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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
Utes Preparing to Retaliate Upon the
Colorado Settlers.

Speaking of the Ute Indian troubles
and the situation at the agencies. the
Vernal Express says:
The Utes are itching for fight and
are reported as holding war dances on
Diamond mountain and at other places.
a party of Indians on Diamond drove
the herders from James Hacking S
sheep camp and took the sheep away
and left them about five miles from
camp. The sheep were recovered the
next day, but it is not known whether
any of the sheep were killed or not
1t is believed by many people in Yer
nal that the Indians are getting back
to the reservation as fast as has been
reported and from rumors of their ac-
tons it looks as if they were preparing
to make trouble for the game wardens
and settlers of White and Bear rivers
in Colorado
There is some apprehension of the
Indians troubling the farmers in this
valley if they go or the war path, and
the people at the post and agencies are
somewhat alarmed and would surely
be in quite q serious predicament if the
Indians do try to kick up any rumpus.
Ten soldiers are on guard at White
Rocks and the other members of the
only troop left at the fort are scattered
in such a manner that the garrison
could be easily surprised and massa-
cred.
1t is reported that some hot-headed
Utes are trying to get the others to
fight, While the cooler ones are doing
all they can to prevent any more trou-
BILE. and it is doubtful which side will
win.
The commanding officer has issued
orders not to let any dispatches go
over the line until some reliable or Of
fetal report is received from Captain
Wright, who is now in the field.
There are a number Of employees at
both agencies and at the school that
are compelled to stay at their posts
and take desperate chances before the
situation would be such as would JUS
tify them in leaving for place of safe
ty without losing their positions. A
good many of these employees are la
dies from the east, who are teachers
in the Indian schools, and the war de-
partment should see that they have
ample protection.
The men who have been working
making bitches over on the reservation
came back to their homes Sunday
night and report the Indians very I'M
easy and of their telling them that al
though they only had it in for the
wardens and settlers of White and Bear
rivers, the men working on the reserva-
ton had better go to Ashley and be
safe, and they pulled their freight for
home.
Later reports place 10 troopers at each
agency and ten at the strip" leaving
about 10 at Fort Duchesne. Those upon
the strip were placed there to pre-
vent the lawless whites from selling
LIQUOR to the Indians.
Tuesday evening, ]. w. Peckenpaugh
reported seeing a band of 80 or 40 Utes
crossing the upper part of Ashley val
ley. They were going eastward and
were all we'll mounted and armed, with
no packs or extra horses.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
BRIGHAM CITY NOTES.
Barn Destroyed by Fire-capture of
Robbers.

Brigham. Nov. THE city was given
quite a fire scare last evening. It was
the large barn of n. ]. Nielsen, in the
Second ward. The building was valued
at $3.50. being 24x36 and well built. Nine
tons of hay were destroyed and a
buggy, wagon, moving machine and
other implements were barely saved
The south end of the barn was right
ont to the sidewalk, and when Mr.
Nielsen first discovered the fire it was
at this point. and before help came
the whole building was in flames. No
clue to the origin of the fire or whether
it was by accident or set on purpose.
The loss is $780,
Sheriff Davis returned last evening
from the hunt for and capture of the
Wellsville safe crackers. He left here
Ga company with Sheriff Turner of
Cache, and went to Ogden Friday
night. From there they started up
ogden canyon during the night, and
near the mouth of the canyon, not
ND in the mountains as reported by
YOUR Logan correspondent, they met
the two men going into Ogden, and af-
ter some conversation with them,
gathered them in and took them to
Logan The capture was at 4 o'clock
in the morning. The men said they
had been up to the power dam, looking
for. work. While Sheriff Turner was
here Friday, a rancher from the
Devils Gate valley, southeast Of
ATantua. came into town and reported
that two men answering the descrip-
tion of those wanted had been at his
cabin and had gone on toward Ogden
This information was Whit gave the
sheriffs the clue. Deputy Thompson
went from here through the Box Elder
canyon to follow UP the trail until they
should meet, but they did not meet, the
sheriffs making the capture before
Thompson had caught up with the
fugitives-
Court adjourned last Thursday night
until tomorrow morning. when the jury
is to be on deck and the trial of GRIM
inal cases begun. The remittitur in the
Darlington case had not reached the
clerk of this court Saturday night.
though one of the doctors attorneys
said it had been sent from Salt Lake
the first Of the week. If this official re-
port of the decision of the higher court
does not arrive soon. the new trial can
not be heard this term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

were inside the circumference OF my
copper loop. The powerful electric cur
rents were in the meantime passing
harmlessly off into the ground; 1 had,
in technical terms, short circuited'
them. Now that the designated por-
ton of the barrier had been cut away
I walked backward and forward at
will through the barrier which was to
have cost 100000.
MIGHT HAVE MADE A FOTUNE.
THE car smiled; and the company
failed to negotiate the sale. 1 was
afterward informed that l might have
made a good many thousands by keep
ing my own counsel. But that was
not what l was there for. As matter
Of fact the reason why the nihilists
are so seldom successful in executing
their plots is because the government,
which is the czar, employs so MANY
ADLER officials to head them off. My
own suggestion of a substitute for the
buried steel barriers was simply an
open trench, 10 feet deep and 4 feet
wide, on the inner side of which SEN
tries should constantly patrol AS st.
Petersburg is built on sWampy land, it
would be necessary to keep pumps go
ing constantly to keep water out of
the trench.
This incident of the steel barrier
serves to illustrate the general situa-
ton existing between the car and the
nihilists.
The car, on the inside of the wall
continually employs more men, better
men, ard smarter men than the nj
hiIists, outside of the wall, can afford
to muster. And the car pays well.
1.-The melancholy that possessed Al
exander in the closing years of his life
was due to several distinct causes. He
had married a German princess con-
siderably older than himself. for whom
he cherished but little personal affec-
ton. The Princess Dolgorouki, of that
ancient Russian stock which Peter the
Great had driven from the throne,
was loved devotedly by Alexander;
but she was after all only morgantic
spouce. A new and hideous weapon
was being used against him by invisi-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
A DANGEROUS RIDE.

A DANGEROUS RIDE.
Il was instructed one night to jump
on the box of a droshky in the palace
yard where many vehicles We're con-
Stantly kept for the use of the court
and drive whoever should call that
particular vehicle to whatever address
he or she should designate / pulled a
big bear-skin cap down over my face,
threw on a fur coat and mounted the
seat. Presently noble lady of the
court, muff1ed in furs, beckoned to me,
and gave me the address of a rich
money lender in a remote suburb. [
finally found the place, and after my
fare had gone inside, to pawn her
diamonds, or compromise her hus-
band, 1 could only surmise which. |
sat on the box in the icy wind until !
was almost frozen A beggar came
limping by, in rags, and asked aims l
did not want to take my hands out of
my pockets, but finally, to get rid of
his importantly, I threw him a piece of
money He looked hard at me as l
raised up my face, in the lamplight
and hobbled away, more swiftly I
thought than he had approached.
My fare came out, [ drove her
home, none the wiser, and 1 went to
bed The next morning by o'clock 1
received a curt message to report to
the chief of police. [ felt vaguely that
I was in trouble. Jumping into the
carriage l called out to the driver to
go to the chief of police. But on the
way L directed him to stop a. the
palace, and in a few minutes L was ir
the czars presence, and had told him
everything.
His majesty smiled, and writing my
name in Russian across a bit of paper
on the table in front of him. he tore
the paper in two and gave me one of
the Fragments
Go on to where you are sum
moned,' he said, but fear nothing ]
expect my officers to do any duty as
signed them, be it the Dersonation Of
a washerwoman, a beggar man OF
droshky driver. But next time. dis
guise yourself better
When I got to the office of th5
chief of police, | was asked to explain
what / had been doing on the box of 2
droShky the previous evening in from
of the residence, the owners name of
which was now given to and recog-
nized by me. Every detail of my ad
venture was at the end of my in
quisitor's tongue.
THE TWO PIECES OF PAPER.
For answer 1 took from my bosom
the fragment of paper l had so recent
ly received from the emperors hands
and to my amazement the chief O
police, with q smile, took from tn
desk in front of him the correspondent.
fragment and bowed me out. 1 ha
travelled full speed from the empero
to him. yet this piece of paper whit
showed I had been on my master
business, had preceded me.
"Nihilism after all is simply the NJ
bles' revenge. 1t is retaliation for tn
freeing of the serfs. By the stroke
his pen the Emperor Alexander ha
freed 100000 serfs and impoverishe
thousands of noble families The ma
ture of the nihilism conspiracy ca
only be understood after some study
of the conditions of Russian society At
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
WEST JORDAN IMPROVEMENTS.
New Meeting House and New Store
Building.


West Jordan, Nov. 6.-Thomas S.
Court and Clifford Golf, two young men
from this place attending the B. Y.
academy at Provo, lectured in Goff' s
hall on the subject of education. The
lecture was by appointment of Presi-
dent Cuff of the academy and for the
purpose of inducing young men whose
education has been neglected to take
the new preparatory course offered by
the B. Y. academy. The mission of
Messrs. Court and Golf was successful,
as several young men have made up
their minds to take the course so liber-
ally offered by this popular institution.
Bishop Hyrum Golf Of East Jordan
has now fully recovered from his late
illness and able to attend 10 his bust
ness.
The foundation and basement of the
new meeting house in East Jordan is
now nearly completed. When it is
done the work will be stopped until
next spring. All labor and material so
far has been paid for, besides a kiln of
brick, which viii be hauled this winter
and ready for use as soon as the wea-
Their opens up in the spring.
A handsome two-story brick building
is now in course of erection on the
grounds where the fire destroyed the
residence and saloon of A Maginness.
The new building is a great improve
ment and will be used by Mr.. Nagin-
ness for the same purposes as the old
one.
Poll tax work is now being done on
the roads under the direction of Su-
pervisor Charles Sharp on the east and
D. R. Batman on the west side. The
work is needed very much, as the roads
were in a bad condition, having been
cut up so by hauling sugar beets.
At q. meeting of the directors of the
Union and East Jordan Irrigation COM
pany, held recently, an assessment of
171b cents per share was levied on the
capital stock of the corporation. Ten
cents had already been paid in labor,
which leaves the actual cash assess
ment a nominal figure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
Two Lions Killed.

Springville Independent: Charles AL
len Of Mapleton was in town Monday
exhibiting two mountain lions which
his sons Charles and William, had
killed Sunday morning, near Sterling's
ranch in Spanish Fork canyon They
were mates and We're fine specimens of
their race The male measured 6 feet
from tip of nose to tip of tail, and the
female measured feet. They are sup
posed to be the pair of lions which
have been in that vicinity for two
years or more, and to have killed. so it
is said. over 80 head of colts during
that time.
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under the management of Prof. F. n
Poulson and the Payson teachers.
NOTES

a muscular exhibition was given
free on the street Friday afternoon by
one Morris Jacobs, who did remarkable
feats OK strength for his age of 20
years. In the evening he was matched
for boxing bout of six rounds with
Harry Upton, of like weight, of Pay
son. for the receipts If Upton could
stay uo FOR six rounds he was to take
ali. otherwise Jacobs was to knock
him out in less time for the amount
Upton won the match.
The city council meet tomorrow TO
canvass the election returns and
award certificates. There is some talk
OF Person making a contest against J.
5. Page, jr., for the place of council
man
Prof. George Brumhan of Provo will
lecture to Payson's young men next
Wednesday evening in the First ward
John D. Irvine was selected today to
fill the Sunday school vacancy caused
by the resignation of D. H. Christen-
sen, who departed on a foreign mis-
sion
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI.
The Unhappy King Went to His
Death Bravely.

In the November Century there is a
graphic article on 1.-THE Last Days of
Louis XVI. and -Antoinette." The
author Miss Anna l.. Bicknell, says:
1t was a dark, misty, January morn
ing. The presence of the two soldiers
precluded the possibility of converse
ton; the priest therefore handed his
breviary to the king and pointed out
appropriate psalms, which the king
read devoutly and with perfect calm
ness, to the evident establishment of
the gendarmes. The shops We're shut
along the way, and crowds of armed
citizens stood on the pavement as the
coach, preceded and followed by caval-
ry and artillery, went Slowly through
the streets, where all the windows were
closed. Lines of troops stood on each
side, while drums beat solemnly, as if
for military funeral.
AS the coach passed along the bou-
lavard near the Porte st. Denis, a few
young men rushed forward, waving
swords and crying loudly: Come ali
who would save the kingr There was
no response, and they were obliged to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
Killed a Grizzly Bear.

Manti Messenger: Beauregaard Ken
Bear creek, Ferron canyon, run across
a grizzly bear: being out hunting, of
course, was prepared to meet his vic
tim. Beauregaard leveled his gun on
it and we ali know the result. Mr. Ken
ner brought the hide to town and re-
ceived So bounty from the county The
weight of the hide is about 1875 pounds,
that the animal must have
been a monster
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
PAYsoN EVENTS.
Prof. Marshall's Lectnre-Talk of
Election Contest.

Payson, Utah, Nov Prof G. M.
Marshall Of Salt Lake university gave
a very able and interesting lecture to
the school teachers Of Payson and
Springville laSs night at the new meet
ing house, on the subject of Colonial
DAYS and Early Settlement of the
original States of America" After the
lecture cuartette was rendered by
Misses NJ a Thatcher. Lille Fair
banks, Messrs. &. A. Peery and J. E.
Morgan of the Payson choir At the
close of the lecture the teachers of
Springvilie and Prof Marshall were
rendered a delightful banquet at the
Francis hotel. where much enjoyment
and very pleasant evening was spent,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
Church Architecture and Local Taste.

From THE Country Church in
America" by William B. Bigelow
in the November Scribners: Our
modern work depends, primarily,
as will our future work, upon the ear
nestness and honesty of the community
and this is especially true of our church
architecture, where the material and
practical aspects are subordinated to
the spiritual. American architects
have shown their ability, but they are,
Of necessity, the servants of their eli
ents, and can only, the ablest of them,
design good work for people who really
want it. 1t is as possible today as it
was 200 years ago to Undue the simplest
or the most costly structure with a
reverent and religious feeling. but a
galvanized iron imitation of cut stone,
or structure whose only excuse for
being is desire to appear bigger or
taller or costlier than the one in the
next parish, will never be either rever-
ent or religious or even good looking
From THE Country Church in Amer
lea. by William B. Bigelow, in the No
vember Scribner's.
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bic enemies. Sleeping and waking he
was the prey to nervous approximations
Yet was he man of iron nerve, of
great personal dignity, and of charm
ing unaffected manners
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

Our pastel and water color portraits
re the finest in the land We make
hem. Utah Portrait Co, at Calder's
lusic palace, 45-47 West First South.
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Christensen's Dancing Academy.
The ladies' class for beginners viii
commence Monday. D. M Nov g.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-23

element Of the fire was at it, height The
prison ofhcials said that keeper had gone to
Colts cell and had found Colt dead with a dirk
sticking In his heart. A body which was de-
clared to be that Of Colt was buried later in st.
Marks Churchyard. but there was prevailing
belief that Colt had escaped from the prison
alive. and that his was the first escape from the
Tombs
There have been few escapes from the Tombs
but there have been many suicides In the gloomy
building. and several men who have been In the
shadow Of death there have cheated the hang
man by poison, knife pistol. One OF the ear
nest and most remarkable Of the escapes from
the prison was that effected by Bridget Mack
an Irish girl. only twelve years old. who had been
imprisoned for theft. She got up In the night
wEei. SAerybody else In the woman's prison was
asleep tore some bricks out Of fireplace and
climbed up through a chimney fue to the roof
OF the prison. Then she jumped off the roof to
the ground. distance Of thirty feet, and got
eway safely.
An escape from the Tombs which caused a SEN
sation in the city was made by William j. Shar-
key. who murdered Robert T. Dunn. In 1873
Maggie Jordan, Shark,y's sweetheart, was al
lowed to visit him In the prison One day. after
she had been to his cell and had passed out
again. the wife Of Wesley Allen went to visit her
husband and said she had lost her pass card.
When the search for the card was In progress
Sharkeys cell was seen to be empty ard 1t was
remembered that person who appeared to be
tall yelled woman had gone out with Mrs Al.
ltn's pass card. Sharkey escaped to Cuba and
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preliminary work has been begun by the con-
tractors, but II may not be too late to save for
the city the portico with its massive columns OF
granite. which might be moved piecemeal and
set up as an entrance gate to one Of the parks.
Such an arrangement would be regarded with
high favor by the public, If the city officials
would agree tc It. and the cost Of erecting the
old portco at Of the park entrances 1t Is de-
clared, would be small. A fine example OF Egyp-
ton architecture would be preserved for future
generations 10 look at and at the same time
there would be retained the most striking relic Of
the Tombs which has been mentioned so fire.
quently in the history OF the city for sixty
years.
The Tombs was built on the site OF the old COL
lect Pond. which had been filed UP generations
OF. Five years before the building was put up its
plan was adopted by officials who had read
"Stevenss Travels" popular book Of the time
and had been impressed by one Of the illustra-
lions In the book. picture Of Egyptian
tomb. Their idea TO have the city prison so
forbidding in appearance that nobody would care
TO become inmate of 1t. Its designation. the
Tombs. was selected on account OF the form Of
the building
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CUPOLA
At the time Of It's completion in 1888 the
Tombs had a cupola but the cuPola was de-
stroyed by fire in November 1912 and was never
rebuilt. Connected with that fire was a mystery
which kept the city In a fermert for many
months. The fire broke out a. the moment
when John c. Colt to he hanged for the
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later went to Spain. He never came back to this
city.
THE LAST ESCAPE.
The last escape from the Tombs was made by
John Meyers. a burglar, in June. 1898. He dug
hole through the wall Of the old prison from
his cell on tie upper tier. squeezed his body
through the hole on a dark night and let him
self down with a rope Of bedclo1tes to tho
81 ound on the Elm-st. side Of the courtyard.
Tren he climbed to the roof OF the womans
tiers on the Leonard-st. side. and let himself
down outside the wall. He got away safely, but
was caught again some weeks later and sent to
prison.
For more than half a century the hanging Of
murderers in the Tombs attracted mi oh public
attention. Those executions have been divided
into two periods In the first period, from the
time Of the completion Of tho Tombs until 1883.
twenty years. seventeen men were Iut to death
by the rope in the courtyard of the prison. No
fewer than thirty-eght men had been sentenced
TO die In the Tombs in that period. but fourteen
of them had their sentences commuted to Inn
prsonment for life. one committed suicide ono
pardoned outright and the rest got new
trials and escaped a second conviction for muir.
der. Edward Coleman. a negro was the first man
was on January IL 1889. His wife had been a
wel.known figure In the city and was called the
"Hot Corn Girl Of Broadway" She supported
her husband until his brutal treatment led her
to forsake him. and then ne killed her.
The second period Of Tonbs executions ex-
tended from 1858 to 1880. when death by cleo
tricity in the State prisons was substituted for
death by hanging as the penalty for murder
During the whole OF the second period OF exc
cutions Joe" Atkinson the official hang
man. and his work with rope and gibbet was
so perfect that the authorities decided he must
have a period OF executions all to himself.