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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12

IN FEW THINGS is the wonderful
progress Of the United States made
more apparent than in the gathering
and the distribution of election returns.
Before 8 O'Clock Cmountain time) last
Tuesday night the entire nation knew
that President Roosevelt had been elect
ed by tremendous majority. Within
two or three hours after the polls
closed the result was known to a prac-
ticaI certainty. Newspapers all over
the world told the story Wednesday
morning.
Sixteen to seventeen millions of votes
We're cast and counted in forty-five
states. Probably quarter of mill
lion election officers were at work on
them. The moment the result was
known in a voting district or precinct
ii was telephoned TO party headquarters
in city or county. From there it went
to state headquarters, and from state
headquarters to the headquarters of the
national committees
In.the meanwhile the perfect organi-
zation prepared by the newspapers of
the land was at work. Trained men Sc
cured figures. tabulated and totaled
them. Bulletins were flashed on thou
sands Of screens. and the millions who
stood i'm front of the newspaper offices
and bulletin boards knew long before
even early bed time how the country
had gone. The returns on state and
county officers were s;ower, Of course
because there are more of them and
because many ballots were scratched,
thus delaying the count. Thus in Utah
we have not yet received full returns
from San Juan county as yet. for ex-
ample. though the Americans in Toxic.
in st. Petersburg. in Constantinople. in
Shanghai, know that Roosevelt carried
this state.
: When Andrew Jackson ran for the
presidency the second time in 1928 he
did not know for weeks whether he had
defeated John Quincy Adams or whether
President Adams had defeated him, as
was the case four years earlier. 1t was
month after the votes had been cast
before Henry Clay knew that Jackson
has beaten him in 1882. and Jackson had
a tremendous majority of both popular
and electoral votes. James K. Polk
had an electoral majority of sixty-five
votes in 1874. but he didn't know the
good news for three weeks after it had
been made.
How would you like to wait three
weeks to find out whether or not you
had been elected to the highest office
in the gift of the people?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
INCREASE IN CRIME.

IN LAW NOTES for November is a
most interesting paper by William
II Thomas, judge Of the city court Of
Montgomery, Ala, on 'Individualism
rs. Law Judge Thomas, after ex-
haustive research. has found that there
are very many more homicides in the
United States than in the whole of Eu-
rope. He presents tables showing this
TO be true. and they are most interest
ing.
In the United States there are 129. 5
homicides per year per million of popu-
lation. In Belgium the proportion is
1G. in France 1422. in England and
Wales 1O.15, and in the German empire
ass. The total population of the United
states proper is 5000, 600, and there are
1851 homicides per year. In all Europe
the population aggregates 129, 200, OOO,
and the homicides average ]. 191 per an
mum. Thus. with about three-ff of
Europe's population, our homicides are
nearly nine times as many.
And crime in the United States is in
creasing out OF proportion to the in
crease Of population. This increase has
been so steady as to be almost geomet-
rical In 1850 the ratio of prisoners to
population was one in SAB. In 1860 ii
had increased to one in 1917, IN 1870 "a
one in III, in 1880 to one in $50, and in
1880 to one in 757. In 1900 statistics on
this subject have not been collected.
A part Of this increase in crime may
undoubtedly be attributed to laxity in
the punishment Of offenders. Under
our criminal laws SO many safeguards
are thrown around prisoners. there are
so many technicalities for shrewd law
yers to seize upon to the advantage OF
their clients, that it becomes a source
OF wonder that any criminals at all are
punished. Judge Thomas advances
three conclusions on the subject of the
increase. They are:
"First-Variations IN the enforcement
OF laws are not so much due to climate
race. density Of population. illiteracy
form Of government, length of govern
mental experience, as 10 a varying
Ienieney in the spirit Of its administra-
ton.
"Second-This varying liberation OF
crime is largely the result of an impa-
tent desire for individual power, born
OF unlimited opportunities, causing men
to disregard their duties to the social
compact.
'.Third-Beneath it ali is a moral I'M
rest, a process Of adjustment in indi-
vidual conceptions of and cravings for
absolute truth, not yet so crystaliized
in the aggregate OF individual souls as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
ANOTHER JEWEL ROBBERY.
Mr.. Jackson Remarkably Calm When
Informed of His Wife's Loss.
(Chicago Record-Herald.)

tCnlcdEO heCOfu-hG
"Willie!" exclaimed Mrs. Jackson.
rushing wildly into her husbands den
and grasping him By the shoulder
What is it. dear?" h asked without
looking up from the sporting page.
We've been robbedi Ny pocketbOok
is goneI Come, hurry, Telephone to
the police."
What did you have III it?" he asked.
continuing 10 study the great medal
score that Higgins had made on his
second round.
"Everything-ny riugs-they're all
gone. Why don't you get up? And that
check for $40 which you gave me yes
terday. Why don't you do something?
Do you want the thieves to get away
before you let the police know about
it,"
Have you looked under your mat
tress?' he asked, turning TO the finan-
cial page.
YES. yes. It's stolen. / tell you I
left il on the dresser not half an hour
ago. My engagement ring. and-oh'"
she suddenly broke off, my wedding
ring was in it. too'
Never mind. You don't need It.
There's the baby to prove that you're
married. IL necessary"
"WiH, You-you-oh, I-wiy can't
you have a little sense? Will you tel
ephone. or must I do it nyself?'
Don't get excited, dear. Look in
your work basket"
you'll drive me crazy, I tell you
I've looked everywhere. The front win
dow was open, and pOrch-climbers
have been in here. | knew this would
happen. I've told you dozen times
that we ought 10 have bars put up at
that window. Are you going to sit
there like fool and do nOthing?"
by George, wish I'd known enough
to buy wheat when Matthews told me
TO. Look I'm the babys cab. Maybe you
left II there"
'.Win Jackson. do you think I'm an
idiOt2 I tell you my pocketbook has
been stolen. and every ring I had 10
my 1a,ne s gone. IL you don't get
theHii batH same way IN never let You
buy nsc another one as long as I i've
"That1i be nice. Rings are foolish
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
Strange Animals.

In the year 1870 Captain Cook sailed
into Botany bay with his ship. the
Endeavor. A foraging or exploring
party brought back to him the news
of the discovery of a new and strange
" formed animal- 1t was described as
mOuse-colOred in hue and of the size
of a greyhound. But that which struck
Cooks men as most singular was its
movements. 1T sprang or lept with
great swiftness, by the aid of its long
hind limbs. which the possession of
a strong tail was also noted. On July
II a Mr.. Gore, one of Cooks party
shot kangaroo, the name by which
the animal was known to the natives.
At their dinner on Sunday, July Is,
ITO, they dined off kangaroo joint and
pronounced the meat to be excellent
eating. AS early as I'LL, however, a
Dutch traveller in Australia of the name
of De Bruins had captured a kangaroo.
which he took TO Batavia alive, so that
Cook practically rediscovered the fam
lily.
Australia produces also those lowest
of the quadrupeds, the duck-billed wa
ter mole, and the echidna, or Austria
liam porcupine anteater. They, along
with the kangaroos, may be described
as the groundlings OF the mammalian
family, for in respect of their struc-
Iure Iney are OF much lower grade
than, say, dog or a cat. This inferi-
GRITTY is seen, not only in the brain,
but In many other details Of their bod
lily anatomy.
In geological circles the prevalent
opinion is that this mole is a link be-
tween birds on the one hand and mann
mails on the other These Lowest"
quadrupeds lay eggs like birds. the
young being subsequently Matched
from the eggs, whereas in the kanga-
roos and all higher mammals the young
are born alive and nourished by means
of milk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
A BIGGER STICK.

president ROOSEVELT would be
given the biggest kind OF a big
stick if an engineer who writes in Cas-
sier's Magazine on naval matters could
have his way. This engineer strongly
approves of monster 2O.OOO-ton battle
ships. When it is understood that the
biggest battleships we have now are OF
only $4,000 tons displacement, and
when we remember that they are
looked upon as almost impregnable
floating fortresses, an idea of the i'm
mensity of 20,000-ton fighting machines
may be gained.
The writer in Casters proposes to
arm the leviathans with ten twelve
inch or twelve ten-inch guns each, and
a number of three-inch guns for close
range. He is certain that nothing in
any Of the navies Of the world could
stay above water for more than a few
minutes against such batteries. He is
probably correct. but how long would
it be before other powers constructed
battleships of similar type2 Certainly
no longer than the time required for
their completion.
The 2O,OOO-ton battleship must have
speed in proportion to its great weight.
1t would be too much TO expect other
vessels to try conclusions against one
of them without first making a despe-
rate effort to get away. The speed.
therefore. should be great enough to
enable the giant to overtake the lesser
craft. Whether a battleship of such
proportions could be constructed and
given speed enough to make it service
able is still an open question among
naval engineers. England is going far
Their than other nations in this regard.
She has now under construction bat
tleships that are to have a displace-
ment Of $1,000 tons. It might be a good
idea for the United States to learn
something by England's experience. II
the 1S,Oe0-ton ships turn out to be
speedy and reliable it will be time
enough for us to go forward. Surely
we are thiekening our already big
stick rapidly enough
We now have under construction at
government navy yards and elsewhere
twenty big battlesbtps and cruisers. It
Is hardly probable that they will be out
Of date before they are finished, for in
the service of this government are SOM
Of the best naval engineers in the
world. Let US at least get some use
out OF the fighting machines we have
and are to have in the near future be-
fore proceeding to other types.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12

anyway Let's see If I'd bought ten
thousand bushels last Tuesday, I'd
have cleaned up-perhaps you put il in
that big bowl on top of the china cab
met"
( ~oh! Oh. OH she cried. rushing
from one end Of the room to the other
and pressing her hands against her
throbbing temples, I'm sorry ever
married you. Yon have no more SYM
pathy tnan stone. Never mind about
telephoniDg now Let the robbers get
out of the city first. Then when it's
too late perhaps you'll have time 10 do
something
That's a good idea, my dear. II, we
caught them we'd have to go TO the
police court and the, papers would have
the story al written up. and it would
be very disagreeable. Look in the shoe
bag. l wouldn't be surprised if you
had hidden II there. You know that's
Where. we found it the other time
I'm going 10 have the maid ar
rested" said Mrs. Jackson. coming 70
a sudden stop. as an original and brill
liant idea flashed through her mind.
There was a man here To see her last
night who had a suspicious look. |
believe she has been ia a conspiracy
with HIM She could easily have let
him in while We were at. dinner, or
taken the pocketbook herself and given
il to him.
Very well," replied MIR. Jackson.
turning over the pages of his paper in
search of the editorials. That's prob
ably what happened. Before you have
her put in Jail. though, you might take
another look under your pillow. or il
may be stuck back in one of the cor
IF ,f 2
rugs"
How many times the lady re-
torted. becoming historical. must l
ten you that I've looked everywhere,
and that I left IT on the dresser half
an hour ago. DO you know what
we've lost? 1 couldn't replace those
rings and things for $500. and besides
theNcheck l had Sl.40 In money"
I'D hate to lose the money. The
checks no good. il you haven't in
dorsed it, and I've told you never to do
that till you go TO the bank"
But my rings and my sunburstl
Oh. heavens, And they say there's all
ways sure to be a death when you lose
your wedding ring. Willie-please-fo
the love of mercy
Losing control of herself. she dashed
the paper out of his hands and threw
her arms around his neck and wept.
Being a mere man. he could not
ignore her tears, and five minutes later
he fished her pocketbook, with its
precious contents, out of the music
rack. saying:
There, darling"
Then. as she reached for it, he drew
it back and began examining it closely
and curiously. turning it over and over.
and shaking his head as if he were
deeply puzzled.
Whats the matter?p she breath
lessly asked.
I'm trying to find the wings with
which it flew down here from the
dresser where you left it, but"
She tore it from his fingers, and as
she moved majestieally from the room
Informed him that he was a stupid
clown, with no more feeling than a
piece of plotting paper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12

ONE OF THE PLEASANT features
~ Of the acknowledgements De-
neen of Illinois says he appreciated it
about as much as his election-was the
message sent TO the Illinois winner by
his defeated Democratic opponent,
Lawrence b. Stringer. Early on cleo
ton night Mr.. Stringer wired Mr. De-
neen:
Hon. Charles 8. Deneen, Chicago
Accept my hearty congratulations on
your election Also accept my thanks
Tor the uniform courtesy which you have
extended TO me and the gentlemanly
canvass which Won have made. j sin
cerely wish you a pleasant and success
fui administration
LAWRENCE B. STRINGER."
That's the sort Of exchange we like to
see between candidates. There is no
good reason why men who are political
rivals should not be personal friends.
are campaigning against each other,
each should not extend 10 his opponent
the courtesy and consideration he ex-
poets for himself. After all. no good
his country. Honest men, no matter to
what parties they belong. seriously be-
Eeye that the principles they spouse
will result, il put into force. in the
greatest good TO the greatest number
In the heat of a political campaign
we are altogether too apt TO overlook
this fact. If Judge Parker had been
elected we hope every Republican
would have done all he could TO uphold
the hands of the administration. For our
own part, while we disagree with Presi-
dent Roosevelt on many points, we do
not expect to indulge in unjust criticism
Of him or OF his acts. And when he
takes a step that seems to us a proper
one we expect TO say so, freely and
frankly
No man is al bad because he is a
Republican or all good merely because
he is a Democrat. We are brothers, all,
and every one of us should now shoul-
der our burdens and go forward with
the best grace and the utmost strength
that is in us. All of US may be sure
that one-half of the masses of the peo-
pie cannot be prosperous without a
measure Of that prosperity going TO the
other half
We are hoping that. with the GER
tainty that this is his last term in the
presidency before him. President Roose-
Welt viii devote his entire time to the
service of all tho people. disregarding
his own political advantage for,the pro-
motion Of his party's interests
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
Thousands

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shatter your nervous system and often
times form dreaded drug habit which
will destroy your general health,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
Close Guess
CPhiladelphia Press!9

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Vas" replied the Dane. Deere vas
two"
Who were they?"
"Huh?"
Did they leave their cards?"
Dare cards?'
Yes. yes! Did they tel you their
names?"
The Dane smiled.
"Oh-h-h! Vas, dey dole me dare
names. 1t was Mr.. Not Much und
his wife"
And not until next day did the doc
tor discover that his guests were some
old Boston friends-Mr. and Mrs. Blank
Doolittle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
Assessment No. 2.

PETRO MINING COMPANT-PRIN-
cipal place of business, 33-334-S35 Atlas
block. Salt Lake City, Utah. Location of
mines, Bingham, Utah. Notice is hereby
given that at a meeting of the board %
directors OF the PetrO Mining company
held on the Sd day Of November 1894 as
sessment No. Of two % cents per share
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SS4-5 S5 Atlas block, Salt Lake City. Utah.
Any stock upon which this assessment
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cember. 1904. at / o'clock p. m, at the
company's offices, 10 pay the delinquent
assessment thereon. together with the
costs Of advertising and expense Of sale.
r NJ. ORE&. Secretary
First publication, Nov. 4. 1901
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12

No, Best Beloved. it is not our judg-
ment that George Sutherland has a
mortgage on the senatorship. Mr..
Sutherland has changed his political bed
SO often I'm recent years that some peo-
pie hardly know now where he sleeps.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12

Chairman Cowherd of the Demo-
cratic congressional campaign commit
tee was defeated for reelection. and
Chairman Babeock of the Republican
committee got through by the narrow
est of margins. Those chsirmansbips
must be Jonahs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-12
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a new railroad to run from Denver to
Boise has been Incorporated. We are
perfectly willing for it TO touch Salt
Lake en- route.
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/ However, Blue Point oysters are low
er. AT only 80 cents a dozen they
should find their way into the humblest
homes.
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The more we hear about these Utah
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