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Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-28
t was discovered that Attorney Sew.

F., II was discovered that Attorney Sew.
erance was still absent. The hearing
will start tomorrow.
DENVER. Jan. ga bill was in.
| troduced today TO create an entirely
new health board for the state. The
present board is Republican and the
new bill would give Gov. Shafroth the
appointment of a Democratic board.
The direct primary bin was today TAX.
en- from the elections committee of
This is thought a plan to defeat the
measure.
PITTSBURG. Pa. Jan 26.-The ST.
Louis Express on the Pennsylvania
railroad. due here from the west at
GIG a. M, met with an accident early
this morning west of here. The two
rear Pullman cars were thrown from
the track. and eight passengers in.
jured, none of them fatally. Among
the injured is General Manager G. b.
McKeen OF the Vandalia lines. 1t is
presumed the wreck was caused by
broken rail.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Peter Wan.
bold shot himself dead In a telephone
booth in a Brooklyn drug store last
night after calling up his wife and
instructing her to listen for the shot
Il am going to kill myself as can't
stand things any longer" he said over
the telephone. A moment later a shot
rang out and Wambold rolled from the
booth. There was bullet wound i'm
his right temple.
DENVER, Jan. "silverton is not
in danger of starvation, reports to
the contrary Notwithstanding said
b. b. Calvin, one of the leading men
of the San Juan town today
There is no suffering because of
lack of fuel and food. and there Will
not be any. OF course the railroad Is
tied up near every winter, but tia.
does not worry us down there. Thera
ia plenty of fuel in town and II Lhel @
was not, the mountains are covered
with timber that could be used. There
are many big stores. and all Of them
carry plenty of food and supplies.
Snowslides can not affect the town.
because the slides are In the noun.
tains nearby and 1t is impossible for
them to get into the town itself. We
want to let the world know that we
are not in any danger and do not ex
pect to be-"
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-28

ed States circuit court Thursday
quashed the indictment brought
against John a, Porter OF Denver IN
The coal land cases in La Plata eoun.
ty. This was in accordance with the
decision recently rendered by the su.
preme court in the timber cases. Unit.
ed States District Attorney Thomas
Ward conceded at the final hearlne
that the ruling of the supreme court
practically settled the case. Judge
Lewis held that the facts did not con.
stitute a case.
More than score OF roomers in the
new Goblin block at Grand Junction
had narrow escape from death in
fire which did $4,000 damage to the
building and an additional $4,000 10
the stocks of merchants Friday. Tho
fire. which was caused by defective
wire in restaurant. gained good
headway before It was discovered. and
only prompt and efficient work on the
part of the firemen prevented the
structure from being destroyed. Most
of the roomers lost all OF their belong.
ings.
After escaping punishment for
murder alleged to have been com.
mitted at LeadviIe nearly sixteen
years ago, Sherman w. Morris. alias
Frank Shercllffo. was arrested in Min
neapolis Friday and wu be brought
back to this state and taken to the
penitentiary at Canon City to serve
his sentence II was Morris who made
sensational escape from tho train
while being taken from this city to
the penIientiary last September imme
diately after HIS conviction and sen
tenee to twenty-five year peniteu
tiary term for the murder of John
Walsh.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-28
Camp Bird Slide;
Slide Near Telluride

The Denver Republican of Satur.
day gives the following particulars OF
the avalanche that carried six men
down TO death near the Camp Bird
mine Friday afternoon.
oURAY. Jan. 22.--About 3 O'Clock
this afternoon, while furious snow
storm was raging the great aide came
without warning and when it had
passed the only wonder was that 1t
had not claimed more victims.
When 1t came 4s horses. drawing
eight wagons, the Camp Bird bullion
stage with $4,000. one passenger and
several employees OF the Asenfelter
company, were strung out along the
road and crossing the track of the
water-hole slide. Bill Barber led the
cayalcade, riding one of six-horse
teams and tells vivid story Of his
race for life.
Like a monster white wave fifty
feet high the avalanche leaped at ter
rife speed out OF the mist at hls
back. Barber's horses ran with speed
augmented by the terror of the white
death at their heels.
For 500 feet there was one chance
in thousand which might win. Bar.
Der reached a place OF safety benealn
the cliff, but not until the terrific
force Of the wind from the slide had
thrown him from his horse and the
first first horses Of the cavalcade hat
been overtaken by the slide and Kill
ed. The concussion OF the wind wal
like that OF monster explosion an,
the side OF the canon for 100 fee
from the wagon road was lined win
the dead bodies OF horses and mule
hurled there by its force OF wind
4 More than thirty animals. valued !,
$1,000, line the canon or are bur 9,
at the bottom.
Barber saw Or. Douthitt and Georg
Knerr both victims OF the slide, witt
others standing on the rocks aboy
} the road just before the slide came
J When Barber returned q few minute
later they were gone.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-28
Douthitt and Knerr had bsen car
rfpd IN thatr daath

Douthitt and Knerr had been car.
ried to their death.
Peter Synott, another teamster was
buried with his two horses and was
found late this afternoon. crushed
against the rocky wall Of the canon.
His remains were taken to the Camp
Bird mill
bringing up the rear OF the caval-
cade OF men and horses came the
camp Bird bullion stage. driven py
Dad Austin. who has had many close
calls from death In slides. He had
one passenger. John Wittwer. and was
escorted by Charles Anderson, the
Camp Bird guard.
ihey were caught In the edge of
the slide, in which they were buried.
The lead horses were killed, but
Anderson and Austin were dug out
aud did not sustain injuries.
Wittwer would probably have es-
capped II he had not become impatient
and started ahead. going to bis doom.
dis remains have not been found.
Emil Johnson, a teamBter. was bur.
led all but one arm and stunned by
the force of the shock When he re-
covered consciousness he realized that
something was scratching his elbow
and with great effort freed himself
and found that his faithful dog had
been trying to dig him out.
Previous to the fatal avalanche an
other small slide on Mt. Totsi had
come down and covered Sam Morey
and his six-horse team. but they had
been dug out. Morey escaped unin.
Jured, but his horses were killed.
The slide In which Morey was
caught blocked the road and delayed
the movement of men and animals.
The slide recalls the lower Water.
hole slide OF February. 1892. when
four men were killed. The lower and
upper slides are about 200 feet across
Dr. S. G. Douthitt leaves a wife and
two children In ouray and a brother
and father in Ouray.
Peter Synott leaves wife and one
child In Ouray.
George knerr was unmarried.
John Wfttwer, the fourth victim, re-
Gently came from Denver to the Camp
BIRD mine as cook. He had been sick
and was going TO ouray for treatment.
twenty-five men from the Camp
Bird mine and rescue party from
ouray rushed to the scene and dug for
the victims without avail for several
hours, when they were obliged to de-
sist for fear of more slides.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-28
THREE MEET SUDDEN DEATH
IN SLIDE NEAR TELLURIDE

TELLURIDE. Colo, Jan. a3--(Spe-
c!al TO Denver Republican. Mrs,
Carl Hoadley, Cabble Collins and his
four-year-old daughter, Irene, were
Killed outright In the Mammoth board.
Ing house, on Bear creek, four miles
southeast of here. which was struck
by slide this morning at 8 O'Clock.
Joe Collins, Sam Collins, Mrs. Cab
bic Collins and Carl Hoadley barely
escaped with their lives.
Joe Collins and Mrs. Cable Col.
Inns were seriously injured, but will
recover.
w. r. Mitchell. who was near the
boarding house at the time Of the
accident. ran two miles through four
feet OF snow to summon physicians.
TWO physicians and twenty men went
up In a rescue party from Telluride.
All the bodies have been recovered.
cabble Collins had relatives IN Dem
yer and in Olathe, Colo.
While engaged In the work Of res.
cue the party was In the gravest dan.
ger OF death from other slides in the
same vicinity. Joe Collins tells q
graphic story OF the slide, saying:
We were all sitting In the board
ing house. when. without warning. the
whole side was crushed In by tho i'm.
pact OF an avalanche. Carl Hoadlcy
was near the door and heard It com
ing. He and Sam Collins escaped
without injury. The wall Of the house
came in. crushing Cable Collins, Mrs.
Hoadley and myself under the tim
bers. was unconscious for some
time.
When l regained my senses I saw
the body OF Mrs. Hoadley near me,
and though / could not reach her. I
tried to arouse her by calling. did
not know how badly / was injured.
found that she had been killed out.
right and her body crushed to a pulp
by heavy timbers.
'I never saw the baby of Cabble
Collins until the other workmen at
the mine. who were not hurt, extri
'eated their bodies from the snow. My
shoulder was broken and sustained
a great number of cuts about the
head and face.
This is the first time In the knowi-
edge of old timers that a slide has
run in this place. The whole basin
above us usually run every winter,
but the boarding house was usually
considered safe. The rescuers do not
know how near death they were, for
hundreds OF acres OF snow above them
threatened to run at any moment"
A slide at Ophir loop, on the Rio
Grande Southern, In this county, came
down this morning. taking out four
box cars and covering the track with
thirty feet OF snow. Six engines are|
snowbound and narrowly escaped do
struction- The slide came down inI
the same place where the old Ophir|
station was destroyed few years aso|
The Baby Elephant slide near th<
Tom Boy mine may run tonight. X
iS two miles long and All men ar
being warned off the trails crussin
Its path.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-28

Mrs. Laura mics and daushtsi
Miss Myrtle Miles. who have ~
with the Graden Mercantile compsu
for some time. left this morning "a
Florence where they VIII make he
home in the future. Quite dele.
tion OF friends were 1t the depot
see them off.
Semi-weekly herald., 1909-01-28

Tn. Herald sor an ~ ,sva
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-12
LAUNDRY GIRLS WALK OUT.
Forget to Come Back Until Too Late:
Their Places Filled. 1,

y ; IN
There was "a strike. at the American
Linen Supply company's plant yester-s
day afternoon, which. however: proved lH'' ed
TO be rather tempest Iii d tesffifct:s The
lana cement gave the girls 211s hours
in which to see. the para defa7f l' y $50
TO i p. M. Al. the. latter hour. the girls girl
concluded they would ma Ike a day VI Of II.
and went to Liberty park instead of res
turning to work e heir absence, neee :.
stated the presence Of eyerybod left
from the management to he 90 rivers.
at the machines for the remainder Of, I. the
day until the places Of the ansen 1,.srs
a,.e ,,osyacan cies and the 20 pleasure
seekers are ENJOYING a5vacatl Ion. They !.
say they don't care they tired s, q
work. anyhow. and ystiia,ssssss enjoy the
change: besides. the wages are e n not
anything very hllarioasn !, + to g per Pc.
III, ~ S.fra5,uentSoyertime Z. The manager.
W r. Pollock, says the girls are all
mid for overtime.
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IOWA DAY AT ALASKA
YUKON EXPOSITION

Seattle, Wash. Aug. i2.---Iown day at
the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific exposition
was celebrated with speeches. a basket
picnic, a reception and ball. Seattle
alone has $4,000 former Iowans among
her citizens and there are Iowa societies
in Spokane. Tacoma. Wenatchee, North
Yakima, Everett. Ellensburg and Seat
tie. thousand residents and former
residents of, Iowa assembled under diff
ferent Iowa county banners at the pic
mic grounds on the lake shore and there
registered Then followed basket pic
mic. Exercises at the auditorium were
held In the afternoon with addresses
by Iowans and former Iowans. An
Iowa reception was held in the Wash
5ington state building and the festivi-
ties closed with ball in the Washing
ton building under the auspices OF the
Iowa society of Seattle.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-12

~ Occur 4 D'Alene. Idaho. Aug. 1a.-
The greatest of the three famous
Indian land drawings began here to-
day in Il big wire cage just a few
rods from the lake shore. Six thou
sand numbers are to be drawn to de-
eide who shall have a chance to pro-
cure one. of the $500 land claims on
the Flathead Indian reservation In
northwestern Montana. Today 1900
names are to be chosen. and Friday
and Saturday will complete this part
of the task.
Little Christina Donlan, daughter of,
q prominent politician of Missoula,
was chosen to draw the first lucky
application from the great pile of SO,-
Ss3 letters, the Flathead leands being
In her home state. Later she was as.
sisted by little Helen Hamilton, who
had held the place OF honor in the
Occur DAlene drawing. and by
Harriet, Post who is to start the
Spokane land drawing next Monday,
Before today's drawing began the
thousands of brown envelopes were
well stirred and mixed, the method
of, selecting the applications and an
nouncing the winners being the same
as employed Monday on the Occur
d 'Alene drawing.
With one chance In 4 Of winning
number and about one chance in
80 of gaining quarter section of
land, those seeking claims on the
Flathead reservation are looking for
ward with keenest interest to the
drawing today. these lands being re-
garded as among the choicest in
Montana The lands subject to entry
have been classified BY the govern
ment as follows: 40,229 acres agri-
cultural lands of the first class: 49,
GIG acres agricultural. second class;
s36,1S9&acres grazing land Prices will
range from s1.25 to 81 an acre .Por-
tons of these lands, however. have
been Withdrawn under the reclamation
act, this Withdraw it is understood,
Including valuable water power sites
! which some of the land-seekers had
| hoI ed to capture.
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speakers besides himself being the
associates of the deceased in the
presidency of the seventies. The In
terror of the building. was draped in
white. and the platform and pulpit
.wreathed in.sf1owers. the beautiful
floral offerings Of relatives and friends.
Palms also banked the platform maxi.
ing it beautiful picture a number
of the Church % fficia Is We're present,
repfaaantipgs past associates In the
sevefTtfes and the Sunday school
union in which Elder Reynolds took
prominent part. !. Is, ; Il
The musicswas under. the direction of
Prof. c. j. Thomas and comprised
both solos and choir selections, and
Mrs. Maeser as accompanies. Present
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-12
DAUGHTERS OF VETERANS,
Organization Has Membership Of Ten
Thousand Tomorrow

The Daughters bf Veterans are hold
ing their annual meetings today and and.
tomorrow; in the Macintosh bulld IN
with an attendance Oft present. Forty
of them got together early this morn
ing to be photograp pied ina group on on.
the sidewalk. A committee of greeting
was sent out to exchange the conrtesi'es
Of the day with the affiliated orders
now meeting In this city, and the REPORT.
of the secretary showed the total mem.
@bership of the order to be about lo.OVo.
The annual election occurs tomorrow
morning. There will be a reception
this evening. at the Knutsford by the
daughters in honorsof the commander-
in-chfef The ladies wear badges on
which is printed, My father was
soldier.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-12
JEFFRIEs REPUDIATEs
BERGER'S AGREEMENT

Plymouth. Aug, Thames ]. Jeffries
on arriving here today from New York
appeared to be. surprised to learn that
Sam Berger had signed an agreement
In Chicago yesterday for a Champion
ship fight between Johnson and Jeffries.
No one has any authority" said
Jeifries. ito make any such arrange
inents In my absence. I have nothing
to say about my fight with johnson
thing to do with it. AS to the date, it
may he in six months and it may be
earlier or later. but the sooner the bet
ter.
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Owner is Only Agent Under Obli-5
cation to Conserve the
SoilsHe Cultivates.
/. IL. BAlLEY's QUEER THEORY
Director of New York College of Ag-
riculture Puts Forth Strange Doc
trine Mt Irrigation Congress.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 12.-That no
man owns his farm but only is an
agent under obligation to conserve his
soil, was the doctrine promulgated at
the National Irrigation congress this
morning by L. H. Bailey, director of
the New York college of agriculture,
who spoke on the farm community. He
said it Is not true that y young man
must 20 west to take up a new farm.
He declared that IL he takes up the old
farm he is under obligation to make q
new farm OF It. He asserted that the
west is in danger of becoming less fer
tile and that the east is less liable to-
this danger. He quoted from the re-
ports of the country life. commission.
He said that after all lands have been
improved by private enterprise there.
Will still remain many thousands Of
acres awaiting reclamation at the hands
/ of the people at large.
There should be national irriga-
ton movement said he, "but it, Is not
necessary to develop all of our re-
sources now. tbs well that we have.
plenty of resources to take up when
In the future press Of population comes.
New York state is 40 per cent in for
est and swanps and many eastcrn5
states are In the same condition. But
am not sorry for this. There,is no bur-
Try. When every irrigable acre In the.
west has been reclaimed there VII sosl
time to reclaim the swamps and fo r.
ests of the east. Yisl ,ssi /. ~ .i
4 Dr. IA. G.. True, director OF expert;
ment stations, was the next speaker
4l ii Ia
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GENERAL FUNSTON
BUYS "A CALIFORNIA FARM

I,eavenworth, Kan, Aug. 12.-Brig.
Cen Frederick w Funston, who has
been spending the last two months with
his family in California has pur-3
chased a farm in that state and in
tends to make It his permanent home
when. he retirese from the army,
+ The generals farm is located at Hay
wards. Alameda county, near the home
of his wife's relatives. He will spend
his furloughs there
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EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
COST HALF A MILLION.

washington, Aug. 12-The extraor-
binary session OF Congress which was
completed one week ago cost the Ans
erican people, it has been estimated.
by. some of the statistieia around
the Capitol. about 100000 Many, diff
ferent items entered Into this grand to-
tai, the chief of which is mileage. The
,fious expense on this account aggre-
gates s154.ooo and that Of the. senate
I s41. 600.
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STRIKERS SHOOT POLICE,
MILITIA CALLED OUT

Fort william. Ont. Aug. 12---The dock
strikers broke loose this morning on
the arrival of strtkebreakerss "a nd : shot
saveral police, Including the chief. who
Vas perhaps. fatally wounded. All the
strikers are. heavily armed. The militia
'Is being called out.
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WASHINGTON PARK, N. j.,
DESTROYED BY FIRE

Camden. N. J..5Aug. 12.-Washinston
park, pleasure resort on the Delaware
river 10 miles below this city, is burn
ing and probably will be totally destroy
ed. The main building IS mass of ruins
and the surrounding structures are on
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-12
THIRD INDIAN
LAND DRAWING.
Greatest Of the Famous Ones
Begin at Occur d'AIene,
Idaho, Today.
JUST SIX THOUSAND NUMBERS
Twcnty-hve Hundred chanccs-En-
velopcs Were Well Stirred and
Mixed Before Starting.
JUST SIX THOUSAND NUMBERS

!. Occur D'Alene. Idaho, Aug. IL. I.
|. Joseph Furay, of Warsaw, Ind,
/. is the name of the lucky winner
!. Of No. in the great drawing
]. for land on the Flathead Indian
!. reservation today. Furay is SO
]. years old.
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ELDER RULoN S. WELLS.

Elder Rulon5S. Wells said that he, too,
1 had known and loved George Reynolds
aud could echo every tribute that had
been paid. He could not conceive how
any one could do more than he had to
be,worthyy Of eternal life. He had been
gent to earth for mission and had
fulfilled 1t in every way.
Joseph w. McMurrin said that the
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ANNUAL REPORT.

Aadiutant- General Cole arose and
road the address and report of the
com rnander-in-chief, which was IN
mart as follows: -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-18
VAN VLISSENGEN'S STORY
FLATLY C0NTRADICTED

CHICAGO, May 17.-Mauricc Rosen-
field and Be1rnhard Rosenberg. to whom
Peter Van Vlissengen, forger of more
than million dollars In mortgages. to
whom he alleges he confessed his crimes
four years prior to his public admission
OF guilt. appeared before Referee In
Bankruptcy Wean today to answer uues-
tions growing out OF Van Elissengens
recent testimony,
from the penitentiary to assist In locat-
ing the assets of his estate. declared
that in 1903 Rosenfeld, then cashier of
the now defunct Chicago National bank,
and Rosenberg, brother ln-law OF the
latter, discovered that several hundred
thousand dollars in mortgages which they
had secured from him We're forseries.
II offered then TO go before the states
attorney, confess and take my punish
ment, said Van Nlessinecn, when on
the witness stand a fortnight ago. 'They
them ] could get it only by defraudlng
still other people. They said that they
did not want TO hear about how I got
it, The point with them was that / was
TO get IL, So | continued forging and
discovery was STAYED Oh for four years
more"
Mr. Rosenfed, taking the stand, de-
MED thar he had compounded a f'<,ny.
saying Van Nlisscnger had told him he
could make restitution from his own re-
sources.
did he agree to pay you and Rosen-
berg?"
Yes: he agreed TO pay us $4,000 week.
y. He owed. us about $4,000. which
he said he figured he could pay in two
or three years. He said he valued his
equities in real estate at $500 600