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pits I Slip Salt ttkp SCftibiitti ssiifi I JLXXXV., NO. U2. SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1912. 40 PAGES FIVE CENTS . . lOESFULL 1 p W OF MILLER ftlen From Alabama Fail if the Much-Talked-oi re Deal at Hands of SMoose Committee, f CONTESTS OT YET DECIDED 'of the New Party Try Clear the Decks for fational Convention Jon Monday. !Aug. 3. The provisional en of the National Pro partv a.i.ionrned at. onight after a session on today, having acted itest. that in Alabama, White rip locates were e claims of the negro cr th contesting negro Florida prolonged the illy forced adjournment Mondav morning, unient over the nogro cpiostion in Florida sev ed thp committee to itestanis sirid the news go into executive, bps i fraught with wordy jhout the day the com times barred the doors star chamber ses.-ion. ected negro contestant rspaper men united in dorb outride the com WtOSt resulted from the erate delegations by ro conventions. The white men, the latter id a white, man. The claimed that EE. L. national commit' ida, suggested that thoy .te convention, and plo ts purporting to prove dmitting that he ba.rred n the white convention, netion, say i rig: course, can success he lida. White men will o political lenders." aroused considerable op northern members of and the argument pro on. 'as made to adjourn un unday. hut. this was op mmmitleemen objecting I S'abhath. Thereupon is taken until Monday. Colonel Roosevelt him the scene, a day of FaboT for I he rather diffident national e ram question proved u to adjust, In each of iich were heard. Chnlr rho presided, lahorod L-vciJt anything like an nd nucceeled ore of negroes from Al ppi and Florida besieged rs of the committee day arguing, pleading The debate during mtests was heated, with hito mcu clamoring bo aal executive session he al tteemen rounded up (ty of California, That i W, Johnson, bad oo 1 at th meeting during '.V went in id the room oice was heard in loud failed to solve the diiii HHng broadly, he filed Pt of the tired commit al Progressive party x Bwaddling clothes and eal political work to iBional national commit party took up the v.orl. temporary roll of dele nveiition that will meet rtain diffidence and In ch made progress slow, luccecded in settling I he e representation of va- l outlying possei id argument of various Rations. The committee d s half bom meeting tfternoon resumed work ed on Page Two.) Notables of the Bull Moose Convention - i 1 1 At tof, left to right H. K. Smith and Senator Joseph M. D ixon, R-ooscvclt s campaign manager. At the bottom are George W. Perkins at the left, and Colonel Rooseveh. JUDGE HOLDS COURT ON STREET COfflffRS Incident Somewhat Out of the Ordinary Occurs at the Da r row Trial. jOS ANGELES, Aug 3. Tn the biibc-ry trial of Clarence 8. Darrow here today a session of the court was held On tliree street corners in the business section of the city, inside of a saloon and on the third floor of fl. rooming house. The jury was convoyed in automo biles to the scene of the alleged bribery of Talesman George N. Lockwood and at the corner of Third and Los Angeles streets, the place where the bribe money was said to have been passed; Superior Judge George ITutton recon vened court., in the presence of hun dreds of spectators By stipulation Judge Button alone points mentioned in the evidence, the court reporter standing at his elbow recording his remarks. A half dozen bailiffs guarded the jury as the itiner ant scssiou of court was held. The saloon in which detectives wait ed for the appearance of Bert H Franklin, the confessed briber, was vis ited ;iud patrons were ejected while ;i brief session wan h ;ld After a visit to the rooming house, 8 block distant, from U window of which Pfitectivc Samuel Browne testified to having watched the meeting between Lockwood and C. v.. White, the "stake bolder" of one alleged bribe money, the jury was taken to the scene of Franklin's arrest, after whicb court officials, jurors, counsel and reporters returned to the court room where court was formally adjourned until Monday morning. Oldest Odd Fellow Dies. A.LBUQ UJBBQUE, N ML. Aug-. 3. H. ColUnei pronablj the oldest otl Fellow In ii-.e United States, tuning Joined the order at Danville, kj in 1841, died hers today at the age of 05 years. SALT LAKE CHOSEN FOB IXTJEETI Conference of Governors Ad journs After Successful Con vention at Boise. Spedal to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho. Aug, 3. Governor Oswald West of Oregon was honored tonight by the Conference of western governors by being elected president of the conference for the ensuing year. This act of the governors, together with the election of Governor Oddie of Nevada as secretary, the selection of Salt Lake as the place for the next meeting, together with the passage of im portant resolutions, closed the f i rtit meet ing of the conference. All of the visit ing governors left tonight, for (heir respective states after an excursion to Arrow Rock to see the big dam con si rue I ion work! The two officers elected and the gov ernor of the state where the next meet ing will be held, pry of Utah, constf tute the executive committee of the con ference and are authorized to meet later and sot the dates for the next annual conference, The resolutions adopted by the con ference call for the speedy adoption by the federal and state governments of policies for the conservation of natural resources more beneficial to the states themselves; give the states these resources- indorse the "blue laws'1 permitting states to have supervision over investments; urge liberal appro priations for the San Francisco oxposi tiou by all western states; declare for uniform laws of western states govern ing the use of waters in lakes and streams for irrigation purposes mid tho construction of storage reservoirs to prevent, floods. Aviator Killed. BYPLEETi Surrey, Bngland. Aug. 3. An Australian aviator, Charles Lind say Campbell, was killed instantly this morning by a fall with his aeroplane while making a flight from Lrooklands to the Byflcet aerodroma. ( STEEL BILL ON WAY TO THEPRESIDEXT Wool Measure to Follow Next Monday; Stigar and Excise Tax-Come Next. WASHINGTON, Aug. fi. The com promise wool bill agTeed to by the house and senate, re-passed the house today and will be taken np in the senate at. noon Monday. Senator Lu fFollette gave notice he would call it up at that, time and ask for immediate action upon the conference report, in which the two houses agreed to a wool tariff based on a Taw wool duty of twenty nine per cent. The aenato by a close vote earlier in the day acceded to the Demoeratio ProgreFsive demand that the Canadian reciprocity repeal amendment be drop ped from tho iron and stoel tariff bill, This action resulted in the re-passagc of that bill in the senate; and the meas ure is now ou its way to the presi dent. Conferences will be held early next week on the excise tax bill and the Augar tariff bill. On the former, an agreement exists botween tho Benate Democrats and insurgents to indorse the repeal of all of the Canadian reci procity law except the free print paper provision now in force. It is expected the house will meet this plan and adopt, a compromise bill without delay. WILL INVESTIGATE ROCK ISLAND WRECK PUEBLO, Colo, Aug County Coroner Patterson today hegan'an in vestigation into the cause of the Rock Island wreck here Tuesday night when three are known to have been killed. The coroner's .jury today visited the scene of the wreck and will begin to take testimony Mondayi So fur only one body has been re aovered and the wreckage has been cleared sufficiently to indicate that the bodies of the other victims went down the river and may never bo found. LEAVES DM DISGUISED AS A REBELSOLDIER Sam Jarvis, a Young Mormon, Arrives at El Paso With the Latest News From the Colonies. MORMONS JOINING ARMY OF SANJINES Federals Hemming; the Rebels in and the Latter Must Take to the Hills Unless They Win Battle. EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 3. Dis guiKed aa a rebel soldier, Sam Jarvis a,rrlved here on a freight train late today from Colonui rhiblan, the American settlement, 200 mis southwest of the border. Traveling overla-nd toward the west, he says, are tho men who remained when the women and children were sent to FA Pr50 last week, Fearing to move north through the rebel territory, they preferred tx take chances by joining the fedrrrwl army of General Sanjines, which is approaching rapidly the Casas (frandoR district, Jarvis declares that the men who departed early this morning from their homes of many years do not go to join the federals as fighting men, although the Americans are carrying a few ri ties hidden at the time of tho rebel con fiscation of arms held by foreigners. They merely believe, according to Jar vis, that the federal army will offer better protection. The village thsvt a. nwrrth ago con tained 1200 Americans is deserted by its inhabitants, the rich fields untitled and the Americans' homes occupied by about 400 Mexican rebels, who have taken possession of them and every thing left behind by the refugees. Jar vis remained to attend to the shipping to El Paao of two cars of provisions which the men could not carry on their overland journey, and which they believed would be of service to their wives and children now refugees In El Paso. The shipment of the provisions to Juares was prohibited by rebel lead ers, Jarvis suld. Jarvis, a young Mormon in his 'teens, believed he could not reach (he border in safety unless in disguise. FEDERALS CLOSING IN ON INSURGENTS JTJAJfEZ, Mexico, Aug. S. Accord ing to rebel advices received here late today, fightiug is In progress at Cor ralito5, 150 miles southwest of here and fifty miles north of CasaB Grandes. A train bearing 400 rebel troops was dis patched in groat haste from this point to reinforce tho rebels. General Sanjincs, commanding one of the two armies of federals attempting to hem in the rebels, has succeeded m reaching the Mexico Northwestern rail way, thus cutting off Juarez, where General Orozco is located, from Casas Grandes, where General Palar.ar is sta tioned with 1000 rebel soldiers. The forces under Sanjincs on reaching the railway on the overland trip from So nora ran into a party of rebels operat ing out of Casas Grandes to protect the railway. The rebels are fighting fiercely to protect the road, but it is considered doubtful at Orozco 's headquarters hero if tho reinforcements from Juarez can arrive in time. So far the telegraph line between Juarez and Casas Grandes is intact, indicating that the federals have not succeeded in reaching the right of way. South of Oases Grandes at Madera is located the main federal army under General Rabago and Salazar's forces uto in danger of a hostile movement from both south and north as a result of today's developments. It also shuts off Orozco. the rebel lender, from Sala zar's aseitanes. In event of a federal victory in the ensuing engagement tho rebels will be forced to abandon all railways, as tho Mexican CentrnI i disrupted between here nud the city of Chihuahua, and take to the hills. Smuggler Captured. BL PASO, Tex., Aug. 8. Incident to the exchange of shots early today be tween rebels from the Mexican ido of the international line and United States soldiers stationed on tho border a few miles east of Bl Paso, two Mexi cans with 2000 cartridges were caught tonight in the act of crossing the lice. The catch was made by tho same companv of the Twenty second infan trv which was under fire earbot in the (Continued on Page Five.) POSSE ON TRAIL OF MURDEROUS MANIAC Man Who Shot Four Persons and Fired Hotel at South Platte, Colo., at Large. WIFE IN FEAR OF DEATH Summer Colony Terrorized for Several Hours Before Demented Man Departed. DENVER, Aug. 3. Late tonight all the posses which have been searching the hills in Platte canyon and in the vicinity of Breed station., near Colorado Springs, for George Clifford Rsillew. re turned empty handed. Ballew last night shot and seriously wounded four persons ;it South Phite. Iwenty-nine miles west of here. Inter malting his escape in the darkness on a horse stolen from a livery stable. Fear is fell that Ballew has made good his escape and will carry out his threat of vengeance upon his 16-year-old wife living near Las Cruces, N. M. Late tonight it WBS reported from a local hospital thai two of his victims, Mrs. Charles Wallbrechl and James Itc Whorter, have slight chances of recov cry. The either two victims, Charles Wallbrecht and Harry Berman, b tour ist, are expected to recover. tl is either thought Ballew has com mitted enielde in the. hills or is on bis way to New Mexico. Bnllew had de clared that, ho would kill his ejirl-wife because she deserted him. ft. i;iy be cause of her departure several months ago that Ballew ran amuck last night. In a letter found in his effects to day, dated at Copperhill, Tenn., .June 14. signed by ,1 W. Ballew and Mattie Ballew, his parents, the !)o;,p V;ig ex pressed that both George and his brother Fred, who wag with him at the time, "will from this day forward set a determined resolution to live right, live in peace with all men If possible," adding "if God is for us who can be against oaf" May Kill Wife. DENVER, Aug. 3. That George Bal lew is headed for Las Cruces. N. M., to carry out former threats against the life of his wife, is the belief of Denver authorities. This afternoon word was received here that a man meeting the description o.f Ballew, Tode a iaded horse into Sedalia, twenty-five miles south of hero, earlv today, and board ed a Colorado & Southern train for the south, haing told the operator that ho had a ticket for Trinidad, Colo. It was learned, however, that the man left the train at Breed, a station a few miles north of Colorado Springs, where trace of him has boon lost. Before boarding the tra.in nt Bedalia, the man sent a telegram to (i. 8. Bal lew, who is sajd to reside in Tennes see, notifying him to "come at once," and adding that ''George is dead." This information was interpreted by some to mean that Ballew intended to commit suicide. G. S. Ballew is be lieved to be the fugithe's fathor. Hia address In Tennessee Is unknown to the authorities. James McWhorter, who was wounded by George Ballew at South Platte, Colo., last night, is said to be identi fied with the business interests in Kansas City of Manager John Kling of the Ikiston National baseball club. Girl Wife at Home. LAS CRUCES. V. M Aug. 3. Maria Wollford Ballew, girl wife of the man who ran amuck at. booth Platte, Colo., Is throe miles from here on the farm of her stepfather, W. G. Stewart, with her mother. She is only 1(1 years old. The girl married Ballew last fall, going with him to South Platte. As serting that she was abused by her Inieband, she loft him July 1 and re turned here. Since then it is said that Ballew haa written, threatening his wife unless she returned to him. Kansas City Victim. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 3. Friends of James W. McWTiortor, for merly associated with John Kling in business here, said Mr McWhorter was now in Colorado and had been there several weeks on a vacation, He was expected home this week EXCURSION BOATS COLLIDE IN RIVER Py International N'Bm Service. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3. The Grey Eagle, a river exenrsion boat loaded with pas sengers, was struck on tbo starboard side by a smaller excursion boat, the Belle of the Bonds, tonight at 9;30, while crossing the river for East St. Lotus. A large hole wa torn in the side of the boat and two persons were slightly out and bruised in the gen eral panic which followed. The dam ape is about $r00. The Belle of the Bends was badly damaged and was beached. CITIZENS WILL I BAND TOGETHER I TO FIGHT CRIME I Murder of Herman Rosenthal in New York Results in Or ganization of Men and Women to Cleanse City. PROBE OF POLICE PART OF THE PLAN Two of Murder Gang May Be Surrounded Near Boston; One Reported al Tan nersville, N. Y. TANNERSVILLE, N. Y.. Aug. 3. "Lefty" Louie, one of the gun men alleged to have fired the fatal shots at Herman Rosenthal on the night of July 16, was found by de tectives In a small boarding house here late tonight. He has been hid ing there for three days, but the of ficers are delaying the arrest un til tomorrow morning In the hope that he would be joined by "Big Jack" Selig and Harry Horowitz, bith of whom are wanted and who are reported to be in this section. By Tntoriiati'WHl News S-erv.W NEW YORK, Aug. 3. More fT reaehlng than the Lexow inves tigation and more cleansing than the work of the committee of fifteen, an organization was formed hpre today to investigate, without re gard to expense and with the aid of the best lawyers and detectives ob tainable, the corrupt alliance between the police department and the under world, A call for the organization of a great non-partisan, non-sectarian citizens' committee was sent, out this after noon signed by Jacob Sebiff. Felix Ad ler, Bishop Greer. Jesse Straus, Bu genus H. Outerberg. Dr. Henry Mn- kowitz, Allan Robinson anil Ilenry Green. At the same tinip Mrs. .1. Bor den ilarriman was asked to head an auxiliary committee of vomn, with Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. F. II. Ilarri man and others as members. Kverv influential citizen of New York, man or woman, is to be asked to join one or the other of these organizations. Mass Meeting Planned. A mass meeting will be held in Cooper Union as soon as arrangements are concluded. Plans will be adopted at this meeting for a campaign mean ing to clean up the city and to free it from the alliance between gamblers and other vicious denizens of the un derworld and the police as revealed by the murder of Herman Rosenthal. The committee plans not only to drive the guilty ones to cover, as did the committee of fifteen, but to force them to flee the city and to wipe nut the vice and crime which the Rosenthal investigation shows to x be rampant again. Popular subscriptions are to be opened, but even now there is enough money on hand, pledged by those who are heading the movement, to carrv it through- Responsibility- for cadetism, gambling and the mass of crime on the east side is openly laid at the door of the police department by leaders in the new probe. Call for Meeting. The letter which contains the call for the meeting 3ays in part: The state of lawlessness now exist ing In this city, under cover of which crimes have been cmmltu-1 with Im punity and criminals permitted to sn unpunished, has reached a pvlnt where public sentiment demands that the officials charged with enforcing the laws for the DTOteetlOn and well being of our citizens shall perform tho duties of their offices, and m tb full confidence that such performance will have strong public support. Forced by demands of seventeen members of the board of aldermen Mayor Gaynor was compelled to call a meeting of the board to be held Mon day to choose a committee to investi gate the police departmont and its re lations with the gamblers. Alderman Curran. who headed the demand for an aldermauic investigation, declarer that this work will not interfere, either with the district attorney's probe, now going on, or with tho committee of eiticenf, organization of which was begun to day. Fugitives Surrounded, Burna detectives today surrounded Harry Harowita, known as "Gip the Blood," and "Lefty" Louie at a sum mer resort near Boston. "Pago Frank" and ''Whitoy" Lewis, the (Continued on Page Three.)