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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
GOVERNOR GETS MEMENTO
FROM THE SEATTLE FAIR

Governor William Spry received a SOU
venir about the size of a dollar from
Chauncey 2. Overfield, one of the Utah
commissioners at the Alaska Yukon-Pa-
cific exposition, yesterday. The souvenir
is made of virgin Utah copper. Thou
sands of them are being given away at the
Seattle fair.
On the front of the souvenir is stamped
the seal of the state, and on the back is
a design representing the mining indus
try, with the inscription, Alaska Yukon
Pacific Exposition, 1909"
Governor Spry also has a silver sOuve-
mir of the same mold.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
FIRE CHIEF GLORE
TO ATTEND CONVENTION

In a letter received by Mayor John S.
BransfOrd yesterday, the Pacific Coast
Association of Fire Chiefs makes an ur-
gent request that the city of Salt Lake
send Fire Chief Glore to attend the con-
ventiOn to be held at Seattle Sept. to 10
There will be much of interest to fire
fighters taken up at the meeting. and the
association says Salt Lake cannot afford
to keep the local fire chief away. Mayor
BransfOTd will refer the matter to the
city council for an appropriation, if the
council cares to send Mr.. Glore
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
OFFICIALS
PASS BIG VOUCHER

Washington. Aug. pa voucher for
the sum of 1878, 900, made out to Vir-
derbnt. ir., was passed by the treasury
department officials today. It is in
payment for the site for the proposed
new sub-treasury in San Francisco, at
zation for the new building has vet
been made by congress.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
TO INVESTIGATE
DAMAGE CLAIMS
Government Officials Are in
Salt Lake Taking
Testimony.
OEPREDATI0NS OF INDIANS
ACT MAY BE AMENDED TO PRO-
TEcT UTAH SUFFERERS.

Judge John A. Hendricks. an attor-
ney for the department Of Justice, and
Harry Peyton, an attorney Of Wash
fington, representing claimants for dam
ages against the government under the
Indian depredations act of 1891. arrived
In Salt Lake yesterday to take testi-
money from Utah claimants to be pre-
scented TO the Court of Claims at Wash
ington. They registered at the Knuts-
l1ord hotel, where they will remain TN
It'll some time next week and viii visit
lParowan, Beaver and St George, in
southern Utah, closing their work in
This state 20 go to California on the
sane mission about September Z.
The visit Of the Washington 9ttOr-
lneys is by no means for the purpose
Eof adding to the list of claims now be-
Pore the Court Of Claims; it being sim
Iply 70 investigate and take dispositions
lOn the many Utah claims that have
Ebeen filed in Washington. Most of these
Eclaims result from depredations Of the
Navajo Indians, and during the Black
HAWK war in 1860 and 1867 in the south
hern counties of the state.
1.-THE Black Hawk cases were nearly
lall barred on account Of the amity
provision Of the Indian depreciation act
sof March 8, 1891" said Mr.. Peyton yes
lterday. MANY claims are also barred
Ply provision OF the law requiring that
fhe claimant must have been a citi-
zen Of the United States at the time
ahe depreciation was committed.
! These two provisions are now the
Isubject Of amendments which are be
More, congress. These amendments to
lthe law have been favorably reported
Fby committees from both the house
H. gr- - L.
slaw will be thus amended at the next
session of congress.
The Cheaper Way.
| EFT may be interesting 20 state that
tthe promise on the part of the govern
lment eventually to indemnify the citi-
zen or inhabitant was passed by con-
igress in 1894. the consideration moving
congress to make this promise being
THAT 1t would be cheaper 10 pay for the
property taken by the Indians than to
1eave the matter in the hands of the
Ifrontiersmen, with the probability, in
lease the settlers took the law in their
own hands, border warfare would re-
suit between the settlers and Indians
This statute was re-enaCted at Vari-
Gus times, jurisdiction being first con-
tferTed upon the war department. and
subsequently on the interior DEPART
ment. Under the investigations of the
interior department, which did not seem
TO be satisfactory to congress, seine
payments were made, but finally on
March 3, 1891, congress passed what is
known as the Indian depredati1ns act.
conhning jurisdiction upon the Court
of Claims to consider these claims and
lrender judgment Under this act about
1000 claims were fled, commencing
with the Seminole war Of 1895 and end
ing with the Sioux outbreak in 1890
and 1891. These claims came from
practically every state and territory
west Of the Mississippi river ana in
cluded those for the Seminole war from
Florida and the Creek uprising in Ala
bama
The total amount involved in these
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

claims is about S11, 900, 900, but many of
the claims are not susceptible of proof
and have been dismissed under various
defenses. About S5,0OOO00 has already
been paid out on these claims.
Utah has suffered by reason Of these
defenses very seriously for the reason
that at the time of the depredatiOns
many of the settlers were not citizens
of the United States. The bulk of the
Utah claims have their origin in the
Black Hawk war of 1866 and 1867 and
were barred by the jUrisdictional de-
Tense found in the Indian depredations
act.
Amendments Considered.
1T is to remedy these conditions that
the proposed amendments to the act
are being considered by congress, and
the merit of the propositions involved
has so commended themselves to the
committee that the final enactment of
the amendments seems assured and re-
lief will be given to Utah in this respect
This viii mean the validating of very
many just and meritOriOUs claims here
tOfore filed by the early settlers of Utah.
It may be added that when judgments
are rendered, congress promptly makes
appropriations for the payment of each
judgment.
THE Court of Claims at Washington
is a court consisting of five judges ap-
pointed by the president Gt being a
federal COURT, whose jurisdiction is
very broad, the basic object of the
creation Of the court being to cOnsti-
tute a tribunal wherein the differences
between the citizens and the govern
ment may be adjudicated. 1t has gen.
eral Jurisdiction in all matters of ex-
pressed contract and special jurisdic-
ton in all matter congress decides
shall be submitted to it for determi-
nation. Among its special jurisdiction
cases are claims for Indian depreda
TONS what are known as the French
spOliatiOn claims, and claims for prop
erty taken from loyal citizens for the
use Of the Union army during the Civil
war, such jurisdiction being conferred
by what are known as the Bowman
and Tucker acts.
"A great volume of business is also
sent to the Court of Claims by special
references by congress where a legis-
lative body desires determination of the
law and facts of the various claims
made against the government. The
court is a very able one and is second
in importance only to the Supreme
court of the United States. In all mat
tiers where the court has jurisdiction to
render judgment, an appeal can only
be taken to the SupSeme court of the
United States, and in the forty odd vol
umes of reports from this court there
are probably more intricate problems
of law determined than in any other re-
ports to be found other than the re-
ports of the Supreme court"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Andrew Brest, Kalamazoo, Mich. and
Mamie keenan,. Chicago
John G. PERSIAN. Salt Lake, and Kate
Nelson, Salt Lake.
Carl Wosab, Salt Lake, and Macy Err
sabet, Salt Lake.
Charles W. Melsone, Salt Lake. and
Nathela SorensOn, Salt Lake
Chester Criss. Salt Lake, and Eta Hof-
man, Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
Innes' Band Id saItair.

Today. Two free concerts, 4 and 8 p. m. !;
sixty men, Hear Virginia Listemann.
Engagement extraordinary.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
Maxfleld's Ranch. Big cottonwoOd
Canyon.

Tents and cottages for rent. Round
trip. $500. J. G. Cook, Bell Phone
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
Doctor Tells How To
Get Strong Nerves
Following Tonic Has Astonishing Eff
feet on Nerves and Blood.

IF any man or woman with a weak.
rundown system" says a well known
physician, will be unprejudiced enough
to try the following tonic, they will find
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to your druggist and ask him for a SOC
box OF Make-Man Tablets. They are
without doubt the greatest nerve
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ience. I know whereof I speak. If YOU
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have Nervous Prostitution, Low Vitality
Kidney or Liver Troubles. Rheumatism
InsOmnia, Melancholy and any Nervous or
BLOOD Disorders, don't hesitate, but get
fMake-Man Tablets" Make-Man Tablets
are sold at all leading druggists at SOC a
box. or six for $50, or sent direct by mail
on receipt of price.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

salt Lake Photo Supply Co. Kodaks
and Kodak finishing. 142 Main St.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
INJURED
 IN TRAIN ACCIDENT

WHITE FISH, Mont, June 30.-The Great Northern westbound Oriental Limited passenger train went into the ditch this morning near Ural, on the Kootenal river.
 Thirty passengers were injured, but none was killed. The express and bag gage cars were burned.
 A landslide was the cause of the ac- cident Traffic is blocked by the wreck and trains are being transferred at Ural
 It is known that a number of the coaches in the train were broken, but the extent of the injuries sustained by passengers has not been reported.
 Heavy rains during the last week brought down the avalanche which de railed the train.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
GENTEEL RoBBEP
 HOLDS UP BANK.

FORT WORTH, Tex, June 30.-A highwayman described as genteel in appearance robbed the branch banking house of the Waggoner Bank and Trust company in the center of Fort Worth's business section this afternoon and escaped with $S100 in currency.
 Cashier Walter E. King was alone in the bank. A well dressed stranger walked in, leveled a revolver at King and said:
 Make move or a noise of any kind and I'll kill you.'
 The visitor then took possession of sS1O0 in bills ranging from $1 to $20, backed out of the door under cover of his pistol.
 As MT King ran to telephone he saw the man walking down the street and mingling with the crowds with ap- parent uncOncern.
 The police reached the scene five minutes later, but the stranger had. disappeared. Several people declare that he climbed into waiting auto mobile, after walking several blocks, but the police believe he is still in the city
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
HEAT WAVE IN
 GOTHAM FATAL
TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS SLEEP ON
 BEACH AT CONEY ISLAND
Beaches are Thrown Open to Public and Crowds Swarm to Seaside to Escape Deadly Solar
 Rays-Police Guard SIeepers

NEW. YORK, June 29.-The hot wave which inflicted tortures on the east side yesterday was blamed for at least twelve deaths and more than a score of prostrations.
 No relief coming at night, more than 10000 persons went to bed on the beach at Coney Island, it being the first occasion of the season when the resi- dents of the city sought overnight re- lief at the seashore.
 The beaches were thrown open to the public, and policemen were de- tailed to guard the sleepers. Most of those who slept on the sands were women and their children, who live in the crowded sections of the city.
 The maximum temperature of 91 was reached at D. m., but the most intense suffering came an hour later, following a hot rain shower, when the wind died out and the air became hot and sultry.
 Street thermometers registered as high as 94, and a high temperature was maintained all day and last night.
 The forecast for today indicates no relief.
 Hundreds Are Prostrated
 NEW YORK, June 30.-Almost the euIlT0 SIdtS Ol N0W 1OIh anu NlIlu- ally all of New England sweltered to- day when the high temperature which began affiicting this part of the coun- try three days ago climbed even higher.
 The maximum temperature was 92 degrees at 8 D. m. There were at least seven deaths in the city proper, and one at Jersey City, due to the heat, one suicide and two attempts at sui eide.
 Prostrations were so frequent as to pass almost unnoticed.
 There were two deaths at Provi- dence and one at New Bedford, Mass.
 At D. m. twenty-mile gale sprang up in New York and vicinity, bringing with it downpour of rain.
 In less than thirty minutes the mer- cury dropped to 69 degrees.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
BANDIT HALTS AND
 ROBS STAGE COACH

NEVADA CITY, Cal, June 29.-The Downieville stage, which left this city early today for Sierra county carrying five passengers, was held up and robbed by a masked highwayman a short time after leaving. The robber took s90 from the passengers and the Wells-Fargo express box.
 The mail pouch was not disturbed and it is believed by the authorities that there was not much of value in the box belonging to the company. There are rumors, however, that the highwayman made big haul.
 Sheriff Begins Pursuit
 Sheriff Walker and posse have taken up the trail.
 The holdup occurred about five miles out. The robber suddenly ap- peared in the road with a short-bar- reled shotgun and commanded the driver, John Goffet, to pull up. Then he compelled the passengers to stand in a line in front of the horses, with their hands up.
 While he searched them his weapon was left carelessly on the ground, in dicating that he had a confederate concealed in the neighborhOod ready to shoot if necessary.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
FAMILY FOUND DYING IN
 STORM CELLAR IN TEXAS

GALVESTON, Tex, June 30.-In re- moving a cyclone-wrecked house on the farm of Charles Dilson, in Brown county, the wreckers discovered a storm cellar, in which were Dilson and his wife and their 12-year-old daugh- ter, nearly dead.
 For two weeks they had been pris- oners in the cellar, with barely mor- seI to eat for a week, and nothing to drink for two days.
 Raw potatoes had been their subsis- tence for six days. They all will live.
 After the storm which wrecked their home the three Dilsons were missed and searchers believed they had de- serted their place and moved away.
 The house had been blown over and covered the storm cellar, which was about twenty yards from the home, and searchers knew nothing of the storm cellar.
 The prisoners tried to dig their way to rhe surface with their hands, and succeeded only in cutting tunnel which afforded them air.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
BOMB WRECKS
 MANY HOUSES
POLICE UNCERTAIN FOR WHOM MISSILE WAS INTENDED; THREE INJURED
Contents of Two Buildings Thrown Into Street $lOO,OOO Damage DOne-Crash Heard for
 Niles Strikers Blamed by Some

CHICAGO, June 3O.-An explosion supposed to have been caused by dy- namite did great damage in the busi- ness district here tonight, injured two or three persons seriously and wrecked stores and windows for a block near Clark and Washington streets.
 The exact nature of the explosion is unknown, because of the great amount of debris thrown around the alley where it occurred. The police think it another in the series of gamblers war bombs that have mystified the de. tectives for more than two years.
 The scene of the explosion was in an alley in the rear of the Central Telephone exchange. This exchange was unable to do any more business during the night.
 Two restaurants facing on Clark were blown practically into the streets, food and dishes being scat tered over the car tracks.
 In this alley also was the rear en- trance to Powers & Lambert's saloon, headquarters for Martin B. Madden and his associates in the building trades.
 Figure in Disputes
 Madden and his men are figuring largely Tn IaDOr disputes at present, and have been the subject of grand jury indictments.
 Another place opening into the alley which was badly damaged was the cash register store of Mont Tennes, who is alleged to conduct several gambling places.
 Tennes' place has been raided ire quently by the police, and another bomb was exploded there year ago.
 On the opposite side of Clark street two windows were crashed. The street was covered with glass an inch thick.
 Iron gates fronting the alley were bent inward by the explosion. The crash was heard for miles.
 The police estimate the damage at S1OO,OO0. One theory is that fifty cleo tric instailers, who have been on strike against the Chicago Telephone com pany, which suffered the greatest dam age, may have been behind the out rage. Another theory is that gamblers who have suffered loss through the CO., operation of the telephone company with the police sought to retaliate.
 Twenty-Five thousand telephones were put out of service by the explo- sion.
 A number of girl operators were at work. Many of them tainted and others ran from the building.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
SEVENTEEN KILLED AND SIXTEEN
 INJURED AS RESULT OF EXPLOSION
GAS IN COAL MINE CAUSES FATAL
 COMBUSTION
Sixteen Persons, Mostly Americans, Injured in Disaster at Wehrum,
 Pa.-Dead Were for
eiqners

WEHRUM, Pa.4 2.s-As the re suit of an explosion Of gas in mine No. of the Lackawanna Coal and Coke company, early today, seventeen min- CTS were killed and sixteen injured
 With the exception of one, those killed were foreigners. With few exceptions the injured were Americans.
 Inspector Joseph Williams entered the mine with a party today to ascer- tain if there were any more victims.
 Superintendent A. M. Johnson stated that while the mine had always been regarded as non-gaseous, the explosion was caused by miners open lamp ig- hitting pocket of gas.
 The mine is burning fiercely in sev- eral places, and deadly black damp is pouring from the mouth, effectually preventing systematic rescue work.
 Large quantities of oxygen and many oxygen tanks have been requested from the Cambria Steel company of Johnstown, Pa, and the United States government mining and testing station at Pittsburg.
 Tie scenes about the mine this afternoon were pathetic. Relatives and friends of the victims are hyster- ically weeping, and are greatly retard-  ing the work of rescue.
 Superintendent w. N. Johnson of the mine said later:
 "The explosion from some unknown cause seems to have been worse in the portion of the mine that was re- gently opened up. We do not yet know the extent of the accident, but we think the death list will be long one, and the list of those injured much larger"
 As soon as it was known that an ac- cident had occurred, the greatest ex- citement prevailed, both at the mine and in the little hamlet a short dis tance away. Relatives rushed to the mouth of the mine. A number of the foreign women, screaming and crying, tried to rush into the shaft.
 The company officials immediately engaged the services of all the men they could find, and the work of re straining the hysterical relatives was undertaken.
 In the meantime calls for help were quickly sent throughout the surround ing country, and the task of reaching the unfortunate men in the mine was pushed forward.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
SIX MASKED MEN HOLD UP
 CANADIAN PACIFIC EXPRESS
ROBBERS ATTEMPT TO GET SILL
 YER BULLION
Bandits Punch Holes in Canadian Pacific Cars, and Failing to Find Money, Hurry
 Away

VANCOUVER, June 29.-Six masked men held up Canadian Pacific railway westbound express No. 97 just east ot Ducks few minutes before midnight punched holes in three express cars and, failing to find anything of value hurried to a waiting boat and crossed to the north side of Shuswap lake Ducks is 250 miles east of Vancouver.
 It IS believed by some of the railway men that the robbers intended to hold up train No. 5, the express from St. Paul, which had picked up at Revel- stoke some silver bullion shipped from Trail to the Orient.
 Two masked men crawled over the coal pile on the tender last night and, jumping suddenly down on the floor or the cab, leveled pistols at the engineer and fireman.
 It is believed the men boarded the train at Notch Hill.
 Had Signal Fire
 They ordered the engineer to pull up his train at signal fire which he would see some distance to the east of Ducks.
 Only few minutes elapsed until the fire came into view around a bend in the track.
 lu6 61SlucST SlOWSQ uOMH anu Iu0 train came to a standstill within a hundred feet of the fire.
 Four men, all of them masked and each bearing a rife, ran in the direc- tion of the locomotive as soon as the train stopped.
 One man fired two shots in the air as he ran, evidently for the purpose of intimidating the train crew and pas SengerS These were the only shots fired during the hold-up.
 The whole thing was over and the train started on its way in twenty minutes. The leader of the robebrs forced the fireman to take an ax and break in the paneling along the sides of the express cars. Holes sufficiently large to enable man to thrust his head into the cars were knocked through the panels. This method of failed to disclose any thing of value and in a few minutes the men decamped toward the lake, in the darkness before they were fairly off the right of way.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
HAS NEVER HEARD OF
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT

LOS ANGELES, June BOA man was discovered yesterday who has not learned of the fame of Theodore Roosevelt. For this reason his appli- cation for citizenship was denied by Judge Wilbur, presiding in the nat uralization court.
 "Who is president of the United States?" asked the examining attor- ney.
 'eWilliam H. Taft" was the reply.
 And who preceded him?"
 George Washington"
 The applicant also attributed to the city council of Los Angeles the power to make the laws of the nation. He was told to study the constitution and return a month hence.
The Holbrook news., 1909-07-02
Find Silver i'm Treasure Ship

CHESTER, Pa, June 29.-Silver was found yesterday by the crew of the government boat Cataract, which has been working in the vicinity of Fort Miff1in, in an endeavor to raise the contents of the supposed English treasure boat that was sunk during the revolutionary war
 The dredger Hell Gate will be sent to Fort Miffiin to raise the sunken boat.
 It is believed the hold of the vessel contains thousands of dollars in gold sent to this country to pay British sol dierS