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Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-27
Light on the Subject.

The Wadsworth Light and Power
Company are preparing large order
for chandelier and other electric light
fixtures, and those wishing to order
will please CALL Surprise your wife
with something new and stylish.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-27

November magazines at this office
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-27

For SALE-Sewlng machine, banjo,
glass and tinware. Quick, This
Office.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
PROCESSION OF FAMINE WIDOWS.

now. To the famine stricken popula-
ton of the city are added the refugees
from the country districts, their ranks
depleted by the loss of those who have
fallen out and died by the wayside I
never before imagined that human
creatures could be so CHASTITY thin.
They look like gridirOns on legs. They
sleep in the streets, and whine at YOU
for food as you pass. At night the
streets look as If war had been raging
and the dead left on the field Those
that don't get UP in the morning are at
tended to by the burial corps. It isn't
always easy to tell which are the live
ones. Last week I passed near some
sort of a priest who had been kneehng
for a long time on the sidewalk with
his forehead against the wall. After
me-in point of lOcatiOn-came two
priest and touched him. He collapsed
had been dead, but it must have been
quite long time. It was starvation.
Beggars are everywhere. There are
they tell me, but these fellows are ter
ribly in earnest. Some of them, the
professionals, I suppose, look plump
enough, but there's a very convincing
show of ribs on the majority 7 have
seen ban IS of fifty or sixty of these
beggars, mostly boys and children, all
clamoring with their hands out
stretched. They will take anything in
the way of food that is offered. But
the people who lie in the cutters and
grOan, with hardly enough strength to
hold out their hands, are the hardest
TO pass by. There is no trickery there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

every man, woman and child could live
well, without money or Oyerwork."
This new movement has been started
in Maine by the organization of The
Cooperative Association of America. -
protest against competitive waste
and monopoliStic greed" Under a char
ter a primary organization has been
started in Lewiston, where the $50
members dine at cost in a building do
mated for the purpose.
THE E1OVenIen. 80 far" said Mr.
Peek, has proved successful and pro-
fitable-the profits going entirely to the
cause. The next move viii be TO build
apartment houses, where the fullest de-
gree of comfort and health may be en-
Joyed at the lowest cost; after that
cooperative store will be established I"
Peck's dry goods store is co-opera-
tive in the sense that the employees
share in the profits, but he wants to
go further.
All the members of the association
should profit by every enterprise. All
department stores begin small. The
shoemaker and the dry goods man pool
their interests. and then the millfner
joins them and the clothier and the
furniture man, and finally you have a
store where everything can be bought.
Now, that is just how we expect our
movement to grow. When, as We hone
IN the near future. an organization
shal! control not only restaurant but
model dwellings, and stores. and the
people of Lewiston see how one Quarter
or the city has developed. il is safe ~
say that they viii soon fall into line.
FROM the city Of Lewiston we hone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

One day down on the river front
ran across q procession of widows
There were about tWClty of them ana
they were going to some tempe %
mourn for their husbands. who mad q.
died within the week. SO / was tQG.
Whether they had starved or dlea '-
the plague ] don't know D5tl tts
likely. The women wore long 2a.A
head coverings that shrgUded ia=f
faces, and they walked bent far over
and the sound OF their crying was
thing I shan't forget Nj L. 'lA
a picture Of them, one OF when GU.
close I went away up a side street
didn't like the sound. That Sa3l- 70.
] wandered into a part of the ha-.5
quarter where the plague Had -e.'55
heavily. Some Of the door posts .e-
ten or twelve circles on them. WIN LILY ---
date of each case neatly inscribed ---
natives seem apathetiC about IT, --..
call it a visitation of the Lord am ~
il go at that. We found cE'"- 2.
children padding in an open sewer -.-.
had apparently infected me .-
street, for the circled numbers
thick and there had been cases y- ~
previous day: but nobody nle. go .-.sr
with the children. There was pIu.e-.
no other place for them to 60 w ~
the danger of infection W9u.dh -A.-
been as great
The famine fund from America, -'s
fallen OF greatly. ] suppose you u I'M
the Galveston disaster now 10 taA..
your charitable thoughts. bl- D. IN
hard to believe that anywhere Is h.
the world money. wisely used. llo-- r
used TO such effect for life-~atiA7 o.
this city
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
Promotion of the Arts By Utah's
Institute.

According to the report of the trus-
tees Of the Utah Art institute. which
has been submitted to Governor Wells
for transmission to the legislature, the
state may congratulate itself upon the
forward movement in art matters dur
ing the second year OF the Institutes
existence. With reference to the thir-
ty-One lectures under the state insti-
tute's direction, the report states that
they were given for the purpose of
awakening an interest in the domain
OF art, cuitivating public taste in the
direction of true artistic appreciation
or the beautiful in nature, the worthy
IN art, taste in personal apparel, the
useful IN manufactures and decoration
in home furnishings. Some of these
lectures were specially prepared for
the public school teachers with a view
toward aiding them in the difficult and
important duty of giving instruction in
drawing and art in the school room.
The hearty cooperation and appTe-
cation Of the people is such that the
trustees are convinced that the state
institute of art is proceeding on the
right lines, with popular approval,
leading TO the adoption of true artistic
tendencies among the people.
The lectures referred to were given
IN various parts of the state, eleven Of
them by Joshua H. Paul secretary of
the board Of trustees; ten by Alice
Merrill Horne, six by President H. L.
A. Gunner, and one each by Mrs A
w McCune, Mrs F. r. Elliott. Miss
Elsie A. Hunt and Professor A. r. Ha-
ger.
The annual exhibition of local artists
at Logan the second week in Novem-
Der is mentioned at length as having
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

the Cagayan river, in Isabella province.
drove out the insurgents. killing sew
eral OF them, and captured ] 900 rounds
OF ammunition. The Americans also
burned the insurgent quarters The
latest report from TlOilo says the is
lands of Panay and Cebu since the
rainy season ended. are being rapidly
cleared Of the enemy. and that in a few
weeks the only opposition encountered
viii be that offered by scattering La
drones. The Twenty-sixth infantry in
Panay and the FoTty-fourth in Cebu
are conducting an actively aggressive
campaign The American casualties
have recently been slight.
The cruiser Brooklyn proceeded to
Subig Bay today with the board ap-
pointed to examine localities suitable
for a naval station.
The monitor MOnadnock has gone to
HongkOng to be locked and scraped.
Major Bell, the provost marshal. to-
day instructed all officers to obey lit
orally General MacArthur's proclama-
ton concerning. persons in Manila Civ
ing reimbursement to the enemy. It
is universally believed that the rebel
forces are greatly thinned and scat
tered throughout Luzon. Their am
munition supplies are being "a DidIy cut
off and numbers of them are becoming
amigos Much interest is felt in the
movements of the reinforcements in
Mindanao.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

been productive of good results.
At this exhibit these pictures were
acquired by the institute in exchange
for life memberships by the artists:
From George NJ. Ottinger, 1.-The Child
Of the Sun; from James T. Harwood,
Priscilla: from Emma c. Carson,
The Road Through the Forest"
Besides these original works of art
the institute had previously acquired
Salt Crested Rocks of Great Salt
Lake" from Harwood; "Quaking As
pens from John Hafen; French
Peasant Knitting" from Mary Teasdel:
Under the Willows" from @. Wesley
Browning. All of these, the report says,
are equal in value to the entire appro-
priatiOn of $1,000 from the state for the
two years just ending and form the
nucleus for permanent state art gal
lery.
Two additional life members We're
admitted TO the institute during the
year. Thomas Kearns and Alexander
II. Tarbet, who paid the fee of 500
each. T. G.. Weber, T. r. Cutler, \.
W Carlson, J. g. Cutler L. =. Hills
Cora II. Eldredge, II. s. Goddard and
Arthur Sheppard took out annual
membership cards to encourage the
state Institutes work
The Institutes revenues for the peri
cd covered by the report were So. 409. 40
and the expenditures within $3.50 of
this sum. An appropriation of $4,000
from the legislature, the amount al
lowed in the first instance, is asked for.
With the filing Of the report. Secre-
taTy Paul gave notice of his resigna-
ton, and also directed attention to the
vacancies in the board caused by the
resignation Of John 3. Fairbanks and
Miss Louise Richards.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
is DISCIPLE OF BELLAMY.
Maine Man Aims to Build Universal
Department Store.


mild hammered man, whose aim in
life is to make of the world one grand
department store,' is a guest at the
Everett House. His name is Bradford
Peck. He is wealthy and an enthusiast
on the subject of solving all social and
economic questions by the formation Of
"The Peoples Trust
Peck comes from Lewiston, Me,
where he is at the head of one of the
largest dry goods houses in New Eng
land and president Of the largest real
estate company. He is also president
of the Joliet QlL) Dry Goods company.
He believes that BeHamy's scheme of
life outlined in Looking Backward
can be put into operation. Indeed. he
is confident that before the first quar-
ter of the twentieth century shall have
ended the entire United States shall
have become one grand cooperative
concern, with every man, woman and
child a shareholder; all enterprises
shall be under national ownership. all
middle men, stock jObbers, agents and
drummers shall have been done away
with; every commodity shall be made
and sold at the lowest cost and the
lowest price, and every citizen shall
enjoy to the fullest the result of his Ia
bors.
According to Pecks great scheme. no
person who is willing to work shall be
in fear of want through illness or lack
of work.
In Maine said Mr.. Peck, "the ap-
pies rot on the ground, yet here people
Starve. Throughout the country there
is more food produced than could ever
be consumed, yet men and women go
hungry. The bargain counter is the
result of underconsumption, due to lack
of proper system of distribution.
You may buy clothes at less than
the cosS of manufacture-yet many men
hQsra n q -
Why? Because OF lack OF system.
4 believe that BY the conservation Of
energy-by the elimination of the mid
die men and Of the idea Of competition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
PLAN NATIONAL
WATCH NIGHT

New York, Dec. 22-It was an
nOunced tonight that a secret commit
tee meeting was held in this city to-
day, at which plans were perfected to
hold a monster religious revival to
usher in the twentieth century.
This revival is to be the fruition Of
the plan evolved by the late Dwight
/. Moody. which his friends took up
and have enlisted IN its support the
most prominent Christian workers of
the country. It is to be national in
scope, with New York as the center
It is to be absolutely INSTRUMENTATION
al in character.
The leaders include a majority of the
leading evangelical cleTgymen of
Greater New York, beside William p
Moody, son of the dead evangelist:
John Willis Baer of Boston, secretary
of the United Society of Christian En-
deavor: John r. Mott of the interna-
tionaI 7. N. c. A, General O. o. How
ard Of New York and General J. J.
Estey of Brattle6oro, VT.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
Domestic Quarrel, Pretended Suicide
and Resurrection.

A domestic quarrel. a wife feigning
death from suicide. puzzled Doctor,
miraculous recovery happiness and re-
concilliatiOn: such were the leading
features of an impromptu comedy that
was enacted Thursday night. A room
IN a lodging house at Y East Second
South street furnished the stage. The
leading lady was the wife of a lOdger.
Following is a synopsis of the play:
Act I--Scene, room in lodging house
early in the evening. Husband and
wife arguing fiercely. Sudden silence
broken only by sobs of weeping wife.
Exit husband, obdurate and unrelent-
ing. Low sobbing; curtain.
Act II--Scene, same as before, later
in the evening. Wife lying on bed,
stains Of carbolic acid on her face
empty bottle labeled carbolic acid on
the table. Enter husband The dis
cOvery of the tragedy. ooh, merciful
heaven, turn back the cycle of the uni
verse and give me yesterday" Exit
husband, frantically.
Scene. ?, Smiths Drug Store.-Clerk
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
Steamer Has Perilous Trip.

Queenstown, Dec 22-The British
steamer Haddon Hall was towed into
the haTbor here today with her propel-
Ter gone. by the British steamer Spring
well. The Haddon Hall sailed from
Swansea for Baltimore, Nov. %, and
had been in tow OF the SpringwelI,
which was bound from Galveston for
Bremen, since Dec. 10.
The Haddon Hall broke her shaft
Dec..7 in latitude 49 north and longitude
IS west. during terrific weather. She
was helplessly tossed about for two
days. The Springwell appeared Dec. 10,
but the fury of the gale preluded tow
ing connection. Both steamers drifted
before the gale eastward for three
days. When the weather moderated the
SpringWeu sent a life boat and at
tached hawsers- There were frequent
partings but the 500 miles of towage
was finally accomplished.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

Extract from private letter from an
American travelling in Bombay
Unutterable misery, indescribable
filth are on all sides, wherever you go.
No one who has not Travelled in the
Orient can have any idea Of such a
city as Bombay, its hopeless, helpless,
unresisting suffering; its patience, like
the patience of the dead: its sharply
huddled contrasts of wealth and AFFECT
want. The plague is still upon the
city, though it is greatly diminished
and diminishing. Upon the door posts
in many quarters one sees occasionally
the ominous circled figures Of the pes
thence, fresh marked. But it is staTVa-
ton that is so heaTtrending. The pic
lures ]. send were taken in the first
days of my wanderings about the city.
Since then I have had no heart to look
upon much that has come before my
eyes; still less to focus a camera on
such wretchedness.
Starvation is the prevalent epidemic
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
TREATY IS SENT BACK
Department Receives Amended
Hay-Pauncefote Pact.
RETURNED BY SENATE
WILL SOON BE ON
WAY TO ENGLAND.

Washington, Dec. 22-The Hay-Paunce-
fote canal treaty. with the senate amend
ments. was received at the state depart
ment shortly after noon today 1t was
transmitted from the senate through the
White House With the treaty was a
simple statement, signed, not by the pres
ident pro TEN of the senate, but by Mr..
Bennett. the secretary. reciting the ac-
ton taken by the senate on the conven-
ton
The state department will forward the
amendments in the regular course TO the
British government and they will be on
their way to London by the steamer
which leaves New York next Thursday.
This action is rather more rapid than is
usual in treaty-making. Once 1t is taken,
there will be nothing more for the state
department to do until the British gov
ernment has passed upon the amend
ments providing an unconscionable period
OF time is not so occupied.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
TREATY's FATE IN DOUBT.
None Can Yet Tell What England
viii Do,

NOAS Jan I ct 4el4 w naI EuSAduu
VIII Do.
New York. Dec. "a dispatch to the
Tribune from London SAYS:
The action of the foreign Office in rela-
ton to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty can
not be forecasted with any degree of
confidence. Lord Salisbury is at Hat
field listening to the story of Mafeking
from the Inns of Lord Edward Cecil, and
Lord Dansdowne is at lSJWood entertain
ing a large Christmas party. They are
the only men VINO can speak with author
ity on the subject and they are not likely
to break silence until the treaty In its
amended form is brought before them
officially.
There is a good deal of country house
diplomacy in England. Ambassadors and
cabinet ministers are constantly meeting
one another and talking over matters Of
real Diplomatic centers at this time Of the
year. 1t was in a country house that the
preliminaries TO the Hay-PauncefOte
treaty were informally arranged and it is
not impossible that there may be similar
conferences during the holidays over the
amended treaty
All predictions respecting the results of
further negOtia tons between the two gov
ernments are premature. The comments
of leader writers Of the press are tenn
perate and no pressure of public opinion
will be brought TO bear upon the foreign
offico against the acceptance of the
amendments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
ENJOYS WILL SIGN NOTE.
Presentation Now Awaits Lis Re
coVery.

RreSentaIISn NOW Awaits LIZ Re
covery.
Pekin, Dec. 22.-The last obstacle
having been removed, the joint note
was signed today by all the foreign
ministers, including the ENJOYS from
The Netherlands, who arrived only re-
Gently.
The note viii be delivered TO Ii Hung
Chang and Prince Ching, the Chinese
plenipOtentiaries as soon as the former
shall have sufficiently recovered from
his indispositiOn. The Chinese close
to Ii Hung Chang still prefer to be-
lieve, despite the signing of the note
which they did not believe would take
place, that the present negotiations
must be carried on in Europe or Amer
lea. The resent the British Ynodifica-
ton of the note, for they say some
power or powers might not be satisfied
until The indemnity has been paid in
full which would mean the occupation
of Pekin for an indefinite time as it
cannot be expected that China can
raise what would be required-pOs5ibly
one billion taels-at once. AS a mat
ter of fact, it will take several years
Ii Hung Chang'S condition is reported
today to be so much improved that he
was able to be out Of bed for a short
time.
The cavalry and infantry detach-
menJs which have been investigating
the reported troubles near Ho ST WI
have returned and report that there is
nothing to cause alarm. All the trOu-
bic, they say, is on the other side of
the river, which the allies are not pro-
tecting- 1t was discovered that a party
of Catholic Christians had started on
an expedition, but its whereabouts is
not known.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

busy filing quinine tablets. Enter
husband. The narrowing tale is told.
Clerk rushes to phone and calls up
doctor. Exit husband, tearing his hair.
Curtain.
Act. IIT-Scene, room in lodging
house, distracted husband kneeling be-
side dead wife. Enter doctor. There
is still hope. Exit husband for milk
and oil. Corpse shakes violently. and
gives forth peels of silvery laughter.
It's all a joke Hubby was obdurate,
but he viii pay for your fee" Foot
steps in the hall. Wife again assumes
the rigour of death. Enter husband
with milk and oil. The bluff goes mer-
rjly on. Milk is administered. Means,
groans and returning consciousness.
Wild citation Of husband. followed by
complete repentance, reconciliation,
tears and kisses. Exit doctor in deep
meditation: soft music; curtain.
Thus ended the little comedy. The
doctor is Slowly recovering from the
nerve shaking he received, filed with
a wholesome respect for the resource
fulness of the feminine mind.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

1t is life and death with them. genera
~ death. We gave money 10 one -r5
woman who was too weak In r~sr1
across the street and buy food with =.
but she handed the money to a b5v sr9
sent him for the food. I only hons L-
ever came back. The s,tL.-.
ties do their best, but it must mai,
them feel hopeless to see the scores ~
starving people pouring into the r,-,.
from the country districts every ds-,
The worst of it is that there is f,,5
here to feed thousands if they Womb
only use it. 1 could go out TODAY NTH
a shotgun and bag 500 pigeons in rba
streets of the city. Why don't do ira
Because I don't want to be torn m
bits by a mob. The pigeons are sacred
birds and are teuderly fed on grain
that might be saving human lives. Trs
the same way with the sacred goats
and bulls; they own the streets in The
native quarter No native would thin.
of killing them for food or ever helping
himself to their fodder He would
rather die. What a city it is,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23
R00SEV ELI is TO
BECOME A MASON

New York, Dec. Ex-Governor Roose-
welt has been elected a member of Ma
tinecock Lodge No. 10S of T. & a NJ
Of oyster Bay, L. I.
The matter was kept quiet until an
invitation was issued to members Of
the local lodge and many prominent
Masons throughout the county to at
tend a stated communication, to be
held Wednesday evening, Jan. ?, 1901,
when the entered apprentice" would
be conferred upon Theodore Roosevelt.
After the ceremonies there will be a
dinner. and it is expected the prom
inent Masons from all over the coun-
try win be present
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-23

Ruff conducts dairy north of town.
At O'Clock this morning he and the
hired man, Valdez, were milking in the
barn, the rest of the family being
asleep in the house. A gasoline stove
which had been left burning in the
kitchen, exploded and in an instant
the house was in flames.
Ruff and Valdez beat in the front
door with an ak and succeeded in res
cuing Mrs. Ruff and an infant child
uninJured. They then rescued two os
the remaining six children, not, how
ever, until they were badly burned, so
rapidly did the flames spread. The
other four were crushed by falling
chimney, and after the fire nothing but
scattered bits of their remains could
be found
It is feared Mrs. Ruff viii lose her
reason from the terrible shock.