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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
California Pioneer Killed By IN
known Assassin

Oakland. Cal, Dec. 15.-Patrick Muir
ply, q pioneer resident of Templescal.
was murdered by an unknown assassin
at SIS o'clock tonight. He was shot
through the heart as he left his cot
tage to go TO a neighbor store. starting
back into the house and died in the
presence of his terrified family He
lacked the strength to utter the name
of the man who shot him if he knew
who he was, and the murderer, favored
by the isolation of the locality and the
darkness of the night, escaped without
difficulty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
Governor of Gold Coast.

London, Dec. 15.-sir William Ed
ward Maxwell, governor and COM
mander in chief of the Gold coast since
1895, died at sea while off Grand Ca
nary island, en- route for England. He
had several attacks of fever while on
the Gold coast
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
Purchaser of Hamburg.

Chicago, Dec ia special to the
Times-Herald says: julius Fleisch-
mann of Cincinnati is the purchaser of
the colt Hamburg, and that the price
paid to John E. Madden was 500 900.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
Populist Caucus.

Washington, Dec. 15.-The Populigts
have decided to hold caucus tomor-
row night to outline their policies on
pending questions. They will probably
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16

oppose the retirement of the green
backs, the annexation OF Hawaii and
favor the recognition OF Cuban indie
pendence and the repeal of the civil
service law
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
Fifteenth Ward entertainment.

The young ladies Of the Fifteenth ward
have arranged for q grand entertainment
at the ward meeting house tomorrow
evening. The house has been beautifully
decorated and a splendid time is antici-
pated Every one is invited.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
Steamship Movements.

Glasgow-Arrived: F'urnesia, New
York
Rotterdam-Arrived veendam, New
York.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
No cure a Gold in One Dav

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Ali druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L.
p. Q. on each tablet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
IT'S A HOOSIER PLAN
MeKinley'S Financial Recommends
tons Are Second Hand.
SILVER AS THE BASIS
FOR BANK CIRCULATION IN
STEAD OF BONDS.

This Is the Idea of Mr. Roots of
Indiana, Submitted to the None
tary Commission, and VIII Be
Presented to Committee on Bank
ing and Currency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16

Mr. White of California thought the
passage of such a law as proposed
would be unjust to our own people, un-
less assul ances are given that similar
legislation is to be enacted by other
countries. Canada in particular In the
course of his brief remarks, Mr.. White
said it was evident that the foreign re-
lations committee was not so bellicose
as it was a year ago, but he hoped that
1t would not force the country into such
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16

prof q now enjoyed by American citi-
zens 20 people of other countries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16

Washington, Dec 15.-On motion of
Mr.. Chandler of. New Hampshire the
senate today passed the bill directing
the secretary of the navy to report on
the subject of a statue in Washington
City of the Admiral David Porter
Among the many bills introduced was
one by Mr.. Faulkner of West Virginia.
granting a right of way through a
part of Alaska for railroad to the
gold fields, and another by Mr.. Frye OF
Maine providing for the erection Of
steamboats, in the Yukon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16

Upon the resumption of consideration
Of the seal bill, the amendment offered
by Mr.. Pettigrew was defeated. The
bill was then passed by vote of 81
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
TIE Daily tiqGt
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2s. 1897.
GENIUS AND OLD AGE.
The Exercise of Intellect Does Not
shorten Life.

The Exercise Of Intellect Does NOT
shorten Life.
The Gentleman's Magazine, in an
article on the age of Genius tends
to disprove the assertion that brain
power is incompatible with health.
Once we were told that if we wished to
become octogenarians we must lay
aside ambition, we must be careful in
our diet and temperate in our wishes.
We must wait upon our bodies and as
much as possible keep the mind out
of sight. In order to disprove that
counsel, we have only to turn from
empty words to solid fact.
First, to take the great men cele-
brated in war and conquest, since
theirs, also, is species of genius, is
to find the list headed with Xenophon,
Dumouriez and Wellington at Sc, s4
and SO. Thence it continues to Charlie
magne at II. From him the numbers
decline, though not hastily, to Napo-
leon at 81 and, lowest of all, Alexander
the Great, at 80. Nearly 60 per cent. of
the warriors chosen at random reached
the Biblical standard of three score
and ten.
Then, beginning with the great
names of statecraft, there are Frank
lin and Tallyrand, both at "a, Palmer
ston at 81 and Washington at 81, with
the list keeping well up in the tifties,
and at the end slowly falling to AZ.
This is imposing, especially if we add
Gladstone and Bismarck, both well
over their eightieth year.
Science and philosophy begin with
Humboldtats IS, nd.furnishan imposing
list of men whose brains were worked
to the fullest extent. and of whom no
less than 60 per cent. completed their
SEVENTEEN year.
In short, almost one-half the greatest
;geniuses the world has yet seen have
attained the age of 20 years. Let no
one foe deferred from becoming ge-
MUS by the fear of early DEATH
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
THE GRANDEsT REMEDY.

Mr.. r. B. Greeve, of Chilhowie,
Va, certifies that he had consump-
ton, was given up to die, sought IA.
medical treatment that money could
procure tried all cough remedies he
could hear of, but got no relief; spent
many nights sitting up in a chair;
was induced to try DR.. Kings New
Discovery, and was cured by use of
two bottles. For the past three years
has been attending to business, and
says Dr. Kings New Discovery is the
grandest remedy ever made, as it has
done so much for him and also for
others in his community. DR.. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for
Coughs. Colds and Consumption. 1t
don't fail. Trial bottles free at F. Kal.
teyer & Sons Drug Store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
TO WALK ON THE OHIO.
Robert Cook VIII Tramp on Water
~ from Pftfahurxh to Cincinnati.

~ from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.
Robert Cook, of Boston, is in Pitts
burgh arranging to perform the re-
markable feat of walking from Pitts
burgh to Cincinnati ON water, a dis
lance of 400 miles.
Cook is the inventor of pair of shoes
by which he can walk on water. He
claims that with the use of them he
can make as good time as man walk
ing along an asphalt street. While In
Chicago few days ago this was ques-
toned. Cook offered to wager $1,000
that he would walk distance of 400
miles in IA days and do it easily.
This was quickly taken by John
Leopold, West side saloon keeper of
that city. Cook deposited his side of the
bet and the saloon keeper did the same.
The money is now in the hands of a
responsible stakeholder and all that re
mains for Cook to do to be richer by
$1,000 is TO demonstrate his ability to
walk on the Ohio.
The start will be made from the Sixth
street bridge in Pittsburgh, Pa, on Sep
TENDER l at noon. He win be accom-.
panied by small steam launch. After
completing his arrangements here Cook
will go into training on Lake Pobtchar-
train, La. .
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28

nave become thoroughly domesticateu
and satisfied with their surroundings.
One day lately the farmer, wishing
to let them feast awhile on the tender
blades of grass that were sprouting in
an adjoining field, opened the coop and
let the strange flock into the pasture
green and new. And this is where he
made mistake. The half-wild ganders,
geese and goshngs reveled for awhile
amid the verdant grass and new-found
freedom, but never made an effort to
rise above mundane things, and the
experiment was voted a success by the
owners of the flock. They congratulate
ed themselves too soon, however, for
later in the day there came winding
over the Coventry hills, high in air,
snaky black line from which there
floated down into that Crompton farm
er's pasture the "honk, honk" of the
wild goose, sound familiar to sports
men, which it seems the half-wild geese
in the verdant meadow also understood.
Without waiting to bid their owner
goodlby. with one accord the ganders,
geese and goslings arose on new-found
wings to join their free fellows near the
clouds, and before the farmer knew
what had happened they were out of
gunshot. following the black trail to-
ward the southeastern horizon.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
NEW cALIPH or BAeDAo.
He's "A Mig Snake and Is Boss of Tha,
District. t-ftt.ti, Isl

District. Ge
A large brown and black spotted
snake. measuring between ~ and Is
feet in length and as large around as a
'stovepipe, has been terrorizing the
people of the Bagdad district, west OF
Arcola, ILL.,. for the last month. The
snake makes its headquarters in a
thicket of willows about mile south
of the Bagdad bridge on the east bank
of the Okaw river. Several farmers liv-
ing in that neighborhood have been
chased by the snake. People from Ar
cola have heard so much concerning
the snake that all fishing excursions
lave been declared off until it is either
killed or captured. The farmers in the
locality where the snake is frequently
seen have armed themselves with shot
guns and are daily lying in wait to kill
it. There is also talk of party in the.
city organizing for the purpose of
either killing the reptile or trapping it
alive. To what particular species of the
snake family the monster belongs no
one who has seen it is able to say. It's
head is broad and fat and measures
about eight or ten inches across at the.
widest point. Whence it came or how
it CHANGED to locate in its present abode
is, a mystery yet unsolved. At any rate,
the serpent is entirely out of its lati-
tude and alone in its own class. About
two years ago, it is said, a large snake
escaped from a circus which was ex-
hibiting at Arthur, ten miles west of
Arcola, and was never recaptured.
Many are of the opinion that the mon
ster now terrorizing the inhabitants
along the Okaw and the snake which es-
capped from the circus are one and the
same. Numerous pigs and chickens
have disappeared from the farms in the
locality, and it is believed the snake
could account for the loss.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
NO NEED OF PAIN.

Mans most painful Affections are
promptly relieved by Billiards. Snow
Liniment. You will never know all
that liniment can do until you Try
this one. Cures Rheumatism, Neural
gia, Sprains, Brises. ETC., as by magic.
The most penetrating compound ever
devised This case is but one Of thou
sands: 81 had severe attack of
rheumatism. Could not work by day
or sleep at night. Three applications
Of Billiards. Snow Liniment cured me
within "a hours. g. w. Ford, fof
Lyon Supply Coz, Fort Worth, Texas.
Price so cents. Sold by E. Reuss, and
c. Schasse.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
Thrives in Hard Times.

The harder the times the better for
the paperbag maker. The more strin-
gent the financial pressure the greater
the demand for the paper bag. In good
times potatoes are bought by the BUSH
ell, tea in one or two pound packages
and other groceries proportionately;
but when funds are scarce these articles
are purchased in small quantities, thus
creating a demand for the paper bag.
which seems TO walk hand in hand With
hard times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
JOBS OF CHEMISTS.
The queer Class of Patrons That They
Have to Serve.

Chemists sometimes have queer ex-
periences. The following facts, says
the Chicago Journal. were told by
a professor in one of the western
universities: For about ten years
i have made a speciality of examining
and reporting upon cases of real or sus-
pected poisoning. AS number OF my
cases have been connected with murder
trials, l have had considerable notice
in the daily papers. This reputation
for making analyses for poisons has
brought me a queer class of patrons,
Every year have one or more old
men come to me with samples of food
to be examined for poison. These men,
without exception, have married young
wives, and when the husband is taken
sick and does not recover as quickly as
he thinks he should, he begins TO sus-
pect that his young wife wants to get
rid of him, and is poisoning him grad
ually through the medium of his food
OF course he does not want his wife to
know of his suspicious, and he quietly
gets sample of the food he suspects,
and at some unusual hour for work,
generally either early in the morning
or very late in the evening, he comes to
me and tells me very secretly that he
wishes to have an examination for poi
son made .. s.
Now, the odd part is that, though /
have made a number of such analyses,
have never found poison present in
any case. Then the husband is very
much afraid that his wife will find out
that he suspects her, and he gets out
of my laboratory in the quickest and
quietest manner possible. So every
year expect to see some elderly man
coming apprehensively up my office
stairs with well-concealed sample of
food about him to be examined for poi
son. Every year he comes, every year
1 make my analysis and find no poison
and every year the old gentleman gets
information that he considers cheap al
the price"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
BAD MONEY IN A SOFA.
Plot to Overthrow the Costa Rican
Government Is Unearthed.

government Is Unearthe0-
On the Atlas line steamer Alene,
which arrived at New York the other
day from Costa Rica, there came sofa
guarded by two United States secret
service detectives. 1t contained nearly
$500, 900 in Costa Rican counterfeits.
Chief Hazen was informed early in May
that the Costa Rican authorities had ar
rested two men concerned in an at
tempt to overthrow the present gov
eminent there and had found upon
them thousands of counterfeit notes.
These, it is said, were made in great
quantities in New York city and VI
cinity.
Chief Hazen sent agents to investigate
the plot. 1t was upon their cabled adj
vices that Chief Hazen recently caused
the arrest in New York city of Senior
Ricardo de Requezus, a political exile
from Costa Rica, and Eudenia Refine
man, widow, whose home is in Pitts
burgh. but who lived here for o time,
The detectives took charge of it and Sc
cured eight witnesses whose testimony
they considered necessary TO secure
the extradition of DE Requezus and Mrs
Reineman TO Costa Rica.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
DIMINISHING STATURE.
One of the Chief Causes Is the MIL
.r.. tary Service Exacted,


ar tary Service Exacted.
This relation between stature and
health is brought to concrete express
sion in the armies of Europe through
rejection of all recruits for service who
fall below a certain minimum standard
of height, generally about five feet,
The result of this, says Popular Science
Monthly,is to preclude the possibility of
marriage for all the fully developed
men during their three years in the
barracks, while the understood individ-
uals, exempted from service on this ac-
count, are left free to propagate the
species meanwhile. Is it not apparent
that the effect of this artificial selec-
ton is to put distinct premium upon
inferiority OF statue in so far as the
future generations are concerned?
This enforced postponement of mar
riage for the normal man implies not
merely that the children of normal
families are born later in life-that
would not be of great moment in itself
lit means far more than this. The ma
jority of children are more often born
in the earlier half of married life. be-
fore the age of IS. Hence a postpone
ment of matrimony means not only
later children but fewer children.
Herein lies the great significance of the
problem for US. Standing armies tend
in this respect to overload succeeding
generations with Inferior types of men.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
HIS RICHES TOOK WINGS.
a Farmers Treasured Geese Take a
Notion to Fly,

notion to Fly.
A Pawtuxet valley farmer, whose
farm is near the village of Crompton,
had a literal disqualification a few
days ago of the old adage which says
that Riches take unto themselves
wings and fly away" says the Provi-
dence Journal. Something over a year
ago he and his son fired at a flock of
wild geese that flew over his farm and
managed to bring down nearly two
score of them. About ID of the birds
were only wounded, and, surviving the
shooting, were SO carefully kept that in
year their captors had succeeded by
judicious breeding in increasing the
stock 10 over 20 geese and gosIings.
They were kept in pen thas was COW
cred with wire netting. and seemed to
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-28
costly Crowns.

One of the most costly crowns in the
world is that OF the king of Portugal.
The jewels which ornament it are
valued at $s,50O,000. Queen victoria's
crown is valued at $1.soO,OO0. In his
state clothes, including the crown, the
sultan Of Johore wears diamonds
worth S12.000.O00.
The herald., 1897-03-14

said: Another effort will be made 10
secure Cole Younger's pardon. Whether
Senator Ellxins IL interesting himself in
the matter I DON'T know. He should do
so. Younger saved his life during the
war"
There is a Boston church where the
contribution box has small bell con-
cealed in it, which rings only when a
deposit ic made. The collection is taken
during the sermon, and the stingy
churchgoers are thus easily detected
Shakespeare wrote Native and to the
manner born" ITO the manor born Is
believed to be an American innovation.
There Is not a single editor of Shake
speare who admits that reading; but
there is a wide belief in it-absolutely
ungrounded.
1t rs the custom in the Rothschild
family to purchase six pearls, each cost
ing E100 at the birth of each girl baby
Upon each birthday six more pearls are
added to the original nest egg, so thai
when the young woman makes her de
but into society caslVet of magnificent
gems Is presented to her.
Russia has the same sort of grotesque
juries that Kansas City is frequently
afflicted with. A short time ago the
foreman of a Russian jury declared he
would not vote to send a culprit to pris-
on because 1t happened to be the fore
mans birthday. The prisoner thus IS
capped. Another jury agreed on verdict
of guilty, when the church bells began TO
ming, and then revised the verdict be-
cause holiday had begun. A notorious
burglar was acquitted because the man
he robbed had refused to lend him
money. This. the jury declared. was =
direct incentive to crime.
As early as the sixteenth century the
woman question was a knotty problem,
puzzling the wise men of that period.
Are Women Human Beings?" was ths
startling Inquiry proposed by bishop
at the famous council of Macon, and sew
eral sessions were devoted to the consid-
Grafton of the important subject. The
point was not considered jocular or friv-
olous, and the good fathers earnestly
and gravely undertook the task of as
signing to woman her proper place in
creation. They finally decided that she
did not belong to the world of mutton.
beeves or goats" but was, in reality. a
human being This decision was made
only after something of a struggle. AS
II was not an ecumenical council, the
faithful were advised that the decision
was not binding on them.-Kansas City
Star. a
The herald., 1897-03-14

by some of the highly cultured tribes of
Mexico or Yucatan. A party, for some
unknown reason, set out north, carry
ing this little box and, on account OF a
decrease of strength, either through
sickness or war, buried the manuscript
at the point where 1t was found. 1t is
not at all probable, that the whole thing
is hoax, for If 1t were a fake we must
account for the knowledge on the part
of the workman who found it of Aztec
and Maya glyphs. which is not in the
least probable There are very few
men in this country who know anything
about these hieroglyphics and it would
be impossible for anyone in Fairfield 10
make them unless he had work at hand
containing plates of the Maya hero
glyphics. There are only few such
books in existence and they are very
high priced
1.-The characters are not indian. ror
instance, take the grotesque human ng'-
ure, shown in the middle section, around
which Is the sun symbol The sun SYM
boil, with the character in the lett raru
upper corner Of this middle piece ard
all the characters in the upper piece are
very like these upon the tablets OF Cen
trail American ruins and to the four
manuscripts or books observed in the
European museums. Combination OF
straight lines and dots are strong proof
of the southern origin of the manuscript.
There have been several frauduient
The herald., 1897-03-14
ExAcr REPRODUCTION MADE BY PROF. MooREHEAD

sculptured stones found In the United
States but they are all totally different
from this and do not appear either alb
original in concept or execution.
Il have sent the box and the birch
bark to the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington for further examination
with a request for an opinion as 10 their
meaning and age. Whatever may be
said. the find is one Of great interest
and value to the archaeological world
and there is every indication that 1t
points to an exploring party sent north
from the Aztec country.
WARREN X. MOREHEAD,
Curator Department of Archaeology,
Ohio State University"
The most generally accepaed belief
concerning the Aztecs' has been that they
came from some portion Of Asia 1t is
supposed they made their advent into
Mexico about the year 1130, for from tha:
time, or soon after, their history seems
to have been interviewer with that of
the Toltecs, race of people who seem
to have left records of history before
the Aztecs began to make evidence of
theirs, although the latter are declared
by archaeologists to have antedated the
Toltecs in point of residence in Mexico
Owing to the indefiniteness which
has enshrouded the origin of this re-
markable people, there has been any
The herald., 1897-03-14

brought to light ct rare intervals, OF
the residence in various portions OF the
country of members of the Aztec race
in fairly good numbers.
All this has, of course, been very large
ly theory, because the authenticity of
the evidence referring to the Aztecs has
been frequently denied. At last, how
ever, there seems to be something tam
gible in this Iowa discovery That a
mere workman should be able to coun-
terfeit the Aztec characters and all that
goes with them, is of course, an impos-
sibility The peculiar formation of the
characters referred to ahows, as Pro-
fessod Moorhead states, that they 81 sre
not the product of the skilled hand of a
scholar of any tribe of the red Indians.
Only the Aztec himself or some one of
modern days well learned in the Aztec
hieroglyphics could have prepared the
birch bark manuscript.
1t is hardly to be supposed that a
scholar such as the counterfeiter of such
a manuscript would of necessity be would
stoop even to commit so clever forgery.
The result of the examination by the
Smithsonian institution experts will,
therefore, be awaited with eager inter-
est Its effects on history cannot be es-
timated.