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W F2nRST YEAR"N0' 34-pICE FIVE CENTS OGDEN CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1911 Entered as Second Class Matter at the PQSto7fjQn; 1 ITHE PLACE Is at Home and Not j Out Earning a j Livelihood Denver, Colo.. Feb. 9 What aro ; generally considered the best of the '; anti-suffrage arguments marked a speech In the state house of reprc- ; eentatlves yesterday by Mrs. Agnes ' ? Riddle, one of the three members of ; the legislature and presumably au ad vocate of woman's suffrage, : ' Mrs. Riddle spoke in favor of a bill placing a limit of eight hours on the f daily work of women In this state. "In the cities," said Mrs. Riddle, "women work such long hours for ' such small pay that employers hire "Si' them instead of men. This results b 3 in the woman doing the work while ifiS J the man sits at home and wears out fei the seat of his pams IS I "And while the woman is working , & and coming home oach evening to a -stuffy flat, she is not going to raise :( a family M ; "This condition is wrong. The men should go to work and the women stay Jqli at home and raise families. The na ' I tion needs mothers, home-makers and of? housewives. ,5i "Pass this bill and make the men Sm.:' fo to work. Let the women stay at ( M : ' homo and do the house work and raise j It a wholo flock of children. That is I too wa" things should be and that is I the wav I want to see them." I 'r" The hill passed on second reading HI J with but one dissenting vote, but in- iS I terest in the measure was overshad- Si owed by the stir occasioned by the j npparentlv paradoxical position taken . bv Mrs. Riddle. IF l LHJ WORLD'S- MARKETS 1 If DROP IN STOCKS I! IS QUICKLY RECOVERED I , New York, Fob 9. The tone of the 3 stock market was heavy at the open ly '' Ing today. Almost all speculative fav "J orltes declined good fractions, JRead E ing, on an initial snle of 1,500 shares, declined half and Union Pacific lost I 1-4. Chesapeake & Ohio and Erie sag I ged 3-S and Aatchison 5-S. I t' Bear operators made attacks on tire P ' ' list soon after tho opening, and forced tji ', down prices sharply. Atchison. Le- f high Valley, Northern Pacific, Canad fc Ian Pacific and Southern Railway, pfd., fl all lost a point or more W Before the close of the hour "stocks I i rallied Speculation during tho morn- ' Ing session showed a bearish ten .1 dency and the market was heavy. I Advices from Washington renewed ? talk of an extra session of congress s? with the chance of tariff legislation. 5f Failure of the Ban kof England dl Jj rectors to reduce the discount rate 1 also had an unfavorable effect Dur X ing the late morning there was a 2; general improvement which restored 3 prices to about last night's level 3 Erie Issues were in active demand at k large fractional improvements. Lack 's awanna dropped fifteen points from I the last previous transactions. 4 I Bonds steady. 3 I Chicago. It Chicago. Feb. 9. Cattle Receipts "S I estimated at 7,000: market slow; l beeves, $5 00(gG.SO: Texas steers, $4 15 3 fffJ5.50. western steers, S-4.-10(JJ'5 70; I stockers and feeders, $3.75(5 5.90; cows ! ; and heifers, $2.S5(g5.S0; calves, $7.00 E 9 00. '4 Hogs Receipts estimated at 30,000. i market 510c lower, light, $7.45(?T 3 ; 7 75, mixed, S7.25(? 7.G5; heavy, $7.05 5 (ctl GO; rough, $7.057.25: good to '2M choice heavy, $7 257.G0 plirs, ?7.450 jjja 7.80, bulk of sales, $7.457.G0. -1 Sheep Receipts estimated at 20,-1 'JK 000, market 10c lower; natives, $2.50 I HM (2 4.40; westerns, $2.50g4.40; year- Hi 1,nes. $4 505.50, lambs, native, $1.25 fW 6.25; western, S4 50((JG.2o. IB Omaha. II Omaha, Feb. 9. Cattle Receipts, !UH 4,200, market steady, native steers,' H S5,005G40; cows and heifers, $3.25 jt 5.50; western steers, $3.75G.OO; l range cows and heifers, $3.004SO' m canners, $2 S5&3 G5; stockers and B feeders, $3.50(G.00, calves, $4.00t? B 8 00, hulls, slags, etc, ?3.755.2p I Hogs Receipts, 10,500; market I steady- heavy. $7 10g7 35: mixed, I $7.25Ri7.35. light, $7.35(?i7.15; pigs, H $G.oO7.30: bulk, $7.25(5)7.10. I ' Sheep Receipts, 13,000; market! steady; lambs, lower: yearlings, $4.3u (ffiS.OO; wethers, $3 75(o)4.25; ewes, j $3.504.15; lambs, S5.25G.25. H Chicago Produce. Chicago, Feb 9. Butter Steady; Mi' creameries, 1726; dairies. 1G(B22" Iff Eggs Weak; receipts, 5,9G2 cases; Mm at mark, cases included, 1 l-2 HI 1G 1-2; firsts, 18; prime firsts, 19. MH Choese Steady; daisies, 1515 1-4; v twins, 13 i-4(gl3 1-2; young Americas. S 14 3-4 lfi; longhorns. 14 3-1 15. H Sugar and Coffee. Wn New York, Feb. 9. Raw Sugar H Firm; muscavado. 89 test. 2.9S; cen- W trlfugal, 9G test, 3.4S; molasses sugar, H SD test, 2.73, refined, steady. B Coffee Spot, weak; Rio, No. 7, H 12 1-4; No. 4 Santos, 12 7-S. 00 HE GOTCH DEFEATS AMERICUS. M KANSAS CITY. Feb. S Frank ' Gotch, World's champion wrestler, to j night wdn from Gus Schoenleln (Americus) in straight falls. The first fall came after 42 minutes and 23 sec m, onds, with a half-Nelson and crotch : hold and the second in 20 minutes 22 : seconds, with a toe hold. , WOMEN TO APPEAL TO ' MEN'S SENSE OF JUSTICE H San Francisco. Feb. 9. How suffra- , gists should fight was told yesterday j i i l i by a suffragist who has fought and won. Mrs. Goo. A. Smith of Seattle, who was one of the leaders in tho campaign in the state of Washington, said in an interview here that she be lieved in appealing to the sense ot justice in men rather thau in organiz ing distinctively women's movements. "If men are just," she said, "they will see that it is their duty to vote for suffrage. I am unalterably op posed to any woman's party or any oigauization that might bear any sem blance to such a party. "The primary aim and controlling motive of all real suffragists Is tho hettermen and uplift of humanity, and a woman's party would absolutely de feat such an object. "Women would gain nothing by aligning themselves against mon. Wo must work sldo by side with men in all lines of work to accomplish any real good with the ballot." 00 Body of a Woman Taken From Resting Place by Black Hand Erie, Pa , Feb. 9. Body snatching that may equal tho daring grave rob bery which stirred the country moro than a quarter of a" century ago, when tho body of A. T Stewart, New York's pioneer merchant, was stolen, has stirred this section as nothing has done since the senational kidnaplugs in this vicinity a few yenrs ago. The mausoleum of the late Con gressman W. L. Scott, in Erie county, was desecrated some time between Monday and yesterday afternoon and the body of Mrs McCollum, a sister-in-law of the late Mir. Scott, was taken. The police believe tho body Is be ing held for ransom by the Black Hand society and that tho vandals nlso Intended to carry away the bod ies of the millionaire and his wife. Tho discovery of the crime was made by two women. When the wom en, while walking in the cemetery, found broken chains and open doors in the mausoleum, they notified Mrs. Charles H. Strong, wbo is a daughter of Mr. Scott, and the wife of Charles H. Stroar, president of the Erie & Pittsburg railroad and owner of the Erie Dispatch, a morning newspaper. x The caskets were sealed in a wall, and a chisel had been used in break ing the seals before the metallic box could be carried away. This casket was the first on tho . lower tier at the north side of the mausoleum and directly opposite It on the second tier is the casket contain-' ing the body of Mrs. Scott, the wife of the millionaire who built the mau soleum. The seat on the nlcho containing j the casket of Mrs Scott was also broken and when the tomb was exam ined it was found that this casket was half way out, ready to bo carried . away. The remains of the million-1 aire were lying noxt to those of his wife, but his casket was not disturbed, j A number of palms stored In the mau- 1 soleum had been "DroKen down and 1 two other caskets wcie broken Into, but no attempt was made to carry either of them away. That the casket and the body was ( carried away In a wagon is indicated j by tracks in the snow about the mau- j soleums. The footprints showed six , men were concerned j The local police have notified the j police and morgue officials of cities , I within several hundred miles of this j place, but still maintain that the body I is held here for a ransom. Every j railroad and freight station is picket- j ad and' every avenue of outlet is j guarded. . 1 An Italian settlement near the cem I etery has become an object of scru I tiny by the police and every dwell- . ling is being searched from cellar to j garret. 1 The idea that the body of Mrs. Mc- Collum is being held for ransom, by 1 designing persons, is substantiated by an incident of two years ago, when the Strong family was stormed with 1 : Black Hand letters demanding $10,000 ! with the alternative of having their iuramcr home west of this city blown to atoms Some of the perpetrators , were subsequently apprehended and are now in a western penitentiary I serving sentences. Mrs. McCollum was a member of a prominent family of Philadelphia and . , her maiden name was Tracy. I William L. Scott, who built tho mau- , soleum over twenty years ago, was n ( close personal friend of the late Pres-' I ident Grover Cleveland and was ono of the leaders of the Democracy In the House of Representatives when Cleveland was serving his first term. Grover Cleveland was one of the pull- bearers at his funeral J Mrs, McCollum died In Philadelphia ' nearly twenty years ago. She was the wife of J. A. McCollum and daugh ter of John A. Tracy of this cll. The body was brought here and placed In , the Scott vault, which is located about , the middle of the cemetery and hid- t den from view from the street. On ' account of tho old weather recently, few perfcons have visited the cemetery ' and th robbers were free to work with llttl fear of being delected. 00 EVERY BONE IN BIS BODY BROKEN St Louis, Feb 9 Whirled around a shafting, which was revolving 2500 times a minute, Martin G Kuchncrl, 29 ! years old, yesterday was beaten to death against an oak beam. The ac cident occurred at the plant of a foundry company where Kucunert wia employed. Both feet were cut off and every bono In his body broken, Kuehnert was still allvo when tho machinery was stopped, but died a. J few minutes later. i Ipr pDJEll&fl Filthy, Decomposed Vegetable Subslances Are Used Chicago, Feb. 9. As the result of an investigation which has been conduct ed .under the direction of United Stntes District Attorney Sims, an in formation against three large manu facturers of ice cream was filed with Judge Kcnesaw M Laudis in. the Unit ed States district court and .bench warrants were Issued. The warrants are returnable today The government charges these con cerns with violation of the fedora I pure food law' In shipments of al leged impure ico cream from one state to another. The product so shipped In the in stances on which the information Is based Is declared to have "consisted In whole or in part of a filthy, de composed and putrid vegetable sub stance which renders the article unfit for food " According to the government at torneys, Dr. A. L. Winton, head of tho United States food laboratory, found as many as 50,000,000 bacteria In a cubic centimeter, approximately a quarter teaspoonful of the product. 00 They Have Given Up Ail idea of Attack- ing Juarez El Paso, Fob. 9. Gen. Orozco, Is reported by ymerican army officers, to hae left his camp across from, the smelter. He is retreating south. He is not strong enough to contest the way with avarrdvho is said to be within a day's march of Juarez j with S00 men. Blanco is said to bo at Uld Casus Grandes with 300 men where Orozco is bound. The offensive campaign of the rev olutionists has failed to all appear ances. From high insurrccto sources, It is learned that all thoughtt of at tacking Juarez has been abandoned. Orozco's plan failed because of tho non-arrival of sufficient ammunition and artillery. El Paso, Feb. 9. There was no fight .between Navarro and Blnnco as ru mored yesterday, acocrJing to offi-1 cials of the provisional government The latter claim to know tho exact whereabouts of General Blanco, but declined to make their knowledge pub lic. . Orozco and Rabago, the latter com manding the force of federals at Juar ez, were busy today strengthening thoir positions. Orozco, In the hills across from the smelter, extended his line of rifle pits, while the government soldiers placed bags of sand on the house tops of Juarez. The adobe buildings of Mexico are natural fortifications and effective against rifle bullets. The houses arc built exactly like inverted strawber ry boxes. The walls project a few feet above the flat roofs. Along the tops of these walls the sand bags are being placed. Tho rain troughs perforating the walls, serve excel lently as loop holes for sraallarm fire. The order against the use of cam etas was enforced against two Ameri-' cans at Juarez today. A. Prior, or Pierre, S D , and B. Panglo of Geneva, visited that city today to take pic tures. A guard removed the films from the cameras with a warning. Three insurgents, wounded a few days ago In fighting east of Ysleta, Texas, after throe days without food, reached Ysleta today on their way to this city for treatment. One had a wound in his chest, and the other j two in their arms NAVARRO SOUTH OF JUAREZ i 1 El Paso. Tex., Feb. 9. Unconfirmed ! reports that General Navarro, who is ' on his way from Chihuahua at the ' head of about 1,000 federal troops to ' relieve Juarez, had encamped at a point about ten miles south of that ! city, were tho only developments In the "war"situatinn acioss the border ' last night. I These reports were brought bv a ' brakoman of the Mexican Central" rail- road, who declared that he had re- ' turned from the south where the rail road had been ropalred sufficiently to permit two troop trains carrying Navarro's forces to reach a point" ten , miles below Juarez. No official con- 1 flrmatlou could be obtained. As far as known the insurreclo j forces under Orozco and Alanls, have made no change In their positions. ' Alanls was reported twolve mlloa east ' of Juarez yesterday. Orozco's foices'l are intrenched about three miles west j of Juarez. Juarez Is Safe. Washington, Feb. 9. Thos. A. Ed wards, American consul at Juarez, re- 1 1 I (Continued on Page Seven.) . 00 EMBEZZLER ESCAPES FROM COUNTY JAIL Marietta, Feb. 9. Edward A. Eplcr, former auditor of the Marietta. Co- lumbus & Cleveland ralhvny, who is charged with oinheazling $5,000 of the funds of the railroad, escaped from the county jail early today. George Bayless, arrested on a charge of big amy, escaped with Epler. Indications aro that both men were assisted to escape Tjy persons outside and n large reward has been offered for the cap ture of Epler. - J FEW CHINESE IN SCHOOL. I Washington, Feb. 9. The propor tion of tho population pf China at tending school is onolflfth of one pdr cent, according to statistics which have been forwarded to the state de apartment from the American consul at Amoy The total numbor of pub lic Bchools of all grades in the em pire is 35,000, with G4.000 Instruct ors and 870,000 pupils. The consul estimated the total population o China at -106,000,000 and he says thaU thero Is one primary school for every ' 11,873 people. Radium is to Take the Place of the World's Coal New York, Feb. 9. Scientists will soon solve the problem of the conser vation of the world's coal, according to Dr. A. II Bucherer, a professor of physics in the University of Bonn, Germany, who Is In this country for a scries of lectures before scientific bodies. Radium, Dr. Bucherer be lieves, will supersede coal as the source of the world's energy and heat. "Some men of gTeat imaginative power," said Dr. Bucherer, "have de scribed the situation when, deprived of its sources of heat and energy, tho human race will gradually dlo out from cold and when on the earth's surface conditions will obtain similar to those on the face of the moon. But In radium scientists have found an energy which surpasses, by more than a million times, anything that can be supplied by tho combustion of nny known fuel The unlocking of this energy is only .1 question of time "Scientists all over the world are deoting their efforts to solve the pioblems presented and one of these days tliey will be successful. There is no doubt that tho world.has learn ed "more about physics and" chemistry in the nine years since radium was discovered than it learned in tho thousand years before. OLD MAID LEFT A LARGE FORTUNE New Mllford,Conn., Feb. 9 Living the life of a recluse for cars and seemingly almost destitute, Miss Em ma Williams, who died . recently at tho age of 70, left an estate, which has been appraised by the surrogate here at $31,000, a, greater portion of this being In cash. Of the money. $5,000 was found secreted In the house in which she lived and a portion of this (was so decayed that It has been sent to the United States treasury for redemption. "Old Maid Williams," as she was known, died while sitting in a chair and her body was not discovered for forty-eight hours afterward. uu NEGRO MURDERER OF RANDLE ARRESTED CHEROKEE, Okla., Feb. 8. Louis Spellman, a negro porter, and another negro called "Slick" wero arrested to day In connection with the murder or Carl Randlo at Anthony, Kan., last night. The negroes aro now being taken back to Anthony, where a posse is searching for Randle's slayer. LLynehlng is threatened. Raudle, an auto dealer, was found dead In a barber shop In Anthony. His head was crushed. Deside him lay a bloody ball bat. Ho was last seen alive in company with a negro. rr STATE DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE. Salt Lake, Feb. 9. Preliminary plnns for forming a slate development league under the direction of tho Salt Lako Commercial club are assuming tangible form in the receipt of nccep tnnces of invitations sent to the vari ous commercial bodies of the state. Indirectly, word has been received from a number of the clubs giving as surance that representatives will be at the convention next Tuesday and Wednesday, Februury 1-1 and 15. Among the clubs that will be repre sented according to letters received Wednesday are the following- Sallna, delegates, E. F. Peterson and A. J. Lewis; Weber club, Ogden, delegates, F. M. Driggs, vice president, and Dr II. M. Rowc; Logan, Commercial Boosters' club, delegates, H, G. Nebc kcr and HIrschel Bullen, jr ; Tooele, delegate, Charles R. McBrlde. Among the other clubs acceptances have been received from Sprlngville, Provo, Ne plii, Spanish Fork, Pnyson, Ephraim and Manti. Invitations to assist in tho organiza tion of the loamic havo been sent to George S. McAllister and t. F. Collctt, president and secretary respectively of tho Manufacturers' association of Ulnh, and 'George M. Cannon and J. L. Perkos, resident and secretary re spectively of ho Real Estate associa tion of Salt Lake. Delegates will bo named from the Commercial club nnd publicity bureau of the Commercial club. EXPERIENCING BAD WEATHER. CALGARY, Alberta, Canada, Feb. S. There are rumors of one of tho worst snowslldus in the history of the Can adian Pacific railroad KatGlncier, B. C. It Is not known whether nriy trans continental trains were caught or if any lives wore lost, , Pursued Highwayman Ran Into a Police Station New York, Feb 9. Eight policemen we're required to protect a would-be highwayman from violence at the hands of a man whom he attempted ' to hold up nnd rob at Jamaica, L. I., I late" last night. Lawrence Lavin, a J coal denier, was the man who turned j the "tables on tho highwayman. Ho was entering his home when ho was , felled by a blow on the back of the hgad. He was unconscious for a mom- J ort,t and when he came to his senses 1 snw a burly man bending over him r'l had only a few lollars in my pockets," he explained later, "but 1 suddenly decided thnt I'd have to be.beaten to a frazzlo before I would give it up." He wrestled and fought with his assaTIant for a minute or two, then suddenly regained his feet and slug ged out with all his force in a right arm blow to thofellow's face. Tho highwayman turned and ran with Lav in in close pursuit For five blocks he kept up the chase. Then the highwayman saw an open door and dodged into it. It was the Jamaica police station. He ran into tho armB of a six-foot Heutonnnt. "Get your gun quick," ho urged to thd bluecoat. "They aro after mo. Get your gun, you'll need It," Then came Lavin in a frenzy of Indignation. Ho started for his as- 1 sallanL The policeman Interposod, ' but-tho attack was too strenuous and he pulled out his whistle, calling seven more officers from :in inner room. The services of all of them were re quired to restrain Lavin from wreak ing vengeance on his quarry. FAl mil J 1 ll f Lll U B B- HUH I Bm V Street CarGoesThrough Open Draw Bridge- Three Drowned i H Shebbygan," Wis., Feb. 9. Three persons were drowned this morning when a local street car went through an open drawbridge into tho Sheboy gan river. The drowned: , ' ANNA MATHER, aged 30. music teacher of Shoboygan Falls. m MISS OLGA WILLOMIGHT, a,?ed j IS, hotel waitress. .MISS VAN OWBRKIRK, Sheboygan Falls. These were the only passengers in side the car when it toppled into the river. Paul V. Elzold, a Milwaukee travel ing man, who was standing on the rear platform, escaped by Jumping be fore the car wont down. Motorman Thiene and Conductor Frank Welbor jumped from the car during Its descent and clung to the Ico until rescued. COUNT DE USSY TELLS HIS STORY 1 St Petersburg. Feb 9. Count Pat rick O'Brien De Lassy. who is ac cused of having hired Dr. Pnntechenko to poison Count Bourturlin, was fur ther examined by the prosecution to day, in his original confession, since repudiated, Pautochenko said he was under the hypnotic Influence of De Lassy when he killed the latter's brother-in-law. In his own defense, De Lassj has declared that ho was In no way connected with Bouturlln's death. He admits ho engaged Pan techenko to commit an act of malprac tice andsays the correspondence on I the subject was subsequently used by the doctor tp blackmnll him. De Lassy said he was not present when j the injections wero gjven Boutin lin by Pnntechenko, but visited tho pa- j tlent on the sumo day. He did not hear Bauturlin describe his sensations after the treatmont by Pantcchenko aud asked no questions, as the matter had no intorest for him. He had vis ited the doctor's office on the day of the autopsy to destroy evidences of his association with Pantcchenko. If tho latter really injected toxino In treating Bouturlln, the defendant did not know what the motives of the poisoner were rf FUGITIVE IS AT ' -LAST AT LIBERTY Leavenworth, Kan., Fob. 9 Julius P McDonough, a fugitive paroled pris oner from England, was released from the federal prison hero fodny. McDonough "killed, a woman on tho Isle of Malta, was gjvtfn a life sen tonco In English courts, served ten. years, was paroled and violated hjs" parole Coming to this country, 11c enlisted in the United States army. Recognized by a fellow Englishman, he stabbed the man with a bayonet to keep him quiet. For this he was imprisoned hero February 15, 1901. 1 nn INVESTIGATION WILL LEAD TO LEGISLATION IN ILLINOIS Chicago, Feb. 9. Tho state senate commission has concluded its lnvestl- gat!on Into the garment workers' strike which was called off laat Mon- day. The strike lasted four months and involved about 40,000 workers. State's Attorney E. W. Waymnn , yesterday refused to take the evidence gathered by the senate committee for prsentatlon to the grand jury. He could not see, he said, where there had been any violation of the law Senator llenson, chairman of the com mission, said the evidence would be used to frame legislation aimed at the abolishing of a blacklisting agency al leged to he maintained by tho clothing t manufactuiers. j uu ILLINOIS CENTRAL ATTORNEY. Chicago, Feb. 9. Robert V. Fletch er of Jackson, Miss., has been appoint ed general attorney for the Illinois ' Central railroad with headquarters In I Chicago. 00 Surgeon is Condemned to Die Within A Year New York, Feb. 9. Striok'en somo time ngo with an obscure 'abdominal ailment, Dr. W. L. Mulcahy, a Brook lyn surgeon, submitted a declaration of the symptoms of his case to the staff of SL Joseph's hospital. He sub mitted them, however, as symptoms present in the case of one of his patients. To tho surprise and alarm of the surgeon, the other medical men announced that the symptoms wero those of an advanced ca60 of renal tuberculosis. "And the chances of recovery?" asked Dr. Mulcahy, still hiding tho Identity of the patient. "The man will die within a year," was tho vordict of the hospital staff. "I am the man whose doom you have pronounced." said Dr. Mulcahy, He immediately went to bod In a hospital and a major operation will be per formed in an effort to prolong his life. ANOTHER GUNBOAT ON A MYSTERIOUS MIS8JON Norfolk, Vn., Feb. 6. With Blue fields, Jlcaragjua, glveuna-herdos-tinatlon, tho gunboat Sirep, formerly owned by the United States govern ment, secured clearance papers yes terday after application to bo regis tered under the Nlcaraguan flag had been made. I The Siren was reported several days ago as having sailed for Hon duran waters. (Tho little craft started south through the canal, but returned for extensive repairs. Hor captain declined to say where the Siren was going or to talg about her mission. It is reported that the Siren, pur chased by the same parties who bought tho gunboat Hornet, has been sold to the Nlcaraguan government. oc WOMAN DIES ATJH) YEARS Los Angeles. Calif, Fob. 9. Within four months of her centonary. Mrs. Rebecca Spring, mother of Steele MncKayc, the dramatist, and friend of most of the literary celebrities of nild Yictorian days, died at her home yes terday. She had been 111 only a week and almost up to the hour of the pass ing, retained remarkable mental vigor. Mrs. Spring was the daughter of Arnold Bussen, a prominent anti-slavery leader and friend of Wm, Lloyd Garrison, and was born In Providence, R? I.. In 1811. Upon the occasion of hei last birth day. Mrs. Spring appeared at the house of the Friday Morning club nnd recited an entire chaptor from the Bi ble as well as sovernl poems of Long fellow. At the celebration of her 9Sth birth day, she presented a play written by herself and appeared In the leading part, supported by a grandson and great grandson. 00 SKYSCRAPER FOR j CITY OF SEATTLE 1 Seattlo, Fob. 9. The last obsLtele la the way of the erection of a fortj-one story building in tills city by the es tate" of tho late L. C. Smith of Sjra cusp, N. Y., was removed last night when the council committee that has been going ovor the plans, voted to ginnt the permit. Tho committee's action will bo ratified by the council next Monday nisht. ' The local agent for the Smith es lato informed the committee that tho skvscraper, which will bo tho highost office building In tho world outside of Now York, will bo begun within the next six weeks. 4- 4- 4- " DEAD MAN APPEARS - .IN PROBATE COURT N Scdalia, Mo., Feb. 9. Just as -f -f- a suit to partition tho cstate,,,of 4- Thomas L. Prirum, a farrifer who disappeared from near f- here twenty yenrs ago. was called in the ciicult court Here yesterday, Prlmm entered the 4- room. Ho snld he had been living 4- at Plummcrvllle, Ark., Blnco he 4- 4- left home. Ho willingly told all 4- 4- about his life since he desert- 4- 4 ed his family, but why he left 4- f he would not say. . 4- 4-4-4-4-4-4--r4 4- 4-4-4- -r- LUMINOUS United States Army Exr perimented With Them Years Ago New York, Feb. 9. Rifle bullets which throw off a brilliant light as they travel through the air and which are being hallod In Germany as a rev olutionary military Invention, are no novelty to American army men. They were first experimented with many years ago by the United States gov ernment, according to statements by officers stationed here, A New York Inventor is credited with having first proposed and developed these so called "rocket bullets." Hudson Maxim, the oidnance and exjiloslve export, tells about the Am erican experiments along this line in a statement given out here. "The war department," he says, "used projectiles of this kind in a long series of tests about seven years ago. One of the most successful de vices was a large cannon projectile which produced a brilliant light dur ing its flight,' The consensus of opin ion, however, was that the bullets would be more useful to the enemy In locating the spot whence the bul lets wore fired than they would be to the foice employing them. It was suggested that If all nations were obliged to uso nothing except luminous bullets, it would be a great step in the direction of universal peace.' 00 WITH TAFT Indiana Senator Vigor ously Supports Reci procity Agreement Washington, Fob. 9. The first gun in the battle over the Canadian reci procity was fired in the Senate today. Senator Bcveridge of Indiana, an in surgent, was the marksman and ho lined up on the, side of "the adminis tration. He did not make a pretense of representing others of the progres sive republican camp. Mr. Beverldge welcomed the com pact as the first concrete evidence of tho establishment of such relations with Canada as he thought the United I States should maintain with a coun 1 trv so closely adjoined physically and with a people so Intimately allied with Americans In kinship and Interest. Contending for the Importance of tho principle Involved, he urged the ne cessity for prompt and decided action. "Shall the United Stales and Can j ada begin the policy of mutual trade ' concessions and commercial friendli ness, or shall we make permanent the policy of trade obstruction and com mercial hostility between tho coun tries?" Thus asking, Mr. Beverid? said these were the real questions which must be answered in dealing with the reciprocal agreement. He continued: "If some think that the agreement is not good because of the treatmeut of a few articles, the answer Is that even if this objection Is sound as o those few details, yot It is negligible when compared with the Importance or getting this great national policy established. "If the' agreement is enacted into law, and proves beneficial to the na tion as a whole, it Is certain to be ex tended as time goes on and as the two peoples experience its good ef fects. If, on the other hand, It should prove harmful tn the nation as a whole, It could be repealed quickly. ( Every element of the situation is an unanswerable argument for intimate trade relations with Canada. These olmcnts are peculiar Tnoy exist onb , and exclusively as to Canada and the ; United States." I Iu conclusion, Mr. Beverldge said: I "We do not need to protect our 1 people from the Canadian people What wo need is to make it easier for Canada to buy freely from us tho things she needs and that we produce. What we need Is to make it easy for our people to buv fiom Canada those thincs which our people need Instead of making it hard for them to do so " 00 HEAVY W0M ON PANAMA CANAL Washington. Feb. 9 Colonel Goe thals, chief engineer of the Panama canal, put In a good month s work on, the canal before he left for Wash ington. The cabled reports of the act ing chief engineer aL Pauama, just re ceived, shows that the total excava tion for January was 2,772,170 cubic yards, against L'.-tiS.OST cubic yards In December, although that month had one more working day than January. The canal diggers, however, wore fa vored bv better weather In January, us the total rainfall for that month was ,o4 Inch, against 11.13 Inches for December. On tho other hand, the conoroto work showed- a falling off, 137,960 cu bic vards being laid In January, a,galnst J50.17G yards in December. The engineers showed another gain, however, In placing earth In the great dams nnd locks, 544.GL0 cubic yards of filling being done In January against 520.G01 yards in December, New York, Feb. 9. Captain David N. Scrlbner, for thirty years the ekip- aS per of fast dinner om IeS tween San TZJ1- ports. -is -dead at hu w? JananeBe m island. He retired I frJKhl011 Staten i 11 a ,Bnug fortune, we TK? f? "1U H 90's and came 'to NS? to" tho )H He was a member of rmm !, llve- if ganlzaUons and. a truff V, or' MM or's Snug Harbor, on of X' ?a,U B est seamen's homeIn ftl- S - -on '1 FIRST PLACE TO f . HI HAVEJLECTRICIQHTS ' ill Roselle, !K. J., Feb j-jr-. r 'flflM momofate the fact that RoaeUo wS - MlM the first place In the United State- l 9 to use Incandescent lights In a build. ' l'l ing. a statue is to be ereoted'herfi of 1- (M Thomas A Edison. BdtaoToSS H4 a plant In this borough, and he WeS M out the incandescent light In the Firat 1 J Presbyterian chureh. 6 1 ,-jjl RECIPROCITY 1 ISFpED 1 j New York Board of i Trade Is For the 1 Agreement ' l is ' 1 Now York, Feb. 9. The"New York l' Board of Trade has given the Canad- ' I ian reciprocity agreement its Indorse- J merit by a unanimous vote. The res- I olutlon adopted by the board is aa 1 follows; B "Resolved, That the New York P Board of Trade and Transportation most cordially approves the 'proposl- 1 Hon for the negotiation of treaty be- I tween the Dominion .of, Ganada and I the United States to romote the re- clprocal trade relations between Jhese fl two countries and .respectfully peU- Hi tlons tho United States 'senate to ap- 11 prove such action and the congress U to enact such legislation as will pro- I mote reciprocal trade rolations." I Accompanying the announcement of H tho board's action was the following I statement by "William Gibson, -vice fl president of tho organization: II S'We already have a rvery,large trade M with Canada. It "amounts to more 1 than $200,000,000 a year 'and "WeT he- I Hove to bring about on increase in 1 that trado concessions on both sides I are worth while. 1 -'-'AB-far-nB-tMs-countns-conccrnerl t 1 in the matter of prain, so long as we j arc exporting a surplus, it-seems that . I the price Js decliteopoa in foreign j I markotfl and we cannot be harmed. In Tb the matter of the free importation ot L wood pulp,, our laborers and. manu- K facturers would ho benefited, while " wc bellove thai with the recent high J prices of lumber, free lumber from j Canada will not be detrimental to tho Interests of the country at large. Generally speaking, the proposals mndo seem to be very satisfactory." Oppose Reciprocity. Nelson, B. C, Feb. 9. Resolutions j protesting that duties on ranch prod ucts and fruit should not be removed unless the duties on articles used by the ranchers were also removed, wero passed by a mass meeting of fruit . growers here yesterday. The resolu- f tlons recite that the reciprocity agree- ' ment between the United rStatos and j Canada of fruits coming in competi tion with the products of tho ranch- j ers, but makes no provision for a re- ductlon on those things the ranchers Vj I buy. ., , MV ! Speakers at the mass meeting said I . the competition of Washington and I Oregon fruit growers would seriously affect the British Columbia fruit grow- i ing interests if the reciprocity agreo- , I . ment was adopted. iWBITEUW REID'S ! ROOM BURGLARIZED i San Francisco, Feb. 9. -Whltelavf Eltfl Reld, American ambassador to Great ' kJj Britain, who 16 spending a vaction at H the estate of his late father-in-law, , l ' D. O. Mills, near hero, was made tho fc victom ot a burglary late Tuesday 4 I night. The police of San Mateo coun- ' in ty searched throughout yesterday for j Ji the thief, but without avail. tAr. Footprints in the garden and W: through the house indicate that tho ,, robber climbed to the second floor by a back window and made his way to fflr a bedroom occupied till recently by Tir Mrs Reld. lie seemed to be familiar f with the household arrangemonts. a Finding Mrs. Reld's room empty, he B went to tho ambassador's sleeping M apartments, and was rewarded with JB much valuable loot. Including a Swiss watch worth $500, eleven stick pins, m most of thorn set with rubles and fc pearls, and a pair of gold cuff but- MB tons. He was evidently hurried, for fit Jewelry of greater value "was left. j UNION OF METHODIST tjOj EPISCOPAL CHURCH J t Chicago. Fob. 9. Union of tho J Methodist Episcopal church and trie. l Methodist Episcopal Church South was urged strongly yesterday by John l A. Patton of Chattanooga, Tenn., H chairman of tho book committee ot l tho Methodist Episcopal ohurcb, whica it mot for Its initial session. TJ "There is no reason." Mr. Patton j said, "why there should bo more than t ono Mothodist church in America to-. s day." . , The split In tho church occurred In 1S44 over tho question of slavery ana 5j Mr, Patten insisted that church load- . 1 ors above und below Mason nnd Dix- j m on's lino bollcvo tho time has come Tg when the breach between the sec-j II tlons can be healed permanently. , ifl Tho spirit of union found expres- jg slon lator In tho day, when it was decided the publishing house located W in New York, Cincinnati and Chicago,) ja should hereafter be incorporated un-i jg der one name and bo knownas tfio,; Rj Methodist Book Concern, .- . CT