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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
Gov. Draper Startled When In
formed Army Had Landed on
South of Massachusetts.
GAME OF MIMIC WAR BEGINS.
sham Battles VIII be Fought-No
q Hostilc.Ficet Can Successfully
8s Run the Hubs Forts.

8s Boston. Aug. l4.--When Gov. Draper
today by the news that IA hostile force
had landed on the southern coast Of
massachusetts and was threatening the
military safety OF Boston, the most
extensive game of mimic war that has
ever been played in the eastern srates
was fairly under way. s+sc
In accordance with the rulss laid
down by the war departments sGov.
Draper at once called upon Adjt.-Gien.
Brigham to defend Boston against the
threatened attack and 1000 troops We're
ordered to the front underline conl-
mand OF Brig. Gen. Pew
1t was, of course, known to al! par
ties that the attacking force consisted
of several companies OF the United
States coast artillery from the forts in,
and about New York and a number of
regiments of militia from Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey and thestLl IS :
trict5of Columbia. under the command
of Maj .-Gen. Tasker FL. Bliss, II rs GA
The sham battles which will be
fought in Bristol and Plymouth coun-
ties next week between the blue army
of defense and the red army J Of Mt
tack, whose forces We're assembled to-
day, will demonstrate whether Massa-
chusetts. especially Boston, Is sur.
f1ciently protected against a foreign
force.
IT has already been demonstrated to
the satisfaction oftthe military authori-
ties OF the country That no hostile tiect
can successfully run past the forts In
Boston harbor and the object OF the
present inaneuvers Is TO ascertain
whether such a. force could successfully
make a rear attack on the city.
The rules of the present game pro-
vide that the attacking force shall be
landed from the transports under the
suppositon that no American battle
fleet was off shore to prevent its ap-
proach The strength Of the force and
Its disposition could not be ascertained.
as all telephone and telegraph wives
were thoroughly cut off at a.. m. to-
day. 1t was therefore Gen. 5Pew's duty
today to assemble his army and locate.
the enemy by such means az would
obtain in actual warfare Althou gh The
war correspondents" were requested
not to give the exact location OF the
different regiments 1t is not violating
confidence to say that troops from ali
over the state We're rushed to south
eastern Massachusetts,, and that the
vanguard of the attacking force under
Gen. Bliss actually landed on the shore
of Bristol county, and that the regi-
mepts from Connecticut. New York,
New Jersey and the District Of Column
bia We're expected to disembark. before
night. s.
+ Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood command
er of the department of the east, is the
chief umpire of the contest and VIII
have the assistance OF military experts
from Washington.
Z Several months hence after all these
hnlpires have made their-reports this
honors of war will be awarded.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14

crying of his little sick grandson In
5its8 mothers lap #infuriated him. He
declared if the mother did not make
the child cease crying he would kill it.
The mother failed to quiet the baby
Isl Ross got n revolver AS he turned
toward her. Mrs. YPistole fired twice
with II revolver. ThelfrstSbullet pierced
her fathers left side, and the second his
heart. ia /
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
WHITELAW REID SAILS.

London. Aug 14.--Whitelaw Reid
the American ambassador at London.
left Liverpool today on the steamer
Mauretania for New York. He will re-
turn to his post October 1st.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
CARD OF THANKS.

Mrs a Fl, Cannon and family desire
to express their thanks totheir friends
for assistance and sympathy extend
ed during their recent bereavement.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
DAILY EXCURSION RATES
Via Oregon short Line,

To various points in Utah, Idaho.
Oregon and Nevada from Aug. 8 to 49,
Inclusive. See agents foe rates and
particulars. City ticket office, 201 Main
street.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
DAILY EXCURSION RATES

Via Oregon Short Line.
4 To, various points in Utah, Idaho.
oregon and Nevada from Aug. g to la
inclusive. See agents for rates ana
particulars. City ticket office, 2O1 Main
street. n -
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14

CALL t.ts.i a. r.. OPERATOR,
On the Bell Tel phone for all business
relating to the Grand Army encampS
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14

The Merry Widow at Salt Lake
theater. matinee today and tonight.
Two las. performances. Good seats.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
CHICAGO CENSUS SUPERVISOR.

4 Chicago, Aug. t4A special from
beverly, Mass. to the Record Herold
says:
+ It was decided at conference be-
tween President Taft and other Off
{cials last night that Prof. Charles Il.
Merriam of the University of Chica-
go and a member of the Chicago city
Z council be appointed census supervj-l
sor Of the Chicago district if he would
accept the position.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
PROVO.

Tho News is delivered by carrier
every night tsunday. exeepted at Is
complaints should be made 10 r, ].
DuEdalc. agent for Daily. Saturday
and Semi-Weekly News. Orders talk
en- for Church Works. Residence. 81
North Fourth West.
!, CARRIER east side of Academy Ave.
Bell 20S red.
Bell So black.
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"The NJ eiry Widow at Salt Lake
theatelS matinee today and tonight.
Two last performances. Good seats,
The Brinkley argus., 1909-11-19
AUTHORITIES IN A CLASH.
Clever Ruse By Bondsmen Keeps
 Witness at Hon1e-in Jail.

Clever Ruse By Bondsmen Keeps Witness at Home-in Jail.
 Hot Springs.-State and federal or ficials have advanced point in legal complication here concerning the pos session of George Ryan, who is want ed by the government at Des Mol1es in connection with the famous Ma tray footrace operations, now being probed by the United States author ities.
 Ryan has resided in Hot Springs about two years. He is under in dictment on a charge of intent to kill, in connection with a fight in which he participated some time ago, and when Deputy Marshall Bickers arrived here to serve a warrant on Ryan and take his away his bonds men objected, on the ground that he might not be returned in time for the criminal trial docketet i'll the Garland county circuit court. The federal officers pressed their case and insisted upon taking Ryan, and the bondsmen made flank move and surrendered Ryan to the sheriff and asked to be relived from the bond.
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through. He knows by them how old
 I am and he knows their rate of wear
 exactly and how much longer they
 will last and he could tell me how
 much longer I will last. But haven't
 asked him because I don't want to
 know at all.
 AS a matter of fact, think that when we come to my time of life we don't much fancy dwelling on that; though there are times when it seems to intrude itself, when we realize that the years ahead of us are not so many as-well, as they were some years ago, when life seemed to us intermi- nable. Any actuary could tell us what our expectation of life may be at the present moment.
 We expect, of course, that we are going to live longer. to be the excep- ton. but even if we should so prove
 we can count the years still coming
 to us without using many fingers. We are getting to where we can see the end if we look that way. and I cant say that I have any fear of it, but certainly don't find any pleasure ir contemplating it: I'd rather stay.
 I'm glad uy teeth are good, aay how
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All Over Arkansas
CIRCUS TREASURER TOSSED.
Bandits Operate in Private Car While | Train Speeds Between Towns.


 Bandits Operate in Private Car While
 Train Speeds Between Towns.
 Pine Bluff.-Plainly showing the effects of severe beating, the treas urer of the Yankee Robinson circus which has been showing in central and southwest Arkansas during the past week, claims that during the run from Pine Bluff to Fordyce, he was robbed of $6sO00.
 The treasurer was travelling in his private car, attached to the circus train, where, he alleges, he was sci upon, beaten, bound and gagged, and afterwards robbed of what money was in the car. The robbery is said to have occurred near the Saline Riv. CT water tank, while the train was in motion.
 The conductor made the following statement concerning the robbery:
 q cannot say how the robbery oc cured, but I am told that Brakeman J. D. Thompson noted two men near the middle of the train as the show 
 was leaving Pine Bluff. Brakeman Thompson believed the men belong ed with the circus and paid no fur ther attention to them. He last no ticed them at Rison, at which time they were between two of the coach es."
 Thompson furnished the officials description of the men he saw and a search for the pair was immediate ly instituted. One of the men was about six feet in height, and wore a white hat and red handkerchief about his neck. He also wore q light overcoat. The other man, i' is said, weighs about ITO pounds, and wore a black overcoat and stiff hat Neither of the men wore masks, but the night was too dark for the rail road man to distinguish their fea' lures.
The Brinkley argus., 1909-11-19
TOOK A CHANGE AND WON
Enterprise of Newspaper Reporter That Brought to Him De-
 served Success.

A story of how a reporter obtained abundant opportunity to talk with Dr. Frederick Cook and from him se- cured details of his polar trip, is told by Dr. F. w. Bergengren of No. l25 Chatham street, Lynn, who reached home this week after trip through Europe Dr. Bergengren met Cook at Copenhagen and sailed with him to this country on the Oscar II.
 Cook had planned to hold back de- tails of his trip for publication in book form" Dr. Bergengren said. "So at Copenhagen he tried to avoid the reporters. He met them at the Phoenix hotel, but gave them only a few facts.
 When the Oscar H. sailed from Co penhagen Cook was not booked as a passenger. The newspaper men who had come down to see him off were left guessing on the wharf. Only one of them, young fellow named Barry
The Brinkley argus., 1909-11-19
LITTLEROCK MOVING
CAPITAL ciTY IS FORGING TO
 THE FRONT.
Merchants Received 39,720 Carioads of Goods and Shipped 4o,2ss
 Carloads Out.

Little Rock.-In a publication Just issued by the Little Rock Board or Trade, the aggregate amount of bus mess done in Little Rock the past twelve months is placed at Sllo,ooo,- 900. The merchants received 39,12o carloads of goods and shipped out 40,2SS carloads. The bank clearings for the year were $73,SI9,lo5.po against $69,277, ,S63.16 for the preced- ing year.
 In the capitol city and Argenta, on the north side Of the river, there are 1,500 various enterprises. The number of industrial plants in Little Rock, great and small, is 371, and the annual payroll is $4,50o,OoO, T little more than one-half of which IS paid by the Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island railroad companies.
 There are six oil mills, four cotton congresses, five foundry and ma chine shops, nine wood working plants, one creosoting plant, one fertilizer plant, one paving brick plant, and innumerable smaller en- terprises. The railroads run in six directions and the Arkansas river also furnishes a means of transpor- tation.
 The cotton receipts for the sea son which ended August 3i were 271.756 bales, the value of which is $12,114,9O0, this being an increase over last year of over 100000 bales. The grain receipts for the past year were 4,864,OO0 bushels of corn, 1,l43,- 900 bushels of oats, and 69,000 bush els of wheat
 Little Rock real estate holdings have been materially increased with in the past year, and many of the mercantile establishments have been repaired and improved until the bus mess streets compare favorably with cities of much greater population.
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"MlkE" FAILS TO APPEAR.
Cases Against Mabray Men are Con
 tinued Until January Term.

Little Rock-J. G. Kile, of Cisco, H., the $10,000 Mike, who is a pros ecUting witness against Monte Nc Call, I. J. Warner and J. s. John son, alleged member of the Mabray swindle syndicate did not appear for trial in the Pulaski county circuit court, and the cases were continued until January IT. <
 A party at Cisco telegraphed that Kilc had left that place for parts un, known, and that the letter from the prosecuting attorney, informing him of the time of trial, had no been de livered Without the prosecuting witness, the state could not go to trial.
 JIG. Mabray, the leader of the al legged swindle syndicate, whose head quarters were at Little Rock for a time, is in jail at Des Moines, Iowa.
 Postal Inspector J. s. Swenson was present when the cases were called, and arrangements were made to ar rest the men on federal charges # they were released by the officers of the state. c. A. Nelson, of Alma, Mich, and Henry StoggsdillOof Ca bool Mo, Mikes who were swirl dled out of $5.000 each, were present as witnesses.
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THE TRADES WEEK IDEA.
England Prepares for Week of At
 fractions to Farmers.

England.-The Trades Week idea, which is spreading rapidly in Ark ansas and throughout the Southwest, has reached England, Lonoke county, and the merchants and citizens of this place in general have joined i'll move to entertain the thousands of visitors invited; and prizes of sub- stantial form have been provided to make the farmer doubly glad of his visit to this hustling, growing town.
 From November to IS, inclusive, England will hang the latch string on the outside, and program which is both entertaining and instructive has been prepared for the occasion
 The Trades Week plan is employ ed regularly in many progressive vii lages and towns, and as trade win ner, it is doubtful if a better idea could be put into effect for the same outlay in expense and individual ef- fort.
The Brinkley argus., 1909-11-19
THE STORY THE DIVORCE COURT
 RECORDS TELL
Facts That Indicate Why 1t Is That
 Americans Are Earning Distinction for Being the Greatest Nation Horne Breakers and Home Makers
 m the World.

list to Kansas, the fifteenth in line, before he gets to state, the people of which exhibit what might be called normal matrimonial proclivities Kan sas, with ratio of 35s. is one above the average for the country.
 Turning to what might be called subnormal communities, the people of Connecticut, with ratio of 232, are really at the bottom of the list. Cali fornia is in last placein the statistics, but Californians are actually not'saAs frigid as they are tabulated. The fire that followed the great California earthquake destroyed so many rec ords that nobody knows exactly what is going on in the marriage and di- voree circles of the Golden state. But Connecticut is preceded, in the order named, by Delaware, Montana, Massa- chusetts, Wyoming, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, though it contains the City of Homes has a ratio of only 255, while New York stands only 269 In other words, resident of Indian Territory is almost twice as likely to marry, provided he has not already done so, as if he lived in New York
 In South Central States.
 Not only that, the tendency to marry seems to flourish in certain groups of states and to wane in cer- tain other groups. The south central states lead the list with a ratio of 436; the south Atlantic with $50 come next, while the north central the western, and the north Atlantic groups follow in the order named. From all of which it appears that while one may go west for wealth, he should go south if he is having difi- culty in finding matrimonial mate where he is.
 Yet, exceeding, as we do, the mar riage ratios of all the world except Hungary, we are barely holding our
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there was decline in the rate, though an increase in the number. Doubtless there was also a decline in 1908. though the figures have not been com piled. The reason for believing there was a decline last year is that there was a panic in 1907. Panics invari- ably check the tendency toward in creased divorce. When times are hard people forget their domestic troubles for a time and occupy their minds with the problem of how to get a living. As soon as times improve the rate usually bounds upward with rapidity that indicates that nothing has been forgotten or forgiven-or nothing learned. Accumulated griev- ances are worked off in the divorce court, and the tide sweeps on more rapidly than before.
 Where in the United States would one naturally expect to find the great est tendency toward divorce? In what state? Not one person in hundred could guess right if he were given a dozen chances.
 Washington is the state. Far rom the stress of modern industrial life; away across the country where the people, for the most part, are engaged in agricultural pursuits-there 513 couples are annually divorced to every 100000 of married population. The rate for the whole country is 200.
 New Works Low Record.
 New York's divorce rate, as might naturally be expected, is low. New York stands forty-seventh in the list of 30 states and territories, with a ratio of 60. New Jerseys ratio is the
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1 Tn the case of women cruelty heaos the list with an Increase in 40 years of 1.60s.s per cent In the case of men cruelty shows an increase of ss9.S per cent Cruelty. in fact, holds first place among increased causes in both sexes with climb of 1.035.3 per cent. But on the whole, neglect to provide takes first place as an increased cause wltn a jump of 1,S31.4 per cent, wnich' barring the Utah gentlemen. goes en- tirely to women.
 Drunkenness comes second as an m creased cause, with general increase of 6S5.2 per cent. The drunkenness of husbands increased 699.9 per cent; the drunkenness of wives 554.5. per cent.
 Desertion ranks third as an ln- creased cause, with an increase or 569.S per cent, while infidelity has Tn creased the least of all-only 27o.S per cent
 Here, again, the census figures play tricks. Infidelity among women IS represented to be increasing more rapidly than infidelity among men. For women an increase is shown or 299S per cent. ; for men 2S7.l per cent.
 Fioures as to Suicide Rate.
 Americans, it would seem, take d. vorce more easily than do some oth- CTS. Over in Europe the fact has been ascertained that the suicide rate IS abnormally high among those who have been separated from their mates by due. process of law, rather than py death. It is not so in this country.
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own. Our ratio for the ten-year period ending in 1905 was 357. Our ratio for the tenyear period ending in 1895 was 356
 But if the tendency toward mar riage shows signs of having reached its maximum, no such indication is apparent with regard to divorce. Tn that field we are bounding along, not only at prodigious speed. but at ter rifically increasing pace. The man. ner in which our population increases is the wonder of the world, but it is dwarfed by the increase of our ten dency to break the homes we have made. In 1867, there were granted in this country 9937 divorces; in 1906, 72,062. Population increased about no per cent; divorce increased more than TOO per cent Furthermore, the increase between 1890 and 1900 was greater than that of any other decade since 1870. The increase of divorce exceeded the increase of population more than 300 per cent
 Putting it in still another way, in 1870 2S divorces were granted to every 100000 of population; in 1900, 73 divorces were granted to every 100000 of population.
 Figures for Divorces. o
 Only once during the last 40 years has the number of divorces actually shown decrease. That was in 1884 when there was a decline of 204 over the number granted during the pre- ceding year. In 1870, 1894 and 1902
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same. Connecticut is thirty-ninth, with a ratio of 130, while in Pennsyl- vania 100000 married couples are re- uuired to produce 94 divorces in a year
 Coming down to causes, we find that most men who obtain divorces assign as their grievance the deser- ton of their wives. and that most women give the same reason. It also appears that women are more likely to desert than men. Of the divorces granted to men 49.4 per cent. were for desertion. The divorces granted to women because of the assertion of their husbands amounted to S36 per cent. of the whole number of divorces that were granted to women.
 Cruelty comes second as cause and, as in the preceding cause. it ap- plies heavily both to men and women. Of the divorces granted to men 1O.5 per cent. were for the cruelty of their wives Of the divorces granted to women 275 per cent. were for the cruelty of their husbands.
 In the case of both men and women infidelity is the third cause in relative importance. On the bare face of the census figures it would appear that women are more likely to be untrue to their husbands than men are to be untrue to their wives, since only ten per cent. of the divorces granted to women were for the infidelity of their husbands, while 2S.7 per cent. of the divorces granted to men were for the infidelity of their wives. But, Of course, it is not true that women sin more than men in this respect. What is true is that women who thus err are more frequently found out and less frequently forgiven. And poor old census bureau is not, of course, expected to tabulate such fact as this, because the figures to sustain the fact cannot be obtained.
 Laid to Drunkenness. Drunkenness comes forward as the fourth cause, but it comes forward shaky in it's legs and emaciated in form Only 3.6 per cent. of all the di- vorces are granted because of habits formed around hot stoves in the bar room. and as between the sexes most | of the blame, of course, goes to the men. Only II per cent. of the di' vorces granted to men were for the drunkenness of their wives, while 53
 per cent. of the divorces granted to
 women were for the drunkenness of l their husbands.
 | In relative importance, neglect tc
 provide is the fifth cause, this reason having been assigned in 3.7 per cent
 of the divorces granted. In alleging
 this grievance women would have
 had a monopoly had it not been for
 six gentlemen in Utah who were
 actually granted divorces because their wives did not provide them with
 the necessary clothing, shelter and
 nourishment.
 Combinations of the five preceding | causes were responsible for 9.4 pel Lcent- of the divorces, and other griev
 ances, not here enumerated, caused | the other 61 per cent.
 e Some interesting facts were also
 discovered with regard to the relative 1 speeds at which the various causes ] for divorce are increasing
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more rapidly than men: Indeed, it is an astounding fact that the cruelty of women toward their husbands showed a greater increase during the 20-year period ended in 1906 than any other cause for divorce, the gain be. ing 1909 per cent.
 Marriage and Divorce.
 Perhaps the strangest feature of the report is the fact that it shows an unparalleled marriage ratio side by side with an unparalleled divorce s.ratio. Out in Indian Territory the preachers must almost have to fight them off-the would-be wedded-or go short of sleep. In matrimony Indian Territory leads the world. Even Hungary, with it's ratio of 456 mar riages every year to each 10000 Of marriageable population, is made to look like quite cold and clammy community. Indian Territory's ratio is 555. The ratio of the United States fs only 356.
 If Arkansas had held another coun- ty fair in 1906 probably it would have beaten Indian Territory at that Ar kansas, with ratio of 554. came just one short of tying the leader.
 Texas. Florida. Oklahoma, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Utah and Georgia fol low in the order named, and the ratio of Georgia Is 422. Even in Nevada the tendency toward marriage is greater than the average tendency of the United States. Nevada's ratio is 3S9. Tn fact, one has to go down the