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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-11

DUO. ">1 - M)a@oNs
Lewist12, i111o, ss-t. 19.-sar.t..
Dubois laf, i" Ogden to attend -,
national Irrigation congress. raf,.
leaving he gave cut ,1c fo,Iov.r.
statement % the press:
The position Of tie press AMI p.
publican leaders in south IDAHO ~ >.
gard to he dpp>.atme7l o. Bfs5o,
Wooley as assayer a. Boise mall,
plain the situation in Idaho in ra,ors
to Mormonism. 1t precipitates fo,.
which had to come. There i
and can be no politics in :.
The Mormon church will orio,,
ly control Idaho or Idaho u.
Mormon church in Idaho polite,
1t must be evident that the time bs,
now come when the determinatio,
must be made whether We arc =
have politics in Idaho among orr
selves or whether we are To Accom-.
our politics from the Mormon cburob
leaders in Utah. The Boise States.
man has precipitated the fight, Poo.
pie are willing to accept it. mvSeIf
am satisfied that the Mormon inAn,
ence from Utah in Idaho politics il
binding on Idaho Mormons. The Ida.
nc Mormons are not free agents
There are plenty of splendid excep.
tons, l am glad to say"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-11

f. bought Ellis ticket 20 Chicago
gave him $25 cash and said: Go YOU
way Two days later | got a tele
gram from him saying that somebody
nad stolen his wallet and asking M
for SO. | sent him.the ten.
SO eGdeJ our married life. after q
brief three weeks. l was a young
girl in short dresses when | met
him, and wore my hair down my
back. He bought ne my first long
dress. | was dazzled by the money
and the rings he gave me, but M
awakening was a rude one. / never
saw man drink so much whisky as
Ellis did, and then he would drink
champagne on top Of it.
Pawned the JeweIry.
"All Of the jewelry that he bought
for me during the first week in San
Francisco he took away the second
week AMI paWned, and he didn't even
give me the tickets.
I'VE were married March 2, 1901
and | think it was March % that we
separated. | have never seen him
nor heard from him since that time.
He has been several times to see my
father Lewis Hite, the manager of
The Owl Drug Company in Kansas
City, but father has always kicked him
out without talking to him. The nee
essary time hts elapsed, and the first
papers ina my divorce suit will be filed
at once, in Seattle, if possible, in Chi
cago, if the attorney thinks it would
DE better to bring action in his own
home, where my own people would
probably help me in case Ellis chose
to contest it. l will allege non-sup-
port and drunkenness. Oh, there amt
10 use in talking, Ellis was very good |
% me-"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-11

Tommy Atkins-Aw. g'on, Mike,
yer a LOBSTER. Mike-Ye father me,
Shure, a Holsters a wise animal fur
green is the color fur him as long as
he lives, an he'll die before he puts
on a red coat
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-11

try and agree On a draft Of -.
which will accomplish the desired '
suit, and which the Canadian Mini.
ter will rr~e Re Canadian MI
nent, ... !, e>-s.-2. + Ass
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-11

was very handsome young fellow
OF 26, smooth shaven and swell
dresser; in fact, typical college boy
His father, George Hamlin, had made
fortune il business in Chicago, and
was then the European buyer for Mar
shall Field & CO. AS afterward
learned, he sent Ellis out 10 Denver
with this $4,000 to invest in mining
property. From the way Ellis spent
this money day after day | supposed
it would always keep coming.
The first night Mr.. Hamlin met
me he made NE proposal Of mar
riage. | laughed at him. but each
night he repeated it. When the SHOW
left Denver he left, too, and followed
us through LeadviIIe, Cripple Creek
and a week Of one-night stands to
Salt Lake City. Every night he sent
NE flowers and asked ne to marry
him. He said his folks were worth
all kinds OF money and that he could
always get all he needed Of it from
them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-11
Living in Salt Lake.

! q" aS9 SCI dII uS LOcdeU OF II IRON
them.
Living in Salt Lake.
AT Salt Lake | was rCOming with
Flora Parker, now in one Of the east
| ern musical shows After the matt
nee he came up to the hotel where we
We're all staying and said to me:
Well, little girl, the minister will be
| here in 6 few minutes. Mind YOU !
! never promised to marry him. at all,
| and again l laughed at him. But he
| 1ad taken out the license. and sure
enough the minister came in half an
! @0ur.
Then all the girls crowded around
ne and told me that l would be crazy
not to marry him. that I would never
have such a chance again. They all
said he had lots Of money and it GER
tainly looked like it. One Of the man
ayers Of the show, Mr.. Plohn, was
along, and Ellis won him over too, by
the same methods as he had employed
with ROsenthal. So they all kept at
me till | gave in. looking on it more
+ as a joke than anything else. When
It was all over and | realized what |
| had done | had nothing to say. but
| | worried from that moment about
breaking the news to my mother. who
was still in New Orleans.
Il telegraphed to her and the news
completely Frustrated her. Ellis tel
egraphed to his people in Chicago Jha
he had married an actress. and they
promptly disowned him. They did
not even answer his telegram. but his
father wrote him a letter telling him
that he would never get another dol
| lar from him.
We travelled together through
| Utah and Nevada. We got along very
we'll but | was not happy because l
mad heard nothing from my mother.
Some one sent me bouquet the first
night, but Ellis kicked it all over the
place. I'D like to see anyone else
sending bouquets to my wife said he.
| BN he sent ME a whole armful of
violets at a dollar a bunch.
He Threw Money Away.
Then he started throwing money
away right and left, and all that l
could say to him wouldn't stop him.
He tipped the porter on the train
which brought us into Frisco $40.
I We took a suite of rooms at the Pal
ace Hotel. He spent $4,000 on clothes
for me. He bought me all sorts of
diamond jewelry. When he laid out
$3.50 for an ermine cape for me l
| thought his money never would give
out.
AS soon as we reached the city he
started dissipating in every shape and
form. He liked to- attract attention,
and day after day treated all the boys
to champagne suppers. He played
the races and lost heavily at the faro
banks. When we came TO leave the
Palace Hotel he didn't have a cent to
pay his bill
The amount was $685., and went
to the clerk and out of the savings
from my salary l paid my half of it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
the DOUBLE MILEAGE GRAB.

A VERY LIVELY TIME IS promised
a i'm congress when. at the opening
Of the regular session, the question of
mileage comes up. Some weeks ago The
herald called attention to a proposed
reid On the treasury 10 the amount Of
$4,000 on this mileage proposition. AS
Sc generally known. the government al
lows it's lawmakers 90 cents per mile
each way. or from and to their homes.
whom they are called TO Washington.
The extra session furnishes an oppor-
tunity for the collection Of double mile
ezc That is, members who went TO
Washington 20 attend the extra session
ere expected. IL present plans go
through. 10 claim mileage for both eX-
ira and regular sessions. although some
OF them viii not leave the capital dur
ing the brief interregnum.
The barefaced dishonesty Of such a
course is perfectly apparent to any in
dividual with ordinary ideas OF right
ard wrong Nevertheless, as we'll
known representative as Mr.. Dalzell
has gone on record as saying that the
cfain- ie LEGAL Legal 10 may be. We
DO not desire 90 argue that point. Sat
morally wrong Il is as surely as any
thing within the letter Of the law can
be morally wrong. and there is no get
ting away from the fact with congress
setting such an example it is not TO be
wondered at that petty officials On the
service of the government indulge in
cheap piIferings as occasion arises.
To the credit Of Speaker Cannon 1T
should be- said that he is earnestly OPP
nosed to the mileage grab. He has so
oppressed himself. publicly and forci-
blv. THAT The claiming OF double mile
are is fraud and a swindle, that it
aesunes almost the proportions Of a
national disgrace. the speaker does not
hesitate TO say. And I'm the speaker
thu grabbers are scheduled TO run
plump against an obstacle they VIII
and dimculty in surmounting.
Uis pointed out that al claims for
mileage must be certified to the speak
en-. who approves the certificates. 1t
&c predicted that when the claims for
double mileage come to him. claims
that on their very face are for money
for which the government receives no
eouivaIent. Speaker Cannon win refuse
10 approve them. Then. II the grafters
think they have majority. they viii
probably attempt to override the speak
or. I'm which event some interesting
times viii follow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
BISHOP LEONARD DEAD.

rs HUNDREDS OF HOMES in salt
Lake city and in Utah today fami-
lies are mourning as for a personal be-
rcavemeut. Bishop Abel Leonard is
dead. His serene good nature. his
briss busy way Of doing things while
others were only beginning to think of
doing them his readiness to meet every
man as man to man had made Bishop
Leonard known and loved, inside his
Church and out Of it. as few churchmen
ere known and loved To every indi-
vidual in Bishop Leonard's acQuaint-
auce the announcement that the end Of
bis day has come win carry a feeling
that a light Of life has been turned out.
Bishop Leonard was not an old man.
IS axe is counted now. Many among
those who knew him best VIII be sur
prised TO know that the span Of his life
was little more than 50 years. He
seemed so much younger than that. To
see him swinging surdHy down the
street. 20 know or his ceaseIess work.
his iourneyings by day and night, his
hours Of study and his seeming tireless-
ness i'm every undertaking that came
under his hand, one might easily have
taken him for a man of 30. A month or
SIS weeks ago. as far as the human
mind could foreteH. Bishop Leonard
Rad many years Of continued usefulness
before him.
And this fact adds to the shock Of his
Teseing. There are 50 many men VIM
could better have been spared than this
man that rebellion at the inscrutable
decree OF the Maker Of us all is but a
natural sentiment. Here, we say, is one
who was making his part of the world
better ard brighter and happier; here
is one who was winning friends for his
religion, his church. He must be taken
while so many useless ones are left 20
cunber the earth But may we say
that Bishop Abel Leonard's work was
not dnished2 Dare we deny 20 him the
reward that is his porton2 Is not grief
one Of the most selfish of human senU-
ueuts?
To the beloved whom Bishop Leonard
has preceded to the presence Of his Gre
stor 20 those who mourn for him. not
az they VINO have no hope-for they are
not denied that-but whose grief is bit
ter and sincere and lasting, We would
offer tnis word of comfort. Were not
you and all of us singularly blessed in
our acquaintance with, our knowledge
OF this husband, father, churchman,
friend? 1T is not given to every one to
enjoy fellowship with such a character.
lie has fallen asleep now, but death
cannot deprive us Of the privilege OF
keeping his memory fresh i'm our hearts,
of so living that when our summons
comes we may go forth with as clean
a life record as did he, with as serene
assurance of an everlasting reward.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
waY APPRENTICES DESERT.

COMETHING LIKE THIRTY-FIVE
y OF forty Utah boys who enlisted in
the navy as apprentices have deserted
within the last two years. A good
many OF us have been Inclined to mar
vel greatly at this. We have Won
dered if Utah boys are less patriotic
than other boys; we have wondered il
they are unable to stand the irksome
discipline that is always found on
board training and battleships. Then
we could not help remembering that
In the war with Spain and in the Philip
pines the boys from Utah met the test
as grandly as any in the service.
1t appears from recent reports that
Utah is not alone by any means in this
matter Of assertions from the navy
OBJECTIONS from every state in the
Union are reported, defections so nu-
merous that the authorities are deeply
concerned over them. And the authors
ties want 20 know why there are so
many assertions. The question is an
swered by the washington Post, which
sent a reporter to ask the men and
boys themselves. The reporter found
his work exceedingly difficult, but ne
finally wormed a story from one ap-
prentice.
From start to finish it is a tough
game we are up against" said this
youngster. "Oh, yes, 7 believe in dis
ipline, but don't tell me that knock
ing a man over the head with a club
rs conducive TO discipline. cali it
sheer brutality. nothing else, and If you
could spend a week or two aboard this
boat you would find out that the
prompt obeying Of orders won't ex-
empt a man from a blow from his SUI
rerior officer whenever he desires 20
relieve himself Way, il was only a
few days ago that a big petty officer
hrutally beat a yOungster of a hundred
pounds for nothing in the world"
Making due allowance for the posi-
bility that the boy quoted may be an
inveterate grumbler. he still says
enough TO make people think. Further
along in the Interview he is quoted as
saying that not more than a dozen out
Of every hundred petty officers in the
navy are American born. The rest are
swedes and Scandinavians. good sail
0rs every one of them, but Inclined ia
be brutal and domiueering on occasion
and ON no occasion. 1t seems a pity
that there are not enough Americans
i'm the American navy to fill the mus
ter roll OF petty officers.
a good deal of talk is being made
just now about a greater navy
wouldn't it be good policy to find out
where the men who are to man the
new ships are to come from before
building new ships?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
ANOTHER AmERIcAN VICTORY
Beer. beer. glorious beer.
Don't be afriad of il, boys:
Don't be afraid Of IL.
Drink till you're made of IT.
F1ll yourselves clear uD to here.

WDRAGUE, Bohemia, Dec. L. says
4 dispatch THE imperial scientific
station investigating the different kinds
Of beer of the world has awarded the
highest honor for superiority to an
American product" That's all there
is to the story. Would that-there were
more of It. The fact is entirely too
important to be confined to a five-line
message. People who have been sing
ing take me down, down down where
the wurzburger. flows. flows. flows
win have to change their tune. Those
who have been going around insisting
that no beer is as good as imported
beer must stand COMPOUNDED and dis
credited. The record is against them.
We take It for granted that the Bohe-
milan scientists tried beer from every
section Of the habitable globe Beer
brewed in every land and cline must
have flowed freely for the investigat-
ors. Doubtless they drank till they
were made Of It.; Of a verify they could
not have been afraid of it, and their
verdict is for the United States. Hoch
der United States, anyway. We have
showed Germany and Bohemia, coun-
tries whose very names are synony-
NOUS with beer. that we can beat them
at their own game.
When the kaiser wants a stein Of the
real thing he'll have to send to us for
it. to Z. s.. us. OF course, we are not
prepared to say that all American beer
lis better than any German or Bohemian
beer. but we are prepared to say. as
Bohemia herself has said, that we are
entitled 20 the blue ribbon any time we
60 out after it seriously. That is glory
enough to keep us entertained for few
minutes. anyway. The rebel Jack Cade,
in Henry VI, says: II viii make it a fell
ony to drink small beer" Now that we
know just where we stand in this beer
industry we propose that it be made "A
felony in the United States to drink
small beers Let every glass be a large
one from this time henceforward.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
The True Situation.

In Camp. Dec 8, 1903.
Dear Ma and Pa-This thing Is a
frost. Don't you believe any of the
stuff you hear about US getting any
glory. NV name hasn't been in the
papers at all yet, and I have had two
more toes frostbitten than any man in
the camp. Don't you either believe
anything about our having a regular
picnic time, because we amt. There
amt much satisfaction in being out
here and I'm sorry L ever enlisted.
Don't you believe the strikers ali re-
spect US, either. One of them came TO
me yesterday while I was walking my
post and said to me: Well. WELL welll
Ye poor little divil. We look frOzei Do
yer mother know We are out2' I told
him TO move on and he sat down on
rock and lit his pipe and blew smoke
ia my face. I threatened 10 call the
officer Of the guard, and the striker
told me to go ahead. He said he hadn't
eaten an officer for months. and felt
sure our officers would be tenderer than
che last he ate. I don't think this fell
low was a Finn or an Italian, because
he had red hair and big freckles on
the backs Of his hands. He told me
to be sure and not load my gun. be-
cause a young cousin of his shot him.
self the same way once. There are
lots Of other strikers just as rude as
this one. There is no chance to get
glory, because none of them carry
guns and you can't charge on a man
who laughs in your face every time you
pass. The wind blows right under
these tents and there is frost in the
ground. Of course we didn't expect
much in the way of food. but I must
say 1 have lived higher I don't know
why we are down here now. thought
when we started there would be a lot
Of charging and things, but as it is we
just have to tramp around over the
hills for hours at a stretch without
seeing a soul besides ourselves. I'm
sick Of the whole business and hope we
go home soon. I told one OF the strik-
ers that I hoped we would go home
soon and he said ne hoped not He
said they all liked 10 see us marching
around. and as far as he could tell
we were not hurting anything but our
selves. He asked me If all the boys IN
my school wore blue clothes and had
guns. I viii try TO write again in a
few days il we don't go home. which
hope we do. No more Of this soldier
/ business for me IL 7 ever get out Of
this If You could see one Of our Of
fcers strutting around here and boss
ing things you wouldn't think he had
owed me SO since last spring. Best to
all. and try II you can't get me out Of
this thing. Your dutiful son,
JOHN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

About an poor old man Plat Of New
York can do politically is TO reiterate
his justly celebrated me. too" to
everything proposed by the real Re
publican boss. Governor OdeH- They
say Platt has been laid out for all
time i'm the Empire state but we can
not help remembering that Plat has
been laid out for all time on several
prior occasions. Somehow or other he
has always managed TO bob up just IN
time TO distribute the more important
offices among his particular friends.
we shall refuse to believe the easy
boss" has been downed for good until
after the monument has been erected
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

Abraham Sandmeyer is entitled TO
congratulations for his forbearance-
Sandneyer caught a man in the act or
irving to- break into his place, and.
though he was in q state of nature, he
arrested the fellow and was marching
with him toward the police station
through the chilly, Silly night when
policeman relieved him Of his charge.
Many men would have shot the al
legged burglar in order to hold him safe
while they put on "a few articles Of
warm clothing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

The Pacific Man Steamship company
is Offering to carry Chinese from this
country to China for 81 each. Now
who win say this particular corpora
ton is doing nothing for the good OF
the country. especially if II can be per
suaded to charge about $4,000 each for
bringing Chinese from China to the
United States
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
sixty Years, Experience Of an Old
Nurse.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Is the
prescription of one OF the best female
physicians and nurses in the United
States. and has been used for sixty years
with neVer-failinE success by millions or
mothers for their children. During the
process of teething its value is incaicula-
be. lt relieves the child from pain, cures
diarrhoea. Eripiug En- the bowels and WIND
collie. b. giving health to the child u
rests the mother. Price Is cents a bottle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04
SOCTETY



Mrs. W r. Hutchinson win go to
Provo this morning to give an adj
dress before the Nineteenth Century
club of that place on the work Of the
educational committee Of the State
Federation.
Mrs. w H Stoddard Of Alberta, Can
ada. and her daughter are guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs J. F. Grant on Sixth
East street
Mrs Richard Evans and Mrs. Charles
J.. Hoag entertained at kensington
Wednesday, afternoon In honor of Mrs
ChappeH Of Duluth, who is visiting
here
Mrs Charles Post and her mother,
Mrs. Bailey. win entertain at cards
next wednesday afternoon
The Misses Bubb received informally
yesterday afternoon at the home Of
Colonel Bubb at Fort Douglas.
Mrs. Edwin F. Holmes resumes her
Fridays at home today and viii be glad
to receive her friends between the
hours Of and G I'm the afternoon
Mrs S. H. Babcock entertained in
formally yesterday afternoon.
DR.. Hepburn returned yesterday from
a visit of some time in California.
SO
The current literature and current
events section ofsthe Ladies Literary
club VIII meet this afternoon at ,
o clock at the CLUB house. Mrs. Harry
CAM win give the principal paper Of
the day. THE Jew in Fiction" There
viii be three-minute talks on the noted
people who have died during the past
year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

Hereafter wives in the state of Wash
ingtOn should be careful how they talk
back to their husbands. A man on
trial for numbering his wife there ad
mitted the deed claimed extreme prov
OcatiOn' and was acquitted. While
definite information is lacking, it is
strongly suspected here that the jur
Ors were all married men themselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

It has been decided by the English
house Of lords that women shall not
practice law IN England. The decision
was doubtless inspired by mean male
lawyers WHO feared the women would
take their practice away from them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

The commonly accepted theory that
ondcehoiders rarely die and never re-
sign is disproven by the annual report
Of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Bristow. lit shows that sixty
seven presidential and S.277 fourth
class postmasters resigned during the
fiscal year ended June 80. 1903
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

Murder confessions are gaining Popu-
larity every day. A convict in a New
York penitentiary has just confessed
that DE committed a mysterious muir
der la New York City some months
ago. It IS getting so that the man
who can't confess at least one murder
Is a disgrace to his stripes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-04

Germany continues TO frown upon
everything that smaclks of republic
anism and has imprisoned a man there
just because he voted twice at one cleo
ton.