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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-02

at Honolulu, having made the run
OF 1850 miles In SIX uss
and nine hours. Al nliul'e "
she sailed again, steering about ~ ~
b e., for San Francisco. Az ~ ni''
September Ind, she anchored az qua'
antine In San Francisco HarDor, naVihs
made 300 miles In five days eighteen
hours. Had she been urged " Is pos
sible she could have arrived lew
hours earlier and landed those precious
mail bags that day AS II happened sue
was detained all night and they Were
not landed til $3.50 on the morning Oh
the 3rd. They were at once transferred
by teams TO the Market street station
of the Southern Pacific ogden route,i
and at 10 O'clock they began their
eventful journey across the continent,
So far, 1919 miles had been traVerseu
by the mall bags IN an American snip
In exactly twenty-one days, including
all stops and including the delay Oh
thirteen and a half hours at quarantine
and the transfer from ship 10 mai
car. or a little over fourteen miles an
hour. the ship making an average speed
OF seventeen miles an hour.
His majesty's mail was now safe IN
Y. s. mail car bound for New YORK
3,SSS miles away. The route would be
over FIVE great railroads, the Southern
Pacific ogden route). the Union Paci-
fic. the Chicago. Burlington 4 Quincy,
the Lake Shore q Michigan Southern
and the New York Central Il Hudson
River. The train was the regular fast
mail, and 1t was due at the Grand Cen
trail Station In New York at 10 In the
morning of the eth. no do this II must
have, including all stops for water,
changing engines. transfers OF the mall
from car to car and across town at
Chicago, an average speed of thirty-fye
and half miles for every one OF the
ninety-six hours.
It's path IL now across the golden
state OF California, over the Sierra Ne
vada mountains, through the great
mining state Of Nevada, along the lost
Humbolt river, on across the rich new
state of Utah: slirting the Great salt
Lake: through the cattle ranges OF wy
oming; over the Rocky Mountains,
through the sea like fields Of corn and
wheat Of Nebraska; across the Missouri
River valley; then clear across the rich
agricultural state Of Iowa, crossing the
Mississippi river and on through I'LL
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Stop? Never! Everything had been
prepared Twenty-Five men stood
ready on the platform as the one-car
special drew up. and sprang into the
car, and those precious sacks were
hustled out, placed upon trucks, hoist
ed up In the elevators 10 four mail
wagons drawn up IN the street. Your
respected Uncle Samuel would take a
hand. Those mail sacks were going
through. The Y. S. NJ. teams were
loaded and rushed through Chicago
streets TO the Lake Shore Station
The Lake Shore folks would now
show what they could do A new
special, two cars and No. $50, a regular
100 miles an hour flyer, would attempt
the apparently hopeless. No. 566 would
break the record and oyertake No G
somewhere, If 1t had to chase It all the
way into Buffalo. The instant the last
bag was I'm the car No. 566 pulled out.
The engineer smiled a grimy smile and
said II would be Cleveland. II was
precisely 9.59;S0 a. m, septem-
Der 9Th when she started
from the station of the Lake Shore
road-and No one hour and twenty
nine minutes and a half ahead. once
more, and still another road every
man stood at attention. every signal
man on .he lookout, every suburban
train held in safety every yard clear.
every station reporting the breathless
race from mile TO mile, minute to
minute.
The United States woke up to the
fact that something was going on. II
was In all the papers and the progress
OF the special was reported from Nov
York 10 San Francisco. Every railroad
office In the land knew Of Il, and NJ the
Grand Central station, New York. IL
was watched, as II were, upon every
mile OF the terrific run. Some thought
II might oyertake No al Buffalo. The
first emergency race was I'm the night,
the second race was In daylight across
the three states of Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio, As the special ate up the miles,
IL became evident that she was making
up the lost time. BY o'clock II was
clear that the special would overhaul
No. at Toledo. The Fast Mail'
would leave on time whether the special
arrived or not. There are other malls
besides his majestys, and they cannot
wait. The last minute but one had
come. "Al aboard" The special was
there, Two hundred and forty-four
miles in two hundred and slxty-fve and
one-half minutes.
How many miles an hour Is that?
The thing had been done, The two
hours lost two thousand miles awe"
had been made w. The emergency had
found its men. However the trD was
not yet over. No pulled out of TOLEDO
hound for Cleveland and Ruffalo on
time and she must keep on time. New
York is still 736 miles away and q Sec
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-02

- MERGENCIES make or break
the men 10 whom they appeal.
- The weak fail; the strong, the
ready. the competent turn
emergencies into success. An
emergency Of international
~ Importance began in August
last IN the youngest nation IN
,be world-the commonwealth OF Aus
,ralla-and the inen II inspired to great
,sbors appeared on the other side of
the planet.
This was the beginning of the emere-
ency: The government of the COM
monwealth wished to communicate by
mail with the home government In
London in the least possible time. AT
the postofIlce at Sydney, in the state
OF New south Wales, there lay, early
IN the morning of August 49, 1901, o67
sacks of important mail, the most i'm
portant mail ever made up in the COM
inonwealth OF England.
This mall could go by the way OF
Colombo, Alden, the Suez canal, and
could there be transferred to fast
steamer for Brindisi and there placed
An a special train for Calais, could be
transferred to the channel boat and re-
transferred at Dover to train for Lon
don. The mail could also go by the
way OF San Francisco, Chicago, New
York and Liverpool TO London. Both
OF these routes had been used for years
10 transport his majestys mail, and
they were rival routes competing for
the business.
route, was well supplied with vast
fleet Of the largest steamers In the
world. The regular time, when the
boats and trains were ION time" in
GLIDING the five transfers, was thirty
five days and some hours. The usual
time by steamer from sydney to san
Francisco had been twenty-six days,
and this with four days TO New York,
six TO Queenstown, and one more to
London, was thirty-seyen days and
some hours. This could be relied up
on because the trains across the con-
tinent were almost invariably on time.
The total distance by the British route
is 1880 miles and by the American
route 1851 miles. Naturally the post
office authorities, with that delightful
respect for the old, 80 characteristic
of the British official, preferred the old
home route. The new is always In
ferior to the old. must be so in the very
ma ftirp NJ Inrfiich fhipse anJ on,,lI tho
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ACROSS lSTHMUS OF PANAMA.
Travels Of the Brigham Young Academy South American
Exploring Expedition.

Lives Sacrificed in Building Railroad from Sea Sea-
Early History OF Panama. Destroyed by Bucca neers
Condition OF the Great Canal ProjectTroubes OF the
Expedition and Future Plans-Loyal Tribe OF Indians
jealousy Protect Their Country from STRANGERS
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on the Colon side II varies only a few
feet, but heavy locks could prob
ably stop the flow. No doubt.
the big ditch could be dug
and a passage for vessels made, but II
will be at the cost Of millions Of dollars
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q very hard nature. still, the cuts could
be made. Some digging would be re-
quired In the beds OF the river, but
heavy dredgers could easily do that.
The tide Oh the Panama side rises and
tails from twelve to fifteen feet, while
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and thousands Of lives.
But, one argues, what are few lives
and few millions Of dollars to the
benefit canal would do commerce?
The commerce Of the world is now
something enormous, means to speed IL
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along by water must be had The
great Suez canal has demonstrated the
usefulness OF these short cuts, and the
world now demands that waterway
between the East and the West through
the Americas be made. And when the
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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12

"My heart was badly affected by an
attack of grip and 1 suffered intense
agony until began taking DR.. Miles
Heart Cure. 1t made me we'll man.
S. d. Holman, Irasburg, Vt.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12
ST. VALENTINES DAY.
4 Love Festival That Has Survived the Progress
Of Civilization.

II o LONG as human passions hold
N sway over the destiuies OF mankind,
~ so long will ST. Valentines day lie
Kept 1t has survived the lapse OF time,
change of customs, and the progress OF civ
ilZatlon. The day Is sacred 10 preference,
the choice of the sexes, the passion of love
1t takes its name from st. Valentine
presbyter or bishop of Rome, who was
cruelty beaten with cubs and finally be-
headed on the Elaminian way, i'll Rome
February IA, A. ID. 30, during the reign OF
Emperor Marcus Aurelius Claudius Val
entnus was famous for his love and charity,
and was early canonized, his day coming
in February (named for the Greek goddess
Juao-Febra), and about the same time that
the Roman festival of the Lupercaia oc-
Cured, a feast observed in honor of the
deities Pan and Juno.
One of the customs OF this festival was
that young men drew from box billet
inscribed with the name of maiden in
the community in which he lived, each
bachelor devoting himself for a twelvemonth
to the service of the lady whom chance
gave him, thus becoming her iege knight,
il not her lover and husband From this
custom is supposed to originate the phrase
marriage is a lottery The priests Of the
early church wisely kept all the festivals
they could, changing their form or engraft
ing them on to saints day. So, in some
fashion, the cody martyr Of early days be-
came the patron saint Of the heart
The festival was established in England.
Scotland and France about the Fifteenth
century, and our good ancestors in Melrie
England were delighted with it, Court and
Esovel alike honored the day with glee and
utes'riment. 1t was formerly the custom Of
The young people on the occasion of this
festival to decorate themselves with flow
ers, eteaths and truelove knots, and 90
in procession from house to house in the
morning, singing such ditty as:
Good morrow to you, Valentine,
Curl your locks as 1 do mine
Two before and three behind
Good morrow TO you, Valentine"
Who does not remember Ophelia's song
Tomorrow is st. Valentines day,
And all the morning betime,
And a maid at your window
To be your Valentine"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12
California
Excursions

Weekly to Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco Via two different routes. one
through Tourist Car leaves New
Hampton every Monday at 1850 p M,
runnidg via Kansas City and Santa
Fe Route to Los Angeles; another
leaves every Saturday at 5:l3 a. m,
running via Kansas City, the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, San Antonio & Ara
nsdS Pass and Southern Pacific Rail
ways to Los Angeles and San Francis
co, being the only through Sleeping
Car from the Northwest to Texas
points. Both of these cars are brand
new. wide veStlbuled and steam heat t.
ed, and run from st. Paul and Min
neapolis to Kansas City via the
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12

lip ourled In derision when she heard the
any defense to make.
What defense can be offered,'' replied
she, to such accusations as these? Wit.
ness the last-because was not so craven
as the Christians am accused of sorcery.
The old dotard! but will expose him.
Tell me, If one knows that sorcery is used,
and conceals or allows it, is he not a par.
ticipator and equally guilty?'
He is, y replied the inquisitor, anxious.
ly awaiting the result.
"Then denounce'- And Anime was
about to reveal that Philips mission was
known and not forbidden by Fathers Ma.
thias and Seysen, when recollecting that
Philip would be implicated, she stopped.
''Denounce whom?" inquired the in.
quisitor.
'No one, replied Anime, folding her
arms and dropping her head.
Speak, woman"
Anime made no answer
THE torture will make you speak,
"Never" replied Anime. "Never! Tor.
ture mo to death, if you choose; prefer it
to public execution!"
The inquisitor and the secretary con-
suited a short time. Convinced that
Anime would adhere to her resolution,
and requiring her for public execution,
they abandoned the idea of the torture.
do you contest" inquired the inquis.
itor.
mo" replied Anime, firmly.
''Then take her away"
The night before the auto -da-fe, Father
Matthias again entered the cell of Anime,
but all his cndeavors to convert her were
useless.
Tomorrow will end it all, father, y re-
piled Anime; ''leave mel would be
alone"
ITO be continued
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12
Chicago
Great
Western

Car leaving Monday arrives Los An
Angeles following Friday morning,
avoiding all Sunday travel Car leav-
ing Saturday arrives Los Angeles the
following Wednesday morning and
San Francisco Thursday morning, pas
sing through Waco San Antonio and
Ell Paso. For full information and
assistance call on or address anyagent
of the Chicago Great Western Rail
way, or j. p. ELMER, G. A. p. D.,
Cor. 9TH and Robert StS.. ST. Paul.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12
Homeseekers' Excursions,

To nearly all points in the United
States on sale at all ticket offices of
the Chicago Great Western Ry. ON the
first and third Tuesdays of each
month January to June 1901 at the
very low hnmeSeekerS rate of one fare
plus 81 90 for the round trip. Tickets
good for r, tlrn within p days from
date OF sale. Persons contemplating
a trip viii save money by calling on
my Great Western agent and obtain
lng detailed information regarding
The nom seekers rates, OF addresSin.
+; H. L@id, Gen. Passenger Agent,
Chicago.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12

Recent experiments show that ali
classes o: foods may be .mpletely di,
gested by , preparation called kodol
Dyspepsia srAigr, which absolutely di,
gests what YOU eat. AS it is the only
combination OF I'll the natural digeS-
tanlS ever devised the demand for il
has become enormous. -Shuttleworth
Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12

"My stomach was affected by grip
ara could eat nothing but crackers
and milk. began taking DR.. Miles
Nervone and Pain Pills and the troub-
lie disappeared. Mrs. j. Lindsay,
Mont7ose, MINI.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-02-12

Grip made the very weak and ner-
yous with tightness of cl est and head
ache, Or. Miles Pain Pills and Ner-
vine gave me quick relief. Mrs.
ClariGda I}utler, w. Wheeling. O.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24

Fast Trnin Han Down . Sled-load Of
People nj = DANGEROUS Crossing.
GOSHEN, Ind, February 23.-Three
persons were killed here this evening
and several injured by the Wabash
~west-bound passenger train running in
to a sleigh oiled with people. The
dead are:. Christian Wagner, Chris
tian Deering and Louis Wagner.
The injured are: Edgar, aged 81, leg
broken, with internal injuries; will
probably die. Edward Wagner, aged
Is, fatally hurt.
Others in the sled were either only
slightly hurt or escaped all injury.
Christian Wagner leaves a widow and
six children. To those who were kill
ed, death anne instantly. The horses
escaped but the sled was completely
demolished. The crossing is a quarter
Of a mile from the Wabash station
and is regarded as very dangerous.
The train vas two hours late and run
ming at high speed. AS the engineers
do not usually whistle after leaving
the station, it is said that no warning
whistle was given The party had just
left Goshen for home, about twelve
miles south of the town, and was I'M
ware Of the danger at the crossing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24

line recesse hung in satin and adorned
with mirrors are favorite resting places
of the lady. Sitting In one OF these
quaint retreats, with the proud arch
of her neck and the masses Of dusky
hair reflected IN the mirror behind her.
Julien Gordon is a vision of a queen
in a fable of old fairy days.
She receives at 5 o'clock in full dress.
The room is darkened, save for the
mellow light of the open Are, In a
ravishing gown of satin or velvet, this
stately daughter of the gods stands
leaning against the mantel, surveying
one through a gold-rimmed lorgnette
Then she sinks into a velvet-cushioned
chair and stretches a foot, an Andalu-
sian hight envy. to the blaze and
speaks in sweet, low. dangerous tones
of her work, her experiences, her
hopes, her aims.
At the tea table she is a picture of
enchantment. Her beautiful hands
fiutter over the priceless china like a
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24
METROPOLITAN TYPES OF
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN.

In the vast army of women who rush
yearly to the metropolis in search of
fame and wealth, there are only a few,
comparatively, destined to achieve sue
cess. Where hundreds fall by the
wayside, exhausted with the struggle.
a score possibly attain distinction.
Even the women who are New York
bred and have the advantages OF thor
oughly knowing the exigencies of met
ropolitan existence, seldom accomplish
more than commonplace results. New
York is tickle. What amuses, diverts
and distTacts that city one week Is for
gotten the next. To be successful in
New York, requires courage, origin
atty and nerve. If a woman does not
possess these requirements she had
best avoid the metropolitan maelstrom,
which will surely engulf her and draw
her down to oblivion.
There are two distinguished New
York society women who have achieved
success in the weaving or romances-
Mrs. Burton Harrison and Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, Cruger. Julien Gordon).
Mrs. Harrison is OF the conventional
type, gracious, genial and courteous,
with the manne OF the old regime.
But she is not of so picturesque an in
dividuality, nor is she surrounded by
so splendidiy bizarre an atmosphere as
Mrs. Cruger.
The latter lives UP to the eccentric
ity Of genius. or a lofty social posi-
ton. of dazzling beauty and fascinat-
ing manners, she yet has a penchant
for the unconventional, and when In
town is a constant and delightful sur
prise, both to her world and the pub
lie. Her witticisms, her gowns, her
fashion Of aressing her hair. her poses,
are all eagerly rehearsed, studied and
copied. Since the death OF her hus-
band two years ago. Mrs. Cruger has
lived quietly abroad, but rumor now
declares she is soon TO return to this
country and startle society anew with
her charms. her whims and caprices.
No more picturesque place in town
can be fancied than Mrs. Cruger's
house in East T~hirty-ffth street. with
| its entresol lined with mirrors and
| palms. its succession of salons opening
one into another. and its petit salon a
Versailles in ivory and gold. The
walls are draped with rare old bro
cades and exquisite stunts. Throne
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24
4 MYSTERIOUS DEATH.

Suicide Or Murder the Undecided
QuestiOn-several Persons later
ested.
HELENA, Mont, February 23.-The
mystery surrounding the death of Cap
tain Oliver Dotson, one of the men
who laid out the city of Denver, and
who was a famous Black Hills charac-
ter, whose dead body wa found in his
cabin in Washington Gulch, thirty-fve
miles west OF Helena, remains .unsolv-
ed and the tragedy promises to develop
one of the most remarkable stories OF
crime ever heard in this region. The
officers who returned to-day from
Washington Gulch report the finding
of an alleged confession signed by
Captain Dotson, in which he declares
that his son, Clinton Dotson, his grand
son, Oliver Benson, and Elias Persin-
ger, the latter a youth from Missouri,
are innocent of the murder of Eugene
Cultipane, which occurred in August,
1899, and for which the younger Dot
son is now serving a ninety-nine year
sentence, and the otner two ten year
terms in the ~penitentiary. Dotson, in
the confession. states he was about to
commit suicide and Lat he made the
confession in the hope of freeing inno-
cent men. The officers believe the
confession to be a clever forgery, but
say they cannot prove this until per-
sons familiar with Dotson's handwrit-
ing a he found. To all appearances
Dotson had committed suicide. A
rife had been rugged up against the
wall and Dotson had apparently stood
in front of it and pulled the trigger
with a string. He was shot through
the head.
Some time ago the warden of the
penitentiary learned that a convict
who was released in December last,
had declared that he would kill Dotson
and that he would leave on the body
a confession supporting to exonerate
the three men in prison. 1t is claimed
that Clinic Dotson promised to divide
$15, 900 he claimed to have buried
somewhere in Wyoming, with the con-
vict if ne would. kill his father and
secure his pardon. This convict was
seen near Washington Gulch last Sum
day and cannot now be found. The
alleged confession Gu Dotson implicated
Edward Cachellin in the murder Of
C%ultinane. Cachellin Is now county
commissioner at Spearfish, S. D. He
was a friend of the younger Dotson
and spent money in defending all three
of the men convicted.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-02-24
SOVEREIGNTY Of CUBA
NOT 70 Be ENDANGERED.
CUBANS AGREED THAT RELATIONS
WITH THE UNITED STATES
MUST DE
CAREFuLLY coNsIDERED.
TWO QUESTIONS UPON WHICH DR.
F~ICULTIES HAVE HERETO
FORE HINGED.

49, tZ r- -N NJ
HAVANA. February 23.-The con-
stitutional conventions committee on
relations between the United States
and Cuba held a long session this af-
ternoon and afterwards conferred with
a number of delegates to the conven-
tion.
AT the private session the members
of the committee unanimously agreed
that some form of relations should be
drawn UP showing the gratitude OF
Cuba to the United States, but these
relations, they also agreed, must be in
conformity with the views of the peo-
pie of Cuba and must not e%ndanger the
sovereignty of the republic.
The right of the United States to
intervene for the preservation of peace
and the establishment and mainten-
ance of naval stations by the Ameri-
cans were considered dangerous to
Cuban sovereignty and on these two
questions the difficulty hinged.
1T is understood the committee was
agreeable to accepting the provision
of the treaty of Paris with reference
to the former clause, giving the United
States the right to intervene, however,
only when the republics sovereignty is
endangered or the government is in
competent to preserve peace. A COM
promise was suggested with reference
to the question of naval stations, pro-
yiding mat it be agreed that the United
States be allowed to fortify and occu-
py forts in time of war the same as at
the Dry Tortugas.
The committee will meet Monday
morning to sign the report for submit.
sion to the executive session of the
convention to be held Monday after
noon.