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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
GENERAL GOMEZ DEAD.

havana June 17--GeneraI Max y
ln1o Gomez disd at Q O'Clock this >
? evening
TIE end came quietly in the .
neu'ltul temporary home at the =
suburb Of Nedado TO which Cen :
eTsi Gomez was taken on his re- :
y turn from Santiago. President =
Palma accompanied by General =
Andrade, arrived about a quarter =
or an hour previous 10 the death =
< Of the general
General Gomez leaves a widow. ,
= iEe sons and one daughter. ONLY =
today the secretary of the treas =
ury delivered to one of General =
Gomez sons a check for 800 OON =
which had been voted hv con- >
gress for ~ generals benefit and >
approved by President Palma .
MS was I'm addition To- the $40. 600 =
previously voted by congress :
- 49, - =
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
CASE NEARLY CLOSED.

Washington. June 17.-Secretary Taft
returned 70 Washington and heard ad-
ditlonai witnesses IN the BOwen-B eomis
controversy He expects to close the
case Monday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
TMENTY-ONE OE 1Em

= eTt of Bourbon. son of Grand mi
= Of Parma, today gave a great han
= quet 10 celebrate the birth Of ms =
> tvventy-first child. q son. of which I
y Pope Plus y and the grand duchess !
= OF Luxembourg are the g0dpare7ts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
VICTIM OF HEART DISEASE.

oil City. Pa June 1I-Deupis Hearnc7-
one OF the oldest Associated Press oDers-
tors in the service. died at MS home l7erc
today from heart disease aged 81 years
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
Building Not Yet Selected.

Inc " aSnlngtOn government will
furnish suitable place Of meeting. for
the conference and as soon as a date
Tor Its converting is fixed arrangements
for quarters for the two missions viii
I De made by the Russian and JaDanese
ENJOYS here There have been so MANY
/ other important details to be settled
/ that the state department has not VET
INed upon offices for the conference.
In ADDITION TO the main conference
room retiring rooms. offices for score
. tSrieS and q reception room will he
needed Either the capitol or the con-
SFeSslonal library are regarded as per
maps the best suited buildings in Wash
mgton and in view Of the Indefinite
period which the conference NAV re-
main IN session it has been suggested
uldt perhaps the congressional library
might be prefera bic to the capitol. for
should some unexpected obstruction
arise TO keep the conference in session
until late In the fail the converting Of
. congress IN extra session might neces-
state the removal of the conference
elsewhere. Whatever expenses are in
CURED incident to the maintenance of
quarters viii. Of course. be borne nv
the Washington government.
If II. Nelidoff. the Russian ambas-
. Sddor at Paris, comes to Washington
as the ranking Russian DleniDotentiarv
MS rank VIII equal that of Marquis Ito
At nrSt there was some doubt in the
minds Of the japanese as to whether
n Neldoh possessed sufficient rank for
mission Of the Importance accorded
the Washington conference in Japan.
RUSSIA however, at this juncture let
II he known that the Russian an7bas-
sadcr at Paris ranked even the Pms
sian minister for foreign affairs. More
over. II was pointed out that as the
personal representative Of his sovereign
Russian ambassad dor couIG be ranked
only by prince Of the royal family
Japan mas not, of course objected 10
the selection or NJ. NeIidoff. but in Wow
of her expressed intention to select -,
or three distinguished personages =
Snc IS DESTROYS that Russia choose 5s
pienipotentiarieS men OF rank and
StateSmanshIp who possess the CON
hdence not only of their own govern
ment but Of the other powers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
Making a
Complete and
Positive
Cure for
CATARRH

CataTrh of the
head. nose and
throat positively
requires both blood
and local treat
.ment before the
sore places can be
healed. I an now
offering q complete
CatarTh treatment
at actual cost. I
am giving my 81
inhaler and a pack
age of my Catarrh
Tablets and a pack
a &c of my Paw
Paw Pills with
each bottle of nv
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18
GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON.
Missions Expected to Be Impressive
in Dignity and Numbers.

dSnlngtOn, June 11.-Impressive in
dignity and number viii be the missions
Whlch Russia and Japan viii send to
the Washington conference. for al
though the plenipOtentiateS viii be
limited to two or three the complete
missions with their advisers and at
tacheS and secretaries VIII each. il is
expected, number twelve OF more per
sons Japan's plenipotentiary prob
aDly viii be accompanied by an army
and navy officer of high rank who will
act as military advisers to the pieni-
potentiaries. In addition there will be
secretaries and attaches. some Of them
from the diplomatic service. some from
the foreign office. and others who will
act as translaters and recording sec
retarleS. Russia probably will send
a similar mission. though perhaDs NOT
so large, and both the Russian ambas-
sadoT and the japanese minister at
washington viii place at the disposal
OF the respective missions their score
tdrleS and attaches
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18

EXPERT KODAK FINISHING
Harry SHIPPER. Commercial Pho
tographer' tol 80. Main Phone 1925 X.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18

Fred g. Graham, tenor, Saltair, to-
day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-18

tthick, a
cream. IS
TO Kill bed
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frames
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
PART PLAYED BY TRAIN
SCHEDULES IN BASE BALL

one section to the other. The jump from
st. Louis to Pittsburg. however, is long
and trying one for the St. Louis team 10
make and unless the train schedule is ar
ranged just right, it takes special 10
make the trip in a single day. In order
to reach Pittsburg in time to commence a
game the following afternoon after a game
in st. Louis a start must be made lmm"-
diately after the former is over, ana lh"ii
there is but little lceway.
The Detroit team of the American
League is also badly off in playing games
in St Louis. According to the schedule
now in force, the teams must leave De
troit at o'clock in the morning and reach
St Louis at the same hour the following
afternoon. In making the shift it is nee
cssary to go directly from the train TO the
ball grounds dinner being eaten before
reaching St. Louis.
The train schedule is the first thing the
ball players look after when the game
schedule comes out, as they are the most
concerned in the arrangement Tor traVel-
ing Travel gets to be matter OF I'M
pleasant necessity to them, when the jumps
are long and tiresome. The average Daii
PLAYER understands how to travel with as
much comfort as anybody, but even at that
he does not find it any too much TO ms
liking Ways of amusement are few on
the trains. Poker is the main standby, Dul
rarely is the limit one which would make
the loss on bad night of much moment
to the player. Some of the players, now
ever. have a reputation for playing the
game to the limit and there is an occa-
sional roundup which would do credit 10
a professional gambling house. OUTSIDE OF
cards the principal way of killing time IS
reading alb of the papers the train Dutchcr
has in stock. and ball players are among
the best-informed persons i'll the country
when it comes to a knowledge of the dl1-
ferent papers and their styles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
JIMMY McALEER FOND
OF FIVE CARD FLUSHES


a package and when he failed to find the
hitching post handy he dropped the reins
over the dashboard and left the horse to
take care of itself. The next thing young
McAleer heard was somebody shout, and
when he went to find out what the
matter the horse and wagon were fast dis
appearing up the railroad track, with gro
ceries flying in every direction. The end
came when the horse took swerve from
the track and lit up against the post hold
ing a warning sign, Look out for the cars.
The wagon was a total wreck, and. after
shouldering the shafts, McAleer betook him
self back to the store to tell his tale to the
proprietor. He had not learned then one of
the lessons he knows now-how to miss out
on telling the truth when it is convenient
and when asked whether he had obeyed in
structions and tied the horse up confessed
that he had not. Well said the man OF
business. you are a pretty good boy, Jim
my and think you will yet make good
You can continue to work here, but must
pay for the broken wagon out of your
salary.
Jimmy began to figure on how long
it would take him to pay for the damages
at this point and after due deliberatlon mao
convinced him that the rest of his natural
life would probably be required, announced
his determination to quit there and then.
That was the last work Jimmy ever dld IN
a mercantile way, he went back TO schooi
and from there graduated into base ball.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

IF there is one thing above another that
will make Jimmy McAleer stay awake
nights it is the good old game of draw.
said a ST. Louis sporting man to The Star
reporter a day or So ago. at one time
Jimmy had nearly reached the top of the
first column in the 'parlor car league
Before he took to base ball Jimmy was
destined to a mercantile career, and but
for a sudden ending of his ambition In that
line the ball park would not have known
him except as a spectator. When Jimmy
was still a boy at Youngstown he be-
came ambitious to shine as merchant, ana
this ambition led him to procure a po-
sltiou with department store the manager
of which was acquainted with his mother.
McAIeer had the assurance then, which
he has now although 1t had not been de-
veloped and ripened by experience and
when asked whether he could handle a
horse he replied, Why, sure
so Jimmy got the job of driving a de-
livery wagon at the munifcent salary of
S. a week One of his instructions was
to see that the horse was tied whenever
he left the wagon to make delivery. For
three days McAleer proved a model. Then
he was sent down to the station to deliver
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

one of the things which the faithful FOL
lowers seldom think of in figuring on the
work of ball teams is the effect of hard
travel on the clubs. A ball player is just
,s susceptible to the ill effects of travel as
any other trained athlete, and the result
of a night in n train is likely to change
the result of a game. In many instances
the games are played after one team mas
ridden in a sleeper all night, and the other
has enjoyed all of the comforts of hrst-
class hotel, an advantage not to be over
looked when two teams are evenly matchcu.
This is realized by the managers and those
who make out a schedule. and it is one OF
the things in which the public is not inter-
,sted that make the construction of a
schedule a difficult matter. y schedule so
arranged as to put a team to a disadvan-
tage in this respect would bring an imme-
date howl from the club which was
hurt On this account the train schedule
is an important figure in making out a
playing list. and a change of time may
cause a team much Inconvenience.
The longest run for any team in either
league is the one made by Boston or st.
Louis when playing against each other
without making stops at intermediate
points. The run from St. Louis TO Boston
means close to forty hours of travel and
that amount of time spent in a sleeper IS
not a thing calculated to make team leei
like playing ball, to say the least. me
National League team has an advantage
over the American in this respect as
Pittsburg serves as an intermediate point
to break the long jump of the eastern ana
western clubs in making changes from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
TOUTS AND SWINDLERS
FOUND ON RACE TRACKS

Wherever you find a race track you will
ponies to The Star reporter yesterday. I
have just returned from the vicinity of
New York where the racing game is push
ed for all it is worth and where every eff
fort is made by the authorities to elimi-
nate the tout from the equation, but they
are there just the same. Occasionally one
more bold than the rest is arrested, but
the game goes merrily on.
The most difficult part of the wedding
out of the hangers-on of racing has been
to keep up with the new men. as the
swindles that even the shrewdest of the
criminals have been able to invent are on
old lines The men who are content to
act simply 'touts' and earn pre-
carious living from gullible racegoers now
are regarded by the track officials only
mild nuisances, with whom the uniformed
policemen are capable of dealing. The up
to-date confidence men with Their elabo-
rately planned schemes for acquiring the
money of other people still manage to keep
the race track detective busy at all times.
Even in the present period of calm the
Jockey Club secret service employees must
be on the alert constantly, for the workers
of the bank roll game, the telegram
game and similar methods well the
wire tappers, as slippery as they are
resourceful. Usually the best that the turf
detectives can do is to protect intended vic
Tins and perhaps drive the con workers
away, as convictions are exceedingly hard
to secure in such cases even when arrests
are made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Joe Kelley was quoted as saying the other
day. Not until President Hermann goes
after the umpires Will we get good
break as do McGraw and Clarke" So It
seems that Joe has not yet learned his
lesson. lie behaved here all right. for he
had To- sit in the grand stand most of the
time. but he IS POOR manager. Even
when urable TO play he has found it neces-
sary to address slurring remarks to the
umpire. jimmy Collins, he of the Ameri-
can League, is one of the quietest of men.
You do not find him abusing the umpire
like pickpocket. yet he has landed his
penEant two seasons running. There were
tin es when McGraw was in the National
League with such talent as Kelley. Keller
and Jennings In the same team that the
penuant went elsewhere. When McGraw got
into the American League he was simply
not in It. Funny that he should be such a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
Yale Won at Tennis.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, May 20.-By win
ming the sets in doubles 2 to 1 Yale carried
Off the honors in the annual dual tennis
match with Princeton today, the total
score for singles and doubles being Yale 5.
Princeton 4. The result in singles was q
tie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21
Left to Time Yachts.

Special Cablegram TO The Star.
BERLIN. May 20.-The cruiser Pfeil left
Keil today for the Lizard. where it will
take its station for the purpose of timing
the yachts as they arrive in the ocean race
for the kaiser's cup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

THE trouble that the wire tappers' have
caused the police of the race tracks has
been more on account of wires that were not
tapped than of actual tampering with .ole-
graph lines 1t requires expert kuowledS"
and great skill to interfere with telegraph
lines. and the majority of the swindlas
that have been worked on the plan of wi-e-
tapping have been simple stealing from
dupes who were led to believe that they
were to benefit by the dishonesty Of the
tappers. The method pursued in this is
greatly similar TO that used by the green
goods men. the cupidity of men willing 10
profit by dishonesty Of others being the
chief aid of the swindlers. The wire tap
of the attention OF the race turf detectives.
and as a result several of the leading
artists in that line now are In Europe,
where the overlapping swindle may be eN-
pected to receive hearing before very
long. In Europe also are several OF The
boldeSt workers of the other 'tOuting
games, among them one young man who
has caused vast amount of trouble to the
police OF every important city an the United
States by his method of representing him
self as a member OF a famous racing fam
lily which family bears the same name as
the tout. In European racing countries
American touts and swindlers are declared
by the racing officials of this country TO
have been responsible for nearly all The
scandal about the practices of American
trainers in the of dope the 'toutS'
having seized on dope as something new
and mysterious with which to gull patrons
of the turf in the slow-going European
capitals"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Last year was one of the best the game
ever saw. The magnates took this as an
indication that the public We're perfectly
satisfied with the kind of ball furnished
despite the fact that the batting was less
than 1t had been for years. AS the attend
ance this season thus far has knocked all
preceding records into a cooked hat, does
IL augur that the patrons of the present
style of sport are more in love with 1t than
ever? Scarcely. 1t behooves the magnates
TO consult the pulse of their patrons, how
ever, and act accordingly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

betting man wished TO be in the know il
could be arranged. 1t is a singular fact
that anything suggesting mystery appeals
strongly to the average patron of racing
and il there is a further ,tinge of crook
edneSs the bait is almost irresistible In
this particular form of swindle. if the bet
ting man proved susceptible, the steerer
would take him to the next man i'm the
scheme. who posed the trainer of race
horses. or on occasions the owner, us
ually personating some horseman with
whose name racegoers are familiar. The
second swindler would assert that he had a
horse ready to win. but that he was not
ready to show him up until he was certain
that money was forthcoming to back him.
u
= *
IF the dupe still talked business. the sup
posed owner trainer would agree to show
the prospective hacker a trial OF the horse
in question. a time would be appointed
on some of the important race tracks, and
the swndlers would keep up their assumed
parts to the point of conducting their vic
tim 10 the vicinity of some one of the
great racing stables, where he would be
planted at the track side and told 10 wait
while the horse got ready for the trial
The pseudo owner then would stroll over
to the stable and seemingly chat with the
attendants while waiting for the appear
auce of some one OF the horses that are
out at exercise at almost every moment
of the morning.
The impressive ceremony of pretending
to time the horse fast enough to win any
race ever run would be gone through. and
as the average man knows nothing of the
details of stable work. the gull could be
made to believe all that he was told. If lac
agreed to bet the trainer would insist
that the stecrer be mtruStcd with the
money so that he might know his share
would be wagercd. The subsequent history
of the suckers money would be very sim
liar to that in the bank roll game.
Another 'touting swindler made a spe-
cialty of seeking men engaged in business
HON he suspected or knew TO be in iinan-
cal straits. To such men, with bank
ruptcy staring them i'm the face he would
secure introduction or by any possible
means scrape acquaintance. When he had
gained some measure OF their confidence he
would introduce the subject OF race-tra"k
betting. and force upon his victim advice
as to how TO overcome the difficulties in
his business. If his gull intrusted him Win
money 10 get. he promptly reported 1t lost.
but if obliged 10 do SO he occasionally look
the chances OF actually betting as a iast
Chance for profit to himself. How many
business failures this particular swlndlcr
was responsible for there is no means OF
estimating. but he escaped punishment
when detected. as his latest victim and
the one who was the means of his exposure
feared the publicity that would attend L
prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Even the simpler occupation of tout
ing has undergone many changes in the
past few years because of necessity ard
the old-time race track parasite who by
pretending to be connected with some rae
ing stable gets his dupe to bet for him
picks up few crumbs nowadays The time
when an active tout of this description
could round up his book and have Il bet
on every horse in a race passed some years
ago with the disappearance of such char
acters as the noted negro Swlliager. who
practiced on such a scale that he had to in
vent the method of marking his custom
ers' on the back with chalk that he might
not forget them. The poorer and more
needy trainers of race horses in recent
years have taken to 'touting for chance
patrons, and to horse watching in the in
terest of bookmaEers by whom they are
paid regularly. and long as they do not
make themselves Objectionable they rarely
are interfered with. The general run of
the race track 'hustlers' also are immune
from interference if they behave them
selves and are not guilty of downright d s.
honesty, but the police keep a careful su-
perYision over all of them. as it is but a
short step over the line to the methods of
the turf swindlers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

In the National n season ago Philadel-
phia found the shedding worse in its league
than the Washngtons in the American for
the Phillies landed but five victories IN
twenty-five games. Chicago led with eigh-
teen out of twenty Cincinnati
close second, with nineteen out of twenty
nlne and New York third. with seventeen
out of twenty-sx. Pittsburg had landed
bur eleven out Of twonty-six.
This season Philadelphia opened in grand
fashion. and It can be seen upon a COM
parsou of The figures that the club has
done far better than ii aid last season.
The club is anxious To finish well up with
the first division. but il locks as If the
Boston and brooklyn clubs Will give them
a hard tussle.
II is safe 10 say that had Del been with
the Boston team from the st2rt ii would
now ho fighting FOR 81 position in tho first
division. ana with this player IN the team
the chances for better place in the race
are excellent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

"a swindle that was more imposing still
and that was worked with great success
only last spring was exposed by the track
police. In this one of the swindlers was
commissioned to find men who only occa-
sionally visited the rack tracks, and then
were known to bet considerable sums. When
such a man was found operator No. l
would hint at certain good things soon to
come off, and would intimate that if the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

Among the commoner swindles and one
that achieved such popularity among the
confidence operators that it is even yet the
most practiced when the chance presents
is the bank roll game To work this one
of the swindlers carries an impressive look
ing package of money or something that
seems to be money, and poses as any turf
celebrity that the occasion may justify. \
confederate. who acts in the supposed ca
pacity of a betting commissioner, does the
Steering and when he has made the
acquaintance of a promising dupe engages
to give his victim the information of what
the carrier of the bank roll is betting on
the man with the roll being assumed to
win great sums The common practice
when the dupe is convinced to the degree
that he intrusts his own money to the
commissioner is to inform him that the
money has been bet on some horse which
has no possible chance to win, the swim
dlers retaining the wager for themselves.