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Two MIIRnERERs
ARE PARDONEO

FRANKFORT, KY, Aug. 20.-Fol-
lowing out his declaration of immun-
ity to any one defending lives and
property, Governor Wilson today
granted pardons to Walter Duncan.
who was convicted of shooting and
killing Carlton Hazlett at Jackson
vile, Shelby county, in June, and
Riley Harold. who was indicted as
an accessory to the murder. Both
men are prominent farmers.
The governor, in issuing the par
dons, said:
mo doubt both Duncan and Har-
rold are true and. brave men and did
treir duty. I don't know any more
imperative call upon me to exercise
the power given to pardon than that
presented In this case, and recogni
tion of the useful, honorable and
brave part they had taken in uphold
ing individual liberty, representing
violence and crime, grant them full
and free pardons."
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LIGHT ON TRAGEDY.

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-New light
is to be thrown upon the Bayside
Yacht club tragedy at the inquest to
be held at Flushing hospital into the
death of William e. Annis. who was
killed last Saturday by Captain
Hains. DR.. Henry Houghton, the
physician who was with Annis when
he lost consciousness, was quoted to-
day as intimating that Annis, in his
last moments, acknowledged that he
was naying with his life for wrong
he had committed. Said the doctor:
when / am called on to testify. !
probably will make 1t public"
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CANAnN FIVE YEARS.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-That
the Panama canal can be completed
within FIVE wears and at much less
cost to the government than has been
generallv supnosed is the information
which Colonel Goethals, engineer In
charge OF the work. is expected to
bring Secretary OF War Wright from
the isthmus next month. Colonel
Goethals ccntemrlates a trip to this
country in saptember for the purpose
Of comforting with Secretary Wright
on canal zone matters.
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BRYAN
STARTS
ON TOUR
WILL HOLD THREE DAYS CON-
FERENCE WITH CAMPAIGN
MANAGERS.
(By Associated Press. ,

FAIRvIEW, Neb., Aug. 20.-Wil-
liam j. Bryan, Democratic nominee
for the presidency, left tonight on
seven day trip in the course of which
he will deliver several speeches .and
hold three days conference with
campaign managers in Chicago. The
first stop will be at Des Moines, Iowa,
where tomorrow night he will discuss
the tariff question. Saturday, Sum
day and Monday will be spent In Chi
cago. Tuesday he will be present at
the notification of John Kern, Demo-
cratic vice presidential nominee,
when he will speak on trusts. Two
days later he will deal with the ques-
tion of guaranty of bank deposits.
and will return to Lincoln on August
2S.
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CASTRO INSULTS
Two MORE NATIONS
tBy Associated Press. }


CARACAS, Aug. 49, (via Willem-
stad) President Castro refuses to
permit the Brazilian minister to take
charge of French interests in Vene-
zuela, although he originally agreed
to this arrangement, because the dis
pute between Venezuela and France
bears a close relation to venezuela's
dispute with the United States and
the proposed arrangement would
therefore endanger the continuance
of friendly relations with Brazil.
The French interests necessarily
are being neglected and it is unlikely
that President Castro will permit the
representative of any foreign country
to take the French interests in hand.
President Castro left today for a
trip to Barquisimeto, inviting the
British minister to accompany him,
which is believed to be significant in
view of the present crisis.
The Dutch cruiser Gelderland,
which entered the harbor here with
decks cleared for action, returned to
Curacao, permission to land or send
papers ashore being refused.
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TAFT GETTING
USED TO TALKING
(By Associated Press.)

HOT SPRINGS, Va, Aug. 20.-.
"After the first week of any speaking
in a campaign gone through with and
one finds himself as it were, talking
without difficulty on all the various
subjects of discussion, / don't think
there's anything more enjoyable than
making at least one speech day"
This utterance by Judge Taft today
presents his attitude toward cam
paigning. Taft's engagements for
Saturday include conferences with
Postmaster General Meyer, Chief For
ester Clifford Pinchot, Theodore
Shonts, president of the Metropolitan
Securities company, New York, and
G. w. Painter, American missionary
to China.
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government NOT
TO Be FAVORED


CHICAGO, Aug. 2O-The roads of
the Western Passenger association
have had their attention called to the
fact that at the last meeting Of the
association a resolution was adopted
providing that no reduction in rates
from normal tariffs should be allow
ed the government for transportation
of troops or naval forces, save land
grant reductions. 1t appears that
some of the roads have been ignoring
this resolution, and confusion in
rates is threatened by their neglect.
The chairman of the association has
found it necessary to remind all cd
the adoption of the resolution and to
ask that it be observed strictly.
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SETTLE GREAT
Congo TROUBLE
(By Associated Press.l

BRUSSELS, Aug. 20.--After sew
eral months of bitter struggles the
chamber of deputies today adopted
the Congo annexation treaty by vote
of eighty-three to fifty-five Although
today's action probably will insure
the solution of the great Congo prob
lem, there still remains an open inn
portant question of Belgium's finan-
cial responsibility. This action on the
part of the chamber had not been ex-
pected and at the last moment nearly
caused collapse of the cabinet.
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STEVENSON after
NATIONAL AID.
(By Associated Press. }

CHICAGO, Aug. 2O.-Former Vice
President A. E. Stevenson, Democ-
ratio candidate for governor of Illi-
nois, came to Chicago today from his
home at Bloomington and for an hour
conferred with National Chairman
Mack on the general situation and
what part the national committee
would take in the state campaign.
Stevenson's visit followed luncheon
rendered him at the Iroquois club, at
which a Democratic victory was pre-
dicted in November.
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COLOR line IS
DRAWN ON DOCKS

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-In fight be-
tween white and black laborers en-
ployed at the Western Transit COM
pany's dock today five men were in
jured. Some men declared they
would not work unless the negroes
quit. This the latter refused to do,
and a quarrel ensued between Hugh
Brady, white, and Louis Hawkins,
colored. The negro drew a knife and
stabbed Brady in the neck and arms,
whereupon fighting became general.
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Great Ovation Given
The American Fleet
,>e~~>~>>.%>%%>%~~~>~~~~~~
(By Associated Press. }

SYDNEY, NJ S. W., Aug 21.--Sydney aglow with life and
Surgng the before
for this day landing Australia
officers from the visiting Ameri
where the landing occurred,
throughout crowds enthusiastic
thousand landed. The admrals and
British They
other ministers of the
South Wales his minister's lord
mayor Sydney Rear Admiral
Spey the guard and then with others driven
reception pavilion the domain where they greeted
Australia other dig
behalf of Australia extended the
hears welcomes Admiral Spery his officers and and
congratulated warmly the subject of their
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INFLAMED BY
WILD RUMOR
accidental Shooting of Boy
Attributed to Negroes Al
most Causes Another Riot.
ssesAeAAAANANNeNNN NNNNNNeNNNN
fBy Associated Press. J

SPRINGFIELD Aug. 20Sprngfeld was nhamed tonight by
report 17yearo boy who testified before
special that body indicted George Richardson
alleged upon Mabel Halam had shot by
Before the had time to spread
shooting accidental the wound having
been by a belonging to
seriously injured and
tonight with refugees There
number of sleeping under protection of
guard Seventh regiment at camp Lincoln.
a 4 a q q 4 q q = q = q a - q q q Q
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WANTS NO AMERICAN ALLIANCE.

SHANGHAI. Aug. 2O.-The Sin
Wan Pac. a leading Chinese news
rarer comments unfavorably upon
the suggested alliance between the
'--'4~A States and China for the pur-
pose of Jointly opposing Japan. The
~"~er declares that China must rely
uron International reform. and not
foreign alliances.
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LEAVE FRATERNAL CONGRESS.
. ny Associated Press.) .

PUTIN BAY. o., Aug. 2O.-A rup-
ture has arisen between the National
Fraternal Congress and the Modern
Woodmen OF America over the ques-
tion Of establishing a minimum rate
of assessment for the fraternal insur-
anee organizations.
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NO LIBERTY FOR THAw.

PITTSBURG. Pa, Aug. 2O.-Harry
Thaw's counsel and Roger O'Mara.
his receiver, have decided that the
presence of Thaw at the meeting of
his creditors here September will
not be required
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TEN PERSONS ARE
REPORTED KILLED
tBy Associated Press, I,

GRAFTON, w. Va, Aug. 20.-Ten
persons are reported killed and many
others injured tonight when an over
loaded passenger train on the Penns-
boro and Harrisville railroad, bearing
excursionists from Ritchie county
fair, a mile from Pennsboro, broke
down.
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RUSSIANS RENovATE STAMPS.

MOSCOW, Aug. 20.--Thirty per-
sons have been arrested here in con-
nection with the discovery of a sys-
tematic traffic in cancelled postage
stamps. 900 of which have been
sold here after being renovated In
Warsaw.
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GOVERNMENT BUYS BALLOON.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-The
United States army now owns the
Baldwin military dirigible balloon. At
6 o'clock this evening, after three
signal corps officers, Lieutenants
Lahm, Folouis and Selfridge, had
made eight trips in the airship, Cen
eral James Allen. chief signal officer,
informed Cantain Baldwin that. hav-
ing fulfilled his contract. he could
turn over the balloon at any time.
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LuSitdnid Completes
ReCord-Breaking Run
, ~>>~> >>>>~~>>>>>>~>>>
ny Associated Pressl

Associated Press1
YORK 2O-The Cunard liner Lusitania finished
Atlantic $50 tonight when official
available after the liner anchored out
developed that the big tubiner
transatlantic by nearly four
hours but official time
off Dunts at TO- 80 last Sunday
steamng ghtshp tonight made the
passage fifteen hours The best previous
by eighteen
hours 2718 miles
2505 knots
previous being The third that for the
greatest of the 18th which
steaming of 1855 knots for
twentyfour hours
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WIFE REPUDIATES CONFESSION.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Captain P.
G. Hams wife repudiates the written
confession on which the defense of
her husband and his brother is to be
based. She is quoted as saying:
"My husband returned unexpected
ly from the Philippines, May 20 last.
He made wild accusations against me.
Later my husband, his brother and
their father gave me drugged whisky
and compelled me to sign paper
which they say is confession. Then
they took my three children from me
and drove me out of the house."
She says she was not only i'll, but
also completely terrorized when she
signed tire paper, as her husband had
beaten her black and blue until her
whole body ached, and his brother
and father had called her dreadful
names.
"A woman would have signed any
thing under those circumstances. she
saws. 81 was so weak could hardly
hold my head up when they brought
the paper to me. was deadly afraid
of my husband. He ragged like a
crazy man and would not let me ex-
plain that he was making terrible
mistake"
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Wife DECLARES
HAMS DEGENERATE

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-It became
known today that the threatening
letters" said to have been sent to
William E. Annis, the advertising
manager, by Captain Peter G. Hains,
who shot and killed Annis at the Bay
side club, while T. Jenkins Hams
held the crowd at bay, were really
challenges to fight a duel. On June
26 the first letter was written. That
was the day Mrs. Claudia Hams con.
fessed to her husband, his brother
and General Hams, the father, her
relations with Annis during the cap
tain's absence in the Philippines. AS
soon as Mrs. Hains signed the written
confession Captain Hams took the
same pen and on the same table in
the presence of his wife wrote cha1-
lenge to Annis.
Hains pointed out-not knowing
whether or not his rival was familiar
with the code of dueling-that Annis
had the privilege of naming the
weapons to be used in the affair.
The officer then wrote second let
ter. He waited three days and wrote
the third challenge. The wording of
the letter is not here given verbatim,
but it was about like this:
II will demand combat at the
first opportunity, SO be prepared"
The letters have been turned over
to District Attorney Darrin.
A dispatch from Winthrop High
lands, Massachusetts, gives Charles
H. Libbey, father of Mrs. Hams, as
authority for the statement that in
the divorce papers that we're served
on Captain Hams week ago last
Monday Mrs. Hains alleged that her
husband was morally degraded per-
son and made charges of the most
sensational character. At the same
time the complainant demanded in
her position that the case itself be
tried in open court.
The allegations are along the lines
Of the exposures of the round table II
Berlin, where Count Eulenburg was
charged with misconduct with others
While no names are mentioned there
are instances related which date bacl
to the time when Captain Hains ant
wife were on their honeymoon ant
while the captain was stationed a
Fortress Monroe. 1t is alleged tina
Mrs. Hains caught her husband in thu
quarters of an officer whose residence
was very close to the one occupied b!
the Hainses.
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BASE BALL.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results OF Yesterdays Games.

hesuIt8 OF N0sCefuNy uRzutss
st. Louis, a; Philadelphia. 0.
New York, Q; Cincinnati. 0.
Chicago, 10; Boston, 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Philadelphia. 6; Chicago, 1.
Boston, s; Cleveland, 4.
washington. q; st. Louis, 0.
New York. 4; Detroit, 8.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
San Francisco. 1; Los Angeles. !
Portland, s.; Oakland, 3.
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NEW YORK. Aug. 20.--Lead, =
, dull. 4.57k a 4.62ik. Lake =
, copper dull. 1880 a 1s.621s. =
, Silver. 81 lis. =
. NNAAAAAAAAHHH~HA =
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Fhis papeF b @g-
feFent fRom o1hG
aeWspapers, an4 u
fhmmk the Cen 81
Verse and Proae thM1
u Il dfGeRent"
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if not. I'd go to tonsorial parlor. ana
I'd hire a good journeyman barber or
tonsor for the day. and I'd denude my
self of that funereal wealth of facial
immortelles he's wearing. | think may
be I'd thaY out a bit, too. He might
as well. because Fairbanks has already
got the ice-house vote sewed up ana
put away.
IT'S starting out to be a strange
campaign, Larry. Up until now the
Democrats were Always the ones that
fought right through. Before their con-
vention. they were lighting the Repub-'
leans. and after the convention they
were fighting each other. But this time
it's the Republicans that are having a
free-for-aH. with no hollis barred, and
gouging permitted. or. in fact. encour-
aged If il keeps up. il ought TO be
grand thing from business stand,
point. for southern delegates. There II
/ be many a one of them who'll be able
TO go home. from the Chicago conven-
| ton and resign his little secOnd-ciass
postofiee and live in comfort on his in
come"
THE president amt taking no active
hand sin the muss just now, Is me- IN
/ quired the House Detective.
No. not a very active hahd-Only
1 about twelve to fourteen hours day..
/ said the Hotel Clerk. Most of his ar
tention is concentrated on the navy de-
partment There's been a row because
he insisted on putting hospital shiE
or two in the hands of a family doc
tor with great experience i'm teethins
| cases and msmbranoUs Group. instead
of turning over the command to q
naval officer whose only qualification
for the job was that he hadn't done
anything but sail ships for thirty OF
forty years
! owe think the president was right?'
asked the house detective.
ITO be sure he was right, sale
the Hotel Clerk He's right in every
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The Hotel Clerk on Our Foreign Friends
BY IRWIN S. COBB.


warm smile and cash their bum checks
for them, and ignore the fact that they
are frequently wearing titles which
they borrowed when the real owners
happened not to be looking. There's
something about the mere smell of a
moth infested title that Immediately
prompts the average New Yorker TO
make a deekle-ed hand-tooled, Jap
anese Vellum, full Morocco calfskin
idiot of himself. anyhow.
Besides, Larry, we ought to remem-
Der how much thought the nations of
Europe give TO US, and how we have
their hearty good wishes for many hap
DIV returns of the day whenever we get
into trouble. The great Continental
Journal devotes columns to it every
time we experience one of those little
things which used to be a panic when
Grover Cleveland was president, but
which is now merely a passing furry
that soon fades away, leaving the imam
cial horizon much cleared-in fact
leaving it cleared of anything remotely
resembling coin. If one of our war
ships stumps her toe and puts her foot
through her papier mache and gum ara
bic armor plate. as she comes of the
d,vdocks. the London Times is almost
instantly upon the job. When we pull
off a big murder trial. garnished with
alienists, chiid-brides and southern smi-
lax. the papers on the other side over
look none of the side bets. The French
populace is ready any time TO stop raid
ing an unprotected nunnery and reaC
with unfeigned horror the details of the
latest Arkansaw lynching.
1--WE ought to be especially grateful
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Among its patrons, the Hotel St.
Reckless numbered many OF those for
eIgn gentlemen who come 10 this coun-
Try TO drive our tally-hO teams and give
Us readings from their own works and
marry our available heiresses and get
N jail for beating the bills of our side
street boarding house keepers. Two of
these alien guests, persons of a Latin
esQue aspect and a horid conversational
Kramer. were engaged in earnest de-
nate in a nook of the marble, lobby. The
muse detective contemplated them
sourly for a period.
,zs'Look at that little one with the del
sarty shoulder blades and the Swobody
eyebrows" said the House Detective to
The Hotel Clerk. Look at him, viii
YOU? He's usin' up more gestures than
would take Senator Beverage through
the Iowa Chautauqua circuit, and he's
spittin' out language like a deranged
scent bottle. but ] bet if you was to
git it translated. all he's sayin' to his
small friend with the feverworm mus
tache is that it's a fine day, but he
wouldn't be surprised If it showed be-
fore night Them bum Counts gimme
an acute pain
I'Calm yourself, Larry" said the Ho-
tel Clerk, pray calm yourself. So dc
they give me a poignant pang some
times, but / say nothing about it. It's
net good manners for true American
TO admit that we ever ind anything dis
tasteful about the members of the up
per classes of Europe who honor us
with their presence from time to time
The only thing to do is 10 lock up tht
silverwaTe and welcome them with
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THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY FEBRUARY . 1908

Maybe it's because they're not such
good friends of ours as some of the
others that the Russians seem TO hate
us less cordially" said the Hotel
Clerk They have been kind, haven't
they? And they certainly did help along
the Taft BOOM I've had my uneasy
feelings. sometimes about whether Taft
would carry Ohio. but Russia was
never in doubt a single minute. Every
place he stopped on his trip across
Manchuria, the officials came down to
the station and gave him vodka TO take
the taste of the caviar out of his mouth
and then caviar to kill the taste of
the vodka, and so on, back and forth
for hours at a stretch.
"D'ye think Taft will be the NOM
inee?" asked the House Detective.
well / don't know" said the Hotel
Clerk Sometimes l think he will
that's when I've been reading the tele-
grams from Washington-and some
times l think he wOnt-that's when
I've been reading the kilograms from
Cleveland and Cincinnati Then again
| become enthused over the Hughes
boom. But 1 see Governor Hughes
picture in the paper and i say TO my
self no pan with whiskers like that
or those could get the nomination, and
if he did the Democrats would put
up Hap Ward of the well known team
of Ward & Vokes on a platform fav-
oring the free and unlimited coinage
of whiskers and beat him out by many
strands. I don't know why whiskers
| should be comedy. Larry, but they are
| Whiskers are comedy. and so is
/ pickle, and so is an onion, and so arr
white CATERS like Marks, the lawyer
wears. and so is fried egg. A plaiI
| egg is not funny. but a fried egg i.
good for a laugh i'm any company. Tn,
same with whiskers. whether straigh
or curly And so. if | was Hughes
and wanted to be president, I'd go t
a barber shop. if / could find one, ant
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for the interest they're all taking in
the cruise of our fleet around the Horn
to the Pacific side, which is so-called
because il isn't. Hardly a day passes
that a dispatch doesn't come palpitating
across by cable saving that message
received at Copenhagen from the spe-
cial correspondent of the Partisan Petit
Pois at Port of Spain states that it is
reliably reported at Omaha, Neb.. that
the battleship Connecticut, in backing
out of the harbOr of Valparaiso struck
a sunken fine-tooth comb and tore all
the tissue paper plates off her bottom
IF the present peace making voyage
should involve US in a muss with any
neighbor of a sallow yelIowish COM
plexion residing at the first corner on
the left of the next hemisphere, the
great powers of Europe would all be
acutelys distressed over the catastrophe,
especially Germany. 1t would be days
before the Germans quit wiping the
tears out of their eyes, because when a
German does laugh, he laughs until he
cries.
Next TO the Germans, / think maybe
it's the French who are mostly con-
cerned over the fear that We'll get into
tidy little war with our malarial al
lies. the Japanese-note, please. Larry.
that i'm using the word allies l put the
accent ON the last syllable. Thank you.
l see where a leading Paris editor has
made the discovery that our navy is
entirely untrustworthy and he is en-
deavoring to conceal the alarming intel
Hgence by printing something about it
on the front page of his paper every few
minutes
THE French may well point with
pride TO their own noteworthy achieve
Iments along the line of military endeaV-
/ or. No other country has been able to
/ touch EN-. Their war balloons never
come down and their submarines never
come up. When one of their balloons