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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
SHOT NARROWLY
MISSES BENNETT.
Bullet Crashes Through Con-
Servatory of Residence on
Eleventh East.

While w. H. Bennett was standing in
the conservatory at the side of his
house in Browning avenue, off Eleventh
East street south of Tenth South street,
last night about . o'clock, someone
fired a shot through the glass side of
the conservatory. The bullet passed close
to Mr.. Bennett and smashed a flower
pot
The light was burning in the conser-
NdtOry at the time and any person on
the outside could have seen Bennett
as ne stood there. Startled at the shot
and his narrow escape. from injury, Ben
nett peered out of the conservatory, but
was not able to catch d glimpse of the
person who had discharged the weapon.
The police were notified and Police
man Emil Johnson was sent to the Ben
nett house
AS there was apparently no reason why
any person should have fired at Mr. Ben
nett with the intention of wounding or
killing him, the policeman concluded that
the bullet was tired by some boy, prac-
tlclng with rlfle along the canal near
the Bennett house. The bullet seemed
10 have been shot from a -22-calibre
rifle.
Mr.. Bennett stated that there has been
great deal of shooting in the vicinity
OF his house at night. While he be-
lieved that the bullet that crashed into
his conservatory was not discharged with
the intention of injuring him, he was
of the opinion Jhat a stop should be put
TO the practice of firing weapons in his
neighbOrhoOd at night
The police are investigating the case.
If the person who fired the shot that
so narrowly missed Bennett is found il
is the intention of the police to make
an example of him. In the work OF
police will be aided by the residents of
the neighborhOOd
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
LOCAL BRIEFS

COMPANY DISSOLV Morse
yesterday entered a decree dissolving the
Sharp Livestock company.
SCOT CATCHES FIRE.-Burning SCOT
in the chimney caused an alarm of fire
from the residence of f w. Kelly, of
Rowe & Kelly, at 1924 First avenue, YES
terday morning.
CONDITION IMPROVING. - George
Ryan of Cherry Creek, New, who was
operated on for appendicitis at Holy Cross
hospital is now cOnValescent and will see
his friends at 1876 East First South.
SUIT ON LUMBER BILL.-The Gran
lite Lumber company yesterday brought
suit against the Cummings-Nelson com
pany for S64l.1 alleged to be due for
material furnished.
the district attorney Judge Armstrong
yesterday fixed May II as the date of
the trial of Morris Levy, charged with
receiving stolen property.
WANTS PAY FOR SHEEP-Morris
A. Thomas yesterday brought suit in the
district court against r. r. Bittinger and
NJ S. FOss for s., J02 alleged to be due
on flock of sheep sold defendants by
plaintiff.
RAILROAD is SUED-J. F. Howell
Yesterday brought suit against the San
Pedro, Los Angeles q Salt Lake Rail
way company for $4,000 damages for
injuries received in an accident near Cali
ente, New. on Feb %. 1867.
PROPERTY SOLD.-Thomas Ferguson,
received Of the Holderman Filter Tank
company, reported yesterday to Judge
Morse that he had sold the property Of
the company at Manning to ". w. Arm
strong for 5000.
ILL WITH NEUMONIA-Thomas II
Fitzgerald is suffering from a severe
attack of pneumonia, which has con-
fined him to his bed for the past few
days. DR.. II. d. Niles is in charge of
the ease.
FUND is EXHAUSTED. A Ed
wards, state auditor, yesterday notified
county clerks not to pay out any more
money from the wild animal bounty fund,
as the $4,000 appropriated for this pur-
pose by the last legislature is exhaus-
ted.
BISHOP TO LECTURE.-Bishop F. S
Spalding will lecture tomorrow evening
before the literature class of the Y. NJ.
c. a. on THE Inspiration of the Bible"
This IS the last of a series of four lee
lures on the bible given at the associ-
alton rooms by Bishop Spaldmg.
TO PROTEST AGAINST SALOON
Following the morning. service at West
minister Presbyterian church this morn
ing the congregation will hold a meet
ing to formulate a protest against the
granting OF a license to a saloon, which
it is proposed TO establish within eighty
yards of the church edifice.
TO DISCUSS PROHIBTIoN-The
Mems club of the First NJ. 4. church
will hold its regular monthly meeting
Tuesday evening in the church parIoTs-
The question for discussion is: Resolved,
that the settlement of the liquor prob
lem can be best secured out of politics"
Albert T.. Allen will maintain the af-
firmative and j. NJ. Settle the negative.
Seecial music and recitations are prom
ised.
LECTURE ON ARC LIGHTING.-At
the Y. NJ c. A tomorrow evening D. Z.
Mcbride of the Utah Light & Railway
company will give d demonstrated lee
ture on electric are lamp lighting. This
is the tenth lecture in a series deliv-
cred by various engineers of the city and
will be open to all men interested in the
subject. The address will be given in
the club ROOM Y. NJ c. A. building. at
$40.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
COURT PRACTICE
IS QUESTIONED
Mrs. Boyd Says Husbands
Decree Was Obtained in
Irregular Manner.
AFFiDAvITS ARE FILED
DISTRICT COURT INVESTIGATION
MAY RESULT, IT'S SAID.

charges which may result in a dis
trict court investigation. and possibly
develop sensation. were made yester-
day by Emma Haberley Boyd of San
Francisco Cal.
About month ago divorce was
granted Frank f. Boyd from Mrs
Boyd by the district court here. Royd
alleged all manner of indiscretions on
the part of his wife, and claimed that
she was living with one Arthur G.
campbell in the Golden Gate city, and
mad done so for some time. He even
went so far as to claim that the wife
had taken their little boy to saloons
with her, and he asked for decree
granting him The custody of the child.
lntinating that he would go to Califor-
MIA and endeavor to have it enforced.
Now Mrs. Boyd is asking that the di-
Vorce granted her husband be an
nulied, and in connection with her pc
ution files the affidavits. One is from
Campbell, which says that since the
death of his wife Mrs. Boyd has acted
as his hOusekeeper, and that she and
her child, together with her cousin,
have lived at his place. He denies hav-
ing any improper relations with her
and admits that they at times have
gone to the Breakers saloon, which is
described as a high-class, modern cafe.
and not place of i'll repute, as Boyd
claimed
Mrs Boyd, in another affidavit. saws
that her husband left her in July, 1905
leaving her and two children alone TO
care for themselves One of the chill
dren, girl, died recently, and she still
has the custody of the boy. She asserts
that since that time he has never done
anything for her. and that up to Au-
gust, 1906 he lived at his mothers
house in San Francisco with another
woman. AT that time he came to Salt
Lake and remained here six months, or
until the spring of 1907, as an employee
of the Allis-Chalmers company, when
he was transferred to the Philadelphia
Office of the same concern, and has been
there ever since. Mrs Boyd intimates
that her husband was not i'm Salt Lake
when the divorce hearing was held be-
fore a referee in the seclusion of an at
torney's office, and says that because
of the fact that her husband had only
been here six months he had not ac-
CURED a residence, and the divorce
should not have been granted
The Boyd decree was granted OH the
report of referee appointed by the
district court to take the testimony.
In addition Mrs. Boyd claims that she !
filed a divorce suit against her husband |
in the courts of California during Sep |
TENDER, 1906, and that the suit is stin |
pending.
Because of the intimation that BOYD
was not in Salt Lake at the time that |
he is supposed TO have testified at the
referees hearing, an investigation will |
no doubt result.
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FOUR INTERPRETATIONS.

The followi ing companies yesterday
flad articles of Incorporation with the
secretary of state:
Diamond Valley Stone company, st.
George. Utah. Capital stock $4,000,
with shares at 81 each. The officers:
Samuel Judd, president: F. L. Daggett,
vice president; C. E. Miles, secretary
and treasurer.
Beaver Opera House company. Capt.
tai stock $4,000, with shares at 81 each.
The officers are: r. r. Tanner, presi-
dent; G. B. Greenwood, vice president;
d. i. Frazer, secretary; j. p. Barton,
treasurer
West Temple Realty company of Salt
Lake. Capital stock 100000, with
shares at 500 each. The officers are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
SCARLET FEVER SPREADS.
Seventeen New Cases Reported Dur.
ing Past Week.

Seventeen cases of scarlet fever were
reported to the health department dur
ing the past week, showing conclusive
" that the efforts of the department of
health to stop the spread of this dis
ease. which has flourished for the past
six months without abating material
", have been of no avail. There were
two cases of smallpox, nine of diph-
liberia, three OF measles, six of whOop-
ing cough and three of pneumonia
also reported, making a total of forty.
There were fOrty-nine births, twenty
seven males and twenty-five females.
and twenty-five deaths. thirteen males
and twelve females. reported during
the week Six bodies were shipped here
for burial. At the end of the week
there were tWenty-eight houses quar-
antined because of scarlet fever
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
GOOD FRUIT PROSPECTS.
Horticulturalists Are Encouraged
Over the Outlook.

w. B. Richardson, jr., at meeting
of the Salt Lake County Horticultural
society yesterday. reported that the
prospects for a bumper fruit crop on
the east bench are most encouraging,
and that he expects that if the wealth
er remains favorable all records will be
broken. Joseph NJ. Smith reported that
everything looked well in the lower
part of the valley, and that the pear
blight had been cleared out Of that sec
ton. He complained that the apricots
had been injured slightly by frost, but
said that the damage would not be
very noticea bic
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
BIG IRRIGATION
PLAN LAUNCHED
State Board of Land Commits
SlonerS Decides to Spend
$3.50, 900.
WORK WILL BEGIN SOON
SANPETE COUNTY PROJECT is
AIDED WITH $4,000 LOAN.

Inc state board of land commission
ers yesterday. after discussing the
question for two days, decided definite
ly to undertake the biggest irrigation
project which the state has ever at
tempted.
Some months ago the proposition of
pudding an immense Dam on the Sc
VleF river in Piute county near Marys-
vale for the irrigation of $4,000 acres
of arid land was taken up by the board
and bids asked for the construction of
an outlet tunnel through the noun
tatns and back into the river again.
The bids were received and opened, but
complications were encountered in let
ting the contract and finally the lowest
bidder withdrew from the race.
New Bids Asked.
At yesterdays meeting il was de-
cided to advertise for new bids for this
work, which viii be opened at the next
meeting. 1t was also decided definitely
TO go ahead with the big project, which
will cost in the neighborhood of $780,
600.
1t is hoped that active work can be
started in June, and the board believes
that the dam and reservoir, together
with the outlet tunnel and irrigating
bitches, can De completed so as to be
ready some time in 1870
When the reservoir is completed the
state will sell the adjacent lands with
water right privileges, and thus soon
get back the money expended on the
project.
According to Secretary Callister of
the board. there is plenty of money
available for this purpose.
In addition to this, the board decided
to loan $4,000 to the Gunnison High
Line Canal company in Sanpete coun-
", in order TO allow it to complete it's
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coMPANY's TERMS REFUSED.

Chester. Pa. April 1S-All hone of an
early settlement of the street car strike
which began in this city last Monday,
disappeared late tonight when the motor
men and conductors of the Chester Trac-
ton company refused to return to work on
terms offered by the company. The state
police have the situation will in hand and
there was no serious disturbance during
the day. The traction company resumed
the running of cars within the city limits
this afternoon. They carried no passen-
gers Traffic was suspended at Z o'clock
tonight as a matter of precaution.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
WERE BOUND FOR BUTTE.
Bunch of Miners Take Possession of
Short Line Train.

y Especial to The Herald)
= Dillon. Mont. April 1S-A bunch of \
hobo miners en- route from the Ne :
y vada mining camps to Butte yester- \
y day seized an Oregon Short Line !
+ freight train at Red Rock, Mont, !
+ twenty-seven of them taking pos !
y session of a box car and defying the 4
= train crew to eject them II was !
4 either a case of the freight s>5pend- !
y ing operations or carrying the desti- =
y tute miners north. and the train pro- \
y ceeded on to Dillon. about fifty miles !
+ distant where the police under in \
y structions from the railway officials \
= captured the hObOeS. =
+ After a hearing the miners were \
+ ordered to clear out Of Dillon. \
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WIFE SAYS HUSBAND DECLARED
HE HOPED FOOD WOULD CHOKE HER

b. Lewis and as a basis for her petition
for separation sets forth the above re-
marks made at different times to her
by her husband
The Lewis family resides at Sandy.
They We're married Sept. 5, 1878, in Salt
Lake
The wife charges that for the past five
years her husband has continually abused
her and often threatened to kill her. She
says that they are not living together at
present and that she cannot live with
him. They have twenty acres of land in
Sandy and also shares in the Sandy Irri-
cation company
The, wife asks that she be given ten
acres of land and also any other relief
which the court may deem just.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
STOCKHOLDERS TO MEET.
Canal Officials viii Contest Suit
Brought by City.

At a meeting of the stockholders of
the East Jordan Canal company, to be
held Monday. ways and means of fight
ing the suit brought by the city to con-
denim the right to bring water through
this canal will be discussed. The city
has offered the company 1000 and the
maintenance of the canal for the priv
ilege, but the company wants 81 500,
and therefore the city has brought the
condemnation suit. The city asserts
that this viii not interfere with the
stockholders securing their water, but
they believe otherwise.
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S. Bidder, president; ". E. Hubbard.
vice president; F. z. McGUrrin. treas
urer: Edward Home, secretary.
Interstate Amusement company. Can
itaI stock $4,000, with shares at 500
each. The officers are: George Nor
gan, president; J. a. Groesbeck, vice
president; r. T. Badger. secretary and
treasurer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
IOHN BALDWIN,.

Omaha. Neb, April 19.-John Baldwin,
general solicitor of the Union Pacific
Railroad company and a Republican of
national prominence. died a few minutes
after midnight of Bright's disease. He
was 80 years of age and had been con-
nected with the law department of the
Union Pacific twenty mine years. He was
a son of Chief Justice Caleb Baldwin of
the Iowa supreme court.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
EVANS MUCH BETTER.

Paso Robes, Hot Springs, Cal. April Is
Rear Admiral Evans spent one of the
best days he has had since arriving here
He took his regular daily treatment and
this afternoon was wheeled around the
verandas and gardens by his son. A party
of fifteen or sixteen civil war veterans
of Paso Robes called on the rear admiral
raj this afternoon. Surgeon Mcdonald
was very much encouraged at the admit
raIs condition.
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FAMOUS CASE ENDED.
Last Arguments in Water Suit
Heard Yesterday.

The final arguments in the celebrated
suit involving the adjudication of all
water rights in Big Cottonwood creek
and known as the Progress company
suit. were heard yesterday by Judge
Morse. who took the whole matter I'M
der adviSement. Judge Morse will
probably render his decision by May
H. The trial of the case took up sixty
four days. and six days We're spent in
arguments. There are 715 separate
water rights involved, and 212 wit
nesses were examined. 1t is estimated
that the cost of the trial to all parties
concerned win be in the neighbOrhood
of S75.000.s
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
WHAT HUSBAND SAID.

Y lIDoI5<A-NlJ
= September 6, 1S66-Threatened to i
+ beat out -wife's brains y
+ November %, 1907.-Said he would +
+ knock the devils out of his wife. y
January .. 190S.-Threatened TO kill \
wife.
\ March g. 190S.-Told wife that he \
y wished cream she was using in her \
= coffee would poison her and that ~
y the food she was eating would choke
y her and then he would be rid of her. y
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Mary J. Lewis after thirty years of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

Job White, agent Pacific Mani
folding Book Co, can be addressed
The Butte Hotel. Butte, Mont.
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ELGIN DAIRY.

Fresh chUned butter; churned TODAY,
sold tomorrow. Sweet milk, sweet
cream, and buttermiik. Fresh ranch
eggs. As E. list South. Phones 469.
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The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Machin-
lists Will give an entertainment Monday
evening. April 20. at Eagles hall. Ad-
mission 10 cents.
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Great Auto Bargain.

Must sell my auto at once. Call Bell
phone z369-X, Ind. 3412
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Ordinance Submitted.

The auditors submitted an ordinance
which would take the inspection out of
the hands of the board and give il to
the engineer. Another argument ad-
vanced in favor of its passage was that
the engineer draws all the plans and
specifications and should have charge
of it while it is going on to see whether
his plans are being complied with by
the contractors.
The American members of the
council considered this measure favor
ably for a while, but after considerable
discussion it was decided that it would
not be good politics to so curb the
power of the board, ard it has never
been brought up.
It seems now, however, that the or
dinance may be resurrected and passed,
as the attitude of the board in appoint
ing inspectors is not entirely enjoyed
by the councilmen.
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s. o. Evans,

Undertaken and embalmer, removed [
new location, IS South State street.
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Buy your lemon pies for Easter from
Heron Delicatessen, 140 E. I'd South.
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Grass and Glover Seeds.

Bailey & Sons Co., So East I'd South.
Choice garden roses 19c, Monday and
Tuesday. at VOgeler's
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Building Stone.

Building Stone.
Lots of it, red or buff office under
Deseret Bank Thistle Stone Co.
phones. Bell. 2277. Ind. S2T
ALL KINDS OF SEEDS.
Bailey &, Sons Co, IS East I'd South.
Blank Books.
Tribune-R Reporter Pig. Co.. IS w. I'd So.
Coed Printing.
Tribune Reporter Pig. Co, 66 w. I'd So.
Legal Blanks.
Pig. Co., sc w. I'd So.
Loose Leaf Devices.
Tribune Reporter Pig. Co., &c w. I'd So.
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Stcnographers at SaItair.
Friday. April "a Helds band.
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Will Hold Up Pay.

1t is not known as yet what develop
ments VIII result, but the present SEN
timent seems TO be to hold up all re-
QUESTIONS for money to pay these new
men until their names are submitted to
the council Such a policy will compel
the board to send the names to the
council, although il may cause a very
serious break between the two bodies.
Some time ago the special auditors
recommended to the council finance
committee that an improvement could
be made by placing the inspection graft
under the supervision of the city en-
eineer. Thee auditors We're frank in
gineer. The auditors were frank in
spectors were being employed, and that
the records showed that nearly $4,000
was spent during the year 1907 for in
spection, while the engineer could have
done the same work for not more than
S.. COO
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INSPECTORS LACK
COUNCIL s 0. K.
Board of Works Appointees
May Have Trouble in Me-
gotiating Jobs.
DEADLOCK MAY RESULT
SITUATION EMPHASIZES NEED
OF INSPECTION REFORM.

When the board of public works Fri
day night named ten inspectors for jobs
during the coming summer il was de-
cided that it would not be best to send
the names of those appointed to the
council for confirmation.
The board members. in appointing
the ex-dog catchers humane officers
and deputy street supervisors to jobs.
thought that there would be more har-
mony in the ranks if the council did
not get chance to suggest some Of
those favored by that body.
The board. however. did not reckon
well. Section 80 OF the revised ordi-
nances of 1903 reads as follows:
The board shall have the power to
employ, subject to the approval of the
council such inspectors DIS shall be
necessary"
Council Must Approve.
This means, of eours-, That before the
inspectors can secure any pay the
council must approve of their appoint
ment.
1t is not thought for a minute that
the American" councilmen will ap-
prove of the entire list prepared by the
board of public works. It is not be-
cause the councilmen know of better
qualified men for the positions. but ii
is because they have constituents who
they believe are moro ardent patriots
than those named by the board
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Flower and Garden Seeds.

Bailey & Sons Co., 60 East I'd South.
The Irish standard., 1908-05-23

Bryan's nomination assured? No
doubt the opposition of these papers
to Mr. Bryan have helped him to get
delegates. but we never suspected that
the corporations understood this. and
were using this means to nominate
Mr.. Bryan. Certainly the great work
in Minnesota to defeat Mr.. Bryan was
done by the newspapers. Are we to
conclude that if Governor johnson only
had half dozen more Republican
newspapers in Minnesota to support
him in the recent contest that the state
would have been carried by Bryan?
At any rate, Mr.. Bryan's nomination is
assured and his friends are hoping and
praying that the same newspapers
which opposed his nomination will OPP
pose his election with the same venom
and misrepresentation. If they do
his election is assured.