The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
French Anarchists Planned TO
Assassinate Roosevelt
in Paris.
PARIS POLICE NIPPED
SCHEME IN THE BUD
Heads of European Detective
Bureaus Glad When Former
President Sails.
BY PAUL VILLIERS.
al "a lnlA 10 Tha ,rE1hIInE

Special Gable TO The Tribune.
PARIS, April 30.-The arrest OF an an
archist who was evidently on the trail
of former President Roosevelt, the dis
covery that a group of Reds had evil
IDENTIFY marked the distinguished Ameri-
can traveller for assassination, which has
only been prevented by extraordinary
precautions, will, I am informed. result
In the most widespread md drastic cam
paign against the terro1sts which has
Just been undertaken. The weak points
in tho whole preventive police systems
of Europe have been England and the
United States, which have offered asy
Iums TO these men, who claim TO DC
merely political offenders, and afforded
thom safe places in which TO plot. 1t is
asserted by the police here that hardly
a political assassination OF recent years
but what has been plotted either In
America or England. most generally the
former. 1t Is believed the plot against
Mr. Roosevelt will at last bring America
into line and ultimately will lead Eng
land 10 join hands with the continental
authorities in world wide crusade
against anarchists maiiaistas. and SINH
lar organizations. which will be effective.
The head Of every detective system In
Europe will breathe easier when Mr;
States next month
Has Many Troubles.
France Is just now racked with i'm
portanr questions Tho navy Is split into
factions over tho case OF 4 petty oin-
Ger who wants TO wear a long beard. and
has not left his ship nor shaved Tor
eight months. His beard is now four
teen inches long. In Paris, the ministry
OF marine is hard at work preparing
decree that all boards In the navy shall
not be one fraction over two and one
fifth Inches I'm length. Court martial and
dismissal will probably attend the man
growing two inches and a quarter OF
urlng boards every morning with prop
crly tested rllers will no doubt fall upon
commanders. This is not all. The So
cialists have adopted the Latin Quarter
cap, and there Is CONSERVATION among
tho students. The latter have formed n
police corps 10 meet the crisis; ana any
one wearing a cap without the accred-
tied badge OF faculty VIII be-wcll, the
students have not decided what they
will do 10 him. but the uncertainty sur
rounding his fate does not necessarily
make Il less alarming.
Only Seven Happily Married.
There are only seven really happy
married couples in Paris, according TO
some singular statistics just published
of the relative state OF conJuga1 1cuclly
In the French capital There are 1867
wives who have left their husbands for
other men, and 2371 husbands who have
run away from their wives: 4l2o couples
have separated amcably, while no fewer
than 19l .o23 "menages' live at warfare
those who, hating one another cordially,
mask i'm public fcrocious enmlty beneath
appearances of assumed pontencSS. IS
very large amounting TO l62,32p, Whlle
the record in the list is held by couples
who arc vislbly Indifferent TO one another,
namely. 5ID.132. Further, l1O2 couples
are wrongly thought To be happily mar
riod. while there arc 1S5 'menages
happy in comparison with others moro
unhappy. Unfortunately this analytica!
pessimist does not furnish the sources OF
his Information.
Comes TO America for Opera,
is Paris losing her, place as musical
capital? Now she has 10 40 TO New
York for the clements of an operate
season. The papers announce Win
frantic flourish of trumPets, the coming
opera OF New York. An italian season
is TO be held at the Chatelet from May
l9 TO June 21 next, entirely under me me
management of that company. The
Metropolitan opera house will furnish the
singers, the chorus. the corps de ballet,
the scenery and even the costumes. The
among French concert bands: For the
rest tho New York Opera House COM
pany will be brought bodily over TO
Paris, The undertaking is under the
American committee. the last Including
Messrs, w. X Vanderbilt. J.: Pirepont
Morgan and George Gould Inc trSnCI |
press enthusiastically predicts that tho |
New York opera fermormanccs VIII be |
the sensation of the coming season here. |
The undertaking. at all events. marks the |
most sensational American conquest of
Paris yet recorded.
Fought Duel With Whips.
Two Paris cabdViVerS, Jean Thibault |
and Pierre RouX. who occupied the same |
stand in the Boulcvardo des Batignolles |
and had been on excellent terms. quar-
relied on making the haploss discovery |
that they were In love with the same
washorwoman. Neither of them had pro-
posed 10 Marie Hamard. the all-uncon-
Scious object of their affections. and they |
decided to fight the matter out to settle
who had better claim before either
of them approached the subject OF their
Affection A combat took place In n
quiet street. 1t was n duel on totally
novel lines There were no seconds, ana
the weapons used wcro whips. with which
the combatants mcrcllcssly laShed each
other. They woro exhausted and bathcd
i'm blood when Il policeman arrived on
tho scene and took them Ia the police
station, Next morning they were dis
missed with II caution, and happily their
cumity has been again turned to friend
ship, for the washcrwomau. on hearing OF
their story, FASTENED to their CabStand.
where she expressed her regret at having
caused the trouble. and added that she
had already been engaged for some time
to n plumber