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Sewer Pioneers Sudden Death.

RichfieId. April August Nelson. ST..
died rather suddenly here last evening.
About noon he was seized with q severe
pain in the region of the heart. He suf-
fered z great deal and could lie down but
a few moments at a time. The last time
he vas up. just before s o'clock he told
his wife the pain was worse. and as she
assisted him to the bed be fell back
dead AZ Nelson was ono 81 the pi0neee
settlers of Sanpcte and Sewer counties
ffe came t. Utah in fS54. re was native
Of Gitiand. Denmark. and or his way
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ORDINANCE VETOED.
Mayor Taylor Acts on Rio Grande's
Request For Franchise.
lspecIal b u Heraldl

IoVtDIaI 70 7 10 IIEIaIlI
Provo. April mayor Taylor sent
down from Salt Lake tonight a veto Of
the ordinance passed By the city council
Monday evening granting franchise
Tor depot site on Sixth South street to
Rio Grande Western
Explaining his veto. the mayor states
that he believes the granting Of an in
dependent franchise would prevent the
construction of a union depot. The pro-
posed grant. he says, shuts the Oregon
short Line off from access TO the main
thorOughfare. Copies OF communications
that have passed between officials of the
roads accompany the veto The mayor
expresses the hope that if no independent
franchise is granted the companies viii
get together for a union depot The veto
VIII come 10 for action al the meeting
% the council Monday evening.
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Articles OF Incorporation.

The r-Frandsen Ditch com
pauv OF Mount Pleasant has filed a
certified co9y Of its articles Of incoT-
poration in the Office Of the secretary
o. state. The company Is capitalized
for 1886. divided into shares Of the
par value Of S15 each The officers are
James Larsen, president. Sven Olsen.
vice president. Neis p. Nelson. secre-
tarv and treasurer.
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MRS. MAUDE LAYTON
IS DEAD AT PROVO

Provo, April 5.-Mrs. Maud Spencer
Layton. wife Of Edgar Layton. died to-
day from consumption The deceased was
born in Richfield, Oct. II. 1870. She was
telegraph operator there for many years
and was elected county recorder of Sc
vieT county in 1886. OF late years she has
been living in California, Salt Lake City
and later in Provo She leaves husband
and two children The funeral viii take
place tomorrow at > o'clock from the
Fourth ward meeting house.
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FOR ASSAY OFFICE AT PROVO
Senator Rawlins VIII Make Another
Trial and is Sanguine.

washington. april 5-Senator Raw
Inns said today that he had been ad-
vised that the opposition to his bin for
establishing an assay Office at Provo
has been withdrawn and that there
win be no objection raised when ne
calls I'D the bin again for passage IN
the senate. Director Roberts oI the
mint has written a letter 10 Senator
Rawlins. in which he states II any
ASSAY Offices are established in the
west. he considers Provo desirable
location.
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Rifles al Thirtv-9ve Cents.

San Francisco, April thirty
hundred rifles taken by this govern
ment from the natives Of Samoa in
1898 have been sold at the Mare island
nary yard TO a local department store
ton.
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Dr. O. B. Grove physician and very influential
POpnst Committee recent let
ter to Dr. Hartman of Columbus Ohio says:
Washington, D. c.
e-rura valuable medicine affords unlimited
pleasure testify merits your remedy cure
have used such and find IS of very great my
system down. heartily
whose nervous systems deraaged" Yours truly,
O. b. GROVE NJ d.
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ton will receive the hearty co-opera-
ton of every commercial teacher in
the state To Professor Faris is due
the suggestion as TO organization, and
to a very large extent the success al
ready attained
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Notice For Rids-SaIt Palace.

SEALED BIDS ARE SOLICITED
either separate or for the whole. for the
BICYCLE Track. Salt Palace BuilGins
theatre. and Par Privileges FOR the
season 1852 Bids ID b. opened april D.
laaa IRE right is reserved fo reject ans
or an bids Address p o. box no I'D
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across the ocean was married. He has
held a number Of public positions and
was very highly respected. He leaves a
widow and ten children
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800 ID the CapitaI

fspaeiaI @ Ine HeFala3
Washington. April SC. IS. Barteh
ard daughteT. Miss Minnie Bartch, are
III Washington on visit
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You want your picture framed
PiSNuI = right. uud We know how 70 90
So. il. 300 styles Of mouldinEs %
EEdIltGS select from. Mats 70 match.
Tsl- JoHNsox Co. - v Temple SAT- lseEe
- lyon see Johnson all over the World"
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Miss Florence Allan,
a beautiful Chicago
girl, writes the follow
ing 20 DIR. $. b. Hart
man concerning his
catarrhal tonic, Pc
ru-na:
IS Walton Place,
Chicago, III.
GAS p tonic for a
WORKOUT system. Pc
ru-na stands at the
mead in my estima-
ton. It's effects are
truly wonderful IN re-
juveuating the entire
system. ] keep it on
hand al the time, and
never have that tired
fsgiing,'as q few doses
always make me feel
like q different WOEn-
an"
Florence Allan.
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nv life and write this letter to express
my thanks. I hope that you viii use #,
and make it known for the bene6to suf-
fering humanity. We are never without
Peruna in our house now, and if never
fails to help. Yours sincerely,
"ADAM DOERING."
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from The use Of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving q
full statement Of your case and he viii
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President CT
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0.
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. .
soon, when myf
atten tion wasI
called to Peru-i
ma. I tried thej
medicine with I
out m UGH ext
pectation of bet
ing benefited
by If. But soOni
its effects began,
to show. I cOUldt
sleep, my sppe-4
lite returned, l.
became stronger.
mentally and my :
nervous trem-l
bling ceased. il
used about twen-l
ty bottles in az
year and at thet
end of that timei
I was another !
man. Ny healthf
was and is now !
more robust than I
it has been for .
many years. ]
.
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III
FORREST HALL, GEORGETOWN.
al Used as Prison During War.

sectional jealousies at that time and real
estate rows, Just as there are now, but in
the fear that Washington would be robbed
of the one jewel that radeAthe city of any
worth the people got together and organ
lied stock company to build a house for
the government to occupy till the Capitol
should again be made habitable. Congress
was then meeting in the old Blodgett Hotel,
on the northeast corner of Sth and e streets.
1t was used as general. post office and
patent office for q year or two prior to the
war of 1912 and was the only public build
ing that escaped the vandalism OF the
British.
The joint stock company was composed
Of Elias B. Caldwell, w. Emack, Daniel
Carroll, William Brent and Griffith Coombe.
Its corporation title was the Capitol Hotel
Company" Daniel Carroll offered his lots
on LIST and A streets southeast to be rated
as so. much stock and the offer was &C
cepted.
The corner stone Of the makeshift Capt.
toll was laid with much ceremony the morn
ing of July 4. 1875 The ground on which
the building was erected was big unkemW
garden that July morning, and the bricks
Of which 1t was to be built were yet In a
state of nature out in the clay hills OF Vtr-
ginia. But when Congress met December
II, 1915. the big $4,000 house was ready for
the august body to occupy. The first days
session of the Fourteenth Congress con-
vened in the old patent Office. and Henry
Clay was elected Speaker of the House. His
1rst act. after taking the oath of ONCE,
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LINCOLN'S FAITH IN GOD.
Gen. Sickles Tells an Interesting Story
of the Martyr President.

Gen. Dan" SickIes tells story Illus
trating the tenderness of President Lin
coins heart as well as his faith in Provi-
dence and his optimism.
After Gen. Sickles had been wounded al
Gettysburg he was removed to this city
and the President called on him at the hos
pital When the general described the bat
tie and the awful slaughter Mr.. Lincoln
went like a child.
While the two armies We're converging."
said the President. Il went into my room
and prayed as L had never prayed before.
L told God that If We were to win the bat
tie He must do it. for l had done all that
L could. l went from my room with a
great load lifted from my heart, and from
that moment l never had a doubt as To the
result. We shall hear good news from
Grant. who has been pounding away at
Vicksburg for so many months. l am in
a prophetic mood today, Sickles and | say
that YOU will get WELL
The doctors do not say So the general
replied.
Il don't care Sickes; you will get WE'LL"
the President persisted.
And that afternoon. Gen. Sickles went or
to say. a telegram was received from Gen.
Grant announcing the fall of Vicksburg
SickleS recovery soon followed.
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soldiers while they were prisoners under
his care. He was sentenced to be hung.
He confessed that the indictment was true.
but said that he was obeying the orders of
high superiors. He was hung in the
grounds of the prison, the scaffold standing
exactly where the flower garden is now rich
with blooming plants. He was the last
prisoner to be confined in the old barra cks,
and it was sold after the war to ]. F. D.
Lanier of New York city, who made the
old house over. 1t Is now known as Lanier
place The late Justice Field of the United
States Supreme Court bought a part of the
old house and lived there until his death.
The Duff Green row" was torn down and
the site became a part of that upon which
the Library Of Congress now stands.
Forest Hall, now 1856 SD street, was
used for a time a military prison. The
penitentiary, in the arsenal grounds was
also used as such, and it was here that the
Lincoln conspirators, including Mrs Sur
raft, passed their days just prior to being
executed.
At the southeast corner of PENNSYLVANIA
avenue and 18th street there stoed during
the war the Prescott House, brick hotel
of three stories, which was the office for a
time OF the provost marshal and housed
many state prisoners.
Another place of detention was the old
guard house on Louisiana avenue. Prison
ers We're simply detained here until the au-
thoritieS were satisfied that they were
guilty of reasonable sentiments. Then
they were sent to a regular military prison.
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purpose. It was impressed into service
and July, 1861, saw the first prisoners Of
war confined there. They were men who
declined to declare unequivocally for the
Union and who were more than suspected
of being actively disloyal. Col. VIM P.
Wood was placed in charge.
There We're confined in it during the war
many society men who had learned to
dance in the old building. Others had been
educated in the school for boys that St.
Patrick's Church had maintained there for
a few years. A great many of those who
had to content themselves with the coarse
prison fare had long before attended swell
society functions and banquets there, when
the old house was new.
Among its most famous prisoners were
the late Senator Vance, Governor Letcher,
Barnes Compton and many others who had
held high political and social positions in
former days. Editors Of so-called sedftious
newspapers, Knights of the Golden Circle,
deserters from the Union army blockade
runners. prisoners of war and prisoners of
state, to the number Of 500 and at times
over 1000, were confined in the old Capitol
prison. The pressure for room finally be-
came so great that new quarters had to be
provided.
Along LIST street there was q row of houses
adjoining the old Capitol prison. known as
the Duff Green row" and these were pressed
into service. The houses were the very old
est in the District OF Columbia, and were
used as hospital during the war Of 1912.
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SAVED THE GOLD.
An Experience of Surgeon General
Sternberg During the War,


Surgeon General Sternberg had a peculiar
experience at the battle of Bull Run. Just
before going in he was approached by an
Irish sergeant major of his regiment who
handed him bag of gold coin weighing
three or four pounds. Doctor said the
Irishman Il know I'm to be kilt ENTIRELY
an l want you to take care of this money
an see that it gets to the ould folks at
home in ould Ihreland." The doctor had no
time to demonstrate or make any other
arrangement, for the Irishman dropped the
bag into the surgeons lap and hurried
away to his place at the head of the col
umn. All through two bloody days DR..
Sternberg carried that bag of gold with his
surgical Instruments, and it was burden
and embarrassment to him. He tried to get,
rid of it, but couldn't find any one willing
to accept or even to share the responsibility,
and he couldn't throw it away for the sake
Of the "ould folks at honne.''
Toward the close of the second day the
surgeon Was taken prisoner. He lost his
surgical instruments and his medicine case,
but chung to the gold, and making a belt
of his necktie and handkerchief, tied it
around his waist next to his skin to prevent
its confiscatfon by his captors. During the
long, hot and weary march that followed
the gold pieces ehafed his flesh, and his
waist became so sore and bliStered to
bound that the "ouId folks at home" should
have the benefit Of that money, and by the
exercise of great caution and patience man.
aged to keep it until he was exchanged
with other prisoners and got back to Wash
ington Here he found his regiment In
camp and one of the first men to welcome
him was the Irish sergeant-major, who was
so delighted to learn that the doctor had
saved his money that he got drunk and
gambled it all away the first night.
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Volunteer Has It Impressed Upon His
Memory.

"At the second battle of Bull Run" re-
marked a member Of one of the New York
posts. "the famous 35th Regiment, from
Jefferson county, New York. suffered ter
ribly. and efforts were Immediately made
by the friends at home to fill its thinned
ranks. Among the first to spring to its
rescue was one Augustus Buel, who was
famous as hunter in John Browns tract.
and distinguished for being a capital fellow
and an excellent marksman. His uncle.
Deacon Weatherby, met Gus a day or two
after he had enlisted and said:
"'Well, Augustus, understand you have
enlisted in the 35th?'
; Yes, uncle, have was the reply. and
I am to start for the regiment tomorrow
morning
That's right, my boy. that's right con-
tinued the deacon, am very glad you nave
enlisted, and you have my prayers ana
hlessings. And. now. Augustus. boy. let
me give you little advice: When you go
into battle have your gun well charged and
in good order. When the order is given to
advance on the rebels. want You. my dear
how. to remember the scriptura1 1Rtunctioa.
at is more blessed 10 gfve than to re-
ceive.
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HE WANTED TO KNOW.
Newspaper Man in Camp Secures the
Resembling of an Order

During the winter of 1S64-'65. when the
armies under General Grant were encamp-
ed near Petersburg and Richmond, 1t was
the custom of the commissaries to keep a
supply of whisky. The beverage was oc-
casionally issued to the soldiers, and more
than occasionally sold to such officers and
civilians of the army as might consider a
wee drop of the ardent good for their
stomac chs. General Ord, succeeding to the
command Of the Army of the James,
thought he saw indications that the sales Of
"commssary,' as the whisky was called,
were quite too extensive for the good of
the camp, and therefore issued his whisky
order forbidding commissaries to sell more
than one quart of the stuff to any one per-
son during any one month.
There was, of course" said an old SOL
der, speaking Of the order, 1.-The utmost
CONSERVATION at this cutting off of the
supply; but the order fell with it's most
paralyzing effect upon a well-known user
of adjecttves and expletives who was cor
respondent of a certain journal.
What, sirs,' exclaimed he to group Of
sympathiZing shoulderstrapS, attempt to
run a first-class newspaper upon one poor.
pitiful. infinitesimal quart of whisky diluted
through an entire, elongated month? The
general must be made to understand it
can't be done. by CAD. sir
THE general wouldn't understand, and for
a time the order remained In force. 1t SO
happened that a few days afterward a par
ty of congressman arrived on visit to the
lines, and were the guests of the general
One evening an entertainment was provid-
ed for in the generals quarters, to which a
number of officers and headquarters at
taches were invited. The correspondent
was present, and to his intense satisfac-
ton saw that an indefinite quantity of
whisky punch had been arranged by or
ders OF the general. and was being most
literally consumed by his guests. After the
greater portion of the gallons of punch had
disappeared. the newspaper man rose in his
place for information.
" General Ord. I am not inquisitiye, but
II not tmpertinent. 1 would wish to he in
formed Of the exact inroad this evenings
entertainment has made upon your quart
Of whisky for the current month";
EVERY army attache saw the joke, which
had the double effect of setting the table In
a roar and Of abrogating the whisky order
next day."
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was to lay before the body the letter from
Daniel Carroll and the other members of
the committee, presenting the completed
Capitol building to the Congress By vote
of the two bodies the building was accepted
for one year, until the old Capitol could
be restored. The rent was not to exceed
81 $50 a year.
The building was a barn of a thing its
mongrel architecture remaining a iibe for
years after Congress left it. The hall of
the House was on the second floor. 1t was
u by 40 feet, with gallery, and the CELL
ings were twenty feet high. The Senate
occupied the first floor hall, which was 40
by %, with fifteen-foot ceilings. The Su-
preme Court of the United States and the
Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
also met there. The remainder of the big
shell was given over to committee rooms
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses
met in that building March 4. 1917. Presi-
dent Monroe was inaugurated from this
place, standing a queer little platform
erected over the front door on the 1st street
side of the old Capitol
Precarious Existence.
Congress left the building In 1919, the
Capitol having been restored. and the huge
hulk became a veritable white elephant on
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Senior Vice Commander in Chief, Sons of Veterans
the nominal command of General VIM E.
w. Ross, the commander of the second
grand division. All of these grand division
commanders were veterans of the war Of
the rebellion and the successful organiza:
ton Of the order is In a large measure due
TO their persistent and painstaking efforts
in It's behalf, and this is especially true of
General VIM. +. w. Ross of Baltimore
In October. 1882. the Sons of Veterans
mted states of America. held a conven-
zion at PttShurg, Pa. 1t 70 med a peima-
aent national organization, and elected Col
H r Rowley of Pittsburg its provisional
commander its first commanIer-in-chief
This convention was composed of represen-
tatives from each of fhe five grant diyi-
sions. who had been invited with a view of
arriving at some understanding whereby
the three organizations might be consoli-
dated This effort to consol' date like all
others that preceded II. was failure
Negotiations, however. between the div
sions of eastern and western Pennsylyauia
were continued, with the result that in the
following July, 1883, the eastern Pennsvl-
wanna division, under the command of Col.
u. w. Alexander of Reading. discontinued
the old organization and entt red as a. body
'hus consolidating two of the three oppos-
ing orders.
In March, 1888. a number of detached
camps in the state of New Jersey petition
ed to be admitted to the Order of the Sons
of Veterans, u. 8. A., and they were ad-
@ltted in the following June by Gen VIM.
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E. w. Ross, commander of the second

E w. Ross, commander of the second
grand division.
G. A. R. Action.
In July 1889, the commander-in-c1ief OF
the G.and Army of the Republic Invited
rerresC atives of the two opposing orders
of the Sens of Veterans to visit the G.. A.
R. eDclT PINE mt at Denver and present their
respe Give claims for recognition to COM
mittee eff the encampment, which they did,
After duly considering the matter the
committee reported to the encampment that
in It's judgment the recognition and sup
port Of the G. r should be given the
Sons of Veterans, u. S A. This report was
unanimously adopted by the sncampment,
and the order at large recommended to give
the Sons of Veterans, L. s. A, all possible
encoura go ment and assistance This action
of the twenty-first encampment of the IT,
A. r. also had 4 tendency to bring about
a con so.idation of the two orders
At the second annual encampment of the
Sons of Veterans, L. s. A. held at CO.
lumbus. Ohio in August, 1888, Major A.
p. Davis, Dr.. J. A. Eldridge, Colonel l. S.
Bangs. CoIo.lel john A. Thompson. Gs neral
VIM. e w. Ross. General j. A. Rodrigo,
Colonel w. II Pierpont and r. M. j. Reed,
veterans of the civil war who had been
closely Identified with the organization of
the order, were elected constitutional life
members of the ommandery-in-chief. At
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SONS OF VETERANS
Order to Perpetuate G. A, H.
PRINCIPLES.
70 u N De D IN 1881
FIRST CAEP ORGANIZED LIN
PITTSBURG.
A Memorial College Built IN Mason
City, Io2-a-TGe Present
National Oticer5

The failure Of ;aa Grand Army Of the
Republic 10 p.cyi,-e fer its own succession
rendered such al q 81 -i!-a:ion as the Sons
of Veterans necessary, and WAS natural
consequence of carry training at the camp
fires and social gatherings of the several
Grand Army posts throughout the country,
and Of the patriotism insti!!ed into the
young minds at such meetings, where the
fathers took great pride in presenting their
sens that they might hear and know, not
of the great deeds of the individual, but
of the great benefits derived from crushing
one of the most gigantic re5ellions ever
known. AS the boys grew older the dispo-
sitiou to organize and form associations
similar to their fathers, manifested itself
in different ways, and in 1870 organizations
of soldiers and sailors sons, under the
names of Cadets and Sons of Veterans, APP
peared in different states of the Union, each
organization being attached to and depend
ent upon some one certain post of the g. a.
r. In the course of two or three years these
organizations of Cadets and Sons of Vet
Grams became sufficiently numerous to war
rant central organization. and efforts look
ing to this end were made by d number of
interested Grand Army posts, but owing to
petty jealousies among the different or
CARNATIONS all such efforts failed of con-
summation.
From 1873 to 1850 the number of Organi-
cations Of Cadets and Sons of Veterans had
increased to such an extent that three sep
arate central organizations were formed, ali
having the same objects in view, but each
competing for the favor of the Grand Army
and the assistance of the public generally.