The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-09
Flashes from the Wire

The tug Jimlie of the Bowers Dredging
company of Galveston, with crew OF
five men is believed TO have sunk In the
gulf between Sabine Pass and Galveston
Alexander j. Hemphil Wednesday was
elected president OF the Guaranty Trust
company OF New York. OF which the Nor
gan interests recently bought control Mr
Hemphill had been vice president Of the
company since 1905,
Every official OF Alexander county and
the city Of Cairo III. 1t was announced
fore the grand jury. which has begun an
investigation OF the two recent lynchsngs
and charges OF corruption,
Secretary OF Commerce and Labor Ma
gel, addressing the Association of Pas
senger and Steamboat Lines last night
declared himself heartily in favor OF Il
merchant marine with subsidy or any
other plan OF backing that would make 1t
success.
Mrs Edward II. Hartman has taken
up the active management of the Harri-
man estate and Tuesday spent her first
day In her Fifth avenue Offices as New
York business woman. She Will here
after observe regular office hours on
three or four days of each week.
Alvin J. Hoskns Of Alton. H.. was no.
tilted Wednesday by the United States
government that II had purchased his
patent range s,od finder Gd@ TL and dlstanee np
plihes the firing OF big guns In the navy.
Hoskins is a farmer and merchant OF
Upper Alton.
The formal transfer OF property OF the
Waters Pierce Oil company to Colonel
Samuel w. Fordyce. who purchased the
property at a receivers sale yesterday,
was made last night The final decree OF
the court directs the transfer to Colonel
Fordyce Of all the real and personal prop
erty except money on hand.
The coolhcadedness OF nurses and at
tendants probably saved the lives Of "A
score or more inmates of the state insane
| "A nf ia a
Okla. when fire started last night. The
inmates were not excited and walked out
of the building wards to safety. The
fire quickly spread until two OF the wards
were destroyed.
The supreme court of Panama has sum-
| rnoncd to appear before 1t the secretary
of foreign affairs. 10 answer charges
| sion from the isthmus SpIller was trans
| porting canal laborers TO other countries.
| These men were brought To the zone by
the lsthmian canal commission at much
expense and trouble and later were In
duccd by contractors TO go to various
parts of South America. Spillcr, IL is
charged, acted as the principal go-bc-
| tween.
Aurora Gnl) women who find it neces-
sary TO be on the streets after night
fall without escorts are carrying small
! revolvers tucked In their muffs as n
means OF protection against the myster-
ious Jack the Slasher," who has made
| five attacks upon women In that city
within the last month In addition 10
| the women who have armed themselves
fifty business men are on the lookout for
| the slasher, They threaten 10 shoot him
| down on sight.
The volcano on the island OF Savaii.
of the Samoan group, which burst into
| activity in 1905, lis now one of the won
dcrs of the world. according to Professor
Henry E- Champion of the University of
Columbia. who arrived in San Francisco
Tuesday on the liner Alameda Professor
Champion, who is biologist and anthro-
| pologist of note, associated with the
| American Museum OF Natural History
and the Carnegie institute. left here May
20 and has been engaged ever since I'm
research work among the islands OF the
| South seas.