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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-27

Don't forget every pair of shoes is
bright and new in Newman's shoe sale
this week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-27
TROOPS FIGHT HARD bic CUTOFF PROJECT
Union Pacific Considering New
Plans.
WOULD SHORTEN THE LINE
sTEEPEsT HILLS TO BE DONE
AWAY WITH

Corps of Surveyors Is Now at Work
Near Cheyenne Running Lines For
New Route to Leave Main Line
One Mile West of Atkins and If
teen Miles East of Cheyenne.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-27
Poets Round Table Meeting.

The. Poets Round Table meets with
Miss Preston, 969 First street, Wednes-
day afternoon, Dec. 81, at o'clock
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-27
Mr.. Dooley Paid.

On Recommendation of the finance
committee. s1,51495 was appropriated to
Wells, Fargo & Co. to pay interest on
overdrafts for the city treasury from
June TO November.
Three hundred dollars was appropri-
ated 10 the mayors contingent fund to
pay off sundry bills he had contracted.
An appropriation of s639 was made.
On recommendation of City Attorney
Hall. to the clerk of the circuit court
of appeals to cover the cost of print
ing the record in the Pariey's conduit
cese.
City Recorder Backman reported that
no protests had been made against the
proposition to construct cement side
walks on boths sides of First West
street between First and Second South.
Bernt Engebrersen. by his attorneys.
Wilson & Smith. presented a claim in
the sum of $500 for damages alleged to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-27

Sherrard. city: E. Roy Onts rio: Miss
Christensen. Gunni.on: W. G. Wilson;
Ogden; Miss l.. NJ D:enstz Richfield. S.
L. Jones. Santa Jaquird; P. N. Mccall,
Bingham ]. w. Faris, Logan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-27

Knutsford.-E. H. Clarke. San Fran
eisce; Edgar E. Lord. Engiewood. Ills. {;
Miss Mary Hamilton, San Francisco; NJ
two daughters, Kiefer. Cincinnati: E. F.
Barnes. Boston; B. F. White, Montana !;
T. r. Riley, New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
MATRIMONIAL AGENT HELD
C. Fl. Rowan of Milwaukee to Face
Trial For Alleged Frauds.

Milwaukee, Wis, March 14-After an
examination lasting three days Charles
H. Rowan, a matrimonial agent, was
today bound over to await the action Of
the federal grand jury. Bail was fixed
at $4,000 and furnished.
When Rowan was arrested it was
found that he and his wife were operat-
ing a very extensive business in a mod
est cottage on a side street. The as
sistance of seven female clerks was nee
essary to attend to the writing of let
tiers and mailing of papers and adver-
tisements. When Rowan'S mail was
stopped by order of the postoffice de-
partment thousands of letters accumu-
lated in a few days, and most of them
evidently contained money. These were
marked fraudulent and returned to the
senders. Rowan evidently was rolling
in money. He carried IS, 900 in his pock-
ct to enable him to give bail at any
time.
A new development in the case came
when Inspector Bird charged Rowan
with Offering him a bride of $4,000 to
drop the case. 1t was upon the trial of
this bribery charge, before a commits
sioner, that expert testimony was in
troduced in an endeaVor to identify the
hand writing of Rowan and prove it to
be identical with that of the letter Of
fering the bride. But, in spite of the
fact that the experts seemed to agree
that the handwriting was not that of
Rowan, Commissioner BloodgoOd bound
him over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
The Santa Fe Pushing Its Tie
Picking Plant.
Will Be Ready to Operate at
Las Vegas April 1.
RUN NIGHT AND DAY.
Total Output Will Be 1900
Ties Every "a Hours.
Will Keep Thirty-FiVe Men In
Employment.

Las Vegas, March 14.-Work on the
extensive improvements at the picking
plant of the Santa Fee at this point as
being pushed. The new cylinder house,
32x116 feet, Is about enclosed. This
building contains three mammoth treat
ing cylinders, each of which is six feet
in diameter and 100 feet in length.
Alongside the cylinder house are five
pumps, which are being placed on solid
foundations. Three of them are pres
sure pumps, one a condenser and one a
vacuum pump. Two new 80-horse pow
er boilers are in place and the brick
work encaSing the same is being rapid
ly pushed. These Improvements are ex-
pected to be finished by April L, when
two shifts will be put on and the plant
operated day and night.
Mr.. Noyes expects to employ about 30
hands on the two shifts, and the total
output will be 1900 ties every "a hours.
All the ties, bridge timbers and thing
used on the Santa Fe system between
Ell Paso and Silver City, and Dodge
City and Denver, will be treated at this
plant.
During the process of treating the
timbers are first subject to a steam
bath under a pressure Of 20 pounds,
which penetrates every pore and
cleanses it. Then they are put in the
picking solution, under a pressure of
100 pounds, which penetrates to the
very core and renders the wood almost
fndestructible by decay or weather ac-
ton, and also is a safeguard against
any insect action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
TAPP a SOCIALIST.
Fusion Candidate For Mayor
Wichita Holds Advanced Ideas.

Wichita March 1.-THE municipal
campaign has been opened in this city
by James w. Tapp, the fusion nominee
for mayor, challenging FinIay Ross,
the present Republican mayor, and can
didate for reelection, to a joint debate,
or rather a series of debates, before
the people. 1t promises to be the most
unique campaign in the political history
of Wichita Tapp is new factor in
city politics, and upon his success in
April depends the political situation of
the district. Many regard him as the
coming Jerry Simpson of Kansas poll
tics.
Mr.. Tapp is a Salvation army man,
in the sense that while he does not
parade with them, he attends their
meetings and stirs the dormant religious
zeal of the very common people with
his remarkable native eloquence. The
people are at a loss to know how to eSti-
mate him. When he announced himself
for mayor a few weeks ago the poll
ticians laughed. The machinery of both
the PopuliSt and Democratic parties
was thrown against him. George NJ.
Young, who came within sixty seven
votes of oYerturning the tremendous
Republican ma Ority of the city two
years ago, was his opponent for the
fusion nomination, and bets of 10 to L
were offered against Tapp. He won the
nomination hands down, and the people
were astounded in the face of his won
derful victory. Tapp came to Wichita
a stonemason looking for job. Unable
to find employment at his trade, he hired
out as the driver of a. dray. After five
or six years he got a job driving a de-
livery wagon. His wonderful magnetic
powers drew the common people to him.
He became a, clerk in the store, and
now owns one of the largest general
mercantile houses in Wichita.
When he became proprietor he re-
versed the entire prevailing business
system by giving prOpOrtiOnately more
goods for dime than for a dollar. His
theory was that the person who was so
poor that he could buy only a dimes
worth of goods was more entitled to
Hberality in weights and measures than
the person who could afford to buy a
dollars worth. This idea caught the
common folk and as a result Tapp to-
day owns the largest poor mans store
in Kansas.
He will challenge Mayor Ross to de-
bate the issues with him.
He is an advocate of the ownership
of public utilities and wants to make
that idea, which is popular in Wichita
an issue. He is a socialist of conServa-
tive views.
His marvellous strength at the prim-
aries has brought all the factions of
POpulism and Democracy to his support
and he has a tremendous lot of raw ma
terial among the common people in the
Republican ranks. He has a broad
long been recognized. He hasn't worn
a white shirt for sixteen years.
During the week closed eleven classes
of labor have formed unions in his in
terest.
Tapp is Al years of age, belongs to
eleven lodges and knows more people
intimately than any man in the county
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
How Mrs. Pinkham
HELPED MRS. GOODEN.

LETTER TO MRS PINKHAM NO. Izz531
''I am very grateful to you for your
kindness and the interest you have
taken in me, and truly believe your
medicines and advice are worth more
to a woman than all the doctors in the
world For years had female troubles
and did nothing for them. OF course
/ became no better and finally broke
down entirely. My troubles began
with Inflammation and hemorrhages
from the kidneys, then Inflammation,
congestion and falling of the womb
and Inflammation of ovaries.
q" underwent local treatment every
day for some time; then after nearly
two months the doctor gave me permits
sion to go back to work. / went back,
but in less than a week was COM
PEELED to give up and go to bed. On
breaking down the second time, de-
cided to let doctors and their medicine
alone and try your remedies. Before
the first bottle was gone 1 felt the eff
fects of it. Three bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and a
package of her Sanative Wash did me
more good than all the doctors treat
ments and medicine.
1.-The first remark that greets me
now is How much better you look!' and
you may be sure 1 never hesitate to tell
the cause of my health. "-MRs. E. J.
GooDEN, ACKLEY, La.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
END OF CHINATOWN.
New York Tires of the Evils of That
Section.

New York, March 14.-Tammany Hall
intends to root out Chinatown as it ex-
lists today. PeIl street is to be made 100
feet wide from Chatham square west to
Mott street, and from Mott street to
Mulberry Bend park, an extension of
Pell street, also 100 feet wide, will be
made.
The powers of the police department
and the department of health have been
exhausted in the effort to remedy the
evils of Chinatown.
1t is felt nothing can be done except
to wipe the section off the map of the
city.
For sometime the Christian missions,
which, for years, have been working in
Chinatown, have been complaining that
opium dens, gambling places, and diSor-
derby houses are open in defiance of the
police and that the few acres which lie
between Chatham square, Pen and
Mott streets will soon be as bad as the
Chinatown in San Francisco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
OWN A POCKET BOROUGH.
Twombly and His Society Friends
Lords of Their Domain.

Trenton, n. J., March 14.@Governor
VOORHEES, this afternoon signed the bill
creating the borough of Florham Park
in Morris county. Nearly all of the new
borough created by the bill is owned by
H. NICK. Twombly of New York, and
his friends, in whose interest the bill
was passed.
When the bill was introduced in the
legislature by Senator Pitney, who drew
it at the suggestion of Mr.. Twombly
and DR.. Leslie Ward of Newark, the
members Immediately saw Mr.. Twom-
bly, as a self-appointed ruler of the new
borough.
They saw Mr. Twombly electing him
self mayor, electing his employees as
borough officials and telling everybody
to keep off the grass. Mr.. Twombly,
being a citizen of New York, will have
to change his residence to this state in
order to make himself ruler of the Dor
ough. If he does that, however, he
will be the boss of Florham borough
financially, socially and politically. He
may be the Democrat or Republican
boss of the borough, as he sees fit;
run roads through it and build gas
plants or even an electric road or two,
and quickly decide questions of mo-
ment, such as the municipal ownership
of street car lines, waterworks or gas
plant.
There are 200 votes in the new Dor
ough the real property of which is
valued at sS25. OO0 OF this amount. Mr..
Twombly owns more than $400, 900 of it.
DR.. Leslie Ward of Newark owns prop
erty in it worth $4,000.
The new division of the county was
wanted by the men who control the
greater part of the real estate, that
they might have a system of roads
built which was denied to them by the
county, although they would have had
rangement there will be no difficulty in
building the roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14

When they don't. your whole body
must suffer.
If you are sick, doctor your kidneys,
because as soon as they are well they
will help all the other organs to health.
The mild and extraordinary effect of
DIR. KKmer's Swamp-Root, the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases and
is sold by druggists in fifty-cent and
one-dolIar bottles. Make a note of the
name, SWAMP-ROOT, DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-ROOt.
You may have a sample bottle of this
famous kidney remedy sent free by
mail, postpaid, by which you may test
its virtues for such disorders as kidney,
bladder and uric acid diseases, and uri-
nary troubles, obliged to pass water
frequently night and day, smarting or
irritation in passing, brick-dust or sedl-
ment in the urine, constant headache,
backache, lame back, dizziness, sleep
1essness, indigestion, nervousness, skin
trouble, anaemia, Bright's disease, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, bloating, irritabili-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
GEN. LEE RETIRES.
Will Not Be Candidate For q. s.
Senator.


Richmond. Va, March 14-Six years
ago General Fitzhugh Lee was defeated
for the United States senate by Thomas
s. Martin after a bitter contest. Lee
charged fraud, but the legislative COM
mittee said it was not proven. Lee at
once became a candidate to succeed
Martin and his friends have been at
work for five years. The general now
has decided to stay in the army and
withdraw from the fight. In a letter to
Colonel B. Q. James he says, in part:
Many letters from numerous friends
in Virginia are being constantly re
Ceived by me, in which they urge my
arrange to make a canvass. These let
tiers have placed me under some enbar-
raSSment, because have not been able
TO say when 1 can leave the present i'm
portant work 1 am engaged in and be-
cause. too, cannot say how long my
stay will be prolonged on this island. In
view of these uncertain conditions I
the senatorial situation by authorizing
you to say that it is my desire that my
name shall not be considered in connec-
ton with the United States senator
ship.
Il am quite sure my friends generally
will support for the seat now occupied
by Mr.. Martin any candidate who can
secure the greatest support from the
people or their representa- tives. In con-
clusion I express the hope that the peo-
pie of Virginia will be given in the near
future the opportunity for the selection
of a senator to represent their interests
in the senate Of the United States and
that no man shall occupy that high po-
sition unless he can read his title clear"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14

ty, wornout feeling, lack of ambition,
loss of flesh, sallow complexion
If your water, when allowed to re-
main undisturbed in a glass or bottle
for twenty-four hours, forms a sedi-
ment or settling or has cloudy appear
ance, it is evidence that your kidneys
and bladder need immediate attention.
Swamp-Root has been tested in so
many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor
to purchase relief, and has proved so
successful in every case, that special
arrangement has been made by which
all readers of the State Journal, who
have not already tried it, may have n
sample bottle sent absolutely free by
mail. Also a book telling more about
Swamp-Root and containing some Of
the thousands upon thousands of testl-
monial letters received from men and
women who owe their good health, in
fact, their very lives, to the wonderful
curative properties of Swamp-Root. Be
sure and mention the Topeka Daily
State Journal when sending your ad-
dress to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, n. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14

five acres equipped with pavilion,
rustic seats, swings, refreshment stands.
etc. A large steel steamer will make
regular trips between the park and
town. The boat will be in charge of
Captain Ira Smith, as good a seaman
as ever held a rudder or spun a yarn.
There will be music at the pavilion
each afternoon and evening.
A nice dock is being constructed just
north of the southern Kansas bridge,
only four blocks from Main street. The
steamer will cover about eleven miles
each trip and all who have been over
the course agree that it is one of the
prettiest river trips imaginable. This
is the longest stretch of boatable water
in the southern part of the state and
will afford a pleasant and novel recrea-
ton for visitors as we'll as Winfield
citizens. The steamer will seat fifty
people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
TORTURED FOR MONEY.
Aged Chanute German and Wife
Cruelty Treated by Robbers

TFrom the Chanute Tribune1
"A German named Mertz, of the
northwest part of the city, had
occasion to step out of his
house last night about 10
o'clock and when yet near his own door
he was attacked by two men, Uttering
an Outcry his wife ran out to his assist
ance. Her husband had been felled and
lay on the ground. The woman was
then attacked by the brutes and she
too was knocked down.
The men then told them that if they
did not give up their money or tell
where it was that they would both be
killed. The man and his wife both pro-
tested that they had no money and
could not give them what they did not
have. The robbers still continued their
abuse and threatenings with the old
people still begging for them to spare
their lives as they had no money and
could not give them any. At last a
slight noise apparently scared the rob-
bers and they put off. The old people
finally managed to get in the house and
this morning a physician examined their
injuries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
DEPEw ON POOLING.
Advocates That It Be Done Under
Legal Supervision.

Senator Depew, in his address to the
teal league. said on the subject of Pool
ing and the Interstate Commerce COM
You ask. me to say. something about
contracts between railway companies,
K that the as right R9o Of railway Companies to
form associations and to enter into pool
ing, contracts should be granted, but only
commerce commission 1 believe IN
its powers and adding to its dignity, be-
cause of the character of the men upon
it and the subjects with which it deals.
condenee+ Of the peoggie to the eopTm
tee of congress, attempting to deal with
the question of tariffs, for instance a
edge Ige' and long tIs' training as to be pro
lessor in mathematics in the best college
can not Judge how far a rate from Chi
cago to New York is dependent upon a
rate from st. Louis to New. Orleans or
Galveston, or from ST. Louis to Ba1ti-
more, from the northwest through
state state Commerce Commission would be com
petent to decide, having only this bust
contract and then this vexed question is
Judgment of politicians and placed in the
hands of a competent tribunal The in
vent determinations. Its operation in
dictate the mistakes which a great, pa
thousand subjects, can make in providing
ironclad rules for the transportation COM
internal commerce and of our import and
export trade through various ports and
Canadian outlets are constantly changing.
this situation can be wisely administered
only by a bureau of the government pos
sessing very elastic discretionary powers:
The interstate commerce law was enacted
to prevent Determinations, and yet its
operation has been to create combinations
and trusts to destroy the independence of
the individual, to injure small places and
combined
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
Geese Bewildered bv Lights.

a large flock of wild geese, while
pursuing their journey southwark Fri
day night to get away from the coming
storm were turned out of their course
by the glare of the electric lights of the
city Immediately all was confusion
among the flying company of orderly
birds. They came lower and circled back
and forth above the town sadly bewild
cred for a long time, each one seemed
to be enQuiring for the roads to some
land where a. decent bird could travel
at night without being molested by
set of lights. After squawking and fly
ing around for an hour or so they final
ly found their way out.-McPherson Re
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
WANTS TWO COOKS.
Uncle Sam Requires Help at Indian
Schools-Civil Service Ex-
animation

Wichita, March 14.-Uncle Sam wants
cook, one for the Kickapoo Indian
school and another for the Pima agency
boarding school. There as another eX-
animation open for a laundress at the
Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and
another one for a nurseryman at Chi
locco Indian school in Oklahoma.
All of these examinations will be
held in Wichita
For all of these tests no requirements
will be demanded relative to education.
Persons who desire to compete at
once apply to the United States civil
service commission, Washington, D. c.,
for application blanks (form 49,, which
should be properly executed and
promptly forwarded to the United
States civil service commission, Wash
ingtOn, D. c.
No application will be accepted unless
filed with the commission prior to the
hour of closing business on April I, 1899.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
KANSAS NEWS.
Many Barton County Farmers
Are SWindled
By an Alleged Eastern Fruit
Tree Firm.
WERE SENT SEEDLINGS
After Paying Fancy Prices For
Budded Trees.
Agent Agreed to Care For The m
and Purchase the Fruit.
WERE SENT SEEDLINGS

Great Bend, March 14.-Over fifty
farmers of this county have been swim
died in the purchase of fruit trees from
an eastern sharper.
The alleged firm representative con-
tracted with the farmers for the pur-
chase of several thousand fruit trees,
the parties agreeing to furnish ''budded"
stock, to take care of the trees for so
long a time, and take a share of the
fruit. First, however, the farmers were
required to pay what appeared to be a
small price for budded trees, but what
would be a large price for common seed
Hngs. 1t has developed that the trees
are seedlings, that there are no nurseries
where the trees purport to come from,
and further, that some sharper has ap-
parently sold a, whole lot of useless
Seeding trees for fancy price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14
Pensions For Kansans.

Washington, March 14.-Pensions
have been granted as follows
Original-James T. Bunch, La Cygne,
Sc; David C. Griffith, Independence, Sc.
Additional-James r. Wilkinson, Pa
ola, Sc to So.
Renewal-P Smith Martz, Council
Grove, IS; John r. Bales, Burton, Sc.
Increase-Jacob Spivey, Minneapolis,
$12 to $17; Henry Ayass, Neodesha, $14
to ST.; James r. Harris Jr., Anthony,
$24 to $50; Samuel A. Stauffer, Over
brook, SO to $12; Jesse S. Province, St.
John, $3.50 to $17; William B. Hines,
Dorrance, Sc to So; Augustus Martin,
Parsons, IS to $40; Joseph P. McAler-
ney Baxter Springs. $12 to $14; Adam
B. Miller, Great Bend, IS to $40.
Original widows, etc.-Catharine Mat
tern, Beloit, So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-14

they are worthy of their authors. They
are such as one would expect from the
author of ''Sonnets from the Portu-
guese" and Aurora Leigh" from the
author of "Pippa Passes and"The Ring
and the Book" Throughout two vol
umes of some twelve hundred pages
published by Harper & Brothers we
find much thoughtful comment on liter
ature and life, but it is after all rather
everything else they are love letters,
and their writers show that their chief
interest lies only in their love for each