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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-30

PORTLAND, Ogn., Dec. 20. The situation
of the laborers forced into idleness by rea-
son of the cessation of work on the Sound
extension of the Union Pacific is I'M
changed. This afternoon the mayor of the
city sent the follwing telegram to S. H. H.
Clark, vice-president and general manager
of the Union Pacific, at Omaha: Nearly
one thousand discharged and unpaid en-
ployees of your construction department
are iG Portland in various states OF destitute
ton, several hundred being fed and lodged
daily by the city and by private charity.
All these men hold unredeemable time
checks which the contractors have no
means to pay having exhausted their own
resources, and being unable to obtain from
your company any portion OF the $500, 600
now due them on their contract. | submit
that the Union Pacific company is directly
responsible for the condition in which the
men are left by the sudden abandonment
of contracts and is bound in common honor
and decency, to take instant steps for the
relief of their restitution until the wages
due them are paid in full"
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MURDERED By 4 MOB
The Shooting of Postmaster Mat
thews at Carrolltown, Miss.
HOAR ON SOUTHERN ELECTIONS.
The Massachusetts Senator Become virtously
Indignant and Poses as Champion of
Free Ballot and American Citizenship.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The Star says:
The killing of John Prentiss Matthews,
postmaster at Carroiltown, Mississippi, by
young Mcbride, will probably tnrn out to
be a cause celebre. A Star reporter yes
terday saw j. M. Matthews, of Mississippi,
who was the Republican candidate for Con-
gress against General Hooper at the last
election and who is also a brother of the
dead man. Matthews had just received
the following telegram from Carrolltown:
"John was murdered by mob"
He had been notified by a dozen men that
a mob was going to kill him that day. He
saw the men with their guns and got a
rifle. When he did this the sheriff arrested
him and placed him under bonds. John
pointed three men out to the
sheriff and asked him to ar
rest them and protect his life
The sheriff refused. 1t was plot, and al
were in it. When he went TO his hotel fol
dinner Mcbride, who was still in his drug
store, shot him down with shotgun, kill
ing him instantly. Not satisfied with this
Mcbride fired five shots at him from re
volver after he was dead. The mob then
began dancing and shouting around the
body with the most vile abuse and curses
John had received several anonymous let
tiers telling him he must leave town. The
murderer goes free, and all because they
must have the postoffice.
''My brother, said Matthews, was only
twenty one years old. He was the frs
Republican postmaster to take the Carroll
town Office for many years, and it wa
freely said that no Republican should hol(
the otficen
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Ii. A. nannhin Dead.

lSpecalto THE HERALD-Examlner Dispatch.l
New ORLEANS, Dec. 29.-Dr. M. A.
Dauphin, president of the Louisiana State
Lottery company, died at his home at 3:5
o'clock yesterday afternoon, after weeks
illness, OF pneumonia, though he had been
3 sick man for many years. DR.. Dauphin
was born fifty-three years ago in Wessen-
burg, near Strausburg, Alsace, then a
French provinces He received collegiate
education, and the ageo of sixteen came to
America, la1 & New Orleans with his
brother, who is ! = the northwest. He
utilized his talent Tor drawing in an effort
to support himself, at one time working as
d sculptor. He finally fell in with some
local medical celebrities and studied medi-
cine. Hewas graduated from the New Or
leans schoolin 1862, but embarked in COM
mercial pursuits during the remainder of
the war. For several years thereafter he
practised his profession. In 1868 the lot
terry company was organized, with Charles
7. Howard as its president. In the early
seventies Mr.. Howard gave up the presi-
dency, retaining all his interests in the
company, and DR.. Dauphin, q large stock
holder, was elected as his successor, since
which time he mas been in active and con-
1inuous control of the big institution.
Deceased was man of much delicacy of
temperament was extremely charitable and
was said to support scores of families as
well as largely contributing TO established
and occasional charities. He spoke six Ian.
guages 1uently, was fond of all intellectual
pursuits and while essentially domestic in
his habits had large social influence. His
only surviving relatives are his mother
a brother and a wife. His death will be z
tremendous blow to the lottery, as no one
will know to whom to write for tickets.
The lottery company cannot be addressed
direct nor can it advertise. Who will sue
coed MIR. Dauphin as president!
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Nav York. Decemher 2R. 1SQn
A Branch of the Malta in Detroit.

Especial to THE MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.1
DETROIT, Dec. 2S.-Through the retaining
of Lawyer Charles A. Moore of this city to
assist in the defense of the Italians accused
of numbering Chief of Police Hennessey, of
New Orleans, it has leaked out that a
branch of the Malta exists in this city 1t
is stated that the society here numbers
eighteen or twenty members, and Saliva
dora Musscoda, who, with a fellow italian,
some weeks ago shot and dangerously
wounded Reporter Fred Crimmens, are
said to be members. The managing editor
of a Detroit daily. who refused to let his
name be known, has a letter in his posses
sion signed Malta, and ordering him under
penalty of vague threats to discontinue the
use of the word ''dago" in his paper. 1t is
known the Italians here have raised a fund
for the defense of their brethren and
offered Reporter Crimmens 5000 to leave
town. CrimmenS has since published a
statement in which he says he was at fault.
and will not push the case. The police are
said to have the names and place of meet
ing of the alleged Malta.
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FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Major Whiteside Has a Battle
with Big Foot's Band.
CAPTAIN WALLACE AND FIVE MEN
Are KilIed-The Red Men We're Treacher0uS
General Miles Accountable
News in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Dec 29.-Oflicial dis
patches from General Miles dated Rapid
City, S. D., were received tonight by Gen
eral Schotield telling of the fight IN the bad
lands to- day. The first was: ''Whiteside
had four troops of cavalry and held the
Indians till Forsythe reached him with
four more troops last night. At $3.50 this
morning while disarming the Indians the
fight commenced. l think very few Indians
have escaped, think we will have this
matter in hand as soon as all are IN posi-
ton. There was no precaution omitted
The fight occurred near the head OF
Wounded Knee creek. 1 have just seen
many of the Indians who went out toward
Forsythe this morning come back"
The next dispatch says; General
Brooke teegraphs F'or5ythe reports that
while disarming Big Foot's band this
morning fight occurred. Captain Wal
lace and five soldiers were killed. Lieu
tenant Darlington and fifteen men were
wounded. The Indians are being hunted
up in all directions. None are known to
have gotten their ponies. General Brooke
also reports that many of the young war
rors that were going out from camp IN the
bad lands to the agency have gone toward
Forsythe All troops have been notified. y
A later dispatch says: General Brooke
reports TWO shots were fired near the
agency pine Ridge by someone later in
the day and several were fired in return.
! Quite large number of Two Strikes band
ran away and all at the agency are gener-
ally excited. All this makes matters look
more serious"
General Schofield, though deeply regret
| ting the occurrence, was not greatly sur
prised when he learned of the treachery
displayed by the Indians in the fight. He
has been on the outlook for treachery all
the time It was almost inevitable. So far
as he could see just now, there appeared to
be no further danger at hand, except that
to be fea ed from the disarmament of the
bands of Indians that are still out, though
the excitement following the light of to
day might be the means leading to further
trouble.
Secretary Proctor also expressed regret
at the occurrence, as he had hoped for {
settlement of the trouble without further
bloodshed He supposed inasmuch as Bis
Foot was connected with Sitting Bull:
band it was case where the Indian!
wanted revenge for the killing OF theil
friend.
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What S. II. II. Clark Saws.

OMAHA, Neb. Dec. cam attempt was
made this morning by Milwaukee & ROCK
Island trains to cross the Union Pacific
bridge, but the switches were fixed so
they could not and the trains were obliged
TO return to Council Bluffs transfer. S. H.
H Clark, general manager of the Union
Pacific, said the Union Pacific proposed TO
do its own business; it did not intend to
give up to another road and allow it to use
its tracks as it pleases. 1t had offered to
pull in the Milwaukee and Rock Island
trains, but would not allow the engines of
those roads to do the pulling: the agree
ment would not be complied with, and the
subject was now being discussed in New
York and decision on it would not be
reached before the 9th proximO.
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struggle for the pending bill was a struggle

struggle for the pending Dill was struggle
for the last step towards establishing the
doctrine to which the American people
were pledged by their history, their consti-
tuition, their opinions and interests; they
could not know in their citizenship slaves,
vassalS or inferior races. 1t was idle to
debate theories or PHILOSOPHERS in the
presence of the express provisions of the
constitution. He replied with all
the Indignation which the calumny de-
served, that the assertion that the bill was
a partisan measure, or that any man who
supported it was actuated by partisan pur-
poses, was untrue. The bill was one to
exclude partisanship from the determine
ton of the title to a place on the roll of the
House of Representatives as absolutely as
the lot of humanity would admit. The
committee that reported 1t had merely
undertaken to act on the advice of S. S.
Cox and other leading Democrats to extend
the benefcent system of electoral super
vision offered in New York to other parts
of the country. Senators would put forth
the whole military power of the govern
ment to defend settlers against the Indians,
though the latter had been provoked by a
hundred years of wrongs. Would they not
also protect them against unprovoked out
RACES at the pollss Did they stand here
seriously to affirm that the fathers of the
republic had created the national govern
ment and given it no authority to secure
the purity of the election of its great rep
resentative assembly.
The Repub lican Senators charged that
through election practices in operation in
some of the states at least thirty Represen-
taUives had been illegally usurped; that
the constitution of the United States had
been so violated and overthrown that for
fourteen years a minority had controlled
the national House Of Representatives and
for four years the presidency of the United
States itself had been held by usurper
What had the Senators on the other side
answered! Some of them seemed to think
their best answer in railing and reviling
the Senator who had charge of the bill
Their abuse had done him (Hoar) an honor
to which he would not have laid claim, il
brought him into company into which he
would otherwise have been too modest tt
seek admission. 1t was the Democrats
who reviled Adams and Sumner auG
Seward and Lincoln and Grant. The
Senators from Virginia and West Virginit
| Daniel and kenna) had but repeated
what their predecessors had said; the
latchets of whose shoes he (Hoar) was no
worthy to unloose. Without concluding
his speech, Hoar yielded for executive ses
sion and the Senate soon adjourned.
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The netroit Submarine Boat.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.l
New YORK, Dec. 29.-In discussing the
dispatch from Detroit which told of the
building OF a submarine boat, ex-Secretary
of the Navy Whitney said to-day: "While
was at the navy department in Washing
ton asked for bids for the building of a
submarine boat. Plans were submitted at
the time. One was after the Nordenfeld
design, and the other after designs of Mr..
Holland. The latter bid was handed in by
the Cramps of Philadelphia. Both plans
were carefully examined at the time, but
declined to consider any of the designs IN
less the bidders agreed to guarantee what
they claimed the submarine boats could
actually perform. We never secured these
guarantees, and OF course the contracts
were never awarded. The Holland design
appeared to be the most promising one. If
there is submarine boat now IN construc-
ton at Detroit it may be that it is being
built after plans submitted to the navy de.
partment by the Cramps
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SULLIVAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
The ex-Slugger Tells How He Became an Actor,
as He Calls Himself

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
New York. Dec. 2S.-John L. Sullivan
has long article in Sundays Herald over
his own signature in which he tells how he
became an actor. After telling that Dun
can Harrison proposed to write play for
him, to which John agreed, Lawrence Bar
rett's rival says:
| about some parts of the play. Harrison is q
! good fellow, but he is banker sentimental.
particularly objected to the love scenes. won /
make fool of myself acting theloveSck swain.
At last the character [ was to assume was
trimmed up somewhere near my idea OF what it
ought to be- L took up the study of my part,
after 1t was formed, and by diligent work
learned it in two weeks. L had no difficulty at
all in memOriZing my lines The gestures and
poses were What Stumped ME; | always felt
| silly going through them. l am frequently
| asked If | ever have attacks of stage fright
can most emphatically state l do not, Not
even on the night OF my debut, as high toned
actors call it, did feel the slightest nervous
ness. have faced too many big audiences in
my time to be easily frightened
| The hardest thing for me to do is TO control
my voice, it is so difficult for to acquire the
proper pitch. know have tendency to bel
low, my voice gets away from me before know
it, fused 20 spend hours strolling through the
| woods about Hampstead trying to take reefs in
my voice. also find il irkSome 20 stand still on
the stage. My legs are forever attempting to
take the steps one does when facing an oppon-
ent in the ring, and ] have to be on the lookout
continually TO check this tendency on the part
of my understandings to back and fill. Not
that L am conceited enough TO believe that
have material enough in me for the making of q
Booth or Salvini, but want to show the pub
lie that have some brains besides fair share
of muscle and a little more ability than the
prize ring demands.
In regard to my fighting again. Several years
ago | had occasion to throw up the fighting
business, because L had reached The highes
pinnacle in the prize fighting world. Moreover
as grew older my mind developed as my body
and L could not see there was much for me il
the prize ring. This is the reason why 1 have
always been ambitious to go on the stage. A:
i, to my fighting Jackson or Slavin-whiIe / an
not at all anxious to return to the ring at the
same time l shall not allow them in any way t.
! ''call me down." II it is necessary during n
vacation next summer. shall gladly meet tn,
winner of the proposed Standardization contes
or any other man who attempts to take adVan
tage OF my reputation. At present am virtu
| allV out of the ring
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Gerlaeh G. Haries. Bankers. Fail.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 20. = Gerlach &
Harjes, bankers and brokers, announced
their suspension on the stock exchange at
noon to-day. The failure is not q heavy
one. The firm made an assignment this
morning. William Gerlach, senior member
of the firm, has been member of the New
York stock exchange since 1880, but the
firm had no contracts there. Gerlach is
agent in this city of the German Lloyd
steamship company. No statement Of
liabilities or assets has been prepared but
it is thought the Indebtedness will be about
S15O,OO0 with assets nearly equal. The
suspension is expected to be only temper
airy one as number of creditors of the
firm have declared their willingness to
allow them to resume.
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Hugh O'Donnell. that the funds of the
Irish party. held in Paris, are in such a
shape that neither the Parnellites nor the
anti-Parnellites can touch them, O'Brien
declined to give direct answer, saying no
Nationalist, who knows O'Donnell, at
tached the slightest Importance TO any
thing he says on the subject.
Regarding the funds subscribed in the
United States recently, O'Brien said no
man on either side in the present conflict
has the smallest fear that there will be
any misdirection of National funds. The
fund now in Paris was subscribed for gen.
eral political purposes and remains in sus-
pense, pending settlement of the differ
ences in the party. As to Americ1n funds
just subscribed, they are to be IL l'warded
to joint treasurers, Webb and Kenny, in
Dublin, and will be used solely for the pur-
pose for which they were subscribed-the
support of evicted tenants. Not the slight
est difficulty can arise in regard to the dis
tribution of these funds
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THE UNION PACIFIC
Refuses to Allow the Milwaukee
to Pass the Omaha Bridge.
THE HAND OF JAY GOULD is SEEN
In the Affair-Miller Saws there is No Use
Pooling Away Time over Traffic
Arrangements.

CHICAGO, Dec. 29-The action of ths
Union Pacific in debarring the Chicago,
Milwaukee 81 st. Paul, from entrance into
Omaha over the Union Pacific bridge, was
a surprise TO the st. Paul officials. For
some they have been advertising that be-
ginning yesterday they would run passeu-
ger trains through to Omaha, but the first
one under the new schedule was stopped
by the Union Pacific people at the bridge.
In an interview this evening President
Miller, of the st. Paul road, said: Last
May our company entered into an engage
ment with the Rock Island by which we
were to build bridge across the Missouri
river at Omaha for our Joint use. AS soon
as the Union Pacific people heard of this.
and refer particularly to Sidney Dillon,
who is now president, and General Dodge,
who is director, they sought confer
ence with US, told US there would be no
need of our building bridge as they would
be glad to let US use their bridge for a
consideration. subsequently a contract
was drawn up, by which our road and the
Rock Island were to run trains into the
Union depot at Omaha over the Union
Pacific bridge. This company was
to pay $4,000 year. and
its proportion of other Joint expenses.
The contract was approved by President
Adams and the board OF directors of the
Union Pacific, and there can be no ques-
ton as to its validity. So far as our freight
business is concerned, we have been oper-
ating under the contract since July /, but
as soon as we gave notice that we would
begin to run passenger trains we were shut
out without explanation. The contract is
legal and binding, and don't see how the
Union Pacific can set it aside.
The Rock Island contract was similar to
that OF the st. Paul, except that it en-
braced the joint use of tracks from Omaha
/ to Lincoln. On the strength of it the Rock
| Island has titty-two miles of road between
Lincoln and Beatrice connecting with
its main line. The Union Pa
clhc was thus to obtain a south
ern outlet through Indian territory.
from the southwest"
/ Presidents Miller and Cable had con-
ference to-day, and both declare they have
not decided upon any definite course of &C
ton. They were firmly of the opinion,
| however, that they could not be deprived
of the rights accorded them by their con-
tract, even though there has been a change
in the management of the Union Pacific
The opinion was expressed here to-day that
the hand of Jay Gould had been seen in all
this. He owns the Missouri Pacific, and
that part of the contract which gives the
Union Pacific q line into Missouri Pacific
territory is not to his taste. There is a
feeling In railway circles that this affair
may prove the death blow to the Presi-
dents agreement. President Miller said
4 in the interview: ''If that contract cannot
be made to stand, there is no use fooliug
away time with traffic agreements
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A Rarh Avis Indeed.

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch. I
New YORK, Dec. ga Times special
from New Orleans says: August Heiss,
of Livingston parish, hunter of great ex-
peri ence, killed a strange feathered mon
ster few days ago. He says bird of like
species has never before been seen by him
and is a stranger to all his neighbors
After the monster had been twice shot it
was found necessary to end its existence
by several blows of an old fence rail, when
it was found to measure nine feet from tip
to tip of the wings. The color of the bird
was of snowy whiteness except at the wing
tips which were jet black. The body was
as large as that of full grown sheep and
the flesh was blood red. The bill from the
back Of the head measured two feet with
an extensiable sack or pouch of gutta per-
cha like substance hanging to the under
jaw and attached to the bill very much as a
dip net is to its staff. The bird had evil
IDENTIFY travelled long distance and could
scarcely fly and MIR. Heiss is of the opinion
the fowl was one of those spoken of by
African travellers. Enough feathers were
taken from the bird to make large pillow.
| They are of excellent quality, white and
soft as down.
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swipdItng wholesale DIAMOND Merchants.

New YORK, Dec. pa morning paper
says one of the most deliberate and thor
oughly prearranged plans for plundering
the wholesale diamond merchants on
Maiden Lane was unearthed late Saturday
NIGHT, when several deputy sheriffs made a
descent on a jewelry store at 3S9 Eighth
avenue and seized everything of value in
the place. The store is owned by Albert
John, who has disappeared with the entire
stock Of the establishment, valued at about
so, 600. The scheme was so successful that
at least a dozen downtown diamond
brokers and jewelers. were victimized, and
the ring-leader in the plot made good his
escape. The defaulting tradesman left his
wife penniless. Before leaving for parts
unknown he persuaded her 80 give him a
few hundred dollars she had saved. In
face OF the mans previous unsayory repu-
tation, he managed to work so upon the
credulity OF downtown jewellers and made
such pretensions as to his bank account
and remunerative trade, that he had COM
paratively no difficulty, after he once made
a favorable impression, in getting all the
jewelry and diamonds he waited on credit.
One of the victims who let John have jew
elry on credit, said he did not think more
than $500 could be realized on the fixtures.
Unless the police recovered the stolen
stock, the creditors will sustain a total