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feS illlll l 4" jjtfr lA f'flP'Y It4 f BLONDES j XXVIlNO- 46. SALT LAKE CITY, THURSDAY MORNING,. MAY 29, 1913. 18 PAGES FIVE CENTS 9 Hit UN HS JJUIGIDE Erence Gebhardt, Once Kt of City, Takes Bby Drowning in Kke Como, Minn. RECOVERED Rfa) IS IDENTIFIED Ks the Divorced Wife Ef. George Gebhardt, Ro Was Bom and BReared Here. Kb, Minn., May 28. The Wfto' committed suicido yester Rnmiiing from a rowboat on Ko was identified nbsolutely Ervas Mrs. Florence Gebhardt, Htwfc of Professor George HffiifvUio Armour institute of KTfie identification was made Kv McDonald of Minneapolis, friend of both Professor Band lis divorced wife. K&Iiardt wrote sovcrul books Kjen name of "Helen Hale." Ill dfiys ago I was surprised frfrora Mrs. Gebhardt at my McDonald said. "She was Kg of extreme nervous excite Bdvised her to go for a week H, & sanitarium, that her ner Htm might become normal. He'd that her plrysician had Hir to take the same course." BBarriage Was Near. Hjmm, whoso name was men Kb note left by MrB. Geb Hire .she committed suicido, HgUtemont through a Minne fcicy this afternoon, in which Bat Mrs. Gebhardt and he Bave been married at Min Btnd that she came to Min Kor iliat purpose. pence Gebhardt, the divorced torge Gebhnrdt, was well Pj!ls cltV yea ago, when she ntand came here to live after pEe In Chicago, airs. Gcb H Jnalden name was Adams, Ksompllshed woman In every R-raadc many friends during fe ,ler- After residing- hero Mear8i Mr. Ceblmrdt. who was engineer, was offered an wltton In the Armour insti I?380 onl accepted thc offer. he lias made his home In RCouple's Trouble. Hjd hy closo friends of the fj city that they were ideally t number of years, but that fc.v.f . 1 beBan her literary bcsan l terminated gKe Gebhardt was born and aty, and went to the com V "ere. He then went cast K? out his education. His fa JjCebhanlt. a retired capital-BifMurray. "ATION WORK bejreorGANI2:ed ?kion to Be Elected Tor PPOso of InvoBti- BSS. MaV 28' Secretary K.!?t . f M rccent ly E2nl frtsatlon projoatB, to- KMinn m,llca, rc"-Kanlzatlon Kn Reclamation service, will K a new reclamation com- consist of flve V ht bwWcB Chairman BRi, ""nance; A. E t;:1 o reolama- 3i bS JTe other ho Bof r! V4 mE0nfl. VfJlO Will B!!8 and "nances. BJ&IN SENATE BfcrArat,C Ca"c"' enaTo'r k to the whip in the KUnL "al ocratlc tn, sWeW0- Senators fr'?ef nam"d y' Newliis M1' RS. J. C. BISHOP of New York, who is suing husband for divorce, naming society matron in her charges. - DKnt u. saiifoco Prtt. 1LLI0HE BANKER I DIVORCE SflDSL Chain of Evidence in Court to Prove His Friendship for Society Leader. By IntcrnatlonaJ News Senico. NEW YORK, May 28. A chain of evidenco intended to show that James Cunningham Bishop, millionaire' bank er, and Mrs. J. Temple Gwathmey, so ciety matron, occupied a suite of rooms at the Hotel Astor on more than one occasion was forged todaj' before Jus tice Goff in the supreme court. Mrs. A. Hancock Bishop, plaintiff in a suit for absolute divorce, sat al most in front of her husband and heard him admit scores of automobilo rides and luncheons with Mrs. Gwathmey, but deny emphatically that ho was the "Dr. J. C. Baor of Philadelphia' who registered at the notol Astor several times. Telephone girls, a maid at the ho tel, the former manager of the Bishop farm in "West Chester, and othcra tes tified for Mrs. Bishop. Tomorrow, per haps, Mr. Bishop will get a chance to give the ovidence by which, ho hopes to prove an alibi. Gertrude Berard, a maid on the sec ond floor of the Hotel Astor, was tho last witness to testify. "Yes, I have scon Mr. Bishop twice before today," sho said. "I saw him first early in November last and again about two weeks later. On both, oc casions he and a woman occupiod villa No. 272 in the Hotol Astor.' ' "Do you recognize this photo graph?" afiked Mr, .Toromo, Mrs, Bish op's attorney, taking up a large pho tograph of Mrs. Gwathmey. "Yo, that is tho woman who was with Mr. Bishop on both tho occa sions." "Mr. Bishop and Mrs. Gwnthmoy went to the farm throe times In April' said Edwin Steors. Mr. Bishop was shown the registers containing tho signatures of "Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Baer, Philadelphia." He denied writing this signaturo nnd by direction of Justice Goff and with tho consent of his own counsol, wrote hia own signaturo and tho other several times for comparison. While Mr. Bishop testified as an unwilling witness for the plaintiff, one of tho sons of Mrs. Gwathmoy sat directly in front of him. The banker admitted that ho lunched with Mrs. Gwathme3r at Now York hotels and that he accompanied her on automobilo rides. BIG COPPER SALES AT SLIGHT. DECLINE Special to The Tribune. BOSTON, Mass.. May 28. Electrolytic copper sold during thn past few days at 153 cents, representing a slight decline from tho 153-eent asking price, provalent for Bcvoral weeks. Tntrisacllons were effected by one- of tho largest selling agencies, which had boon udhcrin;? flrnily to the lGJ-ccnt level. An executive official of Chic agency stated that a fulr business had been dono during tho past few day3, the features of which was tho fact that it had prac tically all been for nearby delivery. INTEREST IS SHOWN IN AMERICAN GUESTS VIENNA, May 28. Tho Iceenoat inter est in tho American commlnnlon on agricultural organisation, co-operation and rural credits now Htudylng tho sys tem used In Europe Is belnff shown by the Austrian government and tho mu nicipality of Vienna. Tho American ombaHHiidor and Mrs. Richard C. KerenH gavo a reception to ntght In honor of the American commis sion. Two hundred gue3tH wore proG ont. Including representatives of the government, which la extending every facility to the commission to -Investigate the experimental farms, agricultural banks and municipal slock yards. Residence Between Salt Lake and Pvfarray Is Burned; Department Refuses to Respond. NEIGHBORS FORM A BUCKET BRIGADE Save Adjoining Home Afterj Hard Fight With Flames; Property Loss Estimated at Nearly $2000. Fire found a vulnerable spot beyond , the protected zone of both the Salt Lake and tho Murray flre departments short ly after 11 o'clock last night. The resi dence and storerooms of A. A. Myers, an aged junk dealer, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth South on State street, burned to the ground. Thc origin of the fire Is unknown. The home of James Brown, Immediately north, was saved by a bucket brigade of fifty residents of the neighborhood. A strong wind from the south carried the flames to the Brown residence and threatened other homes In the neighbor hood, but veered later and tho volun teer firemen deluged the roof of the Brown homo with water carried in buckets, kettles and pans until they had won a victory. lAlarms Turned in. Meantime the firemen of both the Salt Lake and the Murray departments slept undisturbed. Alarms wore turned In to both departments. Tho night duty men told their chiefs that a flre had been re ported outside of the flre districts and that ondod it as far aa the firemen were concerned. Meantime, the flames leaped high, as If In very exultation of their vantage nnd the overhanging clouds glowed until the light could be seen from all tho country round. Myers, tho owner of the placo that burned, could not. bo found at a late hour last night, but it was not thought that he had perished in tho flames. The prop orty loss In connection with the lire, It lo thought, will approach nearly $2000. "Whether or not It Is covered by insuranco could not be learned. Flro Chief Con Gallagher of Murray explained that ho refused to respond to tlhc call becauso It was outside the Mur ray lire district and there could be no ossuranco that tho city of Murray wou'd be reimbursed if tho departmont in curred the expense of a run to the flre. Neglected to Pay Bill. "Wo had a llro at the same "place about nlno months ago and responded." said Chief Gallagher. "A bill of $56 was pro aonted to the owner of tho property as a legitimate expenso of the run. but It was repudiated and never paid. That was reason enough for our not going out of our district tonlgTit when the samo prop erly wan tlnreatened." The fire was discovered by Paul Stum. 22 yea re of age, who lives at his father's resldonce, Just north of tho Brown home. All of the houses axe on tho wost side of State street. Sturn raised, an alarm. Telephones were requisitioned to notify tho fire department. The bucket brigade hod already begun to fight the onoroach ment of the flames on the Brown resi dence. Then came thc word fhat neither fire department would respond. The buckot men. redoubled their efforts and the Hue closed up, deftly paaoing vessels lllled. with water. Then the fickle nvind changed Ha direction and tho hot tongues of flame from tho Myorrs place were wafted away to tho westward. An other sally and tho bucket brigade had won their light to save the Brown home. A crowd of several hundred poroons lingered about the ruins of tho Myers placo until after 1 o'clock this morning. It .had been an Interesting flro because of the old-time methods and spirit of flro fighting that characterized It. CAMPBELL TALKS OF RECEIVERSHIP ST. LOUIS, May 28. James Campbell, vice president of the St. Louis & San Francisco and chairman of the North American company, on whoso petition the receivers for the railroad Were appoint ed, said today that "there were no dif ferences of opinion between tho present management of the Frlsoo and B. F. Yo akum, ohalrman of the board of direc tors." Mr. Yoakum," he continued, "did tho best he could under tho circumstances." It was Intimated in railroad and finan cial circles hero today that tho receiver ship would result in a contest for the ultimate control of tho property. At pres ent no furthor demands will be mado on tho foderal court for the appointment of a third receiver. Salt Lakers in Now York. Spoolnl to The Tribune. NEW YORK. May 28. At tho MoAl pln, A. B. Irvlno and wife; at th Man hnltan. T. Wlr and Mrs. T. Weir; at the mnd. J. "r. Clark .and Mrs. J, W. Clark. i stSi Chairman of Great Corpora tion Says Question of Ob taining Monopoly Was Never Discussed. HELD CONFERENCE WITH J. P. MORGAN All Morgan Wanted to Know: "Was It a Good Business Proposition?" Carnegie's Threat Not Mentioned. NEW YORIv, May 2S Judge El bert H. Gary, chairman of the "United States Steel corporation and the man who conducted many of tho negotia tions which led to its organization, de clared on tho witness stand today that neither he nor the late J. P. Morgan nor anybody elso concerned had ever discussed during these negotiations tho question of obtaining a monopoly in the steel industry or of suppressing competition. Judge Gary was testi fying as a witness for the defense in a suit to dissolve the corporation un der the Sherman anti-trust law. The witness spent tho entire day in a recital of tho circumstances which led to tho formation of tho corpora tion and endeavored to show that the solo purpose that actuated its organ izers was to obtain "a rounded out, self-contained proposition, complete in every phase, of manufacture, from the mining of oro to the production of di versified finished products in the mills, with tho ability to reduce costs to the most economical basis." "Our aim," he said onlphatically, "has been to extend trade and to fos ter competition and we have dono that.w With equal emphasis Judge Gary de nied that tho steel corporation had boon overcapitalized as alleged by the government. Tho various properties acquired "wcro all worth tho price that was paid for them," he declared, while tho oro properties of tho Lake Superior Consolidated iron mines, John D. Rockef oiler's concern, wcro ob tained, "it has o.nco been proved, at a vorv low price." As to Organization. Ho denied that the Federal Steel com pany, the nucleus around which tho cor poration was formed, was a monopoly In Itself, as alleged by the government. The organization of tho corporation was pre cipitated, Judge Gary said, by the do slro of tho Federal Steel company to per fect a "rounded out" organization. This opportunity came when Andrew Carnegie offered to sell tho Cnrncglo Steel com pany. Charlos M. Schwab, ho said, out lined to Mr. Morgan tho advantages of acquiring the Carnegie property. Mr. Morgan was "Impressed" and called in the directors of the Federal Steel com pany. Judge Gary described tho meeting of tho directors at Mr. Morgan's office and laid emphasis on tho financier's desire to know whother It "was a good business proposition," and that nothing concerning tho suppression of competition was said. 'The acquisition of other properties was propoEed and adopted, and Judgo Gary testified how each fitted into tho plan of a "self-contained organization." Threat Not Mentioned. "Was tho alleged threat of Andrew Carnegie to go into tho steel tube busi ness discussed or alluded to by Mr. Mor gan or anyone oIbo?" "It was not," said tho witness. Judge Gary wild that ho would not deny that competition existed "to some ex tent between the Carnegie company and the Illinois Steel company, a subsidiary of the Foderal Steel company," "The Carnegie company did sell rails In tho Chicago district lower than the IllinolH." ho testified, "and could do what thoy camo near doing at one time forc ing tho Illinois company into the hands of a recolver and tho Illinois could retal iate "But 1 don't think that was tho kind of competition that should bo considered. Bach company had a natural territory of Its own nnd they wore not In competition in the bulk of their products. They lapped ovor. but. the competition was In cidental." V To "Eomombor tho Matno." NEW YOUIv, May 2S. Ton battleships of tho Atlantic fleet arrived hero today to honor the memory of thoir lost sister, tho Maine. On Memorial day their crews will take part In the dedication of tho national Maine monument ut the Colum bus circle entrance to Central park. The battleship flout steamed slowly up the harbor tonight, Its units quietly slipping Into thn berths assigned thorn In thc Hudson rlvor, IIS JAPAN IT MIGHT FIGHT KTEMOHLD London Standard Advises England's Ally to Go Slow on Making Race Ques tion an Issue. DECLARES JAPANESE DRIVE OUT ALIENS "Race Feeling Plays No Small Part in Their Attitude To ward the Foreigner," Says Journal. LONDON, May 29. In an editorial on the California situation thc Stan dard advises Japan to deal with the question as a purely business matter, rather than to import into it senti ments of offended racial and national pride. "As thc allies of Japan and the firm friends of tho United States the British people would deem it a mis fortune of the first magnitude if the negotiations left behind fecllngB of exasperation on either side' it says. Tho Standard proceeds to show that tho occidental world is interested in tho larger aspocts of the question raised by the California land law. In British Columbia no less than in Cali fornia, fooling against tho sottloraont of Japanese and Chinese is strong. Australian democracy has its own very docided views on tho Biibject, evon if tho danger of a Japanese invasion is not great. Dangerous Precedent. But, tho paper adds, the precedent of unrestricted admission would be dangerous should awakening China demand tho same privileges, because a Chinese is a most efficient machine, and has learned through a grim strug gle for existenco in his own over populated country tho secret of sub sisting on a minimum. The Standard adds: These considerations should bo borne In mind whon the Japanese talk indignantly of the California attitude as an Insult to their nation. The Japanese, If thoy have under gone a self-examination, must be conscious that race feeling plays no small part In their attitude towards the foreigner. Living in Glass House. The desire "to tako It out of the foreigner" in matters of business is confined to no one class In Japan. In no country are the Judges and magistrates less inclined to show partiality and sometimes even baro Justice, to foreigners' clalmn. No peoplo aim more successfully to squeeze out foreigners who are striving to mako a living among them. The Japanese are therefore ad vised to go slow in making an Issuo of the race question, which If al lowed to develop, would oblige Ja pan eventually to face tho united western world. It la unthinkable that Great Brit ain could view with indifference any disposition on the part of her present allies to attack America. Between . the peoplo of tho great republic and ourselves there are tics of blood and common interests which could under no circumstances be disregarded. SIEGEUS DEATH WAS DUE TO ACCIDENT BALTIMORE. May 28. Baltimore rela tives of Alfred U. Siegol of Salt Lake City, the university student who was shot and killed at South Bethlehem, Pa., last Saturday, sold today that thoy had re ceived advices which satisfied them that the young man's death was duo to an ac cident and was not a case of suicide as reported. Wilson's Brother Gots Position. BALTIMORE, Md.. May 2S. Joaoph It WHson, brother of the president, haa ac cepted the position with a lending bond ing company whose headquarters are here. It was announced today. His title, It was said, would be asslstunt manager of the New York offlco and manager of thc promotion and development depart ment In Baltimore. Old Confederate Dies. WASHINGTON. May 28. General Lunsford T... Lorn ax, one of the oldest surviving genorals of the confederate cavalry, died here today, 79 years old. ITo was an Intimate friend of General Robert E. Leo and served with distinc tion In many noted engagements. He will be buried at Warrenton, W, Va., to morrow, j l STEPHEN K. STILWELLi former New York state' senator, who has been con-! victed on bribery charge and" sentenced to prison. ,' IS SENT TO KM Stephen K. Stilwell Convicted of Bribery and Sentenced to Sing Sing: NEW YORK, May 2S. Former Stato Senator Stephen K. Stilwell, convicted of bribery by a jury last week aftor he had been exonerated by the New York stato senate, was sentenced to day to serve not less than four 3'cars nor more than eight in Sing Sing prison. Supremo Court Justico Seabury, who presided at Stilwell 's trial, pronounced sontonce and granted a sta' of execu tion in order that tho cdnvicted sena tor's lawyers might apply for a certifi cate of reasonable doubt. No trace of emotion crossed Stilwell '6 face aB ho heard his sontence. Justice Seabury's words had hardl' died away beforo Stilwell was led back to the Tombs. He smiled at friends and sympathizers who crowded closo to thc railing as he was walked nwa'. Stilwell, Btate senator from tho Bronx, was convicted of attempting to obtain $3500 from George II. Kendall, president of the Now York Banknote compan', for favorable consideration by tho senate and assemb' codes commit tees of a bill to make illegal discrimi nation against banknote companies by stock exchanges. Kendall refused to pay and laid his case beforo Governor Sul zcr, who called on Stilwoll to resign. This Stilwoll declined to do. The sen ate investigated tho charges, heard Kendall and other witnesses and exon erated Stilwell by a vote of 28 to 21 after ho had mado an emotional plea in his own behalf. Thereafter tho case was placed, by Governor Sulzor's in structions, in tho hands of District At-torne- Whitman. Stilwell appeared beforo the grand jury after signing a waiver of immunity. Tho convicted senator is 4S years old and had been long in politics. His conviction automatically removed him from tho sennto. NORTHERN BAPTISTS CONCLUDE SESSION DETROIT, May 2S, On0 of tho last mattors which came up before tho Northern Baptist convention, which concluded its annual meeting here this afternoon, was the report of an Ameri can Baptist Historical socioty. The ro port, which was adopted, provides for a centennial celebration of the estab lishment of tho Baptist foreign mis sionary work to bo hold in conjunction with tho Northern Baptist convention nt Boston uoxt year. ART TREASURES TO BE VIEWED BY PUBLIC N13W YORIC. May 2S. Thc art treas ures collected by the late J, P. Morgan are to be placed on vlnw for thc American public as soon as arrangements have been completed, It was announced today at tho Metropolitan Museum of Art. The objects, numbering about 4S00, will be exhibited temporarily in ono of thp mu seums, according to present plans. Precedents to the Right 98 of Him, Authorities to 9 the Left of Him, Law- jn yers in Front of Him ffl Volley and Thunder, jg While Colonel Squirms 9 and Talks Eloquently II to Himself. jfl POINT OF LAW I FRETS HIM SORE I His General Reputation 11 for Sobriety Can Be In- ij quired Into, But News- 11 paper Articles on the it Subject Will Be Ex- 1 eluded; John Callan M O'Laughlin a Witness. If By RIOHAED HENRY LITTLE. HI MARQUETTE. Mich., May 2S. j Colonol ."Roosevelt spent one of the un- ; B happiest days of his life today. Thero m was a fight on. Tt raged all around -fflj: him, but ho could not got in it. His j attorneys and thc lawyers for Editor jfi Nowett, who is being sued because he J m published the statement' that the j colonel was a drunkard, fought for I H hours ovor a point of law. Thoy hurled precedents and modern instances at 8 each other and pled, orated, explainod, JI expounded, objected and refuted with ml scorn. The' stood so close to Colonel 8 Roosevelt that ho could have reached f i B out and touched them while they 8j glared at each other and waved their k hands in thc air and made thc stained "t Ml glass dome echo with their eloquence. fj! Ckained to His Scat fl m While Figkt Rages. - 1 And Colonel Roosevelt, who has said Sj a thousand times that he loves a fight, I II had to sit like poor old Tantalus, l chained to the rock whilo the brim- ml ming cup of glorious strife wu3 raised jj Si often to his lips and as often dashed f fij The colonel showed he wanted to go jj into the fray. Ho squirmed and wrig- Si gled in hia chair and got up sev- T vl oral times and bent over his conuBel S fct and whispered to them. When his s lawyers talked thc colonol Ponietimos 1 moved his lips, repeating over some- ?j thing which ho would like- to say if he "j jlf only could, and then he would nod his j head in approval. When the opposing (j$ counsel were on their feet declaiming ,j ji with vohemence, their attitude on thc ?i h point of law under discussion, Colonel 6jj Roosevelt often frowned a vigorous dls- ' m sent. 3 fi Law Point Tics U Ml Case Four Hours. wmi It was a hard place for the colonel. j fRJS He was even denied the privilege of I Sal pouring tho words that arose in him ' 9R into" tie sympathetic ears of "Jimmio" j ffflS Garliold or Jacob Riifl, for by order of J Hi the court yesterday all the witnesses wero banished from the courtroom un- mBS til they should bo called to tostify. m Mr, Riis testified yesterday, but ho left f HI town last night, and tho only adherout S Hro lnft in close attendance on tho colonel IHi was '110" Sloan, the eecrot sor- mm vice man. il 1 The point of law which tied up the f j S celebrated case of Roosovolt va. Newett 8 for something ovor four hours occurred S ' B while J. C. O-'Laughlin, a Washington I newspaper correspondent, was on tho f.'. R stand. When it was finally ended and Mr g the jury returned to their seats Mr. f t O'Laughlin completed his tostimony P and Gilsou Gardner, another Washing- $ gj ton correspondent, who testified yes- ' W terdny, was rccnllcd for furthor quca- 8 j tiouing. Ho wus followed by L. V. 1 M Curtis, a correspondent for the Asso- 5! Bfc ciatcd Press. Members of Colonel 43 Hs Roosevelt's tonni3 cabinet wero called, HalF but beforo Robert Bacon, formerly as- Sffla sistaut socrotary of stato. and Truman Jljffr- Newberry, former secretary of the ThjKiii navy, had testified, court adjourned for jSSt thc day. 1 6 ! Offer Newspapers 1 Jht As Evidence. i Ji Tho point whirdi ciihsed the long do- 1 m bate between counsol wu.i as to whether 1 J 1 or Jiot "general'' reports that Colonel jv fn Roosevelt usod liquor to excess was nd- !; ; missiblc. The defense maintained that ,s tho common talk of tbo people in i (Continued on Page Fonr.j L