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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-11
How carmaek Was Killed.

Coming 10 the actual shooting ne said:
They say now that Carmack at once
drew gun Cooper says so. Robin Coop
er cOrroboTates him John Sharp who saw
It all, says that it is not true. that Robin
drew pistol and that Carmack did not
draw his revolver until he got to the
poles. But If Senator Carmack drew a
gun, why did he not shoot? What does
a man draw a gun for except to shoot?
Yet they would have you believe that Car
mack waited until Robin. who says he
was paralyzed for an instant, jumped be-
tween Carmack and his father
Senator Carmack was shot twice
through the heart and once through the
spinal cOlumn-either one of which would
prove fatal.
Gentle men, I see in the location of
these wounds the accusing finger of God.
making it impossible that Justice should
mlscarry or that the guilty escape''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-11
Have You Heard

IL p m.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-11
Court Room DenseIy Packed.

So dense was the throng inside the bar
today in the COoper-Sharp trial for the
murder of r. W. Carmack that Judge
Hart could not reach the bench from his
chambers until two husky deputies pushed
open narrow path. Attorney General
Garner began his arguments for the state
Immediately after court opened.
Il say that NJ. II. Meeks falsii led the
record when he told you that Senator
tarmack called Colonel Cooper a dive
keeper 1t was a cruel and a mostrous
Misrepresentation.
If you gentlemen of the defense have
not enough evidence to bring a verdict
Of acquittai, then do not be detected in
Inc act OF falslfying and deceiving the
jury
No justification for Murder.
mo matter what Senator Carmack said
on the stump or wrote in the Tennesseean
about Colonel Cooper, there was no Jus
tification for murder.
General Meeks says that murder for
the editorials is tustifiable. He. a lawyer
applies the 'unwritten law to editors
They say that Senator Carmack ac-
cused Colonel Cooper or having recon-
ciled Governor Cox and Governor Pat
terson. And there was not word to
show that this reconciliation was improp-
er or that it was degrading to have eff
ton for murder.
as so, what I'm the name of God should
be the punishment meeted out TO John
Sharp end Robin Cooper for the vile cpl
thets to Senator Carmack?
Cooper in HomicidaI Mood.
Colonel Cooper's own son believed the
father was in hOmicidal mood. He went
on the streets and searched for him.
All these men who have come here TO
testify that they were huTrying around
TO prevent Carmack from assaulting Col
onel Cooper tell YOU their efforts We're
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
TEMPERANCE.

There can be no question about the interest the
people have in the question of temperance and the
right of men to maintain saloons i'll the state OF
Utah Further there is no question that there IS
a very strong sentiment against the saloon as CON
Quoted at the present time 1t has been so conclu-
svely shown that majority of the people of this
state are against the saloon that it is useless to
argue the point. The Mormon conference in Octo-
Der pronounced against it. and that conference be-
yond a doubt represents majority of the people
of the state.
1t is not so much question Of whether man
drinks or does not drink it is question whether
the temptation shall be eternally held out to the
young men to go into the saloons and there ac-
quire the habit of drinking. Most people who have
boys and girls growing up would like to have the
temptation removed. The father may sometimes
take drink-may even be drunkard-but he does
not want his son to acquire the same habit. So,
while he is against the saloon in principle. he Is
frequent visitor to them On the other hand there
are people who do not believe in drinking, who
never take drink, and would have the whole bust
ness aboished-not only the saloons, but the whole
traffic. That this element representing the
treme of the question is not very great is evil
denced from the extremely small vote given for the
Prohibition candidate for the presidency; that the
opponents of the saloon at present constituted
largely outnumber the Prohibitionists is evidenced
by the spread of what is known as the local option
movement.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
MIRACLES.

Materialists, free-thinkers and such like scott
at the mention Of the word miracle. Miracles
they say, are the product of weak, superstitious
minds, and have existence In reality. But when
they brought face TO face with facts which can
not be accounted for on natural lines, and which
cannot be denied, actual cures, which have bafGed
science and which doctors candidly state they
were powerless then these atheists and free-thnk-
ers shrug their shoulders and say "Oh it's all the
trickery of the priests or it's due to some hidden
power Of nature that we know nothing about"
They endeavor in such way to throw cold water
over those extraordinary cures that have taken
place at Lourdes and smile sicky smile at the
liquefaction of the blood of st. Januarius
Mr.. 10th has an interesting article in the Uni
verse U'Univers) in which he puts forward
number of facts which are patent and perpetual,
facts which BATTLE criticism and which are regard
ed by Catholics miracles. He deyotes a good
space the dealing with the miracle of the lique
faction of the blood of Januarus. This miracle
takes place twice a year. in May and September.
and legion of witnesses have attested to its ver-
acity. Atheists and such like have advanced diff
ferent theories to account for it. 1t is owing they
tell us to some secret chemical, to the air warmed
by the candles the heat of the hands of the priest
holding the vase or some such trickery. But all
these statements of theirs have fallen to pieces be-
fore the report of Sgnor Sebastian de Luca mem
Der of the Academy of the Sciences of Paris, and
Signor Punzo. a noted Italian chemist. In their
report these men stated that neither the action of
heat nor the act%l of chemicals could account for
the phenomenon, and their report concluded with
these remarkable words: Even if the contents of
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
THE PEOPLE PAY THE BILLS.

The Wall Street Journal quotes an attorney of
the Standard Oil company as saying that the liti-
CATION between the United States government and
the Standard Oil company WILL before it is done,
and presumably the litigation will not be inter
minable as the famous Jarndyce vs., Jarndyce case,
cost the government and the corporation no less
than 100000. That is good deal of money to
be spent in litigation but if the litigation results in
any substantial relief the people will in time reap
some benefits.
So far the results of the Standard Oil litiga-
ton have not amounted to anything of benefit to
the people or the government. On the other hand.
the imposition of the $29,OOOOOO fine at cost of
$4,0OO,0oO has added some $33,000000 to the ex-
penses which the government and the Standard Oil
company have had to meet, theoretically at least.
And the people pay the bills
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27

the ampoula were not blood, the Hquefaction would
still be great miracle Signor G. Sperindeo
distinguished authority on such matters made a
conclusive experiment by means of the spectre
scope which established the fact beyond yea nay
that the contents of the ampoula were blood. On
the Goth of September, 1872, at the Cathedral of
Naples he made the experiment and in the making
of it was assisted by Professor Januario of the
University of Naples and many more prominent
professors The result of this investigation estab
shed the fact that the contents of the vessel were
really blood for the spectroscope revealed instantly
the dark and green bands with clear band be-
tween them, which those skilled in such matters
recognize the characteristic of blood and being
blood, its hquefaction could be accounted for by
other way except that of miracle But this is
not all. Besides the liquefacton which takes place
there is increase and decrease of the bulk and
weight of the contents of the ampoula. At the end
of the ostension in May the increase of the blood
is much that it fills the vessel and then it grad
ually decreases until September. when it assumes
again its normal proportion. This increase and
decrease In weight has been established by expert
ments made by Signor Sperindeo and others, these
experiments being conducted by the aid of accu-
rate balances. 1t should be remembered that the
ampoula is Theoretically sealed so that the increase
and decrease is physically inexplicable. This que-
faction of the blood has taken place three hundred
times, that materialists and such like cannot at
tribute such happening to chance. and therefore
the only conclusion that can be arrived at is the
miraculous one. But freethinkers will never rec
ognize miracle They have eyes and see not;
they have minds and weight of authority and
evidence and believe not They will in their blind
ness and folly never recognize the hand of God
working through His creatures.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
LENTEN ABSTINENCE.
CONTINUED from page ~

NContInueu from page l.
was that his life really afforded him leisure for
thoughtfulness for others, virtue which grows
with practice and contracts with desuetude
Nor can the mind be expected to work with all
its lucidity in play when the body is laboring in
discomfort.
Lord Kelvin reached the patriarehal age of 81
a result of life of temperance, and though not
Catholic, it was known that he observed the Len
ten fasts of Church, and abstaucd when his
engagements permitted it on every Friday.
The late Sir Henry Thompson a surgeon of
European note, was accustomed to recommend high
living patients spend the Lenten season in Italy
or France in out-of-thc-way villages where he was
morally certain they would willingly have to sub
nit to a fish regime Though he was confessedly
atheist. and abused most systems of religion. it
was his custom to SAT- that the Catholic Church
was the only which took charge Of mans body
and soul by giving each the diet which was es-
pecially suited to it. He was on terms of intimacy
with the Cartlusians of Administer. who, he said,
by their treatment of some Of the patients he fire.
Quenty ruSticated to their monastery in Sussex
brought about recCveres which he with all his sci
ence, could not have effected He held that no
man could long remain healthy who did not usual
ly arise from table still somewhat hungry He rec
commended all who studied, or who led sedentary
lives, to abstain from meat at least three days in
the week. substituting for flesh-meat diet Of
eggs or fish.
NJ Baron points out that the beginnings Of all
sound character lie III the overcoming Of the APP
petite, aud that though tha early stages Of absti-
nenee fsor what is known as a hearty regime are
undoubtedly hard upon tho beginner the results
more than compensate for he hardships at first
undergone. Where there i tendency to govt,
rheumatism, neuralgia cornr ints or other chronic
indispositions, says Doctor uberg, high living is
not only to be avoided but fasting is the only
method of effecting cure,
There is little doubt that the ordinary allow
of food is far too liberal, and that the regime
prescribed by the Catholic Church in Lent is what
is best suited to the average normal individual.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27

velop its own trade through advantages that are
patent to all For heavy freight the cost OF trans
shipment on the transcontinental railroads Will
make the all-waer route preferable but after con-
sidering all the advantages to be derived from the
canal route and laying aside the military advan-
tages afforded by the waterway, the writer III
Chambers Journal asserts that there care many
who affirm that the undertaking may prove to be
the most colossal commercial blunder in the worlds
history
The American government can no doubt build
the canal either with locks or on sea level basis
but-what arc we going to do with it
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
THE PANAMA CANAL.

In the discussion to the sty Vie of canal that
should be built at the Isthmus of Panama there
has been a great deal of harangue and many I'M
pleasant things said. Eminent engineers have
Solved" the question way, and then another
batch has Solved" it in another, all of which has
been very enlightenng and more or less entertain
ing to the people of America. Now comes writer
in Chambers Journal, who suggests the question:
After you get the canal built, what are you going
to do with it?
Here is an enterprise which by the time it is
finished will have cost some $350000,000, prince
ly fortune indeed and an investment in something
which is liable to destruction in night by earth
quake and at the same time subject to the severest
competition. 1t seems to have been assumed that
the prosperity of the Panama canal was assured
the assumption based upon the great prosperity of
the Suez canal, which pays dividends of some "a
to % per cent on the investment. A % per cent
dividend on the investment in the Panama canal
assuming that it will not exceed the estimated cost
of $35O.O0O,000, would amount to some $97,50000G
year. and even the most optimistic believers in
its success cannot such possibility before the
canal The traffic through the waterway would
have to develop ITSELF as it does not exist
theoretically. The trade of Europe with the orient
is likely to continue on the same line it now uses
via Suez In addition, it is pointed out that.
even with the Panama canal built and in working
order the shortest route from eastern ports to
Hongkong, the door of China. will still be via
Suez. To Australia the route via Panama will be
somewhat shorter but the advantages secured by
the innumerable ports touched on the journey
through the Mediterranean suggests that the route
through the long stretch of the Pacific will offer
few attractions to shippers and transportation com
panies who have sentimental notions in regard
to routes whose only object in trade is to secure
the most economical route to their destination
Moreover the competition which will be afford
ed by the transcontinenta railroads now building
in the territory to for freight shipments from
ocean to ocean is an item to be reckoned with The
Tehuantepec railroad across the Mexican sthmus
will be completed even before the canal, and the
Grand Trunk Pacific line, further north. will also
offer much shorter line between the east and the
west coasts than the canal itself 1t is said that
New Orleans will be more than 1900 miles, New
York nearly 1.200 miles, and London and Liverpool
about 500 miles nearer San Francisco by way of
the Tehuantepec railroad than by the canal and
that the cost of transportation via the railroad will
not be great the canal dues and that the time
saved will amount to nearly week
1t is, of course, possible that the canal will de-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27

piece of the shuek which contained the wild honey
chew it and spit it upon the ground which needs
the rain"
No doubt such methods Of producing rain would
be received with ridicule in this day and age OF the
world. but to the simpe-minded savages the soreer
ers we're probably successful in appearing as mas
tiers of the whole universe, One advantage the In
dian methods have over those approved by the con
gross Of the United States Is that those OF the In
dians required no appropriation to carry them Tor
ward. and modern rain maker would be more or
less inclined to Judge Of his success in the size OF
the appropriation ne could get to carry his work
rather than the amount of moisture he would bring
to parchcd earth.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27

a mustard seed to fullgrown tree, and helped its
growth by his simplicity, nodesty, deep humility
and the sense of his responsibility as sherherd OF
souls. OF a retiring nature. he found his great
happiness in studying the best means to lead his
flock to the final end. They were all dear to him.
and whenever sickness entered their home he
the first to extend sympathy and bring consolation
Their happiness was his happiness-their troubles
and worriments were his troubles and worriments.
He lived to the little parish Of Eureka, which
he undertook to build up a quarter of century
ago, have its school branch of the X. of c., the
old church remodeIed and a large congregation Of
good pious and active church members. For that
grand object he aboured all his life and it brought
JOY to his soul in the end. In his long illness ne
was resigned to Gods will and bore his pains pa
tiently. Retaining consciousness to the end he
died most happy and peaeeable death. Wept by
many. his name will be hallowed in the memory
of his people who knew his life their loyal friend
and faithful shepherd. r. P.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

The Intermountetn Catholic goes into nearly every
Catholic home In this diocese. It's circulation in Mon
tsna- idaho, Colorado, wyoming, Nevada and many
other states is very large. Only reliable firms and
business advertise In the paper, All subscribers
VIII find il their advantage when about TO invest,
purchase consult business matters to read
the list OF advertisers. We not only recommend.
but ask for them the patronage Of all readers.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
CARD FROM BISHOP SCA-.IAN.

feel II my duty protect Catholics and the pub
lie generally from fraud and imposition by notifying
them from time to time that person bearing the
and garb of priest sister anyone else, is
authorized permitted 10 solicit collect in this
diocese for whatever connected with ths
Catholic Church without having from me permission
In writing, bearing my seal and signature. Should
anyone be found engaged in doing this unlawful
work collecting without such a document, he or
fraud and imposter. L SEAMAN,
Bishop OF
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
FATHER DONOH0E'S DEATH.

The announcement of the death of Rev. P. o.
Donohoc last week was a great shock to his numer-
Gus friends. None, not even his immediate friends.
thought that death was so near. Father Douonoe
came to Utah after his ordination and whilst TINS
diocese was part of the Archdiocese of San Fran
cisco He witnessed the growth of the church from
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27

of the good Bishop IS remarkably well written and
should have place in the library of every priest
and Catholic layman of our great west.
Life of the Right Reverend J. P Machebeuf,
d. d." By Reverend ". ]. Hewlett Pueblo, Colo
RADIO. Price $500.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
THE APOSTLE OF COLORADO.

Father Hewlett of Pueblo. Colorado, has writ
ten a delightful and edifying book, the Life of
Bishop Machcbeuf," the first bishop of Denver, and
in his day q great priest and missionary. This BIZ
ography of the Apostle OF Colorado an octave of
419 pages. is a most valuable contribution to Amer
lean Catholic literature, and a very choice addi
ton to the early history of Colorado and the inter-
mountain states.
The learned author has unconsciously placed us
all, and in an especial manner the priests of the
west, under very great obligations to him. In Ian
guage singuarly felicitous he portrays the heroic
career of a sanity and courageous character who.
as priest, missionary and bishop, for almost fifty
years not alone wore the white lily of blame
less life but was vested in the raments of the con
fessor and the martyr. What wonderful and
self-sacrificng company of devoted men were those
exemplary French and Belgian priests who pene-
irated the west forty or fifty years ago-the
Lamys. De Smets. Nachbeufs. the Raverdys-and,
contending with poverty, disappointment and phys
ical suffering. carried the torch Of faith and NOR
atty through the ranks of the pioneers.
In those early days which tried mems souls.
these priests of exemplary lives left the stamp of
their personality on the scattered populations of
the territories of the great west; they bore the
heat and burden of the day, and now their names
and memory are held in reverence and benedction.
Like the captives of Israel, going they went and
wept casting their seed, but coming they shall
come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves, for
they that SOW in tears shall reap in JOY" Their
lives were one long, perpetual Odyssey and over
their is halo of superhuman glory-the
glory of prophets rather than of great men.
Simple, yet dignified, but without the affecta-
ton Of dignity. austere without fanaticism, their
very presence rooted out old preiudices while their
preaching and example filled the soul with new
light and gave to religion itself an aspect of add
tiOnal grace and beauty. We can hardly estimate
today the great influence these sanity priests
cised on q strong and self-willed people by their
exemplary lives. their learning. their great quail
ties and their virtues as holy men.
Even those who were not of their faith yielded
TO the subtle influence of their lives, and were at
traeted by their honesty and simplicity all the
more forcibly perhaps because they total
ly different from what their prejudices had led
them to expect. There was something Patrarchal
and Homeric IN the lives of these pioneer priests,
reading like the poetic legends in which nations
have eomn1emorated the history of their first es.
adjustment Like the builders of Rome, they
could say;
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27

The sympathy of the congress is extended to the
white-nosed rhinoceros of the African jungles.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27

with aching hands and toiling feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day and wish't were done.
Not to the hours of light turn
Ali we have built can man discern"
Like the primitive rocks which arrest and fix
geological deposits. these consecrated men caught
the tide of travel flowing from the east. and the
Catholic part of the tossing flood almost invariably
was directed By them.
Conspicuous among these sanity men was 10
seph P. Machebeuf, who on July 10, 1887, died
Bishop Of Denver, leaving after him memory fra
grant with the perfume Of holy life and the oint
1nent of charity for his fellow man. 1t is fitting
and right that his sanctty, his selfdenia and his
heroic deeds should be embalmed in history. Fa-
Their Hewlett has built monument to this splen-
did missionary and sanity priest more enduring
than marble. And he has built wei His biography
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-02-27
CORRESPONDENTS SOLICITED.

The Reverend Clergy requested to send to THE
1NTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC contributions
OF interest TO their respective parishes.
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