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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-27
DAMAGE TO DENVER.
Conservative Estimates Make it Ex-
coed $1oo, 0o0

Denver, Colo, Oct. 26.-Aside from
the tremendous Inconvenience caused
to the public and to private interests,
the storm of last night and today has
wrought an intrinsic damage to the
city of Denver and its suburbs that is
conservatively estimated to be in ex-
cess of sICO, 600. OF course, should the
storm continue several days, the dam
age viii multiply many times. since
many interests that have SO far been
able to withstand it might succumh
were the burden increased.
The estimate of damage includes
only the seml-public concerns. such as
electric light, telephone, telegraph and
street car companies, 1t is to the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-27
WIRES AND POLES

that The greatest harm has been done.
CITY Electrician Stern said at 2 o'clock
this afternoon probably 1000 poles
we're down in Denver alone, and up
wards of 1000 miles of wires.
General Manager Field, of the Colo
radosTelephone company, estimated the
present damage to it's system at $4,000.
It would he greater, he said but for
the fact that in the central portion of
the city the company has recently
placed many of its wires under ground.
The storm was general today
throughout the eastern half and sec
ton of the northern part of this state,
the southern part Of Wyoming. the
northeastern part of Utah and the
western halves OF Nebraska and KAN
sas
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RAILROADS BLoCKED.

With the exception of the Rock Is
land. the Kansas Pacific, the Colorado
Central and the Julesburg & South
Park branches of the Gulf road. rail-
roads leading into Denver have been
completely blocked all day. Snow
plows have been brought into active
service on all lines, but the tracks were
again covered with snow soon after
they were cleared.
The greatest trouble was experienced
between Denver and Pueblo.
CITY IN DARKNESS.
The city is in darkness tonight. as the
mayor compelled the electric light COM
pany to cut off all its circuits on ac-
count of their dangerous condition.
The Colorado Telephone company re-
ports that 1900 miles of wires were car
ried down by the storm.
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lowing the great wrestler to get good
look at his physical condition Null
doom expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the condition of Fitzsim-
mons. and to a friend he said he be-
lieved that Fitzsimmons had most ex-
cellent chance to win his fight. He
based his opinion more upon the DISPOSE
tions of the two men than upon anything
else He said the course Of training
which Corbett had pursued had made
him nervous and irritable, and that
Fitzsimmons is as cool as it is possible
for man to be, and he thinks on this
account that Fitzsimmons has the great
er show of winning tomorrow.
Il like the course of training that
/ Fitzsimmons has pursued said Null
doom, better than that which Corbett
has followed, and, with the exception of
White, who has been with Corbett, |
think Fitzsimmons has had the best
men in his camp. In the first place, l
have no doubt that Roeber can defeat
any man in Corbett's camp, and. more
over, l think he can do it easily within
four rounds Then, again. there is not in
all of Corbett's camp a man who can
come anywhere near Dan Hickey in
the point of science. Corbett has trained
for the fight by doing things that he will
be obliged to do in the ring, and he has
trained on very little else. Fitzs!m-
mons, on the other hand has done the
sort of work to make him strong and
quick. and has run no risk of making
himself stale by doing Wha; he will be
compelled to do when he faces his an
tagonist. A man may become intellect
ualy stale by training, as we'll as stale
in the physical sense, and there is very
little difference between the two, save
that, perhaps mental staleness is the
worse of the two. l know Corbett is in
the finest sort of condition as far as his
body is concerned, but at the same time
l have never seen him so nervous as he
is at this time.
"Fitzslmmons is as steady as 1t is pos
siblef or a man to be, and there Is not
the slightest symptom of nervousness
about him. He will fight a careful bat
tie. and if Corbett beats him, he will
be truly entitled to be called the cham
pion. There are some things about Fitz
that do not like. l do not fancy the
color of the whites of his eyes, as have
said before, but at the same time. after
looking over the course of training he
has gone through. l must say that like
the amount of work he has done and the
manner in which he has done it."
BOB'S HACKERS
! Fitzsimmons ard his party will leave
The herald., 1897-03-17

Bourne The only prominent member
of the pugilstic fraternity on the train
was young Mitchell. One of the passen-
gers who attracted great deal of at
tention was Corbett's father, who came
to see his son battle for gold and glory.
Mr.. Corbett, sr., Travelled in state, occu-
pying the drawing room of Pullman
car and his words were listened to with
great respect by his fellow passengers.
He expressed. the utmost confidence in
his sons ability to defeat Fitzsimmons,
and said that Jim had assured him thai
there was no possibility of his losing.
On arriving in Carson, Mr.. Corbett drove
Immediately 10 his sons quarters and
spent the remainder of the day with him.
A special from the east-the first one
also came in. 1t was made up of Pull
man cars, two from Chicago, two from
Salt Lake, one from Omaha, three from
Kansas City. one from indianapolis and
one from Toledo. All the lower berths
were occupied but many of the upper
ones had not been taken. There were
about $50 people aboard, the only nota
bles being Jack McAuliffe and Harry
Sullivan to Europe.
When asked this evening how many
people he expecte to attend the fight
tomorrow, Dan Stuart said he was con-
fdent that 10000 people would witness
the battle. He had expected more to
attend from San Francisco, but for some
reason many of the patrons of the prize
ring of that city had decided not to
come.
The most prominent arrival on the late
train tonight was John l.. Sullivan,
whom all Carson has been expecting for
week Notwithstanding the late hour,
near midnight, large crowd and a
brass band were waiting to greet him
and escort him to the Arlington hotel.
THE SMALL EVENTS.
1t is expected that both of the smaller
fights will furnish much excitement. All
the men are in the finest of condition,
and all of them express themselves as
being confident of the result. The bet
ting is somewhat in favor of Billy Smith
as against Green, although there are so
many friends of the latter here from San
Francisco that they have pushed his
odds up somewhat. Green will enter the
ring weighing 1477 pounds, and Smith
will be ten pounds heavier.
Hawkins and Flaherty are to fight at
1926 pounds, and both are ait the weight.
WING SHOTS ARE SCARCE.
owing to the delay in the arrival of
the morning trains, half dozen wing
shots from Utah and California failed
to arrive on time to enter and as there
The herald., 1897-03-17
FEBRUARY BUSINESS
A Heavy Increase Of Exports and Decrease
Of Imports


WASHINGTON, March 16.-The
monthly statement of exports and i'm
ports of merchandise and gold. ETC.. into
and out of the United States for the
month of February shows as follows:
Merchandise exported, $79.773, 39S:
merchandise imported. $5s,193, 10S, Of
which nearly $ss. 900, 900 was free of duty:
gold exported, s336.697; gold imported.
$554.7O0; silver exported, s466o, 1852: sill
yer imported, s62.942.
AS compared with February, 1896, this
statement shows an increase of about
S2,07O.0 900 In the value of merchandise ex-
ported and a decrease of over 1850, 900
in the amount imported. For the eight
months ended February 2Sth. there was
q gain of over s132, ,oO0, 900 in the amount
of merchandise exported and decrease
OF nearly $119, 100000 in the amount I'M
ported. The gold exports during Feb
ruary were s1,s47 900 less than a year
ago, and the imports about $11, ,000, 900
less than February. 1896 The silver ex-
ports were about 100000 less than Feb
ruary. 1896, and the imports 100000 less
The herald., 1897-03-17

calling to Justly such splendid prepara-
tione. am quite glad came"
Governor Sadler was delighted with
his visitors enthusiasm and took him
to dinner at the executive mansion.
During the evening Mr.. ingalls, met
"Parson" Davies, Muldoon. Tom
Sharkey. Prof Donaldson and many
other prominent men in pugilistic cir
cles and appears to enjoy himself i'm
mensely.
OTHER ARRIVALS
This afternoon a special train from
San Francisco pulled into the depot.
nearly half of the population of Carson
being at the station to welcome the vis-
itors This train was composed of nine
Pullman sleepers-the first to reach here.
When the train left San Francisco it
had ten, but one was left at Reno to be
attached to the local train. it being
thought dangerous by the railroad OFF,
cials to haul more than nine cars over
the road at one time, the ordinary traffic
being limited to ordinary passenger
coaches, which are much lighter. Most
of the passengers were sporting men
from San Francisco, but there were also
delegations from Los Angeles and
Marysville, each of the latter having its
own car, on which was placard of the
athletic club of which they are members.
The Olympic club of San Francisco
vas represented by large number of
its members. VIII Crocker, one of the
heirs of the Crocker estate, brought a
small party of friends in his private car
Among them was Prince Poniatowski.
his brother-in Ernest Wiltze. How
ard Chase, Northrop Cowles and William
The herald., 1897-03-17

were only seven entries at noon, when ten
were required to I'LL the cup shoot. the
championship event was declared on
and series Of sweepstake shoots and a
match shoot between ]. A. r. Elliott of
Kansas City and A. P. Bigelow of Og-
den were substituted In the sweep
stake shoots, in which Champion Ell
lott declined to enter, A. p. Bigelow OF
Ogden won first money in the first one
on ten straight kills, while zone Barrel
Murphy of Philadelphia and Joe Bar
nett of Albuquerque. N NJ, tied for aec-
ond money In the second sweepstake
Murphy won FIRST money on straight
kills; Joe Barnett won second money,
and G. L. Becker of Ogden was third.
The 50-bird race between Elicit and
Bigelow followed. and the champion
won out handily by score Of Al to 43.
THE LAST DETAIL.
The matter of choice of corners was
decided tonight by toss-up. Corbetts
representative winning the toss. He
chose the southwest corner of the ring.
wishing to get the sun at his back. and
leaving Fitzsimmons no choice but to
take the northeast corner.
Jack McAuliffe. after visit to beth
men. declared tonight that Fitzsimmons.
in his opinion is sure to win. 1T will be
short fight" he added "as l think
Fitzsimmons will lick the other fellow
inside of ten rounds. am here to chal-
lenge the winner on behalf of Tom
Sharkey. I have notified both men of
my intention"
WEATHER PROMISES.
The weather indications tonight are
that tomorrow Will be clear and cold.
The herald., 1897-03-17

much experience in that line. Jimmy
Colville of Boston win act as time keep
er for Corbett.
Corbett expects to rise about o'clock
tomorrow. but will do no work OF any
kind. He will hold conference with his
trainers, at which final instructions Will
be given, and a general style OF battle
will be decided upon. The start for the
arena will be made about o'clock, the
fighter being accompanied by Brady
White, Delaney, McVey and Joe Corbett
The big three seated coach drawn by
four horses, which has been in service
for month between town and the train
ing quarters, will carry the party to
the battle ground. As soon as Corbett
arrives in his dressing room he will be
thoroughly rubbed down, and that Will
end everything but the fighting. He will
wear no tights, fighting in short white
trunks and light shoes. He will wear "
the ring the red, white and blue belt,
with green trimmings, made for him by
his wife. but will lay it aside before the
call of time
MULDOON TALKS.
Fitzsimmons dld no work touay' WIFI
the exception of taking run to the pen
i.entiary, about mile from his house.
There he took bath and trotted home
again. This comprised all of his work
for the day. In the afternoon Fitzsim-
mons remained in his house nearly all
the time, and only at infrequent inter-
walls did he make his appearance in the
yard.
Muldoon, the wrestler was one of the
callers during the afternoon, and Fitz-
simmons stripped for the purpose of al
The herald., 1897-03-17
along with him the best way can and let
the results take care of themselves"
-AI- FITZ'S FUTURE

1853 r. FITZS FUTURE.
F'ftzsimmons declared today that in
case he loses the fight he will leave the
country. What else is there for me to
do?" he asked. Il cannot get any more
matches in the middleweight class. and,
II / lose this, it will show that am not
in the heavyweight class, and then as l
can't act like Corbett, there is nothing
for me to do but get out. I expect to win,
OF course, but any man may lose fight,
and of course there is a chance of my los
ing this one A fighter always takes
chances, no matter who he is up against.
One thing is sure, if / lose l quit the
United States"
A PRETTY CHICKEN.
Corbett spent the last day before the
battle very quietly. He rose about s
o'clock, and after brief promenade on
the rickety veranda of the springs hotel,
did ample justice TO his breakfast. For
an hour he Iounged about the mussy lit
tie barroom and parlor reading papers
and making occasional remarks con-
cerning his antagonist of tomorrow in
the somewhat uncomplimentary vein
usual to his opinions of the auburn hair
cd pugilist. Trainers White and De-
laney did not allow their man out Of
their sight. watching him with solicit
tude that was comically hen like.
1--WE have got him TO just the point
we want him." said Delaney, land don't
intend to let him run any risk of any
kind" The big fighter accepted the
close guardianship good naturedly, al
though he frequently reminded his
trainers that he very well realized the
importance of being careful The curl
Gus crowds which thronged the vicinity
of Shaw's Springs all day We're rigor-
ously excluded from Corbett's quarters,
White having announced that his man
must be kept quiet and away from all
excitement
Late in the day White decided to let
Corbett take a little exercise in the
kandball court and the champion play
ed four games, easily winning three of
them. short walk about o'clock end.
ed his exercise for the day.
Just who will be in Corbetts corner
tomorrow has not yet been decided.
White, Delaney and McVey will, Of
rourse second their man, but who the
fourth man will be is still matter of
9oubt Corbett has intimated that he
would like to have his brother Joe be-
nind him. but White favors John DON
tldson, who arrived today and has had
The herald., 1897-03-17
FITz's FRIENDS.
Heavy customs Receipts

NEW YORK, March 16.-The customs
receipts from Wednesday last until to-
night were $6,997. .547. the receipts today
were 1901, ,S47. .54, against $2,667.s7795 95 yes
terday, which broke all previous records.
The falling off today was not due to a
decrease of the fear Of importers that
they would be caught with large stock
OF goods in bonded warehouses when the
new tariff bill is published. but it was
said at the custom house that 1t was
caused by the block in business caused
by the heavy withdrawal Of tobacco.
The herald., 1897-03-17

Of the whole boundary line, but nxeD
definitely the boundary as provided in
the treaty of 1857. which is the treaty Of
cession from Russia to the United
States. The boundary line In that
treaty is Incorporated in the amendment
Of Senator Stewart. and IL carried IL
made a part of the treaty.
HELENA, Ark. March 16.-The river
tonight stands at 45.6 on the gauge here.
and is rising slowly and is now within
two feet six inches of high water mark
While there is no apparent danger of
overflow at this point, the levee boards
are making the necessary arrangements
for properly guarding the levees night
and day.
The herald., 1897-03-17
,tzs,m mons into>rnaling leads and rely

FIT zsimmons into<maldng leads and rely
On the chance Of landing counter.
Fitxsimmons has also planned to go
= trifie slow for the first round or TWO
but after that he will endeavor to get
close to his man and land one of those
awful right handlers which have ~
many times returned him winner
Fitzsfmmons is not capable, by reason
OF his aggressive temperament of re-
mainfng upon the defensive for any
great length of time, and he knows well
that his strength lies in offensive fight
ing. He is in most respects an abnormal
man and he does not talk, act or think
according to accepted standards. In
All things he is unconventional and
original He follows methods in his
training which will not suit one man
IN thousands, but under them he con-
ditions himself to perfection.
He fights according to notions of his
own and is always victorious. He said
of himself today: II never fought any
man on the same plan that 1 fought
anybody before him, and never try 10
tell myself how to fight before l begin.
When the time comes I so at 1t as my in
stincts tell me, and that is all can tell
anybody.
"Fitzsimmons' plan of battle" said
Julian, ''is known only to himself, eX-
cept in the merest outline. He is the
oueerest man ] ever saw. and although
/ have been with him for many years,
/ do not understand him at all. l have
given up trying to understand him. He
always has something up his sleeve and
he has it now, but have nothing. I have
given up trying to guess him. just get
The herald., 1897-03-17
The Snow Melting

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, March 16.--
Specials from Bismarck and other Wes-
tern and North Dakota points state that
the snow is rapidly melting under the
Chinook winds. Twenty-four hours ago
the mercury at Bismarck was S6 below.
This noon it was rs above. This will
probably save the lives of thousands Of
cattle that were dying from cold.
The herald., 1897-03-17
The Alaskan Boundary

WASHINGTON,M March 16.-In the ex-
ecutive session of the senate today S0i-
ator Stewart of Nevada offered an
amendment to the Alaskan boundary
treaty, which is in the nature of sub
stitute for the provision for ascertaining
the meridian. II. provides for the survey
The herald., 1897-03-17

The snowclouds, which have been how
ering about the mountain tops west oi
the city, have given place to dari
masses, which do not indicate in this
locality anything more than wind. This
began blowing at a lively rate at
o'clock this evening, but no one seems
to be discouraged by it, as the vacuum
toward which it is tending Will doubt
less absorb all there is of it before morn
ing. The outlook for tomorrow Is cleai
day, with an abundance of sun. just such
a day as is needed for the fight.
The wind ceased blowing about 10
o'clock and was followed by some snow,
not enough, however, to be more than
noticeable. The clouds are much light
er than they were in the early part of
the evening and it Isl now feared that to-
morrow may be unpleasant.
AWFUL FEARS.
At late hour tonight the Associated
Press is in position to state positively
that if the sun does not shine tomorrow
the fight will not come off. In this
event the smaller contests will be put
on and the crowd be entertained by wit
Messing them: If the big fight does not
come off tomorrow it will come of on
the 18th provided the weather Is suit
able. the intention being to have 1t take
place at such time as the verascope can
record the movements of the contest
ants.
FITS FRIENDS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, March ia special
to the Republic from Dallas. Tex, says:
More money has been bet today in
Stuart's pool rooms than any day since
the place set for the fight was made
known. Whether they are acting on
private information from Carson or not
it is a notable fact that every local
sport" is taking the FitzElmmons end
The odds in Stuart's room remained all
day to Fitzsimonn 7 to 10 Corbett. The
Corbett figures were changed to 8 to TO-
the Fitzsimmons end keeps carrying
the money. 1t IL noticed thst Stuarts
personal friends are playing Fitzsim-
mons.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-04-23
ON NEWS.

Rufus :. Merrill Esq, of Boston
left the city last evening for Freder
icksburg, Ontario, Canada. Will,
here he purchased two car loads o.
oil well material of the National Sup
ply Co., and OF the Leidecker Tool Co.
to equip a large lease for the From
tenac Oil Co. lie also engaged force
OF experienced drilers here who will
follow in few days. lie speaks en-
Enthusiastically of the future of the oil
industry in this field. Mr.. Merrill is a
gentleman of charming personality.
/ a thorough geologist and chemist who
has been associated with the oil bust.
ness from the early days, and has drill
ed in Peru, South America. He is now
testing the Canada sands.
THE eRAcEY FIELD.
| The Shrake Oil Co. made a fifty bar
rel strike on the Dennis farm adjoin-
ing the Summit Co. IS property.
William Reader brought in a fine
we'll on the Bush farm in the old Cow
Run field, which joins the Gracey pool
on the north.
The Boston Oil Co. are actively at
work in preparations for the Summer
campaign on their various leases.
Their Gracey No. II will reach the
sand by Monday next. They are max.
ing a systematic cleaning out of all
their older wells which materially in
creases their production.
The rig is up for we'll on the Reed
farm on their Glen property, which
will be followed by several others in
that locality.
The Glendale Oil Co. have made two
locations on the Becker farm and rigs
are going up.
The Woodland Oil Co. are 800 feet
down in their No. . well at promis.
ing location. They will follow with
No. 5 for which the stake is set
The Crown Oil Co. begin their sea-
sons development with u well on the
Berg farm near the Krupp Oil Co IS
line.
The Green Oil Co.'S wells are hold.
ing up To their full measure. Dan car
res Il yard wide smile, rain or shine.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-04-23
HUGE MUSkRATS.
Invade Town, and Citizens Are
Forced to Fight Them Off.

Forced to Fight Them Off.
Residents of Waltham are in terror
of their lives because of the prev
alcnce of muskrats of huge size about
the streets. These rats, says a Bos-
ton correspondent of the Chicago
Times-Herald, are supposed to come
from number of old drains about the
city, in which they breed, and sally out
at night to attack peaceful pedestrians.
Early one morning lately Conductor
w, T. Phelps, of the Fitchburg railroad,
was coming down the railroad track
and was attacked by u large rat, which
tried to fasten its teeth in the conduc-
tors leg. The latter drew his revolver
and fired two shots into the rat before
it was killed.
y few nights ago DR.. Fred NJ. Stiles
had death struggle with a rat which
lay in wait for him in front of his house
on Moody street. DR.. Stiles picked up a
barrel stave in self-defcnse, and hit the
rat with it as it rushed at him, but it
broke short off in his band and the an
imal sprang at him again and again un-
til it was finally stunned by lucky
blow. 1t was as large as a grown cat
and had teeth two inches long.
But the nerviest attack was made
upon q patrolman- A rat jumped on
him and climbed up his leg, biting him
all the while. The policeman drew his
club, and, after hard struggle, sue
cecded in beating off the animal.