The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-29
WHO OWNS FORTUNE
FOUND IN TAXICAb?
Chauffeur and Owner Dispute
Rights While Two Towns Seek
Inheritance Tax.
VETERANS FROM AMERICA
Former German Soldiers Going &c
Leipzig Memorial and Kaiser's
Jubilee Celebration.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
; TO The Tribune.


Special Cable to The Tribune
| BERLIN, Jan. 2S.-Paul Kugelmann.
taxlcab chauffeur. Is wondering whether
he is destined to be a capitalist or chauf-
feur A year ngo he found In his car
| $50 900 in cash and bank notes and Jewels
| worth s27 1000. left by grateful fare
Kugelmann handed over the vnluables
to the police administration. Lost prop
erty reverts 10 the finder. ii not claimed
within a year. The chauffeur was just
about to take possession when the own
or OF the taxicab intervened with the con-
tention that the valuables belonged to
| him, and not 10 the chauffeur.
Then the city put in demand for
$4,000, as the discovery took place within
It's boundaries. The nelghboring municl
pality of Charottenburg protested thnt 1t,
cceds, as the finder lives in Charlotten-
burg Both municipalities base their
claims on the ground that kugelmann
has Inherited" a taxable fortune.
In connection with the celebrations to
commemorate the twenty fifth year of the
emperor's reign In 1913, and with the un-
! yelling OF the memorial of the battle OF
Leipzig 100 members of the Association OF
| German Veterans In North America are
| expected to participate.
Brothers Urge Suicide.
| A postal packet which came undone
on its way TO Hamburg revealed an APP
paling story OF family degeneracy and
misery. Apparently, the domestic dis
cords Of the Kottbus gymnasium profes-
sor. Herr Kothe, and his wife, were the
| primary cause of the evil.
| At any rate. absence OF harmony In the
household resulted in four sons being
neglected. left to their own resources, and
| allowed TO grow up without that educa-
ton in character which home life alone
had distinguished himself by his reck
! less ways. was sent into the army. in
the hope that discipline would act as a
corrective. But before the new influences
had had time to assert their sway, he
was detected in peculations and dis
| missed.
While he was still overwhelmed with
this disgrace. one Of his brothers, who
had taken divinity degree and had
| position as tutor in Silesia. presented
himself before him at Wilhelmshaven
posed that he should commit suicide. at
the same time stating that 1t was his
| parents wish that he should do so. The
wretched youth agreed. and made an at
ceeded only In completely destroying the
sight OF both eyes.
In the misery OF his blindness he was
found by third OF the brothers. an ap-
prentice at Hamburg. Together they
talked over his hopeless plight. and II
seems that he expressed wish TO put
would furnish him with the means to do
II. The apprentice thereupon wrote the
fourth OF the brothers. who is a chemist.
asking him to provide a suitable poison,
Poison Sent by Mail.
Some correspondence ensued before the
course of II the apprentice proposed
himself 10 administer the fatal potion,
should the predestined Victims courage
fail dnli, him IA, at the last moment. Eyentu-
SUM was sent Off, and with 1t letters
which had been received about the af
! fair. This was the packet which burst
from its wrapper In the post, and so led
| to the arrest of the two brothers, At
their trial IT was urged on their behalf
that In consequence OF their unhappy
| all the children lacked the strength Of
will necessary to resist criminal prompt
ings. Taking this plea into considera-
| ton, the court sentenced them 10 five
| months Imprisonment.
Wilhelm Again to Fore.
The remarkable utterances of the kals-
er In the course Of n recent visit to a
Benedctine abbey and his gift of a huge.
solid silver crucifS to the prior, have
exercised foreign ministers everywhere.
The kaiser is clever. his culture is high,
but he has side to his nature that
sometimes puzzles.
favor of Catholicism should astonish any
| one. Is he not the head OF the Catholic
church In Prussia? When Prince Max
of Saxony tried for the see OF stras-
|
his tutor.
The hurly-burly that turks in the bot
tom Of the emperor's mind too often
draws attention from his shrewdly mat
ter fact disposition. The speech to
the prior was, it appears. not so much
meant for him as for the Catholic court
| Of Vienna, and to help the management
of the Countess OF Hohenberg in prepar-
! ing for a match between Prussian prin-
cess and the Archduke Charles Francis.
second presumptive heir to the imperial
| throne
A long discussion took place at the
| gathering OF the delegates from the diff
iferent racing associations in Germany.
held recently here. respecting the aboll-
| lion OF the percentage levied for payment
| Of expenses on added money advertised
for owners. winners of certain races.
| amounting In some cases to Z per cent,
and in others TO per cent While the
| Union club, with other important socie-
ties. is In favor Of reduction or COM
plete abolition OF levies made on own
| ers, those who organize the minor meet
/ ings urge the loss which would be en-
! tailed by. any decrease in the budget AS
| far as revenue Is concerned
Krupps Still Extending.
The ministry OF marine is lending its
counienance TO scheme initiated bv
| Krupps To take over the iron works at
Mariupol and equip them with an ar
NOR NOR plant, VI The s. money. which is pre-
Paris for the needs OF d Russian navy,
would thus find it's way into German
pockets The Novoc Vremya asks II the
| Germans are encouraged to open n rival
establishment In southern Russia. and in
quires whether Y is polite thus TO give
shipyards. which may sooner or Iatcr
have to compete against Turco German
construction.
Statistics published iIustratjnr tho
| great progress OF krupps works FOR fhe
past year show that. on July 1. the Arm
employed 6S.72G officials. clerks and
workmen. who with their families mad
up the population OF n large town Sf
these. 37,761 were employed In the steeI
| foundry and the gun-testing grounds
| alone. The coal and coke consiImntjon
for the year amounted to 1881 .4os tons