novel
methods have been adopted. Italy,
for instance. is introducing into its
waters an Australian fish which is
credited with an insatiate appetite
for mosquito larvae. This may keep
down the mosquito population. but
it will not exterminate the pest. The
most reliable way has been found to
drain the marshy places where the
insects propagate most freely. Many
localities where mosquitoes formerly
abounded have been almost wholly
freed from the unwelcome creatures
by this means, with corresponding in.
crease in the health and comfort of
residents.
, 1907-08-29
Will Fight At RawIino.

Rawlins, Wyo.-Arrangements have
been completed for a twenty-round
fight between Charley Williams,
heavyweight champion of Wyoming
and Utah, and Jack Mcdonald of Den
yer. The bout will be pulled off here
August Both.
Mcdonald is the only man who ever
whipped Williams, and the latter is
anxious to wipe 1t out with a victory
over the Denver man.
, 1907-08-29
Remains of Minina Man.

Evanston, Wyo.-The remains Of
the man found near Smoot some time
age have been identified as those of
Alexander White, the Jackson's Hole
justice OF the peace who disappeared
last fall, 1t is alleged, with about
81 500 of the funds of the county.
White had evidently attempted to
reach the railroad on foot, and, over
taken by a storm, %peprished in the
open.
, 1907-08-29

Punch years ago gave
the sapient advice that
the best way to make
home happy is TO leave it,
but this advice was
meant only to be applied
to male members ~ the
household. The wife who
wishes to make home
happy has only to follow
, 1907-08-29

After profound study and investiga-
ton the director of the mint has con.
cluded to deduct $l35. 000, 900 from the
estimate OF the stock of gold in the
country. Well, what difference does
II make whether the stock is S1.619.-
S45,2S0 or s1,4S4.S45,2 $50? Nobody
has to count It or carry II.
, 1907-08-29

There are in London a round dozen
churches named after st. Mary, near
ly all of them belonging to a single
group closely packed together, show
ing that they all came from the one
great parish Of Aldermary.
, 1907-08-29
Accused Of Assault.

Sheridan, Wyo.-Frank Ackerman
is In jail. charged with assault with
intent to kill William Fournin, a sol.
der at Fort Mckenzie. The men quar-.
relied and Alderman, 1t is charged, at
tackled the soldier with a knife, infict.
ing dangerous but not fatal wounds.
, 1907-08-29

A Detroit man who had gone to the
courts to seek a divorce willingly act
ed as a witness for another couple
who were there to get married. Evil.
IDENTIFY misery loves company.
, 1907-08-29
Accused Of Horse Stealing.

Laramie, Wyo.-Ed Sprous is unde
arrest here, charged with the theft of
a horse from August Kassahn last No
Yember.
, 1907-08-29

that the great force, the IL eternal energy which we call God, is at the
command of every human being. Any woman who has it in her to
progress can, by summoning this force to her aid, rise to any height she
desires in this world.
, 1907-08-29

Any woman may be what she wills to be. You
yourself. No one can make you what you are not. If
of character within yourself you can compel conditions
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-12
Or. T. B. Beatty Makes Sugges-
tons in Biennial Report of
State Board.
SCHEDULES RADICAL CHANGES
Cousins and Persons Suffering From
Consumption and Other Diseases
Should Not Wed, He Declares.

If the recommendations made by DR..
r. b. Beatty in the biennial report of
the state board of health. are acted
upon by the coming legislature. the
marriage laws Of Utah will receive
radical revision.
DR.. Beatty gives to the governor
the figures and recommendations
growing out OF many years of study
in the state. and among the conclu-
sions submitted is one that cousins
should be prohibited from marrying
on account of the fact that statistics
show feeble minded children to be fire.
quently the issue from such marriage.
Another recommendation Is that people
suffering from tuberculosis, epilepsy
and active venerial diseases be pro-
hibited from marrying for the reason
that children are well known to in
herit such disease from their parents,
The final recommendation in this field
Is that feeble minded people, of whom
1874 are said to live in the state, be
given a state home where their minds
may be developed to the limit OF their
abilities. The institution is meant to
differ materially from the one now
located at Provo, in that an effort VIII
be made to make 1t partly self-sus-
tanning through the operation of shops.
and farms, and partly through fees
assessed against the families of the
various charges admitted for treat
ment
In supporting the contention in
favor of these changes, DR.. Beatty
submits figures showing that there are
many feeble minded people In the
state who are the issue of marriages
between the near in kin, some of the
most serious cases being absolute I'M
beetles.
At a meeting OF the state Medical
society, called for next Wednesday in
the City and County building, the pro-
positions included in the report Will
be discussed, and the net result trans
mitted to the Governor for his con-
sideration, or for use In connection
ton with his message to the legis-
lature.