The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-10

people were stIn homeless.
TOPEKA. Kan. July The Kansas
river has risen slightly since last nigh
and It's stage Is now sixteen feet All tho
tributaries are falling rapidly The rail
road washouts have all been repaired and
trains are running on the regular sched
ules.
HELENA. July 9.-The state board OF
health today passed n resolution abolish
state after January i. 1910. The resou-
! tion states that as vaccination has been
proved to be an absolute preventative
against smallpox quarantine is no longer
necessary.
| SAN FRANCISCO, July 9.-The steam
schooner Z. j. Adler, bound from Seattle
10 Bethel. Alaska, recently reported to
storm and for whose safety fears were
entertained, arrived safely at her destlna- =
! ton on July l, according TO dispatch
received today by the Merchants EN-
change.
SEATTLE. Wash, July o.-The Pacific
coast conference Of the Unitarian
churches. which met here today was at
church in the Pacific states. Al the
morning session. Mrs. Lloyd Baldwin of
San Francisco delivered address on
Social Power OF the Woman's Alliance"
Rev. w. Il. Brown of Salt Lake City ex-
tended greetings.
NEW YORK, July 9.-Charlotte Grail
ter, who has been a voluntary prisoner in
the Yorkville police court prison for five
years. is insane in Bellevue hospital,
When she first asked TO be committed
TO the prison she adopted little kitten.
which became her sole companion there.
The cat died recently and the woman
grieved over the matter until she lost
her mind, the doctors say, permanently.
LIVINGSTON, Mont. July 9-The re-
mains Of George B. Scott, a mall carrier,
in the employ Of the Northern Pacific rail-
road at this place, who disappeared last
Tuesday, were found floating in the Yel-
lowstone river this afternoon by NJ. l..
Baker ranchman, eighteen miles south
Of Livingston. Scott is believed 10 have
leaped into the river with suicidal inten-
tions while in state OF temporary de-
rnentia,
VICTORIA, 3. c.. July s.-breaklng all
previous records made by other than the
hama. the steamer Teuccr OF the Blue
Funnel line reached port this afternoon
from Liverpool and the far east after Il
run OF twelve days. twenty-five hours and
twenty-one minutes from Yokohama to
Victoria, The best previous time was
that Of her sister liner Bellerophon, which
made the run in thirteen days, one hour
and forty-hve minutes last August.
SEATTLE, Wash. July 9.-The excur-
sion steamer Yosemite went on the rocks
near Bremcrton, the seat of the Puget
Sound navy yard. at o'clock tonight
while returning with party OF eXcur-
sionists from a trip about the sound. A
large hole was stove in the steamer amid
ships and she was hung up on the reef
with five feet OF water in her hold. The
$50 passengers were taken off by passing
steamers. There was no panic and no
one was injured,
MIssOULA. Mont, July 9,-Ptomaine
poisoning caused by the eating OF some
canned fruit resulted in the death this
evening of Coralette G. Masten, the j.
year-old daughter OF Mrs Dora Masten of
this city The child ate some berries for
supper, and shortly afterward was taken
Ing. Medical aid was summoned, but the
child had gotten so much OF the poison
Gus fruit that nothing could be done 10
save her.
SAN RANCISCO., July 9-After six
hours OF elaboration, the coroner's jury
investisating the death Of Caroline
Bros, who was sho, and killed in their
office last week, returned verdict to-
night, charging James Z. Cunningham.
crime. and recommending that laws be
framed and adopted that viii do away
with the time check system" of paying
laborcrs used by Gray Bros
DENVER. July 9.--Accordine to the
figures OF the United States weather bu-
rcau. the rainfall so far this year in
Denver and eastern Colorado in general Is
in excess OF the normal precipitation for
the entire year Some parts of east
ern Colorado, the land OF the so-called
dry farms" show a rainfall In June
alone of more than seven inches. The
total fall in Denver since January 1 is
1870 inches. Since July ! the fan has
been nearly six inches.
MILES CITY. Mont. July 81 w
Sweetzer, president of the First National
bank OF Forsythe. was given hearing
today on the charge OF grand larceny In
stealing 30i head OF sheep and taking
1000 pounds OF wool. the property Of l..
NJ. Howard. The defendant was dis
charged. the evidence showing that
Swectzer had turned over 500 head of
sheep to Howard. all that were branded
sufficiently plain, and made restitution