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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
TROUBLES OF THE GROCER.
Women Sample His Wares and Wipe
Out All the Profits.
New York Times.

(NeW 1OIk IlnleS.D
IF l come out even on my women
customers" remarked the corner. gro
ceryman, YEARLY, Il think l am doing
well. 1t is like this: A woman will
come in and ask for half a pound of
butter.
What elseY / ask, pencil i'm hand
She turns her attention to the fruit
How are your blackberries today2'
she questions, and she is not idle while
l answer. She gO5s about. picking the
largest and best off the top where I
have been careful to place them. and
putting them thOughtfully into her
mouth, one at a time.
Il name the price.
L don't believe I care for black
berries today she concludes, when she
has ruined three boxes. How are your
rasDberries?'
7 name the price and quality. She
decides, after sampling them that they
are not ripe enough, or are to Oripe.
and walks into the currants
Now, currants are easiest of all to
dlsarrange. They are very dainty and
fr7sh-lOOking i'm the box after you have
taken pains to put the best on top and
shake them up, but they hang together.
50 that when she selects one bunch to
sample. three follow. She takes no
pains to separate the punches; she eats
them all.
BY the time she samples three boxes
you have lost your profits on currants
for the day.
Then she concludes she will do with
out fruit for lunch, she had so much
yesterday, they are tired of il. and,
going to the back of the store, you
follow meekly in the rear with your
pencil, she samples the cheese This
being NOR robust. stands the ordeal
fairly well, though We are obliged to
leave few crumbs scattered about
so that the main cheese won't look like
80 cents before the day is over.
mo. She doesn't want cheese. How
is the ham? Cut off a little slice.
please, and let her see.
You Obedi ntIy cut off the little
slice, but suppose you cut off three or
four dozen little slices q day, what
about the ham by night?
There is one good thing about eggs.
They can't sample them Still unless
YOU keep a sharp lookout they viii slip
one or two of the biggest and whitest
iE their reticuIes while you are dishing
ont the butter, and walk innOcentIy off
with them.
Il know. Most people think that dry
: Soou7 SUI g die al OlliS suIeieIS Iotti
Eleptomania. That is not true. We
nave suffered all the time i'm silence
IF you could see us in strawberry
time" he suddenly burst out we
( have TO keep two extra clerks to watch
1 the boxes we have taken such pains TO
make beautiful. tt is not kleptOmania.
4 1t is highway robbery.
"They take only three maybe, from
( one box at a time, but take three of
+ the biggest and brightest and reddest
/ strawberries off the top of one little
! box and how does it loOk?"
by the time the women get through
sampling things what they buy would
not pay the per cent on the cost of
what they take away with them, inter
nally and otherwise. And the worst
/ of it i that women are our most fire.
I quent customers"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
The HUNGRY TRAMP.
Story From Charles Crwdson Book Road
Published by Courtesy of the Author

Not the poor widow, alone, but even
the big, able bodied, hungry tramp
comes i'm often to share the drummer's
generosity. A friend once told me of
a good turn ne did for a Weary Will
lie" in Butte.
Now if there is any place on earth
where a man is justified in being mean
it is in Butte. 1t is a mining camp.
1t rests upon bleak, barren hills; the
sulphuric fumes. arising from roasting
ores, have long since killed out all veg
citation. 1t has not even a sDTig of
grass. This smoke, also laden with
arsenic, sometimes hOvers over Butte
like a London fog. More wealth is every
day dug out of the earth in Butte, and
more money is squandered there by
more different kinds of people, than in
any place of its size on earth. The
dictionary needs one adjective which
should qualify Butte and no other
place Many a time While there I've
expected 10 see Satan rise up out OF a
hole. Whenever 1 start TO leave l feel
/ am going away from the domain of
the devil.
"One morning I went down to the de-
pot before O'clock" said my friend.
Il was to take a belated train. 1t was
below zero, yet l paced up and down
the platform outside breathing the sui
phuT smoke. / was anxious to catch
sight of the train. Through the blush
haze, the lamp in the depot cast a light
upon a man standing near the track,
l went over TO him, supposing he was
fellow travelling man. But he was
only tramp who had been fired out Of
the waiting room. / wore a warm chin
chilla, but it made my teeth chatter TO
see this shiVeTing 'hObO'-his hands in
his pockets and his last summers light
weight pinned close around his throat.
" Fine morning, old man. said |.
-" Maybe you t'ink so, major" replied
the hobo, but you stan out i'm de
breeze longs l have in Fourth of Chuly
tOgs an you'll have TO have a long pipe
dream TO t'ink it's a fine morning
Say, pard, cup o coffee an a sinker
wouldn't go bad
Il took the tramp TO the lunch COun-
ter. / was hungry myself and told the
waiter TO give him what he Wanter.
Cup o coffee an am sandich-t'ick
Stag o de pig, capn, please, said my
| hobo friend.
Il saw some strawberries behind the
counter and l said to the waiter. Just
start us both in on Strawberries and
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Notice.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
city council of Salt Lake City Of the in
tentiOu OF such council TO make the fol-
lowing described Improvement, tO-Wit: EN-
tending and laying sewer lateral OF s.
inch Vitrified pipe on Seventh street be
tween and c streets. in sewer district
No. /, and defray the abutters portion OF
the cost and expense thereof, estimated ct
four hundred and tWenty-seVen (S4Z.-uU
dollars, or 70-10O 500 dollars per front
foot Of abutting property, by local as
sessment upon the lots or pieces of ground
within the following described district be-
ing the district to be affected or benefited
by said improy ement, namely: All Of lot 3
and the west 400 feet of lot 4 block g.
all of lot , and the west 400 feet Of lot
J. block lOl, plat D, Salt Lake city
survey.
All protests ana objections 10 the carry
ing out of such intention must be pre-
scented in writing TO the city recorder on
or before the 9Th day Of October 1865
being the time set by said council when
il 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 Sept. 9Th, 1903.
J. S. CRITCHLOW. City Recorder.
Sewer Extension No. $50.
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Notice OF stOeknOIders, MEETING.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF d.
rectors of NJ. s. Aschheim Mercantile
company notice is hereby given that
special meeting of the stockholders or
said corporation is called and viii be
held AT the office Of Snyder & Snyder,
attorneys. No. &l7 Atlas block. Salt Lake
City. Utah. on the sixteenth day Of Oc-
toner. 1905 at 10 O'Clock a. m.
Said meeting is called for the purpose
Of considering and voting upon the Ques-
ton Of amending the articles Of mcerpo-
ration of said corporation IL the follow
ing particulars:
]. Changing the name Of the corpora
lion 70 Biyth-FargO company.
=. Changing the place of business OF
the corporation TO Park city, Jtaii' III
stead Of Salt Lake City, Utah
8. Voting upon and ratifying All acts
of the board of directors heretofore per
termed
L Authorizing the directors, to make
bylaws and alter and amend them at
pleasure.
3. TO elect a board Of directors.
g. The transaction of any business
which could be done al regular amman
meeting. THOMAS BbnIh,
Sherman Fargo FresidenI-
Secretary.
Dated Sept. 18th, 1902
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Forgery an Unsatisfactory Crime

Forgery" said Chabot, handwriting
expert lis one of the most unsatisfac-
tory crimes a man can commit now
Always. 1t can be so easily discovered"
That was not always the case, says
London Answers. There was once
nothing easier than initiating hand
writing so successfully that the fraud
could not be discovered, and the skill
full forger was one of the least often
detected and most successful scoun-
drels in the criminal world. How COM
mon and how successful he was eX-
perts who have had ancient documents
put before them we'll know. It is
wonderful how many of these, the gen.
uineness Of which has never been sus-
pected, the expert is able, by the aid of
modern science. unhesitatingly to pro-
nOunce forgeries.
BY nature and habit individuals
contract d system of forming letters
which gives "a character to their writ
ing as distinct as that of the human
face" declared NetheTclift, the first
recognized handwriting expert 1t
seems, perhaps. a startling saying, but
il is true. as thousands of criminals
have found to their cost.
Neil Cream. a mysterious pOisOner Of
women in the south of London i'm 1892,
found certain popularity In his hand
writing Of material assistance to the
police in dragging him to the fate on
the scaff0ld he so well deserved. 1t
was Creams practice to poison a wO-
man and then to send a blackmailing
letter, generally TO a doctor-Neil was
himself an American NJ. D.-demanding
money. under a threat of the recipient
being chaTg q with the deed
These letters were, of course, in a
disguised handwriting, and Neil had an
ingenious method Of battling detection
II was not good enough, however, and
when the letters were collected and
compared with others admittedly writ
ten by Neil, there were remarkable
similarities in each which made il
clear that they were all the production
OF the same man.
Recognized specialists in the examin-
ing and comparison Of handwriting ap-
pear to have been unknown i'm England
till a photographer. Joseph Netherclift,
came before the public as an expert
James Wood. a draper and banker of
Gloucester. died, leaving fortune of
S.. 600 0O0 Wood was an eccentric char
acter with a Partially TO making wills
and hiding them in the most absurd
places in his house, where he lived a
solitary existence
After his decease. viii after viii and
codicil after cOdicil were discovered
hidden in ceilings. under floors. i'm
chimneys and secret drawers. The
relative who rejoiced today under d
codicil making him rich. was in a few
days time thrown into despair by the
discovery of some dirty piece of paper.
perhaps found projecting from a rat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
Home Run Haggerty
BY GEORGE WILLIAM DALEY

triffed right out I'm the shoulder The
result was a drive 10 short. That fell
Ter hadn't got over his surprise over
that two-bagger, an he fumbled it,
an Jim got first, though the mess up
held Pinch on second
Then came Pete Brown. He didn't
mind the yelis about what they was
goin' to do 10 him. He was thinkin'
o what he was goin' to do to that ball.
and he ketched the first ball pitched
for drive right at the third baseman's
feet. That guy jumped just in time
TO KEEP I'm Wearin' crutches all his life
an Pete made first easy, though the
left fielder got the ball so quick Pinch
was held al third.
The crowd was still as DEATH for it
hadn't got over the shock o seem
two hits made in a single inning off
their pet pitcher.
Show EN- where you live, now, Hag, -
says Sam Merritt, as | come up. SHOW
'em the ball players here amt the only
crop ever raised. Vow
He said that last because had
ketched one o them speedy ones solid,
and was leggin' it for first. The ball
went clean 10 the fence In left, and l
got around easy. When l hit the plate
Elwood Hanks was wipin' his face with
a big handkerchief an wonderin' how
II happened, and the crowd was be-
ginnin 10 look and act disguised.
I told you So" / heard somebody
say. They're only lot o four-flush-
ers when they get up against the real
thing. MY, what a soak the big Teller
did give it, Wonder what he'd play ball
here fer?"
Yes, an Hanks give it out that he
was goin' TO fan him." said another
They got to do better than this"
Merritt went 10 and lined out a sin
gle TO right, Farmer Rufe Gibson tri-
pied. Hennessy fetched him in with d
long fly. Johnny Harrison got a base
on balls Reggie fOuled out and Pinch
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
Notice

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
city council Of Salt Lake City OF the in
tCntiOn OF such council to make the to-
lowing described Improvement, to-W1t; E&-
tending and laying sewer lateral OF D
inch vitrified pine. on Third street be
tween q and II streets. IN sewer district
No. /, and defray the abutters' portion
of the cost and expense thereof, estimated
AT four hundred and tWenty-seven dol
lars fS421.OOD dollars, or 50-l00 (S070l dol
lars per front foot of abuJtIng property.
BY q local assessment upon the lots or
pieces of ground within the f flowing
described district, being the district to
be affected or benefited by said improve
nlent. namely: The east 400 feet Of lot
and the west 1900 feet of lot 4, block 3d.
and al Of lots ] and . block 90 plat ID,
Salt Lake City survey.
All protests and objections TO the carry
ing out of such intention must be present
ed in writing to the city recorder on Or
before the 9Th day OF October. 1895. being
the time set by said council when it will
hear and consider such protests and oh
jectiens as may be made thereto.
BY order of the city council of Salt
Lake City. Utah
Dated Sept. 18th. 1865.
J. S. CRITCHLOW. City Recorder.
Sewer Extension No. l6l.
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cream, then let US have coffee and some
of that fried chicken.
Sport, you are in on this said l to
the tramp.
He unpinned his coat and looked
with longing eyes on the waiter as he
pulled the caps off the berries; he never
said word, merely swallowing the Sc
erection from his glands. When he had
gulped his berries, l told the waiter 10
give him some more.
Ever hungry, majOr?' said the hobo.
Oats kind a feather weight for my
ap'tite- Let me have a ham sand'ich
stead
d" No, go on, you shall have a good
square meal. Here. take some more
berries and have this fried chicken,
answered, showing over another bowl
of fruit and a big dish with a half a
dozen cooked chickens on ii. Help
yourself like il all belonged to you
THE hobo ate two halves of chicken,
drained his cup of coffee and started to
get down from his stool. But he cast
a hungry look at the dish of chicken.
Have some more, old man., said /.
3" It's been s'long since / had a good
square meal that | could stan a little
more, major: but let me go up against
"a ham sanich-it's got a longer reach
" No, have chicken-all the chicken
you want-and some more coffee said
l.
Eat. How that fellow did go for ii
five pieces of chicken! I'd rather see
him repeat that performance than go
to a minstrel show He slid off his
stool again saying: Major, I guess I'm
all in. Tanks
" oh, no; have some pie I said
Well he replied, Major, s you
shift the deck, guess l will play one
more frame
Cash o apple, said Weary to the
waiter
when l insisted upon his having a
third piece of pie. the hobo said: No.
major, tanks | got to ring off or I'll
break the bank
He, for once. had enough. | gave
him cigar. He sat down to smoke
contented, l thought. I paid the bill;
things are high in Montana. you know
his part was $2.S5. My hobo friend
saw $3.50 rung up on the cash register.
Then l went over and sat down beside
him.
" Feeling good?' said I.
Yep, but chez Dat feed, spread
out, would a lasted me clear to Sain'
Paul
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hole IN an attic, which proved to be a
later document executed by James
WOOD, leaving him nothing. Were
these wills and codicils true or false
1t was question in which a hand
writing expert was necessary. Nether-
cliff, photographer, was called in and
/ from the assistance he was able TO
render the puzzled Investigators in the
case, became famous.
In not one case out of ten in which
I he IS consulted does the exnert i'm
! handwriting appear in court. The 9TH
ers are compromised or hushed I'D. The
most common occasions on which he is
consulted are matrimonial matters. Ii
belOus letters. abusive and threatening
/ epistles, suspected signatures to wills.
I eraSures IN documents, valentines The
valentine crop has, however, been. enOr-
mously reduced of late years. Not
many years ago the offensive valentine
/ that found its way TO the handwriting
experts table was common.
The fOrger of signatures works either
( by copying the real signature by sim
ply writing an imitation of il as If
lies before him, by tracing it, placing
the original signature with the doom
ment 10 which the forgery is to be at
( tached on, say, a window pane. going
/ over the signature in pencil. and then
covering the mark with ink, or by
/ tracing it straight off with ink. Ali
/ these methods are distinguishabIe by
/ the expert.
One of the most sensational pieces of
/ expert work performed by a handwrit-
/ ing specialist was in connection with
( the trial of Christiana Edmunds of
/ Brighton for poisoning a child. HAY
/ ing bought some sweets. Christiana
f1.T L
then, walking out, distributed them to
+ various children she met. the child
! died and others had narrow escapes.
At the inquest on the victim IL came
out in evidence that certain woman.
who had not been identified had
{ bought strychnine at a local chemist s
and had signed the name Wood" to
/ his register of sales of po.sons.
! Christiana Edmunds, learning that
! Importance was attached TO this sig
nature, wrote letter to the chemist,
! which she signed with the coroner s
/ name. and dispatched it to the shop
i by a boy. requesting him TO hand the
/ bearer the register for examination.
The book was handed TO the boy,
! who carried il TO Christiana, who tore
out what she believed was the entry,
and then returned the volume by her
! messenger.
At the trial it appeared that Chris
| tiana had in her confusion. abstTacted
an entry signed by another customer
named Wood.
The signature, the letter forged in the
corOner's name and the letters aVoWed-
| ly written by Christiana were all UNI
dOubtedly written by the same person,
and the trick was discovered Chris
tiana was sentenced TO death, but the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
Assessment No. 2.

BTTLER-LIBERAL CONSOLIDATED
Mining company, a corporation. Principal
place Of business. Salt Lake City, Utah
Notice is hereby given that at a meeting
of the board Of directors of the Butler
Liberal Consolidated Mining company,
held at Salt Lake City. Utah, on the 18th
day of September 1888, an assessment or
three % cents per share was levied upon
the capital stock Of the corporation, is
sued ana outstanding, payable immedi-
ately 10 ". z. Lynn, secretary of the
company, at his office. 504 Progress build
in1 Salt Lake City. Utah.
ANY stock upon which this assessment
may remain unpaid on the 10Th day Of
October, 1898 will be delinquent and ad-
vertised for sale at public auction. and.
unless payment is made before, will be
sold on the 10th day of November, 1885,
at p. m, 10 pay the delinquent assess
meut thereon. together with the cost Of
advertising and expense OF sale.
". p. LYNN. Secretary.
First publication September 18th, 1905.
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nled out the second time up, givin' US
six runs to the innin'. But that was
only the first. We got five more in the
second, two ia the third, three in the
fourth and four in the fifth. and could
gone on making them without limit
only for little incident that happened
With the score 20 20 0, and US at the
bat in the sixth, teller got up in the
/ stand and started a speech. We could
not ketch the exact drift o. what he
said. but he seemed to be uTgin' the
crowd TO go out an lynch the Hustlers
for lOsin' their money His suggestion
seemed 10 go. all right, but finally a
old, dried-up Teller with white hair,
gets up an says:
Gentlemen, as you we'll known, I'm
against violence of any sort. l think
we'd be goin' a little further than'd be
justifiable in stringin' these counter
feits up, much as they deserve it; but
l want TO say right here if | lived in
town that was cussed with such
oTnery bunch o bah players as these
here, I'd take the first chance to give
the gang a coat O. tar an feathers. an
ride 'em out o. town on the sharpest
rails / cd find"
That's right" yells the crowd. THE
cOloncrs right, The stuff is all ready,
too. We meant il for these fellers, but
Hustler gang" and with that they
started down of the stand and when
they saw EN- comm Elwood Hanks and
his Hustlers hustled out toward CEN
ter field.
The empire couldn't do nothin' but
give US the game, and we drew down
the money. We could see the crowd
chasin' the Hustler ball players across
the prairie, and they We're hustlin
harder than they ever did at any ball
game in their lives. We also pulled
down the gate receipts and ketched a
freight train 10 Stafford.
We heard later that the Hammer
hurst people really did tar an feather
their ball nine, an then they elected
new bunch of officers. Ever since then
l never took any stock in hostile crowds
at ball games. You can bring 'em
around if you know how.
Copyright, 1909, by George William
Daley)
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Union Pacific Railroad Company

ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting OF the stockhold-
or If Union Pacific Railroad company
win be held at the office Of the company
in san Lake City. Utah, on TUESDAY,
Oct 10. 1865, az II o'clock noon, for the
election OF fifteen directors Of the COM
nanV and for the transaction of such
nfbEr business as may legally come be-
fore the meeting.
0,ath common and preferred will be
closed tor the purposes OF the meeting az
The close of business on Tuesday. Aug. -
1905 and will be reopened at 10 o'clock
y, on Wednesday, Oct. II, 1905
ALEX. MILLAH. SecretarT.
Dated AUG. IS 1866.
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DIRT AND GRAVEL.

We can supply the above in any
amount from our work on South Tenn
pie street or from the site of the Ma
sonic temple. See the foreman. or call
Shovel & Belcher, So West I'd South
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-02
LivERYMAN HAS HARD LUCK
Olson of Violin, 5. d., Loses His Team
and Has Both his Feet
Frozen.

YANKTON. $. d. Dec. l--(SpecialD DE
cidedly out OF the usual were the Thanks
giving eve adventures Of liveryman
named Olson of Violin He had been in
this city during the day and started for
home after dark Before he had gone far
he fell asleep and left his team to find
the way. When ne woke. up he found
that the team was standing still. and in
vestigation showed that In crossing the
Milwaukee track near Mission Hill the
team had attempted to cross some trestle
work. with the result that both horses had
gone through the open spaces between
the timbers.
Olson. now wide awake, set 10 work, and
after every effort had been put forth he
succeeded In getting one horse out The
other was beyond him and he left Il on
the track while he went for help. Riding
the liberated animal he started Off lost ms
way and was found almost senseless next
morning, with both legs so badly frozen
they may have to be amputated. Investi-
CATION showed the horse he had been riding
drowned In a slough, while the others
mangled remains were discovered scattered
along the Milwaukee right-of-way, where
a Milwaukee freight had struck the animal
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-02
TRAINMEN WILL STAND PAT
MorrIssey Says Rate Law viii Not
Affect Wages, but No Change
is wanted.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec Up. H. Nor
Tissey, chief of the Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen. said in an interview here
today:
There will be no reduction Of wages of
trainmen in the event that congress passes
a law providing for governmental supervis-
ion of rates and the abolition of rebate
systems. The railroads may try to force
economy I'm operation by stealthily increas-
ing hours or by adding to the labors OF
trainmen, but l do not believe that there
will be any reduction In wages. AT the
same time. we are with the railroads in
their campaign to prevent any disturbance
OF the present situation. We declared In
our last annual convention against any
further legislation that would tend to dis
turb present conditions"