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 ClT f i i ftit OPPOOTION and competi- - H KEEP keen , T 4.A A.A.4x a eye on your tion invariably give 1 Ml fflm SST VSlf I rgf II 1 S way l flP before a strong campaign ijv I All11 P IUIf(1IJ IIll111111V advertising, becauBS there- - of good advertising. 3 Jly xS gg Jp, jgj sr V ' in lies the secret of success. dKLXXXII, NO. 153, established apbtl is, istl SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1911. weather TODAY-r- air. 16 PAGES "FIVE CENTS. IH REBELS INVADE JUAREZ; BLOW UP GARRISON 1 WSightseers on Border Await the Dawn to Witness Big Battle I OF OJINAGA HOLD DIAZ OUT to Yield to Sanchez, f Town, Crying "Re- - the Martyrs of Mulato"; IllEGE Guarantees Suspended, i Will Get Trials. TROOPS FAGE NEAR DOUGLAS Americans Are Fighting Under the Harvard Graduate; of Mexico Extends the Olive Reforms When War Interests $875,000,000. j PASO, Texas, March 15. An at-- t was made tonight lo blow up Uic acks at. Juarez. Mexico. Two heavy ges of nttro-glyecrin- were placed !r the plan; and exploded, tearing Darts of tho .buildings occupied by Mexican troops. "Two of a small 1 (if insurreclos who secretly had red the town were injured and of Mexican" cavalrymen are rtcd to huc been injured, tic shock of the explosion was felt ujdiout. .fiiarer. and immediately a was raised that the insurrectos had ounded the place in great numbers wore attaching. Merchants left r stores and crowds prepared to Io a general oxodus to the American . Extra guards were placed about quarters of Tambourel, the eoni -tl nn- t, and those of General Navarro, he barracks arc occupied by the rtccnt.lt Mexican cavalry and are toil in the heart of the town. Thqre bpen a general feeling that i he were surrounding the city, fatuall band of insurrectos is sup-i- d to have crept into the town along mliroad tracks shortly after 8 ouk. After placing the bombs they tupLcd to get away. Soldiers on the lout on lop of the barracks inline-el- opVncd fire, bringing down two the insiincclos. The rest escaped the country. 11 the Mexican soldiers in town were ed on duly. A guard was placed nul the barracks and no ollitial as to the extent of the dam- - age given out. It was seen from ad- jacent streets, however, that a number of tho barracks .buildings wcro wrecked. The captured insurrectos wcro picked up by soldiers and carried away. A rl that some Mexican soldiers were iniurcd resulted in the gcucral agita-- . tion about the scene. The Mexican officials denied that anyone had been killed, but would say nothing further. Tho town soou quieted down and tho people who had prepared lo cross tho bridge returned. It has been known for several days that insurrectos wcro within a fow miles south of .Tuarez? but they were not in great numbers. Vet. .the town has the aspect of a city preparing for war. Sandbags arc piled up at the edges of the roofs of houses to act as breast- works, people have been forbidden to veuture far1 beyond tho environs and the rifle loopholes knocked in the walls of the old mission in the heart of the town have been kept open. Conditions in Juarez remained quiet up to a late hour, but intense anxiety prevails. Extreme caution was shown bv the military to prevent tho surrep- titious entrance to the city of any more insurrectos. At 11 o'clock the mounted nolicc, who ordinarily patrol the outer sections, were ordered in to form a closer guard to the approaches to the main streets. Double guard was kept in all quarters, the relief having been suspended. Tt was indicated that extra vigilance would be maintained all night and the citizens were informed there was no cause for further alarm. Prisoners assured trial 1 w mexican civil courts kJi PASO. Tex.. March 15. Assurance the safety of all American's now con-"e - in Mexican prisons is given in an flcial statement issued al Junrez Americans now prisoners will be Riven Ir trials in the civil courts on charges sedition against the Mexican govern-?n- t, but hereafter all insurrectos. ficther citizens of the United States or it. may be subject to the death penalty ider summary military procedure. JTlio statement from the Mexican offi-l- s was issued relative to tho seventeen relRners who are no'v Imprisoned in the fleral Jail at Casus Grandes. Fifteen of m arc Americans, Pending their Jals, they will be Klven the consldera-P - n due jo prisoners of war. MIonel Cuellnr. In command of Casus ratifies, Is suffering from wounds, and L noon as he is able to move the prls-)c- n will be mnrohod 170 miles to anuahua to face the civil courts. ' S ttvo lbcr foreigners are ICuropcan "adlers of fortune'" who have fought in " Jtrni American revolutions, (Hie men are confined In- cells in the pone prison and are under guard of Mcan .loldlcrs. Their rations consist BUcli as can bo spared Ihcm from the Vary atores. fur the town, about liid . as southwest of Kl Paso, has had no d fupnlles since March fi. when the battlo was fought at which the insur- rectos were defeated. Colonel Manuel Tamborel. military i:ommnnd:r at Juarez, said "Tho Amer- icans have not been 6hot. and will not be. Colonel Cuellar has so to us here and to Mexico City. It is tho inten- tion to give the men a fair trial- This dor-- s not mean the samo consideration will be given to foreigners hereafter captured." Colonel Tamborel at flrl said he had bcon advised that forty foreigners had boon captured, but later said tho report was incorrect. He said he had not re- ceived the namcn of the Americans. It Is said tho citizens of the United Slates now fighting In the Insurrccto ranks numbered 000. The largest force is Willi Captain Oscar G, Oreighlon. who has been active in blowing up railroad bridges Government officials received orders today to put a. stop to the crossing of Americans from El Paso Into the in- surrccto territory. Reports from the Interior of the "war zone" are that the Insurrectos are con- centrating at various polntK. Francisco I. Mndcro. revolutionary leader, with 1000 Insurrectos. a o ne -pou- cannon, a chrec-inc- h field piece and two rapid-tir- o guns. Ik somewhere north of Cnsns Grandes and Is drawing toward him General Orozco with S00 men. Tim insurrccto forces were Mcattored after their Cnsns Grandes dc -fc - and their Inactivity for several days was due lo reorganization. The general movement of tho in.siirrecto.H Is north- ward, presumably toward Junrez. IMMINENT BETWEEN IATTLE AND THE REGULARS M8- - Arlz- - March 1"' . A federal rf. i 100 men and Rlanco's troops E,l)CriK several hundred, men con -ME- ? .I0 1' 0,1cr tonight, not more than Kl.11' apart. Information laic .ut battle Is Imminent near dRvi crncad mountain, on the border, jHKI "illes east of Douglas, jno tmitif may be delnycd until morn- H- although it possible that It may JRtt Plnce In the bright moonlight to- - PThe Information was telephoned here J'lcmcuanl Sterling, commanding a detachment of the Third cavalry at tho San Uomardlno ranch. Cnptaln Johnston at once ordered out the Iroone. and Immediately there was an exodus of soldiers, an well as citizens, by all manner of vehicles. At the samo time the .Mexican soldiers In Agua Prleta made hurried prepara- tions, and Infantry and cavalry were soon hurrying toward the prospective scene of battle. From the high ground around Niggcr- - Coutluucd on Page Two. THE INTERNATIONAL PEACEMAKER Telling Their Troubles to the Big Policeman. Fivc-Year-O- Id Girl Murdered in Lodging House; Body Dis- covered by Landlady. CHILD IS WAYLAID ON WAY TO BUTCHER SHOP Foul Deed Committed l)y Middle- - Aged Man Who Rents Room for Single Day. PORTLAND, Or"., March 15. Bear- ing marks of one of the most cruel ami heartless murders ever recorded in this city, the body of Barbara Ilollzmau, a girl, was found on a bed in a rooming house here shortly bo fore noon today by Mrs. Gertie Nelson, prison matron, proprietress of the home. " The murdered child was a daughter of Voelin Holt'zman , who resides with- in a few-block- of the house. Sho was . s ent to a butcher shop yesterday to make some ' purchases and did not re- turn. Mrs. Nelson says that a strange man rented a room from her last evening. Although ho appeared to act mysteri- ously, Mrs. Nelson "did not suspect anything wrong until today when she went to the room to sco what had be- come of tho lodger. Sho found the door locked aud the key removed. This aroused her suspicion aud the door was Hurst open. Huddled on the bed, almost entirely covered by the bed clothing, was tho bodv of the little girl, pnrtly disrobed. A bloody froth covered the nostrils indicated that the child had been choked. Within a short tinfe tho vic- tim was identified as Barbara Holtz -n ta n- , for whom search had been made all night:. Mrs. Nelson says that about midnight sho henrd some object fall to the floor in tho room and believed that her new lodger had fallen but as she heard him later pacing up and down sho took it for granted that nothing serious had happened. Sho did not see tho man leave the house, Mrs. Nelson described the stranger as 45 years of age, wearing a gray mustache. Ho was neatly dressed null appeared not to bo in the best of health. Ho rented tho room for only one day, ) What Commission Form Provides for Cities of the first class are gov- erned by a, commission of five mem-bcr- one of whom is mayor. Commissioners receivo $3600 a year and the mayor $4,200 a year. The auditor in first class city re- ceives 5:1100 a year. Second class cities aro governed by commission of three, one of whom is mayor. Commissioners in Ogdcn receive same salary as commissioners in Salt Lake, as does mayor and .auditor. In Logan, Provo and. Murray, com- missioners receive from S500 to S1500, the mayor from SG00 to $2000 and the auditor from $300 to S1200, the salary to be fixed by the present councils. Candidates for office are nominat- ed at nonpartisan primaries, on pe- titions signed by 100 voters. After primary, tho two liighest for mayor, oight highest for com- missioners and two highest for au- ditor aro placed on tickets to be voted for at the election. All long-ter- councilmen are leg- islated out of office on January 1, 1912. Terms of all other elective city officers also expire on that date. PRESIDENT TUP! II GOOD GOLFIfJJG FORM Executive Bests Martin W. Little- ton of New York, Who Is Said to Play the Game Well. AUGUSTA, Gu 'March 15. Prcshlcnt Taft and Hcprcsentatlvu Martin V. TJt-tlol - of New York played mi intcrcul-Ini- f game of golf todny. The match was arranged Inst Snlurdiiy. In a way It was horaldod us n contest hut ween the Ropuhllcan and Democratic pnrtlt'rf. and the president, aa tho repre- sentative of the formor, unexpcctodly won, Mr. Littleton, who at the Inst elec- tion had tho distinction of defeat In;; Colonel Kooxovelt's friend and neighbor. Congressman Cooks of Oyster Hny, was regarded by experts here as hnvin?; a shade on the president at the same. But lie was tulcuii entirely off his guard by the president's game and Mr. Tuft won rulhor handily by 2 up and 1 to play. Tho entire eighteen holes were played out and tho president's medal score was 07 to Mr. Littleton's 00. Tho match fittnu-lcr- l great attention among the golfers at the Country club. One of Its most Interesting features was the fact that the president and tho con- gressman occasionally seemed to get sidetracked arguing some political Issue or point of constitutional law. appar- ently heedless ns lo whether tho balls, recently driven from tho tee. had fallen Into a bunker- - Tho golfers who were playing behind the match soenied to enjoy tho situation rather than feel put out by the delay to their games. 7Tr. Littleton came In for a good deal Continued on Pago Thirtcon. TO CHANGE PLAN OP GOVERNMENT Senate Commission Form Meas- ures Arc Passed by the House. APPLY ONLY TO FJRST . AND SECOND-CLAS- S CITIES Governor Sftry, It Is Said, Will Promptly Approve the Bills. Senate bills Nos. 221 ami 222, the commission form of Government meas- ures, were passed in the house Wednes- day morning by a vote of 41 for, 1 against aud 3 absent aud not voting. Mr. Richardson of Weber county voted against: both bills for the reason that an amendment offered by him, giving ci' is of tho second class fivo commis- sioners instead of three, did not even get a second. The absentees on No. 221 wcro Crapo. Pago and Peterson, aud on No. 222, Crapo, Page and Stack. The bills passed without amendment. After tho bills were taken up Sen- ator Bonner X. Smith of Salt Lake was allowed Ihe privilege of the Moor and explained tho purposo of tho measures. Smith said that the bills were in the interest of better government of cities of the first and second class, to which they only applied. They were a step, he said, toward a business gov- ernment. "Of course," Senator Smith' added, "if you adopt this form of gov- ernment and do not chooso good men that will be your fault," Senator Smith then explained that in cities of the first class Salt Lake City there would be live commissioners, onu of a. horn would be mayor. There also will be an auditor. The salary of each commissioner is fixed nt $itU00 and that of tho mayor at $1200 a year, The auditor is to receive $2400. Candidates for theie positions, including a candi- date for auditor, the only other elec- tive olticc, will be nopinated at non- partisan primaries. Any person, not otherwise disqualified, enn be a candi-dat- o for any ofiico by securing a peti- tion signed by 100 voters. The primaries will bo held in the vot tug districts of the city and tho two Continued on Page Ten.



Diplomatically but Firmly They Warn the Faculty That if Modern Teachings Are Excluded They Must Look Elsewhere for Their Education; Demand Freedom of Investigation

SAY CHURCH CANNOT IGNORE SCIENCE

Evolution, Petition Declares, Gives New View of Mormon Religion, but Accounts for More Facts Than Any Other Hypothesis; Retention of Professors Asked

B. Y. U. students, asking for the retention of three teachers of evolution and the higher criticism, present the following arguments:

No church is big enough to ignore science.

Freedom of investigation requisite to progress.

If the Mormon gospel is true it will triumph over error without artificial aid.

Theology, not science, is the church's metier.

Evolution, although causing students to view Mormon doctrine in different light, nevertheless accounts for more actual facts than any other hypothesis.

If these professors go none other of like scholarship and like sympathy with Mormonism can be found.

Their removal will hurt school's credit in eastern universities.

Students would be compelled to look elsewhere for a complete education.

Missionaries to do effective work must be educated to cope with scientific arguments leveled at their church. Without a knowledge of evolution they would be useless. Toleration of others' beliefs also is part of missionaries' creed.

The very existence of school as a progressive institution is involved. Mormon church, too, will suffer if those professors go.

Special to The Tribune.

PROVO, March 15.—After receiving from the presidency of the Brigham Young university today an answer to their protest against the contemplated dismissal of three professors who have been teaching evolution and the higher criticism, the students decided to give to the public the full text of the protest.

The students assembled in mass meeting this morning to receive the answer to their protest, which they arc pleased to designate by the mild term "petition." The answer, which was in the form of a private communication to the students, was destroyed as soon as the meeting adjourned. This remarkable action led to the report that, the students were deeply offended by the tone of the presidency's reply, but students who were questioned declared that tho answer, while not altogether satisfactory, was couched in the most considerate terms, it made no specific reference to evolution, psychology, the higher criticism or even to Professors Joseph and Henry Peterson or Professor Chamberlin.

Answer Softly Worded

"The faculty fully appreciates the attitude of the students and their friendship expressed for the school," is one of tho sentences quoted from the answer.

In spite of their temperate and diplomatic conduct, the students determined to give their side of the controversy to the public. In doing so they addressed the following note to The Tribune:

Editor Salt. Lake Tribune. Salt Lake City, Utah" Dear Sir— The inclosed statement of the attitude of the college students was ratified and signed by 95 out of 114 students enrolled. The original purpose was to make the statement only to the presidency of the school, but since numerous garbled accounts have already been published we thought best to give the article to the public in the exact form, confident that the statement would speak for itself.

Text of Petition

The complete text of the "petition" is as follows:

We believe that we have sincerely at heart the interests of the Church, the interests of the Brigham Young University, and perhaps our own selfish interests as college students, and we respectfully ask that our voice be considered in a matter that is of vital concern to the school and to every individual connected therewith, viz. the question as to whether some of the subjects of science being taught from the modern scientific viewpoint are to be excluded. We take it for granted that the question at issue is mutually understood without detailed explanation and will proceed at once with our reasons for asking that Dr. Joseph Peterson, Dr. Ralph V. Chamberlin, and Professor Henry Peterson should be retained by the faculty.

In the first place we believe that freedom of investigation is a fundamental necessity for all scientific, religious, or any other kind of progress, and that we, of all people can least afford to take any stand against it, or do anything that will be interpreted as such a stand.

We believe that the great problems of modern science are worthy of our most respectful consideration, and we realize the folly of attempting to solve them independently and alone by ignoring the findings of the past and the work that is being done at present by others who are striving with honesty and sincerity equal to our own and with better facilities.

Hint and Warning

Even if it were desirable for a Church school to maintain an attitude contrary to the generally accepted stand of the scientific world, it is absolutely impossible for the reason that, except in theology, the Church does not furnish adequate material for college work, and we must necessarily look elsewhere.

From some of the printed statements of The First Presidency we take it that it is not the function of the Church to pass upon scientific questions, but rather to furnish theological direction. The general theory of evolution is not put forth as a theological doctrine, but is held to simply a working hypothesis, because of the great number of observable facts in Nature which it explains and to which it gives meaning. It will be discarded without a tear just as soon as another hypothesis is brought forth which explains a larger number of facts, but we believe that we ought not to condemn this valuable theory until we are able to examine the evidence upon which it is based more carefully and more completely than it has ever been examined before and produce a better explanation of the workings of Nature with which to condemn the old one. No other sort of condemnation can ever be effective. Shall we acquire the power to do this by excluding the subject from our schools?

Freedom of Inquiry

In view of the face that the best modern educational thought takes as a basis the theory of evolution, we feel that it should be taught here. This does not mean that we thereby assume the theory is true or false, but simply that because it is commanding the attention of the greatest thinkers, it should be open to investigation.

As college men and women we have confidence that if the evidences which tend to support the theory of evolution be presented simply for what they are worth we will have sufficient discretion to determine whether or not we wish to accept them. In so far as we have studied the subjects in question we feel that we have broadened in that we have seen both sides of a mooted question. We believe that it is not the proper attitude to fight a proposition by ruling it completely out of consideration. We feel that if our gospel is true it will triumph over error without any artificial protection. We understand that it invites us to investigate anything that is ‘praiseworthy or of good report;’ hence to prohibit the investigation of a scientific theory so well established as the theory of evolution is scarcely living up to our understanding of the gospel. Would it not be better to throw the question open to study and  Continued on Page Three.