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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24
sTArE rEAcAeRs. ASSOCIATION
Annual Meeting WIZ be Held az Provo
December e7-2S-20.


Annual Meeting WIN be Held AZ Provo
December 2 7-ss-20.
The annual meeting OF the State
Teachers association will convene at
Provo, Monday. December 27, at 7:s0
p. m. Great preparations are being
made for the occasion. An exceptional
program has been arranged and the
meeting bids fair 10 be The most largely
attended and beneficial within the
his tory Of the association.
The principal topics FOR discussion
will be found below coop,ed with the
names Of those who will present them
Following each topic viii be a general
discussion:
Wherein are We Educationally
wastefui Samuel oldham Of Logan
Relative Value Of Text Book Work
and Oral Instruction -. +. Mills
paugh GAIT Lake City
''The Modification Of Likes and Dis
likes IN Children Ida coombs, Pay
son
THE Child and Ills Relationship"
Mary c. May. Salt Lake city.
"The Pedagogical Function OF Draw
ing Arctta Young Provo-
"The Breaking Up Of Bad Habits
and the Forming Of Good Habits OF
Oral Expression Bessie Kimball, Salt
Lake City.
Supervision In Rural Districts"-M
T. Porter, Centerville
Functions OF Teachers Examina-
tions'-D II. Robinson, Pleasant
Grove.
Functions Of the High School
Willard Done, Salt Lake City.
Popular Education as Scheme
John r. Park, Salt Lake City.
What the Women's Clubs are Doing
FOR Education Mrs Emma j. Me
Wicker, Salt Lake City.
what should be the Aims in Edu-
cation Joseph T. Kingsbury.
The Correlation of Arithmetic, Al
zebra aud Geometry Below the High /
school'-D. II. Adams, Ogden.
"Thc Place of Literature in a Sym
metrcal Education" - Caroline l..
Pane, salt Lake City
business Education"-B. s. HinclS-
ley, Provo.
Complete programs may be had by
Clement A. Whiting, chair
man Of the program committee, Salt
Lake City. For information regard
ing accommodations, address j. l..
Brown, Provo.
Special rates will be made by the
railroads from ali points of the state
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24

Washington. Dec. 2O.-William w.
Thomas, appointed minister to Sweden
and Norway, held the same post under
the Harrison administration. He is a
literary man and a Scandinavian
scholar, having translated many Swed-
ish books.
Hamilton King, the new minister to
Siam, is professor of Greek at Olivet
college. He is one of the prominent
scholars ofthe country and has spent
years in Athens in pursuance of his
Greek studies.
Mr.. Scott, who was appointed com
missioner of internal revenue, was
agreed upon for the place last spring.
Senator Elkins of West Virginia, has
been his political supporter. Mr..
Scott is talked of as a candidate for
United State senator.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24
NEW GOLD FIELD.


Extends Fifteen Miles Along Tributary OF
the Sticktcn River.
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec 29-J. e. Per-
rims, until recently president of the
New England Whip company, started
from this city today with party OF
fifteen others for new gold geld in
the Northwest Territory The new
field Is said TO extend over fifteen miles
along tributnry of the Stickeen
river, and TO be even richer than the
Kloudike country.
In one OF his letters TO parties here
concerning the discovery, Dawson,
after whom Dawson City was named,
states that the region gives every indi-
cation OF abundance of gold, but that
il is even more inaccessi bic than Klon-
dixie, there being but one way 10 get in,
and that extremely dangerous. The
nearest trading post or point of COM
munication with tho outside world is
several hundred miles.
Those who left this morning have
been quietly preparing for the trip for
five months, keeping everything Sc
cret, as they wish to get in before any
excitement causes rush. The party
will leave San Francisco tomorrow for
Victoria, Il. c, BY steamer from shere
they go to Fort Wranglo, and thence
overland by the Stickeen river to their
objective point.
The information regarding the new
field has come direct from Messrs.
Ogilvie and Dawson, Canadian officials,
who year ago made a survey of por-
tons OF the Northwest Territory, Act
ing upon instructions Of these gentle
men, Mr.. Perrins has limited his party /
TO sixteen. Messrs. Ogilvie and Daw-
son win join the party at Victoria.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24
BANKER BACON CONVICTED.
Given Seven Years in The Pen for Deceiv-
ing Bank Examiner.

Given Seven Years in The Pen for Deceiv-
ing Bank Examiner
Salt Lake City, Dec 19.--James H.
Bacon, ex-president of the defunct
American National bank of Salt Lake,
which failed nearly two years ago,
was found guilty of making false re-
turns to the bank examiners. Judge
Marshall of the United States Circuit
court sentenced him to seven years
penal servitude Bacon was later lib
Grated on $1,000 bonds pedding an APP
peal
Bacon seemed to be surprised at his
predicament and was deeply moved.
While in charge of United States Mar
shall Miller and in the presence of sew
eral other officers, he threated self-des-
struction in the event that the appeal
went against him. Some one remark
ed that the sen tence seemed severe, to
which Bacon replied, SIT makes no
difference whetherit is one year or sew
en- years. III never go to prison; I'll
kill myself first
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24

Bnl Prepared by Secretary Bliss will Meet
Opposition:

Opposition:
Washington, Dec. 2O.-The bill pre-
pared by Secretary Bliss for the open
ing of the Uncompahgre lands will
meet with strenuous opposition, and it
is probable will not be reported to the
senate at all. Senator Cannon, in
speaking of the measure, probably
voices the sentiments of the commit
tee. He says:
~ am opposed to the bill on two
grounds; first, it proposes to postpone
the opening OF the agricultural lands
of the reservation from April, 1898, to
a year later. This is entirely unneces-
sary. The department has already
had ample time to prepare for the OPP
ening. 1t has had nearly four years
in which to do this work, and there is
now no sound reason for further de-
lay.
Second, the proposed bill coutem-
plates the leasing of the gilsonite
lands under such regulations as the
secretary of the interior may pre-
scribe. This is one of the schemes
that we have been fighting from the
beginning. Perhaps Secretary Bliss is
not aware of the fact, but there is an
inchoate syndicate, If not one thor
oughly organized, ready to take up
these lands under the lease system and
form a great monopoly. The gilsonite
would then be of little value to the
people of Utah, and would merely 20
TO enrich spectators of New York,
where the syndicate has Its headquar-
tors.
1T is better to leave the law as it
stands today, providing for an early
opening OF the lands and leaving the |
gilsonite lands for further action by |
congress. l do not doubt that in the |
next congress legislation can be had
of the mineral lands in the
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24
soldier staryes ro-death.

Breckenridge, Colo, Dec, 2o.-Col.
Samuel A. Simison died today in the
county hospital of starvation. He had
been refused pension, although he
had fought and was wounded at Chick
amauga. For some time he had been
in ill-health, but too proud to ask for
aid, and when his friends found out
his condition yesterday it was too late
to save his life
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24
southern Pacific Collision.

Tucson, Ariz., Dec IA Southern
Pacific engine running at full speed
down the Dragon mountain, east of
Benson, today came in collision with a
double-header freight, instantly kill
ing Engineer w. j. Patterson of the
freight train and badly smashing
the locomotive and many of the freight
cars.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-12-24

Chief Justice Kline of the Iowa SUI
preme court has reduced the bail of
Novak, the murderer of Murray, who
The senate committee on territories
has practically decided to enter upon
the task of preparing an omnibus bill
to cover the conditions in Alaska.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
THE MOB GOT HIM.
AtrOciOUS Murderer of a Family
of Five is Caught and
Lynched.

WessOn, Miss, Dec. 10.-Charlie Lew
is, the negro who murdered Mrs. Brown
Smith and her four children near this
place, has been captured and lynched
by a mob.
The crime was one of the most fiend-
ish ever recorded. Almost the entire
family of Brown Smith, a respectable
white farmer 80 years of age, We're
brutally killed with a club in the hands
of Charles Lewis, a black fend.
Smith was working at a gin a few
miles from his home which is situated
about two and a half miles from Pearl
river on the east bank, in Lawrence
county, and in a wild country. The
house is off the main road and no white
family lives within two miles of it, al
though several negro families live near.
1t was one of these negroes who on
Wednesday sometime between noon
and darkness. crept up to Smiths house
and most brutalIy assaulted Mrs Smith,
then Drained her and then to forever
hide his crime, he began on the six
children, only sparing babe, which he
left untouched.
The fend's work was not done as
Weli as he thought; for one of the chill
dren' a little girl years of age, re-
gained consciousness, and when her
father entered, after his days work,
she told him the name of the brute The
murdered mother and four children
were found dead and dying in the yard,
showing how they had struggled to es-
cape.
The father and husband Immediately
sounded the alarm and n posse was or
ganiZed and late yesterday afternoon
the negro was captured, carried to
Monticello, the county seat of Law
renee county, and at o'clock was car
ried back to the scene of his crime.
where he was fully identified by the
little girl.
1t is said he was promptly lynched.
after the Identification by a large
crowd of citizens, who had Joined in
the search
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
MRS. LUETGERT ALIVE. ?
st. Louis Man Declares He Saw
Her in July.

Boston. Dec. 1o.-The Globe says: Mrs.
Luetgert, the supposed victim of the sau-
sage manufacturer murderer so-caued, in
Chicago, is alive and well.
Mrs. Luetgert was seen in this city dur
ing the month of July, acknowledged her
identity, besides giving more or less ex~
pianation relative to the reasons which
caused her to leave her husband. who is
again to be tried for his life.
Such was the startling declaration made
by Editor John H. Schoneld of St. Louis
to a Globe man.
Mr.. Schofeld supplanted this statement
further with the positive assurance that
Mrs Luetgert was at the house No. Z
Bullhnch Place for period of three or
four days during the middle of July last
He said he based this assurance uDon the
fact that Mrs. Luetgert, while in Boston
acknowledged her fun identity. with the
assertion that she left her husband. the
Chicago sausage maker. because of his
actions with other women. as well as for
reasons which she thought would help
him in his financial embarrassments in
business.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
HUMANE SOCIETY TO BUILD
Erection of Building on the Lot
Donated by Judge Foster to
Begin Soon.

The Foster Humane society will
shortly commence the erection of a 2
story building on Kansas avenue, be-
tween Ninth and Tenth streets on the
lot donated to the society by Judge
Foster. The building fund of the soci-
ETY. now amounts to g, 100, and a bal
ance sufficient for the erection of the
the board of directors. The rents ac-
cruing from the building will be used
as a maintenance fund for the society.
The plans for the building are now
being prepared, and the foundation may
be laid and the building started before
the opening of spring.
The society held its annual meeting
this week, and elected a new board of
directors for the ensuing year. The
directors are all life members, having
made donations of S100 each to the So
ciety, and are the following:
Mr.. p. G.. Noel, Mrs. Jane StOrmOnt,
Mrs. Mary A. Cornelius, Mrs. Lucy D.
Kingman, Mr.. c. o. Knowles Mr.. J. r.
AIulvane, Mr.. Thos. A. Osborn, Mr. A
3. QuintOn. Mrs. Kilmars King Mr.
Arthur Capper, Mr. Jonathan Thomas,
Mr.. Albert H. Horton, Mr.. S. T. Howe,
Mr.. Abram Wyman, Mr.. c.. G. Gage,
Mr.. Bennett r. Wheeler and Mr.. George
w. Clark.
At the annual meeting the society
employed Mr.. ]. B. Carroll as special
officer at a salary of $40 per month to
look after the enforcement of the ordi-
mace. 1t was also agreed to give Mr..
Carroll a money premium for every
conviction he secured against violators
of the ordinance.
The annual membership fee for ladies
was reduced from 81 to 81, with a view
OF increasing the lady membership.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
BURGLARS MAKE CHAOS !
And Carry Away Scores of PortabIes
From A. A. Hayes Home

Last evening some time before II
A. A. Hayes at No. 1906 Tyler street
and went through it from bottom to
top, rifing sfdebOards, bureaus and
clothes presses.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes were out spend
they returned they found their house
with doors and windows open and in q
generally demoraIized condition on the
knives and forks, tea spoons, table
spoons, berry spoons, sugar spoons,
fruit knives, tablecloths, napkins, lunch
cloths, doylies and two pairs of trous-
ers.
The house was entered through
rear window which was pried open
with a chisel and the fastening bro
ken. The house was left with no light
burning in it, but a lamp which had
been upstairs was found lighted on a
table in the lower room. A pocket book
in coat hanging on a chair was open
ed and u ? cent stamps taken; four
prOmissory notes were left behind al
SO a small amount of money which was
in one of Mrs. Hayes dress pockets.
Mr.. Hayes is a clerk in the auditors
office Of the Santa Fe. The police were
notified promptly and two of them
came to the house at midnight. They
informed Mr.. Hayes that a detective
would come this morning and investi-
gate the matter further. No detective
has yet put in an appearance.
It is a good thing the worthless police
force is TO be cut down.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
DEAD BODY STANDING.
Horrible Crushing to Death of
Citizen of NestmOreIand.

Westmoreland, Kan, Dec. 1O.-Wm.
Bignan and his father, Jesse BignalI,
yesterday went to A. H. Knecht's
timber to get a load of wood. William
BignaH was standing on the tongue in
front of the wagon box and putting the
wood in the wagon as his father hand
ed it up to him.
The horses became frightened and
started to run, causing Mr.. BignalIs
feet to slip off the tongue. He attempt
ed to climb back over the front end Of
the wagon box while the team contin-
ued to run, and finally run the wagon
tongue against a tree. breaking it. The
horses, one on each side of the tree,
pulled the wagon up, crushing Mr.. Big
nall between the tree and the wagon
box
The unfortunate mans body was
completely fattened and he was killed
instantly.
Jesse Bignall. the father, was unable
to remove the body of his son, and ran
to the residence of A. H. Knecht, about
a quarter of a mile distant, for assist
ance. Mr.. Knecht came. and the body,
still standing between the tree and the
wagon box, was extricated and taken
home
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
OHIO FOSSILS.
Congressman Brown Follows
Gen. GrOsVenOr
In a Vicious Attack on the
Civil Service.
AN "ABOMINATION,',
Is What He Calls it and the
Sentiment
Is Applauded by Many of His
Colleagues.
OHIO Is AGAINST 1T
He Says, and Cites as Proof of
the Statement,
That the Last Republican Con-
Yention so Declared.
)HIO Is AGAINST 1T
He Says, and Cites as Proof of
the Statement,
That the Last Republican Con-
YentiOn so Declared.

Washington. Dec. 10.-At the open
ing of the session of the house today
was agreed that when the house ad-
journed today it be to meet on Monday
on motion of Mr.. FOss (Rep-, Ills),
Saturday, December IS. was set apart
for paying tribute to the memory Of
the late representative E. d. Cook of
Illinois.
The house then resumed the consld-
Grafton Of the pension appropriation
bill, which was debated yesterday.
Mr. Brown (Rep., Ohio. attacked the
civil service law because it protected
some of the pension examining boards
appointed under the last administra-
tion. He styled it an "abOmination'
and was Justify applauded by many Of
his colleagues. He said the soldiers
of his district regarded this law as
inimicaI to their interests and he ia
vored it's repeal, or radical modification.
He declared that the president was
mistaken when he affirmed that the civ
II service law had the approval OF the
people. The Republicans and the press
of his district had denounced it The
last Republican state convention of
Ohio declared against the law and on
that platform he stood
Mr.. Dingley declared that but for
anticipatOry impOVtations, there would
be surplus this year of S1O,00O.0 .000 in
stead OF a deficit and the Republicans
loudly cheered when he asserted that
by May next receipts would again out
run expenses monthly.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
OTHER K. P. BIDDERS.
This Appears to be the Real
Reason For POstpOnement.

Washington, Dec. 10.-Attorney Cen
eral McKenna has taken steps looking
to the postponement of the sale of the
Kansas Pacific road. AS soon as he
received a copy of yesterdays senate
resolution he telegraphed its substance
to Special Counsel Ex-Governor Hoad-
ley at New York, with a request that he
prepare at once a motion asking for a
pOstpOnement for 60 days or until about
February Is. The attorney general also
telegraphed the president a synopsis of
the resolution.
Up to noon today Mr. AcKenna had
heard nothing of the reported decision
of the reorganization committee as sta
ted by q New York newspaper to offer
the government guarantee bid of So
o3OOOU, the amount of the principal of
the governments claim, nor would the
attorney general say in speaking of the
matter today what would be done in
case such an offer was made before the
motion for q pOstpOnenent was filed.
There is no reasonable doubt that this
offer, if it had been made prior to the
adoption of the senate resolution would
nave been accepted. 1t may be, it is
said, that the president would consider
himself bound in courtesy to the senate
to ask for a pOstpOnement irrespective
of any offer that might now be made.
1t IS pOSSlDl he might ascertain the
views OF the leaders III congress upon
the acceptance of a bid of Sc. 330, 900
should it be made and act accordingly.
The attorney general today expressed
no doubt that a pOstponement would be
granted by the court upon the showing
the government would be a BILE to make
In addition to the very potent resoIu-
tiOn, that the senate, representing the
people of the whole country had re-
quested this action, there was another
he said, of little less Importance. Other
responsible parties, outside of the re-
organization committee We're lust now
taking an interest in the Kansas Pa
cific road with a view no doubt to be-
coming bidders, if their Investigations
warranted such a step. Who these par
ties are, the attorney general was not
at liberty to state, but all things con-
sidered he thought the reasons for a
pOstpOnement were ample.
In the meantime the preparations for
presenting the question to the court
should the reorganization committee
who are understood to be the owners of
q. large share of the first mortgage
bonds, object to the delay will be pro-
ceeded with Ex-Governor HOadley
was requested by the attorney general
to confer with the committee today and
wire him any conclusions reached.
c. O.Johnson, halter. 6O2 Kansas ave-
nue.. and G. NJ. Chase, shoes. 623 Kansas
avenue, are among the subscribers to
the trades excursion train to run next
week Their names were omitted,
through a clerical error.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
EXCLUDES NEGROES.
Louisiana Democrats Declare
for q White Mans Gov
ernment Forever.

Baton Rouge, La, Dec. 10.-The work of
the state Democratic convention today
was devoted to settling upon a plan Of
nominating the g delegates at large to
the constitutional convention.
The following was included in the re-
port on resolutions, which was adopted:
we pledge the Democratic party and
the nominees of this convention
"First-To the faithful observation of all
of the limitations imposed upon the au-
thority of the convention by the act of
the legislature in ordering its convoca-
ton.
'.Second-To the adoption of a constitu-
ton which shall have for its sole object
the wellbeing of the people of Louisiana
of all classes and conditions.
''Third-TO such a qualification of the
suffrage as shall forever hereafter guar
antee that the government of Louisiana
shall be intrusted to her intelligent white
citizens.
Conscious of the perfect justice of our
cause, we submit this declaration OF prin-
ciples and purposes to the cOnsiderate
judgment of our fellO5V-cit itizens. fully con-
fdenC of complete success at the polls"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
Demonstrations in Bryan's Hon
or Began as Soon
As He Had Crossed the Mexican
Boundary.
TELEGRAM FROM DIAZ
Speeches Made by Native Mexi-
can Citizens
Call Him "Our Great Silver
Friend"

Laredo, Texas, Dec. 1O.-W. J. Bryan
and party arrived in this city, the gate
way to the republic of Mexico, last
evening and Immediately transferred
to special car on the Nexican Nation
al railroad, accompanied by several
prominent Mexican officials dispatched
by President Diaz to meet them when
they crossed the Rio Grande into Mexi-
co. As soon as the Mexican SIDE Of the
river was reached the train was
brought to q halt and telegram from
Diaz welcoming Mr.. Bryan to the coun-
try was read. The train was pulled up
to the station, where a, large crowd OF
the representative people of Laredo
was awaiting his arrival. Several
speeches of welcome were made to
which Mr.. Bryan briefly responded.
Preparations have been made all along
the line for his reception. Mr.. Bryan
was repeatedly referred 10 in the
speeches which were made by purely
Mexican citizens as Our great silver
fTia
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
WOULD MAKE OIL DEARER,
So Germany Drops the Fight Against
the Standard.

discussed the Interpolation of the gov
ernment yesterday regarding it's plan
for thWarting the Standard Oil COM
market. Herr Barth, the Freisinnige
leader pointed out that any measure to
strengthen competition against the
Standard Oil company would make pc
troleum dearer.
Baron Won Heyl Zuhrensheim urged
vigorous action against American pre-
sumption in the economic field
The minister of the interior, Count
POsadowski promised a special freight
tariff shortly for Russian petroleum
and an arrangement by which the i'm
port duty would be determined by
weight. The matter was then dropped.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-10
BORE A HUMAN FOOT.
Ligaments Wrapped Around the
Trucks of a Pullman.

Chicago, Dec. 1O.-Evidence of a
startling nature which indicates that a
murder has been committed somewhere
between Chicago and Denver, over the
Chicago and Alton road, was found to-
day on top of the front trucks Of the
Pullman sleeping car Miltiades, short
-ly after its arrival in Chicago. 1t was
a human foot, apparently that OF
IEIsn. and a long slender spike pene-
trated the large toe.
The foot, which had been torn of
above the ankle, was bare and mutt
lated Ligaments, which had been torn
from the upper portion of the limb and
remained attached to the foot in dis
memberment, were twisted around the
blood stained trucks of the sleeper.
The police believe that a man has been
tied to the railroad track, his feet
spiked to the ties and that he had been
left to meet certain death under the
train.
On this theory inquiries are now be-
ing made at every point on the road
between Chicago and Denver The
spike, which was in the center of the
toe, was about five inches long and or
the kind used in certain parts of rail-
road construction where a delicate yet
strong piece of metal is used to hold
wood together
There was no blood on the engine.
which the railroad men say, proves
that the accident or murder. as the
case may be, occurred west of Bloom
ington, as a change of engines is made
al that point.
Mexico. Mo, Dec. 1O-The mangled
remains of a man supposed to be Sam
uel H. Mayne of Princeton, Ia. were
found near this city this morning.
strewn along the 9. and A. railroad
cred until after the train had passed
The head appears to be that of a man
35 years of age. The supposed identi-
fication of the body is from papers
E, . C1