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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
Idaho City Items.

A correspondent OF the Statesman,
writing from Idaho City, says:
The five and one-half tons of ore
from the South Africa which has just
been worked in the Blaine mill. yield
ed 1872 ounces of gold worth about SIG
an ounce This is the mine that
mentioned last week as having been
discovered in a placer claim less than
a mile above town, which had been
worked by Chinese. They are sinking
a double compartment shaft, which is
now down fifteen feet. In the bottom
of the shaft the vein is three feet wide
but the ore is not as rich as it is
where the pay vein is smaller. The
width of the ledge is not known, as
the foot wall has not yet shown up
Teams are now engaged at hauling
ore from Eldorado gulch to the Blaine
mill, in Gambrinus district, for Julius
Linsteadt and Henry Johnson. This
is float rock gathered by them
while placer mining last spring, and
they have seven or eight tons of it.
AS soon as this ore is hauled sixteen
or eighteen tons viii be hauled from
the Illinois, owned by the same men,
In a. few days the Forest King mill
will commence crushing a batch of
twenty tons of ore from mine be-
tween there and Summit fiat, owned
by Walton and Flint
From ten to twenty placer and
quartz claims are located each day
now, which is a pretty good record.
The placers are mostly on ground on
More creek below this place, where
rich and extensive gravel beds have
been found beneath the lava
Since the rains have caused a raise
in Grimes creek Mr. Whitney has
been running the Mountain Queen 20
stamp mill by water power.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23

George Ainslie. one of the principal
stockholders of the Idaho Bedrock
Flume company, the property Of
which was recently relocated by Boise
parties, says the greater portion of the
assessment work on the claims was
done this year by the Bedrock Shaft
company, and on that ground will he,
in a large measure, depend on oisting
the jumpers
The Bedrock Flume company, says
Mr. Ainslie, allowed the Bedrock
Shaft people to operate on a portion of
their ground under a contract, by the
provisions of which the assessments
were to be worked for all the property
of the Flume company. This, Mr. Aims
lie asserts, could be done on one claim
if desired, as the mines were CONSOLE
dated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
AN OBJECT LESSON FOR CITIES.
The Enormous Present Value of Fran
chise That Was Given for Nothing.

Ane LUXURIOUS present value OF a Fran
chise That Was Given for Nothing.
The Chicago City Railway has
share capital of 100000, worth at
! resent depressed valuation $27 900, 900.
Control of the stock could not be
bought on a basis of s45, OOO 600. 1t
has bonded indebtedness of $4,619, 800.
bearing Az per cent interest. Within
month $7,0OO,OO0 of Alley Il road
securities were distributed among
stockholders. The melon was esti-
mated to be worth between S., OOO. 600
and $4,000, 900. 1t will be seen, therefore,
that the earning power of the property
IS sufficient to pay interest on about
$50, 600, OO0
This enormous wealth has grown
from an original nominal investment
of 100000, made thirty-four years ago.
1t is gift from the people whom the
company's hired road agents have
been trying to hold up for a few paltry
nlckels, on the miserable plea that
particular line of cars did not pay
after certain hour at night mex
pressible littleness! Extremity of ex-
tortionate greed! Fatal blindness to
the common rules of decencyI
Occasionally between 1859 and 1890
little stock was sold and the pro-
ceeds applied to extensions, but the
bulk Of the increase in the share capt.
tai from 100000 to $5.O0OO0O made in
those years was in the form of divi-
dends to cover extensions made out
of earnings. Bonds were sold to con-
struct a part of the cable system, and
there was a further isue of bonds
about the time the Alley IL deal was
entered into. During the last four
years 100000 additional stock has
been issued to stockholders at par,
the latter getting So to IS for every 81
went into the Alley IL road, recently
distributed among city railway share
holders.
The company's surface lines extend
over 100 miles of streets in the south
division 1t carried 500, 900 people
last year and not less than 125, 900, 900
this year. Its gross income last year
was 81 400, 944. The net income was
81, 591, 511, or 10 per cent on the $4,000, 900
900 interest charges. stockholders got
u per cent, the remainder. going to
surplus account. This year it is semi
officially announced that the stock
earns % per cent net, or over $780,
0G0. Stockholders will expect to receive
at least 20 per cent in some form, in
addition to the $7,000000 Alley "L'' Sc
curities already .parceled out among
them, or about 100 per cent on their
shares.
The return will not be on the in
vestment, for the actual amount of
money invested by shareholders is
comprised in the 100000 paid for
stock issued since 1889. If any other
money to amount to anything was
ever paid in by shareholders, the fact
cannot be ascertained. The stock of
SO. 100000 par value, and about $400O0,-
600 in the opinion of heavy sharehold-
ers, actually represents an investment
of practically $4.00O,000. The remain
der is a donation from the people in
consideration Of the privilege of pay
ing five cents a fare for transportation
over the company's lines within the
city limits by day or night.-Chicago
Evening Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
1t May Mann Death.

The little cabin at Tapioca. wyom-
ing, close by the long snow sheds, was
the scene of shooting affair on Tues
day evening which may result in the
death of Patrick Scully, one of tho
watchmen. There are two watchmen
employed at the snow sheds, Pat Soul
ly and John Scally On Tuesday
evening as John Scally was lying on
his bed asleep Scully went into the
cabin, jumped on the bed and clutch
ed him by the throat, with what mo-
tives he has not explained. 1t being
dark and Scally supposing that it was
a tramp bent on murder or robbery.
reached under his pillow, pulled out a
six-shooter of small calibre and fred
three times, two of the bullets taking
effect in Scully's head, from the effect
of which he may die. Marshal Snyder
was notified of the affair and the same
evening went to Aspen, arrested John
Scally and lodged him in the county
Jail to await the results of the injured
mans wounds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
WRECKED IN A DENSE FOG.
An Engineer scalded and Others Seriously
Injured.

AL A-nSlHeer Scaloe 30 ana Otners seriously
Injured.
Lima, o., Oct. ga bad wreck oc-
CURED on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago road in a dense fog about
IS o'clock this morning, between the
second section of the west-bound yes
tibule train and No. 25, which was
standing at the switch near Monroe
vile. and the second section of the
east-bound passenger, No. L. The
east-bound train was late and was
running at a good speed, but Engineer
Cowan commenced to slow up, as he
thought it was about time for him to
reach the switch.
Suddenly the other train doomed up,
and before he could stop, crashed into
each other and piled up in a wreck.
Engineer Cowan was frightfully
scalded; Fireman Daily was badly
hurt; Brakeman Hunt is suffering
from wounds which may result fatally.
The first car from the engine was
not damaged, but the two following
were smashed, and some passengers
seriously hurt.
Mrs Anna Smith, of North Jackson,
and Miss Nettie Wilson, of Allegheny,
were seriously hurt
On the west-bound train, the engi-
neer and fireman escaped, but the
tender was driven through the bag
gage car and pinched Baggagemaster
Stevens under the debris, fatally in
juring him it is thought.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
CHINESE SURGERY.
Fortitude Under the Knife Alcohol in
China.

The fortitude and endurance Of
Chinaman under the surgeons knife
nave long been known. The traits
are, of course, less noticeable now
than in the days anterior to the age
of chloroform, but even now they are
frequently put to the test in circum-
stances where the surgeons in the
isolated situations are compelled to
undertake operations unaided, or
where otherwise the exhibition of
chloroform is contra-indicated and
in the minor operations of surgery.
When so tested, the Chinaman will
endure without fiinching a degree of
pain that to the more highly devel-
oped nervous system of the westerner
would be well-nigh impossible. The
fact is to be discounted that, in the
case of the poorer Chinese, a pro-
longed course of low living and prac-
it's results to the original trouble
while the native practitioners are
doing their best or worsD before the
case is submitted to the western sur
geon. and this materially affects the
progress of many of our PATIENTS
Dr. John C. Thomson, of Hong
Kong, writes in the China Medical
missionary JOuTIdl. DQl, OlHSI
things being equal, recovery
and convalescence are very
much more rapid and complete in
the average Chinaman than in the
average EngliShman. Reasons for this
difference are not entirely obvious, but
the opinion may be haZarded that the
simpler feeding habits of the Chinese
and their equable mental constitution
form, at least, some. of the causes of
the higher vitality of their tissues. The
popularity accepted notion that the
Cinnamon live on rice is, indeed, very
far from the truth, since even the
poorest manage to add a few green
vegetables and a little fish and pork to
the rice, which is the staple national
diet; but, taken all around, the China
mans food is certainly more simple
and probably more nutritious than the
food of an Englishman under analag-
Gus circumstances. His use of alcohol
is also much less injurious to his It's
sues than its use by a large proper
ton of Europeans. The native spirit,
SanshOo, is very extensively consumed,
but it is invariably in minute quaint
ties and never excepting with meals.
intoxication being thing practically
unknown in China. The tranquility of
the Chinese minds is proverbial A
Chinaman is never in a hurry. Pro-
vided he be given a hope of ultimate
relief, it rarely matters to him whether
his stay in hospital is to extend over
week or a month, and this absence of
all worry probably goes far, along
with other facts 1 have stated, to ac-
count for the kindly reaction of his
tissues under the surgeons knife
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
AN EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.
A Human Rib Removed While the Pa
tient Was Fully Conscious.

tient Was Fully Conscious.
John Williams, a colored man who
was shot through the left lung by Ora
hame Moore at Kirkwood two weeks
ago, yesterday submitted to a heroic
operation at the City hospital for the
reval of half of the seventh rib, says
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. The OPP
GRAFTON was conducted under remark
able circumstances, as the. patient;
was not placed under the influence of
an anesthetic and remained perfectly
conscious throughout the ordeal. Dur
ing the last few days the physicians
at the hospital have discovered that
his pleural or lung cavity was contin-
ually filing with blood. He was "as-
pirated'' several times to little effect.
This process gave but temporary re-
lief, as the cavity filed UP with blood
and air faster than it could be drained.
Yesterday morning DR.. Marks decided
that Williams had to be opened up and
one of his ribs reSceted or Ecut off to
drain the cavity properly and save his
life AS the bullet had passed through
Williams left lung, making that organ
unfit for use, the administration of chlor
oform was almost sure to be fatal.
If we do not operate you will die"
Dr. Marks frankly told the colored
man, land if we give you chloroform
you will probably die too If you can
stand the pain we can save your life"
Oats all right, go head" replied
Williams. .Ah knows yoh doctors are
my frens, and whatever yoh does All
knows youse right"
Williams was placed upon the glass
operating table and given several big
drinks of whisky. The skin of his
left side over the seventh rib was then
punctured several times with a hypo-
dernnic syringe charged with cocaine.
The surgeons lance entered his side
and cutting clear down to the rib,
made an incision four inches in length.
Williams gave one howl, but did not
finch a hairs breadth. After the rib
was laid bare DR.. Marks seizeS, his
bone saw and cut it off with half
dozen strokes. The pain of this part
of the operation must have been ex-
cruciating, but Williams, whom one of
the physicians had engaged in CONVEX
sation, kept on talking, merely giving
vent to an exclamation now and then,
as if to emphasize his remaks. When
three inches of the rib was cut off
Dr. Marks thrust his lance through
the lining of Williams pleural cavity
and made a slit in this three inches in
length. DR.. Marks thoroughly cleansed
the pleural cavity and packed it with
antiseptic gauze, stanching the flow
of blood.
AS quickly as possible the flaps of
flesh were laid back in their places
and bandaged over. Through it all
Williams stood the operation like a
hero.
After the operation Williams tenn
perature went down to 100.02, from
nearly los, and his respiration lowered
from 40 to 20, showing the splendid eff
feet of the ordeal. He is steadily i'm
proving, and all chances are in his
favor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
A MURDER MYSTERY
At LAST CLEARED UP.
Assassins of the Wratton Family
in the Tolls.
WALLOWED IN THE BLOOD.
A Deliberately Planned Robbery Ended
in Murder.
Seven or Eight Men Implicated in the
Awful Crime-Excitement Running
High, and Lynching
Is Probable.

Indianapolis, Oct ga special to
the Sentinel from Washington, Ind,
says: At last the guilty murderers
|of the Wratton family are in the tolls
of the law. Last Saturday the grand
Jury ordered the arrest of James
Stone, who first discovered the terri
bic deed. His arrest was caused
through his own wife, who testified
that Stone, on the night of the MUIR
ders, complained of a violent tooth
ache and said he was going to a den
fist; that he did not return till a late
hour and then was covered with blood
that Stone maintained the blood was
caused by a bleeding tooth On in
quiry it was found that no dentist
Extracted tooth for Stone.
At first Stone strenuously denied
everything, but on being assured of
|clemency would be given him if he
made a confession, he at midnight
yielded to overtures and told the story
about as follows: Knowing that Mrs.
Wratton keptSa great deal of money
about the house, he and Cosby, a no
torious character in the county plan
heu the ropOefy, ana notified of his
plan Lon Williams, Martin Yarber.
William Kays, John w White, Gipp
Clark and James Stone.
AT the time of the robbery Cosby
was so drunk he did not reach the
house at all, but Stone arrived after
the murder had been committed, and
because he was late the other con
spirators wallowed him in the blood of
the victims and in that condition per
mitted him to go home. Stone does
not know why they killed the Wrat-
ton family. All the criminals men
toned above have been arrested and
were taken to Jeffersonville last. night.
The excitement is more intense than
ever. Woe to the murderers if the
delegation can lay hands on tho
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
EXTRAORDINARY BOOKKEEPING.
The Original Method of Yankton Hotel
Keeper.

Talking about bookkeeping" said
Milt Brisbine, whom everybody knows.
to a Press and Dakotan reporter YES
terday afternoon, there used to be a.
man in Yankton whose system Of
keeping accounts was wonderfully eff
ficient. He kept a hotel and he could
neither read nor write He did not
know how to spell his own name. but
he did thriving business and col
lected@ every dollar of his accounts.
Once, years ago, when L first came to
this country, / went to his hotel and
stopped there two weeks. When I left
he presented me with a statement of
what | owed him, and it was a cur
iosity. He had copied it from his
ledger. AT the top of the sheet there
was a. crude picture of a soldier on the
march, and after it three straight
marks. Then there was a scene show
ing man at the table eating. Then
appeared a bed with a man in it. In
the amount column there was a pict-
ure of a doll and after it the two let
tiers r S. After the picture of the man
eating there were forty-two marks. I
looked at the account, then at the
proprietor, and told him it would take
me week to answer that conun-
drum. l was completely stumped, and
when that hotel man. deciphered the
account for me it was this:
The picture of the soldier walking
meant March and the three marks
supplied the date, March 3, when I be-
gan boarding. The man at the table
with forty-two marks after it indi-
Gated that | had eaten forty-two
meals. The man in bed with four
teen marks showed that I had slept
in the house fourteen nights. The
doll with r S after it meant dollars. !
and in the figure columns appeared
the figures IA, which was the amount
| owed him. And it was a true bill. -
Yankton Press AMI Dakotan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
IT LOOKS VERY
Much LIKE DELAY.
A Possibility That the Comprom-
Use Will Fail.
CLEVELAND STILL FIRM.
Unconditional Repeal, and That Only,
Will Suit Him.
The Compromise Leaders, However. are
Pushing Matters to the Utmost to
Secure the Requisite Num-
e Der of Signers.

washington, Oct. 22-Even though
he compromise bill is brought into
che Senate tomorrow, there IS little
prospect of concluding the consldera-
ton of the question before the latter
part Of the week
There is a possibility that the COM
promise may fail, though all propa-
bilities are in favor of its success. If
it should fail, the throttle Will oe
thrown wide open again, and no one
can foretell what a week might prlng
forth. The course of events IN the
House the coming week will hinge
rpon the result of an effort to put
through the compromise at the other
end Of the capitol It is not expected,
however. the bill will reach the House
until the latter end OF the week
No sort of doubt seems to exist
about the House. 1t will pass, ana
pass with expedition, any compromise
that goes through the Senate
The bankruptcy bill, unless the
financial measure dislodges it, will
probably occupy the entire week.
There was nothing new today in the
way of getting additional supporters
to the proposed compromise, but 1t is
the intention of the leaders of the
movement to push the matter at once
and obtain SUFFICIENT signers to secure
favorable action
he banking and currency COM
rnittee, to which it is expected the
compromise measure will be referred,
consists of seven Democrats and six
Republicans. On the question of re-
peal of the state bank tax the com
nlittee are evenly divided with john
son, Of Ohio, doubtful. The men
against the repeal say he is surely
with them and the repealers say he
will support them if the repeal con-
taias the provisions which he desires.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
The Twentieth Century.

The question was asked an eastern
journal: Does the twentieth century
begin at 1901 a. m. January 1, 1890, or
does it begin the same time January
1, 1900? and the answer given was this:
Suppose you had several hundred sill
yer dollars and wished to divide them
into piles of 800 each. Would you
stop counting when you had 500 in one
pile in order that your second pile
might begin with dollar number 100?
Not a bit. Your first $100 pile would
not be complete until the one hun
dredth dollar was in it, and your sec
ond S1O0 pile would begin with dollar
number 101 Isn't it the same way
with the centuries Chicago Times
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
No Gould speculations Now.

The Gould money has not been in
the stock market since the death of
Mr. Jay Gould nearly a year ago.
George Gould closed out the last effort
Of his father to turn the market topsy
turvy few weeks after his demise,
since which time the Gould check
book has been closed tight, specula-
lively speaking. George Gould is more
conservative than his father was and
has invested the family wealth in a
different way to some extent on the
advice of Russell Sage. Mr.. Sage has
out about two million dollars in time
loans. earning all the way from to
10 per cent. a month. and the Goulds
are drawing the interest on consider
ably more than half that amount.
There is only one member of the fam
lily who possesses the speculative ma
mia. That is Howard Gould, the
youngest son. He takes an occasional
plunge, but his brothers have him well
in hand and are molding him to q more
useful career. He is the right hand
man of George Gould at the latters
Office in the Western Union building.
st. Louis Republic.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
THEY GO A-SLUMMING.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union Have Time.

Chicago, Oct. 22.-Seven members of
the w. c. T. U. congress, which closed
its session here Saturday night, were
escorted by, detectives from the CEN
trail station last night and made a
stunning tour through the "Levee"
district. The party consisted of the
following well known ladies: Miss
AIollie Hay, Indianapolis; Mrs. E. l..
Caull1ins, South Bend; Mrs. Ella Moore.
Lakeville; Mrs. Emily Tompkins, Elk
hart; Mrs Addie Field, Indianapolis;
Mrs. Leonard Ayers, Indianapolis; Mrs.
Mendenhall, Richmond; Mrs. Gertrude
Fulton, Richmond, S. D.
At the first place visited the party
were denied admission because Of too
many people already there, but re-
ceived an invitation to come again. AT
another place all the men save one
fed from the house. This individual
was drunk and insisted upon dancing
with the missionaries, but was finally
sauelched by the officers. The infor-
nation gained will undoubtedly aid the
ladies in conducting a warfare against
vice and intemperance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
BAD WORK oFgnEw. G. T. ..
Members Organize Themselves. Into a
Wh1tecap society.

Omaha, Neb., Oct ga special to
the Bee from Stromsburg, Neb., says:
A large and well developed sensation
broke out last evening in the neighbor-
ing town of Osceola. 1t is reported
here that the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union organized itself into a.
Whitecap society for the purpose of
chastizing several resident young wo-
men whose reputation for chastity is
not above reproach. Last night, by
the use Of decoys, the Whitecaps sue
ceeded in entrapping the victims. and
according to the best information one
of the victims was f1ogged into insen-
sibility, while the two others escaped
with the clothing torn from their per-
sons and somewhat bruised. Eleven
of the perpetrators were recognized
and at once arrested. Some of them
are out on bail and the others in Jail.
The trial is set for tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
AN AWFUL TRAGEDY.
Kills His Wife, His 1Iother-in-Law and
Himself

st. Paul, Oct. 22.-Tonight at Sioux
Falls, S. D., Harry Lacy, a lawyer and
real estate agent, shot and killed his
wife, and mother-in-law, Mrs. Ida
Bunker, and then sent bullet through
his own brain. A year ago, Mrs. Lacy
applied for a divorce, but the proceed
ings were dropped and Lacy and wife
were living together The tragedy oc-
Cured in Mrs Bunker's house, where
Mrs. Lacy had gone for an afternoon
visit Lacy's two children witnessed
the murder and suicide. Yesterday
Lacy settled up all his small bills.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-23
In Error.

The chill of the air sold her that it
must be early morning. In the dim, un-
certain light the figure of a man was
visible in the farther corner of the
apartment. She spoke: well, you
ought to be ashamedl' she exclaimed;
and in the silence of the hour her tones
were strangely dissonant. The figure
moved. Your money or your life"
growled a deep. rough voice. She
started and gasped for breath II beg
your pardon for speaking so hastily"
she faltered. II thought it was my
husband And she afterward explain
ed that she was just mortified to death.
Detroit Tribune.