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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-10

ward sought a new location and final
ly came to Utah, where he managed
the Webster and the Bully Boy in
southern Utah for George Hearst.
When the Ontario was discovered he
opened it up, and by his efforts it has
become a great property Mr. Cham
bers has other mining, also cattle and
fruit growing interests, beside being
president of The Herald Publishing
company.
He was elected in 1895 to serve as
senator from the Fifth district and
was reelected to the senate last fall
He is man who is well known
throughout the country and is univer-
sally respected for his business ability
and integrity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-10

retarv of the Bricklayers' union, vice
president of the Utah Federation of
Labor and state organizer for the
American Federation of Labor. Sena-
tor Harbour's education was gained in
the common schools of Iowa, where he
was graduated from the Beacon high
school at the age of II.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-10
Senator B. A. Harbour.

Senator B. A. Harbour, the member
elected on the fusion Popu
list ticket. has the distinction of be-
ing the only Populist who ever served
in the upper chamber of Utah legis-
lature He was born 80 years ago, at
Oskaloosa, Ia. At the age of %, Mr.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-10

congresses, and it was during his last
term that he secured the passage by
the house of the home rule bill.
Mr.. Game was one of the first advo-
Gates of division on national party lines
and the Democratic state convention
held at Ogden in 1895, recognized his
ability and his services to his party by
nominating him for governor, his sue
cessfui opponent being Governor II. M.
Wells He was elected state senator
on the Democratic ticket by a majority
of 3,S4O votes over the highest opposing
candidate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-10

Harbour began the trade of bricklayer,
and has followed this continuously
since in various cities of the west.
In labor organizations he has always
been conspicuous, being at present Sec
The leader., 1897-12-22

He who knows the weakness of his own
wings is sure of successful flight.-N. Y.
Independent.
The leader., 1897-12-22
sixteenth Section Case.

A case of considerable interest has
recently been decided at Columbus. 1t
involved the old dispute as to the six
teenth section and will doubtless settle
a point that those who reside upon
these sections have been long anxious
to have authoritatively determined,
The test case arose in this manner: S.
Il. Street and other citizens and tax
payers of the city and county filed a
bill in chancery asking that the city
and county be restrained from the col
lection of all taxes on property in the
sixteenth section on the ground that it
was leasehold property and was, there
foLe not subject to taxation. The bill
was demurred to by the city and coun
ty, and after hearing the arguments OF
counsel on both sides of the question
Chancellor Byrd sustained the demurrer
and dismissed both bills.
The leader., 1897-12-22

age makes some people wise and others
only stubborn.-Chicago News.
The leader., 1897-12-22
800 Reward xIOO.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
all it's stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrb
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
Of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. Tn.
proprietors have so much faith in its cura.
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure
Send for list of testimonials
Address +. j. Cheney & CO., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The leader., 1897-12-22
EIlSEELLANEOUy.

THE assistant secretary of the in
terror has ruled that a soldiers widow
has right to prosecute to a final adj
Indication claim for a pension
filed by her deceased husband if the
claim is rejected and the husband dies
before appealing from the commits
sioner of PENSIONS action.
THE comptroller of the currency has
issued a call on national banks for
statement of their condition at the
close of business Wednesday, Decem-
Der Is.
Two children of Albert Kellner, of
Muchakinock, Ia, persisted in a fire
which consumed the family's dwelling.
in the house.
Two children named Maggie and
Henry Carroll, aged respectively four
and six years, were burned to death at
their home at Newark, N. J. Their
mother had locked them in the house
while she went out washing.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the nth,
according to Bradstreet's report, ag
gregated 2S3, against $50 for the CORE
spending week year ago.
THE A. L. of L. at its meeting on the
10th at Nashville, Tenn, decided to
admit negro unions.
THE house of Patrick Leahy at Otta-
wa, Ont, was burned early the other
morning and Leahy and five of his
children, the Oldest only nine years of
age, persisted. 1t was supposed that
Leahy dropped lighted lamp.
A TRAIN on the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad ran into an extra train
near Clinton, Ind. the other morning
and three employees were killed and
half a dozen others injured. Both en-
gines were badly wrecked, the bag
gage car was thrown down an EN- bank
ment and the mail car smashed.
The state department at Washington
on and after January / will practical
ly publish daily the reports from con-
suls upon commerce and industries in
foreign countries for the benefit of the
mercantile interests of the United
States.
A NEGRO named Jake Asher, who
was said tie have insulted some Young
ladies in Vicksburg, Miss, was sum
marily dealt with by party of out
ragged citizens. who thrashed him ter
ribly with a cowhide. He was then
given Is minutes to get out of town.
A RECENT dispatch from Bayou, La,
stated that the steamboat Pargoud
sank in the Mississippi river just above
the mouth of Red river. The boat and
cargo were in bad shape and the loss
was heavy.
ALBEIT KLAvITTER, aged 90, skated
into an air hole in the Mississippi at
Dubuque, Ia, and was drowned. His
body was not recovered.
THE 81 mines of the Consolidated
and Madison Coal companies, in the
Belleville. Ill. district have resumed
operations and 5000 miners have re-
turned to work. The mining compa-
MES acceded to the demands of their
men.
A CONTRACT was being signed by
many Indians around Chelsea, /. T.,
authorizing Attorney r. C. Adams to
get permission of the government and
sell the Cherokee land in the territory
at not less than $3.50 per acre and pur-
chase land in Mexico at not over 90
cents an acre. the purpose being for
the Indians to emigrate by January /,
ls0a
The leader., 1897-12-22
ABOUT EUROPEAN WOMEN,

The German women are essentially
domestic, possess none of the attractive
daring of the French woman or the
sparkling grace of mind which belongs
to the American.
The most accomplished and brilliant
woman of Europe is the Russian, who
has vivacious temperament, marvel
Gus facility for languages and power
of adaptability.
In France there are exceptional girls
from aristocratic families who have
made it a point to graduate from the
public schools, but what the average
French woman lacks in accomplish
ments she makes up in chic and grace.
Italians and Spaniards are distin-
guished above all other women of Eu-
rope by their ignorance, due to their in
dolenee. They do not even possess the
art of elegant dressing and beauty is
their sole redeeming point.
The leader., 1897-12-22
PENSION RULING.
A Soldiers Widow Has a Right to Appeal
CIaimA Filed by Him.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Webster
Davis handed down several decisions
in pension cases yesterday of great i'm
portance. One in particular decides
an important question, overruling a
number of decisions rendered in former
years. The assistant secretary ruled
that there shall be no limit to the
time in which a widow may file an ap-
peal in completing her deceased hus-
bands claim. The case is that of the
widow of William II. Hughes, late of
company d. Sixteenth Ohio infantry.
The soldier filed an application for
pension under the act of June 81, 1890.
His claim was rejected July 81, 1894
The claimant died before appealin g
from the action of the commissioner of
pensions. After his death his widow
filed an appeal from the action reject
ing her husbands claim. The widow
claim was rejected on the ground that
she had no right to file. Mr.. Davis
ruled that she had right to prosecute
the case to final adjudication and to
appeal from the adverse action of the
commissioner of pensions.
The leader., 1897-12-22
Interstate Commerce Commission

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The 18th
annual report of the international
commerce commission is voluminous
document, in which the commission
comments upon import and export
rates, the powers of the commission
as to rates, etc, the maximum rate
case, the power to correct discrimina-
tions, the failure to maintain pub
tished rates, pooling legislation, the
question of the enforcement of the
orders of the commission, the extent
of judicial review, the Decentralization
of grain rates and the apportionment
of traffic to the seaboard, ticket scalp
ing, uniform classification, etc.
The leader., 1897-12-22
ODDITIES OF FASHION.

The newst style in Russian tlouses il
TO trim them with large rundown col
lar and revers in one, forming part of
the oblong epaulette generally made in
velvet, contrasting with the goods,
bordered with fur or fine braiding.
A very dressy muff is made of black
satin with two or three frills at each
end bordered by narrow sable. Muffs
of black velvet have flounces at each
end and are ornamented with a splash
ing bow of pink satin ribbon at one
side with pink rose entwined.
A beautiful lace dress lately seen had
double rows of cbinchilla fur bordering
the top fiounee of the skirt, narrow
line of the same fur bordering the de-
colletege fastened with lace scarf and
a bunch of violets.
A fine white net veil spotted with black
chenille is popular just now and very
Sne net powdered with pin spots of
chenille is also worn. There is quite a
rage for blue wells abroad and in Eng
land they are wearing spotted blue
gauge which does not shed a CHASTITY
hue over the face.
Gumdrop-A decline In the price OF
rubber goods.
The leader., 1897-12-22
AN OHIO DR.. FRAZER.
Rollins, Whose Life Was Insured, Went
Swimming and Disappeared.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 1s.-George
Rollins left his home at Adrian, Mich,
and went to Toledo, o., last Septem-
Der to look for work. One day he
hired a boat TO go swimming. Later
the boat was found floating on the
Maumee river, empty save for his
clothing. His wife and friends gave
him up for dead, and the A. o.
U. w. and Modern Woodmen pre-
pared to pay over $4,000 of life
insurance. A few days later letter
was received by Mrs. Rollins pastor,
signed George Wilson" and dated at
Cleveland, saying the writer was a
friend of Rollins and asking whether
his family was in need. This aroused
suspicion and yesterday Sheriff Fer
guson, of Adrian, came to Cleveland
and located Wilson" in hospital by
means of decoy letter. The officer
visited 'Wilson" and found him to be
Rollins.
The leader., 1897-12-22

Wheat Market Less Feverish-Corn and
Oats Show Advances Business Failures.
New YORK, Dec. 1S.-Bradstreet's re-
port says:
A sensible quieting OF demand in wholesale
lines is reported rs the holiday season and the
annual stock taking period approaches Chief
among the favorable features of the week has
been enlarged inquiry at higher prices for steel
in various forms, accompanied by advance in
the prices of sorts most affected A corre-
spondingly heavy business has developed in
pig iron and prices show but a slight shading
in the face Of the current immense production.
The wheat market has been less feverish
and prices are practically unchanged from
week ago, while corn, oats and sugar are addi-
tions to the list of the products showing adj
vanceS The unsatisfactory outlook for cotton
goods is reflected in reductions in bleached
goods to the lowest point ever reached, while
some cotton yarns show weakness Anthracite
coal is weak although production has been cur
tailed and talk of further restrictions is heard.
With these exceptions the price situation is
one of quite exceptional steadiness
The approach of the holiday season has in
duced freer realizing on cotton by planters and
others at the south and increased activity is
noticeable in retail lines and among jobbers in
seasonable goods
usual ante holiday total aggregating 2S3,
against -92 last week. 359 in the week year
ago, 1856 in 1895, 500 in 1891 and $50 in 1893
The leader., 1897-12-22
To Restrict Immigration.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE house
committee on immigration yesterday
decided to make "a favorable report on
the educational test bill. This requires
all immigrants on reaching here to be
able to read or write the English or
some other language. Mr.. Bartholdt,
of Missouri, and Mr.. Louis Schade adj
dressed the committee in opposition to
the bill and the former presented a
Protest against it from the North
American Turner association.
The leader., 1897-12-22
Dfdnsf Lnall Ia

These are very fine suspenders I, ..;l,
peddler. to the lady at the door - I'll h me
all kinds-striped, plain, dark, ieh, Nave Nave
here is very fine pair of plain ONES. Inv nv
you ever embroider any suspender, "a
your husband, LADY," lor
No." said she.
Now don't you think you'd like 70 49,
broider pair for his Christmas presen IN y,
81 guess not"
well, has he real nice pair of susno,a
peddler. the
Really. | don't know" said she
We'll, madam, is your husband in,,
''No; he's not here vet"
do you expect him in before suppars,
"No-surely not by that time"
well, haven't you any idea when he vii,
be here?" VIC VIII
mot the least idea"
'Humph-that's queer" unused the dis.u
pointed peddler. N''"p
ooh, not so very," said the yourg lad,
IL haven't any husband. Detroit FRI.
Press. 'ee
The leader., 1897-12-22
MoOnshiners Caught.

Revenue officers made another raid on
the ''wildcatters" last week, and as a
result there are two less illicit stills in
operation in Monroe county. Wednes-
day night they located and captured an
exceptionally large still near Quincy,
operated by man by the name of Car
ter, and on Thursday night they went
up in the northeastern portion of the
county and captured another operated
by two men by the name of White and
Keys. The parties running these stills
were also arrested and taken to Aber-
deem, where they will await term of
the Federal court.
The leader., 1897-12-22
Firemen Save Two Women.

KANSAS CITY, No. Dec. 1S.-Early
yesterday morning fire broke out in the
rooms of the Progress club, Eleventh
and Washington. +. W. Frank, the
caterer, ran to call the fire department
and when he returned the flames kept
him from re-entering the building tc
save his wife and daughter. Several
fire companies arrived on the scene
and two firemen by heroic work car.
ried the two women down ON a ladder
The leader., 1897-12-22

THE Children's Aid Society of New
York states that in 1867 there were
2,o16 girls between the ages of "A and
20 held for trial in the great city,
while in 1896 there were but 61S. In
view of the increase in population of
the city the number, in case conditions
had not improved, would have been
over 1000. This improvement seems
almost incredible. Increase of facili-
ties for education and the formation of
girls clubs are credited as among the
chief means contributing to the re-
suit. In the same period there has
been an increase in the number of boys
arrested
The leader., 1897-12-22

was being adjusted about his neck.
When asked, as he stood on the
trap door, if he had anything
to say, he replied: 60 ahead;
don't delay His lips were firm
ly set as the black cap was drawn
over his head. When the trap was
sprung the body of the murderer shot
swiftly downward. The legs were
drawn up during the seven
foot descent. Death, so the physicians
stated, was instantaneous SO far as
sensation was concerned, although it
was II minutes before the heart gave
its last faint beat. His neck was
Extraordinarily broken, for not only
was the vertebre disjointed, but the
spinal cord was severed.
The leader., 1897-12-22
"HIGHER LAW DIDN'T HOLD.
Jacob Harris, Once Acquitted without
Trial, Indicted for Killing Ills Wife's
Paramount,

Jacob Harris, once Acquitted without
Trial, Indicted for Killing His Wife's
Paramour.
LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec. 1s-The Fay
cite county grand jury has indicted
Jacob s. Harris for murder in the first
degree for killing Thomas II. Merritt,
his wife's lover, last July. Harris was
tried shortly after the tragedy by
Judge Falconer, who acquitted him in
a lengthy opinion under the higher
law which permits man to defend his
home. The judge was severely criti-
cised by the press for enunciating such
an opinion from the bench. About two
months ago it was announced in the
local papers that Harris and his wife,
for whom he had taken the life of Mer-
rift, had been friends and were then
living together The crime was espe-
cially deliberate.
The leader., 1897-12-22
Failed to Bury the Devil.

PEORIA, ILL.,. Dec, 1S.-The burial of
the devil" by the Salvation army last
night failed to take place as advertised,
owing to the arrest of the leader, En-
sign George Davis, the four pallbearers
and the coffin. Earlier in the day
Mayor Warner forbade the march with
the coffin, but no attention was paid
to the order. When the procession"
appeared on the street the police
StOpped it.
The leader., 1897-12-22

THE mint of Philadelphia is almost
constantly engaged in turning out
cents made of copper with slight al
10y of zinc and tin. The state of Penn
sylvania alone absorbed II, 200, 900 last
year and New York 5000, 900. There
is much curiosity about the final fate
of these cents. Nobody is able to tell
what has become of the hundreds of
millions of cents issued by the mint
since it began operations. 1t is rather
a profitable business for the govern
ment, as it means the conversion of
copper costing ten cents pound into
a form in which it is worth So or more
a Mound
The leader., 1897-12-22
MCCOY DEFEATS CREEDON.
Fifteen Rounds of Fast and Furious right
ing Decides the MiddIeweight Champion

ship.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Norman Selby,
of Rush county, Ind, better known in
pugilistic circles as kid" Mccoy, is
undoubtedly the middleweight cham
pion of the world. He met Dan
Creedon, of New Zealand, last night
in the arena at Long Island city, and
after fighting Is lively rounds made
the foreigner throw up the sponge and
acknowledge the "Hoosier's" superb
ority. The Kids" wonderful science
and self-possession were always in
evidence and these, combined with
the advantage of height and reach,
enabled him to outpoint his more
stockily built antagonist From the
moment the men put up their hands in
the opening round McCoy's stock be-
gan to ascend and at the end of the
sixth round McCoy's hackers were of
fering to on their man.
Mccoy is wonder" was the uni
versal comment when the fight was
over, and no one, even those who bet
against him, begrudged him his we'll
won laurelS
The leader., 1897-12-22
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP.
The a. r. OF L. Wants the Telegraph
Under Government Control.
4 Protest Against Anti-scaIping Levisis-
tlon-StstS Factory Inspectors Wanted
Free Coinage Resolution Not
Acted Upon.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 1S-When
the American Federation of Labor met
yesterday the report of the special
committee on convict labor was
brought up and the recommendations
of the committee were read. The re-
port was adopted after some discus
sion. A resolution declaring that
the convention demands the govern
ment ownership of the telegraph lines
of this country and the officers of this
federation are hereby ordered to do
all in their power to assist the Inter
national Typographical union to at
tain this end was adopted. A reso-
luton protesting against anti-scalpiny
legislation by congress was adopted.
The convention adopted a resolution
looking to the appointment of factory
inspectors in each state that at pres
ent has no such officer. The fed
Grafton adopted a resolution de-
handing an amendment to the
constitution of Tie United States
depriving the supreme court of
the United States and supreme
courts of states of power to set aside
laws made by the people. A resolution
reported upon in regard to reaffirming
the position of the federation toward
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at sixteen to one was referred back
to the committee, the report stating
the resolution was unnecessary, the
matter having been covered at previ-
Gus meetings. In regard to the eight
hour day and legislation by congress,
the committee reported a substitute
covering the cases of women and chill
dren and the substitute was adopted.
1t was ordered that a representative
be appointed to stay in Washington
and watch legislation, and the fedora
TONS stand against the principle of
compulsory arbitration was reiterated.
The proposition to create a national
of labor was Endorsed.
The leader., 1897-12-22
sheep Herd Lost In a Fog.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. ISM O.
Murphy, one of the biggest sheep men
in Texas, is mourning the loss of a
herd of sheep. numbering 10000 head.
This herd was being moved out of
Schleicher county to new range,
when dense fog suddenly settled over
the divide and the Mexican herders
became bewildered and wandered
away from the herd. The entire herd
drifted away and has not yet been
found, although searching parties have
been out for several days. One of the
Mexican herders persisted in the north
er which followed the fog.
The leader., 1897-12-22
Carl Schurz REFLECTED President.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 18.-After re-elect-
ing Carl Schurz president yesterday
officers for the coming year, the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform league
adopted a set of resolutions scoring the
attempts of congressman to repeal the
civil service laws, and calling atten-
ton to the past pledges of the repub-
lican party in Endorsement of the pres
The leader., 1897-12-22

ACCORDING to Prof. Ravenstein, a
member of the British Royal Geograph-
ical society, our globe consists of u.s.
100000 square miles of fertile lands,
100000 of which may be generally
described as steppes and 1000, 900
square miles of deserts. Allowing POT
persons to the square mile for fertile
lands. ten for steppes and one for de-
serts. as the greatest population that
the earth could nourish he concludes
that our planet would be peopled to
its full capacity when the number of
human beings would reach about 8, ooO,.
c9l03o. According to his calculation,
this would take place in 2072.
The leader., 1897-12-22
AN ACTOR MURDERED.


LONDON, Dec. 49, William Terriss,
the well-known actor, was assassinated
last night, being stabbed with a knife
as he was entering the stage door of the
Adelphi theater, where he has been
playing the English version of William
Gillette's American drama, Secret
Service" Terriss' assailant is former
super" The murderer rushed at the
actor as he was stepping across the
pavement from his cab and stabbed
him just below the heart AS the actor
fell, his murderer was seized by people
who were outside the theater.
The leader., 1897-12-22

NOTWITHSTANDING the depression the
contributions last year of Congrega-
tional churches in the United States
for home expenses and benevolent pur-
poses were 50, 1000, 5S4, which was S146S
per member. The contributions of the
Presbyterian church for like purposes
were S13, 29S, Isl, almost SIS per MEM