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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
Most Exciting Day on New York
Stock Exchange.
UNDERSTANDABLE EXCITEMENT
Recorded Transactions Footed VI I,s57Sss
Shares Compared With Prvious
Record oi l,tz5,9Is- yIoIent
Price Fluctuations.

NEW YORK, Jan. To-day was one
Of the most exciting days in the his
tory Of the New York stock exchange.
There can be no doubt that the aerre-
gate sales for today exceeded anything
ever done before on exchange. Re-
corded transactions footed up 1897 90
shares, compared with the previous rec
ord Of 1s23.sis shares on November Il.
1900. There have been wider price
movements than any Of these made to-
day IN individual stocks. or III groups
Of stocks. but It is doubtful whether
there has ever before been 20 violent
a fiuctuation IN the average price for
stocks traded in. as from low price to
high price today.
The confusion during the early hours
Of the market. while the ultimate course
Of prices was still In controversy, vas
beyond description. and the excitement
during the late hours Of the day. when
the demand was at its height and
prices were moving most rapidly up
ward. warrants the use Of the term
frenzy Considering the extreme varia-
tons on prices and the highly concen-
trated character Of some OF the DEAL
ings. Il is not exagserating to say that
vast fortunes were made or lost on the
floor Of exchange during the day.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
GIRL KIDNAPPED.
Daughter of Prominent New York
Real Estate Dealer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 4-wm. L. Rad
ford. a real estate dearel Of prom
reported at the bureau Of information
early this morning that he had reason
to believe that his 16-year-old daugh-
ter. Mary, had been kidnapped.
The girl was slightly i'll and was
to ave met her father at noon yester-
day at the Sixth avenue elevated rail-
way station at Thlrty-third street. He
was to have accompanied her to his
physician. She did not keep the ap-
pointment He waited for three hours
vainly and then went home. There he
was told that Mary had left the house
in time to keep the appointment at
noon and that nothing was known OF
her.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05


southern Oregon since New Years
night report an abatement of the fury
OF the storm.
The situation on the Southern Pa
cIhc railroad has Improved during the
day This evening the officials sue
cceded In breaking the blockade, which
has existed on the sacramento dIyis-
ion, south OF Dunsmuir. One passenger
train was started from there on ~ way
south and one north. with the expecta-
ton that they win get through. In
addition 10 combating gigantic snow
drifts IN Sacramento canyon and IN
deep cuts Of the sisklyou mountains.
the railroad has had two iandsldes
south OF casteila TO contend with and
force Of several hundred men has
succeeded in clearing the track. Five
snow plows and an immense force OF
snow shoyelers are operating south OF
the summit Of the sisklyous and no
effort or expense Is being spared to
clear the road
Six engines that hauled yesterdays
southbould express over the sislsIyous
70 Hornbrook, on returning this morn
iSg 70 Ashland encountered a drift over
fourteen feet deep A snow plow and
a large gang OF men have been at work
all day digging them out and II Is cx-
pected that they wlll reach Ashland be-
fore morning.
The passengers. 90 trains Nos. II and
Is. which arrived from Portland this
morning. are held IN Ashland and
those on No. II. due here at midnight,
are also to be held here a train was
made up ana left for Portland with To-
cal passengers and mail.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
PRESIDENT HILL
MAKES STATEMENT
Lines Hope by Getting Together
to Reduce Expenses.
RUMOR OF GIGANTIC DEAL
aasa--se-
Northern Pacific and Great Northern Reduce
Local Passenger Rates 10 Mouisaa
and Idaho to Three cenls
Per Mile.
RUMOR OF GIGANTIC DEAL

ST. PAUL, Jan. i.--Regardlng the re-
port that deal between the Great
Northern and the Milwaukee and St
Paul roads had gone through and that
President J. j. Hill had borrowed $685.
100000 TO carry II through. that gentle
man said this afternoon:
Il have made no loan In Montreal.
Does Il not stand TO reason that II /
needed money l can get It without go-
INK to canada7 No deal by which we
get control OF any western line has
been consummated. yet win say. how.
ever. that some Of the lines hope by
getting together to reduce working ex-
penses."
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS.
C. J. Howard Named for Postmaster
Of Cottage Grove,

q WASHINGTON. Jan. L-The presl-
dent today sent the following nominal
tlons 10 the senate:
Nolen c. New, Of Indiana. deputy
auditor OF the postofiice department;
Cyrus r. Adams OF Illinois. assistant
register Of the treasury.
To be brigadier-generals In the vol
untecr army; Colonel S. w. White
side, Tenth cavalry; Lieutenant-Colo-
mel Jas. p Campbell. Thirtieth lnfan-
try. Y. S. "; Major chas. Burd. quar-
tcrmaster. U. S, A.
Fostmasters; Oregon-C. ]. Howard,
Cottage Grove.
Californla--wllliam Il. Reading,
Boyle; ], ]. West. Williams.
Navy; Commander J, G. Hunker to
be captain; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS C.
X, Curtis to be commander; Lieutenant
J, q. Quimby to be ieutenant-oomman-
der.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
KRUGER 10 vtsfT AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Jan. A dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Lon
don saysl
Ii is almost certainly decided that
Mr.. Kruger will so to America in Feb
ruary.. probably accompanied by wm.
t. Stead. who win make ringing
campaign in behalf Of stopping the
war.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
Booz INVESTIGATION,
Testimony of Members Of Family Of
Deceased Cadet Heard.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 4-The Booz
congressional committee. which was re-
Gently appointed by Speaker Henderson
for the purpose of making inquiry in
to the cause OF the death of Oscar L.
Booz at West Point and to investigate
hazlng in general at the military aca-
denny, began to take testimony today.
Three sessions were held. The COM
mittee went to Bristol. the home of
the Booz family and heard the testi-
mony Of four members Of the family.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
rwo WRECKED scHooNERs.
One Is the Joseph and Henry. the Name
OF the Other Is Not Known.

NEWPORT. Ore. Jan. 4.-The
schooner which was reported ashore
bottom up. six miles south Of Alsea
bay. is the Joseph and Henry. There
is nothing in the hold.
Parties who came from the scene this
Afternoon report another three-masted
schooner coming ashore. waterlogged
few yards below the Joseph and Hen
ry. It is thought by some to be the
wreckage from the Joseph and Henry,
but that is hardly likely. The life-sav-
ing crew has gone to the scene
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
oLp-FAsHroNED DEMOCRACY.
Two Hundred Of Its Leaders Have Or
ganized and Secured Articles Of
Incorporation.

NEW YORK. Jan. 4.-The Journal
and Advertiser says:
Grover Cleveland. David B. Hin. Dan
lei S. Lamont. VIM. F. sheehan. VIM.
G. Whitney. Jacob A. Canter and other
Democrats are, It is announced. to be-
come members of the Samuel ]. Tilden
Club. with headquarters at Broadway
and seventy-second street, articles Of
incorporation FOR which have Just been
signed by Justice Leventritt. in the su-
.preme court.
The club. as declared by those who
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
ARMY REORGANIZATION BILL
Discussed for Five Hours in the Senate
Yesterday. ts

WASHINGTON. Jan. l.-For ave
hours today the senate discussed the
army reorganization bill The debate
took wide range at times. but was
confined principally to the necessity
for tho increase in the regular army
proposed in the pending measure. The
Philippine question was thrsshed over
at great length.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
FURY OF STORM ABATrNG.
But Southern Pacific Passengers Are
Stil Detained at Ashland.

ASHLAND, Ore, Jan. 4.-with the
exception OF sisson. Cal. where It Is
stlll showing tonight, all points In the
track Of the great snowstorm that has
been raging in northern California and
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
pAssrNGER Rates RED

PASSENGER RATES REDUCED.
sT. PAUL. Jan l.-The Northern Pa
cihc and Great Northern roads this ar
ternoon announced that the local pas
senger rates In Montana and Idaho
would on February ist. be reduced
from four TO thrse cents per mile. maxi
ing a uniform rate Of three cents per
mile over the entire mileage OF both
systems.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
CAPTAIN OF ALPHA cENsURED
coroner's Jury Blames Him for the
Loss Of the Steamer

VICTORIA. B. C.. Jan. 4-The coro-
ner's jury at Union, which has been
investigating the deaths Of the VIC
Tins Of the Alpha wreck. has returned
a verdict censurIng the captain Of
that steamer for not having reIia-
Bile chart and for attempting to enter
the channel near UE.on without =
pilot.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
BpERs RErREATINc.

CAPE TOWN. Jan. 1.-Two hundred
Beers have recrossed the Orange riv-
er. going north. commandants Petrus
and Deplocy we're killed in the tight
ing al Utrecht, December 18th.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
UNION PACIFIC IMpRovEMENTs.
Million Dollars win Be Expended in
Kansas.

TOPEKA, Jan. 4.-The Union Pacific
road announces that 1t will spend a
million dollars in Kansas in making
improvements to its road.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
CRUISER BALTIMORE.
WIN BE RehabiIitated at Expense Of
s5oO.OOO.

WASHINGTON. Jan. THE naval
board OF construction today decided to
almost completely rehabilitate the crui-
ser Baltimore. now lying at New York
navy yard Her Improvements will in
voIve the expenditure Of $5oo,oOO and
take at least a year and half.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1901-01-05
FIFTY.HouR REcoRp.

Bicycle Racers Have Covered 92S.5
Miles in the six-Day Race.
BOSTON. Jan. THE score, at fifty
hours in the six-day bicycle race is
McEachern leading. Kaser, stinson.
Downey, Fischer Mclean and walt
hour: all 92s,5 miles: Babcock, 92S1;
Muller, 91S.s.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
M In Other T Orms Nav
AV1o1 4 Have Other AbOdeS.
By Garrett p. Serviss.


by the mooAi in
her,
a
taton
SO faT and inaccessible by suddenly renarking
Il wonder
How asked smiling him,
But you continue
evidence there solid
adnnyfr
peculiarly the earth ~ No ~ % nose 'hns which belong
Then pure
No that either" you thought
some OF them might remember the earth
were dweers upon this planet although their
least he reDIed earnestly IA simply aver that
o[taI IN them has sgratd from one planet
zeal forms that they different words?" renarkd
have lived mortal
habant
nlnl within terrestrial limits enjoy the spendors that
substance comets tail is different deny packed
But the soul iqpershable strange
panson -
could being interested friends ensus
ana aDanaonn the narrow limits of exact astronomic knowe
reliant abode in brilliant
But interplanetary
every I'll time t for or the betea r" ., - a.. .
deemn here For R Pa Would for pP s Cp
theological hell
Let
quires polarity
70 brighter abode such as Venus splendid world another
sche
du distant doomed
By the time
necess " W ~ anu 9 emmy w ~ 10 " mum
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
NUTTINe's FIGHT FOR LIFE.

A MORE DESPERATE and he
a roic fight against death was
never made than that of the
imprisoned miner, Charles Nutting.
and the untiring band of rescuers
that, after sixty-fve hours of the
hardest labor, succeeded in releasing
him from living tomb in the High
land Boy mine.
Nutting's story of his imprison-
ment reads more like romance than
the record or an actual experience.
Fclled to the floor and pinioned there
by ten-inch timber which lay across
his chest, slowly crushing out his
life, he laboriously whitfield at the
wood with a pocketknife for hours
until the big beam was entirely sew
cred, and he was able to drag himself
from under it and signal his where
abouts to the men who were working
their way toward him. Then followed
the long struggle against the crav-
ing for food and water, a struggle
which lasted so long that it is little
short of a miracle that the impris-
oned man did not become a raving
maniac.
On the outside a struggle no less
heroic and scarcely less marvellous
was going on. From the place where
the rescuers were when they heard
the signals it was necessary to raise
fifty feet and drift twenty-six more !;
Z labor that usually requires from a
week to ten days for accomplishment.
Yet Nutting's prison was rec ched
In little more than sixty hours from
the moment his first signal was
heard.
Many of the rescuers remained in
the mine from forty-eight to fifty
five hours. But the most conspicu-
Gus instance of devotion was that
of Joseph Gregg, Nutting's partner
and roommate. One of the most ex-
pert drillers among the miners, he
lGbored on despite protests and even
orders from the superintendent to
leave the mine and seek rest. Not till
his entombed comrade had been
reached would he quit his post.
This is fair example of the stuff
of which Utah's miners are made.
With such as these working for the
upbuilding of the state, Utah's future
can never for moment be in doubt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
THE oUEsTIoN AT ISSUE.

NEXT TUESDAY the voters of
N Salt Lake City will elect COM
plete set of city officers There
3 no grave problem of national i'm
port at issue; It Is simply a question
Of employing men to attend to the
details of the city's business for two
years.
On the one hand is the Republican
ticket, composed of the men who have
given this city so wretched a govern
u,ens that President Buckle of the
city council, himself Republican,
has crned it "the rottenest admins
tsatiy that Salt Lake ever had" It
we INTO office with an ample treas
Il It's ccmmaGl; it has increased
heavilF,-and yet viii end the
seaF with huge deficit.
On the other hand is the Demo-
.ratic ticket, headed by an able, ag-
Eressive yOdng man who has made a
conspicuous success IN the manage
ment of his own business, and in
GLIDING list of names that are the
synonyms Of ability and worth.
Can there be any doubt which set
of men the people of Salt Lake will
select to attend to their BUSINESS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
wAsHINeToN's ITEMS.

Josh Winks in Baltimore American.)
No more do correspondents wise
In Washington. D. c..
Write column after column on
The congress that will be.
No more they pen impressive words
About the senate's poise;
Instead. they give us yards about
The little zoos welt boys.
No longer do the questions asked
By crafty III. wv
Compose the 1uDS of heavy work
The correspondents do.
The Sultan's ultinatums or
The social seasons Joys
Are nothing in their newsinesS
Beside the Roosevelt boys.
Instead of reading Chinas woes
Because she has to pay
We thrill because the youngest lad
Rode his new wheel today"
No gossip of postmas tershfps
Our daily news alloys,
But there is wondrous stuff about
The little Roosevelt boys.
They took a walk They stayed at
home;'
They rode out in a bunch"
They played baseball" They went to
school,"
''They had mince pie for lunch"
1t must be gay in Washington,
There must be lots of noise,
II all the items are correct
About the Roosevelt boys.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
soME TrIMes 70 REMEmRER.
TTIs IMPORTANT for the voter

IT IS IMPORTANT for the voters
of Salt Lake to remember;
That the valug.ion of city
property in 1899 (the last year of the
last Democratic admins ration was
S30.6902J4. and the city levy ne
mills, which produced $230,176;
That this year the valuation is
So. G92. 31S, and the city tax SO mills,
which will produce S2s6,3S4;
That when Ezra Thompson became
mayor there was $4,000 in the city
treasury;
That when Ezra Thompson leaves
the mayors Office at the end of this
year there viii be a defcit-not a
surplus. bat a defcit-of over $780,
600, in spite of the higher valuation
and the increased taxation;
That this increase Of taxation
should have been unnecessary. Or,
as a Republican member of the coun-
ell put it, The expenses Of the city
have been allowed to creep up
through our own Weakness
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
Copyright. 1901. by w. R. Hearst)

by R.. Hearst
at who
wnled little smiled
j of
Louisiana and share of Illinois stock
the banquet the Illinois
o smile! il sometimes
There further
elbows while they partoo Q the same
harge of twenty mn ON the tracks the other contoing in the
,t & m . and
with baggy trousers but that is trfg difference
tSP fonae Smiles hundred their bank %
of HE a ss 9nsog the n9 a a t Da os
early life to put everything
91tgTowP that instinct %a ad ha @ be Re result R of It's pocket
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has ] d n dand t69t he allow men who receive $50 month fTo
the eopany buy stock
Virtue its With the THE d endy nT Re n6 9 R he
Who i beauty? No.
parkles anthracite
hesmieo Of the manwho great he to make
him
eh@Ps hit a d n srn invest few 9aT n sa % ars
in living
their bn 1a not w 4 @ Tor ne was
Ha 4ns % & s% & IA oo G
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30

Atkins Devotion to His Spir-
itual Adviser.
London NALL


There was a certain much loved chap
lain shut up in Ladysmith who greatly
enjoyed a. smoke. In Buffers relief col
unn there were men who loved him well
and who knew his love for a pipe When
they left Colenso eleven of them each
carried under his khaki tunic a quarter
pound tin OF tobacco for the chaplain
And then came all the horrors of that
terrible struggle to reach the belea guered
town, eliminating in the awful tight at
Peters hill. One after another, vainly
trying to keep tie cherished possession.
parted with it bit by bit during those
dreadful weeks. But one of them carried
II all the time and never so much as
touched 1t. When at last he reached
Ladysmith he had to march right through
to encamp several miles beyond the town
But the next day he got a permit and
tramped back to Ladysmith, found out
his friend. the chaplain, and handed over
the treasure to him. All black and grimy
was that sacred tin of tobacco, black
with the smoke of battle and denied by
many hard fight: but il was therein
tact-an Offering of DEVOTION holy
thing-a pledge of love. The chaplain
has it still: he could not smoke it; il
was far too precious for that. It has be
come one of his household gods. to be
kept forever as a token of a soldiers
love.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
. lot Of people present. l want them

a lot Of people present. I want them
to hear me-"
swell, you cannot" was the reply.
AThen won't talk at all, y said the
prisoner, sullenly
No words more typical of the spirit
Of an anarchist were ever spoken.
Their ore inordinate desire is a long
ing for notoriety. a notoriety of the
vilest aud most contemplate kind.
OF any higher motives. Of any re-
straining conscience they are devoid.
To crafty this degenerate passion
they will sacrifice the noblest life and
ieopardize their own.
That is why the anarchist always
strikes at the most conspicuous OBJ
iect. That is why he always com
rnitS mis- cowardly deeds in the most
conspicuous manner. His boosted
devotion to the Infamous cause he
represents is all sham His pretend
ed stoicism is the mere cowardly bra
vado- The only thing about him
which is not hypocritical is his love
of notorieis Take the qualification
of this passion from anarchy and it
would soon cease to exist.
Consequently the orderly and dig
nitied course which Justice has fol
lowed from f~st To last ia she case
of Czolgosz can be counted on to do
even more 20 prevent q recurrence Of
such crimes as his than the example
of his death. Not one moment from
the time he fred the shots that killed
President Mckinney has he been able
to pose. NJ Fnawkish displays were
permitted during his trial or while he
was awaiting It. After sentence
was pronounced, SO far as the outside
world was concerned, he was as one
dead, and now he has been sent to
utter oblivion.
There is nothing in his fate that
will attract imitators, and much
which viii repress them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
WHO OWNS The APPLES!
THE OLD PROBLEM of whetbe

He OLD PROBLEM of whether
the hen that lays the egg or the
fowl that matches it is the
mother of the chicken is recalled By
a case which had its legal beginning
in Salt Lake on Monday.
It seems that an apple tree owned
by Salt Lake matron, as apple trees
planted close to a fence are wont to
do, thrust some of its limbs over a
neighbours yard. Some of the apples
dropped off and landed in the yard.
The neighbor proceeded to harvest
the crop. The owner of the tree came
out and insisted that the apples,
though they might be trespassers.
were still her property, and is
charged with beginning hostilities to
prevent her neighbor from carrying
them off. The neighbor secured a
warrant, and now the court VIII be
called upon to decide.
To a layman IMMERSED in the
subtleties of tne law this looks like
n case almost identical with the egg
controversy The defendant in the
case win have the same claim to the
apples as the hen that laid the egg
has to be called the mother of the
chicken. 1t was the defendants
apple tree ,iiat produced the buds
from which the apples were Matched
The complainant, as owner of the
yard over which the limbs project,
and, consequently. of all the space
directly above. viii be placed in the
position Of the chicken that Matched
the-egg. 1t was the air and sunshine
IN htr domain that did the greatest
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-30
UTAH's OIL PROSPECTS.
DHE WONDFRFTrT. ncssibilitio

II He WONDERFUL possibilities
of oil development in Utah are
- emphasized By the statement
of W. l. Roberts, a man of long ex-
I.erience in the ell industry. Accord
ing to Mr.. Roberts, the oil of the
Green river district j. of the highest
grade. It's purity IS such that he
estimates its market value at not less
than 81 a barrel. or six times that
of the product of southern Califor-
MA
As yet the extent of mineral liquid
stored in the OF. fields of Utah is an
unknown quantity. But all the out
ward Indications point to the exist
ence Of an immense deposit. Ex-
perts from other fields have declared
that the Gil lcnds of this ste con-
tain more promising signs o. .ldden
wealth tSari they have ever b, ore en-
countered-
Iii these predictions are only par
ti,Jle realized the oil production
must become one of the greatest and
most temunerative Industries of the
state Fortunes have been made in
oil ia Texas which Is said to be even
Of lower grade than that Of south
eru California With any extensive
flow Of such high-grade oil SIS is said
@ exist in the Utah. fields the in
dustry mist become vast producer
Of wealth.
It viii also have the effect of bring
ing the state at once into unprece-
6cnted prouinenee. The first gus5er
thist Is struck wiE attract thousands
IF men from all over the country.
Aside from tie intrinsic value of the
industry itself the advertising which
su oil boom would give to Utah and
the attention f,4ss w>1ld be called to
lis other remarkable resources would
alone be worth millions to the state.