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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-22
4 Fortunate Unfortunate.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: There is a
certain young man in town who stands
an excellent prospect of seeing the klon-
dixie region next spring, and it will not
cost him a cent. His relatives are making
up a purse for him, and it will be an
amply sufficient one. Another beauty
about the affair is that they are all
anxious to have him go. The fact is, the
youth is a thorn in the flesh to his
family and friends. He has gailoDed
through a little fortune, he has PERSIST
emily refused to apply himself to any
useful occupation, and he has sought as
sociates who were ruinous to him. This
is why his relatives are anxious to get
him away; this is why they are putting
their hands in their pockets.
ut may be the making of him., said
one of his early friends: tbut of course
we have often said that before. Anyway
it will get him away from his present as
sociates. and it may make a man of
him. He will have to rough it, and
pretty soon he viii have to work or
starve. He will be a long ways from
his base of supplies. and he is given to
understand, and very distinctly, too, that
he need expect nothing more. Who
knows? He may come back a millionaire
prodigal-but l doubt it,
1t would be interesting to know just
how many accessions to the good seeking
contingent owe their presence there to
reasons such as the one detailed above.
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DAY AT THE SOL DIERS HONE
Odd Phases of Human Nature In This Remarkable
Military Institution.

good to watch the workings of the in
stitution. In one corner of the billiard
hall one of the inmates runs a soft
drink refreshment stand; in another
corner tobacco and cigars are sold, but
the tables and games are all free, as
free as the air, the sunlight and the
walks in the native woods. There are
a few cranks, of course. and some
swear at the management and kick
at the grub. but most of them are
cheerful, good natured and contented-
| have seen them preparing for food,
and it made me hungry If the long,
naked. clean scrubbed tables were COW
cred with cloths the great dining room
would resemble a big banquet hall,
where prosperous politicians eat pie,
and praise the political party to which
they belong. The food is clean and
wholesome. and there is always plenty
of = 20 go round.
THREE DOLLARS FOR CLARET.
One OF the valuable features of tie
home is an excellent hospital for tho
sick, where the best medical skill of the
country is afforded by the home sur
geon and his assistants. The last an
nual report of DR.. Forwood reveals
some interesting, and at least one de-
plolable. fact. From this report we
learn that the youngest man admitted
to the hospital last year was % years
old, the oldest So. Thirty-five were un
der 80, 81 were from 60 to 70 and only
two were SO years old. During the year
So went for claret and port and 5000 for
collins. One man hanged himself and
% had heart disease. One had melan-
cholia, but the most disgraceful fact
is revealed at the head of the column,
where the statement is made that SO
men who entered the hospital were
suffering from alcoholism. Even rheu-
matism, in all it's various forms and
coming from many causes, was not OUT
done by the gurgling destroyer, having
but 81 victims to its credit.
When an inmate dies he is given
military burial, a sufficient number Of
men being detailed to put him away
with appropriate and impressive cere-
monies. Taking the report for 1894 as
g. basis, there is a funeral almost every
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His Fun Spoiled.

Chicago Tribune: Did you nave good
time?" asked the broker in the suit of
faded brown.
ION my vacation2 MOI senswered the
well dressed broker, who had Just re-
turned from the seaside. 81 did not
ssWhat was the matter? Weather
bad?"
weather was perfect.
go to the wrong placer"
..No. Place was all right"
''Get sick?
Health was never better
Nothing to do to fill in the time?"
Something enjoyable going on every
day. !ggZ, = -,,no+ II t,,a name - Tho rroo+
sea serpent allied you?"
.'Weu, you know there was a sort of
furry in X. Y. and q. stock about the
time went away?'
Yes
I out a little money into ii myself
sought a few shares, and told my con-
fidential clerk to sell them just as soon
as they had made a thousand dollGrs.
That was about what I had made up my
mind / was going to spend on this vaca-
ton"
Yes"
We'll the stock went. .u2, a couple of
points, and the clerk sold the shares l
got the thou. all right, took the family,
and went east.
Yes
And two days after got there ]
found by reading the financial columns of
the daily papers that if | had held on to
those shares As hours longer / would have
cleaned uD $4,000. l didn't have any fun
after that for thinking of the $1,000 had
thrown away
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ESCAPED FROM LIBBY PRISON.
How a Yankee Tailor Made Uni
form and Walked Out of Libby.


form and Walked Out of Libby.
Copyright, 1897. the S. S. Mcclure Co.y
When General John Morgan, the IA
nous confederate raider, visited Libby
prison, early in 1864, he said: There is
to undertaking in the world that you
have not men in this prison qualified
fos, that's why it is strange that more
Of you fellows don't try to get away"
In IHbDy prison, at The time of Nor
cams visit. there were about 1400 Off
GERS. from beardless second lieutenarltS
in 'oheir teens. TO srizzled leaders of bri-
gades and divisions These men came
not only from every state and territory
in Our own land, but they represented
tie armiss of nearly every European
nation. We had lawyers, doctors, cler-
gymen, college Professors, engineers.
editors and every valtelIy of skilled me-
chanics. Among the latter was Captain
Cooper eff Connecticut, who had learned
tbs trade of tailor in his youth. and
who was conducting a large clothing
store at Hartford when patriotism. dom
irated profit and sent him into the
army.
Where every man felt sick and
mean" TO use AN expression common at
the time, only the very sick and help
less We're sent to the prison hes1ltal,
the eastern, ground floor room OF LpDDy.
Doctor Sabal, the confederate surgeon
in charge of the prison hospital, was
as generous and sympathetic as he was
handsome and able, and that is saying
much. This gentleman kept the hospl-
tai fun. and the fact that it was much
warmer than the other quarters mace
it a desirable place.
ADJUTANT MAKES PROPOSITION.
There is che ailment which. at the
front or in prison, "old soldiers" could
assume without immed iate fear of de-
tection and that is rheumatism. Rheu-
rnatism OF the affected character has
kept many a. man, with more cunning
than courage out of the range of the
enemys rifles. was myself in hospital
recovering from typhoid pneumonia,
when Captain Cooper was brought down
from the. lower east room rheumatism
in the legs had SO crippled the captain
that he could hardly crawl. but his
arms appeared to be all right. The
nurses in the hoss>ital were detailed
union soldiers who had ben confined in
the Pembertcn building. a ware house
lower down and across the street from
| Libby. Captain Cooper proved to be a
jolly good fellow: but it was noticed
when the confederate authorities were
not about his rheuma il5ln did not seem
to interfere with his agile locomotion.
Where Captain Cooper got his needles
and thread I cannot imagine, but he
had these coveted appliances. and he
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who could crawl from his blanket gath

who could crawl from his blanket gath
cred about to watch.
Every day, soon after noon, La
Touche danced silently into the hos
pital, TO be fitted, and to see how the
work of art was progressing. AT each
visit he grew more delighted I'll
have it ready the day before the ball. -
said Cooper.
SAME IDEA IN SEVERAL MINDS.
The night before this creation in
gray, blue and gold was completed-1t
had already been paid for-Captain Sin
ger of the Thirty third Ohio, who had
about recovered from a gun shot wound
in the thigh, received at Chicamauga,
drew me to one side and said:
II have plan for escape, and l want
you to help me"
of course, I'll do it, said 1. But
why not let me in?',
81 can't"
why not?''
Because. confound it. there is only
one suit!'
Singer then went on to explain that
he had planned to take La Touche' S
uniform from under. Cooper's head,
and, after putting it on, pass out, when
the guards were changed at daylight
the next morning. Now, ever since the
cloth began to assume form, this idea
! had taken shape in my mind, and so
told Singer. We drew lots to see which
should try it, and my companion won.
In my anxiety to see how Singer made
out kept awake all night On larceny
| intent he left my side about an hour
before daylight. I watched him NOV
/ ing to where Cooper lay, about so feet
away. Then followed a long silence. A
| half hour passed, and l was wondering
at Singers slowness, when Coopers
angry voice broke the stiffness:
"a man who'll try to steal-from q
| fellow soldier in prison is no man al
| aHv' he said; but he did not raise his
! voice so as to be heard by the guards
outside.
But the stuff isn't yours; it be
longs to the enemy" Singer protested
! holly.
Belongs to the enemy, Ell? Not by
a long sight it doesn't. That uniform
/ mine Why, confound you, ever since
/ La Touche left this afternoon I've been
I at work reducing the girth, so that it
! fit myself"
You are going to try it yourself?'
/ 81 am, captain" -ehuckled cooper
Now old fellow, go back to your
\ blanket; and if you keep your mouth
! closed and your eyes open, you'll soon
! see one of the best dressed confederate
/ officers in Richmond Waiting out OF
/ this prison, with a hundred dollars III
graybacks in his pocket" Singer came
back, but there, was no need to report
as l had overheard all.
PURPOSE WAS SOON KNOWN.
Cooper's purpose was soon known te
all the men in the hospital. 1t was also
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-22
BY Cy wARMAN.

copyright, 1897, by Cy Warmanl
On one of the highest of the many
lttle hills which help to beautify the
ooo acres that go TO make up the SOL
dfefs nome at Washington stands a
ncroac statue of Major General Winfield
Scott Old soldiers, and young ones,
100, are apt to pause here and gaze
reverently UP at the big bronze face
that is looking out over the capital
Where the broad Potomac IS creeping
away toward the sea, for this great
general was the founder of the home
AS early as 1929 d report was made by
fhe committee ON military affairs in
congress upon the subject of establish
ing an army asylum fund.- the IDEA
having been suggested by tine major
general commanding, and other army
Officers. Eleven years later the mill
TdI'y committee, acting upon q SuggeS-
ticn from General Robert Anderson,
submitted bill for the establishment
OF a fund, home or asylum for disabled
Soldiers. In 1914 General Scott took up
the cause of the soldier, and the same
report was made by the committee, but
ut was not until 1S4S When Scott cap
flred the capital Of Mexico, that the
asylum got beyond the military COM
m1ttee in congress. The general sent
to the secretary of war draft for $780,
600. part of the tribute levied on the
City of Mexico Tor the benefit of the
army. and expressed the hope that the
money might be used in the establish
nIel1t of an army asylum. To this hand
some grub stake was added SIS, 900 more
remaining from the same levy. and
later $4,000, an uneXpeuded balance of
an appropriation for the benefit Of dis
charged soldiers disabled by wounds y
The act esta blIshing the home provided
for a perpetual revenue, stoppage and
fines 2dJudged against soldiers by SEN
tence of court martial" forfeitures ON
account of desertion,' a certain portion
of the hospital and post fund of each
station. moneys belonging to estates of
deceased soldiers and unclaimed for
three years (the latter to be repaid to
legal heirs on denand), and also for the
deduction of % cents per month, with
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known that the doctors came IN at
in the morning, and that La Touche
would be on hand for his UNIFORM at
70 and between these hours Cooper
must make his attempt. Inc DOCTORS
left at $3.50, and the guards about the
prison were changed at 10. AS soon as
the doctors went out, Cooper, who kept
on his old clothes, for he was thin
man-we were all thin then-slipped on
the uniform, which included a gray
CAP, with a perfect maze of gold lace
on the crown. We had never seen such
a transformation. The new guard had
been on about FIVE minutes when
Cooper laid his hand on the door. He
took no leave and made no fuss. he
reasoned very properly that the new
guard, seeing he was an officer, would
suppose he had entered the hospital
while the other guard was on, and had
lust completed his mission.
HIS GOODNESS WAS SUPERB.
At this instant Cooper's GOODNESS was
superb. His eyes were clear and steady,
and there was not the twitch of mus
Gle to betray the nervousness he must
have felt At length, to the great relief
of all he swung oper,~th the door and
stepped out. Through the brief open
ing he saw the guard saluting and the
officer returning it. Then the door
closed with bang, and Cooper was
free. The next we heard of him he was
safe in Washington.
l have seen some apoplectic anger,
and have heard much fierce swearing
in my time, but 1 never saw so angry
a man as Adjutant La Touche when he
came in for his clothes at noon and
found the tailor had carried them off
on his back The last thing La Touche
said, as he bounced out of the hospital,
was:
IF I catch that fellow, Cooper, I'll
shoot him! never heard Of such dog
gene Yankee trick?
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covered that seven baskets were miss
ing, and that the cake with the gold
ring" was also gone.
No one knew where they had gone.
Uncle Mosby slowly pinned the collar
of his shirt, scratched his head and
said:
$50 fur ez ize concerned, de4picnic is
adjourned. De Lawd doan seem ter
prove NV 'em jes now"
Reaching for one of the largest bask-
cts, he started for the door, saying:
Peace on urth-good will ter men.
Good night"
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IN EFFECT JULY 2s. 1897.

LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY
NO. 12-F'or Bingham 7:5O am
No. 2For Provo, Grand June
,tion and all points cast. SAX m
No. FLOR Provo, Grand Jnnc- ----
,,tion and all points East. 7;40nm
No. 6-For Bingham. Mt. Pleas
ant, Manti. Richfeld. Pelknap.
all Intermediate points. 1.35 n m
NO 5-For Ogden and interms-
No oiate points. 5;...;;.......... $40 pm
Provo and all intermediate
PolitS ....----...--........ 500 % m
No. 3-For Ogden and West. $40 = m
no. l-F'or Ogden and West :. 1890 pm.
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No. 1--From Bingham, Provo.
Grand Junction and the East 1920 n n,
no a-From Provo, Grand
Junction and East 9:05 nm,
No. 5-From Provo, Bingham.
Eureka, Belknap, Rick6eid.
Manti and all intermediate
points ......................... 5.a5pm
No. 2-From Ogden and the 80
w est Observation-Disclosures. S:35 m
No. From Ogden and the
NJ west .o 1880 pm
mediate points ........... 30 q. m
No. From Eureka, Payson.
Provo and all intermediates
points IN m
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OREGON SHORT LINES
RAILAoAD-

Trains arrive and depart at Salt Lake
City daily as follows:
On Effect July Is, 1879
ARRIVE.
From Chicago. Omaha, 81. Louis,
Kansas City, Denver, Park
From Helena, Butte, Portland ''1' p-'A'
San Francisco, Ogden and in
termediate points ....-..........9 :O5 am.
From San Francisco, Cache VAL
rppo points $3.50. tbs pm.
Kansas CITY, Denver and Og-
From Frisco. Milford and inter '''O AIN
From MercHr. T4ntic. Provo. Ne 200 am
PM: sanpete Valley and inter-
mediate points ................... $40 pm.
MIXED train from Terminus,
Tooele and Garfield Beach...... 400 IN
DEPART.
HIr chicago. Omaha, Denver.
nans esr City ~; st. Louis. Ogden
Fer San Francisco. Ogden ;siisi. '-O0 a,in
Cache Valley and intermediates
Fp poi nsaan 500 an
Omaha, st. Louis and Chicago.
intermediate points ....e..-E" a.25 n m
for ogden, Butte. Helena, Port
Fn land E and San francisco. s:45 pm.
,Nephl. Sanpete Valley 7.50 a m
Fer zr;.o Proy9. Nephi: Milford, ~ IN
slIisSo anu intermediate points 500 Z. m
Mixed train for Garfield Beach. Pm
Tooele and Terminus -. 7.45 n,
S nrains south of Juab run daily except
+%Daily except Sunday.
LII city TICKET OFFICE Under Masonic
H AL; no. ECO West Second South Streets.
Aa1lroad and Steamship Tickets on sale
to all parts of the world. Va 90
Fn Il PALACE Car ticket office.
?, w ECCLES, D. e. Burnley
Gen. Trf. Mgr Gen. pass e Ticl1it At
W. II. BANCROFT,
Vice Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
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Only line running through Pullman
palace Sleeping Cars from. Salt Lake
Denver via Grand Junction, and Sail
Lake City to Kansas City and Chicago
via Colorado points
Through tourist or family sleepers with
out change. to Kansas City. Chicago and
Boston.
Free reclining chair cars, Salt Lake City
to Denver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-22
THE COLORADO MIDLAND r. r.
Two Through Trains Daily

Between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Lead
vile, Cripple Creek, Colorado Springs,
Denver and all points east. Only line
running THROUGH CHAIR CARS.
Through sleepers on both morning and
evening trains. This line, in connection
with the Rio Grande Western. reaches
Denver earlier than any other line via
Colorado Springs. No change of cars or
delayed trains. Take the Colorado Mid
land and save time and enjoy the finest
ride and grandest scenery in Colorado.
w Ry agent, or
". F. BAILEY, o. A BROWN,
g. P. A. Gen Agent
Denver Colo. Salt Lake City.
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as follows:
On effect March 16, 1871
"The Overland Limited" for
Chicago, st. Paul, st. Louis.
Omaha. Kansas City. Denver
and Park City. g. m
.DThe Fast Mail" for Chicago.
St Louis. Omaha. Kansas City
and Denver .s,o;z3 p. n.
.,Tbe Overland Limited" from
Chicago, st. Louis. Omaha.
Kansas City. Denver and Park
.rFbe Fast Mall from Chicago.
ST PAUL ST. Louis. Omaha.
Kansas City and Denver -. 3 30 g. m
CIV ticket Once, 201 Main Street.
lily Telephone No. 665
on,v one night on the 7oad 70 Omaha,
+,no ynigbfs to Chicago and st. Louis
Gtper lines one night additional
The Union Pacific is the only. line
.r1n1,erh the above points without changs
" " ceTs and the only lire operating BUT
OF c. S,,,olTi1g and Library Cars and Pull
ma man Dining Cars, with Il ; and y hours
cago. I'm q N. Clay. General Agent.
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Ticket Office No. 1O3 West Second South
Street lP1stoffice Corner.)
D. c.. DODGE, s. H. BABCOCK.
Vice Pres. & Gen. Mgr TRAFFIC Mgr.
F. A. WADLEIGH. Gen. Pass. Agent
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
THE COLORADO WRECK.
Railroad OGolals Figure That Thirteen
Lives We're Lost.

Lives were LOST,
NEWCASTLE, Colo, Sept. 13.-The
exact number of the victims of the dis
astrous collision between a Denver &
Rio Grande passenger train and Col
orado Midland stock train near here
will probably never be known, for the
fire which destroyed the cars undoubt-
eddy incinerated a number of bodies.
The railroad officials claim, basing
their claim largely on the statement
of William Hawthorne, conductor of
the passenger train, as the result of
the checking up Of his tickets, that the
number of the dead is only thirteen,
and of the injured seventeen, but many
charred fragments of human bodies
have been talleISrom the wreck, and
the coroner has found a shaving mug
marked wv. Nicholson" and a gold
watch with the name IF C. Potter
on its case. No item with those names
have been accounted for.
Four more names were added to-day
to the list of the known victims of the
disaster. These were:
The Rev. Alexander Hartman of
Hersher, ILL.,, whose wife and two
children were killed and who died in
the Salida hospital this morning.
Robert Ostrander, engineer of the
stock train. whose body was found in
debris with the head and one arm
burned off
William Gordon, engineer Of the pas
senger train, who died in the hospital
last night.
William Hines, fireman of the pas
senger train, who succumbed to his
injuries.
Charred portions of several bodies
have been uncovered by the workmcn,
but it is impossible to tell how many
human beings they represented.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
A GEORGIA LYNcHINa
Macon Negro Strung Up for Assault
He Was a Murderer, Also

He Was y Murderer, Also
MACON, Ga, Sept. lS.--A murder
was committed in this city yesterday
morning, and yesterday afternoon the
murderer was lynched, not for muir
der, however, but for the crime of as
sault
About o'clock Charley Gibson and
Jim Smith, both colored, engaged in a
quarrel, the latter having accused the
former of stealing so cents. Smith
was not inclined to fight, and turned
to go away, whereupon Gibson drew a
pistol and shot him in the back of the
head, killing him instantly. Gibson
then fled.
The sheriff and posse were soon in
pursuit and kept up the chase until 4
p. M, occasionally exchanging shots
with the fugitive. At p. m. the MUIR
derer was run to cover and surrounded
by the deputies. The negro, being
well armed, gave shot for shot until
brought down by three bullets from
Winchester rifles. The negro had
been suspected of having assaulted
a Miss Chapman a few nights ago,
and this suspicion was confirmed
by his confession. A large crowd
soon gathered at the scene OF
the shooting, but there were no threats
of violence or intimidation. The sher-
lift and deputies returned to the city
to get vehicle to convey the wound
ed man, and while they were absent
the negro confessed to having assault
ed Miss Chapman, and to having COM
mltted thefs and burglary. The crowd
secured rope and swung the negro
from limb.
Gibson was an ex-convict, having
served several years on the chain
gang.