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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
THE COLORADO MIDLAND r. r
Two Through Trains Daily.

Between Salt Lake City, ogden and Lead
vile, Cripple Creek, Colorado Springs
Denver and all points east. Only line
running THROUGH CHAIR CARS
Through seepers on both morning and
evening trains This line, IN connection
with the Rio Grande Western, reaches
Denver earlier than any other line via
colorado Springs. No change of cars or
delayed trains. Take the Colorado Mid
Land and save time and enjoy the finest
ride and grandest scenery in Colorado
For full information call on any r. c.
". KY. agent. or
w r. BAILEY, .. A. BROWN
G.. P. A. Gen. Agen:
Denver. Colo Sals Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY

LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No. 2-For Provo, Grand juno
ton and all points east.......... $50 am.
No. FFor Provo, Grand juno
ton and all points east. TAO prn
No: G-For Bingham. Lehi Provo
MI. Pleasant. Manti. Rich
field, Belknap, all intermediate
No s-For Eureka. Payson. '''' GILL;
Provo and all intermediate
points OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 500 pm.
no S-Eor ogden and WeSt.-...- $40 pm.
No. l-For Ogden and West..-..-12:3O pm.
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No From Bingham, Provo.
Grand Junction and the East. 40 pm.
Junction and East,..,......:..... s:O5 pm.
Eureka, Belknap, Richfield.
Manti and all intermediate
points SIS pm
No. 2-From ogden and the
No' "a From ogden and the ''-0 TILL
West .............-.s............... 7:so pm.
No From Eureka, Payson,
Provo and all intermediate
points .l0:OO g. m
Only line running through Pullman
Palace Sleeping Cars from Salt Lake
City to San Francisco and Portland; Salt
Lake City TO Denver via Grand Junction.
Chicago via Colorado points.
Through tourist or family sleepers with
out change. to Kansas City, Chicago and
Free reclining chair cars. Salt Lake City
to Denver.
Ticket Office No. 1Os West Second South
Street S Pqstgftiee coEne Z PAPcocx
vice Pres. ( Gen. Mgr Traffic Mgr.
r A. WADLEIGH. Gen Pass. Agent
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room. AS she entered my room, [ i'm
mediately followed and closed the door
after me, with the object of discovering
who the person was; but I could find
no one in the room. | kept the circum-
stance secret, speaking of it to nobody.
One night, about three years later, [
heard screams from all of my daugh-
ters, and from their maid also. It was
about 10 p. m. The next morning
one of my daughters rushed to tell me
of the fright they had had. I pooh
poohed the idea, and it was not until
long afterward that the full particulars
were communicated to me. The same
female apparition had been seen by my
daughters, and they beheld it more
than once. [ myself saw it seven or
eight times, and on one occasion it
lifted UP the mosquito curtains and
looked into my face. This time I was
startled and used not very polite lam
Suage, when it dropped the curtain
and glided slowly away. It never ap-
peared to walk but to glide. SO i'm
pressed has the face become in my rec
objection that | believe that [ could dis
tinguish it among thousands-pale,
rather handsome, and about 35''
Through the bishop of Ripon 1 OBJ
tanned the following narrative from a
Mrs. Pittar, a near relation of the bish-
ops She says: In 1867 / was travel
ing in Switzerland with my husband,
and we stopped at the Chateau de
PranginS, near Nyon, which is now a
school for boys. Our bedroom was a
large, oblong apartment overlooking
Lake Leman with an old-fashion block
writing table in the middle of it, [
went to bed and slept soundly. But in
/ the middle of the night [ suddenly
aWoke in terror and saw was not
dreaming-a tail, thin old man. in a
long, Powered dressi gown, who was
seated and writins, It he table in the
middle Of the room The room was
flooded with brilliant moonI ~ht Ny
cries awoke my husband, who naturally
thought l had a nightmare. Next morn
ing my husband mentioned my strange
nocturnal fright. The account. to our
great surprise, was received as a mat
ter of course, the landlords daughter
merely remarking, .Ah, you have seen
Voitaire. 1t appeared on inquiry that
Voltaire, in extreme old age, used often
to visit this chateau, then the property
of Lucien Bonaparte, and the room in
which we slept was known to have been
his sitting room. OF this, however,
neither my husband nor myself knew
anything"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK.

CAPITAL PAID IN, 100000.
General Banking IN All Its Branches.
Directors-Dr. Theodore Meyer, John j.
Daily, o. ]. Salisbury Moylan, C.. Fox
Thomas Marshall. w. p. Noble. George
NJ. Downey, John Donnellan. N1weu
Reeman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

Mrs. William Mann Townsend con-
tributes a story of a ghost that APP
peared in a garden. She says: In
1885 my late husband and myself had
gone to bed at our usual time, say 10.
Soon afterward our dog, a spaniel, be-
gan TO bark, and he kept it up off and
on until in the morning. Finally 1
went to the window at the back of the
house to order him back to his kennel
l heard his chain rattle as he went in
and we heard no sound of him again.
/ turned to go back to my own room,
and, in passing the landing window
just outside my door, / lifted the blind
to look at the sky. There seemed to
be a strange sort of light, and presently
| saw something which caused me to
make an exclamation. My husband
came and we both saw a figure of an
old man in dressing gown and night
cap, standing outside in the garden,
close by one of my flower beds He
looked about 60. AS 1 looked terror
came over me and a sort OF stiffness.
My husband took me up, put me in bed
and returned to the window. There he
saw the old man again. and, as he
described it, the figure grew gradually
shorter until it disappeared in the
ground. Next morning no footprints
could be found in the garden where
the old man had appeared, not even d
blade of grass being disturbed We
never saw the figure again, but on one
occasion l was startled by a tremen-
dOus crash which appeared unaccount-
able
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
SALTLAKE & OGDEN RATLWAY c0

Daily time table in effect Sept 90
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
Salt Lake. FaImsns- Farming Salt Lake
ton x La 10 * La
coon. COON.
700 a. n 7:4U a. M. 500 a. m. $40 a. N
500 4. m. $40 }. NJ. 1900 a. m. lo:4O a. ID
800 D. m. $40 a. II. 4:e0 p. m. 4;49 .. IN.
600 D. m. $40 .. III. 700 o. m. 40 D. n
Additional Sunday trains:
Leave Salt Lake il a. m and ! p. n.
Leave Lagoon l2:00 m and p. N.
SIMON BAMBERGER, II. W. EARLY.
Gen. Manager Passenger Agent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

A lady who desires that her name
shall not be given sends an account of
spectre that was seen by her father
and herself coincidently. She says:
My mother died June "a 1874. at a
house called the Hunters Palace, Sill
ma, Malta. On the night of the seventh
day after she was buried, [ was sleep
ing in a little dressing room opening
out of the nursery. The smoking room,
where my father spent his evenings,
was across the hall. | had been put to
bed earlier than usual, and [ seemed to
have been sleeping some time when l
awoke and, turning over on the other
side toward the window, saw my moth
er standing by my bedside, crying and
Wrlnging her hands. l exclaimed, Why,
dear, what is the NATTER Then. sud
denly remembering that she was dead
screamed. My father at the same mo-
ment arrived at the opposite door, and
l heard his sudden exclamation of, Jul
liza, darlingn My mother turned to-
ward him and then to me and, wiring
ing her hands again, she retreated to-
wards the nursery and disappeared. My
father, telling me that l had only been
dreaming, stayed with me until L fell
asleep. The next day, however, he told
me that he, too, had seen the vision,
and that he hoped to do so again; and
that, if she ever came to see me again,
[ was to tell her that papa wanted to
speak to her Years afterWard my faith
er told me that she had always prom
ised to come back after death. if such a
thing were possible
In August, 1S45, the Rev. DR.. Beth
was making a tour of Scotland One
night he CHANGED to be the guest of a
Mr.. Livingston, of Rossshire. A bed
room was provided for him in the top
story of the house. At the foot of the
bed was q large fireplace, from which
the dancing freight flung shadows on
the curtains. Says DR.. Beth in his
written narrative: Il had gone to bed.
After a little while l fell asleep Sud
denly 1 was awakened by a loud knock
at the door. l opened my eyes. The
fire was still burning, but was about to
expire: called Come I'M No sooner
had l done so than [ saw the door
Slowly open. A man of gigantic stat
ure, of huge proportions, red-haired,
half dressed, his braWny arms bare
high above the elbows, presented him
self to my view. l saw him advance,
not toward me, but to the fireplace, the
| glimmering light from The crate falling
| upon his massive frame. He carried a
large black chest which appeared to be
studded with brass nails, and to be so
/ heavy as to tax his utmost strength.
Presently the black chest seemed to
grow into a coffin Of huge dimensions.
Then he set it down with crash that
startled me and seemed to shake the
| house. Suddenly the vision vanished.
had Just got over my agitation and
was composing myself to sleep, when I
! heard another knock at the door. My
| host entered He said: We thought
I something might be wrong. Mrs. Lii
| kingston and 1 heard heavy steps in
your room, and also, as we thought. the
! sound of the falling of some weighty
article upon the floor"
RENE BACHE.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

Notice having been received of a
ghost which had been seen by an ar
fist at his studio in Chelsea. two mem
bers of the Psychical Research society
called upon him acG obtained a very
striking and circumstantial account of
his experiences. The apparition was
seen in broad daylight. 1t appeared to
him during three years tenancy Of
the studio over 100 times. The circum-
stances we're such as TO preclude ali
possibility Of deception. and the figure
itself vas so distinct and lifeiike that
he succeeded in producing a portrait of
it A rough sketch of this portrait.
now in the possession of the society,
represents a young man OF about %.
with the right arm torn away from the
shoulder and a strangely mournful.
pleading expression in the eyes. That
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

From the Rev. r. L. Loughborough
is received Il story Of 4 ghost that was
seen by his sister, Mrs. Swan, in 1855
Mrs. Swan was living at that time in
the village of Armitage, iii Stafford
shire, England. She was alone in the
kitchen when she was startled by hear
ing footsteps ascending the staircase
She opened the door at the foot of the
stairs-it was broad daylight-and saw
a figure ascending, which she recog-
nized at once as that of her father
who had been dead several years. She
knew the figure by the hand placed be-
hind, as was his custom when alive
and walking, and she recognized the
face when ne turned at the top and
looked back. On reaching the top of
the stairs the figure turned round,
looked at her for a brief space, and
then seemed to pass along the passage.
Her husband and sister We're in the
dining room at the time. They both
heard the sound of footsteps, and, as
by an impulse, both quickly assembled
the stairs, looked through the house,
but saw nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

Another we'll authenticated story re-
lates to an old Elizabethan manor
house in England. 1t is we'll known as
haunted house. According to some
accounts the ghost usually shows only
its back which is fortunate, since the
face is so horrible that any one seeing
il is frightened almost into fits. From
1861 to 1863 the house was occupied by
q Mr. and Mrs. II. They constantly
heard noises for which they We're I'M
able to account, and their little dog
behaved oddly at night. One night Mr..
II. saw an old woman in q dark gown
and poke bonnet standing at the foot
OF the bed. He got up and searched the
room bat nothing could be found. An
old nurse, after sleeping one night in
the house, refused TO DO so again, but
would give no reason. Afterward she
owned that she had seen a figure ex-
actly like the one which had appeared
to Mr.. H, though she had never heard
of his experience. From 1867 to 1875
the house was inhabited by a clergy
man and his family. One day the cler-
gyman saw passing the door OF his
room a lady in blue with her hair down
her back. who could not possibly be
any one in the house. The same figure
was seen by other persons, among
them a housenlaid and visitor. The
lady in blue is said to have been muir
dered in the middle of the last century
for her jewels
Miss L. 4. Lister writes: Some time
ago a friend of mine lost her husband.
He died April IL 1874, at the age of So
She asked ME to go and reside with
her ard / stayed six months. One
evening I was going upstairs, when
she said: I wish you would fetch me
that little book I left on the ORA wing
room table last night I started with
out a light, opened the drawing room
door and stood for minute, thinking
where she had said she put the book,
when, to my amazement, l saw her
husband sitting by the table His ell
bow was resting on the table close to
the book. Being accustomed to boast
that 1 did not know the meaning of
fear I determined to get the book and
advanced to the table. He seemed to
be smiling, as if he knew my thoughts.
l picked up the book and took it to my
friend without saying anything about
what I had seen. After about 20 min
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

Mr.. John D. Harry sends a story
about ghost which was seen by him
self, his three daughters and a house
maid. He says: "One day in the win
ter of 1871, an apparition in the likeness
OF a fair woman, draped from head to
foot in white. glided slowly through the
library of my house and into my bed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

The society has received an account
of very remarkable phantasmagoria,
said to have been witnessed by two
gentlemen in Worcestershire, England.
The story, told by one of the persons
concerned, was to the effect that he and
his friend were travelling together in a
post chaise on a Christmas eve. The
country was not known to them, and
the difficulty of finding their way was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
OREGON SHORT LINES
. ATGR0AD

=, Trains arrive and depart at Salt LAX
City daily as follows:
In Effect Oct 81
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

Mrs. Judd, whose sister is an asso-
ciate member of the society, furnishes
q story. She says: My grandmother
was a tall, stately. handsome woman,
even at an advanced age. She died al
SO. My sister and myself had always
slept in room adjoining hers, and,
for want of SPACE in her apartment,
there stood by our bedside a large old
fashioned clock, which had been pre-
sented to our grandmother on her we'd
ding day. She was extremely fond Of
this clock and she insisted upon our
leaving our bedroom door unlocked at
night so that she might consult the
old timeDiece when she arose each
morning. We often opened our sleepy
eyes at on a summer morning and
smiled to see the stately figure already
there. For I'D to her last illness she
retained the habits of her youth and
arose at very early hours. About
three weeks after her death, one morn
ing in October. 1 aW0ke and saw dis
tinctly the well-known tall figure, the
calm old face. the large dark eyes up
lifted as usual TO the face of the clock.
l closed my eyes for some seconds and
then opened them again. She stood
there still. A second time l closed my
eyes, second time opened them; she
was gone. [ was looked upon by my
family in those days as romantic and
therefore l carefully kept to myself
the vision of the morning At night
however, when we we're once more pre-
pairing for rest, my eminently practical
and unromantic sister said to me:
I cannot go to bed without tell
ing you something; only don't laugh
l saw grandmamma this morning, I
inquired of my sister the details, and
learned that the vision she saw was
in every respect like that which ap-
peared to my own eyes"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

Mr.. Ira SayIes of Washington, D. c..
states that one day in the spring of
1Ss7 a certain Mrs. Stewart, an init
mate friend. told him that on the night
previous she had awakened her hus-
band with a scream. What's Fhe mat
ter?' said he. why, don't you see
Johnny there? He says to me, Mother
they've shot me. The bullet entered
right here and he pointed to a hole
right over his right eye" Mr. Stewart
replied. L don't see anything; you've
been dreaming NO have not been
dreaming. I was as wide awake as I
am now. This Johnny was " son .vho
had gone with a friend to Kansas, at
that time in a state OF political ex-
element. The mother was very anx-
ious about him. A fortnight after the
vision Johnny's friend returned from
Kansas and told Mrs. Stewart that on
a. certain day. at 4 p. M. a Missourian
shot Johnny, the bali entering his head
Just above the right eye. The day Of
the shooting proved to be the very zay
on which Mrs. Stewart had her vision.
at night, about six hours after the trag-
edy occurred.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

For full particulars as TO Tickets, Maps,
Rates apply to any Coupon ticket Agent
in the United States. Canada or Mexico.
~. adHrass
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

w. H. FIRTH. General Agt., Denver.
I. A. BENTON. Ticket Agt., r. C. W.
Railway
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-26

By leaving tho first and the fifth feeds
open and closing all the others in tho
seed box we plant two rows at time
80 inches apart, and by experimenting
with tho amount discharged it will soon
be seen how to set the feed bar in order
to sow the right quantity. Six to seven
pounds to the acre is an abundance, and
If the seed il clean and not cracked in
thrashing less will answer. The richer
the soil, the larger the plants will grow
and tho moro room they must have.
Rows 90 inches apart allow sufficient
space for cultivation, and the stalks
should stand from 4 to 8 inches apart
in the row according to the richness of
the soil.
If listing is practiced at all, it should
be very shallow. The plants are of slow
growth during tho first six weeks, and
deep lister burrows do not admit of prop
er cultivation for so small plants. Sur.
face planted seed should DO narrowed
with smoothing harrow soon after it
is up, in order to kill the weeds just
terminating. In other respects cultivate
as for corn. Cultivate shallow, especial
ly near the row. We use spring tooth
cultivator in preference to the old fash
toned large shovel plows. Cultivate
enough to keep the weeds down and tho
surface mellow until 1t begins to head.
In an average season Red Kafilr corn
will mature in about 12 to IA weeks.
Planted in the middle or latter part of
May, the seed is ripe by the middle of
September, and it should be harvested
at once. The fodder will remain green
until frost, but this fact should not be
made an excuse for putting off the har-
vesting. The earlier it is cut after the
seed is ripe the more time will there be
for the stalks to cure, which is an essen
tial point, especially if the fodder is
stacked. Any Of the many good corn
cutters now on the market will do the
work.
When the seed has dried out sufficient
ly SO it can be stored, which condition
it will not renoh until the end of No.
vember, it should be tli"ashed. 1t is true
that many growers feed the crop as it
comes from the shock, seed and all, but
1t is wasteful way of handling it,
though of course the cost Of thrashing
and grinding must be taken into oonsid-
Grafton, and doubtless there are condi-
tions under which this cost will exceed
the value of the waste incurred by feed
ing without thrashing or grinding. One
way of proceeding is to gather the heads
in the field, as corn is gathered, before
the crop is cut. A better way is to cut
the heads off in the shock after the seed
is dry and thrash them at once.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-26
CULTURE OF kAFFIR CORN

Recommended In Bulletin of the Kan
sas State Agricultural College Station.
Kaffir corn can be grown in regions
too dry for corn. 1t is possible to grow
1t in semiarid regions where corn rarely
succeeds. This tenaoity OF life is also
manifested by its sprouting again from
the roots and producing second and
even third crop after it has been cut.
From the Kansas station comes the fol-
lowing directions for cultivating this
crop:
The seed bed should be prepared in
all respects as for corn The finer the
filth, the better. Itcan be planted either
in hills or in drills. Preference is given
to the latter method 1t can stand thick
er than corn, but there is limit to the
crowding process which should not be
passed when maximum crop is de-
sired. As to methods of seeding, we
have adopted the plan of seeding with
grain drill with press wheels and it
works satisfactorily. 1t is in eight shoe
drill. with the shoes eight inches apart.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-26
AVERAGE WEIGHT
AVERAGE YELL
PER ACHE
WHEN NATURE

Needs assurance Il may be best to
render it promptly, but one Should
remember to use oven the most perfect
remed ee only when needed. The beet
and most simple and gentle remedy is
the Syrup OF Figs, u'sctured by
the California Fig Syrup G 'mpsny.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-07-22
,ot otF end ~.s mot Ly Mayor sncis

got otf and Was met Ly Mayor Francis and several members of the Council. Hs stated that he had purchased the pips. making machinery, engaged his men, and everything was in readiness to be shipped to Flagstafi; that his at- tornsy, Mir. Pearson, would bs here Friday to make arrangements for set ting up the machinery and to start in work on manufacturing the pipe. Mr. cones said he was on his way to Chi cago to dispose of the bonds of the city. and would proceed with all haste to procure the bond from tho Balti. moe surety company.
 The city Council has decided to give Mr. Jones . few more days in which to obtain the qua rsntse.
 Al Mr. Psason is scheduled to arrive in the morning to begin operations. further developments will be awaited with intsrst by our citissns.