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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
How Sport and Fashion Are Devas-
tating the Animal Kingdom.

How extensive and rapid are the
changes occurring in the fauna OF
the world NAV not, perhaps, be gen
orally realized. Race after race of
animals has Disappeared from the
globe through the operation of nat
ural causes. but the chief responsible
ity for the destruction must be placed
at the door of man. The extinction of
the great aux. or penguin, and the
Rytina. or Arctic sea-coW, is of COM
paratively recent date; the bison is
nearly on his last iegs-eXcept those
the curators of the museums will
supply him with-and the Walrus
has become very scarce. Ten years
ago peccaries were abundant in Texas,
but hog skin goods came into
vogue, 80 cents a piece We're offered
for Deccary hides. and in FIVE years
time the peccary had practically be-
come extinct The famous halibut
IS becoming more difficult to find
with each recurring season, and no
longer is Chesapeake bay the mex
haustible source of supply of the sue
culent oyster.
For years the danger Of the ele-
phant becoming extinct has been
pointed out bv scientists on account
Of the immense annual slaughter of
these exceedingly useful. If ponder
Gus animals and the British govern
menL in India has been repeatedly
warned to exercise authority in the
matter. This beast plays such an
important part in the military, as
well as in the domestic economy of
the British government in India
that the authorities have at last
taken alarm at the decreasing num-
beers of the animal and have at length
decided on instituting reDressive
regulations regarding their slaugh-
ter. These are to be very stringent
and 10 be rigidly enforced. Elephant
hunting will no longer be permitted
as a mere pastime, and due super
vision viii be exercised over the trade
in ivory. To supply the world with
ivory necessitates the death, every
year, of 100, 600 elephants; and if
these We're placed in single file they
would make 4 procession $50 miles
long. So rapidly, of late years, has
the elephant been done to death that
the next generation of museum visit
ors viii be gazing at his remains with
the same interest that we do, now, at
the remains of the mastodOu.
Fashion--that ineXOrable Dame
whose dictates must be executed if the
heavens falls responsible for much
OF the destruction OF both beasts and
birds It was the demand for its
feathers that brought about the eX-
tinction of the great auk-the only
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10

days have elapsed since the exposure
and the finger is still sore but showing
signs of Improvement. Two-thIrds OF
the exposed portion is covered by a
large blister, which becomes larger
each day. The pain and sensitiveness
is less after the blistering takes place.
The effect has not extended through
the finger, but is confined to the back
and sides, and is strictly limited to the
exposed portion. There is evidently a
point beyond which exposure cannot go
without causing serious trouble. IL
may also be that several shorter eS-
posures would have an equal effect II
made within a few days. The erect
on my finger was made in single
exposure of half an hour at short dis
lance, and by the law of inverse
squares would be the same as from
ten TO twelve hours at six inches dis
lance. The evidence so far as 1t goes
leads me to think that the effect is
another indication Of the chemical ac-
tiYity of Roentgen rays of like char
acter to the effect of the high pitch
waves of light in causing sunburn,
but penetrating more deeply into the
tissues. AS a caution to eXperimenterS
/ should say: DO not expose more
than a finger; be satisfied with the eff
feet of say five hours exposure at six
inches distance, and do not prolong
it to equal a longer time, or there may
be cause for regret when too late. Per-
sOnally l have been more than satisfied
with the results of my inquiry into the
action of the rays or my own It's
sues"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10

A QUIET DAY IN CREEDE.
JESSE JAMES-WILD EVENT


her head upon the bar and wept
bitterly.
Presently she lifted her head. dried
her eyes. and continued:
why. Bob wouldn't Nv killed a coy
ote with a shotgun-it's a coward gun.
When he killed Jesse James, the braV-
es' man at ever lived an the deadest
shot, he dud it with -, an eff he'd
a come down to clear out the Chron-
icle. which he wouldn't, he'd Nv come
with his two hans an his SiX-shooter
an he'd a-had you all jumpin' thu
the winders an scootin fur tn willers
fore yer could NV raised a ham
We'll" said I, glancing toward the
rear of the room to make sure he was
still there, "Bob's all right He's a
good fellow-now."
had known Ford. He was the first
man to whom I was introduced upon
my first visit TO the camp. He had been
cur guide. and had shown Judge Rock
er and me the camp by candle-light 1t
was upon this occasion that I noticed
his nervousness. If a man came in and
left the door open, Ford would slip
back and shut it. If there was a mir
ror over the bar, he always kept his
eyes on it, not to see himself, but to
observe those who passed to and fro
behind him.
In a pleasant way / asked him # he
was expecting someone. He answered,
smiling sadly, that he was always ex-
pecting some one. He had saved his
life once in Kansas City by looking
into a mirror. A friend of the man ne
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
Home Comfort Steel Ranges.

We have sold 1920 Home Comfort Ranges january,
1885, in the United States Canada Mexico and other foreign
countries Our ranges better adapted the Of house
keepers and give better general satisfaction than any others
manufactured Proof OF the assertion the great number Sold
We furnish with this range, steel sklets, steel
griddes each steel pot kettle and tea kettle enaeled
side and and set Of steel drip pans, all Of
ected designs and furnished only with Home Comfort
Ranges
The end hues Of ranges lined with asbestos board
retaining the heat in the oven, where is required.
OR ranges are constructed almost wholly Of nnaIeabe
iron and codroed wrought STEEL nearly ndeStructb,
and will last lifetime properly used and protected from
dampness.
Each range has }5gaon panshed copper reservoir
tached to left sd aordng ample supply Of hot water at
additional expense for fuesomeng appreciated by every
family.
The Upper warming olose lower warming closet side
tension shelf duplex CRATE, fingered febox lining and MALE
able water heaters design and Used only with
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a receiving shelf for dishes pans from the oven
We refer to testimonials from thousands Of customers
Using Home Comfort Ranges.
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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
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and preached a funeral sermon. He was
not very enthusiastic, I thought: but
he had a tough client aud a hard case.
He took Cor his text, if he could be
said TO have taken anything, the line
which Ford had written upon the White
paper: Charity covereth a multitude
of SINS" and made the most of it
When he had finished, an express
wagon backed up to the door, they put
the dead man in, and the wagon wound
away up the trail to a level spot above
the town, where the unwept and unfcr-
tunate girl had been buried the day
Ford died; where all about were new
made graves; where gambler Joe SIM
mons and "Slanting Annie SEPT side
by side.
The autumn winds blow bleak and chill,
The signing. quivering aspen waves
About the summit of the hill
Above the unrecorded graves.
Where halt, abandoned burros feed,
And coyotes oakland this is Creede
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
ONE OF THE NEW RIVER POLICE PATROLS.

bird in the northern hemisphere that
enjoyed the proud distinction Of being
incapable of fight-being ruthlessly
killed by thousands, both in Europe
and in the north of America, until,
about 1910. it was no longer to be found
Seals, despite the restrictions placed
around their killing; fur bearing ami
mails of all kinds; birds of gay plum
age; alligators, crocodiles and reptiles
of every variety, are being decimated
to satisfy the Unsuitable demands of
fashion. Among the items at one sin
gle sale in London, Eng, recently, were
the following: Six thousand birds of
paradise, 5000 impeyan pheasants.
100000 humming birds, $50, 900 skins of
fur-bearing animals, and 100000 pos
sum and $4,000 monkey skins The
fashionable seal skin sacque demands
the lives of 200 900 fur seals every year.
and fully 100000 hair seals are an
nuaIly slaughtered for their oil and
feathers.
At the door of the sportsman also
lies some of the responsibility for the
extinction of animals. In South Africa
the zebra is no longer to be seen IL his
accustomed haunts, and the giraffe is
met with but seldom.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10

had murdered entered the room, saw
Ford'S face in the mirror, and instant
ly reached for his gun. Ford, lifting
his glass. saw the man. and the mo-
ment their eyes met the man weakened
and passed on. Ny friend, the judge,
from force of habit, presume, began
to question Ford about the killing of
Jesse James, and the fellow told US
that he had been led to believe that
if he killed James, whose friend and
messenger he had been, he would be
the greatest man in Missouri. That
meant a great deal to this boy of p,
for outside of Missouri there was little
worth striving for And then, to JUS
tify his cowardly act, he related that
it had been planned by James that a
bank should be robbed shortly, and
Ford had been told that he was TO
enter the bank with James, who
would quietly shoot him, as he had
begun to mistruSt the kid All this
Ford pretended to believe. He was
confident that he would have been
murdered in a little while if he had
not put a bullet through Jesse's back
while he was hanging a picture.
Kelly, the tough citizen who re-
moved Ford, seemed, strangely enough.
to regard the killing of this man much
as Ford had looked upon the killing
of Jesse James. Ford was an open
before his death had closed all the
business houses and put the camp 20
bed at pm. The morning paper had
suggested that Ford be informed that
he would be expected, in future, to re-
frain from shutting up the town, leave
the camp or be hanged, just as he
pleased; and For that ne swore he
would kill off the working force from
the editor-in-chief down to "Freckled
Jimmie" " the devil
However, Kelly was wrong. He was
condemned even by Ford 5 enemies for
his cowardlv act. just as he public
had disapproved of the murder of Jesse
James. All agreed that the removal
of Jesse would facilitate the movement
of trains in Missouri and that Fords
death would add much to the peace
and quiet of Creole Camp; but n man
admires a coward. SO Kelly was ar
rested; and later. when he ian up
against Judge (now congressman
Bells equity mill. he was surprised to
receive a life sentence in the pen.
On the morning of the day following
the killing, a half hundred people as
sembled in a storeroom where religious
services were held. Thev brought
Ford's coffin and placed it unon
bench, and then the preacher got up
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10

! the wheels, and when the wagon final
| ly stopped they were both dead. All
| this happened just above and in full
view of the town, so that many of the
people saw it, and heard the poor
| animals cry, almost as d human being
would cry for help, while they were
| being run down and killed by the ore
wagon.
a moment later the crowd which had
| collected TO view the wreck had its at
tention diverted by baby burro that
now came Keeling down the principal
street with a we'll developed jag" and
a gait on like Riley's 'Wabbledy"
calf Some hoodlums had given the
burro beer, and he was as drunk as a
man.
A sorry-looking young woman was
working the shops and saloons on the
shady side of the avenue. She carried
| a long sheet of writing paper, upon
which she asked people to put their
names and opposite their names the
amount of their subscriptions. One of
the girls had died the night before.
and this money was asked in order TO
pay some one to dig a hole at the top OF
the hill and TO hire an express wagon
TO haul the girl up there. When the
woman came to the Leadville dance
hall she entered, and was greeted sad
ly by another woman who stood over
"
from the end of the bar to the front Of
the tent, fencing off a little space which
served as an office for the proprietor
and the woman, who was a silent part.
ner in the firm. The visitor pushed the
paper over toward the mana small,
sallow- looking man of 80, who was
ever fidgeting and CHANGING at the door
of whatever house he happened to be
in. The man glanced down the column,
saw "Soapy Smith. So" and as he
hated ''Soapy," he Immediately raised
him five, gave the woman the money.
and wrote just under his name and the
$40: Charity covereth a multitude of
sins" Then he passed out from be-
hind the bar, and began walking slow
ly to the rear end of the long room.
The woman with a sorry face and the
long white paper passed out. Upon
the threshold she met man in miners
clothes, and even as she turned to look
at him, a very short man rode up to
the door of the tent and handed a
double barreled shotgun TO the man at
the entrance AS the miner-looking
man entered the tent with the gun, the
woman with the paper turned as if she
would follow him, for she feared that
the stranger might do violence, re-
luctant as she was to believe that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
a Telephone Repeater-The Next
Improvement in Long Distance
Talking.


From time to time one genius or an
other announces to the world that he
has solved the problem of transmitting
human speech across any required dis
lance by means of some device OF his
own, but when these inventions are put
TO test it is always found that some
essential point has been overlooked.
Where the next really great improve
ment in telephoning is TO be looked for
is here briefly outlined by one OF the
foremost American engineers engaged
in this line OF work:
In theory it is perfectly possible to
lay a telephone cable across the At
lantic at present, provided copper
wire OF sufficient size protected by a
covering of sufficient thickness is used
But this would mean a cable larger
perhaps than an ordinary telegraph or
electric light pole, and aside from the
practical impossibility of laying such a
cable its great cost would bar II from
commercial success.
The problem of land communication
is somewhat simpler. In fact the prob
lem is SO thoroughly worked out under
existing conditions that it is possible
for the engineer to go ahead and eX-
tend his lines TO any distance with
the certainty of success. AT present
the greatest distsnce over which regu-
lar commercial intercourse IS carried
on is between Boston and Memphis.
BY the route of the American Tele-
phone company's lines that is close to
1.600 miles. But that is by no means
the limit of telephone communication
and if the officers of the American Teie-
phone company thought that business
requirements would justify ii they
would undoubtedly extend their lines
at once TO Kansas City or Denver or
even further west.
In a nutshell, ii you want to extend
your lire from Boston TO Chicago, an
other 1000 m,les west, you can do it by
simply increasing the size % your wire.
For example, in talking from Boston to
New York a wire about the size of or
binary telegraph wire is used, IN talk
ing from New York 10 Chicago the
wire used is some three times as large,
and to talk from New York TO Denver
il would have TO be considerably in
creased again.
Here q difficulty that may be de-
scribed as commercial rather TIM
scientific arises This is simply the
fact that as you increase the size Of
copper wire its price Increases in al
most geometrical ratio. A telephone
line could be built across the continent
today, but it would be = mighty poor
investment.
The problem before telephone en-
gineers at present is, therefore, how
to extend communication without in
creasing the size of the wire and there
by multiplying the cost. The solution
10 the difficulty which has suggested
itself to several persons IS telephone
repeater similar IN its operations TO
the telegraph repeater or relay. a
successful telephone repeater would
take a long distance message, say
every 500 miles, and start it afresh on
its journey. so that the smaller size OF
wire could be used all the way across
the continent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
New Marvels in Long Distance
Transmission of Electric Power.

One Of the greatest electrical de-
velopments of the past year has been
the utilization of Niagara Falls for pro-
ducing electric power. l think the
moral effect of this great achievement
will ultimately result in changing the
general ASPECT lof many cities and
country districts. This will be because
of our lately expanded capacity for
generating electric power at water falls
and transmitting it over long distances.
Instances already become numerous,
but if the work goes on at the present
rate, power transmission plants will
soon be among the commonplaces of
electrical enterprise. What is more par
ticularly noticeable is that distances of
20 or 80 miles no longer count. at least
in this country. Perhaps the best in
stance in Europe is still the 19-mile
transmission from the falls of Tivoli to
Rome, but here examples of that mag
nitude multiply. The American cities
that have absorbed distant water pow
ers just as they absorb suburbs are by
no means few. Buffalo has reached
out electrically % miles to Niagara:
Fresno. 81 miles to the San Joaquin
river; Portland Il miles TO the VILLAIN
cite; San Bernardino. 20 miles to the
San Antonio mountains; Hartford. II
miles to the Pennington river: Salt
Lake City, good 10 miles to the Big
Cottonwood canyon and the Wasatch
lakes; Sacramento, more than % miles
to Folsom.
With this capacity for transmitting
heat, light and power over miles Of
open country, there seems to be 10
reason why the smoke nuisance with
its all infective dangers should not
soon be a thing of the past and the air
of densely populated cities become as
pure as that of the most isolated
country district. T. c. MARTIN.
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as go men; though of course the regu-
lar police crew will not exceed a, dozen.
Two large revolving electric lights
supplied from q storage battery aft are
fixed in the bows and at the stern of
the swift little craft. These lights are
encased in a dark-lantern arrangement,
which can completely obscure them at
seconds notice. The lights are
capable of illuminating objects at a
great distance, being in fact an am
plification Of the old-time policeman's
"bullseye" lamp. Another noteworthy
part Of the equipment is a small
swivel gun; but this, the police admit,
is more for show than use, as river
pirates are seldom so desperate that
they have to be oveTawed by such
vigorous means. A cabin amidships is
divided into two compartments-the one
for the guards who are temporarily
off watch the other for use as
cell for prisoners. A peculiarly shrill
whistle gives the launch a means of
calling aid from shore in case of neces-
sity; and two row-boats sIung from
side davits, are ready to be lowered
where pursuit with the launch itself
becomes impossible.
Chief Conlin of the New York police,
says in this connection: The police
river launch has long been an urgent
need. We could not patrol the rivers
with the old tubs hitherto in use.
Thieves knew every hiding place along
the wharves, and could lie concealed
under piles or between ships. until our
men went by in the darkness. Now
the launch goes faster than any thief's
boat-there are roW-boatS to lower if
necessary-and the revolving search
lights can sweep the stream from bank
to bank and penetrate every nook and
Granny of the wharves, besides search
ing the decks of anchored vessels for
suspicious signs OF robbers at work.
The new launch is calculated to kill
river piracy"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
Prerequisite to Prosperity.

St. Paul Globe: This country will never
know enduring prosperity and it's in
dustries will never be upon any other
than an artificial and rickety foundat ton
until we have put a peremptory end to
legislative favoritism under the mask of
protection" Setting aside the matter of
justice to the consumer. it is demanded
b.. public decency and by regard for
ordinary morality that such an exhibit
ton as that made by the tariff crowd at
Washington should never be repeated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
An Improved Trap For Wharf Rats
The New Harbor Police Launch.

The new river police launch is des-
tined to become q terror to harbor
pirates and wharf rats" For years
the police of our big rivers and harbors
have striven 70 preserve order by
means of clumsy row-boats of no great
speed, and wretchedly lighted The re-
suit was that the river thieves found
their nefarious business easy enough,
and that hundreds of thousands of dol
lars were stolen annually from ships
and lighters" With the new river
launches, however. a new state of af-
fairs may be looked for
Philadelphia was the first city of the
United States to introduce the launch.
Its success was so complete that New
York Brooklyn and Chicago have fol-
lowed suit and Baltimore, San Fran
cisco and New Orleans will place
launches on their waters early in the
year 1897
The river police boat is an ordinary
steam or naptha launch built especi-
ally for speed, and between SO and AZ
feet in length. 1t viii carry as many
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
The Most Up-to-Date City in the
World.

The most modern cities in the world
are Great Falls, Mont, and Spokane
Falls, Wash. They are entitled to the
distinction because, within their limits
nearly everything is done by electricity
Not only are the street railways and
all the manufacturing establishments
operated by the current, but even the
houses are lighted and the cooking
done with the same agent. Elevators,
sewing machines, dumb walters,
church organs. pianos. house-heaters.
burglar alarms, dOOIbells, chafng
dishes, water heaters, hair-curlers,
sad-irons, washing machines, printing
presses, the telegraph, the telephone
and in fact. every piece of mechanism
that requires external force to propel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
Injurious Effects OF the x-Ray.


There really seems to be some ele-
nent of truth in the assumption that
fxnosure of Y rays Is highly injurious
10 the health of the eXperimentor. One
man is dead from the effects of the
penetrating light: one of Edison's as
eistants has been forced TO resign mis-
nosition on account Of organic trouble
brought about by exposure to the rays,
apd now a New York physician. DR..
William J. Morton, is in a partially
,,sad no condition due to d long course
of medical experiments with the light
Of Roentgen. He declares that for a
Given amount of experimentation the
Z raw will exhaust the eXperimentor
more than any other agent. But here
Is a. positive experiment showing that
\ RAYS do have q definite effect on
+he tissues. - Professor Elihu Thorn
son. exposed the little finger of his left
hand for half an hour to the radiation
of a strongly excited tube. The back
of the finger was placed almost in
contact with the glass and was as a
matter of fact only about an inch and
a quarter from the platinum in the
Tube. No effect was noticed u a week
afterward. Then the finger began TO
infiame and is yet in a highly painful
condition Professor Thomson's own
account of it is as follows:
mo decided effect followed until over
a week the finger then reddened, be-
came extremely sensitive, swollen and
stiff, and &c a certain extent painful.
A slight blow or pressure would pro-
luce sharp burning pains. Seventeen