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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
WANT I'm FOR MURDER.
Nevada Officers After a Man In a
California Penitentiary.

San Francisco, July 21.-The Nevada
authorities are endeavoring to induce
Governor Gage of California to pardon
John Hancock, who is serving ten
year sentence for burglary. Hancock
is accused of numbering two men in
Nevada two years ago, and it is be-
lieved enough evidence has been Sc
cured to convict him of murder.
A Mrs Meyers, now Mrs. Goss. who
lived with Hancock, testified before a
grand jury that two years ago, Han
cock and she started from Orange
county, California, to go east by wagon.
While crossing the Nevada desert they
met two men named Edmundson and
Engleke. who had better outfit. Han
cock murdered these men and took
their team and wagon, burning his own
outfit He went as far as Ogden, where
he sold the horses and returned to
Orange county.
The sheriff of Phoebe county, Nevada.
investigated Mrs. Meyers story and
found the remains of two men who had
evidently been murdered. Mrs. Meyers
did not tell her story until after Han
cock had been sentenced for burglary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
How Sergeant Jones of Tennessee
Fooled the Filipin0s.
CAPTURED THEIR FLAG
SINGLE-HANDED HE ROUTED A
BAND OF REBELS.
he Made Them Think He Had a
Large Force Behind Him-Insur-
gents Wounded In Battle Are In
sensitive to Pain, So Says Re
turned Surgeon.

San Francisco, July 21.-On the trans
port Indiana, which arrived here today
from Manila, are a party of Filipino
men and women for the Omaha and
other eastern eXpositions, but it is pos
sible that they may not be allowed to
land.
The crew of the Indiana is mostly
composed of Filipinos, among them be-
ing two graduates of the Manila uni
versity. Among those who returned on
the Indiana was Dr. Day Walt of San
Francisco. According to him a Filipino
wounded in battle is insensitive to pain.
One man had his eye torn out by bull
let and his jaw shattered. When the
wounds were dressed he tore the band
ages off and two or three days later was
breaking in horse as though there was
no gaping wound in his head. The
doctor cites other similar cases.
A bandit named Rias is giving the
soldiers at Iloilo great deal of trouble.
He scours the country and murders all
who will not assist him. Six native po-
licemen were sent to confer with him.
Five of them were brutally murdered,
and one returned more dead than alive
to tell the tale The California boys
made a forced march of twenty-five
miles, hoping to capture the bandit
but he escaped and was still carrying
on his depredations when the Indiana
sailed.
Sergeant Jones of the Tennessee reg
iment is credited with one of the most
daring exploits of the war. He cap
tured Filipino flag by making a soil
tary charge on a band of insurgents,
who thought he had larger force be-
hind him.
There is much criticism of General
Otis among the returning troops.
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Frightful Accident at Northport
Wash, Smelling Works. ~
BURNED BY RED HOT ORE
FUTILE EFFORTS OF HIS COM
PANIoNS TO SAVE HIM.
Pinned Down By the Molten Mass
and the Unfortunate Man Was
Almost Consumed Before the
Eyes of His Friends-Fatal Fire
at Vulcan, Colo.

Northport, Wash, July 20.-Martin
Smith, a laborer employed at the
Northport Mining & Smelling com
pany's plant, met with a most horrible
death last evening about midnight.
Smith was employed in wheeling ore
from the outside roast heaps to the
furnaces. The ore was red hot at the
time and there was danger of ii cav
ing. Both the general foreman and
the yard foreman had warned the man
of the danger and advised him to work
elsewhere. Smith replied to these adj
monitions that as soon as he removed
a portion of the heap that interfered
with the tracks he would.
A few moments afterward fellow
workmen heard agoniZing shrieks from
where Smith was last seen and upon
arriving on the scene the unfortunate
man was found pinned down by mass
of the burning ore that reached to his
hips The men worked like demons to
extricate him. but in vain. the poor
fellow absolutely roasted alive before
their eyes. Ten minutes of hard work
resulted in the recovery of the charred
remains.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
ARRIVED FROM MANILA.
The Transport Indiana Brings a Car
go of Sick Soldiers.


San Francisco, July 21.-The United
States transport Indiana arrived today
from Manila, the journey occupyln.
thirty-two days. The vessel was sent
TO quarantine.
The Indiana has sick soldiers on
board and number of Red Cross
nurses. The sick soldiers were taken
from the various regiments, and a
great number of them are suffering
from wounds received in battle. .Nfter
the work of examining the vessel has
been finished by the quarantine officers
the sick soldiers will be removed to
the newly furnished hospital at the
Preside.
Private Edward Crawford, company
A, Twenty-third infantry, jumped
overheard yesterday while insane and
was drowned. Great efforts wer.. made
to save the poor fellow. but they were
unavailing.
Among the bodies brought from the
Philippines was that of Major piggles
of Minnesota
There were only l25 nicn and the tel
lowing officers on board, besi,es a
number of nurses: Colonel A. L. Smith,
Thirteenth United States infantry ire
tired); Major o. L. Parker, Twenty
second infantry; Major G. o. Webster.
Fourth infantry; Major T. VI. Foote,
First Colorado; Captain Stephs
O'Connor, Twenty-third infantry; Cap
tain w. Van Patent, assistant surgeon
First Washington; Captain Herpol-
heiner. First Nebraska; Cap ain NJ. j..
Hersey, quartermaster Twelfth infan-
try; First Lieutenant Maracong, First
Second LieIfenlnt RicarGs,
First Montana; Assistant Surgeon
DayWolt
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zled smile. II came in response to
your advertisement" she began, when
seated.
Yes. You have references, I pre-
sume?"
Certainly. if you require them" and
the caller set her chin a little higher
Does your house have all modern con-
veniences?'
Everything. The kitchen is par
ticularly we'll arranged and the
laundry is complete. There is nothing
old or worn, and that makes it nicer.
Where did you work last, and what
wages have you been getting?"
Work last?' Wages? 1 beg your
pardon" and the callers eyes looked
dangerous. Il don't think your house
would suit me. at all. I would like
conservatory and billiard ROOM
Goodness gracious And L suppose
you'd want a private theatre and a
roof garden. You can't work for me-"
Madam, you advertise a house to
rent furnished. and when 1 come you
insult me-" and she started for the
door.
Then there was a hurried explana-
ton, and, both being sensible women,
they laughed till so weak that each
had TO take two cups Of tea as
bracer
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was the party who, with her daughter,
entered the rooms on the night of the
burglary. For two days they We're I'M
able TO locate her, or even find her
name and address, she avoiding the
place after the burglary. On the third
day she returned and left her keys
with the family who rent the rooms,
and then the desired information was
obtained. She had also said that Nor
ris owed her for five months services.
which evidently would have been her
plea, if il was settled that she took the
clothes.
When the officers went to the house
yesterday she stated that she Eek
rected it, and was very willing to
show them all through. She even
opened trunks and boxes for them to
search, but none of the missing things
We're found. The fact that carloads of
other goods were found-articles not
usually found in the home of one in
poor circumstances-was surprising to
the police. The burglary matter will,
in all probability. be dropped. Mrs.
Miller could hot be prosecuted, as she
was entrusted with a key to the rooms
and IN any event could easily claim
that she had been there to clean them.
There is no absolute proof to the con-
trary.
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WHEN MEN ARE BEASTS.
The Husband In House Cleaning
Time
philadelphia Record.)

| philadelphia Record.O
Husbands in House Cleaning
Time came up as a chief topic at a
Philadelphia club-wopan's club, of
course the other day. and some anus
ing stories were told. This house clean
ing period, it was remarked, is the
time of times when husband wonders
if his wife really does love him, or if
she at the command of the evil one
| married him to punish him.
y soured sister. who lives with
married cousin, remarked with asper-
| ity that every spring house cleaning
convinced her afresh that man was
not reasoning animal. Why, my
! cousins husband has made remarks
that actually burn my earsr'
This passed as biased opinion, with
no comment. Next the petite bit of a
wife of a well known editor took the
floor. She is timid turtle dove of a
housekeeper, and when she announced
that hubby, because of the volcanic
state of affairs at home had actually
taken room down town for the week,
why even madam president laid down
her gavel and looked thrilled. Right
here, for lack of space, We'll drop the
proceedings and single out the most
amusing instances which dealt mostly
with hege lords who returned late in
the evening without having been warn
ed as to the upheavals wrought dur
ing the day.
One weary gentleman, 'who had been
dining" was struck by the evident
disarrangement of his goods and chat
tells. and sat down on the hall seat to
think it over and decide what was up,
and If it were burglars to act accord
ingly. AS he sat lost in meditation
he felt something tickling his ear. 1t
was a card pendant from the peg above
and when he had captured it he read
thereon: please take the spare ROOM
1t was in the handwriting of the wife
of his bosom, so he decided that what
ever was up there was but one course |
for him.
Another story with a written card in |
it concerned young benedict who |
came home at an unconscionable hour |
and after a struggle worthy of a better |
cause, fighting buckets and chairs and |
scaling hat racks and banisters. having |
at last reached the landing before the |
door of his own room, was stared in |
the face by a miserable little card. |
which read thus: please look at the
heater" Look at the heaterr' he
roared, oblivious of his sleeping loved
one. Look at the heaterl Do that
trapeZe act over again just to let that
measly occupant of the cellar bask in
the light of my eyes. HeaterI B-r-r-r-
r-r-ri''
Another young husband. oblivious of
the fact that house cleaning had begun,
entered his sleeping apartment and
was amazed to see that his bed had
shrunk to the size of a child's crib
Mortal fear seized him. Had he, then. |
got so far over toward the magic realm
Of Jimjamland? Or had he been grow
ing? Then sweetly from the adjoining
room came reinsurance: "Oh, John,
forgot to tell you! You're to sleep in
here tonight
Then followed other stories-one
about a man who found the top of the
stairs so thoroughly barricaded that he
woke the neighbors in getting through
and altogether it was decided that
the Husband in House Cleaning
Time" would be good title for roar
ng farce.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
ASSISTANCE FOR PUTNAM.
Relatives of Dead Man Want to EN-
ploy Counsel

The relatives of Burton Morris are
very anxious to employ counsel to as
sist in the prosecution of Benbrook
They believe ii perfectly proper and
will deem it a positive outrage if the
privilege is not granted.
V. Y. Morris, a brother to the slain
man said yesterday: With all due
respect to Mr.. Putnam, we feel that
two heads are better than one, and we
maintain that il is our right TO employ
an attorney. The other side has money
and can procure the best legal talent
in the country if so desired. Why
shouldn't we be allowed to do the
same. Burts life was as dear to us as
Benbrooks is to him. We believe it
was foul murder and We want to see
justice done. No counsel is too good
for us. We will get the best that can
be had if we are allowed the privilege.
And if we don't get the privilege, we
viii not be satisfied that there has been
justice"
Judge Dickson and Arthur Brown
have been suggested as probable as
sistants to the county attorney.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
MORE APPOINTMENTS MADE.
Commissions Given In the Volunteer
Army By the President.

| Washington. July 21.-The following
additional appointments to the volun-
teer army are announced:
To be Captains: James NJ. Bur-
roughs. formerly first lieutenant and
adjutant First Texas cavalry; Godfrey
r. Fowler, captain company G, Third
Texas; Frank L. French, captain
Third Wisconsin,; Charles L. Green,
captain Second Wisconsin,; John A HUI
len, lieutenant colonel First Texas
cavalry; Christopher j. ROLLS, captain
Fourth Wisconsin; Frank a. Sullivan,
first lieutenant First Wisconsin:
Clark NJ. Carr, major and assistant
paymaster United States volunteers;
- Castoel, colonel First West Virginia:
Robert Calverty, major Second United
States cavalry; Charles G. McGhee.
captain Third Mississippi; Charles p
Newberry. captain Fourth United
States volunteers; F. D. Newberry.
captain Thirty second Michigan; G. c.
Scranton, captain Thirty-fifth- Michi-
gan; II. c. Barnes, captain First Ten
nessee volunteers; Harry Chadwick,
battalion sergeant, major First Ohio;
Leonard Deitrick, first lieutenant Sec
ond United States cavalry; Robert
GrinStad, first lieutenant First Ken
lucky; r. p. Granger, captain Thirty
first Michigan; Bert Mcmillan, New
i VI NOiuultEISs JOlll H. AcbTl0e, IT..
lieutenant Thirty-second Michigan; A.
E. McCabe. captain Thirty-fifth Michi-
gan; Daniel Wells, private First New
York.
To be First Lieutenants: William s.
Cunningham, first lieutenant Fourth
Texas; John V. Greene, private Second
Wisconsin,; Charles ]. Geishbush, cap
tain Fourth Wisconsin; George L. Glib
son, captain Fifteenth Minnesota; Jes-
sic l. Hall, captain company NJ, First
United States volunteer infantry: Will
liam Lowe, private First District of
Columbia; Alfred s. Morgan, captain
Thirteenth Minnesota; Henry Newton,
captain Third Wisconsin,; Cushman A.
Rice, first lieutenant Fifteenth Mime
sofa; Arthur B. Schaefer, first lieuten-
ant company D, Twenty-second Kan !
sas: Dean Tompkins, first lieutenant |
and quartermaster First United States |
volunteer infantry; John w. Ward. |
first lieutenant First Arkansas: George |
VIII Rich, captain company II. First |
Texas; Thaddeus Wild, lieutenant First |
To be Second Lieutenants: Robert /
w. Collins, first lieutenant in Colonel 1
Rays regiment, now private Nine |
teenth infantry; David Nom. Gregg.
)r., private Governors troop PennsyI- |
vania cavalry; George H. Armitage. |
Fifth Iowa: r. T. Gulick. cor
poral First Ohio: A Jennett, United
states volunteer signal corps.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
BETTER BROTH.
The Doctors Presence of Mind Saves
His Life.

His Life.
a celebrated Scotch physician tells a
story of madhouse doctor whose pres
ence of mind alone saved his life.
"A great friend of mine was for a
considerable time the medical superin-
tendent of a lunatic asylum near Glas-
gov.
"One day, in making his customary
rounds. he had occasion to visit the pa
tents in the kitchen, who were prepar-
ing the dinner. There were seven Of
them-all big, sturdy fellows, who were
believed to be harmless. The keeper
only looked in upon them now and
again. feeling that his constant pres
ence was unnecessary.
The doctor unlocked the iron barred
door of the kitchen and went in among
the lunatics.
There were five large boilers con-
tanning scalding water ready for max
ing the days dinner for the patients
"One of the lunatics pointed at the
boilers full of hot water. and. laying
his hand upon the doctors shoulder.
said: Doctor. you'll make a fine pot
of BROTH and the words had no sooner
been uttered than the other six mad
men shouted in a voice of delight: Just
the thing and, seiZing the doctor. were
in the very act of putting him into one
OF the large DOllerS OF ScdldlnS water,
when the doctor had the presence of
mind to say, but not second too soon:
Capital broth, but it would taste
better if / took my clothes Off
The madmen, with a yell of delight,
said yes and the doctor asked them
to wait a moment while he went and
took his clothes off. but as soon as he
got out OF the kitchen he turned the
key in the door, and ordered the keeper
to see TO the lunatics being put under
restraint
The doctors presence of mind saved
him, il is true. from a terrible death,
but he died shortly after raving mad.
The experience had destroyed his rea-
SON"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
UNDER THE CAR WHEELS.
Denver Man Ground to Dust By
Train Near Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, July 21.-August Dun
lop, a railroad man from Denver, Colo,
was instantly killed by a train at Sau-
gus yesterday. Dunlop came to Los
Angeles from Denver over a month
ago. having been formerly connected
with the Denver & Rio Grande railway.
He was looking for employment and
had received a letter which was found
upon his person, from the yardmaster
at The Needles. offering him work.
Yesterday Dunlop walked from New
hall to Saugus. The man went to the
caboOse of a freight TO have a talk
with the train crew. He was standing
on the steps of the caboose when the
train suddenly moved. Dunlop lost his
balance and fell to the ground in such
a manner that the wheels of the ca
bose passed over his neck and nearly
decapitated him.
Coroner Holland and Deputy Strubel
held an inquest upon the body at Sau-
gus, the verdict being that Dunlop's
death was accidental.
Today railroad man named Michael
Conner, who resides in this city. called
at the police station and told peculiar
story regarding the death of Dunlop.
Connor says that the dead man was in
reality Charles Ryan, formerly employ
ed on the Rock Island route. He was
one of the strikers who stayed out in
the great strike of 1894 and was black
listed. He went all over the country
trying to get work, but failed. When
his friend, Robert J. Dunlop, also a
railroad man, enlisted for the war,
Ryan assumed his name and took his
card as a member of the union in order
to get work. The real Robert ]. Dun
lop is now in the Philippines, a mem
Der of company D, Fourteenth regi-
ment. L. S. V. Ever since he went
away from Denver in a soldiers uni
form, Ryan has used his name and Gre
dentials.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22
MISS STRoMBERG'S DENIAL.
Was Not at the Merchants Cafe On
SUNDAY Night.

In reply to the accusation that Miss
StrombeTg dined. drank wine and
made merry with Benbrook in q private
room at the Merchants cafe until a
Very late hour Sunday night, finally
being driven home in = hack at a. m,
Miss Stromberg entered an emphatic
denial
THAT is another malicious false
hood" she declared. Burt Morris
spent Sunday evening with me at my
home here. He stayed rather late. but
/ was in bed before midnight. 1 did
not leave the house after Burt had
gone and I had retired"
Before her daughter came to the door,
Mrs. Suomberg was asked if Leda was
home all during Sunday night, or
whether she had spent the night with
some lady friend, but the old lady was
uncertain about dates and circum-
stances. Mrs. Stromberg did not re-
,nember positively whether Leda was
home Sunday night or not.
When Miss Stromberg was asked
last night to clear one or two points
in doubt relative to just how the trou-
BILE commenced when Burton Morris
found Benbrook and herself in the pri-
waite dining room, Miss Stromberg said:
Il told all the truth in my testimony
at the inquest and / will give the same
evidence in court tomorrow. L have
nothing to add to and nothing to take
from what / said on the witness stand.
] am nearly Frustrated over this trou-
BILE and l must decline to answer any
more questions"
What do you know about Benbrook
and Morris having had trouble about
a week before the shooting, when 1t is
alleged Burt struck at Benbrook?"
asked the reporter.
Il never heard of any trouble be-
tween Burt and Mr.. Benbrook," was
Miss Stromberg's reply.
'How long have you known Ben
BROOKE was asked.
ever since he came to Salt Lake.
answered the demure maiden.
Before declining to talk further, Miss
Stromberg took opportunity TO make
emphatic denial of the statement that
she int ended going to California with
1sennrook last Monday night
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Willing to Be Generous.
(Chicago Tfmes-Herald.)

..Hortense." he said, Il loved yer wunst
and / do yet. but it can't never be. \
guilt has come between US
..IIonril HOnri,' the weeping girl i'm
plored. you must-you shall take back
them Words
Il cannotw he answered. Our fam lies is
no longer in the same class. II is fate:
We must part. l cannot marry beneat
me-"
"Oh heaven" she cried. what has come
over him? You haven't got rich Student
" because you're wearin them s. clio
YOU got last winter. l must know the
troot. Tell me. Honri. tell me all. and
will be brave. l will try to bear it.
Then he gave her a parting kiss upon
her pale. chaste forehead and replied:
INV Uncle Bill druv the carriage what
was hired to take Jeffries to his hotel
from the depot But 1 will always remeH,-
her YOU wit tender feelin $.
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FELL BACK ON CHANCE.
Gambled Away Million-dollar Mine
at Dice
Spokane spokesman-Review.)

Spokane Spokesman Review.)
General Charles S. Warren, a pioneer
OF Butte. but now resident of Spo-
kane. and Miles Finlen shook dice in
the summer of 1882 for a copper mine
then valued at $750OOO. and now at a
cool million The mine adjoined the
Anaconda, and was held Jointly by
warren and Finlen. The latter is at
present wealthy mine operator at
Butte. and is noted everywhere as a
plunger in stocks, on horse races and in
political campaign. In the latter
amusement he makes the millionaires
or Butte hold their breath when he Of
ters to wager reckless sums on his
favorite candidate.
Warren and Finlen had owned the
property for some years, but had been
unable 10 agree upon the method in
which 1t should be worked. They met
one day in Lynch Brothers saloon
and the old wOrdy quarrel was al once
renewed as TO the relative values of
different methods of working the mine
I'll sell YOU my interest for what it
cost me-" said Finlen.
Il don't want your interest" replied
the general.
We'll, I'll buy your interest" said
Finlen.
Don't want to SELL" retorted the
general.
We'll. by G.. I'll shake dice with you
TO see whether you or | own the NINE"
Finlen rejoined with some warmth
Warren hesitated a moment His
friends believed F'inlen was bluffing,
but Warren knew the man. The mine
was a valuable one. After considering
moment Warren took his hands out
of his trousers pockets and remarked:
Miles, I'll go you
Give us the dice box yelled Finlen
to the bartender. The worries were pro-
duced.
What do you want to shaker" asked
Fin.en.
ANY way will de me-" replied War
rem.
ANY way will suit me, too" said
F'inlen. Now name your game"
Name yours" CURLY replied Warren.
"One flop. aces high. then" said War
rem, the winner to set up the wine for
the house.
That suits me. He goes" said Fin
len, as he spilled the dice on the bar
Two skies. 1 got you, Charlie. this
time" as he passed the box over TO
Warren.
THAT looks good, but I think 1 can
beat it, Miles, said Warren, as he
tossed the dice out.
There was not a pair in sight
''Ace high is good hand, sometimes,
but it loses this time. Charlie re-
marked t1nien as he threw a 500 bill
on the bar. and added: Give the boys
what they want, bartender
The next day Warren made out the
deed
The mine was later sold to the Ana
conda company by Mr.. Finlen. Three
years ago the adjoining claim was sold
for $3.50, 900 to Marcus DAILY.