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III 4 O'CLOCK P.M. ffixi( rfYaa VIvXyVvX I weather I CITY EDITION VLlI 4 Vl fl JJ W 1(1 Il lJ (I t U 3: FOURTEEN PAGES U 4 P0U" tLJ I 1 FEARLESS, INDEPENDENT, PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER. ; Forty-third Year-No 300 -Price Five Cent OGDEN CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1913. Entered u S-:od eMs, Matter at the P.w.fflce. Ogd.n. UUh 5 il LISA IS 1 s FOUND IN ITALY s . I Leonardo Da Vinci's Famous Masterpiece Discovered Aft er Two-year Search. TAKEN FROM LOUVRE i v Italian Who Stole Painting Ar rested in Florence After S World-wide Hunt. Florence, Italy, Dec. 12. Leonardo t .Da Vine, s masterpiece. "Mona Lisa," , ?,the mysterious disappearance of ; which from the Louvro In August i 1911, threw the art world Into con i Bternatlon, was found today In Flor IF ence. The man who stole It was arrested. He is an Italian "Mona Lisa" Is one of the world's most famous paintings and Is regard t , ed as priceless Leonardo Da Inc.7 took as his model for the picture Liza Del Glocondo a woman of Florence H'- worked on the picture for four years, from loCKi to 1504. It was bought for France by Francis I Since the disappearance from the Louvre of the picture, the search had been world wide. It has been report ed found in Germany RusbIs, Eng I land, Spain and even In the United States. The famous painting had hung in II E the place of honor In the Louvre in a ll' Til M111V.U WiB UJpU3t'U IU UV Ul if ways watched. It disappeared on S the morning of August 22, 1911, ana if Its absence from Its aeemtomed place R was not noticed by Its guardians until J; some hours later At first a quiet b aearch was made in every nook and E corner of the museum and discreet r questions were asked of the hundreds w of copyists and photocrrnphers who daily crowded the museum The quostionluK was all without result. When the police authorities had K been informed they Immediately or dered the museum closed. A thor ouch search b detertlvos followed i They found the empty frame lying on A servant s Btairway In the museum SK building, but no trace of the picture which it had enclosed. J Paris. Dec. 12 The famous "Jo K.'conde' was found today when thp t picture was offered by an Italian rebi dent of Paris to an antiquary of Florence, accordlns to an announce mont made thl6 afternoon by the I French minister of public Instruction Both the picture and the Italian arc? ft now In custody of the police of Flor ' ence 'I stole the picture, ' Bald the man "in order to avmge the thefts which P Napoleon committed in Italy." K r. DOCTOR CALLED ? AS A WITNESS Tells of Receiving Schmidt and Anna Aumuller in Of i fice in April. New York, N V . Dec 12. Before ,1 swearing the state's alienists who were expected to testify in the trial of Hans Schmidt, the former priest, charged with the murder of Anna Au muller last summer, Assistant District Attorney Stephens called as a witness today Dr. Arnold G r,ee of this city. jj, Dr Dee testified that Schmidt and the Aumuller girl came to his office last April and expressed their inten tion of being married. Schmidt told me he was very much In love with the girl, testified the doctor, and Bald he was going to give up the priest hood and marry her. "On September 4." said the witness "two days after the murder, be called at my office, exhibited a V shaped wound on the index finger of his right hand and asked that It be treat 1 ed. He aald he had had an acci dent." ! no J REBEL FORCES 4 ARE REPULSED Federal Reinforcements Bring Relief to Tampico City Is Regarded Safe. Mexico City, Dec 12 Report? . Teached hero today said to bo on gx-od authority to tho effect that TarnpU-o hat; been taken by the r. l. B t-i.- Th'- war office and the ministry' o. th.' Interior deny the report. i Nodo of tin foreign legations, the oil compauleB, nor the shipping com- Epnnles has had any communication with Tampico since th fighting be I 'i he government continues to issue ?' reporta as to the progress of the as- Ra.uk by the rebels on Tampico. It declared this afternoon that the fed I erals had blown up the bridges over . the river sepaxatlug Tampico from the suburbs of Dona Cecilia and Ar i tolgrando, which were occupied yos I terday by rebel troops. The federals also were said to bo still returning I the long range artillery fire of the I rebels . An indication that the federal f; troops wero still in control of Tam- p'co early this morning was given In a private message filed at Tampico t.nl received here at 10 o'clock over the federal telegraph line cra Cruz. Dec. 12 The rebel forces attacking Tamp'co were re pulsed and driven away from that city with heavy losses, according to General Gustavo Maas, military com mander here, who say that federal troops under General Joqualn Maas, arrived to the relief of Tampico yes terday. Up to 9 o'clock this morning no fur ther communication had been receiv ed here from Rear Admiral Fletcher. In command of the United States j warships off Tampico. Mexico City, Dec. 12. The Mexican seaport of Tampico was still In the hands of the federal troops at a late hour last night The manager of tho federal telegraph reported early to day that the telegraph hne from Tampico to San Luis Potosi had been re opened after having been interrupt ed since the beginning of the fight ing. The federal war minister, General Aurollano Blanquet, appears to re gard Tampico as safe. w BETTER TIMES ARE miCTED Andrew Carnegie Believes j Business Conditions Will Be Better Than Ever. Washington, D C. Dec 12 An draw Carnegie visited the White House today to Inquire aiter Presl dent Wilson s health As be left the White House Mr Carnegie said he thought business conditions were going to "be better than ever" after the new legislation, which congress has In hand, is passc-CI He expressed his gratification at the award of the Nobel prize to Senator Elthu Root "I think Senator Root Is one ot tho wisest men in America," he said "President Roosevelt said so. Lon1 Morley told me he thought so, and I believe the best thing the Republi can convention could do, would be to nominate him for president." "If there were to be no convention, do vou think he would be nominated at the primaries?" .Mr Carnegie was asked b one of his listeners. "Well," said Mr. Carnegie, "so far as I'm concerned, be would be.' oo TEN TEAMS TIED FOR FIRST IN RACE New York, Dec 12. At 8 o'clock today the 104th hour ot the six-day l.;ccle race, ten teams were tied for first place the Corry-Walker team having gained a lap The leaders at thbt hour had traveled 2047 miles, six laps, which Is 32 miles four laps ahead of the record Th6 Clarke-Grenda, Carman, Cam eron and Mitten-Thomas combina tions 'were still one lap behind and the Kopsky-Keefe team was 13 1-2 miles In the rear of the leaders. The Anderson-Hanson team were five laps behind and were declared officially out at S a m oo NEW HAVEN STILL LOWER New York. Dec 12 The shares of the Now York, New Haven & Hart for i Railroad company reached a new Ion record today on the stock ex change Further liquidation forced the price down to 66 3-4 shortly be fore 1 o clock The previous low rec onl, established yesterday, was 67 3-8 PRESIDENT PLEASES ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS HBHb'' - tSlKwffimmw Mra. Arthur M. Dodge. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, is in Washing ton with 176 of her followers oppos. ing every move the suffragists make. One day the suffragists appoar he , foro a committee and apply for i something or other; the next day tho antis appear lefore the samt committeo and tell why their op ponents should not have what they asked for. The antis are greatly elated at the discomfiture of the suffragists when they were ignored by President Wilson 'in hi maasage to congress. MEXICAN FEDERALS WHO SHOT OFFICERS ARE MARCHED TO NATIONAL PALACE AND SHOT; CAPTURED BY MOUNTED POLICE The picture shows the 20th battalion of he government marching to the National Palace at Mexico City to be shot for rebelling against their othcers and killing them. These members of the 20th were captured by the Mexican mounted police. MORMONS ARE HEAVUOSERS Flower of Church Colonists in Mexico Over $10,000,000 Lost in Revolution. Loa Angeles, ( al , Dec 12 Revo lutton In Mexico has cost Mormon col onists from the United States more than 10,000,000 This was the state ment credited today to President Jo Hcjili F Smith, of the Mormon churcn who is here on his return from a v SsU to the refugees in Arizona and sout'i ern California The church head also said he la vored a plan for the exiled colonists to settle where they now are Instead of returning to Mexico when condl tlons permit 'The flower of our colonies was in Mexico, " President Smith said. ' Our people had labored there for a quar ter of a century and achieved won derful results They were forced to give up whole towns and cities their homes and churches, all to the value of more than $10,000,000. "I am Issuing a special message to I the unhappy exiles from Mexico," he continued. "It is this: 'Look not with longing hearts upon Mexico but build new ' homes and new churches where yuu are." " i uu YOUNG H WHOSE RECORD 11 STOP A WEDDING Two themes very pertinent to the r.'oral education of young people, WOU discussed this week during the devotional period at Weber academy The first was by the principal. Prole;sor W. V. Henderson, who be gan by remarking that he bad read the evening before an announcement ol the death of Montgomery Ward. Here, said the speaker. U a name fa miliar to ever household In Amer ica . not perhaps In the usual niches Ot' lame that I- to ay. not a- sol ciier. author, artist, sta.b-sm.an, or philanthropist, but, simply as a suc cessful business man Mr. Ward be ran his career In Chicago as errand boy. at a salary of 25 cents a day At his death he left a business worth 4.mju. . " he speaker digressod here to show thai a successful life was not neces sarily to be measured in terms of dol lars. Indeed, the accumulation of wealth ho considered aniong the low er OT baser Ideas of life, but w-ho-ever would know the road to nehieve n.ent in any line of human endeavor, might well study the career of this merchant prince of America. professor Henderson then proceed ed to show that the moral factors which made this man great and emi nent among his followmen. are pres ent right hero and now, and may be made use of every hour of the day by tho humblest and poorest boy or girl In the xchool and, further, that ol those rules ot conduct be follow ed undeviatlngly, they will lead to greatness as surely as effect follows cause The second theme was by Profes sor Jensen, who prefaced his remarks by reading parts of a letter addressed tc blm by an old friend, inquiring as to tho character of a certain young roan, who was correbpouding with his friend's daughter. "At first," said the speaker, "I hes itated, for on my reply might depend the future happiness or sorrow of two lives, and I shrank from the, respon Fibillty of helping to decide tho deli cate situation But a little reflection espectaJl) when 1 put myself In that father's place made me decide to act. "1 first turned to the records of 'his schcol. and found, after a series of low credits and failures, the damag illg statement that the young man in (iie?tion had been expelled for vicious conduct. "This was a bad start, but there is always opportunity for reform and I began looking up bis career since l is school dass. The young man Is employed by a firm of this city, and 1 really hoped to find reassuring evi donee. But I failed The more I 1 robe Into his life, the more strongly convinced I am that no woman Bhould think of linking her life with his "Now, this young man once stood on the threshold of honorable life and achievement, even ;i? you do to d:t How did he fall0 By yielding to some simple, and apparently harm less temptation " And here the speaker Illustrated, by referring to a special Invitation I j a certain pool hall proprietor to tho Ptudcnls To go there." said ho, "looks like B pleasant, sensible relaxation after hard study Well, it was. perhaps just such an Innoi -hi beginning that led to this young mhii's down fall." Misses Romena Reeder and Maud Stratford under the direction ot Miss Cragun. gave a luncheon it the acad- my today. The following guests were present: W W Henderson. Miss Cragun, Marian Itenstrom. lone Jenson. Alta Kielaon, Eva Iynhanv Ardel S'ratford. Laura Goddard Menu. Tomato soup, crackers veal hlrds, peas in tlmbals. cnarned potatoes, I vhite sauce, hot rolls, chocolate. ; stuffed cherry salad, Larts, neapoU 1 tan Jello, cake, mints. oo Real Estate Transfers. The following real estate transfers have been placed on record in the county recorders office The Pacific Reait Association to Oliver t; Ellis, a part of lots 17 and 19 and all of lot 18, Klssock's sub division Ogden survey. Consldera tion $350 Pleasant 6. Taylor to Alexander Tavlor, 0 part of the southeast quar ter of section C, township tj north range 1. west of the Salt Lake merldi an Consideration $150 Ogden Canyon Resort company to G L. Becker, a part of the southeast ! quarter of Bectlon 17. township (j north, range 1 east of the Sail Lake meridian. Consideration ?10nu oo WEST POINT CHANGES RULES OF ADMISSION Washington, D. C, Dec 12. Regu lations for admission to the military academy at West Point have been modified so that without lowering the entrance requirements pro pectivc i -adets may be matriculated by Bub stitutlng equivalents for aome ol tin Studies hitherto insisted upon. The effect of this change, made public to day in orders from the war depart ment. will be that a youth Deed QCfl in the future pursue a special Wcit Point preparatory course ol which would not be of special advantage in after life or of another educational Institution, provided he fulled of ap polntment to West Point Hereafter a candidate for ndmis I sion may be excused from mental ex j amlnatlon upon presentation ot certli ieate that he Is u regularly enrolled student In good standing In a unlver slty, college or technical school, the entrance requirements of which In elude proficiency In mathematics and English as outlined by the collei;.- umination board or a certificate that he has graduated from a preparatory school meeting, the requirements ol that board, or a ccrtificato that he has passed 14 units of the entrance examinations required by the board including mathematics. English and history. FEDERALS AWAIT REBEL ATTACK Insurgents Increasing in Num ber Outside Ojinaga Villa Reinforcements Advancing Presidio. Texas, Dec 1' The slt uat on at Ojinaga, Mex., on the border where the federal troops have con centrated today was one of patient altlng in anticipation of a rebel at t ick. Rebel bands were reported to be Increasing In number outside the flage but were believed to hi- wait ing for reinforcements which General FiaLclsco Villa has sent from Chi huahua The federals probably will l.c- 1'iider siege but will have the ad vantage of being able to take provl sons and clothing from the United States. Ojinaga suddenly has grown in population from almost nothing to y!x or .seen thousand The federal soldiers and civilians who have not crossed the river are crowded In a fev.- adobe houses Many temporary stores have been erected in Presidio to meet the e,-, ;,t demand for provisions. All the goods have to be hauled from Maria, Texas, the nearest railway station oo STAY OF EXECUTION DENIED Montpelier. V( , Dec. 12. Governor Fletcher has denied the petition for a stay of execution for Vrthur Bo orth. sentenced to be banged on January " next for Vae murder ol Mae Labelle. at Essex Junction, In June, 1M1 MASKED BANDITS HOB EN MO ITS Mil A bold holdup occurred last nlht In the saloon owned by Gus Mnnsen at 2263 Washington. Two masked men entered the place just at closing Tine while Hansen and the barten der, Joseph Xokleby. were counting up the day's receipts Nels Knudsen I was standing near the bar and, : Charles Cross, who came Into tho sa ' loon while the holdups were there, contributed to the booty obtained by I the bandits. fCach of the holdups carried a re volver and one of them forced the 'iciiins to plnce their hands unon the bar while the other searched them. Cross was the biggest loser from the search, the bandit-, securing $L'u from his pockets and a diamond stud valued at about $125 from his shirt br -on). r! he robber who was doing the searching also tried to get Hansen's diamond stud, but bent the screw and could not get the pin loose After the victims were searched, the robbers forced the proprietor to go Into tin- office and give them the money In tho safe. Hansen turned over nearlv $J00 and was then man-had back Into the saloon to open the cash register. Prom the cash regis ter they secured $30. I he two masked men then backed out of the saloon by the rear door, keeping their victims covered with their revolvers. Aso soon as they wero outside, they run north and made their escape. W hen the robbers left, Hansen call ed the police and a search was made hut no trace of the robbers WSJ found. Two men. who appear to answer; the description of the robbers who; held up the Gus Hansen saloon on Washington avenue last night, were arrested about 11 45 this morning bj I Detective Hubert Chamb-rs and lep-' uty Sheriff Hobson The men were) caught on lower Twentv -fifth street and taken to the station The victims of the holdups were called in lor the purpose of identify ing the suspects, but were unable to do so It Is probable tint the men will be released this afternoon oo I CONSIGNMENT OF RIFLES SEIZED Pelfast Ireland, Dec. 12 Customs I officers todaj seized a cinsognment of 200 rifles which arrived on board 1 -i freight Steamer from Germany. This j was the largest seizure since the 1s puance of the proclamation against he Importation of arms and ammuni tion into Ireland. oo JUSTICE If PE1CE TO W TIE HTM HE1I Iast evening County Attorney Da vid Jensen and Attorney Joseph Chez for I H Martin agreed to have the preliminar- bearing ol Martin held before Justice of the Peace Reuben T. Rhees of Pleasant View, beginning next Tuesdaj morning. Both attorneys were favorable to one of the judges of the distric t cour" as committing magistrate, but the Judges refused to net on the ground thai the one hearing .-ie matter would be disqualified as a trial judge, and that, it they established a precedent of sitting us committing magistrate in the blackmail cases. It would not be long until they both would be dls qualified from trying them, which would necessitate calling a Judge from some other district. Attorney Jensen states that he will be prepared Tuesday morning to pro ( eed regularly with the hearing and he feels ccrLiln that Martin will be held to the district court Uu the other hand. Attornev Chez states that he Is ready to meet tho issue and he Is of the opinion that Martin will be released by the Justice of the peace The Jury commissioners have not yet concluded their work of selecting a trial jury for the year 1914, but good progress is being made The order from the judges of the district court for the drawing of a grand Jury from the trial jury list will not be ylven until the commissioners have reported the completion of their la bors. The commissioners stated loday that they are of the opinion that the list will be completed tomorrow which means that, in all likelihood, the or der for the grand Jury will uot be made until Monday However, it is expected that If the list of Jurors is ready at any time tomorrow, the judges will Immediately sit en banc to make the order and have the list tor the grand jur drawn The preliminary bearing of J. H Martin is expected to take up the time of Magistrate Rhees over a peri od of two or three days, as there will be many witnesses to examine. Mr. Chez says that he has not determined whether he will Introduce any testimony. SIXPKMFI MIS HAVE EIEEI ORDERED Manager P. D. Kline of the Oden Rapid Transit company has been ad vised that the r.lx pay-as you enter cars will be ready for shipment March 1 and that they will arrive In Ogden by Marcb 15. In the meantime, the new system will be Inaugurated with the cars that are now being used Mr. Kline thinks the new plan will work well j In Ogden. HIGH HONOR GOES TO SPIRITUALIST 1 Sir William Crookes. Sir William Crookes, the noH British scientist, has been elected president of the British Royal So ciety and will take up hi-; duties in I connection with that office soon. In addition to being one of the greatest of livinjr scientists he is known as one of tho great charripions of spiritualism. BOMB EXPLODES GIREJSJILLED Head of Young Woman Near ly Torn Off at Bottling Works. ROOM IS WRECKED Plate Glass Windows Shatter ed, Jagged Hole Torn in Floor Others Injured. New York Y . Dec 12 A bomb yent by express exploded and Instant ly killed a young woman employe in an uptown bottling works today and Injured two men employes. The girl s head was nearly torn off. In the confusion there was delay In identifying the girl. The paek agp was addressed to Thomas Mc Cabe. one of the office force He was standing near the girl a hen he opened It. His left car was lorn off and Michael Ryan, another employe, was cut by flying glass. Iater the police learned that tho girl whs Ida Anusewltz. She was IX ears old and had been employed by the coniany only a short time. The package contalhing the bomb was addres;fd to the bottling com pany in stencil. It was received by McCabe, who placed It on the girl's , desk The force of the explosion wrecked the room, shattering plate glass win- floor Employes of the company connect ed the explosion with tho alleged dls missal recently of thirty workmen by William H Cnllanan. proprietor. Cal lanan, however, denied having dill- barged the workmen and told the poUce that they are working today The bomb was delivered by ex press. Apparently It contained dyna mite, as the force of tho explosion WHS downward W ho sent the bomb and why, wore I questions that set half a hundred or iroro detectives at work on every possible clue On the wrapper they found In writing the return address 22 State street, New York City The building at this address Is a large clfiee building, occupied chiefly by i sporting firms who employ a number of loreiuners The bureau of combustibles, work i nn the mystery with the few ) ' M of metal found in the floor and walls announced that the mls b'Is w as of similar oust ruction to tin- bomb sent to Judge Rosalski jM about two years aso. 4D oo CURRENCY BIEE I !$ jfflDED I Senator Hitchcock Severely Arraigns Democratic Cau cus Stone Assails Banks. Washington. Dec 12 A vigorous M defl nse of the Democratic caucus as f&g. t-ir- only method of carrying party promises Into effect marked the open i of the currency; debate today in th- senate Replying to severe ar- JJ r, irnment of the caucus made last fll'jl i"-;lii by Senator Hitchcock. who d'ffrrs with his Democratic asso- llfa cia'es on currency legislation. Sena- lr& tor New-lands declared the caucus IcuA vur the Instrument by which 'ad- Hi ministration measures' representing Jjjfl the results of the party counsel, could be made effective. H S nalor Borah. Republican, of Ida- i,. assailed the administration bill vigorously. He read from a speech nwf by George M Reyholds of the Con- jfB tlnental and Commercial National I .u.k of ChicaKO. quoting Reynolds i- having said be was one of twelve XB Uiec who controlled the finances of IK tin country. oo mm THREE NflS II I CHARGE OF GUARD I HAVE ESCAPED I At 2:40 p. m. three members of the i bain gang working under the dlrec nil tion of Guard Brown, near the city nil i emeteiXi made their escape. nui The police patrol and several of fi fll cers went to tho scene and are still flB hunting for tie- '-scaped men H The men who made their getaway VI were John Riley, a five-day man. und UlJ i, ex-convici serving a term of sixty Eh '4 days for carrying a concealed weap- Ifim) I H no 1 Wmw BIG DOCK PROPOSED Washington, Dec. 12 A dry dock IlN . t the Ruget Sound navy yard to 1K cost $3,000,000 was proposed by a bill WlL introduced today by Senator Jones- wl I i i rovldes for a dock at least one mm thousand feel Iuiik. to accommodate the largest battleship flaw No New Advices. Wm Washington, Dec. 11'. Up to 3 p. IS r., today no additional dlsputches had been received from Rear Admiral lal Mi tcher and there were no other Wm advices to Indicate that the fighting Wm Tampico had come to any reuit. u I