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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
Picks Up Wrong Grip
and Kid1dps Snakes;
Takes 'En1 on Sleeper
Startling Mixup olows Entertainment of the Rocky
Mountain Club in New York; Pajamas Turn
Into Kissing Serpens on a Pullman

darted out. and he was convinced Beat
ing the snake back with paper, he
looked anXiously about the car 20 see II
any one had noticed the sort OF hand
baggage he was carrying. Then the agi-
lated De Pue called to the porter:
Never mind about that berth. Ill
all"
The porter was so much astonished
he almost forgot his whisk broom When
he thought of 1t, the passenger waved
him bitterly aside and further excited
suspicion by wrapping his oyercoat
about tho suitcase. The aroused snakes
were Indignantly kissing and il was
necessary 10 do some thing 10 muffle the
sound. DE Pue said he wanted TO get
off at the first stop. and when the train
reached the Manhattan transfer place
in Harrison, y. j.. he hurried from it.
Racing To the nearest telephone booth
he e&citedly called up Zayas TO tell him
about the abducted snakes and to ask
what to do with them. Zayas advised
the charter OF n messenger and the ex-
peditious return Of the hostages TO the
zoo.
De Pue subsidized negro porter To
him he intruSted the suitcase. telling
him that 1t contained glassware OF great
price and that he must not lose or drop
II. The porter went TO the zoo, found
Ditmars. turned over the precious case.
and asked for the one De Pue had said
would be given In exchange.
Anxious TO know how his snakes had
stood the long confinement. Ditmars
hurriedly opened the case. The negro
got one glance al the contents and fled.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
Now this is the horrible story
Told as the tw,1,ght fails.
When the ROckys wa1k together
Telling each other tales.

NEW YORK, March 3.-Irs about four
of their brethren Of the jungle. quar-
cite OF snakes which Raymond l.. Dit
mars. curator OF the Bronx zoo. had CON
veyed in a suitcase 10 the Waldorf. the
occasion being one of the set entertain
ments of the Rocky Mountain club. Ilav-
ing fulhl!ed their mission they were re-
placed in the suitcase, and Ditmars gave
II TO Zayas. manager OF the club That
vas on SATURDAY night, The understand
ing was that Iayas was To keep the case
overnight and Ditmars would send for
II early Sunday morning.
Sunday morning came to the Waldorf
and With It John Toomey, park keep
er. The suitcase and its snakes were
5oyfuiiy turned over to lsim Swinging
The case Toomey journeyed back 10 the
zoo; Ditmars Instructed him TO put the
went TO the snake house, opened the
suitcase and removed one suit OF pa :
jamas. two shirts. several collars and
some underwear. He did not remove
move.
, Bunding the things back into the case
Toomey hurried to the curator and re-
ported that the search had not panned
out any snakes. Dtmars called up
Zayas. The only theory Zayas could
advance was that suitcases had become
walked off with the one containing the
snakes.
With that explanatio Diimars had TO
be content. Besides. he philosophical lly
5TEusU lnaI any man VINO lDnn0 MS
suitcase filed with snakes was likely
to let that fact become known loudly as
soon as he discovered il. So Ditmars
refrained from appealing to the police
and patiently awaited developments.
Sunday passed without news of the
snakes. Night came. In It's early
watches Elmer A. De Pue, a member OF
the Rocky Mountain club. went To the
Pennsylvania station. got ticket and
engaged a sleeping car berth to Wash
ington AS the porter was making down
his berth De Pue lifted the suitcase he
vacant seat opposite his be undid the
straps and flung back the lid.
Four heads were uplifted and waved
TO and fro. De Pue gave one horrified
gasp and banged the lid down Getting
back his breath he cautiously raised the
lid trife 10 make sure he had seen
real snakes The head of scarlet racer
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
COURT OF COMMERCE TO
HEAR LEMON RATE CASE

Los ANGELES. Cal March S-One
OF the very first railroad rate cases TO
come before the newly created United
States court Of commerce is that deal =
Ing with shipments Of California lemons
and II will be heard here before Judge
Julian w Mack formerly OF Chicago,
beginning next Friday, The case is be-
fore the commerce court at the behest
OF the railroads. which appealed from
the decision rendered against them by
the interstate commerce commission.
The commission sustained the conten-
tlon Of the southern California citrus
growers in resisting the attempt by the
railroads TO raise the shipping u riff
from 81 per hundred pounds to sli5. The
roads appealed 10 the federal courts: but
meantime the court of commerce was
created and the case was assigned TO
that new judicial body.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
GOVERNMENT SUES FOR
RECOVERY OF COAL LANDS

DENVER. March 3.-The government
entered suit in the United States dis
trict court in Denver today against the
Carbon Coal and Coke company. q sub
sidiaTy company OF the American Smelt
ing and Refining company, and the Ex-
ploration company. limited one of the
largest British mining corporations TO
recover coal lands I'm Colorado alleged 10
have been acquired fraudulently by
consists Of 1880 acres at Cokedale. ana
their value is said to he not less than
$4,000. 0oo. The company wss organ
lied In 1901 by Franklin Guiterman. as
ISOLATED with Fl. Lyme. S. r. Richie, j.
s. Williams and RI. A. Johnson, all OF
Denver. The defendants specified are
Thomas Thatcher and William NJ Bar
mum, New York attorneys for the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining company
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
Rewarded for Heroism.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Medals for
gallantry for saving men from drowning
in the Philippines were awarded today to
Corporal George Stokes. twenty first in
fantry: Private George P. Hawkins.
fourteenth cavalry, and Private Thomas
s. Styles. twenty first infantry
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
MATS0N B. HILL GETS
DIVORCE FROM WIFE
Secret Marriage Of Son OF Wealthy Chi.
caso Man Lacking In BIssful
Essentials.

NEW YORK. March 3.-A jury decided
today that Mrs. josephine Lahr Hill had
been guilty OF misconduct and recon-
mendcd that a decree OF divorce be
granted in favor of her husband. Mat
son "a. Eul, a son of a wealthy Chicago
real estate operator.
Mrs. Hill opposed confirmation Of the
verdict on the ground that the courts OF
New York had no Jurisdiction.
Hill was graduated from Yale with the
class OF 1905 and married in secret two
weeks after graduating. In the trial
Mrs. Hill testified that after the wedding
her husband proposed that she continue
TO live with her mother until he could
find suitable home for her and that
she never heard from him again except
over the telephone or by letter,
Matson Hill the elder, made a fortune
In San Francisco and later moved To
Chicago.
Supreme Court Justice Gerard decided
that the lack Of jurisdiction had not been
proven and ordered that a judgment in
favor of the plaintiff. Hill, be entered.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04

he felt that it deprived him of his
constitutional privileges.
Declaring himself not entirely salts.
fled by the assurances of the defend
ant and his attorneys, Judge Lawlor
made an order stipulating that the dis
trict attorneys office must be notified
five hours before any legal steps
should be taken to perfect an appeal.
Ruef then asked the court to allow
him to make frequent trips into the
city for the purpose of attending to
the disposition of his business affairs,
but the court refused TO consider the
request.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
To Observe Anniversary.

The anniversary Of Mahogany camp.
Woodmen of the World, OF Murray Will
be held in the Fraternal hall in that city
next Thursday evening. An interesting
programme has been prepared. At the
annual initiation at Murray Thursday
evening District Manager B. b Kav-
anaugh was present as we'll as num-
Der of visitors from other portions of
the Pacific jurisdiction.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
RACE HORSE TRAINER
MEETS DEATH IN OCEAN

SANTA MONICA, Cal. March 3.-The
body Of a man. identified as George
Lonsdale OF Butte. Mont. was found
There was ,itfle 10 indicafe whether
It was a case Of murder. suicide or ac
cidental drowning. Bruises were evil
dent on the face and forehead, one Of
which had caused a small dent In the
skull but these may have been caused
by the body being hurled against the
piling OF the pier by the tide. The lungs
contained water. which would indicate
death by drowning.
BUTTE. Mont. March 3.-George
Lonsdale. who was drowned at Santa
Monica. was racehorse trainer and so
far a s known was without relatives.
He left here two years ago.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
Froshee Gets Judgment.

Judgment IN favor OF the plaintiff
was rendered Friday morning in Judge
George G. Armstrong; division OF the
third district court in the case of J. T..
Froshee against Fred Strecker. Forshee
fled suit TO collect rent and regain pos
session of certain premises rented to
he defendant
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
L0RIMER'S FRIENDS
WILL Do HIM HONOR

CHICAGO. March S.-When Senator
Lorimer arrives here Sunday morning he
WI be met by a reception committee
IN automobiles and escorted to his home.
This was determined upon today at a
meeting OF the senator's friends. at which
committee on arrangements was
named among the committeeman being
Edward Hines. the lumberman. and II F.
Swift. the meat packer. and others
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
KENTUCKY FEUDIST
HEADS A JAIL BREAK

JACKSON. KY. March 3.-Asbury
Spicer. a Hareis clarsman. led a jail
prisoners escaped with Spicer whose ap-
peal from conviction from murder IS
now pending in the state courts. The
men who escaped With Spicer were serv-
They are John Miller. Thomas Freeman
and Samuel Bailey. 4 posse IS In pur-
suite Other prisoners attempted to give
the alarm To the guard, but Spicer cowed
them with a gun
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
PARK COMMITTEE FAVORS
CREATION OF COMMISSION

At a meeting of the parks and play
grounds committee Of the Comm ercial
club Friday afternoon at the club house
bill No o31 was recommended. This bill
has TO do with the establishment of parks
and the like and the creating OF a pub
lie parks commission.
a resolution was adopted calling on the
city council to appropriate $4,000 for the
maintenance of four parks for play
grounds this summer.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD.

MRS wINsLow's SOOTHING SyRUp has oeer
used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of
MOTHERS fog their CHILDREN WHILE
TEETHING with PERFECT SUCCESS. II
sOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUNS.
ALIAYS all PAIN CURES WIND COLIC and
is the best remedy TOR DIARRHdsA- 1t IS abb
solutely harmless. Be sure and ask for "Mts.
Wiuslow'5 Soothing Syrup and take No other
kind. Twenty-Five cents bottle
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
IAN Serve Y our Smallest Want Saturd,
Saturday Shoe Specials

ST. OO-Bargain table of womens shoes, that sold
for $3.50 to $500.
ST. 95-Bargain table of Misses and Children's
shoes-regular and also high cuts; values as high
as $3.50
So e5-Women s shoes; over fifty styles to choose
from values 50 80 and $400,
S3 5O-Nlen's So 90 Shoes the best made This price
is made to make room for spring oxfords.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-04
Men $ Department

zoe or pair for soc men S that sold for 35c
soc TEIET ARE SILK, Isle AND CASHMERE
10c Mems sox in black tan
40c-NIcn' dres; working shirts These regular
Toe valnes.
o5c-Mens shirts, nearly 100 patterns to choose from
all sizes
81 .35-Our high grade shirts worth $l.15 and $500
25c--Men's boys golf gloves worth 75c and
soc
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
MAKE CANAL COMPETITOR.
Senate Bill Would Let American
Coastwse Vessels in Free.

Washington-Paci Coast ship
pers who have been fighting fol
water transportation as an Offset tt
the exorbitant transcontinental rail
road rates, will be benefited by the
adoption of the Mann bill, with
Senator Flints amendment, which
the senate committee on inter
oceanic canals has voted to report
fayorably.
1t is a bill for the governing of the
Panama canal zone. Flints amend
ment makes the canal free of tolls
for American vessels for coastwise
trade; imposes tolls on railroad
owned steamships; enables the gov
ernment at any time to take over
vessels which accept the use of the
canal without tolls, the question OF
cost to be settled later, and enables
the president to fix the tolls at not
less than so cents nor more than
$3.50 per net ton.
Under the provisions for taking
over vessels, the government can al
any time obtain all the golfers and
auxiliaries it needs in war.
The amendment will make the ca
nal a real competitor of the trans
continental roads. There have been
well defined fears that unless condi.
tions changed the Panama canal
would not give shippers the relief
that was hoped for when it was prof.
ected. Such eminent authorities as
Admiral Evans have proved that un-
der existing conditions of control of
steamship lines by railroads, the ca
nal is practically turned over to
them.
1t was brought out in the investi-
cation here that $4,000 a month had
been paid by transcontinental roads
in a pool as bonus to the Pacific
Mail Steamship company, which, un-
der the terms of the contract was
compelled to run it's steamers with
out freight in order to prevent steam
ers from being competitors of the
railroads.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
WINTER HTS SOUTH.
Record s5roken in Texas-Chicago
Strikers Suffering.

Chicago-All doubts that winter Of
the old fashioned variety has settled
down upon the country were dispellec
Wednesday when dispatches from al
points West and South told of temper.
atures near or below zero. In some
instances cold is accompanied by fine
snow frozen to the consistency and
sharpness of glass, and which is drift
ing badly, driven by high winds.
In Chicago new mark of four de-
grees above was reached, which means
intensely cold weather because of the
proximity of Lake Michigan, and the
moisture, which penetrates the very
marrow of ones bones.
Visitors from the extreme North
west, British Columbia and the Upper
Michigan peninsula, where 20 to so be-
low zero is not uncommon, suffer in
tensely from the damp cold in Chicago.
All the city, county and private
charitable institutions are crowded to
the limit. The garment workers
strike has thrown 5000 destitute per-
sons upon the bounty of the city and
county, and this additional load, with
the already large number of helpless
inhabitants, is taxing the resources of
charitable bodies.
These thousands of dependent per-
sons are too poorly clothed and nourish-
ed to take advantage of any other
work that is offered them, so they con-
stitute constant drag upon the charit-
able institutions, and will continue SO
all winter. Work in comfortable fac
tories at top wages is open to all the
striking garment workers, but they
prefer to remain dependent upon char
ity rather than surrender their "prin-
ciples. " The majority of them are
not citizens of the country and have
very remote idea of what the row is all
about, taking the word Of inhamma-
tory orators for it.
A feature Of the present siege of
cold weather is its penetration of the
more or less Sunny South. Dispatches
AAoiA Jan AHCOulO, lex, say dll re-
cords have been broken there, and all
over Southern Texas, where early
crops of garden truck have been de-
stroyed. Similar conditions are re-
ported in New ORLEANS and vicinity.
Texas reports two deaths from freez-
ing and the destruction of thousands
of dollars worth of livestock.
Snow fell in Texas, Arkansas, Ten
nessee, Kentucky and northern parts
of Mississippi and Alabama.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
WOMAN TELLS JAP WAR SECRET
Letter Says Maps Made of Detenses
on Pacific Coast.

Washington-W Warning from a new
and unexpected source of activities of
the secret service agents of the Japan
ese military establishment was re-
ceived in Washington Wednesday.
From st. Joseph, Mo-, there came to
Speaker Cannon letter which created
surprise. The writer was a young
woman, who, through acquaintance
with Japanese of standing, came into
possession of embarrassing facts and
who had been carrying her secret for a
long time, but whose patriotism moved
her to write to Mr.. Cannon. In her
letter, after telling who she is, which
fact the Speaker gallantly concealed
and explaining that she is in love with
the Japanese officer, she says:
81 have just found out his mission
in this country. While reading
the other day he came
across something about what they are
discussing in the house of represent
atives and said, you have fine lot of
fools there. asked him what he
meant and he said: They are as
ignorant of what we are preparing to
do then he caught himself, realizing
that he was about to tell his secret.
"While he was away | searched his
suitcase and found a secret pocket. In
it there were diagrams of parts of the
Pacific Coast. The weak points were
marked by arrows. l kept out very
small diagram and have it still. 1t
was some part of the coast of Wash
ington state. He does not know that
have it, but l am expecting him to
miss it any time, and ask me for it.
Please accept this from patriotic wo-
man."
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
MANAGEMENT BERATED,
Higher Standards of Efficiency Need
ed on Railroads.

Washington - Higher standards Of
efficiency, not increased freight rates,
are the paramount needs today of
American railroads. This proposition
is the essence of the brief filed with
the Interstate Commerce commission
by Louis Brandeis, of Boston, counsel
for the traffic commission Of CONNER
cial organizations Of the Atlantic sea-
board in the investigation of the com
mission in the proposed advance in
freight rates in the official classiica-
tion territory that part of the coun-
try east of the Mississippi and north
of the Ohio and Potomac rivers.
Railroad managers, Mr.. Brandeis
contends, in an effort to meet existing
needs should not look without, but
within.
''If their net income is insufficient, I"
he says, "the proper remedy is not
higher rates, resulting in higher cost
and lessened business, but scientific
management resulting in lower costs,
higher wages and increased business.
"If their credit is. impaired, the
proper remedy is not to apply the de-
lusive stimulant of higher rates but to
strengthen their organizations by in
Producing advanced methods and elm
hitting questionable practices. Thus
they will maintain credit by deserving
it,"
The proposed advances by the lines
in official classification territory would
affect only the class. The total
freight tonnage of the lines for the
calendar year 1909 was 626, ,321, 975.
Less than per cent of this moved un-
der class rates, yet of the freight rev.
enue of these railways for 1909 nearly
% per cent ($103, 27l, ,823) was derived
from class rates.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12


may put this earth in the scrap heap.
The professor has no doubt that such
an end will come to the earth, but he
makes no attempt to say when the
event will occur. Those who know
about the eminent astronomer and
his work do not doubt his word, of
course; and those who do not know
may rest assured that Professor
Lowell is amply qualified to render
an opinion on this important subject.
The probable nature Of the end of
the world, as the conclusions of the
scientists show, will be a drop into
the sun; but Professor Lowell says
we shall have advance knowledge of
this, and he knows. AS the scien-
fists have figured 1t out there is
somewhere In the remote confines Of
space great mass of matter-once a
world, but now dead-hurtling toward
our sun. When 1t hits the bull's-eye,
as 1t is bound to do some day, our
little hunk of mud will cease to exist.
1t is well for our peace of mind
that no such dead world is at present
within dangerous proximity. Yet who
knows what day the morning papers
may announce that one has been dis
covered by aid of the suns light re-
fected upon 1t as 1t enters our little
circle-butting into our society, so to
speak. While it would then be GER
tain the end Of the world was at
hand, still, there would be ample time
In which to prepare for the inevitable.
About q years would elapse from the
time 1t was discovered by some as
tronomer with his telescope until the
fatal mass could be seen with the
naked eye, and not until three years
later would 1t appear as large as the
brightest stars in the heavens. Nearly
three years more and our seasons
would begin to change, the days be-
coming longer. The beginning of the
end would come about five months
later. The stranger would not strike
our little planet but would pass so
close in its dash to the sun that the
earth would turn and follow until to-
gether, they would drop silently into
the sun, like couple of dust specks
into a roaring furnace fire.
Professor Lowell, who has so calm
ly announced the probability of this
startling end to all earthly hopes and
fears, was born at Boston, Mass,
March 13, 1855. Graduating from
Harvard in 1876, he continued the
study Of astronomy in many parts of
the world until 1894, when he estab-
lished the Lowell Observatory at
Flagstaff, Ariz. Being a fellow in
nearly all the important scientific and
astronomical associations of Europe
and America, his opinions have long
been accepted quite generally as au-
thoritative. His odd theory concern
ing the end of the world, therefore,
has aroused no end of controversy
among men Of science.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
Steamer Thieves Make Haul.

Seattle-Express thieves between
Seattle and Alaska have gotten away
with $4,000 worth of negotiable
stock certificates of the Owl Mining
company, a package of valuable gold
ore specimens, a bundle of currency
and several other parcels of consid-
cradle value, shipped to Seattle by
the Alaska Pacific company from
Cordova Although the officials of
the company are reticient they are
keeping the wires hot between Seat
tie and Cordova in an effort to To-
cate the missing plunder.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-01-12
SUPREME COURT BENCH FULL
Justice Van DeVanter and Lamar
Take Oath of Office.

Washington-The two vacancies on
the bench of the Supreme court of the
United States were filled Wednesday
when Judge Willis Van Devanter, of
Wyoming, and Judge Joseph R. Lamar,
of Georgia, took the oath Of office as
associate justices and began immedi-
ately the performance of their duties.
For the first time in 10 months the
bench was complete.
For the first time since the organiza-
tion of the court, nearly a century and a
quarter ago, one president had COM
missioned within a single year five
men who sat on the bench.
Justice Van Devanter, having been
named first by the president to take
the oath, was escorted by the marshal
to the chair on the extreme right of
the chief justice. Justice Lamar after
he had subscribed to the oath, was
shown to his seat, which was at the
left.
A distinguished gathering witnessed
the ceremonies. Precedents in the
court were broken by the first lady of
the land, Mrs. Taft, being given a seat
within the bar along with Charles P.
Taft and Horace Taft, brothers of the
president. Mrs. Taft was accom-
panied also by Mrs. G. P. Taft and
Miss Louise Taft.