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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washinaton, 8; Deirolt, I

Washington, 8; Detroit, 2
washington. May 25-President
Tart and many other notables saw
washington defeat Detroit In six
inning game, to ,, and also was
caught in a thunder shower which
prevented further playing.
Score. II ~
Washington .... COL 002-3 .
Detroit ........... wv VVp--
Batteries Gray and Street; Mullin
and Stanage. (Called account rainl
summary Bases on balls, off Gray
4. off Mullins .: struck out, by Mui-
I'm /.
umpires Dlneen and Connolly.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
PERRY DAVIS, pAINkll.lrR.

Summer complalnt. bowel tronble.
cramps have no terrnrs In the house
hold where this dependable medicine
~ Lnnf On hind 0sc a1n and Enc
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25

Batteries Curtis and Smith; Bee
lie and Cantwell; Anderson and Nc
Lean
Summary Passes on balls off Cur
lia T. oil Deeha 1. OF cantwoll p;
sincb out by Curtis I, by Beebe 8,
hY Anderson. >.
limpires-Klem and Kane.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CHICAGO, 6, phiIsdeIphia, 3

Chicago 6; Philadelphia, 3
Chicago. Nav 25- Chicago won It's
sixth successive victory defeating
Philadelphia 6 to 3 The winners hit
Moore and Brennan hard, while Me
intyre was effective.
Score. X II E
Chicago ...... 0S1 ll0 O0t-6 II 2
Philadelphia -, 020 001 0O0-3 6 ,
Batteries Mcintyre and Archer
Moore, Brennan and Doom.
Summary Bases on balls. off Nc
Intyre 3, off Moore 3, off Brennan @;
struck. out, by Mcintyre 5. by Moore
.
Umpires-Rigler and Emslie.
2rooklyn, 9; ST. Louis, 0
81. Louis. MAY 25-St Louis lost
to Brooklyn yesterday 6 to o. Willis
was hit hard. Bell was most effective
Score; r Fl Il
Brooklyn ...,. 1l0 600 i20-6 II :
st. Louis ...t.. 600 600 000--0
Batieries-Bell and Bergen; Willis,
Lush ana Phelps,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
festnoned

I 7 NeITIVTILU
pfttabprg, May 25 pYttshurg-New
York game postponed; rain.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
Kansas civ Livcstock

KANSAS Guy Livestock
Special To l,aily leader.
Kansas City. Mo, May 25-The cat
lie market was brisk 7,Ga0, being re.
ceiyed, closing fifteen lower.
Hogs Receipts, $4,000 closing ten
TO twenty-five lower.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
Guthrie Markets

Corn-57c.
Millet- si.s5
Oats-45c.
Baled hay-St1 10 sl3.
Loose hays to $40.
Flour, soft wheat patent-s2.GO.
Hard wheat $3.50.
Wheat. ha-d-$107 1-2
Bran, soft wheat-s1.35.
Shorts $3.50.
Alfalfa meal-s1.15,
Alfalfa seed-sl2 to $14 per bu.
Cane seed-$1.00.
Chops-$130.
Eggs-$450
Butter-1Sc.
Hens-12c.
Broilers-- 20s.
Kiffir corn-s1.75.
Millet seed-s1.25.
Poultry food $3.50.
Oyster shells s125.
Corn meal-s1 20.
Lamb-$5 to Sc.
Beef-$3 80 to $3.50.
Hogs-$S.25.
veal-s3.20 to s400.
Geese-7c.
Ducks-Sc.
Potatoes-Colo. Csc.
Strawberries, per crate $3.50.
Tomatoes-$375.
Cabbage-3 1-2.
Onions-4c.
Oranges 1926 to 81
Lemons-$4.50.
Hides, salt cured, No. $50.
Hides, green, No. 1-7c,
Hides, No. 2, one cent less.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
Kansas City Grain

Special to paly Leader
Kansas City, Mo-, May 25-May
wheat closed at 80 5-Sc; July "a 1-2c;
september at 90 3-Sc,
May corn closed at 50 1-2c; July al
5S 1-2c; September at 56 7-Sc.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
sanuIpa. 1. RartIssvIIIe. 2

Ba tlesylle, Okla May 25-Milton
proved easy for Barilesyille batterS
and the locals won despite spectacu-
bar fielding by Sanulpa.
Score; II II f.
Sapulpa - 600 600 0D1-1 . q
Fartlesville -. 600 002 O0t--2 Il |
Batteries - Milton and Jeifriesi
Daniels and Vanderbilt.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
: :. !. .ntbALL.
tptire ~
WHERE THEY PLAY TO-DAY

Guthrie. at Sapulpa.
Enid at FL Reno.
Joplin al Mnskogee.
Bartlesyille at Tulsa.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
El Reno. 6. iopIln. 2

Joplin, May 25--Hall lost control
in the eleventh inning of the first
game and El Reno won a pitchers
Battle. 6 to 3. Alberts held the Wis
ltors down to two runs in the second
pnn1p
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
2rooklyn, 6. ST. Louis. 0
Boston. 3. Cincinnati. 0

Cincinnati. May Bunchng OF
hits by Boston In the first and third
innings and Cincinnati inability to hit
Curtis allowed the visitors to win
their first game of the series here, 3
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
Tulsa. {, Enid, 10

Enid, Okla, May 25-Enld won a
Singing match in which errors by
10th teams we're plentlfully distrib-
uted
score. r II n
Tulsa - 3ol 600 010- :, 3 ]
Enid .. iO3 900 l2*--10 13 /
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
phIIadelphla. I. 81. Louls, 6

Philadelphia, May 25--St Louis won
Yesterdays game from Philadelphia
s to /. the visitors knocking Morgan
Off the rubber In the fifth when 1heg
rlade seven hite and scored five lnns
cearo. n II Il
ahiladelpbia 900 600 l00-1 Z
(, ouig 900 $50 00i--6 II /
pattesies Lake and Stephens; Nor
ean. Atkins, Plank and Lapp.
summary Bases on balls. of Lake
,,.., tyorri,an aud sheridan.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25

tsrw York, s: Chicago, 5
New York, May 25--New York ann
L.l.1aaan nlayea twelve inning tie
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25

Foley Kidney Pills are antiseptic,
tonic and restorative and prompt
corrective of all urinary Irregularities.
Refuse substitutes. J. NJ Wallace.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25
TODAY'S MARKETS
Snecial n The I4eaner.

Chicago, Ills, May 25--May wheat
closed today at $1f0 Ia; July at
- 1-2c; September at 81 1-2c. May
corn closed at SIS SAC; July at so 1-4c,
September at go 3-8c.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25

Cleveland, 3; Bosion. lul
Boston, May 25---jose' curves wers
oattad hard by the locals while Woo''
heia cleveland to four ncDttered hts
and Boston won to 3. Flick made a
o, ers. r II n
t.,evaiand 400 OOt 0t0---3 |
ros,on oso 100 0Ot---i 10 :
Batteries Joss and Clarke; Woou
and carrigan
er,rmarv.-1'wn base hits. Ihloie'
Wagner; home run, Flick; bases %.
tallg off Wood Q. OF Joss. ? struck
0pt. bv Wood 3, by Joss 2.
ITmpifes- DTDHshlin md Perrine
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25

Read The Daily Leader want col
umns for bargains.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25

Leuttke went out in the fifth inning
on bunt.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-25

New Age Chemical Co.. Guthrie. Okla
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10

NOTICE.-Having qualified as eXecu-
IN tor Of the estate Of MARY H.LUNT,
deceased. all persons having claims
against the said estate are hereby nOti-
fled To present the same TO me duly veri
fed for settlement. and all persons in
debted to said estate are hereby notified
to make prompt payment of their indebt-
edness to me. SAMUEL Ii. LUNT,
je4 tje2s Executor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
LAST OF THE CLIPPERS.

That the last of the world-famous
Baltimore clippers has gone to the
bottom Of the sea is the meaning OF
the terse wireless message from Dia-
mond Shoal Lightship Tuesday that
the barkentne Good News, Capt.
Peter Eriksson, had foundered off the
southern coast. Captain Erlksson, OF
Baltimore; his daughter, Miss Eliza
beth Eriksson, and the crew of 10
men were picked up by the British
steamer Metis and landed at Norfolk
Tuesday. The Good News, the last
survivor Of the romantic days when the
white-winged clippers Of the CheSa-
peake were the first in with tea from
China. coffee from Brazil or rounded
the Horn with the 49s, had sailed
from Philadelphia May s and found
cred June 3, having sprung a-leak IN
heavy gale, that left the graceful
beauty water-logged hulk. The seas
broke oyer her for days and the cap
tain. his daughter and his 10 men
were forced TO take to the open boats
in a turbulent sea. They were tossed
about day and night until the British
steamer MetiS hove in sight and res
cue all hands.
Thus was wiped out the late model
of the ships that sailed 5000 miles to
Brazil in 30-odd days, rounded Cape
Horn to the Golden Gate in little
more than hundred days, crossed the
Atlantic in something like Is days,
and beat all the English ships east
from the Orient
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
FREDERICkSBURC SUMMER IN
STITUTE.

All initial preparations have been
made for opening the State Summer
Institute at Fredericksburg, June SOth.
Indications point to increased attend
ance. The facilities for conducting
this popular summer school are much
better than they have hitherto been.
The management has found it neces-
sary to enlarge the faculty, as an
nounccd i'm the handsome catalogue OF
the school recently issued. Mr.. Nal
colin ii. Arnold, MA, Ph.D., has
been added to the faculty and will have
charge of the English work in the pro-
fessional course. Miss Adele Ogilvic,
director Of music in the Richmond
public schools, has been secured to
teach vocal music. Mr.. c. c.. Pear
son, MA, will have charge of part OF
the work in history. The other mem
bers of the faculty, 16 in all, have been
announced through the catalogue.
The opening exercises OF the institute
will take place in the Assembly Hall
Of the public school building on the
evening Of June 29th. The following
interesting programme will be rendered
Music. direction OF Miss Ogilvie; ad-
dress Of welcome, Mayor Wallace;
response, w. l.. Prince; music; literary
address. Prof. Robert Lee Blanton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
STEAMERS
Norfolk and Wa ashinston
Steamboat Co.

Every day in the year for Fort Mon
roe, Norfolk. Newport News and points
south. via superb, powerful steel palace
steamers.
Leave Washington. 6.45 p. IN.
Leave Alexandria 7.0Op. IN.
Arrive TT. MOnrOes 7.0Oa. IN.
Arrive Norfolk 500 a. IN.
Arrive Portsmouth 800 n. IN.
Leave Portsmouth 300 p. IN.
Leave EOrfolk 600 p. m.
Leave TT. Monroe 200 p IN.
Arrive Alexandria GO Il. IN.
Arrive Washington 100 Il. IN.
Through connections made at Norfolk
with steamers of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company for New York and
Merchants and Miners Steamships for
Boston.
General Ticket Office. 20 nth SLN.W.
Bond Building, Washington, ID. {.
Phone Main 1920.
Seventh street wharf Phone Main 300.
Alexandria wharf foot Of Prince street.
w. II. CALLAHAN,
aprl 1yr General Passenger Agent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
APPALLING ACCIDENT.

Three mourners, their pastor and
their driver sat in funeral coach
near Hayerstraw, n. Y, yesterday
afternoon and watched certain death
come rushing on them at 80 miles an
hour.
With a screech of grinding breaks,
a heavy West Shore freight engine,
hurrying south to pick up train at
Weehawken, crashed into the coach,
scattering its occupants along the right
Of way, and came slowly to a halt
$50 yards beyond the crossing. All
the occupants were either killed out
right or fatally injured. The dead
are: Rev. 4. Romath, pastor OF the
New City Methodist Episcopal Church;
f. V. Seifred, New City, n. Y. Mrs.
f. V. Seifred, New City, n. y; Viii
liam Beebe, Haverstrawa. Mrs. Perry
Kessler had her skull fractured, both
legs broken and body crushed.
The accident was not only unusual,
but dramatic and horrifying to a de-
gree. 1t happened at the foot OF
Graveyard Hill, i'll full sight OF the
returning funeral procession, OF which
the wrecked coach was the first, and
Of the terrified and helpless watchman.
The watchman was lunching III hi'
little cabin when the tinkle OF an
electric bell warned him OF an ap
preaching train. Mechanically hi
pulled the lever that set the heavy
balanced gate in motion. Then, glanc'
ing from the open door, he saw sigh
that will not be out of his dreams foi
many night.
Just what happened viii probably
lnever be known, but some eye-wlt
messed say that the arms of the crossing
gates. late in descending, blocked th'
coach after it had crossed the first OF two
tricks and held it prisoner on the rails
while the terrified occupants sat para
lived gazing at the onrushiug locomo
tive
The driver lashed his horses in {
futile attempt to force the vehicle
from the track until, with a sharp cracl
it seemed as if the coach literally blew
up.
Fragments of splintered wood ant
mutilated shreds of humanity wer
flung far and wide. The engine stop
ped. There was absolute silence, sav
: for the hiss OF escaping steam.
A search for the dead followed
The bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs. Selfor
5 were found side by side 80 yards dow
the track. The wife was Just return
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
Wood
Coal

Order your Coal before the advance at
lowest summer prices. Best quality,
prompt delivery and bottom price.
Phone %. DEW. AlTCHESON, lO' south
Royal street. JeSli
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
AIsxannria Gazette.

PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-wEEKLY AT
GAZETTE BUILDING. $40 anu 5I-
PRINCE STREET.
Entered atthe POstollice of Alexandra,
Virginia, as second-class mater
TERMS: DAILY year. 500: months
s.. 80; 3 months, s1.25; month, 43 cents
Tri-weekly year, $500: 6 months,
S1.5O: 3 months, 70 cents; l month, -
cents.
Contract advertisers will not be allowed
To exceed their space unless the excess
is paid for at transient rates, and under
no circumstances will they be allowed
TO advertise other than their leglti,,
mate business in the space contracted
for.
Resolutions in memoriam, Of thanks;
tributes of respect. resolutions adopted
by societies or persons, unless of public
concern. will be printed in the paper
as advertisements.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10

ing from the burial OF her father, by
whose death she had came into a tidy
fortune
Young Beebe, the driver, was the
son of wealthy livery owner. He
lay 20 yards nearer, stone dead.
Rev. Mr. Romath was the clergy
man who had ofliciated at the funeral.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10

Chamberlaia Is Cough Remedy is sold
on a guarantee that if you are not. sat
isfed after using two thirds of a bottle
according to directions, your money
will be refunded. 1t is up to you to
try. Sold by W. F. Creighton and
Richard Gibson.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
Alexandria Iron Works

Leadbcater's guaranteed Cherry Cough
Remedy To cure coughs. We don't say
or your money back, because there 5
noneed. 1t cures; 25c bottle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
WEEK END TICKETS.

Local week end tickels Washington tc
Somerset, Warrenton. Harrisonburg
Bluemont and intermediate stations sold
on Saturdays and Sundays, valid for re
turn on Monday at very low fares. viii
be placed on sale by Southern Railway
at Washington. ID. c.. beginning SATUR
DAY. May 2sth. and continuing unit
October ?, inclusive.
l.. s. BROWN. General Agent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-10
Maryland Delaware and VIr-
ginia Railway Company.
SpRING SCUEDULE.

SPItINtf SCHEDULE.
Steamers Of this line leave Alexandra
on and after May IL, 1910,
Every MONDAY. WEDNESDAY and
SATURDAY at 1870 p. IN.
FOR BALTIMORE AND ALL THE
USUAL RIVER LANDINGS.
Cuisine and appointments uneXcelled.
Freight for Baltimore. Philadelphia
and New York solicited and handled
with care. Through rates and bills oil
lading issued.
Single fare to Baltimore, $40; round
trip. $50; stateroomS. one way, Sl.jO.
Meals. zoe.
REARDON & GRIMES, Agents,
Foot of Cameron street.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10
A GOOD EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW

"The report of the auditing com.
mitttee,' said Mr. w. W. Ritter at the
recent Mormon conference. Gin a gen
cra way covers the whole ground but
there are many details which it is i'm
possible to embody in the report. -
That is Just the point. OF course
It could not be expected, in any man
nor of reason, that Mr.. Ritter would
stand in tho tabernacle for hours and
read detailed report of receipts ano
expenditures of the church. That
would be impossible, as all will agree,
provided il be allowed that the time
of the conference is needed for the
transaction of other business equally
important. But the auditing commit
tee has n splendid example before it
that might he emulated with profit and
great satisfaction to the people who
the Reorganized branch Of the Mormon
organization they have an excellent
and Illuminating system. The commit
tee whose business il is TO review the
h'''hiiNo VI ibHNi'ig ''hN'''S ~ 'A'i'
church prepare a copy of all the ac-
counts in detail This is sent to the
church printing office, where 1T is care
fully checked up and printed in pamph-
LET form. Copies of this report are dis
tributed Mt the general conference in
sufficient number 10 permit each dele
gate in attendance 10 have a copy
before him while the oral statement is
being made If any delegate finds
what he may consider to he an error
of any sort he is at liberty to call TT
tenton TO il. and if A remedy he ap-
plicabIe it is there and then applied in
the presence of the whole conference.
BY this means the members of the
church are kept well and honestly add
yised; they are satisfied; there is no
room for fear of wrongdoing; there is
no apprehension lest misapplicatiou of
funds is going on; and naturally the
saints feel more kindly and devoted
toward their leaders.
Why not try the experiment here!
No honest official could object TO it,,
surely, and we are confident the people
would approve.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10

guarded that the church would not long
be left without n Smith supreme die
tator. Even permitting the order of
rotation to stand AS il is thus arranged,
with John Henry Smith still second in
line for the presidency, Hyrum NJ
Smith stands sixth in the apostolate
with three men (Francis M Lyman,
John Henry Smith and Hcber j. Grant,
in precedence who are reasonably not
expected to survive The life span of
Joseph F. Rudger Clawson and Reed
Smoot are the other two apostles who
lnterpose between Hyrum NJ. and the
prophetic - place. Mormon sentiment
or the Smith desire may remove Smoot
Mt any time, with his political activi.
ties as the excuse under which that re-
moval would be made. And AS TO Rud-
ger Clawson, any one of several alleged
causes could be given for his setting
aside; but even should he be permitted
to remain. his obstruction of Hvrum Is
path to the highest position would be
Of short life.
II will be remembered that Joseph
F. Smith was the senior member of the
twelve, and was president of that body.
when he was called to be counselor to
President Lorenzo Snow, and he re-
tanned that presidency even while serv.
ing as counselor to the first president.
John w. Taylor and Matthias r Cowley
resigned y from the apostolate for
cause, and therefore they have lost their
turns. But in the matter OF the Smith
perpetuation, it is readily seen that
the roads and hyways are all we'll
guarded and tho stakes in Zion firmly
church is hereafter to be simply as a
piece Of furniture in the Smith house
hold, or "A COW in the Smith corral, to
be milkcd as desired.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10
DISTRICTS TO BE "JuGGLED. ;,

The county commissioners are en-
gagged in a rcadiustment of the clcc-
tion districts of this city and county.
This is made necessary en- two accounts;
the absorption of Sugar House ward
and other outlying territory into the
city limits, which breaks up some of
the old election districts, and also be
cause some of the old election dis
tricts in the city contain so many
voters that it is difficult for them all
TO be accommodated The work OF
redistricting is. therefore, imperative.
Unfortunately, that work is in the
hands of partisan trickstcrs. tho chief
Of whom is deeply distrustcd by the
people Of this city and county. At
the election of 1908. when he was re.
elected a county commissioner, he ran
a thousand votes behind his ticket.
because of this well.founded distrust.
And even his political supporters knew
his tendencies so well thai the Smoot
organ yesterday morning, referring TO
this redlstrcting, said: ",John c. Mac
kay. chairman of the board of county
commissioners, was busy yesterday jug
Cling figures and maps in the work of
rodistricting the election districts of
the county,
II thus appears that it is not the
board that is doing this work, whose
duty it is TO do it, but John G. Mac
kay, tho chairman And it further APP
pears that in doing this work he is
juggling the figures and maps.
Nothing else was to bc expected. from
his record and his well-kuown pro.
clivities. But that this was to be
openly announced, and by the organ
which openly supports him in this as in
his other wrongdoiug. is indeed a sur
prise, For the public TO expect him
10 do this work in a partisan and lug
Cling manner, and To know that he was
using his power in this direction is one
thing; but TO have his organ brazenly
confess it, shows callous disregard for
deccncy and public opinion that could
come only from the fctid political at.
and environment of the stupid
reckless. and conscicncclcss "Fcdcral
hupch -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10
THE APOSTOLIC STATUS.

As usual il is The Tribune that is
applied to by Mormons when they DE-
sire information with respect to the af-
fairs of their own chruch In this
case the question is as TO whether or
not the elevation of Apostle John Henry
Smith to the quorum of the first presi-
dency will in any way affect his grade in
the aposteship. from which comes the
succession to the presidency.
1t has been established as rule in
the Mormon church that one who has
been ordained TO an apostleship retains
that apostleship, no matter TO what po-
sition he may be called outside Of that
quorum. The rule, we believe, was
established at the time that John Tay-
lor became president Of the church.
Mr. Taylor selected as his counselors
George Q. Cannon and Joseph f. Smith,
both of whom were apostles. 1t is
known to all that the apostolate is
the stepping stone to the first presl
dency, and If a member Of that quorum
should, by any reason, lose his rank
in point of seniority, or at all, he would
be partially or entirely deprived of
chance of becoming president of the
church. The very object OF appoint
ment to the quorum of the twelve
would thus be defeated; therefore il
was arranged and agreed upon between
the members Of the hierarchy, that in
the cases of George O. Cannon and Jo-
been and are held as precedents) the
standing in the apostleship should re-
main undisturbed. This is one of the
matters in which Joseph F. agreed with
Mr.. Cannon, because through that ar
rangement he has become the present
chief.
The situation is, then, in a suppositi-
tious case, that if Joseph +. Smith
should be removed by death the quorum
Of tho first presidency would be dis.
organized, and in fact, would be prac-
tically out Of existence; so that Fran
els M. Lyman, who is now president
of and the senior member in the quorum
of the twelve, would 90 out Of that
body into the presidency, and John
Henry Smith would become president
Of the twelve. Upon the death of Mr.
Lyman, John Henry would succeed to
the presidency of the church, OF course,
all signs are that Joseph F. will ont
live either or both of these men; but
the arrangement as made suggests
condition wherein even in case Of un-
foreseen result or by reason of acci-
dent, a brief non-Smith reign oc-
CURED, the interval OF Smithlessness
in the first presidency would be of
short duration. The situation is so safe