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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
MIR. HOBART'S ILLNESS.
Concerning Its Origin and
Development.

Developments.
Paterson, n. j.. October 3l.-The fol-
lowing statement Of the origin and de-
velopment of the illness of Vice. Presi-
dent Hobart Is authorized by his family
and by. the physicians who have attend
ed him:
The illness Of the Vice. President may
be said to date from ths fall of 1898, prior
to his return to Washington In Novem-
bsr. At that time his physicians observed
sy mptoms of embarrassed respiration,
with frequent attacks Of angina peotoris.
Ihis RESPONDED readily to treatment and
when the Vice President went TO Wash
in gton In the latter part Of November hs
was in good health. He stood remarkably
to the opening of Congress and he was
making favorable progress until In
January he became victim Of this pre-
vniling epidemic, erip. Following this,
there was Q return Of the heart trouble,
accompanied with sigma Of degeneration.
His ailment was diagnosed as dilated
right heart due to myocarditis. This
fcCuvCty huib ottR1A WINS tC11 10 pAa
and on the last day of the session Of the
Senate the strain and excitement Of de-
bvsring the closing speech were so great
that hs was On the verge Of o COLLAPSE.
A few weeks after wards. towards the
middle OF March, the ioe-Presidsnt and
his family, together with the Presidential
party, went to Ihomasville. Ga. to visit
Senator Hanna. The fatigue Of the trip
affected MIR. Hobart very unfnvorably and
his condition was further impaired by
the intense heat and humidity then pre-
vaiiing. As soon as possible, be WINS TAX
en- to Long Branch, where beneficial re-
suits from the sea air and quiet were
was not made, however, at the rate that
was anticipated and trip to La Ike
Champlain, With the fatigue and expo
sure incidental thereto, hastensd rather
than retarded the course Of his disease.
Since then his system has not responded
to the illustrations of his physicians and
the critical condition Of the last few day
has been the result.
1t should be added that ever since his
illness became serious the Vice. Preside mt
has had the benefit of the best medical
advice and treatment 1t Is apparent
from this statement that the Vice. Presi-
dent Is In no condition to resume bis po-
htical duties in Washington. His family
desires therefore to announce that he will
not return to Washington nor will hs
again take part In publiu affairs his
condition To-Day is such that fatal result
may ensne ut any moment or his present
condition may be indefinitely prolonged. :"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
PORTLAND DEFEATED.
Our Polo Team Lost to Manchester
Last Night.

Manchester. N. h., October 3l.-The
local polo tsAm defeated Portland In q
hotly contested game tonight. The work
of Tarrant and O'Hara and Jason were
features The line up and summary:
Observation-Disclosures and Spencer.
rxsnsrs; walton. center; O'Hara. half
hack; Bannon. goal.
Portland-CAmpbeli and Jason, rush
ers; Mckay. center; Cameron. half back
Berry. goal.
Score, Manchester, z; Portland, j
BUSHES, Tarrant, z; Campbell, Stops.
iinnnon, IS; Berry, 40 referee, eiRhton-
Timer. Harrie NJ. Young Attendants.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
THAT JOYFUL FEELING

With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strenth and internal cleanli
ness which follows the use of Syrup of
Figs, is unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old-time
mediciens and the cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted
by the well-informed. Buy the genuine.
Manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
Portland theatre will undoubtedly be
favored with another big house.
MONIES

The nsxt rihearsal Of the Portland
Festival chorus on Monday evening will
be conducted by LlsweIlyn b. Cain Of
watervills. who now has charge Of sew
eral of the state choruses. lie has given
up his New York work and will reside
In Maine this winter. There will bs no
election to the vacant direotorship for
the present, but it Is thought that Mr..
Cain may be elected
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
AT rHEgETHEN'S ALLEYS.

At Trsfeshsn's alleys at South Port
land last evening the Oiympias won from
the Cascos by a pins. Dyer rolled very
even game and finished with 276 for
three strings. Score.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
A HOTEL DISASTER.

Montreal, Octobsr 3s.-The Webster
house. on the corner of ST.. James and
Cathedral streets. was burned this morn
ing. Several persons are supposed to
have been burned or suffocAted.
Three hodiss have been recovered, one
woman.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
/ CHALLENGE FOR THORNTON.
the Editor Of the P-sss:

In behalf of the hebron Academy foot
ball team, hereby challenges the Thorn
ton Academy football team to game Of
football to be played at either Saoo. Lew
iston or. Portland, and upon any date
vhteh they may choose
Lsar NJ. Small,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

in her counsel practical assistance.
Mrs. Pinkham's address Is Lynn.
Mass.
Mrs. MABEL Coon. Correctionville.
Ia. tells how Mrs. Pinkham saved
her life. She says:
81 cannot thank you enough for
what your medicine has done for me.
/ can recommend it as one of the best
medicines on earth for all women's
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

T|HE ills of women overshadow their whole lives
Some women constantly getting medical treat
ment and are we'll "A woman best understands
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

No one would ever be bothered with
constipation if everyone knew how nat
urally and quickly Rurdock Blood Bit
ters regulates the stomach and bowels.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

DANCING AT GOLF CLU b BOUSE.
The memb ers Of the Portland Golf club
enjoyed a dancing party at the club
house Last evening. About so particle
patsd. The affair was ohaperoned by
Mrs. Leighton and Mrs. Jordan.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01
PRACTICAL
HELP FOR
SUFFERING
WOMEN

last became bedast Three of best doctors did
good so l concluded try Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable
Conound After taxing bottles of medicine
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

evening and recommended Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable
saying that she knew that would then
sent your medicine and after taking five bottles it. was
entirely cured. l cannot praise it enough.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

aDIt 10 no III my HUuSt-
work. | know that your
medicine raised me from
a bed of sickness and
perhaps death. and am
very thankful for what it
has done for me. l hope
tn at every suffering
woman may be per-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

pear.
MRs. DOLE STANLEY.
c a m pb e llsburg. Ind.
writes: 4" DEAR MRS.
PrNRHAM-I was troubled
with sick headache and
was so weak and nervous.
I could hardly go. A
friend called upon me one
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

AIDED to try your medicine. +"
Get Mrs. Pinkham's advice
soon as you begin to be
Izzled. The sick headaches
d dragging sensation come
,m a durable cause. Write
r help as soon as they ap-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-01

Thursday evening, Cascos vs.. Prebles
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27


grows from day to day The war feel
ing has run its course in this country.
They no longer hear of battles to cheer.
but to shudder.
The financial issue will be paramount
Currency reforIners. as goldbugs cal.
themselves. are anxiously awaiting the
assembling Of congress; they have a bill
prepared; it has been submitted to Che
chiefs, Including The president; it pro-
poses. to fix the gold standard upon the
country as permanently as possible, to
legalize the act of fraud by which the
Republican party demonetized silver,
and to give the bankers trust mo-
nopoly of the paper money, business.
Democracy is bound to win under
such conditions. The only thing Repub-
licans base their claims upon is the re-
turn of prosperity, which has resulted
from influences over which their party
has no control, and it has come stimuli
taneously to lands beyond the jurisdic-
ton Of President Mckinley. The people
are not as easily fooled as once they
were. 1t VIII take more money and
more representation than ever to enable
the Hanna crowd TO make even q show
ing at the next election.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
A POLITICAL DON JUAN.

The coloners political attachments
are fleeing. Like the sailor he has a
tootsy- wootsy in every party port. He
has flirted with Democrats and made
love to Populists. He has courted sill
yer in the west and become engaged to
gold in the east. To the former he
made fun of gold; to gold he said that
the buxom silver lass was only a
corpse. He revealed the corruption and
extravaganza of Republicanism two
years ago and wants to cover it up now.
He was lavish in his praise of the
mayors appointees. but now he finds
plenty OF fault with them all. He tries
to convince them that he doesn't mean
it when confronted with the evidence Of
his unfaithfulness. Yet last summer
he accused the watermaster of trying
to usurp functions not his. and said
that the only reason Mr. Game wanted
TO take charge of the City Creek con-
struction work was Ito give employ
ment to Mormons and Democrats" 1t
was this fear, possibly. that induced
three prominent Republicans to bring
an injunction suit and prevent the
work from being done at all. Then he
told how the city physician was neg
lecting his duties. and the charge was
not without foundation. but it is folly
for the. colonel to deny it now. Then
he informed the taxpayers of this city
of what a cheeky, perverse. unworthy
official the watermaster is, in his opin-
ion. Yet every one of these officials
was appointed by John Clark, mayor.
confirmed over the protests of the ma
jority of the council and endorsed by
the coloneI's personal organ.
But politician capable of toying
with the affections of church one year
and turning upon it with the fury of
woman scorned in the following year
is capable of doing all the rest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
BUSINESS MEMS PROTEST

That protest against the removal of
the general offices of the Short Line
from this city is a step in the right di-
rection. When the Short Line was re-
organized as a Utah corporation, it was
made the beneficiary of special legisla-
ton enacted in it's interest solely Be
sides the people of Utah have given
the road and the Union Pacific as well
a generous support that entities them
TO expect the continuance of the gen.
eral offices of the Short Line here. If,
however, the directors Of the Short Line
conclude TO remove these offices and to
place the system under the manage
ment Of the officers of the Union Pa
cific, there will be a reversion to old
conditions that viii be anything but
agreeable to the people of this state.
1t viii amount to the inflietion of a di-
rect injury upon the state. How the
people will accept this. time alone can
tell. That they win resent it in the
manner most effectual it is only reason
able to suppose, for the special legis-
lation passed for the benefit of the
Oregon Short Line was enacted on at
LEAST a tacit understanding that the
general offices of the company would
remain. here permanently
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
HOW WHITE WOULD DO 1T.


Candidate j. Farley White demon
strated beyond further question at the
Second precinct Republican rally the
other night that he is utterly incap-
able Of discharging the duties of the
Office Of city treasurer: and his party
organ paraded his failing with such
ostentation that one is led to inquire
if it has decided to throw him over
board in someone eIse's interest.
In 1885, as the mayors message
shows the present city treasurer, Mr.
Norris, saved and collected some 500
900 more than did his Republican pre-
decessor, Mr.. May. Mr.. White says
that he could have eclipsed that record
and this is how he would have done it:
Mr.. White says that he has dis
covered that. there are twelve more
saloons this year than in 1897. Each
saloon pays an annual license of 81, 200.
The city treasurer should have col
lected from saloons alone during the
last year $4,000 more than in 1897
In other words he thinks that Mr.,
Morris should have collected in 1898
LICENSES lTOHl Twelve SdlOOIiS llidl were
not started until 1899. Mr.. White pro-
poses to add the gift of prophecy to
his business talents and offer them
all to the taxpayer at one price.
Here is another gem from Mr..
Whites mental Kimberley: "A year
ago the stock brokerage business was
of little Importance in this city and the
brokers We're not taxed. Now there are
at least 100 brokers paying a tax of
SIS each. That makes $1,000, and the
total is So, 40
He would have collected all this
money from men who were not in
business at all at the time the $4,000
increase in revenue was made which
he credits to Treasurer Morris.
This year the city's gain will be so
much larger that ]. Farley would
have to revise his argument and have
another trance to tell how he would
have done it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
SALT LAKES SHOWING.

The department Of labor has just pub
lished the statistics of the 40 cities OF
the United States that have more than
10000 population The figures are Of
ficial. having been compiled under an
act Of congress.
only three cities Of the Rocky noun
tain region appear in the tabulation.
They are Denver with 10000 people;
salt Lake. which is given at 10000. and
Butte with q population fixed at 10000.
The area of Denver is placed at Si,4S5
acres. salt Lake at $3.50 and Butte at
1850.
other comparative statistics show
that Denver has SS4 licensed retail sa-
looms. Butte l40 and Salt Lake only Il;
that last year there were 1,054 arrests
for drunkenness in Denver, 6S4 in Salt
Lake And 451 in Butte; that the va
Eraucv convictions in Denver amount
To 1.l75 cases. in Butte 695. and in Salt
Lake So. The total number of arrests
made in Denver in 1888, for all offenses,
is 7.477. with 1872 convictions; in Butte
the arrests number AGO with 3,S56 con-
5xictlons: and in salt Lake the arrests
total 2.z76. while 2.20S of the prisoners
were convicted. The police force of
: Denver is composed of ninety-seven
men. that of Butte forty-two and of
Salt Lake thirty-two.
Denver has 100 firemen and 200 fires
20 her credit. Butte eighteen firemen
ard lbs fires. Salt Lake twenty-six fire.
men ana 1l9 fires. DenNer's fire loss is
set down at $4,000 and that of Salt
Lake at sI7.o0o.
The death rate per 1000 in Denver
ss.z1.ss. in Butte 9.2e, in Salt Lake 7.46.
From this it will be seen that Salt
Lake city is a more healthfui, more
fortunate and less burdened city than
Denver. With one-fourth as many
hremen and one-third as many police
men we have made a better showing
in the prosarv alton Of property from
fire. in the proportion of convictions to
the number of arrests made, and in
general moral appearances and condi-
lions. Denver has five times as many
saloons and five times as many va
gV2nts as Salt Lake has. Butte, with
hut little more than half our popula-
sion. has twice as many saloons and
three times as many Migrants.
Take it all IN all, there seems to be
Iltile justification for the effort OF GER
tain scandal nlongers to make this city
out q veritable pesthole Of immortality
and laWlessness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
DENIAL DOESN'T SUFFICE,

In its local columns the Tribune yes
terday contained what purported to be
denial by Mr. Lannan that he had
ever used the language quoted in The
Herald of the. preceding day as coming
from him. The language imputed to
Mr.. Lannan was:
The Cd d-n fools of Democrats
haven't got sense enough TO know when
they have got a good man for chief of
police. but by Cd we viii elect a man
this fail who will put Arthur Pratt back
il it costs $4,000 TO do So
The denial by the Tribune for Mr.
Lannan might be accepted but for re-
membranee of past instances of the
newspaper DENYING one day what it adj
mitted the next. For instance, when Mr.
Lannan went TO Washington TO log roll
for the postofIice site. The Herald in
timated what his purpose was in going
to the national capital The Tribune
Indignantly denied that he had any
such purpose. Then two or three days
later it published in its news columns
telegram from it's Washington cor
respondent that Mr.. Lannan was there
in the interest OF one Of the postoffice
sites. thus admitting the truth of the
statement it had branded as a lie. Were
the Tribunes news service more re-
liable, more accurate, The Herald might
accept its denial of the Pratt story
from Mr.. Lannan as genuine. But ii
cannot do so under the circumstances.
In case of necessity the Tribune would
iYnDeach its own story When a denial
is made that is authoritative upon Mr..
Lannan's part The Herald will produce
the evidence of the statement
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
FIGURES SHOW THE CHANGE

1t has been several days since the
! Republican organ repeated its stereo-
typed falsehood concerning increased
taxation in Salt Lake City. While the
rate was raised from IL mills to 271a
mills before a Democratic council was
elected it has not been increased a frac-
ton since, Notwithstanding the predic-
ton of Messrs. P H. Lannan, c. C.
Goodwin, j. f. Dooly O. ]. Salisbury,
w. S. Mccormick and John Henry
Smith two years ago that an increase
would be necessary to correct the
abuses and settle up the extravaganza
of Republican maladministration.
Furthermore. the assessed valuation
of property has been reduced from
$S4.41O, 1871 in 1897 to sS1.9O1,157. Yet the
tax rate was not raised In 1897 the
county treasurer turned over to the city
$3.50. 1855. This was used up in one
way or another by a Republican
mayor, council, and other officials and,
according TO the non-partisan address,
heavy inroads We're made upon the
money needed and collected for the en-
suing year In 1898 the county treas
urer turned over TO the city from taxes
S217. 45S. 45-a decrease of ST., 66S. 91-out
of which the amount already consumed
by Republican extravaganza had to be
paid, a Striking fund provided for, and
the current expenses of the city met.
This is an excellent record. With de-
creased assessment valuations the tax
levy was not raised With sS2, 79797
worth of Republican claims to settle,
sinking fund to be started, the City
Creek water system to be extended and
Parley's canyon to be cleared of the
accumulated filth of years, it was a
heavy undertaking for any body of
men. The present council took hold
and marvelously well has it succeeded.
The condition of municipal affairs when
the Democratic council entered upon
the discharge of its duties may be
learned from a perusal of the non-par-
tisan address. The Improvement
wrought may be understood after read
ing Mayor Clark's message.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
womEN's CLUB CONVENTION.

Utah's club women are the welcome
guests Of Salt Lake City. Yesterday the
sixth annual convention of the Fedora
ton of Women's clubs began in the
First Congregational church. The wo-
men in attendance represent the thirty
two clubs included in the federation
These organizations are from every
town of Importance within the states
borders, and they are devoted to the
accomplishment of variety of ends,
all entirely good and desirable.
The proceedings of the opening day
were exceedingly interesting. The wo-
men perform the duties assigned them
in a manner that would have been
creditable to their brothers, more prac-
tieed in parliamentary usage and con-,
vention fornalities. Certainly in their
public capacity the ladies of the fede-
ration are able and dignifed. That
they have been benefited by the club
life no one can. doubt, and in this con-
'nection it is interesting to note that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27
NATIONAL PROSPECTS.

Tise prospects OF Democratic success
IL the next presidential campaign are
Frightening every day. The silver cause
is gaining new friends in the east, and
all who supported it for selfish rea-
sons and not from principle have long
since abandoned the cause.
Mark Hanna has secured all the Ben
edict Araolds who wanted commissions
IN she silver army shat they might in
lure ii the more in their desertion; the
newspapers Of questionable loyalty have
eeen subsidized by the Republican ma
tionat committee: the silver legion has
beea relieved of the presence of spies
and traitors in the employ of Hanna;
and thousands of silver Republicans
disguised at the duplicity of their pro-
1essed organs, have come into the Dem
ocratie party and announced their in
tsntion to remain until the restoration
OF SILVER is accomplished.
Another thing in favor OF De-
n,oeracy is the gradual sometimes re-
iuct1nt. nut nevertheless certain, align
sneat Of Republican speakers. writers
and 5sulnals en- the side of the trusts
STney may resolve and write antitrust
rdanlss for platforms and claim to be
AZ much opposed 10 the trust evil as
znvbodv. But they Invariably defend
tho monster. either by denying that
There IS such an offspring of Republi-
ran policies or by declaring that the
crust is a good thing. It is just as nat
nrai Tor a member Of the Hanna or
ranizaiioa 20 take a position of this
lind 80 II IS FOR a duck TO swim. They
l.nos and have too long defended the
rol;cv Of patesnalism and government
sq..oatisin 10 turn against the product
sof the system now
eEinlcy has worn out the war en-
fl4ieiss.a upon whie1 lie depended so
,a.sSh. People are. wondering why it has
ssi,en ihree fimes as long 10 accom-
rii=a, nothing against one OF sixty tribes
>zhich snhabit the oriental archipelago
~ II took to copGuer Spain-a recog-
n,zea naval and military power,
canfpped with better guns and aninu-
,l4iof sian we had at that time and
5.sco,sra.ses BY the sSmpathies of con-
,furntal Europe. People no longer stand
round the bulletin boards reading the
var news, they no longer throw up their
,,.,ts ana cheer when we get the word
s,,st Macarthur has won victory, or
+ j. s,4s,ns has captured another town
s5i,.., 4.,avs any attention to the victories
!. .-ai3ocan. Canita. Guadeloupe, Anti
,a,o. aSarong. Novaliches, Norzagaray
1,.,cei,,, .5r san Miguel de Mayunla? ?
xssl,o watches for The results any more
+, a The deafh list that mothers and
ssnlrrs and wives are watching as it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27

; Va
On March 20. It's. a convention was
assembled in Richmond to consider
means for putting the colony in a posi-
ton of defense. It was at this conveIl-
ton that Patrick Henry. speaking not
to Virginia alone. but to the whole
sisterhood of colonies declared that
the time for peaceful negotiations had
passed and the hour had struck for
war. AS a mere bit of oratory his
famous speech of 1TT5 is notable, but
as an epoch-makins revelation its de-
livery is one of the most important
events o. the revolutionary period.
The oft-quoted speech first reviewed
IN mastery fashion the attempt of the
colonies to preserve by peaceful Meth
DDS the ancient rights of Englishmen.
And then. after an inspiring preseEta-
ton of the strength OF 100000 of peo-
pie armed in the holy cause of lib
erty,s the speaker, with all the dra-
matte power of his wonderful oratory.
closed with the majestic peroration so
familiar to all Americans:
Gentlemen may cry peace, peace,
but there is no peace. The war is
actually begun. The next gale that
sweeps from the north will bring to
our ears the clash of resounding arms.
Our brethren are already in the field.
Why stand we here idle? What is it
that gentlemen wish? What would
they have? Is life so dear. or peace
so sweet, as to be purchased at the