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l 2 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING-, DECEMBER 31, 1907. f
II This result wns hrought ahout not only
y by tho enormous oxpaiiHion of businoss
I plnnts ami business Investment which.
H ouId not be ronillly convoried. but aluo
I by :ho wnsto of cnnlt.il In exti nvivganco
i of living ami by tho Spanish vni tho
I Boer war nml the rUisslan-.Taprwiouo war,
B, Jiiul In sut'li catnstrophos an Baltimore
1 1 funl San Irinnelsco. It became Impossible
1 1 Tor tho soundont railroads and othtir enfer-
I prises to borrow niormy for new construe-
tlon or reconstruction. The condition
wnc not conflnoil lo this country, but cx-
) tondod tho world ovor. and wns mndo
I miuilfcst In tho countries of Europo even
I before it wan foR here. Secondly, the
1 1 conclusion cuunnt bo avoided that tho
I revelations of Irregularity, breaches of
I trust, stock Jobbing, ovor-lssuos of stock,
1 1 vlolutlon.v of laws and la.de of rigid state
or national suporvtalon In tho miiniiffo-
ment of aomo of our lnrgcst Insurance
I companies, rnctlon companies and finan
cial corporations, shocked Investors and
mode then: withhold what Ilttlo loanable
I capital remained available. Such dis
closures and much more olYoct probably
j abroad ;hMi thoy had hero, becaueo hero
v.'c 'cre able to inako distinctions, while
( there, at a remote distance the revela-
I Hons croated dlslrusl in our whelo busi
ness fabi lc.
When, therefore, Lwo or threo iuslitu
1 Hons, bnnkt; nnd trust companies sup-
pot-oil to be solid, were found to have
their capital Unpaired by stock Jobbing
of thou officers, the public was easily
frlshtcnml and the run upon banks be
v K'a'. The question then became not one
of loanable capital, but of actual money
lo bo In the transaction of tho day
a very ilrcrent question, though, of
course, -closely rclutcd.
It would seem that our pystem of cur
rency not arranged so as to pormil Its
voluno to bo Increased temporarily to
( counteract the sudden drain of money
i bv tli- hoard In? In u panic. It Is prob-
nl e hat the stringency which reached
I Its height thai dark day of October 2-1.
u ijrlil in part havo been alleviated had
l vp had a currency which could automnt-
( kill' enlarge Itself to meet tho tro-
i 5111.1 'uo demand of a day or a week or
. ujo.nth while public confidence was
' bciiii; -slord. The national odmlnistra-
ti mi. I'ipolhor with many of tho lanie
I capi tal 'is or .now lone ana cisewnore.
put tholr shoulders under the load and
by ADrlous devices of nn unosnal cliar
a:(dfT havo brought about tho present
(oniJlHon of gradually Increasing conll
JotiSc. t- Will Not Bo Prolonged.
Tho injurious consequences to follow
from this panic are not likely to bft so
lonj- drawn out or to result In such die
jstrouii Imlostrial depression an the punlc
of S0r or the panic of 1S7S. and this for
the icosou that the condition of tho
country ninks It so much easier to re
sume bneineas gradually, to accumulate
capital and then to renew the enterprises
which hud to be abandoned for lack of
it. In lh flrst. place wo have a solid
currency with no suggestion now of a
departure from the gold standard. In
1S93 the pressure for free silver was on.
nnd tho threat of national repudiation
lad much to do with the delny In tho
return to prosperous times. Our govern
ment llnancs now nre In excellent con
dition and we have a larger surplus. Our
farming communities in tho West today
are not under tho weight of mortgages
and of debt which distressed them,, m
lc03 and 1S73. They are prosperous and
wealthy.
Again, t lie Railroads, which make up a
large jari of' the wealth of this country,
are on a much sollder foundation than
they wore In 1S03. Then many of thorp
It nan to do inaen into tne nanus 01 re
ceivers and Immense amounts expended
by means of receivers' certificates dis
placing and destroying the valu.; of vest
ed securities In order to put roads in a
eafc and Income-earning condition. The
railroads today are In a better physical
condition than they have ever been In
tholr history before. Hut few of them
liavc recently been built Into new terri
tory. In which business has to be cre
I ated by introducing a new poplatlon.
Again, the balanco of trade Is with us.
, "Wo arc about to settle for the hundred
i millions of gold that we withdrew from
Europe in order to meet the demand for
money in Ihe markets in New York, by
the excess of our exports over our im
ports in tho single month of October.
All these things point to the probability
of a restoration of confidence, and after
a proper liquidation and an industrial
depression of some months, to a resump
tion of business on a normal basis.
Defends Administration.
I The agents and sympathizers and de
fenders of tho trusts and others, innocent,
I but mistaken, now rush forward to place
the blame of the present conditions upon
tho Administration. Thoy seek to use
the panic as an argument for giving up
the moral victory which has been won.
, Apparently, they would tako a retrograde
step back to the conditions which existed
five or six and ten years ago, which, un
hampered by State law, these trusts were
building the financial bulwarks behind
which they are now lighting They rely
upon the soreness and mental strain and
suffering through which all the honest
business men of the community had to
pass after a golden opportunity for driv
ing home their attacks upon tho Admin
istration and paralyzing the onward
movement toward tho supremacy of the
law.
I have set forth what I bellevo to be the
real explanation of the panic Let us
examine the specifications of our oppo
nents now. made to show that the Ad
ministration is responsible. In the first
place. It Is said that the policy of the
Administration has been directed for the
last four years against organised capital
and that It has thereby frightened inves
tors. I deny it. Tho courso of the Ad
ministration "lias been directed against
such organized capital as was violating
the statutes of the United States and no
others. It had every consideration and
desire to assl.it organized capital which
wan engaged In legitimate business. It Is
true that tho execution of the policy of
the Administration hna Involved the bring
ing to tho light of public criticism tho
violation of the law by Influential and
powerful corporations, and their prosecu
tion Through the Investigation of Na
tional vod State tribunals there have been
revoVud. as I have sold, breaches of
trusta. stock jobbing, overissue of stocks
and mismnnagomont in some of our larg
est corporations. Thoy have properly been
pevirely condemned by all, Including the
Who Are Guilty?
Knowledge of these things doubtloss af
fetcd our credit In Europe and hastened
the panic: but those Who are morally
re-rponnlble for such a result are tho
guilty managers, not those who. In the
course of their official duty, have made
known lo the buijlnens world the facta and
commented on them.
It i? said that tho Administration has
arraigned the whole business community
s? dishonest. T deny It.
Th. President has condemned the law
brenkoro. He has convinced those who
l.sve unlawfully accumulated enormous
pov-:r.i and capital that they are not im
mune. He has put the fear of the law
In their heart-". They have been acute
enough to attempt to protect themselves
by giving the impression that his action
h:is been directed against tho whole busl
iBs community. It la true that the
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sound. Tho President has never said
otherwise. Indeed, It Is chiefly In the In
torost of the groat body of honest busi
ness men that ho has made his light for
lawrul business methods.
Again, it Is said that tho rate bill, for
which the Administration is responsible,
caused the prosont panic. Could anything
bo more absurd? The object of tho rate
bill wa merely to bring tho railroads un
der closer supervision of a tribunal which
could act upon complaints of Individuals
suffering from tholr Injustice. Tho im
mediate effect of Its passago was the vol
untary reduction of rates. Subsequently,
under normal circumstances Justifying It,
tho rates of tho railways generally were
increased. Tho continuance of tho abuses
of the railway management woro mndo by
the rate bill much more difficult; but tho
rate bill has .not had tho slightest offect
upon the legitimate business oarnlngB of
tho railways. Tho utter hollowhes3 In the
cry that the rate bill caused tho panic is
seen in tho fact that those who now ven
ture to advanco this proposition hnvo
boon for more than a year contending1 that
the rato bill wns a humbug and a fraud,
because It had no effect whatever bo
cause It had given promise of a reduction
of rritos and no reduction of rates fol
lowed. Then State legislation against railroads
is pointed to ,ib u causo for shrinkage
in tho value of the stocks and for the
panic. Mr. Roosevelt and tho national
Administration arc not responsible for
this. It was occasioned by tho samo re
lations of lawlessness and discrimination
In railway management that made tho.
Federal rate bill a necessity. If tho Stato
measures have been too drastic, tho cause
of the Injustice is not with tho national
Government. '
Upholds National Policy.
Instead of making a panic, tho national
policy of ending tho lawlessness of cor
porations In Interstate commerce unci of
taking away their power of Issuing, with
out supervision, stocks and bonds, will
produce a change In their management
and remove one fruitful causo for loss of
publlo confidence.
The business men, In the past, have
syinpawnzca wuu mo criort to eradicate
from the business system of this country
the Influence and control of those who
havo achloved success by Illegal methods.
Is all this to be changed by the panic?
Is it proposed, because of It. to repeal tho
rate bill? Shall we dismiss tho prosecu
tions for violations of the anti-trust law?
Shall wo permit nnd encourngo rcbotes
and discriminations by railways? Is this
the condition of sanity to which wo nro
invited to return? Shall we JoUi In tho
sneer at the fight of tho Administration
for honesty and legality in busings as a
youthful attempt at an alleged mral re
generation of our business systom? No
panfc, however severe, can make wrong
right. No man who sincerely believed tho
Administration right In Its measures to
punish violations of tho law, can now bo
turned from tho earnest support of that
policy todaj .
I bellevo myself to bo as conservative
as any one within this company. I be
lieve that in connection with personal
liberty, tho right of personal property Is
tho basis of nil our material progress In
tho development of mankind and that
any chango In our social and political
system which impairs tho right of private
property and matorlally diminishes the
motive for the accumulation of capital
by the individual as a blow at our wholo
civilization. Uut no ono can have been
an observer of the operation of tho ex-
accumulation of capital and lis use In
business by tho Individual and tho com
bination of capital by tho combination
of individuals without seeing that there
are certain limitations upon the methods
In the use of capital and tho exorcise of
tho right of property that are Indispen
sable to prevent the absolute control of
the whole financial system of tho country
passing to a smnll oligarchy of individ
uals. Combinations Essential.
'The combination of capital Is just as
essential to progress as the assembling
of parts of a machine; and hence, cor
porations, however large, are Instruments
of progress. But when they seek to use
the mere size or amount of the capital
which they control Uo monopolize tho
business In which they are engaged and
to suppress competition by methods akin
to duress, they should be restrained by
law.
Again. I am earnestly opposed (o the
Government ownership of tne interstate
railways that are the arterial system of
this country. Those railways should con
tinue to be munnged by private corpora
tions. Government ownership of rail
ways means State socialism, nn increase I
In the power of the Central Government 1
that would be dangerous. It would be
a long step away from the individualism
which it is necessary to retain In order
to mako real progress. But no one could
defend a railway system In which the
unlawful discriminations by secret re
bates and otherwise were practically
without limit Id the Interest of the
trusts and against the ordinary shippers.
These abuses can only bo reached and
ended by closely rogulatlng tho railways
and putting them under the tribunal
which can insist upon publicity of busi
ness and in cases of complaint can di
rect Ihe exact remedy for the wrong.
Vlf the abuse of monopoly and discrim
ination cannot bo restrained, If the con
centration of power made posslblo bv
j such abuses continues and increases nnd
it is made manifest that under the sys
tem of Individualism and private prop
erty the tyranny and oppression of an
oligarchy of wealth cannot be avoided,
then socialism will triumph and the In
stitution of private property will porlsh.
Socialism Checked.
The Administration has been thus far !
successful in showing tlrat dangers from
individualism can bo cffectlvolv regulated,
and that abuses In the exercise of private '
property can be restrained. Thus a groat
conservative victory has been won nnd
the coming of socialism has ben staved.
Tho question which you have ultimate
ly to meet Is not whether we shall re
turn to a condition of unregulated rail
ways and unregulated trusts, but it Is
whether we shall maintain a strict svs
lem on regulation of railways and trusts
or whether we shall turn the country
over lo the advocates of Government
ownership apd Stato socialism. Any ono
who' seeks a retrograde step from the
policy of the Administration on the the
ory that it would be a real step toward
conservatism. Is blind to every political
sign of the times.
If one attempt to fix thn center of tho
conservatism of the country, he is llkelv
to fix It in Now England. If he Is seek
ing the community where appeals to
righteousness and Justice awaken a re
sponse, he will find it In Now England.
Hence it s that I havo ventured at this
time and under tho circumstances I have
described to discuss the political nspectss
of this panic, and lo appeal to you,
whether Democrats or Republicans, not
to allow an acute condition involving pe
cuniary loss and mental strain, serious
as It Is, to load you from a broad, im
partial. Just and patriotic view of the
situation.
GIVES POLICEMAN $5
FOR FORD RELIEF FUND
Police Oiiiccr Griffith was acr.usteu on
tho street lM"onday and proil'ercd $5,
v.ith a noto, which explained that the
sum was to be applied to tho fund be
ing collected for tho relief of the widow
i and children of Officer Charles Ford,
! who was killed, it is supposed, by Sul
I hvun and Garcia, following tho holdup
of the Albany bar, December 15. Tho
j noto was as follows:
j "1, as a loynl citizen of Salt Lake
Cit-, inclose $5 for the benefit of ihe
bereaved and orphan children of Po
liceman Charles H. Ford, and sincerely
I hope and trust yiat every loval citi
j zen of Salt LakevCity will donate a
similar amount to this ;juat cause.
! "While we ware lyiug iu our beds
asleep, these officers of tho law arc pro
tecting our property and families, while
our dear onus are left at home, and wo
j know naiicht of tho sufferings of these"
mcu standing around tho cornors while
we should protect thorn, and I trust
that evory one will come forth in a
liberal way.
'A NEWCOMER."
SALT LAKE TO BLOW
IIGiffllHO1 118
Carnival on Streets Will Mark
Dirth of New and Prom
ising Year.
WATCH PARTIES WILL
ATTRACT HUNDREDS
People of Zion to Participate in
Unique Festival Ending
Old Year.
Salt Lake will be tho scene New
Year's ovc of a small-sized Mardi
Gras.
Tho year 1903 will be welcomed with
a noiso which will echo through the
darkness for miles. When tho inexora
ble hand of limo poiuts to 12 o'clock,
midnight, great fins will boom forth
for the nicssatro of the birth of the
new year, fireworks will explode, whis.
tles will blow and thousands of horns
in tho hands of thousands, young and
old. will add to tho mighty din that
will welcome the child ot time.
And rovorcnt voices will bo heard
above i ho clang and clamor of the
streets, offering thanks to tho Creator
for the blessings of tho old year and
supplicating for a merciful Providence
during tho ensuing twolvemonlh.
It is expected thnt Salt Lake's ob
servance of New Year's eve will bo
the most thorough over seen and a cere
mony that will offer all iho deviltry
nnd fun of a carnival togethor with
the more serious services for the de
vout in houses of worship.
Carnival on Streets.
The scene on the streets from early
evening until far into the short hours
of tho dawn will be one of utmost rev
clrv. Taken as a wholo the promised
pleasantry will be a sort of public
masouerade. A rollicking, .ioy-secking,
devil-may-care throng will tax tho
width o( the sidewalks. The aged will
come out to viow a younger generation
enjoying the fun thoy once knew.
Youths nnd misses will be there;
twnins, young in conjugal life, and the
over-present and irrenrcssiblo small
boy. Every being will have a horn
of' some kind and the people of Salt
Lake will hear a mighty toot of extra
ordinary continuity rolling that Zion
has safply, successfully aud happil3'
passed another year.
Mixed with the throng will be clowns
and buffoons: some will wear dominoes,
some will revivo the atmosphere of tho
the garb of revolutionary times. Seem-
iugly endless streamers will float i
through space over the heads of the
crowd; confetti will be showered upon J
everyone, and there will ever bo some
courtly and chivalrous young man, with
a whisk broom or a feather duster, to
remove the evidences of an encounter
from the waist of an attractive miss.
The "rough stuff." so to speak, will be
absolutely "cut out.'' There will be
much latitude allowed, but the crowd
will be bent only on the purest fun, and
no rowdyism or indecorous conduct will
be tolerated.
Watch Parties.
Few people will be asleep at mid
night. Special services will be held at
various devotional institutions of Salt.
Lake. At a number of the hotels and
most of the cafes and restaurants spe
cial musical prosrammes and menus
have been provided for the occasion.
Hundreds of families have invitod
friends to come and participate in
watch parlies in the homes.
It will be a gala night in tho down
town eating places. Orchestras will
play selections which luro one to Bo
hemia, intermezzos, having tho seduc-
t tive rhythm of oriental pastorals,
waltzes that send the mind reeling and
the spirits ascendant. Voices will ring
j out In collogo songs apd some of tho
older compositions which will recall
when the days were voting. And, occa
sionally, patrons will pause between
bites to blow a wee horn and add to
the air of festivity.
In tho homes Salt Lakers will sit in
the dickering light of the grate or the
roar of the gas log and toll ghost
stories or recount talcs that bear equal
ly on tho liucanny and supernatural.
Sonic will spend the evening at cards,
others at games and music. Altogether
the city will end 1907 as befits the birth
of the new year.
PHYSICIANS OPEN THEIR
CONVENTION AT PR0Y0
Tho Third Councilor Medical society Is
now In sfsion at Provo. It opened IMon
day and will last until Wednesday. The
J3rovo Commercial club tendered the
visitors a reception Monday, nt which .1.
II. Frlsby, Mayor, and C. I- Decker. Mayor-elect,
made short addresses of wel
come. Drs. II. D. Nlleo, president of tho
State Medical association, and F Cllft,
president of the District Medical noclety.
responded. Among , those who will read
papera and take part in the discussions
nr: Dr. 1 1. D. NIIps, Dr. C G. Plummer.
.ludgo J. K. Booth, Dr. R. G. Gowans,
Dr. V. Cllft, Dr. II. LoMottc. Dr. K. M.
Conroy. Dr. Fred E. Clark. Dr. D. II.
Caldcr. Dr. Joseph II. Slaler, Dr. David
Wcstwood, Dr. J. F. McGregor, Gov,
John C Cutler. Dr. A. J. Stowart. Dr.
'George M. Brimhall. Dr. .1. M. Henry.
Dr. J W. Alrd, Prof. L. E. ISggertson,
Prof. W. S. Rawlins. Dr. J Nolce, Dr.
13, K. Hinkley, Dr. Gcorso K. ftoblnson.
Dr O. IC Hansen. Dr J. K Hosmer, Dr.
W. V. Wood ring and Dr. W. T. Haslcr.
(Established 1S79.)
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SAFE AND SOUND
IN SPITE OF PANIC
Continued from Pago Ono.
for November. Exports of merchandise
on tho other hand which had been as
low as $127,270,447 in August, advanecd
to $380,250,085 in October and $20-1,-'1-M,3G0
in November.
Incrca&a in Dopoaits.
From other nourcos the volume of
currency in circulation wns swelled by
tho increaso of deposits of public uioncj'
in tho banks from .$181,700,053 011 Juno
,'SO. to $250,851,004 on Decombor 20.
This increase of about $7S,000,000 had
boon partly deposited in tho banks prior
to tho panic; but from these various
sources increase in bank noto circu
lation, $15,000,000 for gold, imports
$.100,000,000 and public doposits $7S,
000,000 a total fund of about $259,
000,000 was added by the close of the
year to the currency in circulation in
the country during the summer. Whilo
much of this currency disappeared into
hoards during tho panic, its reappear
ance in time of comparative inactivit3',
it is feared, may be reflected by spec
ulation on tne slock market and an out
ward niovoment of gold in tho spring.
One of tho incidents of tho period of
decline in bnnk reserves has been a fall
in the market value o silver bullion.
Silver has drifted down not far above
tho lowest point touched in its history,
which was 21, LUG penco in December,
1902, and January. 1000. While silver
has ceased to be the standard of valuo
during the last few years in Mexico,
tho Philippines, Panama and other
countries, tlic demand from commercial
countries for subsidiary coius has been
increased by the expansion of retail
trade. Tho" maximum prico of silver
iindor this influence was attained in
Novomber, 1006, when the price was
33Vb penco. The decline from this point
within about a vcar to 24 7-lG penco on
Dccomber 27. is a fall oven more rap
id than the rise which took placo from
1004 lo 1006. While duo in considerable
measure to the arrest of business activ
ity in civilized countries it is duo also
in" large degree to tho drought in India,
which has diminished the purchasing
power of the people in the bazars.
Tho old year ends with prices of
commodities and securities much lower
than a vear ago, aud with liquidation
largely advanced in the banking field,
if not; in the field of commodities. The
crcat stock of currency absorbed dur
ing the period of panic is returning to
tho banks, and iho action just taken by
the Secretary of tho Treasury to recall
a part of the deposits of public mouey
in tho banks will tend to check the
outward movomont of gold, which in
somo quarters is expected within the
next fow months. The financial struct
uro of tho country has stood the strain
with only a limited number of serious
disasters, and will enter upon tho new
vear under much stronger and safor
conditions than it began the old year.
LIGHT & RAILWAY CO.
HAS BIG PLANS AHEAD
Early this coming spring the Utah L-lght
nnd Railway company will, In all prob
ability, begin work on Its proposed 2000-horse-powo'r
electrical power plant in Wo
ber canyon, eighteen miles east of Ogden.
Tho plant haa been under consideration
for a year or more, and tho company has
owned part of the site upon which It will
go for about four years. Recently the
company purchased from the Utah Con
struction company its Interest In tho site,
and since that time It has done just
enough work upon It to hold tho lltlo to
the water rights.
With the oxtension of the street-car
lines here and in Ogden, more power will
bo needed, and it is expected that by tho
close of 190S tho proposed new plant will
be a neccssltv. Tho latter will cost be
tween $200,000 and J300.000. The silo of
tho iiroposed plant Is at Devil's Gate, on
the Weber river, and Is considered one
of the best power-plant sites In Utah.
With this plant erected and tho steam
plant In Salt I-ake reconstructed, tho
Utah l-lght and Railway company will
have at Its disposal about 15,000 horse
power of electricity-
TO PREVENT THE GRIP.
UAXATIVE BROMO QUININJD re
moves the cause To get the genuine,
call for full name and look for signature
of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
WIDOW OF LORENZO SNOW
SUFFERING FROM CANCER
Mrs. Minnie J. Snow, widow of the
late Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, Is seriously HI nt her homo at
13'J Third avenue, suffering from a malig
nant tvpc of cancer. Tho disease has
attacked her eye, and as U Is a rare
tvpo and but few cases have ever como
to medical knowledge, little hopo Is held
out for her recovery.
She has been suffering from tho dis
ease for the post two ycara. but on Frl
dav she suffered an almost total collapse,
and since then has been In a moro or
leas unconscious condition and able to
recognize bor friends only at long In
torvals and for but a few seconds. Her
children, with the excoption of the young
est son, Lorenzo, who is traveling In
Europe, are all prcsont. at her bedside.
Mr. Snow Is 53 years old and wns born
In Hrigham City, where she has rela
tives living.
Hear the great cimbollist at the
Cullcn Cafe New Year's Eve.
MRS. TAYLOR WANTS
LEGAIa SEPARATION
Alleging that her husband has callod
her a d Dutchman, told her lo go home
to her molher. adding that he hated tho
sight of her, and that ho has othorwlso
eruolly treated her. Karollua K. Taylor
has filed nn action for divorce against
Ernest W. Tayloi. $
Mrs. Taylor complains that her hus
band has been In the habit of, remaining
awav from home as lnfc as 2 o'clock
in the. morning In spite of tho fact that
ho censes work about 8:30 p. m. When
sho expostulated with him. she says, he
would tell her that it was none of her
business. Failure to support since Octo
ber 1, 1907, also is charged, and Mrs.
Taylor asks for a. decree of divorce and
the custody of their 3-ycar-old boy.
CHARLEY SONG IS HELD:
VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
At tho conclusion of tho hearing of
Charley Song, on the charge of mur
der, for the alleged killing of Chun Chung
Bo In a quarrel over a gambling same
In Plum alley rocently. before Judge
Whllaker, In the city court. Monday,
Song was held for trial In tho third dis
trict court, on the charge of voluntary
manslaughter
The testimony taken nt Monday's hear
ing was as conflicting ns heretofore, but
Judge Whitakcr ruled that there was
sufficient evidence against Song to war
rant the court In holding him on 11
manslaughter charge and ho was accord
ingly bound ovor. Ills bond of $2500 remains.
COMMERCIAL CLUR TO
KEEP OPEN HOUSE
Following its usual custom, the Com
mercial club will keep open house on
New Year's day from noon until mid
night for the members and their families.
There will be a special oxhlblt of turkeys,
salads and all sorts of delicacies for
which the club Is fatuous. The club will
weur Its best holiday attire for the occa
sion, and It Is expected that there will
bo. a larsc attendance
I COLLEGE DEBATING TEAM WILL
SETTLE A GREAT QUESTION
1
Tho question of issuance of Federal
charters to corporationn engaged in in
terstate comniorco aud compelling them
to comply with tho law, is to bo set
tled at last. The question is one that
has caused much discussion throughout
tho country and there will bo many
sighs of supreme relief when it is an
nounced that tho debating team of tho
Northwestern university lias decided lo
settle the matter for all time. Tho de
bate will bo pulled off at an early date.
Tho debaters will ho allowed to hit in
the clinches, but tho pivot blow will
bo barred.
SEVERE Ml DISTANT
QUAKE IS RECORDED
Instruments in Yarions Coun
tries Tell tho Story of the
Earth's Convulsions.
WASHINGTON'. Doc. ',10. A heavy
carthquako vvas recorded on tho instru
ments at tho coast and soedctlc survey ob
servatory at Cheltenham, Md., this morn
Ipn. It commenced at 32 minutes 30
seconds past misnlfrtit and lusted two
hours. Tho maximum displaced was 6i
millimeters.
The weather bureau today Issued the
following bulletin-.
"A distinct earthquake ot considerable
intensity was recorded by tho seismo
graph at the weather bureau this morn
ing, commencing: at 12:33 a. m., and last
ing for ovor one hour. The first pre
liminary tremors continued for four min
utes and 55 seconds and tho strongest
motion occurred at 12:15 a. m.. at which
tlmo Iho actual movomont on tho ground
at Washington was about five millimeters."
ATJSTBIAN SOIBMTISTS
SAY SHOCK WAS HEAVY
LAIBACH, Austria-Hungary, Dec. 30.
A series of carthquako shocks of great
violence were recorded at the observa
tory here this morning, which, accord
ing to Professor Belar, must have had
their centor on the main bind between
Mexico and Colombia, and produced for
midable effects. The record of the sels
mologlcal Instruments began at C.-40 a.
m. and reached the maximum at 7:14 a.
m. The disturbance as shown by tho
recording sheets lasted four hours.
Tho Instruments at Lalbach registered
the oarthquake at Kingston, Jamalcn,
January 11 last, the wholo movement on
that occasion lasting two hours and ten
minutes.
MAY POSSIBLY BE
OF SUBMARINE ORIGIN
SIIIDE. Islo of Wight, Doc. 30. The
soismologlcal Instruments at tho Shlde
Hill observatory registered an earthquake
this morning. Prof. John Milne, tho
well-known authority of solsmlc dis
turbances, says that It was one of tho
greatest earthquakes experienced in
some tlmeand recalls those In tho early
part of 1D07 and the previous year. Pro
fessor Milne, In making a comparison
from tno records of today, referred to
the Kingston. Jamaica, disaster as being
similar in kind. Ho believed that tho
present disturbance, if not of submarine
origin, may prove to have been most de
structive. i
Well-sereeued, clean Castle Gate,
Clear Creek, W inter Quarters nut and
lump coal delivered for $5.75, at yard
i'5 ojj
'' BAMBERGER COAL COMPANY.
BEGS COURT TO LET
HER GO TO OMAHA
Clara Smith, negrcss charged with
holding up and robbing Dr. James
Weaver ot Lea of $15 at "Floral ave
nue and East Second South street, in
Justice Dana T. Smith's court Monday
morning pleaded to bo released and al
lowed to go to Omaha, saying she has
relatives there. She protested her in
nocence aud pleaded pitcousb to be al
lowed to leavo town.
Tier plea was denied and sho was
placed under $250 bail to appear for
alleged robbers', County Attorney llan
sou stating the offenso with which sho
is charged was committed while sho
was out on similar bail for alleged rob
bery. Tn default of bail, sho was com
mitted to the county sheriff's custody.
TELEPHONE DIRECTOR
ENTERTAINS MANAGERS
Elmer B. Jones, managing diroctor of
the Utah Independent Telephone com
pany, gave a dinner at the Alta club
Monday to all local managers and heads
of departments of the company, the
Ldaho and Utah managers boing pres
ent, twenty-two in all. Mr. .Tones out
lined the- policy of the company for
lflOS. saying the year would prove ono
of the best, tho company has experi
enced. ''Tho people are with us." said Mr.
Jones, "and appreciate what we havo
dour and aro doing to bottor telephone
conditions."
"De Witt's Little .Early Riser Tills arc
sold by Anstee-Brice Drug company, 4.4
South Main street.
REFRACTORY BOY AT LAST
IN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Roy Powell will ponder over tho evil
of his way within the confines of the
State Industrial school for somo time to
come. Hoy is an exceedingly tough
youngster and, tho juvenile court offi
cers oC this city, with the assistance
of his father, have labored long and
earnestly to bring about the boy's
reformation, but all iu vain. Weary of
attempted well-doing, which was not ap
preciated by the boy. Judge Gowans
committed him lo the reform school
Mouday.
I Releases "Bill" Baiioy.
William Bailey, charged with draw
ing a deadly weapon with intent to kill,
av.is released D11 his own recognizance iu
Justice Smith's court Mouday. Bailey
Ms said to havo become angered at
James Grundy, in charge of tho pool
tables at the Albany bar, because the
latter refused to allow him to play until
he settled for previous games, and to
havo drawn a revolver, placed tho niuz
zlo against Grundy's abdomen and
pulled the trigger. Tho cartridge failed
to explode.
Confirms Game Wardens.
At .Monday's meeting of tho board of
county commissioners. E. N. Jacklln, for
mer chief deputy game warden, wao con
firmed ns superintendent of the state fish
hatchery, ami John W. Barratt wus con
firmed as chief deputy game warden. Tho
appointment of Nathan II. Tanner us a
doputy In County Clerk Eldredge's of
llce, also was confirmed. -
The affirmative has appealed to Gov
ernor Cutler for light. Tho team wauls
to kuow if tho forty-six States will
ovor enact laws sufficiently uniform for
tho adequate control and management
of corporations engaged in intorstato
commerce.
Not being a mind reader, Governor
Cutler has advised tho debaters that he
believes sneh action on tho' part of the
forty-six Stalo governments is within
the bounds of probability, but he does
not venture a prodietion as to tho
length of time that it will tako to se
cure such legislation.
FAKE BURIAL STORY
PROVED TO BE FALSE
Continued from Pago One
mined to continue to push his claim
for tho estate and title of tho Portland
dukedom. In an interview tonight ho
said:
"It is foolish to deny that I am bit
terly disappointed, but 1 havo not aban
doned hope. T am prepared to admit
that the man known as Thomas Charles
Drucc was buried in High Gato ceme
tery, but this does not dispose of my
case. T will not admit that the bod'
exhumed is the body of my grandfath
er, who T still firmly believe was the
Duke of Portland."
George H'. Drucc also expressed dis
satisfaction that a further examination
of tho grave was uot made for tho pur
poso ot ascertaining whether or not a
coffin containing lead was, also interred
there. Experts who were in attendance
'at tho disinterment in his interests re
ported to him, ho says, that the face
in the coffin which was opened boro
a similarity to that shown in the pho
tographs oi Thomas Charles Druco.
IMPOSSIBLE TO SECURE
. STATEMENT OF OALDWELL.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30. Robert C.
Caldwell, whose testimony as a
witness in the so-called Druce case,
lead to tho reopening of the gTavo of
T. C. Druce today, is not at the home of
his daughter at Now Brighton, Statcu
Island.
He is under $5000 bonds to answer
to a charge of perjury preferred 1)3' the
British authorities in connection with
the story ho told in the London court.
Caldwell was arrested when he arrived
here from England, December 21, It.
is said that, his health haa improved
since his arrival.
Caldwell's story of the alleged dual
personality of tho Duke of Portland
was the real sensation of one of tho
most remarknblo cases which ever en
gaged tho attention of the British
courts. Tho reopening of the Drucc
gravo 'today -vns the final effort of the
Government ..1 provo their chargo that
Caldwell's testimony was "willful and
corrupt perjury."
In substance, Caldwell's story, upon
which the claim of tho Druco heirs for
the great fortuno and the title of tho
Duke of Porland was based, was to the
effect that the Duke of Portland and
T. C. Druco, a London storekeeper, were
one and tho same. He had known tho
Duke of Portland under both names,
ho said, and at tho request of thp Duke
had arranged a protended death and
mock funeral of Druce, so that his dual
personality could be buried. He swore
that the coffin exhumed today did not
contain Drucc 's body, but only 200
pounds of leacl.
Efforts to reach Caldwell at his homo
on Staten Island tod.'ry were unavail
ing. His daughter declared that ho
was so ill that his phj-sician would per
mit no ono to see hirn. His daughter
was informed that tho grave of T. C.
Druce had been found to contain iho
bones of a human being, but she de
clined lo ask her father anything about
the case.
Good Printing.
Tribunc'Reportcr Ptg. Co., G6 W. and
So. St.
SAYS HE BOUGHT LAND
OWNED BY SALT LAKE
Christian A. Larsen has filed an ac
tion against Emilj' Donelson ct al. in
tho Third District court to recover
$2000. Larson alleges that he pur
chased a part of lot -1, block G2. plat
B, from the defendants for $7000 and
that at the time Salt Lake City owned
botwoen eleven and twelve square rods
of the premises. Tho $2000 now de
manded is alleged to be the value of
the portion of the lot owned by the
city.
In tho Eyes of the Wise
Vienna Bakery bread is always the
"best." Ask your grocor for it.
ASKED THAT DR. MAYO
BE ADMINISTRATOR
Mrs. Ella A. Mayo has filed a peti
tion in the probate division of the Third
District court asking that Dr. H. N.
Mayo bo appointed administrator of tho
estate of William H. Ma.vo, who died at
St. Louis November 3, 1007. Tho peti
tioner is tho widow of the deceased
and mother of Dr, Mayo. Tho estato
consists of $IS67.GS, the proceeds of an
insurauce policy.
Logal Blanks,
Tribune-Reporter Ptg. Co., 66 W. 2nd
Bo. St.
THINK OFFENDER MAY
BE MENTALLY NIL
Charles Roberts, recently convicted
of mdecent conduct, is hcing held by
tho police again 011 a similar charge.
Roberts is believed to bo the man who
has been annoying the RockvM'ountain
Bell Telephone company's operators by
hanging about the Salt Lake Theater
and actiug in a disgusting manner. Po
liceman Soagcr arrested him tho second
tune Monday, There is doubt as to
Roberts's sanity, and he probably will
be taken boforo a sanity commission.
Going to Goldflcld.
I. 11. Cooke, formerly a popular agent
of, the Now York Life Jnsuranco com
pany aud now a representative mining
broker of Goldfield. passed through Salt
Lake Mondaj- with his wife en route to
tho Nevada town. Mr. Cooke expressed
the hopo that conditions at Goldfield
would soon tako a turn for the bettor
and wns firm in the belief that the pros
cut trouble is merely toinpora ry .
fcsL Columbia Phonograph
Co. (General)
Sr 327-329 So.. Main St.
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ORGANS, $25.00 and Up
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