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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

house building, which was sold to the
bank by the government,
1t developed during the house debate
over the appropriation, a debate that
was led by Congressman williams and
Sulzer. that the National City bank
has never paid dollar in taxes on
the building. and that no deed has
ever been given to it by the govern
ment for the property. There is abso-
lutely nothing on record anywhere to
show that the building is not owned
by the government. and yet every year
congress has been appropriating $780,
500 to the bank as rent for the struc-
ture, which is still occupied as a Gus
tom house.
1t would be interesting to know why
no deed has ever passed. why no tax IS
have ever been paid. and why. under
such circumstances, it has been prop
er for the government to donate an
nually a comfortable fortune to the
Standard Oil company. Congressman
Hemenway, chairman of the appropri-
atoms committee. is on record as say
ing that the bank can sue somebody
and recover the money. We don't
know just how such suit could be
brought, but it is reasonably sure that
no action viii be filed.
The National City bank would hard
ly care to risk the exposure that might
result from an airing of this business
in court. II seems to us that il there
is any suit at all in the matter the
government should appear in the role
OF the plaintiff
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
HOW JAPs DEFY COLD.
Underground Dwellings For the Mi
kado's Soldiers in Manchuria.
0Chicago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


With November the cold weather be-
gins in Manchuria. and is increasingly
intense. Around Mukden the thermom-
eter does not usually fall below zero
CFahr). until the middle of December,
when night after night it may sink to
5, 10 and even 20 degrees below zero,
and during January to 80 below.
In the frequent northeasterly or
northwesterly billiards no human be-
ings on earth can live under canvas.
Some may be quartered in native
houses but where even suppoSing that
the owners should be ruthiessly turned
out, will accommodation be found for
SOC. 900 men.
The answer is simple. The Japanese
are already making use of underground
dwellings, such as the natives some
times use, and which were used by the
Russians during the winter after the
Boxers had destroyed their railway
buildings.
The soil of Manchuria, excepting in
certain places. is dry at this season. es-
pecialIy in the districts between Muk-
den and Lao Yang, where ii is largely
loess and sand.
The japanese. who hold the low hills
with gentle slopes. are in the better
position. The method Is to dig trench
about ten to twelve feet deep and vary
ing in width. but generally about nine
feet wide. A narrow stairway is cut
leading down to the south end. At the
base it is widened and door frame
set. up with a native door, turning on
wooden pivots.
The upper half of the door is open
work, which, being covered with the
opaque native window paper, admits
light. The sun shines at midday down
the steps. and, when the door is OPEN
ed. freshens and warns the room.
Immediately within. on one side. is a
cooking stove. camp oven or boiler. in
simple and primitive style, to which
10th Russians and Japanese are ac-
customed Along the length of the
trench is a platform some two feet and
half high and six inches wide. made
of hammered earth and rough I'M
burned bricks. Beneath this are several
simple fiues, up and down which the
smoke and heat from the cooking place
find their way, issuing at the end re-
mote from the entrance by a small
chimney cut in the solid ground.
On this platform, which resembles the
old style of greenhouse fiue and is
called by the Chinese a kang, many
men can sleep in warmth and comfort
on a rough mat or dried grass. This
mode of healing is not only economical.
but the fiues consume and carry off the
earth damp or carbonic acid gas which
always generates in underground
| dwellings,
Across the top of the trench rough
| pieces OF TIMBER or poles are laid, ana
on these kao-liang stalks or straw,
upon which is heaped the earth exca-
waited from the trench. This covering
keeps out the cold and is practically
shell proof No rain falls, and but lit
| tie snow, and the latter can. II desired
be swept off the roofs or mounds over
| the dwelling.
The japanese have access to a large
number OF the native surface coal
/ mines. where a coarse dust coal il
readily excavated. and can be. when
mixed with a little wet loose earth.
burned IN the rough cooking places re-
ferred to. in which grass, rubbish and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
FOR GOOD ROADS.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1S1, by Mr.. Rob
erts. an act in furtherance OF good
roads in the state. is measure that
contains much of merit. If it Shouts
become a law it is reasonable to he
heve that it would result in MANY i'm
proNements to the highways of the
commonwealth. And EVERYDAY N-bo
mas had the misfortune to travel over
them during certain seasons of the
year knows that they stand in sore
need OF Improvement.
Some of the salient features OF tba
Roberts bin are: The working OF CON
Victs, sentenced to serve less than ton
years, on the roads. and an appropri-
alton of $1,000 to each county, s27. 900
in all. to be used only on condition
That the county spends like sum on
the roads. Many people will undoubt-
ediy object to the convict labor fea-
turc.
1t seems to US that such objections
can only be Of a sentimental charac-
ter The convicts. in preparing road
material and in putting it down. az
contemplated by the bill. would he
Going that which would not be done
by free labor. This for the reason that
the counties have not the money with
which to employ free labor. The pro-
vision that each county must spenJ
as much as the state spends is an ad-
mirable one. It is a working ont Of
the principle that only those should
be helped who help themselves.
Another excellent feature OF the bill
is the provision that before any work
is done in whole or in part at the ex-
pense of the state all estimates, speci-
fications and plans for such work
must be submitted to and approved
by the state engineer. This WEI. i'm =
large measure. eliminate the graft that
has so often played a conspicuous part
in the use OF state funds for road Dur-
poses. County commissioners have a
little habit of giving the work to po-
litical favorites. and they never care
whether it is well done or not.
Sometimes, indeed, the work is not
done at all. but the favorite gets the
money. The biennial appropriations
for roads and bridges in this state
have thus become. in a measure, mini
atures of the rivers and harbors bills
passed by congress. The county's rep
resentative or representatives in the
Legislature are adjudged good or bad
representatives according as they get
much or little of the roads and bridges
fat"
Four Utah counties-Salt Lake. We
Der, Cache and Utah-pay at least "a
per cent of the state taxes There is
no equity in taking the money from
these counties and distributing it in
other counties where the returns are
out of all proportion to the expendi-
ture. The Roberts bill will, in a meas
ure, solve this problem. 1t starts with
all the counties on an equal footing
If some OF the counties do not use then
appropriation on the dollar for dol
lar basis, other counties may apply for
more of the money, and if there are
more applications than money a Pre-
rata distribution is provided for.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
SOCKS AS MONEY.
Their Convenient Use in 5ackwoods
Games of Chance.

ashland. Wis. Cor. Minneapolis Tri-
bune)
Ole Oleson. a 'lumberjack." walked INTO
town the other day carrying 1850 pairs Of
gloves and nittens, LIS pairs of socks
and eighty-three pounds of tobacco.
He Offered the goods for sale at about
one-fourth of their value ard was ar
rested on suspicion. He protested to the
police that he came into possession of
the goods honestly When pressed. he
declared that he won the articles at
poker in the lumber woods.
Oleson said he had been in the woods
many months. The IuInberjacks received
no money while in the woods. but Were
expected 70 wait until they returned to
town for their pay. AT the company
store In the woods the men could get
such articles as they desired, however,
having them charged against their time.
Accordingly, the men used merchandise
instead OF checks in their games.
Oleson said he played in good luck, and
in one game. where socks were the
stakes, he won l. 10 pairs of the hosiery
on three aces The other man held a
trio of kin~s.
In a game for mittens. Oleson said. the
limit was high and in three hours of play
he had mittens enough to supply Tegi-
ment of soldiers.
His story sounded reasonable and he
was released to go and cash in his
checks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
A DONATION STOPPED.

THE GOVERNMENT annual dona-
! ton of S130.6O0 to the Standard Oil
company. through the National City
bank OF New York. was headed off by
the Democrats in congress on Friday.
For several years this graft has been
a reproach TO the Republican major
fly The money has been going to
the bank. which is owned outright by
the Standard Oil company by way OF
rent for the old New York custom
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
The Careless Contributor.
CTid Bitg.O

Yes" said the editor. as he put his
gumbrush into the ink bottle and tried
TO paste on clipping with his pen-.'yes
the great fault of newspaper contrihu-
tors is careleSsness. Indeed" he con-
tinued. as he dropped the copy he had
been writing into the waste paper be $
ket, and marked "EditoriaI' across the
corner of a poem entitled AN Ode to
Death. contributors are terribly care
less. You would be surprised, said he.
as he clipped out column of fashion
notes and la beled them Agriculture"
to see the slipshod writing that comes
unpunctuated written on both sides of
the sheet. uleEible. unErammatiual stuff
Contributors are terribly careless. They
are
Just then the office boy came in. in that
dtctatorial and autocratic manner he
has and demanded moro COPY. and the
editor handed him the lox-e letter he had
just written to his sweetheart.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
A Deficient Cure.

gentleman from Kentucky recently
tod a story OF an old darby down south.
who was informed that is he were bit
ten, by snake. and drank a quart of
whisky. the snake would die and he would
go unscathed.
Oars only one trouble bout dat cure"
the old man said. Il knows whar dere S
plenty snakes, but whars 1 gwine ter git
de whisky
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

almost anything can also be consumed
as fuel.
While the first twelve to twenty feet
OF the plain and low hills now occupied
oy the armies are dry in winter. good
water can be found almost anywhere
at twenty-five TO thirty feet below the
surface.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

Would you refuse to pick up few dol
lars if you saw them lying on the side
wsIk7
You are refusing to save some Of them
if you need suit. overcoat or under
wear. and do not buy it while the prices
on heavy goods are reduced to the point
where profit vanishes.
Glance over the mems suits that we are
selling for SO. Let the material the cut
and the finish DO the talking. and tell you
that they are worth s21 to SIS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

The United States senate yesterday
adopted a resolution directing the
sergeant-at-arms not to permit flowers
to be taken into the chamber here
after. This will doubtless save some
money TO senator's who have been in
the habit of sending bouquets TO them
selves. The inhibition does net apply
TO verbal b9uqets. however.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26
Time Table
IN EFFECT
DEC. 4th, 1904
I;I35;


ARRIVE
From Ogden. Portland. Butte.
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fT points Ogden and Intermediate zee a m
From ogden. Cache Valley and II.EE
intermediate points ....-...-..- AlsJO q II
From Ogden. Chicago. ST. Louis.
Kansas City. Omaha, Denver I.iS :. -,
and San francisco ............. 1.7J Y LII
From Ogden, Cache Valley
S S} AaIsaSny . Portland and San 740 p m
DEPART.
For Ogden. Omaha. Chicago,
Denver, Kansas City and st. I'm q n.
Louis ---------...-.- ..-....-...... A'SS - IN
For Ogden. Portland, St An
te2ny sa1 P P6Rps and in 1929 m
For Ogden, Omaha, Chicago,
a Ds9y san K Fnaneise CITY St Louis lie m
For Ogden. Cache Valley, Den
louis Leu K aad Ghf Stg Omaha St SIS pm
For Ogden, Cache Valley, Butte,
Helena Portland, San Fran fI.I5 q, 90,
cisco and intermediate points. .H'7O III
T. NJ SCHUMACHER.
Traffic Manager.
= 9. P & T. A.
D. S. SPENCER.
A. c. P. & T. A
Telephone $50
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

When headlines tell you of a certain
man that his Whereabouts are not
known you begin TO think that after
all. there is such a thing as newspaper
literature"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

fete?"
Why. his fate was that he was born
on that day
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

The legislators and the patients of the
mental hospital gazed at each other with
IN the governors voice and doubt in his
heart. Yes. yes he said. I'VE are only
detained for the day. but. judging by the
way We are going"
Hero Josenh nnlled his coat tail
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

What did you think of the tenOr2"
asked the music lover as he stepped into
the aisle. His fair companion answered
honestly.
II thought he was bow-legged."
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
THE INDEPENDENT
 PERCY II. VANDYkE,
 Publisher and Editor. NEWpORT. ARKANSAS.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
NEWPORT.

Miss Mary Laird is visiting Mrs. George J. Terry at Pres colt for several days.
 Mayor J. M. Gibson of Jack sonport was down from that little city Wednesday night.
 Superintendent w. E. Green and Trainmaster s. Stalcup spent Thursday in Newport.
 If you don't take in the Pop- lar Bluff excursion Sunday you will never get over being sorry.
 Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, , cents.
 Mrs. c. H. Guion, who has been visiting in Batesville, passed through Newport Thursday re- turning home to Little Rock.
 Would you accept a position that will pay you a straight sal ary of $3.5O per day ($21.00 per week. for whole or spare time? If so write us at once. This IS no book canvassing scheme, but a straight forward business prop osition, which will be as perma- nent as you may be able to make it, and will afford an excellent chance for promotion. No bond, red tape nor unreasonable re- quirements. Act quickly, as we wish to employ some one in your locality without delay. Sprague Wholesale Co.,, Wabash avenue, Chicago. l9bl2t
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
Unique Cosmetic.

The cashew nut serves unique pua> pose as cosmetic in the West Indies. where women, desiring to remove the excessive tan, anoint the skin with an oil from the outer surface of the raw nut. For two weeks the patient must retire from society, for the face and hands SO treated turn black. At the end of a fortnight's seclusion. however. the woman who has undergone the cashew treatment emerges, observers state, ~with skin and complexion as fair ss . habeA"
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
IN SOCIETY. AN~1~A~~>NNNNNNN
MACCABEES' MEETING.

The social meeting of the Mac cabees was royalty entertained Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 6 by Mrs. James Ridley of East Newport. The entire member ship with three exceptions was present, together with a number of invited guests.
 The afternoon was delightfully."- spent in a social way, inter- spersed with both instrumental and vocal music.
 These social gatherings are a most delightful feature of our organization and are a fine way to reach out and bring in new mem- bers, they realizing that in this organization combines both busi- ness and pleasure, which to a great extent does away with that stiffness that characterizes such orders.
 Misses Pearla Best and Mary Younger assisted the hostess in serving very delightful refresh ments, after which we adjourned to meet in our regular business session the second Wednesday in June.
 MACCABEES' REPORTER.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
ROCK ISLAND THE
 OFFICIAL ROUTE.

Tom Hindman Camp No. SIS U. c. V. has adopted thei Rock Island as the route to Louisville, Ky, for the reunion June 14-15- 16, which will provide necessary sleeping car accommodations for all who desire to go. All who desire to avail themselves of this arrangement should notify me or w. R. Thompson at Newport so that we may arrange for service. Train leaves Newport at 3:l5 D. m. on the 18th and arrives at Louisville next morning at z o'clock. F. w. DILLARD, Adjt.
 Approved:
 w. R. THOMPSON, Agt.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
LIVERYMEN FARMERS DRAYME

And all users of axle grease that want the best grease on the market and that recognize a good thing when shown it's merits, we recommend our Golden and Cas- tor Oil brands of Axle Grease. It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes and 3 pound tin buckets. For sale by all up-to-date merchants. Ask for it and take no substitute. It is guaranteed to have no equal for quality on the market.
 WATERS-PIERCE
 OIL COMPANY.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
Dr.. A. J. FRANK,
Expert Optician.

Office, 306 E. Front street, up stairs, next Dr. A. Kellett.
 OFFICE HOURS S-11 to 12 a. m. ], 5 to 6 D. m., except Saturday.
 Call Central 6 rings) for Dr. A. J. Frank. If inconvenient to come, kindly let him know and he will call on you.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
MAKING PORT ON CINE LEG
The Disabled steamer BulG aria Pre- ceedinE Slowly Under .
 Single Propeller.

London, April 20.-The disabled Hamburg-American line steamer Bui garia, from New York, April 6, f~ Hamburg, which was reported hanq lost her starboard propeller and fras tured the shaft OH April 12 at sea passed Prawle point, in the English channel, slowly proceeding under hes port propeller to her destination.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
PalmA for President.

Washington,April 2o.-The admiuis tration is informed, through official channels. that a strong movement ia setting Tn among Cubans to make Tomas Estrada Palma the first presi dent of the Cuban republic. The sug sestion is eminently satisfactory H tSA vynHn1 e. ats- government.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01

All up-to-date housekeepers use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01
TAX THE DRUMMER" PAYS
q Considerable Item in Commercial Travellers Expense Account in
 Most European Countries.

Three or four drummers, says Comfort, had engaged in a warm discussion over the bane of the drummer's existence on the road, the "drummer's tax"-not so bad as it used to be, however, when small towns all over the country levied tribute on every travelling man who visited them.
 "By Jove," said a man from a New York silk firm, "you ought to try it over on the other side. What they do here isn't to be spoken of in comparison. Here 1t is merely a small local matter. Over there it is national. At least 1t is for any of us who come from foreign countries.' In Denmark, for instance, there is an annual tax of $42.88 if a man represents one house and half that for each other house represented. In Nor. way you have to have a trade pass good for 30 days, costing $26.80. France is easier and you don't have anything hut a business passport, which costs no moro than you want to pay. In Hol- land you have to have an indus. trial tax receipt, which costs six dollars. In Sweden the price is the same as in Norway, $26.80, and if you try to get out of it you will catch a fine of from the price of the trade pass up to $184, and they are strict about it, too.
 "In Austria you have only to show a proper trade license and in Switzerland a business pass. port. They don't cost any more than you want to give up to the chaps who let you have them. In Russia the price is $25.75 as trade tax and $5.15 extra as a communal tax. And if you are a Jew you don't want to go to Russia to sell goods. You may be all right, but Russia doesn't like that kind and shows it by pushing the 'drummet tax on Jews up to '$275.5O, be sides the communal tax of $5.15. England's the place, though, where you want to go. That's tho great free trade land and you can 50 anywhere and everywhere and sell to anybody and everybody and never pay a penny. They are ss free over there that, by love, you almost feel like asking the coun try to pay you few hundred . ysar just because you are thers.'
 
 MAKING PORT ON CINE LEG
 The Disabled steamer BulGaria Pre-
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01

and you profit by our study, skill and experience when you have us examine your eyes. Re- member that costs nothing that is, costs you nothing. If you really need no glasses or spec tacles there's no charge at all. If you do need either, they're pur- chasable from us at only fair price for the lenses and their mounting, the latter left to your selection.
Newport daily independent., 1905-06-01

No C,hinese in PDtter's Faeld.
 Among he thousands of bodie' buried in the potters fiel1 of Ne" York there is net oEs 0f . ainaIuaa.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-05-09

A French woman by name Of Bes-
peaux, q widow and the mother Of
seven young children. was instantly
killed in the yards Of the Western
division Of the Boston & Maine railroad
at Biddeford, May Sd, by the Portland
bound passenger train due here at 1913.
At the place where the accident occurred
q side track runs alongside the main
track and on this track were number
of freight cars. The woman was walk
ing on the outside OF these leading her
ten ear-old daughter by the hand.
Just as the passenger train was ap-
preaching she stepped around the cor
ner of the freight cars and on to the
main track, directly in front of the
swiftly approaching train. The glare of
the headlight and the rush of the flying
engine seemed to phase her for mo.
ment for she stopped to turn back and
then rushed straight ahead. In her
fright she relinquished her hold of the
little girl who got off the track just in
time to save her life. The woman was
| 81 wears old,