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pjgj He gait fake jfribtme. PTI lfJ L. LXXXV., NO 11. SALT LAKE CITY, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1912. 16 PAOKS FI.VK (.TNT- mm mm : m 1 BHD; .. BBS MAKE EXCUSES I aptain of "Mount Temple" 3 admits He Was Near Sinking ., Liner; Says He Beheld , No Signals 1 JLORS DECLARE THEY I SAW STREAM OF ROCKETS w : ( aman Swears the "Californian" I Vzs Within Twenty Miles, That 1 He Saw Rockets, But That His Ship's Officers Ignored I Distress Signals (By Internationa) News Service.) jbNTO, Ont., April 24. Dr. V. 0. QuHzerau, a graduate of If.rlin university, who arrived on (.he Mount. To.mple from Anl rerp on Friday lasl. brought the Startling information that, the operator on that vessel informed him that they were the first pet the Titanic's C. Q. D. and that they were only about forty om her at the time. . Quitzerau also staled that the story among pa&senors and itaff was that the lights of the Titanic were visible some time ihe sank. ' FIFTEEN MILES AWAY sording to Dr. Quitzerau, the story on the Mount Temple was y were about fifteen nub s away when they saw the Titanic, is after steaming toward her for two hours. Most, of the pas on the Mount Temple were from the continent and on their the. Canadian northwest, Dtaui Moore was notified from here of the statement of Dr. au to the effed thai ho understood the Mount Temple was t ship to set a wireless message from the Titanic and also the nt that a steamer's lights were seen Kve miles away at the B Titanic foundered. AIN ENTERS A DENIAL ) captain's answer follows: ould not possibly have been my ship. Did r i i receive C Q. D. !:30 a. m. Monday. Was then fifty miles west and south of position. Did nol arrive at the position until 4:30 a. m. It evident that passenger is mistaken." Quitzerau tonight wired Squalor William Alden Smith that d appear before the senate committer if his testimony was de ' that body. LOR SWEARS CALIFORNIAN LEFT TITANIC TO ITS FATE DaW' to TH Tiihune. eirsBPOX, April L't. Tin- ..t en id. i hip i,v ffan l'''.vlanJ line aa uttKten inile 0f (ho White lar "Btir when thi. boat ueut itr 'fctcordint; tt, the Kworn ?t o Stl"LF rnp-t- i'l, s'toiiiI donkey 1ft F steamer was twenty miles bfK' stio saw iiu rockets and . yght d ' he Titanic. Gill says R'"Bplllv Faw tho rockets, saw tho h.-s' Wt I'RlUr. of (ho Titanic and " Kf v OTI!,',r' talking among jrj IP anr nfl:iruig that the cap been to hi n fho Rending of lP168 Affidavit. foeitim "tor in tlic presence u lnci,ricrs of tho orcw f the )1)elP,lJ- the Huston American re yBM1 a notarv public. The other jlStm8000'1 U a" blB Btatements, CwJB0.1, ,0 make public statements H ,yHe corroborate Mr. toll, bc . jffev wto afraid ff loiinj- their llne affidaii follow-. cl!lllf v'" V,"!U"K OI' "Kr-- sincl"'. na b'1lr iorl; ,hn- , ,mklne my "Wyar ln ll" ''!llir"r,,ia'1. t i of Ari! " I "a on duty T' until T. midnight :n the f J'""" U 1 cLm "n f&m Wa" VV '-le.-v. ana 1 rould 16,1 m?C T '"nK diHtano Th chtn'i f1 m boun toPPd Mlnv. 10.30 iSjtff drtftlnc; among Ooe Ice. V Jlhi8per8 of Scadal, 'ft mJH0" , :Vr'r ,h,; ijw tiw, iiKllt f vory lRrRc ??m? ""U lf" awny. I uVt',' Pl ,,lu,M,'l'' liehtH. IH! ,"' '"' : '"Im.lo. from lli- brldKQ and lookout. At IS o'clock I wont to m i-abln. I V..-.U,. i n mate, vmilam Thomas. io heard the rriinoiiin; aloBBBlde tho siilp ajii) ukodi "Aie we In the r raplloda "Ye; it must be cleared off t-: tif; iter board, thoiudh for a blsr vod;"1 is Rotnir alon at full fip'(I She. loolttid as if she iniirht be a bi? German." I turrirfl tn. but COUld not eleep. In half an boar 1 turned out, thlnk- im? to iinofce a -ii,-arite. Booawifl of th onrpo I oonlfl not smoko be tween Oeckv so I went on deck axaln. Beholds Two Rockets. I had lren 00 deck atK.nt tn min ntra ivJirn J suw it whits rookat about ten mtlrs way on the Btarboard aide. I thought It must t a Kioot lnr star. In geveii or mIkM minutes. I nitw dls tl&Otly a second rocket in the sbjoo place, and I aakl to myself. "That iiniht !.' a w.h.' in o"latresa."' If waa not my Jwnlnesn to notify the brldtre or tho lookouts, but they could not have helped but sxi them. t turned In Imuifilla t'ly after, sup Ioslnff that the Ship would pay at tention to tho rockets. I know no more until I was awateaad by the cMef answojer oaUfag "Turn out to rentier na.itKtain e-" It was then M0. "The Titanic ha Konn down." he explained, i went on deck nnd found tho vjbI uritifr way and pHWiaedllH full ipeed. She wan rimr of tho Ice llld, but there wore p.lenty of borjrw about. Hears Strange Admission. I went down In Ihe enjcine room on watch and heard the second and fourth engineers in Consultation. J. C. Evans lo the seeond and "U'ooteri In th? fourth. Tito eeotd was t-il-iiiK the fourth that the third officer had reported rocxeti jroinn up op iiii (Continued on Pae Two.) AMERICANS IN ! GREAT DANGER FROM BANDITS Critical Situation Exists Along the West Coast of Mexico and Foreigners Are Flee ing to Seaports. A QUI INDIANS GO UPON THE WARPATH Natives, Driven Desperate by Hunger, Join the Robber Bands, Plunder Ranches; stories of Refugees. CHICAGO, iprll Mall advicei celved today frm Quay ma 8, 8o nnrfl, anil dtd April 23, tell of imminent danger threatening up wards of one thousand Americans piont: ths west nasi of the southern re public So i rltlrl i- ths Situation that a .-po rial steamer has lien rharfprr-d Nel on Rhoadae, .'r.. mariasrer of n "usr refinery, to succor those citizens of th T'nlted States who may ho abls to reach the e.on.st at points between Gueymae and Maa.tlan. The steamer w-as scheduled ,n from Guaymas yesterday. II Is proposed to visit a.ll harbors In southern Sonora and northern Blnaloa and to transport any refuaees to Masatlan According to th advices 1600 Zapatistas era looting and pillaging a! Cullacaiit capital of Bln aloa. Hunger is making the natives des perate, and II Is said th;it American plantations are In danger of being raided. The situation alone the wit ron-l of northern Mexico Is summed up about as follows The Yaoul Indians are on the warpath in Bonora, shooting at paaeenger trains and looting tanrheJ? and small towns south of (tunyma. The southern por tion 0 Sonora In In a stut- of nnarhy and small parties of bandits are roam ing the country! pUl aging the small places. Prepared for Siege. At BSsperanaa, where there ere sup poaedly ISO Americans, ait the women and ohlldren have been fient from tin country, and the men have armed thorn selves and prepared for a SlagS. Similar conditions prevail at Navojoa, where there are about 100 Americans on small fs'-rms. at Sin IUae and Cx8 MochlS, Where there are 150 Americans; at Nav olato, where the Ethoadefl Btigar redncr les stJU are operating, although the wom an and children were sont from that place several days ago to take steamer for Sun Francis cc From Navalots there is a chance to escape through the port of Altata, then down the coast to afaaaUan, whence steamers sail for California Mazatian is r.portci quiet, though there have been many changes in gorernmsjpl and the absence of control In Sonato has prac tically paralyBed businesa Benor Pellps RH'eros. who was oleri'l governor by the legislature of Blnaloa, was told by the federal Kovernnienl that no troops could be furnished to protect tlx stt". DOr was any money available unless it came from the stale. The slate treasury is reported empty Iteanwhlls the lianks are closed, credits stopped -nd merchants arc p.ivinu k; rier cant as Insurance against riot Iork No Trains Running. The Boutharn Pacific h running no trains south of San niap and word has been sent out that after next Sunday BOirYlcea may be discontinued entirely, depending upon the action of the ban dits. This, of course, will mean the (Continued on Page Two,) JUSTIN M'CARTHY DIES AT AGE OF 82 Novelist, Historian and Member of Parliament Passes Awi After Ixnig Illness. LONDON, April 24. Justin Md ar thy, novelist unl historian, and lor many years a member of parliament, died tonight at Folkestone. Be ';i'l been ill throughout the winter and hprinp. dausbtez bad acted si hi? norse and friends hud hoped that be would live to MS. the fruition of home rule. Horn in 1830, Justin Met 'art by WSS one of tho most prolific political and historical writers of the timet, He was an ardent home ruler ami for twenty tivo yean was a political writer for u London daily paper. Lie was ice chairman of tht Irish parliamentary party in the housa of commons, and with the rejection qf Mr. Parnell by the majority Mr. Met srthj ntin by them sleeted chairman. Tic became attached to the reporters' cutlery of the house of commons in 18)i1 for the Morning Sifcar. Alter reriguiitK SS rhif editor of that paper in 1868, be trnxolod through the I.' ii i led Stales for ueatlv three w-nrs and since thou hud mors than i i rev isitvd A incrii .1 ITJIFT WINNING ALL ALONG TIE , LINE THIS WEEK Iowa, New Hampshire and Rhode Island Delegates In structed to Vote for the President. CHANCES ARE GOOD IN OLD MISSOURI Manager Mekinlcv Calls At tention to the Scheme of Colonel Roosevelt to Gain Support at Primaries. CBDAR RAPIDS. ra . April 34. Prp?t.nt Taft will hav slvfoon of Iowa's tTnt -rK votes In the na tionni Republican convention, so crriiii)K to Indications wh-n th tat convention reconvened here this af ternoon, Senator Cummins admitting that hi trip from Washington to lows had oppii ineffective lo stemming the tid for Tnft declared he still evp&ctod to he be fore the national convention nt Chicago and that his name would be presented by one of the ten dettates in the sta.le in- sl ructed for him. The four it.-leira.tes at large, in tho reso lutions reported! were Instructed to sup port the president tirnt, last and all the time. The convention elected as Taft d"ie ratr': ;t large to 'he national convention n. follows: Governor B. F 'arroll, f'.e-irRe p. Perkins of sioux City, Liuther P.. Brewer of Cedar njipiits and Jamas P. Hryan of Creston by a rote of Tfii against 7?'i for the Ciimtninp ticket headed by .State Benator .fHine h. ail an of Pocahontas county. Resolutions Instructing ths four deie gatee at largo to the national convention to vote for the renotnlnatlon of Prefl6en1 Taft trere adopted and the convention ad journed at 4 o'clock. Pourth district delegates to the Repub lican national convention are Truman Pot ter of Mason city arul O. (.'. Wilson of Oelwein, Instructed for Cummins Taft Men Control. fJONCOBD, X. H.. April 24. A revi aion of tho ficafe:5 in vesterday 'a Be publican election for delegates to the st.ilo and district conventions od Airil $0 wap attempted today by both tho Taft and Boosevelt oanxpsigD managers, but in each political camp the- ficures only served to emphasize thr victory of the president. Many little towns far to Ibe north and in other remote localities still were to be heard from at 10 a. m., hut up to that time figures at the Roosevelt headquarters stood Taft, Roosevelt, 824: with 1 78 delegates to he reported. Boosevell leaders admitted thai they did not expect to have a New Hamp shire delegate to the Chicago conven tion. The nresidential freference ns tabu la ted showed a Taft lead of 3000 in a total vote of 30,000. Governor Bass, the Roosevelt lender, ssid that, he was not discouraged at the result. Although defeated, those in sympathy with the Boosevell movement would con tinue to fight shoulder to shoulder for cleaner politics. The Taft supporters were jubilant over the victory and said it would have a direcf effect on the Massachusetts primaries neit week. Oregon Delegates. PORTLAND. Or. April :t -tr-.n delegates to the PepoWicsn national con ven t ion Charles W. Ackerson. Daniel Boyd. Fred v Bynon. Mower S. Campbell, Charles HT Carrey, Henry w. -oe, lv D Hull. Thomas afoOusker, Phil afetscham, j. W. Smith Instructed for Roosevelt Delegates to the Democratic national convent lout A ;. Bennett. Rortlett i)ok, I red V. Holman. A a. Kaddarly, win n. King Jamas Melon ey, .Tonn n. Stevenaon, Alexander Bweek, Herman Guise, in st ructed foi Wilson. Scheme of the Colonel. WASHINGTON, April :'4.--ln a. state msnl Issued here tLd.i. Director William B. StcKlnleS of the national Taft bureau, ehnrgea thai the f:usaeliusetts Itootte velt committee caused a paid advertise ment to be printed in a Springfield neWS paper, Monday, April '-"-'. ss follows; "Ram em her you don't have to 0e en rolled In H.n party to .ote at this pri mary." "Whal does ,r mean?" yi the Mc- Klnley statement. "It meonw thnf ThsOdOre Roosevelt Is mnJcIng v paid bid for the votes of Dem ocrats. Socialists and ProhlbltloniHts to defeat President Taft. who Is asking for Republican rotes for blS renomlnatton. Here, openly. Is the evidence that he has done the mme thing secretly all over the T'nlted Statea." Mi. BfoKlnley charges that In a.'l the primaries held thus fat- Colonel Roose velt has received the ores of many Dem ocrats Instructed for Taft. PROVTDKNCB, R. 1 April .-4. - No op. position to the election of delegates '- (Continued on Page Four.) Beach Is Back to Face Trial; WifeWith Him 1 l : I MESSENGER JAILED FOB KM THEFT Mystery of Express Robbery at Grand Junction, Colo., Thought to Be Solved. Special to The Tribune GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.. April l'.". Ben Gilbert, night depot express mes senger to,- the Globe BxpraSi company, was arrested ;it 1 o'clock thin morning charged with the theft of $14.00n on the nigh I of Priday, April 19. which had ben consigned iron, the Utah Kud company :it Suit Lake City to the coal campa at Soiner.sct. Colo. Tie la lodacd In the county nil, tun refuses to make an statement or confession I lis allegel confederate In the l"ai Is expected to be arrested later tod;i lie is also said to he on cpreK company employee. The nvrhi follows several da s of doae shadowing ami Investigation by Jetec tl.vea and police. Gilbert's every ni'.e- nietit -u.is watched and his COBVorsattOUS were all rsCOTded, in addition he (-, u subjected a ertuing cross-examination bj the detectives njd tot-mer Attorney (,euril N. Miliar In the offie of the railroad buperlntendeut Here a mock irlaJ Iihs been held every evening since the roi.her.v Gilbert, his alleged confed erate and others have been called In ax Witnesses and Gilbert has been forced to repeat ids story time and again. Prom the drat his atorv bus been doubled. The doubt wss Increased to conviction when Attorney MMer had himself bound and gagged as ;iihert claims i,j bevs been and then worked his Ray to the OUtsldS door of the office in bps minute and thirty seconds, whereas (Jllbert claims It took him forty minutes to make the dis tance. Tho arrest of ths other party will he made within B few honrs. Gilbert's family is very prominent socially and his arrest Is creating a sensation. ADMITS SHOOTING HIS HORMER WIFE LOS ANGJDLBS, Cat.. April M.- John Bruener Uidei was arretted here today on the charge of having murdered his former wife. Mrs. J. P. Blgelow. at Oak land on January 2. ano made a complete confession to TVelertlve Flammer a fw hOUVB later. He xlno said he would pleal guilty In court. "I don t know what mode me kill her." he aald. "Just tho blow at finding hr mat ned to another man. I gueKs." The Rldem wer- married thirty years and lived toe-ether twenty-threw years, separating in St, Iouls. Rhler shot Mrs. BlgelOW dead as she stood In the door r,iv of her Oakland home after answer ing his knock. Millionaire Declares Accusa tion Is "Simply a Cock and Bull Story.'' Ky International N'cws Service. NBW yohk. April Zi.-C1mrgei which he first dlsmlred BS a "cock and bull story." later when laid before him by bin at lorn:, b at a five bourn' conference to day, iiuused Frederick O. Peach to aban don his jaunty step, and with bent ShOUlr ders and iiallid cheeks to lose hlinselr In tho maelstrom of the financial district. Mr. Reach wiih i barged by the au thorities of Aiken, S G., arlth having committed .'msunlt and batteii upon his beautiful wife by slashing her arlUl B knife. The crime was first ascribed tO negro, but after several weeks of In vestigation the Aiken authorities Issued a warrant for the arrest of the million aire lub man and Intimate friend Of wiiham EC. vanderbllt. With ins wir. he returned from Burope tnlay on the steamship Kaiser W 11 helm 11. ".Vow, old fellow. It Is Simply a i-ork and hull story." ssiid Mr. Bench coming up ihc bay, "1 am glad if itn.-He deteo lives arc making a record for themselves. There Is absolutely nothing I can ex plain i don'l even know the iatet de relopments in the casa I took my wife to BOTOpS BO that she might re . . r fltm the effects Of the attack, and now We are Pack together." I'pon landing Mr, Peach went direct to i he offices of his attorney, Delancny Nlooll, For five hours lie conferred with Thomas i". PnUei a mSmber of the Nli oil firm, who went to .ikeu to In vestigate tho case and prepare his client's defense. What transpired nt th conference ir not known, but It was sufficient to take from the. dashing Mr, Beach aonae of bis Jaunty appearance. "Mr. llea b will not g,. to Alksn until we ascertain the exa t date of the trial." said Attorney Kuller. "The nuthorlties desire that It be iM9toned until tlir September term as the June calendar l lull. Meantime Mr BsSCh win remain avy. just, where I ,-.i.inot Mr. and Mrs. Bsavch aeemcd tO be on the beat of terms. CHILDREN MARCH OUT OF BURNING BUILDING Br International Nevrs Bervica KANSAS CITT, April M -Whet; 'he Wahingt'iii jej1(,(. i-augl t ftra this after noon the 7.Sa pupils In the building marched out at the sound of the fire drill alarm without th least otsorSer. There are eighteen rooms Is the build ing ami aJI were filled. When the alarm bell Bounded In each room the teachers gave the elt order, the p'tpits arose in the aJiie and fom ad In marching order, and. with the teachers bringing up the rear, all the pupil from every room marched without a break In the ranks to the school yard Salt Lakers in New York. Specutl to The Tribune, NBPJ9 YORK. April 24. Park Avenue. J. M rfSjrSS. Mrs. J M- Hayes; Murray Bin, p. B, Hopkins; Waldorf, n. If. Strickland and wife. BIG INTERESTS I THREATENED TO I MUMBLE I Confidential C o r r e pondence Between Col. Roosevelt and Attor ney General Bonaparte Regarding Harvester Company, Withdraw ing Suit, Given to the Public. PERKINS THE MAN H WHO CALLED HALT I Present Backer of the Colonel Shown to Have Bl untly Informed the Administration That the Influence of J. P. Morgan and Company Was at Stake. WASHINGTON. ap,,. rt.-The Rv COnuttentlnl rorre.pondenc b- h tween President Roosevelt. At- ' torney 'I-neral Bonaparte and jr, Cbmmisslo'ner Herbert Knes V Smith of the bureau of oorposatlons, j( about a gOyernment anti-truat auit Sgsinsl the International Harveaier t company was uent to tho senate today K from n,e tile? r the department of jtub- ties. If Cne letter from Colonel Roosevelt to Mr 'Bonaparte, vwiTten at Oyster Biy on August 22, 1S 7. said that the colonel Perkina i .i: t the company's affair aui directed Mr. Bonaparte not to file the suit than, but to jfo over the matter B with Commissioner Smith and Mr Per- kln.--. A letter from Commissioner Smith to jw the colonel, on September .1, told of con- ' lerences with Mr. Perkins and atatM It Com mission sr Smith's objections to a prOSW (itlon at that time. The commlj Bloner wrote that he thought the ques tion of toe company's jruiit or innocence was merely technical and told of a con- Iff-, forencc with Mr. Perkins on August "I. Crimmlaslnnar smith wrote that Mr. It 1 Perltin opocluded with great emphasis L "that if nft-r itll the eiideavoia of this K compans and the other Morgan interest!, to uphold the policies of the admlnlstra- I lion and to adopt, their methods of mod- ": ern publicity, the rompany w.xg now go- i Iiir to be attacked in a purely technical I case, the Lntersats he 1 spiessnlsd were r. Li 'going to tiRht.' btTi A Practicul Queation. further on in the name letter. Mr Smith wrote: Be' Whl 1 the administration iiaa never besltated to grapple with any nnan- .1.1 interests, no matter however great, when It la believed that a ub- f . ntantial wrong is beln committed. nevertbelcJ'a. it ia a ver' practlcjil queation whether II is well to throw Sway now the greet Influence of the BO-Called Morgan Interests which tip to this time have supported the ad- 1 ranced policy of the administration ar ; both in general principles and In the application 'hereof -,f their -icijr Interests and to pla'- them generally in opposition. 1 believe Mr. Peiklns's statement that his interest would necctaarlly be driven Into opposit'00 sincere OPS, and. in fact. I an hardly ee how those great Interests an take .in-, other attitude should this prose cution be started and the Mnal adop tion of this policy bo made pobiil In another porlon of the letter. OOSB- K inlsslonei Bmlth reportad Mr Perkine ss having said substantially "that the Stand- 1' ard "H people in rfe York were giving ftf. Kim t, iHimh for having though! he JI trying to be good and keep solid with B ' the admlni.Htration and that he was go Ing to get the .same dose as the oth- aesBsH With the crteypondence wsj a letter fioin William LOeb, Jr. the presidents y OOretary, muklng an appointment for Mr. wgh, Bonaparte to talk the business over. T Roosevelt's Letter. The president's letter to the attorney 1- general follows: "2 q it Bai . N I April i'"T. '. .; My Dear Mr, Attorney tlencral V? . Mr. Qeorge W, Perkins of the inter- iSjaal national 1 larv ester oinpuny has Just BBW called upon me and submitted to nie certain papeTB, of which I lii(ve ILaw Boplt A orSJng to these papers and Mr Perkins's statement. It would appear that th harvester company. BLan' . peatedty oa its own initiative, ssJnad that its hpslnees be Investigated by LaSBBBS the dspnrtment of commorcs and la- -jF 1k.it throug'i tlie coinmlssioner of cor- LsE poratlons; that three ."tars ago the Interatatti commerce commission de cided that It had accepted what amounted sohstantJally to rehafes; 1 Continued on Pegs Tour-f