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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
SPECTATORS IN LAW.

Justice Baskin delivered an opinion
the other day which is of interest to
litigants and attorneys in this state.
He held that a contract between a
client and his attorney, by which the
latter agreed to advance the necessary
costs and witness fees for the prosecu-
ton Of the suit, is contrary to public
policy and chamDertous.
The definition of champerty is a
bargain with a litigant to bear expenses
of litigation, in consideration of a share
of the matter sued for" Most states
have enacted laws against the practice
and have provided penalties for their
enforcement. Utah has a statute pro-
bibiting common barratry," which
amounts TO the same thing, but the
provision of the code is such and the
practice is carried on in such a way
that convictions are next to impossible
Things have come TO such a pass that
the trade Of damage lawyers needs to
be rebuked from the bench. 1t is IN
professional, and tends to increase and
promote litigation; and our statutes
do require that an attorney shall not
encourage either the commencement
or continuance of an action or proceed
ing" from improper motives OF self-in-
terest.
Actions based upon champertous
contracts are a form of speculation for
the plaintiff, as well as for the lawyer.
What else is it but champerty, pure
and simple, adjusting itself to modern
conditions? 1t makes a tradesman out
of one who should be regarded as a
professional man. 1t lowers the law in
the estimation of the public, and gives
rise to a growing presumption against
the honesty of the plaintiff in almost
every damage suit.
This is an abuse of justice that is in
Its infancy in Utah. In many of the
larger cities of the older states these
vultures of the profession have agents
attached to every ambulance, guarding
the door of every hospital, hanging
around the telephone at every police
headquarters, ready TO pounce upon the
victims of the casualties which are con-
Etantly happening. If a man gets hurt
In an elevator or a woman has her hand
pinched in car door. or child is run
over by a trolly car. these agents reach
the spot before the surgeons do, and
begin to urge a. damage suit The vic
tim or his relatives may plead poverty,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
An Early Beginning.
(Detroit Free Press.l


At a quarter of the big front door
of the school was thrown open and
several hundred boys and girls rushed
the line hoped, skipped and jumped
two ngsIers-maybe years old,
with sturdy little legs, bright brown
eyes and red checks.
This pair drew away from the throng
at the sidewalk and waited until the
others had gone along.
By and by they were alone
Come on cried one of the little fell
lows; let's go over t tn alley n see
bout it,
Then at a bound both were off.
The alley was vacated. Half way
down it a pile of refuse. old oyster
cans, umbrellas and such discarded and
damaged bits of property stared at
them.
The smaller of the two youngsters
ran for the pile, and, seizing an old can,
flung it back at his companion.
II hit him on the shoulder. Wait a
minute" he yelled; gimme a minutes
time"
Then, before the other knew what had
happened, the handle of an old UNI
brella had brought him a ringing clip
on the back of the head. That was the
beginning. and for a space of twenty
minutes those two youngsters fought
tooth and nail, as though their lives
depended upon it.
AT the end of that time one of them
was the owner of a torn shirt-waist,
cut cheek and a bleeding nose. The
other limped and SMILED. A long
scratch ran down his right cheek and
met another at the corner of his mouth
coming up from the other direction.
Worn. weary and bedraggled, those
two youngsters sought their homes
with tears and sniffies streaking their
faces and twitching their noses.
Two mothers settled down upon them
and inquired the cause of the bedrag
gled condition of their hopefuls.
And in their different homes each of
those little boys said: Teddy tot US
to-"
Teddy" exclaimed the mothers Won
deringly, land who on earth is Teddy
Teddy Russvfelt,' replied the little
boys. And still the wonder of the
mothers grew.
What has Teddy Roosevelt to do
with you?" they asked.
This afternoon tn dear teacher read
US his speech what he made out TO
Ann Arbor bout Twin tn strenuous
life. and cultivatin' a spirit of pug
nacity an men George went up tn al
ley L carry it out.
And now two mothers are pettioning
the school board to remove the teacher
who has such a deep regard for Mr.
Roosevelt and his opinions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
How a Family Feud Was Ended.
Chicago Tribune.)


When the Republicans were about TO
nominate somebody to run for governor
in 1854 there were candidates in all
parts of the woods. John NJ Hamilton,
who succeeded to the office from the
lieutenant governorship on Cullom's
election to the senate, had a strong
candidacy under full sail. Two terms
before that Oglesby had been elected
governor and nobody before had been
a candidate for a third four-year term
in that Office. The day OF the conven-
ton, however. Uncle Dick" went
down, and without having present any
semblance of candidacy other than his
own personality, he WAS nominated by
reclamation.
His brother-in-iav, David T. Littler,
Was a candidate for state treasurer He
had been 10 some pains to make his
candidacy an organized feature of the
day preceding the convention. When
Oglesby was named for governor Littler
was put out OF the calculations by
reason of coming from the next county.
and was sidetracked in consequence
Although Mrs. Oglesby and Mrs. Littler
Were sisters the houses of Oglesby and
Littler were far apart from that time.
The heads were so completely es-
tranged that one did not speak TO the
other For ten years they remained
strangers.
Litter lived in great old-fashioned
mansion in Springfield. Oglesby lived
on his farm near Elkhart. One day,
greatly to the surprise of the Littler
family, Ex-Governor Oglesby walked
in.
How are you, Dave?" said the ex-
governor.
How are you. governor" said Lit
tier as he struggled against his aston
ishment. Then the extended hand of
the unexpected visitor was cordially
grasped
L came to take dinner with you,
Dave.
We'll. I'm glad Of it," answered Lit
tier as he took the hat and coat of his
caller.
rs the whisky bottle in the same old
place, Dave?'
1T is, and there's whisky in it,
And that was how the family feud
ended forever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
His Story.
Chicago Democrat

tCHlCdSO
He stood before the police judge
wreck. He suggested an echo of bet
ter times. He had been arrested the
night before for sleeping in an open
doorway.
The judge saw that the prisoner had
not always been a tramp, and ques
toned him with regard to his past.
We'll. your honor. it was this way"
the man said. quietly. Il haven't al
ways been as you see me now. i was a
stockbroker once. When l was a
younger man 1 became interested in
copper. Copper is usually solid. you
know. / made little pile, then shifted
to iron. Iron is hard TO handle. and I
lost / withdrew from the specializing
for a time, but the old fascination drew
me again into the. maelstrom- l took
a flyer in some ,glittering mining stock,
but it was a loser. l said / would try
again. l bought a little train of diff
ferent railway stock, but / didn't tie to
it long enough and went nearly broke.
Then showed all of my remaining for
tune into pork. 1t turned out that pork
was on the hog. and here | am"
The judge had listened to the story
attentively. and at its conclusion dis
charged the prisonc~. Have you any
money!" he inquired as the man turned
to leave the court ROOM
mo, sir" was the reply; I'm broker
now than l ever was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
DEFIANCE TO PARASITES.

One of the oldest and most radical
Republican organs in the United States
is the New York Tribune Its editor
and proprietor, Whitelaw Reid, was Z
candidate for the vice presidency with
Benjamin Harrison in his second race
He has filled with entire satisfaction
TO his party several important dipio-
matte positions, and was one of the
peace commissioners appointed by
President Mckinley to conclude nego-
tiations with Spain.
MIR. Reid thinks the Republican party
ought to be able to extract much glory
and gain some advantage from the war
with Spain. But he fears this glory
and advantage will be obscured some
what by the attitude of the president
IN trying to cover up the scandals of
the departments, to palliate the in
famies of subordinates and whitewash
culpritS upon whom the responsibility
for grave wrongs has been firmly
fixed.
Therefore, the New York Tribune
its proprietor and may serve as an
example for many a weakened organ
of Democracy. In a recent issue it
said:
While the country was at war we re-
Trained for obvious reasons from COM
ment which could only embarrass those
charged with the conduct of the war and
do no practical good The war is over
now, however. peace has been declared
and there exists no good reason why the
shortcomings of the war department as
developed in the course of the struggle
should not be pointed out made the
subject of a fair and honest inquiry.
What would have been untimely and
even unpatriotic yesterday has today be-
come one of the duties of the hour
Commenting on the achievements of
American arms, the opportunities for
which, according 10 the partisan, came
during the administration of President
Mckinley.
But it is different thing adds our
New York contemporary, Ito say that
because of such a record we must close
our eyes to all defects in the admins
trative machinery of a department. and
abandon any effort to remedy them
Are we to stand still and invite decay,
simply because our refusal to do so
may disturb the slumber of the dodos
of an antiquated system? Must we re-
main silent because the brooding Budd-
has of blatant bureaucracy
live under the delusion that they have
attained official Nirvana? Is a demand
for reform to be construed as want of
loyalty on the say of General Eagan's
friends? Well, hardly"
With these few remarks it begs its
hostile and disgruntled critics to be-
lieve in the continuance of its most
consideration. 1t shows
its loyalty to the party by painting
Alger and the whole batch of incompe-
tents who were responsible for such
large death roll in Cuba and the camps
as black as the evidence before two in
vestigating boards has shown them to
be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
HOW FREEDOM FINDS HIM.

Harry Hayes was pardoned yester-
day. For what? What had he done to
ask pardon for? True, a jury of his
peers found him guilty of murder three
years ago, but on the flimsiest sort Of
circumstantial evidence.
An attempt was made to show mo-
tive. 1t was proved that the old man
disliked one of the murdered boys. But
men dislike, even hate others and never
think of killing them. Then the old
couple, for his wife stood by him brave
ly from the first and believed
him, in their fright undertook to set up
an alibi that they couldn't substantiate.
OF course, it was what ignorant, terror
stricken people might do under such
circumstances. But the jury evidently
regarded them as cunning, rather than
foolish. SO he was adjudged guilty and
sentenced to death.
\ few days before the date fixed for
his execution Hayes friends and attor-
neys succeeded in getting his sentence
committed to life Imprisonment. He
mas been confined in the penitentiary
ever since. In the meantime evidence
accumulated to show that another man
had committed the murder. This is so
conclusive in its character that few
doubt the guilt of the fugitive Weeks.
SO Harry Hayes has been pardoned.
He is a free man at last. He stands
purged of the guilt, so far as the board
of pardons can do this for him.
He is innocent. He is entitled to that
presumption today. The public accords
him as much, and the state has given
him his liberty.
But who can give back to him the
lost years he was shut away from the
world and the air, and the fields and
those he knew? Who can return to
him the hours ne has been kept away
from the companion of his age in the
time of life he needs companionship the
most? Who can restore the peace of
mind that dwels not in the felons cell?
Who will undertake to smooth out the
wrinkles of suffering and the burrows
of mental anguish with which prison
life seams the faces of the aged and
innocent? Who will replace his repu-
tation? Or return the money that his
defense consumed? Or compensate him
AOl Inc SSINlCeS He Coulu uOl give LEG
partner of his woes?
Everything is gone, everything. but
life itself; and when sustenance is
taken from age, and its serenity is de-
stroyed and afternoon FASTENED, the
sentence is almost one of death, after
all There ought to be some way to
help the victims of our system of jus
tice when they are deserving and have
suffered by it. At least some provision
should be made to refund the money
that the state forced the defendant to
expend in his defense. This is the least
it can do. II is little enough.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
FOREIGN COMPETITION

Our morning contemporary is one of
the few Republican organs in this coun-
try that still believe in the old trust
creating, high protective tariff. Some
backwoods ministers still preach the
horrors of an endless hell, but most of
their cloth have outgrown that idea.
Our neighbor used to tell US that the
tariff made no difference to home con-
sumers. that "the foreigner paid the
tax" that we couldn't compete with
the 'pauper labor Of Europe" that Am
erican manufacturers would have to de-
pend entirely upon a home market for
their wares, and that all they wanted
was to have foreign competition pro-
hibited that the Infant industries
might live.
At the same time these infant indus
tries were among the wealthiest and
most powerful institutions of the coun-
try; they were throwing fat" into
Wanamaker's frying pan-contribut-
ing millions of money to corrupt legis-
ls.tion, to continue their abnormal
profits and purchase presidential cleo
tons.
One raise in the tariff after another
our neighbor advocated, while million
aire corporations were fattening under
the system which is responsible for
their present growth into gigantic and
almost irresistible trusts. The Tribune
praised the Dingley bill and ratified
state platforms commencing it, when
it knew and admitted that the bill was
2 robberl measure which levied tribute
upon one section of the country for the
benefit of another.
From its editorial yesterday one
must conclude that our contemporary
still believes that the foreigner pays
the tax, although President Harrison
confessed in his message congratulate
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
A SUMMARY SUGGESTION.

washington Starr
/ huyhd de white folks talkin'
About de news deys read:
At fust 1t was High-wire
Dat troubled 'em, dey said.
An mex dey tu'ns dab 'tention
To botheratious scenes.
Whah dey's fightin bout vanilla
An de folks is Full-o'-beans.
thought dat war de limit;
Dat we'd reached de end To- sho',
But now l hyuhs EN- tellin'
We mus look out fob Someone.
bet If ] wah white folks
I'd let dem troubles drap.
L gather up dem islands an
Id push EN- off de map
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
CONTRACTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS

Referring to the clause required in
contracts made by the board of public
works, to which our neighbor has call
ed attention repeatedly of late, The
Herald undertook to show Friday
morning that this stipulation might be
violated without abrogating the con-
tract. By one of those annoying and
ineXplicable errors that appear from
time to time in types the word mot"
was omitted. giving a sentence an en-
tirely different meaning from that in
tended. What was written, and what
The Herald contends is this: Stipula-
tions like this are frequently disre-
garded. 1t is easy enough to invent
some excuse for going outside of the
classes mentioned for laborers on pub
lie works. This being an advisory,
rather than mandatory specification,
a secondary consideration and not an
essential part of the contract to be car
ried out, its violation might not be con-
strued as an abrogation of the agree
ment between the city and the con-
tractor.
The clause inserted in such contracts
is as follows:
The said contractor further agrees that
none but bona fide residents of Salt Lake
City shall be employed upon the work
that preference shall be given to tax
payers and 10 those who have families TO
support; and that all laborers employed
upon the work shall be paid weekly.
This requirement depends for it's en-
forcement upon the viii and mind of
the supervisory power. 1t would not
be impossible for those in .charge of
the construction of waterworks i'm
provements. if they were so minded, to
claim that any laborer employed there
on is resident of the city; it would be
just as easy for the laborers to de-
clare, bona fide, their intention to re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
His Opinion of 1t.

Jay Green seems 10 think he's consid-
cradle smart. remarked Josh Medders;
but | don't know so much about it my
self Denver tell you about how he gave
himself away the time he went up to the
city with me an seen the first street
sprinkler he'd ever set eyes On?
No" returned Abner Appledry. What
did he do?'
''Awi He jabbed me in the ribs an says
he, good an loud. Great gimmy. JOSH
there's one o. them rain-makin' machines
We've been readin' bout.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07

main here; and those who pay poll
taxes and have families to support.
might have the preference. as the stip-
ulation does not indicate how much
taxes shall be paid or where those fami-
lies shall reside in order to comply with
the terms of the agreement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
The rex and the Grapes.
Detroit Journal.)

Once upon d time a Fox espied somt
grapes growing upon a tall tree or tele-
graph pole; it does not matter which
The Fox tried to borrow ste2-ladder
of neighboring farmer, but failed.
Il don't want your old grapes, any
way" the Fox now declared. Appendix
citis isn't anything like as SwaSger as IL
used to be-
Then he bestowed the laugh upon the
bystanders. who had looked for him to
say the grapes were sour.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.
Salt Lake City, Utat

Salt Lake City, Utah, May 8, 1879.
Maximum temperature, Sc degrees; min
mum temperature. IS degrees; mean tenn
perature, SO degrees. which is 1 degree
above the normal; accumulated deficiency
of temperature since 1st of the month, IS
degrees; accumulated excess of tempera-
1ure since Jan. !, "a degrees; total precip-
itation from & D. m. to p. m. trace; ac-
cumulated excess of precipitation since
LIST of the month % inch: accumulated
excess of precipitation since Jan. l, SO
inch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.

Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks and
other High Grade Investment Securities
bought and sold
Loans on Stocks
Dividend-paying stocks bought and sold.
Investment orders from institutions
trustees OF estates and capitalists will
receive the best of attention
JOHN c. CUTLER, JR.
Tel. LIT. 36 Main Street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
INVITATION.
washington star.)

w dsI3IIIo tOII DtdI =
. Put up your bows and arrows,
Oh. Filipinos boldl
You're missing all the pleasures
Existence ought TO hold.
You might have joined the glories
OF emancipation day
And helped the people holler
And heard the music play.
The summer seasons dawning;
The green is on the glade;
Come in before the circus
Sets out on its parade:
Come in and see the ball game
Get grandly under way:
Come in and help US holler
And hear the music playi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
A Calling Restriction.
(Puck.)

did Mrs. Hoyden obtain that divorce
she sued fOr?" asked Keedick-
Yes; she obtained a decree, but with
restrictions, replied FoSdick.
She was forbidden to marry again?"
suppose?"
THAT wasn't it."
Then what was the restriction"
She was forbidden 10 go on the stage"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
Where the Profit Comes In.
New York JournaI.l

Customer don't see how you can af-
ford to sell those gloves for 10 cents a
pair when they cost you Co.
Floor Walker-That's easy. We get a
commission from the surgeon who at
tends those who are injured in the crush
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07
Double Distilled Luck.


Link-What makes you so gay this
morning? Did you hit it in Wall street?
Gorff-Nixey; better than that NY
mother-in-law has eloped with my tailor.
Have one on me.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-06
CONSOLIDATED.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
Absorbs the Wagner Company.

CHICAGO, December 5.-The coRsol-
idation OF the Pullman Palace Car
Company and its rival, the Wagner
Palace Car Company into one concern
was ratified this afternoon at a special
meeting OF the stockholders OF the
Pullman Company. The action Of the
board was approved by practically an
unanimous vote In approving the ac-
ton OF the directors, the stockholders
voted to increase the capital stock Of
the Pullman Company from $4,000
600 to 74.000, 900. the increase to be tor
the purpose Of purchasing the property
of the Wagner Palace Car Company
1t was also voted to change the name
Of the company from the Pullman Pal
ace Car Company To the Pullman Com
pany. An increased number Of direc-
tors from seven TO eleven was also
voted, and the following directors elect
ed to the beard:
William X. Vanderbilt. ]. Pierpont
Morgan, Frederick w. Vanderbilt and
w. Seward Webb.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-06
WORLD FAMOUS.
DR.. Gibbons's Discovery of Cure for
Consumption Brings Him Thousands
OF Letters.

Special to the Register.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, December
5.-Dr. Page A. Gibbons, whose recent
wonderful discovery of cure for con-
sumption was announced by your cor
respondent, has been overwhelmed
with inquiries concerning the matter.
These have come by wire, mail, tele-
phone and have been made in person.
They cover every State in the Union
and several are from Mexico and Can
ada.
One man writes that he had a very
severe tubucular affection of the throat
and that a spray of the potash has
cured the ulcers and has driven them
entirely away. 1t has been reported
that in every case where 1t was tried
the effects have been marked and the
improvement rapid.
So many of the inquiries came and
the people applying were so persist
ent that very little time has been left
for the active practice here at home,
and the doctor soon married and left
on his honey moon to let the storm
blow over In his absence the mail
has accumulated until there is a mon
ster stack of mail awaiting his in
spection.
1t is being seriously considered and
solution of the amount used in the
Johnson case may be put on the mar
ket Several very fattering offers
have been received for the starting of
factories of large size for the manu-
facture of the cure. 1t has been dem
onstrated that it was not the copper
head toxin, but the potash that
wrought the cure.
Directors of hospitals in Virginia
cities have started to using it on the
charity patients and many cases Of
improvement have been noted in the
cases of negro patients who have been
submitted to the treatment.