The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-24
| HOUSEWIVES COMPEL
REDUCTION OF COST
Force Marketmen to Lower
Prices to a Point Fixed
by the Buyers.
MANY HEIRS TO ESTATE
Over 1900 Apply for a Por-
ton, but Lawyers Get
Entire Amount.
BY PAUL VILLIERS.
Special Cable 10 The Tribune.

Special Gable 10 The Tribune.
PARIS., Sept 22 The strike OF house
wives In various parts of France against
the high prices OF tho necessities of life
is growing serious. So serious In fact
that the government has been compelled
TO use the militia TO preserve order.
AT Maubeuge the situation assumed
such gravity that 500 gcndarmes have
been called . out. The housewives
marched in body to the market at Ber-
lamont The 500 gendarmes occupied
strategic positions all along the road and
| round the market. yet tho five hundred"
were not altogether a match for the
house wives. The women headed by
their leader, who wore rcd sash
around her waist. broke into the town,
and forced the shopkcepers to sell them
butter at IL cents pound. and two
erocers' dozens OF eggs-that is. twenty
siX-for 20 cents, This is the price which
they themselves had fixed.
the women Snatched the whips out of
their hands and threatened 10 use them
on their backs. They sang the. .revolu-
,ionary ''Internationale; crowded round
the market. and raised such disturb
ance that the Justice Of the peace at the
town hall had 10 adjourn the sitting for
n day and retire, a farmer and bis son
had TO ny for their lives and take shelter
in house because they refused the
prices fixed by the housewives. When
the excitement was at its height the mon
and women Of various factories. 10 the
number Of 1900 Joined the demonstra-
ton and The dsturbers we're left mas
ters of the situation, The gendarmes
could only look on and see that there
was no destruction of property
4 still more imposing demonstra ton
was made at the market at Jcumout
where some 5000 assembled To protest
against the high prices. but all the
tionary song and to threaten produce
dealers If they did not keep TO the prices
which had been arbitrarily fixed So
frightened were SON some OF IL thS ,,, tarmeLs l,nn,s
at the railway station under the eyes
Of the police commissioner and took any
price they could get for butter and eggs.
At other points throughout the country
serious disasters have occurred. Just
how tho situation is TO be met is a puz-
2lc to the authorities.
Lawyers Get Entire Estate.
The COUNSEL d'ctat. or French council
OF state. which is a sort OF supreme
court Of equity and appeal for all mat
dinary courts can settle, has testa-
mentary case on nand which Oleht
overwhclm a dozen supreme courts 1t
Is question as TO who is or is not
who died some nine years ago. His name
was AuGustc Dutuit- He vas a we'll
known art collector and left his art
treasures 10 the state which has placed
them in the Petit Palais, Apart from his
collections however. he left a consider
able fortune. and In his VIII he left sew
era million francs In legacics 10 various
charitable institutions. AS for the re-
mainder he declared simply that If was
TO be equally divided between all those
who could prove that they were related
to him. The remainder still represented
fair amount and NJ, AugIstc pututt
was scarcely dead when shoals of rela-
tivcs turned up. The courts were mum
dated with documents from hundreds ana
thousands OF persons. VINO Claimed 10
prove their relationship to the million
airc,
1t was not easy to settle their. claims
Scores OF genealogical experts had 10 be
concluded that 1901 applicants have
proved their claims, NJ, Aususte Dutuit
probably never had the slightest idea In
his lifetime that his relatives could be
ment on peace footing. The list, how
ever was accepted AS definite and the
liquidation Of the remainder OF the Tor
tune began. The first 70 put in claim.
OF course, was the public treasury. It
eXacted such an enormous sum for death
duties that the heirs protested and start
ell legal action against the treasury
Then they began to sue one another TO
disprove each others right to be de-
clared an heir. and the result is that
when the fees for the various lawsuits
between the 1901 heirs. and between
them and the fiscal AUTHORITIES come to
be counted up, they viii probably ex-
coed ten or 20 fold all the fortune left
by NJ Auguste Dutult. AS for the coun-
ell of state. If II were 10 examine all
the documents of the case, IL might have
to leave aside all other buS1ncsS lot
whole generation
Tested Fiancee's Affections.
or independent means, a young man
found n novel means Of testing his
nancee's affection. with the result that
the engagement is now broken off. In
pursuance OF his plan me called on the
girl. Mile Suzanne Roix and. after n
few minutes conversation, during which
ne affected a great mental depression. he
asked her for drink of water.
AS he took the glass from her hand
he produced Il tiny phlai from his pocket
and emptylng the contents into the water
drank II off before she could hinder him.
His fnoe then contracted and hs sank n
helpless mass on the floor. He had only
time to beg his swecthearts forgiveness
before he expired as she thought, I'm
fortunately for Suzanne. Alphonse was
To watch the effect on her OF his own
death. Without the slightest show OF
sorrow she FASTENED TIC the telephone and
rang up the police station. saying that n
suicide had been committed In her apart
mcnts and begging that the BODY might
be removed as soon as possible. This was
too much for Alphonse. who promptly
resurrected himself and left the house,
after telling his eX-sweetheart what he
thought OF her.
Motor Cars in Afghanistan.
Special Gable to The Tribune.
CALCUTTA. Sept 28.-Thc ameer OF
AfghanIstan has decided TO establish n
motor car service bet weeu pcShaWar and