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V4ociockP.in. (Th e (ft rr )t n ta it iurrfr l f if v mtmn V Vl 11 V V I rpK VI I IV U IU, . I I VfiX 3uJLa.fi. vill I """"' FREEZING TEMPERATURE IN If W J J HIGH DISTRICTS; TUESDAY FA,R I FEARLESS, INDEPENDENT. PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER. I y j I rw-twrd v,-No. ,ie-PHc."r,v. c.n. ' OGDEN CITY UTAH; MONDAY EVENING, MAY 19, TiI Ed s.cnd.c.. , pw. o,n. ... I y JOHNSON SIGNS i ALIEN LAND BILL age ice to ij California Executive Attaches Signature to Measure Regardless of Remonstrances of the m it, 7 President and Secretary of State, and the Vio aifc lent Protests of Japan il aad I . I ACT GOES INTO EFFECT WITHIN NINETY DAYS g United States Will Deliver the Reply to the K Japanese Note as Soon as the Official Notifi- cation of the Signing Has Been Received Wilson and Bryan Hold a Short Conference S . Sacramento, Cal . Mag 19. Governor Johnson signed todaj the alien land bill, againsl which Japan protests and winch the California l''?i:-lat hit ,,-(vs,, i,-, hii overwhelming majority over the n kLl monstrances of President Wilson an. I Secretary Bryan The ad will SB. go into effort 00 days from date, or on A u pi si 17. I Johnson's Statement. Sacramento, Cal , Mav 10 Gov lf C ernor Johnson, after signing the bill lajlj gave out the following statement 'I repeat what I have before said StodT That California for the first time in Its history has an anti-alien law An a0u"j! man who wishes another kind of law ndc Gc tvl- consistently invoke the initia te UTl tlve No man who rejlh wishes an anti-alien law will sign a referendum jjj r- us to this law "If another law la sought, it ma he presented by means of the initia ls tlve and In the meantime the present law will be in operation. To tie up the -J present law mean? no law until No ,IIV eaiber, 1914." Wilson and Bryan Confer. Ctfd ft Washington. May If' Now that rtjjHi Governor Johnson has signed the antl ' ' alien land law against which Japan is protesting tin- next stage in the dip lomatk negotiations will be the formal delivery of the reply of the Unit d States to the Japanese note The communication has been considered bv President Wilson and the cabinet n r ii i- understood has been w-Llh r '-lield from delivery 'o Un Jrrpensw Hi l : i ;"'nr only to ,.v. ( mm .tuo. nil Johnson's signing ihe bill r When Secretary Brvan heart! through ihe news dispatches that Gov ernor Johnson had signed the bill, DC went over to the executive offices for ipjja! a short conference with President Wilson When he came Uoin ttie president's office. Secretary Bryan an nounced that the formal reply of the i i United States to the Japanese pro- test would be delivered as soon as official notification of the slsnini; of the bill had been received Mr Bryau expects a telegram from Governor - Johnson. DF nr. PENALTY FOR S A MURDERER ftl "Happy Jack" Mul raney Goes to His Death With a Smile on His Face Bids Good bye to Becker and Gunmen Inmates of flll the Death Cells iiqP Osslning, X Y May 19. John Mulmney, who was to hac been put to death as a murderer on March 17, hut won a sixty-days reprieve by de- I clarlng in an appeal to the governor that he was going to his death as the irt mnrtyr of a criminal code of honor. " was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison Bi earh today Happy lack" as be was known to PAvl hlj rr,rnr;i,,r"' 'iu,r'' o ""' ;,s' !n'' smile that had won him his nlck- t name ami called back to Ihe other Inmates of the death cells a cheerful Koodbje Charles Becker, the former New York police lieutenant and the gunmen Involved with him In the Rosenthal murder were among thi ii. fourteen who answered The murder of vvh'c.h "Happy Ja h I was convicted waa that of Patrick J MeBreen, known as 'Paddy the I Priest," a New York saloonkeeper. who was shot while standiug behind his bar on the night of Ocffber 3, 1911 W PROTECTING STRIKERS Silk Mill Operatives March to Work by Way of a Lane of In dustrial Policemen Workers Fail to Keep Employes Away From Work Patcrson, N". J.. May 19 Through a lane of police two blocks lone twent , hands. lormcty employ ed by i h.- silt, mill uf the rthur Price compam went back to work today after a Btrike Of more than two months. Hundreds of pickets of the Industrial Workers of the World sought to prevent tliMir return, but the police guard was too effective, There was ,i lively Bi r i ni mage for a time and sixty pickets were arrested. The Price mill is a comparativel small one, employing normally thirt hands. The return of its strikers with demands unsatisfied is heralded b sympathisers as meaning the near end of lh- strike The leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World on the other hand maintain that the Ugh will go on unabated and that few others will yield. oo VICTIM OF STARVATION Death of Woman Solves the Mystery of Fashionable Resi dence at Yonkers Old Couple in Abject Poverty Find Body in Rags Yonkers. X Y, Mav 19 In the spacious residence occupied b her- self and her brother on a fashionable residence street here, Ada Dunscomb, a mlddle-agpd spinster was foumi dead lant night, a victim of starvation according to Coroner Dunn Thert was no food In the house The au-! thoriiles stepped Into the case when a physician whom Whitney Duns j comb Jr., sixty years old. the woman's brother, had summoned, found Mrs. I Dutibcomb dead on a couch in her bi ilroom, her body clad in rags The Dunsrornh residence has been n house of mysterj to the neighbor for the twelve years since the family moved here, the blinds always being drawn, no sersantH being employed and no one ever being seen to visit the mansion. The officials who vis- LEAGUE BASEBALL Every Day This Week MISSOULA vs. GDEN I Al Glerawood Park ni 8 Game Called al 3:15 p. m. I K j LAPSES FREE EVERY FRIDAY ited the place today reported that the costly old furniture war. falling to pieces from neglect, while dust and dirt had been allowed to accumulate, apparently for years. Dunscomb was reticent as to him self and family affairs in general, only saying he would go to New Jer sey to notify relatives there of his sister's death. Neighbors believed ! the pair to be wealthy. oo AIR, SEA AND LAND BATTLE Attack on Guaymas May Be One of the Most Spectacular in History o f Modern Warfare Rebels Smuggle a Second Aeroplane Over the Border IS'ogales Ariz, May 19 The pro jected attack bj Sonora state troops on Guaymas mav take the form of a land, marine and air battle, made pos sible by the crossing into Mexie.i during last night of a complete aero plane. special train from the di rection of Naco and bearing the ma chine arrived at Nogales, Sonora. to day and was hurried south The Mexican gunboat fluerrero lies in the harbor ready to assist the federal gar rison. Alter the confiscation of his aero plane below Tucson Hidler Mnsson. a French aviator, escaped Into Mexico I and since has been awaiting the ar rival of the second machine it is said that the machine Which crossed last night is the second of a series of five contracted for by the insurgents state government. oo EXUM GETS BIG PLUM President Wilson Ap points. Former 0den ite as United States Marshal for the Third District of Alaska Made Big- Record in Utah Washington. Mav 19 President Wilson today nominated Kmnieli R Jordan to be United States marshal I for the District of Mnska. division No 2. and Edward W Kxum for the district of Alaska, division No 3 B W Kxum. for man years a resi de nt of ( Mh n v. a' deput I 'nite-1 States marshal of Utah In 1892 and ISMil During his term of off i le made a record in running down many criminals MILLIONAIRE IS ON TRIAL William M. Wood, President of American Woolen Trust, Faces Charge of Conspiracy to "Plant" Dynamite at Lawrence During the Textile Strike Boston. May 19 William M Wood president of the American Woolen company, and o textile manufacturer of international reputation. Freder ick Atteaux and Dennis J Collins were placed on trial today charged with conspiring to plant" dynamite at Lawrence during ihe textile strike in that city in January, 1912 The trial has been awaited wilh spec ial interest because of the promi nence of Mr Wood and also because It is the first time In Massachusetts that a serious criminal charge arising) from labor difficulties has her n pre ferred ugainst a manufacturer 'I he Indictment and arrest of the mill man I last August caused a sensation ItteaUl is n dealer in chemicals and a friend of Mr Wood Collins is a dog fancier of Cambridge It is charged Lhat the tbro defendants conspired with lohn J, Hreen an un dertaker of Lawrence, and T-rnest R. Pitman, a builder of Andover, to place dynamite In a house occupied by striking textile operalhes for the purpose of prejudicing public opinion by making it appear that the strikers had possession of an explosi". e u hic-h they Intended to use in damaging mill I property. The police discovered the dynamite and arrested several strike operatives who lived In the house All subsr I quently satisfied the court of their Innocence and were discharged. Sugar Vew York. May 19 Raw svigar 'steady Muscovado. $2.77fj 2.80: cen I tlifuga $3.27 tfrS 30; molasses sucar I $2 &22.56. Refined eaay. crushed I 1-1.95, fine granulated ,$4.26; powder' led. $4.36. SMUGGLER PAYS FINE U. S. District Judge Orders Mrs. Mangels to Pay $2,000 for Fail ing to Declare Proper Value of Goods Pur chased Abroad Trenton. N I . May 19 Judee Cross in the United States district court today Imposed a fine of $2 on Mrs Agnes Mangels of Sin Fran cisco who is alleged to have landed on May 12 from the steamer Amerika at Hoboken. N. J . without declaring B proper alue of goods brought bj her from abroad Mrs Mangels en tered a plen of noneult. Her counsel pleaded with the court to extend mer cv and not impose a prison sentence. The value of the goods hroncht into the country was estimated by the fed eral customs appraisers at about ?5, 500. of which $1,800 was declared hi was stated to the court that restitu tlon to the nlue of 60 per cent of the goods had been made to the custom officers MIks Agnes Tillman, a niece oi Mrs Vfangels, who also cited to appear be cause of alleged improper declaration of gowns and Jewels but the charges l.i inst her were withdrawn. Miss Tillman agreed to pay the duty for th full value Of h r properly oo JORDAN FOR CHANCELLOR Stanford University President Resigns to Accept the N e w 1 y Created Office Pro fessor John Caspar Branner Will Become Head of the School Stanford University, Cal., May 19. I Dr David Starr Jordan, president of I Stanford university, resigned his po sition today, to accept the office of 'chancellor, which will be created bv I the board of t rustic b next Friday for his especial benefit The announce ment was made v Or Jordan lo the sludent body in the course of an ad dress he delivered toduv during the commencement exercises on "The Conquest of Europe bj America." John Caspar Branner, Professor of geology and since i vi ice pr ddom of the university will beeome presi ded President Jordan's retiremenl as ac ti.. head of the University will leave him free to devote his nine to his work in behalf of world peace He will receive the same salary he is drawing now. His brief announcement was fol lov. d by an explanatory statement by ' Professor John M Stillman of the ' department of chemistry "For 22 years." he said. "Dr. Jor dan has been the inspiration of Si m foid university; What It is, Is due largel) to his high ideals, his breadth of view and his warmth of sym pathy ' Dr Jordan has been president since ' lvil. He began his connection with the university as a specialist in biology Born in Gainesville, N Y, he is now 62 ) ears old Professor Branner, the new presi ' dent, has been at Stanford since 1892 land is a life-long friend of Dr Jor dan Before that he was at various times, since graduating from Cornell, Piofessor of geoloj- in the Indiana state university, state geologist of In- J dlana and In the service of the Bra I zilian government as a geologist on DYING MAN'S RECEPTION Macon Banker, Who Took Poison by Mis take and Upon Being Told That He Could Not Live, Meets With Kis Friends Macon. Ga May 19 B Sanderson Walkc-r, the Macon banker, who BWSi lowqed poison by mistake last Wed nesday night, was able to be up and about early today and experienced no pain, although physicians declare ho cannot live. Messages from all parts of the country have been received by Mr Walker, some from surgeons and i.)r sirlans who offer their services lo assist him in his fight to overcome the effects of the poison Mr. Walker swallowed the do.nc mistaking it for a headache table: When told by physicians on Friday that he could not live. Walker re Signed himself to his fate an.) left his bd. dressed and held a receptiou io his friends at his home. on Women and girl hand organ grind ers at Toronto. Canada, are only paid 8 cents a da DISSOLUTION I OF MERGER Representatives of the Union and Southern Pacific Railroads Are Trying to Reach an Agreement Which Will Be Satisfactory Government Washington. May 19 Representa tives of the Union and Southern Pa cific railroads are striving to formu late a plan of dissolution of their merger which will be mutually satis factory to the two Interests Involved, according to advices received today by Attorney General McAeynolds from New York The attorne general was in touch with tho situation over the long dis tance telephone Officials here were unable to state whether there was prespect of an agreement between the two roads The attorney general has advised them that, as he views the situation at the present time the Central Pacific railroad should be di vorced from the Southern Pacific In the plan of dissolution. His decision In that connection, however, is ten j tatlve. oo ARRESTED AND HELD FOR TRESPASS Joseph Rio. a Mexican vouth. r' years old, was arrested at 2 3 lock this morning in the basement of the Wilson brothers store, at Wall ave nue and 28th street, and was charged with trespass. The store is in an unfinished con dition and the Mexican had evidently taken the place for suitable lodging quarters He had built a fire of wood scraps and was found asleep when the arrest was made Detec tive Tom Burke. Sergeant H E Pe terson and Patrolman Han Sullivan Pi ter Butler, the man charged with entering the Miglnnis' home was ! found in the basement of the same I store several days ago. Butler had also built a fire and was burning the ' purse alleged to have been taken n lu n he was discovered by the pro- j prietors, oo PASSENGER ON S. P. TRAIN DIES Knowing that he could live but a few days longer, 1 n Bronell, ac companied by a nurse Miss Anna Bgan left Touopah Nev . for his home in Hay springs. Neb., hut died this morning near Lucln upon s Southern Pacific train The body was taken lu charge bv the Kirkendall Under taking company at Ogden and will bo (prepared for shipment to his home 1 Mr. Bronell was f,5 years old and was a large well built man He had be-n a sufferer of heart trouble for some time and when he fell that ho was dying he left Nevada On the waj he told Miss Bgan thai he felt he could not stund the trip, but the nurse encouraged him to remain hone ful The attack which caused his death occurred after the train had left Lucln and was about to cross the lake. ORANGES FOUND i TO BE UNFIT TO EAT Ten cases of oranges wore con demned by Sanitary Inspector George j Shorten today, following a visit of inspection to the circus grounds The urani - s en- hein -old l; p ddlarn J who wero not connected with the ! Khow but were dolnn busines.-, ouisiih j the grounds The examination of tho I fruit took place after several complain':- from buyers had been recelvod Bl Ihe health office. The Inspector found the circus to be In S sanitary condition and the lemonade and other articles of food sold on the grounds passed exam ination nin NEVADA IS TO HELP BOISE CONVENTION Governor Tasker L Oddlo of Neva da has notified the secretary ot th Intermountaln Good Roads association at Ogden that he has asked the coun ty commission throughout bis state to appropriate suinu, varying troin $2o to $50, to the support of the conven tion at Boise. The convention promises to be a most Successful one as there Is a long list of delegates who will attend and the support of the intermountaln states has been liberally given More than 1500 letters and Invltu lions hace been sent out from the local secretary' s office and there Is much more correspoiidlnc to be done on SCHOOL GARDEN INVADED BY CIRCUS The high spirits and enthusiasm that is found In the youth of tho city on a circus day was damped In one section this morning when the stu dents of the Ia'wIs school, on their way to their morning class, found that the circus had selected their I school garden. I Uter taking 0 hast glimpse of the damage done, the students hastened to their school and notified their teach ers of what had occurred. The teach ers notified Supt J M Mills and the superintendent paid a visit to the grounds who found that tho garden had been totally destroyed The fur rows had been flattened and the plants which had just broken through the ground a few days ago had been trampled &o n Louis Peery stated this nffernoor. that the estate gave the students per mission to use the ground only on condition that the place could b rented or sold at any lime. Mr Peer, stated that his brothers objected to letting the lot until Principal John intle of the Lewis school stated that should anv opportunity of renting the ground arise, the school would raise no objection. Supt Mills said "Inasmuch as the Peery estate gen erously allowed the children to have temporary possession of the grounds, it would be ungenerous ot U3 not to admit that the Peerys had a right to take it back, but 1 regret that vc were not given sufficient notice 30 that we might have made other ar rangemente for the circus or have paid the equivalent of the rental ob talned from the circus President Rowe of the Weber club said the club willingly would have paid the rental rather than have had the garden destroyed. The contract with the circus was not signed until last night and when the protests were made this morning it was too la to for the Peery estate to recede. - Louis Peery says lie regrets the misunderstanding. oo jWCRLD'SMARKETS Chicago Grains Chicago, Mai 19 -Wheat developed firmness today in view of an expect ed good decrease In the visible suv ply statement Bulls also asserted belief In a continuance of premiums for old wheat until the movement of the new crop becomes free Steadiness 0 cables tended further to dlscoui age the bears The opening was un changed to lStf?l-4c lower July! started at 88 3-8 to S8 3-4c. touched I ss 1'j'riSS 5-8C; and then advanced lo 89fiS9 l-SCi Smallness of receipts gave strength to corn July which opened the Bam as Saturdav night to a shade higher at 56 18 to 56 l-Soe l-ic. rose to 56 3-8c. Commission house buying, thoua'n not large, proved sufficient to lift oats July started 1-S to l-Stf 1 4c up at 86 1 2 to 36 1-2 36 5-8c. and weut to 37 1-Sc Provisions took the upgrade because offerings were few Kirsl sales vverf unchanged to 5 cents higher, includ ing July pork at $19.60 to ?pj r lard $10.90 to $1092; ribs. $1 1.17 Vi- Wheat Afterward the market scor I ed an additional Kain owing to reports that bumper prospects southwest were receding The close was firm with .Ju' .". sc net higher at Si 3-Sc. Corn- A furth upturn followed re port of delayed planting in Iowa and Nebraska. The close was steady. .'.6 3-4c for July. o-8c uet gain Omaha Livestock. South Omaha Neb., May 19 Cat tic -Receipts, 4.000; market slow. 10 to 15 cents lower Native steers. S7.008.60, cows and heifers. $6 00 7? 7.75; western steers. $6.75 ft 8.00; Tex as steers. $6.0007.60; range cows and heifers, $r. rj0'T7 50. c alve?. $7 nil ( 10.00. Hogs -Receipts 7.000 market weak to 6 cents lower. Heavy, $$.2098.30; light. $8.308.40; pigs. $7.00 8.00; bulk of sales. $S ?5f?8 $0 Shccj) Receipts. 8,800; niarkel stea cK Yearlings. $6.75'?f,7.25 : wethers. S6 ':' ft 6 75 . la mbs. S7 6u X 30 COLORADO SENSATION Cripple Creek. Colo., May 19 James L Bacon, member of the eighteenth general assembly ironi Teller county, was arrested here at 140 o'clock this afternoon on a war rani charging him with the murder of his wife, Ida BaCOD and step-daughter, rosephine DavldBon The wom en were killed in an explosion that wrecked tho Bacon home April 28. 100 LATE TO CLASSIFY BY oung couple a 3 or 4 room fur nlsbed apartment or home for the summer Address T L. W . Stand ard. 6-19-lwk TRACE DOWN STOLEN COIN Saloonmen Exchange More Than $100,000 of Currency Taken From British Columbia Bank For United States Money Chi cago Detective Work ing t'hicago. May 19 Almost $100,000 of the $271 ooi) In Canadian money stolen from the branch of the Rank of Montreal at New Westminster B. C, has been exchanged for United States currency by Chicago saloon keepers, according to the assertion of the superintendent of a detective agency, made last night. Michael J. Flanagan, proprietor of a saloon, was arrested early yesterday morning, w'hen two men accused him of giv ing them Canadian money to ex change Three other saloonkeepers are under surveillance and arrests may result William I Lawlor and Charles O'Leary, arrested on Saturday night, charge Flanagan with being the re ceiver of part of the stolen money. Lawler asserted he received $545 in bills from Flanagan on Wednesday afternoon. The money finally reach ed the local branch of the Bank of Montreal and was traced back. Three of the robbers who tunnelled Into the vault of the Westminster bank are In prison awaiting trial. The fourth member of tho gang Is hiding In Chicago, detectives say. and it Is from him that Flanagan Is said to have obtained the money, which was given to Lawler WIDOW IS I A WITNESS I Washington, May 19 Mrs. Helen ' . D. Longstrcet, widow of the noted I Confederate general, had a hearing before the senate postoffice commit tee today to give her version of the I circumstances leading to her displace ment as postmaster at Gainesville. I Ga Mrs Longstreet did not ask re Instatenient but sought to reply to Postmaster General Burleson s state- i nient thai her office was poorly man- ag 'l She n ferred to Mr Burleson as Ij ' President Wilson's sixty-day post- j ma: lT 'in nl Mr. Longstreet declared that she I was the victim of the Georgia Rail- J way and Power companv, which, sh. said, had pursued her because sho urged legislation to "curtail its fa- i vors " She presented a long list of j endorsements of her administration ; and asserted that the people of her community who knew her were more competent to judge her than the post master general. The immortal commander, whoso name 1 hear, resigned a commission in the American arm) to follow the banners of the South until the last stainless one was furled at Appomat tox and thenceforth found himself an outcast in the land whose battlefields had run red with his heroic blood, ' declared Mrs Longstreet. "was not made to suffer more than I have been made lo suffer at the hands of thai branch of democracy which Is In tho saddle down In the good old Demo cratic state of Georgia in the year that has placed a ir;--iiiia gentleman in the White House." MONEY. New York. May 19 -Prime mercan tile paper. 5 1-4. 5 1-2 per cent. Su illng exchange firm with actual business In baukers' bills at $4.83 for 60-day bills, and at 14.86.60 for de TODAY'S GMS I Tie Game. New York. May 19. (National) Piltshnrg 1; New York 1 (Tied end Tied in Ninth. Boston Maj 19. (National) Cincinnati Si Boston 8. (Tied end Naps B-at Senators. Cleveland. May 19 American ) R H . Washington 1 5 0 Cleveland 4 10 2 Batteries Cashlon, Bngel, Boehling and Alnsmltb. Williams; Falkenhert: and Carlsch Tigers Beat Athletics. Detroit, May W, (American) Philadelphia 3 6 0 Detroit 9 10 1 Batteries Wyrkoff, T. Bush and Thomas, Lapp; Willett and Stanage. Quakers Defeat Cubs Philadelphia, Mav 19. I National) R. H E Chicago 4 9 i Philadelphia 10 10 2 Batteries; Lavender and Archer; Brennan and Kllllfer Dodgers Beat Cardinals. Brooklyn. Mav 19 (National ) R H. K. St Louis 1 S 2 Brooklyn - 8 0 Batteries Grlner and McLean Rucker. Ylugltng and Miller. Eleven Innings ! (Additional Sports on Page Two )