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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-21
DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW
Business Held Back Until Politi-
cal Sky Clears.
40 DISTINCT IMPROVEMENT SEEN.
Speculative Buying of Materials for Fut-
ure Use Continues Many Alarmed by the
Favorite sp. cuIative Estimate on Cotton
Maturity of Wool Notes said To lie
the Cause of selling-iron and steel Man
ufsctures Waiting for Business,

ufactures Waiting for Business,
New York. Sept. 21.-R. c.. Dun s.
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
There is still no distinct Improvement
in business, although conditions favor
it. Confidence slowly rises. speculative
buying of materials for future use con-
tinues. imports OF gold do not cease.
and the Bank of England has not tried
TO check them by further advances In
rates. as the weight of the demand now
falls on France. But an enormous bus
mess is held back untl the future Is
clearer. Names great majority had no
such influence as many anticipated
from "a verdict so emphatic. To many
minds. nothing an eastern state can
do in contest represented as sectional
gives sufficient assurance how the
western and southern state may de-
eide. In cotton, hides wool, and pig
iron. buying openly speculative in
character marks the current business.
Resumption of work by good part OF
the Fall River cotton mills and ad-
vances i'm some kinds of cotton goods
helped 20 raise the price of middling
uplands 10 s7s cents again. although
realizing sent IL down 10 Sig cents
Estimate Alarmed Many.
The favOrite speculative estimate.
which was about 100000 bales in error
a year ago, alarmed many by naming
800 600 bales as the minimum. and 81
100000 as the maximum. a range wide
enough in itself TO suggest doubt. and
either quantity with stocks carried over
is more than the world has ever con-
sumed. Wheat has also risen lSs cents
although western receipts of 6,626,S $50
| bushels exceed last years. and in
three weeks have been 1855, SOS BUSH
| els, against Ii. 791 Coo last year, Helped
| by purchases at present low prices. At
| lantic exports We're l,S2l,S Sl9 bushels.
| -four included. and for three weeks o.
796,lS4 against 3,S37.l29 last year. Corn
| has scarcely advanced. as western re-
| Ceipts are still as large as a year ago.
| with exports smaller The one indus
| try showing increase of working force
is the cotton manufacture, restriction
| of output having secured more healthy
| demand for some goods Most of the
| mills have started or are about TO start
| though the uncertainty OF the cotton
| market embarrasses Prices OF staple
| goods have advanced so generally tnai
the average representative quotations
Is 81 per cent. higher than in the first
| week uf August
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
From Brooklyn Life.

work is of a more intricate character.
In these classes the men are taught
a variety of things which are of great
service to them when on active duty.
The task of getting over an eight-foOt
wall with perfectly smooth sides is re-
duced to science and is performed in
d couple of seconds. Each squad is
divided into two sections. The second
section men give those of the first a
scientific lift which places them astride
the wall, and the next instant the men
on top reach down and catch their
companions by the scruff of the neck
and lift them up, so that they can
scramble over the wall.
There are many obstacle races which
the men must run every day. These in
Guide vauliing four-foot fences by
placing one hand, the right, on the
top bar, a 12-feot water jump and a
risky bridge composed of long strips
of three-inch planks. On these latter
the men must use some of the arts of
the tight rope walker, otherwise they
fall through and have to begin the job
over again.
When the men are proficient in these
classes they so up still higher, and
take part in the exercises on the paral-
lei and horizontal bars. On these the
work is as clever as that performed by
professional athletes. In fact, the aver
age English recruit, after he has been
in the service a year, is well fitted for
job in q circus.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16

PARK CITY, Nov I'D. ]. Sulli-
van. miner at the Lucky Bill. was
badly injured this morning about s
o'clock. He struck an unexploded
blast hole with his pick, causing a
discharge of the explosives. He will
probably lose his left eve. but the
right one is uninjured. His face is
badly bruised and cut. Mr.. Sullivan is
about 20 years of age and unmarried.
D. c. Mclaughlin continues TO i'm
prove today from his severe attack
of pneumonia. He rested we'll last
night, and his mind is now rational ex-
cept at intervals. His brother, James
Mclaughlin, and Francis Smith of
Muskegum, Mich, arrived this morn
ing.
The Marsac mill started up again
this morning. after one days impera-
tive shutdown, owing to the bursting
of the big pump.
NJ. Oshima, director Imperial Steel
Works, Toxic Japan, in company with
T. Obana, G. Yamaga, J. Takayuma
and K. Komma, visited the Ontario
mine today.
R. c. Chambers and c. L. Rood ar
rived from Salt Lake this morning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16

OATS no lie. l kin see any old kind of
d pink zebra or yalier monkey jes' by
clOsin me peeps fur a second, an !
t'ink l must have 'em bad A good big
hooter Of booze 'ud be de dandiest ting
in life fur me jest right now Dis is
plain talk. How is ii for he dime?''
The plain talk won the day. The re-
porter, bewildered by the beauty of the
unvarnished tale, produced a 1O-cent
piece, dropped it into the truthful Flow
ery's begrimed paw and went his way,
looking back to see the straightforward
hobo disappear into a ginmill. About
half an hour later, as he was hurrylng
along the avenue near Eleventh street,
he heard the husky voice of a man 1oi-
lowing at his elbow, saying:
Say, young Teller, I've got a first,
and I've got de Brooklyn
Look here, confound you, said the
reporter to The bum, you gave me
that one up on F street only few
minutes ago, and it went through all
large as a silver half-dime, and these
on getting out of one man in the course
of an EVENING"
well, now" replied Flowery, sheep
ishly, dis is where l get it in de neck
1 must have de bugs. fur fact, 20
make a jay play like dis. But how kin
you expect me to remember de looks of
all de dead-easy blokes l run agin' in
de course of a nights graft? 1t Jest
can't be done, OATS wot it can't. How
somever If on dis occasion you'd be
willin' 70 compromise on a nickel
But the dead easy one was hopping
on cattle car
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
SURPRISED 4 BOSTON GIRL.

San Francisco Post: She was from
Boston and was on her way to the
geysers. She had rendered the stage
driver thoroughly uncomfortable by
throwing great chunks of botanical AMI
geological information at his head
and he had about reached the deter
mination to brighten her with stories
of highwaymen till she would get in
side the coach, when some gnarled and
twisted oaks attracted her attention.
DO you know how old these trees
are?' she asked. and was prepared to
launch whole row of figures at him,
when he surprised her by answering
her very promptly:
''Yes'm.''
How old are they?"
Three thousand and six years
How do you arrive at such accurate
results?"
We'll, a smart young woman from
Boston wat knows all about it told me
they were 5000 years old, an that was
six years ago. so they must be 3,0O6
now gOin' on 3007."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16

New York, is the tallest man in the house
of bishops. When Philips Brooks was
bishop of Massachusetts he was next in
Episcopal stature to the giant of North
I Dakota.
A special winter number of the Lon
don Studio" is to contain an article of
Stevenson's never before published. 1t is
an account of the novelist's stay at Mon
aster in the autumn of 1878. and was
originally intended to serve as the c3en-
ing chapter of Travels with a Donkey
in the CeVennes."
Miss Ellen Dortch, now assistant libra
rian of the state library of Georgia, and
who, the Atlanta Constitution says, is a
young woman of great ability would
like to become chief librarian: and a bill
is to be introduced at the coming session
of the legislature making women eligible
for the position. If the bill passes she
is TO get it.
Elmer Graydon. living near English.
Ind, has named an infant son Abraham
Lincoln Ulysses Grant William Mckinley,
and a neighbor John Vaughn, not TO be
oUtdone has named his infant son
Thomas jefferson Andrew Jackson James
Monroe William Jennings Bryan. AT last
accounts both infants were doing as well
as could be expected under the circum-
stances.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.

The session of yesterday afternoon
of the Weber county Sunday school as
ISOLATION was full of interest and was
well attended. At 2:3O Professor ]. A.
Smith led the song service after which
Professor j. F. Engle spoke on Bible
Glass Lessons making a strong plea
for systematic and logical methods of
presenting subjects and for scientific
teaching generally.
Rev. T. L. Crandall and Charles W.
Luck led the discussion on the COOP
GRAFTON of parents with teachers.
At a little after $3.50 the chiIdren's
mass meeting was held. Addresses
were made by ]. L. Loar and by Harry
Tolles.
very original and interesting ex-
ercise was the rendering OF Nearer.
My God, 10 Thee" by Mamie Young
and Lille Swift. of the deaf and dumb
school
They were led by Professor F. NJ.
briggs and the exercise was very in
structfve.
The evening programme included
some account of work in Washington.
D. c.. by R. J. Caskey, ]. B. Caldwell
and II. B. Steelman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
killed a Lion with PocketI>niTe.

Evanston News Register: George W.
Cooper and Charles Neiberger have
proven themselves nervy and equally
brave. They have demonstrated their
superiority over Wyoming mountain
scribed new defensive tome TO the wild
beasts OF The Rockies.
O@a day last week as they were leis-
ure.y driving q team from Coe & Goes
tie camp 10 Piedmont they were momen-
tarily astounded a. the c-'Dsarance of a
big mountain lion flying through the air
and with all the g-scefG9neSS of an
acrobat landing on the doUble-tree OF
their vehicle
/ took but a moment for the men 10
regain their nerve, Notwithstanding the
fact that the only weapon they possessed
was a pocket knife. Without a mo-
snG seized the beast by the back of the
neck, while Neiberger, not TO be OUT
done by his companion, caught the ami
rlsI by the tail. A lively tuSSel elsued,
but the combined strength OF the heroes
soon oVerpoWered the lion and with their
pocket knife they managed to cut the
beast severely about the neck Their
victory was now accomplished and in
few minutes the dead body of the IN
truder lay at their feet. The gentlemen
report that there are many lions in that
TO be nullified as safeguard 10 The
travellers on that route.
l. Kastor, the clothier, has purchased
the hide, which measures eight feet II
is as fine a specimen as was ever brought
TO Evanston and VIII shortly be on eX-
hibition in his establishment on Front
street..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
- REGARDS Tic shons.

Green River Star: 1t has not yet been
definitely decided whether or not the
Union Pacific working hours in the
shops will be increased. The shops along
the system ran last Friday. because they
vera closed Tuesday on account of cleo
ton. The equipment OF the road is in
prime condition, and il is hardly loss:-
he that the shops viii be worked an
other day each week until the Business
OF the road demands it. AS the business
of the road increases, so will the rrogl
ing days Of the shops increase. 1t is ex-
pecte6 that the winter business WI be
heavy this season, and if so an ;nc-ea Sc
OF working hours in the shops can be
looked for.
The foregoing from the Omaha wo-ld-
Herald will be interesting TO the
men working in the Green River sso-s.
as il is an indication that before long the
shops here as well as elsewhere, all
along the Union Pacific system, will be
working on full time. Traffic on the
read still continues to be very good, and
= is hoped thai it will 50 continue for
some time. While the fruit business has
fallen off, there is a steady increase of
merchandise shipments and as travelling
men for the large jobbing houses are all
reporting an immense increase in trade,
it is probable that business will be good
fo= several months.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
THE FRONTIER.

At the hushed brink of twilight, when
as though
Some solemn journeying phantom paused
to lay
An ominous finger on the awestruck day,
Earth holds her breath till that great
presence go
a moment comes OF visionary glow,
Pendulous 'twixte the gold hour and the
gray,
Loveiier than these, more eloquent than
they
OF memory, foresight and life's ebb and
flow,
So have 1 known in some fair woman's
face,
While viewiess yet was Times more gross
imprint,
The first faint, hesitant, elusive hint
OF that invasion of the vandal years
Seem deeper beauty than youths cloud
less grace,
Wake subtler dreams and touch me nigh
to tears. William Watson.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
MICH IN LITTLE.

David Coulter, Kansas prisoner
charged with murder, has invented a corn
husking machine.
The sultan of Turkey is constantly at
tended by a eunuch. who VIII be be-
headed il the sultan should die of robson.
The far-reaching fame of Alma-Tadema
has possibly been responsible for the fact
that few people know that his WIFE
Laura, is also an artist of no mean
merit
Mrs. Beck Meyer, a lady who repre-
scented the Scandinavian countries at the
international women's congress at the
Worlds Fair, is at present a special lee
turer at Stanford university, California.
Lord Downshire, a young nobleman with
a strong taste for mechanics, has had
a complete railway, a mile and a half In
length, laid down in his grounds at Hills
borough. County Down. Ireland.
Bishop William David Walker of the
missionary jurisdiction of North Dakota
VINO has been chosen bishop of western
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16

The flight of j. NJ. Smith from the
county Jail was short end swift. He
was brought back yesterday morning
by Tailor Ted Wright, who captured
him at Corinne about o'clock a. m
He and Johnson must have separated
( Immediately after leaving the Jail and
the latter was more successful in elud-
ing the officers.
Smith had cut across country until
he struck the Southern Pacific railway
track, which he followed all night,
reaching Corinne, as he hoped, in time
TO catch a west bound train, but, as it
turned out, in time to meet Deputy
Wright, who summarily bundled him
back to Jail.
Smith was regarded by all odds
as the most clever of the two. John
sons crime was that of taking a watch
and some money from the pocket of d
sleeping visitor in the Nord saloon.
Smiths work has already been de-
scribed in detail in The Herald as the
scheme to fleece number of Ogden
business men by means of a change
contract scheme, which is regarded
as one of the cleverest bunco games of
the decade.
But whoever made the key to unlock
the door-such being the only method
known to the officers by which they
could get out-was clever. not only
with head but also with hands. The
lock is of the most improved kind, hav-
ing six distinct grooves or tumblers,
into which corresponding inches in the
key must fit. With a perfect key, even
though it be of wood, it would be easy
to unlock the door, but the patience,
skill and secrecy necessary for making
and fitting such key are rare indeed.
There were five prisoners in the Jail
at the time and of these the one in
the most serious predicament is young
Edison, awaiting trial for shooting Miss
OFT and VIII McCabe. He alone of
the five could have hoped for any out
side help, as his relatives and friends
all live in and about Ogden, but Edison
did not leave the Jail.
Another strange circumstance is that
Smiths partner, Well, did not leave
with him. though perhaps the Iustv
voice of John Chip and the prompt
action of Tailor Wright deferred him.
All in all it is a strange case, and
the cleverness of the escape is only
equaled by the mystery of it, and by
the prompt and energetic manner in
which the pursuit was made and re-
capture effected. Sheriff Wright was
en- route from Denver to Ogden and
knew nothing of the escapes until yes
terday morning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
The q. S. Govt Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior TO all Others.
TREETOP FISHING.
Novel Arrangement of Il Florida
Man for Supplying His Table.

Novel Arrangement of Florida
Man for Supplying His Table.
"Johnl Johni" shouted the rosy lit
tie wife of my host in central Florida,
from the honeysuckle porch John, if
you're going to have fish for supper,
it's time to go up the tree"
Well, now, I've fished for all sorts
of fish and in some odd places, says a
Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent,
who tells the story, but thus far
never climbed into tree to get them.
but | didn't ask any foolish questions.
John simply replied over his shoulder,
'All right and we continued our walk
among the frost-blackened orange trees
which were just beginning to recover.
those that were alive at all. from the
havoc of the preceding winter. We
passed beyond the plantation and
mock where cypress and palmetto
trees were matted together and wind
ing creek was bridged with a single
log. Somewhere along the path John
picked up his rod and a can of bait
Then we came out upon the edge of the
bayou. Lazy alligators floated at a lit
tie distance or stuck their noses out
from their mud beds in the rushes, and
having satisfied themselves that
neither John nor the stranger had a
gun they went on doing serenely \
heron tapped away and rested himself
in a convenient tree. A moccasin
snake rolled from a dry log into the
water. None of these incidents dis
turbed my friend, who led the way
serenely to the foot of a big tree over
hanging the still waters of the bayou.
Up this tree we walked by n regular
series of board steps, and at the top
we creDt u2on a welI-fastened plat
form. thoroughly shaded by the thick
drapery of moss pendant from the net
work branches; and, thus ensconced.
John proceeded to business, and in half
an hour we had the finny wherewithal
for a delicious supper. John enjoyed
and l suppose still enjoys a practical
monopoly of fishing in that lake for no
one thereabouts owns boat, and, any
how, the allIgators don't approve of
boats, the shores are too sedgy and
water too shallow for casting, and
fishing trees are not found in any
considerable number thereabout. So I
borrowed Johns primitive tackle and
thus earned the right to boast that /
had fished, among other methods pis-
catorial, from a treetop.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16

Cleveland Plain Dealer: A rich man
of this city gave a chestnut party. The
chestnut supply at the point he had
selected for the party was scarce.
There was a splendid tree, but it's crop
was light Wealth is the true father
of eXpedients The rich man bought
a generous supply of chestnuts and
sent them out to be carefully scattered
beneath the tree. When the party ar"
rived at the nutting ground, the tree
had been shaken, and on the ground
lay a remarkably generous supply of
nuts The business of gathering them
went merrily forward, when, all of a
sudden, one of the older members of
the party picked up a fallen leaf and
looked at it suspiciously. Then she
glanced up at the tree above her.
isn't it stranger" she said.
Isn't what stranger" asked the rich
man.
That all these chestnuts should
grow on an oak tree"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
AZ Ea,EC-TION BET.
The Herald has been asked to decide
the following bet:

The Herald has been asked to decide
the following bet:
Before the election. a made d bet
with 3 that he could name Is states,
the electoral vote of which would be
given for Bryan for president. 4 named
Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Mon
tana, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri
and Tennessee.
In all the states named the Bryan
electors received a majority of the
votes cast. but in Arkansas it trans
pired after the election that one of the
electors elected was disqualified he
cause he failed to comply with the
state law requiring that officeholders'
including presidential electors, shall
pay pol tax and for that reason this
particular elector is debarred from
serving. On that ground B claims the
het is a draw. Is he justified in his
claim?
We think not. The electoral vote OF
Arkansas will simply be one short of
the number allowed, but Bryan will re-
ceive all the votes the state, under the
circumstances, can legally cast, and
therefore A wins the bet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
Green River Ritings.

Manti Messenger; J. T. Farrer is run
ming his coal mine again. He has lei
another lO0-foot contract and intends
laying track IN the tunnel and put on a
coal car next week. K. b. Thompson
has the contract hauling the coal 10
Green River.
The Big Gold Plant viii start up with
a full force next week and expect TO run
steady throughout the winter
Fred and Levi Farrer have gone on a
photographing tour through Castle Val
ley and viii be gone about so days.
We are glad TO see K. L. Rogers on our
streets again after his hard struggle w.1n
typhoid fever.
Ira Sutton and George A. Stanton are
at the head OF the list for raising Big
squash, they having gathered several
from Their patch weighing over ID
pounds.
Mrs. Laura Lang is visiting in Moab
this week.
A party of surveyors are out locating
a canal on The east; we wish them sue
cess
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-16
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Thursday comes Carriers great play
THE Tornado
Joseph A. West is expected back
from Oregon this morning.
Mrs. r. T. Harris entertained very
pleasantly a number of friends at
luncheon Friday evening.
Mrs. n. o. Nye of Seventeenth street
has gone to Kansas for a visit of d
few weeks with relatives.
]. n. Dockham. of the State Journal,
is recovering from his illness and will
be about in a few days.
Manager Clark did good thing for
lovers of the drama when he booked
"Tennessee's Pardner" at the Grand
for tonight.
Forty-three carloads of cattle went
through yesterday for the eastern
markets, after stopping over about
"A hours at the Ogden stock yards.
Most of the insulators are on the
poles of the Pioneer Electric Power
company and the stringing of wires
between here and Salt Lake is ex-
pected to begin tomorrow. The power
house is nearing completion.
Sheriff Wright returned from Denver
yesterday afternoon. Early yesterday
morning he received a message from
Deputy Sullivan, telling him of the es-
cape from jail of Smith and Johnson
and the subsequent capture of Smith.