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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-26

Last Sunday the writer took a short
trip to Provo canyon. While there it
was learned that some power COM
pany proposes to utilize the waters of
Bridal Veil falls for power purposes
and to destroy the beauty of the
scene in so doing. 1t is to be hoped
that the state authorities will not per-
init this. Those falls belong to the
people and they should be kept intact
So also with the other falls in the
canyon, toward which covetous eyes
have been turned. The water power
can be utilized by constructing works
below all these falls and no one will
object to their so doing, but no man,
men or aggregation of capital should
be permitted to take any action which
will de2troy the scenic beauty of the
canyon. The city of Provo owes it to
itself to make vigorous fight against
any such proceeding and to invoke ala
the legal powers of the commonwealth
to prevent such a Dissertation as this
would be. Let us not turn over every
thing to commercialism let us pre-
serve few beauty spots and leave
upon the map a few sacred things.
Those falls are delight to the eye
and are music to the ear. The man
who cannot see their beauty and hear
their harmony without connecting
them with something that turns cog
wheels has nothing in his little
cramped up soul but dollar marks. In
the great scheme of Creation, Intinity
reserved few things for those who
love to look upon His works that He
intended should ever remain. And
when one fights to retain natural fea-
lures such as are these mankind is
but carrying out a part of Gods, own
plan. To destroy these falls would be
sin and work of darkness. We I'M
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-26

King Alfonso, of Spain, desired to
marry Princess Patricia, of Con.
naught. King Edward promptly put
several physicians of eminence on hia
Spanish majesty's trail and after ca.
serving the young man for several
days they reported him as having
phthisis and that he showed marked
symptoms of insanity This report is
made public and, of course caused in
tense excitement in Spain. Well, why
shouldn't it? Having ones monarch
pronounced bug house" and affected
with phthisis is enough to cause ex-
element
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-26

Proposals to raise the vessels that
were sunk by Commodore Oliver Haz-
ard Perry, after the famous battle of
Lake Erie, has raised storm of pro-
test from the people on the Canadian
SIDE The plan is to raise them and
give them to Detroit as memorials.
Just what objection our Canadian cou-
sins have to raising ships that were
put OF commission in American waters
Is something to marvel over.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-26

races by wireless telegraphy. Every
thing worked well until steel COM
pany installed huge electric magnet
for the purpose of lifting steel plates
and the action interfered with the
transmission of the messages, so the
boat had to go out of business. The
magnet did what the police could not.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-26

Butte had serious accident a few
days ago, related in the daily papers.
A coroner's jury was empaneled to in
vestigate the affair and see who was
to blame. Its personnel is as follows:
Richard Dryer, wholesale booze sell
Ter; Dan Drew, saloon keeper; vii,
liam Mullins, saloon keeper; Thomas
Douglas, saloon keeper; Dennis Down
bartender, and Mike Landrigan, miner.
What in the world they wanted a
miner on that jury for is one of the
inscrutable mysteries which can be
connected only in Butte.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-26

The pope has declared the marriage
Jennings Reed Parkhurst, an Ameri-
can woman, with a long line of Illus
trious ancestors, invalid, because she
was a divorced woman. One child, a
little girl, is the result Of the union.
The affair has been up before the pom
tificate for long time and has just
been settled. We presume, however
the prince, who is devoted to his wife
will consider the legal ceremony just
as good as any other and he would be
a poor stick of man if he did not
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
SIX HUNDRED DOLLAR Bills.
How An Innocent Man was Sus-
pected.

A little story was told at the New
Willard Hotel in Washington the other
day by u New Yorker who was travel
ing OH Pullman car between st.
Louis and his home, which goes to
show the danger of convieting man Oh
circumstantial evidence. The principal
figure in this incident was not con-
victed, but had it not been for u for
tuitous circumstance it might nave
gone hard with him.
1T seems that one of the occupants
of the car on getting out Of his berth to
dress missed his vest, which was a
rather serious affair, inasmuch as it
contained in an inside pocket roll of
money which consisted Of six brand
new $100 bills.
"a little later he picked up the gar
ment on the floor, but on searching, the
roll Of money was gone. 1t was
clear case Of robbery, and the man
naturally raised an excited outcry,
which drew the attention of all his
fellow-travelers. Early in the game
the proposition to search everybody In
that coach was made and adopted w h
but single dissenting voice. One man
stood out fiercely and Indignantly
against it, and said that he would
never consent to such an indignity, but
would oppose it with all the force he
could employ.
"This man was at once an object Of
suspicion, and many whispers directed
at him went around. Every other indi-
vidual aboard voluntarily submitted to
being searched, yet nothing was seen
of the olen bills. At this point some
amateur Sherlock Holmes cornered the
porter, and by adroit questions and
threats made that rascally employe
own up to the ,heft and also made him
disgorge 5000 in handsome notes that
appeared to be right from the Print
ing Bureau. The owner of the money
was overjoyed and all hands congratu-
lated him on recovering his money.
about this time the obdurate gen.
tleman who had resolutely declined to
be searched secured the floor. Now,
my friends said he, L will tell you
why risked your suspecting me of the
theft and V hat did this man do but
go down in his hip pocket and fetch
up roll of money that he counted out
in our presence, and, as sure as am
living man, in this roll there were
| just six-no more and no less-brand-
new bills, each of $100 denomination
Positively there was no way of telling
them from the bills that had been re-
covered. Then we all knew why he had
declined to be investigated.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

nortals as were drowned in these wa
terS, for their bodies were carried to
the Ong's nest and no mOrsel ever
escaped him. Sometimes he would
fly about the shores in quest of some
child, or woman or hunter, yet he was
a great coward, and was never known
to attack anyone in camp, or when
two or more were together. No arrow
could pierce his feathers, nor could
the strongest spear do more than
glance from the scales on his face and
legs, yet his craven's heart made him
afraid, for his toes had no claws, and
his mouth no beak.
Late one fall the Washoe Indians
were making their final hunt before
going to the valleys and leaving the
lake locked in its winter SHOWS. The
Chiefs daughter was sixteen years
old, and before leaving the lake he
must select the greatest hero in the
tribe for her husband, for such had
been the custom Of Washoe chiefs
ever since the tribe came out of the
Northland. Fairer than ever Indian
maiden had been was this daughter,
and every unmarried brave and war
rior in the tribe wished that he had
performed deeds of greater prowess,
that~he might be certain of winning
the prize That last night at the lake,
around the big council fire, each was
to smoke the pipe and recount to the
Chief the noblest achievement of his
life, and when all were heard, the
Chief would choose, and the women
join the circle and the wedding take
place. For many years the warriors
had looked forward to this event and
the tribe had become famed because
of acts of reckless daring performed
by those who hoped to wed the
Chiefs lovely daughter.
1t was the morning of the final day,
and much game and great stores of
dried trout were packed ready for the
journey. All were preparing for the
wedding festivities, and the fact that
no one knew who would be the bride
groom among all that mighty band of
warriors, lent intensest excitement to
the event. All We're joyous and hap
py, except the maiden and the hand
some young brave to whom she had
given her heart. In spite of custom
or tradition, her love had long since
gone. out to one whose feet had been
too young to press the war path when
last the tTibe gave battle to their
hereditary foes, the Piutes. He never
had done deed of yalor, nor could he
even claim the right to sit with the
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

and the darkness crept over the lake,
and into the darkness the Ong van
iShed.
The women had been long in their
hutS ere the council fire was kindled,
and the warriors gravely seated them
selves i'll its circle. The loss of Il
young brave could not be allowed to
interfere with so important an event
as the marriage choice, and from most
of their minds he had vanished. 1t
was not so very unusual for the Ong
to claim a victim, and besides, the
youth had been many times warned
by his elders that he should not go
hunting alone as had been his habit
of late.
But while the warriors We're work
ing themselves up to a frenzy of elo-
quence over their bygone deeds of
daring, an Indian maiden was pad
ding canoe swiftly and silently
toward the middle of the lake. Mona,
the Chiefs daughter, understood no
more than the rest why her lover had
not been dropped into the lake, nor
why the Ong had acted so queerly,
but she knew that she could die with
her lover. She took her own frail
canoe because it was so light and
easy to paddle, though it was made
for her when girl, and would scarce
ly support her weight now. 1t mat
tered nothing to her if the water
splashed over the sides; it mattered
nothing how she reached her lover
She kept saying his name over softly
to herself. ''Tahoei My own Tahoe!"
When the council had finished, the
old women went to the Chiefs hut
to bid his daughter come and hear the
decision her father was about to rem
der. Their CONSERVATION was great,
nor did the tribe rest until the rosy
dawn tinged the Washoe peake and
disclosed to the warriors the vast
body of the Ong floating on the wa
ters above its nest, and beside it a
tiny, empty canoe. But gently ap-
preaching the shore was the strangest
craft that ever f1oated on water. 1t
was one of the Ong's great wings, and
the sail was the tip of the other wing!
Standing upon it elasped in each 9th
ers arms, was the young brave Ia
hoe and the daughter of the chief. In
the shouts of the tribe, shouts in which
warriors and women and children
mingled their voices with that of the
great Chief, Tahoe knew that he was
the hero, and that Mona was his bride
The decision was rendered, but the
Ong's nest still remains, and to this
day the drowned never rise in Lake
Tahoe.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
/ Am Dying Egypt, Dying.

1 am dying Egypt, dying,
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast,
And the dark, Plutonian shadows
Gather ON the evening blast.
Let thine arm, oh! Queen, support
me.
Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear,
Hearken to the great heart secrets,
Thou, and thou alone, must hear.
Though my SCARED and veteran lc-
gions
Bear their eagles high no more,
And my wrecked and shattered gal
leys
Strew dark Actium's fatal shore;
Though no glittering guards sur
round me,
Prompt to do their masters will,
1 must perish like Il Roman
Die, the great Triumvir still.
Let not Caesars servile miniOns
Mock the lion thus laid low;
Twas no foemans hand that slew
him,
Twas his own that struck the blow.
Here, then, pillowed ON thy bosom,
Ere his star fades quite away,
Him who, drunk with thy caresses,
Madly flung a world away!
Should the base plebeian rabble
Dare assail my fame at Rome,
Where the noble spouse, Octavia,
Weeps within her widowed home;
Seek her-say the Gods have told me,
Affairs, Augurs, circling wings,
That her blood with mine commin-
gled,
Yet shall mount the throne of
kings.
And for thee, star-eyed Egyptian!
Glorious sorceress of the Nile,
Light the path to stygian honors
With the splendors of thy smile.
Give the Caesar crowns and arches,
Let his brow the laurel twine;
l can scorn the Senates triumphs,
Triumphing in love like thine.
am dying Egypt, dying!
Hark! insulting foemans cry;
Ihey are coming-quick, my falchionl
Let me front them ere | die.
An! no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting swell:
Isis and Osiris guard thee.
Cleopatra! Rome! farewell!
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Brief Thanks to the Ladies.
Jonesboro (Ark, Evening sun

Jonesbero (Ark.) Evening Sun.
The members of the Citizens Band
ask the ladies who gave the supper
for the benefit of the band on Wednes-
day night, August g., to please accept
their sincere thanks. 1t is the wish of
every member that when these good
ladies have done all the good deeds
here that God would have them do,
that they be gathered home to join
the heavenly band, where all be joy,
happiness, and good music, which all
who live as these good ladies have
lived shall enjoy, and may the in
fluence of these good ladies ever guide
the members of the Citizens Band to a
higher stand of morality and fame,
and may We never cease striving until
we have reached the topmost round of
the ladder of fame, when God, in His
wisdom, shall call us home, and when
We have played our last tune here on
earth, may we be gathered with these
good ladies around Gods throne, where
we can play on Gods instruments of
gold, where our music will be sweeter,
through the ceaseless ages of eternity.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

clasped fast in its talons. A great
CRY of horror arose from the camp,
but it was the sweetest note the
young brave had ever heard. i he
bird flew straight up into the
sky until it became a mere Speck to
the enthralled beholders below.
When it reached a great height it
would drop its prey into the lake and
let the current draw it to the nest.
Such was its custom, and Ior this
the young Indian had prepared by I'M
winding from his waist a long buck
skin cord, and tying himself firmly to
the Ong's legs. The clumsy feet could
not grasp him so tightly as to prevent
his movements. At last the great toes
opened wide, but the Indian did not
fall. Again they closed and opened,
and the enraged bird thrust down his
head to see why his victim refused to
fall. In mighty rage the Ong tried
to grasp the man in it's mouth, but
the strong web between the set birds
toes sheltered him.. Again and az; in
the bird tried to use his horrid teeth,
and each time his huge body would
fall through the air in such twistings
and cOntortions that those who
watched below stared in bewilder-
ment. But what the watchers could
not see was that every time the huge
mouth opened to snap at him, he
young brave hurled a handful of
poisoned arrow heads into the mouth,
and down the big throat, their sharp
points cutting deep into the unpro-
tected flesh. The bird tried to dis
lodge him by rubbing his feet to-
gether, but the thong held firm. Now
it plunged headlong into the lake.
but its feet were tied so that it could
not swim, and though it lashed the
waters into foam with it's great wings
and though the man was nearly
drowned and exhausted, the poison
caused the great bird such agony that
it suddenly arose and tried to escape
by flying toward the center of the
lake. The contest had lasted long,
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

The old Indian woman glanced
furtively at the distant sky line, and
then centered her gaze upon the deep
crystal waters of the lake The Ong?
she said. 1 will tell you of the Ong.
The Ong was Il huge bird, greater
than the houses of the white men. Its
body was like the eagles, and it's
wings were longer than the tallest
pines. Its face was that of an In
dian, but covered with hard scales,
and its feet were webbed. Its nest
was deep down in the bottom OF the
lake out in the center, and out of the
nest rushed all of the waters which
fill the lake. There are no rivers to
feed the lake, only the waters from
the Ong's nest. All the waters flow
back near the bottom, in great under
sweeps, and after passing through the
meshes of the nest are sent forth
again. Every plant and bird and ami
NAL that gets into these under-cur-
rents, and sometimes even the great
trout are swept into the meshes of
the nest and are there held fast to fur
nish food for the Ong.
He ate everything, he liked every
thing, but best of all he liked the
taste of human flesh. No one ever
heard or saw anything of such poor
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
CHICKAMAGUA Anniversary.
One of the Great Battles of the Rebel
lion-Tragic Death of Poet-Soldier
General LYtIe.


Forty-two years ago the latter part
of September was fought and won by
Rosecrans the great battle of Chicka-
magua.
Chattanooga, the objective point of
the campaign, has been well considered
the very gateway of the entire South.
Bragg, in command of the Confederate
force, was outwitted and outn1a-
neuvred, and the town of Chattanooga
fell into Federal hands, entirely by
strategy.
Chattanooga was then but a poor,
struggling village, never having been
even heard of by one in thousand of
those who composed the Northern
army. 1t is now a wealthy, prosperous
city of over 10000 inhabitants and the
home of many Northern families. An
electric line runs from the city to
Chickamagua Park every 80 minutes.
The celebration of the anniversary
of the battle, from the 10Th to the 23d
of September, where the tales of the
campfire and the picket line were once
more recounted, has been of surprising
interest to thousands of old veterans
and their quondam foes.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

warriors around the council fire. All
day long he had been sitting alone on
the jutting cliffs which overhang the
water, far away from the laughter
and shouts of the camp, eagerly, pray
erfully watching the great lake. Sure
Iy the Great Spirit would hear his
prayer and give him the moment he
longed for, yet he had been here
for days and weeks in unavailing
prayer and waiting.
The afternoon was well-nigh spent,
and the heart of the young brave had
grown cold as stone. In his bitter
despair he sprang to his feet to defy
and curse the Great Spirit to whom he
had trusted, but ere he could utter the
words his very soul stood still for joy.
Slowly rising from the center of the
lake, he saw the dreaded Ong. Cir
cling high in the heavens like a vast
shapeless thunder-c cloud, black as the
night the monster swept, now here,
now there in search of prey. The
young brave stood erect. When the
Ong was nearest, he waved his arm to
attract its notice. He had not long
to wait. With a mighty swoop and an
awful rushing noise the bird dashed
to earth, and as it swept upward, the
young brave was seen by all to be
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03


The battle of Chickamagua, which
followed Chattanooga, was most desper-
ately contested on both sides.
Bragg was reinforced by a veteran
corps from Virginia, under Longstreet,
and Buckner's Corps from East Ten
nessee, until his forces outnumbered
Rosecrans' by over $4,000, and yet the
Northern army, by wise and vigorous
marching day and night over noun
tains and through passes, and by the
concentration of widely scattered
forces, inflicted such terrible losses
that Bragg was incapable of any but
the most cautious following when
Rosecrans fell back to occupy Chatta-
nooga, for which he had been contend
ing.
Among the many brave officers on
both sides who gave up their lives for
their beloved causes there was none
braver, none more mourned than the
Union BrigadierG VIM. II.
Lytle. About to give the order to
charge, he was struck in the head by a
bullet and fell dying in the arms of his
aid.
His poem of "Anthony and Cleopa-
tra," generally believed to have been
composed the night before the battle,
but which, as a matter of fact, was an
earlier production, has been clasSed as
one of the most mastery lyrics in
American poetry.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Nursery Nonsense.

Two magpies sat on a garden rail
AS long ago as a week;
And one little magpie wagged his tail
In the other little magpie's beak.
Then doubling like a 1st his little
claw hard
Said the other "Upon my word,
This is more than flesh and blood can
stand
From magpie or other bird"
SO they picked and they scratched
each others eyes
Till all that was left on the rail
was the beak of one of the little mag
pies,
And the other little magpie's tail,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-27
WOMAN FAINTS IN AUTO, "
Policeman Threatened to Shoot
Speeding Husband.

When Bicycle Patrolman Rensselaer, tried to
arrest William HaCkenberger for speeding last
night the man threatened to run him down.
Rensselaer, was at 22d-st. and 5th-ave. when
Hackenbierger and his wife, in single seated
automobile. sped by. Rensselaer, says they were
going at considerably more than eighteen miles
an hour he jumped his machine and
caught them at 19th-st. AS the patrolman drew
alongside and told the he was under arrest.
he says Hackenbierger yelled out:
Get to hell out of here. or I'll run you down."
IF you try it, I'll shoot" the patrolman an
swered.
Mrs. Hackenbierger threw her arms around
her husbands neck, and, after long scream.
tainted. Hackenbeirger threw his hands up i'm
the air and quietly submitted to arrest He
and Rensselaer, then took Mrs Hackenbierger to
the sidewalk, where the patrOlman walked up the
caretaker of the Office building there. and got
a pail Of water, which he threw in her face.
This brought her to- and she got back into the
automobile. Hackenbierger. followed by the
patTOlman, then took her to his home, No 222
West 16th-st. Rensselaer, brought him back to
the station on foot, where he Immediately
bailed out by professional bondsman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-27
WALDORF AS BAIL FOR THREE CANADIANS.
ONE an N. p. HE SAYS-MAKE DISTURBANCE At
GRAND CENTRAL-BARRLC ADE SLEEPER

1t took a few seconds to dispatch Roundsman
Cooper and five men to the Montreal train Mr.
Odell had no need to point out the point of at
tack. The three had retreated to their sleeping
car, where they held the door and declared that
they would not leave the train short of Montreal
Cooper said afterward that he and his men used
force. but they got the three and hustled
them In gentle manner through the lines OF
passengers who had been driven from the train
and those who were peering down the platform
passage from the train shed.
Down in the station. before Sergeant Wal
sing, Macdonald announced who he was with a
thump on the sergeant's desk that threatened to
break the mahogany. He is man of massive
build.
Cut that out right now" said the sergeant.
quietly lit may go upstairs, but it doesn't go
here. You keep quiet"
AS Macdonald let out another warwhoop the
sergeant started out from behind the desk, and
Macdonald subsided.
why We've got dough enough to buy this
setback of a depot" shouted Macdonald, pulling
a roll of 'yellowbacks" as big his big fist
out Of his pocket
That's no good; you'll have TO get bonds
man." said the sergeant.
Then the three gave their pedigrees. They
laughed and joked with the policeman although
Gallagher asked if il would be possible for him
to get another train, it was important that
he should be at home to-day. AS there are no
accommodat dations for prisoners in the sub-station
the three prisoners were transferred to the East
51st-st. station. There their pedigrees We're
again booked this time by Sergeant Mcdonald,
who remarked when he took the name of Mac
Donald:
Sorry to meet namesake under such cir
cumstances."
That's all right; have one with US" replied
the Canadian.
Anxious inquiries were made at once for a
messenger. one was quickly got. and with SO
note tucked into his pocket by Macdonald, sent
with a note addressed to wv. @. Norton at the
Waldorf He also is from Montreal. He came
quickly, accompanied by Thomas NJ. Hillard,
manager of the Waldorf. After arranging bail
Mr.. Norton got a theatre bus and the party
rolled away, still singing merrily