The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1904. STILL (PPOSE OFFICIALS OF THE MORMON CHURCH (L\’ALTRL\SFERi CONFESS TO HAVING PLURAL WIVES Counsel for Colombia Argues in Paris Against Cession of the Panama Property TWO CASES IN COURT S i | Attorney for Company Says| Superiority of Force Must| | Be Recognized in Action| | —The case of Cplom- | Canal Com- before the First 1 of the Seine, There are the first seek- nsfer of the canal ted States and two shares in the company ments to-day were upon the Both sides were represented strong array of cou i rst case. express authorizat before any transfer co alid, and asserted that Panama concession and could not be taken regular gov- Buit, one | | in the Hum- | | the rights of extinguished and ind to recog- for Bonaparte Wyse, the| | or concessionaire, and M. Ray- | | ™ behalf of Colombia as a| | so hea Secretary Would Give Panama Com- mission Great Power. i ee on heard Sec- legislation for The ay ! zone nded legis- prevent 1ld have WASHINGTON, officials of the Mormon church to-day March 9.—Several d in the Senator Smoot case be- the ileges and Elections that they piural wives and had continued to prac- tice, polygamous cohabitation since the Just before adjourn- the committee held for the purpose of k itable testimony n the Teasdale divorce case. T ecution stated that it had no mor manifesto of 1880 the day executive ving read the an sesslic pri wit- nesses ready to put on the stand on account of the failure of several sum- mcned officials of the Mormon church to app President Joseph F. Smith d to use his influence with the and promised to get into com- fon with them if it was pos- sible to do so. Loren Harmer, formerly a bishop of the Mormon church, to-day gave the first testimony in favor of the defense that has been offered thus far in the eight days of the hearings., He said he was convicted of the crime of adul- Will You Help A Sick Friend? 7 .20 S "Lelicved Smoot was Get My Book For Him Now. | responsible for his arrest. The charge DR. SHOOP’S REMEDIES. | against Harmer was unlawful cohab- itation with a woman who was not hiz wife and not a prosecution on account of cohabitation with his plural wives. President Smith and a number of the o e who is sick—soms ve he | p my buok offers. Tells of 2 way witnesses in the case to-day were ex- cused from further attendance and they will return to Utah. DOES NOT HEED CHARGES. The seventh day of the hearings was opened by Attorney Tayler for the pros- ecution recalling President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church to the stand. Smith was questioned as to an interview he gave in 1802, giving statis- tics in regard to the church and the | number of polygamists in Utah. Smith ! had said the entire interview consistel asa weakness, Where there was a lack rves lacked power Whege always found weak merves. + prescription to sick enes every- 1 must annousce it in the wht I, will they sealize the e “,'_,:;',‘,,,':"?,’,f | of statistics and that in that statement J 110 the sick on rial Then they | he had said nothing for the purpose of "'} wrore a e liable druggist w each city and vilage fa | SUPpOrting the candidacy of Reed " e PSR S | Bmoot for the Senatorship. On hearing the interview read Smith admitted that be had been quoted correctly in regard to Smoot and urged his election. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative ! Fora full month 1 will letyou Senate Committee on Priv- | had pros- | officials of the church who have been | write me for the book yeu Use the 1 you say o the ox: 10 me. ‘e of a) doubts as an do. | No matier ‘e Uiis absolute secor ot resust an offer like this f you ou cannos dispu s o weakness, wrice me. 1f you can't de sed 10 6o them. t=1l me about it Sence 2 physician | will tell you Ciet my bhok now—egay Book 1 on Dyspepsta. (sealed). Book 6 on Rhoumatism | mot chromic, are often cured o bottles. - At druggists’ Sim state which Book 2 on the Heart. | book you want Book 3 on the Kidneys. | ress Dr. Book 4 for Women | . SR ok for Ini | In tea, Sghilling’s Best isby| no means the costliest tea; it's| a matter of taste. Of the fine| kinds, the one you like best is| your tea. Your grocer’s; moneyback. » | board | puted to be a polygamist. Smith said he was acquainted with Benjamin Cluff Jr., president of the of faculty of Youwg Academy, and that he is re- He also was asked about Abraham Cannon and if the general charge had not been that he took a plural wife, Lillian Hamlin, since the manifesto of 1890. Smith said that had been a news- paper charge and he had paid no at- tention to it. 3 “The officers of the Mormon church are sensitive in regard to the charge that plural marriages have been per- formed since 1890, are they not?” Tay- | ler asked. Smith said he thought they were very sensitive on the subject. He was asked then whether he had taken steps to run down the stories that the laws had been violated by officefs of the church. He answered | that the public charge did not concern him, and that if he took time to an- swer all the charges made against him- self and other officiais of the church he would have no time to do other work. DUTIES OF BISHOPS. “Do you mean to say that, notwith- standing the sensitiveness you profess, the Brigham | President Smith Concludes His Testimony Before the Senate Committee and Is Excused From Further Attendance---Evidence in Favor of the Defense Is Given by Loren Harmer, Who Was Deposed From a Bishopric { you do not take steps to have corrected | what ycu term false charges?” i “It is not my business to do s0,” the witness replied with amphasis. “The question is, do you?” said Chuir- man Burrows. Smith then explained that it is the «duty of the bishops’ courts to pass upon the morals of those who live in their wards or distriets. “Dces that include church?” was asked. “It includes all members.” When asked if the rule applies to officials who are above the bishops in authority, Smith said it did not. | Chairman Burrow inisted knpwing from the witness whether he would have investigated such charges against any of the apostles, and the witness answered again, “It is not my ‘)husinfiss to do it.” | Chairman Burrows insisted upon !to the marriage ceremony performed in the church. He spoke of the mar- riages for time, the marriages for time and eternity and the marriages for eternity only, and asked if the latter | is not called “sealing.” . “They are all called sealing,” was | the response. SEALING FOR ETERNITY. “Is performed for living persons?” “I believe I have heard of one or | two such cases,” said the witness. polygamists ever -sealed offictals of the | | ness to identify the Book of Mormon, {and then, turning to the revelation of |the prophet, Joseph Smith, he asked | specifically in regard to the manner it | was revealed and was informed that it was revealed to him by God. Chalrman Burrows asked if polyg- |amy was taught In that book and | Smith answered that it was emphat- | ically forbidden. Reading from the book, which is | called the Mormon Bible, Chairman | Burrows called attention to the words | of God in reference to David and Sol- omon and his displeasure because of the fact that he kept more than one wife and many concubines. The chajr- man asked if that did not prohibit polygamy and, if that did not prohbit when was the law of the Lord changed in order to permit the practice. Two more verses were read and | these provoked like requests until the chairman objected. JUSTIFIES POLYGAMY. Smith took the book and read a verse which declared that when the Lord wanted his seed propagated he would command it. This, the wit- ness declared, justifies polygamy when a person is commanded by the Lord to enter that state. He said the com- mand came to individuals as revela- tions from the Lord. Senator Dubois asked a number of |sauestions in regard to the revelations received by Smith and Van Cott, but the defense objected to the character of the inquiry. He proceeded to dis- cuss the point at some length, when Senator Hoar interrupted, saving he “would object to arguments by the at- torneys calculated to overthrow the rules established by the Senate years ago in the matter of conducting in- vestigations.” \ Senator Dubois explained that he was not a lawyer and it was his pur- pose to ask questions which a layman b would be likely to understand, and he | | revelations if they were prayerful. upon | this sealing for eternity ever MEMBERS OF MORMON CHURCH WHO ARE CONNECTED WITH PRESENT INVESTIGATION. | —— wanted a broad view taken in the in- vestigation. He then asked the wit- ness whether any revelations he had received had been sustained in the !gen»ral conference through the up- {lifting of the hands of those present. { The witness answered that he had re- ceived no revelation sustained i1 that ymanner and explained again that | individuals, by living a moral life in | the sight of the Lord, could receive He | said the Lord would manifest his will for their guidance. P “‘Have you received any individual revelations?” asked Senator Dubois. “I can’t say that I have,” the wit- ness reolied. | Speaking of the endowment, Mr. | Smith said in reply to Tayler that the obligation is the same as it always has been, but that it is not an oath. STATUS OF CHILDREN. ‘““We abjure oaths,” he said. Smith said he was absent from Utah during the prosecutions under the Ed- munds act, that he was not, therefore, prosecuted. “Was there a warrant out for you?” asked Senator Dubois. “I can | sponded the witness with some snap. “It was returned to me.” | “Then you were not at home looking | after your wives?"” i “I was not neglecting" | them en- tirely, ’ L Senator Hoar asked some questions, bringing out the status of children un- der the law of inheritance. “The children of plural wives get only what js willed to them or to their mothers,” said the witness. “In my own case, I have made deeds to my different families.” He said #n reply to Mr. Worthington that the book-of Mormon is not the Mormon Bible. 4 ““What is the Mormon Bible?" “ ‘King James' Translation of the Bible” We have no Bible except the Bible cof other Christian people,” At the executive session of the com- decided to allow a photograph to be taken of the committee-room to-mor- row, but with no witnesses present. TESTIFIES FOR DEFENSE. Andrew Jensen, assistant historian of the church, at the afternoon ses- sion said he had two wives who were sisters and they both lived in the same house, though he lived with the first. Jensen said he was not sealed in eter- nity to the mother of the two wives. Loren Harmer testified that he was a Bishop for five or six years, but had been sent to.the penitentiary in 1899 upon conviction of unchastity and lost his good standing. He said he had two wives, Ella and Ida, and had lived also with Ellen Anderson, but never as her husband. He said she had two children by him, one since he had re- turned from the penitentiary. He now lives in Springville. He said Ellen Anderson supports herself and that he j had contributed nothing for herself or her ‘children. He said she had prop- erty of her own. . Harmer was asked if Senator Smoot had anything to do with his arrest. “I think he caused it,” he said. “He was councilor at that time to the president of the stake, who was then away. He called me to Provo and told me the church proposed to take away my bishopric and other officts. “Why was he going to take away your offices?"” “Because I had committed a crime.” “What crime?" “Adultery, to be frank.” “Why do you think Smoot caused your arrest?” “Because before I , reached home the Sheriff overtook and put me un- der arrest. I blamed “ Smoot for sending the Sheriff after me. I thought he might have given me more time, although the crime was a bad one. I do not know that Smoot was i responsible for my arrest, but it looked much like it.” . TELLS OF MISSIONARY WORK. Hiram A.'Smith, 32 years old, a son of President Smith and one of the { | well thought of by the Callender Trans- present it to you now,” re- mittce before recess was taken, it was| DIVER MEETS AWFUL DEATH }Astoria Seaman Goes Down to Find Anchor and the, Air Pump Fails to Work! NO RESPONSE IS GIVEN| | Workmen Hurriedly Pull| Man to Surface and Find | Features Unrecognizable Special Dispatch to The Call. i ASTORIA, March 3.—Arthur Norton, | _whose relatives are believed to reside e vt SENATOR MALLORY SAYS: “PE-RU-NA DOES WHAT IT CLAIMS.” | | in San Francisco, met a tragic death here this afternoon while engaged in | marine diving. In some manner as yet unexplained the air pumping apparatus failed to work preperly, with the result that the man was suffocated below the | surface of the water. His sufferings must have been frightful, as the head | was swollen to twice its normal size and the blood vessels had burst. The swelling was so great as to render thec features unrecognizable. | Norton had been employed here for about two years, but had not followed diving as a permanent occupation. At |times he went down to recover lost |anchors and was endeavoring to pick up an anchor lost from the bar dredger ' { Chinook at the time of his death. The first descent was made shortly after | the dinner hour from the tug Mende!! in twenty-two feet of water. About the time the diver should have reached bottom the men above signaled himn, | but receiving no response pulled him | ! aboard. When the metal hood was re- | moved from his head it was found Norton’s air supply had failed. The {man was still alive, but died after £asping a moment for breath. The in- | quest will be held in the morning. Lit- tle is known here of the man, except | that he was a brother-in-law of Cap- | tain Bendegard of the steamer Signal, | who lives at Oakland. His wife is dead, | but it is said he has a son and a daugh- | ter living at San Francisco. Norton was about 50 years of age and was B T DU I — AMOS E. | | Pe-ru-na is Known From the Atlantic to the Paciile. Dr. Hartman Is Receiving Hundreds of Letters o. Congratulation and Commendation Daily. All Classes Write These Letters, From the Highest to the Lowest NY man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; al- | i Amos E. Lewis, Private Secretary - letter from Washington, D. C.,, says: i portation Company, the concern that, | employed him. —_——— | Longshoremen Want More Pay. | ASTORIA, Or., March 9.—The loca! | Longshoremen’s Union to-day notified | G. W. Sanborn & Co. and the engin- | eering department at Fort Stevens | that the union would hereafter refuse |to furnish men to coal the dredger | Chinook unless they were paid for | the full time put in. The men de-| | mand payment from their departure from the city until their return and will not work under the former scale, ! whereby they were paid only for the | time _during which they actually | worked. | —_——— Electric Road to Be Extended. ‘ SANTA CRUZ, March 9.—The ex-| tension of the electric road to Capitola ! has been delayed through lack of nec- essary .right of way, which has now been obtained, so the extension will begin at once. The Loma Prieta mill | and the building at Opal will be moved a short distance to make room for the |track. The extension will be com- pleted within ninety day: —_——— | cescecsc oo * tion.”"—Amos E. Lewrs. A Commeodore In Our Navy Endorses Pe-ru na: Commodore Nicholson, 1837 R street, W.. Washington, D. C.. writes: “Your Peruna has been and.is now used by so many of my friends and ac- quaintances as & cure for catarrh that 1 am convinced of its curative qualities and I unhesitatingly recommend it to all persons suffering from that complaint.” —Commodore Nicholson. The day was when men of prominence hesitated to give their testimonials to proprietary medicines for publication. This remains true to-day of most propri- etary medicines. But Peruna has become so justly fa- mous. its merits are known to so many people of high and low standing that no one hesitates to see his name in print recommending Peruna. Over fifty members of Congress have written their endorsement of the worl famous catarrh remedy, Peruna. N. sesesesesscsccssssessssscsssssesse ““Your Peruna having been recommended to me as a remedy for catarrhal diseases, and having been greatly benefited by its use, cheerfuily testify to its efficacy and give it a most emphatic en- dorsement for accomplishing all that is claimed for the prepara- D R R e R R R LEWIS. —essoee most omnipresent. Peruna is the enly absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Peruna not only cures ea- tarrh but prevents it. Catarrh affections may be acute or chronic, mild or severe, ephemeral or stubborn, lasting or fleeting, painful or trivial, but they all have one origin, one nature—catarrh. They all have one cure —Peruna. R to Senator Mallory of Floridd, in a / veceesvescee D R e R i A Host of Witnesses—Pe-ru-na a Ca- tarrh Cure That Rests on the Unso- licited Testimony of Thousands. This is an age when theories have lit- tle or no weight on the avelage mind, but actual demeonstration is demanded. The busy people of to-day have neither time nor inclinatfon to speculate, and turn with distdist from everything that does not plainly bear the stamp of fact The reasc Peruna has gained such universal hold of the confidence of the people as a catarrh cure is because all statemerts concefning it are accompa- nied by facts. A book contai & specimens selected at random from a cloud of witnesses who have been cured of chronic catarrh by Peruna sent free by the Peruna Medi- cine Co., ( mbus. Ohio. If you do not derive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case\and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- President of The 0. Dr. Hartman, n Sanitarium. Columbus, Piano Player Killed by a Train. | REDDING, March 9.—Investigation developed that the mangled remains | found this morning on the railroad near Lamoine were those of S. Plun- kett, 'a piano plaver by prefession, |aged 32 years. Plunkett spent Tues- day at Lamoine and caught the mid- night passenger train, expecting to| beat his way to Keswick. It lis sup- | posed he fell from the brakebeam. —_——— Storm’s Damage in Sonoma. | | SANTA ROSA, March 9.—Another | heavy storm broke here this morning | {and the rain was accompanied by | | strong winds all day. If it keeps up ' Ho-mo‘rrow great damage pru‘t‘mblf‘ ¢ 9% tHeRpiivical, Cade, | A landslide above Glover-| McGeoghegan has been in the cus- ! will result. | | tedy detective all day i t C: jtedy of a Pinkerton y | e eus moming ‘o) T LCafLin and to-night the two men occupied lhe; Northwestern delayed the down 1 Notel train several hours and blocked traf- | Same room at a hotel. f McGeoghegan called R s { this afternoon and asked if he had a warrant for him, and said- if he had he wished to be locked up. He waited | about the place quite a while, expect- | ing a warrant would be served on him. | For some time, it is said. the city | authcrities have been afraid the Treas- | urer's pace was too fast for his salary | of $125 per month. A few months ago | the Council increased his bond $50,000. | When the Mayor’'s expert reports to- | morrow a special meeting of the City | Thomas M. Merrill, a Bishop, and a | Council will be held and McGeoghegan | suspended. There was more than $86,.- | #0006 SFnete (e STl eIt e BN | 000 in the Treasurer's vault on March 4 two wives and that he had six chil- . | On that date the strong box was sealed | renby i ea AUt four by thaiseo i Ping h’;cheoghegan only left enough ond. The youngest child by the sec- | monéy to transact the day’'s business. ond wife is three vears old. His sec- > To-; i arding the ond marriageftook nlace in the Logan | ll::;;l:rhyt a policeman is gu: ing Temple in 1885. He said he did not know whether marriages performed FRIENDS TO THE RESCUE. in the temple are recorded. He had| There is an effort being made by McGeoghegan's friends to make up performed two ceremonies himself and had kept only an individual rec- | the shortage, but as the amount is large, they may not be able to do so. ord. In answer to Senator Hopkins The surety company, it is believed, if | SHORTAGE IS FOUND IN FUSDS! B 5t~ | Continued From Page 1, Column afternoon denied that he had taken a | cent belonging to the city. | The two surety companies this| evening served notice on Mayor Wors- | ! wick that they wculd withdraw from 4 McGeoghegan's bond. The reasons set | forth are “systematic neglect of duty. permitting persons in the office and | with access to the cash who have no ! right and no business to be there.” This | withdrawal is taken under a provision | | on the Sheriff G }lwel\'e apostles, explained at length | | the manner of sending out mission- aries and said polygamy was not' talked and that polygamous cohahij- | tation had never been talked at a con- ference at which Smoot was present. | Senator Hoar: “Did you commend upon prospective converts the rule of / your church against polygamy?"” | “I always refrained from arguing. on polygamy.” he said: 'TURPIN »grapher Resigns. Mi Maud Powell, stenographer of the Civil Service Commission, resigned yesterday to accept a similar position with the War Department at Benicia. A temporary appointment will be made to gave a male stenographer on lh: eligible list a chance to qualify for Miss Powell's place. . ——————————— Japanese florists have succeeded In cultivating’ a rose which looks red In the sunlight and white in the shade. _——— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS USEFUL DISCOVERIES Are Not Always Startling, Neither De They Create the Most Talk. it is not always the greatest, most startling discoveries of deience that are | most useful to the human race. Comparatively few people were di- rectly interested in Herschel's finding of the new planet Uranus, but many thous sands have been benefited by Prof. Unna's experiments, which proved beyond = quesgion that Dandruff and Baldness are the results of the inroads of a parasitic germ which invades the roots of the hair. The discovery of the true cause of baldness made Newbro's Herpicide pos- sible. Herpicide effectually kills this germ. Destroy the cause you remove the effect. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10 in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co.. Detroit, Mich. ula for marriages, but never found one.” . 2 MARRIED TWO SISTERS. Alma Merrill, first councilor to the Benson stake, said he had two wives, one of whom he married in 1885 and the other in 1886. His wives were sisters, the first, he said, he had seven chil- dren and by the last eight children, and three others had died. The p! ution had no more wit- nesses to-day to put on the stand. The names of Apostles Merrill. Teasdale, Taylor and Cowley, Samuel S. Newton, | J. M. Tanner and Moses Thatcher were read and they failed to respond to their names. ident Smith was asked to do all he could to induce these wit- nesses te repond to summons. At the request of Attorney Tayler for the prosecution the committee went | Into executive session and the testi- mony in the Teasdale divorce case was read. The committee adjourned until to-morrow. - ———— Politepess is like charity; it may cover a multitude of sins of perso “I have looked for a prescribed form- ! Esmeralda and Rebecca Hendricks. By | ARROW COLLAR 18 CENTS, 2 FOR 25 CENTS CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. the shortage is covered, will not prose- cute, but this will not prevent the { city authorities from taking the mat- ter before the Grand Jury. i McGeorghegan himself will not ad- | | mit the way be took the money, which insinuates it was dome by some one else. : McGeoghegan is one of the most pop- | ular young men in the city. He is the ! son of John T. McGeoghegan, cashier of the Commercial and Savings Bank, | and a nevhey of B. D. Murphy. He is about 30 years old. McGeoghegan wu} ‘a member of the Eighth California ! Regiment during the Spanish-Ameri- i can War. On coming from the army he was appointed City Treasurer by | Mayor Martin to succeed the late J.| | N. Ewing, who died in office. He "as‘ OF BEEF at ufifl‘:g‘: | elected foum years ago with a very | YOTIDg soups ant w“:‘m g | 1arge majority and two years ago was that handy cup 5y h!d‘ - | the only one upon the Martin admin- | Will t{d&m o H St. istration ticket to be elected. e N Y She will Ml - The coincident in the case is that a a ful & ook, fortnight ‘ago his cousin, Martin Mur- phy retired from the: office of County :‘::::;:.‘W“h a small shortage in his AST“MA.E:;:E’.H::);.‘;% The flmuelettrlc.rlnnlll';,: was that of cuRED e ANOED -?A{.-