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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
LOOK WITH FAVOR
On GAS LIGHTING
CounCiImen Seem to Like Plan
Proposed for Residence
Districts.

The plan proposed by the WeIsbach
Street Lighting company to light the
streets of Salt Lake with incandescent gas
lights seems to be favored by the coun-
cilmen, the prospects are that following
the advent of the Utah Gas & Coke COM
pany into the local field, portions of the
city eventually will be lighted with gas.
At present the city is paying the Utah
for. ga electric arc lights, which do not
begin TO give sufficient light With 1000
or more gas lights the city would be
fairly we'll lighted.
The cost of the proposed street lights IS
So a year. In the east this is considered
an excessive rate as Cleveland paws $3.50
a year for approximately the same serv-
ice. But it must be taken into cOnsid-
Grafton that the proposition made by the
Welsbach people Includes the furnishing
of iron posts which the gas companies
usually supply and also the initial cost
of installation which is always heavy.
In three years the price of S32 in Salt Lake
should be cut in two if the prices paid in
the east are any criterion.
The cost of lighting Salt Lake for
year is now about $4,000 1t has been Sug-
gested that if 1850 gas lights were sub
stituted for 500 electric lights the cost
would be but $50, 900 and allow 5000 for
This would furnish about fOrty-five lights
which is twenty more than the business
district is now supplied with.
The principal complaint against the 10
cal lighting system has come from resi-
dence districts where at night il is as dark
as a cave. The people seem to be demand
ing better service in this respect and it
appears that the lighting proposition sub
mitted to the council Monday evening may
serve to solve some of the difficulties.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
SHEETS BIDS AFFECTING FAREWELL
TO ASSOCIATES In DEPARTMENT

An affecting incident in the retirement
of Chief OF Police Streets was his leave
taking of Captain Burbidge and his fell
low-officers with whom he had been asso-
cited for many years as patrolman, de-
teetive and chief of police. AS soon as
he signed his resignation. Chief Sheets
busted himself for a moment sorting out
some private papers and then turned to
Captain Burbidge, who was sitting in the
chiefs office
Well. its up to you. captain. said
Chief Sheets you're chief Of police now,
m going home"
Without word Captain Burbidge and
the chief shook hands. The two had been
associated for years and though of diff
1erent political belief and possibly of diff
ferent police policies they were, never
theless, close friends and no one in the
Ion more than Captain Burbidge. After
bidding the captain goodbye, the chief
went across the hall and shook hands
with the detectives and patrOlmen in the
desk sargeants office. To the newspaper
men who knew not and cared not wheth-
or the chief was guilty or innocent of the
crime which he was charged. but knew
George Sheets as a friend of the police
reporter the chief said simply:
''GOodby, boys, be good Ipl never for
get you
George A. Sheets was appointed as a
patrolman in the police department in
1880. He became a detective three years
later and continued as a member of the
detective force until 1902 when he resign
employ of the Keith-OBrien company He
was appointed chief of police by Mayor
Thompson and took the office on January
J, 1895. As a police officer and a de-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
FREIGHT MEN MEET TODAY

The regular monthly meeting of the
trans Missouri Freight bureau did not
take place yesterday morning, as sched-
uled owing to the non-aTirval of Chair
man W. A. Poteet, who was On'a delayed
Rio Grande train. The meeting will be
held at the KnutsfCTd this morning.
The members who are in the city to at
tend the meeting of the bureau are: 1.
C. Dumbeck assistant general freight
agent CT the Frisco lines at Kansas City:
r. G. Merrick, assistant general manager
of the Santa Fe at Topeka; J. K. Whar-
ry, assistant general freight agent, Rock
Island; and w. w. Miller, assistant gen
eral freight agent Mo-, X. & T., at Kan
sas City; Allen b. Smith, first assistant
general freight agent of the G, 3. & O.,
at Omaha. w. II. Garrett of the Union
Pacific, at Omaha; J. A. Reeves, general
freight agent If the Oregon Short Line,
at Salt Lake City; S. V. Derrah. general
freight agent of the D. & r. G., at Salt
Lake City; J. H. BURNER, district freight
agent of the salt Lake Route. at Salt
Lake; d. e. Lincoln. representing the
Missouri PacifIc, of St louis; g. w.
Valley, general manager, and II. c. Bush,
traffic manager of the Colorado Mid
land
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
MET THE GIRL IN CHICAGO.

Denver. Colo, July 31.-A special to
the Denver Post from Mount Pleasant,
Pa, says:
Amos r. Rumbaugh met Laura Mat
thews in Chicago Two years ago while
there on a business trip, and fell des-
perately in love with her. He did not
tell the girl that he was married, and
she did not discover it for many
months. In the meantime he showered
costly presents upon her and did ev-
erything to win her. 81 will get a di-
Vorce and we will marry" he told her.
Miss Matthews accepted his attentions,
but told him she expected some day to
marry Charles Z. Coey. Rumbaugh
persisted in his attentions and began
neglecting his wife and business to go
to Chicago and visit the young dra-
matte student
Two weeks ago Rumbaugh went to
Chicago, where he learned that Miss
Matthews had gone to Colorado. He
wrote a letter to his business partner
in Mount Pleasant, saying he was go
ing west and would probably never re
turn. Then he boarded a train for
Colorado Springs to join Miss Mat
theWS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01

to consent to unless the company would
also grant the demands of the hnemen-
Linemen All Out.
In the district comprising Utah, Idaho.
Montana ana Wyoming there is not
union electrical worker employed by the
Bell IelephOne company. The 1nemen IN
Ogden and Cheyenne, the only union men
in the district who have been in the en-
ploy of the company walked out last night
at midnight. The agreements between
these locals and the company which the
day and the men struck In Ogden about
twenty men are affected and a dozen In
Cheyenne.
The telephone situation has been grow
ing more critical for several days past.
In Butte the operators and linemen have
been out for some time and in Salt Lake
the turn in affairs has threatened more
complications, the operators having sig
nified their intention of taking advantage
of the situation to put in a request for
more pay. With reference TO the local sit
uation Mr.. Ramsey. president Of the local
union, said yesterday:
81 think it is probable that within
week the telephone operators of the Bell
company in Salt Lake, or at least ma
JOrity of them, Will go out on strike. /
have been approached by someof the
girls employed at the switchboards who
told me that they desired TO ask an IN
crease in pay and asked my advice as
to what course to pursue in case 1t was
denied. They seemed to be Of the opinion
that the girls were willing TO strike if
necessary I viii take the matter up
before the state federation and it seems
probable thai the federation will invite
the girls to organize and affiliate with
that body. The girls are certainly en-
titled to more money. At this particular
time they are in a position to get what
they ask for"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
BUTTE MACHINISTS
STRIKE FOR MORE PAY

Butte, Mont, July 31.-The refusal of
the mine owners of this city to grant
an increase of so cents day to the
machinists- employed at the mines, was
followed by the calling out of the MEM
bers of the machinists union at mid
night tonight. The men will complete
their night shifts. Should the strike
be of any great duration it will result
in the shutting down of the mines. as
the result of the. wear and tear on the
machinery without any repairs being
made. About 200 men comprise the
machinists' union. The present wage
scale of $3.50 a day, the highest scale
paid any member of their craft SINH
ilarly employed in the state of Mon
tana.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
TROOPS ARE OFF TODAY
Movement of Soldiers and Wagons
Down Brigham Street Will Take
Place This Morning.

The Twenty-ninth infantry leaves Fort
Douglas for the Philippines at o'clock
this morning. At that time the first de-
tachment of the boys in blue will leave
the fort for the Rio Grande Western de
pot and from then on until noon soldiers
and pack wagons will move from the res
ervation down Brigham street to Main,
thence to Second South and to the de-
pot.
The last day of the soldiers at the fort
ress on the shore of the Great Salt Lake
was a busy ore. All day long the bag
gage of the men was conveyed to the
depot where it was packed away in an
tieipatiOn of the trip which begins this
morning and will not end until the TWen-
ty-ninth is safely landed on Uncle Sans
insulaT possessions.
The paymaster was present in the after
noon and gave the boys their salary for
July This was the signal for many of
them to visit the city for perhaps the
last time and Until late hour this
morning the streets were alive with the
wearers of the blue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
RUSHED
into BELFAST
Seven Thousand Soldiers Will
Attempt to Stop Strike
Riots on the Docks.

Belfast, July 31.-Troops continue to
pour into the city. emphasizing the
fact that the authorities are fully de-
termined to grapple promptly with
riOting, whether on the part of the
striking dock laborers or the mutinous
police, who are demanding more pay
because of the extra work the strike
entails.
The Fourth battalion of the Middle
sex regiment arrived today, bringing a
maxim gun. A section of the Essex
regiment will arrive early tomorrow
morning, making the military strength
about 10000 men.
This imposing display of force is pro-
ducing a reassuring effect on the gen.
eral public, which early in the trouble
was somewhat panicstricken. Import
ant developments are expected Aug. 2,
on which day there will be a special
parade of the diSdffected police.
The police have received cOmmunica-
tons from numerous stations through
out the country expressing sympathy
with their movement and declaring in
many cases a willingness on the part
of the writer's to lay down their arms
and strike at moments notice when
like action is taken in Belfast.
The chamber of commerce today de-
cided to memorabilia the lord lieuten-
ant of Ireland. the Earl of Aberdeen,
regarding the situation. The terms of
the memorial have not been disclosed,
but it is thought that it appeals for a
proclamation declaring martial law.
Picketing was resumed at the
wharves today, and there were several
instances of vehicles in charge of dock
carriers bein overturned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01

telegram said to have been sent to him
by Miss Green, the nurse of Miss Mat
thews, and was satisfied that she did
not send it He further said:
Il believe that Miss Matthews death
is a plain case Of murder. In my opin-
ion Rumbaugh committed the deed and
sent a telegram calculated to cast sus-
piciOn on me as being the cause of the
girls death. About ten days ago I
wrote Miss Matthews a cheerful letter.
and she was talking of returning to
Chicago. Rumbaugh was evidently
afraid of losing the girl
Mrs. Matthews absolutely refused to
accept the theory of suicide. An hour
before receiving the telegram an
nOuncing the girls death she had re-
ceived a letter from her daughter.
which was evidently written while in
good spirits. The girl spoke of start
ing for Chicago within a short time and
stopping at Kansas City for a visit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
Theologian Turns Socialist

J. in
of in
but replied could
declared his that socialism the practical
he
wleing
n
by
wOrkingmen
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
FOUND DEAD IN. SHANTY.

Alonzo Eastman, supposed to be a vic
tim of alcoholism, was found dead in a
small shanty in the rear of 23S West
First South street. Justice Dana 7. Smith
examined the body and it is not probable
that an inquest will be held.
Eastman, when last seen alive, was
drinking heavily and this is the supposed
cause of his death. The body showed no
signs of violence He left a saloon Mon
day evening and it is believed that he
went directly to his room, where he died
In a CONFUSION.
Eastman was about 10 years old. 1t is
thought that he had a wife and two
brothers IT. Ogden. The remains were
taken to the O'Donnell undertaking par
lOrs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01

was going or why, and until now all
efforts to locate him were unavailing.
Yesterday his wife, despairing of his
return, had her household effects
packed and was prepared to leave to-
day for the home of her father, A. c.
Ruff, of Loudenville, ..
As a result of the information from
Colorado Springs, however, she will de-
fer her departure for the present.
Charles Rumbaugh, a brother, will go
to Colorado Springs.
Amos r. Rumbaugh was a private in
company Z. Tenth Pennsylvania vol
unteers. and served with distinction
with that regiment in the Philippines
during the Spanish war.
His relatives say they never heard of
Laura Matthews or of G. E. Coey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
RUMBAUeH A MARRIED MAN.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 31.-The suicide
of Amos r. Rumbaugh at Colorado
Springs has cleared the mystery of his
disappearance from his home at Mount
Pleasant, Pa, near here, two weeks
ago. Rumbaugh was married and was
one of the most prominent citizens of
Mount Pleasant. Two weeks ago last
Monday he left home without indicat-
ing to his wife or relatives whittier he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
CHIEF SHEETS STEPS DOWN.
BURB|DGE IS IN COMMAND
Continued from PAGE 1.

stated could induce him to resign as
long as a charge is pending against
him; that distasteful as it is, however
to resign under fire, he would consider
himself moral coward to allow such
a consideration to influence him
against doing what he considers his
duty under the circumstances.
Being asked as to whether his res
ignation had been demanded by the
American party, mir. Sheets said he
had not made his case at any time a
party question. He had never asked
the party for support or assistance,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01

and had never received any from that
source.
GAS to the prosecutions now pending
against him, he expressed supreme
confidence in the outcome, and only
asked a square deal. He stated that
he was absolutely innocent of any in
territorial malfeasance in office of any
nature whatever; that he had endeav-
ored to do his duty TO the best of his
ability, and if he had failed in any
particular it was due to some over
sight or inadvertance, and not to any
willful or intentional omission, or
wrong against any person or persons
whatever
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
BONDS SOLD TO MORGAN.

New York. July S1.-The Atchison, To-
peka g. Santa Fe Railroad company has
sold TO J. p. Morgan & Co. the portion of
the 600 convertible 5 per cent bonds
recently issued which were not taken by
the stockholders IL is estimated that the
stockholders have subscribed at par for
slightly more than $11.000,OO0 of the IS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
BELIEVE GIRL
WAS MURDERED
Continued from Page I

Such phrases as Il cannot get along
without you" Il will live for you, if
you live for me-" and life is short, so
why not be with the ones we love the
emOst," are incorporated in the letters.
= In nearly every letter Coey encour-
ages Miss Matthews TO be "a good lit
tie girl" and come back to him with
health restored.
The jury rendered a verdict that the
deceased came to her death by a bullet
wound, inflicted with suicidal intent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
SILK WORKERS QUIT.

Scranton, Pa. July 31.-Seven hundred
operatives at the Empire & KlOtz mills
at Simpson, near here, have quit work,
making the total number of silk workers
in the Laekawanna valley idle through
their strike 400. Less than two thousand
remain at work, and the strike, it is be-
lieved, soon will involve them. The Op-
eTatives are asking for shorter working
daV.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
SUICIDE theory SECUTED.
Coey and Mother of the Dead Girl
Believe She Was Murdered.

Chicago. July &c. A Coey. who
has been prominently mentioned in the
developments following the suicide of
Laura Matthews at Colorado Springs
held a conference today with Mrs Jen-
ME Matthews. the mother Of the girl,
who arrived here today from Kansas
City. At the conclusion of their inter-
view both of them declared that IN
their opinion the girl had been MUIR
dered. Coey said he had traced the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
Unfair in Montana.

The Montana Federation of Labor yes
terday declared the Bell telephones I'M
fair throughout the state and ordered the
operators out. At midnight last night it
was declared, the operators at Anaconda,
Helena, Billings and Livingston would
leave the switchboards Every trades or
ganiza ton in the state of Montana has
been requested to boycott the Bell Teie
phone company, and the central trades
councils of Utah. Idaho and Wyoming are
expected to do the same thing.
At a conference between international
Vice-P President Sullivan of the Electrical
workers. President Fairsreive of the Mon
tana Federation of Labor, and General
Manager d. s. Murray of the Bell Tele-
phone company. held in Butte yesterday,
no agreement was reached. According to
a dispatch from Butte last evening Mr..
Murray agreed to accede to the demands
of the operators in case the federation
would place the Bell telephone on the fair
list This President Fairgreive refused
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-01
union OPERATORS
ARE CALLED OUT
Salt Lake Girls Said to Be In
fected by the Strike
Germ.
SITUATION GROWS CRITICAL
MONTANA FEDERATION DE-
CLARES BELL CO. UNFAIR.

Following the example set by the Mon
tana Federation of Labor yesterday, it is
probable that within few days the
Utah Federation of Labor will request the
telephone operators of Ogden and Salt
Lake to walk out on strike in sympathy
with the electrical workers now out. The
operators OF Salt Lake City and Ogden
are not organized, but a committee of
girls, representing the operators employed
by the Bell Telephone company, has been
in communication with w. F. Ramsey,
president of local No. 81 of the Electro
cal Workers union, and vice-president of
the Utah Federation of Labor.
The operators wanted to know just
what steps would be necessary in order to
call the girls out, not only in sympathy
with the linemen. but also in order to
secure higher wages for themselves. The
committee said that the majority of the
girls seemed willing to go out IL they
knew just how to go about it. Mr.
Ramsey said ne would take the matter
up with the Utah Federation of Labor,
with which the girls could affiliate in case
tbpy ORGANIZED
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-09-26
OKLAHOMA IS 16MVeRlNC
Prohibition Wins by 10000 and
Constitution Three to One.
The Whole State Ticket, Headed by
Charles n. Haskell, of Muskogee,
Was Elected.

Oklahoma City.-Retufns from the
larger cities and counties of Okla.
homa and Indian Territory indicate
that the constitution of the proposed
new State has been adopted by $4,000
majority; that the prohibition clause
of the constitution has been ratified
by 10000, and that the Democratic
State ticket, headed by C. N. Haskell
for Governor, has been, elected.
The Legislature Is Democratic by a
large majority, and will elect as
United States Senators Robert l..
Owen, a Cherokee Indian, and It. P.
Gore, a blind man. They were nom
mated by primaries inJune.
In the Congress election the Demo-
Gratis SCENT have chosen four of the
five Representatives. The candidates
probably elected are: 1
First District-Former Delegate to
Congress Bird S. Mcclure, Repub-
lican.
Second District. l.. Fulton,
Democrat, defeating ex-TerritoriaI
Governor r. 3. Ferguson.
Third District-James Davenport,
Fourth District-C. D. Carter,
Democrat.
Fifth District-Scott Ferris, Dem
ocrat.
The new State must await the con-
Stitution's Endorsement by President
Roosevelt, who viii either approve or
reject 1T upon his judgment as to
whether it conforms to the enabling
act of Congress and the Constitution
of the United States.
In the enabling act Congress pro-
yided for prohibition in Indian Terri
tory until January 1, 1927. The pro-
hibition clause voted on applies the
same provision to the Oklahoma side
of the new State.
81 If it has carried %as it now seems,
Statewide prohibition will be a part
OF the constitution for twenty-one
years, and at the end of that period
will remain in force indefinitely IN.
less repealed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-09-26
ENGLAND BADLY FED,
SAYS "eRIGHT0NBROWNE
Eminent Physician DenCunces
Craze For Getting Thin.
DRIVES MANY 70 sTlMULANTs
In Dread OF Being Suspected of GIut-
tony People Only Indulge Their
HeRlthy Apostles in Secret
Demand For 1Iiqaor Sweets

London. England. - Sir James
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, in delivering the
presidential address at the annual
meeting OF the Sanitary inspectors
Association at Llandudno, referred to
the English meat supply and urged
the abolition of private slaughter
houses ana the providing of public
abattoirs and a central ONCE for meat
inspection. Then people no longer
would find "prias Christmas fat beef
absolutely filled with generalized tu-
berculosis," He added:
II Chicago has it's jungle London
has its dismal swamp"
That the public would not protect
Itself, Sir James said, was proved by
the fact hat a certain American
brand, or Jam, advertised as the finest
raspberry, bears on Its label the gen
erous impression: This Jam is made
of glucose, with artificial seeds and
is colored with harmless anilfne
dyes" This candor is rewarded by
a large sale.
In another part of his address the
eminent physician denounced what
he described as the prevalent craze
Tor getting thins ALI the fashionable
food lads. follies OF the hour, he said,
were in the nature of deprivation.
AT n time the tendency was to stuff
and every new nutRiment was hailed
as q boon to humanity.
Now the pendulum had swung to
the other extreme. Aldermen are
like laths and citizens train down as
for athletic sports. Only duodecimo
portions r served at dinners. On
all hands the cry is that we eat too
much. So fierce In some quarters ia
the propaganda OF dietetic ascetism
that in dread OF being suspected of
gluttony people only indulge their
healthy appetite in secret. II
This craze, added Sir James, was
producing a debility which sufferers
therefrom were seeking to combat by
indulgence in alcohol and narcotics,
There was a great consumption OF
liquor sweets things which con.
talned In a sugar or chocolate casing
rum, gin and liquors.
The surreptitious consumption of
drugs, too, seemed for the same rea,
son to be growing. ChlorofoPm and
other Intoxicating drugs were being
incorporated in lozenges, which were
particularly favored by women, who
found that thereby they were able to
obtain the o~bfuscation they desired.