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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-24
Early Morning Fire.

AT 2:i5 o'clock this morning the stable
OF Barton Snarr on Sixth South street
between Third and Fourth West was on
FIRE, and II was thought would be con-
suned. causing a loss estimated at $500
Two horses and COW were reported TO
be In the burning building and fremen
were trying TO rescue them
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-24
A Gamblers Chance.

The davIts swung outward and the
blocks began TO creak. II was gam
bler's chance that these sure thing
men" had probably never taken before,
but by a common impulse they ran TO
the companionway and down TO the next
deck The boat was ten or fifteen feet
below them and falling rapidly. but these
sharpers took the last turn or the cards
OF fate for their lives and jumped. They
landed among the stokers.
Lie down, you ours, and don't move
or well brain you" commanded the
stoker who was at the rudder Of the
boat.
Under 'thc shadow OF the high lifting
sides of the liner. this boat. with only
fifteen men aboard and three OF them
super-cargo, snealled back past tho stern
of the big liner and off into the blue
black sea. Half q mile back OF the wal
lowing, struggling liner. this sneak"
boat lay. the crew OF stokers at their
oars and the card sharp passengers ly-
ing at their feet Finally they saw the
liner go down by the head, swing under
and disappear.
Lay off," commanded tho steersman
Of this man manned ship IT they see
US they'll shoot us sure.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-24

AUBURN. Ind. April 23.-Twcifth dis
trict delegates 70 the Republican nation
al convention are Il. II. Rhericl and
Harry Brown. instructed for Roosevelt.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-24
PROVIDENCE r L Anrm o3.-Rnn

PROVIDENCE. r. I. April 23.-Repub-
leans of Rhode Island. who will meet
ttons to elect delegates To the national
convention Will adopt resolutions favor
Ing President TAFT for re- election and
probably Will instruct the delegates for
by the state committee is carried out.
CEDAR RAPIDS. Ia. April 2S.-Fifth
congressional district delegates to tho Re-
publican national couVention-W. g.
Dows Cedar Rapids. r. II. Downing, Tip
ton. Instructed FOR Taft
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-24
Denver & Rio Grande
Table.
Effective November u. ~
DEPART DAILY :,

Er.c.,ve November u. is'
DEPART DAILY. %
Provo. MantI. MarySvaIn'''''' ~
Mldvale and Bingham" 81
Denver. Chicago and east -
Park City ......., iport.
ogden. San Francisco. f0' 10
ld0G ..-,...r-'' port.
ogden. San Francisco ~
lana .-...s-. ~
Midvaic and Bingha m. 5N
Denver. Chicago and cast ~
Provo. Spr!ngville, Tinuc, ~
Denver. Chicago and east easy; III
Ogden. Portland and Sea,.
ARRIVE DAILY ~
ogden, san Francisco. N ~
Tintic, SprlnGvllle, Provo itel
Bingham and Midvale. Etl
Denver. Chicago and east ~!
Denver. Chicago and east ,,.,sd ~
Ogden. San Francisco ana ~
Park City and !ntermecia'e." Lst
Bingham and Midvale ,'''' tSf
Provo. MantL Marysvale3p,,,x..
ogden, San Franciseo' lJ
Denver. Chicago and east..s.
Ticket office. sol MAIN
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-24

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
Ambitious For Their Children

GOD healthy statistics sometimes good
altitude stimulating the thought And when we read IN the
United of all native
parents itee whites born of foreign
parents nHte the fact calculated to take down little our
pride n assmfating of the American nation
Americans of the second and succeeding
generations terate the offspring
Of foreigners generation first landing
are evidently children those longer dmied
As matter OF fact the highest percentages OF
Hiacy among persons this found the old settlers
the Virginia Carolina, Georgia
Kentucky, Tennessee Alabama kansas ana LOUISIANA ne are states @
all influenced by foreign
immigration exceedingly SMALL and which, of those
states percentage Of ieracy the natives have
The foreigners general proposition stated have introduced into
self higher ambition for the
generation than existed before them Inc foreigners many com
rnuuies actually further
away the fire of ambition for education
for ones self and actually diminish
about the eracy in New Mexico with its
population and the natural conditions that have made
esly L -. So -. and the old states in the south have the
w old English European percentage
ieracy among
, @ al the Arcsn population of New MexO) lower than
that Kentucky Tennessee that
Louisiana Carolina Alabama And
once more the reader very percentage teracy
in those states among adult parents among
eight generations and that
originally countries of Europe
their emigration civilization supposed to be
exceptionally advanced
study of the iay statistics be- there is much
crafty student the with preceding The degree
parents there
among years ago;
10000 than there 10000 Arizona the number
years ago virginia
in ten years ago Georgia
there 100000 years ago Practically every
a
poran
adult
na change of As 1900
in percentage
that the
cenage Of iIiteracy should be reduced to almost nothing
o
found in the states Of the Pacific coast the northwest and New
this Merate in Washington state less than nhTd
women higher types Immigrants
some ways superior Try wings
o generally
thing evy
expect fromh i'm 4 the OF
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
Our Inefficient Farming


: possibly
percent
production percent
In yield
percent,
percent prOpOrOna
by Germany.
years. yield percent
bushel
Germany nearly doubled
while the United States has increased hers scarcely all
States adding today
s o
potatoes,
yield
times that of the United
production
schools agriculture, in
steadily
building
Invaluable the farmers New Mexico especially
working with the
possible systematically
wills
bulletins giving published by the Santa Fe railway
available interested
delays Chicago
long The sober second thought" fatal to movement like the lOne
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21

wheat straws through hired men, turn
ing orphan asylums inside out, stufing
COWS into pianos and tearing the clothes
off of the dazed citizen, leaving him
arrayed in his politics 10 miles from
where home would have been If 1t had
been let alone. In the old days when
cyclones infested Kansas a great deal,
the state was full of mOurnfub farmers
hunting for misplaced houses, barns,
cellars and sorting out tangled fences
and county lines
When q tornado visits town 1t only
STAYS a minute or two, but it Is men-
toned for years, and everyone remem-
bers dates by it, A tornado once over
took Bill Nye and carried him several
miles in the direction in which he wasn't
going, breaking one leg and causing him
to speak of it in terms of the utmost
hostility for years sfterward. TOrnadoes
can be avoided by lodging behind a
mountain or into small cellar with a
stout door on top, but cannot be argued
with or successfully opposed. However,
no tornado has ever met Col. Roosevelt
on campaign tour. Tornadoes have
more luck than some presidents.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
By FREDERIC ]. aASKIN.

determined largely by the quantity Of
coffee on the market in the exchange.
Knowing this, the valOriZauOn people
do not offer their coffee on the eX-
change, but sell it at auction and at
private sales away from New 4Ork-
That maintains the proper degree OF
scarcity on the exchange and the con-
cOmitant pricA.
II one charges up the entire rise in
coffee prices to the ValOrizatiOn scheme
it has been a heavy bill to the Ameri-
can coffee drinker. It is true that 1t
has meant a small increase In the cost
of a cup of COffee-SOmeOne has eStl-
mated that it has amounted to only
one cent for each 1000 cups of coffee
drunk in the United States-but in the
aggregate it is estimated that our an
nual coffee bill has been increased
nearly 500, 100000 as result of the
valOrization plans OF the Brazilian gov
eminent.
All Make Big Money Except Consumer.
Not only the government of Brazil
and the bankers who financed the val
orization scheme, but the Brazilian
coffee planter as well, has made huge
production Of coffee amounts to more
than two and 4 quarter billion pounds
a year. The increase Of eight cents
pound that has taken place since Bra
I'll undertook the valOriZatiOn scheme
now amounts to an additional whole
sale value in the worlds coffee crop OF
nearly $20O.OO0, 600 a year.
One is safe in assuming that the Bra
lillian coffee planter is an enthusiastic
advocate of valOriZatiOn- 1t has so en-
HANGED the value of his product that he
now is able to realize a profit of some
thing like 200 percent o n the coffee he
grows, after paying all the expenses Of
production and shipment to the mar
kets of the world
The world never has seen such a re-
markedly successful effort TO create ar
tificial conditions and artificial prices
in any commodity of world wide use.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
HARRINGTON MAY
NOT GIVE EVIDENCE
May Be Suppressed on Tech
meal Grounds-WaS
DarrOW's Clerk.

Los angeles, Cal, June 21.-An unex-
peeted assault was made by the defence
on the eligibility as a witness of John
R. Harrington in the trial Of Clarence
S barrow for alleged jury bribery.
Should the defence be upheld. the states
case against barrow VIII suffer greatly,
according TO members OF the prOsecu-
ton, as Harrington Is said to he the link
bv which they hope 10 connect Darrow.
The move OF the defence threw the
opposing force into a furry and court
was adjourned an hour before the usual
time yesterday IN order TO allow both
sides opportunity to present their sides.
Harrington had testified that he was
an attorney residing in Chicago and that
ne had been employed by Mr.. barrow
on April p, 1911
The defence objected to further ques-
tlOnIng on the ground that the statutes
forbid the examination without the con-
sent of the employer, of an attorney, or
secretary. or clerk of an attorney con-
corning any fact, knowledge of which
has been acquired in such capacity.
The district attorney argued that Har-
ringtOn. was merely employed as an in
veStlgatOr, but Harrington said that he
had been employed as an attorney.
Rules Against Defence.
Judge Hutton ruled against the de-
fence on the challenge of John r. Har-
ringtOn's eligibility as a witness in the
bribery trial Of Clarence :. DarrOW
HaTringtOn's testimony. however. VIII
be limited to that pertaining to alleged
crimes IN which he participated with the
defendant. Harrington resumed the
stand
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
STARTS
HOSTILITIES
ON PARKER
He Favors Progressive For
Chairman Makes Appeal
Direct to Committee.
DEMOCRATS LINING
UP FOR THE AFFRAY

Chicago, Ill, June 21.-Branding
judge Alton B. Parker as a reaction
ary," Wrliam-Jennings Bryan today
teIegraphed to q. number of prominent
delegates throughout the country, ap-
pealing to them to join him in prevent
ing the election of judge Parker az
temporary chairman of the Baltimore
convention The telegram was addressed
to speaker Clark, Gov. Wilson, of New
Jersey; Gov. Burke, of North Dakota;
Gov. Foss, of Massachusetts; Gov Bald
win, of Connecticut and mayor Gaynor,
of New York city. Col Bryan's appeal
follows:
The Appeal
an the interest of harmony, / sug-
gested to the subcommittee Of the DEM
ocratic national committee the advisa-
bility Of recommending as temporary
chairman some progressive acceptable
to the leading progressive candidates
for the presidential nomination.
It took it for granted that no COM
mitteeman interested in Democratic
success would desire to offend the
members of the convention Overwhelm-
ingly progressive by naming a reac-
tionary to sound the keynote of the
campaign.
Eight members of the subcommittee,
however. have. over the protest of the
remaining eight, agreed not only on
reactionary. but upon the one Demo-
crat who, among those not candidates
for the presidential nomination is in
the eyes of the public most conspicu-
Ously identified with the reactfonary
element of the party.
4 shall be pleased to join you and
your friends in opposing his selection
by the full committee, or by the con.
vention. Kindly answer here"
Mr. Bryan declined to discuss his
action further than to say that the tele.
gram spoke plainly for itself.
Selections Not Final.
The selections of the srrsnrenoart
committee for the temporary organ
iZation of the convention are in no
sense final. They must be passed on
by the full meeting of the national
committee which will assemble in Bal
timore next Monday. and it is expected
there Will be some lively times at this
meeting as Mr., Parker has some siren
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
IA Years Ago To-
From TIE Herald OF L
Tais Date 1898 Uoy

W NJ Mccoy came in from Casas
Grandes esterday.
G. ". Birmingham reached the city
yesterday from Chihuahua, Mexico.
superintendent Martin. Of ne G. H.
went east yesterday in his private car
The :. P. trains have been delayed.
owing to severe washOuts east and
west of here.
Fifteen cars of copper came in over
the S P yesterday and were trans
ferred to the Mexican Central for ship
ment to Aqua Calientes, Mexico.
The Southern Pacific announces that
the extension Of the St MartinsviIle
branch to Arnaudville is COMPLETED,
and will be open for business July 5.
The fourth Of July committee will
meet at the office of judge Hunter to-
morrow night at eight o'clock, instead
Of the courthouse, as previously under
stood
All pupils or graduates of the high
school are urged TO come to Chopin hall
tomorrow night at eight o'clock. to re-
hearse with the big chorus for the flag
raising exercises
Yesterday was a dead day in railroad
circles Put few cars were N the yards
and but few trains on the road. It
was good day for the lull, however,
as the thermometer registered los at
$50 o'clock in the afternoon.
The G. H. has placed an automatic
pump on the waste water tank at the
east side of the round house This
faithful machine starts without any
human assistance when the water
reaches a certain depth in the tank.
The great chOfus for the flag raising
on July 4 viii hold its first rehearsal
tomorrow night at eight o'clock sharp.
The pieces TO be sung are the Star
Spangled Banner" Hail Columbia 9"
Battle Hymn of the Republic" and
America" Words and music will be
furnished at the hall.
Yesterday afternoon one of FL Paso's
leading citizens said: Il am glad TO
see that the sidewalk on FL PasO street
is being repaired. for it was in 4
mighty bad fix and needed the repair
a long time before it got il. I have
wondered that some woman has not
sprained her ankle in one of those
holes there, as they were bad enough
to really hurt some one seriously. I
wish that other people in Ell Paso
would fix up their sidewalks. as there
are others right here on our main
street that are in 4 horrible condition.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
The Bird Without A Home
BY F. st. Mars.

= THINK he must have arrived during
the night. This is very probable,
l. because most birds that migrate to
and from warmer climes, do so mostly
at night, in order, largely, to escape
the sea gulls, who in the day time
would fall upon and eat them as they
sank exhausted near or upon the shore.
At any rate, nobody saw him come, and
at the first stroke of dawn, his full,
well known cry sounded over the conn
tryside. Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
"Harki" cried the children going to
school, spring has come. There's the
cuckooi"
But the cuckoo took no notice of
them, even when a boy piped up:
That isn't a cuckoo. That's a hawk"
The little boy had been very nearly
right for he was almost like a hawk.
a sparrow hawk for choice-even to
the barred breast and the peculiar
flight
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" sang he
with an odd note at the end, hoping
that some pretty young hen cuckoo
might hear and respond And the next
instant he sprang round on his branch
in that wonderful way birds have OF
facing about, as if a bee had stung him.
No bees had come near him, however
1t was a noise, a most extraordinary
noise, almost exactly like that made
by water bubbling, and it came from
DIanCn on the OIner size OF the tree.
Now. our cuckoo knew quite well
what the sound was. of course, for it is
the call of the hen cuckoo. In fact,
there she was seated upon a bough,
jerking her wings, and bubbling away
al intervals. She must have flown up
quietly behind him
About three weeks later we find the
cuckoo sending forth his message OF
spring on huge oak tree which stood
guard over a quiet little meadow, a
bright green carpet starred with the
gold of buttercups and white daisies
There were lot of other birds in that
meadow, too, who liked it for its quiet
ness, and had their nests hidden deep
down in the grass, or along the banks
of the ditch or in the hedges around.
There were larks, and their cousins,
the meadow piPits, and water wagtails,
and robins and Wrens and many more.
On a branch a little distance from
our cuckoo sat his mate, not the same
mate, by the way, for she had gone off
with some other gay young cuckoo
long since, cuckOOs being proverbially
tickle birds. Now, these two were en-
deavoring TO solve a problem, namely,
how to place a cuckoO's egg in q small
birds nest-for the small birds to hatch
and rear-of course without the small
birds seeing. If you knew how next
to impossible il is to do anything at all
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21
The Herald's Daily
Short Story

even in the vicinity of a small bird S
nest without the owners noting every
action, YOU will appreciate the difficult
ty of the cuckoo's task. See, now,
how clever were they.
Presently our cuckoo left off telling
everybody that winter had gone, and
that he was there to prove it, and flew
down and away across the meadow
over the tips of the grass blades. Nat
urally, this was too much for the small
birds. The sight of a hawk, or what
seemed to them to be a hawk, passing
so close over their nests that the sit
ting birds could actually feel the draft
from his wings. had much the same eff
feet as the sight of a bull in a barrack
square. The whole population, cocks
and hens, turned out to mob him-just
in fact as he knew they would do.
He knew also that he could fly faster
than his attackers if the need arose,
but he did not fly too fast for fear
they should quickly give up the chase
and return to their nests He content
I'd himself with keeping rather lazily
just ahead, showing every exhibition
of fear the while.
Meanwhile the hen cuckoo, who had
remained SILENT the whole time and
kept herself carefully hidden among
the leafy branches till her mate had
gone, taking the small birds with him,
flew furtively to the ground
CuckOOS must have wonderfully
quick eyes, for this one went straight
to the meadow pipits nest, although it
would have been quite invisible to a
human observer, only 10 yards away.
1t was seen that the cuckoo held an
egg in her beak, and with this she
hurried to the nest
There were six eggs in the meadow
piptits nest, the full ~clutch& of
greyish color. deeply notified with
brown. The cuckoo knew that if she
added her own egg and made seven.
the meadow pipit would spot it, and
possibly throw it out. You must not
think the meadow pipit could count. OF
course, she simply knew how much
room her full clutch Of six eggs took
up, that was all Therefore, the cuckoo
acted accordingly. First, she placed
her own egg in the nest 1t could
easily have been mistaken for a mead
ow pipit's egg at first glance, being
much the same color, and only a little
larger and slightly rOUnder. That was
because the cuckoo had herself been
reared in a meadow pipit's nest, and
her mother before her. Next. she ex-
tracted one of the lawful owners eggs,
and carrying II a little way off, sucked
it dry.
Then-weu then she rose and flew
after her mate. Her work so far as
that one future child of hers was con-
cerned was accomplished. She looked
to the meadow pipit to do the rest.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-21

uous opposition in the Democratic
ranks.
Report has it that telegram had
been sent to Chicago to William J.
Bryan asking that he come at once
TO Baltimore. Several national COM
mitteemen said after yesterdays meet
ing they expected fight by Mr.. Bryan
and his friends would be made on the
floor Of the convention against Parker.
Parker Forces Are Confident.
Before yesterdays meeting the Par
ker forces announced that they had
votes to elect, and said if Mr.. Bryan
desired to raise any issue 1t would be
better TO settle the question now than
later. Leaders of the elements to
nominate speaker Champ Clark and
issue was raised on the question of
progressiOnism as against socalled
conservatism they would come for
progressiOnism and put forth candi-
dates against judge Parker.
Tammany For the Judge.
Meanwhile, Charles F. Murphy, leader
OF Tammany Hall. sent word that New
York delegation was anxious to have
judge Parker chosen.
Chairman Mack proposed the name
OF Judge Parker, declaring him to be
one of the most consistent and ad-
vanced of Democratic leaders. A reso-
luton to make the vote on the tenn
porary craftsmanship unanimous was
not presented.
Rainey starts Fight.
Notification was filed with Urey
WCodson, secretary of the Democratic
national committee by representative
Henry 7. Rainey, of Illinois, that con-
tests would be made against the six
delegates at large from Illinois ana
the first ten congressional districts,
comprising the city of Chicago
The contests thus began by repre-
sentative Rainey are by the socalled
Hearst-Ha rrisOn faction against the
Sullivan faction. The fight probably
viii involve the seats of more dele
gates than any other that the national
committee will be called upon to set
tie.
Sullivan Delegates For Clark.
Representative Rainey after filing
the contests, said the Sullivan dele
gates would be for Champ Clark for
president on the first ballot, while
the Reconsideration delegates were
for Clark all the time
Roger Sullivan, national committee
man from Illinois, heads the Sullivan
delegation. while mayor Harrison, OF
Chicago, is the first delegate at large
on the cOntesting delegation
The contests filed last night are In
addition to the contest IN represen-
tative Rainey's own district
Contests in Vermont and :. ID.
Within a few minutes after the IL
linOis contests were tiled- secretary
Woodson received notification by tele-
graph from James Z. Burke, of Bur
lington. Vt, that he would contest the
state and district delegates from Yer
mont.
That dooes not bother me much"
remarked Thomas Il. Browne, national
committeeman from Vermont who
heads the delegation Burke desires 10
unSeat
Notification was received that the
Pettigrevy faction in South Dakota
would contest the Johnson delegates
from that state.
Gardner Against Parker.
The selection of Alton b Parker for
temporary chairman tonight drew
forth severe criticism from senator
Obadiah Gardner. of Maine.
There are scores Of men in the
country more competent than Parker"