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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-04

time on dreaded the thought of storm
ing Vicks5urg's bluffs when the order
should come, as it did come at last, that
the place must be taken at all hazards.
Hence my joy at the surrender of the
garrison on the glorious Fourth OF July,
1863
I'VE were all on the ramparts the mo-
ment the peaceful sign appeared on
the confederate walls, but Of course did
not know the meaning of it then In
short time a column of men in gray
marched around the point of our old
bastion in Fort Beauregard and stacked
arms in front Then they marched
back into the works and the same was
repeated in front of every fort and re-
doubt on the line. 1t was not the regu-
lation way for beaten foe to threw
up the sponge but General Grant, in
honor Of the day. spared them the hu-
initiation of grounding arms. However,
it was all the same in the end, and
you'll scarcely believe me when l say
that not a cheer escaped our lips, no,
not one. We had no enthusiasm for
cheering. only gratitude TO the god OF
battles and a solemn sense of relief at
dangers escaped. General Grant attrib-
uted the silence to a feeling Of SYM
pathy for the beaten foe. That was a
kindly way TO put it, but it was nearer
the truth to say that the joy of the
boys in blue on that memorable Fourth
was not of the kind TO find vent in
shouting huzzahs and sending up sky
rockies
They didn't want to make the charge
down on Grants programme for July 6.
and if you'd been a soldier you'd not
blame them any more than I do. who
had passed "a day in the lions den, and
felt the terrible fangs of the angry
beast.
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A CLEAR EXPLANATION.
A Mistake to Suppose Our Judicial
system is Mixed.

Helena independent: Indiana has just
furnished one of those legal complications
that puzzle the foreign observers of our
American Institutions. A United States
court having proper jurisdiction recently
decided that a certain law passed by the
legislature of Indiana. in regard TO three
cent street car fares, was unconstitutional
ard void. ~ few days ago the supreme
court of Indiana got hold OF that law and
decided II was constitutional. enforcible
and valid. The foreigner, and many an
American citizen, reading of these con-
fiicting opinions in regard to the same
law. will naturally be troubled with dis
Location of wheels in his head How. ne
vi ask, can the same law be good and
bad. valid and invalid. constitutional and
unconstitutional? The question is a ma
tural one, but the explanation is very
simple.
That law IS not constitutional in the
United States, but it is constitutional in
Indiana. The street ear passenger in In
Tor 4 fare But when he goes out of In
diana and into the United States he may
hare to pay more. II he boards a car
that runs from Indiana into the United
States. he need not pay more than cents
If his fare is collected IN Indiana. but the
conductor may demand an extra cents
when the car gets into the United States
o. the other hand, If he boards the car
while it is in the United Ststes, and pays
cents. he can demand the return of the
cents as soon as he gets out of the
United States and into Indiana.
Let no one think that our judicial sys-
tenn is mixed ur: fer. as Mrs. Malaprop
would say, 1t is the very paradox of sim
plicity.
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Great Britain and Ireland. was also

Great Britain and Ireland. was also
sent uD.
SOME VERY CURIOUS EFFECTS.
The ingenious men who have been
sitting up late of nights thinking over
new devices for the qualification of eye
and ear during the Fourth of 1897 have
many successes to point 10. These
gentlemen find difficulty almost as
great as that experienced in inventing
their explosive toys when they begin
TO have an attractive and appropriate
name not already copyrighted. no
table novelty is the "Hobgoblin''--a
curious rocket-sprite. which changes
color no less than three times while
skimming from its cartridge. Then
there is the Columbian Sunbeam" a
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work that their danger is placed at a
discount. Quite the contrary is the
casa with the American cracker. 1t is
made, not Of gunpewder. but of certain
composition. the secret of which the
craft has been pledged not 10 reveal
1t may be stated. however. that the
chief component element of the mix
ture is chlorate of potash--a highly ex-
plosive commodity when blended skill
fully. The Composition, is RESPONSE
bic for many sad accidents annually
the American giant cannon cracker
of commerce especially being almost as
dangerous as an anarchistic bomb. II
parents allow their children 10 play
with such deadly toys they can only
blame themselves for resultant disfig-
urements. From China we annually
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-04

dark. Fort Beauregard was an irregu-
lar, star-shaped work, strong and heav-
lily manned and armed 1t was the KEY
10 the line, and was covered by other
works on each flank and in rear Had
our whole brigade followed us We would
have been hemmed in ard slaughtered
When 1 awoke 1 heard cheering on our
side, lack where the regiment lay. At
terward l heard that Colonel Stone had
been carried to the rear. but not until
ne saw our flag floating on the enemy
wall He told Of this at headquarters,
and General McClernand sent reinforce
ments to that point. The cheer [ heard
was those men charging But they got
no farther than our original line, 80
yards short of the ditch.
The cOnfederates in Fort Beauregard
poured shot into them with a vengeance
and guns were roaring and shells burst
ing along the line for miles. Not only
that. l heard guns and bursting shells
back toward Vicksburg, and looking out
at the embrasure, saw the mortar bombs
from across the river dropping into the
city itself. The gunbOat fleet. in the
river was also pounding away at the
confederate batteries on the bluff. Be
tween the two fires l lay until night
fall, and whichever way l looked, up or
down the fines. or back toward the
river, I saw forts and men and cannon,
an impregnable chain, it seemed to me.
For some. reason the confederateS
did not occupy the bastiOn after Ser
geant Griffiths and Urine left. They
may have loked in. and if they saw me,
thought 1 was only another dead Yank:
alone and weak and helpless, l passed
the hours in misery until night, and
then cIawled back TO the regiment, or
what was left of it. We lost that day AS
killed and wounded, and 10 missing.
Only 10 Of the wounded recovered, so
that our loss in killed almost edualled
the wounded Our loss was the highest
in any regiment engaged that day. The
army lost 1900 in all, and that was
about three-fourths of the total loss in
the whole siege of Vicksburg.
IT think I was no coward, but never
fan-ied slaughter pens. and from that
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import over s1.5OO.OOO worth of fire.
crockers.
''F'ourtnly. in the list of fireworks
WHOLESALERS stock come the japanese
day effects These nearly all come
from the factories around Yokohama,
and are divided into balloon and smoke
effects The balloons are simply col
ored, painted with fanciful devices.
and thus sent up. The smoke effects
are beautiful creations in smoke col
ored in accordance with japanese Sc
crets. There are many novelties of the
latter kind this year. notably one rep
resentlng the flags of Japan and the
United States intertwined, which was
made to order at the Herayama facto-
RES, Japan sends us about $4,000 worth
OF fireworks Of this kind yearly.
THE BIGGEST DISPLAY.
Spectacular fireworks are made both
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AMERICAN SMALL BOY.
AN OLD FASHIONED FOURTH.

The Celebration of Years Ago and
How It Differed From the Modern
Idea.
The most remarkable feature of the
modern Fourth of July as it strikes a
person old enough to remember the an
niversary of bygone days is the radical
change that has taken place in the
way it is celebrated. Once it was all
noise, animal enthusiasm and patriotic
eagle screaming. Now, while the
patriotism and enthusiasm underlie it
all, that which leaks cut is of a more
placid nature and manifests itself in
golf, baseball lawn tennis, boating,
etc. There is also less civic pride taken
in the day-pride OF the fire cracker
kind, that it. 1t may be 4 question
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beautiful attempt to reproduce the eff
feet of Old Soils rays falling from a
height. 1t is sert up like q rocket and
makes but little manifestation until il
reaches an upper stratum of air. /.
then expiodes and floats away hori-
zontally. its beams descending like
those from a huge searchlight on some
invisible airship. Indeed here may be
the correct solution of the wonderful
airship which has so often been seen
floating over the central United States.
From its height above ground il is i'm
possible, as in the case of a balloon.
for an inexperienced eye TO accurate ~
judge of the speed at which it Is trav-
cling, and its rays, reflected in various
directions on the strata of air and O..
the clouds, very often depict forms
which from the earth might easily be
mistaken for flying machine.
THE WRESTLING DEVIL.
The ''Whistling Devil'' is another
weird toy which shriei1s unholily as It
whirls kaleidoscope wise in midair.
These whistling devils are so arranged
that score Of them may be let of.
one after the other in rapid succession.
The effect of this midair procession OF
noise-making demons is distinctly gro
tesque- Yet another charming novelty
is called the wheatsheaf" Smokeiess
powder, for obvious reasons, becomes
annually more and more used by the
pyrotechnist. 1t has an especial value
in big tableaux.
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A leading fireworks contractor was
asked TO state approzima, ely the cost
! of the combined Fourth of July cele-
brations all over the country. He
looked first amused and then puzzled.
Finally he replied: To answer such 4
question with any degree OF certainty
would take a week of calculation.
Moreover. the Fourth may be wet-an
ugly contingency which. while it would
not stop squib and cracker firing.
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would undoubtedly arrest the more
ambitious displays. When a city like
Philadelphia puts aside $4,000 for its
fireworks, apart from the private in
vestments of its citizens. you can judge
Of the very large sums gathered
throughout the country at large. |
think that the annual expenditure on
fireworks should run we'll up into the
millions.
AMERICAN SMALL BOY.
It was the general consensus Of opin-
ion that, be the Fourth" wet or dry.
cold or warm, its celebration is bound
to be a glorious one so far as fireworks
are concerned. Rain may indeed put
out the gorgeous tableauX; storm may
blow aside the Japanese smoke pic
lures; the whistling devils and floating
transparencies may pale their in
effectual fires; but in spite Of every i'll
that weather is heir to we shall still be
able to point with pride TO one I'M
daunted celebrator of Independence
day-the great American small boy and
his irrepressible firecrackers.
GERALD Brennan.
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vim Drummond. Hezekiah Drummond,
Ezra L. Anderson, Richard Arthur
and William Griffin. killed on the spot.
David Jordan, Allen Cloud. n. c. Mes
senSer, ,Munson l. Clemens, John Robb.
e. H. Needham and myself were
wounded.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
Il was struck down in an embrasure
where had chased a Johnnie, and
struggled with him until another man
settled me with a blow on the head 1
had already been shot. and must have
broken my arm in falling. | lay be-
meath huge gun that was pointed TO
the rear, toward the city of VicksDurg.
which was directly behind the fort.
When l came to il was all still in the
6astion, but the war outside was at its
height.
For an instant. when we crossed the
paraoet INFO the bastiOn, 1 had caught
glimpse of the surroundings, and
knew that we had taken a leap in the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-04
CUT RATE TO SAN FRANCISCO
Via the Oregon Short Line.

Only s265o round trip. For particu-
lars call at the city ticket Office, corner
West Second South and West Temple
streets.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-11-29
NoTIce-sALE OF CITY LOTS.

Notice is hereby given that by au-
thority of ordinance No. 292, which
passed the Common Council of Dalles
City April 10Th, 1897, entitled, 'tAn or
dinance to provide for the sale of certain
lots belonging to Dalles City, I will. on
Saturday, the 10Th daV oi May, 1897,
sell at public auction, to the highest
bidder, all the following lots and parts
of lets in Gates addition to Dalles City,
Wasco county. Oregon, to- wit:
Lots 8 and 10 jointly, in block IA; lots
Z, 8, and 10, jointly in block Is; lots
z, 8, 8, and 10, jointly in block 81,
known as butte; lots 10. Ii and IL. in
block 81; lot 8 in block 81; lots 2, s, 4,
5. 6, Z, s, 9, 10 and II, in block So;
So; lots 8, 4, 5, 6, z. 8, 8, 10, II and
II, in block 81; lots l, 2, 8, 4, -5, 6. 8,
8, 10, IL and y, in block AZ; lots L. 2, 3,
4, 5. 9, 10 and IL, in block 43; lots l. 2.
g, Z, 10, Il and II, in bloc Al, and lots
l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, in block 80.
The reasonable valne of sa u lots, for
less than which they will no. G sold,
has been fixed ard determined. by the
Common Council OF Dalles City as fol-
lows, to-wit:
Lots 9 and 10, in block IA, $3.50; lots
II, s, 8 and 10, jointly in block Is, 5000; /;
lots Z, 8, 9 and 10, jointly in block 81,
$500; lot l0'iu block 27, 1925; lot II, in
block 81, $225; lot -, in block 27, $500;
lot 9, in block 81, 800; lots 2, 8, 4, 5, 8,
8, 10 and IL. in block 35, each respect
lively 500; lots 6 and Z. in block 35,
each respectively $120; lots 2, 3. 4, 8, 9,
10 and IL, in block So, each respectively
500; lot u. in block SO, $l25; lots 3, 4,
3, 8, 8, 10 and IL. in block 81, each re-
spectively 800; lots 6, z and II, in
block 81, each respectively $I25 I;
lots 2, 3, 10 and II, in block
Al, each respectively 500; lots 1,
z and II, in block Al. each respectively
SIPS; lots 3, 4, 5, 8, 8, 10 and IL, in
nlock AZ. each respectively 500; lot !,
6 and II. in block AZ, each respectively
Sl25; lots 2, 8, 4, 5, 9, 10 and IL, in
block 43, each respectively 800; lot L.
in block 43, $125; lots 2. 3, and 5, in
block 46, each respect Vely 500; lots
and 6, in block 46, each respectively
$125.
Each of these lots will be sold upon
the lot respectively, and none of them
will be sold for less sum than the value
thereof, as above stated.
One-fourth of the price bid on any of
said lots shall be paid in cash at the
time of sale. and the remainder in three
equal payments on, or before, one, two
and three years from the date of said
! sale, with interest on such deferred pay
ments at the rate of 10 per cent per
that the payment may be made in full
at any time at the option of the pur-
chaser.
The said sale will begin on the 18th
day of May, 1897, at the hour Of
O. clock p. m. of said day. and will con-
tinue from time to time until all of said
lots shall be cold.
Dated his 18th day of April, 1897.
ROGER B. SINNoTF,
Recorder of Dalles City.
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Defcrc Hin Honor.

The following is reported from a
crossroads Justices court:
'sr'ow, jedge," said the witness, I'm
about ter tell the TRUTH
DO you mean ter tell me-" said the
justice, that you've been lynn these
last ty,o hours?"
':5edge,'' replied the witness, 81 wuz
l'niscd n 30 settlement, an both of us
has dfinl-ed outen the same jug. but
I'm gvviEc ter tell you right now eff
you call me a liar III knock you clean
off that bench-'
The justice regarded him sternly for
three minutes and then said:
'John, eff L didn't think that you wuz
drinl1in' I'd fine you ten dollars for
contempt o. courtl tl"-Atlanta Consti-
tuition
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Victorin,a scrnnlea

So scrupulous was the queen in TAX
ing care to fully understand every doc
ument placed in her hands that Lord
Melbourne was reported to have oc-
casionally declared that he would
rather have to deal with ten kings than
one queen. Having submitted some act
of government for the royal approval,
he was proceeding to urge the expe-
diency of the measure when the queen
stopped him, observing: ''I have been
taught to judge between what is right
and what is wrong, but expediency is a
word neither wish to hear nor under
stand. d."-Chicago Chronicle.
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DIR. Hugh Logan made business trip
to Portland yesterday.
Sheriff Driver went to the Cascade
Locks on business tLis morning.
Mr. Ira Powers, Jr., travelling for ihe'
Haywood Furniture Co., WAS in the city
yesterday. -
F. NJ. Saxton of Baker City is here re-
newiug OLD acquain,ances and transacE
ing business.
Contractor Hugh Glenn came up Sat
urday to visit his family, and returned
to Rainier this merning.
Miss Mollie Bcttorff returned from
Spokane yesterday, where she has been
spending few days with relatives aud
friends.
Mr.. Gny G. Willis, young attorney
of Portland, spent Saturday and Sunday
in the city. Mr.. Willis is now presi-J
dent OF the Multnomah Club. -
Marion Thompson of upper l5-Mile is
in the city today. He says there is more
SNOW and that the cold is much more
intense in his neighborhood than it is
in this place.
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Ixnevv Good Worle.

When Sir Walter Scott repeated ssHo.
henlinden'' to Leyden, the latter COM
mented: ''Dash it, man, tell the fellow
that I hate him, but, dash him, he has
written the finest verses4hat have been
published these SO years" Sir Walter
faithfully carried out his errand, and
had for answer: 'sTell Leyden that I de-
test him, but I know the value of his
critical appreciation. San Francisco
Argonaut.
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Pullman Car Wrecked by an Explosion
of Gas.
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LIST OF DEPUr1Es.

To WHOM IT MAY Concern:
This is to certify that have appointed
the following as my deputies, to serve
till March /, 1898:
Zachary Taylor. Antelope.
Harry Cook, Ridgeway.
D. H. Roberts, The Dalles.
]. H. Sherar, Sherar's Bridge.
Frank Gahel, Wapinltia.
A. S. ROBERTS,
Stock Inspector for Wasco Co.,
n24-6t Box 507, The Dalles.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
LAND OFFICE, THE DALLEs, Or,

LAND OFFICE, THE DALLEs, Or
October, %, 1897.
Notice is hereby given the following nam ed
settler has filed notice of his intention TO make
final proof in support of his claim and commute
and that said proof will be made before the Reg
lister and Receiver at The Dalles, Oregon, on
Wednesday, December s, 1897, viz:
j. f. Haworth,
Homestead entry No. 5212 for the E1z SE14, and
SW1z SE14, Sec 20, Up . N, R 13 +, w. 81.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of, said land, viz:
VIM. Jordan, Charles Craig, Ernest Jensen,
Geo. Landis, all of Tho Dalles, Or.
oS0-f JAMES F. MOORE, Register,
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TAKEN UP.

Came to my place last spring, roam
pony, branded o on right hip. Owner
can have the same by paving all charges.
S. A. KINYoN,
oct20 I'm Tygh Valley, Or.
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Yesterday afternoon an explosion oc-
cnrred on the O. Il. & n. near Moeier
that might have resulted in the serious
injury and probable death of number
of passengers had it taken place little
later in the evening. 1t was caused by
an acc1inuiation OF coal gas in one of
the Baker heaters, which exploded and
blew out the end of the car as complete.
ly as if it had been dynamite.
At The time of the accident no one was
in the car but Peter Harris, the colored
porter, and he was badly cut up about
the head and face, and one of his hands
WAS lacerated, He was brought to this
city and DR.. Doane on examining him
found that no bones had been
broken and that he was not in
jpred outside of the wounds already
mentioned. When the reporter called
upon him this morning ne was able to
sit up aud did not seem to be suffering
any great amount of pain.
1t was lucky hat the accident did not
occur during the night, when the car
was full of sleeping passengers. or it
certainly would have been much more
seiiDCe.
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justification.

''Huhl" snorted the husband who
had been inveigled into attending the
rendition of a sermon. "Can him a
boy preackerl He's 40 if he's a day"
''He does look that way" said the
wife; 'sbut," she continued, in her
anxiety to plead, don't you think he
has the mind of boy Topographic
col Journal
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NOTICE.

I have stray horse, a roam, 8 years
old, branded with a figure 2 on the right
hip, at my place on three mile. The
owner can have the same by paying the
cost of this advertisement and proving
property. SETH MORGAN.
The Dalles.
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ono Thing sure.

visitor-Is your father as old as he
looks?
Son (whose father is an alderman
don't know, but I'm sure he isn't as
big as he feels.-Tit-Bits.
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Aavertl.lnr hates.
xERsosAL MESrroN.

DR.. Hugh Logan made business trip
to Portland yesterday.
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Low Rates TO all Eastern Cities
OCEAN STEAMERS Leave Portland
Every Five DAYS for
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Steamers monthly from Portland to
Yokohama and Hong Kong via North
ern Pacific Steamship Co., in connection
with o. R. & N.
For full details call on O. b q Co.'s Agent at
The Dalles, or address
w,H. HURLBURT, Gen: Pass; Agt
Portland. Oregon
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TIME GARD.

TIME CARD.
No A. to Spokane and Great Northern arrives
at 525 D. M. leaves at $50 p. No. 2, to Pendle-
ton, Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at l245
a. m, departs at II 80 q. m.
No 8, from Spokane and Great Northern, ar
rfves at 90 a. m, departs at 9:25 a. m No l,
from Baker City and Union Pacific, arrives at
$40 a. M, departs at $3.50 a. m
Nos % and "a, moving east Of The Dallesi will
carry passengers. No. % arrives at p. m,
departs at 1:45 p. m.
Passengers for Heppner take No. 2. lea
here at l. 80 p. m.
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finanual.
Houston and Texas Central
First Mortgage Bonds.
Notice Of Bonds Drawn for Payment.

The Houston and Texas Central Railroad
Company. having in it's possession cash proceeds
from sales Of lands covered by Trust Indenture
between Frederic P. Olcott the Central Trust
Company Of New York and the Southern Pacific
Company. dated April /. 1890. which are APP
plicable to the purchase Of The Houston and
Texas Central Railroad Company's First Mort
gage bonds secured by such Irdenture. to an
amount sufficient at the price limited In said
Trust Indenture TO purchase and retire 20 Of
such bonds; and, 1t having been found that such
bonds cannot be purchased at or below ITO per
centum OF the par value thereof and accrued
interest thereon. there have been drawn oy lot,
under the provisions Of such Trust Indenture.
bonds secured thereby bearing the distinguish
Ing numbers hereinafter stated. to be paid for
out Of such proceeds of such land sales at the
said rate Of 10 per centum Of the par value
thereof and accrued interest thereon.
The distinguishing numbers Of the bonds SO
drawn are rs follows. viz
II. 3d. A. 90. 14s. 1876. 1885, 3d. Alb AL. Az.
AGO. 5o0. ga, 525. go. GOO. $50. 712. 100. 191.