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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24
WEATHER REPORT.
Partly Cloudy Tonight and
wednesday.
DIED

WATSON lie Roy Gibson vat.,,
go Nlntn Cast. born April d. rs
died May % lsiU SON of Robert Il
Watson and MlrHn a. Hughas Ma.
McCOMsEY.- Elmo. $40. u,,
1919. of chronic endou1fdItIs V
liam II. McComscy, ~ his 6itb W..
native of Illinois and brother III s,,',
McComsey of the Sixteenth ward n
City. sd
Funeral services TODAY Cr1esdsy,
10 am. from the funeral chapel on
scph William Taylor % south w
Temple street this city rrIends
invited 10 attend. Interment In an
cemetery
WARD.-In this city MAY g2 100 Ma
sarah H. ward, aged 16 years
Funeral services viii be- hed eo-
tho residence OF her daughter. Mr.. i
r. Carlson. 32j south Fourth Eaa
Z pm. Wednesday. May L Inferno,
Mt. olivet cemetery.
DUBoIs.-In this city. NAV al p
Mrs. lelvira Dubois. aged c y..r.
wife OF Charles Dubois. rs no,
street
Funeral services viii Doe bed f,o
the private chapel OF Eber w Ha5|
lM south West Temple at pr
wednesday. May %. 1910 ln,sm..
MI Olivet cemetery
BUCHANAN.-Archibaid Buehan,B d,
ssl Lake street born Sept u.s. Isl
died May o. 1910
short services at residence Tuosisr
May a. beginning az pm Bol
shipped 10 Coalville "Wednesday I'd
interment.
BUCKwELI.-At 20 N street MAY ?
1910, OF commissions, Ernest r. M
of Albert r.. and Catherine Cor,
Buekweil; born sept o. 1905. IN Sal
Funeral services will De held Weirs.
day from the family residence at 9rm
Friends are Invited 10 attend
r. r. Evans. Florist. SO S. Main St
Floral designs a specially Phones ssl
JOB PRINTING AND BOOK BIND.
ING.
We are the pioneers in Job Print.
ing and Book Binding In the state
Our facilities arc the best Tor hand.
ling any class Of work. no matter a5g
large or how small
THE DEsERET NEWS JOB DEPT
STOCK CERTIFICATES
stock certincate& bonds. and blank
books OF any size or style made %
order. Estimates promptly Furnished
THE DESERET NEWS JOB Def
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24
STOCK CERTIFICATES

stock certihcateA bonds. and blan'
books OF any size or style made Z
order. Estimates promptly furnished
THE DESERET NEWS JOB DEPT
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24
JOB PRINTING AND BOOK BIND.
ING.

We are the pioneers in Job Print
ing and Book Binding in the state
Our facilities arc the best for hand
ling any class Of work. no matter aJu
large or how small.
THE DESERET NEWS JOB DEPT
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24

BCCkWELI.-At 20 n street NAV ,
1910, Of commissions. Ernest IN
OF Albert r.. and Catherine Conn
Buckweil; born sept O.. 1906. IN 81
Lake
Funeral services will De held Wa8ra,
day from the family residence at 9rr
Friends are invited 20 attend
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24

McCOMSEN.- AT Elmo. $40. Nav ,
l'lo 81 chronic endoDlrdIus Wi
liam III. McComscy, ~ his ssh W..
native of Illinois and brother ID sma
McComsey of the Sixteenth ward nv
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24

FuncrIl 9crViooa t0daI ITnasda,I :.
10 am. from the funeral chapel On i-
seph William Taylor. eI south w..
Temple street this city FrIends II,
invited TO attend. Interment In an,
cemetery.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24

Tomorrow is field day at Wandanere.
Preparations are being made for athle-
tic contests Tonight the seniors give
their opera az Whitney hall The
commencement exercises viii be held
Thursday evening az Barratt hall
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24

BUCHANAN.-Arch Buchanan ,
Ssl Lake street; born Sent N f0..
died May D. 1910
short services at residence Tuoslsy
May a. beginning at nm pot
shipped to COalville "Wednesday n
intermcnt
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-24

BOlS.-ln this city. Nav I'd ra
Mrs. Elvira Dubois. aged 70 ,.,r
wife OF Charles Dubois s8 pe,
street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
Tax Valuations in Alabama

The valuations of Alabama property for taxation purposes have already crossed the half-bllion line, and when all es- capes are added the sum total may prove to be s55o,00o, GOO! This valuation is os- tensibly and confessedly but 60 per cent of the market value of property within the state, so that a man with s1, GOO, ,ooo, GOO in his pocket need not cherish the hope that he can come here and buy out the entire state.
 In the lists of counties Jefferson easily ranks first. It is credited with s7o, IT, SSs in real estate, and s3s,92S, ,5s2 in per sonal property, the total being s10z640, ,92o. This is goodly total. Montgomery and Mobile counties combined have but of the state escape lightly at the hands of tax assessors, C1arkes total valuations being but s4s5. .7Ss. It would take over 200 counties like Clarke to make Jefferson county in values. But men as we'll as taxable values are to be considered in this world.
 The only counties in the state that have crossed the s1o,ooo,0o0 line on the states tax books are Jefferson, Mobile Mont gomery, Calhoun, Dallas, Etowah, Mad ison, Talladega and Tallapoosa. Walker is near the line, but it has not yet crossed it. Nine rich counties in state with more a-coming is evidence of prosper ity. These nine counties pay In round proportion one-half of the states taxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
Jefferson COunty's Courthouse Problem

The Board of Revenue is certainly act the county, both present and prospective when 1t keeps alive and sensibly pro- notes the proposition of a tall court house with jail at the top.
 The county did, it is true, vote down rather indefinite proposition to that eff feet, and the Board of Revenue will be- fore 1t submits the question again to the people of the county, procure plans, bids and all other pertinent information to the end that every voter will this time have before him all needful facts upon which to base a judgment as to the feasibility and desirability of the pro- posed skyscraper courthouse and jail combined.
 A thorough discussion based on the fullest possible information is to precede second submission of the subject to the qualified electors of the county. The programme of the Board of Revenue is excellent. The fuller the information the surer the board may be of an affirmative result. The people will say what they want when they know what 1t win cost a4.. needs the proposed building. The voters are to know precisely what they are vot- ing for. Time for a full discussion of the subject should be given, and then the whole matter should be handed over to the people to be disposed of in ac- cordance with their wishes and their well considered opinions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. - hins henrs
Cotton Bills of LadiDg

The railroads refuse to guarantee the delivery of cotton in accordance with their own bills of lading. They refuse to acknowledge responsibility for the acts of their own agents. Hence the present muddle over the financing of cotton. NO one can justly blame the foreign bankers for refusing to accept as genuine and sound bills of lading that the railroads which issued them will not guarantee.
 The Louisiana law meets this case just as it should be met. It says: ''No mas ter, owner or agent of any boat or vessel of any description, forwarder, or officer or agent of any railroad, transfer or transportation company, or other person. shall sign or give any bill of lading, re- ce,nt or other voucher or document for anv merchandise or property, by which it shall appear that such merchandise or property has been shipped on board Of any ,oat vessel. railroad car or other vehicle, ,nless the same shall have been actually .b;n,ed and mt on board and shall be at the time actually on board or delivered +o such boat. vessel, car or other vehicle to be carried or conveyed as expressed in said bill of lading, receipt, voucher or document"
 There is no ambiguity about this law and no loophole through which the signer of a bill of lading can escape from lia- bilitv. The penalty provided for any violation of the act is moreover drastic. The law says: Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a criminal of- fense, and upon indictment and convic- tion shall be fined g any sum not ex- ceeding $5ooo or impris- -Ament in the pen itentiarv of this state not exceeding five years. or both" The law also provides for the recovery of all damages sustain ed through the violation of the law.
 This statement of the nature and sub stance of the Louisiana law can be fouhd fin the revised statutes of that state, sec ton 24S1 If any legislator Of Alabama desires to see the present muddle removed and the whole matter put on Just anu stable foundation he should consult the Louisiana law with a view to it's re- production in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
PRINCETON PRESIDENCY
Washington Special to the Cincinna
 Irnn1lirar

Washington Special to the Cincinnati
 Enquirer.
 Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio may be offered" the presidency of Prince ton university, according to report which gained circulation In Washing ton tonight. President Woodrow Will son, who has been nominated by the democrats for governor of New Jersey, has notified the trustees of the univer- sity that he will tender his resignation, and it Is now up to them to look for his successor, and the gossip is that Senator Burtons name Is under con- sideration.
 Senator Burton left Washington to- day for Ohio. He will speak at Miami university on Wednesday. Those who have talked with the Ohio senator re- gently do not believe he would be dis posed to accept the offer if it were to come to him, as he is too fond of the political game to abandon 1t, with four years yet to serve in the Senate before coming up for reelection.
 Then, too, there is always the possi- bility of the election of a democratic legislature in Ohio this fall, and in that event, if Senator Burton should resign to become a college president, 1t would mean two democratic senators from that state, which would be a handicap to the administration and possibly the shifting of the majority of the Senate from the regular side to the democratic insurgent side.
 Senator Burton has outlined a great deal of work for himself during the coming short session, and it is said that he would not like to give this up. Among other things, he is likely to con- tinue his fight against the Appalach- White mountain forest reserve bill, which is to be voted upon in February. He is the backbone of the opposition to the measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22

Correspondence the London Times.
 THE Greeks advancing the rest of
 the day arrived at the River Iii
 4 gris. Here was a large deserted city, the name of which was Larissa, once inhabited by the Medes. The breadth of its wall was and 20 feet, the heighth of 1t 100, It's circuit was two parasangs It was built of bricks made of clay, but there was under it a stone foundation the heighth of 20 feet. Hence they proceed ed one days journey to large unoc- cupied fortress, situated near a city the name of which was Mespia.
 So Xenophon describes the royal cities of Calah and Ninevah, unconscious
 though the glories of the Assyrian erl- Dire were scarcely POO years behind him. of the origin of those mighty walls. Ma poleon under the pyramids is not fig ure more striking to the imagination than the Athenian gazing upon the crumbling palaces of Esarhaddon and Sennacherib we catch through his eyes last fieeting glimpse of their ramparts and know no more until Layard turned back the dust of centuries and recreated for us a buried civilization. If his distinguished
 lahors, together with those of Botta and of Place rescued the most remarkable monuments which have yet been found in Assyria, the work which Is now be- ing done under the auspices of German excavators, is of no less importance to
 Nfesopotamian archaeology
 ihe site which they have chosen in
 northern Mesopotamia is the mound of Kalat Shergat, whereon stood Assur. the
 earliest of the Assyrian cities, and for in vestigations such as those undertaken by
 Dr. Andrae and his colleagues a more favorable spot could scarcely have been selected It has not, indeed, given them the carved slabs and huge stone guar dians of the gate of Kings, which Layard secured for the British museum. These have most probably disappeared during | the many periods of reconstruction which | the town has undergone;. but that very reconstruction adds in some respects to | the historic value of the excavations. | As you ride over the ridge of barren | hills that skirt the Tigris to the south of KaPat Shergat your eye is caught by a great formless pile standing up on the | high ground by the rivers edge. It is | the pyramid the zigurrat, to give 1t is proper title, that marked the temple of
 Assur. tutelary god of Assyria. The tenn
 pie of Assur goes back to the earliest | period of Assyrian history, and 1t is here | that Dr. Andrae has succeeded in piecing together large fragments of Parthian
 architectural decorations which throw a
 light, entirely new. upon Parthian art
 and upon the succeeding era of Sassanian architecture.
 Throughout the area of the city the ex-
 cavators have dug series of deep trial
 trenches, cutting through the Parthian period, through the late Assyrian and
 down to the earliest times. These trenches afford materials for the most
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
Elections Bought and Paid For

Mark Hanna is dead. It was he who managed the two Mckinley campaigns, and it has been said that the fund con- tributed by trusts, monopoffes and rail- roads centered in Wall street went so far into the millions in 1896 as to stag ger belief Some say Wall street was so scared by MT. Bryan's popularity that it clipped in s16.ooo.ooo. Whatever the true sum was it went far into the millions.
 The Cortelyou fund of 1904 was also heavy. and so was the Hitchcock fund of tale unfold that would stock the plain everyday vote almost beyond measure
 It is history in this country that no election-no Presidential election at any rate-has ever been carried against the money collected in Wall street. How far the publicity bill will affect payments by the trusts and other corporate bodies re- mains to be seen. The politicians will however, prove no doubt equal to the emergency. Sums that they do not want to disclose will be shifted to some state or local committee that the federal law does not reach. Some subterfuge, some indirect method, will at any rate be adopted to cover up subscriptions, say, by some tariff beneficiary.
 The present publicity law is full of loopholes. It is, however, a start in the right direction, and the House of Repre- sentatives in the Sixty-second Congress should pass a bill that will in fact and in truth put an end to the coptrol that privilege has exercised in presidential elections ever since the war. The Harri- man purse of s26ooOO raised three days before the presidential election of 1904, by which he boasted that 5o,ooO votes in the slums of New York city were changed" stands. however, as the worst known instance of corruption in the polit- ical history of this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
Confessed Chicken Stealing So He Could
 Acquire Trade

From the Kansas City Times.
 After wandering 10 years as a man of all work, Matthew Buckley, 21 years old, went to No. ? police station in Kansas City, Kan, at o'clock yesterday morn ing and told Jacob Broadhurst, the ser geant, that he was a chicken thief and wanted to be sent to the penitentiary, where he could learn a trade. Broad- hurst sent Buckley to police court, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of vagran- cy and was fined $10. The theft of chick ems to which Buckley confessed will be investigated while he works out the fine. Chicken stealing is penitentiary offense in Kansas.
 Buckley says he Is tired of doing laborers work and has resolved to learn a trade at which he can get reasonable wages. He believed he could learn trade in the Kansas penitenitary. Off cers of No. station told Buckley that they will try to find him a place as ap- prentice, where he can learn trade without going to prison. Buckleys par ents are dead. He was cared for several years by relatives and then was told to go out and make his own living.
 'I worked at odd jobs here and there" he said, but I never did anything that I wanted to follow permanently. I tried to get work in a shoe factory so I could learn the business, but they said there were no places open. Every place tried where a man could work and learn a trade he could follow all his life, turned me down. was inexperienced, they said, and they couldn't use me.
 Two weeks ago I left Quebec, my old home. I beat my way on trains out here. They threw me off a train just be- fore we got into the city and I had to walk in I was coming along the track last Saturday night and saw a house off to one side. When I knocked at the door no one came and I went into the chicken house nearby and took six chick ems.
 q wrung their heads and took them up the track, where I made fire of sticks and roasted two of them and ate them. I sold two of the others to man I met for 20 cents and I threw away the other two. I tramped into town and was afraid I would be arrested because I was not working and did not have any money. knew I had no trade at which I could work and after I thought 1t over I de- cided that I would confess to stealing the chickens and be sent to the peniten- tiary where l could learn a trade"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
Gray Back to Montgomery

Acting Gov Henry B. Gray will leave this morning for Montgomery to spend the remainder of the week. He states that his bank, the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust company, will occupy its new quarters in the First National Bank building about January 1. The fixtures will be modern and convenient in every respect, and the banks interior will be one of the most elegant in the city.
 When it was called to the attention of Governor Gray that he has but nine more days to serve, and has not yet done any thing sensational to give color to his short administration he said
 NO, we don't need any sensations in Alabama right now. I find plenty to do down in Montgomery without attempting to startle any one. l have become ac- customed to listening to the petitions for pardons. and there is so much human in terest in them that it makes an interest ing study. I have enjoyed the months work but will be glad to turn the reins back to Governor Comer."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
ADVANCE CENSUS REPORTS

From the New York Press.
 Number of families owning phono- graphs, 2,2e4721.
 Number of men holding worthless checks and invalid promissory notes, 72,- 9s6279.
 Number of cities where taxes are req sonable, G.
 Number of ministers, 2s2,sse Number who would leave their present charge if they had a .'eall' with an increase of wages, 232,69o
 Number of women who like the hobble skirt, 0.
 Number of women who will wear the hobble skirt, 76S, 342
 Number of individuals who take a va- cation annually, 54,42S,674.
 Number of individuals who annually return broke, 54, 42S 671.
 Number of men who threw away their winter overcoats last spring, 3.456,2S7.
 Number of men who will search the at tic for those coats this fall, S,456,2S1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
FACTS ABOUT ANCIENT ASSUR

fascinating studies. One of the earliest cities that stood upon the mound of As. sur is, curiously enough, the easiest to trace. The houses are in an unusually perfect state, their walls, preserved ire quently to a height of several feet. in- closing little cobbled courtyards with narrow cobbled streets between.
 These worn and ancient ways. emerg- ing from under the steep sides of the trench, and disappearing again into the earth on the other side, give the ob- server sense of visualized history. as though the milenniums had dropped away that separate him from the busy life of the antique world. It Is probable that the city to which they belong was destroyed by some overwhelming catas- trophe, laid desolate, perhaps, by an on. slaught of the Mitanni kings of northern Mesopotama or of the Babylonians from the south, and so left an age-long ruin. until later generation completed the filling up of court and street, which had been begun by the hand of time, leveled the whole, and built their dwellings upon foundations of the past. The Assyrians were content to leave their story in- scrbed upon the clay cylinder or on stone; they did not, like the Egyptians, rear for their dead enduring monuments, but each man in turn was thrust into clay sarcophagus or sepulchral jar ly- ing immediately below the floor of his own dwelling-we counted as many as 15 burials in one of the smaller houses-or placed with a slightly greater regard for the comfort of the living, in an adjoin- ing subterranean chamber vaulted with briCkT1, iss- -.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
THE BALLAD OF A BACHELOR

By Ellis Parker Butler. Listen, ladies, while I sing The ballad of John Henry King. John Henry was a bachelor, His age was thirty-three or four Two maids for his affection vied, And each desired to be his bride, And bravely did they strive to bring Unto their feet John Henry King. John Henry liked them both so well, To save his life he could not tell Which he most wished to be his bride, Nor was he able to decide. 'Fair Fate was jolly, bright and gay, And sunny as summer day; Marie was kind, sedate and sweet, With gentle ways and manners neat. Each was so dear that John confessed He could not tell which he liked best He studied them for quite year, And still found no solution near, And might have studied two years more Ildd iiC iictb- "SihiiiS Oii tilc oIiOIc, Conceived very simple way Of ending his prolonged delay A way in which he might decide Which of the maids should be his bride He said: ''I'll toss into the air A dollar, and I'll toss it fair.
 
 If tails fair Kate my bride will be- Then from his leather pocketbook A dollar bright and new he took; He kissed one side for fair Marie, The other side for Kate kissed he. Then in a manner free and fair He tossed the dollar in the air rye fates," he cried, pray let this be A lucky throw indeed for me!' The dollar rose the dollar fell; He watched it's whiring transit well, And off some 20 yards or more The dollar fell upon the shore. John Henry ran to where it stuck TO see which maiden was in luck. But oh, the irony of fate! Upon it's edge the coin stood straight! And there, embedded in the sand, John Henry let the dollar stand And he will tempt his fatesno more, But live and die bachelor. Thus, ladies. you have heard me sing The ballad of John Henry King.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-22
WILLS GOODS TO THE LORD

Worcester Special to the New York Sun.
 One of the most unique wills ever re- corded in this state was that of Charles Hastings, late of Ashburnham, filed here recently, who leaves real estate valued at several thousand dollars and transfers the title of the same to the Lord Jesus, appointing himself trustee of the prop erty.
 The will, which was drawn more than a quarter of a century ago, deeds' sev- eral garden lots and buildings in the town of Ashburnham to the Lord Jesus as rightful owner according to the Bible. the first book of laws.
 The instrument was given, according to the probate court records, in consid- eration of the love and good will of the Savior and one cent found in one of the buildings.