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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
THE JUNGFRAU RAILROAD.
1t Will Be Finished Before Many Sea-

1t Will Be Finished Before Many Sea-
sons Are Past.
Apropos of the Swiss railroads, there
seems to be every prospect that before
many more Swiss seasons are past the
railway up the Jungfrau will be an &C
complished fact, says the London
Truth. NJ. Guyer-Zeller of Zurich, the
protector of the line, and chairman of
the syndicate which has the conces-
sion, sends me an English translation
of his descriptive account of the I'M
dertaking, from which it appears that
the capital is now being raised and
that the construction Of the line is to
be commenced early in the summer.
1t is expected that the first section Of
the line. ending at the Eiger station,
will be finished in two years. Unless,
therefore, unforeseen difficulties are
encountered which, in view of what
has already been accomplished in the
way of mountain railways in Switzer-
land, seems highly improbable
completion of the whole undertaking is
purely a question of time. The line, as
at present projected, will start from the
Scheldegg station on the Wengernalp
railway and run straight to the foot of
the Eiger glacier. There it will take a
turn to the east and burrow around
the inside of the mountain to the Eiger
station, where the tunnel will be open
ed with an arcade at the side, like the
galleries on the Axenstrasse Thence
the tunnel will proceed in a straight
line through the Monch and the jung
fraujoch, curving around the upper
portion of the Jungfrau until it ter
inmates on a platform sixty-ive met
ers below the summit of the noun
tain. Here the adventurous NOUN
taineer will leave his carriage and per-
form the remainder of his journey by
an Elevator" fixed in shaft opening
on the very summit. For the benefit of
those who like a little exercise when
ascending the Alps there will be a
corkscrew staircase to the top round
the outside of the elevator.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
stands now there is no means of re-
vising these sentences, no method of
appealing against them.


appealing against them.
Perhaps no more striking illustra-
ton OF the urgent necessity of a court
OF appeal for criminal cases can be
cited than a case related by Leslie
Stephen in his recently published life
Of his brother, the late Sir James
Fitzjames Stephen, who was one Of the
most eminent jurists and judges OF
his day, but who was undoubtedly suf-
fering from an unbalanced mind dur
Ing the last year or two that he sat
on the bench as judge of the high
court judicature. 1t seems that he had
sentenced convict to certain term
OF imprisonment. AS the man was
being led from the dock by the jailers
he called out: eyer can't do it! I tell
yer, We can't do it." Sir James, who
was at that time in perfect mental and
physical health, was so much struck
by the remark that, very much to his
credit, he had the prisoner brought
back and asked him what he meant.
The convict explained that the punish
ment for his offense was shorter
term than the judge had awarded him.
Sir James, on looking up the law,
found that the prisoner was right and
amended on the spot the decree which
he had issued, diminishing the term
OF penal servitude by no less than
three years. But had he not done so,
had he not consented of his own &C.
cord to modify the sentence before the
court rose, no power on earth could
have saved the man from suffering the
| full term of the original sentence
| unless, of course, the home secretary
in the name of the queen, had granted
the man a pardon
Now the home secretary, in the ma
jority Of cases, is not lawyer by pro-
fession. Moreover, he is obviously
susceptible to the political influence Of
the party which looks upon him as
one Of it's leaders in parliament. Yet
it is upon him, as matters now stand
that the responsibility rests of repair
ing any judicial error by the unusua
means Of a queens pardon. Indeed
he is possessed of no legal knowledg,
and, moreover, exercises the right O
granting the crowns pardons no
through any constitutional preroga
tive but merely by modern usage, tn
state of affairs is extremely unsatisfac
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
The great fish is closely related to

The great fish is closely related to
the groupers, and may be termed a
gigantic bass, and is known to science
as the Stereolepsis gigas. It lives in
deep water in winter, though OCCASION
ally coming in shore to deposit it's
eggs, at this time being caught in great
numbers in water from thirty to fifty
feet deep. In summer it's capture con-
stitutes one of the sports of the island,
visitors going out to the various points
or even watching the big fish from the
wharf The capture of so gigantic
and powerful a fish is an experience to
be remembered by the uninitiated, and
when one is brought into Avalon at
the beginning of the season there is
great excitement, and the big fish is
duly photographed with the fortu-
nate fisherman.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The bones of very aged persons have
a greater proportion Of lime than those
of young people.
The owls wise look is the result of
physiological oddly, his eyes being
fixed immovably in their sockets.
Only one person in fifteen has perfect
eyes, the larger percentage OF detective
ness prevailing among fair haired peo-
pie.
In tropical forests so large a pro-
portion of the plants are of the sensi-
tive variety that sometimes the path
of a traveller may be traced by the wilt
ed foliage.
According to the most delicate exper-
iments of the most famous scientists.
the heat of the lunar rays which reach
the earth is scarcely the twelve-mil-
lionth of a degree. .=..... -. T.. r..
For seven years the St. Lawrence
river gradually decreases in depth; then
for seven years it gradually increases,
in depth, the difference in level being
about five feet. Why it does so no one
has yet discovered.
Although the brain is perpetually ac-
tive, yet the whole of it is never at
work at one time. The two hemis-
pheres or halves do not operate sinful
taneously, but alternate in action-now
it is the one-half, then the other.
A chameleon from the Cape of Good
Hope was seen by Mr. Blakiston to
turn white with fear, having been
saved from the attacks of a cat. The
most extraordinary thing about this
lizard is the wonderful way in which
the two eyes work quite Independently
of each other, and enable it to survey
comfortably objects In quite opposite
directions.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10

growth of Democratic sentiment in
England, the sovereign would be al
lowed to reassume possession thereof.
For, with the popular theory that it
is the people, rather than the monarch,
who are really sovereign, it stands to
reason that parliament prefers to see
the power of pardon vested in the
hands of one of it's members who holds
his Office as home secretary, subject to
it's votes, and who can, therefore, be
held to strict account, rather than in
those of the queen, who cannot be
asked to explain her motive, and who
is answerable to no one but to her OVID
conscience.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10

The small fish which had been
was now placed on hook al
most as large as a whale hook, with
a powerful line, and thrown over.
Hardly had it struck the bottom before
the line began to run slowly out, at
which the fishermen became greatly
excited. When about twenty feet had
gone over the rail lusty Genoese
seized it, and when it came taught
jerked it with all his force. AS a re-
spouse came a jerk that nearly threw
him upon his face, and the line, torn
from his grasp, rushed over the side
with force that made it smoke and
hiss. Out it went, the coils leaping
into the air like living things, the
men rushing from side to side to avoid
them. Ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred
and more feet went smoking and hiss
ing over the gunwale before the fisher
man dared to touch it, and then. when
he did, his arms went down, elbow
deep, into the water, so deep, in fact,
that his companions seized him by the
legs to prevent his utter disappearance
BY the greatest exertion the Italian
stayed the progress Of the big fish and
gained twenty feet or more Of line;
then, in a magnificent rush, the gamy
creature rushed out again, to be finally
stopped by turn taken about be.
laying pin; even then the big line
creaked and groaned ominously. Fol
half an hour this struggle went on, the
line being handed around from man u
man as they grew weary, and finally
it fell to me. The big fish even ther
was more than could manage. WheI
at made rush the line burned my hand
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
The Next Morning.

The Next Morning.
"Do you believe in wave thoughts,
Learnly?"
Eyes. I've had them dashing around
thought the skull would crack. DE
troit Free Press.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10

Where the Trouble Came In.
Spykes-Do you have any trouble
meeting your creditors?
Spokes-Not at all. I find my trouble
in getting rid of them.-Detroit Free
Press
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-06-10
NO COURT OF APPEAL.
CRIMINAL JUDGES
HAVE THE FINAL WORD.
Why One Justice Changed His NIind-A
Pardon from the Home Secretary the
Only Resort After Conviction An
Urgent Reform.

NGLAND enjoys
the strange dis
tinction of having
been until now
about the only civ
ilized country in
world that has no
criminal court Of
appeal, says the
New York Tribune.
There is a court of
final annea1 for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
Court Cullin os

Minnie Human, a person of unsound
mind. by Edward F. Colborn, her
guardian, is suing A. j. Dutten and
Emma c. Dutton to collect 81, 993.O5 on
promissory note secured by a mort
gage.
Henry Bate has entered suit for
divorce from Mary L. Bate, alleging
that the marriage took place on Sept.
%, 1893, in the territory of New Mex
leo, and that on July 2, 1895, his wife
deserted him without cause and con-
tinueS to live separate and apart from
him.
Mr.. c. B. Felt, who has occupied the
position of a deputy clerk of the Third
district court for nearly a year. has
rendered his resignation to Clerk Dun
bar, to take effect as soon as Mr.. Dun
bar finds successor to Mr.. Felt, which
will probably be in a few days. Mr..
Felt was very capable, conscientious
and painstaking in his work, and the
clerks office loses a good man. He
goes to take a more lucrative position
in the Office of o. ]. Salisbury.
a law partnership has been formed
between Congressman W. H King.
Judge j. w. Burton and the county
attorney of Utah county, Mr. S. A.
King, under the firm name of King.
Burton & King, with offices on the
.OuI III AoOi VI the commercial block,
in this city, and in the First National
bank building at Provo. Mr.. S. A.
King will continue TO reside at Provo
and attend to that end of the business.
While Congressman King and Judge
Burton will so arrange matters that
one or the other of them will be in Salt
Lake always. This partnership forms
strong aggregation of legal talent,
and the members of the firm are so
well and favorably known that they
need no Introduction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
Probate Matters.

A petition for the appointment of c.
NJ. Nielsen as administrator of the
estate of the late David Maxey was
yesterday filed in the probate court.
The property left, consisting of real
estate, is valued at $40o. The widow
and children are the heirs.
Bertha Wonder asked to be appointed
administratriX of the estate of the late
Robert Wonder, for the purpose of
bringing suit for damages against the
Horn Silver Mining company, the de-
ceased having met his death by an
accident while in the employ of that
company.
Estate of Peter Sutherland, deceased;
William Ramp appointed administra-
tor with will annexed, and bond fixed
at $500.
Estate of Edith Weller, deceased;
Heber S. Cutler appointed administra-
tor on filing bond in the sum of 81 500.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
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F<%V'S'o'0 WOW SSOO VV|SSS~ ~
MEMS OF THE
NATIONAL guard.
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AS the first of the year approaches
the several companies of the national
guard are beginning to consider the
matter Of imposition of penalties for
delinquency in drill The new code
which becomes effective jan 1, pro-
vides for the fning of members who
absent themselves from the regular
drills Of the company without suitable
excuse, but leaves the fixing of the
same to the company itself, which
makes provision in the bylaws for the
same. The collection is done, after
the assessment of the same by a sum-
mary court martial called for the pur-
pose, and the law provides for the col
lection OF the same, by levy, first, on
the goods and chattels of the soldier
and, second, by imprisonment. OF
course, there is no disposition mani
tested by any officer to impose upon
man who shows a willingness to at
tend. Valid excuses are always ac-
ceptable, and important business en-
sagements. sickness of self or ones
family, absence from home, ETC., would
always be good and sufficient reason
for ones absence from drill; but the
fellow who persists in remaining away
is liable to be elected by large ma
jority. The battery will act on a set
Of bylaws at the meeting on Friday
evening, while the others will follow
between now and the first Of the year
3 o g
A special meeting of the Officers as
ISOLATION has been called to meet at
the arnory on Saturday evening at s
o'clock. Every member is requested to
be present in order that important
business now on hand may be trans
acted and the association started off
on a good footing.
9 81 @
The names of the following candi-
dates have been on the blackboard for
the required time, and they are re-
quested to appear at the meeting on
Friday evening for election and admis-
sion: H. L. Woodruff, S36 South Third
East street; w. M. Morris, 40 Aberdeen
street; Hugh w. Kimball, 35 West
Fifth South street; R. G. Officer, 627
South Fifth East street; j. F. Grant
115 Fifth East street; N Atkinson. 24G
G street; e. H. Thorne, GIL South Main
street; John Russell Clawson, 1169
South Second West street; Archie
Orenl, Kendall terrace; Arthur Hudson,
$50 East Fifth South street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
WEALTH AND EYESIGHT.
Mrs. oelrichs Has the First But NAV
Lose the Second.

New York, Dec. S.-Mrs. Herman Gel
richs is suffering from the results Of a
strange accident to one of her ewes,
which may result in the loss of sight.
Some workmen were engaged in hang
ing the tapestry in the east parlor of
her residence, at the northeast corner
Of Fffty-seventh street and Fifth ave-
nue., last Saturday afternoon, and Mrs.
Oelrichs was experimenting it. One
man was on the top of a ladder when
a tack slipped from his hand and
Fell
Mrs. Oelrichs was standing close by,
with her face turned upward, and the
sharp point of the tack struck her in
the eye, decorating the corner and caus-
ing intense pain.
The opinion was expressed by the
doctors that the point of the tack must
have been rusty, for the wound had
become liberated, and today the eye is
no better.
Mrs. Oelrichs is the daughter of the
late Senator James G. Fair of Califor-
MIA, and one of the heirs to the mil
lions left by him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09

The divorce suit of ]. Marcus
Douglass against Matte A. Douglass,
in which the plaintiff charged his
wife with cruelty, was dismissed on
Monday in Judge Hiles' court on mo-
ton of the plaintiffs counsel, Messrs.
Breeze & Burrows. 1t was understood
that the parties had made up their
quarrel and were going to live together
in peace and happiness in the future.
This supposition, however, appears
not to have been well founded, for yes
terday afternoon Attorney e. e. Win
tiers, not being aware that Douglass
had had his complaint dismissed, came
into the office Of the clerk of the dis
trict court with an answer and cross
complaint which he wanted to file on
behalf of Mrs. Douglass, but as the
suit had been dismissed an answer and
cross complaint were not in order. Mrs.
Douglass was afterwards seen and she
SAYS that no reconciliation has taken
place between herself and her husband
and there is not likely to be any and
that it is her intention to file a separate
suit for divorce on the grounds set up
in the cross complaint.
ANSWER AND CROSS COMPLAINT.
In the answer and cross complaint
which was prepared by Attorney Win
tiers and sworn to by Mrs. Douglass,
the allegations of the complaint to the
effect that Mrs. Douglass was cruel to
her husband struck him, blackened his
eyes, used foul and abusive language
to him and threatened to kill him, are
denied.
By way of cross complaint Mrs.
Douglass alleges gross cruelty on the
part of her husband. She specifies sew
eral times when she says he kicked and
beat her and threw her over a chair.
She also says that late one night he
turned her out of the house and kept
her in the street for more than an hour.
He also, she ayers, called her the vilest
OF names and curses and swore at her
KEPT ON BREAD AND WATER.
According to her statement he will
fully neglected to provide for her and
for eight days kept her on bread and
water In July last she says he COM
PEELED her to peddle lunches at the Rio
Grande Western depot and made her
get up and go to the depot at o'clock
in the morning for that purpose, which
made her sick with rheumatism and
other ailments. He also, according to
Mrs. Douglass statement, kicked and
severely hurt her 16-year-old daughter
by a former marriage.
She further alleges that her husband
is of a jealous and disagreeable dis
position; that he earns $3.50 a month
and she asks for a decree of divorce,
$50 temporary alimony, $40 a month
permanent alimony and costs of suit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
TWO DAMAGE SUITS.
Mrs. Radcliffe Sues Salt Lake City
and the Rapid Transit Co.

Two damage suits were yesterday
filed in the Third district court by
Sarah Radcliffe and Thomas Radcliffe
one against Salt Lake City and one
against the Salt Lake Rapid Transit
company.
In the complaint it is alleged that on
the evening of Nov. H. 1897, Mrs. Rad
cliffe was a passenger on a street car
of the Rapid Transit company. and
that in alighting from said car, at the
int ection of L and First streets. she
stepped into an open sewer, opposite
which the conductor carelessly. it is
alleged, stopped the car, by reason of
which Mrs. Radcliffe was seriously in
jUred about the spine and back, to her
damage in the sum of S10,375. for
which Judgment is prayed.
In the plaintiffs action against Salt
Lake City it is alleged the sewer was
allowed TO remain unguarded, and was
in a dangerous condition and without
lights, and the plaintiffs claim SlO.275
damages from the city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
ALLEGES FRAUD.
F. E. McGurrin Against Salt Lake
implement Company and Others.

Z. <. McGurT1n Against Salt Lake
Implement Company and Others.
Frank E. McGurrin, suing for him
self and others similarly situated, has
entered suit against the Salt Lake I'm
plement company and others. 1t is al
legged in the complaint that the defend
ant company's capital stock consisted
of 1000 shares of the par value of 500
each, of which only 1876 shares have
been issued, and of said 1876 shares, 230
shares are owned and held by this
plaintiff; the defendant Mattison B.
Whitney owned go shares, the defend
ant Henry Thane one share and the
other defendant William H. Streeper,
five shares. 1t is then alleged that on
Dec. 9, 1898, the officers of the defend
ant company illegally, and over the
protest of the plaintiff, transferred the
stock and lease of premises and fix
lures of the defendant company, worth
$5,75O, to Samuel Peterson, jr, and
Walter c. Lyman for a stated consid-
Grafton of S35S5.26 and accepted the
unsecured notes of Peterson and Ly-
man as payment.
The defendants then Incorporated a
new company. called the Utah Imple-
ment company, for the purpose of con-
tinuing the business of the Salt Lake
Implement company, with a capital of
$4,000, divided into shares of 500 each,
and the property Of the Salt Lake I'm
provement company was transferred
to the new company by Whitney,
Thane, Streeper, Peterson and Lyman.
and stock was issued, to Peterson l24
shares, to Lyman 125 shares, to Whit
ney 249 shares, to Streeper one share
and TO one f. T. Bee one share.
1t is then alleged the transfer of the
assets of the Salt Lake Implement
company to Peterson and Lyman and
the issuance of stock in the new COM
pany TO Lyman, Whitney, Streeper.
Peterson and Bee was fraudulent, and
that Peterson and Lyman never paid
anything for the assets of the Salt
Lake Improvement company trans
ferred to them
Plaintiff further alleges that he is
entitled to a 230-436 part or share in the
new company by reason of his owner
ship in the Salt Lake Implement COM
pany. Wherefore he demands judg-
ment that Whitney. StreeDer and
Thane be required to account to plain
tiff for all profits, stock or other value
they have received or realized by rea-
son of the alleged fraudulent acts.
sales and transfers. and that he have
judgment for the amount thereof and
such other relief as is just and equit-
able
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
Real Estate Transfers.

Abstract of instruments filed with re
corder Dec. 8, 1897. Compiled by tn
Security Abstract company.
Albert S. Day to George ST Clair,
lots in block g. Oakley SUBDIVISIONS rs
Lewis P. Kelsey, by sheriff, to
Nicholas J. Maybee, lot l, block
l9S. plat. D.. ;..... ...:.-...-:.. so
Douglas A. Smiley by sheriff, to R.
A. Briggs. four lots in block s,
Muscatine Place ................... 40
Clint L. Moon to Jonathan c.
Carpenter, by trustee, part of lot
l, block "a, plat OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. rs
Lewis Petit to William Cochran,
part of section %, township i
south, range 2 west ............
Horatio +. Copeland ct u. to
Annie Cochran. two-thirds interest
in two lots in block 2. Winfield sub
division ........................ e
Amelia 3. Harding to Annie
Cochran, one-third interest in two
lots in block 2, Winfield subdivi-
n
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
CONSUMPTION Positively Cured

Chilhowie. Va. certifies that he had
consumption, was given up to die,
sought all 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 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 IL his community. Dr. Kings
New Discovery is guaranteed for
Coughs. Colds and Consumption. 1t
don't fail. Trial bottles free at z. C. NJ.
l. drug store.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-09
CLAYTON-ARKANSAS MURDER.
Clew Discovered-Politics No Part of
the Tragedy.

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. S-Interest in
the Pitts, Ca, claim to the murderer of
John A Clayton, which had about sub
sided here, owing to the tone of a. re-
cent communication from Luther All
ken, the Georgia convict guard. who
claims to be in possession of the name
of the murderer has been revived and
it is not probable that the clew will be
investigated. Sheriff J. D. Clarey, of
Bradley county, Ark, in an interview
with Governor Jones, told him of the
strong corroborative evidence of the
statement that a. Georgia convict has
confessed to the murder of Clayton, at
Plummersville, in the autumn of 1890
At the time the murder was commit
ted it was generally conceded to be the
denouement of political fight, but ac-
cording to the confession, politics play
ed no part in the terrible affair, re
venge for an old grudge being the mo-
tive given by the Georgia convict.