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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10

that the Titanic was heading for Hall
fax. Mr. Farrell said, was obtained by
Reporter Byrne from Vice President
Franklin.
The item at 1:55 a M. reporting that
the Virginian was alongside the Titanic
was said TO have been received by the
Laflan News bureau. Another WAS read
quoting Mr. Franklin as insisting that
The Titanic Mas mnslnlknh Bile.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Son Visiting Father.

Special 10 The Tribune.
OGDEN May 9-Frcd j. KIcscl * enjoying
visit from his son. Fred W. KicseI, cashier
of tho California National bank at Sacramento
Cal. Mr.. Kiesel in accompanied by his daugl-
tor CorInnc. Mr.. Kicscl and hts son made an
he Ia former Ogden resident. Mr. KIese
has taken prominent part in tho upbuildlng
and improvement OF northern California
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
sy International News Service.

BY international News Service.
CHICAGO, May a.-The Children of St.
Mary's is a society Of young women from
st. IGnatIus college. Father Morrow of
st lgnatlus said tonight that he could
give no cIcw to the identity of the muir
dered women.
1T was probably not q scapula. but
badge that WAS found on her person,
Father Morrow said "I know that some
Of the girls who belonged TO the society
are now or have been In Los Angeles
Among them arc Miss Mary Lawson.
Miss Nellie Schrirer, the Misses Lynch.
two sisters and Miss King of Santa Mon
lea a suburb OF Los Angeles.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Jumps to His Death

SANTA FE. y. NJ, May s-Naa
Martin. for many years 3 @f1
leader in New Mexico. meInssr q I
legisla lures, clerk Of the diTr1
at Socoro, an eloquent o5.1 2
Spanish scholar, jumped oll u
story window in the First NilaT
building tonight and was pieEsi
lie had attempted suicide ss q
similar manner. out was pisti
hurt.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Smith Going East,
Special TO The Tribune.

OGDEN. May "a NJ Smith, storckccpor for
the United States forestry department and with
headquarters In this city left today for Wash
!ngton. ID. C., whore ho Will spend month In
conference with the heads OF the department
regarding contracts and supplies for tho COM
ing year. Sir. Smith has charge OF all suppiloa
which go out from Ogden to ovcry national
forestry office between the Atlantic and the
Pacific from Florida to Canada.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Discrimination Alleged.
Special 10 The Tribune.

OGDEN. May 9.-For the purpose Of investi-
gatng alleged discrimination by tho salt
Lake ogden Railway company in tho matter
OF rates offered TO Salt Lake and Ogden patrons
committee consisting OF James Ballantyno. J.
Forrlstall and George j. Kelly has been ap-
pointed by Tho real estate dealers OF this city
II In declared that by making special rate 10
Pennington the electric company diBcrimin tes
against Ogden In favor of Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Schonfeld Bound Over.

Special 10 Tho Tribune.
OGDEN. May "a Schonfod has been bound
over by the municipal court 10 appear In the
district court charge OF obtaining goods
under falsc prctonseS. The complaining wilt
IL the Pingrcc Wholesale company, p.
Moof also included in the original com
plalnt, but II could not be proven that hc was
represented a member OF the nrm obtaining
the goods Schoufold released bail
Discrimination Alleged.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Licensed to Wed.

Special 10 The Tribune
OGDEN. May "a marriage license vas
granted today 10 William Alexander of Snlt Lake
City and Ruth kcnoffel OF Silver Bow. Mont.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Set Funeral for Today.

Special TO The Tribune.
PARK CITY, May 9.-The funeral OF
Miss Hazel Crossman, who died yester-
day evening OF partial paralysis. will be
held from the Catholic church in this
city tomorrow afternoon at Q o'clock,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
Received a Flash. ~

James A. Hosey. a telegraph opera or
at Taunton, Mass. sent an affidavit say
Ing that between s and IL o'clock on
Monday morning he received flash
message stating Titanic sunk "Proba =
bly, five or ten inmates later" lie added.
n received XIII on this fash which
read. XII fash Titanic sunk. Montreal
says the wireless operator at Cane Race
made a mistake I'm reading wireless sig
nails
Mrs. Mahala Douglas. a Titanic pas
scngcr. in Il sworn statement quoted Mrs.
Ryerson Of Philadelphia as saying Ismay
showed her MarconigTam that an
nounced that they We're ''in the ice
bcTgs."
''Of course YOU will slow DOWN." asked
Mrs. Ryerson.
"Oh. no" he replied I'VE will nut
on more boilers and get out OF IT,"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-10
italians Land on ChiA

LONDON. May "a spschi
from Constantinople says that =
SQUADRON Is off the Island oI y
the Aegean sea. Il is rapoIts J,
warships are disembarkins ~!
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04
GOVERNOR GENERAL OF PROVINCE
Or TSiTSHAR, AUTOcRAT OVER
ONE-THIRO OF MANCHURIA.

two unmatched horses. this hybrid state
equipage swept rapidly by. giving one just
a GLIMPSE of a stern-faced, erect figure
within red tassels and a peacock feather
dangling from his conical hat. mounted
soldier brought up the rear But II Jow
passed swiftly his passing was far from
silent In fact he was quite the big noise,
literally as we'll as metaphorically. There
was a loud bell under the carriage worked
by the footman in the rear. This was con-
stantly being changed, partly TO inform the
police of his eXcelency's whereabouts in
the labyrinth of narrow, mud-Walled
streets. in case of d hostile gang sallying
out to beat him up. and partly to show
how important was his eXceilcncy the Gov
ernor General of the Province of Tstsihar.
At that booth across the street they sell
strips of shining brown glutinous ribbon
seaweed. 10 be eaten. There are couple OF
public letter writer's. They sit In big chairs
under a red oilskin sunshade, surrounded
by little tables. with sticks of ink and
reference books executing the commits
sions of the illiterate.
There is a shop that sells books and
boots: there are dozens Of street stalls in
Tsitsihar that sell ducks eggs and cigar
cites, Just ducks eggs and cigarettes, and
nothing more cat Anganki there is
shop window tastefully dressed with moth
ing but native dried fish and bottles of
imported champagne)
The doctors work in teams of two. They
rig up a big tent. furnished with chairs
and a counter covered with bushels of
trash-love potions. charms. incantations.
tn ri ouiIc
and potato bugs. and so forth-and dozen
dirty little bottles of mendicants. glycerine.
iodine, spirits of nitre and stuff in COM
mon demand in the druggists stores On
the side walls of the tent are native colored
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04
Experience
This Small Town in Manchuria
Was the Base of the Muir.
dering Brigands That
Pestered Russia.

anatomical charts. 4 patient comes up.
doctor pushes him down into chair
and hears his tale of woe, or dresses his
wound or does anything that has to be
done there on the spot, without the least
privacy. The patient returns a stolid
glare to the gaspng crowd around, and
does not seem TO mind them there in the
slightest The bigger the crowd the more
delighted the doctor, naturally. We did
not have the luck to come in at leg
amputation, but we watched several ex-
ceedingly unsanitary and painful opera
tons being performed in a haze Of driving
dust.
Thirty men and boys around an in.
volved game of chess. played on the ground
In the street faint sound. At first
you'd take 1t for a gramophone: then
Highland bagpipes. We followed II up and
fell round a corner fun tilt into a strange
procession. Visualize It. Coolies were car
rying, sedan chairwise, three tables GOV.
cred with red baize cloths. On the first
table set OF pewter ornaments. On the
second a bundle OF frecrackers. on the
third table A big cheap and nasty typo
Of ornamental mantelpiece clock, stopped
at sos. lanked by pair of tall empty
china vases-a sort OF village wedding pres
ent to the blacksmith bunch of goods. Be-
fore and behind the tables marched band.
There were four men blowing ppes-curi-
Gus pipes, with stems like handbells and
great gasping mouths. One clashed Gym
balls. One banged a big brass gong in .
jerky. intermittent fashion. giving out a
disconnected series Of boomngs like a man
stumbling over bathtubs while cropping his
way to the electric light switch. Another
man tapped wooden gong with a little
stick, a gong shaped like tamborne made
of birch bark, with beautiful translucent
covering of snake skin.
Along with the band and table carriers Q
score Of hangers-on. Presently the process
sion stopped before a shop. The bearers
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04
IN THE BAZAAR.

dow and your prospect runs to Orientalsm
The far one-third of the room is platform
two feet high, coated with a thick felt rug
In the middle of the rug is low stool
One uses this as pillow, If one be a
Chinaman-or lunatic.
Tsitsihar is a large town We wandered
about IL three days Three days solitary
rowing over an inland Chinese town Is ABOUT
the most interesting experience you can
have. 1t is an uncanny business at hrst'
Won attract a lot of notice. Children run
screaming from your approach. just as our
nervous babies clear out from the path OF
real. live. pig-tailed Chnaman ana you
don't at first like the looks OF the people.
The first day we met 4,002 men who looked
as ~ they'd have cut our throats on the
snot for a nickel. and then sent four cents
conscience money for excessive charge' 10
our executors.
uowover one comes TO like the Chinese.
Tbeir homes and streets may DE squahu,
but the Chinese live-they are not contehteu
with a mere brutal existence, IKE the Si-
berian peasants They are chatterlns,
bright yiyacious people. Laughing ana
.,,,,,,o. breaking into song joking and pet
ting the children and dogs entering iiei
r,,v into the spirit of the thing IN IAN
guape mix-up with foreign customer III
their shop. not lapsing into the cowhke ex-
nression OF dull puzzlement, with irritable
hickers of harsh language-the attiluoe vi
the Russian. They do Things prettiy anu
gayIy. They carve ana soup anu pa'nt
tbeir sienposts and town gates ana mouse
cables and they eat plentfully of host
OF savory little dishes, tnoush oi'.n nnu,n
poorer than the Siberian peaea"' n'n, ,a.s
which makes sl5 "eeh on
gloomlly on tea and black breau'
Two sounds awaken one very easS .'o,'
morning--the cries of hawkers anu 'ne en
piring shrieks of pigs Ihe s'lees az az ' ,ui
of hawkers old men with eouP'e -
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

Strange Adventures of Two
Americans Who Went
Thither to Study Pneu-
monia Plague.

-. Richardson L. Wright and Bassett Digby)
IT is rather probable that YOU have
never kicked football from a row
Il Of three, one Of which-so you were
,rformed-wus full Of dynamite Had
vou survived that little episode you would
hotter understand the psychology of this
little visit to Tsitsihar
Tsitsihar a small native town in North
western Manchuria. the centre of the ac-
tivties Of the Hung Hoos, the murderous
brieands whose escapadcs gave Russia her
excuse for throwing an army along the rail-
road from Siberia to the Pacific, had, when
we left America, some two thousand cases
of plague-pneumonia plague, with a safe
hundred to one chance of death within for
~ hours Of infection. That much we
learned from NJ. Nasnihoff at the frontier
station of Manchuria. NJ Nasnihoff. how
ever. did not have tho latest reports. So
sinking to the four points of heaven with
antiseptic messes, we came to Tsitsihar to
look around.
Leaving the Russian Moscow-Vladivostok
Railroad after an eighteen hours journey
into Manchuria. VIC turned our luggage
over to a couple of Chinese porters and
tramped after them across waste of
sandy plain to the kitaish Chnese) light
railroad that runs up to this town. And in
that brief half-mile walk we passed as dis
tinctly out of Russia into China as if
magic carpets momentary eXtra-rapid
transportation stunt had taken us from the
Novski Prospect Of st. Petersburg to the
Iuncr Palace of Pcking. Russia-semi-civ-
ilization, at any rate-thc white man was
gone.
The little Chinese station was run by
Chinese for Chinese. The porters were Chi
resc; d Chinaman served out the tickets;
We waited five Chinese hours-which is
eight-in a Chinese tea den near by and fed
upon Chinese viands and drank of Chinese
drinks and were the best patronized little
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

kets of grain or vegetables slung at either
end of n long pole balanced on the shoul-
der Tsitsihar's prevalent note is the wall
of the diving pig The town seems to Kill
pips incessantly day and night
Leaving the gate of the hotel courtyard,
ye found a barber. twanging a big tuning
fork and crying out attractive quotations
for shaving and hair binding. The BARRIERS
havo an elaborate outft-a stool for the
customer a stove, brass bowl and a
plethora of combs, queer razors and loose
homemade scissors. They Work IN the open
street You buttonhole a passing barber
and he plants his stool You seat yourself
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

of his lampshade hat, whose word is life
or summary death n million men.
On ahead travelled smart little Chinese
soldier in khaki and puttees. Then came
two native mounted police. in dark blue
canvas uniforms. Then a four-wheeled cab
genuine Western hack but with addi-
tlonal trimmings For instance, II had two
pale blue enamel panels. big glass win
dow I'm the back and bright nickel rods
for the foOtmen 10 cling To. Drawn py
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

Your room is lighted ny two oblon= panes
OF glass let into the paper lattice facing
the court yard. II has no shelves or cup
board. Walls and ceilings are papercd
white tarnished mirror and a vulgar
German clock hang on ono wall on the
table a pair OF big china vases and another
vulgar German clock. Both clocks are out
Of repair -Four Austrian bentwood chairs
and a deal wood table covered with flow
cred muslin. Turn your hack on the win
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

this. not a cent was given. One momentar-
lily noped for pilgrim to lift his dusty
forehead and cry In scornful Chinese: For
the love OF Mike. man, cut out some OF
that and squander one whole red cent on
the good of your mean soulr' But the pill
grims whom ,we-saw did nothing OF the
kind-only looked hot and thirsty and an
noyed
Round the corner into the bazaar came
his exalted excellency the Governor Cen
eraI Jow 500 Mo of the Province OF
Tsitsihar, great power in the north of
the Chinese Empire. who is entitled TO
wear the coveted red glass ball on the top
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

,p1 Richardson l.. Wright and Bassett Digby)
T is rather probable that you have
| never kicked a football from a row
Il Of three. one Of which-so you were
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04
A WONDERFUL PARK.

The people OF Tsitsihar have just laid out
a park, and they are immensely proud OF II.
Only two or three acres in extent, 1t has
bijou lake, high-banked and with tiny
paths winding round the waters edse. Red
legged cranes strut among the ruskes. and
there is delightful, tiny. zgzag, high
peaked bridge painted In reds and greens
and blues, with dragons snorting flames
from their nostrls on guard at either end.
Tsitsihar has pretty habit of taking out
it's birds for an airing in this park. as We
would take out our dogs. Every other ma
tive Of the town has his sweet-throated
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

while re stirs up the stove. mixes some
powders. and gives the brass bowl cour-
tesy whisk with a cloth. Whereupon you
ore shampooed there and then in the middle
OF the street.
There go a pair Of lamas-holy men,
travelling priests-with white girdles and
white peaked caps. soliciting aims. They
kneei before every disengaged shopkeeper
in the aisles of the bazaar. bowling their
forehoads till they touch the dust. Some
times the shopkceper VIII run forward and
raise them bodily. but the etiquette In gen
orsI ia to take p few PAGES forward and
bockon them up with gesture. And with
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04
THE CHEERFUL UNDERTAKEN.


/ Tsitshar undertsker's is quite CHEEKY
affair. There are the great red and blue
collins ornamcutcd with bold designs in
gold and black There are shelves and
stocks of graveyard gear. like circus prop
ortics-littlc low carts for pulling children
along in the procession. candles. shrlnes
/ joss sticks fireworks racks Of gayly paint
cd swords and spears. and cudgels for the
. use Of the dead. Wooden swords come so
| much cheaper" purr the relatives. and
| Uncle Woo Foo Chin being dead. will never
| notice the difference" But you needn't get
! all these things unless you Ike. You can.
| with most Of the poorer Chinese. make your
coffin at home during the long winter even
| ings. and just drop into the undertakers
for a sporty lid with painted storks OIL II.
4 jolly faced old gentleman is prosperins
in the undertaking business near the jail.
He has side line. He is also fishmonscr.
He specializes in coffins. and river ISL,
that are split open and hung OF line from
one stack of collins to another. The disem-
boweed hnny dcnizens have pathetic
attitude as they swinS and bob i'm the wind
They seem to be crying for decent burial
and with the usual odor to leeward, they
have some grounds for the demand
The bazaar has many eating houses. open
fronted. overgrown booths full OF stoves in
which savory messes are frying. The
American restaurant cook, sweating over
his hot stove throughout the summer
months would envy his brother artist in
Tsltshar The Tsitshar restaurant stove
is a neat portable affair. They get a stout,
shallow wicker basket. fill it with clay.
build up clay walls around the brm. and
cement 10 the top an iron bowl. Each OF
the six or eight cooks has two or three OF
these Stoves to see to. and places them
wherever he likes On cold days he re-
treats into the shelter of the shop; when 10
is warm he comes out TO the sidewalk ano
there passes the day in the fresh open a!H.
Glass is expensive in Tsitshar Empty
beer bottles are not to be tossed I'm tho
dump heap. You find them exposed for
sale alongside of rude earthenware pitchers
and copper Jars. All windows are frail fret
work. to which stout translucent paper is
pasted Ii certainly was shock When. I'm
little. narrow street on the northern on:
skirts of the town, we found a Chinese
coolies front window glazed with double
page OF betting quotations from London
Sporting Life for Saturday. August z.
1861 II was yellow and mud stained. but
you could study form" to your hearts
desire
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04
NOT A BAD HOTEL.

Entering a decrepit old Chinese hack. we
adJured the Celestial TO hurry the pace up
10 a Russian hotel instead of which, In
the fulness of time, we drew up before the
high fence OF the Russian Legation AS
we dlscoursed ways and means with the
sentry native boy came up with the mail
One of the three envelopes bore the I'M
print OF Buffalo steam roller firm and
good pink L. s. A. stamp. lt was as ~eh'
II tri1e disappointing, to know that
America was stilI managing TO exist during
ones absence Well the sentry said there
was no Russian hotel or lodging IN the
town, so off we drove TO Chinese hostiery'
II you happen to find yourself In Isitsinar
YOU can do far worse than the Guestnltza
Tar Sin Shan. Driving through an arch-
way tunnel I'm a thick mud wall, you enter
big courtyard, hanked with TO" Oh
fragile one-story buildings, their fronts
merely netting OF wooden latticework' oe-
hind which stout translucent rice paper mas
been pasted. Pull open the door, ana you
are in small hall, with washstano anu
a chest 10 the left. and TO the right oooi
opens into room. One is your room ~
has no other door. Rooms do not connfhu-
nicste. You and your fellow guest across
the passage have your own front ooors
servants drop in now and then from .i,e
kitchen on the other side OF the coui aiu
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04

local free show, Judging from appearances,
that the Chinese of the ne:ghborhood had
had since their infancy.
After eight hours the toyshop train Clat-
tered in. out of A single first class COM
partment tumbled stern old trader. who
packed much merchandise, baby. his
rretty little wife in \ short "shimmy' and
long pink psismas with spangled snakes
and flowers sewed on them; and-a big, blue
Eramaphone horn; on to a three-spoked,
tilt-hack two-wheeled cart. Foxterricr Jack
Jumped i'm. and. taking possession Of one
corner seat. nodded us 10 another.
Tho one miniature German engine that
represents the entire locomotive stock of
tho Tsitsihar system had arrived quite
dead heat. and had 10 he sidetracked and
fed with water and logs and small coal
and petted and coaxed with oilcans and
monkey wrenches for another hour. Event
ually. however. she got away.
Aboard the train we carried three armed
guards for the authorities. though always
Wiling TO overlook youths exuberant cX-
cesses within reason, have lately become
annoyed at the number Of holdups on that
line. and are taking elementary steps 10
discourage the nuisance. So the three
EudIGs-DlB, lOOct-lllilD'h 'gii''"ii'''
their legs over the end platforms Of the
cars sitting on the alert, with gnttering'
businesslike automatic rifles across their
knees and two full leather cartridge cases
buckled TO the front Of each Of their belts.
a curious hours run up to Tsitsihar. You
might he down on the Jersey coast. Green
meadows, pretty villages, now and then
nesting in grove Of trees-new trees, not
the eternal pine or bare white birch left be-
hind a day ago in Siberia. Brick villages,
with tiled roofs and winding mud walls.
Here and there a naked sand hill. Flowers
"a wild parsley, a little purple ground iris
and clumps Of yellow; little blue butter
flies and gray day-fying moths scattering
about I'm the sunshine. Small sand lizards
basking cautiously within an easy dash for
a hole, where they cohabt with a mouse.
Many broad pools trimmed with white salt
sediment, pools a foot or two deep; ducks
fiurrying up from their sedge beds and
willow scrub as the train trundled by.
A great and ominous array OF freshly
turned heaps Of earth among the grass
grown, conical mounds Of the unfenced
burial ground out on the hillside just be-
fore one enters the town made our mias-
matte, ultra-antiseptic exhalations almost
welcome for the moment. Then we pulled
up at Tsitsihar.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-04
CHINESE SOLDIERS WITH THEIR OFFICERS.

untwisted a long red and green scarf from
the middle table and festooned II over the
door. The goods were unlosded and taken
into dark room behind the shop. The
musicians gave a final cscophanous blsre
and then seated themselves Al a little table
on the threshold and enjoyed a pot and
gossip. The thing was over What IL was
We had no idea. At first We took II for
funeral. but there was no corpse and no
sorrow. We went away fayorng the thesis
OF it's being either an ostentatious display
of wedding presents or a successfully con-
clndnn ad q, rflsirr narala
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-12
MISSES AND CHILDREN'S
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR

These are garments that you have
never before been able to get a full
assortment Of.
Children's Muslin Drawers, assert
ed sizes, at &c per pair.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-12
TALK OF THE TOWN

Miss Marion Wingate, student at
Goddard seminary, is spending few
days with relatives at Mortified.
Regular meeting of Granite City lodge,
No. $685. N. e. 0, r, will be held at
Miles hall Tuesday, Feb. l3, at 1880
p. m.
Harry Averill returned to Burlington
last night to resume his studies at the
university OF Vermont, after spending a
few days at his home on Averill street.
Members of the Methodist brotherhood
please meet at the Daylight store at Q
o'clock this evening to receive tickets to
sell for the venison supper. Per order
president.