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The Winslow mail., 1908-11-21
B. P. o. E.
Arizona EIkS to AStOniSh
Los AnueleS


the annual meeting to he held in
Los Angeles next year are carried
out-and there is no doubt that
they will-this territory will be
one of the most striking features
of the meeting and the Arizona
bunch will be classed as among
the real live ones.
Lloyu c. Hennin9 of the Wins
low lodge of Elks returned this
week from Phoenix, where he
met with the representatives OF
the ten other lodges of the terri
tory, one having been appointed
for each lodge. This committee,
Immediately on meeting, resolved
itself into an executive commit
tee, to be continued until after
the meet at Los Angeles. S. J..
Nicholson was elected chairman,
E. w. Spiers secretary, E. O..
Mustain treasurer.
This committee, through sub
committees, will handle the trans
portation problems, look after
hotel accommodations, etc, etc
General headquarters will be
maintained at the HOllenbeCk
hotel, and rooms for 1000 wild
and woolly Arizonans will be en-
gagged at this popular hostelry.
The committee while in session
at Phoenix decided upon the uni
form to be worn by the Arizona
Elks in their parade at Los An
geles, where they expect to have
at least 900 men in line. The
uniform will consist of a two
piece sack suit of white flannel, a
soft felt crush hat, with wide
purple band bearing the letters
"Arizona. The flap on the left
breast pocket will contain the
name and the number of the
lodge to which the wearer be-
longs. Each marcher will carry
a small rattan cane, graced with
the colors of the order, purple
and white. Purple neckties, pur-
pie socks and tan oxfords will
complete the costume. The COM
mittee has rightly concluded that
this "get up will make a strik-
ing and pleasing appearance.
An effort is being made, and it
is though it will be successful, to
secure the Indian band of PhOe-
nix, tC form a part ofthe parade.
The Arizona Elks will have in
their line of march only one float.
This will bear a number OF y Oung
ladies, representing tie states
of the union. At their head will
be Uncle Sam, and at Ills feet little
Miss Arizona beseeching him for
admittance to statehood. If
Arizona has been admitted by
that time very young girl will
The Winslow mail., 1908-11-21
Texas Wants
Exalted Ruler

Dallas, Tex, Nov. 15.-At a
meeting of the Dallas Lodge of
Elks w. H. Atwell was formally
brought out as a candidate for
grand exalted ruler before the
Los Angeles convention next
year.
Mr.. AtWell has received the in
dorsement of twentv-tw Texas
lodges, all that have acted on
his candidacy, in addition to his
home lodge at Dallas.
The Winslow mail., 1908-11-21

School books and school sup
plies of all kinds for sale at the
Post Office Store.
The Winslow mail., 1908-11-21

Babbitt Bros. will carry the
largest line of Christmas goods
ever in Winslow.
The Winslow mail., 1908-11-21
$4,000 Raised by Los
Angeles Festival

Patronage and liberality ofthe
people of Los Angeles made the
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29

Herman Perlett, director of Saw
ages comic opera "Tom JONES'" has
conducted 1888 operas during his pro-
fessional career.
Nine. Rejane, the celebrated French
actress, says that in order to succeed
on the stage, one must have the tenn
per of an angel, the figure of a Greek
statue, the face of a goddess, and
the skin of rhinoceros e.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29

knockers and ingrates keep hammer.
ing away.
Yours truly,
V. S. PEET.
Philadelphia, Pa, February 22, 'oS
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29
PEET'S LETTER.

Lake Tribune, Goodwin's Weekly,
the Salt Lake Ministerial Association
and the enemies of Utah in general,
that the people of Utah deceived the
United States Congress to obtain
Statehood; that Utah was traitor
Gus state; that Utah was commune
ty of criminals; that the people OF
Utah were ingrates, un-American and
heathenish
The Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions to cast reproach on the
United States Congress, the United
States flag and the State of Utah
made the following printed statement
in which they trail the United States
flag in the dust by exhibiting Utah as
red star on it: Zone red star on
the American flag, what does it
mean? Utah was admitted as
State with the distinct pledge that
polygamy would no longer be al
lowed, yet the President of the Nor
iiOi NhuiSH duhliltOd III DCSClllDCT,
1902, that there were So7 men violat-
ing the law What gigantic fraud
was perpetrated on this country!
Many see this now who were blind
to the deception then. The Mormons
scattered their fair promises freely
over the trap they laid, and Con-
gress with eyes fixed high on politi-
cal bait walked straight into the trap
in spite of all warnings. Congress-
man Lands eloquently said: That
star is false star, its glitter is that
of cunning deceit, of treachery and
fraud it stands for fraud, it stands
for crime and the violation of the
most solemn covenant ever made be-
tween territory and the Union.
You see it shining among the other
stars with red luster. Mars, like
it, in full of evil Potent. Mark it for
it is signal of danger"
The Salt Lake Ministerial Associa-
ton, better known as the Ministerial
Devil Fish Society, exhibited Utah
as big black blot on the map of the
United States There is hardly an is
sue of the Salt Lake Tribune but
what rroclaims to the world that
Utah was a covenant breaker The
Northwestern Christian Advocate OF
recent date contained the following:
'The investigation in Mr.. Shoots
case proved that the church officials
had wilfully deceived the American
people, when they declared that the
manifesto issued in. 1890 meant that
Mormons would abandon their poly
gamous practices as well as poly
gamous marriage.
"The Smoot investigation proved
that the Mormon officials who gave
their pledge to the nation not only
rerjured themselves, but that they
had scarcely been granted amnesty
and the Mormon church restored its
ecclesiastical life and property be-
fore they resumed polygamous prac-
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-02-29

w ~ tah'
In 1901, the Legislature of Penn
sylvania passed the following bill:
"Be it enacted, etc, that from and
after the first day of January, 1902, (.
shall he unlawful for any male per-
son and female person who are kin
of the degree of first cousin to pc
joined in marriage" This act was
signed by the Governor and became
law. IT was shown at the passage
of this bill that very frequently the
children of first cousins were of weak
minds or idiotic. One instance was
cited where bright intelligent first
cousins were married in 1898, that
some of their children, their grand
children and their great grand-child-
rem were driviling idiots. Another
instance was shown that the fruit OF
a first cousins marriage was three
fairly brihgt children and three idi-
OTIS. One pr oniine speaker said
it was a crime to.allow idiotic child
rem to be brought into the world.
In the above bill nothing was said
about the first cousins who were
married previous to 1902, they were
allowed to continue to cohabit and
bring idiotic children into the world
1t would have been unjust and cruel
n t1h OF ~ 10Th
post facto laws to separate these
first cousin marriages. AT the same
time the above bill was passed there
were more first cousins married in
Pennsylvania than there were poly
gamists in Utah when Utah was adj
mitted as a State.
Suppose that Pennsylvania had been
admitted in 1902, with the anti cousin
marriage law in the enabling act,
would the Salt Lake Tribune waive
the red flag of anarchy and the Min
isterial Association get red mouthed
and blatant and proclaim that Penn
sylvania had broken its covenants to
obtain Statehood because it allowed
married first cousins to cohabit and
bring idiotic children into the world.
1t would be much worse to cry
against Utah than Pennsylvania for
everything else being equal, the child
rem of rolygamists are just as bright
and intelligent as those of monogram
lists.
The Rev. Josiah McClain, the sue
cessor of the meek and lowly pre-
variacator, the Rev. S. E. Wishard,
had the following SANDER in the Her
aid and Presbyter of January 22,
1908
you ask about the solution of our
problem (the Mormon) I answer it
is not yet settled, and it never will
be so long as the people in the East
allow the President of the United
States, backed up by the Senate, to
keep in power here this reasonable
hierarchy without protest"
The Rev. George L. White, super
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EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY.
Salt Lake City, Utah,

J"'""iy -, iSoo
To the Officers and Members,
Utah Lodge No. I, I. o. o. F., City
Brothers.
We your committee appointed to
prepare and present to this Lodge
suitable expressions of sympathy and
coincidence, and the sense of loss that
the members have sustained in the
death of Brother John w. Hughes,
respectfully submit the following:
WHEREAS, death, the most un.
wecome of all visitors, almost like
thief in the night, has unbidden
made its call, and removed from earth
and its associations, our beloved Bro
Their ]. w. Hughes. We pause for
moment in our deliberations and
wonderingly ask why the hard hand
of affliction has been so heavily laid
upon his home, our Lodge and Our
community. Taken at a time when
his wife and children needed him
most, and when giving the largest
measure of love and service to his
family and fellowman makes it all
the more difficult for us to under
stand, and tune our hearts and sim
cerely say Father, not my will but
Thine be done"
Finite and shortsighted creatures
that we are, we know not why the
Infinite Creator has decreed it so,
and we pray that He who holds the
universe in the hollow of his hand,
and permits not sparrow to fall to
the ground without his knowledge
and notice, may in his own good time
and way remove the veil and make the
light of His countenance to shine
upon us.
To the widow and the children of
our late Brother Hughes we extend
our sincerest sympathy and such aid
and comfort as we are able to give,
and pointing to the star of hope, bid
them look up and press on for:
Emigrated is his portion,
In the grave his badly lies,
Dead he is not, but departed,
For the Christian never dies.
We ask that his report be made a
part of the Lodge records, copy sent
to the family and copy published in
the Utah Odd Fellow.
Fraternally submitted,
EDWARD PEARCE,
M. M. BEAVER,
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thSy Hdu given W TIC HdtlOIl tlldll IL
it had been soiled rag, useful for its
purpose, then to be cast aside"
Whenever any newspaper or per-
son states that Utah broke its coven-
ant with the Government by allowing
polygamists to retain and live with
plural wives they married six years
before Utah became State they
either wilfully or ignorantly tell a
falsehood. When Congress admitted
Utah into the Union of States it
studied the polygamy phase very
carefully, and it did ordain in the
enabling act passed in 1894, that poly
gamous or plural marriages are for
ever prohibited not one word about
polygamous cohabitation, and Con-
gress knew the difference between
"polygamous or plural marriages" and
polygamous cohabitation.
1t was brought to the attention of
Congress that the court had defined
that polygamy or polygamous mar
riage was the act of marriage or the
marriage ceremony, and that poly
gamous cohabitation was living with
plural wives after marriage. If Con-
gress had intended to stop polygam-
Gus cohabitation it certainly would
have had sense enough to insert it in
the enabling act. Congress also knew
that no honest and honorable Mormon
would leave or forsake plural wife
that he had vowed to love, cherish
and forever protect. Congress also
knew that thousands of Mormons
were sent to the penitentiary because
they would not promise to forsake
their plural wives and children; Con-
gress also knew that not one Mormon
would have been .sent to the peni-
Tertiary if he had been vile, traitor
Gus and heartless enough to break
the covenant he made with his plur-
al wife. Congress also knew that the
polygamous Mormons would contin-
tie to live with their plural wives al
ter Utah became a State. Congress
also knew that Mormon polygamists
would not forsake their wives if
Utah never became a State.
Arthus L. Thomas as Governor of
the Territory of Utah in his report
to the Secretary of the Interior dat
ed October I, 1892, 1.-TWO years be-
fore the enabling act) refers to the
subject on page 81, he stated:
at will probably sometime, it may
be years before the practice of unlaw-
full cohabitation will finally cease"
Tom Tiff, c. c. Goodwin, Wesley
Hill, A. T. Schroeder and other Utah
haters took pains to tell Congress
that nothing but death or prison
would ever stop a Mormon from keep
ing his covenant with his plural wife,
and under such conditions Congress
left out the words polygamous CO.
habitation from the enabling act, SO
that Utah could honorably come into
the union of states. Whatever laws
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Vaudeville at ornheun,.

Judging from advance notices re-
ceived, superior bill of attractions
will be given at the Orpheum next
week. Here is the program:
Picchiani Troupe, Italy's greatest ac-
robats; Jules and Ella Garrison, in AN
Ancient Roman" Jordan and Harvey.
in Two Sons of Israeli" Anna Wood
ward. prima donna soprano; Czinka
Parma, cymbal virtuoso; Terrell
Brothers, NcOmedians and sensat iOnal-
lists; the kinodrome and orchestra.
As headliners come the Picchiani
Troupe. There are eight people in this
company, FIVE women and three men.
They come heralded as Europe's great
est acrobats. Their work is said to be
of the most highly finished order, in
fact, wherever they have appeared they
have been proclaimed the most wonder
full acrobatic performers in the world
OF an entirely different nature is the
act of Jules and Ella Garrison. Theirs
is a Roman burlesque travesty. There
have been other turns of a similar kind
seen here, but this one is said to be in
a class all by itself. Il is a real bur
lesque on ancient Roman life and hab-
its. and is one of the most hilarious
sketches on the vaudeville stage.
Then there is Jordan and Harvey,
who present an interesting, entertain
ing and original act entitled, 1.-TWO
Sons of Israel" which has made good
everywhere.
Miss Anna Woodward is one of the
features of the bill. She is a soprano.
and made a reputation for herself with
the Pittsburg band as sOlOist. She is
now in vaudeville, and her Offering i'm
this weeks program will be one of the
most popular vocal acts ever presented
in the theatre. One of her encore
is a song called @,Samland,"
which is said to be one of the most
bits of music heard in a long
time
BY way of variety, FerreIl Brothers,
who are billed as comedians and sensa-
tionalists, promise to give an enter
tainment both novel and unique, an act
that is said to have provoked as many
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15

ing name of THE Gingerbread Man"
It is the work of Frederic Ranken and
A Baldwin Sloane. both with much
standing to their credit in the annals of
light and pleasant entertaining.
In the story Of the work 1t is said to
hold much better together than the
majority of its class, although dealing
altogether with the realms and crea-
lures of imagination. Kris Kingle is
prominent in the proceeding, as are
Little Jack Horner, Margery Daw, Sim
pie Simon and other interesting indi-
Viduals who step out of the story book
into flesh and being. OF course such
personages need special territory for
their explorations, and this has been
furnished in providing Santa Claus
Land, Pastryland, and the Aerial Sugar
Palace, all locations calculated TO stir
the scenic painters fancy.
The Sugar Palace recalls that an i'm
portant part of the plot is where Jack
Horner sees Princess Sugar Plum car
ried off in an airship to the home of
King Bum by one MachaVelius Fudge.
Before a union is effected between the
rightful lovers, the forces of Fairyland
and the nursery are In a terrible COM
motion, and plenty of novel business is
introduced for the general delectation
of the audience. Particular stress is
laid upon the elegance of scenic effect
and the costumes. One incident of
which much is expected is where Kris
Kingle, in his proverbial costume, with
silver reins and a golden sleigh, drives
a team of pretty reindeer girls of the
chorus. Another scene incident claimed
to be especially novel, is a fire-spout-
ing dragon, who keeps itself busy help
ing out the conspiring elements of the
story. Among the cast are many nota
BILE players, such as Evelyn Frances
Kellogg, Nellie Nice, Mabel Day. Annie
DreSsler. Fannie MARITIME, Amy TSrepp,
Lulu Borden, Fred Nice, Ross Snow,
Garrick Major, James McElhern, Percy
Matson, Lutte Vrohman, Bert Lovey,
and great beauty chorus of we'll
trained voices. This with an augmented
orchestra under Fred Walz. makes a
complete organization numbering sixty
two people; and the same production
that marked its run at the Liberty the
atre, New York City. will be presented. !
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THE SALT LAKE herald: SUNDAY. MARCH Is, 1sos

Bondman" here as the work of Came,
twenty years after it's publication; for
in 1888, when the novel first appeared.
he was an avowed enemy of the thea
tire. Ten years later, expressing him
self as of the belief that he was per-
forming an ethical duty, he dramatized
his novel Of THE Christian" Since
then the theatre has proved an attrac-
tive field for him, for he followed that
play with q dramatization of 1.-The
Eternal City" in 1892, and that, In
turn, with a dramatization of 1.-The
Prodigal Son. in 1904.
THE Bondman" was dramatized by
Caine for production last season as the
annual autumn play in London's huge
theatre, the Drury Lane, where it was
Staged on Sept. 20. 1906 with magnifi-
cent and massive settings and splendid
detail, and with a cast notable for its
array of well known names. 1t ran
in Drury Lane till forced Off in mid
December. by the advent of the holt
day pantomime, but was transferred to
the Adelphi theatre, where the run
continued until May 81, 1907. 1t was in
the closing weeks of that London run
that William A. Brady saw the play,
looked upon Jason as a good role for
Mr.. Mackaye, and imported it, together
with the production devised for Drury
Lane.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
painting the Town."

The new three-act musical spectacle
presented by Charles II. Yale is an
nounced as the attraction at the Salt
Lave theatre next Thursday, matinee
and night. The play is an unusual,
bright and clever one, and the story
being of the bright side of city life,
full Of hustle, hustle and go, construct
ed for laughing purposes only, met
with unusual success in every city
where it has\peen presented. The mu-
sic is new, striking and original, while
the scenery and costumes are of the
most elaborate description, with many
new and striking mechanical effects.
The company, headed by those very
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15

funny comedians, Halliday and Leon
ard, includes such we'll known artists
as Miss MaEie King, Miss Madeline
Buckley, Miss Lillian Herndon, John
L. Guilmette, John Weick, Fred Borne
man, Edward T. Connolly, Harry Hew-
lit, Bert Herbert, the three Sisters
Lynch and a large ballet and chorus.
Charles H. Yale for the past twenty
five years has given his entire atten-
ton to the presentation of large scenic
and costume productions, notably THE
Sea King" ''The Evil Eye" 1.-THE Dew
lis Auction" The Twelve Tempta-
TONS" and other attractions, all of
which can, without exaggeration, be
claimed to have won not only the en-
tire confidence of the theatre-going
public, but to have scored more than
usual success. Mr.. Yale is the producer
of Painting the Town." and he as
sures the public that the play is
bright, clean and enjoyable one, in
terspersed with tuneful melodies and
musical novelties. interpreted by clever
artists, with sumptuous accessories in
brilliant costuming and scenic sur
To this end nothing has
been left undone that liberal outlay and
ability could insure. A special matinee
will be given Thursday.
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"The Power That Governs. ,

1.-THE INOwer that Governs" the new
and modern American drama in which
CreSton Clarke will be seen at the Salt
Lake theatre on Monday evening. came
into being as .ho direct result of a de-
Asire express by Mr. Clarke for a
strong. virile vehicle of the present time
liz which ne could be seen in twentieth
century garments. That wish was eX-
pressed by Mr.. Clarke some three years
ago in the presence of his wife adelaide
Prince, who. to the actors surprise,
Immediately offered to furnish what he
desired, if she were given the time and
opportunity. Miss Prince had done
some creditable stage writing earlier in
her career, but her husband had no
idea that her ambitions were along such
lines. The idea, however, struck him
faVOrably. as il did later his manager.
Jules hurry. So, some few weeks af-
forwards, with the purpose of gathering
material and familiarizing herself with
the atmosphere which she intended to
iIeulcate in the drama, Miss Prince left
fef Mexico. There she took up her res
l idence in the Sierra Madre, and for
nearly two years, while her husband
was achieving unusual success in
Shakespearian repertoire and as Mon
sieur Beaucaire," she kept steadily at
work. Returning to New York at the
close of the last theatrical season, she
offered her manuscript to her husband
and to Mr.. hurry. The play IN man
uscript form appealed TO the manager
and the actor as possessing many sit
uations of unusual strength, dialogue
that was no less than brilliant, and an
atmosphere that, while being typically
and forcefully American, was different
TO that of any other production made
in late years. Seen at rehearsal, Miss
Princes work impressed them more
than ever. and several weeks ago when
asked their opinion of it. Messrs.
Clarke and hurry coincidently declared
'Sheir belief that it will prove to be the
Great American play"
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Opium Ring" when at the Academy Of
Music, New York, for six weeks. met
with pronounced success from it's nov
city in construction and absolute orig
inality in ideas. The play was writ
ten by Charles e. Blaney. As can
be surmised from its title, the
atmosphere is distinctly Chinese, and
therefore thoroughly oriental in tone
and action. The King of the Opium
Ring" is claimed to be the first play
put on the American stage that re-
fleets Chinese character as it is. The
action of the piece takes place in San
Francisco about 1880, and deals with
the methods employed to get opium in
to the United States free of duty The
scenery shows Dead Mans Dock with
the Golden Gate in the distance: the
escape of the smugglers' yacht, with
the revenue cutter in pursuit, firing
shots from a rapid fire gun; Chinese
underground opium den; the Fong
Quay club, and the Palace saloon on
Sacramento street: the heart of China
town, brilliantly Illuminated on Chi
nese New Years night during the cele-
bration of the day, and the assembly
room of swell Chinese club in Frisco.
where, during the festivities. vaude-
vile acts are introduced by clever spe-
cialty artists: Top Duy Wing troupe
of Chinese actors, who lend local color
to the production.
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1.-THE GINGERBREAD Man"

1t is only fair that the sterner sex
should be given a chance no matter
what the particular business in hand
AS a rule. for years past. the domain
of musical comedy, or at least a large
section, has been given over to the
girl" From capital A to capital z,
the dictionary has been ransacked to
find adjectives qualifying the girl in
some of her numerous incarnations.
Now comes the change. A new work
of this school will be presented at the
Salt Lake theatre next Tuesday and
Wednesday nights and Wednesday mat
inee that bears the curious and from
the comedy standpoint, now unpromis-