The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-26


town is to me a perfect haven Of goo
cheer. The people here have earl
been noted for hospitality. and fore
of habit impels them to continue on i
such delightful lines-they couldn'
change from them if they so desired
l find business fairly good abou
here, and from the number of eigh
and ten-horse outfits one sees goini
and coming, with heavily ladel
wagons, it's safe to assume that good
are being handled and money chang
ing hands in goodly and refreshing
quantity
ADDITIONAL FACTS ABOUT THE
SUICIDE.
1 VIII here annex some additional
facts on that case of suicide reported
exclusively in The Herald, and all told
the circumstances governing and
hedging round about the unhappy life
{ OF the young woman are such as
would strongly appeal to the better
nature of a people striving to do the
[ Masters work. From reputable and
y trustworthy residents l am informed
7 that Mrs kittie B. Stafford, about SC
years of age when death was her bid
den and welcome guest, was married
bout one year ago to a man who
early deserted and left her to the CEN
sure and buffetings of a world too
prone to scowl upon a deserted wife.
IT'S ever thus. And it may be that
the poison of a worlds cold-hearted-
ness then and there was instilled into
q once trusting nature. 1t may be that
the shafts Of a cold and pitiless
worlds criticism was the iron of
despair sinking deeper and deeper,
daily and hourly, into the soul and
crushing in its unseen tenements noble
and high-minded thoughts-germs of
future usefulness and exalted woman
jhood-all, all but too suddenly blasted
T and withered, eliminating in tragic
and pitiful ending. If such thoughts
came to me, stranger, as 1 stand and
gaze upon the now restful features of
the souls deserted tenement. what
thoughts surge through the minds of
those who in turn gather round and
look upon the fearful evidence of
cruelty and desertion, mayhap appli-
cable to many, very many of them
for did they, when they might, lend a
helping hand? Let their conscience
answer, and it will likewise tell them
on which side of the great ledger
Gods recording angel has transcribed
: their account for it is indelibly writ
ten in either the credit or debit
column. Closing of accounts will make
IT all clear to you beyond the river
Styx.
THE ACT WAS PREMEDTATED
The act was premeditated. Coroner
w. w. Keefer. of Idaho Falls. i'm
paneled a jury, and the evidence was
conclusive on this point, and 4 YER
dict rendered accordingly. A three
page letter was submitted, written by
the deceased some time last Sunday.
and bearing out assertions made late
in the evening that at was her last
night on EARTH
The weapon used was small
though heavily made ''knuckle" gun.
IT was all cylinder. and no barrel.
and everyone afterwards handling it
was deathly afraid of it. None knew
how it could be loaded or unloaded.
and ii remained for The Herald man
TO teach them how to work it by alb
stracting the shell at the Blackfoot
hotel after the jury had been dis
charged. The gun was of % caliber,
and the bullet entered the left
breast just below the heart The evil
dence adduced before the coroner's jury
showed that Dr. Gibbons, of the state
insane asylum. was called and
promptly responded but the character
of the wound was such that medical
skill availed nothing.
REPUBLICANS AGAINST FREE
SILVER.
7 had occasion to say recently that
Governor Mcconnell, in his speech at
Pocatello, stated that the majority of
the Republicans were against the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, and
now comes to me from a friend a clip
ping from the Daily Tribune, at Spo-
kane, showing that he made the same
statements in Washington. The fol- |
lowing is contained in that paper of |
October IS. 1894:
Governor Mcconnell, of Idaho. ex-
posed the weakness of the Republican |
party in his speech at the music hall |
last night.
Quoting verbatim from his speech
are to be found phrases that hit the |
&. 0. p. hard.
In opening he said he wished the
citizens of eastern Washington were
citizens of Idaho. 'It is a great Amer
lean battle that is before US. We start
in today to secure both Houses of Con-
gress so that when we secure a Repub- |
1ican president we can repeal the in
famous legislation the Democrats have
loaded us down with.
THE Populist party is a sidetrack: it
leaves the Democratic party over here
and joins it over there. This new party
has sprung up for a purpose. We have
some in our state-one of them was
two Years ago sturnping the state for
the Republicans; / refer to W. H.
Clagett; Mr.. Mum was also with us.
You have one in YOUR state who went
off on z. tangent, but he came back.
1 Go not believe the majority Of the
Republican party is in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
and / don't believe a majority of the
Democratic parry is, and 1 am sure
the Popuiists are not in favor of it.
Now the greenback idea: The first
issue Of greenbacks was a promise to
pay, and a promise to pay in gold.
and was there anything wrong IN
changing that debt into interest bear
ing gold bonds? Our government was
Just like our Palouse farmers. thew
promised to pay, and when they got
the money they paid, and it was in gold.
believe that the great masses of the i
PopDlists are too intelligent to think
that we can get anything for nothing.
Il don't think that the railroads want
any regulating at the present time.
The Democrats have given them the :
jag cure. /
The railroads are owned principally ,
by orphans widows and old feeble :
men. Their trust funds are invested in
railroad bonds, and we don't want to
rob them, do we? We don't want TO 2
rob anybody. Now what an amount of !
taxes we would rob each county of.
These Poprlists are great reform
sTs. They thought they would fool me
0y passing an appropriation of one-ha1f
The usual amount down in Idaho last
year. Then their senators took their e
mats and adjourned sine die These G
elbows thought they had me in a fix.
They wanted me TO call the legislature
'ogether in extra session SO they would v