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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-28
THE HAlLOWELL PRIZE.
Why Ike Lawson Declined to
Compete.
BY HARRIET cARYL cox

BY HARRIET CARYL cox.
There was great excitement in the
second district. 1t was drawing near
the time for the Hallowen prize to be
announced. The first district had had it
last year; the fourth the year before;
surely it was the seconds turn this year
or would it go to the third?
MIR. Hallowell was such an eccentric
man anyway. No one could tell just
what he would do, and he offered prizes
for such peculiar things; not essays or
declamatiOns, such as you would expect
man to offer prizes to a school for,
but carpenter work, for the boys. cooking
for the girls, and one year to the disnlay
of the teacher and the indignation of the
boys. the prize of splendid jackknife
to the boy who would show the three
best darned pairs of stockings.
But the boys tried for it nevertheless,
despite their protest. for the boy who
the famous Hallowell prize was an I'M
known quantity.
AT last the announcement came For
three days it had been showing heavily,
yet nearly all of the scholars were in
school when late in the afternoon Mr.
Hallowen walked into the school room,
his cheeks aglow with the sharp air.
A thrill of expectancy ran through the
room and nervous hands tried to guide
pencil or pen, while he talked with the
t6e a l school, 69ne ead then turning
! All districts may compete for the
prize this year.
| The contest VIII be to see who can
make the best work out of the present
] heavy snowfall.
The work may be done alone, in COM
panies or by schools, and the number
! employed in the work will be taken into
consideration in awarding the prize which
will be q sum of money sufficient, if won
/ by a school, to buy something valuable
for the general use. or il won by smaller
companies to be divided among the work
ers.
II shall personally investigate and de-
eide tomorrow, Saturday afternoon.
so now, good luck to you all
And so with his stiff bow and smile
that included the whole school. he left
the room while the scholars sprang to
their feet with deafening cheer.
Fortunately it was closing time.
AS the bell rang for dismissal. a jost-
ling, happy, excited crowd rushed out
filing the streets with shouts and laugh
ter and disappearing in every direction.
Snow shovels We're at a premium. coal
shovels in demand, and even small stove
ShoVels pressed into service.
Such busy place.
In the gathering twilight dark forms
rushed to and fro: lanterns were Dor
rowed and interested mothers set lamps
in the windows. sending out broad light
over the rejecting snow. All the town
was busy.
you just ought to see them up to FL
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Nov. Mamsey. Buddy promised I
might if you'd only just say yes. He
said I'd be some help to him. and loads
Of comfort. Please!''
Mrs. Mason looked at the round,
eager face and sighed. Phyllis, love,
1 don't want to cross you, but what use
can a giri Of - be in 4 sheep camp?
And think OF the danger and discom-
fort.
The red flew to Phyllis brow, and her
big eyes filed with tears. Don't
Buddy have to face the danger and dis
comfort AIansey?" she queried gent
~. Il want to so along to make
him more comfortable, and take care
of him.
You brave little coul," whispered
her mother, kissing her, L haven't the
heart to disappoint you-though do
think Howard should not have offered
to take you
Phyllis, accepting this as capitula-
ton, gave her mother an enthusiastic
hug and ran OF to hunt up Buddy and
tell him the great news. She was to
go With him! She, Phyllis, was at last
to be allowed to accompany this only
and dearly beloved brother down into
the Pecos country, where he went to
drift his sheep.
Mrs. Mason was a widow. and How
ard, or Buddy. rs Phyllis always called
him, the Oldest son, was the support
and head of the household.
1t was in the early SOS, and sheep
had just been brought into west Tex
as. Much money was being made by
the pioneers in the business, and am
bilious young Howard Mason had been
among the first TO buy i bunch
II Is a little hard TO understand now
l-1f tFt
men OF the section felt against the in
PRODUCERS OF sheep. As near an eXpla-
nation as one can give is that the cat
tlemen we're obliged 10 own or lease
large bodies OF land, TO drive wells and
build tanks, cor cattle must have
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. NEST AS BIG AS A CITY LOT.
The Wonderful Mounds Built by the
Males Hens Of Australia.
BY COLONEL JOHN

By COLONEL JUN +. 1Obbo.
The malice hen of Australia lays its
eggs in a huge nest. The. nest is really
an artificial mound of gigantic proper
lions for the size of its maker. and the
purpose it is to serve. This artificial
mound is a cooperation incubator. 1t is
female working alike to construct it..
These sama pairs or focks OF birds an
nually repair and enlarge the queer look
ing cone which rises UP like a turret
dome from the level prairie.
Sometimes these tunnels attain a
height of fully 10 feet in the perpeDdicu-
lar, with a radius of equal measurement.
Many OF these nests have measured as
much as 30 yards, or $50 feet around their
base. That would give the largest one
measured a diameter of about 50 feet.
These mound nests are entered through
a sort of funnel cavity at the top of the
cone.
The hens of all the building and re-
pairing pairs lay in this immense nest.
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0REGON SHORT lines
RATERoAD-

Trains arrive and depart at Salt Lake
City daily as follows:
On Effect Oct. 81
ARRIVE.
From Chicago. Omaha, st. Louis,
Kansas bans CITY, Denver. Park
From Helena. Butte. Portland. ''1' D'A''-
r, termesdiats points. $50 am.
from San Francisco, Cache VAL
ley, ogden and intermediate
t,I points; us pm
Kansas kansas City, Denver. and Og-
r, medists points: -. -. s:s5 am
FROM Mercur Tintic. Provo. Ne
mediate points, -. =: -. $40 pm.
Tooele and CARRIED Beach,. 400 pm
DEPART.
For Chicago, Omaha. Denver.
Kansas City, st. Louis, Ogden
For San francisco. ogden, '''' Gill;
Cdcne valley and intermediate
For ogden Denver. KANSAS CITY. ''OO an
OInana, st, Louis, Chicago and
>, lntermedtate points -. .. 6;25 pm.
f9r ogden. Butte, Helena, Port
land and Sam Francisco. :. 49,. S:45 pm.
F9r Eureka. Mereu-. Provo,
.NepDI, Sanpete aVuey.. ........ $50 a. m.
For Provo, Nephi Milford.
Frisco and intermediate points 600 pm
Mixed train for Garfield Beach.
Iooele and Terminus . 49,, 7:45 am.
trains south TO Juab run daily except
<SD2ily except Sunday.
-CIIY TICKET OFFICE Under Masonic
ff 81 No. 2o0 West Second South street.
Telephone No. go.
Railroad and Steamship Tickets on saie
to all parts of the world.
r, Pullman II Palace Car ticket Office
,. W; ECCLES, D. y hurley,
Gen. Trf. Mgr. Gen. Pass q 1fck't Agr-
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The eggs are deposited about six feet
below the surface. While each hen lays
her egg in the family mound, no hen
drops her egg closer than p inches Of
that of her naighbOr. These eggs are
deposited in a cavity made for it where
in it is placed in q vertical position, care
fully smoothed over by the hen before
she quits the nest. Contrary to the usual
practice OF the bird and fowl species.
these malice hens lay at night instead
of in the day. Several days elapse also
between the dropping OF two eggs by
the same hen.
The eggs of the malice hen are out of
all proportion to her size. They ara as
large rs those of q goose, and OF large
hens, are very much larger.
The eggs thus laid and covered in this
great sand oven in the hot district arr
never again disturbed by the hens. The
bakes into the soil where they lay. 1t
has never been known how the young
chicks are eXcavated from their egg
grave, for the eggs are deposited fully
six inches below the surface and the
hardening rains do not aid their exit
very much.
The hen is so very shy and viGilant that
no one is able to study her maternal and
domestic habits with satisfaction. AS she
lays her eggs at night. and tranSactS
most of her affairs III the night watch
so that no naturalist or curious S~ltvidual
can ferret her out, possibly she steals to
her expected brood under cover Of night
also. and gives them the parental IN
earthing which they must surely need
after the piping OF the eggshell.
Bush naturalists have been curious TO
know how this peculiar fowl builds that
nest. The birds have been seen working
at it, and the mounds have been in
Spected, but the piling of the dirt is not
from the immediate vicinity, for that is
undisturbed. Small sprigs and the like
enter into the plastic masonry, which
stands storms and heavy rains when they
co fal, without serious injury.
These huge cones stand for years to
be annually nestled in by the same flock
which originally constructed the family
Il pitiful little cackle, and flutter away
like a wounded innocent. The young OF
a coyey either root under the sand or
hide behind soma mound or object of a
friendly color.
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water But the sheepmen brought in
their fiocl1s and drove or "drifted" them
wherever they pleased. sinre sheep viii
live on pasture that viii starve cattle.
The sheep, too could winter down in
the sheltered draws and canyons of
the Pecos or Devils river country,
the Jocks going for weeks without
water, and living on juicy cactus
called sotol.
The in-feeling increased from the
first, because just at the time sheep
were brought in. the cattlemen, with
all their investments, We're losing
money. while the owners of sheep made
ranidly-
~he cattlemen claimed that the
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be alone in the dusk eyen-to bring him
help, because. as she said in her note.
it had to be done, and she was
''afrayed'' he would not let her gov"
if he were awake.
Phyllis never dwelt on the terrors of
that trip-she had no need to; How
ard his mother and all their friends
were only too ready to accord her the
respect, rights and privileges of a
heroine without any prompting.
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alcade passed the flock than one the
leaders, full Of curiosity, tossed up his
head. and trotted after it, and soon the
whole bunch was moving contentedly
along, following Phyllis and her
strange household as though she had
been bellwether..
This continued till so close to camp
that when WEAKNESS finally overcame
sheepish curiosity. and they stopped to
Craze. Phyllis decided to push on and
leave them.
"
The water of the Three Cottonwoods
spring was poor and brackish enough.
She dared not let her invalid drink it,
except boiled in q weak coffee. Phyllis
had had ambitious plans Of pushing on
in the cool of the evening and trying
to better her location. She hoped, too,
to save the water in the key for the
long stretch between the CottonWoods
and Trembling, where she feared she
would have to camp twice without
water.
But these were things she found i'm
possible She must go right back to
gather and drive up her sheep.
The spirit of perversity seemed to
have entered into and possessed these
worthless entirely. Or perhaps they
were only thirsty and tired, as indeed
they had an excellent right to be.
Phyllis coaXed, 'Scolded, threw little
cIods, and rode, and rode, while every
muscle and nerve tingled with weari-
ness.
Yet she was well and promptly re-
paid, for when she rode, red, dusty, yet
successful into camp, she found flow
ard, weak and dazed, but perfectly col
lected, sitting up and trying to eat a
! bit of the lunch she had left carefully
covered beside him.
| Phyllis eagerly told him all about the
| happenings, of which ne had but the
most hazy recollection, and ne prompt
ly drew one conclusion which filed his
little sisters heart with joyous pride.
| you see, Phil" he said, those fell
lows didn't know l had any one with
me, that's plain. And if I hadn't had
a girl along who was as good as a man,
I'd have died horrible lingering death
from thirst and starvation, for I'd
never have gotten we'll enough to catch
| and mount my horse, or maybe to
know enough to try to-
With Howard able to talk and coun-
Sci, the rest of the drive appeared easy
to Phyllis; but it was far from proving
so.
Her brother remained miserabIy
weak and i'll, and in spite of himself
was forced to travel in the continuance
which he had at first laughed at as a
characteristic phyllis invention
The long, hot days, the discomfort
the unsuitable food, the pain of his
hurt, were all telling on him, and Phyl-
\ lis strove desperately to hurry the
drives. Yet they could go no faste1
than the sheep could travel, and work
as she might at the driving, that was
slowly.
When they reached the head OF
Trembling, after a weeks desperate
work on Phyllis part and much worry
on that of Howard they were at this
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sheep spoiled the pasture; that the cat
tie would not Craze over the ground
where they had been, and that, there
fore, they were running the country,
were at the bottom of all the troubles
Of the cattle trade, and must be driven
out.
Phyllis and her mother naturally
heard less of this talk than would have
reached them if Howard had not been
in the sheep business. Nobody Was
likely to speak to them about it, and
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Nothing to equal Hewlett Bros
Three Crown spices, because they are
pure and retain their full strength,
being ground fresh every day. It is
to your interest to refuse ali substi-
tuteS.
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LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY.


LEAVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No. 2-For Prove, Grand juno
ton and all points east........ $50 am
No For Provo, Gram juno
ton and all points eaSt...x.-.. 7:40 D.m-
No. 6-For Bingham. LChi. Provo
Mt. Pleasant. Manti. Rich
field, Belknap. all intermediate
points ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500 al
No. S-FOr Eureka. Payson.
Provo and all intermediate
points Observation-Disclosures. 500 pm.
No 3-FCr Ogden and Vest. $40 .. m
No. 1-For Ogden and West------12:3O pm.
ARRIVE SALT LAKE CITY.
No. 1-From bingham. Provo.
Grand Junction and the East. .12:20 pm
No. 5-From Provo, Grand
junction ard East................ 9:O5 pm
No. b-From Provo. Bingham,
Eureka, Belknap, Richtield.
points 80. ...................... SIS pm
West -. .-....-...--......-.. 500 am.
West :,-......-......... 1870 pm.
Provo and all intermediate
points -----.'e.-................- am
Only Ire running through Pullman
Palace Sleeping Cars from Salt Lake
Lake City to Denver via Grand Junction,
and Salt Lake City to Kansas City and
Chicago via Colorado points.
Through tourist OF family sieeperS with
ont change. 10 Kansas City, Chicago and
Free reclining chair cars. Salt Lake City
TO Denver
Ticket Office No. 1CS West Second South
d {. DODGE. s. II. BABCOCK.
Wee Pres &, Gen. Mgr Traffic Mgr.
F. q WADLEIGH. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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But the two men found, when they
came to consult Phyllis that in this
case it took three instead of two to
make g bargain. She was not to be
coaxed nor frightened out of her trip.
If there was danger, she said, so much
the more reason for her going with
Buddy. Nobody supposed, did they,
that the men would want to hurt her?
And as neither Of them did suppose so,
Phyllis had her way
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city Ticket Office. 2m Main street.

Telephone No eG5.
Only one night on ,he road TO Omaha.
two nights to Chicago and St LOIS
Other lines one night additional.
Tie Union Pacific Is the only line through
10 The above points without change
of cars. and the only line operating Iiug-
fet Smoking and Library Cars and pull
nan Dining Cars, with ii and y hours
quickest time to Missouri River and Chi
cago respectively.
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Trains leave and arrive SAT- Like LILy
as follows:
On Effect March 16. 1919
The Overland Limited" TOT
Fnicagc St Paul. St Louis.
and PSrk City. 100 a IL
'eThr Fast Mail for Chicago.
St. Louis Omaha, Kansas City
and Denver ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 70 p m
'The Overland Limited from
Chicago St. Louis. Omaha.
Civ t1t7'ls NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l..' - $40 p m
s'T'he Fast Mall from Chicago.
st Paul st. Louis. Omaha,
kansas City and Denyer.....--. $3.50 q. n
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A TEXAS GIRL.
The Way Phyllis Kept Sheep Camp
and Proved Herself an Emergency
Partner.

BY GRACE MCGOWAN COOKE.
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1t was a strange, lonely life the
brother and sister led, after the Mex
lean helpers had gone back, PHYLLIS
did the ceaAing and kept the tent and
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Copyright. 1897, by s. s. Mcclure Coz
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-23
NEEDS OF
THE LAND
OF COLD
Alaska Governor Makes
recommendations to
Congress.
TITLES TO SETTLERS
HUM ES.
Difficulty in Obtaining Them
RetardS the Territory'S
Growth.
FAVORS A NEW CODE OF
LAWS.
Says the Hunting of Sea Otter S
Should Be Confined to the
Natives.
Difficulty in Obtaining Them
RetardS the Territory's
Growth.
FAVORS A NEW CODE OF
LAWS.
Says the Hunting of Sea OtterS
Should Be Confined to the
Natives.
Special Dispatch to The CALL

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22-The report of
John g. Brady, Governor of Alaska, for
the past fiscal year has been submitted to
the Secretary of the Interior. 1t estimates
the present. population at $4,000 natives
and 10000 whites; predicts that with rem
deer trans port alton mails can be sent all
over Alaska during the winter, and rec
ommends that 800 600 be appropriated
for Government buildings and s6O.OOO for
schools.
1t says nothing has so retarded Alaska S
al growth as the helplessness OF
settlers to obtain titles to their homes on
account OF the failure of Congress TO ex-
tend the general land laws and urges Con-
CESS to create commission of five Zone Sem
ator, one Representative and three bona
fide Alaska residents) to codify laws for
Alaska. The Secretary of the Treasury is
urged 10 confine the hunting OF sea offers
to the natives, Tor 'if the white man is
not smut off at once the Aleuts will have
to be cared for by the Government
Reviewing Gol operations, Governor
Brady SAYS: "Shipload after shipload of
gold-seekers and their freight has been
rushed to the ex RENE limit of salt water
navig CATION Uynn Canai), and there they
have been literally dumped upon the
beach, some above high water and many
below, as they learned to their sorrow
when the water covered them as they
slept. The gold seekers have had a terri
bic time, but thay are brave and started
out TO endure hardshlps. AS a class thev
rank first above the average manhood OF
the country. Lumber is in demand and
lots are selling as high as $1,000
Americans are anxious to secure a
route to the Yukon whicn shall be enti RELY
upon United States territory. Different
parties are now out and are care e-ulIy ex-
amining the mountains between Iakutat
and Cook Inlet. This is the third season
of work in Cook Inlet.
The excitem ent over the Klondike has
drawn many away from that district, but
nevertheless the output of gold this year
will be no mean sum. The possibilities of
the whole region bordering upon this
inlet and uron Prince William Sound will
draw crowds of adventurers in the near
future"
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-23

far lower than the present level, probably to 9
pence, and even lower Such fall, apart
IRON other disastrous results would necess.-
tate additional taxation TO the amount OF
many crowns.
The reply then proceeds to point out
that the proposed agreement would be a
much more serious question for India than
for the United States and France, as The
whole risk OF disaster from failure WouId
fall upon India. Ii the agreement broke
down the United States and France could
take precautions against q depletion OF
their gold reserves; but in India the ru-
pee when the collapse came. would fall
headlong, and the Government would
have no remedy against tiuctuation IN the
exchange value OF India's standard of
value with the fluctuations in the price OF
silver.
Then follows the opinion that India is
on the point OF securing a stable exchange
OF Is pence per rupee, and it would be ex-
ceedingly foolish to throw away the posi-
ton already attained by an acceptance of
proposals which, if thew failed of their
intended objeci, would place India per-
manently under the silver standard with
all its admitted disadvantages
The reply of India is signed bv Lord
Elgin, the Viceroy OF India; Sir George
Stewart White, commander-ln-chief of
the British forces in India aud extraordi-
nary member in the council of the Gov
ernor- General, and Oy the following ordi-
nary mem bers of the council: Sir James
Westland, financial member of the coun-
Gil; Sir John WOODBURY., majo--geueral :;
Sir E. H. Collin. Hon. Mackenzie Daizell
Chalmers and Hon. A Trevor.
The correspondence concludes with Lord
Sails bury's dispatch 10 Embassador Hay,
the contents OF which have already been
ca bled,