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The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
". ]. BRYAN ON
DISABLED VESSEL
HAMBURG-AMERIC LINER GOES
ON ROCKS NEAR SAN
SALVADOR.
BOAT IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGER
Nebraskan With Wife and Grand
child on Way to Visit,
Daughter Mrs. Ruth
Owen,

New York, Nov. 23.-According to
wireless messages received here, the
Hamburg-American liner Prinz Joa.
chin, on which William J. Bryan Ia
one CT the passengers, went ashore
on the rocks of SANTANA island, near
Santo Domingo. Mrs. Bryan and
their 6-year-old grandson, John Bryan.
are with Mr.. Bryan.
Bryan was on his way to visit his
daughter, Mrs. Ruth Leavitt Owen, in
Kingston. He expected to spend the
winter in Panama, after visiting in
Kingston.
SANTANA island is one of the small
outlaying islands of the Bahamas, To-
Gated Just southeast Of San Salvador,
where Columbus landed. It Is also
known as Atwood's key. and is an I'm.
inhabitable rock about mile wide
and eight miles long. The vessel
went ashore at a. m.
According to marine men, the Prins
Joachim must have been twenty-five
miles or more off her course. The
vicinity always is avoided by sailors
as being particularly dangerous.
Wireless at first reported the pas.
sengers in no immediate danger. Lat
er reports received here by wireless,
however, declare that the vessel is In
a sinking condition and that i'm.
mediate aid is needed. 1t Is believed
however. all the passengers can be
landed in the lifeboats in safety, un.
1occ aid orrivea hefora the vaqao1
breaks up. Numerous vessels at
tracted by the wireless calls Of the
Prinz Joachim are hurrying to her
aid. Among the vessels that have
reported themselves on the way are
the Colon of the Panama Railroad &
Steamship line.
The Prinz Joachim left New York
with seventy-five cabin passengers for
Fortune island. Kingston and Colon
The place where she went ashore ID
thirty miles from Fortune island.
The vessel is a modern boat of ,750
tons, belonging to the so-called Prin'
zen class. used by the Atlas line of
the Hamburg-American In its South
American and West Indian service. II
develops q speed of fourteen knots
and generally carries large number
of tourists.
A wireless declared the passengers
were calm and that all preparations
had been completed by the crew to
take them off the steamer az soon
as one of the rescuing steamers ar.
rived.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
BEEF PRICES LIKELY TO SOAR
Montana Range Cattle Attain Record
High Mark in Chicago.

Chicago, Nov. 22.-An unprecedented
high price paid here for range cattle
has called attention to condition
which stockmen say has been growing
more and more disturbing for some
time. They say it threatens to make
a low price of meat an impossibility
for the future unless met by activity
among corn belt stockmen.
F. M Heinrich, of Lodge Grass
Mont, was paid $3.50 per hundred
pounds for 20 head of cattle that had
never eaten other than the grass OF
the open range, price never before
attained on the Chicago cattle market
for range stock. The previous high
price was $3.50, paid in October, 1908,
to another Montana stock raiser.
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GoMPERs TO BE REELECTED.
Socialists Not Believed Strong Enough
to Effect Change in A. F. Of L.

Atlanta, Nov. 23.-The convention
of the American Federation Of Labor
meets with the expectation Of passing
on the reports Of two of its important
committees. The adjustment of in
dustrial disputes and the presidents
report will be heard
All the recommendations made by
President Gompers in his annual re.
port have been considered by the COM
mittee.
President Gompers and the other
Gals probably will be reelected as
the socialists have not developed suf-
ficient strength. 1t is practically Ger.
tain that the 1912 convention will be
held at Rochester
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FIVE OTHER PERSONS INJURED,
ONE PROBABLY FATALLY,
IN COLLISION.
CAUSED BY HEAVY SNOW STORM
Great Northern Passenger, Going SO
Miles an Hour, Crashes Into
Freight.-Engine Crew Dead
at Their Posts.

Rugby, Nov. 2O-Tearing along the
rails at the rate of so miles an hour,
two men lost their lives and several
were injured when the Great North.
ern's last mail train No. %, east
bound, collided head-on with freight
train. six miles east of here.
The Dead:
Isaac Wright, engineer, Devils Lake,
N. d.
Michael OLeary. fireman, Devils
Lake, N. D.
The Injured:
r. c. Wynn, conductor, Minot; Dan
Healy, mail clerk, Devils Lake; Ned
Price, express messenger; William
Rodenbaum, brakeman; Jenkins, mail
clerk, Devils Lake.
Outside Of a severe shaking up,
none of the passengers in the mail
train were injured.
The two trains were supposed to
stop at Tunbridge, but the train crew
passed that station owing to a heavy
snowstorm, and had gone half mile
before noticing the mistake and were
about to back up when the collision
occurred. Conductor William Chris.
Hanson, Engineer n. w. Acker, Fire.
man Harry Owens and Brakeman
Clayton We're in charge of the freight
train. Engineer Acker gave the fol-
lowing account of the wreck.
1t was Storming badly when the
wreck occurred. Our train had an or.
binary headlight, and the passenger
had an electric headlight I'VE real.
lied that We had passed Tunbridge
and had stopped and were about to
back up. We could see the passenger
coming and realized that we could not
get in the clear. Had it not been
storming so badly or had our train
been equipped with an electric head.
light, the passenger crew might have
seen us, but as it was, the passenger
got within a few feet of us before the
crew realized the situation. There
was no time whatever for the passen.
ger crew to save themselves
Both engines were reduced to piles
of twisted iron. The mail and eX.
press cars, car Of machinery on the
freight and several other cars were
damaged.
Engineer Wright had evidently been
thrown through the cab window by
the terrific impact of the great loco
motives. He was hurled into the
ditch and a moment later. when the
steam and boiling water Kissed out OF
the demolished engine, his body was
covered with water.
Fireman OLeary had met an equally
horrible death. Caught standing di'
rectly in front of the fireboX, sup
posedly engaged in his work, he was
hurled against the boiler and crushed
to death by the tons Of coal thrown
on top Of him. Engineer Wright is
survived by a wife and five children
while Fireman OLeary is survived by
wife and two children.
Engineer Wright was pioneer
North Dakota railroad man and held
the distinction Of pulling the first fas,
mail train through the state.
The scene Of the wreck was only six
miles from a wreck two years ago
when mail train crashed into a
freight trains caboose, filled with
stockmen, killing three and injurins
tx,n
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TRAFFIC EXCEEDING ExPEcTA.
TIoNs CAUSES FIRST CAR
SHORTAGE IN FIVE YEARS..
MORE FREIGHT CARS ARE NEEDED
Railroads Confident Of Meeting De.
mands-Otficials Admit That
Shipments Have Taxed
Equipment.

Minneapolis. Nov. 21-Business is
away ahead Of what they thought it
was going to be and North Dakota
more cars. On the Great Northern
from Devils Lake to beyond Minot,
the Northern Pacific from Fargo to
jamestown and beyond, on the Red
River valley line of the Milwaukee
and again where the Puget Sound ex-
tension touches North Dakota and on
the 500 from Fessenden north to Flax
ton, there is business moving that is
keeping things on the jump.
North Dakota needs coal; is getting
It in great quantity. but wants to get
1t faster, and is asking the railroads
to hurry 1t along.
Business Taxes Facilities.
A car shortage in North Dakota,
such as has not been experienced in
the northwest since the winter Of
1906-19o7 has again developed. Ship
ments Of wheat. flax, barley and other
produce from North Dakota stations
to Minneapolis and Duluth have been
30 heavy, and SO much coal. lumber
and merchandise has gone back into
that state, that business far In ex.
cess of what was expected by either
the railroads or the merchants has
been Offering itself and is still there
to be handled Consequently ship
pers have to wait day or two to get
cars.
1--WE arc taking care of all demands,
but the recent storm set us back a
little" said ]. B. Baird, general
freight agent Of the Northern Pacific
road. and the same report was made
by w. r. Kenney. traffic manager Of
the Great Northern and w. l.. Martin,
traffic manager of the 500 line. The
Milwaukee road Is handling good
business out Of those parts of North
Dakota that it touches and is taking
care Of shippers. The roads that
reach tho head Of the lakes found a
coal tonnage Of large proportions
awaiting early movement west. with
the usual winter insistence upon
prompt delivery.
Expectations Exceeded.
mere IL not likely 20 nc any car
scarcity of consequence" said W. L.
Martin. 1T is true that business has
been better than was looked for. The
principal pressure is from the coal
demand from North Dakota. This wa
are caring for and have kept stream
Of coal moving west. There have
been only few grain elevators at sta
lions on our lines that have been filed
to maximum and were without relief
in ability to ship east, and we are
looking after such cases"
The railroad officials say that the
Significance OF the report Is not that
the railroads are short Of equipment
for they say that there are cars
enough. 1t is a showing, they say, OF
q volume Of business In North Da.
kota that is very good and much bet
ter than the bad crop of last year in
Dictated as a possibility.
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washInaton Towns Flooded.

Seattle, Nov. 20.-Warm chinook
winds bringing heavy downpour Of
rain in the lowlands and melting the
mountains flooded the rivers of west.
ern Washington. The torrents broke
the dam of the municipal electric
plant, cut off Seattle's water supply,
demoralized railroad service, washed
out bridges and flooded many farms
and valley towns. No lives have been
reported lost. The water swept
through the streets of Benton, driving
the people to the hills.
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HYDE EVIDENCE IS OUTLINED
Relations to Death Of c. e. Swope Ad.
mitted as States Evidence.

Kansas City, Nov. 22.-Evidence re-
lating to the death of Christman e
Swope will be admitted as part OF
the testimony Of the state in the case
against DR.. B. C. Hyde, charged with
the murder Of Colonel Thomas H.
swope. This was the ruling Of Judge
Porterfeld after lengthy argument
on the objection made by Attorney
Frank P. Walsh to It's admission.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
Taft to Dine Republicans.

Washington. Nov. 23.-At one din.
ner President Taft plans to give in
the White House this winter he will
be host to the Republican national
committee, most of the we'll known
leaders Of the party and to many Of
his cabinet, all at once.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
WILLIS e. DODGE IS CALLED.
illness for Four Months Fatal-Was
Attorney for Great Northern.

Minneapolis, Nov. 20.-Willis Ed
ward Dodge. Minneapolis lawyer, died
following an Illness that had confined
him to his apartments for the last
four months. Mr.. Dodge was at one
time general attorney for the Great
Northern railroad, but had engaged in
private practice in Minneapolis for
the last seven years.
Lake Schooner Sinks.
Alpena, Mich, Nov. 20.-The schoon-
er William A. Young, owned by Robert
C. Pringle Of Wickliffe, Ohio, was sunk
on Lake Huron. The crew reached
shore in yawl after a terrifying az
perience.
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TO MOVE COTTON CROP.
Fifty Millions Of New York Money Ie
Available.

New York, Nov. 22.-New York
bankers who have been comforting
here for the last few days with rep.
resentatives of the governors confer.
ence and the Southern Cotton congress
announced that they had raised fund
Of $4,000 900 to be placed immediate.
ly in the cotton belt states for the
purpose of handling the cotton crop
of 1911 and enabling growers to par
ticipate in any rise in the market.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
TOBACCO INTERESTS TO APPEAL
Want Circuit Courts Decree Of DISCO
luton Reviewed.

Washington, Nov. 22.-Independent
tobacco interests will appeal to con-
gress II necessary to have the circuit
courts decree Of dissolution Of the to-
bacco trust reviewed by the supreme
court. This was asserted by Felix Fl
Levy, their attorney, who appeared be
fore the interstate commerce commit
tee Of the senate to give his views on
the trust question.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
SUITS ECHO OF HoxsEYs FALL

Persons Injured in Milwaukee Start
$4,000 Action Against Wrights.
Milwaukee, Nov. 22.-Two suits for
$25. 900 each were started against the
Wright brothers as a result of the
aeroplane accident at the Milwaukee
state fair September 16, 1910. when
Archey Hoxsey fell into the crowd in
his Wright biplane. injuring eight per.
sons. One action was brought by
Mrs. John Lynch Of Delaven, Wis, and
the other by Mrs. John Bowers Of Cor.
nss, Wis.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
SEVERAL HURT DURING FIRE.
MarshaI's Buggy Runs Down Children
In Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Nov. 23-Two children
were fatally injured and number of
mon seriously hurt when fire. which
for spectacular rescues, eclipsed any
occurring in this city. destroyed the
plant of the J. Baum Safe and Lock
company. The loss will be in tho
neighborhood OF $15o,ooo. The cause
of the fire is not positively known. but
1t is believed a lighted cigaret had
been thrown into shavings.
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Probe ALLEGED Relating.

Chicago, Nov. %. - The United
States grand jury began an investiga'
ton to determine whether railroads
operating between New York and Chi
eago have been given rebates to
theatrical companies. Agents OF the
New York Central and Michigan Cen.
trail lines were among those who emit
cred the grand jury room.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
eTEEL INQUIRY COMMITTEE
HEARS MERRiTT's STORY OF
100000 DEAL.
JOHN D. PLAYS CONFIDENCE GAME
eIames Preacher Emissary for His
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES He Was Not
Schooled in Ways Of "Money
Trust"

rift of Duluth, first president of the
Duluth, Misabe & Northern Railroad,
who styled himself a lumber jack
unacquainted with the methods of the
money trust" told the house steel
trust investigating committee that
through loans of less than 100000
from John D. Rockefeller he had lost
his holdings in the Mesaba iron mines
and the railroad properties now owned
by the United States Steel corpora
ton and eStimated to be worth today
rs high as 100000, 900.
Merritt and his brother, Leonidas
Merritt, who will testify. We're among
Superior region. and part owners and
builders Of the Duluth, Misabe &
Northern railroad. The elder Merritt
declared that he was induced through
F. D. Gates, Mr.. Rockefeller's secre.
tary, "in charge of his charitable
collateral for loans from MIR. Rookie.
Teller in 1892 and 1898 One loan was
for $4,000. Others We're for various
sums.
Gates, he said, was a Baptist
preacher, in whom he had confidence,
and who assured him that by placing
a call loan he would not be pressed
and that he would he taken care of.
Rockefeller Forccloses.
The witness related how, two
months after he had put up his col
lateral with Mr.. Rockefeller. during
the panic of 1898 Rockefeller called
the lean, giving him "a hours to raise
S42O.0OG: that being unable to raise
the mcuey 10 and his brother lost
their property.
He admitted that MIR. Rockefeller
offered him an opportunity to buy his
property back within a year. but de.
clared that the oil king told financiers
ito keep hands off" and that he was
unable to raise money anywhere.
Dispute as to the nature Of the
transaction arose when d. A. Reid
counsel for the United States Stce
corporation, stated that the Merritts
had made actual sales Of their stock
holdings to Rockefeller in order tC
raise money. and that they never had
taken advantage Of the opportunity tc
repurchase within year.
Another brother, Mr.. Reid declared
had redeemed his stock and secured
his pro-rata share at 1908 per share
when it was taken over at the time OF
the organization of the United States
Steel corporation.
The Merritts were first parties to q
transaction with Mr.. Rockefeller and
others in determination of the Lake
Superior Consolidated Iron mines. Ir
this the mines Of the region and the
Duluth, Mesaba e. Northern were con
solidated. Out Of this, suit by the
{; Merritts against Mr.. Rockefeller de
veloped on the ground that misrepre
sensations of mining properties were
turned in by the Rockefeller interests
Subsequently, Rockefeller paid the
Merritts $525,O00 in settlement fol
this.
C. H. Martz, engineer Of the railroad
testified that he was forced by Mr.
Rockefeller to sell his stock in thu
road because he was an employee ant
that he had been ordered to pad thu
cost of the road in a report to the Min
nesota railroad and warehouse com
mission in order to Justify ore rate
charged
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
pes MoInes Experiments,

Des Moines, Iowa. The city
council made an appropriation Of ST.
500 for establishing a municipal lodg.
Ing house and employment bureau.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
CHICAGO Policemen to Be Tried.

CnTcago FoTcemen 70 DC TrIeu.
Chicago, Nov. 20.-Four command.
ing officers Of police are on trial as a
result of the investigation of the civil
service commission, on charges Of in.
competence and permitting violations
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
HARVESTER TRUST APPEALS.
RooseveIt's Plea for "Square Deal"
Quoted In Missouri Suit.

Quoted In Missouri Suit.
Jefferson City, Nov. 21.-Quoting
Colonel Roosevelt's recent declaration
for Square deal" for both the cor
porations and the public the 1nterna'
tional Harvester company filed in the
supreme court Of Missouri motion
for a rehearing in the recent case in
which it was cOnditionally ousted
from the state and fined $4,000 on
charges of violating the state anti.
trust law.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
Couple js Burned to Death,

Couple Is Burned to Death.
Detroit, Nov. 20.-Robert Desner, .
boilermaker, and his wife, each about
SO years Of age, were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed their one.
story cottage.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25
Falls S Feet; Aged Man Is Killed.

Falls 5 Feet; Aged Man 10 Killed..
Calumet, Mich, Nov 20. - Falling
less than five feet from a stool on
which he was standing, Henry Grim
mer, aged so, sustained fracture of
the base of his skull, dying two hours
later.
The Irish standard., 1911-11-25

Revolution In Paraguay.
Buenos Ayres, Nov. 23.-It Is report
ed here that revolution has begun
In Paraguay.
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and this should maintain its ba
who commercial and domestic paradise

ent and whatever may be achieved in the future
bave been and will be due directly to their fore
sight, perseverance and sound judgment.
Whatever Of material wealth. domestic com
fort, educational advantages or general prosper
ity may have accrued to you in this community,
is due to the courage energy and good judg
ment Of the business men Of this commonwealth,
and they are entitled 60 your support and CO.
operation in their efforts to PRESERVE A
SANE BALANCE OF CIVIC CONDITIONS.
Read the pledge, set forth on this page, and
consider the moral, social and business standing
of the men whose names are appended thereto.
It is an eloquent guaranty of the soundness of
their position with relation to the best method of
handling the liquor traffic. This, together with
the appeal to Reason" issued by l04 of Salt
Lakes leading business men, bankers and pro
fessional men, is convincing proof that temper
ance by regulation is preferable to qualified pro
hibition.
They make no appeal to hypersentimental-
ism, invoke no class prejudice nor seek to array
religious factions against each other. All they
ask is the calm consideration of unbiased judg-
ments and unnflamed minds, and they are Just
ly entitled to that from every right thinking
man and woman in the state of Utah
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BIT IN ITS MOUTH AND A FIRM HAND
ON THE REINS is easier controlled than the
domestic house cat unhampered by collar and
ribbon.
Hence, when the business men of Salt Lake
City, and the state at large, undertook to oppose
the hysterical and visionary prohibition move
ment now under way, they did it with a strong
personal regard for the well being of their fanni-
lies and the good name of their community. It
was not an espousal or Endorsement of the eli
quor cause" but merely realizing sense of the
difference between practical control and i'm
practical abolition.
The pledge of the Manufacturers and Busi-
ness Mems Association of Utah, which has been
signed by merchants, professional men and
financial factors of this commonwealth, and in
dorsed by hundreds of Others is a reasonable,
sane and businesslike expression of opinion of
representative citizens whose home life, bust
ness interests and financial investments are per
manently identified with this community and
dependent on it's progress and success.
Their opinion and efforts with regard to the
local regulation of the liquor traffic are worthy
Of your most profound consideration and deserv-
ing of your hearty support. The accomplish
ments of the past the attainments of the pres
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He looks human nature and communal con-
ditions squarely in the eye and sets himself at
the task of accomplishing the best results with
the material at hand-his business training has
taught him to direct his energies along the line
which will bring the best results for the energy
expended.
Your business man is your true economist,
and he applies to the solution Of social and civic
problems the same principles, methods of analy
sis and systems of solution that he would in his
usual business experience.
Therefore, when the business men of a COM
munity undertake the solution of the liquor
problem of a community, as is the case in Salt
Lake City and elsewhere, they apply business
principles and methods. They realize to use a
trite expression, that they "are confronted by
condition, not theory, and while absolute pro
hibition may be an ideal theory, yet in practice
it is an utter impossibility.
Rational regulation, a practical success, is
preferred to theoretical prohibition, demon
strated universal failure. The business man
realizes that his family and the community has
less to fear from the Gagged and regulated lion
than from the blind pig operating in the dark
ness of back alley. The fiery steed WITH A
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The business men of community operate as
|alahce wheel, keeping it from racing to death
La hysteria on the one hand, and from drag
"a along with the leaden feet of 'Mossback-
ne on the other.
Rationalism is the happy medium between
6icalism and retrogression, and the business
ID stand for rationalism in civic and CONNER
4 life in any and every community
70 the business man his family is as dear as
thing on earth, and he is just as jealous of
safety and well being as any other man is of
IS family. He wants just as many and as
ing safeguards thrown about them as posi-
. but he realizes that strength of character,
well as business success, come not with SUI
Ieness and tranquility, but with effort, the
mounting of obstacles and the conquering of
mutations.
The business man is just as eager as any
|er member of the community to maintain
d standard of civic morality in his commu-
Vi He is desirous that the fair fame of the
Y where he does business, has established
ne, is rearing his children and has made his
|estments shall not suffer in the eyes of the
I'D at large, because of violations of the laws
of laxity in local moral conditions.
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MANUFACTURERS BUSINESS MEMS AssO-


Peng the support Of things which conceive for
the
proin by the Of other cities states
Salt
unyorable the adoption prohibition this
ourselves
positive regulations which eliminate
this direction
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