The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-03
HOTEL GOSSIP.

11O CL OOSSlE.
DR.. s. W. Williams of New York. who
is Interested in the increase of the popu-
la1ion OF maiarial germs in Salt Lake,
and who came out wesr 10 unload his
stock of them on the market. was at the
Kenyon yesterday. The germ market is
already oyerstocked by the large holdings
thrown on X by the soldiers who have
returned from the Philippines. so the
DOCTOR was IN full possession of MS supply
yesterday when he shlvered and shook
che following out of himself:
Appendicitis was known In the time Of
Slr Ashley Cooper of London, as peri
typhilils. a species of peritonitiS and
was known to have its origin in a COM
plication attendant upon the inflamma
tory condition of the intestines and sur
rounding structures. DIR. William i. Bull
Of the Chambers Street hospital. in New
York, took the Initiative in demonstrating
that the appendix was the original seat
or lesion. An ably prepared paper, con-
tribuyed by Drs. Bull, Mckinney and 9th
ers, was read before the prominent ply
sicians and surgeons of the United States
at the Academy of Medicine on the sub
Ject about twenty years ago. and the
proposition originated by DR.. Bull proved
theoretically and empirically correct. The
operations necessary for the removal OF
the appendix have been uniformly sue
ce5sful in recent years, and the mortality
attendant upon them very slight. Or.
Robert r. Morris has been one of the
most successful practitioners in this re-
spect. He now has a large sanitarium in
Connecticut, where he devotes all his time
TO operations. including laparotomies in
general. t$ A.
Surgery was much 1hampered in former
years by the limited knowledge of anti
septics. Antiseptic surgery. as practiced
mercury. carbolic acid and peroxide Of
hydrogen. The period of antiseptic sur
gerry dates back TO the time Of Sir James
Lister; he used carbolic acid in his oper-
atf 0as cfx o6
of Listerism. Bi-chloride of mercury was
originally used in the German school and
has descended to us from them. Peroxide
of hydrogen is the least used of all the
antiseptics in surgical operations; it is
chiefly employed in the production OF
chemical blondes
II am chief engineer of the proposed
new electric railroad from Salt Lake to
Bingham, and am as full of troubles re-
garding its equipment as the rattlesnakes
in the ST. George region are Of venom,
said James Campbell at the Kenyon yes
terday. I've been sitting up late O.
nights, porting over quaint and curious
volts, amperes and other things calculated
to dethrone reason and elevate idiocy. In
the morning / meander into this hotel
lobby, and sit me down for awhile to cogi-
tate the momentous question of the night
BEFORE and just as, the mistS of uncer-
tainty are being dissolved by the mighty
reagent. reason. I catch sight of that
poster bearing the legend relating to the
identity of Brown. That settles the
solution of the electric problem and I'M
settles me for the rest of the day have
spent more fleeing hours in. the past
week. standing in front of that damn
thing trying to tell which is Brown, than
I've bestowed on prayer since left Cali
fornia, and probably twice as many as
electric equipment of my railroad ] wish
they would take the thing away; IL they
don't. there will be an addition to the
lunatic. population before the snow flies.
1t is teaching me to swear"
J. N. Esselstyn, the expert mining en-
gineer of Tuscarora, New. is in town to
attend the conference meetings, so he
says, but those who know him intimate
that the sights on. his fowling-piece are
arranged with the intention of shooting
at game some distance away--that the
conference part of it is merely a subter-
fuge. He said last night:
.fTuscarora is an old has-been silver
the most profitable in Nevada. Its great
est period of activity was in the los but
it declined after silver was demonetized,
and until recently has been a dead enc
composed of Indians and coyotes, 1t is
now, being worked for gold, and the out
look is so favorable that the old camp
life of the ,70s is coming on apace. Ihere
is a large amount of native gold in the
quartz formations that abound IN the I'M
mediate vicinity of Tuscarora, and many
opportunities for placer mining; the latter
is handicapped by the scarcity Of water;
except in the spring months. The goid
belt lies below the town, In the yailey at
the foothills of the mountains. There are
good paying placer claims to the norIh
and east of the old claims, and one In the
glIlch at Tuscarora, that can be worked
at certain seasons only. owing TO the
scarcity Of water Considerable prospect
ing is going on in the Bull Run noun.
stains. situated. to the north and east Of
the placer region. The ar1pies OF ore ana
ASSAYS Of it, Justify the; astl l,It:g o. ne
ing taken out of the old mines, but II
partakes of the naturea,of robbtng ana
cutting.
John r. Mckenzie of Nova Scotia ar
rived last week and turned in at the
Walker. His trunks went off on.a tangent
atissone curved portion of the journey.
and new Mr. Mckenzie is dividing his
time between the Olympic pastime OF sit
ting in his room, bewai-ing the ansen has+ 81
one of berating the Union Paein nc Ra al
road company II am worse on than the
man who lost his laundry ticket and was
apiioris1n." said he. " have the trunk
checks. but they avail me naught. think
that the cheeks are good for an unllmiteq
amount of abuse because that is what ]
IL
railroad officials"
Superintendent T, f. Young of the In
land Salt company was toasting his shins |
in front of the renovated White House
stove last night. The cold snap had con- |
gealed all the information he possessed |
about salt and the method of extracting It +
from the lake. but later on IT thawed ana ]
oozed out of him by the thimbieful. He /
said:
putting in new rolls and purifiers and |
overhauling the $50 horsepower. single |
cylinder engine The new works Will have \
a capacity of sixty tons output daayi we
viii employ thirty hands, and run the I
shop day and night
week j have -four mill at Junction that
turns out fifty barrels day IL IS now
running full time and will continue 20 90 /
The frost and hailstorms that visited /
Junction several weeks ago destroyed !
about 90 per cent of the wheat crop; the !
remainder is selling for 40 cents a /
bushel."
a. D. Bell and j. w. Barrett of Logan |
arrived in town yesterday to do some
fail shopping, They are at the Walker.
Mr.. Bell said:
Logan this fall, with the result that most +
of our wheat crop has been harvested ana /
put into the market. nearly all of it has |
been threshed, and is bringing about 43
cents a bushel The alfalfa seed crop /
is particularly good, and we are getting
S and 6 cents a pound for 1t. The general \
business conditions in Logan are very II
good the best for seven years. A build /
ing boom Is on now. Thatcher Bros, the /
bankers. are erecting large brick build
ing on Main street. and number or other \
buildings. all Of brick, are going up IN the \
tnyun The s1lpaT beetS- have not yet been I