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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
President and n -mbers of tie
Cabinet Consider Ii.
The QUESTION IS
ONE OF REVISION
BELIEVED IMPORTANT PLACES
WILL BE EXEMPTED.
Final Determination Has Not Yet
Been Reached, But it is Probable
That Three Hundred Places viii
be Taken Out of the Classified Ser
vice-Some Radical Changes.

Washington, July 10.-The president
and the members of the civil service
commission have had a number of con-
ferences lately on the question of a re-
vision of the civil service rules so as
to exempt certain important places
which were included in Mr.. Cleveland's
last extension order. a final deterlni-
nation, however, has not been reached.
but it is altogether probable that about
SEQ places VIII be taken ont of the clas-
sified services. These will include dep
uty collectors of customs. VINO are in
charge of substations and deputy col
lectors of internal revenue who have
charge CT the distribution of revenue
stamps. There are approximately $50
places in each class. 1t is not proposed.
however, TO exempt the places from
examination. The appointee viii be or
dered before the civil service commits
sion for examination and in case OF
failure. his name must be Withdrawn
and another appointment made. 1t IS
argued that the positions which ii is
proposed TO restore TO the excepted list
are of great importance and that as
the stations of these officers are often
far removed from their chiefs. who
alone is responsible for their acts he
Should have some voice in their selec-
ton. The bonds furnished the govern
ment by collectors of customs and col
lectoTs of internal revenue cover all
funds passing through the hands Of
. u = 4r0 a. futieS, and Il IS cOntended
that ii is unjust to hold a collector
responsible Tor the honesty of a man of
whom he knows nothing. It is prob
able the president Will take action in
the matter within the next few days.
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Cspecial TO The Herald,


Fort Duchesne, Utah, July 10.-At
midnight, last night, man rode at
nigh speed into this garrison, and i'm
mediately notified the guard that eight
persons had been poisoned from some
unknown source. and were writing in
excruciating pains at their camping
grounds, three miles from this post
Post Surgeon Flagg was awakened. and
after listening TO the report of the mes
oenger, ordered the hospital ambulance
and, with the hospital assistants. Sur
geon FYagg soon reached the camp
Upon his arrival he found great ex-
element among the members of
party of women and children who were
suffering with terrible pains and nearly
insane.
As quickly as possible DR.. Flagg as
certained that these victims were un-
doubtedly seriously. if not fatally, pois-
oned. Emetics were administered,
which bought temporary relief. when
the doctor questioned the victims as TO
what they had been eating for the pre-
viOus meal. Re was informed that they
had, during the afternoon, killed and
cooked two chickens, and eight per-
sons had partaken of the same. Fur
eher investigation revealed the fact that
these chickens had been roaming abou-
in the vicinity of where a green paint
powder was being used.
After several hours hard work, the
victims were made quite comfortable
and brought to Fort Duchesne. where
they are now being given medical at
tentfon.
Six Of them are by no means out Of
danger.
TIE persons are from Ashley. They
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
FOURTH OF A MILLION
County Board Does Another Big
Days Work.
TOTAL VALUATION REDUCED
BY S25o,oOo.
Russell Tracy Has an Argument With
the Board-Cheeseman Swears to a
Day and There Will be Rush
Detailed Proceedings Of the Board.

Again did the board of equalization
have a busy day pairing down valua-
tions, and ere dinner time arrived the
total reductions amounted to over
100000 BY the hour of o'clock the
100000 figure had been passed by
nearly $4,000.
Mortgages constitute the chief point
Of reduction. There were many of
record which have been proven as sat
isfied and, therefore. rot taxable
This, however, will reduce the total
valuation. ard although these figures
are by no means official. it begins to
look as though 100000 would be
about the proper figure. the great bulk
of which VIII be in Salt Lake City.
Tomorrow is the last day and there
viii be a rush. a tremendous rush. It
is doubtful whether the board can
finish without sitting away into the
night or performing the legislature feat
of stopping the clock-a condition not
at all likely.
Russell L. Tracy had an extended
argument with the board at the SEES
sion yesterday. Mr.. Tracy appeared
there to show cause why his assess
ment should not be raised. II appears
he made a statement to the effect that
he owed something over $4,000 on sew
eral notes. Hall inclined 10 the belief
that the names of the parties should
be included in the list, but this Mr..
Tracy declined to give.
I do not have to furnish these
Names" he said. no more than does
a bank have TO furnish the names Of
those who deposit with it, These
matters are confidential. This board
has virtually accused me of perjury.
| have furnished a sworn statement of
my assets and liabilities. and here I
am cited to appear to show cause why
NY valuation should not be raised
This board has not accused you of
perjury" said Hall. We have only
arrived a the conclusion that your as
sessment is not high enough and have
cited you TO appear here and tell
whether or not you have not over
looked something"
NO, we do not accuse you of per-
jury" continued Mr.. Armstrong All
we want is to arrive at a correct state
ment of your valuations.
Well continued Tracy, Il am will
ing to take any member of this board
10 my office, any two members, and
show him or them my books. out as
for coming here and making a state
ment TO a board. where the infOrma-
ton can be haWked about in the news
papers and commented upon; where
my clients would be disclosed and
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WEALTHY WIDOW DEAD.
WAS EN- ROUTE TO FRISCO WITH
THE ENDEAVoRERs.
Found in Hotel at Wadsworth,
New, After Long Search, Where
She Subsequently Died.

San Francisco, July 1O.-Ex-Stat
Senator w NJ. Dixon of Warm Springs.
Alameda county. is trying to ascer-
tain the cause Of the death of his sis
ter. Mrs. Eliza Johnston, which oc-
Cured while en- route TO California on
one Of the Christian Endeavor trains.
The death occurred under peculiar
circumstances.
Mrs Eliza Johnston was a wealthy
widow living al Kansas City, where
she mad large landed possessions. She
was II years old On her trip she was
accompanied by granddaughter.
When the. train reached Reno, Nev.,
the granddaughter missed Mrs. John
ston. After much telegraphing the
railroad people finally located Mrs.
Johnston in a hotel at WadswOrth
New, where she subsequently, died.
How she left the train or what caused
her death are questions now being in
vestigated by Mr.. Dixon and the rail-
road officials
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teresting address on Organization of
National and State Public Charities"
He was followed by James wyiie on
Organization OF Municipal and
County Public Charities
During the discussion which ensued
DR.. James W. Walk of Philadelphia
addressed the conference as TO a sys-
tenn of caring for the dependent see
lions of the population.
In the child saving station ]. Ross
Robertson, NJ. P, proprietor of the
Toronto Evening Telegram. delivered
an address on "Children's Hospitals"
and DR.. Adams of Toronto smoke on
Dental Hospitals for the Preserva-
ton of the Teeth of the Poor
In the juvenile reformatories section
a paper by Superintendent ]. A. ALI
son of Cincinnati was read. entitled
The Institution Paper; How to Con-
duct it as Factor in Reformatory
Work"
At 1870 the general session COM
menced. with Hon. Philip c. Garrett.
state delegate of Pennsylvania, in the
chair. He addressed the members on
the Need of a Radical Prison Re-
FORM
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
CRUISERS AT TANGIERS.
Moors Appear to Have a Little Re
spect For Them.

Washington, July 10.-The appear
ance of the cruiser San Francisco in
the harbor of Tangier mas had a salu-
tatory effect upon the Moorish author
tiles in the matter of securing the OBJ
servance of American rights. Rear
Admiral Selfridge, who is on board
the San Francisco, has cabled to the
navy department that when the Mo-
rocco authorities learned that Amer
lean warships had been ordered to
Tangier they had displayed consider
able activity and had arrested one of
the assailants of the American who
had been knocked down and robbed.
There were two men involved in the
assault. Upon the repeated demand of
Consul-General Burke, which was en-
forced by the presence CT the San
Francisco, the Moorish authorities
were making every effort 10 capture
the second fugitive, and Admiral Sell
fridge added that he believed success
would soon crown their efforts. 1t is
ex-ested that the state de-ar.ment
will direct Consul General Burke to
see that the men are adequately pun
ished for the offense which they COM
mitted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
CROOK CAUGHT.
William Ieodtman Taken in San Fran.
cisco-Wife ATTEMPTED Suicide.

San Francisco, July 10-William
Lodtman, said by the police to be a
notorious eastern swindler. was ar
rested in Hammersmith & Fields store
on Suffer street. The detectives sub
sequently visited Lodtman's room in
the Russ House and met his wife.
When they informed her OF her hus-
bands plight she seized a revolver and
attempted TO send a bullet through
her brain. Detective Wren grasped
her arm and prevented her using the
pistol. He is charged with passing
numerous forged checks on shopkeep-
ers. He admitted that the drafts he
presented in this city were bogus. but
denied that ne had been operating
elsewhere. The man is said to be well
known to the New York police as no.
torious swindler.
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Mystery Deepens.

Kansas City. July 10.-A brief dis
nah received here by her relatives
yesterday stated that Mrs. Eliza John
ston had been killed at some place in
Nevada on Monday last by falling
from the train, and that ner body had
been sent to this city. for burial. Ar
Al ssemen ) were made for the funeral.
but up to this time the body has not
arrived and her relatives have no
further details of the accident or ink
ling Of the whereabouts of the body.
Mrs. Johnston lived with her son. a
minister, near Independence, a suburb.
She lad life interest in certain prop
erty, but was rot considered wealthy.
For Morbid Conditions take Beech
ans Pills.
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are well known and prosperous people.
and were en- row-e TO Provo to visit
relatives. Their names are:
Seth PeH, aged As. seriously poisoned,
recovery doubtful.
John Duhamel. 50. condition same.
Miss Anna Pell. improving.
L.klan Pell, 10 months, improving.
George War;. 16. quite i'll.
Jennie War;, 10, seriously poisoned.
Rosie Evans, IS. very i'll; severely
poisoned.
Samuel PelI, 3. slightly poisoned.
4 chemical analysis of the chickens
and vomtted matter shows the presence
Of a large quantity of arsenic.
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CHINESE CEnETERY.
Arrangements Being Made to Es-
tablish a Big One.

LaOllSn big One-
New York, July ia special to the
World from Philadelphia says: Ar
engagements have been completed for a
national buryinS ground for the Cal
nese. For some time past the celes-
tials in this country have had agents
in several of the big cities searching
for a suitable place where they could
lay at rest The bodies Of their country
men vita the religious observanCes
practiced in the Chinese empire.
On April they were forbidden TO OBJ
serve the customary services over the
graves of their departed relatives and
friends. The knowledge that other ma
tiOnahties and creeds had their own
cemeteries and conducted ceremonies
peculiar TO their beliefs prompted the
leading Chinese officials of this coun-
try 10 purchase land TO give them a
national burying ground upon which
they could ereCI Il joss house and con-
duct their own funeral services with
out interfering with the municipal or
cemetery authorities. y meeting of the
leading Cinnamon of New York. Phila-
delphia. Boston, Chicago, Baltimore
and other cities was called and the or
ganization took the title of the National
Chinese syndicate. 1t is said 10 control
$50 000,0 600. y tract of land at Wynne-
wood. about six miles from Pniladel-
pihia. was selected and purchased for
S545,OOO.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
EIGHT PERSONS
ARE POISONED
BY CHICKENS
Queer Case Reported Near Fort
Duchesne, Utah.
ALL CAUSED BY
EATING CHICKENS
HENS HAD SWALLOWED
GREEN PAINT POWDER.

Victims We're En- Route to Provo to
Visit Relatives-While All Are
Seriously Ill, Six of the Eight
May Die-Analysis of the Chick
ems and Vomited Matter Shows
the Presence of Large Quantities
of Arsenic-Names of the Victims.
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TICKETS TO ALI POINTS EAST.

Oregon Short Line Office.
Under Masonic hall. corner Second
South anc West Temple streets.
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CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
Despite the Heat Delegates Worked
Very Esrd.

Toronto, Ont. July 1O.-Despite the
intense heat the members of the con-
ference on charities and corrections
were hard at work today In the or
ganization of charity section Rev. F.
II. Wines, editor OF the Charities Re
view of Springfield, H., read an in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11
The Halves Engraving Co., 72 West
Temple Street.

We are now located at the above
number, with a complete plant for
making half tone engravings, zinc etch-
ings and all kinds of color blocks Write
US for samples and prices before plac-
ing your orders
Fresh Kodak Films.
Just received by The Johnson Co.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-21
THE CHEWING GUM FACE.
Certified-Check Face Seems to Be the
Best Artificial Countenance.

Certified-Check Face Seems to Be the
Best Artificial Countenance.
The chewing gum face is the latest
scientific discovery, and it is argued by
the discoyercr that no one who chews
gum can possibly be beautiful. This
will not lave any influence upon the
homely, but to actresses and others
who imagine they have good looks that
should not be wantonly chewed away
it should prove Il deterrent. Per-
chance the ceaseless chewing habit of
the dromedary, who chews as faStld-
iously and industriousIy upon a pea
nut as upon squash, is the real cause
of that useful quadruped's haggard,
guant and infinite homeliness. We
should think that smoking cheap ci-
gars, through the incessant hard puff
ing devolved on the smoker, would alb
normally develop his masseter muscles
and give him a tobacco face that should
prove instrumental in securing for him
the position of cigar store Indian.
We will not allude to the cigarette
face, says Truth, OF any other face
that, like the chewing gum face, is a
false face, inasmuch as it is not a
natural face. A happy, well-fed, con-
tented-lool1ing man, who is the picture
of health, is the man with a certified
check face. From the constant hand
ling of certified checks drawn in his
favor his face becomes a sort of paipi-
tant rose garden. This is so much bet
ter than the chewing gum face that we
wear it more from preference than
from force of circumstances.
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ouEER sETTLEMENI.
Hornets and Birds Become Friends and the
Former Guard the Latter's Nests.

Hornets and Birds Become Friends and the
Former Guard the Latter's Nests
On the broad, brown salt meadows
that skirt the Housatonic river. just
above its mouth, is a vast colony of
marsh wrens, relates the St. Paul Dis
patch In the acres of tangled tules
and cat-tails the nests, which are as
large as ones head, are so compactly
constructed and so thoroughly thatcheG
as to be entirely weather-tight. As
a rule the thrifty little chattering
wrens prefer not to occupy a last years
nest, so there are every season hun
dreds of empty ones. They are not al
lowed to remain vacant long, for there
are too many creatures seeking just
such snug quarters. One specimen of
field or meadow mice take possession
of a great many of them. Big spiders,
too, love to nest in the abandoned! bas
ket-lil1e abodes and live for many sea-
sons in them. The most desirable ten
ants of all are the big black and white
hornets. BY far the greater number of
the old nests are inhabited by these
fiery fellows, and, odd to relate, they
are the best of friends with the land
lords.
As if by agreement with the wrens.
they keep a perpetual guard over the
new nests, as well as those where they
live. Let dog, an unconscious rail or
snipe-shooter, bird-egging boy or any
creature whatever approach the nests
without warning, a cohort of winged
warriors will fall on the intruder, ana
fight is the only safe course. The
wrens seem full conscious of the value
of such sentinels, for they take care
to build their nests always very near
to the old. The birds are themselves
entirely defenseless, and, their nests
being easily located on account OF size
and the noise made by the wrens, they
have been in some localities entirely
wiped out by egg collectors The boys
have learned to give this colony wide
berth.
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LOVE LleHTsNs LABOR.

Advantages Country People Have Over
Their City Brothers.
The countryman has, if he be wise
enough to perceive it, good reason TO
count himself a IIIckier person alto
gether than he whose work is done in
town. For the latter, says Black and
White, unless he be exceeding we'll off,
there are few pleasures easily obtain
able in the intervals of toll. Food and
sleep are excellent in their way, but
they are necessities, and they are usual
ly taken under such circumstances as
to have nothing of the character Of
iuXuries. The countryman is lucllier
than this. 1t may be that his toll is
firing and that his wage is a small one,
but he labors in such way that he al
ways gets the fullest enjoyment out of
his rest, and when he pauses to take
his midday meal it is under conditions
that would make a perfect holiday for
the city, and to whose charm even the
man accustomed to them cannot grow
callous. He lies at ease among the
Sheayes that he has cut, and the sun,
whose ardent rays made his toil the
heavier, now adds to his delight. More
over, he eats with the pleasantest OF
walters to see to his comfort; it may be
his wife who brings his dinner, or per-
haps it is some buXom girl from the
farm who is not yet his, though she
will some day be. as she knows within
herself. and he is not afraid to believe.
Verify, his toll is hard in itself, but he
must be singularly discentented per-
son if he do not find it light amid these
surroundings and under these pleasant
conditions.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-07-21
A LESSON TO GLOUCESTER.

Smallpox Epidemic Teaches People the
Value Os Vaccination.
The recent outbreak of smallpox in
the slums of Gloucester was, according
to recent reports i'll the London Stand
ard, Il very serious affair. Eleven per
sons are known to have been removed
to the hospital in two days in one par
ticular court The neighborhood re
ferred to is in an exceedingly dirty con.
dition, and crowded to excess.
A medical man states that not one
single person who has been successfully
revaccinatcd has been admitted to any
of the hospitals suffering from the dis
ease.
Every facility is now offered to the
working classes to be vaccinated or re
vaccinated, free of expense, with calf
lumph if desired, either at their own
homes or at the numerous vaccination
stations which have been temporarily y
opened in all parts of the city.
The effect of the epidemic on many
trades was disastrous, business in
some cases being almost at Il standstiil.
Drapers, tailOrs, dealers in furniture,
ETC., were greatly affected, while the re-
ceipts of tram-cars were little moro
than one-half the amount taken at or
binary times, and this notwithstanding
the fact that on the windows of each
car notice was posted stating thai th>'
conveyance was regularly disinfccted.
With reference to the cost of the cpl
! demic to the city prominent official in
formed me that, judging from past eN-
perience, he estimates that this viii be
at least 10000 or e12,OOO.
And the Commercial Traveller Got a Hook
in His Ear.
A commercial traveller who stayed
over Sunday at Seneca Falls and went
to the lake to pass away the time,
thought he would catch few fish, so
he hired boat, equipped it with the
! necessary tackle, started out and was
soon busy watching his line. After a
time, says the Post Express, something
/ got hold and commenced to pull. To
make sure it was a fish he leaned over
the side of the boat and pcered down
through the water, and when he found
it was real live fish he became ex-
cited and tumbled in head first. In his
efforts to eXtricate himself from his
unpleasant position he became en-
tangled in his line, and the fish separat-
| ing from the hook that adjunct to a
| ffsherman's kit attached itself to his
ear. He was finally rescued but little
the worse for his experience
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wAlms Or mSs.v.-No.
Idiosyncrasies of the Men Who Made
Harmony in the Past

Harmony in the Past
i am ticlled to know that Wagner
was an exact and expensive dresser, and
that Beethoven was a sIoven, with an
old coat and slippers trodden down at
the heels, says a writer in the Con-
temporary Review. 1t interests me to
hear that Paganini always carried a
shirt in mis- fiddle case, because he per-
spired so profusely over his solos that
he had to change between the parts if
he played twice. l even care to learn
that Mendelssohn was a perfect child
about pastry, which he could never re-
sist. and which he always ate especial
" cherry pie) and which always dis
agreed with him; that Schumann in
iured his third finger by tying it back
to his wrist with string, because he
hoped to make it moro supple-it end
ed, however, in his almost losing the
use of it; that Bulow got up in the night
to play over passages which he thought
he was likely to play inaccurately at
his prodigious recitals.
When Thalberg was at the height of
his fame he wouldn't even carry an
umbrella, for fear of it cramping the
muscles of his hand; Malibran loved
1.othing so much as romping with
Moscheles' children on the floor;
Paganini was so stingy that he would
stand up under shelter in the rain and
keep u whole opera house full wait
ing sooner than call n cab. Prof. Ella
told me he found him one day crouch
ing under the Arcade in Regent street,
and that he gave this artless cNplana-
ton: Hackney coaches" he said, in
London were, so cXpensive!" and this
when he had doubled the prices at the
opera house where he played and was
rolling in money.