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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP
A RAILROAD BRIDGE

New York, May 2O--An attempt was
made last night to blow up the new
bridge of the New York, New Haven
81 Hartford railroad over the Harlem
river at the West Farms road. This
fact became known today when u
valise containing 10 sticks OF dyna-
mite was found floating in the river,
and when the Waterman on the bridge
told the police that he had been set
upon by 1--WE men last night when ne
caught them In the act of placing n
charge Of dynamite under the struc-
ture The Waterman succeeded In
beating the men off and they fed
when he fred several shots at them
The valise containing the dynamite
fell into the river.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
ADJOURNMENT OF
CONGRESS MAY 27

Washington, May 2L-lt was stated
at the Capitol today on apparent good
authority that Congress would not adj
journ carrier than Wednesday, May q.
and that there was a possibility Of the
session being prolonged until June l.
The unsettled condition Of several inn
portant measures which are now In con-
ference between the two houses and
the debate that exists as 10 the flnal
disposition Of the public buildings bill
have combined 10 make Impossible an
adiournnnent this week. while Speaker
Cannon was not willing today 10 make
amy statement Tor publication, Y Is
known that the house leaders are PLAN
ming TO get away some time next week
If possible.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
r,rIY DEAD BODIES REMOVED
Every Car in Inflated Train,
except One, Was
Telescoped.
se,a,ly Ground TO Pieces--Every
Passenger Killed or Iajured-opcn
switch Causc--Ncar Antwerp.

Antwerp May 2l.-The worst rail-
4 r,ol catastrophe ever recorded in Bel
c,r took place near Conlich, six miles
.ontheast Of Antwerp, this morning,
vsan. because OF a misplaced switch
me Antwerp express. running so miles
an hour, crashed into a train loaded
with pilgrims on a siding. Every car of
the pilgrim train, excepting the fore
most one was telescoped. The cars
were literally ground to pieces and
practically all the passengers were Ell
Der killed or badly injured. About
30 dead people already have been re-
moved from the wreck, and succor is
being extended to more than 100 in
jured.
Surgeons, doctors and nurses arrived
early from Antwerp at the scene of the
wreck. Helpless wounded persons are
still! pinned under the debris and the
scene is one Of horror beyond descrip-
tlon,
This train was carrying an excursion
OF pilgrims to local shrine.
Tho station has been converted into
temporary morgue and rapidly fill
ing up with the dead and Injured.
Everything is being done to alleviate
the suffering of the injured Al the
clergy and physicians OF Conlich and
the soldiers from the neighboring bar
racks are taking part in the work.
In addition to the surgeons who hur-
ried down from Antwerp, an, ambul-
ance corps from Amiens Is also on
the scene Il now appears that the
locomotive of the express train jumped
the track and plunged into and COM
pletely wrecked the last three pas
senger coaches OF the train on the
siding.
The collision occurred at 9:06 a. M.
just as the express from Antwerp to
Brussels was entering the depot at
ConlIch. The train loaded with pill
grims was bound for Turnbout.
The work of extifcatlng the dead and
wounded from the debris appalled, even
the stoutest of the rescuers. Many of
the bodies had completely lost all hum
an shape, and were reduced to pulp,
heads. arms and legs having been
ground off by the wheels and scattered
through the wreckage. Three decapi
lated bodies were found 20 feet from
the track
The occupants of the cars We're most
i workmen and peasants. The wound
Cd presons were transferred from Con-
itch to Antwerp and Brussels as rap
idly as possible. A second class coach
Was overturned by the force of the
impact. The bodies OF the wounded
were so pinned down by wreckase that
the rescuers had TO make use of axes
To get the victims free.
The engineer and the fireman of the
express train were killed outright.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
YELLOWSTONE IS
SCENE OF STRIFE
Stage Companies Wage War Over
Tourist Service for Com
ing Season.
SHORT LINE HOLDS TRUMP.
Shows Travellers Through In One Day
Less Time Than Northern
Pacific's Concern Does.

Tourist business In Yellowstone Is
the subject of contention between the
interests allied to the Northern Paci-
fic and the Hartman interests. While
The Hartman interests started the
trouble they are taking an undemon-
strative part in IT. It all came about
because the oregon Short Line. upon
building an extension to the west
ern edge of the park, Instituted stage
travel through the reserve. The
News" some time ago had a detailed
story on fares and arrangements for
business during the coming season.
The oregon Short Line trip consumes
but four and one quarter days In
stead of five and half days, the time
consumed by the trip as conducted by
the opposition. This saves tourists
$685. I'm hotel expenses etc.
CHILD TAKES TRIP.
When the oregon Short Line ar
rangements were made public, II. w.
Child, president OF the Yellowstone
Park association, originally backed by
the Northern Pacific noticed the four
and-a- quarter day announcement. He
Immediately haGtened to Washington
and complained 10 the department OF
the interior. He said the rival stage
lines. assisted aided and abetted by
the Hartman line, had cut some OF
the best attractions IN the park in re-
ducing the trip by one day and ac-
cordlng 10 his notion this should be
prevented as II WAS fraud upon the
travelling public
so DOES HAYNES.
Hearing OF Childs visit TO Washing
ton. r. j. Haynes, president OF the
Monida and Yellowstone Park Stage
company, the Hartman concern, hur-
rled Ia the nations capital, lie said
tourists who patronized his line would
get lust as much for their money as
those who went over the other line;
the difference in time, he explained,
was due TO the fact the Northern
Pacific train service was SO arranged
as 20 necessitate a lay-oNer Of one
night in Gardiner border station.
The matter II now up 10 the depart
ment OF the Interior with fun power
To act without notice as It sees ht'
| Oregon Short Line officials ana those
! OF the Monida Stage company are
| enjoying unwaverinS confidence IN the
affair They feel they have the best
! OF the argument.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE.

New London, WIS. May 2LIt now
have come TO light since the finding Of
the body of Mrs. Carrie Shaw in the
mill pond al Hortonville yesterday that
the young woman committed suicide,
Dependency over family troubles is
given as the cause, The body was not
mutilatcd as mt first reported.
The relatives of Mrs. Shaw have been
quoted as saying that for some time
shn had been In an unsettled mental
condition and had several times threat
cned to take her own life
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21

Utah party at the great conference OF
the governors of the country Tho
governor himself was named upon tho
committee on resolutions, and was
also one Of the committee on recep-
ton at the big reception given in hon
or of clifford Pinchot and the forest
service of the country. President
Roosevelt took occasion to compli-
mcnt Senator Smoot of Utah for the
course he had pursued In the forest
service matter.
II. H. Thomas. superintendent OF
the Utah Industrial school who has
Just returned from an eastern trip,
recognition that was accorded Utah
through the governor and delegation
in Congress
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
POPE RECEIVES GERMAN
AMERICAN PILGRIMS

rome, May 2L-The pope today re-
ceived 200 German American pilgrims.
led by Mr. Oelkers president OF the
Central Association of Catholics OF
North America Mr.. Oelkers read an
address In German expressing loyalty
to the pope and presenting greetings
and contribution of Peters pence for
the papal jubilee. The pope made his
reply in italian, thanked the pilgrims
warmly for their greeting and blessed
them aud their families.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
ponIcy GAME DRIVEN our.

Chicago. May 2l-After a years Cruz
SADIE, during which over 10 prosecu-
tions were conducted by Asst states
Atty. OXFORD @ Roe, In cooperation
with tho city police. the policy game IL
said 10 have been driven out OF Chi
Cago.
rho conviction of the last policy writ
on in the city was secured yesterday
before Municipal Judge Dicker. This
gambler was Sam A. Hankns, u nesIH
barber Io was fined $500 A year ago
there were 10000 policy games IN opelp-
ton In Chicago. This gambling, which
m that time had spread over all PARTS
of Chicago. was brought 10 the atten-
ton Of the states attorney, The po.
lice department started ralding ana
gradually policy writer's were captured.
convicted, fined on sent to the Bride
we'll.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
PRESBYTERIAN DELEGATES

Rev. Dr. r. G. McNiece, dean OF
Westminster college, and James Morn
ing OF the Westminster Presbyterian
church, are the regular delegates from
this city To the general assembly II
the Presby terrain church AT Kansas
city. with II. @. Mcmillan OF the First
church as alternate. Principal Sweazy
of the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute,
goes as representative OF the school
work I'm this state and Rev II. E.
HAYES OF the Third Presbyterian
church. and Mrs. Hayes accompany
them. Several other prominent menl-
bers of the church In Utah viii attend
the general assembly.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
CITIZENS TO PROTEST.
Indignation Meeting Tonight In Mat
ter of Rio Grandc Closing Streets.

\ meeting Of indignant taxpayers and
property owners will he held in the
Twcnty-tfth ward westinghouse this
evening to protest against the closing OF
Third and Fifth South streets by the
Rio Grande The citizens affirm that IL
the railroad company were working on
the proposed now depot that they would
suffer the Inconvenience willingly, but
the streets have been closed for months
and the company gives no evidence of
starting operations An attorney viii IN
all probability be engaged to look after
the rights of the citizens.
The streets We're closed under fran
chises granted by the city council with
the understanding that work was to be
pushed on the improvements.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
TRYING OUT FOR DIPLOMAS.

Final eighth grade examinations are
being held in the Granite school dis
trlct today. supt. Ashton is conducting
them and 100 pupils are trying out for
the coveted diplomas. In the neigh
borhood of 200 pupils are taking the
Seventh grade examinations also.
school closes for the term tomorrow.
IL. w. Winter, clerk. is Issuing war
rants for teachers salaries for distri-
button tomorrow; ianitors and team
gters will be paid Saturday, The pay
roll covers all items in the school year.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
ROBERT C. P. HOLMES
FOUND MURDERED

Chicago, May 2l.--Robert c, p.
Holmes purchasing agent for the Com
monwealth Edison Electric company.
was found dead in an alley in the down
town district. with a deep cut over the
left eye. fracturing the skull. IN"
n,tn,. rockets had all been turned In
sidasout ana their contents were miss
ing. together with n diamond shirt stud.
a diamond ring and the buttons.
Holmes last night attended the meet
,np OF the National Electric Light AS
recitation and his departure from the
hotel was the last seen of him alive IT
is believed that he was on his way to
take the elevated road Mt the Adams
street station when he WAS either de-
coyed or dragged into the alley whore
hts dead body WAS found
There ia so far not the slightest clew
10 the murderer.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
PERNICl0US ACTIVITY.
Vermont National Bank Examiner
Warmed Against II. keslgns.

Rutland, W., May 2l,--Followng the
receipt Of an official notice from Comp
tIoller Of the Currency Lawrence o.
Murray calling attention TO the rulc
iorbldding political activity by gov
eminent employees, Frank w. Fish Of
lnergenness for the past eight years ma
uonnl bank examiner for Vermont and
par OF Massachusetts, has submitted
his resignation.
Mr. Fish had been canvassing I'm the
FIRST Vermont congressional for the
Domination for Congress. and It was
ms which caused the notice from
Comptroller Murray
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
CLEARINGS TAKE A JUMP.

Todny's bank clearIngs win be noted
with considerable interest, as II is for
the second or third time this year that
the daily clearings have exceeded those
OF the corresponding day Of the previ-
GUS year The figures today are $751;
024.20. as against SSS2, 500 for May q,
1907: an increase OF s2S527.29. The times
are evidently improving
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21

ious car barns early today and urged
the strikers to refrain from acts OF
az largely attended meeting of the
United Trades and Labor council last
inbnt general street car boycott was
declared. An appeal was MADE TO ali
people not to patronise the cars pend
ing settlement of the strike.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
no MORE npIoEAL PICTURES.

Chicago. May 2l,- Educational sun
dots win replace pictures of an I'M
moral Character I'm tho principal NOV
ING picture theators of Chlcago, ao-
rnpdiug 10 resolutions adopted az
,neetine Of the Moving Picture Theater
protective association last night.
A resolution also was ADOPTED deolar-
mig that the association Noulu usslss
me authorities In the prosecutor ~
=, garding employment Of children
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
KILLED BY A TORNADO.

stalina. Kan, May 21-.srrs. Fred.
Grothe was killed and several others
more or less inJued In a tornado which
struck Lincoln. q small town northwest
OF SAiinA, last night. Several houses
were destroyed.a number were unroofed
and many barns We're blown down.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
sLuICING ON GUINNESS FARM.

Laporte, Ind, May 2i,-sheriff Smut
ger will this evening finish the sluicing
of the debris of the Guinness house
and tomorrow morning he will resume
digging in the hope of finding more
bodies.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
BURROWS SEES PRESIDENT.

Washington May Ex-senator Bur-
rows. who has been selected rs tenn
porary chairman of the Republican
national convention. had brief con-
ference with the president today He
declined to talk about his call except
to say that it had been personal one.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
UTAH NOT OVERLOOKED.
Delegation at Conference of Governors
Accorded Honor AT Washington.

In letter addressed 90 his seere-
tary, Willard Done, COY. John O. cut
Ter expresses his complete satisfac-
ton with the treatment accorded the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
ONE CAR or WOOL MOVES
phia Affected by Utah Wool Grow
ers' Association--More Promised.

At last the actual movement of
wool under the direction of the Utah
Wool Growers association is a reality.
The Salt Lake Route hauled one car
from Milford yesterday and four more
cars will leave Modena in a day or so,
The association has been promised
other shipments which will be ready
for movement in the very near fut-
ure. The wool from Milford and
Modena viii be shipped to Philadel-
phia.
June 1 will be the date of a big pub
lie sale at Modena- A clip of 100000
pounds will be put up for sale, the
plan being to get bids on the indi-
v1dual clips.
C. S. Walker, secretary of the
National Wool Growers association.
has written the Utah association, say
ing Wyoming is standing pat. He says
only one out -and-out sale has ,been
made and two consignment sales eff
fected.
GROWERS SHOULD CONTROL.
comprehensive paragraph from
the letter follows:
I'VE are all standing pat down this
way, feeling confident that as condi-
tions improve prices will advance.
Certain IL is that when the middle
mon. with large holdings of 1907 wool,
for which they paid from 90 to %
cents, see that the growers viii not
dispose of their 1908 clip at ridicul-
ously low prices they Will, in order
to get out on their 1908 purchases,
do everything In their power to inn
prove conditions. or course, they will
try for time to make the growers be-
lieve that II and II cents is going
to be the price,
Certain 1t Is that with a warehouse
at Omaha, another one at Chicago
and possibly one at ST. Louis. and
with the warehouses at Boston and
Philadelphia. the growers should be
able TO control the market"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
RUEF'S CASE.
Jury out Thirty-Six Hours But No
Verdict Yet.

San Francisco. May 2l.-At 1920
O'clock the jury in the Ruef bribery
case had been out SO hours and there
WIS n) indication OF an agreement,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21

,,,rouub Age. Newspapers Acquire
Strength and Prestige. Tho News
Is the Pioneer journal OF the West.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-18
THE UNEMPLOYED.

There has been good deal written and good deal
more said this cold winter about the unemployed.
Mills have shut down. Factories have closed their
doors Thousands of have been thrown out of work
Hunger-gaunt, empty, white hunger-has locked
with the poor. Huddled of men have marched
from the public squares to the city halls of America and
begged for work
Sometimes they have been given it. Sometimes there
nothing for them to do
Work! Something to do Some way to earn a dollar
with which to buy food and warmth and shelter! Armies
OF czens-rough perhaps, and ill-clothed some with
hacking coughs and others with pale enough faces but
American citizens for all that
What is the tragedy of these men?
1t is that they are the Unemployed.
fleet of ice yachts piloted by rich young men.
A gorgeous ball. where blaze with emeralds
and pearls and diamonds.
Brilliantly illuminated restaurants where corks DOB
and godbubbes rise in thin glasses Of matchless ware
The sweeping horseshoe of fashionable opera house.
crowded with those whose will be listed reverently
an fawnng columns with the stories of their costumes
which cost thousands and their jewels which cost tens of
thousands.
Who these?
They are also the Unemployed?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-18
ARE GOOD LAWS BAD POLITICS?

The congress that balked the anti Roosevelt
gress the do nothing congress- the reactonary congress-
the congress that knuckled to the business interests
the Aldrich congress-is it by all of these
terms that the first of the SXtieh congress will
go into history?
'Not good politics to pass important Legislation just
before national election
This is the last distiation of wisdom from the par
tcuar school of politicians who controlling the
Sytieh congress.
What naive admission of rascality is here! Just
because important legislation has often been 'ro
ten legislation the lesson has been grounded in their
leather pates that it els not good politics to pass mpor
tant legislation just before election
But what if that 'mportant legislation
is not tariff tnkerng in the interests of trusts; is not
Aldrich bill to bolster the bond Market is not grab
of fifty millions for digging pond lilies out of the nav
gable waters Of northern Alabama; is not increase of
their congressional saaries is not appropriation for
mileage; is not money for building marble palaces for
congressional Offices is not budget of dead claims
But what if we assume that 'important legislation -
means emp lovers liability law, supervision of railway
security issues regulation of child and woman labor fed
eral incorporation for interstate corporations, arbitra
ton deep waterways, conservation of forests minerals
and soils, and few other things that have been
toned from time to time in presidential messages
But that will be enough for congressman to suppose
at one time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-18
A HOP DREAM
BY J. Cullins

"Ugh, what a SMELL" exclaimed
Wigs, a new arrival from the
East, as his friend the detective led
the way into an opium den, to
which his name gruffly spoken to
the slant-eyed oriental who appear
ed at the peep-hole had proven an
open sesame.
The interior of the joint, the tiers
of hunks, the small alcohol lamps,
the long pipes and the pungenr
opium were all strange to Wigs.
He talked pigeon-Enelish to the
Cinnamon of the place, and was
getting accustomed to the sicken-
ing smell of the opium fumes.
Thinking to have some fun at
the fasteners expense, the detec-
tive told him to make himself at
home, winked knowingly at the
celestials, and saying he would re-
turn, departed.
You smoker" inquired the boss
Chinaman after the detective left.
"Nope!" was Wigs curt re-
joinder
you likee tly?"
Wigs thought a minute. To a
man who had moderately INDUCED
in almost everything except opium,
the opportunity for an experience
of the kind fascinated him; so
stretching himself upon one of the
hunks he watched a pig-tailed. yell
son of the Orient TAX
ing deep pulls at a pipe in COM
Portable enjoyment of the effects
of the drug, while the Chinaman
who had first engaged him in con-
versation deftly rolled a pill over a
small lamp until it was thoroughly
cooked" then forced the burning
dope into the pipe and handed 1t to
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-18
DRY CHICAGO THEIR SLOGAN
special Correspondence to The 1ress

Special Correspondencs to The 1rsss
CHICAGO, Feb. ia dryxChis
cago! n 81
That is to be the browning
achievement of the Illinois Anti
Saloon league.
That is the end in view when,
during this month, 1000 Illinois
preachers lean over the fronts of
1000 pulpits and begin to illuminate
as one voice against the deadly
liquor traffic.
The blue ribbon army will not
move against Chicago just now. In.
stead, it is fighting through the
country districts. Sixteen southern
counties have already voted for
prohibition, and the line of battle
have moved north a little further.
Local option" is the password
Last year the legislature handed
an emasculated local option bill
back to the prohibitionists. 1t pro-
vided that townships only might
vote for local option. The bosses
thought this would break up the
fight into so many small skirmish-
es that sweeping victory would be
out of the question.
But the anti-saloonists accepted
the bill just as the legislature Of
fered it. They went further. They
organized Under the direction of
]. K. Shields, the head of the
league, committees of seven unpaid
enthusiasts were appointed in ev-
cry county, and these committees
have worked so manfully that they
have not only raised campaign
funds and aroused an intense tenn
perance excitement, but they have
arranged for an election on April
7, on which day they predict
storm of ballots for prohibition.
I'VE will sweep 1000 saloons out
of the state" says Leader Shields.
mo, we will not touch the Chicago
situation-just now"
But the temperance movement
is gaining in Chicago as well. 1t
has become so threatening that
personal liberty" mass meetings
have been held Professions have
marched through the streets and
cheered speeches on the text of
mans right to drink his own beer.
And the ants attended : every
meeting of every political aspirant
who dared to show himself. AZ
In the meantime the small