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Railroad Notes.

Train No. 4 was on time today.
l.. H. Ashton returned to Ogden this
afternoon.
Engineers Eoffee and DeFOrest are
laying of today.
George Eykyn will LOAF two cars of
sheep for Omaha on the 18th.
No. ; came in forty minutes late to-
day. leaving Cheyenne behind time.
S. A Crawford received a carload
of agricultural machinery this morn
ing.
Gus Mueller, the ~switchman. is lay
ing off today and ali extra ms is work
ing in his stead.
Engineer Farley Mathison has been
notified OF the serious illness of his
mother at Denver.
Irwin Bros. have six cars of southern
Utah horses in the yards here today.
en- route to Sioux City.
Manager James Eagon of the Thorn
DurEn was on the SICK llSt tnlS HlorH-
ing, suffering with a severe cold.
f. J. Bell will e m two carloads of
wool to Philadelphia tomorrow and
two carloads of sheep to Omaha
A carload OF sugar and canned corn
was received here by the Pacific Hotel
company this morning. and will be dis
tributed along the line from time to
time.
II is said that the net revenues of
the Thornburgh hotel here have risen
from a deficit a few months & to a
monthly profit of several hundred dol
lars.
Engineer George Deuel.. who has a
run on the Short Line between Salt
Lake and Huntington. is in the city,
and will soon move his family to Salt
Lake to reside.
Engineer Billy Naismith and son.
Will, and Roy Bowen vent to Rock
River on No. 3 this morning. They
were armed with fishing tackle and
bait cans and will rave a good time.
l.. Mass. a car repairer. met with a
painful accident in the railroad yards
at Cheyenne Wednesday afternoon. A
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car vas being moved with crowbars
when it ran onto his left foot and
crushed the toes in a severe manner
A%mputation will not be necessary.
Train No. ; is scheduled to arrive.
at . O'Clock tonight.
Ed Fogarty. bridge contractor for
the Laramie Plains line. is able to be
out and was at the office today. hut he
is still rather weak
J. T. Orr of the hospital department
of the Union Pacific was here this
morning. en- route west. His head
quarters are in Cheyenne. H. was
formerly a student at the university
here.
A special train of Pullman cars bear
ing the Philadelphia delegation of
Shriners. passed here as the second
section of train, No. | at l:25 this morn
ing. A special passed earlier in the
night with another late delegation.
ID. H. McGrath. who has been agent
at Carbon station for the past ten years
is in the city. and will leave soOn for
Cody. WyO., to accept a position with
the Burlington. The station at Car
bon has been Observation-Disclosures
Leader.
The abandonment Of the Hermosa-
Laramie old line will meal something
to County Clerk McGibbon unless he
can load a car of wool and get it ont
before midnight tomorrow night. and
the way wool is flying today would do
credit to a Georgia negro.
w. II. Peterson. superintendent of
bridges and buildings for the Wyo-
ming division. came over from Chey-
enne this morning and was joined here
by T. J. Wyche for a trip to RawlinS
in the interest of the burnettiZing
plant being erected there.
r. J. Wyche. engineer for the Union
Pacific at Denver. who has charge of
the Wyoming and Colorado divisions
Of that road. was here this morning. on
business connected with the picking
plant to he erected here. Mr.. Berry.
who has the matter in hand. was also
in the city today. and went out to the
site Of the plant with Mr.. Wyche.
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-. q. A." Tells One, Too.

James Barton Adams. the Postscript
mar Of the Post. has a fish story him
self. although he credits it to another
newspaper man:
Right at the opening Of the fish story
season the Gehesco. Ills. News editor
makes Il desperate lunge for the cake
In this manner
Two men were fishing in Rock river.
It was in the evening.
Mosquitoes came in clouds.
The men plunged into IN old steam
boiler.
The mosquitoes drilled through.
The men seized stone and clinched
their bills upon the inside.
Frantically they worked all night.
In the morning they looked out.
Every mosquito had been clinched to
the boiler.
Now we can fish" said one.
When they tried to emerge the mos
quitoes got scared and every one at
tempted to fly away.
The great boiler rose in the air with
the men inside. They flew toward
Green river. It is believed that the
outfit landed somewhere in the fast,
ness of Jacks branch. north OF Gene
SEQ.
, 1902-06-06
FIRST BAND CONCERT
TOMORROW EVENING

The Imperial Military band vii give
tomorrow evening. at 7:3O. on the
streets of the downtown district. hui
will give no Sunday afternoon concert
next Sunday. on account of Odd Eel
lows memorial day.
Mrs. Mollie lngersoll. the manager
of the band. says she will receive
whatever funds the well disposed may
see At to donate to the band. no mat
ter how large or small the amount
The boys are working for the benefit
Of the city and are doing it gladly.
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Union Pacific offers Saddle.

Last evening J. F. Barron. the Uni
on Pacific agent. received a letter from
F.. J. LOmaX. general passenger agent
of the Union Pacific. authorizing him
to eXpend what sun would be neces'
sary in the purchase of the finest sad
die and bride obtainable. to be made
in Cheyenne. and which will be offered
as a trophy by the Union Pacific for
the best brohcho rider at the Frontier
celebration in Cheyenne this fall
Cheyenne Leader.
, 1902-06-06

Pullman Conductors Want Increase.
Il petition setting forth their griev
ances and demanding an advance OF
wages being circulated throughout the
tors now has $4,000 signatures. The
petition demands that all new conduc
tors be paid $65 a month for the first
six months of their service. $40 the
second six months and $50 after they
have served n year. After all the
Pullman conductors have been given
an opportunity to sign the petition. ii
will be presented to President Robert
+. Lincoln of he Pullman Car company
, 1902-06-06
THE MISSOURI BOYS
AT OPERA HOUSE

Lovers of sensational in the drama
will find sensation to their hearts con.
tent in the play underlined for the 10th
at the Opera House. 1t is Jesse
James. or The Missouri Boys" and
will be presented by Leon HattenbaCh
and Miss McCollum. favorites here.
who never do anything half way. and
a lively production of this stirring
piece may be looked for. Reserved
seats may be had at the Laramie Drug
company's store. and will go like the
pistol shots of the original Jesse
James gang-with a rush.
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Bio Sum for Advertising.

G.. NJ Mckinney has been appointed
riman lines with headquarters in Chi
cago. A new campaign is to be under
taken by the Union Pacific and allied
ness.
An appropriation Of 500. 900 has
beer set aside to push this depart
ment. Lectures will be given. litera
ture scattered broadcast and agents
sent out into the crowded places OF
the east to get settlers for the unset
tied country of the west.
, 1902-06-06
COLORADO NINE is
SHOWING UP WELL

Louis Miller. who returned last night
from the Jelm mountain mining dis
trict say the shaft on the Colorado
mine owned by the Wyoming Queen
Mining company. is now down fifty
feet and that the mine is showing up
splendidly. Other mines are doing
work there with every indication of
success.
, 1902-06-06
RANCHMAN ROGERS WILL
RECEIVE HIS WATCH

The watch stolen from Ranchman
Frank Rogers a few weeks ago. and
for the theft of which James WEIGH
was sen to the ~penitentiary for a year
was today delivered by Sheriff Cook to
Ed n. Allen and will be by him restor-
ed to Mr.. Rogers. County Attorney
DOwney authorized the transfer of the
timepiece.
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out the sport. which continued until
after midnight.
George wants to know how the thing
was kept SO quietly that a summons
home gave him only forebodings of
evil and not of good. He declares that
he is not so old that he fails to remem-
Der his natal day. His guests and his
family had a good time in IL event.
and his friends wish him many happy
returns Of the day.
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SURPRISE
FOR SWlTCHMAN WHEN HE WAS
HASTILY SUMMONED FROM
HIS WORK LAST NIGHT.
Feared Harm Had BefalIen Some
Member Of the Family and Found
House Full Of Friends to Celebrate
mans Want More Pay--Railroad
Notes.

Switchnan George Shamp Of the
night force in the Union Pacific yards
here was hastily summoned home last
night, about 10 o'clock. and started for
the north end of the town with his
heart in his throat. fearing some harm
had befallen some member of his in
teresting family. His fear was not al
layed when he came in sight of the
house. No. 461 Fourth street. and saw
lights in every room. 1t was not until
he had reached the door and had been
taken in tow by over a score of his
friends did he realize hat it was his
birthday and his friends had called to
pay their respects. There was music
and dancing ard an elegant little ban
quet. Mr. Shamp is n musician of no
mean ability himself, and he helped
, 1902-06-06
MAY is MOVING
TO

Jacob May. the carpenter. is today
removing to his old location on Thorn
burgh street. He has heard nothing
from his former associate. II. Hjorth.
but believes he went to New York. He
will break into the penitnetiary again.
| firmly believe" said Mr.. May.
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Discussed.
Tn" department cnCampnent OF the
Grand Army of the Republic. depart
ment OF Colorado and WyomiuG. To
which Custer post is attached Will
meet at Rocky Ford. Colo. next Tues
day. and the annual cons ZION OI The"
Woman's Relief Corps will 3ur"r at the
same time and place, Custer corps.
w. X. G.. is also attached to this con
ventiOn.
The delegates chosen from Custer
post are ED. \. Allen and T. + Carey
with JabeZ Cook and f. Gaski|I as the
~altcInates. MIR. Carey. though still Il
member of the post. has removed to
Pocatello. Idaho, and probably will not
attend the meeting. the appointment
falling to one of the allernatrs.
The delegation from Custer corps.
w. r. g.. are Mrs. Andrew Nilrr. tn"
corps president. and Mrs r.Garlinior.
the past president. and it is b"irv"d
that both will attend and taxi part in
the proceedings Of tn" convention.
Among the matters Il come to til"
attention of the Wyoming delegation
to the Rocky Ford convention Of TIA"
W. r. c. will be the condition Of the
Soldiers Home at Cheyenne, \ com
mittee from Custer corps and tn" corps
at Cheyenne visited the home recently
and found certain things that should
be done. When the member OF Custer
corps returned and repo"ted to the
corps. the body agreed to enter heart
lily into the work and agreed to make
whatever appropriation vas necessary
to carry out the suggestions of its dele.
gate to the conference at Cheyenne.
Mrs. Kinnear. 1t is believed that the
department convention will axe hold
Of the work.
Routine matters will be considered
at the department Ell rampmont of tn"
G. A. r., the election of officers being
the principal item on the program. \
parade of old soldiers will occur AT
Denver on the night of the 10th. and
many of the delegates to the Rocky
Ford gathering will return to tn" colo
RADIO capital for that event.
, 1902-06-06
MAJOR DUCAT ORDERED
TO SAN FRANCISCO

Major Arthur G. Ducat. Eighth i'll
fantry. is relieved from further recruit
ing duty at Don."r and ordered to San
Francisco for assignment to duty with
his regiment.
, 1902-06-06
SUICIDES.
Planned Death Deliberately and Sent
a Message 20 Relatives.

Kansas City. June John w. How
~. one" a millionaire lumber dealer OF
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Daily Republican SOC per month
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LADIES
TO ATTEND ANNUAL GATHERING
OF DELEGATES TO W. r. C.
CONVENTION.

Meeting to Be Held At Rocky Ford
Colorado. Next Week. and Custer
Post and Custer Corps viii be Re
observation-disclosures Home To Be
Discussed.
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tration Of what is going on every day
on the exchange.
Where in any other branch of BUSH
ness are transactions carried on, the
consummation Of which depends entire
~ upo nthe honor and word Of the
principals? It is the best Illustration Of
the sanctity with which the word of a
member of the exchange is regarded
There is no business which is so in
tricate and yet runs with such ease;
bitches are few and far between, and
while there is a board of arbitration
to settle differences between members,
the occasions on which matters have
to be referred are comparatively few.
The stock exchange clearing house
handles millions and millions, and yet
each day the purchases and sales bal
ance to the very cent. All Of this
proves most conclusively taat honor
among the members Of the stock ex-
change is enc Of the strongest motive
forces in any branch Of business, and it
is sufficiently obvious that the stand
ard among the members is so high that
a word is taken to be as good as the
most substantial kind OF a bond.
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THE old summer cottage of William
H. Harvey, celebrated as the au-
thor of Coins Financial School. %
serves at this time to point a moral
and adorn a tale. The tale is a
dozen years long, and the moral is, in
effect, that all things come to the cor
poration that is strong enough to wait
and does so.
A dozen years ago W. H. Harvey
was a resident Of Ogden. Coin was en-
terprising and a hustler-was from
AIissouri-but did not need to be
showed in order to have unbounded
faith, in Ogden's future commercial
greatness.
Harvey projected and carried out for
the summer of 1880 a great midsummer
Mardi Gras-knOwn in the boom liter
allure of the time as The Carnival"
Harvey threw himself into the cele-
bration. 1t did not meet with the sue
cess hoped for and as the bottom
dropped out of Ogden's lamented boom
about that time it arouses no pleasant
memories to the average freebooter Of
Ogden.
When the excitement cleared away it
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partment, which was very much need
ed, as the previous quarters were too
crowded
An elegant supper was served 10 all
present Mrs Mccormick and Mrs.
Hardness acted as hostesses. The table
was tastefulIy decorated with pro
fusion of flowers. and 4 yep orchestra
discoursed sweet music ing the
serving Of the repast. GLOWING
are a portion of the que present:
The Guests.
Mrs Lawton, Miss Rookiidge, Miss
sherman. Mrs r. H. Charming Mrs.
David Murray. Mrs. Robert Officer,
Mrs. Jay T. Harris. Mrs. +. w. Center,
Ars. S2sgs, Mrs. Flags, Miss Wood
ward, Mrs. Mont Ferry, Mrs. PearsalI.
Mrs. Kenyon, Mrs. Hale, Mrs. W. W.
Armstrong, Mrs. Steiner, Mrs. McCor-
nick. Mrs. Sam Park. Mrs Emery
Holmes. Miss Mccormick. Mrs Dr.
Niles, Ms. @. w. Holman; Messrs.
Fred Hale, J. Walcott Thompson, Jay
T. Harris. r. F. Holmes, A. W. COpp.
Mont Ferry. Ed Ferry James Nein, Z.
r. Wicks, Russell Tracy. Frank Nc
Gurrin, George Steiner, DR.. Niles. c.
~. Holman r. II. officer. Colonel sam
Park D. TT. Murray. c. Sturgis.
The following are some of the scores
made. A. ". Copp 94 Fred Hale. "a:
g. w Holman, 103. M Ritter, 100; J.
W. Neil. 1903
NOTES.
Dr.. Niles: Il never could under
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GOLF SEASON OPENS At THE COUNTRY Club Modern fables
By George
Ade.
The Modern Fable of the Batch of Letters or One Day
With Busy Man.

was all about little frankie. the Only
/ ICY.
In every large Establishment. there
/ is a gurgling Parent who comes down
( in the Morning with a Storv. concern
I ing the incipient Depew out ar their
House. It seems that little Frankie
has been told something at Sunday
/ school and he asked his Mother about
II and she told him sO-ana-so, where
/ upon the Infant Joker arose to the
/ Emergency and said: and then you
/ get II. and any one who doesn't laugh
Is lacking in Finer Appreciation of
/ Child Nature The Busy Man listened
/ TO F'rankie's Latest and asked, What's
/ the Rest Of it?"
/ So the Parent remarked % several
! people that day that the Man was
/ sinking into a grabbed Old Aga.
At 10 A. NJ. the Man repeated Dear
sir and a Voice came to him, remark
/ ing on the Beauty Of the Weather A
/ Person who might have been Professor
/ Of Bee-Culture in the Pike County
/ Agricultural Seminary. so far as make
! up was concerned, took the Man by the
/ Hand and informed him that he fthe
NAM was a Prominent Citizen and
: That being the case he would be given
a Reduction on the half-mOrOcCO Edi-
ton. While doing his $50 Words a
Minute. he worked Kellar Trick and
/ produced a large Prospectus from un-
der his Coat. Before the Busy Man
/ could grab a Spindle and defend him
self, he was looking at a half-tons
Photo Of Aristotle and listening 70 all
the different Reasons why the Work
should be in every Gentleman's Libra
/ ry- Then the Agent whispered the In
& 10 Nnrfr4 -. II
! nographer would not hear, and began
to III out Blank. The Man summoned
7 all his Strength and made a Buck.
i don't read Books, he said. 81 am
an Intellectual Nit. Clear Outl'
So the Agent gave him a couple Of
1 plying Looks and departed, meeting in
the Doorway pop-eyed Person with
/ his Hat on the Back Of his Head and a
+ Roll Of Blue Prints under his Arm. The
/ Man looked up and moaned. He recog-
| nized his Visitor as a most dangerous
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"As a matter of fact, on the panic
day 7 was buying locomotives. Every
man of US had given his word, and that
was sufficient.
There was absolutely no written
agreement. The stock was all placed
together for identification. so that
there would be no temptation to buy or
sell.
ST had nothing to do with the corner.
There was an attempt. or what was
considered an attempt. to wrest the
control of the Northern Pacific from
the people who had organized it, and
and my friends stood with the parties
who had organized it.
IF we had sold our stock, or part of
it. the control would have passed to
another company. Consequently our
stock was not for sale. because we did
not want to sell out our friends.
we told J. PierpOnt Morgan that
our stock was not FOR sale and that we
would support him in retaining con-
trsi
Mr.. Hill further said that he did not
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was found that Harvey had furnished
the fireworks-at least, he had guaran-
teed payment Of the bill to the Cali
fOrnia Powder company.
Among the ventures Of Harvey that
summer was the erection Of a summer
home out near the lake shore by Lit
tie mountain on a quarter section of
land, where Harvey expected to have
a model summer home with convenient
lake bathing, boating and general sum
mer amusements generally.
Coin left ogden and the California
Powder company came into possession
Of the house and land. Half forgotten
and entirely neglected. the house and
other improvements fell to decay, the
company paving taxes and keeping its
title ignoring requests to purchase for
a mere nothing.
Recently. however. the route of the
Southern Pacific's new route from Og-
den to Lucin was located past the
property. which being close TO the lake
shore. is Of considerable value. and the
California Powder company viii have
no cause to regret that a few hundred
Of its dollars went up in the smoke of
the Ogden carnival
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from behind the ron-top Desk and
greeted him.
How are you feeling this Morning?"
asked the Stranger.
Swell and Sassy" was the reply.
And yet, tomorrow you may Join the
Appendicitis Colony and day after to-
morrow you may lie in the darkened
Front Room with Floral Offerings on
all sides" said the Stranger. What
you want is one Of our non-reversible,
twenty-year, pneumatic Policies with
the Reserve Fund Clause. Kindly
glance at this Chart. Suppose you take
the reactionable Endowment with the
special PrOViSO permitting the accu-
mutation of both Premium and Inter-
est. On a $4,000 Policy for 20 Years
you make $500 clear, whether you live
or die, while the Company loses 49,
S6l.44, as you can see for yourself"
This Is my began the Man.
"Or you may prefer the automatic
tOntine Policy with ball bearings" con-
tinued the Death Angel. In this case
the entire Residue goes into the Sink
ing Fund and draws Compound Inter
est. This is made possible under our
new System of reducing Operating EX-
penses to a Minimum and putting the
Executive Department into the Hands
of well known New York FinancieTs
who do not seek Pecuniarv Reward but
are actuated by a Philanthropic Desire
10 do good to all Persons living west Of
the Alleghenies.
THAT viii be about all from you"
said the Man. ''Mosey. Duck! Up
the Alley"
Then you don't care what becomes
Of your family?" asked the Stranger
in a Mortified Tone
MY Relatives are collecting all Of
their Money in Advance" said the
Man. If they are not worrying over
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stock. 4 rival corporation was seek
ing to Gust Mr.. Morgan from the con-
trol OF the Northern Pacific. and If Mr..
Hin and his three friends had sold al
OF a moderate proportion Of their stock
il would have succeeded in its purpose.
The situation thus stood as follows.
To sell their stock meant TO set for at
least part of its seven times its par
value: to hold their stock meant TO lose
millions Of dollars and to keep their
promise to Morgan.
In spite of the tremendous induce
ment. the four men kept their promise
and their stock.
Several London hnanciers held 81
900 200 worth Of Northern Pacific stock.
but they. too. had passed their word
and refused to sell, although they were
offered s14.000.000 for their holdings.
The difference between yes and no
meant to them 81. 100000 in cold cash.
. . z
"on the day of the panic. said
James J. Hill. eve al sat still We
neither bought nor sold.
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Il j. ANDERSON Of tsis
ely has just come into n,sssss ,..'s
r-i,.- a family document which h.
s s.-..s a's' htga because of the sro-y
ssr, ,.'sa TO it. The hin of sale for two
rs,,-. W-ieh is reproduced here wsS
ans. 's4 from the papers Ieft nv his
ag /, ,. When the family was pr5p5 arg
illinois . gave Kentucky and move fo
he Is iae slave Daniel said he v-orI9
aFB Sc g sold to some man Of nus as
thsf ( --l--e preferably & Csfbof, as
n.sbe5 -lls own fa.-H. Hs WAS e,~-
asIsS5.e-. horse To ..t ar.,gn5 :, LUZ w
faars r mood Of Budstown nearby ana ~
be ~ cane back with the r --ec, - ana
Who S,, .'9ao a purchaser for bi,o 10
sale 9-.,el him and in due t5m mus +no
als.or'--s, made The docnme ,,i''g i ', ~
uaaor ny q. interest as showing The = - ~
nonev % slave labor at a tin's 's b a.
bushes" vas extremely scarce and m -,
Judss vas ia trade ana b, --,eS =
Daa t5se-5ss.S says his father and
sau an ' ,ssr sawed out with . Win
We lumber needed for tbs e l,,l'