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Mlf WEATHER TODAY. I fPffl U 4 iT " I H thu"d?h;';dai'! Thu"- -ig 4 ng. VV'S T fit Vlil4 ll HV d dooley. . jfe Salt Lake Metal Prices. fft jE HE FX 5 111 W ijjf" I IaII ft' ( P 7 I I 1 I H I I M IL' His discour6e On summer resorts voL. LXXXVI1, NO, 101. SALT LAKE CITY, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1913. ' 14 PAGES FIVE CENTS I n e Hundred and 1 jj Twenty-nve Employ r'ffees Trapped by Fire uSin Factory of Clothing w Company at Bing Ijihampton, N. Y.; Build- Sjing Is Quickly Con- & S -j sumed. S JANY GIRLS JUMP iS I FROM WINDOWS a j I ;)f the Fifty Injured a jK Number will Die; Fire f .men Do Heroic Work 1 ui fand Save Adjoining buildings; Property J tS Loss Estimated at t! 231,000; Twenty 3g Nine Bodies Taken From Ruins. SWif ?Intcrn.T,tlonal News Service. b' 5INGIJAMT0iV, N. Y., July 22. ilea $ , , 'Kid;; :ty-two persons, jiiosL of tliem woni- and girls, and all employed in the imc, tinder-box factory of the JBing- .fl intou Clothing company, died in a fire gjj? ch swept that, building this after- tojjjj u. Fifty moro persons were injured. Is qzen of them fatally. ties Che girls, who had become annoyed 3E0 uo frequent fire drills, thought the ft: ullicl1 soun(le(1 aL 2:30 o'clock afternoon was only another drill Jr cver' ,lVCMU0 f escape to moat Jy.hc women employees before they ',ljzcd that their lives were actually of'ipnngei-. ;Bb far only two of the dead have .!n identified. They aro: MffARY WHITE, M years old; both ' brokcu and internally injured; 'SB at l,osl)it;il jLLEN FUTjMER, 2.' years old; fa ieWlflJ' burned; died in hospital. StlWff1 bodies Recovered. hi wenty-nine bodies have been taken n tho ruins, and according to the t& P careful estimates that can be made lepii bis hour, there are twenty-one bodios 5iiebV )he ruins. f tfc1 (-"le mau-' 2irls lost their lives bo ffeSti je they did not heed tho alarm of ,be & it seems certain that tho narrow i tyflkpz-y and inadequate fire escapes &e Jd nt have furnished sufficient f06eCfces of egress in such a fire had the 'evidaCeinployecs responded promptly to sea tjBall. tbeJr an ono f ne persons in ,'t Vbuilding escaped death or serious - he ne hospitals of jbhis city dMany homes and privato institu 1Cn hUBG the fifty injured. Vbund the scone of the catnstropho Pljpan(is are tonight, watching the rtjPen an3 police as they are work G Iffeir "way through the hot ruins, . b' tnTee great searchlights, iBt cing fche bodies of the dead. Muny ?rf?e great thro"g are relatives and a 9ci?dB tbe n"ss5nS anrl only the rdlBly-drawn police lines restrain them rushing into tho ruins. SfljJ rching the Ruins. ?0ZCn Rtreams of water aro pouring 'jjtJtf he fier' Pit; that a few hours ago w ;no cellar of the factory. Firemen iins ntrate tho streams on one spot un lfeoiS PiB coolcd sufficiently for men to ho Vpi forward nnd prosecute the search wltWj ? dead. They cannot work long tbeof - Btreani and inteuse heat, but oc ,fal1 a body is fi"id in the eflson!l afc 2:30 o'clock this afternoou :&?p Bennet, an employee of the ,I0jM Baw a wisP of smoko ascend- be', le stairway from tho first floor. r mptly sounded tho alarm. "It? $ rfVate fire alarni BystGnx wii8 tlrtl tw n,ontlls flf? at ne sug fAllk of Slnte 'ro Marshal Ahearn, -jVff 0win his instructions, there had 1 W5KefIuont firo drills too frequent, 'l m ?mplyees thought. eo&mPTht many of whom work bv y 5tSSKSe' , when abscnfc from dutv, t of Kthe loss of none too large earn thflt l!!ilhfl "re test was sonnded on e5f f0onnued on PaHe Two.) 1 f"EN empowered, to order great railroad strike : rJL Lgft- t0 riit, A. B. Garretson, president of tie order of railroad conductora, and W. G. Lee, president of tke trotLernood of trainmen, upon wkose decision will depend wliefcker 100,003 trainmen and conductors employed on 42 railroads operating east of tne Mississippi will strike. ERIE DECIDES TO SUBMIT TO BOARD This Is Construed as Signal Victory by EmployeesWho Want Increased Wages. By Intemational News Sorvice. NEW YORK, July 22. The S2.000 union conductors and trainmen on the eastern railroads who arc fighting for a 20 per cent increase in wages, won a signal victory today when the man agement of the Eric railroad agreed to abide b.y the decision of the proposed board of arbitration. The Erie some days ago withdrew its representation from the managers' com mittee, which is acting for the fort' thrcc railroads involved. , Since that time the Erie ofiicials have persistently refused to consider tho demands of the employees. This situation created a deadlock be tween the union leaders and the man agers' committee, which the board of mediation found it impossible to break. The mediators informed Vico Presi dent J. C. -Stewart of tho Erie that thoy saw no way of averting the bijr Btrike unless the management of tho road would mate tho concession concerning arbitration demanded by the unions. Mr. Stewart promptly communicated the facts of the situation to President Underwood, who is having a vacation at Wauwatosa, Vi3, Tonight tho me diators were informed that a favorable reply had been received from President Underwood. i MUCH OPPOSITION TO BURLESON'S ORDER 1 WASHINGTON, July 2. Concerted opposition has developed in congress to Postmaster. General Burleson's order re ducing -parcel post rates awl Increasing the maximum size or packages to be handled In the service. Tho order was Issued Sunday, to become effective Au gust 15. and today the senato postofflce committee requested Mr. Burleson to ap pear before the coirqnlLtce next Thursday with an explanation of the authority for hlB action. This was the first stop in what prom ises to be a bluer contest. When the K l?mis expected to undertake to 3v ? hL ? m.fly dalm, consres-H has slven "'m to change ratea and sizes. Freedom for Life Termers. WASHINGTON, (JuIy 22. T. A. Keat ing, Arthur Hewitt, Bob Clark and Gil bert Mulllns, snrvins life imprisonment sentences for the murder of a guard in the "Leavenworth; penitentiary In 1001, when thoy with twenty-two other pris ?JVLIBi ni"tlnkd atl(I escaped, will be ro eascd after the expiration of a year if ri o?!,lil?u?,r?,n thclr t'ood behavior. Piesidont Wilson so commuted their io tired the shot which killed tho guard, ho department of Justice reports that It Ih reusonfibly certain that these four did not commit the deed. Takes Poison by Mistake. TUCSON. Ariz., July 22.-Cnarlo8 J. Ames of New York, owner of consider able mining -proporty in. Mexico, died here onlng "S rCSUlt ot a(;(Jldental uoia- HAYDEN DESIGNS 1 WHITESLAVE CASES Criticisms of Associate Gov ernment Counsel Cause Him to Withdraw. WASHINGTON, July 22. Thomas E. Haydou of San Francisco, associate counsel for tho government in the Diggs-'Caminetti white slave caso, against whom vigorous protests re cently were made on the ground that he was too inexperienced as a criminal law3-cr to participate in tho case, today tendered his resignation to Attoruoy General McRcynoldB. Mr. Ilayden asked to bo relieved bo cause ho said ho found he would bo obliged to be absent from California a good part of the trial. The attorney general will not appoint a successor, but the case will be prosecuted by At torneys Sullivan and Roche, tho gov ernment's principal counsel. Hayden had been considered for the Sau Francisco district attorneyship to succeed John L. McNab, but Attorney General McRcyuolds today said the ap pointment was still wide open. SHOOTS STEPMOTHER AND KILLS HIMSELF KNOX, lnd July 22. -Martin Stras burger, son of Frank Strasburger, a wealthy Chicago manufacturer, yesterday shot his stepmother through the head, and then committed suicide, at the sum mer home of his father on Bass lake, near here. Mrs. Strasburger Is not expected to live. No cause lor the shooting has been learned, as neighbors said there had been no hard feeling between the young man and his stepmother. The father heard the shot while work ing In the garden, lie started on a run to the house( and met his wife near the door. She fell In his arms. According to Bass Lake authorities, young Strasburger had' been drinkirig hard. It is believed that his excessive use of alcohol caused him to become mentally deranged. FATAL EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE IN POCKET POUGUKEEPSHE, N. Y., July 22. A stick of dynamite In the hip pocket of Martin Funk exploded and blew lilm to pieces when lie fell today during a plny ful wrestling match with his brother. Rowland Funk, the brother, had his loft hand blown off. Washout Stops Traffic. RAWIjINS, Wyo., July 22 Two transcontinental Union Pacific trains were stalled her last night as tho result of tho washout of all bridges betweon here and Ferris, three miles to the west, late this afternoon. The flood, which was fol lowed by a storm that plied hailstones a foot and a half deep In tho vicinity of Ferris, flooded the lower part of Rawlins, driving the residents to tho rooftops, and for a time put. all telegraph and 'telephone wires out of commission. Salt Lakers in New York. Special to The Tribune. NFW YORK, July 22. Ansonla, 1,. Flmon: Impfrlnl, A. Rosenthal, Mrs. A. Rlvsenthal; Park Avenue, W. M. Brower. Albert E. Daugulse. Interstate Commerce Com mission Refuses Right to 5 Per Cent Increase in Freight Tolls. MUST NOT FAVOR BIG CORPORATIONS Practice of "Allowances" to Large Industrial Concerns Ordered Discontinued; Will Benefit Public. By International News Service. WASHINGTON. July 22. Tho answer of the interstate commerce commission to the application of the railroads cast of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Polomoc rivers, for permission to make a general increase of 5 per cent on freight rates, will be as follows: First The application will be denied. Second All railroads will be ordered to discontinue making "allowances" to cer tain favored big industrial combinations. The effect of this will be to relieve the general public of the necessity of pay ing the additional $42,000,000 a year, which the railroads In official classifications ter ritory are asking for, and to strip cer tain big corporations of a sum ranging between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 an nually. The necessity of such an order has been under consideration by the commission for some time. During tho past few months it has secretly made an investiga tion to determine Just the extent to which the practice of making "allowances" to industrial short lino railroads, owned by manufacturing concerns, is prevalent. Commission Has Facts. The commission is now in possession of the names of the firms which roceivo these allowances or rebates or discrim inatory rates, and in addition it has the names of the railroads which pay them, the amounts received by the favored in dustrial corporations and something of tho extent to which the practice injures the competing manufacturers, who are not In a position to enter into such ar rangements. In a large number of instances it is claimed the practice amounts to extor tion. Tho railroads are compelled by the demands of competition to make al lowances to the manufacturer for his part in transferring his product over his own insignificant trackage to the Junc tion where the regular railroad takes up his cars. Where several railroads are bidding for such a manufacturers' busi ness, the one which makes the most Jib oral allowance usually gels the freight. Railroads Will Approve. In view mainly of this fact, it is ex pected that tho answer that the commis sion will give the railroads' application will meet with their approval and co opoiutlon and will do away with the most important of existing practiocs in the railroad business without tho necessity of prosecution. The railroads arc asking for tho 5 per cent Increase on the ground that they must have increased revenue to pay their largo operating expenses, nnd particularly to pay the higher wages demanded by their employees a demand which almost precipitated a paralyzing strike a lew days ago and which is now being arbitrated under a- special act of congress. In rough figures, the per cent i Inoreaso asked by the railroads in the I territory' east of Chicago would add $42, 000,000 to their revenue. The recent demands of their employees for wages equal to those paid railroad workmen in tho western and southern territory would take $17,000,000 of that amount. Saving of Expense. Under the order which the interstate commerce commission will issue they will get moro than $42,000,000 by simply cut ting off an Improper expense, and corre spondingly the favored trusts nnd combi nations that have been mulcting them of the amount will bo dcprive'cl of it. The railroads will bo placed In a posi tion to pay their employees the living " o " uwiiaiiu, mi: utilizer ui a tre mendous strike will be avoided, and the whole thing will be accomplished without the shippers and through them the gen eral public being required to pav more for the transportation of the necessities of life. And this means thai another boost In the cost of living, which would mean hard ships to millions of families, will be pre vented. A. search through the reports of the In terstate commerce commission during n period of about, a year past, reveals a growing realization on tho part of the commissioners of the tremendous advan tages gained by pome favored corporations by means of ''allowances" obtained from the railroads nnd the need of stringent new regulations to. place nil manufactur ers on an equal basis. Harlan Starts Investigation. A year ago Commissioner Harlan dis cussed the subject generallv to some ex tent on the opinion on tho tap lino which has to do specifically, however, with the lumber railroads. Incidentally, Commis sioner Harlan was in charge of the Inves tigation Just made into tho condition In the official classification territory. No longer ago than last month the com- (Continued on Pago Two,) MASSACRE OF Feared 16 Have Been Mur dered in Madera, Chihuahua, in Revenge for Death of Bandits. MORMON COLONISTS FIGURE IN VENDETTA Said by U. S. Consul to Have Caused Attack in Which Marauders Were Shot to Death. Special to The Tribune. EL PASO, Tex., July 22. Auti Americanism has broken out in the American Mormon colonies in Western Chihuahua as a result of what Ameri can Consul T. D. Edwards declares to be the acts of Jesse Williams, a Mor mon of Colonia Chihuahua, and his two brothers. Since the colonics have been deserted Williams has been employed at Babi cora'on the famous Hearst ranches as a cowboy. While working there he dis covered that a part of the Mexican band of bandits which had been ter rorizing the country were encamped be hind a hill on the Hearst ranch. He gave the warning at the ranch house and an attack was made on the Mexi cans, who had killed and were eating a beef. Two of tho Mexicans were killed and two wounded in tho engage ment which followed. Williams and his men were forced to seek protection in Madera, where tho big- hi mborm ills of the Poarson syndi cate arc located. Because they were given shelter there the Mexicans swore vengeance against all Americans in the district. They have besieged them in their houses, have threatened the mills and say thoy will kill every American in the entire district in revenge for the killing of their comrades. As there is no telegraph line at Madero to the bor der tho Americans here have not been able to get any ' information from Ma dero and it is feared that all of the sixteen American families in that town have been killed b' the Mexicans. FAMOUS WORK OF ART IS RECOVERED Said To Be One of a Collection of Valu able Relics Stolen in Athens. BALTIMORE, Md July 22. What is believed .to be one of- a collotition of valuable relics stolen from tho National Museum in AthenB fifteen years ago was ducr up today from the cellar of Charlea'Kemphers, a Greek confectioner at Hampdon, a suburb. It is a piece of sculptured niarblo, supposedly the bust of a boy about five years of age. Dr. Alexander C. Vouros, Groek. charge at Washington, and George T. Thomaidcs, legation counsel, cam to Baltimore late today and took the bust to Washington, whore it will be held ponding advices from Athens, .Dr. Voiyos said ho did not know the details of the theft. The Etatue was considered bo valuable by his govern ment that thousands were spent in search of it. "The actual value of tbo statue as a work of art, probably is not so groat," Dr. Vouros said, "but it has great sentimental and historical value. We do not know exactly how old it is, but it is said to be more than 3000 ycaTs old.' Nemphor, who had been arrested on a technical charge of reoeiving stolon good, was roleased aftor he had waived claim to tho relic. POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF TOLSTOI UNDER BAN ST. PETERSBURG. July -22. Emperor Nicholas has approved of the decision of the holy synod to destroy the three posthumous works of Count Leo Tolstoi, .on tlie ground that they are unorthodox comments on tho Old Tostainont. Tho protest of Count Tolstoi's relatives against such, action has proved unavailing. I Sixteenth Death Occurs. ! LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 22. Mrs. M, D. Stoney of this city died today from the effects of injuries suffered in tha Pad lie railroad wreck at Vineyard sta tion, July 13. Iler's was the slxteanth death resulting from the train collision. Nelson Bennett Dead, T A COMA, Wash,. July 22. Nelson Dennett, aged 70, railroad builder and banker and at one time owner of the Tacoma Ledger, died today of paralysis, CL. ANDERSON, former husband of confessed slayer, who police think has left the city. RIVAL CURRENCY BIO I VIEW Creation of Eight Democratic Members of House Bank ing Committee. WASHINGTON, July 22. A rival to the administration currency bill ap peared today, the creation of eight Democratic members of the house bank ing committee, who have opposed various features of the administration bill. It is largely a rewrite of the Glass plan. Representative Ragsdalo of South Caro lina, who yesterday quit the deliberations of the committee Democrats: Representa tive Wingo of Arkansas and Representa tive Henry of Texas all had a hand In preparing the new bill. It would embody many recommendations of the old money trust investigating committee. The bill will be submitted to President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo in an In formal way. If substantial amendments make the Glass bill conform to the sug gestions of its opponents the new bill mas' not bo introduced. Democrats of the banking committee today continued their consideration of the Glass bill and Representative Ragsdale returned to the conference. BATTLESHIP OREGON TO LEAD ALL FLEET Vessels Will Be Assembled in Readiness to Sail When Oanal Is Opened. SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 22. Secre tary of the Navy' Josophus Daniels said in an interview here tonight that it was his purpose to stand on the bridge of the old battleship Oregon and lead the entire battleship fleet of the United States through the Panama canal and thence up the Pacific const. The voyage would be made, he said, as soon us Colonel Goethals gave the word that the fleet could steam through the water way. Secretary Daniels could not predict just when tho cruise would begin, but ho said the Ueet would be assembled in readiness to sail whenever Colonel Goethals announced tho canal com pleted for the opening. Ho added that while tho plan to have the Oregon lead tlie procession -was only tentative, it was his earnest desire that the old war craft should sbow the way for tho American arniada and the navy dopartmont would attempt to carry out this idea. The secretary and Mrs. Daniels ar rived here toulght from Los Angelos and proceeded to Coronado, whore Mr. Daniels was tho guetit of honor at a banquet, while Mrs. Daniels was en tcrtninod by a committee of women. GIRL FATALLY BURNED WHILE RIDING A MOTOR ST. 'LOUIS. July 22. After witnessing two other girls narrowly escape incinera tion on tho same machine, Mrs. Minnie Daum mounted -the motorcycle of Julius Schneider of Edwardsville, III., and was burned probably fatally early today when her Bkirt took fire from the motor. Schneider became excited and lost con trol of the machine. Through tho main streets of the city it aped, with tho wom an In flames on the rear Beat, shrieking with pain and terror. At the bottom of a hill, Schneider ran the motorcycle agalns't a terrace and attempted in vain 'to beat out the flames on his passen ger's dress. C. W. Flegebaum, chief of the fire de partment, who was awakened by her screams, came to the woman's rescue with a chemical tank. Schneider had ex hibited his machine to a party of girls and Invited them for rides. The skirts of the two who preceded Mrs. Daum took fire, but 'the blaze speedily was extinguished each time. Former Husband of Mrs. Min nie Ekman Disappears After Borrowing Money From Friends. fl INSPECTOR CARLSON I AIDING DETECTIVES H Attention Turned to Man When Testimony of Express man in Preliminary Hear- ing Was Examined. fl The police are making assiduous inquiry as to the whereabouts of C. L. Xnderson, the first husband of Mrs. Minnie Ekman, arrested with her in Ogden on Juno 2S, after the body of Mrs. Ekman's murdered child, Frances Violet Williams, had been found In a trunk at the union station Developments during the preliminary hearing of tho confessed murderess redi- rected the suspicion of members of the department toward Anderson, who was released from custody the day after the pair were brought here. So far as could be learned yesterday by Inspector Carl A. Carlson, Andorson had not been seen in Salt Lake since Saturday, the day after Mrs. Ekman was ordered bound over to the district court. The fur ther discovery was made yesterday that Anderson had for some timo been borrow ing money from Finns and other friends who believed his story that ho was wealthy, strengthened the suspicion of tlie police. Investigation Started. The testimony which is said to hae agitated Anderson as he sat in the police court at the preliminary hearing of his wife, and which set the police investlgal- ing again, was given by H. S. Wright, an expressman. Wright testified,, according to reports made, that he was engaged by jl Anderson to haul the trunk of Mrs. Ek man from her rooms to the St. Albans hotel; that Anderson told him not, to hurry as he had not yet roped the trunk and that Anderson also insisted that the trunk must be placed proper side up and nut jH left standing upon end. The police ex- pect to order a transcript of Wright's testimony made today. IH Anderson visited the county Jail Sat- urday afternoon In company with J. H Johnson, Mrs. Ekman's attorney, but was no allowed to see the woman during the consultation between her and her lawyer, fl .Mrs. Ekman, during tho renewed search for her first husband, has been spending IH her time in her cell, cither moodily silent jJ or singing with tho full strengUi of her voice, songs both in English and in Fin- IH nish, her mother tongue. Tell of Making Loans. Two well known saloon proprietors yes- H torday told of having lent Anderson mon- H ey, the one $15 and the other $10. The H loans had been extended with the under- IH standing that they would be returned H within a few days. Anderson, according to the leaders, instead of returning H the money as agreed, went to one H of the lenders for a further cash ac- jH commqdation and was refused. His ex- H planation whenever borrowing was that JH ho had not yet been able to get money IH from the east or from California where he IH claimed to have property to the value of H Several things conspired to divert the IH suspicion of the police from Anderson un- H 111 recently. At the time of his release, H he had been entirely exhonorated In the H confession of Mrs. Ekman. Ho had talked H but little himsolf and appeared to fie tell- H ing a straight story. For a considerable jH ! time after his release hs reported regu- iH larly at police headquarters and took oc- H casion to let himself be seen by officials IH of the department. He declared frequently H that he purposed to stand by Mrs. Ekman 1 through the trouble and If necessary Bpend. H all of his money in trying to free her from H the charge against her, and said that he jl believed the woman Insane,! and not a murderer before the law. Il Attorneys Engaged. Anderson at one time said that he had secured by telegram the services of At- M tornev Earl Rogers of Los Angeles, who H figured In the defense of Clarence M Da now, to defend Mrs. Ekman, This M could not be verified by a dispatch to H Los Angeles, the answer being that At- M torney Rogers was in Seattle, Wash. H Before the preliminary hearing of the H confessed slayer hod been, completed three different firms had figured in the H ca.se. Finally she was represented by jH Attorney Johnson, who did not make any jH attempt to cross-examine tho state's wit- sM nesfics or hint what line of defense IH would' be followed in the defense of the jH woman before the district court. H Some members of the police department H are inclined to think that Andorson H might have loft town for work or to re- M plcnlsh his purse until he could secure H money from his property. This Idea finds M justification in the fact that he spoke fM or getting a job after the preliminary fM hearing should have been finished. H Believe Man Gone. H Others wonder that the man did not pursue his usual evident purpose to be H frank and tell the police that he was H leaving and where he was going, though 'M he was not bound to do so. Of those JM who let him have money, some have bo- 'll (Continued on Page Two.)