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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
4 IN THE SOCIAL REALM 4

On Thursday evening at 8 o'clock a
sociabie will be given in the Fourteenth
ward complimentary to William c. Give.
TO which his friends are cordially in
vited.
~
The attendance at the fourth annual
exhibit of the Society Of Utah Artists
now on a the McCornickebuilding. is at
tracing more attention as the days go
by. and with the opening of the holiday
season. il is expected that the hall will
be thronged with society people every
night
One hundred and twenty-four pictures
are displayed this year, and they are
exhibited for the first time. All possess
in any gallery in the world. As showing
the scope OF the exhibit and the number
of articles represented the following COM
plete list OF painting shown is given:
J. T. Harwood: Riverside, H. Wells Cul-
ner; Chrysanthemums. Louise Richards;
Departing Glories, H L A. Culmer;
American Fork Canyon. J. T. HARDWOOD;
Sp1nville Meadows, H. L. A Culmer:
Apples and Cider, Ernest VI. Pratt;
Evening, II; L. A. Gunner; Onions, A. 3.
Landscape on the Sight" w a. Adams;
Pears. Z. Evans; Cleaners from the
Shocks, j. T. Harwood; Rapids near ST.
Anthony, J; T. Harwood' Apple Bios
Twede. John Hafen; Grain Field and
Barn, l. Greene Richards; The Wasatch
from Red Butte, April. J. T. Harwood;
Tabernacle and Assembly Hail, ]. T. Har-
wood; Early Spring, Liberty Park, J. T.
Harwood; Portrait of Baby, Lodus Pratt;
Woods of Clanart, J. T. Harwocd Books,
Ernest NJ. Pratt; Beet Fields of France, J.
II Harwood; Old Pier az Back Rock, ].
r. Harwood; Ounces, Ernest NJ. Pratt:
Raspberries. ]. T. HARDWOOD; Rocks at
Black Rock J. 7. Harwood; Portrait of
B. H Roberts, John Hafen; Old Mil on
Jordan, Lorus Pratt; Peaches. J. T Har-
wood; Field and Pasture, John Hafen;
Black Rock looking west, J. T. Harwood;
a. Few Shocks, /. Greene Richards;
September Haze, ]. T. HARDWOOD; Out for
a Ride, John Hafen; The Cleaner y. B.
Wright; Horse Chestnuts, l. Greene
Richards; Ranch, Summit County, G. NJ.
Ottinger. Wreck. j. I. HARDWOOD; On
Jordan, Morning. Lorus Pratt; Near Fcrt
Douglas, A. q. Wright: Wheat Field, y.
B. Wright, Wheat Field. l.. Greene
Richards; Fishernan's Home, Lake
Constance John Hafen; Dandeions, A. 3.
Wright; Candy and Nuts. A. B. Wright;
Chimney Rock. North Platte. G. NJ OF
finger. Old. Barn, Liberty Park, j. T.
Harwood: Lake in Liberty Park, ]. T.
HARDWOOD; Mammoth Hot Springs, Vel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
A PECULIAR CLAIM.
LIABILITY OF TRUSTEES FOR
TREsPASS BY PUPILS.
Az Opinion Given Out BY Attorney
General Bishop Holds That
Claim For Damages Cannot Be
Legally Paid.

The attorney general yesterday gave
peculiar claim for damages:
Hon. John r. Park. State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction:
Dear Sir-I have considered the COM
mun!eation of County Superintendent
Van Colt. transmitted by you to me at
a recent date, wherein my opinion is
asked III reference TO the liability of
the school trustees of school district
No. 26, on account OF certain trespa asses
committed by children attending the
school, in crossing the street and Ell
tering unon private property to get
water from ditch, thereby destroying
a fence which was between the ditch
and the street, and also stating that
the owner of the property had filed a
b:ll with the trustees against the dis
trict for damages.
While the acts of the children we're
in the nature of a treSpasS, and While
they may be liable therefor. the ques
ton of the liability of the trustees and
Of the district for damages resulting
from the trespass, is quite another
consideration. AS a general rule no
man ought to be responsible for acts
not his own, unless they were done at
his instance, or were authorized by
him or assented to and ratified by him.
The communication of the county su-
perintendent does not disclose any au-
thOrization, assent or ratification which
would be sufficient, in my opinion, to
charge the trustees personally with
damages resulting from the wrongful
acts of the children. 1t does not fol-
low from the liability of the children
that the trustees of the district would
be responsible. A child while on the
school premises might so injure other
children as to become responsible for
q tort, but there would be no authority
in the law for holding the district,
trustees or teacher responsible for such
tort. unless there should be some par
ticipation in it, as above specified. 1t
is. therefore, my opinion, under the
facts stated in the county superinten-
dents communication, that the claim
cannot be legally paid. Very respect
fully, A. c. BISHOP.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
The Irrigation Congress.

The following communication from
the Irrigation association is published
for the Information of those who in
tend to attend the irrigation congress
at Phoenix:
The delegates and their friends to
this congress will take whichever
route will be most acceptable to them
selves, and there win be no special
party other than such as may happen
to take the same line Of travel
Judge Shurtliff. chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee, will be at Phoenix,
Dec ii. at the congress headquarters,
to meet all who go from Utah and by
whom all will find adequate arrange
ments made for them during their
stay at Phoenix.
1t is suggested that by leaving Utah
on the 11th inst delegates will proba-
lily find more comfort, and the 18th
inst. is the latest date to leave here to
be at Phoenix at the opening of the
session, Dec. Is.
c. S. STEVENSON,
Secretary State Irrigation Association.
Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

, sss s;:: '; AZ: Z; E aIks

cure. Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses actual
and unequalled curative power and there
fore it has true merit. When you buy
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and take it according
SO directions, to purify your blood, or
are morally certain to receive benefit.
The power to cure is there. You are not
trying an experiment. 1t will make your
blood pure, rich and nourishing, and thus
drive out the germs of disease, strengthen
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
LADY BROOKE NOT GUILTY.
A Celebrated Case Comes to an End

Perry. Okla, Dec. 8.-This morning
the jury in the perjury case OF Lady
Brooke brought in verdict of not
guilty. The case grew out of a contest
in the general land Office, and has at
tracted unusual interest. Mrs. Brooke,
formerly Miss Lawrence of Elmirty
Kan, was charged with swearing she
was an unmarried woman, when the
contrary was alleged. She first we'd
ded E. E. Parker, a travelling sales
man of Chicago, and claims he de-
serted her after ten days She married
R. T. Brooks, an Englishnan of re-
puted great wealth. secretly, at Gar
Der, Okla, a year ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
Notice to SINGERS.

All persons DESTROYS of becoming
members in the new Salt lake Choral
society are requested to send in their
names at once to II. ]. Newman, sec
rotary, 200 Dolly block. civ.
The examining board will meet all
such singers next Sarur lay evening in
H. S. Goddard's vocal studio. Constitu-
ton building, at 7:30 O'clock
II. ]. NEWMAN. Secretary
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

The board of directors of the Home
Fire Insurance company held their
monthly meeting yesterday Reports
for the eleven months to Dec. l were
read, and the regular quarterly divi-
dend, No. "a, of ~ per cent on the
capital of a quarter of a million was
declared, payable the 31st. The re-
mainder of the years earnings were
ordered carried to the reserves.
The incorporation OF Heber J. Grant
q Co, insurance agents and stock
dealers, declared a dividend of per
cent for the quarter ending Dec. 81.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
He DECLINED The MONEY
Salt Lake Man Who Would Not
Accept 100000.
HIS NAME is W. F. LYNN
TOOK THE CASH BACK TO TIE
SENDER THEREOF.

The Two Have to Hunt Around Fo-
q Man Who VIII Take 1.-THE l.
Finally Discovered and the Pais
Go to sIeep In Pcacc-Hoyv job.
ID. SPencer's Tender of Wa
Was Refused Because of II Differ
ence In Opinion as 10 the Law
In the Case--It was Money Fo-
State Taxes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

That soft, rich. glossy sheen, so much
admired in hair. can be secured by the
use of Ayers Hair Vigor. All the as
sistance that nature requires to make
the hair strong, beautiful and abundant
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
DECLARED A DRAW
Supreme Court Decision in Wa
satch Mining Co VS.. Jennings.
CLAIMS ARE IN THE NEIGHBoR-
HOOD OF PARK CITY.

Their Honors Unable to Find From
the Evidence That a Balance Is
Due Either Party-Case So Dis
posed OF After Thirteen Years of
Litigation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

tiveiy cures pies or no pay required.
IT Is guaranteed 10 give perfect sa lisfac-
ton or money refunded. Pr;cs 25 cents
per box Fo, sale ty q. C. NJ Z drug
dept
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
Something to Depend On.

Mr.. james Jones, of the drug firm Of
Jones & Son, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
la grippe, and her case grew so serious
that ply sicians at Cowden and Pana
could do nothing for her. 1t seemed
TO develop into Hasty Consumption
Having DR.. Kings New Discovery in
store and selling lots OF it, he took
bottle home, and to the surprise OF all
she began TO get better from the first
dose, and half dozen dollar bottles cured
her sound and we'll. DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds is guaranteed to do this good
work. Try it. Free trial bottles at z.
c. NJ. l. drug dept.
Be loyal and use high grade Three
Crown Baking Powder. No purer or
hetfer made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
nucSlen.s. Arntcn salve.

The best salve n the world for cuts.
sores. letter. chapped hands, chilblains.
bruises, sores, ulcers. salt rheum. fever
corns and all ssin eruptions, and posi-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
The CIearincs.

Yesterdays clearings were 1925, SIS as
compared with S2S7,95S for the same
day of last year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
WASHINGTON'S VOTE.
Official Canvass Has Been at Last
Completed.

Seattle, Dec. s.-The official canvass
of the vote of the state of Washington
was completed this afternoon. The
total vote is SO, $50, of which the Bryan
electors received 51,646; Mckinley, &c.
1853; National Democratic. 1.66S; Pro-
hibition, 96S: National Prohibition, las.
Bryans plurality is 1888
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
Valentine Gets Ten Years.

Brooklyn, Dec. S.-william Valentine,
one of the leaders of the Mclaughlin
Valentine gang Of forgers. and the
lover Of May Vintage. was sentenced
in the county court his morning to
imprisonment in the Kings county
penitentiary FOR ten years. He had
pleaded guilty to two indictments, one
for forgery and for abducting the
young woman.
Fine Fairs and High Glass Novelties.
Manufactured by Mehesy the Furrier
OF the l<rutsford, is q guarantee of
their excellence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09
THE SEAL
FISH and OYster Market.

Handles the choicest varieties of fish and
oysters Our canned oysters are equal 70
any on the market Blue POINTS ana
chickens and wild game constantly on
hand. "a West First South street Teie-
phone 203-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

Society Of Utah Artists.
Annual exhibition, IS West First
South.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

1t is impossible to make "a purer OR
stronger powder than Hewlett Bros
high grade, Three Crown Baking
Powder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-09

On Thursday evening at o'clock
sociabie will be given in the Fourteenth
ward complimentary to William c. Give.
TO which his friends are cordially in
vited.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19
The FuNituLAiRe.

for years. and every little while would
tell me how much he loved me and ask
me IL ] could care for him. / put him off,
and then after two or three years he be-
gan to neglect telling me of his love. In
the meanwhile I learned to love him and
tried in every way to make him speak,
but when he called he never wanted to
see me alone and always tried to have
some of the family about. When we were
alone he was moody and silent, and no
amount of sweetness on my part would
bring him to another avowal. At last he
called and said that he was going to
Washington. that there was no use of his
staying out west There were no ties to
hold him and no one for whom he espe-
cially cared. / used my best endeavors to
dissuade him and limited in every way
possible that he might expect a favorable
answer If he would ask me to marry him.
Jack said goodnight to the people and
went TO the door with him. We stood at
the entrance some time and I tried so
hard TO bring him out, but no use He
spoke of no one caring for him, and all
that sort OF thing. Finally, we shook
hands and left. 1 saw him walk down the
yard, and as he reached the gate / call
ed him back. 1 had seen him leave
me forever In that minute, and could not
stand IL. When he came up the steps, 1
said: Jack. care for you a great DEAL
The rest naturally followed and we were
married I'm the spring."
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as far as they go are identical with
those of eastern Venezuela, and incl
dentally to restore my health shattered
by yellow fever at Panama. There
are many Venezuelan species of ophi-
dia, such as the rattlesnakes and Amaze
tulla Fulgida, which are not found at
all in Trinidad, and others which are
hard TO obtain there, such as the great
water boa, Eunectes Murinus, common
ly called anaconda. To get an anacon-
da alive with my own hands was my
main motive in undertaking this jour-
ney, although / meant TO observe care
fully and take alive also any other
snakes which we might be fortunate
enough to get sight Of DIR. Wayman
was interested in the zoology, botany
and ethnology of the strange wilder
ness we were TO visit; and II is needless
20 say the two young creoles / took
with me, both ardent snake-hunters
trained under my own eye I'm many an
exciting chase, were I'm a fever of ex-
pectation. Now at last we should can
ture and bring home, without impair
ing any of his Kissing energies, the
largest and most talked of serpent OF
South America. We had also with us
friend of DIR. Wayman's a son of a
magistrate of Trinidad, who did good
service with the gun when provisions
began 10 run low. These with the
crew OF the Alert. completed our party.
AS we sailed away southwards that
evening over the tranquil waters of the
Gulf of Paria, the sun was setting
among golden clouds behind the pur-
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wheel, as seen In the picture, explains
itself But the idea of springs has al
ways been deemed fanciful Machines
into which they are introduced are
never reliable, and usually manifest
decided eccentricity in action.
II Is interesting to note that the BIZ
cycle craze is confined by no means
TO our own country. 1t RACES furiously
In England. and IL is estimated that
no less than 100000 machines will be
manufactured there during 1896. The
only nation which has not gone quite
daft on the subject is Russia. For
some reason. perhaps owing to the in
hospitable climate, the subjects of the
car have not yet taken wildly to the
wheel But Germany is as bicycle
mad as ourselves and France is in
the procession. Those facts explain
the extraordinary zeal with which in
ventors apply themselves to bicycle
improvements. All over the world the
brains are busy. and the result is that
amazing series of Improvements" to
which the spectator is treated, at the
increasing wheel shows.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19
DIDN'T BELIEVE IN THEM.
His Experience Had Been That There
We're Enough Cards to Play With.

His Experience Had Been That There
We're Enough Cards to Play with.
From the Chicago Post.
see that they are making poker
packs with some additional cards in
Them" said the sociable man, as he
laid aside his newspaper.
Il don't want none in mine," return
ed the Westerner quickly.
why, the claim is made that it's a
great Improvement, and makes II pos
slble for more people to play" persist
ed the sociable man. You see, they
add an eleven-spot and tweleve-spot to
each suit"
well. / s'pose there amt no law agin
their dom 1t; but you can count me out
when IL comes to addin' any cards to a
poker pack"
why? Did you ever play with such
a pack?" asked the sociable man.
mot on your life." replied the West
erner.
Then how do you know that It may
not work first rate?'
"Oh, 1t may work bully, stranger. an
then agin', 1t may not. 1 heerd about a
Teller once who made it work. but it
amt in my line"
Did you ever know anyone who
played with such a pack?'
"Meanin pack with extra cards in
it?" asked the Westerner as il to make
sure that he did not misunderstood the
question.
Yes"
II knowed one"
What did he say of the plan?''
HE didn't say nothin' at all. stranG-
er. He didn't have no time, for the first
shot was fatal. He had an extra ace.
an he want asked for no explana-
tons"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19
SNAKE HUNTING TRIP
O'Rsilly'S Adventurous Journey in a
Forest Of Poisonous MangrOveS.
VENEZUELAN BORDER LAND
Lost In a Watery Wilderness A
Dance OF Drunken Savages-
Catching a Big Snake
With the Bare Hand.

Copyright. 1896. by Bachelor. Johnson &
Bacheller).
All the charming surroundings of my
life at Port of Spain. Trinidad. could
not allay the intense desire / felt to
visit the wondrous aquatic wilderness
of the Orinoco Delta
Spaniard and Indian had painted II
to me in a hundred stories. In my
dreams the roar of its jaguars echoed
in my ears: tapirs plunged in its wa
tiers: saw in Imagination its huge alli-
gators drifting by on floating trees,
and great anacondas summing them
selves on the branches overhanging its
maze of watery channels.
At last. In October. 1890, my long
cherished hope was gratifed. / receiv-
ed from DR.. Wayman of Port of Spain,
an invitation to accompany him on his
yacht. the Alert, i'm an expedition
among the Guaraon Indians, the semi
aquatic inhabitants of the Delta, who
live there to-day in primitive savagery,
though within one or two days sail of
all the comforts of civilization.
Now the chief reason for my contin-
ued residence In Trinidad had been to
study the serpents of the island, which
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-19

mangTove IS a poisonous tree. Around
its roots gathers the Shiny ooze of de-
caying plant life. and through its shiny
leaves blow malodorous zephyrs. which
are in truth the sickly breath of MAS
matte fever.
The gorgeous birds. the beautiful In
6ects, the lively lizards and bright-col-
ored gliding serpents. that elsewhere
swarm I'm the equatorial forests. avoid
these dismal thickets. The branches
are untenanted except by nightmarish
crabs and other crawiers from the mud.
Here and there through these groves
of sadness many channels lead in
wards. Entering one of the broad chan
nels and rounding a bend. we come
suddenly before the little palm-thatch-
ed. mud-hut town of Pedernales. In
the entire place there is but a single
house which has a second floor. The
population seems to be a mixture OF
Spanish and Indian stock, with few
purely of either race. Occasionally the
naked Indians come down in their
canoes, fetching with them for sale or
barter, hammocks, monkeys, parrots,
sloths and other living animals, as well
as dried fish, cassava and honey. which
last is found in abundance in the hol-
low trees. The little town makes no
pretense of streets, the houses being
located irregularly.
The whole place covers a little more
than an acre of ground, and two or
three hundred people. Near by is a
deposit of asphalt, similar to that at
the Pitch Lake in Trinidad. 1t was
then about to be worked by an Ameri-
IAN named Graham. who hoped to find
here petroleum also. It's situation
amid these dense swamps naturally
makes Pendernales unhealthy-almost
deadly to strangers. There is no ply
'ician in the place, and consequently,
almost Immediately on our arrival, DIR.
Wayman was called to see a man who
lad been i'll for many months. The
Door fellow was surrounded by his sor-
owing family, and was already be-
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coiled tightly on the branch. There
was not the slightest fear of shaking
him off. AS i was determined TO show
the Indians my superior knowledge and
courage. so as to gain their confidence.
1 determined to risk his bite. Get him
i would, at all hazards.
With not over-much care, I hauled
down the branch till IL was on a level
with my face. / held II with my left
hand. The snake was still sound
asleep and hadn't moved Holding nv
right hand ready 90 snatch at his neck
filled my lungs with air, and with ali
my force pulled my breath in his face.
Surprised. but with the sleep stilI I'm
his eyes. he shot out his head a few
inches TO see what was the matter
Quick as a fash my right hand flew
up and grasped him round the throat:
whereupOn amid the shouting and
cheering OF the whole boats companv
he unwound himself from the branch.
and began to coil himself tightly round
my arm. When i sat down In the stern
soon unwSund him and slowed him
away in a bag. "All right, now" ,aId
j TO the wondering Indians, take un
the oars and let us head for Buia. Who
knows but l may catch a 2O-foot ana
conda before we get there?"
+. II. O'Relny.
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plish hills of Venezuela Never did
mariners make smoother voyage: and
as the darkness grew we left in our
wake that glowing track of phosphor-
escent light peculiar to tropical seas.
When morning dawned we came on
deck TO find our horizon shut in as far
as the eye could reach, from north TO
south, by the low interminable thicxet
or water-born mangrove trees. Behind
and beyond this mangrove forest wall
there Is nothing anywhere to be seen.
their thick. leafy front is backed only
by the sky.
The water about us is now OF a vel
lowish, muddy tinge-the outpouring OF
the great river by its many hundred
outlets. Just here where the coast line
or Trinidad runs out within three or
four miles of the wooded swamns OF
the Delta, is the famous DRAGONS
Mouth. the southern entrance to the
Gulf of Paria-
AS we draw nearer TO the mangroves
their hideous sameness becomes more
clearly apparent.
One long low line of cheerless brov-n-
ish gray or olive completely shuts in
the western horizon. EVERYWHERE the
somber growth rises from the water 10
the height of 20 or 80 feet. withou, n
vestfge of land ar their base with new
er a glimpse OF tree or hill beyond
them. The muddy wavelets lap in
wards among their discOlOred leaves
In their shadow and about their mud
seeking roots the elsewhere cheerful
water looks dark and dismal For the