The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

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lane of female thieves, Magistrate Cor
nell said today in Jefferson Market
court, when John Thomas Russell,
treasurer of the New York TaXicab
company, appeared against Jessie Miles,
charged with robbing him of $S25.
Magistrate Cornell scored the police
for permitting Fifth avenue to become
the resort of thieves, large and small,
whose loot ranges from $4,000, in the
Van Norden case, down to 50.
Things have come to such q pass,
he said, that it is unsafe for man
to go on Fifth avenue at night with any
considerable amount of money. From
the Waldorf to Delmonico's he runs
gauntlet of pickpOcket women
Washington.-Gov extrava-
gance is to be investigated by spe-
cial committee. Senator Aldrich today
reported from the committee on public
expenditures a bill providing for the
appointment of a commission of nine
members, three to be selected by the
Senate, three by the House and three
by President Taft.
New York.-Thanks alpin to the
wireless, and the international distress
signal, rs. o. S." Captain Moore and
his crew of forty-six men are safe on
board the Mallory liner Alamo, bound
for Key West tonight, while their ves-
sel the steamer Kentucky, is at the
bottom of the sea off Cape Hatteras.
1t is another case of another disaster
averted by wireless and told to the
world by The same medium.
The Kentucky, a wooden vessel of 996
gross tonnage and 203 feet long. was
bound from New York to the Pacific
to carry passengers between Tacoma
and Alaskan ports for the Alaska-Pa-
Cific Steamship company.
First news of the Kentucky's distress
was received at the United Wireless
company's station at Cape Hatteras at
II 80 o'clock this morning. There the
operator heard the IS. o. S." quickly
followed by the message:
I'VE are sinking. Our latitude is
S210; longitude 1880"
Almost simultaneously the operator
heard the steamship Alamo respond to
the Kentucky's call for help, informing
Captain Moore that the Alamo was
making all speed to the sinking vessels
assistance.
Thereafter no message was received
from the Kentucky, indicating that wa
ter had interfered with the power, put
ting her wireless apparatus out of COM
mission.
The navy department at Washington
in the meantime flashed wireless mes
sages along the Atlantic coast, dis
patching the battleshtp Louisiana and
two revenue cutters to the scene, but at
8 o'clock word came from the Alamo
that she had arrived first and had taken
off all hands in safety. This is the mes
sage as received in New York by the
United Wireless company from it's
Cape Hatteras station.
Latitude 3246 longitude 1928.
Steamship Alamo has just taken Cap
tain Moore and crew of forty-six men
from sinking steamship Kentucky.
Water had already reached fire room
and steamer will sink before midnight.
The Alamo is proceeding to Key West"
Bad luck was the Kentucky's lot al
most Immediately after she left New
York for her 14,000-mile journey on
January 90. Good luck was her lot
when the wireless instruments were the
last things installed before she de-
parted.
One hundred and fifty miles off Sandy
Hook the vessel began leaking badly,
but, by working the pumps valiantly,
Captain Moore was able to reach New
port News with sixteen inches of water
IN the vessels hold. Repairs were made
and the ship received certificate from
Lloyds and the United States inspector
at the port saying that she was sound
and seaworthy.
Notwithstanding this assurance. T. A.
McLarney, formerly night operator at
the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, who
had shipped with the vessel when she
left this port, refused to continue on the
voyage because his parents at Month
cello, n. Y. had a premonition that
something would happen. They bonn
barded him with messages to this effect
and, in Difference to their wishes, he OBJ
tained a substitute operator, w. D. Nc
Ginnis, who sent out the call which
saved the lives of his shipmates today.
Hartford, Conn.-The jury in the IA
NOUS boycott suit of D. E. Loewe of
Dantury versus 200 members of the
Hatters union in this state, returned a
verdict in favor of the plaintiff for S74,
900.
New York-The deepest spot in the
sea is 100 miles off the island of Guam,
where soundings made by DR.. Charles
H. Townsend of the AlbatTOss eXpedi-
ton recorded depth of $1,000 feet
nearly six miles. DR.. Townsend told
IDe camp fTe ctuD OIL AIleTlCd dL It's
annual dinner that he also had found
animal life at a depth of four and
three-quarter miles in the tong, basin
against the islands of New Zealand un-
der a pressure of four and one-half
tons to the square inch. The atmos-
pheric pressure on the body of a man is
little more than fifteen pounds to the
square inch.
Sydney, N. S. W.-The premier of
western Australia is of the opinion that
missionary efforts among aborigines
have been attended with very little sue
cess. Replying to a deputation from
the Presbyterian church, who asked for
an annual grant of 92O0 toward the cost
of establishing and maintaining a mis-
sion at Kimberley, Mr.. Moore said the
government had spent 925.000 last year
on aborigines, including $4,000 devoted
to hospitals. Personally, he was not
quite satisfied with these missions. and
he was not quite sure that the govern
ment could not do as well through the
medium of the aborigines department,
which was considering a scheme to set
apart an area of land and work it as a
station in the interests of the aborigines
and the state.
Fergus Falls, Minn.-William Ruck-
helm, farmer, aged 50 years, murdered
his wife and four children and shot
himself last night at Parker's Prairie.
He was found dying when his son went
to the farm today. Ruckheim declared
that he had received divine command
to proceed to a certain graveyard, where