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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
Railroad Notes.

The Brehany Opera company left for
the east over the Rio Grande yester-
day.
superintendent J. T. Daniel of the
Pacific Express company win leave for
Portland tonight.
Major Wilson, Union Pacific receiver
nov here. made a trip up 10 Ogden on
his special car yesterday afternoon.
Major Cray ard Quartermaster Oar
ling viii spend Thanksgiving on the
road. They left last evening for a trip
into Nevada.
Traffic Manager Babcock presented
every married man employed in the
traffic department of the Western with
big Thanksgiving turkey yesterday.
It was officially announced YESTERDAY
that the rate war between the Grand
Trunk line and the Canadian Pacific
has been settled, and that the old rate
will be reinstated Monday.
Southern Pacific reports show a large
falling off in decidous fruit Shipments
FROM California to the east during the
season. which is now about at an end
mere were only $50 carloads, as com
pared with $500 for the year previous.
The railroads are now considering the
advisability Of withdrawing the half.
fare rate for soldiers between Utah
and Colorado. 1t is generally believed
there is not much more business of this
description, and it is, therefore, of no
special benefit to anyone to maintain
the rate. 1t is understood Lomax of the
Union Pacific has taken the matter lp
with Colorado and Utah roads.
Ex-Quean Liliuokalani Of Hawaii viii
be a Salt Lake visitor next Saturday.
Word was received yesterday that the
distinguished ex-ruler and party would
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
AN ENABLING ACT FOR HAWAII
FORM OF GOVERNMENT PRovID-
ED BY COMMISSION.
Legislature Elected by the People
Contract Labor System Will Be
Abolished-Government Property.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-The commits
sion appointed by the president to rec
ommend form of government for the
Hawaiian islands as a part of the Unit
ed States met in Senator Cullom's COM
nittee room at the capitol today for
the first time since leaving Honolulu,
Senators Cullom and Morgan, Repre-
sentative Hit and Judge Frear being
present.
The meeting was devoted to discuss
ing details Of the bill and the report
which the commission will report to
congress, which had not been fully de-
cided upon at the last meeting The
legislation which will be recommended
by the commission viii be included in
a bill, which to all intents and purposes
viii be an enabling act, and very much
like the bills providing for the adnis-
sion of new states into the Union, ex-
ccpt in the important detail that it
provides for the admission of a terri
tory and not a state. The bill has been
completed, but probably will be amend
ed somewhat in detail
The report has not been completed,
but the commission has decided upon
its important features. One of these is
a recommendation that the system of
importing laborers under contract shall
be discontinued. The commissioners
have concluded that as the system is
contrary TO the laws applying to this
country as whole, it would not be
wise to continue it, even temporarily,
in Hawaii. 1t is understood that ma
jority at least of the members of the
commission do not accept the theory
that Americans and Europeans cannot
do manual labor in the islands.
The commission will recommend a
regular territorial form of government,
with a governor a delegate in congress
and a legislature. The legislature will
be elected by the qualified voters of the
islands, but there will be property and
educational qualifications imposed upon
those who vote for members of the up
per house of the legislature. The fran
chise will not be extended to the Japa-
nese or Chinese in the island, but the
Portuguese who become citizens will
not be excluded under the restrictions
imposed.
The commission will present full de-
tails of the value of the property &C
quired, the income of the tariff taxes
and other important facts bearing upon
the government of the islands. They es-
innate that the property secured to the
United States will amount to more than
$10,000.000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
MOVEMENT OF CATTLE.
Great Decrease In Number Sent t,
Northern Ran res

Northern Ranges.
Denver, Nov. 23-The National Live
Stock association today issued bulle-
tin on the movement of southern cattle
through Colorado to adjoining states
during the season which ended Nov. Is,
with comparisons The movement
shows heavy decrease for the past
season. The total number of head in
spected through this state We're 2SO, 994.
against 372,6S9 for 1897. The falling
off is believed to be largely due to the
war scare at the commencement of the
season, many of the cattle that had
been contracted to be moved being
forfeited by the contractors and still
IN the south. Another cause of the de-
crease is the high prices that have pre-
vailed, and which has prevented the
northern range buyers from taking the
usual number. In 1895, Montana took
1885 cattle from the south, while this
year the total is only 10S1, a tremen-
dous falling off. The decrease in Wvo-
ming is nearly as bad, showing a fall
ing off from 10000 in 1896 to less than
5000 this yeal.
The cattle moved from the following
territory: Texas 1850; New Mexico
1851; Arizona, 120,053; Old Mexico. 80 :
563; California, S,247 The greatest
falling off is from Old Mexico. the re-
ceipts last year from that country be-
ing 72,74S
The disposition of these cattle. with
comparisons with 1897, are as follows.
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PIONEERS FIRST THANKSGIVING,
Their Harvest Home" Held at the Old Fort Square.

few cherished flowers of the camp, car
ried across the plains by one of the sis
tiers, were also brought forward on this
occasion.
An interesting narrative, which will
serve as an example of pioneer life in
general, and the preparing of the feast
in particular, is that of a small piece CT
brought with her to Utah. It's useful
ness as a sieve. was soon discovered,
and a frame constructed to make it
more -serviceable. Before making her
bread, the housewife invariably
stepped into Sister Taylor's" and bor-
rowed her boiling frame" sifted the
-four, and returned the Indispensable
article Thus it went the rounds of the
population hundreds of times.
When all had eaten their fill (prob-
ablysfor the first time since beginning
the journey of the plains), the celebra-
ton took on the aspect of genuine
camp meeting, songs and speeches find
ing second place on the programme of
the jubilee. An historical old wagon
was transformed into a pulpit. The
largest available pine had been felled
by the young men, dragged to the fort,
and erected for a liberty pole. From
it's height foated "Old Glory" and
surrounding it's base were more
sheaves of grain. President Taylor,
President Woodruff, Apostle Farley P.
Pratt and many others addressed the
people, and the musicians and talent
of the community contributed to the
success of the meeting. Prayers Of
thanksgiving were fervently uttered,
not only from the pulpit, but from
every breast.
Next came the ball. How different
the ballroom OF today. Under the rude
canopy of willows, and on a few boards
cit could hardly be called a floor) the
young and old gave way to the dictates
of Terpsichore.
Pioneer William Clayton, occupying
a conspicuous place on one end of a
barrel, was a fiddler; William Pitt,
! captain of the bands played the cor
net; Hopkins Pender, too, was a "fid-
der of some note, and these, with a
drum, furnished music for the grand
ball.
Utah has joyfully received her mantle
of statehood; she has had her midsum-
mer carnival, and, still later, her Pho
neer Jubilee; but for an occasion when
all hearts We're glad when all We're
/ truly thankful. the pioneer, looking
backward, will rest his thoughts on the
Harvest Home"
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arrive in this city on Saturday morn
ing, and will remain all day TO take in
the sights, leaving for the east over the
Western in the evening. It is quite
likely that an organ recital at the tab
ernacle will be rendered the lady dur
ing the afternoon
The indications yesterday were that
very large crowds of people would go
out on the excursions Of the different
roads today. Perhaps 200 will go down
to Cedar Valley this morning to take
part in the rabbit hunt. The Rio
Grande's special to Ogden, leaving here
at 10 o'clock, will take several hun
dreds, and unless all signs fail the
Short Lines special at 8 o'clock this
afternoon will carry a still greater
number.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
Pullman Sleeper Service Between
Salt Lake and Boise.
PRES. CORNISH IS BUSY
HE WILL RETURN TO OMAHA
EARLY NEXT WEEK.
Oregon Railway & Navigation Off
Gals Meet-Farnings of the Rio
Grande Western-Great Northern
Must Answer-Thanksgiving Day
Excursions-Railway Notes.


1t is announced that about Dee. the
Oregon Short Line viii put on Pull
man sleeper service between Salt Lake
and Boise. This is in line with the
roads policy to improve its public ser
wee in every direction that it posi-
Oily can, and this new arrangement will
be matter of great accommodation to
the large number of people who travel
between Salt Lake and the Idaho me-
tropolis.
It is expected that within few
weeks at the outside the new chair cars
VIII be put on the through service from
Omaha to Portland When Manager
Bancroft, Traffic Manager Eccles and
Passenger Agent Burley were in the
east a few weeks ago arrangements
were made for this through service.
The contract with the Pullman COM
pany calls for an uD-to-date service,
and the coaches are to be with all
modern Improvements. The officials are
now getting matters into shape so that
the new coaches viii soon be part of
all the overland trains
The care viii be of the most improved
kind, special feature being the COM
modious ladies' toilet and dressing
rooms, which viii be several times
larger than those in use at the present
time. The upholstered chairs viii be
another feature, and altogether the
pew service viii be as modern as any
Ii the east
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My wife is up and walks about mile every
pleasant day; she feels like another person.
writes H Todd Huguley, Esq. of Mount lack
SON Marion Co., Ind, III a letter to DR.. r. v.
Pierce of Buffalo, N Y. when I first saw your
book referring to the cure Of consump tion I
thought would try DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery and 'Favorite Prescription as the
doctors had given her up, and so thought it
could do no harm If it did no good.
when try to describe the results fail to do
so in words. We shall never forget to thank
God for giving us this means of relief know
if my wife had not taken DR.. Pierce's medicines
she would now have been in her grave You
can ask any one who is afflicted thus to write to
me for more particulars.
This only serves to show that what
ordinary physicians of merely local
and limited practice will often fail to
accomplish, may become entirely posi-
bic to thoroughly scientific and radical
treatment, based upon lifelong and
worldwide experience with the severest
and most obstinate forms of so-cat1ed in
durable diseases. Do not despair, but
write to Dr. Pierce. He will send you
the most authoritative advice in a plain
sealed envelope free of charge. His
splendid thousand-page illustrated Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser will be sent
paper-bound for 2I one-cent stamps to
pay the bare cost of mailing, or in
heavy, handsome cloth binding, for 81
stamps. A whole medical library In
one Iooo-page volume.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24

The first Thanksgiving celebration OF
the original Utah pioneers was held on
the Old Fort square, on the 10th OF
August, 1S4S. 1t was not the Thanks
giving of today, but a gathering of the
revered valley-builders around the fes-
tive board, spread with the foods af-
forded by those times, and styled the
Harvest Home
Harvest Home was not intended for
the observance of the usual New Eng
land custom, but was a day set apart
by President John Taylor, soon after
the first crops were CLEANED and safely
gathered in, upon which to offer thanks
to- the Almighty for his goodness
Nor was it a Thanksgiving in name
only. Famine was upon every side;
the crlckets had reached the climax OF
their deadly work, and already had
the settlers been reduced in rations to
the necessity of digging sego and this
tie roots for subsistence No wonder
then, that the heart of every man,
woman and child in the valley throbbed
with joy when the bounteous harvest
was stored away
The celebration was arranged in a
short time. The people were yet living
IN the fort, and numbered about 1890.
The ladies set at once to work upon
the feast, and at the prescribed time
had everything in readiness for the
grandest event in their pioneer life. All
lumber in those days was sawed by
hand, but this did not prevent the CON
struction of a number of immense ta-
bles, and all benches and rude chairs
in the general homestead were speedily
utilized.
The feast was spread in the center
OF the fort under bowery erected for
the occasion, and about 500 sat down
to the first table. The menu included
bread, green corn, beef, butter and
cheese, prairie hens, ducks wild geese
milk, pickles, sego, watermelon. cante-
lope, cakes and pastry, a large variety
OF vegetables, though no potatoes had
as yet been raised; some articles
brought from the east and Grandma
Taylors celebrated "bouiIlon." of
which, it is said, no recipe ever found
its way down through Utah's fifty
birthdays.
The tables were ornamented with the
first products Of Utah's soil. At either
end great shocks of wheat were dis
played. and sheaves of rye, barley, oats
etc, were on every hand, some poles
having been erected for the express
purpose of exhibiting the grain. The
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago. Nov. 2S-Cattle market 5Q1O
higher; sales were largely at 4.75d530;
very common dressed beef steers. 1000
4.25; best grades, SIS, The stockers and
feeder trade was rather dull at 3.00Q4 So
calves. 6.0O066O A few range cattle sold
Hogs-Market active, 1Oc higher; sales
were largely at 3.4713Q3.60; hogs selling at
1Oc higher as a rule, with sales largely
at 2.90G3. 80; shippers continued almost
out of the market.
Sheep-There was a sharp advance in
sheep, and lambs sold quickly at 2.5OG3. 80
for inferior to prime. and lambs at $500
$50; western range sheep, 3.50@4.20.
Lambs advance 155l25c and sheep, 1Gc. A
flock of 302 head of 106-pound Minnesota
sheep brought 40.
Receipts-Cattle, 1850; hogs, $4,000;
sheen 1000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
Omaha Live Stock.

maket active, strong; native beef steers,
420G530 western steers, 3.S0G4.5O: Texas
steers, 3.59d3.90 cows and heifers, 5000
400; stockers and feeders, 3.30Q3.40; bulls
and stays, 2.25G3S0.
Hogs-Receipts 37G0; Market 5G1Oc
higher; heavy, 3.4003.471A; mixed 9421aG
5.45; light, 3.350350; bulk of sales, 3.4215
Q3.45.
Sheep-Receipts 500; market strong; ma
tive muttons, 350GI4.00; westerns 1900
3.75; stock sheep, 3.0OQ370; lambs. 1000
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Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City, Nov. Receipts
5000; market strong to 1Oc higher; ma
tive steers, 3.9O@5.20;' native COWS ant
heifers. 1.5O04.00; stockers and feeders
2 .SOp4.5G; bulls. 2.25d3.50
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; market strong t.
&c higher bulk of sales, 3.35G3.45: heavy
3.35q3.55; packers. 3.35Q3.471a; mixed, $500
3.45; lights, 3.1513.40; workers., 3.35613 40
pigs, 3.00G3.30.
Sheep-Receipts, 5000; market strong
lambs, 995Q5.3O; muttons, 2.50d3.90.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
EAllman Company Takes Exceptions

Y San Francisco, Nov. 23.-The Pull
man Palace Car company. through its
attorney on this coast, appeared before
the board of railroad commissioners to-
day and took exception to the legal
right of the latter to compel 1t to make
annual reports of its operations in Call
ifornia. The commissioners will decide
the matter at their next meeting, and
If the decision is adverse the matter
will be taken into the federal courts in
the shape Of injunction proceedings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Wheat Fluctuated and Closed Lower
On the Day.

Chicago, Nov demonstrating the light
receipts here and in the northwest, wheat
had an easier start than might have been
expected. December opened unchanged
at 6SGt6Sls and May Is lower at 67Q61ls-
Covering by shorts and buying to in
crease long lines started, and though not
at all heavy. the demand was larger than
the offerings and an advance took place
in both options, December selling to 6S3s
and May 673s@6712. The advance brought
out considerable long wheat. There was
also increased liquidation on account OF
the flatneSS of the New York market and
demand. The result was slow decline
in May to 667s067 and in December to
67%@673s For some time after the mar
ket was a narrow one, with frequent
moderate changes in values. About Ii 80
the market firmed up again. Seaboard
reports, claiming moderate acceptanceS
of cabled offers, proved correct. Sales
here for export amounted to lS0,OOO BUSH
els. Minneapolis reported large flour
sales for export. The near approach of
the close of navigation appeared to be
in the minds of foreign buyers. Liver
pool quotations came stronger at the
close, showing I'D advance for December
and sd for March. Late in the session
the weaker-kneed holders of wheat, I'M
willing to remain long over the holiday
put their wheat on the market. There
not being any special demand, prices
were forced off rather easily, and clos
ing prices were about the lowest of the
day. December closed 9sG% lower and
May is from u to Is lower.
although here were Independent features
influencing the market May closed IL
as lower.
Oats were weak and lower May closed
as01a lower.
At the close, January pork was nc
lower. January lard. &c lower and Jan
uary ribs, 212Q5c lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
Coffee and Sn car

New York, Nov. 2S.-Coffee-options
closed. steady. .591O points lower. Sales,
10. $50 bags, including: March, 5.65: May,
5.75; June $50; October, 605G6.1O; Deem
Der, 8. 80. Spot coffee, Rio dull, but
steady; mild. quiet, about steady.
Sugar-Raw, strong; fair refining, &c;
centrifugal 96-test. AZ; molasses,. 81 re-
fined. firm but quiet.
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Must Give Figures.

st. Paul, Nov. 23.-The state railroad
commission has reported to the attor-
ney general that the Great Northern
refused to answer certain questions of
the commission, and asked him to take
such action as he deemed advisable.
The road refuses to state the proper
ton of its gross earnings in Minnesota
to the total gross earnings of the sys-
tenn. Attorney General Childs will
probably proceed against the company
and ask for a mandamus to compel it
to furnish the figures desired by the
state railway commission.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24

have quit the use of coffee and taken to
Postum Cereal Food Coffee.
You may be sure that [ have aband-
onded the use Of common coffee alto
gether.
number of my friends in Ohio
Michigan and here in Canada have been
greatly benefited by discarding coffee
and using Postum. / have known cases
where people disliked the taste. of Pos
tum, but upon inquiry 1 have discey-
cred that it is because they did not
allow it to boil long enough, and I know
that this is always true in such cases.
NO one can get a good cup of Postum
without it is properly made, and that
is simple and easy enough if one viii
only follow the directions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
Wall Street Operations Curtailed By
Depressing Influences.
EFFECT OF THE STORM
ONE OF THE DISTRACTIONS TO
ADVANCING PRICES.
Trouble Between Northern Pacific and
Oregon Navigation Affected Those
Stocks-Sorne Activity In the
Coolers and In the Bond Market
Government Bonds Advanced.

New York Nov. 23.-There was a dis
position manifest to curtaH operations on
the stock exchange in the early hours OF
tocas $ session, on account of tomor-
rows holiday, for one thing, and on ac-
count OF one or TWO depressing influences
in the market which offered obstacles to
the successful prosecution of the bull
campaign. The snowstorm in the west,
with its obstruction to traffic and re-
ports of damage TO live stock, was d dis
couragement 10 advancing prices. The
market felt also that the Northern Pa
citic-Oregon Navigation imbroglio was
not to be patched up, and Northern Pa
cific stocks and others concerned tended
downward. Weakness in a number of
the SDecialties notably Tobacco, on re-
ports of the character of the opposition
IN the cigarette branch accumulated the
the prevailing tendency. Peoples Gas
drO2led off at one time ~ and Federal
Steel continued to drop. There was a
marked falling off in the Atchison pre-
ferred, probably by reason of the de-
pressing INFLUENCE of other stocks. There
was a very bullish spirit latent in the
market, nevertheless, and it turned from
these centerS of depression and from the
region of the snowstorm to other special
ties and the eastern railroads. The move
ments was most marked in the coalers and
had It's inception in the Reading issues.
There was large activity at several
points in the bond market notably in the
Reading generals the Denver q Gulf lists
and the Colorado Southern As, when is
sued. The strength of these tended to
counteract weakness at other points.
Total sales, $5,160000.
U. S. As new coupon, old As and the
new 5s coupon advanced a and the IS
and the new As registered IS in the bid
price.
The tota! sales of stocks today were
as, 100 shares, including: Atchison 1895;
Atchison preferred, 37,150; Burlington, A.
100; L. & N, 31,56O; Manhattan, 51,520;
Reading first preferred, 20,9O4; Northern
Pacific, 17,245; Northern Pacific preferred,
$50; Rock Island, 1880; Union Pacific
1925; Union Pacific preferred, 1854; st.
Paul. 12,110; Southern Railway, 10 4S3;
Southern Railway preferred 20,51S; Paper,
5000; Tobacco, 1926; Federal Steel, A.
GO; Federal Steel preferred, $500; Peo-
pies Gas, 9,120; Sugar, S,492; Chicago G.
W., 8, 745.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
THE WESTERNS EARNINGS.
Increase For the Third Week In
November.

The Rio Grande Westerns gross
earnings for the third week in Novem-
Der are estimated at $40, 400, which is
an increase of $500 over the same week
in 1897.
The decrease which was shown in the
report for the week previous was large
T. due to the blockade on the Central
Pacific, but now that traffic has been
resumed, it is expected that the figures
will show the normal increase every
week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-24
O. R. & N. OFFICERS MEET.
Differences With the N. P. Under
Consideration.

New York, Nov. ga meeting of the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation officers
was held here today. but nothing was
given out for publication. It is known,
however. that the company's differences
with the Northern Pacific were gone
over, and that plans for the removal
Of these differences We're considered.
Before the meeting a conference was
Geld between Nessrs. Bull Cannon and
chairman, representing the Oregon
Railroad q Navigation company, and
Vice President Lamont Of the Northern
Pacific. The conferees refused to say
what had been done at the meeting.
but the impression was conveyed that
satisfactory agreement would soon be
reached.