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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04

Congressional junketing has become
so unpopular. and the custom has so
fallen into disuse that but one trip of
this kind was provided for by the re-
cent congress, and il now looks as if
but one member of congress will go on
the junket. In the late hours of the
session resolution was introduced in
the senate and passed by that body,
authorizing the appointment of a sub
committee Of the committee on Pacific
islands to visit Hawaii. After the pas
sage of the resolution, Senators Mitch
ell of Oregon, Foster of Washington.
Burton of Kansas and Blackburn OF
Kentucky were appointed members of
the subcommittee All of these are
backing out from taking the trip, ex-
cepting Burton of Kansas. who SAYS
ne Will go, even if he mas TO go alone.
The expenses will be paid out of the
contingent fund of the senate. and il
is whispered around that the resolution
was introduced at the request of Mr.
Burton himself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04
FOUR MET DEATH.
Engines Ditched and Railroad Men
Killed.

Middletown. y. ". Aug. "a head-on
collision between milk trains on the On
tario & Western road at Horizons to
dav resulted in the death of four GER
sons. Both engines were wrecked and
several cars were ditched. The dead:
Andy O'Neill. engineer.
Robert Reese. fireman
Michael Tulley. trainmau.
Frank Monroe. trainman.
BENJAMIN st. John. engineer. escaped
serious injury.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04


The famous Holt viii case has at last
terminated The will of the great jur-
list has been admitted to probate and
letters of administration have been
issued to Luke Deviih, named in the
VIII as its executor. Everyone must
remember the sensa tiOnal develop
ments in the case. Judge Joseph Holt
was the judge advocate general of the
army His estate WAS valued at $50
OO0- After his death no Will could be
found, and after the proper length OF
time had expired. letters of admins
tration were ordered to be issued to
the National Safe Deposit & Trust
company. This action started the ro-
nance, for on the very day the letters
were to be issued the register of deeds
received through the mail a document
dirty, torn and charred, which pur-
ported TO be the will of Judge Holt.
Apparently there was no clue to the
Identity OF the sender. The document
was remarkable in that it bore the sig
natures of Joseph Holt. William T.
sherman, Ulysses S. Grant and Ellen
sherman, General Sherman'S wife BY
the terms of the will the entire estate
of the testator was dfvfsed to Elfzab beth
Hines, a cousin of the wife of the tes-
tatoT, and Josephine Holt Throcknlor-
ton, Judge Hollis adopted daughter.
III NOhlNSL was one OF Inc most Ia
nous in the history of the district
courts Charges flew thick and fast.
and prominent men from all over the
country were called to the witness box.
The beautiful Miss Throckmorton was
the heroine Of the case An effort was
made TO prove that. taking advantage
of Judge Hollis known admira ton for
her mother and fondness for the lovely
girl, the viii had been forged in an
attempt to insure to Miss Throcknlor-
ton a share in the Holt estate 1t was
declared that the mysterious document
had been mailed in a letter box near
the Pennsylvania depot in Washington
on a day when Miss Throckmorton
passed through the capital en- route to
visit in Virginia. Invitations were
brought forth showing that the distin-
guished witnesses to the disputed viii
were to have dined with Judge Holt on
the day in question, but against this
an ancient caterers bin was produced
TO prove that the dinner had been post
poned- The case was appealed TO the
supreme court, but a retrial was never
had as by agreement the viii was ad-
mitted TO probate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04

Secretary Hitchcock and Mrs Hitch
cook, with their daughter, have gone 10
Dublin. \. H. They are among the last
TO leave the city. and Washington has
already taken on its usual midsummer
deserted expression.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04

and had finished some OF the figures
which are to stand about the base OF
the monument. After his death, the
contract for completing the monument
was renewed by Secretary Alger in IA
Vor of the sculptor's widoT. Mrs.
Rohl- Smith engaged Mr. Henry II.
KitsOn of Boston, who finished part
of the work. She then went to Mr.
Rohl-Smith's former home in Dem
mark and engaged Danish artists TO
execute and finish her husbands de-
signs for the horse, rider and alegori-
cal groups These two groups, repre-
'Senting War" and Peace" were
modelled in Copenhagen by the artists
selected, Steven Sinding and LaUritz
Jensen. and are now being shipped to
this country. The work, when COM
pleted Will. therefore, be the production
of four sculptors, but it is said that,
despite the difficulties which have
hampered construction. the statue will
compare favorably with any in Wash
ingtOn. The total cost of the work Will
be $4,000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04

\ Montana ranchman. T. c. BenbOw.
thinks he has solved the problem Of
aerial navigation. He has given up
ranching to become an inventor. and
has obtained a patent for an airship
which he claims viii sasI all around
that of NJ. Santos. Mr.. BenboW's air
ship is craft supported by gas bags,
or balloons. The balloons are of lon
gitudinaI shape, and may be either
large or small, according to the amount
of weight which the ship is designed to
carry Two extra balloons are provided,
so that if any accident happens to the
ones supporting the craft the gas in
those remaining will be sufficient to
carry the aerOnaut te the ground with
out accident. Fans are operated by
motor power, the motor being con-
structed of a light material. Mr. Ben
bow does not say what. and of sufficient
power TO drive the machinery carried in
the framework of the ship. Mr.. Ben
bow is backed by an incorporated COM
pany, the American Aerial Navigation
company, with Il capital stock of S30.-
600 The incOrpOrators are all Montana
men, the president being County Com
missioner LaVelle of Red Lodge. The
company Will furnish Mr. BenbOw with
cash TO build one Of his machines,
which viii cost Sc. zoo.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04

In no part of the country does the
average American citizen insist with
such vehemence that he is part own
er in government property as in Wash
ington-- The closing of the White
House property to visitors while the
White House is undergoing repairs has
called forth numerous complaints daily
from the scores of visitors who want
to see what is going on. Colonel
Bingham, superintendent of public
buildings and grounds, says that the
exclusion OF the public is necessary in
order TO prevent the workmen from
being hampered in carrying out their
tasks. The magnitude of the work and
the necessity for finishing it in due
time is cited as. being responsible for
issuing the order, but the visitors can
not see II in this light. They want TO
see everything in the Capital City and
most especially. they want to see
what is forbidden \ bunch of tour
lists. who were stopped at the outer
gate the other day by a policeman
raised a big howl over their exclusion
Il reckon I'm taxpayer of this coun-
try and own part Of that establish
ment- said one OF them. The police
man stepped inside the gate and picked
up a small twig from the lawn. He
brought IL out to the taxpayer and
handed il TO him, saying, Here's
about what you own in the establish
menI Take ii with you
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-04

Washington has more equestrian
statues than any other city in the
world. A new one is to be added to the
list next spring. This is the statue of
General Sherman. which will be erect
ed directly south of the treasury build
ing and at the head Of Pennsylvania
avenue The Sherman statue has been
delayed in building on account of the
death of the sculptor to whom to work
was giNens This was Carl Rohl -Smi1h.
who died two years ago. after ne had
built the skeleton body for the horse
The age-herald., 1902-01-28
ANCIENT BLYTON
 ASKS FOR CHARTER
PETITION FILED IN PROBATE OF FIcE BY 65 CITIZENS, WHO SEEK OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ON FEBRUARY 19.

Sixty-hve citizens of Elyton have filed | a petition in the office of the Judge of Probate asking that he call an election | to determine the question of incorpora- ton or no incorporation. Judge J. P etiles has set Tuesday. February IS, as the day of election and has appointed T. S. Smith, w. A. Brown and A. V Jannett as managers.
 A year ago last fall an election was held in Elyton and smithfeld to determine the question of incorporation. the idea at the same time being to incorporate both places as one town. Elyton favor ed incorporation but Smithfield did not and the latter outvoted the former and the anti-incorporationists won the day.
 This time it is proposed to leave Smith field out and Elyton, that ancient and honorable suburb of New Birmingham proposes to go 1t alone.
 Following is the territory which 1t is desired to incorporate:
 Beginning at a point where the present western limits of the city of Birmingham intersects the north side of Second ave- nue, North. thence northwardly along said western limits of the city of Bir- mingham to the south side of the Eyton canal, thence in a westerly direction along the south side of said canal to point about 900 feet west of the Jasper dirt road where Jail branch empties into said canal, thence in a southeasterly d. rection along said Jail branch to the north side of the Tuscaloosa dirt road, thence along the north side of said road to where 1t intersects the north and south half section line of section 3, town ship IS, range west, thence south along said line to the north side of the Ala bama Great Southern right of way, thence eastwardly along the north side of said right of way to where the public dirt road running from Elyton to Green Springs crosses said right of way near the old Alfred Walker place. thence southwardiy along said public dirt road to the intersection of Alfred street ONal- ker Land Co. survey) thence southwardly along the east side of Alfred street to the north side of Avenue extended, thence eastwardly along the north side of said avenue to the present western limits of the city of Birmingham. thence north wardly along said western limits to poipt of beginning.
The age-herald., 1902-01-28
TO DISCUSS OUR
 TRADE WITH CANADA
PROMINENT BOSTON CITIZEN IN. VITED HERE TO TALK ABOUT UNITED STATES AND CANADA BECOMING ONE COUNTRY.

The Commercial Club has extended an invitation to MT. Howes. chairman of the reciprocity committee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, to speak to the members and citizens on or about March 1. The subject of MT. Howes' address will be the closer trade and commercial relations with Canada, looking forward to the time when the English-speaking people of America will unite as one coun- try.
 Mir. Howes' idea, and one which has been discussed much of late is to bind Canada and the United States so close together that the two countries will some day be united. In many of the Northern states this feeling is said to be growing rapidly. and far-sighted business and commercial men are working toward that end. It is, believed by those who have watched the progress of trade between the two countries that Canada will be forced to join the United States at some day not far distant.
 Recently MT. Howes represented the Boston Chamber of Commerce on trip through the Western states and spoke along these lines to the commercial and trade organizations of St. Louis. St. Paul, Kansas City and Chicago.
The age-herald., 1902-01-28
FOUR DAYS REMAIN IN
 WHICH TO PAY POLL TAX

Only four days remain in which to pay poll taxes so as to be qualified to vote at the general elections this year. Capt, J. B. Francis, the tax collector of Jefferson County, to whom the tax should be paid, stated yesterday that poll taxes were coming in at lively rate, fifty having been paid yesterday by residents of the city. The total amount paid in the county will probably reach ten thousand, al- though Captain Francis has not yet added them up.
 "A great many people, he said yester- day, seem under the impression that they have to pay their poll tax for 1902, the present year, in order to vote. This is a mistake. It is the poll tax for 1901 which has to be paid. as the poll tax for 1902 will not be due until the first of Oc- tober."
 There Is some doubt in the minds of lawyers whether the payment of the poll tax by February 1 is a prerequisite to be- ing registered as a permanent voter or a prerequisite to voting only. The attorney general may be called on to give an opin- ion on this point, but the wisest thing Is to take no chances and pay the tax by February l.
 The provision in the new constitution on this subject Is as follows:
 . A
The age-herald., 1902-01-28

Is much or little trash to be moved. May or Drennen in his message to the City Council thought the city could save most of this sum by doing this work itself.
 This work was done at one time by the city about the year 1886 but under condi- tions as they then existed 1t was not found satisfactory. Since then 1t has been done by contract, and judging by the number of complaints received at the mayors office 1t Is not satisfactory under the present system. A great number of citizens knowing that the mayor favors this work being done by the city make complaints direct to him taking up much of his time which could be devoted to other matters. If the city did this work and 1t was under the charge of some official, probable the street commissioner, these complaints would go to him.
 The city government Is better organized and the work better distributed among different officials than 1t was in 1s8s. at which time the city was comparatively young and there were fewer officials to attend to the city work
 No meeting of the finance and police and sanitation committees has been yet called to take up this matter and 1t is not known what recommendations they will make. They might recomm end that this work be done by the street commis- sioner, J. M. McCartin, who Is provided with competent assistants or they might recommend the creation of separate de. pertinent to take charge of the work.
The age-herald., 1902-01-28
GRAND JURY FINDS
 MORE INDICTMENTS
JUROR A. J. o'KEEFE ASKS JUDGE FOR PERSONAL REASONS TO EXCUSE HIM FROM SERVING FuRTHER-JuDGE DECLINES.

The grand jury returned a number of true bills yesterday. When the jury had made their returns to Judge Samuel D. Greene in the Criminal Court, Grand asking to be excused from serving fur 1 ther on the jury for personal reasons, l stating that he did mot think he could ac- compllsh anything by remaining. Judge Greene stated that this was not q legal excuse, and that he could not. excuse him on this ground. Among the indictments returned were two charging Byron Dozier and J. Hick- to murder the other. Cash and Dozier had a shooting scrape in front of the Florence Hotel several weeks ago, and they were bound over to the grand jury by Judge Feagin of the Inferior Criminal Court.
 ss Will Morgan, a negro, was indicted on a charge of causing the wreck at Leeds on the Central Railroad some time ago where trestle gave way beneath a train, resulting in the death of Whitsey Webster, an employee of the company. Morgan Is said to have removed a bent from the trestle, thereby weakening it to such an extent that it gave way under a freight train. Morgan had been working on the track and had been discharged by his boss. He is supposed to have caused the wreck through spite.
 c. S. McGlone was indicted on the charge of assault with intent to murder Lewis Oddo.
 J. c. Goldston, alias Lum Goldston, was indicted on the charge of embezzlement, it being alleged that he embedded notes or cash to the value of about s55 while employed as clerk by Isaac A. Sanders.
 John Williams was indicted on the charge of false pretense, 1t being alleged that he pretended to P. Ii. Linnehan to be Tom Johnson and thereby secured a watch.
 Other indictments were returned as fol- lows:
 Tobe Harris and Henry Davis. burglary and grand larceny.
 Henry Steinhart larceny from dwelling.
 Will Blount, Mary Taylor and Jim Smiley, larceny from dwelling.
 Ernest Cooper, Primmus Trannum Ed ward Yarbrough and Remus W. Wilson, grand larceny.
 Walker Hill, carrying concealed pistol.
 G. Miller, receiving stolen property.
 Walker Hill, assault and battery with weapon.
 Dora Harvey, petit larceny.
 Walker Hill, ebusive language.
The age-herald., 1902-01-28
C1tys Alleys Not as Full
 or Garbage as They Were

"The sanitary condition of the city in regard to garbage is much better than 1t was several weeks ago." said Mayor w M. Drennen yesterday, but it is still far from what it ought to be-"
 Mayor Drennen is in favor of the city doing it's own removal of trash instead of having 1t done by contract as under the present system. He made a recom- mendation to this effect in his annual message to the City Council about a month ago and the matter was referred to the finance and to the police and sanitation committees but these com :. mittees have never taken any action on the matter.
 About a week ago the condition of the alleys was reported as unusually bad and the mayor and sanitation committee drove around the city and made an in- spection. The mayor stated at the time that the alleys were never in a worse condition but since then they have been cleaned up somewhat.
 Under the present system of cleaning the city the principal work is done by the city prisoners who in number avar- aging 125 do all the main. work of sweep ing the gutters and sweeping up the trash after the street sweepers have swept the streets. This trash after being swept into piles is removed by contract. This removal of garbage costs the city $12,0OO a year and Is fixed charge to be met out of it's revenues whether there
The age-herald., 1902-01-28
HANDY HUSBAND
Knew How to Get Part of the Break
 fast Anyhow.


 "I know one dish I can prepare for breakfast as well as any cook on earth, said my husband one day when the cook was i'll and he had volunteered to help get breakfast. He appeared with his dish and I discovered 1t was Grape Nuts which, of course, was easy to prepare for it was perfectly cooked at the factory, but 1t was a good illustration of the con- veninence of having Grape-Nuts about.
 We just added a .little cream and. of course. had delicious bit of food We took Grape-Nuts immediately after returning from five years sojourn in hot country and our stomachs were in bad condition and we were in bad health generally.
 When we first tried it I confess we thought there were other and better things to eat aSid were told we must ac- quire taste for this new food. Sure enough, in a day or two we liked Grape Nuts better than any other kind of food on the table. We both gained steadily in health and strength, and this was caused by Grape-Nuts and Postum Food Coffee.
 A friend of ours had a similar experi- ence. She was seriously i'll with indiges- tion and could find nothing to. eat that would not give her heart burn and palpi- tation. especially at night.
 She found that small dish of Grape Nuts with cream made her satisfactory supper and gave her a comfortable nights rest. In a short time she has gained sew eral pounds in weight" The writer lives in Topeka, Kan. Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich,
The age-herald., 1902-01-28
ARREST GROWSOUT
 OF HOUSE BUILDING
w. D. SCOTT CHARGED BY HER. MAN SCHOLZ WITH OBTAINING PLUMBING MATERIAL WORTH
 soe3 BY FALSE PRETENsEs.

w. D. Scott, who lives at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street was arrested yesterday afternoon en a warrant sworn cut before Justice of the Peace Abernathy bby Herman Scholz' charging him with obtaining building ma terial under false pretenses.
 It is alleged that Scott had contract to build a house on Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street for his sister. He signed a contract with MT. scholz for the plumbing material. so the latter claims, and left him under the impress sion that the house was for himself Scholz claims he obtained supplies amounting to $26S A preliminary hearing will be given MT. Scott Friday before Justice Abernathy.
 Scott claims his sister allowed him so much with which to build the house and that he used up all the money for other material and to pay the workmen. and now has none with which to meet this obligation.
The age-herald., 1902-01-28

ITS. To entitle a person to vote at any election by the people, he shall have re- sided In the state at least two years. in the county one year, and in the precinct or ward three months immediately pre- oeding the election at which he offers to vote, and he shall have been duly regis tered as an elector. and shall have paid on or before the first day of February next preceding the date of the election at which he offers to vote all poll taxes due from him for the year 1901, and for each subsequent year; provided that any elec- tor who within three months next pre- ceding the date of the election at which he offers to vote has removed from one precinct or ward to another precinct or ward in the same county, incorporated town or city, shall have the right to vote In the precinct or ward from which he has so removed, If he would have been entitled to vote in such precinct or ward but for such removal.
 Members of the military should be cer- tain that they were in the service of the state before the poll tax for 1901 became due, on October l, otherwise they will have to pay their poll tax for 1901 in order fo xrafa