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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04

Lo Maun of In..s r.rar.s the discovery
Of the oldest Dos. lotto. 3. the world II
was written . brick out 200 b. c
b. Baby IIuiHu.
Nor slate nor parchment held the scrceC
The i'1.IpuiIp lover wrought;
SOlidity ru deemed his need,
When be would iain uanscrihe his
thought
lie did the trick
Upon brick
Which has survived the flight Of years
The tolls of time the dirty Of tears.
Tho modern wOODr. with his page
Scented ana tinted for the quest
Would stand .oor chance, did he engage
This ancin1, over from the West,
Who. words outweigh
\ poets lay
or lCugthiCst hurst Of minstrelsy
That Ger uutitiuuod maids decree.
A foolish fancy then II Is
That bids one choose q crested sheet
Which easily may 20 amiSs
Among the pcIils Of the street
Give me the ways
OF Old,n days.
And II a brick can win me Her
A brick III make my messenger.
James owen Tryon in New York Times
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04


About the tree.
From rose to rose,
The humble bee
A humbling goes;
And oft he throws
This catch sublime:
While clover CLOVIS
It's summertime.
His ira In lee
Sercnely flows
While whlrling free;
And while he blows
His horn or nose
In notes that rhyme,
When well ne trows
It's summertime.
Upon a spree
He gayer grows
And ducks. care free,
The garden hose,
An ~ his pose
At MONDAY prime
And twilight's close
IT'S summertime.
ENVOl.
While he kotows
His pantOmime
Most clearly shows
'Tis summertime.
r.. X. Munkittrick.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04

cure sores; dried Lizards are eliica-
cious in kidney troubles.
The Chinese are expert gold workers
and their shops are to be found fire.
quently. They work from 8 am to J !
d. m. and get 50. 50 a day.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04
Only Two Jews.

In this motley crowd, two Jews have
found an abiding place. They have
store and get fair patronage its
said. These are the only white men in
business in Chinatown.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04
Surely an Arectionate Baby.

Surely an AHectIonate Baby.
Friend suppose the baby is fond
Of you?
Papa-Fond Of me? Why, he sleeps
all day when I'm not at home and
stays up all night Just to enjoy my so
ciety!-Town and Country.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04
Uncle Henry on the orumbIers.

There is one thing that I've noticed. and
III tell l. to YOU plain,
These here folks that do the gIumblin'
IN the sunshine and the rain
Are the people that get weary merely
thinkin' Of their work
And who never IAN move lively tin some
body gNoh jerk.
When Won hear man cOmplainin' VOL,
don't need 10 see his face
For TO ten Just what he looks like or TO
lean about his case.
You can rest assured he's seedy. and IT'S
always safe to guess
That no matter what hes gettln' ne Is
RELY carnin less.
S. +. Kiser.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04

I'm lccIn dner than ever rye been /"
The poor consumptive should not be
the victim of experiment, as he often is,
but the moment the dread disease mani
tests its presence he should be given Bo-
sChee's German Syrup-a pure, non-alco-
holic medicine that is made specially for
the cure of consumption, and has world
wide fame as a certain remedy for Catarrh,
colds, coughs Group, sore throat and
all bronchial affections in old and young.
1t is sold in all civilized countries, and
has been famous as a consumption cure
for almost half a century.
Trial bottle, 25c. Big bottle, 7sc. At
all druggists throughout the world.
For sale by City Drug Store, Logan.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-10-04
Sheared.

Yeast-Barbadoes has sheep
which has no wool
Crimsonbeak-It must look like
fellow does after he goes up against
Wall street for the first time
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
PUTS A STOP
TO SHAVING
Police and Fire Board Sets
Its Foot Down Upon Dis
count of Salary Warrants

OAKLAND, April 19.-Warrant shaw
ing must cease in the police and fire de-
partments. Such is the order issued to-
day by the Commissioners. Cashing Of
salary warrants in advance is included
in the edict of prescription. The rule is
aimed at the money lenders, who
charge enormous rates of interest for
their loans upon the assigned claims.
Mayor Mott, as spokesman for the
Board of Police and Fire Commission
ers, explained their action as follows:
The practice of warrant shaving has become
intolsrable. Firemen and policemen have been
contributing ST to $o a month out OF their pay
for the benefit OF money lenders who make ad-
vances to the men. This must cease The
der may work a hardship on some of the men.
but in the long they will reap clean
financial gain They need the money that goes
to the money lenders. and should not be per-
mitted to pay the exorbirant interest charges
that enforced.
The Commissioners add that failure
to obey the new order will be taken as
sufficient reason to dismiss the offender
from the city's service.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
MAPPING OUT
RAILWAY LINES
Rival Surveying Parties at
Work in San Mateo County
Cause Much Speculation
LAND is BEING BONDED
Option Secured on Property
in the NeighborhOod of
the Proposed Route
Special Dispatch to The Call.

REDWOOD CITY. April 1.-Two ri
val surveying parties are at work in
this county, but it is not known whom
pieces Of land are being secured and
the greatest secrecy Is being MAIN
tanned. The Southern Pacific. the West
ern Pacific and the Santa Fe compa-
nies and corporations OF smaller mag
nitude figure in the speculations which
have arisen from the quiet bur strenu-
GUS labors Of surveyors and land pur-
chasers.
A surveying party headed by w. 3.
Rodgers Is mapping out a route near
Big Creek, approximately half way
from Santa Cruz to Pescadero. This
party is supposed to represent the
Western Pacific Company. A Southern
Pacific surveying party is running a
line from Boulder Creek to Pescadero.
At the same time the Southern Pacific
Company is bonding property from
Santa Cruz, by way OF Garfield Park
up the coast to Pescadero.
Southern Pacific engineers are ngur-
ing the cost Of various routes. and
upon their decision will rest the route
construction. 1t is estimated that the
cost of widening tunnels and changing
the narrow-gauge railroad from Santa
Cruz to Alameda into a broad gauge
would be about 81, ,000. 900 and IL is as
serted that a through line along the
coast. by way of Pescadero. to the
Ocean View broad-gauge. which Is a
distance Of sixty miles, would cost no
more
Such a road. however, would offer the
tremendous advantage to the Southern
Pacific Company of Gripping any COM
petition and at the same time opening
a rich and prosperous country included
in the Pescadero and Halfmoon Bay
valleys. One OF the immediate needs OF
this locality. and one that offers oppor-
tunity of material profit to the railroad
company. is that Of the Santa Cruz
Lime Company, which seeks to tap the
San Vicente grant. immense quantities
of bituminous rock and lime are now
hauled from here by wagons.
There is still another route that may
be taken. 1t would be by way of Fell
ton, leaving the narrow gauge road at
Boulder Greek. running by way of Ben
Lomond and over the Pescadero ridge
TO the broad-gauge railroad near Red
wood City, a distance of about seventy
four miles.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
INVALID MEETS
AWFUL DEATH
Special Dispatch to me Can.

SPOKANE. April 1s.-Mrs. Samuel
Weller, an invalid. who lived fourteen
miles south Of Ritzville. was burned to
death yesterday afternoon. Recently
her husband went to Paha to work and
left man to take care of the orchard
and also to look after Mrs. Weller.
How the accident occurred win prob
ably never be known. The woman's
screams of agony summoned assistance
to the house. but by that time she had
been fatally burned. 1t is presumed she
was attempting to start a fire and that
her clothing became ignited Owing to
her feebleness. due to a long spell OF
sickness. she was unable to extinguish
the blaze.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
SAYS HER LAND
HAS NO VALUE

OAKLAND, April 19.-There is to be
a contest over the property of the late
Frank Silva Of Pleasanton. who left an
esate of over 5000. His second
daughter, Maria Silva Enos, says that
her father left her quarter-section of
the worst land in that part of the
country, and that 1t represents an in-
finitesimal part of his estate.
In an opposition to the probating of
his will the daughter says that her.
father was in love with his niece,
Mariana Lopez. and that he wished to
marry her, but the law forbade it. He,
however took her to his home, and for
her opposition in this matter Mrs. Enos
says she was practically disinherited.
The will was made within few hours
of Silva's death, and she AYERS he was
incompetent at that time to make one.
To support this she points out that he
has left 50x100 foot lot on the main
street of Livermore, in the heart of the
business section, for a park, which,
however, the town is not to get for
fifty years. He also directs that SO a
month shall be paid for masses on his
soul for thirty years, but they are not
to be begun until he has been dead
twenty years.
The property is divided among the
widow and six children.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20

GILCREST MANSION CLAIMED
BY RIVAL PURCHASERS.
PROPERTY Is SOLD BY TWO AGENTS

OAKLAND, April 19.-Battle over
the purchase by c. L. Walker. presi-
dent of the Red River Lumber Com
pany Of Minnesota and several times
millionaire of the Northwest, of the
John Gilcrest mansion at Oakland and
Monte Vista avenues is impending.
I. c. Coogan. prominent attorney
of San Francisco and Oakland, is also
named as a buyer of the beautiful
Piedmont home. but Walker holds pos
session of the property and has set
tied down intending to stay
Gilcrest, who is land agent in oregon
for Miller q Lux, the cattle kings, has
scent Of the contest. He left his af-
fairs in the hands of E. A. Heron, the
capitalist. who holds a power of at
torney and has taken the first steps
toward recovering the mansion in the
hill district.
The deal by which Walker acquired
the Gilcrest home was completed last
week through the Realty Bonds and
Finance Company, which had held g.
contract on the place. While negotia-
tions were in progress with the Min
nesota millionaire the firm of ]. H.
Macdonald & Co was handling the
same property for E. A Heron, who
Represented Nz1lCIcSl. AllOIucy AOOSdu
appeared as a purchaser and had made
a tender for the handsome residence,
which had been accepted. Meanwhile
the Walker transaction was consum-
mated, and correspondence with Gil
crest, who was in Oregon, seemed to
confirm the deal.
Three days after Walker had bought
the place and was sending artisans to
install household belongings notice
was served on the Realty Bond and
Finance Company that its contract Of
sale with Gilcrest had expired. This
was after word had been sent to Heron
that the sale had been made to Walker.
The claim is set up by Heron that
the contract of sale had expired many
months ago, that there was no proper
notice sent TO Gilcrest as TO the trans
action with Walker, and that the
agents had no authority to make it.
Neither Of the realty firms will discuss
the sale or the steps that may be taken
in view Of the involved situation.
At the former Gilcrest residence to-
day it was announced that the Walk
ers had taken possession regularly;
that the keys had been turned over to
the purchaser and that there was moth
ing but a straight buy and sell trans
action, so far ais they were concerned.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
WIVES ASSIST
In BURCLARIES
special Dispatch to IN. Call.

TACOMA. April 1s.-Alfred Greeley
and William Hudson, now in Jail at
Sedro. are accused by their young
brides of having compelled them to aid
in systematic thieving operations. The
wives are slender girls. aged Is and II
years. Mrs. Hudson has been married
two weeks and Mrs. Greeley i've
months. They say that contrary to
their wishes their husbands forced
them to go out nights and take part in
robbing stores and houses
Last week officers of Skagit County
made an investigation, following nu-
merous robberies about Sedro and Ly-
man. They raided Greeley's ranch
and found the house well stocked with
canned goods, cigars and goods stolen
from various stores. Among logs and
In stumps were found dozens of stolen
articles which were later to be shipped
and sold in job lots. Following their
arrest Greeley and Hudson admitted
their guilt to the officers.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
COLLEGE MEMS
NOVEL SCHEME
University Students Propose
That Athletic Work Shall
Be Given Desired Credits
PETITION rs PREPARED
Authorities Will Be Asked
to Make Field or Track
Feats Count for Units
rs PREPARED

BERKELEY. April 1s-An innovation
at the University of California is pro-
posed by men who are interested par
tfcularly In athletics there, 1t being de-
sired that athletes shall be given schol-
arship credits for work done as such.
The iconoclasts who propose the idea
would have SO much football work rank
against so much Greek or Latin lore
learned or studied and other athletic
feats in proportion.
A petition, addressed to the univer-
s1ty authorities, asking that the new
plan be adopted Is In circulation on the
campus, and when sufficient signatures
are procured the document will be filed
with Recorder Sutton. The petition
reads as follows:
To the honorable faculty of tho University
OF California: Whereas, Athletics are encour-
aged Dy members of the faculty and students
are urged to participate In the same; and.
Whereas. Students who devote time to ath-
letics are Graded in parallel with students who
are enabled to spend the time thus saved In
perfecting themselves in their courses and,
whereas. 1t is manifestly unfair to ex-
pcct or athletes the same scholastic attain
ments as OF students who spend the aforesaid
time III preparing first grade recitations; and.
Whereas. A high degree OF proficiency in
fame OF the university, and to develop the
highest possible degree of proficiency, the
dersigned petitioners would suggest that the
following amendments be made In the grading
of elective credits:
The following athletic sports to wit: Foot
ball. tennis. baseball and boating. shall be
graded by a committee Of three members here
after to be appointed. TO be appointed by
the faculty. one by the associated students and
that the grading be along the following lines:
Football. three hours credit. baseball. two
so one hour boating atm t two
represent California in intercollegiate contests.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
AGED WOMAN
FACES DEATH
Falls From the Seawall and
Struggles Several Hours
to Escape Incoming Tide

OAKLAND April 1e. = Exhausted
by a long struggle against death in the
cold waters Of the bay, Mrs. Mary
Wells, an aged woman, whose home
is in Vincennes, Ind, was found early
this morning lying almost unconscious
on the rocks of the seawall at the Ala
media mole by a switchman who had
been attracted to the spot by the aged
WOmsn's feeble means for help. The
unfortunate woman had become con-
fused in the darkness and. wandering
TO the edge OF the seawall, had fallen
into the water.
Mrs. Wells struggled beyond the
reach of the waves and then fell ex-
hausted on the slippery rocks, where
she lay for nearly six hours in the
drenching rain before being rescued
by the switchman and other trainmen.
She was at once placed on board
special train and hurried to the Re
ceivtng Hospital, where restoratives
were APPLIED. After several hours
work the hospital surgeons pro-
nounced her out OF danger.
To-day, after she had partly recov-
cred from the effects of her terrible
experience, Mrs. Wells denied that she
had attempted to end her life and said
she had lost her way IN the dark, final
ly falling off the mole into the water
She said she had come from San
Diego two weeks ago, after the death
Of her only son, who had been work
ing in the southern part of the State.
For a time after arriving in this
city Mrs. Wells found employment In
caring for an invalid woman, but the
work was too hard and she was forced
10 give II up. She then answered an
advertisement for a woman to care for
children. in the country, and made an
appointment TO meet the woman who
advertised at s o'clock last night at
the Alameda mole to take the train.
In some way she nissed the person
she was TO meet and after searching
in vain for her Mrs. Wells became diz-
" and, missing her way in the dark,
walked over the edge of the mole
This happened early in the evening
and she must have lain where she fell
for nearly six hours, for it was almost
o'clock when she was found by the
trainmen. At the hospital Mrs. wells
gave her age as 81 years. She is with
out funds and says that she does not
know what she will do now that she
has failed TO secure the position she
expected.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
BRAKEMAN SAVES CARS.

OAKLAND. April 1S.-Bruised and
bleeding from dozen cuts, John T.
Davis, a brakeman in the employ of
the Southern Pacific Company, pur-
sued two runaway boxcars which had
broken away from a wrecked train at
Long Wharf tonight and succeeded
in setting the brakes just as the wheels
of the first car left the rails at the
end of the wharf.
AS a freight train was backing
down the wharf the trucks of a car
in the middle suddenly dropped off
and fell through the wharf i1to the
water. Davis was riding on the
wrecked car and he was thrown to the
wharf, but he dashed after the two
cars that had become detached.
Davis, who was painfully injured, was
taken to his home, 1867 Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
SECRETARY LOEB JOINS
THE PRESIDENTS PARTY
VIII Return Laden With News as
to the Success OF the
HINT

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo, April
19-With President Roosevelt and Sec
retary Loeb in camp twenty miles
from the nearest telegraph office, no
news of the hunt came out OF the
woods to-day. When Loeb returns to-
morrow, it Is expected. he Will bring
information of the luck that has at
tended the Presidents hunt for big
game. The President keeps a personal
diary and consequently the corre-
spondents marooned here await the
return of the secretary with much inn
patience.
Storms of snow. hall and rain ragged
about the mountains in the direction
OF the east divide nearly all day and
Loeb must have had a rough. uncom-
Portable trip
DENVER, April 19.-Parson Thomas
A Uzzell of the Tabernacle in this
city to-day sent to President Roose-
velt In care of Secretary Loeb a mes
sage asking that he be given the car
casses of the bears killed during the
Presidents hunt. for distribution
among the poor of Denver. A note
indorsing the matter heartily was sent
to the President by Former Adiutant
General Sherman NJ. Bell
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
NAMES TOWLE
As INSPECTOR

OAKLAND, April 19.-John F..
Towle, a former president of the City
Council and lumber mill man for
many years in this city, was to-day
appointed Building Inspector by the
Board of Public Works. Towle was
the choice of Mayor Mott, who had
served in the Council with him and
holds his selection in high esteem for
integrity and ability. Towle was sworn
In and commenced the discharge Of his
duties at once.
The position Is an important one, as
the new inspector will be called upon
to interpret the building ordinance,
which Is an innovation in Oakland.
General control of building operations
will be in the Board of Public Works
At that office the necessary applica-
tion blanks for permits and the like
have been received, and work that has
been delayed pending the inspectors
appointment can now go forward with
out delay.
The board has decided that after
May Is no permits to stretch banners
across the public streets for advertis-
Ing purposes will he granted.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
Residents of San MateO In
Favor of Acquiring the
Plant Now in Operation
BOARD OF TRADE MOVES
Will Appoint a Committee
to Open Negotiations With
Owner of the Works
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN MATEo, April 1s.-President
Baskette Of the Board OF Trade mas
been authorized by that body TO appoint
a committee of three to negotiate with
William ]. Dingee for the purchase OF
the San Mateo Water Company's plant
on behalf of the people of San Mateo.
The movement has the sanction OF the
City Trustees. is the result OF several
years Of agitation for municipal own
ership and seems to have the unanim-
GUS support of the people. The commit
tee when named will arrange confer
ence with Dingee. If a reasonable price
is named a proposition to issue bonds
to cover the purchase price will be sub
mitted to vote of the people
The present water system Is owned
by Mrs. Alvinza Hayward, for whom
Dingee is attorney and agent on this
coast. He has intimated that II the
people of San Mateo are sincere In a
desire TO purchase the property he will
take up the matter with their repre-
Sentatives.
The present value OF the plant is said
to be about s125,000 though eight years
ago Hayward offered to sell Ii for $780,
600. Since then betterments to the
value of about $4,000 have been added,
including a twenty-flve-acre tract on
the marsh, with large pumping plant
and several artesian wells. These wells
now supply most of the water to con-
sumers, but in addition the company
owns a perpetual water supply from
the Spring Valley Company of 10000
gallons a day. The value OF this par
ticular asset Is undetermined
The people want municipal water
works, and If the negotiations reach the
bond issue stage they will carry by a
large majority. They also desire a
lighting plant. and as the power neces-
sary to operate the water system
would also serve for lights 1T is pro-
posed to secure both in one bond issue
In taking up the question the Board
of Trade, which is thoroughly repre-
sentative. is but carrying out the wishes
of the people.
The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
FATHER FINDS
LONG LOST SON
special Dispatch to The Can.

PORTLAND. Ore. April 1s.-AIfred
Shepherd Of Battle Creek. Mich, 65
years old and worth s5oO.oO0, to-day
met his son, for whom he has been
searching for twenty years.
When 16 years old, Fred D. Shepherd
left home to be a cowboy. For years
his father searched for him, but In
vain. The boy moved to Portland
finally, AM a few weeks ago sent his
father a paper. scribbling his initials
on 1t. The father could scarcely be-
lieve that his son was alive. He asked
the police here, however, to find his
son If possible and they did so. Accom-
panied by his wife, Shepherd hurried to
Portland, and to-day was escorted by
a detective to his sons home The
meeting was so affecting that the
father collapsed, but soon regained con-
sciouSueSS.