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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-04
TO KNOCK OUT GRADES.
Important Work Which the Union
Pacific VIII Undertake.

Pacific VIII Undertake.
Much interest is centered in the i'm
10 be made by the Union
Pacific the coming year. Ten thousand
dollars are 90 be expended for this
work, some of which will be the most
important attempted since the building
OF the road itself This viii be the
double tracking of the road between
Omaha and ogden. The contracts viii
go to three Denver firms. These are
W. C.. Bradbury g. Co., Fitzpatrick
Brothers and the Utah Construction
company, which is A. A. Utley. one of
the successful bidders for the work on
the Moffat road.
Bradbury g. Co. also get a contract
for eight miles Of heavy earth work
east of Cheyenne. This consists Of cut
ons changes In the grade of the main
line and I'm the grade for switches. It
is estimated that 500. 900 cubic yards of
earth VIII be removed and the work
win commence as soon as the contrac-
tors can move their OUTFIT to Cheyenne
Fitzpatrick Brothers win build twenty
miles Of double track from ROrie to
Buford west of Cheyenne. There is
some heavy rock work IN this stretch
and operations are to be commenced
at once. The Utah Construction COM
pany will have some heavy rock work
from Echo canyon TO ogden. Men will
be started out on this work from this
city and Denver.
A change is also 10 be made in the
line out of Ogden. The surveys for the
work have already been made. At pres
ent the line follows Weber river
through the canyon and in reaching
Ogden swings around to the south.
Under the proposed change the road
viii enter the city over the sand ridge
south of the present line and viii OBJ
tain a much easier grade. The grade
I'm the canyon win not only be consid-
erably reduced but 10 VIII leave what
grade there is at the end OF the line and
pushers for the heavy trains viii be
needed at the terminal only. All this
work Is TO be completed this summer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-04
GOSSIP OF THE HonsF

X-Representative j.. r. South Of
Randolph. Rich county, was a visitor
az the house yesterday.
William Howard of Huntington
II. S. commissioner and former repre-
sentative In the legislature. sat with his
son-in-law, Representative Joseph d.
Johnson, on the floor Of the house yes
terday.
representative William Metcalf OF
Sahpete county has been having a seri7
Gus time with rheumatism for several
weeks, but he Is back in his seat this
week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-04
Railroad Notes.

I. A. Benton Of the Rio Grande was in
Ogden yesterday.
The Rio Grande viii run an excursion
from Odgen to this city this evening.
G. A.. Padley, general land agent for
the st. Paul. was in the city yesterday.
g. T. Bell of Montreal. Canada, gem
eral passenger and ticket agent of the
Grand Trunk lines, was in the city yes
terday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-04
BIRDS FINE CHANCE.
Jill Become Traffic. Director Of the
Gould Cvstera

VII bec0me ITamc- UlrectOr OF inc
Gould System.
Milwaukee, March 3-The Evening
Wisconsin today says: Within the
next thirty days A. c. Bird third vice
president Of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St. Paul railroad, will step into what Is
declared by railway officials % be one or
the largest and most important traffic
positions in the United states. Mr. Bird
will become, about April /. traffic man
ager Of the entire Gould system of rail-
roads in this country. His general
headquarters win probably be in Chi
cage.
President Earling of the st. Paul
road practically confirmed this report
and Mr.. Bird did not deny It,"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-04
NEGLECT Of DUTY.

D Loula FViIee DaptaIn HtIlaVed OF
His Badge.
ST. Louis, March 3.-Police Captain
sam Boyd Of the Fourth district was
suspended today after a conference
between Chief Kelly and President
Harry ID. Halves Of the police board.
This action was taken after the Of
hcial rotice Of the Indictment returned
by the grand jury against BOYD for
neglect of duty in allowing the ex-
istenc a hs district 81 houses Of M
fame here young girls were held as
prisoners.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02
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[@a6IY Ne!6ons Nys's Fourth -

twins had married; and Leila-hls
Leila was eked a youthful grand
moth err!
HI paced the gravel path in the
moonlight, while the odor Of his cigar
mingled with the fragrance from the
tangle of old-fashioned cinnamon roses
by the gate; and memory went back
10 the time when they had hidden each
other farewell-an affectionate fare
well, he remembered, as his cheek red
dened, he to return to college, the girl
to go to a snowy finishing school
abroad, where her ambitious mother
had married her to some beefy Eng
lishman whom Adelbert had always
hated on principle.
"And she is 10000 times more fas-
cinatlng now than she was then! That
sweet September day when we gath
cred the gentians by the pasture ditch
-genitians no bluer than her own
dear eyes!" he murmured, with a
strange accession of sentimentality.
"Ah! after all, age Is but a relative
term! And the fountain of perpetual
youth is not so tabled as one might
dream! Yet lovely as Leila is, she Is
no whit loylier than is that sweet
child, her daughter, the pretty Louisel
How fortunate that chance should have
made us neighbors!'
Meantime, in the seclusion Of Ter
own bed chamber, Leila Carleton was
standing before the mirror, removing
the jewels which had flashed upon the
flmy laces of her handsome dinner
gown.
"0h, who would ever, ever expect a
man to be Faithful" she asked her.
self, with bitterness, forgetting that
she, too, had been somewhat incon.
slant during the long lapse of years.
As the days went on, II was a sweet
consolation to Adelbert Nye to have
the sympathy of such neighbor in
his affliction-for SO he regarded the
possession of such a son, in spite OF
his effort to love the uncanny child
and his care and solicitude for the
boys physical welfare. Leila under
stood, and had pity for him. But it
was a source Of regret that the child
had conceived an instant antipathy to,
ward the beautiful Louise, who found
a rare pleasure in teasing the boy,
the young tyrant by declaring !
that what he needed for both physical
and mental health was an unlimited
dose of Solomon's prescription. To
Welcome, who had never been thwart-
I'd or disciplined during his capricious
life, this was the signal for hatred Of
the most malevolent sort; and the two
waged warfare as persistent as 1t was !
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02
John Adams
Last Fourth

John Adams was one Of the most
vigorous supporters of the Declare.
ton of Independence, and when he
came to sign 1t, he exclaimed. Sur.
vive or perish, am for it." He did
not want to escape from the conse-
Quences of his act; he was willing to
60 down with it, II 60 down it must.
TO such a man the anniversary Of
the Declaration of independence
meant something beyond the ordinary
and he took part in everything that
was going on toward celebrating 1t,
like a plain citizen, even after he was
President of the United States and TN.
til the day of his death. In letter
to his sister he thus speaks of the
proper manner Of celebrating the
great day;
ut ought to be commemorated as a
day Of dellverance by solemn acts Of
devotion to God Almighty. 1t ought to
be solemnized with pomp and parade,
with shows, games, sports, bells, bon.
fires and illuminations from one end
Of this country to the other, from this
time forth forward forevermore.
One might be amazed at this sort OF
simple, unaffected patriotism, were II
not for the fact that all Of the fathers
of the Republic possessed the same
sentiments. Adams said he always
felt like marching about with an old
musket from sunrise to sunset on the
Fourth Of July, and give vent to his
feelings by loud huzzas.
II Is related Of his last days on
earth that not long before an ap'
preaching celebration he was very i'll
with what proved to be his last sick
ness, when someone asked him for q
toast to be given on the day. He re-
piled, Independence forever" When
the day came around he could not
leave his bed, and had apparently for
gotten the anniversary, for, hearing
the bells and cannon, he asked what
day 1t was, and on being informed
that It was the Fourth OF July, he
murmured distinctly, though with
failing breath, Independence for.
ever" and spoke no more. Before
evening he was dead
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02

| the auto!" one groom called to an
other, and that one to the house serv-
ants.
In truth 1t might have been his sa-
tanic majesty himself, the way that
elhsh child dashed down the drive and
into the street.
The anxious group followed him in
mad haste, but not for long.
They held their breath in horror as
they saw the machine zig gag, then
essay to climb the grassy terrace at
the Carleton villa, ingloriously drop,
ping back; and then, putting and snort
ing, with whirring Of wheels, dash
backward across the road and over
the offset down upon the rough cob.
bles of the beach. W. )
The child lay very still as they res.
cued him, seeming to take his mishap
as a matter of course.
When they picked him up his left
arm hung limp and there were sundry
smudges and burned places upon his
face; for the Corsair had taken fire,
and was no longer the dainty floral
thing which it had been left as the tri.
umph Of womanly artistry.
ANY other child would have been
killed." was the verdict of the physi-
clan who had been summoned in hot
haste-a familiar verdict enough to
all who knew Welcome Nye and bis
escapades
1t was Archie Irwin who had tender.
ly lifted the little figure from under
the wrecked machine, and to whom
the child had chung with passionate
affection; but after they had taken him
to the veranda OF the villa he had sud.
denly stretched out his uninjured arm
to Mrs Carleton and had begun to
sob and cry in paroxysm which
amazed them all, since repentance and
Welcome were wont to be as bitter
strangers
Leila Carleton tenderly folded the
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02
regrettahle to their elders.

regrettable to their elders
1t was natural that the sedate and
dignifed Lawyer Nye should find 1t
both pleasant and convenient to be
neighborly, and that he should make
calls both frequent and regular at the
Carleton villa.
Particularly distasteful to one youth
was the gallantry Of Neighbor Nye; to
the bank clerk with small salary, who
devotedly came down from Boston
each Saturday, to pay court to Louise,
and whose heart sank at the sight Of
the solid and wealthy director of his
own banking house, whom he found
comfortably at home with the girl, IN
the easy chat of an informal afternoon
upon the shady veranda, state OF
bliss which he had been picturing for
himself all the way. down In the
crowded, dusty train.
He did not appear well, this dlsap.
pointed Archie Irwin, as he was pre-
sented to the dignifed caller whom
he regarded with sudden hatred and
alsmay. What chance had he, he ask
ed himself bitterly, against man with
Nye's money, and profession and posi-
ton? Worst Of all, Louise seemed
pleased with the attentions Of the mid
dle-aged sutton.
The young mamie was tall and
athletic, and good to look upon, an
Adonis Of the Won Blbber type--fell
back upon Welcome for entertainment
during his doleful visits to the villa.
The weird child had taken to him from
the first, clinging to him with passion
ate affection, watching his every move
ment with the dumb devotion Of an
animal. M
Another watched the growing inter
est of Adelbert Nye in the fair young
girl, and tried In vain to ignore the
heartburnings which 1t caused.
And yet, why? Leila Carleton asked
herself. Why should she expect the
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02
YANKEE
DOODLE"

What ridiculous air that Of
Yankee Doodle" unsteady speaking!
And yet 1t sets everybody dancing,
every patriotic American heart throb.
/ bling at full speed. This time 1t will
be heard nearly everywhere on earth,
and 1t means something. Nobody
knows who composed the air. 1t isn't
much of an air anyhow, and few must
clans to-day would acknowledge such
composition, but it is one Of the
popular tunes grown from an air
played by the British bands of music
in derision Of the Yankees" the nick.
name given the New Englanders long
ago, before the Fourth Of July had any
standing, to a grand national anthem
which powerful foreign nations are
glad to play to curry favor with us
or keep us in good humOr. When the
Patriots" began to drive the British
out, they played Yankee Doodle" at
them, and adopted it as their own be.
cause they had made the British
dance to Its music.
1t Is supposed to be very old air,
originally called "Nankee Doodle"
wherc. :. will be perceived how cas-
lily 1t fell into being called Yankee
Doodle" Oliver Cromwell wore In his
hat single feather fastened in what
was known as ''macaronf' knot
whence the song began
"Nankee doodle came to town upon
his little pony,
Stuck feather in his hat and called
1t macaroni."
All sorts of words are written to- Jingle |
WIN the music and everybody mas
written some Of his own, but 1t has |
always Yankee Doodle" to- ii In the |
chorus
The Hungarian patriot Kossuth
when he first heard the air played In
America, declared it was one Of the old
national airs of Hungary, and Bucking
ham Smith, former secretary OF the
United States legation at Madrid, Is
authority for the statement that the
air of Yankee Doodle" is the music
Of an ancient Spanish sword dance.
Wherever 1t came from ii is now an
American patriotic air and belongs to
our Fourth of July, and no nation
dare take it away from us.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02

lover Of her girlhood to remain thu
lover of her middle age?
So the late June days fled; and al
the nations birthday approached, thu
early cottagers at the Pier Joined witt
the townspeople in preparations tt
celebrate the day with fitting evidences
Of patriotism. There was to be an
early morning parade Of antiques and
horribles, followed by military dem
onstration, a parade Of automobiles at
noon and an old-fashioned afternoon
picnic, with reading Of the Declare.
ton and patriotic addresses, ending
with an evening Of fireworks.
Such q busy season as it became for
Welcome Nye!
HiS father was to lead the automo.
bile parade in his fine French racing
machine and deep was Welcomes dis
gust and violent his ire when refused
the privilege Of accompanying him,
more especially since that honor was
to be accorded his arch-enemy, Louise
Carleton.
The choice was seemly and fitting;
yet 1t caused Louise Carleton's mother
little pang which she would not ad-
init was jealousy, and which she hero
ically strove to ignore, as she aided
her daughter in decorating the Cor
sair, which, in It's floral lines Of red
and white carnations and the blue Of
the feathery adjuratum, with knots
and festoons Of futtering ribbons in
the national colors was a thing Of
beauty, when their deft fingers had
given 1t the finishing touches.
To the surprise Of the townspeople,
Independence Day dawned bright and
warm, an ideal day for the celebration.
The events Of the morning proved
more than successful and there was
lively interest in the coming of the
autos, which were to make the round
of the town at noon.
The Corsair, looking like a fairy We
hicle In Its floral adornment, stood in
the open doorway of the Nye stables,
only waiting the coming of its owner
to start upon Its triumphal progress.
The household was busily engaged, for
1t was the lunch hour; all were antic-
ipating the rare pleasure Of the af-
ternoon.
Suddenly there was a dash, bang,
a warning toot. toot! the odor and
puff of gasolene, and out of the stable
doorway and down the drive madly
dashed cumbersome floral bulk.
There was cry Of alarm, rush
from stable and household, hoarse
warnings hurled after an adventurous
and unheeding chauffeur.
"The divvle! He's run away with
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02
~ OUR "
LIBERTY CAP

Every American citizen is entitled
to wear a Liberty Cap" If he SO de-
Sizes. In the early anniversaries Of
our Fourth of July 1t was customary
for youths and maids, and some old
fellows, for that matter, to put on a
liberty cap and parade around with 1t
on their heads as proud as peacocks,
which they had every right to be. 1t
was and should always ne blue in col
or with a border Of gilt stars on a
white ground, to be the genuine liber-
ty cap The government to this day
thinks SO well Of 1t that 1t Is put on
the heads Of the vignettes on silver
and gold coins, which anyone can see
if he has the coins, or can borrow one
for educational purposes.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02

His mother was one of those married
old maids who abound even in the best
society. He was the child Of her mid
die age; and because she resented his
coming, as a check upon her social
gayeties, she had compromised with
her Puritanical conscience by calling
him Welcome, after the colonial ances-
tor of her mother.
So, as Welcome Nye, he was sent
forth to create disturbance in the
world; which he did in inverse ratio to
his size and vitality.
His mother did lot long survive hrs
birth, and he was left, the incarnation
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-07-02

child began; but she pressed him to
her, smothering the word which she
wished to hide from the waiting SUR.
geon,
And then she sobbed, and in a min
ute she smiled pathetIcally
"For once my sons escapades have
accorded with his outlandish namel"
was Adelbert Nyes feryent comment.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-04-27
Won't have my

by Commissioner Stanfield, and q
posse Of deputies, left Sunday
afternoon for the locality infested
by these dancing parties, with di-
rections to enter complaint before
the commissioner against any per.
sons engaged in intimidation and
it is hoped by prompt action to
prevent further outrages such as
have been prevailing in that local.
ity in the past ten days. Judge
Gill has given the commissioner a
rowing commission to hold court
anywhere at any time 1t is neces
sary to examine into these mat
ters. The Keetowah Society is an
organization formed by fullblood
Cherokees to prevent If possible
or hinder the allotment of Indian
lands and breaking up Of tribal
governments.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-04-27
CHEROKEE BAPTlSTS WON
|chcol at TahIequah VIII be Allowed
. to Buy 90 Acres of Land.

N Rev. Walker j. Pack, president
4 the Cherokee Baptist Academy
= Tahlequah has been officially
formsd by the Secretary of the
bterior that his school will be al
Dwed to purchase ninety acres OF
be public domain adjoining the
&mpus to be used for school pur-
.Dses.
n This is the outcome of a contest
btween the school board and
hief Burlington in which the
chool claimed the right to pur-
hase land at the rate of ten dol
Yrs per acre, in addition to the
bur acres reserved for the acad-
my, by provision of the Chero-
be agreement.
Z The treaty of 1855 between the
United States and the Cherokees
Slowed the school one hundred
BID sixty acres, as did subsequent
kreemeuts and acts Of the Nation
4 Council, but in the framing OF
De Cherokee treaty the allowance
Ras cut down to four acre reser-
Rtion and consequently the con
3ntion of the school arose.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-04-27
WISE PRECAUTIONS.
Mrs. Dopesheet Makes sure of Mv.
ing while Mr.. Dopesheet
Plays the Races.

"John Dopesheet," Mrs. Dopesheet
said to him when he arrived home last
evening, did you stop and pay the
rent for the month of April to-day?"
"Yes," he replied, according to the
Washington Star.
did you order the four hams and the
barrel Of potatoes and the two sacks
of -four, and all OF those canned vege-
tables that ] gave you the list off"
"yes'm."
"And did you order the ton of coal
and pay the furniture instalimers man
for next month";"
"Yes.''
did You pay the baker in advance
for months bread and rolls and the
milkman?~
eyes"
''Did you deposit So with your Iaun-
dryman so that you'll be sure to have
clean shirts and collars and cuffs next
month. and pay your lodge dues ahead
Of time?"
"Yes."
Did you stop by your tailor's and
order your spring suit and pay SIS
down on il. as I told you toe"
"Yes'm.r
ibid You buy those two boxes of
cigars i instructed you to buy so that
you won't be going around here moan
iDg next month because you haven't
gcs a smoker"
They'll be delivered in the morn
ing"
"Did you buy that larger cage for
the canary that ! told you to buy?"
ut ought to have been delivered to-
day.
"Get 81 worth OF stamps so thatwe'll
be able TO write some letters next
month";
Got 'em in my pocket"
very well, John" said Mrs. Dope
sheet, in a firm, business-like tone.
"Now I want you to place in an en-
velope Si2 for the servants wages for
next month. 81 in another envelope for
next months gas bill. and 1 want SIS
for a new hat and pair of shoes for
myself-you'd better make IL s25, for
there are severpf other little things
that need. And. sheconcluded. "aft-
er you've attended TO those things
well, you can goout, TO the races when
they begin next Monday and be just
as much Of dead-game sport as ever
you've mind TO bel"
81 find," said Mr.. Dopesheet, after
making some rapid calculations with
pad and pencil, that after do therest
Of these things you name III only have
Sc TO go out to the track with"
rs that SOP" inquired Mrs. Dope
sheet, dryly. "Well. Sc ought TO buy
some boolmaker's wife fairly good
pound of candy"
Several Mrs. Dopesheets are getting
in their fine work along the same OF
similar lines about now.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-04-27
FEAR OF AN UPRISING.
S. rlarshaI Darrough and Deputies
After Dancing FuIIbIoods.

\ Judge Gill, of the federal court,
1sued an order Saturday directing
United States Marshal Darrough
} proceed at once to prevent an
|prising of the fulIblood Chero-
|ees who belong to the keetowah
pciety. Information reached the
bdge that the iullbloods in the
|pavinaw country ars now
|ancing and intimidating Indians
Fom accepting tickets preparatory
} allotment of Cherokee lands.
Bn Indian was found dead 10 the
hbIc nig1vty tsw days ago !
those life bad been threatened il
Il allotted. 1t is suspected that
y was murdered by members Of
Ne society.
Marshal Darrough, accompanied
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-04-27
REMOVAL SUSPENDED.
Order Made BY Secretary OF Interior
Suspending Removal Of Land
Office.


The following telegram was re-
ceived at 4 O'Clock this afternoon
from Mr.. Chas. B. Rogers, who
left vinita Saturday afternoon for
Washington to lay the matter Of
the removal of land Office before
the Interior Department:
"Arrived eight this morning,
saw first assistant Secretary of In.
terror. Order made suspendine
removal until personal investiga.
tion by Hitchcock who will visit
Territory May 9Th"