The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-18
Much Indignation Is Aroused
Among Workmen at Advance
in Food Prices.
POLICE ARE EXTREMELY
BUSY WITH VILE CRIMES
Officers Are Sulking Because
They Can No Longer Use
Their Revolvers.
BY PAUL vILLIERS.
-ial Cable to The Tribune

Special Cable to The Tribune.
IARlS. Sept 1.-THE trade and labor
unlonists Of this city are much incensed
over the increase Of prices in the restau-
rants which they frequent Some are
quietly' others openly. organizing move
fnent TO secure luncheon at the old
rates threatening boycott unless their
demands are complied with. To raise
prices would have been considered a Sc
rlous matter, but coupled with the an
nouhcement that prices have raised car
nns, rtcs .he oIher announcement that half
PortionS VIII no longer be served
Inc government has abolished the old
Si laSnioned leather Infantry knapsack This
VII Wiii be replaced by a lmapsack made OF
brown sacklnS and will be carried much
lower than the old one, in the method
adopted by tourists in Switzerland. One
OF the principal reasons for doing away
WITH the old knapsack Is the impossible
lty Tor soldiers wearing Il TO have free
doIn OF movement. and to shoot In a
reclining position. The new knapsacl
VIII not look so smart on parade, but
VIII be more practically useful,
Admiral Bonee de I.apcvrcre minister
or marine. Will not tolerate red tape or
delay, as demonstrated In the following
case: An engineer sent model of u
new torpedo to the department The
minister ordered the necessary tests to
be made, but was Informed that he
might expect report In six months. He
TO their establishment formally dissolved
IL. Then, summonng q young officer OF
attainments, ne ordered him TO examine
the torpedo and 10 furnish a report in
three weeks.
A discovery of interest to scholars and
historians is announced, The Tombs OF
the Plantagenets In the Abbey OF Fonte-
vrault have been discovered by the gov
ernment inspector general Of historical
monuments. The architects engaged in
restoring the abbey discovered traces OF
Inscriptions and paintings in an arched
recess OF the transept,. This ornamental
ton consisted OF gold crosses. escutch-
cons and traces OF heraldc devices rep
resenting leopard's paws. Below there
Richard" "Alienor," and Henri" Be
meath the floor were found the tombs of
Richard Coeur-de-Lion and OF Queen
Eleanor. Next to them were the tombs
OF Henry III and of Isabella Angoulcme.
IT is proposed 10 remove the remains
and renter them In a place Of honor in
the abbey,
Crime and Criminals.
Crime and the police are attracting
much attention here. a cbloroform rob-
berry had the center Of the criminal stage
recently. "A business man from Lille
came on to pay a bill Of $4,000. Going
to well l-known cafe. he asked two
bashful young women sitting next to him
OF banknotes. They took him to a fiat
and tea was made. The man had no
sooner slipped his cup than he fell asleep
He awoke next day. still dazed by the
narcotic poured into his tea, and found
himself alone, minus his pocletbooll, In a
furnished room for the rent Of which Il
bill was presented him. He told the
police that one of the women wore Il
bangle with a gold pig having two ruby
eyes A detective traced the woman
with the lucky pig. and met her and her
friend outside the Scarlet Windmill on
one OF them was found tho pocketbook.
still containing ( $500.
The Russian government has asked the
Partisan police TO make rigid inquiry
into the death OF Count Daniloff, one
OF the richest men In Russia. who was
found dead In plot today, The noble
man was a frequent visitor TO Paris. and
n close friend of Mile. Dondcnne, an art
list. His wife called upon her and a
violent scene followed. Two days later
the count was found dead with bullet
wound In his temple and a revolver lying
beside him His friend said the count
had shot himself almost before her eyes.
and the evening before had given her
large sum of money.
Should the evidence now being taken
support theory that the count WAS the
victim of A murder. his body Will be ex-
humed and submitted to an autopsy. The