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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
COILS p. HUNTINGTON.


BY birth a Connecticut Yankee. Mr.
Huntington has been identified with the
Pacific coast for nearly fifty years. He
left his home when he was fourteen
years old to go to seek his fortune, and
just about the time that the long pro-
across the prairieS and the mountains,
he began business in a tent al Sacra-
mento. Then he went into the hardware
trade and made money. but he found
after all, his great forte in railroad
building. The story of the construction
of the Pacific roads is like a romance
but it has been equally interesting to
hear him tell how, in his effort to con-
meet the two oceans with railroads OF
his own control, he bought up abandoned
and worthless propertfea paying ten
and twelve cents on the dollar for the
stock, and converted them into paying
corporations. whose stock sold at par
Even Mr. Morgan admitted that this
took genius. Not genius" replied Mr.
Huntington, modestly, "but dogged.
untiring application for work, and the
exercise of economy"
Mr. Huntington talks of millions of
dollars as most men would talk OF nun
dredS of cents. He has handled great
sums but it is with evident pride that
he says that never in his whole career
has a piece of his paper gone to pro
test. II have always paid my debts" he
says, and honestly acknowledges that
he is never tired of repeating this fact
in his history He knows. too. how FIoney
makes money. He said, among other
things, that in 1909 the Island OF Man
haitian was sold for SS7. THAT sum- he
said. with per cent, interest com
pounded every six months would have
reached $40, 0O0 900 in 1910, or more than
the whole island is worth today"
And this one little incident is so char
acteristfc of Mr.. Huntington's know
ledge of what can be done with a small
amount of money that it is worth tell
ing as any incident in his own career
Washington Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
THE ELEVATOR EXPERTS RETURN.

Selectmen Roberts and Geddes have
returned from their elevator inspection
tour to various cities, or as it is termed
by the vulgar-minded and those who
are lacking in a proper respect for
official greatness, their junket. While
away they visited Denver, Kansas
City, st. Louis, Chicago and New York
and did any amount of inspecting.
They went away ordinary selectmen
making small pretension to expert
knowledge of elevators. They come
back experts-in 1unketing. But jeer
and jfbe at them as people will, they
bring really valuable information. Sc
lectman Roberts, we understand, comes
back thoroughly convinced that the
hydraulic elevator is best of all, that
it will meet as none others can the
needs Of the joint building. This opin-
ion is arrived at after a careful in
spection and study Of at least one hun
dred elevators in various cities. It
may be put down as the deliberate
and well considered opinion of an ele-
vator expert. We should unhesitating-
ly accept this opinion as being final
and authoritative, and insist upon it's
acceptance and as not being open to
question in any respect save that Sc
lectman Geddes, a still greater and
more profound elevator expert than
even Selectman Roberts, if that be
possible, declares that there is nothing
in all the wide, wide world, from the
Schomburgk line to Nansen's north
pole, that can approach the Sprague
electric elevator as exactly fulfilling
to the very letter all the requirements
of the joint building. If there is one
member of the county court for whose
opinion we have more profound respect
than another, it is perhaps Selectman
Geddes. How comes it that the opin-
ions Of two such elevator experts as
Selectmen Roberts and Geddes are df.
ametrically opposed on so important a
subject as the best elevator for the
joint building, when it is remembered
that the minds of great men run in
the same channel? Apparently mex
plicable fact, yet how easy the ex-
PLANTATION. Two great minds running
in the same channel, but in opposite
directions; that is all The simple citi--
zen will think that a head-on collision
is inevitable. There will be none. 1t
will fall to the lot of Selectman Chris
topherson to decide which it is the
better for the joint building to have, a
hydraulic OF an electric elevator. True,
he is no expert, but where experts fall
out, someone must decide. Would it
not have been just as well to have left
1T to Selectman Christopherson in the
first instance?
When the selectmen started off on
their junket I'VE said that no one cared
for their opinion on elevators, nor viii
anyone now give heed to them. They
have had junket for which the tax
payers will pay, while the question of
the best elevator for the joint building
is just where 1T was before. Their
elevator inspection tour was piece of
tomfooIery at the public expense.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The state senate considered at
length yesterday the bill to impose a
fling fee of 50 certs on each $1,000 of
capital stock OF interpretations. BY a
vote of 9 to that sum was allowed to
stand. Senator Booth offered an
amendment making the fee IS cents
and the limit of tax on fling Of articles
of incorporation $500, but it was not
carried. That seems very happy
compromise and one that 1t would be
wise to adopt. Tie tax would not be
burdensome on incorporators and ii
would furnish q very good revenue
while It would have very wholesome
effect In killing wild cat incorpo-a-
tons. The whole bill was finally
beaten by vote Of to s, but comes
up again to-day The Booth amend
1nent should be given careful con-
sideration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

confidence in the ability of the Tribune
to impart even those lessons. This
may look almost like ingratitude in US,
but we are among those who attach
great Importance to the matter of
starting right on any subject, and be-
lieve that even kindergarten teacher
should be most knowing and skillful
teacher-not only in his own opinion.
but in fact, and therefore we must
decline our friends invitation even at
the risk of appearing, as we fear, I'M
grateful.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
A MEMORY OF THOMAS CREsCENno
PLATT.

In other days Of other years,
When music did inspire -
TioSa's fayorite son, they say,
That Thomas led the choir.
So sweet he voiced his numbers that
All strangers would inquire
About the music in the church,
When Thomas led the choir.
They had their Tows. as all cIoir5 do,
And got as hot as fire;
Some quit and some remained to kick,
But Thomas led the choir.
They tell that once. upon a time,
A preacher came from Maine.
Who preached a sermon from the text:
And we shall suffer pain
The sermon was dismal thing,
And what 1t lacked In strength,
OF sloolnineSS and suffering,
Was quite made up in length
at last it ended and the choir
Arose to sing a hymn.
And Thomas led the choir that day,
With all the usual VIM
This hymn he sang in tones that reached
From pulpit steps to dome:
s'Oh, take a pil-Oh, take a pill
Oh, take a pilgrim homelr
New York Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The Tribune evidently being of the
opinion that it is a sort of GamalieI
in its knowledge OF the gold and silver
money question, suggests in the over
powering self-consciousness Of it's self
sufficiency that The Herald go over
to the Tribune of evenings and receive
kindergarten lessons in the elementary
principles controlling gold and silver
money. We are infinitely grateful to
our friend, but must respectfully de-
cline, for while kindergarten Lessons
ON elementary principles controlling
gold and silver money are doubtless
the very easiest and simplest kind Of
lessons that could be given on the SUBJ
ject, yet anxious as we are
to learn. we must decline for want of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The Washington Post says ct is
TO be hoped that the St Louis ar
engagements for the Republican ma
tional convention viii be more success
full than was the last hanging IN that
town" There is no need to worry.
Already the candidates are In sus-
pense and all but one are doomed to
get Ii in the neck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Senator T,hurston, of Nebraska, is re-
ported not to be sympathetic with the
movement of General Henderson for
president He is said to be for Mckinley
MIR. Thurston is a pretty good sized man
in politics, but probably not big enough
to resist the demands of a majority of
the Nebraska delegation. We suspect
of the night and tearing his clothes for
Henderson, but neither is Foraker for
cKinley.-Cincinnau Enquirer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Our sympathies are with the Cubans,
but when we look upon pictures of
some OF the typical Cuban revolution
airy generals, the feeling creeps over
US that we should not care to meet
them In a deserted alley after sun
down.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

From the number of lynchings that
have occurred in Kentucky recently it is
reasonable to suppose that Gov. Bradley's
determination to stop them has not been
sufficiently ''norated around. st Louis
Post Dispatch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Representative Cazier Of 6uab has
introduced bill to forbid the election
of lawyers to the legislature. There is
much merit in the proposition, SO far
as it goes. It lacks in that it does not
forbid the election of any one to the
legislature. A close study of the pres
ent Republican legislature has con-
WINGED us that this is what is needed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Senator Carter does not seem to re-
alize that when he calls the country
IN dispute between Venezuela and
British Guiana strip of swamp
land he is treading upon dangerous
ground.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

J Pierpont Morgan took many
prizes at The recent dog show in New
York. He also coIIared nearly half of
the bonds recently sold by the govern
ment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

I'm fairness to myself. I must say I
was not In good condition" says Ma
her. He neglects to state whether it
was before or after taking.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Washington set many excellent ex-
ahples, all worthy Of imitation, but he
never set a better one than declining to
become a candidate for a third term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Could Not Acknowledgements think
I'll write letter stating that cannot
accept a nomination.
Friend-Well, I don't know. Sometimes
that kind of thing helps a, mans chances
and sometimes it sn't-Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Senator Carter calls it Republican
maybe chatter" Evidently he is de-
sirous OF emulating Senator Morgan as
a coiner Of phrases.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

SILVER--6SIk.
LEAD-Brokers price. a12Aa; exchange,
3.221sa3.25.
COPPER Brokers' 1O7s; exchange. 10
1L10
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

An exchange says that divorce is a
pastime IN Oklahoma. Pastime It may
be. but it is the leading industry of the
territory.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

II the road from Price to Fort Du-
chesne is as bad as it is pictured in
the Washington Star, then it is far
worse than any road in Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The bill before the legislature to reg
ulate the passing of vehicles upon the
public highways seems to be a step in
the right direction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Professor Garner claims to have dis
covered a gorilla man in Africa. 1t
may be. but it is as well to salt the
story before swallowing it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

II a Republican is elected United
States senator from Kentucky, Secre-
tary Carlisle viii be an accessory be-
fore the fact.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Current claims as to delegates Indicate
that the presidential contest Is going to
be fought somewhat on the lines of the
Cuban war.-Detroit Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The first anniversary of the Cuban
revolution has come and gone. and
Spain finds herself as far from finish
ing the job as ever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
HUMoR OF THE DAY.

Don't you think DR.. Flowery makes
charming Lenten addresses?"
Eyes; and they're so appropriate, too.
There's so little meat in them. Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The Republican congress is doing
nothing, not even making political cap
ital
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

In telling who will be Harrison's
Iegatee it is just as well not to over
look Mrs. Dimmick.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

No golden hair hangs down the back
Of the Morton boom.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Mckinley clubs are being formed all
over the country. And yet sometimes a
man is beaten to death with his own
club.-Florida TineS-Union.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The Carlisle banquet will be in reality
a testimonial to the financial genius of
Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan And Mr.. AIor-
gan deserves it.-New York World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Each state has its favorite son, but
old Sol continues to be the nations
favoTite sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Quay answers his correspondents in
Latin This is plainly a bid for the
college vote.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The emergency revenue tariff bill
shows alarming symptoms of heart
failure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Chicago likes Theodore Roosevelt. But
this town will tolerate no Rooseveltism.
Chicago Dispatch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
Fuddv-so Gadby is dead?

Fuddy-So Gadby IS dead!
Duddy-Yes, poor fellow, he has gone to
his reward.
Fuddy-Strange how a fellows ill-luck
will follow him sometimes.-Boston
Transcript.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The hour and the man have not ar
rived in the kentucky legislature yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

The Salvation Army has lost its
head, but the body goes right along.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Higgles-old Bilson called in four doc
tors in consultation over him the day he
died.
Miggles-Ged! There's no danger Of his
being buried aliveI-Brooklyn Life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28
DAINTILY
DRESSED

Women will welcome the wide variety
of choice fabrics we are now Offering.
The looms of the world have con-
tributed their best in order to make
our stock what it is. But it's quality
and completeness are not ALL Prices
viii cause more wonder than either.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

IQdC KIM IulIl5 LclpS d 4tlfl1A . Oie]A4NSso
and sometimes it doesn' t-Puck.
An Anxious Customer.-John Potts
Are you the medium who advertiseS to
unite the separated?
Medium (proudly)-I never fail.
John POtts-I wish you would connect
me with the 500 L got separated from
last night.-Life.
A Saving Disposition-Wat ts-Do you
think any one can be as stingy as old
Fox is and be a Christian?
Potts-Oh, possibly. should not be
surprised to hear of the old man saving
his soul merely from motives of econ
omy.-Indianapolis Journal.
Survival of the Professionalism my
way to school this morning I met the
new boy who has moved in next door.
Mrs. Bingo-Yes, and here's note from
the teacher saying you were late
Bobbie-Thats nothing. The new boy
didn't get there at all.-Truth.
A Veto-"Charlie. said Mrs. New
BRIDE ''mamna and the girls are COM
ing to spend a month with u.s.
mot if I know 1t. When we were en-
gagged you insisted upon my loving You
for yourself alone. l want you that
way replied the ingenious Benedict
Harper's Bazaar.
Merely SuggestIve.-'T could almost be-
heve these to be mothers biscuits" he
said. Tears of JOY sprang to her eyes as
she listened. "But no." he continued, 1T
cannot be. Mother has been dead these
twenty-five years. He was conscious
that her glare wasn't doing thing but
burn into his very soul-paSroit TTibun4s'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28


perfection
money?
would Ik to seeh shape man
very fine
long
stouts light
Short sou black Clay and Frocs 20 90
In
price.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
WeEls's Fair Highest Medal aas Diplomas
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

An Anxious Customer-John Potts
Are you the medium who advertises to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-28

A correspondent writes The Herald
as follows:
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28
Woman Protects Herself.

FEssENDEN, N. d., Oct. 26.-The
wife Of ex-State Senator Hiltz shot and
mortally wounded an unknown in.
truder, who, while her husband was
away, tried to effect an entrance
through the chamber window. Mrs.
Hiltz quietly passed from her sleeping
apartments through the parlor and up
stairs, and just as the intruder was
crawling through the window put a
bullet through his stomach. He died
in 10 minutes. Nothing upon his per-
son gave indication as to his identity
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28
GERMAN LABOR UNIONS.
Report to the Department of State NJ "a
Condition and Influence.

Report to the Department Of State NJ 20
Condition and Influence.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26-The depart
ment Of state has received frcm Consul
George Sawter, stationed at Glaschau,
report relating to the labor unions Of
Germany. The Commercial Clerks
union, founded some 10 years ago, now
aas membership of 47,OO0. 1t has at.
tanned great success and today is up
held, considered and recognized as a
power by the government and mall
state affairs. At the city agency
of the union, some 1900
positions have been filled in the past 10
years, and in the past year places were
found for 1896 unemployed. In the
legal branch, thousands of questions
touching the law were answered, and
about 800 lawsuits successfully carried.
Aid was granted in ia cases, involv.
ing the expediture of about $7,529. The
union also has an insurance fund
against age and infirmity with capital
of $107, 100. 1t has attained success in
demands for higher wages, shorter
hours Of labor and better sanitary con.
ditiOns and surroundings for clerks and
the trading classes.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28
Democrats, Populists and Sill
YER Republicans Combin-
ing on Electors.
Matters Arranged in Twenty.
nine States and One Is
Still in Doubt.
Republicans Going 1t Alone
Everywhere With Excep-
ton of Texas.

CHICAGO, Oct. 20. The Republicans
have straight electoral ticket in Al of
the 45 states, having effected a fusion
i'll Texas with the middle-of.t .the.road
Populists and gold standard Democrats.
The Democrats have straight elec-
toral ticket in only Is of the states,
having effected fusion with the Pop
ulists and silver Republicans in 80 Of
the others, a conclusion not having yet
been reached in the remaining one. In
some cases the Populists and silver Re-
publicans endorsed the Democratic
electoral ticket, but in others conces-
sions of electors were made to them for
their support of Bryan and Sewall. In
two states, Oregon and South Dakota,
the Democrats endorsed the Pcpulist
electoral ticket. OF the 447 electors to
be chosen the Democratic ticket con-
tains 1868 Democrats, "A Populists and
silver Republicans.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28
Conscience Too Much for Them.

WAHPEToN, N. d., Oct. pa few
nights ago package containing 81, SOC
was taken from the safe in the express
transfer room of the Great Northern
company. The robbery was veiled in
mystery and promised to remain SO.
Saturday, however, the priests of st.
Johns church in this city notified the
express company that the stolen money
had been left with them to return to
the company. The priests state that
the thief became known to them by the
medium of the confessional.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28

FRANKFORT, KY, Oct. 26.-The toll
gate raiders have not left tollgate on
a single pike in Franklin county undis-
turbed. Saturday night mob of about
100 men came down the Lawrenceburg
pike, destroying all the tollgates as
they entered Frankfort They then
went out the Louisville pike from
Frankfort, laying to the ground the
gates as they rode along in the moon
light and defying interference by the
tollgate keepers.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28
Swiss National Election.

bERNE, Oct. 26.-The elections for
members of the national council for a
term of three years were held during
.ne DAY The national council, consist
ins Oh l47 delegates of the Swiss people,
. 'ne second chamber of the federal
assembly. The strength of the two
parties Is not materially altered by the
saection' The Radical Democratic ma
!ofi.y gained five members from the
aio.estant Conservatives and the So.
clallsts gained one.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28
A Difference I'm Bail.

LONDON, Oct 26 The strange case
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Castle of
San Francisco, still causes much com.
ment and the action Of Magistrate New.
ton, in fixing their bail at $150,0OO is
accepted as the courts belief in their
guilt. Whether this is so or not, it is q
remarkable fact that an English woman
of high position. charged with similar
offense, was Immediately bailed in only
n O0O
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1896-10-28
Io;sion of Importance Re-
oarding Vacancies in State
Legislatures.
. xLansas Supreme Court Holds
the Governor Has Power
to Appoint.
e.;d IN Be the First Case OF
the Kind Decided i'm the
Country.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. 26.-The su'
rome court, in an opinion by Justice
p;ddick holds that the governor has
he right to appoint members OF the
legislature where vacancies have been
Iansed by death, resignation or other
auses. :
1 At the September election w. j.
Matthews was elected representative
or Francis county to the general as
kembly. He has since died and Gov.
brnor Clarke issued writ OF election to
!&he sheriff of that county commanding
him to issue a proclamation for an
Election to fill the vacancy. The sheriff
Refused to Hold the Election
Ind thereupon a writ of mandamus
WAS prayed to compel him to do So
|The circuit court held that this section
had been superseded by subsequent
amendment which empowered the gov.
ernor to fill such vacancies by appoint.
ment and refused the writ. The case
WAS taken to the supreme court and in
khe opinion handed down, it is held
That a representative is an officer
and the position he holds is an Office
hnd that where vacancies occur in such
bAices the governor has the power to
Dill by appointment until the next gen
Seral election.
| This is said to be the first case of this
character decided in any state in the
|cOuntry.