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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
AS he SAT THERE WITH HEARD T4zors MI
VOICES TIL n pTSy NAV ooS-AA'A
so I got up and went into the tun-

l.
nell
What time?"
about 1. -
Il was there about 8"
Then you heard it?" asked Bill
but that's of course"
He caught his brothers eye
ON don't coax. he cried angirly and
the food was dry in mis- mouth
Rut that day the men were joyful for
daylight ran through the tunnel And
the workers Of the east Shook hands with
the workers of the west, hurrahing wildly
at the work Which seemed so nearly Zone
For there is this quality in human work
erS-joy in toll under fair conditions, joy
in strife, satisfaction in defeat if defeat
must come. And to those who knew lit
tie TINS meant victory. Yet the struggle
was even now beginning 1t began 4
week later when the tImbering was COM
plete from end to end for only then did
the tunnel begin to be audible 10 gross
ears in daylight, when the live world
talked, the world that was made OF a
million inceStS and 10000 mon strung from
the summit to the Columbia
Among those. who worked with the lum-
per Were rudelV learned in the strength
OF materials, and some OF them were very
..a2 dos, does 5tgo2r asked Kelley.
Al right Tor the present, Mr.. Hol-
did not add ''but-''
Among themselves. in their rude sIlacks
and tents, they estimated the weight OF
the hill.
pine and fir will never hold; we want
hard woods. oak and teak"
steel" said another.
And steel won't do said a third.
If she comes, will she come sudden 2"
asked the lahorers, as they worked With
sledge and maui
6ut they were paid to risk it. Some
they took to thinking of a quick run out
"f the p'- IsveH ms Who STAYED
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
BY MORLEY ROBERTS.
Copyright. 1887. S. S. Mcclure Co,

We give you q mighty good price
for it," said the great boss of the rail-
road as he Ieant back in his chair and
looked out through the windows of his
frame-built office. a snowy king of
peaks was in the center of the picture,
heavy blue sky was balanced by shad-
oWs in glaciers far below. the snow ran
down the rock. then scant pines fringed
the shoulder Of mountain, dipping
into dark forest, with the roaring river
at its foet.
But you own up fair and square that
this is taking q risk" said Holdredge,
the contractor from Utah. It's no
common kind OF Job-put work in and
take dollars out"
we lay the cards on the table. Mr.
Holdredge."
The lord of railroads threw packet
down before him. and, rising, went to
the stove. Except about noon the air
was chill at the altitude of the summit
when the month was May.
There's nothing underhand here"
said Ross. What our engineers say
you know. Ones word is, why. GER
tainly,' and another'S, 1t can't be DONE
and the third is a Scotchman, and has
what be calls his doots.' But if you
and your brother risk it. and make it.
we pay heavy If you muck it, our
share goes and you'H lose your labor.
It's gamble"
He stirred up the stove with a burnt
pine stick, which he withdrew, blazing.
Mature always holds four aces" said
the younger Holdredge.
NO" said Ross: ''but she keeps her
gun ready for all of US when we win
Even plain piece of rock work at 81 a
yard, or 50. may spell catastrophy and
sudden death"
The Holdredges looked at each other
for long minute and then at the ia
BE. This was strangely quiet gam
bling house. far among the hills.
And the dealer waited
TN straddle the blind" said Hold
redge. And his brother nodded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
THE WRECK AT ROUBIDEAU.
The Bridge Was Gone and the Engineer Did Not Discover
1t Until Too Late

roaring flood At times the waste box
swung near the shore, eddied back
| like a girl on skates, and then shot
down the middle of the mad river
at furious rate. Unless you have
seen a mountain stream at flood you
can form only faint notion of the
force and speed of the Gunnison run
ning bank full. Great rocks. the size of
sleeping car, are rolled along the bot
tom of the river, as marbles are rolled
by the stream of a garden hose, and
here, at the half open door of death.
began turned to look. and was aWed
hY the aWfulneSS of the wild scene
When first he found himself at the
front of a fast express. timing the
train with a touch of his hand: fixing
the speed by the turn of a lever. he
had marveled, as most men do. at the
speed and power of the locomotive but
all that was mean and tame compared
with the force of this fearful food
Here, indeed, was energy: awful and
irresistible. A mighty force that only
the granite walls of the canyon could
resist. and he. a tiny speck upon the
heaVing bosom of the seething tide,
was lighting, even hoping for life, for
an engineer never gives up so long
as there is breath in his body began
was feeling strong again and was now
watching . chance to Dull for the
tree caught him and dragged him be-
low again. Tangled among the boughs
with his waste box the desperate driver
fought with all his strength, and in a
little while felt the waste box bearing
him up and on once more He was now
in a narrow. straight chute. at the
lower end of which the river made a
short bend to the left. and away from
the railroad track began saw the curve
and hoped that he might be thrown
upon the bank at the bend, and the
next instant the box was driven hard
against a huge rock and went to
pieces
When Degan regained consciousness
he was laying full length upon the fat
top of the rock against which his life
preserver had been wrecked. The gray
dawn was upon the river, that was al
ready settling back to its normal bed.
His clothing was torn. his hands bleed
ing. his bones ached with the chill of
the morning One of his legs was broken
and the pain of it made him feel faint
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
He Held to Box Having Handles

The river was falling rapidly. If he
could walk at all he could walk ashore
without getting water in his trouser
pockets. The sun came up and dried
his overcIothes and warmed the rock
upon which he lay.
Presently he heard a locomotive
screaming down the canyon. and when
she came round the curve tagged her
Behind the engine was wreckinS
train. coming up from the junction to
find and fish the RockaWay out of the
river.
The crew was greatly rejoiced to find
began. They bore him tenderlY to the
way car and carried him to the COM
pany's hospital at Salida and there it
was he told me the story of the Roubi-
deau wreck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
HAD A KICK COMING.
At the Same Time the Negro PoIiti
clan Wanted No Trouble.

8
clan Wanted No Trouble.
Kansas City Times: George Woods. d
well known Second ward negro, VINO
has for many years Ia.bored under the
impression that his pull with certain
prominent politicians would secure him
tranSgTessIOn which ne might be guilty
of, was arrested yesterday afternoon
by Officers CaSkeY and wilson en- the
charge of breaking into a fruit stand
at No. 232 West Fifth street and carry
ing away a caddy of tobacco, several
boxes of cigars and other articles.
Woods is about 40 years old, but
when asked by Lieutenant Moran how
old ne was, he replied:
AN wah BORN i'll 1S43, sah-''
"Well. then. YOU are-Iet me see
you are about 81 years DID," said the
lieutenant
no, sab; All afn't dat old, sab, but
An was born in 1913 just de same"
He protested his innocense in vigor-
Gus language. and when it finally
daWued uDOn him that he would have
to be locked in tine holdover he ex-
claimed:
s'Ah got a kick comm sah OATS
what An has You all got no right ter
lock me uD in no cell Afl'se a GEM
men, All is. Ans neyah been locked
up i'm NAH life"
We'll, we can't help that. There is
a charge against you and we'll have to
hold YOU until we can find out whether
or not you are guilty
''You all kainft make no charge stick
against me, but All kin make q charge
stick aga lst YOU all Ah'se got in
flTenslnul sfens in dis town, an Anil
make some cb You fellerS suffer, snuah
as you put me down dere."
Sorry. but we have to do our duty"
You better slider what you ans do
in afo' you lock me up. An doan
wanter cause you all any trouble. but
if YOU all locks me up All KANT help
1T
He was locked up, just the same
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

New York Press. kissing is the only
real impediment of the speech.
No man expects anybody else to be-
live half the bad he tells about himself.
Probably every woman wears some
clothes that she isn't sure what is the
right name of.
= A woman would never be as hapnyif
she thought her husband took as good
care of himself when she was away.
Fortune may knock at every mans
door, but he goes around first to tine
ones that have at home notices hung
ost.
A man may really expect to be an
angel and have Wings. but The doesn't
spend near as much time az his wife
thinking l1nw nice it wiil r..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
Bivalve News.

Yonl<ers Statesman: whats become
of your brother?" asked the oyster
waiting to be fried. to a companion
who was destined to ornament d half
shell
'-Oh, L believe he's gone into the in
terror Of turkey" said the one ad-
The herald., 1897-10-17

Major
as the head of the parliament the
All through the United States
great
mission officer in the
m
had married Belle Macombe
Mass family n
Reynolds
and
suffering aIeviated
At Ptsbug Landing Shiloh beautiful
Learning of this
Mrs Reynolds studied medicine
Chicago well
ba AT the Red Dr. Reynolds
field alvarg
In Dr. Reynolds tall commanding Her
luxurious
and man
of the will
California
will be
of the office they have rendered
Bar
in
E.. E..
The herald., 1897-10-17
REVENGE OF PIzEN GULCH
1t Came Two Weeks Late, but Not an
Apache Was Left

THE man who said that the only good
Indian was dead Indian was about as
near right as men get" said Col. Ham
Sploggett Of Arizona the other evening.
as he wrestled with a mint mash, "and
If any man oughter now what he's talk
Ing erbout in them matters 1 guess it's
me. I went to Arizony a mighty long
time ago. Them darned Apaches wuz
erbout as onery as eny sort of Indians,
and not day passed but what we fell
lers down to Pizen Gulch heard erbout
men losing their scalps and women and
children being butchered like forty, the
news coming from away out on. the
frontier. wuz sorter getting grip on
Arizony just them an didn't want to
lose 1t, so I jess stayed away from the
line an tended ter business, with one
eye open. We had ter get out an hustle.
however Indians wuz getting more
rampageous every day, and finally. a
band of the measly, numbering robbers
rid inter small settlement erbout fifty
miles from the Gulch and killed every
soul there, not leaving one to tell the
tale. This rlled the boys at the Gulch,
an we thought the time had come to do
something. Two hours after we got the
news we WIZ out for biz. We rode away,
an an hour afore sundown we reached
the place whar the settlement had been.
Wall, sir, I've seen many odd sights in
my life, but the little settlement WIZ
erbout the saddest thing that ever met
these old eyes not so old then, neither.
Ashes showed whar some cabins had
stood, and thar could be seed what re-
maipsd of home things, an jess on the
outskirts of the settlement we found the
bodies of folks what had formed the
peaceful village.
Men, women and children alike had
gone to satisfy the awful greed for
blood. They had been dragged together
and the bodies, must have been about
twenty of them, were piled in a heap,
mutilated and horrible to look at The
saddest sight of it all was the form of a
little baby. The small critter wuz lying
on the breast of woman, maybe its
mother, and it's little fists wuz fastened
in the long hair that was all tangled and
flowing like. AT fust 1 thought 1t wuz
sleepin', but it wuzn't. 1t wuz dead,
an little round black hole right in the
middle of its forehead showed whar the
bullet had dore its work. Thar it Wuz
a monument of Indian ferocity, an the
poor little limbs Of the baby wuz cuddled
up an its white face wuz smilin' just as
though death had caught it while it wux
lookin' right inter its mothers eyes The
sight of that little one thar, naged to the
skies, made the grim look on the faces of
the boys jess kinder deepen like until
they seemed desperate and deadly. We
left the place without word, but when
we crept up on the band what did the
work we paid them back to the death.
ever, if it wuz two weeks later. Them
wuz bad days, I tell you. Mexico Two
Republics
The herald., 1897-10-17
SANTA BARBARA

SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 16.-Regular
Correspondence The Southern Califor-
MIA Homeopathic Medical society has
been in session for the past two days. 1t
is the seventh annual session of this grow
ing body. The society elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: H. l..
Stambach. NJ D., of Santa Barbara, pres
ident S. S. Salisbury. NJ. D., of Los Ange-
les, first vice president; Henry Sherry NJ
D. of Los Angeles, second vice PRESIDENT
F. S. Barnard. NJ. D.. of Los Angeles. sec
retary and treasurer. On the board of CEN
sors were NJ. B Campbell, NJ. B., superin-
tendent OF the Southern California hos
pital at Messina; II. M. Bishop, NJ. D.. of
Los Angeles: our own DR.. H. l.. Stambach.
Frank Kellogg, NJ. D., Los Angeles. and
c. E. Manning. NJ. D., Pasadena.
The new board Of directors is as follows:
w. H. Stiles, NJ D.. San Bernardino; J.
Mills Boal, NJ. D.. Los Angeles; T. S.
Green, NJ. D.. Pasadena; A. E. Wheeler,
NJ. D., and Eliza NJ Miller, NJ. D., Los An
geles
The convention was held in the parors
Of the Arlington hotel. Business was con-
cluded at noon, and the visiting physicians
were taken to the various points of interest
in this vicinity.
Hon. James McLachlan, ex-member of
congress from this district, was a visitor
at the court house yesterday on legal busi-
ness.
Five foreclosure of mortgage suits were
filed with the county clerk today.
The herald., 1897-10-17
Stray Chords

monument has been erected to the
memory Of Niels Gade on St. Anne's place
Copenhagen.
Milloecker's new operetta "Nordlicht"
has been produced at Bremen with remark
able success.
H. A. Du Souchet has written the Ibret-
to. and Rudolph Aronson the music for a
new opera called Captain Kydd."
Xavier Scharwenka, the great Polish
composer and pianist. will give his first re-
cital in California at the California thea
ter, San Francisco, the 10Th inst.
Johann Strauss is reported to have de-
voted the summer at Isch to writing a
new operetta, the text by Julius Bauer.
Three new operas will be produced this
season in Italy-Leoncavallo's "Trilby, ,"
Samara's "Fedor," and Giordano's ia
Tosca"
Master Bruno Steindl is said to he the
latest infant prodigy. He is years old.
and will shortly appear in London.
M. Jules Klengel cello virtuoso of
Leipsic. will be heard in all the larger cit
les of the United States this season.
The Bohesuian composer, Smetana. who
was so shamefully neglected during his life
time, is coming more and more into vogue
at foreign opera houses.
number of Hamburg artists purpos a
to erect a monument to Johannes Brahms
in that city, which is the birthplace of the
composer
MT. EtnelDert NeVln, the musical COM
poser. who has been in Europe for the
past three years has returned to this coun-
. try and is visiting his home in Pittsburg.
Emma Eames has been visiting Madame
Wagner at Bayreuth, and has been invited
by the latter to sing Sieglinde and Eva
at the Bayreuth festival of 1899
Jessie Bartlett Davis is probably the only
contralto who could nike a success as an
Independent star. AS a rule. the soprano
gets all the glory and salary.
Cecile Lorraine, a young American pri-
ma donna, recently achieved a great
success in ''La Boheme" the new opera
by Puccini. which has been heard here this
past week.
Felix Borowski, the composer, of London,
England. has assumed charge of the de-
partment of composition In the Chicago coll
lege of music.
~ sEhDaEhthe proposa! TO dissolve he p'ci,-
The herald., 1897-10-17
JoLTED INTO PARALYSIS
Peculiar Ailment From Which Mis-.
souri, Brakeman Is Recovering

The physica, effect of riding consecu-
lively on railroad cars has always been
a matter of conjecture among physi-
clans. Brakeman Oscar White of
Granddn, Mo, however, has developed
serious case of paralysis of the lower
limbs as the result Of the constant JOLT
ing and OF the unsteady swaying mo-
tion of the cars as he tried to move
about in the performance of his duties.
His last run was on through freight
on the Southern Pacific railroad. 1t was
three moe,ths ago that the paralysis
| first began to manifest itself. The
trouble in his limbs grew worse, and
| hrally he was compelled to give up his
| position.
He consulted a physician but gained
no relief. The paralysis became more
marked and extended to the arms. White
became absolutely helpless. Failing to
obtain relief in Grandir,. White werM
to ST. Louis four weeks ago and placed
himself under the care of Dr. w. H.
Mayfeld. He was treated by electric
ity. No medicine was administered,
Many times day he was subjected TO
currents of electricity, applied in a
uozen different ways. 1t was applied
by the galvanic battery, by an electric
needle, by wire brushes and thex, the
mar would be stood on copper plate
to which a battery was attached, and
he was given "a shower bath at the same
time. The treatment was successful
A week ago White discarded his crutch-
es and now he walks without the aiG,
of cane. He says he is as well and
strong as he ever was and he expects
to return to the railroad in a few days.
New York Journal.
The herald., 1897-10-17

ard Wagner association was voted down at
Bayreuth, the statement was made that
thousand members had dropped out dur
ing the year, the present membership be-
ing BIAS. The annual dues for each mem
Der will be reduced to so cents.
Nine. Scalchfs operate concert compa-
ny, which includes two sopranos, a tenor
and baritone, and gives in costume scenes
from Faust, Martha" and "Trovatore. "
will be heard at the California theater in
the middle of December.
Nine. Camilla Urso. the world-renowned
violinist. gives her farewell concert prior
to her departure for Russia this evening at
Golden Gate hall. San Francisco. The pro-
gram has been selected with much care.
in order to display Nine. Ursos talent 20
the best possible advantage.
One of the most recent additions to the
Donzetti museum at Bergamo is the orig
inal manuscript of Linda di Chamounix"
with.>-.n the front page. in the composers
own handwriting the dedication to the en-
press of Austria
The herald., 1897-10-17
The Bridge <Ralancei2f Power

In recent lecture Prof Wilmer Stone
of Philadelphia cited many facts to show
that birds are natures great check or
the excess of insects, and that they keep
the balance between plant and insect
life. Ten thousand caterpilars, it has
been estimated, could destroy every
blade of grass on an acre of cultivated
ground. In thirty days from the time II
is hatched an ordinary caterpillar in
creases 10000 times in bulk, and the food
it lives and grows on is vegetable. The
insect population of single cherry tree
infested with aphides was calculated by
a prominent entomologist at no less
than 100000 The bird population of
cultivated country districts has been es-
timated at from 700 to 1000 per square
mile. This is small compared to the
number of insects, yet as each bird con-
sumes hundreds of insects every day.
the latter are prevented from becoming g
the scourge they would be but for their
feathered enemies.-Youth's Compan-
inn
The herald., 1897-10-17
Doubtfully Repentant

You are right, pap, it is bad. We are
just as sorry as can be. For six months
we agreed to almost every thing Brothes
Gardner wanted until he got us into a
hole. Then when we backed out he got
as mad as all fury and said horribly
naughty things, and he called us just
awful names. Oh. it was dreadful 20
hear him go on like that, Father Herald.
Some of us thought he had a fit In
case he should get in his right mind
again, the News is still willing that he
should play in our back yard, slide down
our cellar door and holler into our rain
barrel Spank Gardner first, please.
pap, until he sees stars.-Pasad dpena Star.
The herald., 1897-10-17
Terrible Volcanic Eruption

Mount Popocatapetl in Mexico a volcano
which was supposed to be extinct, has bro
ken out again with tenfold violence. Viii
lagos in the vicinity have been utterly de-
stroyed and thousands of lives annihilated.
There have been no direct advices from the
City of Mexico, but private kilograms inti-
mate that the government is taking active
measures for the relief of families made
destitute by the appalling catastrophe.
Cataclysms of this sort remind us of erup-
tions of that atrocious endemic, malarial
fever, durable by Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters. Though not instantaneously destruc-
tive of human life. nevertheless malaria
destroys the constitution of hosts of peo-
pie. For this malady the Bitters is a thor
ough remedy and sure preventive. Ex-
perience has proved this wherever malaria
is most virulent-in Mexico. on the Pacific
coast of Guatemala, in the West Indies and
South America. Nor is it less efficacious in
cases of constipation, liver complaint, dys-
pepsia kidney and bladder trouble, rheu.
matism, nervousness and neuralgia
The herald., 1897-10-17
LOS ANGELES HERAIDs SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER H. 1897
when opposed by a swiftly moving bat
naturally"
"Rot!" cried Mr.. Mixer. Anybody
with half sense can see that's a slow ball

naturally
"Rot!" cried Mr.. Mixer. Anybody
with half sense can see that. a slow ball
-"
Rubbish" snorted Mr.. Briggs.
They glared at each other.
Say said Mr.. Mixer "let's get the
Hammond boys to go with us to the va
cant lot back of my house and I'll show
you just where you are off your base"
Agreed" said Mr. Briggs
Ten minutes later Mr. Mixer, with a
bat in his hand. was facing Ted Ham
mond in the vacant lot.
Gimme slow one about here" saiG
Mr.. Mixer, as he indicated a height from
the ground of some three feet. Along
came the ball-a slow and aggravating
twister. Mr.. Mixer smilingly awaited it
Then he hauled back and smashed q
great cash in the atmosphere
"One strike" yelled Bud Hammond
who held the sphere in his big mitt. Mr..
Mixer expectorated oc1 his palm and
there was blood in his eye. Again he
swathed the quiverirg atmosphere.
Again the giggiing Bud called strike
But the third time he hit the ball. II
went directly upward. and when it al
most reached terra firma was nabbed
by the clever BUD just a foot inside the
diamond.
MY turn. now" said Mr.. Briggs, with
an air of poorly concealed triumph
Your record with the slow ball is just
twelve linear inches. Gimme hot or.a. "
The hot one came, but Mr.. Briggs was
not ready for it, 1t flew by him ard
struck with a dull thud in Buds mitt.
Another hot one was equally fortunate.
"Oh. hit the ball." said the disgusted
Mixer. Foul it or some hing"
Mr.. Briggs did foul it. He fouled it
with such sigma, success that it flew from
his bat a. merry tangent, and, catch
ing the smiling Mixer under the jaw,
almost tore his head loose from its fast
es1ings. Two minutes later any passer-
by with ordinary eyesight might have
seen tall, thin, man with a baseball
bat in his hand wildly cavorting arounG
that two-acre lot with viciousl looking
fat man in hot pursuit. followed, closely
by boy with big mitt and another
boy with no special mark of distinction
Around aCad around the lot they went,
until there came a blessed Interruption.
Pa" shrieked little Jane Mixer over
the back fence, supper is ready" The
merry-go-round ceased, the two princi-
pals walked away with glances of un-
utterable contempt. And the great
scienti tific problem remains unsettled
Cleveland Post Dispatch.