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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31

SI0,UUO FOR a PLATE OF BEANS.
public is In fair way to conclude that the
Kansas conflict was largely war of races.
The biggest land booms in that state have
been since the war, following the new rail
road lines, and they have been quite peaceful
except as to contested county seats.
Missouri never had land boom, unless the
rapid filling up of the northern section soon
after the war may be called such. From its
acquisition in 1908 till the war it grew with
phenomenal steadinesS, and beyond the 'Mor-
mon War" of 1S33-5S, and the kansas War"
of 1S54-57, with no great excitements. Iowa,
too, has enjoyed regular though remarkably
rapid growth-43,l 12 people in 1910, 1872, pa
in 1850, GA, 9l3 in 1850, and so on, with no
shooting to speak Of Minnesota, however,
had a marvellous boom in 1926, its popula-
ton jumping from 1000 to 10000 in four
years. There was a brief pause, due to the
panic and grasshoppers OF 1851, and the civil
war, then steady and rapid growth to the
present population Of a million or so, and
with no land wars. But all other common
wealths must yield the precedence in booms
to Dakota, which gained for five years at the
astonishing rate of 100000 year, and is still
growing rapidly, as there is room on her I'M
occupied lands for some 100, 900 more, that is,
homesteads of 100 acres each for the farmers,
and town sites in plenty.
LAND IS GETTING SCARCE.
And now the painful fact is forcing itself
on the boomer that good land is getting
scarce. True, there are at least 100000
square miles of unoccupied land; but such
land-the deserts of the Great Basin, the nom
irrigable ridges, the rocky plateaus and the
vast stretches of salt, sand, soda, flint and
alkali. There is an American desert" after
all, and very bad one; not so extensive as
once supposed, and in the far future much of
it may be reclaimed, but as yet no one knows
how the water to do that can be had. This
Is the secret of the mad rush for Oklahoma
The old boomers have been over the west,
and know that this is about their last chance
to get farm where farming can be pursued
without irrigation.
Another reason for the late rush is ex-
pressed in one word-forbidden. Government
has kept the pioneers out of the Indian
territory so long that they are wild to get
into it. A very short breathing spell and
then the Indian must go: j. Il. BEADLE,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31
EunpDsy,

This is what you ought to have, in fact,
you must have it, to fully enjoy life. Thou
ing because they find it not. Thousands
upon thousands of dollars are spent an
nually by our people in the hope that they
may attain this boon. And yet it may be
had by all. We guarantee that Electric
Bitters, if used according to directions and
the use persisted in, will bring you Good
Digestion and GUST the demon Dyspepsia
and install instead Eupepsy. We recon-
mend Electric Bitters for Dyspepsia and
all diseases of Liver, Stomach and Kidneys.
Sold at SOC. and Sl.00 per bottle by A. G.
Smith & Co. Druggists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31

Wall paper at Ross. 1854 S. Main st.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31
DON'T Get CAUGHT

This spring with your blood full of impuri-
ties, your digestion impaired, your appetite
poor, kidneys and liver torpid, and whole
system liable to be Frustrated by disease
but get yourself into good condition, and
ready for the changing and warmer weather,
by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t stands
unequaled for purifying the blood, giving an
appetite, and for general spring medi
cine. 2J2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31

all the present Nevada and Utah. with some
of Arizona, and we may let the old professor
down easy by assuming that he referred to
the actual deserts and barren mountains Of
those sections.
Still more astonishing is the contrast be
tween the very slow growth of knowledge
about that region while it was Mexican and
the sudden excess of knowledge soon after it
became American. The name California"
first appears in an old Spanish romance, as
that of fanciful Amazonian island in the
west. The followers Of Cortez applied it to a
gulf on the west coast, and in the next 200
years it slowly extended up the coast. A
mission was established at Yerba Buena
NOV San Francisco in ZIG. In 1908 there
were eighteen missions; in 1913 there were
perhaps, 10000 Mexicans in the present state,
and in the next five years at least 1000
Americans settled there, among them Gen.
John Bidwell, Ex-Governor Boggs of Missouri
and the survivors of the i'll fated Bonner
party. At the close of 1877 we may reckon
800 years of Spanish-Mexican occupation, and
such was the result.
A BAD HUMAN MIXTURE.
Feb. 9, 1S4S, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidal-
go made it American territory; the exist
ence of rich gold placers was soon known in
the older states, and within eighteen months
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31
ALASKA REFRIGERATORs.

The very best refrigerator, in hard
wood, porcelain lined water tanks, nickel
plated trimmings, big variety, examine
them at n,,,,-.oo-,,.,.,.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31


RACING THROUGH SWOLLEN RIVERS.
California contained 100000 the brave and
the daring, the wretched and the Outcast, the
honest and the abandoned-a most reckless
lawleSs, dangerous mixture. No brief sum
mary can convey any idea to this generation
of the furore that prevailed throughout the
United States through the entire year 1S49
Gold-gold-gold, nothing but California;
gold was the talk of every group the theme
of debate in every club, the wild excitant of
almost every family circle. 1t blazed in ten
thousand newspaper columns, it ran in great
yellow letters across the head Of every pas
senger vessels placards, it headed thousands
OF short stories and fugitive poems in the
newspapers, it was talked of by day and
dreamed of by night, while the urgent imp
of avarice sat by every ambitious youth ran
with all his thoughts and jumped with his
dearest wishes.
BIG STORIES
The most extravagant stories were pub
lshed and implicitly believed; of nuggets
worth half million, of golden sands cover
ing millions of acres and rivers yellow from
flowing over golden bars. At length this
frenzy corrected itself, or rather the sober
people, seeing no other way to cure it, killed
! it by exaggeration. A story went the rounds
of the papers that one man got out
a nugget worth 1854, 375. 50, and while
sitting on it wiping his reeking brow,
saw another sitting down to a good
dish Of pork and beans; the finder offered to
''chip off 700 worth of gold for as much
as he could eat, but the beans man had the
latest quotations from Sacramento, and stood
him off for 100000"
The popular romances about lovers sepa-
rated by poverty and happily reunited by
California gold were siIupIy endless, and in
very truth the facts in many cases were to
the last degree romantic. Almost every
township In the United States can point to its
hero of California In New York the excite
ment for prolonged intensity exceeded any
ever known there except in the war era.
In six weeks every steamer for the isthmus
went out loaded to its utmost capacity, Van
derbilt entered on his wonderful career, and
Pacific Mail" began that astonishing series
of fluctuations which have made it a type of
stock speculation and its history for so many
years a history and registering barometer Of
Wall street.
CALIFORNIA; GREAT RECORD
California broke more engagements of
every kind, radically changed the lives of
more men, gave more outcastS a new lease,
ruined more young men fitted for quiet life,
made more people suddenly rich, disappointed
more and drove more utterly crazy than did
any other state. But it did far more: it
utterly nullified all political calculations,
completely shifted the balance of power, set
at naught the compromises" outran the
swiftest manipulations of the shrewdest poll
ticians and defeated in few months all the
schemes Matched in twenty years which were
! to find their fulfllment in the results of the
! Mexican war.
In the Thirtieth congress there were slight
references only; when the Thirty-frst con-
gress met, December, 1S49, it was officially
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31
OF WESTERN BOOMS.
Remarkable Bushes for Land III
Settling the West.
THE BIG BOOM AT OKLAHOMA.
The First Great Rush in the Wabash Valley
The Boom of 1885 in IIlinOis-The
Mad Rush to California.
THE BIG BOOM AT OKLAHOMA.

URPASSING all
that have gone be-
fore it, still the Ok
lahoma boom is
peril APPS not SO
great as some peo-
pie think. There
have been many
wonderful boomsin
the United States,
and some in Aus
tralia, Canada and
South Africa. The
man of English
race island hungry.
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| to mean any man whose life was criminal or
doubtful. The boom naturally drew all
sorts of men and women; many of these out
casts became good citizens, and many went
back to Australia during the great gold ex-
element there. Society in California did
not assume a thoroughly settled aspect till
after the vigilance committees work in 1886,
and some Observers maintain that they can
see in the 'hoodlums" of San Francisco the
offspring of the imported crimes just as the
same traits are seen in the ''larrikins" of
Australia-children of transported convicts.
FARMING IN CALIFORNIA.
The boom in California was not TO get
land, for land was plenty then, and the gold
seekers at first considered most of the soil
barren; nor was it till 1852 that farming
began to be considered an important indus
try in the state Then it was discovered that
the confirmation of old Spanish and Mexican
grants" and the careless disposal of titles
gained by the gold seekers had fastened on
the state n crushing land monopoly, which
has ever since been a somewhat serious mat
ter in politics and the social organization.
Without expressing any opinion on the case,
one may still consider the career of Dennis
kearney, the so called ''communiStic consti-
tuition" adopted few years ago, the fact
that Henry George began his peculiar mis-
sion there, and that the politics of the state
have always worn a rather lurid aspect. It
is only quite recently that California has had
a real land boom, and that of peaceful and
speculative nature in the southern part of the
state. Town lots at $500 front foot" or
ange groves at $500 an acre, and sheep
ranches at $4,000 each do not attract the
shooting class, and a man with money on his
person may be sure of civil treatment in the
boom region of California, with perfect
safety to go and come. How much money
he will get away with depends however, on
his prudence.
THE EXCITEMENT IN KANSAS.
Kansas was the next after California to fur
nish the country with "a little excitement"
as the boys say; but it was not land boom
at any rate only incidentally. Land was
still so plenty that hundreds Of men entered
Kansas ''took hand in the row" and left
without taking the trouble to file claim, and
were it not for the awful conflict of which it
was really the beginning the kansas war;
would figure as a rather small affair in Amer
lean history. 1t is very safe statement that
more men were hanged in California by vigi-
lantes than were killed in Kansas during the
three years conflict. Indeed, since the era of
good feeling has come and the survivors have
got old enough TO tell the exact truth, the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
WILL TAKE OKLAHOMA,
Fawnee Bill Ready With Plenty of Men to
Move Into Oklahoma.

Fawnee Bill Ready With Plenty of Men to
Move Into Oklahoma.
WICHITA, Kan, Jan. 16.-"Pawnee Bill''
has returned from Southern Kansas where
he had been inspecting colonies and en-
deavoring to find the feeling regarding his
intended invasion. He said: "I feel more
encouraged than ever b efore and am GER
tain that will not lack for support. The
farmers of Southern Ka nsas are all anx-
ious for the invasion to move. There
are over $500 people in the Chickasaw
Nation now only waiting for leader
have letters from Arkansas and
Texas telling me that the colonies
there are growing each day. Outside of
Arkansas City lives body of men with
wagons and teams ready to move. Here,
too, is letter from Payne's old secretary,
Hunty, at Emporia, telling me he has quite
a colony there anxious to Join US. NV
mail Is increasing each day. There ap-
pears no tagging of interest. l find. too,
that there are q large number of per-
sons who will join no colony, but are only
waiting to go with the crowd. We will
have 10000 men ready to move and l don't
see how the 1,5O0 solders-the largest body
that can be gotten together-will be able
to stop US. There is now no longer any
question about 1.-THE men are ready to
move. We will goon February and we
will take Oklahoma-Congress or no Com
yress."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

TOPEKA. Kan, Jan. 16-The murderers
of Byron Dennis and John God own have
been arrested. The two men named left
Mcpherson, Kan, three weeks ago on a
hunting expedition, travelling in boat
down the Arkansas river. Indians am
bushed along the Usage side fired on them,
killing Dennis and wounding Godown,
who has since died. The killing of
the two men was the result of an old
crime. An Indian testified in a whisky
case at the last term of the United States
district court at Wichita that he had pur-
chased whisky of a peddler in the Usage
Nation. When he returned to the reserve
some one split his head open with an axe,
killing him instantly. The Deputy United
States Marshal of the Usage Nation, Ed
Matthews, with warrant for the arrest
of the murderers, proceeded few days
ago to the place where the Indian was
killed and was shot from ambush. He also
died. The Indians supposed Dennis and
Godown TO be officers also.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
Rights of the Government.

SAVANNAH. Ga, Jan. 16.-In the United
States Circuit Court Judge Speer has de-
cided an important question. A motion
was made to dismiss several suits on post
masters bonds for the want of jurisdiction
under the Act of Congress of March 3,
1887, because the amotnt in each suit was
less than $1,000. Similar suits had been
dismissed in the Northern district of
Georgia, the district attorney there hav-
ing conceded want of jurisdiction and that
the Government was powerless to main.
tain suits in its own courts. Mr.. Gerry,
district attorney in this district, refused to
make the same concessions, and after
argument Judge Speer held that Congress
could not have intended to deprive the
Government of the right to sue in its own
courts, as such right is inherent and could
not be surrendered except in express terms.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
A Dynamite Scare.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-The Herald claims
to have secured information of a plot con-
cocted by English detectives and desper-
ate Irishmen to blow up one of the great
trans Atlantic steamers in New York
harbor. According to the Herald the object
is to force the adoption Of the British
American extradition treaty and streng-
then the cause of the London Times
against the Parnellites. The Herald says
fund Of 5000 was raised for the pur-
pose and gives a lot of particulars. but the
revelations are discredited generally.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
A "Promoter's" Services.

NEW York, Jan. 16.-S. C. Kapf, law
yer. to-day received Judgment for S106, 900
against a. c. Dunn. of California. in the
Supreme Court The suit was brought to
recover for professional services rendered
in organizing the Steuben Gold s. Silver
Company. Mr.. Kaph claims that he was
TO receive 5000 in cash and $4,000 in
shares Of the company out Of a capital of
6, 900, 900 the par value of the shares being
80 each. No defense was interposed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24
Beniehted Europe.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 16-John Casper,
OF H. o. Price & Co., formerly the leading
pool sellers OF Pittsburgh, has gone TO
Europe for the purpose of introducing the
American system Of pool selling in Lon
don, Paris and Berlin.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24


Scarcely any thing can be more important to
the people than the prompt dispatch OF bust.
ness IN the courts, particularly to the ordinary
liiigant. to whom the laws delays are especially
grieyous. And this applies with added force to
the courts OF last resort Our Supreme Court,
created when we had but 1000 people. is try.
ing TO do the business Of million and three
quarters OF people. 1t should be better paid
and relieved by an amendment adding more
justices. or an intermediate appellate court
should be created, with final Jurisdiction in
many cases that now come on appeal or
error from the courts below.
Under the head of Constitutional Conven-
ton" the Governor argues at length the question
OF calling Constitutional Convention which he
believes the surest way of curing many in
hrmities in the organic law, which have
crept in by the lapse Of time, but doubts
whether the people would indorse it un-
less assured that many features Of the
present Constitution would not be disturbed,
notably the Prohibftory amendment and the
homestead exemption On the other hand the
remedy By amendments judiciously advised
could he given width of scope sufficient to
meet the most urgent existing defects The
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

The asylum for this peculiarly unfortunate
class seems TO be well conducted and in
healthy condition. The location of the build
ing, on barren, rocky point where neither
tree nor shrub could be persuaded to grow by
the most diligent effort, is inexplicable, except
1t was to afford more pslpable proof that imbe-
Guilty is not confined to youth Additional
room, more land, less rock and some water are
needed.
SOLDIERS ORPHANS HOME
THIS is the youngest OF our benevolent insti-
tutions. but me OF the most worthy and wen
conducted. The first children were admitted in
July, 1857, and at the date Of the last report it
contained lo5 inmates-59 boys aRd % girls
representing Is counties. The report makes
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24


The State bonds outstanding at this date are
sSO3,OO0 $4,000 of which matured January l.
1889. OF this sum $50, 900 is held by the school
fund and 3, ,0O5 by the sinking fund The fund
ing of these bonds is provided for under the law
Of 1886. The next bonds that fall due are sl2,-
50l that are maturing October Is, 1894 all of
which are held by the State school fund. On
March Is, 1896, S35, 500 mature; these are also
held by the school fund. On July /, 1895 SO, 600
fall due: $500 of these are held by the school
fund and So. 600 by individuals. On July LlSSq
$4,000 are due, 200 being held by the school
fund and sl150Oo by individuals On July l.
1S9S, three different issues of bonds mature,
namely: One OF s150,OOa, one of 10000 and
another of 8 L00o; total. 1900. OF these s116
OO0, are held by the school fund, 81, 600 by the
sinking fund, SO 900 by the State University fund
and $4,000 by individuals. January 1, 1So9 the
balance OF the State debt, exl ept a funding
bond OF SlS,0oI issued under the laws of 1885,
natures, being two issues of ponds-one of ss0-
600 and one Of sS9 9O00-equal to si59O00 OF
these s2a00 are held by individuals and 1884,
600 by the State school fund Thus it viii be
seen that the actual amount necessary to be
provided for (the same being In the hands of in
aividuals and corporations) is: On July /, 1895
SSS0o0; July l. 1884, s11a 900; July 1lSsS sS4 900;
January 1, 1899, s25 coo; total Ss560o0: the bal
ance being held by funds which the State con-
trolls
The State debt has decreased since the date
OF the treasurer's report s12, ,000, leaving the
amount actually outstanding, as above stated.
sSOS.ooo OF this sss5, 5,00) falls due within the
next ten years. Computing upon the present
assessed value OF the State to meet this, it
would require an annual levy OF about two
ssnsas OF one mill. which Of course would be de-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-23

No. p is arranged in lovely combination
Of wooden stuff. amadou silk. and bands of
old gold passementerie. The amadou vel
vet hat is lined with darker chestnut satin
inside. and trimmed with white surah rib
bons and knots.
But wraps are in sight plentifully. and
here are two representative models. See
No. 81 One is Carrick cloak. or a COM
bination of amadou and white wool hor-
dered with very dark chestnut silk: The
little bonnet is in white gauze, with white
surah strings. and white and purple grapes.
with their leaves. With this channels
gloves are worn. The other peculiar toilet
consists of an undergown of dark steel
gray pongee. with loosely pleated deep bor-
ders and rows of large indigo beads. The
upper gown forms kind of mantle in very
pale steel-gray wool, with levers in indigo
and white striped surah. and a wide sash.
also in border-striped indigo and white
surah; Light gloves and black straw hat.
with black feathers and pale steel-gray
tune.
Here in New York the latest socio-
theatrical idiocy is to 60 silly over Mrs.
Kendall. the London actress now here.
Society adulates her, not because she Ia
q clever actress and an estimable matron.
but because she has come over with a Lon
don brogue. For one foolish phase of the
nonsense, know the town is full of Kendall
ears. This innovation made itself apparent
soon after the first appearance Of Mrs. Ken
dali. who makes up with less beauty box
than the charming Jane Hading used. A
few strokes OF the black pencil on her
lashes and brows. her ears dipped in q
rouge Dot. and her hands and arms in a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-23

slightly lifted on the hips. to warrant ease.
while the backs are set full. either in
double box pleats facing one another. or
in finely SHIRE ed series of minute gather
lngs. tSee No. ~ Other dresses continue
the Princess shape behind. and. cut from
neck to hem in one piece. form either q
redingote back-the fullness starting about
five inches below the waist-or made alb
solutely collant to the form. In the latter
case. slender figure is Indispensable.
In the making of matinees and house
robes. light colored silks, crepes de chine,
surah silks. and linen lawns are all en-
ployed in conjunction with dainty laces and
brieht-hued ribbons. These garments are
hand made and many of them deliberately
trimmed and embroidered. Silk and linen
lawn underclothing come in sets to match
the gowns and matinees. Colored en-
broideries worked upon the skirts and cor
sages. together with fancy galloons and
applique or cut out trimmings of KID, velvet,
or silk. outlined with tinted gold, silver.
and bronze threads, are to be much worn.
These applique or fretwork-like bands are
sometimes scattered with tiny sparks in
bronzed cut steel. the facets throwing irri-
descent colors. or again are powdered with
eclats of jewels. such as min ute garnets or
turquoises set in gold flowers. embroidered
in repousse. These trimmings are mar
velously beautiful. but they come not
within reach of an ordinary purse.-Neu
Y0rk letter to Chicago Ledger.