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New-York tribune., 1904-10-30

and look at the horseless halter, and
hasten back to the barn, where thirsty
old Dobbin in this box-stall was pitying
his kind, forgetful, old master.
A Western lawyer has an Office in a
large building, and the other afternoon
had occasion to visit the clerk -of-court's
Office to look up the records in case In
which he had been retained As he went
out he pinned a card upon the door:
Return at four-thirty."
He was not gone so long as he had
expected. In fact, it was only quarter
asst four when he returned. He walked
-:p the stairs, his mind full of his case,
and was about entering the door of his
Return at four-thirty." He pulled out
his watch, saw that it was only four
fifteen. and began pacing up and down
the corridor, glancing about now and
then as if expecting some ones arrival,
and every few minutes looking impa-
tiently at his watch. Half-past four
came, and still the door remained un-
opened. He waited a few minutes
longer, and then, with a look of disgust,
started down the stairs. Before he
reached the outside door, however. he
came to himself, and went back. He
unlocked his own door, took down the
card, and went about his business.
Speaking of absent-minded people.
however, a woman can beat the nation
at that 1t often leads them into en-
barrassing situations out of which they
have to scramble as best they may.
Not long ago one whose mind is often
soaring above this worlds hurndrum
was visiting at the house of friend in
Boston who is the happy possessor of
many interesting works of art and a fine
collection of bric-a-brac. Some rare bits
were produced for her admiration, and
as she admired each one she put 1T
carefully away in the pocket of her
dress, much to the disrnay of the hostess,
who wondered if she could have been
understood to have said that she wished
to give away these treasures. After
talking little while the visitor departed
taking with her the valuable articles
That evening, as she changed her street
costume, she discovered, to her horror
the articles she had admired at her
friends house a few hours before. Imag-
inc with what feelings she sent back the
treasures she had unconsciously taken
with note of embarrassed apology.
Another woman, one of the most
careful and level headed women in Chi
cago, one night last winter went to {
large party with her husband. and both
for special reasons, were more thar
anxious to appear we'll. The wife was
greatly concerned about her husband
as he was considered the absent minded
member of the family. and looked him
over critically and carefully after he
left the courtroom and before they
went downstairs. She was superbly
dressed. Both went down in high
feather and had passed through the
parlors and spent a delightful half-hour
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30

A4AASAA were, when the woman
turned pale in what her
husband thought was a fainting fit.
He hurried her from the room, and
was about to turn the house upside
down in search of restoratives, when
she clutched his sleeve and pointed at
her feet. Before leaving home she had
drawn over her shoes a pair of her good
mans socks, and had forgotten to remove
them. The thought that she had been
parading before three hundred people
with those socks on was too much for her.
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
WOULD s HE,
RSx MI 1X:l

Oy r1CLdhdD0rRh wilson
I'm the apple, swaying. bobbing.
That Priscilla tries to bite
Hanging fine
On the line,
With her rosy cheeks hobnobbing,
Now the left, and now the right.
I'm a mighty lucky fellow
Looking straight into her face.
Blue her eyes
AS the skies
And Priscilla's hair is yellow.
And she has wondrous grace.
AS kiss her lips so lightly,
Mich l wonder what she'd do
If that man
Tried my plan.
Do you think that she would brightly,
Gaily try to bite him too?
New-York tribune., 1904-10-30
for q.
The Tribe of the Absent-Minded

on parade duty, as it
were. when the woman
turned pale in what her
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-09
ONE OF THE HEROES.
Porter of Sleeping Car Wyuta Saved
His Passengers. -

Eden, Colo, Aug. s.-W- Vance, pOr-
ter on the forward sleeping car, Wyu-
ia, was one of the heroes of the disas-
ter To him and his nerve and bravery
the people on that car eve their lives.
He was standing near the front end of
the car Vhan the crash came. and with
rare presence of mind rushed TO the
mandrake on the front of the car and
began tightening the brakes on the
wheels. His car was slipping forward
from the momentum and from the terri
bic drag in front, caused by the for
ward cars falling into the stream.
Vance held on to the brake like grim
death. His hands clenched the wheel
until his fingers almost bled, but he
held on until his tight grip stopped the
car The forward cars broke from the
sleeper and fell into the water, while
the car which Vance had held with the
brake stopped one-third of the way on
the brink of the chasm, OveThanging
the gulch below. The forward trucks
had left the track and gone down, but
the remainder of the coach stayed on
the tracks and the lives OF the passen-
gers were saved.
1t required two engines and nearly
half hours work to pull this sleeper
back from the brink of the chasm-
Nothing but Vance's cool and brave
work at the brakes kept the car from
pIunging into the stream.
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..ARTICLE -


NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the Wood Grocery K Produce company,
a corporation organized and existing IN
der the laws of the state of Utah, has
made its voluntary application IN the
Third judicial district of the state of
Utah in and for the county Of Salt Lake.
being the county where its principal place
of business is Situated, fcr dissolution
Of said corporation. and any objections
TO said application are required to be filed
within thirty days from the date of the
first publication % this notice to-vit.
the 3lst day of July. 1904.
(SeaI) JOHN JAMES. Clerk
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know that there, are dozens and dozens.
dead-but so help me God. I am in no
way responsible for their deaths"
Fireman Mayfield is one Of the most
trusted employees on the Rio Grande,
Dining Car Mans Escape.
r. Brunazzi.- superintendent of the.
dining car service Of the Denver &
Rio Grapde, one Of the SURVIVORS, had
a narrow escape
Il was sitting in the front end OF the
forward sleeper Wyuta," he said,
near the door. The train had slowed
up on account OF the bad condition OF
tie tracks. and think we were going
about fifteen miles per hour when all
at cnee I-felt a sudden jolt, then
terrific crash and our car turned al
most on its front end. ] rushed to the
platform and saw before me nothing
but a black. raging torrent. with
three coaches whirling down the
stream 1t was horrible, horrible. I
have never experienced anything like
the awful sensation that came over me
VIXEN I saw the cars. packed with
human beings. floating down that
raging flood. The water was rushing
against the banks with terrible
velocity, and no human being, il
seemed to me, could ever Withstand
that awful current.
No Cries Cor Help.
strangely enough. there was hardly
any streaming. 1 listened to hear the
cries, but il was all over in q moment.
and the coaches whirled away down
tie stream with loads of human be-
+ngs. Apparently the people were
swallowed up in the Hood, the water
surging into the coaches and drown
ing them instantly. There was not a
sound. / heard no calls for help.
I reached the bank and Joined with
those who were trying 10 rescue the
lost. l worked as best I could, but
hope / shall never see anything like
it again. 1t was terrible, it was ter
r5bIe
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IMPATIENT RUSSIANS.
st. Petersburg Waiting For the Vic
tory Which Never Comes.


st. Petersburg. Aug. s. $40 a. m
There is increasing Impotence among
al classes for decisive news from
Lao Yang. Lieutenant General SAX
harcffs report that there had not been
change IN the Manchurian army'S
sphere Of operations merely adds TO
the tension which possibly viii con-
tinue for some time. There is no tell
ing how much time the VIGOROUSLY
slow and methOdicai preparations Of
the japanese may consume before they
feel ready 10 advance on General
kuropatkin's strong positions. Every
Gays delay gives the Russian COM
mander greater opportunity TO fOrtify
or to get away I'm case he decides ID
avoid q big battle. though 1t IS not gen
orally thought here that there is much
likelihood OF his retreating without a
decisive fight.
Viceroy Alexieff's dispatch from
Nukden communicating official mes
sages from Port Arthur bears out
the reported loss Of the japanese pro-
JeCted cruisers Ttsukushima and Chi
yoda. and indicates considerable ac-
tiVity ou the part of the Port Arthur
squadron. The care exercised in send
ing a dredger feet ahead of the squad
ron both in leaving and returning to
the harbor, is amply vindicated by the
loss of one Of the pilot boats, and Is
taken as a guarantee that there win be
no further damage 10 the Russian war
ships BY IaDaueSe mines
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RUSSIAN FLEET ACTIVE.
Put Three japanese Warships Out OF
Commission

Commission
st. Petersburg, Aug. S.-Emperor
Nicholas has received the following dis
patch from VieerOy Aiexief, dated at
Atukden, Aug. Z:
kilograms received today from Port
Arthur and from the commander Of the
squadron CRear Admiral Withoftl, state
that the cruisers Bayan, AskoId, Pal
1ada and Novik and sCme gunbOats
steamed out Of the harbor on July %
Tor the purpose OF bOmbarding the en-
emy's positions They were attacked
by the japanese battleship Chinyen. the
protected cruisers Chiyoda, Itsukushi-
ma and Matsushima and two second
class cruisers with thirty torpedo boats.
An eight-inch shell from the Bsyan
burst in the stern Of the ItsUkUShiIna,
placing that ship out Of action There
upon the Japanese ships steered for the
open sea and at the same time, the
ChtyOda was damaged by a Russian
mine As the ChiyOda was sinking by
the head she steered toward TaIien bay.
A shot from battery . also damaged a
Japanese gunbOat which was sighted.
On July =, in view Of the japanese
having taken the general offensive
against our land positions, the Bayan,
Captain ReitZenstein; the battleship
Retyisan, the Pallada, AskOld and No
Tlk, the coast defense ships GTemiash-
chi and Otvashni, the gunboat Giliak
and twelve torpedo boats, under the
command Of Rear Admiral Leschinslzy.
were ordered 10 support our right flank
at the demand of Lieutenant General
StOessel, commander Of the military
forces at Port Arthur.
Our ships preceded by mine dredges,
steamed toward LUngaHtaR. from
where they bOmbarded the japanese
positions until 3 o'clock in the after
noon
on their return, which they effected
with the same precautions, a mine eX-
plOded underneath one Of the dredges.
Rear Admiral Without estimated
that the enemy's naval forces of Port
Arthur July 30, consisted of five bat
tleships, four armored cruisers, ten
other cruisers and 'f0rty-eight torpedo
craft
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20 Pumors AfIoat.

St Petersburg, Aug S.-The city Is
FIJI Of wild rumOrs that Port Arthur
has fallen, due TO reports from Che
foo of another assault in which the
fortress was taken by the combined
land and sea forces. though the Jap
snese lost three warships, including the
protected cruisers ChiyOda and 1tsu-
kushima. There is not the slightest
confirmation Of these rumors. 1t IS be
lieved that the japanese are. stu TN
able to capture the outer works, much
less the fortress itself
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Battery Exchanges.

Chefoo. Aug. g. 6 a. m.-The firing
which was heard last night continued
10 $3.50 o'clock this morning. 4 junk
which left Port Arthur Aug. 9Th re-
ported that there had been no hostile
movements since July 2Sth, except ex-
changes between the batteries. The
Russian battleships P0bieda. Retvizan.
P0ltava and Peresviet fire occasionally.
which was probably what was heard
last night
An engineer who is familiar with
Port Arthur states that il VIII take
the japanese four weeks 10 fOrtify the
captured hills and plant siege guns.
which viii require strong foundations,
in the face Of the Russian fire.
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UNITED STATES WILL
BE SUPREME ON THE SEA

London. Aug. S.-Capt Thomas AIInut
Brassey. editor of the Naval Annual
speaking at Garfield today. said he was
mand OF the seas would have passed
from Great Britain to the United Sta ties.
The latter country. he declared is now
building more battleships than England
and its resources are greater than are
those of Great Britain, whose only hope
Of maintaining her supremacy on the sea
was a federation through which the col
Onies would aid in the building up and
maintenance of the navy of the mother
country
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Student at Stanford.

Worcester, Mass. Aug. S.-Miss Irene
Wright. one Of the victims of the Den
Yer & Rio Grande railroad wreck, was
a roommate last year at Leland Stan
ford, Jr., university in California of
Miss Clara LathTop of this city. Miss
Wright was editor Of the Stanford
SequOia- She was on her way to Los
Angeles TO accept a position in a school
there
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APPEAL FOR MRS. MAVERICK.

London. Aug. 9.-In the form of a letter
Hardinge." the Daily Chronicle this morn
ing makes a strong appeal on behalf of
Mrs. MAVERICK The letter urges that
Mrs. Maybrick is innocent and that she
ought to be granted a free pardon, and
contends that she never would have been
convicted had there been a court Of Grim
inal appeal in England.
The Chronicle also prints an editorial
which strongly supports "HeathcOtte
Hardinges" view Of the case.
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Arrival Of the British Steamer Cal
chas at Vladivostok.

sladivostok, Aug. S. Il D. m.-The
british steamer Calchas. from Tacoma
Tor Japan ports, which was arrested
by TIE y IadiEostok squadron thirty
miles north Of T6Izio bav during the
recent cruise off the Pacific coast Of
Japan. arrived here today il charge Of
q prize crew. The Calchas is the last
vessel captured by Admiral lessen s
cruisers. The papers of the CaIchas
showed she was carrying $40 tons OF
Hour nine tons Of cotton, 215 cogs and
20 parts Of machinery, all consigned
10 Hongkong.
The steamer CaIchas was bound
from HongkOng to Europe and carried
sufnclent coal TO go to Vladivostok.
.ihereTore, II was decided TO send her
70 tLat port in charge Of Lieutenant
Stakeiberg and forty-one men from
Inc ku1tk- The transfer of the prize
crew 10 the steamer was attended with
the greatest danger owing to the
neaVy sea which was running at the
time.
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Notice TO Contractors

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC
works. Salt Lake City Utah July =, 1904
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office until o'clock .. m Thursday Aug
Il 1903. for the work of making additions
and alterations to fire station on East
First South street
Plans and specifications for said work
can be obtained upon application at the
office of the chief of the fire department.
The right is reserved TO reject any and
all bids.
BY order of the board OF public works.
e A. WALL. Chairman
WILLIAM II. BYWATER.
Chief OF the Fire Department.
L. W. LEWIS.
Building Inspector.
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SHANGHAI RUMoRs.

General Stoessel Said to Have Com
mitted Suicide.
London Aug 9.-According TO the
correspondent of the Morning Post at
Shanghai 1t is reported that there are
10000 sick and wounded persons at
Port Arthur and that the Russians are
negotiating with the japanese TO send
the hospital ship Mongolia away full OF
sick. It is reported, the correspondent
lays. that Lieutenant General StOessel
Gin command of the military forces at
Port arthur has committed suicide
and that panic prevails at Port Ar
thur.
Marquis Oyama commandments
of the japanese forces in ManChuria)
has proceeded north and expects to at
tack Lao Yang-Aug. 10Th
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EXCURSION RATES.
Via Oregon Short Line.

VIA UIegon SHOT, LIut-
St Louis and return $50
Chicago and return .--.-----------. 47-50
Chicago and return, via St Louis 5000
St. Louis and return, via Chicago 80. 90
Through Pullman sleeper via the
L. 2. and Wabash lines
Transit limit ten days in each direc-
ton; final limit sixty days. Tickets on
sale Tuesdays and Fridays each week,
Tickets good for stoDoveT-
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Soldier Victim.

LYNDON, Kan, Aug. S.-Captain
Frank Whitman, killed in the Pueblo
wreck, was on his way to his home in
this city to see his aged father. Pro-
fessOr J. S Whitman. who is on his
deathbed. Captain Whitman gradu-
ated from West Point in June, 1895. He
was major in the Twentieth Kansas reg
inent during the Spanish war After
being mustered out as a volunteer he
resumed his place in the regular army,
being promoted to captain
His last station was Fort Logan,
Colorado. After visiting with his ia
Their here he was going on to Manassas,
Va where he was to act as umpire in
the eastern army maneuvers.
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LEGAL.
Notice.


NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
city council Of Salt Lake City of the in
tention of such council to make the fol
lowing described Improvement, tO-wit.
Constructing a cement sidewalk four feet
wide, on both sides of McClenand ave
nue., from First South street to Second
South street, in sidewalk district No o
and defray the cost and expense thereof.
estimated at one thousand thirty-twO and
$500 81 032-66) dollars, OF 70-1Oo $500 dol
lars per front or linear foot, by a local
assessment upon the lots or pieces Of
ground within the following described dis
trict, being the district to be affected or
benefited by said Improvement. namely:
All of lots ?, 3. s and :, block q plat f -
All protests and objections to the car
rying out of such intention must be Pre-
scented in writing to the city recorder on
or before the 22nd day Of August 1904
being the time set by said council when
it will hear and consider such protests
and objections as may be made thereto.
BY order of the city council Of salt
Lake City. Utah.
Dated June 10Th 1904
J. s. CRITCHLOW
City Recorder.
Sidewalk extension No. 81
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STORY OF THE FIREMAN.
Brought to Pueblo Dazed and Almost
Insane.

[-ASesAANs
Pueblo. Colo. Aug. 8-Fireman May
field arrived nere at an early hour this
morning and is tie first person to give
dazed and almost insane because Of
the awful ordeal he passed through,
yet each little incident is fixed so
firmly in his mind that he Will re-
member them until his dying DAY.
1T all happened so quickly-and.
my God, it is SO terrible" he said. 1T
had been raining all evening and we
had hard time to keep the steam up
IN order to run on schedule time A
little while before we reached the
bridge that crosses Dry Greek I turned
to Charley Human, the engineer. and
said 10 him: Charley. is there enough
steam to carry Us to Pueblo2' Charley
said No And I began firing up
Thrown From the Engine.
Just as I was putting in the second
shovelful of coal the engine gave a
sudden ,lurch upwards / lost my
balance and was thrown from the
train on the bank OF the creek.
must have struck partly on my head,
as I was dazed and did not know what
happened for several minutes. When
/ came 10 I saw the Pullman cars
standing near me. but could not see
the engine oR%She rest of the train I
went up and down the stream looking
for my. partner. Charley. the engineer.
YOU know We were such good
friends. I looked everywhere for him.
Il did not notice whether water was
running over the trestle as we ap-
preached the bridge. bat when I was
thrown out the water was much higher
than the tracks
After a long time I met a body of
men, who told me 20 go with them.
but I wanted to find Charley and
didn't want 10 go with them Then
they said Charley was dead and that
his body was found near Eden.
Going at Good Speed.
I'VE did not expect anything at all.
We We're going along at a good speed
all the time. and never dreamed that
anything was wrong We thought that
il there was any kind Of a flood near
Eden the operator there would know
and that he would flag us. We passed
there. but saw no signals Of any kind
and never for an instant felt any fear
II is only a mile. you know fson1 Eden
to the bridge that went down. and il
was al feW minutes after leaving EdeIn
that we got there / scarcely know
how IT happened. as was dazed in the
mud on the bank Of the creek. only
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but the other four that usually make
up No. II were nowhere IN sight I
started across the mesa in the diree-
ton OF the river. which was high and
making much noise. After walking
about half a mile I saw near the bank
a dark object. It was almost station
airy in midstream with one end swing
ing toward the left bank 1 slipped Off
my clothes and plunged in. swimming
in the direction in which I had come.
as / knew the strong current would
carry me down stream. BY proceed
ing in this course I managed TO get 10
the object which proved to be a chair
car, half on its side and held in posi-
ton by an arm Of land extending into
the stream probably fifteen feet The
roof of the car was gone and inside
there was not a soul to be found
Guided by the light OF my lamp on
shore, / struck out for the bank. and
being a strong swimmer. I reached II
IN few moments. The car, or what
was left of it. broke loose and was
completely demolished. It was then
after midnight.
There were two survivors of the
wreck that I know of. the fireman and
a passenger in chair car His story
ne told me in dazed manner. for the
man was really bordering on lunacy
a SCGAAlS ne was sitting IN the EnlFQ
chair from the rear of the car when
the train turned upwards, and the sud
denness precipbated him through the
window, and after turning a complete
circle, landed him on the bank"
Separation by Death.
One Of the saddest stories is that Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gilbert of Okla
homa City. who had been married only
two months and were on their honey
moon trip. Gilbert is one of the three
men who maTvelOusly escaped from the
chair car. His wife, who was sitting
beside him. was lost. and although he
IS unscathed, her death has made him
nervous wreck He is now in the
Pueblo hospital. He has been wire
chief of the Western UniCD telegraph
company at Oklahoma City.
a dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla
inquirfng for Miss Alice Wood of that
city was received by the Chieftain
The name has not been reported among
the dead or missing. A trunk was
found containing a package Of visiting
cards bearing the name Of Mrs. Ever
ard Roscoe of Durango. Colo, and she
is supposed to have been a passenger
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$500, 900 ON NETcHER's LIFE.
Paid by the Mutual Life-Chicago
Merchant Had Paid But One
Premium.

After taking outla life insurance pol
icy for $500, 600 last November in The
Mutual Life Insurance company of
New York, Charles Netcher. a Chicago
merchant, died suddenly on June 20
after an operation for appendicitis.
Yesterday the company paid his widow
the amount of the policy. Netcher had
paid only one premium on the policy.
which was said to be the largest car
ried by a citizen Of Chicago.
The Mutual always rejnsures with
other company ali but $3.50. 600 of these
large risks.-The New York sun, July
19.