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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

The cabinet session lasted two hours
and forty minutes. President Taft's
message to congress, especially with
relation to the proposed amendments to
the interstate commerce and antitrust
laws, was considered.
From remarks let fall by congression-
al callers at the White house today,
there seems little doubt but that a con-
gressional committee will be appoint
ed to investigate the sugar frauds and
customs house corruption in New York
No official notice will be taken by the
treasury department, at least for the
present, of the controversy between
Former Assistant Secretary James B.
Reynolds, now chairman of the tariff
board, and Richard Parr, a deputy sur
veyor attached to the New York Gus
toms house.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
WILL TRY HABEAS CORPUS.
Next Step in the Gompers-MitcheIi-
Morrison Program.

Washington, Nov. 16.-President Sam
uel Gompers. Vice President John
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison of the
American Federation of Labor. who are
under sentence on the charge of con-
tempt of court, will not have to return
to appear before the district court of
appeals to file notice of their appeal
until next Monday.
Tt is expected they viii then sue out
a writ of habeas corpus before some
judge of the district supreme court. and
should the judge refuse them under the
writ, the next step will be an appeal to
the United States supreme court.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
GEORGE CROKER DYING
Millionaire Who Once Spent Period
of Probation in Utah a
Victim of Cancer.
Especial to The neutrality-suspicious.

Especial to The Herald-Republican.)
New York. Nov. 16.-George Croker
is dying in his magnificent mansion at
Sixty-fourth street and Fifth avenue
from cancer Of the stomach, and the
members Of his family are prepared for
his death at any moment.
In March, 1908, Mr.. Croker was ope-
rated on for cancer at mis- home by the
late Dr. William T. Bull. Another ope-
ration became necessary in June, 1908,
and that. too, was performed by DR..
Bull Mr.. Croker never recovered from
the last operation. which failed to eradi-
cate the cancerous growth. When
Charles CFOcker's will was read it pro-
vided that George should abstain from
for a period of five years be
fore participating in the fifty millions
left. Most of this period was spent in
Utah on a ranch of 3T5,000 acres given
him by his father.
When he completed the period he re-
ceived Sc G00, 00O
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
BOWS TO JUDGMENT
OF MOTHER CHURCH
Mrs. Augusta E StetSOn Prom
ises to obey Christian Sci
enee Leader in Future.

Boston, Nov. 16.-For twenty hours,
ten yesterday and ten today, Mrs. Au-
gusta Stetson Of New York, accused of
mental malpractice" was in secret
conference with the board of directors
of the First Church of Christ, Scientist,
in the inner council room of the mother
church
While the deliberations were secret.
their result was apparent tonight, when
Mrs. Stetson issued statement, in
which she asserts that she bows to the
judgment of the mother church direct
Ors against her, and, furthermore, the
she will obey my leader" by uniting
with those who felt il was right to con-
denim her III their testimony.
Mrs. Stetson's statement follows:
our beloved leader, Mary Baker
Eddy, has requested us all to unite with
those in our church who are supporting
the mother church directors. Today
have received a copy of her letter ad-
dressed to the trustees of our church.
For twenty-five years 1 have gladly
obeyed her leading in every question,
have always found that by doing this
/ drew nearer to God. My students
know that I have taught them to do
likewise, without questioning her wis
dom; therefore, they do not need any
word from me in adding to what our
beloved leader has said to guide them at
this hour.
They viii know that it is right for
them to unite with those who supported
the mother church directors in the judg
ment rendered against me. I, myself
have been Obeying that judgment, and
I shall continue to do so. 1 SHALL fur
thermOre, obey my leader by uniting
with those who felt it was right to con-
denim me in their testimony. My lead
er's letter induces me to believe that
may have been wrong where l felt that
1 was absolutely right.
For twenty-five years I have
watched and prayed for guidance and
strength I'm correcting every error re-
vealed TO me by God and by my leader
On. h. q ny of my Ll.at hra1l -
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
WILL CRUISE FIVE YEARS
Captain RaOld Amundsen Fitting Out
Oceanographic Expedition for
the Norwegian Government.

New York, Nov. 16.-Captain Raold
Amundsen, discoverer Of the Northwes st
passage, who arrived today from Copen-
hagen, explained that his visit to Amer
lea was to fit out an oceanographic ex-
petition for +he Norwegian government.
The expedition win start, he said. from
Christiania, in Nansen's old Ship the
Fran, next July, and probably will
cruise for five years. The first year will
be spent in the southern portion of the
North Atlantic, studying currents, tenn
peratures, the ocean bottom and sea life.
Then the Fran will be navigated around
the Horn to the Pacific, probably fitting
out in San Francisco for an Arctic trim.
I'VE plan to leave San Francisco" said
Captain Amundsen, "in July 1911, with
fourteen men. TO push through the Boring
strait as far north as we can; then to
freeze in the ice and drift with it. Its
general direction is north, and we NAV
pass close to the pole"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

The statement of the commissioners
is largely argumentative, designed to
show the care taken in the preparation
and rating of examina ton papers, and
how, by reason of methods in vogue, it
is practically impossible for the COM
missions examiners in Washington to
show favoritism in rating. Authority
is given to appoint officers to examine
into antecedents of eligibles and to re-
movai of place holders whenever the
public interest so requires.
The Information regarding the TWEEN
ty-two assistant weighers came from
the New York customs house. Two of
the assistant weighers were appointed
without ceTtification by the commission.
The remaining twenty having been APP
pointed by certification from 1885 to
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
DIED AT THE CLOSE.
Indiana Man Attends His One Hun
dredth Birthday Celebration.

Richmond, Ind, Nov. 16.-At the close of
a big celebration in honor of his 10Gth
birthday, John Fletcher Medaris Of
Green's Fork, a small town near here,
died late today.
Meuaris almost collapsed sooner, but
lived until the program in his honor had
been carried out It was his expressed
wish 10 live for the celebration. which
the entire population OF Green's Fork and
go rela tives attended
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
THAW CREATES A SCENE.
insisted Upon Picking Out Place to
Dine for Himself.

New York, Nov. 16.-Harry X. Thaw,
who was brought here today from the
Matteawan asylum to testify in the suit
of DR.. Hamilton to recover from Mrs.
Mary Copley Thaw $1,000 for profess
siOnal services, created a scene at the
court house over the question as to
where he should eat luncheon.
The constables in charge were taking
him to a restaurant near the court
building, but Thaw insisted upon going
to a place in the financial district
where he lunched frequently before the
killing of Stanford White.
He became so noisy that a large
crowd collected, and DR.. Baker of the
asylum was obliged to interfere.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

1907 There are now employed at New
York l26 assistant weighers.
Examinations by which these assist
ant weighers have been chosen in the
last fifteen years, says the commission.
have been prepared and rated at Wash
mgton. The examinations themselves
are conducted by local boards at New
York or elsewhere.
The statement Of the commission con-
ciudes.
What the commission desires TO en-
phasize to the press is that if has used
not only all of the precautions possible
in the selection of it's eligibles, but it
has left in the department unimpaired
power of sitting such appointments.
when once made. to the bottom and ex-
ercising the power of removal at any
time that the interests of the public
service requires
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

The meat Of the controversy appears
to be the desire of Mr.. Parr to obtain
moiety Of the fine IMPOSED upon the
sugar trust for alleged frauds in
weighing sugar at the customs docks.
1t developed today that Mr.. Parr last
spring presented to the department a.
statement of these alleged frauds. in
which ne laid claim to such an amount
as the treasury might allow him for
discovery of the frauds.
The claim was to be paid ont Of tba
fine imposed upon the sugar trust
which amounted to 100000. The de-
partment has taken no action on that
claim.
Secretary MacVeagh declined to enter
the controversy, and would not say
that any intimation would be given to
Mr. Parr that arguments in newspapers
were distasteful to the department.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
SIX WORKMEN KILLED.
Four Thousand Cubic Feet of Earth
CaVed in Upon Them.

Winston-Saien n. c., Nov. 16.-SiN
workmen were killed and number of
others barely escaped death when four
thousand cubic feet of earth caved in and
entombed a construction force building a
concrete viaduct at Salem creek this
morning.
The men were working on the rounda-
ton Of the trestle abutment. when the
earth thirty feet above suddenly caved
muryng them. Rescue work was imne-
diateiy begun. but a second cave-in
caught a number of the rescuing party
These were soon brought to the surface
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
CABINET DID NOT CONSIDER
The SUGAR TRUST QUESTION
Situation Said to Be Satisfactory to
the President-MessGge Matter
Taken Up.

Washington Nov 16-Mmbers Of the cabinet
since the adjournment of the special declined
this afternoon what had the meeting
sugar frauds by member that
there necessity for the cabinet consider the
ney Wickersham and Secretary Maveagh entrusted with
the investigation of the frauds and stated situation
satisfactory to Mr.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
TAET Al THEATRE.

Washington. Nov. 16.-President Taft
made his first appearance Of this season
at a Washington theatre tonight. attend
ing the performance of 1.-THE Old Town.
with Montgomery and Stone in the cast.
at the New National. The President was
accompanied by Mrs. Taft and her sister.
Mrs. Laughlin of Pittsburg.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
TWENTY-FIVE WEICHERS Are
NOW IMPLICATED IN FRAUDS
Investigation of New York Custom,
House Productive of More
Scandal.

Washington Nov 6Twenywo assistant York
custom house known have been implicated suspicion
in the socalled trust frauds.
This set forth statement tonight by Chairman Me
Meheny and Washu the civil in answer
charges that appointments York custom house
at the dictum of the trust
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

Norfolk Neb.. Nov. ia blanket of
snow from eight to ten inches deep on
the level covered all of northern Ne
braska, southern South Dakota the Black
Hills and northern Wyoming today. All
trains in this territory were late this
morning, some several hours. The tenn
perature is moderate
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
FIERCE BLIZZARD RAGING
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ne
braska Experiencing Some
Real Winter Weather.

Duluth. Mimi, Nov. 16.-At midnight q
blizzard struck the head of the lakes dis
trict the wind at times assuming the pro-
portions of a gale. Lake Superior Is
tumbling in a way to prohibit safe navi-
cation. A heavy SnOWSJOrm continues.
Traffic on railroads and in the city is
delayed.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
LoeaI Eneet Unknown.

In the absence of information other
than that contained IN the press dis
patches, Arthur W. Long, local man
ager of the Western Union Telegraph
company, could not say what effect the
merger of the telephone and telegraph
companies would have in the local stu
alton, or what changes might be an
ticipated.
Continued on Page 2.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
Former Director of the Mint
Roberts Says This Country
Is Behind the Rest of World
in Matter of Paper Currency.
JAPAN FOLLOWED US, BUT
SOON TOOK BACK TRACK
Plea for a Central Bank of Is
sue Under Responsible Con-
troll, Not Independent Com
peting Banking Institution.
OBJECTIONS MISS MARK

Kansas City, Nov. .-"Nine-tenths
Of all the objections now being offered
to the central bank plan miss the mark
they do not apply at all to the kind of
central bank that is proposed" de-
ciared George f. Roberts, president of
the Commercial National bank of Chi
cage, and former director of the mint,
in an address delivered at a meeting of
the Kansas City Clearing House assO-
citation today.
The central bank of issue offers a
more comprehensive treatment of the
currency problem than any other plan, -
he said. 1T provides abundant elastici-
ty under responsible control 1t pro-
vides a fiscal agency for the govern
ment through which its enormous col
lections and disbursements may be
handled with the least disturbance in
the money market.
I'VE are not pioneers in the move
ment. We are tagging behind all the
rest of the world. There is not a coun-
try in Europe but has delegated the is
suance of its paper currency to a CEN
trail bank
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

New Richmond. Wis, Nov. ia severe
blizzard is raging in northern Wisconsin
today.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
Not Competing institution.

Those of us who favor a central
bank advocate not an independent,
competing institution that will gather
deposits from all over the country, but
a central organization of the existing
banks-call it central bank or a cen
trail clearing house, or a central agency,
or what You like-that will do for all
the banks under the authority of law
what the clearing houses did for their
members in 1907 an organization that
viii render certain services to the gov
eminent and TO the banks and to the
public. which the individual banks are
not so well qualified to perform"
Speaking Of the Misrepresentation
concerning the proposed institution, Mr.
Roberts said:
mo important departure is ever mads
without opposition. Every movement
of this kind must be pushed forward
through maze of suspicion and preju-
dice, objections and counter PROPOSE
tiOns."
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Experience of Japan.

THE japanese began organizing their
banking system in 1872 by copying our
system of national banks, with issues
of notes based upon the public debt, but
in ten years they discovered that they
had not copied the best system. Then
they established the Bank of Japan. a
semi-Official institution modelled after
the Imperial Bank of Germany.
In the cities, the bankers, under the
pressure of emergencies, have learned to
come together and assume, without any
legal sanction, some of the functions
of central bank. We saw the clearing
house in 1907 receive the ordinary COM
mercial assets of their members and
issue an impromptu currency upon
them, and that currency passed into
circulation and served the purpose of
money. The only trouble with il was
that It had no legal status ana 1t was
in tfeef p Ss-p1rlt,s7l, slr sslisgE-slf.4-
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

Sioux City. Ia. Nov. 16-Eight inches
of snow fell throughout this SECTION of
the state today. Railway and sfreeS car
traffic is delayed
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Western Union Telegraph 90.
Absorbed by the American
Telephone and Telegraph
Co. After a Long Effort.
POSTAL MAY BE TAKEN
INTO CAMP IN FUTURE
Incorporation Of a New Billion
Dollar Corporation Said to
Be Necessary to Complete
the Absorption as Planned,
EFFECT LOCALLY UNKNOWN

New York, Nov. 16.-Announoed in
Boston and confirmed in New York.
another billion-dOllar merger became
a reality with the practical absorb
ton of the Western Union Telegraph
company by the American Telephone
and Telegraph company. The West
ern Union, one of the pet properties
Of the late Jay Gould, has been in
the Gould family for a generation,
and it was by the sale of the Gould
stock today that the merger was &C
complshed.
While the report has been current
that the Mackay companies, con-
trolling the Postal Telegraph COM
pany, ultimately will be included in
the plan Of reorganization, no con-
trmation of this could be obtained
in New York. Officials of the Postal
were emphatic that the company
would remain independent.
Boston, Nov. ia long stride to-
ward the complete control by one cor
poratiOn Of all wire communication in
the United States was made TODAY In
the acquisition by the American Tele-
phone K Telegraph company of the con-
troll of the Western Union TELEGRAPH
company. To make the absorption COM
pie, the Incorporation of a new billion
dollar company, it is said, viii be nee
oe gn
bonds and stocks Of the American TeIe-
phone & Telegraph company, known as
the Bel company. and the outstanding
sl65'O 900 of bonds and stocks OF the
Western Union Telegraph company.
Fhe acquisition Oh Ire Western = MON
company by the telephone company has
been IN order for six months. and only
a sufficient amount TO insure control.
said to be 81 per cent. was taken over.
Officers Of the telephone company be
lieve that the merger VIII save the Bell
company S15,000,000 in new construc-
ton, as it viii allow the utilization Of
wires for both telegraphing and teIe-
phoning.
List Of Companies.
Some associated corporations engaged
in the telephone business. a majority of
whose stocks rests in the treasury Of the
parent concern, are. New York Tele-
phone company, S50,0O0,0 600: New Eng
land Telephone & Telegraph company.
S3l, 900; Bell Telephone company OF
Pennsylvania, S91, $50, 900; New York &
New Jersey Telephone company, SIS
100000; Southern Bell Telephone COM
pany, S21, 400, 900: Cumberland Telephone
& Telegraph company, SIS, 200, 900; Chi
cagO Telephone company, ST., SOC. 600; 3
Western Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany. $4,000, 600; Bell Telephone compa-
ny Of Canada, S12, 500, 000
The telephone system annually trans
mits 5,956S0O.OO0 messages. while the
Western Union handles 68,053,00 The
telephone system has 8,0S9, $40 miles OF
wire, and the Western Union 81 49,, 500.
The total property value Of the tele-
phone company is s545. 045. 900. and that
Of the Western Union S124086, $40.
Locai Effect Unknown
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
THE METALS.

Silver, 5O5sc.
Copper, cath, IL 1876.
Lead, $40 per 100 lbs.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17

Chances to reduce their
own rent expenses to a
minimum are open to fur
nished room advertisers.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-17
No Part of Mine Safe.

The repeated sealing up of the mouth
OF the mine necessary to stop the
draught and smother the fire, it is held,
was sufficient to generate enough gas
Continued on Page 8.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-11
MASS MEETING OF
LAYMEN At CAPITAL
Episcopal Missionary Council
Closes With Enthusiastic
Gathering.
(by Associated rress).


WASHINGTON. ID. c. Nov. 10.-An
enthusiastic mass meeting in the in
terest of the movement for the
Outstanding of the world tonight
brought 10 a conclusion the second
session of the Missionary Council OF
the Protestant Episcopal church, en-
bracing the states of Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and
West Virginia. Baltimore was chosen
as the place for the next annual
meeting.
The speakers were the Right Rev.
Arthur S. Lloyd. bishop coadjutor of
Virginia. on The Outlook: the Right
Rev. John Gardiner Murray, bishop
coadjutor of Maryland. on the Call to
the Clergy" and George W. Pepper. OF
Pennsylvania, The Call to the Laity- y
Rev. DR.. Alfred II. Harding, bishop OF
the diocese OF Washington, president.
A resolution was adopted recon-
mending that In each diocese a COM
mittee be appointed or elected spe-
cially empowered to collect money
for missionary purposes.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-11
Just Wearing Out.

Interesting was our call, though
brief, at the humble home OF Blue
Wilcoxson, once a slave OF great
value belonging TO Isaac Newton VIII
coxson. He is los years of age, and
was alone with his dog sitting before
a mere shoveful OF fire. In answer
to our inquiries he said that he was
just wearing out" was never too
sick TO work. but now his eyes are
failing and he can scarcely see. He
claims to be only waiting for the
good Lord to call him home. And We
who have known his life through his
tory given by ancestors believe that
a mansion has been erected for him
there. Were We TO live such a life OF
service as that honest old darky the
following scripture would be under
stood by us in its true meaning:
% death. where is thy sting2
% grave, where is thy victory
Il. Corinthians, Nv, So
Horse Cave Cor. Hart County
News.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-11
PRISONERS
DIED FROM PELLAGRA
Former Surgeon Says Fatal Dis
ease Had Same Symptoms as
Newly Identified Malady.
CBy Associated Press.)

NEW ORLEANS, LA. Nov. 10
That hundreds OF deaths which &C.
CURED at the Confederate prison at
Andereonville, Ga, during the summer
of 1864 were not due to typhoid fever.
as then supposed, but were caused by
pellagra, was the opinion expressed
before the Southern Medical Conven-
ton today by Dr. J. w. Kerr. CT Cor
s:canna, Texas.
Or. Kerr, who was surgeon a. the
Andersonville prison, described the
symptoms Of the disease which at
tackled the inmates so fatally at that
time and in nearly every particular
they were recognized DIS being char
acteristic of peliagra. This view was
further Strengthened. DIR. Kerr, said,
by the fact that musty or spoiled
corn. generally accredited by the med
ical fraternity as being perhaps the
cause of pellaera, constituted the
main diet of the prisoners.
The consensus of opinion among
the physicians who presented papers
on the subject was that pellagra IS
attributable to spoiled corn.