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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10
CHIcAGO'S ANTI-BOODLE FIGHT
NO EXTENSION OF STREET RAIL
WAY FRANCHISES.
Mayor Harrison Calls For. Volunteers
to Aid Him In His Fight Against
the Ordinance.

Chicago, Dec. 9.-Democrats, Repub-
licans and citizens, irrespective of
party, assembled in mass meetings in
various wards of the city tonight, and
declared themselves unalterably OPP
posed to any street railway legislation
under the Allen law. Acting under this
law, it is proposed in the city council
to extend the street railway franchises
fifty wears.
Prominent speakers were in attend
ance at all of the meetings. The war
machinery of the Democratic party
took up the cause, just as the execu-
tive committee of the Republican party
had a few days previous. Chicago has
never witnessed such a spectacle be-
fore, and it is doubtful whether any
city has.
Mayor Harrison called for volunteers
today to help him win the fight against
the ffty-year franchise ordinance, on
the proposition: mo franchise extern
sion ordinance of any kind until the
Allen law is repealed
Today he wrote his name to the fol-
lowing:
Every political, social, religious OR
other organization which takes action
against the proposed traction ordi-
nances is requested to send a delegate
to the Independent Anti-boodle League,
room 1928 Ashland block. Such delegate
shall act as a member of the league S
executive committee, and shall report
the necessity of public action, should
! such necessity arise, to the organiza-
ton sending him. 1t is necessary that
! a permanent and watchful force should
follow the peoples fight to the end.
! (''SigneO CARTER HARRISON"
In addition to political speakers, the
league has at its disposal lawyers,
! judges, ministers, professors, business
men and workingmen, who have offered
| their services.
A score of men started out tonight
! distributing white badges, on which
were printed a gibbet, from
which dangled a moose. The words
printed on the badge were: "Anti-fifty-
year Steal" Before the theatre crowds
| had reached home these badges were al
over the city. One of the mn distrib-
uting the ribbons said over $1,000 have
! been printed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10
SPANISH HONOR
AGAIN INVOLVED
-S-
McKinley'S Message Con-
tained a Deadly Insult.
PROTEST AGAINST
MAINE INDICTMENT
Spain VIII Submit the Case to In
ternatiOnal Tribunal.

spanish Commissioners Exhibit Much
Bitterness In Discussing the
Treaty-Think the Americans
Exhibited Great Cheek-Treaty
Will Contain Fourteen Articles,
and viii Be Signed Monday
Outline of Provisions of Document
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10
The u. S. Govt Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior to al Others.
General Brooke Arrives.

Newport News, VT, Dec. 9.-The
United States transport Berlin arrived
here this afternoon from San Juan. On
the transport were Major General John
Brooke, his staff and the First Ken
lucky volunteer infantry, under Col
onel John B. L. Castleman.
General Brooke and party missed the
Washington boat, and remained at Old
Point all night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10
Proposed Tariff Reductions.

Washington, Dec 9-The discussion
of the details of the administration of
government affairs in Cuba, Puerto
Rico and the Philippines, under the
treaty of peace which is about to be
signed in Paris, occupied a large part of
the time at today's cabinet meeting.
The cabinet also talked over an elab-
crate tariff measure which is now in
preparation here to go into force, as
now planned, contemporaneously with
the entire REIMBURSEMENT of the island
by the Spanish on Jan. /. This tariff
measure, it is said, will show an aver
age reduction all along the line of 50
per cent from the Spanish tariff rates
The understanding now is that there
will be no export duties, and that in
other ways the burden OF taxation will
be reduced
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10
Bank Clearings.

New York, Dec. 9.-The following table.
compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank
clearings at the principal cities of the
United States and Canada for the week
ended Dec. 8, with the percentage of in
crease and decrease, as compared with
the corresponding week last year:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10
A Hot Prize. Fight.

Pittsburg, Dec. "a prize fight with
two-ounce gloves took place at Kinney S
Park and Mike Milbourne of Homestead,
for $50 a side. After one hour and ten
minutes hot fighting Eilbourne was
knocked out in the thirteenth round. Both
men were badly used up.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10

Arrangements have been made for the
transfer of the remains of General John
A. Rawlins, General Grants chief of
staff. from the Congregational cemetery
site has been selected at Arlington on
the east front of the Mansion near the
graves of General Sheridan, General
Crook and other heroes of the civil war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10

Terms reasonable. Call and ex-
anime the work.
The herald., 1898-12-19
Singular Wa gers

While a blizzard was raging in Clahin,
Kansas, Bob Bailey made wager of So that
he would go from the hotel to the railway
station in the storm entirely nude. A by
stander offered to bet this sum that he
couldn't do it, and no sooner was the money
in sight when Bob commenced to disrobe,
and, clothed in the same style as Adam, be
dashed from the hotel and sped for the de-
pot, nearly two blocks away. Down the
street he went, where on almost any other
day hundred eyes would have been turned
on him in astonishment, and, after touching
the depot, returned by the same route in the
driving snow. He reported at the hotel in
precisely two minutes.
In payment of a football bet Boston ac-
tor rode through some of the main streets
of the Hub recently in an open carriage,
dressed as Spanish troubadour and waving
a Spanish flag. A curious crowd followed
the unfortunate actor, and he wasi treated
to some expressions of what the sidewalk
contingent thought of man who had the
audacity to wave Spanish flag on Wash
ington street. The expected shower of mis-.
siles, for which the actor had prepared him
self, did not materialize, however, and he
paid his bet, although he was thankful
enough when he was able to shed his Span
ish garments and get back into United
States clothes again,
The herald., 1898-12-19
FOUR FRESNO FIRfMEN|
UNDER ARREST FOR RoBBING
BURNED STORES
Even the Assistant Chief Placed on
Guard Was Unable to Resist the
Temptation

FRESNO, Dec. 1S--Quite a sensation was
caused here this morning when it became
known that two prominent members of the
Fresno volunteer fire department had been
arrested, charged with burglarizing the
ruins of the White Front stores, which were
burned last Friday night.
At several fires recently the proprietors Of
the burned property have complained to
the police that articles of value had been
stolen. During the fire at Holland & Hol-
lands grocery store two weeks ago, the till
was tapped and several articles of value
were stolen. At the fire of Sughira L.
Co.'s Japanese fancy goods store week ago,
the till was tapped, and at the fire of Nc
Vey's furniture store about two weeks ago
no small amount of goods was stolen
Last night the police officers were on
watch in the alley in the rear of the White
Front stores. About l o'clock this morn
ing Charles Reed, fireman, was seen
emerging from ruins with bundle of burned
silks, handkerchiefs, etc. The officers gave
chase, whereupon the plunder was dropped.
Reed was finally run down and captured,
Charles Bach, assistant chief of the fire
department, who had been placed on the
burned premises to guard the damaged stock,
was also seen taking numerous articles of
dry goods to his barber shop, which adjoins
the White Front stores. j. Bennett, a
drayman of Fresno and Milton Hutchinson,
an escape from Whittier, are also in Jail
charged with burglarizing the ruins. Bach
was released this evneing on $1,000 bail.
Hutchinson will probably be sent back to
Whittier, as he has four years yet to serve.
The herald., 1898-12-19
M'KINLEYS CUBAN TRIP
WOULD SET A PRESIDENTIAL
PRECEDENT
THE HUNDRED FATH0M MARK
Has Never Yet Been Passed by Chief
Executive During His Term
Of Office

Special Correspondence to The Herald
WASHINGTON, Dec. I8.-lf President
Mckinley goes to Cuba next sHrlng he VIII
do something that no president has ever
done before and will open up a grave constr
tutional question as to whether case Oh
inability to discharge the powers anu
duties of the presidency has not arisen.
No president has ever been ON SOUND
ings" during his term OF office. Naval OF
fcers say that as soon as the ship bearing
him passes beyond the l0Ofathom marx ne
is outside the jurisdiction OF the country,
and no president has ever gone OUTSIDE oi
this. The l00-fathom mark is supposea'
somewhat inaccurately, to coincide with
the three-mile limit that internat1onaF law
allows for the dominion of country.
Since the term of President johnson the
navy has always included dispatch poat,
generally unattached to any squadron ana
held under the direct orders Of the secretary
of the navy, and known as the preslfems ;
Yacht. The duties of these vessels have
been to ply mostly between Washington,
New York and Newport on duties connect
ed with the secretary's office and sometimes,
to 20 south in the winter on surveying trips;
It is not unusual for the president TO run
down to Mt. Vernon on these vessels or to
use them in trips around our harbors when
reviewing the fleet
The first president to use the dispatch
boats were johnson and Grant, who merely
made little trips down the Potomac. Ihe
Yacht at that time was the Tallapoosa, an
old side-wheel steamer that was afterward
sunk off Long Island by coal schooner.
Hayes used the Dispatch, which replaced
the Tallapoosa, only once, and Garfield ran
down to Hampton Roads on it on one occa-
sion. Arthur on several occasions sailed
around to Newport and Bar Harbor to wit
ness naval evolutions, but took care to re-
main within soundings.
In Cleveland's s first term the Dolphin was
built to replace the Dispatch, lost off Cape
Hatteras. Harrison used her only once and
Cleveland in his second term was on her
only once, when be reviewed the Columbus
parade at New York. Cleveland used to
take one of the revenue cutters and run
down on the Carolina coast for duck shoot
ing, always, however, keeping within ma
rine league of the shore. Garfield was prob
ably the only president that ever spent a
night ON a dispatch boat.
Some years ago there was a controversy
on the subject of the presidents right to
leave the country, and there were not want
ing those who held that so doing would
bring him within the clause of the constitu-
tion that provides for successor in the
event of the presidents inability to dis
charge the powers and duties" of his office
The case was somewhat similar to that when
Garfield lay dying, when Secretary Blaine
contended that Vice President Arthur
ought to assume the presidency. However,
there is no chance of such stand being
taken nowadays, even though the president
should violate unwritten law and leave the
country. CRITTENDEN MARRIOTT
The herald., 1898-12-19
PREvENTABLE DISEASES KILL
One-Quarter Of the Deaths Due to Some
Form of Carelessness

In connection with the sanitary institute
popular lecture was delivered by Dr. Alex
ander Hill, master of Downing college and
vice chancellor of Cambridge university, on
Unnatural Death" He remarked that it
was not the dangers of railway travelling,
nor the few murders that occurred, which
brought down the average longevity of
human life from 100 years TO fifty years.
They must seek for more subtle murderers
than that. Every year 900, 900 babies were
born in England and Wales If they took
100000 children ,and saw what was likely
to be the end of them, they would find that
10000 died a violent death by accident, about
the same number would succumb to the
mysterious diseases which they knew now
to be absolutely preventable, because due to
germs tuberculosis in its many forms) !;
about 100000 would die from absolutely pre-
ventable causes, such as smallpox, measles
and scarlet fever; only $4,000 would be al
lowed to live out their natural lives, and
nearly one in twenty might expect to die
because the machine was worn out.
One-quarter of all the diseases which de-
stroyed life were absolutely preventable. If
the practice of hygiene were only on level
with its theory the average longevity would
be raised at once from fifty to sixty-five.
The greater number of diseases over which
the individual had control were due to mis-.
takes in eating and drinking. He divided
diseases into three classes, and said they
would never succeed in preventing them un-
til they had the cooperation of the public
Every citizen should have the same exact
knowledge of the causes and properties of
preventable diseases that the medical off
GER himself had. The infectious nature of
consumption was hardly realized twenty
years ago. About one-third of the cows in
the country were tuberculous, and half the
milk distributed the bacillus of tuberculosis
afraid of boiled bacillus than he was
more afraid of boiled bacillus than he was
of we'll cooked lion. The only natural form
of death was the gentle falling asleep when
the body was tired.-London Times.
The herald., 1898-12-19
Ike Was Malicious

Isaac Cohn was sent to the police station
last night by Officer Hubbard, charged with
an assault with deadly weapon For the
last two years Cohn has been living with a
woman named Katie johnson. They have
been staying in the New Baker block cor
ner of Arcadia and Main streets. Katie
tired of Ike and some days ago told him to
take his clothes and go, Ike did SO, but he
carried resentment in his heart, and, it is
said, the woman's safe deposit box key in
his pocket. Ike put the key to good use,
for, it is alleged, he went and removed SlOO
from the deposit vault. This failed to bring
the woman to time, SO yesterday Ike visited
her rooms and cut and slashed her clothes
into ribbons. Later he met the woman near
the Plaza and is said to have made slash
at her with knife. Friends separated the
pair and Officer Hubbard gathered Ike in.
The herald., 1898-12-19
HIS SKULL SHATTERED
DISCOVERY IN A
sHANTY NEAR FLORENCE
The Suicide Is Thought to Have Been
A. A. Roberts Formerly of San
Francisco

While insane, a man, who is thought to
have been A. A. Roberts, a jeweler, for
merly of San Francisco, committed suicide
near the town of Florence by shooting him
self in the head with 45-caliber revolver
The man took his life scme days ago, but
the body was not found until yesterday, in
an old, deserted shanty on ranch about
Two miles south of the railroad station. A
Mexican boy passed near the shanty, and
glancing through the open door saw por-
tion of a man reclining on the floor. lie
started toward the place, but the odor from
the body, which was badly decomposed, sat
isfed the boy that the man was dead, so the
Mexican notified Che station agent, who in
turn told Coroner Campbell.
Deputy Summerheld drove to the shanty
after the remains. The body was on cot
made of sacks and corn shucks, and by the
left side was a big revolver. The pistol
when fired had been held close against the
left side of the head, about one and half
inches above the ear. The conclusion had
split and shattered the skull badly, and he
flesh had since been nearly eaten away.
The body was attired in suit of dark
colored clothes, and sticking out Of the vest
pocket, from which the lapel of the coat
had been turned back, was an advertising
card of the Regent lodging house at $40 Ma
pie avenue. On the back of this card was
the following, without any further word or
explanation:
Pursuit by some unknown party or par
ties holds me from rest. 1 cannot under
stand it all. Why so persistent? Where
ever go it is the same from one room to
another that unseen power follows. Ii there
IS just God, am the wronged party; in
fact l do not fully understand it. But
guess they are the secret moves of the mas
ter in S. +. A. A. ROBERTS,"
From this letter, the man was evidently
laboring under some halfucination, and i'm.
agined that he had cause to take his life.
From the pockets of the clothes were taken
several memorandum books in which were
written short sentiments, all of which indi
Gated disordered intellect There were
some newspaper clippings found on him,
but they threw no light upon his case A
letter from a San Francisco jeweler to a
local jeweler, recommending Roberts. and
another letter of recommendation from an
Oakland business firm were also found. The
body was so badly decomposed that it was
impossible to determine the age of the man.
but he had sandy hair, stood about five feel
ten inches, and weighed from l4O to I'm
pounds. His hands were noticeably small
and the deceased had evidently at one time
been man of more than average station in
lie. Nothing was known of Roberts at the
Regent lodging house. An inquest will he
held today at Orr Il Hines, where the re.
mains were taken.
The herald., 1898-12-19

born "a years ago in Berlin. As his father
and grandfather were before him, he is
carver of miniatures. His education and
life have been devoted to this art.
Carvings in ivory and amber have gone
out of fashion," said Herr Issler. Fifteen
or twenty years ago was kept busy, work
ing, working all the time with my carving
tools. All, that was happy time. Now
no one wants my work except as curiosities.
There is some little call for cuttings in
meerschaum and briar bowls for pipes
The finest exhibit of these at the Centen-
NAL exposition and at the Chicago World S
fair were the work of Herr Issler. He
cherishes the remembrance OF this. Herr
Issler's masterpiece he calls The Turner 8
Dream" Down from shelf and against
the tobacco and cider he takes little glass
case, carefully wrapped in cloths to keep
out the dust and dirt that windy day
sweeps in from the il-kept street. Uncov-
ering it with light touch, lest a careless
movement disturb the contents, his face
agfow with pride, he places before the
visitor his chef d'oevure. Under a glass
case upon a pedestal less than four inches
across are marvellous reproductions of the
machinery and tools of the amber turner.
while scattered about, apparently at ran
dom, are a multitude of miniature chairs,
tables, fancy carvings, bicycles, complete
lathe, donkey engine, myriads of pipes
with bowls no larger than a pin head hav-
ing their stems bored by minute tools.
Il was ten years in making that" says
the artist Hundreds of dollars would not
pay me for the labor Upon it, but the time
was not wasted. The joy took in it has
repaid me-"
If anyone is disposed to listen, Herr lssler
delights to lead his caller through all the
mysteries Of working amber and ivory, tell
ing where they are found in their perfec
ton, how they are marketed and worked
finally by the carver's hand.
"Amber is the most difficult to handIe.'
he says; but can perform the feat that few
have learned. I can fashion cane or pipe.
stem five feet long from an ordinary lump
of the material. How is it done? Why, it
is no secret to tell. It is in doing it that
the secret consists. The amber is cut in a
spiral first and then Strengthened out. For
more than sixty hours one must labor pa.
tiently and carefully at the task. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The herald., 1898-12-19
SOME WOES OF THE MoToRMAN
Crossing Dashers the Most Nerve
Trying Citizens

These here crossing dashers will be the
death OF me yet" grumbled trolley car
motorman, as he gave the crank vicious
twist. What are they did We say? Why,
those undecided folks that stand waiting
for the car to pass until it's just beginning
to move, and then give plunge and barely
clear the safety net. See that woman
She's the worst kind of crossing dasher.
J. know her because she's given me palpita-
tion OF the heart more times than I've
fingers and toes. When l stopped a min
ute ago she came walking up to the corner
and stood there, looking kind of resigned,
as If she was really waiting for me to 20
by. There was time enough for a whole
regiment to crawl across on their hands and
knees, but she never budged an inch until
turned on the current and the wheels were
Just beginning to move, and then she made
dive that nearly scared me to death.
What makes them do it? I dunno.
They seem to be working up their courage
and get 1t to the sticking point at about the
same time we get through waiting. They
are the plaques of the business, but I think
| broke one crossing dasher of the habit a
few days ago. He was a middle-aged man,
very respectable looking, and very timid.
yet he'd take chances right along that were
worse than San Juan hill. At last I got
tired of having my nerves jolted that way.
and besides, l didn't want his blood on nv
wheels, so l lay for him. Next time he
came to the crossing watched him out
of the corner of my eye, and started up
real slow with my hand on the lever.
He gathered himself together. gIared
around, like they all do, and made bis rush.
but the minute he did it reversed the mo,
tor, rang the gong about 100 times and
yelled at the top of my voice. You ought
to have seen that dasher! lie was so scared
and bewildered that he turned around like
a top and scooted first one way and then
right in front of the fender, until
thought I'd split laughing. If hadn't stop
ped the car he'd have been killed sure. His
plug hat fell off in the mud, he dropped lot
of books he was carrying and never stopped
sprinting until he tripped over rail and
sat down hard enough to make a hole in the
street. When helped him up he told me
was his preserver and began clawing for
his wallet, but l stopped him and said no.
I'd only done my duty, and that, kind sir,
is reward enough. Great speech, wasn't it !.
I read it in u novel. It's what the hero says
when he-yes, that is your street. Tell you
the rest another time. Well, good-bye"-
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The herald., 1898-12-19
HIS ART Is OUT OF FASHION
A Miniature Carver Who Is Compelled
to Sell Tobacco for Living

In dingy and ill-favored building in a
sparsely settled street of East New York
lives an artist of no mean ability. He is a
cunning worker in amber, ivory, meer-
schaum and precious woods, who in his day
was the most noted of his craft. Now he
earns pittance by tending little store.
On one side of this store tobacco and cider
are exposed for sale; on the other are
treasures in amber, meerschaum, ivory and
briar wood. There are buyers now ard
then of the tobacco and cider, rough team.
sters who pass the place morning and even
ing from the Long Island market gardens,
but none of these, and few others, ever
stop to ask the price of one of Herr lssler's
dainty bits of carving. Adalbert lssler was
The herald., 1898-12-19
"Barney" Gets II

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1s.--Governor
Budd has appointed Bernard D. Murphy
OF San Jose, bank commissioner to sue
ceed Paris Kilbourn, whose term has ex-
plred. The new commissioner, better
known as Barney" Murphy, is one of the
leading members of his party in the state,
and his name has more than once been men
toned as a candidate for governor. He
belongs to pioneer family, and has ex-
tensive business interests.
The herald., 1898-12-19
A New Courtmartial

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. ls-Major Gen.
eral Merriam has appointed new general
court martial, which will convene at the
Preside on December &C. 1t will relieve the
court which has had Jurisdiction there for
the past month. Captain c. E. Haven.
Eighth California, will be president, and
Second Lieutenant H. c. Evans, jr., of the
Third United States artillery, judge advo.
cate.
The herald., 1898-12-19
Keene's Horses

NEW YORK, Dec. Isl. r. Keene's
English stable of race horses arrived in New
York today. The animals include St. Cloud
II, Voter, Easter Gift, Black Cock, Cock
Robin, Maid of Erin, Nautch Girl and
Cleaning filly. The horses will be added
to Mr.. Keene's American stable and trained
by James Rowe.