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Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-11-24
EXPRESS OFFICE AND 4
RAILROAD STAIN lO0TzD

Charleston, w. va. Nov. 24.-The
Adams express office and the rail
road station at Kay Ford was looted
of $4,000 and burned by robbers To-
day Agent Adams was found bound
with bullet wound in the leg
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-11-24
ONE WOMAN rs KILLED
AND SIXTEEN ARE INJURED.

Detroit, Nov 24---3Mlss fIarhette
Hargef, OF Pontiac. was killed, and
sixten persons injured, early today.
when an electric freight car crashed
into the rear OF suburban electric
car near Birmingham. 1t is believed
that all the injured will recover.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
THE INDIANA PIE EATER.
New York Sun.


(On seeing a Hoosier eating pie at the
Wabash railroad station at Lafayette,
Ind
You never saw anything in your life
Equal Hay Buskirk's skill with a knife
When stripped to the shirt and collar
laid by
He squares himself to handle pie.
With the skill of knights in a tourney
gay,
Or the art of fencers with flashing
blades,
When armed with a caseknife broad and
keen
Into a slice of pie he wades.
With roll of the eye and a twist of the
wrist
He deftly chisels a dripping slice
And into his gaping mouth it throws
With errorless aim in less than a trice
Like snow fore the burning breath of
the sun,
Or stubbIe dry in the rushing flame.
MeltS the luscious pie Meath the busy
blade
OF Hay Buskirk of pie-eating fame.
Whenever he sows and whenever he
plants,
He locates the moon in the almanac
But when IL comes to the eating of pie
No phase of Luna can hold him back
Yet such is his skill and his proves keen
That-would you believe it?-his lip and
Jaw
Are free of scars from the pious knife
That losses the pie into his NAV.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
SHE LAUDED HIM.
(New York Tribune }

At an unexpected interruption in an
after dinner speech, Senator Hale
smiled.
These words.'' he said surprise and
confuse me. They come with d shock
They come with a shock like that
which young girl of Lode received
one night.
This young girl sat in her bedroom
with novel Her hair was down and
her feet were in red slippers. Now and
then, extending her white arms, she
yawned.
You see, it was very late, and down
stairs in the parlor her older sister was
entertaining a young man. She natur-
ally felt deep interesct in the enter
tainment. She was waiting to hear
how it would terminate
And at last there was a sound in
the hall, a, crash of a closing door
and il was plain TO the impatient girl
that the young man had gone
She threw down her novel and run
ming forth, peered over the balustrade
down into the halls intense blackness.
well Maude,' she said, did you
land him?'
There was no immediate reply to her
question. There was a silence, a pecu-
liar silence, a silence with a certain
strained quality in it. Then a mascu-
line voice replied:
80 She did -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
MEANING OF INDIAN NAMES
IN THE UNITED STATES
Washfngton StarN


The commission appointed by the
government to translate into concise,
correct English all Indian names found
in the geography of the United States
has on its hands a job of great mag
nitude, as may be comprehended when
it is considered that more than 5000
names, now fixed to various points be-
tween Maine and California and the
Canadian line and the Rio Grande,
commemorate the fact that the red
man was once the sole possessOr of the
land. The names of his chiefs and of
his tribes are forever fixed in memory
Indian traditions are perpetuated and
musical Indian words have been incor-
pCrated into our tongue, a legacy of
poetry and romance even in this prac-
teal age.
Every name the Indian gave meant
something. He left to his paIe-faced
brother the absurdities of pref1xing to
9, 200 towns and settlements the stale
descriptive terms east. west, north,
south; he left to the white man the
confusion of thirty-three Springfields
in one union, not a fifth of which were
ever built in a field or by a spring;
of Pinevilles without d pine. OakdaIes
without an oak; WeymOuths and Ply
mouths that are not at the mouth of
/ the Wey, the Plym, or any other river;
l
many of them without even a hill to
! their credit, and of LOO New Havens,
New Yorks, Newtowns and New-ev-
/ erything-elSe, all of which have long
since ceased to be new
Not SO with the Indian. He pitched
his wigwam beside a stream. Through
the curling waters the long, dark
stone on the rivers bed looked like
offers at play, and forthwith the camp
/ ing place received the name it bears
today, Kalamazoo. t'stOneS-like-Otters''
| In the Indian tongue. Again, he saw
on river bank a pine tree wreathed
| in flames; for hours ii threw it's torch
like glare over the landscape, as would
have beamed the glow of some council
fire fed by attendant warriors, and Po-
tOmac that region became, a literal
translation of which is "the place of
the burning pine that resembles a
council fire" Poughkeepsie is "a safe
harbor for small boats" Norridge-
wock, 1.-The place of deer" Ontario,
nae, 1.-The river that flows under rock; "
and Saratoga, "the place of the mirac-
ulous waters in a rock
Similarly, Schenectady is 1.-THE river
valley beyond the pine trees" SchO-
harie is ''the tributary that throws it's
waters strong over and across the
main stream" the Wabash is "a cloud
blown forward by an equinoctial
wind" MonongaheIa is 1.-The falling-in-
bank river" Rappahannock, 1.-The riv-
er of quiCk-rising water" and Toronto,
"oak trees rising from the lake" Such
words show wondrous skill in the
art of word painting. and their ex-
pressive Indian tongue reflects their
impressions with a vivid minuteness
impossible 20 more cumbersome En-
glish.
There is no commonplace in Indian
names. All of the Indians terms are
picturesque, because alive and fun of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

funds and they frequently convert them
tor their own use or to the uses of their
friends. Independence in local elections
has been the salvation of many a state
and many a city
The theory that a Republican must
vote for his party's candidate for may
or because that candidate believes in a
protective tariff, or for his candidate
for county clerk because that candidate
believes in retaining the Philippines as
a colony, has long since been exploded.
Mayors and county clerks have mighty
little to do. generally speaking, with
framing national politics. The Herald
believes that, in national elections,
party lines should be closely drawn.
The voter who believes in Democratic
principles can afford to disregard par
sonalities, providing his party nomi-
nees are honest and clean-and they
nearly always are.
But certainly no Republican who finds
more principles he likes in the Demo-
cratic than in the Republican plat
form has any business voting the Re
publican ticket. Every man must be
conceded the privilege of voting accord
ing to the dictates of his own con-
science, regardless OF party whips.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

meaning to him. A thousand examples
could be given. Once, before the white
mans day, a caving-in of a river bank
revealed the huge fOssile tusk of some
prehistoric monster At once the river
received the name of Chemung. Big
Horn and generations of sQuaws told
10 generations of papOOses the tTadi-
tons of the big bones and wide jaws
that once had been found there. In
1865 a portion of Maine was visited by
a most devastating fire. The Indians
"a once gave the region the name of
Schoodic, the great burnt lands,'' per
petuating forever the memory of the
terrible disaster. OrinOCO is "cOiling
snake" possibly a reference to the
crooked course of the stream. but more
probably marking the notable killing
of some venOmOus reptile.
Sometimes it was the physical fea-
lures that We're name-refiected- Thus:
Wetumpka is ''tumbling waters" San
dusky. the cold spring." Katahdin,
the highest place. Tioga, the
water" Nahant is "at the point"
Passumpsick is much clear water"
and Chautauqua is the ''foggy place"
Sometimes the Indians names reflected
his superstitiOns. Thus, Mantle is
spirit" Montauk Is "a mantle or
the devils lake" Sometimes his
names celebrate his hunting or fishing
exploits Mackinaw is an abbreviatiOn
of a longer word meaning the great
turtle place QuinsigamOnd means
''the fishing place for pickerel." There
are several AmmOns, which, as the
government has a peculiar penchant
for looping off the terminative sylla-
bles of Indian words, may not Unrea-
SOnable be taken TO represent Am
mOnOOSuc, an expressive Indian word
meaning "fish-stOry river" a proof
positive that the red man, as we'll as
his successors, was given to telling tall
stories about his luck in fishing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
THE BROWN CASE.

1t Will not do for Mayor Thompson
To- evade responsibility for discharging
s. r. Brown, the crippled custodian of
the Parley's canyon reservoir. by ex-
planning that he personally does not
wish to disturb Brown. The mayor
says that political pressure of a strong
character was brought to bear upon
him to do something absolutely dishon-
CRADLE. and Browns removal followed.
We wish the mayor would be more
specific. We wish he would tell the
public just whose collar ne is wearing
for he must be wearing some mans
collar. Otherwise he would not be so
subservient to do, at the behest of this
person. something he says he would
very much rather have left undone.
Thus falls TO the ground another of
the arguments made in favor of Mayor
Thompson during the campaign last
fall. It was said of him then that if he
should be elected he would be his own
mayor, and that he would be thorough
y independent, that he would go into
Office untrammeled by pledges of any
character, to any Individual or to any
set or coterie Of individuals. Is a man
Independent when, according to his own
confession, he can be forced to make
removal he does not want to make?
And isn't it rather humiliating to the
hundreds Of first class citizens who
voted for Thompson to read his con-
fession OF slavish obedience to a will
stronger than his own? Are they not
proud Of their big. broad. fearless. in
dependent. generous-minded" mayor?
Has he not shown the reverse of all
these qualities? Would a generous
minded. big-hearted man have thought
of removing u cripple. injured in the
service of the city. and performing his
duties faithfully? Would an independ-
enl official have permitted a boss to
compel him to remove a cripple?
Honestly. now. you who voted for
Thompson for mayor. isn't he a bitter
disappointment to every one of you?
If YOU had it all TO do over again would
YOU vote for him? The Herald had
neither part nor parcel in the election
Of Thompson. 1t did all it honorably
could TO defeat him, not because we
thought him TO be dishonest, not be-
cause we did not believe him to be.
personally. of clean character. but be-
cause his previous administrations had
shown him 20 be utterly incompetent.
Even so Ezra Thompson has been a
disappointment to us. We accepted his
election with good spirit because we
believed. as his friends said, that he
would be fairly Independent, and of a
generous disposition. He is neither of
these. as his recent record amply dem
Onstrates- Thompson is as amenable to
Influences around him as was ever anv
man in public Office, and they are not
good influences, either.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
ONE REPUBLICAN RIGHT.

one doesn't ordinarily look 10 Re
publican convention for an enumeration
OF Democratic principles, but those Who
read the proceedings Of the Kansas Re-
publican convention cannot fail to be
impressed with the good Democratic
talk made by w. r. Stibbs. chairman
OF the state committee, who called the
gathering to order. Mr.. Stibbs prefaced
talk about the tariff with the state
ment that some of the greatest prob
lens OF the age confront the people
today, and he expressed the hope that
his party would confront them brave
ly. He continued:
THE greatest rObber is the steel trust
which has been made so by an unrea-
sOnable protective tariff. The
habit prevails in our Judiciary system
Of deciding great issues on technical
matters. Great money owners go scot
free for wholesale robberies, when poor
citizens like you and me are punished
for the nerest offense''
For saying things something like this
William Jennings Bryan was denounced
by every Republican paper in the land.
He was described as an anarchist. it
was said that he was trying to array
class against class. that he was a dam
gerous dema gogue who ought TO be
suppressed by the strong arm of the
law. Will the Kansas Republican chair
man be classed as an anarchist and a
demagogue? Will il be said OF him
that he is trying to array class against,
class. the poor against the rich? If It
was wrong to make such statements in
1896 and in 1900 is it not wrong TO make
such statements now?
We may expect TO hear a lot more Of
the same sort Of talk from Republican
orators n the coming campaign. And
what a misera BILE sham it all is, Do
YOU know why they feel free to utter
sentiments against the steel trust and
like rObber corporations? 1t is be
cause the various states are passing
laws forbidding contributions by cOrpo-
rations for political purposes, and ma
tional legislation is not unlikely. Most
Republicans have known for many
years that their party was owned, body
and soul, by the corporations. They
didn't dare to attack the corporations
because the corporations were supply
ing them with campaign funds.
The Democrats haven't had many Of
fees in recent years. but they certainly
have had a hand in fixing political Is
sues and in defining national policies.
There are plenty of Democrats who
have stayed in the Republican party for
purely sentimental reasons, and they
are stealing Democratic thunder just
as fast as they can.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
INDEPENDENT VOTING.

secretary Shaw is very much exer-
cised over the increasing tendency of
the American voter to cast his ballot
exactly as he pleases regardless Of
party lines. The secretary declares this
tendency TO De a prominent. even ?
paramount. evil. He says he does not
make this assertion merely for party
purposes. All he wants is loyalty to
party principles when the voter be-
Heves those principles to be sound. IN
dependents. Secretary Shaw says. are
merely individuals who "see nothing
in political parties but the personality
Of the candidates. who vote according
10 the instinct Of the hour instead of
according TO the principles of a life
time"
This is hardly a fair statement OF the
case. II there were no independent
voters there would never be a change
Of government. L would never be
possible to vote out Of office the cor
rupt rings that occasionally get into
control. Philadelphia and PennsyIva-
mia would today be in the hands Of the
political brigands who controlled them
for years If the Independent voter had
not come to the rescue. BOSS" Cox
and his gang would be in control of
Ohio and Of Cincinnati. other in
stances could be cited
II is a well settled fact that an oc-
casionaI change of administration is
beneficial to city, state or nation. When
men have been in office a long time
they come to regard themselves as mas
ters, rather than servants, Of the pec-
pie. They come to believe that they
can do as they like with the public
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
HIS BLUFF WAS CALLED.
Kansas City JournaID


1t is getting to be almost as difficult
ia reach Public Printer Stilngs in
Washington as it is to get speech with
the president. The Boston man has
given strict orders to hold uD all who
would intrude upon his privacy. even
If they come on public business The
other day a man got into the sacred
presence unannOunced. and Mr. Still
Upgs rOared at him. How did you get
in here?" The visitor did not seem to
be much alarmed, and instead of re-
plying asked another question: Are
you the public printer" Mr.. StilIings
again demanded: 7 want TO know how
you got in mere" The caller repl ed
calmly: IF you are the public printer.
I would like 10 introduce myself and
possibly make a few remarks about
how TO act like a gentleman. Ny name
is Dick. I am from Ohio, and happen
to be a senator with business here
WheTeupOn the public printer lost all
of his anger and most Of his dignity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
BARTENDERS.
indianapolis Starr

Attorney William L. Taylor. who at
tended the banquet of the Indiana Bar
association in honor Of the United States
court of appeals at the Columbia club
the other night. was reminded of a little
story that was told at the time the Amer
lean Bar association met at Saratoga
several years ago
Two negro walters at the hotel where
the association held its banquet were
much interested in the dress-coated gen
tlemen that were filing into the dining
room. In the party We're some of the
most famous lawyers and jurists in the
country.
WHO ah' dem gen'em?''- asked one
waiter Of the other as the last of the
guests passed in.
IT dunno 'zactly" replied the other.
but all understand de ah bahtenders''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
A LUCKY FIT.
london ChronicIe)

The arrival of precOciOus asparagus
from those magic market gardens, where
nothing is in fashion unless il is out of
season. reminds us of the sense of hurnor
and lack of SenSibility of the famous
French Wit, Fontenele A friend who
called upon him was pressed TO stay for
dinner I'VE will have asparagus" said
Fontenelle. who was an epicure IN food
in words. with OIL amended his
guest. But prefer il with SAUCE" OBJ
jected FOntenelle. Sauce disagrees with
me. the friend pointed out. "Oh. very
we'll" said Fontenelle, with very bad
grace, and he went to give the order. On
his return he found his guest in an aD-
Oplectic fit Back went FOntenelle to the
top of the kitchen stairs. Cook" he
roared. you can dress the asparagus with
sauce
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
THAT HELPS SOME
CBOston HeraldD

4 clerk in a clothing store in southern
New Hampshire had an amusing habit
of using. on all sorts of occasions, the
expression, THAT helps some" If a
customer came in and found a suit of
clothes of the right pattern, even though
the price was too high for him to think
of buying, the clerk would utter the con-
soling words, That helps some If the
clothes were cheap enough but were
several sizes to large or too small still
he would remark. THAT helps some"
One day lady came into the store
and asked to be allowed TO see an as
sortment of neckties. The polite clerk
spread out an array of these goods for
her inspection, and while she was max
ing her selection he noticed that she
looked exceedingly sad and fearful. The
clerk Ventured some COMMONPLACE re
mark, which led the woman to explain
that her burden was a very heavy one:
that she was left with but little money
and with several small children to sun
port
MY husband" she said at last sshas
gone to a better world
Well said the clerk deeply moved
that helps some"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
SHERIFF OR TRAMP.
CBoston Herald.D

The town of Newport Ne, was a one
time the proud p6ssessOF of a county sher-
if who was death on trampS- This man,
whose name was George Cole, had the
reputation Of being the slackest for miles
around in regard 10 dress
One night, having heard that there were
ttrampS about the railway station, Cole
gathered UP a few men and went to in
vestigate. A freight car door was opened
and Cole entered He struck match and
disc 0VeTed that the car contained about
a dozen weary ones
As he stood there holding the match a
Sleepy-eyed wandereT blinked UP at him
and remarked '-YOuse'n have to go into
the next car, pard, we're all full here
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

Davis, he would have to hide under a
buShel. for he was born in 1928
Few of the house leaders could wear
their laureIs more than few years
longer, and many of them would have
to dOff them in a few months
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

General Greely's report shows that
more than 100000 destitute people are
still being fed in San Francisco and
Oakland. Don't you think you had bet
ter dig down into your pocketbook just
once more2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
Thought the stork Had the Job.
(Chicago Post.)

Chicago PoSt.)
If the eagle is to be retired as the ma
tionaI bird, why not substitute che dove
rather than the hen?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

say. when we do have pretty days in
this nart of the country aren't they the
nrettiest DAYS anybody ever saw any
where in the world? Talk about your
California climate, Give us Utah in the
spring time Also in the summer, the
fall and the winter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
The Dangers of oratory.

(PhiIedaIphia Telegraph.)
In a joint debate an Iowa mans whis-
kers turned snow white. No one can
tell what might have happened if he had
talked through his hat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

If It is in order. we would like to
move that the vacancies in the Utah
congressional delegation caused by the
election or Smoot. Sutherland and
Howell be filled at the earliest practi-
cable moment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
The Sound of Il.
Richmond Timee-Disnatc

N1NINIIII1N1IL 4 III1NE5- 7k1altNII-I
We are obliged to suggest, however. that
the phrase Senator Roosevelt does not
sound nearly as well to US as that other
phrase. ex-senator Platt."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
Could Be a Whole Lot Worse.
New York HeraldO

N4NtW TUX I1tIdIu-J
When one reads of the generous re-
SponSeS to the appeals of our suffering sis
ter city one realizes that this old world of
ours is mighty good after all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
Might Call 1t a Draw.
New York Mail.)

After a 100000 words speech. lasting
three days the senate is now trying to
make out whether it or LaFollette got the
spanking.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
o Tempora, o MosesI
New York Herald.

Whirigig of time certainly does bring
its revenges when William Jennings Bry-
an is being hailed as the Moses of a safe
and sane" Democracy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
Probably the Price of Gasoline

philadelphia North American)
Aldrich is opposed to free alcohol in
the arts on the ground of fiscal conSer-
vatism." We don't know just what that
means
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

one Of the San Francisco refugees
ought to be mighty thankful for the
earthquake and fire. Because of it he
has won the heart and hand Of Salt
Lake girl.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
CLEVER PARAGRAPH.
Better Reserve Your Seats Now.

Charleston News and Courier.)
Behold the United States senate in 1909
with Vardaman. Roosevelt. JEFF Davis. La
Toilette and Tillman occupying front
seats
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
Smashing Up His Own Property.

(KanSas City Journal)
If Rockefeller owns the earth, why not
hold him responsible for the earthquake
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07
1t Will Do the Shaving" Itself.
Baltimore Sun.

Things have come to a pretty pas
when cOmmuter can't shave without tn
consent of the Pennsylvania.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-07

Standard Oil officials say Mr.. Roose-
welt himself is a muck raker. Now will
the great Theodore kindly be good for
a few minutes