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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
Prof. w. N. Elliott Makes Serious
Charges Against H. D. PIERCE,
U. S. Minister to Norway.
REPRESENTED TWO SIDES.
Both Government and owners OF the
j. Hamilton Lewis, Which Was
Seized by Russia,

Washington, Jan. 14.--Sensational
charges against Herbert D. II. Pierce.
Y. S. minister to Norway, who former
ly was third assistant secretary OF
state, were made before the house COM
mittee on ways and means today by
Prof. w. II. Elliott of Cleveland, o..
in connection with d hearing ON reso-
luton for the further protection of fur
seals upon the high seas.
Prof Elliott states that while Mr..
Pierce was representing the United
States government before The Hague
tribunal the settlement of claims
growing out of the seizure of the seal
ing vessel j. Hamilton Lewis by the
Russian government on the charge Of
piracy, he represented the owners of the
vessel ana even instituted action in
the United States district court for the
district of Columbia. to insure pay
ment of his fee out of the money award
ed to the vessels owners.
representatives Clark and John
Sharp Williams questioned Mr.. Elliott
carefully about the charge and said that
II reflected so seriously upon the adj
ministration that it must be looked into
carefully.
The chief purpose of Prof Elliott in
appearing before the COMMITTEES was to
have the United States annul the lease
of the sealing privileges upon the Pry-
bilon islands which IL has granted to
the North American Commercial COM
pany. Pie stated that the officers of the
company perjured themselves when
they obtained the lease, as they swore
they were not engaged In pelagic seal
ing, in spite of this oath, he says. they
equipped the j. Hamilton Lewis. In
command of Capt. Mccain, which Prof
Elliott alleges was rightfully seized
by the Russian government. This seiz-
urc was in 1901 and Mr.. Elliott made
the statement that MIR. Pierce's activ-
ity in collecting Il fee was from the yes
sells owners was in 1905.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
THE FRENCH EPISC0PATE
WILL MEET TOMORROW,

Paris, Jan. a. Having decided IN ad,,
vance 10 adhere 20 the recent papal
encyclical, the work of the French
eplscopate which meets tomorrow VIII
be largely confined 10 discussing the
practical matter involved IN the con-
domination OF the amended church ana
state separation law and the benent
which can be obtained from the public
meetings law OF 1901, The question OF
the ehurchs resources will be upper
most and the cardinals and some OF me
bishops. who were again IN session TO-
day, have virtually resolved 10 recon,
mend the stasishment OF central
fund In al the dioeeses. IL Is donbtfni
whether the legal plenary assembly wiz
approve the reorganization OF the SEM
inarles as superior theological schools
In accordance with the law OF 1875 I'M
der which number or them ALREADY
have been reopened.
The Petit Republique asserts today
thai Monslgnor tIontagninrs papers
PROVE that the papsl nuneia'ure was
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
Both Branches Sworn in at Noon
Today and Make Ready for
Sixty-Day Session.
EXECUTIVE MESSAGE TUESDAY
Saturday Nights Caucus Slate
Received Severe Fracture by
Rev. Peter Simpkin.
Latter Was Made Chaplain of the Sen.
ate Today, sidetracising Nelson
OF Emery County.

For 80 minutes today the Seventh leg
session in two separate bodies of a
house and senate. Tomorrow they
win meet again separately at 1880
o'clock and ut o'clock viii go into
conjoint session to listen to the reading
Of the governors message.
The business of today in both houses
was to organize. In the lower branch
the slate prepared In the caucus went
through without a break In the upper
house 1t was not so. For an hour be-
fore the general session there We're
whispers among the older members of
the senate, and finally there was
caucus off in u committee room to the
north. from which Senator Walton
emerged with the typewriter list vt
chosen officers. II was not pure typs-
writing now, however, as there was a
scratch through the name Of Anton
Nelson of Emery county and over IL
IN pencil was the name of Rev. p. A
Simplsin of salt Lake for chaplain IN
cidentany Senator Biinkerhoff OF
Emery county was receiving con
sratulations for being a good fellow
and his friend Nelson was entered as
a committee clerk.
Behmd the maneuverins in favor oR
simpkin is d pretty story that belongs
to the chambers exclusively about an
attempt 70 organize the Alfalfa club,
and its failure because the senators
know each other and Will not organic
very strong against personal friend
ships. especially where they arc of long
standing. 1t was brand new member
who busted himself in the Alfalfa move
ment and he found what IL is TO he
voted down hard before the day WAS
done.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14

constantly dabbling in politics ana had
regular relations with the opposition
deputies and senator's ard members of
me Bonapartlst parties and was IN cor
respondence with Emile olivier, the ex-
minister OF Napoleon III The paper
also says II has Proof that, through the
foltugueSe government, the govern
ment OF France learned that the vnti-
cans circular previous TO the visit OF
eS-President Loubet to Italy was not
identical IN It's wording In the case OF
all the powers.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
THE BARRAcourA ASHORE

San Francisco. Jan. 1.-THE Mer-
chants exchange has received u mes
sage stating that the Pacific mail
steamship BarrAcouta is ashore at
corinte,- sSfcarabtia, - portion Oh the
cargo Is being taken Off by lighters and
u is expected that the vessel will be
floated at the next high tide. Corinto
is not a port OF call for the Barra con-
Ia, and 1t is not known why she stop
ped there.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
ILLINOIS VS., ILLINOIS CENTRAL.

Springfield, H., Jan. 1.-THE suit Of
the state against the Illinois Central
Railroad for the collection OF several
million dollars which the state alleges
mas been withheld from the state
share Of the gross earnings of the rail-
road was fled in the state supreme
court todaN.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
SHERIFF Ships CASE.
He and Others to be Cited Before
United States Supreme Court.

Washington. Jan. 1i.--Atty Gen.
Bonaparte today presented to the SUI
preme court Of the United States a mo-
tion to require Sheriff shipp of Hamil-
ton county. Tenn. and 26 other per-
sons charged with contempt OF that
court owing TO the lynching at Chatta-
nooga last March Of the negro Ed
Johnson TO appear and give bail.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
-FOUR MINERS KILLED.

clinton, Ind, Jan. 14.-Four min
ers were killed in a gas explosion In
a mine here this morning 1t is not
known how many more men are in the
mine but it is thought six or seven
more Will be found dead. six have
been brought out
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
SHEA TRIAL ARGUMENTS.

Chicago. Jan. 14.--Arguments We're
commenced today in the Shea trial,
Asst States Atty. Holt opening for
the state He denounced President
Shea OF the Transfers union as the
leader OF disreputablo element in la
Dor ranks.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
SWISS CONSUL KoRApI DrAp,

Philadelphia. Jan. 14-Rudolph kor-
adj, who has been consul of the Swiss
government in Philadelphia since 1886.
is dead. He was said to be the oldest
consul IN the world in point of years
and service
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
MR.. SHARP HERE.
President OF u. $. smelling Company
Arrives From East.

W. G. sharp. president Of the United
States Smelling, Reclining s Mining CO..
arrived IN the ety from the east last
night.
Mr. sharp declared when seen this
afternoon that his company had decid-
ed on no plans FOR tho future regarding
the matter OF removing its shelters
from Bingham Junction,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
OLIVER DYER DEAD.
Is said to Have Introduced Stenog-
rnphy Into the Cnjted states.

Boston, Jan, 14.-oliver Dyer. who is
said to have introduced strenography
into this country and was the first
shorthand reporter in the United States
senate, died yesterday, aged So.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14

put upon any such man the burden OF
thus clearing himself,
(Signod),
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"The White House, Jan. IA. 1907"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
.'aopoRE ROOSEVELT. o
THE MESSAGE

~. treatI als-In my message to IN,
~ honor oss OF the Dismissal " Win, ne
y The three certain named members
w finantrv' companies of the TnnnD,srs
.'alcers upo5 5' ! gave the reports 81 ~
,sssee Thsss" which the dismissal W., wy
..eeoldance u,,, reports were MAJ was
,,, for II ",.n The custom In 1a an ~
possible 10 would, OF course No such
.'Hny ave b preserve discipline pJo m
curse that ~ " pursuing preeisel, ,he
s..a.snuch ho ~ ms case was purs,, she
WESTON w 's,ssneyer. as IN the senate susa,
''' raised as 10 the suttic,e enc
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14

,.sue Of this paper should
The mex ~, ,t---lf you have . house g
'sn o. job TO end OF .'. .o0
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14

"a good word always finds It's man.
and good want adj, will find the
way 20 market for you.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14
FIRST SHOTS FIRED.

The testimony Of the witness on the
posllion OF the bullet holes show that
10 or 20 OF the negro troops gathered
inside the fort and that tho first shots
nrea into the town were fred from
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14

lcoutinnod on page sleven)
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
Remarks on SWIMMING.

1t is never too late to learn to swim.
| have taught women more than 80
years old, and it gives me more salts
faction to teach them than those who
learn easily. How many double drown
ing accidents occur every summer that
a very little instruction would pre-
vent? An extraordinary number. In
Ontario double drownings are becom-
ing much less frequent, thanks to the
efforts of the Toronto Swimming club,
whose members spread abroad each
year and impart the simple knowledge
that enables a person to release him
self from the desperate clutch of the
drowning. This knowledge can be
much better impaired on land than in
water, and hence it is easy to teach.
Men of the stone age knew enough to
educate their children in the art of
swimming, but only recently have the
great universities considered the ne
cessity of swimming instruction. To-
day l can go among university gradu-
ates, and even gold medalists, and pick
out more than so per cent who are
frightfully ignorant of the art of nata-
tion.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
McKinIey,s ThouohtfuIness.

II was blistering hot day on the
sands of Camp Montauk in 1898. Four
teen thousand weak, sick or wounded
soldier boys sweltered under their
tents.
Dowl at the army depot the Sec
ond cavalry had received President
Mckinley and Secretary of War AL
ger with great flourish of trumpets
and salute of swords.
Cannon were booming the presi-
dents salute, and transports in the
harbor waving their flags. The presi-
dent had called these $4,000 men and
boys together to defend the nation.
He might have been swelled with
pride over the honors being paid to
him.
His carriage moved slowly through
the deep and hot sand. The tender
ness in his nature came to the surface
as he leaned forward and asked Secre-
tary Alger:
Have the boys plenty. of water?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26

been reckoned with. We mean the
decrease of the herds of tame rein
deer.
This has been going on in the last
quarter of a century with striking
rapidity. In one district alone in the
last twelve years, the reindeer have
diminished from an estimated 10000
to an estimated 1000. This decrease
is explained variously. The COM
monest. and most plausible explana-
ton. which carries the authority of
men well qualified to Judge, is that
the demand for reindeer flesh which
has been brought nearer to the Lapp
by the opening of the Bohemian rail
way, has tempted them to part with
the ceer at rate too rapid for their
production.
+ Tie rerd of reindeer, which are TAX
en- of the high fjaell down to their
winter Quarters, are now within four
or five days of Stockholm and there
is a good demand for reindeer flesh.
It is said that the Lapp, who is no
more able to resist strong drink
than any other half-civilized man, Is
Piled freely with brandy. and in that
state will part with his reindeer Tor
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
Diooino Into Jericho.


Pror. Sellin's excavations on the site
Of the ancient city of Jericho are yield
ing Unexpectedly rich treasures. In
his last letters to the Vienna Academy
of Science the professor writes that
over 100 men are digging at five differ
ent points. One of the most interest
ing finds is the historical city wall,
built of burnt-lime bricks. 1t was some
ten feet in thickness, rising from a
stone foundation. On the western
side of the city the wall was nearly 40
feet in width. At another point pri-
vate house was found built over an
other house of still earlier epoch.
Other discoveries, says Pail Mall Ga
zette. include lamps, plates, cups,
needles, weights, mortars and mills of
bronze and stone, some of very rough
and primitive handiwork and others
very finely executed. In the inner city
remains of rows of houses have been
uncovered. The ancient Hebrew let
tering proves that the old Hebrew
characters were in use. Prof. Sellin
hopes to renew the excavating work
next winter. In the meantime he says
that the work already done has opened
up wealth Of material for the student
of the pre-Israelite and Canaanite
period.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
NO ROOM FOR QUESTION.
He Was Taught by Young Lady
From Massachusetts, Who Knew.

The mere driving of the old stage
from Hawleys Notch to Cedarville wat
light matter to Hiram Locke; it was
the questions and contentious of hi"
passengers which caused him me
ments of anxiety, and made him draw
long breaths of relief when the trip
was safely over.
When was that house built?" de-
manded brisk young woman who had
secured the seat beside him one day.
Il mean that small yellow one over
there"
Il reckon about seventeen hundred
and ninety-two or three" said Hiram
cautiously Tt"
20, no." said the young woman
promptly. at couldn't have been! that
style of roof never was built on till
long after that. 1 thought you might
know"
'Yes'm," said Mr.. Locke meekly
''or rather, nom, as you say"
Those are magnificent oaks" said
the young woman, few moments lat
err. Il suppose you have no idea how
old they are?"
Yes, ma'am, l have" and Mr.
Locke turned calm gaze upon her
They are 507 years old"
Dear mel" and his passenger look
ed at him with undisguised amaze
ment. How do you know so accurate
ly?"
Because there was a young woman
of about your heft and general get
up rode beside me seven years ago,
said Mr.. Locke, and she was chock
full OF knowledge. And after shed
set me right on a number O. p'ints
We come along to these trees, and she
mentioned, without any ifs, or butts
that she knew by the signs they were
500, years cid. That's seven years ago
and I'm capable of adding a simple
sum like that even if l haven't much
book knowledge.
She was from. Massachusetts, sc
l reckon there amt much use trying
to go back O. what she stated. And
now if you'll excuse me, I've got to
tend strictly to business going down
this hill" Youths Companion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
Nature Reclaimed Island.

King island, between the coasts OF
Tasmania and the Australian main
land, has always been an arid waste
of sand and other honorable SOIL
Some years ago, however, a vessel
was wrecked off the island and a num-
Der of the sailors mattresses, stuffed
with the yellow-flowered clover, a kind
of grass, were washed ashore. A GER
tain quantity of seed was contained
among the stuffing and in due course
these took root and in the space of a
few years covered the sandy stretches
with rich verdure. Glover and other
leguminous plants have the peculiar
capacity of fertilizing waste soil,
owing principally to the action of bac-
terra, thereby enabling the plants to
draw nitrogen directly from the at
mosphere. King island. previously a
waste stretch of sand, is now one of
the richest grazing districts in the
Australian continent.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26

trifling sum, or even for a fresh
bottle of spirits or two. And he goes
back to. his fjaell stripped of half
mis- herd, and with nothing to show fol
it.
But there is another cause so a.
legged. and that by equally good an
thorities. 1t is said that the Swed
ish state education Is having uron tbs
Lapp the effect which not uncom-
monty follows the early stages o.
learning. Every autumn the Swedes
and Laps alike send down thei'
children to the nearest nationa.
school, where they remain for the
winter months. the Laps in most
cases having "seminaries" to them
selves. And it is declared that the
case of both races alike, after a few
years. of this training the youngest
generation, when it comes to the as
of choosing its way of life. shows an
unwillinsness to return to the hare
outdoor life of the homes in the in
terror.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
Men Are Gossips.

When it comes to discretion, If
there is an inequality of the sexes we
fancy men have the disadvantage" re-
marks London paper, apropos of the
exclusion of women secretaries from
the higher bureaus at Washington
eff there is a scandal in society, a
dark cloud overhanging the ministry,
an omirous rumor about newspaper
or bank, where is it first discussed?
Why, in the mems clubs. Thence it
reaches the female gossips, and If they
in turn mention what my husband
heard at the club they are at once
set down as scandal mongers, while
the originators of the scandal go scot
free. In country houses, too, are not
the men as ready to tell tales as the
women, as eager to bring forward the
latest news, political, social or finan-
cial? Many women let their tongues
run on, it is true, but so do many
men"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
LAPPs ON THE DECREASE.
And with Them the Reindeer is Grow,
ing Constantly Scarcer.

The Laps are decreasing in mum,
Der, says the Philadelphia Record.
The most sanguine estimate of the
numbers of the entire race in Nor.
way, Sweden and Russian does not
place them above $4,000. By some
the number is palced far lower on the
strength of trustworthy data In Nor
botten the number of Laps is 5000
of whom $500 are nomad Laps, and
500 families have abandoned their
wandering habits, have built habita
lions here and there and have endeav
ored, with more or less success, tc
initiate the life of the Swedish set
tier.
That the race must die out even
tually is certain, and its diminutior
may be very speedy. though its com
ulete extinction may be still far on
since there is no race that can pos
sibly take its place on the reindeer
fjaell. Yet even here we come upon
=. factor which fsx- perhaps, hardly
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
Drainage VS.. Irrigation.

The immense possibilities of drain
age in making new productive land
for the United States are forcefully
pointed out in the latest report of the
geological survey. 1t is estimated
that no less than 6O,O00,OO0 acres of
land may be reclaimed in this manner.
If less than half of this work is done.
1t is said that the land values of the
United States would be increased ST.
500,000,000 and that the crop values
would be advanced s75O,0O0,00O year.
This showing, says the Monitor Maya
zine, is expected to have a marked
effect on congress in the matter of ap-
preparations. But to impress the les
son still further, it is estimated that
with the division of this new land into
40-acre farms, 1,25O,0G0 families, or
100000 persons, could be provided
with homes; that each family would
spend some $4,000 in making waste
places bloom. and that the total ex-
penditure in thus lettering the United
States would be something like ST.
500,000,000. Truly an imposing array
of figures.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
~eoNE TO THE DEVIL"
London Inn Responsible for Origin OF
Common Saying.

The old inns of England have been
responsible for the origin of many
common sayings. An instance OF this
is the proverbial phrase He has
gone to the devil" On Fleet street,
London, near Temple Bar, was once a
tavern which was known by the strict
" old-fashioned name, 1.-THE Devil and
Saint Dunstan" 1t was famous for its
good dinners and excellent wines, and
received a large patronage from the
lawyers of Temple Bar.
1t was Familiarity known as The
Devil" and when lawyer left his
office to go there he usually left a no
tice on his door, Gone to the Devil"
There were some who patronized the
tavern to the neglect of their business,
and the notice was so regularly exhib-
tied on their doors that it finally came
to be used to characterize the man
who was losing his grip and going to
destruction.-Th Sunday Magazine.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-26
THE CUSTOM OF HARAkIRr.
Said to Be Practiced Only by Descend
ants of Old Mobiles of Japan.

The custom of harakiri is a thing
rather confined to the samurai class.
and the heimin, the commoners, are
quite strangers to 1t, writes Mr.. Hashi-
guchi in the Atlantic, a Japanese mag.
azine published in New York. 1.
thrived in the days of feudalism, when
the lives OF the camurai were at the
disposal of their masters. lords and
rulers.
The samurai youths were taught to
commit harakiri rather than submit to
the disgrace of decapitation.
Thus harakiri became an invet-
crate hereditary propensity of the
samurai class, from which it was not
an easy affair to free them after the
advent of the western civilization
awakened the benighted land of the
Rising Sun.
In this enlightened age of Meiji,
however, this practice has been 60
ing out of fashion. Yet it is amaz-
ing to learn that it has again come
into use in the war with Russia.
Last year Prof. Ukida of Waseda
university of Toxic, who is a graduate
of Yale, delivered an address in an
educational gathering held in Toxic,
in which he referred to the practice
of harakiri. He said in part:
"A soldier may die in the battlefield
for the sake of duty, not for the sake
of personal honor. He shall not COM
init harakiri just because he has no
means of defense against his enemy.
Should he be taken prisoner by the
enemy he will do well to console him
self with the idea that he is sent
to the enemy's country as a student,
to be of further service in future to
his country"
His reasons were right, If his utter
ances were not judiciously made. Yet
he has been denounced as a traitor by
Maj. Gen. Sato, who based his argu-
ments upon the sentiment that the
Japanese soldiers die in the battlefield
not for the sake of honor; that it is
for the Russians. not for the Japan
csc, to die for duty; that by commit
ting harakiri rather than surrendering
to the Russians have the Japanese
been enabled to win the victory; and
that Prof. Ukidas address would have
a tendency to detract from the pa
triotic fervor of the Japanese soldiers.
All the press of Japan made COM
ments upon the controversy, saying
that what Prof. Ukida termed duty
was exactly the same as what Mai.
Gen. Sato termed honor in the essen
tial points.