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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
In Self-Defense

San Francisco, Dec. 24.-Tom Nolan,
an ex-pugiljst and saloon keeper, this
morning shot and fatally wounded
James O'Rourle a race track tout"
known as Irish" 1t was in self-de-
Tense.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
Silver For Eurons

New York, Dec 24.-The steamship
Lucania, sailing for Europe tomorrow.
will take 655000 ounces of silver and %, 900
Mexican dollars. The Normandie will
take 100000 ounces of silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
Big Verdict For Contractor.

Chicago. Dec. 24-Joseph Duffy, who
contracted to build the new Northwest
land tunnel, was given a verdict of
$21S,452 against the city of Chicago to-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
TALES OF THE YUKON
What Montana Man Says About
It's Richness
THE GLITTER OF GOLD
DOES NOT SUPPLY THE PLACE
OF BREAD, he SAYS.
There Is Enough Food to Supply
1000 In Dawson This Winter,
But 1000 Depend For Food Upon
Dawson-Teslin Lake Route
Large Liquor Seizure.

Portland, Ore, Dec. 24.-George Rutn
of Flathead. Mont, reached Portland
on the steamer Elder this evening, haV-
Ing come direct from Dawson City,
which point he left Nov. 5. Warned OF
the suffering that was imminent before
winter passed, owing to the shortage
of provisions in Dawson and Vlclnlty,
Mr. Ruth disposed of all his supplles'
except 10 pounds, which ne used On
his way to Dyea. He states that there
was from 5000 to 1000 people consre-
gated at Dawson and that vicinity, and
he estimates the provisions there are
sufficient to winter only about 2,UOU. VI
the situation there he said:
ALL NOT TOLD.
'AI has never been told of the rich
ness of the claims. They. are pannlng
out in wonderful quantities, but the
glitter of gold there does not supply
the place of bread. Men are short IN
some instances, and there is poor pros
pect of supplying themselves unless
they are reached from the outside.
There is about enough provisions, l
should Judge, to keep 1000 men through
the winter, and the population de-
pendent upon Dawson for food is be-
tween 5000 and 1000. There seems to
be lots OF meat ana sugar, DuC Gil OlISl
kinds of food are very short. A few
days before [ left L sold two bags of
flour for $3.50 and saw two sheep bring
to their sellers the same figures A
short time before 1 left, 800 men left
Dawson to go down the river until they
reached the supplies said to be cached
there.
POLICE WORK.
1.-THE mounted police are getting as
many to leave as possible. AS 1 came
out l found that the police had about
loo tons of provisions stored at Lake
Bennett, which they expected to take
in as soon as possible. They now have
200 dogs there, waiting to take the eX-
petition in.
I found it Impossible for a man to
draw on sled enough food and cloth
ing to supply him while going from
Dawson to the coast. l started with
no pounds, but when Is nights distant,
was compelled to dispose of all but a
small quantity and throw all blankets
but one pair away. [ relied on getting
food from persons camped on the way
and from the stores Of the mounted
police
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
Gold For New York

New York, Dec. 24-Heidelbach, lex
elheimer & Co., announce that they
have 100000 in gold leaving London
tomorrow, consigned to them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
Christmas Herald Tomorrow.

The Herald will tomorrow present
to its subscribers SO pages of sDe-
cially prepared matter. 1t will be a
paper that you will want to send to
your friends outside the state. Or
der extra copies today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
ALL COLLAPSED.

Within ten minutes after the fire be-
gan, the roof was ablaze, and in a
short time after the fire had appeared
on top Of the building. one of the large
arches that spanned the building gave
way with a tremendous report and
then another, and another, each going
down with a sound like the report of
a cannon. The building fell very quick
ly, as after the first arch went down
the weight was too great for the arches
next to it. and all collapsed. 1t took
not over 20 minutes to make a complete
ruin of the building
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
Christmas Herald Tomorrow.

The Holiday edition of The Her
aid, to be issued tomorrow, viii con
IN. OF 80 pages, filled with bright
uoHqay stories and interesting indus
tIlal reviews of Utah and Idaho.
handsomely Illustrated If you don't
get IL you miss a good thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25

trouble in getting upon the roof and
from there the leap to the ground was
not great.
The @renen We're at hand before all
the people were out, and before they
made any effort to fight the flames,
they devoted their attention to clearing
the hall of the people. BY the time
thew were read-- to pour water on the
fire the flames had spread with such
rapidity that there was no chance
whatever of saving the building.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
CRUSH AT THE DOOR.

During the jam at this point, several
people were crushed, but none were
seriously Injured. The balance of the
people made their way through the
other doors. and several who were
caught III the balcony were compelled
to jump to the ground from the roof.
The balcony is lined with windows
ths.t swing outward and they had no
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-25
NOT LOST

Late tonight it was learned that Mrs.
Pauline DauDhin and her daughter
Pauline, who were said by Manager
Austin to have been lost in the IRE,
had gone to their hotel on the West
Side and were not injured in any way.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-25
THE 8 BELLS PERFORMANCE.
It Proved to Be One of the Most Enter
tanning of the Season.

Rhode opera house held standing
room at premium Wednesday night
at the performance of 80 Bells. "
There were probably fully 900 people
in the house. Almost every available
inch of space was occupied.
The play has been seen so often
throughout the country that it seems
strange that Wednesday night should
have been the first the Kenosha public
has been given the privilege of visiting
it. But whether for the first or tenth
time the amount of laughter and APP
plause given it showed that the people
enjoyed the performance.
The play started out with school
day scene which one might term rather
silly than otherwise, but fortunately it
was only for the starting. The rest OF
the show was chock full Of fun. The
specialties were of the highest order
throughout. All of the acrobatic per-
formances were very fine and showed
the performers to be possessed of re-
markable agility. In every way one
could look at it almost the perform
ance was very satisfactory one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-25
WE BITE THE DUST.
The Kenosha Athletics Fall Down Before
the Racine Turner's.


The Athletics have decided to stop
playing ball, and any one who can
play checkers we'll enough to tell them
when to move would no doubt be a
very welcome person just at present.
This is how it happened. The Ra-
cine Turner's came down Wednesday
night to have revenge for their defeat
of few weeks back, and to say they
are happy is very poor way of ex-
pressing it. For eight innings the Ke-
nosha boys played hard and held Ra-
cine down to four runs, making five
themselves. Then the ninth came and
consultation of who should be the
honored (?) man to present the Turn
ers with the game, so they all went at
it with that one thing in mind to Guido
the other, ana that's the sad tale they
sing today. They, however, have one
good excuse, and that is that with
Cooper sick and another man unable to
play, they put up patched team.
Racine boys played sharp fielding
game and their pitcher had all the
Kenosha team at his mercy.
The team will be on deck again by
Friday night and fully intend to win
back their lost honor. Score to 6
in favor of the Racines.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-25
O MRS. I. w. WEBSTER DEAD.
The Well Known Lady Passes Away
Quietly This Morning

Mrs. I. W. Webster. relict of the late
vell-known attorney and whilom mayor
of Kenosha, died this morning at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert S.
Whitaker, on Congress street, this
morning at 1920 o'clock.
Mrs. Webster was q lady quite well
known throughout the city, though in
recent years she has lived in a quiet,
retired way. 1t had been given out
among her close friends for the past
two weeks that she was i'll, but no one
considered her difficulty of more than a
temporary illness and her death was
not feared. When it came this morn
ing, therefore, it was quite a severe
shock to all who knew her.
Mrs. Webster may be said TO have
died of the general debility incident to
old age. She was Y years of age.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-25
WRITE ABOUT TT.
Air Your Opinions Now About The Street
Railway Project.

Air Your Opinions Now About The Street
Railway Project.
The Milwaukee, Racine & Ken0sha
Electric Railway company has asked
for franchise through Kenosha. The
matter is an important one to the
citizens A great deal of the future of
this town may be locked up in that
enterprise and it may not. All of us
have our individual views about the
matter. We don't always want the
aldermen to settle all these things for
us, without giving them at least the
benefit Of our advice and opinion. The
matter is before us now for discussion.
Let us discuss it fully and freely, so
that we may be able to act properly
when the time comes.
We invite correspondence from any
and every source, and without stint or
limit, the only condition being that the
letters shall be written in a decOrouS
way.
We would suggest that the citizens
answer through this paper the follow
ing questions:
Does Kenosha need and want this
road?
If we do, upon what terms shall it be
allowed franchise?
What route will be most practical
for it,
The answers to these questions will
naturally open up quite large num-
Der of minor side questions. Let them
all be freely discussed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-25
The Modern Way

Commends itself to the well-informed,
to do pleasantly and effectually what
what was formerly done in the crudets
manner and disagreeably as well. To
cleanse the system and break up colds,
headaches and fevers without unpleas-
ant after effects, use the delightful
LIQUID laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Manufactured by California Fig Syrup
Company.
Racine saloonkeepers are having a
hard road to travel this winter, as their
receipts have fallen off over one-half.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-25

It is rather queer comment to make,
but nevertheless it was true Wednes-
day night, that the ladies in the back
part of the opera house who did not
need to remove their hats were lady
like and handsome enough to remove
them. But beginning with the second
row of sofas and forward hardly hat
was removed greatly to the disgust OF
those who sat behind them.
There is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by constant
ly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has
proven catarrh to be a constitutional
disease, and therefore requires consti-
Uutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. j. Cheney c
Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only consti-
| tutional cure on the market. 1t IS
taken internally in doses from ten
drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts direct
| ly on the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address
f. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. O.
| 70 Sold by druggists, 75c.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-25

yYTANTED-SEVERAL FAITHFUL MEN
w or women to travel for responsible estab-
lished house in Wisconsin. Salary $780, pay
ADJ, olo !, eekly and expenses Position per-
Inanent Reference. Enclose self-addreSsed
stamped envelope The National. Star Build
ng Chicago.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04
BRAVE "TIGE."
Fog Saves His Helpless Master from
 a Terrible Death.

Fog Saves His Helpless Master from
 Terrible Death.
 Tige is only dog, and ''yaller dog" at that, but his mixed breed has given him shaggy coat and a buShy tail, and nature has given him deal more sense than the man who owns him stands possessed of, says the Temple CreX.) correspondent of the Philadel- phia Times.
 Tige's master is a rancher, so-called, who lives on a rocky little place south of Temple, and who yesterday came to town bringing a bale of cotton on his rickety wagon. After diSpOsing of the cotton the gOOd-fOr-nothing fellow straightway proceeded to drink up the proceeds, and before the day was far spent he and his money were pretty far gone.
 Toward evening he climbed into the wagon, perhaps with an idea of going | home, as he unhitched his shaggy | ponies from the post in front of the grocery where they had been standing all day without a bite of food or a drink of water, and only Tige curled up under the wagon to keep them con- pany. But, having gotten into the wag- on. the man was overcome by a jag" i and fell down on the floor and went to l sleep.
 Meantime, the poor, starved ponies began grazing about, picking a wisp of | green here and there, till presently they | got out on the edge of the town. and 1 had climbed up the three feet of rail- road embankment, dragging the wagon after them and nipping the grass be- tween the cross ties. In the midst of this state of things the northbound train came around the curve. bearing straight down upon the wagon. The engineer blew his whistle, but the man ln the wagon was too far gone to hear A Mexican tamale vender some distance of saw the danger and ran down the embankment whistling to the horses but they were too hungry to heed so slight a warming.
 But there was Tige, the dog. the ponies faithful friend. Realizing the danger on the instant, Tige bounded up the embankment and began barking and biting at the horses heels with such persistence that they in turn set to kicking and backing down upon him, all the time getting farther and farther out of harms way, till, just as the train sped by. they had gotten themselves and their sleeping master out of the path of its destruction,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04
Weighing an Elephant.

An Indian writer relates an interest Ing anecdote concerning Shahjee, the father of the first ruling prince of Nah rattas of Hindustan, who lived at about the beginning of the seventeenth century. On one occasion a certain high official made VOW that he would distribute to the poor the weight of his own elephant in silver money, but the great difficulty that at first presented itself was the mode of ascertaining what this weight really was, and all the learned and clever men of the court seem to have endeavored in vain to construct machine of sufficient power to weigh the elephant. At length 1t Is said that Shahjee came forward and suggested plan which was simple and yet ingenious in the highest degree. He caused the unwieldy animal to be con- ducted along a stage, especially made for the purpose by the waterside, into a flat bottom boat, and len, having marked on the boat the height to which the water reached after the elephant had weighed it down, the latter was taken out, and stones were substituted in sufficient quantity to load the boat to the same line. The stones were then taken to the scales, and thus, to the amazement of the court, was ascer- tained the true weight of the elephant.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04
Journalist Ambassadors.

There have been number of prece- dents for the appointment of news tpaper men as ambassadors, of which several instances have occurred lately. Samuel s. Cox, we'll known as Sunset" Cox, was a newspaper writer before he was sent as Minister to Turkey in 1885. Caleb Cushing, contributor to the mag azines, was Minister to China in 1S4: and to Spain in 1874. Thomas NJ. Foote, editor of papers in Buffalo and Albany, was charge d'affaires in Vienna in 1852. John Morgan Francis, editor of the Troy Times, was Minister to Greece in 1871. Rufus King, editor of the Al hany Journal, was Minister to Rome in 1861. Carl SchurZ resigned as Minis. ter to Spain at the outbreak of the war in order to enter the United States army. Whitelaw Reid was Minister to France in 1889, and at the same time Charles Emory Smith, editor of the Philadelphia Press, was Minister to Russia, and Watson R. Sperry, who had been managing editor of the New York Evening Post, was Minister to Persia. John Russell Young was Min lster to China in 1882, and James Wat son Webb was Minister to Brazil in 1861.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04
side.

The reports of the damage done by the storms and floods in Central and Southern France have been so brief and meager in details that few persons have appreciated the extent of the dis aster. So much of the country has been cut eff and rendered inaccessible that only unofficial estimates can be made. It is known, however, that at least 300 lives have been lost, and that thou sands have been made homeless, while the amount of property destroyed is placed at a conservative valuation at 40 millions of dollars. In one place alone-the town of L'Isle-en-Dodon, on a small island in the River Save-293 houses were carried away by the flood. The suffering of the people who have lost their all in this calamity will be intense for a time, but the French re- cuperate rapidly and will not long re- main depressed. It is much to be feared when the waters subSide somewhat and admit of closer examination of the the affected districts that the loss of life will prove to have been underesti- mated. The storm came on the people without warning, and they were help less before its fury.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04

The introduction of electricity into the uses of everyday life has brought the electric fan for cooling apartments during the summer. At first the price of these was so great that only large concerns could afford them. Then, too, electric power was not so common. Now there are few fiat buildings which are not supplied with dynamos and ap- pIiances for electric lighting. The price of the fans is only about half what it was, and offices, small restau- rants, stores and private apartments are now cooled by this process. But the cost is still larger than it should be and when the fans can be had for S1O or less there will be a much larger number in use. It may be that the apartment house of the future will have its cooling apparatus just as it now has its heating plant, and by am- monia rooms may be kept cool, no mat weather Is on the out cido
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04
Kicking the Grain,

If the grain cannot be put into the barn or barrack, it should be ricked. It is a very bad plan to thresh from the shock. There is too much delay in waiting for the machine, and even if the weather is dry, the grain is very liable to bleach from the hot sun, and then it does not go through the usual barn sweat. If the weather is showery, the grain is damaged; the straw is very badly injured for feeding purposes, and in most cases there is a heavy loss. Several farmers in our vicinity tried threshing from the shock last season, and in one or two instances their grain was badly damaged while waiting for the machine If one has machine, or can get the grain threshed without de- lay, of course, it may be the best to have it threshed at once and the grain sold, when the market is up. Grain threshed right from the shock is liable to heat ill bulk. If the grain Is rlckeu, make the rick long and narrow, anu have the rick bed raised at least one foot above the ground. Have two large canvas covers handy to cover over lne
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04

The fruit growers of California have begun to build canneries in order to provide against a great waste of fruit which takes place every year and which is dead loss except where the surplus goes to feed hogs. This $ Il wise move and one winch the horticul- turists of other States might copy Mil lions of fruit is wasted every year in many States by this carelesSness, where little capital judiciously invest ed would pay we'll for the men who furnished it.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04

The method of voting in the French Chamber of Deputies is unique. The members have white and blue cards, the former signifying yea" and the latter nay" When member wishes to be absent from the chamber he in- structs a colleague to vote for him and the latter is allowed to do so. The other day when there were not more than fifty members in the house a cer- tain measure was carried by a vote of 391 to 126. There have been many at temps to abolish the system of voting by proxy. but they have all failed. It reduces legislation to an absurdity.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04

There is a great deal of sound sense in the argument against our national sin of extravaganza by Japanese whom Robert r. Porter met in that country lately. Mr. Porter was stay ing at Japanese hotel, living as usual in apartments on the American plan. He paid what was equivalent to $2.7j a day in our money. His Japanese friend stayed in the same hotel, but in the Japanese quarters, paying but 7J sen. or about 40 cents, a day. The Oriental said to him: ''I am just as happy and comfortable as you are To be sure, you have tables and chairs, and
 washstands and pitchers, and a bed stead and a sofa. l have nothing of the
 sort. X nice clean tatami mat and quilt is q good enough bed for me. Then you give so much more trouble at your meals, with your tables and your chairs, and crockery, glassware, knives and forks, spoons, mustard and pepper pots. My meals are served in my room by a pretty maid who kneels before me while I eat, and chats and makes her Sell LHlSl leStlAS, IoOAIlS dlteI lny every want at the same time. Then you cart q lot of unnecessary baggage around. The hotel furnishes me with a nice clean night robe, and can buy tooth brush for sen or so. You Americans make too much effort to live" There is no doubt that we clutter our lives with alleged necessities or luxuries which are in reality nothing of the sort. Our daily living has reached enormous ex- penses by our continually increasing wants, which are merely extrava- gances, not at all necessary.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04

Although it but remotely concerns us of the inland, it seems as though the existence of two separate sets of regu- lations for the government of vessels at sea, one put in force by this country and the other by Great Britain. would result surely in confusion and acci- dents. On the first day of July new regulations went into opera tion respecting the rule of the road at sea by the two countries. Some of these rules mean vastly different things in the different codes and there Is no way for mariners to distinguish between them. Life at sea is hazard OuS under the best circumstances and 1t seems little less than criminal To mix such rules as existed before n q way that they may be mistaken and accidents result.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-04

Inv the various State Legislatures, the existence of the law was unknown to most people, and the stated intention of the police commissioners of Boston to enforce this new blue law has spread consternation among the mil liners and their customers. The law was put on the statute books at the in- stance of some society for the proven ton of somethingorOther, and is on a oar with the prohibition of Mother Hubbards, which was tried a while q