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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
LIFE ON TIE K1oND1KE.

For months past the papers have
been filled with accounts of the hard
ships encountered by all who went in
search of the great Ell Dorado of the
north but little has been said of the
life there after it is reached. A cor
respondent Of Chicago paper tells in
part what that life is, and it is ex-
actly the same as would be expected.
in any boom mining town. This cor
respondent says that the dance halls
open about or o'clock in the even
ing and band plays on till in the
morning. A dozen or more women,
many with young and rather pretty
faces, are in attendance. They have
little or no time to rest between the
dances and when the morning dawn
comes peeping over the mountain sum
mits they are a tired looking crowd
The amusement continues night after
night. The halls are crowded with
gallant beaux, the most of them hay
ing heavy spiked bottom shoes and
broad-brimmed hats. Costumed in the
regulation mining suits and with ci-
gars between their teeth, they present
an odd appearance indeed. The dance
halls are constructed of hewn logs,
roofs covered with moss and earth and
low ceilings Each dance costs 81, and
one man in three nights spent seven
ounces of gold, or $119 for the luxury
In some of the halls free fight is al
most certain to conclude the festivities
along toward morning. Occasionally
men will come to blows in attempting
to win the hand of some woman for
the succeeding dance. Fair play is
the watchword, and the best skilled
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

pugilistic gladiator goes to the head of
the set and his rival goes home.
That is an exact description of the
same gay life" that was seen in the
sixties when the Union Pacific railroad
was being built. And these women,
many of them with young and rather
pretty faces" are jades of the worst
kind; at least they were on the Union
Pacific and there is no reason to be-
lieve they are any different on the
Klondike.
This same correspondent says that
the saloons are running wide open"
and do not pay a license. What will
be a surprising thing to many is that
they sell very fair class of bever-
ages. Drinks and cigars are so cents
apiece, while two local breWeries can
not supply the demand for steam beer
at $125 a key. Everything is paid for
in gold dust, the customer passing his
sack over the bar, while the barkeeper
takes enough dust to settle the ac-
count.
This correspondent says there are
fifteen saloons doing business and
others are preparing to open every day.
The receipts for sixty days last spring
in one saloon amounted to $124,500, and
the day the successful miners were
taking their departure on the first
steamer of the season the receipts
amounted to $780, Hardly saloon in
town is receiving less than $500 a day,
besides winning large sums of money
at the gambling games. Barkeepers are
paid from $3.50 to $40 a day, and even
the porters, where such luXuries are
deemed necessary, are paid from $3.50
to So
Not an inviting picture all this, sure
ly, yet it was out of just such materi
ais as are found at Dawson City that
Bret Harte wove his immortal ro
mances. Up in the Klondike there may
be a "Tennessee's Partner or THE
Outcasts of Poker Flat" Where the
currents of life run strong and fast
there are always joy and sadness, hope
and disappointment, romance in abund-
ance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
SUNSET BY THE SEA.


| stood upon a cliff, whose sheer dark side
Went shelving downward steeply to the
shore.
A sultry haze had all that day enwrapped
The heavens, and earth, and OCEAN. Over
The tyrlant sun famed in his sapphire
realm,
And, merciless untfred abated not
The cruel brightness of his wanton fires.
Parched WAS the earth and fevered. Ev'ry
flower.
Dropped it's sweet head, the very birds
No kindly awning of wind-fretted cloud
Chequered the swaying corn with ripping
shade.
And motionless upon its molten waves
The fishing boats upreared their baffled
wings.
But now the pallor of the dying day
MellOWed the sfeeGy sky to softer hues.
At last the sun mad stopped, in act to dip.
Beneath the oceans rim, yet westward
still
The blood-red glory of his orb did stain
The sullen clouds with crimson. One
bright shaft
OF quivering, dancing light, athwart the
Reached from the western heavens to the
shore.
Save for that lambert path, the earth and
Sank down beneath the sceptre of the
The breeze that swooned away and died
sobbed itself back to life; and homeward
bound
A brown-sailed ship forged slowly through
the waves,
And passed into the flood of fairy light.
Lo! Fer moment she was glorifed,
Enkindled were her masts and taDering
yards,
And wreaGned with golden fire. Around
her hull
Soft sighed the PHOSPHORUS ripples, till
she passed
Into the dim and darlzling space beyond,
And all her borrowed radiance fled away
Slowly the gorgeous hues did fade and die
Wherewith the sun doth on his latter path
Incarrad[ne the armament of God
A moaning sigh was waited from the sea-
The long grass shuddered on the wind
swept cliff,
Far, far below me- could hear the plash
OF breakers on the beach, though all that
day
vofceless had been their ebb Upon my
ear
Fell the gulIs scream and round about
my head,
Grim qnyrmidons of night, the dusky bats
Wheeled on their phantom fight, and one
by one
From ship and harbor flashed the twink
ling lights
OF mightier beacons in the starIit sky.
R. q. P. in The Spectator.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14


ing a preachers son it would naturally
. IN .tnat he ought to be wild and worth
less, but, as you know, he is one of Fiae
nnest fellows in this town.
Still it must not be forgotten that the
old gentleman isn't q. very good preacher"
Tft-Bfts: The Blonde-"I wonder if I
Shall ever live to be a fundred?''
The Brunette-''Not if you remain q
much longer.
Harpers Bazar: Old Golfer-..How
many holes have you hame?"
New Golfer Cwho has not reached the
first green)-.Not more than four or five,
and 1 put the truf right back
Cleveland Leader: His Notion of It
Why she asked, ''do so many of the
poets write about goldenrod? 1t seems as
if eve1v one of them had tried to glorify
'eWen." replied the man who had worked
on farm, 'the only explanation l can
give is That the poets probably never tried
TO raise potatoes in a field where golden
rod had got q good start"
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Did you ever
see Miss G 6 r, when She didn't wear
= say; saw her at the seaside when she wore
what 90 you consider the saddest
music in the world, Mr.. Cardinal Beak?''
Wind blowing Through the mouth of an
empty bottle
Chicago Tribune: Papa, how old were
you when the war broke out?'
L was about IL
You went to the war. didn't you?"
20. yes. l was a. suffer-
What is a Sutler?'
"a suffer is ais en- army man that
generally leads in the charges
You must have been awfully brave,
papa. Why dfdn' you get a pension?'
with some reluctance) 81 do"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

The Kansas City Star thinks it is
not so certain that the government of
the United States should turn over the
care and protection of immigrants ar
irving at New York to benevolent
company that proposes to do the work
and realize a small profit in the opera
ton. The system of extending the
strong arm of the government over the
newly landed has worked we'll, and its
establishment in New York ended an
atrocious course of swindling, robbery
and even violence. 1t is, besides, the
duty of the government to keep an eye
on the open doors of the country.
There exists no barrier against the ex-
tension of sympathy and charity to the
stranger within our gates, after the
government has first extended its hos
FATALITIES.
The Star has the right idea of the
matter. Turn the immigrants over to
the tender mercies of any company
and they will be. exploited.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

General Miles hasn't come forward
for a week or more with any new
plans for protecting the American gov
eminent from the American people.
Perhaps he hasn't recovered from the
severe jolt that Alger gave him a few
days since.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

1t will be interesting to read what
President Mckinley has TO say in his
message about the Dingiey law as a
revenue producer. 1t has been any
thing but a success. VIII he meet that
fact fairly and squarely in the face, or
will he gloss it over?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
LYCEUM THEATRE.
Thursday Evening. Nov. IS.


Grand reception to Supreme Commander
Record Keeper George ]. S1egle. of New
York. by Salt Lake Tent No. 2, Knights Of
the Macca bees.
1-Quartette-"T Night Is Still.
..............-.-.....-.. Willis Clark
Melssrs. Thomas, Bsrrleigh, Scheid and
Jayne.
...............Ho Hon. ]. w. Wright
Mss Maud May Babcock.
Address OF Welcome 20 Supreme
Commander d. p. Marley, by
Governor H. NJ. Wells.
piano Solo-(O The Nightingale
n, ;:so,rees de- V;c3ne No 61s0s
(from Valse Noble SchUberD ......Liszt
Tnon-us Radcliffe, A. G.. o.
............ Hon. George j. Siegle
Great Record Keeper of New York;
Mrs. Anna Colburn Plummer.
S-AddTesS. .............. Hon ID. r. Marley
Supreme Commander of the Knights OF
the Macca.bees of the World)
R ]. Thomas.
1O-Recttat.on. Observation-Disclosures. Selected
MISS Maud May BabcOck.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
,....... Mrs. DIR. Barnes Durango, Colo.
Deputy Supreme Commander of '"The
Supreme Hive
12-Quartette, 'Suwanee River. -.
MeissrS. Thomas, Burleigh, SChetd and
Chairman of the evening. w. A Wight,
Pas5 Commander, salt Lake City Tent
Thomas Radcliffe. A. C. o.. Accompanied
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
tt-MowreY.

On Wednesday last, Miss Zina Now
reg and Mr.. Charles r. Pratt were
married at the temple by Elder John
r. Winder. A reception was given in
the evening ct the home of the brides
parents. 412 North Second West street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
ear The FAILING of her feet

II hear the falling of her feet
\ hundred yards adown the street:
she sets my happy heart to drumming,
And the whole world shakes when she's
comingl"
So sings or says a Georgia poet. That
girl must possess the variety of feet
that makes footprints on the sands Of
time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Wasatch Wave: We suppose it will now
be in order for President Mckinley to
issue a proclamation declaring gold to be
the orGy legal tender for the payment Of
debss in the United States. Would it not
apart day of fasting and prayer in
which uae people of the United States
shull meekly and reverendly bow the head
and bend the knee in humble submission,
anil give thanks to this mighty God of
commerce for the great and glorious
privilege that we as free born and liberty
loving citizens of this glorious Union en-
JOY in being allowed to remain upon this
earth and worship ait Gis sacred shrine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

salt Lake City certainly cannot af-
ford to dispense with the high school.
1t would be leaving out a cog of the
educational wheel" says the Provo
Utonian. OF course it cannot; and it
is not going to.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

The Louisville Dispatch says that the
sale of the Union Pacific ought to cause
the impeachment Of President McKin-
ley and Attorney General McKenna. 1t
Will not; that is certain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
Building Permits.

During the week permits to build
were issued as follows:
Mrs. w. f. Dickert, $50 South
Main street, rebuilding resi-
dence after fire 81 500
j. G. Anderson, jr., Second
street between p and @, brick
dwelling -. ................ 1900
r. f. McConaughy, Q street near
Second, brick dwelling ......... 1900
H. Brisacher, 279 South Main
street, alterations .. 500
Silver Bros. Iron Works COM
pany, 149 West North Temple
street brick addition - 800
j. r. Walker. 16 to 20 West Sec
ond South street, alterations. 800
Seven minor permits. .......... $50
Total ...... 81 $50
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
The "Glass Even Game.

Kansas City Star: The glass eye" is a
brand new confidence game in this part
of the world. The necessary requirements
are a one-eyed man, a rwo-eyed man and
a. glass eye. 1t was tried a Union
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

1.-THE surrender of the Greater New
York to Tammany is a. crime against
civilization" says the New York Tri-
bune. If it is. it was committed by the
people of Greater New York
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Considering how the peaches, apples
and pears are infested with worms,
one would think an orchardist would
hate to be known by his fruits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Very recently the country has broken
the gold record, there being in the coun-
try on Nov. !, 1920, 661, 21O in gold. A
stock of gold like that is staff to lean
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

A Kansas City Christian Scientist
was fired $50 for violating the city or
dinances. There may be no pain. but
she felt that all right CROUCH.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Miss Oglesby took young Pullman at
his word when he said she was free to
break the engagement. He shouldn't
run such a bluff.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

The New York World says that
rapid transit is in sight at last" Why
not take an instantaneous photograph
of it?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

The Idaho Populists want fiat money
The man who wants fiat money should
be given a cold potato. and let him go.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Henry Watterson no doubt regards
himself as sort of Marius seated on
the ruins of Carthage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Durrant will linger till the robins
nest again, and probably longer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Georgia Will abolish football. but re-
tain her convict system. Vice versa
would be better.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Seth Low is a great educator. but he
learned q number of things in the late
campaign that he never knew before.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

1.-THE Blue Monkey" is the title of
new piece by Owen Hall, author Of
1.-THE Geisha." 1t must be a mandril,
instead OF a ballet
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Unquestionably, more people perish
on the football field than on the gall
lows, in this country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Richfield Censor: The immense number
of safe-cr9 ckfngs and other. crimes that
founding There was q time in Utah
when most every theft was traced to its
perpelrator ana punished, and when for a
burglar or other criminal seldom went
unpublished, but it is no longer so, and
punishment no longer being sure, crime
t1ourishes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Canada is just as neighborly as can
be, but she should endeavor to be
more friendly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

1t was really considerate of Mr..
Cleveland to call the boy Richard Fol-
som, instead of Grover.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Tom Reed would straighten out the
Austrian reichsrath in less time than
it takes to say Jack Robinson"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

The Republicans talk of running Seth
Low for governor of New York. Hasn't
Seth had enough running?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

The high school is just as necessary
to a complete public school system as
the grade schools are.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

If all the harbors of the country are
to be fortified, what is the use of taking
ten years in which TO do it?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Evanston, Ill. has a curfew law.
This is the nearest approach to an
admiration for Gray that the town
heS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

DR.. Hunter has become a minister.
This result was accomplished by long
praying Cor an Office.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Sir Robert Peel didn't fight that duel
after all. Somehow or other the prin-
cipals seem to have slipped on a banana
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

sahna Press: o. cruel fatel The dis
patches announce that the next post
master of Richfield is to be an Ohio man.
The non-partisan course of the Richfield
Advocate during the campaign just
O. regular reader of the paper. and John
Meter will not succeed Seegmiller. Verify
all flesh is graSsl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Van wyck may be snubbed, but he
can't be snuffed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

While every rose mas its thorn, Mar
tin Thorn does not seem to have any
rose.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

John c. Bullitt's currency plan shows
him to be round-headed, if not level
headed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.


Chicago Chronicle: The conflict of
opinion between Judge jackson and Judge
Jenkins as 10 the right Gu transfer under
the civil service law IS inter sting IN more
ways than one. Judge Jackson holds THAI
civil service appointees T.ag not be trans
ferrei TO subordinate positions. Judge
Jenkins has held that they may be 10
transferred at The option of their
superiors. The effect of the conflicting de-
ciS!OnS will be to establish one tenure of
office for federal employees in Wst Vir-
ginia and Totally different one in Illinois.
st. Louis Republic: This nation is in a
sorry blight when it's. attorney general
acknON leuges that he.is depending upon
the philanthropy of j. Pierpont Morgan
to get the full amount of the government S
claim in the Kansas Pacific. Morgan's
philanthropy begins at home and stays
there.
Atlanta Journal: Sugar cane is ripe,
and sugar p'ilin' time has arrived in
southern Georgia. When the poet wrote
of .Lengthened sweetness, long drawn
out he evidently had in mind Georgia
candy pulling during this festive season.
Houston Post: Agents of the Spanish
government are in Texas purchasing cat
tie with which to feed the Spanish army
in Cuba, and at Hampstead the other day
they bought several hundred beeVes to
fill q long-felt want in the line indi-
Gated. We will help them out in this Way,
50 IOll5 DIS luCy pay SpOI Cdsoli, Oul WITCH
it comes to a question of sympathy, we
are ali on the other side.
Nashville American: If the national
government should assume control of
quarantine regulations, so far as yellow
fever is concerned. the exercise of the
prerogative would very likely never be
required in Yhe interior of the country. A
proper guard ON the coast would shut it
out
Baltimore Sun: The crushing rebuke adj
minfstered' on Tuesday in this state to
boss1sm and machine pOl1tics lessons. if
it does not destroy, whatever little signffi-
canoe might otherwise attach to the fail
ure of the constitutional amendment
relating TO the merit system" to receive
the ratification of the popular vote. The
defeat of Gormanism and RasiniSm, the
embodiment of everything that is opposed
and abhoTrent to civil service reform, was
a greater victory for reform than the
adoption of a dozen such amendments
would have been.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
STATE PRESS coMmENTs.

Bingham Burelan: The Ogden Evening
Press (eoldbug) speaks almost di5re-
spec6fully of our worthy president. Can it
be TINT the administration cook forgot
to put sugar in the pie carved for the
genial Press editor?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
WIT AND HUMoR.

Detroit Free Press: Not the Word for
It-"HenTy isn't this pumpkin pie L made
you q poem'
Poem? Josephine, tell you solemnly
the editor who would throw That in the
waste basket ought to be hanged"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Pay4on Globe: Some of the election
judges an Salt Lake City nave given evil
dence that they don't know how to count
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Judge: An Up-to-Date Twist-She-
what is lover
He-'Two saddles with but single
frame; two sDrockets that turn as one"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Puck: Not His Fault-Father McDun
(severely)-''You Should be ashamed OF
yourself, ODonnell. You never know
when you have enough.
O'Donne,l-"An' shure yer reverence is
roight. OF never know! Whin Oh gets
enough Dim insinsible.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Chicago News: Accounting, for It
George Winding is an enigma to me-. Be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Atlanta Journal: Sugar. cane is ripe,
and sugar b lin time has arrived in
southern Georgia When the poet wrote
of Heightened sweetness, long drawn
out" he evidently had in mind a Georgia
candy pulling during this festive season.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

what 90 you consider the saddest
music in the world Mr. Cardinal Beak?''
Wind blowing Through the mouth of an
empty bottle
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Did you ever
see Miss Grinaway when She didn't wear
that srn;le?"
81 saw fer at the seaside when she wore
but little else
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Tft-Bits: The Blonde-'I wonder if I
shall ever live to be a. l1undred?'
The Br-unette-"Not if you remain %
much longer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

Cleveland Leader: His Notion of It
Why" she asked, do so many of the
poets write about goldenrod? 1t seems as
If .evelU one of them had tried to gloTify
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-24
Baldwin.

Under the Red Robe" is still holding
forth at the Baldwin, where tomorrow
might it commences the second and last
week Of its engagement THE actors have
evinced disposition toward i'm mprovement
in their work, and at any rale the audi
ences seem to be exceedingly we'll iIn-
pressed with Mr.. Roses dramatiZation,"
says the press agent. The play is really
excellent one of the best rom antic pieces
we have had recently, and in the part of
Renee de Cochetoret Miss Mary Hampton
does considerable good acting, strong in
conception and feeling. Mr. McGIynn is
very much TO the good. too, in the panto-
mimic role of Cion.
The next attraction at the Baldwin will
be Lost, Strayed or Stolen," a musical
comedy affair that made reputation in
New York last year. We are promised
Fred G. Whitney's original comrany.
The piece has been likened by travelled
writers to two or three hours visit to
Paris, so truthful is the phase of Partisan
lite. The company includes: Charles
Dickson, Harry Clay BIaney. Harry al.
len, c. j. Alden, Charles E. Burke. Bert
Thayer, Lucius Henderson, Al Hol brook,
Harry Rigley, Anna O'Keete, Mabel
Bouton, Oriska Wooden, Marie Mather
and Adelaide Nye.