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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-24
Eleven Men Present.

Eleven Of the sixteen Republican and
Municipal Ownership assembymen We're
present at tOnight's session. which was an
adjourned session of the conference held
last night. At the conclusion of the con-
teTenge a formal statement was given
out which said:
In view of recent developments in the
speakership contest. it is the sense Of
those present that every Republican mem
her OF the assembly from the county Of
New York should vote at the coming eau
Gus for James W. WadsWorth, in.
'All the men elected TO the assembly
from New York county on the Republican
and Municipal Ownership tickets have
been invited TO meet and confer. Some
of them have failed 10 DO so; some have
attended some meetings, and some, while
agreeing 10 stand together with those
elected on the Republican and Municipal
Ownership tickets met separately and de-
cided 10 act separately. The Republican
members have made every attempt to
unite with those elected on Republican
and Municipal Ownership tickets, bur the
latter have declined to unite, and now
stand alone"
Vote Not Bindin-.
II was the understanding at the meeting
that the vote of the Republican members
endorsing Mr.. Wadsworth was not bind
ing on them.
Despite the fact that the statement was
made that the Municipal Ownership as
semblymen will not unite with the Re
publicans, an effort will be made 10 SCI
cure universal support for Mr.. Agnew II
he will consent 10 run.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-24
GOSSIPS TALK OF
NICK AND ALICE
Engagement Continues to Excite the
National Capital.
QUESTION OF PRECEDENCE
COMMISSION TO FIX EVERY
BOOY's STATUS.

Washington, Dec. 23.-The engage
ment os Miss Roosevelt continues 10
be the most interesting social topic
not only TO the immediate friends of
the presidents daughter, but to the
general public. Ii Miss Roosevelt and
Mr.. LOngworth We're so inclined, they
might dine out every evening from
now until their wedding, but as q mat
ter OF fact they are extremely reluctant
10 make any engagements Miss Roose-
welt Is genuinely in love and is follow
ing the dictates Of her own heart Now
that the last shadow Of doubt has dis
appeared, the day of the wedding,
probably Feb. II; the wedding gown,
probably that of her mother: the room
where the ceremony win be performed,
most likely the east room, and the ex-
act hour. all form interesting topics.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-24
CoIoradoan Is SLAYER.

thirty gallons.
Cooradoan Is Slayer.
The men who killed Old Four Toes
are Robert LiYermore. a mining eX-
pert from Cripple Creek. Colo. and
Fred Chase. local guide of Cody
Wyo.
During the beginning Of the hunting
season Chase had a party out from
Kansas city that had come especially
to hunt bear. They saw Four Toes
tracks on his range round about Buff
falo Forks, in the Jackson Hole cOun-
try, and concluded they would hunt
elk Then Mr.. Livermore, coming out
to hunt elk heard of the fame of -Four
Toes and decided to hunt bear
In the thick timber at Buffalo Forks
there is a runway between spruce
trees through which the game travels.
One of the trees is covered with pitch
and this pitch has caught the hair Of
cinnamon, black and grizzlies as they
have crowded through. But higher
than all-higher than the head of the
average man-cOuld be seen the hair
Old -Four Toes had left in the pitch as
he squeezed through the runway.
Track Like Ham.
His track on the snow and in the
mud was like the print Of an enor-
NOUS ham, and by other signs expert
enced hunters knew that old Four Toes
was a bear who made the rest of his
kind look like cubs. He has been
known for twenty years, his name for
the last fifteen having been ''Old Four
Toes" since he was caught in a trap
and tore loose leaving one great claw
in the steel jaws. Since that he has
become as famous in his way as Fee
Xix, the giant mountain sheep who
ranges in the mountains bordering the
Blaekfoot reservation i'll Montana, for
whose head any hunter who has seen
him would sell his soul and any forest
ranger forfeit his job.
Two days after the bear hunters had
made camp a slight snow fell and
while hunting they came on the trail
OF wounded elk.
Tomorrow Old -Four Toes will be
after him." said Chase, who sabes
bears as if he We're related to them.
And, sure enough. on the second day.
while still following the elk, they
found the enormous footprints of Old
-Four Toes mingling with those of the
elk.
After a time the bear quit the trail,
Dul Tic Aihi4ttiS htRA Oii anu tolAAAtir5
up to the elk. killed him. He was q
large specimen with a fine pair of
horns, SO they took the head and left
the carcass.
This is where we get Four Toes, -
said Chase. Hell be here tonight 80
gorge himself, and he'll sleep tomor-
row.
Fight Over Meat.
The next day they returned and
found the huge carcass of the elk al
most devoured. IN the footprints they
read that -Four Toes had been accom-
panied by another beat There had
been a fight so the story of The foot
prints read. and the smaller bear had
been vanaulshed; then -four Toes had
gormandized alone.
| The hunters started keen on his
trail and 70 their dismay found -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-24
Question Of Precedence.

The blow has fallen. The squahble
concerning precedence. whether the
wife of a captain in the navy should
walk before a chief clerk OF one of
the bureaus has az last been taken 10
the high tribunal for settlement. Con-
gress is to be asked TO appoint a COM
mission 10 fix the status of every Of
ticiaA IN the government: to decide
whether the chief justice Is entitled
10 any recognition, and whether the
speaker OF the house shall be con-
sidered some pumpkins. The presi-
dent, Of course, has suggested this
reform. All reforms. naturally. ema-
nate from the prese < energetic head
OF the nation But who is qualified
for this gigantic tasR3 IL has been
suggested that AIR Nick" Longworth
be given a place on the commission.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Pebbles From Slaughter Beach.

DR.. McFerran Of Philadelphia, was
a visitor here this week.
Two life preservers and two cabin
doors from the yacht Narkeets, which
was sunk off this place last Saturday
morning, washed ashore here Monday.
DR.. Fannie VanGaskin, who is the
assistant professor Of medicine at the
Womens' Medical College in Philadel-
phia, has been the guest Of Mrs. Frank
POstles at her cottage.
The Hotel Reynolds is having the
greatest season for several years past,
and the people speak in the highest
terms of the table set. Large crowds
are present every day.
The cottage owned by Samuel Hud-
son was sold by his administrators at
public sale and it was purchased by
Mr.. Shew, Of Lincoln, who will use or
rent it for the balance of the season.
The new artesian well is already down
to a depth of two hundred feet, and it
is expected that the well will reach
depth of another hundred feet before
good water is found in flowing sufficient
for the supply of the public.
The third Thursday in August, 18th,
will be Big Thursday at Slaughter
Beach, when thousands of people from
the surrounding country will gather at
this famous old shore and enjoy the
pleasures Of a day by the sea shore.
This is essentially a family day, and
the management always makes ar
rangements to accommodate a multi
tude.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Temperance Folks Acting.

The temperance people Of the State,
who are carrying on a campaign of feduca-
ton in order to carry the State for local
option next year, are preparing an address
pointing to the actual financial loss to the
State and counties by the operating of
distilleries. From twenty distilleries last
year, they show the State realized only
$3.50. To offset this, the "drys" show
that it cost Kent county alone over 5000
including $3Oso for a special jury, to try
the negro Ollie Page, for murder, where
the testimony showed that he had pur-
chased pint of liquor at local distil-
lery just before numbering Martha RO-
chester. Now the county must keep
Page, a young man, for the remainder of
his natural lifs, according to a sentence of
the court.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Church News.

Christ Church. .-Jnly 80, sixth Sun
day after Trinity mathis, sermon and
celebration, IO3Oa. M; Sunday School
las p. m; st. Stephens Chapel, 1886
p. M; Christ Church Guild, Wednesday
evening.
Presbyterian Church-The Christian
Endeavor Prayer Meeting on next Sun
day evening will be led by the Flower
Committee. The topic is "The Mes.
sage of the Flowers" Matt 6:28 "a ;
Jas. 1911. Special preparations are
being made to make this q most inter-
esting meeting.
The following musical program will
be rendered in the Presbyterian Church
next Sunday morning.
Prelude-LargO. from XeTxes, Haudel,
Organ.
Anthem-"Hark. Hark, My Soul, "
Giffe, Choir.
OffertOry-"Antienne"--Batiste, Organ
Solo. Mrs. Wylie
March Of the Priests"
Organ.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Fruit Growers Convention.

The executive committee of the Pen.
insula Horticultural Society met in
Dover last Friday afternoon to arrange
for the meeting in Chestertown next
January. The Dominion Of Canada
will make an exhibit Of apples at this
meeting and it is proposed also to have
apples from New England, New York
and New Jersey, the Southwest and
the South in order that the Peninsula
fruit growers may see what sort of com.
petition they have to meet from these
various sections. There will alsO be q
display Ofimplements, packages, spray
ing outfits, etc. Prominent speakers
will be engaged to address the meeting.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Base Ball.
The players need new uniforms.

The players need new uniforms.
The rent Of the base ball grounds
should all be wiped out, and the bal.
ance ofthe money applied towards new
uniforms for the boys.
The "Kids" OF Milford have been
playing much better bail than the lar
ger ball players, and as a result jeal-
Ousy arose between the older players
and the "Kids," which was settled
last Monday morning in game espec-
tally arranged to prove the claims Of
the big fellows; who expected to make
rag babies of the "Kids." The average
weight of the big fellows apprOxima-
ted $50 pounds, while the "Kids" will
not average more than 10 pounds, but
they put up plucky fight that almost
Won out for them; the score standing
, to 0 in favor of the big fellows. The
"Kids" played the best ball, and their
defeat was the result of their inability
to bat long drives; as their batting was
mostly fly balls.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Agitated Over Cars.

Complications have arisen among the
peach growers over a report that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, because
of the falling off in the peach yield, will
not shelve its cars. As peaches, shipped
in the old Delaware five-eighths basket,
cannot be loaded on railroad cars without
the latter are equipped with shelves all
the way across, the growers who are sue
cessful enough to harvest any peaches
will have to resort to one or two alterna-
tives-either to adopt the Georgia carrier
or crate for the shipment of their fruit,
or haul them to a steamboat landing and
ship to Philadelphia.
The railroad company, through Special
Freight Agent Kingston, has for years
been endeavoring to have Delaware fruit
growers abandon the old peach basket,
and this new step may bring it about
without further contention.
A Smyrna estimate places the peach
crop at only 10000 baskets. Glider D.
Jackson, of Dover, and Joseph E. Carter,
of Smyrna, will lead in grapes, with a
mammoth Weld.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Short Items of News.

There will be festival held at Slaugh-
ter Neck Church Grove on Saturday,
July 29th. All are invited.
The w. e. T. L. meets with Mrs.
Joshua Bennett, on Franklin avenue,
uext Tuesday evening at 30 O'Clock.
A trio of Italian musicians with harp
and violins have been entertaining Mil
ford folks with their music this week.
Three hundred tickets were sold from
Milford alone, for the excursion to Re-
hObOth yesterday. 1t was an ideal day.
Charles G. Fisher, architect Of Mill
ford, has been commissioned to draw
the plans to remodel the Capital Hotel
at Dover.
A new two-stOry dwelling house. To-
Gated on South Second street, is being
built for William H H. Davis. 1t will
be for rent.
The members of st. Paul NJ. f Sun
day School had days outing at Cedar
Beach on Wednesday and report very
pleasant time.
The Hudson Cottage at Slaughter
Beach was purchased by G. c. Shew Of
Lincoln for $3.50 90, subject to the an
nual ground rent of one dollar
Mrs. Phrenetta Parker walked into
an open cellar-way at her home on
North Third street last Tuesday even
ing, and in falling sustained several
cuts about the head and bruises about
the body. She is confined to her bed
and is unable to help herself
The sale Of the personal property OF
the late Samuel Hudson was sold at
administrator sale last Wednesday at
his late home near Shawnee. 1t had
been well advertised and a large crowd
from points as far away as Bridgeville,
Milton and Harrington were present.
The machinery brought more than the
appraisment, and the stock generally
sold WE'LL The amount of the sale ap.
prOXimated S25O0.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Delaware Plums.

Herticulturists in upper Kent county,
who are making a speciality of raising
and shipping plums, are now in the
midst of their harvest, but are being
confronted by puzzling question-that
of the kind of carrier to adopt.
There appears to be no uniformity,
among either the marketmen or the
growers, as to the quality and size of
the packages to be adopted Nearly
every style OF fruit package is used, but
the Georgia peach carrier is now dis
tinctly recommended to the plum grow
ers where plums are to be shipped any
great distance. The siX-basket Georgia
carrier is preferred, although plums can
be shipped and sold, at shcrt distances
from their orchards, in Delaware peach
baskets OF ordinary strawberry crates.
1t is noted however, that the plums
bring much more money when offered
nicely packed in the six basket carriers.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Building Improved Roads.

The Levy COurtman from the Tenth
Representative District of Kent county
will commence to build the improved
road provided for by the people of that
district, on Monday next The road will
be graded and crowned from Milford to
the Tub Mill, distance of two miles.
On top oft will be placed several inches
of clay and gravel and the whole thor
oughly rolled down with steam roller.
This will be the first piece of road inn
provement done under the new road
law passed at Dover last winter, which
provides that the district shall raise
one thousand dollars, and the State
will then contribute one thousand dol
lars for the same purpose.
The Sussex county work in the First
District will be commenced by Joseph
Gray Davis, the Levy Court COmmis
sioner for that district, next month.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Obituary.
LoFLAND.

Last Sunday morning about 2 o'clock
Mark G. Lofiand died at his home on
South Front street. IN Milford, after all
that medical skill could do to save his
life. About two months ago he was
stricken with paralysis, and slow re
cOvery from the first attack was fol-
lowed by another attack worse than its
predecessor, until the end came on July
23rd, 1905, as he lay surrounded by his
loved ones and friends. Mark q. LOf
land was born in the town Of Milford
and grew to msnhOOds estate in the
town of his nativity. He married Miss
Mary Hill, daughter of Absalom Hill,
of Milford, Neck, and about ten years
ago he connected himself with the
Avenue NJ. E. Church, of which he has
been an active member ever since. His
education was secured at the public
schools, and he early manifested good
business ability. Just before the Ma.
tional Centennial of the United States,
he was associated with Julius E. Scott
and tie late Henry L. HynsOn in pub
fishing the News and Advertiser, and
they continued that business for several
years successfully.
His next business enterprise was with
Harry Davis IN the manufacture of fer
tilizers. This ne continued successfully,
and retired from business to mango his
valuable real estate holdings.
He leaves a wife and one daughter,
Mrs Barrett, Of Barnegat, N. J.
He was born February 18th 1852,
and at the time of death was SO years,
5 4honths and 10 days old. The funeral
was held on Tuesday and interment
made at Odd Fellows Cemetery that
afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Real Estate Sales.

Hall & Short are having a cottage
built on their land at Shawnee. and
they purpose dividing all their pur
chases up into small farms, for the pur-
pose OF effecting a sale to those desiring
small homes in the country.
The Charles Harrington farm located
between Milford and Lincoln, which
contains about 300 acres, has been sold
by Watson Harrington, to J. Stanley
Short for $4,000. 1t has valuable pine
and oak timber on it worth nearly half
the purchase money.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
New Resident Physician.

The Morning News, of Wilmington, Del,
said last Monday the following about q
young Milford man:
CDR. William Marshall, Jr., of Milford,
has been appointed resident physician for
the Delaware Hospital. He was gradu-
ated from the University of Pennsylva-
mia this year and has been enjoying va
cation at Slaughter Beach since receiving
his diploma.
Before studying medicine DR.. Marshall
was graduate from Delaware College.
He is son of Insurance Commissioner
George w. Marshall, himself physician.
There has been no inferno at Delaware
Hospital for several months.
DR.. William Marshall is the third gen
Grafton of physicians in the family, his
DR.. William Marshall, father
of the insurance commissioner, also being
a physician.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
More Turkeys killed by Dos.

Mrs. J. Gray Davis and two other
wives of farmers residing in Cedar
Neck. report that dogs have again this
week killed several turkeys for them,
and they feel very indignant at the
owners of dogs who permit them 70
run at large to commit such depreda-
tions. 1t is only fair for farmers to
protect their own, and we expect that
reports of dogs killed will be coming in
soon. A much better plan would be,
to capture the dogs, and compel their
owners to pay double for the damage
done. Dogs running at large destroy
the game as well as kill poultry, and
no sportsman will permit his dogs to
run at large.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
State Railroad Taxes Paid.

The railroads operated in this State,
now pay their State taxes due the State
every quarter. The companies remit one
fourth of the full amount to Dover dur
ing the first few days Of January, April,
July and October. The July remittances
are now all in, under this arrangement.
The Delaware Railroad Company pay s
but $4,000 annually, but the Philade-
phia, Baltimore and Washington Conn
pany pays $4,000, the Delaware, Mary
land and Virginia Company $500, tie
Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad
Company (B. & o., S27, 800, land the Phil
adelphia and Reading Company, $780,
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
WRECK ON
BAY SHOALS.
YACHT FAST on BRANDYWINE SHOALS
IN SATURDAYS STORM
Slides OFF and Sinks. Crew Came Ashore
At Benefits Pier.

The storm of last Saturday was severe
on the Delaware Bay, and several yachts
were roughly used before they got safe
refuge. The Narkeeta, owned by DR..
Hare, Of Philadelphia, and in which
he with a party of friends had started
for the coast of Maine, went ashore on
Brandywine Shoals, where her owner
left her to get tug to pull her off into
deep water but the storm increased
and the vessel sliI ped off and sank be-
fore help came to her.
The crew managed to launch a nom
sinkable boat, in which they battled
all night with the waves and finally
reached Benefits Pier, where they were
found by Isaac Jester on Sunday morn
ing. They were taken to Philadelphia
on Monday by the steamboat Frederick,
where they had been given up for lost.
Other yachts had a very tough ex-
perience, and one was owned by T.
Coleman DUPONT, and for its safety
much anxiety was felt; but it reached
Lewes afely, and from there a telegram
to friends told of its safe arrival.
These yachts are large craft of the
CoIinthian Yacht Club Of Philadelphia,
and had some prominent people aboard
as passengers.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Military Camp Site.

'I see by the newspapers that there
is a revival of the talk of establishing a
permanent campgrOund for the militia"
said a Georgetown man who was in
Wilmington last Monday. "In discus
sing this subject the fact should not be
lost sight Of that the State owns hun
dreds Of acres Of land adjoining Reno
both that is suitable for a permanent
camp ground for the regiment, and it
would cost very little to fit it up. The
land is now in good condition, and it
would make the purchase Of site un
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
First Delaware Peaches In Market.

The very first, and almost the only
peaches in the local market were three
baskets of Yellow st. Johns, from the
orchard Of the late William J. w. Ben
nett, at Slaughter Beach. Three baskets
were brought in on Tuesday and sold
for eighty cents each. Three more were
brought in the following day and sold
for the same at the depot. The yield
with good crop from this same orchard
would have been about 100 baskets each
day.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Many PIOws are Running.

Many farmers are blowing ground
for wheat now. 1t is probably unbe.
coming for residents Of a town to make
suggestions to those who till the soil :
but the fact is impressed upon us just
now, that the fellow who fails to get
his fallOw ground plOwed for wheat
during the coming week, may have to
wait for 3 long time before another
spell Of wet weather puts the earth in
such good shape for plOwing as it is at
present in this section of the country.
Early plowing generally Ebrings good
results.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
A SEVERE STORM
DAMAGES CROPS.
CEDAR CREEK AND LINCOLN DISTRICTS
FEEL ITS FULL FORCE,
Some Crops Reported As Almost Total
Loss.

AS the reports come in from last Mon
day nights storm, which appeared to
take the nature of a cyclone from a
point starting in Milford Neck and
swinging around in a ten mile circle
over Cedar Greek district, covering a
stretch of country about three miles
wide. The loss appears to have been a
serious matter to farmers.
Wesley Bennett of Cedar Neck states
that fully one. half of his corn crop was
broken off at the root and blown clear
away, while the tomatoes are stripped
10 stems and the fruit broken and
ruined. On 100 Elberta peach trees he
had a few peaches, and even these were
beaten by the hail and much OF the
fruit is now on the ground.
R.P. Sharp estimates his loss in corn
alone at fully 800, and possibly more.
Frank Warren from near Lincoln re-
ports that the corn was both beaten by
hail so that the fodder is in ribbons,
and that great quantities were broken
off and blown into windows.
Harry Deputy at the Brick Granery,
one of the leading farmers in Cedar
Neck, has a field of corn that is almost
a total loss; the wind breaking the
stalks near the ground and carrying it
into piles.
Fruit trees were broken and tomatoes
ruined in most places where the storm
1,asEnd ever
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
Dog Has a Fine Funeral.

For ten years an ordinary dog has
been the pet Of Mrs. Nutall, of North
Pear street, Milford, and when it's death
occurred last week an undertaken, Mr..
Oscar Bette, was called in to make a
satin lined casket and bury the animal
with as much care as is paid to human
being. The casket and case cost SIS
and her little pet rests in q lot at Lin
coin City, south Of Milford.
Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
RshObOth Campmeeting.

Rev. D. Benton Winstead, pastor Of
Roland Avenue Methodist Episcopal
Church, Baltimore, has been selected
by Rev. Vaughn S. Collins, president
of the Rehoboth Campmeeting AssO-
citation. at RebobOth, to take charge Of
the camp, which is to begin on August
18th and close August 9th. Prominent
ministers of the Baltimore and Will
mington Conferences will take part in
the services.