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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28

we shall have no difficulty in get
ting all the labor we may want The
uperintendent who has charge of that
branch of the work has worked Is, 900
men on d single contract. and he says
he could get 100000 blacks for work on
the canal if SO many were needed. The
principal idea at present is TO pro-
vide quarters for the employees, to es-
tablish good sanitary conditions and to
arrange for the prompt payment of
the men. Once these preliminaries are
arranged, we will begin TO make the
dirt fly"
Washington, Aug. 27.-W. G.. Bierd,
of Chicago, who has been appointed
superintendent of the Panama railroad
TO succeed H. q. Prescott, has been the
superintendent of the Chicago Terminal
division Of the Rock Island railroad
system. He is a comparatively young
man and relinquishes a higher paying
position with the Rock Island system
to accept the new appointment which
carries salary of $4,000 per year. Mr..
Prescott, the retiring superintendent of
the Panama. road, will remain with that
company in an important position.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
Robbea Shooting Gallery.

II. a Hill reported to the police that
his shooting gallery, 2l0 Twenty-fifth
street was broken into during Saturday
night and a number Of reviewers and
other articles of value stolen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
What You Pay

for extracts is important. but what YOU
get more important. Ask for BURNETT
VANILLA and get the best.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
BURGLARS THROW
GROCER IN CELLAR
c. W. 0'NeiIl Injured by Robbers and
Store Set on Fire.
TELLS CONFUSING STORIES
CAPT. EARL HURT WHILE AT
WORK ON BLAZE.

Burglars struck down c. W. O'NeiH in
his grocery store on Third South and
Third East street, threw him into the
cellar and thea set fire to the place.
When the fire department arrived Cap
tain NJ. W. Earl Of chemical No. was
badly injured by falling through the trap
down which O'Nein had been thrown.
Both police and fire departments are in
Nestigating the case
O'Neili told confused story Suffer-
ms from his burns, he was taken 20 his
nome, Cos Market avenue. There Dr. S
y. A Downing attended him. The ply
is his chief ailment His burns will heal.
according to DR.. Downing. within a few
days sufficiently to allow him to get out.
Struck and Thrown in Cellar.
As told to Mrs.. o'Nein. this is the
story Of the grocer;
He had been driving with his wife He
left her at his home and went back to
ms store, in the rear of which he stables
then started for the Street. he saw GA =
dim light in the grocery store and went
INTO INTO the place. fearing fire The front
When he was inside the place. O'NeiH
was seized by a man. He was struck
oyer the head by a weapon. he thought
Then he was forced through a tran door
into the cellar. Three men did this. They
S LtSmpled over and about him as they
A lamp, was thrown on top of O'Nenrs
f LOTT as ne lay in the cellar A binding
Iiash followed. FLAMES enveloDed him.
he ran uD to the street floor The bur
glars had vanished. He telephoned for
the IRE department
No Signs of Blow.
Neighbors heard something in the store
Ihey ran TO the place To them -O'NefII
He was frantic. apparently. from pain
and seemed to grow worse He WAS taken
70 ms nome and there DR.. Downing get
another story from him. DR.. Downing
''o'NeiIl was burned quite badly about
Doth hands, one wrist his lips and fore
head. He was in a state Of high nervous
excitement. He is now resting more
easily, and will, think. be able to be
his head. nor did 1 discover signs of
"O'Nein told me that when he er+era5
his store three men ran out and there
was binding flash Someone struck
MIN, ne thought. with a weapon of some
sort, and then he was thrown into the
This statement. the doctor said. was
given in fragments and while the patient
De considered as a coci version of what
had happened
Unable to Find Lamp.
When the department came the only
light was from the fire in the basement
Captain Earl. in running to the rear OF
was open, and In falling part way down
INTO the cellar dislocated his wrist. He
Will be off duty for some time.
The fire. according to members of the
department, showed evidence of Kerosene.
but they say also that they could find
no lamp. Members of the police depart
ment. including Chief William Lynch.
Detective George Chase and Patrolman
lamp which O'NeiiI said had been
thrown. The cellar was Uttered with
boxes. and among these the firemen had
worked. A number Of people had heen
IN the store and had tried to put out
the flames.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
o. J. Sharp Coal CO..

70 Main street. Telephone 7Iq. ADth-
racite coal shipped from mines daily.
No old coal Summer rate to Sept. /
$3.50 per ton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
RESCUED IN MID-OCEAN.
Crew of Wster-Logged Bark Taken
off by Liner.

London, Aug 27.-When passing
Lizard Head today on her voyage from
Baltimore to London. the Atlantic
transport line steamer Maryland
signa1led that she had on board a crew
of the Norwegian bark +. g. Sieben
which she rescued in mid-ocean. She
reported that she fell in with the
Sieben, August "a. IN latitude 10 de-
grees north, longitude 20 degrees west
(about 600 miles west OF Lizard Head,
and took the crew from their water
logged vessel. Before abandoned the
hulk was set on fire. When last seen
the derelict was blazing fiercely.
The r c Sieben in command of Cap
tain Kundsen, sailed from Conway,
Wales, August 8, in ballast for Tangier
y s.. to load lumber for the United
Kingdom She was a wooden vessel
Of go tons, was built at Apendade
Germany in 1880 and was owned b. s.
A. Olsen & Son of Lyngoer. Norway
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
Dunlap Hats

VIII be placed on sale Aug. so We
are exclusive agents Brown, Terry &
Woodruff Co., Tel. 1873. 166 Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28
Or. E. M. keysOr's Method of Filling

teeth is painless. 162 Main street. Auer-
bach Bldg. Phones r. II20-K. Ind. III.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

by false reports of this character In
1873, for example, old Ben" Garfield,
who roamed the plains. with his tall,
gaunt wife for companion, followed
a bunch of buffalo from the northern
edge Of what is now Oklahoma to the
sand hills of Nebraska thinking to
kill big white bull at the head of his
harem of cows. And, after three weeks
OF patient stalking, Canneld did kill
the bull, only to find that he was Gov
cred with a coat of whitewash, which
gave him the appearance of being
white in fact. An explanation of this
phenomenon would not be needed by
people familiar with the natural lime
beds OF western Kansas. The habit
of the buffalo is to roll in every pool
of water or hole of mud which he
comes to. The well-known buffalo
wallow," still to be seen over the great
plains, was the product of this habit.
Canfelds' buffalo had simply been roll
ing in bed Of the native lime, which
coated his hide, when dried in the sun,
with kind of plaster. And no doubt
these lime holes could account for
many of the white buffaloes so often
reported by hunters
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
Game Of Noted Men.

The hostess begins by saying: 81
know celebrated poet, the first part
Of whose name is very black, and the
last is an elevation"
The player, responding "Coleridge, "
in turn describes the name of some
other noted person. For instance
Shakespeare, saying: Il know a
noted author and poet, the first part
of whose name people do when cold
the last part is weapon of warfare. =
Only give the profession, nothing
else. The following names readily
lend themselves to this simple but in.
structiye little game:
Wordsworth.
Shelley (Shell-lea).
Church-hill
Webster.
Wal-pole.
Washington.
Long-fellow.
Blackstone.
Isaac Walton (Eye-sack-wall-ton).
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
Why LIahtnIna Rod IS Pointed.


Many boys and girls have wondered,
no doubt, why lightning rod is al
ways pointed instead of having a
blunt end, and also why the point is
made of metal that does not easily
corrode.
The object of lightning rod is to
empty cloud of its electricity noise
lessly and harmlessly, and it must be
pointed because a point offers no re-
sistance to the discharge. The de
gree of resistance is in proportion to
the surface of the object, and a point
has the least possible surface.
If the rod had ball or a knob on
the top, the discharge would be VIC
lent. The difference is shown in dis
charging a battery You will be sur
prised to hear. perhaps. that the full
charge from large battery may be
passed harmlessly through your body
If l. be received through the point of
needle. The same charge received
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
The Left Hand.

1t is strange that so strong preju-
dice against the left hand has lived
and increased for centuries when
there is no natural or physiological
reason for it. Examination of the
skeleton of a person who was strong,
healthy and well formed in life shows
that the bones of the left hand and
arm are just as large and capable as
those of the right.
The study of physiology shows, too,
that the muscles and ligaments and
cartilages that fastened that persons
arms to his body and gave them the
power of motion were made to do
their work just as well on one side Of
the body as on the other. If the left
side was the weaker it was because of
the failure to exercise it as freely as
the other.
Monkeys, cats, dogs and other ami
mails would be likely to smile-if they
could-at the absurdity of their paws
being rights and lefts, or that the paw
on one side could do more than the
paw on the other. And yet we hear
boys and girls say that they can
throw a ball, handle a racket, or do
anything else only with the right hand,
which seems to prove that they are
not so well formed as the animals
named. On the contrary. a human
being is the most perfectly formed OF
all creatures.
1t is all a matter Of education.
Children should be taught to use the
left hand as much as the right. There
would be no difficulty about it at all /;
but when a person who has been
taught to use the right hand to the
exclusion of the left attempts to use
the left, of course he finds it awk-
ward and discouraging. Let him per.
sist, however, and he viii soon be
able to use one hand as well as he
does the other
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
Flag of Paul Jones

Paul Jones flag, the first national
ensign to be displayed at the mast
head of United States ship. the first
to be saluted by foreign power, and
the first to wave in victory on a for
eign sea, was made for him at a sew
ing bee by the girls of Portsmouth. N.
H. They contributed portions of their
best silk gowns for the purpose. The
following dialogue took place in the
Ross house in Philadelphia between
Miss Mary Langdon, one of the max
ers of the flag, and Commodore Jones
upon his return from his victorious
cruise in February, 1881.
Mary Langdon:
what fortune steers your Grant proUr
Again to greet our shore?
Good morrow to your laureled brow
Most gallant Commodorei
"You come with ship and trusty crew
And unexcelled renown;
But where's the flag we made for YOU
In drowsy Portsmouth town?
Right busily with shears and thread
We toiled that summer day
When safe beneath the gun crowned head
The saucy Ranger lay.
sat your behest our silken best
Unstintedly we gave;
With ruthless zeal we piled the steel
So that your flag might wave.
I'VE found its white and crimson bars
In Carries cedar press;
We pieced its galaxy of stars
From Helen's wedding dress;
''To make its azure aeld-aye, stin
/ think of it with tears
My capuchin of glossy twill
Fell victim to the shears
ITO guard its fame through storm and
You vowed in valiant tones;
Then where's that honored flag to-day,
Chevalier John Paul Jones?"
Paul Jones:
"Ah Mistress Mary. vows more deep
Than aught of lip or eye
Were those l made when your flag dis
Its Stars in gladdened sky.
Twas a gaudy strip on a pirate ship
Twas the vaunt of a lawless sword
But 1t rose, the sign of a free born line
When the Gallo salvo roared.
Twas a Haunting brag of Rebel
When it snapped in British breeze;
But it waved our steel to conquered
In the hes wash of the Irish seas.
''In the pallid light of a dreadful night
saw its cluster shine
Ger the grimmest grip of ship and ship
In the lore of the foaming brine.
1T gloried wide in shot-rent pride
Above our mizzen-truck;
Our boarders swarmed the splintered
side,
The beaten foe had struck.
but my brave old ship was a shattered
hulk:
Her shot holes gaping wide,
She lay. a rolling. helpless bulk
That drank the bubbling tide.
''Yet still the starry dladem
Was bright above the wreck,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
The White Buffalo.

The disappearance of the stuffed
white buffalo from the Kansas state
house, whence it was taken by its own
er, who left It on exhibition there
years ago, recalls the day when the
white buffalo figured in hunters tales.
There was a tradition among the
hunters that some one had hung up
a reward of $1,000 for the skin of a
white buffalo. There were white buff
faloes-albinos, such as are found at
rare intervals in all the families of
the animal kingdom-but the number
of those which existed purely in the
Imagination was in wonderful dispro-
portion. Every buffalo hunter could
tell stories of having seen and pur-
sued white buffaloes. Many hunter
has been sent on wild goose chase
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
To Ward OF stinus.

Hornets and bees are not so apt to
sting a person If he keeps absolutely
still, but this is not necessarily due to
the fact that they do no see readily,
but simply that they do not recognize
an enemy in a perfectly stationary
body. The accumulated intelligence of
generations has shown them that still
objects, like posts. stones, or trees.
are not enemies, and that disturbance
of their nests is always occasioned by
objects having power Of motion 1t
thus follows that if hornets nest be
disturbed or if wild bees nest be
agitated, danger of singing is much
less if the person keeps perfectly still.
From Nature aud Science. in st.
Nicholas.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
S~"VS"~""vD"~s~%o
! Summer Afternoon Reading !

ent and that If he desired to disrobe
to retire back of the horse sheds,
which Sike done.
Where was Lem all this time you
ask.
Lem was still hangln onto the stee-
pie for dear life and hollering Help"
at the top of his lungs. But where
was they any help to be found? Help
was scarce. What could a person do
to help Lem and him hangin in mid
air as you might say 40 it, from the
ground?
Rev. Moore, our beloved pastor, hol-
Tered up to Lem to try lifting his
voice in prayer. What Lem replied to
our pastor is not fit to appear in print,
so we wisely expurgate it. Everybody
present was awful shocked at the hor-
rible profanity WITCH flowed from
LENS lips to the pastor and Lem be-
ing on the threshold of deth as you
might say. and also a church member
hisseIf in addishion.
While people was ringing their
hands in despair and wondering what
to do. Seth Dewberry, our lion-hearted
town constubble. slept forward and
raised his hand and said, wait, men,
| will save him!"
Seth then elm up into the belfry
and detached the rope from the bell,
and then crawled out into the pick
of the roof and coiled the rope up in
his hand, and told Lem he was going
to throw it up to him and for him to
ketch it,
You must think / be durn fool, .
hollers Lem. IF let loose my hollis
to ketch that rope, I'll fall and brake
my dad-blamed neck!"
But Seth told Lem he thought he
could spare one hand to grab it, and
Lem said he would try, and Seth
throwed up the rope and it fell be-
tween Lem and the steeple, and Lem
then wound the end of it around the
top of the steeple and tied it fast and
then he slid down the rope to safety,
and him and Seth both come down to
the ground, and everybody slept for
ward and shuk hands with Lem, and
told him they never expedited to see
him alive again.
The bell rope still remains tied to
the church steeple, and will probably
remain there till it rots, and how the
pastor is going to ring the bell for
services is mystery. Cy Hoskins
ladder was broke in two by the fall
and Cy says if the Ladies' Aid don't
pay for it he'll bring suit against the
church for damages. The Ladies' Aid
says they will never pay for the lad
der, and that if Lem Brown don't
come to time and pay for the paint
he split he'll git hisself into trouble
Lem says they can Whistle for theil
paint far as he is concerned, because
he's agoing to take his name off the
church list, for if he hadn't of been q
church member he wouldn't of got
into SIGH a mess and come within g
hairs breadth of being killed in
stantly. "Bingville Bugle" Items in
the Boston Post
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

the cork. Now fill one bottle with
water up to the neck (See Fig. e.,
then lay it over an alcohol lamp,
while the other bottle Co rests on a
kitchen vessel on an exact level with
the other bottle.
over c hang funnel with its mar
row end either pinched or plugged
with cotton so that when filled with
cold water it will release the water
only drop by drop on the bottle Co
beneath.
AS the vapor from the heated water
in E enters it will condense, and
you will soon have, a small quantity
of distilled water
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

Pa an Ma.
When ma comes runnin down tn staii
She stops right In tn door,
An sort o makes a picture there,
An taps upon tn floor
iii pa looks up, an then she cries,
Wen, how Is this for style2'
An pa jus grunts an drops his eyes
An then / see him smile.
My pa sometimes he gets so mad
It's awful how he blows
About tn money ma has had
To keep herself in clothes.
An ma she tells him how she's tried
To please him all the while,
An pa he snorts an looks aside
An then see him smile.
An pa he growls an looks so grim,
a An then begins to knock,
When ma upstairs calls down to him,
Please come an hook my frock.
But ma she softly smoothes his hair
In such lovin' style,
Jus where tn gray is comm there
An then see him smile.
My pa has got temper bad
He's always full OF hight;
He scolds at ma an gets so mad
But ma amt scared a mite.
An yesterday / said to pa
Twas after tea awhile
Il guess you think lot of ma
An then l see him smile
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
How to pistill Water.

There is much use for distilled
(pure) water in every house. No eye
wash, for instance, should ever be
used unless made with distilled water.
But is costs something to get little
distilled water from the drug store, SO
most people do without it.
Your home need not do without it,
however, for you can easily keep 1t
supplied with distilled water-a small
quantity, at least.
Take couple of bottles and pre-
pare cork that will fit so tight into
the necks of both bottles that they
will be alright. Bore hole through
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
THE HOME MADE STEAM ENGINE AT work.

tached to a Dashboard. so that the
two holes will be at the top of the
boiler, The side posts should rise at
least two inches higher than the top
of the boiler. and should be connected
at the top by piece of stout wire,
which will serve as an axle to stiff
wheel. like a water wheel. or the pad
die of steamboat
The wheel is made by taking a
large pill box, making Sits in its sides,
and slipping in pieces of stiff card
board. which project at least half an
inch on each side of the box. When
these are in place. fill the box with
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

through. a ball tipped discharger
would kill you instantly. Besides, a
point attracts the lightning. and thus
keeps it from striking other parts OF
the building. The point is made OF
metal that does not easily corrode be-
cause corrosion or rust. increases the
resistance. and rusty point, there
aore, might cause violent and des-
tructive discharge
If you have lightning rod on your
house. no doubt it mas emptied many
a cloud Of it's electricity without any
body's knowing anything about it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

| ing the paddles of the wheel, viii
cause it to spin very rapidly.
A grooved wooden wheel may be
glued to one side of the paddle wheel,
and q string run around the groove
may be connected with any of the toys
that are to be set in motion by minia-
ture steam engines. You may use for
the grooved wheel a small spool such
as buttonhole silk Is wound on.
This engine win serve for your
amusement as well as purchased
one. and an ingenious boy can inn
prove on II and elaborate II as much
as he likes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

trumpet 1t may have a strident
sound. but it will, nevertheless. be a
spoken word,
Another good imitation of the hui
man voice may be made by taking
large empty spool and stretching
across the hole at one end two rubber
bands. The bands must be close to-
gether at their edges, but must not
overlap You can tack or tie the ends
over the side of the spool. When you
blow through the other end of the
spool the bands vibrate like the hui
man vocal chords and make a sound
something like the human voice.
which will change according to the
force with which you blow.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

An easily constructed steam engine
may be made by any boy with very
simple materials. An old baking pow
der box will do for the boiler. Fasten
its lid to it with shellac varnish, and
punch two holes in the side of the
box. one about the size of a pinhole,
the other as large as slate pencil.
The larger hole must be fitted with a
wooden plug or cork.
Your boiler is now complete, but it
must be fastened at its two ends be
tween. two upright posts that are at
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

damp sand to steady the slips, and
keep them put ON the lid of the box
and fasten it by glue so that it will
not open. Arrange this wheel on tie
wire axle so that one side of it
comes directly above the pinhoIe in
the boiler
Now remove the plug from the
larger hole and fill the boiler with
water; then close it, and light an alco-
hol lamp under the boiler. When the
water boils the steam will issue from
the pinhole in the boiler. and, strik.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03

Ard could take their flag from them
My dead upon her deck?
Down by the head to oceans bed
She plunged beneath the swell:
And last of all. a sillxen pail,
Her banner waved farewell.
My deathless dead / left to her,
That would not know defeat
My gallant ship their sepulchre,
Your flag their winding sheeti"
Mary Langdon
Twas nobly donei Twas but their
due;
For who but those should claim
That riddled fiag-the fearless crew
That died to give it fame?
80 may it float though none may mark
Beneath the Northern Sea,
Above the unforgotten bark
That sank in victory"
Arthur Guiterman in New York Times
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-03
Tov That VIII Talk.

Would you like to make a talking
machine? If you have a toy trumpet,
put the small end in your mouth and
your two hands over the large, or
flannel, end Now blow through the
trumpet and open and shut your
hands once quickly The syllable
ma" will be sounded, and If you re-
peat this in quick succession, the
word mamma win be spoken by the
The oasis., 1905-03-18

twelve miles soutbeast from tho
 Mexico mine aHd eighteen miles wesf from AriVechi 4 ten foot ledge shows good orc all the way across. Two feet are native eop- per running 55M The remainder of the ledge goes from i5ls to 40E copper
 Last week Mr. George Y. Beebe was into La Colorado from Ciene- guita. Saturday morning he start ed upon his return to the camp. escorted to Soyopa by attach ment of twenty cavairymen. In the journey Mir, Beebe was accom- panied by metaliurgist, who was going to Cieneguita to have charge of the metallurgical work when the shelter commences in the Spring.