The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-03

pump. Do you know replied the in
different passenger. looking down into
the blue ocean, that / have a cancer
and cannot live more than twelve
hours, anyhow? How long do you think
it viii take her to sink?'"
The best known figure among the
Kansas delegates is ex-senator Harris,
while William J. Bryan, twice his par
tvs candidate for president, but now
the leader of hopeless minority, is the
real if not the nominal, head Of the
Nebraska delegation What a battle
royal there viii be when Bryan and
Hill cross swords in the committee on
resolutions, Thomas Z. Ryan leads
the Wisconsin delegates, and ex-Sena-
tor Pettgrew marshes at the head Of
the South Dakota delegation. Petit
grew was a Republican before he be
came a Democrat. but he is always and
in all places one of the shrewdest OF
men. keenly alive to what he wants and
how to get it. Once upon a time he
wanted a certain strip Of land now
covered by the best part of the. city of
Sioux Falls The ownership in it was
in some way involved. so that the pos
session Of it depended upon getting
deed from a certain old Indian on file
in the court before someone else got a
similar deed on file. PettigTew made
his negotiations very secretly with the
old Indian, and took the first train to
get his deed fled. On the same train
was a shrewd looking Hebrew, who
watched Pettigrew so mtently all the
while, and seemed so nervous, that the
latter began to suspect that this mans
mission as similar to his. and that it
related TO the same property. At one
of the stations the Hebrew got on the
train and sent a dispatch ahead. This
confirmed Pettigrew's suspicious. The
man was telegraphing for wagon to
meet him at the depot. and it would be
a race to see who would get to the
court house first. There they were,
both on the same train, with an even
chance of both landing at the same
moment, and the Hebrew having the
advantage Of a wagon at the depot
Pettigrew figured this all out as the
train rushed on. Presently he walked
through the train to the engine and got
in the cab with the engineer. Soon
the train stopped and the conductor
announced that something had broken
down and that they would have 10
wait there while the engine went ahead
for assistance. The Hebrew. seeming
danger, stepped on the platform, only
to see the engine. detached from the
train. speeding down the track with
Pettigrew in the cab. Four hours after
Pettigrew had filed his deed the other
another which he wanted to- file. Pet
tigrew. by the days operation. laid the
basis of fortune which. when he en-
. tered the senate, exceeded a quarter
of million Practically the whole Of
this sum was lost during his twelve
years in Washington, but since he left
/ the senate in 1901 ne has. by lucky
speculatiOns. got together d second for
tune larger than the first.
= George T. Beck, son of the longtime
senator from Kentucky, is one of the
delegates-at-large sent by Wyoming.
and among those from Colorado are
ex-Governors Thomas and Adams. The
deIegates-at-large from Montana are
Senators Clark and Gibson, Joseph X
Toole and Major Martin Maginnis. Ex-
Senators Cannon and Rawlins are dele
gates from Utah. and Nevada Is repre-
scented in part by Senator Newlands
and Idaho by Senator Dubois. while
/ California, among others. sends Mich
sel F. Tarpey. who mas been ATTENDING
national conventions for a score Of