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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
LETTER WRITTEN BY TAFT GETTING FULL KNOWLEDGE
President-Elect Takes Occasion to
Endorse Roots South Amer
lean Policy.

Washington, Dec. pa letter OF
President-elect Taft made public to-
night announces that he will continue
the Roosevelt policy toward Latin
America. The letter, addressed to Di-
rector John Barrett of the Information
al Bureau of American Republics, says
II have always regarded the visit of
Mr.. Root to the Latin-American re-
publics and the other measures taken
at his instance TO cultivate their good
will and to increase as much as PCS
sible the extent of their commercial
relations with this country as enc of
the most important branches of the
policy of Roosevelt administration.
1.-The wonderful material growth of
the republics of South and Central
America and the progress they are
making to a higher cultivation fully
justifies, if any justification We're
needed, the special support given by
our state department in the establish
ment of a bond with our southern
neighbOrs. 1 rejoice greatly at the
cordial manner in which they receive
and reciprocate our advances
Il expect to continue the same policy
toward the Latin-American so en-
tered into by Mr.. Root, and shall
count my administration fortunate if
further steps can be taken and new
measures adopted to- secure a closer
and mutually more beneficial CONNER
cial association and to awaken a
greater International sympathy than
even now obtains
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
UNITED STATES THE GREAT SUGAR
CONSUMING COUNTRY OF THE WORLD

Washington, Dec. 2c-Figures gathered
by the bureau of statistics show that the
average American citizen consumes half
his own weight in sugar every year, and
Uncle Sans sugar bill averages million
dollars q year The total consumption of
sugar in the United States in 1907, as
shown by a report issued by the bureau
which is the latest year for which statis-
tics are available, reached 7.0S9, 667, S75
pounds.
Calculating this enormous total at an
average retail price of 5iz cents per
pound the report states. we get total
of 1872 OG0 600 as~its cost to the consumer
or more than a million dollars for eacn
Of the 800 days of the year
The statement shows that 21.3 per cent,
or 81 .000.0eo pounds of the sugar con-
sumption of the country was of home pro-
Guction; III per cent, or 1.24 900. 90
pounds. was brought from our insular pos
sessions, and the remaining 81 per cent, or
1. So. $4,000 pounds, came from foreign
countries Forty-th-ee million pounds was,
the aggregate of the expectation of sugar
from this country.
The United States sugar record for 1871
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
DEATH IN THE COLD BLAST
c. E. Chilcoat, Blacksmith at Park
City, Frozen While on His
Way Home.
Especial to The HeraIdO

Park City, Dec. 20.-About 40 this
morning c. Z. Chilcoat was found
frozen to death. ChiIcoat was a black
smith at the Keystone mine and had
been down town last night. and started
to walk back to the mine 1t is sup
posed the man got tired and sat dow.
to rest and probably went TO sleep. His
frozen body was found this morning
near Rocky Point by the teamsters go
ing to the Silver King Consolidated
mine. Chilcoat was man of about So
years of age and has been working at
the Keystone mine since the Bird of this
month. He has no relatives so far as
known. No funeral arrangements have
as yet been made.
Harry Hall was painfully injured yes
terday while at work at the American
Flag mine by being hit on the head with
q rock
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21

was unique in that the quantity of that
pIOduct imported from foreign countries
was larger than ever before: the duan-
tty brought from our island possessions
was larger than in any previous year. the
quantity produced at home exceeded tina
OF any other year; the quantity exported
was larger than in any year of the past
decade, and the per capita consumption
was the largest ever recorded, an average
OF SO pounds for each man. woman and
child of continental United States
The production of beet sugar for the
first time exceeded the production of cane
sugar. the product of the year of cane
sugar being 544.0O0000 pounds, while the
production of beet sugar was 96S0O00oO
pounds.
The worlds production has practically
doubled in the past twenty years, having
grown from II .0Jo. 000,e9O pounds in 1887 to
2,00O, 10000 pounds in 1907. and while the
United States consumed about IS per cent
of the total worlds production of 1887, il
consumed % per cent of the greatly in
creased production of 1907. Beets now sup
ply one-half Of the grand total produced.
while twenty years ago they supplied but
about one-third Of the total product
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
CABINET BUILDERS BUSY PICKING
OUT SUITABLE TIMBER FOR MR.. TAFT
Hitchcock and Knox Sure of Places in the Next Presidents
Official FamiIy-DoIIbt as to the Others.

considered Wickersham more adaptable to
the purpose of that department
He said, however, that he would like
an able lawyer to head the department of
commerce and labor. Republican poll
ticians are urging the claims of Missouri
a prominent part in the campaign as a
member of the executive committee of the
national Republican committee, the man
tie would fall upon him naturally if a
place is given to that state.
Other names heard in connection with
that department are those of William
Lobe, jr.. secretary to President Roose-
welt; Oscar s. Straus, who has now a
portfolio. and George A Knight of Cali
fornia 1t is not believed here, however,
that two places viii go TO the Pacific
coast.
Herrick Mentioned.
Probably the most difficult place re-
naming to be filled is that of secretary
of the treasury. Among the Ohio men
mentioned are former Governor Myron T..
Herrick and Representative Burton. The
cordial relations that have existed be-
tween Mr. Burton and Mr.. Taft are not
credited by friends of both in this city
and in many quarters Mr.. Burton is still
regarded as possibility for the second
position of importance in the cabinet.
For secretary of war, Charles Magoon,
now governor of Cuba. is heard frequent
iy. but the generally accepted idea is that
SIR Taft has not vet made up his mind
20 appoint him He is said to be looking
for a man who has maae a record as a
business man.. William Loeb. jr- is also
mentioned for secretary of the navy. -as
is also Charles II. Thompson of New
York There are some close friends of
Mr. Taft also who think that Secretary
Newberry will be retained.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21

Washington. Dec. 30-Cabinet builders
at the national capitol and those who have
moved to Georgia as a part of the en-
tOurage of President-elect Taft are sue
ceeding in placing on the anxious bench
public men in ali sections of the cOun-
try who have been looked upon as as
pirants for portfolios or whose qualifica-
tons have been urged by admiring friends
The announcement of the appointment
of Frank H. Hitchcock to be postmaster
general followed by that of Senator Phil
ander c. Knox to be secretary of state
George w. Wickersham of New York is
the choice of Mr. Taft for attorney gem
eral, indicates that the slate is being made
up rapidly and that an announcement of
the entire cabinet may be expected before
long.
Wright VIII Lose His Place.
From a discussion of the cabinet slate
among Mr.. Taft's close friends in Wash
ington, who would not be likely to in
dulge in idle gossip concerning it, there
seems TO be a reasonable certainty that
in addition to those named Secretary Will
son will continue for year or more as
the head of the agricultural department:
that Secretary Garfield will retire from
the cabinet; that Judge Richard A Bal
linger of Seattle. Wash. will be given a
place probably that of secretary of the
interior: that Luke E. Wright will retire
from the cabinet. and again take a post
in the diplomatic service; and that an
Ohio man will be given the position of
secretary of the treasury.
Within the last few days the name of
Charles Nagel of Missouri has been dis
eussed in connection with the secretary
ship of the department of commerce and
labor 1t is known that one time Taft
thought very strongly of naming Nagel
as attorney general. but that later he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
WITHOUT PROVOCATiON.
John p. FenneII of San Francisco
Shot by Patsy Magee.

San Francisco. Dec. 20.-John p Fen
nell. chief Jailer at the county jail and
shot in the head and seriously wounded
early today by Patsy Magee. a former pu-
gilist. Fennell is reported by the physi-
he was taken after the shooting, TO be
resting easily tonight. and it is believed
he will recover unless blood poisoning
sets in
street in company with Florence O'NeiIl
a state assemblyman. and ]. J. Sullivan. a
former policeman, when approached bv
Magee. The latter struck O'Neill in the
face and when Fennell came to O'NeiITs
assistance. Magee shot the chief jailer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
MUZZLE FOR PULITZER
NOT YET DISCOVERED

:. Baltimore, Dec. 20.-Attorney ::
:. General Bonaparte, speaking to- ::
:. night of the suit which the presi- ::
:. dent has urged against Joseph ::
:. Pulitzer of the New York World, ::
:. said that it is still under cOnsid- ::
:. GRAFTON, and no definite line of ac- ::
:. ton had been agreed upon. 1:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
WORD FROM sPERRY.

Washington. Dec 20.-Rear Admiral
Charles s. Sperry, commanding the
American battieship fleet. has cabIed
the navy department that the fleet &C.
parted today from Colombo. Ceyion, for
Suez.
The fleet is on the longest single leg
of its worlds cruise through the Indian
ocean, the Caribbean and Red seas.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
FIRST TRAIN ON NEW ROAD.

Rivulet. Mont. Dec. 20.-The first train
over the new branch of the Chicago. Mil
waukee & St. Paul came here from Mis-
soiIla Yesterday. The special consisted of
but an engine and a caboose and carried
as passengers President Williams, Chief
Engineer Pearson and Resident Engineer
Daughy. who made an inspection Of the
road as far as steel has been laid west of
MisSoula.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
FAILED TO TURN
OVER THE MONEY
Western Union Operators Ac-
cused of Systematically
Robbing Company.
BIG HOLE IN THE RECEIPTS
MOSTLY ALONG
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.

Portland, Ore, Dec. ga systematic
investigation by the Western Union Tele-
graph company carried on during the past
six months has disclosed an organized sys-
tenn of theft among railroad operators on
the Pacific coast, by reason of which the
telegraph company has been robbed
of an amount estimated at several hun
dred thousand dollars, according to a
statement made tonight by an official
of the company, who is in charge OF
the investigation.
Complaints made in several instances
that messages filed at certain stations had
not been sent or delivered and the falling
off OF receipts at other places on railroad
lines caused the Western Union officials
to institute thorough investigation. A
secret service was organized and il was
discovered that in some instances 80 per
cent of the money received for messages
filed at railroad offices never reached the
telegraph company. The kilograms, with
but few exceptions, were properly trans
mitted and delivered, but all record of
the dispatches so far as reports and book
keeping pertained, had been destroyed.
Following the discovery and proof of
thefts, warrants were obtained for
the arrest of several operators in the
state of Washington, and il is alleged by
officials of the company that at least one
of the arrested men has confessed. The
arrested men will be brought to trial
shortly after the first of the wear
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
CARNEGIE IN WASHINGTON.

Washington, Dec. 20.-AndreW Carne-
gle arrived here today to appear to-
morrow as a witness in the tariff hear
ing on the steel schedule before the
house ways and means committee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
Next Sunday, Dec. 9th
The Big NeuU Years
Edition
of The Herald UiU be published

It will contain exhaustive wteup of the varied indus
tries of Utah. Idaho and Nevada will tell of the commercial
agricultural and financial progress of 1908 far
the inermounain west and Salt Lake City parcu
lar Only $4,000 will be printed and the edition
be exhausted rapidly newsdeaers and book stores a
vsed to place their orders advance There will be ad
the price and all regular subscribers will the
paper usual
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
EARTHQUAKE in FRANCE.

Puy, NOtre Dame, France, Dec. 90
An earthquake shock today threw the
population into a panic, but did no ma
terial damage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
CALLED BY DEATH.
Especial to The HeraId.l

Especial 70 The HeraId-)
Pocatello, Ida. Dec. 2O.-Harold Fred
erick. the eight-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick P. Holt, died at Pocatello,
Ida, Dec. 20, of typhoid fever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
CASTRO IN HOSPITAL.

Rerlin. Dec 3.-President Castro of
venezuela was today removed TO Dr. Is
raeI;s hospital 10 undergo a course of
treatment and dieting
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
Carnegie to Appear.

Andrew Carnegie has been sub
pOenaed to appear Monday before the
ways and means committee of the
house to testify in regard to his pub
lished arguments in favor of the abo-
litiOn of the tariff on steel and iron
products. His appearance is awaited
with interest.
Several senatorial contests, more par
ticularly those in Ohio and Pennsylva-
MIA for the seats which will be va
Gated by the expiration of the term of
Office of Senator Foraker and the ele-
walton of Senator Knox to be secre-
tary of state in the Taft cabinet, will
become increasingly acute before long.
Taft and Bryan will both figure this
week in the dispatches, the president
elect in his vacation at Augusta, Ga,
where he must continue his prepara-
ton for his inauguration in March; Mr.,
Bryan in a series of public addresses
in Pennsylvania. the most Interesting.
perhaps. being that TO be made tOmOr-
row night at a dollar dinner" at
UniontOwn-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21

In business remember the old
game OF see-saw that you played In
boyhood. If you are lightweight.
take the long end of the plank
Brains.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
Few Men Involved.

L
graph company. stated tonight tnat tlre
alleged peculations of the railroad op-
orators in the northern district of his
division had been under investigation
Tor some time, but appeared to be con-
fined TO a few men on the Northern Pa
cific railroad
Only one arrest has been made so
far, that of an operator at RitzvilIe,
Wash, who has been held TO answer foi
trial in the superior court for appro-
priating to his own use money he re-
ceived for kilograms" said Mr. Miller.
This man has confessed and implicated
half a dozen other operators. Just how
far the conspiracy extends we have not
ascertained, but 1 think that the loss
to the company is small and the pecu-
lations seem to be confined to the
Northern Pacific line.
THE operators transmitted the mes
sages given them all right but failed
to account to the telegraph company
for the money received for the teIe-
grams. This was done through an I'M
derstanding or conspiracy between GER
tain operators, by which the Office re-
ceiving the telegram failed to check
the amount against the sending office,
neither Office taking any account of the
messages in their bookkeeping and re-
ports for the company, thereby destroy
ing all records of the business and di-
viding the amounts received, though the
kilograms We're generally properly
transmitted and delivered. The legal
department of the company has taken
charge of the matter"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21

As man without some original
itv is a nobody, so manufactured
article without distinctiveness has
no standing in the eyes of the buy
er-John V. Steger-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
Turkish Parliament.

The new Turkish parliament, mark
centuries of despotism in that country,
continues its session full of unknown
possibilities: the Russian duma like
wise: the japanese national legislature
opens at Toxic on Tuesday.
At Santiago de Chile, on the day be-
fore Christmas. will be held the pre-
liminary session of the Pan-American
Scientific congress. Venezuela con-
tinues in the serious posture of being
at the point OF war with Holland,
while her absent president, Castro, is a
center of wondering interest. as the
stories alternately picture him first as
an anxious seeker after medical atten-
ton, and again as deliberately dining
and winning as an hOnored guest abroad.
Thornton Jenkins Hams will resume
tomorrow his place as a defendant in
the court at Flushing, L. l., where he
is under trial as alleged joint principal
with his brother, Captain Peter c.
Hams, jr. in the murder of William z.
Annis The boy Hazel. at Toledo. is
der of his mother.
In Wang Chang. the Korean. is in
like position in San Francisco, charged
with killing Durham White Stevens,
and the group of alleged might riders"
are before judge and jury charged with
lynching Captain Quentin Ranken, at
Reelfoot Lake, Tenn, last October.
Sentence likely viii be passed Thurs
day upon Abraham Ruef. recently con-
victed of bribery in San Francisco.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
Much Money Secured.

According to the information gathered
by the telegraph company systematic CT
fusion in the rObberies existed among GER
tain railroad operators. In some offices
the thefts, il is asserted, aggregated sew
eral hundred dollars month, and officers
of the company believe that during the
past year the total of the sums stolen will
exceed $4,000 Only railroad operators
are said to be involved in the robberies
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-21
WARSHIPS ONCE
MORE EN- ROUTE
Next Stopping Place of Atlantic
Fleet at Mouth of the
SueZ Canal.
RUFF SENTENCE THURSDAY
CARNEGIE TO TALK ABOUT THE
STEEL TARIFF To-Day.

Christmas week opens with the pros
pect that the news will be of spon-
taneous character, most of the fixed
and scheduled events having gone over
until 'after the holidays" Congress
has adjourned until Jan. 4. and the
lively developments which have been
so numerous during the past fortnight
or more at the national capital seem
likely to suffer a pause during the last
days of 1908.
The battleship feet is in the Indian
ocean on its way from Ceylon, where
it has for several days been resting ii
the harbor of Colombo; its next mark
of homeward progress will be regis
tered at the entrance of the Suez canal.
Meanwhile the Pacific cruiser squad
ron continues its southerly cruise on
the way from Magdalena bay via
Panama to Chile. The two fleets are
due to arrive again in the American
waters on Feb. %. at opposite sides
of the continent, the battieships at
Hampton Roads, where they will be re-
viewed by President Roosevelt; the
cruiser squadron at Panama, on the
return trip from the South Pacific.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-05

he will get what the Republicans here
tofore have soidly counted upon and
got. The Scandinavian vote. AS they
go, so does the state and 50 per cnt
of them are Republicans.
(e) He is a representative Demo-
crat in that he has not SO far subordi-
mated money to principle. He has not
been defendant in trust estate mat
tiers; neither has he had to take to the
lecture platform to make living, or
run a newspaper in advocacy of his
own political ends.
Il believe Mr.. Johnson will carry
the next election if nominated by a
larger majority than any nominee
since the days of Lincoln With a
strong eastern man on the ticket he
should carry New York, the entire
south, the nothern tier and western
states, excepting, probably, Colorado.
During my recent visit east close
ly discussed the presidential possibil-
tiles with many business men in both
industrials, banking and mining and
without exception | found them favor
able to Johnson.
Il remain respectfully yours.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-05
POPULAR YOUNG LADY
DIED HERE MONDAY
Miss Hattie Waldo, an Employe of the
Old Phone Company. Succumbs
After Three Days Illness With
Congestion.

Miss Hattie Waldo, 16 years cid, a
popular young lady who was employ
ed by the Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone Company here for the past
several months, died at No. 106 Viz
ginia street Monday afternoon, after
three days illness. Her death was due
to congestion. Miss Waldo's body will
be taken 70 Farrell, Ark, her former
home, this morning for interment She
leaves her widowed mother and sew
eral other relatives. Miss Waldo was
one of the most accommodating, ami
able and bright young ladies in the
phone company's employ here. She
made many friends by her courteous
treatment of patrons and her charm
ing manners Her death is indeed sad
and her untimely demise has cast a
gloom of SORROW over her many
friends and her devoted relatives are
grief stricken.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-05
THE YORK APPEAL
CONTEMPT CASES
Ask the Supreme Court at Little Rock
to Set Aside the Fines OF Chancel-
Tor Elliott For Contempt OF His
Court. Aggregating $4,000.

In an effort TO have fines set aside
aggregating $4,000 imposed upon
them by Chancellor John NJ. Elliott in
the Jefferson chancery court here
some months ago, Captain j. B. York
and son, Robert York, of this city,
yesterday filed petitions in the SUI
preme Court at Little Rock, asking
that the Judgment of the chancery
court be quashed
The petitions grew out of the fam
Gus Bluff City Lumber Company DIFF
ferences, Which were aired for some
weeks in the courts here and at Lit
tie Rock and which We're finally set
tied when John F. Rutherford, one
of the contrasting stockholders in the
big concern. and D. H. Duncan took
over al the properties Of that COM
pany.
Captain York and his son We're fined
for contempt of court by Chancellor
Elliott. Captain York was fined $10,-
900 and Robert Yorks punishment was
fixed at $4,000. Chancellor Elliott, at
the request of the Rutherford inter-
ests. issued an injunction restraining
the Yorks from holding a meeting of
the stockholders of the company with
view to throwing the big concern in
TO the bankruptcy courts. This in
i,,n iScnaI Tbila "a fac
was still pending in the chancery
court. Regardless of this Injunction
the Works held the meeting in Little
Rock, after being served with the writ
OF injunction, and Judge Marshall l..
Stephenson of Helena was named as
receiver by Judge Trieber He was
dismissed, however, when the Yorks
sold their interests 10 Rutherford and
Duncan. Judge Elliott cited Captain
York and his son 10 show cause why
they should not be fined for violating
an order OF his court. They stated
that their attorneys had advised them
to hold the meeting, informing them
that ii was not a violation of the
courts order Chancellor Elliott held
that his order had been violated and
that the defendants were in contempt
of his court. He then assessed the
fines, and the petitions filed in the
higher court at Little Rock yesterday
is practically an appeal to the higher
authority.