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Arizona republican., 1902-12-28
METALS.

New York. December 27.-Copper dull and unchanged at $11 for standard: $ll.75 for lake, and S11.6215 for electro lytic and castings were nominal. Lead quiet at 41kc
 Spelter weak at $f.75.
 Bar silver. 4Sc
 Mexican dollars, 3Sc.
Arizona republican., 1902-12-28
THE STANDARD OIL
 CRABS BEAUMONT
After a Long Struggle in the Texas
 Oil Fields

There Are Few Little Producers of Fuel Oil Outside They Cut No Especial Figure in the Movement of Fue Oil-In Consequence the Price of Fuel Oil Has Been Advanced and the Probabilities Are That the Price Will Still Go Up-
Arizona republican., 1902-12-28
A SOCIALISTS CHALLENGE.
He Warts to Talk on Economic Ques
 tiOnS..

Cleveland, O., December 27.-Max Hayes of this city, a prominent social ist labor leader, has sent a long let ter to David M. Parry, president of the National Manufacturers association at
Arizona republican., 1902-12-28
FREMoNTs WIDOW DEAD

Los Angeles, Calif., December 27.- Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of General Fremont, died tonight at her home in this city.
Arizona republican., 1902-12-28
BONDS.

U. S, rel. 2s, reg. 1OS; coupon. 1OS12 2s, reg, 1O7h; coupon, 1OS; new 4s. reg. and coupon, 1852; old As. reg, 1O9: coupon, no; IS, reg. and coupon, 1O3%
Arizona republican., 1902-12-28
MONT PELEE ACTIVE.

The Volcano IucandeSCc1t and Emit
 ting Smoke and Ashes.
 St. Thomas. D. ". l., December 27.- The cable ship Ncwingtoa, which ar rived at St. Lucia. D. w l., yesterday, reported having passed Mont Pelee, Isl and of Martinique, at 10:30 Thursday morning. The volcano was then in vio- tent eruption. Dense clouds of gray smoke were pouring out of the crater and ascending to an enormous height Other advices say the cone was lumin- ous during the night.
Arizona republican., 1902-12-28
WEATHER TO-DAY.

Washington, December 2f-Forecast Tor Arizona-Snow in north, rain in southern portion Sunday; Monday fair.
Arizona republican., 1902-12-28

FAREWELL & HAMAKER'S the leading photographers, where you car get photos up to date. 29 S. 2d St
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14

both sides of the Street and glad-hand
all of his Acquaintance.
From time to time he joined Fra
ternal Organizations and took blister
ing Oaths that he would always love
his Fellow-Man and stand for any
Touch within Reason. Consequently q
good many People found it cheaper to
send for him than to hire a Profess
sional Nurse. He would travel Miles
in order to have the Pleasure of sit
ting up with a Corpse. And he was
one of the handiest Pall-Bearers in the
Business.
Any one who happened to be nursing
a Hard-Luck Story would hunt up sym
pathetic Jasper and give him the Grip
and then weep on his Shoulder. Usual
ly he promised to do what he could to
square Matters, even though he had to
cut in where he wasn't wanted. In fly
ing around, trying to reinstate No
Goods who had lost their Jobs and Sc
cure Salaried Positions for Nice Fell
lows who were willing to do anything
except Work. he got many a Jolt, but
he was not discouraged.
One of his regular Assignments was
TO arbitrate a Domestic Scrap, merely
out of the Goodness of his Heart
In this way he managed to reunite
quite a number of Couples who were
afterward sorry that they had been
reuned and what they said about him
at this Point.
When a kind-hearted Herring starts
out to be a Relief Bureau and First
Aid to the Injured and portable Home
FOR the Friendless, nobody tries to take
the job away from him. His Ae-
quaintances do what they can to boost
his Game.
Therefore, when any one in that Com
munity sought out a Busy Man of At
fairs and began to unwrap his Tale Of
Woe and offer to exhibit his Wounds.
the 3. NJ. of A. would say: Here, I'll
my old friend Jasper. He is a Samar-
itan from away back"
1t came about that Jasper's Outer
once was frequently coagulated with
a Choice Assortment of n-Handlers
and all the short-winded Brothers who
want to hitch on to somebody's else
Pull. as they say in Boston.
At times Jasper would become weary
of having Folks come along and turn
their Private Griefs over to him, but
be did not want to become a Cynic and
Jose his Faith in Human Nature. He
was frequently Stung. but still he could
not resist any Appeal that was backed
up by a few WeepS.
In the Course of Time ne came into
quite a Bundle of Money and then all
the Bread that he had cast on the Wa
terS came back to him a Bakery at a
time. Those whom he had Succored
came around 70 Sucker him.
A Promoter whose Schemes he had
guaranteed, because the Mans Children
needed Shoes, now had a Chance to
show his Gratitude. He let Jasper in
on the Ground Floor Of a Company or
ganized to manufacture an Automobile
that could be turned out of the Shop
for SS5 and would run ninety Miles or
pint of Gasoline.
Gentlemen who were getting along
without OvercOats came in to see him
about Mining Stock that was sure to
touch Par by Jan. /. The only Reason
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
NOVEL TELEGRAPHY.
British Company Sends 800 Words a
Minute Over One Wire.
Gondon Chronicle.1

lLOnQOn tnrOnlcle.l
A new and advanced system of tele-
graphing has been on trial between Edin-
burgh and the London central telegraph
office with satisfactory results.
The system is the invention of Donald
Murray, an Australian journalist, and Is
already in practical working in New York.
while the German government IS expert
menting with 4 set of instruments. y
Daily Chronicle representative was for
tunate in securing interviews with both
the inventor and Mr.. Roberts of the postal
engineer in chiefs department. The for
NOR explained the Instruments in work
ing in the Scottish" operating room, and
as the ordinary telegraphing relays, lines
and batteries are used. the Characteris-
ties of the Murray system were easily
recognizable Briefly and devoid of tech
nicality it may be said that the message
10 be transmitted is placed before an
operator working what appears to be q
typewriter, having the usual lettered and
figured keys, its speed depending upon
the operators capability. A haif-inch
paper tape passing through the machine
IS dotted with punctures representing let
ters and words. Upon the message being
completed thus the tape is fed into the
Geographic transmitter. where IL is sig
nailed to it's destination at the rate OF 100
words a minute. BY the ordinary duplex
minute, and over distance of 1000 miles
rate of at least 100 words can be MAIN
tanned.
At the receiving office. as the punctured
tape flows out, il is carried into machine
worked by hand. and the message. printed
IN clear type upon the ordinary telegraph
forms. Is ready for delivery. If necessary.
fifteen TO twenty copies may be mani
folded by the same operation The re-
ceiving instrument works with extraordi-
nary rapidity. the punctures, represen ting
letters and spelling out words. being
made at top speed at the rate of eighty a
second, or 4,SoQ a minute. At this speed
as might be ina gined, several clerks are
required to collect the tape and turn its
symbols into plain print, while at the
Transmitting end three extra fast typists
are kept going punctcring and feeding in
the tape 1t is claimed that the sim
piicity Of the Murray system is its chief
claim to attention. and the French and
Austrian authorities are now in commit
nicatiOn with the young inventor.
Speaking officially. Mr.. Roberts stated
that the tests have been very satisfac-
tory. I'VE are now making he said
Tin our workshops the apparatus for two
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
A Painful Joke.


There is a lack OF humOr that is hui
mOrous. according to ex-senator Petit
grew of South Dakota. An instance Of Il
occurred at a little informal society al
fair which the ex-senator attended in
Washington.
.'Conundrums got to going around.
said the senator. and 1 could only think
of one. which / used with apologies. 1t
was. What's the difference between a
man going outdoors in the winter and a
dogg The answer is. a man puts on an
overcoat and the dog pants.
Everybody politely laughed But a
mans sins do follow him. a few nights
afterward ] was at a dinner where one
of the guests was a young woman who
had heard me PROFOUND my conundrum.
She remembered and told it, crediting me
with the ownership of the clever thing.
No one guessed IL. In glee at the prfvi-
lege, the young woman announced the
answer
why, the man puts on an overcoat
and the Cog trousers Every one was
puzzled i leaned over and whispered to
the young woman, setting her right.
. oh. yes. 1 forgot she said. Its
pantaloons instead of trousers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14

to the Daughter of his Old Friend, Civ
ing her a Straight Line on the Con-
duct of the High Roller who was try
ing to warm up to her.
She thanked him right from the Bot
tom of her Heart. Then she sent a
Messenger Boy to hunt up the High
Roller, because she wanted to. know
if it was all True or merely a Cruel
SANDER.
When she sprung his Record on him
he leaned right over against her and
cried, and said that no matter what
he had been, she was the one to make
him a Good Man. Then she StrOked
his Hair and begged Forgiveness, and
he asked her who had been knocking
and she gave the whole Snap away and
begged him not TO do anything Des-
perate. He said that whatever he did,
he would do out of Love for her.
After which he went home to oil up
his Pocket Hardware.
Next Morning the Man who wanted
to help Everybody did a Flying Leap
down the Back Stairway of his Office.
Just as he ducked a Bullet and cut
into the Alley back of the POstofice. it
occurred TO him that the True Friend
Gag had it's Drawbacks.
He escaped with his Life. but there
was always more or less Dark Talk of
his being mixed UP in a Woman Case.
He is now what is known in Obitu-
airy Notices as a Practical Philan-
thropist. That is. he refers all Hard
Luck Tales to a Society which was
never known to give up. The Office
Boy has Instructions to admit only
those who are listed in Bradstreet.
And, of course, he is never called in
to smooth out Family Fights because
of the Blot on his Character.
Moral-To be a successful Benefac-
tor, wait and put the whole Lump Sum
into Libraries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14

they came to him first instead Of
tacilling John w. Gates, was that he
had always been a True Friend and
they wanted to put him next TO a Good
Thing
After one or two Of these Gift En-
terprises had been slipped TO him, he
! began to back water and be a trihe
Leary- Yet he found it very Hard to
be discourteous to one who came IN
and did the Brother Act. Besides, the
Bunk who has the Joint Note already
made out and ready to be signed usu-
ally has Talk calculated to make a
Heart of Stone mellow TO the Con-
| sistency of a Baked Apple.
What really did more than any other
one Thing to cure him of his Innate
Goodness was an Experience with a
Sweet Girl who was being courted by
d Wretch quite unworthy of her.
The unseIfish Benefactor who tries
TO sidetrack Weddings that are sure
to turn out unhappiiy is always a Can
didate for the Hospital, with a Long
Shot at the Morgue.
The Sweet Girl in Question was the
daughter of an Old Friend, for whose
Funeral Expenses he had been landed.
She was a Confiding Thing and did not
known that the Bachelor who had
started in to Rush her seven nights a
Week was a Rounder and a Poker
Player and somewhat of a Lush
Every one who knew the Sweet Girl
said It was too Bad and that some one
ought to go to her and Warn her. Aft
er the Old Ladies and the Elders had
talked the Matter over on the side. it
was decided that Jasper was 1t. He
was known to be kind and disinter-
ested, and was accustomed to dealing
out Good Advice. Anything that he
said would go long Way to head off
the Deal.
Accordingly he did a Fatherly Talk
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
HOLIDAY GOODS.

Large and Elegant Stock of
Novelties at Popular
Prices.
ALBUMS WITH MUSIC BOXES.
BRONZE AND OTHER STAT
UARY.
GLOVE BOXES IN BURNT
LEATHER.
FANCY DECANTERS AND
MANY OTHER NOVELTIES AT
POPULAR PRICES.
OUR CENTER COUNTERS ARE
FILLED WITH A VERY ELE-
CANT ASSORTMENT OF HOLI-
DAY GIFTS OF EVERY DE-
SCRIPTION.
BRUSH AND COMB SETS.
GLOVE AND COLLAR BOXES
FOR LADIES OR GENTLEMEN.
ALBUMS, PLAQUES. PHOTO
STANDS. MILITARY BRUSH
SETS. VASES IN BOHEMIAN
GLASS. ETC.
PICTURE FRAMES IN BURNT
WORK. ETC.
MIRRORS OF EVERY DE-
SCRIPTION.
SMOKING SETS, w o R K
BOXES. MANICURE SETS.
SHAVING SETS.
STEMS WITH MUSIC BOXES.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14

complete circuits. One set is already com
pleted and has been installed at Edin-
burgh and the central telegraph office,
London, for practicing purposes, j. G.,
learning TO manipulate the typewriter per-
fOrator On two occasions this week we
have got through to Edinburgh to prove
the apparatus, etc, and the system Will
later on be brought into commercial use.
There is no doubt that it will reduce the
cost of transmission. for its main adYan-
tage Is that no particular skill is required
to work it, An operating room installed
with these Instruments could be super
vised BY one skilled operator, in case of
anything getting out of order, while the
actual workers would be merely smart
typists and clerks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
Man of Experience.
Chicago POst.J

us he good at figures7''
i'Well. rather He can make almost
anything out OF nothing. Why, he's the
man who takes city directory and fig
uTes out a population half again as large
as the government census gives"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
Modern Fables,
BY GEORGE AIDE.
The Modern Fable of the Samaritan Who Got Para
!ysiS of the Helping Hand
BY GEORGE ABE

Copyright. 1902. by Robert Howard
RusseIL)
nee there was moving Tar
81 get who was strong on the
Brotherhood of Man.
He ran a little Sunshine
Factory all of his own. When it came
TO scattering Seeds Of Kindness the
Farm Drill was q. Poor Second.
Every time he started down Town he
would have to zig-zag so as to cover
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
Mike's Poodle.
Chicago News.

Hogan--An' is he blooded dog, Mike?
Blooded2 ] sh'd say he wuz wy,
when he WIZ "A pup tn doc had to bleed
him 70 kape UNI from bein' a. bloodhound.
The Conservative, 1902-05-29

Assembly. He represented Otoe coun-
ty, having been elected in the fall of
1855. His leadership in the House was
at once recognized by everybody, and
it was at that session that he first took
his position on money questions, which
were presented in the form OF a large
number of bills to charter banks of
issue in different parts of the territory.
These wildcat schemes for robbing the
public encountered in Mr.. Morton an
able and fearless opponent. He fought
and voted against all the banks char
tered at that time. During the contest
over the bank charters in the House, on
his own motion the charter for the Bank
of Richardson county was referred to
special committee Of which he was the
chairman. He reported against that
bank and all others chartered at that
session, as wildcat swindles, and
recommended that there should be
printed on each bill issued, instead of
the legend provided for in the charter,
ble." Mr.. Morton's action in regard to
banks aroused the wrath of his constit-
uents at Nebraska City, and he was
assailed with great bitterness as young
man who didn't know any better than
to vote against making money plentiful
in his own town. At the ensuing fall
election he was defeated for reelection
to the legislature by William B. Hail by
the narrow majority of eighteen votes.
The contest was very bitter as to banks
and finance in general, Mr.. Morton
holding to the same views then that he
has adhered to ever since, through the
long and almost continuous struggles in
the nation and in the state over those
questions.
Mr.. Morton's second election to the
Legislature was in 1857. This was dis
tinguished in history as the "Capi-
tal-Moving Legislature" which under
took to remove the seat of government
from Omaha to Florence by the power
of resolutions of the two legislative
bodies. The majority Of the members
actually removed to Florence and Or
.ganized trump" legislature there, the
minority remaining at Omaha and
maintaining the legal body. Mr.. Nor
ton, though in consistent opposition to
Omaha on the question, remained with
the minority at Omaha, and refused at
all times afterward to act with the op-
position to the Omaha location for the
seat of government. Governor William
A. Richardson of Illinois was appointed
to the Office of Governor of the Terri
tory about this time, and arrived in
Omaha to enter upon his duties while
part of the legislature was in session
in Florence and the minority was hold
ing sessions in Omaha. Governor Rich
The Conservative, 1902-05-29
Che Conservative.

future home in Nebraska. Spending
few weeks at Bellevue to take his lati-
tude and longitude in the new land,
there he had opportunity to meet Sec
retary Cunning, Chief Justice Ferguson
and other territorial officers by Federal
appointment, with whom he discussed
the affairs and future of the new terri
tory. He then removed to Nebraska
City and settled on a beautiful quarter
section of land adjacent to the town,
and on commanding site Immediately
erected small but comfortable home.
These young people began their life in
Nebraska by surrounding that home
with beautiful trees, planted as twigs,
and which now adorn with ample foli-
age and great beauty what has since
become Arbor Lodge. Mr. Morton i'm
mediately entered actively into the
work of organizing and putting in mo-
tion the machinery of civil government
under the Nebraska organic act, to
enable the new community to live in
order regulated by law. The death of
Governor Burt devolved the executive
duties in the organization of the terri
tory upon Thomas B. Cunning, who had
been appointed secretary of the terri
tory by President Pierce, and, under the
organic act, became by virtue of his
office acting governor. The primary
question of the hour was the location of
the capital of the territory, which was
a matter Of very serious concern to the
new settlers. The place that should be
favored in the proclamation of the gov
ernor for the first location would have
great prestige over rival towns, of which
there were many, but as these towns
consisted mostly of blank prairie with
out houses or people to inhabit the few
rough cabins erected on the sites of
some, actual interest in them of any i'm.
portance had yet to be created.
The capital was located at Omaha by
proclamation and elections in the
various districts for members of the
Territorial Council and the House of
Representatives were also covered by
proclamation. The legislative elections
occurred in districts defined by the
Governor s proclamation in the absence
of any law, and also without much
reference to the inhabitants they con-
tanned. 1t is something more than a
tradition that in not few of them it
would have been hard to find any in
habitants at all. But somebody voted
returns were sent into the executive
office; certificates of election were duly
issued; and the Legislature met in De-
cember, 1854, in Omaha, the capital
question being the sole issue of general
interest. The object of the opposition
was to relocate the capital, which was
resisted by the Omaha interests to re-
The Conservative, 1902-05-29

ing advocate. AS a candidate for office
through many storms, against strong
and unreasoning opposition, he has de-
Tended his faith in the face Of uniform
defeat and has lived to see much of
that for which he contended find ex-
preston in the government of the
country. An inveterate foe to the prin-
ciple of protection, he has steadily up
held the doctrine of tariff for revenue
only, and today holds TO the policy of
commercial freedom with the same te-
nacity that he displayed fifty years ago.
1t is not too much to say that through
his fidelity to those great principles of
free trade and sound finance, and to his
undaunted courage in advocating them,
he is largely indebted for the distinction
which called him to the public service
as member of the cabinet of one Of
the greatest Of American presidents.
j. Sterling Morton is native of New
York, having been born in Adams, JEFF
ferson county, in that state, April %,
1882. He was of distinctly New Eng
land stock, emanating from Yorkshire,
England, Oh his paternal side, and from
Scotch Irish blood on his mothers side.
His grandfather, Abner Morton, born
in Athol, Massachusetts, September 7,
1774 graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege in 1899, and was lawyer by pro-
fession. He married Sarah French,
born May 10, 1884, at Pittstown, New
York, and removed to Detroit, Michi-
gan, in his middle manhood. He was
the first editor of the "Detroit Free
Press" the first daily paper published
in Michigan, and for many years was
an editor. He died in September, 1868,
at Monroe, Michigan, and Sarah French
Norton his wife, died in 1870 at the
same place. The maternal grandfather
of j. Sterling Morton, Joseph Sterling,
was a native of Lyme, Connecticut,
where he was born, November 25, 1856.
He married Emelia Caldwell, born in
Hartford, Connecticut, April 10, 1898.
Joseph Sterling died March 4, 1889, at
Adams, Jefferson county, New York,
and Emelia Caldwell Sterling died
April %, 1S4s, at Monroe, Mich.
Julius Dewey Morton, father of J.
Sterling Morton, and son of Abner and
Sarah French Morton, was born March
10, 1908, in St. Albans, Vermont. EN-
cline Sterling, to whom he was mar
ried September 80, 1880, at Adams.
New York, was born there on February
16, 1912.
j. Sterling Morton was the first born
to Julius D. and Emeline Sterling
Morton. After acquiring his primary
education in the schools of Monroe,
Michigan, he entered the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating
finally at Union College, Schenectady,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-09-20

John Hausam of Kansas City came
down Sunday morning to visit rel
atives.
A.. G. Williams, wife and son, Max,
visited friends in Higginsville We'd
uesday.
Judge Alexander Graves went to
Marshall Tuesday morning on legal
business.
DR.. B. C. Hyde. Of Kansas City,
spent Sunday with the family Of DR..
Geo. Hyde.
Mrs. Milton Ewing of Vernon
county is the guest of relatives in
Lexington.
MISS Lulu Hacker returned Sun
day evening from a visit to relatives
10 Sweet Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. r. Tunstall went
to Harrisonville Sunday morning to
spend a week with relatives. !
Irwin Hainkle returned to Kansas
City Sunday morning after a weeks
vacation spent with home folks.
Miss Paul Hinchey of De Soto re-
turned home Sunday morning after q
visit to the family of Gustav Haerle.
Mrs. L. W. Ludwigs returned from
Odessa Tuesday evening accompluieC
by Miss Elsie Files who will MAKE
her a visit.
Rev. q. J.. FeDstermacher returned
from Mexico Saturday evening. II
reports that his wife's condition i
much improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Hawkins of Man
gum, o. r., who have been %visitin.
relatives here left Tuesday mornin.
: for Sweet Springs.
MINERS wanted at coal shaft nea
) Lexington, Mo-, passenger depc
Good work, steady, safe and n
d troables. M w. Serat. S.S0m1
Miss Susie Alexander left TueSda
evening for Kansas City 10 resume he
e position as teacher in Miss Blglow
school for boys and girls.
Z Mrs. A.. A. Walker Of PleasaT
o Green arrived Monday afternoon an
will be the guest Of her niece, Mrs.
N. Hopkins, for several weeks.
y Clarence Kinney to b
friends in the county that in additiC
10 to the transfer business he conducts
g. 6rst-class feed stable. Lowest rat
and best service. II