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. lSIIL, NO. 153. established apeil is, i87L SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1911. weather today-f. 14 PAGES FIVE CENTS,
PIKPIG TO
fa GHEK9-TU
hteen Hundred Chinese
fcegulars Mow Down Hosts
; I Outside Walls of
- Ancient City.
SIONARIES ARE
BlOUGHT TO BE SAFE
reigners Now Confident
Bat Viceroy Is Able to
Suppress Uprising- in
j the Province.
EKI.V ?! ' i"-.- I.''.tpsl advices re
'fcelved by the Chinee foreign
W board and the foreign legations
I jbdlcate that Cheng-Tu, capital of
8 Be-C!ien province, is under
jBthnt most, if noi al! tlio mission -Wf
nr" Inside Ihe walls ami that the
m parrlsr.nr.l by 1800 troops, who
:ft hail nc.i--'-:!M-)-.ts with Hi"
Bjsp&lcli 'rem 1,10 prefect of Tsu-dftt'-.l
eeptmber 12 says that the
tBt were tiring upon the rebels from
Hheng-Tu walls and thai the he
,'Brs had lost ninny men. The be
Jl; iio'.d tc-e that the garrison is
Ke nf r. si. --tine; I he at':;.ks of any
Br of organized rebels from the out-Jpsu-Cliiiu
Is seventy-five miles from
Can:i'iin Methodist compound
Hl llif ritv has op' n spares around
Am: walls. It is believed that the
.!Bgn rs imv Ink. :i i -fue within this
KoumJ, whit h Is lonsldr'-d the,
JMt'-; und Mi' nios! casllj 'Wended
Wj missionaries who have been in
fc riots In riieng-Tu say that what -'Bjlilnese
troops were dispatched to
ihe mission won!. I h.- stationed
tBjf In i n i . i i j : 0 an.i would not be
rfcte,; 1 1 -'...t'-s
plie; Important
HBtlirr tV.e f..:.-i--n'-'- : the natives
p ,i: wells nr "' endure
tk Is noi known Tin uucstlon of
li nil lioporia-;! si is prob-
Hfrnm pa-si experiences tin mls-
Vlt! I.av rr--. u t i. ms againsl
conl lug. ;-. Tin lriissi'inarlep,
BF- b-i v- n.i unless they
Ijfcon supplied h the viceroy.
HVcffoii K . -i n '-r made to cornnm
with 1 ! -Tn. ;.ik so fa i there
(iHtcn no movement i" relieve the
lJHteni;r here seem confident r"f the
(ft of th'- viceroy to suppress the
tifB- The southern section of Sze
dBMi conllnia s Inyai. ::l!liouh the na
JJnfe'mp.tlhlz. with th nt- of
P' con.-i ruction. All gatherings in
'-'Blcnt in Inien have been dis-
- flB i Hi.
hjtHixpal. -Tlng-Kn. south
SjfSblM ' .ii i . r i l- r i mission -
Hfl'1"' i ii for V nig-
adThew n n.l
l8plviv ni:-l ,., i The
Wl Si:.-;'.t i-.ave ... f. r. unable to
iAked on All Side?
eF?". S-Pt 13.--A new? dispatch
flr he" today from Tsu-Chau says
fcy.- P":t"-1 of poll.e tl.re has al-
:jci 10 communicate with Cheng-Tu
;'.rtB5M !:L ns. bui that ilie latter were
.t fet ,llr""eh the lines of rioters
tfF attacking the cltv at four
Troops, ii,.. f!ispat,i adds, lint
of 1 i ' j -T 1 1 , defending the
"ft.f1'' five miles south-
iWf Cl1' "S- of the
WWR. 'f z' 1 !!!. in which district
:.-'WJ"":' oceijrred. an. Tsii-Cliaii
hV'l,'t capita! than otla-i judnt
Mr'-;1, : hellion has
I l0, 111 -In. " S.--f-
f.Bf- 11 is ihoiji l.aifv.-.-.- 1 . -1
!iptru ?-r', -'Hi I'n. where ihe Rritlsh
i 1Wti ''' i'1 pom h, ..- arrived
afiornt,..:-, r . r ,:. is-,, office re-lt9L",v'"''--'
'""'1" tl,.-- i;n!ish consul
BJn8-T'i. dj.-cHi. . .!-!.. ..I
,r3Ml :' T 'n:' there waK
'Srti.T1"- "" '"' 1 I ieii(s -Tu
''TMl!"' ."!"' v f"! '''L h "lioi ?
! anon and soldiers who engaged
f In t',. Btreets. The rebels
ly repulsed and the gates of the
fl. The ".;.r.,,s W, rr. Bhjt pi , n
ung dny rmiciis rrom tll BUb
Kd the city gates, but were
gM a id thai the American and
puaents of Cheng-Tu who did
' the city on September 7 still
ui ihe capital when the dls-
sen;, as i;.e K..v, ,nor general
o I""" th. m in h ov on Sep
Ujojving to ih.. pr gem e ol ih!
Itslde (hp walls
nrh missionaries had decided
IJn tlx Pity The mall service
rom Cheng-Tu has been Intcr-
Sft8ioter3 Killed
' (y'!Kji"' ' The unlive press
ftftlBn,. '': "' thar ihr. vleerov's
K'r' T.i !M.. -,.,-
JSaor,'''T"' " ' killed, li h.
'f ,!!; ' ro-is'i. r- have
i0lBT.li, Kli,y 'in.i.-v i
WW 1 2 H.-re,! -l,
inlK v;,,-, -f troopf ai fliensr-
xic;";:,;,;;:!:1 '..-hK.t
Proving in Revolt
?Sris i '; : says it
C o V'1. " ' r-h.' in are
Jr fljfJ' '-jnetl , r-1 ; : i , rl . , , - rJ e 11 e e .
JWiDEl, SHERMAN LAW
Vr ' 1
UJa c , ,,i;,,,, lz.- 1 '"-'-
h. hr i . !.- -hlvn
5Ri30f....o,r);- , T T" T i .la::.-
jXjtw. ' jJ th. Sliei man anll-
J Fiancee of Gates I
To Dispense With !!
Society Wedding j
MIN'N'E.Pni.IP: Sept 13. Mlnne
apolla BOClety folk who may hae
been expecting an Invitation to
an elaborate ft-eddln when Miss
Florence Hopjood becomes the
wife of Charles G. Ciates. son of the late
multi-millionaire, are doomed to reap
pointment. Instead. Miss HopgOOd will
become Mr. (Vates in her home with a
simple ceremony and in the presence
only of members of the Hopgood and the
Gates families The wedding will take
place some time In October, the exact
dale to be fixed later.
Miss Florence Hopgwood gne up her
college Bweetheart, Harold Sims Carter,
when Mr Gales came Into her llf'. She
and Mr Curler were to have been rriar-
rled ten months ago, but ihe engage
ment was broken two weeks before the
day set for the wedding. Sin1 was pru-d-uated
from Smith college a year apo.
U. S. MAIL STOLEN
I HEART OF CITY
Pouch Mysteriously Disap
pears From Corner of Sec
ond South and Main.
ARMY PAPERS TAKEN
Stai Route Contractor Ofters
Reward; Money May Have
Been in Mail Bag'.
A poach of United St n t cs mail, en
route from Fori Douglas to th Salt
Lake Citj postoffice was stolen at the
intciseetH.n ir Bdaio and Second South
Btreets aboul 5 r. 'clock yesterday after
noon J. I-. CuoniQirhan). the star roule
Contractor, whose dutj it. was to P'1
up the pouch ni the intersection, oners
a reward ol 130 in tliis morning's Trib
une for the return of the pouch and its
contents.
Asidt from the fact that the, pouch
contained importanf official communica
tions from Fori Douglas to Hie depart
ment headquarters al ban Francisco,
nothing further i known as to its con-
I. tits
As BOOH as Ihe t lief I of the pouch was
discovered the poiiep and sheriff's ofhee
an' the postoffice inspectors were noti
fied. Up to a late hour hist sight, how
ever, do trace of the missing pouch had
been discovered
The intersection ol Main and Second
south streets is the division point for the
mall from Port Douglas. Sugar House
and othei local star routes. Contractor
I Cunningham Is expected to meet the
street cars and receive 'be pouches from
I them. Yesterday afternoon the mall
i;inif in as nxuai from the southeastern
part of ih eitj and was placed in the
"treet on Second South. Jn-t east ot 'he
Smith druc ntnr. corner This was re-
1 1 1 I I It WIIIS Mill." . .1 II." I
celved by Mr Cunningham At 'be inmc
(line, or a little befpre, ihe Fort Doug
las car arrived and deposited the fori
pouch In front of lh- National Hank of
the Republic on Main street, JubI below
tl-. Intersection with Seppnd South.
Immediately after Bccuring the Sugar
House pouch Mr. Cunningham went
. - the street to th,c ix.ini where he
expected to find the Fort Douglas pouch
and was astounded Wb'-n be discovered
thai i' was missing then hurried to
IhC pOSlOfflce, where he was informed
thai nothing was known of 'be missjng
pouch and that H had not been delivered
there.
Following this discovery, 'be condui tor
and motorman of the Btreet car which
brought the pouch from Fori Douglas
were communicated with, and both said
Dial thej WOUld make affidavit thi the
pouch was placed iii the street in front
of the National Bank of the Republic, ac
cording t" the usual custord.
The next step taken by Contractor
Cunningham was to inform the police de
partment sheriff's office and postoffice
inspectors of the thefl of ihe pouch and
the thre departments are now doing
their inmost to discover the thief and re
cover Die pOUCh.
The mafi in the pouch, winch was en
route from Fori Douglas to the sail i.akr
Cltj postoffice, Is United States mail in
n:, fullest Bense, as the route is what
Is known as a star route and the thlel
can he prosecuted under United States
,awp- ... .i
There is a question as to whether the
street car men should have deposited the
pouch In the Btl'COl when Hie contractor
Was not there to receive It
educator suffers
paralytic: stroke
ANN' ARBOR. Mich., Sept. 13 - Thai
James B Angell, presidenl emeritus ol
the 'nlverslty of Michigan, sustained a
slight paralytic stroke In Berlin recently,
was ihe information contained In P letter
re . iv. li today by Presidenl Hutchins of
th( university from Dr. M. Li d'Oogc,
travoling with Vr. Aug-'i.
BUSINESS IN
PLEDGE THEIR
1I0TEST0 TffT
New England Association of
Commercial Executives As
sure President of Their
Support.
APPROVE HIS COURSE
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Call Is Made to Say Good-Bye
Before Head of Nation
Starts Upon Trip to
the West.
B!-:Vp;P.lr. Mass. Sept. 13 "God
speed ' and Ihe assurance pf the
support of New England business
interests were the messages of
beer can-led to President rrfft
today lv Robert M. Davidson of Wor
cester. Mass. president of the New Eng
land Association of Commercial Execu
tives and eighty members of that asso
i latlon. who motored to Paramatta to
say Roodby to the chief executive before
he starts west.
"As ou o oui from among us on
your lone and arduous tour." said Mr
DavidsOn. "we want you to tro with the
God speed of New iCneland ringing in
your ears Other sections may waver,
but we will not You are president and
as such arc entitled to our sympathy, our
loyalty and our unfaltering trust. And
you have this In abundant measlire."
Mr Davidson approved the president'"
course on reciprocity, his Dollcj of con
servation and Ills determination that the
tariff should be revised onlv when ji non
partisan body shall have reported that
reductions are warranted.
Even If the passion of the hour pre
cluded approve of the president's ac
tion at this time. Mr. Davidson declared,
history would iustifv him.
True Friend of People.
"The great masses ' of the neonte all
of whom would lie vitally affected bv any
radical chance for the worse In their
living condition." s-airi he. "arc singu
larh dependent on you. and although
they may be temporarily misled, in the
end they will realize thai von are what
we all know you to be. their true and
lastina friend."
After Mr. Davidson concluded the presi
dent shook hands With the delegates
and made a short speech, saying:
"I am very much touched by your
coming here to bid me God speed on this
trip which I am to take. 1 am goine
to do the best lean on. this trip 10
talk to the people on the issues of the
day; not alone the presenl issues, for
there arc a jrreat malty Issues that ii is
Well for the people to consider that do
not a I tract politicians al all. Thev are
the Issues thai do not flerure In the
headlines and vet contribute much to the
welfare of the people, and It is well for
the people to understand them.
' I hac not referred to the issues to
which your chairman and snokesman
touched on with so much eloauence be
cause i did not think it Is necessary. Re.
KardlhjE reciprocity. the arbitration
treaties and the tariff board, you know
where I Btand and It is not necessary to
convince those Who are of the same
opinion thai i am '
Spokesman for Millions.
The pesidenl received his guests on
the fronl lawn and Mr. Davidson spoke
from a litii'.- hillock in beginning his
address he said that the delegates pres
ent roori sented twenty-eieht commercial
organizations in six stales and that he
was. acting as "business spokesman for
more, than 2,000,000 people." He said
in part:
"We have watched your course in the
White House and before ihe people and
arc satlsfi-il that ii vou have made mis
takes they are the mistakes of an honest,
man who had rather do something and
be wrong t! an do nothing and be riirht
"We want at this time when vou per
haps need more than ever before the
moral support of every sincere, loyer of
his country, to express to ou as citi
zens of New England out- confidence In
vour Judgment and our faith in your
plans hi the three area! undertakings
ihai have so far characterised vour ad
ministration; namely, reciprocity with
Canada, the conservation of our re
sources md th. wisdom of a thorough
Investigation by a competent, nonpartisan
tariff board ol the Important schedules
of the tariff in order that we ma: II
possible, once for all settle this vexed
question in our economic life
The welfare of our crrai working
. lass as well as of capital Is so essential
to our development as a people thai we
desire, as business men. conservative ac
tion in all matters tending materially to
alter l he basis upon which our pros
perity rests
"We believe that the American people
were never better housed, better fed. bet
ter clothed.' an.i as a rule, better paid
than today, and we are anxious that if
any changes are contemplated In our In
dustrial condition they shall be made af
ter a thorough investigation by o strict
ly nonpartisan board of men whose Und
ines shall not he colored by (he desire for
political success, bul rather by a sincere
desire t" Improve upon tlx- splendid civil
ization we aJread) boast 1
WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO
FIND RUNAWAY WIFE
NEW vork. s.-pt 13, Frederick l.is
penard Buydam, -ir., the young million
aire of Bine Point, L I., whose young
wife is reported to have run away with
Frederick Noble, s'.n of a plumber sav:
thal his wife was impulsive and tempera
mental and he does not intend to make
any effort to find her, Buydam avoids
committing himself to a statement that
his, wife and Noble are together Ht
bSS noi heard from his WlfS since a
week ?ijco when Mrs. uyiain disap
peared on the dav thai Noble lelt Blue
1'olnt on an earlier train.
TUCSON FURNISHES
PAIR OF CANDIDATES
TUCSON, Ariz. Sept. 3 Eugene B.
ves of Tucson mad'- forma announce
ment today of his candidacy for United
.-'rates senator on the Democratic tiek-'t.
He declared himself for re-inserting the
Judiciary recall provision in the consti
tution of Arizona after the territory bo
comes a slate and said his kIokrii would
e "progrcHslvo Democracy."'
Marcus A. Smith, also candidate for
Tnlted States senator, likewise maintains
hlii IckuI residence at Tucson.
PEACH CROP IN
UTAH IS HEAVY
FORTHIS YEAR
Frosts Cause Damage, but
Despite Losses Thus Suf
fered the Yield Is
Satisfactory.
ESTIMATE IS GIVEN
BY W. M. ROYLANCE
Utah County Will Exceed Its
Record of Last Year; Re
ports From Other
Points.
REPORTS thus far received from
the larger producing belts of the
state, warrant the assertion that
this year's fruit crop will he
about up to the normal, with better
prices prevailing and a production of
better quality iii many sections. in
some sections, growers find that their
crops will not be so heavy as last year,
while in other districts it is said that
the output will be heavier. Late frosts
are said lo have damaged the orchards
in some districts, while in others they
have not been affected Better prices,
it. is asserted, are forthcoming, espe
cially for peaches, and the total output
of fruil for export is expected to hnug
$1,000,000.
Particular attention is being given
the peach crop outlook The Brigham
orchards give promise of more than an
SO per cent crop, which means about.
100 or l."0 carloads less than 1910,
conceded to be the banner year. The
outlook in ('ache valley is more than
brilliant. The growing of peaches was
not thought profitable or possible there,
but demonstrations have corrected this
idea to such an extent that 3,000 young
peach trees have been planted during
the season. ' Weber comity expects an
output in pearlies ."3D cars short of last
sear's crop. ll is reported that the
peach crop iu Utah county will be from
10 to '2o per cent heavier than last
yea r.
Based on an estimate made bv Will
iuin M Roylance of Prove, one of the
leading fruit men of the state, this
year's outside shipments will be as fol
lows: 1,000 cars b peaches, 700 car?
of apples, "jo cars of pears and 50 cars
of plums and prunes The total apple
crop, he estimates, will be much heavier
than usual and the pear crop three or
four litnes as heavy as in fBlO. I'ricCs
ure better, with an increase of from 7
to 'JO cents per crate or box on peaches.
Following are dispatches covering the
outlook, received from some of the
growing and distributing centers-
UTA H CO UNTY CROP
ABOVE STANDARD
Special to The Tribune.
PROVO. s.pt. 13. William M Roy
lance Rase out the following estimate and
report regarding the fruit crop and con
ditions of Utah and of Utah county this
evening
"In the year of l o 1 1 there will be
shipped from the state approximately
inrifi cars of peaches. Ton cars of apples,
rft cars of pears i nd 50 cars of plums
and prunes. These will brln.tr to the
people of t.'iah about one million dol
lars, "From i tah county there will he
shipped about inn ears of penclies about
sr. per ceni of these being from Provo and
Vicinity, The crop will be from 10 per
cent t'i 2". pei . e n i heavier than last
ye.'ir on account of the large acreage of
new orchards thai are Jusl coming into
bearing. This overcomes the shortage
caused bj the frost, without which there
would have been from BOO. to 700 C8 r
Bill pood from tjils county.
"Prices are belter tban they were in
1909 and 1910 growers now receiving
from 85 to mts a -r;ti f.ir peaches.
Prices are n.w OS) little stronger than they
Were exrlv in the season
"The pear crop is three or four times
as heavy us in IOiiO and into. About
thirty cars of pears will be j-hipped from
the COUnty, for Which the growers will
r.-.Ti.-e from to $,T.n .. ton, aevordini;
to ihe quail t .
"There will be ghoul forty cars of
plums and prunes: shipped OUt Of the
county, widen is three times 'the -rop
of each of the previous two years
Growers will receive from $20 to 30-a ton
for these.
'The apple crop will he much heavier
than last year and the .year before and
will reach aboul Aie hundred and fifty
cars. Prices will rc nearly up to those
."i 1909 -ni'1 1910.
"The carload lots of fruit shipper fron
ih'. countv win reach approximately 850
cars at an average nrlce of $50:1 p-er ear.
Which will make 1176,000. There will
also be .t large amount of small ship
ments "f which it is difrieuit to make
any estimate. it la probable, though,
that these In, hj.llmf small fruits and
berries, will amount to aboul $4i 000
The quality or the fruit is Improving and
the growers trs Improving In the man
ner of packing from year to year.'
OUTLOOK IN WEBER
15 NOT SO BRIGHT
Bpe iai to tit Tribune
OGDEN, s.-i t. 18. Although the season
is not vet far enough advanced for fruit
men to form an absolutely correct esti
mate of the peach crop this year, yel
they all agree that the harvest win fail
far short ul that of lust year. This re-
fers to the entire peach crop ol Utah,
the majority of which Is handled through
Ogden lo the eastern markets Weber
county win ship about i'i ears of
peaches to eastern markets this season
according to the presenl estimate. iist
year 2on , of Weber county peaches
were sold in the eastern markets at the
average price of cents a box to the
grower after the middlemen's and brok
ers' profits had been dedui ted This, year
Continued on Page Two.
I
Girl WKom Slayer Admits
He Abducted and Cast in Lake
.1 1
Ji sff ;
ANNIE LEMEERGER.
ELECTION RESULT
I MAINE IN DOUBT
Figures of Secretary of Stale
Show an Apparent Ma
jority for Repeal.
PORTLAND. Me., s.rpi i,":--So dose
was the vote in Monday's p1"' 'a' elec
tion on the question of repeal of consti
tutional prohibition that even tpnlght,
when most of the first unofficial returns
had been revised by mail reports from
town clerks, the result still i- in doubt
The aecretarj of stair's report laie i.
night showed an apparent majority of 155
for repeal.
An error ;is. jvcred In tiie report given
officially by the clerk of the town of
Limestone contributed largely to the un
certainty a: to the outcome of the elec
tion, it was discovered that In reporting
the vote In the town, the clerk return"!
to the Associated Press over his signa
ture "For repeal 12: against IT". "
To the secretarj of stai he r.-r ted
Just the reverse for repeal 17., nsalnsi
12
Figures furnished by Secretary of state
Davi? from Augusta tonight as compiled
from mall returns from all but thirteen
cities and town.; In the state and with
the missing thirteen supplied from press
returns, shows- an apparent majority for
repeal ol 166 votes,
of the thirteen towns supplied by press
returns, four were received by mall from
th clerks and nine ar- the early figures
which U has not sine been possible to
verify. The figures of ihe total vole as
furnished from the office f the secre
tary of State, Including th thirteen towns
supplied to Mr. Davis from prees returns
are :
For repeal (50,625; against repeal 60,870
Between the Associated Press returps
as revised, almost completed by postal
card reports from town at.i . ty clerks
and II. e tii;l;res of til, seretii ..f slat.-.
then Is a marked discrepancy, the press
returns Indicating at ;i late hour tonight
a majority of 347 against repeal.
The total vote a indicated by the As
sociated Press returns;
For repeal 60.241: against repeal 60,588.
In view Of the dosOneSS "if the vote it
was believed tonight thai onlj the of
fielai canvass by the governor and coun
cil would definitely determine the re
sult. SPRING LAKE, N J Sep 13. Gov
ernor Plalsted of Male.- ended abruptii
tonight bis stay at the conference of cov-
ernors am) left for Augusta, Me. 10 net
In closs touch with the situation there
resulting from the election to ;" Ide the
fate of prohibition In Ihe state constitu
tion, lie said he would probably call an
eaiiv meeting of the hoard of canvassers
to determine definitely 'he vote.
I'ndt-r Maine '.aw- then are two sets
of return -one filed with the secretarj
of state and opened Immediately; the
other sealed and opened by the governor
and council. The latter is authentic, but
sometimes it takes two weeks tu get com
plete returns.
EIGHT MEN KILLED:
SIXTEEN MED
State Guards Fire Into Train
Loaded With Maderistas at
Merida, Yucatan.
MERIDA. Yucatan. Mexico. Sept. 13
Eight men were killed and sixteen
wounded when ihe state guards fired
Into a special train of evctirvlonists; com
log ;o join In the manifestation last
nlghl to Francisco T Madero.
According to the authorities, the excur
sionists were lo blame. ,n Indulgence
in t.'O mud) intoxicants had lifted the
enthusiasm on the train to ;i hi:h pluh.
As the train, loaded to lis capacity, whs
entering the city, the visitors saw ("he
guards and it i:s said, began firing hlli
ii:' a child.
Immediately the guards returned 'he
Are. n account of the crowded ni i -:lon
of ihe coaches, almost every bullet
hit a passenger.
Although this encounter resulted in the
inns' intaiities. It was but one : a. series
of disorders that marked Madero's en
tertainment The manifestation was or
ganised by supporters Of Moreno Canto!.".
the opposition candidate for governor
Early in the afternoon the Morenlstas
began arriving in special trains froni
various parts 6i the state. Between this
faction and thai of the Plnlstas feeling s
bitter.
Following the manifestations Inst
nlghl numerous disorders occurred be
fore th special trains bore from the city
the visitors
ODDS ON LAURIER TO
WIN IN THE DOMINION
TORONTO, Sept. 18, The campaign
progresses with Increased Intensity as
election day draws m-ar The two lead
ers, Sir Wilfrid Laurler and P, L. Bor
den have gone to their home constitu
encies In Quebec and Nova Scotia, re
spectively, but their lieutenants have
taken up the work in Ontario
Nominations for the house of commons
will be made In all the constituencies
throughout Canada tomorrow. Most of
the selections are pretty well determined. I
but the formalit) of actual nomination
will be consummated.
odds In favor of the re-election of
Laurler have lengthened and even money
is now . fli i-.'i thai the Liberals will have"
a mojorlt) ot thirty In the tcnernl result
throughout the Dominion, while 3 to I Is
freely offered, with few lakers, timt the
government will be returned.
Divorce in Army.
LEAVENWORTH. Kan . Sept. 18.- A
decree of absolute divorce was granted
lie.ro today to Mrs Elisabeth M Cheever
from Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin H.
Cheever. Third IS. 8, cavalry. The alle
gatloni were neglect, axtipme oruelty and
desertion. Cheever nnd ,jra. Cheever j
I both Uo In Chicago now,
I
CONFESSES TO
THE MURDER Of
LITTLE CHILD
John J. Johnson of Madison,
Wis., Admits Throwing
Annie Lemberger Into
Lake Last Saturday.
MISCREANT HURRIED
TO THE PENITENTIARY
s
Greatest Secrecy Maintained
by the Officers Lest the
Guilty Wretch Be
Lynched.
MADISON, wis. Sept. IS. John J.
Johnson, otherwise known ms
"Doeskin" Johnson, this evenin?
confessed to the abduction and
murder of little Annie Lcmbci
ger. 7 years old. whose body was found
In Lake Monona last Saturday morning.
He was Immediately snlenced by .ludgs
Anthony Donovan to life imprisonment.
A few minutes after his confession ana
sentence Johnson was taken In an auto
mobile by Sheriff Brown and a deputy
through side streets and across the coun
try at a rapid rate to the state peni
tentiary at W'aiipun.
The greatest secrecy was maintained
lest Johnson be lynched He was taken
into custody Saturday morning on sus
picion, but after he had been rjuestloneI
he was released. Officers kept him un
der surveillance all day and In the even
ing took him into custody again and
held Mm under suspicion. Although Offl
cers suspected Johnson of knowing some
thing about the crime, they could not
fasten guilt on him On the strength of
suspicion he was taken into court today.
He pleaded not guilty and was placed
under a Sia nan bond, the preliminary ex
amination being set for September 35.
The prisoner was then taken back to
his cell, hurrying in a frightened manner
ahead of the officers
Makes Confession.
Toward evening Deputy Henry Page
was balled by Johnson, who said he
wish'' to make a confession. The coun
ty pros.-, utor, the chief of police and
oth'-r officials soon gathered at the court
house and In a few minutes the pris
oner was before Judge Donovan. John
son then confessed the brutal crime n
attorney was appointed bv the court to
defend the prisoner, but In view of the
confession it was only a few minutes
before the prisoner heard his sentence.
Johnson brood'il in his cell at the po
lice station all day. following his arraign
ment In the morning. Abandoning bis
sham of Insanity, he paced his cell rest
lessly, asking anxiously If there was dan
ger of a mob. Then he read his Bible
while walking.
Finally, apparently overcome by emo
tion, he threw the Bible in a corner of
Ihe cell and called the turnkey, declar
ing that he was willing to tell all.
Snatched From Her Bed.
in ihe presence of Chief of Police
Shaughnessy. District Attorney Nelson
and Turnkey Poye. Johnson said that
the deed was the result of a sudden im
pulse. He had watched through the bed
room window, the little Kirl and her sis
ter undress at bedtime on different oc
casions. On the fatal .night about 10
O'clock, shortly after the children had
fallen asleep, he raised the sash and
snatched little Annie from the bed
dragged her through the window and
knocked her on the bead wtlh his Oat,
rendering her unconscious, so there
would he no outcrv. He then took her
to tin railroad bridge, and after beating
her on the head until life was extinct,
threw the body Into the lake.
Johnson said he did not want to make
a detailed confession because he wanted
to be on bis way to the penitentiary to
avoid mob violence. He said he would
maie a written confession after he had
been lodged in prison.
Doctors Disagreed.
Testimony at the inquest was con
fiieiiiig in thai one physician was of the
opinion that the children had been at
tacked while another expressed an op
posite view j
Life Imprisonment Is th maximum
punishment meted out to murderers In
Wisconsin
Johnson lived but a fw doors from the
Lemberger home.
The father of the murdered girl told
the police that he and Johnson had had
a quarrel once but hesitated to charge,
the crime to him
It was largely because no other solu
tion offered that the police held Johnson.
Since Satur.luy Johnson was subjected
to hours of gruelling examination. Ha
maintained 'hat he had been at his home
throughout the night. This was further
substantiated by his two daughtors who
vvre positive, th'-v said, that thlr father
had been at home. Ills wife, however,
admitted that Johnson mli;hi have lee:i
away for past of the night, and this ad
mlcslon led to the second arrest of John
son. ( ' L?
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