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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26

passing through neaVy growth OF
willows fTinging an old fish pond the
young man was shot IN the back and
killed almost instantly. He had pervi-
Ously had some trouble with a man
named Joseph Samide over the title to-
the land. Samide had lived on the
land several years before, but had not
secured q title to it, and when John
son took UP the claim and filed upon
III i'm proper form Samide endeaVOred
to drive the Utah boy out. Johnson
refused to give up his land and bitter
feeling resulted. Witnesses at the
trial testified to having heard Samide
frequently say he would FIX john
son for 1T. The jury returned YER
diet of guilty in the second degree and
Samide was promptly sentenced to
serve thirty TO forty years at hard
labor in the Colorado penitenuary.
Was Born in Cache County.
The murdered man had been the
chief support of his mother and the
younger children for many years. He
was born i'm Smithdeld, but lived most
OF his life at Sandy. where his moth
er's home now is, although she is tenn
pOraTIiy residing at Bingham. There
are -FOUR brothers and three sisters
left. One brother, about "a years Of
age, enlisted during the Spanish-Amer-
lean war, went 10 the Philippines, re-
turned and enlisted In the revenue cut
ter service. About four years ago he
wrote his mother from san Francisco
that he was about to sail on a trans
port and since that time nothing has
been heard of him.
The dead boy was q years of age
and is spoken of as model young
man in every respect. His mother is
heartbrOken. She had been depending
ON him 10 create a home for her so
that her old age might not be passed
ln hard labor, as her earlier life has
been, but his death has shattered her
hope. The father and mother sepa-
rated some years ago and since then
the family has been dependent wholly
upon the labOrs of the mother and the
murdered son. The young man was
une ViOlinist. In his last letter to his
mother written a couple of days be
fore he was killed. he told Of the inn
proyemeuts he had made on his farm
expressed the hope that he would soon
have little money to send TO her and
asked that his violin - sent to him
SO he could earn a little extra money
by playing at dances. He never used
liquor or tobacco and was known chief
Is by his Industry and devotion to his
mother and her dependent children.
The mother did not learn of his death
until May rs, three days after the fu-
neral, when a letter brought the sad
news TO her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26
UTAH BOY KILLED
BY AN ASSASSIN
Murder Of Charles n. Johnson
at DuniOn, Colorado.
MOTHER LIVES At BINGHAM
YOUNG NAN FOR YEARS HER
PRINCIPAL SUPPORT.

Charles n. Johnson, who was muir
dered under peculiarly atroCious cir
cumstances at Dunton Colo. May 2L
was Utah boy who had gone to Colo
RADIO for the purpose of making a home
for his mother and her other chill
dren. The young man had started a
farm. planted his seasons crops and
gone to work on some mining claims
for the purpose of raising money to
send to his mother in Utah when he
was killed.
He was murdered early in the morn
ing while en- route to work. While
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26
NEW BOOKS FOR LIBRARY
Volumes Are Added to
the List.

The following thirty-five books win be
added ro the public library Monday morn
ing, June n, 1904;
Miscellaneous.
Baneroft-.Letters from England
BeQuard-- Whales
B0aEli-'' Forward"
Beuuey-"Au Volcanoes"
Braudes-' Main Currents iu Nineteenth
Century Literature" Vol "
Carhart e. Patterson Electric Meas
uru meurs-
-.'IIIstory of the Five Indian
Nations. Two volumes.
Furuiss, cd. Macbeth" (GeW Yariorum
edi-iOUl.
E0bhus-'I. cUlathauF
HorUa1aE--- American Natural history
HulekeT-'Bo5k Of OVeEtonez.f
lveracil-' DescarteS and SpiuoZa.'
kenner-'' j iah as 30 Isl
MageVue1--.' Christian Education.
Sear.es-.. fIe'd EuEileCriuE
-5UE.eL1u----I PAM.
Stephens-' Hours in Library Three
volumes.
Iomkius-..A lraham and His Age"
Tretelyan-" Early History of Charles
James Fox"
Nacarezco-'Kings and Queens I Have
A-pwn.
1VaIsh-"Coffae.- % .'Tea"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26

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& 60.
Sterling
FIatWarG
S|9Ugh-
tered

SSY717E HAVE about Seventy-fve Dozen Sterling
n NE7 Silver Tea. Table and Dessert Spoons and
k79 Dessert and Table Forks of the finest patterns.
P1SIM made by Gorham Mfg. Co.. Reed & Barton and
Wallace Mfg Co.. bought with the Lyon & Co.
stock, which will close out beginning Monday, June
9th. at 80 CENTS AN OUNCE. actual weight
No word of argument should be necessary to add
force the importance of this announcement Most of
the patterns that offer at wholesale the factory
SLIPS but they in broken lots and de-
signs that do match with regular stock and
make big attraction week. will slaughter
entire stock of FIatWare at 80 CENTS AN OUNCE.
Sterling Silver Handle Knives to match the forks will
be closed out at HALF PRICE, and all bullion soup
spoons butter spreads oyster forks will be discounted
ONE-THIRD from regular prices.
The Lyon & Co. stock contained many thousand
dollars worth of beautiful dishes cande-scks and
coffee SETS bread trays. COMFORTS and other staple
fancy sterling which selling at ONE-THIRD
discount. The stock is large and all of it is which
gives just as good opportunity to the shopper nst
week as was given the first week of the sale.
The Lyon & Co. stock contains everything carried by
frst-cIass jeeer. and it all be sold quickly.
the discounts quote ranging from 25 to so per cent
place goods in the hands of the consumer at less than
wholesale prices
We bought stock for 68 cents on the dollar and
can afford to sell it lower than competitors buy
it and yet net US handsome profit
We will close out ten dozen jars of Reed & Bartons
famous "Argentaa' Silver polish at cents jar. Ut
sells regularly at IS cents]
On Tuesday. June 28th we will sell
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must be moved on Tuesday. The line
HMIHSHt comprises Leather. Silver Gold
auuzzzzzaz-zmB goods.
Sale of the Lyon & Co. stock all the time at 286 s. Main
s-4s
~ Phone
L GLI@ISLA G0I Forth
slJEwELERs: Correct
Time.
SALT LAKE CITY l-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
ObliRing Tradasmen

Maurice Barrymore sometimes used
to perpetrate harmless practical Jokes
Of the Theodore Hook type" said viii.
ton Lackaye. Zone afternoon Barry,
while walking down Sixth avenue with
a friend, halted abruptly, and disap-
peared into a ready-made clothing
store. The friend followed and found
him addressing the storekeeper:
viii you please take that sniff If
clothes out Of the Window he asked
1.-THE clothier, thinking he was To
have a sale, quickly complied.
THANK you said Barrymore, turn.
ing on his heel.
But don't you want to look at n y,
blurted the merchant.
No, no. replied Barry No no
merely read your polite sign. "Anv
suit taken out Of this window bv 70.
quest" Much obliged New Yorn
Times.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
ON THE PARIS 'CHANGE.

A Place Among the Seventy COsts
About Three Million Francs.
1t may be said that seat among
the Seventy (they call it a CHARGE
costs about three million francs $780,
600 or sometimes two million and
half, and a charge earns from 5 to 10
per cent (neD year, so that the an
nual profits are from $50, 900 to 100000,
Or more in exceptional years. But
these are usually divided among sew
eral associates, for it rarely happens
that an agent is the sole owner of his
seat. More often he has paid for only
half Of it, or a third Of it, and has
three or four silent partners who own
the rest and who may again have sub
partners, SO that you will hear Of
person owning an eighth or sixteenth
Of a seat, or even a 4-irty second,
these being simple investments that
carry no rights or privileges on the
Bourse.
AS to procuring a charge, the thing
has none Of the Stock Exchange SIM
plicity, where the main requirement
for getting seat is to be able to pay
for it, Here a candidate must be
Frenchman and at least Is years old.
He must have served four years in GER
tain forms Of business. He must be
personally acceptable to the agent
from whom he would purchase the
seat, and often to his family, includ-
ing the ladies. He must be passed
upon by the Seventy with formal vot-
ing, as if he were Joining some select
club, which he is. There must be no
stain on his business record, and no
slur on his personal character. A can
didate was rejected recently for bad
habits, and another for no fault of his
own, but because his brother had been
concerned in questionable transactions.
With all this favorably settled, there
is still needed the approval Of the
Minister of Finances and the sanction
of the President. This makes it clear
enough why many Of the ablest deal
ers on the Bourse have not been mem
bers Of the parq'let. but Of the cou-
lisse. They could not get into the par
quet.-Century.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
The Struggling Foreigner

Boys and girls who are UOln III
country and imbibe kno"leu sr 4
institutions and its geosrap ~sr,d
their everyday conversation . na
ficulty in passing exam NINA ro,s
them in school. 1t Is HUE .,hdI
then. that the immigrants desCI al
the New Work Tribune nave 41 NJ
with their examinations when 'DS
ply for naturalization papers ,rss+edre
of them was asked recently y &c ~
The applicant squirmee'a l, 90 p
memory was about to colIa lls into ]
a CLEAN of intelligence ca"'
eyes, and he said; .-r
A ~ native Of Denmark, eig ,og b
flaxen-haired, was asked e(.,n nr'
States there are IN tne News
New York, New chicago ,st mott ,
ton, New Jersey and ~
replied. ,..no II vas f'yj
that at he e'i had gathered thu. at toe terp
the State was that OF 'D'
"Neyy" prefXed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Remarkable RejuvenAtion.

A contributor to the Country Cen
tleman tells of an old tree having
been rejuvenated in remarkable
manner. 1t was very ancient wal
nut, with long, gaunt boughs carrying
much dead wood, and here and there
bearing few leaves. For several sea-
sons 1t had been struggling in this way
to live, but each year manifested signs
that its life was fast disappearing.
Then wonderful thing occurred. The
keeper in front Of whose house the tree
stood took to singing the body of each
deer he killed on to one Of the boughs
for dressing. The following spring
this tree put forth an astonishing crop
Of leaves, and in less than three sea-
sons 1t was making new wood and
showing all the vigor which had char
acterized it thirty years before. Its
renewed youth was entirely attributed
to the fertilizing properties of the
blood with which it had been SO liber-
ally dressed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
MIKASA.

to the automatic release, but 1t has
different method of extinguishing a
fire than that used by the water spriH-
kler The extinguishing agent Is con.
tanned in fragile globe, which is sus-
pended near the place where fire is
liable to occur. AS soon as the heat
causes it's release and the globe falls
to the floor a sliding hammer in the
interior explodes the sphere and scat
tiers the fire-extinguishing powder
broadcast, at the same time making
noise enough to alarm anyone within
the building. The extinguisher can be
suspended at any point, without con,
rection with any other apparatus.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

the riprap Of the front measuring 81
feet Four thousand feet Of the work
are already completed. Before July,
1t is estimated, the whole job will be
finished. The wall is built Of crushed
granite, sand and cement, resting on
a foundation of piles driven to depth
Of forty feet. The cost, for which pro-
vision was made by a bond issue, will
be $1,500,OO0.
TO complete the work Of protection
it was also necessary to raise the
grade of the city, and a contract has
been let with a Holland firm to per-
form the task for 100000 The time
allowed is three years, but the contrac-
tors think they can finish it in two.
It involves the cutting Of q canal
through the city $50 feet wide and 90
feet deep.
Galveston expects not only to out
live the effects of her disaster, but to
become even a greater city than ever.
Her present Importance as shipping
point is exemplified by the fact that
her cotton receipts for the season ag-
gregate about 100000 bales, or $780,
900 more than were handled in New
Orleans for the same time. Since Sep
tember the grain receipts make a total
Of 100000 bushels. There is also
a heavy export trade with South AT
rica
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

The immigration laws are fairly ef-
fective as regards keeping out crime
and disease. They do not keep out ig-
norance, though it be Of the darkest,
densest kind. The political dangers
Of that ignorance in a country where
an alien can bec@e voter in five
years or less ought TO be apparent. The
man who has lived for a quarter of a
century or more in European coun-
try without learning to read or write,
and without knowing much about the
government of that country, Is not like
ly to acquire in five years residence in
the United States that knowledge Of
its institutions which Is needed to
make him IN intelligent voter. The
naturalization of such man merely
swells the number of "voting cattle"
and adds to the difficulty Of governing
the great cities decently. Five years Is
short enough term Of probation, but
In some States aliens are allowed to
vote after they have been residents a
year or year and a half, or have
taken out their first papers, The West
ern States resorted to this practice at
an early day in order to stimulate i'm
migration. They needed settlers to oc-
cupy the vacant lands, and believed
that was a good way to get them. There
is not the eagerness to get immigrants
that there was fifty or sixty years ago,
and the custom of making men voters
before they are citizens of the United
States should be abandoned by the
States which still adhere to 1t. During
the administration Of John Adams the
period Of residence prior to naturali-
cation was raised from five years to
fourteen. That was q partisan meas
ure. The Federalists believed the ma
jority of the immigrants would vote
against them when they got the bal
lot. The law was repealed Immediate
ly after Jefferson became President,
and the term has been five years ever
since. Party chiefs are timid about
recommending legislation which they
fear may be unpopular and cost their
party votes, and it is doubtful whether
an attempt will be made to change the
naturalization laws to give aliens more
time in which to become familiar with
the institutions of this country. Even
If the term Of probation were to be ten
years or fifteen, the hopelessly ignor-
ant aliens would not become intelligent
voters. That Is why it is better to go
to the root of the matter by forbiddine
the immigration of illiterates.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Creating a Vacancy.

When the republic had been set UP
in France in 1S4S, wrote the Baroness
Bonde, the first attempts Of the en-
franchised people to use their new
powers resulted in the election of the
most miscellaneous assembly that had
ever tried to govern country.
A member nominate from Rouen
went to Paris and selected his seat.
He had hardly taken it when his next
neighbor turned and stared at him.
The Rouen man, embarrassed, turned
up his coat collar, but too late
Sir" said his lynx-eyed colleague,
II believe I had the honor of sending
you to the galleys for murder in IS,
when I was judge. You had strangled
the servant of the cure who had
brought you UP, and robbed the worthy
man. Oblige me by resigning immedi-
ately."
The next day the Moniteur announc-
ed that there was vacancy for Rou-
en-, but did not tell why.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

The coaxing away of European emf
grants to this country for the sake Of
the head money taken for carting them
over Is causing much trouble for every
nation on the continent. Governments
cannot create migratory currents, nor
should transportation companies be
allowed to tamper with them. They are
like the great marine and aerial cur
rents which flow where they are most
attracted until some natural change
diverts them elsewhere. But it is a
mistake to suppose that all the Euro
pean governments are trying to get rid
of their subjects.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

Deep-sea sailors used to laugh at
their brother mariners of the coastwise
trade, and refer to them as men who
'liked to go to sea when they could
get home to dinner" The gibe would
have had little point in the Philippines,
the coast-line of which has been found
to measure more than eleven thousand
miles. This is double the coast-line of
the United States outside of Alaska.
In the Philippines there is one mile Of
coast to every ten miles Of area. In
the United States the ratio Is one to
1--we hundred and f1fty-fve. The Phil
lppines have string of parings out
Of all proportion to the apple itself
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Good Resolutions,

Mrs. Jennings looked through her
glasses at her sister, Miss Sprawle,
with considerable severity. ''This
neighborhood has got into strange
ways the last few years, or else no.
tice it more as / get further along"
she said, land lest should get into
the same way, want you to remind
me now and then, Mary, during the
Newyear that we're just starting on.
''If you find me backbiting like that
hateful, stingy Annabel Powder or
Lucy White, that had better look to
her own sauey, bad-mannered girl, and
her boy that's the poorest scholar in
Number One-or If you catch me grow
ing close-isted like the minister's wife
that has never returned the cup of
granulated sugar she borrowed that
time the delegates Cancer long
winded like Jane Larkin who inter-
rupted me in the very midst Of my
telling her about Sally's twins, and
went on about her spindling grandson,
for most Is minutes without stopping
L want you should tell me frankly.
"And that's not ALL" said Mrs. Jen-
nings as Miss Sprawle opened her
mouth to speak. IF you find me get
ting inquisitive like Helen Lane. that's
asked me three times when my BIRTH
day comes and what year was born,
after my having to go to the town rec
ords to find out her age, want you to
mention it freely, and I shall do the
same by you.
IF folks don't help each other,
what's the good Of being set in fam
lilies? You've got a little habit OF In
terrupting, Mary, that's growing on
you, and I'm going to do what / can
to help you break it up"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Wrapping Himself i'm silence.

The late Herbert Spencer is said to
have been lacking In humor. It was
either profound humor or an equally
profound absence Of it which accounts
for his conduct on one occasion, If the
story which follows is true.
On one Of his visits to his friend,
Grant Allen, the novelist and philoso-
pher, Spencer came provided with two
curious objects behind his ears. The
purpose of them was soon evident, for
when the conversation did not interest
him he pulled the things over his ears,
and SO insulated himself against idle
words.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
ASHAI.
Full.
GREAT SEA WALL OF GALVESTON.

Ever since the city of Galveston,
Texas, was nearly destroyed by a
tidal wave, the officials there have
been perfecting their safeguards
against such calamities in the future.
The principal one Of these is gigan-
tic sea wall, thicker and 1rmer than
structed.
Not only Is the wall considered i'm
pregnable. even in the face Of the
seas onslaughts, but it is also orna-
mental. AS far as her waterfront is
concerned, the city is to look like q
vast fortress. The wall is to be 31a
miles long 10 feet high, with base
16 feet thick and a top feet across,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

DAVID s. M'DoUGAL try to foreigners.
She simply would not permit any Tor
eign vessel to enter one of her ports.
In 1881 an American vessel picked
up a lot Of shipwrecked Japs, and IL
was concluded that there was splen-
did opening for q friendly basis De-
tween that country and this. The
American vessel carried the ship
wrecked sailors to Japan, but we got
no thanks for the kindness. On the
contrary, the Yankee ship was repell-
ed with violence. Finally, however,
through diplomacy couple OF ports
were opened to us and then otner ma
lions secured like privileges. Inc
Japs. however, were far from friendly
and were prone to look on all Tor
eigners with suspicion. In 1868 the
American merchantmen Pembroke IN
dertook to pass through the strait OF
Shimononoseki on her way to one OF
the free ports. The powerful batteries
Of the forts fired on her and she was
compelled to put to sea.
Naturally the United States was an
gered. Cruising about the waters OF
the Orient in search of the Confederate
vessel Alabama was the United States
ship Wyoming under the command OF
Commander David Stockton MeDou-
gal, who was afterward rear ad-
miral. McDougal was instructed TO
teach the Japs lesson. Disgusting
his war vessel as merchantmen and
with the United States flag flying, he
entered the strait, ran past the forts
under fire, and attacked two square
rugged vessels and steamer which
were lying close to the town. He
carried only six guns as against forty
eight on the Japanese ships and In
the forts, but he said: 1--WE will either
blow those ships out Of the water or
sink ourselves"
There was a hot fight but soon the
three Japanese ships were at the bot
tom of the sea. Then he opened fire
on the forts until they were silenced,
after which the Yankee commander
put to sea. He had destroyed three
vessels, damaged the forts and killed
SvU men, while his own loss was four
men killed and seven wounded. The
Wyoming had been hit ten times, but
was not seriously damaged.
But Uncle Sam was not satisfied
with this lesson. The Japs were call
ed on to pay an indemnity and the
following year paid $75O,00O. This
fund remained on deposit, invested in
United States securities, until in 1883
it amounted to $1,77O364. In that
year the survivors Of the Wyoming
were paid handsome sums and the
balance-$7S5, OOO1was returned to
Japan.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

more wholesome contrast to this con-
dition could be found than has been
created by the introduction Of the
"honor system" under which the stu
dents themselves, not the faculty, have
charge Of the examinations, and be
come responsible for the honesty of
them. During the period of examina-
tons students enter and leave the
room at will, and are not watched.
The only check upon their conduct Is
that, at the completion Of the task,
the student signs a statement In the
following or in similar form: Il
pledge my honor as a gentleman that
/ have neither given nor received as
sistance during this examination
Upon the students, too, is imposed the
task of Furnishing any infraction of
| this pledge, and this brings an inter
esting case In point. In one Of the
| colleges where the honor system pre-
walls five students were lately detect
| ed In using examination papers dis
| honestly obtained. The student who
made the discovery went boldly be-
IOIG LIS ASlIOWS anu IL hAO" LIZ
His act met with hearty applause,
and the five offenders were all ex-
| PEELED. Was not this talebearing? Is
talebearing ever commendable? The
answer to both questions must be yes
| When a body of men have worked
faithfully to maintain a valuable pos
session and other men attempt to
steal it, it is as much duty, yes,
more Of duty, to cry, "Stop, thief!'
to him who Is assailing the public
sense Of honor as to him who is break
| ing into a bank safe. College men
are to be congratulated upon the f1del-
ity which they have shown to the
honor system, and no less are they to
| be commended for the courage and
good sense with which they separate
the mean-spirited and selfish talebear-
er from him whose sole motive is pub
lie spirit and loyalty to honor.