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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Freezing Out Silver Dollars.

Mr.. keifer offered an amendment to the
paragraph of the bill appropriating SEQ
900 for the transportation of fractional sill
yer coin so that the clause should read
fractional and other silver coin" the
change being intended to assure the free
transportation of silver dollars from the
treasury or sub-treasury to circulation
centers lin accordance with Secretary
Sherman's construction of the law of
1875"
After half-hOur of debate on a point
of order, the amendment was rejected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
FOUL MURDER At
PORTLAND, ORE.
Pawn Broker Shot and Then
Beaten to Death With a
Ratchet.

Portland, Ore. May 1.-Nathan Wolff. a
pawnbroker and jeweler, who has been
in business in Portland for twenty-five
years, was murdered by robbers tonight.
Wolff evidently was first shot in the neck
and then beaten to death with a Ratchet
His face and head were literally hacked
to pieces. There is no doubt that rob-
berry was the only motive for the crime.
The pledge" safe and cash drawer had
been rifled. but the jewelry safe appar-
emily was unmOlested. Wolff carried a
large stock of diamonds. 1t is believed
the robbers secured jewelry and money
to the amount of 81 100
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02

Success in business is made up of lit
tie things. There is scarcely a bust
ness man who has not been called on
at some time or another to meet a
critical situation. Those who have sur
mounted the obstacle are the men
whose daily and hcr9iy lives estab-
lished confidence.-A. Fl. Revell
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
SUCCEEDED IN
ENDING HIS LIFE
Pennsylvania Man Aided by
Bull Terrier in Shutting
Off Mortal Coil.
F0lLED IN TWO ATTEMPTS
THIRD TIME THE WATER CLOSED
OVER HIM.
F0ILED IN TWO ATTEMPTS

ing two attempts early today to COM
nit suicide, although a vicious bulldog
used its best endeavors to prevent the
rescuers from pulling the would-be sui
eide from the water, Henry p. Turpin.
aged 80 years. succeeded in drowning
himself in the old Pennsylvania canal
at SteeltOn, near here. He spent the
night drinking. Early this morning, &C
companied by his bull terrier, he went
to the canal and plunged in. Two men
saw him in the water and made an
attempt to reach him, but the dog
sprang at them, biting a piece of flesh
from the wrist of one of the men. The
dog was thrown aside and held by an
other man, while the other two swan
TO Turpin and dragged him ashore
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Discovered by Waterman.

The crime was discovered by the night
Waterman, who noticed that the custom
airy light was not burning. He felt the
door. and it opened to his touch Just at
this juncture Mrs. Wolff alarmed at the
nOn-appearance of her husband, arrived
on the scene. Suspecting that something
was wrong, the Waterman told Mrs
Wolff to remain outside while he inves-
tigated. Turning on the store lights. a
horrible scene confronted him Blood was
everywhere, and on the floor in a back
room lay VOLTS terribly mutilated body.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Still at Lakewood.

Mr.. Cleveland remains at the Lake
wood hotel in Lakewood, n. j., although
the hotel closed for the season ten days
ago His wife and children are the only
other guests. A physician and nurses are
in constant attendance. and a small staff
of servants has been retained to look aft
er the Cleveland family.
Efforts to confirm the Evening Worlds
statement that Mr. Cleveland is suffer-
ing from cancer and that his condition is
critical are unaVailing. owing to the ex-
treme reticence observed by all connect
ed with the case since the beginning of
the former presidents illness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Slight Clue.

The only clue found on the premises
was a blood-stained collar and necktie.
The crime was not discovered until sew
eral hours after it had been committed.
and the police believe they will have a
hard time locating the murderers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Doctor Refused to State.

When Dr.. Bryant. who has been Mr..
CIeveland's physician for years, was
asked whether it was correct that his
patients illness had been diagnosed as
cancer of the stomach he replied:
MIR. Cleveland is all right. There is
nothing / can tell you of any interest"
At the Lakewood hotel today it was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02

Surplus e. ..........-...........-..S4 S,Ull9l
Considering that the balance sheet in
cIudes a deferred asset Of unCOlleCted
taxes prior to the year 1907. almost equal
TO the surplus. and that this amount. al
though good, is unavailable. it will oe
Continued on Page 2.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-02
Auditors Balance Sheet.

he auditors balance sheet of revenue
DIS Dec. 81. 1907. shows a revenue sur
IS of Si9OI7.5l. being the excess of as
IL aIfAinc d tilrf do
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
WAR nv n OROCCO
NEAR SETTLEMENT
French Government Notified Neeotia.
tions for Peace Have Been
Made by the Ruling
Sultan

By Associated Press.
r PARIS, March 1.-THE government
at last believes there is d good pros
pect of definite settlement of the
trouble in Morocco. This will be based
upon the submission and elimination of
Mulai Hatid..,the insurgent sultan.
While negotiations with Mulat Hafid
have not yet actually begun, General
D'Amade, the French commander in
Morocco. telegraphed that supplications
for peace have been received from Hafid
and his leaders. The general reports
also that French troops are camped
outside the gates of Settat, and that
the pacitication of the entire Chaouia
region is proceeding rapidly.
MADRID, March 14.-Oficial infor-
nation has been received here from
Morocco of the report that Mulai Hafid,
the insurgent sultan, has submitted
peace proposals to Abd-el-Aziz, the sui
tan of record. IT. is rumored that an
arrangement may be mode by which
Mulai Hafid and his lieutenants will be
furnished money for an indefinite pill
grmage to Mecca: in other words, that
they will be paid to leave the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
SLA YER OF
PRIEST STABS
JAIL TRUST Y
CONVICTED ITALIAN TRIES TO
ESCAPE
Under Sentence of Death in Denver,
Giuseppe Ala Wieids Razor
6lade-ls o1erpowened
by Guards
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo. March 14.-An at
tempt was made today by Giuseppe
ALA, the condemned murderer OF
Father Leo Heinriehs, to escape from
the county Jail, where he had been
under guard day and night lie made
use of a razor blade, with which he
slashed the neck of "trusty" who was
cleaning his cell and then made a rush
to get away.
The 'strusty," despite his cut. rushed
after ALA and pinioned him and he was
quickly overpowered with the help OF
Deputy Warden Carpen.
When returned to the Jail after his
conviction on Thursday Ala was
stripped of everything and complete
new outfit was given him except his
socks. which We're turned inside out
examined and returned to him. He
was then placed in the cell for the con-
demned which had been thoroughly
swept and cleaned and supplied with
new bedding.
This cell had been occupied by an
Italian named Bernati, who accom-
panied ALA to Denver from New York,
and has been held as suspect. After
Alias conviction Bernati was removed
to another part of the jail. Bernati
was released from jail last night, and
as he passed Alias cell he spoke to
the condemned man in Italian. 1t Is
surmised that Bernati may have left
the razor concealed in his cell and told
Ala where to look for 1t when he
passed out last night.
The "trusty' has a wound two and
a half inches long on his neck. but as
the jugular vein is not severed he will
recover
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
PEASANT BLACKMAILS
THE DUKE OF BAVARIA
Former CompeIs Motorist to Pay
Large Sum for Alleged Injuries
to Horse-Case Set for
Trial in Munich
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
MUNICH, March 1.-THE hearing OF
the suit \ brought by Duke Francis
Joseph of Bavaria against farmer
named Hofmaire, who recently was
successful in blackmailing the duke
when his highness was automobiling in
the vicinity of Hamberg, has been fixed
for next Monday. The duke considers
that the blackmailing was prear-
ranged.
Hofmaire, according to the duke, saw
the automobile approaching along the
road, embarrassed his horse which was
attached to a farm wagon, and pur-
posely inflicted a serious wound upon
the animal.
When the duke came up he stopped
to ask what was wrong and offered
his assistance. Hofmaire thereupon
accused his highness of having collided
with his wagon and caused the injury
to the horse. A crowd of peasants
then appeared and collected around the
motor car and threatened the duke, re-
fusing to let him depart until he had
paid over to Hofmaire all the money
he had in his possession and promised
to forward to the farmer an additional
sum of $40
The prince regent of Bayarie ad-
vised the duke to bring suit against
Hofmaire, particularly as there was
reason to believe this method of black
mailing was becoming popular.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
ST. LOUIS UNION STATION
THREATENED BY FLAMES
Big Depot Damaeed-Woman Passen.
gers, Frightened, Gained by
Guards-DriVer Killed in
Collision
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS March 14.-The St. Louis
union railway station, one of the finest
in the world, was threatened with de-
stluction tonight by fire, resulting from
an explosion of a gas tank under a
passenger car, and only quick work by
flremen saved the great train shed.
AS it was, eight passenger coaches
were ruined and a section Of tine shed
was destroyed. The total damage is
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000.
Trains We're preparing for departure on
several of the stations twenty seven
tracks when the wooden ceiling of the
tlain shed caught fire and scores of
passengers, many of them women, be-
came panic stricken and leaped from
th4 cars. AS they>ran from the blazing
are behind them they found the gates
leading to the midway closed. a squad
OF policemen held the frightened pas
sengers back while train caller stand
ing near the burning cars with a
negaphone assured them there was no
danger.
Assistant Fire Chief Thomas w.
Itucl{er was dangerously hurt and his
driver Harry Doerr, was killed as the
result of a collision tonight between
Rucller's buggy and a street car while
making a run to the fire.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
AERIAL NAVY IS
ADVISED BY MAXIM
NO GREAT LOSS OF LIFE WILL
RESULT
Flying Machines viii Be Principally
Valuable as Scouts, but Many
Tits in the Air Will
Take Place
By Associated Press.

l5y Associated PreSs.
NEW YORK, March 14.-Expressing
the belief that an aerial navy will be
a step in the final conquest of war,
Hudson Maxim, inventor of explosives
and first maker of smokeless powder in
this country, speaking tonight at the
second annual banquet of the Aero club
of New York al the st. Regis, declared
that we must have armaments in order
to enforce international law, and that
we need a stronger navy
Mr.. Maxim surprised his auditors by
declaring that the Japanese had re-
Gently purchased of a steel company at
Newark, n. j., 5000 tons of rife barrels
-'rifies enough to arm 100000 men,"
Most of the rifles, the speaker stated,
We're in the hands of the Japanese
troops.
Mr.. Maxim, speaking of the part the
dying machine would play in war. said:
Some terrible things have been pre-
dicted for the flying machine as war
engine. 1t is comforting to know that
no very great loss of life or property
would result from dynamite dropping
from flying machines, for the reason
that it requires confinement to work
very wide destruction.
Half a ton of dynamite dropped
upon the four-inch deck of a battle
ship might kill a few men, wreck some
of the superstructure and bend the
deck a bit. but the destruction would
not be widespread and the crew below
would not be injured.
Dropped on coast Notifications, the
damage would be negligible, half ton
bombs dropped into the streets of a
large city or on top of the great build :
ings would wreck few foundations,
break a lot of glasses and kill a few
people
THE flying machine will have very
great use in war as a scouting craft
for the purpose of locating an enemy
and inspecting his position, but the
enemy will have his aerial pickets out,
too, and there will be many a tilt in the
air between the warning craft"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
SIX GIRLS IN
SUICIDE PACT,
FIVE DEAD
OUT OF WORK, UNHAPPY, THEY
END LIVES
Story of Remarkable Agreement Is
Told by Only Survivor, Who Is
Saved After She Tried
to XIII Herself
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March IA startling
story of how Ave young girls who came
to New York from St, Paul little
more than a year ago died, each by
her own hand. was told today by IL
year-old Helen Baxter after she had
made a vain effort to end her own
life.
Helen said she was one of the party
OF six girls who came to New York
to make their way in the world after
receiving course of training IN a
business school in the Minnesota city.
She turned on the gas in her room
last night, but was found this morning
and her life was saved. When asked
why she had tried to end her life the
CIR. astonished the ambulance surgeon
and others who had crowded around by
her story of the fate of her friends.
why should / not be allowed to
die?" she asked. MY five girl friends
who left St Paul with me year ago
after we left school have all committed
suicide. | want to die as they did and
Join them
WAS it suicide pact?" she was
asked.
"My five friends are all dead and
they died as they chose was the reply.
The girl refused to give the names
of any of her girl friends. A short
time after their arrival i'll New York.
she said, one of the girls married. She
did not live happily with her husband
and killed herself a few months after
ward.
In the meantime another girl had
beer seeking employment without sue
cess. She sought death and found 1T
by the same way her friend had.
The next TO go in the same manner
acc ording to Helen's story, was one of
ttla girls who had fallen to a mans
false friendship. With three of their
number dead the three that remained
worried constantly, and when hard
times came and employment was hard
to find, two of the three voluntarily
followed their friends to the grave.
That left Helen alone.
Then a man came into her life. The
man was represented to her as inn
mensely wealthy, she said, and for a
time she was happy. Then he sudden
ly sailed for Europe. She had nothing
more to live for after that, she said,
and decided to join her five friends in
ceath. Helen said her father is dead,
but her mother still lives in st. Paul.
Snc refused to give her mothers ad-
dress When i was found that the girl
would recover she was taken to a
police station and locked up and
charged with having attempted suicide.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
ELEVATOR BOY RISKS
LIFE AND SAVES GIRLS
FROM DEATH BY FIRE
Brave Youth Operates Car Until Five
Loads Are Taken from Upper
Stories--Ali Escape
Unhurt
Ry Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 14.--One hum
dred girls employed in the candy fac
tory of Arthur Essing at $50 Pearl
street were at work today on the fourth
and fifth floors when fire was discoy-
cred in the bottom of the elevator
shaft, preventing their exit by the
stairways.
While some of the male employees
fought the fire, Henry Coch. the ele-
vator boy. ran his elevator to the top
floor and said to the girls in as cool
manner as he could assumes:
There is a fire i'm the basement.
Maybe you had better let me take you
down.
Reassured by his eoolness, the girls
We're saved from panic, and Coch took
five elevator loads of them to the first
floor before the flames reached such a
height in the elevator shaft that he was
compelled to abandon the car. On his
last trip the fire burst into tho car and
burned his hands.
The girls who were not taken out by
Coch rushed 10 the roof and the fire es-
capes and reached the ground in safety.
The fire consumed tons of candy, and
the factory, a fiye-story building, was
destroyed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
WAITING FOR MR.. FRoHMAN

"When / was very young girl
said Miss Louise Closer, the actress,
'I had wild desire to go upon the
stage. so I left school in Boston, came
to New York and went to Charles
Frohman's office on Broadway.
"Is Mr.. Frohman IMP I asked of
thet office boy.
"No, he is not was the reply.
".Well,' L thought, I'll wait until
he comes
1.-The boy became absorbed in the
book he was reading and apparently
was quite unconscious of my presence.
Fifteen minutes passed; half
hour passed. and | grew weary of
waiting. But / thought of the long
distance had come, and at the same
time recalled an old axiom l had once
learned: Reward comes through
constancy of purpose I repeated this
again and again until an hour and a
half slowly dragged itself out. Finally
I could endure the waiting no longer.
With as much courage as l could COM
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
LAWYER AND LANpLADY

The woman was in the box, and she
was very nice-mannered, respectable
woman, who kept a cheap boarding
house, and it was the desire of one of
her guests to be dishonest that had
brought her to the court to make him
pay his board bill.
How old did you say you were,
madam" inquired the lawyer, with
no reason on earth, for an elderly
landlady is no more anxious to lose
a board bill than a young one.
'I did not say, SIR" she responded,
flushing to the roots of her hair.
''Will you be kind enough to say,
madam"
IT'S none of your business"
objection sustained" smiled the
judge.
'Um," said the lawyer, rubbing his
chin "How much did you say the
amount was the defendant owed your"
Three pounds"
"And for how long was that?"
Three weeks
That's one pound week, isn't it?"
YES. sir"
"rhree weeks at one pound a week
Is three pounds. l believe you said?'
''Yes. sir"
The witness was patient, but her
temper was not improved under the
strain.
isn't that an extravagant price to
pay for board in your locality,
madam" inquired the lawyer severely.
He didn't pay it, sir" answered the
worm, beginning to turn.
The lawyer gave little start of sur
prise then became indignant at tho
very thought of a witness talking like
that.
Don't be facetious, madam" he
said, assuming a tone of warning
This Is a serious matter: ] have
asked If your prices were not ex-
orbitant, and you have seen fit to
answer lightly, madam. Now, madam,
1 ask you in all earnestness, II you
mean to tell this court that your
prices are moderate and that If should
come to your house to board you
would charge me one pound week?
Answer directly, madam" and the
barrister squared his shoulders ana
assumed an imperial manner.
The witness was not at all abashed.
mo, sir" she said, simply, II would
-.
'I thought not I thought not in
terrupted the lawyer, bending over
and rubbing his hands.
"No. SIR" continued the witness, Il
should not charge you at all. | should
make you pay in advance. e."-Hd-Bits.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
YOUNG MARK HANNA
EL0PES AND MARRlES
Youth Wins Bride Despite Strenuous
Opposition of Her Mother.
Welded at Night by
Justice
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BRIDGEPORT, Mass, March IA
Mark A. Hanna, son OF Daniel Hanna
and grandson of the late Marcus A.
Hanna, and who is freshman in the
Sheffield scientific school at Yale uni
versity, was married to Miss Adele
Pratt Of Elmira, n. Y, last night by
Justice of the Peace Hull.
Mr.. and Mrs, Hanna left for New
York after being married, a note being
sent to Mrs. Pratt, the brides mother
who is visiting at the Sanford resi-
dence
1t appears that when the young
couple first came here they went to a
lawyers office to be married. but hav-
ing no license and the lawyer not being
a justice. they We're instructed what
steps to take. In the certificate both
gave their ages as 81
Friends here say that it was their
understanding that Mrs. Pratt did not
wish her daughter to receive the at
tentions of Mr.. Hanna.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-15
GRAIN GROWING INTERESTS
OPPOSE PROPOSED BILLS
BY Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, March l4.-Repre-
sentatives of the grain-g growing, ship
ping and exporting interests from the
principal cities of the country met here
IN conference today under the auspices
of the Grain Dealers National associa-
tion to consider matters pending in
congress, providing for the establish
ment by the secretary of agriculture of
classification for the grading of grain,
the appointment of federal inspectors
and prohibition of the use of other
grades.
Considerable opposition has developed
among the grain trade to the proposed
plan, for the reasons that there will be
required a large number of inspectors:
that it is impossible to have one set of
grading rules apply to the entire coun-
try and the merchants consider the
proposed interference in their business
BY the government as unwarranted.