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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-27

When you see man with a pole.
a line and a hook you think he is a
real fisherman, going or coming. But
everything isn't what it Is labeled. He
may be baited and headed for suckers,
not worth the worm. Cast your line I'm
good waters and for true fish that
haven't the jelly-backs, but are
change.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-27
The Ticket.

The state licked nominated was:
Governor-Thomas r. Marshall, Co
lumbus City.
Lieutenant governor-Frank j. Hall,
Rushville.
Secretary of state-James F. Vox,
Columbus.
Auditor of state-MariOn Bailey, Liz
ton.
State treasurer-JOhn Isenbarger,
North Manchester.
Attorney general-Walter j. Lott,
Muncie.
Supreme court judge-M. B. Larry,
LOganSpOrt.
Appellate court judge. w. Felt,
Greenfield.
Reporter of the supreme cOurt-Burt
New. North Vernon.
State Observation-Disclosures ]. Kelle-
her Indianapolis.
Superintendent of public instruction
Robert J. Alley, Bloomington.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-27
Income Tax Favored.

The platform declared for an income
tax, postal savings banks, better regu-
latiOn OF banks, adjustment of favor
itism in the deposit of the treasury
funds, and that surplus revenues shall
be deposited at competitive rates upon
sufficient security and fairly distrfbut-
ed throughout the country. 1t also ia
vored election of United States SEN
atOrs by direct vote of the people ap-
proved completion of the Panama
canal. and urged liberal appropriations
for Improvement and development of
the interior waterways.
Opposition was declared to the AL
drich and the Fowler currency bills,
and an emergency currency favored in
stead. The platform also opposed the
ship subsidy bill. 1t declared strongly
against indiscriminate use of injunc-
tons by United States courts without
notice to defendants, without a hear
ing, and trial by jury in proceedings
arising out of indirect contempt OF
such injunCtiOnS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-27

Many men sign adv contracts like
women catch street cars-after they
catch them they ask is this is the
car they wanted.-Rusty Mikes
Diary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-27
Scoring of Roosevelt.

Efforts of the president of the United
States TO dictate the nomination of his
successor were disapprOved as danger
Gus to our form of government, also the
fact that the last congress expended
nearly two billion dollars. which is
condemned as a "profiigate waste of
the peoples money"
The present financial stringency is
declared to furnish additional proof
that the Republican leaders are either
unwilling or incompetent to protect the
interests of the public. The old fallacy
that a panic was impossible under a
high protective tariff, and a Repub-
lican administration. has now been full
ly exploded.
Every financial panic in this conn
try since the civil war has been the
Continued on Pace 2.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
NEW ANNEX TO BE
325 FEET IN HEIGHT
Entire Block in Powell Street
Will Be Occupied by Big
CaravanSary

In the St Francis hotel annex, the
construction of which is now contem-
plated by the hotel directors, San Fran
cisco will have the tallest hotel in the
world and the largest caravansary in
America A meeting of the directors
of the St Francis hotel company has
been called for today to discuss the
plans and design submitted by Bliss &
FaviIle. the architects of the present
st. Francis hotel. The management of
the hotel and the architects declare that
the newly designed annex will be built
without doubt.
When completed, therefore, the st.
Francis will occupy the entire block
in Powell street between Post and
Geary. The capacity of the hotel will
be increased by about 800 rooms, max
ing the total number of rooms consid-
erably in excess of 1000.
The annex will run along Post street
u stories high, conformably with the
three wings of the present hotel. On
the corner a tower 56 feet square will
rise to a height of 325 feet, making it
seven feet higher than the Claus
Spreckels building. or, in other words,
the highest building in the city.
The tower is of pyramidical design.
A clock will be installed which will
be large enough to be seen at a great
distance. To those beyond visual ap-
proach chimes. valued at $30,000 will
ring out the time of day.
Completed, the Hotel st. Francis,
with 1,050 rooms, will be larger than
the Waldorf-Astoria of New York. the
Plaza or the Auditorium Annex in Chi
cago.
1t is a significant fact of the growth
of San Francisco that the Stewart
hotel, opposite the st. Francis in Geary
street, has found 1t necessary, keep
ing in line with the tourist trade, to
enlarge its present site and add so
rooms. Ground has already been broken
for the Stewart annex and construc-
ton will be rushed.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
The Paragraph Pulpit
UNITARIAN
The Total Deprayity Libel

The doctrine of total depravity is
a traditional lie that every true man
is bound to repudiate as base libel
on God and human nature Whoever
stands by the bedside of sleeping
babe and looking down upon it can say,
Il believe in the total depravity of
mankind and of that babe" passes my
comprehension as an honest man. I
would rather trust the testimony of
that baby face, and my own natural
impulse of thought, than any statement
made by any theologian or any church.
The father who believes in it degrades
his fatherhood, and the mother who
does-pnt where is ahel
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
PIONEER OF STATE
is DEAD IN VALLEJO
Plummer E. Jefferis Passes
Away at the Home of
Judge FITZGERALD

VALLEJO. Nov. 19.-PIummer E. JEFF
ferris died last evening at the home of
his son in law, Judge Fitzgerald.
Mr.. Jefferis was so years of age. He
came to California in 1852. Prior to the
civil war9he was engaged in livery and
freighting business among the gold
mines in Nevada county. He was for
many years a foreman joiner on the
navy yard.
He then entered the employ of the
Southern Pacific, with which he was
connected as an expert lumberman for
20 years. He made his home in Oak
land with his daughter, Mrs. w. ]. Cor
win, $50 Vernon street, since the death
of his wife a year ago. having come to
Vallejo last Sunday on a visit to his
children here.
He was a prominent Odd Fellow and
the funeral services tomorrow will be
under the auspices of this lodge. His
remains will be taken to San Fran
cisco and cremated in Odd Fellows
crematory.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
KAISER CONSIDERS
HIMSELF ABSOLUTE
Pledge to Chancellor Merely Re-
garded as Repetition of His
Coronation Oath
Prince Won BuIow Says Ger
many Is Looked Upon as Par
yenu Among Nations

BERLIN, Nov. 19.-The German en-
object of study from hour to hour by
the members of his household. and
they have been carefully, almost pain
fully watched during recent days. The
results of these observations, with a
partial report of the emperor's con-
versations. have been transmitted to
widening circles outside the court.
The prevailing feeling among the
members of the emperor's suite is one
of resentment at the popular outburst
against him, and there is no disposition
to sympathize with it or excuse it
The emperor is described as feeling
that he did not in the language of the
note authorized to be published in the
Reichsanzeiger, go beyond his corona
tion oath to observe the constitution.
He simply reaffirms that pledge to
Chancellor Won Bulow while under criti-
cism. which the Reichsanzeiger defines
as exaggerated and incorrect. The en-
peror regards his hereditary and con-
stitutional relation to Prussia and to
the federated states as unchanged.
committee of the party leaders of
the reichstag today decided to defer
for time the discussion of ministerial
responsibility and the recent utterances
of the emperor. When the house takes
UP the subject Prince Won Bulow will
give the reichstag his personal deduc-
tlons on his interview with the EN-
peror Tuesday.
In his address before the reichstag
today on the new measure to increase
the imperial revenues the chancellor
said that he believed the existing un-
friendly feeling toward Germany could
be overcome. Continuing on the mat
ter of foreign relations. he said that
the parvenu was not loved anywhere
and that Germany. in spite of her an
cient history. occupied the position of
a parvenu among the nations of Eu-
rope.
A number of members of the reich
stag today expressed their opinions
on the emperor's pledge. Herr Mat
thias Erzberger, leader of the more
liberal section of the clerical party,
said:
The declaration of the emperor does
not give guarantees for the future I;
the emperor's desire is to settle no.
thing"
Heinrich Ernest Mueller, leader of
the moderate radicals, said:
Our point of view is that the dec
laration does not give a guarantee for
the near future that the so called per
sonal element in politics will be sup
pressed"
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
JOHN D. GUARDS
OCTOPUS HISTORY
Abrupt End of Examination Will
Prevent Questions on Early
Life of Company
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Standard oil
delivered its master stroke punctually
at o'clock this afternoon. when John
his ruddy face, stepped down from the
witness stand
The withdrawal of Rockefeller
brought the hearing to an abrupt and
somewhat sensational conclusion, be-
cause the event was entirely unex-
pected.
At 1853 this afternoon Rockefeller
was proceeding in his voluntary narra-
tion of what has been heralded as the
unpublished history of the oil trust.
Then something happened. Rockefel-
lers lips closed in a thin line and the
seams at the corners of his mouth
frightened. Counsel announced that
they withdrew Rockefeller. His direct
examination was completed.
His withdrawal was timed to a
point where the history of Standard
oil had been revealed up to 1882
Lawyers attending the hearing said
that Trust Buster" Frank B. Kellogg,
the governments special counsel, in his
cross examination of Rockefeller,
which will begin tomorrow morning.
can not enter into events subsequent
to 1882, because the defense did not
take Rockefeller past that date.
1t was in 1882 that the trust agree
ment was entered into by Rockefeller
and his associates. Up to that time
the corporation was the Standard oil
company of Ohio. It was not the Stand
ard oil trust.
The withdrawal of Rockefeller by
the defense prevents the government,
so lawyers said tonight, from cross ex-
amining him on matters pertaining to
Standard oil after it had become
trust"
Kellogg declines to express an
opinion on this phase of the case.
Rockefeller's testimony today had to
do principally with the acquisition of
other refining companies. together with
the transportation concerns and pipe
lines, which, he declared. were necessi-
tated by the natural growth of the
Standards business.
Rockefeller was shown pooling con-
tract for the distribution of oil car
rying between different railroads, fix
ing rates on refined and crude oil and
containing a provision for drawbacks
to refners for certain shipments to
seaboard. The witness said the con-
tract was drawn to put the different
feet of this agreement was that it
would cost the man in Cleveland no
more to ship refined oil to a seaboard
than a shipment made from any other
point.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
FATHER GLEASON GOES
TO IMPORTANT MEETING
Head of Santa Clara College Is
Treated to Full Dress Re-
hearsal Before Leaving
SPECIAL DISPATCH no THE CALI

SAN JOSE, Nov. 19.-Rev Father
Richard A. Gleason, president of Santa
Clara college, has received orders from
the superior general of the Jesuit order
in the west to be present at an i'm
portant meeting of the mission con-
sultors at Spokane Wash. next week
Father Gleason started today on his
journey, and was given a rousing fare
well by the corps of instructors of the
college and the students. The latter
had prepared for production on
Thanksgiving eve The Fools BaubIe."
a play written especially for st. Fran
els Xavier's college, New York, and as
their beloved president will not be
present to witness the drama, full
dress rehearsal was held last evening.
The student actors surpass all for
mer efforts. The boys gave him a good
idea OF what the real presentation will
be week hence. AT the conclusion of
the rehearsal, he expressed himself as
iDeinG exceedingly gratified at the feel
ing and Intelligence which the students
put in their roles and especially at the
generosity with which the boys always
enter the great field of dramatic work
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
FIXING FAIRGROUNDS
FOR THE CHILDREN
John w. Sweeney Is Elected
Secretary of the Commits
sion in Charge

John W. Sweeney was elected sec
retary Of the Fairgrounds commission
yesterday at meeting held at the
offices of the board of education It
was determined to make every effort
to have the playground at the North
Beach ready in a few weeks. Every
obstacle to the free enjoyment of the
open area by the school children is
being rapidly removed The girls are
to have a separate section from the
boys. At the Seventh and Harrison
streets playground it was reported that
the work was not progressing rapidly.
but that additional efforts would be
made to give the school children of
that locality breathing space as soon
as possible.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
THINK WOMAN DRUNK,
BUT FIND SHE is DEAD
George Smith and Mario
Reeves, the Husband, Are
Held in Detinue

While returning home from work at
$50 last night, George Smith. a roomer,
at 1897 Minna street, stumbled over the
body of his landlady, Mrs. Flora Reeves,
which was lying in a side entrance.
Thinking her drunk, Smith paid no at
tention TO the woman, but later, when
her husband returned home, they fnves-
tigated and found she was dead. A
spoon and glass. the latter containing
traces of blush powder, were found
near the body.
Detectives arrested Smith and the
husband, Mario Reeves, who is lather
They were put on the detinue book, but
il is thought that their arrest is merely
a precautionary measure.
An autopsy will be held today.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
WILL REOPEN LINE TO
SANTA CRUZ IN MAY
Southern Pacific Officials In
spect Two Big Tunnels at
WrightS and Laurel
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SANTA CRUZ. Nov. .1s.-Superintend-
ent Thomas Ahern, Engineer Babcock.
Resident Engineer Clark and General
Passenger Agent Paul Shoup are here
after inspecting the two big tunnels
in the Santa Cruz mountains at Wrights
and Laurel. Shoup announced that
through trains would be running from
over the mountain route, which has
been closed since April Is, 1905 All
plans for enlarging the tunnels and
improving the curves have been per-
fected and work will be rushed
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
BUrcHER pIvoRCE TRIAL

REDWOOD CITY, Nov. Is.-The
friends Of 7. ". Butcher, the San Fran
cisco contractor, and his wife. crowded
the courtroom today during the divorce
trial in an endeavor to show which side
was at fault in the unhappy marital re-
lations OF the San Mateo park family.
Testimony was introduced showing the
cruelty Of the contractor to his wife
while they were residents of San Mateo
and San Francisco. Mrs. Butcher herself
being the star witness of the day Late
in the afternoon and following a
lengthy cross examination of Mrs
Butcher. bringing out further sensa-
tional facts. the contractor had an in
ming before adjournment, testimony be-
ing presented TO show that he had al
ways provided well for his wife
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
BIG OPIUM sMUCCIINc PLOT

MANILA. Nov. 2O.-Evidences of an
extensive plot to smuggle opium here
from China have been discovered. A
fortnight ago workmen employed on
the military buildings at Camp Stotzen-
berg discovered a quantity of opium
concealed in cement which had been
shipped from Hongkong Yesterday
opened a supposed barrel of cement
and found it to be half filed with
opium.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20

Miss Ida E. Connor, returned from New
xoEk. Latest uiIliDsEy models, 1924 PoIk ST. /.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20

DO You Want S5.00s
Read THE CALLS weekly offer on
page IL
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
Freight 10 GoIdneId

day freight service (refrigeratorl To
Goldheld and Tonopah via Southern pa
ciic and Tonopah & Goldfeld r. r.
The San Francisco call., 1908-11-20
SUCCESSFUL DEBIT

LONDON. Nov. 19.-Marion Gilhoolv
an American, made a successful debut
as a pianist at Queens hall last night.
She was assisted by Lillian BIauveit
the American vocalist
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18

SLASH CLAIMS
BILL OF 1902 FOR DR.. S. H. SAW
YERS TRIMMED TO
$2S5.75.

The board of county supervisors
yesterday cut the claim of DR.. S. H.
Sawyer Of Eldon for quarantine pur-
poses almost in two. Of the original
claim of $500, S2S5.75 was allowed.
The SIS case for measles Immigration
and disinfectant were cut down to
$3.50. Several other accounts were al
lowed in full.
The William Sackett small pox case
for which large number of bills were
submitted came in for a general trim
ming. Several of the claims were re-
jected entirely. The bills of SO for
burial and So each to J. Roberts and
George Upham for assisting in the
burial were rejected. j. S. Shive who
attended Sackett as nurse during his
illness had bill of 500 being "a days
work at SIS day. This bill was cut
in half the board allowing $3.50 a
day. The bill of w. H. Cloke, sanitary
policeman in the Sackett case for
SAT was rejected entirely.
"The bills for Sackett's burial were
rejected" said President Reinier Of
the board today, because they did not
state that the services were for
pauper and If he was such the board
is not aware of the fact. If Sackett
was pauper an order should have
been secured from township trustees
for his burial" III
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
CHANGE NEEDED
SAYS MISS NYE
SCHOOL SYSTEM SHOULD BE COR.
RECTED OF IT'S MANY
EVILS.
RIGGS HAS A PLAN
State Superintendent Believes Tha
the County Unit in Schools
Would Remedy the
Evil.
RIGGS HAS A PLAN

Miss Emma Nye, superintendent Of
schools of Wapello county, returned
from Des Moines, yesterday, where
she had attended the meeting
of the county superintendent of the
entire state. The meeting was called
at the suggestion of State Superinten-
dent Riggs who desires change in
the public school system for the better.
In regard to the state superinten.
dents ideas about the county proposi-
ton Miss Emma Nye said she did not
know how she stood on the question,
for the reason that the matter is new
one, and that she had not been suf-
ficiently advised to advance an opinion
although on the face Of it Miss Nye
said, lit looked good"
Something Should be Done.
81 do believe, though" said Miss
Nye, that something should be done
for our rural schools. There snould
be change but what that change
might be l am not just prepared to
say. One thing I do believe is that
schools having but a few pupils, less
than ten possibly, should be closed
where the children can attend another
district withouts serious inconven-
ience.'
In illustration of this point Miss Nye
pointed out that district No 3 of
Columbia township has only two schol.
ars and those are little girls SIX
years of age. One of the children
could attend district No. / and the
other district No. 2 without serious
inconvenience.
Teachers Report
The report of Miss Lora S. Byrum,
teacher of district No. of Columbia
township shows that the term opened
March 80 with two pupils both being
little girls each six years old, Doris
Emanuel and Gladys Cramblet. The
teachers report shows that reading in
a Baldwin reader is taught. There
must be spelling and writing lessons
but the report does not show it. The
teacher is receiving 1918 a month
for teaching this school being cost
of s1S.75 month for each pupil
Miss Nye says the idea of Superin.
tendent Riggs is to make the county
unit to be governed by board of
five persons who will actin combine.
ton with the county superintendent
This board will have power to discon.
time schools where it is thought that
it is policy to do so and where the
pupils may enter other schools, which
means better salaries for teachers
and longer terms of school as Whole
There will be no tuition charged be-
tween one school and another in the
county but the children are expected
to attend the school nearest to their
homes.
Miss Nye said that nothing definite
was decided upon at the state meet.
ing although legislative committee
was present to learn of the views ol
the superintendent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18

noon prior to their disappearance,
the doctor expressed feeling towards
you that were not exactly friendly.
It seemed to me that he had formed
some extraordinary prejudice. Faith
ers do this often towards the men
who love their daughters, you know.
They are sometimes apt to be over.
cautious, with the result that the girl
riage," he added. 1--WE known several
similar cases.
"Well," said Charlie thoughtfully,
that's quite new to me. had flatter-
ed myself that the doctor was very
well disposed towards me- This Is
quite a revelation"
Didn't Maud ever tell your
mot word"
"She feared, of course, to hurt your
feelings 1t was quite natural She
loves you"
eff what we fear be true, you
should put your words into the past
tense, Max was his reply in a hard
voice. Barclay knew that his friend
loved the sweet-faced girl with the
stray, unruly wisp of hair across her
white brow and gave her such a
piquante appearance. And if he loved
her so WELL was it possible that he
could have been the author of or i'm
Gated in foul and secret crime?
Recollections of that dress bodice
with the ugly stain still wet upon it
flashed upon him. Was it not in itself
circumstantial evidence that some ter.
rible crime had Neen committed?
The man befo.e him denied all
knowledge of the disappearance of
his well-beloved, and yet Max, with
his own eyes, had seen him sinking
from the house.
Had he spoken the truth, or was he
an ingenious liar?
Such was the problem that Max
Barclay put to himself-a question
which was the whole crux of the ex-
traordinary situation. If what Rolfe
had declared was the truth, then the
mystery became an enigma beyond
solution.
But if. on the other hand, he was
now endeavoring to shield himself
from the shadow of guilt upon him
then at least one fact was rendered
more hideous than the rest.
The question was one - and only
one.
Had this man, brother of his own
dear Marion, sworn falsely upon what
he had held to be most sacred his
love for Maud
What was the real and actual
(To be Continued
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
A $4,000 Fire at De Soto.

Des Moines, April 16-(Special)-
Fire at 1 o'clock this morning de-
stroyed the lumber yards of the Carr
Lumber company at De Soto. The
loss is $4,000. The corncrib of H. l..
McComb, valued at $1,000, and the ice
house of J. w. Blackman, also burned.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
The fire department had hard work
to save the residence district from de-
struction. The loss is partially cover
ed by insurance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
LEGAL.
Notice=Proof of Will.

State of Iowa, Wapello, county, IS.
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that an in
strument in writing purporting to be
the last will and testament of Mary
A. Lewis, deceased, was this day pro-
duced, opened and read by the UNDER
signed, and that have fixed Monday.
the 4th day of Nav. 1908, as the day
for hearing proof in relation thereto.
Witness my official signature with
the seal Of said court hereto affixed,
this End day of April 1908.
Geo. Phillips, clerk, district court.