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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-10
live Stock.

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CHICAGo-Trade in cattle was fairly
active with good demand from tho
start for fat cattle at firm to loo higher,
but the commoner lots of half fat cattle
sold rather slowly at steady prices. Salea
were on a basis of 50 6513 % for thu
poorest dressed beef steers to 81 9OG5 20
for choice to extra cattle, with good
beeves selling freely around 81 1904 Sc.
Exporters are buying cattle much more
freely than a fortnight ago. their selec-
lions being made largely at 81 60p5 90.
Butchers and Gamers stun sold very
well to-day at last weeks prices and
calves remained steady. Texas and
western range cattle showed no change.
Native beef steers sold largely to-day
between 81 30 and IS co. Trade In hogs
was active and the supply was well
taken. Prices steady to 30 higher sales
ranging at 50 5Od3 07la for the poorest
to the best hogs The bulk of the hogs
crossed the scales at 81 7Oa3 IS. light
selling the highest and medium weights
the next best, Shippers continue good
buyers Cholera pigs from Iowa, Mis-
souri, and Minnesota made their appear
ance In considerable numbers and solo
badly. The sheep trade was slow at
drop of about 10c in prices, with sales at
50 2J6pl 90, western range flocks selling
at 50 IO03 75. Westerns sold to feeders
at 81 1908 30. Lambs were active, but
steady at SO 5Od5 20, Receipts: Cattle
1880 head; hogs 81 900 head; sheep 10000
head
EAST LIBERTY-Cattle shade
lower; extra 81 9OG5 90; prime 81 760
IS; bulls, stays and cows 50 0OIS TO.
Hogs fairly active; prime light weights
and pigs 81 15@i 20; medium weights
81 1904 IL; common to fair 81 OO64 o.;
heavy hogs 50 SOa3 90; roughs 50 5Od
3 20. Sheep steady; choice 81 1894 20.
common 50 65@a %; spring lambs 50 $50
co.; veal calves 81 1906 25.
CINC1NNATG-Hogs active at 50 ESQ
A npik
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-10
RAILWAY TIME CARD,

Arrival and departure OF trains on and
atter May l6, 1887. Explanation Of Refer
enee Marks: 'paiiy fbafiy, except sun
day, tnally. except Saturday, Spaily, ex-
eept Monday, sSundays only. Saturdays
only Eastern Standard Time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

of our fleet has become a coast guard;
and our diplomatic relations have been
so strained that for more than a year
the Spanish government deemed it ne
cessaIy to guard my place of residence
with soldiers, night and day. Since my
departure this impossible state OF
things has become still more acute, and
the uncertainty thus produced is the
one obstacle in the path of the long
hoped for prosperity just dawning up
on US. Business men are plainly stat
ing to each other that such uncertainty
now hangs like a cloud over all future
transactions.
1t is great folly to suppose that the
Cuban question is something that We
can set aside if we will, and go about
our own business. 1t has intruded it
self into our national affairs with all
its disturbing consequences, and it is
here to stay until we take hold of it
and solve it wisely, not only in our
own interest, but in that of humanity.
Spain would have had just cause for
complaint had this article been pub
lished while Mr.. Taylor was our min
/ lister ct Madrid, but he ceased to be
that some time AFRO. There does not
seem to be anything in the article
that is a breach of official etiquette or
a betrayal of official secrets. That
which 50 hurts is the fact that MI.
Taylor tells truths which all are ac-
quainted with. but which gain a dou
bic force when coming from one who
has had exceptional opportunities to
learn the real situation in Spain, as
Mr.. Taylor has had
One thing that this article does make
plain, as shown by the above extract,
is how really strained the relations of
the United States with Spain are. The
Cuban question is almost certain to be
prominent in Congress this winter, and
it need surprise no one if it reaches a
crisis that will compel action by the
administration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
PACKING THE QUEENS BENCH.

Harold Frederic, in his London letter
to the New York Times, says:
For the first time in my knowledge
tied protest in the press of both par
ties against partisan packing of the
queens bench. The present lord chan
cellor. coarse, pork joWled, little prac-
teal politician, who would be consider
ed below the class of supreme court
nominations if he belonged to Tam
many hall, has been allowed recently
to make a couple of judicial appoint
ments 50 much more scandalous than
his wont. that something like a revolt
has broken out among the lawyers of
his own party. 1t is known that Lord
Salisbury personally deprecated the
latter Of these-that of Darling-but it
seems he had no influence with such a
resolute jobber as Halsbury, who, it
must be supposed, has support in an
even more august quarter still. What
gives the scandal keener edge is the
fact that no less than seven judges
have now exceeded the term of service
emitting them to a retiring pension,
and apparently several of them are go
ing to drop out or be shaken out before
long to make room for other of Halls
bury's appointees. Already thirteen out
of the present bench of twenty are of
his selection; so that if the govern
ment remains in three or four more
years and Halsbury holds on to
Office, it may happen that the
whole English judiciary viii be
his creation. 1 have always
maintained that our system of
electing judges is our greatest point of
superiority over English methods in
with the English system at its best,
and now we are seeing it at it's worst,
there is no possible comparison.
That will be astonishing news to all
who are interested in such matters.
In this country, the English bench has
always been regarded as above sus-
picion in all ways, though here is a
case where it is not. The traditions
that the bench and bar of this country
have of the English bench and bar are
very largely derived from Blackstone,
and are not founded upon knowledge
of what they really are today. When
comparisons between the English
bench and bar and the American bench
and bar have been made, they have
usually been to the disadvantage of
this country. James Bryce has always
had a high opinion of the American
bench and bar and so expresses him
self in his American Commonwealth"
in fact, what he there says is most
complimentary. We Americans are in
clined to disparage them rather than
to overpraise them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
HANNIs TAYLOR ON CUBA.

1t appears that the article of ex-
Minister to Spain Hannis Taylor, in the
current number of the North American
Review, on the Cuban question, has
brought forth a reply from Senior Sal
vano of Madrid. Mr.. Taylor's article
and the reply thereto have stirred up
the Spanish people almost to a war
fever; while all the Madrid papers are
making savage attacks on the ex-min-
ister
The article certainly is one but i'll
calculated to pander to Spanish pride,
for it states some very unpleasant
facts. facts that are all against Spain.
The following is an extract from the
article:
Spain herself has demonstrated that
she is powerless either to conciliate
Cuba or to conquer it. Her sovereignty
over it is, in my humble judgment, now
extinct for all purposes of its right
full existence" and the hopeless strug-
gle for its establishment has de-
generated into a strife which means
nothing more than the useless sacrifice
OF human life and the utter destruc-
ton of the very subject matter of the
conflict itself" This deplorable state
of things is not only shocking to hui
manity, but it is special and griev-
Gus burden to the people of the United
States, by reason of their intimate
commercial and social relations and
symDathieS with the people of an
island so near to our coast line as to be
almost a part of our territory. Our
commerce with Cuba, amounting an
nually at the beginning of the present
war to 500. 900, 900, has been nearly
wiped out. The millions of American
capital invested in the island have been
either destroyed or rendered unpro-
ductive; many of our citizens reduced
to absolute want have been forced to
appeal TO congress for aid; While too
many of them have found their way in
to Spanish dungeons from which some
have been able to escape only through
the door of death. But last, and worst
OF all, our peace as a nation is broken
and disquieted by an endless strife
that enters as a potent factor into our
internal politics. With patience almost
uneXampled we endured all such evils
during the period of the great war that
began at Yara in 1868, and ended ten
years later with the treaty of Zanjon
then came the little war; and finally
the last great war that has now been
in progress for more than two years
and half Thus we have been called
upon TO witness nearly 10 years of war
IN Cuba out of the last 90 Through
out the present struggle, apart
from our commercial losses. we
have been in state of semi
war with Spain; a large part
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
THE MAYORS APPOINTING
POWER

1t is known that the last legislature
abolished the fire and police commission
and put the power OF appointing the
heads Of the police and fire departments
in the hands OF the mayor; and also
that some change was made in the
city's organic law. In consequence of
these changes some have wondered
whether the mayor after January
next would have an absolute power Of
appointment, or whether his appointed
would have to be confirmed by the city
council. They viii have to be con-
firmed by the council, the provision Of
the code as passed by the legislature
last winter being as follows:
Sec. PA. The mayor. by and with the
advice and consent of the council, may
appoint all such officers and agents as
may be provided for by law or ordi-
nance, and, in like manner, fill all va
cancies among the same, except as
otherwise provided by law-(C. L. 1863,
'92, p. II.
Sec. us. Except as otherwise pro-
vided by law, the term of office of all
appointive officers shall be until the
municipal election next following their
appointment and until their SUCCESSORS
are duly appointed and qualified, unless
sooner removed by the mayor with the
concurrence of the majority of the
members Of the city council, or by the
city council with the concurrence of the
mayor.
From this it will be seen that the
mayor has no absolute power of ap-
pointment, but that his appointees must
be confirmed by the council. And in
the matter OF removals the mayor and
council must act concurrently.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
CUPID'S DISGUISE.

Sweet Cupid sat on a messy bank,
With a tear in his round blue eye,
His wings Were dragsqed with silver dew
And his culver and bow flung by
The butterflies came from the garden near
And perched on his dimpled toes,
And "a honey bee slipped at his crimson lip
And thought it an opening rose.
Not an arrow went to it's mark today,
| wasted them all" he sighed.
My wings and my curls too we'll they
know,
So the men and the maidens hide
My mother must clip my pinions close
And must braid my locks of gold,
And III borrow the frock OF damsel
Ny roseate limbs to fold"
So now no more in the f1owery field
Or the woods wherethe thrushes sing
DO we hear the patter of naked feet,
Or TIE sweep of an airy wing.
He has stolen the gown of a pretty girl,
And her hat with it's dropping plume,
And a, cluster of velvety violets blue
From his breast to shed perfume
He has donned her veil with it's broidered
And her gloves of the palest gray,
And hides his brow in her fluffy fan
Before he goes out to Stay.
He has clipped his wings and braided his
curls,
But beware of his roguish eyes,
For SLY little Cupid is still the same
In spite of his new disguise.
London Evening Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
He has DOM
TALES OF THE DAY.
He Found the Way.

Chicago Tribune: I was trying to find
my way to Colonel Ted Bakers, on
George creek, eastern Kentucky. and got
lost
1 met an old man with gun on his
shoulder and six hounds at his heels.
I'm trying to get to Colonel BaXter's,"
Don't keer EFF ye ar returned the old
and looking sharply in my face.
I'm lost | continued.
We'll. eff you know emmy O. the land
marks. we go straight on this road till
we come to whar old Bob Peters cut the
gizzard outen ole Tobe Mason. Thar the
road splits, an you go to the left, about
200 yards, till We reach the spot whar'
Ben Carpenter split old John ,Capfields
brain box open with er handspike. Go on
then a little furder ter whar John Simp-
son let daylight into ole Nose Turner
with a butcher knife, an We take to the
road an go on till We come to whar [
sent gourdful O. buckshot into ole
George Lemmos' lung holder. Thar We
take TO the left ag'in an keep goin' till
we reach a house whar an ole man an
ole woman are drunk in the front yard,
cussin' and fightin' AK if Colonel Baxter
lives thar, and he'll say: Vas. darn ye.
Git down, take a snort O. moonshine an
make yerself at home "
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
Rebuking Sin .hz PRAYER.

Boston Herald: We have before related
in the Herald an instance in which two
politicians of Boston went into a prayer
meeting, and each prayed to be delivered
from the faults for which the other was
particularly noted In the end they man.
aged to get up an animated controversy
there in this way. and compelled those
who had the direction of the meeting TO
adjourn it. 1t seems that this kind of
transaction has been a precedent. A let
ter of James Hogg recently published
relates an instance in which two Scotch
men named Laidlow and Wat respect
lively, got into a controversy in a relig-
ious meeting about free will. Wat laughed
at one of Laidlow's arguments, on which
the narrative proceeds to say that Laid
law rose with:
.Ay, We may laugh; We have mair need
to pray. I'm really sorry for the puir
auid scoundrel,, and troth. ] think we
should join and pray for him. For my
part, 1 sal lend my mite" The prayer
was so cutting that Wat rose up, foam
ing with rage. heaved his stick, and cried:
T tell, We. gle over, Jamie L.aidlaw;
Wilma be prayed for that gate" If there
We're several hells he. prayed that Wat
might be preferred to the easiest. I'VE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
THE FIRST RED LEAF.

What is that which the eye percefves
Glowing among the thick green leaves?
Is it an oriole perched to rest.
or uanagar. With his vivid vest?
Or a lonely grosbeak, left behind
Forgotten by all his gorgeous kind?
Alas, for Suinmer-and woe for ne
It's the first red leaf on the dogwood tree
Ah, why. for the grass is not yet sere;
No blight betokens the falling year;
A late rose reignS on her thorny throne,
All the fa3rer because alone,
And mods and smiles in the sunny noon,
As sweet and perfect as those of June;
Why hint at winter and storm to be,
o first red leaf on the dogwood tree?
One orphaned lily leans pale and tail,
Last of it's line, by the lichened wall.
The saliva losses it brilliant plume,
The bright nasturtiums are yet in bloom,
And danlias, crimson and gold and white
Waste their beauty, awake all night,
Yet here, with its sorrowful prophecy
Is the first red leaf on the dogWood tree
The knapweed swings by the meadow path
Where mowers gather the aftermath;
The first pale aster has but begun
To hint that the torrid days are done,
The fringy sprays of the goldenrod
Are spreading their spendthrift wealth
abroad.
And while they charm US, we need not see
TIE first red leaf on the dogwood tree
Elizabeth Akers in Youths Companion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
WILL OWN HER CABLE.
England No Longer Depends Upon
the Florida Communication.

New York, Nov. A special cable
dispatch from London to the Evening
Post says:
Today's issue of shares and deben-
lures by the West. Indian Cable COM
pany Qimited), marks the beginning
of the end of England's dependency
upon the United States for cable con-
nection with the West Indies. But for
President Cleveland's Venezuelan war
message England would have probably
have been quite content to continue to
depend upon the United States lines,
via Florida and Cuba, but directly the
officials here realized the possibility of
war with the United States, and the
consequent isolation of the West
Indian colonies, she set about the
negotiations, which after a long, hard
fight, resulted in an imperial subsidy
of $4,000 yearly for 20 years to the
Characterization capitalists who own
the Halifax-Bermuda cable, for its ex-
tension from the Bermudas to Jamaica,
and ultimately to other leading West
Indian islands and South America. The
cable will be completed by the first of
February.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
Something to Know.

1t may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restor
ing the tired out nervous system to a
healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This
medicine is purely vegetable, acts by
giving tone to the nerve centers in the
stomach gently stimulates the Liver
and Kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing off impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improves the appetite.
aids digestion and is pronounced by
those who have tried it as the very best
blood purifier and nerve tonic Try il.
Sold for SOC or 81 per bottle at Z. c. NJ.
1. Drug Dept.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
IRREPARABLE LOSS.
Drawings of a New Type-setting
Machine Go Up in Smoke.

Deming, n. NJ, Nov. 4.-The winter
residence of Otto Mergenthaler, the in
ventor of the linotype typesetting ma
chine, was totally destroyed by fire
here today. Mr.. Mergenthaler lost all
his personal property and many valu-
able papers, including the drawings for
a new typesetting machine. The prop
erty was onwed by Colonel James A.
Lockhart of Colorado Springs, Colo,
and was valued at $4,000. Mr. Mer-
genthaler was spending the winter in
Deming, hoping to be benefited in
health. Another fire earlier in the
morning destroyed several frame bust
ness houses on Silver avenue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
FATAL ACCIDENT.
A Miner Killed at Angels Camp,
California.

Angels Camp, Cal, Nov. 4.-Joseph
Polar, a miner, was accidentally killed
in the Stick shaft of the Utica mine
yesterday While attempting to clear
chute Of ore between the 700 and 500
foot levels a huge mass of rock weigh
ing several tons, which had been clog
ged, started down the chute and carried
him with it. He was embedded in the
rolling mass of ore up to his neck and
horribly mangled. His body was re-
covered some two hours later, when it
reached the foot of the chute. Another
miner. named Florence, was also car
ried down the chute for 40 feet but
miraculously escaped a similar fate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

It is said the interior department may
send a special agent to the Uncom-
pahgre reservation to investigate the
recent killing of Indians. An investi-
CATION should be made and the sooner
it is instituted the nearer it will get to
the facts in the case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

"a filthy old polecat" is what the
New York Tribune calls the New York
sun. 1t should be borne in mind that
tie Tribune is an exponent of the moral
and conservative idea in journalism,
and does not belong to the school of
yellow journalism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
NOVEMBER REVIEWS.

The leading article in the current
number of the Forum is entitled
Dangerous Defects of Our Electoral
System" by eX-Secretary of the Treas
ury J. G. Carlisle. The present article
lit is to be followed by another) deals
with the manner of electing the presi-
dent and vice president. Senator
Justin S. Morrill, continues his Notable
Letters from My Political Friends"
There are letters from Horace Greeley,
George P Marsh, ]. G. Blaine, W. P.
Fessenden, Charles Summer and others.
Professor ]. Lawrence Laughlin dis
cusses The Monetary Commission.
the commission that was the outgrowth
of the Indianapolis congress. A very
important article is Edwin F. Atkins
Our Proposed New Sugar Industry"
He discusses the question very largely
from the point of view of our foreign
commerce and the effect it will have
upon it. THE Disuse of Laughter" by
Sir Lewis Morris; How the Greeks
Were Defeated" by Frederick Palmer
and other articles will all be found in
teresting.
The Forum Publishing Co.; III Fifth
avenue, New York. Price, 35 cents.
The November Bookman has the
usual variety in Chronicle and Com
ment There are portraits of Mary
Hartwen Catherwood Mrs. Richmond
Richie, the late Lord Tennyson,
Lady Tennyson and their son: also of
Bret Harte and Maud Adams as
"Babbie.' Emerson and Concord" is
the subject of number viii in the
American Bookman" series. 1t is il
Illustrated with pictures of the Old
Manse,. Emerson, Bronson, Alcott and
Thoreau in early life. There are the
usual reviews of new books. In book
sales Of the month, Two Vadis," The
Christian" and THE Choir Invisible"
lead, the latter book leading in sales in
our own city
20 cents
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

Governor Tanner Just went" for
the Chicago press. And now the Chi
cago press is going for him, and be-
fore it gets through with him he viii
feel as though he had been run throw
a Luetgert sausage mill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

The non-partisan movement must
have struck a great and popular chord
to win as it did" says the Tribune.
Struck one cord? 1t went through the
whole gamut on the harp of Zion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

Chauncey NJ. Depew says that the
elections show that Bryan and BIZ
metallism are not dead. Hardly; and
three years hence he need not be sur
prised if the people of the country vote
to place them on top.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

There was a decrease of some Z, 1858, 7S1
pesetas in Spain's revenue for October.
There was a deficit in Uncle Sans
revenue for the same month of about
SO .Oo0, COO This goes to show that the
Sagasta cabinet and the Mckinley ad-
ministration have an understanding.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

Cincinnati Enquirer: Wallace-What is
the reason Johnny isn't wearing his Lit
tie Defender" badge airy more?
Mrs. Wallace-He doesn't seem to be so
fond of ministering to dumb animals since
he held poor, little half frozen bee in
his fland to get it warm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch: Unless the
press can keep Mr.. Mckinley in the traces
he will leave Uncle Sam a worse bankrupt
than he left his own state of Ohio
indianapolis Sentinel: President Potter
of the L. A. w. takes a pretty sensible
view of the question of the bicycle lead
ing to immortality and puts it in a pat
form. He Says: The bicycle does not
lead to immortality any more than the
sidewalk. Both cake you anywhere YOU
want to go" and yet when you come to
think about it, that is the only objection
that is made to either of them
Chicago Record: John r. Tanner. gov
ernor of Illinois. if stripped of his high
Office, would remain merely small bore
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

Gaulois: See, madame did you ever
see such a homely man as that one over
by the chimney corner?"
Sir, that is my husband
"Ah, madame, how true the proverb is
that the homeliest men always have the
handSomeSt wives"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

Dr. Won Holleben, the new German
ambassador to the United States, is a
bachelor. Here is a chance for Char
lotte Smith to get even for Germany's
treatment of the American hog.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-05

1t seems that the uniforms of the
soldiers are TO be changed. This is prob
ably the net result of General Miles
trip to Europe. The general is a great
authority on uniforms.