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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-22
Tor McKin1ey.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, April 1.-THE
Eighth district Republican congressional
convention met at o'clock today and re-
nominated Congressman Joel D. Hubbard
Delegates to the st. Louis convention
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SENATOR aIoRGAN,s POSITION.
He Charges Huntington with Di
yerting Funds.

WASHINGTON April 21.-In the re-
port on the Pacific railway funding
bill submitted to the senate today.
Senator Morgan takes a position decid-
eddy antagonistic to the bill reported
to the two houses and characterizes
the joint meetings of the sub-com-
mittees of the two houses for the for
mutation OF the bill as a breach of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-22

Grande Western sent two letters to the
chamber calling attention to the fact
tnat Tor the coming meeting of the as
ISOLATION of fire chiefs of the United
States its line had made a rate of one
fare for the round trip from Missouri
river points, and also that on June II
and p there would be an excursion to
this city and Ogden with a rate of $40
for the round trip from all Colorado
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c. B. THOMPSON, Adjutant.

Why ask for foreign brands. when
you have better made at home. Ask
for Hewlett Bros Three Crown Balx-
ing Powder, Spices, and extracts
and refuse all others.
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Yer certificates. 67MQ6SA.
THE TREASURY

Washington, April 21-Today's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows an available cash balance of $40, :
507, a2l; gold reserve, S126, 6,S5S.
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Admissions to the Bar.

Attorneys David Mclaughlin, F. E.
Barker. John N. Perkins and John M
Zane were admitted to practice at the
bar of the circuit and district courts.
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for common to choice locks and spring
lambs were wanted at 5.oOG6.75 per 100
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Cash quotations were as follows:

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour-Nominal.
spring. 6S51; No. 2 red, 661SQS7l4.
Corn-No. ?. 2912.
oats-No. 2 ls3k; No. white, 1sl5G1s%;
Mo- white, 2o@20A.
Rye-No. 2 37GS71z.
Barley-Nominal.
Flax Seed-No. l. 49,
Timothy-Prilne seed, 3.35.
Mess Pork-Per barrel, S.50dS.55
Lard-Per 100 pounds, 4.S5@4. S71s.
Short Ribs-Sides Qoose), .2504. 30
SShoulders--DIy salted Cooxed}, 1000
1.671z.
Short Clear Sides-(Boxed), 4.50d4. 6715.
Whisky-Distillers' finished goods per
gallon, l22.
Sugar-Unchanged.
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laid before them as to the favorable
conditions prevailing here
l would suggest that the chamber
communicate with those gentlemen at
once, or send representative to in
ouce them to investigate our advant-
ages for beet sugar production
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LIVERPOOL WHEAT.

Liverpool, April 21.-Wheat-Spot, quiet;
demand poor; No. red winter, IS I'd; No.
l hard Manitoba, IS Cd; No. l California,
5s ID
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on the produce exchange today the but
ter market was weak, creamery, 10G14:
dairy, 9@lS. Eggs, weak, SOLO.
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Highest in Ieayening power. never
fails to do it's work. Hewlett Bros
Three Crown Baking Powder.
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IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Trouble in Trans-Missouri Conn
mittee Over Party Rates.
EFFORT TO ABOLISH THEM
UNION PACIFIC WILL NOT CoysENr
UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

western Roads Want the Rates to
Induce Immigrant TraveI-Rats
War Possible But Not Antfciuataa
b. 81 o. Reorganization Commit
tee Strikes "a Snag-Sutro Going
10 Washington to Work Against
the Funding Bill.
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BANKER MCCORMICK LOSES
JURY INSTRUCTED TO FIND WEIR
DICT FOR DEFENDANT.
The Complaint Did Not State Facts
Sufficient for Cause of Action
Damage Suit of Bradish Against
the Southern Pacific Company on
Trial.

In the United States district court
yesterday morning the case of w. s.
Mccormick against the Western Union
Telegraph company was resumed. The
plaintiff sued to recover salts damages
alleged to have been sustained by an
error in the transmission of a dispatch
which was sent by D. E. Soule from
New York to g. S. Frink, Salt Lake,
authorizing Frink to draw on him for
50, 500. The dispatch as delivered read
! $500 and on the strength of it Mr..
Mccormick cashed the draft for the
larger amount less interest Soule
wouldn't pay and Frink couldn't SO
Mccormick sued the Western Union,
by whose alleged error his loss had
arisen On Monday afternoon the de-
fendant's counsel argued motion that
his honor instruct the jury to return
verdict for the defendant for the rea-
son that the complaint did not consti-
tute a cause of action.
Yesterday morning Judge Marshall
allowed the motion for the reason that
as the dispatch was not sent to the
plaintiff and that SO far aus the tele-
graph company was concerned he had
no interest in it and therefore had no
cause of action. His honor instructed
the jury accordingly and verdict for
the defendant was returned.
-
Brndish Against the Southern Pacific
The damage suit Of Charles E. Brad
ish against the Southern Pacific Rail-
way company, in which the plaintiff
seeks to recover $40, 100 was next taken
up.
Mr.. Rradish lives at st. Joseph, Mo-,
and there bought a round trip ticket to
San Francisco and back, and when on
the return journey the ticket was taken
up at Ogden wrongfully, the plaintiff
alleges. He was compelled to remain
in Ogden some ten days and put to
considerable expense and trouble for
which he demanded the sum named
Messrs. Maloney & Perkins and John
M. Zane appeared for the plaintiff and
Messrs. Marshall & Royle for the de-
PENDANT company.
The case was proceeding when the
hour of adjournment arrived and will
be resumed this morning.
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NEW YORK MINING STOCKS
SAN FRANCISCO MINING.

San Francisco. April 81 The official closing
euotation5 for mining stocks Jodav were as
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A BRANCH MINT.

The following letter was read:
NJ. F. H. Auerbach, Salt Lake City,
Utah:
Dear Sir-I am in receipt of a letter
from Senator Cannon stating that it is
not probable that a branch mint can
be obtained for Salt Lake City 1t
will not take much to secure an assay
office. This, in my judgment, is prefer
able to mint like that of Carson City,
where it is shut down three-fourths of
the time 1 would therefore suggest
that you call a meeting of the chamber
of commerce to consider the question
A united effort on the part of the peo-
pie of Salt Lake City will secure 1T.
With a United States assay office in
this city, all the gold that is produced
in Utah and about one-half of that pro-
duced in Idaho would be delivered to
the government at this point Yours
very respectfully,
JOHN E. DOOLY.
This letter was referred to the exc
cutive committee of the board for ac-
ton and meeting will be announced
at an early date.
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SAN FRANCISCO WHEAT.
San Francisco, April 21.-Wheat, very
dull; December, 11S; May, Jos.
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For Free Coinnce.

were instructed for Mckinley. Protection
and sound money were endorsed.
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PIANO FACTORY.

The Boston Piano Manufacturing
company of Wooster, Ohio, sent in
communication announcing that if the
people here will take a three-fourths
interest in the concern. amounting in
all to about $30.O0O it will remove its
works to this point The secretary was
instructed to write and say that The
chamber would give the concern all
the moral support it could muster but
beyond that could make no definite
proposal at this time.
COMING EXCURSIONS.
The passenger department of the Pin
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The passenger department of the Rio
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MHEAT-No. q:
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The following letter was read:
NJ. F. H. Auerbach, Salt Lake Cit
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botham. who has taken the degree of
bachelor of music, and can discourse
as learnedly on the musical art as on
G. Stuart t-Wortley, who, although he is
wont to speak with great modesty of his
musical achievements, has written two
excellent songs, why Does Azure Deck
the Sky 2" and The Gypsy's Dirge." Ar
thur Balfour too, is cultured musician,
who delights not only in listening to the
best performers, but in playing the piano
forte for his own pleasure. 1t does not ap-
pear that Mr.. Gladstone, with all his mar
velous versatility, ever came forward as an
instrumentalist. But in the bygone days
the eminent statesman delighted in sing
ing, and it is on record that his favorite
song is my Pretty Jane" ballad that
is not so familiar to-day as it was a gener-
alton or two ago. Sir Richard Webster is
well known as member of a church
choir, and he has appeared on the plat
form at concerts with great success. Sir
Richard inclines toward sacred and serious
music; Sir Edward Clarke, if report be
true, leans toward the humorous, and can
render coster ditty with marvellous ef-
feet.
The labor members are specially strong
in musical talent. John Burns, when
rosy-cheeked youngster, sang in sur
pliced choir; and Keir Hardie is not only
a performer on the mandolin. but can put
pathos and force into Scotch ballad. His
favorite song is "Mary of Argyll" and his
rendering of it has frequently evoked the
plaudits of his admirers. And specially
prominent, of course. is William Abra-
ham. familiar to the Welsh people and to
the Commons as a''Mabon." Mabon can,
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the possession of the families who owned
them at the time the OIL excitement began
is that of the farm of James MacCray, a
little distance back from Oil Creek, who
made his living and that of his family
from it, adding a little to his income from
the farm by getting out occasional RATS of
lumber and floating them down the creek
to the Allegheny River. Mr.. MacCray
lived in log house, and the other build
ings on his place we re far from the finest.
He and his family probably saw very little
ready money, but within five years from
the time his farm was leased to oil-pro-
ducers he was worth at least $500, 600 and
was living in very fine mansion in
Franklin. He and his wife have both
been dead number of years and left con-
siderable wealth to their sons, one of
whom, believe. still owns the old place.
"MacCray's farm was one of the first
leased, and soon after the McElhaney
farm near it was leased by man named
Funk, who made an immense fortune out
of it. Funk probably had $4,000 when he
began, and ne was soon worth at least
81 600, 900. He died few years after he
had amassed this immense fortune, leav-
ing it to his family. The owners of the
farm also became very rich, as in those
days the royalty paid to the owner of the
land was often half in addition to a
bonus of $1,000 an acre.
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"One of the most celebrated farms in
the Oil Creek region was that of George
Washington McClintock. Like others
living in that region, Mr.. McClintock had
a good farm with a few poor buildings on
it, and was glad to make little extra
money floating RATS of logs to the river.
His farm was leased by Brewer and Wat
son. He only got a fourth royalty, l
believe, but in few years he was worth
at least half million. He moved to
Meadville, where, / think. some of his
family are still living.
''At least 1000 persons made larger or
smaller fortunes out of the oil produced
from this farm. The Central Petroleum
Company was formed of persons inter-
ested in it, and is still in existence, though
it does not now control this property.
Although in few years following brakes
discovery, ard preceding the day of oil ex-
changes, the price of Oil tuctuated from
so cents to $14 "a barrel, still nearly every
body who started in a small way made
money, and the full history of this farm
would furnish some very noticeable in
stances of it, One somewhat amusing one
is of an acre in which Mr.. McClintock
traded his interest, probably on the chance
of the wells on it being busters, for an old
horse. The owner of the horse was man
named KilIen, and the animal was not
worth more than $50, but few months
after the transaction a we'll came IN on
Killen's acre which enabled him to sell out
for $4,000. / never heard what killen did
with his money, but the next day the man
who purchased sold for 0,000, and four or
five days later the second purchaser got
SIS, 600 for his holding.
Another instance, somewhat of this
character, though the scene OF 1t was an
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ereign of the Seas, one of Donald McKay's
flyers, on trip from Honolulu TO New
York, covered 6245 miles in % days; one
day she ran 436 miles, and for four days
her average was 1893 miles. The Andrew
Jackson of Boston made San Francisco
from New York in 80 days. The skipper
of the Flying Scud of Damariscotta Me-,
declared that on an 80-day voyage from
Sandy Hook to Melbourne he covered 46O
miles in tweniy-four hours but his friends
said he was merely spinning yarn for
landsmen.
The Young America, one of William II.
Webo's creations, made five trips from
San Francisco to New ork in from eighty
three to ninety-two days. She covered
the course between Liverpool and New
York il eighteen days. The Lightning.
Mckay packet of 2084 tons and 228 feet
long, ran from England to Calcutta carry.
ing British troops. in eighty-seven days.
beating other sailing vessels by from six
teen to forty days. She sailed from Mel
bourne to Liverpool in sixty-three days.
The James Baines made Melbourne from
Liverpool in sixty days. The Red Jacket
ran from New York to Liverpool in thir-
teen days and eleven hours, and from New
York to Fastnet in ten days The Dread
naught sailed from Sandy Hook to Queens
town in nine days and several hours; she
reached Liverpool in thirteen DAYS and
eight hours. The Glory of the Seas, with
5000 tons of freight, made San Francisco
from New York in ninety -four days, aver
aging 161 miles day for three weeks
New York Sun.
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by singing ''The Men of Harlecb" or Land
OF MY Fathers" rouse Welsh audience to
the widest pitch of enthusiasm. The hon.
oraole member has, it is true, never raised
ms voice In song within the House itself,
but he IS able to boast that he has sung at
the request of Speaker
;, Ii arose In this way. In the short Par
lament OF 1880, Mr.. Peel invited all the
laoor mem bers then in the House to q
special dinner. After the repast an ad.
lournment was maie to the library, and
here, at Mr.. PeePs request, Mabon favored
the company with vocal selection. No
one was more delighted than the then
Speaker, who beat time on his knees as
the singer proceeded. There is an excel
lent story told of Mabon's exchange of
compliments with Nine. Patti At con-
cert in Wales, Mabon and the great prima
donna We're among the performers. The
concert over, Nine. Patti stepped up to the
M. z. and observed, with pleasant smile.
lyon sing really well, Mr.. Abraham
'Yes, madam" responded Mabon, gal
lantly, "and so do YOU"
The Irish party can boast of a
number of vocalists. The veteran T. d.
Sullivan has written the words of many an
Irish dltty, and has sung them with great
effect at numerous political and festive
gatherings. Tim Healy, too, is much
given to rendering Irish ballads, "Mary
Donnelly" being his favorite song. Mr..
while his brother Tom, who sits for North
Wexford, is an accomplished pianist. DR..
Tanner can sing good song, and so can
Tom Condor and DR.. Fox.
The Scotch members do not appear to be
so musical as their brethren from Wales
and Ireland. 1t is true that Parliamentary
carlcaturists not infrequently depict one
or the other OF the representatives of Scot
land playing solo on the bagpipes, but it
is doubtful whether in realty any Scotch
member OF Parliament is in the habit Of
performing on an instrument that is re-
garded by the unappreciative Southron as
tearsome and unholy invention.
There is one member who probably owes
his seat in the Commons to the sweet sing.
ing of his wife; and, indeed, music at po-
lltlcal meetings is becoming quite in vogue.
Captain Grice-Hutchinson, Mr. Newdigate
and K. J. Price, who are now NJ. P.s, sang
to the electors at the general election, and
who knows how many votes which other
wise would have gone to their opponents.
were captured by their musical effortsP
Mr.. Price, be it said used to render
"Cacthing the Speakers Eye" with great
gusto. He has since had plenty of oppor-
tunities of catching the august optic of
that august parsonage. If the practice of
having musical election meetings con-
tinues to grow there ought to be a great
field among Parliamentary candidates for
teachers of instrumental music and voice
production.-Mus Strand Magazine.
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HAYSEED MILLIONAIREs.


Pennsylvania Farmers Made Rich by
Oil,
"An interesting book could be written"
said an old-time oil man to Pittsburg
Dispatch reporter, "about the farmers who
grew fabulously rich in few years from
the product of their farms lying on Oil
Creek, if anybody would take the trouble
to collect the information about what be-
came of them. 1t is a curious fact that in
the sixties most of the money in the oil
business was made by men who began
with nothing, aud the farmers came in for
q very large share OF it. l myself could
tell many stories of men. owning nothing
but the land, out of which thev made a
very poor living, who in very few years
after Colonel Drake drilled the first oil
well in the United States were worth hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. Most of
them afterward died poor, and their farms
are now owned by persons not OF their
kith and kin.
THE only exception recall to the rule
of the farms having passed entirely out of
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
SPEEDY YANKEE CLIPPERS.
Fast Sailing by American Ships Recalled
by the Shenandoah's Performances.

Fast Sailing by American Ships Recalled
by the SHENANDOAH Performances.
The recent swift voyage OF the four
masted clipper Shenandoah from San
Francisco 10 this port has inspired several
readers of the Sun to ask questions about
the crack performances of other clippers
of the days when steel and steam were not
the chief factors in shipbuilding. James
S. Dodson of Bethlehem, Pa, writes that
the clipper Northern Light, in 1852, made
the passage from San Francisco to Boston
in seventy-ive days, that the Comet COW
cred the distance between the Golden Gate
and Sandy Hook in seventy-six days, and
that the Flying Dutchman made the round
trip between San Francisco and New York
In 207 days, including the time she spent
discharglng and taking on cargo at San
Francisco.
There may be added to Mr.. Dodson's
statistics the following: The Northern
Lights best trip was seventy-two days
from San Francisco to New York. The Fly-
ing Dutchman covered 1920 nautical miles
in sixteen consecutive days, or at the rate
OF somewhat more than 2S8 knots day.
The Mary Whlterldge, a fine Baltimore
clipper. raa from Baltimore to Liverpool
III thirteen days and seven hours.
The Flying Cloud, one of Donald Nc
Kay's splendid ships, OF run of eighty
nine days and eighteen hours from San
Francisco, made in twenty-four hours
42719 miles. The Comet, which was
New York boat built by William H. Webb,
on return voyage from Hongkong to
San Francisco. covered 1912 knots in 12O
consecutive hours, which is more than
1215 knots an hour, or about the speed of
the ordinary coasting steamship. The
Comet ran from Liverpool to Hongkong in
"a days. The Nightingale of Portsmouth,
n. H., in 1854, made Melbourne from New
York in rs days. The Trade Wind ran
from Sandy Hook to San Francisco in IS
days and came back in "a days. The Sow
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other farm, which came under my obser-
vation. was furnished by young minis
ter. He borrowed $4,000 to purchase one
sixteenth interest In the royalty on well
which was being drilled and which
amounted TO one thirty-second OF the pro-
duct of the well itself. 1t came in 400
barrel well, and sixty days later the
clergyman sold out for sis, 900 and took
trip. to Europe. l think the trip was for
his health, and if not the object must have
been equally praiseworthy, for he came
back and continued to preach the Gospel
till the day OF his DEATH and while he was
preaching he spent the money he had
made out of oil in doing good.n
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26

about the gold fields of the colony or the
diamond mines Of Kim berly. Many of the
boys of the sea can spin yarns of mighty
London and busy Liverpool and rich
Amsterdam and giddy Paris. The old
salt who has been around the world can
tell more about the commercial products
of the different lands than the school
books, and the old salt is always
in evidence down along the water front.
The brisk salt sea air is both refreshing
and bracing. What tall straight masts
those are! The men far up in the rigging
show plenty of nervel Imagine them up
there in a fierce gale at sea. They are
now working lelsurely and like men on
the solid ground. There is no excitement
to boast of in their labors on the calm,
peaceful water front.
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nuts grow and how the monkeys play
ball with them, or how one may live with
out expense by the banks of a stream un-
der the spreading branches of the bread
fruit tree. Some OF the tars may have
voyaged with lumber to South Africa and
made excursions into the country that has
given Great Britain SO much money and
trouble, and they might tell US something
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26

a stroll along the water front may yield
one many lessons, if he chooses to learn.
That seaman, whose face is blackened
with coaldust and who has just emerged
from the body of a whaleback, might tell
one great many things about places
from which we get most of our coal. A
sailor from the South Sea Islands might
describe to US interestingly how the cocoa
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SINGERS IN PARLIAMENT.
More Musical Talent Among Members
Than Might Be Supposed

The Commons is noted rather for its dis
cords than for harmonies. But although
the Parliament orchestra as whole would
be eminently unsuitable for an orchestral
concert, yet number of individual musi-
clans might be selected from among them
who, as solo performers, could be relied
upon to provide an excellent entertain
ment. Foremost among musicians in the
Commons must be mentioned J. W. Side
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26

Of the 1900 900 inhabitants of Spain
nearly half are ignorant of the art of read.
ing and writing.
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water front is little world
all by itself. A ride of only few
minutes on the streetcars takes
N one from the midst of the City's
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-28

MANSFIELD STATE MORTAL SCHOOL.
Intellectual and practical framing tor
teachers. Three courses Of study besides
preparatory. Special atten son given 10
preparation for college. Students adj
m!tted to best colleges on certificate.
Thirty graduates pursuing further studies
last year. Great advantages for special
studies N ar; and M sc. Model school OF
three hundred pupils Corps OF s.Xtee.
teachers Eeautiful grounds. Magnificent
buildings. Large grounds for athletics
Elevator and innrmary with attcndan;
nurse. Fine gymnasium. Everything
furnished at an average cost to normal
s,liSei Is of $1i3 year. Fa,' Term, Aug
g. Wintar term, Dec. 2. Spring term.
March 1G Students admitted to classes a.
any time. For catalogue. containing fml.
Information. apnlv TO
>. II. hLERO, Principal,
Mansfield Pa.