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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24
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In the rush OF business and events the
otuzens OF Houston must not forget that
the matter OF bayou Improvement is the
overshado~ans objest Of the hour with
this city and the direction and basis OF our
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Mr.. Edgerton and Mr.. Washburn have
been heard from. but Barney GIBBS and
Russ kingsbury have not yet been To-
GATED
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Senator Lerow's X-ray doesn't seem to
be strong enough 20 locate the missing
records of the sugar trust.
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sp.ci.i sian Comnissioners.

AT AUSTIN-L. A. Petit, Office In the
State Capitol Building.
AT DALLAS-Jaines Hays Cnarles
Windsor Hotsl
All GALVEsroN-J. II. Sullivan. office
In the Evening Tribune Building.
TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
Editorial, EL Business. ls6
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into trouble a. home The sun wants the
fair operators called "typographers.
Tho two great events down on the pro-
gramme for March are presidential in
augiraiion and prize fight.
weyler has almost dropped out Of notice
since Greece set the wheels 10 gong IN the
Eas., However. another sdici IS about
due from the captain general. and he gen.
orally makes them ridiculous enough to
attract passing attention.
III one must drink" says Evangelist
Moody. 'let him drink whisky" Has Mr..
Moody date in Kentucky?
Mr.. wolcort cables that he feels as II he
had accomplished something by hts trip
abroad A man who has been well dlned
and extensively winei generally feels as
II he had not been living altogether in
vain.
Mr. Edger,on and Mr. washburn have
been heard from. but Barney GIBBS and
Russ kingsbury have not yet been To-
Gated.
bill for the establishment OF a char
ny pawnShop in Chicago has been intro
duced in the Illinois legislature. Possibly
Il will be a place to dispose OF the ard
eles gotten out OF churcn fair grad Dag.
me bankruptcy b'll penang IN the se"-
ATE appears 10 DE bankrupt IN resources
ana chances' so FAR as fh's congress Is
concerned
70, ~. w.. -. - .
49,, T-.,.ss s,.a nus e.IIes ma ~ ~, ~, ~
- ss'',l.e %, re u,u ,,..
,1-,.'.-, -, "e "'' ,,s,r.
-, 80. a,' -,l.,,,'s
N'''' ""'e" ''c sel.1.e an u'p'"u
Governor PIngree OF Michigan may be
induced to resign the ofhce OF mayor OF
Detroit when he sees the potato crop
properly planted. --.
- go. ,,- go. - ".'r
80, - ,. ""N !" ~
49, INC ~ a. .''e &C. "a '''e
- Va Ni'' sl'e "'' every o''E WIN
n"No cnahce 10 go on board
AT any rate, Governor bushnell mad
f't!e qu'nt ira out OF denna- Mckinney
Co y man might as well be Killed as
scared to death.
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From the New York Wort
THE SUICIDE
OF AN
ADMINISTRATION.

kinley has definitely decided to make
John j. McCook attorney general is not yet
authoritatively confirmed But, as tho
Worlds news fortnight ago gave reason
to fear and its dispatches yesterday more
plainly indicated. 1t wears every aspect Of
probability.
If 1t is true. 1t is harl -karl for the Nc
kinley administration. 1t Is an appoint
ment dictated by the trusts and corpora
lions and made for the spocin, purpose of
preventing that enforcement OF the law
against those conspirators for which more
thar Tor anything else the people are clam
orous.
Hard pressed in New York and other
States, these conspirators OF Greed aerinst
Need sent John Il. Seares 10 Canton two
weeks ago, as was cXclusivciy reported in
the World 10 demand that an attorney ac-
ceptable TO themseves should be made At
torney general, in order that the National
statutes against them might not he enforced.
Al SearIes insolent demand has IN fact
been complied with. popular respect for the
mckinley administration is at an end be-
lore IL mas begun. and popular indignation
over this new betrayal OF confidence will
find early and emphatic means of express
ing itself. 80
The laws against trusts were enacted nv
congress In response to an Irresistible non
ular demand for protection against robbery.
Mr. Harrison defeated the peoples pt,1pose
uy appointing an incompetent attorney as
chlei law officer of the government The
people resented the aifront at the pollg in
1870 and as no atonement was made thev
swept the republican party out q place in
iNH3 by an overwhelming majority.
Ihe World pointed tho moral to Mr.
IteVeland In advance of his Inauguration
II plainly told him that his administrator
| must stand or fall by his selection M m
| attorney general w
thheeding the warning, and with TINT
duil lnsenslbility to public opinion which is
MS dominant characteristics Mr. trlavol,r1
with renewed pledges OF hostility TO trusts
| sun not upon his lips-selected as his st.
,orney general Richard Olney, the hired
Iawyar OF the whisky Trust and organizer
OF railway combinations, who Ind ei~cadv
committed himself in writing and in win,
10 the doctrine that all antitrust lceisla
| 'ioh Is necessarily Unconstitutional ond
VINO IL Is said. scandalously stipulated ,ha,
IN becoming attorney general he should M,
ne required TO give up his practice as IT.
| torney for the trusts
| Olney served his masters we'll -,
promptly lost the cases carefuI,v ,'., i'
| by MS predecessor to be lost, and be T.,
| stthted no new ones. In his frst ,n,,a
report ne ridiculed the credulity thai ho
iieved that antitrust laws could ho on
| forced u ne en-
me election Of last November furnlsbsj
the peoples answer. "'N's"9'
II now Mr.. Mckinley has consented >,
iet me trusts select his attorney rrr, r W
IN the same way there Is now ana hora a. a.
eng 10 the possibility OF success for u'
nn,ni administration. There remain,
| nothlhS but "a fearful looking for ~ ia
ment'' and the judgment will cnmn w i smi;,
aha sure and cyclonic, at the polls '"'
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Richard Harding Davis. who has been
studying the situation IN Cuba. writes
mat could Frs-,den. Cleveland make q
weeks tar through Cuba. he would de-
care war on Spain by cable" All OF
Nhioh spAs 70 prove that Sir. Davis is
api familiar with the prossiAnt's war rec
-
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

Lady OF Certain Age--i ike IN
but 1t doesn't match my complezlm
Candid Friend--oh, that's oW ) =
You can alter your complexion y"
Wrinkles.
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CURRENT FUN.

Sometimes a baby gets to y ~
months old before her father RAN
there are other things 10 talk so'al
erville Journal.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

A bill for the establishment OF a char
ny pawnShop in Chicago has been intro
duced In the Illinois legislature. Possibly
Il will be a place to dispose OF the ard
cies gotten out of church fair grab bag.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

The rival points OF isgtsrest IN the United
s'sk,ss jss, now are Canton and Carson.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

II he vita'scope company Is anxious TO
SECURE sonpe good Vows OF contortonst
Sork. s. should send a machine to record
tho recent political syrat ons OF certain
Texas newspaps ~ which during the cam
Daign posed a. Mckinley organs of tho
Palmer and B,ckner brand.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

Christian England" has made hu-
initiating spectacle OF herself in Smelling
Christians who are struggling for free
dom from the Mohammedan yoke,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

II Mr. Hanna imagnes that he con run
the United States senate as he did his
campaign contnattccs he will be greatly
disappointed-there are other synd!cates
upon which the senate can depend.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

The bankruptcy bill pending In the SEN
ate appears to be bankrupt IN resources
and chances. so far as this congress is
concerned.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

One smart Photographer thinks that the
fact that the bl;tiesh!p Texas did not try
10 sink wh..e at Galveston would indicate
thar the Island City was pretty good at a
hnlh-nn
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

Some of the other States in the West are
becoming jealous of Nevaia's prominence.
They ough, to wait uniI about the Goth
Of March and then feel carson's pulse be-
fore rushing into Legislation.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

At any rate. Governor Bushnell had a
little quat fun ont of Herna, Mckinley
& Co. 4 man might as well be killed as
scared to death
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

To VI Fitz ana corbstt tell Il. man
has Dad cinch Whichever way ne bets.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

Governor Pingree of Michigan may be
induced to resign the office OF mayor of
Detroit when he sees the potato crop
properly planted.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

In a few years some gunboat Will be
tanned after Houston and receive silver
service fron the city at the wharf at the
foot OF Main street and everybody will
have chance to go on board
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

The manager of the sugar trust who has
been 80 skillfully battling the questions of
the LeXow commission receives $4,000 a
year No wonder Mr. Searles Is so full OF
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-24

The interest on SPANS debt of 81. 0oO. CO.,
oD is !so.cpoco per year, one OF the re-
forms she would Ike TO saddle on cuba
IS the payment of IA big slice OF that debt.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03
Notes and Personals.

Mr.. w. T. Joues was reare1 and In
turn has reared family here in
Ljgan, but is now going to leave tor
Salt Like. For long time he b 3
b.en managing the III. Dinwoode y
furniture compnny's branch business
here, and now that it has closed mp he
goes to continue in the cOmpany's en-.
pioy at tho capital. MIR. aud Mrs.
Jones are ective members of the Sixth
ward; when 1t was learned they were
going TO leave q surprise party YVES
planned, anu on Tuesday event. z
eliminated in very pleasing and
successful affair. Ice cream and cake
were served, s0ngs were sum, st9rlts
told and appropriate speeches made by
Elder Ors1n Smith, president Of the
Stake, Superintendent OF Sunday
Schoole O.C. Ormsby. and others.
Yesterday Sheriff Turner brought
i've little boys In from Alto school
district and had them arraigued before
Justice w. N. Thomns ON q charge Of
egg stealing. All plesC ed guilty, and
two Of the muir Der pleaded guilty to
breaking into the house from which
the eggs were stolen. One wa. fined
$50, another SIS, two were fined $40
sscb, and the Fl tn was let or with a
lecture.
On Monday last, while Mrs. Thomas
Lewis, her two little children. aged
nine and thirteen, and Miss Emma
Kewiey, were returning from the Gem.
eiery, the Old family horse they urove
became frightened and ran away.
The carriage was broken to spliuters
ana the occupants narrowly escaped
with their lives. AS 1t 10, they ME
suffering from cuts, bruises and
sprains, the effects OF which may be
felt for months to come.
Ex.County Attorney Sam j. Rich
has lett Logan for Bear Lake. He ex-
poets to visit awhile In his old h0me
in Paris and will then seek a location
somewhere up in the Snake River
country.
w. j. Ridd, travelling passenger
agent Tor the Rio Grsnde Western, Ia In
Logan on busineaS,
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viii serve His Sentence.

The Supreme Court handed down an
opinion yesterday in the case of the
Stale OF Uish VS. Brigham Spencer,
affirming the judgment OF the court
below.
The opinion is written by Justice
Miner and CONQUERED In by Chief Jus.
lice Zane and District Judge Charles
b. Hart. '-
The defendant WAS charged, along
with another de'endant named Divis,
with the larceny OF several head OF
cattle, in Garfield county, In May o.
last year. The complaint was dis-
missed against the other defendant
when he was used AZ witness against
Spencer. 1t was alleged as grounds OF
error that the testimony of the other
defendant was not cUrroborated by
any other witness ami that 1t was
never shown ut the trial that defend
ant was bound over by the committing
magistrate end that the judges charge
to the jury was unfair to the deienu-
ant. The court holds that none OF these
grounds were well taken AMI afiirms
the judgment OF the lower court.
Defendant was sentenced BY Judge
McCarty to one year In the state
prison. His term began on the 18th Of
December last.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03
Training Glass Exercises.

The Numerous iriends o. Mis-, Alice
Chaplin will regret to learn tina. she
intends leaving the State in the near
future for her eastern home. For the
last three years and more the talented
lady has been engaged In instructiDg
mothers and young ladies the art OF
training and teaching the youth, and
doubtless her lahore Will besr good
iruit for all time to come.
Before taking her leave Miss Chaplin
will be pleased to meet all her former
pupils once more at the closing exer.
cisss OF her kindergarton training Glass
next Friday evening, at the First
Presbyterian church, Besides being
instructive the exercises, Commencing
at O'Clock p. NJ, Will prove enter.
tanning, aud Mics Chaplin hopes to
meet large number OF her appreci-
alive friends on that occasion.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03
A PIONEER IN CALIFORNIA.
Interesting II, minIscences Of an Old.
1ims Resident OF Utah.
SANTA ANA, Cal, :
May %, 1897.

SANTA ANA, Cal,
May 20, 1897.
Spencer Clawson:
crossed the Plains from Missouri
river to Salt Lake Valley in Is47 with
my mother, Magdaleua Moesser, and
was the oldest OF five children, my
fat her, Frederick ii. Moesser, having
spostatized In Nauvoo. coming no
farther; was born In Pitteburg, AL.
leg hany Co.. PEI nsylvania, going from
Psnnsylvania 10 Ohio, then to Mis-.
souri,, then to Nsuvoo in 1898 or 1889,
to the best OF my recolieetion. l was
well acquainted with Joseph and
Hyrum Smith. I cav them when
LAID out, aiter bo!ng killed at Carthage,
In the old Mansion IL use in Nauvoo.
l or ssed the Mississippi In July, 1915,
coming wes, aud stopping at Winner
Quarters, TALL and winter of same
yea, sharing all the hardthips OF that
winter and next spring.
L started west for the Great Salt
Lake Valley ABOUT the 4th VI June,
iS47, and arrived In Salt Lake Valley.
September "a, l847. travelling ia
Peregrine Session's SO. Daniel Spen.
Ger was captain Of our 100 and Bishop
Sheets captain of 10 aud, thiuk, 1
pas,ed through most, II not all, OF the
trylng times OF The early Pic neer.,
breaking, the virgin coll, killing grass
hoppers and big black crickets, Anu
fighting Indians, ana bltween times
trying 10 raise enough to keep sou
anu body together for another year.
After l.aving Winter Q iarters we
came to Loop Fork, stopped their
about three weeks, organizing for the
journey acr,ss the Plaina, when VT
again tosk up the line OF march north.
ward. Talk about hard time /
drove two yoke OF oxen and one yeke OF
cows across the Plaius for enc pun
dur q day and boarded m ysei /.
anu getting little over 100 pounds foi
my summeI's worn; az 1t took us al
that time abou. thirteen and o hal
months 10 make the trip. But In the
spring OF l84S, did some better, for
got o pounu oil flour u DAY ana ptuu
tnr0wn In, for driving three yoke oil
oxen, breaking prairie, whicn 1 COT
si5ered doing very we'll, as -four was
worth dollar pound.
The winter OF 1s47 and spring OF
lS4S WAS the most Trying one of II E,
as we had very little to eat, and
scarcely any clothes TO keep US warm,
wearing, msccasins In the ice anu
snow, and digging roots and eatin.
greene, and every part OF the cattle
that we had to kiil,even to their hiies.
That 10 hard to believe, but l have
done It. We fought crickets anu
grasshoppers 10 save what little We
mad In tn- ground, SO We could live
another year. In 1919 when the great
gold excitement was ~ its height,
everything changed; plenty OF money
sns everything IN the way OF WACO. b,
,ools, bacon, Il Ut, sugar, etc., wer.
cheap. wiy,I have seen gooi, ies
wagons sell ior $40, Kentucky rife
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03
Temperance Meetings.

Mrs. Helen Dickinson Hartford, OF
Oregon, national organizer OF the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union, reached this city on Tuesday.
The ladies Of the local union gave o
reception In her honor yesterday at
the Deaconess' home, on Third South
street.
This afternoon a temperance meet.
Ing was beid In the Phillips Congrega.
tional church, which the lady adj
dressed and this evening che will ad-
Treas another At Fort Douglass. On
each afternoon and evening during the
lsdy's stay In this city, she will hold
temperance meetings. On next Sun.
dny at $50 p. m. she will address an
audience OF y ung women Ia the M. E.
church, ana al p. no. she will speak
to congregation OF men In the
Y. NJ. Z. A. hall. Daily announce.
msnts OF tue meetings to be addressed
by her will be made in the city papers.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03

touch and powder morn iof 81 50 snd
so on.
1 was In every Indian war iu carly
timer; the Back Hawk war, the Thu.
tic war, anu 20 n. l lived to see Salt
Lac CITY grow from a desert plain to
u fine oily anu the valleys TO blossom
as the roae until now you can have all
that any otbef community cnjoys.
There Ia one thing iUrgvr 10 mon
tion and that is that H. travelling aIonv
The Platte river We frequently detailed
men to 20 ahead OF cur wagons ami
diive the buffalo out Of the way go We
could pass aong tho rosd, or do be.
lieve that have sesn 100 900 at one
time. Ai0ng sb0ut the miudie OF the
Jay they wouli come d wn to tho
river 10 Drink and tuen lay down, bu.
low the buffalo, oh where is nv?
think l an an Indian war veteran
40 well as q Piobeer. 1 am now livIg
IN SANTA Ana, Crane county, Ca q.
.he lsnl OF sunshine anu flowers, but
a ways have n friendly feeling for the
people Of Utah, It's beautiful valleys
ana mountains ana Gear running
patuptaiu streams.
Respectfully,
j. h. MoEssER.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03
PROVO.
Garden City Notes.

ID. ID. Hou,z went to Fillmore on
legal business last evening.
Fred Kirkwood, a popular young
Provo man, has accepted . position In
Eureka and went over last evening.
John Homer, W has beef living In
Mercur for Q year or two, has returned
to Provo, and will NIL h,s old position
with r. 3. Hines.
L. d. Young, representing the II.
Dinwoodey Furniture company, is in
the city doing business for his arm.
Suit has been commenced by the
Salt Lake Hardware company agxins:
II. q. Biumsuthsl & compsny, Ia the
second district colri, to lleci s27l 90
with interest iTom January, 1897, Tor
merchandise sold anu delivered j.
Thurman & Wsdgowsd are att 3rneys
for PLAINTIFF.
p. p. Rshtaey, a Provo mechanic.
has had recorded in tho county recor !
notice to ths public TO the effect tina.
he has invented q perpetual motion
machine. Quite an extended descfip.
tion IL given Of the appearance anu
workings OF tho invention, which co
sists Of balis, levers ana pendulum
operating on q horizontal plane.
The State Trust Co. OF New Yors
has filed q mortgage OF sic, 1000, 900
with the couaty recorder. given by tns
Oregon Short Line Railroad Co. The
mortgage in on 1884 shares of the
common capital STOCK OF the Oregon
Railroad and Transportation Co. anu
on the various lines OF railroads ownej
by the Short Lilac Co. In Utah AM
other states.
Mr.. John Shelton, who has been
visiting relatives In Tooelo Tor 1--we
or six weeks, returned yesterday.
delighted with his visit.
Miss Loyinia Strong and Mr..
Alex. Hedquist Jr., were married last
evening ut the home OF the brids's
mother, Mre. John Strong. by Bishop
Knudeen OF the First Ward, in the
presence OF relatives 1and friends.
whose congratulations and kind wishe.
for bright and happy future were
showered upon the newly welded
pair. The bride Ia one OF Provc,s
most charming young ladies and tue
groom 10 rising young business man,
the manager Of the Smoot Drug %,
in THE city. Mr.. and Ma. Hedquisi
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03

Health Is the best inheritance. II leaves
Its influence even to the third and fourth
generation. What greater happiness has
life in store for any man than TO live to n
green old oge surrounded by his children
and his children's children, and see them
all robust, happy and successful Happy
the man who lives to carve at the wedding
suppers of his grandchildren. Picture your.
self gray-haired but hearty old man at the
head of the table at your grandson's wed.
ding, thanking your Maker for the blessing
of long life, and asking the blessing OF
good health for generations yet unborn. II
lies in almost every mans power to be thus
blessed If he will. IT he will only obey Nat
ure's laws and be watchful of his health
he will have long life and happiness.
The best presefver of health Is DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. II keeps the
digestion perfect the liver active, and the
blood pure. 1t is the best flesh builder and
nerve invigorator. The man who resorts to
1t whenever he feels any symptoms of ap.
proaching illhealth will live to hearty old
age. Druggists sell it. Nothing else Is
just as good"
J. b. Holt, of whitens Stand. Wayne Co,
Tenn. writes " In October, 1890 I was taken
with hurting In the back OF my neck which
steadily grew worse. l consulted a doctor He
gave me course OF treatment but gradually
grew worse under it. Al last my trouble ran into
walk about at all. Finally became as helpless
as child. Wrote you at Buffalo N ", III re-
gard to my condition and you answered me
promptly and prescribed DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. took the Discovery and
soon got well. My health continues good"
Druggists sell DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei.
lets. They cure constipation. They cure
quickly and permanently and never gripe.
One Is gentle laxative two a mild
cathartic.