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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

THREE APPLICANTS for county postoffices
who had neither the money nor the time to
go to Washington and press their claims in
person, sent their photographs with the
papers, with requests that the pictures be
filed with the applications. The subjects
wear bland and genial smiles, the aim evil
IDENTIFY having been to put the postmaster
general in good humor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14
In Favor of Annexation.

Handsome Young Canadian-Are you in
favor of annexation, Miss Oldmaid?
Miss Oldmaid-Oh, this is so suddenl Yes,
am yours. Philadelphia Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

DUBLIN, April 13.-David Sheehy, mem
Der of parliament, now undergoing impris-
onment for offenses under the crimes act,
has been confined in cell and placed on a
bread and water diet for refusing to per-
form mental work about the prison.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

The horde of Utah politicians who have
been infesting Washington of late, must
have been forcibly reminded of the iudg-
ment seat where men are called to answer
for deeds done in the body" If there was
an act of their past lives that did not I'M
expectedly rise up and confront them, that
act was not within the reach of their
brother politicians. Moccasin Mac, gaily
sailing up to pluck the marshalship poppy,
was appalled, by the spectre of little
United States mint iulCp back in Boise in
days gone by. The naughty hut chivalrous
Shaughnessy, STOPPING to receive the laurel
on his brow, was met by forgotten
memory Of a mining deal in which shot
guns and six shooters played facetious
but potent part: Ireland, shutting up
through a back alley after the precious
plum, was stalled by Il shower Of potatoes
grown on government lands, hoed by gov
ernment hands, and sold to the government
at boom prices; Varian, snarlingly at
tempting to tear away the prize
with his teeth, finds himself gnawing
file i'll the shape Of some Nevada legislative
"reminiscences: Zane, feverishly and tremb-
lingly picking his way back to his Old seat,
is cut off by banner with this strange
device, segregation, and even the
doughty Pratt, whose record is supposed to
be without blot, finds his way blocked
with subscription list to the Democratic
campaign, wEereon the name of Abou Ben
Arthur leads all the rest! Truly, it is
only those whose skirts are white that may
venture up to the capital city, and the
little Old lumber man whose first name is
Elijah, seems to be about the only one able
to make the trip.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

Ex-Governor PORTER, of Indiana, isiust
getting over a seige OF very serious sick
ness, brought on, he says, by too much
walking. Some of the Utah Office-seekers
in Washington will be laid out completely,
if President HARRISON does not give them
something on which they can borrow
money
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

New York city has debt of SIS, 900, 900,
and proposes to expend $2O,OOO,OO0 for new
parks. This latter sum, together with the
running expenses, will bring the debt up to
SIPS, 900. OOO or within 81, 100000 of the limit
allowed by law-1O per cent. of the assessed
valuation. 1t seems impossible to rum
rrosperous city without a debt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

VARIOUS METHODS are being devised for
entering the Oklahoma lands on the 22nd
inst. Captain WooDsoN and Lieutenant
CARSON, located near the line of the newly
acquired public lands, are in receipt of tel
egrams daily to hire horses, have them
saddled and bridled and waiting on the az
rivals of trains at Oklahoma city, April %,
at noon. The object is to mount at once
and by feet steeds distance rival boomers
on foot and capture the most desirable
claims The most novel method
yet devised is by party of four
men from Indiana who are camped
near what are known as the Antelope Hills
adjacent to the Oklahoma borders. They
have with them balloon and it is their OBJ
ject to make an ascent early on the morn
ing of the 22nd drift in mid air-until noon,
and then descend hours in advance of those
who put their trust in the speed of horses
however swift. Verify it is the Hoosier to
whom must be given the cake for sustain
ing proverbial Yankee smartness. The in
habitant of Connecticut, with his wooden
nutmegs, must take back seat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14
An Ant Ideal.

If we were to choose the most appropriate
symbol Of the feeting, the evanescent, the
perishable, the decaying, the here-today-and-
gone-to-norrow, perhaps it would be pair
of boys boots-Springfeld Union.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14
From pillar to Post.

WASHINGTON, April 13-Colonel Fred
Grant, the new minister to Austria had a
short interview with the President this
morning prior to his departure for his new
post
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

IF THE Utah office-seekers would or could
but wreak their real feelings upon
expression the sentence would be
that which a certain minister let go
from his pulpit not long since: 'We
pursue a shadow-the bubble bursts, and
leaves ashes in our hands," We commend
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

WASHINGTON, April 13,-There was a
steady fall of rain during the entire morn
ing, so the President was forced to abando n
his proposed trip down the Potomac today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

Mr.. Varian is back from Washington,
looking as cheerful as cock on a drizzly
morn. Mr.. Varian did not return because
he felt that his cause could be safely left to
itself in Washington, and the betting cor
ner of the Alta club does not ring with any
dizzy odds in Mr.. Variants favor. Rumor
says that Mr.. Varian came back because
through the dim mists that hover between
here and Washington small cloud, no
bigger than a mans body. began to arise
and make itself manifest. 1t was the hand
of his local banker, reckoning him home,
and Mr.. Variau no sooner made it out, and
made sure that its sweet, sad beckon was
not to be monkeyed with, than he packed
his remaining dickey, and took an emigrant
passage for home.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

EX-SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER wants to be
United States consul at Dublin. Whisky
is cheaper and better in Scotland than in
ireland
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

THE DAILY HERALD is published every morn
ing Mondays excepted at THE HERALD Block,
corner West Temple and First South streets,
Salt Lake City, by THE HERALD COMPANY.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

Entered at the Postofice at Salt Lake City
Utah, for transmittance through the mails as
second class matter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

''HELLo.'' said reader of TIE HERALD
IN Tuesday morning, has Congress got to-
5ether all at once:n The cause of this
eiaculatory query was a headline in the
dispatches of that days paper The Ma
sional Menagerie''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14
SUNDAY SALAD.

Scene: Telegraph office at Cynthiana,
KY, 1885. a 1eshy man, with mustache
and goatee, pacing the floor impatiently. He
approaches the operator and despairingly
exclaims: ''Ye gods, why don't it come !
1t is now three minutes since wired Gro
yer for the seventh time nay willingness to
settle the Mormon problem, and no answer
yet. Slow Slow How long does it take
message to come from Washington to this
place."
''About one fraction of second, sir"
''rt seems an age. Have you anything to
drinkl"
Nothing but blue vitrol''
"Give it me-" Drinks a jar with RELISH
The message soon came. 1t was as fol
lows: Caleb have caught in a mild form
the fever of your own self confidence. Go
right out there and fix things up. Grover"
Four years later Dramatis persOnae-
Caleb, pere, and Caleb, Ills. Surroundings
The governors room and the unsolved
Mormon problem.
The gov'n'r (suicidally, throwing down
his pen 1t is finished"
The son-"Shall I take it over to the
Western Onlon:"
Governor-"The devil, no-o-o: the tele-
graph is too blamed rapid. 1t is not be
coming my dignity to act in such haste. 1t
shocks me to think of it,
Caleb, ir-'What shall do with it. siro!"
Governor (refectively)-'S Shades of Ben
Holiday What an age of hurry and
scamper. Alas, if it must go, take it down
to the Denver & Rio Grande and ship it by
slow freight
exit to the tune of, My old Kentucky
home, where the grass grows short.')
THERE is prominent and well-respected
business man of Salt Lake who has weak
ness for running through other peoples
mail matter He does this every day of
his life, has often been detected in the act,
and yet no one has complained of it so far.
He is Postmaster Barratt.
AT a social party the other evening, d
little siX-year-old tot announced her ability
to sing the ''Blue Salvation Army" and
permission being given she favored the
guests with a very fair performance Of
- Blue Alsat;an Mountains"
''HELLo." said a reader of THE HERALD
on Tuesday morning, has Congress got to-
gether all at once:n The cause of this
eiaculatory query was headline in the
dispatches of that days paper The Ma
4:,,,l
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
"a Night or

Tomorrow evening Augustin Days IA
nous comedy Night on" is to be
presented at Hsrper's theatre. The
Evening Wisconsin, of Milwaukee, says
Of it:
Augustin Days comedy success of a
few years ago was presented at the Grand
opera house last evening, by a splendid
company. The play is of the farce order,
planned to amuse, and in the hands of
such capable company is pleasing
and mirth provoking piece. The COM
pany is up to the requirements of their
several parts. George CASTOR appears in
the role of Prof. Babbitt, the hen pecked
husband who has written a play, and
does the part full justice. Mrs -Eberle
makes Zantippi true to life, and draws
the character Of strong minded wife,
with considerable cleverness. Miss
Harmed takes the part of Nisbe with
grace and effect. Miss Livingston
as Susan and Miss Willard as Angelica
give entire satisfaction. G. j. Burbridge
is cast for Marcus Brutus Snap, the en-
terprising theatrical manager, and Is very
amusing. The Harry Damask of Mr..
Spangler is praiseworthy. Stanley Rig
mold appears as Jack Mulberry, and Sam
Verney as Lord Mulberry. The costumes
OF the company are handsome and the
staging artistic. The audience last even
ing was unusually enthusiastic and
warmly applauded the company. "a
Night OF" will be repeated tonight, and
a matinee will be given tomorrow.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
THE MARKETS.
CHICAGO. Nav :

CHICAGO May s.
Quotations on the board of trade today We're
as follows: Wheat-No. May, opened s2asc
closed S59c; June, opened Sc, closed S3s4c:
July, opened .Sl3c, closed 7gs4c. Corn
No. May, opened 3H1r, closed 351ac; June,
opened 34slc, closed 35ssc; July, opened 35lac
closet Sc. Oats-No. May, opened 23c,
closed 23esc; June, opened pc, closed 24c: July
opened 1850, closed 2ilsc. Pork-May. opened
Sll.s), closed Sl2.05; June opened sIL.771S
closed Sll.5: July, opened sll.95. closed
SELL. Lard-May, opened S6.s71s, closed
SG921s.
Live stock-The Union Stock Yards reports
the following range of prices: Hogs-Market
opened firm, with some lots selling at DC ad-
vance; now all grades stea y at yesterday s
figures. light grades, S4.65ISis5; rough pack
ing Si.501455 mixed lots. S465d54.75: heavy
packing and shipping lots, S46bGi.75. Cattle
Steady; beeves, S3.j06Di.30: cows and mixed
Sl.l5G3.p; stockers and feeders, S25d360.
Sheep -Weak; 109l5c lower; wooded Westerns
$4.UG4.s; shorn. S3.25Gl3.90: lambs. S4.gOCl5 80
Produce: Butter-Fancy Elgin creamery,
3sJs.c per Id; diaries in line, l66aOc; roll but
ter, Halle. Eggs-Strictly fresh, l01pc per
dog. Poultry-Live chickens. &c per 10; roost-
ers, &c; turkeys, l02al4c: ducks, l04l2c Pota-
toes-Choice Burbanks, asd..sc per Blu: Beauty
of Hebron, 2SG25c; mixed lots, aDc; sweet DO
tatoes, Sl.75lD200 per Dbl. Apples-Choice
greetings, Sl.2J6ll.50 per Dbl; poor lots, 75cSa
SLIGO. Cranberries-Bell and bGgle. S5.Ooll6.0O
per Dbl.
New York.
New YORK. May g.
Wheat-Quiet; No. red state CSC; No. 9 do
s'14c; No. I'd winter May. Slsc; do June,
S43sc: do July, ssh; do August, s5lsc Corn
Steady; No. mixed cash, 441sc; do May
42ssc; do June, 42c14: do July, sc: do August,
4Ss4c. Oats-Steady; No. l white state
89e; No. 9 do April, 2acI@: No. mixed May.
2scI: do June, :91sc: do July, 29cIs. Rye
Dull Barley-Nominal. Pork--Dull but firm;
new mes, $3.50 @lS.25. Lsrd Quiet; MAY
$,.24 June, 81. S; July. S7.2s
Live stock: Cattle-Trading brisk and
prices firm; common TO prime steers S3@G
465 per loo lbs; poor to best bulls and dry
cows, S2.WD3.55. Sheep and lambs-Firmer
and fraction higher. with fair trade: I'M
shorn sheep, S5.60d8.O0; unshorn yearlings.
$70og7.5s spring lambs, S3.50G5.5O per head
Hogs-Nominally steady; S5.lG85.35
ROCK BLAND.
Hsy-Upland prairie, &7Q7S
HAy-Timsiny-new $706.O0.
Hay-Wild, $6.000S6lOO.
Rye-50c.
Corn--30c.
HOtatOes-1bc.
Turnipe--l5c.
oosl-6oft lilo hard 900
Cord Wood-Oak, &.36; Hickory, -.
braW-S60o: baled g 90.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
Thoroughbred Performances.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May at the race
meeting here yesterday the winning horses
were: Orderly, q mile, 1:1o; j. I. Rusk, e
mile, 1:30; Quotation, 1-16 miles, 1:491l
Lady Blackburn, q mile, Los; Kidnap, q
mile, 1:04.
LEXINGTON, KY, May 9.-Neva won the
q mile race at the course here yesterday in
1:16, Sunny Brook the Il mile in 0:5O1E, Amos
A. the q mile in 1854, and Elyton the
mile in :41s4.
BALTIMORE, Nd, May AT the Jockey
club races yesterday the money went to the
following horses: Belle dor, "a mile, Ills;
Cortese, l mile, l :46; Tom Finley, II mile,
O:5014; Bess, 1-l6 miles, :5015; Bocaccio,
mile, 1:44H.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
THE BRIDGE BID BEATEN.
The People OF Drury Defeat the Mus
catine scheme by Twenty-Five Ma

The People Of Drury Defeat the Mus
catine scheme by Twenty-Five Ma
jority.
The people of Drury voted on the
proposition yesterday for special tax to
build an approach to the projected bridge
so enthusiastically promoted by Muscs.
tine. This was the first item of expense
Rock Island county was asked to bear in
this Iowa enterprise, and when the Mus
catine Journal says it was mot a sue
cess, it speaks the sentiments of that side
of the river only. The vote stood:
FOR the TAX ..................6 30
Against the tax ................ 9O-25
In Muscatine there is naturally great
disappointment over the result, and the
Journal tries to smother its feelings with
sarcasm. 1t says:
H. B. lie Quatte, of Drury township,
had a calf born this morning with tail
sixty inches long. He says that the num-
Der of inches on that calf's tail repre-
sents the number of years Drury town
ship is behind the rest OF the world.
The general feeling in Muscatine is one
OF disappointment at the result There is
talk Of another election as the vote was
very light, and many who were known to
be not unfavorsble to the tax, did not
vote at all. Just how the election affects
Muscatine's bridge project is not def
nitely known.
One OF the Bridge company says he
wants to see q new charter permitting
the company to charge toll OF fifty
cents, for if Muscatine is to do all the
work. things had better be adjusted to
the city's benefit.
The ARGUS, in its opposition to the
scheme on the part of Muscatine, has
been prompted only by desire to have
the money expended for road improve
ments il any is to be made. to be applied
IN improving the means of getting to the
county seat and not to cities in Iowa
whose selfish interests are foremost. In
the meanwhile there is no objection to
Muscatine building all the bridges it
wants to, but it must not call upon the
taxpayers of Rock Island county who are
to gain nothing thereby, to help it.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
A Pertinent Position,

Editor ARGUS:
Rock ISLAND. May 9.-What do the
special advocates of brick paving ex-
pect to gain by a wholly one-sided effort
to force their scheme upon the cityf
From the beginning till now, they have
presented to property holders the use OF
brick only, without any pretended COM
parison of its cost or advantages over
other proposed material. Suppose it be
true that brick of proper quality is one
of the materials used, and that during
the comparatively short time 1t has been
in use as paving, it has given reasonable
satisf action. does that fact establish it's
excellence and superiority over anything
else? AS a matter of fact, the council
committee found wood used very much
more extensively, and giving equal salts
faction. The citizens committee seems
to have been constituted merely to get
arguments and information in favor of
brick, visited cities where it was the pre-
vsiling n aterial, and so far as their report
shows. made no endeavor to get any facts
which went to show the qualities or DUR
ability and cost Of anything else. The
council committee examined and reported
upon both brick and wood. and aimed to
present the facts impsrtially. The facts,
so far as they could ascertain, appear to
be that brick in some cases has served
fair purpose but that wood, as whole,
has borne the test and has come into
more general use than even the best quail.
ity of brick yet manufactured for paving
purposes. Why not direct the attention
of property holders to comparison of
values. and not wholly disregard wood in
urging the claims of brick2 If either, or
both. are yet to any degree matters of ex-
pertinent, why not say so, and let people
judge of the probabilities of one being
better than the other. The total disre>
gard OF the council committees findings
and the apparent attempt to force con-
clusion exclusively in behalf of brick,
seems to me to SAVIOR more of personal
bias than of desire to treat the subject
fairly. or for the property holders best
interests. Why not put the work of get
ting an expression of property holders
and other parties in interest into the
hands of persons who are not special ad-
vocstes OF any particular materisl2 II
the labor of the council committee is to
be totally ignored. why not treat the re-
port and the work of the citizens com>
mittee in the same way, and let the coun>
Gil have unprejudiced information to act
upon. PROPERTY OWNER,
On Second avenue in the paving district.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
RoUDd to Mnke Brick.

The over anxious and over jealous
brick enthusiasts are circulating another
petition among Second avenue property
holders with view of presenting it to
the council at its next meeting, the p1r.
pose of which is to represent to the coun-
ell that the majority OF Second avenue
property holders desire the council to
ignore its own committee report. the ex-
pense for which the city must stand, and
adopt brick. While the ARGUS has no
objection to brick, it does not like the
disposition to force it on the city, and il
believes the council will best serve the
public interests by being guided in its
action by the report OF its own committee
which may be held responsible. The
brick enthusiasts visited only brick
cities and then refused to report some of
the defects they saw, as a citizen and an
extensive Second avenue property owner
who accompanied the brick excursion
said last night: Alderman Edwards
was right when he said the brick used in
Galesburg was in disgraceful condition.
/ noticed it and called the attention of
members of the committee to it. but they
refused to notice it,"
The council committee after inspecting
all kinds of material-not brick alone
aud after smothering up nothing. but
making an unbiased report, favoring no
material in particular, show facts that
commend wood as vastly superior to
brick. The brick enthusiasts pledged
themselves to abide by the council COM
mittee's report, yet now they attempt to
kill its effect. The brick petition may
secure the names of the majority of prop
erty holders simply because those having
it in charge are more active than those
not having any personal motives in the
matter, but the council will be safest 10
first giving serious consideration to the
report made by members of its own body
1t is the council that is to be held respon-
sible for the condition of paving and not
the property holders. The ARGUS IS
most enthusiastically in favor of paving
and it does not particularly object to
brick, as it has said before. but it is not
favorably impressed with the course pur-
sued by certain citizens who are over
Jealous for brick and appear bound to
have it, whether the council wants it or
not.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
FOR COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
The Illinois House Passes Must-Go-t
School Measure.

The Illinois House Passes Il Must-Go-to-
school Measure.
SPRINGFIELD, His, May 9-The bill
amending the law in relation to the assess
ment and collection of taxes was sent to
third reading by the senate yesterday. The
Chicago drainage bill was referred to the
Judiciary committee. The joint resolution
indorsing the Morgan Park military acade-
my was adopted and the bill amending the
partition of estates law passed. The re-
malnder of the session was occupied in cad
ing the bill to codify and revise the scnool
law
The house passed the bill requiring all
children between the ages of and IA years
to be sent to school at least twelve weeks
each year. There were only three votes
against the bill. The bill revising the game
laws was also passed, as was the bill to au-
thorrze proceedings supplementary to an exc
cution against property. The bill to prohibit
the dumping of distillery waste into streams
was defeated. The bill to make more effect
ual the act prohibiting liquor selling on cleo
ton days and Sundays was passed. Also the
bill providing for the dissolution of drain
age districts The bill repeating the act for
blind asylum in Chicago was passed, as was
the bill to provide for the expenses Of Joliet
penitentiary and keep the prisoners en-
ployed
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09
For the President to Decide

WASHINGTON CITY, May cit is expected
that the president will soon be called upon to
decide dispute between the interior depart
ment and the civil service commission. As
sistant Attorney Shields, of the interior de
partment, has decided that appointments in
the census bureau are not under civil service
rules The civil service board, it is said. will
appeal from this decision TO the president.
and make strong effort to have the patron
age of this important bureau placed under its
control The census bureau will give employ
ment to 800 clerks for two years and to as
many more for shorter periods, to say moth
ing of local superintendent and enumerators
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-09

train will leave Rock Island at p. m,
and complete the run to Freeport, the
terminal point. at 7:50 p. m. At Savanna
it will connect with trains from the west
and north. Train No. will also leave
considerably later.
A new time card goes into effect on the
c., R. I. & P. Sunday. but no important
changes are contemplated.
The c.. B. s. Q. is also likely to have q
new time card next Sunday.