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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
FEWER WORKING HOURS.

Pittsfield. Mass, March pa reduc-
ton in working hours went into effect
today in the two largest manufacturing
plants i'm this city At the plant of
the Stanley General Incandescent Elee-
trio company, employing 1900 men.
about 10 per cent of the employees will
continue TO work on full time. while
in certain departments the men Will
work but three and a half days week
and in other departments -four and a
half days.
At the mills of the Eaton. Crane e.
Pike Paper company. the LOO opera
tives went on schedule of thirty-nine
hours a week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24

VI FOHSStudH FOiu'
be sentenced TO Imprisonment at hard
labor for life in the state penitentiavy.
The agreement of the jury was a
great surprise. as it was the general
opinion that the jurors would be IN
able 70 come to an understanding.
When the jury announced that IT was
ready to report. after forty-eight hours
of apparently futile deliberation, Sullj-
van was out at the state peniteRtiarv.
He had not been brought to the city
and county building owing to the i'm
preston that the jury would not be
able TO agree.
At 3:15 o'clock Warden Pratt was IN
formed that Sheriff Emery and Depu-
ty Sheriff Sharp were on their way out
to the prison for the accused man. AT
3:45 o'clock Sullivan. guarded by the
sheriff and his deputy, started from
the penitentiary for the city and county
building and reached Judge Arm
strOng's court at 4:15 o'clock. AS soon
as he took his seat the jury. which
had been awaiting his arrival, filed in
to court. There was an expression Of
relief In the faces of many Of the jU-
Tors- II was plain that they felt that
their long task was nearing an end.
FatefuI Slip of Paper.
When the jurors were all seated
Judge Armstrong asked if a verdict had
been agreed upon. Foreman Hyrum II.
Evans rose in reply and said:
If il please the court, we have"
Judge Armstrong instructed Bailife
Butler to take the verdict. II was then
handed to the Judge, who read it care
fully.
There was ar intense silence in the
court room while Judge Armstrong;
eyes were upon the document in his
hands. The little slip of paper con-
tanned the written words which told the
fate of the desperate, and every man in
the court room watched the judge in
tently. as though striving to guess the
tenor Of the lines he was reading. Like
the others. Sullivan kept his eyes rivet-
ed upon the slip of paper
He cOaxed a smile to his face during
that trying moment, but the pallOr OF
his cheeks and the feverish CLEAN Of
his eyes told their own story. The
smile upon his lips could be held there.
for he had probably rehearsed his man
Continued on Page 2.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24

Justice dissenting opinion expressed the view that the de-
Minnesota and North Carolina marked
new era in relationships the and the federal
between the federal and state courts He ontended
of the railroad in the Minnesota IN
reality against the state and he dwe at length the
permitting subordinate United States court order the I'M
sovereign state test law of that
III this can be DONE said why similar injunction be
put on grand jury district attorney any criminal proceed
ing?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
TWO SALT LAKE MEN
VISIT WASHINGTON
lspecial to The Herald.l

Washington. D. e March 23.-W. d.
Livingston and James A. Melville of
Salt Lake city, are here in connection
with proposed irrigation project at
Bittner, Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
FIND SULLIVAN
GUILTY, SUGGEST
A LIFE SENTENCE
Jurors Reach First Degree
Murder Verdict, but Rec
Ommend Mercy.
e
TAKE 48 HOURS TO
REACH AGREEMENT
DENNY, WHO HELD OUT LONG,
EST, DECLARES HE WAS
NOT INTIMIDATED.

,.:.s
= State of Utah VS.. Joseph Suili- :.
= van.-We, the jury impaneled in =
= the above case. find the defendant =
= guilty of murder in the first de- =
= gree as charged in the informa- =
= ton, and we recommend that he =
= be imprisoned at hard labor in the :.
= state prison for life :.
H. II. EVANS, Foreman. =
Unexpectedly reaching an agreement
yesterday afternoon, the jury in the
case of Joe Sullivan. the highwayman
who murdered Policeman Charles s.
Ford, filed into Judge Armstrong;
court at All O'Clock and through FORE
man HyrUm H. Evans. handed IN
verdict of murder in the first degree.
with a recommendation that Sullivan
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
COUNCIL TAKES
4 HAND IN WAR
ON DEMON RUM
Ordinances Offered Require
Midnight Closing and Pro-
hibit All Private Rooms.
WILL AFFECT SALOONS
AND LEADING CAFES
LICENSE OF PRODUCE PEODLERS
is REDUCED FROM $50
TO $50 A YEAR.

Three drastic ordinances regulating
the liquor traffic were introduced in
the council last evening.
One provides for the closing of all
saloons at midnight and for keeping
them closed until o'clock in the morn
ing. Councilman Martin fathered this
ordinance.
The other two stipulate that no sa-
loon or restaurant license shall be
granted if the place has within it or
in any manner connected with it any
wine room, card room, lunch room,
booth or other enclosure or place,
rooted or open, with or without doors,
curtains or screens of any kind. If
this is passed it will mean the abol-
ishment of the private rooms in the
leading cafes, as we'll as those
in the restaurants and saloons whose
notoriety caused the Introduction Of
the ordinances. Councilman J. ].
Stewart is responsible for these meas
ures.
All three ordinances We're read in
full and referred to the municipal laws
committee.
There will no doubt be considerable
opposition to these measures, especially
from the reputable restaurants and sa-
looms. and a lively session OF the com
mittee is expected next Thursday even
ing when the matter comes up.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24

In-the course of his opinion Justice
Brewer laid down the following general
proposition:
1T must be remembered that rail-
roads are the private properly of their
owners; that while from the public
character of the work in which they
are engag ed the public has the power
to prescribe rules for securing faithful
and efficient service and equality be-
tween shippers and communities yet in
no proper sense is the public general
manager. 1t follows that railroad cont
panies may contract With shippers Tor
q single transportation or for success
i've transpoTtations. subject though il
may be to a change of rates in the
manner provided III the interstate
commerce act.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
DECISION IN THE
MEAT RATE CASE
Supreme Court Declines to
Uphold Contention
of Chicago.

Washington. March 23.-The case of
the interstate commerce commission VS..
the Chicago Great Western Railway
company, known as the meat rate case
and Involving the right of the company
to reduce the freight rate on livestock
products without making similar re-
duction in the rate on livestock itself.
was decided by the supreme court of
the United States today in favor of the
company. The suit was instituted in
the interest of the city of Chicago, il
being alleged that the change had
worked incalculable hardship to Chi
cago by diverting shipments of live
stock from that city to St Paul and
to Missouri river points The inter-
state commerce commission found that
the change of the rate on one article
without a corresponding change on the
other was unlawful, but the courts re-
fHsed to uphold that view.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
Sewer Bond Fund Dry.

The final estimate in favor of James
Kennedy on the intercepting sewer was
referred to the finance committee. The
amount is S24,S99.76 and when it is
paid the sewer bond fund will be more
than exhausted. The only reason for
holding up the payment is that the fl
nance committee has grown to such an
all important body that nothing that
contemplates the expenditure of money
can be passed without reference TO if.
The contracts for sewer extensions
Nos. 1872 and 10 were awarded to
Strange & Mcguire
An ordinance prohibiting the Utah
Light & Railway company from car
rying baggage and express was intro
duced by Fernstrom and referred to the
municipal laws committee
The engineer reported that this same
company had not removed its wooden
poles from Second South street. as Or
dered year ago. ana he said that the
company had not even ordered its side
street poles This went to the engineer
ing committee.
The ordinance reducing the license to
produce peddlers from $50 to $50 a year
was passed unanimously
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
.SULzER CLAIMS
CREDIT FOR ACT
Legislation Being Thought
Good Rebounds to Glory
of Mr.. Mann.

Washington. March PA scene
somewhat out of the ordinary was en-
acted in the house of representatives
today becagse of a charge made by Mr..
Mann alIinois) that Mr.. Sulzer CNew
York; had put in the Congressional
Record what purpOrted To be a speech
delivered by him last Saturday, but
which Mr. Mann charged was not the
one delivered. 1t all had to do with
Mr. Suffers claim that he, and not
Mr. Mann. was the author of the legis-
Iation which brought the department
Of commerce and labor into being. A
resolution offered by MI. Mann 10 ex-
plunge the printed speech from the rec
ord was adopted by a strict party vote,
but not until after the house had been
treated to a bitter denunciation of Mr..
Mann by Mr.. Sulzer and several lively
Tits between the latter and the
speaker
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24

Some circulation statements,
like boarding house hash, have
some things in them put there
through sheer nerve.-Rusty
Mikes Diary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
suffers Opinion Of Mann.

MIR. Sulzer characterized Mr.. Mann as
a 'pettifoggy lawyer, mean and con-
temptible. for which he was called to
order by the speaker with the admoni-
ton that such language could not be
used toward a member. Twice after
wards in seeking to justify his claim of
authorship he was interrupted by the
speaker with a similar warning. An
ticipating that his speech would be
ruled out, and with the view of getting
il back into the record. Mr. SulzeF re-
sorted to a piece of strategy by trying
to have the speech read and later tn
ieavoring to read it himself but the
speaker insisted that he could only ad-
dress himself to the resolution to ex-
punge.
Smarting under the action of the Re-
publicans, Mr.. Sulzer for the rest of
the day posed as an obstructionist. lie
objected to all unanimous consent
propositions and halted the proceedings
of the house for a considerable time by
a point of no quorum.
After passing number of measures
relating to the District of Columbia,
the house at 4:01 p. m adjourned out of
respect to the memory of the late Sena-
tor William James Bryan of Florida.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
Object to Garbage Smoke.

A number of residents living near
the garbage crematory in the north end
of the city protested againstfthe burn
ing of garbage on a vacant lot near
that Institution. This is done because
the garbage men are generally too in
different to go TO the trouble of using
the crematory. The petitioners say
that they do not like TO breathe the
smoke from the burning refuse of the
city. The sanitary committee VIII
look into the matter.
Citizens of Superior addition the
home of Councilman Fernstrom. want
to know why they have not been ia
vored with the five arc lamps order
in by the council some time ago You
have also graded our Main street. says
the petition, land since that time it has
been much worse than ever before"
This rather caustic criticism of Street
Supervisor Raleish's ability went to the
improveme committee.
The recorder announced that suffi-
Client protests had not been received to
defeat sewer extension No. 1S5 and the
council ordered him to advertise for
bids for the work. The job viii cost
about S55,000 and comprises all uncOm-
pleted work in the district bounded by
Main and Tenth East and Fifth and
Ninth South streets.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
STATES CANNOT MAKE
RATES FOR RAILWAYS.
Highest Court of the Land Affirms Decisions in
Cases From North Carolina and
Minnesota.

Strong Dissenting Opinion by Justice Hara-Attorney Gen.
eraI Youngs Opinion of the Probable Effect.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24

The average woman is much
more interested in shopping news
than she is jim theatrical news
W. D. Fellows.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
JurlsdIctIOn Of Lowor Courts.

JURISDICTION OF Lower Courts.
The laws providing rates for trans
pertation of passengers and freight in
1fhe two cases under consideration have
ybeen held by the courts below TO be so
low as 10 be substantially confiscatory.
and should therefore not be enforced
until after further trials. The courts
had jurisdiction to make such an order
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25
EDUCATION IN POLITICS.

In view of the constant complaint of
the voter that the system of choosing
men for public office in the United
States is needlessly cumbersome, an
analysis of the English system of cleo
lions written by Edward Porrftt in the
Atlantic Monthly is of interest. Mr..
Porritt, an Englishman now resi-
dent of this country, finds that Amer
lean politics. much to the detriment of
public interests, is left to the domina-
ton of the machine" and that such
campaign documents as are made pub
lie relate rather to men than to issues.
He jleads for a greater simplicity
and more emphasis upon the educa-
tional method.
The writer contrasts the lively
popular interest which an election
stimulates in England with the relative
indifference which is manifested by
the better class of voters in the United
States. He attributes this indifference
largely to the fact that in America the
educational method of campaigning is
not sufficiently employed. In England,
he points out, the billboaros and the
public press contain, prior to an cleo
ton, a full statement of the attitude
of the candidate to the questions
which he will be called upon later to
consider. There is no equivocation,
no vagueness in his promise. Further
more, If he has served the public be-
fore. he must base his claim to re-
election upon the actual service he has
performed. This form of publicity is
supplemented by letters sent through
the post.
In concluding, Mr.. Porritt expresses
the opinion that the municipal spirit,
which is characteristic of provincial
England, will not develop In America
to the same degree until there Is less
of the machine" less of exclusive par
tisan activity and more of mass meet
ings and of other educational infiu-
ences-until, in a word, interest Is
made to center in the issue rather than
in the triumph of one party machine
over another.
This desirable end is being achieved
now to a certain extent in the states
which have adopted and put in effect
the primary system and by which the
influence of the machine" is being
gradually reduced to minimum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25
AYHlWKER JOTS

Fifty-two children Of school age in
Ottawa are married. This is where n
lot of divorce cases are sprouted. is
the wise comment of the Wichita Eagle.
A Coolidge man ran away, and this
Is his wife's only comment: Home is
more peaceful since he is gone, the
work is lighter and the children and I
have better time. ALL I regret to
lose is the money he earned"
The Winfield Free Press, which for
merly set it's editorials in two column
measure, has gone back to single col
umn. Now someone may accuse the
Free Press of becoming narrow in it's
views, thinks Charlie Blakesley.
Winfield mother was telling her
little daughter about the beautiful
Garden of Eden. where Adam and Eve
lived surrounded by everything heart
little girl said: Mamma, when the
Adamses move let us get that placer"
An Atchison merchant, according to
the Globe, tried to sell a vacuum bot
tie to a Missourian. 1T will keep any
thing hot or cold y hours he explain
ed. II don't want one." said the Mis-
sourian. IF / have anything worth
drinking, 1 don't want to keep it 70
hours
The hotelkeeper at Palco has dis
covered a sure method of getting rid
of bedbugs. He sprinkles the beds and
then sets fire to it. Not long ago his
scheme worked so successfully that
the loss to the business part of the
town was $25, 900.
A man named Childe at Wichita
claims to be able to take three glass
fruit jars. fill them half full of some
mixture or combination of acids, chuck
in some lead and zinc. and produce
good fall Of rain. Some sort Of gas
is produced by the Jars and their con-
tents and when 1t ascends cold cur
rent is formed in the upper regions.
Condensation and rain will follow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25

tons like those in Springfield The
Augusta Chronicle is sure that the
Springfield mob consisted Of boys and
roughs as the negro-hunting mobs in
the south usually do. The Charleston
News and Courier believes that the race
problem Is becoming a national not a
southern one. and that the North Will
have more and more of this trouble as
the negroes spread. 1t renews form
er suggestion, that the deportation OF
some millions OF negroes, which 1t
holds not to be impossible. will help
solve the problem. which will require
centuries IL left to itself. 1t utters the
taunt that mo member of the SPRING
field mob will be hanged" Booker T.
Washington notes that within the
past sixty days twenty-five negroes
have been lynched in the United
States, Of whom only four were even
charged with criminal assault upon
women"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25
THE FLEET IN AUSTRALIA.

The welcome which the battleship
fleet got in South America, cordial and
generous as it was. has been exceeded
by its welcome in Sydney, the capital OF
New South Wales. an important
state of the Australian common
wealth. From the governor general of
the colony. Lord Northcote. to the
humblest citizen, the note Of welcome
is spontaneous and fraternal.
The diplomatic world will see q
special significance in Australia's en-
thusiam for the Yankee battleship
fleet. Since the British nation has be-
come alarmed by the growth of the
German sea power, the diplomacy of
Downing street has been directed to
cultivating the friendship Of the great
naval powers. The alliances with
France and Japan, and the constant
endeavor to earn the good will of
the American people make 1t plain
that King Edward is following the
policy of Pitt during the Napoleonic
times.
The alliance with Japan, like the
similar alliance between France and
Russia. is an alliance between nations
rather than the peoples.
The British people and the French
people would much prefer alliances
with nations more similar racially and
politically, but the circumstances
leave them no alternative and they
make the best of it.
In the case of the United States
there are no Interior thoughts in the
British mind. Politically, historically,
a., m Iar toll 11a fxxyrs
nations are as one. The policy of the
United States is opposed to alliances
of any kind whatsoever. 1t seeks the
friendship of all nations and the
enmity of none. Nevertheless, the
rise of a new and great power on the
Pacific is a matter that presents prob
lens unforeseen by the fathers. The
Pacific is as much the home waters
of the American fleet as the Atlantic,
and the transfer of that fleet to the
Pacific was intended to emphasize this
fact.
The pessimists who predicted that
the dispatch of the fleet would lead to
war with Japan, have proved false
prophets. Even before the significant
welcome by the Australians, Japan
was profuse in assurances that it con-
templated no repetition of the attack
on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur.
Its constant aim is to live in amity
and accord with the great western re-
public that America which gave birth,
so to speak, to the new Japan.
The cruise of the battleship fleet is
the great diplomatic triumph of the
Roosevelt administration. AS Admiral
Evans says, twenty battleships in first
class condition and manned by
competent crews who know how to
shoot, will do more for the cause of
peace than all the Hague conferences
ever held and Admiral Evans knows
his business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25
HOW THE SOUTH VIEWS 1T.

OF course negro killing in a northern
city has special interest for the South.
And the newspapers In that section
treat the recent terrible affairs at
Springfield. ILL.,, with much restraint
with real or implied rebuke to the
northern press for it's harsh comments
on southern outrages. The Mobile
Register says that in the South all
other negroes than the guilty one are
safe, but that in the North all negroes
look alike to the mob. and innocent and
guilty are slaughtered. The Times
Democrat of Richmond points out the
duty of each section to maintain order
at home and not to abuse another Sec
ton. The Charlestown Union thinks
that in the North there is labor jeal-
ousy between the races which infiames
popular feeling under provoking condi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-25
QUAKER MEDTTATTONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Popularity isn't always worth the
price.
The best season for baIlooning is fly
time.
The rolling stone never makes an
uphill fight.
Many man who makes himself at
home isn't self-made man.
The linguist may be able to master
all the modern tongues except his
own.
1t sometimes happens that the up
per crust of society hasn't much dough
underneath.
Nell-"Miss Antique has quite a coi-
lection of porcelain" Believes
and she shows It every time she
smiles"
Most industrial enterprises fiuctu-
paper says his business remains sta
tionery.
Blobbs-"I think we all like our
friends to be perfectly frank" Slobbs
YES, especially about other people"
Sillicus-"I never made a serious
mistake in my life" Cynicus-"Don't
boast. You are still young enough TO
get married"
Wig-Dr. Slashem seems to be quite
a stickler for correct attire" wagg-
Eyes. / don't believe he would per-
form an operation unless he wore a
cutaway coat"