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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
HELLO, WELLS, NEW.
Telephone Connection Completed in
Link of Chain TO San francisco.

Telephone connection was completed
last evening between this city and
Wells, New. all miles, ana successful
tests were made from salt Lake. This
ID the hrst link OF the big system OF
telephone connections which VIII unto
THIS city and san Francisco. ", l., Thorn
AZ formerly Win the Bell company here,
N SUPERINTENDENT Of the Utah-Ncvada
company He ~ pushing the work as fast
as possible From Wells communication
can he had with many Of tho mining
camps lin that vicinity. a line VIII DO
built between Fly and Pinche.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
Girl Wife With Unsavory Record
JudiCiaIly Separated from
Her Husband.
WAS IN TOO GREAT A HURRY
Robert w. Mason, However, Is Now
In Fair Way to Shed His Mat
rimonlal Shacllcs.

Florence Isabel Howcroft was grant
ed divorce from her husband. Alma
Howcroft, by Judge Richie at the d.
vorce matinee yesterday afternoon.
The testimony OF the woman went to
show that Howcroft had failed to sup
part her since Jan. l. 1907, and the
mother of the woman corroborated the
statement The Howcrofts were mar
ried Aug. 4, 1905. There Is one child.
which the father retains in his pos
session. The maiden name of the wo-
man Is restored which was Johnson.
The plaintiff in the case is only about
10 years old. and was arrested some
weeks ago in company with soldier.
The soldier is serving six months in
Jail, and another soldier was held to
the district court for his relations with
a 15year-old sister The girl with
a companion was sent to the indus
trial school.
MASON NOT QUALIFIED.
Robert w Mason. who was denied
decree of divorce from his wife, Edna
a. Mason, some time ago on the ground
that he had not been a resident of
the state for one year preceding the
filing of the complaint, made another
attempt yesterday to secure the di-
vorce. He said he was married at
Minneapolis, April Z. 1907, and that
his wife deserted him the same year
and went to live at her home in Pueb
10. Colo. While on his way west on
July s, 1907, Mason says he stopped
oyer Mt Pueblo, and begged his wife
to return to him, but she would not.
declaring she would never live with
him again The decree was not grant
ed yesterday, but doubtless will be
upon the filing of certain documentary
evidence today.
PROMPTLY ACCOMMODATED.
Beatrice Evans Robson was awarded
divorce from her husband, George
II. Robson, known as Red, the man
ager of local messenger service. Mrs.
Robson testified that she was mar
ried to defendant May IS. 1907. and
that he had failed to support her since
September II, 1907. DESERVING her at
the same time. Her testimony was
corroborated by her mother Mrs, Ann
Evans, and the divorce was granted,
Mrs. Robson was also given the GUS
tody of the child.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
wAsATcH SUMMER RESORT.

Hotel; family cottages for rent.
Stage leaves McHenry's Livery Stn-
Bile, Murray, daily $40 a. m. Special
stage leaves Saturday evening, re-
turns late Sunday evening. Round trip
$3.50. John Stsrloy, Msr.. Murray.
phone, 421 BLACK
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
TEMPLE NOTICES.

The ST. George temple will close on
Friday, June &c, 1908 and reopen on
Tuesday. AuF. 25. 1908.
DAVID II. CANNON. Priest
The Mnntl temple will close on Fri
day. July IL, and reopen on Aug. 20.
LEWIS s. ANDERSON. Prsst.
The Logan temple win close on Fri
day, July 81, and reopen Tuesday.
Sept. l. WILLIAM BULGE.
President.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
Church nctieeS.

Regular services of the Church Of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will
be held in the Tabernacle at p. m.
tomorrow, Sunday. Sunday school at 10
a. m. and meetings In the city ward
assembly rooms and adjacent wards as
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

The most reliable system renovator:
restores vitality regulates the kidneys
and system, Recommended by Your
druggist MS the best. Such is HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea. Is cents, Tea or
Tablets. Godbe-Pitts Drug Co.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
TIME

The priesthood meeting OF the Salt
Lake stake will be held in the six
tcenth ward meetinghouse, at 1880 p.
m. Monday, Aug. II. 1908.
The Ensign stake priesthood will
meet in regular monthly session Mon
day, the 18th inst, at 1880 p. m, at
the Twentieth ward Westinghouse.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

arrival OF the police No arrests were
made.
Nat Cody, residing at 65 east Eighth
South street reported last night that
while In company with two young wo-
men on a car, the motormun struck him
on the head with controller. iniiictinE
n scalp wound. lie dld not explain the
cause of the attack.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

Men always love 10 see girl
With a dandy clear complexion,
Rocky Mountain Teas the stuff
That gives Il 10 perfection.
Godbe- Pitts Dgug "a.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

BRICK HOUSE COLLAPSES.
II remember one thing distinctly
during that horrible ride" said he.
I'VE passed a corner on Vine street
where a friend of mine lived in q fine
house. / could hear the shrieks of the
inmates. and so well did | know the
family, I could recognize their voices
In spite of the fact that they were
shrieking with terror. 1 never heard
of them after that
The brick houses collapsed and the
walls were washed away even with
the sidewalks. Frame houses hoated
of course. When ] came to, we count
ed Al on the roof with me. Oh but
the horror of II all! To see the poor
things floating down the torrent and
into that lake of fire! Hundreds were
burned to death"
you lost your family. them asked
Chief Pitt
~ never saw them again." sighed
the venerable old gentleman softly.
He arose abruptly, brushed away a
tear, and made an excuse for going.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
GRANITE STAKE,

The high priests OF Granite stake
will please remember their quorum
meeting to be held next sunday, the
10th inst, Mt 10 u. M, in the Granite
stake tahernacle.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

DO IT today. take bath at saltair.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
Other Churches

Services will be held in the various
n-Mormon churches, tomorrow, as
follows:
st. Marks cathedral. 225 east First
South street, Rev. Harvey S. Hanson,
dean-Services for the ninth Sunday
after Trinity: Holy communion at
1880 a. m; Sunday school at 9:45, and
sermon at II.
St Peters chapel, 657 north Sec
ond West street Sunday school AZ
GAS a. m. Evening prayer and SER
mon at T:30 D. m.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

ers had managed to get onto the roof
of the house
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12
PROGRESS OF PROHIBITION
THROUGHT THE COUNTRY

ponds largely upon the apathy or in
terest that prevails in regard to the
contest between the two great national
PARTIES. That is to say, in a compare
lively quiet campaign the Prohibit
ton forces will be recruited by persons
who care little for the issues presented
by the Republican and Democratic
parties, but who believe in the sup
preston of the liquor traffic, and Oh
the other hand, these same voters, at
a time when the fate Of the nation APP
pears to be at stake, as was the case
III 1896. will cast their ballots with
one of the main parties, and the Pro-
hibition total declines accordingly. /.
is very possible that some supporters
of the party believe that the time will
come when prohibition will be the
great national issue and will win at the
polls. The record, however, does not
appear to warrant such expectation.
But while prohibition as national
issue has failed to make any real i'm
preston upon the politics of the coun-
try as a whole, the people who favor
enactments prohibiting the liquor
traffic have achieved very substantial
results. There are now six prohibition
states-Kansas, North Dakota, Maine,
Georgia, Oklahoma and Alabama. With
the exception of half a dozen states or
territories in which saloons are Ii
censed with virtually no restrictions,
there is some form of local option in
all the states not "dry" by legislative
enactment. In almost every one of
these local option states the dry"
area has been steadily increasing.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12

Among our world neighbors, our ex-
ample has always counted for more
than our precepts. if he was inspired
to a course of conduct by the history
and the constitution of the United
States, if he was then governmentally
kidnapped" as a Mexican rebel, there
are many people whose sympathies VIII
lead them to pray for the succor of
Sarabia, even although their grimp1er
sense of international proprieties and
their regard for the comfy of nations
may lead them to doubt the wisdom of
encouraging the widespread hallucina-
ton that the United States is a refuge
for the plotters of all nations"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12
ANDERSON'S EFFICIENCY

WITH regard to the appointment of
wv Gen. Chaffee on the board of
w public works it should of course
be understood distinctly that person.
ally the gallant general is unobjection-
able in any public position which he
may be called upon to fill, and there is
no citizen whom The Herald would
welcome more cordially to any unoc-
cupied place. There is one point in
connection with the appointment in re-
gard to which the mayor is to be con-
graduated. He has given complete
refutation to statements made by some
that he was more intent upon taking
advantage of opportunities to build up
a political machine than upon securing
good public servants because the APP
pointment of Gen. Chaffee is certainly
not of a machine nature.
At the same time The Herald feels
that it was unfortunate that an official
who had occupied the position that Mr.
Anderson had filed, who had discharged
his duties in way that had proved his
peculiar fitness for i. and had demon
efficiency and his sense of responsibility
to the community, should not have
been regarded as his own fittest sue
cessor and should not have been al
lowed to continue to give the capable
service for which lie was noted.
The Herald hopes, and in so hoping
voices the sentiment of the city Of
ficials, including the mayor and the
aqueduct force, that Mr.. Anderson
may still be retained in the public SER
vice. The idea of applying civil SER
vice rules, provisions and restraints to
appointments in connection with the
citys business is growing in favor with
those who have at heart the best civic
interests of the community. The belief
is gaining in force and in popularity
that men should be appointed and re-
tanned in Office for efficiency and we
deprecate any appointive action that
may have done violence to this positive
public sentiment.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12
LEO ToLSToY

THE eightieth birthday of Count
Tolstoy will be celebrated in Rus
STA by congress of distinguished
people from all parts of the world. 1t
is certain that Tolstoy would prefer
to meet and greet undistinguished
people, unless the congress is to
be composed entirely of thinking
men and women, or is well-leavened by
them. Hereditary rank. military lead
ership and wealth are not marks of
distinction with Tolstoy. any more than
they were with Jesus Christ, whose
disciple Tolstoy is. He breaches and
illustrates in his life the first princi-
pies Of Christianity. pure religion and
undefiled. and the first principles of
Christianity bear such a close resem-
blance TO the first principles of Ameri-
canism that the likeness cannot be dis
missed as mere coincidence. Both
originally drew and drank Of the
water of life and. in IT, language of
the New Testament. the Truth made
them free. People who declare that
present standards are the best. be-
cause they are by law and custom es-
tahlished. are the LanceIots OF the
day, and faith unfaithful keeps them
falsely true" Lancelot was self
deceiving traitor. American elviliza-
ton needs no Lancelots. but will well
come warmly every knight of the Order
of Galahad and Of Tolstoy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12
CAUSE OF THE uPRoAR

nAILRoAD COMMISSIONER
X, THEODORE w. SUMMER
LAND of Los Angeles has been
interviewed in San Francisco about the
coming investigation into charges of re-
batting. One of his assertions is SO can
ny, so naive, and withal contains such
suggestion of the whimsical, as to
make it certain that our pawky friend
Theodore has perpetuated his amiable
| individuality in his higher Official ca
reer. No ont but an unconscious hui
inorist could have made statement
like this:
There has been an uproar all over
the state about these SUPPOSED re-
bate charges" 1t is comforting to see
that Theodore does not dispute the re-
atty of the uproari although for Pick
wiekian reasons, best known to him
self, he puts the cause of the uproar
upon hypothetical basis,
We, who are not railroad commits
sioners. all know that the Southern
Pacific corporation admitted to Inter-
state Commerce Commissioner Frank
lin x. Lane that it was guilty. of
rebate practices, even as alleged, nay
more, that the railway company has
neither announced nor contemplated a
denial of the accusations preferred,
but that it has taken refuge in a tech
nicality. the supposed ineffectiveness
of the constitution as an operative, di-
recting or restraining instrument when
its provisions are not stated indepen-
words, the railroad, with a strange
penchant for paradox that one would
not expect to find in a sober, sedate,
business like, money getting corpora
ton, asserts gravely the proposition
that spirit without matter is dead.
Most of us had believed that the con-
verse was the case, but the natural
and moral philosophy and the psychol-
ogy of railway corporation are APP
parently as far beyond the pale of any
law as the railways practices were be-
lieved, by railroad people. to be beyond
the reach of physical governmental
law.
Los Angeles Herald cheerfully
accepts responsibility for this uproar
all over the state, which has disturbed
Mr. Summerlands slumbers, and it
will, through thick and thin and ito
the very limit" support steadfastly
and unflinchingly the railroad commits
sioners and all others who. for the
public good, will demonstrate that
there is no favored railroad clause"
in any of the legislation devised to pre-
vent the flagrantly unfair and lawless
practices touchingly referred to by
Brother Theodore as supposed The
commissioner will soon find that it is
situation and not a theory that is
confronting him as a public official
with duty to perform; and that not
even in the persiflage of the most airy
Summerlandian speech can a hard fact
be referred to, logically, as tentative
hypothesis.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
FOOLS REBUKED

" ITH Rooseveltian vigor, the
w president of the United States
denies that he is a ward politi-
clan. In other words, he says that
persons who have accused him of us
ing patronage to favor Taft must be
added to the White House Gallery of
Prevaricators: Fair-minded citizens
and good Americans, whether Demo-
Gratis or Republicans, must admit that
the suggestion that Col. Roosevelt was
stacking the cards for Taft invited
incredulity. 1t was not believable that
the president should be engaged in
such an unsportsmanlilze occupation.
If big Bill is to be candidate for the
presidency. he must give his compete
tors square deal. No one has ac-
cused Secretary Taft of a desire to
connive at a crooked deal. Therefore.
exactly why President Roosevelt
should have been belied is not OBJ
Nious. 1t wasn't any real friend Of
Taft who has resorted to such tactics.
1t is some budding Burchard, and il
he should be nipped in the bud it will
be all the healthier for the Taft boom.
President Roosevelt has said: 1.-THE
statement that 1 have used the Office
in the effort to nominate any presi.
Dental candidate is both false and ma
licious. II is the usual imaginative
invention which flows from a desire to
say something injurious. Remember
that those now making this accusation
were busily engaged two months ago
in asserting that 1 was using the Of
fee to secure my own nomination
President Roosevelt's career has been
so singularly free from ward politics,
so little has the clanking of machin-
cry been audible in it, that ones dis
gust at the puerility of this latest
method of assault is mingled with
amazement at the thought that prob
ably the people responsible for begin
ming an anti-Roosevelt campaign-for
that is exactly what it is, rather than
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have imagined for
an instant that any American whose
opinion is worth button would be-
lieve that Theodore the Square would
STooP to conquer a presidential nom
nation for friend or chum or favor
lite. The rash action of the persons
now smarting under a well-deserved
presidential kick, well directed and ac-
curately landed, is another illustration
of the fact that political fools rush in
where angels fear to tread.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12
THE SARABIA CASE


TT is difficult to dodge the force Of the
contention that Manuel Sarabia, the
Il Mexican who is wanted by his home
government on the charge of plotting
revolution against the perpetual presi-
dent of the southern republic was, to
all intents and purposes, kidnapped
Moreover, it would be impossible to find
life insurance company that would
issue him a policy If his return to Mex
leo should be decided upon. That
Sarabia is fighting for his liberty is
not to be wondered at. In reality, he
is fighting for his life.
It has been the policy of the United
States government from the earliest
period of the nations history to dis
countenance the surrender of refugees
wanted for political offenses. In New
York lived and died man who Dragged
that he was Number One' of the
Irish Invincibles, and that he was re-
sponsible for the plot that ended in the
Phoenix park assassinations. AS he was
not an active participant in the crime
but merely member of the council that
governed the movement eliminating In
the murder of the lord lieutenant, he
was not regarded as an ordinary "crim-
inal." AS a refugee, he lived unmo-
| Tested, although in his old age he out
wore his New York welcome 1t be-
came tiresome to hear him brag of his
secret, dark and bloody history, and
| younger men who met him finally re-
fused to take him seriously.
! But his case offers precedent or an
| approximation to a precedent of that
of Sarabia. If he had been kidnapped,
enticed to the Canadian border or
struggled aboard a British ship, jingo-
ism would have compelled the govern
ment to procure his liberation or make
war upon the OBTAINING power. The
Virginius affair is not forgotten. In
| the early days of the numerous CUBAN
revolutions which preceded final de-
liverance from the Spanish tax gather
err, a company of English-speaking adj
venturers, among whom were Amerl-
cans, undertook a liberating eXpedl-
ton on their own initiative, under the
American flag, and the Spanish au-
thorities in Cuba captured and execut-
| ed them. Owing to many contributory
reasons, one of which is that the war
of the rebellion is now only remote
memory, the United States today has
a keener-edged sense of the honorable
responsibility of the government for
the safety of lives Of citizens, even when
they are pursuing misguided courses in
foreign territory. In 1908 there could
he no Virginius affair without Maine
retribution.
Since we now hold foreign nations to
strict account for the safety of our
citizens. under all circumstances. would
It not be golden rule policy to pro-
tect refugees in the United States from
the consequences Of their words in be-
half of principles CO government sug-
gested by the United States and actions
based upon interpretations which may
be wrong, but are at any rate honest,
of deeds and actions in the history or
within range Of the historical influence
of the United States. which are ac-
cepted by liberty-loving foreigners as
examples?
The United States has been the in
SEPARATION of many revolutions. some OF
them sanguinary. some merely verbose
Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-12
HAS JULIA DITTO YOUNG
WRITTEN AMERICAN EPECS

with deep regret and sense of pending Ill
FOR not SO aged was she but that stu
She read the other woman race 's "eis-'
OF anguish utterless and desolate'
Who lisped against his cheek, Bye Doro'
Bye
Laughing, commanded him to come back
And begged as ever some thrice-valued boon,
While the man coveted what he caresseu'
This gem felon lawfully possessed,
And thought stung his eyes with angry
brine
"But now there never will be child Of mine"
In spite of it's somewhat puzzling
obscurities one cannot help being I'M
pressed by the subtle inspirations ana
delicate effects of these lines. 1t IS
easy to appreciate President Roose-
velt's Discrimination to sanction PUBL
cation, because bye, Doro, bye is an
expression that is far from strenuous
and is not associated in popular
thought with the domestic life of The
odore the Thoroughbred. "Utterless
anguish" is valuable addition to the
phraseology of pathos. We regret the
mistiness of the closing lines of the
sample of 'Barham Beach" Possibly
they refer to race suicide, and if so
we cannot but commend the modest
reserve which at this point put the
Buffalo Pegasus into blinllers. Like
the rest of the world we await with
ill-restrained Impotence and with
eager curiosity the dawn of May 10,
when the Great American Epic will
make it's belated appearance. The
country narrowly escaped having to
worry along without this masterpiece.
The manuscript was lost seven long
years and was found recently at Gale
donia--not Caledonia, stern and wild,
meet nurse for the poetic child, but
Caledonia, N. Y. An eastern critic
writes: 81 wish the president liked
'Barham Beach as well as l do, or
was as positive in his approval. May
be he will be one day"
MaUhe he will