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UNCLAIMED BANK BALA Noes

7THE savings banks of New York State alone
possess a small fortune in unclaimed bank
balances The amount fluctuates between
five and six hundred thousand dollars for through
the death of depostors other mshaps the
continually being left unclaimed and old
counts which have for years been lying dormant
regularly being claimed by relatives of the
original depositors.
family who has managed to establish a small
savings account, dies is lost at sea, often the
existence of his bank account is not known if it
is known, nobody has the legal right to touch it.
In such instances the money remains in the bank
drawing interest for twenty-five years. At the
end of that time the account becomes dormant
that is, it to draw interest though the bank
continues to it it would the money of any
other depositor. Should rightful claimant appear
fifty years afterward the money is delivered
to him.
mans memory for money affairs is usually
pretty good but there have been instances where
men have supposedly withdrawn their accounts
from banks when through mistake in their
check books they have left considerable on balance
There where well TODD man thought
he had withdrawn his account, but in reality had
left over two thousand dollars. Some years later
he met with business reverses which reduced him
to poverty. In this condition he continued for a
year or more, when through a mere chance while
looking over his old accounts he discovered that he
was still the possessor of enough money to enable
him to start again in business.
Occasionally banks will advertise balances that
have become dormant; but they never mention
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-25
By G. HENRY DOLE

the amounts, as shyster lawyers the watch
for the opportunity of discovering heirs, who know
nothing of the accounts and readily agree to pay
fifty per cent. commission any sums that the
lawyers may secure for them. AS soon as the
lawyers agreement is signed he gets out admins
traton papers, claims the money, and retains half
of it.
twenty-five years ago Negro sailor entered a
New York savings bank and started account
with several hundred dollars. For three years he
a regular depositor and then failed to
appear at the teller's window. Months passed,
but he did not come back. Finally word came that
he had been lost at The years dragged on, and
claimants came for the Negroes money it was
allowed to remain in the bank and accumulate
interest. Last year coored woman entered the
bank and inquired about the balance She said she
the sister of the missing sailor Investigation
established the truth Of her assertion, and as the
seaman reported lost at sea- administration
papers got out, and the woman received the
money, then grown to several thousand dollars.
The Depostor's Return
SIX months later an old Negro with white hair
walked into the bank. leaning on cane. He
stepped up to the teller's window. Use Rufus
Brown" he said. Use come to git my money"
Rufus Brown?" exclaimed the teller why,
Rufus Brown was drowned twenty years ago. You
mean you are his brother; don't your"
mo. sab, don't mean noffn' OBJ de kind
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if they had not the boats would be useless in this
weather. We've got to stay here and if we want
to stay long enough to be picked up, we've got to
hight this fire. Remember, the highway
of the Atlantic and assistance must come soon"
Dividing the crew into three squads, he ordered
company to man the pumps another to fight
the flames, and third to batten down hatchways
and attend to the necessary work deck He
himself took turn at each in order to keep up the
courage of his
Five hours later the steamship Carthagnian of the
Allan Steamship Line answered the signals of dis
tress which were being given at intervals But the
terrific made it impossible for her to get very
near, and she signaled that she would lie by until
morning With renewed hope, the work of pouring
water in and pumping water out went on during
the whole night on board the smaller vessel.
But the next day found the storm raging worse
than ever, and for another twenty-four hours the
battle continued, the Carthaginian standing
by ready to help at the first opportunity. Mean
while, in spite of water in the hold and the efforts
of the workers, the fire grew worse and worse and
none knew when yet another explosion would end
the lives of all on board.
At last, in desperation, the second officer patched
up the one small boat that had not been entirely
destroyed and with half dozen seamen made his
way to the larger ship and explained the urgency
of immediate assistance. The response was as i'm
mediate the need. Every boat the Cartha-
ginian was lowered and after three trips the entire
of the Riato transferred to the Allan liner
AS the voyage to New York resumed, those
board the Carthaginan the flames burst out
above the deck of the Wilson line ship in half
dozen places at once
Fight of the Tauric
IN recent years defective electric wiring has frequent
ly caused fires on shipboard, and occasionally
loss of life The British steamer Taurc, which left
New York on January ~, 1895, with hold filled
with cotton, had memorable fight for three days
from this cause, and when Captain Jones reported
to his owners February 2, he was obliged to
that the electrician had been the victim of
endeavor to remedy the defect which had
suited in the fire board.
AS in the other mentioned, hole cut
through the deck but in this instance steam
injected When this proved to be unavailing the
electrician with a repair kit descended into the
hold. When he did not return a rescue party
formed. The body was recovered, but not before
three of the would-be rescuers had been rendered
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respite would bring with them unconscious COM
rade who had been overcome by the smoke 1t is
matter of record in the log of the Wynnstah that
one of the men so overcome failed to return later
to the business of quenching the flames. Also, it
is a matter of record that when, after battle in
the hold for four days and nights the last smolder
extinguished the fighters waited not to put the
covering of deck and saloon back in place, but
falling singed and SCARED, beside the openings
they had made, slept the sleep of utter exhaustion.
Not always however, have efforts equally heroic
been rewarded by success, and not always have
these fighters of fire at been able to report
loss of life resulting from their battles. When
vessel afre in mid ocean carries cargo of chemicals,
it would be cause for wonder were all on board to
escape alive from the conflict. Nor would it be
prising to learn that even the bravest of men de-
Clined the conflict altogether.
Heroism of the Crew
VET, when the Wilson liner Rialto from New
castle to New York found herself in a rough sea
five hundred miles from the Irish coast with smoke
coming from of the matches under which
stored quantity of explosives, there no hesta-
ton shown in getting to work But before the
hatch from which the smoke curling could be
reached the vessel rolled drunkenly in the hurr-
cane and terrible explosion heard
The chief engineer hurried to the deck, where he
met James Coleman the chief officer, endeavoring
to drag hose to the hatchway which the
mouth of roaring furnace. He also grabbed the
hose, and the two hurried to the hatchway After
pouring steady stream into the hatch for minute,
the engineer dragged the nozzle forward few feet
and leaned over in an endeavor to locate the prn-
cipal seat of the trouble. Coleman dragged on the
hose to help and was himself at the edge of the hatch
way, when a second explosion six times more severe
than the first threw the Rialto on her beam ends
Clouds of smoke of peculiar density and charged with
powerful fumes hid the opening for minute or two
When they cleared, Coleman found
distance away lying unconscious the deck, with
broken and other injuries. The
engineer nowhere to be The big seas
which were now sweeping across the decks had re-
moved nearly all traces of terrible death.
At this moment, when the nerves of all on board
were almost at swapping point the ships carpenter
hurried forward to announce that several plates
had been loosened and that the water was rushing
into the hold
Boys said Captain RiPperth, the seas have
smashed every life boat to kindling wood and even
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Mangareva, with just bare possibility that her
plight might be discovered before that place was
reached. But it was not and day after day the
gallant thirty deluged the decks and the sides and
worked the vessel nearer and yet nearer still to
safety.
To tell the outcome is to appeal for sympathy for
the plucky master who had hoped to save at least
some part of the loss to the owners. Mangareva
was reached just the flames burst through the
decking. There no time to choose an anchorage,
and the Pyrenees run on the beach where in an
hour or two she had burned to the water line.
The Iron Queen did not take fire in the Tropics
for she only river passenger steamer that was
burned as she lay at the wharf at Racine, Ohio on
April 8, 1895. But as an example OF quick de-
struction it is doubtful whether the details of her
loss be equaled
She had left Cincinnati for Wheeling and Pitts
burgh the evening before with eghtyfve passengers
on board About o'clock April 3, while most
of these still sleeping, George Ellis the engineer
scrambled from the engine room and announced
that the steamer was fire. There appeared to
be serious cause for alarm; the boat was moored
to the landing and lots of help was at hand. New
ertheless it thought prudent to get the passen-
gers ashore before using the hose.
In three minutes after Ellis had given the first
alarm, the vessel was mass of flames from bow
to stern. One life, that of Martha Mosely, cham
bermaid, lost, and Mrs. Lowell of Pittsburgh,
who had remained for moment to fasten her hat,
was rescued by George c. Mccullough, the purser,
who plunged back into the fire without hesitation
when he found that she missing In half an
hour the Iron Queen was total ruin.
Danger From Jute and Hemp
TUTE and hemp in the hold have probably caused
y more fires at sea than any other one thing. The
British ship Wynnstah from Calcutta to Phila-
delphia had nearly twelve thousand bales of jute
for cargo when, early in the summer of 1895, then
between St. Helena and Ascension Island, discovery
was made that fierce fire raging in the hold
the starboard side. The fumes from the burning
jue particularly suffocating, and the fire
one which it would be extremely difficult to
tinguish. But the British undertook the job with
full knowledge that it would be as long it would
be difficult Holes were cut in the deck and the
flooring of the cabin torn up
Down into the engufng blackness went the men,
and for ninety-six hours the fight kept up with
out cessation. From time to time party returning
to the fresher air of the deck for few minutes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
TEST OF NEW PRIMARY LAW
Today Will Witness a Lively Cam
paign All Over the State
of Illinois.

Chicago. Aug. 3.-The first test of the
new Illinois primary law, passed at a
special session of the legislature this year,
enabling voters to name party nominees,
will be given tomorrow afternoon In one
of the liveliest primary campaigns ever
waged in this state. Every voter in three
parties-Republican Democratic and So
cialist-will be called upon to vote di-
rectly for candidates for office and dele
gates TO the conventions The Prohibi-
tionists will not participate in tomorrow s
election, the voters of that party having
made their state and county nominations
under the old law prior TO July l. when
the new law went into effect.
Candidates to be voted upon are rep
resentatives in congress, members of the
legislature state treasurer and superin-
tendent of public instruction. Delegates
will be elected to the state congressional,
legislative, county sanitary district and
municipal conventions.
The vote tomorrow will also establish
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
FIGHT IS THREE-CORNERED
Hartman, Hill and the Milwaukee
Interests Battling in the
Northwest.

Minneapolis. Mimi, Aug. 3.-The
Journal today says: THE three-cor-
nered war among the Hartman. Hill
and Milwaukee railway interests in the
northwest is reaching an acute stage.
1t developed yesterday that James ].
Hill is behind the Dakota Midland rail-
way, which is about to invade the Mil
waukee territory between Sioux City
Ia, and Pierre, s. D. The new road
is to run through part of the great corn
belt of Iowa in competition with the
Milwaukee. Having failed to get con-
troll of the Milwaukee in 1901, Mr.. Hill
has now started to parallel the system
wherever possible, in retaliation for the
Mflwaukee's construction of an extern
sion to the Pacific coast. ]. p. Nor
gan and his interests are allied with
Mr.. Hill, and the Hartman interests
are believed to be in close alliance with
the Milwaukee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
COUNTY MONEY LOANED.
Ohio Treasurers Enabled to Turn an
Honest Penny.

Akron, O., Aug. 3.-Examiners Poulson
and Raley filed their report of the ex-
animation of the Summit county treasury
with Probate Judge Pardee today II
shows that there is deficit in the treas
ury of $272454
The examiners say this deficit was 1892,
154 at the time the examination was be-
gun, but that since then a large amount
of borrowed money had been returned
The report says that a large part OF
the loans are unsecured and that a con-
siderable part of the securities repre-
senting loans of the public funds are re-
newals of obligations taken by former
treasurers and carried by the present
treasurer, Fred Z, Smith. Treasurer
Smith declared that the vault i'm the
court house is unsafe to keep public funds
in and that the cost of his bonds is SC
high and his salary SO low that he had
to loan money to keep ahead.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
Railroad Notes.

Mill Creek residents will go to Provo
canyon Aug. lS
Vice President and General Manager w.
H Bancroft is expected home from Idaho
today. where he has been fishing and en-
joying short vacation.
The Western Pacific's tracks from Salt
Lake now extend along the edge of the
lake. Trains loaded with rails and ties
are passing over the new tracks constant
". Tons of rails and thousands of ties
are here and arriving from the outside
rapidly. The news comes from the camps
at the end of the tracks that in the neigh
borhOod of a mile Of ground is being COW
cred daily.
Utahns will have an opportunity Of
seeing Frannie and surrounding territory
In Wyoming next month. Arrangements
are being made by the Rio Grande and
the Burlington TO run trains from Salt
Lake TO Frahnie- Low rates will be
posted and the time limit placed at thirty
days. The BurlingtOn's Frannie branch is
progressing rapidly and opening a promis-
ing country.
The Rio Grande will run two excur-
sions tomorrow; Both leave here at 8
o'clock. One wiz Try the Veteran Fire
men to Castillo Springs. The regular
Sunday excursion to Upper Falls in Provo
canyon is the second affair announced. A
special train will leave the falls at z
o'clock, arriving in Provo at $780, The
Firemen.s special and the Provo canyon
train will be combined at Provo and ar
rive in Salt Lake in good time
Douglas White. at the head of the pub
licity department of the Salt Lake Route
on the coast, will assume the general
management of the Western Magazine
shortly. Papers are now being drawn for
the official Incorporation of the Western
Publishing company and the magazine
now being produced will become perma-
nent and its pages devoted to the west
Mr.. White will not sever his connection
with the Salt Lake Route He is editor
of the Arrowhead, the official publication
of that road.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
A Tragic Finish.

A watchman's neglect permitted a
leak in the great North Sea dyke, which
child's finger could have stopped. 10
become a ruinous break, devastating an
entire province of Holland In like
manner Kenneth McIver of Vance
boro. Me-, permitted a little cold to 20
unnoticed until a tragic finish was ONLY
averted by DR.. Kings New Discovery.
He writes; Three doctors gave me up
to die of lung Inflammation, caused
by a neglected cold: but DR.. King
New Discovery saved my life" Guar
anteed best cough and cold cure, at O.
c. NJ. / drug department. SOC and 81. 90
Trial bottle free.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
FOLLOWS WIFE'S EXAMPLE
Suicide of a Government Contractor
at Illumination, w. Va.

Huntington. w. Va. Aug. 3.-William
Weber a prominent government contract
or who took opium with suicidal intent
Yesterday, died at a local hospital today.
Weber's wife committed suicide by
drowning herself in the Sabin river, at
Beaumont, Tex. two years ago and grief
over her death is supposed to have caused
his suicide.
IVeber's home was at Beaumont Tex
He had the contracts for the United
States building being erected here, the
one at McKeesport, Pa, and has only re-
Gently been awarded the contract for the
new Government building at Los Angeles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
Clearing Site for Depot.

The district between Second and Third
South streets on the east side of Fourth
West street is being cleared of houses and
all buildings. This neighborhOod is the
site of the proposed Rio Grande and
Western Pacific depot and yards. No
tees were sent 10 the occupants of the
homes on the site some weeks ago and as
the houses have been vacated the work of
tearing them down or removing them has
been commenced. A large force of labor
erS is hurrVino this work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
WILD ENGINE STRIKES LIMITED
No One Is Hurt Seriously in Peculiar
Collision in Grand Canon.

A wild engine ran into the Scenic Lin
tied of the Rio Grande bound for Salt
Lake Thursday, but no one was injured
beyond few bruises. Judge d. c. Bea-
man, attorney for the Colorado Fuel q
Iron company. 81 aimed a bruised fore
head and finger The collision happened
I'm Grand canon. near COtOpaXi. After
coliding with the heavy passenger train
the wild engine bounded back along the
track for a great distance. The Limited
arrived in Salt Lake four hours late.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
NO LIBERALS IN
THE new CABINET
Gar Not Fully Committed and
a Bureaucratic Regime
Again Established.
PREMIER STOLYPIN FAILS
MILITARY DICTATORSHIP ONE
STEP NEARER.

ST. Petersburg, Aug 3.-The report last
night that Emperor Nicholas had fatty
refused to accept the conditions TO which
Premier Stolypin agreed in his negotia-
lions with Count Heyden, Alexander
Guchkoff. Prince Nicholas Lvoff Paul
Vnogradoff and Senator Koninfor, the
IeorganiZatio of the cabinet and which
the premier expected the emperor TO a.
cept, turns out to be true. Official con-
firmatlOn came this morning in a one
line announcement as follows:
The reports that the nOn-bureaucratiC
elements will enter the cabinet are I'M
trflp
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
Newspapers Suppressed.

The Rech has been confiscated and even
such heightened paper as the Ravitstvaie
(Quality), and Professor Kovalevsky' s
Ekstrana have been suppressed. Only
the Novoe Vremya and the Svet. of the
unofficial papers, seem to be immune from
seizure.
Last nights incendiary fires did not
spread, giving relief u those who feared
the whole city might be set on fire.
The reports from Cronstadt today say
that all the sailors have not yet Surren-
Gered. Trials by drumhead courtmartial
were resumed at 10 o'clock this morning
and it is believed that further executions
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
TWO EXPLOSION VICTIMS.

Houston, Tex, Aug. Wv. l. Fletcher
was instantly killed, Lee Brooks, a negro
was covered with burning alcohol and
fatally injured and the entire building
was Quilted by fire as a result of an ex-
plosion in the rectifying room of the
wholesale liquor house of Joppet & Co.
here today. Loss $4,000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
SIXTY THOUSAND
SAVED FROM WRECK

Akron, O., Aug. 8. Sixty thousand dol
lars has been saved out of the wreck or
the fortunes. of Ferdinand Schumacher
the erstwhile oatmeal king and multi-nnii-
lionaire, who several years ago, assigned
Not only have all debts been paid in full,
but the elegant mansion. with its eabo-
rate furnishings and the sum. of $50. 900
saved to Schumacher. who is now S. years
Of age. i... 3D.. ...
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-04
NO APPEAL THIS TIME.

Washington, Aug. 3-W. A. Miller, as
sistant foreman of the bindery of the
government printing office, who was sus-
pended by the public printer on July p
for characterization and insolence. was
dismissed from the government service
Yesterday Miller's former suspension in
1903 was the cause of President Roose-
Velt's order declaring the government
printing office and all offices where work
men are employed by the government to
be open shops.
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GIVEN TWELVE YEARS.

Paterson. N. J., Aug. S.-WiIliam H.
Belcher. who while mayor of this city
absconded a year ago.. and who surren-
dered on Monday last was sentenced to-
day to twelve years Imprisonment in the
state prison at Trenton on a charge of
embezzlement