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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-10


TNe ana tahulate the ballot which
' cue "Ist sax named above.
THE ALrERNATEs.
Ilen Ihe allernates received co,s,a.
NAH ~ J'eOds OF Alan l.. Loyoy, the
ts7oiS',.o,,M p etItoonist during the IN
ssndin,' ndd conceived the idea of
hrd"rs Ivy ana were working hard
ary w l''1 Than was really nec9s.
agraod lailman Frank j. Cannon
ANA nan, suspend his invlolate rule
a vsr,, ,I','ote Mr Loyey. He did SO In
"Wboo E,pN9r speech, saying In part
We ain III 'lVvIacy was dropping. when
The morn encouraged, and got up In
less Eb n',s ieeling grumpy and hope
j.. Lor"g 4S9 u eheered us up? Alan
gives IN, un ough his cartoons. Who
Lovey TugyIr 1ally laughs? Alan l..
AN g1r. WY l thought that you had
IpicEs5 'o the Republicans until
found s,,,t 'le paper one morning and
cago 'oel ~ the canyons OF Chi
kinda ,t nsNe Deen nominating an
counts, 'l mere hut there Is another
Prss ci,r' "@le not recognized--the
nands 49,, -. Sall Lake City. II de-
your a,,,..s- ,1uon' Who has attended
nevspano, ',, ''.Vi's more regularly than
has u,'lpg'Imen2 And this man Lovev
ana Ihg.NaI for the Democratic nartv.
years. o ty-tor the past eight
of ,D5Nee OF the Press club rot ,hat
from r.I,to MT Lovey came here
AGO b, ,'.uiii,ornla, as say. eight years
s,st. %. guae he thinks Utah is bettnr
Who ,.lgn California. And anv No.
thsr 'C.lA5 that Utah Is a better stato
MAN. Iornia is entitled 10 he caIIed
81, "as'Ee 'onl 7 nominafe W eglleu
TlS, 20 that convention want Nun
l.oyar. s'al hundred managers NJ AR
'yamtj ,, sIhule campaign had II
JOIN ~ W. Tor Dale Harris powo,s
Hssns o. Oaine, bob" gloar lovers,
but bov 70 mako seconding snecches
arose d, never got to II. Georre moi.
eletts," 9l moved thar Mr. Io ov p'I hn
a mlgb,l'st alternate by aoclama,io ~
ees, ,gH'y shout went up, Loves y's'n ,'al
Itph Cobn. was nominated b~ Ia.
r. p ns'n ana elected unanln,onsi,,
Roma, : Of Boxelder. Mrs i ~ ~
John p ,Mrs J. Fcvson sni,h "a
on, o. ~ Barnes We're also cbosa ,n Ian, ana
''''I AND ONLY REAL FIGHT.
,b Nnd hen begon the eight Of n. d.v
'''e'' NO sooner had Chairman
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-10
DROVE 1T HOME.

"And I say this" exclaimed Jackson,
jumping up, Judge Powers told me
only last night that II the nomination
for Congress came his way, he would
not refuse It"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-10
THE RESULT.

There were q great many secondlng
speeches. but finally the convention got
oo@n to balloting and this was the re-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-10
G. |. GRADUATES.
Interesting Commencement Exercises
At First Presbyterian Church.

Tho First Presbyterian church was
well filled last evening, on the occasion
Of the commencement exercises of the
Salt Lake Colleglat institute, An cx-
cellcnt program, both Intellectual and
musical was presented, and the essays
read by the young graduates evidenced
special proficiency In the fields Of his
tory, philosophy, literature and logic.
The essays were carefully written, and
were In every way a credit to the es-
sayist and the local system OF instTuc-
tion. The music was furnished under
the direction of Miss Edith A. Suther-
land, professor of music at the institute,
and reflected marked credit on the
young artists efforts, The platform
was handsomely decorated with palms,
roses peonles and other floral displays.
The program as printed in last even
ing's News was successfully carried
out, the opening and closing inVoca tons
being offered by Revs, Drs, Paden and
Wishard At the close of the program,
diplomas were handed 20 the gradu-
ates by Or, Padon, and large quantities
OF flowers we're distributed to the youth
ml alumni by adming friends. An
affectiondte good bye was given prin-
cipal r j, Caskey and the lady prin-
cipal. Miss Morgan, who have resigned
Mr. Caskey has been connected with
the school for Il years, and viii be
much missed, as he has been good
instructor. Since the establishment Of
the institute In 1875, $40 boys and girls
have graduated from a. The alumni
or the school viii hold a banquet this
evening, in the parlors of the church.
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Harmonious Gathering With
" a. interesting and Excit-
Ing End.
perry VICTOR OVER POWERS.
,,,, and Cannon VIII Head the
NV n,,,,,tes to St, Louls--Pcrsounel
Of the Delegation.

,,,re NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
n.y,d Henry Pcery salt Lake
v,TIoNAL DELEGATES
rank j. Cannon Weber
,o.cph Monson, Cache
S ,,nb l. Rawlins, salt Lake.
simon s,ron Bamberger salt Lake.
Sam A. Kiug Utah
George c. WhIttcmore, Juab'
ALTERNATE DELEGATES.
Lo,cv salt Lake
n. wcc,cr Summit.
g,,,bol J. ID. Roundy salt Lake.
y~ ]. Fcwson Smith, salt Lake
robn r Barnes Davis
Err Davis. utah.
81, was glorious. II was Inspiring
,,sbost OF all. it was tho kind Of fight
a., that will never harm the Democracy
81 said Judge o. W. Powers the de-
,',s5 candidate. ut the close of what
.ss nrobably the prcttiest and cleanest
.,,,os, for "A political office ever Wit
.,scd I'm J, convention in this state. He
.,,ot down before David Henry Pccry
~, member of the national committee
,,or Iithb. but was Jolly IN defeat.
Imagine "a convention of 500 votes.
,rrayod ON one side was practical poll
,psLthe result of six weeks campaign
he on the part Of Peery's friends;
,galnst this stone wall the warehouses
~ No party pleading for Powers the
q,perloncad politician, but their eulo-
ges falling ON deaf ears, Then the
Soie Twcnty.three ballots ian the
scattering column The remainder
,or the two leading candidates, and
finally victory by u majority OF just
al Five hundred votes practically and
two contestants but majority OF only
go That is how pretty the fight was.
81. LOUIS DELEGATES.
The "News' report closed last even
,,g when the nominations for national
delegates began Here IS the story Of
vbsi happened afterwards
Joshua Greenwood Of Willard named
George G. Whltmorc of Nonhi.
Moses Thatcher named Joseph Mon
son " Cache.
l. ]. Evans named Sam A. King Of
Utah
T. D. Johnson named Frank ], Cam
non Of Weber
And then came a motion that Mr.,
Cannon he named by acclanation, SO
great had bccn the demonstration when
Ms name was mentioned, II would have
carried had not p, ], DAILY of Salt Lake
smended 70 the effect that Joseph l..
Ravlns and Sam a. King "be tackled TO
U" e. Il. Olsen wanted Whitmorc by
sccamation II was becoming too gem
enl for r. W. Sloan and he opposed the
whole thing "in tho interest Of fair
ness" The result was the defeat OF the
motion
Mathonlhah Thomas named simon
BambeYer
John f. Howell named John Halver-
son.
Joseph NJ Cohen named A. r. weeter
of Summit county
John Y, Game named Joseph l..
RawlIns
Fisher Harris named NJ r. Mulvey.
John Fisher Of Davis county named
J, r. Barnes.
Fred Derl named Mrs. ]. Fewson
Smith
R. Letchcr named George Billings
Of San Juan.
Il. r Henderson named j. II. Kidd.
AND exclaimed r. W. sloan II
move YOU Mr.. Chairman, that the rest
Of us decline"
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POWERS ms OWN DEFENDER.
SLOAN.

L, w Sloan spoke next for Peery.
He made one OF those heart-to-heart
talks that are usually effective. lie
repeatedly used the expression, I'll
leave it to you, or "I'l leave II to
Judge Powers himself II this man isn't
so-and-so, and II Is the belief in the
Peery ranks that Mr.. Sloan's speech
added to Jackson's positive declaration
did much TO win the day. Jackson's
claim came at a critical time and did
not a little 20 turn the tide toward
peery.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08
The Underground
Railway,

Since the passage of the Chinese
exclusion laws, Uncle Sans watch
dogs have been kept busy ferret
ing out and foiling the attempts of
ambitious Chinks trying to cross
the boundaries of this great United
States. But even Uncle Sam can
not entirely check the food of
persevering yellow men lowering
Just over the border awaiting for a
chance to pass the argus-eyed Off
GERS, especially if these same fell
low men, possess the proper amount
of yellow currency and feverish
desire to bestow it upon anyone
aiding them in their passage.
Now Chinaman is not a spend
thrift and he has never been made
the subject of a proverb on that
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08

The passage of a load of Chinks,
however, is not always as tame and
unexciting as might appear. Uncle
Sam keeps a couple of fast cutters
always on the lookout for just such
little parties and it is no uncom-
mon thing for the startled occu-
pants of the blockade running
craft to find themselves basking in
the glaring rays of revenue search
light. Then, if by good luck, the
boat happens to be near shore, it
is unceremoniously beached, and
the voyagers are forced to ''cut' for
the timber amid storm of
whizzing bullets from Uncle's
rapid-fr guns.
But even this doesn't stop the
Chinks. They still come in about
! 800 of them year. r. W.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08
~ %
W. IN 1Amr ~!
N=A~


"Gee!" said Uncle, greatly as
tonished. "Vhat you shall NIT all
dose potpie done?"
ooh, we'll eat it all right, and
more besides. There are some
ducks roasting in the oven;" so
saying I opened the oven door.
All! the odor that came out into
the tent! It makes my mouth
water now when I think of it.
Soon had dinner ready.
"Come, Uncle said I, make
yourself at home and eat all you
can hold" Then [ called Jack to
his dinner. We three set to and
were soon putting away potpie and
roast duck fast enough to shame a
cannibal. Uncle was stufing it in
with both fists. Now and then he
would let up long enough to give
vent to grunt of gluttonous glee.
! I stopped short interval to tell
him not to be afraid to eat, asthere
was plenty more on the lake and
some more still on the line.
How he did eat and eat. When
we had gotten on the out
side of that banquet Uncle rolled
his eyes, smacked his lips, and
cast longing chances around the
tent as if in quest of more to de-
YOUR. When he assayed to arise
he found that his dinner
was more, than he possibly
could stand under. You see he
was green hand at duck eating,
and he put away more than he
could carry. He managed to roll
into one corner of the tent, where
occasionally he mumbled: "Oh,
such a fine meal! Such a goot
meal! When mineself home get, [
will mine wife tell she can cook not!
Ach! such a goot meal! Ach! you
Wonder was! You kin rats skin
der pushed Ply and der dinner cook
What me der pain gifts. Ach! you
a Wonder wasp He soon fell asleep
and snored so loud that the clouds
thought 1t was thunder, and began
to rain. When he awoke his din
ner had settled. He arose and
went outdoors, where he soon dis
covered a pile of rat carcasses. In
short time he came into the tent
and inquired: t',
"Vhat you NIT all dose rats do
NIT der skin Off"
"Oh, we give them to an old man
who grinds them up and feeds
them to his chickens. In return
he gives us eggs, butter, and milk"
"Do obey der hens make der
butter lay and der milk giff?" he
asked credulously. 1 had the poor
man locoed. If I had told him the
moon was made of limburger he
would have believed me. When
Uncle~reached home he tried to
make his hens lay butter, [ was
afterwards told. Whether he sue
ceeded or not, I have never heard.
Nothing further worth recording
happened that day, SO I'll roll in
for good nights rest.
RERT
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08
Ny First Visit
to England.

W AAoAuuW'
There is no suffering so severe as
that which we perceive to be the
outcome of our own mistaken de-
cision. Suffering caused by our
own sin is another matter; we feel
in some measure that we deserve
it. But to have decided hastily,
or too hopefully, or while some
false view of the case was present
ed to Us, and then to find that the
decision brings grievous pain and
sorrow, this is cruelty hard.
It was this consciousness of my
own mistake which preyed upon
my mind, as Mr.. Baxter asked me
the foregoing question. Had 1
only insisted in speaking to Daisy's
uncle at Christiania, or at once
written to her father, all might
have been we'll. Over and over in
my mind I revolved the things
that might have happened but for
| that fatal hopefulness which would
now prove my sorrow. 1 could
not now conceive why [ had not
come to England with Daisy and
her uncle. It seemed to me in
credible that I had stayed in Nor
way merely to celebrate my twen-
ty-frst birthday, or that I had
been persuaded not to come with
the Baxters because Mr.. Baxter
would be out of town till October.
My sanguine nature had betrayed
me, just as my father had
been betrayed by his too great
hopefulness as to the North Pole
expedition. Certainly it is true
that sanguine people in particular
have to buy their experience by
bitter pain and loss.
When Miss Daisy came to in
quire after me, she found to her
surprise [ was looking we'll.
"What!' she exclaimed, "you
really we'll and here?"
"Quite we'll, thank you," I re-
piled, in a rather cold tone of voice
which had lately become habitual
to me. "Have you a newspaper
in the house that you would be so
good as to lend me?"
Certainly" said Miss Daisy,
her face lighting up as she hast
ened out of the room, returning in
a minute with the special organ of
the religious party to which she
belonged. 81 think this might in
terest you," she began timidly.
II don't want to be interested" "
said I, dryly. Cali I want is to
look through the advertisements.
A thousand thanks; but [ see the
paper is not quite what l need"
care you sure that you know
what you really need?" she said
earnestly, and with reference to a
deeper subject.
"You see,' I said, smiling a lit
tie, eff [ do not find work I can
not pay zay rent, SO [ must lose
no time in getting some situation
Alas! How short was the "Sit-
uations Vacant" column compared
to the one dedicated too ituations
Wanted" There was an editor
reporter needed, who must be a
'.6rst-class, all-round man," but I
could not feel that I was deserving
| of such epithets, and I could not
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08

even write much English to say
nothing of shorthand. There was
gentleman needed for the can
wasting and publishing department
of a weekly" but he must be pos
sessed not only of energy but of
experience. Agents were needed
for steel pens, toilet soap, and boys
clothes, but no novices need apply.
Even the advertisement for billiard
hands was qualified by the two
crushing words, experienced
only "a correspondence clerk
wanted" made me look hopefully
at the lines which followed, but
unluckily knowledge of Portu-
guese was demanded as we'll as of
French and German; while the
corn merchant who would receive
a gentleman's son in an Office of
good position was prudent enough
to add the words, ''No one need
apply who is unable to pay SUBJ
stantial premium"
Out of the whole list there we're
only two situations for which I
could inquire, and I soon found that
for each of these there were hun
dreds of applicants. At first my
natural hopefulness reasserted it.
self, and each morning 1 would set
out briskly, resolving to leave no
stone unturned, but when days and
weeks had passed by in the monot-
onous search, my heart began to
fail me; [ used to start from my
little hotel doggedly, dull despair
eating out my heart, and sicken-
ing ever-present consciousness
that was only an insignificant
unit struggling to find standing
room in a world where selfshness
and money grabbing reigned su-
preme.
Each week brought me letters
from home. My uncle sent me
letters of introduction to various
London firms, but each letter
brought me only fresh disappoint-
ment. AS the consul had told me,
the market was already overcrowd-
ed, and tho very possibly, I might
have met with work in the previous
summer when all was we'll with
him, he could give me but little
hope now. It would seem, the i'm
preston I gave every one
was that my hand was against
every man, and it certainly did
seem that at present every mans
hand was against me.
People write so much about sue
cess and prosperity, and the hard
ening effects of wealth, that they
sometimes forget the other side of
the picture. Failure is always
supposed to make a man patient
and humble and good; it rarely
does so, unless to begin when his
spirit has been weakened from
sleep. The man whose faith has
been a mere conventionality, or
the man who like myself has pro-
fessed to believe in life, becomes in
evitably bitter and hard when all
things are against him. It is just
then when a man is hard and bit
ter, just then when everything else
has failed him, that the devil comes
to the fore, offering pleasures
which in happier times would have
had no attraction.
Atfirst certain aspects of London
life has startled me; but [ speedi-
ly became accustomed to them; if
l thought of them at all it was
with Indifference rather than dis
gust. One day, however, I passed
with seeming abruptness into a
new state of mind. Sick with dis
appointment after the failure of
rather promising scheme sug-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08
1ARLY,-before sunrise-Jack
and 1 padded out into the
lake to "try our luck" The
lala uoro Auinn fine and


lake to "try our luck" The
ducks were flying fine, and
we bagged forty canvasbacks and
butterballs, and dozen jacksnipes.
Well satisfied with our mornings
shoot we returned to camp.
"Jack," said I, ''do you know l
am as hungry as black bear that
has just finished alternating.
You pick the ducks and will get
things ready for dinner
Chow many shall I pick?" he
asked.
Chow many can you eat?' I re-
turned.
ooh! about five," said he.
"Then I can eat SIX" [ retail
zated, bound to be the bigger hog.
While Jack was plucking the
birds l got wood, started fire, put
water on to boil, and made ready
the ingredients for large potpie.
After the ducks we're Invested of
feathers [ fixed five for roasting
and the rest l placed in the kettle
for the pie. [ was in the midst of
my labors in the culinary art when
the flaps of the door were parted,
q round face, to which was at
,tached somebody's buster, ap-
peared and a jolly voice beloved,
Zach! What is it smells mine nose!
You something gootf for dinner got?''
It was my Irish neighbor who
was making clearing few miles
from the lake. "Come in, Uncle, -
invited [. After ascertaining that
everything was going nicely, [ sat
down to "chew the rag" with my
visitor.
"How did you happen to come
over here?' inquired.
"Oh, I schust nit mineself come
the lake py. You some fine hunt
ing have, vhat?''
eyes," said [, 'come with me
and 1 will show you something,
Uncle;" and going outside I led
the way to our game tent. Gust
take peep in there, and you will
see it, He thrust his head in at
the door, then quickly drew it out,
and exclaimed: "Mine Colt
in himmel! Where you all dose
skins get?"
sOh," [ answered nonchalantly,
"Jack and I shot them last night"
''Vhat!' he cried aghast. "you
dose skins in vone night get. Why,
dhere must more dhan a tousand
pc. Ply shimminy! I peleef nix. !"
"Why, that's nothing" said L,
"Jack and [ skinned all those
.muskrats and stretched their hides
last evening after supper"
"You," said he, ''you make me
some fun. How fast you can rat
skim"
'Now look here, Uncle" I re-
smonstrated, "there are only five
hundred skins in that tent. I can
lake a skin off a rat in ten seconds.
That's six minute, and in an hour
i can skin three hundred and six
'ty rats. As fast as I skin them
Jack stretches them, SO you see we
had those rats all skinned and
their hides stretched in less than
two hours" That was almost too
much for Uncle. He opened his
mouth, stuck his tongue out and
began to choke.
@Ach!' said he, "dot is to swal-
low hard"
"Oh, you will find harder things
than that to swallow before you
leave" I answered.
Just then l thought Of my pot
5pie, and away I ran for the cook.
ing tent. When I entered, the
,dumplings had risen, and the pot
WAS boiling over. I grabbed a par
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08

spent to obtain 1t, the Chlnk Will
spend. And he never haggles
about the price. He wants to
come into Uncle's fold and is will
ing to pay his way. SO All Sin gets
in: at the rate of about 1900 a
year. There are three doors by
which he enters. One over the
Mexican boundary; one between
Vancouver and Seattle, Wash, and
one-a large one-along the Cana
dian line. He is assisted, of course.
The Chinaman does not possess
the necessary executive ability to
pilot himself across, so he secures
the services of his white brother,
who, for a consideration, is per-
fectly willing to act as guide.
Probably more Chinks have
crossed the line above Seattle than
at any other point, and the reasons
are obvious. First, the centers of
Chinese population are all on the
Pacific Coast, therefore near to the
Sound City. Second. the passage
can be made by water, by land, or
by combination of the two routes,
as is generally the case; and third,
the heavily wooded country and
numerous islands allow a large
party to cross at one time, while
at other points only one or two
Chinks are able to make the trip
at the same time. Some years ago
the railway" between British
Columbia and Seattle was operated
upon . quite extensive plan. A
Chinese merchant in Victoria, B.
c., and Seattle Chink were the
two moving spirits of the combi-
nation. Not that they did any of
the work. Oh! No! Your Celes-
tial is too wise person to run
needless risk. He hires a white
man to run it for him. These two
hired white men. The Victoria
end of the combine secured the
Chinks wishing to make the trip.
The Seattle agent arranged with
his white employees to meet and
escort the party across the imagi-
nary line. Then some afternoon a
fishing sloop would run quietly
into cove or inlet near the Cana
dian city and the occupants, usual
ly two white men or a white man
and an Indian, would set diligent-
ly to work spreading fish nets upon
the beach to dry.
In the meantime the Victoria
Chinaman has received notice of
the boats arrival and he is busy
preparing his charges for their
trip and instructing them as to
their conduct. Not that they had
much to do. Not at all. They
were only expected to be quiet and
obey orders. Late in the evening
comes the start. The dozen or
more BLOCKADE runners" quietly
slip out Of town and take their way
to the beach where their yacht
awaits them. Each in turn hands
the skipper his fare fifty dol
lars) in advance, for the men who
risk the trip want their pay wheth-
er their "cargo" is safely landed or
not. Then the brown stained sails
are raised, the Chinese packed in
to the little cuddy and covered
with the now dry fish net, and the
voyage begins. Usually it requires
two nights to run cargo" The
first night carries the voyagers
we'll down the sound and a land
ing is made near some wooded por-
ton Of the shore. Here the dav
is spent. The fish nets are again
"dried," while the Chunks are safely
hidden in the woods. When night
again comes the party sets out
overland. Through the forests,
over old log roads, in and out and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-28
CLOTHES WITH THE
BLUES.

One time mother said she
was going to visit her sister
who lived in the country. T
was more than delighted
when she told me that I was
to keep house while she was
gone. I thought of what a
good time I should have.
I made a strawberry short
cake for dinner and my
father said it was just as
good as mother could have
made. T had made such a
great success Of my house
work that I thought I would
try to wash clothes. I put.
on a boiler Of water and
brought out all the clothes.
I began to wash, but I had
to prepare dinner and wash
the dishes. so I did not get
very much of my washing
done In the morning. I had