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The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The Florence Enterprise com ments as follows on the action of the Territorial Board of Equaliza- ton, in so far as it relates 10 the as- sessment of cattle.
 The Territorial Board of Equali- zation in fixing the rate of assess ment for cattle, did not succeed in pleasing the stockmen to a degree that inspires any wild demonstra- tions of delight. In Pima and Co., chise counties where there are many graded cattle the rate was fixed at S7.91 and $790 respectively, while in Pinal county where but few graded cattle can be found, the rate was set ot $9.S1 per head. It is q fact that stock cattle in this county has been offered delivered in Tempe at $6, with no buyers, and the best price offered was $S for the best stock, mostly COWS and no stags or bulls, delivered next October at Gila Bend. In Apache county, where the stock losses last year amounted to fully p per cent of the total number, cattle are asses sed $S.50. There were, of course, reasons presented for the action of the Board that were deemed good and sufficient, and these should be publicly stated to satisfy the stock men that no unjust and arbitrary discrimination was intended.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10
The Other Rainmaker.

Here is Frank Melbourne's letter to the press of the country:
 From the Cincinnati Enquirer . To whom it may concern: It is my desire to call the attention of the people of the United States to an invention which have recently completed, as the successful en- ployment of the same will without doubt be of great interest to Ame- ricans.
 My invention is the means 1 have discovered by which, through agencies which are employed in the operation of the same, I am able to cause rain to fall over area of up wards of 250,000 square miles at any time that I desire, and this without regard to climate.
 I have experimented successfully upon twelve different occasions in Australia during the season of drouth five times in New Zealand during the month ofFebruary of this year and three times inOhio within the last sixty days.
 Upon each occasion Ihave pub licly announced, from one week to ten days in advance, my intention of causing rain to fall upon given date, and have never failed upon a single occasion to bring Jain as an- nounced.
 l am prepared to repeat expert ments 'ln any part of the United States at any time, and can guaran- tee that with the use of my inven- tion I will cause rain to fall at any point at any time that may be named and would be pleased to correspond with the people of any district upon this subject,
 Yours respectfully,
 FRANK MELBOURNE.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

A collection of Eskimo works of art made by Assistant Superinten- dent Edwards of the cryolite mines at Arsuk Fiord, Greenland. is de- scribed by John R. Spears. in Ma turc. It includes candle sticks, ci- garholders. ash-receivers, anchors, paper-weights, etc., made of green stone. The articles were all made to sell to the Danish rulers, for the Eskimo themselves have no use for ornamental art but they show considerable skill in sculpture.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The Fort Whipple company of Apaches ge out on parade with the white soldiers every parade evening, and do quite we'll. They now have full equipments. Four of the bright have been made corpor- als, ,and some may be made sergeants in time. The company has an In dian trumpeter who sounds the calls correctly.-Prescott Courier.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

Yavapia county, thanks to our able and energetic Board of Super visors, is now on a cash basis. All floating indebtedness has been paid up to date. The road fund was two years ill arrears when the pres ent Board took the helm, but was by it settled up to the first of last April. In order to do this, the Board had to keep the levy the same as last year,-Prescott Courier.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

In a note published in the British Medical Journal Dr. Lennox Vain wright states that he has found menthol, mixed with carbonate of ammonia, and used as smelling salts, the most useful remedy that he has tried out of the great num- Der that have been recommended from time to time for hay fever. The patient says that all irritabili- ty disappears, and in many casss they get no return of the symptoms.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

An expedition is being talked up for the purpose of making search for the Lost Pegleg gold mine sup posed to exist in the desert north or northwest of Indian Wells. It will leave Yuma as soon as cool weather comes, and devote the coming winter in search of it, if it is not found before that time,- Yuma Sentinel.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

At the annual convention of the British Medical Association, recent ly held at Bournemouth. Sir Spen- cer Wells presented his report on the progress made by cremation in England, which was introduced by him about eleven years ago, al- though the first crematory was not built until 1885. During that year only three bodies were burnt. In 1890 ffty-four were disposed of in this way.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The deepest mine in the world is at St. Andre de Poirier, France, ,and yearly produces 300,0OO tons of coal. The mine is worked with two shafts, one 2,952 feet deep and the other 3,O83. The latter shaft is now being deepened and will soon reach the 4,000-foot level. A remarkable feature is the comparatively low temperature, which seldom rises above 75 degrees Fahrenheit.-Chl- cagO Globe.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

that before all this comes to pass
 he will be gone and will not see it.
 He says that before the year is out
 he will die and then the first great trouble will come to the people. He warns the Indians to stay where they are and not travel east or west until after they see that these things have happened. When asked when these great disasters would come he sententiously maybe soon maybe ten years"
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

Mir. Bagg who crossed the desert to California last Saturday, writes that heavy rain occurred on Friday night which extended from Tucson to Colton, Cal. The weather was cool and void of dust. At Yuma, al noon Saturday the thermometer stood at S9 degrees, and at Salton 99 degrees. The lake is slowly re- ceding, but is a vast sea, more ex- tensive than most people imagine. The salt works are still Tn from four to six feet of water.-Prospec- tor.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10
At Berne the International Geo

At Berne the International Geo. graphical Congress will adopt a long-studied plan for map of the earth on the scale of II 100000. The elaboration of the proposed map on a large scale is regarded as important in order to destroy the illusion that the non-European countries are sufficiently known, and to show that explorers have still a great deal to do,-Boston Globe.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The enterprising little town of Winslow, on the Atlantic & Pacific, has been quite unfortunate with fires during the past year, and the latest to chornicle is the burning of the pretty residence of Conductor Court Perry, yesterday morning. Albuquerque Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

Truxton Davidson of Mission Valley, Tex. was bitten by spider, inficting a painful and dangerous wound. Dr. Boatnee was called in great haste to the bedside of the sufferer and by the prompt appli- cation of remedies succeeded in re- lieving him of his pain. There is q small gray spider in this section whose bite is both painful and dan- gerous, at least two cases within the writer's knowledge having resulted fatally. It is about the size of mans thumb nail and may be dis tinguished by a wavy line of red or yellow that extends from it's head down the centre of it's back the en- tire length of the creatures body, Its bite is far more dangerous than that of the tarantula or any of the venomous serpents except the rat tlesnake,-Galveston News.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The disappearance of eyerp sign of rain has given rise to some ap- prehension amongst stockmen lest the usual fall crop of grass will prove a failure. The rains thus far have been local, covering only small areas. Stock of all kinds is in fair condition around Globe but on Tonto and Salt river raj nges it is said, cattle are beginning to look a little gaunt.-Silver Belt.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

Supts. Ewing and Carpenter will soon have the four great pumps ol the Yuma IrrigatingC gCompany ready to throw a regular Salton river out on to the rich valley lands adjacent to west Yuma. Every man, woman and child should have a small piece of land near its canal, and set il out to fruit and vines.-Yuma Sen tineL
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10
Conductor Starr Killed.

Yesterday afternoon, between
 and 2 o'clock a horrible accident occurred on the Santa Fe road at Towne siding, two miles this side of El Paso. Engine No. 155, run ming light, with Conductor Starr and his crew on the tender. and Engineer McEnnis and Fireman Graham in the cab, left Fl Paso to go up to the Montoya gravel pits when the engine ran into an opened Wharton switch, derailing it and throwing the powerful machine in- to water tank on the side. Con- ductor Starr was instantly killed i; Engineer McEnnis, Fireman Gra- ham and Brakeman John Nudge, a brother of H. U. Nudge, division at San Marcial, are seriously ifnot fatally injured about the head. They are also badly bruised and cut up all over the body. The accident delayed the passenger train about seven hours.-Albuquerque Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The California schooner Ethel has been seized by the United States war ship Corwin for illegal sealing in Alaskan waters. A large number of skins were found on her.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

Nearly all the salmon fishermen near Kodiak, Alaska, have struck because the canning factory owners refused to take all the fish they could capture.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The great" SooCanal accumulates trade far in excess of that which passes through the Suez Canal, Some idea of it's immensity can be gathered from the fact that closing a lock three days caused to ship pers loss of more than $1 100000.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

On the summit of Ben Lomond may be seen the smallest tree that grows in Great Britain. It is known as the dwarf willow, and is, when mature, only about two inches in height,-Chicago Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

Police Captain O'Haver of Mem- phis, Tenn, shot dead Bob Parker, a negro desperado and thief, who was trying to stab him.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10
Art of Genuine Reform.

The assumption that the Wealti
 possessed by our millionaires would
 do the nation and the people wht
 compose it more good were it dis
 tributed into the hands of greater
 number of holders is one scarcely
 susceptible of proof. The use that
 the maj jority of men make of mon.
 ey does not warrant this inference
 The aggregation of great wealth in
 the hands of men who have by SC.
 curing It demonstrated their capac-
 ity to handle it prudently and suc-
 cessfully insures the transaction of
 the nations business, the sustaining
 of industries in which the less pru-
 dent and self-sustaining may receive
 employment, the transportation to
 sure market of the products of
 those who cry out the loudest
 against the men who provide the fa- cilities, and the promotion of those conditions under which our great national prosperity has been attain ed. Doubtless the greatest calami- ty the Nation could suffer would be the confscation of this wealth and the distribution of that small frac- tion which would be tangible among the people. It must not be forgot ten that the great fortunes so much deplored by those who do not pos sess them do not consist of money, but of land and stocks, neither of which would possess the value they now have if the present conditions were oyerthrown and an effort were made to scatter them. Land in cities, now valued at thousands of dollars per foot, would not be worth hundreds if there were a serious in- reference with the business of the country that gives them their value, nor would railroad, bank, insurance and other stocks be worth a tithe of their present quotation were they to be confscated. Political agita- tors who say that $23 per capita is not enough money for the people because of the millionaires are eith- CT fools or demagogues, or com bination of both, for doubtless there is many comparatively poor man who has actual possession of more coin than the richest pluto crat in the country. This great wealth consists of the possession of credits, which would be dissipated 1 as soon as the credit, or that upon which they are based, were attack ed. The millionaires in reality pos sess but a small fraction of the ac- tual wealth of the country, and that fraction would make no appreciable in the condition of the thousands who are clamoring for it, save for the worse, were it to be and divided among them. Such q paralysis of indus try, such a shrinking of values as would follow such an effort would totally bankrupt the nation. Nor 1oes it seem that much better re- suits would follow the attempt by legislation to prevent the accumu- ation of large fortunes, since the same paralysis of industry would follow. The raising of the standard of prudence, industry, frugality and general intelligence rather than the egal repression of them, is the di- -ection in which lies the remedy for he inequalities of life complained of.-Portland Oregonian.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The Phoenix Herald says the crimes of the past month, in and about Phoenix, will cost the tax payers s15,OOo or s20,0oO before they get through with them.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10

The Southern lumber company with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga, las assigned, with $125,OOO liabiIi- ,ies and assets estimated at $5OO,- )OO
The St. Johns herald., 1891-09-10
Era of Genuine Reform.

Those people who rely solely up
 on money to keep them up in the
 world are going to drop with dull
 thud some day. Every age or pc.
 riod of corruption is follo"ed by
 an age of religion and good morals
 It Is that movement from one eX-
 treme to another in society which
 Macaulay describes as the swinging
 back of the pendulum. Nobody can explain just why it comes, but it
 comes sooner or later. The signs
 of the times-the-restlessnes of the
 people-the demand for reform
 the recent severity of the law in
 punishing evildoers-the interest of
 the churches in our everyday prob
 lems-all these things point to a coming change. The pendulum is
 about to swing backward. We are
 about to go from one extreme to the other. It will not take very long for people to realize the fact that the Government cannot make them prosperous, moral and happy, When they get this firmly lodged in their minds, then look out for a great re- ligious revival-a movement sweep ing the entire country. Something of the old Puritan spirit modified to suit the conditions of the time will come back. Avarice, corrup- tlon, extravaganza, intemperance and everything that is worldly will be under the ban. It has been so periodically in our history, and will be so again. When this era of gen. uine reform comes upon us men will find that money and good raj ment count for very little without character. A good man will be held in higher regard than a bad million aire. Something better than fat pocketbook will be needed to make a man stard we'll in society.-The Atlanta Constitution.
 One of the leading evangelists of the day said short time ago, when preaching to a multitude of people near one of the metropolitan cities of the United States: "A man isn't | considered much of sinner in this country if he pays his bills and | wears good clothes. That's fact. mans money and his clothes will ake him anywhere when his char. ac.er won't take him ten feet" This s a broad and exaggerated state nent of one of those half-truths which strike the public mind with 'orce, and call for serious consider ltion, That money has become substitute for character ahd often goes in where character does not read, is wholly true; and the truth constitutes one of the most discour- lging signs of the times, except so ar as it points to the certainty of coming changes which must swing he pendulum back. Wherever money, when placed in the balance with character, outweighs it-where yer wealth acumulates and men lecay-there are certain portents of 'iolent reform. History teaches hat nations and people, in their noral and material progress, go rom one extreme to anOther.-The Norfolk Landmark.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-11

F. A. Dillingham;, at one time considered
one of the foremost business men of Ogden,
was found guilty yesterday of embezzle-
nent while assignee of the hardware stock
once owned by c. d. Hayes, of this city.
The case was on trial in the district
court about a day and a half, beng hotly
contested by both sides, and the jury
brought in a verdict at IL o'clock yesterday
morning after being out eighteen hours.
When the news was heralded TO the ears
Of the defendant, he and his wife, who had
been constantly at his side during the pro-
gress of the trial, gave vent to their feel
ings and their sobs were heartrending. In
the afternoon Dillingham; made g strong
effort to secure bail and be released until
the time of his sentence, which is set for
Saturday, but without avail, and last even
ing he was escorted TO the peuitentiary.
The law provides that where guilt is es-
tablished against persons charged with
such offenses they shall be punished by
imprisonment from six months to five
years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-11
OGDEN.
A MIGHTY FALL.
Once Prominent, Now Convict-A Mass
meeting Called-Conference-Et

Once Prominent, Now Convict-A Mass
meeting Called-Conference-Et
The People, ETC. vs. George w. Lashus;
on motion OF James N. Kimball, order dis
missing this case.
John Nelson VS.. E. n. Rowland ct al. /;
on motion of w. H. Smelling and by con-
sent of Smith & Smith order referring case
TO Jacob S. Foreman for reference.
The People, etc. VS.. F. A. Dillingham;
verdict guilty, and order fixing bail at
81, 500. Sentence, December u.
Charles T. Taylor VS.. Thomas Cahoon
order for decree Of foreclosure. Default
of defendant entered. A. R. Haywood for
plaintiff; decree according 10 prayer OF
complainant and $500 attorneys fees.
The People, etc. VS.. f. w. Clark; order
resubmitting this case to the next grand
Jury under 8, 900 bonds.
l. d. Haines ct al VS.. William Saunders
ct al; report of receiver, Hyrum Hay
ball. max es second report and same filed.
The People, etc. vs.. William Burns; or
motion Of J. Z. Bagley, order based on al
4id2vit allowing five witnesses to be subpoe
haed at expense of the people, three OF
them to come from the penitentiary.
The People. etc. VS.. Thomas Ashton; in
dictment, assault with deadly weapon
Verdict not guilty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-11
The Quarterly Conference.

The quarterly conference of the Woman's
Relief society, of Weber stake, was held in
the tabernacle yesterday, beginning at 10
o'clock a. N.
The attendance was very large, although
the weather was quite cold, and the num-
Der joining from the country was con-
sidered as large, If not larger, than usual
Presidents George Q. Cannon and Joseph
Z. Smith were present and each delivered
very instructive addresses.
The primary associations held meeting
in the Second ward meeting house in the
afternoon.
The conference of the Young Ladies,
Mutual Improvement association will be
held in the tabernacle today. Meetings
will be held at 10 g. N. and 2 D. N.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-11

The fact that a. w. VERT, an ex-ticket
broker, was arrested for forgery Saturday
did not become generally known until yes
terday, when he was taken before Judge
Cross for hearing. a number of witnesses
were examined, among whom was E. A
Lutes, a former partner of the defendant
and who was recently tried before the
First District court for perjury and &C
quilted. The defense moved TO have his
testimony stricken out, ard the attorneys
became engaged in Lively wrangle, which
lasted until O'Clock, and the court ad-
journed until 10 O'Clock this morning.
II is rumored that this action Is brought
against Mr.. Wertz by the members of the
Guarantee Ticket Brokers' association al
this place, but such is not the case. The
officials of the Southern Pacific railroad ar
the Union depot are the complaining par
ties
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-11

Real Estate and Business and Other Facts of
Import.
The jury in the case of Thomas VS.. Scott
returned verdict for the defendant
The case Of George G. Thomas VS.. George
H. Monahan was called. Suit is brought
to recover damages for expulsion from a
certain lot In Spanish Fork.
Inquirers after real estate have the i'm
preston that some great snaps are to be
had. Parties from Kansas looking to the
purchase of some business property made
an offer of $500 per foot for land between
the bank corner and the Cosmopolitan
hotel. When they were informed that this
property was considered cheap at more
than double that amount they said they
were looking for bargains. There are
many gilt edge bargains to be had, but land
owners are not disposed to make Christmas
presents OF their real estate because money
is a little tight.
Some very handsome displays are being
made Of Christmas goods. Provo has the
advantage OF a healthy outside patronage
and the merchants will dispose of their
stock with sacrifice.
a bakery wagon with a fractions horse
attached came down the street yesterday
afternoon leaving whirlwlnd and a blue
sbItah Denluu lnGu a stranger 6elZ6Q
the animal by the bits ard was dragged
for more than hundred yards when he
finally succeeded in stopping the horse.
A pleasant card party was given by Eta
Swarthout last night at her home
large attendance is expected at the
benefit ball to be given at the opera house
tonight for Prof. Giles.
The fact that the Grismer company will
again appear in Provo is very gratifying to
theatre goers. The Grismers win be seen
at the opera house on the 18th and 18th.
Sam Thrall, their advance agent called to-
day and reports big business for the COM
pany.
The burglars L. S. Lee and John Hickey
were bound over in $500 for attempting to
pilfer car of merchandise at the Rio
| Grande depot.
The last jury case of the present term is
beng tried to-day.
The equity and divorce calendar will be
| taken UP tomorrow.
Samuel A. King returned to-day from 6
mission to England and Ireland. He is
| looking hale and hearty, and enjoyed his
soiourn in the old world for two years very
much. He is brother of Attorney King
| of this city