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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
ARE TO DEVELOP OIL FIELDS
NEW YORK CAPITALISTS ON
WAY TO WYOMING.
Have Purchased Large Tract of Land
and Will Sink Wells at Once and
Develop Properties.

Denver, Aug. S1.-A special to the
Republican from Cheyenne, Wyo., says:
Advices today from Binghamton, N. Y,
state that a company of New York mil
ionaires recently acquired title to a
large tract of oil land in Wyoming and,
under the name of Lne Union Oil COM
pany, Will sink wells and develop the
properties.
Three prominent members of the
firm, accompanied by oil experts, are
now en- route to Cheyenne to complete
the arrangements for starting work at
once. Machinery was purchased some
time ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
SAILED FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
The Victoria Carries Horses and
Men For General Otis.

Seattle. Wash. Aug. 3l-The remain
ing troopers of the Third cavalry, num-
bering ninety men. under command of
First Lieutenant tombstone, embarked
today for Manila on the transport i've
toria, which sailed for Tacoma, where
her cargo viii be completed. The Vic
toria carried 200 cavalry horses.
Tacoma. Wash, Aug. 3L-The trans
port Victoria sailed tonight with horses,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Belligerent Dutchman Arrested.

Cape Town, Aug. 31.-A dispatch from
Buluwayo says that Petrus Vlgoen,
the Dutchman charged there a week
ago, upon warrant signed by the
Miner, with inciti7g natives of Be
chuanaland to rebel against the British
authorities. was today bound over in
heavy securities to keep the peace, but
was Immediately rearrested on a charge
of having stolen wagon belonging to
Chief Khana
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
PYRAMID OF COLD.
To Be Sent From Cripple Creek to the
Paris Exposition.
Especial to The Herald.)

Especial to The Herald.)
Colorado Springs, Aug. 31.-The mine
owners and business men of this city
and Cripple Creek will send to the
Paris exposition in 1900 a pyramid of
gold, worth S1,00O,000
Commissioner F. W. Peck made the
proposition stated above to meeting
of representative mining men. His sug-
gestion was unanimously endorsed, and
a committee will begin work imme-
diately. The plan, as suggested by Mr..
Peck at this afternoons meeting, is
that every ounce of gold taken out
of the Cripple Creek mines within a
certain number of days shall be put
into thu exhibit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01

Cape Town, Aug. S1.-The rumors that
the Schreiner cabinet would be dismiss
ed caused an unusual episode in the
house of assembly here today Cecil
Rhodes asked for a speedy passage of
the estimates, in order to enable him
to go to Rhodesia. The other leaders
of the opposition supported the demand,
but the ministerialists, fearing that the
completion of the estimates would be
the signal for their downfall, declined
to be forced, and after the passage of a
few votes, the house proceeded to other
business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
CALLS IT POLITICAL WIND.
British Comment On the Ohio State
Democratic Platform.

London. Aug. Accommodating upon
the paragraph in the platform adopted
yesterday at the Ohio State Democratic
convention denouncing the secret and
vicious alliance now in evidence be-
tween England and the Republican adj
ministration" the Globe today says that
no such alliance is ever likely to come
to pass. The paper belittles the effect
of such an utterance upon the Ameri-
cans and says:
THE more cordial friendship which
has lately grown up between the great
English speaking nations has struck
too deep roots on both sides of the
Atlantic to be blown away by a puff
of electioneering wind"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
BOER WOMEN VAR[|KE
Forming Rebel Clubs In Many
South African Districts.
ANXIOUS FOR A. CONFLICT
PROTEST AGAINST ENFRAN-
CHISING OUTLANDERS.
Efforts Being Made By Transvaal
and British Governments to Settle
Question Peaceably-Threat to
Dismiss Schreiner Ministry
Causes Talk of Revolution.

johannesburg. Aug. 31.-The Stand
ard and Diggers News of Johannes
burg, describes the Boer women as
very warlike. They are forming rife
clubs in many districts and petition
ing the Transvaal government against
granting the franchise to the Outland-
ers on the basis of five year resi-
dence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Billiardist Ives Dead.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Aug. 91.-A tel
egram received by DR.. ]. D. Peters,
father-in-law of Frank Ives, the cham
pion billiard player, announces the
latter's death, which occurred at Pro-
gresso, Mexico. Consumption was the
cause of death. Ives remains will be
brought to Plainwell, Mich, at which
place he was born in 1866.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Crushed In a Wreck.

Danville, Ills, Aug. 31.-At o'clock
this morning a south-bound freight on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois struck some
box cars standing on the main track at
Possville and wrecked the engine and a
number of cars. Engineer Tilton. Erie
man Hollis and Air Inspector KELLOGG.
who were on the engine, were crushed
beyond recognition. The three men re-
sided in this city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Ex-Governor Merrill Dead.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 31.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Samuel Merrill of Iowa died this
evening, at the age of 70 years. About
a week ago Governor Merrill suffered
a stroke of paralysis, and but little
hope of his recovery was entertained.
He was injured severely in an electric
car accident several months ago. and
he never entirely recovered from the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
War Material Released

Lourenzo Marquee, Delagoa Bay,
Aug. 31.-Instructions have been re-
ceiyed from Lisbon to release the con-
signments of ammunition for the
Transvaal. An additional large amount
of ammunition arrived here today on
the steamer German.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Pray Queen to Avoid War.

London, Aug. 31.-A petition from
The Netherlands Woman's Disarma-
ment League has been presented to the
queen, praying her, in the name of
womanhood and motherhood, to avoid
war with the Beers, and saying it
would cast a frightful blot upon your
majesty's most glorious reign
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
DREYFUs ALLEGED CONFESSION
Subject That Took Up the Entire Day
at the Courtmartial.

Rennes, Aug. 91-when the public
session of the Dreyfus courtmartial was
resumed at $50 this morning there was
a stir in the audience. and considerable
curiosity was manifested as the name
of Captain lie Brun-Renault of the Re-
publican guard the recipient of the So
called confession of Dreyfus, was called.
and the. officer walked smartly to the
witness box, saluted the court and
threw his KEPT on the table. He then
stood at attention, awaiting questions.
The president of the court, Colonel Jou-
aust, said:
ION Jan. 5, 1895. the day of the prison
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01

were badly scorched. Charles Whitney's
IRON works were destroyed, as were one
or two other small concerns. The en-
TIRE loss will hardly reach 5000
Two tiremen, Collins and Deheney, of
engine IL, were injured by being caught
under section of roof as it fell.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Pcstmasters Appointed.
Especial to The Herald.)

IOptCIdI 10 IIt lItIdIu.J
Washington, D. c., Aug. 31.-Post-
masters appointed today:
Idaho-Market Lake, Fremont coun-
ty, Charles L. HARDWOOD, vice Luella E.
Carruthers, resigned
Wyoming = Diamondville, Uinta
county, e. Stevenson, vice Edward M.
Roberts, resigned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
BIG BLAZE WAS THREATENED.
Considerable Property Destroyed By
Fire at San Francisco.

San Francisco, Aug. 91.-Shortly af-
ter o'clock tonight a. fire broke out
in the planning mill of George W. Thorn
son on Mission street, near Fremont
and in a few minutes the entire place
was a masz of flames. For a time it
looked as il a great conf1agration- would
follow the outburst. but the prompt ar
rival of almost the entire fire depart
ment prevented such a catastrophe.
The mill occupies nearly a quarter of
a block, and this section was entirely
destroyed. The warehouse of Holbrook,
Merrill & Stetson, hardware, and the
Gorham Rubber company, adjoining,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
REBELLION IS THREATENED.
Proposal of Sir Alfred Miner to Dis
miss Schreiner Ministry.

London, Sept. 1.-The Daily Chronicle
publishes the following from Cape
Town: 1t is rumored here that Sir AL
fred Miner, governor of the Cape Col
ony, contemplates dismissing the
Schreiner ministry, under his special
powers. If he does, it is feared that a
rebellion will break out, as the Dutch
would believe that Great Britain is
again forcing Cecil Rhodes to the front.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Fire at Ballard, Wash.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 31.-A fire at
Ballard this afternoon destroyed the
plant of the Bay Lumber & Single
Co., the public school building and
small dwelling. The total loss is esti-
mated at 100000, of which $4,000 falls
on the mill company
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
OUTPUT of Cripple Creek.

Denver, Aug. a.-A special to the Re
publican from Cripple Creek says: The
total output of this camp for the month
Of August. according TO the most careful
estimates. is $3.50 tons of ore having a
value of s., 32S,000
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Pl,olongs the Agony.

London. Sept. 1.-The Cape Town cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says:
Much disappointment is felt here at the
proposal Of a conference. as tending to
prolong the agony indefinitely.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
More War Supplies.

Bloemfontein, Aug. 31.-It is asserted
by local paper that orders have been
given for the immediate supply of
equipment and cartridges to the Orange
Free State artillery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
Episcopal Conference at Boise,

Boise. Ida, Aug. 31.-The annual con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church
for Idaho. opened here this morning.
presided over by Bishop j. H. Vincent
The day was occupied with reports and
devotional exercises.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01

Santo Domingo, Aug. 31.-President
Figuero has resigned. The ministers
will continue at the head of their va
rious departments until a provisional
government has been formed, after
which the elections for president and
vice president will occur. The city is
quiet today, but business is at a stand
still.
The Dominican gunboat Restaurcion
is ashore on the rocks at the entrance
to the harbor of Macoris. Efforts are
being made to get her off.
The United States cruiser New Or
leans and the French cruiser Creille
are still in port.
The city remains quiet, but business
is dull.
Puerto Plata, Aug. 31.-President FL
guero yielded his executive authority
to his council of ministers at noon to-
day. Official notice of the change in
administration has been received from
the capital by General Imbert who is
the provisional governor of this city
under direction of the revolutionary
committee. With the fall of Figuero
the revolution is victorious.
Cape Haytien, Hayti, Aug. 31.-News
just received here confirms the report
that President Figuero of the Domini-
con republic has abdicated. 1t is said
that he abdicated in favor of Jiminez.
Washington, Aug. 31.-The navy de-
partment has received official confirm
alton of the resignation of President
Figuero of Santo Domingo, in the fol-
lowing cablegram from Captain Long
necker of the New Orleans: president
Figuero resigned 4 o'clock yesterday
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
WEATHER TO-DAY.

Forecast for Salt Lake Today Il:
Partly Cloudy; Stationary Temper
allure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
silver AND LEAD

Silver So 1915 cents per ounce.
Lead, $435 per 100 pounds.
Copper, IL cents per pound.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
F|GUERO OUT OF
THE PRESIDENCY
Abdicates In SantO Domingo
In Favor of JimineZ.
HIS FALL PUTS END
TO THE REVOLUTION
Yields His Executive Authority to
His Council of Ministers.

They Will Continue In Charge of the
Administration of Affairs Until
New President Has Been Chosen
Provisional Government to Be
Formed at Once-Jiminez Hurry
ing to the Capital-Was an Al
most Bloodless Rebellion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01
MONEY FOR PENSIONS.
Utah Has 796 On the Roll, Idaho
Especial to The Herald)

1850 and Wyoming ere.
Especial to The Herald)
Washington, Aug. 31-Ihe report of
the commissioner of pensions shows
that there are 796 pensioners residing
in Utah, and that they We're paid the
sum OF $18S,77S during the past year
Wyoming has 279 pensioners, and
they drew sS9,65S during the year. and
Idaho has 1850 pensioners, who drew
$1S1, us
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-01

TELLS WHY HE DID
NOT COMMIT SUICIDE
declares 1t Was His Wife Who
Saved His Life.

Anrllllng Scene In Court When the
story OF That Dark Day, When the
Unfortunate Captain Was De-
graded In the Presence of His
Former Comrades, Was Told
Enemies Trying to Prove That He
Had Confessed.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13
Porto Ricans Shave with Glass.

The natives of Porto Rico have no
need to buy soap, for the wooded coun-
try abounds in plants whose leaves and
bulbs supply most fully the place of
that indispensable article. Among the
best of these is the soaptree, so called,
though it is more bush than tree.
It's bulb, when rubbed on wet clothes,
makes a snow-white lather, which has
an odor like old brown Windsor soap.
The Porto Ricans, who are all, from
the highest to the lowest, great dandies
in their way, make soap out of cocoa
nut oil and homemade lye-and fine
soap it is, smooth and fragrant. This
cocoanut oil soap is used for shaving.
When a man wishes to have a shave in
the morning he starts out with his CO.
coanut-shell cup and his donkey-tail
brush and bottle. 1t is never any
trouble to find an empty bottle in Porto
Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, or almost any of
the larger West India islands, even in
remote spots in the mountains. At least
twenty generations of thirsty people
have lived there and thrown away the
bottles. The man carries no mirror;
he is too poor to own such luxury
Not one house in twenty in Porto Rico
has even the very cheapest looking
glass. But generously rich nature pro-
vides the mirror, as well as the soap.
The man goes to some convenient pool
in the mountain stream where the wa
ter is quite still-there is his mirror.
He breaks his bottle on stone and
deftly picks out sharp piece of suit
able size.r Then he fathers his lace
profusely, and begins to scrape away
with his piece of glass, which, in his
hands, works as well as the best steel
razor. A cut or even a light scratch
is extremely rare as result of this al
fresco form of shaving.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13
THEY WANT TO TELL
These Grateful Women Who Have
Been Helped by Mrs. Pinkham.

Women who have suffered severely
and been relieved of their ills by Mrs.
Pinkhams advice and medicine are
constantly urging publication of their
statements for the benefit of other wo-
men. Here are two such letters:
Mrs. LIZZIE BEVERLY, 25S Merrimac
St., Lowell, Mass, writes:
at affords me great pleasure to tell
all suffering women of the benefit have
received from taking Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Icanhard-
ly find words to express my gratitude for
what she has done for me. My trouble
was liberation of the womb. Twas I'M
der the doctors care. Upon examina-
ton he found fifteen very large ulcers,
but he failed to don good. took sew
eral bottlesof Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, also used the Sanative
Wash, and am cured. Mrs. Pinkham's
medicine saved my life, and 1 would
recommend it to all suffering women"
Mrs. AMOS TRoMBLEAY, Ellenburgh
Ctr, N. Y. writes: q
Il took cold at the time my baby
was born, causing me to have milk
legs, and was sick in bed for eight
weeks. Doctors did me no good. l
surely thought would die. 1 was al
SO troubled with falling of the womb.
could not eat, had faint spells as
often as ten times day. One day a
lady came to see me and told me of the
benefit she had derived from taking
Lydia e. Pinkham's medicine, and ad-
vised me to try it. / did so, and had
taken only half bottle before 1 was
able to sit in a chair. After taking
three bottles 1 could do my own work.
l am now in perfect health"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13
A Hideous Monster.

One would scarcely expect devil
fish" to be pleasing animal; and, in
deed, of the several widely different
species OF fish which bear the name,
all are more or less repulsive; but the
one encountered in his boyhood by Mr..
Frank T. Bullen, which he has describ-
ed in a recent article, was particularly
unpleasant, and represented a little
known variety, found only in the Gulf
of Mexico
when l was youngster," he writes,
81 was homeward bound Aom Santa
Ana with cargo OF mahogany; when
off Cape Campeche was one calm after
noon leaning over the taffrail, looking
down into the blue profound, on the
watch for fish.
"A gloomy shade came over the
bright water, and up rose fearsome
monster some eighteen feet across, and
in general outline more like skate or
ray than anything else,> all except the
head. There, what appeared to be two
curling horns about three feet apart
rose one on each side of the most
horrible pair of eyes imaginable. A
sharks eyes, as he turns sideways I'M
der your vessels counter and looks up
to see If any one is coming, are ghast-
1y, green and cruel; but this things
eyes were all that, and much more.
II felt that the Book of Revelation
was incomplete without him, and his
gaze haunts me yet. Although quite
sick and giddy at the sight of such a
bogy, could not move until the awful
thing, suddenly waving what seemed
like mighty wings, scared up out of
the water soundlessly to a height of
about six feet, falling again with a
thunderous splash that might have
been heard for miles.
II must have tainted from fright, for
the next thing of which l was con-
scious was awakening under the rough
doctoring Of my shipmates. Since then
l have never seen one leap upward in
the day time. At night, when there is
no wind, the sonorous splash is con-
stantly to be heard, although why they
make that batlike leap out CT their
proper element is not easy to under
stand. 1t does not seem possible to
believe such awe-inspiring horrors ca
pable of playful gambolling.
THAT is a kind of monster sufficient
ly hideous to form fitting companion
to that most frightful of all monsters
and one often called devil-fish-the |
gigantic octopus, well known and re-
membered by readers of Victor Hugos
'Toilers of the Sea-. "
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13
Models OF Battleships.

BY the British admiralty's orders,
perfect models are made in parafiln
wax of every new battleship before it
is laid down, and these models are
tested in tank at Haslar. The mod
els are from u feet to "a feet long,and
the tank is 400 feet long and
20 feet wide. The models are made
of wax because it is a material which
does not absorb water or change it's
weight, so alterations can be easily
made. Also the material can be melt
ed up and used again.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13
PAMPERED DOGS IN LUXURY.
Extraordinary Coddling Given to Them
by Their Owners

Extraordinary Coddling Given to Them
by Their Owners
The lady who cares as much for her
dog as for her sarlns and laces takes
as much care in the ornamentation of
the one as she does with the other.
While she buys yards of lace and passe-
menteries and ribbons for her gowns,
varying them according to the changes
Of fashion, she procures the latest
novelties in collars, blankets, chains,
baskets and cushions for her dog. Not
long ago fashions in blankets for small
dogs we're made of smooth material
with hemmed edges and were tied with
small knots of ribbon to hold them
on. The house blanket and the street
blanket was made in the same way.
But now all that has changed. The
house blanket is made of light material
Of gay color, mostly pink, blue or
white, and tied with huge knots of
different shade and with ribbon edge.
These are made very loose and easy
for "lounging" in the cold winter days
to come. The blanket for street is
tight and Of black or scarlet, accord
ing to the color of the dog.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-13

village, and grew much attached to the
farmer to whom it belonged. The two
cranes found the simple country life
exactly to their taste and soon knew
every inhabitant Of the place. They
used to call regularly at the houses 20
be fed, and all went we'll till the female
bird died.
Then the other chose a new compan-
ion, and his choice was strange one.
He took as his friend bull, to whom
he showed the utmost devotion. He
would stand by the animal in the stall,
and keep the flies off him, scream
when he beloved, dance before him
and follow him out with the herd.
The communal system of joint herd
ing of cattle and swine, and driving
them together to the pasture prevailed
in the village, and in following his new
friend the crane learned the duties of
cowherd, so that one evening he
brought home the whole village herd
of heifers unaided, and drove them into
the stable.
From that day the cranes life be-
came busy one. He undertook duties
enough to last him from morning till
night He acted as policeman among
the poultry, stopping all fights and dis
order Once, when turkey and game
cock were found fighting the crane first
fought the turkey and then sought out
and punished the cock.
Once, when two heifers Jagged be-
hind, he drove them through the street
so vigorously that they became fright
ened and broke away, running two
miles in the wrong direction.
The bird was not discouraged. He
could not bring them back, but he did
the next best thing. He turned them
into field and then stood guard over
them till they were fetched.
He would drive out trespassing cat
tie as courageously as a dog, and, I'M
like most busybodies, was universal
favorite and the pride of the village.