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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-06
LIVESTOCK.
OMAHA.

Omaha. March 6.-Cattle-Receipts. g.
800. market steady Native steers. 5,0Oa
6.65: cows and heifers. 3.coG4 49, Gamers,
2. O0Ii3 90; stockers and feeders, 3.cn4.O;
calves S.ooa6 Is. bulls and stays 2,6Op
100
Hogs-Recelpts. 5000; market steady.
Heavy. 6.lTisd6. 80; mixed. 6l7izn6 22ls;
lights. s.iOd6'25: pigs, 5.oog5.75; bulk OF
sales, 6.l546. %,
sheep-Recelpts 5000. market steady.
Yearlings i0d5.75. wethers, 2no6O;
ewes, i.50G5 90; lambs, 6.20qtio'
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-06
CHICAGO.

Chicago. March 6--Cattle--Receipts
$500 market steady to strong Beeyes,
g 90ae 40. cows and heifers, 150fii %;
stockers and feeders, 265qi.70; Texans,
3.7ju4.jO.
Hogs-Receipts 1900; market weak;
estimated tomorrow, 5000 Mixed and
butchers. 6.20n6 so: good to heavy, 6.6G
655, rough heavy 6l0d6 o.; lights, 6.l50
SIS; bulk OF sales. 6.4Qn6 As.
Sheep-Receipts 1900; market slow
prices steady. Sheep, 3.i5a6.l0, lambs 40
al 10.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-06

A. s. CAMPBELL.
Stock Broker. 2i6 d. f. Walker Block
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J, o5ERNDoaFeR.
stock Broker.
Tel. Bell 7s2 i6t g. Main ST
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-06
KANSAS CITY

Kansas City. March -Cattle-ReceIpts,
5000 market strong to 10 cents higher.
Native steers, l.2d600; native cows and
heifers, 2.25N600, stockers and feeders,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07


able Of any people with foreheads is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him in the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how care
less community might tolerate a mo.
nopoly Of some things, how 1t might
endure to have Its transportation, for
instance, or Its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps: but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such monstrous
condition IL our own.
From a thousand illustrations of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let us cite one.
There II no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba.
cilli that prey upon mankind are com.
mon among the animals he eats for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. Il II 20 com.
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster.
ilixed milk. What IL hog cholera"
among swine is merely typhoid fever
In men. Trlchinca In hogs polsons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than al, these. and more
deadly, is another fact that In seldom
commented upon because II Is too ap.
paillns to dwell much upon. What II
called "lumpy Jaw" In cattle is simply
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
'lumpy jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy jaw" Ii unfit for human
food.
This opens a field that demands the
Immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer In tho most terrible Of
all diseases. After It has reached a
certain stage Of development It is ab.
solutely incurable. Its progress to
that stage may be without the pa.
tents knowledge or suspicion. Its
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. 1t slays Its victims
with tho most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
Of this most terrible of human af.
AictiOns has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; II now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital. In the year 1870.
u. the number of cancerOus patients
was one in 5S7. In 1904 the number
was one In 273. In 1870, when the
total population Of the city was 2i6..
230. the number of cancer cases re.
ported at all the institutions was ~.
In 1900. with a total population of
325, ,9O2, the number of cancer cases
reported at all the institutions was
1893. and In 1903, with about the same
population, the number was 267. I
append the table that shows this as
tonishing increase.
Here Is a similar report from two
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL. NEW
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

ana destroyed under their supervision.
At retail markets, 1850 pounds Of
dressed meats; 2i,15O pounds o. Ssh.
ana 8Os6 pounds Of poultry, nnms
and rabbits were condemned and de-
strOyed.
'"rhe Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief in.
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'whiie actinomycosis 10 usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sanss to b . localized disease.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. I believe 1t Is
safest and most practicable to con.
demn tho entire carcass wherever the
actinomycOtic abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx. larynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatlc glands are lnvolv-
ed; or where there are actnomycotic
tumors In the lungs: or when the To-
sions have become generallzed, since
generalization In actinomycosls ap-
pears to run very atypic course.
making the detection OF all focl inside
the muscle very diilcult; therefore.
the entire carcass Is to be condemned.
"'In cases where the actlnomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In.
fected part may be cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
"'These instructions apply only to
"lumpy jaw" There may be other
reasons why you should want to con.
denim n carcass, and 1t IL then n mat.
ter OF Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate to con-
denim IL you believe the animal to be
not lit for human food"
The meat inspectors Of the Chicago
Health Department condemned and de-
stroyed 332,GG7 pounds of meat at the
Stock Yards during the month Of April.
Just think this over.
with not tenth as many inspectors
as they should have the Health Depart
ment destroys nearly half million
pounds of diseased meat In one month
at the Stock Yards. If 332,GG7 pounds
of meat Is condemned and destroyed In
a month by an insufficient number OF
Inspectors, how much would be de.
stroyed II the Health Department had
the number Of inspectors that it should
have:
The health of Chicago Is at stake.
The Beef Trust Is causing the spread
of tuberculosis and cancer.
Bad, rotten meat that Is sold to the
people by the Beef Trust causes these
awful diseases.
This awful trust can 90 on spreading
disease, but there is day of reckoning
coming.
The people will rise up and demand
that this trust be Investigated and the
guilty men sent to Jail.
The Newspaper Trust cannot save the
Beef Trust.
The Eagle was the first paper In the
country to expose the Beef Trust. Now
the good work IL being taken mp all
over the United States by daily and
weekly papers and monthly magazines,
The health of Chicago will always be
In danger so long as diseased meat IA
sold to the people, The Chicago Health
Department Is doing its very best to
stop this diseased meat, but 1t has not
near enough men. The Beef Trust Is
the greatest menace to the public
health that we have.
II should be stopped.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07
>dSA

II the laws regarding the selling Of
diseased meat were enforced the Beef
Trust would now be in Jail
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

If the Beef Trust thinks that the
people will Gb!de by the fake reports of
investigations made by women's clubs,
college professors ana associations com.
posed Of sO-called business men ii IL
greatly mistaken.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
30, 1905:
"a total OF 19s,O02 pounds Of meats
was condemned by the department In
spectors at the Union Stock Yards
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

The Eagle will keep up its fight on
the cattle and packing people until the
sale of animals afflicted with cancer
and tuberculosis IL stopped entirely.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma,
jority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority Of the
people who die are adults, the average
age of the deceased having lncreaseH
from infancy In 1876 to 81 years 10
1906!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01

throttle was getting hungry just be-
yond Peabody a bridge across a littla
stream was out Of order. A senla-
phore notified us. A sudden, easy
to get on the south track This was
shortly accomplished, but it meant
seven minutes behind time and New
ton 1 Z miles away.
Could the old eight-wheeler be cud-
died and coaxed into making the regu-
lar schedule and the additional seven
minutes in that brief distance?
Not being a railroad man, hadn't
the slightest idea. But we were sooE
Not a weed on the track, balIasted
down as smoothly as the state house
corridor but a grade Of ~ per cent to
the mile to overcome. That was the
situation and it became interesting.
A man beside me on the rear plat
form remarked: II don't believe that
engineer would check up now even If
he saw the slow signal
would he?" I queried Conductor
Schaefer.
Il doubt if he could see one under
the present conditions" smiled the
cheery-faced train official, as we fitted
past Walton. Hes gaining his time,
all right, though. and there will be no
fine this day"
yes. he'll make it, growled my
com anion, but darn it, can he stop
this side of Hutchinson with this
speed, is what's worrying me-"
The closing portion of that mad ride
I remember not Most of 1t was blur
on my mind. The shrill whistle, the
weaving car as we shot up through the
yards. past long lines Of freight cars,
the easy grind from applied air on the
wheels and it was all over.
You will find your hot coffee and
a. sandwich over there where that good
looking girl is and your Hutchinson
train a hundred yards below when
you finish'' cheerfully remarked Mr..
Schaefer. Snyder brought US here
with old No. 0167 as the schedule di-
rected him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01
n Ride on the
Fast Mail

The little alarm clock which 1 had
borrowed from a neighbor and which
was set for 2.45 a m. proved faithful
to its trust and the Fast Mail" which
steamed out Of the Santa Fe depot in
Topeka for the west at o'clock, found
me q passenger. Scurrying clouds
fitted across the sky that damp Octo-
Der morning. with an occasional star
In sight to the gazer from the window
Eternity is not more quiet than this
country at this hour Not a sound
save the rush and the swish of the
train or the locomotives whistle for
the crossing.
The storm of the earlier hours Of the
night may have dislodged a tree or
Jared loose a portion of EN- bankment
in our way Such events are common.
But I rest easily for know that the
powerful electric headlight of the
eight-wheeled engine points a path
rods and rods ahead between the rib
bons Of steel and that a most cautious
engineer. John Snyder, is at the throt-
tie
For sixty miles towards the sunset.
out of Topeka, the track is against the
making of time. While the road is as
solid as the Rock Of Ages, yet 1t turns
and twists like an angle worm-a hill
here, a gully there; then a sharp turn
to avoid a bit of craggy bluff
But this train must make time and
stay on time for that is the sole pur-
pose of this prairie scooter of a
fourth Of a dozen cars that daily car
ries the overland mail, and incidentally
a few passengers. from Kansas City
to Newton, 21O miles away.
1t is under the mailed hand Of the
government and Uncle Sam has pre-
pared a schedule fast as a raeteor's
flight. And this schedule must be
complied with on the part of the Santa
F'e or the company must forfeit a
goodly sum as a fine for each train
Eve minutes late into Newton.
; And that is why this Prairie Scoot-
err or as some term it, THE Fast
Mail" is equipped with their fastest
locomotives and driven by the most
reliable engineers that are on the pay
roll of this vast concern.
Are we on time, Conductor Schaef-
err" asked, as the blue-coated Poo
bah with a lantern under his arm and
q ticket punch in his hand came down
the aisle.
"A few minutes to the bad. sir he
said as he glanced at my ticket read
ing 'sKingman.' "but John Sny-
der's at the helm. so you may count
on reaching Newton in time for a Har-
rey House cup Of warm coffee and
some doughnuts before your Kingman
train leaves
There was the deep breathing Of the
sleeping passengers and one moaning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01

his name is immaterial, save that it
was not Scotty-desired to be present.
But from Newtons to Kansas City
was 210 miles to be covered and the
time was brief.
Could the Santa Fe get him there
that afternoon for $50O2
They thought they could.
So John Snyder was called out
Of bed and given the first sched-
ule=73 miles to Emporia and
clear track in so minutes. Mr.
Snyder got his man there on time, all
right. also into Topeka on another
schedule almost equally as fast.
Ibid your capitalist reach Kansas
City for the franchise meeting" 1 en-
CURED.
Il presume he did. 2 said Mr.. Snyder.
The Santa Fe generally does what X
undertakes. I only know that he ran
up to the engine and threw me a IS
bill before pulling out of Topeka"
A fad of Mr.. Snyder's is to bring
from Newton each return trip q gallon
jug Of water. pronounced 10 per cent
pure, to his newly built, modern cot
tage home on Madison street. You
see, [ don't care very. much about the
water myself he Iaughingly remark
ed, "but my wife IS from Pennsylvania
where the springs come clear and soft
from the mountain side, and she cant
quite get used to this hydrant water
from the Kaw. e. ". ELLIS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01
THE ELKs' SALE OPENS.
Indications That crowded Houses VIII
Witness Performances.

The big Elks show is about ready
for presentation. The sale of tickets
opened with a rush today, and indica-
tons are for crowded houSes. There
will be plenty of good. innocent fun
to be enjoyed. the performances will
be found to contain plenty of music
ard acts. of really artistic nature
Dick Cooley. manager of Topeka's
pennant winning baseball team, is
the bright particular star Of the com
pany and his act is one Of originality
and is very artistic. He sets himself
down to the piano and without any
gyrations or frilIs. quietly sings coon
songs OF the better class. to his own
accom- paniment in an inimttable way,
which must be seen to be appreciated.
Mr.. Cooley has served his time in the
ranks of professionals and Is now one
of the city's business men.
The song and dance artists pictured
above have a great act in the Elks'
MINISTRIES They have spent many
anxious and sleepless nights. rehears-
ing and practieing and Monday night
viii see the full realization of their
hopes
watch for the parade Monday just
before noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01
they eur SONS hair.
Mrs. Julia E7ansberg, Formerly of To-
pela, Has Trouble in Kansas City.

Mrs Julia Flansberg who created more
or less of a sensation in Topeka year
companied BY her small son who sang
has been in a clash with the Kansas
City authorities who have compelled the
boy to have his flowing locks shorn and
are now trying to force the mother to
send him to the public schools.
A Kansas City paper publishes the FOL
Hair cuts sometimes cause colds and
colds-well many a singer has lost his
F1ansberg, mother of the boy whose long
hair was made short BY barber shears
yesterday, IS worried. She fears that the
tonsortal operation may have some effect
on little Marshalfs vocal apparatus; But
there is no such worry in little MarshaIIs
mind. His feeling is chiefly relief-and
then some
what If little Marshall should catch cold
as the result of the haircut?" She didn't
ask the question as though she expected
a reply and the assurance that such
contingency was improbable didn't COM
fort her In the least wv by" it might
ruin his voice forever, she continued.
And then she said
They can cut his hair, but they cannot
have the boy. They have taken him from
me under their own Interpretation of the
law, but I shall appeal to a higher court
to have him returned to me. Poor little
Marshall. He has committed no offense
he has only tried to help his mother and
this Is the way he Is made to suffer and
/ am Inundated for it. The poor little
martyr. my dear little boy And then
Mrs. Flansberg sobbed.
Why didn't you have the boys hair
cut and send him to school and save
yourself all this worry?' Mrs. Flansberg
was asked.
Il could have cut it as well as they if
]. had wanted it done, but all people Of
the artistic temperament like little Mar
shall has to have long hair / am train
ing him to be singer. He win be. and
great one, too, If this don't ruin him.
s'As to sending my children to school, I
don't see what right they have to com
pei me to send them to a public school
when I can teach them at home myself.
The rich people can hire governesses for
their children, but l. who was trained a
governesS in the east, denied the
privilege CT governing my own children
and educating them to a better standard
than they could receive in the city
schools -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01

The conditions of luxury under which
most Of us live-for these are days when
ever tne poo,T man ENJOYS comforts savh
century age-have 4 ;enI.n - 70 weaken
our constitutions and impair our vitality
Our houses are overneatesi. ana even the
vehicles in which we ride are often
warmed almost to suTOcation. Thus we
have become like dollhouse plants, and, if
by chance exposed to a current of cool
air. we catch cold, or perhaps contract
bronchitis or pneumonia, a trifing change
Of tenn Derature cutting our lives short
in a twipkling- Or, again. it may be that
like cause will bring congestion OF the
kidneys, leading to disease of those or
gans proving eventually fataI-Dr John
V. Shoemaker. in the Reader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01
Record Sentence for Is1rn,.s.

A grammarian was taking about
grammatical slips that, through their
magnitude. meffted Immortality.
There IS one sentence" he said
that has lived for a hundred years
on account Of Its tremendous incorrect
ness. In this sentence every word.
every single word. is unsrammatical
It's hard to beat that. isn't 1t?
The sentence was spoken by a little
girl IN sheep pasture. Looking at
the focks, she said to the shepherd.
g Is them Sleeps yourn?'
This sentence, with every word In
correct, holds the record in its Glass;
Unidentif1ed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01
Tosses Il Pound Shot over s. Rect.

san Francisco, Cal. Nov. 3o.-At the
track ana field day meet of the Olympic
club worlds record in putting the IL
pound shot was broken by Ralph Rose.
who put it IS feet. 81 inches. This is
one and a half inches farther than the
distance covered by G. r. Gray. of the
New York Athletic club. at Travis is
land In 1902
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-01

Since that incident, when / only
knew John Snyder as a portion of the
machinery, I have come to know him
as a man and a citizen
Plain. pleasant and a good talker.
but Withal unassuming this forceful
man attracts one as if with magnetic
power. The "reminiscences he has to
relate of his life with the Santa F7e
since he left the Maryland Western
road twenty-five years ago are without
a. dull sentence
Having had almost every run on this
great system for which he has worked
for a quarter of a century he has had
but few accidents and those of a minor
nature, and never received a. scratch
or been compelled to leave his engine
on account of a wreck. One evening
coming around the bend west of
strong City, ahead of him on the main
track stood a freight, without lights on
the cabOose. After the smoke cleared
away three cars were discovered split
down the middle and several Texas
steers dehorned. That was his worst
prank.
His Maryland relatives knew he was
coming to "a wild wilderness of stage
robbers and Indians" when he left and
begged him to stay In a civilized coun-
try. One of his early runs was in New
Mexico. One night at a shooting in a
dance hall, in Albuquerque. several
passed into the unknown. The young
Marylander did not write home of this
tragedy but a copy of the Baltimore
News containing an account of the
fray reached the old home place. In
sistent letters and kilograms soon
caused Mr.. snyder to get transferred
to a Missouri river run.
About the middle of last September
a gas franchise of great value was to
be let in Kansas City A capitalist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-07
HOW THEY WENT TO WASHINGTON

CENATOR CARMACk told this story the
y other night
They were trying 10 make campaign stock Of
the lack of attention which Southerners re
ceived from the administration, to influence
colored votes 1t was kind of free-to-all,
where a speaker had Just told the story OF
the Prodigal son, rousing considerable feeling
in the audience as he closed with the words
But how are we treated in Washington
Have they killed for us the fatted calf? MOI
colored instantly replied: De
whole trouble bout dat t'ing's jes' dis yere
way: De Bibles all right. De pc Prodergul
he come an SAYS: Fader, Is done sinned
gin Heaben an all dat in dem IS, an amt
no mo- fifteen to be 20 son. Mex me yo'
hired serbant Is dat de way yo'-halls went
to Washington? No! 70 buttons up 70 long
coats, yo put on 70 SHINES hats and 70 struts
lax turkey gobblings into de White House
an 70 says: Hi, dere! Look a-yere boss,
whar's dat weal?'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-07

CENATOR CARMACk told this story the
- other night:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-07
WANTED TO GET RID OF HIM

A NUMBER of politicians IN Washington
"A were once discussing the good and pad
noints of various statesmen with reference 10
their attitude toward their friends and enemies
when Senator Kean was reminded OF an m
stance in the career Of the late Senator Seweli
of New Jersey
II appears that Sewel had been generous
friend and an equally good hater, as was eVl-
denced bv his treatment OF a Colonel ScoVe
Who it seems lad dared to dispute Sewells
supremacy in Jersey politics. ut one time
Scovcl imagined he had made his peace with
Sewell. and ventured to ask a favor OF his old
enemv-something in the way OF pass to
Chicago The pass came to him by return mail
The next day, at the Offices OF the railroad
of which the Senator was an officer, Scovel
thanked him for the courtesy; but as he did
s. he called attention to the fact that there
was no provision made in the pass for the re
turn trip east Probably an inadvertence
on the part Of the clerk that made it out :
he observed.
"Clerl nothing roared Sewell. ! I'll have
YOU know, Scovel, that | myself filled out that
pass, I'm willing to send You to Chicago,
but I'll be hanged il I'll help you to get back
to Tersev!